ion um so in recognition that we would like to um provide some assistance um if we can in relation to low income residents uh we did put together what's known as our h2o or help to others program and the help to others program allows those that meet certain um income um requirements to apply for the program they go through a water use efficiency audit so we help them by looking at any opportunity they can to be as efficient as possible to really eliminate waste and make sure that they're bringing their bill down from that perspective and then once they complete that they're enrolled in the program and they get 50 off of their fixed fees both for water and sewer every month um so we do look at some funding opportunities through our um cell tower leases to fund that program as well as as mentioned if folks are interested there's an opportunity to donate to that program as well which will help um provide funding for the help to others program and information is available on the city's website including all the information about how to enroll if folks are interested I really want to thank you for that program and clarify that unlike the electric utilities which are allowed to provide resources and different rates for low income folks there is the state which is typically referred to I think is 218 uh precludes us from offering that extra help to low income households in the same way so I really appreciate our staff's creativity in finding a way to offer some assistance I I do want to be clear as I have done year in and year out since I've been on council that until the state changes its policy and creates a reasonable sufficient safety net water is an essential everyone must have water and we lack a state ability to create a state safety net for that um so I do not vote for water rate increases until we can get the state safety net in place and again want to very much thank our staff for their work solving the local problem and I hope we can talk more about bringing to bare forces at the state to change that policy because while electricity is often vital water is certainly vital and yet we are not allowed to provide a safety net for for poor families thank you great thank you did you have a question I would like to clarify and question I'm for all of our public and ratepayers out there I wanted to let them hear from our staff whether or not the results of the fires the benzene contamination was if any of this rate increase has gone to the fixing of the pipes that were contaminated with benzene I want people to know about how that was funded sure so in relation to this pass-through rate increase this is what's needed by the snowman county water agency and so we have to purchase water because there are a wholesaler and so this goes into what we call our user fee as opposed to the fixed fee there's two portions to the bill that affects that portion and that passes through so that will fund our additional cost to purchase water from the snowman county water agency starting next fiscal year with regard to the work that we did to resolve the benzene issue that came from previous budgets and in funding that we had we we looked at various opportunities to try and find the most cost effective and effective way that we could resolve that issue initially we were looking at something that was going to be significantly more costly but through a very thorough investigation and working with experts and regulators we were able to resolve that at approximately eight million dollars as opposed to the initial between 30 to 40 that we were looking at and we're doing everything we can to put ourselves in the best opportunity to be able to resolve for recoup as much funding from FEMA as possible through that process so just to be clear this this rate increase does not go to any of that and also will people who had who are rebuilding homes be assessed any fees for having hookups reestablished and was that is that associated with this cost increase at all no that is not great thank you so much okay one card on this topic george uberty i would just like to say that we're talking about rate increases right now i feel like you should probably get what you pay for now you know we pay for our water to be cleaned i feel like that's a pretty basic i mean you have to have clean water to drink council member com said it beautifully i thought um i used to be a city of santa rosa employee i worked at the ridgeway swim center it's a wonderful facility and it has excellent tools for testing among other things the ph of the water that's there uh my the quality of my water in my home is terrible i thought i would test that out i got a bottle of water i got santa rosa city tap water and i got some pool water and i tested them myself bottled water ph 7 on the nose uh pool water 7.5 that's what we wanted it to be santa rosa city tap water 8.8 um you know and these are with tools that the city of santa rosa uses to ensure the safety of its water for the public to swim in so i am fairly confident they're accurate i called somebody from the city santa rosa uh that works in water testing and i had them tell me that they and these are her exact words she said well alkaline is better than acidic but the highest we recommend for human consumption is 8.3 all right now that's santa rosa city tap water coming out of the faucet at a public facility all right now before that ever happened i did research into this myself okay santa rosa has the most water quality violations per capita in the state of california by a terrific margin we have 108 they are 100 unenforced all right the only place in all of california with more water quality violations than us in 2016 was los angeles county all right they had 180 all right now they have a population of 3.25 million all right we have what 300 000 something like that sinoma county i mean it's it's not even one it's not even a third we got 108 water quality violations they got 180 that's it's unacceptable it's absolutely unacceptable okay and that was before the fires hit all right the fires hit our water quality did not get better all right then 2018 and this is the last point okay so for my own testing of the water my own the stuff coming out of the faucet at my house the stuff coming out of the faucet at a public facility the public figures that are disclosed about the amount of water quality violations we have and now okay at the lagoon at the santa rosa rather than cleaning the water we have a water quality trading program water quality trading i don't want to trade the quality of my water for anything all right we're selling away our right to clean drinking water that is wrong any additional cards on this topic madams miss lemony of this item um i'd like to may i make a comment about yep okay um first of all i wanted to thank both uh sinoma water and our amazing water staff for working to keep the rates predictable and lower than cpi for our families also wanted to echo council member combs is noting our help to others in which case you can get a 50 percent reduction in reduced both water and sewer fees which when i look at my bill tend to be the most expensive portion and i wanted to say that if you're interested in you don't have computer access the number to call if you believe that you might be income eligible for help to others is area code<PHONE_NUMBER> i'll read that once again 535-3395 and i and i urge you to take advantage of this we are unique in california and having this program it's unacceptable that we don't have it as a state as mentioned by council member combs but we are very proud to offer it to our low-income residents and i really hope that everybody who's eligible takes advantage of it um so the other thing i wanted to um mention was that uh these you know that last year that that uh these costs were deferred in light of the fires and and also thank the staff for doing that and again i find that these 87 cents per month is is a reasonable amount so i will pass it back to the council for any other comments and seeing none okay i'd like to move uh that the uh the recommendation of the board of public utilities in the water department consider uh the proposed rate increase and provide direction to myself um to pass it on april 8th and i have any further reading of the text second we have a motion in a second your votes please and we have six eyes one no uh the no by council member combs thank you thank you for the presentation okay we'll move to uh item 13 public comment on non-agenda items first up is dwayne dewitt followed by nancy wong thank you sir my name is dwayne dewitt i'm from rosalind within santa rosa uh first i noticed that the picture of former mayor bob blanchard is not here on the wall and i was hoping that you'd honor that army veteran by getting his picture back up there on the wall so i just asked the clerk to hand out to you a letter that was sent to the city five months ago from congressman thompson and there's a typographical error in there that wasn't noticed at the beginning and that's that their staff neglected to put in rosalind veterans trail and repeated the word grove twice and so along with the letter that you've gotten there's also a notice about how the united states department of veterans affairs has a funding program now to help disabled veterans with various exercise activities during the master planning for the santa rosa city bicycle and pedestrian master plan we had been pointing out that the bike path just to the south of rosalind creek was where veterans had been hoping we could do the veterans trail and we'd been talking about this for many years so this letter came to the city five almost six months ago now and uh today vietnam veterans of america said that no one from the city has contacted them about this matter that congressman thompson takes pretty seriously and he's even stated on there that uh he thanks the city manager for careful consideration on these efforts so what the veterans are trying to do is not just get that uh bikeway greenway designated as a veterans trail and we'd be out there helping on it but also try to bring in funds from out of the area we've done some good things we helped the county get three hundred ninety two thousand dollars to do brownfields research so we know we can do some positive things but perhaps those amounts of money don't seem large to you we're hoping that you folks would reach out to the veterans groups and help us to get this veterans trail and all that we've been trying to do we've never asked for money from you we've tried to bring in something for you and we do that just for what howard schultz who's now a current candidate for the next presidency talked about in his book for love of country that's what veterans are about and i know some people look down on veterans but we're trying to help our community as well as our country and we hope that you folks will step up and help us to get a veterans trail in roseland thank you for your time thank you doing nancy wong followed by steve den right good afternoon uh my name's nancy wong um president of the railway and paris techniques association apologies for the late uh coming in to thank you for our new year event that was uh our mayor and uh city council i think uh victoria flaming john sorry and uh and let's store all of the rest um because i was all the time after the event next morning i took out five o'clock after i come home i contacted john he says no meeting last week so i apologize for the late delayed thank you we from our bottom the heart um we really want to thank you with all the busy schedule everybody have and you all bring your family to celebrate the chinese new year with this we we feel so honored to have that and this