Okay, now we're recording. This is disability access advisory committee meeting for June. 2022. Beginning at. I don't know what time exactly 1150 something on. June 14th. And somebody I'm hearing something from. Somebody's computer about a cash reward. Okay. We'll take that. I don't know, but it went away. Okay. I got distracted. Okay. So this is a rather short agenda. We have a few announcements at the beginning. I don't know if we have anyone from the public. I don't think we do. No, we do. Tracy is in attendance. Aha. Okay. Do you have any. Comments to make. Or should we. Are you just listening? Oh, so Myra. So. Let's see here. We had spoken on the phone. Yeah. Talk to Tracy about it. I forgot to talk. Yes. So let's see here. Her hand is raised. So would. So Tracy Zaffian is a member of the public. And she's also the chairperson of the town's transportation advisory committee meeting with the board like to make Tracy. Zaffia and a panelist. Sometimes I go to their meetings and they've made me a panelist. Okay. Just because it's easier to. Yeah. Interact that way. And. She's ahead of a board that we want to have some connection with. So it seems logical. For her not to be a privileged person from the community. She's actually a town board. Head. Okay. Sure. So I can make her a panelist. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I actually don't have very many comments. There were a couple items on the agenda. And I have another meeting at one. Yeah. Well, we do too. Okay. All right. So this will be quick. So Maureen sent out announcements about the June. 27. Second listening session for the. Age and dementia friendly community. And I went to the last one. But I couldn't stay for the whole thing. It was pretty interesting. People had good things to say. They put us in breakout rooms. We talked about last time it was all about. What was it about? Show you where my brain is anyway, this one is taught. Tell us Maureen what this one's about. Yes. So I'm. Assisting senior services with a year. Long projects called the age and dementia friendly. Community projects. And we hope to make Amherst, a designated age and dementia friendly community. And part of this project will be hosting. Several listening sessions on various topics that. That will engage seniors and care caregivers. And. This information and feedback that we received from seniors will be incorporated in the final plan. And that will be part of this project. So the next listening session. Is on social participation and inclusion, communication and technology and civic engagement. And. It's scheduled from. But okay. Two 30 to four on Monday, June 27th. Via zoom. And you can find the meeting. Posting on the town calendar. And it has all the information. You do need to register for the meeting. There was a link provided to you all in the, in an email I sent out last week. That's promoting the listening session. And. And then you can also find that link on the town calendar. And we include a flyer that's in English and also in Spanish that helps promote the flyer. We're. Reaching out to various organizations. In town boards and departments to help promote this event. And so we hope to have speakers or a consultant, Becky Bish, who's a. Planner with pioneer. Pioneer Valley planning commission will be speaking, giving a presentation. And we've asked Jen moisten our assistant director. To the office on disability equity inclusion to speak about. What. What the town is doing to engage all members of our public. And we've asked. Brianna. From our IT department to talk about. How we're using communicate how we communicate and use technology. To engage with members of our public. And then we'll have a breakout session. So we'll give a presentation, a couple of presentations. And then we want to hear from seniors and caregivers. About their thoughts and pros and cons and. And what, what opportunities could be. Be given to, to be more inclusive. So, yeah, so. And also, I think the link is on our agenda. So if you want to just go to our meeting agenda, you can find out more information on our agenda. And then the second item on the for under announcements. Is so Amherst's has selected its first director of diversity, equity, inclusion. This might be slightly outdated information and maybe Pat can fill us in. So the town manager appointed. Pamela Nolan young as the town's first director. Subject to review by the town council. The town manager referred this appointment to the town council for approval in accordance with the Amherst home charter rule. Miss young is expected to start her role with the town on July 1st. And Pat, did the town council. Approve. Yes, we did. Great. And you can read more about Pamela's, or Miss young's background and professional experience. And the link provided on the meeting today's meeting agenda. It's linked to our town website. And as the town manager had indicated in an email, sent to Myra feels like good, a good few months ago. We're like, December. So, you know, the office on diversity, equity, inclusion. We'll capture, you know, accessibility. And so we hope to invite Miss young to whatever upcoming meetings to see how, you know, what, what does that entail? But first, let, let, let us let her get settled with the town. So. I was thinking September or October. Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I'm sure it'll take her couple of months just to sort of get lay of the land and so we can certainly invite her and then hopefully by September or October, we'll have a better understanding. What does this new sort of relationship with that department have to do for the, for this committee. So yeah, so let me write that down. So September or September or October have her attend the meeting. Okay. Anybody have any ideas about that? So sound all right with anyone with everyone. Fine. Okay. Okay. I have a question. Yep. I'm not in relation to this, but I wasn't at the. Architectural access. Meeting that you guys had for, for the variants. I was just curious what happened with that. Oh. That was for the park. Well, the shelter for the emergency shelter. Next to the park. Yeah. Yeah. So, it turns out that the entire. Amethyst Brook really isn't accessible at all. And the piece of property that has this building on it. Is. On the edge of a farm. That's a working farm. And the farmer said that. It would take up a lot of space that he uses. For his farm. And. Although. I don't think any of us was thrilled about. Them having a program that isn't accessible. That would be required. To make the emergency shelter. Accessible when the entire program isn't going to be accessible. The farmer said that it would take up a lot of space that he uses. For his farm. To make the emergency shelter accessible. So, I don't think any of us was thrilled about having a program that isn't accessible. They were able to show us that they actually have quite a few programs that are accessible, but not at that site. And so. Given that the program has fewer than 10 kids in it at a time. I think the vote was. Serent abstained. I think. The rest of us voted to do it. Because we didn't want to have a program that wasn't accessible. But it didn't seem to be any reason. To not approve it. Because the entire program. Isn't accessible even without the emergency shelter. So if you've ever gone into Amethyst Brook. It needs a lot of work to be accessible. Okay. Does that. Does that answer the question? Does anybody want to. Yes. Anybody want to define it in a different way? I think. Marty had. You know, pointed out. The sort of financial burden on the applicant. Yeah. You know, building that shed is, I forget, you know, how much, but you know, lowering the shed to the ground level or installing a ramp, particularly would cost like, you know, at least $10,000. For. A very small shed and, you know, with. That seems like a financial burden. To, to this, that nonprofit. And so. Yeah, so I did for it. Farmer's way.  It was going to get in the way of the farm. Right. Have that ramp there. Okay. I just, I was curious what happened. Yeah. Tracy has her hand up. Okay. Thank you, Pat. Hi. So I had a question just about the age friendly listening sessions. So I, I think I had, I had listened to the recording of some of the earlier meetings and I had seen that transportation. Was terribly there was a listening session. Was that the right date or is that not confirmed? I can, if you shoot me an email, I can let you know, I don't, I wasn't prepared to have the information today. Oh, I just because it was about transportation. So I know I had shared it. I, because at some point, like that whole, the whole schedule of all the listening sessions was sort of mapped out. So I wasn't sure if they were confirmed, but sure. I'm happy to send you. They have been confirmed. I just don't have that. And I guess one other thing is that I know that the committee. And as part of this effort, right? It's interested in listening to both. Caregivers and seniors. So what if, what if an Amherst resident is a caregiver. But the person that they're caring for, like doesn't necessarily live in Amherst. So is it the idea to support them? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what they're caring for. Like doesn't necessarily live in Amherst. So is it the idea to support caregivers? Like even if they're supporting somebody who lives in Hadley or Sunderland. Sure. Yeah. It's, you know, yeah. I think we're a welcoming, inclusive group. So. We're not, there's no, you know, hard and fast regulation on it. Yeah. In fact, one of the people in my group last time. Had been a professional in Amherst for years and years and was on the council and council on aging for many years. Didn't live in Amherst. And then they decided that you had to live in Amherst. So they kicked her off the council of age on aging. But, you know, so. I think it used to be a little more open. I think it's more about the working group. For this. Town projects. I just meant to listen to these sessions because there was somebody I had reached out to and they're like, well, are you a caregiver? You know, they were very like, why do you think you can even whatever. So. But I just, I mean, a lot of people. You know, or a lot of people in their, even 30s, 40s, 50s, or like caregivers for either parents or grandparents or whatever. I mean, there's a lot of caregiving that goes on all around. And sometimes caregivers need support. And the people that they are caregiving for need more supportive. So. Oh, absolutely. No. And that's. Yeah. No, and that's been expressed in, in, in a variety of these meetings as part of the agent. Agent dementia friendly project. Is how can we be more supportive of caregivers? And you know, it's, it's definitely underrated. And underappreciated. Yet very important role that.  