Ready to send out that email to your clients? Here on The Journey we'll be telling you the best practices for creating that newsletter. Email is a great and reliable source of marketing and just a way to connect with your audience. People think that everything is social media these days, but the one constant is email. We're constantly in our inboxes. We constantly see those brands that we wanna connect with. And if you're not focusing on your email marketing campaigns, we're gonna lose to your competitors. So with these best practices and you actually focusing on it, you will win and really make those connections with your audience. All right, so we know it's beneficial, but now how do we create it? Yeah, we're gonna take you through using just our program here at GoDaddy, but there are lots of template providers out there for email marketing that you can use such as MailChimp or Clavio to really set up those campaigns. You really wanna focus on something that has an easy drag and drop type of visual editor. All right, so your newsletter is gonna be guided by the type of content that you're creating at the same time. You wanna make sure that you take care of a couple of items on the checklist. One, brand. Use your logo, your color scheme, make sure that your fonts, all of that is included in your newsletter. Yeah, so with the program here, I have my logo right at the top. And then under styles, there's lots of preset styles that the template provider gives me, but say I have a different brand, I can go in here and edit these to my liking. So if there's one that's close, I'd recommend starting with that. So let's go with Reindeer, because I mean, it's a great name. You can click this little pencil icon and edit every aspect of the template, like the background color, the foreground, the button colors, the shapes, text, all of those different things to really make it fit your brand. And when you do this, you can save it as its own style and go back to this each and every time you create an email marketing newsletter. So your audience knows it is from you without even looking at the logo or who it's from. For our next tip, you wanna make sure that you just keep it simple. Clear, concise, easy to read. You may have certain ideas that you wanna draw attention to. You can bold or you can make the font bigger. Draw attention to certain areas or ideas that you really want people to come away with. Right, you don't want just a sandwich wall of text and all the information there because no one's going to read it. Really separate those out with those headers or with images or buttons and things like that. Really allow your user's eyes to breathe, if you will. Like here we have, I just set up a quick little template but I have a summer sale, a short little description, buy one, get one and then options to add images here that really break it up, followed by a button. If I go and add images to this, it would make it all a little bit more clear. I know what I'm trying to focus on. With this particular newsletter, I'm trying to talk about a summer sale. So let's think of a business and really make this as we go through these best practices. Tell me a business that you would love to run one day. Maybe a fashion boutique. Fashion boutique. What type of fashion? Men's fashion, of course. All right, all right. So if we update the actual campaign to be about men's fashion here, we've added a bunch of images and text here to really talk about your fashion line, right? And it's not super complex. We have a couple of images, a button and we'll add some social links here later on, but it's not a ton of information. It's not super overwhelming, but it's crystal clear of what I want them to do. I want them to look at my summer sale or your summer sale rather and then start shopping. At the end of the day, you want them to take some type of action. Now your actual email marketing campaigns, it won't always be a sale and it shouldn't be you trying to sell them something. Should be you trying to add value to their life or just either it's letting them know here's some new stuff that's happening in our business or hey, especially if I'm a men's fashion line, I would say, hey, cool, here's some tips on how to really up your fashion game without having to pay for anything, but we're just some of our tips. Yeah, that makes sense because you actually want to have some kind of call to action letting your readers know what you want them to do. It could be click here, as Nilly said, to go online and buy these items or hey, come on into the in-store only promotion or it could be follow us online for more tips and tricks in men's fashion. And it could be check out your latest blog posts or your video even, it could be anything but with these call to actions, tell them exactly what to do. Don't leave it to chance or interpretation. You might think you're being rude and yelling at them saying, shop now, buy now, check out this post, do this, do that, but it helps us make actions, one less decision that we have to make by just following directions. And the next thing that you want to make sure is that it's mobile responsive. Most people on their mobile phone, I know me, I can't do anything without my mobile phone. So you want to make sure that your email newsletter not only looks good on desktop, but it also fits perfectly on a mobile device. Yeah, and if you use many of the popular email marketing softwares out there, they're going to be more responsive. Like we can check out a preview of this website. I can trick my browser into being a phone. And then this is exactly what it would look like if I were on my phone, it's nice and easy to read images, scale to the actual width though, not how it was before. And also if you have any links, like, you know, those buttons, you want to make sure that they work. All right, so now we want to go into some things that you may want to keep in mind when you're creating your copy for your email newsletter. Most people are going to click on it because of a nice snappy subject line. So think of something really quick, concise, that can catch someone's attention so that they'll be interested in opening up that email. Yeah, you also want to ask yourself, why are you sending this email in the first place? Because we shouldn't be creating email just to create email. We want to be solving a problem. So what problem do you solve? Go ahead and add that to the subject line and let your readers know exactly what this email is going to do for them and their lives. A tip here also, you can recycle content. Do you have a blog that you've written? Could you repurpose that into a newsletter or maybe even point to that blog? Maybe you did a webinar and you can actually mention that in your newsletter and tell people, hey, go check out the rest of this webinar here. Yeah, and with your email marketing, you want to make sure it's shareable. People are three times more likely to share email than from other sources. So having things like forward to a friend right in your email or social links are crucial to the success of your email marketing campaigns. Next, we want to make sure it actually works. Let's test the email. Many email clients will display the email differently. So it's good to keep that in mind and make sure that your email is gonna come up rather easily and also all the links work along with grammar, punctuation. You want to make sure all that's correct. Yeah, and another thing to keep in mind too is how fast is your email load? Especially if you're starting to put in a ton of content and a ton of just visual elements to that email marketing newsletter is if it takes too long to load just like we're not gonna wait for a website, we're not gonna wait for that email to load. So making sure you test that. Again, most email providers or email marketing providers will give you some sort of test option, test out loads on your phone, on your browser, on Outlook, on wherever it is to see what that experience looks like for them. Now this may seem simple. At the same time, you wanna make sure you hit send. It's no point of going through all of this work creating this beautifully crafted, branded to your business email if you don't send it out. And then after you send and after probably a few days, you'll want to crunch the numbers. You wanna see if the things you're doing, all that effort you're putting into this email marketing campaign is working. Most email marketing providers will have statistics for you so you can see things like open rate and what the click through rate on whatever you're trying to get them to is going. How many people have unsubscribed? How many people it just bounced to? Big tip with those bounced emails to get them off your email subscriber list because those email providers will just think that you're sending spam, hitting their inboxes that don't exist anymore. Maybe you just don't have that email active, clean it up, you really want quality subscribers versus quantity. Now, beside the analytics, it's good to give feedback. Make sure that you're asking your customers what do they like about the email newsletter. A lot of these email marketing services will give you the ability to send out a survey and then make it nice and simple. You can say, hey, what did you find helpful? Or what would you add? Things of that nature, just to make sure that your customers are really enjoying what you're sending out. Yeah, a couple of really cool campaigns that I've done in the past with my clients is I'll have a little question of how do you like my emails that I'm sending you? And then just put an image of a smiley face, one of those yellow, like just I'm okay face or the red frowny face. They click the green smiley face. It goes to a GIF of me saying thank you or hooray or something just funny and awkward. And if it's any of the other ones, I send them to a survey and I can track those clicks to those images with these programs to see how many people are clicking on the green smiley face because that's awesome. I don't need them to do more work if they're liking it. Remember that path of least resistance but they're not having a great time. I'd love to know about it which then I send over to that survey so they can give me that honest candid feedback. All right, so you just learned best practices to follow when creating your email newsletter. Be sure to like this video and leave a comment below. Yeah, and hey, if you got some value out of this video subscribe to our channel and ring that bell so that these episodes first, this is the journey. 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The topic of bullying has been a forefront discussion point in recent times. Sentiment around the concept of dealing with bullies differs greatly from person to person. Some people think it's just a matter of manning up and facing a challenge. Others believe that it's a problem that's growing in severity. Now, methods of dealing with bullies is exceptionally relevant in the context of the martial arts. In many cases, it's the very reason that people join a school in the first place. Today, we're going to talk with one organization that uses karate and the martial arts to help give kids the tools to combat bullying and stand proudly on their own. Bullying is nothing new. I mean, the concept of the strong praying on the weak has been around as long as man has. But what makes it such a problem in our modern society? Are more kids becoming bullies? Or is it just that since we live in the connected society with social media, that it's harder to escape from? In any case, it's still a real problem as thousands of children commit suicide every year with several others resorting to acts of violence themselves. Now, when it comes to the martial arts, many people believe that all you have to do is learn to fight and punch them back harder. And does that really stop the bullying? Or does that just cause them to go pick a different target? We recently attended the Zenith Kempo, a three-day Kempo seminar held here in South Florida by Master Sean Kelly. Now, Mr. Kelly is a well-respected Kempo instructor. He has been heavily involved with the Guardian Angels and he also leads the fight against bullies with his program, Stop the Bullying. Now, we got a chance to talk to him and others in the program about their mission to help give kids a fighting chance. Stop the Bullying started off as more of a personal situation with an elderly woman who came into my school when I had it still open. And what happened is she was robbed from being next door. There was a Dairy Queen store and she actually went in there to get ice cream and somebody came in just at random and they pulled off her purse and took it. And she sat in my school and I thought it was her grandmother looking to pick up one of her children. And as that class led out, I didn't have any kids left and I walked up to her and said, you know, can I help you with something? She was shaking, being nervous. And she says, no, I was just robbed. I said, excuse me? I was just robbed. I was next door. Now, mind you, at that time where I had the school, there was like eight, if not nine, different stores. And I asked her, she was okay. She told me she was fine. I called the police and obviously because of the situation, gave her some water. And I said, you know, and as we're waiting, I asked her what possessed her to come into my place, all places. She said, well, I felt safe. I said, yes, ma'am, I'll watch over you. And she said, no, you don't understand. She says, I came here specifically because of what just happened once. She said, but, you know, I had a grandson that used to come to the karate school here and he did very well with it. And Mr. Kelly, the owner, I know, was also with the organization called the Guardian Angels and they protect people. So I felt safe by coming in here. I said, well, ma'am, I said, I'm Sean Kelly. Forgive me if I don't remember you personally. And I said, there's always guardian angels around. But when she said safe place and she chose my place to go to, even though anywhere else she could have gone for whatever it's worth, that triggered something. And I'm like, you know something? When I was a kid, I remember my parents saying if you ever found yourself in trouble, you know, go to your nearby fire department, police department. But now on these days, it's hard to find them. They usually sit back behind a building and they don't stand out like they used to. But there's a martial arts school on every street. Bullying, you know, happens more with just kids. It happens throughout life at times.  