The next 12 months are going to be the greatest opportunity of your entire career. We're going to have a year where we hit 7 million existing home sales. How is it crazy to think that we're not going to hit it again? A brand is a name that reminds you of a story that you want to be in. But how do you build a great brand at scale with the highest level of integrity? That right now is your time to go out and tell your story in the marketplace at scale with the highest level of integrity to build your brand. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for Ricky Karoo. Soon to be remembered as a legend in the industry. We're going to break off into networking. We're going to go ahead and bring out one more person. I know we're going to get caught in 10, 15 minutes. We're going to break off. But we want to go ahead and do a quick little presentation on adding as much value as possible to your clients.  Give it up for Ricky Karoo. Give it up for my daughter.  I travel all over the country. I'm in a different city every week. Speaking to agents, helping them level up, helping them live better lives. I bring my family everywhere I go. So they're the reason why I do everything I do. Yeah, give it up for them. So Ryan said we're going to save the best for last. Here we are. No, I'm happy to close this thing out. I mean, honestly, let's just take a second actually to appreciate where we are. I mean, look around. This is amazing. Back about six months ago, Juan called me. It was a Sunday. He doesn't remember this. He doesn't remember anything. No, he's sharp as a tack. He said, Ricky, bro, we're going to do the biggest, baddest luxury real estate event that the world has ever seen. I said, oh, really? He said, it's going to be on Times Square, February 29. I said, you don't say. He said, we're going to have the biggest, baddest names in luxury real estate that you've ever heard of right there with us. Sir Han, all of them. I was like, I was taking it all in. I was listening. I didn't say it out loud, but in the back of my head, my mind I was saying, yeah, right. And look at where we are. Now, if this man, are you there? I can't see anything. If this man could take an idea in his mind just a few months ago and turn it into this reality right now, it's been amazing. If that doesn't inspire you to go do great things and be great, nothing will. So I have to acknowledge this man right here. Thank you guys. We appreciate you. What's up? Yeah, what am I doing? All right. Now on to me. If you want to make more money than you've ever made in your life over the next 10 years, make some noise. Okay, we're on the same page. Now, if you mean that, and you're not just like, whoa, give me some money. And you actually want to work you're coachable. You're trainable. I'm about to tell you everything that you need to know. All right, I'm going to give you the cheat codes right here. And this is not going to be a long speech. That was too early for the slide. That's okay. Go back to my name. And I'm going to go like this whenever I need a new slide. Okay, the first thing you need to know is that the next 12 months, the next 12 months are going to be the greatest opportunity of your entire career. And I'm not saying that because the market's going to explode. I actually don't think the market's going to move that much. I think it's going to be up a little bit. Nothing crazy. So why do I think the next 12 months are going to be the biggest opportunity of your entire career? It's because and I'm sure all you guys will agree, we're in a down market, right? My experience in the last 22 years is that when the market is at its lowest, that is the biggest opportunity to expand your influence in the market. Now, mark my words here. Slide's still up. Sorry, we're good. We're good. Mark my words. Over the next decade, we're going to have a year. I don't know if it's year three, five, seven or eight, but we're going to have a year where we hit 7 million existing home sales. All right? And when that year hits, you're going to wish to God that not only you are in real estate, but you've been doing everything you could do to expand your influence in the market up to that point. Now, in my mind, I know that we're going to hit this level. I know that the market is going to do this. So when do I take advantage of this? Is it before expanding my influence in the market, letting everybody know who I am, what I do, and I'm here to help? Or do I do it like every other average agent? Slow down with the market, wait for its pickup, and then try to take advantage. The time is right now. Now, you may be thinking 7 million transactions. That sounds crazy, Ricky. 2021 was the year of the boom, and that was 6 million transactions. How are you going to beat that? Well, we did 7 million transactions before. Boom. 2005. Did you guys realize that we've hit that level of transactions before in the country and that that's the record? Not 2021. 2005 is the record. And a lot of you didn't even realize that until right now, this moment. And so now, if you realize it, if you knew it before, how is it crazy to think that we're not going to hit it again with the demographic of people who want to become homeowners over the next 10 years? Not to mention the historic pent-up demand. Are there people back there? Make some noise. Okay. We've got historic pent-up demand. We're going to hit 7 million transactions. There's no doubt about it. The only question is, what are you going to do about it? Last year, last year was the same level of transactions as 2008. You see it? 2008 was the best time to go all in, expanding your influence in the market. Now, I got in business in 2002. I was 20 years old. So how old does that make me? I made a million dollars before I'm 23. I lost it all in the crash. I was broke, bankrupt, homeless, sleeping in my car, sleeping on friends couches, eating out of people's refrigerators. I didn't care. I knew I was going to come right back. That was temporary. And I was going to take over the entire game. But I got back in the business in 2008, and I went all in, expanding my influence in the market. And what happened? Boom. This is a nice little illustration of my business. And by 2014, I was selling 100 properties a year. And it was all because of what I did in 2008. My message to you, my first message is, this is your 2008. This is the moment to go all in, not waiting for something else to happen. It doesn't matter what the market's doing. I don't care about interest rates, supply, demand, inventory, lawsuit, commissions, AI, Zillow, buyers, dads, messing up inspections, losing deals. I was focused on one thing, expanding my influence in the market. You might look at this and think, what happened in 2014? What would you do differently that year? I'll tell you what I did differently that year. Nothing. My day to day, every year on that screen was exactly the same. Phone calls, postcards, and emails. That's all I did. So why did my business explode in 2014? Because I understood at a really young age exactly what I'm telling you right now. I understood the power of expanding my influence, compounding relationships every year on top of more relationships the next year, on top of more relationships the next year, until the year that the market resurgence. The resurgence is coming. It's going to be a perfect storm. Like I can already see it. We're going to have prices are going to be great, affordability is going to come down, interest rates are going to be at a really great place, but guess what we're going to have? Buyers and a lot of inventory. I don't know. