I've been working in tech fees for the past seven years. We've been expertly, traditionally we have an experiment with you, but today we will be talking about evolution of UI-UIs in WordPress. How many of you know what UI-UIs actually is? Hands up please. Wow, nice job. Can somebody tell me how do you define UI and how do you define UIs? Anyway, please put your hands up. I believe we have high cameras around the hall. Why are you on a microphone?  And you're pretty, right? Okay, I'm pretty. Yes, but the way you come and interact with me and the experience you get while talking to me, that's UX, so that's overall experience. So whenever we talk about UI, UI comes into the part about how the system actually looks, how it looks, what are the colors, the fonts that we've been using, and many other elements. But experience is all about what happens when you click a certain button. Where does it take you? How do you feel while driving throughout the process? And this combination of UI and UX is something that has to be balanced whenever we are developing a system. Because just imagine, would you prefer look or feel? Like when you look at me, I might look pretty, I might not. That's different. But when you come and talk to me, if I do not talk back to you, how would you feel? Not a right balance, right? Also, if you are going for a date, imagine the guy or a girl that you're going on a date looks amazing. Now you'll get excited, right? The UI is amazing. The appearance of the person actually looks very handsome or very beautiful.  Would you prefer to go back on a date with that person? No. That's same with software systems as well. Whenever we use softwares or mobile application, what happens is it might look amazing, but it might not feel good. And creating a right balance is something that actually is needed. Now, let's look at this example. You can see it on the screen. Would you, how many of you would prefer the right side? So what our system says is, it says share or tweet. So major action here is we want to share a tweet. Now while sharing a tweet, we have two buttons. One is cancel, another one is retweet. And in the same one, we have buttons on both of the side, right? How many of you would prefer right?  We have few. How many would you prefer left? Okay, we also have few. What about rest? You don't want to tweet? Okay, with that, make sure that you tweet about WordCamp today. But let's go back to what design actually is. For the people that select what's on our right and for the people that would select on left, there is a process. So on the picture that was on our right, what did we have? Let's get back there. What did we have? Retweet was on this side of the hand. And on the picture on the right, we had retweet on the right side, right? So in design, what happens is, if you look through that in first image, when we click, our eyes moves from one to two. And quickly you would retweet. But in the other image that's down there, our eyes will go from one, it goes to two. Then again, it comes back to one. Why? Because that's how human psychology actually works. It works in the pattern of Z. And whenever designing any elements or any system or any website in our entire process of development or in design, that this is something that we need to think about. Usually, being a developer, I have been a developer myself, but the buttons are actually placed. Why are we talking about this? Are we from Twitter? No? I believe most of you have Twitter, don't you? But we are not for Twitter. However, we're talking about this because WordPress has been a platform which has been very easy to use and very convenient for many business houses. And whenever we talk about experience building or designing an amazing product, especially in WordPress, we're trying to solve a business problem. You might be developing a WordPress website for your customer. You might, we have very easy to access or develop e-commerce platforms and whatnot. So many things. And we're trying to solve the business need of the particular client that we're working with or even if we want to build a website, we want to deliver it out to our customers, right? So when we talk about customers, the customers would return if the experience that you built in your website would be very smooth and very easy to flow. Had WordPress not considered this today, we would not be at this conference and I might not even know many people in this hall because WordPress would have died out. To understand that, I'll run through a history. How many of you started WordPress development back in 2003? Anyone? Very less. So initially, when WordPress was started, it was very simple, very simple to use. Only like we used to directly write posts. There was nothing that we can see right now in WordPress. It was just a click and go. And installation method in the whole was very tedious. With release of WordPress 1.2, there was major introduction. We had introduction of plugins that has made life very much easier. Subcategories were introduced and there were so many other elements which would help us to enhance the experience of the customers as we go through. With introduction of WordPress 2.0, before 2.0, there was release of dashboard in WordPress 1.5 and with 2.0, the release was made very appealing. If you've seen the previous slide here in the image, you just see two colors, like very much dead and I don't think most of the people would be using it had it just been like this right now. But in 2005, WordPress introduced colors and more effectiveness like uploading images and it had not to be hard-coded. Moving to WordPress 2.5, there was a major redesign in entire dashboard as we see now. And it started giving opportunity to one click plugins. So uploading a plugin used to be very tedious previously which now would be done just with a click. How many of you inside this hall have had experience with this particular WordPress back in 2008? Anyone? I believe none, okay. So let's get to 2008, another major update that was in December with WordPress 2.7. And here, entire WordPress dashboard had arrangement of the pattern, which made user very friendly. Even today if you look at the WordPress dashboard, it's really easy to use, right? So they had this entire change in design and screen option was also introduced. Now let me tell you why. Because with increase in devices that we use right now, just imagine opening up a website and the element does not feel right. So if the adjustment would not be very much friendly, again, the WordPress would have died out. But with this change, it started giving options to screens as well and automation installation of plugins and maybe other things were introduced. Another major update that we had and hit hard is also WordPress 3.8. That was back in 2013. I believe some of us had already started using it. We have a person there. So with 13, it was also made accessible to mobiles because most of us had already started using mobile phone and with increased use of mobile phone, WordPress also did keep in mind that it has to be mobile friendly, had to have more color schemes because the design world was shifting accordingly. And with the shift of design world, WordPress also did make sure that, okay, this is something that we have to introduce to our customers. With Bebo, that was WordPress 5.0, a new, this was again another history that WordPress actually put through. How many of you use blog-based editors? How many of you use editors here? We have a few. Is it friendly? Do you find really useful? Yes, right? Even somebody that's not from a technical background and wants to make their own websites and stuff, they can easily get into the editor and start editing or building the website for themselves. And this was introduced back in 2019. So every time a new release came in, which happens in every other software companies or any other software that we use, every time with new release, there was new experience we could witness overall. And finally, we are here with 6.1 today. And I believe most of us in the hall already know how 6.0 looked like. And today with the release of 6.1, we are going to get more experience-based, more better experiences that we can deliver, not just to ourselves, but also to the customers if we are building websites for them. So usually whenever we design a system or develop a system at WordPress, there are a few things that we need to consider. And actually, we have been blessed with numerous systems out there, numerous features that helps to enhance the entire experience of using WordPress overall. I started using WordPress back in 2015, where I used to develop a simple website, a girl who started her career and I learned how to develop a website. And then I used to go back to my uncle and auntie and say, okay, I'll develop a website for you if you have a business. So that's how I began my journey. And with that journey, what I feel was, I did not know how to code amazingly, but what I knew was WordPress had amazing features that I can utilize to make the user experience of overall system better. So with that, it's been seven years now and the change in WordPress has been tremendous. And there's things like heat maps, which actually helps to enhance your user experience. Also in terms of content design, I think we have speaker here who is going to talk about content as well. And in terms of content design, now, let me give you an example. Imagine you're going to buy a dress, right? And you get into a e-commerce website. Now, you want a dress, but the website is showing you shoes in simple terms. So if content is not planned, would you really enjoy shopping in there? You would look for a search, you would filter out certain things and then find the desired item that you wanted. But had there been the dress on top while you were shopping, would your experience be good? Would it? Yes. Had shoes been there, would your experience be good? Now, there is a controversy here. Now, this completely depends upon what the business is actually for. If the business is