But it didn't dawn on me until later talking to people about certain things and remembering what that felt like. And the idea of a child going through that, it's just kind of frightening to think that the kid's all alone and he's feeling those feelings. We're trying to do something different. We're trying to create much more awareness that exists. You think about bullying as one of those actions that as time goes on and in the era that we're on, we're supposed to have grown better, to understand more, to be more aware of what's going on, yet we still deal with the same issues as 50 years ago. So why is that? Why hasn't our society really changed and what is lacking? I was on the first round of certification and I'm out in the community doing this today. We're actually going to certify one of my other instructors for our first safe place here in Palm Beach County. So I'm glad that I'm able to take the stomp the bullying out into the communities and then out into different arts outside of Kenpo. So I'm introducing it into my other style, which is jujitsu. So it's great for the kids. I have my own story of being bullied and I was able to circumna through my martial arts and be able to share that back with the kids. So it's a very strong movement that I'm happy to be proud of. Lack of confidence is a major reason that a child could become the target of bullying. Now this plays a significant factor in facing this challenge. Learning to physically defend yourself is definitely important but with today's society and many no-tolerance rules even the kids who are justified in defending themselves still receive suspensions and severe punishments. But the point of the martial arts is to become a better version of yourself and that often means learning the value of self-worth and helping kids develop a sense of motivation. So stomp the bullying has created these safe places that allow us to bring a victim and help them learn through a specific curriculum ways in which they can stand up for themselves. They can find their inner voice. They can find their inner strength and understand how they can then work to better themselves in those moments. We're looking to really empower people in different ways and help kids and teenagers and even younger adults and into adulthood to become better, to not only stop the action but also teach those who are around them to get rid of the action altogether. So that's our hope. We have people that can talk to them people that can grab martial arts schools or they can go into and basically teach the kids some small bit of self-defense but teaching them more confidence within themselves. Anybody who knows anything about bullies what they do is look for weakness and they jump in on it. I don't believe that there's any child alive that cannot be helped. So this program uplifts them lets them know that they can do anything they want to do and shows to the world that every child we have walking this earth is full of greatness, period. And because of my network I felt that as a martial arts it is our responsibility to save and protect people's peace and we empower people. And that gave me the idea about certifying and creating an organization of facilitating coaches and hence stumped the bullying was let's put our foot down. Let's step up, stand up and do something outside just doing this karate people they want from the community I want them to give back to the community and be advocates because that's pretty much what I did and allowed now to be noticed that there are safe places the martial arts schools and they can empower people not only on the physical point but as a mentor and change those lives. So it's a process and so far we're gaining a lot of momentum to the point they're now wanting it in South America. I've seen some great results. I always tell people I enjoy mentoring or helping kids out when they get it when that little thing comes to them and it just sparks in their eyes and they get so excited about it. They walk taller, they speak more forward and just the confidence that comes out of them and you look at them and just know that they're going to continue to do some great things. So the whole slogan is unity to community so by uniting different members of the community for the greater good of the community we all come together to be able to help kids whether it's the bully or the one being bullied both are the same problem as one. Stop the bullying takes a multi-directional approach and it's mission to combat bullying. There's teaching children physical self-defense there's teaching them the life skills and developing the mental strength they need to become stronger. There's providing them with schools and locations that they can feel safe going to if they are in trouble and they also realize that sometimes the bully is a person who needs help too. Usually another thing we do too is workshops and lectures and we go in and we speak on the subject and what we did recently, actually I was listening to coach Jocelyn talk to some of the other people that are interested and she said I want you to remember the three what she calls the three B's she said there's the bully there's the bullied and there's the bystander but once you just sit there and they watch Educate the bully a person who's a bully is usually a person who's got a very strong personality how can we make the shift for that strong personality to do something good to really be a leader to really be a positive influence in other people's lives rather than taking that in the negative path and create a bullying situation and then definitely educate the bystander because when you're sitting around and you're taping a bullying action with your video camera you are as much an enabler as the one who's doing the action so understanding that we all have a responsibility to all these situations and how we can actually help in the situation how we can guide people and then by the right mentorship and the right conversations then we're able to change some of those outcomes and be able to maybe give some hope we can definitely give students, kids just a little bit of a trickle of a seed that can help them find their way and by default then maybe help others as well Stop the bullying offers education on bullying through seminars and workshops held at schools dojos, youth groups as well as certifying counselors who work directly with children who are the victims of severe and sometimes dangerous bullying As educated martial artists we should not only seek to better ourselves but also stand strong for those who need our help and stop the bullying is looking for more people to get involved in that fight Bringing as many schools and academies doesn't matter what the style what the system with the background is now we have this Renzo Gracie Academy which is a very world renowned name from the Gracie family and we're lucky enough to have our local school here in West Palm Beach more specifically Lake Worth allowing us to come in and they're going to be part of Stop the bullying so we're hoping that this will help bring more awareness and out into the world so more martial humans, more martial artists can help with the whole bullying problem Get it as much around the world as possible one of the people inside the organization and we're talking about getting it as far as even bringing the kids into the point to where letting them get out and recruit other kids they know that's being bullied they don't talk about we know a lot of kids in schools don't talk they don't talk much to each other especially if they're being bullied but kids know what's going on with other kids and they might not tell an adult but to have them talk to the kids and say hey this is where I'm going at hey why don't you come over here and talk to this person it could help a lot and help spread the word and get out there more on social media and just get the word out as much as possible there's a lot of ways that people can get involved you look at where you are and what you can give some people can give their time some people can be mentors some people can donate so there are different ways in which people can become involved stomp thebullying.org call Mr. Kelly or send an email out to Stomp the Bullying I think the information is on there and have someone come out to get their schools and talk to whoever needs to be talked to as far as getting something started there it would be great being able to be brave and confident and give them courage I think martial arts is the science of it is the recipe it did it to me on 57 my first encounter with Bullying was five years old I remember it like it was yesterday so like the new motto is with everything if you see something say something and that's what we're trying to do the martial arts people young are old the first thing they're going to start encountering after their 90 days or more being in any martial arts school is confidence and confidence is what oh I want to raise my hand now or I want to go tell someone and that's what we're trying to build is that confidence to speak up if you have a school and you're interested in registering as a martial arts safe place or if you're willing to hold workshops or become a certified counselor or in any way you want to help support this mission then please reach out to them now and help give kids the skills to survive this challenge


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Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Where is the Renato Sanchez SBC EA Sports? Why have we not seen the very anticipated leaked Renato Sanchez transfer SBC? I wanna talk about that today. And why is this showing up every single time I load into FIFA? I've seen this message like 10 times already EA Sports. No thanks, I already know what's going on in this game. So I wanna take a look at hopefully why Renato could drop today and why I think EA dropped Holland's SBC first. I think they have some good reasoning of why they did that. Also, take a look at the best pre-season rewards we have seen yet. Yes, a 50K pack to start off FIFA 23. That is a reward that you must get done during this next week. It is very, very good value, especially that early on in the year to have a 50K pack waiting for you in FIFA 23. That's very exciting. And also we have some new weakening changes coming to this next weekend. That EA tweeted about, which also might foreshadow some FIFA 23 changes to weakening as well. So we're gonna cover all that and look at why Renato Sanchez might drop today on Saturday. That's the SBC we all want anyways, right? So if you're ready for Renato, hit the thumbs up and subscribe if you are new. Let's talk about it a little bit. Why did EA Sports drop Erling Holland yesterday on Friday instead of dropping the Renato Sanchez? Now we talked about it in yesterday's video. We were like, hmm, I think it's gonna be either Holland or Renato and I sided with Renato because he was leaked first. Well, I think EA Sports went with Erling Holland instead because if you think about it, for the casual FIFA player, the Erling Holland transfer in general is probably the biggest transfer of the summer window in general, right? Biggest name going to the biggest club. This SBC right here on the biggest, most hype day of FIFA, right? Fridays on FIFA are the biggest days because that's when they drop the new promo stuff, new campaigns, a lot of new players, packs and stuff like that. Friday nights on FIFA are just big. So I think EA Sports were, you know, that's why they went with the Holland yesterday. They knew that they would get more people excited about a Friday on FIFA with this big car.  