Today we're making a quiche and it doesn't happen. He's making the quiche that I let's my signature dish But don't tell anybody because I don't cook so the only thing I can think of when I think of quiche is How many times my lunatic mother has been up at 4 a.m. Bet the only? Three times she's been up at 4 a.m. cooking something for some reason it was a quiche and I got up and I asked her What are you doing and I told her listen? Go to bed, and I'll make the quiche when I get up in the morning, and she didn't want to so I had to make my own quiche It's my signature dish So I hope you enjoy my son's version So today we're gonna make quiche, and there's a very traditional French preparation quiche Lorraine And it's really carnivore in itself The only thing that makes it not carnivore is the crust and we're going to try to replicate that with just a nice Parmesan cheese crust so let me show you guys the ingredients. It's the perfect carnivore recipe You know you have milk eggs cheese and bacon now We don't have the ideal quality of everything you know of course We would be making Ibarico pork bacon like I did a couple months back We would have raw milk from a local farm But we do have some of the highest quality ingredients you can get so here are some Soy-free corn-free eggs from an Amish farm these pricks charge me eight dollars a dozen here We have Frankie boys favorite parmigiano reggiano, which we're gonna use for the crust and We have gruyere Swiss cheese that's going to compose most of the quiche. Let's go over the nutrients real quick So dairy in general has pretty much every single vitamin and mineral your body needs with the exception of preformed omega fatty acids Milk is more B vitamin oriented cream is fat soluble vitamin oriented Cheese has a nice mix of both as well as a very high vitamin K2 content The eggs are even more nutrient dense than dairy. They're more balanced They do have preformed omega fatty acids, but they're lacking calcium. They're lacking iron And then we have bacon and you know, it's probably high in omega-6. It's not the best choice So maybe a decent amount of vitamin a but you know, it does have fat calories. It does add more protein So really the worst thing we do have here is the bacon measurement wise You want around two cups of either cream or milk and you can combine both which is what I'm actually doing today So we're gonna do one cup of milk one cup of cream That's going to be eight eggs and I think I'm just gonna use all of this bacon and we want about one cup of cheese But since I'm making a parmesan cheese crust We're gonna need a little bit of extra parmesan Whereas we're just gonna throw one cup of gruyere in the mixture itself a little bit of salt and You know with quiche you can add so many different things like mushrooms spinach onion It's really endless. So we got the bacon diced up in the pan I'm gonna grate this parmesan so we can get our crust going in the oven I would say for the crust you probably need about Three-quarters of a pound of parmesan depending on the size of your your baking tin. This looks like enough So what I'm gonna do is butter this ceramic baking tin We have all this stuff on Frankie's rearrange me guys all of the cheese is the butter We have a barricade pork belly. I'm just not crazy enough to make bacon every week Well, I am but I don't really like bacon that much and with this cheese We're just gonna Make a layer that's enough to cover the bottom of the pan So like you don't see it and look if you want to get really crazy, can you try to stick this cheese to the sides? Yeah, but I'm not doing that now for the sake of not wasting cheese I'm gonna use what I grated here, but this is plenty so You get your cheese in the bottom of the ceramic baking tin and then you press it down Now now some quiche recipes do actually call for adding parmesan to The mixture so I thought hey why not make a parmesan crust and just put gruyere in the quiche Now we're gonna pop this in the oven at 400 until it turns golden brown This is gonna take maybe 15 20 minutes. Just keep a good eye on it So our bacon is caramelized. We have the gruyere grated I have eight eggs counted out and all we're gonna do now is Season the whole mixture by putting about a tablespoon of salt in the eggs Depending on how you want your quiche as I said you can use heavy cream or whole milk or just one of them and Likewise with the eggs you can use whole eggs or egg yolk So the more heavy cream the more egg yolks you put in the richer This is gonna be but you know with all the cheese and bacon and all that stuff Most people just use milk in the mixture with whole eggs one cup of a very thick cream So one cup of cream one cup of milk, so I'll get this in the bigger bowl in goes the cheese and The bacon So the gruyere bacon is the most classic combination. My mom likes doing you know ham and American cheese which is kind of you know, not that great quality but Whatever floats your boat you could put the bacon grease in here But I don't like adding bacon grease to recipes because it tends to just make the whole thing tastes like bacon Vegans are crying at home right now This is also how you make a Parmesan cheese crisps You don't want to spend all that money in the store and as you guys could see there's like a lot of fat that kind of separated but this has to cool for about 20 30 minutes before we can put the mixture in this to put it back in the oven It's been about half an hour, and this is nice and cooled off. It's really crispy, too I broke it a little bit, but Really crispy and crunchy. So, you know when we go to cut this later. Let's just make sure to be careful So this mixture is gonna go in here In the oven we're gonna do 350 for about an hour It's been 50 minutes, and I went to check Keesh is actually looking really really nice and brown So we're gonna take this out now and let it rest for about an hour. Ooh, that looks good If you guys are missing pizza on the carnivore diet, this will hit the spot So for some reason my mom is awake at 1 30 in the morning and for some reason my sister's At my sister's actually sleeping at 1 30 in the morning usually my sister's up all night But we have a different taste tester today My favorite thing to eat This is a keeper The classic bacon and Gruyere is always always a go-to He has to be right. He's right I'm enjoying it. Thank you. Thank you guys for joining me today If you could please leave a comment down below like the video and above all please share the video on social media If you guys do want to support me further, you know how to do so down in the description As I said earlier all of this stuff is available on Frankie's for you to meet Hopefully we have the farm so we can do some eggs sometime in the near future Thanks again for joining me guys. I'll see you for tomorrow's video


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The golden age of Islam, when Muslims ruled the world, well, at least a significant part of it. And when the classical knowledge of ancient Greece and other concurrent civilizations were granted new life through the protection and translations of their ancient literature, philosophical, and scientific treatises, worked from classical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Ptolemy, and Diosecretes. A time when Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and the cities of Andalusia prospered with numerous educational institutions that saw many advancements in mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, medicine, and other sciences. A time when the knowledge being produced and created was without any restrictions towards the race or religion of its scholars, Christian, Jew, and Muslim, united in creating a zeitgeist of scientific discovery and natural rationalism. An age which began in the 8th century and one that would last for many centuries, and then, all of a sudden, poof, gone, no more discovery, no more knowledge, and no more golden age. So what happened? What led to the collapse of this amazing and vibrant golden age of Islam? There are many hypotheses as to why the age ended, some that are a little simplistic, while others with much more plausibility and credibility. I will present five reasons that attempt to explain why and how the collapse of the golden age happened. The first supposed cause for the fall wasn't necessarily a failure at all on behalf of the Muslim nation, but one due to the ascendancy and advancements of Europe, leading to the Renaissance age and its feeding off of the collective knowledge and scholarship of the Islamic Empire, thereby eclipsing the Muslims within a century or two. Not an easy theory to prove, yet nonetheless, from a historical analysis standpoint, the sequencing does make some sense. The student became the master. The second reason that attempts to explain the fall of the golden age was the cycles of the rise and fall of empires in history, like ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. All had their centuries of dominance and role with significant advancements in knowledge and the sciences, as well as accomplishments from a political and military perspective. But these all came to an end when complacency and moral corruption exemplified the behavior and modus operandi of the ruling factions of these times. The same can be said about the golden age of Islam. Gradual fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate, the empire responsible for the rise of the golden age, resulted in the proliferation of more and more subsects within the Islamic faith, as well as much more independent seeking political direction among the various Muslim territories, hence creating a major state of discord amongst the nation. Again, not so easy to prove, but when looking at previous empires as precedents, the cycle of rise, domination, and fall does indeed align. Why was the Islamic Empire any different and exempt to such a fate? The third justification for the fall of the golden age is one that western thinkers believe as the one to have most likely contributed towards the downfall, and that is the role of the Muslim polyglot, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, known in the West as Al-Ghazal, in establishing a certain epistemological course of Islamic thought. Here is a favorite western thinker giving his five cents worth on the matter declaring how a single man's written words brought down the entire Islamic golden age. In that text included the assertion which gained influence socially but then politically, so then it had power of influence. In there was the assertion that mathematics and the manipulation of numbers was the work of the devil. The entire enterprise collapsed and never recovered. It has not recovered since. Al-Ghazali in the 11th century CE had written a book called Tahafut al-Falasifah, meaning the incoherence of the philosophers. In this book, Al-Ghazali specifically criticized the Ibn Sina philosophical schools doctrines concerning their discourse on religion and the natural world. The book was not an attack on philosophy or science, but on the Avicenna School specifically and their theories that in his opinion were incoherently presented. At no point did Al-Ghazali state that mathematics was the work of the devil. This myth supposes the western narrative that religion and science are at constant conflict with each other. Just as the Christian church was in conflict with the science of Galileo, the same must have been true with Al-Ghazali and the Islamic scientists, philosophers and scholars. I'm not sure how one man brings down an