Welcome everybody to TechSoup Connect Australia chapter, even though most of us are from overseas this morning. That's fine. Welcome everybody. So this morning we've got Kat Milner from Create Your Change. It's gonna be taking us through Canva and it's gonna be a real high-level introduction to it. So we're not gonna deep dive really deep into all the technicalities, but it's gonna be just a big sweep over the products and how you can use it and especially for nonprofits. If you do have any questions, please feel free to add them into the chat and I'll keep an eye out for them. And if they're relevant to what Kat's saying at the time, I'll allow flagging them with her and we can bring them up. But yes, thank you everybody. And I'm just gonna hand it over to Kat. Good morning everybody. I am Kat Milner, founder, owner and Chief Communication Ninja for Create Your Change. My business specializes in working with people to become more digital legal literate. And that's everything from, I work with a lot of older people to help them become more confident and comfortable with their devices and in the online world. I also work with small businesses and nonprofits to help them understand how to use the programs that they need to run their business. For example, things like Canva. So today we are going to cover a few, we're gonna try and cover a lot of ground in a very short period of time. So if you do have questions or you need me to go back over or something, just drop that in the chat. I know I talk really fast. I know my New Yorker person will be able to keep up, not so sure about everybody else. So- Not me, I'll say yes.  So if that is happening, just let me know and I'm more than happy to slow it down a little bit. So here's our agenda for today. This is a basics class. So if you are more familiar with Canva and no more advanced techniques, I love that you are into it, but I'm gonna ask that you don't talk about advanced techniques in the chat because there are probably some newer people on the call today and we just don't wanna confuse people. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a tour of Canva and show you some of the different things that are at your disposal to use. We're gonna cover templates and how to use those, how to find photos or upload photos. We're also gonna talk about elements, how to search for things, how to use texts and briefly how to post to Facebook. And then I'll give you my top three tips to keep it looking amazing. And if you stay on to the end of the call, I also have a free gift for that. Ah, good morning Ruth. So that is what we are doing today. And before I jump into it all, are there any questions or anything that you would like to say about why you are here today before we jump into it completely? Alrighty, let's get into it then. So this is Canva. It's canva.com. It is, and if you're not familiar with Canva, actually if you could drop a Y in the chat or an N for no if you have used Canva before and are at least a little bit passingly familiar with it. Okay, so we've got some people who are familiar with it. Excellent, this is gonna be a good class today. So canva.com. You will need to create an account to use it. I actually have a personal and a business one. And you can try Canva Pro for free. So let's actually talk a little bit about Canva Pro while we are, while this little pop-up is up. What you get with Canva Pro is, and that's the paid version of it. And we're gonna talk a little later about how nonprofits can get access to Canva Pro. But you get over a million photos, videos, and elements with premium fonts and templates. And we'll show you in a moment what that exactly means. You can use their magic resize background remover and, pardon me, animations. And it also lets you create a brand kit, content planner, extra folders and has extra storage with it. So there are definitely benefits to it for normal people in businesses, not nonprofits. I believe it's about $18 Australian per month, which isn't too bad. I think it's about $10 to $12 American. No idea what the conversion is the life of Canada. But there are some definite benefits to the Pro version, but everything that we're going to cover today is going to be the free version. So you don't have to pay anything to do whatever we're doing today. I'm gonna close out of that. And yeah, Canva was actually created by a couple of Aussies who were frustrated that there was no real graphic design things out there to help people who weren't actual graphic designers. So they created Canva and it turned into a multi-million dollar business. It's awesome. Okay, so this is the Canva homepage. There's some things show up in a couple of different ways here, like the templates. You just hover over that and it gives you all kinds of fun stuff to choose from. Same with features. You can actually print products from here, but we're not going to get into that. I just thought it was fun. You have home, you have your projects, things that people have shared with you and other things that we're not going to go into. You also have quick jumps to things like videos, presentations and all of these different types of templates that you can use. You're going to see recent designs down here. So things that you've created recently and you'll see how the stuff that we do today will show up here. You can pick a design from here or you can go create a design up here. But to keep things simple today, I'm going to come up to templates and I'm going to go to Facebook post. And you can pick different types of things that you want if you wanted a simple one. It's going to change to simple templates. And then you can create different themes off of it. You can also select just the free ones and we want it to be a post. There we go. So what we did is we picked a style, a theme and the price, which is free. So now all of the templates that they're going to show me are all going to be free. Just out of curiosity, can I ask what nonprofits are you guys with? What is the industry that you work with? Okay, we've got a couple of the churches and some disability, education. Okay, excellent. All right, so let's say that I like this one. So I'm going to use this template. Yep, that's really cool. Let's go to a customize this template. Get rid of that. Okay, so I like the quote but let's say maybe I don't like some other stuff. So what I'm going to do is I can go over to me. So I want a picture of a cat because that's going to be... Okay, and you'll notice as I scroll through these that some of them have this little crown on them that when I hover over it, it says pro. And that just means that it's a paid element. So if I want to use that particular picture, I have to pay for it. And I'm going to grab that. I'm just going to pop it right in there and let's see. Maybe I want to just move that down here. And let's say I just want to... So let's say that maybe I just don't like the gears for this one. And I'm actually just going to take that one in. Okay, now when I drop this in here, there's a couple of things that I want you to notice about it. Okay, the first thing is that there's that bounding box on it. And if I want to resize it, I just grab a corner and I bring it down just like that. You'll also notice this little arrow thing, circle thing here. If I click on that and hold it, I can rotate it. And you'll also notice some things up at the top here where you have color, edit image, crop, flip, and animate. I'm not going to get into the animate and stuff now, but the edit image lets you give it some effects. But the one I really wanted to show you was the... You'll notice that it has that black block here because it's black here. So if I come over here, I can pick another color and I can change the color. Everybody with me there? Yep, perfect. Okay. And then if I want to, let's say I want to duplicate it and I want to put another one over here, I'm going to right click on that. I'm going to copy, click again and paste and then drag and drop and rotate. Now, you'll notice that the image is on top of the text and I don't want that. So if I can either hit position and move backward or right click on it and put send backward to send it back a step. Thanks, Eli. I just figured out how to do the giant cursor the other day. And if you didn't notice, when I left click, it turns pink and when I right click, it turns green just to give it a little bit more of a... Now, the other thing that's on here is that we have some text. So let's say, and okay, when you click on existing text, the first click will give you the bounding box so that if I wanted to move the box, it's there. So you always want to double click inside to make sure that you're actually on the actual text when you go to change it, otherwise it doesn't work. So I'm gonna just change this to, say, my website. So that is my Instagram handle. So you'll notice that because it's longer than the other text, it actually wrapped around. So I have a couple of choices here. The easiest one is just to grab that little side and pull it so it's like that and then bring it down so it's visible. Up here, I can change the font. I can change the size of the font. So if I wanted to grow that a little bit, let's say take it up to 20, there's that. Move that again. And the other thing is that if you see where that has the A with the rainbow under it, I can click that and I can change my font color. I can also bold it. Nope, okay, that doesn't look very good. So now I'm gonna come over here and I'm gonna actually make it black because that then becomes obvious. And I just realized I put a typo in it and this one we're gonna go. So that is a quick and dirty way to customize the template. The probably the most challenging thing to know with this is that when I'm gonna go back to photos that if you want to change the picture, you can do two things with this. So if I wanted to, I could take and just grab this and just drag it in. And you see how when I hover over it, it snaps into the entire picture and replaces that. Or if I just click on it, it goes on top of it. Now, while I've got this here, I can either resize it by grabbing the corner and doing that. Or if I wanted to crop it, I grab one of the little lines on the side and I move it in and it actually crops the photograph. And then if I want to go, stop that, stop it, stop it. There we go. I don't believe there is a spell check, Lori, but when we get to text, we'll talk about that a little bit more. So there are different things. Oh, the other thing is let's say that I wanted to do this for one thing but not the other. Up here, you can go duplicate page and it copies it. So let's say on the first one, I didn't want that on the second one I do. So this way, if you want to do different versions of things, it's a really easy way to keep track of your different versions. I didn't realize this until I'd been using Canva for a while and I was playing with different designs for my business card. So I had 15 different files before I realized I could do them all in pages in the same file and keep it a bit cleaner that way. You can also just add a page if you wanted to do a different design within it.  