What's all guys know from kicking their bass TV here with another video, and I'm gonna be adding a new series Kicking their bass TV. I'm doing something different that no one's done in the fishing industry before It's gonna be pretty much the future Aficion I'm sure it's gonna take over and a lot of people are gonna start doing this type of stuff I'm just pretty much gonna be day in the life of team Bass Fisherman Noah Pescatelli I'm pretty much gonna go through tomorrow is a day before our tournament our term is the 28th It's just Saturday tomorrow's Friday taking off school. We're gonna go down the West Point Lake That's two hours away. We're gonna practice. I'm pretty much gonna walk through everything that we do from the morning Today's actually Thursday night. It's around 11 o'clock right now So I'm gonna take you through everything that we do Everything how we prep how we find the fish we do the night before everything guys gonna be a day in the life So stay tuned I'll get back at you so starting off got everything packed up Got all snacks Got all the waiver sign got the directions to the hotel everything we need for the tournament Here got my suit. It's gonna be kind of cold Saturday morning. It's gonna be around 30 degrees. So It was hot all week, which really sucks because Saturday is gonna get really cold I'm really looking forward to fishing a hot weather, but it's alright. I'm gonna use my new suit I saw I see it Haven't got to use this yet my new under armor suit I'm definitely gonna be coming out with a review and I'm gonna get to use it this Saturday before I come out with a review So I'm just gonna be pretty neat. So I get to tell you guys what I think about the suit I'm gonna give my honest opinion and everything about it I'm love on our armor love all my clothes and sweatshirts and everything by them So I'm sure I'll love the suit looks pretty cool. I'm a lot of the pros out there using it now So it's pretty sick. Thank you under armor Right here. I just got a couple hats for my partner These are the new kick in their bass TV hats. I don't know if you guys have seen them yet You probably saw them on my social media Social media sites. Um, if you don't like flat bills, I got some regular hats coming out order about 250 They should be here in about two weeks. Um, and you guys can just message me about that stuff If you have any questions or you want a hat or something. There's my dad suit over there Here's his bag my bag still upstairs. Um, so let's walk outside real quick and see what we got going on with the boat I'm not really gonna go up close. It's really hard to see. It's kind of dark like I said, it's 11 o'clock There we go guys got the boat right there There's my Jeep, but it's not hooked to the Jeep Looked at my dad's truck right there Got the cover on and everything we're all prepared for the highway Like I said only two hours, but we want to be prepared guys coming upstairs I got all my clothes my dad's already downstairs. I'm about to go take that down Got my ranger boat sweatshirt pick that up at the Bassmaster Classic looking pretty sweet Here we go guys. Here's all my go pros everything ready I'm actually have some good pros behind me and some batteries, but I have seven Including the one in my hand one of them is out of at the boat stuff six here right now. Here's one. Here's two Here's three. I got a couple behind me one in my hand. I'm here's a remote here some extra cards For the go pros and there's some of my new stuff. I got some new batteries for the hero four I'm charging a couple right now. Let's head strap in the hat clip Got a wrist mount Here's a pole mount because I want on the net broke how to get a new one.  It's a little messy. I was opening everything Here's the two here of fours. I only have two here of fours They're pretty sick. I honestly like to hear a three I don't see too much of a difference here three I'm just used to so I'm sure I'll be used to the hero force, but they're charging up right now I also got a couple spirit batteries right here and this dual charger These are definitely if you're a big GoPro fan and you have a lot of batteries Definitely go with the dual chargers. They help so much and charge two batteries at once pretty sick also over here I got a couple more dual chargers with the GoPro here three Batteries in it pretty sick Here's some of those hats I got saying I didn't order too many of them. These are actually really expensive So I didn't want to order too many but the regular regular hats order about 200 up So I'll have those out to you guys Whenever I get them in in a few weeks, so that's everything Like I said, we're gonna be leaving tomorrow morning. I'll keep you guys updated We're leaving at five o'clock. My partner's gonna be here around 5 15 So probably leave the house we're waking up at five o'clock. We'll leave the house probably around 520 like I said got everything ready got my go-pros already I'll catch you guys in the morning Peace all right guys just getting ready to leave it's about five o'clock.  It's hard to see you Right there the sponsored athlete right there. Go get some This one right here White monster monster tip no one right there. That's pretty good. It's a new one So citrus Ultra citrus pretty good too. If you like lemonade From the booting guys, I'm a new underarmor suit arm. It's a pretty pretty sick pretty comfortable way more than what I might do All right guys back to you on the lake Guys what I'm doing right now You're out here The shallow water looking for some bedding fish on this week they started bedding Sort of looking to see if we can find any bed fish saw a couple back there and What I did right here, we got a little buzz beat. How's he gonna tell the hooks? Gone and pretty fish motor here and then you need to catch your fish Got some baits. All right guys And in the morning I'm about to go down to the boat we're packing everything up Got the grass and everything Hamworms 30 degrees out right now Just putting on and clothes You know, I actually really like this suit. It's not under our suit. I actually really like it Really comfortable you can move around in it way more 100 mile per hour Like it's first time using it was yesterday Really enjoyed it Little go pro footage For you ridgid nation fans. Oh, that thing is bright All right guys, it's in the boat about the launch. It's gonna be a fun tournament I believe it's around 40 something people right now Old man over here getting ready Rocking the rigid Shoot's feeling good About to get out on the lake and catch some fish. I'm gonna have some footage for you guys. I'm about to throw the GoPro is on It's gonna be a fun tournament guys All right guys just got back We have five fish we're about to weigh them and check them. We have over 10 pounds We have two big large mouth three decent spots. That's about one of their smallest one It's like hopefully that's their smallest one We're gonna weigh him and I'll get back to you at the way To go see you made it worth the cost of invention. It was a truly truly awesome show That's Cotelli and Chris moody five bass limited day. They're taking the lead y'all get ready 11.13 11.13 y'all give my hand. That's awesome. What's up guys? Just got home. It's around 10 o'clock right now from West Point Lake We knew it finishing in seventh place as you saw from the footage It was a decent day. I'm gonna say it was the best day, but we were great teamwork. I've got some good fish in the boat I'm gonna have a little recap on what we caught this fish on The rod and reel setups. I also have the tournament video coming out soon I'm sure you guys are gonna enjoy that So let me know how you like this is something a little different and it's probably something you guys aren't used to So let me know. Let me know what you think leave a comment below. Give me a thumbs up if you liked it Any feedback I would love I read all comments and I really enjoy it I really love when you guys give me feedback. So leave a comment below like it if you liked the video and I'll catch you guys at the next log


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today. We're on episode 25 of the Privateer Walkthrough last time if you haven't checked it out already. We did things and stuff in Big Sky. We talked to a whole bunch of people so go check that out if you haven't already but today we are entering this and Defeating three scar apparently So yeah, let us do that Um Obviously he's unseekable So we can't um sink him, but we will just go up He'll probably attack. No he didn't. Okay. That's a surprise. He didn't actually attack most of those ones actually attack randomly So kind of surprised that he didn't What are these guys? He's a witch doctor. That's kind of cool. Kind of weird, but kind of cool Okay, that's fun Um Okay, um, we will Actually, you know what we're going to Will we're going to Do that sure that that we'll just focus on him for a bit. Oh Where did sound go? It's weird. Um, yeah, we'll just focus on him. It sounds like a good idea That's blocked unlucky Oh, mega nice The double tap fantastic.  Look at this I'm impressed. I am very impressed to say the least Okay Um, yes, you do that probably dodge nice Um, we will probably go for accuracy We will Do that sure and that and you can go here for him And then next time we'll probably go and do Okay, he's not dead. That's unfortunate. If it didn't block he would have been if it didn't block him He would have been dead, which is unfortunate, but Oh, well Oh, well that happens Back back back double tap. Cheers. Yay. He's gone. Fantastic. Millie goes. Yeah, Millie. Good job Um, we are going to do this. Yeah, mighty charge We will do that and that and that and done That's cool Mega nice. Fantastic Okay, vengeance strike. That's unfortunate. Oh, well Nice Okay, we got a lot of vengeance strike. Jeez Whew. Didn't expect that one. Uh, what's happening? What are we gonna do? Millie, what are you gonna do? Millie go Millie Yes Millie. Good job Um, okay, we will do We can do this. Let's do that one Um, we'll do that just in case we can actually probably do that one to reduce dodge and we'll do that Just because we can. Okay. That was good. Boop. Fantastic Oh, he's not actually dead. That's unfortunate. No, he is Um, okay, half health is good Do-do-do. Yes, hit me. That's a good idea. Don't hit Bonnie. That's a bad idea Oh, hit back. Nice Nice Um, we'll do that And we'll finish off whoever's left next Hoping for some curse. That would be very nice Okay, here's an elite dead hit. Might have to heal him next. Yes, I will heal him next Probably a good idea Unless Millie kills But she doesn't that's unfortunate, but I would definitely heal um What's his face this time stop sling out for whatever his name is. Uh, we're just gonna hit Um, hit, hit and heal. I'm not fantastic Hit it. Nice Fantastic And double tap. Nice. Good. Can we get some burst fire? That would be great. Thank you mega. Fantastic Yay, we did it amazing Amazing that wasn't actually very hard either. So I'm happy with that one I think we get this guy's opinion Yeah, we do. Yes. Yay Parting shot shadow Um, or let us hit on out actually we'll just Um, let's quickly I've got a port out. So it's fine. Um, let's give him effects. We will give him Double tap I like Okay, a double tap is cool Um, what else edge isle? Yes Um Agile two is always good Accurate is good for Musket tears we will give rough. Yes And tough. Yes And you can go down here we will give you a order of Sailing Begin Um, yeah, that should be good. Let us hit on out. I should have collected that. Well, uh, we're gonna use us back to buy some village Hopefully If not, I will be slightly upset. Yes. Fantastic Amazing. Hello I'll grab the great shame. There we go. You have brought under bird is pleased Return to her tournament call to her again all your questions that is Um, I don't actually know No, that's the um one that we first went to that's fine. It's not too far away I should have marked oh well, we'll just mark here. It's fine. If you mark there, um Yeah, we'll collect you on a bit Nine pages of quest that is so fun said no one ever Um, I'll try and do some of those quests. Um, sometimes soon because I do need exp desperately I also need to upgrade. Um, lucky jack, which will be Very important to do as soon as possible. So I'll try and get that done quickly Yeah Do Out of bluff Hello Don't get pulled by a buffer loans because those guys are annoying Had to fight a lot of those off camera. Yes the last time that was annoying. That was actually really bad Never want to see another buffer loan again, especially one of those striped ones Um, what do we got? Where are we going? We going up here? We going up here Here And thunderbird hello again. This is here. Um, yes here. Um That was a perfect show Speak to silver horn Okay, um that puppet show is really cool. Again, if you want to see all of the puppet shows um I might actually make a video of all of them Because they're kind of cool And by kind of cool. I mean they're pretty cool. I might do that You have a mighty desk Okay Uh Well, I'll be back when I'm in cooper's roost Alrighty, I am back. We are in cooper's roost and we are going to head on down to the dusty cave Which is down here So, yeah, this is kind of the Last sort of thing that we have to do.  