You've probably heard that on Tuesday, NASA released the first five images from the JWST. What you may not have heard is that on Wednesday, they made all the actual data available to the public. And for us amateur astrophotographers, that means we can now try our hand at processing some of the most technically impressive images ever taken. So that's what this video is all about. I'll show you how to download the FITS files from the data archive and then I'll briefly show you how I went about processing them with PICS Insight and Photoshop to see if I can best the official NASA version. So let's jump right in. You're gonna start by Googling MAST, M-A-S-T, portal. And the first link should be the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescope's portal. That's what you wanna click on. And when you click on it, it should go to a page like this. Now a lot of people are going to be using this at the same time, not just from my video, but a lot of people are of course interested in the JWST data. So it can be sort of slow, but it's still the easiest way to get at the data. So from this page, just ignore all the search boxes, immediately click on Advanced Search, this little link right here. And this will pop open a new window called the MAST Advanced Search. And there's a lot of different options but we only really need two of these boxes. First, we're gonna start with Mission. It's already open over here, but if it's not, just check it here. And in the Mission box, type in JWST and press Enter. Okay, it's now looking for all of the JWST data and it found 90,000 records. So we don't wanna search through 90,000 records. That would take way too long. So we're gonna turn on the release date column. So over here on the left-hand side where it says columns, scroll down until you see release date, check that on, then go down to release date. And we're gonna use both of these boxes in the first box, type in 2022-07-13 and you can leave the time set to this 11 o'clock, that's fine. Or actually, no, I'm gonna set it to 14 o'clock. And then in this second box, same date, 2022-7-13, and I'm gonna change the date, I mean the time to 16 o'clock because I know that all of the initial JWST images were released at 15 o'clock on 7-13. So that brings it down to 2,325 records. Now if I, let's go ahead and search. Okay, so this is a list of 2,000 options. We wanna limit this even a bit further. So we can see that most of those 2,000 rows are made up for this Galaxy cluster. I don't know why there's so many different data products, but let's just limit it to images because that's what we're interested in processing. So that's gonna be the near infrared cam and then maybe the mid-infrared instrument if you're interested in that. But I'm not gonna download anything from the mid-infrared instrument. Not that it's not beautiful images, but I'm just interested in this near-infrared cam for now. So that, now we're down to just showing 24 rows. So this is much more manageable, but there's still a lot of information in this table. So let's get rid of some of the columns we don't need.  Okay, then I can close this edit columns window. Perfect. So we're almost there. Now we just have a list of 24 rows and we really only have to pay attention to the target name and the filter. And so if you don't know these offhand, S-Max is the galaxy cluster with the gravitational lensing, NGC3324 is near the Karina Nebula. It's not really part of the Karina Nebula like they were sort of saying. But anyways, it's the cosmic cliff image. That's the one that I'm most interested in. Here we have the NGC3132, that's a planetary nebula and then NGC320 is one of the galaxies in Stefan's quintet. So we have four different choices here. I'm, like I said, gonna go with NGC3324, which is the cosmic cliff nebula image. And we have one, two, three, four, five, six different filter choices here. And there's two different ways we can download the data. We can click on this little more actions thing and add data to a download basket. And this is a good way, I guess, to get many filters at once. And then you can also strip out the metadata files and just get the fits file if you want that way. The only downside to doing it this way is the whole website is sort of slow right now and this download basket seems especially slow in my testing. So I've just been downloading the entire data product by clicking this little floppy disk save icon. So to show you how that works, let's go ahead and click on one. It briefly opens up a new tab. Depending on your browser, you might have to make sure to allow popups on this website for it to start downloading. But then it starts downloading a zip file and it doesn't tell you how big it's going to be, but in my testing, they're all over a gigabyte of data. So you'll have to wait a little bit, maybe a few minutes per filter. So I'll just speed up this part of the recording. Okay, it's finished downloading. So let me just hide Chrome here for a second. Here is the zip file, I put it on my desktop. And if I just double click it since I'm on a Mac, it will unzip on Windows. You might have to right click and choose unzip. And there is a folder when I unzip it inside that folder. There's a manifest and another folder called JWST. There is the mid-infrared provisioning data, I guess. It's in a CSV, I don't need that. There's other metadata as a JSON file and so forth. Okay, then there's two FITS files. There's the segmented FITS file and the I2D FITS file. And the I2D is the one that we are interested in. So I'm going to go ahead and open it right up into PICS Insight. But if you are following along and you don't have PICS Insight or you don't have any software and you need to open a FITS file, there are two good free options. There is sirl.org and this is a good free option for working with FITS files. And another classic one is SAO's DS9, SAO image DS9. And this is one that a lot of professional astronomers use to look at FITS files. So you could use one of those, but like I said, I'm going to use PICS Insight just for this example. So I'll open it up here. Okay, and it opens up with tons of different stuff. We have a flat frame of some kind. We have, this shows you that this is a mosaic image, I guess, and this is some kind of noise, maybe variable read noise. I don't know, Poisson noise. I don't know what this file is. So I don't know what most of these are. I think there's something to do with the construction of this mosaic and some of the noise associated with it. Here's one where all the different sort of like brightness levels haven't been adjusted, I guess. But then if I've deleted all of those other ones, the final