Hey friends and welcome to my channel. I am Yoshida and this is Norris Cove. Today we have our Simply Gilded Box and I just wanted to open it up on the camera with you guys. I just got in from work and it was at the mailbox. I knew it was out so let's jump right on into it. I'm trying to keep it turned over so I don't show my address and this is what it's looking like. Now I did watch a video on what's in it so I'm so excited. I just can't wait to share it with you guys just in case you don't follow those others who subscribe to the Simply Gilded Box. This is it. It's actually my very first subscription. Well this is like I think number four for me. Number three. I think this is my third subscription with Simply Gilded but it was the very first subscription I decided to go with. So first you get a journaling card letting you know everything that's in this box. This is the July box. There's a foil journaling card. Design a washi tape sequin shaker pouch, sticker seals, sticker kit, sparkly moth magnet, foil sticky notes, rose gold leaf cut, enchanted gel ink pen, and Sakura silver shadow jelly roll. I love their pens and that's how I ended up ordering the Simply Gilded Box because one of my planner babes at a meetup let me write with the pen from Simply Gilded. I was like oh I love the way this writes. So this is the little bag that you get this month.  So this is a shaker bag let me close it and it's like holographic. Look at that and it shakes. So let's look at this foil. This washi tape. Let's take all that out. I said I was gonna discontinue but after looking at someone else's video it looked like they're getting better and better. So here's the ink pens and I believe these are rollerball pens but they write so well it comes with the gel tip so you can see there so you just take that off and at first I was like oh I made a mistake and I shouldn't have took that off but they write so well and then this one is like the same as the box it's like an ombre-ish color from pink to purple with rose gold leaves on it a rose gold in and rose gold here and it says simply gilded. Now this is a jelly roll pen so I have some white jelly roll pens that I like to use sometimes when writing on dark paper or even colored one of them the markers so this is that let's see how that writes it's right here whoa oh my god we did a pen test y'all I hope my light is not too bright look at that it writes so smooth oh my and I don't think my white one writes like this nice and it has some little sparkles here right there and it has jelly roll so it doesn't say simply gilded on it but it just says jelly roll wow okay and then here you get a moth magnet it has like yellow and green and it's sparkling isn't that pretty I think I could put that on my cart let me take that off I'm gonna put it on my cart I don't have a lot of magnets I barely keep them on like my refrigerator I wish the ones I do have up there oh it goes on my cart really well I wish the things I had on my refrigerator were off I just like a naked refrigerator so there that shaker bag oh it's so nice I gotta forget what I can put in here you know I love bags so moving right along here is some washi tape I think this is the five millimeter and maybe ten and then you have this one so this one is like rose gold and glitter with an ombre of the purple and the blue it's looking like that it matches the box that he came in and then here's just your regular gold foil with the white bows right there looks like that and then I think this is the larger of the washi tape so this may be the 10 millimeter this may be the five I'm not sure don't put me on it and then this is so this this looks gold but then again and part of my lighting it looks a little rose goldish but I think that it's gold with the white bows on it and this is the bigger one and then you have this ombre like blueish purple one it's the bigger of the smaller one here and it has the rose gold foil there glitter glitter foil yeah come fatty and then this one is really neat it's the same color mauve that was on the magnet and then a rose gold mauve and then some little invisible ones back there and it's like a blueish purple as well real pretty so let's see what else we got in here ooh these sticky notes now normally the sticky notes I just save them and give them to someone else or just save them for a planter meetup or something because I like the smaller sticky notes but I think I'll have to keep this one for myself so that's what it's looking like it's pretty it's like an ombre here in the middle let me take it out because my light may be a little bright I hit a setting the other day I was filming something and I thought I would just kind of stick with it because it was bright and it changed the lighting a little bit so this is what it looks like it's still kind of reflective but that's it and it has rose gold around here with the purple ombre leaves this is really pretty I may give one of these to my sister and you get a bracelet I've never gotten one of their bracelets I think I've seen some of the little bangles and I love jewelry it's hard for me to wear bracelets like I have bracelets but it's hard for me to wear them at work because of type of work I do I keep my watch on but I have to always like when I go to the shampoo bowl I have to take off my watch every client because I be trying to get my little steps in so let's see if that fit on my little chunky arm here oh this is so pretty look at that let me zoom out so y'all can catch that oh I just bought another bangle like a week or two ago so this would go perfect with this and I don't know what kind of gold material this is because I have very sensitive skin so I'm allergic to like something if it's not real it'll break me out so I'm gonna see how this does but I love it and a lot of times I just save my good jewelry for when I'm going out okay so here's our drawing card this is so pretty it says stay enchanted and then it has the simply gilded here and it has the rose gold leafs on it isn't that pretty and it's also on British I really like this I just don't know where I put it I really like that and now that's everything out the box and then this is the back of the box I saved my very first box I just have it propped up as like decoration I think I'm going to save this box as well the last box I threw away so you guys I was saying that I was going to get rid of my subscription but I think I'm going to keep it I want to collect at least five things so here are the moths they're stickers this is so pretty look at this month it has pink and blue and a little bit of purple and some yellow that is so pretty and then there's that signature one with the yellow and green and then that one has pink like blue purple a lot like purple isn't that pretty and then the little bows that she always kind of sends these bows but these are the ombre-ish ones I've never used these bows because I was like this so big I don't know where we'll put them but they're so pretty okay and then here's a sticker kit great I don't have to make a sticker kit this week we're by B6 so let's open this kit up and the paper always feels so good so nice and so this is what you get I think this is like an extra one so you have some quarter boxes here and then you have these boxes with the little stars gold stars on it let me zoom in just a little bit and there you go and then the moths some more moths oh my goodness and then you have this enchanted and then you have some little heart flags here that is so pretty I wish you could feel this material the material is like next to nothing I've ever felt before so then you have your days of the week you're important you're important your Saturdays to do well Saturdays days of the week yeah to do vacation to buy to pay and meeting appointment and it just oh meal plan groceries laundry day they celebrate planning time and then another enchanted box another one of these beautiful moths I'm not a fan of real live moths but they look like this I might wouldn't be so scared of them and then here you have 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Okay, let's begin so my screen. Okay, we're opening up the special housing authority board meeting 927 22 or 1207. The purpose is to hear our proposal on the beautification of Drake Village from our landscape folks and why don't we we need a roll call so the board join here, Nick, here, here, and here, Brian is here. So let's start. Why don't we just start right in with the architect. If you want to go over some of these plans. The board has all received them. Some of them have seen this multiple times, but we'll turn it over to you now you all me and Leah. Hi, my name is cultural principal here at Crowley cultural and joined by the yet broader. Hello, all thank you for making the time. Go ahead and share our screen. Everybody should be able to see this. Yep. Yep. Yeah, I'll let you go ahead and introduce. Okay. So, as you know, Drake Village was awarded a creative place making grant from DHCD. The goals were developed with the residents in the application process. So the goals for the project for the grant, the use of the grant funds are to creatively redevelop the open space. And to encourage healthy activities, make connections to natural resources and provide opportunities for greater physical activities. So these were the guiding, guiding ideas of our design. In the process, we have had a pretty robust engagement with the tenants and with the housing authority, which included paper surveys, as well as multiple meetings with the residents. Most recently, the beginning of this month, we had a meeting to review the design with them. And so the, all of the kind of input that we got from them was really about what what would serve them best. And as we look at making improvements to the site. Given our given our budget and timeline. And what we heard from the residents is that their priorities in terms of use of open space and physical activity. We're walking other kinds of fitness, seating opportunities, raised beds for planting for growing flowers and food, more shade and seasonal color. We asked where they would like to focus these improvements and what we heard was around the house or building so both in front and back. We also heard interest in making a nicer connection to the walking trails at the Arlington reservoir to the northeast. We also heard interest in making a nicer connection to the Minuteman bike path. What we found as we dug into that site. This is at the