It's a pleasure to introduce Captain Ronald Young from the Amherst Police Department. He's been employed here since 1987 when he was first assigned as a community service officer. He's served in various roles primarily in the detective bureau. He's a graduate of Southern Police Institute Command Officers Training Corps and has a master's degree in criminal justice from Westfield State University. Today's presentation will focus on the transformation of the Amherst Police Department from a single-night watchman to a much larger modern agency. The culture of the Amherst Police is based on a tradition that has modest beginning but is fundamental to its identity and place within the Amherst community. So truly this is this is my pleasure for being here thank you for having me. You know I've had a couple of conversations out in the hallway and my reason for being here is kind of born from a complete accident. One of the chief had charged me to kind of get rid of some of the junk that we have in our basement and so when I was in the basement looking for junk I started uncovering all these different things most notably they were photographs and but then I started finding like these old these old uniforms and some of these old tunics and things and even in my very limited intellect I thought to myself you know these belong to somebody other than us and so that's why I reached out to George and I kind of like what started the ball rolling for a while we're here so the first thing I need to do is say that I am certainly have not become an expert on the Amherst Police Department history I have I'm in much better place than it was a year ago just because it is so fascinating but we thought this would be a great starting place to maybe start and talk about some of the things that we've learned I've already learned some things from some new friends today about you know things that happened before my research so so that being said um this is kind of the first like 30 three minutes or 30 three minutes of 30 seconds this is going to be an unabashed and unashamed like appeal is tell us about where we are today it made kind of sense to talk about like what we do now at the police department before we talked about the past and when I was trying to figure out to make it kind of an idea of what I wanted to chat about how I did it was just talk about kind of very briefly some of the things that we're doing in the community today and then I will go back to like the chiefs of police and like what happened underneath each one of their it's very odd and we've got a police department that's been in existence since about about 1876 or so and we've only ever had six chiefs so which is really kind of in a hundred years yeah it's very anomalous you know of course Chief Chief Maya and Chief Hart took up about half that century so the rest of it's kind of child's play but I think if and I'll pick on Chief Maya because he's not here I think it's longer than that but um it's it's really interesting you know whereas in today's day and age and if you knew kind of like the inside and the fundamentals of what's going on in policing today with with just some of the turmoil in our community and some of the problems that are happening with some it is rare for a police chief the last longer politically longer than three or four years in most police departments that are about any substantial size and now and again this is an unashamed and unabashed thing and I don't apologize for this it's like it's like the research commercial not sorry sorry it's hard to be a police officer in Amherst the community expects a lot from us and the byproduct of that is it kind of makes us better we make mistakes we make a lot of mistakes but and I'm kind of problem so if that comes through thank you so we have a mission statement I won't bore you with it one of the things that I do is one of the things that they came about when we talk I'm gonna talk briefly very briefly about each chief one of the things that Chief Maya did do was is he started and still the idea of like where we're going to be 10 and 15 years now be at this concept of strategic management and the concept of thinking strategically what was going to happen when he wasn't the chief anymore fundamentally that is really a backbone of what we do as an agency I recognize that in a few short years I'm going to be living somewhere in Florida driving my wife nuts it's going to happen we all know it you might as well say it but there is going to be there are so many people behind me that are so much more well read and more prepared for the future and our mission statement kind of we try to change it on a biannual basis just to reflect where we're going sometimes it's changed very in my new manner in ways but we understand that that's a future couple things that we're going to talk about one of the things that Chief Sherpa did we're going to talk about his state was he was he forced us to be an accredited agency and I was one I was a sergeant at the time and I kicked and screamed all the way through it and I think I powdered my fist on around it has made us a better agency it is it is a standard that we matter fact our reassessment was just a couple weeks ago and we still get better and we still we find best practices and we identify things that we do wrong and the way like we found some documentation things a couple weeks ago that we're just in that they were old school so you know we improved it and that's that's what brings to the table I won't worry with organizational charts and put this up here just to kind of show you where we are we have all these organizational charts and we use fancy words like units and missions and you know at some point it all started with some poor guys walking around downtown checking the gas lamps so but we do maintain organizational charts our staff is big we always average we're approved for about 50 officers that's that's what we're for financially we we use them in a bunch of different ways obviously we have patrol officers which most people in the holiday and you call them I want to get a cop we have investigative units we have canine officers we spend a lot of time working on community outreach and things of that nature it depends on which one you to talk about that's TJ and Dash so TJ is a really nice guy Dash frightens me a lot frightens me quick war story I grew up in Springfield right so I grew up in the Forest Park section of Springfield you guys know it well my Nana my grandmother she came for Susan immigrant from Ireland she would be a fat kid I could ride my bike down there after school she'd feed me and then I could go back to my house and I get fat again so what do you think when you're a fat kid right so I got on my Schwinn with a banana seat and sissy bar and I was riding and I was riding down Dorset Street in Springfield in a German shepherd ran off the front porch and bit me completely unprovoked by the way and I was probably nine or ten years old and I'm 53 now and I still I'm still terrified of these shows so that's what my record says you know the other dog Marvin he's a male if he's smaller and he's sweet so when I leave the gym tonight I'll go out the front door and all the way around to go to my car because if you're hot by dash wait until I'm nearby attacks me through the glass and someday he's going to defeat the glass we all know it anyway I'm sorry to digress so we spend a lot of money on topping now about five million dollars you know a lot of between between what we're budgeted for police officers I'll reach everything from from from things that we do for training we spend a lot of money on training etc etc we respond to what we found a call is a patrol division that's the backbone most policing agencies is still what it was what it was we talked here a little bit what it was back in the teens in the 20s and it's what it is today and you know people come on when they expect a competent person to come and give them a hand so that's that's what we do but we also have a bunch of other things that we do just breaks down our calls for service we answer about 20,000 calls of service a year which is you know you know for 50 50 person police department it's actually it's actually you know because it's a busy police department but again we all know that because we're from the community it's a busy town it's you know it's always potentially left in blurry fills because I want to try to hide the facts what's the most call is it accidents or is it I think I think that the probably the most the most fun the most common call is for a general disturbance and then it's a kind of a records keeping glitch so so somebody calls it and says you know I heard a lot a lot bang in my neighborhood it kind of gets it's like a catch on thank God I've been around here for 30 I think I've been to four murders and that's yeah robberies are a funny thing so robberies are because of the old UCR statistics which for those of us to bore everyone at the death we were required to report certain things to the federal government you know the party in the park be your back in the day most of you calm title one two crimes they've broken robbery down to a variety different things now so now that we report things as a neighbors complain which goes to the state police and all the way to the FBI things that would have been classified as robberies in the past are not a shoplifting somebody grabs a bit you know first from somebody like a purse snatching it's not considered a robbery even though to me it's a robbery so it's that's a whole mother-in-law last we of course have a detective bureau one of the things we're talking about ironically at the bottom here is records keeping and my new friends that we're talking about in the in the hallway were saying that prior to private prior to the 60s we're really poor keeping records the police department was really terrible and record keeping we did it it was sporadic and it wasn't it wasn't codified in so and then a bunch of other things we do you know we have neighborhood liaison we try to we try to spend a lot of time with people in town who don't like the cops that's one of the things that we found actually helps we also try to do things that are not traditional policing you know I think the worst thing that ever happened to the law enforcement in the country is the radar gun you know because most of the people there you know the first contact other than me that my daughter ever had with a police officer was when my wife got stopped for speeding so it's like you know you know we try to do things that aren't traditional enforcement it helps us and it's for selfish reasons I'd like to say it's for it's for selfish reasons you know we try to make friends with people who quite frankly just don't trust the cops so that's what I think we do and one of those things is this this is my brainchild they'd like to say well I stole it I stole it from somebody but we do that we can keep going so we also recognize that we have some issues here in town with drug abuse so we all are keenly aware what's going on with the opioid crisis in the country so we've started to deal with that now we've trained people officers especially they have a background in clinical support all the three of these officers have a background on it so and that's what they do we talk about dealing with people in a non custodial way after care resource resource development and things like that basically what we do with people who have overdosed as we meet with them again in a non you know a non-threatening way and just try to offer them resources and we found that a lot of people do take advantage of aftercare and it's become very important we haven't had an OD death in two years that's not accidental well 18 months 18 months is probably a fairer lesson we we through Craig's door we have some officers again that have a clinical background like Barone on the right there who's short but I won't say that because he's not here you know Mike Barone has a background he worked for many