year we feel comfortable we only had 600 guests instead the last year we have a 750 that was a little overwhelming but we're going to continue uh sharing our culture thank you for the city always support us so um and also our board member was here and julie chang wanted really want to say thank you thank you again thank you nancy it's a wonderful event uh steve den right followed by kate cross bala has a bulk hazard good afternoon steve den right uh homeless action happy third tuesday in lint there's a few questions i don't know can you guys ever answer questions because i'm still wondering about are you guys doing an eva on catholic charities would be an interesting story let's talk that would come out and be amazing and why is homeless anything to do with the homeless on a non-agenda item is that they didn't all perish the day they're still getting water and air and where is the 583 thousand dollars that was coming down in twos last may as your secretary or treasurer said hey you got money coming and since there's all seven of you here right now we could have what would be called a unanimous motion and and all i need is four positive votes and maybe four porta potties could be out throughout the city in a few places where there's more than four pads have already been prepared for porta potties and i'll provide the homeless to use them up and make them feel appreciated and all you guys gotta do is say make this thing in motion and make a vote and finally something could be said there's a word called resolution and i've been speaking for a long time i've not heard any resolutions and be something for people to start clapping and i could guarantee i could bring a whole bunch of people homeless people here next meeting to say thank you very much thank you very much and some of them in different languages to say thank you for some generosity provide anything like that so if there's any way can we conduct a vote is is anybody here think that the homeless need a place to go to bathroom is there any public people that could raise their hands how about how about you guys if i didn't know about this meeting i i could bring how many homeless do you need to have something like this just we're asking for four places to go to the bathroom and maybe permission to put cardboard down once in a while because it's just it's really makes it poopy when you gotta wonder where the heck you can go at six o'clock in the morning because some of my i will admit i'm speaking for homeless and some of them i think have some some problems malfunctions but and then there's some good ones but they all have the same problems that you guys have i learned to tolerate cold or else how about you guys just give us free plastic bags why don't you guys do something like how about you come and show that you care and come every friday there's free oatmeal and raisins and we're giving a hot chocolate and coffee time when's the last time you did that to say we care that's the homeless right there it's very personal so if you guys could do anything like that i'll greet you personally happy second or third tuesday in lent may y'all be rewarded peace out god bless kate followed by victoria yannis good afternoon my name is actually pronounced grow bell tazar i should have written that on my card but um you're not the first to make that mistake um i'm here tonight with my 12 year old daughter um i have four children and i'd like to talk to you about the bus routes through santa rosa my family and i live um near this sonoma fairground in the new newer developments there up on the hill what i'm here to ask for is to place an item on the agenda to discuss the um usefulness and the practicality of the current bus lines um a number of residential areas i've noticed do not have access to the bus lines and my neighborhood is one of them um and so what happens for a family like mine is that if i'd like my daughter to ride the bus she has to walk underneath the freeway passed down by dunhower park underneath the freeway past the 7-eleven and then she can get on the bus to go to school well of course i won't have her do that because it worries me too much and so what i find is that the bus is not really helpful for my family and i think that's a great shame because obviously bus riding the buses is good for the environment it allows the children to develop health healthy independence from their parents my kids are getting to an age where they don't want me chauffeuring them around and i have too much to do to be doing that um and since the fires the concentration of our neighborhood has changed um my neighborhood was built before the fires but i noticed that there wasn't a reassessment of the bus lines and whether they serve those communities it seems the venue wouldn't allow me to i mean obviously you can access this but when i look at this the what i notice about it is that the bus lines are set up like the spokes of a wheel but sometimes you don't want to go all the way into town before you go back out and so it'd be nice if there was a circular rim on the on the bus routes um so uh i think that's pretty much my reasons for for asking you to put this on the agenda for some discussion and investigation um i think that our current system is a little bit the the layout is a little bit dated and it doesn't serve the residential communities really some of them at all that's all thank you very much thank you for your comments victoria yana is followed by elizabeth ridlington victoria yana is from homeless action exclamation point thank you very much for this opportunity to speak i'm speaking today to encourage the city council to have its representatives the mayor and julie combs vote no for catholic charities to have the one point over one million for the roof uh this is out of the heat funding the emergency funding for the homeless i'm here to ask you to uh make sure that catholic charities does due diligence in their seeking other funding because a roof that big i can't see how it's an emergency to fix it when this should have been planned all along it's and to bring that big of a capital project into the emergency funding realm to take most of our money is a big shame um catholic charities does not respect the grievance rights of their clients they totally ignore the grievance procedure and uh once somebody is once an organization like catholic charities takes public funding to help uh the government fulfill its duty those people uh those members of the public that are receiving the services have constitutional rights in when those um funds are discontinued or any benefits that for example a woman laying out in front of the homeless service center the other day was banned orally just banned we don't know when she's going to be allowed back in so we're going to try to use the grievance system to um get her back in there for services but you know this is very important for all agencies that are seeking funding that they respect the rights of their clients i would also like to thank julie combs for voting no on the rate increase because i think that the city council needs to stand up for poor people as well as you do representing the millionaires that live in this community uh just because it was a sunny day let's not forget the homeless that are out on the street it's going to rain overnight and they will be out there another thing is i'm sure you know that the police department is still going around giving tickets to people for blocking the sidewalk thank you victoria elizabeth ridlington followed by eris weaver my name is elizabeth ridlington i live in the junior college neighborhood and i'm here to speak about something that's not been happening in my neighborhood necessarily but elsewhere in town which is the alarming increase in pedestrians and cyclists who've been killed recently on city streets these deaths didn't have to happen such deaths are avoidable if the city designs streets that are safe for all users and if the city lowers speed limits and enforces those speed limits i urge you to make this a priority i asked that you work with city staff and with the police department to quickly develop a plan for how to address the most dangerous sections of stony point where four people have died in the last six months for the longer term i asked the city adopt vision zero which we talked about at the meeting two weeks ago at adoption of the bike and pedestrian master plan and overall that the city strive to reduce the impact of traffic violence thank you thank you eris weaver followed by tomas ells so just on stony point road alone five cyclists and pedestrians have died in eight months that's one every six weeks uh one of them since i was last year speaking at the uh when you spoke about the bike ped master plan about that uh that corridor how many more people have to die before we do something one of the things i have found particularly frustrating is that the only public official who's made any statement about any of those deaths every news story about every death an officer says pedestrians and cyclists should wear brighter clothes and be more careful about where you cross the street but nobody says drivers slow down put down your damn phone pay attention you're driving a machine that can kill people why do we keep blaming the victim why do we keep prioritizing speed over safety now i know that some of those um the salute some solutions could be simple i went and spent some time over the intersection where this last death happened and adding a hog pedestrian beacon would allow the people who live on the east side of stony point to get to the store that's on the west side there's three quarters of a mile between crosswalks or stop lights on that street where people drive far too fast i know the area around highway 12 or three of the deaths were clusters probably going to take a little more figuring out what to do there but other cities have committed to vision zero which is saying that we don't find any uh deaths acceptable we're aiming for zero what would our policies look like what would our enforcement activities look like what would our infrastructure look like if we stopped assuming that these deaths are just what happens and prioritized minimizing them thanks thank you thomas ells hi thank you for the opportunity to speak um yesterday evening was the shanae hospital community meeting um and i think that it seems like santa rosa is the lead agency for that development and i know people have been put through a ringer those people that were up there mentioned how inconvenient it was and how difficult it was in the previous uh let's say opportunity for them to speak on the development and it seemed to me after watching uh what was communicated and seeing it seemed to me that i believe that when the city has an application before it it's going to have to go through the very sane amount of public participation and offering and those people up there are not going to be happy the consequence of the third time around it's going to seem to them like they would said right there they said why are we here this seems like the wrong meeting we're meeting with the county and the city is the one who's going to have authority over the development why are we even having this meeting you know so i'm just i'm just the messenger on that one on the issue of these pedestrians they're very unfortunate this is terrible particularly the consequence on santa on stony point what's written in the paper is they're pedestrians but further down in the article that was a homeless man he was well known in the area they said he was the happiest person that they knew this guy was always happy he was and in the morning the guy driving didn't see him now i i'm a