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I don't know how long it's going to take, but it's coming. And the larger you can build your name in the process, you guys can do way more than I did. This is 2014. How much of prices went up since 2014? 100%, 200%. 100 deals now. I started looking at the market now, like if I'm still on 100 properties now, damn, the prices. Now what happened after 2014? I'm killing him. This is a screenshot of my MLS the next eight years after 2014. You can see I'm at the top. I'm beating entire teams. I did 100 deals a year every year after that. It's all because of what I did in 2008, nine, 10, 11, 12. Now what's so funny about this, one thing that's funny is I'm a single agent. I didn't have buyer's agents. I can see you guys. I didn't have buyer's agents. What's a buyer agent? When the agent comes to me now and says, I'm thinking about hiring a buyer's agent. You know what I think? Soft. Thanks dad. Now, I didn't have a buyer's agent, listing agent. I went to all the closings, made all the phone calls, went to the inspections, everything, marketing, Legion, I did it. And so what do you think when I tell you that? What's the first thing you think of? You didn't have a life. You used work eight hours a week. You know how many hours I was working when I was doing this? A two and a zero, 20, 20, 25 hours a week. Yeah, radiant week, team leaders. Because everybody thinks you're going to have a team to actually live the life. No, you don't. You just have to be efficient and understand how to leverage. So how did I do that? How did I have a business where I'm doing 100 deals a year as a single agent, working 20, 25 hours a week? Boom. Personal brand. When you build a great personal brand, which is what I did, I expanded my influence in the market. When you build a great personal brand, you don't chase clients. You don't spend time chasing clients. They spend time chasing you. And guess what?  I'm worried about the lawsuit commission thing. Build a brand. You won't have to worry about money. Speaking of personal brand, how many of you guys just show of hands are following me online already? Okay. People watching at home, let the record show we got about 90% in here. Make a side note, the other 10% have been living under a rock. Personal brand. Now, what is a brand? Oh, this is good. One of my mentors says this, Myron Golden. He said a brand is a name that reminds you of a story that you want to be in. That's cold. That's ice cold. It's a name that reminds you of a story that you want to be in. So let me ask you another question. If you had the opportunity to be in business with me on a great deal, show of hands, would you take the opportunity? I can see. Okay. You got you. Easy. Y'all are like writing me checks or something. You're like, you got your checkbook out. Why is it that most everybody in this room so happy to raise their hand publicly and say, I want to be in business with you, Ricky. I've only met 5% or 10% of you at the most. Why is it? It's because my name, Ricky Cruz, reminds you of a story that you want to be in.  It's a story of perseverance. It's dependability. It's consistency. It's trust. It's working hard. It's making it from the bottom to the top. Everybody wants to be in that story. What have I been doing the whole time? I've been on stage the past nine minutes. I've been telling a story that you want to be in. So from this day forward, every time you hear my name, every time you see me post, every time somebody mentions me, you're going to be reminded of the story of the agent that went all in, expanding their influence in 2024. And every year after, until the market hit 7 million transactions, their business exploded and they became one of the top agents in the world. And that's the story each and every one of you want to be in. And that's my brand. Now, how do you build a brand? We know what a brand is. How do we build it? That's easy. You tell your story to the marketplace. But how do you build a great brand? You tell your story to the marketplace at scale with the highest level of integrity. What's integrity? Doing what you said you were going to do, when you said you were going to do it, every single time, even when nobody's watching. So ladies and gentlemen, I'm just trying to help you here. I'm just trying to tell you that right now is your time to go out and tell your story in the marketplace at scale with the highest level of integrity to build your brand. Now, the agents I connect with the most are the ones who are all in to expand their influence in the market, no matter what the market's doing. This market is temporary. It doesn't matter. The agents I connect with most are the ones who realize they're not building 2024. They're building their career. If you're going to be in the business for 10, 20 years, every prospect I talk to, I'm thinking how many deals are they going to do and refer out in the next 20 years? I don't care if they do a deal today or not. I just want to get to know you and get you on my team so that when you do business, I'm your guy. That's it. And that's what it's all about. So my message today is that now, the time is now to prepare for the market. Not wait on it. The agents who are all in, blinders on, expanding their influence, no matter what, that's the mark of a great agent. And the mark of a great speaker is one who when they're on the stage speaking, you never want to hear them stop talking. But unfortunately, that's my time. I love you guys very much. I love you more than anything. I want you to keep working, pushing, fighting for your dreams. And I'll see you guys all very soon. Let's go. Thank you so much, New York.


I think everything was working. Fast forward command was really good. Change up, slider. Going in, going on the side. I didn't want to think I got only two hits. Those two homers, the first one was a great pitch. You know what I was saying? Yeah, I don't know what's about pitch. In that seventh inning, was fatigue at all a factor? Back-to-back walks to start off that inning? Not at all. Not at all. I mean, after that, you know, I came back straight out of the guy. I was feeling like I couldn't go more, you know? But my last other session, I was doing either. He told me that was my last batter, no matter what. And that's what I did. To give up two hits, Luis, and still have this kind of outcome, does that make it more frustrating? What? To give up two hits in the whole outing and have this kind of outcome? Does that make it a little tougher? I mean, they gave me the opportunity to come back to the seventh. You know, like, I got two walks there.   And, you know, that's on me. Seventh, despite losing these two, you get us to put in the series. You're going to be more than ready with the best record in the league. Do you like where those teams positioned right now? Yeah, of course. I mean, we've got a great team, you know? The pitch has been great. You know, the hitters have been great. So, you know, going through this off-day, I think we're in a great spot. A few months into a season where people were not sure how much you would be able to do this year, how are you feeling, I mean, strength-wise? You went, I think, a season high today. I feel pretty great, you know? Like, even me, I didn't know how I was going to, you know, be. Right. And I feel, you know, I feel awesome, you know? I'm doing my work between star and, you know, every five days, every six days, when they came in one extra day, I feel pretty good.


