Hi Roberta, did I get in okay? Yes you did, thank you so much. Oh boy. Oh thank you. Good morning Chair Galvin, apologies for the interruption. We're having some difficulties with Zoom here in the office and I would like to ask if you could please reorder the agenda. Sure. So if we could start with 3.2 and then go to 3.3 and we'll have 3.1 be last. The folks that are presenting on that one are having difficulty getting into Zoom right now for some reason. Okay. Thank you so much. No no problem so it looks like it's 10 o'clock. Do we have everybody we need for 3.2? I see Mark is on. We do have from the staff we have everyone we need for 3.2. I would just ask Secretary Aitha if she could confirm that we have all contracts of committee members present or not. I believe we're still waiting on Board Member Batenford. Okay that's what I wondered. Okay so we'll wait a few minutes then. Thank you very much and sorry for the last minute change. Technology. Technology. Not a problem at all. Chair Galvin it looks like we have all the committee members now. Great thank you. I'll go ahead and call the meeting of the contract review subcommittee to order and may we have a roll call please? Yes Chair Galvin. Here. Board Member Batenford. Here. Board Member Walsh. Here. Great welcome everyone. Item number two on the agenda is public comments. We'll now take public comments on non-agenda items. We wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand or you can dial star nine if you're on the phone. Do we have anyone? We have no public comments. All right we're going to reorder the agenda. We'll move to item 3.2. Director Burke. Thank you Chair Galvin and members of the subcommittee. Item 3.2 is a second amendment to professional services agreement with Tiv and Elise Howard our communications coordinator will be making the presentation. All right let me share my screen here. All right well good morning Chair Galvin and Board Members Batenford and Walsh. Today for your consideration is a recommendation for the Board to approve an additional hundred thousand dollars and funds to be added to an existing professional services agreement with Tiv for creative services. As background in 2015 I apologize there's a typo on the slide 2017 should be 2015 but as background in 2015 Tiv was selected to develop phase one of the ticket from the TAP program following a request for proposals. Tiv was selected as the best value for having a comprehensive knowledge of outreach strategy and available tools including experience with targeted digital outreach animations and of course the quality of their work. For the current PSA with Tiv we have expanded the scope of work to include not only the ticket from the TAP program but added new outreach initiatives as to allow staff to quickly address outreach needs such as drought. To date I have worked with Tiv on projects such as ticket from the TAP streets to creeks the value of water campaign that was utilized for water rates, water rate education and most recently the drought campaign. Tiv has been a great resource for Santa Rosa water their strategies have been effective in reaching our broad range of customers and they have aided in achieving our community's water savings targets. Since December of 2020 Santa Rosa water has ramped up for drought based on their broad range of proven skill sets I utilized the PSA with Tiv to develop the initial drought outreach campaign. Today we have a robust multimedia plan and are currently planning for contingencies should the drought persist. To build on the current drought campaign success and continue to create a cohesive consistent and cost effective campaign that aligns with our Santa Rosa water brand Santa Rosa water is recommending that the contract with Tiv be amended to add additional funds to allow for the expansion of this campaign and others. The current agreement with Tiv is for a do not exceed amount of $99,000. The request before you today is a recommendation to add an additional $100,000 in compensation for a total do not exceed amount of $199,000. I'd also like to add that these funds have already been budgeted for in the 2021-2022 budget for outreach and I'm happy to take any questions at this time. Thank you. So the extra $100,000 is that going to be expended during the next fiscal year or is it what's the timeline if there is one? It expires January 1st 2023. Okay and I take it staff obviously has been pleased with the relationship with Tiv and things seem to be going very smoothly. Yes they've provided us with a great work product. They're very responsive. You know a lot of times in the the work that I do I've got like 24 hours to put something together so it's been a really good working relationship with them and I believe the what the product they provide serves our community well. Great. Board Member Walsh. Yes thank you Chair Galvan. I just wanted to check in too with staff. We mentioned that they have a cohesive consistent program. I think that has a lot of value to it so going forward they'll take on the messaging that they already performed and I just had a comment and I think this group has also performed some work on some of the other city goals and the messaging between the different city programs will be consistent as well. I think it was a violence prevention program. They came up with a sort of a partnership label. Sorry at least I'm struggling with that a bit if you can help me out. Are they doing other work too that sort of has a mutual benefit? They've worked on I haven't been directly involved with those projects but TIB has provided work for a number of city departments. Okay thank you very much. That's all Mr. Chair thank you. Thank you Board Member Badenford any questions or comments? Questions thank you. Okay I'm fully supportive of the recommendation from staff so why don't we formalize it with a motion and then we'll see if there's any public comments. Mr. Chair I will move that we add the $100,000 to the TIB contract as proposed by staff consistent with the goals to save water and communicate with the public. Thank you and was that a second Board Member Badenford? Okay we have a motion and a second before we take a roll call vote we'll open it up for public comments on item 3.2 if you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star 9. Do we have anyone? Secretary Aitha? Do not. Okay may we have a roll call vote please? Chair Galvin? Hi. Board Member Badenford? Hi. Board Member Walsh? Hi. Great passes unanimously thank you Ms. Howard we'll now move to item 3.3 Director Burke. Thank you Chair Galvin and members of the committee. Item 3.3 is a professional services agreement with Montrose Air Quality and Heather Johnson our environmental services officer will be making the presentation. Great welcome. Thank you. Can you all see my screen? Yes. Okay perfect. Good morning Chair Galvin and members of the subcommittee as Director Burke mentioned I'm Heather Johnson I'm here today to talk about a professional services agreement with Montrose Air Quality Services. Okay so just to give a little bit of context with this one out at the Laguna treatment plant we have solids from our treatment process which are sent to four anaerobic digesters. The gas from that digestion process is sent to it's sent through a gas conditioning system where it's treated for hydrogen sulfide with our iron sponge and then siloxane from our carbon vessels. The treated gas is then sent to our four combined heat and power engines. Any emissions from both the the treated gas process and from the combustion in the engines is regulated under our Bay Area Air Quality Management District permits. So the scope here was we needed a contractor we need a contractor to perform monthly emission monitoring on the carbon vessels for siloxane removal and from the CHP engines. They also need to do an annual compliance source test for all four CHP engines and they should be able to support any as needed monitoring that may come up and then we requested that the city receive a final report within four weeks from the emission testing dates. So we posted a request for proposals on planet bids. In addition to that I sent roughly 30 solicitation emails to all of the contractors that were listed on the California Air Resources Control Board approved independent contractor list. From that we received two responses. We had a three-person proposal committee and we unanimously selected Montrose Air Quality Services. The professional services agreement pretty much mirrors what the RFP stated and the scope that we needed monthly annual as needed monitoring. They'll submit a draft and a final report at the conclusion of any testing and then the contract is going to be for three years and $200,000. So one thing that the city attorney's office did ask that I note here in this presentation is during the review process Montrose suggested some language changes here in section five insurance. They wanted to strike the language that you see here. In consultation with the city's risk management and with the city attorney's office we did agree to strike this language. And so in conclusion the water department is recommending that the contract review subcommittee support the approval of this professional services agreement with Montrose Air Quality Services and it will be brought to BPU on November 18th for consideration. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. I would have to admit I was concerned when I saw the language being omitted from the PSA. I'm sure that it was thoroughly vetted by the risk management team and the attorney's office but I'm concerned that it sets a precedent or could set a precedent for other companies that we want to enter into similar agreements with wanting to strike that language as well. Can you give me a little more information in terms of how and why the language was strickened? I don't really have that information. I can look into it more. I know I will say that Montrose did suggest striking other languages as well that we did not agree to and so there was a bit of a back and forth between the two agencies and this was one that we thought would be okay to just let go. Chair Galvin, we do get requests quite often from consultants. We do try very hard to stick to our standard professional services agreement. In some cases based on the type of work, which Heather, if you can talk a little bit about that, that led to part of why there was comfort level by both the city attorney's office and risk management we will sometimes make exceptions and if we do we definitely call that out as part of what we're bringing forward to you in the contract subcommittee and also in at the BPU meeting. So I think in particular for this one it's just based on the work that they're doing on site that there was comfort level by both the attorney and risk management office that they could waive this particular insurance requirements. Heather, can you just talk a little bit about the type of work that they're doing and why we feel comfortable with that? Sure, absolutely. So they come on site and they have their own equipment that they bring on to site and then they put that testing equipment in like the exhaust from our CHP or they fill up a bag just from the gas and so in reviewing the work that they do and their potential to cause harm for the city it was we agreed that this language wasn't as important as some of the other language that we did not agree to. Okay, all right. I mean maybe when it comes to the full board assistant city attorney Donovan can maybe speak to some of that as well but other questions or comments from the committee? Just echo the I think it would be important to be fairly clear with the full board. I think it it was kind of a flag for me as well. I have great confidence in our staff and our chair with the legal lines on our team but as a non-legal person it certainly was a flag for me so as much as you can do to make it understandable to the rest of the board I think will be very helpful. Okay, thanks. Board member Walsh any comments? No, thank you Mr. Chairman. Okay, then why don't we go ahead I'm fully supportive of it with that caveat and we can have a further discussion when it comes to the full board but let's go ahead and have a motion to approve the recommendation. Mr. Chairman, I move that the contract subcommittee of the Board of Public Utilities recommend to the Board of Public Utilities the contract as presented by staff for professional services for monitoring costs up to $200,000 for three years as recommended. Second. Thank you we have a first and a second motion and a second at this time we will take public comments on item 3.3 if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Etha. We have no public comments. All right may we have a roll call vote please. Yes, Chair Galvin. Hi. Board member Baden-Fort. Hi. Board member Walsh. All right great passes unanimously thank you Heather. Are we ready to do 3.1 Director Burke? Yes we are so I can go ahead and introduce item 3.1 it's a second amendment to professional services agreement with E&M electrical and machinery doing business as Wonder Ware California and Janine Saragosa our department information technology supervisor apologies we'll be making the presentation. Welcome. Thank you Chair Galvin and Board Members Walsh and Board Members Baden-Fort. My name is Janine Saragosa I am the Department of Information Technology Supervisor for the Water Department and I have a particularly red face because I have a very glowing copper curtain in front of me so I don't normally look this pretty. Anyway I would like to start off with thanking you for your time and attention and also for the adjustment of the agenda today and I'm here to present a request to amend a PSA with Wonder Ware E&M Electric. Can I share my screen? Does everybody see my presentation? Fantastic. Great thank you. So this is the second amendment to the PSA for E&M Electric Machinery DBA Wonder Ware. We have been doing I'll give you some background on this. There we go. Wonder Ware is used in both local and regional water processing to control data that we get from all the telemetry within the systems in the processing. We have over 15,000 sensors that indicate temperature and flow, electrical current pressure, all kinds of information that they use to manage the process and also know whether or not equipment needs replacement or maintenance. And then there's reporting that comes out of that data that's used for regulatory requirements and also management decisions just in the process itself. In 2017 the PSA was created with E&M Wonder Ware and was approved for to provide technical and operational compliance recording equipment that utilizes software that was developed by Wonder Ware. So E&M is the company that represents and distributes the licensing for a software called Wonder Ware. And we created the PSA in order to be able to use their technical staff and enhance our operational opportunity with the software itself in the telemetry we wanted to advance. We started out with only 800 sensors and we're up to 15,000 today. So we've been using them very consistently throughout the process at both regional and well software, both regional and local for this. In 2018 it became time to renew the license and we had different licenses for geysers and LTP and local. And at that time we took all of those licenses, combined them into one agreement for a full five years to save the city money and to be able to manage the operational support of upgrades and issues across the regional water supply process. The second amendment that we're asking for is to increase the current contract by $257,725. It covers two different quotes for needed improvement. The first quote is for services of $29,555 to install and configure equipment to replace failing equipment at LTP. We have had the same equipment running this system since 2012 and it's started to fail. They're doing some work rounds to keep it running, but we really need a full replacement process. And then there's $228,170 to upgrade the software and combine the geysers and LTP into one system that can be managed by the staff at LTP. So currently those are two completely separate systems and the management of both of them costs the city more than if we were to combine them and have one staff manage the operation from one system. So in addition to the upgrade, we're also combining the two systems together with all the telemetry involved. We are recommending by the water department that the contract review committee support the approval of the second amendment to the professional service agreement with E&M machinery, Wonderware. And this amendment request will be brought before the BPU for consideration on 11-18. And I'm happy to answer questions. Thank you, Ms. Saragosa. I just have one question. It looked like in one of your prior slides were there three systems, one local, one LTP, and one geysers? Yes. So the local is still going to be a separate system? Yes, local is a separate system and they're actually, their systems are different because they're measuring the collection and distribution of water, whereas most of the plant processing is related to plant functionality. There is some that does some distribution of the water through the geyser system, but for the most part, it's really mostly processing the water at the plant that we're considering. Okay. Thank you. Other board member or committee member questions or comments? Yes, board member Banford. Thank you for your presentation. I appreciate it. Generally speaking, I'm supportive of it. It sounds like especially the software to combine geysers and LTP seems like a very worthy endeavor. Just for my own process question though, it's an amendment request rather than a new contract, even though it does seem like it's quite new software. Is this just kind of a common way to add on things? Is it process-wise? Is it more, is it easier? I certainly don't think it's out of line with the amendment request to the contract. I don't think it's out of line in any way. It just struck me that it does seem like especially the software to combine is new, and so I'm just curious why those aren't separate. When we looked at it, we actually initiated the original PSA for the same type of services for the installation and configuration of equipment, as well as the management of the telemetry and the configuration of the software itself. This particular work that they're doing in the combination is both within the network itself as well as within the software. It is functionally the same as what the original PSA was for, so we felt it was appropriate to keep it within that same PSA. The licenses that are being supported, we aren't changing the software. We're upgrading the system that supports the software and combining it. Great. Thank you. That helps. I appreciate it. Sure. I remember, Walt, any questions or comments? No, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Okay. I think you have, I think, full recommendation, but let's memorialize it with a motion, please. Mr. Chairman, I move that we increase the contract amount by $257,725 to upgrade the software related equipment necessary. We'll do the treatment plan and the geysers as presented by staff and the contractors with EMI for the operation of the Wonderware software and related components. Second. We have a motion and a second. I'll now open it up for public comments on item 3.1. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Secretary Aitha. We have no public comments. All right. Maybe we have a roll call vote, please. Chair Dalvin. Bye. Board Member Badenfort. Okay. Board Member Walsh. Bye. Great. Thank you, Mrs. Saragosa. That concludes item 3.1. I think that concludes our agenda. So unless there's any further comments or questions, we will go ahead and adjourn the contract review subcommittee meeting. Mr. Chairman? Yes. Is one comment, sir, if it's okay? Yeah. First, I want to thank staff for getting together the documents to help me with this meeting. I think Roberta Aitha especially helped review the history of the contract for our messaging for our messaging with TIV. That was very helpful. I appreciate that. The other thing is the recommendations are so choppy because I'm on one iPad going back and forth. I had a self report that I had a bout of COVID start of Saturday. I'm doing fine. I had been fully vaxed. I just want to thank everybody for helping me out, get this set up and recommend that everybody get vaxed and get to a doctor if you have a problem. All right. We're glad you're feeling better and hope that you get symptom free real quick. Thank you, sir. So does my wife and dog. All right. With that, we'll go ahead and adjourn the contract review subcommittee. Thank you all for being here and enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Bye-bye. All right, Lisa.