years down at BHN health network in Springfield and so he works with a lot of our friends here in the community that either have mental health issues or homeless or both in substance abuse so that's something we do we do spend a lot of time training and when I get in the second half of this we're going to talk about this one of the things the chief Maya did when he became the chief was back in back in the early 70s you recognize some of the deficiencies and the problems that were going on in the country as it relates to policing problems that we still see to this day you know things that things that happen police overreach things like that that are simply can be trained away so and we'll talk about that we talk about safety in schools you guys don't care about that we do train people throughout the community we have we we have a lot of folks at workforce that are prior military and they have some skill sets and so as a result of that they have put together these programs where they meet with not just the school department but town buildings and now we're working with different different retailers and people in the community that are just having a plan that if there's an act of violence in the community what would be a good idea an appropriate response and so that's that's important and you don't care about this batch it's interesting oh no please don't tell my curtain because he's the supervisor a friend of mine I just didn't think that would be funny actually dispatch is a really interesting part of what we're going to talk about a little later on the communications were really sporadic with policing early on and what the call boxes did and then you know when we actually we didn't have 911 in the police station till 1970 so and again types of calls we already talked about that we also we oversee a local community many people know Carol she has a barred owl there another thing that I'm scared of when I was a sergeant so I'm in this I'm in a little vestibule right I'm a sergeant it's like three o'clock in the morning I'm like I'm just walking off at three and this woman walks and I was hot it was in the summertime like July or August and she a woman and a woman I see around town and from I was about my age she goes hey I was just on southeast street I was headed home I worked with the university and I hit an owl I'm like oh really and she was in here it is and it was just for the record angry so being a city kid I'm like so she does now I have an owl hopping around the line just for the record they don't cover that in the academy anywhere in the academy if anybody knows bus foster just passed away a couple weeks ago so his wife was was was was I was involved with at the time birds of prey and she actually came down like three in the morning with a big box and put this owl and I brought somewhere so I watch one of my friends drive away with this creature in the front seat and I'm like oh that's that so anyways so that's that's kind of where we are today in a 10-minute thing I again not sorry but I wanted you to know where we've come we're always improving and that's kind of where we're at so here's a little bit of the history and this is not a complete thing it's just kind of a start as I said I broke it down I broke it down kind of by the chiefs that seemed to make a lot of sense because of the way it happened and the way time went by so if we could look here super briefly this is the this is the way the police station looked what I came to work in the early it was in the basement it was now in the basement he made the entrance down here you walk downstairs chief Maya's office was up on the second deck by the town clerk's offices now and we parked in this spot out here was always reserved for the shift so the sergeant got this spot and if you were a lonely peon like me you had to park around the back of the building we had a lock up here there was a three-cell lock up that was downstairs in the basement and there was a detective here which was a little room they had there were two detectives and the rest of us we shared that common area there's a booking room a little squad room and if we need to train we trained up in the community room that's what we did our training so if we didn't go to the academy and that was it and I was so proud you know walk in there we had we had five police cars and we shared them one of the burned oil really badly the old unit C so I tried to get to work early so you didn't get that these are the 23-year-old boy this is what you're talking about so that's it that's kind of where I started and it's hard to believe that that was some 30 years ago so the first night watching was fist there he came on board in the 1870s I think that he is so don folks don't know like him when I came on board Don was my sergeant and he was on sample three I'm still he's just lost his wife just passed away this past year so Donna Donna's very special to me so but I think that I I think that somewhere down the line the lineage is there I try to convince Donna looking up in greater detail but if you knew no doubt it always kind of a grumpy old guy and he's not much in the mood to do it these days someday I'm gonna do it on my own but I I believe Don Fisk there lived Fisk there lived on strong street and how he got the job is a different story but there were some political connections and of course Don Don lives on Salem Street but he didn't grow up there he grew up he grew up on North Whitney Street an upper Ward North Whitney Street so so anyways that's that's kind of interesting and what why they think that's really interesting to me and this I kind of put together Don Don retired in 1987 when I was a young cop and he gave to me a box key right so he got this from Bud Heath and Bud Heath got it from somebody else's keys probably a hundred years old and that when I first came on the job everything that was we popped everything open the box only thing that this opens there's two places this opens like the town the lights here at University Drive and amity and the lights in the center of North Amherst but when I first got on the job this open everything this and I've been carrying around all these years and when I was putting this together I realized just kind of how special the chief has one and if anyone knows John Chudson keys badge one he and I came on together the same he has one the rest of them if they're still in the building I don't know so at some point this doesn't belong to me at the station so that's I just think it's kind of interesting Don I work for Don and I believe that the first person that popular the police department saw Mr. Fair the original to the elder if you will he wasn't actually hired a police who's hired a lamp lighter and we were chatting out in the hallway that I guess that was that was up was not unusual for for many agencies the first night watchmen were also the people that were lamp and I think that's kind of fascinating he actually he actually fisked there at the time was not an Amherst resident he lived in Lubbock he was an Amherst kid originally but he lived in Lubbock at the time and he came all the way down he needs to take care of this kind of really fascinating so was his routine to patrol so to speak because he was going from lamp to lamp so he would go what we now think it was the center business district you go from lamp to lamp and then eventually and it get records being poor but there is an indication that he started to be a day watchman who rattled some of the doors of the downtown businesses and then replace them so again to kind of make up for you today I get when I first got hired I remember the old community service officers from the 70s and 80s I was a commercial service officer and that was my job was I came almost to rattle the doors and they would go down and I knew every door in the center of this town they're all so different now they're called opticians that isn't there in a long time in a classic cafe but we would rattle the doors and the lineage kind of goes back to that and if you if if the chief came in the morning saw the log that there was something they're talking to mine now and you didn't find it when your Ralph said you paid for that he was not in again the lineage kind of goes back to the early land fighters have to put him out in the morning after that let him in the evening or I don't know the answer to that why it's going out either 11 or part of midnight he was he was the tender right even that was part of his job was to put them on now the the records that I see he was unarmed he was unarmed other than you maybe carrying the billy up or something and a flashlight after the turn of the century because flashlights early on like they didn't exist right so imagine that that wasn't kind of a lonely existence I think of that all the time so after that you know once we got it once we got into the late 1800s they actually hired a full-time police chief was Melvin Graves right so Melvin Graves established the police department he was actually the only police officer for about close to 20 years so he's not in this picture here this picture here is was taken probably in the 20s it's one of the older photographs this is definitely the Memorial Day photograph it was taken on Memorial Day so this is not 20s it's taken the 30s by that so this is Bill Engelman who actually became the chief of police Frank Hart who actually became the chief of police right Jack Traynor who was the chief of police and there's there's a lot of a lot of discussion of who that is a lot of people back and forth what can't wait make certain who they think that is I think that's Buck Jewett Clarence Jewett and I like Jewett does anyone know Mike who lives here in downtown? Mike's a retired professor from Amherst College and a friend of mine who would have benefited he believes that that's where that is as well that's Clarence Jewett but so 1920s there's about 6,000 people in town right? Yeah, God bless you I don't think I don't think that the population went over 10,000 until after the 40s So here are a couple of interesting facts about Melvin Graves that I thought were really as we as I said he was the sole officer for many years he was the one that he was the one that eventually oversaw the moving of the police station so we're again we're talking about out front about 1915 or so there was some questions about what was going to happen to it and then eventually when the town hall was constructed the courthouse was up on there was a courthouse of on the second deck where the theater is up there or third deck I'm sorry and on Saturday morning the judge a district court would actually cut George would come and actually have district court on Saturday mornings in the upstairs there and for a while Chief Graves had a had a little office there up on the third floor and then as we all know eventually it ended up down to the basement where we prior to that the police station was roughly in the area like where the fire was so he was the one who kind of oversaw the movement he eventually ended up hiring by the time he left there were four full-time police officers one of whom was Ed O'Brien was not pictured here but Ed O'Brien again had the jumpy head today is a relationship to a couple of people that own my knowledge that O'Brien actually was our first motorcycle officer and of course Chief Graves oversaw the first purchasing of the police car so we went a very long time about having motorcycle officers so he became the police chief in 1894 I mean appointed a police officer they actually named him or not not he was nominally named as the police chief about 1915 according to my records and then he left the job in 1936 but for most of these early portions of his job he was the only full-time police officer he hired other men and there are some names that float in there I actually have listened to them but it appears as though they were people who either hired as my watchman or as part-time police officers are constantly kind of interesting about that the call boxes