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Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. I'm going to be sharing some of my thank you cards. The actual cards itself are just a normal top folding landscape card, really easy to do, but the main focus I wanted to share was using the We Are Memory Keepers Alphabet mini alphabet punch board. I have had it for a long time, I've had it over a year and I did use it for my 2018 calendar, my large calendar which I'll link in up here, just so you can see how else I've used it. I've just seen there I've got some glue on my nail which is bugging me. So yeah, so I just thought I would just show you these ones. Now I've already started doing a few because I've got a few that I want to send out but I just wanted to show you all the different variations and then I've done a big thank and then I've die cut the U which I've done separately in the same colour card stock, so whatever their card base is is what I've die cut the U in and the papers that I've used I'll share in a moment so I've used two different paper packs. That one there you can see looks really nice, catch me in the reflection there. Love the rose gold, I think that looks really lovely and that's what I've done my 2019, my New Year's Eve card was with that feather background, I think that's one of my favourites and there's a nice silver one there as well and again that's the gold and another rose gold one there. So that's what I'm going to be doing but like I said I just wanted to really share the mini punch board. So the mirrored card stock is these ones here, so it's the Dovecraft premium mirrored card and you've got the gold, the rose gold and the silver. I've used these a lot, they are really nice actually. I did use them before I was on the design team, they're really thick 240 gsm so you can use them as a card base as well as long as you score in burnish but they would be nice as card bases. So again all those links will be shared over on my blog. The papers I have used are these ones so they're forever free and the mariposa, really really nice. Again I've used the 8x8 because you actually use the full width of this for the card so it's a good way to use up. If you've got any 8x8 paper packs then this card size is a good one for using those up. Okay so this is what we're going to be using, so this is the mini alphabet punch board by We Are Memory Keepers and it is a really handy little tool and it's good if you are maybe starting off and you don't have any dyes or if you don't have any large alphabet dyes then this is great and also if you just don't have dyes you don't do that kind of you do card making with maybe decoupage and pre-cut things this is quite nice to have as an addition because you don't need a die machine or anything for this so I do like it. You also get the mini alphabet punch board book and through this it shows you how to make every single letter of the alphabet including numbers which are at the back as well so again I'm going to talk you through what I've used for that one and then I've got everything I need so let's bring in this here, pop that to one side. So the card itself is a slightly different size to my usual and I'll talk you through the envelope size you would need for it as well but this is the card base so it's a piece of eight by eight and a half okay and along the eight inch side you just want to score it four and fold in half and there you will have your top folding landscape card. Now for your mats and layers so my bigger mat is using the gold mirrored card stock here and this piece measures eight and a quarter take that one off eight and a quarter by three and three quarters so I'm just dropping down by quarter of an inch and then this is from the mariposa so it's that really pretty floral print there and that's eight so this is the full length of that eight by eight pack so you're not losing any of the print and then the width there is three and a half and that is going to map perfectly on top giving you that really nice even border all the way around there's something about a mirrored border I said it before when I done that New Year's Eve card it's just really really nice and then set against the green there you can see you've got that same border like so okay so I'm going to get all them stuck down in a minute now for the inside I've got this cream piece and that measures the same as the gold so you would need to do that again in cream or white whatever you're using um fourth by three and three quarters by eight and a quarter and I always say if you're using a card stock it maybe isn't very thick cards when you're doing a lot of mat and layers are perfect because they create then the strength for your card so although this is this is a 216 gsm weight that I'm using for the card base by the time I've added on that 240 gsm of that you know the gold um yeah the gold mirrored card and then this here which again is a nice thick it's about 160 gsm you've got already a really thick card and that isn't I mean you can see them here anyway they would stand on their own but they are they're really really strong and nice solid cards then I've die cut this little u and I've die cut it three times and then just stuck them on top of each other so you can see there I've now got this thick little almost now like chipboard embellishment and that just sits nicely on the top you could stamp um the word you or you might you know obviously how you use this in a completely different way I've also got some bows because I was playing around at the end and these are paper bows so this is this like um I'll grab it in a minute actually and show you what it looks like but I just made up these really cute little bows here and I don't know whether to add a bow or not so that's one there or even the I think the purple looks nice so that kind of contrast so I'm not going to add them and if you want to put in the comments to bow or not to bow because I really don't know some of them I think it looks quite nice and then others I think actually there's so much going on with the lovely big letters that I don't know if it needs it so anyway I'm going to leave that down to you guys you can pop that in the comments then so that's everything for the cards I'm now going to get rid of the scoreboard so don't actually need that so let's start talking through this here now anything you make using this alphabet punch board you will need two and a half by one and a half rectangles okay doesn't matter what you're making that is the size that it will give you this this is the size letters or numbers that it will give you and these you can see fit perfectly into this little space here now it explains all of this in the book I'm not going to go through it in too too much detail because it is believe it or not it's very self-explanatory I think sometimes when I've had We Are Memory Keepers products which I do really like some of them can be a bit overwhelming but once you start to use them it all kind of comes together and I felt that way a little bit with this when I first started looking through stuff I thought wow this is actually quite I thought hard but then actually when I started to do it it's not and you start to really kind of just just understand how it all comes together and you actually I find myself now not really using this so much so I'm doing the word thanks or thank because obviously I've got the you underneath so first of all I need to do a T so you just work your way through the book at the very beginning here it tells you what you need all right now you can do bigger and that will allow you to do a few other little tricks and stuff but it tells you here this is the size that you need which is that two and a half by one and a half which is what I've already got here okay so let's go down to the T again I know how to do this but I just want to show you these step by step directions and how you can understand them so here we have make sure I haven't got the glare bring it up a minute here so I have my rectangle here which is the rectangle here and it does the steps one two three four you just follow those numbers so here if I bring up the board actually what I'm going to do is just bring my camera down there we go you should get rid of that I'll lift it there we go so right it's telling you here you need to do this is your punch okay this is a punch this is your blade this is a punch and this is your kind of track for where you kind of cut into it a little bit more sorry I'm really not doing very well here there we go punch punch little cutter and then like I said the tracks so first of all it's saying and you've got here you can see you've got a marker here a little track and it's got one and you've got another little track there and that's got two next to it in the picture here it's got a red line with a one just below it and then it's highlighted this kind of D shape which is in this here because that is the shape that it cuts so it cuts this D okay so it's telling you that you need to line your card this left hand side with the number one track so this one here so if I pop that one in like so and punch okay now it is quite a strong punch you do need to put some force onto it you may want to use your hand or the side of your hand I know lots of people you know have different ways of doing things like that now when I take it out you can see there what it's done and you want it to have you know gone off the edge there because we're going to be cutting that away in a minute so that's the first punch that we've just created then when you go to step two you'll see here it's gone gray in color that basically means you flip it over now there is a small arrow there as well so you flip it over and you just want to make sure it now looks like this so I can see that that D that I cut out before is now on my left hand side and then again I'm going to pop it back in lining it up with that number one and punch and you can see now it's just a little bit attached that doesn't matter but that's what we've got so if I flip it over can you already see where the T shape is coming here's the top and then we're going to have that section there all cut away so the next part now is it's moving into this area so we're going to start playing around here now so it's got that two bits that we've punched out in that orientation so I'm going to lift up this and I'm going to pop it in there pop it down and you can see now that that resembles this here just get that into focus okay now this is when we've got to do some cutting if I bring it up there are two red lines one there and one there you're going to cut down those two with the cutting tool which is shown again in the image so it does tell you everything once you get to grips and know what these things are you know that this is a cutting section and that's what this area is you know that this is a punch section along with this bit here as well so with this one here you've got a blade on the top there and then you've got a bottom little ball and this is just the same as the x cut cutting circles so those of you that've got that it works exactly the same way so this ball here is what we're going to sit in the track and then allow that blade to cut now you can buy replacements for these as well so I'm going to pop this one in and there are three tracks