Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back to Conversations with Keri y'all. I looked at my YouTube and I was like oh it's been over a year since I has talked to y'all but one welcome back thank you for those who kept watching videos I pray that you were encouraged but I'm excited to talk to y'all today and you know it's one of those days I was like child I'm sleepy I'm off work today and I just felt like the Lord's been pressing on my heart like to get back to this so I'm back and oh it's been a year can I tell you let me see where am I gonna start okay bought a new house new background we talk about that in a second um cut my hair grew it out cut my hair again I have switched jobs like there's just I've been reading all the books like there's just so much to catch you up on but can I just also in all of this saying God is so good oh y'all know y'all know I'm gonna keep keep it real but I'm also gonna talk about the wonderful works of my savior life has happened so much life but I'm excited to tell you about it and hopefully this will encourage you and I don't have a scripture today to ground me and I kind of want to like share some things that have been going on in my life and I don't believe that God will do it for me and he won't do it for you so therefore that's what I'm sharing a little bit of this so we're gonna start with this new background I'm in my library right now my study slash library this is normally where I work and cuz I'm in a new house yes I bought a new house but this process let me tell you all about it for one hi my name is Carrie I'm 42 years old and I live with my parents what I've never saw this happening but God had a plan and he is so good so in 2019 I started wanting a new home I loved my first starter home it was one of those blessing homes you know God just showed himself faithful in every step of the way with that home but I was starting to grow out of it it was a cute little 1200 square feet it you know a little starter neighborhood it was just right for me but I noticed that when people would come over or I would have guests stay in from out of town spelt a little cramped and eventually I just felt like I was starting to grow out of it I had different uses that I need to get out of the home so of course 2019 I prayed about it and I felt like Lord didn't give me like the go ahead and you're probably wondering well what do you mean he didn't give you the go-ahead I just didn't have like yes I can go after this you know I'm looking at looking on Zillow and Redfin and I would actually feel conviction about looking on it because I didn't feel like the Lord told me yes so again there was a knowing in my spirit I was like I don't think it's the time right now and my realtor was also a close friend she's absolutely amazing Malika Hunt and the Bay Area I will put her information down below because you can reach out to her if you need a realtor I even told her I was like I'm thinking about it but I'm just not quite ready yet because again I didn't have to release from the Lord and then 2020 happened and we all know what happened in 2020 so much and even then I'm like okay you know prices I'm seeing people move out of the Bay Area and I was asking Lord like can I move he was like nope because I was gonna move to Austin you don't live close to my parents and he was like nope that's not for you so it's like okay now keep in mind also I felt like he impressed upon my heart to give away my second bedroom suite I just gave it away and I was like okay great I'll move my bed in there give me a new king bed I prayed about it Lord was like no I was thinking but you had me give my bed away what if my parents come or I have a girlfriend in from out of town or whatever he's gonna say yes I can get a new bed now keep in mind this whole time you're probably thinking like well was it really the Lord I don't believe that the enemy cares about me being a good steward of my finances he wants to still kill and destroy everything that belongs to me so when the Lord is telling me to wait on something I'm like okay that's building patience a fruit of the spirit but then also I'm like okay Lord wants me to be smart about my finances he doesn't play about me know my money so I was like okay no I'm gonna wait if it's not him he sees my heart in being obedient so and then 2021 comes around I'm still waiting and I mean I'm literally like praying about it sometimes I would pray about it a lot sometimes not so much but either way goes Lord was saying no or he was saying wait and then towards the end of 20 no middle 2022 I feel like I got the release it was just kind of like I was randomly thought about it one day and I was like look I start looking for a house yet he's like yeah start looking now I had all these plans about how I was gonna keep my first home rent that out and just buy this new home something a little bigger that's just right for me and even started looking at houses with my realtor and one day just kind of out the blue I felt like Lord just impressed upon my heart about having my parents live with me now keep in mind you might see in some of my old videos that I looked at my parents just for about three months during COVID so I was like I know we get along really well you know I could see it working but I was in their home versus them being in my home but I was like okay I asked them about it they prayed about it was like yeah baby okay yeah I was like my parents are really like down to move to California and the thing is they were just letting me pick the house you know I knew I know my parents very well I know what they like and what they don't like I know how they operate you know I pay attention those kind of things so I think they just trusted for one that the Lord was gonna take care of it and that I was gonna choose a home that worked for all of us and I had specific criteria I was like we have to have separate space I have to have a bedroom on the different floor from theirs I needed them to have their own space where they can watch TV or my father can watch TV my mom could be in another area I wanted a big kitchen for her to cook like I had specific things and my mentor she was just like once you ask the Lord Lord what kind of home do you want to buy me and listen I I'm all about praying for stuff and I was like I hadn't even thought to do that that's also so spiritual but I was like no and she was like well why not it's his house anyway everything that you have is his you just have to be a good steward over it so I asked the Lord well Lord what kind of home are you gonna buy me and I would say it all the time in my prayer time as I would see houses I was like Lord it's just the home you want for me is this the home that you're gonna buy me and sure enough we started looking at different homes and I had to look at a bigger house and I'm thinking Lord these interest rates are out the wazoo it's expensive in California like what how am I going to afford this home but I kept saying like a Lord I know you'll give me the house that's right for us and sure enough God and all his sovereignty he had me look at this home and when I looked at it it had been on the market for a long time it was overpriced and I was just like oh my gosh and I remember looking through the house and I can immediately see what changes I wanted to make and I knew I was like okay this home is a little you know it's not a little it was a lot outside of my price range but it was the perfect size but you know the enemy would throw doubt like who are you to have a home like that who are you to be able to afford that like that's not the house for you but I knew as I walking through I was like I think this might be the house however you know the price wasn't where it needed to be so I put in the offer low-balled them let me tell you and they said no however they were like but keep in touch with us it wasn't like a no get out of here you disrespected us they were just like but keep in touch with us because they didn't have any offers so I was like okay I kept looking around so I was like maybe there's gonna be something better and I mean looked at a lot of different homes and ultimately it came down to another home in this one and they still didn't have any offers on this home but they were saying like oh we've had a few more visitors so I'm like well Lord if it's your will we'll get the house if it's not that's not a problem and in the meantime I sold my home when you know over asking was very happy about that and keep in mind this whole time at nighttime the enemy would really attack my mind he would just really try to put seeds of doubt and there was one house I was like well I mean we could live there's enough space I didn't love the area and it just wasn't what I wanted and I had a dream about it that night and I felt like the Lord made it very clear this was not the home that he had for me so again I was just like okay that's not it I'm not going to settle a man somebody and was like okay Lord I'm still believing in and it came down to I remember showing my friend it was between this home and another home the other home wasn't exactly what I wanted either it was really cute really cute like neighborhood it wasn't the area I wanted though ultimately I wasn't the city I wanted and like the my parents we were been on the same floor their room would have been smaller it just didn't have the extra space I was hoping to have it had other benefits but didn't have truly what I wanted it to have and so put in the offer again low ball them again but this time with more regulations and stipulations and when you know it come on they accepted a man like it was just such an amazing thing I remember bringing my parents here to see it before they even or I think they know before they had accepted the offer and my parents thought it was like amazing they was just like oh my gosh Carrie all this house it was just it was such a blessing and you know we got in the home I took out all the carpet painted the whole thing like had all this work done and Lord was just causing everything to fall into place it was such a blessing I moved in on Black Friday so for my those of you in retail but other than that it was a Friday after Thanksgiving that moves in and I'm just like oh my gosh this is my new house I'm gonna put in some pictures here and there so you can like see some of the the progress and like how we used to look maybe how looks now and it was so fun just like decorating my sister came out and she helped design the library and stuff just there's just so many different moving parts but ultimately came down to the Lord brought me the house that he had for me and I live with my parents now I wanted them to have a different lifestyle because Lord has blessed me to be able to you know take care of things at the home financially and stuff so you know I said my mama cook and Lord does she cook listen we had biscuits