Do you know this thing that's been going on for the past three months or so? Doesn't it have you thinking like maybe there's something weird going on? Hey there, njroot22.com here with just a little bit of a diatribe rant about this thing. I like to call it this thing because I don't want to use any other words for what has been happening in the last 90 days. I think it's kind of weird that all this stuff has been happening and it's happening at such a breakneck pace that not many people have the brain power to sit down number one and analyze it and number two to figure out the source of all this mayhem that's been taking place and fear and all this other stuff. There's been a lot of people taking advantage of this crisis.  This thing, everything from big lockdowns and regulations and rules, and there's been a lot of hypocritical information out there, like things that don't make sense, that contradict each other, especially recently they had some people speaking out in large groups, whatever you want to call that. I think you know what that is. And they violate those rules that people are saying everybody has to abide by to keep humanity safe but they don't really say anything about, I don't know, 100,000 people standing in close proximity to each other. It just, the hypocrisy is astounding and it's bizarre. And what's even more bizarre is, I mean, I don't know if statistics and charts and reports are even true, they call it something and everybody believes it, which is a little bit odd since nobody can prove it. They're just believing what people utter out of their mouths and that is kind of strange. And also when 90 days ago there was something about, oh, I don't want to use the wrong words here but you can get it by just looking at it practically. That's basically what it was. That's why they had spacing requirements. I'm not going to use that phrase either. But now I guess last week some official organization, not going to say their name, I'm not sure who it is but they're saying now that there's something about, like if you don't have any visible signs, you know in the beginning it was like, if you don't look like you're ill then you can still make other people ill, which is weird. Now 90 days later they're saying, well, that's not the case. So I'm really trying hard to not use the words everybody's used to hearing because that's social programming right there. And everything's inconsistent but one thing that has been sort of consistent is how various organizations, like let's say it's territorial organizations, I don't want to use that word either but they're slowly bringing things back to normal with all these phases and rules and it's like you have to fill out an application, check boxes and it seems very bizarre. I don't know. I mean it's just a whole lot of fear mongering and in the end I really think the people that are taking advantage of this thing are they get off on the control that it has over most people, not this person. I mean I just try to avoid conflict and I'm sort of kind of dancing along the parameters of this whole thing because of other personal issues that I'm not going to mention here because not everybody is as aware of the nonsense that's happening here. So I have to maintain a good household.  I still haven't done it and that's that. So that's it. This thing is just bizarre and I'm really crossing my fingers and hoping that just like the Wizard of Oz that there's some sort of curtain that somebody or some people are behind and so this thing can just go away. They could blow the veil as it's called but this is just something that will go down in history if that ever is ever accurate again in the future, future students and so on. But that's it.


We definitely had a successful pre-season. We had two awesome scrimmages against Salisbury and Elizabeth Town, where we learned a lot. It was great to see some of our strengths play out, but then also realize our challenges moving forward. The team had a great attitude going into pre-season, and it was definitely a success in looking forward to our actual season coming up. Our ultimate goal for the season is to qualify for the MAC tournament again and get back to playing in the MAC tournament more consistently. But our goal every single day is to get 1% better, and so we really preach this to the team that if we can continue to get a little bit better every single day, that hopefully it will help us to achieve our goal at the end. In general, we're really excited about our seven newcomers to the Stevenson Field Hockey Program. So we have five incoming freshmen as well as two transfers. Our two transfers, Emma Gladstein and Haley Palmer, are coming to us from the University of Delaware and Towson. So we're really excited about the high-level hockey that they've brought to our Stevenson Field Hockey Program. We're very excited about our new surface over on Owings Mills East. This is the preferred playing surface for field hockey, and we are very, very fortunate to have this surface. As a program, we're still working on our fitness and increasing our hockey IQ so that we can play the style of field hockey that we'd like to play, especially on our brand new surface. During pre-season, we had the opportunity to spend a lot of time bonding on and off the field, and we also introduced our core values to the team. So our core values for the Stevenson Field Hockey Program moving forward are commitment, passion, trust, respect, and well-roundedness.


Before this video starts. I just want to say if this luxury stuff isn't your thing click out of this video because Definitely something you wouldn't like. I don't know why you would have clicked on this anyway in number two. Sorry This is all choppy. I was just super excited about getting the bag And I wasn't even like really concerned about vlogging and everything but more videos are coming about this product I got and yeah, so let's get on with the video. Okay guys It has come and This is a really really big purchase So I'm not even going to give you a reason of why I got this because there's no reason I just got it for myself. So we're gonna unbox this baby then for the people who care They can stay and listen to how I got this because this is a hard to find a product. I'm hoping that it's the 2019 version I'm pretty sure it is. Yeah, so I don't want to bore you guys if you just came to watch the unboxing part Sometimes I watch these videos and they just keep talking and talking about how they got it So let's just open it and then I'll talk about it. Oh My gosh, so there's the Louis Vuitton thing. I've never actually ordered an online purchase I've purchased pre-loved and I purchased in store and this is my first online purchase Okay, so here's the receipts and stuff. I'll go into that a little later. Okay, so that's everything in this box I'm a little bit sad. I didn't get a gift bag and stuff because like I've seen other people like do these things and they've gotten Gift bags, but whatever. So first, let's open the receipt My very first Louis Vuitton was a pre-loved one and it was like the really old version of this stuff This says thank you for shopping with Louis Vuitton Your product has been crafted by experienced artisans with exclusive materials to learn more about preserving your item Please visit us online or at a Louis Vuitton store. Okay, that's just like a letter and then this is Louis Vuitton exchanges and returns So this is like if it's defective or something or I don't like the product which I've never seen this product in person Which is weird to say that I bought it, but that's okay. Then I have the receipt here. Oh my gosh I'm so excited. Oh my gosh. They say my associate is a smartphone. That is so funny It says my associate is a smartphone. Then we have the Return address label in case I want to return it. So let's get on with the unboxing. Oh My gosh, it's so cute. Oh, it's so soft and pliable.  It's insane. All right, I'm gonna stop laughing It's the new version. It's a new version It's the new version the straps This is amazing. Okay, I'm getting way too excited for you guys wondering This is the mini Palm Springs backpack. This is the product number. This is all in a different language Oh, wait, it's all in a bunch of different languages. So this looks like a care booklet It just has like all these instructions in it Instructions are like care. This is the textile card. Whoa guys. I can't get over this Okay, well first I want to see if my camera that I'm filming on fits in here It just feels so nice and then the date code is back here. Oh, man I'm gonna have to move. I'm gonna have to do his handheld cuz it's like super hard to get back in there It was made in the USA I don't really care where my Louis Vuitton products are made from like honestly. I just like the bag So okay guys, so I finally got this to cooperate kind of so this is kind of hard to do because it's placed in a Really weird section of the bag, but the date code is TX 5109 So it was made on the 50th week of 2019 in Texas. I do believe because it was made in America So this is a Canon M50. It's kind of like large. That's one thing that I don't like about it I'm gonna do a whole like review and everything on this camera, but it's really big It can fit in here. So I'm happy about that. So all I'm gonna do I Kind of put it on the lens. So it's kind of upside down. Sorry. I'm not doing a hot job filming But this is what it looks like So it does in fact fit the camera in the bag and I can put all my other stuff all my other crap in there, too There's still some room Here she is in all of her pride and glory. Oh My gosh, the material just feels like so soft for some weird reason This feels a lot softer than my like never full that I just got. That's why I'm like shocked That's the biggest shock that I actually have about this bag is that how soft it is That sounds so weird too. All right. So now I'm gonna put together the little straps here Honestly, people are right about this.  