Provide. And so. So that is definitely a big aspect of this project as well. Okay. New business. I actually have. Yeah. Just a quick comment. I know. The Amherst senior center used to have a discussion group. For caregivers. I don't know if they still do, but, um, you know, anybody from any of the surrounding communities, Hadley, Holyoke could come to that. So, so, you know, that's a model right there. Yeah. Good to know. Yeah. Good to know. Thank you. Yeah. So I wrote to Mindy Dom. As an advocate for increased funding for the regional transit. Authorities throughout the state. They had proposed an increase. They didn't get it either from the Senate. Or from the house. There is a little bit of extra money in the Senate version to support, uh, people to defer. Um, To defer costs of regional transit. That was very unclear what it meant. But for example, in the Worcester regional transit. In the ADA service there, they don't, they haven't been charging people in the pandemic. In hours, we've always been charged. I think the Springfield regular, um, The fixed route service stopped charging people for a while. So there isn't any, um, Kind of uniformity about it, but there is a little extra money in the Senate version. So I wrote to our state representatives and state Senator to ask them to vote for the version or to tell their conferees to vote for the version that has the most money. And Mindy Dom wrote back that she had met, uh, With a group of people from North Hampton. And she described them as activists, disability activists. And they want to work on issues of access to businesses in Amherst. I don't know what that's about. She said she wasn't, uh, She wanted to know if we wanted to meet with them or talk to them. And I said, sure. She said, She didn't want to step on anybody's toes. So I'm waiting to find out who these people are and how she wants to, or how they want to go about having this joint meeting or having them come to one of our meetings. It's not clear, but apparently. She doesn't even represent North Hampton. So it's not clear to me why she's involved in this at all. Um, so, uh, I don't know what it's about, but I'm in dialogue with her. So something will be coming. And I don't know if any of you would know about any people. I don't know if any of you would be concerned about access to businesses for people from other towns. I haven't heard of anything. My God. Doesn't mean they're not out there. Right. I have a feeling. So you remember the. The rally in North Hampton for disability. Right. I, my gut tells me that. This group of individuals at Mindy's working with might be those that organized that rally. Um, because I know that that was something that was talked about a lot during the speeches at the rally was how do you provide, um, You know, how do you work with the restaurants in North Hampton to ensure that they're accessible? Yeah. Okay. Including the snow. In winter time. So. Yeah. I think that's a good idea for us to find out more about it. I mean, if there's safety in numbers, right? We'd be happy to advocate for them too. But it's still confusing to me because Mindy doesn't represent North Hampton. Or have Lee. So, um, she only represents Amherst and one. Part maybe a third to a half of grand B. And power. Yeah. Maybe it would be nice to have her. She does now. She will. She will not represent poem in the next election. So I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that is right now. You're right. They took it away from her. So with the committee members won't be, um, Would you all entertain the idea of if, you know, Mindy suggests that. Those individuals wanted to meet with you all. Would you want to invite them to like an upcoming meeting? Yeah. I think that's a good idea. I think that would be a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think it would be a good idea for other activities as well. So it really makes sense to me that we use there. We're having dialogue with them. Yeah. If thinking and what their plans are, et cetera. Agreed. Yeah, are these people involved with the committee? They have maybe. I don't know. I don't know. I will pursue it further. I'll try to find out who they are and. like we don't know what's going on. But at the same time, there might be people who've had incidents with our business people that we don't know about and that we wouldn't have a way to know about. So, you know, it's important for us, I think in many ways to all work together. And I just, you know, it was a request that I thought I'd bring to you. And I'll tell her that we'd be happy to meet with them. But I want to know more about it because as I said, they have their own state rep and they, that's not who contacted me. So, okay, so then we have a lot of updates on projects. I don't think, do you want to quickly go through them Maureen? Sure, very, very, there's anything different from what?  Some don't have updates, but I included them just so we don't forget. For future reference. So the first one is, you know, the town we received a grant through the mass office on disability. And it's to deal with architectural barriers relative to the front door of the bang center. And so that work. Sorry, just bear with me that work is to replace the broken automatic door control and associated door and provide a ADA compliant level landing at the automatic door and and to install a sign that doesn't need that entrance as accessible. And to provide a ADA compliant, clear floor space at the at the door as well. So basically in a nutshell is to help make the door entrance ADA compliant. And so that work needs to be done by the end of this month. And so there need to regrade outside too. Yeah, yep. So they're going to do some re grading slightly at the at the entrance at the doorway and have it meet the sidewalk at that at that existing grade. So work should be starting today or this week and and we need it completed and invoices sent back to the state by the end of this month. And we hope to achieve that deadline. And the Amity Street sidewalk improvement project. It appears to be completed. I'm not maybe Tracy can provide an update on that. The one.  I've walked it and it's great. It's You know, I saw a sign that said Lincoln Street and it's it's a little bit past that that they've completed. Yeah, they did and it's good. Oh, that's great to hear at least thank you. And also I'm happy to report that that you know or Amherst coffee we had that problem last summer. With the Sidewalk a day there. They did that little park when I guess you call it or whatever they fixed it so that you know the the seating is on the street. Now if they fixed it. Oh, great. And do you like it. Yeah, I can, you know, you can use the sidewalk. Yeah, they did. They did what they were supposed what we wanted them to do. So Yay. Yeah, good. At least the squeaky wheel gets oil. Yeah. I appreciate that Amherst coffee isn't roping off their walkway anymore. I always was really not happy with. I do have a quick I mean the amity. It looks great on both sides and at least I know this might be of interest to you, but I've been in touch with the property owner on the south side of between Um, like north of Dana, whatever that is between like Lincoln and Dana. Oh, that's bad. And where that well first of all, there's like that little break in the sidewalk. It's sort of steep, but then also this one owner like had the bushes be completely overgrown. And I know that owner and He said, well, there's nothing I can do. And I was like, Oh, and if you actually even take a picture, you can see that there's all this new growth and currently it's going almost like a third to half. Of the sidewalk. Yeah, my head. I walked and he said that if he said like he was told by No, guardian person if he cut it back, it would never grow again. And I said, well, what did the old owners do? He's a pretty new owner there. He is on South Pleasant. And anyway, I just let him my electric hedge flipper. So hopefully they'll do something. Because I am annoyed to I did have a question just about the the steeper parts of amity. And so one thing I've heard repeatedly and it's come up the tack beatings to is there are some sections of that steeper section of amity between, you know, up to data like Lincoln and Dana.  It's definitely not a da But then one thing I've heard and it's come up at the tack means to this is just a general question and comment is that So what we've been told is that well, there's nothing we can do to fix that sidewalk. You know, on that steeper section because it can never be like at 88 compliant grade. And so I was just wondering, I mean, what do we do and what happens in communities that have hills and so I just, I don't know. Well, that's in fact a much bigger question. So because he said that he can't fix he can't put in a sidewalk on the west side of Kellogg up by Triangle Street for the same reason, right. What he said. I can't, I can't recall his reasoning. Somebody said that it was impossible to put a sidewalk on that log where there isn't one. Guilford has said that in public meetings. That's true. But it is not impossible to put a sidewalk where there isn't one.  But I guess that's the question in like, I mean, in terms of the ADA and somebody I'm sure knows way more than me but it seems like, you know, if there were these facilities on hills that you should still be able to fix. You know, it's like, you're never going to make, you're never going to be able to make the hill go away, but it should be able to smooth it out. Thank you, Pat. Thank you. So the way that 521 CMR reads and the ADA reads is that sidewalks. And a sidewalk is defined as a walkway that is parallel and adjacent to a roadway. Those are not required to meet the slope requirements either side to side or length wise. The reason is because in order to do it to make it accessible, you would have to end up re grading the entire road. And you may still not be able to do it. So then you end up having to build switchbacks in order to get a legal ramp up there. So that's why those sidewalks are exempt. And the reason for not having one on Kellogg doesn't make any sense to me. No, it doesn't. Because it may not comply, but you can still build it because it is an adjacent sidewalk to a road. Right. Next to a busy street. Yes. Right. It would make sense that you would go ahead and do that even though it's not accessible. But there is a perception in town and I've run into it and on my driveway that, that every sidewalk has to be accessible and that's actually not true. Okay. Yeah. I mean, top of topographically, what you're saying is totally logical. Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm having to carve down a lot of things that you can't really do. Yeah, I would want to have the code in front of me so we can cite it. I certainly, I certainly believe you Marty. And I've, and I've read that and all that. Would it be helpful at maybe at a future meeting to consider maybe writing a memo about about this? Because I do feel like there might be some fear of like something wrong from folks that they don't want to upset you or like do something wrong. And so then they're so concerned of doing something wrong that they decide, let's just not do anything because they're so scared. And so to hear this kind of feedback. You know, you would be okay with, you know, if the town were to ever put in a sidewalk along Kellogg, like, sure, if you could make it a compliant but, you know, due to section and blah, blah, blah. You know, you're exempt from meeting that code. And so it gives them. I have it right here. Oh, great. Yep. It's a CMR 521. Section 22. And the exception is specifically 22.3.1 22.3.1. Oh, thank you. Well, so I guess now that we have the section cited. We, you could all can think about that, but just as a friendly sort of gesture. It's like, I don't know if that is needed, but, but just to point out like, you know, you guys acknowledge that, you know, if, if, if, you know, it's impractical to make a sidewalk ADA compliant, you know, there are exemptions under under the code that allows that and that you would want to still see connections, progestering connections through town when, you know, whenever possible. So this is a perfect opportunity for the transportation committee and us, because I think you're working on sidewalks right Tracy you're. We do work on sidewalks sometimes. I mean, well, and I've been doing stuff with safe routes to school about sidewalks, but I think it would be really helpful. Frankly, there is a school right across the baseball field from there. It would be really helpful to like have clarification and if the committee, right, if your committee writes a memo to clarify, because I mean we really do here and I mean in the case of amity where you have tree roots and you have cracks in the sidewalk I mean, obviously it would be safer, even at the greed it's at if those are fixed. I mean, I just don't want that to. Yeah, it just so thanks. Right. Yeah, and yeah, so sidewalks are a major problem in this town. I think they are in lots of places but they are really in this town, because they haven't been maintained at all. I've lived in this neighborhood for 42 years they haven't repaired a sidewalk here since I live here. And it's really quite astounding. So, I think they're about to do a little bit of sidewalk work on Taylor Street. But there's so much more. And, you know, I don't need that doesn't even begin to cover it. So, I