There's a Manchester City Erling Holland card, 98 rated. And they did it at a very, very good price. Hey, these stats are wrong, by the way. I was destroying with this man in the kickstart friendly mode. It's not counting goals, it's counting games only. But that man, and this card is really, really good. If you can handle a bigger truck-like striker, as we will call them, 260,000, 270,000 coins, that's not right English, 270,000 coins, 267K, is really good value in my opinion. I know some people were not happy with him not getting the five star skills, but four star, five star is a nice boost for the card. And, you know, at this price, I'm fine with it. If they were to make him five star, five star, he would have definitely had to be more expensive, but good card, good value, craftable. And the price of this SBC makes me think that a Renato Sanchez SBC might not be 500K. It might end up being a little bit cheaper because of the price on the haul on there. So I'm really hoping that Renato is going to be our transfer SBC today. I am expecting an SBC today. Of course, we have Rutiger and Diego Carlos both leaked that have not dropped yet. So it's one of these three along including Renato Sanchez in that trio that would probably drop today. I'm expecting one card, maybe two, but probably just one we'll have to see. But hopefully today is the day for Renato. We've waited long enough, a lot of people want this card and it would be a great SBC for EA to put out on a Saturday. So we'll have our fingers crossed for a Renato Sanchez today, hopefully somewhere around 300, 350K. That's kind of where I would hope that he would be at. Four squads, that's it EA Sports. Make it easy for us. Thank you very much. Anyways, that's kind of the Renato SBC question. I know a lot of you guys want that SBC. I want it as well. But of course EA catered to the casuals a little bit yesterday I think with that haul in. And I think for good reason on a FIFA Friday, they went out and did that. Now also yesterday we had a card dropped that nobody was even expecting, right? I mean, we were hoping to see it in Arsenal, Gabriel Jesus with this transfer. It would have been a great card to get and we got one. Now some people were saying this guy's better than Holland. If you're looking for a FIFA meta perspective, I would agree. This card's probably fitting the meta a little bit more than Erling Holland does. Five star skills, no five star week, but he's got the four star week, but does not have as many traits as Holland does. But he's gonna be able to dribble circles and do the skill moves and do all of the rat things that a lot of people like players to do in FIFA. I mean, what else do you need to know? 99 agility, 99 balance, five star skills. This guy's gonna be able to do great things on the pitch and he's also just five games to complete. So this was a W yesterday. Two Premier League striker transfers released on the same day. That was kind of crazy, but both are Ws in my opinion.  Now, of course, along with that, we had some new FIFA 23 content that was added yesterday. And like I said earlier, I think that this foot 23 kickstart to objective is the best, yes, the best preseason reward we have ever seen. Last year we didn't get past near this good. EA Sports is giving you a 50K pack, a rare player's pack, untradable, albeit. It is an untradable pack, but that is such a massive pack. In the first two weeks of the game, getting a free 50K pack is unbelievable in terms of the potential pack player that you could get from that, maybe an inform. You know, maybe a promo card, like a once to watch or just a middle to high tier gold card, like an 86 or an 87 rated gold card. That could give you somebody who would go straight into your main team. I'm a huge, huge fan of this objective. I think it is well worth your time. It's three separate matches, scoring in them again, just like it was last week. Now, what they're doing, this is actually very interesting, that it almost feels like EA Sports is telling us, like, hey, we have leaked all these players or we're going to release all these players from all these teams, think about it. There's Manchester City in here and we had Holland, PSG and we have a Renato leak. Real Madrid and we have Rutiger. We don't have any Chelsea, Raheem Sterling. We don't have any Liverpool. We had Liverpool last Friday with Darwin Union as kind of, but it's kind of interesting how a lot of the transfer leaks that we have right now correspond with a few of these clubs that are being featured in this kickstart to objective, but that's besides the point. This is pretty easy to get done. You gotta do this one. This is even more worth it in kickstart number one, in my opinion. A 50K pack and a once-to-watch loan player pick for 15 games, this is pretty good. So make sure you get this one done. We also had the warmup back as well. This one's just the same thing. It's a two-reggle players pack and a coin boost this time. So 1,000 coins, five games, that's 5K. Did the math right there. 40 you didn't even have to, right? But it's really easy to get this done as well. So you might as well go ahead and do those. Another week of good rewards, but specifically a 50K pack. I can't stop thinking about how good that is because this is literally the best reward you could have possibly thought. I mean, giving people 50K packs before FIFA even starts, that's pretty crazy in its own right. So that was the biggest pieces of content yesterday on the game for sure. Let's talk Saturday content though. We've already talked about Renato. Regardless of whether it is Renato today or Rutiger or Diego Carlos, which we all know who we want, that Renato. I would expect to see a transfer card on the game today. Lewandowski is expiring. I would expect to see a brand new transfer moments player, one of the leaked ones to be an SBC today on Saturday. Now what else would I expect today? Because I'm expecting a big day today with a lot of SBCs expiring. The shapeshifted player picks going away. The 82 plus player pick is going away. It should be a very good refresh day today. Very nice day of refreshes on all of these player picks. Hopefully the 82 plus, the common triple gold upgrade and the shapeshifted player pick all come back. The preseason batch one player pick as well is going away today. Hopefully that can come back. And you know EA Sports, why not also drop in the 75 times five and the 60 to 64 and the 71 to 74. Just drop those in as well for people that are still crafting. That would be fantastic. But I'm expecting most if not all of these to kind of refresh today because that's kind of what EA's been doing over the past couple of weeks as well, especially with the 82 plus player pick. I mean, I just hope they refresh all of these today and don't leave any of them behind. That's a big part of the SBC content today on Saturday. Now also on Saturday in the objectives tab for today, the preseason cup technically is ending today, right? You guys maybe have completed this or maybe you've got your last games coming up or you're just finishing them. This is expiring today. But if you go and take a look at the friendly, the preseason friendly, the preseason cup friendly that we were playing those games inside of to complete that objective, it is still available for a whole another week. That has me thinking that EA Sports is going to re-release a preseason cup today and drop us a brand new cup for this next week of seven days until next Saturday. So I would watch the objectives portion of content today as well. Again, new preseason cup, maybe a new SBC for a player probably, and then all the refresh of those packs in the SBC section. It's gonna be a pretty sizable day of content on a Saturday, but really the big focus is on what player SBC are we going to get? Now that's the biggest focus for stuff today. Let's talk market for a little bit because like we had yesterday with that Erling Holland SBC, there were a few Manchester City cards that went up in price. Now there was double demand here because you had people that were maybe going and doing the SBC for Renato, but at the same time, you might also have had some people going and just buying cards for teams that they were going to use in the friendly mode like some Manchester City players. Players like this Kyle Walker, 530,000 coins for Kyle Walker at the moment. And I know you're like, Nate, are people really linking Holland and Kyle Walker together? Well, they must be because take a look at this, 465,000 coins all the way up to 580. He's now back down to about 530, 540. Big rise to that Kyle Walker card yesterday. And just like we expected, we talked about the Hyunmin Sun card dropping in value, 240,000 coins for him at the moment. Yesterday before content, he was 290, 280 and 290, dropped all the way back down to 230 after we had not one, but two Premier League strikers that people might have gone and sold their son yesterday, Hyunmin Sun, and then did one of those SBCs or objectives to replace it. So yet a couple of your Manchester City players go a little bit higher as well. I think Jack Greelich is another one who was like mid 40s. I got in a 40k, he's now 53. Maybe a couple other Manchester City players moved a bit. Actually, you know what? Cancelo, let me take a look at him, 140,000 coins. Did he go up yesterday? Yeah, he did a little bit, not too much, from 120 to about 140 where he is now. So a smaller rise on him, but you just saw a lot of people yesterday building a few teams around those Manchester City players and of course some of the Chelsea players and maybe Real Madrid players as well. Marcello, right? 540,000 coins. Definitely the contribution of that friendly objective requiring people to play with them. Real Madrid teams is getting a few of these other special cards going up in price right now at the moment. So that's kind of the market moves there. Now for SBC fodder, I mean we had a fluctuation again yesterday, people were going out doing SBCs. Thomas Partagos from 2k, all the way up to 3.6. Now my guys back down at 2k.  And if there is a Renato Sanchez today, people will be crafting him, they will be buying fodder to get that SBC done. So 84 rated cards under 3,000 coins, 83 rated cards under 2,000 coins, maybe a couple hundred coins more for your cards that are always a little bit more expensive, that is okay. Great value on the fodder there in my opinion. Definitely see a few spikes today as people are going and doing those SBCs and the usual 85 times 10 grind and craft. People are working on that today on Saturday as well. So make sure you're watching out for that side of the market usual movements, usual spikes and price there. So that's kind of all the news inside of the preseason promo. I mean yesterday seemed like a bit of a downer day of content because still the only cards that we have in packs are the exact same ones that we had in packs last week. Preseason batch ones still here until next Friday. No changes, no mini release, nothing like that. Same cards in packs, which is a bit of a bummer and that's again like I said, what most people are the most disappointed on right now in this game. But EA Sports also released to us some very interesting news yesterday before the content drop. And I wanna make note of this because this is actually worth talking about because this could have some very big implications. For FIFA 23, I think this might be a change that EA is making at the end of FIFA 22 that is actually going to extend with us into FIFA 23 and it's about foot champions. So this week after this weekend that we are currently in foot champions all of the finals events. So after this weekend, next weekend is the start of season nine. Right now we have five days left of season eight. When season nine starts on Thursday at division rivals rewards, there will be a new finals event time basically duration, if you think about it. They said here that they'll be extending all the remaining foot champs finals events by 48 hours. So basically what's happening here is EA Sports is reverting back to the time schedule for foot champs that we had during team of the season. If you guys remember, we had the, I think we had a late start during team of the season but we had an extra two days to get our foot champs games in during all five, six weeks of team of the season and it was great. You could start your foot champs on Friday and you could play them until Tuesday or like through Tuesday into Wednesday morning. It was fantastic. I absolutely loved it. And you know, I honestly think that EA saw how much people loved that then and they're implementing it now for the end of FIFA. And I think if you actually read the in-game message that popped up, I actually think that this change EA is making is going to move forward into FIFA 23 as well. This is my prediction. This is not guaranteed or anything like that. This is a prediction that the foot champs in FIFA 23 will have an extended timeframe based off of this change. They also told us in this tweet that the final weekend league is going to be ending on the 28th of September. So I believe that means we have, we have next week, we have one, two, three, four, four weekend leagues left basically in this last month of September. It's going to take us right up until the start of FIFA 23. So if you're really loving weekend league, you have four more weeks to go out and play with your players that you've grinded during footies and during this pre-season promo, four more weeks to do weekend league with those guys. So that's just one of the biggest things of information that I saw yesterday that you know, that's going to be something that I would love to have from a gameplay standpoint. It's going to be great going forward to have more time to play weekend league. It's also going to impact the market a little bit more, but we can kind of revert back to what we saw during that team in the season time in terms of market movements to kind of think about how things will go even in FIFA 23 in those early stages if weekend league is extended. So that was some pretty big information yesterday that I wanted to speak on because that will change a lot of things if that's how the schedule is going to be this next year in FIFA 23. So that's going to be the video for today because yesterday was a W day, but also in the same part it was a bit of an L day. Hopefully EA can kind of make up for things today on Saturday and release that Renato Sanchez PSG transfer SBC for a good value price and a huge boost on his card. Everybody would be loving that. So if you enjoyed today's video, hit a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions or what you're looking forward to right now or what you think about these pre-season rewards and of course subscribe to the channel if you are new. It has been Nate, The Foot Account, and I'll catch you guys later, peace out.


