I am Trisha Clements with your BizWatchDog and I am so excited to be speaking at WordCamp Atlanta the first time since 2019. I love WordCamp and I'm so glad to be back in Atlanta. It's finally back. And thank you all for coming to this, the last session of the weekend. Thank you all so much for sticking out and showing up here for me. A little bit about me. So my business is your BizWatchDog. I am the co-organizer of the Atlanta SEO for Local Businesses Meetup. I'm an expert contributor for WhiteSparks 2023 Local Search Ranking Factors. I'm also a GOWP Agency Interest Facebook group, local SEO expert, work with Google Business Profile Management, White Label Services, also do Google Business Profile Fix-It Services. GBP, Google Business Profile, I might interact and say the same thing, that's all the same exact thing. GA4 installation because with my clients when you're doing local SEO, any type of marketing, you want to be able to measure what you're doing. And I had someone recently that I talked to and they said, we've talked to several people about local SEO and I said, well, one of the things is I require that we have GA4 installed so that we can track what we're doing. And I got that, I said, you always have to measure what you're doing otherwise, how do you know what's happening with your money? Thank you, David Zimmerman, if you are in his GA4 presentation. I lived in Atlanta for 27 years and I now live in Southwest Florida with my rescue dog, Moxie. There is a picture of her so you can see how cute she is. You all can go ahead and here's a link to my slide deck, links, I end a PDF guide, is a QR code, you feel free to take pictures but you don't have to if you want to go ahead and download those now, later, whenever. But you will have access to all of that. So you don't have to rush taking pictures if I go past something too fast for you. Okay, so Google Business Profiles. We were looking up last week at Mexican restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, this is what comes up. These are their Google Business Profiles. And hopefully everyone is familiar, everyone is familiar with what your Google Business Profile is. Okay, everybody got that? Here it is here on your mobile phone when we specifically selected a restaurant and it's got all the information, reviews and everything on there. Okay, I went back the wrong way. So, but for everyone who just came in, if you can take pictures as all you want but you can get my slide deck, links and my PDF guide at the link and the QR code as well. I'll have that again at the end in case you missed it. Okay, so Google Business Profile, it's integral to the success of your local SEO strategy. So you really need to make sure that you've got your Google Business Profile and you're actively managing it. Use your Google Business Profile to drive traffic to your website and increase conversions. The one thing that a lot of small businesses have a hard time with is not understanding the guidelines. You've got to stay compliant with Google's guidelines. If you're not, you risk suspension. So it's really important. If you're not compliant and you get your profile suspended, the phone's gonna stop ringing. You're gonna stop getting leads and conversions from that profile, which means income is going to decrease. We do not want that. So make sure that you are staying compliant with your Google Business Profile and we're gonna go over some of the things to help with that. Okay, July, this July 30th, 2023, Google reorganized their guidelines for Google Business Profiles. And they reorganized it. They really kind of clarified a few things. There aren't a whole lot of new, new things, but they really just kind of restated a few things. And one thing is Google still has gray areas in their guidelines. And it's really set up like that. A lot of people say, well, why doesn't Google just say what they want from me? The reason is because their businesses, you'll see there, they're spam on the map. They should not be out there on the map. And once they get suspended, Google doesn't wanna tell them this is what we need because then they could possibly go out and fake it and get past Google. So Google's not gonna come out and say, this is exactly what we need from you. That is why there are gray areas in the Google Business Profile guidelines. So the top two takeaways from the reorganized guidelines. Your GVP is a use it or lose it and you need to audit your users. Use it or lose it. So basically Google saying if you do not access your Google Business Profile for long periods of time, you could have your access revoked and content removed. After adequate warning, so you could get emails, but is that going into your spam?   They can't just leave it there. And as far as long period of time, what's that? Well, they don't state it, but it is probably close to what they're saying with Gmail. They tell people if you have a free Gmail account, if you haven't accessed it in two years, it could be deleted. So I would say that that is probably what they're referring to. However, I would tell you to make sure that you're going in and that you are accessing your Google Business Profile and keeping the information up to date. Auditing your users. So this is something that Google recently put in black and white when they reorganized their guidelines. But it's something a lot of us in the local SEO area have known for years and I've been telling my clients this for years. Now Google is putting it in black and white. So if you have a user on your Google Business Profile and they are using that same email account in other Google platforms, let's say YouTube, Google Ads, they're going onto the Google map and editing things with that email address. If Google doesn't like what they're doing on those other platforms, let's say you've got an ad running and Google flags the ad, says you are against their guidelines on their ad, that could trigger a suspension in your Google Business Profile. The hard part about that is when you get a suspended Google Business Profile, you're like, what did I do wrong with my Google Business Profile? You're not thinking about your Google ad or your YouTube. And that's why it can be difficult for businesses to not know what's wrong, how do we fix this? Actually, they just came out, like I said, July 30th with these reorganized guidelines and I had been telling clients before that that this was an issue. Google, of course, didn't have it in writing until then. I actually had a suspension I was working on just before they clarified this and put it in writing that had an issue with an email address. That was how I got it reinstated. And so I knew that this was happening now in black and white Google, saying yes, make sure you are not using that email that you've got in your Google Business Profile on these other Google platforms. And it's not just your owner. Any user, audit all of your users. If you've got somebody who used to work with your business and employees, some type of marketing firm, you're no longer working with, remove that as a user, remove that. And this is just how Google puts it. It's a little bit of Google speak, not very clear, but basically the same thing as far as you could get it suspended because of things you're doing with other Google products. Okay, like I said, it's not new. It's the first time that they put it in writing. So you need to check all of your users on the account. So don't use the same email account in your Google Business Profile as you're using on other Google products. So those are two of the main takeaways I got from the reorganized guidelines. I wanna run through just a couple of other issues because I do a lot of reinstatements for clients with their Google Business Profile and I wanna highlight a couple of things from that just to help know when people, when your clients or when you have an issue with the profile, what you might look at as far as what could be an issue. Eligibility is a big one. A business has to make in-person contact with customers during its stated hours. That's a big one as far as is the business eligible. The address, this is the biggest area when I'm working on a reinstatement that I see clients have issues with. What address did you get your Google Business Profile verified at? If you're using a virtual office with just a mailing address, that location is not eligible. That doesn't mean your business isn't. It means you cannot use that location as your verified address. Also, co-working spaces. I really don't recommend, there are several ways that you can use a co-working space. I don't recommend it especially. So for example, different regis offices. Google will go through. They will suspend every single listing with that as an address in a Google Business Profile. And I'm not talking about a brick and mortar where it's showing. Even if you set it up as what's called a service area business and you've hidden the address, that address is hidden in the background, but Google knows what you put in. Yes. Oh, that's it. Did you have your listing not show your address? Correct. So that is what's called a service area business. And so for example, take me. I work from home. And so I have to have a verified address. So I verify at my home, but then I tell Google there's a box to check to say, I do not see customers in my address. So it hides it from the public, but Google knows what address you're using. So with that address, you cannot have a regis office. You cannot have a UPS store. It needs to be whatever that is. If you're using your home address, is your business address, that's what it needs to be. Okay. I want to start you over on that, but... Mm-hmm. My business profile does show that. So there are a couple of ways that it's okay. So, and since you asked, I'll go ahead and go through a little bit, that's okay. You have to maintain clear signage. They need, in other places they say this, they don't say it here, but what that means is clear permanent signage. So you can't have a location, a coworking space, where you just come in and rent a desk here and there. That's not allowed. You have, there are coworking spaces where you can rent a specific office and you can put your permanent plaque on the door, have your employees come in during office hours and you have a phone that you answer there. Those are things that are allowed. You might want to talk after to just make sure your specific thing as far as if it's allowed. I'll tell you, if it's a large co-working space, you may have trouble maintaining and keeping that address. But if you're actually using it you, if there are any issues you'd be able to go in and prove to Google that you're using that, that is your front edge and you've got your permanent signage. So, and one thing if you're working with Google and you have issues and you have to send them information on your permanent signage, do not do an image and fix it. Google will know and you will probably never get your profile back and you probably will never be able to use that email address again. You will get blacklisted. So, do not try anything like that. That's a big no-no. So, if anybody, because some people, well, I'll just send them this, you know. Google, they have it for reasons. They want to make sure where your office is. Posting restrictions, so you can post on your Google business profile and here's where. Basically, Google wants to make sure if it is unhelpful, harmful, off-typic or generally violates Google policies, they could suspend your ability to add posts to your profile. One thing that people, a lot of them don't understand is that including your phone number or a link in the text of your post is not allowed and could violate their policies and they could pause your ability to post. What they have is there is a CTA in there with a button where you put it in and that's where you would put the link. So, don't put it in the text. It may not cause problems, but it could cause problems. Okay, so I just tell people as a general course, just don't do it because you don't wanna run into issues. Third-party ownership, this is a good one that I like to point out. This is what I've always done for clients but sometimes others, I run into clients that say, oh, I'm not sure who this owner is on the account. The business owner should be the owner on the account. You would say, if you're managing it for someone else and you're not the business owner, you should be a manager on the account. The business owner should be the owner. Really important. This one, I put this in here because I thought it was kinda interesting that Google puts this in writing here now with their reorganized guidelines. Guarantees by marketing companies do not have false misleading or unrealistic claims. That includes guarantees of top placement on Google. I thought that was kinda funny because I tell my clients, we can't guarantee anything. We can tell only, this is how it works and this is what we're doing but we can't guarantee anything. This is Google saying, don't believe somebody who guarantees it. I just thought that was interesting. Something that is really relatively new, social media links on your Google business profile. The way it used to work in the past, you would have FEMA markup added to your website and you would put your social media in there, your links in there and you would help the Google would pick them up. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't. Now you're able to go into your profile and update those and put your profile directly into your Google business profile. This is one of the things where I tell clients that Google's always changing features, adding things. It's important to keep up to date with what's going on. It's not something that you can just go into, set it up and you're done because there are things always changing in Google business profile. Okay, so that was what I originally planned on talking about was all of the reorganized guidelines and then just recently, after I was preparing my talk, Google's coming out with a new reinstatement process which is being rolled out. So it's really important for businesses to understand and know what's going on. So I really wanted to talk about this and focus on it some more. So the one question people have is why? Why are they, so the reinstatement process, if you get your profile is suspended, Google says you're suspended from the map, they may completely take your profile off the live map or they just may suspend it, which caused a soft suspension where anything you change in your profile is not changed live on the map. So you need to get reinstated so that your business is back in good standing with Google. So why are they doing this new reinstatement process and being rolled out? The reason is because you've all heard in the EU, there are all these lawsuits in Google and transparency. That's the why. This is already rolled out in the EU. It is coming here when we don't know and it's really important to know that if you get reinstated, the main thing, or if you get suspended, the main thing you wanna focus on is getting reinstated quickly. So that's a key as far as making sure that you are getting your business reinstated and you know what Google wants to see. So going forward, it's gonna be harder for businesses to get reinstated because of this new process that's rolling out. Businesses that get suspended. There could be false positives. Google could just go in there and see something updating, just decide, oh, we're gonna suspend it and do a quality check.  And some businesses, because it's so personal, that this is where you get a lot of your business from. It can be when businesses get that, it's very personal and they get very distraught over it. And how do I get this back? I need to hurry up and get this back. And sometimes it's nothing that they did wrong. Sometimes it could be a bug, a glitch in the system, a glitch in the matrix. Google doing a quality check. Sometimes if you update certain things in your profile, it has a higher chance of getting suspended. You've got five core pieces to your Google business profile. Your name, your address, your primary category, your website and your phone number. Changing any of those things, you have a higher chance of suspension. Now you're going to be suspended, you simply have a higher chance. The reason is because Google has said, you've told us this is who you are and what you do. These five main things, name, address, primary category, website, phone number. This is who you are. If you've changed one of them, Google, hold on. Who are you again? That's why you may get a suspension during that. And they're just checking to make sure. Even though if you had, I have, if you're doing a rebranding, I rebranded back in 2020, 2019, rebranded. I had to go through and do some changes and it was like I needed to make sure I was going to be ready in case there was a suspension because I knew that those things could trigger it. One thing about suspensions is some businesses could be gone along 10, 15 years. I've never had a problem with my Google business profile. All of a sudden I'm suspended. I don't want to see in why now I haven't done anything. And sometimes Google just picks up on the fact that you were violating guidelines because of some reason or another. Maybe your address wasn't right. And you just simply, this was the time when Google picked up on it. You need to fix that in order to get reinstated. That's one of the hardest things when working with businesses that I know the guidelines because I work with them all day every day. Businesses take one quick look and then move on and Google updates and changes things. So when they get suspended, it's really hard for them to look at and see, well, I don't understand nothing's wrong with my profile. Well, what address did you verify at? Do we need to get that updated? So this whole new process is rolling out. It's in the EU. It's coming to the US. We need to be prepared. It's evolving. What we think it's gonna be now? It'll probably not be look exactly like we think it will. I'm hoping that they do some changes. Some of the things that is different one thing that's different is this new process, when you ask for a reinstatement, it's gonna be a one and done. You ask for it and that's your one opportunity. Currently, if you ask for a reinstatement, you can, if they say no, you can email back and forth with support. This new process, you are not going to be able to do that. That's huge. It has me concerned for businesses. That's why I wanna make sure that businesses are aware of what's coming down because of that. That's not there. What it's gonna look like when it actually gets here. I hope that they implement something. What it's gonna look like, we don't know. When if you've received an email saying your profile has been suspended after this process is in place, there is a certain point. When you click on there, it's gonna say in tiny, tiny print, now upload your supporting information and you have 60 minutes. Once you click this button, if you are on that page and you click that button and it starts to upload your documents. If you do not have your documents in order and upload this within 60 minutes, what you have uploaded is what Google considers, nothing else.  Click, click, click, click. And then it's like you five minutes, survive screens ahead and it's like, you shouldn't have clicked that. You've started a 60 minute timer. Well, when did that start? I don't know right now. Google doesn't show you. You have to know when you hit that button. So this is why I want to, I don't wanna, I hate being like alarmist, but on this it's like, whenever this process, which we thought it was gonna happen a month ago, but I'm not sure, it's coming when it gets here. Please make sure that you, your clients know. If they're the suspension, please don't just click through and know what you're doing.  Huge for your Google business profile. Be prepared. Be proactive and be prepared, okay? Be prepared. This is what it's gonna look like if you're not prepared, okay? I was talking to a client recently, they were rebranding their business. So this reinstatement process hasn't come up yet, hasn't been implemented fully and but I told him he was rebranding and I said, you have a high likelihood of getting suspended before we touch anything, I'm gonna get your documentation in order, look through it, make sure it's correct before we touch anything because I wanna make sure that if there's a suspension, we can handle it properly and I could see the terror on his face. He had been through a suspension and did not know, he did not know what Google was needing and asked him, he said it was one of the worst experiences ever. Like, I've been through suspensions, I'm here to help you and that's why I was like, that's why we're not simply going in and changing things.  Whoops. Okay. So, you're supporting documentation. You need to get it in order. It needs to be correct. What's correct mean?  Okay. If you do not specifically know what you're looking for and looking at, have somebody who's done this, review it, make sure that it's right and you know that that's what Google wants. I recommend that businesses go through this now, get this documentation that I'm gonna talk about together and review it once a year. That should be on your to-do list for your business if your agency for your clients to do. So, some of the things, like I said, your name and address need to match what's on Google and what's on certain documentation that you're gonna provide to Google.  Business license. If you have a business license in that specific city, county area, your insurance, utility bill. A lot of businesses are like, oh yeah, I've got my cell phone or my internet bill but it's in my personal name and not my business. You can't send that to Google that does not apply. They don't want that. A bank statement. Something like that. Pictures of your permanent signage, how we were talking about earlier. Pictures of permanent signage. They're gonna want all of that. Again, your name and address have got to match. Even service area business, whatever address you put in there, that's what Google wants to see on your documentation. Yes. So, that's why I've been through this on the photos recently with them. And luckily I had a pretty decent guy going back and forth because, what he told me is we have to submit a picture of the buildings facing on, plus if there was a signage outside that said the name of the business. Plus, we think the client had to walk into the street showing the street signage at the corner with a picture of the building if we could get it through the trees. Yes. We can submit all of those proofs that he was in that building. Yes. You can only do it within a certain time frame. Well, she's talking about images. There are videos that he's talking about as a video verification. And that, those work as well, the video verifications or having photos. We can submit. He wanted to be screened. One company, they lived on the 74, or their business was on the 74. When you're doing that verification, that way that you're talking about video, you cannot pause that video either. It's gotta be one continuous video. Sometimes we live with the person. Sometimes, yes, and it depends on what part of the process you get into. Sometimes you can, I know, it depends. But yeah, sometimes you gotta do it live with them. Sometimes you can do it and submit it. Also, if you're doing a video, have your key show you in the video unlocking your door, proving that you have access to that. Just, yeah. I'm confused. Yeah. It sounds like this process excludes virtual businesses. So, when you say virtual businesses, are you talking about online only? Online only. Online only. So, okay, so, there's a little bit. Let me clarify. So, you are ineligible for a Google Business Profile if you only have online and you do not have the opportunity to visit customers in person. So for example, I work out of my home, but I can go to my customers and meet them. Also think of like your law and care company. They may not have an office, but they come to you and cut your grass or do whatever. Well, you're intended to service customers nationwide. So, this is for local SEO. So, even if, possibly, possibly not. So, for example, I can service businesses across the US, but the reason I have a Google Business Profile is because I also can service clients locally. So, it's fine if you have that global presence, but you have to say, I service people in this area where my business is. Okay. So, service people and can visit them in person in that area.  