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Hi, this is Dr. Don. Let's spend a couple of minutes so I can show you what to do if you decide you want to use RStudio desktop on your local computer to do your project files. Now this may just be a personal preference that you want to use RStudio desktop, or you may be in that situation that you are using the free account in Posit Cloud and you're running out of hours. For example, you may be a student and you got a message from Posit Cloud that says you're out of hours, you've got 48 more hours clock time to access your materials.  Now you could just go through and click the checkboxes on each one of those things and then export it by clicking on the blue icon drop down and then click export. It would export a zip folder with all those things that you put a checkbox by sent down to your local computer. An easier way is to go over here and click on your workspace and then find the lab that you want to download. This is the one I was working on there that's got the dash BID for video on it. And you just go over here to these icons on the right and there's the export.  And it gives you the message that it's creating a project file for this lab to exploring data-vid workspace, which will have everything in it. And that's what you need if you're going to be working on RStudio desktop. So I'm going to click on download and then it'll take a few minutes for it to download. Okay, it's downloaded there and you can see the zip folder. I'm just going to go ahead and go to that folder. And then down here at the bottom you can see that zip file. And what you can do is to move it into a directory where you want to save things, I want to usually use a folder on my desktop. But once you get it into the directory where you want it, all you've got to do is just extract it. And for example, right there I could browse and I'm going to go here to my RStudio desktop. And I'm going to put this right there. Okay, that took about a minute to extract. I'm just going to double click on that. And you can see there are all our materials.  And I'm going to rename it. I'm going to just do that while I'm paused. Okay, I've renamed that file so I'll know what that is. And I like to use the name of the lab. This is an export on 31524. If you open that folder, down in here is an R project file. Project.r, Kepler, PROJ. That's the key. If you've already got your RStudio desktop installed, then all you've got to do is double click on that project file and your R should open. Okay, my RStudio desktop opened up. And there we are, got the console. Everything looks the same. And let's just say I was working on Rehears 2. I can open that up and continue working on it, just like I was working on Posit Cloud. So I hope this helps.


A local ambulance suddenly closes. A man attempts to hide drugs on a kid at a knife attack, sends two people to the hospital. And it all happened this week. Welcome everyone to This Week. I'm Shawn Allen. For the next half hour, we'll catch you up on news you may have missed and give you updates on the week that was in your hometown. EKB News was the first to bring you the story of the unexpected closure of left Bieber Ambulance Service. EKB News reporters shall be still investigated, what led to the closure, and what will happen next. As of midnight this morning, the Left Bieber Ambulance Service, which has provided service in Floyd County since 1978, is no longer in operation. According to Assistant Emergency Medical Services Chief Kevin Thacker, the ambulance service was a victim of circumstances. He says the Left Bieber Ambulance Service could only operate with money generated from patients transported and the company was receiving low reimbursements due to patients having little or no health care. While many Left Bieber residents are concerned, Floyd County Judge Executive Ben Hill and Transstar Ambulance Service officials say it's not necessary to worry. I can assure you that there will be no lapse in service. The Left Bieber Ambulance Service was a privately owned operation. While it was housed in the same building as the Left Bieber Volunteer Fire Department, it was a separate entity. The fire department will remain in operation. Also, the Floyd County Fiscal Court does not own or operate the ambulance service. This was not something that the county has any control over. These are private organizations like any other ambulance service within the state. Transstar Ambulance Services has a county-wide license and will now provide service for those in Left Bieber. While the county does not own an ambulance service, Floyd County Judge Executive Ben Hill says he is doing everything in his power to make sure Left Bieber residents still have a functional ambulance service. We offered a parking area and so forth for them to park their ambulances and even some office space. I even offered my office there at Left Bieber as a temporary spot for them to operate out of. Left Bieber residents can call 911 or Transstar directly for assistance. In Left Bieber, Shelby Still, EKB News. Deputies were on the lookout Tuesday night for a vehicle matching the description of one found in the parking lot of Eastern Heights Motel and Ival. The owner of the vehicle, 39-year-old Christopher Hamilton of Dana, was found to have active warrants. Deputies found Hamilton in one of the rooms, but he was not alone. 34-year-old Benita Joe Boyd of Gretel and 32-year-old Richard Brandon Mullins of David were also in the room. All three were arrested after a small baggie of what appeared to be meth was found lying in plain view on a dresser. As the suspects were being taken out of the motel room, one of them decided to flee. Mr. Mullins decided that he was going to run on foot. He took off running through a grassy field and then across the four-lingon into a briar ticket. Our K9 leader came down and was able to immediately track him to his location and we were able to take him into custody without any further incident. Leader the K9 dog was able to go back inside the room and make several positive hits for drugs. On searching those locations, we were able to discover a small case with several baggies of what appears to be crystal meth pre-packaged for sale. Through investigation, we were able to find out that that was actually, they actually belonged to Mr. Mullins. Boyd and Hamilton were charged with possession of a controlled substance and Mullins was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, fleeing and evading from police. Police say a man attempted to conceal drugs on a juvenile during a traffic stop. It happened in Royalton when MacGuffin County deputies stopped a 2006 Chrysler Sebring for having no tellites. The driver, 40-year-old Jason Nichols of Saliersville told officers that he shot up Suboxone in meth and would be dirty if they gave him a drug test. A juvenile passenger was found to be in possession of a small blue bag that appeared to contain meth. He told officers that Nichols gave him