one is the one that just looks great right out of the batch. So that's the only one that I'm going to keep and work with for imaging. For anyone that doesn't know, PICS Insight just has this handy little ability to auto stretch an image by clicking this little button that says STF auto stretch. So this is linear, meaning not stretched, everything is, all the data is bunched up and this is just a non-linear stretch of the data. Okay, and so you can see just with this auto stretch the data looks amazing. It's really, really detailed, really, really sharp, interesting data to look at. It's not free of problems, of course. The star spikes are pretty extreme. The star cores are blown out, so they're turned black, I guess. But even those like small little cosmetic things, it's really a dream to work with this data. Now, this is just one filter. So to make a color image, we're gonna need at least a couple more. I actually downloaded all of the different filters for my version, but you don't necessarily have to do that. What's great about having all these different filter options is you can get very creative and just do it however you want, but I'm gonna go ahead and download another filter here. So I've gone back to the Mast Archive and I'm gonna click on this save icon for the 187 filter. Now, while this is downloading, let me just bring up or try to find a JWST filter documentation. There it is. Okay. So this shows you, now keep in mind, they're giving these filters these different colors, but these are actually all infrared filters, just splitting up the infrared into different band passes. But it still gives you, this actually is pretty cool because it gives you an idea of how to maybe make a full color image from all infrared filters. And the way you typically do it is exactly how they show here, which is to just map the infrared filter responses to our rainbow of visible light colors.  So if you're wanting sort of a little guide to how to map the filters to our vision, you can just Google JWST filters and find this little handy chart here. Okay, same deal downloaded, I unzipped it, go into the JWST folder, go into the filter name folder and find the file that ends in i2d.fits and open up that one. And you can see here as this is opening that the last file was half this size. So like I said, some are sampled up twice as big as other ones, I don't know exactly why. Same drill here, I'm just gonna close all of these like calibration images, leaving the last one. Okay, and you can see this is a shorter wavelength image, which is gonna go into our blue channel. And this is a longer wavelength image that's gonna go into our red channel. And so it's just, if you're done mono narrow band imaging, it's really the same kind of deal here, except just with all infrared images. And next up, let's do a little bit of pre-processing on these and I'm gonna show you how to register them together. So I'm going to get this displayed correctly. I'm gonna go to geometry, vertical mirror. There we go, same thing with this one, image, geometry, vertical mirror, yes.  So I'm just going to crop those out with dynamic crop here. Just trying to get as much of the image as I can while cropping those out. Okay, I think that looks good. So now I wanna register this filter to this one. And if I had more filters up, I would do it for all of them, but register them all to the same one. So I would register them, let's say register them all to 335, filter 335. And this is such a big image that I know star alignment is going to struggle unless I define a preview.  Let's just show you they're about the same there. Looks good.  I'm gonna set this image as the view, as the reference image. Now you don't wanna choose the preview, you wanna choose the actual image here in the reference image. And just make sure the working mode is register slash match images. And under star matching, you wanna make sure restrict to previews is turned on. Then I'm gonna drag the little triangle onto this image and let go. And now what it'll do is it'll look at the two previews and only match the stars inside those preview windows, but then when it comes time to actually make a new registered image, it will use the geometry of this whole image, right? Okay, so close this. Here is the new registered one. Let's stretch that and just make sure that it matches up. Yes, you can see that matches up perfectly. And so now these two images are ready to be combined basically. There's lots of different ways to combine them. I'm going to combine them using stretched images in a Photoshop. So the first thing I have to do is get all the filters downloaded, register all the different filters to this image. I can stretch them here or I could stretch them in Photoshop, but I'll stretch them here just using histogram transformation. So just to show you what that looks like with this one, I do something like that. Usually what I, my preference is when combining lots of different filters like this is don't stretch them too heavily right away. So you can see this isn't as dramatic a stretch as the auto stretch, it's a little bit more restrained and that's my preference when combining lots of different filters together. Give it sort of just a gentle stretch and then you can do more curves work and stuff after you've started combining the filters together. Okay, so I'm not going to show you that process over and over again, but again, it's just register, stretch and then save as a TIFF file to bring it over into Photoshop. So let's now zoom ahead and we'll jump over to Photoshop. Okay, so now what I've done is they're all registered to the same reference which was that 335. I've loaded all the different filters, all six filters up in as layers here in Photoshop. Each has the name of the filter and the way I've arranged them is the shorter wavelengths are on the bottom and the longer wavelengths are on top. So just to show you the different filter responses here, you can see they're all very different and that's actually one thing that I didn't really like about the official picture was that we have such different filter responses here. I just thought it was sort of a shame that the official picture was so just orange and blue because it seems like there'd be a lot of different color variety we could get out of six different filters with very different responses. The way that I'm gonna go about this is I'm gonna start down here at the bottom. I'm going to add a saturation adjustment layer and I'm gonna set it to colorize. Just a little box right there. Okay, so I'm down here at the bottom layer. I've set that to colorize and since this is a short wavelength, remember we're gonna set