think it's important for our two committees to work together, especially when, you know, the middle school is pretty adjacent to High Street where there are pretty terrible sidewalks. And the high school is across the baseball field from Kellogg where there are no sidewalks. I don't know. Anyway, so, other than that, it seems like everything else. So I have a question about the bank center Maureen jumping back to your other topic. Does the elevator work well in there. I believe it does. It did. Yeah, I believe it does. I personally haven't used it and if memory shows, I don't use it. The banks, the ADA plan for the bank center. I believe didn't call it out being as like a non ADA compliant. Because that building has so many levels and making one entrance accessible is great, but the other entrance on the other side is almost more convenient for people going to the senior center. So, I don't have that one is accessible right that one is self door, which is near Johnny's restaurant that there is a automatic door opener control there was on the front door too but it doesn't work. Yeah, unfortunately, it broke recently and that's why we applied for this grant. Yeah, that's one of the reasons. Okay, I just wanted to make sure because that's a funny building. It is. It's a very funny building. Okay. All right. So the other ones. The. You said you didn't have any further comments. Yeah, let's see here so the downtown parklets that those have been installed and those are so ones installed in front of Amherst coffee and it's great to hear from Elise that that you like the layout and that it's not blocking the sidewalk down so now you can just freely use a sidewalk as a pedestrian pathway. And then the other parklet is located in front of fresh side, which is on let's see here. So, yeah, self pleasant street. Yep, exactly. And so both parklets are ADA compliant. And there is a threshold connecting the parklet to the sidewalk so it's a nice easy, you know, threshold into into and out of the parklet and Yeah, and they look aesthetically pleasing. It looks like people are using them and really enjoying them so the fresh side also has tables in front on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant as well. They do so they did ask for that as well and so it's not it's it's kind of narrow. And Amherst Amherst coffee still has their ones next to their like. Yeah, so it goes from building wall, then, yeah, sort of laying than seating and then there's a, there is a pedestrian pathway and then the parklet. So, it does meet code for the width of a sidewalk. I originally didn't know I didn't I wasn't aware that they were still going to maintain tables and chairs on the sidewalk itself. But they did request that to the town. Have you tried to get through there have you had any trouble. I haven't gotten a chance to go in this though. I haven't been downtown. Go check it out. We have a budget Tory you can get yourself a cup of coffee. I had a question is how long in the parklets intended to stay installed. So the town manager approved them as temporary uses so they should be removed this fall. Maybe that could change I don't know maybe, maybe the businesses would want them to stay up a little longer. I'm not too sure on that but that has that right now they're considered temporary uses. Okay, imagine they'll be removed before we have snow because they're really possible to plow around. Yeah, I tend to agree. They're actually built modularly so they can be removed stored and put back. Oh good. Yeah. They can be reused year after year they're quite well built I watched them build the one for fresh life. Yeah, yep, yep. That's great. Yeah, great. Okay. Are there any other I saw there's no update for Pomeroy so I assume, I don't have an update I don't know if anyone else has an update. I just had a lot to comment about Pomeroy actually I mean if you go back to when the original timeframe. You know that it was actually supposed to I think be constructed by now but can go for had brought up at attack meeting that. I mean I thought it was supposed to be by like March or something like that's definitely on there. One of their priority projects. I mean I think they actually need to the town is supposed to go to the town needs to spend the money, you know with a certain amount of time like it's not infinite. So, I thought they were supposed to be going out to bid now. Do you know Pat. No I don't but I can find out. Okay. And email you. Okay.  They did the best they could, given that they're building roundabout so. I think it's, you know, it's just time for them to, to do it and yeah. No. So, I don't know that we have anything else that we have to have any opinion on. Do I have a question. Oh, go for it. What is the both would work project. Where is it at now. What would walk, what would walk. I mean, they were going to get rid of the parking lots of parking on the town hall and one way street, and we were thinking of the parking places for the north common. Correct. Yeah, so good question, Sarah. But the town is looking for to secure more funding for that project. And so it's been put on hold until we can secure more funding so. Because we read some concerns in the important concerns. Correct. Yeah. Do you know, yeah, tell us. They talked about it some last night and that the suggestions from this group, I believe have been incorporated into the design, the design. I'm not sure all of them I can have been but that's what was stated last night. Yeah, the cost of the project has skyrocketed because of construction costs, and they, I don't have my notes here, but they've received two grants to move ahead with that project. So there is no discussion on the board before it's even designed to revisit taking away the parking or partial parking lot it's all going to be grass except the perimeter. Yes, I know. Yes. Yeah. Okay, so nobody's revisiting that. Okay. All right. I think that might be everything I think. Yeah. That might be it. So the next meeting we would have normally would be July 12. And the question is, do we want to have a meeting. If we just have updates, or do we want to take a summer vacation and skip till August? I don't know how anybody feels about it. I'm taking the first two weeks in August. So I will not be here for the name here actually. Maybe we should have a July meeting and not an August meeting. We could do that. We could do that. We could do that. Yes. Unless we have some kind of a proposal that we have to do something about, but we never know about those till the last minute anyway. Right. Maureen, they never give you a lot. Yeah, true. That is a very, well, let's, what if, so we would, we would be meeting July 12. Do folks want to put that in the books? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. August unless some reason comes up that we need to. Sounds good. Yeah. Okay. We'll have a lovely June. Oh, by the way, there's no more taste of Amherst. Is that right? Oh, really? I don't know. Not this year. Just not this year. I don't know. Tracy raised your hand. Yeah. Okay. I had a question about the East pleasant street. The project near the Kendrick. I don't know. I don't know. Are. Are them the rapid rectangular flashing beacons and those crosswalk. I mean, is do, does the town have those yet? Or has the town decided where to put those flashing lights? That's a good question for Guilford. I do. I do believe that the equipment to. Install the flashing beacons have arrived. But yeah, your questions are really geared to. No, that's fine. Yeah. Well, um, Yeah, I've been thinking about it just with the safety of some of the crosswalks and particularly I've been working on some state foods to school. Stuff and like assessing. All the schools. I was down to cracker this morning, but. To me, it seems really hazardous that at the. Crosswalk, the intersection of East pleasant and strong street, which is not that far. But that there's only a crosswalk there. There's no like flashing lights or anything. And so like, if any students are trying to cross or anybody, but if, particularly for students, if you're trying to cross and it's not in that little window that the crossing guard is present. It's a lot, it's a lot harder. So I mean, some of the discussion with the schools, you know, has been like the wildwood is so much more walkable than Fort River, but every time I think about that one unsignalized intersection with nothing. I have concerns about it. I don't think it's a DAC issue, but it's a good issue. Elise has raised your hand. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, you're muted Elise. Where is she? Oh, here we go. There's actually construction going on near my building. I don't know where it's coming from, but it's been happening. I have one more sidewalk comment and I don't think it's been addressed, but I just want to mention that the, I know there's a bus stop on the side, on the Amherst common. And the sidewalk leading up to that is pretty treacherous just to throw that out there. Where's this? I'm sorry. I was typing something. Say that one more time. Which street. I don't know the street street or on South Pleasant street. I don't know the street or on South Pleasant street. I don't know the street. I just know it's right next to the common. It's like where the farmer's market. Happens. But that's the one on South Pleasant street. Yeah, that's right next to spring street. Yeah, there's a bus stop. Some of the buses stop. You know, it's near where that little yellow building used to be. Yeah. The sidewalk is pretty horrible. Oh, sure. Yeah. So I just wanted to throw that out there. That really could use a fix up. Yeah. And I think that's something that the town hopes to incorporate as part of a part of the. The common. The north part of the town common project. Is to replace the, that stretch of the sidewalk along South Pleasant street in the common. Yeah. And I, yeah, I think we all agree that needs some love and care. Yes. Thanks. Tracy, your question about strong street is a good one. There's probably not great visibility there either. But it's not a DAC issue. Okay. I didn't, I mean, just in terms of accessibility. I understand. And just, just to let you know, too, that the tack, I'm still really interested in the question about like snow access. Like we talked about that a little bit. And now it's summer, but before we know it, there'll be snow back. So I am in touch with walk boss and about it. I'm hoping that a walk bus and person will come to. One of the tack meetings, but maybe it could be a combined. Whatever. Maybe we can figure something out. Right. Well, actually, we can get that Pamela. Nolan young meeting. Maybe we can talk to her about how that's. That's actually an issue of inclusion. Yeah, I mean, I haven't gotten anywhere with her with disability access, but maybe if she makes it an issue of inclusion, she can get somewhere. I mean, and that's where too, I had mentioned at one of our meetings that I had reached out to Earl Miller just because when people don't shovel their sidewalks or have their cars blocking the sidewalks that. I don't always want to call the police dispatch line, right? So. And I think that's really receptive on that. But I'll just mention too, just I had gone for some reason, I was in some of my archives over the weekend and I have letters. I have a letter from 2003 where I had written. The town and it was a letter to the editor to the bulletin too, asking for better snow shoveling because there had been people coming to the select board asking for better snow shoveling, including one of my elderly neighbors. And then I also found the letter about requesting that the walk and don't walk signals be repaired. And this is from 2001 to the DPW that director that he was not good for that. These are long-term thing. No, that they don't happen. Yeah. In 2001, he wasn't here yet. He was here in 2002. Yeah. Well, so this is 2001, but I had documented all the broken signals and I sent it to you. So, well, there we go. So progress. Next generation or something. Yeah. Right. Everybody July 12th. Same time. Well, thank you everyone. Thank you. Bye. Bye.