the bag of meth to hold before getting pulled over. Nichols was arrested and charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia and unlawful transaction with a minor. He was lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center. A Pike County man was indicted last week for allegedly using a computer or other communications device to entice a minor into having sex. According to the indictment, 29-year-old Jonathan Sawyers of the Millard area in Pike County communicated with a juvenile over a three-week period in July in an attempt to get the minor to have sexual contact with him. Pike Commonwealth's attorney Rick Bartley said the crime came to life after a friend of the minor found out about the communication between the two and reported it to an adult. Jonathan Sawyers had been trying to do these things. The Sheriff's Department did an excellent job of investigating. They were able to get copies of Facebook messages and other types of electronic communication showing no question that he was trying to get a minor to have sex with him. And we intend to see what we can do to let him know this is not proper conduct and also anybody else that may be engaging in this type of conduct. It is criminal and we will take it very seriously. The charge of using a computer or communication systems for the purpose of procuring or promoting the use of a minor for unlawful sexual activity that Sawyers is facing is a class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Kentucky State Police post 13 is investigating an apparent knife attack that sent two men to the hospital and a woman to jail. Police were called Monday night to report of a three people fighting in the roadway at Mullins Branch at Kite. Once at the scene, police determined that Kelvin Hall, Justin Caudill and Terry Sutton had all been fighting when Sutton pulled the knife and allegedly attacked Hall with it. Hall was airlifted from the scene to Pikeville Medical Center for treatment. Caudill also sustained lacerations and was taken to McDowell ARH Hospital. Sutton was arrested and charged with first degree assault. She is lodged in the Kentucky River Regional Jail. The Williamson Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect. According to police, the man in this video is wanted in connection of destruction and theft of parking meters. It happened around 345 Sunday evening in the municipal parking lot on Second Avenue in Williamson. The alleged suspect is a white, heavy set male. He was last seen wearing a black shirt and overalls. Officers say getting into a parking meter, it's not an easy task. You have to have a special key to get into it to access the meter part where the time clock is and the base part has to have a special key to get into where the actual money is. The suspect, according to the video, took and twisted and broke the head off the bottom part of the base to access the money. He took the money tray and the access door to the bottom part but left the meter head and the time clock sitting on the on the guardrail where the meters are located. If they can't be fixed, they're going to cost anywhere from four to five hundred dollars to replace them. Hall went on to say that the meters had recently been emptied and that the suspect is estimated to have only gotten 35 to 40 dollars. If anyone has any information regarding this case, contact the Williamson Police Department at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Callers can, of course, remain anonymous. Coming up, the city of Prestonsburg is revitalizing an old attraction and a rehab facility is using the experience of recovering addicts to help their clients. It's all coming up next on This Week. Attention nurse practitioners. If you want to spend more time with the family, the perfect position is available as PMC is hiring for school nurse practitioner positions. You can work while kids are in school and be off in the summer with pay starting at over 38 dollars an hour and an excellent benefit package to learn more. Call Alison Lovely with PMC Recruitment Services at<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER> Pipeville Medical Center, an equal opportunity employer. Corral now opens at 9.38 am for seven day brunch. Maybe you showed up for the Strawberry Cheesecake French Toast or made to order omelets or delicious carved ham. Is that a mashed potato volcano? Nice. We have over 150 choices, but the only one that matters is yours. Golden Corral, your choice rules. America is being battered by an unprecedented hurricane season. First came the devastation of Harvey, now other hurricanes are threatening people's lives and homes. East Kentucky Broadcasting and Pipeville Medical Center will host East Kentucky Cares Hurricane Relief, a live radio telethon Thursday, September 14th starting at noon. The great people at Double Quick are helping with donation jars at all their registers as are many other local businesses. Proceeds go to the American Red Cross as they help those whose lives and homes are affected by the hurricanes. So start raising money or collecting money now and come by or call the live radio telethon at Pipeville Medical Center. That's Thursday, September 14th. East Kentucky Cares Hurricane Relief Thursday, September 14th at Pipeville Medical Center on the stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting. In March, EKB News brought you the story of a lease agreement between the Kentucky State Parks and the city of Prestonsburg, which will allow the city to take around 300 acres of Jenny Wiley State Resort Park and develop it for new attractions and the revitalization of old ones. Preliminary work began Monday on reopening the old Jenny Wiley pool. The pool has been closed for well over 10 years and the deterioration and vandalism has taken a toll on the facility. Just recently, I've got the okay from the court to go ahead and start cleaning up, start getting it ready. We've got a lot of work to do just to get the point so we can start rebuilding it. As you see here, they busted the walls out just to get to the copper pipe. This porcelain breakage right here, nothing of vandalism. There's no benefit in that whatsoever. They got no benefit from it but as you see they crawl back into the pipe chase, they cut the copper lines out. For what damage they've done and what maybe 100 bucks they got out of it, it's going to cost us about $40,000 to give everything back in correctly. But the good thing is we're putting it back. We're going to try to be open in spring. We look for good things to happen. Mayor Stableton also said there are plans of adding a beach area just outside the pool. September is National Recovery Month. Over the next few weeks, we'll bring you recovery-related stories in an effort to show that recovery works. I had a chance to visit a facility that utilizes the experience of recovering addicts in addition to certified counselors to help their clients. Seeking treatment for addiction is one of the most courageous and most important