civil engineer and i study accidents and that accident with that car was not at 35 miles an hour that was heavily damaged that car was extremely damaged and the woman who said when she was raking her yard in the morning there very early before she went to work she was raking her yard and she saw she heard the noise and she turned she saw the guy fly into her mailbox and when she when he hit the mailbox post she said that was what killed him it wasn't wasn't the exact exactly the car because the car flexed and the car bent a lot but the mailbox post didn't bend that was in concrete she said that was in concrete and that's what killed him you know but he flew because of the car he flew because of the car because that car was speeding there's no doubt of i mean you could you can measure that you get the photographs you get binocular photographs and you can thank you thomas exact speed that he was going not sure i can't read it at all don't even have a good guess lovely um that's great i don't like it anyway um never mind that reminded me of something um i would like to thank julie's while we're in the mood of thankfulness today um for having a really good civic initiative um whenever someone comes in with a um something that is tangible and a good idea you seem to jump up and make it happen and that's very beautiful um and i'd love to just end it at that but i'm a chatty one so um yeah it's it's a shame that we don't have more people um working in and able to have a more diverse um pool of people working on street um safety constantly um and we could do that by upping our revenues and tourism and whatnot um by having more bus systems um uh Healdsburg has their um boozy route you know it goes around Healdsburg and picks up people um we could have a Santa Rosa sponsored um smart train shuttle from the ferries to the train you know um cozy maybe with a toast on it or whatever but get people up here there's plenty that we could be doing more um if you got more diverse people in your system with ideas i don't know but uh yeah um julie always seems to focus on that so if we could make her like the czar of sonoma county that'd be great thank you thank you meredith kaplan hello um i'm here wearing black today in memory of the people the pedestrians and the bicycle riders who were killed in santa rosa recently and i'm not going to speak long i just want to say i hope that you will create the infrastructure to make our roads safer for all people thank you thank you we have no additional cards for public comment no additional items uh we'll adjourn the meeting


All right, we'll start. I am Christine Nashler, and I'm chair of the Conference of Finance Committee, calling on May 3, 2020 meeting at the committee's order. First, let me confirm attendance of members of the committee and confirm that everyone can hear me when I call your name. We respond in the affirmative and for those who are with us via Zoom, please let state that you are attending via Zoom. Jordan. Here. Shane. Here by zoom. Jennifer. Sophie. Brian. Here. Caroline Rebecca here. Here. Charlie. Here. John. Here on zoom. Darrell. Here. John. Here. Peggy. I'm here on zoom. El Tosti. Here. Here. Here and our executive secretary Tara here. Let me do the read the script on March 29, 2023, Governor Haley signed into law supplemental budget bill which among other things extends the temporary provisions of the open meeting law to March 31, 2025. The other extension allows public bodies to continue holding meetings remotely without a form of the body physically present at a meeting location so long as adequate alternative access to the deliberations of the meeting is provided to the public. Adequate alternative access includes providing public access through zoom video conferencing which we are doing tonight. This meeting will not feature public comment during public access does not ensure public comment or public participation. This meeting will not feature public comment. Those wishing to provide comments may do so by emailing our executive secretary Tara Bradley at T Bradley at town.browlington.ma.us. Please note that this meeting is being recorded and that some attendees are participating by video conference. We are aware that other folks may be able to see you and take care enough to screen share your computer. Anything that you broadcast may be captured by the recording. All supporting materials that have been provided members of this body are available on the town's website unless otherwise noted the public is encouraged to follow along using the post agenda unless the chair knows otherwise. The chair will introduce each speaker and then we'll recognize members wishing to provide any comments questions or motions please hold your name. Hold into your name's call. For those attending remotely. Please remember to mute your phone or computer when you are not speaking. Everyone please remember to speak clearly and in a way that helps generate active minutes. And each vote taken in this meeting will be conducted by a roll call vote. First order of business tonight it are the minutes of May 3. I've been able to have April 26 April 26 I'm sorry. Anybody have any comments, questions. Alright seeing none we'll take a vote on the minutes of April 26. Jordan. I'm staying I wasn't here. Shane. Jennifer's not here Sophie's not here Brian. Yes. Carolyn's not here Rebecca. Yes, Josh. Yes. Grant. Yes. Charlie. Yes. John. I'm staying. Daryl isn't here, Annie. Here. I mean yes. Sorry. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 12 in the affirmative and zero in the negative and two extensions. All right. The minutes have been approved. All right. Recap of where we're at and tell me for those who aren't telling me members. We have. We did the department of budgets. That's our full 30. And the capital budget. There was a little hiccup with the DEI department. There was an effort to essentially defund that. that effort to defund that government fail. There was a successful motion to take $15,000 out of the capital budget that was intended for Bolo raps. And that was, those are the only two issues really for those articles. So now we go into the special town meeting and then we'll go back to finishing the fourth meeting and then the step board's articles and then the refailment board. And then we will start and get into our finance articles. I don't know if we'll actually reach the finance articles tonight, I think there's a possibility that I can get into that book. So that's where we are. Annie, right, Dr. Dawson is coming on Monday. Dr. Dawson is coming on Monday and I have been assured we will take a minute man budget before we plunge into article 12, which we'll take off. All right, so that is the update. This town meeting, the other update I want to give people is what's been happening. We've had the long range planning committee with respect to the override. For those of you who attended the long range planning committee jump in and finally venting out. The school, the select board has yet to vote to put it on. I care honestly to see if there's anything. That's fine, I'm not gonna read your long one. How many Microsoft engineers does it take to put a hundred people in one set of chairs, right? Five people to move one chair in person. Sorry, okay, all right. So the select board has yet to vote to put the override on the ballot. The idea, the thinking is that they will do that in June to put it on the ballot in late November or late October, early November. What the school department is doing right now is refining their strategic plan to present to both us and the board, the select board I'm not anticipating any changes in their dollar amounts that they're asking for, but they are, as I said, refining it. And what they would like to have and what I would like to have is a meeting with the school committee and the superintendent and us when they've done that. So sometime either at the end of May or the beginning of June, preferably the end of May, we'll have a meeting with them solely to talk about their current strategic plan and their ask and override. In June, the select board will take a vote. The date, and again, correct me if I heard wrong by the end of the long-range plan committee meeting. I think the idea was that the select board would vote maybe on June 12th to put the override on the ballot. And with the idea that we would then have a meeting ourselves to vote as to whether we were gonna support the override or not. And if the select board votes on the 12th, I would like to have a FINCOM meeting on the 14th. If the select board votes earlier in June, then we'll try to have an earlier meeting in June. But as it stands right now, I'm looking at a FINCOM meeting on the 14th and I'm hoping that everyone will be able to attend that because it's a really important discussion and a really important vote to take. So I'd like as many members as possible there on 14. What is certain, I think, is that the amount of the override will be $7 million and it will be a three-year override. We're also looking at a special town meeting in the fall. And if, among other things, I think there can be some zoning issues in the fall, but also they'll be conceivably a vote of town meaning to adjust the FY24 budgets based on this override. And town meeting might occur before the override or after the override. So we might have to pass, we finance committee might have to present a contingent budget. So the point of what I'm saying is that be prepared that we're gonna have to do some work in the fall because we're gonna have to do a report just tell me in the fall. So just keep that in mind in terms of scheduling. No set dates as to the override or town meaning, but I think the idea was sometime late October and early November. So that is everything I know, Alan. I don't know, Annie, I don't know if you wanna add anything.  So I'll, I mean, I've been talking to Kersi and I'll continue to talk to her about trying to schedule something with regard to our meeting with us in the school committee. So, and again, I'd like to do that earlier rather than later, but we'll see where they are. Madam Chair, isn't there a difference between school spending and the override? In other words, we'll vote on override or not. Let's say we vote the $7 million override, we're not voting for school spending that override. That's those spending decisions that are made by each town meeting. So maybe a commitment in the minds of the selectman, but it's not law. If we do a contingent budget, the town meeting passes on that. No, that's true for the first year. But I'm just saying in general, the $7 million is what we're voting for an override. If there's no school or if those ads aren't voted, it's not a three-year override, it's almost a five-year override. But the commitment to the voters would be x amount or x, x, y, and z. Just like we have been doing in the last... But I'm saying it's a town meeting decision. At each town meeting, it's a finance committee decision, at each finance committee session. It's not a law, it's a political statement by the select board. So isn't that true? Every commitment we make about an override? No, you can write it in. You can write it. No, no, you can't write the number in. You can have it straight to the number. That's the only thing we can do. Okay, we can't say anything about how it's going to be standard, how long it's going to last or anything else. But it's not, all I'm saying is it's a political statement by the select board. It's not... Everything that we say about the override, other than the number printed on the ballot, is a political statement. How we've done it. We have never failed to live off to those political statements that I know. I'm