things if you take those hundred and bring them all down to say about 20 there's always something that will work for everybody's hair type and there's something that is specifically designed for that with that ladies highlighted and for thinning hair there's a specific way of cutting hair for finer hair for example I had a lady yesterday and her hair was long her consciousness is I want to keep my hair long but it looks weak it looks slim it looks fine and what we do is we call it's an invisible layer this is where she didn't want to layer her but we take the hair up we work into the hair and invisible gentle panels and this creates an illusion of what's actually happening is those smaller pieces will lift and support the rest of the hair and give her body and make her feel that her hair is full yes okay very good all right yeah and also too I think people should be aware of that there's nothing you guys haven't heard of before so if someone thinks that yeah I you've dealt with a thousand women I'm sure that have come in with hair lightning at the temple it's nothing new so you know don't be afraid to go in and have a consultation as well it's not a commitment is it Patrick listen everybody has a relationship with their own hairdresser and even I find that when this starts to occur there's that self-consciousness there's that maybe is having an impact on your confidence level listen lift the phone to your own hairdresser tell them there's no hairdresser in the world that won't bring you in five minutes after work all right this is an old one isn't it how can I get rid of spit ends or prevent them trim your hair frequently very very simple keep it moisture what is causing a split end it's just tiredness it's just worn it's the elements of the air heating with heating elements is the biggest part in it if you're using straighteners using a hairdryer that's too warm always remember when we hairdryers if you hold your hand to a hairdryer what's actually happening is if you can't hold your hand there the heat is too high for your hair and split ends is something which occurs with over use of heat and wear and tear about trimming that every seven weeks keeps it at bay um is the semi delimo pink moisture best for highlighting and coloured blonde hair well that's given tone so it does highlights is a form of different bleaching agents and different colors which are combined with different peroxides to give you different lifts that you want to achieve when you're talking about a pacific tone there you're not actually lifting what you're doing is you're placing tone in the hair any tones that you will use any bleaching agents will lift the hair first and that's all it's designed to do then you place the tone that you want in there all right brunette says that their greys are showing more quickly now they want to retain the hair color but they're never out of the hairdressers oh well that's good there's a couple of wee different wee techniques what you can do with brunettes and what you can do is what we call baby baby lice and this is where you're adding in such a fine dimension that it's almost creating a glistering of the sun that you can't see it but you're taking small sections and softly weave them in the area that you're very conscious because nine times out of ten it's only departing where you're conscious of the greys coming through and this will work in a format of stonement in your brunette tone which is a very big color this season coming in anyway but primarily what you're doing is you're softly diffusing it out we tend to work that on other hairdressers and where it gives you that extra couple of weeks without feeling you have to do the color so at the parting it's a slightly lighter tone is that it just creating a touch is it it's a tone on tone and it's almost like a sprinkle but the difference when you reduce the solidness is you create that transparency where it's almost blending with the gray another small tip in that there is just get your parting service lots of people think that when they see some grays and they like to color their hair that they think i have to go in and get the fall job done that is not the case go in and just get the parting done say four weeks that gives you another three weeks without having the fall service okay um oh eight six six two twenty five thousand get your questions in quick and i have some here but i want to talk about you to mention the word trend and that distracted me what so what what is what drives trend is it still love island or friends or uh you know the Oscars is it do people still exercise that influence that that can that can sort of push trends it's funny how you know even in the last 10 years how it's evolved you know we were encouraged and we were driven by tv and magazines it was that simple and now the world is such a bigger place and events we can watch it four or five times over and everyone's an influencer and everyone is an influencer of some kind or this i don't know anyway but primarily is the trends are coming fast and furious so you need to be careful because some of the day were told us a trend then tomorrow and then the next day and you go what is happening here so i think you have to pair it back and keep it simple and this is why you find that the industry now has moved to the same format as the fashion industry you have your season trends where it used to be every quarter now i think it's moving to six months which is a common sense approach and with the trends that we find within the industry we have influencers within our industry the meets uh in an annual basis they draw up trends with the fashion industry what's the future and they connect tones and looks towards that where the whole thing is connected primarily the hairdressed industry would be dictated by the fashion industry now we're talking about everyday hair and people just want to look and feel good but if we want to focus primarily on trends that's where they're coming from the likes of now our trend for autumn is we touched on at their brunettes and this season the industry is predicting a diffusion of coppers dark blond still been blonde but being a darker blonde and that's coming as a trend because you don't have to do what trend says but we all need a trend to aspire to and we all need a change of course you can dip into it without getting fully wet like and you can take a little and it's important for us being part of the fashion industry that we offer that to the public and be part of that and more importantly take people with us so that you know if we all stayed the same and wore the same t-shirt every day then it would be a very dull boring world and hair needs to be exciting as well and part of those trends are to install a bit of excitement primarily as they're drawn up 12 months in advance and then they are predictions for the year ahead so we're working on the the brunettes as we said we're working on the south dark blondes so if you're moving away from those very strong yellow tones which were last season we're moving away from very very strong heavy ash tones and we're bringing in a bit natural now to softly diffuse and the other point is as well is to give lower maintenance as well and this necessarily we need to be careful when we talk about tones because lots of people and a lot of influencers tend to promote a lot of longer hair yeah that's not the case this is for all different hair lengths and all to suit you but never lose away from a trend a trend only works if it works with your eye color works with your skin color and you feel comfortable with it I mean even if you watch old films it's very rare you would come across a hair length or style particularly with women I think that you go oh my you know what I'm on about for them for the most part I mean there are you can go back maybe to 80s and 70s into some stuff you'd never see now like back home ankle it's going out of fashion or something like that there but generally speaking you know there's not a massive change you know you can see the goalpost moves slightly just as you mentioned about the influences though I mean I don't know if it's my age or maybe where the newspaper I was reading reading at time but when I was younger you know you talked about supermodels right you know you had Naomi Campbell's and Claudia Schiefer and you could list off a dozen really recognizable people right now I don't know if I'm just not exposed to that or it's because I'm older I couldn't now you know I couldn't I couldn't sort of say right those are a group of supermodels in inverted commas that come that I know that transcend from fashion into sort of you know general popular culture is that just me do those people still exist and I just don't know them or is that sort of catwalk you know those famous people famous for being models is that kind of a thing of the past and they've all been subsumed into what we were talking about earlier your Instagram influence etc influencers I think they've been passed out and I think a lot of those people have now become icons yeah but are the replacements of them really is what I'm getting at the replacements now this is only an opinion yes yes there is replacements and what I see the change of the Naomi Campbell's and those very individual high profiles we have them in their own parish yeah now we have them in our own county we have them on a national basis right and that's where I see it happening and transitioning now sometimes I'm in a place where where you are at and I'm kind of going is this for real and then but you have to accept this is transition this is change and these people are going to be the influencers of the future and a nice way it's actually quite nice because if you take an ordinary girl who's going over the town wearing something from our local shops she's wearing it well she's shown even from a different size minuses and pluses and embracing all that there it's important I think that people especially now because sometimes people can be a little bit lost with so much social media that they can feel well this is normal so you can connect to where you want to connect you have your international you have your national like said pipsane people like that there and then we come to the county and then you have local girls in the town here now some of it's bananas but some of it actually