decisions a person can make. It's also one of the scariest. Treatment is overwhelming. It's not exactly something that you're excited to be into. So when you go, you're scared first off about who you're going to be there with and mostly about who's there you're going to be able to relate to. The staff at Mountain Center for Recovery and Hope in Prestonsburg is trying to alleviate some of their clients' fears by employing peer support specialists. Peer support is a person that's overcame addiction. We suffered with all the trauma and some co-occurring disorders, but we maintained recovery and have stayed substance-free for a substantial amount of time. Peer support specialists give their clients something no one else can. Peer support honestly kept me there. They knew exactly what I was going through and they knew exactly what to say. When you tell a counselor how you're thinking, they're not going to have the same reaction that someone who is battling addiction would have. Peer support staff not only benefits the client but the staff as well, because the benefit of one addict helping another is without parallel. It keeps me grounded in my steps. I have to keep working the program I was introduced to through Alcoholics Anonymous and it was the 12 steps and that keeps me balanced in my thinking, my motives and my attitudes towards life. For more information on the Mountain Center for Recovery and Hope, visit the web address listed on your screen. Reporting from Prestonsburg, I'm Shawn Allen for EKB News. Coming up, we'll tell you about a safe way to donate to hurricane victims and EKB chief meteorologist Latham Hopkins will be in with a look back at the weekend weather. It's all coming up next on This Week. Pikeville Medical Center congratulates Mayo Clinic for being ranked the number one hospital in the nation. Earning the number one ranking from U.S. News and World Report as the top hospital in America really affirms two things. One, it affirms the quality of the practice at Mayo Clinic and secondly, it affirms the male model of care. Pikeville Medical Center is a proud member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, PMC and Mayo Clinic working together working for you. Are you tired of pushing pins? Is your boss the worst? Co-workers driving you bonkers? Those cubicle walls seem smaller every day, don't they? You need a change. Here at East Kentucky Broadcasting, we invite you to join our dynamic sales team trading the cubicle for wide open spaces, endless income potential, benefits, travel reimbursements, but wait, there's more! Join our team today and find yourself among the region's top marketing experts. Rub elbows, let sales most elite. 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We have all been moved by the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Although you may want to donate to relief efforts, officials have been warning of scammers pretending to be collecting for hurricane relief efforts, making it hard to know just who you can trust. That's why Pikeville Medical Center and East Kentucky Broadcasting are teaming up for a special event this week to show just how much East Kentucky cares. EKB News reporter Shannon Deskins has the details. For the past few weeks, national headlines have centered around Hurricane Harvey, which damaged 100,000 homes and claimed at least 40 lives in the Houston area.  Both of these storms will leave millions of Americans devastated. As they have done many times in the past, the radio and television stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting are partnering with Pikeville Medical Center to host a radio telethon to raise money for relief efforts on Thursday, September 14th, beginning at noon. It's the kind of thing we do at times like this. We really want to help and we know we've got great listeners and great viewers and they want to help. So this is a good opportunity to pull everybody together and see what we can do when we really pool our resources. And Johnson says by bringing two companies together with one common goal in mind, much more can be accomplished. That partnership with Pikeville Medical Center is so powerful. Their employees donate so much in terms of giving up their vacation time and turning that into cash they can donate. They also do payroll deductions. The past two radio telethons have raised money for natural disasters that occurred here in eastern Kentucky. But she says now those in our region who received help have the opportunity to pay it forward. People around here are accustomed to natural disasters. We've experienced our own floods and blizzards and terrible storms. So we know what this is like and that's a big reason I think people want to help so much. And that opportunity will come Thursday beginning at noon on the radio and television stations of east Kentucky Broadcasting as well as online at ekbtv.com. And volunteers will be on hand to accept donations as they come in, whether by phone, online or in person. Also we'll have people outside taking donations. It'll be like a drive-through if you want to come through that circle and drop off your change from your car or from your pockets or hopefully people will have done some fundraisers between now and then and they'll have some bigger amounts to bring. The radio telethon will be broadcast from the second floor atrium of Pikeville Medical Center. In Pikeville, I'm Shannon Deskins for EKB News. All right now here's EKB chief meteorologist Latham Hopkins with a look back at the week and weather. Thanks Sean. Temperatures on Monday we're close to where we should be this time of the year. We should be around 81 degrees for the high 61 degrees for the low. And we were actually at 83 on Monday 62 the overnight low mostly sunny skies. We did pick up a little rain on Tuesday. That's the only day this week that we had rain in the forecast three tens of an inch of rain officially in Jackson. That cooled temperatures down to 71 and 59 and the trend just kept on going all the way into Wednesday the high temperature 69 degrees 53 the overnight low by Thursday only 70 pleasant degrees temperatures though look at that 47 officially in Jackson that tied a record at the National Weather Service and then as we wrapped up the week on Friday 74 degrees great out there for any plans you had maybe those Friday night football games temperatures though 49 to start the day and that broke a record that was set back in 1988 of 51 degrees. Now of course we're into the weekend all eyes on Hurricane Irma making landfall of course this weekend in Florida. The remnants of Irma have this way as we get into Monday night and last through the better part of next week something we'll continue to watch. Sean will be back with more coming up. Highfield Medical Center congratulates Mayo Clinic for being ranked the number one hospital in the nation and the number one hospital in eight specialties by US News and World Report. As a result of these outstanding rankings Mayo Clinic was named to US