not arguing that. I'm just saying it's the amount, the spending, the commitment to do an override and the amount that's spent are made in different decisions. Yep, yep, yep. Anything else? All right, then moving on to something more fun. Alan? Will we be able to do the reserve fund transfers on the 14th also? That's what I would like to do, yeah. And also do officer elections to get to all our business. And then he done for... It's our fall, yep. So the end of year party. So first, so for new members, what we historically do is when we're finished with our business in June, we get together and have dinner and drinks and just relax and spend some time before we all break for the summer. And it's always been a very fun event. So I am looking for volunteers who want to work on that. And Tara has in the past helped a lot. Can I count on you to do that? So if I can get... I like organizing parties. Great, all right. Anybody else who wants to help out? I might join you. All right, so Carolyn, I heard you're... I don't know what I'm gonna do in June. Did you get a chair? You can have a dozen chairs. So the question is the date. So if we do it, and maybe we can present it. Jennifer and Tara can figure out what the dates are. Yep, in terms of dates. But I was... If we meet... If we do our final business on the 14th, then the next Monday the 19th is a holiday Juneteenth. So I don't want to meet them. So that would be the 21st and that's your wedding anniversary. I'm sorry. Isn't the 21st your wedding anniversary? Yeah, I don't know what that is. But I can get special dispensation. I'm going to hit a ton. You know, wedding anniversary. And if you invite her. Sounds like a long trip. I probably did that once. Sounds like the longest trip. So the other alternative is maybe doing it on a Thursday the 15th. Are people amenable to a possible Thursday date? Sure. Yeah. Yeah, all those dates are fine. All right, so why don't we look at... Ideally, I think maybe the 15th, just to do it earlier and Carolyn will have a problem with his wife. Then we'll do it on the 21st. That would be the only one who'd be in trouble with Barbara if we do that. I'm sorry. Share that. Nice. Where is it done? So it's a very good question. Okay, so is it restaurant? We've done it at Russ Ross. We can... The three of us and Carolyn can talk more. But we have some money we can use and so the three or four of us can talk. Okay. Possibilities. Okay. And yeah, and see what will work, which date, at which place that makes more sense. You take whatever the balance, the lesser offenders, and you get to use it. Yeah. Where we go? Let's do this part. I recommend that. We'll make a motion that we consider everybody shipping in 20 bucks to 30 bucks. Second. Yeah, that's a good idea. I don't think we'll have a problem. Bring the control. We have it. Bring her in here. I don't have anything more to discuss. Let's plan on meeting on next Monday. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Okay.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So this would be a spoiler free review for the marvels, which is essentially captain marvel 2 since it's a sequel to captain marvel But it's also a it's also fall up to I believe secret invasions Miss marvel Wanda vision. I believe all of the shows that I've moderately watched I haven't even finished all of those but it's a sequel to captain marvel still nonetheless It is being directed by Nia the Costa who co-wrote the screenplay along with Megan McDonald and Elisa Kerasik It stars Brie Larson, Tiana Paris, Iman Vellani, Zahwi Ashton and Samuel Jackson This is revolving around The marvels while investigating a wormhole linked to the Cree Monaco Rambo's powers become entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Carol Danvers The trio team up to determine why they are swapping places with each other every time they use their Powers now I will say I thought that captain marvel was pretty forgettable and lackluster I did revisit it yesterday for those of you follow me on Twitter I revisited the film to see if it still was the same sentiment and it was the same sentiment I actually got a little bit worse of a sentiment for me on a fourth viewing as of that time when I watched it last night Brie Larson, I didn't find her to be very convincing in the role But the buddy cop stuff between herself and Samuel Jackson was one of the more favorable aspects of that film That movie just felt to give me a reason to care about Carol Danvers because she's seen unfazed and void of any real struggles Beyond amnesia for me to kind of latch onto her and see her as relatable I thought the film was totally all over the place as well But I wanted to start that off before I get into my thoughts on the marvels because I don't really talk about the MCU all that much on my channel But I think it's very evident by the intro of my channel that I'm a big fan of superhero movies. So It's a step in the right direction for the marvels In terms of this being way more entertaining than its predecessor and I did have fun with it overall But almost every aspect of the story that isn't humorous falls flat If the marvels were strictly a comedy or a highlight reel of thrilling action sequences Which it does possess with I would say amazing choreography Then this would be a home run. Sadly. That's not solely what this film is Kamala Khan, Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau Who is Carol's niece for those unaware make up our titular trio and are fairly likable for the most part Even Danvers who again, I feel was hard to connect with during Captain Marvel But liking them is only half the battle and for those worried about not understanding the marvels does enough from my perspective To catch you up to speed on Monica and miss marvel if you're absolutely unfamiliar with those two characters Anyway, the screenplay just fell flat because it's so plot driven and barely does anything with its characters in terms of giving them Struggles for me to really latch on to again. I had this same problem with captain marvel It has moments where captain marvel is trying to reconnect and make up for lost time With Monica and I just couldn't care less a lot of that is due to captain marvel's own failures to make To make carol's relationships on earth worth caring about so now the marvels is trying to flesh out relationships I already couldn't care less about and it's still not working in this sequel The the monica is visibly upset at times with carol because of the fact that she abandoned her And when I should be able to connect with the struggle I just can't because of the fact that the previous movie fell flat and now you're trying to Flesh it out more here and it's not working That bond is slowly repaired as the marvels progresses and it just didn't register Once it was all said and done not one bit of it The stakes are there for the conflict But I never felt like any of these characters were in any real danger due to the film being too campy at times I guess like on one end the comedy kept me entertained and on the other end I'm unable to find any reason to take the conflict serious as a result of this Camping this Darben a warrior trying to restore a holla who serves as the villain if you want to even call them that is just so Forgettable and a complete afterthought in regards to the story Darben blames carol for the fall of the kree empire But the film never does anything to convince me to take this threat serious So all of darben's heinous actions in the film. They don't even assist in making the character menacing in any capacity It's just a very messy screenplay that stays afloat thanks to the laughs that it offers consistently Especially the cats But the rest of it probably could have benefited from a longer runtime in order for everything to get a chance to breathe And be fleshed out and for me to actually sink my teeth into it and for some of the characters To actually be given some depth along the way besides just saying okay. Here's the conflict. Let's go after it But I will say that brie larson actually wasn't terrible here Her delivery I would say was the worst of the trio still She does get a chance to show more of her acting chops here as opposed to the weaker performance In captain marvel for the record. I do not think that brie larson is a terrible actress But certain roles just are not for everyone iman velani and tiana pears do a far better job in their roles But who is shocked about that? All of our leads have chemistry in their scenes so that aided in keeping me invested in this trio Despite two-thirds of the trio having that rift that I struggled to latch on to that I referenced earlier Zowie Ashton is convincing enough is darben despite the marvels completely squandering any threat that this character should pose needed a constant did a solid job directing But I do prefer a candy man over this latest outing surprise surprise The quick pacing doesn't always work because like I mentioned this movie needed to breathe at times Especially when it comes to allowing the conflict to actually feel significant and like it has any sort of consequences I know that it does because the movie is telling me that it does But the film also doesn't do a complete It doesn't do a great job at selling it is what I'm trying to get at so when I look back on the marvels Was it a complete dud? No, it just also wasn't one of the more impressive entries in the mcu I get that this film has been plagued with reshoots and a lot of online Controversy from people who are arguing about stuff that really doesn't matter at the end of the day when it comes down to What is on my screen and this is just simply about what was on my screen While I had fun with it. I wouldn't mind turning it back on again and revisiting it I can't see myself revisiting this movie anytime soon You guys let me know what you think about the marvels down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course Seeing the movie when you do get to see it. Let me know what you thought about down in the comment section below I would honestly give it a six out of 10 if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification. You never miss a video in the description I'll have links on social media accounts. I am on facebook, twitter and instagram You can message me there, of course There's any movies news or reviews you'd like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the major news developments from across the globe. Our headlines. US continues its aggression over medical supplies, threatens India over export limits on anti-malarial drug. Japan announces state of emergency in close to a trillion dollars in stimulus package. Polish opposition criticizes government's decision to hold presidential elections despite the coronavirus outbreak and Lithuanian socialist leader Aljur Das Palekis released after nearly six months in prison. We begin with an update about the COVID-19 pandemic. The total number of cases has come to over 1.36 million cases worldwide. The United States continues to have a lion's share of new cases with over 30,000 to 73,000 new cases coming from the country. The US has further boosted its testing with close to 2 million people tested in absolute numbers in the country. But the rate of testing is still far behind most developed countries, standing at only around 0.6% of the population. The number of deaths around the world is across 75,000 and in the US it is across 10,000. Despite its vulnerable status as the epicenter of the pandemic, the US continues its strong arming tactics with other nations over essential medical supplies, while it has blocked all export of medical supplies produced by its companies including