Mr. Speaker, I stand in support of this motion to allow the Minister of Finance to borrow in excess of $102 million for budgetary support, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, please grant me leave, first of all, as I sympathize with my fellow constituents on the passing of Leah Alberti of Masad Grosile and Anne-Marie Alsid, mother of Tsis and Vanda, two very, very well-known individuals in the community of Grosile. Please allow me to sympathize with them. Mr. Speaker, please also grant me leave, as I sympathize with my fellow constituents on the passing of Norbert Williams, who resided at the entrance of Kasaba Grosile. Mr. Speaker, the only interaction I would have had with him was on election day when I passed him on a line at the sports academy, no doubt on a line to cast a vote against me. Mr. Speaker, despite that, we greeted each other cordially and the rest, as you know, is history and so Mr. Speaker, despite some of his machinations and rhetoric that would not, all that pleasing to me, I wish his family well in this time of struggle. Mr. Speaker, today I am dressed and I am attired with a orange tie, Mr. Speaker, in support of women and in a fight against domestic violence and also in support of the Netherlands. Mr. Speaker, remember somebody rose on a point of order that you only sleep in the house. the Brazilians and Argentinians, the Prime Minister supported England, we are in the minority and so we must support everybody Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker also allow me leave to inform the residents of Riviamita Moshi and the minibus drivers in the area. At the team of engineers of contractors, they are currently meeting, chatting the way forward as they seek to establish a walkway for a collapsed bridge in the community yesterday. Mr. Speaker, since I've been in government of Lobbido on behalf of the people of Riviamita for intervention on this bridge and only last week a contract was awarded for the works in that area and so I want to thank the Minister of Infrastructure for his intervention and I'm happy to announce that these works will be on the way very, very soon. Mr. Speaker, when I hear about the treatment of MPs and the call for them to be treated with dignity, I have to wonder and look at the motion here today to borrow in support of the budget. The budget, Mr. Speaker, in the budget presentation, I made mention of the Mindu Philippak, Mr. Speaker, and a certain member for Castro's East and then leader of the opposition that was not given a cent in five plus years for the Mindu Philippak, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, I challenge anybody to go to the Mindu Philippak and see what has become or what became of the Mindu Philippak under that previous administration. And Mr. Speaker, I came to this honourable house and in the budget presentation indicated that this government would make proper representation for the people of Castro's East and ensure that the Mindu Philippak is restored to them, Mr. Speaker. That dignity is restored to these people. And Mr. Speaker, I indicated that the Mindu Philippak did not belong solely to the people of Castro's East. The Mindu Philippak belonged to the people of St. Lucia, to the Dharan Samis of the world, to the Julian Alfred of the world, to the Loven Spencer of the world. And Mr. Speaker, no attention was given to that Mindu Philippak. Mr. Speaker, none at all. And Mr. Speaker, $32 million spent in Dunlock Bay and we know plastic around the place, Mr. Speaker. But Mr. Speaker, I'm not here to speak very long today, Mr. Speaker. I have a couple of challenges of my own in my constituency that we are dealing with right now. But I want the people of Grosjele to know that under this budget, that this presentation today, all these monies that we are talking about, the presentations were made in April of this year, to be comforted that this is not additional borrowing, Mr. Speaker. And so, under the DVRP, under every single intervention that is required to be more climate resilient, they will see this from this budget, Mr. Speaker. And so, Mr. Speaker, as a member for Grosjele, I always like the member for Chuzel Saltibus, Mr. Speaker. I always have very good conversations with him, Mr. Speaker. And so, for me, Mr. Speaker, I know every now and then some of the vaccinations is as a result of a collective agreement on the other side to somehow poke holes in what this caring government is doing. But, Mr. Speaker, the sportsmen and women of St. Lucia will benefit from this intervention for the Mindofili Park tremendously, because we know the Castries Basin need the Mindofili Park. The Clearing need the Mindofili Park. Mr. Speaker, we are getting ready for the return of interhouse competitions in schools. So, Mr. Speaker, from Bexaw to Grosjele to view every day use the Mindofili Park. And so, Mr. Speaker, I am delighted that today that I can go back to my ministry and say the allocations that we spoke about in our budget presentation since April, they are now available for the fourth facilities in St. Lucia, Mr. Speaker. And so, Mr. Speaker, I have to say that I not only unreservedly endorse this motion today, but I'm excited, Mr. Speaker. And I'm reminded of the belvy playing field, another playing field that under this budget we indicated would get intervention. And we've started the work on that playing field, Mr. Speaker. And then I'm reminded quickly by the member for den reserve of his stance. But the member for Castries office got biblical. I will be biblical for a little while. All things work together for the good of those who love God. And I call according to his purpose. And this administration, as we know, is called divinely by the Mosai for this purpose. And this time, Mr. Speaker. And so, Mr. Speaker, as a parliamentary rep for Grozily, I continue to encourage our people to be patient that this government is working. And because they see the work of this government, they are afraid and they will continue to be afraid. But we will be strategic. We will be deliberate. And we will get it done because we are here to serve the people and all of the people of St. Lucia. And so, Mr. Speaker, with these few words, I want to endorse this bill, Mr. Speaker, this motion. And Mr. Speaker, I want to assure the people of St. Lucia that we will continue to be there because we are truly here to serve. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.


Imagine if every single one of us planted fruit trees right in our front yards. If all of our public parks had fruit trees in them with a bounty of fruit for our communities to enjoy. This is a dream of mine, and I have this dream because we've got a problem. Millions of Americans today live in food deserts where there's very little access to fresh fruits and vegetables. And most of our food today is shipped long distances, guzzling fossil fuels, and is produced by Big Ag, which is consuming the very planet that we depend upon. I've decided to be a part of the solution and make that dream a reality. With the help of my friends at the Live Like Alley Foundation, along with volunteers, I've planted over 200 community fruit trees so far. These are publicly owned fruit trees for everyone to enjoy. We plant fruit trees where they're highly accessible, like residential front yards at schools in public parks and in church yards. Each tree can be found on our online map, which is brought to you by our friends at fallingfruit.org. Food doesn't have to come from the grocery store. Food can be growing freely and abundantly all around us. This idea is simple, but compared to our current food system, this idea is revolutionary. You can join this revolution by planting community fruit trees in your community. If you know of an existing fruit tree, add it to the map and put a sign next to it, inviting others to enjoy the fruit. And we're here to help. We're offering grants to help people across the United States plant community fruit trees. By working together and with nature, we can produce more than just food for our communities. We can produce a higher quality of life, stronger communities and a common desire for clean air, soil and water. All while creating habitat for the other species we share our earth with. Get involved at communityfruittrees.org.


I'm Alyssa DeLaGarza with Cal OES. As we transition into more fall-like weather, temperatures are dropping across the state, but that doesn't mean we're out of wildfire danger. A wildfire can happen any time of the year, and it's an important reminder to always be prepared. In Southern California, dry weather and gusty Santa Ana winds can increase wildfire risk. And despite potential rain across the state during fall and winter months, there's still an increased fire risk due to dry conditions and available fuels. Here in California, our fire season is year-round. Even though we're going into the fall months, some of our largest wildfires have occurred in the fall. Here at Cal OES, we want to remind everyone to have a plan in case there is a wildfire. We want you and your families to remain safe. To see more information on preparing for wildfire, visit our website news.calos.ca.gov and follow us on all our social media platforms.


As our earlier video lessons on poetic meter, rhyme, euphony, and cacophony make clear, poetry is a genre of sound as much as sense. The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of poetic lines are pleasing to our ears, and that's one of the reasons why we enjoy rhymed poetry. The alternating stressed and unstressed patterns in poetic lines create a rhythm that propels a poem forward, and that's one of the reasons why we enjoy metered poetry. Today I want to discuss two more terms that help to create the soundscape of a poem, assonance and consonance. Both terms are associated with repetition. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, and consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds. But these terms, as they're typically used, differ in three important ways from the patterning of rhyme. First, what sounds are being repeated? Rhyme, as you may know, is the repetition of sounds at the end of a given pair of words, and these sounds usually combine vowels and consonants. For example, door rhymes with floor, not only because of the R at the end, but also the long O, or. When we use the terms assonance and consonance, we're calling attention to only one of these two kinds of sounds, either the consonants or the vowels. So why would we want to do that? Technically, rhyme is a kind of assonance, but in practical terms, when we call something assonance, we often mean that only the vowel sound repeats between words. Along similar lines, when we call something consonance, we mean that only the consonant sounds repeat. Here's a simple, silly example. Euphanous fish. Both words in this phrase contain the repeating F sound, euphanous fish, but the vowel sounds you'll notice aren't the same. As such, we have consonants, but not rhyme. Second up, where within the words are the sounds being repeated? With rhyming pairs, the common sound occurs at the end of each word. In the case of door and floor, the beginning sounds differ, duh and full, but the final sounds match, or creating the rhyme. With assonance and consonants, however, the recurring sound patterns can occur anywhere in the associated words, at the beginning, or the middle, or the end. The phrase euphanous fish is an example of consonants, because the F sound repeats from word to word, even though the sound doesn't necessarily repeat in the same spot in both words. Finally, where does the repetition occur in a poem? In poetry, rhyming words usually occur at the end of poetic lines, creating complex patterns that knit lines and indeed entire poems together. Instead of structuring the entirety of a poem or a stanza, however, assonance and consonants usually show up irregularly in certain moments of the poem. In this way, assonance and consonants create temporary, ephemeral patterns in a given line or phrase that dissipate as quickly as they emerge. What sounds are being repeated? Where in the words are the sounds being repeated? And where in the poetic lines are the sounds being repeated? These three questions are a lot to keep track of, so let's put it together with a simple example. Consider the following lines from Elizabeth Bishop's poem, The Fish, in which the speaker looks out upon her catch. See if you can spot the consonants and assonants as I read. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper. Shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age. He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea lice, and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down. As you'll see, there isn't any end rhyme here, but the poem is undoubtedly musical. This is due in part to the consonants in the poem. Consider the opening line, which repeats the NG sound with hung and grunting. Or the fourth line's phrase, brown skin hung, NNN. Or the tenth line's repetition of the hard K sound, speckled with barnacles. These repetitions aren't internal rhymes, the vowel sounds are on the consonants aren't always the same, and this repetition doesn't always occur at the ends of words. But they do operate in a similar way to rhyme. They help Bishop convey the beauty, as well as the strangeness of this encounter with a fish. There's also a bit of assonance in these lines. Consider the thirteenth line, in which Bishop's speaker repeats a series of hard I sounds, though again not in the manner of internal rhyme. Tiny white sea lice. Or the alteration of hard A and hard O sounds in the line's wallpaper, lips like full blown roses stained and lost through age. Again, there isn't a regular pattern here. Instead we're given certain fragments of melodious or euphonious phrases that help us to structure the way that we sound out the poem. Let me leave you with one final, complex example of consonants and assonants that'll help you to distinguish these terms from rhyme. Here are the opening lines to Matthew Arnold's 1867 poem Dover Beach. The sea is calm tonight, the tide is full, the moon lies fair upon the straits. On the French coast the light gleams and is gone, the cliffs of England stand glimmering and vast out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night air, only from the long line of spray where the sea meets the moon-blanched land listen. You hear the grating roar of pebbles which the waves draw back and fling. At their return of the high strand begin and cease and then again begin with tremulous cadence slow and bring the eternal note of sadness in. In these lines the sound patterns of Arnold's words mimic the waves of the sea as they crash against the beach. They do so because of rhyme, sure. We get rhymes between lines two, six and nine, and we get a separate set of rhymes in lines eight and eleven and lines ten and twelve. We also get a crazy amount of internal rhyme in line ten. Begin and cease and then again begin. But Arnold's use of assonance and consonance also contributes to the noise of the sea. In the second line a little sonic pattern is established in the repetition of f-sounds, the tide is full, the moon lies fair. Or in the fourth line a little pattern emerges in the repetition of gleams and is gone, the pattern emerging and then dissipating in the same way that the light emerges and then disappears. We also get a bit of assonance packed in alongside the consonance. In line six for example we get the repetition of short a and l sounds in moon-blanched land. This assonance again isn't rhyme but performs the same function as rhyme, conveying the effects of the moon casting its light and hear its sound upon the land. As Arnold's and Bishop's sound experiments suggest, repetition in poetry is not always as regular or as simple as rhyme or meter. At certain moments other more subtle repetitions emerge to challenge and delight us as we sound out the poetry we love.