that to something over here in the blues. Now it doesn't really matter to me exactly where I set this right now or exactly where I put the saturation slider because I always come back in and adjust these to taste once I have everything colorized. So just sort of a general idea. I'm gonna set that one to blue. I'll turn on the next filter response. I'll set the blend mode to screen and the opacity to 50% and I'll add another saturation adjustment. This one I will clip. So I'll hold down the Alt key or Option key on Mac and just click this line between the two so it's clipping this saturation adjustment to that filter and again, I'll colorize it doing something a little bit further over into the left-hand side of the hues. So I'll do sort of a cyan, right? And we just keep going like this. So screen this one in, let's do it at 50%. Again, all of these things can change once we sort of see the whole picture and I'm really just doing the same thing over and over. So sorry for not having anything to say here exactly but it's just the same routine. You know, you screen blend the actual image, you colorize it and then move on to the next one. So screen blend, turn down the opacity a bit, colorize it, clip the colorize layer to that particular one. Okay, so now I have these all set in here. The next thing that I typically do, and you can sort of see how this just looks like a very washed out version of the NASA image. The next thing though that I typically do is I start playing around with these saturation, lightness, hue, sliders for each image and that will really help control what you see. So right, so if I turn down the lightness for instance of that layer, see how that's really affecting especially this part of the image because that was the brightest part for that layer. And the other thing you can do is in addition to just affecting these colorize layers is you can also play around with curves adjustments. You can see I'm doing that just on the 335 and it has pretty dramatic implications just playing around with a curve. So this isn't gonna be a complete processing tutorial but I just wanted to sort of give you a basic idea of how I would go about playing with this data. And then if you ever feel sort of stuck, let me actually just apply a total curve just to sort of show you where we're at. Okay, so this is just a very first pass kind of thing. I haven't really brought out many color varieties yet but really just through playing with all of this you can bring out so many color varieties. And another way to bring out the actual color varieties between the filters is to use this selective color adjustment. This will let you sort of target specific colors and accentuate them in different ways. So targeting reds and different things. One thing I'm sure I'll get comments on is, well, aren't you just really making all of this fake color? This is all fake color to begin with. The infrared is beyond the visible spectrum. It's all a deep, deep, deep red. So anything that we're doing with color here is just to emphasize the difference between the filters which we clearly saw were give us different responses. So I don't feel that anything I do with color artistically is wrong. It's just, because this is always going to be a false color image. It's really just about what is your goal in processing and my goal with this image is to bring out the color contrast so you can sort of see all of the different filter responses. Also, I think that color contrasts can give this image a feeling of depth and just make it more interesting to look at.  So you can see what that looks like. So here's my final image. If I compare it here to the official image, you can see the official image is much more saturated but also more duo tone, right? Where it's just like mostly shades of orange down here and shades of one kind of blue up here. One thing I was trying to do was get in more color. So basically have stronger red response in certain places but then also bring in some of the green. And then another thing I was trying to do was make it less filled in feeling because I really, one of my favorite things about this image was where there's holes. So when I was looking through the data, I figured out that if I can sort of emphasize some of the filters and not emphasize other ones, I can get many more of these holes where you're seeing through this dust down to this other response below. And I just think that looks really cool, especially up here to sort of see through but then also see some parts are filled in. So I think I was pretty successful in at least making something that's pretty different from the official NASA version. And in some ways I like mine better. For instance, look at the color contrast here. We get this weird shape here. Then we get this fiery little globule here. I don't know what these things are. I should look it up what these are but there's just so much in this image to investigate and try to pull out in different ways. So anyways, let me just do an overview here of my processing. So it all started like I said, the same way that I showed you before where I colorized the different filters. Then I did some just general work with curves. I did a fair amount of work with selective color. And again, the reason for that is to bring out different color contrasts by emphasizing different things. This layer is a correction layer where I corrected some of the star cores that were black. This is just a general small boost to saturation. This was another curves layer, a small S curve and then some kind of correction to the green. This is nothing I don't think. It's just a stamp from visible for some reason. And then this last layer I did a little bit of work with the stars. I de-emphasized some of the medium sized stars and just to give it a little bit of a boost to the nebula. And then I applied a little bit of sharpening which I can show you what that did. Here's without the sharpening and there's with it. Just helps the image really pop. And it worked really well in terms of this data. If I tried to apply sharpening like this to my data, it would never look that good. So that's it. I just gave you away all of my little secrets here in Photoshop. One thing I wanna point out before we end this video is that I didn't go to some of the lengths that NASA did to clean up artifacts. So for instance, if we look at NASA's blue area here, it's a little bit of a lower signal area and then look at mine. You can see mine has all of these weird horizontal and vertical lines. Now they're faint so that if unless you're zoomed in to 300% like I am now, you're probably not going to see them at all because there's just so much