does work and can install confidence all right and I think to some extent and I probably would get shot for saying this I think I think on an international scale in trying to be all inclusive maybe they've lost they've kind of lost a connection with people if that makes sense oh well they died and as I say I have to be really sensitive how I describe that but if you watch some of the adverts now and it's fantastic there's that level of inclusivity but it's I actually just wonder to the majority of people and they're all mixed in as the majority if it actually is as relatable as it once was if you get where I'm coming from yeah I'll be fair though it's also almost as well I'm not on about colors and stuff for all people's race I'm not on about that I'm just on about you know different maxis and different parameters and I'm just like you're looking all over the place you're going well is someone watching that and going saying that's me or that could be me or whatever and I just think right I think that a lot of companies what they do is they try to overload it and what happens is it leaves the consumers at times going sorry what's the story here and your eyes are going everywhere and you're going what and if it's brought back to a simpler format this is why I think social media plays such a powerful point because people can connect to what they want to connect and you can't be a jack of all trades a master of none you have to have some sort of a direction all right this is an interesting one I'm not sure if you've come across this much I lost my hair after having Covid but now it's grown back thicker and curlier does Patrick know why this has happened has he seen this I don't know why your hair has grown back this way but we have seen a lot of Covid hair loss we've seen a lot of Covid hair growth and the good news is as people who have lost a lot of hair and Covid their hair has grown back to the same strength and then she's indicated stronger because we didn't know that when we were first speaking to you because it was unproven you were you were encountering your clients and I actually think at the time you said we don't know yes what's going to happen but now we've got time we've got the numbers and thankfully for the most part you're seeing a regrowth as as it were before now it took us by surprise because we we were been asked questions we didn't have answers yeah great because it was all new and we were trying to reach out to see could we find the answers for people and and in a nutshell the hair loss happened it is growing back coming back to that lady's actual query I think it's a fantastic thing when you're saying the way that it's come back because it can always be cut and worked to where you want it to be and to me that's the most important thing about what's come out of Covid hair loss I have seen different textures coming back also but not so much but the good news is the hair has come back all right gonna have to mention the f word here what can be done to erase fizz in the weather my hair goes into around fuzzball if we're talking about the holiday season and when you're in the sun put on a bit of conditioner comb it through and leave it on and it will give you not alone will it control your frizz tame it but will also make you look really good with your hair polished as well do you think everyone should be using a silk hair wrap or pillowcase for sleeping it's a very personal choice uh on conversation with people sometimes people find that it works very well it doesn't tangle their hair I wouldn't say not to use it I think it does reduce the friction at night time especially if your hair is long and especially if you're a blonde I think that they work fantastic but it's not for everybody I've seen the bump or the quiff coming back for women love it it seems to be coming back around very quickly that's a comment it's not a question very good excellent is it a good is it a good idea to bulk buy purple shampoo on amazon or ebay it's so expensive and cheap it's so expensive but it's cheaper online very personal choice depends on what you're getting if it's the correct product and it works for you that's a personal choice but don't forget to have the consultation with your stylist just talk to him tell him the truth that you can get it cheaper but make sure that you're using the correct product for your hair what's your view on hair supplements for fine hair this listeners on them four months now I can't see any difference and they're very expensive yes give it another four months give it two tracks you tend to work in four month quarter sections four months four months if after another second it's section of four months that you find the same it may not be for you and maybe consider something else now it's not going to affect the hair that's already there it's only going to have any impact on on regrowth or new growth potentially or what's to follow okay can you ask patrick what's the best way to lighten hair color from black to light brown thanks greg love you show just want to get that one at the end this is where you need to be careful that you don't charge on because you could end up lightening your hair and you could end up absolutely making a mess of the condition of your hair and they certainly don't want to go this is what you call gentle gentle gentle and you need to use a product that is designed to very softly remove that bald up of tone that's in the hair so that at the end up you achieve tone and you achieve condition but it's important that you don't that you don't just achieve tone and your hair is completely over processed all right just a couple of quickies because I invited people to text and I want to get through as many of them as possible how often should I use conditioner I've got long hair it's thick hair it's not dyed and I wash it every two days every time every hair is long you want to maintain now the only way see if you're asking the question because sometimes you feel it's a wee bit heavy on your hair just use it halfway down yeah don't use it sometimes we have a habit in the shower we can pour it out put it in the scalp and comb it through just work from the tip of your ears down the hair and that will be sufficient I don't know if that's relevant or is that something you'd want to comment on there it's about an individual I'm not sure if you're familiar with them or it's about an influencer and they're not sure if they're legit but if you want to contact the station and you can get my mobile number and I can come back to you that that's okay it's just it's just a wee bit okay just a couple of quickies then my 12 year olds insisting on getting a wolf cut I'm not a fan her friend has just gotten it and now she wants it too I've got to talk me through that why not it's a well listen she says this is why not the last time you were on I think you were in battles with a teenager a particular haircut so now come on and then when I went back down I get my wings clipped sorry for dragging that up again but listen the wolf cut is to me it's a strong shape it's it's something that she's feeling and she wants it for herself and other friends having it then what's actually happening is she likes it and we are doing that type of stronger shapes on people in this age barometer and I understand the mother's concern but you know she's not asking for something that other people are not having and it's not anything out of the norm she's asking this is what I will feel this is what I want to be so you know and what is so surprising about it um not really because I mean obviously Billie Eilish is she's had the wolf cut I believe yeah it's kind of uh based around you know it's it's to me there's nothing you see I like I just looked at a couple of pictures I think Miley's had that haircut as well I don't see anything is it because it thins out a lot of hair or something it takes away a lot of the texture and it to me it gives a more urban feel to the hair and it tends to work on the concept of giving a lot of lightness but a lot of people find that it makes people look older before their time at a certain age barometer okay so if you work in the idea of say keeping the deep fringe and you work in a variation of where maybe it's just not not as long not as short maybe as what you would like it to be maybe a two-point stepping stone of where she can take so much to start with where she can still tie it up and she still has that convenience from every day rather than going too short with the alert do you have a conversation about whether a particular haircut be that or another suits someone's face you know the face shape you have to you factor that in I presume don't you I mean you can't lob a wolf cut in my head because you know so like what about would would you be if he brought someone like a young person like that they're probably their mind made up to though don't they I mean I was going to say if you bring them in for a consultation they know what they want and without that they're away ahead of the curve so they are now and again it gets back to what we were discussing earlier you know they have the finger on the pulse of what's coming not what's yeah pixie cuts they're becoming dated not at all timeless classy feminine sex the kind of word you want for a haircut great to listen to Patrick Gilday lovely man who's always so helpful and kind thank you very much right hi very last one I've got highlights but my dark roots show after nine weeks my hairdresser recommended getting a brown toner which will wash out after a few weeks to tone down roots would this work as I hate when I tie my hair back dark root circle line will I wash will it wash to blonde again so that's blonde hair showing through is it just repeat this sorry I've got highlights but my dark roots show after nine weeks my hairdresser recommended getting a brown toner which will wash out after a few weeks to tone down the roots would this work as I hate when I tie my dark my hair back and it does a dark root circle line will it wash to blonde again okay well I'm going to take that you have uh that roots anyway so you don't need the color on it yeah that's it there's no gray this is about the dark yeah I can't see really the point of doing that there because all you're doing is adding tone and tone if you're wanting your blonde you're putting