Let me see where this is gonna go camera wise. I think it's yes. That works. It worked What's up guys? Welcome to today's class super excited to to be here with you guys Gonna have a lot of fun with you. We're gonna cut a longer men's cut. So Prepare yourself for that. I want you guys to be asking questions in the chat as well So if you guys have a question type Q and put in your question, that's not the one. That's not the one Type Q put in your question That way I can see it because we're watching the chat on all the different platforms you guys are live on YouTube Facebook You know, so I can't see it if you don't put a cue next to it So make sure you put a cue before your question Love seeing all of you guys Chatting it up saying hello. Thank you for hanging in there during the intro Countdown I was trying to get everything set up We just did a class with the virtual cutting club, which is always super fun on zoom So now and I had camera issues too. So thank you guys for all that. All right Let me turn the music off here so a Couple of things a little bit different set up so I'm not over by my computer I'm right here, but I can see your guys chat. I'm just not gonna be able to put it up on the screen at this moment But I can see it. So Very excited. Thank you guys for the birthday wishes. I appreciate that Today is my birthday. I'm older today than I was yesterday Feel pretty similar. Don't feel any older, but Excited to be here with you guys. Um, let's see patty. Good to see you Adele Adrian Nancy Jason all of you guys very cool to see you guys on there. So I Like to dedicate Mondays to men's cutting. So we're gonna be going over longer men's hair today We've been doing some clipper work the last couple Mondays. So if you guys, you know, if you're into that go check it out I'm posting that throughout. I actually have a the men's crop that we did last week That'll be coming out in a shorter clip video pretty soon, which should be pretty cool to see I just got to do the voice over on that. So Gathering my thoughts is really what I'm doing in front of you guys right now. Just gathering myself. Um, all right Let's see Shea. Thank you so much. Oh Lots of birthday love. Thank you guys. I appreciate it Just excited to be here hanging out with you guys. All right, so Let's talk about longer men's cuts The reason I said, you know, I wanted to go over that kind of wing out effect that happens on medium length Guys hair is because that seems to be one of the biggest challenges or if I see Somebody with this longer hairstyle a lot of times. They either don't know how to style it and it's kind of flipping out or it's just How it's cut and just kind of does that it gets wider towards the bottom What I want to show you guys is some tricks today to skinny up the sides Let the top be a little bit longer. This is a great haircut for somebody that's growing out their hair as well A lot of guys struggle with that grow out period Women as well. So, you know, some of these tips can translate that way as well too depending on the look you're going for so So I want to go through it.  I see they're wearing longer hair Even some of our older male clients are, you know, going into that a little bit longer Haircut phase because of COVID and everything and quarantine and just the It's a little more relaxed on guys are allowed to be themselves Maybe a little bit more or try something a little bit different right now. So, you know, that's what we're gonna focus on today Thank you guys again. Thank you guys for the birthday wishes. I appreciate it. All right, so First things first we're gonna use a couple different tools. The first one is I'm gonna be using a tri razor This is our tool. We came out with it. It's patent-pending for the design It's really three tools in one So you have your hundred percent cutting side on this razor, then you have two texturizing side So one side cuts 25% of the hair the other side cuts 50% of the hair it allows you to just really work through texturized cut precision lines It's really an all-in-one tool and then I'm also gonna be using scissors today as well I like the combination of all that together. I'm gonna be using texturizing scissors There's different tricks that we can do within haircutting to Kind of set ourselves up for a little bit more success and allow our clients to have more success Two three weeks into having their haircut as opposed to it just feeling good for the first three days four days Maybe even a week and then all of a sudden it kind of explodes out So getting the most out of a haircut is going to build a better relationship with your clients and it's going to allow you to be more booked up and You know back-to-back in the salon with the haircuts. So All right, let's see Again if you guys have questions type Q put in your question Linda I see your question. I will go through and let me see if I can just save that I can favorite some of these questions that don't quite pertain to exactly what we're doing today and then We can go through it. So Patty is asking would you use That razor on curly hair absolutely I've no issues using a razor on any type of hair The number one thing I want you guys to realize is that a razor is sharper than a scissor So and I'll say that till I'm blue in the face Razor blades are super sharp There's even a video on the internet now And I think it's on YouTube or on Instagram or something where they make the world sharpest knife And they basically line up razor blades And they built a casing for it and that is the world's sharpest knife. It's so sharp But you got to use brand new blade it dolls quicker because it's skinnier But the tri razor blades have a backing on them. Let me go grab one for you guys so you can see it Oh So the tri razor blades have a backing on them No, let me See if this will focus in for you guys There you go. So they have a backing on them right here that is really firm So it keeps the blade even firmer. So that's really the biggest thing is making sure that it doesn't bend It's not too flexible those blades don't tend to be as strong because flex points Just don't create strength and then within the casing of the tri razor Then you even get more strength out of it. So where is my tri razor and we'll find it the other thing is Maybe we'll do a little tri razor giveaway today as well. So you on the lookout for that. All right, so here Here's the tri razor Zoom in so once you put that blade inside this casing it makes it even more firm So you really are able to cut any type of hair that you want Okay, I think that's gonna be a good angle for me All right, so let's talk about how we're gonna section out the head first and then we'll go into the rest as Well, I'm gonna get all my camera setup so you guys can see me from all angles and we'll be good to go All right, so I got a couple clips. He's got longer hair So I like to work a clip into his hair as well. So now I'm gonna comb that hair straight back This work it off of the face now There's a couple points that I'm going to look for within a guy's head shape before I cut it I know I have a black shirt on I'll try to move out of the way as much as possible as I'm working with this guy So here we go So a couple points that I look for on a guy's head before I section off We've talked about this before but we look at the recession point where that hair starts to go back on the head a little bit And I want to decide does he have a round face or does he have a longer face? So more circular face or round Now if he has a round face Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna section a little bit higher More up over the parietal ridge area if he has a longer face I'm gonna section a little bit lower But that's gonna do is it's gonna change my weight line point as I work through this haircut So let's say that he has today a round or let's say a longer face So I'm gonna go a little bit lower on his head We'll comb that hair down I might even go below this recession point funny thing about this mannequin is it's not really very true To the recession usually it's not like back like that, but it's more up in here in this area But we'll play around with it a little bit and we're gonna go right underneath here And comb back everybody's head is a little bit different You just want to base it on that and you want to go nice and low on your sectioning if they have a longer face Because again, we're gonna build up that weight line and round off this haircut Just a little bit to make the face not feel as long Right here go through Work my way around that crown area Just like that and I just keep combing around so I'm getting that hair moving in the direction I want to go and then I comb Section through and I'll clip all this away Slide a clip up under that side Last bit this side You go All right Now we've separated the top and the bottom and we can balance that out I'm gonna take a look in the mirror just like that Look at this guy and make sure that everything seems to be kind of at the same level It's close a little bit higher over here I'm just gonna take a little bit more Now it doesn't have to be perfect because we're obviously Now what nobody's head is perfectly symmetrical either so you're kind of taking it based on points that you see within the head shape Then once I get that I'll bring this all up into one section get it out of his face And then we'll clip it away that I'm just gonna twist it So now we've worked to the hair.  So you're gonna have kind of that moldy feel So that's the first thing that you need to address you want to figure out what the overall length is what the goal is with his hair My number one thing would be to talk to him about Where he's going with it how long does he want the hair to be if he wants it to go Quite a bit longer.  