Welcome to another episode of Afterthoughts on Patreon. My name is Greg Prescott from nvid.com and I want to welcome those watching on YouTube right now for those of you who are unfamiliar with Afterthoughts. Basically what happens is every time I make a video and I can pretty much assure you that anyone else who makes videos like what I'm doing you think of something afterwards that you should have put into the video. So this is why I have Afterthoughts and I release this on Patreon every month. So let's get into it. Before we get into this, this morning I was led to read an article about this girl who got attacked by a shark and here she is right here. Her name is Paige Winter, 17-year-old girl and the shark attack happened in North Carolina and she said she was only in water that was like waist deep and it ripped off her leg for the most part and she had to have her leg amputated from the knee down and she lost a few fingers as well. Her father came out and saved her from the shark. He ended up punching the shark as hard as he could and brought her to the hospital but it was such a touching story because at the end she said basically that she's not a shark attack survivor but a shark attack driver and that made me think a lot about everybody what we're all going through right now.  I noticed that a lot of people are having bad dreams, they're getting attacked in the astral realms and that happens to good light workers as a matter of fact when your light is that bright and you're in the astral realms you gotta stay protected and if you're not protected you can be attacked so be sure you put those intentions out there to protect yourself but I do know a couple people that have been attacked in the astral realms and actually these attacks sounded more like abductions than anything else because there was the the mind wipe that happened with them so just be careful out there. I want to remind people that you can find me on twitter now I know I don't talk about twitter very often but there is a twitter page for n5d and you can find me here at Greg Prescott one gregg prescot the number one and uh subscribe now what I find about twitter versus facebook I I love both of them facebook I love because it's it's more spiritual I have a lot more spiritual friends on facebook than I do twitter but there are a lot of awakened people on twitter that just happened to post more political things which I keep track of because we are going through the the great awakening right now and it's all part of everything that's coming together not everybody has to follow the political side of the awakening what I do because I want to reach as many people as possible and this is all part of the great awakening and when you go on twitter you can just check out for example you know the things that I you know my tweets it's pretty much everything I post on facebook with a few exceptions for example here's one of german chancellor Angela Merkel glitching out possibly to lack of adrenal chrome of course she said that it was dehydration but I don't think anyone's buying that or you can go up here to uh tweet some replies and see what I'm replying to because it is different here on twitter than it is on facebook so if you haven't subscribed on twitter be sure you do that as well and you can even click the likes and see what I'm liking what I'm reading and what I'm liking here's one by Sabine who's actually terry wade one of our writers on in 5d here's a jenny b she shared one of our articles here's something interesting too that I wanted to talk about as an afterthought because I did cover the shuman resonance in my last video so for two days in a row we've had a high amplitude around the 90s and as you can see right here you know on the chart on the left hand side let me go full screen you can see it peeking out at 92 and then it looks like maybe 91 or just under could be around 90 right here but for the last two days right around 90 on the shuman amplitude now I'm not 100 sure what that means on amplitude versus frequency but what we do know is that it's ramping up and if we go to in 5d right here this is from the article shuman resonance amplitude maxed out at 150 it brings us to this picture where on march 17th the maximum amplitude of the shuman resonance was 150 that's that's as much as you can have that's that's the peak you can't get any higher so we actually hit the 90s in the last two days on the shuman resonance which is really high but it can actually go higher as I mentioned oh that happened on march 16th we'll cause this spike in the shuman resonance amplitude it could be a number of things solar flares a weakening of the magnetosphere plasma discharge from the sun coronal mass ejections etc okay and the frequency differs from the amplitude although a rise in one generally means a rise in the other the average shuman frequency for our planet is 7.83 and so on and so forth witnessing are the precursors to the event the most obvious signs is when the sun turned from yellow gotta change that it says form from yellow to white as we began entering the photon bell i go on to talk more about the photon bell on n5d but i wanted to bring that to you guys right there and tell me what you guys think about the shuman amplitude ramping up to the 90s in the last couple days so on facebook yesterday i got this message and what happened was i only posted i posted an article on facebook and i shared it to four of my pages body mind soul spirit zentasia i'm sorry body mind soul spirit n5d i have a gregg prescott page and woo woo media and then i shared it to the zentasia group and i got this message when i shared it to the zentasia group you're temporarily restricted from joining and posting to groups until tomorrow which will be today at 11 48 p.m if you think this doesn't if you think this doesn't go against our community standards let us know i let them know and it didn't matter because i tried sharing later on and i was still blocked so i won't be able to post until another half hour from now when i'm making this video but by the time you see this video i should be able to share in other groups so that's just facebook once again screwing with me and i know that they probably have been screwing with you as well now i did mention zentasia and what i've been doing on zentasia is fine-tuning it and this is another website that i have and it just looks so cool with the template that i i put on this and this is uh today's latest articles right here on zentasia and i figured something out yesterday on how to make the categories come up a lot better and what i did was i just went in the template just minor um stop but changed a few things around and now the template for the categories looks great what it was beforehand was it was posting the full article under the category which didn't allow you to really scroll through and see what all the articles were without having to go through each article one at a time so this is what it looks like now so and right here on the right hand side you can see what are the most popular posts that are on zentasia and i find it interesting that the interview with walk and soul is number one i don't know how many people out there have had walk and soul experiences but you know definitively when you have one one because something in your life will change drastically my ex-wife and my daughter would know specifically when i would have a walk in they would see something change within my life and i got to the point of where i can see when i've had walk ins as well my last walk in for anyone that knows me this is uh actually a guitar shirt i have a kramer guitar and for those of you who know me know that i like playing hard rock i used to play lead and rhythm guitar and several hard rock bands but when my last walk in came in all of a sudden excuse me all of a sudden i used to listen to ambient music on tv now i started listening to big bands which is totally uncharacteristic for somebody who loves hard rock so i'm like okay another walk in came in but and now i'm wondering if i had another walk in again because all of a sudden i'm eating fruits and vegetables and anyone that that knows me yeah i i i like fruit but i just don't buy it and i'm not crazy about vegetables but i bought fruits and vegetables and i'm eating fruits and vegetables which is highly uncharacteristic of me so i'm thinking another walk in came in again and what happens is when you get a walk in it's basically an upgrade your body absorbed as much light and energy that it can your soul body everything the whole incorporation and when you get a walk in they bring in that capacity to bring in even more light so you'll know if you've had at least three or four when these changes happen or you might have seen these changes in other people so on my last video i played a clip from aluna ash who was talking about these three waves and later on i think might have been the following day she put out another video and let me play you a clip from that where she's talking about these rainbow energies and experiencing that and when she what she ended up seeing was pink and purple lights let me play you that clip so for a group of you you may remember me speaking about the rainbow wave event some of you experienced this yourself so you know what i'm talking about flow brun is another one who experienced