So, when we were talking about the photos, that would be for a brick and mortar. So, and sometimes it can be tricky as far as determining is this really eligible for a profile. If you visit people, it, well, at the very beginning, at the very beginning I was talking about for local SEO strategy, it is a huge driver of conversions, traffic, money. When I was talking here about the Secretary of State, the one of the reasons you wanna make sure you have all of this documentation together ahead of time and in advance is because I talked to one client and I went to look them up on the Secretary of State. They had not paid their yearly dues and they were dissolved and had to get reinstated with the Secretary of State before they could let Google know and how long is that? Well, every state's different. Is it a week? Is it two weeks? It was a month getting information. So that's why you need to have it together. It needs to be correct and you need to revisit it once a year. Yes. I have some clients that I've worked with before that are already established. They've never claimed their business list needs one of the auto-generated ones and when it has website, it has that lovely Google business site that's an automated one and we're able to change their actual site I'm always concerned that that's lingering out there. Is there any way to get it automated? No, and I recommend you keep it. You talk about the business site. So there's inside your Google business profile account there is set up a Google site and you can change the URL. I don't like doing that. It's like, you can put like your business name dot business dot. Google dot z? Yeah. Dot business dot site. That's what it is. The reason I recommend doing that is it pulls the items in from your Google business profile your reviews, things like that. You're not going to give that link out to anybody but Google sees it. When you do a brand search I've seen so many times that come up in the search. So people are finding it in search therefore it's kind of important just to keep it. So I recommend keeping that but do not make it your primary URL on your Google business profile. Correct. Okay. Okay. So losing your Google business profile can really be devastating to a business. It can be the main driver of leads and income for so many local businesses, small businesses. The phone stop ringing, new business dries up. Be prepared, be proactive, be prepared. And then you'll, we hope nothing happens in the event that it does, you will be prepared. Okay, here are my slides and information, questions. And I've got all my information here. So any questions about this and all your Google business profile stuff? Like I said, I work, I do a lot of work with suspensions, reinstatements and it can be something if you don't work with them often that can be frustrating. Let me see, you had your hand first, yes. You talked about rebranding. What if you've got a business, it's got a website but the main name is not your business name. And you wanna open a new business that's not the same business. It's another business, but another website. So Google does want, if you rebrand, they want generally what you're doing in your business to be the same similar. Like if you're sitting here and you've set up a house-painting company and you're gonna rebrand and then all of a sudden you're gonna be a long-care company, that's not rebranding. That's a different business. So they need to be. I'm gonna use URL on your website. It may not be in your attention. Is it the same type of business? Are you doing the same type of work? If it's pretty similar, you could do a rebranding. If you've got, cause I did, when I did mine, I was, I had a new name, a new website, new name and website. And I was able to rebrand. Well, what stayed the same? Just your personal name and the. Address, phone number, location, things like that stayed the same. The main thing Google wants to know is are you doing the same type of thing? Or are you? You're doing the same LLC? Yes. On that, I think I did a name change, but it's the same LLC as far as George is concerned, yeah. So I want to talk a little bit about, you've seen a lot of different businesses. Two businesses in the same ad, same ad where I specifically phone number. Yes. And then Google rejects one of them. Yeah. With, it can be difficult having, the main thing is having a different category. So a lot of businesses. So for example, let's take real estate agents. A lot of times you'll have a lot of real estate agents under the same address. They may have a different phone number or the same number. I always tell those clients that Google will look at that address. And if you're the same primary category real estate agent, Google is going to pick one person and you're going to show up in the maps. If you're not that one person, you need to change and have your home address, your address and hide it. Otherwise you're going to be hidden. Google is going to filter you in the search. Is that related, but probably not fully what Rhonda was talking about. If you've got several businesses at the same location, it can be Google sometimes wants to merge them or doesn't want to have both of them live. So it's really tricky as far as maintaining, making sure that they're separate, having, making sure they have different names, different primary categories. If you've got the same primary category, there's a high chance Google is going to merge the two. So you want to have separate primary categories. You want to have different websites, different names to make sure that you don't either get suspended or Google merges. Yes. So I have, I have two Google listings for this, for myself and for my business. I'm getting ready to move to a pretty much a really residential area where businesses are on the other side of the island. And I want to be listed for that island, but I don't want to, of course, run into problems where things suspended. So if you're actually moving physically on the other side of where they are, unless you're going to have an actual address location there, I recommend that you move that location to where you're moving to. And anytime you do that, there is a higher chance of suspension. Not that it's going to happen. You could be perfectly fine. But before you do that, get your documents in order. Be prepared. So, but one thing I will tell you is, especially this is for again, your business on Google business profile on the map, your ranking, where you show up there and who you show up for in searches is going to depend where they are in relation to you. So if you're on one side of the island and they're over here, chances are you're not going to come up as often in these searches. So if there's a way for you to have an office over there, I would work on that. But a lot of times it's not, it's not, you're not able to. I understand that. Yes. Officially, my business is a service area business. I do CPR at the lives of specific places every single month. Yes. On the map for 11 years. Yes. And three of those are verified address. Yes. Two of them are not. And now I can't verify whether they're not. Exactly. And officially, I'm not supposed to be keeping them for you. Correct. Yes. But I don't want to cancel. Yes, and I'm sorry, I'm supposed to be projecting the questions out, but let me repeat a little bit. So you do, to teach CPR and you have classes at five different locations every month, but you do not own or lease those locations on it, rent them. Okay. Google says you are not allowed to have profiles at those five locations. You have your one profile. You have a service area business wherever you are at your area. And you can add posts. You can add events in your profile to show this is what you're doing every month. And you're saying that you can't get two or three of them. They're not verified. Two are not verified. I was- Yeah, the ones that are not verified, the other ones, that's tricky because even though they are live on the map, this is a situation where you just haven't been caught. You're not in compliance with Google guidelines.  You thought this is what you're supposed to be doing. They used to say if you were to say about postcard- Well, but see here's the thing about the postcard. The postcard though is something to send out. You're still supposed to be compliant with guidelines, but they are so long in such gray area, you're not gonna read all of them. Yeah. So having said that, it is not compliant. And it's something you may wanna work on on merging them because I'm assuming that you probably all have reviews getting them merged in and making it a service area business. I will tell you that making something going from brick and mortar to service area can be challenging because you're changing the whole nature of your business. And we're almost out of time. We got three minutes. Yes, Bill. So in this scenario, so he's got five locations. We know that proximity is the number one factor in getting that, you know, to appear in the map. If he were to produce good, relevant content on his Google business profile in location number five, does he have a chance of then appearing in that search even though his physical location is over here and he's got the whole service area? So can you optimize and work that- For that location? Yes, that profile. Yes. And then another thing I'm gonna say with everything, it depends. So one thing I would look at is the area. What does that look like as far as what you do in your business? What's the competition look like? And based on that, then you can optimize your profile and specifically target that. Also optimize your website. We're talking about Google business profile, but your profile and your website work hand in hand. While I have seen profiles without a website do well, these are ones that typically they don't have a lot of competition. So definitely don't ignore your website. So, okay.  Okay, can you talk for a second about the benefits of having an agency? An agency account instead of just a regular using your email agency accounts. Basically it is with Google. If you're offering an agency, I recommend you sign up for an agency. When you have people add you, they don't add your email, they add your agency account. It's just easier to keep things organized and I like it better. However, this is either way that you do it. I'm not sure that I mentioned this earlier when I was talking about your users and checking them and you can get your account suspended. If you're using an email account and you have an agency profile or any account that has a ton of profiles listed with that user, if you do something on your Google Ads account Google doesn't like, you're an agency, you could get every single profile that you have your user on suspended. Okay, so that's another reason that these users are important to audit your users. You wanna make sure you're not using it on these other profiles. But agency account, I do recommend it if you're doing a lot of profiles. So, yeah. I have a client that says, he wants a listing report who doesn't address this. Think what he's doing is this manager which is kind of a part-time guy who has his apartment or a house or whatever and they use that address. Yes, that is not recommended in Google guidelines. You should not use an employee's address because you do not have full access to that. It's his office for that location. It is the business paying rent for that office. It's not working more as a service. Yeah, but exactly. So, but he doesn't, that business doesn't have control over that address. So like for me, I'm using my home address. That's where I live, that's where I own.  He is not living in all those locations personally. His employees are, Google does not like that. But we can talk further. I know we're at the end of it. If you want, we can talk further a little bit more about that. So, okay. Thank you all so much. Definitely reach out. I'll be here for a bit longer if you have questions, wanna talk further. Thank you so much. Thank you.