highlights in because you want to be lighter unless you want a root shadow you achieve the root shadow from your natural hair you wouldn't need to do something like that there if you're saying that you're not happy with the tone of the natural hair then most certainly what you can do is you can add in something which will change the tone of it slightly in a semi-permanent format but I wouldn't necessarily find a long-term benefit from doing that all right Patrick Goulda from Patrick Goulda hairdressing if anyone wants to call down to see where you located Patrick uh just in Riverside Retail Park and if you want to call in or give me a call if anything I've discussed definitely anyway okay and the number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and we'll retain that here of course for anyone's it listen we got through a lot Patrick I appreciate it I'm not sure how long you thought you were going to be on but thank you very much we might have exceeded your anticipations all right back with more on the 90's after the break when it comes to searching for a holiday Atlantic travel and letter Kenny deal with all the major tour 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evening at its facility at letter kenny technology park on thursday that's july 11th between six and eight so just to view the background in terms of what tcs is about greg it also offers digital and business solutions and has approximately 592 000 employees globally and that represents 153 nationalities across 46 countries and i just thought we were digging in terms of revenue and profit the company's revenue for the year ended 2021 was 35 billion dollars with profit for the final quarter of last year up 12 percent you've done more due diligence than uh than elon musk has done for twitter well done to you elon musk is getting much better than me you're working hard on it right okay um more good news terms of expansion and potential creation it's important to sort of hide the good news greg swiss technology company i think it's travisori which has a base in letter kenny is planning to create 30 more jobs by 2024 so this firm they specialize in technology for the collection and processing of visitor information at border crossings and they've opened the development center and the colab within the athiode dunagall on letter kenny's port road all right now an interesting development here i suppose it's about openness and transparency isn't it and it's relating to the council yeah a new website that gives a breakdown of the budgets of all the local authorities for 2022 has just been announced by a team of researchers at the national university of gallway so the site will allow you to compare and contrast the spending of all of the country's 31 local authorities so dunagall county council's budgets for this year is 162.3 million or that equates to just over 1 000 euro per person so the main herrings greg just less than a third of that that's 53.4 million will be spent on roads with 21 million allocated to housing and 18.7 million to water all right okay i just wonder is that a blunt instrument or uh because i can imagine then if it's sort of you know the way council budgets work and they roll from year to year is it just comparing the headline figures to well i didn't get to a lot of detail i'm sure i'm too busy checking up on that swiss company to do anything else for it yeah i think it's probably the first 10 that i schooled if people have an interest in seeing where the money that's been allocated to their county and all our counties house been spent and what has been spent and what surprised me that something like this wasn't available before now to be honest yeah exactly in a collective uh a collective way right okay now uh there's great excitement on monday with the launch of the letter can a chamber business awards yes for those who weren't listening on monday greg the letter can a chamber business awards for 2022 were launched on your own show here by the chamber ceo 20 forester and sean quentin head of advertising here so hiding will be the media partner for this year's awards and the event will be held in partnership with ergrid so there are 13 award categories entries are now open and the winners will be announced at the gala ball on friday november the 11th in the monterey hotel all right okay and if you miss that launch uh you can watch it on a website now right now go no not right now wait till later on please go to island radio dot com and you'll see that chat between myself the rep from ergrid tony and sean all right um the cove restaurant is on the market yeah the cove restaurant in port nabla has been placed on the market with an asking price of 550 000 euro located close to port nabla pier the bastrel style restaurant has the capacity to seat around 100 peterans when you take in uh outside and another level so the sale is being handled by for caribbean auctioneer manaskill all right be interesting to see how quickly that shifts all right excellent uh kieran old donnell there we're going to be previewing what's coming up on this week's podcast which will be available for you very very shortly in fact it might be already uh on our website but we'll do that after this short break cross arland visit breath info dot ie to find out more since she got her free hearing aids with her prsi at speck savers roshine is a changed one music has never sounded better and that makes her dance and dance and dance her singing though yeah well my free hearing aids with prsi at speck savers music to your ears find out more online terms and conditions apply tcs is recruiting 200 new staff at their global delivery center in netto kenny interested in a career in tech business or design come along to the tcs open evening where you'll get the chance to meet with staff and learn about their great learning programs career development and flexible working options drop in between six and eight pm on thursday the 14th of july or register in advance at open evening dot tcs careers dot ie is your current car ready for change if so now is a good time to visit dmg motors donnie galtown choose from their school to 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later so i had six months off and to think about my career and my family and i got six months to just take time out which i never had before i was straight into work and always working and so i had these six months to really think about what i wanted to do and i had six months to prioritize my family of two young boys so once i was made redundant i decided i'm gonna work for myself but just out of fear of the pandemic i went straight into employment and i did so for nine months and i really enjoyed that job but that neglect to start my own business just never went away so i left that job last summer and started the business then officially in september last year and i love those stories kiran because lots of us have the itch but not all of us have the courage to scratch it but lisa lisa did she hit the bullet and she knew it was there and she had to do it very much and look she had 20 plus years experience so she knows that the sector is good as anybody um look she used the time off the first six months when she was furloughed and the big thing was another example of a new way of working greg but primarily she was putting the family first and she's able to build her working day and her working week around her family and she's actually cracked that and we hear a lot of talk about work-life balance but it's probably the most practical and best example i've seen yet of the work-life balance when it comes to somebody set up their own business all right so the ergal arts festival is about to get underway kicks off in earnest on saturday july the ninth and it's an interesting interview this with paul brown he's the ceo an artistic director of the ergal arts festival because it's not a business in and of itself as such but it is it has to be run as such but also there's a huge economic dividend for it so you were talking to paul yeah paul's talking forward to what is this what is going to be the start greg of the 35th annual event and i suppose it's coming after two challenging years and in this clip as you've alluded to he talks about the economic value of the festival to the locality the last independent economic analysis that was almost done by indicon back in 2009 and back then that they they estimated it was about 1.5 million euro um return to the local economy and what the and what the festival created um obviously fest was growing since then as well you know so it's it's it is a significant economic generator for the for not for the for for the county not only in terms of the festival productions themselves but in terms of the the draw people come to the the county during that period to to attend festival events on average you know a visitor coming from outside the county spends about you know 700 750 euros in the time they're here you know so that's one person coming in you know it's it's quite a significant you know return okay this week's podcast is available for you like the r every week they go live on our website highlandradio.com from 11 30 a.m the full interviews with lisa and paul brown available there and on spotify and itunes and for those who want to listen on air kirin yeah sunday evening break after the six o'clock news all right sunday evening after the six o'clock news and if people wish to make contact with you or the show yeah drop an email please business matters at highlandvideo.com all right kirin listen thank you as always it's great having you in and we really do appreciate it so the business matters podcast available for you in the on-demand section of our website right now uh also available for you there as i mentioned we have the uh video launch of the chamber awards you can watch the latest uh score podcast from uh osheen kelly and listen to that there uh brendan devaney's dl debate kirin show uh you can get a podcast of the main evening news sport and obituary notices it's all in our on-demand section so go over there it's getting more and more populated all the while uh and you can listen there as you choose on demand okay we're joined on the program by councillor nicholas cross and good morning nicholas how are you this uh this morning greg right okay now you were speaking at a