at the time which we have one of them there's one in the police station but the call boxes at the time there is actually somewhere that I've never seen and I don't think there is a map of where the call boxes were located we know that the one that we have is not the one that's here in the center town which is the most famed one one we have was recovered the DBW back in back in the 70s it has been has been redone I think that's the one that I think that's the one that was on Pleasant Street about where the road is now and what it's now at least late but that's kind of an assumption on my first question Edward O'Brien we talked about Thomas Dylan the third officer they hired was an officer named White Slee he's not a lot of written about him. In handwriting the beginning stages of this one this is what the rules and regulations look like for the police department when Melvin Graves handed over the over the job to Jack Traynor and Jack Traynor further codified this and this is and actually the original of this are in my chief's office I'm done on a typewriter on that old onionskin paper. They've actually been from here because some of the acid was starting as you can see starting to kind of mess with paper a little bit but if you're going to read these and I have a copy here and I made a full copy and it basically talks about things that you ought to do. Just to kind of put this in perspective our police now I we just redid our accreditation assessment closer a couple weeks ago we have about 115 policies. No literally we have 115 policies plus a whole manual of memorandum and operational special orders. If you need to if you need to get a new tie there's an order on that. So you know we've learned from policing that you know that where cops get in trouble how they you know one of the things that happens when policing breaks down in the community is is when we leave people their own devices in an area that they don't do very often. So so the concept behind that the what we have now is that we have directions for like when you get into a cruiser accident if you've never been in a cruiser accident like what do you do and if they don't do it correctly then we can take some type of disciplinary action or retrain or whatever. But I just think it's funny that you know you got on the job and they gave you a revolver in your nine seconds and said hey read this and get out there. Good luck to you.  Jack Trayer became the chief of police in 1926. He was at relatively short by Amherst standards. He was only chief police for 23 years or a police officer for 23 years I'm sorry. He became the chief in 1936. He was actually a little older than the traditional police officer when he became a police officer. That's one of the reasons when he retired in 1949 he was out of retirement. He had a prior life. He was an educator early on. He was actually a very well read man from what I understand. Clearly I didn't know if he passed away. But the Trayer family still anybody know any of the Trayers? There are some Trayers that live in town. Do you know the Philishevner? No. His son also named John also goes on by Jack. Just passed away within the last seven or eight years maybe ten years or so. But there's some other. A couple things that Chief Trayer did that were really interesting. He was the first person. He was the first person or the first chief to really started accurate record keeping. He also was the one he recognized at the Massachusetts State Police or resource for us. And so he began inviting them in here. They did joint training together particularly right after World War II. Right at the tail end of his of his of his chief. He recognized a lot of the returning vets that were being hired needed training that was outside of military. He was the first one that required accurate crime scenes to be done. Long before CSI was invented. I didn't realize I didn't know how boring I would be. So I brought I brought I brought some things to look at. I think this is kind of interesting. That way you won't pay attention. Because about 70% of what I've been doing today are lies. Kind of an interesting thing was is we didn't really have photography in the Amherst Police Department in the 50s. So if you had like a major accident or a fatality or something like that we'd call the state police. So there was a corporal by the name of Saroi that lived on on West Street. And he would come and take photographs for us. And so there's some interesting ones here. I'll pass these around. They're really kind of interesting to look at. Most these are from the 30s. Chief trainer was the one who insisted on this. Like certain traffic accidents or injuries would occur. Because statutorily they weren't required in those days. But he recognized the need for that. It really kind of sounds so silly that we had cops that were taking pictures of the crime scenes. But in the 30s that just wasn't done. So I'll give you a couple of these around. If you care to look at it, it's not just pass them on. But there's one particular, I have thousands of these. There's one particular that I'd like you to look at. Because this is a source of discussion in my group. This photograph here was taken in March of 1939 by corporals over like Massachusetts State Police. And I'd like to know what intersection this is. I have many many different, I have my own opinion on this. I don't even know Gabriel Tigg is the other captain that I work with. So Gabe and I, we fight constantly. And because he's not here else is, I don't care for him very much. He and I actually have had many discussions about that. He's done a bunch of research on this. I'd like to pass it around. But there's some other interesting things in here that I think are great. This is a very interesting photograph as well. That would have been caused by a chief trainer. Also taken by corporals, you're right. And what's really cool of me, if you have a magnifying glass, like my fingerprint glass that I still keep on my desk, because it kind of makes me look very old, so please put it on. You can see this, this is the, this is the, this is Ninum College Street, right? This is College Street and the South Pleasant Street intersection. As you're looking, as you're looking northbound towards Hastings, and you can see the, you can see the Grace Church and the, and the convent. The flanted half-mast. And I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting, you know? And then I'd look and see the date, and the date was December 11th, 1941. Oh. That's kind of an interesting photograph. And there are some others. If you care to look at them, great, not, I just kind of, kind of like this. Interesting. Now I can, now I can, you can basically talk about nothing up here. You guys know what's going on? If I give up, do I need to go? Well, it's 10 o'clock. You tell me when it's time. Well, it's 10 o'clock. People have to leave at one, they'll leave at one, and we'll just keep listening. Let's go, because we're all stuck. Keep going. Keep going, yeah, don't. All right, so Bill Englandman, we won't talk a lot about Bill Englandman. He didn't really do much as the chief. He had a long time patrolman. He was kind of, he was, quite frankly, without speaking ill of the dead. He was a chief that really didn't do a lot, and kind of, the way he left of being, being the police chief was not in the best thing. He was not, he was nothing. He ended up taking his whole life away from life. So he, there was some indication that he might have been, not the most up and up chief. And so he's, he did do some things that were interesting during the fifties. I mean, he did integrate a lot of the veterans that were returning from World War II. Chief Englandman also, also really raised the level of policing in terms of manpower. They went from being a five or six man police department to like a 15 or 20 man police department. But that's also a large part of his functionality, so much of the force in the times shortly following the Second World War. So again, some of these photographs are from the past. Oh, and that one you should, if there was any able to read, there's a sign. Is that, is that the question, the whole one? No, that's not, no. This is one of that. The same religious church is there. The post office is right there. Oh, yeah, that's right. But before, if you actually look at this with a magnifying glass, what this is, this is, this is the Chevy dealership. Yeah, yeah. They ended up at Dickinson Street, eventually, before Rembus. Oh, that was right. Yeah, I showed that to Jeff Roy. You remember Jeff? Yeah. He became the Chief of Police down there. Jeff, look, I remember the Frosty Cal. I do, too. Remember that was the Sunshine Car Wash at one point. Yeah, a large bath. A large bath, Sunshine Car Wash. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, good to take a while. What is that? Is that one of the other ones? Yeah. So Chief Hart, That's right in the corner of Southeast Street. Oh, Chief Hart. Yeah, Chief Hart. Yeah, Chief Hart. Actually, you saw him there, you saw him the other day. Yeah. So Frank, Frank is a very important part of our agency. He was kind of a, and I didn't know him. He passed away shortly before I got here. But he, a couple things with Frank, one, that he came here as a college student. And that's how he ended up. He was originally from Whitman, Massachusetts. I think he was a semi-provincial football player. He was a big guy like me. And he came out here to go to college. And he was, and there are writings that we have, that we've seen of this, were back in the 60s, he purported the necessity for police officers to have an education beyond high school. And that, he recognized that for them, truly to be able to serve them. And where we are now is we won't hire somebody unless they have a college education. So you think of it as where that's come at 50 years. He was a forward thinker. Even though he wasn't a polished man, from what I understand, he was, he was one of these people that was truly looking to, you know, we were talking earlier about, like, thinking strategically and planning strategically as an agency. He was the one who really instilled in. A lot of what he did early on kind of has focused down the way we think and the way we conduct business. He refused to hire police officers to put them on the street that he didn't train. So the very first police officer that ever went to a true Academy was Don Maya. Eventually he became the chief. When Maya got hired in the late 50s, 58, 59, he went to the State Police Academy in the same State Police Academy that I went to. I'm framing him. I went to the one in Aguam, but the same State Police Academy and he was the first in the line there and that became a requirement of the job. Back when a lot of large agencies, like agencies like Springfield PD and Aguam PD, weren't doing that. They would hire you. They were somebody's brother-in-law.  And then, lo and behold, you find out these capital robin people whenever wondered why. There were no backgrounds done. There was no vetting process. He started a vetting process in the 60s about how he was going to vet police officers. You think about really how remarkable that is. And we now, of course, we use background investigation tools that they didn't have available. They're presided over the big expansion of the university over the department during that period. What it kind of went from, that being Mass Aggie to the university. Yeah, it boomed in the 70s there. I mean in the 60s. My guess is you're right because he actually also created a rank structure which prior to that there was only a chief and a deputy and then everyone else was a patrolman. And then they created the name of Heath Buggy. He was our first sergeant. And then after that, Chief Maya became a sergeant and we hit because of that boom in the size of the agency. I mean, he had to create different ranks that were never a necessity. Did he come as a student at the university? Yeah, he went to the agricultural school. And that's how we ended up up here. He was a doctor at that time. I'm sorry? I'm sorry? Yes, a bar. Yeah, around Strong Street.  