N95 masks. Yesterday, we talked about how countries like Barbados, France, Germany and Canada among others have complained to the US blocking or intercepting the shipments of medical supplies and protective gear. Today, India has become the latest victim. Two weeks ago, the Indian government had halted all commercial export of several drugs that were deemed essential in the treatment of COVID-19 infections, including the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine. The policy was to prioritize domestic needs within India and global humanitarian considerations. Yesterday, however, while speaking to the press, US President Donald Trump casually threatened India with retaliation if he decided to stop exports of the drug to the US. The Indian government gave a pacifying response, assuring that the restrictions did not apply to the US or any country affected by the coronavirus outbreak and are dependent on India's production capabilities for essential drugs. In today's infocus, we speak to NewsClick's Purbier Purkhaisa about Trump's threat and India's response. Thank you, Purbier, for joining us. So as we've seen, Donald Trump has issued a warning, there's no other word for it, and a threat to the Indian government and specifically to Prime Minister Modi regarding the drug hydroxychloroquine. And there's a lot of confusion going about because on the one hand, there is the argument that India should be supplying drugs and which is what it already has. On the other hand, there is the argument that we should be keeping these drugs for ourselves at what could be a critical point. So before we get into that, we see that this is in some senses a very unfriendly move and also completely inappropriate at this point of time. You know, the United States has dealt in this particular way, right across the board, across countries, and it didn't matter whether allies, never friends, or never enemies. Against countries which consider enemies, even under conditions of a pandemic, it is not only worsening the sanction regime on them, but making no exception for any other issue. So that remains. But when it comes to health equipment needs or medicines needs, it has been, as you know, acting almost as a hybrid of a policy, whatever you want to call it, snatching equipment away, even to the tarmac of different countries and trying to slide it to the United States. We all accept that countries at the moment are desperately short of what is called purchasing protective equipment and medical data. So the response has to be to a global leadership and countries come together. This is something that G20 met as you go through a video conference. None of these things were discussed. These are not being discussed in the United Nations level or at the level of WSU where every country is a political. Instead of that, you are at the moment, really looking at bigger by name of policy on one hand. And if you have anything that you've manufactured, you hold on to. This is the problem that we see and the United States is being very clear that it will continue to act only in its own interest. It does not really care for a global pandemic or a global response. And this is the failure of global leadership. The United States is clearly showing. Coming back to India, I think there is a much bigger issue involved, not only hydro, hydroxy, and chloroquine, but how does India and this moment respond to a global crisis of this kind? And I would say that India also needs to be conscious about what it owes to the people of the country and the measures it is taking to stop the export of essential drugs of different kinds, as well as hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. But on the other side also, it is the global pharmacy of particularly the poorer countries.  And without that, they need to have a risk. So how do we address the global need? What's the national need? Is something we have to work on. And I would say the issue is not on the export bank alone. The issue is really how do we ramp up production? If you have the pharmaceutical companies in the country, and the movement can be really repurposed a lot of this production to produce hydroxychloroquine, because this way you won't run. And it is something that we can do much more easily. And if you require to import bulk drugs, as we used to say, that is pharmaceutical ingredient, which is what the Chinese today manufacture really large numbers. So that is something we should also be able to work out with China. So India and China can work together on how to become a global pharmacy. Chinese produce a huge amount of ATIs. India really produces a huge amount of formulations and medicines. So both of us can act together in the global interest, instead of making it transactional or basically bilateral, as Mr. Trump is trying to do. And that is the test we have. And of course, that also extends to person-connected equipment, which we are able to ramp up for ourselves. These are the initiatives, unfortunately, we made here, with the size of Trump to act in their national interest. But this is something we need to do in our national interest. How do you today ramp up by the person-connected equipment? You have a work-art case involved it, where the entire doctors, nurses, health staff, everybody in the hospital is now under the quarantine, and there's far as we can be effective with COVID-19. Now, this is a very serious issue, because if the hospital is on sick, or it comes second to second to second infection, there will be trouble. And I think that's where we are now seeing the government-led media really ratchet up its act, both in terms of transactional analysis and in terms of person-connected equipment. And to a slightly more technical question, how effective is this drug at this point of time? Because again, there's a lot of speculation about it, whether there has been any actual proof. Is it being even used in India? Well, I think it is now being used as a part of the protocol. In fact, as you know, the anti-AIDS drugs are much more expensive. We had a lot of discussions with Dr. Rath, Professor Rath of this particular issue. And what you were saying is, if you look at antiretroviral, anti-viral equivalency, then you have to give it barriers. And to give it very early, then you might be able to control the disease, but that really requires you being able to do it at this stage, which is almost the first thing in this case of the disease itself. When the secondary stage takes place and it attacks your lung, then you get a lot of information. And information of the lung is the key element which then causes the problem. And for all the patients, people have to take these cases. We also get a secondary infection, which is a vacuuming infection. So you need a combination of anti-inflammatory and anti-biotics at the point which I just realized as you know, it is one of the drugs that you want to test in the French example, which is not widely correct. But both hydroxychloroquine, as well as chloroquine phosphate produced in tanazole, and they have an anti-inflammatory property, which is why they're used in rheumatoid arthritis, because it's an inflammatory disease. So there is a basis of why such a drug can be used to control the inflammation of the lung. And people are hoping that real drugs today will be much faster than trying to find a new drug in the stable way for COVID-19 on the SARS-CoV-2. Thank you so much for being with us. Japan and Singapore have joined the countries that have taken to mass shutdowns to deal with the rising number of COVID cases. Japan declared a state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, and six other prefectures for all provinces for a month. The emergency declaration comes at a time when Japan has been reporting over 100 new cases of infection daily for nearly a week. Japan has over 4,800 cases. The rise in infections has been alarming, especially for the national capital, which is over 1,100 cases. The densely populated Tokyo Metropolis houses closer 30% of the population, hence a containment was deemed absolutely necessary. This declaration of emergency is the first of its kind in the country since the Second World War. But because of the constitutional limits of the powers of the government, even in the case of an emergency, the lockdown measures will not be on the same scale as the rest of the world. The declaration is followed by a massive stimulus fund that will cost up to 108 trillion yen, or 990 billion US dollars, or 20% of the national GDP. The stimulus package will include direct cash transfers to household, aid to small enterprises, and deferments of tax and other payments. The drastic measures also come at a time when the government's approval ratings have been falling very sharply over the past month over what is seen as inaction in containing the spread. A fall of over 5% came in as alarming to the government of Shinzo Abe, which will be dealing with the general election area. The Polish government's move to conduct presidential elections has come under severe criticism from opposition groups. The election is scheduled for May 10th. It has been sanctioned despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The ruling right-wing law and justice party of the PIS is looking to capitalize on the relatively high ratings of the candidate incumbent president Andrzej Duda. Major opposition groups in progressive sections have already asked the government to postpone the elections until the COVID-19 crisis is under control. A proposal by the government to conduct a postal vote fell through for the second time on Monday. Many have accused the government of being late in announcing crucial measures to contain the outbreak. The opposition had pointed out that even recently announced containment measures will be effective, only when a state of emergency is declared in the country. This is something the government wants to avoid as it will lead to the postponement of presidential elections and hence be a lost opportunity for the PIS. And finally, Lithuanian socialist leader and former diplomat Algidas Palaikis was released from a jail following a court order on Monday. The order allowed for a conditional release with the directions for more lenient detention. Following the verdict, Palaikis was released from the Vermont Center, but it will be confined at home for more than six months. He has been incarcerated since October 2018 by the Lithuanian authorities on charges of intending to kidnap prosecutors and of being a Russian spy, both of which have not been proved. Palaikis has been hounded for years for challenging the official historical narrative about the 1991 January killings. His writings that exposed the role of right-wing mercenaries in the death of 14 Lithuanians during the anti-Soviet protests of 1991. Since his detention, Palaikis has reportedly not been allowed to meet anyone except his wife on one occasion. The founder of the Socialist Party Frontage, which later merged with the Socialist People's Front, he has been witch-hunted by the Lithuanian government and right-wing elements in the country. Before the verdict, Socialist groups had conducted an online signature campaign to ensure basic legal rights of Palaikis and to denounce the state-sponsored witch-hunt of Socialists in the country. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. To know more about these stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for watching.