recent agm and you warn people who've refused to take a brand new council house in boncran and not to come looking for help from me uh i've heard comments from you in the past along these lines but this is this is sharp language uh nicholas so obviously it's born off experience tell us the background you're saying something so direct well if you take it from the context greg that i that i did say that anybody had a genuine reason for for refuse in the house but when people go on a local authority housing list there are they are assessed on how many bedrooms they need where they want to live where the children go to school etc etc so if the county council first of all has to get provide land and go to tendered build houses uh so that somebody has a need for a two or three bedroom a three bedroom house and they say no that doesn't suit me that that house doesn't suit me some and i know i think one family and that they can't take up the house because of maybe some of the disabilities or the special needs in the particular house but for anybody to say that i don't like my neighbor or i'm too small or i don't like the area in boncran is within walk and distance that's how i think it would be very difficult to go and try and make representation for those people again and these are new houses uh in a prime location these are new houses walk and distance boncran a rated heating they're insulated to an an nth degree uh easy run and what i would kind of we have 611 people on the housing list and and they show up there's 21 new houses these are the first houses new houses local authority houses was built in boncran for years now the fundamental in my in my living the fundamental issue for any family is to secure housing if you get a local authority housing you are secure in that house for the remainder of your day if you want to so you're saying that even if you so you're saying even if that means maybe moving children from school maybe being that bit further away from your family you should make those life adjustments because you've been offered this house in this area well if i go back the assessments this just doesn't happen really the amount of work that kandana has put in to trying to apportion the proper house for the the person uh as i said it's walking distance to boncran a town center it's walking distance to the schools it is convenient i don't think anybody i don't think we're going to ask somebody to move from kandana to boncran a because their house and if they don't want to they're asked where they want to live um so as far as the council were concerned the offer they put out for 21 people their their needs were met and that's all we can do as a county council that meet the needs of the people just looking for houses i wish we had 200 houses to get right well the refusal rate for these new houses among kandana is all along the same lines one in five or sorry one in four effectively isn't it yeah uh refusals uh a crossing is shown during the housing crisis is that correct that's correct and i have you have heard me saying from time to time that the refusal rate from an issue on us about 30 percent of refusal months and months out um for what for whatever reason sometimes there are very good reasons that people just can't move into a house or don't want to go to that particular house for various reasons but for some days that needs a three bedroom house in boncran a to turn around and these houses are finished to perfection and i mean they really are how many do you say in the show on 600 odd are waiting on a house 111 and was in boncran a area there's 200 i think it's 230 and 39 families on the witness so let me ask you then do you think that that figure then overstates the housing crisis because if people are in a housing crisis they're not going to refuse a brand new house close to boncran so in other words do you think there are people on that housing list that really perhaps shouldn't be on it no no i'm not saying that at all anybody's on the house and i wasn't i wasn't attributing that view to you i was asking you that question no no i'm not at all no i don't talk to anybody on the house and that's entitled to be on the house list obviously they're there and need a house and some of them are unhappy some of them are on private rental but i mean like somebody that will maybe refuse the house and maybe i don't know the circumstances living and private accommodation the landowner comes along so sorry we're selling this house or i need it for my own family and you've got to go in two or three months or six months down the line you know the fund i don't go back to security security security you know for housing you could get in there save up buy the house or buy a new another house whatever the case may be but the fundamental issue around this year in my opinion is security for your family and to me some of those people are walking away from the very very secure house right what then needs to be to the rules to discourage this then i mean obviously you you've said that you would prefer not to cooperate with those who have refused to house for no apparent good reason um so you're entitled you're you're allowed to refusals within a calendar year is that is that is that's do you believe that i'm not so that you go to well you're allowed to refusals if they're minor few refusals you know if you if you say that you can't go to that house for whatever the house is the specific yes since the house doesn't suit your needs well you don't have to take up that offer but what i'm saying anybody that need to the three bedroom house um to refuse it down the unless they have a good reason you know there's an endangerment going back down the list again and it's it's frightening because every day there is somebody on the phone to me lock on the boat houses and any we can't donnie goll county councillor could not get anybody a house and beyond there no illusion all we can do is make representation if there's a change and the needs a change an assessment or any any issue like that but you know all we could do is it was do your best and if you were to say that's not to say that i would just ask yesterday if somebody if you reconsider if there would be an offer to the house you know don't walk away from the security of the local authority okay now i understand you might not want to comment on this and i respect that fully until you've seen the the reporting in itself but you would maybe know that we understand that a review into the purchase of five houses in boncran and by the council has found the transaction was conducted properly and there was no impropriety in the actions of council officials i know this is a matter you were seeing uh keen i believe to see come to a conclusion do you want to give me a quick reaction to uh that oh yeah i'm i'm i'm actually delighted and from from day one greg i said look there's five houses of one kind of if they were up tomorrow would be by them possibly not but they're bought there's five families living in those houses they they have been living in those houses for ten years some of them so that there was a long term lease so it was in my in my opinion it was a great idea for donningall county council to buy those houses we have we will get money to to what when they need text so i think it's a one-one situation and i'm glad that the officials and the and the staff of donningall county council there's no fine of any any impropriety against them and i'm delighted with that and they've been vindicated they have been vindicated that's my opinion and from i'm probably i live near to those houses and anybody else and you know they're not going to fall down tomorrow morning you know and there's five families living there happily and look i go back those people feel secure in those houses now all right listen thanks for that i appreciate you coming on both matters that's it for the nine till noon show for this wednesday we're back with you tomorrow morning at nine stay tuned john brezen is quite literary around the northwest he is in letter kenny we'll be back with you as i say tomorrow morning at nine for me greg hughes and emma ryan and donna marie darti researched and produced the show have a fantastic day and as i say please rejoin us tomorrow morning we've got loads already lined up for you and we're just adding to it as the day wears on have a great wednesday everyone


Hi, I'm Fred working with ST Microelectronics and I will show you inside this video how easy it is to migrate your device to the Type-C port. USB Type-C has already been widely adopted by the smartphone and the computer industries as you may have seen. They've seen the standard A ports and the micro B ports. So now we're going to see that all the tools will migrate to Type-C like power bank, power tools or even a Bluetooth speaker or a lamp that are coming today with their own chargers and they will migrate to to Type-C in order to take the advantage of having only one charger. So as long as the device is below 100 watt, it can take the advantages of the Type-C and power delivery features. So such as the universality of the ports, the thin connectors, the flippable cable and moreover the fast charging capabilities. So now the question is how complex it is to perform this transition. ST Microelectronics has developed this tiny reference design using the ST USB 4500 PD controller which is embedding all the necessary intelligence in order to perform the power negotiation in a safe way. So now let me show you our simplicity. So let's take this universal charger that will replace all those chargers and let's take for example this power bank where we have plugged our reference design. And we will charge with the universal charger. We have a power meter here in order to show you the negotiation. So we plug and quickly the negotiation is going on and we can see that the 5V is going through. So now we take the same charger and we will plug it to this Bluetooth speaker for instance which is a 15V device and in the same way the negotiation is performed with the ST USB 4500 and we can see that the 15V is going through. Okay so you can easily implement this design on your own device just going to ST.com and you will find a GARVER file, bill of materials, schematics and the datasheet of the device and you are ready to get started. Thank you for watching.


