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Do you guys like it? So that we've done a lot more finest Prism, but then again, it is like double the boxes, right? Yeah, and also to guys remember, you know if you guys want to shop with us for personal We can always ship you the box seal then you rip yourself or you have Sean me or Teddy rip it whenever we're streaming on I'm sure we sold personal boxes a fine. It's been personal This week Do we have any on the website right now? Here you go Check it out. It's acting weird for me. So I'll have to wait. But anyway Check it out guys. Jasper.com Sean's live there right now Who have your bias? What is this out of 50? Have you really come I just feel like I've been gone for so long This looks really awesome. We're on the community junior What is this guys the throwback retro or something? I Don't know, but I'm panty steven in top of it again For the braves Robert. There you go Yeah, it looks like it could be like a case hit or something. I have to look at the checkers I did not study up on any of these releases What wasn't you in these like prison boxes or something? Francisco Lindor for Cleveland at 175 and And Bobby Bradley autograph. Oh, that looks nice beautiful for Cleveland When a dad I kind of hate though that baseball gets a certain print And you know football gets a certain print basketball gets a certain print. It's like man Make them all the same for all of them You know how many miles Sanders cards, I'd be collecting if I can get some of these like prints and colors I Gaurav for Minnesota Bobby Ray is Jordan Yamamoto the 99 Blue yummy When a Robert Strasburg to 149 and you're done blue not numbered, but still a rookie color. You go good room Shoahit old time 1200 Christopher Chris Ryan and another one for me. I mean Marlins, I mean Marlins going to is Nandy is and who has the Marlins again Robert. There you go 70 out of 75 Anthony will open top of the clowns to a bottle Trevor Bowen tonight Silver Mauricio through Vaughan Kevin B. Geo Xbox guys are halfway through that press cut sign is franchise tender today Has until July 15 to reach a long-term deal of now will be an unrestricted free agent next year This is a really nice card. It looks really cool. Very nice there for the Braves and Robert All right, third box guys are halfway through Yes, Ramsky Carter Seeger JD Martinez Sam Hillier to 125 And Donnie Walton for Seattle. Yeah, there's usually is case hits here in these prisms It's always like a print like that or like obviously like a snake or tiger or zebra Think select is more zebra than anything, but Matt Olson Jalen D. Davis Lucas Geolito to 100 rookie here. 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Davis and Sheldon news is an impact to the 60 Whitmer for Kansas City and 75 you change the 75 there you go Please in indians Paul Goldschmidt Full to do it. I have two more boxes guys Trent Thornton to 60 What up Chad? I know man. I think we should I think we will I think we will All we have to do really is just sell out the next ice One box break and we're in Breaksville for that. So I think definitely that one and most likely Basketball or full or maybe basketball and football. I feel like we can do at least three mixers baseball might be a little tough to fill today So maybe not three. Maybe not all four, but I can shock me you guys want to do all four mixers I think we can definitely feel at least two of them but basketball is really close and So is the football one. So I might be able to fill three Strasburg to 175 and a 25 Devi rule on Philadelphia I'll show it to you right now Matthew once I'm done with the break somewhere in the bottom pile of all the top loader carts But a rebel saying it's called called gems Really really cool part Chick of the groan and a nice Gavin Lux autograph just a little base, but there you go Dodger's going to EA parts Harper to 125 Rolander 100 transgression John McCall. How's it going John? All right you guys last box David Adams does most likely to buy a lot on eBay. They travel around the United States to pick up parts You probably will use the ideas mingle Eva Ryan O'Hern pro penmanship County City Royals Kyle that one. Hey Rosario. How's that right Mike? Well, they use it too for their part at least the best of greatest hits or something and an eagle horn here to 75 Chicago Cubs going to Kyle Hoover man all the cows are hitting right now. Omar Navarra's from Milwaukee and Robert Walter for Seattle And we got Danilo the shields junior for Cleveland Like you're not a great break. Yeah, I'm a down. Yes. Let me do a quick recap of the autographs and some of the bigger stuff You know a big pile here of all the color cards that will be top-loaded silver rookies and inserts I have no I mean, I don't know I Guess maybe you did Kyle just because you got that yard on autograph I don't know. I think you already has a better Resilvi then Niko, right? Oh, I would say that but I have no idea though Based off of just a big name All right, so there you go An autograph. This is the car. We're talking about earlier Matthew Very cool looking car That was Ronald Acuna jr. Go into the braids and Robert and there you go guys That was the break. This is prison baseball pick at you number two on Jasper's case preach calm Appreciate it number three's in the start. Let's get it going