That's not a mystery.  It's Pleasant Street looking south towards the crossing of Amity. That's what game thinks too. And I'll point out again that I don't care about it. The present fire station of this building was very rubbery. It was moved that way in order to expand the store which is now CES. Oh, the house that was moved where Dick and I lived. Yeah, well, when I was a young cop here, that was a grocery store, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The best story about Frank Hart. Ah, here we go. You'll remember this, Bill. Maybe. I don't think you were in town when I was in the, when there were police, there were student riots going on. There were problems in the late 60s, early 70s, Vietnam, uprising, all of that. That was a hard era. Frank Hart was the chief. And he was a farmer as well. And he used to come and stand in his farmer overalls in the center of town right at the main intersection. And he talked to the students and said, you know, what are you doing? You know, I mean, God, this isn't the way to bring about change. You got to go do and take things, you know, as they come and move it along. And the students were like, God, this guy's the police chief. He doesn't look like a police chief. And he just made, he should keep everything very calm. And Amherst was one of the few towns that didn't really have any problems during all of that. And I think he had a lot to do with it. Active town. Remember Eric the Red? And there was a lot of, right, there was a lot of protests. You're absolutely right. And they also had streaking in the 70s, too. Which I was never at the right place at the right time. I have photographs that I'll show you later. Well, it's funny you say that because I remember when I was a young cop. So I would have, this would have been, I'd been on the job maybe 10 years when the first GoPro, so we're talking around the 90s, 25 years ago. And Don Maya was the chief and there were some protests and some people took over and did an intersection down in the center town. And there were protests.  And he said, we're going to direct traffic around them.  And I go, what do you mean? He goes, we're going to direct traffic around them. But think of how much common sense that is. Like why pick a fight you don't need to pick. You know, and a lot of that came from heart. That common sense approach.  And that's okay. And that's okay. And so, you know, it's funny, we have all these tools and these things talking about community policing, but if you actually realize that you truly are part of the community, it makes community policing just something you do and not a program, right? So, that's the way I look at it and that's the way I was told when I got it. Back in those days, they had to beat it into my head. Because I know people have that. Oh, that's a great one. Yeah, that's a great one. That's kind of neat. So Chief Maya, of course she took over, he hired me. One of the things, one of the games that we used to play in the station was who was the last person that was hired by which chief? So, so Ed Motling on me was the last officer that Frank Hart hired. He was bad JT. I'm bad 49. You were right behind me. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, sure. Don Maya, the last person that hired, that he hired was Mike Burrell, who we saw earlier in the photograph. So, the last person that chief, that sure, sure part hired was Marcus Humber, who we saw earlier in the photograph. It's just, it's kind of been, I'm not, I'm like the middle child, right? And I'm left handed, so I'm like, that's it. So, Chief Maya was a veteran, and that actually makes a lot of you as an Air Force veteran, and a lot of the things that he did in the 70s, when he became the chief in 1973 was, he really was the one who very much refined the way we kept records. And we still, he used to say that to you when you were young, because an apartment record, if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen, if you don't report it. So, he actually devised a system when he was a sergeant. It's an old, it's still on the station today. These old card system, where we used an old Selectrix typewriter, and I did it in his young cop, too. If you arrested somebody or wrote them a citation, or placed them in a protective custody, or assisted them, you did a report on a little colored index card. Pink was for arrest, blue was for a citation, yellow was for a protective custody, and they were filed in this enormous filing cabinet. And it was the first, like a roll of decks, weighing to go back and search people. So as an investigator, when you were doing, somebody found out, somebody broke into somebody's garage, well, you knew that somebody had been in a car with somebody. You could go and pull these cards out, and it was a wealth of it. It's outdated now. We went computer on your Chief Maya's leadership in 1988. Our first computer system was installed. But it was, it's interesting. It's still upstairs. We keep it up in the records. It's filled with thousands.  And I looked at it, I said, it's kind of interesting that that piece, and there are cards in there that go back when he was a sergeant in the early 60s. It's very, very fascinating. Of course, he retired in 2000. Don's still alive. He still resides here in town. He's a lifelong resident. He lives up in North Amherst. And I saw him on Christmas time. So, it's a common thing when you get promoted that you're called the former Chiefs. We had some promotions recently and I called the Chief of it because he likes to keep track of what's going on in the station. I don't see him very often anymore, but. And so, then, of course, Charlie Sherpel became the Chief of Police. He was the next one. Chief Sherpel was actually not an originally an Amherst kid. He's like me, a Springfield kid. He was a long-metal police officer for a couple years before he came here to Amherst. It's ironic because one of the reasons I think I work here is because of Chief Sherpel. My father-in-law is an Italian guy from South End, in Springfield, where Chief Sherpel is. And I knew one another. And I think that when I put in my application that maybe, just maybe, he recognized my name because I wrote it like 80 times on the application. So, that may or may not have something to do while I work here. But Chief Sherpel was a great guy and he really also was a builder. He is the one who oversaw accreditation. He's one of the people that installed, installed, we have a very firm and very often copy-filled training program that a portion stole, a portion we refined. He is the one who created a mentoring program within our agency, which has become really instrumental in how we do things. He is the first one to oversee true change as it relates to community relations. He recognized that outreach was important and he's the one who began it and Chief Sherpel has done himself. And Chief Sherpel, actually, again, my younger sister was about a decade very short. Yeah, for many, many years. And of course, Chief Sherpel stole his year-in-tality, raised his family year, his daughter's school teacher and the naturally herself. Courtney, yes, Courtney, and she actually has a family of her own and she loves what I am. And of course, we know Chief Williams currently the president. He, like me, he a little earlier than I, kind of an interesting document if anyone was ever born and wanted to look at it. I keep track of the of the old Z numbers that we used to use with CSOs. I was Z79 in your program and in your hearts. No, in your hearts. The chief was Z, where was he? The current chief was Z19. So there were 70 CSOs between the chief and I, just the way that went. So kind of interesting. But he's been a great chief. He's a forward thinker. There are a couple of things that I really like about our current chief and a lot of things I like about our current chief. But there's two things that I like about him. One is, he is a big proponent and recognizes that the agency is bigger than he is and that he and I are in the deep autumn of our careers and that we need to wrap our head around the future and what's going to be the agency in the community and not in full as best for he and I. The other thing I like about our chief is he's very thoughtful. He doesn't make decisions rationally and he understands that some of the decisions that he makes impacts not just the agency but the community. He's a good thinker and an all-around decent guy. So that's that. So just kind of wrap up and bring this back up because a lot of this comes back to chief heart. If chief Maya were here he would tell you that it takes a forward thinker to kind of create something and we kind of do a lot of things that this man was thinking about 60 years ago 70 years ago which is a bit closer to 80 now because he became a police officer in the 30s. So pretty, pretty fashion yeah pretty interesting so that's that. I'm sorry I went out beyond my time. That's alright. Thank you for that. One comment I forgot to mention that the Amherst Police Department is the birthplace of like 15 police chiefs over the decades. I think you're absolutely right on the money and Chief Sherpa keeps telling me that the office that I'm in is the lucky office and I'm supposed to know them but I keep telling them I'm too old for that. Because Chris from our most went to Belchertown Jen went to South Miami Jen went to some place else. Yep he went to Orlean's Mass and Mike Kent went there. The reason was but then you go back well sure John O'Connor and yeah yeah it is I mean a large we're fortunate because the town treats us well. Like our training budget I shouldn't say this amongst taxpayers but I will because it's our training budget is triple what some other agencies are around here. It does pay off I mean we make mistakes but our mistakes are mitigated and it's not an accident it really isn't so but the by-product is there's been a lot of people that have brought that and been able to go to other agencies because of what they've learned and then they will transfer to those so you're improving all the police departments I just was looking out for their own selfish reasons that they were able to further their careers because of things that the town gave us and we're aware of it like it's not something we take for granted we know that we have something that most other agencies don't. Could you speak a little bit about the relationship of the Amherst police department to the county and lock up and we'll have to know if the department needs to manage it has that been a longstanding thing is that like it's probably been it's a relatively recent thing so and I'm going to say maybe within the last 10 years and that's really truly about there's an MOU that exists for those of you who don't know what we're talking about is when we take somebody in a custody so there are very specific laws about how we keep people in custody on we have to release them and there was some case law that popped up in like the early part of 2000 about somebody who goes back to do process you take somebody in custody on let's say a Friday night and the bail commissioner would say hold them for a month because they had a history of defaults or the severity of the crime or something like that but there was no due process in other words there was no review of the complaint and that's 72 hour period like if it was a Monday like we sometimes we'd have somebody in our own self like if it was Labor Day weekend maybe they go Tuesday morning right so you have this person who's in custody but there's no independent review it's just based on like the probable cost David what I saw at the scene so because of that case law we recognize not just our department all of them they had to make a better plan about how because if that was not uncommon when I was an officer we'd arrest somebody for a crime let's say if something's severe or they had a history of we'd have to feed them and clothe