Okay, hello and welcome to this webinar on how to find data in Europe organised by CESTA. My name is Jen Bucklin, I'm based at the University of Manchester and work with the UK Data Service and I will be joined today by Oliver Mothler from GASIS. Okay, so here's an overview of the webinar and we're going to start with a short background to CESTA and social science data services. I will then discuss some data that's available, how to find an answer to this. And then take a look at two national data services in some detail. So first we'll look at CESTA in Germany and then the UK Data Service and these are two of the largest in Europe. There will then be time for questions and you can ask your questions by typing them into the questions box on the webinar panel. This box is normally to the right of your screen. If you can't see it, you may need to maximise the box by clicking on a red arrow box. You can type questions at any point but we'll pick them up and answer them at the end. So CESTA, CESTA is the consortium of European Social Science Data Archives and its vision is to provide a full scale sustainable research infrastructure that enables the research community to conduct high quality research. And the key tasks underlying this vision include developing standards and practices around the management and archiving of social science data and also facilitating researcher access to these important resources. Some of this work is done through providing training and also by coordinating the network of European Data Service providers. So national data services are the core operational bodies in CESTA. So national data services provide access to offensive collections of data useful for social and economic research. You may be familiar with the service in your country or some of the larger data services that operate in Europe and many of the data services that are in Europe are members of CESTA. So this image on your screen is from CESTA website and it highlights the different national data services that are in Europe. So social science data typically combine the archiving of research data with some activities to make that data available for research, teaching and learning. Core activities include in checking data and metadata, maintaining catalogs and managing access to data. Many services also seek to obtain data for their collection and to develop training for both as creating data and for users of data. The range of data available is diverse so many services have both quantitative and qualitative data in their collections so quantitative data from social surveys is the most prevalent. Data can come from major academic projects which are often designed which is ideal to share in your mind but national data services also provide access to data collections from governments and policy-focused organisations and then also smaller research teams and individual researchers. Facts of such as an interest in extending the benefits of investment in research and making research transparent are supporting trends towards greater archiving and sharing of data. So some examples of key data collections. Doing that after the webinar, the slides and some supplementary materials about studies and data services mentioned will be made available to you so don't worry too much about catching all the details. So many European countries participate in international survey programmes. One example is the International Social Survey programme. This is an annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys and it consists of thematic modules and a range of topics including the role of government, family change, changing gender roles, the environment, health and healthcare. And then these modules are then rotated across different years so for example citizenship module has been run in 2004 and 2014. Another good example is SHARE. SHARE is a survey of health, aging and retirement in Europe and this survey is longitudinal that collects data from more than 120,000 individuals aged 50 or older and that's in 27 European countries out in Threl. SHARE then provides micro-data on health, socioeconomic status, social and family networks and is a major resource for research into aging. Many of the cross-national studies and also some national studies have dedicated infrastructures and websites distributing data such as this one for SHARE and this one for the European Social Survey. And these portals are a really valuable resource containing relevant documentation for the data, information about access and additional resources such as reports and publications on both substantive findings and methodological missions. Access to other sort of some of the cross-national studies is via one of the national data services for example data for international social survey programmes which is available by ACES in Germany. You are responsible for harmonising and integrating all the individual national data sets that form the integrated data set. We can also highlight Eurostat as a source of cross-national data in Europe. Eurostat is the physical office of the European Union and the key task of Eurostat is at the European level that enables comparison between countries and regions and there is also access to micro-data. So for example there is the European Union statistics on income and living conditions that EU took and that provides record data on income, poverty and living conditions and there is also the European Union labour force survey which gives harmonising data on employment and related topics. Another example is long-achieve national studies. So long-achieve national studies are a precious resource for social and economic research. As by tracking the same individuals over time they enable analysis to change at an individual level and on the screen here these are household panel studies and they each follow households over time and ask questions on a broad range of topics such as employment in buildings, health and life satisfaction such as social and political participation. The German Citadel at Panelist study of nearly 11,000 households that started in 1984. Understanding of the site is a very large study which follows the lives of 40,000 UK households and that started in 2009 but it also incorporates participants in all the panel studies at that point in time. The Swiss household panel study started in 1999 in the sample of just over 5,000. So it had to find data from national data services. So national data services have websites with online catalogs for searching and browsing. The example on the screen here is the catalogue of dams in the Netherlands and these catalogs allow you to search using terms such as ages. Searching large archives can be demanding and you can get a lot of results to consider but the tools generally are for ways to sort and refine your results that are sorted by date. Language can be an issue so unfortunately websites and catalogs are often in multiple languages so typically the national languages of the country and also English but sometimes there's other physical dams and documentation may only be available in one language. When searching it can also be useful to consider alternative spelling such as key expressions. Here's another example from Ford in Switzerland so their online platform, Ford Space, allows researchers to register research projects and to store and share their data so then others can obtain information about social science studies and then also access other data. As you can see here the list of studies tells you whether there was archive data and there's also an option to search just for entries with data. Many data sets providers use an online platform called Nestar so Nestar enables online data browsing and also analysis. You can also download tables, graphs, data files and study descriptions. Some data sets use Nestar as their main tool for searching and accessing data while others use Nestar as a separate tool to their lean catalog. Using Nestar the help pages are lots of helpful user guidance and can be accessed at any time by clicking the question mark at the top of the screen. You can find information and links to all of the national databases on the Nestar website. In June there will be a new look to the Nestar website and we'll be adding lots of useful resources including a recording of this webinar. A reasonable question is why is there not just one single catalog in Nestar? It is with Nestar finding that setting data much easier but fortunately this is in progress so SESDA are currently building a catalog and it's due to go into service in 2018 and when operational you'll be able to search for data sources from all SESDA service providers. A further tool to highlight those within the survey data are variable and question banks like this one from the Swedish National Data Service. These allow you to search for variables and questions across data sets. This functionality is useful for finding through these other relevant questions and also the use of the same question across different surveys. It can also be useful for those designing service because they give examples of question design. Not all services have a variable and question bank but again SESDA are developing a European question bank which should be very useful for finding similar questions across different countries. So having found data, what do you do to get it? A general principle within SESDA that all data holding will be available regardless of status, nation, or type of use except if you are redistributing them or if there are other known requirements which prevent it. In practice you will generally find that you can access most data collections through simple registration process. However, access arrangements do vary across data services and across different data collections and the differences largely reflect the needs of those who hold the data and their need to protect the anonymity of research for dispensers is an important factor. So here are some arrangements in place across data services. So first, some services support access to open data collections which can be downloaded by any type of user without registration. But as I said you normally do need to register data so this before accessing data. In some cases, university researchers register using their institutional details like their username and password otherwise you need to provide an email address and possibly institutional details. You may also for services need to wait to receive a username and password before you can access data. In some cases you may be asked to auto-register the use of data and this is a requirement which really helps data creators and also data services understand the impact of their works on how data is being used. You will usually be agreeing to terms and conditions as part of the registration process