this morning homemade biscuits with breakfast up it's wonderful my father takes care of the outside we have a pool which child I ain't nobody's full I'm the type person that goes swimming and goes like to right here because I'm like water on my head it's a whole thing but either way goes like all these things I didn't ask for I mean like the ring security system like the planting and the landscaping that they left like such a wonderful home the Lord just gave me gave us little bits and pieces of blessings that we are still discovering to this day like oh I didn't know what did that in here that's great like it's just so much such a blessing and I was like Lord this is the home that you have for me so as we're living here what I didn't I really haven't shared with many people is that the attack of the enemy afterwards and it was really all mental I would be laying in my bed at night you know happy in my new home and he would just play seeds of doubt like you know you can't afford this now you're never gonna be able to pursue the other things that you wanted to do because you need to keep working because now you have to afford this home and it was just like bombarding me and also always when I put my head down at night to sleep and I remember praying so I was like Lord you didn't set this up I know that this was you up it's not making this up like my parents receive confirmation I had talked to people at church about it like trusted advisors because you know there's you know you got to get some wise counsel when you're making big decisions and I mean I talked with my sister I talked to different people this wasn't just like a whim like oh I'm moving my parents out here I understand that that was a big deal and also moving into a house I'm not the type to move into a house that I can't afford and I was just like Lord I'm trusting that you are going to do what you said you were going to do you put this stuff on my heart you put these desires in my heart all I had to do was surrender to you and sure enough like the Lord just started blessing blessing blessing and I'll probably have to talk about the job stuff in the separate video but who know who know the Lord had all this plan for me and it was totally different than what I thought but so much better and it's been wonderful living my parents of course we've had our own growing pains because I'm like oh I'm particular about certain things but just it's been such a good learning and for me I'm somebody who has lived by myself since 2003 so here it is you know it was at the time 19 yet 19 years later they moved in in December that I had people living with me but it's been such a good experience and a learning experience for me and I'm like Lord you are so good he just again I am gonna get into all the other blessings and everything that has happened but I'm just so grateful and I hope whatever you like as you watch this and you think like okay she over here talking about her new house I want you to be encouraged because if the Lord did it for me he can do it for you if you're looking for a new home if you're looking for a new job if you're just waiting on God to move in certain areas of your life ask him Lord what do you want to do in this area Lord what job do you want me to have Lord what kind of home are you going to buy me that was wisdom that was passed down to me and I am passing it on to you because it has been such a blessing in my life I believe the Lord can do exceedingly above anything I could dare ask or think Ephesians 3 20 if he did it for me he'll do it for you he exceeds our expectations he wants to see his children win he does not want want to see us struggling but what is going to cost you is obedience and obedience sometimes can make you uncomfortable it can put you in a place where you're like what is happening obedience also requires faith because it's like Lord I'm doing this because I'm believing you're talking to me about this and keep in mind I was one of the house since 2019 I wanted a new bed in 2021 and he told me to wait so I did it wasn't easy all the time especially something I had a girlfriend by new home I see other people you know moving and things like I'm like Lord they're gonna do all this but little did I know he had a whole plan for your girl oh playing and I'm so grateful that he did so as you're looking to embark on new different things in your life I pray that you are encouraged listen for the Lord's voice don't move ahead of him cuz whatever he has is better than you could ever imagine thanks for joining conversations with Kerry don't forget to head over to Kerry Lee comm also you can read I'm still writing over there but also be sure to like and subscribe right here so you can get some more of this good old encouragement and learn about what the Lord has for you thanks guys


I was just in some family who take an awakening, they've just made their home like a temple today. Every week hundreds of people are visiting the home, their lives have changed on all levels, all levels. The way they are within themselves and the way their other activities, the way their children are, the way their business is running, they are, if you just say, Devi, they will get into tears. You will see many families like this, whose lives have changed simply because they gave themselves to the simple ritual. That's what it can do. The most ignorant person also can benefit from it. They don't need any understanding to do this. Simply a simple ritual, everybody is bursting.


Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from FreestyleOnEducation.com. I'm here to review a product. We have Arojo's Primp Working Spray. I love the look of this hairspray first off. This is definitely a very cool, nowadays trendy look to the hairspray, but does it work really well? That's what we want to get into. We've been using this in the salon for testing it for about six months and on our guests. I have to say, I really do like the hold of this product a lot. I like that it's not super wet and it does have a really quick dry to it. The key things that Arojo talks about is that it's fast drying, humidity, defense. So humidity is obviously very important. We did do a test with some guests about how well the humidity resistance worked on it. They came back saying that they did like the feel of the product when they left. So nothing bad to say there. So let's do a little test of the spray and the scent of the product. So the delivery system is, it's got a great delivery with the hairspray. It goes out, it's very lightweight, still in the air right now, you can see it. So it's not a heavy spray, which is what I really like. The scent I would say smells like hairspray. I don't think it's not a fruity scent to it. So kind of a neutral smell, it's not super strong, which I think is great for some guests because a lot of guests look for a great scent in a product, but I think sometimes you don't really want all those different scents going on when you're wearing perfume and all those different things. So I think that this is a great product, it's worked really well. I think out of all the Arojo products, this was definitely one of my favorite ones. So I hope you enjoyed our review of the Arojo Primp Working Spray. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them. If you'd like us to review your product on freeselaneducation.com, send us a message at info at gratitudeeducation.com and hope you enjoyed this review. Thanks.


Welcome back to the Tati Korba show presented by Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm Sam Murray joined now with Stevenson women's soccer head coach Tati Korba and coach. We talked about this last time. Tale of two seasons. You start at one, six and one. Finish the year 731. One point shy of finishing in second place in the conference. You get the third seed, go to Arcadia, fall in the semifinals. How would you kind of rate the success of your team season? I think overall a successful season for sure. Back in the playoffs, which is where we want to be. Want to be, you know, hosting games in the playoffs. Want to ultimately, you know, win the Mac, get the NCAAs. So this was definitely a step in the right direction. You know, I think you kind of look at any season in a lot of different parts, but I think overall, you know, the character that this group showed was not by accident. So it's something that they've been investing in in each other for the last, you know, two, three seasons. And, you know, I think we continue to build on that. We continue to add talent.  Yeah. And at the forefront of that group, you have nine seniors, you know, a group that bought in with you and the coaching change and, you know, back-to-back seasons of failing to make the playoffs. But here they are. They, you know, almost get that second seed. Talk about that senior class. Yeah, I can't say enough about them, really. And I think this season, about halfway through, I realized I kind of just had to get out of the way and let them kind of take us to where we needed to go and, you know, to their credit, each and every single one of them did. And so I think the legacy of this senior class is going to be their work rate, you know, how invested they were, they are in this program, you know, their ability to kind of show the underclassmen and the juniors, you know, how to go about leading and what that looks like. And, you know, they just, they kind of took over about halfway through. And, you know, I think in large part this program is where it is because of them. And it'll be their legacy and we'll continue to build on it. Yeah, you lose the nine seniors, but, you know, you turned the page to already looking at next season. You had six freshmen alone who played at least 17 games this season. Talk about the future of this program. You know, we think it's pretty bright. So, you know, we're excited about the playoffs that we have returning and we know they'll do the work in the offseason and they'll come back, you know, much improved, you know, the way they did this year and looking to bring in another strong freshman class. And, you know, that's the point. We need to get in better players. We need to improve our players. You know, we need to keep moving everybody forward. So, you know, we feel confident that this was a jumping off point for us. And hopefully this is kind of the standard of being one of those top teams in the conference. You know, we have to do a better job in September.  I think we'd be playing, you know, in the ECACs at least right now. So, some things to absolutely learn, some things to grow on and some things to continue to improve. But we feel pretty confident about where we are. All coach, we thank you for your time all season long. We wish you the best of luck in your recruiting season and in spring ball coming up. Thank you. For head coach, Tati Corba. I'm Sam Murray and this has been the Tati Corba Show.