trying to sell shoes first and trying to make it as their major product, the experience that you would build would be to see the shoes first because somebody who has come to buy your dress would definitely also need our shoes. So having a content planned accordingly enhances the overall experience that we built with the WordPress. And apart from that, we talked about having a mobile application like today. For example, if I say go to nipal.wordpress.com, many of you would maybe take out your phone, search your word cam nipal, right? And the website opens up in your mobile device. But if that website does not have elements that you want to see or the content is not very user friendly, would you again go back to the website? No. So that's why responsiveness is very much necessary. And in terms of responsiveness, another thing is with so many ideas that are floating around, some of you might even want to start building up a new systems or building up new themes and so many other things. So one of the other very important factor that we need to understand is site speed with heavy plugins that we use in WordPress or with many other hooks and other things that we use there. Site might be very fast or very slow. So maintaining the balance of the site is something that we need to consider for a better customer experience. Just keep yourself in the shoes of a customer. If you're building website for your own business, as maybe I'd like to give example of e-commerce again. So if you want to build a e-commerce website, you want to start up something and have been selling it in Instagram or Facebook, you could easily set up WordPress sites and create the experience there. But there are a few things that we need to consider and that would enhance the overall experience. So while designing a site for e-commerce or you want to start up something, then you would think yourself as a person that would want to buy that thing. But if you're developing a site for your customer, that is somebody else who wants to run their business with WordPress. So at that stage, what would you be doing? You would be keeping yourself in shoes of that business owner and then thinking about how they want their business to sound like, how they want their customers to have experience for and that's how we would do it. Another thing, plugin has been God for us. We have always found it very easy, very convincing to use plugins, but would you use all plugins that are available? Would you? No? How many of you would? So just imagine setting up a site, then you see recommended plugins for yourself and you add everything. Would you do that? Seems like all of us are confused, should we or not? Okay, so we would not recommend that. Having things that are nicely designed would be something that we would like to do. And on that term, there would be things like customer support if you're setting up e-commerce or in terms of site maintenance, they're very easy to access plugins that we can use and also security options. We have session on security today and having a secure site is something that we would want to do to enhance entire user experience in terms of how we want them to feel as well as how we want them to look. Another thing that we can use as a plugin would be tracking user behavior just to enhance the user experience. Why? Why do you think so? Anybody? Okay, I'll tell you why. I go to a site to buy a dress again. I like shopping, that's why I'm giving example of dresses here. So first time while I go to buy a dress, what I would do is search for red dress, maybe a party gown, and then I check out, right? That's first time that I'm using it. Again, I come back if the site had been capturing my behavior throughout the site, what would happen is the business owner out there would be able to understand what are the maximum number of people coming to their site are going to or what are the struggles. Maybe I add to cart and then I come back again. I search for things and then I go to cart again. So behavior completely depends upon how human wants to work. It completely depends upon what psychology you're sitting at, what kind of things that you want to explore through. So if the business owner tracks that entire process throughout the behavior, what would happen is he would be able to enhance the overall experience because he has data regarding what are the things that my customer want to track. And with that they would also be able to design that entire process accordingly. Now designing that entire process according to what is needed would be something that would add value to their business overall because next time when I go to buy the dress red in color, they would definitely show me recommended ones. So that's something that we as developers or designers in WordPress community have to consider while developing systems in the long run. Now another thing with the increase of technology and developers like ourselves here in the room, we have features that actually enhances the payment option as well. And when it comes to payment options, we can- We can find this video in your YouTube channel. You know, maybe, I'll just imagine. You went to a website- Okay, thank you. And then at the end of the website, what happens is there comes a QR which says, okay scan and send money. Would you enjoy that? Would you? Of course not, right? Who would again want to take out their mobile phones, scan, have a payment, and then enter the code inside the website? What would be good would be having payment option available in the website itself. So while having the payment option in the website itself, there are a few things that needs to be considered and that is considered as a very effective user experience. So if I buy numerous number of products having breakdown of those products and prices would be very user friendly because if I'm paying 10,000, I need to know what I'm paying for which kind of amount. I've seen websites which actually shows the total number at all. So that does not give good user experience in overall system. Another is I'm buying a dress and I want my dad to make the payment. So experience would be good if I would be able to share that payment URL with somebody else, isn't it? How many of you would want that? We have your hands, that's nice. So now customers here want that. That means we need to have it in the system. So now business owner or the designer who has been designing the system would have to consider that entire scenario and having that kind of payment system integrated would be really nice. Another thing is multiple payment system. I go to a website, I just see bank payment but I've not activated my bank for e-commerce platforms. Now for me, payment would be a hassle. We always have payment on delivery options but I would want to sit back at home, have the payment done and the thing delivered to my home. So at that kind of scenario having multiple payment options would be something that we would like to consider. And for that, multiple payment options like in Nepal, we have e-seva, we have Kalki, so many other applications that we can embed as a developer at this point. Another thing that I would recommend as a product designer in itself that we should be considering while designing the entire web applications or web systems while we develop WordPress would be creating a user journey map. Why user journey map? Can somebody tell me what user journey map actually is? Anyone? Okay, while you came inside this hall you were stopped at the gate to buy the tickets or register yourself, right? Then you came in, there was a hall where you had to eat food, right? And there is a hall here. There is a hall down there and there are stalls around.  So with that, you would definitely had a great experience and even for our website, it's same. So WordPress had made this entire user experience journey very easy for us and I think it's now our responsibility to make it user friendly for our customers. So thank you very much.


Family Theater presents Pat O'Brien and Victor Jory. Presents Victor Jory and Leo Tolstoy's The Cobbler's Window. To introduce the drama, your host and narrator, Pat O'Brien. He's to himself as did Count Leo Tolstoy in The Monumental War and Peace and Anna Karenina. So large do these works loom in Tolstoy's name that too often we forget the short stories, which rank him as one of history's most prolific literary greats. And perhaps it is because his more famed works deal with life in the Russian courts that Tolstoy's own mode of life is often overlooked. For never was there a count who lived more simply and with more self-denial than he. He gave up, and gladly, the privileges of rank and wealth his birth accorded him and developed his sense of life in social service. And that sense of doing for others is the hallmark of his short stories. Now mirroring this feeling of Tolstoy is the story we've selected for presentation now. And it's with pleasure that we bring you Victor Jory as Martin, the little shoemaker in The Cobbler's Window. From Tolstoy's where love is, there God is also. And so the story begins. In the village lived the shoemaker, Martin. He lived in a basement, in a cramped little room with one window. And through that window, he watched the people who passed by each day. No, it was not really the people he watched, for only their feet could be seen as they hurried by his basement window. But by their boots, Martin the shoemaker would recognize them. There were the highest shiny boots of the young lieutenant, stepping boldly along with their bright scarlet tassels, Bobby. The sensible, heavy black boots of the town, mere treading with measured self-satisfaction. The heavy felt wrappings of the water carrier, shuffling along under the weight of his heavy buckets. And there were the scuffed and well-worn brown boats of the children prancing on their way to school. Martin sitting at his bench would recognize every patch upon them. But till the day's end, none of the passers-by had a word for the lonely little shoemaker, say perhaps gruff instructions on his work for them. So at night, the little man would lock up his shop, start down the village street, his thirst for companionship, taking him inevitably to the sounds of laughter and fellowship that rang out from the tassel. All right, but none of you sad talk tonight, old man. You discourage my trade with your wailings. My wailings? Or is that what the world would call the heartbreak for old man? Is this my wretched reward? Drink your drink, old man, and take your tears away from us.  