All right, we have to defeat these guys. It's kind of annoying Kind of annoying, but we'll deal with this. We'll do a couple of these on camera Um, because it is kind of long. We will probably skip a few um Just because Yeah, it's not the bonus thing ever Oh Okay, one done No, watch fantastic Do double tap and two No, but it's fine. That's unfortunate Oh epic. Geez It's a bit cheeky Nice Have a watch fantastic Overwatch, yeah boy Bonnie Ann's like cleaning up in this battle. Geez Look at that. That's impressive Um, we'll do that. We will go for you Do that and that sure done sounds good Sounds a good Bum bum Okay, he's nearly dead. That's good walking to the flame. Yes. Thank you fantastic Easy peasy Oh, hello Um, that's unfortunate He will probably Um, what can we do? Let's just Uh, do this Actually, we'll do that. We'll do that.  So that's fine. Um, that's good double tap fantastic and there we go amazing Look at that. That went really quick That's fantastic Just defeat stout blood, but these guys are privateers, I think From memory. Oh god. I didn't mean to go into that battle. I don't think Well, it's just the same I think because I don't think this is stout No, this isn't Um, yeah, I'll be back in just a bit because I don't think I actually had to do this battle. So yeah back in Just a sec Okay, I am back just finished off that battle Again, I don't think you had to do that. Um, nor do you have to do that one up there. The next one is Oh, that was close this one here whoo Yeah, they got caught another little battle. I wouldn't have been happy with that one. Um So, yeah, blue and yellow obviously privateer Um, next complete sense. We're just gonna go for it. I think we're gonna boop boop Boop. We'll make it kind of a line there. Sounds pretty good Debra, come on. So that's been unfortunate. That's fine. It's fine No Uh Yay, half health already fantastic block. Okay, that's fine. Um, yeah, half health already is fantastic. I'm really impressed with that Uh Thank you very much Nice I think we can can we use bombs maybe Yes, we can fantastic. Look at that. Perfect. Um, we will do That sure we'll go for Um That and we'll just take you down. Fantastic Fantastic Boop. Okay Mega nice Double tap cool And double tap. Yay He's half health as well. Fantastic And what are you doing to do now? What's happening? Are you hitting him? That's fine. These guys don't actually do much damage, which is great Um, I've watched nice I've watched nice Half health fantastic First fire I'm really impressed Bonnie ends so good. I forget how good she is One of the best companions I think um, what can we do? We'll do that. Sure. We will Do that and you can do that and you can do that. Um, okay fantastic Six and nine. Good job Okay, he's nearly dead. That's good. Bye Half health look at this. This is easy peasy Oh my god, he might be dead. He has a lot of health. Um, what are you doing dodge nice? I'm impressed doing so well. Um, but but but but but but but Done fantastic But um Fantastic. Okay. That's that battle done. Not too hard at all We will now Please keyboard. Thank you Head on down this way. Yes big bad boss blood bat. Oh, hello Blue and blue and red. Maybe there's this one blue and red. I think so Yeah, he's a buccaneer I really like how they like color coded them kind of that's kind of cool. Um Let's do that. Sure. Why not Do Okay, get that critical. Hopefully she current which is good overwatch fantastic And overwatch yay and attack dodge. Nice. Look at that. I'm impressed Turn the tide already. That's fantastic.   What level are they? Surely that must be quite low because we're just wrecking them Level 21. Okay, but they're just so easy. You would expect them to be a higher level, but nope Not higher level Well, um, do that.  Well, we'll just keep killing this boss, I think Okay, um, not as well. I mean either way we're gonna kill him. So Um, yeah, well, he's gonna Well, okay, he's gonna do it again probably. No, not quite. I'll try and kill this guy first I'll um, hopefully we have yes you Don't actually need to move but that's cool Do that Done. Sounds good. Okay Okay, here's half health, which is good Oh nearly did I'm lucky. He'll be probably Oh, he dodged Okay, that's fine. We'll um, just focus on big bad boss now I suppose. I mean you could always just focus on him from the start and that's not bad So not a bad idea to be honest. Really got hurt. Whoa That's the first Done 783 that should be fine. We should be fine Yes Just fine. Nice. Fantastic. Yippee-ki-yay Boop boop fantastic half-elf amazing. I'm impressed That one hopefully that means the last guy can strip as well star singer or whatever his name is George. I'm lucky Oh, please. Yes mega fantastic. Okay, that's that battle done amazing Yay, wasn't too hard at all um, yeah, I mean you can decide whether you just want to focus on the minions first and then the boss or just the boss or I mean either way the minions die. So Yeah Oh, let's go down here More and more deep into the mines This mine is mine Okay Let's go.  So we're just gonna pass with you You can pass and you can pass actually we might move you up here And Bonnie and we'll move you up as well done. Okay, sounds good. And next time we will Do some more buffs. I'm gonna try and buff up quite a bit I'm gonna get used to kind of buffing up a lot. I think is probably a good idea Just because I mean we have the buffs. So like why don't you why not we use them, you know Nice Okay, that was good There's a lot of movement jeez It's quite fast They move so slow. It's kind of annoying Um, let us do this one. We will hit you We can do that We can do that done. Okay. Well, he'll be out, which is good I'll try and do one at a time. There's probably a good idea That did a lot of damage jeez Christ That was over half Okay, um What are they doing moving over what's cool? Overwatch mega nice.  It's kind of a joke to be honest And like we are literally just wrecking Like get wrecked If only the buff the bomb balloons were good or bad Then that would have been easy, but nope They had to make it like five times harder for no reason Um, we're just gonna go for the say. I mean these aren't the boss So I mean they don't need to have much health, but actually we'll do that. We'll do that. We'll do that Done. Okay. Sounds good Bruh, bruh, bruh Okay Oh, okay Like pixie grab. It's kind of fun Double tap. Thank you And you are so good Yeah, you're dead half Overwatch Attack And nearly half health for me, but I started low on anyway, so not too worried about that one. We will Adjust that we can actually do that one that one and then that one done. Fantastic. This should be good Watch unlucky But okay, that was good Now Half health burst fire. Thank you No, that's unfortunate Um, what are we doing now? What's this? Okay, half health for Bonnie. That's slightly unfortunate. We'll probably do a heal And the others can hurt just because he has like no health left. So it's fine Also, I have a good good or a heal then. So look at that crit. Yes. Thank you The world debuffs are working There we go, fantastic. Okay That wasn't too bad at all. That was pretty easy silver Um, head up. Yeah You meddling pirates. Whoo Uh, where do we go? Do we have to go all the way back? I think we do. Oh, that's a struggle It's a struggle and a half. Oh well, we can do that. It's fine Um Yeah, just where are we going this way? Don't get caught and the battles that are unnecessary Because it just takes longer and I mean, it's not like it's hard anyway. So Yeah, just be sensible children Be sensible Um, that's done now let's find the blacksmith and get some Schmitty. Hello. No, no, we're schmitty as he's not too far away. So we'll do that And then I think we're done And next time we will Go on defeat duck a deer at boot hill finally. I'm pretty sure Um, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what happens next I wouldn't be surprised if it was and I would be very surprised if it wasn't smitty. Hello Bullets are ready.  Let's go to bison town and see if every ranger Um, let's quickly head over to bison town Or bison village is actually what it's called on scratch doesn't know where he is at, but that's fine We'll forgive him for this time. Um Just because we have a mark and I'll leave it inside probably a better idea probably a better idea And then I'll probably end off the episode there because I don't know how long it's been but it's probably been kind of long um So, yeah, sorry about that one. I'm more sorry for me because more interesting. Ha ha unfortunate Um, let's head on in here Hello We might level that would be good. That would be nice way to finish the episode Always healed that's nice Yay, we leveled Fantastic Okay, um So next time we will be we get a companion. That's cool. Was it? Oh, no, it's a okay. That's cool. Um Next time we will continue on and we will be finishing off cool ranch or part one of cool ranch um with the Boot hill showdown with duck of death. So next time we will do that Um, so thank you for watching everyone to live like and subscribe and if you're very subscribed press the little bell So you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


when my baby was under a year they cry uncontrollably multiple times a day and I felt a bizarre rage and I've talked to my wife about it and she was like I don't think you're used to anybody yelling at you and it put put me into a almost blind rage I'm laughing it now I'm like oh well I could be a parent because I'm so used to people yelling at me and vice versa I've had girls go stop yelling I'm like I don't even know what you're talking I'm just talking remember those posters on the subway that said like never shake a baby yeah I was like who is that poster for oh oh it turns out it was a poster for me in the future without a but whether you wouldn't have known how to do it yes exactly oh thank you the past like I all of a sudden be like holding my baby like wait what was that poster on the subway again