Γεια σας και ευχαριστούμε, είναι Vicky εδώ, με το μήν μου μόνο 1 κέντρο και 10 κορδίες. Σήμερα θα εγγραφήσω με το Συμμουσέ Σταμπ Απριλ Καρδίκη. Παρακολουθώ γιατί έχω ένα κομμάτι εκεί για αυτήν την κέντρα. Ας δούμε ένα κομμάτι να δούμε τι είναι inside. Η κέντρα είναι ακριβώς αυξημένη. Έχει αυξημένη σήμερα, οπότε αν δεν είσαι αυξημένης, μπορείς να γράψεις αν θέλεις. Πρώτα, πρώτα, όταν βρεις αυτή η κομμάτι από την Τυμ Holes, είναι ένας από τα νέα κομμάτι, και δεν είναι αυξημένης ακόμη στον αυξημένο. Και πιστεύω ότι είναι αυξημένος από αυτάς τους κομμάτους στην κέντρα, για να παίρνεις μετά και να βρεις αν θέλεις. Και μπορείς να προσπαθεί αυτήν. Θα θα είναι αυξημένη την επόμενη η μήν. Αν θέλεις να βρεις το κομμάτι εκεί, έχει αυτό το σύστημα. Άς η κομμάτι θα είναι στην καλύτερη καταγωνία όλων. Θα κάνω ένα βίντεο σε αυτά τα κομμάτια, γιατί really love them. Δεν πρέπει να χρειάζεις ένα για κάθε κομμάτι που έχεις. Άλλο 7 θα δουλεύουν καλύτερα, ένα για την ευκολότητα. Και μπορείς να χρησιμοποιήσεις ένας αυξημένης κομμάτι, σαν το ένα που έχω εδώ, στο κομμάτι, για να γνωρίζεις ποιο κομμάτι που χρειάζεις, ή μπορείς να χρησιμοποιήσεις ένα αυξημένο στην ευκολογική κομμάτι. Στην κομμάτι θα βρεις ένα λόγω, και αυτό really grabs my cut attention. Θα δείξεις ότι θα βρεις αυξημένο στην ευκολογική κομμάτι. Θα βρεις δύο αυξημένες κομμάτια από τα διστρέσσο αυξημένες κομμάτια. Και αν δεν έχεις κάτι από αυτά, έναν μεγάλη ιδέα, για να μπορείς να παίρνεις με τους και να δείξεις αν θέλεις. Θα βρεις έναν μεγάλο κομμάτι. Αυτό είναι ένα κομμάτι που είναι μεγάλο από ένα κομμάτι, τι θα γνωρίζεις με αυτά τα κομμάτια. Το καλύτερο είναι έναν σκορδιστή ημέρα, και μπορείς να πάρεις αυτό παραδοσιακό και αν θέλεις. Αυτό λόγω πολλές αυξημένες κομμάτια, και λάβη ευκολογικές αυξημένες κομμάτια. Στην κομμάτι είναι αυτό το καλύτερο αυξημένο, με πολλές αυξημένες κομμάτια, κάποια είναι σκορδιστή και κάποια έχουν έναν μεγάλο κομμάτι. Φεύδιοι τους, μπορείς να λαθεί one on top of the other, και θα δούμε αυτό το τεκνικλό αυξημένο. Φεύδιοι έχουν έναν σκορδιστή αυξημένο, που είναι called Sparkling Silver, και είναι από Therbenweb και Gina K Designs. Και δεν έγινε πολλές αυξημένες κομμάτια για να καταλαβαίνω ότι έγινε τα κομμάτια και μπορείς να κομμάσει το λόγω. Δεν μπορώ να κομμάω το λόγω, αλλά μπορείς να παίρνει με αυτό όλα για το σκορδιστό, για όλη ημέρα. Και επειδή υπάρχει μια αυξημένη κομμάτια με τα κομμάτια και τα αυξημένες κομμάτια, έκανε να κάνει αυξημένη κομμάτια μέσα από τα κομμάτια που εγώ κάνω. Έγινε πολλές αυξημένες και κομμάτια για τα κομμάτια που δεν βλέπεις τον αυξημένο οπότε έγινε να δημιουργήσω αυτό το βίντεο, αλλά πραγματικά, αυτό είναι το οποίο πρέπει να το παίρνω όλη ημέρα. Φεύδιοι, έχετε your six by six patent papers, these are 12 papers by Lone Phone from the really rainbow collection as you can see it has really bright colorful papers perfect for spring cards.  You get two whites and four colored ones and the white ones are the super extra heavy cardstock but Simon's stamp sells it's 120 pounds and I absolutely love this because it's great for creating your card base it's nice and sturdy. So let's move on and start creating our 10 cards for today. For my first card I'm stamping three different images from the stamp set so the leaves and the butterfly and I'm going to color everything with my alcohol markers I'm actually going to use my ultra new alcohol markers that I absolutely adore and once I color everything I'm going to use my scissors to fuzzy cut all the images it's not that difficult just make sure to leave enough white border to make your life easier now I have created this panel out of the yellow patent paper included in the kit and I have also used a circle die to cut out this window I have actually used foam squares at the back that adds a little bit of dimension of course you can easily turn this card into a shaker card but instead I'm going to leave it as it is I'm going to stamp the sentiment inside the circle and then I'm going to add all the cutouts around my circle now to stick everything down I'm going to use my nuvo deluxe white glue to make my card special I have created a bow using this satin white ribbon and I'm going to stick this down where those two leaf branches meet to finish off my card I also used my white nuvo drops to add some dots randomly on the card for my next card I use this butterfly from the stamp set and I'm going to stamp it with black ink in this six by six pattern paper I just love the colors in this paper with all that rainbow order and I'm making sure that as I stamp the butterflies down I pick different areas so that I can end up having all the colors pretty much in my card I'm going to use my scissors to fast cut all the butterflies it's not that difficult because they have nice bold black lines and I'm going to do some stamping my sentiment is going to go in between those butterflies these are not stuck down yet I have just placed them there temporarily and I need to add the antennas for the butterflies so I'm going to place the stamp on top of the butterfly and then I can add some black ink only on the antennas or you can just stamp the whole butterfly one below the other I just thought that was easier for me at that point so anyway I'm just going to stick all those butterflies on my panel and I'm making sure that I follow the rainbow order so my panel is ready I can now stick it on top of my card base and I'm also going to embellish my card a little bit more using a strip of paper from this pattern paper that I used to cut out the butterfly and to finish off my card I also used some enamel dots to match the colors of my butterflies just to embellish them a little bit more for this card I have stamped this beautiful butterfly from the stamp set and I'm coloring in all the areas using different Prismacolor pencils I'm not going to do any blend here or shading but I'm going to color each area with a different pencil and I'm just embracing this stained glass look that this image has once it was colored I placed it back on my stamping platform and I haven't moved the stamp at all from the first stamping that I did with black ink so now I'm going back and I'm stamping on top of the black ink with my VersaMark ink and this is going to apply VersaMark only so that I can now apply my black embossing powder I'm going to melt the embossing powder with my heat gun and you will see that I will get this beautiful stained glass effect at the end I added foam tape at the back and I'm going to stick that on a standard card and I just stamped the sentiment between the butterfly leaving everything quite simple since this butterfly is really stunning for this card I'm working on a watercolor paper and I'm applying some salty ocean distress oxide ink with my blending brush I'm trying to keep everything quite subtle since this is going to end up as my background and I'm going to cut it out with this rectangle die but first I'm going to apply some water splashes since I absolutely love this look I'm going to blot them with my cloth and again I'm going with butterflies as the focal point of this card I picked one of the butterflies from the stamp set and I'm going to stamp it twice with VersaMarking and I'm going to emboss them with white embossing powder now in this piece of white paper you can't see it but the butterflies are actually embossed there so I'm going to color them with distress oxide inks and for that I'm using squeezed lemonade that was included in the kit and I'm combining it with spiced marmalade that I already had in my stash and of course you can use your good old blending tools for this technique and also play along with one of the brushes that you got in the kit just to test it out and see all the different looks that you can get I used scissors to fuzzy cut the butterflies and I'm also going to add some wires which are going to be the antennas of my butterflies I went with keep smiling as my sentiment and then I'm going to stick this panel on top of the blue card base and I also used my nouveau glitter drops to add some dots here and there for this card I'm going to play with my stencil and I'm going to add all those butterflies in rainbow colored order now of course you can use any type of ink that you have I decided to go with my distress oxide inks now instead of starting with a red color I decided to go with a bright pink one just for the fun of it and you will see me going all the way to orange yellows, greens, blues and I will end up with purple and it is wise to use some masking tape to hold this stencil down but it's not the end of the world you will see that although I'm holding it I'm going to move it now but it is easy to place it back in place and just continue with inking up the rest of the butterfly I stamped thinking of you with black ink on my panel but I'm also going to stick this on top of my yellow card base I also used some clear nuvo drops to add some dots here and there all over the place just because I like it as a finishing touch and I'm going to play with my stencil a little bit more so for the next card I'm going to apply Kaiva ink through one of those butterflies and that's actually vibrant fuchsia I think it's a beautiful color really vibrant and perfect for spring I'm going to add two of those butterflies using this technique after cleaning my stencil I'm going to use one of the other butterflies that can go on top of the first image beautifully and you can see that it gives you all those details and I'm going to go over this with my glimmer paste I am applying a generous amount with my spatula and once I know that everything is nicely covered I can pick up the excess and put it back in the jar so I'm going to lift it and see the beautiful result and I'm going to repeat the same process for the next butterfly glimmer paste dries quite quickly and once everything was dry I used the same ink to stamp my sentiment and I went with Ayadorio and I finished off my card by adding some dots with my nuvo drops and I guess using my nuvo drops to finish off today's cards turned into an obsession but it was so fun to use them now I'm going to create a very artistic looking card so I'm working on a watercolor paper and I'm using my stamping platform to stamp this branch of leaves a couple of times I'm using Versamark ink to stamp everything and then I'm going to apply my white embossing powder and hit set everything now you can't see anything in this white piece of paper but trust me the images are there and they will start to appear as I add color into them I am using my aquaflow pens by nuvo these are actually watercolor pens and I'm combining two colors here the green and the yellow one for the leaves and the image starts to appear once I start adding the blue for the sky, for the background so I am not going with the aquaflow pen directly on my paper since I want to have a very subtle look so instead I add it a little bit of that color from the brush on my glass mat with the brush I'm not going for the perfect background here I like this artistic look so I want to have other areas darker and others lighter and I can even add some splashes on top of my paper and I'm not going to cover up the whole white area for the sentiment I went with the one that says have a beautiful day I stamped that with black ink and since I'm working on watercolor paper I made sure that I used my stamping platform just to avoid any messes I'm going to stick this panel on top of my yellow card base and of course I will add some white dots with my nuvo drops for the next card I'm going to work on acetate and I will go for a beautiful card that has that stained window look so I'm going to use my stamping platform and I'm going to stamp this beautiful butterfly with stash on ink this is black stash on ink and it's perfect for stamping on really slick surfaces such as acetate I'm going to stamp this twice just to have a nice dark impression and then I'm going to leave this to dry and then I will color everything on the