What we're going to do in this lecture, we're going to take a look at a method of conduction analysis called the alternative method and essentially it's a method that relies on Fourier's law. It applies to one-dimensional conduction without heat generation and for steady state scenarios. But in general when you're looking at conduction analysis there are a number of different methods that exist and we'll be looking at in this course. One method is the heat diffusion equation which we looked at in the last lecture. We haven't solved it yet but we derived the equation. We'll be solving it later when we look at two-dimensional conduction for very simplified cases. So the heat diffusion equation, numerical analysis, and we'll be looking at a technique later on in the course as well that uses Excel. And then finally what we call the alternative method. Essentially it's a method that relies on Fourier's law and so there are some restrictions in terms of where this will apply but it kind of gives us a shortcut way of doing conduction analysis and so that's what we'll be working on in this lecture. But looking at this alternative method there are some heavy restrictions on this alternative method that we're going to be looking at. We have to have steady state conduction so that means no transience. The d by dt term goes away. One-dimensional although we will extend this to problems dealing with cylindrical and spherical coordinates but for those you consider them to be one-dimensional and you'll see what we're talking about when we get there. So one-dimensional conduction basically what happens is the only change is in the radial direction for cylindrical or spherical and the final restriction is no heat generation. So if we can make those three restrictions then we can use this alternative method. So what I'm going to do I'm going to kind of set it up and then we're going to look at it for three different applications one being just one-dimensional conduction and a solid then we'll look at radial cylindrical coordinate and spherical. But let's begin in a generic manner looking what we're talking about here. So let's assume that we have some chunk of material a very technical word for it but it's some piece of material. We have insulated walls and what I'm going to do I'm going to assume that this object that we're looking at is aligned about the x-axis. So that is our x-axis there and with that x will be going in that direction and so this would be x equals x naught at this location. And what I'm going to assume is that at each of the positions along the x-axis and that the temperature is constant across that entire plane so we'll assume that we have t naught there. And the other thing I'm going to assume is that I know the area as a function of distance in the x direction and then on the back surface here this here I'll say I know the temperature there and we'll call that t1. So what we're going to do we're going to draw out a little differential element here so let me do that now. And so there is our differential element and what we're going to do let's take a look at what that differential element might look like. Okay so there's our differential element we're going to say the thickness in the x direction is dx and then what I'm going to assume is we have heat flux in this direction qx and then on the back surface of the differential element it will be qx plus dx. So that is the heat transfer in and the heat transfer out. Let's write out Fourier's law so this is one-dimensional heat transfer so I have an ordinary differential here instead of a partial differential and what I'm going to do I'm going to rearrange Fourier's law and essentially what I'm going to do I'm going to bring the area over to the right hand side and the dx over so let's rearrange this so we have that if we rearrange Fourier's law and now what I'm going to do I'm going to integrate this so the integral on this side is going to go from x0 to x and over here we're going to integrate from t0 to t. Now notice what I've done is I've written that thermal conductivity is being a function of temperature. Thermal conductivity is a function of temperature. Quite often for our analysis however we will consider it not to be a function of temperature so sometimes you can pull that out and we will be making that assumption as we go on with this analysis. So let's take Fourier's law as written and if we can assume thermal conductivity is a constant and in this case I'm seeing it's a constant it means it's independent of temperature. If we can make that approximation then we end up with this equation here. Okay so this is an equation that if we know the change in area as a function of x we should be able to determine the temperature distribution in an object. Now we do have heat flux in there as well and we'll show that that comes out of the boundary conditions but we're able to figure that out but what we're going to do we're going to take this equation we're going to apply it to a number of different scenarios one is just the one-dimensional conduction problem and then we'll look at applying it to cylindrical and spherical coordinates but that kind of sets up the alternative method technique.


This research examined the potential use of silver nanoparticles produced by a fungal species found in healthy refina sativus leaves for antimicrobial applications. The synth-sized silver nanoparticles were characterized using UVVis spectroscopy, FTIR, XRD, DLs, TEM, and AFM. The results showed that the silver nanoparticles had a spherical shape with an average particle size of 4 to 30 nanometers and were highly toxic against human pathogens. This suggests that the silver nanoparticles could potentially be used as effective antimicrobial agents. This article was authored by Ted Singh, Kumori Juti, Amar Patnaik, and others.


Victor says hi everyone. Hi Victor. I'm playing with some flows and I am stuck. Basically I want a column to change from like pending to approved from like pending to approved. I'm using the wrong accent I need a Southern California like pending to approved when the approved hits approved man when he gets the email. Okay, let me start reading this one again. I'm playing with some flows I am stuck. Basically I want to call him to change from like pending to approved when the approved hits approved when he gets the email. Has anyone seen like a video on how to do this? Or 30 videos on how to do this. He likes playing with flows. Shane has made a bunch of these. Laura has made a bunch of these.  I'm gonna say you don't even have to watch a video. I feel like Victor's problem maybe when he is searching. He's using wrong terminology. He's trying to update a status of an item in a list based off of someone approving it right. I feel like maybe if he searched upon the right terminology probably could find 50 million things. Yeah, yeah. So just based off of Christian's reading I would think maybe it's a terminology search issue and I would I would I would look at it that way. He's not asking for an answer. He's asking if you've seen a video. Yeah, yeah. I've seen plenty of videos. I mean, I'm glad we could help, but yes. Yes, there are. But I feel you know, just to enhance your search terminology and I feel like you're going to find a number of things to help you with that scenario. And I like reading these verbatim just because you know, I want to again, it's our interpretation. We're not able to follow up with Victor with with other questions to see is that what you meant? Is that you know? So that's why we try to discuss different options. Try to get into the mind of Victor. If you're watching this picture, comment below. If I were Victor, how would I? Yeah, so like and subscribe, like and subscribe. Hit the bell. We're here to help. I think Jonathan has a real answer though. Yeah. So to help with to follow up on what Stacy said, try your search a little better. But here's what you're I think what you're looking for. It sounds like in flow. You have found the start and wait for an approval. So somebody is getting a an email and clicking approve. And you're trying to update the SharePoint list based on that approval. So you need to search for a share or power automate approval workflow and then figure out the condition underneath. So when an approval comes back, the first thing you want to do is do a condition for the approval response equals approve and Google it, being it, search for it and make sure that you're using the right word there and it's approve not approve the big difference. One of them works and one of them doesn't. And then inside of that condition, you'll have a yes and a no and then do your update SharePoint item based on that response. I did a nice little just quick search for you, Victor. And Christian, I put that in the chat for you. Awesome. Send us all your Google and Bing search requests and we can we can Google that for you. Or ask chat GPT to write the stuff for you. Yeah. So I was just I was thinking that she was like GPT and then copy paste. Yeah, we did do it. We don't want to train chat GPT on our answers to these these questions. Our gentle mocking tone that we have with there are honestly, there are I do want to say this out there too, like there are no bad questions.  But I mean, they generally the bad questions come from a good place. That's new or they're asking the wrong question the wrong way or things around there. We joke. So it's not Victor don't take it personally like we're we love you man. So we have to have fun with this or we would just cry sometimes, right?