And so, Dave, if you want to take the floor and walk us through the CR, and then we can move forward. Sure. Thanks very much. So, I promise you all a quick meeting, and I think we can do that with Erin's help. I'm not sure if she shared a packet with you for this meeting or not, but in short, the, and Erin, maybe can you share a screen so folks can see. Is that the, I wondered, I was hoping there would be a more illustrative kind of the, is there a color image that showed, you know, the context for this donation I think in the CR? While you're looking for that, maybe I can. That was the only, that was the only map that I had the stamped plan set, I believe. I think I sent you the baseline report. Is that ringing bell? I sent you like four docs. But anyway, very quickly, while Erin is looking for that, the Kestrel Trust is working to preserve more land up on the Mount Hoyok range in the towns that the range occurs in. And they have been working for over a year with the Allison family and the Allison family owns a house south of Bay Road up on the Mount Hoyok range. And Kestrel has negotiated with them to accept about a seven acre gift of land, which abuts the Sweet Alice conservation area. If you go to the double roundabout and you head east toward Belcher Town, the Sweet Alice conservation area is the big open field. It includes the power lines on the right hand side of Bay Road. And this parcel is about seven acres looking due south. And we can look at a couple of maps here in a minute. So Kestrel is getting this gift from the Allison family. The Allison family will keep up. They already own a house up there. They built a house there many years ago. They're keeping the house, but they're willing to donate seven acres of upland forest and field to Kestrel. And Kestrel would like to donate it to us to add seven acres to the about 90 acre Sweet Alice conservation area. So, let's see. Deed acceptance. That might be it there. Maybe I missed one of them. Let's see if there's a better map. If not, we can go back to the black and white map, but I was hoping we This is the survey. Maybe we'll go to the survey. The survey is a little better. Let's use the survey. I think it's the same one. Okay. So, Erin, can you enlarge that? So, Erin, maybe you can use, I can't use your cursor, right? Or maybe you can point to, if we start on the west, the west side, which is my left hand side of my computer, we have the Epstein, yes, Epstein is there. So, if you move that a year or two ago, and then as you move east, the Allison's will retain the next lot. If you move your cursor just to the east there, and you can see their house on the southern end of that lot or two thirds of the way right there. And then they are donating this flag lot. So, my right is right there to the town, and to the east of that, to my right is all sweet Alice conservation area. So essentially they're donating that flag lot to provide buffer, more buffer for the sweet Alice conservation area.  So I would like to donate this seven acres to us to be under their care and control of the Amherst Conservation Commission and then be added to sweet Alice conservation area. So, that's the long and short of it. The upfront cost to us is zero. And the long term management are that we added to sweet Alice. I think there's some beautiful upland forest there. I don't think we need to add any trails to it there's already existing trail network out there. So really it's kind of a situation where it's a nice buffer for the house and for us with our conservation land and then let the trees grow and let nature do its thing. Any invasives up there so I don't see a lot of management demand for the seven acres on the town. Are there any questions. Seems pretty straightforward and seems like a win-win to me. I will point out and maybe Erin can show us the line that the cross hatched line is actually an already existing conservation restriction there held by the Commonwealth. A good, I don't know is that a half of the parcel is already preserved through a conservation restriction that was deeded to the Commonwealth many years ago. So, this is kind of a double protection we would now own it in fee, and that first half of the property or close to half of it 40% is already protected. So, Commonwealth will see our over 40% of our parcel. And so Dave. Yeah, go ahead. Dave, is there a little cut out there so that the road remains completely with the current landowner. Yes. So that part is that part stays over. Okay. Yeah. So I have two questions. One is that are you doing any changes to like the parking situation there. I mean there's a two kind of pull offs on the side of the road or is that you think going to suffice for this. Oh, on the sweet Alice property. Yeah, on sweet Alice. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's a really good question on a scale as part of the Epstein project that we did a couple of years ago. There, there, there was clearly an intent and we articulated an intent working through the commission the CPAC and at that time. I guess I was town meeting at that time I can't remember whether we'd switched over I think it was down meeting. Definitely an intent to do a nicer parking area off of Bay Road.  I don't want there to be kind of an arrival like, like you, you see at the trustees of reservations or Minnesota. So we would do probably, you know, our standard kind of split rail fence, crushed stone parking area. We're trying to revamp. As I've reported to you, we did get some new kiosks through CP using CPA money as well as some COVID, COVID money. We have those in storage and I think that's going to be one of Aaron's projects is he's already begun working on crafting laying out kind of a standard kiosk for the town that would of course get input from you all before it sees the light of day. But we would have a consistent presence on all of our kiosks with map, you know, recent sightings, you know, et cetera, et cetera rules and regulations. But yeah, so that's the long answer. Yes, we want to have a better presence on Bay Road because it's pretty subtle there now. Yeah, that's yeah. I know a lot of people I think run at sweet Alice. There's usually a lot of cars there in the morning. I wasn't sure. Yeah. Yeah. Was there another question, Brett, did you have a question? Nope, I made my comment. Or I had my questions. I'm good Dave. And I will say there is money in the, we still have money in the CPA account for Epstein.  So as Aaron and I begin to look at these, you know, we may suggest as of course as part of the management plans that there may be, you know, management blocks. I mean, you're not going to, you're not going to manage Epstein any different than sweet Alice, even though there's a name, you know, there may be areas within them that you focus on early or, or cold water fisheries or whatever you might do, but the management plan will speak to this area of the south. What is this kind of the south, south west corner or, you know, south part of town. So there is money in the CPA account to help pay for signage and welcoming and trails. So I think I'll stop there. It's, it's, I think in the packet, there is an acceptance by conservation commission, somebody could maybe Aaron could punch that up. If you have that last stock I sent you, I think today that Sharon sent with a new acceptance. I mean, somebody could, we could read this and somebody could simply move that as a motion. I just want to make sure Aaron is that, is that the, that doesn't look like the last one I sent you. Is there one I sent you today. I think I overwrote it but I'll double check. I think that was a Sharon changed it because of the e signatures. Sure, whenever it is our town council or town attorney, I'm sorry. My question while Aaron looks for it. I was just wondering, is there any plan to update the town trail map that you can download as a PDF online, because I have a habit of friends getting them printed for people would love them to be updated. Thank you so much Aaron. So yes, that's a great question. Absolutely we are. I think we've been moving so quickly and since making some of these staff changes. I started to make a list for Aaron she hasn't seen it yet because I didn't want to kind of overwhelm her. But that is one of the things that I want her to work on is updating the trail map and the conservation map. I'm going to talk about it a little bit to make our conservation map more interactive, more useful. It's pretty blah right now to be honest. It identifies things but it just, it doesn't pop online or in your hand. That's just my take. I have a lot of ideas. I have a lot of really cool ways we can update it, but also just getting GIS, like he updated in the short term because frankly, I just like having it on my basement door. I need it to be wicked fancy and it's nice to be able to give it to people when they move to town. We're a little behind in terms of our acquisitions getting the new acquisitions on the map. You guys move so quickly. I mean, it's not, there's no fault in it. I was just daring to ask. Aaron, you and I talked about this like a week ago, right? Yeah, yeah, I have a lot of ideas to improve it, including adding parking to it because right now that existing, it's wonderful that it has trails and some properties, but it doesn't show where you can park if you're parking. It does, but it's not updated. So it does have a little key for parking, but it's, it's a little out of date. So like, certainly if you need to know if you can park nearby, it wouldn't be the best. Yeah, as an example, and I think I've raised this before and Aaron and I talked about it briefly. I believe there are seven, six or seven access points to the Mount Holyoke range on Bay Road. And I bet the average Amherst resident does not know that there are six or seven. I don't even know the number, but it's either six or seven. I'd have to, I haven't looked at it in a couple of weeks, but I've probably only discovered them by getting lost. Yeah, so, so Brett, I think, I think really what we're looking for in terms of emotion is right here on the table right here on the screen. I'm sorry. For an acceptance of this seven acre piece of property. Okay, so somebody could just read through those first two paragraphs table be good. Okay, acceptance by the conservation commission on this 17th day of September 2020 the town of Amherst acting by and through its conservation commission pursuant to the authority granted by GL chapter 40 section eight C Hereby accepts the property located on Bay Road Amherst from Kestrel Land Trust Amherst for open space purposes and the provisions of GL chapter 40 section eight C pursuant to the vote taken by the Amherst conservation commission on May 13 2020 the following signatures are made in compliance with GL chapter 110 G and pursuant to said commissions electronic signature authorization vote recorded on June 17 2020 with the Hampshire registry of deeds in book. 100 and 13,665 page 246. So, looking for a second. Second. Oh, I tried. Okay, so voice vote Laura. Anna. Hi, Larry. Hi, Jen. Hi, Roy. Hi, and I for me as well. So anything else Dave or Aaron that we need to do on this one. I don't think so. Aaron, maybe you and I. Yeah, I'm not that familiar with ease signature. So we'll just have to work with Sharon tomorrow. On whatever she needs for the closing. So, yeah, I've been using them for DEP permits and they've, it's worked out really well so I can do the same process that I do for those and then if Sharon needs something different than Okay, yes, we'll go from there. Good. I think the only other thing Brett that that Aaron had put on this agenda since we were meeting for a few minutes was if we needed to discuss the CPA see liaison role at all. Unfortunately, the one person who we need for that discussion is not here. Um, emailed me asking saying that he would like to not do it for the next term. And so I will reiterate my interest. I'm happy to do it. Dave, thank you for your email. It did make me feel a lot better. I think my, my concern is just, you know, my areas of interest and expertise are not in wetland identification and I kind of got a little caught up in that until I looked into deeper, the deeper aspects of what the CPA does and realize like, that's actually kind of squarely in the part that I am interested in so I'm, I am happy to do it. And also if someone else has a burning passion and desire to do it, I'm happy to step back so either way. Fantastic