Okay, oh, I also wanted to draw your attention up here where it says Green Road Motivation Quote. That's the name of the template. So if I click in there, I can rename it. And you'll notice the little cloud over here with the three dots in it. And now it says all changes saved. Drop a Y in the chat if you remember the days when you would spend hours working on a project, especially a design project or a really massive document, and you forgot to save regularly and you're almost done, you're ready to hit print and suddenly the computer crashes or the laptop ran out of power and you lost the entire thing and had to recreate the entire thing. Anybody remember those days? Yeah, there are few things that will make you want to pick up your computer and crush it against the wall like that happening. That is one of the beauties of Canva is it auto saves. So every couple of minutes or actually every time you make a change, it's going to update and save your project so that you never ever lose your project. That's also one of the benefits to working on a cloud-based application. So any questions on adapting a template before we move on? Sorry, I just spilled some of my coffee. Okay, I guess you guys are good. Awesome. All right, so we've done that. Okay, so let's talk about photos a little bit. These are all stock photos from Canva. The other thing that you can do is go to, let me just grab up my images, there we go. Okay, so you can use all of their stock images. There are a lot of resources where you can get royalty-free images. There's a bunch of websites and things where you can do that. So you can go to uploads and actually let me add a page here. All right, so if you want to add an image, there are actually three ways to do it. You can either go upload media and upload it from your file manager. You can drag and drop something over here or you can just drag it into what you're working on and you'll see it automatically go into your library. Either one works. And again, you want to change the size or if you want a crop, easy done. Yeah, Unsplash, Pixabay and Pexels are the three that I tend to use for that. So I'll just drop that in there and Pexels. Along with Unsplash, those are the three websites that I use to get images and music and things like that. Pexabay is really great for music if you want to underlay like a little video or something but again, that's really advanced and we're not going to get into that today. Oh, I didn't know about that one Eli, thank you. Okay, so that's the main thing with the images. Everybody with me so far, any questions? Okay, excellent. Because I feel like we're moving pretty quickly so we're going to get through an awful lot today. The next thing that I wanted to show you that's one of my favorites is the Elements tab. Okay, not only can you find photos here but they have little graphics of things and with the search, you can search thematically. Like for example, I was looking for cat paws and it gives me all kinds of different options. It also says recommendations and you can see all. So this is things that are similar to what I was just looking at. And you can also do, put him on there too. Oh, cat ears, I like that. They have little videos that you can do. It's searching by cats because I have that in the thing but if I took that out, it would just show you everything that they've got. For example, here we go, okay. And back in there, all right. So we've got graphics, we've got videos. There's even audio. I don't think I put the share audio so I can't share that part here but these are fun. The audios can be fun. They have some decent music. They've got different things that are just awesome that way and oh yeah, so let me go back to here. And you'll notice that when you're not searching for anything in particular, you have a whole bunch of stuff up here. You've also got different topics going down here. So really quickly on the tour of that, the ones that you've recently used are gonna show up first. You get lines and shapes. Now, these are really good and let's do a C all there. So let's say I want to do that one. There we go. It grabs some text and I'm gonna do that. So putting a little bit bigger. Now, if you wanna move it when it's like that, just make sure you get that little cross hairs thing and then you can move that. Okay, so this is good but I don't like the background. So I'm gonna select the heart.  So that's really what these elements are good for is for highlighting text or if I wanted to, let's add, I wanna get rid of that one. New. Control-Z is also your best friend. Okay, but let's say I want to go here, just like that. Okay, it highlights images, it highlights text or other elements. So if you're doing a design where you have a picture in the background, you've got some other information, let's say it's for an event and you wanna really highlight the date, time and place, you would do some kind of shape in the background and then put that information on top of it so that it would really pop and catch people's eyes to make sure they don't miss that piece of information. So that is what the shapes are really good for. The lines can be fun. So I wanna just show you this, this is really neat. So you'll see that the line is selected. Up here, you have some different options. You can change the color of the line. You can change the heaviness of the line. And I love that, you can also change what type of line it is right now, it's a regular line. You may make it dash, broken. You can also grab the end of it and make it a little bit longer and you can change the direction back to that. It's easier to see. And then I love these two lines here. These are the end points. So if we go and we go here and then we change this one, just say that. And you can change the end points to whatever you want which is really cool. I personally just love that. Okay, so we have the lines and shapes. There are all different kinds of graphics. There are stickers that you can use. So if you're doing like a Facebook post, these can be fun to use the little moving GIF things. And I'll bail the guy who created the GIF. He died over the weekend. Little baby videos, if you want to include. That's a bit more advanced. So that could be another day's discussion. But I also wanted to show you a couple of things down here. So the charts. So if you are doing like any kind of a presentation or you just want to show, let me add a page here. Let's say you're doing a Facebook post where you're showing that your organization has been growing. You can throw in something like that. Or if you want to show that so many people are using a certain thing, you can do something like this. And down here, you can change the total number of items, how many, whatever that percentage is, the space in between them, or even what it is that you're showing. So it's really fun. You can have a lot of fun with those. Table, same thing, not really going to get into those. Now the frames and the grids do some very similar things. So let's say that we are doing that, the event that's coming up, and we're going to go to, let's go to, I was hoping to find one of grandma going, but sorry, all right, so let's do this one.  The little graphic for the frame, it goes right in there. So these, the frames are used in the ones that have this like little weird background look on them. Those are the ones that the images will snap into. So let's put something cuter in there. And you can change them out very easily.  So you see how that really makes that pop, okay? So if you want, again, it's used for, it's used for enhancement and to really set off another image. Yep, the frames are amazing. I absolutely love those. They're one of my favorite elements. I use them all the time. As you can see, there's all kinds of different shapes that you can use to make any kind of highlights that you want. So if you wanted a little, what it would look like on a mobile phone thing. And then we come back and we're gonna, something like that. You can use these to do all different kinds of, sorry, I have not had enough coffee yet this morning, all kinds of emphasis or different design features. So if I wanted to take that and then I wanted to just rotate it a little bit and then I'll rotate this one a little bit. So you can do some fun design stuff like that. The frames are great. The other thing I wanted to show you in this same section is the grid. Those Facebook posts where it'll let you set up how you want, if you're gonna post a whole bunch of pictures and it's like, hey, use this thing where you can show like six different ones at once instead of just one picture, one or two pictures and then 20 more. So you can take and create your own little design thing. So let's say we did, let's do this one. So you'll see that it creates four different images of frames, okay? So then you come back to your elements and we're gonna wanna use this little guy here. Let's see, oh, and let's use this little guy here.  And so you can create a post like this that just makes it really easy to highlight whatever images you want. You could then maybe go back to shape. Now with the text, you have headings, subheadings, a little bit of body text or you can use any of these custom ones that they like, that they have. So you could do something like that, go away. And you can come in and you can edit it and do something like that, bring it down. Yeah, come on. Why are you not moving for me? Sometimes, oh, there we go. And you can do something like that and let's say I wanna change the color of it because that's really obnoxious. There we go, that looks a bit better and I wanna make that a little bit smaller. And I'm gonna make this one a bit smaller as well. Change that, boom. Except I think we have a cat masquerading as a dog. But you get the idea with that. So you can really play with it and make that your own. That's also the hallmark of a designer is the design is never finished, you just run out of time because you're always tweaking it and everything else. Okay, so any questions on using the elements, especially the things like the frames and the circles and squares and things like that, any questions on that or anything that you're loving about any of that? Okay, so we are actually doing really well. I know that the snap feature, Bruce, is one of the best parts of Canva. It takes a little bit to get used to playing with it, but once you really get the hang of it, it can make life just so much easier and so amazing. Okay, so the next thing, and it's actually one of the last things we're gonna cover and then we're gonna talk about Canva Pro resources for nonprofits and how to post to Facebook. So the head, let me change the background here because this is just annoying. So on the text, we have headings, we have subheadings and we have body text, which is just three different ways of doing it. Over here, we have the default font, which is the open sand flight. If you click the down arrow, it'll give you all kinds of options. And it tells you which ones are the paid ones because they have the little crown. So you can change that, do all the different kinds of things with it. Now you'll notice that on some of them, the bold italic and are faded out, which means that not all of them has the ability to do that. So you gotta keep an eye on that. So if it's something that you want bolded, you have to be able to bold it. You have to see that you can do that. So you have to choose one that lets you do that. Some of them are naturally bolded. And I like the fact that it lets you just try it out to see what it looks like. You can also change the font size to make it larger or smaller, depending