a four-bedroom home with three and a half bathrooms and right here one of the killer features I love how this is designed not only was so much natural like flooding through these windows and they are absolutely massive windows but this is a super spacious lounge area with a killer feature I think for any home and that is your very own built-in wrought iron fireplace but beautiful surrounds here and just a spot for you to mount your favorite TV the furniture in this room giving you a good indication to just how large it is very well lit with the down lighting as well as the central speaker system every room in the house does have speakers in the ceiling so you know if you're having a party or if you're entertaining guests no matter where you are in the room the melody does continue but there are two killer features in this home and this is the other one frosted glass doors on hinges opening right up onto your very own alcoholic paradise wine racks plenty of cupboard space and tabletop counters for you to stack all of your favorite liquors or if you don't drink this right here is going to be your snack haven with snacks galore specifically on those beautiful winter nights watching movies with family but that covers your living room area so right now let's screw out these doors and right here I think I'm in the perfect spot if I get my camera man to stand there to show you just how large these door openings are throughout the whole home you've got extra large doors extra large door openings really making this room feel so so spacious coming out of the entry hall you will see just how modern this home is it is incredibly decorated and also the architectural styling in this home is amazing as well off that entry hall you find yourself in a sitting room area with a massive gas fireplace and gloss on pretty much all four of the walls that surround you except two of those walls the gloss slides open giving you an unobstructed view as well as access to outside garden and a stunning pool that you'll find there as you can see plenty of space and massively tall ceilings above you making the room really feel spacious above me you can see not only bulkhead mood lighting but normal downlights and then as per usual speakers in the ceiling but now time for us to walk this way let's talk about the garage access the cinema as well as the stairs and take a look at the rest of the living areas and now with the sitting room behind me let's talk about this door right over here this leads off to the three car garage and over here you'll see the security system the off-cameras around the house beautiful beautiful hallway or transition space not only with these massive glass walls over here it's not even floor seating glasses literally glass walls and then over here you can see this bolted in shelving system and just behind it some more glass walls leading down to your interior cinema but love the design choices it fits so well with the theme of the home and then as we walk further we make our way into without a doubt one of the most beautiful dining areas I think we've ever had on the show stunning chandelier with colors and design choices that once again fits in with the rest of the home we've got this white marble dining room table that offsets with the dark tiles and really does make it look incredible while you're sitting here I love that they've got this wine rack or should I say temperature-controlled wine seller with access here as well as access from the kitchen it really does make it into you know design piece and hard piece even a centerpiece beautiful gloss and the shelving for the wines is incredible as well and then last but not least we've got these two sliding doors that open up onto this outside garden area beautiful artwork at the back there but this lets in so much air so much light and really does create a nice breeze through those two front doors there that look out onto that stunning stunning blue pool I think another honorable mention in this area right here is the beautiful lighting again we've got that bulkhead ceiling lighting that's recessed into the ceiling and then speakers right above the dining room table my right hand side we've got a sunken lounge area slash well right now it's it's done up as a bar and games room you can see we've got the foosball table here all carpeted beautiful lush I'm six foot tall and there's this little space here there's lighting underneath here as well so you know it's not gonna get too dark and all the way over here we've got the bar all inbuilt beautiful cabinetry opened up nice and tinted and then along this wall we'll get a view of it right now we've got just a bit of a peek into some more greenery but coming up over here we find ourselves in the living area once again I've just basically done a 180 yeah is the dining room area with the kitchen behind me and I mean this is insane how many chairs are you 2 4 6 12 14 16 seater dining room table with an incredible chandelier take a look at this this is I mean it's incredible it is breathtakingly beautiful and it is without a doubt worth the price tag of 14 and a half million I want to swivel over this way because we've got a floating fireplace all gas stunning stunning marble and it is framed with reflective panes of mirror maybe whooped up a nice meal where do we sit down enjoy it right over here if you don't want to sit at the 16 seater dining room table you can enjoy this nice intimate 6 seater just a little bit nicer we've got cool little chandelier there they've really used the design elements of hanging bulbs so well throughout this house you'll see another one inside the sitting room area but yeah we're framed not only by your vegetable garden that's planted in raised cement planters but just by these beautiful floor to ceiling windows all of them come with built-in blinds and just all of those greenery it's a really nice place to sit down in and I can only imagine whipping up and eating a breakfast there must be quite a pleasant experience and now coming around the corner to the other half of that gas fireplace you greeted by two incredible feature walls one is this dark one on my right hand side the other being the mirror framed one that houses that gas fireplace the one on my right hand side has built-in speakers and those built-in speakers transition to the ceiling as well there's two over there also to the outside areas the kitchen and dining room areas throughout the home you're gonna have all the music you desire then another incredible feat of engineering here really is this light bulb or should I say chandelier arrangement like I said that design element continues with the hanging lights and that little touch of industrial look I love our hangs on either end of this massive all-shaped couch behind me floor to ceiling windows on my right hand side floor to ceiling windows both times one with a view of stunning greenery or just behind me a view of an incredible incredible pool floor to ceiling windows really you cannot go wrong regardless of which home you put them in finally we get to explore this beautiful cluster complex coming through the front door which is frosted for privacy although you are facing the back of the home so privacy is not a concern you find yourself in a beautifully laid-out bottom floor now this floor extends two different directions one way goes off to the kitchen and the other way leads you to this awesome room here sitting area with a fireplace beautiful downlighting and then windows dominating one whole half of the wall giving you an unobstructed view of the outside area the lush garden green grass stunning blue pool so this makes the perfect place for you to sit relax with some friends enjoy a cup of coffee after dinner and when we talk about dinner that does mean dining room area let's take a look because it does happen to lead seamlessly from that room into your dining room area I think a lot of you would have noticed right off the bat this stunning chandelier we definitely haven't seen one all this time before I love the unique lighting elements we see touring all of these homes and it gives us room such a feeling of specialness of uniqueness hanging right above this stunning 80 to dining room table again behind me window letting in some natural light but this room is huge just off the kitchen area and it is surrounded by some downlighting again emphasizing that this is a room that you can sit down and really have a formal dinner we're gonna head this way past this stunning staircase that wraps all the way up beautiful inlaid wood flooring stunning lighting we're gonna take a look at those living areas and then we're gonna take the journey up the staircase and see what the top holds for us let's go so walking down this pathway the first thing you'll notice is this huge stack of glass doors right here letting in a lot of natural light but also letting you enjoy the look and feel of this stunning garden like I said beautiful blue pool greenery and nights a nice outside patio area but on my left hand side is where you're gonna be doing all the work you've got your very own office two pocket doors opening out into plentiful space for whatever work from home business you might be doing we've got built-in shelving as well as a desk there so if you are working from home you're gonna make sure you're doing the best work possible the other side of the wall also window space there letting in all of that natural light making you feel alive making you feel passionate and making you ready for the work day ahead but right now you'll see I'm standing in your lounge area now the lounge area also has some really cool unique features not only that is large and spacious with high ceilings but one whole corner of the walls is full glass looking out onto your pool and I love pools that come right up to the glass in living areas and although this one falls just a tiny bit short it does feel when you're sitting in the lounge that the pools right there really feel you jump into and enjoy a summer day cool off or have that light stream in and enjoy some TV but that does wrap up our dances area which leaves only one thing left and that is first to take a walk up the stairs and take a look at the bedrooms so right here I'd say we've got more of a formal lounge more a lounge that you'd come and sit with your guests and maybe some business partners if you are hosting business meetings from home you've got this awesome section or this pole that comes down from floor to ceiling that not only has space for decorations and some cool picture frames but also houses your TV that you can swivel around however you might need it and these blocks also do swivel as you like it and glass blocks so you know it's quality in front of you the show stealer the show stopper this incredible view you can see all the way down to Stanton and from this height right here you are the same height as the Leonardo which is currently the tallest building in Africa and the reason being is because of the way the land slopes and they built this right on top of North Clifule which is absolutely incredible now what sections this part off from the rest of the home are foldable stackable glass doors because this section that we're gonna go to in a moment can also be an outside section but behind me is where you'll find the informal lounge or even the entertainment area a curved couch sets the perfect tone for what would be the ultimate movie experience TV against the wall beautiful mood lighting coming from the ceiling plus those inbuilt speakers makes this the ultimate area for you to enjoy movies with your family coming out of the movie room we find ourselves facing a storage area that also houses an inverter so you do have battery backups regardless of what the power situation is but right now we have to talk about this area right here above me massive circular skylight lots of space here for you to do with as you wish right now you've got almost an outdoor dining area as well as sitting room area facing that incredible view I really can't say enough of it and we're gonna show you it right now but against this wall you've got your very own water feature not only with its own lights but cascading fountain landing into the cistern right here that cycles through really given this area its own character and what more would you want than these frameless glass doors that stack across and let's cut to overlay all this incredible view that you can experience from this balcony right here or if you open these sliding glass doors up really from any seat in this house


Hey guys, we are here this month with a design team challenge for my design team, but also a collaboration with Shannon Green. So we have been doing a collaboration series with Shannon Green and her custom keepers, which are Which are not our Travelers notebook style notebook covers. Here's two that I have that I just got in there empty They're made from repurposed billboard vinyl double layer fused really thick, but still pliable and flexible They come just like this With the elastics threaded in it, but untied so that you can easily take it out and then this is very Paintable you can collage on top of it. You can do thin layers of resin on top of it There is a lot of stuff you can do to these covers and it all sticks really well and holds up really well Our first challenge with the team was to decorate the covers, which they all did a great job And this she has different sizes by the way, I'm going to link her store in the description below She sent each one of the design team a small one custom keeper and we decorated the covers in the last video This is the one I did. I really like the kind of graphic nature of the covers Just says they are mostly in their natural state. So I just added something on top of it to sort of Emphasize that or to go along with that I didn't want to cover up. I like to this So anyway today, we're going to do a layout in the custom keeper The whole design team has done a great job with their layout this month So I want you to go check their videos out show them some love like share and subscribe To not only my channel, but there's also and if you want notifications when new videos come out Don't forget to when you subscribe to my channel or theirs or someone else's to hit the little bell icon Okay, so they've done a great job this month. Go check out their videos, but watch mine first I'm going to do a layout here on this page. I'm going to speed forward through the process and I'll be right back Hey, there's my page and my custom keeper I actually really love this page at one point I wasn't exactly sure where it was going to go, but I love the way it turned out now I will tell you besides the paint chip So the big piece that I used was this paint chip. I wasn't crazy about the background on this particular page This is like a junk journal type journal that somebody made for me that I put in here So I started out by intending to cover it up or mostly cover it up And I started with the paint chip and I also had this piece of paper back here that looked like kind of like this So these were done and then there's some more of these on top These were