Doomloop. Doomloop. Are you familiar with the term Doomloop in San Francisco? Doomloop particularly applies to San Francisco so the idea of a Doomloop is you know things are in let's say in a city like San Francisco what you get is maybe you get a COVID and what happens with COVID is downtown shuts down and people start working remotely so they fulfill people going to downtown and that means that you know people start businesses in downtown start closing and downtown deteriorates and maybe homeless people move in and and as a consequence of that now when people start opening up and wanting to come back to the office they go whoa I don't want to go back to San Francisco downtown because the stores have closed and the homeless have come in so maybe we'll we'll go somewhere else and so that increases the kind of the stagnation of the downtown which causes more stuff to close down more homeless to come in and fewer people to move in and fewer new people to move into the city and and you get the spiral and it just gets worse and worse and worse and it's hard to break it because and of course part of this is the fact that businesses move out causes your tax revenue to go down and therefore you can't provide the infrastructure you can't deal with a homeless problem the if you can't deal with a homeless problem then again more companies leave and on and on and on it goes and San Francisco is clearly experiencing this kind of doom loop particularly in its downtown and with companies leaving the city its tax revenues declining significantly not only companies but of course individuals as well and the explanation for this has been COVID COVID caused this COVID that's what stimulated all this that's what got it going that's what caused this to all happen and there is an excellent article today in Pirate Wire which I referred to you a number of times about how it wasn't COVID wasn't COVID indeed the beginning of the San Francisco doom loop started two years before COVID in 2018 with the passage of something called proposition C proposition C prop C a prop C was hailed and fought for by the largest employer in San Francisco last technology employee in San Francisco sales force the CEO of sales force Mark Binioff Mark Binioff is known as the probably the most progressive explicitly altruistic explicitly guilt-ridden explicitly pro every social leftist agenda item out there in the world Mark Binioff is part of that he is the CEO founder and CEO of sales force he succeeded in spite of all that which is a mystery but he's all for social responsibility and DEI and everything everything right anyway Mark Binioff really fought for prop C and what prop C did was prop C was going to prop C the proposal was to double the revenue tax on companies based in San Francisco so double the taxes on businesses but explicitly use all the new available revenue for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to funnel it into a new department of homelessness and to solve the homeless problem prop C has raised about a billion dollars a billion dollars for one city San Francisco to deal with one problem the homeless problem over the last five years when a prop C was passed a number of tech executives fought it including Patrick Collison from Stripe and Jack Dorsey from Square Jack Dorsey the founder of Twitter and it was fought even by the mayor even the mayor said this is a bad idea but it passed anyway and Mark Binioff and the day it passed published this tweet prop C's victory means the homeless will have a home and help they truly need let the city come together in love for those who need it most there was no finish line when it comes to helping the homeless thank you amazing supporters of prop C so homeless will have a home well five years after the passage of prop C a billion dollars spent on homelessness the homeless problem is bigger than ever in San Francisco more homeless in the street more problems and indeed the homelessness is a big part of this doom loop although another big factor of the doom loop and how it started was guess what happens when you dramatically raise taxes on businesses in your city so even before COVID in the years leading up to COVID companies were already leaving San Francisco in large numbers and creating the so called doom loop and creating the crunch of revenues for the city government that ultimately resulted in as resulted in the inability to deal with infrastructure and the fact that companies are leaving office buildings are empty no revenue for restaurants and and retailers in downtown and on and on and on you go right all started not by COVID but started by increased taxes by increased taxes increasing the taxes that were fought by many in the business community but Mark Binyoff and those who supported Mark won the day and and they got it passed now we can talk about homelessness and why homelessness is such a huge problem in San Francisco but certainly one of the problems of homelessness in San Francisco there are many housing costs a big part of it but there are many problems in San Francisco but one big one is the fact that San Francisco like Los Angeles provides homeless people with housing free small houses but houses guess what happens when you buy something for free uh if you supply it for free get help guess what happens to demand for something that's supplied for free it increases so what's happened in San Francisco is not only is the cost of housing in San Francisco very high and is caused to some extent homeless people in the in the Bay Area but add to that the fact that now if you're homeless in San Francisco down the road you will promise free housing and and real housing in a in a in an actual apartment well homeless people or marginally homeless people from all over the state maybe all over the country are going to come to San Francisco and say I'm here where's my free apartment the most stuff you offer for free the more than a man for that free stuff is going to be there so the homeless problems only increased in San Francisco the more money is being poured into providing homes for homeless people and these are not temporary homes these are permanent homes and therefore you don't people are going to flock to San Francisco to inhabit those even if it means not today in the future and this means drug addicts from all over the country are going to come to San Francisco to get known only the free treatment at easy access to drugs but also easy access to real estate and the same is true of the mentally mentally ill so San Francisco becomes a magnet for homeless people from all over the the country certainly all over the state and the billions or the hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from San Francisco businesses is poured into providing these homeless people with residences but that mysteriously don't ever solve the homeless problem because the supply of homeless people never ends never ends keeps going so you need a solution to homeless problem a solution to homeless problem even if you take into account strong government involvement in it it would be quick and relatively cheap and it would be would involve making sleeping on the streets in San Francisco illegal and providing temporary shelter not housing shelter of homeless people in the outskirts of the city in not very nice places in not in places that offer easy access to drugs and and basically not give them free stuff make it expensive to be homeless in San Francisco and you'll get less homeless people in San Francisco supply demand incentives incentives actually work and you know you can provide treatment centers you can provide a lot for the for the drug addicts and so on you can provide a lot at literally a fraction a fraction of what San Francisco is spending right now on homeless by the way all this money is being funneled through a whole variety of non-for-profits non-for-profit to vote lobbied for proposition see a bunch of non-for-profits who you know who are you know maybe they've got good intentions maybe they don't who knows but who basically living off of this massive tax revenue the non-for-profits getting fed by tax revenue by tax revenue note that the mayor of San Francisco is never for this the progressive mayor of San Francisco is always against this this is something that was brought and promoted by the non-profits and got massive support by bini off and and certain business leaders in the community


Hi, I'm Scott Leppert. I'm the co-founder of Trova, and we're here at CES debuting our flagship product, which is Trova Home. But before I get to that, maybe I'll just show you our product that we're already shipping to our customers, which is Trova Go Plus and Trova Go. These two sizes right here of our personal, smart, biometric safes. So this is where I could hide my Patek Philippe. I'm joking, I don't have one, but let's say somebody has like a valuable little thing, maybe credit cards or something, and then it's locked. Yep, yeah. So I'll just show you real quick, demonstrate here. So it's an app enabled. So I'll just open up our app here, make sure that we're paired, just click face recognize, oops, and I missed it, hold on there you go, and it's opened up. And what would you have inside? Well, we found from our consumers that really this is a product that is used to exercise privacy or give our customers privacy and peace of mind and to exercise discretion. So we find that they put really three classes of things in Trova Go. So it's about evenly split across those three. So it's either prescription medications that they want to keep safe and secure from other people in their lives, coworkers, kids, that kind of thing, recreationally legal drugs like marijuana that they also want to keep away from people and don't want to have accidentally ingested. And then thirdly valuables, cash, money, jewelry, all those types of things. Probably the best security feature of Trova is that it doesn't look like it holds anything. It doesn't particularly resemble that it's a lock box. It looked maybe a little bit more like a hard drive or a battery pack. So really the only person who knows there's anything inside of it is the person who actually put something inside of it. You could put a little SSD drive in there with the special info. Yep, yeah, all kinds of things like that. And then Trova. SD cards also. Yeah, SD cards, anything. What we decided when we started, my wife and our co-founders in this, and when we started socializing this concept out there and listening to our consumers, what we decided is that we really didn't want to dictate what people put inside of it. What privacy means to one person is different to the next and what people feel like they need to exercise discretion around. If you have kids, for example, it's completely different than if you don't have kids. And we found that our customers are about 60% parents, but the people that aren't parents have valuables and things that they want to store in there and it gives them that, again, that little bit of extra added security. And then here is Trova Home, which is much larger. Similar design cues. Hopefully you can see that decently in the camera there. So similar design cues on the lid and a couple of internal USBs, two locking mechanisms and now a friction hinge. Nice. Is it, like, can people force it open or is it really hard to open? Yeah, so it depends on the product. Obviously the size of the lock that fits into Trova Go is relatively small and can somebody break into this? Certainly, like, people can, a trained thief can break into basically any lock box on the market in less than a minute unless it's a $50,000 safe in your wallet and maybe it takes them five minutes. They can still get into that though. So this, you know, this can be broken into but again, why would somebody? It doesn't look like it holds anything. And it's kind of the goal. Trova Home actually can be bolted down to whatever surface you have it sitting on. It can also be Kensington locked if you want to have it not so permanently bolted in place. And it's definitely a lot harder to break into but with a sledgehammer it's made out of aluminum and it can certainly be broken into at some point. It's not going to be easy but it's also not impossible. So it's a good tool for all the people that have small kids that might be playing around with everything and they don't want them to play around with everything. Yeah, exactly. On Trova Home we have, again, we really focus on daily use items. This is about convenience and privacy. And so we want people to be able to get into it quickly. We want it to be out in their life. That's why we designed it as an object that looks like an interior design object that would sit nicely in any nice high-end home. It's not meant to be stuffed into a closet and put away and accessed once a month. On Trova Home, one of the other use cases in the bedroom is either around adult intimacy objects, which maybe you don't want your kids to accidentally stumble on or you're in laws for that matter or you're cleaning people as well as personal protection items like mace and things like that that you might want to keep next to your bed for that extra sense of security. And for that use case we added NFC to it this year so that you can tap to open your Trova and get into it really quickly with your phone. You don't have a remote opening solution with a little music that plays or something like a little, you got a surprise or something? Yeah, we do actually have a, so on Trova Home there is Wi-Fi connectivity and there is remote opening capability. No music built into it though. All right. Good question. All right. So what's kind of price? Where can people buy them? Yeah, we are a premium end of the market here. So this is a fully CNC machined aluminum product that carries a really precise and exacting finish to it.  What does the Plus do that the Go doesn't... The difference between the Go and the Go Plus is just interior capacity. They're both meant to be carried with you in your hand and fit pretty easily. The Trova Go Plus has 60% more interior capacity. It looks like a headphone jack. What is that little button? So this is the button here is the multifunction button. It's an LED that'll tell you battery status as well as pairing status. And then it turns it on and off. And actually if you put the app into app bypass mode, a double click of this will also unlock the box without having to go through the biometric verification. And then on the other end, you have the battery port for charging and then you have a little antenna for the Bluetooth connection. How long is the battery life? Good question.  That's the biggest draw on the battery but it lasts about a month on regular opening sort of once a day or something like that. Maybe longer than that. I think from complete cycles when we do our cycle test, it's in the thousands before the battery dies.  And then if it's out of power, you just need to connect the power bank or connect the power and then it reconnects, right? Yeah, USB-C plug here. You can't use your laptop charger that would give it too much power. So it actually automatically doesn't allow it to charge when you hit it with too much power.  And it will need to charge up. We don't have the power doesn't bypass the battery for opening. So if it's being charged, the battery has to charge up enough to be able to turn on and then unlock. So a couple of minutes of charging and it'll be ready to be unlocked. Do you do any partnerships with Swiss watchmakers or some kind of thing like that where they bundle it with the new Rolex? Yeah, I'd love to if you know all the right people over there, make the introduction and we'll do something with them. They'll be watching this video. So then they can, where are you based? We are based in Colorado. All right. So thanks a lot for this demo here, the CES 2021. Thank you for listening. All right. Have a good day. Thanks.