Anyways, otherwise, it's gonna always be a little moldy So you've got some freedom to mess around with the length on the sides You don't have freedom to really mess around with the length on tops. You got to make sure that it all marries together So first things first let's go into the back of the head So just like this and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start doing a little bit of scissor work I want to Start creating my lengths getting some blunt edges on the haircut And then I'll go in with razoring and texturizing to skinny things up and cut into it in a little bit. So Thank you guys appreciate again appreciate all the birthday stuff Birthday love out there. All right Here we go Now I'm gonna comb this straight down the center back. We're gonna create a vertical section Straight down the center Make sure I'm getting focused in here those you guys that are new To my live videos, I'm also creating a Tutorial here, so I'm recording this video so that I can then chop it up later. So I'll take my time I'll make sure that the You know the angle is set before I move forward so that When I go to edit later, it's gonna look good and you guys are used to seeing those videos So that's what we're really creating today, but I'm live so that I can get your questions as we go Catherine are you using a cutting lotion? Is this class a pole Mitchell? So two questions using cutting lotion. No, not right now. I may go in using some kind of Conditioning spray and a little bit, but for now no cutting lotion. Just what is hair down? Is this a poem a chill class? Is this class a poem a chill class? No, but I will be using Paul Mitchell products Paul Mitchell does sponsor Free salon education. So And I use Paul Mitchell products every day in the salon. So I will be using those there's my spare ball All right, so vertical straight down center back Part that over And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be working with the round of the head So I want this to flow in a round direction or round shape So I'm going to be working one side and then back to the other side. I lean. Thank you very much So here we go. I'm gonna slide this clip up underneath That and now we're gonna start working in the front Of the head. I'm gonna work diagonal back sections working with the round of the head You could also go vertical if you want to just depends on what you're comfortable with I like diagonal back we talked about this in the virtual cutting club because it's going to be me kind of working Not only with the horizontal line, but also the vertical line at the same time. We're getting there guys So now I'm going to take a slight diagonal back parting Behind his ear I'm gonna work right here in that temple area.  I'm gonna work my way diagonal back Scoop up a little bit of that old hair as a guideline. I'm gonna pull that guide Towards the new section Because we're traveling Lift it pull it towards the new section key guys is just make sure That your new sections come in straight up from where it lives still working diagonal back Scooping underneath and this will start to turn into graduation because of the head shape. So my line Stays consistently like this, right? So my line has been the same it's rotating around Just like this, but it's staying the same The head shape is starting to move and shift away So because that's shifting away it starts to go from layering which is happening right here to then Graduating as it moves over So you just got to be aware of what the head shape is doing as you're working through. I'm also not Anxious to get into the nape area. I'm just gonna kind of work my way through the top section Stay consistent with that and then I'll start working that nape area in a little bit here Reason for that is I just don't there's no reason to start shifting my body all over the place right now Because if I go in here, then I got to kind of scoot down and just continue through I like to just work this a little bit and then I'll go through the Second again, this is all graduation. So I comb it down, but then I scoop To pull the guide up To the new section my line Stays the same. I want my line going just like this Better Sorry guys apologize for the lighting issue there Same thing Lifting it. So you'll start to see I'll show you guys kind of how This becomes a graduation and what it looks like So ignore the long pieces around the edge, but take a look This weight Starts to build up in the back So what I'm doing is I'm allowing the head shape to kind of play into it and this hair is going to work its way off of the head Because it's following the round so it'll go back nice if you ended up cutting that triangular It would start kicking real quick. So that's another thing another little tip for you guys Trying to keep that hair under control. So now obviously we're going to cut this tail off Depending on where you live, that might be a little trendy. I'm going to continue this line Now remember my line Went straight through So no matter where I'm at this line is going to stay the same. I work my way through Comb the hair to myself over top of where it lives That line Same thing here comb the hair down, but that's not my last comb. My last comb is up This over top of where it comes out of the head my hand Scoop up the top of where it lives. That's a little bit here We're just connecting that nape Area to the top So now this is a basic haircut, right? So everything that we've done To create these lengths like this isn't going to stay like that Everything we've done. It has helped us create a basic haircut. Now that doesn't it's not a done haircut That's just a basic haircut. So I want to make sure That as I work through this haircut Then I then I customize it for the guest the person So you got you can't just be done after you cut something basic Here we go now we're going to work our way back on the head shape this way and I know some of you guys out there are going to be very concerned about where you find the guideline for this So let's make sure that we address that you get a little h2o in this You guys can hear a little Come with me. So how do you find the guide? for the second side That's pretty simple. It's just determining the length and finding balance Using your eye. So we're all artists, right? We all do this every day. So being able to find The lengths that match up you took your section in that Recession point so you should be able to kind of eyeball Exactly what you want your length will be right Now there are other ways, but it doesn't need to be exact it needs to make sense for his head Right. So as I comb here I'm gonna come out from the head and I'm gonna cut now my goal is to make sure that this length here is very similar To the length on the other side you take it from the temple and you look and Pretty good there They match up pretty well. So then you can move forward Error on the side of longer and you'll be fine Don't try to make it exact because you can always take the tiniest bit off again to get it to match up It's hard to once you cut this side shorter than that side now. You've already cut that side, right? So don't get stressed about it but just try to make sure that you error on the side of it being a little bit longer and Then you'll get better and better at it and you'll be able to just kind of cut it at that point And I'm just working our way back on the head comb that hair in To get a little bit of the guide and then comb it back So that the new hair is being cut Directly over where it comes out of the head and remember we're making a line That now continues to the back Just follow the round of the head Here Hair forward scoop the new or the guide into the new hair over top of where it lives I don't work into the nape from this section some people do for me I like to Continue through the top of the head and then work the nape This even turns a little bit into graduation because of the head shape here.  I can literally take my sections same way that I was just like that and I can swipe through and Just cut these lines. So watch how quick I can now Do this cut Through the head just like that Call me back Slide and swipe through and that allows me to do the same thing just do it quicker And it already gives me a little bit of a textured edge, which is going to be softer weight-wise For the haircut so or for the client So the point cutting the texturizing that we're going to have to do on the opposite side Won't have to do as much in this back area because of the tri-raiser and how much texture it creates Now we're going to go into this nape area here. Come this back like that I'll just take the tri-raiser and slide through it Here That hair up get the guide where you need it slide through definitely one of my favorite Things is cutting around shape because you just literally take the razor and follow the round of the head All right, so now We've got the two sides cut they come back into Kind of meet into the middle so you get the flow of the haircut really coming back to this back point So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to blow dry the hair Just on the bottom Because I want to see how it's kind of flowing through and I want to detail Some of it before I move on to the rest so you guys will kind of see how that plays out this Now you can decide if you want to just use some foam you can do that.  All right Lightning fast Okay, so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna walk you guys through some different texturizing techniques that will help Kind of finalize because here's the deal this longer hair on guys The challenges happen around the ear the most You know this nape area is easy we can cut into that Creating the shape here. It's always gonna fall kind of nice But this area here around the ears That's what a lot of guys have issues trying to figure out what they're gonna do with it so And you can already see how it just becomes kind of homidy through here as well So what I do is I like to blow dry it So make it kind of big right so I flat wrap it around the head I let it kind of form to the head shape and then I say all right. Well, how do I fix this helmet because?   