done in an experiment a while back where I stamped onto paper with masking fluid with my rubber stamps from my line and Then let it dry and then paint it over it and then rub the masking fluid off So that's how I got these and I actually you don't get a necessarily get a perfect impression But I love the impression that you do get it's really cool so I use those along with the paint chip and Then I added this piece back here that was on this thin paper This again is done with the rubber stamps and you lay it over the top of the stamp and then you do like a graphite rubbing I did a graphite rubbing and I also did some Like I did the rub graphite rubbing and then put some colored marker Again, that's another experiment. So I ended up with a bunch of these which are really cool. I Have these which again are my stamp line stamped on card stock and then fussy cut So you can have those like out to use too. I ended up not using them I also have these which are stamped directly onto the deli paper You get a different look doing the rubbings than you do stamping They're both interesting and they live in my bits box and when I get low on them. I just makes more and Then I use seize the moment which is from one of my word sets in my Etsy shop and Then I typed this as I was putting this down I was inspired to go to my typewriter and type this and put that on there and do a little bit of doodling Not too much in a little bit of blue paint pen. I love the way it turned out Everybody and the design team has done a great job on their pages. I would love for you to go visit them and see what they've done and Think about different alternative ways that you can use your stamps I'm sorry. I'm reading my notes using your stamps in your work And if you're interested in any of my rubber stamps, there's 15 different sets. They're all available in my Etsy shop I'll put the link in my link tree, which is in a description below You click on the link tree and you're gonna find every single place I am on the internet including my Etsy shop All of the design team videos are linked below. Check them out. Show them some love Don't forget to like share and subscribe not only to my channel But theirs and if you want notifications of new videos, don't forget to hit that little bell icon The most important thing is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys


Hello subscribers thank you for joining me here tonight this is the spy options trading channel and tonight is trading tip thursday and i'm so sorry that i'm just getting to this video i had to do a couple things that i didn't realize that i had to do and i'm just now getting around to doing this video so i'm so sorry about that for that i have two tips that kind of go hand in hand and that is tip number one do not paper trade for too long you guys i know certain people that when they first start trading they try to paper trade which is good absolutely but that will only get you so far why because it's a lot easier to say that you you're gonna buy here and sell there that's so much easier try actually executing on a trade and putting your emotions and your real money into play it's a whole different ballgame guys and believe me take it from me it's so hard to um to control your emotions when you're first starting off and not only whenever you're first starting off even season traders it's still hard to control your emotions and leave your emotions at the doors instead paper traded for maybe a week or so try to get the feel for the flow of how options or stocks or ETFs whatever your your trading whatever instrument that you're trading get a feel for how it moves get some sort of idea we all have to start out somewhere but then when you actually go into actually putting in your trade let's use for example let's say you have a thousand dollars to trade with that's your starting capital awesome great instead of actually trading that whole thousand dollars i don't ever recommend actually trading your entire portfolio at one trade never do that to begin with instead break it up into chunks say you have a thousand dollars uh go in with two hundred dollars three hundred dollars it's a small portion sure if you make money you're not going to make a whole lot of money and that's fine that's not necessarily what it's about when you start off but it's best to get your feet wet a little bit at a time and get a feel for how the markets actually move how your trades are going to get executed that's another one um you don't you don't get that feel of putting in a market sell or a limit sell and actually executing your actual money it's a lot different guys seriously it really is whenever you're just paper trading it's going to fill you in at the best possible price that doesn't necessarily happen all the time i'm sure from watching my videos i tell you a lot of the times whether i got a good price or got a bad price and anyways break up your your your money into chunks that way if you lose it's not that big of a deal you're not breaking the banks so to speak and if you make money great it's only going to be five ten fifteen twenty bucks but hey anything is better than losing right and those are your two tips for your triple t thursday if you like trading options or you like trading a period please hit that subscribe button down below like and share my videos comment below as well when you think about my videos do you like my videos do you hate my videos um maybe um give me some ideas for the future uh something that you might need help with something that you would like me to talk about anything that i can do to help you let me know comment below thank you so much for watching


Attack on Horozha village, Russians hit civilians in cafe. Russian forces struck a cafe in the village of Horozha in Kharkiv Oblast, presumably thinking that Ukrainian soldiers could be there, but there were only civilians, mostly women. Dmitro Chubenko, spokesperson for Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, said this. The strike was very precise, and a very precise and expensive missile was used, which is not common in Russia. Based on the motives for the strike, which are currently unknown, it is possible that it was indeed guided by someone from the local area, because the Russians believed that there would be military personnel at the funeral and wake of the fallen soldier, but there were only civilians, mostly women. When asked whether the Russian forces believed that Ukrainian servicemen would be at the wake, Chubenko confirmed it. This could have been the reason for the precise strike at that place, and Chubenko said, Yes, yes, that's why. Exactly as you said.


Here are some rules to follow in handling electrical equipment. So we're actually going to work with hot substances. So again, protect yourself with gloves and wear your eye gear. So in this case, I'm using a hot plate as an example. So before you use this equipment, what you want to do is to check the cords and make sure that you have no frays or exposed wires. Make sure that the plug is secure before you do any plug-in. If you find that anything is wrong with the cord, make sure you inform your instructor immediately. So when handling the equipment, make sure you follow your instructor's guidelines as to how to do so. Only turn on the equipment when the instructor tells you to do that. So for example, I'm going to use this hot plate to boil water. So I make sure I plug in the plate and then I turn the dial to whatever temperature I want to keep the hot plate at to boil my water. So if you notice this hot plate, once it's on, it's going to show that it's hot. So this gives an idea that you have to be careful. So when the water is already placed on the hot plate for a while, it will get hot. So never hold the hot beaker with your bare hands because this will cause severe burns. In the lab, you'll be provided with a heat-resistant glove or a rubber device that is kind of neat because it has these rubber grooves. So it will grab onto the hot beaker without it slipping from your hands. So personally, I like this one, so I'm going to use it to remove the beaker from off the hot plate. So I'm finished with the hot plate now. So what I want to do is to turn it off. So I turn it off and then I make sure I plug the equipment out. So it's still hot. And if your classmates look at this, they may not know it's hot because you cannot tell by looking. But of course, if you put your hand there, you know definitely it's hot. You don't want to do that. So you make sure you put this away securely out of the way of anyone so that they won't touch it and hence they won't harm themselves.


Sachin Deshmukh, working as an assistant professor in Vulture and Stop Technology. In today's session, we are going to learn about gradually varied flow and at the end of this session, you are able to explain the concept of gradually varied flow and you can able to derive the dynamic equation for gradually varied flow. Normally, it is called as a GVF equation. The definition of gradual varied flow is, it is a steady non-uniform flow in which the depth of flow or the elevation of water surface level varies gradually. That means, very slowly the characteristics are changing very slowly for long distance. The variation in the depth of flow may result due to change in longitudinal slope and frictional resistance of the channel. The gradual varied flow occurs near upstream side of the dam or we can say immediate downstream side of the sluice gate on the upstream side of the abrupt drop or fall we can say and in the channels which sudden changes in the longitudinal slope. What do you mean by total energy line and hydraulic gradient line? Total energy line is the line drawn with the addition of static potential and kinetic head and we can write that H total head is equal to Z that is static plus P by W that is potential plus kinetic that is V square upon 2G and hydraulic gradient line is drawn with addition of only static and potential head that is H is equal to Z plus P by W. Now, we will see what is a differential or dynamic equation for a gradual varied flow. Before starting of any, sorry for any equation, we must assume some realistic things that is channel is prismatic. The slope of the channel bottom is so small so that the depth measured in the vertical direction or normal to the channel pressure distribution is hydrostatic throughout the channel. The velocity distribution is practically fixed the head loss the head loss at any section is same for the uniform flow and the roughness coefficient of the channel bottom is independent of the flow. See this figure carefully this is a channel bottom and normally this slope is S0 it is called as S0 this blue line this is a water surface line and denoted as SW channel bottom is denoted as S0 it is SW and this top line is the energy grade line or energy gradient line this is denoted as SF particularly this SF I told you before also this is fluctuating somehow this is not constant. Now here this is section 1 this is section 2 this section is called as a controlled section this particular section is called as a controlled section where the characteristics are not going to be changed this is a datum line above this this is a datum head this is a pressure head and this is a velocity head or you can say kinetic head at section 1 similarly at section 2 this is a datum head this is a pressure head and this is a kinetic head or velocity head which is denoted as V square upon 2g consider the length between section 1 1 and section 2 2 of a gradual varied flow having a constant bottom slope S0 as shown in the figure A that is the lowest channel bottom slope that is the lowest one.  So the equation become H is equal to Z plus Y plus V square upon 2g this alpha is 1 assuming the channel bottom as an x axis so differentiating the above equation with respect to x that that is we are going ahead in the x axis differentiating dh by dx plus is equal to dz by dx plus dy by dx plus d by dx of V square upon 2g velocity we know that is discharge upon area so V square is q square upon a square substituting this value we will get the equation dh by dx is equal to dz by dx plus dy by dx plus dy dx of q square upon 2g s square we are we are getting the term dy by dx this is a very important term with respect to our concept of gradually varied flow this is nothing but the slope dy by dx and we are going to concentrate on this particular term see here dh by dx is a slope of energy line this is S0 and dz by dx is a slope of channel bottom it is Sf negative sign is given because when we travel in x axis direction the head is going to reduce so that it is written in minus it is given as a minus sign here I have written that is negative sign of the slope indicates that it is decreasing in the direction of the flow that means as we go forward the depth is going to reduce that is why minus Sf is equal to minus S0 plus dy by dx as it is plus d by dx of q square upon 2g s square this is the equation number 5 now we will see we will concentrate on this term that is q square upon 2g s square d by dx of q square upon 2g s square differentiate it we will get minus q square upon g a cube d by dy into dy by dx here see a simple figure of the channel this is a top width t this is a top width t and this is a y depth is y this is top width t and depth y here this particular term d by dy we are we are solving for this simplifying for this d by dy is nothing but dy dy of d into t here d is y so y into t dy get cancelled we will get the term t so d by dy is nothing but t in this term t please introduce in this equation we get we get d by dx of q square upon 2g s square is nothing but minus q square upon g a cube t bracket complete into dy by dx dy by dx is there substituting this value in the equation we get S0 which was there on the right hand side S0 which was there on the right hand side we are taking on the left hand side so S0 minus Sf is equal to dy by dx minus q square t upon g a cube dy by dx take dy by dx common S0 minus Sf is equal to because our aim is to find out what is a dy by dx that is why take dy by dx is common we will get 1 minus q square t upon g a cube or as I said dy by dx we are concentrating dy by dx is equal to S0 minus Sf upon 1 minus q square t upon g a cube this is the equation for a gradually varied flow now we can see here the terms q is there t is there g and a so again if you can simplify this again we can simplify this we will get instead of this q square t upon g a cube we will get the Froude's number so dy by dx if we can if we would like to derive in the sense of Froude's number we can introduce instead of q square t upon g a cube as a Froude's number square again we can modify this equation with respect to only depths where we can introduce Manning's formula as well as Chage's formula so that instead of these terms we will get the depths directly instead of these terms we will get depths directly and dy by dx this equation becomes again simpler if we can introduce Manning's formula and Chage's formula so that the critical depths normal depths and the field depths are introduced in the equation these are some reference books thank you.