back with my alcohol markers make sure to flip and color at the back it really makes a difference and you will not ruin your markers or your black lines also place the acetate on top of a white piece of cardstock so you can see what you are doing I decided to go with pale pastel colors but you can go with brighter colors to make your butterfly look really vibrant I'm not doing any blending here I'm just coloring different areas with different markers and you can see here the finished result so now I'm working on my card base and at the front I'm going to cut out a window using this square die and here is my window after running it through my big shot so now I'm going to use some tape adhesive to go all around this window and I can stick my acetate on top this way it's going to give me a very clean look at the back on the inside of the card but we need to cover up somehow this tape adhesive at the front so I used two square dies one inside the other to cut out a frame and I can stick the frame in front to cover up the mess you can also use foam squares at the back if you want to have some added dimension and hopefully you can see how the light goes through the window and you can see the colors at the back of the card so pretty to keep everything nice and simple I just stamped my sentiment a small sentiment below the frame and my card is ready now let's play with the stencil a little bit more I'm going to play with a few of the butterflies the ones that actually have a detail on top of them and I'm applying again glimmer paste but this time I'm working with the silver one I'm going to place one more butterfly at the top I'm always applying more than I need but I can always scrape off the excess and put it back in the jar just trying to be very neat here so I end up with a beautiful butterfly I place this panel on top of a pattern paper that's the standard size 4.25 x 5.5 a really quick and easy card but so sparkling for my next card I'm working on a watercolor paper and with a blending tool I'm applying a good amount of mermaid lagoon I have sprayed directly on paper with lots of water so that I can move the ink around and I'm going for a very artistic look now so I will add some splashes and I will leave this background as it is now I'm going to use the stencil again and this time I'm going over one of the butterflies by using texture paste you can use modeling paste you can use any paste that you have at home I'm working with white and since I have a darker background it's going to show beautifully I'm removing the stencil for the big reveal and I think this looks great but I'm going to make it even more gorgeous than it already is by adding some glitter by Nouveau the glitter is going to stick on top of the embossing paste so it's going to dry together with a paste which is going to lock it nicely on top of your paper I'm going to stamp thinking of you and then I'm going to stick this panel on top of my card paste that I have created from the cardstock that was in the kit and all the 10 cards that I have created using products from the April card kit by Simon Says Stamp and notice that I have actually created 9 out of 10 cards with butterflies I think that the April card kit is a great stash builder and let's take a look on what's left on my kit after creating all my 10 cards so of course you will get the two inks for your stash you will get this beautiful and very versatile stamp set but the stencil that I used again and again I do still have a couple of card bases and lots of patterned papers since I didn't use them I do have the envelopes, the foil paper and of course I do end up having the brush so these were the 10 cards for today here are some close up photos don't forget that there is a giveaway on my blog so make sure to visit and leave me a comment there for a chance to win this card kit now the card kit is still available it has just been released yesterday but you can still grab it but I will leave links down below to the products separately incase you want to grab just the stamp or the stencil thank you all so much for watching and for all the lovely comments I will see you all on Friday with a fun collaboration so until then have a great day


Well, the Beavers men's hockey team is off to face Michigan Tech this weekend after the most impressive showing of the season, a 4-2 win over third-ranked Minnesota State. While the team says there was some worry as to when their recent strong play would translate into results, it all came together on Saturday night. The bottom line was we were playing good hockey and that's the one thing that you just want to make sure that, you know, that's the message you want to convey to your guys. You like what they're doing, they're doing the right thing, eventually it's going to pay off. Well, that's hockey.    The Beavers will look to hand the Huskies their first conference loss of the year as they are 6-0 in WCHA play. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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One, two, three. Hello. Hello. Hello, bye. Okay, I'm Jae Kim and she is... I'm Rimi. I mean, so I'm gonna ask her some questions. And first of all, I'm gonna explain how did we meet? So I played busking, you know, street performance in Hongdae street. And she and Lego, I was... Elena? Elena, Elena. Can you explain? Okay, so, um...  Oh, sure, sure. So Jae-han oppa was playing busking. He was singing a song. He was actually singing a song. It was an OST. Gopoda Namja. Right, right. And I recognized the song. So I went there and I wanted to listen to him. And when he saw us, he said, Oh, please request the song. And I requested the song. Do you remember which one? Nail's...  Wait, wait, wait. He played that song and I was so touched because it is really my favorite song. Nail Time Spent Walking On You. My favorite song, too. And after that, I was so happy. So I wanted to give him $5,000. Ah, but it was wrong, right? But I gave him $50,000. And after that, we became close. And you came back to Netherlands and then come here, exchange student. Yeah. So back then, I was an international summer semester student and after that, I went back to Netherlands and now I came back here for one semester. Then I was going to ask some questions that you can wonder. So here we go. First question. Can you introduce yourself? I am Rimesa, but in Korea, everybody calls me Rumi. And I am 21 years old and I am originally from Turkey, but I live in the Netherlands and I am here as an exchange student in Hong Kong University. For one semester, right? One semester, so four months. Four months? I don't know. Sure. But I will stay for six months. So you can have time in the vacation. Do you have any plan? I will maybe go to Japan. Japan? Oh. Jeju Island? Oh, I like Jeju Island. North Korea. North Korea? North Korea. You can't go. Oh, can you go with me? Yeah. Sorry. It's okay. Next question is, why did you come to Korea? When I was in middle school, so when I was 12 to 13 years old, I got introduced to K-pop. My friend was a very big VIP. VIP is Big Bang? Big Bang, oh. And I saw a picture and I commented on the picture. I said, do you like Chinese people? Because I didn't know they were Korean. Yeah, oh no. I'm so bad. And after that, she said, Chinese, they are Korean. And I said, oh. And then I went on YouTube and I saw Big Bang, Haru Haru. Oh, first song. Haru Haru, da da ga da. Da da da da. It's a good song. And after that, I was sold. I like Big Bang so much and I became a huge fan. And then I met other Korean groups and I watched Korean dramas. And yeah, that's how I learned about Korea. And before going to university, I knew that I didn't know what to study, but I knew I wanted to do something international. So after high school, I applied for international business on my university. You're major is international business? My major is international business. And the first day of school, I asked, can I study in Korea? And they said, yes. You can go to Hanyang University, Song Yong-kwon University, Kim Yong-ji University. Like they named all the universities. For your Korean course? No, for my minor. So you have a major in the Netherlands for four years. And it's eight semesters in total. And one semester, you have to study abroad. You can go like exchange students. Exchange students. Same as Korea. Like we have eight semesters, but we can go exchange students one semester or two semesters. Same. Yeah. And I chose Korea. And yeah, that's my end. Yeah. That's kind of looking like K-pop, K-drama. I know, but people think that there's a misunderstanding because everybody thinks that all the international students that are here, that they are here just for Korean boys or like K-pop idols. But now I am not really a fan anymore. No, I just like listening to K-pop, but it's not like... Like the Korean boo. I'm not a Korean boo not at all, because I think that when you're little, that's okay, but when you are 20 years old... Like over 20 years old, like more interested in Korean culture and food is more... Yeah, because I spend a lot of time listening to music and dramas. So I picked up the language naturally. Last year in university, I met a lot of Koreans and I actually practiced my Korean with them. And then I realized, well, I'm really like learning while watching dramas, so that's really nice. Yeah, it's helpful to learn Korean culture and language, right? Oh, what's your favorite drama? Dae-young's Hwiyae. Oh, you did it with Song Joong-ki earlier. Song Joong-ki doesn't like it. No? Oh, the drama... Drama? Oh, the drama... And the song is older than the flower. The song is really old. I know. The song you're listening to? Oh, I was... 12 years old, you watched Korean drama? Oh, with English subtitles. Wow, you're so mature. You're too young to watch Korean dramas? Okay, next question. Is K-pop really popular in Netherlands? If you asked me this question one year ago, I would say no, because I am from the time when I listened to K-pop, that it was weird. Like minor culture? Yeah, it's really minor.  