entire empire, but what is fact is that the academic and scientific advancements in the golden age kept continuing on well beyond Al-Ghazali's time and well into the 15th century, thereby busting the myth that his book brought an end to Muslim curiosity, ingenuity and invention. The fourth identified cause for the fall of the golden age has been attributed to the Mongol invasions in the 13th century and the eventual siege and sacking of Baghdad, the center of Islamic power for over five centuries. When hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed and many educational institutions were raised to the ground, thereby losing many, many hundreds of thousands of manuscripts and books. The Mongols weren't content with the destruction of Baghdad alone, but carried on towards the Levant and captured both Aleppo and Damascus within the decade, consequently ending the reign of the Ayyubid dynasty. Having three epicenters of knowledge and education of an empire comprehensively destroyed due to invasion would only have weakened the ability for the golden age to persevere. Such extreme instability would rock the foundations of any civilization. The final reason for the fall of the golden age of Islam and one I believe to be the most impactful is due to two events that took place almost simultaneously in the 15th century. These two events are the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the first successful maritime route to India via the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama in 1497 CE. These two new discoveries would hit the Islamic Empire hard, as they degraded the importance of the Silk Road, the network of Eurasian trade routes that depended greatly on the ease and security of passage along Muslim lands. Upon the discovery of new maritime trade routes to India and the Far East, as well as the new lands in the Americas to be exploited, the dependency on the Silk Road diminished drastically, leaving the Islamic Empire and economy in a state of shock. Gone was a taxation levied on the tradesmen seeking passage and gone was the foreign expenditure and historic purchasing power that took place in accommodating the trading industry. The Muslim coffers were far emptier than they ever were for hundreds of years. Expenditure had to be reined in and the first casualty was the patronization of the educational system. Funding ceased for the many schools and scholars who over the many centuries had created so much value for the Islamic civilization. And so the lack of money and its impact on the ability to maintain the creation and development of knowledge was the culprit for the gradual end of the Golden Age. All these reasons vary greatly in their timing and history. They span a period almost four centuries long and when we think about how any civilization that was powerful and prosperous came to an end, there was never a key episode that resulted in its demise. In my opinion, the death of the Silk Road is indeed the most powerful and convincing as it took away the life source of education and invention, the support through money. But maybe we should allow for a point of view where all the reasons mentioned did play their part in the gradual collapse of the Golden Age with the deprioritizing of the Silk Road as the final shot of mercy. The Golden Age of Islam played its vital part in the progress of humanity, the impacts of which we still observe in our day-to-day lives, mathematics, science, medicine, discovery of space and much more. That though is only history. As with any cycle of civilization, the question that presents itself is when will the cycle bring us back to another Golden Age of Islam? When will Muslims stop recalling the past when taking pride in relaying their achievements? How do we overcome the current momentum of latency that the Muslim world has when it comes to advancements in sciences and inventions in technology? The answers to these questions I shall leave for the next video. So till the next time. Bye-bye.


Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right, guys. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name's Bobby. Guys, since my proof of Islam video, you know that I'm somewhat obsessed with Imam al-Razali. Today, we're going to react to eye-opening al-Razali quotes by the channel Simply Motivation. My appreciation and fascination with al-Razali comes from him pursuing philosophy, becoming a major philosopher and then ultimately debunking philosophy, more over him realizing during self-reflection that his motivation to become a scholar was ultimately egocentric. It was led by the ego and this when he decides to go for pilgrimage and he leaves for over 11 years. He simply disappears. Nobody knows where he is. And then finally, he returns as a Sufi master where he confirms the mystics prior to him, realizing that nothing can beat real life experience, that knowledge, rationality only brings you so far. You will have to return to intuitive thinking, to intuitive perception, the instinct to truly experience God. I can't wait for his quotes in today's video. With no further ado, let's have a look. Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation. Exactly right. The AI generated voice sounds a little bit like Ellen Watts here. The quote, do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation is absolutely correct because all of those people will die. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. It is a temporal judgment of certain people. Hader is gonna hate. Some people will praise you, other people will tell you that you are nothing, but ultimately you will have to follow the path of God. Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness. Self-explanatory, absolutely correct. When we're speaking about religion, this is something that I personally do not resonate with. There are certain people that simply study the books over and over again. In Christianity, we call them Bible thumpers. They can tell you everything about the Bible, every little story they memorize, but ultimately there is no action in their knowledge. Back in the day, I saw that in the pickup community. Nowadays, you call it the red pill community, I'm a bit older. Back in the day, we called it pick up. It was all about how to seduce women and I started reading those books. After two books or so, I let them aside and I actually went out and pursued women. But other people fell into the trap of simply reading those books and they would tell me, Bobby, I just have to read this. I have to meditate now. I have to understand, internalize and then I will be able to pursue women.  All of that knowledge didn't bring them anything because they didn't put it into action. Forget what you love. You must first be patient with what you hate. Yes, very correct. In Islam, you call it cyber patience. In Christianity, we say patience is a virtue. Ultimately, you will become what you hate anyways. Look at me, man. I hated Islam. And now I am studying Islam. I can tell you from experience that everything that I hated in my life, later on, I pursued. It's quite interesting. So therefore, have patience, don't even focus on the hate. Let it go and then we'll come a time when you can focus on what you love. Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. Exactly right. Yet again, patience is a virtue. But moreover, this reminds me of a parable of the Bible. Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free. But a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves not one man alone. But what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. So here we see that a slave that does not sin has only one master, one master that controls his life, so to speak. But the king, the rich man that is sinful, boastful, he has as many masters as he has sinned.  Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me. Yes, this is what happens when we look within, and this is what El Ghazali did later in his life. You're not focusing on the outward anymore, but you truly become introspective and look at yourself. And this is true ownership, true responsibility, realizing that you can change only yourself. Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. Yes, we have the same notion in Orthodox Christianity of purifying the heart ultimately. You cannot receive God's light if your heart is impure. The fenn love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity. Sure, this is the love beyond the flesh. Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. This resonates deeply with me personally. And yes, I do understand that the Orthodox Islamic claim is that all music is haram, that it's all prohibited. And ultimately, I do understand that the prohibition of music would ultimately stop the pop culture degeneracy. Moreover, I do understand the spiritual practice of abstaining from music, because music always puts you into an emotion and brings you away from the current moment. I absolutely get that. But to fully prohibit music forever and ever, I couldn't agree with. For example, I'm a father and I do understand how my little son is affected by music when I play him a child song, and he starts dancing a little bit. I am of the firm conviction that there is a good measure with music as well. The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. Yeah, this is absolutely deep. I cannot be fully understood without mystical experience. This reminds me obviously yet again of my own spiritual mystical experiences. What happened there is that I realized that I am ultimately made of the same fabric of everything around me, that I am simply a drop in the ocean. However, I didn't realize that prior to the mystical experience, I simply thought of myself as an entity, as a separated self. Then when I realized that I am a drop, I asked myself, where do I belong? And of course, I belonged in the ocean. And once you experience that merging into the ocean, you experience unity, consciousness, you experience that you're one with everything. It's something that you can't really intellectualize about. The hearts of learned men, he answered, men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned. Yes, absolutely correct. And this again reminds me of the Bible because people refer to the Bible falsely. And they say that money is the root of all evil. That is not correct. If you look into the Bible, it says the love of money is the root of all evil. So money itself is simply an exchange medium. That's it. Once you start worshiping money, this is the problem. And Ghazali describes it beautifully here, of course, because he says, if money upsets your heart, then you are not learned at all. Each of your breath is a priceless jewel. Since each of them is irreplaceable, and once gone, can never be retrieved. That's true. One breath closer to death.  Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell. Sinning is easy, bro. Anybody can do it. A human being is not a human being, while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, empire, and attacking other people. Exactly correct. What he is describing here is the ego.  Yet again, today I'm going to talk a lot about the Bible. When Jesus says, in order to receive the kingdom of heaven, you have to become like children. I believe that Islamically speaking, this would be the fitra. We have to return to our natural state, the natural state that we are in as children. And a child does not want to harm others or self-indulge. Those are tendencies that we adapt later on in life. Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For an argumentation lies much harm and it's evil is greater than its benefit. So true. Yet again, and this is what I see with so many debates nowadays on YouTube. Nowadays, people don't debate out of good faith. They don't really want to be won over, at least 99% of the time. They simply want to win a debate. And in those debates, they feel personally attacked because those two egos are battling and like that they're not learning anything. Moreover, people stay within their own box. So therefore what is really happening, the truth is not exposed here. People love to stay in their own falsehood as long as they win the debate. The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances. 100% correct. And this is why yet again, I cannot resonate with an absolute literal interpretation of anything. Word by word, word by word. Those words become physical and ultimately those words become idols. You start worshiping those texts instead of looking with them. This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the letter like a shadow. Yes, a manifestation of God. Whoever passes 40 without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. Absolutely correct. If you haven't learned the lesson by 40, you're doomed. I would say you are 30. People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of other words they speak. This is the focus on good deeds only and people believe that if they do good deeds, they're rewarded even more and therefore who cares about the bad deeds. You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck. So you don't possess anything. The hypocrite looks for faults. The believer looks for excuses. The hypocrite looks for faults. The believer looks for excuses. I don't resonate with this quote because I would say that the hypocrite looks for faults and excuses. The believer simply adheres to what God commanded he submits to his will. Therefore, he doesn't look for faults or excuses. Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil by learning the potential becomes actual. Everything exists as potentiality in the human soul. For example, if you think about break dance, the potential for those moves was already within the human soul and the human body, but for thousands of years humans did not move like that. Only when they started discovering the potential of their soul, the potential of their bodies, they started moving like that. So therefore the potential of the soul is vast like an ocean and we find out about it every single day. If you do not prepare now for the afterlife, then when will you do so? Later. Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment, rather know the truth and you will know its people. Exactly right. Yet again, guys, today is Bible Study Day. The truth shall set you free and let no man teach you. El Ghazali describes here that you cannot really learn from any men. Of course, you can listen to them for inspiration, etc. etc. But the real change will happen within yourself. The truth is already within yourself. Think about it. If all the potential in the world is within your soul, the truth is within your soul as well.  So once you start focusing on that truth, you will start to see who's actually upon the truth and who is not. Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it. Sure, self-explanatory. Do not fix hopes on your health and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walk and now all their joints lie separately and the tongue with which they talk lightly is eaten away by the worms. Yes, this is a hard lesson that we learn when we're getting older now in 35 and thank God I still have some vitality in my body, but nevertheless I'm not the same that I was in my 20s and this is why it is so important to not focus on our attributes of strength and vitality because it all will fade. To me a physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper who observes black lettering and that attributes its production to the pen and nothing more. No creator. Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours. I already had that one.  Cannot hope to see the invisible world. Absolutely not. This is why fasting is so important. Fasting is a spiritual experience because we get away from the flesh body. If we let the flesh body suffer to an extent we can get away from it and actually witness the spiritual realm that lays beyond. Therefore gluttony is a sin within the Christian context. If you focus on food you cannot focus on God. Love for God is the farthest region of all stations. The Son of the highest agrees and there is no station after that of love except its fruit and its consequences. Correct. It's the only real love. Every other love is just a portion of that love. A diluted version of that love. The sincere pure love is the love for God and then after that you have romantic love. You have love for your family, love for your children etc etc. Sense of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are. Yes. Without it nothing works. Understand that for every rule which I've mentioned from the Quran the devil has one to match it which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error. Sure. You always have a different explanation for the same exact thing. The glass is half empty or maybe it's half full. If you does not arrive at the intuition of these truths by means of ecstasy knows only the name of inspiration. And there you can clearly see that he was a Sufi because Sufis bring themselves into an ecstatic state and there they can receive the knowledge of the universe, the knowledge of God so to speak. All right and this is it for today's video. Yet again I'm absolutely amazed with this man Al-Razali and his words. It resonates deeply with me because my journey growing up as a Christian then leaving Christianity and entering the mysticism, the spiritual practices, the shamanism ultimately then left me in a state of separation because I wanted to return to God but somehow I didn't understand how to integrate all of those mystical teachings. Within Christian orthodoxy I could not find it even though there was a huge spiritual mystical component to orthodoxy I couldn't comprehend where the unity of things fits in. But nevertheless my knowledge of the absolute reality that God is ultimately one I could not embed into the framework of the Trinity. And this is why I kept on searching. I kept on looking and only Islam framed God, explained God the way that I experienced God. Only Islam had the answer to that one God. But then looking further especially into the Salafi school of thought I found the spiritual dryness yet again it simply does not resonate with me this literalistic approach I need to know I need to understand within myself otherwise the experience is not real and this is why I'm fascinated by the Sufi thought and I believe this is where my journey is headed. All right guys but this is it for today's video if you liked it leave the thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support this channel via Patreon all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support guys as always may God bless you all much love and peace


Ukiba na tu online na nifrao Ia kukonu kwa nili Jupia wewa wewa na iitensyoni, agreed Of course Kwa isa wibona kwa nisha Kwa ikwa Lakin e buti tawachu uchkuriya na luntamuna pandam The game is to take you to the extreme happiness Extreme Love Play with those emotions Even on a date You go on a date And make someone have a happy feeling And at the same time they don't make out when they are feeling away Now do we agree, it's actually very easy to fraud someone When you've already done all those mind games Actually the key You played with your psychology It's very easy It's very easy The key is to know when you're being manipulated Exactly You are watching Friends via all feelings are represented What's up good people And welcome to yet another episode of Friends Vibe Right here on SPM Buzz In case if not subscribed Please make sure you do My name is Superhost Miss Kipinchi And right next to me is The great buti taw Nice to have you Nika macha atuwa Kikwani muna chaka niliwe cha pula Kasa tera wakora cha pula mzuriya pandam Nika macha, na kama mtawa Na kama mtawa The topic of discussion today is If you meet someone online You fall in love with them What are the factors that you use to consider That this person is actually Jenny Or this is a fraudster Which fans are those? 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Good evening and welcome back to Byline. As you know, if you tuned in last Friday evening, February 8th, we're taking a bit of a departure from our normal format here. On Friday evening, we had the first of a two-part series relating to the big debate here in town on the future of our school construction program for our elementary schools. And we have tonight, on Monday evening, February 11th, two guests, the president of our town council, Lynn Griezmer, and the chair of the Amherst School Committee, Anastasia Ordenez, who are together working to ensure that we have a robust and constructive community dialogue as we move forward. As you know, we had quite a contentious time in the past, not so long ago, on the same question of where, how many, how big in terms of elementary school construction. So, it's a new day. We get to start the conversation over. And the purpose of these two shows is to help you understand what the process is going to be so that you can participate and understand how this is unfolding. And also to understand the connection between the Fort River School Building Study Committee work, which preceded the formation of the new town council. That was an action of town meeting to create a study committee. And how is that going to interact with the decisions and the work that's going on right now with the school committee of the town council going forward? So, let's start with you, Anastasia. Once you give us the thumbnail, you're giving us the elevator speech now, and hopefully it's not a 35-story building. Give us an elevator speech on what is Superintendent Morris' proposal, what is the content of that proposal? Well, first of all, thank you, Stan, for having me here tonight. I really appreciate it. And yes, I think the way that you characterized what led us to here is actually a core part of Dr. Morris' Superintendent proposal that was made to the school committee earlier in January. So the previous project actually had people in the community rather divided on various things, including grade configuration, size of the building that was proposed, and a few other items. So following that divisiveness and a lot of the contention that we heard as a school committee, as a body, and as a community, the decision was made to really try to find something that we felt could help us move forward. And so we had initiated a request to town meeting, as you mentioned before, for a feasibility study, to study the Fort River site and to learn more about it, because the previous project had actually studied the Wildwood Elementary School site as part of its feasibility study in a formal project. And so this was an opportunity, even though we were not in a formal project for Fort River, an opportunity to learn more about it, to be able to use that information if a future project were ever to emerge. Since that point, Dr. Morris and the school committee had actually approved applications, again, to the MSBA, which is the Massachusetts School Building Authority, to begin the process again, because we understand that regardless of the contention that happened here in the community, everyone more or less was in agreement that we