or when accessing data and common terms and conditions that will finally be not trying to identify individuals, households and organizations in the data and not distributing the data to others. Some restrictions about the use of data are also common so most typically you might find that data is among commercial use only or use in research or teaching only. Often you download data directly from the password but some services ask you to register to make a request for the data. Additionally access to some data collections may require permission from the data owners and then this adds a sort of additional stage to the access procedure. Also more strict applications generally operate the data collections considered to contain sensitive or confidential data and some services operate sort of dedicated safe rooms or remote settings for analyzing this kind of data. Finally access to data documentation and metadata is generally free but charges can apply in some cases for commercial use or for supplementary services such as burning data to a CD. You should find access conditions for each data collection displayed clearly in the catalogue and also if you are unsure you can ask the data service for help and we have also produced some materials which we will give at the end of the webinar with some more detailed information about finding and accessing data from national data services. So a key issue in secondary data analysis is how to make sense of the data to understand the meaning of data and to evaluate the suitability of your research question you need to know things like what information was collected and what was done to the resulting data. And the core aim is that all data collections have documentation that allows use without the course of the data creator. So documentation might include user guides, survey questionnaires, interview schedules and field work notes and this documentation is usually accessible directly from the catalogue and will come as things like PDF documents that allow you to search but format and quality varies especially for the old studies. Some services where the resources allow offers support to help users understand data through things like help desks and also by training. Finally when using existing data it is good practice to cite the data. So data citations give credit to the data creators and they also allow other researchers to find the data. So in general the citation should include information so that the exact version of the data being cited can be located. And usefully many services provide a recommended citation for each of their data collections and some also provide a persistent identifier such as a digital object identifier of DOI. So here's an example from UK Data Service for Understanding Society. So at this point I will hand over to Oliver who will talk to us about the GASIS Data Archive in Germany. Hi everyone. I hope you can see the slides. I have a short presentation on GASIS the Lightning Institute for the Social Sciences. We are one of the leading social science infrastructures in Europe with over 50 years of experience along with institutions like the UKDA Data Service. The data archive was founded in 1960 very much in line with what Jen just presented for CESTA. Our objective is our research-based infrastructure services mainly distributing data but also other things around the data. And we do interdisciplinary research. GASIS covers the entire life cycle of the data so we are also a data gathering organization for example for the German General Social Survey and our focus here is on surveys. We have five departments among them is the data archive for the social sciences. What are the objectives and tasks? We want to advance social science by promoting wide data sharing. The better the data we offer the better for research. Our tasks are to provide this high quality data and data services so you can always email and contact us about details of the data. We do data confrontation seminars and other things. We also develop standards and infrastructure solutions for data sharing. We are developing an XML standard for the exchange of metadata and we conduct research on social change and as well on archiving and data management. The data archive holds close to 6,000 studies mostly surveys with a strong focus on international comparison. Jen has just pointed out to this. Those surveys are probably among the most widely used data sets in the social sciences. We do have a collection of time series most economic time series but also social indicators and we have a small set of historical data so historians using social science methods to gather data from archives and other sources. We are home to the International Social Survey Program. The German General Social Survey forms part of this but also for example we have a strong hold on election studies the comparative study of electoral systems and the German National Election Study or one very prominent survey series is the Eurobarometer survey series commissioned by the European Commission for 600 surveys by now and you can access the data through our website there's a screenshot here and the demonstration I will just show you briefly how to get to our catalog that's probably the most valuable information you want to take home from this webinar it's the main access point. We do also run a Nesta server SSP or the Eurobarometers which is called ZAKAT and we also have specialized websites for collections so let me just briefly stop the presentation and move in our website here live I guess you can see this you can search the website via this possibility up here search cases but if you go under services and then research this will take you to all search possibilities all search tools the main point is the data holding catalog up here and you can also go directly to the data catalog down here which enables you to do a more detailed search with more keywords let me just show you the catalog it looks very much like catalogs you probably know for years from libraries or other data services you've got your simple and advanced search possibilities and if we look for example for the German General Social Survey which is called the Albus 2016 the search will take you to the holdings and here you've got the two versions of the Albus a compact and a complete version and if you click on the title here this will take you to a full description of the study including information on methods data and documents but also this is related to the DOI that Jan mentioned of errors in the data that have been discovered and versions so most of the main collections do have several versions of the data so watch out when you cite your data to properly name the version and if you go to data and documentation this will take you directly to the data sets and you can either download the data after registering that is true for most of our holdings so if you click on SAF this is the SPSS version this will ask you to log in you first have to create an account which is an easy two-step process it will send you a login name and a password and then you can download this data for free for academic research and teaching and also as mentioned before there are some restricted data sets as well so we have some times we do have to ask data providers, primary investigators for their admission to distribute the data and for a number of data sets a very small number of data sets we do run a secure data center for on-site analysis but all information is available through the catalog so as you can see here there's the access class which tells you if you are allowed to access the data set or not if there are any restrictions applying in terms of use and here you can also go to the documents that are related to the survey let me close this and back to the presentation we've seen this as I said mainly we're offering data for scientific reuse there are time series and very few data sets which are available to the general public as open access there are four access classes and all users can register there are no national restrictions those sometimes apply so if you want to access a data repository in another country they might tell you either contact your national data archive or data distributor or register via a national service or in a few cases you are not allowed to access data at all but we do not impose any restrictions we do run a facility that's called Eurolab which grants for research visits so if you are looking at analyzing any of the data sets we are offering and you would like to exchange information or your research experience with the staff working on the data and our scientific staff you are happy to apply for one of those grants and as I said before we do have a secure data center for access to more sensitive we do not offer any official micro data that is only done by the statistical offices in Germany but there are some data sets that we deem sensitive in a way so you can only access them on site that's from my side back to Jen thank you okay thank you just got my screen back up here okay so I'm just going to talk a little bit now about the UK data service so the UK data service is the UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data and we also give a lot of support to users through training and guidance here are the main types of data that we have available so the cloud collection includes major UK and cross sectional surveys including major cross sectional surveys on topics such as crime, health and family resources there are a number of longitudinal studies so for example in addition to understanding society which I mentioned earlier there is also some major cohort studies which are following individuals that were born in 1958, 1970 and 2000 and this international macro data these contain social, economic time series data aggregated to a country or regional level there are a range of countries and over a substantial time period so many of these data banks are current releases of the major statistical publications produced by organisations such as the World Bank, IMF and OECD there's also data from the UK census from 1971 to 2011 and we have some qualitative data collections as well and these things like indexed interview transcripts diaries and prological field reports answers to open-ended survey questions there is also some business and administrative data although these have more limited access rights the UK data service also has an online repository called ReShare for researchers to archive and publish and share their research data and this helps support the requirement for researchers with grants from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council to archive the data from their research projects with regard to access most data is available to anyone following registration with the UK data service