News and World Report's prestigious honor roll. PMC is a proud member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. PMC and Mayo Clinic working together working for you. And Corral now opens at 9 38 am for seven day brunch maybe you showed up for the strawberry cheesecake french toast or made to order omelets or delicious carved ham is that a mashed potato volcano nice we have over 150 choices but the only one that matters is yours. Golden Corral your choice rules. America is being battered by an unprecedented hurricane season. First came the devastation of Harvey now other hurricanes are threatening people's lives and homes. East Kentucky Broadcasting and Pikeville Medical Center will host East Kentucky Cares hurricane relief a live radio telethon Thursday September 14th starting at noon. The great people at Double Quick are helping with donation jars at all their registers as are many other local businesses. Proceeds go to the American Red Cross as they help those whose lives and homes are affected by the hurricanes. So start raising money or collecting money now and come by or call the live radio telethon at Pikeville Medical Center. That's Thursday September 14th East Kentucky Cares hurricane relief Thursday September 14th at Pikeville Medical Center on the stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting. And this weekend sports with Hurricane Irma on the minds of Floridians and those along the east coast the University of Pikeville Bears home opener with Aave Maria University out of southwest Florida. It's been postponed until September 22nd due to travel concerns for the gyreins. The game originally had been scheduled for this Saturday at the Hamley Complex in Pikeville. I spoke with U-Pike head coach Al Holland on what that scheduled change means for U-Pike. So preparing for Aave Maria let's go back and prepare for the Bears and let's try to better ourselves and get back to the fundamentals and try to get better. So it's been a tough start for us and you know you don't want no program to start the way we have with injuries but there's nothing you can do about it and you got a next man up mentality. You know they're going to continue to work hard. I'm very proud of this group. I love this group of kids and they're going to put in the time and work to do things the right way. We're going to win the class and lose the class and you know we've just been on the downfall the first two weeks. We got to get back to the drawing board. And this week the Kentucky Associated Press released its weekly high school football rankings with 11 coverage area teams in five classes ranked from number one to receiving votes. Kentucky AP coverage area teams rankings in single A, Hazard second, Paintsville third, Pikeville fifth and the Phillips Hornets receive votes in double A. It was Prestonsburg outside the top 10 receiving votes. Triple A has Belfrey at number three receiving votes. Floyd Central, Lawrence County and not Central. And it could tuck you for a Johnson Central at number one in five, a Perry Central outside the top 10 receiving votes. We spoke to Phillips head coach David Jones about what it means to the Hornets program to be mentioned in the rankings. I miss a lot of excitement in the community. A lot of excitement you know you know just the players is getting the opportunity you know to get some recognition and stuff and they put a lot of hard work in in the summer and in the spring and you know it's all paying off and you know we we have sort of a losing mentality up there and you know this and they're getting it to this winning stuff and I kind of like it myself you know so it's it's been a it's been a great process and just fun to be around man I mean it makes me feel excited because you know and they know they you know they look in they look at stuff like that but they know to put it in the back of their head but just get some recognition back up there and you know and it's great to see the AP everybody across the state is actually noticing what we're doing and you know like I tell them boys you know it's it's week by week one game at a time and you know you know we just see where we are this week coming. And this week the championship game of the Olay volleyball tournament the Pikeville Panthers in Paintsville Lady Tigers met at Eastridge High School. This matchup lived up to its billing as two great teams battled for the title Paintsville's ladies jumped out to an early lead and the Lady Panthers were in catch-up mode much of the night. The Lady Tigers would come out on top in set 125-20. In the second set Paintsville took the early lead 9-6. The score stayed tight the entire set till the Lady Tigers go on a run to extend the lead and close out the match went 25-20, 25-20. Paintsville's Lady Tigers 15th region Olay volleyball champions. That's going to do it that's what happened this weekend sport stay tuned Sean comes back with more after this. Pikeville Medical Center congratulates Mayo Clinic for being ranked the number one hospital in the nation. Earning the number one ranking from US News and World Report as the top hospital in America really affirms two things one it affirms the quality of the practice at Mayo Clinic and secondly it affirms the male model of care. Pikeville Medical Center is a proud member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, PMC and Mayo Clinic working together working for you. Our hit city USA the biggest hits that defined your generation from the artists that will forever be a part of our lives. Start your mornings off right with Jumpstart featuring Paul Manuel weekday mornings from six to nine only on Hit City USA. Eastern Kentucky beautiful green peaceful friendly but there's a darker side to these mountains. When crime is committed sometimes cases go unsolved. Occasionally the perpetrators even get away with murder. On our latest news segment the scene of the crime I'll be working with local law enforcement to help find justice for victims and their families. The scene of the crime Fridays at six and ten brought to you by Billy Johnson your injury attorney. Here are a few upcoming events that you may be interested in. The Appalachian Artisan Center in Highland will be hosting a closing reception for artist Pam O'Field Meads newest exhibit titled Seasons of Chaos Rivers at Heel. The event will be held Friday September the 15th from six to seven p.m. in the Appalachian Artisan Center's downstairs featured gallery. Apple Red Legal Aid will be having their Bluegrass Benefit Concert at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg Saturday September 16th from seven to nine. Come out and enjoy Ralph Stanley the second and the clinch Mountain Boys with Coldtown Dixie as their special guest. Call 1-888-MAC-ARTS or log on to MacArts.com for ticket info. I hope you enjoyed our look back at some of the stories that made headlines this week. Be sure to tune in next weekend at 6 30 p.m. right here on EKB-TV. For This Week I'm Sean Allen have a great weekend.