need new buildings. We need to solve the problems of our current elementary schools, which were built in the late 60s, are almost 50 years old, and are exhibiting a lot of fairly typical problems for buildings of that size, but also just given the bad construction that was done with them, the open classroom design has really created a very difficult learning environment for children. And so we agreed to put in these applications to the MSBA, acknowledging that we cannot move forward with a project unless we have state aid. Our town just has been very clear multiple times in the past that we cannot afford to spend millions and millions of dollars typically. There isn't a town in the state that can afford to build a school without the school building assistance program. That's exactly right. So there's no secret there. We're not unique in that. That's exactly right. And I think the MSBA also has been very clear that they have dozens of communities that apply to them on an annual basis for very competitive grants to build these school buildings. And that's right. We're not unique in the state of Massachusetts. We're not even unique in the country, unfortunately. We have an infrastructure problem here in our country, and we're seeing that developing quite a bit with our public schools. So we had applied to the MSBA for aid, and unfortunately we were rejected. And so the superintendent doing his due diligence had reached out to the MSBA, his contacts there, to find out what happened, as much information as they could share. And they said, well, this is, you know, we have a lot of competition. There's a lot of other communities that have applied for aid here. And so he said, well, we would like to put in another application for next year. This is part of our plan is to try to get state aid. And they said, okay, however, given the amount of investment that they had made in our community previously with the previous project, they really wanted to get assurance from our community that we could get behind a project and that we could be fairly united in what we wanted and what we didn't want. And so that has led to this current proposal that we are discussing right now. And really what it is is a, you know, sort of a very general guidelines or parameters, if you will, around an idea for our community to get behind this idea so that we can actually put the application forward. And that idea is? So the idea basically is a school that is one location. We understand from various members of the community that they don't want and probably would not support a sequential project, meaning that we take care of one building and then we take care of another one at a later point in time, acknowledging that both buildings are in bad enough shape that we actually need a solution for River and Wildwood Elementary School, right? Which is our two different sites. Both of those schools were built around the same time and they're basically mirror reflections of each other. They're both open classroom designs using the same exact materials, pretty much the same layout if you walk into one. So one site? One site. Size? Size would be approximately 600 students. And that also has been a, after listening to multiple members of the community, you know, people, some people were very concerned about the previous project which actually was a co-located school but the size was about 750 students combined. And so we actually think that we can get down to about 600. And that would be based on the third point of this proposal, which is a K5 or a K6, meaning that that would be the, there's no change in configuration. There's no grade reconfiguration as we had discussed in the previous project. But again, understanding and hearing from the community that they really wanted to feel that, you know, kids were all going to school in the same place and they weren't getting going through multiple transitions throughout their elementary school career. So grade configuration, which was controversial the last time, is off the table at this time in this proposal. Exactly. This is really what we feel, you know, having listened to the community is sort of the middle-of-the-road approach, right? The fourth point is actually to make a warm child-centered school. And it sounds simple, but it's actually a really big deal and it's really important both to the community and to the school committee and the superintendent to make sure that when you walk into this building, it feels like it has been made for children. It's not a clinical place. It's not, you know, a grand, enormous building. It feels warm and cozy and accepting and inviting for young children. And then the fifth bullet point, which is actually extremely important, was an agreement that we would do a community-wide survey as part of the feasibility study process in the future. So once we enter a feasibility study process, which means that the MSBA has accepted our application and has committed to fund a project with us, they enter into a feasibility study process with us in partnership. And we end up examining whatever site it will be, but we also end up taking a closer look at the educational plan, you know, design questions around that. And at that point in time is really when we are making a commitment to not repeat some of the previous mistakes that were made in waiting for too long to engage the community, but really engaging them early on and getting their input and their feedback throughout the entire process. And so what that would look like is a survey, but it would probably also resemble a lot of the things that we're doing right now around this application process. So that in a nutshell is the superintendent's proposal. And so this is, when you use the word proposal, he's not proposing a specific school at a specific site. He's proposing some parameters, criteria, around which he's seeking, and the school committee is seeking, a community consensus. That's exactly right. And it's very difficult to get a consensus with tens of thousands of people. So it's more in the nature of the community is in general agreement heading in this direction. That's exactly right. And it's really trying to pull out the values that we believe in and thinking that we've listened enough at this point to hear what people really felt very strongly about and incorporate that into, you know, almost like a mission statement, if you will, for a project moving forward. So we're going to talk about some process and how you're going to engage the community in a minute. I just want to turn to our town council president. Anything you want to add or underscore from the comments that Anastasia has shared? Let me just say that we've already had the superintendent, Mike Morris, appear before the town council. He's presented this plan. There were lots of questions because this is obviously a new thing for the town council itself being new. And their major questions are, well, what is our role? And one of the roles is that they must, in fact, also sign the document. Therefore, they have to vote. The document that goes to the school building. And in the process of that, that's when we've made the commitment that as we move forward to the process of listening, that the town council will also be very present at those listening and conversational sessions. Very good. Now Anastasia mentioned the Fort River School Study Committee. And my recollection is there was another study done earlier relating to Marks Meadow. So excuse me, a Wildwood, not Marks Meadow, Wildwood. So we should underscore that this isn't playing favorites because when the town meeting was approached by the school committee to try to authorize some funding and a process, they were essentially trying to treat these two schools and school communities equally by gathering the same kind of information for Fort River as had previously been gathered for Wildwood. Important point, I think, to underscore here. Absolutely. And just to add to that, I would say that there's been some confusion in our community about because the two things are happening almost simultaneously. We have the Fort River Feasibility Study Building Committee wrapping up its work and we are expecting a report from that committee that will be shared publicly at the end of April. So they're designers that they've been working with and who have been helping them undergo a lot of this information seeking process and cost estimates and all of that for a potential project on that site are gathering all of their information. We'll be sharing that at the end of April, but at the same time we're also engaging this proposal sharing with the community around the Dr. Morris's proposal. And while the Fort River Feasibility Study Building Committee is extremely important for us because it's providing a lot of information, like you said, that we didn't have prior, we actually don't have a project in place right now. And so what we are hoping to do is put in this application with consensus from the community around Dr. Morris's proposal, which has not selected a site yet. This is without a site. This is just a general guideline, general idea. And then, excuse me, once that, hopefully, application is accepted by the MSBA, then we will decide where a future project will go and really dive into the detailed questions. Okay, and speaking of diving in, before we dive in on the process of going to the community, which is going to begin very shortly, let's take a minute here, Lynn as Town Council President for you to focus on our capital needs process here because this isn't a standalone item. It competes with a lot of other high priorities in the community. And I understand even later this evening at your council meeting, you're going to be diving into some more of the capital needs background and work that the council is pursuing here. So why don't you give us the elevator speech on the capital picture and where this proposal would fit in as we go forward? So as I mentioned before, we've already had the superintendent of schools present his proposal that is going forward for this discussion period. But in addition to that, at our meeting tonight, we actually have the superintendent of Public Works will present the feasibility study that's been done for DPW.  