else going on but NASA's version is very cleaned up. I would say for my taste too cleaned up. Not that I don't think they did a great job getting rid of the artifacts, but what I mean by too cleaned up is this looks like artificially smoothed to me like a little bit too far. I can still see like there's a little bit of a horizontal line right there but just overall, this is just so smoothed out. I would have preferred to, if they left in a little bit more of the natural noise while still trying to clean up these lines but other than that, I think they did a great job. Just for my taste, it's a little bit too saturated. So that's why I went with this little bit less saturated look and of course a different color palette just by emphasizing different, all the different color filters that they used. At this point, I wanna thank all of my wonderful patrons over on patreon.com slash Nebula Photos. And if you're interested in seeing your name in the credits of any of my long videos, any of the videos over 20 minutes, you can head over to this link and support me there. The support of the channel starts at just $1 per month and then I also have a $3 and a $7 tier. And there are a number of benefits included for signing up on my Patreon. These include a vibrant Discord community where people post their photos, get photo critiques, help each other with gear and processing and everything related to astrophotography. And we also have a monthly challenge object that's a friendly competition with some prizes. We have a group project if you wanna work on something collaboratively with others. 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experiment, we will learn how to synthesize cDNA using RNA as template in molecular biology lab. After the RNA extraction, our next step is to synthesize cDNA because cDNA serves as a template in variety of downstream applications in RNA studies such as gene expression analysis. So synthesis of cDNA is usually the first step for various protocols in the molecular biology lab. We can synthesize cDNA in the lab by using a simple PCR technique we call as reverse transcriptase PCR or simply RT-PCR using an enzyme reverse transcriptase that is basically an RNA dependent DNA polymerase enzyme isolated from the retroviruses. So let's see that how to perform this experiment stepwise in the lab. For an ideal cDNA synthesis we need RNAs free environment. So the practices that need to follow to prevent RNA degradation and for optimal cDNA synthesis, we need to wear the powder free gloves to use the nucleus free reagents and lab wear and decontamination of your working area. For this experiment, commercially available reagents and enzymes are used. These reagents are extracted RNA sample, random primer, nucleus free water, dNTP mix, reaction buffer, riboloc RNA inhibitor and reverse it, reverse transcriptase. This experiment is performed in two steps. For the first step, place the PCR tubes into the cooling rack. Label the PCR tubes accordingly. Cut the micropipette to 10 microlitre. Now open the lids of the PCR tubes. Take 10 microlitre of RNA sample and then transfer it into the PCR tubes. Discard the use tip into the waste box. Now set the micropipette to 1 microlitre. Take 1 microlitre of random primer and transfer it into the PCR tubes. Discard the use tip in the waste box. Add 1 microlitre of nucleus free water into the PCR tubes. Close the lids of the PCR tubes. Place the tubes in the centrifuge and spin the tubes for a few seconds so that any reagent attached to the wall settles down in the bottom of the tube. After centrifugation, put the tubes on the cooling rack. Next step is incubation at 65 degree centigrade for 5 minutes. Switch on the thermal cycler and set the required conditions in it. Place the PCR tubes in the thermal cycler for the first step and close the lid of the thermal cycler. After setting all the required conditions, start the incubation, take out the PCR tubes and immediately place the tubes on the cooling rack. For the second step, now add the remaining reagents in the same PCR tubes. Set the micropipette to 4 microlitre. Take 4 microlitre of reaction buffer and add it in the PCR tubes. Set the micropipette to 2 microlitre, 2 microlitre of dNTP mix and add it in the PCR tubes. Use tip in the waste box. Now set the micropipette to 1 microlitre. Take 1 microlitre of riboloc RNA's inhibitor and add it in the PCR tubes. RNA's inhibitor is used to protect RNA from the activity of RNA's. Discard the use tip in the waste box. Take 1 microlitre of reward 8 reverse transcriptase and add it in the PCR tube. Reverse transcriptase also known as RNA dependent DNA polymerase is a DNA polymerase enzyme that synthesizes DNA using RNA as a template. Discard the use tip in the waste box. Close the lids of the PCR tubes. Spin the PCR tubes in the centrifuge for a few seconds. The PCR tubes into the thermal cycler. PCR conditions as shown on the thermal cycler screen reaction and wait till the whole process is completed. Completion store amplified DNA at minus 20 degrees centigrade or below until further use. Dear students, this was all about cDNA synthesis using the RNA template. Now we will quantify our cDNA using the nano-drop and then we will store it at minus 80 degree for the further use.


Hi, my name is Maria Winans and I am the CMO for Kindrel. What inspires me is that I get the opportunity to launch a brand new company into the marketplace. What's been challenging about COVID is not being able to work together with my team in the co-creation, the collaborative way that we have been working over the past year at Agile. And what excites me about Think is really being able to share our brand strategy at Kindrel with our customers and really showing them the opportunity together ahead of us.