on what you need. You can also change the font color. Yeah, that's not very visible. Make it hot pink, there we go. So that's, and then of course you can rotate it if you want to. And under effects, this is a slightly more advanced technique, but I know you guys can handle it. It's so creative, Jews to drink. Ruth, that's called coffee. But if you go to effects, remember back in the 90s when curved text was all the rage? Let's go back to the 90s. You can curve the text and you'll see that it has a curve thing down here at the bottom. So you can make it more or less or even the other direction if you want. And you can take it to whatever level that you want on that, which is really fun. And that's just under effects. We're not gonna worry about animate here. If we come back to text, all right, actually, let's go here. Move that out of the way a little bit. Okay. And this one, I'm just gonna move this down a little bit. So another thing that's fun is you can change where it's aligned to left, right, center or flushed on both sides, which I forget what it's called. But I also wanted to show you the list. Okay, and then I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna hit that. And if I come over here and do that, oops, actually need, and then I can align it like that. Everybody with me on doing the text and creating lists and things like that. Okay, excellent. Just wanna make sure I'm not going too fast because it's one of those things that my mother always said, anything's easy if you know how. So I try not to go too fast. And yeah, so that is pretty much it for that. Now, doing the sharing is really like the next one. All right, so let me get out of there. You can share this. Yeah, they've actually just changed this menu up here. They've made this slightly different, but you can go to, what I usually do is download and then put it into my scheduling app with the text and everything else that I wanted from here. But you can download from here.  I don't want all of it, I only want page one.  Now, if I wanted to share this, I can add people here and restrict it to only the people added or anyone with the link just like in Google Forms and I can share this to my social media and it gives me a bunch of different social medias to do. The only thing is with the free version, you cannot schedule it, but with the pro version, you can. So I'm not gonna do too much about that at the moment. But I do want to share my top three, I'm gonna stop sharing for a moment, my top three tips on how to make everything look amazing. So let's go back over here, you can go there. Okay, the first thing is with design, less is more, just keep it simple. Keep it easy on the eyes and keep it simple to read.  Just remember the KISS method, keep it simple, sweetheart. That is really the main thing to do. Okay, we've got about 15 minutes left. So I wanna check in and see if you have any questions about anything. But I'd also love it if you could drop in the chat any highlights for you today. Is there anything that you have heard or learned that was maybe a little new or maybe you'd forgotten about or you just found really exciting? So I'd love to hear that. The charts are wicked easy. And as you saw it come up, came up with that item on the left where you just change your data and you just plug in your numbers and it just boom, done. Easiest thing in the world to make. So much easier than doing it in Excel. Ruth says, how much writing should be on a post? It really depends on what the post is about. On the image itself, I would say keep it minimal, only the absolute necessities. If you're doing a post on an event, obviously you would want the name of the event, the date, time and place and maybe a little bit about the purpose and where to go to register. That's like your minimum stuff that you need for an event. And then I would just, if you wanna put anything else on there, face painting and childcare available, whatever, but just do it in such a way that you're not really overwhelming people. And remember that a lot of people or most people honestly are looking at these on a smart device like a smartphone. So your screen is gonna be very small. So you wanna make sure that they're going to be able to see it. So that's the main. Yep, optimal sizes for posts are that. John, thank you so much for sharing that. To be honest though, most people don't understand what that means. I personally cannot visualize that size. So it's just, you have to practice with it and you have to see it for yourself whether or not it's working. It really becomes a bit of a feel thing. And yeah, so the honest truth unfortunately there's no right answer to that. But yeah, so that's that. Is there any other questions or standout moments that anyone would like to share? Okay, just go here. Then I'd like to actually share some resources with you. The first, and this is for specifically for nonprofits. And Bruce is going to drop the links in the chat for me. So the first one is going to be, your screen, boom. Okay, so the first one is, this is the Canva for Nonprofits overview. It talks about what they do, what it's for, how it can be a powerful tool for nonprofits, okay? It talks a little bit about what Canva gives to you, which is templates, images, graphics, fonts, brand coloring, one graphic into many with the resize folders. And folders are great because it helps you stay organized and it lets people find what it is that you want them to see and the gifts and all kinds of things like that. And yeah, so there's templates, stories, Facebook, post-president, you can do almost anything on Canva. It's really a lot of fun. The second link I wanted to show you is the eligibility guidelines, how to know if your organization is eligible to get Canva Pro. So I'm not sure, I think this might be a American designation, the 501C3. You have to have the 501C4, 501C6 or other nonprofit statuses do not qualify. Okay, this does not qualify. So you have to have a 501K to 12 schools, colleges, and universities do not qualify for the Canva Charitable, but they do have an education for education for people who are in that sector. Commercial and trade associations without charitable aims. People that do qualify are registered nonprofits, social impact organizations, and public health organizations and government entities. And if you scroll down, this is what you need. So for example, the US, Canada, and Australia. So if you're registered with the ACNC and you're tax exempt through the ATO, then you would be able to apply. Yep, and as Bruce just said in the chat, that it does require you to provide evidence of your nonprofit and tax exempt status. So maybe check with your financial people in your organization before you try to apply because that'll help make that process go a lot more smoothly for you. There is a website on Canva for Nonprofits. And these are suggestions of how to use Canva and some different ways and articles and things that some of the articles are really interesting, like nonprofit marketing, social media, and things like that. There's a whole bunch of stuff. There's a see all button that gives you a heck of a lot more than that. They also have some resources for you. Grab that one. So this is the resources one Bruce. And this is all just resources that they have. If you work with crisis response management, like for example, we had flooding very recently in several parts of Australia, we also had those bushfires that the whole world was praying for us for a couple of years ago that was really scary. There are templates specifically designed for crisis response. Things with stopping hate things, different marketing things, and then some non-specific stuff. So there's a lot of different resources here. You don't have to feel like you're reinventing the wheel especially when it comes to nonprofit design work. And specifically talking about that, oops, a crisis work, there is actually a page specifically devoted to, it's called their crisis hub. And so to answer, I'm sorry, who was it? Ruth's question about writing, some of these might give you a good idea. Now, like some of these that have a lot of writing on them are more like flyers rather than social media posts. But looking at the templates can give you a really good idea. Like for example, the one in the middle of the blue, that's a really good social media post because it's colorful, so it's gonna catch the eye and hopefully stop the scroll. And it's enough text to give you information with a call to action. And then, all right. So I just wanted to share those resources with you. And let me stop that. Let me bring this back up. Okay. And I wanted to say a little thank you for joining me today. So drop a Y in the chat if you would like to have over 20 social media templates that are ready to use, all you have to do is customize them, send them out. Drop a Y in the chat if that's something that you might be interested in. Awesome. Yeah, I always like stuff like that too. So the way to get that is to just email me at hello at createyourchange.com.au and I will be more than happy to send that to you. And just put template in the subject line so that I know what that's about. And I will get that back to you within 48 hours. And this is like the official wrap up which is the thank you for joining me today. And with love and gratitude, live your passion, the world needs you. And again, I am your host, Kat Milner, founder, owner and chief communication ninja of Create Your Change. I do one-on-one mentoring, I do small group mentoring, I do business and nonprofit mentoring for things like Canva and multiple other projects, everything within Google Drive, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, you name it, I teach it. So if you would like to know more about what I do here at Create Your Change or you would like to set up possibly a time for me to work with you and or your team, please feel free to set up a complimentary no obligation chat with me. Bruce has kindly dropped that link in the chat and I would be more than happy to have a conversation about how I might be able to be of service to you.  I almost stopped the recording. So I want to thank you again, so much for joining me today. We've got about four minutes left if there's any final questions or comments. And I want to thank you again for taking your valuable time to join with me today and wish you the best on your day. And also, if you just have any general Canva questions feel free to email me as well I'm more than happy to answer those. So back to you, Bruce. Okay, apparently Bruce is muted. So I'll do the commercial since I'm also one of the hosts of the event I'll do the commercial for next week. Well, it's our next session about de-jargonizing your copywriting and the link is there in the chat. So definitely join us for de-jargonizing because sometimes what we know we forget that not everybody else knows and it can be really helpful for people to have it put in plain language. And so it's all about converting things that you know and are familiar with and converting that into normal language that everybody can understand. And yes, Eli, don't forget to tell your friends to come and join us as well and feel free to share that link that's in the... That was remarkable. Thank you so much, Kat. I really appreciate that. And thanks also to co-host including Bruce and the others for putting this all together.