them and we were not prepared to do that so when I think originally it came from monies from the federal government and then eventually responded by the state for that purpose so that police departments they had to keep so many in custody so in other words Kume Shot killed somebody we made an arrest on a Saturday morning we'd have a place to bring them a place where people were trained for you know better trained like suicide liabilities they had a medical plan to place they were just better prepared for monitoring people who were custody in any town USA that was the original reason for it we rarely keep someone in our cell block for very long it's truly a temporary and holding facility we arrest somebody they're either brought to a regional lockup or they're brought to a court it's very very anomalous for some of this day for any period of time in our custody and the only thing was we don't arrest people like we used to you know if you went back even 10 years ago we would make something like 300 or 3000 arrests a year and we probably make 60% of that amount we arrest for the most serious crimes and the mandated arrest but some of the more the nuisance related crimes that we have we tend not to make physical arrests for anymore and because we've found that by extending outreach and going back with them or sometimes if we bring them to court in a summons fashion there can be an alternative sense that makes the victim whole but improves our relationship with the community so something like an analyst and I know there are a lot of people who say no we don't arrest as many people doesn't mean we don't solve the crime it's just we don't physically take as many people in our custody as we did what about the relationship with the police forces and the colleges that's a unique thing that we have here in Amherst that they don't have in a lot of other communities it sure is it's kind of like always the way it's always been right so you talk to other friends where I talk to people someone like Chris Prongles who left him with the Belcher Town and it's a different environment so let's take the university police for instance it's the obvious one because they're such a big agency they're very well trained there's great people up there it's it's they have a different mission than we have and so sometimes we have to negotiate that it's not right or wrong it just is so I think we in the last 15 years or so on Chief Livingstone has a large lot to do with this we've negotiated that and we figured that out that we can both kind of do what's best for our respective communities and then kind of work in harmony in concert and we've also done well too because Amherst College is led by a police chief who's a foreign thinker now and the training level that he has there is excellent so you see an Amherst College police officer getting a quality trained person instead of unlike Washington and other families so one of the things I wanted to talk about too I forgot to mention this with Chief Sherpa when I came on when I got here on the job in the early 80s there was one female officer there was one female officer and now an hour I think we're like I think like 23% of our police forces 21% something like that so yeah basically it was a bunch of white guys running around in uniforms and we've you know Chief Sherpa recognized that you know that just isn't going to work so he you know he recognized that you know the community has got to kind of look more like the community so the police run in and so the way he started recruiting processes is so much different back in the olden days people got hired because of who they knew and how things went our recruiting process now is I think it would rival most other agencies so am I eating up time here do you need me to get me out of here? okay this is great thank you everyone thank you thank you


In this second half of lecture 10 for Math 1220 Calculus II, we're actually gonna start section 7.2 trigonometric integrals from James Stewart's Calculus textbook. This section is gonna focus primarily on integrating techniques applied to functions involving trigonometric functions like sine, cosine, tangent, et cetera, right? Now, the techniques we're gonna use here, we're gonna employ U substitution predominantly in this section. And we will sometimes need to use integration by parts which we saw in section 7.1. And so I wanna show to you how do the U substitution, the integration parts technique combined with trigonometric identities to help us find antiderivatives of trigonometric functions. So in this first video, we're gonna look at examples of functions that involve sines and cosines. So only sines and cosines, we'll deal with the other trig functions later on. If we only have sines and cosines, how can we handle finding the antiderivative? And it turns out our good friend is gonna be the Pythagorean identity sine squared plus cosine squared equals one. So why do we care about this so much? Well, some things to notice here is if you took this equation, solve for sine squared, you see that sine squared is equal to one minus cosine squared.  So the Pythagorean identity gives us the capacity of switching a statement that involves sine and cosine and can also switch from cosines to sines. So this is why we're converting between sines and cosines in our integral. Now, in order to use this Pythagorean identity, we do wanna have squares, right? Cause the other option is we take sine of X equals plus or minus the square root of one minus cosine squared. And this identity right here is not gonna be a good friend to us. Cause one, we really don't wanna put square roots in the integrand if we don't have to. Plus also, we have to worry about this plus or minus sign depending on which quadrant we're in. And so that adds a ton of complexity that we aren't gonna approach it that way. We'll stick with sine squared becomes one minus cosine squared and cosine squared equals one minus sine squared. And the other thing to keep track of in this situation is that when it comes to sine and cosine, they're their own, they're the derivatives of their complements, right? So the derivative of sine, recall, is cosine. And then the derivative of cosine is equal to negative sine. So there is this extra minus sign in front, but a constant multiple is not a big deal when it comes to integration here. And so because of this, we can play this game of U substitution all the time.  So what I mean is take a look at this expression right here, cosine cubed, integral of cosine cubed X DX here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna set aside my cosine X DX first, and then we'll leave, well, there's a cosine squared leftover. And so this cosine X DX, I'm kind of setting aside, I want this to be my DU.  Or more specifically, if I take U to be sine of X, then DU would then become cosine X DX, like so. Now, if I want sine to be my U, you'll notice the integral doesn't have any sines in it. But aha, cosine squared can transition to be a one minus sine squared. So if we put that into play here, the cosine squared from above will transition to become a one minus sine squared X. And then this cosine X DX, we're reserving for our U, like so, then notice this statement right here, the one minus sine squared, that just becomes a one minus U squared. And this right here becomes my DU.   And so with the right U substitution, we can make trigonometric integrals possible, right? And it comes down to identifying what's the right U, what's the right DU? And oftentimes, like I said, when you wanna do a U substitution with trigonometric integrals, you might wanna choose the DU first, all right? Let's look at another example of this. Let's consider this time the integral sine to the fifth X cosine squared X DX. Now, when it comes to dealing with these trigonometric integrals, you're mostly gonna wanna focus on the powers here, right? So we have five sines and we have two cosines. Which one is preferable? Now, like we saw before with those Pythagorean identities, let's take a peek at them one more time right here. With these Pythagorean identities, right, we can transition sine squared into one minus cosine squared and cosine squared. Now, that works really great if you have even powers because if you had like a sine to the fourth X, that's the same thing as sine squared squared. And so if you can transition a sine squared over one minus cosine or a cosine squared into a one minus sine squared, who cares whatever the powers are? So this process right here works really well when you have even powers, right? And then looking at this cosine, we have a three cosine. The thing is we set one cosine aside for the U substitution and then the rest was even here. So what we saw right here, this U substitution looks really great when we have an odd power in the end. So transitioning happens great when you have even powers but for the U substitution, you want an odd power. Let's come back to this one right here. You notice we have an odd power of sine and we have an even power of cosine. So the cosine squareds can easily be turned into sine squareds because we can write those as a one minus sine squared if we wanted to, right? That transition's pretty easy. Let me erase that. Now, since we have an odd number of sines right here, what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the extra sine because in terms of transitions, we want an even power. Take the extra sine since we have an odd number and we're gonna write that sine x dx and this is gonna become our du. That's gonna be forthcoming. That leaves us behind a sine to the fourth and a cosine squared right here. Now, if we want our du, we want our du to be sine x dx. That had to happen because our u was cosine. But jk there, if u is cosine of x, the du actually be a negative sine of x. So we do want a negative sign here and correct the negative there. It's not a big deal. Let's take a double negative. So with that in mind, this negative sine x dx then becomes a du, no problem. This right here, it will become a u squared. What do we do with the sine to the fourth? Well, that's what we were talking about just a moment ago. Sine to the fourth x is the same thing as sine squared of x squared. And since the sine squared becomes a one minus cosine squared and cosine is u, sine to the fourth is to become one minus u squared quantity squared. And so you're gonna make that, you'll make that substitution with your integral. So we have a negative integral. The sine to the fourth became a one minus u squared squared. The cosine squared becomes a u squared. And then finally, the negative sine x dx becomes just our du. And we are able to transition entirely into these us. And now this is a polynomial expression in terms of u. We're gonna have to foil out the one minus u squared squared there. Just be careful as you do that. You'll end up with one minus two u squared plus u to the fourth. Then distribute the u squared throughout this trinomial. Doing that gives us negative the integral.  And now our patient is prepped for surgery. Let's perform the anti-derivative procedure here.  Distribute that negative sine through. And also now we can replace all of the us with cosine of x. And so we see the anti-derivative will be negative one third cosine cubed x plus, cause it's a double negative, two fifths cosine to the fifth x and then plus one seventh cosine to the seventh x plus an arbitrary constant. Which gives us then our anti-derivative right here in this cute little yellow box. So what we did in these two examples just to highlight what happened there is that if we have some combination of sines and cosines. So we have sine to the A, cosine to the B, right? If either one of these is odd, either the A is odd or the B is odd. The technique we have here is doable, right? So for the odd power, for the odd power what we're gonna do is we're gonna take one, I'm gonna take one for the du. And then everything leftover we can transition to sines and cosines depending on which direction we need to go.