otherwise there are some open data collections that are available for anyone to use without registration those in UK higher education can use institutional rockings to register otherwise users need to apply for the UK data archive user name and password we also have a secure data lab and a safe room for sensitive or confidential data there's lots of information on the website about using these services but note that users not in the UK cannot access control data via the secure lab most data sets can be downloaded directly from the website and for many surveys you can also use my staff and I'll take you to the website and give you a short tour so this is our homepage from here you can access data and resources and links to training events you can start finding data by just typing a search term into the central box on the front so I'm going to type in help as an example and then this will take you through to the new discover which is our search tool the discover will search for the word in the type or description or keyword for a survey sorry for data holding and here are the results for help there's over 3,000 results in total and the site of the collection does make it sometimes hard to find the right data but there's the options to sort down here and then also to refine the search so you can look for specific data types you can narrow the time period that you're looking for or sort of spatial levels or units of analysis there's also a variable and question down which can be accessed here so we can type again typing in help and then it brings up questions related to health we have a guide available with more information about how to find data and using the discover search tool so all the methods are finding data are available under the get data menu we've got theme pages which help find data so for key themes such as aging, crime, economics it lists the most relevant data collections for researching of these topics key data is also a really useful way to find the major data collections so these are listed under the main different types of data and it lists over the UK surveys it lists all the major surveys that are happening so to take you through to access data click on this this is one of the British Social Action Surveys it's been running for 30 years and this is a series page for this survey and through here you can access all the individual surveys for each year and if I click on this it takes you through to the catalogue page a little bit slowly but hopefully here we go so this provides all the summary information about the data collection so there's an abstract descriptive information and then there's a summary of what the data relates to and then also access to all the documentation that supports the data set to access the data you click download and order and if needed it will then prompt you to either login or to register as a new user to analyse online in Leicester there's a button here that takes you through to the Leicester catalogue and you can see all of the data that we have available in Leicester here and in addition to Leicester we have other tools for exploring online so for example we have UKDS.stat which is an interface for exploring the socioeconomic international data sets and that has tools for creating graphs and then downloading parts of the data we have guides and other resources available through the use data menu and these include written guide and video tutorials and they cover different data sets topics, methods and also software the news and events provide details of our training courses and other training courses that are available in the UK and there's information about webinars and other kind of events that are occurring and help can be accessed here at the top right and this will take you through to several frequently asked questions pages which cover a lot of key issues about finding and accessing data and also our email help desk. Thank you very much for attending today both me and from Oliver.


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Hey brother, it's great to be in the studio and great to have an opportunity to talk to our WTLN listeners. And today I wanted to give our listeners an opportunity to hear about a conference that we're putting on May 29th through May 31st this year. It's a Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday morning conference. And it's our 2015 call for discernment conference entitled A Call to Arms. And during that conference, we're going to be discussing how to protect your children and family from media's menacing dark side. And we have with us a guest speaker for that conference, Trace Embry. And Trace is a nationally syndicated radio host of Licensed to Parent. He's also the founder of Shepherds Hill Academy in Georgia, a residential counseling program for troubled teens. And Trace is an expert in this field, has been working in this field for 25 years and grateful to have Trace with us for the conference. Trace, how are you doing today? I'm doing wonderful brother. Oh, fantastic. Well, we look forward to this conference. It's something that our parents and even our kids are anticipating and they want to hear more on this subject. And I know our folks, our listeners out there on WTLN are interested in what the conference is going to be about. And I guess with respect to that, I wanted to ask you a question and let you talk for a little bit and give our folks an introduction to what we're going to be talking about on that day.  So what kind of negative influence do you see that our culture is having? And how is that affecting how our kids are growing up today? Well, the culture is the other parent. And when you've got Solomon Gamorra on your hip pocket 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 800 channels of ancient Roman and Greece, and it's not only piped into our homes, but even into our kids' bedrooms, you've got a major problem there. And so our kids are being indoctrinated with a worldview that is anti-Christ. It's a postmodern worldview. And so they redefine terms differently, and their whole value system is different than ours is.  They'll use the word love and freedom and grace and things like that, but they're defining those things with the devil's dictionary. And a lot of parents assume that their kids are doing the right things and having the right attitudes and thinking the right thoughts because they go to church every Sunday. But when you look at George Barnes statistics and others, and of course we have a proving ground at Shepherd's Hill Academy to know that it's not that way. And kids are very, very good at compartmentalizing not just their lives, but their faith as well. So you can have a kid who's attending church services every Sunday, maybe even raising his hands in worship to God. Maybe dealing drugs out of the church parking lot that evening. So this is a real problem, and it breeds a lot of insecurity, and of course it makes the church look hypocritical and what it's doing to our culture. It's a vicious cycle.  And so the bottom line is, is we've got to come to determine where we're going to take our cues from life, from, are we going to take it from our little digital devices, are we going to take it from one another to the public school system, or are we going to take it from where Christian had taken it from the beginning and that's the war to God? Amen. Yeah, it appears to me, Trace, that in my experience with parents and in talking to kids that often parents can be really naive to these things. They don't see the influence that's out there. They're not aware of what their kids are involved in. What's your experience with that? How can parents assess what their kids are doing, or the environment that's influencing them? I mean, what's the best way for a parent to really understand what's going on? Well, they're going to have to pull their heads out of the sand and pull their noses out of their own devices as well. And we live in a society where parents have worked themselves to death, trying to pursue the American nightmare, and our kids have entertained themselves to death. And the bottom line is that the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.  We don't turn loose for this activity until we have another one in our hands. And so consequently, there's no margin in life to really assess anything. And again, in the postmodern world, we live our lives by feeling. So as long as I'm feeling good, things must be good. But you know what? Drunks feel good. Drug addicts feel good. Anyone addicted to whatever they're addicted to feels good as long as they have what they're addicted to at their disposal. And we become addicted to digital technology and it's come upon us so fast and hard in the last 20 or so years, particularly, that we have just kind of morphed into this addiction. And it is an addiction. China considers video games alone. They're number one public health threat. And we have not come to realize that yet, but I see it every day here at Shepherd Hill Academy and in the churches I go to when I share some of these things. It's amazing. And the thing is, the addict never knows they're addicted. It always takes an outside objective source to say, hey, you've got a problem with this. You're spending too much time in this area. You've devoted all your energies in this area. And who gets neglected? It's the kids. And so the kids are going to go, they're going to find security somewhere. They're going to find identity somewhere, belonging, purpose, meaning and all that. And unfortunately, it's too often in sex, drugs, rock and roll, gangs and guns. Oh, thank you for that information, Trace. And yeah, maybe a first step, obviously, for parents to begin investigating this would be to look up information from you and your website. Can you give our listeners, Trace, where they can go to find more information about your ministry and maybe more information about how they can protect their family? Sure. I'd say the first thing you need to do is get ready to go to the call of arms conference. But our website is license2parent.org, license2parent.org. They can go to our residential program website, helpmytroubledteam.org, helpmytroubledteam.org. Oh, thank you, brother. This has been guest speaker Trace Embry, again, nationally syndicated radio host of license2parent. And you can find more information by going to our website to sign up for the conference. We'd love to see you there. It's protectthefamily.net, protectthefamily.net. That conference is May 29 through May 31. It's a ministry of Cornerstone Baptist Church at cornerstoneorlando.org. And we want to help you protect your family, protect your kids from media's menacing dark side. It's a call to arms our 2015 call for discernment conference. We hope to see you there. God bless you.