And I always want to say fire and EMS because it's a very important part of our service. Then in addition to that, we have the library who's been talking and around town and they will be there and presenting what they are thinking about in terms of the capital project for the library. And then there's the what I call the fifth project and that is the infrastructure issues, the roads, the sidewalks and various places. Station Road Bridge, which we've already approved a temporary bridge is an example of one of those other projects. They're not as big, but they're very important to various pieces, our parts of our community. Important to that neighborhood. And there's other discussions about the intersection up in North Amherst and so forth. So this is our opportunity for the council to understand that at this point here's all these projects on the plate. At our next meeting two weeks later from tonight, we will actually be discussing what would the financial picture for that look like. And working with a previous model that will be updated so that it includes very rough estimates. And I always get a little concerned about putting estimated costs on these. It will show where we hope to get state aid or library aid. And it will also show in add to it the cost of the net zero energy bylaw and the half percent, half cent for arts, public art. Neither of those were in the previous model. When we get all done with that, not only would we be, we'd be able to get a decent estimate of the total cost, but also the indebtedness and the impact on the taxpayer. So our job as a council is to put the school in perspective of all the town's needs. And that's what we're spending our time on in the month of February. Terrific. And when you have your meeting and discuss finances, I assume there'll be some conversation about the fact that the state does not typically provide grant funding for either public safety or for sort of general infrastructure things like a town hall rehab, et cetera. But there is money for roads and bridges through the Chapter 90 program. There is a school building assistance program. That's right. And there's a library program. And you have to apply for those last two. And if you're approved, you get on the list. And when they reach you on the list, then your project moves forward. So there's a lot of preparatory work to get access to those funds. The road money comes every year, not nearly enough, as I've heard for many, many years, but at least something comes from the state on all three of those areas. Okay, so now let's talk, before we do process, I want to do one more thing. Let's just go back to the Fort River School piece again. Some people in town are confused and they're thinking that these two things are in conflict. I want to make sure we have enough time to talk about the process. So just a minute or two each on how you see the Fort River study connecting, intersecting with the work that the town council and the school committee are doing on the bigger question of the elementary school construction project. So I would say, again, the Fort River Feasibility Study Building Committee was requested by the school committee of town meeting shortly after the previous project had been voted down. And the purpose of that was to help answer some outstanding questions that the community had, the school committee had, and our town government had around the Fort River site specifically. So not just the school itself, but the actual site. Physical land. Physical land, the location of it, parking, all of those different things. And that site had come up repeatedly because it was not part of the Feasibility Study that Wildwood was when we were actually going through or thought we were going through with a project. And so there were a lot of questions that were answered about the Wildwood site and we had a ton of information that came from professional architects, construction managers, you know, geotechnical, you know, environmental experts. We didn't have that about the Fort River site. And so we had requested that money so that we could learn that information. In the absence of a project, there was no project in play. It really was just to use that downtime, if you will, immediately following this other project to get this information for our use in the future. So that information has been coming in. I think that the committee has done an incredible job of answering all the different questions that have come up, getting, you know, faithful cost estimates for different options if a building, you know, either new construction or renovation were to move forward with that particular building site. But again, we don't have an actual project in place for that. That is really just information. And so that information could be used in a future project. But again, we basically right now are in a process where we are formally applying to the state for aid to help us with a project. And we cannot decide on a site yet. We should not decide on a site yet. We want community input at that stage. But we really have to wait until we get there. Lynn, final word on that one? I do want to take a moment to clear up one misconception in the community. And that is, although the Fort River School site was originally identified in the Feasibility Study for DPW as a possible site for DPW, in fact, that was taken off the table three years ago. And so as the chair of the DPW Fire Station Advisory Committee, I was told that that would no longer be an option. And so our goal in that committee has been to try to find an alternative site. We've not been able to do that yet. We're hoping that something will emerge. And at that point, we have the opportunity to move DPW away from where it presently is and put a fire station where DPW is. So that just gives you a picture. That's another piece of important information. As regards these two studies, the Wildwood and the Fort River, basically it puts them on even keel here with regard to consideration of both sites potentially for a school in the future. And there should be no confusion in the minds of people in the community at this point that the Fort River School study is for the purpose of recommending that as a site. It's for the purpose of collecting a wide range of information necessary to assess the site and its appropriateness for a school going in the future. So that's basically the bottom line of this and so people shouldn't get confused about this. Okay, so now in the final five minutes, let's talk about the ways that the community can engage with the school committee and the town council in sharing their opinions and their vision and their hopes and ideas. Obviously focused as a starting point on the superintendent's proposal, which are actually parameters. When we use the word proposal, it somehow might feel like we're actually talking about a specific project, we're not. We're talking about an approach to the, an approach, the parameters that we might pursue without regard at this point to the specific site. Okay, give us a couple of minutes here each on what school committee is going to do, what the council is going to do and what you're going to do together to engage the community in this very adult conversation on behalf of our children. That's right. I think we have tried to find various venues and opportunities to engage a community in as many different ways as we can. So the very first obvious starting point is our school committee meetings and our general school committee channels, which include our email address, schoolcommitteeatarps.org, but also our regular meetings. And we've actually added several new meetings and have, you know, with public comment periods so that people can come and those are folks usually who feel comfortable doing that, right? And so we've already had many emails that have been sent to us. We've had, you know, several people show up to our meetings and have made public comments, which we're really deeply appreciated. In addition to that though, understanding that we really want to spread this net as far as possible and to be able to show consensus among the community, we want to be able to get as many voices as we possibly can. So we have organized a series of listening sessions throughout the community. There are nine sessions in total, three of which that Dr. Morris has already established for educators and staff because we really wanted to make sure that we're getting their input. And those have already taken place and took place about a week and a half ago or two weeks ago. And then the six remaining sessions are throughout the community. And we have hired a facilitator, a neutral facilitator, who is not from here, is someone who has worked with various communities around the state and around in Connecticut as well, dealing with issues like this, that, you know, some of them are building issues, some of them are just, you know, sort of difficult community decisions. And he will be facilitating these conversations and each of these listening sessions are taking place throughout the town. You know, three of them will be in our elementary schools in Crocker Farm, Wildwood, and Fort River. And then we also have three more that are taking place at the Banks Community Center, the Jones Library, and the High School. And the dates right now are February 27th and February 28th, and then March 6th and March 7th is an alternate snow date just in case we have to cancel one of the other ones. The sites and information on what website? So we have been sharing them out through social media. Various networks have taken them and shared them out amongst their contacts as well. It's on the arps.org website. So you can go there and find the list of dates and times and all of the other information. You can find it on our Facebook pages. We really are trying to get it out as far and wide as we can. And then in addition to that, we're also doing things like this show. We have, you know, the district is taking out an ad and the paper. We've actually requested the bulletin if we can have a column space so that we can actually also share that in the paper. And then we are going to be promoting this as far and wide as we can, you know, using those different channels. And upon completion of gathering all of this public information and opinion, the school committee on a particular date will decide what? Well, so right now we have slated or it's scheduled for a final discussion and a vote on March 11th. And following that would be following all of the listening sessions, you know, receiving all of the different input that we can from the community. We're also sending in... The nature of that decision is... So that we will be deciding on the application to the MSBA. And so the actual technical application is a very dry, you know, multiple-page application where we just, you know, sort of check off different boxes and sort of prioritize which sites we want to be considered for state aid but in addition to that, we will be attaching a statement which includes Dr. Morris's proposal and then at this point, hopefully also includes a statement that, you know, the majority of the community and community leaders would sign on to in some fashion, right? And be able to say, yes, we endorse this and, you know, this is something that we can promote. Very good. And Lynn, the town council will receive this from the school committee. Right. What will you be doing at that point? I know you guys are going to be cooperating on these listening sessions. Right. So now they voted. Right. And it's now in your hands. Right. What happens now? We have 50 seconds. So on March 18th, the town council will receive the proposal and have a discussion about it and receive public comment as well. And then on April 1st, we will vote. And at that point, it will see whether we have unanimous support or at least a strong consensus. And is it a majority vote of the council that sends it to the school building assistance program? That's what would be required at this point because it's not an actual capital expenditure, which of course would require two-thirds vote. Later that would require two-thirds. And so a majority vote of the school committee sends it to the council. The council does a little bit more listening and work and takes a vote. And by April 12th, it's hopefully moved on to the state so we can see if the state thinks that we're in a better position to begin the next part of the process, which are feasibility studies and designs and plans, et cetera, which we don't have time to discuss right now. So thank you very much for listening and we hope that you will participate actively in this conversation and that we'll all see this in our community as a new beginning, a new opportunity, and another bite at the apple so that we can get the schools our kids need. Thank you so much for joining us and thank you both for being with us tonight. Thank you for having me.