It's starting to feel how many and they'll just say well Just mad it down with product and you'll have your challenges fixed. Well product doesn't fix Challenges product is there to enhance the haircut enhance the style, but it's not a problem solver Which is where we try to position it It's even the way they position it on the a lot of the bottles and stuff. They'll say you know for flyaways. Well Flyaways, why do they happen right? You know, there's there's reasons why all this stuff happens a product isn't the solution It's the care that we take of the hair within the blow dry or just getting a haircut and then the product is a great You know kind of assistant to that If that makes sense. All right, so Let's see Is there I thank you so much Appreciate it. Smo mo. Thank you for the birthday wish Appreciate that All right Now I got a few tools that I'm gonna use Texturizing scissor is one of my best friends this can freak people out And the reason for that is we've used it wrong for too long, right? This is a great tool for removing weight and creating Shifting density and all that stuff. You got to use it the right way. So I'm gonna show you guys today some of the things I like to do And we're also going to work on this outer perimeter, which is super long right now. All right So a couple of my favorite texturizing tools at this moment are the Acro leaf wide the Yuragi six Yuragi six is one of my all-time favorites for men's cutting So what I'm gonna do is you can go in so I comb this hair forward, right? We cut it going back So when I comb it forward you start to see a little bit of the weight that shifts through there because that's not how We cut it to go but a lot of guys are gonna wear it You know sometimes forward a little bit and I want to remove some of that weight from it So we're gonna go here and I'm just gonna cut in using that texturizing Blade and just start removing a little bit of this Weight and not really just not to change the haircut at all But just to start skinny and up the shape Another thing is I like to do things in layers. So What I'll do is I'll take this little guy, which is They're available on our online store shop FSE. Let's see if I can put up I purchase So anything you guys are looking to pick up, but this is our velcro clip. I use these in men's hair all day long so I go here and shorter women's hair Sometimes longer women's hair, but you just put that clip right in the hair like that And it will actually hold all this out of That area and you can kind of get in there and work. So kind of like a little surgical tool there to get in and Remove some bulk, so I'll go through here And I'll actually just really start working with this texturizing scissor to remove length and weight You can lift it up like this and I'll just start picking away at it The reason I like the texturizing scissor is it's unlike using just a regular scissor blade Which it would really just take that hair off right away This allows you to kind of etch into it a little bit and decide a little more On the density that you want to leave And once I get it to where I want it Then I can go in and just do a little bit quicker cut and it'll start to take some of that length out Now I'll also let the hair kind of come back because sometimes they're gonna tuck their hair So you want this to be able to fall in any direction and work in In their favor so like here now I'll start working my way back And obviously these take out a percentage of hair But if you cut enough it takes eventually turns into a hundred percent Right, so I just kind of can cut through and work some of those edges now. This is cutting the underneath That's why I like to say we do it in steps so right here I'm working on This step right here, so I just slide and glide through it Turn so you guys can see so right here slide Through it so get your blade in there and then just working on that diagonal Taking out some of that bulk so now when I remove this velcro clip Starts to work back. Look how soft that hair starts to fall That's why we do it in steps. You don't need to go in and start hacking away at all this weight that you created in the haircut Let that wait that weight makes sense. Then when you start to look at it Here it's falling nice and soft it's starting to work with his hair type with his hair texture Catherine thanks for posting the link Appreciate that Shelley. That's very nice of you. Thank you My favorite texturizing scissor and I actually I'm not using it right now Because it's actually in the barbershop With my tools I forgot to bring it in but I like them all This is the acro leaf wide, but the Yuragi number six by Mizutani It's on our online store. So if you go to our website, you can get it there We also have payment plans for stylus Where you can break it up So you pay half down on the scissor because these are not cheap, but they're the best Scissor you can buy. I promise you that Mizutani is the best quality handmade in Japan you know There's a lot of scissors out there that are they're charging way too much and they're not even handmade in Japan like they're not They say Japanese steel Which the steel comes from Japan and then they hand make them Somewhere else, which is fine, but then they're overcharging for it You know when you look at a really well done haircut just imagine if you went to You know, there's different qualities of haircuts, right? So you go to a place and they hack through it They do it really fast because they're producing as much as they can It's hard to you know, have a great end result Same thing with scissors and everything else in life depends on how it's produced So you got to be careful and some people charge the same amount as these scissors are And they're getting them made in that way and it's just kind of a bummer, but So you got a value is an important thing, but this so you're rocky number six by Mizutani You can look it up on our website. It's a it's a great scissor, okay So this now it starts to flow backwards and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to slide My texturizer just over top of that last step, but I don't want to cut into this too much Then once I comb it back and it looks good, then I'm going to comb it forward and just say does this look good, too That looks pretty cool So I think he could wear it forward if he wanted to and he would get it would just kind of have a different look I still want to cut into this little sideburn area, but we'll do that at the end All right, so now we're going to work into the nape Margie, thank you so much. Appreciate that All right, so let's work this nape area Now this is a great technique for male or female guests depending on their style Let's go right in here. So I'm sorry. I'm listening. I'm reading smo-mo's Comment or question So I think you're not supposed to go above mid chef texturizing right in what case is that okay to go above? So you could go to the scalp with texturizing if you want to I think and I go mid shafts all day long on this It depends on what you're trying to do right so if you go and it just depends like You never just go in and hack at it and call it a day right? I'm sliding through. I'm creating I'm doing the same movement. I would do with a scissor. I'm just doing it with a texturizer So it's it's more this kind of movement that you want to do So you really got to be careful with what you're trying to do with any kind of tool Don't just go in and hack at it, but I'm going scalp This is at the scalp with the back of this blade, and I'm cutting and then I'm just sliding through that's okay Because of the technique so just get practice with it. Make sure that you have You know a mannequin that you can try it with So that you're not just you know going at it and cutting too much But see how nice and feathered that starts to look then if you're if you're liking that feel you can always go in with the tri-raiser and soften it a little bit more Another great thing with the the velcro clip to is that you could take This part of the hair that you don't want to cut right? I don't want to cut into any of this So I just comb it back. I put the velcro clip there like that. I just push it in so now I'm only working With the edge of the hair here. Let me brighten that up a little bit So this velcro clip here. So now all I'm working with is this little nape area Then I can go in my tri-raiser and I know I'm only cutting These little bits so I go through a pinch cut start to detail This perimeter line that Making it shorter then when you let this down It comes over top of it. See how it starts to fill it up a little bit still nice and full But softer so the reason you do that is if you have kind of a weaker hairline it's always good to Create that undercut kind of feel and then let this cut fall over if I didn't use my velcro clip and clip this away What would happen? I would go in and grab all of this and start cutting into it And it would still be too skinny around the edge. There you go That's how we do that do the same thing here in this temple area Comb this hair up clip in Stick it down now I can go through here with the tri-raiser like this Slide through Temple and I can go in maybe use a texturizing side just so I'm not cutting as much hair and Detail it and I drop this down So my suggestion is see that looks cool. My suggestion is for my birthday you guys go by yourself a Tri-raiser because you deserve it and it would be a cool present for yourself and for me because you're buying it for me And I appreciate it 4495 we ship them worldwide. It's such a cool tool All right, now I'm gonna go through and you don't have to you don't have 4495 that you want to spend on it Please do not I Appreciate you just watching So just a little more detail work around that edge you guys are liking it Let me know Know what you think now. We're gonna detail the opposite side. So basically look at this look at the before and after of the detail work so you go from Cutting and this is why again, so something I want to explain to you guys why it didn't matter if Both sides were exactly the same because look at them now. I Left length so I could then cut into it and I had hair to work with right? So when you look at these two different sides, so let's look at the before side So that's that we did our interior layering and all of that Then we did our undercutting our stepping and then when you look at the opposite side See look how nice that falls and just how different it is Obviously wearing that's going to be so much easier so you go from the basic cut that you learn to then adding detail work and You know texturizing work. That's the outcome that you get so Right here. Thank you Tara appreciate that Appreciate all of you guys Let's get this guy going and then I'm gonna show you guys how to do the top so I want to work my way through it through this first So again, we use our velcro clip right through here I'll just comb it up. It doesn't have to be perfect guys That down now. I'm gonna start working my steps. You got step one You got to get this out here. We'll move to step two for the finishing of the texturizing Thank you guys appreciate it. All right Texturizing scissor I'm gonna slide through start cutting into it. We're gonna work now Here's the other beauty of the Mizutani texturizing scissor see the tang or finger rests on both sides even handle That's my go-to I like an even handle because When I take this I can flip it and cut this way or I can flip it and cut this way I can have the blades or the teeth on the bottom or I can have the teeth on the top now Why would I want that I always like the flow? I like this blade on the bottom so I don't know if you guys are like me But I like this blade on the bottom So that I can slide through and cut so like that Now on the opposite side. I was cutting like this So watch this so I can either cut this way Keep that blade on the bottom or when I walk to the other side of the head I got a flip I got to take my hand out of the blade and put it the other way So now the blade stays on the bottom. That's really it. I know it's kind of hard to see so I could go here cut I Can flip like this and cut depends on where you're comfortable But I really like that. I can just kind of come in here like this Cut through and look how I can just cut in and glide out. This is the sharpest Texturizing scissors See we're starting to take out some of that bulk just creating air It's funny that even with guys that have thinning hair Sometimes there's thick areas So if you take out a little bit of the density in the thinner or the thicker area It actually makes their thinner area look fuller. So these are all like little tricks That I like to add in right here. I want to just Come this go down a little bit Now I'm gonna comb this back and start working Forward and back Again that length. I'll cut into that with the tri-raiser Let this down Now we're working on step two.  