corner of the parking lot is that that site really wasn't appropriate for that use because we don't really want to encourage people to go through the parking lot and it's also where snow is kept in the cold seasons. So with those things in mind, we focused all of our attention around Hauser and the entrance to the reservoir. So we'll go through the design with you. This is generally to give you a sense of the overall picture because really what this, what we're seeking to do through the design is create a much more appealing and enjoyable space to be experienced through walking and moving also through sitting and even from looking out from people's residences. So the existing conditions as you know is the cottages, the kind of suite of cottages along Drake Road, and then there's the larger Hauser building where the majority of the residents live. Currently there's a drop off with an island and there's a shade garden where a set of mature oak trees ring the outer edge and pine trees at the center. And so that's kind of going to be the area of focus when we dig into the conversation around trees. Later on. I'm just going to jump in and say that when we did have a meeting with the residents. Some of our thinking about these trees or I guess the question about these trees changed a little bit and originally we were looking at proposing six removals. This, this drawing shows and annotates five removals. And because there was there is this larger tree in in the island that we determined after sidewalk and talking to the residents and the member of the conservation commission that we should try to save so that's no longer part of our proposal but looking at removing two trees that are in poor shape, one along Drake Road and the other in the traffic island. And those two we heard from the residents were not of a concern and so really what it comes down to the concern the tree, the concern about trees really focused in on the three pines and we'll talk more about that as we go forward. And I should say to start, please do interrupt with any questions or comments and then we can move through the design presentation, give you a little minute to kind of absorb it as we talk through it and then the obviously we'll have conversation. So this is the, this is of course a very zoomed out but plan, looking at all of the site improvements. And so what you see is the focus of improvement around the house or building, both in the front and the back, and then a little spot kind of improvements. Right at the reservoir in total this project will be planting 29 trees and will date will zoom in and give you a closer look at what those landscape improvements are. But staying on the idea of the trees for a moment we also have spoken with DPW about getting additional donation of an additional 20 trees. Those would be for improvements in the right of way so in along Drake Road because currently the trees that are planted there's overhead wires there and so we're interested in planting trees that are more appropriate smaller understory trees. We also want to provide more shade and seasonal color amongst the cottages so that's an opportunity with those DPW trees. We're interested in incorporating shade associated with the parking lot at the northeast corner of the site. So looking more closely at the entrance to Hauser what you see here is the drive drop off with sidewalk, there's benches adjacent to the sidewalk, there's a small concrete terrace with some seating and a low wall. And then all the area that's drawn in kind of this brown color under the big green circles which are the trees represents the area that is pretty much exposed to dirt or mulch, and we'll talk a bit more about that. The three pink axes represent the three trees that are in our first option design option proposed to be removed. Also I should mention, in this kind of shade garden in front of Hauser, there is a white kind of funky octagon shape and that represents gazebo. Sometimes it shows up as brown so. So we think about 10 years old. So what we've proposed here is a redesign of the drop off and entrance, keeping the general kind of site strategy that there is now. And one of the big moves here is to actually raise the level of the drive and narrow the road. And what this does is it makes the walking surface co cleaner with the driving surface so that there's easy mobility to and from vehicles into the onto the kind of terrace, which is just south of the building and then into the building. Today there's and signs and it's rather a chaotic kind of composition. We also are incorporating a lot of flowering understory trees to provide shade and color along this sidewalk. We also have a grass strip between the sidewalk and the drop offs. We also have ballards as a kind of vehicular barrier between the pedestrian areas and vehicular areas. And then there's a fair amount of perennial and shrub planting right around the building in addition to all new benches. And then over to the West where we're proposing where you see those pink X's representing the removed pines. So proposing removing the gazebo in the scheme. And so we have replaced the gazebo with a place to gather which is a paved terrace with with a few tables with movable chairs. So we think that this provides a nice variety of seating options. It also allows us to plant under the what is now the pine trees where we currently can't plant so this could all become one lawn. The other important piece to mention is the new accessible crosswalk. So currently, I should have mentioned this when we're looking at the overall plan, but currently, there is no identified crosswalk or way to move as a pedestrian from the house or building anywhere else on the property. So it's kind of a free for all the way pedestrians move from the sidewalks around their residences at Houser on to Drake Road or over to the reservoir. What you see here as kind of a straight pattern crossing the road. So this is a new with the, these little gray rectangles which represent accessible curb cuts is really a new allows for a new circuit walk a safe and circuit walk throughout the property. I'll just mention this and that when we heard from folks a lot of what people wanted to do was to be able to use the paths and around the cottages as well as around house or as a bigger loop. So this is something that's great. As far as the trends that that we are seeing in in senior living. And so, we know that having to navigate a curb, going down into a drivable way is something that's pretty dangerous so simply putting in a curb cut here. We also have one. So we have to get back just so that we have the overall plan. So, if you're here you're sort of currently a landlocked at Houser, you have to cross a driving lane without any sort of curb cut, and you have to mount curbs by doing this curb cut here you can get over here and you can access all of the circuit over here. There is an existing crosswalk that's right here at the beginning of Drake Road after you come down over the bridge. So we have to keep. We talked to the town. They didn't want any changes done there so we are, we can navigate this as a circuit. You can cross here on this crosswalk, and then you can actually come down in front of the two cottages on on the right hand side of Drake Road, and we've added in another curb cut here to connect again a loop that then gets us to the reservoir. So we're making these loops. And so this crossing is is something that we thought was important to point out.  Do you want to ask a question. Yes, I did. Can you hear me. Yes. I'm wondering about those benches. And I'm sorry I should have noticed it when I looked at it before but the benches as you face Houser on the left hand side. Yeah, they're not in the shade, or are they. I don't know what that black dot is maybe that's a tree. That's a big tree that's a cat Sarah that's there right now. So this is actually quite shady. Good. The second question is the route on the way in where you're going to plant the town donated trees. A town tree or a private way. So here is a town road. Until we get to a, there is a sort of a property line that runs up through here. Okay, so maybe getting way ahead but if you remove that tree that isn't all in here. You have to have a hearing. Okay, I mean I think that that's fine. You can do that. I don't know if it's separate from this project or we, you know, we do it but I think you're right jurisdictionally that that would be within the right way of the road. I didn't want you to get all set to do it and then hold up your whole project. No, it makes sense. That's also, you know, part of the reason why we want to do it now is that if we've got someone moving trees on the property or a landscaper that can do that work it's great to do it all at once. I think that that's not a problem as far as going to a hearing for that tree can also again be on a separate timeline. If we need to pay. I also asked where those wonderful freeze Princeton Elms are going to go. You have eight Princeton Elms in your. Well, we can wait. Can we get there. Oh, sure. We'll get there, we promise. We went past it. We haven't gotten there yet. We're still over the overview. We wanted to just go over this whole, you know, the overall for the front so that you all have the opportunity to see the overall ideas not just focusing on the on the topic of these pines but to show you overall. And so, this is these are some renderings that we put together this is the existing of the looking towards the, the entrance of house or this is one of the areas that people really want some color and some shape so our proposal does add in flowering trees. And so we're moving back to the existing. Again, we're moving the road slightly so that we actually these the the benches that are against houses are actually in landscape rather than feeling like they're right on the road. So this is just some some simple about what we were showing there. We have question. So it's possible to add a crosswalk from the house of building so people can get to the reservoir. I'm not sure if there is one there. I mean just so there isn't. And that there's just, yeah, you bet. So how do you get to the reservoir if you want it if you had to be able to the mountain curves, you'd come down in front of Hauser and you would come over to this crosswalk. We did a lot of work with getting together with the town. We originally had proposed a crosswalk here. They did not want it because it was too close to both the curve and to this crosswalk. So you would come down here, you would cross here and then you can get over to the reservoir. Do you want to hear because there's no sidewalk. And there's not room for a sidewalk in and around this cottage.  