We're analyzing the angles. We're analyzing the angle here. Let's see how to get the... Production quality is important for a vlog Thursday, so... It really is. Yeah, Marvin's framing it up here. We are not successful enough to have a camera man we decided to do. So it's... There's no one on the other side of the camera right now and no one else likes getting up as early as me. And Marvin do. Well, as early as he does. Oh, yeah. I'm always here before him. We have a flashing red light because it came in for recycling. I have no other reason for that. Because why not? Why not? We are discussing all the amazing uses for a flashing red light today. There's emergency... I can't print problems. Yeah. You know, our network is like, we can put these on top of the car, you know, boop, and then... That seems illegal. Well... Any more illegal than changing your horn to a speaker. So I may have some... Well, no. We're not gonna... Someone asked me to do a video on it. We're gonna... That's another topic. But my car and I got the thing I can yell at people. That's been fun. And... So someone suggested I do a video of that, of me yelling at people. But I have ceiling dust on me because I was in the ceiling obsessing over a noise. Nobody else can hear. Yes. Because these are the use and crises of me.  There's something dripping. There isn't. There really isn't. There actually wasn't. So we're good. So we're good. But we broke a ceiling tile, so we're not good. But that's okay. Those are not a big deal. We put it back together and it's in Marvin's area, so I don't have to look at it. And honestly, it's across the room. I won't even see it. Yeah. So if you stop by our office, find the broken ceiling tile. Yeah. But you know what? We have some fidget spinners left. Find the broken ceiling tile, you get a fidget spinner. How about that? There you go. Yeah, the fidget spinner idea. There's a fail. I wouldn't say it was a fail. So we're having fun doing videos. We did the Smash and a Mac video for those of you who follow us on Facebook. I didn't put that on YouTube. Maybe I should. Unexpected things happen. Do you have a backup? If not, call Lawrence Systems. I don't know. It's, yeah, why not? We can make an ad out of it. Sure. We have been digging into some forensics of leads. And it's been really interesting. What do you put that? Yeah, forensics of leads. What's interesting? It's interesting. Google that and see what comes up. Yeah, see what comes up. Anyways, we've been interested. Well, we've been interesting. I don't know about that. We are interested. Okay. Let's go. We are. But we have been interested in... 8,500 people think that we are interesting. That's actually fact. 8,500 is where the subscriber count was when I looked this morning. Yeah. Right around there. A little over there, actually. Yeah. No, back to before I got distracted about being interesting. And what we're interested in. We have been interested in leads in terms of who's going to our website. And we found there's a few different websites that help aggregate data via plugins. So we get to find out who's visiting, what companies are visiting our websites. And that's been kind of interesting. We've been reviewing products for that. We took a look at a tool called lead forensics. I think it might be a little pricey for the volume of visitors we get because they don't charge based on volume. Well, they do. But, yeah. Their pricing is... I didn't like it that much. Yeah. We have to let the guy down easy. Maybe he watches our vlog. Somehow I doubt it, but... Yeah. So we can let him down easy. Yeah. But I'm actually going to start researching some of the other companies too because they offer some free trials, which I thought was neat. They don't offer the free trials with lead forensics. So... But some of the other ones give you 30 days free trial. Lead forensics, I got to admit, is a very, very complete system. It's robust. Yeah. I'm processing the leads and following it through in the system. So that's pretty cool. But it also comes at a price. And I mean, I don't mind paying for things if they provide enough value. Unfortunately, what we did realize is despite having a high volume of hits on our website, the volume of business as a website is very, very low. And what they do... So they're filtering out all the consumer hits to our website. So we're seeing all those consumer hits, but they don't equate to an actionable item, so to speak. So the value they provide may work if there was more business hits. So that's why we're looking at some other ideas for how to do that. I've also been playing around with some of the... What's that called? It's a new Google data platform. It's pretty slick. Google's got a new data platform for analytics. Why can't I remember the name of it? It's pretty slick, though. Yeah. It's the Google data visual. It's all part of the analytics thing. If you go to the Google analytics, it's part of the poll bounds in there. Anyways. So I've been looking at some of that. Sorry. I was eating peanuts before, and I finally... That one finally worked its way up. Yeah. We also... But going back to lead forensics, we found out that a lot of the businesses that are searching and coming to our website are out of state, right? Yes. We have a lot of out-of-state companies that has... I'm going to guess that's from you guys on YouTube. So where's where a lot is. We see this big range of hits from there. The other thing we're seeing, but we already knew this because of our own tracking via Facebook, is how the use of Facebook ads causes people to land on our website. But that wasn't really a surprise. We knew that already because we see the click-through rates on that. So those weren't really surprising. But that's also what drove people to the business because people are playing... While they're at the business, they're on their phone and they're playing on Facebook. Yeah. Which, you know, good or bad, we'll leave that up to you. We'll leave it up to you. But if you want a system that will block Facebook, you can leave that up to us. You can call us, yeah. Yeah, call us. You want to increase productivity at work? We can block those websites that cause a failure in productivity. Well... Yeah. Failure's a strong word. Let's go with... minor reduction? Minor reduction. I'm saying this because I'm on Facebook a fair amount. Yeah. We're going to start by blocking it here today. What?! So, definitely a thought. The other thing we're working on is Wi-Fi packages for clients because... I think that's a great idea. Yeah. We're trying to make it... You know, with anything we do, we try to make it a solution that we can deliver and is deliverable to the client in a very clear way. That's been, like, a lot of focus that I've had lately. So we redid our website, which has still got to work on tweaking it. So if you want to go there and criticize me on it, that's fine, too. Yeah. It says what leads... W-W-W. Warn systems.com. Yeah. But we're working on some of the details of our website, but we're also working on how we package things for clients to make the solution very clear. I... Because I don't... People ask me a lot about consumer Wi-Fi devices like this one and that one, and I'm really... They're bad. And they're... We're like, okay, there's got to be a better solution. So we are looking at ways to easily deploy in some of these smaller businesses. I mean, we always recommend to unify solutions, unified solutions, but sometimes they're custom. So we're going to come up with some packages and base prices. So there's like