Hey guys, it's Monica. I'm so sorry. I have been missing an action and it's like Try as I might it's like One thing after another It seems to me anyway, so I Really had all good intentions.  I never I never did that I have a couple of videos in edit mode. I never had time to do that. I Just have been like it's been a crazy time frame right now and I think you know, my mother's going through some health issues and so I've been taking her for iron infusions and Even though they're they're an hour each there's five of them right and this spread out over a week and a half and Even though they're an hour and each they take like about three hours easy To do, you know by the time I get down there get my mother go over there get settled in She has the infusion then we you know, we go to leave and then we get back It's like it's almost it it feels sometimes like it's a half a day So I've been taking her out to lunch in the morning once we've been going out to lunch I took her shopping twice So she was able to do some groceries and stuff like that and she did really well. So that's good I'm very optimistic that this is going to help her because she's super anemic right now and And so that's just been really Very very time-consuming that on top of working full-time as you can imagine right the time constraints are very difficult when you When you have a full-time job and you are trying to you know Maintain your sanity your your life your home and all of that but So no excuse other than life gets in the way and I also struggle with the fact that Makeup is makeup and real life is real life and sometimes, you know, you make that decision I look at some of the makeup and I'm like on it's boring or the skin care after a while and And I struggle with being like super boring like who's gonna care about what lipstick I'm wearing or not, you know a type of thing and in reality when this and I know my channel is not Really that way but in reality, there's there's so many more deeper things to have conversations about You know struggling about taking care of your elderly parents Being in retirement age and still having to work full-time and now of course with the economy the way it is It's it's scary it because I had thought, you know, perhaps next year on my birthday I could work more part-time hours But with the economy, it's it's super frightening I mean, I don't know what it's like in your neck of the woods, but you know where I am our electric Company starting in August is doubling our fees for our electricity and gas prices of sky-high and food prices So, you know, we're thinking about economy but still living, you know I still have to drive to work at times and I still have to drive down to my mother's and There's still things that require getting in the car and driving somewhere That requires gas. So And you still have to have that balance and so sometimes I struggle with that balance of being a good daughter a good a good mom a good wife a good employee and Relaxing and having fun for myself. So I struggle with that balance sometimes. So that said this past weekend You guys all know it was father's day, right? And so jay went golfing saturday sunday morning He went golfing. He does this every sunday that he can And as long as we're, you know, able to do it and he can afford it and you know, we can afford it and all that It's a great relaxation for him so he did his golf on sunday and We ended up later in the day. We had been hard We weren't really too sure what the heck we wanted to do, right? So we had been hard And later in the day, we ended up going to the sand castles the The Hampton beach. I think it's the 21st or 22nd annual sand sculpture classic contest And so we went up there and and we made we I'm not a big fan of going up on sunday especially for this day because there's usually heavy heavy traffic And officially they've already done the judging and all that stuff. So there's tons of more people looking at the sand castles so but it was it was cold out and it was Overcast so we said, okay. Heck. Why not? So we did we went to Hampton beach. It was beautiful I'm gonna superimpose some some clips when I edit this so you can see You know, maybe just a couple of minutes of me and not me But of us walking around looking at the sand castles and and there was a number of people there, but it wasn't super crowded So hope you enjoyed that Yeah I know I kind of like that one Yeah It's really cool Oh Governor's choice Superhero slaying the dragon Details amazing Oh And then saturday, I forgot to mention saturday we did the most awesome bike ride so friday my mother had her second infusion and And that seemed to go really well and I talked to her saturday and you know, everything was fine. So Jay and I took our bikes We took our e-bikes and we went down to Salem where my mother lives and we went into Derry into the Derry the town of Derry in the town of windham in the town of Salem have interconnecting Bike trails off-road You do have some road crossings, but most of them off-road very scenic very nice places So we actually did that and and then we ended up going all the way down to this place called tuscan village, which is sort of a Live play and work community where they have condos and they have stores and you know And they have growth grocery restaurants and all that stuff and outdoor entertainment So we went there and we sat down and Jay ended up having a beer and popcorn But we sat outside and we vetched out and then we rode back to our car It was about 20 to 23 miles we did that day Which was really the first long ride for me this this season in one in one stretch So that was really that was really good and So that was our saturday. So instead of me filming saturday morning.  So we've also been working on Some of you know that my dad Had a machine shop and he had it in the barn attached to our house So Jay and I live in a very small modest home It's actually a sears and robux catalog home that was I think the farmer owner purchased it in 1924 Something like that came off a train track train wreck. It was in a train wreck and he got a great deal on it. Anyways, so So you know over the years it's been modified We've had additions and all that stuff one of the things that it has is a big barn And the barn was converted to a machine shop where my dad ran his machine shop for 50 years And Jay and I never wanted to go in there and take anything out after my dad retired He kept saying come up and it just never happened. I know some of you know the whole story. So Long very long story shot We had started to tackle this project last year and it's been astronomical and this year full force so We've both been out there working our buns off, you know Cleaning the getting rid of stuff moving work benches Barrels and barrels and barrels of metal and stuff like that. So we've got it to the point where it is Other than three work benches that we decided we were going to keep their rough shape But we you know, it's going to be it's going to be a garage. It's not going to be living space so And we decided we're going to keep those we had the whole place emptied out and we had a concrete person Had some estimates and concrete and I didn't realize how expensive that would be but we had a concrete person come and pour concrete yesterday So we got that done Now it's drying and we have to replace two windows and two doors A door and probably the the front door out in the shop and then we'll be able to You know be able to put stuff in there like all the stuff that people normally have in their garage we have in our basement And so we'll be able to utilize that as storage space, which will then allow us to really declutter the house Which we've been doing for the last few years and finish the attic that we started because we never finished that So that would be the project. Um, I'd love to sell the house You know, I'd love I would love to sell the house and live in the motor home full time A motor home is old. It only has one slide. It's small has a lot of drawbacks in that sense, but Man, I would if I could convince Jay to sell the house and Let's just go live in a motor home and I would do it but He's not with me on that at this point in time. And I think you know, you you got to both be in the same Um in the same, you know on the same page when it comes to that So I'm I'm right now sitting in the car. I'm getting ready to go And I just thought I would try to shoot this video really quick I was going to do a covlog and I just I just got too nervous up driving and shooting So I'm still sitting out turn this around so you can see where I'm at So, yeah, so if you look out you can see My house you can see, uh, you know, it's just hip roof Very small old home and then I've got the big barn and I've got my motor home right there So, you know, that's what I'm kind of like looking at, you know, and I'm going to get ready to um To rock and roll Yeah, I get ready to rock and roll right Rock and roll to work is what I'm going to get ready to do. So I've got I've got um A couple of things this morning that I'm going to work on a presentation for Friday And I also have a class this afternoon. My most surgery is tomorrow morning at 7 30. I go in And I don't I don't know how it's You know, I don't know how it's going to work. I don't know Anything about it yet, of course, they have to keep going until they have the clear margin So I've been pretty stressed out. I got a new cbd product Which I'll enclose this picture on um, I got it from octally and um I I can't really do a full review on it yet because I I don't know but it's it's sort of more of a relaxation Gummies, I do like gummies. So I've been I've been I've been trying it and I've been researching some of the ingredients in it But um, yeah, this was sent to me complimentary, you know from the company bio octally network I'll leave all the information below but it's definitely Relaxes me. I think I'm going to take it tomorrow morning before my surgery So anyways, you know, here it is a video of nothing right just me jabbering um Yeah, so when I you know when I get in hopefully I can get my presentation done on friday The thing i'm super worried about about my most surgery is the location I probably will not be able to wear glasses, right? So I I I'm like thinking I'm gonna I have a class to teach friday on zoom which I may postpone it only because I don't know The doctor has prepared me for being quite swollen So Some people even get black eyes So how swollen I am but they've all said I'm not going to be able to wear my glasses and I don't have contact So I don't even know if I'm going to be able to see and my mother has her fourth treatment Tomorrow afternoon as well and I had planned on taking her her treatment is at 230 And then I'm thinking now jake's the backup, but she would prefer that I took it My sister's out of town so she can't take her so my mother would prefer that I do it But jay's the backup and I said to my mom I said I don't know how I'm how long it's going to be In the morning how I'm going to feel and I do know number one I'm probably not going to be able to see that well. So Anyways, whether I take my mother tomorrow or not.  