Hey friends you watch behind the scenes divine intimacy radio, and we're about ready to jump into a show Exploring the demonic and how they work with visions and revelations where the show is based a series inspired by a new book out by Sophie Institute Press called visions and revelations by Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalene our producer will pop that up on the screen so you can see that It's a fantastic book. It's really important for our time just because of what's going on out there So before we jump into the show, I do want to tell you about Which one do you well? I think this one where I want to go first. What do you think? Sure the bottom one sure So if you enjoy divine intimacy radio, we meet so many people we just did at church last night we love the show and and you want to hang out with us for a week or so Not with us We we would like for you to we want to hang out with you. 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Welcome to divine intimacy radio your radio haven of rest your hermitage of the heart Your monastery of the mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw on the wisdom of the saints to help us to navigate this challenging life we're back talking on a series From the very important work just now published by Sophia Institute Press visions and revelations By Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene and our guest today is Father Matthew McDonald who wrote the forward to the book And he did his was it a master? I asked you this for but a master's thesis on On this topic. Was that what you did father? Yeah, so when I was ordained from uh for the archdiocese in new york as a priest in 2014 and I went to st Joseph's Seminary Dunwoody and Yonkers in New York and I wrote my MA thesis on the principles of discerning private relation According to scripture the teachings of the magisterium and the teachings of the Carmelite school of spirituality So this book by Father Gabriel was a key resource for the third chapter of that thesis Awesome. Well, we're continuing in the series and what we're talking about today Is diabolical influence in visions and revelations So How do we understand whether or not it's authentic is the fundamental question because if it's authentic, what do we do? We we pay heed if it's not then we ignore it That's and there's a lot of that a lot of visions and revelations and things going on today Which always happens in the most difficult times in the church both for the authentic for the help of the people of god and the Counterfeit which is the enemy twine trying to thwart that exact effort by god So today we're going to talk about You know foundationally What the devil can do and can't do well if we don't get through it will do another show on that but it's you know I don't want to call out the specific person But a person very high ranking person recently in the church said That the devil is a psychological construct um, and if that's the case That's uh, he's speaking something that's contrary to church teaching into what jesus taught But it's day fee day that devils exist What are your thoughts on that? I think the devil It's important that we don't give too much authority to the devil, but we also realize his influence There's a saying that one exorcist said, you know, the devil isn't under every rock. He's under every other rock and Sometimes he'll utilize, you know, psychological phenomenon spiritual phenomenon a little bit of both. So It's important to identify his influence Which can be very subtle in various ways whether it's through normal spiritual warfare like the discernment of spirits Or through extraordinary phenomenon Yeah, so Let's talk a little bit about this this influence that they can have right so What what What do we know about god's permission? permissive will in these things because You know the argument is well if god were good He wouldn't allow the devil to bother us or you know, why is this happening to me? I must be a sinful person or what because there's all kinds of nuance in here of why this can happen So what is it about god's permission? Given to the diabe to the diabolic influence on people and and how does that work? God's permission Can allow the devil to have a particular influence over men and women Even to the extent of invading and tormenting them in a bodily manner and this is not because god is a sadist Um, this is not something that god positively wills But when we're under demonic influence, it's always And and we're suffering whether it's through desolation through oppression or possession It's something that god allows not only for our sanctification But for the sanctification of the church in the world. He never positively directly wills it But he can use an evil to bring about a good to to Bring about a good end Yeah, so it reminds me of romans 8 28 god works all things together for good for those who are called According to his purpose and i've actually seen this we've seen this being involved in ecstasy uh, the right of ecstasy somewhere the person like Stephanie and i The priest the helpers The person who is afflicted who eventually got free in one case i'm thinking about All of us were drawn more deeply to god through the experience even though it was very painful And the person who was suffering Sometimes the people who suffer do things to bring it upon themselves And so it's allowed in that sense god never wills evil of course But as you said he allows it but in the case in all cases to those who turn to god Good will come of it. Is that a good summary or am i overstating I think that's a great summary I think also another important principle that other people have stated before that we keep in mind is also the devil Does not have his own clay So the devil is not equal to god When we say that we fall into the heresy of dualism the devil is a fallen angel And what he does is he perverts the good he distorts the good He he is not equal to god. He can only try to distort his creation Yeah, and you're you're you're referencing a scripture pass a few scripture passages there I think we should bring out you said the devil doesn't have his own clay You know, I'm reminded of the passage where it says that I am the potter.  