here it is installed. Here's how much it would be to get your office set up with a good router, a good Wi-Fi system, and away you go. And then these are products I've reviewed before. We're looking at the unified products for both the routing and the wireless. They work really well. They just don't give us headaches. And that just make life simple. Install these devices and here's a package price to get these devices installed. And that's kind of how we do with the camera systems. It makes them a little really easy sale. So when we're doing the camera systems, you know, Marvin goes in, when he's doing his sales bid, it's like, oh, this much per system. And I did a bid yesterday, the same thing. They came in and we went to camera system. How much? I'm like, this is this. And they just, we can math it out within a minute and there's their quote. Here you go. As long as there's not any custom work to do. Speaking of that, there's Corey's busy doing custom work at a lab today. Yeah, at a lab of tech things. Lab of tech things. Well, actually, they're a chemical company. Chemical company. Corey got in trouble anyway. He's going to be finishing up today, right? Yeah, my phone hasn't rang. He actually was here before me. I was shocked. I know. Corey's not our earliest riser either. I don't know that I believe this. Wait, is it that he just hadn't been home yet? We're not sure. He prefers nighttime. He has been really, really grinding. Yeah, one of the things that causes exceptions to any of these package prices is things like this job he's doing. They are a company that's been in business for a very long time and they've acquired three buildings adjacent to each other. So you have double brick walls to drill through and things like that. So those are the times what comes to custom pricing. We have to come and evaluate just how much drilling needs to be done or custom cable runs versus a normal office like ours with a drop ceiling with some broken tiles. And they're double brick walls from back when they built buildings. Yes. Strong. These buildings are 100 years old, really. Yes. Dilling with old buildings in Detroit is interesting because a lot of these companies in Detroit have been in business for a very long time. So they have these really old buildings. So drilling and everything else becomes very complex. Also, due to them being a lab, we haven't been able to film anything there. That's one of the problems we have. I know people say, hey, can you do more on-site jobs? Clients are real and understandably so, very cautious about it.  And that's how they are. They're a research and development company. These are the things that we see. Then I understand it and that's fine. We are very strict on privacy policies and things like that. So we respect them and those are things we just can't film. I might do some tutorial stuff here showing how we do it and some of the concepts. So we give more detail of how things are done. We try to give as much behind the scenes as possible. It's a matter of figuring out what people will watch. If YouTube has taught us anything, I think it's taught us that people will watch just about anything. Well, there is a guy who has a channel where he eats carrots. Yeah, that's it. It's videos of him eating carrots. And people watch it. And people watch it. So there's probably an interest in watching us how we punch down networks and things like that. Sure. I mean, people watch us eat hot peppers and stuff. Yeah, we should do more of that. We really should do more. I think we mentioned this before. Do you have a restaurant? Do you have a restaurant? Send us food. We will eat it and tell people what we think. Yeah. And I don't think you watched him. One of the restaurants invited us to see how he makes his hot peppers. I got to follow up with him and he wants to see how they make their hot sauce. They're going to invite us in for the roasting. I'm like, cool. It's actually funny how known we've gotten for that. So yesterday I was at a chamber event. It was a lunch. And it was at Joe's hamburgers in Wendat. And somebody had ordered the jalapeno burger or whatever. And when they brought it out and announced it, everybody just assumed that it was for me. Yeah. All the people were like, everybody was like, that's got to be Marv. And I was like, no, I got the peanut butter one. Yes, peanut butter on a hamburger. Delicious. Really? Peanut butter hamburger. We'll go with that. It was bacon, cheese and peanut butter on a hamburger. Bacon, cheese, peanut butter on a hamburger. It's four of my favorite things. It was really good. It was really, really good. I was doubtful, but I was like, you know what? We have our title. Would you eat a peanut butter, bacon cheese, peanut butter burger? The answer is a resounding yes I would. Yes. Back to other stuff we're doing now. Sure. So as much as I'm daydreaming about that now. Yeah. Right. Joe's hamburger, right the street. We finished that project, the one where we thought we weren't getting the rack. And then we got the rack later. And I'm going to, I'm trying to work on a video of that because the problem of the way the job went, we finished the job at four in the morning and they were there at eight in the morning installing all their equipment and making it all live. So I haven't been able to go back and film any of it. So we're kind of stopped there. So I got to finish off some narration.  So, but we may talk more about that project. And I'm going to do like its own video on it because I really, in the end, I understand why they like the rack. I understand the clarity. They seem happy with the project. We haven't heard otherwise from them. They were plugging everything in and they didn't call us. We messaged them twice and said, hey, you know, anything, need anything is everything good. And because we test everything, excuse me, we weren't worried about any of the wires not working. Everything's labeled, everything's tested. We do that prior to leaving when we do a cabling job. And they were fine. They also didn't ask us for the printout. I thought about that too. I think they just quit carrying it. They watched our working. They were so excited when he stopped in midway through the project with how well we were doing with it. They said, this absolutely looks wonderful. Because they asked us for the printout for all the testing. And we did. We have it. We didn't give it to them because they didn't ask for it. We were like, okay, you said you wanted to get this. But whatever. Well, we understood a little more too once we got into it as to why they were so specific on the things they needed. Yeah. It turns out their office is off in another state somewhere. Yeah.  