Boys the NFL Combine Promo is here looks like one of the best of the year I feel like the promos this year been awesome all the promos all the cars been great and this combine one is starting off with a bang I still don't like the promo team teams I think they kind of make every other card irrelevant But always let the Combine promo reminds me of the old school. It's been around forever Love this card back here Madden 25 Bruce Irvin was always one of the fastest the ends in the game You could put a detackle Madden 25 Definitely Madden 12 Madden 13 Bruce Irvin always seemed to be a Combine card DRC We got Vernon Davis again But you know ultimately I do think that Super Bowl promo is still elite It's still too easy to have 70 and plus three speed. That's like ridiculous Maybe the Combine promo team will take over with a couple more drops. Hopefully they keep combine content coming I mean Genki force was dope not enough cars to make a theme team with it But I'll show you guys what I added to the team at the end of the day. It's about abilities right now Everybody's kind of fast some players are taller than others. That's a big deal to me But it's about abilities and for me it starts with your philosophy. You got to start team building with your philosophy What's your philosophy? It's his own meta. So we're playing zone 100% to I believe in Pick artists. I believe in having it even if you're playing a really good player that might not throw a pick if you Happen to get that opportunity it needs to be a turn over if you don't pick artists They might swat the ball they might drop a pick I mean pick artists is not the greatest ability in the world now But I need to have that guaranteed if they throw it anywhere near defender They're gonna go for an interception. So that's my philosophy playing zone and we need pick artists That's pretty much where I where I stand pretty much all my players in my defense We're gonna have 8 DB 7 DBs I've been running a little more dime to try to get contains on the quarterback So I'll show you guys what I added we're gonna start with defense here I added Justin Simmons mostly because I loved his Most feared card if you guys have been following the channel Let me know how long you've been following But if you watch this year just as Simmons played free safety for me a long time Justin Simmons And with this card, I'll run exactly what I ran on Jair Brown. He's taking his spot now I want to preface this by saying Jair Brown is probably the cheapest best card in the game man one AP deep knockout Just like Simmons zero AP pick artists. He's a stud an animal animal So for me by all means this is just a let's see if Simmons is a god because he was earlier in a year for me Justin Simmons. We got him up to 98 speed with that strategy card He's gonna play deep safety for me in the middle of field. We still have cam chancellor. I cannot bench this card I know there's other people that can get what he gets But I could just put him on mid zone a lot of yellow zones a lot of purples for cam a lot of hitch-ticking things like that So for me That's what I love about cam chancellor right now putting him in that spot Being able to hit being able to tackle everything like that So I want to keep him with mid zone my outside corners I think are the two best corners in the game now one is there when James These are the only cards that are going to get you mid zone Deep out and pick artists for two AP. They're the only cards. I know there's other cards I can get mid zone and deep out for two, but they can't get pick artists and so on and so forth So ability wise these are the best outside corners in the game for me. They are a little bit slow So that's why I'm still running that 70 Super Bowl 25 packers to get Devontae Adams up a little bit in speed 97 speed that way he can hold up against these 99 speed receivers with that deep out ability. He is tall enough He's 6-1. He's not small He's a stud Devontae Adams and then we have Derwin James I would venture to say the best DB in the game because of all these all these abilities I actually put enforcer on them for one AP as well. So that's super clutch I mean, I just had one AP going and he gets a lot of hit sticks. Why not try it? I'm gonna keep messing with that That's not I'm not telling you guys that's good But pick artists deep mid to AP one extra AP with enforcer. We'll see how I mean I already know he's a stud my outside corners are studly in the slot We have Jair mid zone pick artists out my way to help stop RPOs. It doesn't work that well Jair Jair is pretty good. He's pretty good. I worry about a small receiver, but he's been a stud so far for me You know with that those ability stacks put him in a slot He can go Packers team team 98 speed And then we're going to rock that one of our newest cards is actually Tariq woollen We bought Tariq woollen to play the slot probably overkill for a slot corner But mid zone pick artists for one just like chart Chevarez Ward Like we could probably still use Ward and get the same thing done But 99 speed 6-4 play the slot in a flat zone be tall enough to put your hands up make a play So he's gonna I mean he's gonna be a stud is 3-1. He's been good all year Our D lineman ed to tall Jones Warren sap George Carl office our linebackers Donald Parham Jr. We're gonna user him I think unquestioning best user now is Bo Jackson. I might have to try him But this guy I mean 98 speed six foot eight ninety five ninety six change the direction I mean this card is just a god. There's no abilities. He's a safety now I know I would love lurk artists or pick artists, but no abilities. He's a studies won't get some things done And this is my card. I don't know if anybody else is using this card, man. Once again Genki force massive Discounts on his abilities mid zone when AP lurk artist zero and secure tackler zero You guys are struggling with the Derek Henry's the March on Lynch's the new Emma Smith This guy will tackle them 100% You know, it's such a good discounted card now He's a little bit slow at 94 speed, but those abilities man for him playing yellow zones and playing the run man I really like Tremaine Edmonds. He's a staple on my team and not only now You know, you can put Cam here or Justin Reed or somebody with mid zone and pick artists But Tremaine Edmonds can also play linebacker in a Six one or something like that. So it's definitely a good piece now offense Nothing's really changed except the Bo Jackson meta is here boys the Bo Jackson meta I said Kyle pits Marquez Valdez scantling Debo Samuel Plexigal burst all Super Bowl Kems All 99 speed We have made it we have something free on Debo it none of that matters But all offensive line we got Andrew Whitworth Rob Havens the same secure secure protector We got all day free all days with these packer themed teamers here, and then we have Dexter Lawrence I said this in other videos I think this card is one of the best in the game right now Dexter Lawrence I mean he's got identified for zero and that detector for one this right here is a combo You just it's just so important to be able to see information on the opponent's defense So clutch for this card and I got him at left guard and it still works I don't think playing linemen out of position matters I never have and then I mean we had the running back bow He was the best running back earlier in the year with his combine card This one's even better Bo Jackson running back 99 speed He's got free evasive six foot one He jukes all over the gym and I'll be honest that they're playing a plan one night with combine Bo Jackson is faster than 99 speed and this and this I can stamp and I don't say this often But this is the best card in game right now is quarterback bow It's probably the number one must-have card for you guys out there Even if you're on a budget sell everything else nothing else matters quarterback bow is insane Let's take a look quarterback bow the most ridiculous stack. I got everything on this quarterback We got gift wrapped of course you need that we got a roaming dead Perfect pass accuracy when running outside the pocket I round master three gunslingers or set feet lead for two and gunslinger for zero I did this this way. This is the only way to have these five abilities. Is this layout right here? We use dots. I don't think this matters that much really, but perfect pass accuracy on anything. Let's go I mean bow Jackson is absolutely insane. This is without a doubt The must-have card right now if you're playing mutt, this is it. This is him 99 speed quarterback I mean it's bow Jackson, dude. I don't know what else. I don't really know what else there is to say about bow Jackson 98 juke truck everything not that that really is gonna come into play But I can't say too much more than other than he's the best card in the game bow Jackson People always ask me these things. What's your strategy cards NFL combine? I use block shedding and pass block because why not you don't need any more zone To show me that zone coverage is better at 98 to 94 Please show me the the information that's that thing actually none of this man The fact we spend money on this is ridiculous except for team chems packers for that theme team I'm using the Eagles playbook now messing with it a little bit chiefs Defense of course pretty much all year and just things that boost the zone But that's what I got you guys ask me all the time and now for the last seven months How do you get the jerseys? How do you get the jerseys? How do you get the jerseys? I'm sorry boys. You can't get them anymore. They were only available for like one week the first week of mutt I got them bought them EA is slacking on the cosmetic things with Madden. I don't tell you they're slacking on it That's I mean, they're not putting out enough jerseys. They're not putting out enough content on the The stuff you don't need to buy and not pay to play, you know, no skins We need more skins like fortnight and apex and Madden more jerseys These Marvel jerseys were like the first week someone told me about my bottom.  So sorry I have been getting bombarded with that question for seven months now and you can't get them But anyway, this is my combine team. I might get Julio. I only have 300k coins. I don't want to keep spending money I don't think it makes that big of a difference. It's just Julio Sometimes you like to have some of your favorite players out there, right? But let me know what cards you guys picked up Let me know what was your first mutt When were you playing the combine was your first combine promo and we're hope we're headed up to a hundred thousand subscribers boys Well over 70k we crushed that we're over seventy two thousand right now when this video is getting played and listen If you're not one of those 72 make sure you hit the subscribe button like check out this gameplay This gameplay is awesome because it was a player's lounge tournament That link is below to play in the tournaments But it's actually one of the guys that beat me and one of the tournaments this year So I'd lock him for sure try to get a little bit of revenge, but it'd be nothing like the MCS tournaments But let's see if I get it done boys.   I hate something Come back to the ball for me man. I mean, I don't really like.   Good drive boys. Good drive. Good drive Better position as a franchise right now Raiders or bears go people struggle a little bit more against dying because like What is he trying to get away with like my my flat and my yellows My god, dude, ah, there's just no way Simmons.  I think having a delay route hurts the block. Let's go man to boat Jackson is different, bro I wasn't mad at my defense. I can't give up that book.  Ah Damn it man. Can we get a contain a little bit right there?   I gotta see what happened there I mean, you don't run out of pockets.    We're giving up right now.  I really feel like my power a controller just being terrible right now It's just not I don't know if the button like I just don't like it. I don't like it right now You cannot there's no way we're onside kicking right like dude We have to make a rule like this cannot be a thing in competitive man. It just can't I'm sorry, dude This has to be like it just it's bad for the game It's like so dog shit, man All right, man, we got to hold the three here.  We're not letting no rollouts happen. We're just you gonna play I mean We gotta play better defense And we've given up an rpo for 50 yards.  We can't do that.  That's big It's a big play right there boys. It's a big play. No, this kid is good. This kid is good I mean, he don't need to roll out, but I can't roll out.  Like come on, man Come on Jair.  Bamba. Don't break here boys.  I'm cool. Let warren sap eat.  I do have a philosophy in Madden though. If you have no ability, you're better off going against secure protectors with no abilities Bumble.   Let's go, man. I mean we tried dollar. I feel like I'm playing decent defense not good, but I'm like I don't know Touch him.  Like stop letting him roll out man.  God damn it, man I just gotta stop the roll out like they should have been two knockouts They literally should have been two knockouts.  We're gonna lose one eventually.   I mean his war of sap is just carrying things fight Me bow is just on Bow is actually unreal Running back quarterback. I dude. I got you're right. I got to get the linebacker What I've seen out of the running back in the quarterback.  I mean we got the one stop of this game and it really won me the game really I'm done. I'm done with pinch my line. I don't jump for that with a swat. Oh my god.  Let's sap be in the middle.  Nothing fancy at all. Nothing fancy at all right there. Whoo.