sorry there are two tracks so you've got a bottom track and the top track so I'm just going to sit this in I can just make sure I don't want to get my head in like so I've put it down so it's within that clear punched area and then you can feel it and you can hear it cut and I'm going to go up to the top track and cut down if I lift this up you can see already that one's come out and that one now the one thing I would say with this is I guess with trimmers guillotines scissors cutting by hand sometimes you're cutting maybe out so it does sometimes go off and if you can see here I've got two little bits there but just with your snips you can just very easily go in and just tidy that up and again just like so now the next part it's telling you to turn it upside down and then trim off these bits hanging down now some people I've seen in tutorials actually like them hanging down it gives a bit of character to your letter but rather than do that I just use my snips and just come a little bit higher up and just very neatly go in and cut that this is why your snips are good for this because you can get right in really carefully now I am using mirrored cardstock a note which is unforgiving so you do have to be careful if you're using just normal cardstock this isn't really much easier but there you have a really nice size two and a half tall letter t next we're going to work on the h so again you grab your book so again you start off always down in this one here now sometimes you won't use this one at all so already you see there for the t we never even touched this area but I will show you I'm going to go through every letter just because I think this is a nice way you know for me to share it with you and to have a nice product to show you at the end of the tutorial so I've got my square and my rectangle and again we're going to pop it in like so so last time we went in at that number one track like that this time we're starting with it in like so and then we're going to punch it's got the red D there highlighted again so punch that down and we've got that okay now it's got a little black arrow below telling me I just need to rotate that round okay pop it in and again punch and now we've got this which is then in step three you can see it's the same okay so now we've got to pop it up into the tracks here like so pop that one down so now I am like step three here and then again it's got two red highlighted parts getting my focus in just there and there so that's now where I need to cut so again I've got my little cutting tool pop it in first of all on the bottom track and down and then the top track and down lift that up and again let's come away I think I was slightly off there I didn't put it in properly did I but again this is when your snips come in handy and you can just doctor it once you've kind of got your shape and I've seen some other people create really different things as well using these so again it doesn't you don't just have to do words so I'm going to just line that one up so it's a bit even like so there we go then we're going to now use this one so here um what am I doing here oh I'm doing the H not an A see I'm already now I know what to do to make an A this is to make a H is the same as making an A because you can imagine now there's an A but we just round off those sides so that's what we'll do afterwards but now to finish the H you've then got to flip it pop it in that way and then cut that one and that one there we go see that one's come out perfect you see so I don't need to do anything with that one so there's that so now hopefully you're starting to see so now I know that the A I go all the way back to the beginning here we go it's exactly the same see there it's exactly the same as doing the H and then we go to this section here and round it so punch punch pop that one in and then I'm just going to cut down the bottom like so take that out see again that's cut away perfectly and now using this one here you pop it in it's got a triangle bit just like your envelope punch boards that's what it's basically doing but it's a nice bigger deeper curve see there so this is actually it's another nice little punch just to have in your stash and then again up there now there's also a punch at the top here but I'll show you that because we use that for the K at the end so now I've got this A so you can see now my nice letters coming together and it is really nice you can make bunting with this all kinds of bits and pieces so let's pop that one there so now I just need to finish and do the N which is really really easy so again flick through here's the M now I changed mine because I just thought I looked a bit boring just looks like an upside down U but if you add don't do one of the curves they do both both curve pieces here I just do one and I think it gives you a more a better looking N so again popping it in like so and punch so we've just done this one here then it's telling me to go straight up into the track part here pop it in and again you can see here there's two red lines so pop this one in and the track it won't let you put it in the wrong way so don't worry thinking or what I'm saying if I haven't put it in right it won't let you put the blade side down so again I've gone a little bit off there but like you can see some are perfect and then the others do come a little bit slightly offset but there you go so it just looks like an arch but if I now take pop it in here and just do it on the right hand top corner I think now it gives you a more of a better N all they've done in the book is they've then put that one in and punch that as well but I actually prefer that light so okay um what else what else what else what else oh one thing I would say is that it does do kind of a bit of a mix of upper and lower case so I guess if you play around you could make lower case letters so um some of them you could it wouldn't allow you for all of them but like that is actually a lower case N whereas you've got uppercase H and A and I guess the T you know is as well so yeah I would say if you're being really kind of scrutinizing it being a bit critical that I think is maybe something they've missed on their part because really the N should be going down and then up just just kind of sit the same but I'm just looking through now and actually yeah it is all capitals all the rest of capitals apart from that one I haven't taken any notice of it before but um yeah and then you can see the U is actually just that upside down where they've kept it but I think that looks better as an N that way I think it looks really kid like really babyish as just an arch so yeah I mean that's just one little I guess it's not really even a floor but if you're really looking into it like that then yeah that's slightly odd that that's the only one now we just need to do the K so again let me just go across so this one starts off a little bit different so we're going in here it's got to go on that track number two so you're right underneath that punch you can see that so just make sure you really line it up I think that's the thing when I've been going through and I'm doing it quite fast so I've probably just been slightly out okay so now I've got that now again this one it's gone gray and we've got to flip it over and turn it upside down so you want it like so and you can see now that D is facing the right way whereas that way it's up that way now it's down that way okay and again you're lining it up the red line is on the two and the D is highlighted so it's telling you you've got a punch so again pop that in like so okay flip it over obviously turn it on its side and you want to make sure it's in now that orientation just there this book's really shiny so it's hitting my light like so close that down so now it looks like this and it's telling me you've got two red lines we're going to cut here and here so pop this one in like so take that one out just need to take this away a little bit okay so that's what I've just cut now like so and then it's telling me I've got to rotate it like that and then you want it to look like that all you've got to do is make sure that you have it in the position for the next step so now that's going in there and I'm cutting exactly the same as I did just before it is a lovely sharp blade see that's just come out perfectly so yeah it is hit or miss you can see now and then we come to this part here so if I turn it this is what I've got and this is now when you use this part when you pop it in there are two circles here that are raised and the the center of whatever your kind of um letter or number will fit within that part punch it and it does this really nice almost like I guess if you put it that way it's like a heart little kind of yeah dip there I really like it and again I've used that on other projects before got a bit of glue there on that card there we go and there's okay so now there is my thank and I think they're really nice I do really like them so yeah so really it is easy to do like I could go through now whiz through that much much quicker because I do know how to you know you kind of it's like a memory thing isn't it once you've done it so many times you do pick it up but yeah really really handy it's nice and small it's not too heavy and you do get one two three punches on it as well which you can use for other projects so let's come back up okay so I will share all the links to this below you can just see them all then oh yeah that's another thing you can do you see here if you want to have a little kind of flag tail if you pop down the end I haven't got any scrap card at hand and I don't want to do it on this one but if I pop that in if I bring it up here there is these two tracks here if you line that up in there that's why these circles are here because they would fit anyway if you pop that in so the circles just around it and punch it it will give you that cool little flag tail so that's a decorative thing that I think that's the only yeah that's just all your numbers that's it I could go on and on and on and I don't need to so hopefully that is explained it and helped you a little bit because some people have asked before and I've I've actually forgot so now I've done it for you so hopefully yeah it makes sense so now we're going to just stick all this down so I had already put my double-sided tape on the back so I'm just going to stick those mats and layers on top of each other and just stick that one down like so okay so when I've stuck my letters down I have put them all on some foam adhesive so it's actually raised up there just again I just thought it was quite nice so I have got my little pads here and I've just cut them along the longer part in half like so and I found that this worked really well when I went to stick these down like so so now this fits just perfectly on here as well I did kind of measure it beforehand but you just have a very small like one eighth of an inch gap between each letter and they do all fit on you can probably see better with that one can you see I just got very small little gaps there between but it's just enough I think it works well so start from the middle and work your way out so I made sure I'm just going to burn that because it's a little bit bouncy and I just want to make sure there we go it's completely flat so now I can just come up