Anna, thank you. And so as Anna was suggesting, is there anybody else who would like to put their name in the ring. No. Okay, so I am hearing none. And so Dave, I think we need a official vote on this. Yeah, it'd be great if you if somebody nominated Anna and then seconded and then you to be the liaison to CPA C. To be the liaison for the community preservation committee. Community preservation committee with Gusto, I nominate her. Oh my gosh, you guys. Okay, so voice vote so the right. Jen. Hi, Larry. Hi, Laura. Hi, Anna. Hi. That's good. I can't wait to hear about it. And so I, as well, so thank you, Anna, and congratulations. And yet you get to put some cool stuff you get to do and I mean the conservation stuff is cool, but it's all sorts of interesting things. Yeah, can I just say, I mean, thank you so much, Anna, for stepping up and Brett has done a wonderful job all these years. And again, a pleasure. What did I say, Brett? Thank you, but I mean, It's not even that late. Fletcher has done a great job all these years and it really is an opportunity. You are, you're an advocate for the conservation open space side of it. But balance is so important. I mean, all of these historic preservation affordable housing, recreation and conservation, they're all part of what makes a community wonderful. So, you know, I think you'll bring a lot of balance as he did and, and it's not about voting against, you know, some other project. It's about, honestly, looking at the proposals, seeing how well they're put together. Are they're matching funds? Have they been well thought through and it's a really collaborative group. So it's not really adversarial, you know, you're getting so much money, you're not or whatever. It's none of that, but it's a great, you know, there's roughly a million dollars almost every year that can be divvied up between the four, the four areas of focus. So thank you for volunteering. Thanks for all your votes, y'all. Appreciate it. It's good to get us more land. Well, Sam, she's still thanking us in December. And I will one last thing about the library and I was scared. That was what threw me. I will say, Anna, that, you know, our work on the dog park task force will be slowing down. In fact, construction started out there this week. Things are, things are moving. Great. Yeah. Excellent. Any other business for today? No, not for me. Okay. Not hearing any looking for a motion to adjourn. We adjourn. Second. All right, how do you vote? Hi, Jen. Hi, Larry. Hi, Laura. Anna. Hi. And I, for me as well, we are done in 22 minutes. So thank you everyone. Thanks guys. Be safe.


Hello! And thanks for joining us for this web chat about empowering women and girls through sports. I'm Lauren Gibson, a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State. This is the perfect time to have this conversation as we celebrate Women's History Month and get ready for the Women's World Cup in June. We're incredibly lucky to have with us today a very special guest, Alex Morgan, one of the stars of U.S. Soccer and co-captain of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. Alex is a World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist. She is also a top player in the National Women's Soccer League as a forward for the Orlando Pride. Now, while she's one of the most recognizable names in the sport, Alex feels her most meaningful contribution off the field is her work in encouraging girls around the world to grab a soccer ball and join the game. Alex is a best-selling author of the Kicks book series, which she also turned into a television show. And many of you have just watched her film, Alex and Me. Alex and her teammate, Megan Rapinoe, were the first female players in the world to join Common Goal. They donate one percent of their salaries to organizations that use soccer to overcome social challenges. Through Common Goal, Alex directly supports John Bobokoba in Tanzania, which is working to improve health, education, and gender equality for girls. Alex hopes that these pursuits help inspire young girls everywhere, which she is also doing by being on this program today. Welcome, Alex. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here today with everyone. We're so happy that you're joining us today. We're also very happy to have with us today a group of youth athletes and educators at the American Corner in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a country Alex visited as a sports envoy in 2017. We are also joined by a number of other watch parties around the globe. We'll be taking questions from you shortly. Those of you viewing online can ask questions by submitting them in the comment section next to the video player or by tweeting them using hashtag empower women. Alex will respond to your questions later in the program. Now, I'd like to quickly set the scene for this discussion. In many parts of the world, women and girls face challenges with equal access to sports. There are a number of factors including economic issues, societal and gender norms, and the lack of policies that ensure women have the same sports and educational opportunities. Despite this, it is encouraging to see women athletes find success on the world stage. It's also clear how increased participation in sports leads to women staying in school longer and provides them with important leadership and teamwork skills. Okay, let's get started. Alex, I'd like to first ask you to talk about your story, how you got into soccer and what some of the challenges were that you faced as a young girl learning the game. I got into soccer when I was about five years old and my two older sisters played, so I always wanted to do exactly what they were doing. So that's how I started that, but I found that I gained a lot of friendships through the sport of soccer. I gained a lot of things that I couldn't otherwise through school, like working towards a greater goal, you know, putting your selfish needs aside for the greater of the team. A lot of things that I just fell in love with, with the sport and just with sports in general. And once I kind of grew up a little bit more around the age of 10, I witnessed the 1999 US team win the Women's World Cup, and that was just incredible to see these group of women just totally captivate a country and a world and compete at the highest stage and be so successful. I knew then I wanted to be a professional soccer player and compete on that stage and possibly win a World Cup or an Olympic gold medal. So that was like my passion from when I was eight, nine, 10 years old, and I started with the US national team at 19 years old. We did not win the first World Cup that I played in, which was in 2011, we lost in the final to Japan. And in 2012, we went to London for the Olympics, and that's where we won the gold medal against Japan in the final. And then in 2015, we ended up playing Japan again in the World Cup and ended up winning five to two, which is a very uncommon soccer score. But we won in the final to finally win our first World Cup since 1999. And so that's my journey. And now we are looking forward to winning another, possibly and hopefully looking to win another World Cup this summer in France. But it's been a long journey and one that I've always dreamt of doing and now I'm living out my dreams. That's so cool. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I'd like to ask you another question, though, about experiences. How did all of those experiences inform your role in the film, Alex and me? And can you talk about the themes of empowerment, leadership and role models that are explored in that great story? Yeah, Alex and me was one of my most fun opportunities that I got to do off the soccer field. I was introduced to this idea by the writer and the director, Eric Chempnella. And he has a daughter and was just so fascinated by his daughter's love for the game and the inspiration she drew from myself and my teammates. And so he ended up writing this movie and I thought it was a great idea. I loved being a part of it and I'd never been a part of the movie before. So it was something new for us all. And just getting to know the cast and the young girls that were a part of the movie and seeing it come to life when it finally was finished and came out on DVD and streaming live, streaming. It was incredible to see not only the young girls that loved the movie but the young boys that loved the movie too. Just seeing how many people really drew inspiration from it and really felt like they're in a similar situation where maybe their sibling casts a shadow on them or they feel like they aren't given the attention from their parents. And I feel like it is important to highlight those things because those are very realistic things in today's world. I have two older sisters and my parents were so supportive for all three of us but I think that having the support from my parents meant everything because it meant making me want to make them proud when I did anything when I was successful and seeking advice from them when I wasn't successful or when I had a failure in life and had to get myself back up and try again. So those are kind of the themes of the movie that I really loved and I think it's so important to have that support system whether that's your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teachers, your coaches finding that someone that really encourages you and believes in you as much as you believe in yourself is extremely important. Absolutely, absolutely. And I'd love to hear from you about your trip to Tanzania where you served as a sports envoy. What was that experience like and what were some things that stood out to you? I absolutely loved my trip to Tanzania. I went with my husband who was also a fellow professional soccer player and we started in Arusha. We then went to Dar Salam and finished in Zanzibar and we just met the most amazing people, the most amazing people. I went to try to lend a helping hand to give advice for girls and women in sports to learn as well but I feel like what ended up happening was I learned so much about their stories about how different people's upbringings are how different the respect for girls and women in sports is and how people all around the world are trying to increase the respect for girls and women in sports like we are respected here in the U.S. I just found it incredible to have meaningful conversations with the Zanzibar women's soccer team, as you guys have seen there with the Orcasewa School in that they have a co-ed soccer team and are very talented at that. I got to actually play a pickup soccer game with them. I just had such a great time and it was a once in a lifetime trip that I was able to learn so much and I hope to go back and continue to learn and continue to increase the growth of girls in sports and the respect of girls in sports also. That's fantastic. Let's go to our viewing group in Tanzania. Jeffrey Ladenson is the Cultural Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Hi, Jeffrey. So please introduce our group. So we have a wonderful group here of about 60 young women. We've just spent the last hour and a half or so watching Alex and me. A lot of laughs, a lot of farming and a lot of life lessons as well. Do you guys want to say hello to Alex? Hello. We do have some questions and I'm going to turn it over first to Janet. Hey, Alex. Hi, Janet. Hi, my name is Janet. I was fortunate enough to meet you when you came to Tanzania in December 2017 at JMK Park, if you remember. I just want to congratulate the U.S. Women's National Team for taking steps to empower women in sports, especially fighting for gender equality and soccer. And I just wanted to ask what are the issues, what are the steps that are taken to solve the gender equality issue that the women in soccer face and what advice do you have for soccer in Africa and what can they do to solve the gender equality