Tom here from learn systems and how much memory do you need for a ZFS and wait? I know it must be you need for each terabyte of storage You need at least so many gigabytes of memory. There's some formula, right? It's a little fuzzier than that and that answer has been at the top of Google search results I think too long because that's not the most accurate way to do this What we're going to cover in this video is one that you don't need that much memory for ZFS But if you do use lots of memory, you're gonna get better performance than the ZFS I've got a couple of videos where I dive into the why which is of course cashing the more memory you throw in there The better the arch cash will be therefore the better performance that videos link down below right demystify Hopefully the ways that the cash system works kind of a side note is what about ECC? Isn't that a requirement for ZFS isn't my data at risk and I'm putting all of this data You know in in the hands of one bit flip and destroying all of it. That's not true either I've got a video talking about ZFS being a cow copy on right file system And don't worry the data integrity is fine even if you're not using ECC. Is it better to use ECC? That's a general yes because from a computing standpoint and having error correcting memory is a good thing But it's not a required thing in order to do this So I wanted to clear those up right away now Let's dive into and we're gonna talk specifically about true NAS But this applies to GF ZFS in general when you're setting this up for how much memory you need for your ZFS system Okay, we're gonna start at the low end. This is my low end Intel Atom system This is what I call my purple NAS because I had a handful of Western digital purple drives that I put in here Four of them to be specific. Let's actually look at the storage real quick here and we'll see that I'm only using four terabytes out of 22 terabytes that are still free So just under 30 terabytes of storage on this. This just keeps backup copies of things. So performance is not an issue They're backups of my videos. So I'm not worried about how long it'll take to get them back But if my main NAS fails, hey got a second copy But I restarted it just a little while ago because I want to just clear it from copies I've done when backing up and putting files on it to show you that with eight gigs of memory It's still not even using I have five point five gigs free now If I start copying files back and forth it will use some memory and if we go and look at these services I'm using in it to get the data back and forth such as our sync. I have an our sync job that talks to it I've got SMB if I need to copy some files to it SSH, which is part of facilitating ZFS send So my main video editing churnass copies all the data back over to this one on a very regular basis Because hey, why not it doesn't take much. It's only doing differential copies So this job actually runs frequently, but it just doesn't take a lot of performance and as you note I have quite a bit of Terabytes of storage that don't match up with the amount of memory and the system is completely functional and works well No, other than being slow, but it's slow because that Intel atom more than anything else Combined with some older spinning rust drives. Now, let's talk about my video editing system When you get to churnass scale versus core, there's some differences specifically cuz scales built on Linux by default It does not use all the memory. It will only use about half of it So we do have 64 gigs of RAM in my video editing system because I could probably even use more all the videos and actually This is why it's under load. My videos as a record them right directly to this system They're getting cached. This makes it really fast when I got to pull those videos into the editing software So that comes right out of cash and because I've modified the parameter I'll leave some notes in description below to tell it to use 50 gigs of cash. It's using 50 gigs of ZFS cash There's always files moving back and forth in my video editing. This gets me much better performance now Even though this is SSD volumes They won't quite peak out that 10 gig Nick But they'll come way closer to picking up the 10 gig Nick when you're pulling things right out of memory So this is where having more memory does help quite a bit Now let's move over to one of our production core systems at my office and this system has a 128 gigs of memory It's pretty much all used all the time for ZFS caching There's some services going on because we run several s3 Targets for different backups that land here and this system benefits from having a lot of memory It would benefit more with more memory. Well, we still got 5.2 gigs for you So maybe not that much more but this is using all the cash for serving up the Virtualization targets that talk to it or some of the backup from restores when I do backup restores They pull from this when I have my virtual machines running NFS This is the storage target for them and because NFS and VMs are going to be a lot of frequent rights or frequent reads more Specifically for database stuff that's getting pulled It just gets all in the cash and serves this up very fast now This does have 27 spinning rust drives in it But the cash will supplement and really make those frequently called files Which is a typical use case serve up extremely fast combined with a fast processor to get the data back and forth there And this system actually performs and has the IOPS performance similar to an SSD array It's not going to be a one-to-one comparison It's going to vary by workload But this is an example of where having a lot of memory helps a lot when we have clients that have large Virtualization systems are using TrueNAS core as a large target for those we load up as much memory as Reasonable to their budget budget is usually a constraint at some point for how much you buy But loading a system up a 512 For a TrueNAS system is not uncommon because it will give you really good read performance for all those Frequently accessed files or in the case of like a system running 80 or 100 virtual machines across several Different hypervisors and pulling the data off here or in the case of video editing We have a lot of clients in that space that are more than just a single editor like myself If you have a team of editors pulling files pulling them out of memory is always going to be faster than pulling them off the drives As I said in the video I use TrueNAS as an example But it does apply to really any system using ZFS You don't have to have a lot of memory But the memory will greatly help the performance of whatever system is running ZFS So it's allowed to use more memory means better caching that caching video I dive deep into the details of that ZFS is really smart and intelligent It'll take all the memory and all those files back and forth and commit them there So any service requesting them can get at them faster But if it doesn't have them you're just going to pull off the drives and work at whatever rate that operates at depending on your system configuration Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments down below or to engage me further on this header my forum for a More in-depth discussion. 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It is with great pleasure that Mike and I sit here and having our first pick together here in attendance with his parents, Bob and Ann. Like we talked about last night, Peter's a guy that we coveted, a guy that we didn't expect to be here for us at 11, and we're thrilled to have him. So I'm gonna pass it on to Mike before we bring him up and introduce him to the Titan fans. Yeah, absolutely. Just wanna welcome Bob Peter and his family to our organization on behalf of the coaching staff and everybody involved. It's been great to see him in the building and meet everybody. I know he's excited just as we are and it's just been cool. It's been really comfortable. I'd like to welcome you guys and obviously this is a great opportunity, not only for us but for you and your family. I know that Peter's ready to get to work and the first job that he has is to take your question. So we'd like to welcome him and have a great picture here. Peter, with your grandfather playing for the Packers, was playing offensive line just kind of in the bloodline so to speak? Yeah, I think in the bloodline, in the genetics, I don't think I really had a choice when I started playing tackle football. I think it was too heavy to even be allowed to carry the ball, so I always had to play all the line. Never really played anything else, so just always felt natural. I was a bigger dude, so yeah. You mentioned the versatility that you have. If you're asked to bump inside and play garland, what is it, since the sixth grade, that you haven't played that position, I believe it was, so what is it that makes you feel you could bump inside and do that successful? Yeah, more than anything, I'm just kind of trying to do what I can do to help the team and so if that's what I'm asked to do, I'll definitely do it. Obviously, it's an adjustment, having only played tackle. The game's a lot faster in there, it's a lot different, but I just kind of come with reps and just drooling technique, but I was just happy to do it if it helps the team, so that's just my mentality and I'll get the hang of it for sure. In working with Duke, is that something, you know, leading up to the draft, is that something that you worked on just some of the things you maybe has to do? Yeah, to a little bit of extent, obviously nothing like two-two position-specific work both sides of the line, both positions, so just trying to be ready to play anywhere, but yeah, I think that helped a little bit, but it's hard to really do anything without putting pads on, which I didn't do at Duke, so obviously once I get the pads on, I'll have a better feel for that. Are you surprised just by, I don't know how much attention you paid to it, but you said you took an awful lot of questions about it, just how much big draft machine automatically looks at the arms and puts you at guard, despite the fact that you started every game and had left tackle and had a very successful career there, have the bloodline and all of that? Yeah, yeah, obviously it was a big talking point. I just feel like my opinion is that there's so much more that goes into being a good tackle than just arm length. There's so much more to blocking than that. I think at the end of the day, it's just about blocking people, and I think I probably could do that in college, but there's so much in terms of footwork and punching and efficiency with your hands, I think matter, and that's something that I have to continue to work on to get better at, but I think that that sort of matters more than just all your arms with this measurement. So yeah, I just think there's more to it than that, and that's why I feel like I could play the tackle position. So have you heard before January, or was it kind of just manifesting during the draft that people were talking about your arms? Yeah, so I didn't really realize it was a thing until probably last spring when I sort of knew that the NFL process could be in my future, and it was kind of funny, like during spring ball I think last year, I made some comment about