about half an inch again you just want to make sure it's in the middle and then just kind of worked from each side okay and then just stick that one down so again just focusing on making sure that I've got it nice and even here and again make sure I've got that kind of one eighth of an inch gap and I've got that same you know space here stick that down like so then I'm going to do the H so I'll keep working out but do it on each side because that way if you've made a mistake you haven't got to change too much so I'm going to get these stuck down and then just stick that K down and I've got that nice even border there there you go how nice is that I just think they look really fun okay so then I just need to stick this down here the border keeps using so I'm just going to pop just a little bit just on the O because it actually overlaps the other words there and letters and I've just lined it up in the centre and make sure it's right along the bottom of those letters there okay and there you can see what nice that is like I said I don't know whether to add the bows or not I'm going to leave that for you guys to decide it does look cute but I just really don't know anyway so that's that bit done then if you want to do an envelope so this is an eight and a half by four with the punch board you just go along here and you've got eight and a half by four so it's 10 you're going to need paper that's nine and seven eighths by nine and seven eighths and your first score line will be at three and three eighths of an inch okay so that's your envelopes that you will need for them I've already got some pre-made ones so I would just be using them but yeah so there you have it I've got all my nice thank you cards ready now and I've got a few others in my stash some older ones which I'll be sending out as well but I really like it and I think it's just a nice way to show off this fun little tool it's just another little gadget I do like gadgets so yeah I hope you've liked it I hope you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


Hey, this is Brett and this 2017 Chevy Silverado 2500 regular cab long box is stock number 12708Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2017 Chevy Silverado 2500 has the 6 liter V8 gas engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around underneath, start it up, take a look under the hood and go on the interior. And if you want to check out all those different chapters, we have those in the description below. Silver Ice Metallic is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 4K so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video on how we do things here at Summit Auto, consider subscribing to our YouTube channel with the subscribe button in the lower right hand part of the screen. Then click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. So when it comes to these steel rims, this is the work truck package. It has BF Goodrich All Terrain TA KO2 tires, these are LT 235 80R 17s and they have right around I'd say 60% of the tread left on them, frame and under bodies in pretty nice shape. Front fender is in excellent condition as well, looks pretty good, you get the projector lamp headlamps, the front bumper is in very nice condition, didn't see any dents or dings on that and you do get the chrome trimmed grille on this truck. The hood is in very nice condition as well and you do get cab lights up top, passenger side front fender, no major dents or dings on there and the passenger side rim is in nice condition as well. As you go down this side of this 2017 Chevy Silverado 2500, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck here, the truck and have confidence in the vehicle you're looking at before you even get here so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision before seeing the vehicle in person. This video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Now the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires, maybe even a little bit more and the frame and underbody is in pretty nice shape. Those box rails look like they are in excellent condition and I'm talking about these guys right here. You always want to check those to make sure that they're not all corroded because that's the first place that will rust out on these style trucks. Frame and underbody looks pretty good and lower rockers and cab corners all look pretty good as well. Those come with a nice set of chrome step bars. I do apologize for the banging that's going on in the background. We have our new showroom being built just on the other side of this wall here so that's what's going on. Rear bumper is in nice shape, has the rear bumper steps, full towing package which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring and the tailgate is in very nice condition as well. Does have a locking tailgate, spray and bed liner. This is a Linux spray and bed liner and the bed for the most parts in really nice condition. It shuts nice and solidly and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as I've passed in her side. No major dents or dings on the box and for full disclosure this back rim is in nice shape as well. The only thing I really saw on the box here is just a little scratch right there but is a work truck. That stuff happens, does have the mirrors right there. They are manual. Inside the work truck package gives you the gray cloth interior. There are no rips or tears on the seats, they're in pretty nice shape. Does come with the heavy duty rubber floors, the 4x4 shifter on the floor and auto headlamps. Manual crank windows and power locks. 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In this video I'm gonna share with you eight different tips that I have personally used to stop muscle cramping and I know they will work for you, but before we get into those tips, let's just talk quickly about what actually causes muscle cramps. Number one is muscle fatigue when your muscles get tired. You don't cramp in the first 10 minutes of the game when you're nice and fresh, you cramp in the last 10 when you're getting tired and your muscles are being pushed to their limits. Number two is lack of oxygen to your muscles. Number three is dehydration. And number four is the lack of certain vitamins and minerals that your body needs to act efficiently. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national foot-salt team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. My first piece of advice to reduce muscle cramping is get fit. The fitter you are, the less likely you are to cramp. As I said before, muscle fatigue is the number one reason your muscles are cramping. So if your muscles are used to the exertion, to the intensity that you're putting them through in a game, then yes, they're going to cramp because they've never been there before, they can't handle it. But if you are consistent with your training, you are pushing yourself consistently, but you're also replicating the intensity of a game throughout the week, then your muscles will be more likely to handle the pressures of a match. The second thing I want you to do, and in this case, don't want you to do, is do not pre-fatigue your muscles. And what I mean by that is do not do an intense training session the day before even some people do the morning of their game. So don't do a very intense session in the gym. Don't work your legs really hard the day before your game. They're going to be pre-fatigued. They're already going to be a point at where they're pretty tired, and then in the game, you're going to push them and ask them to do more. They're going to be likely to cramp. Obviously sometimes maybe you're playing in a tournament, you don't have these luxuries. But when you do, learn how to schedule your training. Do your intense leg sessions in the gym earlier in the week. Do your intense training sessions, your sprint training, your fitness training earlier in the week. And then the day before, do a lighter session where you're just stretching out your legs, getting nice touches on the ball, getting mentally prepared for the match. My third tip for reducing muscle cramps, and this one is totally overlooked, is breathing properly. Another reason your muscles may be cramping is because you're not getting enough oxygen to the muscles. So if you've ever been running, I know I used to get this a lot when I was younger, now I don't get it anymore at all. If you've ever been running and you get side cramps, that's because you're not breathing properly. A lot of kids, especially, they're not taught how to breathe properly when running.  Or after you've done a sprint, it's so important that let's say the ball is out of play or you had a second to breathe instead of putting your hands on your knees and just being like, oh my god, I'm so tired. Actually focus on recovery, focus on getting nice deep breaths of oxygen in through your nose, out through your mouth, and actually focus on your recovery rather than focusing on how tired you are. You'll be amazed at how quickly you can recover. You'll actually help yourself recover so you'll be able to go longer, but you'll be ensuring that you're getting good oxygen flow into your muscles to reduce the chances of cramping. Tip number four for reducing muscle cramps, get a good warm up in. Don't just go out on the field and start sprinting, start kicking balls as hard as you can. You're putting yourself at a real disadvantage. Make sure you get a proper warm up. So do your warm up with your team, but also take a little bit of time to stretch the major muscle groups that you feel personally always cramp when you're playing. Okay, just going that little bit of extra mile will actually help get better oxygen flow into the muscles and it will also loosen them up more so you're not making them really tight and just pounding away at them from the first minutes of the game. If you wanna improve faster and achieve more this season, use the Soccer Success Planner. It's 100% free. Players all around the world have already used it to improve. You can download it right now. There's a link in the description below. Tip four, reducing muscle cramps. Now we're getting into more of what you're actually putting in your body. It's drink more water. Dehydration will result in muscle cramps.  