This is so weird. Okay. I think they're supposed to go on like this Okay, so I got the straps on her They aren't as long as I thought they would be I don't know for some weird reason like I thought they would be longer because a lot of people have like Shortened the straps, which I probably might do because I'm so short. I'm only five foot pretty much Yeah, I know our Christmas tree is still up, but this is what the backpack looks like it hangs like pretty low It like hangs near my butt. I think I might try shortening the straps But overall, it's like really comfortable and it's just so soft Like that's what I cannot get over about this backpack because I can guarantee you this is nowhere as soft as This maybe it's a placebo or something. I have no idea. You can wear it like that. You can wear it cross body I don't know if I'd wear a cross body. So this one lady. I saw her video She kind of like doubled the straps or whatever and you can wear it like this. Okay. Well, it's on the shortest setting So clearly I wouldn't wear the bag like this, but it would like hang lower. Obviously. I don't know You could wear it like this. There's like tons of different ways you can wear this I'm thinking that I'm just gonna wear it as a backpack because I kind of want it to be rather than like a cross body Even though maybe like when I go out or whatever and I don't want my backpack behind me I might put it cross body. I don't know but anyway, that is what it looks like on me so now I'm going to get into how I got the bag and Everything like that how I got it stalking the website I literally would just be on the Louis Vuitton website and just refresh the page and it always said notify me Underneath the like the little thing when it with the Palm Springs and stuff So I was at work one day and I was like refreshing the page So I refreshed it and it said place in cart and I was like, holy cow. This never happens So I quickly texted Sherry and I was like, hey So the bag that I've been really wanting I was originally gonna look for this and everything in New York City because I'm going to New York in February and I was like, oh it'd be like really cool to shop on Fifth Avenue and maybe get a bag of some sort So originally I was gonna look for this in New York City and just like wait it out But you know, there's always some hope that I had and I've heard people say stock the website So I texted Sherry and she responded and I kept refreshing it and still said place in cart and this was like around 2 p.m. 2 30 Eastern Standard Time and She still didn't respond so like 20 minutes later or about 15 it was gone Like it was automatically already gone. So I was like, okay, never mind. It's gone And she responded then after that and said, oh wow and then I was like, okay So I knew it wasn't meant to be and I should just like move on with my life But then I just kept stocking the website because so many times people were just like stock the website Just refresh the page at random times. So a couple days later I think I was sitting on my couch. It was 9 a.m. I was like, you know, I'm gonna just check, you know so then I refreshed the page and There and behold was the place in cart and like it's meant to be mine So I quickly placed in my cart and checked out and then I was like, oh my gosh Can't believe I spent all that I'm that type of person that like if I want something like it's not like I just go out and buy it like I did this But I do a lot of research and I have been watching so many videos on this bag This is a really dumb dumb reason, but like my vlog camera since it's like a lot bigger now It can't really fit in my cross body my favorite MM bag And I was contemplating on selling that but then I was like and I mean if times get tough Like I can always sell it and it will sell pretty fast. That's a rare item as well So Sherry doesn't want me to sell that one either So I've just kept it and I just bought the bag waited for it to come and here she is so That is kind of how I got this item. It just stock the website and Don't give up on like what you want or you can always look on the pre-loved market But the reason why I didn't really want to go pre-loved or anything. This is like the highest priced item I've ever like purchased which is kind of insane and crazy to some of you guys But I wanted to get it from a source that I knew I could return it so many things on the pre-loved market are not Returnable and I wanted to be able to return it and if there was any like damages like I would want it You know to have some like security like knowing I could give it back or return it or whatever So yeah, that is pretty much it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed it Don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye


Burst with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a ha-hey-hay-oh-silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion total, the daring and resourceful mask writer of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver, the lone ranger rides again. As Lobo Grady and Judd Kohler were captured in the Texas town of Armadillo by Marshall Pete Cooper and his posse. The cooks were locked in the cells which were in the rear of the Marshall's office. While the trophy rode away in search of others in the outlaw gang, Marshall Cooper remained with his prisoners. A short time later a man gray-haired and benign looking entered the Marshall's office. He had a disarming smile and his manner was at once timid and confidential. I don't know how to say this because... well, because... Well, go ahead, mister. What's on your mind? Will be it. Will I speak to your move? Well, there's no now, sir, mister. But if you want to get those prisoners back there from overhearing, it's all right with me.   What? Give me that gun! Here it is. I'll take care of you. Hey, boy, speak, tap-tap. I'll get the keys and let you have the minute. Give me those keys, Marshal. There, that's you. The gray-haired man released Lobo Grady and Judd Kohler from their cells, then led them back into the Marshall's office. I figured out this little trick myself. It worked out fine. Now, Lobo... Sure did. Judd and I said we were calling her sure this time. Where are the boys now, tap-tap? They're leading the party on a false trail. They'll double back and meet outside town. Yeah, boys. Sure. Yours and Judd's are where the Marshal left them, in the stable at the rear of the jail.  Just a minute, then. Hey, what are you doing in the Marshall now, tap-tap? Just investigating. He's still bleeding, but it's not going to be for long. What are you taking out of his pocket? His wallet. If he has papers of identification in it, I think I'll take his badge, too. Boys, I can think of a lot of times when a Marshal's badge makes me in handy. You ready to go? Sure. I'll leave the way out. The Long Ranger and Tahoe traveling north reached the town of Armadillo early that morning. The town was not yet awake, so the mask man rode through the deserted main street with Tahoe and stopped before the Marshal's office, half an hour after the crooks had escaped. Look out. To drop in and tell Marshal Cooper we met his posse south of town looking for the rest of Lobo Grady's gang. It good him have crooks behind bars. Them bad ones. Grady and Kohler are among the worst, Tahoe. Let's go inside. Marshal Cooper? He's been shot. The cells are empty. Grady and Kohler have escaped. Tahoe, get the medical kit from my saddlebag, please. Let me get it. The Long Ranger and Tahoe treated the wounded lawman, and when the flow of blood had stopped, carried him to the doctor's office nearby. There, as he lay on a cot, Marshal Cooper regained consciousness for a few moments. Laboriously, he gasped a few words. They go shout. I heard them say that. We were south of town. They didn't leave the main trail, that's sure. How many were there? Only three. Trick me. You shot me. We know the rest. Marshal, who was the man who tricked you and helped him escape, you know? Tap, tap. They called him tap, tap. He must have been. He must have been. Tap, tap. That doesn't make sense, does it? It makes very good sense, doctor. He must be speaking of tap, tap spalling. That's a man's name, tap, tap. The nickname his given name was Edward. But why? Why the tap, tap name? Doctors because spalling was once a telegraph operator. Unfortunately, he was a crook before he became a telegrapher. The telegraph company didn't know that? No one did. Spaulding's always been able to fool people. Anyway, as an operator, he learned many things about shipments of money and valuables. When he had inside information like that, he'd pass it on to the gangs he worked with. What company? Find out. That's right. However, spaulding escaped before they could arrest him. He's been an active outlaw ever since. I've never heard of him before. Doctor, that's because he operated mostly near Dodge City. Famous Mobile Grady and Judd Kohler. They came to Texas Territory because the law was too close to them in Kansas. None of them are known here. That's why they're doubly dangerous. Marshall Cooper said they fled south, didn't he? Yes, that's what he said. I wonder if they really are heading that way. The outlaws headed southward for a short distance. Then they rode around the town and sped through the shale-covered hills to the north, where the rest of the gang waited. Mobile Grady spoke to his men. Boys, even if the Marshalls' men do figure we've doubled back, they'll never be able to pick up our trail of these hills. That's right. The ground's nothing but rocks and shale between here and Jarco City. I figured the best thing we can do is ride until we get into Indian Territory. Plenty of pickings up there for us. What about Grubb, logo? We clean out of it. I'll tell you what. We'll be in the hills near Jarco City about nightfall. When we get there, we'll send Tap-Tap into town to look things over. There's a general store there. If Tap-Tap gives the word, we'll ride in and get Grubby to buy Robin in or pay him. Well, there's something else we'll let it do first, though. What's that, Tap-Tap? They have telegraph wires strung all along the trail between here and places north. We'd better cut them down. You mean that? Sure. You don't want the Marshal to send word along the line about us, do you? No. Then we don't let him. I'll climb one of the poles and cut the wires from the north on our medulla. It'll be days, maybe, before they find where the break is. I'll do it right now. At that moment a few miles to the north, but on the main trail, a herd of 50 horses was being driven to the north. The riders were led by the two handsome sons of a Mexican horse breeder and his American wife. The youths, Juan and Miguel Fierro, were the only ones who spoke English, and this was the language they used in their conversation as they rode. Miguel, the day is hot. Soon I think we must stop and rest. But Juan, we make such poor time. At the rate we go, we never will reach this place, Colby. We're going to get there. But Juan, we make such poor time. At the rate we go, we never will reach this place called Dodge City. Well, I think you are very wrong, brother. We are very close, I think, to the schedule that father made for us. No, that may be so. Still I am the impatient one. Not knowing this country is hard to judge one. Miguel, the horses, look! These tempis across the field, they had put it... But now they stop. Don't you see why, brother? But, yes, I see, they have smelled water, and there's a stream nearby. Ah, they stopped the train. Ah, yes. Don Miguel, we do as the horses do. We stop and drink alcohol. The low ranger and talker had left Marshall Cooper in the doctor's care and also left a message for the Marshall's posse when it returned. They left the trail of the three outlaws following the hoop prints from the Marshall's stable. But they were not surprised when they saw the prints circled around to the north. They're doubling back again, Toto. We're heading north. Ah, I'm going to Hill. It'll be difficult to follow a trail there. All shale and boulders between here and Jarco City. We go after them, quimacubbies. Yes, Toto. We stay on the main road for the first few miles and head into the Hill after that to make better time that way. Come on, Toto. The lone ranger and talker galloping along the main road reached the field where Juan and Miguel Fierro and their riders were preparing to start off once more with their herd of horses. The Mexicans reached for their guns as they saw the mask man and Indian. But the lone ranger and talker raised their hands high in peaceful salute. The mask man introduced himself to the brothers and heard their story. Juan Fierro finished. Horses which my father raised in our ranch are the best in all North Megas. We know our American friends will pay great prices for them because they are