But... Do you like K-pop? Yeah, really, like... Oh, who's your favorite? Do you like Super Junior? Like that, oh. But after a while, like even my friends, they were like, why do you listen to Korean music? You don't understand it. And I said, why do you listen to French music or why do you listen to English music? Because you don't understand all of it, you know? But then after last year, you know, Pantong... Oh, BTS is so popular. Suddenly, like in Billboard. Oh. So after that, all of a sudden, a lot of people are K-pop fans. And I am kind of... Interesting. BTS, they have concert in Netherlands? Mm, it was sold out in one minute. One minute? One minute. Wow, it's one worse than Korea. Yeah, it's expensive in Korea. Yeah, it's really expensive. Oh, so right now, I think in Netherlands, K-pop is popular, but it's not really socially accepted to the point that everybody listens to it. It's just... Everybody maybe knows it? Knows it. So it's popular. It's popular, but not everybody listens. I like that. Okay. So you come to Korea. Did your expectation of Korea meet the reality? And is life in Korea different from the dramas? I think what I expected from Korea was really different from what I experienced here. Because every time I meet Koreans, they say, when you go to Korea, Koreans don't care about foreigners. Oh, really? Oh, all my Korean friends say that. And now that I came here, I realized what they meant. I think Koreans don't really care about foreigners. They don't care about foreigners? Oh. They are selfish? Not selfish, but more like... I think they are too scared to talk to foreigners. Ah, scared to talk to foreigners. And I think the first reason is English, because Koreans are really good at English, but they are shy to speak. They are shy to speak. Right, that's right. Because even in high school and like university, when I take a test and a Korean friend takes the same test, he will get higher grades than me. But when I speak, that person usually like, they are shy. Right, that's true. Yeah, right. I think it's because you don't really practice speaking and so on. We learn English a lot, but we're not used to speaking English in the class. So that's why maybe. I think so. And also when I, before coming here, I also asked my friends like, do I have to approach Korean first or do they approach me first? And they said that if I don't go, they won't talk. But actually this time it's different because in Songdae, I have like six different classes. And I took the classes with like only Koreans. Oh, really? They approach you first? Almost every class. At least one or two people approach me first. But I think this, oh, I think that's only because I am the only foreigner in my class. I think those are the biggest differences. So that's what I expected. I expected Koreans to be more shy. And when I was in class, they actually were nice to me and they helped me. There's another big thing. Usually when you go to a foreign country, especially to a country like Korea, an Asian country, people don't know that I speak Korean, right? So when I meet new Koreans, I usually don't tell them that. That you can't speak Korean? Because I want to hear what they say about me or about my friends. And in most countries, you know, scam? Scam or the scam? Like people trick you or let's say you're taking a taxi from Myeongdong to Hongdae and let's say it's Manon, but they charge you like Omanon because you're a foreigner. Oh, right, right, right, trick. I expected that to happen because it even happens in Turkey. Like when I'm Turkish, but when I go to Turkey, everything is like double the price. But in Korea, that doesn't... Oh, it really wasn't there. Oh, really? I've heard that a lot. I've heard so many times that foreigners had trick from the taxi drivers. Really? But Korean people are also a lot. Oh? Yeah. Huh? What was it? You're lucky, because you only met kind taxi drivers. I think so. Yeah. Whoa. So how about drama? Drama? Korean drama? Yeah, Korean drama versus their reality. Of course, it's not real life. It's always different from dramas. But I think it is somehow true. Like Korean guys are really like as romantic as in the dramas. Oh, you think? I think so. Because even when a girl and a guy walks down the street and the car is on this side. Oh, right. Like a man.  Really? Yeah. Isn't that too obvious? Oh, but no, in Netherlands, that wouldn't ever happen. Oh, really? If you go to a restaurant guys have to lapkin first. Eh? I mean, don't you do that? No, I don't. Here? You do that and you don't do that? No. In our country? You don't do that? No. Oh, really? Yeah. You can open the car door first or something like that. But I feel so bad about this. Basic. Oh, but... You have to wear a umbrella. When it's raining. Oh, that's right. You don't do that? Yeah. You don't wear an umbrella when it's raining? Yeah. It's totally natural. Haha. It's not natural. It's too natural. I know. We think it's really natural thing. I know, but I love that about Korea because it's like guys really take care of girls. So even with my like close Korean guy friends like they always like take care of me like I'm their sister and I really like that. And although the Homme-be-hu-be relationship I really like that as well because It's really close. It's really like everybody takes care of each other. It's always like Oh, I'm full. You know? Oh, I'm full. We always care about each other. Is there anything else? Like, oh, this is different. Mmm. Everybody thinks that all guys in Korea are super hot and you know how they in dramas they are like They are all handsome and tall and all rich but it's not like that in real life. Yeah, they are not all Song Joong-gi or Korean or... Oh, it's not all Song Joong-gi or like... Okay, next question is Do you think Korea is brother country? When I first came to Korea I realized that whenever I say that I'm from Turkey everybody is like Oh, Hyeong-jae and Nara Oh, you know? But in Turkey I mean we think of Korea as our brother country of course but it's less known as in Korea Like if you ask Turkish people who's your brother country? Then they pull the other countries to like Azerbaijan What is it? Yeah, Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijan But that really makes me happy because when I say that I'm from Netherlands everybody is like Oh, Hiddink Hiddink, you know? And when I say I'm from Turkey they are like Oh, Hyeong-jae and Nara Oh, Hyeong-jae and Nara So it's really nice to be of both countries Oh, you're right That's good Did you see that? Oh, Ayla Ayla, oh It's really good Really good I saw that I wish it five times Did you cry? Oh, of course What about you? Me too Oh Put my face into a clean this picture Because Korean people remember that Turks helped Korea a lot in the Korean war and they took care of the war often the children So it's really amazing thing So I really think about that If you didn't watch the movie please watch it It's really Yeah, it's really good Yeah, one of the best movies Good Good Next question Next question Is there any uncomfortable thing to being a Muslim in Korea? There is nothing uncomfortable but I think because when you see me you wouldn't automatically think that I'm a Muslim, right? They can't distinguish that Because I don't hear hijab So it's really hard to like Know that you're Muslim Or at first sight it's really hard to know that I'm Muslim So I never, you know If there was like any direct discrimination then I would never experience it Oh, but I've never experienced like racism or discrimination in Korea How do you think if you have hijab thing then how do you think? Right now people already like stare a lot at me So when I'm on the subway they all look at me So if I have a hijab they would like look at me even more I think and I don't really think that they would maybe they would ask like, oh why are you wearing that or are you hot or you know but maybe if I lived here as someone who wears a hijab then I would maybe experience discrimination or racism more because if I apply for a job maybe they don't want me or you know but I've never experienced it to this day so I'm not sure I don't think there is discrimination Oh, good Actually if you wear a hijab they stare at you a lot because you it's really unique in Korea but it's not like hate or like intersection they're just curious about that They're just curious like even to foreigners they are not like why did you come here they just want to know like and I realized a lot of my Korean friends they all like read the Quran Oh, really? Oh, really like they are just interested and I was so surprised because like even a lot of Muslim friends of mine didn't finish reading the Quran Well, I'm still leaving too Oh, really? I'm with Korean translation How is it? Islam is very helpful to understand the Quran itself So this is a much more real and real history So next question As a Muslim isn't it hard to eat Korean food? It's really hard It's based on pig Daechi gubi I mean as a Muslim there are of course different ways to practice your religion and first of all Daechi gubi so like pork is forbidden you can never eat it and a lot of Korean food has like pork in it so that's really I mean you can always ask for them to take it out so like to remove or not to put in the meat while cooking but then also we can eat beef or chicken or you know any other like most animals but it has to be halal Yeah, halal Halal So it has to be slaughtered according to the Islam way So like an Imam has to like slaughter the meat and then recite to Shahada Can you say the Shahada? Shahada I mean Shahada, right? Shahada, right? Ashadu, Allah Ashadu, Allah Ilahe Ilahe Illallah Illallah Ashadu, Anna Ashadu, Anna Muhammeden Muhammeden Abdu Abdu Versu Versu So that's halal and here like there's not a lot of halal I mean there are a lot of halal places in Taiwan or there are some places but then usually it's also really expensive Yeah, right That's true So if you live here as a student then sometimes it's hard because I have to tell everyone that I'm vegetarian because it's sometimes hard to Well, it's different with best Terian Of course Yeah, of course I mean I'm okay with explaining but it's easier to say I'm vegetarian because I don't eat meat But then you know seafood? But seafood is okay Yeah It's okay So I can also have seafood and Koreans really like seafood so there's usually Have you ever tried a living octopus? Oh Have you ever tried a living octopus? Yeah, I've tried it How is it? It's good Is it good? Yeah Oh, I haven't tried it yet Oh Let's take a picture of it Oh, let's take a picture Oh, it's really good It's really good It's really good It's amazing It's like a Korean It's a Korean Yeah It's hard to eat a lot of meat in Korea as a Muslim but I mean if you search for it and you're willing to pay for it then you can easily find places But I know that some university campuses like Yongnam Yeah, that's right Yongnam University or Han Yang University they have a lot of Teria Yeah, that's right Oh, that's right Seonggyeonggwon University Oops Maybe David will make The principal Principal Can you make You make a lot of this A lot of this Teria, can you make that? Okay, next question Last question Can you tell anything to people who want to come to Korea? If you want to come to Korea just do it Like no matter what country you're from or no matter what your religion is there are always opportunities for you So whether you're a Muslim or like a Jew or you're from India or Dubai or whatever You should If you want to come to Korea you should really come And also if you're interested in the culture or the music or the dramas you will love it because if you walk down the street you hear a lot of K-pop songs and there's always a chance that you will run into someone who's famous because Korea has a lot of celebrities and like him So you should really try And it's also a pretty cheap country especially compared to European countries Compared to other Asian countries maybe it's expensive Yeah compared to European countries it's so cheap to me at least And if you want to come to study here Korea has like a lot of the top universities in the world like there are a lot of good universities They have good calls Also like almost everyone knows English I mean they may be shy to speak it but almost everybody knows English Yeah so I think it's also a really safe country Yeah yeah right I really like that I like it They like to help people Jung? Jung? Ah like a Jung culture Like a loyal like It's hard Jung Oh it's really hard to explain Jung but together You know they Yeah together They want to They're really humble So you should definitely try to come I mean persuade your parents Mm-hmm Call us when you come Let's have dinner together Okay come Um yeah you should definitely come Okay Good Good So I interviewed with her about Korean culture Why did you come to Korea and about muslim things So I hope that it's helpful to you And as he told you and if you want to come to Korea then don't test it We are always welcome to you So don't worry And last if you are curious about Korea as being a muslim then you always contact me and Lumi and ask about that We will gonna answer you or make another video So comment please And don't forget to like And don't forget to subscribe Okay then bye bye Bye bye Bye Oh I'm sorry Can we can we watch You have it Bye bye Bye bye