Hello dear learners, I am Dr. Satish Truba Bharali, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and in this video, I am going to talk about the topic basic features of computer classification. This is part of the course Computer Fundamentals. There are different classifications of computers. Based on the operating principles, computers can be classified into digital computers, analog computers and hybrid computers. First of all, let us look at part as an analog computer. An analog computer is a form of computer that uses the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomenon such as electrical, mechanical or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved. Next, we have the digital computer. Digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically as their numerical values change. The third one is the hybrid computers. Hybrid computers are computers that exhibit both the features of analog computers and digital computers. The digital component normally serves as the controller and provides logical operations while the analog component normally serves as a software of differential equations. Depending upon the applications, modern computers are classified as general purpose computers or spatial purpose computers. In the case of general purpose computers, these computers are designed to meet the needs of many different applications. In these computers, the instructions needed to perform a particular task are wired permanently into the internal memory. When the particular job is over, the instructions for another job can be loaded into the internal memory for processing. Whereas, in the spatial purpose computers, these computers are designed only to meet the requirements of a particular task or a particular application. The instructions needed to perform a particular task are permanently stored into the internal memory so that it can perform the given task on a single command. Computers can be classified according to their size and power into four categories. They are microcomputers, mini-computers, mainframe computers and supercomputers. Now first of all, let us look at how microcomputers work. A microcomputer uses a microprocessor as its central processing unit. Microcomputers are tiny computers that can vary in size from a single chip to the size of a desktop model. They are designed to be used by only one person at a time. Microcomputers have small to medium data storage capabilities that may range from 500 mb to 2 gb, but nowadays even more. Some of the examples of microcomputers are chips that are used in washing machines, TVs, cars and notebook and personal computers. Now let us look at the different models of a microcomputer. The first one is a personal computer or PC. The name PC was given by IBM for its microcomputers. PCs are used for word processing, spreadsheet calculations and database management. The second model is a laptop or a notebook, which are very small in size. The notebook or laptop can be folded and carried around. Most often the monitor is made of LCD and the keyboard and the system units are contained in a single box. The third model is a palm top, which is a smaller model of the microcomputer. A palm top is similar to a calculator, which is pocket size. It has a processor and a memory and a special connection to connect to the desktop PC, which can be used to transfer data. The fourth and the last one is a RISPC, which is the smallest type of microcomputer. The RISPC is something that can be worn on a wrist like a watch. It will have a processor and a memory and a wireless monitor. Now here in this slide we can see the different figures of the different models of microcomputers. We can see a personal computer. We can also see a notebook and a laptop and we can also view a part of computer. The next computer classification based on size and power is the mini-computer. The mini-computer uses a microprocessor and performs better than microcomputers. Mini-computers are comparatively larger in size and costlier than the microcomputers. These computers are also designed to support more than one user at a time. Mini-computers also possess large storage capacities and operate at a higher speed. Now let us look at some of the applications for mini-computers. Mini-computers are used when the volume of processing is large, that is, when data processing for a medium-sized organization is needed. On the right-hand side, we can see a figure of the mini-computer. These computers are also used to control and monitor production processes. They are also used to analyze results of experiments in laboratories. They are also commonly used as servers in local area networks. The third category of computer classification based on size and power is the mainframe computers. The mainframe computers are able to process large amounts of data at very high speed. These computers support multi-user facility and the number of processors varies from one to six. The cost for a mainframe computer ranges from $3,500 to many million. Mostly, mainframe computers are kept in an air-conditioned room to keep them cool. Now let us look at the applications for mainframe computers. Mainframe computers are used to process large amounts of data at very high speeds. So these kind of computers are usually used in the case of banks, hospitals, railways, etc., where we need to process large amounts of transactions and which also require massive data storage and processing capabilities. Mainframe computers are also used as controlling nodes in wide-area networks and are also used to manage large centralized databases. We have a figure of a mainframe computer on the right-hand side of this slide. The fourth category of computer classification based on size and power are the supercomputers. Supercomputer is basically a broad term for one of the fastest computers currently available. Some of the characteristics of supercomputers are that they are the most powerful computer system and usually require a large room. The minimum bird length is 64 bits and the CPU speed is around 100 million instructions per second. Supercomputers are usually equivalent to 400 general computers and they have a high cost. They are also able to handle a large amount of data, but they require high power consumption. Also, the precision is very high for supercomputers. Supercomputers have applications in the field of petroleum industry, aerospace industry and automobile industry. In the aerospace industry, supercomputers are used to simulate air flow around an aircraft at different speeds and altitudes. This helps in producing an effective aerodynamic design for superior performance. In the automobile industry, supercomputers are used to do crash simulation of the design of an automobile before it is released for manufacturing. This is done for better automobile design. Metrological centers also use supercomputers for better forecasting. Apart from this, supercomputers are also used in biomedical research and in weapons research and developments. One of the examples of supercomputers are Cray 1, Cray 2 and Paramp computers. Thank you for listening to this video.