wonderful horses. There's a great market for animals like those in Dodd City. I'm sure your venture will be very successful. That is nice for you to say, Senor. Still, fine as our horses are, I would trade them all gladly for that wonderful white one you ride. Is he not a beauty me well? They're the most magnificent ever I'd ever seen. The brothers and their riders after admiring Silver and Scout ask questions about the country to the north of them. The lone ranger told them all he thought might be pertinent and ended. You should reach Jerko's city about some time. I'd advise you to stay in the town overnight. With these horses, Senor, we should remain in the town? Yes. Todd and I are searching for an outlaw band. We believe they're somewhere in the hills above. I doubt that the outlaw would try to steal your horses but there's just a chance that they think they're not being followed. Oh, but such a thing would be most tragic. That's why I advise you're taking the horses into the town. You'll find a large corral behind Phil Allen's table. Phil Allen. Now, we remember that name one. But yes. A good night's rest at a hotel would be good for you and your man after so many days on the trail. Senor, we thank you very much for the advice we've given to us. But will you not honor us by riding with us for a while? I know. Thank you. How long are you going into the hills now? Perhaps we'll meet again on the trail before you reach Dodd City. But right now, we think only of getting to Jarco City. Adios, Senor. Adios, amigos. Come on. Come on. Come on. The outlaw gang have written hard and with great cunning. They reached the hills above Jarco City, shortly before sunset, and took Haven amidst a great field of giant boulders. Okay, we make much better time than I ever figured out, Jeff. You sure did. Even if the party did pick up our trail. No party ever could. I'm ashamed of it did. None of them would ever think we got a four here in one day's riding. Well, we've got to think about that group now.  You want me to get down to town and look things over, huh? Yeah.  Still, it's better not to take chances. Yeah. We ought to make sure that telegraph service hasn't been restored between there and Armadilla. You said nobody had farmed the curtain. That's right. It should take days, and we can't take chances. Not to be sure. Tap-tap's right. So go ahead, Tap-tap. Look things over and get back here as soon as possible. The curtain falls on the first act of our lone ranger adventure. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Night had fallen when Tap-tap's spaulding returned to the crook's hideout. His manner was excited. Hey, boys. That's like a good thing. We're going to be rich. Real rich. But we'll have to work fast. What are you talking about, Tap-tap? What about group? We're going to get some? I didn't bother to find out about food. Why? Are you fooling? No, no, I'm not. But listen, we're all here. Yeah, what is it, Tap-tap? What brings the biggest money returns in Indian territory? Red-eye. How you're armed. That brings chicken feet compared to what you get for a good horse. Horses sell as high as $500 a piece there. Can you come back and tell us that? Horses. There's about 40 or 50 horses down there in Jocko's city in the corral behind a place called Alan's Stables. We'll take those horses tonight and be on our way north before anybody knows what happened. Oh, local. Horse stealing is the worst thing you can do in this country. We'd never get away with stealing horses. That's that money. That's just it. That money will be easy to get. But we're just as calm and meagol-like as if they belong there. Where as if they belong to you, low boy? You, Judd. What are you trying to get at? Tap-tap told of trying to send a wire to Armadillo and being advised that service was not in order. That means no one's found a cut in the wire. Just like he said, it also means no one knows about Lobo and Judd shooting a marshal and escaping. What has that got to do with horses? I'm coming to that, Judd. Listen. Tap-tap told of seeing the horses and learning of their ownership. He concluded. And only two kids speak English. The rest are Mexis. And for all anyone knows, they could be Horsties. And that's what we're going to make them for. We're going to make them Horsties? Yep. Remember, Lobo? I took Marshal Cooper's badge and papers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I told you it might be in handy. It will.  Ah, you know we haven't. We've never been in these parks before. That's what makes it perfect. We keep cool. And we'll be driving those horses toward Indian Territory tonight. But you still haven't told us how. Yeah, here it is. Who sends telegraph messages, include? Tap-tap. Who can climb a telegraph pole? And by cutting in on the wire, send a message. Tap-tap again. I'll send a message over the wire from that pole down near the road. Pop Henry, elderly telegraph operator at the Jacuzzi Railroad Station, had jumped when the instrument began to tap out a message from Armadillo. The wire's working again. Come something true from Armadillo. By the time the message was completed, he was bug-eyed and hardly able to restrain himself. He was bug-eyed and hardly able to restrain himself. Pop Henry ran through the main street of Jacuzzi, waving the telegram plank at the men who lounged in front of stores and cafes. Horses and pirates! Those makesies! By the time Pop Henry arrived with a message at Sheriff Maxwell's office, half the men in town were standing in the open doorway behind him. As Sheriff Maxwell read the message, Pop Henry turned to the crowd. Boys, those makesies stole that herd of horses they brought into Allen's corral this afternoon. That message came from Marshal Cooper and Armadillo, telling us to hold him. He sent in another Marshal named a Fleming here with the real owners of the horses. Isn't that right, Sheriff? That's what it says here, all right? It appears like they took the horses, drove them out of Armadillo after murdering a couple of hands. And they cut down the telegraph wire so we wouldn't know what happened when they came through here with the horses. Can you imagine them horse thieves having them there to put up the horses for the night? Marshal Cooper describes the brand on the horses. The owner will be here with that Marshal Fleming who's coming with his passing. Well, why don't we do him standing here? There's only one thing to do with horse thieves. Yeah, especially maxi horse thieves. Bring him up. Yeah. Yes, bring him up. He'll light up charges so we can see. We'll have any necktie parties while I'm here. Now stop it. Come back here. I'm the horse. As the crowd headed for the corral behind the stable where the Mexican riders guarded their horses, two horsemen came down from the hills in the darkness to the edge of the town's main street. A lone ranger and tattle had made a vain search through the hills for Lobo Grady's gang and were planning a new course of action. Tattle, glad to share with Maxwell's office. We've helped him at times in the past, perhaps he... Tattle, that crowd's straight ahead. Look, they're carrying torches. There's something wrong there. Come on, Tattle. We get closer to the little she was taking place. They'll never notice us, judging by the way they're milling around. All right, let's go to her. The crowd unheeding, and Sheriff Maxwell tried to keep the men back and become a seating almost hysterical mass. They had fun lynching the Mexicans, whom they dragged from the corrals. To the horse. Oh, no, my dear horse. Listen to him. Can't even talk so you can understand. There's two more staying in the hotel. Get them, they're the leaders. You stay right here. We'll have justice. Out of the way, Sheriff. Hey, here come the other two horse thieves now. While the McWale Fiero, dressing hastily, had run into the street to learn the reason for the riotous outburst in front of the hotel. Before they knew what was wrong, the crowd grabbed them and roughly dragged them to where their Mexican friends stood in terror. Hey, horses, steal horses and murder good men? Well, yes, sir. What are you doing? We are not horses. These horses belong to us. We took them from our home. You hear that? They took them. They stole them. You old man, stand back.  Some trouble riding fast, pushing their horses into the crowd, shooting over the heads of those who held the lynching ropes. Get away from those men.  Do not shoot.  Oh, we mean it. Now, does anyone else want a bullet? Oh, no, no, no, no. Sheriff Maxwell, you know me. Yes, I know you. Man, this man is not an outlaw. He's a man who believes in justice. And there's no justice here if you try to hang these boys and the men who are with them. You call them horse thieves. Why? We're not horse thieves. I try to tell them not. You are, too. Marshal Cooper, I don't know. Who are you, mister? That's Bob Henry, the station master and telegraph operator. The shooting by the Lone Ranger and Toto had quieted the mob, who remained sullen as the masked man and Indian kept their guns leveled. Now, Sheriff Maxwell had his gun ready, and he made his way toward the Lone Ranger looked down on the crowd from his horse. Now, these men, they were about to hang our horse thieves. Still, I can't allow Lincoln to run.  Now, this man said something about Marshal Cooper. Now, what was it? Well, it's telegraph message. Now read it clear so you know what it says. Sheriff Maxwell read the wire purportedly sent by Marshal Cooper of Armadillo. When he finished, the Lone Ranger addressed the crowd and the sheriff at the same time. Marshal Cooper couldn't have sent that message, unless a miracle happened since this morning. He was near death then. What happened? Yes, it's true. He was shot by outlaws who escaped after he'd captured them. Lobo Grady and Judd Kohler, you've heard of them? You mean Marshal Cooper had them under arrest? I didn't know they were in Texas. But they are. And they're somewhere near here now. But the man who shot the Marshal was tap, tap, spaulding. He's another one who... Tap, tap, spaulding, you say? That hungry, skunk of a rattlesnake is the one. Oh, wait, wait. Let me see that message. What time did you receive it? Just a little while ago. The wires were out all day. And that may explain a lot. The old ranger read the message once more, then made a speech to the crowd and topped it by a suggestion. If you have a sense of justice, you want the facts. Do you agree that the message could have been sent in the way I suggest? I didn't know a man could cut in on a wire and send a message. Harper, is there a fact? It sure is. Let's come tap, tap, spaulding the kind who'd do it. Then let's do what the masked man said. As for you Mexican fellas, maybe we're going to have to apologize to you. And believe me, if we're wrong, we're going to do it. Amen? There were a few men on the main street when the horsemen led by Lobo Grady, Judd Kohler and Tap, Tap, Spaulding stopped in front of the sheriff's office a short time later. Tap, tap, wearing Marshall Cooper's badge. Let the way inside. Well, Chef, I see you had the message from Marshall Cooper's hands. I'm Marshall Fleming. Oh, yeah? We didn't expect you here so soon. We've been riding hard all day coming this way. We figured the horse thieves would have had to hear it. I just saw the horses in the crowd behind the table of the street. They're my horses sure. Well, this here's Mr. Gardner who owns the ranch where those horses were stolen from. I have a ranch man with me, Chef. Ready to ride the horses waiting town right away. My foreman. I'm the foreman. I'll get the boys out of the crowd now, if you say the word. Well, I'm not so sure the horses belong to you. This message I have here is in Moscow. It says the brand on the horses is circle bar. That's the choice. Let me see that message. Where do you see that? This message says you. Go on, Tap, Tap. What does it say? What does it say? Man, man. He knows you, Tap, Tap. And you do, Lobo. That's a trick. Oh, I'm shot. Hey, we walked into a trap. He said, look.  