Dylan Schumacher, civil defense. The the title of this one is a little cumbersome, but it's something to be effective. Why you should take a permit class, a good permit class, even if you're not legally required to in your state, because God bless America. I think we're up to 10, maybe 11 constitutional carry states now. I can't quite remember the number off the top of my head. You can remind me in the comments. But there's a lot of us now who don't have to get a permit to carry or don't have to take a permit class because we're in the constitutional state. Or there's a lot of us who just have to go and check the box off, right? Because we live in a shallow-issue state and so we got to just tick that box so we can get our permit and have our rights like we should have had to begin with. But I wanted to drive home what a good class is and why it's important for you to take one. A good class, in my opinion, a good permit class, is one that leaves you informed with what the law specifically in your state says, particularly around daily carry practices. Do you have a duty to inform in your state? Do science carry the rule of law? Are there laws about where you can carry as far as restaurants serving alcohol or are you allowed to drink when you're carrying? Stuff like that. General transportation laws, you know, does it have to be locked? Does the animal have to be separated? All those kind of storage laws. So open carry is that legit or not legit? Which for most of us is legit. A couple places it's not in this country. But those are all the important things. Daily carry practices, right?  Do I need to know that? Does that matter or not? Are there certain places I just cannot carry, right? Just daily carry stuff. And then the other thing, of course, being the laws around lethal force, right? You need to know the laws around lethal force. If you carry a gun every day and you can't tell me right now what the laws are in lethal force in your state, that's a problem. You need to fix that problem. You need to do some research or you just need to go take another class just because. But you need to know that. If you don't know that, that's like not knowing the four universal safety laws of a gun, right? That's like, yeah, there's some safety treat guns like they're unloaded or something, right? I mean, that's scary. You need to know all four of those by heart that need to be ingrained in your soul. And just like that, the laws around lethal force need to be ingrained into your soul. If when I say ability, opportunity, jeopardy, that sounds foreign to you and you have no idea what I'm talking about. I think it's time for you to brush up on your legal laws regarding lethal force, specifically the ones that apply in your state. So that's really, really important. One, because we want to be informed assets in society, right? We don't just want to be people who are out there and carry a gun in our problem. One, that doesn't look good from a marketing perspective. But two, much more importantly, you're taking a big responsibility when you strap that gun on every day. And I hope you do. You need to be an informed positive in society and not a potential negative, right? A permit class is not going to cover how to actually use your gun. For that, you have to go take a real shooting class. But I urge you to find a good permit class and be able to learn those things and retain them and then use them and remember them and apply them and remind yourself of them. So what makes a good permit class, right? What is that? Well, like I said, it teaches those two things, right? The laws around lethal force and the laws around carrying your state. And I think the best way to identify that is to ask questions of the instructor.  And hey, I'm sure there's some competent ones out there. I'm an NRA instructor. But if that's it, if that's all they've ever pursued, I wouldn't take a permit class with that guy. I want to take a permit class with a guy who's gone beyond just kind of what the bare minimum is, right?  He's spent time reading books about this stuff. And you can ask him, you can email and say, Hey, just, you know, just curious where else have you trained? Often write someone is, well, I've been a police officer for my very many years or a military guy for however many years. And again, a lot of great those guys. But I want someone who's spent the time to learn the stuff about my state laws. So the bare minimum, someone who's gone just beyond the minimum requirements to be an instructor, right? If that's all they've ever done, then I would say find someone else find someone who's really gone out there, taken the classes, put in the time, spent the money so that they you feel confident this guy knows what they're talking about because they've spent time to learn. So it's definitely what I would look for in order to find an instructor that I know is going to teach a competent permit class and get me those two things. Now, and then two, the second thing I would ask is just, Hey, do you spend a lot of time talking about this? What what is your permit class cover? You can just leave it open ended and see what they say. But those again, those are the things that I would look for to find permit class and you should take one even if you're not legally required to simply because it's going to help you be a better shooter, a better thinker and a more positive asset in society rather than a potential negative. Do brave deeds and endure.


Hi, everyone. Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with a full case, random team break of 2022 Tops Luminaries Baseball, random team break number six, some really nice stuff popping out of here. And we've got a two free spot giveaway. We extended that promo from last night. If you bought a full spot, you got a chance to win one of the two free spots that were given away. So let's go over here. Let's gather all these names here, plus that name right there. Congrats again to the people who won your spots and thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up. You've got a chance at some extra spots. All right, so top two names after seven. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh in final time, Brian and Tana. Congrats to you, extra spots going your way. All right, now that we got all 30 spots accounted for, let's randomize you a baseball team. So there's the whole list right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams five and a six, 11 times. One, two, three, four, and 11. There's 11. We got Brian, Robert down to Brian after 11. And then five and a six, 11 times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and 11th in final time. After 11, we've got the Boesocks down to the Friars. All right, so here's how it shakes out. Robert with the Red Sox, Michael with the Yankees, Jacob with the Royals, Brandon with the Braves, Brian with the Giants, Josh with the Mariners, Nicholas with the Angels, Brian with the Cubs and Orioles, Jared with the Twins, Steve with the Brew Crew, Brian with the Reds, Tana with the Guardians, Ed with the Rangers and my Dodgers, Donald with the Phillies, Nicholas with the White Sox, Michael with the Mets, Rex with the Marlins, Brian with the A's, Robert with the Rockies, Tana with the Cardinals, Martin with the Astros, the Stroze, Jacob with the Tigers, Brian with the Blue Jays, Steve with the Rays, Brandon with the Pirates, Josh with the Diamondbacks, Robert with the, sorry, Josh with the Nationals, Robert has the Diamondbacks and Brian with the Padres. Getting ahead of myself. All right, let's alphabetize by team. We're gonna pause the video when we come back. We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break. We'll see you on the other side at jaspyscasebreaks.com. All right, welcome back. A little bit of trade chatter, but in the end, no deals were done here in luminaries number six. Another full case loaded up. So go and check it out if you wanna run this back. A lot of excellent stuff in this luminaries. All right, it's sort of an awkward case, so I'm gonna open it up from here to see what we got in here. Good luck, everybody. All right, first one out of the gate is gonna be four out of 15. It's Vlad Guerrero Jr. Nice. That will be for Brian. Brian F and the Blue Jays. Next box. It is Jeff Bagwell for the Astros, eight out of 10. Jersey and Autograph, part of the Killer Bs. It'll be for Martin and the Astros. Try to trade, couldn't trade Mojo. All right, next one. Most of these are in portrait mode here. 10 out of 15. It is Mike Trout. Nice. That's Nicholas, who won the spot in a filler, got randomized the Angels. Gets Michael Trout. No big deal. All right, next box. All right, got some red. That's two out of 10. And that is Etro. Nice Trout and then an Etro. Mariners, that'll be for Josh. There you go, Josh. A little hard to see the blue ink against that navy blue jersey, but very nice. All right, another box. Like another hitter. Got some pinstripes. It's Yankee's pinstripes. It's Bernie Williams. 13 out of 15. Piece of his lumber. On card autograph. Bronx bombers, Michael Lossia with the spot he got straight up. Next box. 12 out of 15. And it's Rhino, Ryan Sandberg. Brian T. With the Cubs, with the spot he won in the filler. Rhino. Next encased luminaries card. Blue parallel. Five out of five. That's a train whistle. And that is gonna be for the Yankees. That's Donnie Baseball, Don Mattingly. Or I think kind of mutually parted ways as a manager, mutually parted ways with the Marlins. Wonder where he ends up next. Michael Lossia, Yankees. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Other side here. Purple parallel. Three out of three. Another train whistle. Four. The Mariners. That's Edgar Martinez. Jersey Ann Autograph. Highlighting his career hits total. That's awesome. And that's for Josh and the Mariners. You got the Ichiro and the Edgar Martinez and all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Next. All 12 boxes. We've got another one in the store, ladies and gentlemen. I know it's only one thing per box, but it's luminaries is really nice. Scared money don't make money. We've got some more blue. It looks like landscape mode on this one. It's another train whistle. Yep, five out of five. It is Pedro Martinez for the Bow Sox. And that is Robert with the Red Sox and Last Von Mojo strikes again, 70% of the time. Last Von Mojo hits 100% of the time. Page was pretty good. Robert. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Three more to go. Got some Jersey. Got Braves colors maybe. Silver ink. We've got a Ronald Acuna. Wow. A spark of light. Ronald Acuna Jr. And a Juan Soto. Dual relic, dual auto. Six out of 15. One happy person. One sad person. That's a Braves Nationals randomizer. Braves, Brandon M. Nationals Josh. We'll do that at the end after these next two. Little spark of light autographs. Those look real sharp. We have here, we have some Rockies. We've got some Larry Walker. Six out of 15. Rockies, that's gonna be for Robert and the Rockies. All right, 12th and final box. Good luck, everybody. Fingers crossed. Next case in the store. Let's run it back. Blue parallel nine out of 10. And it is, it's Corey Seeger. Jersey and autograph for the Rangers. That's gonna be Ed and the Rangers. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Another great case of luminaries in the books. But we've got one more little thing to do here. We gotta make one person happy and one person very sad. So let's go to random.org. There's some new dice, new list. Atlanta versus Washington. Let's roll it and randomize it. Five and a one, six times. Team on top after six gets the dual relic, dual auto. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five. And six in final time. It's Atlanta on top. Josh, my apologies to you. But Brandon, Mathis, congrats to you. You've got the ATL and you've got this dual relic, dual auto, silver ink autos, both on card. Six out of 15. Nice stuff. Thanks everybody. I'm Joe for jazby'scasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next luminaries break. Bye bye.


Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. All right you guys, welcome back to Sew Along Saturday. It is week two of our Sew Along for National Sewing Month and we are using McCall 7991. If you missed week one, check the description box or there's going to be a little... I can't ever remember. On one of these corners, I can't remember if I'm backwards to you guys or not. Anyways, on one of these corners there's going to be a little doodad you can click where you can watch week one's video if you missed it and week one we talked about the pattern itself and we talked about some fabric options and the sizing for the pattern. All of that is in there. Today we're going to talk all about cutting out the pattern. So before we get over to the cutting table we need to gather some supplies. So obviously, duh, you need your pattern, duh, you need your fabric. But okay, so in addition to your fabric and your pattern, you also need some pattern weights. So I adore these pattern weights. There's a whole set, it's not just this one. There's a whole bunch of these pattern weights. They come from Nancy's Notions, again, link in the description box. I just need to preface this by saying there's always a ton of information in the description boxes of my videos including what I'm wearing if you're curious about this cute little number. But in a sew along there is even more information in the description box. So be sure to pause the video or not, check out the description box and check out all the information is there before you head to the comments to ask any questions. It just takes me a minute to get to the comments, whereas your answer might already be in the description box. So anyways, Nancy's Notions, these lovely little pattern weights, they're awesome. They have these little straight versions. There's a curved one that comes in the kit as well as a kind of right angle one. I love those. But if you don't want to invest in pattern weights, that's okay. There are some other options. You can head to your hardware store and buy a 12 by 12 sheet of these little hex tiles. I use these all the time also. You could also just go to your pantry, find some water bottles, some soup cans, anything that's going to be able to just keep your pattern pieces in place while you're cutting them. We are going to be using a rotary cutter to cut out our pattern pieces.  So these are from, this one's from Kai. I love my Kai rotary cutters. I have this one and a little itty bitty one as well. Again, links in the description box for these. And then you're also going to need a pair of like small scissors. You can use embroidery scissors or you can just use little, I think these are four inch scissors. Again, these are from Kai. I love these. And this is going to be to notch any notches that are in the pattern itself. And then finally, well, pen ultimately, you're going to need a marking tool of some kind. The marking tool really depends on your fabric. I prefer for like knits, especially like drapey knits to use a marker. So that's what I'll be using. If you're using something a little bit more sturdy, you can use a pen or chalk or something like that. But I like a marker for these kinds of knits. And then finally, you need a really large, clear see through ruler. If you've been quilting and you're just trying out garment sewing for the first time, you probably already have a good jillion of these. But you need the really, really long one. And this is so that we can make sure that our green lines are all matched up and even with the selvage edge of the fabric. And I'll explain all that in a little bit. So don't stress if you have no idea what I'm talking about. Just make sure you grab one of these. It needs to be pretty wide so that you can reach the width of the fabric with like just to make it super accurate.  I'll see you over there. Okay, so one of the coolest things about the Learn to Sew for Fun patterns by McCalls is that they really take a lot of time and space to explain to you all the various steps that you'll need to go through when making the dress, including all the prep work, which there kind of is a lot of prep work when it comes to making a garment as well. So if you don't remember, I am making View C's Bodice with View's A, with View A's skirt. It does make this slightly more complicated, but not that much. So don't be totally freaked out. But basically, I've marked here View C's Bodice and View A's skirt. So then you kind of look at your pattern pieces and Bodice Front A and B. Nope, don't need that. Bodice Back A and B, don't need that. Bodice Front C, I do need. And Bodice Back C, I also need. So you can take like a marker or something and go piece C.  And then piece five is the band, which is this beautiful little neckline band. So I need that. Do I need the sleeve for B? No, I do not. Do I need a sleeve band for C? Yes, I do. And then skirt front and back for A, I also need that. So I know I need pieces three, four, five, seven, and eight. So I have written those down here, because now we are going to select our pattern pieces. And you're going to have the tissue paper, and it's all going to be like one big piece.  You're just wanting to isolate piece by piece the ones that you need. Then you need to take them to your iron and press them. That's also very helpful as well, because there are going to be a lot of folds in the tissue paper. And that can cause some distortion and variation among the pattern pieces themselves. So once you've done that, now it's time to determine which size pattern we are going to make. And I told you before that they have taken the time to give us finished garment measurements for the bust line of A and B, and the bust line of C, and then the hip line measurement of B and C only. That's because the skirt of A is so wide that it's like negligible. Like I don't know of any figure that whatever size you cut for the bodice, your hip wouldn't fit in a skirt like this skirt like this. However, you do need the finished garment measurements. You need to pay attention to that. But because I am making view C, it's also very roomy. So it's not totally... What's the word? It's not super, super important that we are very, very, very accurate like we would be in a woven garment or even in this. If you make this bodice too small, then you're going to have the v-neck is going to be pulling open, which we don't really want. So what we do is we take some measuring tape and we measure our bust, our waist, and our hip. So the pattern tells me that these are my measurements. The pattern tells me that the like for up here are the garment measurements, I'm sorry, your body measurements. So if I'm 36 and a half in the bust, then I go to the bust row and then find somewhere close to 36 and a half. And it looks like it's technically in between a medium and a large. So I'm going to size down to the medium. And I know from this design and from just the wearing ease that's already built in to McCall's patterns, that a medium is going to be good for me. But when I go down to the finished garment measurements and I check view C, which is what I'm making and go over to the medium, it says the finished garment measurements are 36 and a half, which are exactly what my measurements are. And that gives me a little a moment of pause because I don't want this to be exactly my measurement. I want there to be a little bit of wearing ease in there. But if I go up to the large, then 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and a half, that gives me four inches of ease. And that's way, way, way too much.  And then I am going to stitch it like I normally would and use the five eighth seam allowance that's built in as my sort of safety guard. So if I find out that it's too tight around the bust, I will be able to let it out along the side seams here. And I'll be able to let it out as much as four inches, which I'm sorry, not four inches, one, two, three, four, two inches, because you have about a half an inch per cutting line. And each side seam has two cutting lines. So that's two inches of you know, wiggle room, and that should be plenty. So I'm going to kind of baste it in, do a dry fitting and see how that goes. But I do definitely still want the shoulders and the neckline to all be at that medium because I do feel like I'm a little bit smaller up in this area. So I think the medium is going to be okay. But if it's not, I have a little bit of wiggle room within the seam allowances also. So keep that in mind if you're in between sizes. Okay, that's a lot to say for just the bust. Now we have to go to the waist. So my waist is 33 inches. If you go to the body measurements and go to the waist row and go over to 33 inches, that puts me again, wait, let me make sure I'm reading this right.   And the waist measurements finished are not on the envelope. But like with most big four patterns, they are going to be on the bodice. So this is the bodice front. And right here are our waistline measurements. So these are the finished garment measurements. And the waist of the pattern is sort of fitted, is sort of close to the body. So you're not going to need a ton of wearing ease there. So if we go to a large, it's 34 and a half inches, I am 33. That gives me one and a half inches of wearing ease, which is good. Also, the waist has like an elastic casing. So there's some wiggle room in there as well, where I can kind of pull in that elastic if I need to, and make it a little bit more fitted. If I feel like that one and a half inches is just a little bit too baggy. The thing that I want to also check is if I size down to a medium, that would be 30 and a half inches finished. And my body will not fit in 30 and a half inches, even if it's a knit. So it stretches, you know, it's not going to stretch that much and still be comfortable. So I'm definitely going to make a large, maybe possibly take it in at the waist if I need to, or at least use that elastic as some help to like reinforce a tighter fit. Okay, for the hip finally, what am I? So my hip is 46 inches, we go to the body measurements and go across the hip column to find 46. And that's putting me at the big range of the upper range of extra large. But like I said, the skirt that I'm making view a skirt is so voluminous that it's really negligible. So I'm going to make it easy for myself and just make a straight large cutting from the waist seam all the way down to the hem one large. And that is going to be just fine. Because like I said, the skirt is very voluminous. And I don't need to necessarily cut the extra large. Although if you wanted to, you could certainly grade out from the large to the extra large. But I am going to be grading from a medium at the bust to a large at the waist. And let me show you how I have done that. So here is the front bodice piece. And it's very helpful, especially if you're new to garment selling to go ahead and draw out, here's my medium, right? This is my medium cutting line. And then there are a couple of places where you need to grade out. And that is from this high point shoulder. This is the top part of your shoulder kind of where your neck your neck would be like right here. And this is the waist down here where the waistline is marked. So see if I can get all this in. Probably not. These are very big pieces. Here we go. So I'm at a medium here. And I need to be at a large down here. So simply take a ruler starting at this intersection of the