this she has a channel on youtube and she experienced this visually and physically just like i did so i'll explain a little bit what this rainbow wave event was march of 2018 march 20th 2018 is when i experienced this and it was basically a wave of light it was a purple pink misty cloud that came through and i got warning about this before it even hit and i actually was getting messages i was getting the intuitive awareness about this days before it hit i remember the day it hit i kept knowing that it was coming i could feel it i was being told and then right before the wave actually came i got the message to go lay down like immediately because i knew it was coming and i remember like laying down on my bed and then i kept looking out the window and i saw it coming and it permeated right through the walls it was like basically moving through my yard permeating through my walls and move through my body and the color that i saw it was at night when i saw this but i was still able to see the color even with all my lights off in my bedroom and it was this purple pink color so that video came out on the 17th two days before that i recorded this video this is a pretty amazing sunset going on right now here on siesta keep beach so we got the rainbow there you can see going right up here goes up and around comes down right there right past point of rocks probably right around turtle beach in the meanwhile we got this going on and check out the purple and the pink that's going on i've never seen this show up on my videos before for a sunset so it's it's really interesting so you got these lights that are happening too that are going on in the sunset you see that stuff look at that it just makes everything purple or pink i've never seen this happen before here on siesta keep so here we have two days before aluna put out that video me showing the rainbow along with the purple and pink lights colors that aluna was seeing when these energies came in so it's awesome to be on these kind of synchronicities with people and once again the same thing happened yesterday when i was on the phone i was talking to a friend and i was mentioning about the rabbit incident that i spoke about on the previous video that i made and uh so while i'm talking to her on the phone i go outside and what's there the rabbit on my front porch again as i'm talking about the rabbit it's right there so i thought that was pretty cool so it made me once again go back and look further into the spiritual meaning of the rabbit and this is what i found i think you guys will dig this okay spiritual meaning of the rabbit the bringer of good luck rabbits bring good luck fortune and abundance therefore their appearance in your life might be a sign that good luck and fortune are coming your way it is a messenger of future blessings and surprises and of course it's a messenger of spring which implicates new beginnings a new life interesting growth and abundance if you're feeling lost or that you need a new beginning then the rabbit is a sign that it is time for a change be brave and prepare yourself for a new life now it goes on to mention that it's the circle of life and it's a symbol of love but this is the part that i thought was really interesting the spiritual meaning of rabbit is numerous a rabbit also symbolizes shyness growth harmony and awareness the rabbit also symbolizes rebirth so rebirth is something that i see as perhaps turning into a light body having the dna activated so on and so forth so to have this rabbit consistently come into my life especially on these synchronistic occasions you know after aluna had spoke about it in one of her previous videos that's when i saw the rabbit initially on my front porch the following day i opened up my garage and the rabbits outside of the garage and then yesterday i'm talking to a friend on the phone about the rabbit and it's on my front porch again so pay attention to these messages and often when i get these messages i feel like it's not specifically for me because i was given this galactic download to to build in 5d and to put these messages out there for humanity and that's what i think that this is this is a message for humanity we're on that precipice of rebirth i just want to remind everybody that there is ad space available on n5d.com there's a banner on top one above the seaman residence and i believe there are two on the side here as well starting at a hundred dollars a month so if 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i'm gonna leave it off at that i'm sending you all infinite love and light until the next time this is greg from n5d.com namaste so


Good morning, Hank, it's Tuesday. I'm currently on vacation in the house behind me, but that house is full of screaming children, so I am filming in the vast expanse known as Outside. I recommend Outside, although there is no climate control, which is a little annoying. And because I've been on vacation, I've had three entire days away from the internet, which has left me wondering, how does this end? Like, there's this great Mollie Lewis song from maybe ten years ago in which the chorus goes, I hope that you forget about your MySpace, I hope it slips completely from your mind, and I hope it stays up long enough for the next generation to find. And that song has proved kind of stunningly prophetic, so much so that I suspect a number of young people watching this either won't know what MySpace is, or else only have a vague notion of it as a precursor to Facebook. And yet, My MySpace is still there, a minor museum to my 2007 self, complete with a profile pic advertising the forthcoming publication of Paper Towns. So is that how things end on the internet? Still sort of present, but relevant only as nostalgia, and will that happen to one or more of the social media du jour to Twitter or Facebook or YouTube? Like, YouTube has survived and thrived amid many difficult times in the past. The sub feed has always been broken, the new design has always been reviled, the relationship between creators and the platform has always been fraught. And I don't think YouTube is about to MySpace, but then again, one never sees the future coming. Philip Roth called history the relentless unforeseen, and that's true of so much of life. We don't know how it's going to end, or for that matter, how it's going to middle. I do think YouTube faces big problems. I think it's overly reliant on flawed algorithms, and I think its monetization system often values advertisers over audience. But I also think that YouTube is amazing, and that there's more good stuff being uploaded than ever. Of course, my real concern is not how YouTube ends, it's how our YouTube ends. Someday this YouTube channel won't be here, just as we won't be here, and lately I've been wondering when you want to say goodbye online and how to do so. None of which is to say that I'm unhappy or want to stop making vlogbrothers videos because I don't. I just don't know if I want to be making YouTube videos when I'm 80. Well, or maybe I do, like if you told me in 2007 that 40 year old me would still be making YouTube videos, I would be both incredulous and horrified. How, I would wonder, could I possibly subject an audience to my hideous 40 year old face? And yet here I am so grateful for the 11 and a half years of conversation I've been able to have here, and I hope it long continues, but when it does end, I hope it ends well. Hank, you recently pointed out to me that if vlogbrothers were a TV show, we would be in our twelfth season, which is a very long run on television and also a fairly long run for YouTube channels. As time passes, even good shows become less broadly relevant and less central to the overall cultural discourse, and more targeted to a smaller but deeply engaged audience. I feel like that happened with vlogbrothers, and it's been really good news for us. Like these days it feels like the people who watch our videos want to be here. They aren't pushed here by the trending page or whatever. They're here because they're nerdfighters. That is what makes it fun for me. So in thinking about how this YouTube channel will end, I'm mostly thinking about how to keep the conversation sustainable and fun, both for ourselves and for our audience. To that end, I have both a question and a request. The question is, what do you get out of vlogbrothers videos? Like what makes this a meaningful experience for you? And what makes your time with us and other nerdfighters valuable? And what should we be looking to change or not change? I guess that's not just one question. I have a few questions. The request is, well, I've been working for this company for 12 years, and I would like three weeks of unpunished vacation per year. I'm not gonna use it right now or all at once, but yeah, I would really benefit from three weeks of vacation per year. That's it. That's why I made the whole video was so that I could ask my employer for three weeks of unpunished vacation. There is a survey in the doobly-doo below. I will abide by its results. I'm gonna go back to vacation now, Hank. I will see you on Friday.


Ted Lasso, season three, um, I'm gonna need Rebecca and Ted to hook up finally.  Like, let's get something going. Early in the season, please, so they can get together, break up, go through some drama, and then get back together in the season finale.