issue too? Yeah, thank you for your question. For us, you know, we've been able to progress because of the support from our Federation, from the support of U.S. soccer, from the implementation of Title IX, which is actually creating equal scholarships and opportunity of men and women in the university. These are really important steps that we've taken. And as we've progressed, we have seen the inequalities, the gap of the inequalities closed, but not at the rate that we are happy with. We actually recently filed a lawsuit against U.S. Soccer Federation because we felt like it was important to really show those inequalities within the Federation of how we're getting treated and how the men are getting treated and how that should be an equally united front. When it comes to what can be done in Africa or Tanzania, I think that continuing to feel, continuing to be brave, you know, in your sport and continuing to fight for gender equality is always important. It's not always easy and it's actually not ever easy, but it is important. It is sometimes scary. And I think that when you have a group of women to support you or to do this together on a united front, I think that it's important to have strength in numbers. And so I think just having a group of women, rather than one, can, you know, can change more minds. But I think that if you see small progress, then you're going, then you're taking a step forward. Sometimes when you have the attention of people, you want to be able to grab hold of that. So when you do find that there are times where more people are paying attention, I would say to seize that moment and make the most of that and try to create as much awareness as you can in those moments with that sort of recognition. Thank you for that, Alex. Thank you for that great question, Janet. Daris Alam, do you have another question for us? We actually have so many, but we're going to turn it over to Hannah right now. Hello, Alex. My name is Hannah. And I watched the movie, Alex and me. I saw the girl got support from her parents, knowing our culture in Africa and Tanzania. Most of the girls at young age don't get the support from the parents. What do you have to say about it? And did you get your parents support when you first started it? I did get my parents support and I was very lucky to be able to, because in return I wanted to make them proud and I wanted to, you know, excel not only on the soccer field, but academically as well. I think it overall, you know, made me a better person knowing that my parents were supportive of me. I do know that it is difficult and that not all of parents, you know, do support girls, you know, in sports or in school. And I think that that's very difficult. I think that, you know, it can change, but it's not without resistance and without traditional thinking from parents. You know, I don't know that, you know, the answer to how we can change our parents' minds, but I think by giving, you know, by doing what you love, whether that's wanting to go to school, wanting to play sports, wanting to, you know, have a job when you grow up that goes against the norm of society is important to do. It's so important to do what you love because I think when you see, when your parents see what you naturally love, what you're happy doing, what your dreams are, and fulfilling those, I think it's very difficult for parents not to be supportive at that time. But I understand that it, you do go through a difficult time and I'm hopeful about the mindset of people can change in the traditional, in the traditional mindset. I'm very hopeful. And I think things like this can definitely help.  Thanks for those excellent questions, Hannah and Janet. And thank you, Alex, so much for sharing. Now Tanzania, we'll return to you in a bit, but we'd like to take some questions from our other watch parties as well as online viewers. So here's our first question for you, Alex. What have you learned through soccer that you can apply to your life off the field? I've learned so much from soccer. I think that we don't, you know, as soccer players, we don't realize really how much the game has influenced us. I think that, you know, I'm very, I'm very good with time management. I'm very on time with things. I feel like I dedicate myself to things when I decide to do them. I'm 100% online. I think that I just have, you know, these sort of character traits that sports have given me, the structure that sports have in wanting to learn and teach and lead and at times not lead, at times, you know, be more of a learner. I think it's knowing those time, knowing when to apply that to your daily life from what I learned on the field is important and is something that I couldn't have learned otherwise. That's fantastic. And we have another question for you. Do you have any advice for girls and boys who are trying to overcome adversity in sports? Yes, I would say that, you know, failure, whether that's in sports in school or whatever is, you know, one important step in your life. And you need to have failures to enjoy the successes so much more.  There's no such thing as, you know, stopping at the end of the road. There's always a new path. There's always a new door. And it creates, it creates, it's very difficult in one's life, but at the same time, that it's so important to then realize the successes and see your journey and enjoy the successes because you have been at the bottom and the top. And you can use that journey to encourage other people like you're doing now. We have another question from Zaza. It's a women's sports community in Israel that promotes and encourages women and girls to play sports. They would like to know what the most challenging thing was for you as a woman and how you overcame these challenges. Kind of similar to the last question. I think one of the most difficult things about being a female is always having to fight for equality is always having to tell people that I play a professional soccer. I don't have a second job. This is my job. This is my career. It's always trying to have a seat at the table. It's just making sure that it's always fighting for what we deserve. And I think that that becomes difficult, but at the same time, I'm not standing here today without the fight of the last generation fighting for us. And so my hope is that what I'm doing today, what I'm doing with my team by speaking out by using my platform to fight for gender equality and to fight for girls and women in sports is that the girls the next generation has so much more opportunity than me, is able to make a greater living than I am, is able to reach further in their career than I am because I feel like that's what the last generation was able to do for me. That's fantastic. But we do have another question from one of our viewers, and they want to know kind of along the lines of adversity, how do you deal with being objectified as a woman while proving that you're also a good enough athlete? Excuse me. Yeah, I think that that becomes difficult sometimes, but I think with the support of my teammates, with, you know, I know my true values and I know what I bring to the soccer field and I know who I am. And I think that, you know, listening to people that have no meaning in your life is kind of at the detriment of yourself. So for me, I surround myself with people who I love, who I trust, who will be honest and transparent with me. But at the end of the day, support me unconditionally, and those are the people that I put my faith in. That's fantastic. Now we have a lighter question from Ali, who's at the Lincoln Corner in Karachi, Pakistan. Who's your favorite soccer player? Hmm. Let's see. I have a lot of favorite soccer players, but I think Messi is, you know, the best in the game. He's just such a joy to watch. He plays for Barcelona and they just play beautiful soccer. I also really enjoy watching the MLS. My husband currently plays as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and he is such an outrageous soccer player and he's pretty fun to watch in the women's game. I always looked up to Ali Wambach. She was my teammate up front. We helped each other score so many goals and I always looked up to her. And let's see, my teammate Megan Rapinoe is also one that is just so much fun to watch. I just love playing on the same team with her. She is selfless. When she needs to be selfish, when she needs to be on the field and she's just really fun to watch and be around. That's so cool. We have another light question from our American corner in Tirana, Albania. What was your most impactful soccer experience? My most impactful soccer experience would be in 2012 standing up on the podium together to receive our gold medals. That was one of the most incredible experiences. That was winning my first gold medal with the team after losing in the final in 2011. So to get that redemption one year later was an incredible experience and being able to stand up together and sing the national anthem and have the gold medals around our neck was something I dreamt of as a child. And so living out my dream was just so amazing. So cool. I hope that you will keep submitting your questions for Alex in the comment section, everyone. But we're going to go back to the American corner in Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, do you have a couple more questions for Alex? Of course we do. We're ready. We have Hadrat right here. Hi. My name is Hadrat. I have a question for Alex. I want to know how does she balance her career of soccer and family matters in one time? How can she do that? How do I handle my career and family? Yes. Yes. Well, family is the most important to me.  And I, you know, I'm not where I am today without the support of my family. They come and watch, you know, most of my games, all of the games that they can come to, they support me so much. And so for me, you know, as much as I can give time to my family, it's important whether that's when I fly into Los Angeles, or when I'm from to see them for two hours, or to spend as much time with them. When I do get the chance, they are just everything to me. They make me happy. It's where I feel the most comfortable, where I feel the most happy, and where I think I thrive the most as a person. So I try to, you know, do everything for my family, make them proud.  I try as much as I can to spend as much time as I can with them. Thank you, Alex. And thank you, Hadrat. To our colleagues in Tanzania, do you have another question for us? We do. And I'm so glad Alex mentioned happiness because we actually have happiness here to ask a question. Okay. Hi. In Tanzania, women and young girls, we fail to achieve what we want mostly because we are afraid to take risks. So my question is that what kind of sacrifices or risks have you taken for, for a World Cup? Yeah. I have taken a lot of sacrifices and along the lines of family, I haven't been able to, you know, see a lot of my family's greatest achievements and accomplishments because I have been with the team traveling around the world, competing and representing my country.  