They're making that boy's put up their hands. You'll get yours up too, Tap, Tap. You walked into the trap. You tried to lay for someone else, didn't you? Give me that latch, you're wearing. That probably belonged to Marshall Cooper. It did. You and your smart ideas, Tap, Tap. We were going to get a wrist. You're going to go to jail. We're lucky you're not getting a rope because people are almost placed around the necks of innocent persons. Well, Juan, this crowd promised you an apology. Come here and make them give it to you. Stop it, no. The mistake has been made, and we do not want to tell you how ashamed we are. Don't be mad. Yes.  We're never trying to take the law in our hands again. And believe me, we'll never be prejudiced again. Hey, what's the idea of the speeches? I'm shocked. Those are my partners, Judge. We need a doctor. You'll get a doctor after he finishes with a few friends who got the same treatment from the Mashman. He saved them from murder. And he saved you coyotes with the rope in the prison cells. And now after he does all these things, suddenly he is gone. Seniors, who is that Mashman? He's a friend of everyone who's in the right, regardless of who they are or where they come from. He's, well, gone. He's the Lone Ranger. This is a feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated, created by George W. Trendle, produced by Trendle Campbell Muir Incorporated, directed by Charles D. Livingston, and edited by Fran Stryker. The part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beemer.


QuickBooks Online 2022, bank rules, same customer, different income accounts. Get ready because it's go time with QuickBooks Online 2022. Here we are in our bank fee practice file we set up with a 30-day free trial holding down control, scrolling up a bit to get to the 125% currently in the home page otherwise known as the Get Things Done page. In the business view as compared to the accountant view, if you want to change to the accountant view with something you can do by going to the cog up top and switch to the accountant view down below. We will be toggling back and forth between the two views, either here or by jumping to the sample company file currently in the accountant view. Going back over to the bank fee practice file, opening up a couple tabs to put reports in, right-clicking the tab up top to do so and duplicating, back to the tab to the left right-clicking again and duplicating again. As that is thinking, let's jump on over to the sample company file currently in the accountant view looking where the reports are at, left-hand side reports. Going back to the bank fee practice file, we're in the second tab reports are going to be located in the business overview and then in reports, closing the hamburger. We're going to be opening up the balance sheet, the big balance sheet and we're going to go back up top and do the range change from 010121 to 123121, run it. Tab to the right and then go into the business overview again this time looking at the reports of course and closing up the hamburger this time the profit and loss, the P and L otherwise known as the income statement with a range change from 010121 to 123121, run it. And then we're going to go back to the first tab finding our banking information working on bank rules. We're going to be in the banking area, left-hand side transactions up top, banking tab. If you were in the accountant view it would be under the banking, the double banking tab, tab to the left, tab to the top and then we're going to go back on over, close up the hamburger. We've got our three items up top. We're working on the checking account this time looking at rules. We need rules and I'm going to go into the description. I'm going to sort by the description. We're going to be focusing in on Amazon on the deposit side and you might have a situation where you have the same customer but you have different things that you're providing to that customer and as they pull in from the bank feeds you might then want to distinguish them in some way, shape or form if possible. You could have a similar scenario on the other side with the vendors. You might be purchasing different types of things from the same vendor or have some kind of transactions that have a distinguishing factor that you would like to put in place and try to automate it which can be difficult given the fact that all we have on the bank feed information is the amount and then the description which often includes something that we can create the vendor or customer from but often times within this description and if you don't have the full description you might want to hit the cog up top and be toggling between the copy bank detail to the memo to make sure that you have all of the detail that you could be working with because sometimes QuickBooks will try to make a smaller memo so it doesn't have all the junk involved in it but if you're trying to make a more complex rule that's a distinguishing rule some of these other items like the number on the right hand side and so on could be a differentiating factor that might be indicating like a different location even though it's the same company for example or something like that and so we have this differentiating factor with the dot com versus dot co and so on that could help us to then differentiate between the two, put them into two separate accounts if we so choose or possibly put them into two separate locations by account or possibly by using class tracking and I'd like to turn on the class tracking now just to imagine that these two items were from say different locations and I can then try to use this differentiating factor even though it's from the same customer to apply a rule out to the different locations to do that I'm going to right click on the tab up top, duplicate the tab and we're going to go into the cog up top we're going to go into the cog and see if we can get to our accounting we want to go to the account and settings on the left hand side go into the advanced on the left hand side advanced area and we want to go into the categories I'm going to turn on in the categories the class tracking I'm just going to leave it at the class tracking I'm not going to go into the location tracking we'll go into but I'll use the class tracking kind of as a location icon there are some differences between the two although they're going to work in a similar fashion so we're not going to get into a lot of details on the class tracking here but just show you how you can use it in this way and use it basically as a distinguishing factor we have the option down here to have one to the entire transaction and one to each row of the transaction meaning you can kind of split the transaction so the default here is one to each row that's why you have a little bit more flexibility with it then the track locations area where you don't have that option but in any case we're going to leave it at that I'm going to say done and say do you want to leave without saving I'm going to say do you want to leave without saving no I want to save it I want to save it let's save it oh here's the save save it then done so we can actually apply it out let's go back to the first tab now now I'm going to be adding some accounts to it so what I'd like to do is switch to the business view to the accountant view when I add the accounts I'm going to hit the dropdown up top switch to the accountant view so there we have it I'm going to close up the hamburger again so now I'm in the accountant view with my bank feed data and this first one let's imagine this one I'm going to go into it is income and I'm going to say it's applied to location one and I can see that because it has the dot CO as opposed to the COM now the next question is do I want to just have the customer name just be Amazon and just have all of the different variations in my rules all go to the same customer you can do that and you can still have different rules with the same customer or possibly I want to have a distinguishing customer so that I can actually sort this data by customer even though they're the same customer I might want to name them different in my system so I can look at it look it up possibly sort it in that way that's going to be an internal thing that you can decide what to do I'm going to make it a little bit distinct and I'm going to say this is going to be a customer this customer I already have them both set up as distinct customers so I'm going to say that's the one and it's going to go into the revenue now there's two ways we can distinguish the revenue if it were by location I'm going to do both of them so I might go back up and I might say that I wanted to go into add an account I'm going to say that I was going to put it into a let's just call it Amazon revenue just for a generic term so I'm going to say it's going to be an income account and I'm going to hit the drop down and we're going to say this is going to be service income and I'm just going to call it Amazon revenue and I tell you not to do that generally to record it by just the name but just for the generic example to see this difference but I'm going to put L1 for location 1 so that's going to be an indication of the location that it's going to be in and then I'm going to also so that's going to I'm also going to assign a class but not here we're going to assign a class to it too which will also indicate that it's going to be location 1 so let's save it and close it and so there we have that and now I've got this field for the class now which has now been added so I turned on the class tracking I don't have any classes yet I'm going to add a class which is going to be L1 so I'm going to save this so now it's going to record it into that revenue account for this customer and it's going to have a class on the income statement of L1 so let's go ahead and add it adding that so now if I go into the income statement here's going to be my income statement let's run it and then I'm going to hold control and scroll up again and there's my Amazon revenue with L1 indicating location 1 I'm going to open up another report by right clicking on the tab up top and duplicating that tab going into the reports on the left hand side into the reports and then I'm going to close up the hamburger and then looking for a profit and loss by class so here it is here's a profit and loss by customer there it is a profit and loss by class that's the one we want P and L by class a class P and L we're going to go up top and say this is going to be from 010121 to 123121 run it and so now we've got our classes breaking out L1 being broken out this way as well so those are kind of your options and that's where classes can come into play if you want to break out especially the income statement into different