Well it's now the second week for the other lumberjack team still on the diamond. That's of course the BHS softball squad that's still alive in the sections. After the upset over Brainerd round one in the tough loss to Rogers in game two. The Jacks now face winner go home territory all of next week. They play the fifth seeded Elk River tomorrow afternoon and Buffalo and of Bemidji would win. They would advance to another elimination game at 615. They would play for a chance to get to the semifinals and possibly finals on Thursday. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


All right, morning six is upon me. Pretty excited because the wind kind of died down. It's a little breezy out there, but not too bad. It is currently four degrees above zero. So not really a heat spell, but a lot warmer than it's been most mornings. I have the coffee going right now. And also, as you can see, I got a pot of snow. There's three liters of snow that I'm gonna boil down to make some water. I have more water in the truck that's probably frozen solid that I'll have to defrost. And I also have to go out today to get another propane tank. I burned through the first tank of propane. Sometime middle of last night, finally went through one after almost, I guess after five days, you can call it. So I always like to have two canisters of propane, just in case something happens. I've gotten a bad propane can before where the 20 pounder where it just didn't burn for some reason. I don't know if it had a bad mix or was old or what the story was, but I like to have two.  So that's the story. Day six, we're gonna try to get on the bigger part of the lake and do some jigging and have fun with the electronics. Let's take a quick tour of the shack here and show you how I set it up for the extended stay. So you've seen the wood floor. Wood floor keeps things really nice and dry and pretty flat, which is awesome. It's one of the comforts I'd hate to go without. But over here, I have the cooking area and general storage area. Two burner propane stove, Coleman. Couple pots and pans, kicking around. There's a couple more in my tote. Various stuff up top here for stuff I'm gonna need cooking or batteries and chargers and stuff like that. Generally, I keep these windows shut because if you don't, they will drip down and you don't want stuff dripping down on there. And the same goes over here. I keep my bed a couple inches away from all the walls. So that way, the same. So there's no water dripping down off the walls and I keep those windows shut too for added insulation. If anything's gonna wet this bed, it's gonna be me. So I don't leave it up against the wall or leave those windows open there. It will drip if you're running some heat in here. If you're not running a ton of heat, then it'll ice up and then eventually drip. If you're running a ton of heat, then it should actually stay dry. But I usually don't run a ton of heat because I don't wanna burn through lots and lots of propane and my comfort level with the cold isn't too bad. For lighting, I don't know if you see it, but I got these hanging lights here. These are LEDs that just kinda hang off the little rafters. I got a couple of the bigger ones there, couple of the smaller ones over here that I just move around whenever I need them. They're really bright, good on batteries and they're fairly cheap. You can get them from the Walmart or the Amazon. This is something I just added for this trip as a fan. This is a fan and a light, which is pretty sweet. It does have a rechargeable battery, which I'm not sure if I like or not, or if I'd rather just have batteries that I could take out and change out when I need them. But it's nice to push. A lot of the hot air just sits up here in the top here where it's quilted and insulated and with heat rising. So it's nice to push it back down with this fan. And it's pretty quiet, so. A closed bag underneath. Two totes, here's one of them that's full of food and various cooking stuff. Toiletries, first aid stuff. Got a small tote right here full of cooking stuff with spatula utensils, oils, spices, stuff like that. Coffee pot, teapot, water pot, extra battery. I got my chair that I bring out fishing with me. It's pretty sweet, it's metal, it folds up just that easy so you can grab it and bring it out fishing. And it's rugged, it's not one of those plastic ones that's gonna break. I've had that for a couple of years and it's starting to show some wear and tear but not too bad considering how hard I am on it.  And then at the foot of the bed, I usually just throw in my electronics and ice fishing stuff and helmet and bait bucket over here and that's pretty much the setup. So, pretty cozy. You could definitely get another person, another cod in there, but it would make it pretty tight and you'd have to plan a little bit ahead for packing. I think I'm gonna take a trip later this year with a good buddy of mine somewhere. We haven't decided yet, I haven't heard from him for a little while so we're gonna try two people in this one or I think he's got one too. So we're gonna bring two tents up and have at least one cook tent and one sleep in tent. So, yeah. So that's the setup, it's pretty easy. Pretty comfortable. All right guys, I'm gonna cut in from my home office here and give you a little update. I lost a bunch of the files on my memory card, they got corrupted, I don't know, frozen batteries, whatever. But this next little segment here is, I was running some of my supplies out to the truck and I ran into some buddies that I just met a couple days prior up here on the same lake from Machia, some really good old boys that are just really into ice fishing and know their stuff and I was hanging out with them for a little while, flag goes up, pile on the sleds, go flying after it, Brandon jumps off and runs up to the trap and just starts flailing elbows and this is what happened. Oh, that's a huge brook cry. Yeah! Woo! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! That's awesome. Couple of pictures and I'm gonna send him. I got it. Thank you for those deals right there. It's a nice brook, you have a cart right there, come on. Here's some pictures of him, did you? Yeah, I got it. You got a tape measure. Do you want a measurement on him or? Do you want to get a measurement or you good? Sure, I'd like to. I'd like to get him wet though. Do you want to help me call him? Get some more pictures. 21? There you go. All right, all right. That's a freaking tag. Ow! That was awesome. Ha ha ha ha ha! You started going around the hole, I was like, holy... You got a laker on, I was like, oh no!  Yeah. It looked like I was going to a house fire. Ha ha ha ha ha! That's awesome. China. China. I just caught that fish. Holy... All right, night number six, special treat tonight. I am eating a deer that I was lucky enough to harvest this past season right up in this area, not far from here. I got to cook with some onions and poblano peppers and it is super, super tender and very, very good. I love eating deer meat. Pretty much everything that the woods in Maine provides is excellent for eating. I didn't do a lot of fishing today. I didn't really catch much for fish, but I got to hang out with some machias boys that are really cool guys that are lobstermen. I got to feel in their excellent ice fishermen and got to see a staven brook trout caught and released today, which was really cool. They don't get a lot bigger than that in this area. That's a real trophy of a brook trout. So that was really cool. Brandon caught that today right as I got over there. Happened to stop by and got to talking and that flag went up and he caught that amazing fish. So that was really cool. And also those guys left me what was left of their bait. So if I stay a couple more days, which I'm not sure, I'm thinking maybe tomorrow's gonna be my last day up here. I'm having a ton of fun. I got some propane. I got a little bit of gasoline left for the sled. Batteries dead on the ice auger. It's been a week, a lot of holes. I could bring it out and charge it with my generator. I might call an end to this trip. I'll shoot it for a week and tomorrow make it a week. So we'll see how it goes.