How much water should you drink? Personally, I like to drink until my pee is clear. So when your urine is clear, you have a good indication that you have enough water in your body. You wanna be drinking water before the match. You wanna be drinking water during the match. You wanna be drinking water after the match to replenish your body. So just make sure that you're drinking lots of water. It will reduce the chance of muscle cramps. You're just eating well on game day and you're expecting your body to operate at its optimum ability. It's not going to happen. So do yourself a favor and try to eat well throughout the week, not just on the day of your game. Your body needs a consistent stream of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. Tip number seven is to incorporate some potassium-rich foods into your pregame meal. So you may have heard that potassium is great for reducing cramps and that is true. Now, usually I'll have a banana as part of my pregame. I don't have any bananas because I ate it yesterday before my match. But also things like potatoes are really high in potassium and leafy green vegetables are great sources of potassium. My eighth and final tip for reducing muscle cramps is supplementation. And this is taking it to the next level, but this is something that has really helped me and you might want to think about it as well. So there are other vitamins and minerals that you can take which have been shown to reduce the chances of crappy. So I personally do take an extra potassium supplement. So I just take one tablet before the game. I also take a magnesium supplement before the game and a calcium supplement before the game, okay? And these vitamins have been shown to reduce the chances of crappy. So it's something you might want to experiment with as well. One more thing that I take is I also take a bit of glutamine. And glutamine is something that bodybuilders use to help their muscles recover quicker after workouts so they can work out their muscles more frequently. Now glutamine, it's not a drug. It's not a steroid or anything like that. It's something that is naturally found. It's an amino acid that is found in protein. So the way that protein works is it helps recover your torn muscles. Glutamine is an amino acid. It's one of the ingredients in protein that helps it do just that. So what I do is I just put a little bit of glutamine in my water and I'll drink this throughout the game. As you can see, there are many things you can do to reduce your chances of crappy, but the best thing to do is just combine all of these things together. Now again, this is just my personal advice, but this is what has worked for me and I believe it will work for you as well. 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I'm Randy Schultz. This is my wife, Jean. We're in West Indon Springs, South Dakota, in Gerald County. And we're on the ranch my dad purchased in 1995. It's a cow calf and hay ranch. There's some farm ground. I actually grew up in West Indon Springs at the edge of the hills. My first husband and I, we ranched northwest of town and we raised our three kids out there. It's a wonderful place for kids. They learn a lot of responsibility. They grow up to have a good work ethic. My daughter is back farming, ranching, raising cattle and performance horses where she grew up northwest of town. The boys still farm. They've purchased acres of land out there and in their second job is farming. The cross fencing was something new to me when Randy and I were first married. It's just way different because there was so much flatter land up there than in comparison to Turtle Peak. Right after we came, we got involved with cross fencing. The original ranch here had really only three pastures. An 800 acre pasture, a 500 acre pasture in this calving quarter we call it. That's about a quarter, 160 acres. Through NRCS we were able to cost share and divide up the ranch. Moving the cattle around, you know, you get better use of the land. We're running about 170 pairs right now. That seems to be a pretty good capacity for the place. We start the cattle in the spring on a pasture that's heavily bluegrass and brome. That bluegrass is not palatable very long, so that's a good place to start them.  After several years, though, in this first pasture, the big blue stem in particular came back. You get more diversity with your cool season and warm season grasses as you move your cattle and have shorter duration grazing. If the cattle are on the same pasture, they're going to keep eating their favorite plant and those plants will decrease and the less desirable plants will come in. Moving the cattle around in smaller paddocks just increases the diversity of the species of grass. We had about almost four miles of cross-fencing cost shared. I think we're up to about 11 different pastures that are somewhere around 200 acres. I've got a rotation and I've rarely changed it. I know it's good to change these rotations, but we've just got into a routine that benefits us. When we first moved here, gathering the cattle in the fall was quite a job. We maybe needed seven to ten horsemen up here to get them out of all these gulches. So I will say that the cross-fencing really helps with gathering your cattle. And, you know, they get to a point where they want to move, so it's really easy to move them now. Yeah, you pretty much just open the gate. The water is another story. When we moved here, it was very similar to what we see this summer. All the lakes are foals, the dams are running over, very wet. And that's how it was designed. When NRCS came out and we drew out the cross-fencing, well, we had all these natural lakes and dams and dugouts. Well, the extreme dry and the extreme wet, it's been the cycles. For instance, Baker's Lake has been full three times and completely dry twice.  So we did not do enough water lines and we did not foresee the dry years when we did this. So we did an emergency pipeline clear down to Baker's Lake when that lake was dry. And so we had to kind of adjust things as we went along. We should have brought Roger Dwyer out, the previous owner, and he could have told us that no, you're not going to have water there every year. That's going to dry up. So the water resources weren't developed the way they should have been right to start. So water is the complete key. The more water you can pipe or the more piped water as opposed to dugouts or dams, you want clean water for your cattle. And so that wasn't perfect. We kind of learned as we went along. We weren't supposed to have anything in one of these historic lots for more than 45 days, which we didn't. This little backgrounding lot is called a clean water diversion. Let's say you get three inches of rain in a single storm. The only water that would go downstream would be the water that actually falls right in the feedlot. But we have a grass buffer on the downstream part of the feedlot to filter out anything that would fall directly into the feedlot, and then anything west of the feedlot goes in this diversion around it. The story of this ranch is all the different cost shares we've had. I started off with South Dakota Game Fishing Parks helping us with the deer depredation. U.S. Fish and Wildlife helped us with this dam down south and, of course, NRCS through EQUIP program. We did these water lines and all these cross fences. So that was huge, that NRCS was the big player in all of this and they also helped us with our backgrounding lot. I don't know how we could have done any of this without these cost share programs. We were able to start the year, everybody got their crops in pretty much, which we couldn't do last year. So we've had more than ample rainfall. You don't see the pastures this green in July very often. All the dams are full. It's more than a good day. It's been a good summer.


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Hi, I'm Lauren from our search team, oh, back one, and this is Alex from our GEO team. And we're really excited to share a little about knowledge panels today and how you can claim them and engage with them. So as we heard earlier this morning, billions of searches take place on Google every year, and many of those are about people and organizations. When searchers find the people and orgs that you represent, we want to give you the tools to make a great first impression with your knowledge panel. Next, so for those of you that are intimately familiar with knowledge panels already, indulge me for a moment. And for those that may be new to knowledge panels, here's a quick overview. But the knowledge panel is an information box that appears when you search for entities that are in the knowledge graph. People, businesses, things, places, locations, those. They give you a quick snapshot of information on a topic based on Google's understanding of available content on the web. So if you hear about an awesome new restaurant or a great nonprofit and you come to Google, this is a quick way for you to learn more and get to know the topic. So based on the topic of the knowledge panel, there may be different information or features included. For example, if the topic of the knowledge panel is a business that serves a specific location or a service area, the knowledge panel may have options that are specific to businesses. So we know that people and organizations with information included knowledge panels, like those that you may work with or represent, are authoritative on the topic. You are arguably one of the best authorities on yourself. And we have tools for you to provide direct feedback and suggest any additions or changes. So the tools may look a little different based on the topic of the knowledge panel, but the first step is always to do a search and look for a prompt to claim. You'll be guided through a verification process where we validate that you, in fact, do represent that topic. So once you've claimed the knowledge panel, you'll want to take a look at the info in it, review that information and suggest any needed updates or additions. In a study done with location-based businesses, they found that businesses that complete their information are twice as likely to be considered reputable by consumers. So this is definitely something that you want to do to make a great first impression if you haven't already. So to suggest those changes, after claiming the knowledge panel, the next time you do a search for the person, the business, the organization that you represent, you'll see a special header at the top that invites you to suggest changes. When prompted, add any required information and documentation from the open web. Your suggestions will be reviewed by a dedicated team and you'll receive email updates along the way, letting you know about the status of your suggestion. If you represent a business that serves a location, Alex is going to take you through that suggestion flow. Thanks, Lauren. And so when you see something like this, you'll be able to edit things like hours, customer service numbers, street addresses, websites. The same information that shows up on the knowledge panel also shows up in Google Maps and other local search formats for Google. So this is a primary way for people to understand and identify the business and get in contact with it. An important really part here is also making sure that once searchers finally discover or rediscover you, should let them know where to go next so they can continue their journey. Depending on, again, the topic of the knowledge panel, you should be able to have things like websites, social media presence, so that searchers can take the next step in terms of finding you and discovering what you do. Engaging searchers is also super important. And so we have a format that allows for certain types of knowledge panels to create content and engage with consumers and searchers on Google. All those billions of people that we're searching for you that Lauren mentioned, they should be able to see those updates, depending on the type of knowledge panel you own, they should be able to see those types of content immediately once you surface them in the knowledge panel. And to get started, it's pretty easy. For people and brands, all you need to do is search for yourself and you should be able to see the claim knowledge panel link. And then for businesses, local businesses, you should go to business.google.com. Thanks.