I didn't want to have to do that and and This late in the season, you know, but where it's canceled from june 1st I didn't have any choice really to take to do it.  We're going camping and Keep your fingers crossed The price of diesel is crazy and I think I mentioned after our memorial day camp out that we did That's the only time we've been out so far this year is memorial day We made a decision that we were going to top off our diesel fuel after every trip So that it wouldn't be like all of a sudden we're filling it 50 gallons, you know, or 100 gallons or whatever I don't even know how many gallons it takes So, you know, we've got a full thing of fuel, but we have We have 4th of july coming up and then we have bar harbor, which is the august trip. So Yeah And it's diesel fuel so it's worse than gasoline Anyways Yeah, so that's really that's really all about me right now is that's real my update Really a lot about nothing. I'm really worried about my mose and I'm worried about how that whole day is going to proceed How I'm going to look on the 25th my sister's having a birthday party Which I probably am not going to go to for her granddaughter And I also have my mother-in-law coming up, but she's not going to come to new ham sure She's going to arrive in massachusetts on the 25th, but she won't come up to new ham sure until the 8th so By that time, hopefully I won't be as swollen Oh my gosh, I don't know guys, you know, how do you juggle it all? Do you ever get to the point where you just feel like You can't juggle it all or you feel like I don't know if I i'm disappointing myself Or if i'm just disappointing other people But I just feel like I'm such a big disappointment in the sense that I can't I don't I don't feel like I'm Giving everything my all I feel like I I'm depleted I don't know if that makes sense You know, I just feel like there's more I could do or should do or or I'm expected to do and I I'm just depleted I'm just depleted And I keep trying to reduce myself and You know recharge myself and I just think that right now You know a lot of a lot of everything. I know you guys are all going through it too A lot of everything just weighs us all down. You know retirement. Hello My 401k in the is in the tube is in the tank.  I was going to put it on the dashboard I'm going to get maybe a webcam that works really good on my car. So I can do some chit chatting, but that's it. I'm just going to upload this really quick. Probably you'll see it Wednesday morning Or tonight Tuesday depending and just to give you that update. So I'm alive and well I know many of you have sent me messages. I have it totally ignored my instagram page Totally ignored it. Um really terrible I am ashamed of myself But wanted to give you that update things will get better right now. They'll improve for all of us So I'm just going to work on my attitude as much as possible and try to get into the groove So next time you see me, I'll probably have a hunker bandaid on Anyways, bye guys


Brazil nuts, one of my favourite nuts by far, perhaps even my most favourite, and here are my reasons why. Brazil nuts are packed with a mineral which we call selenium, and it's one of those minerals that perhaps doesn't get spoken about enough. Selenium should be packed in our soil so that when plants grow they drag the selenium up into the plant and then we eat them and we get the mineral selenium in abundance. However, unfortunately our soils are becoming depleted in selenium. If you look online at images of countries looking at the selenium content of soil you'll see that it's gradually dropping more and more and more because think of what's going into our soils, the pesticides, the herbicides, etc. which is sadly depleting our soil of these amazing nutrients. Now selenium is crucial for so many different reasons but I'm going to give you some of the really crucial reasons today. One of the main functions of selenium is to support the health of the thyroid gland. That's the gland that sits just here at the front of the neck. This gland is a sort of butterfly shaped gland like this and it has a really important role to fulfill in the body because what it has to do is it has to regulate the metabolism of every single cell in the body and what I mean by metabolism is the chemical reactions occurring in those cells. So if the thyroid gland is sort of sluggish and not working very well every single cell will also be sluggish and so that person can feel tired and lethargic and maybe low in mood. Everything just sort of slows down in that person and selenium is crucial when it comes to the creation of these thyroid hormones. In fact there is one thyroid hormone in particular that it's really really related to and that's a hormone called T3. Now there are two main thyroid hormones T4 and T3. T3 is the more active one that's the one that we're really interested in because if we don't have enough T3 we're not going to be feeling overly well. So selenium is needed to make T3 and if it's absent that conversion into T3 doesn't happen very well and the person can have quite an underactive thyroid picture. So selenium given that our soils are so depleted in it and our plant foods are generally now less abundant in it we've got to make sure that we're getting enough through our diet overall and that's where Brazil nuts come in because Brazil nuts are packed with selenium. In fact one Brazil nut has more than the daily recommended nutrient intake of selenium so if we have one Brazil nut a day we're having more than we're recommended to have overall. So think about that very easy to introduce into your diet you can simply add that into your morning porridge maybe crush some of that up or chop that up or even just have Brazil nuts on their own they taste lovely they're packed with nutrients especially selenium and therefore it's something that we should all be trying to eat if we can. Selenium has some other really important benefits one of which is your immune system. Selenium helps to really up regulate and boost the immune system so that we're better equipped to fighting infections. So if we really need a bit of a boost in our immune system if we keep getting unwell and we're struggling to overcome an illness then you know Brazil nuts might be a really good way of trying to bring that extra boost of selenium in there. Selenium is also very important for the liver there is a really important antioxidant in the liver that relies on selenium and if we don't have enough of it then the liver's not going to be quite as capable at breaking down those toxins for us. So think about it very easy to introduce one or two Brazil nuts a day and that should be your selenium intake pretty much sorted but remember we want to be encouraging a range of fruits and vegetables lots of plant foods because then we can get lots of different sources of selenium into our diets. Thanks for watching this video I'd like to offer you a free online class. To access this please click the link below in the description section.


The Wagner Group leader, the armed forces of Ukraine will arrive in Rostov. The leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the Russian army left part of their positions in Barkhmut and exposed part of the front which had to be covered by the Wagnerites. He gave an ultimatum to the Russian Defence Ministry and the general staff. If his mercenaries are not given ammunition, they will leave their positions. We received a combat order where it was said that withdrawal from the positions would be considered high treason. This, first of all, was aimed at us. If there is no ammunition, we will withdraw from our positions. Instead of fighting, Russian forces are constantly having intrigues. We have a Ministry of Intrigue instead of the Ministry of Defence, so our army is running away. It's running because the 72nd Brigade on the 9th of May lost three square kilometres on which I lost about 500 people because it was a strategic foothold. They just ran away. Prigozhin attacked the Russian Defence Ministry with another batch of criticism. According to him, despite the promised ammunition and the appointment of Sergei Surovkin, almost no changes occurred. He said the Wagnerites were allocated 10% of what they demanded. We were deceived. Prigozhin said that Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of the Russian Federation, personally reduced the number of weapons they wanted to allocate to the Wagner Group. Prigozhin claimed Ukrainian forces were currently tearing up the flanks in Bakhmut, while also regrouping in nearby Zaporizia to launch a long-anticipated counter-offensive. They are absolutely clear. The counter-offensive will be on the ground, not on television. Prigozhin warned. At the same time, Prigozhin said that his mercenaries would remain on the Bakhmut Front. We will fight, and then we will figure it out. He said that if soldiers of the Wagner Group leave their positions, the armed forces of Ukraine will come to rust off.