a rep, and I mentioned to my coach about, oh, my arms are shorter, so I had to do this, and he was just like, I don't care. So that was sort of the end of that discussion, and it was just sort of, I didn't want to think about it much until that, and then obviously it's been a big talking point with people, but I've always just had to sort of go out there and block people, it's not about just length like that, so yeah. What have the last 18 hours or so been like before you talked about last night, your phone blowing up, kind of instantly, just how have you handled this? Yeah, it's been a whirlwind, it feels crazy 24 hours ago, I didn't really know what it was gonna be in my future, and now here I am in Nashville. So just, it's been a whirlwind, and I've gotta take a second to just like stop and soak it in for a little bit, but just a huge blessing to be here and be a part of the Titans organization, so really happy about how things have gone, yeah. What are your decisions and not, and can they get you to sit down like right now? Yeah, I just feel like obviously, I'm not a huge media guy generally, so I didn't kind of want to avoid that scene there, obviously nothing against it, but also wanted the opportunity to have a bunch of family and friends and teammates around me, which I was able to do at home, so really appreciated that, and to spend that time with them, because a lot of those people helped me get to where I am, so that was what really kind of drove that, and having those people around me for that. Chris, your friend, Pompey, talking about some of your leadership going outside of your comfort zone. There's room here even for a new young guy probably to lead on this line. How do you plan on kind of gauging the room for that, and what you're able to do as a first year guy? Yeah, yeah, I know obviously as a young guy, it can be tough to be in that position because you don't have the experience under your belt, but I think it just starts with just doing your job and being a consistent guy right off the bat, someone who does what they're supposed to do on and off the field, so that's just what I'm gonna start with and go from there. I think guys will earn guys' respect by doing what I'm supposed to do, and that's really the only thing you can do to sort of earn that leadership position. In your meetings with Rand with Coach Rable, were you able to kind of gauge and just get a feel for what this organization is about? Yeah, that for sure, and just obviously being an NFL fan and knowing the Titans organization and how they play and just like a hard-nosed team and really tough mentality. I was a Packers fan, I'm pretty upset when they beat the Packers last year, so just kind of familiar with what they do and sort of really admired that from afar, and obviously now really happy to be a part of it. Now having gathered that information, how do you feel you would fit into the organization? Yeah, yeah, I think it's kind of similar to how our general mentality at Northwestern in terms of work ethic and just physicality and violence and just sort of that hard-nosed, gritty mentality that we had at Northwestern, I think that will be a pretty good transition for me coming here, I think same values here too. Talking about the physical part of your game, how would you rate yourself as a technician because as a left tackle, you gotta be probably the most athletic part person on the offensive line? Yeah, yeah, I think technician is probably the number one title I sort of strive for personally behind being violent, being a physical player, but offensive line is so difficult, you have to have technique, especially I guess someone like me who's not like the built in a lab type tackle. So technique is someone I always really, really pride myself on and that's what you're gonna be able to win, especially at this level with this competition. Peter, what do you want Titans fans to know about you? I think I'm someone who prides myself on consistency and I wanna be someone for this organization that people can count on day in and day out, on and off the field, that they can count on for a good performance weekend and week out. So that's what I proud myself on. I hope fans realize that. Do you want anybody to reach out and player wise from the Titans? Yeah, Ryan Tan helped text me last night, just real quick. I haven't checked my phone a little bit or haven't checked my text, so maybe there might be more, but just welcoming me to the organization to excited to get to work, so I'm excited too, so. Do you have a big tan that you know some fans? I really don't actually. Obviously familiar with a lot of guys on the team, but not personally. Now that the draft process is over, what are the next steps for you? Yeah, just getting through mini camp and rookie development and just kind of find my way through the organization and learning the playbook for sure is big and kind of conquering that mental aspect. I think will be a big priority on my mind before we put the pads on. The family ties to Green Bay, how quick is the transition that they're turning them over to when they're converting to the Titans fans here? Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, I'm gonna put on that Blue Jersey, so it's not too hard. And once I'm going out there, I don't think it'll be an issue. You know, obviously the organization having my grandfather play there will always be sort of part of our family history and a part of me, but definitely all Titans now.  It was kind of his mentality. And I think it's special offensive line when things can get rough and it's a tough position and just keep your head up and keep going. And even from a technique standpoint, as my offensive line coaching coach says, there's nothing to look at on the ground in terms of like coming off blocks and stuff, but that was his big line. Did your grandfather take you to any Packers games and take you down the locker room or any of those types of things when you were young? Not really. Mostly went to Packers games with my uncles who were season ticket holders. I do remember one game I went with him where he did like an autograph signing and was announced at Lambeau Field, which was really cool just to see that. Have the whole stadiums for a cheer for him. But I've been to tons of Packers games up, but mostly just with my family and my uncles. Was there ever a question about what position you would play and you'd just start playing until you were 12, is that right? Yeah. How big were you then? I was pretty big. I was a sixth grader playing in the, that was my first year sixth grade, playing in the seventh and eighth grade league. So I was pretty large and I immediately had like the stripe on the helmet saying I couldn't carry the ball, I had to play O-line. So there wasn't really much of a question about it. That was, oh, I'm at right off the bat. What do you think your size was? Oh, I don't know. I'm looking at my dad right now. I can't remember. The biggest day of your life so far when you went to Northwestern to work out.  Yeah. I think it's just a routine thing personally. Just, you know, it's probably another day and obviously if it's a normal Thursday morning, I'm probably going in and working out and definitely getting some nervous energy out too. So I just wanted to do that. Keep up with my workout routine. I think this is the afternoon. Actually, I was like super anxious and stuff just laying around the house. So I started doing planks randomly. Just like to get the energy out. So yeah, just part of my routine and get the energy out for sure. That physicality, the violence that you're known to play with. Everybody has their own reason for that. What's your why? Why do you play with that physicality? I just kind of love the aspect of the game of being able to dominate someone for 60 minutes. I think that so much of that relies on physicality and violence and just sort of like moving a guy against his will and sort of getting him to fold. So I think that's really cool to think about. I think some of the best moments often is what I'm going to talk about is like a series where you only run the ball and you just kind of beat the piss out of the defensive line and just run up the throats and move down the field just because there's such a physicality, physical aspect to that.  And that vibe is right with Derek Henry. Yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure, that's kind of why I was definitely really excited to come here because I know this team has that mentality, especially with Derek and the offensive line. So really excited for that. Who always offered you and what made you decide that a place like Northwestern was best fit? Yeah, I kind of came down to Stanford Northwestern under name. So I wanted to go to a good academic school for sure. I think just Northwestern kind of had everything I was looking for in terms of culture, coaching staff, academics, like I said, it was relatively close. It is close to home. That's not what I set out to do, but it was convenient for sure. So kind of had kind of checked all the boxes. So it worked out great.


Howdy how's it going? My name's Davy Chappie, and long ago in the ancient time of about a year ago, I broke the ancient vow that I once held, a vow to never talk about homebrew because it's dumb and I don't like it. But in my hubris, I spoke the forbidden words. I released the seal and did a video about the most requested homebrew that there ever was, and I did it all for one big, beautiful cowboy voice acting man.  But now it seems that the world has shifted once again as Matboy Mercerichops has absorbed all of the reviews and criticism aimed at his brainchild and crafted a new version of his overly edgy class, the Blood Hunter. So, as always, keep in mind that a lot of this is just my opinion as I teach you how to be the blood letter you were born to be. So, the Blood Hunter is the fighter that plagues the nightmares of things that nightmares are made of. A secret order of monster hunters who've unlocked the powers of sorcery via hemomancy, the study of blood magic. Unlocking frightening powers beyond that which mortals can provide. As a Blood Hunter, you are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood- Wait, no, that's the wrong script. But Blood Hunters do take inspiration from the archetype of the lone wanderer, wielding unexpected and arguably evil powers that shun them from normal society, all the while protecting them from that which they'll be blessed never to know about. These are stories like Bloodborne, The Mandalorian, and The Witcher. Especially The Witcher. As a party member, your role will be largely similar to that as a fighter, except that you can't use shields and a lot of your abilities cause you to hurt yourself, so you're squishier and not meant to be a stalwart defense against enemies. Rather, you can think of yourself as a fighter that thinks shields are uncool and took the magic initiate feat to gather some gimmicks, and that should give you a decent idea of how you're meant to perform. When you're out on the field, your ass-kicking ability comes primarily from two avenues of power.  Both of these things make you adept at both melee and ranged combat, fighting in a sort of grungy, back alley sort of way where you'll either have the right tool for the job, or you'll crack your knuckles, charge in, and throw down.   