Hey guys, Alex here from AlexFigus.com, so behind me I've got 7 red light therapy handheld devices. I've tested these devices in my 2021 handheld red light therapy comparison, I'll put a link to that video and blog below so you can go check them out. In that video, I tested these devices over all sorts of areas, power, price, EMF, these of use, all that sort of jazz, and I rang them from best to worst, at least based on my experiences and opinion. In that review, I tested the EMF levels of these units, but I only tested the EMF levels at 6 inches, which is like your standard sort of distance you're meant to be from most red light therapy. Panels, the large one, the body panels, but with these battery-powered handheld units, a lot of people are using them right up against the body, or at least like an inch or two away. And I've had a few people ask me, hey, can you test the levels, the EMF levels at closer distances such as 3 inch and even right up against the unit. And you know, I thought I really should have done that in my main review. So I do apologize for not thinking about that when I first reviewed them, but what I've done is I've decided, you know what, today I'm going to get out my Electro Smoke Meter and my ruler, which is somewhere around here, and I'm going to retest all the EMF levels at the 3 inch mark and also right against the device. So I'll be sharing all that data with you in this video. What I'll also be doing is publishing this data in my updated red light therapy data sheet. Now I'll put a link to this below as well. You can go in there and you'll be able to see all the ratings, the prices, my review links, size, what wavelengths these units emit, everything like that. Not just for these devices, but also for my larger body panels as well. So the juke solo, the biomexes, the moderates, all of that is published in a free spreadsheet. All right. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go through and test all of these for both magnetic and electric fields. I'm not going to test with microwave because none of these have microwave transmitters in them. So there's no point in testing that. I'm going to test for magnetic and electric fields at 3 inch and 0 inch against the surface. And I'm going to, I'm not going to bother with 6 inches because I've already done that. Once I've got all the data, I'll come back and I'll share my findings with you guys. And of course, I'll be updating that in that spreadsheet. All right. I'm going to get into it. I'm done. I've tested all of these devices with my corner meter and I can happily say that they are all safe to use at any distance, 6 inches, 3 inches or even hard up against the body. So you can press it right up against the body. There was no magnetic field reading of any of these even right up against the device, which doesn't surprise me because they're all battery powered, so it's direct current. On the electric field, only one had a slight little uptick and that was the Gimber Ed Spaser. And the readings there were 12 volts over, or VIVM, I've got to figure out what this is, which was rock bottom and that was at 3 inches. And then as you got right up against it, it was a little bit higher. I think it was like 30 something, but that was still perfectly safe based on the building biology standards. Personally, I would use that happily, you know, like no issues whatsoever. And that was that one there is not battery powered. That needs the plug, right? So that's probably why we're seeing a slight uptick there. All the rest, though, perfectly fine. So pretty much if you are wanting to buy one of these, but you're concerned about EMF levels, then two things.  Secondly, any of these are perfectly safe. All right. So if you're like, oh, I wanted to get this. But, you know, I was worried that it might have a high EMF reading. Just you can remove the EMF, the EMF metric out of your mind decision making process, because they are all good. So that is really, really good. Now, what I'm going to be doing is publishing all this data in my red light therapy spreadsheet, data sheet. However, like I said, it's going to be pretty boring data because they're all it's all going to be no or zero. I'm also going to be testing the Radiance and doing some value metrics and EMF and sound and all that sort of jazz. I said, I've already tested the EMF. I'll test Flickr and I'll put all of that into that data sheet as well. But if you are looking at buying a handheld red light therapy device, check out my 2021 handheld red light therapy comparison video, because that's all you really need to know to help you find the best red light therapy handheld device for your needs. All right. If you've enjoyed this or found it useful, please give me a thumbs up or a like. If you've got any questions, leave them below and be sure to subscribe as well, because I have a lot of videos like this and lots of other reviews coming out in the future. So enjoy. See you soon.


This is Griffin Bass with gomostanksports.com. I'm here with Stevenson men's soccer head coach, Graham Miller, after Stevenson falls one to nil to Johns Hopkins. A tough loss coach, it came down to the very end. Nolan Olson-Warwick, 10 saves. What other positives can you take away in a game like that? Well, I mean, I think the way we played the shape, the goalkeeper, obviously, Nolan, had a great week last week. I think he was inches away from making a save. It was a great shot from the Hopkins player. I mean, I could see the angle of it. So Nolan's been outstanding. I thought the defense, I mean, to be able to keep them, you know, until whatever it was, 70 or something minute, without a goal is a testament. I mean, we've had two shutouts, two clean sheets, the last two games. So there's a lot of positives, and it just depends on how you look at it. And I think some of the guys will be a little down. We haven't scored again.  So we'll keep working on the offensive side, but lots to be pleased with in the midfield and the defense and the goalie. How does a strong non-conference opponent like Johns Hopkins get you prepared for the rest of the season? Yeah, well, that's going to be, they're very similar to Messiah. You know, they want the ball, they want to keep possession. They want to, they have a lot of good movement, a lot of obviously talented players. So that's why Hopkins have always been on my schedule. It's a test for, you know, the best team that we're going to see. That's why they were picked, obviously to finish first in the Centennial. And, you know, they've got a lot of fifth year seniors out there, a lot of experience. And I thought our young guys held out well.  And it was nice to have the young kids from Freedom Optimus out here. And I thought, I thought it was a great atmosphere, another great occasion. And we just, you know, they played the game plan well and the goals will come. We just got to try and get somebody with a killer instinct and put it back in there. Gotcha. Next time you're on this field, it will be conference play. What things are you trying to work on in the final two non-conference matchups? I'll score in goals, number one, right? Yeah, these next two will be tough again. Made him out, picked to win the Atlantic East. And then you've got Madey Washington, who's number one in the country right now. So those two games are just another two tough tests on the road and to get us ready for conference. And obviously we'll be looking to do the same thing defensively and then, you know, finish in the back of the net. Thanks a lot, coach. Good luck in those two. And I can't wait to see you back here.


From Soju's radio and television, this is the Army Now. Okay, here we go. And cut. And with the sniff of scissors, the U.S. Army Reserve officially opens its first fully functional solar-powered training facility in Illinois. The new Joliet U.S. Army Reserve Training Center will be home to 600 quartermaster and transportation personnel. The $36 million $60,000 square feet complex was built as a modernization effort and as part of the Army Green Initiative. We were trying to make, ultimately, our facilities net zero, so we're not spending any extra money for water, energy, and disposal. And we're able to do that self-contained in our own footprint. From the new Joliet U.S. Army Reserve and Training Center, I'm Army Staff Sergeant Doug Anderson. That's the Army Now from Soju's Radio and Television in Washington.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another card making video. Today I am showcasing the new Spellbinders card kit for May. It comes packed with wonderful products and just like always I am going to unbox it, let's take a look on what's included and then I am going to share 3 cards using different bits and pieces from the kit. Just like every month in the kit you will find some inspiration so you get 3 card ideas along with some instructions at the back. You will also get a bag of sequins in this lovely color and just like always you are adhesive so you will get a roll of double sided tape, foam tape, as long as 10 white cards and 10 envelopes. Now these are the dies this month. There are 11 dies, 2 of them are the lovely window frames.  And here is the stamp set for this month with a lovely mason jar, lots of sentiments, a couple of cards and lots and lots of butterflies and you can see that the butterflies match the shapes of the dies so you can use the ties to cut them out and pop them on your project. In the kit you will find many different stickers but all of them are different quality so let's take a look at the puffy stickers first. These are quite dimensional, they are tiny tiny but they match perfectly with all the colors and the designs of the kit. I will use a couple of those on my first card for today. Moving on to the next package of fast stickers. Now this one is paper stickers but they are dimensional so there is foam square in between different layers and hopefully you can pick up the dimension here. These are roughly as focal points nice and big and you can combine them with the matching pattern papers from the kit to create instant cards. I will be using one of those for my second card and let's move on to the butterfly stickers. These are again dimensional paper stickers and they are absolutely gorgeous. I will be using one of the butterflies for my third card. The paper is really great quality, it looks as if it is fabric and let's take a quick look on the pattern paper. This is a 6x6 pad, there are 20 different designs and you get two pages of its design. Some of them are specialty papers so you will find that they have cold foiling on top of them. Also notice that these pages are not double sided so you don't have to sacrifice anything when you are using a design. Now let's take a look at the cardstock, 9 different colors, one of them is cold foiled. And now on my favorite part, every month I am always anxious to open up the diecats so I am going to lay them all over my craft mat and you can take a look on what's included. There are hundreds of them, you get two of each design, I like to spread them out so I can see exactly what I have and I kind of arrange them in areas like all the sentiments in one space, all the flowers and leaves on the other so that I can easily put things together for the top of my cards. And let's start with the first card for today, for this one I am going for a little scene on top of my card, I am using my scissors and I am going to cut out from this green pattern paper a couple of heels.  Now I am going to place one on top of the other, for the bottom one I am going with my Nouveau Deluxe glue, so this is going to lay flat on my card base and then for the next one I will add some foam squares at the back just to pop it on top so I give some dimension on my little scene. And now that you have your ground down on your card base you can pick up bits and pieces from the diecats and create your little scene. I went with trees with some of the pink clouds and I also added the bike. Now notice that just because I want to have everything nicely leveled I am adding some foam square on some of the trees so that they are leveled with the top here. And for the bike I am using glue as well as a foam square just to make sure that it is going to be nicely popped. Now this tree is going to be at the background, that's why I used a glue at the back so it lays flat. I am using my scissors to make sure that everything is nicely and tidy all around. And before I go ahead and stick the clouds I am going to stamp the sentiment just to make sure that I have enough space there. I am going to use black ink and just stamp it there. I went with the sentiment from the stamp set that says Oh Happy Day and now I am going to finish off the little scene by sticking down the clouds. And again for this I went with Novodolux glue so they lay flat. And now I brought in the puffy stickers just because they are tiny. I think the dimensions work really great with my little scene.  I am playing a little bit and trying to decide where this is going to go. And you can see that these stickers are quite forgiving. You can peel them off and place them somewhere else until you are happy. And I would go with a dot of glue at the back just to make sure that they are not going to fall on me later on. I am going to place this panel on top of my card base with foam paper at the back for some dimension and this is going to complete my first card for the day. And here are some close-up photos. For my second card I am going with this wonderful pattern paper that has falling on top.  Now the cut is looking up and I think that having butterflies flying there is going to be great. You can use the bigger butterflies if you like. It would work great as well. You can stamp butterflies with a stamp set or you can even use the tie cuts included in the kit. Now you can also go with the pink cut which is dimensional. But just for this card I decided to go with blue. I love the contrast against that beautiful pattern paper. Now just because I want to give my cut kind of a ground so that it doesn't float there I am going to stick this thin strip of a gold cardstock down there and I am going to place the cut as if it is standing there. Now I am going to pick up those dimensional stickers and you can see that they come all together plus they have a sentiment so it is perfect for my cut. And as I place this panel on top of my card base I didn't like the bottom part so I am just going to use my scissors and cut it completely off leaving that gold edge as the bottom of this panel. And to balance it up so that the dimensions work great with my card base I am going to chop off a little bit from the right side of this panel. And I like the design much better now I think it is well balanced I am going to use my glue and stick this panel directly on top of my card base and my second card is ready. And here are some close up photos. For the third card for today I am going to play with the butterflies and the dyes. I used the dyes to cut out this lovely frame out of white cardstock and I am also going to use the other frame die to cut out a window from this gold cardstock. So I have this white panel this is where I cut out this frame. So now I am going to use glue at the back of the white frame and stick it on top of the gold one. This way I will end up having gold peeking through that lovely frame. And now I can place on top the other panel and you see that it fits beautifully. It is going to provide a lovely embellishment for the top of my card and you can attack inside pretty much anything it is the perfect place to add any focal point. This card is going to end up looking really gorgeous and super elegant and I think it is my favorite from all three of the cards that I made today. Let me know in the comments below which one is your favorite.  I am also going to use the leaves and flowers dies so that I can cut out bits and pieces to embellish my frame. I am going to stamp the word hello so that my sentiment reads hello lovely and I stamped that so that it is going to look nested in between the word lovely. I am going to stick that down. Now I want to have gold at the back of my frame as well as peeking all around the panel. That is why I am going to use foam tape at the back and stick that on top of a four-and-a-quarter by five-and-a-half gold cardstock that was included in the kit. And then I will go ahead and work with the flowers and the leaves and I am going to create a little cluster on one side of the frame and you can see I went with blue flowers. I was thinking ahead here I wanted to use one of the blue butterflies as my focal point and I didn't want to add too many colors on my card. I have this rule on my head that when I use too many colors the card may look super happy but it doesn't look elegant and since I was going for a very elegant look I decided to keep the colors too minimal. That's why I am using blue flowers and I combined that with the blue butterflies. And here are some close-up photos on the third card for today. Spell binder card kits never disappoint, they are always packed with wonderful goodies. I hope that you had fun and that you got inspired as I was playing with the May card kit. Thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you all next time.