Now, you may laugh, for you do not know how ugly his life when one is old and lonely. But you will one day, I promise you that. God will serve you as he has me. Here, now, now, we'll have none of that talk in here. This is a respectable place, and now keep it so. I am a respectable man, yet look how my hopes have been laid low.  And these are my remaining days. Well, if I could only be taken, taken, that I might see my loved ones again. Ain't no, it's not right to talk like that.  Such talk has no place here. Well, you've heard my friends, old man.  They will listen to you. They have no choice, old man. They have no choice. That was the lot of poor Martin. By day, a lonely figure in the midst of his cluttered shop, and by night, shunned by those he knew. Those who still felt joy in living and in good fellowship. So, day by day, Martin sat and worked, and always before his eyes, trod the feet of the village. And by their feet, Martin knew them and their lives. But one day, a pair of boots passed slowly before the window where Martin sat, and Martin did not recognize them. Heavy lace felt boots they were, well worn, and patched beyond recognition. And they paused before Martin's little window. Then the door opened. Dear old friend, do you not recognize me? You pilgrim? Should I know you? Who is it that calls Martin, old friend? It is Stefan, Martin. I have walked many weary miles to see you. Ah, dear Stefan, this dim light I could not see, but come in, come in. After these many years? It is many years, dear Martin. Yet I still remember the old days, those happy days when we were his brothers in the village. They were good days, Stefan. But come, come, I forget myself. Sit down by the table and we will have some tea. Thank you, Martin. And so you are a pilgrim, Stefan. I had heard you were now a holy man. You do not approve, Martin? Well, it is well enough, I suppose, to be such if things go right with you, as for me, life has been unjust. I cannot find it in my heart to give thanks for what has befallen me. But here, drink your tea. It will take the chill from your bones. In the village I have heard of you, lost Martin. I am truly sorry, but then little brother, the deaths of your wife and son were decreed. Is that decreed, just? I do not think so, Stefan. I have left but one thing to pray for, that I might die also and cheat life of its mean victory over me. No, no, Martin, for that you cannot pray. It is not for you nor for me to petition for death. If it were will that your son die, then it was also will that you live. So it is for the best, even if you fail to believe it. You may say it's Stefan, and for you it may be belief enough. But little brother, what shall one live for, if not for his beloved family? There are others in this world, Martin, when each does not exist independently of the other. The breath of life is given us, and we must treasure it. When you see that, Martin, you will no longer grieve. Life will seem good to you again. You will see, Martin. Do you not know how to read? Of course, of course. Then go and buy a testament, read it well. Everything is explained there. A testament? Yes, Martin, perhaps you will find out why life has been so unrewarding. The words of Stefan had kindled a small blaze of hope in the bleak heart of Martin, and on that very day he bought a testament and began to study it. Martin intended to read only on Sundays and holidays, and at first he did, grumbling here and scoffing there. But as the pages were turned, he became caught up in their story, and he read every day, sounding a loud, the unfamiliar word. And he was so too. And as Martin read, joy filled his heart. For the night grew old and the lamp flickered, he read on, for it seemed that he was finding what Stefan had promised him. Here was the long-awaited and quite unforeseen explanation. Eagerly he began to read of the centurion, the widow's son. And he came to the story of the Pharisee, he desired the Lord to break bread with him. He read how the woman that was a sinner anointed his feet and washed them with her tears, and how he forgave her sins. Slowly, Martin read aloud. Turn and said unto Simon, seeest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet, but she hath washed my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. The Pharisee must have been such a man as I. I too have thought only of myself, never of my. And in the Pharisee's house, there was not the least care taken of his guest, though it was the Lord himself. If he had come to me, should I have treated him in the same manner? Thus, with this thought in his mind, Martin rested and soon fell asleep. And as he slept, the small room took on the pre-dawn chill and the kerosene and the lamp burned low until the flickering flame finally died. And still, Martin slept. Martin. Martin. Who is here? Hello. I must have been to wind in the eaves. I silly old man's fears. Martin. Martin, look tomorrow on the street. I am coming. No more that night did the shoemaker sleep, but sat and pondered the strange things he had heard. Soon the first gray light came in the little basement window and as the shoemaker arose, he lighted the stove, put the water in the samovar, took his apron from the hook by the door and sat down by the window to work. But the words he had heard in the night came back to him and Martin looked out the window more than he sowed on the boot in his hand. Finally, he saw the ragged patched boots of an old soldier, Peter, who was painfully shoveling the snow away from his shop. Peter stopped off into rest and beat his hands together in a feeble attempt to warm himself. The little shoemaker laid down his all, rose him his stool and went to the door. Come in. Come in, Peter, and warm yourself a bit. You must be cold. I'm sorry for this shoemaker. My old bones ache with a cold. Come here by the stove, man. No, no, no, no, no, don't trouble to wipe your feet. I will clean it up myself. Here, now, drink a glass of tea. It will dispel the cold for a time. That is comforting, shoemaker. May you be blessed for your kindness to an old man. Oh, say no more. Here, have another glass.  Expecting someone? Well, I am, and then I am not. I'm almost ashamed to tell you what I expect, but let me tell you how it happened.  Indeed I have, but I am one of the people in darkness. I cannot read. And the strangest thought came to me, brother. Suppose, for example, our lord should come to me or anyone else. How would one know what to do? I do not think you should trouble yourself about such things, Martin. They would not happen to you or me. Such things are for great men, but we are but humble, small people. No, no, no, no, that is wrong, Peter. Why, he even picked out his disciples. Morph among such humble people as we are. He said the proud ones should be humbled and the meek praised on high. Is it the truth that you have read, Martin? Of course, of course. While last night, while I thought upon what I read, I fell asleep, and I heard someone call me by name. And it was as if the voice said to me, be on watch, I shall come tomorrow. Well, would you believe it? It is a strange world, indeed, you maker. But then the world is full of strange things. I must return to my work, brother. What, are you leaving? Or come and have more tea? No, no, I must get back to work. But thanks to you, Martin, for treating me kindly and for the thoughts you set me thinking. They are your thoughts, old friend. Thank no man for them, thank only yourself. But come in again, I'm always glad to see a friend. By this time, the inhabitants of the town were up and about their business, and the traffic in front of the basement window grew heavy. Here came the shiny new galoshes of the master of the house next door, stepping proudly as befitted a prosperous merchant. Two soldiers passed by, one in boots furnished by the crown, and the other in boots of finest Morocco, which Martin had made. And the dainty fur-trimmed galoshes of a fine lady, paced behind by the sturdy, sensible boots of her maidservant. Then came the halting footsteps of a woman and woollen stockings and flimsy light slippers. She passed by the window and stood still near the pane. The shoemaker looked up at her and saw it was a stranger, a woman poorly clad, holding a child that she was trying to cover. Her fingers were clumsy with cold, her shabby summer clothes gave no shelter. And from behind the frame, Martin could hear the child crying as the woman tried to pacify her. And then the little shoemaker ran to the door to call out to her. Woman! My good woman! We meant no harm, sir. Why are you standing in the cold with your child? We'll go on, sir. We meant no harm. No, no, no, no. Come into my room where it is warm. You can manage better. Here. This way. Quickly before the child freezes. But, sir, I have no money. Here, come this way. There. Sit down, my good woman, near to the stove. You can get warm. Here, here, here. Stop the little ones crying. I'm afraid I cannot, sir. He's not eaten since yesterday. That is not good, little mother. I have some bread and there is a cabbage soup on the stove and the broth will be good for him. I will get them. But, little grandfather, the child...  I will mind, little one. You see, I once had children of my own. And I know how to handle them. Thank you. Thank you, sir. But why are you so kind to someone you do not know? Why did you look through the window and take pity on us? Perhaps I... I seem to have been looking through the window for some wise reason, perhaps for this. But that... that can wait.  