That's what I'm saying You could create this look by slicking it down with product, but then midday It's gonna shift back to what it was So you want to make sure Everything you're doing in the haircut is actually benefiting them and then the product just Enhances how good the haircut is. It's not hiding Things that you didn't do in the haircut That's not Making us professionals. Yeah, look at that. This is why I just love I think the reason I love cutting men's hair so much is because a Lot of guys don't have the education a lot of women don't either but You know a lot of guys don't even blow dry their hair So that's like for me just kind of teaching them and kind of giving them those moments where they're like Oh, wow, I didn't realize that that's what I needed to do. That's kind of some of my favorite stuff.  I'm assuming that you would like that, but I just want to get your guys's feedback It's it's hard for me I'm trying to like dodge two cameras at a time, but I feel like eventually I'll get used to it And it'll be all good. I used to have to click back and forth. I didn't like it as much so hoping It works really well when I'm running the cameras in and then somebody else is doing a class, but it's not as easy Susan says no, okay, Anna awesome Belinda. Okay. Yes, cool. It's not necessary. Yeah, I agree. It's not necessary Why I'm asking Your thoughts People are so blunt on the internet. It's also kind of funny like I think about this a lot because I get a lot You know, I get negative stuff on the internet all the time, but Which is totally fine. I get it, but I Think about this a lot like she said no and it affects my thoughts But like you guys say yes, and it doesn't so it's like So Susan says no twice that really affects my thoughts. Susan's getting blocked. I'm just kidding. Actually, I don't know if I'm kidding So but this is the thing like so she says no some of you guys say yes when the word yes doesn't I'm like, okay cool She says no, and I get I'm like er. Why? But it's just funny how that how that works How our minds react? It's the other thing like I used to When I would see a negative comment of a comment back And I would find myself commenting back to the negative comments and not even commenting to the positive ones and Changed that a while ago, but Now I don't give a time of day to the negative It is interesting. I like the overhead as well. We do have the overhead still it just hasn't It's okay Susan, I'm not blocking you. I appalled you can say no. That's why I was asking That's what I'm saying. It shouldn't affect my thoughts. I Have the overhead. I'm gonna use it see right here I'm gonna use it for the top but Hasn't really been relevant yet, but I agree with you. I like the overhead as well I just have three cameras that I'm trying to work with and I Can I can get why? Why it is what it is All right Helps to see body positioning. Yeah, I think so too. I think if it just would Follow me a little bit more would be better something or maybe if I did like a rectangle shot Like if I change that to rectangle, we're gonna do an experiment together today Maybe even square. I'll do classic wide. Nope. Don't want to do too much Yeah, let's see if the square one Yeah, I kind of like that feel like that Might show a little bit more Thanks, Belinda. I appreciate that Cool. All right, so Let me just make sure we're good on both all the details here Again going in with the tri-raiser Perfect birthday present for you guys on my birthday There you go. I'm just working around the ear. I can kind of just work and then It's just a little surface cutting But little surface cutting can go a long way just over top of the hair that way You can also really work the ear out of the haircut if you want as well What I find is a lot of these the people gonna say kids but a lot of people wearing this haircut Because adults are wearing it as well tend to Have it cover the ear a little bit So you can go through there also another good thing to do With the tri-raiser if you want to just take out and add a little bit of texture and air to the cut you can always Clip it away like this here Work it into the hair Then you've got this here and just go underneath and go 25% mid-shaft to end Take out 25% of the hair and that'll skinny it up. It will not affect The shape of the haircut because you're doing it in the same fashion that you cut it so diagonal back comb the hair up Velcro clip. This is somebody that has really thick hair then 25% mid-shaft to ends take it out And you got it comb back so You get a nice soft effect on the hair that way thing All right, yeah, we're always trying to make it better. That's that's the goal is Today might you know, sometimes we mess things up a little bit, but I'm constantly trying to evolve it So that it works better and better all the time. Oh Joni happy birthday to your sister as well. Okay, so a great question I don't know. I wouldn't know how to pronounce that name But great question about texturizing scissors the difference between because I did talk about using the blade on the bottom So going through here. I like this blade to kind of guide through instead of trying to work the teeth Through and then have this come over top. It works the same Like it's fine. This is just a lot wider and bulkier.  I don't even think there's a big difference They do say that if you cut it this way like if you look at the blades How they cut So this is the step like the the flat blade is on the outside Towards my body on the teeth. So the teeth are gonna cut down and it's gonna kind of bend the hair under that way That's what they say But for me like that doesn't I don't really I don't know how sold I am on that I've never really noticed too much of a difference Cutting it this way it would fold the hair back putting it this way would tuck the hair under That's what they say but for me. It's more of a comfort of the blade working through the hair Doing it on both sides. I don't really care which side the blade is on. It's just having that full blade underneath Okay Let's see here now. We're gonna work through the top and then we will be done With the cut here is the most important part of the top You want to comb so I'll comb everything forward and This is gonna be a two-step process as well. We're gonna have the front and the back So let's go here like this spray bottle I'm not afraid to saturate down the sides of the hair again But you don't have to so I'm just kind of Saturating combing the hair forward and then I'm going to split it Nose is right here Comb the hair forward split it in half That's kind of interesting because you can actually see me trying to focus it in the center All right, so straightforward part it Susan you're gonna like this Fact that we have both on this one Watch this I'm gonna sell you on it All right, so now Center then I take and I split the front in the back. So at the apex point Comb that forward. I take another line here Comb that forward.  All right. Where's my scissors? Of course they're over here Okay, vertical section Smaller couple and what I'm doing is I'm connecting this to the back of the head. Okay Here I'm gonna turn this That's a good angle Vertical and now I'm gonna cut with the round of the head here So up from this point. Thanks, Susan All right, Susan's now my favorite the bubble is distracted Because you see me moving around all the time All right, there we go Now I'm gonna push Kind of the theme here push that guideline over over top of the new section And why are we cutting with the round of the head here?  I wanted to kind of flow backwards into the crown all of this Flows back in now. We're gonna continue to the opposite side and I'm going to now pull right pull The guide over top of the new section last little bit Okay Now that flows back off the head So now we've got the front and how are we gonna connect that I want to keep length in the front So I'm going to work a shorter to longer Angle so right here in the front take a vertical section this Work that vertical section grab a guide from the back here bring that into it And now I'm going to cut short the long You could also just over direct this back if you wanted to I Didn't want to over direct it back because that would push a little too much weight to the front So there's your guide I'm just gonna bring everything straight up now.  I want a little disconnection so instead of This line right here, right so this line Following the round and kind of rounding through I'm just keeping it straight up going all the way out Basically just walk into the edge of the cliff falling off Here up in the air Work I'll do the same thing on the opposite side bring that in got your guide short to long Same thing here Not really like this doesn't need to be precise because the more texture the better it really just needs to Kind of be brought to a point with a purpose So I don't mind Having that extra movement in there though. All right, so now What I'm gonna do again, that's a basic Hair cut I'm gonna blow it dry blow it back and then we're gonna cut into it to finalize it Here we go. Have my blow dryer I'm gonna put a little bit of the foam in there. It's really funny. Kathleen appreciate that Christos Christos We can't see what guide you took from the back so That product on my hand the guide that we took from the back Was from the crown So right in here the round of the head right there. That's where we took it from All right, so a little bit of sculpting foam again Just to have a little control in the blow dry soften the cuticle a little bit work that through the top of the hair Now sculpting foam to me isn't a final product for guys here, but it's a great base product Keeps the hair nice and conditioned shine So now we got our blow dryer again Grab my ergo brush And we're gonna blow dry this back So notice how when I'm blow drying right? I blew dry everything back Depending on what you want the end result to be so I blow dry the hair back and then at the very end I blew dry it forward so you see the volume like You can't blow dry something this crazy. She's got crazy