We couldn't do that either. Yeah, that doesn't make some sense because I don't see people walking all the way around like that. But I don't know maybe can we look at it but go ahead keep going. Yeah I mean our challenge is that because it's the town road, the print the logical place for that crosswalk would need to be installed by the town. So that was a conversation we had and didn't. And you know, that's why we arrived. But doesn't the town road stop where your cursor is. It's now it's like goes up into here right. Yeah. So it stops, it stops about here where this line is. It's up here. And in order to do a crosswalk you kind of try to get it off the, you try to get it around the court you don't want a crosswalk. You don't want a crosswalk really on every end. So it would have to be there. Who from the town that you talked to that. Have a DPW. Yeah, maybe you could redirect that conversation. I mean it just common sense tells me to put the crosswalk right up there. Who gets redirected to. Is it redirected to a different person or is it just to ask him again is what you're suggesting. I would, I would say look at you know it's, if my fellow board members agree that the board feels strongly that there needs to be a closer crosswalk for the house of folks to get to the reservoir, because you know really I don't see them, walking that massive loop to go to the res. I mean, right now they're just going to cross the street right there. So, you know, accepting that reality we should figure it out. You know, I think it's a great point. I absolutely agree because people are going to cross there. Yeah, we get it ourselves. Yeah, we did ourselves in the night. Yeah, and they and also we have residents with mobility problems and so forth. We have the same problem with Chestnut Street. They don't want to put a crosswalk and if they don't put a crosswalk and they think nobody's ever going to cross there but that's not true. And we need it for safety reasons. Yeah. Well, I think it will leave that to Jack if you would like us to go back. But I think your point is, is a good one. It's one we made but we're happy to try to do it to talk to him again. Yeah, I think we can continue to advocate for something like that. You know when Jim Feeney, the deputy town manager and Michael Rademacher, the director of the DPW were out they, they provided their guidance at that time but maybe with future budgets and and other considerations they'll take another look. Yep. So just to move so that you all can see the back of Pouser, I'll give the. Fiorella's got her hand up good. Okay. So are we going to go more in depth about the gazebo by any chance. We will. Yeah, okay. We want to give you the overall and then we're going to go back to that area to really look at what's going on there. Okay. Okay. So this is, we're looking at Hauser and now honing in on the back of Hauser which currently is a kind of fire lane in relative disrepair today and a concrete terrace that has some movable picnic tables on it, which is, this is all immediately adjacent to the community room. So this is a great place for there to be a kind of outdoor life and place to be, but currently the paving if the currently the space is not accessible and the paving makes it very difficult to navigate. And there's not much out there aside from these two benches, which are the brown rectangles and then some movable picnic tables that come in and out, I guess, depending on the season. I think it's worth noting because I think it's a surprise to a lot of folks how close the property line actually is to the back of the building. So you'll notice that our improvements are tucked and don't go over that line. We're also, you'll see the annotation at the top of the page about the wetland buffer so we are close we're in the within 200 feet of the Mill River both in of the Mill Brook both in Lexington where it where it flows through Lexington to the north and where it flows through Arlington to the west. So this is the design proposal, which shows a new newly paved fire access road kind of realigning to be a more gentle curve, and it pulls the fire road, all the way to the edge of the property which gives us a little bit more generous space between the community room and that fire lane for another paved terrace with furniture so we're showing three new picnic tables that have spots for folks in mobility devices so we also are showing raised planter beds opportunities for folks to plant and those are also accessible for folks in mobility devices so the level of the soil is high enough that if you're in a wheelchair or you don't have to lean over too far. And then lining that dining terrace are some catenary poles which will have string lights for events and things so really thinking about extending the period of time folks can be outside comfortably in the warmer months. So there are new benches, as well as a lots of new planting so this is where we have the Elm tree kind of LA of Elm trees staggering along road, providing as much shade as possible. We also are looking into a sale cloth feature that might or umbrella feature that might, we might be able to use over those picnic tables for additional shade. And then we've got perennial planting and shrubs in the area between the building and the fire road and the dining terrace. So really thinking not only about using the space outside but also views and the experience from the inside for all the folks who are inside, especially during the shoulder seasons when it might be a little too chilly to be outside. So this was again developed earlier in the process and while it's not exactly where we ended up with the plan it does give you a feeling of what we were proposing here. So again the relocating, realigning and repaving of the fire lane so that it actually feels like a nice walk that could be programmed with other events, and then all the planting that we're doing for shade and for color and texture and new seating. So again this isn't exactly but to give you the feel of where we're going. So briefly we'll touch on the area in front adjacent to the reservoir. So this kind of peach colored shape represents the current paving that connects to a bridge over the milled brook that gets to the reservoir, gets to the Arlington reservoir on the Drake Village side is a another kind of fire lane with curbs and a sidewalk just on one on the north side. So in this proposal, we only color the work that we're doing. So we're introducing this curb cut and a new crosswalk, which makes a safe connection for folks coming from the south. They can then use the existing sidewalk and connect to a nice new entryway, we're removing some chain link fence, installing a low timber rail similar to what is along the mid man bike path. And then the concrete terrace has bike parking and bench with a buddy spot so people can be sitting at the bench and there's plenty of space for others to come with their own seating devices as well. So those were the, you know, to go back to where we had identified with residents on our initial gathering of information with folks at the front of house or the back of house or and then this this spot at the reservoir and then the curb cuts really is the bulk of what the place making grant is paying for. And then we know that there was a concern about the proposal to remove the three pines and to remove the gazebo. And just to start we're going to go through the options that we prepared because when we went with the residents last time we heard that both the gazebo and the pines were something that folks were not super comfortable getting rid of. But to back up, we wanted to tell you all why that was our recommendation. Yeah, for sure. Subsequent the meeting at our board meeting we looked at that gazebo and jacket a great idea of moving the gazebo behind the cottages there's a there's a nice idea that it would fit perfectly and assuming that it won't fall apart, but so. And we're actually completely in favor of that because the reason why we were recommending the removal of the gazebo was there was a couple reasons. The first reason being that it's already a really shady area. The shade you get from the oak trees which again, there, there's the outside ring here are very mature oaks, they have large canopies, the shape that you get from those and this beautiful cat surre tree that's on the side of the walkway. The black circles are the trunk representing the trunk so those are the center of the trees and then the spread is this the secondary green circle. So we don't really need the shade. The, the other part was that when we, when we canvassed the opinions of the folks in the community, people said the reason why they didn't go in there was because it was very dirty, and dirty from both the fact that the dirt in and around it is exposed because there's no dirt on the ground plane underneath of the pines and because of all the needle litter. And so it was sort of a, for us we said okay well the gazebo maybe doesn't belong there. We also looked and said, the pine needle litter is making the soil so acidic in and around this whole area that you really do have a problem, it's very problematic as far as growing any kind of ground plane. And so we heard a lot about how dirty the area was, especially when the wind blows, because of the pine needle litter and the exposed dirt. So again to us that felt like that was. Those are those are things that were not great about the either the pines or the gazebo, which for us we thought okay well we can do better and so that's really what our proposal was showing to again to give a little bit more background into the pines. My suspicion is the pines were planted when they were planted they were planted as a, you know, a six to eight foot backdrop behind the gazebo as something you would read the gazebo in front of. And then they grew to be 4050 60 feet tall, and they have no vegetation, with the exception of this one, this one where we're xing out its trunk here this one here has some vegetation that starts about 20 feet up the rest of them are all defoliated, which is the natural way pines grow. And the thing that's concerning to us about those pines is the way in which they do shade out the oaks and this cat Sarah. So, again, thinking we we felt