Good evening and welcome. Town Meeting Television offers continuing coverage of election season, town meeting and general, and special elections such as this one for Burlington's Ward 3. We have three candidates who are running for an open seat. Vacated by Brian Pine is now the city's CEDO director. The election is the 17th, Tuesday the 17th of August, so if you haven't yet gotten your ballots in Ward 3 you're gonna want to look for those in the mail or to show up at the polling place. I have here next to me Owen Milne who's running as an independent, Christopher Aaron Felker who's running as a Republican, and Joe McGee who's running as a progressive. Welcome, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having us. So we're gonna start with Joe McGee with opening statements. Tell us why you're running and what qualifies you to be city counselor in Ward 3. Thanks Joe. Thank you. My name is Joe McGee and I'm running to be a voice for working families in City Hall. I grew up in Vermont and I was raised in a union family. When my grandfather who was a Boston firefighter was killed in the line of duty on June 17th, 1972, my grandmother was left a widow and a single mother of six. Had it not been for the pension and the city support fought for by the firefighters union, my grandmother and eight other widows would have been left with no safety net. So when I talk about issues of economic justice and the issues facing working families, I'm talking about the realities of my family is also faced. For too long, Burlington has responded to the concerns of the wealthy and the well connected while working families have shouldered a burden that's gotten heavier each year. I'm running to be a voice for those folks in City Hall. I believe that we need to invest in our communities, invest in our people and invest in our public assets. I think we have an opportunity to do that as we recover from the pandemic and continue to uplift working folks, uplift marginalized communities. And yes, so thank you very much. Joe, thank you very much for being succinct. I appreciate that. Christopher Aaron Felker, welcome. Thank you, ma'am. My name is Christopher Aaron Felker. I am a husband, a veteran, a member of St. Joseph's Cathedral in Burlington. And since 2013, I'm your neighbor. And currently I'm your candidate for city council in the war three special election. I love our neighborhood. I love the people in our neighborhood and the friendships that I've developed over the last eight years getting to know you all. I'm proud of the life that my husband and I have built in this town here in Burlington's Old North End. I've entered this race because we must do better as a community to ensure public safety, to provide housing security to our community and to be better stewards of our resources here in Burlington. I have, I have been a navy veteran and working in the armed forces, it's one of the most diverse background, one of the most diverse jobs you could ever take from a it's the military is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse employers I've ever worked for. We come together from all backgrounds from all around the United States to fulfill the mission. And that's what we can do here in Burlington. For the last year and a half, 18 months I've been attending the mayor's weekly coffees where we're able to come together as a community, provide feedback as to what's going on, any problems and and the mayor is receptive to this. He's taken and make an actionable our our suggestions in the last. Since this election has started, this campaign has started, I've been attending city council meetings regularly following up on what's what's been going on in city council and so I'm up. I'm current on all on all the issues that we're facing.  Other than my experience in government service and working in our community. Okay. Sure. Wonderful. Thank you. All right on Milne independent welcome. Thank you. So I'm running for city council here in Burlington because I believe deeply in the idea of servant leadership and as I've gone through this campaign a lot of people ask me what does servant leadership mean and people know when they see it. They say that person leads by example or they say that person is always present when I'm talking to them or that person picks up the phone and helps solve the problem that I've put in front of them. It's a type of leadership that we've started to see oftentimes people prefer to be focused on large issues and the work of answering the phone and listening to your constituents and moving things forward is sometimes things that people prefer not to do. Well, I actually really want to advance that idea of servant leadership. I have a long background in community service. I've served on the boards of organizations like Spectrum or the United Way or the Vermont Korean Building Network or the Governor's Committee for Employment for People with Disabilities. I have a long history of also in leadership in actually running organizations. I'm currently the executive director of the Community Sailing Center here in Burlington. So I'm going to be bringing that experience in leadership as well as this true belief in servant leadership to the City Council in Burlington. All right, thank you very much, Owen Milne. I'm going to remind our viewers you can give us a call at 8-6-2-3-9-6-6 if you have questions for the candidates for the Ward 3 special election. So Christopher, do you prefer to be Christopher Aaron or Christopher? Whichever is easiest for you, ma'am. Okay, Christopher Aaron being a Lauren Glenn.  That would be great. So why don't we talk about the F-35s?  Sure. What do you hear from the constituents about the F-35s and do you think there's anything and what would you do? Do you think we have any ability to change the situation for folks? So yes, I do hear a lot from in our community regarding the F-35. I understand that they can be noisy at times when they pass overhead. And that can have a serious impact upon some families and their well-being. So I'd like to point out that our entire congressional delegation, Senator Leahy, Senator Sanders, and Congressman Welch, all supported the positioning of F-35s here in Burlington. The mayor approves of it. I support their guard and their mission. Yet I understand and hear from Burlingtonians about the sound and the way that it impacts their lives. So I've reached out and talked to the mayor on this multiple times before. And there are resources available for Burlington families to upgrade their soundproofing, upgrade their windows, which is great for weatherization also. But it gives that peace of mind and more safety inside their homes. It also protects your investment. Your home is most likely the largest and most important investment that you have as a family. And if we can connect Burlingtonians with the resources to upgrade their soundproofing and have better windows, we're protecting their investment and we're protecting their mental health and their overall well-being. So that's the route that I would take with this because anything that the city council really does to try and condemn the F-35, that's just pure virtue signaling. We really don't have much that we can do. But we can connect Burlingtonians to resources to actually make their lives better and easier. Thank you so much. Thank you. Owen, what's your position on the F-35s? And what, if anything, would you do or could you do at city council? So, you know, I would not continue to try and support the F-35s. I know this is deeply political. And for me, this particular year, I have fellow colleagues of mine who have worked from home during this pandemic. And on multiple occasions, during, you know, video calls, we have to stop the call.  So while there is an illegal path to getting anything done, as it relates to reversing the decision on the F-35s, the city of Burlington can create collaboration between the city councils of Winooski and South Burlington to make a collective effort to approach our congressional delegation. You have to understand this is probably one of the larger populations of the city. And as a city, you collectively go to the congressional delegation and ask them to take another look at this. The other element of this, too, is I know that part of the crux of the reason why people want to keep the F-35s is an economic one related to the emergency services that are available that they provide for the airport. Well, with the growing economic development that's coming to Burlington's airport through beta technologies, I think there are other opportunities for us to engage other people to make up the difference of that emergency service operation. So it starts taking a little bit of the discussion away from this is an economic issue towards one of the well-being of the people who live in Burlington. Thank you, Owen. Joe McGee, let's talk about the F-35s and we'll take a call from the outside world. What's your position and what influence do you think the city council has? Sure. So, you know, I think that we should have honored the will of the people in 2018 when Burlingtonians overwhelmingly voted to not have the F-35s based at the airport. I think it was a lack of leadership that really resulted in this happening. And I think we need to acknowledge the fact that this is disproportionately impacting Black, Indigenous, and people of color. And, you know, at a time when nearly 60% of households are tenants in this city, you know, while we might have these programs that help homeowners soundproof, there are many, many residents that don't have the opportunity to do that for themselves and might not have a landlord that is willing to do that. And so I would support writing a letter to the governor to ask that these training flights be halted and that we work with our federal delegation to get this mission changed for the Vermont International Guard. Okay, very good. Thank you. Good evening. Do you have a question for the candidates for the Ward 3 Special Election? Hi. Hi there. Hi, how are you? I'm okay. I'm pretty well. I'm learning the new phone system here at Downeating TV. Oh, good. Yeah, what's your question? My question is, I will start off with saying that my name is Sherry Lamarch, and minus a year and a half I've been born and raised in Vermont. I've lived the last 17 years here in Burlington and my concern for my city is at an all-time high. I expect things from people that represent me and one is respect. Respect to me is honesty. Honesty means no lying and no deceit in being good role models. The city council, minus a couple, have disrespected me, our city and other Burlingtonians with illegal actions they committed which were deceitful. Their apology was reluctant and with excuses. They broke the state's open meeting law which violated the executive session rules on September 8, 2020, and then the counselors met with no public notice and another violation of the law on