hair right now, but This is like this volume you can't create that Once you flatten the hair so you can't flatten the hair out You really need to kind of create that volume in the blow dry and then again when you add the product in Then it becomes you know just a product. It's it's Sep adding a little separation to the hair adding a little bit of that style the texture That's kind of what it's all about so We're not done again some detail work needs to be done before it's finished So I have Velcro clip. I've got a comb and I've got a tri-raiser the three tools that I'm gonna use Most of my detail work anymore. That's kind of what I do. So See so here we're gonna do this in steps as well So like we did on the bottom see this long hair hanging dangling down. That's okay I like it, but it's too much. So I'm gonna go in here step one Let that fall down home this up grab my Velcro clip here Put it at the part hold the hair up now. I can come in here with my 100% cutting Just kind of work into it. I want the top of his hair to be very long, right? I don't need the whole side to be long But I do like the disconnection that's happening in here. So I want to keep that too Elvis. Yeah, for sure Leslie thank you. I appreciate that Ashley thank you All right, so just soft barely even putting the tri-raiser into the hair So look took that disconnection out now. You've got step two. How's the hair falling? What does it look like? Now I take another Parting add my Velcro clip up here keep that hair separated and now we can work through it now. I can decide Look at him from the front see that bulkiness in there So what am I gonna do? I can go in with my texturizing sides I can hold the hair here and I can start working through it with a 25 texture Through there. Just take out a little bit of that bulk then comb it and look Here I see a little bit of bulk there 25 percent texture Obviously if I'm running my hand a couple times, it's gonna be a little more than 25 percent, but That's all I really Need is just to soften This area up Yo, then we comb that over that last little bit I like a little extra bulk on this top bit. So see how that starts to kick over. That's cool That's what we're going for Now we're gonna do the same thing on the opposite side here take step one Place our Velcro clip here And now I'm just gonna cut into some of this disconnect No, that's pretty good. I don't even know if we'll need a step two on this Step two kind of is what it is There like that disconnect a little bit We're getting there guys we're getting there. All right So now now we've basically got a really nice flow to a haircut. We've taken out we've texturized We've added a ton of stuff. So the final step is just to add a little bit of product to it To finalize everything. This is dry paste by Maverick. Love this stuff because must have dropped it It's just a nice kind of it's got a nice hole, but it doesn't get crunchy at all So I work that into the hair work it into my hands and then I can kind of Just run it through just really heat it up on your hands like this Work it through and then what I'll do with any guys really is I start with just my fingertips working through the sides Like that and then I'll work through the back and I'll just start kind of Running my hands through the crown area at that point. I don't go in the front That's kind of what I'm getting at I don't go into the front until the very last little bit That's on my hands because I don't want a ton of product Through the top of the hair at the top of the hair should have a little flow to it the sides You can control a little bit more I kind of kick over over the hair And I'll start working some of these little edges here. So the leftover stuff on my hands. I can kind of work Tuck a little bit. I personally really like when you can see a little bit of the Hair coming out of the edges So when he looks at you kind of straight on you see some of that hair coming out sides ideally kind of my My liking what if you wanted to wing out that fell out It can wing out What I'm like I like these little pieces that that kind of wing out But they're not it's not like flips and then flat on top That's the key. Just make sure that it doesn't kick out here and then sit flat We built it up so that it would have tons of volume on top It would expand out a little bit so somebody that has you know a longer face like this mannequin kind of has a longer face Building out these wait lines here. It kind of round off the top of the haircut. Don't make it look too long That really helps out as well So you can see Just got a really awesome Flow to it If I had this much hair I would wear this haircut all the time, but I just don't have hair like this, but Your thicker hair clients, you know, this is definitely a very popular post-covid You know current lockdown situation lets people have a little bit longer style. They don't feel like they have to Back out a little bit just so they don't feel like they have to have short hair I think these long styles fit people really well. So The product was what did it for me? Is that a good thing? Oh, I love this Milton. Thank you. Yeah This is the thing the product so but here's you can't just run out and buy this product and make this hairstyle It's not how it works You got to have the air and the texture and the movement and the detail work then when you put this in it See it sings right it just looks so cool But until you get the haircut right the product isn't the answer The product is unbelievable when the when the haircut is the way it should be so look at all Of that texture movement. This is one of my favorite probably one of my favorite men's cuts. I've ever done be honest It really worked out. It's because it's my birthday and I Just lucky today. I guess feeling lucky All right Any questions from you guys? I Love the those texture pieces on my clients the little details in life. That's right Kelly totally agree with you Lorraine, thank you so much Tara appreciate it Lawrence. Thank you Lorentz maybe Joni, thank you Angela appreciate it all of you guys are awesome. It's been a really fun time hanging out with you guys today on this Monday Remember I'm live every single Monday Doing some men's cutting right here on the channel I'm also live on Tuesdays doing women's cutting and we have color classes on Wednesdays Thursdays we have color Color style curly hair classes and then Fridays. I'm trying to do styling so I'll get there. Hopefully this week is the week Yeah, exactly Adele thank you so much Natalie thanks for the birthday wish You guys made a fun birthday to do this live. I'm looking forward to tomorrow. We're gonna do some some more fun things I'm actually not sure what I scheduled yet, but make sure you download the FSE now app which is Right Here You can download the app It's FSE now is the name of the app. It's free any of the classes that we do you guys will get alerts ahead of time You'll get the link so you know where to go you can watch all of our past classes past videos anytime We chop these tutorials up into shorter clips You'll get an alert about that as well and you can join our community.  So All right, cool. I think I had one question. I just want to make sure I do answer that You're I don't know if Linda's still on but let's see This will pull up How can a woman 70 wear her hair long low and highlights. My hair is very healthy and I use great products Linda. I mean your hair looks Pretty blonde. So I would just be I Would just be careful. I mean you could definitely wear it long. You just got to take care of it Here's one thing I would say to anybody out there. I don't know if Linda's still on but One thing I would say to you guys out there that have longer hair. I don't think age matters in long hair I think healthy hair is the win for everybody So if you have healthy hair the way you're gonna keep it healthy is don't blow dry it as much as possible Let your style work for you let it live as long as possible use dry shampoos Use styling products that are healthy for your hair. Make sure you use heat protectants when you do blow dry So you can knock down because heat is probably one of the worst things UV rays Lightener is a little bit rough, but obviously a bond builders and your lightener is in different things So lighteners are a lot better nowadays, but if you have blonde hair, it's definitely gonna be a little bit drier So make sure that you are adding that moisture in you're not doing a ton of blow drying a ton of brushing a ton of Tension on your hair and then you'll be you should be good to go I think the biggest thing is doesn't matter your age again If you have long hair and it looks healthy then it's a win if it's long hair and it looks damaged then I would say You're gonna want to cut it short and I would say that to anybody at any age So, you know older people can look great with long hair older people can look great with short hair Young people can look great with short hair or or long hair. I don't think that matters in my personal opinion I think it's just Health you need healthy hair All right, cool Thanks, Anissa I appreciate that Good to see on here. All right So again, if you guys are looking for any tools or anything I would really appreciate it if you go to shop fse calm pick up any of the tri-raiser. I would love it That would be an amazing thing Let me see tomorrow. I'm gonna do a giveaway of a tri-raiser on the live just because I don't have it set up yet So I'll do that tomorrow, but thank you guys so much. I really appreciate you all Looking forward to Another week of live streams with you guys. So thank you for hanging out being a part of our community I really appreciate it. Go download the app get the tri-raiser And then be on the lives. Let's have a good time. I'll see you guys tomorrow Thanks so much and I really appreciate all the birthday wishes. It was very nice of you guys To celebrate that with me. All right I'll see you guys next time My teeth up watch my face start my Wake up get up stretch my legs eat some breakfast milk and Rush my teeth up watch my face Don't mind close on start my day Wake up. I can smell the smoke from the bacon Let's go see the sun shining from the windows Okay, I know that today will be a good day. I know that today will be a good day ABC one two three Drink some water Brush my teeth get out of bed and I stretch bed in my air is a mess Look through my clothes for a fit anything I do is drip Feel like a kid when I'm tick-tock and I still keep it real as it is I show my age. I don't switch often I'm just as a dad as it gets Try taking that so my kids talking.  I can smell the smoke from the bacon Let's go see the sun shining from the windows Okay, I know that today will be a good day.