What is up guys it's Yuval here and in this video I have the perfect color grading crash course for you in Premiere Pro in Lumetri color. If you're just starting out this is going to be absolutely perfect for you we're gonna cover everything A to Z so you want to make sure you watch the entire thing but before we jump in make sure you like this video and subscribe for more of these videos and we also have a giveaway at the end of this video so make sure you stick around but now let's jump right in. So we're in Premiere Pro and let's get this tutorial going so I'm in the color tab here in Premiere and the first thing I want to do the very first thing that you need to do when you start color grading is transforming your footage from log format into rec 709 and if you don't know what that means let me briefly explain.  A log image is usually more flat it's more gray it has less colors and just the contrast is very low as you can see in this example over here and every camera brand has different log types even in the same camera you sometimes have a few log options so black magic log is going to look different than the sony then panasonic then red and so on but we're gonna get into that in a second so we want to take that log footage and convert it into rec 709. Rec 709 is the standard color space most of the stuff you're seeing online is rec 709 and for now we could just relate to rec 709 as just the normal base I guess like the normal colors normal contrast what you would expect to see now a lot of people shoot on log and then they just try to mess with the contrast and like add some saturation and do the conversion to rec 709 in that way and while that can sometimes work it's probably not the best way to go about it what you actually want to do is get the conversion lot from the official brand that you're using so if I'm using black magic you can get official black magic log to rec 709 lots and the same goes for sony or whichever camera you're shooting with usually they're available for free from the brand's website so make sure you get the official ones so in my case now I'm walking with a black magic pocket file it was shot on the pocket 6k was shot on black magic film which is the log profile for black magic so I'm going to in my basic corrections first thing I'm going to do is choose the correct lot and right away you can see we're back into normal colors and contrasts if we do a quick before because it is pretty flat and now we have the contrast back the colors back here we could probably see it a little bit better and some log profiles are more flat some are less flat really depends on your camera's brand but the process is going to be similar so now that we're in the right color space what we want to do is correct any white balance issues that we might have so that's why we have the temperature and thin sliders over here this I just want to warm up a little bit maybe somewhere around there looks fine to me sometimes you might not even need to do this if you got the white balance right on the shoot which is what you probably want to do anyways but in case you didn't then you have these sliders over here to help you fix that then we have the exposure slider which is just the overall exposure of the image and we have contrast which controls the contrast usually I don't push this around too much then we have highlights which can be very effective look at the sky it's quite blown out just the way it is but if I turn the highlights back down suddenly we're getting some details in the sky we're getting that blue color back we're getting some details in the clouds and also on the face so that's looking pretty good and all we're doing now like this whole section is just color correction so we are not doing any creative color work which would be called color grading so at this stage we're just focusing on fixing the image fixing any color issues fixing the exposure and all of that then we have shadows if you want to open the shadows up or close them down a little bit and we also have whites and blacks which I'm not gonna mess with too much just the blacks maybe a little bit so let's have a quick look again this is the image we started with it's the log image we converted it to break 709 did a few basic adjustments and now we're in a good place to start color grading if we want to so really the whole point of these basic corrections the color correction is just to get us to a base point where we could work off if we wanted to create more creative looks and a lot of the times you could just stop here it really depends on the kind of project that you're doing and the kind of look you're looking for so right here in the creative section this is where we're going to get creative as the name suggests here we can apply lots that actually give us some kind of a look to the image so I have some lots that I got from motion array I'll leave a link down below but let's check them out I'm going to do let's go for like 14 and immediately you can see we're getting a pretty crazy look over here we can control the intensity with the slider over here so if I wanted it more subtle maybe then I would do something like that let's say so that's a very powerful way to instantly add a look to your footage save time or maybe if you just can't get the look right then that's going to be very helpful in that now most of these creative lots are made to use on rex 709 which means it doesn't matter which camera you're shooting on because you need to get the basic correction that we did basically getting your footage from log into rex 709 and then you apply the lot so essentially any camera should be at the same starting point before applying the lot so this is what a lot of people miss they tend to go right into the lot they try to apply it and it doesn't look right because they haven't made the first step of getting their footage into that phase start so you definitely want to avoid that mistake and just do everything correctly and you're going to get beautiful images now on here you also have faded film which I'm not a big fan of yeah you can see what it's doing I don't really like it it looks a little bit amateurish but if that's your thing then by all means go for it then we also have sharpen if we need to sharpen the image we don't need to in this case we also have vibrance and then also of course saturation and then also if we wanted to this is where we could add some color tint to the highlights or the shadows so a common one would be obviously yellow highlights like warm highlights and then cool shadows so the creative tab is a great way to immediately get an effect on the image if you're short on time or if you just want to get a beautiful look easily so this is our rex 709 and wow that's quite a big difference this is with the creative tab on and that's without it so you can see how much we've like pushed the image and it was really fast so yeah that's the creative tab and let's cancel that for now and get back into the starting point and I'm going to show you guys the other sections that we have so curves this is a really really important and powerful section of course we have just the normal curve that you guys probably know by now so we could control individual channels or all of the channels together and basically manipulate the shadows and highlights which is really powerful in it of itself but what I really like more is these other curves over here and we're going to get into them I'm going to show you guys so all of these things over here are basically tools to control individual colors which is why they're so powerful because they give you that pinpoint accuracy where you can change specifically the use saturation and luminance of a certain color so you can see we have you versus sat which means we can choose a color and affect its saturation then you versus you which means we just change the color then we have you versus luma which means we change the luminosity or basically the brightness of a certain color and then we could also make a selection based on luminosity and change the saturation or we could choose a color based on saturation and control the saturation so let's say I don't really like the green color over here I want to make it more yellow what I could do is take the color picker here and I'm going to go for you versus you and let's choose this green color and then you can see it makes a point for me where this color is on this graph so all I need to do is move it around and you can see we're