September 16, 2020. Furthermore, the counselors had actually been meeting illegally in the days leading up to September 16. Their actions were disgusting, are disgusting, and I expect better. Those actions and others have left me not trusting them. I and the people of Burlington are entitled to have a council that is true and just and not filled with those that feel they are above the law. Sherry, what's your question? It would be nice to know if you would just be another deceitful counselor by asking just one simple question that has a yes or no answer. Okay. Do you condone the illegal actions that were perpetrated by the city council? Yes or no? Thank you. I'm not sure we're all clear on what those actions were. It's violation of public meeting law. I just listed them and they're also in seven days. Okay, so you all understand the question. All right, very good, Sherry. Thank you so much. Let's get an answer. We'll start with Owen, I think. Yeah, so I would not condone any actions that aren't that are in violation of public meeting law. Also, in addition to this, through most of the board work that I've done, I'm oftentimes the person that ends up on the governance committee, in addition to any issues related to whether they did or did not do it out of in a malicious way, even if they did it because they didn't know that they were breaking law, that is also a problem. So one of the reasons why, and again the thing that I bring to this seat, is this deep background in understanding in public governance, especially as it relates to boards and commissions. Thank you, Owen. Joe, your view on those illegal actions. Sure, you know, we need to do everything that we can to ensure that our governing processes are as transparent as possible. You know, I don't condone the actions of the council in violating open meeting law in these instances, but you know, I also commend the council for governing in the middle of a pandemic in Zoom and, you know, recognize that Zoom has given us more access to our government than we didn't have before. So I would like to see our city council and our boards and commissions find a way to have a hybrid process that gives the public more access to our meetings, making it possible for them to participate in public forum without being physically present at the meeting. I think, you know, that's something that the pandemic did show us, is that we have these ways to use technology to really increase access to our democratic process, and I think we need to amplify that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Just for Erin. Yes, ma'am. So the caller asked for a yes or no answer, and so, no, I would not continue to engage in the same way that the city council has in the past. I would not approve of any violations of public meeting laws. All right. Thank you for the question. Thank you so much. All right, we're going to start with you, Joe, and the next question. Let's go downtown to the mall. What vision will you bring to bear in your role as city councilor for the central core and downtown Burlington, and what role will you play as a city councilor in achieving this vision? Appreciate the question. You know, I believe that the city place project has been a failure. You know, we are stuck now several years later with a pit in the middle of the city that doesn't seem to have any resolution in sight. We have our high schoolers going to school in Old Macy's, and we have Memorial Auditorium, which is condemned and is a public space that has been sitting empty for several years, and we have 242 Main, which is a youth program that has been closed down and that we've lost for the last several years. So, you know, when I think about what we can do downtown to really support the community, I believe that we need to have an ethic of investing in our public resources in a way that we have really shied away from in the last several years, and I think we need to do everything that we can to support local businesses. I think we know when we support local businesses that that money stays in the community several times over. I think there are models that we can pursue for cooperative business models to have businesses sharing spaces downtown. You know, when we see a recession or like we saw with the pandemic, national chains will leave Church Street. They'll leave downtown. Local businesses will do everything they can to stay here, and I think we need to do everything that we can to make that possible for them. So, along that line, I would make sure that CEDO gets the funding that they need to really support those businesses and build those programs. So, yep, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Christopher, Erin, your view of the downtown, your vision of the downtown core and the role you will play as city counselor. So, yes, the city place development is 400 new homes, and it has been held up a few times in the past due to lawsuits, and but this is 400 new homes here in Ward 3 that we desperately need homes, including I believe 69 affordable units that are below market rate. So, this is a lot of homes that will have a sizable impact upon our housing in this ward and in Burlington as a whole. My role as a city counselor would be to stop obstructing the process because we need those homes. Burlington families need these homes. Supporting this build and this project supports the businesses around it. If you support city place, you're also supporting the businesses all around that have had the deck stacked against them for the last few years, including a single pebble who is right across the street from that build. And if you've never run a business across the street from a long-term construction project, it really affects your bottom line. If you support city place, if you support a single pebble, support city place. When it comes to Memorial Auditorium also, we need to do something with that. It's a city asset that's sitting there in decay, and there are many ways that we could handle this situation. A public-private partnership is the only way that we can actually try and revitalize that building and provide that bring revitalization to that resource in town. If we don't have the funds as a city to actually renovate it on our own, and if we sit and wait for that day to come, that building will just collapse upon itself. So we need to reimagine a new way to revitalize the downtown core, and we need to do so in a way, like my opponent said, that supports small business. Because if we support small business and we keep adding new homes downtown, which we need as a city, then we're supporting Burlington. We're being good stewards to the future of Burlington. Thank you. Thank you very much. Owen Mellon, your approach to downtown and your role as a city counselor and make that happen. Yeah, so I actually am one of the three candidates I live in the downtown core. I kind of experience it every day, and while I can appreciate conversation about city place, you know, it's a private development as a city counselor don't have until there happens to be a run up against a development agreement. City Council doesn't have a dramatic role to play in that at present. Morrill Auditorium is a very challenging project, very expensive. My preference would actually be to focus attention towards the intersection of social service and police and mental health. The thing that I actually hear more often from the neighbors that I'm calling who also live in the downtown, say that issues around mental health and substance abuse are far more challenging to our day-to-day experience than what happens to be going on in the pit for not happening with Morrill Auditorium. I know as the night goes on I'm sure we'll have questions specific to mental health, substance abuse, police transformation and social service, but I actually think by increasing our investment in social service and addressing issues of mental health and substance abuse we actually can enhance the experience of the visitors that come there and actually make downtown a little bit more of a welcome place for people to spend money and visit the businesses that work there. Thank you very much, Owen. I'm just going to remind folks our numbers<PHONE_NUMBER> if you have any questions for the candidates for the ward three special election. So Christopher Aaron why don't we go to that question about policing and community safety then. What do you think of the recent approach by the City Council to issues of public safety and how would you have weighed in and how will you weigh in on these conversations and policy decisions? Sure, thank you. So my opinion on the City Council's position and their actions that they've taken is that these actions have been reckless and irresponsible that they did not have a proper plan in place to keep our city safe. We are currently at historically low staffing levels in our police department. Businesses have hired private security to keep their staff safe and ensure that they can get to their cars and homes safely. They also have these have hired private security to ensure that customers and clients that come in can feel safe. It is imperative that we increase funding to our officers. My campaign has put forward a positive policing policy where we are increasing funding to the Burlington Police Department so that way the officers can have current de-escalation strategy training. We are adding officers to the police department including the street patrols, the street crimes unit, and an animal control officer. We are adding, we are proposing to add more mental health workers and social workers in the department because the numbers that we have currently are inadequate. We are at a turning point. We have historically low numbers. We need to act now. We cannot wait another six, nine, 12, 18, or 24 months. However long it takes for the reports to come back and for council to act, we need leadership that acts today. We need somebody who's going to support our public safety team and I'm the candidate who's going to do it for you. Thank you. Thank you very much. On Mel and your view on the policing approaches for the city council and community safety. I mean you've already started to talk about it but can you say more? Yeah, so I've been working on a comprehensive police reform and transformation plan. As I've been reaching out to the people in our neighborhood over the course of this campaign, I hear that they have experienced issues where the response time for issues has gone up. So we need to address response times that have gone up as a result of the decision that was made. And then the plan that I've put forward changes of what police are accountable for. So to not be accountable for just drug seizures and the number of tickets we write, actually I would be looking to engage public input into how we hold police accountable. Secondly, I would actually create a traffic division that takes the responsibility of traffic law away from