What is the film you're most looking, Indian film, you're most looking forward to? Now? Yeah, now. KGF2. KGF2, yep. KGF2, because my expectations have been so high for that for so long, and because RRR exceeded the hopes, I'm believing KGF2 is going to do the exact same thing. So the thought of getting blown away again is, what are you? I love getting blown. Hey, welcome back to our two-part series, Tim Corbyn. Right here. Nice, I didn't even see the set up there. Today we got a cricket, it's called What the Moments in Cricket. Oh. So crazy.  Okay, good. I don't know what the front door means.  Anyway, I suspect there'll be something with an animal and maybe even a fan. Oh, where'd it go? Oh, it's in his pants.  What just happened? Oh, my stars. What is that? Did you see that? That's something I've hadn't seen. That was like, not even remotely close. It's buffering forever now. Here we go.  Whoa, the speed on that, it like went backwards. Did you see the movement on that ball? Why isn't he wearing a helmet? Good question. None of them are. Was this before helmet rules? Or is that the same clip? What's going on? What just happened? Excellent delivery. Oh, what a mistake. Dearie, dearie, mate.  I bought him maybe to eat the stubs, he can't believe it. Just give me himself. Right down the middle, that was a strike. He just let him do it. Actually, that will look like a screwball. Oops. Oh! Did the bat break? I've seen that. It sure did. We asked if that ever happened at some point. Oh, wow. So he hit it into it. So if the ball hits it via them batting it, he must be out. I think the ball's so nicely. Why didn't she get him out? She forgot to hit the... Why didn't she hit the wickets? That's a good question. What happened? Did it hit her hand? Just like Billy Martin would do if he was a cricket player. What are you doing, man?  It just froze. Didn't do anything. Oh, that's what happened. That makes sense from that angle. Yeah, it just looked like he didn't go for it. Does that mean he's out? I guess so. He can't touch the wickets in any way, shape, or form. That was strange. Oh, wow. Swing and a miss. Way out in front. Way out in front. Swicking and a miss. What happened? Was it on the delivery? I still don't know what happened. Oh, the bat went out of his hand. Oh, he kind of needed that. Oh, what a delivery that is. I'm hopelessly out of position. I've never seen anything like that ever. That is a wide. Oh, it hit a crack. Why is there a crack on the... Ow! Did it hit him? Did it be blocking? Yep, he blocked. Right on the boot. Yeah, right on the foot. Doesn't see it. Not seen that at all. Oh, mama! He's gone. He can't see it. Can't, he's gone. Believe it. There's quite a high full toss. Oh, jeez. Mommy. Yeah, it sure hit middle and off stumps. It hit the stumps. I didn't see what was going on. Lazy running between the wickets. Oh, he didn't. He didn't even stick the bat out. Yeah, that's like a guy... That's like a guy walking the first base on a ground ball. He's like, just gave up. He would have been safe if he stuck his bat over the line. Why didn't he stick his bat out? They're reviewing that? Show it again. Didn't look like it even touched the bat. Didn't come anywhere near the bat. Oh, whoa! Got his first wicket. As you can see, it was... Oops. I'm on a bummer. Snap it. Two, three, four. What can I have if that is a chance? Go on the biggie. What a bummer. Oh my God. Poor guy. They both went down. That's gone up in the air. Who's calling for it? Say it, Ajmo. Keeper. Oh, I've got to talk. Oh. Well, it was a keeper's catch. He's the man with the gloves. And it should have taken it. So either... That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. They're in that area. And for pop-ups, there are certain times that would be comparable to, say, like in a baseball game. If there's a pop-up around home plate and the pitcher came in to get it, that would be really, really bad because that's the catcher's call. Yeah. And you're supposed to just get out of the catcher's way. So, yeah, I thought... I've loved them. I thought we might get some really, really, because it was, you know, WTF moments. I thought we'd get some really strange things, like a cat on the field or... Well, you've seen that. I think they hit a bird, right? Like they did in baseball that one time. Birds are always in... Poor birds! It's funny, they don't get involved in football games. Either NFL or soccer. I don't remember seeing them... Yeah. Usually baseball stadiums are older, isn't it? Older and more wide open. Yeah. They're not as enclosed. Most soccer and football stadiums are all enclosed. But there has been some animal stuff on... I think there was a squirrel on some... There was a bat at an NBA game. Inside, yeah. A bat inside the... I remember that. Anyway, sounds great. Let's do one of the cricket videos we should react to down below.