like our recommendation is that we could do something far better in here both for gathering and for health of future trees so that's just position where we were at before we went into. You know the options here. This is just to show you all, you know the condition of the ground is again very depleted of nutrients because of the pine, the pines. This is really how it looks most of the year without much growing there. And it really being mulch or just exposed dirt and pine needle litter. So that one again, that was the big aha moment for us for the gazebo. I think the other thing about the. I think I've gone through actually gone through all these these bullet points. So that's what again that's where we came at this from the initial. So, yeah, the other the other piece of this is that it is quite mounted up in here. And again I think the original the original design was probably these pines quite low and there was more of a shade garden with other things in it but as they grew and their their needle litter got further expanded from the canopy. So it really made this whole area kind of inaccessible and now you're meeting the ground because there's nothing growing on it. And so it's not nice to walk over it it's lumpy and bumpy without a lot of the advantages of say other plantings. So, I'm going to go through really quickly these options that we put together. One option is that we can keep the existing, but, and that and that the pro for that is that the people who'd like to see the gazebo stay and the three pine stay. That's the pro for this right we can keep things the way that they are but we would say that the con and probably the biggest con is that we don't feel comfortable being able to add in that 88 crosswalk. The reason for that is the crosswalk we're putting right between these two Oaks. We want to stay away from those Oaks we do not want to get into the majority of the root zone so we're coming through here in between those two, which is actually right on the roots of this pine tree. And if we were to keep the pine tree and we were saying okay we're going to keep those are going to keep them as healthy as possible, we would not feel comfortable putting in that crosswalk. Here's an ad. Yeah, yeah, well I just to preface this whole conversation to say that the, the entry the drop the changes to the drive and the entrance terrace stay the same and all of these options were really just focused in on what happens with or without the pine trees and the gazebo, but the other point is that to get that ABA crosswalk where we are doing or re grading the part of the pathway in the root zone. Right, so that's what, yeah, the issue, we're lowering the great so we want to drop the ground down which is, we think, would have a negative impact to keep.  They could level it down. I see. Yes, the basically inside this ring. Yeah, that's what we're talking about all the changes so anything that was inside this ring if we took the pines down all of that would get recreated. Yeah, so that it was flatter, could be planted and then we could also add in this crosswalk. So those are the cons that no crosswalk we can't put any new plantings in here, because of again the acidic nature of the soil and the shade from the pines. And we would say to that if you're going to keep the gazebo in this location, it should really have a renovation which is not within our budget. We can't really do that renovation. So then option two was the proposal that we had come up with which is really that within again this inner circle is all new. It's regraded such that we can get the crosswalk in here that we can get new soil in here to plant grass and other ornamental trees. And then we're proposing a new open gathering space that is underneath the shade of this cat sura, but still open and visible as you come and go. And we think that there's advantage to that as well to see and be seen as people are coming and going out of the building. The con here really being that we've we've removed the pine trees and the gazebo that that folks have have an affinity towards. But again, new ADA crosswalk new tree and lawn planting, we eliminate the pine needle litter, and we have this new open gathering space. No, but you've taken down that cement wall that's in front of the place. It's, it's not, we're not. This is, it's being shown here, unfortunately with white, because we're only showing the things that we're redoing in color. And so that wall would be right here. Could that wall come out. It could. And we felt like it kind of gave an edge to the to the space and then grading wise. I think it's a freestanding stone, right? Yeah, it's a mortar stone wall. I think we kept it as a way to kind of enclose that space. It feels what's there today. You know, we're sticking pretty close to it because the scale of those spaces is quite comfortable and people really enjoy them so kind of felt like let's spend our money in places where it's going to have more bang for the buck. Yeah, I mean, it just needs to be repaired. We looked at it the other day and it just, it's going to need some Mason to work to be repaired. Yeah. Yeah, we can look at it again and if it makes more sense to remove.  That's a good point. We just have noticed that the other data meeting and I mean it's crumbling. We just assumed you and take it out but you should take another peek and see what you thought. Okay. So then option three for that we want to show you all is our cut to compromise schemes. And so in this scheme we're saying okay we keep the pines. And we don't think that the gazebo and the pines are working well together because of all the litter and the fact that we just heard over and over again the reasons why people don't go in there is because it is dirty and pine needles are all in there and it's double the shade. Got, you know the shade from the roof and the shape from the pines and the shape from the Oaks. So it's dark and it's dirty so in this very simply in this scheme we're saying we keep the pines and we take the gazebo out maybe move it somewhere else you can.  So that again it's it's out in the open people can see it but it can be it can be breached clean. And then the needle litter doesn't have to stay in the walls which is where it is right now and get on the floor. So, but one thing to point out is we've made it one third the size. We are really trying to stick to the footprint of the gazebo so that we aren't cutting into the root zone of those pine trees. Again, we want if we're going to keep the pine trees we don't want to do anything to harm it. So we have made it a smaller gathering spot and again we've eliminated the crosswalk because we can't do the grading required to get that level, so that you can come around and go down. So again, keeping the pines and doing a small renovation to where the gazebo is to have that be an open gathering space on grade. We have three proposals to them would have to eliminate the ADA crosswalk. We have a fourth. I'm sorry. This one. Yes, anytime we keep the pines. We are we're eliminating the option to do the crosswalk because of the grading and the root damage we would do to the pine itself. Couldn't you put the ADA crosswalk elsewhere. That's a great point. Let me go to the fourth option and then we'll get back to that that because it's a really good point and we studied that quite a bit and we'll we'll talk about that. So the fourth option is the opposite you keep the gazebo and you get rid of the pines. The thing that we think the pros of this is that okay so you're keeping the gazebo which people did like, you can do the crosswalk, because you can move this section in here. You eliminate the pine needle litter so it makes the gazebo ultimately easier to care for. And we can plant a new lawn and have other small trees that would stay small understory in inside this inner circle. So we can move the pines are removed the pines and that we also think that you do want to do maybe a more minimal but there's still a gazebo renovation that's not within our budget. Because you will, because you will remain the way it is today. So there's no renovation. In the place making budget in the place making budget we don't have the we don't have enough funds to renovate that because you know how much that would be. So I think it really varies widely, depending depending on what you how you want the gazebo perform. We heard all kinds of things from the residents from enclosing it and making it like last and structure, making it, you know have more solid solid walls, other things like that. I think a minor renovation to it. If you really get rid of the pines and you clean it up. I don't even know if I can throw that out there mostly because I think if we keep the gazebo we also want to look at the ground, so that there's no trip hazards and other things. It's not really in our radar, because we weren't keeping it. If this is the way that you want to go. You would need to do some study into what it would take to clean that gazebo up. I think Nick, the thing with the gazebo is it's dark and dreary because it's got mold it really needs to be out in the bright sunlight the spot that Jack noticed and recommended behind the cottages is a bright and sunny spot. So I just want to wash the thing cleaned it all up. I think we could do that, our staff can do that, moving with the forks. Yeah, I mean it's made of it's plastic plastic would so it could be moved. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to keep. The next thing that we would do is to go to these four options but I want to go back to Joanne's question about the location of the crosswalk. If we can. So it close your eyes if you get seasick, because we're going to go quickly back through to a larger plan that gives a larger context. Okay. So without crosswalks, you really shouldn't have them on on right on a corner. So a corner that is a proud corner right. It can be on a curve, but it should not be on a proud corner. So that's that was the issue here obviously if we could put one off between, you know, a straight and a straight through here, that would be great, but you don't want one on a proud corner. You know where you're going to be connecting through another driving lane. So all through here is not an option for that crosswalk. Then you get into, you get into this bend over here. And it again you've got people coming around this way, and this way a blind corner. This is also in this zone is not is not a safe spot because you're coming around to blind corners. So you're actually on this whole curve. You do something about that. Well, yeah, also at the, at the right up here, because of the way the road has settled and the curbs have settled. The curves are actually much higher than six inches, and there's no, like the sidewalk doesn't really exist adjacent to this cottage. So you've kind of, you've got nothing, no options, all the way until you get into this area because it's because it's a reverse curve. It's an S here. That's that's also one of those spots that in, you know, improper sidewalk and cross crosswalk designs, you don't want to get into that as so again, it's really, this is really our best spot we studied that quite a bit. And again, we went through with DPW on on those kind of recommendations, and they agree that this is the right way you've got you also want to as parallel to perpendicular sorry to the sidewalks as possible. So coming off at an angle in a weird way also doesn't doesn't really work. What about, what about the very end, where the parking lot is, there's the road is the sidewalk. There's no sidewalk along along the edge of this cottage. And so this, this is really determined and it's really tight this corner of the cottage to the road. This is not a place that you want to promote people. I was at the end, right there. Whoops, you can't see my cursor. Right at the end where the parking lot begins. In here. Yes. No, no, no crossing the street, obviously. A little further up. No, the other direction. There's no crop, there's no, there's no side proper sidewalk on the whole side of this cottage. And so there's nothing to tie into. There's no crosswalks. A crosswalk usually connects to sidewalks on two sides of a road but there's only a sidewalk on one side of the road here. So this is really town is this isn't town. Road. This is housing authority road. Yes. Okay. The town ends. For sure. We still, we still, as far as if we're drawing these drawings, we're still following best practices for roadway design, even if it's a private location. Those, that was our reasoning in eliminating all of these spots. Plus, I think it's really important to note that what we heard from folks is that people in the cottages and people in Hauser want to have a safe way to cross between the two. And if we force people way over to the side, it's not a regular flow of traffic. So this is, you know, the other thing is that we also really looked at where are we going to point people to you don't want to point people into someone's entrance to their cottage, which are a lot of these are direct entrances in the cottage so we want to bring people to the sidewalk that rings the road with the ability then to either go left or right, or to then go down this path that is the loop. I think that we studied we do we've we firmly believe that this is the best spot for the crosswalk for all of those reasons. So just to, so we don't keep every on all day. So we have two proposals to keep the trees we have pine trees we have two proposals to get rid of the pine trees is that right. That's correct.  Let's go around the board members and each take a few minutes and tell us which proposal you think is best. Gar.  I know a lot of golf course guys say they were moving pine trees like every year because of the root systems and shallow roots and the pine needles and like, like they said the acidity. So it is a kind of barren area and I think it needs some sun and some new life. I agree with Gar between like option to an option for removing the pine trees for sure because I know those are kind of dead to so with the safety hazard of fallen, you know, falling branches or something. So I, the only thing that I want to know is which one will give the most like green space if we were to thinking like physical activities gatherings. I like the new picnic, you know the picnic tables and all of that mostly that trees going to give a shade. And it kind of looks like it'd give it more space to maybe plan stuff. And I interject one thing in response to that. So one of the things that I heard from the, the housing authority staff and Jack is that people, as they're waiting for rides, there's a group of people who practice Tai Chi at the front of the building and so the option to have a terrace with movable furniture and an open green space. I think we think that we're giving, there's a lot more, you know, both two and four give that opportunity. If they want to do it on paving I think number two is more has more opportunity for that. But I'll just mention that because that we didn't have mentioned that. Yeah, interesting. Anything else you want to add. I think that's it for now. Just bearing in mind that that is evil would be repurposed. And if we kept it there would have to rebuild it to some extent we think we can just repurpose it but Joanne. Yes, thank you. I don't have a very clear recommendation because something that hasn't brought up about the pine trees is climate change. And these large pine trees, which are not dead. We've been living with another 50 years are very good at sequestering carbon, which is a main potentially. It's a main cause of climate change which we see now we have a lot of summer on record. We had an extreme drought. So carbon loaded 8,000 to 10,000 pounds of atmospheric carbon.  So that's that's a real concern of mine. And going forward the pine trees removed 20 or so pounds of atmospheric carbon, which is really important. So I also know that somewhere else but that's like them for their shade and the greenery in the winter, which none of these other trees have of course because they're deciduous trees. They act as a windbreaker for the space around the front door, especially in the winter. So I'm just trying to interject some virtues of these pine trees. I'd like to see some way if one or more of the pine trees might be safe for these reasons. In fact, they don't have greenery underneath is just some people like pine needles. We don't. I'm not sure we want open spaces. One of the problems we have a chestnut manner is all of the places to sit outside are in the sun. I went there the summer to water the small trees that are there they're going to take another 30 years before they give any shade. There's nobody's ever sitting in them, because they're too hot. So, I'd like to see this plan in a way think about the future, and what's going to happen in terms of, we're going to have more droughts. We're going to have more hot summers. I'm not going to be a virtue. I'm not mentioned about. So, which plan are you advocating for, Jim? I'm not advocating for anything because I really would like to know more, which we can't know at this meeting about the ADA crosswalk because I think that's equally important. So, we have to cut down all three pine trees and order to have an ADA crosswalk. So, I will leave there. The one you would have to cut down is the one on the corner. This, if you see my cursor is here. That's actually the one that's in there. That's the healthiest that's got the most vegetation on it. That was when we looked at what we would read one. Are you trying to say that there is three pine trees aren't healthy? I believe that. Well, let me say it's got the most foliage. It's got the most vegetation on it.  So, having a few lower branches that are brown is not a sign of illness. And yes, it's just that it has more vegetation than the other two. The other two are quite top heavy. Well, because they're larger. Well, I will say this, just for everybody's benefit, when you look at options two and four, we have actually estimated the spread of those pot of the Oaks that exist right now. And you'll see that the majority of this walkway and where we're proposing the gathering is actually underneath the shade of those veggie of those dissiduous trees that would be dormant. I don't really have a lot of time, but there was one other thing I wanted to suggest is the trees, the tall trees as opposed to the understory trees on your plan are very small. The canokers, right? The Princeton Elms. And they, the last two years of all of the tree trees that have been planted in Arlington, five of them failed because of the heat and the drought. So this is completely different than choosing this, but I just want to suggest, because I think having these Princeton Elms, we need Elm trees again. It's a wonderful idea, and probably should get slightly larger ones. So right now, so what Joanne's talking about is that on our plant list, we do have a three inch caliper, which means that at chest height, it measures three inches around the trunk. Those are probably quite large. I would think a bit larger than street trees. I know that most municipalities plant one and a half to two inch size for there's three trees. The other thing that we're doing is that because this is a project that is planted that would be that would be installed by a licensed landscape contractor. They will be required to do maintenance and watering and and upkeep during a warranty period. What we have talked about with the housing authority is to have a warranty period extended from what is typically industry standard is typically a year that they take care of the trees for the first year. So we want to write into our spec that it would be a two year maintenance and warranty period so that they are doing the watering and the care for the all the new trees for two years. Very good. Yeah, it means that the place making grant will play will pay for that extra year of care, while these things are being established. We then do need to figure out how how the housing authority can do the watering and what what is best is that there is intensive watering schedule for the first two years, and then there still needs to be watering really for the next fun for the next three. So at first five years but it's less intensive in in years three four five, and could be done with gator bags that are filled by whether it's staff or whether it's residents. I'm just going to abstain until the to give the conservation mission, a chance to weigh in on the pine trees. So, folks, the, if I'm understand this correctly, you're proposing planting trees of a with that's pretty much double what the town plants. We lost a lot of five year old trees. Let them finish for a minute. I mean that's my understanding is that I don't know exactly and I, if I could, if I knew which plantings we were we could look at them but typically a three inch caliber tree is not the size that municipalities put in their street