I have had injuries or been told by coaches when I was younger that I was not good enough and that I wouldn't make it. You know, as a professional soccer player, I've had injuries that have prevented me from playing at the time that have tried to hurt my future career. And all of those things have been difficult and I've been blocked in the road. But I feel like the confidence and belief that I had in myself was unwavering and the support for my family was extremely important in continuing me on the right path after taking a second to reflect. Thanks again, Alex. And thanks, Happiness, for that wonderful question. Now let's take a few more questions from our online viewers. We have Ali in Karachi, Pakistan, who asks, what's it like to play in the World Cup? Playing in the World Cup is one of the most incredible things. It's not often that you get to represent your country on the highest stage. And the World Cup is different than the Olympics in that you have 23 players together on one team and that is representing your entire country. It's a tournament where it focuses just on soccer or football. And that's incredible because I have, I really just, my entire life I have focused on the game of football and put so many efforts and sacrifices towards that. So being able to compete on the highest stage is like nothing else. I've been lucky enough to do that twice before. And I'm looking forward to, again, this summer in France. There's so much unpredictability in a World Cup. Sometimes the best team does win and sometimes the best team does not win. And all you can hope for is that you bring your best on the day when your team needs you. Absolutely. Now we have a question from Sama who wants to know what it feels like to be the face of the U.S. women's national soccer team. You know, I think that I'm one, but I think that there's also some other girls that are faces of the national team. I think we are fortunate in that the national team is very well recognized. We have gained popularity over the last five years or seven years or so. And it's been great to see the respect and recognition of women in football at the highest stage. I think sometimes it's difficult to have a lot of eyes on you. There's no question about that. And that's why I feel like it's so important that I keep my family close to me and that I depend on them to give me guidance and advice. Because there is so many other people, you know, trying to influence my life or trying to speak their opinions online or on social media. There's also media that love to, you know, boost your successes, but also share when you're having failures. And I think that that's different for confidence. So for me, it's all about continuing to seek guidance from my family and trusting in those that I love. That's wonderful. Now, we have a Valerie from Ukraine wanted me to first say hi to you and to just let you know that you motivate her so much. But she does have a question. Valerie would like to ask you who or what motivates you to achieve? Who or what motivates me to achieve? You know, I think that always wanting to get better and having that competitiveness in myself is very important. Having, you know, achieved a World Cup title in Olympic gold medal is amazing, but I have bigger dreams than that. I have more than that. I also want to be fulfilled in other ways off of the field. I think it's really important to stand up for what you believe in. I have a husband that is extremely supportive of me. And I think that he is someone that I look to to help me in times and to kind of help guide me and push me along in times. That's very important as well. Thank you. Now you had an opportunity to talk about how you balance your family and your sports. Osman from Islamabad would like to know how you manage your studies and your sports at the same time. Luckily, I do not have to study anymore at this moment. I did get my degree from, I got my bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in California. And that was very difficult to be a full-time student and a full-time soccer player. That was when I started playing with the national team as well. I actually graduated six months early because I anticipated going to the World Cup and wanted to make sure that I could focus 100% on soccer. And now I'm very happy being a full-time soccer player. But the only studying I would say that I do is studying the game of soccer. Absolutely. Now you talked a lot about teamwork and the importance of teamwork. Adi and Israel has a follow-up question. Adi would like to know what you do to maintain a good relationship and that great cooperation with your teammates, especially when things are kind of stressful during the season. I think it's so important to create friendships off of the field. And I don't think that you have to be best friends with everyone on your team. But I think understanding each other and their backgrounds and that everyone comes from a different background is important. And just learning more about them, who their family is, do they have siblings, what motivates them, what encourages them, who is their support system. These are really important things off the field that I think kind of help you with that on-field chemistry. And then I think on the field it's definitely just consistency. It's being selfless enough to give your all for the team and giving your all means, playing the role that you need to play in order to have the success on the team.  You do it all together. And it has to be all or nothing. For sure. Now you talked about your support system, your family and your community. Pina and Bolivia would like to know what you say to people that encourage women to maintain traditional gender and family roles rather than play sports. That's an issue that they're facing. Absolutely. Yeah, I think that is very difficult. And that is what is happening around the world. And I think that it is changing slowly. I think we're seeing progress. I looked at the Afghanistan women's soccer team and they are one that has been fighting for years now just to be able to play competitive games. I think that you have to take slow steps. But I think raising awareness is one of the most important things. Having those traditional views is going to take a long time to unwind those. Those are decades and centuries of thinking that needs to change. And so with that, I think there's a level of patience and then there's a level of pushing. And I think creating awareness is one of the most important things. A lot of the work that we do as a team is just talking about it, is getting it in front of people so they understand the inequalities. They really see that the inequalities are unjust and unfair. Before you can do something, you just need to make sure people understand it, are aware of it and it's in the back of their minds a little bit more. Now continuing in that vein, thank you for your answer. Lydia from the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa notes that right now men's soccer is a bit more famous than women's. How do you suggest we change that? You have to look at men's sports and the fact that men have always been respected in sports and women have not. And so I think that we have a lot of catching up to do. Some countries are closer in gender equality in sports than others. But I think that the history of men's sports go back so much further than women in sports. So I think you have to realize the small gains and appreciate those small gains. Absolutely. We have another question from Sarah. She's at the Monrovia Football Academy in Liberia. What would you say to a girl who's been denied an opportunity to play soccer because she's a woman? I mean, I think that that's not right.  And I'm a true believer of equality in sports. And I think that women have so much to give in sports. And I also think that women can learn so much from sports, can take away so much to apply to their life from sports. And I would say to continue to fight for inclusion of girls and women in sports. And appreciate the small gains, but work towards, you know, greater goal and, and find, you know, find people that share that common ground and unite together.  Yes, absolutely.  I mean, you touched upon your role models a little bit earlier, but could you talk a little bit more about the people you looked up to as you were growing up and what you found about them that was really special? Yeah, I looked up to a lot of female soccer players. I looked up to also a Billie Jean King who played tennis and decided to change the way things were because things weren't changing at the rate that she thought was fast enough. And so this is a tennis player who decided to create their own tennis league and go against the tennis association by playing their own matches, by having their own sponsor, by, you know, proving that they are valuable, that people do respect them and it just was the people in charge that did it. She did so much for not only tennis, but women's sports in the U.S. And that tennis is one of the only sports globally to have the same win bonus from the men's and the women's side in the major tournaments. That's something that we look at for inspiration within women's football. And she is also someone who advocated for Title IX, which is giving equal opportunity to men and women at the university to play sport and to get a scholarship. That was one of the ways that I continue to move along my journey in playing professional soccer and was a very important part of my journey. So I think that I have a lot to thank to Billie Jean King. It's so encouraging to hear about your story and about your role models. We are actually unfortunately down to the final question. The American Corner in Tirana, Albania would like to know what you're planning to do after you retire. I hope that it's quite a few years until I retire. So I'm not looking, you know, at that as much right now, especially leading into a World Cup. But I think it's important to continue to fight for the inclusion of girls and women in sports. I would love to help grow the game. And in that, what I mean by that is potentially going around the world and speaking with federations and associations all around the world to help develop girls academies to kind of invest in the youth on the girls side as much as they probably do now on the boys side. And the hope is that when you start investing in the youth level that as they grow, it becomes more of the norm and it becomes something where girls and boys are respected in sports equally. Yes. That's so exciting. Now, like I mentioned, unfortunately, it looks like we're almost out of time, but I'd like to thank everyone so much for these fantastic questions. We have really covered a lot of ground today, and hopefully those of you watching will continue to engage on this important topic. Now, Alex, before we close, do you have any final thoughts to share? I just want to say thank you so much, Jeff, for making this happen. I had so much fun and learned so much when I was on my trip with you in Tanzania. Thank you to all the girls that are watching today. It really means so much. And I hope that I was able to share some advice with you that you could apply. I hope that you continue to fight for a seat at the table and for inclusion of girls and women in sports. I just thank you so much for tuning in and, Jeff, do you have anything, any last remarks or anything? Well, we actually all have a comment for you. You guys ready? Alright, one, two, three. Thank you so much. Thank you, Alex, and thank you for joining us and all the best to you and to Cervando as well. Thank you. Bye, you guys. Wonderful. In closing, I'd like to thank you, Alex, for joining us for this important discussion and for sharing your valued insights and inspiration. Hopefully this program can serve as a vital piece in the continuing conversation on equality in sports and education in Africa and around the world. A big shout out as well for the excellent questions from our online viewers, the audience at the American Corner in Tanzania, and two other live viewing groups at Embassy Abuja, Nigeria, Embassy and American Center Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, American Corners' Jima, Ambahirdar, Ethiopia, Embassy Kartoum, Sudan, American Center Kampala, Uganda, American Corner Kaminji, Burundi, American Corner Kigali, Rwanda, the Monrovia Football Academy in Liberia, American Center Moscow, Russia, American Corner Tirana, Albania, American Corners in Budapest, Hungary, American Corner Pristina, Kosovo, Windows on America, Ukraine, Mission Turkey, Mission Kuwait, Embassy Islamabad, and the U.S. Consulate General Karachi in Pakistan. Thanks again for taking part in this discussion. Bye.