The Blood Hunter is a smart fighter, the enhancement's only serving to add more tools to the arsenal, but it is during the hunt that you truly fear the witch, never mind. And early on in your career, when you first begin hunting your bloods, you get the option to join one of the Blood Hunter archetypes in this instance called Orders. There's the Order of the Ghost Slayer, the Order of the Profane Soul, the Order of the Mutant, and the Order of the Lichen. First up, the Order of the Ghost Slayer represents the very group of BHs that took a look at a hemophiliac and thought, hmm, you can do something with that. Ironically, the oldest Order of the Blood Hunters happens to specialize in hunting the only monster that doesn't actually have blood in it, but never mind.  The Ghost Slayer is what you would consider to be the archetypical Blood Hunter. All of your features just buff up your core playstyle to help you do what you do best, which is attack things with wild abandon and then get killed by Lorenzo. Up next, the Profane Soul is a noticeable departure from the traditional Blood Hunter play, created for those players that flipped a coin on whether they wanted to play a Blood Hunter or a Warlock, and the coin-landed sideways. Striking up a bargain with the otherworldly patrons for which the Warlock is known, Blood Hunters act as a half-caster, but instead of borrowing from the Wizard or Cleric spell lists, they use the limited but powerful Arcane prowess of the Warlock, granting them the Warlock's faucet method of I can't hit you often, but when I do, you're gonna bleed really, really hard. Depending on who your Arcane Pimp Daddy-in-law happens to be, you'll be gifted a whole slew of new powers to exercise your right to slay, including enhancements to your blood melodict, learning how to cast and fight fluidly like in Eldritch Knight, gifting new spells to your spell list, leaving Arcane scars etched in the blood of your enemies, and gaining new spells that you don't have to spend a spell slot for, which is a huge bonus for Warlock Stands. Your final ability lets you point at any living creature and say, Your soul is my, and then absorb them to gain power-ups, and potentially even another Warlock spell slot.  Now, if purchasing on-disk DLC is something you are into, I might direct your attention to the Order of the Mutant, a sect of scientists that have listened to the Jekyll and Hyde musical so many times that they convinced the Blood Hunter organization to give them funding for their own musical, under the guise of it being morally questionable bioengineering of dubiously willing test subjects. You can't fool me, I know a theater kid when I see one. When you go down the path of the mutant, your body becomes a playground for mutagens, strange alchemical potions that provide powerful advantages at the cost of an equally powerful disadvantage, proving once and for all that science has no place in D&D. As you grow your tenure, you'll discover more formulas for mutagens and be able to hold on to more at a time.  You can use your blood brand to force people to reveal their true nature, and you'll eventually spend so much time being a bio-alcoholic that you'll unlock the greatest bender power of them all, the power to mix drinks and not have an upset stomach afterwards. With all of these powers combined, you will become a masterful force, able to not only slay monsters in all of their forms and permutations, but also do it while completely hammered. Looking for a subclass that gives you a lot of Batman-esque, always having the right tool for the job-style gratification? The Order of the Mutant will keep you chugging those 40s. And finally, if you were looking for a way to really become the monster that fights monsters, the Order of the Lichen did what the mutant club down the hall did, but instead of theater kids, they're furries. Abandoning all reason, the Order of the Lichen decides that the best way to hunt down monsters is to inject themselves with lycanthropy as a way to justify all that brooding at the moon. Lichen blood hunters will typically do this as an extreme form of no-year enemy, as their typical hunting target happens to be lycanthropes that have gone bad, and they are so fervent in their devotion to the lycan curse that they will go to any length to ensure that it is not dispelled from them.   As you get stronger, so too will your hybrid form until you become the ultimate master of the fursuit. And you'll unlock other animal-themed abilities along the way, like having keener senses, jumping higher and further, figuring out how to control your homicidal outbursts, and being able to perform a blood-curdling howl, which is the biggest stretch of blood magic I've seen since Castlevania. As a subclass, the Order of the Lycan transforms the bloodhunter from a think-on-your-feet-any-size-fits-all type of slugger into a pseudo-barbarian that somehow has even more anger issues. If you want to abandon, tact, and rip and tear into every enemy you see, then when it comes to bloodhunter orders, who can? Lycan. Buuuut that'll about do it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to ring that notification bell so that you can stay up to date on all of your dabby news, and maybe toss a like, comment, subscribe, all that YouTube jazz. And if you want to be a cool dude, maybe support me on Patreon so that I can keep my entire life revolving around D&D. I hope you enjoyed, but yeah, dabby out.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2020-2021 Panini Prism Premier League, English Premier League Soccer Two box, Random Club number 10, all card ship, some pretty nice stuff in here, big thanks to everyone here for getting in on the action, appreciate it And there's all the football teams right here, all the football clubs Let's roll it, let's randomize each list one and three, four times, names and clubs, one, two, three and four That'll be Josh down to Ian, three and a one, four times, four the clubs, one, two, three and a one, fourth and final time Four, there's four, there's four right there We've got Chelsea down to Aston Villa, Josh Proust with Chelsea And Robert with my club, Liverpool and Burnley, Anthony with Brighton, Ovalbian, Bill with Arsenal, Tim with Newcastle Robert with Tottenham, Matthew with the Sheffield, West Brom, Combo, Anthony with Everton, Will with Fulham, Taylor with Leicester City, Robert with Man City Will with Manchester United, Robert with Wolves and Southampton, Taylor with Crystal Palace, Leeds Combo Robert with Westham United and Ian with Aston Villa Let's alphabetize these by team And let me know if anyone else do any trades We're gonna pause the video for the trade window when we come back, we'll have the break, stick around Alright, welcome back, there were no deals done, that's all good No transfers, so the transfer window is closed Now let's see what is hiding inside here First half of the box, remember all card ship And if you're not familiar with soccer, it would be worth just kind of quickly checking the value on a secondary market Of really every card you get because you never know, there may be some random player that may be failing for more than you and I thought So it's worth a look Good luck everybody, there's Timo Werner for Chelsea It's pretty solid, that is Josh with Chelsea We've got Emiliano Martinez, 19 out of 75 for Aston Villa, it'll be for Ian There's Vainaldum, Raheem Sterling is pretty solid Nice atmosphere, Prism Silver for West Ham United, it'll be for Robert There's Raheem Sterling Man City also for Robert There's Christian Pulsik for Chelsea The U.S. soccer team got a lot of youngsters We've got a lot of youngsters coming up at the ranks that are around the same age That could really make some noise in the next four to next couple World Cup cycles There's Harvey Barnes for Leicester, that's gonna go to Taylor And we've got Salih Marsh for Brighton, 135 to 149 That'll be for Anthony in Brighton Hvaldian Mason Mount scored a key goal against my club yesterday It was a good looking one though, Chelsea, that'll be for Josh Proust And our autograph is 15 out of 99, that's a nice one, Bernardo Silva Nice autograph for Robert Runkel in Manchester City That squad is playing so well We've got Mark Albrighton for Leicester, that's gonna go to Taylor We've got Declan Rice, 81 out of 199 for West Ham He's playing some good, some solid soccer And there's Patrick Bamford for Leeds Rookie Silver is always nice, that's gonna go to the Crystal Palace Leeds combo for Taylor We've got Eddie Cotilla, Arsenal, Bill There's Jack Rielish, 38 out of 99 for Aston Villa Ian And we've got Hal Robson Canoe, 48 out of 149 for West Brom Matthew Trent Alexander Arnold And we've got Ben Osborn for Sheffield Matthew with the blades, Sheffield in West Brom Trent Alexander Arnold, Liverpool, Robert And we've got Nathan Tella, 194 out of 199 for Southampton Also for Robert There's Ashley Westwood, Prism Silver for Burnley And we've got Yannick Vestergaard, 45 out of 75 for Southampton That'll be for Robert Mason Wood for Manchester United And there's Jack Harrison, Hyper Parallel for Leeds Man, you will, that's for you, the Mason Greenwood Pretty good, pretty good youngster Next box Alright, second box Break number 10, good luck everybody I support Liverpool, Kyle Bukayo Saka Is another pretty big name for Arsenal, Bill with that one We don't see too many of his cards There's Anthony Martial And there's my guy right there, Muhammad Saleh 143 out of 199 I need him to look more like this with a happy face Right there Liverpool front three has been pretty impotent in recent months There's Sigurdsson There's Christian Polisic, there's Pogba We've got Tammy Abraham For Josh and Chelsea There's Pogba, there's Polisic And we've got Helder Costa 31 out of 75 for Leeds That'll be for Taylor Mason Mount right there Phil Foden, playing good soccer Bruno Fernandez, what a pick up for Man United Maddy Cash, Prism Silver That's for Aston Villa, Ian And we've got Mateo Kovicic 008 out of 145 For Josh and Chelsea Sebastian Holler For Weston Sadio Mane, one of the guys that have been struggling He's usually really good but been struggling Another Mason Greenwood And we've got Pedro Neto For Wolverhampton, the Wanderers Or the Wolves Mason Greenwood for Will And Manchester United here, Sadio Mane For Liverpool Nice deli alley, blue for Tottenham, Robert 39 out of 199 John Joe Shelby Curtis Jones Raheem Sterling Former Liverpool player Playing pretty well for Man City Man City playing well in general No one's going to catch them And look at this 2 out of 10 Gold, Fabian Delph Nice one for Everton, Anthony There's Ollie Watkins Pink Wave And there's Mark Albrighton To 99 Our autograph behind Sasoko Is Aaron Wanda United Defender going to Will, that's his club There you go, nice Silver Jamie Vardy, nice for Leicester There's Abamuyang He's on the box There's John Fleck for Sheffield For Matthew And we've got another Pedro Neto For 149 And at the end right here is Esri Konsa Aston Esri Konsa Aston Villa And that'll be for Ian And there you have it boys and girls That was break number 10 of 2020-2021 Panini Prism Premier League English Premier League Thanks for joining these footy breaks Ladies and gentlemen, we'll do some more later tonight at jaspyscasebreaks.com