getting more yellow or we could go the other way and make it more blue so that is really cool and of course we can do the same thing if we wanted to control saturation or luminosity so let's go for luminosity for a second you versus luma let's say I want to get this sky more deep it's a bit too bright for me I want to get more depth in there I'm going to choose the color over here which is of course blue and then I'm going to pull this down and you can see what's happening to the sky and if I go really extreme you can see that our image is really starting to fall apart you can see all these weird artifacts so that's something to be aware of and be careful of when manipulating specific colors because that can happen pretty quickly depending on what like depending on the quality of the footage that you have so that's obviously too much so we're gonna back it up so that was curves and next up we have the color wheels with the color wheels we can basically push color into the shadows into the mid tones and into the highlights be gentle with this tool because it can get pretty crazy pretty fast so let's make a quick demonstration so I think like before we're gonna push the highlights towards these warm tones and then we'll push some blues into the shadows and maybe get mid tones towards those warm colors also so obviously I'm just playing around but just see how much of a difference that made very quickly so that is how to use the color wheels take the time to experiment with it and see which color combinations work and obviously it really depends on your footage as well but it's a very powerful tool to create stronger looks so next up we have HSL secondary which is an amazing feature that Premier didn't always have I think a few years back and they didn't have it on here and is a very very important because it lets you make selections based on you saturation and luminance all together which gives you a lot of control and is great especially for controlling things like skin tones or maybe like other specific parts of an image so let's make a quick example let's say we wanted to separate his skin and control only that we could go into the eye dropper and choose a point somewhere around there and then to actually see what we're selecting we can check this box over there and I usually like to go for white and black and then we're going to start manipulating things so I'm just messing around with you saturation and luminance to try and make the best selection that I can and this is going to be easier or harder depending on the footage you're walking with so in this case it's not the easiest so I'm just gonna try my best but if you are doing it for yourself then obviously take the time to mess around with it and find the perfect selection so you can see my selection here is not the cleanest we're getting some of his clothes and some stuff in the background so definitely spend more time on this again I'm just doing it for a sake of the tutorial just showing you guys the principles but yeah let's say that this is a good selection and we're happy with it so we can denoise and that could clean up things a little bit more maybe add some blur even then let's uncheck this so we can get back into the normal view so now we could either move around colors over here or we could move them in shadow mid tones highlights and we could also control the temperature tint contrast sharpen and saturation so let's say the skin is maybe like too saturated for me I could bring it down just like that super easy once we have the selection you can see this is working pretty well even though my selection wasn't the best so we could also move around the colors over there so basically you can see we're controlling only the selected area which is the face so if I zoom in here just so you guys can see better this is before and this is after let's even make something more extreme so you can see a little better okay so before and after you can see we're really only affecting the selected area we're not affecting the sky or any of that background so this is really a great great tool to make very specific adjustments so now for the last section we have vignette which if you guys don't know you're going to quickly understand if I push this to the left you can see we're getting these darker edges around the frame and that just kind of helps focus our attention on the center of the frame I don't like I never use this thing which is like brightening the corners so just adding a little bit of vignette is usually a good idea and you could also control the softness with the feather over here just make it more subtle less noticeable and then you have even more control over the midpoint and the roundness basically giving you control of the actual shape so vignette is pretty simple self-explanatory you don't always need it I don't always use it but sometimes it's nice so that is all for today's video hopefully you guys found it helpful if you enjoyed it please give this video a like and consider subscribing that would be highly appreciated and also make sure you follow us on instagram and join our exclusive facebook community links down in the description below and for today's giveaway one of you guys could win free one-year artist music and sound effects subscription all you have to do is let us know down in the comments below what video would you like for us to make next here are the three lucky winners from our last video congratulations to you guys wear those amazing t-shirts and until the next time stay creative


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What is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose you guys are still wearing your masks when you go outside Right preventing the spread of the virus keeping everybody safe and all that good stuff I'm gonna keep this video short and sweet just give you guys a general life update about what's been going on with me And what's gonna happen with this channel in the near future as you all know for the last couple of months I've been studying very very intensely for this huge eight-hour exam called the USMLE step one And basically crunch time is now here the exams only a couple of weeks away now And so from now until then I'm gonna be devoting pretty much every waking second that I have Towards studying and preparing for this exam ever since February I've been studying around 10 hours a day only really taking breaks in order to cook and eat food I stopped studying at 10 30 p.m And then I have about two hours to do everything else that it is that I need to do in my life For example editing these weekly YouTube videos that you guys have been seeing on the channel I've also been writing up a scientific research paper for publication I try and get in my exercise during this time socializing with my friends and answering to the infinite emails in my inbox So basically everything in my life that I need to do besides study for this exam I'm doing between 10 30 p.m. And 12 30 a.m. At night even though I thoroughly enjoy making these YouTube videos And honestly every week hitting that publish button is something that just brings me so much excitement and happiness Waiting for the comments to come in the next day in the morning I've just got too much on my plate right now So I've decided to take a step back from YouTube just for a little bit So I can focus all of my energy and my headspace into this exam I won't be gone for long and as soon as the exam is over and I've had a little bit of time to rest and reward myself for this Intense studying period you best believe I'm gonna be back with a bunch of bangers I still want to be able to interact with you guys as much as possible So I'm gonna be scheduling things like live Q&A sessions or live study with me sessions right here on the YouTube channel So make sure you turn on your post notifications or that little blue bell somewhere down over here So you get notified whenever it is that I do go live as always I'll be active on my Instagram So you guys can follow me over there as well and yeah I think that's it feels feels kind of weird to be saying like bye because I've been uploading videos every single week for about Two and a half years now It's gonna feel very very strange to not hit the upload button next week But maybe I'll do something else we'll see as always I'll be reading through every single comment that you guys leave me down below So feel free to write me over there and yeah, I guess that's it I'll see you in the next one. Peace