He can only distort Um, is that accurate or is there another way of saying that? Yes. No, that's 100 accurate all right, so Moving on thinking about the assaults of the devil and what's permissive What what happens out of the permissive will of god? Can let me think of how I want to say this. Okay, so The enemy so angels Let me go back angels just angels all angels Have a particular mission Especially guardian angels and you know to help us get to heaven. They help us in that mission, right? And what I have found fascinating, maybe you can expound on it according to this influence thing is that god makes He works so through his permissive will through fallen angels To still bring about the greater good that he had planned originally Yes, he definitely does and and again We see that Liturgically and we hear that every year in relation to adam's sin and the exalted Oh happy faults are necessary sin of adam that broke forth so great a savior So even though we may be suffering a grave evil or injustice from the demonic God can utilize that in hidden ways for our own sanctification could call could lead us to a healing through suffering And can also lead others to a healing as you alluded to earlier Or a deeper conversion So the only way that can be hindered Is if we refuse to follow god, right if we refuse to Through the power of our own will our human will Make the decision to follow god. Is that right? Yes, absolutely. Okay, so the the next point then is about freedom of the will And this can be difficult to understand, but I think it can be encouraging for people The freedom of the will According to church teaching all the will always remains free But there are degrees of freedom if you will But my my first question is Is that true with full possession? Because in my experience It doesn't seem to be true I understand the role of the exorcist and the right to Beat up the demon in essence to to have them release their power over the victim and then the victim Chooses I mean most of The liberation and exorcism the majority of it comes through the victim exercising their will But so I guess it's not I'm answering my own question, but you can validate it the The will is always capable in some way of resisting the enemy And fighting back even if fully possessed Yes, even if the devil has possession over your body Again, like you said, he can never have possession over your will He can tempt you to allow an individual To to have possession over his will freely Right, that's that but we allow that permission Yeah, and I guess the suffering I've seen in exorcism is it can be pretty severe Which makes it appear the person doesn't have a will because they're suffering so much that you know, but What I've said to even a victim in exorcism is The right works a hundred percent of the time as long as you stay in the fight, right? The right always works through the history of the church. The right has never failed Unless the person gives up and and that which is a glorious truth, right? And that freedom is through not around Through the suffering through the suffering through the right through the process You can't skirt it You can't get around it because once you know once a soul is possessed through fault of their own Or exposure to you know, however that comes, right? They have to go through the process And um, I think it's part of that that you know the the lord being glorified in the power of his church In the sacrament sacramentals of his church and with respect to visions and revelations kind of bring it back to the topic If a devil if a demon is inspiring a vision a revelation The person always has the culpability and the ability to exit out of that influence Which is the point I think we're trying to make ultimately, but I just I was very encouraged by that idea and wanted to reflect on it so The good angels and devils can Intrinsically act upon the imagination and other internal and external senses because these are all organic powers and the devil has The power to exercise his influence through anything Material and this comes from Thomas's st. Thomas's summa Talk a little bit about that reality father so good angels and demons Can influence our internal and external senses by suggesting things by putting things in front of us that could distract us or You know attempt to hinder our freedom, but we have to allow it to hinder our freedom And um And obviously the angels They could influence us along the way of consolation and reception to grace Whereas the devil particularly in the cases of visions of revelations He may Pervert something that makes something into a vision or a location But it ultimately can be a distraction from receiving grace or from my primary You know responsibilities or state in life It's