I'm a soldier's wife. But it is now seven months since they sent my husband away. No tidings. It is a mean lot at best, good woman. But how do you provide for yourself and the child? I lived out as a cook. But I lost that, for they would not keep me with the child. Now I've been to the merchant's wife, and she's promised to take us in, but not until next week.  I'm so tired. And he's tired, too, my heart's down. And you have no warm clothes. Just two days since I sold my woolen shawl for a 20-copic piece. Here.  Here, this coat is a poor thing, yet you may turn it to some use. Oh, grandfather, you're so good, so good. People like me see very little of people like you. It's beatings and hardship that are a lot. A thousand thanks, little grandfather. And bless you. Now I... I must take my leave. Here, here, take this for the sake of your child, woman. It's only a 20-copic piece, but it will redeem your shawl. Oh, bless you, sir.  Now here, here, now no, no, crying. You wrap yourself warmly, leave the wind is bitter. Now the deepening shadows crept across the basement window. But still the shoemaker sat before the window, patching and mending. And still he glanced off and out into the street.  And as she struggled to shift the weight of the bag, Martin hurried to help her. Here, mother, let me help you. The bag is much too heavy for you. Eh, what's that? Oh, thank you, sir, a thousand thanks. Yes. Oh, the bag is torn, I can't make it. Oh, they're rolling all over the scene.  I'll pick them up for you. Here, here, boy, you stop that. Stop him, catch the little villain. Here, here, boy. No, no, I'm not taking it. Let me go. Let me have him, sir. I'll take charge of the rascal. I'm going to take him to the police. No, no. He will never do it again, eh? Forgive him for the love of God. Oh, let him go indeed. Forgive him. I will forgive him so that he won't soon forget it. Yes. A few days in the workhouse will help him to remember. But Booster, he is only a lad. Turn him loose. I'll pay well for the apple he took. Well, then, if you say... Here, now, boy, ask Booster's forgiveness. I will never do it again. I saw you take the apple. I'm sorry, Grandmother. I'm sorry, but I was so hungry and it was just one apple. Now, here's another apple for you. I'll pay you for it, Booster. Oh, you ruined them that way. They're good for nothings. He ought to be treated so that he would remember it for a whole week. Grandmother, that may be right according to our poor judgment, but not according to the wiser ones than us. If the boy is to be whipped for an apple, then what ought to be done to us for our sins? I truly am sorry, Grandmother. I did not mean to steal. We are commanded to forgive. Else we too may not be forgiven. All should be forgiven and the thoughtless especially. Hey, that's so. But the trouble is that the lads are very much spoiled these days. Now, when I was younger... As than we, who are older, must teach them. Grandfather, you are right. It's just a childish trick.   It is on my way. Oh, that's a good boy.  God's blessings on you, Grandfather. The shoemaker stood motionless, gazing after them. And then, seeing the lamplighter approaching, he hastened back to his room, took down the little lamp and set it on the table. From the shelf he took down the testament and opened it to the place he had marked the night before. And as he looked at the page before him, the little shoemaker thought again of his strange dream.  But it's of no matter. The day was well spent in his name. Ah! What was that? Martin, ah, Martin, did you not recognize me after all? Who? Who was it? It was I, Martin. And it was I, Martin. I, too, Martin. And I, Martin.  For I was hungry, and he gave me meat. I was thirsty, and he gave me drink. I was a stranger and he took me in. And inasmuch as he have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Now this is the season of the year when all of us look back at what has been and look ahead at what is yet to be. A new year will be a new start, a wonderful opportunity, a fresh chapter in our lives. 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The M2 macrophages are immune cells with diverse functions at the interface of immunity, tissue homeostasis, metabolism, and endocrine signalling, which can be identified by a set of markers including transmembrane glycoproteins, scavenger receptors, enzymes, growth factors, hormones, cytokines, and cytokine receptors. The review discusses the reliability of these markers in identifying M2 macrophages and their functional subdivisions, updates on the tissue environment and neuroendocrine system signals that shape M2 activation, and possible evolutionary routes of their functions. This article was authored by Thomas Risser.


Welcome to Toffee TV, it is the Everton News Daily, Frank Lampard has spoken ahead of the Mayside Barbie on Sunday, a couple of injury updates for you, there will be no Donnie van der Beek and there will be no Andre Gomez available for this game on Sunday. He said we'll see, although there have been reports this week that he would not be available for this game after missing the Leicester City game with a tingle in the quad. He spoke about it and he says players can go through a run of bad luck and he didn't really go into any details about it to be honest. It didn't really seem like he wanted to really talk about the situation, but he said the players go through a run of bad luck and that's where Dominic Arlon Lunes is at the moment, obviously he's not really got his season going at all this season. It's quite funny when you look back and obviously a lot of people thought that him coming back for the second half of the season and obviously Rafa Benitez I think he thought him coming back for the second half of the season was going to propel Evan up the table. It really hasn't happened as it looks like we'll be without him this weekend again which if he is injured or there's any kind of issue there it probably is best to leave him out because I don't know how much he would offer anyway in this game. He said we'll see but I think if there's any issue about him he won't play. The manager spoke about Jerry Meenard as well he was asked about him and he said a decision will be made closer to the game. He will speak to the player about the situation because we've got six more games and we need to make sure we look after Jerry Meenard. Obviously I think Jerry Meenard when managed well can play week to week. I think his big problem started this season when he went away with Columbia and played three games in a week and that really seemed to kick off the injury problems. I think before that we'd be managing him okay. I think this is a lad that you'll never ever get more than weekend to weekend from and even then you have to make sure that he's in the right place and that his body is not going to break down. You have to get ahead of the injuries and unfortunately Columbia didn't do that and overused him and it's come back to here to Evan. It's come back to here to Columbia as well because they never qualified for the World Cup so we'll have to wait and see. Personally I probably wouldn't play him. I'd probably leave him now for the Chelsea game next week and then try and build up that in fitness because ever going to need him. Obviously going into the last couple of weeks of the season when we have five games ever going to have to look at that situation as well and see how many games they can get out of him in that short space of time. It did sound like he was probably reluctant to play him. We'll wait and see. Obviously he'll come down to what the tactics are on Sunday because it's going to be damage limitation. Even Frank Lampard was asked would he take a draw and you just started laughing and he said what do you think? Of course he'd take a draw. I think we'd all take a draw. This is the biggest chasm of these two football clubs in my lifetime. Of course going to Anfield and where Evan could be before that game kicks off. We're barely playing ahead of us. It's not worth thinking about really. These decisions have to be made by the manager. There's some information for fans saying to make sure they arrive early. Of course the stand the fans will be in is currently being developed so behind it is somewhat of a building site. Evan fans have been told to arrive early. There's no access from the arkles end and where the pub is. You can't get through. You have to actually get through via the park or if you come in obviously the other side of the ground. There's no bags to be taken into the ground. Make sure you don't take a bag into the ground. Make sure you get there early and make sure if you're going to go across the park and that side of the away end ahead of the game. Just another bit of news as well about Donnie van der Beek as well. The telegraph are saying that he will go back to Manchester United in the summer. Eric Tenhag is going to give him a chance. He's a former IX manager so he is going to give him a chance. I'll be honest. I don't really think that's a loss to us. I don't think we would pay the money they're asking for. I don't think he's played enough games. I don't think he's been good enough in enough games for us. He's done alright but he's just been an extra body. He's not really what we needed and he'll go back as well as Al-Ghazi. He'll go back to Aston Villa and it will obviously prove that. The transfer window in January was just appalling. Absolutely appalling and could ultimately be part of the reason why we don't stay in the Premier League when you look at what a team like Newcastle did with their silence. He looks like he could go back to Manchester United and he's not really that bothered. There you go. Let me know your thoughts in the comments and any of the news today. Make sure you check out the match preview as well. The Start 11 show is available now on Patreon. If you want to check that out we do daily live shows over there as well. The link is in the description and it will be on the screen. Thanks for watching. See you later.