medium and ending at the intersection of the large. And you just draw a straight line between the two. That one's nice and simple. This one, however, is a little bit more tricky because there's a curve. So you find the intersection of the large down here. And then find the intersection of the medium up here. And I kind of just draw in a few inches here and draw in a few inches here and then use a curve ruler, which is right here. And this one comes from Stitch Buzz. It's really nice because it's see-through and because this here is 5 eighths of an inch. Not that that's really important for this project, but it's nice to have. So basically I'm trying to connect somewhere around here to somewhere around here. And you can kind of spin this little circular thing around until those two things kind of line up. Do you see how that's coming together there? Maybe spin it, spin it, maybe... There we go. Something along this. And you connect from here all the way through to here. And now you have graded out your side seam from a medium to a large. Now remember to do this on whatever alterations you make to the front bodice. You also have to make to the back bodice. So be sure to find that pattern piece and do the same thing to the side seam here, which I've done. But this center back is cut on the fold. There is no like neckline. So you don't have to grade the center back. You just cut the medium neckline and then all of the sizes finish at the same waistline down here. Capiche? Does that make sense? All right. So that's grading. That's picking your size and grading. Moving right along. So now you can also make some pattern adjustments. If you know that you are long-waisted, short-waisted, petite, whatever it is, you can lengthen and shorten the pattern pieces by simply cutting across this line and either adding space or taking up the space like so. Very simple. It's all drawn on easy peasy. There should also be one for the skirt. Usually it's at the hem. Yes. So lengthen, shorten here. So anytime I see a length and shorten here, if I'm considering shortening it, I will wait to do that until after the garment is made because it's easier to shorten on your body than it is by kind of, I don't know, I would just rather have the extra fabric and be able to cut it after I see how long it is on my body. If you know that you need to lengthen it because you're a very tall person, then obviously you need to go ahead and do that now. There is a way to know how much you need to do. So there is a back length from base of neck. So basically, that is going to measure from this point all the way down to the hem. And the best way for you to check that on yourself is to put on a necklace, measure, have someone else help you measure from where that necklace hits your neck all the way down to where you want your hem to be. And that would be your length. And then compare that to what's going on here. And if you need to add length, you can if you need to take length away, you will have a little bit better of an idea of how much you want to do. I'm not going to make any lengthening adjustments just because I've made so many McCall's patterns. I know they're pretty on point for me. Okay, so now that we have talked about adjusting our pattern pieces like so, we are going to be laying out our fabric. And it looks like according to the fabric cutting layouts, again a little complicated for me because I'm making part of dress A and also part of dress C. But for the most part, I can tell that all of these fabrics are laid out with the right sides facing each other. Do you see how this says right side of fabric is this dark gray? And you can tell the dark gray is colored in on the inside. We've got the fold on one end and the selvages, which is the machine finished edges, not the edges that the fabric store cut, but the other edges. You know, you have a rectangle and two sides are cut sides. And the other two sides are like finished at the factory. Those are your selvages. So you fold those together like so. And you have the selvages on this end and the fold on this end. So let me clear off all of this and get my fabric laid out. I will tell you there's been a development. The sweater knit that I was going to use, the French terry, I did not have enough. So I went out to Joanne and got this double brush poly. I think it's super cool. I love the emerald green. I don't have anything that's emerald green. So I think this will be a nice addition to my wardrobe. And I love that it has pink in it because I have a lot of pink accessories and stuff like that. So I grabbed this one. I grabbed a ton of yardage just to make sure I had enough. So you might see this pop up as a top or something else later. But let me get all of this laid out. And we will talk about cutting fabric. Okay, through the magic of the internet, I have my fabric all laid out right sides together. And you can kind of tell that my fabric has an all over pattern, meaning there's not, I mean, there is technically a start and a stop of the pattern repeat, but you can't really see it to the naked eye without really studying it. So I don't have to be super, super careful about pattern placement. If you had stripes, that would be important. If you had something where everything was like evenly spaced out, like polka dots, that would be important. You would want your center front to be in a straight line down those polka dots. And the easiest way to do that is to put the the center of a column of polka dots or whatever the pattern is down this fold line. That's the easiest way for me to do it. Again, I can do a separate video on that if you want, but this so long is already lengthy. So we're going to try and just keep it moving. All right, so now we know that our fabric is laid out correctly. And now we're just going to start putting down our pattern pieces. So according to this view a, you have to lay piece eight, which is our skirt front and back, you lay it out on the fold, and then you put it on the fold again to give you one for the front and one for the back. So that takes up a ton of fabric, but it does make a beautiful skirt. So you would put that here, and then you would leave a whole chunk of space for the second part of the skirt. And then it looks like the rest of the bodice pieces they are putting 60 inches. Yeah, they're putting kind of below the skirt. So if we want to imagine the skirt's been cut out, voila skirt is cut out. And this is like a new swatch of fabric. Then we would grab our bodice pieces. And now we're kind of following this. So we use this for the skirt. And now we're going to follow this for the bodice. You're going to lay piece four on the fold, which means along this edge, it's closest to me where the fold of the fabric is. And then you're going to lay piece three right up next to that. So that goes here. Now you're thinking to yourself, okay, four is on the fold. That's nice and straight. But how does three go? Like, does it go this way? Does it go this way? And that's where a grain line comes into place. So you can see we have this lovely mark here called a grain line. And we want that to be parallel to the folded and or salvage edge. It doesn't matter which edge it's parallel to because they're also parallel, but it's in the middle of those two. So again, that's why you need a really huge clear gridded ruler because then you can lay your ruler out along the fold of the fabric. And you can see that the grain line needs to be shifted around like this. And this is how you know when you put it on your body that the pattern of the fabric is going to be going in the direction that makes most sense for how the garment is designed. So for me though, you guys can't see this, but this sleeve over here is hanging off the edge. So I actually need to bring it back like this and down to keep it out of the way of this guy, measure the grain line again, which you guys can barely see and then adjust accordingly. So I just put the ruler down and then it kind of floats and I'm able to shift the pattern pieces around. So now I've got enough space for my large right here and enough space to come down and cut this. Another good reason why you draw in your cut lines because it makes it nice and easy to lay everything out. Okay, so again, that takes up a ton of fabric. Can you see why I wasn't able to use the French cherry? I definitely didn't have enough for this full bodice, full skirt design, but let's pretend that the bodices are also cut. Ta-da! And now we've cut out our skirt, we've cut out our bodice, and the last little bit of fabric that we have left is for these bands. So we have a band for five and a band for seven, which is right here. And it looks like none of them are on the fold. So I can put seven like anywhere I want. Seven's grain line is right here. So you know that that's going to be parallel to the folded edge, something like this. And then piece five's grain line is right here. So piece five does not go this way, it goes this way. All right. And after all that cutting, we should have all of our pattern pieces cut out. So, so far the pattern layout and how you lay out your fabric and everything is very much still like a woven fabric. You're wondering, what do I have to know about knit fabrics in terms of cutting? Well, as you can see, and maybe as you can figure out when you went to lay out your knit fabric, it's a little bit clingy and a little bit lightweight and airy.  So I don't like to use scissors. I don't even like to use pins because when you get this laid all out pretty again, when you put your pins in your fabric, let's assume this is all in the right place, and you go to do this. Can you see how it's causing little ripples? There's a some tension between the needle and the fabric. And then you have to lift it up and you can see there's a little bubble that just appeared right there. So I'll mess around with any of them. I get my pattern pieces laid out exactly where they need to be nice and flat and pretty. And then I use pattern weights. So I have a whole collection. I have these that I got. These are things I made this, link in the description. These are hex tiles from the hardware store. And these are the pattern weights from Nancy's notions, which I love because they come in different shapes. Like this curvy one is really good for like a section like that. See how perfect that is. Okay, so you have all of these depending on what you've got. You can also use soup cans. Oh my gosh, it's pouring rain. You can use soup cans, you can use anything that you've got that's real heavy wine bottles, whatever. And so you get your pattern laid out where exactly where it needs to be, where the grain line is parallel and all that. And then you start laying these guys along the pattern piece like so. Then again, we're not using scissors even with the pattern weights because the scissors are going to inevitably lift up the fabric as you cut. And we're trying to keep everything nice and flat. So instead I use a rotary cutter. And I also find that when your fabric is shifty whenever it likes to move really easily, cutting through paper on top of the fabric helps ensure that even more it stays where it's supposed to stay. So let me get all of this fabric or all these pattern pieces laid out for real. And I'll start cutting them for real. And then I'll give you some tips on how to do all of these pattern markings that are kind of all over the place. And then I think that's going to be it for today. It needs to be because this is getting kind of long. Okay, let me cut out all this stuff. It's getting very exciting though. Okay. Cutting actually went that quickly. Am I right? Okay, so next up is marking. So you can see we have all these little notches. And then we have these like little triangle thingies. And I was paying attention to the other pattern pieces as well. And I didn't see anything other than these. I didn't see any big dots or little dots. But if you come across those in this pattern or any of them, marking them is the same way as you will for this triangle. So when it comes to marking, you have stuff like this, you have chalk, you have pencils, pens, and you have markers. So I much prefer the marker to any of the other marking tools for knits, because as you can imagine, and we'll peel this back a little bit, when you're going to draw on a knit, you can see how it's like pulling and creating like a lot of weird tension even with the chalk. It's like really hard to like make an actual mark without moving the fabric around. But whenever you've got a marker, it will just sort of glide on and you can see your mark that you made nice and simple. So when it comes to triangles, big circles, little circles, I do it the same way for every single one. I will take a pin and I will poke a hole right through the center of the triangle. Same thing for this center of the triangle. And I will move those out of the way, turn these around and flip this, flip this back to expose where the pins have gone into the fabric. And then the point of the triangle points toward the raw edge. So I just draw a triangle around the center of the pin, like so.  