what is up ladies and gents this is going to be the season seven this list i hope you all had a great season six it was probably one of the most stressful seasons ever but we did it and this is going to be the non-human regen set and we're going to run a couple of different sets this season or i'm going to give you a couple of different examples and then you can kind of mix and match as you see fit there's going to be a couple of core things that we're going to kind of aim for then you'll kind of see where it goes from there obviously as usual there will be a shortened version where you can just see all of the gear if you want to but this longer version is going to be a bit more of me explaining why i've made those choices and kind of building your understanding a little bit so that you can kind of switch things around depending on the gear that you find so couple of couple of key point is we're going to be aiming for about 1300 resilience and do remember these things are all subject to change potentially as we play this season if we feel things are a little bit different if you don't need to be as tanky more tanky all these things will come into play it's hard to say ahead of time this is our best guess and we do what we can so yeah 1300 brazil then we're gonna obviously be going for the four percent hit these are like the core things that you want to want to be aiming for four percent hit obviously easy to get early on in the season 1300 you will be building up towards as you get the relentless pieces and then after that it's kind of do you go for haste or do you go for regen the spell power will kind of be a sort of byproducts of that it's not something that we're really going to be aiming for per se it's just something that you kind of get as a result of it so without further ado we're going to look at the gear so we're going to be enchanting a little bit differently this season and that's going to be revolving around the stamina resilience and chance rather than the spell power resilience and chance so we're actually going to be running the stam resilience and chant on the head and shoulders and we're going to be running the stam and chant on the braces and that's going to give us going to give us an extra one k h p which is very nice with the higher resilience they they scale very nicely together so yep standard relentless herd nothing different with the gemming make sure you go five out of five mooncloth don't mess about with any two-piece satin no need for any of that and then as this is the regen set this is going to be a salvation at an mp5 neck and then standard relentless glad he is shoulders and we're going to be putting the jc gem in there i'm going to be running three 34 resilience jc gems then we're going to be running the shroud of displacement now there is a couple of options when it comes to cloak i've done two builds for you i've done a build that does not include the 272 cloak the 272 cloaks might be a little bit more expensive a bit more tricky to get so if you don't fancy your chances at getting one i've done builds without them as well shroud of displacement should be should be easier to get your hands on and this is really nice it's got 40 49 hit on it so this is going to be just under half the hit that we need while putting a nice little bit of haste on it as well very juicy and i'm going to skip across over here really quickly to the boots because this is the other half of the hit rating this has got 60 hit on the 49 and the 60 is going to put you over hit cap which is four percent or 105 rating and this is also very nice item with the haste on got some sockets for some extra resilience and that should be your your your hit sorted then we are going to be obviously running the relentless robe regen bracers regen weapon don't forget to buy the 258 if you get the rating for it then we're going to be running the regen offhand and wand keeping in mind that we still have our spell pen offhand and wand for last season which gives us more than enough spell pen so if you are swapping to spell pen offhand and wand to do your fears make sure you keep those items they will be very handy you can buy the relentless ones at the very end this last season this season you don't need to worry about getting them early on or anything like that because you can use your last stuff if you are making a new character just grab the stuff from season five that should be now available for honor so obviously we're going to be running the medallion as usual and then we're going to be running solace and this is going to be obviously expensive and tricky to get early on if you do get your hands on it very nice it's going to be a little bit less regen than the crystal that we saw last season but it's got a lot of spell power on it as well so this is very handy get one of these if you can if you can't you can just run the meteorite crystal which is here and this is actually going to be available from heroics so this is going to be really really easy to obtain so you can grab one of these before you get a crystal but sorry before you get a solace and you're going to do just fine and the last pve item we're going to be picking up is actually from the same boss of solace which is the circle of the dark mender and it's actually just a slightly better alglon ring which we're also still going to keep using as this 252 item level so they're both haste mp5 with a socket just slightly increased stats on that one the rest of the items are relatively simple the relentless mooncloth legs with the double results socket we've got the relentless cord of salvation obviously this is the regen board so we're going to be putting the the 10 result 5 mp5 gem in there and that's gonna that's going to be our only blue gem right we need one red one blue and then rest are going to be yellow and that's going to make our meta gem work because we have one of each and then the final item it's going to be the relentless gloves with the 20 result gem in it again and remember we have at the epic gems next season guys so don't forget to grab those it's going to be a nice boost to your resilience and we are still using engineering so hand-mounted pyro rocket is still there next up we are going to be looking at the non-human haste build this is very similar to the last one we have just replaced a few items mainly the off parts with haste instead of mp5 so we've got the haste neck we've got the haste braces there are actually haste parts available this season but we're actually running the haste weapon as well and then there's a haste book haste wand and a haste belt now this is the kind of build that is going to be obviously a lot lower in terms of regen so this is probably going to be more useful in 3v3 where the games are a lot quicker and regen is not as important obviously you can mix and match if you feel like you want to add some more regen that kind of thing if you're playing more 3v3 than 2v2 then potentially going for blade of celerity first is the play however if you're playing more 2v2 then i would say that the salvation weapon earlier on is that it's going to be the play so keep that in mind you probably want to grab both eventually but obviously you don't have infinite arena points so choose wisely and then finally we have the non-human with the 272 cloak the lady liedrin's conviction although this has spirit on the increased stats due to the higher eye level actually make this worth running but it does mean that you need to switch out something else to get your hit cab so what i've done is i've actually swapped out the neck your other option is swapping out the ring for the pvp ring which is what i actually do on the human we'll see that in a bit the reason i like swapping out the neck on undead is because you already have relatively high resilience due to the trinket so you're able to maintain about 1300 regardless so getting the extra stats from the neck due to the higher eye level since the off parts are 245 and this is 252 actually yields highest that's over the rest of the items are unchanged obviously you can run this neck obviously you can run this neck cloak combo with both the regen set and the haste set just keep in mind you'll be swapping other off parts around at your own discretion next up we're going to look at the human set and this is going to differ ever so slightly because we do need to get a little bit more resilience to use the lack of that trinket speaking of trinkets i think i'm going to start with those and obviously we're going to be running the meteorite crystal solace combo we cannot actually run double solace it is not available in classic blizzard as i actually said they're not going to allow duplicates of items on different difficulties and honestly i'm not sure if we would run the normal solace anyway given how strong we found meteorite crystal to be this season towards the end in terms of regen so i think meteorite crystal is a clear play here with the solace and your regen is going to be absolutely insane next season so having a lot more haste is going to be definitely viable as a human so this is going to be the haste build and again this is more prior towards three three but you might be able to even get away with this in 2v2 on a human so it's going to be the haste boots we've actually opted to ditch the pvp boots sorry the pve boots in favor of getting our hit through the pvp items so we've got the haste boots haste belt haste braces we're going to be running the standard mooncloth five set we don't need to look at that again that's all the same but we are still going to be running the haste wand offhand and weapon now and again you can switch these at your leisure so if you feel like you're running out of mana you have the regen options you have the spell pen options if needed you know even if you're if you're really invested in surviving being tanky having really every set available you can even run the haste stuff because it has more stamina and resilience on than the one hand and offhand this is something that i've been doing this season but yeah so weapons obviously you can switch a will and there's a bunch of different options just try and think about what you need at the time what you're going to be using you know the most if it's 3v3 you probably want more haste if it's 2v2 you probably want more regen it's a good way of looking at it there's some there's there are some uh distinctions when it's like different matchups and comp to comp but that's generally a quite a good role if you're not too sure uh and you're coming into the arena is like a newer player and you're just really not sure where to go it all feels overwhelming general good rule of thumb is 3v3 go for haste 2v2 go for regen you can't really go wrong so as i said before the hit we're going to be running hit on the cloak and hit on the neck as a human everything else is basically the same there's no other real big changes and this is going to keep us at 1300 resilience which is going to keep us safe while having crazy regen plus a lot of haste this season 18% haste so that's going to feel great to play next up we've got human regen and not a lot differs with this one it's basically the same as the last set with regards to where we're getting the hit from same trinkets and we're just switching up the off parts as we saw before for the regen ones and the regen weapons and again this is something that you can you know you can do from game to game if you've purchased the both different kinds of bracer belt and boots then you'll be able to to queue up some marinas see what's queuing be like okay there's more of these kinds of teams queuing today i want a little bit more of this that or that's that i feel like i'm going oom a lot today i want more regen i feel like games are really quick today i want more haste that kind of thing so these are these are easy switches to make that don't have any real impact on the other synergy of the gear because the hit is nicely obtained through the neck and the cloak and the spell pen is easily swappable on the off hand and the wand plus the enchant on the cloak that covers you for 130 and finally and this is probably my favorite i think set of the the season and it's probably gonna be the strongest especially in 3v3 but maybe in 2v2 as well due to the cloak obviously being a little bit harder to get you're gonna have the double regen trinkets so you're gonna be crazy crazy good for mana and then the resilience is nice and high as well so this is basically the same as everything again however we are switching out one of the rings we're switching out the 2v2 all to our ring for the relentless ring this season which has hit on and the hit combo with the neck is going to give us 100 and then we actually swap i believe it's this gem for a instead of 12 spell power 10 rezil we're going to put the 10 hit on there instead and that's going to get us up to 110 hit which is just over the hit cap this is probably going to be the chunkiest in terms of overall stats due to the insane regen that the double trinkets going to provide so if you are considering going human i would recommend if you get these two trinkets if you're on the lines the only situation where human is not going to be better next season assuming that they fix sat bug is if the double rogue feral rogue general rogue plague i guess in twos remains and and you want to be dwarf to sort of survive these these matchups as much as possible other than that i think human is going to be a really good shite so if you're thinking of going human either way until you get the solace or just go send it it's uh it's going to be good and uh that is it that's everything i have to say on the business this season it's not too complicated this season nothing too crazy going on mostly sort of logic is going to allow you to switch up certain items by wholeheartedly recommend farming you know at least the hit the mp5 and the haste neck and and cloak and then both haste and regen braces belt and boots and then the hit ring as well so there's a fair bit of vana farming to do but if you have all of these items you're going to be able to switch based on what pvi items you pick up and you're going to be able to make a good set no matter what basically all right boys thank you for watching i hope you have a good season