So they needed to say pull the purple wire out of the purple jack. And, you know, so we understood a little better at that point, like why did things need to be this color and that color and here and these are specifically here and those are specifically there. Because it will make it easier when you're on the phone instead of saying pull that one out. No, that's not it. Okay. Go to the next one. Try that one. That one's not it either. All right. Right. So they were forward thinking in that aspect. Yeah. So it's a well-labeled job. It's done specifically how they wanted. And we're happy. They're happy. It really did come out. As long as everybody posts bills, everybody's happy. Yeah. Speaking of which. That's the important thing. Marvin's been doing collections. That's been fun. It's the least. Yeah. That's the least favorite thing I do. Just pay your bills, people. Just pay your bills, people. It's not like a service was done for you. Just pay. Yeah. And they don't deny any of it. They just seem to not have the money that they thought they had before. So that's always been a fun thing with some of the projects. We get deposits on them. It's the final payment. Sometimes it's a problem with them. So such as life. The other thing I'm puzzling over is some clients are so strange. They don't want us to work on things remotely. But then they complain that we're on site. They're like, what do you want me to do? Your computer's loading an update. And when we work remotely, we don't charge you for that time because what we do is we log in, we see it's loading an update. We can work on other things while we're waiting remotely for that update or whatever to finish. And this client was unhappy because they insisted we come out there. We told them if there's updates he loaded, my guy can't do anything. So he got there and he goes, yeah. Your guy was here for three hours. I'm like, yeah. I had to bill you for three hours because he couldn't do another job while he's there. Well, I didn't understand. I said, yes, you did. You sent the email to me that I prefer you to be on site. I don't care what it costs. Therefore, we went on site and you got billed for three hours, which an hour of it was waiting for an update to load. I don't know what to tell you. Here's the email. Here's you replying saying, I don't care. Here's your invoice. And they're paying the invoice. They just wanted to complain about it. And I'm like, I told you we should do this remotely. But they didn't want us to. And I'm like, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, yes, we know Windows updates. But we get these computers because this was not the best idea. If you want to do this yourself, no problem.  You're going to get billed for it. I don't have a way around this. I don't mind if you do that. You can order them yourself. But you're going to get billed for the time it takes. If you want to just unbox them, at least turn it on so it loads updates. Cool, we suggested that too. Nope, they wanted us to do the whole thing from opening the box and setting it up. But, you know, yeah, this is a recurring theme. I'm not understanding what they're like. They assume, why doesn't Dell ship these completely up to date? I don't know. I'm not Dell. Because, well, because they built them a month ago. Yeah. And since then, a lot of them come out. Another good way to avoid waiting on updates is to go on one of our managed service plans. Managed service plans. Because then we just take care of that for you. Yeah. Just saying. Yeah. We try to do more and more proactive IT with managed service plans as opposed to reactive IT of, oh my gosh, there's a problem now. And we usually find that there's been a problem for a long time. You have just discovered it now. The problem occurred a while ago because you're not being proactive. You know, we make our managed service plans very, very reasonable. It helps, you know, create a predictable IT cost. And then it's just such our concept. But we don't mind the break fix clients. Sure. You know, we wish them all well. Some of them are just gambling. I've got a lot of them that are running no backups. I got nothing for them. I keep reminding them every time you go out there and solve something for them. And we've even recovered things for them. And we keep them as a client. I mean, they're gambling and that's fine. You're saving that few. The size of the company blows my mind that they have no backups. You never know when you could be working and somebody comes along with a hammer and just smashes the computer. Smashes the computer. Happens people. Happens. Yeah. And they're just running nothing. They just run everything unmanaged and it's kind of the hope and pray method. Yeah, we hope it doesn't break. They've loaded random free antiviruses and, ah, yeah. There's no consistency. Excuse me, as I roll my eyes. They have a complete office filled with inconsistencies. And the size of these companies just blows my mind that they don't do any of this.  Yeah. Even if you just managed it yourself, some people want to do. iDrive is very inexpensive. Load it. They have nothing. They just, I don't think it will break. Okay. That's the answer I got. Some people say you don't keep those people as clients.  They could be playing the odds. But we know. And this is a perfect example. We had a company that kept talking for months and months about cameras, talking about doing stuff.  Actually, what it cost them, as I understand, was substantially more than the camera bid. And insurance claims that these large companies are very expensive. They decided now that the few thousand dollars on cameras because these, it just give you away the transportation industry works. Every truck has an MC number on it because you can't drive these trucks without the proper licensing. So it has to be very clearly displayed on the side of the truck. And another company was able to, this incident occurred like this, people think they can sneak into a yard, grab a trailer full of whatever, and leave with it. But they've used cameras to find the MC number on the side of the truck and identify who the truck belongs to. Well, without any cameras, they don't even have that much evidence to try to work backwards off of. So someone probably knew internally that the cameras didn't do anything because they had failed years ago and they went and pulled something out of the yard and no one, yeah, there's so many trucks coming and going for things, one of them hooked up to something they were supposed to and just left with it. So they had to spend a lot of money. Yeah, and then more money to actually have the camera system put in after