sections such as by location for example then you can use that you can also start to use that if you want to break out for a small business business versus personal for example if you're using one file for both or something like that but in any case now you can see those two locations both by the account because I labeled it L1 and by basically it's breaking out by the class tracking obviously the class tracking adds another level of complexity because you have to add a class to every transaction for everything to work properly otherwise it goes into the non-specified class which you can do that as well you can break out only the ones that you want to go into the class but generally you want to assign a class to every transaction in any case we won't go into that more detail there we're going to go back to the first tab and say okay what about the second transaction it's going to be in location 2 that's for this one Amazon.com which is slightly different and say let's say this one is going to go into location 2 I'm going to also indicate that it's a slightly different customer so it's a slightly different customer this is different than that let's say this one's different than that let's pull this one over this one over that's what we want add it I'm going to add it because it's not there there's the customer and I'm going to put this into a new category new category which I'm going to call an income type of account and it's going to be sales and product income and I'm going to call it the name again Amazon which I told you not to do but I'm going to do it Amazon L2 for location 2 save it and close it and then I'm going to put that into a class L2 which I have to add a new class L2 there we have it let's add it and then if I go to the normal P and L over here the normal P and L run it now I can see that I broke it out I broke it out by L1 and L2 for the same Amazon revenue although I named it I wanted to name it exactly the same name but I said Amazon and then Amazon Revenue but the point is it's in L1 and L2 or you got the class tracking now where we can run it again and we see that it's broken out and we can see that by the fact that I put it into two separate accounts and broke them out into two separate columns with the help and use of the class tracking so that's how you can get a little bit more specific on these types of rules because of course the goal is going to be that we can do as much automating as possible so anytime I have something going into multiple different accounts I want to be able to measure and have the difference between how much detail I want in my accounting and then how I can automate that detail that I would like as efficiently as possible and the rules and having them split out or possibly using some of the items in the memo to have some distinguishing factors is one way we can make the rules more efficient


co-host and one of you host. All right, Angela, I've started the recording as you requested. Beautiful, thanks. Welcome, everyone. This is the meeting of the Cultural Council. We're waiting to make quorum. There will not be any votes taken until they get to quorum. But at this time, you can go ahead and discuss and voice opinions on matters on the agenda. Thanks, Angela. And we'll say we're holding this meeting via remote means. Thanks to the governor's ongoing extension of the COVID order. And there's no in-person attendance, but members of the public can access this via Zoom. This was publicly posted. And we don't have any attendees in the waiting room right now, but the recording will be made available on the town's YouTube channel shortly after the meeting. So why don't we go ahead and check audio? And we've heard from everybody, but Rachel, if you could just do it once for the recording. Yes, I'm here. And Christie. I am here. And Julie. Hi, I'm here. And I'm here as well. And we have Angela for the moment. Staff liaison. Okay, so let me just, I'll pull up the agenda that we posted if you just give me a moment. Okay, so we don't have any minutes to approve. We don't have any members of the public. So the next item is a membership update, which has just been a standing item for us because we do need to recruit.  Absolutely. And you've had a few applicants. So now that I know that you're having trouble reaching for them, then let's push this forward and try and get it done. I think because you had such high membership level, we were going to try and wait until that cycle that gets you ready for the next fiscal year. We were going to try and wait until the June cycle. But now that I'm here and I'm witnessing this, let's try and fill that spot. Yeah, I'd like you to email us a list of folks. There was someone in particular that I thought was applying the next fiscal year. Yeah, I think you've had a handful of new applicants this New Year, so I'm happy to pull that list together tomorrow. Sure. Great. And as always, Christy, Rachel, and I speak to myself too. We want to keep on thinking about who might be good prospective candidates for the council. Okay, so grants update. So we have one, as I mentioned, we have one particular request that merits some discussion. But before we get into that one, I want to kind of give kudos to Julianne on the public meeting for setting up the Adobe Acrobat eSignature platform. I just can't speak highly enough of how much paper and headache this has saved. I mean, the amount of time that it takes for grantees to print things, sign them, bring them to the Jones, put them in the mailbox. Angela has to collect them from Town Hall. We have to get them from the library. All that entire process was hours upon hours of just very, very rote work. And Julianne has, we've worked closely with Holly in the treasurer's office, but Julianne has done all the heavy lifting of setting up the technology. So it's now, it's not entirely digital. Of course, folks have the option to print it and sign it if they'd rather, but there's no reason to. It's entirely digital. They do not have that option. We took that away. It's a digital application process via the MCC, and we've moved to an all-digital process. And we are not, everything is to be turned into us for the final grant report via email. Okay. And they agreed to it when they signed all the digital paperwork, so we're good. Okay. So it's an entirely, you heard her here first. It's an entirely digital process, and it has really streamlined things quite a bit. So I'll say that, and then Julianne, I don't know, as the kind of acting treasurer, you wanna speak to the overall grants process? How many have we, have we seen everybody come in now? How many are left outstanding, do you know? I have not been able to prepare for this meeting. We're in a huge push at work, and I have been nonstop around the clock. So I'm sorry. It is nearly, nearly done. Just about everybody in and accounted for. It must be a handful at this point. So there was also a prompting reminder system that was put in place with the digital signing process. So that really helped. Okay. Yeah, I don't see a tracker. So then why don't we go to the matter of substance? And the email thread really lays it all out for you, but I'll just speak to it in case we had had a chance to read back through it. The ancestral, so we had two large grants this year, which supported Black Liberation specifically. The Still We Rise Black Celebration series, we funded at $3,000, which was our largest single grant of the year. And then we had Juneteenth. So well, Juneteenth is an Amherst Cinema specific event, which we funded at $1,500. And then we funded ancestral bridges. And if you're sort of following anything in Amherst, you know that ancestral bridges has been a real sort of national and international highlight for the town. It's the work of Anika Lopes primarily looking at mainly her family roots, but the 54th Regiment, Black soldiers in the Civil War, and really just sort of the incredible legacy of Black citizenship in Amherst. And so ancestral bridges came in with a pretty broad application for called Reclaiming Our Narrative. I'm just looking at the spreadsheet now. Reclaiming Our Narrative and it was a $2,000 award. So in our really second or third tier of most, you know, high cost awards. And I don't have the full application in front of me. So- What are you looking for? They requested $17,760 for the total amount of grant award from us, and just remember because of the Pagache 1776. But yeah, so we granted 2,000 of that to them. Is that what you're looking for? No, but thank you. What were you looking for? No, that's fine. I was actually looking for the grant proposal itself, which Angela has really helpfully put everything on the website. And I have to confess, I was skeptical of this, but you've redacted it in such a way that it really, I think serves a great purpose. So kudos and thank you for doing that. So reclaiming Our Narrative, the grant proposal itself, I can share my screen. Oh, I can't. But if I could share my screen, I would pull up the grant proposal because the first request in that email thread was actually to remove the 1776 reference in the proposal. So I think it was maybe a miscommunication internally. And Julianne, would you give me thank you? Or would somebody give me the privileges to share? Let me see. I'm the co-host now, okay.  Sorry about that. Thank you. No, no problem. Thank you. So here is their original application. And I'm just gonna run down to the So Juneteenth was slated to be their first program. So that is already in the application. And it's a broad overview and it's a broad range of activities that they are really seeking to do. And so the proposed program, just take a second and let's read that if folks can see it. It's very ambivalent. It's very ambivalent. It's very ambivalent. If folks can see it. It's very ambitious. I would say storytelling and narrative mandate that they're trying to take on. Start with a kickoff, a kickoff on Juneteenth. And then more specifics regarding the activity, documenting and broadcasting, the appropriated and erased contributions of Black and Indigenous and Amherst. Led by Anika Lopes and her family. I'm just gonna get down to the budget section here, if you don't mind. So we gave them 2000 and you can see the accounting that gets to 1776, 17,760, stipends for storytellers, elders and intergenerational stories, intern stipends and oversight, and then archival and other technical costs. That's how they got to 17,760. A Juneteenth event that costs $15,000, this is a pretty well-known event and actually Angela might speak to it too. This is a town walk that they take to the tablets. And I should have said that at the outset. They're most known for the Civil War tablets that are at the bangs currently. And I'm embarrassed to say I've had it on my calendar the past couple of years and I have not actually done the full walk but I know several members of this group pretty well and it really is an amazing work and the tablets are amazing. But the Juneteenth event to the tablets is sort of the centerpiece of their grant application, I would say in terms of activities that they're proposing. So thanks for humoring me on that. That's the background. And then you see from the email thread that they declined the grant. They got the letter, it was for 2000 when they had requested 17,000 and change. And then they declined the grant sort of outright without any real explanation. And