police and actually moves it into a separate department similar to what we've done with parking enforcement. And then lastly I would work towards creating a merger of the other public safety entities into one department of public safety. So that would be moving fire, police, create a department of social service and move the traffic division in to actually create that so that the police are accountable not to just their own department but actually to a broader department that focuses on issues of health and safety. All right, thank you very much. Joe McGee, your view of policing and community safety 2022. Sure. So I supported the council's decision last summer I think. You know, the decision they made was to reduce the number of officers through attrition. So as far as if the city council decided to fire these officers they've chosen to leave. You know, we need to do more to invest in community service officers. We absolutely need more mental health professionals on our streets. We shouldn't give into fear-mongering messaging that is saying that our streets are more dangerous. We absolutely need to continue moving in the direction that we're going in because we need to recognize that status quo policing hasn't worked for so many in our community. And so the answer is to not just go back to where we were. The answer is to move forward with a vision for community safety that involves the people that live here, that invests in community programs that provide people access to housing, community services, and doesn't just return to status quo policing. Go ahead. Thank you very much. Christopher, Erin. I'd just like to follow up. Both of my opponents have radical views on how the police department should be handled. One of my Mr. McGee believes in abolishing the police department. Mr. Milne seems to believe in dissolving the police department and has demonstrated a serious amount of contempt for officers on the beat. We aren't talking about fear-mongering. These are facts. In the last year we have seen a sizable increase in assaults, simple aggravated and sexual assaults. We have seen an increase in quality of lifeprimes. This is not fear-mongering. These are called facts. This is the city that we're living in. And if we want to talk about having a safe environment for Burlingtonians, we are going to do that by rebuilding our police department and rebuilding trust in our police department. The only way we're going to do that is by adding funding and adding officers. The path that we're going right now is down. Less officers and more crime. That's an unacceptable outcome for me. That's an unacceptable direction. And, sir, your policing policy, while having good ideas to it, there are, there, you need any charter changes in order to even get these accomplished. Do you think that you have the votes in Burlington to get that? I do not. I don't think you have the votes in Montpelier to do it either. You talk about listening to people in Burlington and finally you're admitting that people are complaining that the response time is extended. But that's only after months of you stating that you wanted that you don't believe that the officer should even be armed. Traffic stops and domestic violence are actually the most dangerous instances that police can respond to. So if you have officers, unarmed officers approaching cars during traffic stops, you're putting them in harm's way. That is not good leadership, sir. Okay, so I'm gonna thank you. That's good. So, Owen, why don't you respond to that? I didn't actually hear you contempt in your proposal, but maybe it was there and missed it. Yeah, I don't carry any contempt for officers. But you don't think that they can be retrained? You said that in the last debate. So, I have- Or you said that you don't think they're capable of being retrained. I have friends in the police department and who work in public safety. In fact, a close friend of mine is an EMT and he tells me time after time when he responds to a job that when he gets there the police officers are saying, thank goodness you're here, we've got three other calls that are coming in. So when I talk about the police transformation plan that I put forward, what I'm talking about is actually realigning the resources towards what the reality is on the ground. If those officers had with them accompanying to a domestic dispute issue social service officer who was trained enough to be able to manage a situation once stable, we wouldn't have to take away from those critical moments when an officer then needs to be able to move on to the next component where emergency service and immediate response would be necessary. So, what I'm talking about is actually realigning how we spend money towards what our needs are. When we get the report back from the consultants later on this fall we'll have a much better idea of what the reality is of how response comes in and what the community needs are as it relates to public service and as it relates to the transformation piece I know that officers would prefer not to have to be the person to do all of the different things that are that are required of an officer. They would prefer to be able to do a tactical response and then move on next time something comes up. Okay, thank you. Jomagie, your response to Christopher Aaron's comments? Sure, so I do envision a future where we don't need a police force. That's something that I am hopeful for. I recognize that we're not going to get there tomorrow or next year or maybe even 10 years from now. But this is an ethic that I bring to my ideology and my belief system and my work on the council. My belief is that if we invest in people that we can get to a future where we have less interactions with police overall. And you know I just want to make a mention also of the efforts by people for police accountability to get an independent community control board on the ballot for a special election in November. They're collecting signatures right now for that. That would be the charter change that the mayor vetoed in January. I believe that is something that we need while we continue to transition away from police. We need to take that sole power away from the chief of police to discipline officers and instances of misconduct and make that process much more transparent in public. So I think, thank you, I think that Christopher Aaron actually raised an interesting point about getting support for your positions and I just would like to hear about your approach to working with a city council which has a variety of positions and how you would try to move other members towards your point of view. What's kind of your kind of theory of collaboration or making democracy work on a city council level? Sure. So I firmly believe in organizing the grassroots and getting out and talking to folks in the community and having those sorts of conversations about where folks are at and sort of explaining what I think and what we're organizing for and kind of forming a coalition of folks that are organizing for this sort of collective approach to change. So once you're on the city council and you're working with people who might not agree with you, how would you bring them around to your position? Sure. I think, you know, it starts with community meetings and meeting folks where they're at and talking to the community and, you know, we, there's also an initiative to get proposition zero which is would allow ballot signatures to have questions put directly on the ballot. I would support that. I think that is something that we need that would give more power to residents of Burlington, to voters in Burlington, to impact change. And so I believe that that's something that we need. But so I think it starts with building support in the community and having community members call their counselors and make their hopes heard. Okay. Thank you so much. So, Christopher, Erin, what's your approach to working with people on the council that may not share your views and building consensus? I think we have a very positive policing policy that we put forward. It includes, it includes areas that members of council from all parties have addressed that they have spoken on in behalf of wanting to have more training for officers. That's right in our policy so we can compromise together. We want, we all want to have more social workers on staff. Now Mr. Milne wants to also. I'm glad that he's taken on part of our policy proposals. I think that it's smart to have more social workers and mental health workers literally embedded in the department to go with them to the scene so that way they can work together. But we need more officers and I trust that the officers can be properly trained. I trust that we need more officers on staff. We're currently at 67 historic lows and the path that we're going with more being lost this year is not where we should be at. So we're going to compromise. We're going to work together and we're going to let other people know on council that this is the way that we should be leading in our city. All right. Thank you very much. Owen Milne, your view to building consensus on controversial topics. Yeah. So I did answer your question. My approach towards servant leadership is one where my policy directions are going to be based by taking the time to listen and engage with the people of Ward 3. Over the course of, since I started this campaign, I have incorporated new ideas into the platform that's that's been online. And in a lot of that comes from the things that I hear during the phone calls that I make. I as an independent feel that I'm in a unique position to be able to put people before politics and it's put people before a party to actually bring those stories directly to the city council. So I find that stories resonate louder than data so often. And I've changed minds by through stories in other boards that I've been on. That's the approach that I'd be taking is to take the stories and experiences, the people that I live around every day and bring those to the people in City Hall. Thank you so much. Why don't we start with you on this next question, which isn't in our list, but I had an interesting interview with the head of Department of Public Works about the proposals on trash collection. The Department of Public Works has completed a study that suggests a hybrid approach to collecting trash and compost and recycling. There's also support for a municipalizing trash and compost and recycling. Where do you stand on this question? The City Council is taking it up in a week, a week and a half, may not decide in a week and a half, but certainly are pressed to decide soon. So if you were a City Councilor, how would you how would you go roll on this question? So and so backing up a little bit too on the question, which is when I talk to people in the neighborhood, nobody loses sleep over trash consolidation. So I don't know how this made its way up, but I can tell you it