Two months ago, the Prime Minister said that we were going to fight a 21 day war against COVID. It was his expectation that we would defeat the COVID virus in 21 days. Now we are on 60 days and we are the only country in the world where the virus is exponentially rising and we are removing a lockdown. So it is pretty clear that the aim and the purpose of our lockdown has failed. What India is facing now in front of us is the result of a failed lockdown. Now we in the Congress party and a lot of people want to understand and we do not want to do it harshly, aggressively. But we want to understand what the government's view is going forward. We want to understand what is their strategy. It is pretty clear that four stages of lockdown have not produced the result that the Prime Minister expected. Prime Minister and his entire advisory staff including his top medical people said that the disease would start to reduce towards the end of May. It is clear that the disease is not reducing, it is increasing. So we with utmost respect want to ask the Prime Minister and the government. Now that we have a failed lockdown, what is their strategy going forward? What is their strategy as far as opening up India is concerned? What are the precautions that they are going to take to now curb this disease? How are they thinking about supporting our migrants? How are they thinking about supporting the state governments? How are they thinking about supporting small and medium businesses? We had great expectations. There was multiple press conferences about the package. Prime Minister said 10% of GDP. The reality is we have less than 1% of GDP being given, most of it in loans, hardly any cash giving to people. Congress parties running some states, we are giving cash to people. Directly we are giving cash to farmers. We are giving cash to laborers. But we are not getting any support from the central government. And this is, it is becoming extremely difficult for our states to function without adequate support from the central government. Narendra Modi Ji had said that in 21 days the fight for corona will be won. There are 4 lockdowns, it has been almost 60 days. India is the first country that is closing the lockdown while increasing the number of diseases. Whether it is Japan, whether it is Korea, whether it is Germany, France, when all of them closed the lockdown, when the disease started happening. So this is clear. It is clear that the lockdown in India has failed. The aim of Narendra Modi Ji was not fulfilled. And now with great respect and respect, we want to ask the government and the Prime Minister that what is your plan? The disease has not disappeared in 21 days. The disease is increasing. What is your strategy? How do you see the lockdown? How will you release it? How will you help our labour brothers and sisters? How will you help our small and medium businesses? What is your plan? So we want to ask the government this question. I do not want to score any political points. I am a little scared because what had to happen has not happened. And the country should know and accept the truth. We were told that the disease will be lost in 21 days. It has been 60 days and the disease is increasing. Hospitals say that the disease is increasing. Mr. Gandhi, how are you? My question is how did the government fail in handling the migrants as you have mentioned? Was it the timing of the lockdown? And the second part is that now most of the migrants have returned to their villages. So that is also creating a health hazard for the local people. And at some point of time they will have to come back also. So how do you think as a constructive opposition party, how do you think the government should go ahead from now on? I don't want to go into why the government has failed, that is in the past. I don't want to sort of go into details about what could have been done, how it could have been done, who should have done it. I am not interested. I am interested in right now. I am interested in what India is facing right now. And what we are facing right now is a failed lockdown because the goal of the lockdown has stated by the Prime Minister on national television. Was that we will defeat the disease in 21 days. These are not my words, these are the words of the Prime Minister. Now it is one lockdown, two lockdown, three lockdown, we are coming to the end of the fourth lockdown and the disease profile is not reducing. So I am just stating a simple fact that what we expected from the lockdown has not occurred. Disease profile is shooting up. In number of states, it is shooting up. What is the government thinking of doing going forward? The Congress party is in power in three or four states. We know what we are planning. We are very clear what has to be done in our states. We are giving money to poor people. We are giving food to poor people. We are managing the migrants. We are increasing our testing. We have a strategy. But states cannot function in a strategy without the national government. States are hamstrung if the national government is not behind states. So I have actually been, I have spoken to our chief ministers who have asked me to mention this. They have said that they are fighting a lonely battle and they are confident they understand what has to be done. But what is the central government planning to do? That's the main question here. And that's again, we of course have a view. We put that view down. We said that injection of money is required. Aggressive movement on that front is required. But we were disappointed. So I wanted to ask you that India has been facing a high level of unemployment even before the coronavirus pandemic began. Do you think that India has made a mistake in terms of prioritizing health over the economic crisis that has affected a much larger number of people? India has been facing a very serious unemployment problem. And this is not new. This has been going on. You've heard of making India, you've heard of some of those initiatives and they have not given the result that one expected for whatever reason. However, now there is a new element to this unemployment, which is that we were already struggling and now suddenly we've hit this corona problem, which has multiplied this unemployment problem. As you can see, businesses were shut down and I'm sorry to say this as a national leader, but many, many small and medium businesses are going to go bankrupt. The people who work for those businesses are going to become unemployed. And that is why we are raising again and again and again, that the injection of capital and injection of money to small and medium businesses is required. It will be fatal if we do not do it. An injection of money to the poorest 50% of India is required. It will be fatal if we do not do it. So yes, there is an unemployment problem, but that unemployment problem has now been compounded massively by the current crisis. And no, I do not think it is a choice between healthcare and economics. I think we are intelligent enough to work out a solution that looks after both. Rahul ji, one more serious challenge is facing the country. COVID-19 is fighting on the other side. And on the other hand, on Seema, there is a lot of tension in Ladakh. There is a lot of tension with China. And a report says that more than 10,000 soldiers have come to India to fight. On the other hand, if you see, our Seema-Vivaaj has started with Nepal as well. So on the outside of Seema, India is facing a serious challenge. So you do not think that the government's strategy is somewhere in the house of questions. Look, the border issue, the detailed government should tell the country transparently. What happened in Nepal, how it happened, why it happened, what is happening in Ladakh, how it is happening. It should be transparently. Clearly they should tell the government. I cannot see that transparency. The thing about China and India is that it is a live issue. So I do not want to talk much about that in the press conference. I want to leave that on the government's wisdom. But there is a need for transparency. We should know what is happening and who does not know that. On the 30th of January, the first case of the corona was reported. After that, the 12th and 15th case was raised in the parliament. And after that, you said that there can be an earthquake, health problem. But on the 24th of March, people felt down after 54 days. What do you want to say about the government's attitude towards opposition? Doesn't the government take it seriously? Look, if financial support was not there, if small and medium businesses were not protected, then the loss that is going to happen is still not visible. This is not even the first chapter. So the warning that I was giving in February, I am giving it again today. And I am telling the government, I am telling the others, I am telling the respect. I am telling the respect. Please take economic action. You should give cash injection. You should protect small and medium businesses. Otherwise, there is going to be a great loss. My job is to shape the perspective of the country. And I am telling the country and Mr. Narendra Modi that what you have done in the package, nothing is going to happen to it. So I am telling you again, we need to protect the power of India. How to protect the power? Direct cash. Direct cash for 50% people is 7500 rupees per month. The poorest workers are our strength. They are our soul and our strength. We need to protect them. We don't have to think about what is going to happen abroad. My question to you is that how has the government delivered on-ground at the time of the lifting of lockdown, especially in context of the depressed people, poor people, daily wage workers? I have been speaking to quite a few daily wage workers, quite a few migrants. I have been having zoom calls. I have been physically meeting them with all the social distancing norms. And they have a sense of hopelessness. Many of them have said to me, I don't like those words. I don't want a single Indian person to say those words. Whether he is rich, poor, male, female, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, I don't like those words. And they are saying those words more and more. They are saying that trust is broken. Trust should not be broken. The government can still help the workers. The government can still give 7500 rupees per month. And it should be given. My question is, last week we saw politics being played over the buses for migrants in UP. We also heard BJP and Maya Vati accusing Congress of doing politics over the issue. Then a statement comes from the UP chief minister that other states will now have to seek his government's permission if they want to hire workers from UP. It is very unfortunate that the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh views India in such a way. These people are not his personal property. They are not the personal property of Uttar Pradesh. These people are Indian citizens and they have the right to decide what they want to do. And they have the right to live the life they want to live. It is our job to support them to fulfill their dreams. It is not our job to say that you belong to me, you cannot go and work in Maharashtra. It is an absolutely absurd position. My question is, the main goal of the lockdown was to stop Sankaraman. So, have you had 4 lockdowns in your opinion? Have you stopped Sankaraman? If you had asked the chief minister that you had said 21 days and it has been 60 days, I think the chief minister himself will accept it. The chief minister will have to tell the country what to do next. So, the chief minister will have to come back to the front foot. He will go to the back foot. I am saying that he will come back to the front foot. Rahul, we wanted to ask you about the entire problem of the government. How would you rate it if it is on a scale of 10?  I will not criticise it. I do not want to talk about the past. I am talking about the present. I am talking about the interest of the present and the future. The future is going to happen. And I am getting a little scared that the coronavirus is increasing. We are fighting at the state level. But the support that we need is not being given to the government. And I am requesting the government that not only the state of Congress, but the state of BJP and the state of Congress should be financially supported. So, my question is that it is about transportation, opening up public transportation, regular train services. What according to you would be a safe mobility plan? For me to comment on whether we should open airlines, how we should open airlines, I am not the expert. I don't pretend to be the expert. But what I do understand is that there are a couple of things at a high level that need to be done. When you are opening up, you need to open up with inputs from the state governments. You need to open up with inputs from experts. You need to open up in a systematic way, not in an ad hoc way. I clearly can see that our economy requires restarting, which means that it needs money injection, cash injection immediately. So, that needs to be done. And I can clearly see that we need a strategy to make sure that in a non-lockdown situation, the disease does not run amok. I am worried, let me state it clearly. I am worried that in a non-lockdown situation, in a haphazard opening up, we will get a second wave of corona that will be extremely devastating. In the previous two press conferences, you gave some suggestions. And it seems as if there is a right to decide on red, orange, green, or bottom. What did the government do with those suggestions? There is no suggestion coming forward. There is more than half of the entire Maharashtra alone in Mumbai. So, the government has also started asking for it. We are supporting the government in Maharashtra, but we are not the key decision maker in Maharashtra. We are the key decision maker in Punjab. We are the key decision maker in Chhattisgarh, in Rajasthan, in Pondicherry. So, there is a difference between running a government and supporting a government. However, Maharashtra is struggling because of the nature of its connectivity. And Maharashtra is one of the most important assets, frankly, that India has. It is the centre of business. So, it requires full support from the government of India. What kind of suggestion should we take from the government? It is not up to us. It is up to them. It is their decision. And surely, they have accepted our two or three suggestions, which were about the zone. So, that is a good thing. In the last press conference of the Finance Minister, if you have heard it correctly, I am telling you that you went to meet the migrant labourers. They said that they play a drama. If they were serious, they would pick up their burden. They would pick up their belongings, their belongings, their baggage. They would help them. So, next time you are meeting the taxi drivers, you are meeting all of them. So, you should take care of the finance minister's advice next time you come out of the house. I talk to the poor, I talk to the labourers. I try to understand what is in their hearts. And to be honest, I get a lot of benefit from this. Because I get a lot of benefit from their knowledge and their knowledge. Now, as far as there is help, I keep helping. And I have no objection. If they give me permission, I will definitely pick up the bag. I will pick up the 10-15 bags. I made a small film. That is why I made it so that the rest of the people understand their pain, listen to their sorrow, their pain. If I talk to them, it is a drama. It is their view. I thank them and I tell them that if they want, I will go from here to Uttar Pradesh. Allow me there. I will leave from here. And I will do all the people I can help on the way. The main thrust is press conference. That the Laksh lockdown was not completed. It took 60 days. The disease is increasing. So, we need clarity. What is the position of the government? What will the government do in the coming days? How will it support the poor? How will the small-medium businesses and migrant labourers protect them? And overall, what is their plan? Namaskar.