In a recent video, I challenged my friend RhymeStyle to a Moogin face-off between our two favorite shows, Dragon Ball Z and mine, Naruto. In the first video, I picked Naruto and Rhyme picked Goku. Now here's a twist. Once you choose a character, both of us get to banish one character in each team, and the whole goal is to get everybody eliminated in one team. I banished Minato, a new banished kidboot. And because Naruto lost, he's also eliminated from the competition, meaning I can no longer pick Naruto or Minato. Unfortunately though, I get to pick first because I'm the loser, bro. I never thought I'd be happy to say that. So, I'm just gonna go ahead and first pick Sasuke before you can get to him, and allow me to step in with my ban as well. I'll go ahead and snipe Gohan. Don't even think about it. I was gonna do Gohan! Nah, he's out, bro. He's out. He's sitting on the bench with Kid Boo.  You made me angry and furious! Give me Broly for this one. Oh, don't do this. And I'm gonna ban Sikashi. Oh, hater!  Nah, just so there's no confusion, just so there's no confusion, we can't banish characters that we already chosen. The characters can only get eliminated if you lose in a fight. Yeah, no, this is getting very dangerous, bro. But whatever, Broly's in. Bro, let me pick a stage for you. Are you feeling confident in your Broly choice, by the way? You think he can beat Sasuke? And while you do that, I might let the people know that if there's anything they want to see with the series in the future, if we do a season 2, then let us know what you want to see. Yeah, bro. Maybe we'll do a full anime draft battle. Anyway, I'm bringing us to this beautiful looking water stage. Bro, can I just point out how angry I would be if I was in a multiverse anime fight, and I'm Sasuke and my opponent's Broly? Like, bro. At least Goku would hold back. Goku will kind of hold back just to have fun. Broly, we just get angry and blub every time. Nah, look at the animations of Broly. That actually looks really good.  Oh, and I don't know if that's the color scheme I actually picked you with, but you're looking good, bro. Watch this. Don't think I'm king or dash. Broly's doing fighters combos. You should have chosen Broly. Bro, I'm starting to think I... Oh, never mind. I was gonna say maybe I made a mistake picking the represent Naruto in this franchise battle, but... You're kind of getting messed up. It doesn't matter. You didn't know damage. Now watch this. Broly's gonna get mad. Snake Summon. Watch this, Snake Summon. Yeah. You ever heard of the new three-way deadlock, bro? I'm one of the three. Well, both weapons? Where's your honor? Use your fists. Nah, bro. Broly had a good start, but Sasuke- Broly's kind of going crazy. Broly has pet snake and a weapon. Now I'm about to kick you, bro. Come here. Nah. I also want to point out we're not actually playing it. These are CPU fights in case you didn't get it. Bro, I'm still involved, bro. I raised my bot from... Look at this corner. He's actually doing fighters combo, bro. What's that? What is that? What is that? What is that? Oh, what is it? What is that? What is it? What is it? Daeva- I never mind. Maybe it was in Suicide. Yo, yo, I'm mad. I'm mad by Sasuke- literally punched Broly, so I did nothing to him. I never mind. Let me... No, why did you... Why did you hit me with the cartoon special? Where you just flattened me and then removed the... It would just be on the ground flattening the crater. Bro because you deserve to be flat and I'm starting to see this Chidori Rinnagon blade is going crazy. I just need a Broly to win here because Dragon Ball fans deserve better here. I'm kind of upset that I'm doing all these snake summons, these hand summons, and then Broly steps on me three times and does half my health. Look at this. Stop stepping on me. That's manga accurate. What do you mean? Bro manga accurate, bro. You're like, oh that was a perfect combo from Sasuke. Why is that just one snake? It's a snake. What's grabbing from me bro? Bro your Broly box smart not to let me charge up. Finer's combos. He's watching a couple of Dada Doya videos. Bro bust out the 2-2. That's fireball 2-2. Yeah, dragon flame baby. How did he know that Broly's weakness is the sun and fire? And also just raw energy. That was just the same as fireball. How many supers does Sasuke have? Why was that so anime? Let me get my 3-ball one. Nah, hold that. He blasts. Should be green but it's fine. It can be blue for this video. I like how you do not know how to handle fireball jutsu. No way you come back and win this. Nah, watch it come back. Watch it come back. Nah, no, no. Sasuke stop him. Fireball. Just launch it. Launch it. Please thank you. Burn him to a crisp. Burn him to a crisp. I'm getting my comeback. You better start winning. You better start winning. It's 2. I got 2 rounds on me. It's fine. Broly is just studying Sasuke's fight still bro. You better keep studying that. Cause Sasuke hasn't even hit a level 3. I'm just mad at you. You bad beast go out.   Yeah, bro. Sasuke charge up to 3. What is happening? Wait, was that fan made content? I'm going blue. Wait, oh yeah.   You know, I'm just giving you. What was that Sasuke?  Oh wait, is this? Wait, am I launching the Kieran? Why? Launch the Kieran.  I was invisible. The clouds are storming Sasuke. This has to be the Kieran. Stop bro. I want you to know I'm only going blue to show you what I can do. Get perfected.  Get perfected. Bro, I'm pissed. Those clouds were definitely Sasuke trying to start the Kieran. Damn. Anyways, just letting you know what I can do if I really like actually like pop off. Bro, pop off. That was insane. Let's see me do it again. No, I want to get a win on the board man. Well, you should have picked about a series which is Dragon Ball. Bro, I'm going with Naruto every day of the week. Fight back. Yeah. Yeah, you got that character down. Naruto is fantastic. Kind of wish I could have decided what I wanted here.  Right now you're about to see your bones get busted out. Watch this. No. Snake. Oh, Purna Block.  What? You spent half this match on the ground.  Why is it so much damage? Hey, stop. Bro, stop trying to fight me man. I'm really trying to charge up over here. No way. Off the back. I'm so pissed. I'm already walked. Why did you walk like me? Did you see him walk away? Do you know what? I'll spit it out. Oh, bro. Yo. Why can't you turn to Beyblade? Oh my God, don't say put him away, Sasuke. You're cooked. You're cooked. Game one goes to me. No, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.  Not happening. Not happening. One ultimate, one ultimate, one ultimate. Oh, oh, I gave him the hands, bro. I was just raw fist handcuffs in him. Be ranked. That's going to be enough to send us into game two, baby. Game one goes to me. All right, I'll let you have the first one. Bro, I'm mad. I feel like Broly definitely showed flashes of just being absolutely crazy there, though. Yeah, no, when he goes blue, he just wants you to know what he's capable of. He's just not going to. Yeah, I'm mad. I'm mad. I can't, like, I think that's just the color they gave Broly. Like, that's his default color scheme, is they wanted him to be blue. And to be fair, it does look kind of nice. I assume he's got a green one, too. I assume, but I can't find out how to pick it. But my bad, bro, I'm kind of, oh, level three. Hit him with this. Let's go. And you fired a key blast at him. Never mind counter. I don't. I think no. I think you've countered most of it, unfortunately. Bro, but I'm back at level three again. There you go. Well, I need my B and B break. Get dragged to ground. Get up. Look. Always your weapon. You took my sword from me. No more weapons. No more weapons, bro. Give it back. Nope. All right. Then I don't need it, bro. Never mind. I need it. Sasuke, go to the weapon. Sasuke, go to the weapon. Why are you just saying what? Shawry got a dodge. That was him. Bro, I read your- Never mind. He's getting stopped out. I know, Bro. I read your- I read one move with the Shawry. I got it. Then I just got stopped out from there, bro. Bro, he's getting fried right now.  Yeah. Can I please pick up my sword? Never mind. I'm going for the level three. He's assed. There you go. There you go. One combo. One combo. Stop. Bro, please. Please. There it is. There it is. There it is. Game. Game. Game. No, not game. Not game. Not game. You dropped the combo. You dropped it. Never mind. You died, bro. It didn't matter. Bro, it's Super Dash. You died, bro. Bro, it's Super Dash. What's like knowing you can lose two of the main characters from Naruto by episode two? Bro, I don't feel anything because what you said is not real. That's false. Yeah, I'll address the allegations if it happens to be real, which it won't. But if it is real, which it isn't. You are going through it. Do you want me to like take control of your character? Maybe that'll help. Um, honestly, just leave me alone, bro. Like real talk. Stop talking to me. Level three. That's not doing much damage. Never mind. I turned up the heat. That was just my two bar super, by the way. Why? That was my two bar, by the way. I spared you. Why does a snake do more damage than your ultimate? Your character's weak. Up on fire. That wasn't even my ultimate, bro. Oh, yeah. Did you know the Amaterasu is the flame that never ends? The flame that always burns? Tots. Snake. I'm killing fast. Now you're out, bro. Let me. And that was also my level. By the way, I want you to know that my, the flame ended, by the way. The fire went out. Oh. Just like you will to fight in this video. Well, that's interesting. That's not more accurate. Cheedoni. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I have Key Blast, bro. So go ahead and throw lightning at me. I dare you. Get up, bro. How about a lightning blade? Not even the Kikashi version, bro. Because since you banned him, by the way. My sword.  I'm gonna stand next to a two. I'm gonna have a Broly Stand next. Hey, Broly Stand next to a sword. Build him high. Oh, he missed. Oh, yes. Oh, I want it. I'm Susan O'Vorm.  Sasuke, let's go. Yes, you're looking like that.  How do you stop this? Juggles into a level three Ultimate Injury Zero.   What do you do? Do stuff. Oh, you know what the counterplay is? Don't let me do it. Next time you just shouldn't let me do it, bro. That's the counterplay. All right, Broly, Broly, Broly, Broly, Broly. Do the seek technique I taught you.  I'm sick, bro. That was so sick. That was actually so sick. You want to see sick? Watch this. I'm about to have you in a hospital bed.  I told you my level three was about to be crazy, bro. She knows where he's laid. Look at this. You need more than that. You need more than that. Tell Broly to step up, bro. He's got the damage, but is he fast like Sasuke? Can he do combos like Sasuke? You don't know if I can hear you, right? You know you can hear you, right? Bro, what kind of- Look at Oak. You look at Oak. You look at Oak. Block those. He blasts. I'm pissed, bro.   The snake is not more- The snake is pretty good. I'm not going to lie. The snake is not more damaged than anything else to Sasuke in this entire series. You're lying now. What I'm saying is you better relax before I get a raptor in here. Huh? Oh, my God. Juggles? Yeah, a raptor. I went there. Damn. That gave me a weapon, too. Oh, look at that. Oh, never mind, Broly. Broly, I know. Broly clearly wasn't happy with that one. Okay. I understand. Chidori. When you get flipped like that, that is so funny to me. All right. Corner combos, corner combos. You're going to need a corner combo if you're going to come back from this health deficit, bro. You like this one? You like this one? You blast? There it is. That's the boy that I know. Nah, bro. You're good. You're good, bro. Never mind. Bro, I think Sasuke is not winning this one. Bro is stuck in his own get-jutsu right now. Never mind.  Can you make sure your bot didn't disconnect his controller or something because it's kind of problematic? Don't embarrass me, bro. You simply just stepped on my head one too many times that game. Oh, God. You only need one more win to put it away. You only need one more win to set us into the finale arc, bro. And we got to do the Broly porno combo that you love. Bro, there's no way I can afford to lose a match where I styled on you with injuries. Why are we using that lame super, bro? The super, what's happening?  That's what's happening, bro. Nah, level three. Why? Oh, because he's starting up the curing. He's starting up the curing. I'm blue. Go ahead. Hit me with lightning. I'm literally, I can't. It's not, bro. It's not just lightning, bro. You're about to get hit with curing if Sasuke ever does it. Come on, Sasuke, please. He's got a bar. He's got a hand. It's useless. No way. Does he have this to kill? He's cinematic on attack. He's my Susan Oh. He's slathering the ground again. Oh, Lyons Barrage. Look at like young Sasuke and his youth. Counter him. Broly. Broly go. Yo, raw hands. Yo, raw hands. Sasuke might even be better than sword, Sasuke. Lyons Barrage combo loops. Hold on, hold on. Sasuke's kind of sick. Broly. Yo, that was nuts.  You just, you just have to breathe it on, man. Sasuke, put it two, two. Can we put it away? Can we put this game away, Sasuke? Never mind. This is going to be free. Yeah. Yeah. If we, if you, you've seen this enough times at this point. Honestly, bro, I'm sick because you're not winning this. And I met, I met, I met Broly with stepping at the door. It's over, bro. It's, it's actually over, bro. Oh my God. Sasuke's really close. Seven to him. Hold on, hold on, hold on. We, we ain't done yet. We ain't done yet. I'm on fire. No, you're trash, bro. You're literally trash. Yeah. Well, Broly, Broly goes off of fury and anger. Oh yeah. How about this level three super? Never mind. Don't start the game. God, how about this one? Damn it. How about, how about this one, bro? God, damn it. How about this one? God, damn it. Ginori. Give me my sword back. Get the sword. Do they make it for men? Oh God. We're never seeing that sword again, are we? No. All this, all this just to die. The choke, bro. The choke. Susan O'Ford. Oh no. How do you stop that? How do you stop that? You can't, bro. You can't hit me. I'm in Susan O'Ford, bro. Your ultimate doesn't work.  Anyways, anyways, anyways. Oh my God. We're actually going to game three. Pack it on up. Pack it on up. Okay. Because it actually went one-one in the final game, it's actually whoever wins two rounds first is going to take it home here. So one less round to win it all. Sasuke versus Broly, who's going to take it? Yeah. And again, there's going to be probably tweaks as we do these, because again, we want to make sure the length is right, the fights are right. We're just adjusting it, keeping it fresh. Yeah. But let Sasuke cook. That's the only thing that we need to keep fresh here. I want to see him actually laying here and he set it up 70 times. Yeah, I'm going to keep Broly. Even if he does that, it's doing nothing. Not true, bro. Look, nice distance by Sasuke. Keep the range. Never mind. You got to just stop. Yo, stop him. Oh my God. He charged all the way up. I know Broke dug it as yield for that one. What does that do? What does that do? He did something. He did something. What does that? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It does matter to me, bro. Sasuke, fight back. We're getting fighters juggled over here. Damn. Hey, like I said, Broly been watching your videos. Seaside's in your channel. No. How's that make you feel? Oh my God. The loops. Please, Sasuke. I can't afford to go down two with this here. This is actually going to be a wash. I mean, we're just keeping a can of that. Is it going to be a wash? Sasuke, please. I mean, just getting his time. No, no, no. It's not a wash. He's getting stomped out, man. Oh my God. It's a day old. Sasuke, I swear to God, Sasuke. Sasuke, please, Sasuke. You're one away from being eliminated. How do you feel? Not good. Not good is my answer. Not good at all. Sasuke, please dig deep. I need this, man. Land, Kieran. Oh, we start with two bars. We have the advantage. Ross super right away. Never mind. It doesn't matter. You're taking it to the corner. Never mind, bro. Never mind. Broly's clearly tapped in. Lop the knee here. Combo. Nice. That was a good juggle. That was a good juggle. Especially for one bar, that snake is priceless. Bro, the snake is not all the damage. Yes. Yes. Broly, fight back, bro. I like how you're saying done all the damage. Like, he's not about to bust out the craziest combo of all time. Here we go. Hey, yo, you ran right into that. I need a cartoon character. There we go. Nah, bro. I'm not going to let that slide, bro. We've got to help Lee. Sasuke, get out of this corner, please. God, they moved it so much damage. Are you getting the latest battle? I'm getting the latest. Oh, and your sword's gone. Counter it. What? Combo off that. He drained chakra from it, too. Yes. Look at his eyes. Why does he get twirled like that?  There we go. Good combos. Good block. Good counter. Hit the line, bro. Oh, no. There we go. No, no, no. Put it away. Put it away. Tie it up, tie it up, tie it up, tie it up. Charge, charge, charge. Do your ultimate. Do your ultimate, bro. Broly, go, go, sooth it up, please. Yes, yes. Yes. No. Slam into the ground. No. Go talking about that combo. No, it did not, unfortunately. But you're dead, bro. Yes. Get up. No. Yes. Yes. Put him down. Put him away. Slash that in. Yes. Yes. I don't know if it was worth spending the three bars at the end, but damn, if that wasn't close. You needed it. Hey, bro, I did need it. I'll fully admit that. Thoske, clutch up and give us a win for Team Naruto. All right, Broly, you know what? Show what you're really made out of. You said your daddy trash, bro. He is trash.  Nah, Broly ain't killing nothing, bro. Because I'm going to charge up to level three right here. Broly is about to literally perfect. Block that. Perfect.  Perfect. Watch this perfect. I told you, don't talk about it like that, man. Oh, Susan of form. If there was ever a chance to come back, it's this. Cut job. How long does it last? Forever. How do you get out of it? I don't know. It's so cheap. Yeah, it is, huh? Yeah, I guess you should probably fight back, huh? Yeah, I guess. Level three, Indra Zero. Burn away. Does it take him out of the form? Yes, unfortunately. Game over, game over, game over. Nah, bro, not game over. He lost, he lost, he lost, he lost. Oh, yeah, if it's been so game over, how can we get in the jungle then? Hold on, he just a little bit shook. Bro, my mind, my ball. Yes. Rage. Oh, charge up. I'll feed his flower. Back dash. Yes, yes, yes. No, no, no, no, no, no. Broly! Broly! Broly! It's so close. Charge.  Don't try to race him in a charged race. Block this. Block! Live it. And just like that. Live it.  Genuri! Oh! What was it? Broly, broly! Broly! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Finish it! No! Finish it! Finish it! Nooo! And he quays. I never doubted him once. I never doubted him once. You see, I got the D plus because he gave Sasuke the D. He lost, bro. That's another Norrzel character dead. Oh my God! Sasuke! Like, comment, subscribe guys. Like, comment, subscribe. It's the only thing keeping me going, guys. One like it means I can I can fight one more day. Hopefully you enjoyed it though Check out some of the other videos on your screen right now. I've done it. We'll see you in the next one