Hello and welcome today. Well, we're gonna be looking at this This is a little wooden plane that a friend of mine made with his little CNC laser cutter engraver He is a pilot and he made this as a little gift to meet for me to ask me to be one of his groomsmen Which is pretty awesome. It has my name and initials on it and stuff He's gonna do something similar. I don't think this elaborate, but he's gonna make little wooden cardboard cutouts for his wedding and It's gonna be for people's names. So when you go to a wedding at the Reception at the tables usually you'll have little name tags, so you know where to go. Well, he plans on Laser engraving little planes with everybody's names on them. He said the hardest part is getting everybody's name into an SVG file He can manually do it, but he has a long list of names So our end goal here is to take a long list of names and I have a list of I think 50 names I generated and we're going to take that text Create an SVG using a font file And that's what we're gonna do and it doesn't take very long once you learn how to do it I did find a program So I look at many different ways of doing this and I've done it manually a number of times going into gimp typing something Or even drawing something selecting an area and then saying convert to line and then exporting that line as SVG and then you can import it into inkscape or Blender and make a 3d model out of it So that's just what we need to do, but the program I found will convert an image a bitmap image into an SVG file It does a great job. It's in the repositories. You'll see it here in a moment All the notes for this or an example script of this will be on pay spin There should be a link in the description of this video. Let's go ahead and jump into the shell So the first thing we need to do is generate a bitmap image with our text Now if we look what's in the directory. I'm in I have two files I have a font file because if we don't have a font file She's got to use a very basic font and we want something a little bit fancier And we have a nameless file which if I cat out is just a list of names Now this is a randomly generated list of names fake names And you'll see some of them have accent marks different accent marks and it's important that your font Supports those accent marks. Otherwise those characters are going to disappear. So keep that in mind if you're going to be doing this so First thing we need to do as I said I have a program that will convert bitmap images into SVG files, but we have to generate a bitmap image I'm going to use image magic image magic is a great program for converting and generating image think of it as Gimp or Photoshop for your shell. It is awesome. It's probably installing system. If not, it's definitely going to be in your repositories And we're going to use the convert command which is part of the image magic package now I'm going to be looking at my notes here So what we're going to do is we're going to use the convert command. Also, let me also say if you just Google Text to image with image magic. This is the page comes up. It's a very detailed With a lot of examples and there's lots of different ways and weight and things you can do Creating fonts and I just selected one of these To generate the text there may be better options out there But again, you can look at my example or you can use one of those other examples there But I'm going to use the convert command. So I'm going to say convert dash dash size We're just create an image of 600 by 100 if you're gonna have a really long text You're gonna want to make that 600 a little bit bigger Xc equals white is just going to make the background white next I'm going to give it a font name so dash font and whatever your font name is I just named mine font tff or ttf True type font and so we'll use that font then we're going to give it a point size for the size for the font so Point size and I'm just going to do 72 y 72 That's the number they use in the example from that web page. We're just looking at that I'm going to do dash fill right here and I'm going to say black so that's just going to say the backgrounds white the fill color is the color The text is going to be okay next and again there if you look at that example page There are a lot of different examples of ways to put text into an image And this is just one I chose here which is Dash draw we're going to say text 25 65 again, that's just what the example showed I didn't image magic is a great great program It can get a little complex. I'm just going with the basic examples here. Now. We're going to give it our text I'm just going to say hello world, okay And then I give it an output name. So I'll just say test dot BMP and if I typed everything right I now have A bmp a bitmap image I'll bring over my file browser here and you can see it right there with a little thumbnail Perfect. Okay. So now how do we convert that to an svg file? well We're going to use the command Potrace I guess is how you say it potrace potrace Again, it's in the package manager at least for debian And we're going to do dash s and then give it the input file Which in this case is test dot bmp and then dash lowercase o and our output name. I'll just say test dot svg And when I hit enter if I look back at my file browser here, you can see we now have an svg here Uh, and if I listen here, you can see it there and I can open it with inkscape test dot svg Give inkscape a second to open and there's there it is as an svg right We can also if we wanted to Close that I can open up blender And in here I'll delete the default cube f3 import svg And I'm going to do it as a vector graphic And I am going to choose our directory here and choose our file And Because of the options I used it's there. It's just really really small And it's also three separate in this particular case the letters that aren't connected or each separate object So let's go ahead and select all three of those control j to join them. And then I will just scale it up maybe 50 that looks good and I'll just Tab into edit mode select all And I'm going to put it right there and of course we can go into our Geometry here and extrude that boom now. We got 3d text here Scale that down on the z axis. Anyway, just showing you it is a svg vector graphic now that can be used In blender inkscape or if you're you know using a laser cutter now. We've done that Let's go ahead and use our name list here and just loop through all that so Make this full screen. I am going to now use our Convert command from last time and what I'm really going to do is I'm going to bring this uh Line into Vim here just to make things easier to type. I'm going to say cat our name list. I'm going to say while read name do And then I am going to say A dollar sign name for our output. So the file put file will be the person's name dot a bmp And the text will be name as well After that, we're going to use the pot race command Dash s and we are going to give it our bmp and then we're going to say dash o and we're going to give the output of svg After it does that I am going to whoops Say remove and we'll re remove our bmp file And then we're done with our loop So let me go ahead and exit back out to our shell here And oh did I just run it? I did not mean to run it I did run it look at that and run super fast So we just did 50 names and it literally took Probably less than two seconds to generate all these svgs are And it didn't remove our bmp's it should or didn't remove the the test bmp. That's fine So yeah, we can look at all these and They all look fine except for again if one of them has a special character name. So let's again, let's cat out our name dot list And look at some of these that have special characters. So like this maria one Let's go ahead come over here and I'll type in mar And there you go. You can see this one worked fine. It has the little accent mark over there over the eye Let's look at this one We'll type in si e And you can see yep that one got the u with the two dots over it no problem But if I remember correctly when I ran the test before doing this video if I check this one out You'll see this one the c with the accent mark the c looks like it got cut off So again, make sure that the font that you're using Allows for special characters or at least the special characters. You're going to use any accent marks and whatnot So again, check out the link in the description of this video there. You can find an example script Again, you'll have to select a font and replace that but it does It is going to use wget to download some random names, but you can use whatever file you want Um, that's it. I hope you found this useful for generating svg vector graphic text from a plain text list Uh, if you have any questions, let me know and please visit films by chris.com. That's chris of the k There's a link in the description to that as well. You can support me there Uh, there's a support section where there's a link to liba librae pay and paypal And of course patreon, which is a link to in the description of the video as well I appreciate you watching. I just appreciate your support like shares comments and subscribing As always, I hope that you have a great day


Hi guys! Welcome to a new vlog. I'm in the scrubs because we are gonna go to Target and do some school supply shopping. I should have done this earlier but I didn't really know what I would actually need. So basically I'm gonna go scour the school supplies, probably get like a couple folders and then a notebook because I like to take notes or whatever, tear out the page and then put it in my folder so like I have the notes and stuff.  I could have done a digital book but I'm not like that big of a digital learner like I like to have the physical book so I have my fabletics backpack. That is my fabletics backpack and I don't have any other backpack to use so I'm just going to use that one for now. I might get a new one I'm not sure but that one will do for now but yeah let's go to Target and see what they have. Totally off topic but look at this cute donut little roller backpack. Honestly I'll get a roller backpack like I'm carrying like a lot oh wait that's luggage anyway but there's backpacks right there. I think I'm getting closer okay so their options are obviously pretty slim here but I did find some notebooks and I ended up going with the five star three subject notebook because I just really use this for paper to write on and then I take out the paper once I'm done or I might leave it in there I don't know but I'll probably take it out just to organize it but now I'm going to find a folder also that yeah there was a guy like driving on the side of the road I don't know if he saw him in the last clip but it was wild. Okay so how cool is this? This is a non-dairy creamer almond and milk creamer and it's pumpkin spice and it's by Starbucks. Really want to try it um I think I'm gonna get it. So Valerie needed um some diet seven that's why I'm in the grocery section and it's so weird because um I almost never felt the groceries I started it. This is an experience and now I'm gonna see if this Panda Express has a teriyaki chicken so let's see. Hi can I get a bowl with white steamed rice and um teriyaki chicken please and that'll be all yes please. Thank you. Oh my gosh they had it guys I swear it's always like once in a blue moon when they have it. Okay guys so not only did they have the teriyaki chicken but they gave me a fortune cookie and extra teriyaki sauce.  