important that sometimes we when we get certain things and this is why again the church Takes so much time to discern these things on the Scale of larger apparitions or when we get things in prayer on retreat or before a holy hour We don't merely jump and and assume You know either way we we test it and we discern it over a period of time All right, good. So when we get back from the break We're going to talk about whether or not demons can work through miracles which can come through those who Have apparitions and or see apparitions and visions or whatever So we'll talk we'll talk about that after the break. We'll be right back When your market set go Welcome back to divine intimacy radio. This is dan and stephanie burk and we're with Father Matthew McDonald. We're talking about a very important subject Visions and revelations a new book published by sophia institute press Uh, it's author is father Gabriel of st. Mary Magdalene a very famous rector of the of the Oh, teresianum in Rome And father wrote the forward to the book and and and his master's thesis on the topic So we're running through just an overview of how it is that the demonic works or can work or can't work Through visions and revelations to falsify them So you you alluded before the break father to the idea That the devil has no clay so How if a vision and revelation or revelation occurs and it's accompanied by a miracle I mean, how what can the devil do to create a mirror can the devil create a miracle? Which I think we've we've stated he can't but he can certainly Manufacture them we we saw this with moses and the old testament And the the sorcerers imitating some of the things that moses did But talk talk a bit about what the enemy has that in his power To deceive us with respect to miracles or false miracles so On a metaphysical level angels and devils Who are fallen angels are higher beings than? human beings human persons because they're purely spiritual beings so they They're intellects perceive things In a different way than we are. They're not the same as god. They are not equivalent to god so um They can know they can have certain details about human life What we're suffering through And since angelic powers um surpass human powers They can perform prodigious feats Which arouse our admiration so far as they exceed the power of knowledge of human beings so you know, I guess part of their power then because Years ago, I read a book It's a beautiful side of evil About an evangelical woman who was involved in kind of new age spirituality and How she experienced healings and things like that Which she thought were true And I can't remember what her conclusions were about it in the book. It's been like 20 years ago But I do remember that there was some discussion about The enemy's ability to falsify and sort of sleight of hand of the Of the person attempting to gain an audience or crowd to be But I I think what can happen. It seems to me Is because the enemy can suggest things and can create And I've even experienced this in relationship to And stephanie has too in relationship to being involved with ecstasy Can create a kind of a loser a state of illusion or Or a hazy state on the person somehow messing with our minds That can make us more believe In something if we were purely intellectually sober, we might not ever Believe am I going out of bounds or is that does that make sense? Oh, absolutely. That's a hundred percent You know sensible what you said and through one's own experience whether you're an exorcism industry or not When you're going through traumatic events, even one can just bombard you with random thoughts as he as you've mentioned in many of your books You know reflecting on st. Teresa of Avalon st Ignatius leola and you just You can't sift through reality because you're just Buying into the lies that he suggests to you So the go ahead star No, I'm just I'm just really thinking about the devils cannot work through miracles So I keep thinking about I think it's in Haiti That a lot of organizations are going over to and christian organizations and they're seeing a lot of What would be termed miracles healings peoples, you know You know crippled foot that's being healed and Leg that's shorter than the other being extended, you know all these kind of things How how are we to look at those things? Are we are we to assume that through the faith of the people that this is that these are true that they are of god? We know that The enemy can be laced through these things and have effects and maybe through pride or whatever Like what how do we look at those things that are happening? How are we to take them? so with slow, you know analysis um with Something that you know is mentioned in the back of the book with limitations What things that the devils can't do?  