Hey there Chameleons! It's Chamele, and today I'm doing a room tour, which you guys have asked for a lot. But I didn't do it before because my room wasn't perfect, but I redid it a little bit and I'm really happy with how it looks. So I decided that I'm going to share my room with you guys. So I live in Brooklyn and I feel like I got a really nice place based on everything that I looked at around because I have really high ceilings and like a bunch of light that comes in and I'm close to a train. But anyways, let me show you my room. And quick thanks to Pottery Barn Teen who gave me some of the items that I used to redo my room. They have a bunch of cool stuff on their website and I'll leave links to all the products that I show you in the description box. So these are my children and some of them need to go to a pediatrician. But we're not going to talk about that because it's almost fall so plants die when it gets cold. I'm so sorry guys, but we had a really good run this summer and I really love having the plant shelf but I got to figure out how to keep these babies warm but I'm working on it. But yeah, so I have some spider plants which survive really well in my apartment. Like you can see this one is already propagating and I've made a bunch of spider plants out of other spider plants. And then my Pothos also do really well. If you live in an apartment like this, those are the plants again. Also your plant shirt. Oh yeah, this was inspired by real life events. So I have fairy lights wrapped around this piping. My apartment is kind of industrial so they're just like exposed pipes and I thought it would be a really cool idea to just like wrap it all the way up and around the room and it looks really good at night and it's like kind of a calm warm to fall asleep to. Alright, so over here I have this little shelf that Kyler put in so I could have my phone and my water and whatever next to my bed. But right now I just have a humidifier because my nose gets dry sometimes and I don't like it. So over here I have this 3M hook to put my eye mask so I can sleep and it's just like so nasty. But of course the main attraction of this room is the bed which I completely redid because A it needed to be cuter and B it's comfier. So cuter and comfier you can't even beat that. So I'm gonna show you starting from the bottom. I got a new mattress protector.  So this is like really fluffy in like chunks so it kind of feels like you're sleeping on a cloud. And then I based the actual sheets on what my room looks like with all pretty much just plants. So it's like white in plants. So the green was perfect and they happen to have a blanket of the same color. So I matched that and then I wanted to have white on top because I wanted it to bring more light into my room especially if it can like reflect from the windows just to brighten up my area that I live in. And I really like the texture on this because I wanted something simple but not like boring you know. So I kind of took inspo from the duvet cover and then I found these pillows that kind of have a similar texture on them. And then the ones that came with this are here and I break it up like white, green, white. So then it's like a little dynamic you know. So over here I have one of my windows and I have a bunch of plants on it for obvious reasons. And I grew these two from seeds. These are avocado trees so I actually ate the avocado that I came from. Alright so this is a ring holder that I also got from Pottery Barn Teen and I thought it was just beautiful for decor and also because the Golden Pothos they like to kind of wind around stuff and like climb the walls. So I thought it would be like a really cute place to let it like live through. So over here I have a piece lily which I got as a gift and also purifies air. So if you live in New York City or some other polluted place this can help clean your air when you're sleeping. I also have some candles over here and another vine. Then this is just a pretty basic shelf plants and then I have more plants down here. These are my floor plants. These ones are too heavy for the shelf but they deserve love anyways. And then this is my biggest foliage that I own. I also got this as a gift and we've been together ever since my last apartment. And then this is my fiddle leaf thing which I'm actually propagating over there. You saw this leaf that has like the roots. I'm making another fiddle leaf thing. And then I have my snake plant. So I got this shag carpet because I wanted something soft to step on in the winter when I get out of bed instead of stepping on like cold wood floors. And I feel like this guy is really soft and does the job. By the way, Pottery Barn Teen focuses on sustainability which is another reason that I like the company because that's obviously one of the most important things that we're facing right now. So by having sustainable products I feel like they really care about like the environment and their customers you know. So I really appreciate that they go out of their way to be sustainable. So these are my shoes and as everyone in New York knows if you don't have space you build up. So that's why I stacked two shelves on top of each other to hold all my shoes.  So we just got rid of all that mess. So I have all my clothes organized like tank tops, body suits, short sleeves. Pants, skirts, sweatshirts. So like based on what it is and then in each category it's based on color. So everything has its place and I never lose anything. And then I also have this little dresser. So I have it organized with little dividers and I actually refolded everything after Marie Kondo told me to. So everything is like super easy to find. And I like having a place for everything you know. It just keeps your mind organized while it keeps your space organized. So then up here I have one more bed set from Pottery Barn Teen just so I can have variety. And then I have scarves and bags up there as well. So then up here I have a mirror and I thought it was a really cool place to place it because it can reflect the light from my window. So this is also from Pottery Barn Teen and the dying vine used to not be dying. So sorry about that. My closet is a big suitcase which I just took on trip because I only had a little suitcase before and I've been traveling more since I graduated and I needed something. So this is also on the website. So thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed my room tour which took way too long to make but it is here now. If you did don't forget to subscribe to my channel and check out my socials down below as well as all the links to the products. And I am doing a giveaway for a $250 gift card to Pottery Barn Teen and all you have to do is comment down below what your favorite part of my room was. And then I will be randomly selecting someone to win 250 and go shopping for your own room. So definitely leave your comment down below. I hope you guys all enjoyed this video. I wish you all a happy, healthy life and I will see you in the next one. Kisses!