the fact. But they did get the camera system put in now. Okay, so next time, they'll definitely see who steals the thing. This is that ounce of prevention thing. It doesn't cost that much to prevent most of the disasters. And with the camera systems, I think, I mean, check with your own, but I think insurance companies will give you the lower your premium if you have certain preventative measures in place. So if you say we have cameras on everything, you might get a discount on your premium. Then your camera system pays for itself in like a year or so. What else did I do? I think, I don't know if I did it before. Oh, I made a new video on wiki documentation server. So I got that. I also did a video yesterday on DNS thingy, which is really cool. That's the name of it. It's a great name. DNS thingy. DNS thingy. I thought it was a great name. And what this refers to is domain name services. It's a good way to filter the internet. Now, it's not free. People always... I've seen the comments coming right away on the video. Oh, it's free if you do this. I'm like, yes, you're probably a technician with a lot of skills in managing it. What I liked about DNS thingy is for a reasonable price. It's like $8 a month. They provide you a really nice interface for filtering everything. That's what they're doing is providing a strong list of websites that they're filtering that they are very actively managed and have a very simple management interface for handling all of this. So I like looking at products like that and throwing them out there for people. I have no affiliation with the company, so it's not like I'm recommending because I get no kickback. And I always say that I got no offer codes, no nothing, no link. I'm just telling you the name of the product if you want to use it and we're showing you how it works. But for some people, I mean, you could roll your own on a lot of different things from scratch or you can go pay $8 a month. These guys created a cool thing that's really easy to use and that's one of the reasons I recommend it is... I like things in it. Because some of my target group is not always a technician. Some of it's the consumers that want to go, hey, I'll use that. And so, yeah, having a complete product is nice.  It's for businesses that go, you know what? I'd rather just outsource that to you because I want to focus on my core business and I don't want to go learn what a good Wi-Fi and do the research into it is. I'd rather just have you guys take care of it and if there's a problem, I can just call you and take care of it. And that's fine. You delegate that out. Because I certainly delegate things out. Like, I don't fix certain things like when it comes to plumbing.  Yeah. Yeah. I drilled into a water pipe one time at my home. Drilled into it. Into it. Yeah. Yeah. There's a reason we call it professionals. Mm-hmm. There comes a point when it's not worth me doing it. Mm-hmm. So... All right, pop-a-log. There's you at this. Oh, people asked... I actually, in the last video, I'd seen some people comment about putting a helmet on my head. I just didn't have the helmet on for the video in the parking lot, but I actually wore a helmet there. Oh, yes. I just... We're like... This is a magic of video. We filmed me on the scooter afterwards. Yes. Because, like, oh, yeah, we didn't have an intro because somebody got lost on his way to Big B. I didn't get lost, all right? I missed the turn. And it's a weird... When you get on Dick's Toledo here, if you miss... It's like an off-ramp, which is weird. It's like a ramp off of just a street. And if you miss it, like, you've got to... You can't just get on... He's got, like, navigation. You wouldn't, but, of course, you don't think to navigate to places that are too miles from your office. We'll see you next week. You got to turn this back on. This is going to be... Yeah. So, we'll see you next week now. Do you like the content here? Like and subscribe. I'll wear my helmet. With my... 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Okay so before I came here I struggled with depression and because of that kind of just fell behind in school so actually when I came here was last year the beginning of my senior year. I was told that because of how much I missed and all the work that I didn't do that I wasn't going to graduate and there was no way like absolutely no way I mean me and my family we tried everything we're like maybe we can transfer schools do online do anything in there like there's no way you would have to come back a whole nother year and even after that in the summer. So I let it go I accepted it but then I came here and still months I was coming here I was praying being faithful but I just let it go I guess I just accepted the fact that I wasn't going to graduate until we had a breakthrough service it was actually my first breakthrough service. Pastor Ilya was praying about school and it was actually finances and I didn't need that in the area of finances but I needed it in school. So I prayed about it my mentor prayed with me and literally the next day she told me my counselor called me in and all of my teachers my parents my counselors my principals like the head of the Pasco school district and they told me that I was going to graduate and they didn't know how it happened but they're like I don't know just last week people were just like changing your grades and she's like yeah so now you're graduating they called yeah. Come on let's put our hands together for Jesus and what did the principal told you that you were the this. So then after that they were shocked they were telling everyone and they called me their school success story and now this year they actually called me back to share my story with the kids so. Wow let's put our hands together for Jesus. So before I started coming here I already had family issues but once I came here it got even worse like every time I would come here it was a fight with my family my parents my dad and I would have to choose between staying home or going to church so of course I would come and I had to deal with the issue but my family came here and actually at breakthrough service they all got saved and after that everybody after that got saved and now that is my mother right there coming right now. Come on let's put our hands together for our mother. Gifts of the Holy Spirit and baptisms and my other aunt is serving right now so. The whole family tree come on somebody. Thank you for watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you're like me and you like to click on things click on this subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it and remember the best is yet to come.