This is only something that god can do. So in that case There needs to be some sort of scientific analysis to assure that this is actually beyond a science scientific explanation what this happened You know such as a fractured foot all of a sudden miraculously coming together so Can the devil for instance? Make someone blind Somehow and then if The bad the bad visionary who's who's trying to bring credibility to their visions And in quotes heal them, but it's not truly a healing But all they've done is remove the diabolic influence that caused the blindness Yes, the devil can very much do that and there have been cases None come to mind right now But they were definitely throughout the history of the church Father Garibu Lagrange Antonio and marine attests to that fact But they can't sort of a bone a different example is if a bone is broken That's beyond you know, they cannot put that bone back together But as you noted there'd have to be Some investigation to determine sure but and but even in what you were discussing So what what you would be talking about is then oppression of some sort of Diabolical oppression on someone that has caused the ailment right and through prayer the person is delivered It's it's released and they can see right so that that is of god the illness is of Of some sort of diabolical well, there's two scenarios The one you just described is exactly right if it's like you Praying over someone who's blind, but it was caused by demonic influence That would be of god that they became free But a visionary in quotes who was attempting to manipulate an audience as to their veracity Could be in cooperation with a demon set the person free as well. And that's that's what Father mentioned were has been noted in certain cases. Does that make sense? Sure. Yeah so Let's talk about prophetic predictions Because this this one can be tough to discern because this the extraordinary intellect of a demon or an angel a demon cannot tell the future But they they have greater predictive powers than any human strategist that's ever lived. Is that a Is that a good way to think about it? How does that all work? Yes, because of their angelic intellects, they can perceive certain things that we don't because their intellects Exists their beings that exist outside of space and time that come into time Whereas we as human persons Have our embodied spirits and we exist in time So they can perceive more than we do, but they can't perceive in the same way As god does so they can understand Certain aspects of our past certain present struggles wounds sins addictions in ways That we may be numb to in the moment so then What so what they can do? As an example is They could they can have plans to manipulate a certain situation Now they don't have absolute authority to do whatever they want to do But they can set up scenarios where it appears that the prophetic reality of a vision or a revelation that isn't true Is true because something comes true in the future that they have manipulated, but they have no ability to see into the future Yeah, they have no ability to see into the future nor do they have any ability to see into the secrets of a person's mind and heart Um But they can conjecture much more easily and know our temperament our character As well as certain circumstances from our past and present and they could derive things from that Yeah, I one of the discussions i've had with directees is that you know as as the enemy is watching us Um, he studies us. He knows what our triggers are Body language is I mean body language is like 90 percent of communication I don't know what the scientific thing is but knows what we lean towards what we what draws our attention What we linger too long on, you know, those kind of things and so can work through that in order to manipulate environment or situations or Influence something in order to try to tempt us to sin is that But but he can't read our heart and our mind, but he can read our body language and and just by deduction Look at our actions and say oh Oh, she's leaning towards xyz therefore i'm going to make it happen more often until she falls Right, that's why we can say why is this stinking temptation keep happening to me And it's because there's something that we're Being called to which is to rise above it to a particular virtue, but then we also Have to be very very concerned of oh, yeah, I'm being called to a higher virtue, but I need to be purified of whatever that is in me that's You know allowing this to come up because it's obviously something that's got to be taken away Yes, absolutely, and that's that it's so important that when we are undergoing trial It doesn't matter how many times we fall but that we pick ourselves up through prayer and take advantage of the sacrament of confession When when we do struggle with temptation So this is one show of a series of fascinating shows with father mcdonald on visions and revelations The demonic and what what's real and what's false and it's been inspired by The series has been inspired by a new book Published by sophia's to press called visions and revelations But by father gabriel of st. Maria magdal and a lot of what we're talking about How much of this that we're covering is in the appendix of the book father i forgot Most of this is in the second appendix. Great. So it is a really it's probably I think it's the best resource in print on this topic Would you agree with that I definitely think it is, you know, and um One strength of the book is it really shows How the individual should approach these things as well as the spiritual directors You know when somebody comes to them saying i'm experiencing this in prayer So head out to spiritualdirection.com forward slash shop to pick up the book or eWtens religious catalog or Wherever you buy your books, but do buy it. Do read it. We're grateful. You've been with us And thanks for being with us father mcdonald. We'll continue this series Next time talking about demonic falsifications And if you are on the live stream and you want to pop out to spirit of facebook spiritualdirection.com or Or youtube We'll do one more show on this topic and we'll see you then So until next time may the god of peace make you perfect in holiness May he preserve you whole and entire spirit soul and body Irreproachable at the coming of our lord jesus christ amen