Curiei aie sinio, my name is Jason Murphy. It's a bike cart from 1966 Mustang. It's a main target that we've done, and we've crashed the last one. Runnie a 302 Windsor engine in there, and it's freshly rebuilt for this. We're here to like to command or we're a [...]ing body in there. It's coming from a motor-soaker background that remains the same as the thing that we had. My co-driver is Ian Ward. He's had plenty of experience, just what I need, because I've already used this in sport driving four-wheelers into two. Wee gudit. Wee gudit, but we will be done.olesome Jammu. I am not too bad. Mou lla y glo sophisticated. And I am pretty sure he doesn't know I was left on his right but we will get him by all right. And yeah we've got my dad as crew today for the whole week and another mate, Andrew. We're looking forward to a good week really. Hope we keep it on the asphalt. Hope we don't go down to the bank, take any fans out or don't take any body out now. And yeah hope you all see you've got your family to look at where on from. aand it'd be nice to get home in one piece, sleep in my own bed and get up in morning and watch the road please.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. Today I'm going to be showing you how to make a napkin fold gift box. So the napkin fold technique is really popular and there's lots of that around on YouTube but this is a box version. Now this came about from a video, mini video I saw on a Facebook group that I follow by a lovely girl called Jess and everybody went mad for it and we all wanted to know how she made it. She was a bit dubious whether to do a tutorial or not she's just starting up her channel which is Papercraft Moon and I will share her details below. Anyway she's done the tutorial and while she was putting hers up I managed to kind of work it out myself as well and I told her that I'd done the video and I would be mentioning her so do pop over to her channel and have a look. She makes some wonderful paper crafts and as I said she's just starting to do her YouTube channel so go over and give her some support there would be lovely. She's also got the idea from a Pinterest picture and I've done a little bit of detective work and I've managed to find out what we believe is possibly the original source and I will share all those links below but even that lady that shared it said that she saw it from a actual napkin that was folded so there you go. We never really know where these things come from I guess so basically what it is they look like two very normal boxes however the surprise I'll show you first of all this is with eight by eight paper so you just lift up the top here and you have this here and then as you kind of open it it kind of clicks out and inside you can see there I've got this little love so this is the napkin fold so this you can see you'll see this in lots of cards there's lots of napkin fold cards and that's this piece here and basically it's just attached if you see there you kind of cut through the middle of the paper to form these four triangles then you just stick it inside your box like so so that's that version there that I've done using the craft card which I really liked it kind of clicks in push it all in it clicks in there and then you put the lid back on there and then I've done it again with a six by six card so again really straight forward box I still need to decorate this one so I'm going to be doing that one later and again you open it up so it's kind of all clicked into place like so give you a little side profile there it looks really really lovely and again just when you lift kind of one they then all pop up and then inside you can see I've done this one here slightly different I prefer the design of this one I think just because I love these papers and I'll show you those papers in a minute but you can see again there where it's been cut just to show off the the triangles there on each side um so this one was done using playing card as your base along with this one here but inside the actual napkin fold was done with patterned paper and then plain triangles on top now I actually think I prefer plain with patterned triangles although I've got some plain ones here but I think overall the pattern I like the mix of the pattern and the plane but I just think working with a plain base is better although I'm going to be showing you on a pattern base again just because I'm going to be showing you the eight by eight size so all the dimensions I will share below and I will share all the measurements for this six by six but once you know how to do one of them then you can just change the sizes on all of them so there you go okay so just pop that one back down again and you can see they're on the sides and stuff it's just a really nice box so it's your full size you know eight by eight four by four 12 by 12 I have also let me just show you these are the 12 by 12 ones I'm playing around with so that is just the initial napkin fold piece and then inside here is what we will be cutting and then forming our box so it is really really straightforward and then this one here I was playing around and I stuck it on the outside but I didn't like that one so but I will also share the measurements for the 12 by 12 as well okay so you are going to need for today sorry it's a really really miserable day it's pouring down with rain it's gray and dull and my lighting's just obviously not great so apologies there right that's the paper pack I used for that small six by six so it's that lovely first edition paradise crush and it was the double sided ones towards the back which I've used all of them for that project but yeah really really lovely um papers here so I'll share all those links now I've done loads and loads of this purely because there's lots of it that's so easy you don't need to watch me doing it I can just tell you so first of all you'll need a piece for your the base of your box now this measures eight by eight squared then you will need four pieces of dsp any kind of patterned paper that you want to use and this measures at three and three quarters by one and three quarters and you will need four pieces of them remember I'll pop all this in my blog so it's entirely up to you whether you want to write it down now or visit the blog that's that piece there then for the actual fold the napkin fold piece in the middle this is just a piece of eight by eight patterned paper again you could use plain if you want to do the plane with this then on top so I'm still debating even at this point whether to change it up so um no I'm gonna stick I think I'm gonna stick I'm gonna stick okay and then at the top piece is the lid which is eight and one eighth of an inch squared so eight and one eighth by eight and one eighth and then again I've already decorated this I've done I've stuck everything on just to keep the video nice and short so piece of square paper in the middle this measures uh three and seven eighths of an inch squared and then the four little ones here because this is a reinforced lid these all measure three and seven eighths by three quarters of an inch and you'd need four of them and then just something to decorate on top so I've used this wonderful die which I can't remember where I got it from but I will share all the links and it's a two-part die so you've got this one which will just cut out the shape and then if you die cut this one it's um it's kind of a partial die so it doesn't die the cut the whole thing so it now allows you to have this feature here where it just partly dies it and die cuts it out so you can see there it's kind of all lifted up it's beautiful and then I've just die cut another circle in the middle there so that's that piece also I've got to mention on the back so once we fold this this is going to be the inside of the box so this is another piece of that yeah three and seven eighths by three and seven eighths which was that piece yeah so it's two pieces of that square piece that you would need okay so that's everything there so first of all we're going to make up the box that's what you need to do first so grab your scoreboard I seem to have lost my um let me grab my stylus for my board so I'm having to use one of those nail things which is another great thing to use anyway so they're fine okay so it's an eight by eight piece you want to score at two and six and then rotate and score at two and six okay so that's for the base piece there then for the lid again this is your eight and one eighth of an inch squared piece you're going to score at one inch two inches six and one eighth of an inch seven and one eighth of an inch just by going over that piece there and then once we reinforce it it will give you enough enough room to have a nice um closure then for this piece here we don't need the scoreboard anymore so you can get rid of that and this is where we do our origami folding so this is what you're going to see when you open it up so you want whatever you're going to see so for example this here oh no that's this is patterned it's easier to show so you can see here the pattern is all on the front and actually underneath is the plain side because it's not double-sided that I used so if you've got double-sided then I guess you just choose which one you want to be the one when you lift the lid up that's what you see so this is this piece here now what we want to do is we want to find the center point but we don't want to score so you just need to do a marker so I'm just going to mark roughly here at four inches and again at the top at four inches and then on this side four and this side here okay and then I'm just going to very lightly draw a pencil mark just roughly in the middle there and then again line up these two points that I've just done again just roughly let's do a pencil there and then I've got a cross now in the middle here which I can just make a bit dark I'm going to rub that out in a minute you just want to have a center point so we're going to be folding everything in now okay so if you want to now just rub out these little bits here and then you can probably that will end up getting cut out anyway but we can do the rest of that you just want to keep that cross in the middle really okay so then what we're going to do is fold this right hand side first of all we're going to fold across so it lines up with the center there that cross just burnish that okay and then again I'm going to do the left hand side make sure you've got nice straight joins there on both ends like so and then you're going to fold up your bottom so it meets that middle cross and then the top that over like so so you should now just have this big square in the middle and then the score lines all on the side turn it over you can see there as well what we've got at the moment okay then what we want to do is grab a corner and you're going to fold the corner in so again meet the middle burnish that again this is quite a common origami fold you're probably if you've been if you've done other origami project projects you may well have done this before because it's it's quite a base kind of fold for a lot of then you know other makes so you just want to really make sure that all of these basically where the the fold is it's at the corner of this square here so you can see the