It's kind of like a weird time like it is four o'clock and I normally don't eat well it's gonna probably be like 4.15 or 4.30 when I get home when I eat but it's fine but still uh I'm just hungry and I think my parents are having like just frozen dinners and I don't have one of those I don't really like eating those so I'm going to just have this and maybe like a snack later um again with this like new schedule and everything it's just like weird timing yeah I don't know but I'm just rolling with it and I need to get something to eat so I guess I'm eating it for. Alrighty they're making progress and I'm finally home got all the stuff I'm carrying in okay so I got the blue chips and then here's some folders I got purple little pink and teal and then you guys already saw I got this notebook here looks like that and then I got this um the creamer the pumpkin spice just because I wanted to try it and looky here looky here the panda express meal and it's still hot which is great we got the teriyaki sauce and even a fortune cookie so we're rocking and rolling okay so I have to leave pretty soon for I'm talking to the vlog sherry so I'm leaving pretty soon for my cycle bar class my friend is becoming an instructor so it's really exciting but first I'm going to try the almond oat milk the non-dairy products from the star books thing that I got a target so I had the coffee the lighting's like super weird so I have the coffee and the creamer the non-dairy creamer almond and oat milk pumpkin spice latte so you guys know I love pumpkin please be good please be good wow that is good I should not get used to this stuff because the stuff is so good I'm a little I'm like too impressed guys get this if you grocery shop at target I don't typically we typically go to publics I don't think they sell this they sell this but it was sold out that one day so if you go to target try this because it's if you like pumpkin if you don't like pumpkin don't get this just got home kind of I went to the grocery store and stuff but I want you guys having the salad and her key little vibes going on here the ride was so good my friend did it so good I could not be like more proud like seeing her up on like the podium and like colony stuff out I'm like oh my gosh it's just like so cool to see like I don't know like a friend someone you know like who's gone through like the entire process and it is like a process getting like certified to teach spin especially with like cycle bar and stuff there's like a bigger process than I thought you had to go through but yeah like I'm so proud of her and it was like just I couldn't stop smiling during the class I'm like oh my god she's like literally like up there so anyway I could never really do that because not only do you have to like pedal and go like really fast we have to also have to talk which is crazy and I get too out of breath I get out of breath just talking like this I could not imagine like talking while working out that's why I don't do like live workout videos because I tried that once got demonetized because of the music but I'm like oh my god like it was bad anyway gonna eat now and relax I don't know what else I'm gonna do this fabulous Saturday sherry's over there she's having her soup I brought home and sandwich okay so I think where I left off was just eating and sharing how the ride went but I showered I washed the hair I kind of want to change my hair washing days back to Saturday and Tuesday it kind of got off with like I don't know it just got off but we're on our way to the yacht and beach club or boardwalk I don't know I'll show you guys I always get them mixed up because they're like really close together but this is kind of like we kind of forgot about this little staycation that we planned and we originally weren't supposed to be in our new place until like the summertime so this kind of like threw us off our guard and everything so we're just having like a little sleepover here which I'll just show you guys the room and stuff I think that's gonna like end it for this vlog we're just a hot mess right now but we're we're surviving and thriving so that's all that matters um but it'll be fun tomorrow we're gonna go to the pool and stuff but that's gonna be another video like I just said but I'll do a little room tour and I'll take you guys dinner with us that'll be fun and I'm gonna get over here I do you guys like car caravanning so we're taking all three cars because tomorrow night my parents are staying but I don't want to stay because I like sleeping in my own bed especially when I have like school or work like the next day I need to get a good night's rest in my own bed and it's just me that's part of the reason why I'm gonna be flat out honest with you guys um that's part of the reason why I don't like traveling is because of the bed and I know that sounds ludicrous and that makes me sound like ungrateful and stuff which I'm not ungrateful and if I could travel I would take the opportunity to like with my new career I do want experience with like a travel contract somewhere like maybe Boston or New York would be pretty cool like signing a contract to be at a hospital for a given period of time like that would be so cool but I'm talking about like traveling just in general guys like I hate the bed situation but I will tell you okay we're at the guards shack so I don't know if they're gonna let me through that's the main reason why I don't like traveling is because of the bed situation and I know that sounds silly but it's just one of those things that I just don't like also with car caravanning I hate that too because the person you're following is supposed to make sure you're always like behind the person well sometimes like cars get in between and then like it's just a hot mess so that's why I always put it in my GPS but luckily um Sherry is really good at car caravanning because Valerie like like gets mad if she like loses her so I know that we were gonna be like good and it's only like five minutes away so even if I did get lost I could just put in my GPS real quick but still I hate car caravanning too because it's just stressful yeah those are my rambles for the drive with me portion of the vlogs you're gonna get a lot of like car content because we're not allowed to have phones out at school and we're not allowed to like I don't know if we're allowed to film or not probably not but it's gonna be a lot of me in the car I'm gonna share what I'm gonna be learning and all of that so it's gonna be a wild ride and you guys are all here for it so yeah just made it and parked I feel like Emily Nells when she has like her Disney sleepovers guys like I'm so addicted to her content I love watching her I love her spirit on camera she's just so happy all the time I wish I could make my Disney content as fun as her and I don't know you can just really tell like she puts her heart and soul into her videos and not that I don't but like I don't know I feel like I just am more boring than her but if you have not checked out Emily Nelson she doesn't she kind of knows I exist because like she comments back to me sometimes I'm just saying check out her channel and her Disney content is like 100% you know so she deserves at least 100k you know what I mean because she's getting there she's getting close I'm finally wearing my destined shirt I haven't busted this out because it's like long sleeved but it's not that hot here right now so I was like oh I'm gonna wear this because I haven't worn it pitched a ride with this person right okay so I stand corrected this is the beach club so we're not at boardwalk anyway I always get them confused boardwalks on the other side of the lake anyway I just get them so confused but just know we're at yacht and beach club yes yes specifically beach club specifically beach club I had to share this with you guys but these used to be pay phones isn't that funny so now they all like boarded them up all right guys we arrived in our room gonna give you a little room tour so starting off we have the bathroom I love the updated bathroom and this is the good lighting and then this is the toilet with the with the shower obviously I love the new updated stuff like it just looks so good it smells new it smells clean and then over here we have the closet with everything and then our little kitchenette they're kind of all laid out the same but like a little bit different and then oh my goodness look we have here oh that's nice a little card I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing and that that it was all started by a mouse that's so true and then there's a little towels there's the bed a ballerina in the wild then we have the tv little table for working another chair or a sherry then we have this table here this is my bed where I'm gonna be sleeping and then this is our view okay and this is our view so it looks good and then as you can hear we have some music going on outside and then we could like say hi to the neighbors over there it's just kind of funny yeah it's nice here's the pool for the disney vacation club of villas so it's dinnertime Valerie's working in the room but we're gonna take her some chicken she's having some back issues it'll get better though um so we got the same thing so we got mac and cheese and a salad like we're twinning tonight so she but she got the bacon on hers and we got the same sister salad and then I got plain mac and cheese and I don't know what I don't know what they put on it I'll show you guys later though when I eat it so we came inside because I was getting bug bites but the mac and cheese is super good I could do without little green things but it's still really tasty all right so we got Valerie this cute little cupcake it's like a mickey we also got Valerie her favorite popcorn and this is what her little chicken dinner looks like yeah interesting so it's the next day now and it's gonna be the end of this vlog I hope you guys enjoyed it don't forget to give it a thumbs up share show them subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video bye


I'm starting a brand new series and I'm really excited about it because I want to give you biblical keys to the healing ministry. And in looking at the healing ministry there is no greater figure. There is no greater example than Jesus himself who was the greatest healing evangelist of all time. We're going to get into this series and when we do we're going to talk about the ministry of healing. We're going to talk about questions concerning healing. I know it's really going to bless you. First, Stephen Mock the Zuma is here with me as usual. He's going to lead you in some anointed worship and then we're going to get right into this lesson here is Stephen Mock the Zuma. So Jesus really is the ultimate example. You know that ultimate standard that we see Jesus is the one that we should try to emulate. There are dangers that come when trying to model our ministries and our lives after those of men and women who've preceded us. Now I believe in honoring men and women of God. I believe that men and women of God can be anointed. I can name many great healing evangelists. I think of Oral Roberts. I think of Catherine Coleman. I think of Pastor Benny Hinn. And while these are great men and women of God we should ultimately always look to Jesus himself. He himself is the flawless perfect example of how ministry should be carried out.  So when we look at Jesus himself we avoid the dangers that come with modeling after people. Now I believe in impartation. I believe in receiving from those who've gone before us. I believe in honoring those who've gone before us. But there is a benefit to modeling after Christ himself. You see if we create a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. Eventually that final copy will be corrupt and nothing like the original image. These men and women of God who've gone before us are themselves copy of Jesus himself. And so we instead of becoming a copy of a copy of a copy should become a copy of Jesus. Should look to emulate his image. And when we do this we find the benefits of Christ's likeness in our own ministry. So I want to encourage you and this is what we're going to do throughout the series. To always look to Jesus when it comes to matters of ministry. And so looking to Jesus this is what I want to address in this first part of this series on how to heal the sick. And really this is a series on keys to the healing ministry. And I'm excited because actually later in the series I do want to address some questions concerning the healing ministry. So maybe you can actually let me know. Message me. Let me know what you think about the healing ministry. Some questions you would like to see answered. But I want to talk to you about the prayer life of Jesus. Because really having a prayer life is the foundation to the healing ministry.  