To finish our discussion about inverse functions, let's provide one very basic example of why, an application, why someone would care about inverse functions in the first place. So we're familiar with the concept of temperature. There's two very common ways of measuring temperature. Here in the United States, Fahrenheit is the most common measurement for temperature. And basically everywhere else in the world, Celsius is the most common way of measuring temperature. And Lord Kelvin is just rolling over his grave somewhere because there's another way of doing temperature that we won't mention at this moment whatsoever. But if you were interested in converting, like let's say you went on a trip to England, right? Where they're measuring temperature in Celsius, you might be like, okay, it's 15 degrees outside. Celsius is that hot, is that cold? If you don't know, if you don't know, then you don't know how to dress. So I'd be wearing a jacket, should I be wearing a coat? I don't know. Or if you are visiting the United States and you're from England, right? You might be like, oh, it's 70 degrees outside. Is that hot, is that cold? I don't know. So we have to oftentimes convert between different units. And so you often see equations like this. This equation right here shows us how to convert from Fahrenheit into Celsius here because we can insert the Fahrenheit into the equation and then simplify the expression to get us C, right? That's exactly what we would do. Now, if we wanted to compute a formula that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit, we wanna reverse this process right here, which is exactly what the inverse function's all about. So if you want to have a formula that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit without having to ask Alexa or Siri to help you out here, it just means take this formula and solve for F. So to start off, you'll times both sides by nine-fifths. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. F minus 32 is equal to nine-fifths C. Add 32 to both sides and you get Fahrenheit is equal to nine-fifths C plus 32. And so we can then see right here that from the formula that converts Fahrenheit to Celsius, we can find a formula that converts Celsius to Fahrenheit. And this is exactly the inverse operation. And so if you were to check, oh, it's zero degrees Celsius outside, you plug that into the equation right here and you would see that it's 32 degrees Fahrenheit. That's a simple conversion, but that's one I'll point out there. That's a nice number here because that's the freezing point of water. But I hope this example is enough to illustrate one of the many ways we use inverse functions. This is a very important calculation we've talked about in lecture seven and eight in a series. And this is something we'll have to be doing a lot. Every time we solve an equation, we are essentially computing an inverse function. And once we have the inverse function, we potentially can then expedite solving equations in the future using that inverse relationship. That's gonna end our lecture eight. And so ends chapter one in our series about fundamentals of functions. In the forthcoming chapters, we're gonna be focusing on specific function families. In chapter two, for example, we'll be focusing on linear functions, their graphs, applications and such. Chapter three, we'll move on to quadratic functions. We'll be looking at story problems involving quadratic inequalities, equations, all of that jazz, and we'll keep on going. We'll keep on going like that in the future. So thanks for watching this video here today. If you learned something, hit the like button. If you wanna learn some more about cool math concepts in the future, feel free to subscribe. And if ever you have any questions, please post them in the comments below and I'd be glad to answer them for you. See you next time, everyone. Bye.


Frankie, fish eggs, aka Mr. Salmon Roe is here. There are many names for caviar, from fish eggs to roe. Some of you guys might have gone to a sushi restaurant and seen Ikura, Masago or Tobiko on the menu. But caviar is technically supposed to be from wild Velugusturgeon in the Caspian Sea. Now caviar is used as a general term for any salted fish eggs. What they do is they take the egg sac out of the fish, they separate the eggs from the membrane, they lightly salt them, and then they either put it in jars or cans, freeze it, refrigerate it, whatever. Caviar might just be the healthiest food on the planet. Just like liver, it contains all of the vitamins, minerals, elements and fatty acids our bodies need in their most bioavailable form, the animal form. The nutrients in certain plant foods require conversion in the body, whereas the nutrients from animal foods are directly absorbed. The main discrepancy between liver and fish eggs is that liver has a substantially higher vitamin A retinol content, and fish eggs have much higher omega 3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. The DHA in fish eggs is actually in the phospholipid form, which is said to pass through the brain much easier and be absorbed better, but that's never actually been proven in a study. I found out