So that way I know that that's exactly where the point of the triangle is pointing. Then you need to make sure that you do drawing the triangles on the back side as well. So you get both layers of fabric. Again, the point goes toward the raw edge. Sorry, I can't draw and talk apparently, not at the same time. Okay, so now that those are in, like so, put these away. And then you have all these notches. So I snip all my notches, snip right into the center of them. I have made the band a large to accommodate the grating that I did. So I will snip a large into both layers of the fabric as well. I also have one here on the arm band. So I'll snip actually, dope, the arm band is a medium, my bad. So I'll do that. If you make a mistake, like we always do, I'll come in. And where the mistake was, I'll draw a little X and another little X. And that reminds me that's not the one. It's the other one. And snip the medium like so. All right, so you're going to go through all, I mean, I know I've moved all my out of the way now, but you're going to do this as you're cutting all of your pattern pieces out. Before you take them up off the table, you will transfer all of the markings. And believe it or not, I think that's going to do it for us. You probably saw me folding the fabric with the tissue paper still on it. I like to do that for a couple reasons. One, it's the same kind of concept as when you go to a store and a men's shirt is folded with tissue paper in it. It just helps it from getting super wrinkly, kind of keeps everything intact. But it also helps me know which pattern pieces are which, for example, the front and the back bodice of this pattern look a lot alike, you know, in the drawing. And do this all as you're cutting it.  You might have to put this project away or any project for that matter for a couple of days, couple weeks, couple months. And so it's nice whenever you come back to it to be like, still organized and you know what's what's going on, what's what. Okay, so we have all of our pattern pieces cut out. Isn't that awesome and exciting? I'm sure all of you are just like dying to get to sewing, but you're going to have to wait a week because that's how a sew along works. Next week, meet me back here next Saturday, where we will be sewing the entire dress. We're going to do the bodice and the skirt all in one video. It might be kind of lengthy, but we're trying to get all this sew along done in a one month period. So feel free to start and stop the video as you need. But next week, we're going to sew the dress. It's going to be great. So I will see you all here then. And until next time, I will see you all very soon. Bye.


I think U.S. education has benefited my career in so many ways. Here, U.S. colleges are lands of opportunities. That's how I like to see them. It's not only focused on one thing as one can think. Like the university I came from, from back home, it was just one thing. Everybody comes from the same religion. Everybody speaks the same language. We have one curriculum that everybody follows throughout the country. When I found out about how U.S. colleges actually work and the diversity of the people you meet, the diversity of the programs offered, the free thinking that you can go through, it just makes you a whole new different person. It shapes who you are. It gives you different perspectives on how you think about life in general. Also, it not only helps you decide what career you want to go to because you get to try so many things. You know exactly what you're good at. You know exactly what path you need to follow, what path you need to pursue in order to actually pick a career that you know, a career is going to be with you for the rest of your life. So you need to be picking something that you're really good at and that makes you really happy. U.S. colleges and U.S. education in general is really focused on that aspect. It does help you direct yourself to the career that you're really good at. That's a great benefit to me. It just makes you a happier human being.


As all eyes are on the next move by the West African leaders who vowed to attack the democratic party governors if they failed to free the detained president of any military intervention in the Niger Republic, the deadline for the next removal was involving troops from the economic and political governance of our West African state's Echoes on Sunday. By late evening no sign of a military intervention in Niger was apparent. The military government in Mali and Burkina Faso called Echoes bluff saying an armed intervention in Niger will be met with force. In recent years Gulf of Guinea countries previously spared armed group violence ravaging the Sahel have experienced attacks in locations bordering Mali and Burkina Faso.


What's up fam? Rafe DeRozzi here and first of all I'd like to announce the winners of the 10k subscribers contest that I did About two weeks ago. Thank you for those of you who decided to participate If you're not aware, I did a little contest on my Instagram page on one of the posts So that you had to tag someone who you thought would benefit from my content You had to be following my Instagram and then you also had to comment The number one the thing that you like about my content or the number one reason why you follow me So thank you for those of you that participated I'll definitely do more stuff like this in the future and the winner gets a 15-minute Skype call or or just regular call with me to talk about whatever they want and Then I also chose four people as runners-up who win little swag bags that I'm putting together for you guys so The winners are the winner the main winner the main winner is Jeffrey I I'm gonna I'm gonna butcher this name. Gooch Go coach. Go. I don't It's Go E T T S C H. So has a ch and a guh the vowel pronunciation. I don't know But that's the winner of the Skype call. So I will be DMing you shortly to give you Further information and so we can arrange a cool little call and The four people who win the swag bags are Andre Castle Ilya Dot Silva Motoka live and Yashi man 85 and I will be DMing you guys on Instagram as well Getting your address information so I can mail those out to you ASAP. So congrats everybody that was kind of fun as the first thing time I ever did anything like that and Yeah, it was just a really cool milestone for me to hit 10k and Was a good reason to get everyone excited and Do something where I kind of give back to you guys So thank you everybody and thank you for your support and thanks for always being there watching my videos Giving me fake feedback It really means a lot and it really keeps me going further as I expand my content and do it more frequently and always trying to improve and make it better for you guys So thank you. By the way, I want to do a little. Thank you to my friend. I'm Sean Shimamoto one of my followers and has always been so supportive and giving me advice when I need it and Just helped me out on numerous occasions. He recently sent me some stuff in the mail It was a Hawaiian passion fruit flavored pancake mix Sounds delicious and I can't wait to try it. I can't do it now because I'm prepping for a competition That's gonna be in October, but I will definitely be having it once that's over and then also some cool Hawaiian sea salt because as he noticed in one of my videos I use Sea salt for my cooking and my food So thank you Sean and thank you for always being so supportive He's the one who actually helps me come up with the idea for the 10k subscribers Contest so very much appreciated and for those of you who do send me stuff in the mail And and find my address by googling it online Keep in mind that I will be moving very soon So my address will no longer be accurate online. I'm gonna assume for a long while I don't know how I don't know how they figure that out online, but my address is there if you really want to look and find it But it won't be accurate for very much longer I actually found out the night before I went to world pride that I had to find a new living situation so I had been re I've been researching different apartments for the past few weeks and just submitted an application on a place and Just today got confirmation that my application was approved for a one-bedroom. I'm gonna be living alone for the first time in my life Whoo, what a big like that's such a big deal for me I've always had a roommate or if I was when I was in college I was living with you know fraternity or living with my parents before that so this is the first time that I'm actually gonna be living in my own place and it's gonna be a one-bedroom I'll have dookie with me, of course and It's funny because I started out with a budget and As I was searching and looking for places the budget increased by like a hundred bucks And then a few days later in increased by another hundred bucks and another hundred and another hundred and it just kept going up until I reached this like sweet spot where It was the very best that I could find for the cheapest that I could find it at so even in that building that was the last unit at that price and every unit from That point on is starting at like two hundred dollars two hundred and fifty dollars more a month So I really lucked out on that. It has everything I want. It's really nice. It's very like New contemporary inside all new like fixtures and kitchens really nice a rooftop pool and jacuzzi, which is Really nice to have in LA. So yeah It's you know, it's time it's time for me to move on because I feel like Life is really gearing up, you know, recently I did this Video on the fact that I've been struggling and one of those things that I was struggling about was finding an apartment but I just feel like I'm growing and I'm I'm ready to reach the next chapter of my life and part of reaching the next chapter is going out on my own and It's scary. It's intimidating, but it's also really exciting too, and there's a lot of unknowns So I'm excited about it And I'm a little nervous, but that's okay, and I think that's good thing Especially when you're like growing or going out of your comfort zone. I'm ready to produce more content I have been pretty consistent about posting once a week now the goal is twice a week and also to be posting on a consistent schedule, so I Really wanted I'm shooting right now tentatively for Tuesday mornings and Friday mornings I think those are my magical magical hours to post videos for you guys and I plan on doing it every single week and I know a lot of you guys have been asking for more Fitness content, so I'm gonna be Pushing to figure that out as well I just need to figure out like how I'm gonna film it and go to the gym and whether I'm gonna do full workouts or partial and I might just start out with like small videos of like individual exercises on Instagram I'm also gonna be reframing these videos so that they're on IGTV as well if you guys are primarily on Instagram So yeah, a lot lots of good great things in the works And I'm feeling really motivated and excited and I will definitely be posting a vlog of the move But I just wanted to give you guys a heads up. I'm moving on. It's time to go All right guys, we will see each other soon deuces