before we go to work come on man we got work to do it's time to get serious it ain't no time for me to be here with my shirt off showing my tattoos don't make me go back to the streets I just got out the streets man come on I'm trying to get on the path of righteousness and you know uplift the community you feel me I'm trying to be by my business like these brothers right here they got all kind of exotic fragrances multiple fragrances they ain't here they about to bring back S curls you play too much jail but it's seriously time for me to let the people know that the black market back on now this one I'm gonna do this different because the name of this company is already my favorite so I'm gonna let them say it cuz I don't want them to think I'm playing all right so look this was y'all gotta do y'all gotta look at the camera and introduce yourselves and tell me about this guy cuz yep you yeah my name is any time bariola co-founder and creative director of flourish the largest platform to shop and discover black-owned brands Steve Canal CEO and co-founder of flourish and this is definitely spot to scale and discover black-owned brands now what is flourish flourish is the spot bro you know when you with the woman you find that G spot I mean we might got a product like that because the point is shout out the holidays candy coated I think the point is to be able from the time that you wake up to the time that you go to sleep at night have a touch point and experience black-owned brand so whether it's a shampoo your toothpaste your toothbrush your beard oil your clothes the pancake mix the I mean the fragrances cards the cookies with the tabletop everything gotta be black on imagine that because at the end of the day what that means is if you have one home right and the products in the home are all black on what does that mean for the founders the problem that you're about to go down not I'm just messing with you you know they did that yeah but you imagine how that's supporting the black community right in the economy right allowing us to flourish allowing us to flourish I see how you think yeah I like what is going so how did all this come about man we wanted to create a platform to eliminate the search right you know let me find a black-owned such-and-such or black-owned such-and-such you go and flourish everything's there for vegan lip gloss flat out of heels you know like you said pancake mix lip balm you can find everything at that location but in addition to that we created the opportunity to the story tell so brands we create content and match them with influencers and we also activate events right so it allows the brands an opportunity to get discovered we just did a partnership with TD jakes and launched good soil where we were able to bring down 23 black-owned brands to get exposure in front of 2,000 people who attended the event right we did South by Southwest where you know they were we brought down about 15 brands 15 brands we got about five of them to come on stage and they're able to talk about themselves and the journey in their brand you know I'm saying in front of 25 you know thousand people that are coming in and out throughout the weekend so it's an opportunity for exposure but you know for any time in us it's in our DNA you know I'm saying being able to support black-owned brands and be able to support our people you know it was up to us to make this decision to push this forward and we accepted that challenge same reason why you do it you know I'm saying like the that feeling you get man like we say here watched you know like you get to put these people on a platform it's not just a brand or a founder these are people man this is our people you know you're able to legitimately change their lives you know like one of our brand partners got a hundred thousand dollar grant in good soil event we just did right we're putting people in position like overnight their lives are changing another another brand we had them design the merchandise for good soil right so we changed their lives overnight and that's that's literally the there's the there's this this this gap between this wall that our brands hit as they're trying to scale like you're gonna hit a wall you might make a million you might make a thousand make five thousand eventually you're gonna be saying well how do I get into the retail how do I do this I don't have the resources of the network or the relationships to get this part of the business done it's gonna take me to that next level make me really compete just like you said and that's exactly why I do this yeah right to have a platform and to not do something like that it just be crazy because people need to know that we are people out here doing different things they got the clothing brand they got the the food the snacks the desserts the cologne with they need to see us in all our greatness so that's exactly what the black market how did y'all link up on the business though man man you want me to get destroyed and we got two different perspectives so I want to fam you and shout out to family we're at the classic the Atlanta classic and I think out of all the people who'd have been on here fam you said all fam you's heavy man like more the more people and clay clay I want to you can't we came in together yeah you didn't fall 2000 so I was at this event at this at the dome and he was at the Georgia dome and he was like in corporate so I snuck up in the suite me and my homie snuck up in the suite he was the only black dude in the suite a bunch of all these white folks I was like man I hope this dude don't call us out and he just let us kind of kick it there he all know I don't think you knew us but I was like and I was watching him handle business and at the time I was just you know I was a young kid doing some wild stuff but eventually I started just to see him in different spaces and I ended up writing three best sellers three books before I was doing this and we connected when he was at another company he was working at corporate company and he was doing a tour with Damon John and really pouring black dollar I mean pouring money into the black community via the corporate dollars through pitch competitions and stuff so I kind of saw him moving and grooving like that and I reached out to him to do it like to get involved and he's like I'll highlight you when you're ready and I thought he was kind of just you know kind of playing me left but he actually hollered at me when I was ready not when he was ready when I was ready when I was in a position to where it made sense for the relationship to get extended further so we ended up going on tour together he wrote a book a best seller the mind of a winner and in 2017 I think it was we took we combined a tour book tour I was going on exhibit great tour and tour domestically sold out tour globally Australia and sold out everywhere and and then did different ventures with the homie Kenny Burns then went on different tours together as well and just built our relationship and I learned like how he does business to pace it which he does business I saw y'all here bouncing ideas right imagine that my dids actually going into execution yeah and then you're looking it's like a moving product so I saw how quickly he moved and saw he was almost like this missing piece you know to my creative mind where he could actually execute and teach me a lot of things so he's like this mentor turn business partner right and we've been rocking since we had this idea in 2020 with flourish and you know it didn't exist it was a bunch of lists if you wanted to find a black brand I either had to ask you what you're wearing going IG in search or look at along the rest or directory of brands right so we try to make a seamless you know experience where people could just go to one place casually and find all the dope black brands they like and support right and you know being on this journey has been phenomenal because it's open the eyes of the corporate partners as well right because we filter the brands we have over 3,000 brands that are trying to get on to the platform and we're educating