tree plantings. They're typically one and a half two inch caliber. So how tall of these things that depends on the species. But the, the Elms, the Elms will be about 15 to 18 feet tall to start their very fast. They're big. Okay. Those are the ones that are planted on the back of house or where there's no, where there are no trees or shade there at all at this point. Let's move forward. I'd like to just abstain on these plants, because I'd like to hear what the conservation commission says. I saw, I saw that Nick had his hand raised I don't know. Yeah, we're going to Nick. Nick, what's your thoughts now. My thoughts are, I like to so much. I'm going to vote on option to. We have a motion to approve to do a second. I have a question actually. Where is that tree that we need to cut down because of the power lines. At the beginning of the room. That's so that has nothing to do with this one. Yeah. It's on Drake road as you're coming in. All we need to do is the court, the 88 crosswalk, which would mean only removing that one pine tree. Right. Which would then mean that we could keep the other two pine trees that are right next to the proposed like picnic area. Can we still do the picnic area and leaving those two pine trees. Good. I mean the thing that you won't get, like if we go back to the pro con less the thing that you won't get is you, the ground still is going to be leaf is going to be needle litter, and will not be able to grow much, if anything underneath them at all so you'll still have that open patch of their soil. So that, I mean, again, and in these others we're saying we can flatten this making an accessible in accessible area to gather and then also that this is an area that you can get onto the lawn that won't be lumpy and bumpy and, and can have other trees planted in here. So that would be for removing the one pine tree for the sidewalk. I don't know if that might be option five on here and. I put a motion on the table. Yeah, meaning removing all three. What's the biggest tenant complain because that's the only thing that's like making me a little concerned. I'm just getting hold on just a second. So, we have a motion on the floor. Except to reject the motion and we can continue debate on the motion so the motion move my neck to approve. This is Gar I would second the motion I am in favor of option to. Okay, so now discussion. Go ahead for your own. What's the biggest tenant complaint. I mean, not to be rude but if they're so unhappy with all these plans and is it something that we have to do do. Is there any way to like, then we're going to make everybody discuss the with them so I don't see any like clearly no one's going to be happy with maybe any decision so you're not going to make any you're not going to make every. Yeah, I mean I can I can address that. You're going to have to make a decision. I attended the tenant meeting when introduced Fred as president and there were about 60 people there. In the discussion did go into the landscape project and unfortunately, when the tenants were up and arms they were under the impression that we were taken every single tree down. And I explained it in great length and distributed these plans, not not the option three and four. The tenant draw an agreement and like the idea. So there was two people that didn't that one of the pine trees one guy wanted pine tree Scott, because he likes wooded areas, and that was his soul reasoning and another woman one of the pine trees because she couldn't convey it she walked out of the meeting so. But it was pretty much unanimous that the plan looks great they look forward to it so. So I think, you know, we need to vote on one of these today so this thinking that move forward. So we have $500,000 grant. Isn't there a grievance that's still active. We have to settle. Nothing to do with this. And nothing to do with removing trees. Nope. Really, a tenant grievance doesn't affect the board vote here. I think you're referring to what Fred put forward but I think Fred withdrew that at the last meeting. Fred is, is, is moving the trees. So we have a motion second anybody else have any other questions. Can we add a tree and that like left top left corner of the yelling right, right there. We can, and, and we sort of played around for our trees might go we absolutely can add another. All right. They're understory trees that can take the shade of these oaks, which is fine which is actually what we heard from people that why which are things with color and season. So we can certainly add another tree in here. Nice flowering trees right. Yeah. Right, let's take a vote. Nick, Nick. Yes. The voters, the voters to approve option number two, Nick. Yes. Yes. Gar. Yes. Joanne. Brian is a yes. So the vote is four to one. Jack, you could work with the landscapers and getting whatever needs to be signed and scheduled and so forth. And perhaps the only last thing maybe you could figure out is is there a way to get a second crosswalk to go to the, to go to the reservoir, if there's some way shape or form to do that. I think that's important because it doesn't make sense to cross three roads to get to the rest. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we can even just paint something down on the paint across work ourselves in a room. Yeah, you know, kind of like the way they painted this bike lane on massive. Yeah, in the middle of the road. Option like that, but couldn't we also just put like one of those holes that have the stop signs like a resident crosswalk or I mean resident crossing or something like that. Yeah, I mean it's not property so I'm sure we can do that. Yeah. That's what I'm trying to do. It's not your own property actually, I don't think we need to as long as it's on our property. So, All right. Thank you folks for your time. Thanks for logging on. And motion. Second motion by next. Good question. Who's keeping minutes. You. Okay, so motion by Nick second and fiorella all in favor Nick. Yes. Yes. Yes. He's not on anymore. When I think she's on anymore. She dropped off. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'm not sure when she dropped off. And I'm lost so I vote yes to adjourn. Okay, thanks folks. Thanks everybody. Thanks for your efforts. Thanks. Yeah. Bye bye.


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In today's video, we are going to talk about some interesting facts and myths about the California Spangled Cat. The California Spangled is a mixed breed cat across between the Angora, Siamese, American Shorthair, Abyssinian Manx, and British Shorthair breeds. Energetic, loyal, and loving, these kitties inherited some of the best traits from all of their parent breeds. These cats are named after their home region and the dark, round marks on their coat similar to those you see on the plumage of some birds. The California Spangled was bred to resemble a wild cat. These felines are very athletic, can be energetic, and very affectionate, but they also have a super loving and sociable side that makes them excellent family cats. Their vivacity and agility, which allows them to jump great heights, will surprise many people. Being particularly playful, they make ideal companions for family life. 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it is not it's the storm the storm is coming are you feeling seasick followers it's 12 at noon and the rock and apple is welcoming the most unwelcome visitors i'll hold of you a public hearing you stalkers stalking me the pirate for days the way by the rock and rolling coasters night and listen to radio apple dish government stuages say your names you mad we wondered but nothing gonna change our love for freedom there is a huge black ship behind us we are under attack british accent hey guys welcome to the stream hopefully you are enjoying what i'm seeing it's the icon of the manus vindictae this is ahia remember you are still captives of this pirate get them to hold the fire immediately otherwise we are sinking please be ready to abandon the ship my captain do over but please don't break my ship my records and my treasures no vile say something if you can hear me hey we don't know them we've we're the investigators from the foundation you got the wrong people regulations ship was sunk the riders are still after them if it goes on like this my apologies timekeeper are you feeling better now the apologies if i was rude i shouldn't have sent the backup request in a rush the ritual was not ready fortunately you are awake now it's an emergency please allow me to report and ask for backup go ahead please the day before yesterday we were resisted when registering regulars in our teammate the bad news is that manus vindictae is on to her now we must rescue our teammates complete the mission before the storm and return to the research center i'm not like you and you know that well i haven't been trained systematically for the battle of arcanum my classmate no it's fine you don't have to fight miss verton please just guide me by my side you are the most perceptive person i have ever seen in terms of arcanum and within 24 hours before the storm we could ask you for help if we have any problems is that right timekeeper this is what it says in the field mission evacuation instructions you are a capital reader i'll help you out don't worry 50 minutes left come on please use this it will send us directly to the other side it's an old disk this this disk brings back a lot of memories it's a floppy disk back where when usb usb thumb thumb drives were none existed this game brings back memories there are too many of them i can't hang on anymore what's your status the way is blocked but i'm still trying to break it through can we go back before the storm sugar sugar i saved money for five years my beloved apple and the tape scan driver i just bought yesterday all thanks to them if i were protecting the records i would have been able to beat you all don't be smug captain what's your six enemy at your one now let's go here we go i'm itching for a battle so stop the enemy just in time i think special i'll predict enemies move while teleporting timekeeper you are now we meet you which means 45 minutes you still have 45 minutes i'll do my best to help before the storm now everyone get ready to break through regulars you're doing this too huh since you saved the pirates i'll do this there we go the enemies are attacking we are kept timekeeper allow me to go through the basic principles and deployment method of arcane and battle again it