then the turnaround was just a matter of maybe two or three weeks. I'd have to look at the emails, but it was just a week or two, a short period of time, less than a month. They turned around and they said, can we apply this money for Juneteenth only essentially? So that's, those are the facts as I understand. Julianne, I don't know if you want to kind of... Yeah, I'd like to add to that that the way I read the brief email and we do have a amendment form that others fill out when things get this complex but I don't want to suggest that they do that if we're not going to really seriously look to move forward with it. But they asked if the way I read it, if we could just hand that those funds off as an in addition to the Juneteenth event as to give them more. And the thing that I don't understand about that is kind of the... Is that what it says though? I'm sorry, from the fiscal point of view, how do we just give funds to an event when we don't have all the criteria that they need to meet in the final grant report? Like, it's kind of like saying, oh, well, to be more specific, like what if it was, well, just give it to Amherst Cinema instead. But Julie, it doesn't say that. So I want to pause you there because it doesn't say what I think you're saying it says. Let me reread it, but it didn't sound to me like they were going to... I don't know. I just, I don't necessarily have enough information. It wasn't like there's a specific thing that we're going to do for Juneteenth and we want to apply this $2,000 to that specific thing for Juneteenth. It was very vague to me as to who was getting the funds. It sounded like it was to be given to someone else. It wasn't like, can we still receive these funds but can you give them to Juneteenth? I get the impression Christy wants to say something. Okay, yeah. Let me just, having read the application through, I think they want to just do their Juneteenth part. That's what I think it says. But Christy- But didn't they refuse the money? Wait a minute, did I... They did. They flat out said, thanks, but no thanks. And then the exact words I'm reading in the email was, could you please reallocate the $2,000 to others and take our proposal off the website? That was one part. And then they came back and said, if you might allow us to use the grant you approved for Juneteenth programs, including the gospel choir and storytelling. For the July 4th. Yeah. But they already refused the money. It's like, I don't know. It just seems like, it just seems very confusing. It seems like it's a different project. It seems like, this is sort of at the last minute. I don't know. It just, I mean, administratively, I would be like, no, no, no, no, no. This is terrible precedent. Because then you have people coming back, wait, wait, wait, wait. I've got another, you know, it's like you got to stop it at some point and say, you made a proposal, we offered you this. You said, no, great. If you want it next year, apply again. Like, is there some reason that we have to do this this year? You know, like the money has to go this year. So Christie, I just wanted to speak to this for a second. So having looked at the grant application more closely just now. Wait a minute, which grant application? The one that I screen shared with you a minute ago. Yeah, but sorry, just, is that the original, that was the original grant application. Okay. Yep, yep. They said we don't want the money. Having looked at the original grant application just now, which was a $17,000 request, and having read it again more carefully, you know, with this context, the ancestral bridges Juneteenth event, which is a major undertaking, is clearly described in their original application, which we approved. Now, somewhere along, I don't disagree. This has been very confusing communication. Somewhere along the line, they said, you know what? We don't want it. That's not enough money. We don't want it. And that was, we accepted that. We said, that's fine. We have not taken any administrative action with those funds we are going to, you know, the intent is certainly to do so.  That being said, you know, this is a, we are focused on public benefit and not so much on, you know, that that's our focus. And when I look at this, what I connected reading it through now together is, you know, here is ancestral bridges having taken a second look at their grant application and the funding that we've given them or we had given them approved.  So my initial reaction, to be honest, is slightly different than what y'all are talking about. My initial reaction was, we're already funding Juneteenth on the common in a couple of different ways. We have Amherst Cinema. We actually applied for and got a festivals and projects grant for the town's Juneteenth activity, but ancestral bridges is a nonprofit standalone separate from the town, you know, they are, but they're, as I said, nationally, internationally, you know, very well respected. And they have their own Juneteenth activity, which is the, you know, which includes the walk to the, the walk that ends at the tablets. So when I read this, you know, had they not said, we're giving this money back on January 18th, I would have said, of course, you can use it for the, for your Juneteenth activity. Of course you can. That's literally in your original application, we gave you about 7% of what you asked for. And so you can use that 7% however you want. So to me, the issue is, do we give them a mulligan on this declination of the grant? And that's, that's a big Dewey. That's a big F. It does, it does seem like, I don't want to say, where's my brain? It's, it wouldn't have been as simple still. They still would have had to have done an amendment request to say, we're not doing the whole thing, but we'd like to still keep the funds. Can we amend it to just do this one part? And well, they are required to produce the event as described in the application. And this is just a part of it. And it's a wonderful part of it. And it is something that if they'd come to us for just that, we probably would have supported it. But, but at this point, they couldn't accept the grant funds and only do that one part. They would still, by our requirements have to amend. Yeah, Christy. Okay. A couple of things. Did, let me just ask, get some more information. Did anyone else reject the funding? Has anyone else- Not this year, but it's pretty common. It's pretty common. Okay. It has happened. Yeah. If that's the case that people reject the funding, then we must go to every one of those people and ask them, would they like to re-amend? Would they like to amend their proposal? Because you can't be, this is not something which is presented to our applicants. Like, oh, if you don't like it, come back with a new idea and we'll like give you the money for that. So, like talk about equity, diversity and inclusion. You are privileging one group because we happen to like them and we think this is good and it's positive and it's outreach and they're nationally recognized. I mean, that is not what we are about. We're not the NEH. We're about equity across all the applications. I think this is the kind of thing that gets you front page above the fold on the Hampshire Gazette. This is about backhand dealing, making situations to work for people that you like. And that is just like, that is not, it's not professional. It's probably not legal because the application, there is a procedure for revising. And I mean, this is really the kind of thing that sends me writing a letter to the Hampshire Gazette. I mean, I have to say guys, I find this just, if there was a reason why it had to be this year, like an emergency thing, if we don't do it this year, it's not gonna work. I could see if we had a big court, but I just, Matt, I think this is like, this is the recipe for a disaster, for like a professional disaster. And I just, I will absolutely go on the record. I mean, this is, I feel like the same thing we were up against with the school. This is not about our personal opinion. This is about what are our procedures and following the procedures. And then, so there's nothing, I mean, these are our neighbors, but the point is we are supposed to not deal with favorites. So I just- To speak to procedure, Christy, sorry to interrupt, but to speak to procedure, I questioned that Angela set us down the path of not having a quorum and discussing, because this is getting to being a lot like deliberation. And I didn't think it was appropriate for us to discuss the merits of something to this extent. You know, I feel like this is an inappropriate public meeting that's being recorded and now it's out there. And I really- Exactly. You know, I didn't want to get into the conversation without a quorum. We should not be discussing this. We should not be even discussing this. We have procedures. We have deadlines when things are due. It's March. We're in March. The grant information was sent out six weeks ago.  You can't do that. I just- We do permit that people, once they have signed and even accepted the funds, that if there's a change, it's there required to come back when they change it for an amendment. And if it doesn't meet the criteria that were required to follow for an amendment, then they're required to return those funds. Now, as Matt said, the MCC at the state level has made it easier for simple change of date venue. This is not a simple. Yes. This is not a simple. It's a new proposal. I'm sorry, just because it deals with black people and Amherst is not reason to lump them all together. I mean, that's wrong and racist. And to say, well, they proposed this thing and now we're gonna come up with something else that's by the same group around the same issue. I'm sorry, I'm gonna pause for a second because I can tell that you both have a strong feeling of no, let's end. It's a procedure part, Matt. And I frankly feel very strongly as the host of this meeting that this wasn't simply putting information out there for people to think. We're now into active deliberation and discussion and weighing the merits of something. And this is outside of the way that we are allowed to operate and it has nothing to do about how I would vote. It's just that we are not allowed to operate this way in our capacity. We can have a discussion without a quorum. We may have a discussion without a quorum. We can. Well, I can't put it to a vote that is comfortable with having this discussion, but I know that from my sense of the level of evaluation, of possibly giving funds to someone, this is beyond any topic of conversation that I would have any other time of the year. So I really would like to move to conclude this meeting until we can have a quorum to address it. And Rachel, yeah, if you would like to say something, please. All I was gonna say is that looking at that email chain, it seemed clear to me that they already rejected the funds. They didn't want the money. So to me, that was the end of the story and to have come back. And yeah, I don't know if it's something that should even be entertained the discussion. So the fact that, I mean, we're not going to be voting on any decision anyway, but I think we're here having this, you know, discussion or for me that it seems pretty clear cut that they already didn't want the money and that should be the end of it. That's- Yeah, and so- It's a holistic interpretation, but because what you said about people like grantees having the option of coming back to us and saying, we want to modify this or that or the other about our project. But that's with the understanding that they accepted the grant. They didn't reject it and then come back and then, you know, ask us or something. So I think that based on their initial decision, I don't know if there's even a point to have a conversation about it, to be honest. I mean- Yeah. Rachel, I don't- Procedural as well. So go ahead. Just let me know when you're done. I don't think it's simplistic at all. I think that's the only, you know, that that's a very straightforward point, which is they rejected it. And so if we simply want to hold them to their word on rejecting it, you know, knowing that internally, we have not actually done anything with the funds other than acknowledge their rejection. That's not the point. And that's, excuse me. Well, that's not the point. I mean, the point is we have a set of rules and procedures that we must follow fairly for everybody. And we're talking about breaking those rules and not applying them fairly. Like if we broke the rule and said, oh, we made some huge procedural error, we're going to go back and send out a new email to all the grant people. But we're not saying that. We're talking about singling out someone who, you know, had the initiative to ask. And I think one writes a very nice email and says, this sounds like a wonderful idea. We hope you'll put in a grant for this next year. Okay, can I finish my point though?  