wasn't like people in Ward 3 saying solve this issue or nobody's going into City Council meeting and keeping the counselors up till 2 in the morning. So I'll just say this isn't like a hot button issue from the people that I talk with. But it might be soon. So I would say I don't know that there is enough relevant information from what I can tell to support the City taking over the entirety of the services. I have spent time reaching out to people in Department of Public Works to learn more about it. Their preference and I feel as though my responsibility is to do provide the best service that I possibly can to the people in Ward 3. From the two options, I do believe that a hybrid approach and letting the Department of Public Works move forward on delivering that model. All right. Thanks so much. Joe McGee, your view on consolidating trash collection. Sure. I support a municipal operation model. You know, I believe it will create 14 new union jobs in the city. The union members that could be used to plow our streets and, you know, create the capacity that we need for some of those other essential services that DPW performs through the city. And, you know, I think it comes back to this question of investing in our public utilities and our public assets in a way that puts the residents of Burlington ahead of profit. You know, the way the hybrid model would work is that the rate payer would pay the trash collector, Cassella, and then Cassella would pay the city. I don't see the value in a system like that. I think, you know, in the long run, the municipal operation model will be better for Burlington. It will be better for the rate payer for residents in the city. And I think that is the way that we need to go. All right. That's fine. I have a follow-up to that, but I'm going to go to Christopher Aaron. And what's your view on consolidated trash collection? Should that be hybrid or municipal or some other option? Perfect. Thank you. So I don't approve of the municipal option, the municipal monopoly option. I don't. That would require it'll ultimately stifle the free market completely. It'll cause costs to go up, taxes will go up, and the municipal option would require the city to take on a new site down off of Flynn Avenue, and the amount of high traffic coming from these large, heavy vehicles going back and forth down Pine Street, that corridor, and the traffic that would build up there, I'm unconvinced that would be a smart option. As far as the hybrid model goes, I have reservations. I've been following along also reaching out to the Department of Public Works and talking to Director Spencer on it. I'm not convinced that that is the appropriate model for the city either at this point. I think that Burlingtonians, anything that any either of these two options that are available right now, the municipal monopoly or the hybrid model, both are more likely going to cause cost increased shoulder on the Burlingtononian families. And that's not something that I'm willing to put out there for people in my ward to have to bear the burden of. So just a quick follow up before Joe, do you think the city should be doing municipal recycling? Christopher? Yeah. Do you think the city should be doing municipal recycling? The city already does municipal recycling. I mean, what's your view on that if you don't? I mean, it's perfectly fine with me right now, the way it is as far as that goes. But when we get into having the city take over multiple avenues of waste collection, we also start talking about using split-use trucks. Now, the trucks have a finite amount of capacity. So if you have a truck that's taking solid waste and recyclables, one's going to fill up before the other. And it's not as efficient. And I question the amount of efficiency the director's putting out because I don't see that actually panning out with the number of trips that go back and forth. Also, the hybrid model speaks specifically about how the exemptions of any building that has less than four units, anything that's industrial, they can still charter on their own waste collector. Any building or residential structure that has more than four units, they can still charter their own. So I really do question the numbers to see if it's going to be as efficient or reduce emissions. Like they said, I'm not willing to comment on whether I approve of the hybrid model or don't approve of it just yet, but I absolutely oppose the municipal monopoly. All right. Thank you, Joe. I would just like to point out that it would in fact save ratepayers money. We can do three services for the price of two, the way it currently stands. Folks pay anywhere from $28 to $39 for trash and then another $15 a month for compost. And so the municipal model would cap at $41. And we would have the ability to adjust that based on residents' ability to pay. So when we talk about this, I want to make sure that we're getting the numbers correct. So I just have a follow-up question for you, and that is given the recent tax increases, what do you think the appetite for the public is to pay for municipal infrastructure that would be required in this case, given all the other infrastructure proposals and needs the city has? I mean, so that's just sort of a question I have about your view of the taxpayer's appetite to pay more for service. Sure. You know, this is a model that is used around the country. In fact, most municipalities, I believe, use a model that has the municipality doing the collection of all three. And I think we have an opportunity with lots of money coming from the federal government over the next few months that we might be able to leverage for this. On the topic of the property tax increase, you know, I serve on the Board of Tax Appeals, so something that I've heard a lot about over the last week and a half. And, you know, I absolutely understand that we need to do more to support folks that saw a sticker shock. And so I hope that we're able to find a solution to have folks, to help folks who might not be able to afford their tax bill. I'm open to having conversations with other counselors and maybe coming up with a way that we can create some sort of fund to help folks that aren't able to afford their tax bill. So what's interesting about this trash hauling is really how much there is to say. There is a lot to say on it, yeah. So we have to wrap up, so I'm going to go to closing comments. And please use the opportunity to say any issues that you care about. I'll give you a couple minutes each for those closing comments. I'm going to start with Joe and then we'll wrap up there. Closing on the trash issue or just altogether? We wrap up. Oh, wow. It's 45 minutes and we're going all over, but that's okay. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I know. It doesn't time fly. It does fly. It does fly. Anyway, Joe, before you, closing comments, please. Good morning, Glenn. Thank you so much for moderating tonight. And thank you to Channel 17 for this first in-studio broadcast. So I'm running to be a voice for working folks in City Hall. I think we have an opportunity over the next several months, with the rest of this term being about six months. I think we have an opportunity to really chart a course for how we support people and how we support uplift our communities and invest in our public assets in a way that we haven't been doing in a way that the pandemic has exposed so many of the inadequacies that we need to address. And I think we have an opportunity to do that over these next few months. And I really look forward to that conversation. You can learn more about my campaign at joemigiebtv.com. I really look forward to having conversations with folks on your door, on the phone, and really hope to earn your support on August 17th. So thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Christopher Aaron Felker, your closing comments. Thank you. Thank you for having us here tonight. My name is Christopher Aaron Felker, and I hope that I was able to convince you that we have a new direction that we can go as a city. Regardless of your party affiliations, we're all Berlingtonians coming together to try and provide a different vantage point to solve our problems. City Council is a body of 12 individuals. It currently doesn't have any conservative representation on it. We would like to come to the table and offer our perspective on how we can solve Berlington's problems together. If public safety in supporting our police department is a priority to you and your family, if trying to hold the line on taxes is a priority for you and your family, if you want to reinvest in our city's infrastructure, I ask for your vote. I ask for you to take a look at our website, www.felkerforward3.com. You can even send me an email right there. I'm happy to hear from any Berlingtonian any day. I'm always willing to reach out. So thank you again for having us here, and thank you to my opponents for coming to this session. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Oh, I'm Mel. You're closing the comments. Thank you for hosting us. And is this really the first? I think so, yeah. Your first time getting out of the house and coming in and doing this? I thought it was remote. Right. We heard. That's why I drove. So I'm sure you kept with the speed limit the whole way, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah. So thank you for doing this. We're so glad to be able to meet back and doing this in person. I am genuine when I talk about this idea of servant leadership. And oftentimes, when I have an opportunity to talk about it, sometimes politicians measure their impact by how many times their name is in the press or how many interviews they're getting at Channel 17. For me, success would look like the people in my neighborhood having my name and phone number on their refrigerator, because it's the place where they call to get problems solved that they experienced in the city. Instead of thinking about success in city council, about how many times you stop something you don't agree with or how many times you move a policy forward that you agree with, I would measure my impact on city council on how many times I've actually helped a family get whatever it is that they need from the city. Servant leaders look at the world in a very different way. That's the approach that I'm looking to bring to city council. And if you'd like to learn more about me or my platform, I invite you to go check out my website at www.ownforbrillington.com. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Owen Milne is running as an independent in the word three special election. Jill McGee is running as a progressive and Christopher Aaron Falker is running as a Republican. I want to thank the three of you for joining us. I'm always deeply honored by the people who choose to run for public service. So thank each of you and thank you for watching.


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