White jeans, typically seen as more of a summer style move, but in my opinion, they are seasonally agnostic.  First up, we have a simple business casual look. Anchoring this outfit in all three of the looks in this video is a pair of white jeans from J. Crew in their 484 fit. Up top, a great fall staple, denim button-down shirt with an olive green flannel blazer. Fall is also a great time for suede shoes, and my tassel loafers here are from a new Spanish company called Morjas, which I highly recommend. Okay, we actually have a bonus look here. Swapping out my single-breasted blazer for a double-breasted blazer. You know, when you're going double-breasted with a more casual vibe, you definitely have the green light to rock it unbuttoned. I think it matches the more relaxed feel and shows some sartorial command. One key to making a pair of white jeans fit any season is to surround it with seasonal colors. During the fall, that means earth tones. Any sort of brown or rust or olive or deep burgundy is going to be a good choice. Because white jeans are pretty much a blank slate, they work well with any color. As you know, I'm a big fan of browns, so here I went with my gun club check Michael Andrews bespoke blazer over a thin wool turtleneck from Uniqlo. Sunglasses are by Oliver Peoples. These are the Banks and the leather chukkas are by Paul Evans. Finishing up here with a rugged weekend casual look. Military jacket, classic Levi sweatshirt, killer sneakers finished off with my datagraph. This military jacket is from Nordstrom's 1901 collection. If you haven't given the collection a look, I definitely recommend checking it out. There are tons of great basics, great quality, affordable price. Now these sneakers were a bit of a splurge. They're by Lawn Von, suede with a patent leather cap toe. I don't wear them that often, but when I do have a look they're perfect for, I am always glad to have them in the lineup. All right, three ways to wear white jeans this fall. Links to the jeans featured in this video and to most, if not all, other outfit details down below in the description. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. Let me know which look was your favorite and leave suggestions for future videos in the comments and don't forget to subscribe to the channel. Thanks for watching and stay tailored.


Now, we proceed with the first round of election for the post-Deputy Secretary-General of ITU. Mr. Shola Taylor received 64 votes. Mr. Malcolm Johnson received 104 votes. As you heard, Mr. Malcolm Johnson from UK has obtained the required majority and I declare Mr. Malcolm Johnson elected for the post-Deputy Secretary-General of ITU. Congratulations. Thank you very much, Chairman, and firstly I'd like to thank the UK government for its support to my candidature, especially British Ambassador Karen Pierce and her delegation. I thank all Member States who voted for me for their trust in me. I'd like to thank my fellow candidates for their fair and professional campaigns. We certainly gave you all some excitement. Having such a qualified and diverse field of candidates is testament to our commitment to the Union and bodes well for its future. I hope we can rely upon their continuing participation in ITU and I look forward to working with them over the next four years. I'd like to congratulate my good friend Malcolm Johnson and Catherine Johnson on behalf of the leadership of the Union and on behalf of all the staff of ITU. Malcolm, you did well and we are very pleased to see you in this team. It's another testimony of your trust in the leadership of this current management team having elected the Deputy Secretary-General and the Secretary-General from the current team. I'd like to congratulate Malcolm and Catherine Johnson. Malcolm has done a tremendous amount to promote capacity building and development throughout the ITU and throughout the globe and has acted in the best traditions of the Union. His commitment to accessibility and overcoming the global technology divide has served the membership well and will continue to serve us all well as we go forward.


Next question is from stones and lead. How can you tell the difference between fatigue and tiredness? When should or shouldn't you try to push through it? This is a good question because it's a hard one to explain But I will say this this might help Rarely does it rarely is the answer not Movement sometimes it is but rarely is that the answer now the kind of movement you do This is where there's a big difference. So what I do if I feel Fatigued or tired rarely will I not do a workout? But what I will do is I'll start and I'll go very easy and very light and if it's just me being Unmotivated usually what happens is I start to feel more energy And I start to feel better and then I start to ramp up my workout If I'm actually tired and my body's like literally like really fatigued in a real way The light workout I can tell I do the light workout. I'm moving or I'm just going for a walk. I'm like, oh, yeah I'm I'm definitely tired. I'm gonna keep it very easy and it's not bad for you It's actually quite recoupative. Now if it's the kind of tiredness or fatigue that you need to not work out Usually you feel almost ill. That's that's my experience where you're like, oh man, I don't I have a headache I really don't feel good. I need to go to bed But usually any movement as long as it's appropriate is it's probably a good idea Do you guys remember the conversation that we had with Dr. Andy Galpin around this? Optimizing versus yeah, and that stuck with me and it reminds me of like this question right now And one of the points that he was making was that there's also benefits to being tired and exhausted and pushing The body still occasionally So I think the answer to me for this question is if this is a Once in a while thing, I think there's actually lots of benefits to you know, oh man, I didn't sleep very well I'm a little tired. What are that? I'm gonna push through and still get after it that every once in a while if this is a Consistent thing that's reoccurring where you're not getting a lot of sleep at almost every night And you're constantly pushing the body in your tires. That's right So I think if this is like a one-off where it's just like man just today I just don't feel like it like there's I think there's tremendous value in pushing through that But if this is you are consistently tired and feeling fatigued going into workouts Then you probably need to look at your sleep your diet stress and other factors in your life So that's kind of how I try and look at it now is that if this is something that's considered a repeat offender right versus just one time because I think I want to be careful or Before we had that conversation with Andy Galpin I kind of had more the I think the point sows coming from which is hey Nothing just take it back off a little bit But then you tell that to a client that is already unmotivated to train and work out And it's kind of like giving them the past that though you feel tired today Don't don't worry about pushing hard So then they they never stretch their capacity because they got the they got the okay from their trainer that hey If you feel a little tired nothing wrong with like taking it easy So it really depends on who I'm talking to on if they would have value with pushing now Taking the opposite example somebody who is addicted to the gym. They train seven days a week They're always getting after it and then they have a day like that I'm gonna lean more towards what sows saying which is hey like back off take it easy like you're consistent as hell You train hard all the time your body's obviously telling you you're not feeling well right now with that doesn't hurt to Bring up drop the intensity But if it's somebody who has a hard time being even consistent in the gym And they're always looking for an excuse of why they shouldn't lift or why they shouldn't push their body It probably there's probably more value and then pushing through yeah I've seen both both scenarios and that's a good point to bring up because it's You sometimes you have to talk some of your Fanatical gym people off a cliff and be like you need to address this like this is a signal of the body that's telling you You know, you're either not getting enough sleep or you know recovering properly, which means like you're really not pushing forward You're not adapting your you're just you know healing and then you know trying to You know keep going and just survival mode Versus yeah, like the majority of clients though that we had were The biggest issue was frequency. It was just to get them in and to just keep going and to know that they could They have another operating system even when they aren't feeling up to it that they can pull from so yeah It really does depend yeah now the individual Adam Because you're you're right now experiencing some kind of lingering. It's like two and a half weeks past I'm not sure right, but you're are you also not moving or are you doing? Oh, I mean I move a little bit, but to be honest with you I mean, it's so I'm so fatigued and so tired that it I mean I was playing With the we have like a little Fisher price basketball hoop in our house what then I was playing with max you just dunking on them Yeah 20 minutes literally and then I like right after fell on the beanbag passed out snoring it like three o'clock in the afternoon So I'm really like I'm definitely feeling the effects of the long COVID. They call it right? So and I'm not and I'm not worried about I'm not training like so I should I want to you know I told Katrina last night man I really want to get in and maybe I'll do a little lift tomorrow But I'm so I'm so feeling under the weather that I'm not even thinking about pushing my body right now In fact, I'm more concerned that doing that may send me backwards. I'm not and I know I'm losing muscle I know I'm getting weaker like I know that I'm very aware of that But I'm I'm not allowing that to be my driver of my decision on should I lift or train today or not? And so, you know for me go into the grocery store or walk around the block for 15 minutes is Strenuous enough that it's putting me and knocking me out So thinking that if I go get under a barbell and start squatting even at 30% intensity still too much for me So