TFNN headline news update Good afternoon everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien coming alive from TFNN headquarters in St. Petersburg Florida 1 p.m Eastern time on Monday three hours left to go in the trading day and we have quite a start to the trading month a new Quarter as we approach April 1st happy April Fool's Day out there have your guard up for those April fools on the market No joking around to the upside Dow Jones up 269 points trading at 6198 Nasdaq up 92 points trading at 74 92 excuse me Nasdaq up 84 points trading at 78 13 that was Nasdaq 100 up 90 points trading at 74 91 And we get the S&P's up 27 points trading at 2865 quite a day for notes and bonds in terms of higher rates We haven't said that often lower price higher yield 10-year note negative 20 ticks 123 19 30-year bond negative a full point and 15 ticks trading at 148 06 and the dollar index flat right now trading at 96 850 we'll jump over to the futures markets We'll start it off with the Dow basically sitting at session highs 26,001 we had a little bit of volatility right at the opening bell we trade from 26 150 we'll call it all the way down to about 26,080 but from there it's been upward action for most of the day Nasdaq 100 pretty similar story highs of the session as we speak trading at 74 at 92 We get the S&P 500 trading higher for most of the session as well 2865 and the June June S&P contract Goal contract volatility in both directions. We spike higher to above 1300 reaching 13. Let's get the high 130151 right before the opening bell and from there we've sold off a bit gold trading at 12 94 75 crude oil talk about trading higher crude trading 6143 quite a number higher prices coming at you and euro us dollar trading 1206 Terms of what else you have happening out there one of the biggest stories Friday had to do with lift going public Priced at 72 dollars opened as high as it was 87 dollars But from there it spends quite a slide folks checking out lyft Where are we 70 dollars and 65 excuse me 70 57? This is 88 60 yesterday priced at 72 quite a number on that lift and we're gonna finish it up There's your 30 year yield point being check out today. Now. This is yield just today Jumping from 2.83 to about 2.88 quite a number Stay tuned. We've got a man Steve Rhodes coming up right now with the traitors edge. Have a great Monday everybody


Hi, and welcome to our session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says, by using the properties of definite integrals, evaluate the following integral of 2 log sine x minus log sine 2x from 0 to pi by 2. Before solving this question, we should know that integral of fx from 0 to a is equal to integral of f a minus x from 0 to a. The knowledge of this property is a key idea in this question. With the solution, let i is equal to integral of 2 log sine x minus log sine 2x from 0 to pi by 2. We know that sine 2x is equal to 2 sine x into cos x. This implies i is equal to integral of 2 log sine x minus log 2 sine x cos x from 0 to pi by 2. We know that log xyz is equal to log x plus log y plus log z. So using this result, we get i as integral of 2 log sine x minus log 2 minus log sine x minus log cos x from 0 to pi by 2. This implies i is equal to integral of 2 log sine x minus log sine x minus log 2 minus log cos x from 0 to pi by 2. Now by using property of definite integrals which says integral of fx from 0 to a is equal to integral of f minus x from 0 to a. We get i as integral of log. Now here a is equal to pi by 2. And fx is equal to log sine x minus log 2 minus log cos x. So f of a minus x is log sine pi by 2 minus x minus log 2 minus log cos pi by 2 minus x from 0 to pi by 2. We know that sine pi by 2 minus x is cos x and cos pi by 2 minus x is sine x. So using this, we have integral of log cos x minus log 2 minus log sine x from 0 to pi by 2. Let's name this equation as equation number 1 and this as 2. On adding 1 and 2, we get plus i equals to integral of log sine x minus log 2 minus log cos x from 0 to pi by 2 plus integral of log cos x minus log 2 minus log sine x from 0 to pi by 2. And this is equal to integral of minus 2 log 2 from 0 to pi by 2. This is equal to minus 2 log 2 into integral of 1 from 0 to pi by 2. Now this implies 2i is equal to minus 2 log 2 into x, where the lower limit is 0 and upper limit is pi by 2. So we will use second fundamental theorem of integral calculus. So we will first substitute the upper limit. Upper limit is pi by 2. By substituting pi by 2, we get minus 2 log 2 into pi by 2 minus minus 2 log 2 into 0. This is equal to minus 2 into pi by 2 into log 2. And this is equal to minus pi log 2. So 2i is equal to minus pi log 2. This implies i is equal to minus pi by 2 log 2. Now this can be written as pi by 2 inverse. And this can be written as pi by 2 log 1 by 2. Hence our required answer is pi by 2 log 1 by 2. So this completes the session. Bye and take care.


It actually gave me confidence to do all these things, to deliver workshops, which are very strong mainstreaming and communication elements, to also give actually talks at various international meetings and for us. And I was also actually elected to be a member of the extended consultative network of the CBD. One of the main reasons is because of my performance on communications-related mainstreaming elements in a way I've been participating in workshops as a facilitator or even as a participant. So it really did help me in so many ways that I would really recommend anyone who actually does the type of work I do that involves engaging, speaking with people, developing messages that resonate with people to actually go on that course because it made a difference in my life. And I think I've just given you a panoply of some of the things that have changed since I actually attended that course. I've also been actually teaching a course on using heavy-bass assessments to mainstream bioregist and guess what? Communication is very key, and how do you actually communicate bioregist and ecosystem services in a way that is really going to motivate powerful people to gain an interest and act on bioregist and ecosystem issues, which we all know are really critical to sustainable economic development.


Do I disclose that I am an amputee in online dating profiles? You know, it seems like the disabled community is pretty split on this from what I've heard people saying. Some people do, some people don't. If they don't, generally that is rooted in the idea that they want to be judged as a whole person as themselves and not just have someone say no and not even want to talk to them based on some assumption about disability. However, for me personally, yes, absolutely. It is crystal clear in any photo or even kind of description. The last thing I ever want to do is like show up to a date, walking with my prosthetic leg and have someone put off by that and then have to be there in person for the discomfort. It is a part of who I am, it's a small part of my identity, but it is an important thing to know. And if the idea of dating someone with a prosthetic leg is going to put someone off from wanting to meet up with me, okay, cool, no problem. And at least on an emotional level, it feels a lot safer for people to know beforehand. I would much rather have someone know beforehand so I avoid any discomfort or weirdness in person from either side.


Appalachian Wireless and Samsung introduced the Z Flip 3. The Z Flip 3 is an actual flip phone that when opened reveals a stunning 6.7 inch touchscreen for the best of both worlds. To find out more visit AppalachianWireless.com. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The University of Pikeville's annual horror fest returned to a packed crowd Wednesday evening during the festival, majors from the film, media and arts program submitted over 20 short films for cash prizes and the title at first place. The festival amount on top spoke with first place winner Andrew Stratton about his win. I'm glad people really enjoyed my film because I heard a lot of laughter throughout and it's just such a good feeling to have people like something that you've made. Like it's very rewarding. Although winning first place, Stratton says the process wasn't easy as one of his cast members became sick, postponing filming. My friend got really sick for a while, he had COVID and it took him a whole month to get better so we had a postpone filming for a month and when he got back he was having some breathing problems so we occasionally had to like stop and let him take a breather and stuff like that especially in the sink with the bathroom it was a little difficult for him and getting the little girls to cooperate sometimes was hard but they ultimately went through with it because they had a lot of fun doing it. Winning second place and audience choice was the film anonymous by Josh Smith. I pulled inspiration from Jordan Peele's Get Out where he took a genre and turned it on its head with an important story that needs to be told and I wanted to do the exact same thing with this film about how important it is that bullying is just not okay. You don't know someone's life outside of a classroom or outside of anywhere really and you don't know what will trigger anybody and I think a con word can stretch for miles. Winning third place as a tie was Pyro Pat by Jack Mefford and Zoo Madness by Megan Williams. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.


One of the things that we launched recently was a work group called Initiate, which is focused on India and it's focused on the academic community in India. And the idea is that we will actually embed enterprise architecture into academic programs through Indian universities and it's had great support initially from not just the academic community but the commercial world too and I think it promises to be a really good bedrock of EA learning in India which is already one of our most important and growing areas in terms of the interest in enterprise architecture that's of anywhere in the world.