shows the incantations that have been generated here okay attack attack buff tab to select an incantation and summon its ritual i believe tap and hold an incantation to check details of this tap and hold okay mass attack deals tap again to select an incantation it shows our action points here choosing an incantation consumes one ap when you are done choosing the rituals shall begin this is our chance the caro me for costermo cola nice paired for the change okay it shows the star levels of the incantations here okay two incantations of the same star level meet each other they will merge into a higher star okay so there's a combo of sorts once you remove this this emerge okay okay nice nice nice we have this do anything against you we are investigators from san pavlo foundation as far as unauthorized use of arcane is a violation of the public security law please call just come back with us to the research center as quickly as possible it's okay to go with you but could you show me the floppy disk first sure no problem wow so the incantation can really be recorded in red a floppy disk to store advanced arcane skills so cool arcane skills in a floppy disk this is where you start the ritual looks like i should have known that in 1999 hey man welcome to the stream okay stronger incantations okay okay you can move move the incantation merge into one is invaluable you must play the cards right based on the situation you're pretty good at that we're now fully prepared to face the enemy okay i know i know merge this is this is a buff can only get one card okay wrong move okay so you can so just click the buff okay no not that this one okay it's close finally got let's hurry up now we can't waste our time anymore please pass me the floppy disk regulus i will start the ritual regulus where is she seems that she started the ritual and disappeared she must be in such a rush that she even forgot her stuff we can only walk back now captain if we stay for too long we can't be back in time staying outside means you'll be disqualified as an investigator you should know that captain you go first we'll split up the team you go back to the foundation to report what you're going to do after regulus's registration express gratitude salute and see they're leaving never disturb you haven't seen the storm yet i i'm not qualified so far have you found out where she usually shows up and who knows yes she often shows at the west end hanging around carnaby street in king's road she used to buy records in kingly court oh and her arcane skill can also change the light i see that are you coming with uh it's okay i have my own mission also in kingly court this is hey coming through are you talking about regulus of the apple who are you i'm her friend she left these are chances around that thank you very much for your assistance you are very serious if you really want to thank me just take a copy of the top see it's all good news on the first two pages only comes along every once in a thousand years up please give me a copy do you like the world outside no i'm just i'm just curious i will throw it away when i finish it please don't take it to heart i just realized we can't skip through the story only auto so if you're gonna re-roll this you'll have to go through the story there's a bit of harry potter in this game already working with it location will be exposed anyway i'm not the peace be with us this will give me away this time well indicates character moxie casting moving upgrading can actually increase character moxie when a character's moxie is full the next thing that the engineer will be an ultimate okay how she does okay combat system needs seems doable not really complicated but you need to you know strategize everything i need your help before that i'll help you i'll see you in the bookstore on oxford street push me push you my mistake but it should be fine the time of misty bubble ball is limited so she must still be in this block sonata are you still searching the storm is coming if you don't go back now it'll be too late let me search these stores again story story story oh you freaked me out did we say the books exactly isn't it the unimproved misty bubble ball has a special so so what do you want from me poem relax i'm not going to take you to the foundation i ask you to go somewhere safe with me regulars i need you to brave this you'll wash she i'm sorry you shook your head that my mission will the storm begin in ten minutes for your support thank you the rain is it falling upside down i think your face why does everyone act as if nothing happens are my eyes paying tricks on me these things are really weird you can see something's weird which proves you the one i'm looking for looking for me no no where are these potions did you use potions on me why that little thing is no longer with me enough stop running the storm is here the storm is here raindrops are falling on my head 1966 going back fast no way to skip guys we're all gonna go through the whole story for this one it's just and you survived you've braved the storm my experiments what experiment the end of an era what does it mean i i can't understand relax regulars i will tell you but not here say this with me take my hand let me take you into the suitcase close your eyes follow me all the way down the road where are you taking a safe place huh no traces here the good these are giant stone statues please allow me to reach i'm from st pavelov foundation same place of the investigators you've met my position is the timekeeper people who record the time of the outside world that is people who record the beginnings and ends of eras i like the plot you're saying that the photos here are it's louis i know yes i took this photo several days ago he was selling the hoover upright vacuum cleaners in the west end and thought vote why did you take a photo of him how this is marion smith a single mother she was worried if she could afford that i met her in a snack bar at 2 a.m her one act play about the transantartica expedition was a real this is julie who once invited me to her house a bedroom wall was full of about the fifa world player of the year who then became the mass side transantartica expedition without that's the story for a long long time to come these photos our time seems to be going backwards regulars from the countdown to millennium the explosion of a supernova in the 80s to the unveiling of vhs and after this i met you in the 60s so time is going backwards so the people in the photo people like me where are they now are they like in the storm just now maybe i never met them again before you i've done so many experiments in an accident i realized that my suitcase seemed to be able to cut the storm out it can preserve them so i tried to put newspapers mushrooms my plushies into the case they all succeeded i failed it doesn't work on ordinary people maybe i should just record the time spend no feelings on what i see that's the foundation asked but why are we because we can see the mutation of the world talking about weird things before the storm had left deep impressions on this apple i think so when you were sailing out at sea it was the beginning of the month so there is someone that i decided to try it again for the last time not good seems our suitcase has been packed by critters maybe or just someone hey wait the things you're doing does your boss know this is my own will i don't want to stand aside and watch you be carried away by seneto leaving no sign of you offered the storm on top of that there is something i want to find out myself the truth solid mr apple could you please give vert in a hand i need to really think about it about all the things you said mr apple greetings madam i'm here hello mr apple chapter one this is my suitcase please give it back to me when a pirate meets robbers robbing is not a good behavior that you kid should learn oh looks like the generation we met is if they shake the suitcase like this regularly probably mr apple i need my pleasure this apple will shed some light on justice for them well okay people and you can't see you can't see an apple plantation type okay so you have your attack debuff buff icons ultimate heal counter okay affirmative white or say all careful young man i can't agree more fine don't worry weightlessness only starts towards the sun as the apple drops to the ground which matters more knowledge or strength i did in the tree hole this time this shouldn't be that easy to be found the subculture movement has indeed changed mr apple how long will it take for the suitcase to be completely invisible 30 minutes this apple is still waiting for the right you can meet with regulus first this apple is in order to relieve the boredom she might make you troubles regulus no one's here the regulus what voice doesn't sound right i should go and take a look tap on someone to enter realm of the lake okay that was quite a long journey for a summon regulus we can't see her at all spin it as you've done so many times okay all of her flowing advanced arcane skill of fedoy no it should not be this senato why is it because i touched see is right she said regulus was with you what regulus she why did you go back out okay dr pepper let's skip this one skip story senato confirmed okay a lot of critters timekeeper we must do something to turn things around now hey saikon or saikon not sure hi yeah looks amazing uh battle system is quite unique source of characters power potential to the aflatos reaction okay so we have fire this is earth water i'm not sure what this is hope they will explain it okay okay they should put a you know a chart here somewhere nice i like the apple okay a swap here do a swap here deal with you no oh battle number two this buff is sweet buff here an attack oh be careful young man nice nice this will you know get some getting used to you after probably a few days you know this is the gameplay we've been waiting for easy skip now lost all interest let's give it a chance i'm gonna play this for a couple of days and let's see how it does this is just the first r man so okay so we're free to move about so there's a log in reward here you get this character at the eighth day that's weird i'll claim this this one is okay reward previews in mail it's gonna claim these clear job unilog i'm gonna have to do all the playing with this game to understand all of it okay so let's let's do some summons here while we're here oh here you can check stats of the path of possible characters of the banner