them on what they need to do to get on to the platform some of them might need better photography photo shots so we have photographers we sync them with you know some of them need finance so we have financiers who work with them you know some of them need better product description or copy or they just need that extra push right of direction and guidance so that's what you find at flourish is not just the econ platform you find a place where you're getting put on in a myriad of ways right from event execution to being getting distribution into retail we just launched the shade room shop we just launched good soil with TD jakes we have so you know how you think of a Walmart target and all these different big box distribution outlets yeah we're doing that virtually as well because when you think about the shade room they got 40 million in their audience I know right so when we create a platform you're actually on their space and they're posting about you every day we've done over seven million dollars worth of posts on the shade room for the brands to be able to get that exposure they're all getting a million views per post think about what that does to their family what that does to them and the legacy they're building by building this community and they all work together you know thinking about you know 3 pls distribution you know thinking about manufacturers where can I get a better costume t-shirt or a hoodie you know so this community we work together in this family you know we have over 250 brands on the platform that's all right you know like gatekeeping stuff all that like that's that expired with 2020 man like we're on a different wave I think culturally we're you know we're collectively finally contributing it's like cooperation and less competition you know what I'm saying like we're finally on one accord and it's lasted long enough it's year three so I know a lot of people are afraid like it when is this moment gonna end we here is it not we we're literally right here on the run this couch tell me about some of these good oh man yo shout out to Terrence Pratt with memoir fragrances he's got an incredible story and an amazing brand um he collects you know fragrances and he's been collecting for years his his collection his entire attic dedicated to just wall-to-wall bigger than the department store so his his knowledge on it is crazy and he had a passion for it and one time you know I was like yo what are you wearing bro he said my own stuff I said you gotta be kidding me so I said do you sell it he said no I don't have any attention to I just do it for myself my wife you know I'm saying like I said no you got there's no way you can't bottle this up so down the line from you know from different conversations we had he came out with a product to tell me how to smell man you know what I'm saying I'll let you do it yeah yeah yeah hold on this the one yeah yeah that's one of the ones check out speeding bronze wheel real quick yeah my dog said he want one of them oh we got we got you yeah we got you we got you yeah already called up I man that smells amazing yeah you don't keep doing that yeah it smells like money it smells like money I need everything we got you man we got one of these cars everything on here is black on yeah we love we got kindred paper which makes cards black on got you a set for mother's day come on so it's gonna die loud which is hung up got you your members jacket come on man this man yeah she ain't y'all give me a shit you ain't gotta take it in yours man yeah it's like that's all I do you know we try we try to bring on everything black on we try to make sure we bring the culture and to your point the high quality that is being produced by these brands right because the stigma the black on brands is customer service is poor you know quality is poor such and such such and such but with this with flourish you're gonna find high quality brands that are there that are ready now where can they where can they go and catch up where they need to go to be a part of this movement definitely how can they get their products gotta follow the f yeah follow the f with us man um flourish flourish dot com you know you gotta flourish you can apply as a brand right on the website it takes like 20 seconds to apply as a brand um you say what at every building we're building an app we're building that yeah proof of concept sir proof of concept yes sir yeah you're going flourish dot com with the why um you'll be able to apply as a brand we go through the process we zoom everybody so we have face-to-face conversations and make sure you're prepared for the platform once you're on the platform sync through our technology in the back end it'll take about 15 20 minutes you're on the site ready to roll and then based on you know your brand if you're ready for it because some brands you know taking a step back when he was talking about retail um and category leaders within this space you have to understand that just because you have a dope brand doesn't mean you're ready you know for for the action when it comes to the distribution and you love to tell people they ain't ready you gotta say you ain't ready so man you might not be ready but when you know a big box retailer says i need 50 000 pieces next you know next month you got to be able to deliver if you don't you're dead to them right so we want to make sure we put you in that position for success yeah so if you come through our platform you're on flourish and you're ready for a tsr the shave room shop right you can get distribution through the shave room that's a whole other ballgame right when it comes to the awareness and the visibility of the brands yeah so it's our job to be able to talk to the brands and understand who's prepared for that moment and who we need to coach to be prepared for that moment but regardless you're gonna have that opportunity yeah that's what's up man now if you hit him and he tell you you ain't ready i'm getting your feelings you just not ready he even told his partner hit me when you ready yeah so that's the same piece of advice though but but for me right i purposely went to corporate to learn how to run a billion dollar business yeah right i coined the term corporate manure i was in corporate but i was still an entrepreneur right so i learned what it took to push a machine right you know and then when going on tour with damon john from shark tank creator fooboo for five years in supporting and seeing what it took for businesses to scale and succeed we took all that insight imported into what we're doing as well you know what i'm saying so this isn't something we just made up out of the sky you know what i'm saying we know what it takes to be in retail we know what it takes to scale your business we know what it takes from a social perspective the content to create so we put you into that cycle in that community but from then just do the work yeah well man what's your social media we're gonna make sure we promote promote promote how can my audience get in touch with you one more time i g we flourish everything across the board we flourish with the y f l o u r y s h show me your shirt man right flourish and personal burial ask b-e-r-e-o-l-a-s-q-u-e and steve can now s-t-e-v-e-c-a-n-a-l howl at us you don't need to get your books man oh man it's all the more you ain't even tell them about the book i didn't all of them will be on flourish by the way but amazon wherever books are sold honestly uh bariola ask is the first book the contemporary gentleman and etiquette book for the urban sophisticated second book is gentlewoman etiquette from a from a gentleman etiquette for a lady from a gentleman third book is the gray a relationship etiquette study so it's all about etiquette don't i mean etiquette is just a way to maneuver relationships you know what i'm saying it's a way that the tools do you use to maneuver relationships you know i'm saying i think a lot of people get it misconstrued and they think it's a bow tie in a suit and yes sir and it it's not it's not who you are it's not like what you do what you put on is who you are and it's the tools that you use to navigate who you are and maintain your identity in the book i release called the mind of a winner is also available and it's available in audible as well um got damon john in there barbara cork ring got two chains in there as well that's inside the nbm tnt all in the book sharing their insights of how they not only attain success but sustained it over time you know i'm saying and all that's in there for you but look man i appreciate y'all stopping through here this y'all first time come yeah don't let it be the last absolutely not this might have to be quarterly or ever so often quarterly way that y'all moving you just want some more gifts huh different brands hey we got you by the way yes we'll come for the whole team we'll bring our brands our Atlanta brands and just have them just lay stuff out man you know the best part about y'all bro i didn't even have to tell you how much sad man y'all always welcome over here on the black market bro the black market is open and that's how we live and let's get a photo thank you for the record book i appreciate you man