So to me, that is the point. And I understand you don't think that's the point. I agree with Rachel that that is the point that they said we declined the funds. I do, I do think that's the point. I think, I just, I think it all the way down that we have to, we have rules, we have quorum rules, we have whatever, that gives us protection as it should as members of the committee. I don't want to be, I don't want to be. Okay, yeah. I don't want to be in the paper. Christy, if you would just please give me a minute to finish my thought. Is that okay? Or should we just end? I really think that we should end because I really don't think that we should be having this discussion. I feel very strongly about that. And we, you know, I can't bring it to a vote. If I had the quorum, I would bring it to a vote to say, are we within our, you know, correct capacity and what we've been appointed to do to have this discussion, but I can't even bring it to a vote. So we're continuing and, Okay. All right. So further recording, we can end now and I won't, I will not finish my thought. Further report. It's okay because to have these thoughts, we should be having them on a quorum because this is an attempt to move towards a decision of which we can't vote, but we're supposed to do that with a quorum. So I know that you have good intentions and just, you know, really want to do right by folks, but we are outside of how we're supposed to operate. So I'd like to end the recording and revisit this when we do have a quorum and can properly address it. And we'll be happy to hear all your thoughts then. Okay. I just want to say, I mean, I've heard out a lot of thoughts from both of you.  I think the fact is that none of us wanted to share our thoughts about this because we shouldn't be sharing our thoughts about it. And then why don't we have to continue to? Public body can meet without a quorum. It's okay. We're not breaking any rules or not breaking any laws. It's fine to have this conversation. That is not how I understand it because I would really like to end this. And I respectfully, you know, like your agreement that we can end the recording and end the meeting and pick this up when we have a quorum, please. Angela is holding, Angela opened this meeting knowing we didn't have a quorum because we can discuss it. Angela opened it because you're asking me to. Excuse me, Matt. Matt, she opened the meeting saying it would be a good record of the attempt to follow through on a scheduled meeting and that we wouldn't, didn't make quorum and therefore we would end it. And we all were like, oh, well, that makes sense. But not that we would get into discussions and deliberation of matters that would then later be voted on when we don't have a quorum and we shouldn't be discussing it. So I'd like to end. It'll be good to get a clarification from her because we've done this before where we've had meetings without quorum and not head votes. So it'd be good to get a clarification for her on that front. I'm happy to end the discussion now. I can tell that folks don't want to have this conversation right now. I wish you all a good night. Thank you, Matt. Thank you, Christy. Enjoy Paris. Thank you, Rachel. Take care. Bye. Julie.


Hey everybody, JR Fisher here, happy Monday. So I want to talk to you guys today about digital marketing and how you can start your career in that. A lot of people, you know, they say, well, gee, I want to sell stuff online. I want to make some money online. I have no idea where to get started. So stick with me in this video because I've got some bonus stuff at the end. But the important thing is that I'm going to give you all the steps you need. So you're not going to wonder anymore. You're going to know exactly what steps you're going to need to take. So, you know, digital marketing has really exploded. It didn't exist, you know, 10 years ago like it does today.  There's a lot of money being spent. Google will do $100 billion this year in ads alone, $100 billion, and Facebook is going to be doing $40 billion. So that's pretty good money, okay? Now I'm not sure if you're new to digital marketing or not. If you're not, if you're new to digital marketing, do me a favor in the comments there. Just put I'm new, I'm brand new to this. Now if you've been doing digital marketing for a long, long time, or maybe you just did it for a year, two or three years, put in the comments, you know, I've been involved for a year. I've been involved for two years, 10 years, whatever. That way I know who's getting to see this video.  So you want to stick around because no matter what level you're at, you're definitely going to get some good information out of this. So the first thing you've got to do is you've got to have a website, okay? I have a lot of people say, can I sell online without a website? Yeah, you can, you know, and some people make a living doing that, but you're never going to build up a business without a website. You're going to need that. You're going to need to be able to collect names, and I'll get into all that in just a second. So the number one step is build a website. Now where you build it is entirely up to you. You know, you can do something like Cartra where you're just building out a few pages. You can do, I prefer WordPress. I love WordPress. WordPress has been around forever, and it's one of the biggest platforms on the planet right now. If you're going to be doing e-commerce, you may want to do Shopify, something along those lines. So any of those things will work, but you do have to have a website.  What niche are you going to be in? Are you going to be in pets? Are you going to be in, I don't know, golfing? Are you going to be in cookware? Whatever it is, pick it. Now once you've picked it, I want you to go make a list of all the top competitors, and you can find them basically by just searching Google. And once you make a list of all these competitors, I want you to go to Ubersuggest. Now I'll put a link in the description for you, but at Ubersuggest, I want you to put in all your competitors and do some research. And this takes time, but this is the quickest, best way to figure out how to build your business. It's going to show you your competition where they're getting all their traffic from. I mean, it's pretty amazing. This is a free tool. Like I said, I'll put a link down there in the description. It's also going to show you what paid traffic they're getting to. So that's super helpful because you'll know where they're running their ads and all that good stuff. And it's also going to show you all of the keywords that your competitors ranking for. So you're really doing a deep dive into these competitors, and you're going to be learning all this stuff about your competitors. And that's step number two, OK? So once you've got all of that together, I want you to do step number three. I want you to go to the top pages report in Ubersuggest. Just click on it, and you're going to see all the pages that your competitors are ranking for, which is pretty neat stuff, right? Now you know what pages, what the competitors are, what the keywords are. It's also going to show you neat stuff like social shares. But here's the cool thing. It's also going to show you, it's going to show you the backlinks. Now the backlinks are where other people are actually linking to that page. And that's going to give you some really cool information because you're going to know the websites that are now linking to those top pages. Now once you've figured out what those top pages are, here's what I want you to do, build a better mousetrap. Here's what I mean by that. If they've got a really good page and it's gone into some detail, I want you to put more detail. And if it's got some images, I want you to put more images. You could even go to five or hire somebody at five or do your own custom images, which would be really nice. If they've got videos, put better videos. In other words, build a better version of what they've already built because you know it's going to rank. It already has.  So that's a really easy thing to do. It just takes some time. There's no cost to that. You just got to put in some effort. So that was number three. Number four, you need to promote your content. So here's how you're going to go about it. You're going to get a list of those people that link. Now you already know that because Ubersuggest told you what pages link. Go to their contact form and send them a message and say, hey look, I just did an article on a subject that I saw you link to on X page. You know, and show the page there so they know what you're referring to. But in my blog, video, article, whatever, I also covered these three points. So I thought you may be interested in it. Now if you do that, you are going to get a ton of traffic. These people are going to start linking to you. You're going to start getting referrals. You're going to start getting more traffic. Now you can't do this for five pages. You can't do it for 100 pages. You've got to do it for like 200 or 300 pages, okay? You've got to send this out to a lot of people. This is a numbers game. Once you've done that, I want you to now go to Twitter search. And just you can type in Google Twitter search and that'll pull up. And in Twitter search, I want you to put those pages in there, the URL of those pages. And what it's going to do is it's going to show you where that page was shared. So it's going to show you all the people that shared that page. Then you need to send a message, a private message to those people who were sharing that page. And what I want you to do is basically the same thing. I see that you've shared this information on Twitter and it's great information. However, I've done a similar article on the same information. But mine also includes these other three items. So now what's going to happen is people are going to see that information that they've