The potency of that power is directly proportionate to your time in prayer. You cannot neglect prayer and be in the healing ministry because it really is just the power of God. When Catherine Coleman was being interviewed by a secular news outlet as to how the people were healed in her meetings she said first of all I'm not the healer don't call me a faith healer don't call me a healer of any kind. I do not heal the sick and I agree with that and I would tell you the same thing I can heal no one outside of the power of God. And Catherine Coleman said it really is just the power of God. It's the healing power of God and I tell you it really is just the healing presence of Jesus. That cannot be duplicated it cannot be counterfitted and it cannot be manufactured by our own effort. The healing ministry the true healing ministry comes about through prayer. Now you cannot train people to have gifts. I've seen a lot of training in spiritual gifts and well I don't necessarily critique the idea of training someone in their spiritual gifts. I do want to mention the fact that it's not about formulas or systems or how tos per se but it's about the spirit. It's not by power nor by might but by my spirit says the Lord and Jesus modeled this perfectly because he had a prayer life.   You can say I want to see greater miracles but are you paying the price by spending time in prayer? Are you paying the price for the anointing on your life by devoting yourself to the secret places of prayer? So Jesus did have a prayer life and in fact prayer is as powerful as God. Prayer can do all the Father can and the one who prays is not forcing God to do something outside of his will. The one who prays is aligning himself to become a conduit of the power and the will of God in the earth. So I'm not praying to get God to do something that he's reluctant about doing. I'm praying to align myself with his will and in doing so the power of God flows through me.  I read this verse last week but it applies to this lesson as well. John chapter 5 verse 19. The scripture says, So Jesus explained, I tell you the truth. The Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. Jesus followed the direction of his Father and he received that direction in the times of prayer. Jesus prayed alone. Matthew chapter 14 verse 23 says, after sending them home he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while he was there alone. So note that he prayed alone. He prayed at night and he instructs us to do the same. Matthew chapter 6 verses 5 through 6 say, When you pray, you are not like the hypocrites for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men.   So Jesus prayed privately. He instructs us to do the same. Jesus prayed at night and we should model ourselves after that. To heal like Jesus healed, you have to pray like Jesus prayed. If you want Christ-like power, you must have a Christ-like lifestyle. If you want to operate like Jesus operated, you have to live like Jesus lived.  Jesus was disciplined to also pray in the morning. Mark chapter 1 verse 35 tells us before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray. So we see from the scriptures that we've read thus far that Jesus prayed in solitude. Jesus prayed at night. Jesus prayed in the morning. Jesus also prayed in the evening. The scripture says in Mark chapter 6 verses 46 to 47, after bidding them farewell he left for the mountain to pray. When it was evening the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land. But he didn't just limit it to praying in the morning and in the evening and at night. Jesus prayed often. Luke chapter 5 verse 16 says, but Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer. Jesus would even pray for extended periods of time before making any real difficult decision or before doing something that required a lot of thought. Often we are so presumptuous in what we do that we act before we pray. And in doing so we wrap ourselves up, not only in the flash, but we wrap ourselves up in troubles and complications that we should have never been in in the first place. Luke chapter 6 verses 12 to 13 tell us about Jesus praying before selecting the disciples. The scripture says it was at this time that he went off to the mountain to pray and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. And when day came he called his disciples to him and chose 12 of them whom he also named as apostles. Think about this. He spent the whole night praying before choosing the 12 disciples. Why? Because it was a major decision and he didn't want to be outside of the will of God. So Jesus prayed in solitude Jesus prayed at night, Jesus prayed in the morning, Jesus prayed in the evening, Jesus prayed often, and Jesus prayed for extended periods of time before making any major decisions. If you want to heal like Jesus healed, you have to pray like Jesus prayed the longer you spend in prayer. For every minute you spend in prayer you're becoming more powerful in the spirit. The longer you spend in prayer the more powerful you become. There is no substituting your prayer life. You cannot go and read a book and expect to have healing power come on your life. You cannot go and watch a series of YouTube videos or listen to a series of podcasts. Yes, even from this ministry. You cannot do that and expect to have the healing power of God. In fact, it's already in you. I'm talking about manifesting it. You have to live a life of consecration before God. You have to set aside the time to pray. Private prayer is revealed in public power. I remember when I was just beginning in the ministry, one of the first things I asked the Lord for was Lord, I'm asking you for the gift of healing. I want you to use my life to break the power of sickness over those who are suffering under its destruction. I want you to use me as a vessel, a conduit of heaven to demonstrate the power of God. Lord, use my life to touch others and heal others. I want to see sickness broken. I want to see the works of the devil destroyed. And the Lord heard me, but it was in prayer that that gift was found. I remember asking the Lord, Lord, I want you to anoint me as much as it's possible for me to be anointed. I don't want to just see and forgive me. Let me say this. I love the Lord and I appreciate every miracle he does. And I think you need to believe for healing whether it's for something big or for something small. But I want to see more than just headaches healed is what I would pray. I want to see more than just the back aches. I want to see people getting out of the wheelchairs. I want to see people being raised from sickness that would kill them. I want to see the blind eyes open and the deaf ears open. I want to see the mute speak. I want to hear their voice. And you know if you followed our ministry for any extended period of time that these miracles do take place and I'm telling you why and how it begins in prayer. If I were to step out onto that platform without having lived a lifestyle of prayer, there would be no power. Do you realize that in our miracle services for the most part, I don't lay hands on the sick, although that is one form of healing. And look it over this series we're going to cover a lot of material concerning the healing ministry. But the way I've been taught to do it, I do lay hands on the sick, but primarily generally speaking, I don't lay hands on the sick.  Why is that? That's not my doing. It's the Lord's and the reason His presence is there, the reason His power is present to heal is because of prayer. When you go stand in your healing gift in your healing ministry or as a believer trying to believe for healing, you are stepping into something that's outside of yourself.  Really, this is how I define ministry. All ministry is an overflow of God's touch on your life. Healing is no different. So the question is, are you full of the spirit through prayer?  Prayer is a key to the healing ministry. Well, I want to pray with you now and I know that there are many of you who are believing God to use your life in this area, in the area of healing and I know that there are many of you who are believing for a miracle to be done in your body. I want you to know whether you're believing to receive or minister healing God's powers here. Stretch your hands toward mine. Let's begin to pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I lift that one right now who's believing for the healing touch of God to come on their life. I pray in the name of Jesus that that which is here would be imparted unto them. Lord, that they would receive the healing touch of Jesus. I thank you, Father, for the anointing that's now flowing. I thank you, Father, that miracles are happening. So Lord, first of all, I pray for that one who wants to receive touch them and use them for your glory. I pray keep them Lord protect them use them. I pray Father, I pray for those who are believing for a miracle to be done in their body. Let this healing river flow. There's a healing river flowing right now. Receive your healing in the name of Jesus. Remove that sickness from their body. I give you the glory, the honor, and the praise. We bless your name, Jesus. We thank you, Father. I want you to say it because you agree. Say amen. Well, that's it for the lesson. I want to welcome now the new members of Spirit Church. There you are up on the screen. We love you. We are praying for you. I always say that because I always mean it. If you'd like information on how you can join what we affectionately refer to as the spirit family, then go ahead and use the information at the bottom of the screen. Sign up today. It's absolutely free. You'll receive a fresh teaching every single Sunday in your email inbox brand new. And you can reply to that email for prayer support from our ministry staff. So do that today. I want to now read your comments. And this is from last week's teaching, how to walk with God.  And by the way, if you'd like me to read your comments on next week's video, make sure to comment here and now on this one. So walking faith says, how do you always have what I need to hear every week? Thanks, David, for the great message. Well, as I've said before, this is not my channel. This is the Holy Spirit's channel. And he's the one who knows exactly what you need to hear at exactly the right time. Benjamin Porras writes, awesome worship brother, Steven, and I have to stop right there to agree with you. If you've not checked out Steven Mokvizumov's worship playlist here on EncounterTV, you absolutely have to do it. My absolute favorite worship leader of all time. He's very anointed. Be sure to check him out. This teaching really helped me. And I actually cried watching this. It gave clarity with what I was lacking in my Christian life and showed how I'm going to eliminate it. Thank you very much for teaching because I really want to walk with God all the days of my life.  Absolutely, Benjamin, to God and God alone belongs all the glory. Another commenter writes, David, you have been my spiritual mentor. I was feeling distant from God lately, but this message raised in me the desire and need to have him around me all the time. I realize that I may have everything, but I'm nothing without him. God bless your ministry. Shadrach Wangar writes, powerful sermon. This is the true meaning of prayer without ceasing. 24 seven in the presence and an awareness of God. Thank you pastor for this. You are blessed. And the final commenter writes, thank you, dear brother David. Your teachings are tremendous and helped me a lot to grow in Christ Jesus. I was praying to God on this topic yesterday and I got my questions answered today. I thank you for your guidance through your teachings. You are like my own brother and I mean it. God bless you. Praying for you. I hope to meet you soon in person. That's Javita Fernandez from India. Listen, and yes, you are all my brothers and sisters in Christ. We are one family and I know that you can sense that connection through this channel. And I do believe that we're going to meet in person. In fact, we are very close to finishing our brand new television facility search. 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