about fish eggs in Weston Price's book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. It's a book about a dentist who explore native people that were still living off of the land, their natural diets. These people actually used fish eggs as fertility and nutrition for pregnant women, nursing women, children during developmental stages for its incredibly high nutrient content. If indigenous groups did not have access to fish eggs, they would always have another high nutrient food, maybe some type of shellfish, fatty insect or organ meat. In Alaska, when food is plentiful and bears have fattened up, they actually kill the salmon and only eat the brain and the eggs of the salmon. That's because those are the two highest nutrient foods on the animal. If you think about it, a fish egg is basically a tiny fish, so it encapsulates the entire nutrition of the animal.  Regardless of what fish the eggs are from, the nutrient profile is similar. For calorie, that is. Salmon eggs, for instance, are higher in fat. They have a higher fat percentage, so the nutrients might be more concentrated. But calorie for calorie, all fish eggs are equal. Whether it's cod roe, herring roe, sturgeon roe, all fish roe is a super nutrient dense food. It's just the fat to protein ratio varies depending on the species of fish. And we can also assume it matters if the fish is farm raised or wild caught. That will directly affect the nutrients and the omega profile of the fish eggs. You have to be pretty careful with making sure that the fish eggs, the caviar you're buying, is not from farmed low quality fish. That the fish is on some type of natural diet, so the omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is correct. If we take a look at 100 grams of salmon roe, which is 200 calories, the vitamin profile is literally complete. We have a decent amount of vitamin A, all of the B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, and there is definitely vitamin K in salmon roe because vitamin K is contained in all high quality animal foods. The test is expensive to conduct, so sometimes they don't test for it. The vitamin C might actually be misleading because sometimes they add ascorbic acid as a preservative to fish eggs. Now, fish eggs do contain vitamin C, but usually when you salt a food, it loses its vitamin C content. The anti-scorbutic properties of the food are lost, so I have to do some nutrient testing in the future on salmon roe to get more correct data. Maybe we'll do that later this year. The vitamin D and E content are incredibly high for an animal food. These nutrients are usually specific to higher cholesterol animal foods, such as eggs, brains, and of course, fish eggs. Fish eggs are also complete from both a mineral and element perspective as they contain every single one of them in reasonable amounts. It's worth noting they have a significant iodine content as well, so if you're consuming fish eggs on a daily basis, you probably don't need to supplement iodine. Fish eggs even have conjugated linoleic acid, which has been shown to have various health benefits. They contain arachidonic acid as well. A fatty acid specific to animal foods and, just like DHA, our brains require a certain amount of arachidonic acid every day. Of course, fish eggs are incredibly high in EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids. They are unparalleled, possibly with the exception of animal brains. Of course, I wouldn't be Mr. Salmon Roe if I didn't have some for you guys to taste today. Here we have some red caviar, and the beauty of this food is a testament to its nutrient profile. Up close, we see the very pretty red pearls, almost as pretty as me. And when we bring up fish eggs, we have to bring up the conversation of food powderability, how a food tastes in its raw, natural state. And in the case of fish eggs, yeah, they added a little bit of salt to them. But there really isn't a tastier food in nature that hasn't been changed. And if we're going to look at foods in nature and ones that taste the best without cooking them, seasoning them, fermenting them, they are all animal foods. When you ferment an animal food, you can increase the powderability in a natural way. But a lot of the modern things we do, from salting to processing to very specific cooking methods, unless you're just throwing a piece of meat over a fire, you can argue that it's not too natural. This food powderability is important because usually how a food tastes in its natural state is an indicator of its nutrient properties. If you were to take bone marrow, for instance, that had been fermenting in the femur bone of an animal for a couple of weeks because the coyotes couldn't break into it, then it would taste like cheese. And the reason these foods taste good is because every single nutrient in the food reflects in the taste of it. If a food has certain vitamins, minerals, elements, and fatty acids in the food, you can literally taste them in the food.  