So this didn't make the show last week, but I had to talk about it because even for Tucker Carlson This is pretty brazen. This is very very brazen So on national television the most popular news pundit in America is literally going to Recite the great replacement theory Which for those of you unaware is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has literally fueled mass shootings But Tucker Carlson is going to casually promote this idea on National television now I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become Literally hysterical if you use the term replacement if you suggest the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current Electorate the voters now casting ballots with new people more obedient voters from the third world But they become hysterical because that's that's what's happening. Actually, let's just say it. That's true If if look if this was happening in your house if you were in sixth grade for example And without telling you your kid your parents adopted a bunch of new siblings and gave them brand new bikes And let them stay up later and help them with their homework and gave them twice the allowance that they gave you You would say to your siblings, you know I think we're being replaced by by kids that our parents love more and it'd be kind of hard to argue against you because Look at the evidence So this matters on a bunch of different levels, but on the most basic level It's a voting rights question in a democracy One person equals one vote if you change the population you dilute the political power of the people who live there So every time they import a new voter. I become Disenfranchised as a current voter, so I don't know you don't understand this I mean everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. Ooh the you know white replacement there No, no, no. This is a voting rights question. I have less political power because they're importing a brand new electorate Why should I sit back and take that the power that I have as an American guaranteed at birth is one man one vote and they're diluting it No, they're not allowed to do that. Why are we putting up with this? He is One step away from just outright calling for a white ethno state and if he did I honestly wouldn't be surprised and You could already anticipate the way he'd respond Oh well those who are criticizing me for saying that whites should have their own country that is, you know To the exclusion of black and brown people They're just trying to be hyper woke in all this nonsense But I mean you and I know that this is the truth, right? The fact that they're trying to criticize me is more evidence that I'm correct. I Mean wow again, even for Tucker Carlson He's really just he's saying the quiet part out loud and he knows that he can get away with Whatever he wants because regardless of how disgusting the rhetoric he's used regardless of how explicit his white supremacy is There hasn't been much backlash I mean what advertisers pull ads from Fox News for a week or so and then they're right back to it He brings in ratings for Fox News, so they're not gonna get rid of them. In fact, they just gave him another show He says the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate the white electorate By the way with new more obedient voters from the third world as if acquiring Citizenship and the ability to vote is that easy. I mean if you're an actual American citizen It's already fairly difficult to vote in America in Georgia They just created a voter suppression law that makes it more difficult for black Georgians to vote and yet He thinks that it's so easy to just import voters from the third world and He says if you change the population you dilute the political power of the people who live here So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter So let me just put things in a perspective. We have a government that is bought and paid for by corporate America and there's been study after study that shows that Americans have zero impact on policy outcomes But what Tucker Carlson is worried about is that more black and brown people are gonna be voting. That's the threat is that brown votes are diluting white votes. It's not corporations, but yet This is about voting rights. He cares about democracy Well, if you actually cared about democracy and voting rights, I wouldn't necessarily be focusing on This issue. I'd be focusing on getting money out of politics decommodifying elections But we know what this is about. This isn't about voting rights. This is about white supremacy an Individual who claimed that immigrants are making America dirtier I don't think you have to dive that deep to try to find out what his underlying agenda is and Notice how he asks why are we putting up with this and this almost sounds like an implicit call to action to white Supremacists, but here's the thing the great replacement theory inherently is a call to action This is part of the reason why white supremacists Have carried out mass shootings as media matters explains the great replacement theory has inspired a bloody trail of horrific events across the world The racist mass shooters in both Christchurch New Zealand and El Paso, Texas wrote of their belief in the theory the neo-nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia Did so to chance of Jews will not replace us and you will not replace us these events shocked people around the globe But the beliefs that motivated them are not confined to the dark corners of online message boards They are increasingly present in the mainstream right wing lexicon Especially where Carlson is involved following the murder of 51 people in a New Zealand mosque Nathan Robinson and the Guardian pointed to the striking parallels between Carlson's own writing and the writing of the shooter in his Manifesto, this is what Nathan J. Robinson writes here for example in a passage from Carlson's most recent book on the topic of why Diversity makes us weaker. He writes quote when confronted or pressed for details proponents of diversity retreat into a familiar Platitude which they repeat like a Zen cone diversity is our strength But is diversity our strength the less we have in common the stronger we are is that true of families? Is it true in neighborhoods or businesses? Of course not then why is it true of America? Nobody knows nobody's even allowed to ask the question and here is an excerpt from the Manifesto Issued by the man who killed 51 people in a New Zealand mosque. Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength? Does anyone even ask why it is spoken like a mantra and repeated ad infinitum?  And how does diversity increase that strength? What part of diversity causes this increase in strength? No one can give an answer the resemblance there is uncanny. It's almost like Tucker Carlson Is inspiring these white supremacists He's legitimizing and validating their white supremacist worldviews and the el paso shooter in his manifesto Also referenced the great replacement now people are going to say well sure these crazy folks. They're gonna They're gonna, you know, justify whatever these are deranged people, right? It doesn't matter what Tucker Carlson says Really individual responsibility is what matters most, you know If they're the ones that take up violence then, you know, that doesn't necessarily mean that Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist because he may Or may not be, you know inspiring white supremacists But when you juxtapose Tucker Carlson's rhetoric with the rhetoric of white supremacists and actual neo nazis You're gonna see that the resemblance Is very very similar take a look at this compilation that media matters put together Diversity is our strength They screech as if that settles the conversation by itself like a magic talisman diversity. We hear about it non-stop It's the mainstream motto. How precisely is diversity our strength? Since you've made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it Can you think for example of other institutions such as I don't know marriage or military units in which the less people have in common The more cohesive they are Do you get along better with your neighbors or your co-workers if you can't understand each other or share no common values? The problem comes from people who are different in race language religion ethnicity Trying to share the same territory. Look at Great Britain. Look at France.  Look at the history of multiracial nations It's a history of conflict. It's a history of distrust and it's ultimately a history of blood and tears Latin american countries are changing election outcomes here By forcing demographic change on this country to rate that american voters consistently say they don't want It sounds to me like we got a problem with people who got here legally Uh, uh altering the uh the landscape politically. I don't like it.  Stop it And notice where this change is not happening any place our leaders live They caused all of this with their reckless immigration policies and yet their own neighborhoods are basically unchanged. They look like it's 1960 No demographic change at all in their zip codes Our leaders are for diversity just not where they live. I find frankly the kind of hypocrisy expressed by these alleged champions of diversity that be quite contemptible They themselves can live in a way to insulate themselves From the brute strangeness of people that don't speak english Our humans religion and culture are drastically different from there. Hazelton's population was 2 Hispanic Just 16 years later. Hazelton is majority Hispanic. That's a lot of change People who grew up in Hazelton returned to find out they can't communicate with the people who now live there And that's bewildering for people. That's happening all over the country There is a campaign to make european americans a minority in this country Their goal is to change your country forever and they're succeeding by the way We are being systematically And deliberately replaced.  Would that be hate speech? I'm attacking you Because of your membership in a group It could incite violence white privilege being taught at universities, which is meant to build up a stigma Build up hatred and potentially pave the way for violence against white people as vice.com So saintly put it a couple of years ago quote it is literally impossible to be racist to a white person Pretty much the entire left now takes that as a matter of faith. They deeply believe that But what does that mean exactly? But the real racism today is not by white people It's against white people terrorism may be bad But raising doubts about multiculturalism is worse foreigners come to our countries and kill our people You'd think our leaders would blame them, but no they blame us who live here They blame our history. They blame our culture. Our opinions are religion. It's our fault That is their core assumption and you see it in all they say Let me remind you that this isn't some fringe youtuber This isn't some You know twitter account. This isn't some poster on the daily storm message boards. This is a national news icon who has the most popular news show in america And what he says sounds indistinguishable from neo nazis And when he addressed the backlash that he knew he'd trigger on his program on monday guess what he did Knowing that there'd be no consequences He doubled down and proceeded to laugh at the folks who were correctly and justifiably mad At what he said at least one prediction came true right away All those little gatekeepers on twitter did become hysterical Based on the last four days jumping up and down furiously trying once again to pull the show off the air Once again, they will fail though. It is amusing to see them keep at it. They get so enraged. It's a riot But why all the anger if someone says something you think is wrong as your first instinct to hurt them Probably not normal people don't respond that way If you hear something you think is incorrect you try to correct it But getting the facts right is hardly the point of this exercise The point is to prevent unauthorized conversations from starting in the first place shut up racist no more questions You've heard that before You wonder how much longer they imagine americans are going to go along with this an entire country forced to lie about everything all the time It can't go on forever, but you can see why they're trying it Demographic change is the key to the democratic party's political ambitions Let's say that again for emphasis because it is the secret to the entire immigration debate Demographic change is the key to the democratic party's political ambitions In order to win and maintain power democrats plan to change the population of the country They're no longer trying to win you over with their program. They're obviously not trying to improve your life They don't even really care about your vote anymore. Their goal is to make you irrelevant So this is the most dangerous pundit in all of america Fox knows that if they get rid of him He's popular that's going to hurt their ratings and also when they see oan and newsmax Outcrazying them appealing more and more to the far right and even white supremacists. They know they at least need to have one Punda on their program that is going to Appeal to that group if they want to keep making money and again, this is not a news organization. It's a business So that's why tucker carlson Can uh say explicitly white supremacist conspiracy theories and use white supremacist rhetoric And advertisers at this point. They're just like, yeah, I mean it's tucker. That's where the eyeballs are So that's where we're gonna advertise No repercussions whatsoever every single night. He is feeding white supremacist ideas To millions and millions of people think about the long-term damage that this causes to our country And he's also incredibly strategic. He's already co-opted individuals on the left who might critique him every once in a while He'll pepper in a critique against billionaires and maybe he'll bring on a leftist or two and make it seem as if he's on your side He might talk about how war is bad once in a while even though he supported the iraq war and we all know he's lying But people are falling for it people are getting duped by his propaganda And leftists are getting co-opted because they see that sometimes his anti-war Sometimes he's against the corporations and the establishment So he must not be that bad and then if he says white supremacist things once in a while I guess that's the price we gotta pay if he's gonna talk about how bad corporate america is This is all part of a strategy to make white supremacy and white supremacist propaganda more digestible To conservative normies to a broader audience and guess what it is working So I mean if you are able to watch that clip And still defend darker carlson and think well, I don't know what the problem is with this guy Sure, I disagree with him right there But you know, uh, he he talks about how war is bad sometimes You are being duped Don't be a useful idiot for tucker carlson.  It's all a ruse To get everyone more comfortable with white supremacy and he's already won