details okay so we have regulars here first drop of rain 30 summons guarantee six star okay nice and i think this is just a beginner banner so let's uh sad i didn't know about it before not signed up well um it's okay man this is going to be only for a few days i think less than two weeks you're gonna have the chance to play this in global so let's do summons here six star guaranteed so we have two banners i'm sorry let's let's go through the banners here this is the regular banner i think and this is a different regulars there's a regulars here that's weird so this one is skill preview target attack deals mental damage mental damage mass attack dps support this one is what's her name eternity so this one i think is reality damage these are debuffs mostly this one is an attack there's a reality damage i'm not sure what that this is dps nasty wound the other one is lilia lilia is burst damage dps so this is also reality damage mass attack damage let's just pull so summon 10 let us check the there are no you know details details banner detail first drop permanent permanent character banner for rookies which includes certain characters so this is a beginner beginner you can check the rates for more details in this banner every 10 summons guarantees at least one four star or better character you can perform up to 30 summons in this banner once you have obtained a six star from it the banner will be closed during the basic rate applies to all characters under certain circumstance such as rate up guarantee please refer to the specific rules so these are the rate ups so basic rate summoning is 1.5 percent every summons guarantees every 30 summons guarantees one or six stars so duplicate characters will be shards i think okay so the rate details i won't go go to that the other banner let's check other details here this one is a permanent character banner so basic rate summoning including guarantee special rates duplicate characters okay let's just summon here first 10 guys first 10 you have to spin the wheel spinning the wheel open all you can actually click on one necrologist oh so god too i got lilia and eternity in one ball let's do more okay that was unexpected okay so no more here this is going to be five stars skip okay only five stars here i got two already so also obtain these and the last summon would be this one uh no that was too you know too good for the first pull let's just skip this one okay doops doops doops okay that is it first summons so where were we crew so now i have these ladies here let us check them out radio the fool leilani i still have to check them out honestly so for this is your five star i believe yeah five star satsuki satsuki necrologist baby blue oh eternity she's dps right i might want to use her and lilia lilia is also dps upgrade this girl here let's do 10 let's do 10 let's uh also upgrade lilia the one to consume everything so there you go let's play this out task so we have go to this one number five so to check recommended line up here to obtain stars for different conditions here that details tap let's find out so let's check them okay enemy details defeat all enemies and recommended what okay so these are recommended lineups here okay you can only use two i'll use this one okay casting an incantation while letting the incantation next to it merge is an effective strategy yep because it uh lets you yeah killing two versus one stone that is correct okay when you cancel let's uh do a buff cast this to merge okay would you buy me a drink there you go what flying handbag how dare you let's just finish this infinity to okay what is this bond here how's it going so we're at five cleared to unlock line up slot three okay let me just um it's getting hot keep hostage adam alive and defeat all enemies no ally dies when the stage is cleared okay okay so i assume that they'll be attacking that guy this buff is supply debuffs shall we so need to cast this to merge what click the wrong one buff attack this one and this one so really you have to be familiar with the skills it's gonna take some use to roast a killer this is actually a fresh you know for me fresh uh take on a game hopefully the battle system you know improves as uh we play it step on every trail to unveil new page of the story it's very story based who is this fixed okay shows a fun relation to the incantation and locked target okay show another class notes what class notes okay i i know what you mean actually there you go so you can actually be prompted what is weak or what skills are stronger okay clear draw okay so story there are many stories we didn't some of the stages for you to go through not bad recommended level five let us use somebody oh leilani okay tap to fast forward to the end of battle what okay then okay let's uh do this okay that was the move buff and debuff flying handbag okay merge merge merge nothing strong okay so let's just attack to i believe in you nothing strong okay red 38 is about to return russian okay so before we proceed again let's go back shall we uh go back through what's upgrade here today your shirt matches the color of your eyes very well at least to level 10 we have it's always good to have you here okay so here it is so the wheel of the loss mineral star plant beast so that is what they have so i have mineral star i need plant it's that's okay let's just have one of each my teacher mista timekeeper so one two three four the other element that i'm missing is no no no go back back this is flameless the other element that i'm missing his beast for the regular ones have a beast here here okay so let's have this lineup for the for a bit okay let's proceed with the story i do have 103 it's fixed okay at least there's no time limit in casting something apple will now do what he can so you drink this one is affirmative which matters more knowledge or strength clear drop okay let's use this girl mental damage she's dps control dps burst damage this one dbs nasty debuffs okay uh don't need buffs yet so as confirm what do you mean weaker weaker okay so if i select her just as what's been practiced the element is weaker okay so there's a recommendation here so this is okay so there's a indication whether that that character is weaker against the enemy that's nice penetration rate this one is the nasty wound on target this one is mass buff the one hmm okay and move this here this one is there you go so you can do one this one is two and three nice oops would you please pass me my heel it seems to have fallen into your arms this is my promised land i am drew this the third the hills man i will come down clean up what miss it's fine to land barefoot please invaders she beats hundreds of them with one single move no the arcane circle she casted is pretty archaic she must have a european arcane background it has been a long time since i saw the arcanist visitors thank you for helping just as the woods crops being whisper please allow us to no she's not a boss i weed the gown with thorns you shall repay with sacrifice of ooh mass buff the ocean dried and i'm alone in caron nine trail what what is this icon tutorial oh no no no tactics temptation it's going to cast offensive arcane skills start and inflict this arm status pressure and hold for more details i know i know i believe in you this arm restart cap one another inflict this arm okay okay forgetting one enemy in patrols that turn to the uncontrolled enemy will take action to reduce our damage taken sorry reduce damage taken this is okay so this army again whoops okay this one is can't agree more each moment no kidoki which matters more knowledge or clear drop no wingman is needed weaker again just go let us go back a while okay so let's collect something here i think the clear drop is is the main currency survey take the survey in a while so crew i need to have a beast a donkey your service what let's do that let's uh portray what do you mean portray okay copy so she has a copy your portray it's gonna bring her to level ten let's do go back leilani where are you okay so it says stronger very nice control status okay this one is this is this is a debuff okay nice 124 check out the crew so if you don't have a bunny how much for a summon three-star John titter so 180 for one someone so that's one eight okay it's the an idea two attacks let's deal with these buggers here no reward oh zero sorry security carnival finally this is greco there are a mrs greco glanced blandly over the one two she's schniders by the grecos are not good at when schnider took out five hundred schnider schnut but a good daughter she announced her new identity one day the identity you know now to get it now this is greco said the doors in front of her words speak for four p.m. enemy recommended none let me swap you out for her or no sonnetto no wingman is needed this gives power to the don't don't blink enemy recommended baby blue i'll still use this one my child here's something fun for you easy handle it gently each moment now night my child here's something fun for you the ocean dried and i'm alone here so mom leaves this and this gives power to the right wing know it gently a little trick my child here's something fun for you but how much victory take it easy a little trick handle it gently take it easy i will pray for you sorry ready swear you get resources okay it's a big cat don't blink don't shop my child here's something fun for you would you buy me a drink each moment i will pray for you sorry okay another summon let's do summons here give us something another 10 does this have a pity system there's no pity system for this banner okay here so there's a rate increase every 77s guarantees one six star character okay 70 for pity okay let's do hope they do have a pity counter too what are you looking for i am not head what are you looking for i think i may not be of help okay guys um for those of you are here um i'll do videos follow up video i'm gonna be you know going through a lot of things with this game uh spending time tomorrow probably uh trying to iron out some of the questions that i have in mind and i'll give you more feedback as the days to come so every day i'll definitely have an update on this game and again thank you for you know being here thank you guys and hopefully we could have more answers to your question so thank you very much guys i am afraid i have to end my stream tonight i still do have to eat dinner i haven't eaten dinner yet so thank you very much guys take care stay safe this is the warden and i'm out of here