square there you're just folding along and then that end will meet and so on okay so now you should have the big square in the middle these score lines here and then an even bigger square here which forms all these little triangles everywhere okay again if I turn it over you can see there I've got a huge big square here we've got these four triangles and we've got four squares on the corners and then little triangles next to each of those as well okay so that is all of that done now what you want to do is where you've got this triangle here you want to fold that over so that triangle is there and then bring these back on themselves and this is where you want to make sure that it's nice and straight along there and again bring this one over and just make sure it meets up nicely there and you can kind of wiggle them move them a little bit if you need to just to make sure they all join nicely okay and again come around to this side so again there's that big triangle you want to bring it right across so now you will that one will automatically kind of fold into place bring again this one over okay and again rotate bring that big triangle over and then the last one is this big triangle here just bring that under so you're folding everything in on itself like so okay so that's what you should have at this point then you want to get each of these top squares and you're going to bring it back over and fold it over on itself like so now that is what you have so that is that top piece here so you can see now how it's all coming together okay so now open it all back out again because you've furnished and scored all those lines and again using that pencil mark you want to grab yourself a metal ruler you want a cutting knife and a good mat so I've got a self-healing mat here so you don't want to do it on your wooden work surface or glass so basically what we're going to do is we're going to be cutting this inside this square here from this point down to this point and that point down to that point making sure you go right through that x that you marked earlier with the pencil so pop your metal ruler down get your cutting tool make sure you keep it pushed against your ruler like so and then again make sure you get all those points nice and lined up there we go so already now you can see that that's all opened up and basically these pieces are going to fold down and go inside our box okay so I'm going to leave that to one side for the moment and you will also need four pieces of let me just measure this up so I didn't two and a half inch squared okay and you need to cut these across like so and they will form eight little triangles and they will be for these insides of these big squares here so each triangle will have a little mat over the top again I'm going to do all this it's just so you can get that prepped and then you will need one two three four five six seven eight smaller squares and these measure at one and five eighths of an inch squared and again you'll cut them over to give you lots of little triangles okay so now let's grab our base here so let's fold this one all over burnish all of these score lines and a little bit of cutting so you want to cut up like so and then again this one here now this isn't a reinforced box but once we stick these inside pieces inside this it does help reinforce it and if you're using more cards so this is a paper but if this is a strong card you don't want to go too thick on the card because it will make the folds really quite hard and you do want it to kind of click into the box so you just want to do two cuts like this and then I'm just going to take a little bit off of each side there just creating a tiny little notch just to create a nice join when we come to stick that so you can see there what I've cut so just taking these little wedges out of the sides there okay so that's that one and then grab your lid and again where we've scored all of those score lines burnish all your lines burnish and then again just as you do or how I do all these reinforced boxes you've basically got these four squares here in the corner you want to cut up the outside of it and just cut all the way down to the second score line so you go past that first score line down to that second one okay then you want to cut down the middle one again to the same place then rotate it and cut down just to the first score line so you're cutting that piece off so you're left with these two pieces and then again cut that piece off so now you've just got this one tab here and then you just want to again take a few wedges out of the side there and also take a little wedge off the top piece because this is the reinforced bit that will fold in on the lid okay so that's what you should have then I'm going to go across to the opposite side and again that outer score line first we'll cut past the first score line down to the second and again then the middle all the way down and then rotate and cut this one out take a little wedge off there while I'm here again cut that piece off take a little wedge off there and then off of each side there okay so that's what you should have so okay and then rotate now so you've got this facing away from you and you're going to do exactly the same again so cutting down okay so that is now what you should have for your lid so you've got these four little tabs here with little wedges taken out wedges off of all the outer ones that's already for us to now glue down so you could use red tape here if you wanted I'm just going to use my tacky glue just because it's nice and quick and strong so you just want to pop some onto the top of the tab there and then bring it in bring your side down so you form a nice right angle there a nice corner to your box okay you've got time to have a little bit of wiggle room as well so just really I'm kind of pulling it down just to make that corner there really really nice okay like so then rotate round to the next one and you just want to repeat that on all of those little tabs okay so that's what you should have now all those four corners in and then these reinforced bits hanging down so now pop it on its side and you want to put glue on the inside of the outer piece here so just on this piece here so I'm just not you know too careful with it just because we're going to use our bone tool over the top and we'll be able to spread that glue out just make sure you get a nice cover there with the glue and then just fold it in pop it on its side and grab your bone tool and just rub that down until all that glue spreads out and you get a nice crisp edge and side to that lid so you can see there and then just rotate it again grab your glue and pop it and just do that on all four sides now there's our reinforced lid okay so then move on to the base we've already got that all prepped so again what we want to do here is just put some glue on the outer parts of these corner tabs and just like you did with the box oh using my glue there just bring that one under and then one of the sides up and again just make sure you get a really nice corner okay so that's one side and then again just again get your glue and you just want to do exactly so that is now your box and remember I'd stuck that already so that other piece you would stick in there just to give you a nice lid to your box and then it will just sit now nicely on top so if you want there is just a lovely four by four gift box okay so I've changed my mind and you know I was saying oh I'm going to have now I'm going to stick with the printed for the actual um napkin fold I haven't I've changed and I've just done it again but in plain black so this is that again eight by eight just folded just how I did with that but this is now what I'm going to use so and I'm not going to waste this because there are all these squares on here so I'm just going to go and cut them out and then I'll be back and I'll explain it so when I said you needed four pieces of the black um and this was the two and a half squared card I've now saved that piece that I originally had for the napkin fold so basically what you will do is just cut it if you want to use a really you can I'm just eyeballing this from corner to corner like so to create these ones here and they will fit perfectly giving you a nice little border in these ones here okay so you do that with those four which will give you eight of the big triangles and then you have eight of these smaller ones here which were your one and five eighths of an inch and again I've just cut them all from because the score lines were exact so I've just altered them slightly again cut them like that and that will give you 16 of those ones there so basically we are now going to with all these pieces fill all of the triangles and you will have a nice black border around there and then these smaller ones will fit in these triangles here like so you just want to go around and just fill that whole piece okay so that's that piece now all covered and you can see there the bits that I cut earlier so what you want to do is fold those pieces kind of under like this okay like so grab your base of your box and then starting off with one of them here okay so I'm going to put glue on the inside of the triangle these were nice and strong now as well so they've got that patterned paper on top and now they're going to be stuck onto this so it's going to reinforce the sides so basically keeping all four pieces in the box you want to pop that one in and just line it up to the score line through the centre and then inside here you just want to make sure you get that stuck down to the side there and you can pop it on its side and just really apply some pressure on there just to make sure it all sticks down nicely get right up into the corners okay then go around what you can do now is fold it over and just again put glue actually really focus on the edges and the corners there because you want those to sticks it's a triangle you don't want them rolling up and then fold that one down again lift it up here just to make sure that you get it nice lined up with that score line again pop it on its side just go around there just make sure it's really stuck down again do the same here and just do that on the other corners okay so that's all those four sides you can see inside there looks beautiful and then what you want to do is fold it all in and just kind of fold that each triangle kind of back down inside the box it will just help when you want it all to kind of close in and bring it all in grab your lid and as you kind of sit the lid on top it will push it all down and there it is so now when someone gets it and they open it up you get this lovely it's almost like an explosion box again because it kind of opens up like that but that is a napkin fold gift box and it looks beautiful it's just a really really lovely thing and that's again it's just a beautiful size fit lots of nice things in it and again just get it sit it on top and it will just all fold down so there you have it so not my idea hopefully i've given the credit to the people that have and yeah i hope you enjoy and like the versions that i've done so please subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see more tutorials and remember to hit that thumbs up button if you did enjoy today thanks for watching bye