already shared. Look at your information and if yours truly is better, guess what they're going to do? They're going to start sharing it. And these are the best people to send a message to because you already know they share information. You've seen it. You've got proof of it, okay? That was step number four. Now step number five, I want you to collect emails. I know, traffic's great, but without getting your own list, you're never going to be able to remark it to these people through emails. Sure, you can remark it through pixels and running ads and all that. But emails are free, okay? So I would suggest you do emails. And I'm going to suggest that you use Cartra for your emails. Cartra is amazing. I'm going to put a link in the description where you can try it out for $1. Now Cartra will, of course, help you build opt-ins and all that kind of good stuff. But the cool thing about Cartra is it's also a funnel builder. It's also a video hosting platform. It's also a landing page maker. It's also a funnel, it's all these things wrapped into ones. You don't have to buy all these softwares. And you can try it out for $1 by clicking the link in the description. So I want you to do that. Now that's number five, collect emails, okay? Very, very important. Number six, I want you to be proactive on your webpage. So on number six, I want you to get Push Crew for WordPress. Now if you're on a WordPress site, you know, just go and search the add-ons there. You're going to find Push Crew. Push Crew is really good. And what it is, it's a little box that's going to pop up at the top. And when people see the box, it's going to say, hey, get notifications, put in, you know, can we go ahead and give you notifications? And then every time you publish something on your site, it's going to actually give those people a notification. So I'll put a link in that a little later on in the description. But Push Crew is really, really good too. And if you've used these things before, put it in the comments. Say, hey, I've used Push Crew or I've used this other one. Maybe there's a better one out there that you've been using you had really good success with. I would love, love, love to see that. So, you know, go ahead and put that in there. Now that's number six. Number seven is I want you to install an opt-in box. Now please, please, please don't install an opt-in box that says, join our mailing list. Oh my God, no, please don't do that. That is so 2010. Don't do that, don't do that. They don't want to, who wants to be on an email list nowadays? I don't.  So what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to offer them something of value. You know, maybe it's a PDF report, 10 steps to potty train your dog, or maybe it's five things that you could lose weight, you know, eating these foods or whatever. But make sure it has value. And if you do that and it does have value, guess what? They will give you their email and you will build your list. And this is what we're trying to do here is build that list. So that's super important, okay? That way we can send them emails and sell them more stuff later on. That's what it's all about. So that was step number seven. And then step number eight, it's obvious, right? Have you figured out step number eight? Sell something, okay? So you want to be able to sell a physical product, a digital product. If you don't have any products, go get an affiliate product, okay? But you need to sell something to make money because you did all these things. And once you've done all these things, if you're not selling anything, that's just done. You don't do that, okay? So those are the seven steps. I put some links. If you're having a problem finding a product, I put a link to my how to find a product that's profitable, that's popular, book there. And if you're new to this and you want a free course, I do have a free course there. You can opt in for it. Just click on it. It'll get you started. It's like four videos and it shows you the overview of starting an online business. It'll make it really easy for you.  Comment, make sure you put your comments down there. I asked you a couple questions and I want to get answers on those and I will answer you too. Don't forget, if you are watching this on YouTube, whole different animal, right? On YouTube, you need to subscribe to my channel. There's a little button to do that, but you won't know if I have a new video if you don't click the notification bell. So you got to click the notification bell too, so you want to subscribe and click the notification bell. That's so, so, so important. All right, guys, I appreciate you showing up today. I appreciate you listening. I know a lot of you guys watch afterwards. I see the views go crazy after I do one of these live videos, but we are live here today. 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I was recently reflecting on a lot of the best and the worst decisions in my life, specifically when I turned 30 last year. And it was around the time when I turned 30, I was 29 or 30, when I wrote my second book, Milk the Pigeon, a field guide for anyone lost in their 20s. And one of the things that came up a lot was why a certain chunk of my life were my own lost years. And for me, that was really from 24 to 29. So the five years after I'd moved back from China and after I'd hated my life and things were going well, I had no idea what I wanted to do and I really was not enjoying the process.  But in this video, I want to share a little bit about the few insights I've learned on when to actually follow your intuition. What's up guys? Alex Hine, author of the book, Master of the Day. Now if you're trying to follow your intuition more to reach your goals, check out the journaling course I've included in the description there below. It's a free email course. You're going to get one email per day for a little while and that's going to introduce you to some of these key principles that I use still to this day when I do a weekly journaling exercise. So that's the first link in the box there below. For me, the big thing with intuition is that it knows things that your logic can't possibly know right now. So it's this idea of you're in the alleyway. You feel something about someone. There's no logical reason. You can't point to any one thing, but you feel something is wrong. Right. And in the modern era we live, we really poo poo feelings and we champion intellect. But for me anyway, like everyone has known the experience of going on a date with someone where they meet all the criteria or they're super sexy and yet you don't feel anything. And that is the intuition loud and clear, but the mind will often overpower that. You know, and for me, this kind of the intuition knows things that your logic can't. My intuition knew when I was a kid, playing outside, playing with herbs, studying these medical books and these mystical books, that the work that I love the most was to be some kind of counselor or advisor to other people. And it also knew even what niche and domain that would be in something where medicine intersects with spirituality or mysticism, whatever you want to call it. Any medical profession that involved counseling and dealing with every level of a human being. So it's not surprising now at 31, the field that I'm in, but it took me 10 years to find that because I was ignoring really my intuition about all the very clear things that I felt the most excited about. Now another reason for intuition or another example of my own life is I was dating a girl in LA who externally was a lot of the things that most men want and even presented herself as really nice, really sweet and really up front. But my intuition the whole time was like there's something weird here. That's it. That's all it gave me. There's something weird or off here. And it took me several other months to realize what that actually was. But my intuition was picking up the red flags from the start and my mind was like, let's just see what happens. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know what, what is this something off even mean? But it was far worse than I would have thought. But my intuition spotted it from day one. The second thing about intuition is that intuition is nonlinear. So the thing is, you know, I knew what I wanted to do as a kid. And now only at, it was at 29 where I went back to do what I loved. I didn't know that moving to China when I was 23 or 22 on a one way ticket would ever serve me later in life. But I did it because it was exciting. And it was the thing that really interested me that I was passionate about. So my intuition was pushing me there. And now only now seven or 10 years later can I see why that helped. The fact that I speed, read and write Chinese. The fact that I've all this worldly experience traveling abroad and living abroad for a long time. The fact that it's helped me doing a doctorate in Chinese medicine. And the fact that the very book that I left China with that I took and started translating for fun just so happened to be the most important book in all of Chinese medicine. So when you look at it like that retrospectively, it's very obvious that these things helped me dramatically in the future. But if I thought how is this going to help me or serve me, I may never have even moved to China. But you see how it all lines up in the end. Now the last thing about knowing when to follow your intuition. First of all, the answer is obvious all the time. But also at the same time is when you begin to follow intuition, your heart and your mind are you a lot. It could be the same thing whether it's going to the gym. And it's like, I know I have to do this. This is what's going to get me fit. This is how I should eat. But you're like, I really don't want to do this. It could be dating where you're like this person's so hot. They're so whatever, they're everything you want on paper. And yet you don't feel anything. How do you reconcile that? Do you choose all this stuff you think you want or what you're feeling? It could be the same thing with careers. You're becoming the doctor instead of the artist. Because once again, the mind is overpowering your intuition which comes more like the whisper. And so the trick is that you have to understand that there's always going to be this schism between the heart and the mind. And that's where people really get in trouble. And that's definitely where I got in trouble. So when it comes to intuition, my answer is always follow it. In my opinion, blindly. But there's like a more gray area way to do it where if it's something regarding your career, don't just magically quit your job and become an artist. Take the career that allows you the stability.  So those are a little bit about my two cents on when to follow intuition, how it shows up, and how it'll help you in a nonlinear way. Like you can't always predict where it'll go. So along with following intuition, there has to be some aspect of surrendering and trusting. And that is very hard for a lot of people like myself. So again, don't forget, there's a journaling course to help you develop your intuition specifically for goal setting. You can check it out in the description box there below. It's a free email course. Click that link, sign up. You'll also be the first to get notified when my Master of the Day journal comes out. And again, you can check out my last two videos right here and right here.