As the title of this video said, I've been keeping a secret and I want to share it with you all. So if you'll hang with me just a few minutes we'll get into it and I will share with you what is going on in my life and what kind of changes are going to be coming my way which I hope won't affect the channel too much but let's talk about it. Hey girl friends! A little bit more of a serious note today. Not really because in a way this is really some good news for me but in a way it's kind of scary news for me as well. No it's not a collaboration. Yes I'm staying on YouTube, nothing like that. Let's start out with just a little bit of my backstory. If you go back and see my videos when I very first started by the way I've been on YouTube for seven years in January. I cannot believe I've been on it that long and I love what I do to get to visit with you guys and to get to see all of you and to get to interact with all of you and bring you content that I am so passionate about which is Makeup Skincare Beauty. It's like a dream come true for me and the fact that I've gotten big enough now that I'm actually making enough money to help my family and be able to support my channel on my own is just such a good feeling. So I love this. I love everything about it. When I started my channel seven years ago I was 120 pounds heavier and if you go back and look you'll be shocked at what I looked like and I struggled for those first few years probably the first three years on YouTube. People were with me and I had a great time with the subscribers that were there but I wasn't attracting a lot of people because number one I was sick and I think that came across through the camera lens in that you know not a lot of people want to watch a person that is struggling that hard and I struggled really hard and even though I love doing it being that big it was a challenge for me to do YouTube. It was a challenge for me to do anything. So I decided through a lot of prayers and a lot of soul searching and a lot of talking with my family that I was going to do gastric bypass weight loss surgery and I did that in July of 2019 and I lost 120 pounds which my life has completely transformed. I everything about it has transformed. I feel so much better. I don't have, I was in pain 24-7. I'm still in pain because I still have fibromyalgia. I have trigeminal neuralgia. I have renaud syndrome if any of you know what that is affects your fingers and your toes. I also deal with PTSD from a really bad alcoholic abusive husband years and years ago. I have left bundle branch block in my heart and I also have POTS that is a part of my heart condition after I got COVID. So I have all these things that I still deal with but the weight being off not carrying around I mean seriously go into Costco pick up a 50 pound bag of sugar and walk up and down the aisle with that. Now imagine that you had two and a half of those and walk up and down the aisle. When you have that kind of weight on oh my gosh you know what I'm talking about. It's so hard and for anybody that struggles my heart is with you. I know how hard it is. It is it's really hard and I know a lot of people said that I took the easy way out. It maybe maybe not. I don't feel like it was the easy way out. I had tried everything but that's beside the point. So after all of that happened after I lost all of that weight I had a lot of extra skin and you don't see that a lot.  My middle is very round all the way around. I had three Caesareans and that's how I delivered my kids because I couldn't my pelvis was off kilter from an accident when I was when I was a kid and so I had to have a Caesarean and after a Caesarean your skin gets pulled up right in that area in the pubic area and so I have all of this very very loose skin that flaps over and you know I mean this might be gross. I don't know some of you might appreciate it some of you might be going what are you talking about but this skin because of the way that it is and because of how loose it is actually get a lot of infections in there every year. Not only is it unsightly and nasty it diminishes my quality of life and so here I am again at a point in my life where I'm grappling with whether or not I want to have another surgery to fix something that I've inflicted on myself. So I've decided to have skin removal surgery but in the interim of finding a surgeon that I could work with and that was perfect for me I found that not only do I have to have skin removal surgery I actually have to have it all the way around the circumference of my body because you don't just lose weight on your stomach right you lose it everywhere and so I have that same problem in the back as I have in the front trigger warning. If talking about surgeries and different things like that set you off this is your trigger warning to skip past this video right now.  I'm having a 360 tummy tuck and that is where not only they cut you from hip to hip they cut you all the way around your body and they take off all of that loose skin and then they pull everything together and so I will have an incision all the way around my body not only that on my abdomen in my muscles they're going to stitch those muscles in from the abdomen back together so they're going to stitch those all together so I'm going to have that and I'm also going to have liposuction down the hip area because of the way that the skin hangs there too so that they can pull the skin a little bit tighter because just of all of the weight is I think about when you blow up a balloon you blow it up really big you know you get this little bitty balloon you blow it up really big and it stays that way and then you deflate that balloon and what you have is all of this it just is never going to be the shape that it was before you blew it up well that's what loose skin is after weight loss it's this just for lack of better word an empty balloon that looks like crap and can cause a lot of health issues and in my case it's been every single year and it's not just in summer summers are super hard I have to take care of that skin differently I do a lot of things to keep that skin dry and I still get either a yeast infection in there or just a plain old really nasty infection in there um I get heat rashes constantly and I'm uncomfortable and I know good lord as I talk about this and I'm sure that a lot of you're growing you sound so selfish I have a lot of you friends that come here to my channel you're battling cancer you're battling lifelong diseases you're battling things that really have altered your life and I come on here and I talk about skin removal surgery but this is what's going to be happening to me and this for me is my next step in the journey of my life where I want to get to be a better person and to get to do something that has bothered me for 30 plus years because my oldest son is 32 but what I want to tell you is number one I'm not trying to diminish any of what you're going through I just had one of you that is one of the sweetest people and you've only found me about I'm sorry you only found me about six months ago and you just told me that you had a cancer diagnosis friends the gal that just told me about this is and you'll see her in every single video she comments on every single video and so many of you do but she was so bubbly and so upbeat and she still is but she's just barely got this diagnosis I'm sorry I don't know why I'm and I just want to jump through this camera and just hug her I mean that's how I feel about so many of you when you talk to me I want to jump through here and I want to hug you and I want to tell you that I'm your friend and that yeah I may not pray for you each individually because there's a lot of you but I pray for all of you for all of us to have the fortitude to cope with whatever we face and as many of you know I lost my dad this year oh my gosh I don't know if I could have gotten through without all of you I mean I've lost a lot of people in my life a lot of people I've been through a lot because as many of you know I have three kids that are type 1 diabetics and that started I was 27 when my middle son got type 1 diabetes and I've lived the roller coaster life with my kids and now they're going on almost into almost into 25 years of type 1 diabetes and now we're starting to see the effects of that so my life isn't easy just like you guys this isn't but boy you don't realize how you get me through so much and that's why when you come into the comment section that's why I try so hard to take the time to answer you because if you take the time to comment and talk to me that means that you really not don't you know I mean I get the haters yeah but it means that you really have enjoyed something that I've brought to you and that you are invested enough to just take a few minutes of your time and chat with me and I treasure that and I've said this over and over again but I really do I feel like if it's important to you it's important to me I wouldn't have a channel without you I wouldn't be where I am without you I couldn't be a beauty guru that has this as their job without you and the fact that you are value me enough to take a few minutes out of your day and watch me and then you take a few minutes to comment because you felt good after my video that's special you're special and I am not somebody that that is wasted on I will never take for granted what YouTube has done for me or what social media has done for me and the freedom to be at home with debilitating diseases and health conditions and still be able to contribute to my family's welfare that's huge and so I'm never going to take you for granted because you help make my life what it is and I love you when I say that those aren't empty words love you you know mm-hmm no those are words that come from a place of deep gratitude for a youtube family that picked up for me and helped me when my own family wouldn't anyway I'm gonna stop so January 9th I'm having skin removal surgery that will take me about six weeks to recover from I'm not going to be gone for six weeks but I'm not going to be able to talk and converse back and forth for that six weeks very much I'm uploading a lot of videos right now that will be will populate and will come up on your feed during that time so that you don't you don't miss me too much but I just wanted you to know that that's what's going on fingers crossed no complications everything will be okay the biggest complication is blood clots but they know how to manage those now and I don't get those in surgeries anyway so yeah I don't know what made me just do that just now but a little bit into my life and who I am and I love you I love you I love you I love you and I truly mean that and I'll be talking to you and showing you my progress very soon and I hope that any of you that are battling anything yourselves please know that I'm that's not lost on me that's not wasted on me when you tell me those kinds of things and when I comment and say I'm sorry I am my truly am this world is messed up and we need each other and I need you so please take care of yourselves stay happy and I'll see you in my very next video goodbye girlfriends