I guess we'll go ahead and get started. Pretty much I like discussions as I'm going through my presentation, so if anybody has anything to contribute to the talk, please feel free to stop me and let's talk about it. I'm more heavy on content than I am on slides this time, so I don't have a lot of slides to go through, so I just enjoy the talking part of it, honestly. My name is Adam Sewell, and why did it go out? Technical difficulties? All right, here we go. Adam Sewell. I own my Geek Technologies, we're an IT support firm, I guess, located in Lexington, North Carolina. We do IT support for small businesses, nonprofits, et cetera. The way I got into WordPress is actually through, I did freelance web development prior to opening up my Geek Technologies. My background is in system administration. I was a network administrator at Catawba College in Salisbury. I worked there a total of about ten years, then I went out on my own doing freelance and then started my Geek Technologies. I told everybody in the room before, I apologize, I've got some serious, sinus stuff going on right now after lunch for some reason, so I apologize. I am the father of two, my oldest daughter is Emma, she is six. Just turned that on April the 14th. My youngest is Ellie, she's three. Husband of one, my wife Mary, and I'm from Lexington, North Carolina, which has a population of 18,931.  How many people live in Lexington? I did not know the first time I looked or somebody asked me that question, so I decided just to go ahead and include that to get that out of the way frequently asked questions. So some previous talks that I have done at WordCamps, and I actually apologize, I forgot that these links do not work, so I will send out, I'll tweet out the updated version after this. But I gave a talk in Asheville in 2015 on customer service and the freelancer, WordPress, Business the Basics in Asheville 2014, and Beyond SEO, which is really kind of a marketing networking type talk in Raleigh in 2013. If you want to follow today's slides, again, this has the broken links, but you can follow along here if you want to pull those up in PDF format. I'll give you a minute to jot that down and pull it up. Is everybody falling asleep after lunch? Yeah. Hey, you missed the cat videos, all right? So how many people have a WordPress website that is just a website? Nothing else. You do nothing else with it. You don't blog, you just provide information, okay? How many use it for other things other than blogging and informational purposes? What do you use it for? Okay. Yes. We're going to talk about that. Okay? Yes. For your, for your, right, right, okay. So you provide links for other people to download your music, view that, okay, gotcha. Who else? Yes, ma'am? Courses. Okay. Okay. So like a membership type thing where they come in, they, okay. It's a membership plug in and control it, but yeah, that's what's great. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Anybody else? Yes, sir? Okay. What, what do you sell on it? Right on. Okay. I like it. Did some work on a site way back when that was something similar to that. That was cool. So obviously e-commerce, that puts a perfect segue. So obviously the whole point of this talk, by the way, is it was what you can do outside of WordPress is just a website. It's really a platform that you can build off of. Most people don't know that. Most clients don't know that. They think, okay, well, I want a website, at least in my experience, they'll come to me. We need a website. I don't really care, you know, about all this other stuff. We just need to get our name out there. We need to put, use it for marketing, et cetera, et cetera. Most, I guess by now, most people know that you can kind of do some e-commerce on websites, on WordPress specifically, so, but that's the most obvious answer. With commerce users, raise your hands. All right. Easy digital downloads. All right. What do you sell with easy digital downloads? Music. Okay. Right on. There's a musician right here. If you raise your hand. Yeah. If you need, if you need some content. So obviously that is the, that's the most obvious way to extend WordPress is through e-commerce. I work with several large websites that sell various things from tactical night gear vision equipment to gun manufacturer, the manufacturer holsters, until like I said, I've done some work with some clothing before.   So one of the other ways that I've used WordPress as more than just a website is non-profit board management. Is anybody else in here involved with non-profits? Yes, ma'am. We do. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Who else? I saw some other hands. Okay. What's non-profit? Okay. All right. Promote your businesses. Promote your non-profits. What else? Orchestra. Okay. You've been very music oriented back there. I hear you. Yes, ma'am. Right on. Okay. Very cool. All of these non- Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And we're going to talk about events here in a second, so I'll be interested to know how y'all did it. So I'm involved with a local Chamber of Commerce, the Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce. For some reason, they decided that it would be a good idea to put me as chairman of the board. I don't know why that was a good idea, but they wanted it. So we developed their initial website. They use a product called Chambermaster. Has anybody ever heard of Chambermaster?   Yeah. So we're very, very gradually graduating them from Chambermaster to purely word press-based platform, which includes, and we'll get there again, but part of that includes the board management, right? So we can go in with this plug-in from Wired Impact. It's called non-profit board management. You can track your board members. You can track committees. You can track the resources or give them the resources that they need, and I'm fairly certain that they have to authenticate to get into the back end to get all this stuff. And I could be wrong on that. We're in the very early stages of this. So a lot of this, if you've ever worked with a non-profit, you know, is just purely trying to convince them to change to something new. Change is obviously very scary for most people. So a lot of meetings, a lot of going over what it can do when it actually takes the time to implement it in like 10 seconds. So this is kind of, with all of what we're going to talk about today, it's really putting it all under one roof. It makes it so much easier for management as a web person. And you know, one of the issues that I'd run into with the Lexington Chamber of Commerce is their business directory, which was done originally in Chambermaster. So the way that I had to pull that in to the website, because they did not initially want to change off of Chambermaster, was through iFrames.  They did not, Chambermaster would not provide me with any kind of API to pull out the data. So reentry of all data into a business directory plugin. We actually work with another non-profit that is sort of a merchant, it's kind of a main street revitalization non-profit, kind of like a, it's basically geared around economic development. It's called Uptown Lexington. And we kind of keep track of the members and things like that. So if somebody goes into, goes to the website, they can go down based on categories to okay, I want to go, I want to see what all my food options are for that, you know, for the area. So you can kind of drill down that way. In the same way with the Chamber of Commerce, you can kind of put them in different categories, etc, etc. So business directory, has anybody run a business directory? Media. Media? Okay. Okay. All right. What, what's the plugin to use for that? Gotcha. Okay. Very cool. Well, there you go, there's some options. Business directory plugin, Gio directory, I feel like I'm in trouble that the two lead fellows are here. Everything cool? All right. Cool. Yeah. All right. Other business directories? Well, I want to start one. Yes. Okay. What do you want to start? I want to do. Okay. Right on. Okay. Very cool. Very cool. Any idea of what you're going to use for it? Yeah. Very cool. Anybody else? Okay. So, when you come across as a developer, or a freelancer, and you come across a client that needs a business director or whatever, here we are. Support ticketing, or ticketing systems, help desk, anybody provide customer support on WordPress? What do you use? Manual? How do you handle your tickets? Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. Fair point. All right. So, when I first started my IT business, back in 2010-ish, I was looking for a ticketing system. And what was available to me was either too high in price that I really didn't, because the free tier was not really a thing back then. It was, especially when you get into ticketing systems for IT support, because they bundle it with a bunch of other stuff. But anyways, so I decided that I was just, I had the time, and I have the background. I was just going to write my own. So for the first, probably seven years, six years, I used a ticketing system that was email-based, and it loaded directly into WordPress. So when I logged into my backend of my website, which is mygeeknc.com, if anybody wants to bring it up, actually I'll bring it up. Shameless self-promotion. So when I logged into the back side of my website, I could see all my tickets, just like a regular post. And this is Lexington, by the way, beautiful little town, my geek technologies. But on the back end, I could go in and see all my tickets. And since then, and that plugin is actually still out on GitHub if anybody wants to play around with it. I do not actively develop it anymore. It's called Simple Desk. But there's some other options now, awesome support and support plus. Now my business is a service-based business, plumbers, electricians, anybody that works off of work orders or invoices, things like that, on a per-job basis. Something like this would be perfect for them. Anybody done a plumbing website, plumbers' website? How do they handle their tickets? Do you know? Gotcha. So, again, it just kind of puts everything into a nice little package. They can just log into the back of the website, they can manage their work orders for the day and things like that. This worked very, very well for us and I actually hated moving off of it, but I just didn't have the time to develop the plugin that I had written any longer and was needing some reports and things written and I just decided to go with a paid solution at that point.  There's some other plugins that can handle real estate, but they mainly work off like work orders and service calls, things like that. Sorry? Yeah. You can. So like with some, I don't know about these two in particular, but going through your work orders, going through your invoices or your tickets and then pushing them off to like quit books or things like that, that would be the kind of workflow that I would go through. So once a ticket is resolved and then you would just push that over to billing or accounts receivable, whatever, so that it's kind of a seamless transition. So again, I don't know specifically for these two, but you know, that's, you can always make a feature request if that's something you want to go into. Yes, sir? Oh, absolutely. Any support, any support-based business, I mean, as freelancers, we support a lot of people and I know I have to have tickets or I'm going to forget something. That's all your hand. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, and that's going to be up to the plug-in developers themselves. I mean, take a look real quick, because that is a very handy feature if they do have it. So let's say awesome support. Yes. Yep. So we do, I don't specifically see it right off, but, ah, yes, I did. Did not help. But you know, that could be a feature request that's made, just something to throw it over into, well, it integrates with WooCommerce. Maybe you could, yeah, yeah. And that's what I did for a long time. My office manager did that. And the system that we have now, which is not WordPress-based, but we have that option to throw it into QuickBooks when, you know, when it gets to a certain point. So if anybody has any contacts with the developers of these guys, it might be a good feature to add or a good plug-in to develop yourself, which is the beauty of WordPress. You said, Emma, yes, sir. You have a good support system that does not require the user submitting the support to you. So that's not that simple, because for my web-based products where I put a contact form on, you have to pay to make it a little bit simpler. Right. So the way that I handle it, both with my web host, with my website clients and my IT clients, is we have a email address support at mygeeknc.com. Subject, details of the issue, they send it to that email address and it automatically creates a ticket. That's actually one of the things. I think I saw that one. It might be under remote tickets. I think it was email. Email support, maybe. Emails to be sent to an email address and then automatically imported into the ticket system. So that's what you're looking for. The way that it worked on the plug-in that I had written was that it would just create them a customer record and it would then, if they'd never emailed before, and it would be based on the domain. So like if I have a client that has multiple users under the same domain, then it would just kind of bundle them all together under that domain. But yeah, that is super handy. I've never been a big fan of the forms, the submitting forms for ticket management and things like that. So most everybody can email support at mygeeknc.com. Any other? Yeah. Do you ever get people sending tickets? Yes. And I actually have my contact form being sent to our ticketing system. And it's just simply because I can keep up with it that way. I get probably 200 emails a day. And if it's not in that ticket system, I have a tendency just to glance over my email and try to get it down to zero just so I can't, just because the numbers bug me. I may not respond to it, but the ticket system makes me respond to it. So I have not actually. I'm not. I've never really went that route for WordPress, but that's, you know, if there's not something it would be. Did you have a project panorama? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. How many people do project management? I know you do. You do everything back there. Is it music? If it's music related. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I'll do project management. We use Trello now. But in years prior, we would just create a ticket for it and just set it as a project rather than a support ticket. So, yeah, absolutely. There would have to be some kind of connector between the two. Yeah, I mean, is it? Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's like WooCommerce. I mean, if you have the platform already there, a third-party developer can come in and create that connectivity, that connector piece to achieve that goal. I mean, if you've got one person asking for it, there's probably 10 more in a setting that would benefit from that. The beauty of WordPress. Any other questions about ticketing? Support ticketing? Event management. That's another big one. WordCamps are probably one of the biggest, I would say platform that sells event tickets. And obviously, they use WordPress. There's a custom, I don't know if it's public, but there's a WordPress plug-in that manages all the WordCamp tickets and scheduling and things like that. What's that? I can't remember the name of it. I was looking for it. So, pretty much every WordCamp that you go to, real quick, how many people, this is their first WordCamp? Wow. How many people are impressed so far? Awesome. So, yeah, that's awesome. I hope I don't disappoint you. So, there's obviously thousands and thousands of WordCamps that have occurred or are occurring, I think there's four this weekend. I think Chicago's happening, obviously Raleigh, and there's two other ones that I can't think of. What's that? Detroit. Detroit's happening this weekend as well? No. Yeah, somewhere over in Europe, I just don't remember exactly where. But there's other platforms as well. We do, again, through the Chamber of Commerce, we do a summer concert series that could very well be ticketed through one of these plug-ins. We use modern tribes, the event manager, or their event plug-in, to schedule all the events that happens through the Chamber of Commerce. And when we go to sell tickets or RSVP, it's very easy to do that right through their plug-in. I know everybody's heard, you know, there's an app for that. Honest to God, there is a plug-in for whatever you want to do on WordPress, besides just being a Word website. Anybody use any of these guys right here? What's this one on the left? So the little guy right here, that's Modern Tribes, the event calendar. There you go. Modern Tribe. It's probably one of the best WordPress plug-ins I've used. I'll show you in action. So right here on the sidebar, these are all the events that's coming up for the Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce. Maybe a year-ish? Two years? Yeah. Oh, did you... Are you from Lexington? Did you? Okay, right on. Well, so we... It was originally developed by the community college. Some community college students developed it. It was not on WordPress. And then they're one of our IT clients. So we went and they got to... Just in conversation. Most people in Lexington actually do not know that I do WordPress anything. And I kind of like it that way, to be honest. So we're just kind of known for IT, but if they come to me and say, hey, I need some help with a website, or I need a website, then I'm like, ah, I know people. So... But we took it and we kind of redeveloped it. And like I said, the two main things I'm working on right now are the business directory, which Chamber Master... I just ended up just directly linking to what they have. And I can't stand it. So I don't even like to look at it. But that's my next goal, is to get that all integrated in so that you don't really have... Right now, when a new member comes in, or actually an event, too, when they get a new member, they have to go to Chamber Master, put it in there, then they have to go to WordPress, and put it in there. And I just want it on one platform. Just super simple. Post to the website, make events. The easier it is for the customer, then easier your life will be. So... So, like going back to events, apparently there's a water color society of North Carolina, which I had no idea about. Or is doing a show, a traveling show on this date, and so on and so forth. And if we wanted to, we could very well sell tickets to this through Modern Tribe, or any of the other two plugins. And all of that's done, again, through the backend. It's more than a website. Anybody sell tickets to events? Or did I already ask that one? For a store? Like a physical store and sell gift cards on the site? Sure. Yeah, WooCommerce. Essentially what that would be is like a virtual product. And I'm sure there are coupon gift card plugins out there for that. Maybe not a coupon, but a gift card plugin is what you're looking for for something like WooCommerce. You just create the product, throw a little image in it, whatever details the plugin needs. And yeah. Any other questions? Yeah, sure. So let's go to... Now, Modern Tribe has a separate Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus. With just the base plugin, it's RSVP essentially. So I've not personally used their ticketing system. But I kind of leave that up to the client when they want it. But they do have support for it. Is there something specific you want to see? Just like how it's done? Let's see. Mm-hmm, yep. It would probably be a percentage of the gateway. Whatever gateway you use them. Yeah. So if you use Stripe as a payment gateway, I think it's like 3% or something like that of the total price. But other than that, no. I don't believe there's anything that's taken out by the plugin itself. Mm-hmm. Right? Okay. So they provide the platform for you and then for free. And yeah. They have sort of a directory of all the events that they have. That makes sense. Sure, sure. Okay, that's a separate plugin. That's a different plugin, I got you. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. So one of the things that we've run into with the Chamber is having people actually RSVP to events in general. People do not like to give information just to RSVP to an event. If they're paying a ticket, if they're buying a ticket, they will give more information. If... I'm even bad about this. I'll just either text one of the office people and tell them I'm coming to this event, please RSVP me. Which, you know, I guess I'm a little privileged. But, you know, we try to get... They really like to be able to... And I get it from an event standpoint. They try really hard to RSVP so we know how many people to... to expect. But... No, you're right. You're right. Has anybody tackled that problem before? How to get people to RSVP? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Right on. Yeah. And usually... What I have found with that is if there's a cost associated with it, $10, $5, $8, people are more likely to show up to an event that they've shelled out money for. If it's a free event, yeah, I'll sign up and I'll never show. And we've seen that a lot. And then obviously the bigger problem is getting people to RSVP at all. So maybe there's not a good solution for it. How many people actually RSVP to events on a regular basis? Wow. Okay. So... Why do you RSVP? Let me ask you that question. What's that? It's the right thing to do? Yeah, I agree. It absolutely is. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And we did a little a get together, I guess, after hours event through the chamber probably three months ago or so where we had food catered in and we actually had 40 people. It was a free event. We had 40 people that did actually RSVP.  And so it was one of our local five bars in Lexington. If anybody's been around me this weekend I've talked about the five bars that's in Lexington because we can now honestly bar hop in Lexington. I don't think anybody honestly understands how big of a deal that is for Lexington, North Carolina. Is the town still dry? No. The county's wet? Right. See? She understands, she gets it. So... Right. So anyway, but that's a good that's a business issue that there's really not a good answer for. If somebody ever figures that out they can make a lot of money. So, yes ma'am. Sure. Tickets required, but no clock. So, they wanted you to get a ticket. But it was free? It was free. Limited basis ticket. Right. Sure, sure. Wow. How much was a ticket? It was free. So, just kind of counter that real quick. Yeah. Last June, I put together a Farm to Table event in Lexington. I got three local chefs one of our local mixologist bartenders to come in and make drinks and we had all the food was donated, well not donated but purchased at a reduced rate through our local farms. Tickets were $75. I limited the sale of those tickets to 75 people and I think it was 75. We sold out and we had 100% attendance because food was there good food was there alcohol and everything was included in the price and I really think that there may be something associated with the price of the ticket. When they put that much investment in a ticket they shut. Yes, ma'am. I think the amount when $5, $10 people will blow that. $50 and up they're not going to blow that. Their big decision will be am I going to pay for that ticket because if I pay for that ticket I'm going to shut. That's why I have invested over. My hand. Exclusively. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Yes ma'am. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Reminders, email reminders when somebody registers if they register for an event or maybe you have an email list of people that have come to events before just blast that thing blast your email list. True. That's kind of interesting. Yeah, so require a deposit. Huh. Really? That's kind of interesting. That might be a way around your Yeah, that's good. This is why I love word camps. Okay, so he said that or do you want to say it again? Can you hear him okay? Okay, sorry. So that would be perfect for a non-profit. That's a donation. That would be perfect. Any other questions on that? That's great. We've got about 15 more minutes. Yes ma'am. Amen. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. If they want to know anything else, I want them to do it. Right. So some companies have a place where you can get for events, it's the same thing. They put your name everywhere. Right. So why don't events have a thing that says guess in? And you can be guess one, guess two, guess four. It can respond to your email. Right. But they don't put your information where you are and your house is empty and so on. Just a thought. Yeah, yeah. Then I have to do your email. You're subscribed. And I've got a reason I didn't. What some people do or at least I know I've done it in the past is create different email addresses for different email addresses. So I have an email address specifically for registrations and I have a rule in my inbox that just puts all the events into a certain folder and I never see them. Thank God. And that way if that, if my email does, if that email address does get sold or whatever, then you can just say, okay well I'm done with that one. So yes ma'am. There you go. Do not reply. Do not send at, yeah. If you don't publish your name. If you don't publish your name. Because that's part of the name that's enormous to me who I really don't know will show up. You would be given a number. It would like have a counter and if you signed up it would say you're guessing the 25, you're guessing the 26. Sorry?  They normally tell it by name. Well, when you get that you can give them your name. But we don't want it all on the internet. We don't want it electronic. Why not? I'm looking also for the punishment of the guests. I'm looking at your commitment but can I trust you that you would show up at my event if you're not willing to give me your name? So I think he's saying that if you don't provide your name for an unpaid event you then become anonymous and we don't really know if you're going to show up or not. It's what he's saying. For a paid event you would have the name and the credit card information. For an unpaid event I don't know. That's really the fine line of trying to figure all this out. For another example there was an event that we hosted with the local community college the community college was handling all the event registration and they were asking for first name, last name email address, physical address phone number and I think they may have even asked for the last four of your social security number. And I'm like guess how many people we actually had to register? Like two. And then they were like while there was nobody registering this event kind of flopped. Damn information. So I mean there's a really fine line that you have to walk when you're having people register for events. But apparently the best way is to either charge for the event or charge and then donate back or give back. That's cool. I really like that. And what was the why did you do it? Why? It had been talked about for years in Lexington. There was something that kind of totally off on the tangent but it had been talked about for years in Davidson County and nobody really put together a team to do it or whatever. And I just got tired of hearing about it and so I was like you know what, I'm going to do it. So me and where my office is in Lexington there's a restaurant right next door, literally next door that I just kind of go eat at sometimes because it's convenient. And the chef and I just kind of got to know each other and talk a lot and we got on that topic and I'm like alright let's do it. So I put together the team actually funded the whole thing and didn't do any kind of sponsorship or anything like that. And that's just kind of, I did it because number one it was good marketing for me and oh absolutely it's form of marketing and just because I wanted to see it happen. Yup. Yeah we ended up breaking even honestly I think I actually purchased too much alcohol for the event I think I overestimated how much people would drink. And we actually had some food left over as well but we broke even I think I had about $100 leftover that I just kind of gave up to some non-profits. And we were going to do another one this year but some of the staff at the different venues and things had changed and I just, not really in position really that I wanted to deal with it this year. We may look at it again next year but if anybody wants to see it it's filled to fork and see um 18,931 that's City of Lexington I put that on there for that reason um yep so this is uh, this is the website for the filled to fork NC which is what we we've done we were planning to do one June 21st this year but it's not going to happen at Feltory so I guess I need to put up a not going to happen we got covered by the news Fox 8 out of High Point we got some a dispatch article out of it which is our local newspaper we got some good press out of it Facebook blew up you always know that an event went well when everybody does not leave like especially a meal if they don't leave after the final course um we had people stay until the event was over at 9 we had people stay to 11 um we had live music um just a guy that was playing acoustic guitar I mean uh it was a vineyard um that's pretty cool so actually I definitely want to do it again but uh I just got to make sure all the pieces line up so this is and this is a good example of a website that you know ticketing and things like that I totally forgot about this um until we got to talking about it so any other questions uh genesis um responsive from cyber chimps I've used uh iThemes Builder before so it's really all over the place I don't have a go to you yeah it was a CTX easy book laptop running windows 95 that's what I learned to code html and any other questions yes ma'am okay which one okay sure absolutely um alright right on yeah uh so uh in December 31st 2009 uh was my last day as network administrator at katawa college uh and I'd worked there since about 2000 no 1999 I think um I was working in the summer I started out working in the summers in the library cataloging books my mom was a librarian there oh I hated it um and then I just kind of gradually got into um the library was in the same building as the computer services department and so I'd see all the guys kind of go in and out while I was sitting there cataloging books and um my mom like I said was a librarian there so she kind of got into uh talking with um the computer services guys and got me a part time job and so uh I started working help desk and stuff like that and just kind of built that up um in December December 31st 2009 I quit um and started just doing freelance work basically um before Woo commerce there was a e-commerce and it still exists um uh e-commerce plugin called shop s-h-o-p-p has anybody heard of it? I know Ray has okay so I did all of the support work for shop when it came out um the lead developer is Jonathan Davis uh he's from Ohio um he uh about two years ago I think he uh got a job with Apple and moved to California um he still is the lead developer of shop but um he hired me on to do all the support work and then gradually um it was a work my first work from home job and I was paid you know per ticket and etc etc but as I was doing that I was also building my freelance uh client base and so what I would do is you know I would get that income from shop I would get my freelance income and I would put that into what is now my geek and I worked out of my house um and started so I had my web clients and I started um going to like local networking events um like is anybody familiar with B&I? I know Ray is so I'm in B&I and I started networking with local businesses that way they got me in touch with other people um and it just kind of branched out from there um local chamber of commerce um I think you asked how did I get them as a client um I actually just went in one day I think I just basically did a cold call and just dropped in one day they were using on another company um I gave them a card gave them my information and nine times out of ten I'm not going to get a client that way if you're an in-person you know going in and just dropping off stuff it comes about by having a positive reputation in the community so you do some work for these people over here you build up and I think you're doing a talk on this aren't you is it later today 430 430 Ray is doing a talk on networking if you're interested in that definitely go see his talk um and um so it's just getting out there getting in front of people getting to know people and the main thing to remember when you're networking is people do business with people they like if you know if you're being an asshole to somebody you're not going to get their business I hate to tell you that but um so my so my business is basically structured like this or my geek is structured like this we do um IT support what is called an MSP it's a managed services provider um where we have contracts with small businesses and nonprofits um we charge a flat monthly rate which is based roughly upon how many computers they have how difficult of a client I think they're going to be um that is a that's a big thing yeah um so and I have like a kind of like a calculator I have a spreadsheet that calculates all this for me um uh complication number up if they uh if I know I mean you can kind of tell you get in front of enough people you kind of know who is going to be a difficult client and um so we do the flat monthly rate but we also do 30 day contracts um and I was talking with someone about this earlier I hate long term contracts I look at business relationships like I would any other relationship if it if you and I are not a good fit I don't want to lock you in that's bad for both of us so um I give them the option and I give us the option to exit within 30 days um if if we need to um and you know that's actually happened several times because they're not a good fit for us they can go and that's you know there's plenty of other competitors in in my space that they can go to um and so um I use a lot of open source technology in the business uh to keep my overhead low to keep my clients um you know payments low not low but um cheap not cheap we're not cheap but affordable yes uh and so um and then we just provide like the help desk services um uh the antivirus spam filtering backups on-site off-site backups um everything for them for that that monthly rate does that make sense right on so yes sir what open source software uh so we use um a lot of Linux we use a lot of uh uh um our virtualization platform uh is uh something called Proxmox which is based off of uh KVM which is built into Linux kernel uh we use um let's see we use Linux on the desktop a lot like our thin clients which I don't know if anybody has a technology background but uh wise which was bought out by Dell made thin clients which their sole purpose is to connect to other computers to work off of and um so we just took these little almost like the Intel Nooks um type devices and and uh we um um put Linux on them and we just put an RDP client on it and set it up and that's what they use as thin clients so but uh yeah I'm gonna have to wrap up if you have any questions for me um I'll be around so hope you enjoyed it thank you sir


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