And when you have all the vitamins in balanced amounts, like we do in fish row, it makes sense that the food tastes amazing. And not only does it taste amazing in its unaltered state, it also satiates you very quickly. If you have a few tablespoons of fish row, you're going to be full. I would love to see someone try to eat like a pound of salmon or at once. You would get a couple bites in and feel full because it's so nutrient dense, it's literally satiating your appetite. Although there is little variance in the nutrient profile, calorie for calorie, the taste of fish eggs varies greatly. That's why some fish eggs are super expensive, like sturgeon caviar and salmon row isn't really too expensive. The fish eggs will literally taste like the fish they are coming from, so salmon row is going to taste like salmon. When tasting fish eggs or caviar, I believe you're supposed to use a plastic or non-metal spoon because it alters the taste. I've never really noticed this, but let's give some of the row a try. There's so much going on here. You have that cholesterol richness that's specific to foods like eggs and brains. You have a slight iodine-y flavor. You have that complex salmon flavor. It's like tasting the ocean in the form of a scrambled egg. That's how I would describe the flavor.  This is like the best food you could feed to a baby or a child. Not only would they love it, it's like super colorful and approachable. The salmon row is tasty. I would give it about an 8 out of 10 from a flavor perspective. But there's a reason sturgeon row is so much more expensive. Here I have some hackleback row. It's a type of sturgeon. The pearls are black. This is what you think of when you see caviar, like the black fish eggs. Yeah, there's a reason. There's a reason caviar is made from sturgeon. The flavor is completely different. It's buttery. It's more complex. It doesn't have as much of an iodine flavor. Of course, you're not supposed to eat caviar with a spoon like this, but I mean, you're on a carnivore or keto diet. This is ensuring you're not getting anything negative. Now, if you've never tried sturgeon row, it can be on the expensive side, but on Frankie's free range meat, our goal is to make everything affordable. So we are taking a profit loss and providing it to everyone so they can experience it. This is something that maybe I would have once or twice a month on a special occasion.  So if you guys haven't tried sturgeon row specifically, I encourage you just for the experience. I'm honestly one of those people who don't really care about the experience with certain things, but when I ate sturgeon row for the first time, I was like, you know, it truly is amazing. So if you guys would like to check out Frankie's free range meat dot com, we are offering salmon row in that portion as well as the sturgeon row in the same portion. This is half a kilo of salmon row.  And the sturgeon row is going to come like this. It is in a one ounce container. So thank you guys for joining me today. If you have any more questions about fish row, fish eggs caviar, feel free to let me know down in the comments below. If you guys could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon and share it if you can. 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Good morning and welcome to the weekly market update with me, David Madden. Today's date is Tuesday, the 9th of March, 2021, and the time has just gone at 9.34 GMT. And it's been a fairly positive start to the European trading session. The major indices are a little higher. The building on yesterday's gains were very impressive. Rallies were achieved. What was driving that? Well, yesterday, in the last couple of days, it was confirmed that the U.S. Senate supported the $1.9 trillion stimulus package to help move the U.S. economy along. So including in that would be stimulus checks worth $1,400. So that was really kind of jolted U.S. Well, global sentiment higher than we saw, particularly high sentiment in Europe yesterday. But we did see a bit of a negative impact because of the optimism surrounding the stimulus checks. We did see that the U.S. 10-year government bond yield, the 10-year yield, moved north of 1.6%. That caused a few ripples in the market because traders have been getting a bit nervous recently about that because higher bond yields often points to both higher growth but also higher inflation. And inflation worries can worry some equity markets, equity traders, because the view can be higher inflation might justify or warrant higher interest rates. Something the Fed and Reserve don't want to be even thinking about right now. But there was a bit of a move to the downside. A slight retreat in U.S. government bond yields. In the last few days and weeks, we've heard from various central bankers. You know, Jerome Paul, the head of the Fed and Reserve, Janet Yellen, the former head of the Fed and Reserve and the current U.S. Treasury Secretary. They've expressed, they've suggested that they're not overly concerned about inflation. And with that, that's kind of tempered fears and expectations in around what's going on with the 10-year yield and when at some point the Fed and Reserve look to tighten monetary policy. Also playing in the mix has been a fairly sharp sell-off in tech stocks. And as the futures are putting higher today, the tech stocks as a whole have been underperforming recently. Probably because tech stocks, people have been questioning their exceptionally high valuations. But also, given the recovery story, in relation to vaccines being rolled out and the prospect of economies reopening again, more traditional stocks, airlines, travel, transport, retail, hospitality, they're all doing that as well, let alone the kind of main industries, traditional industries, commodity stocks and banking stocks. So we have been seeing a rotation out of tech stocks and back into traditional players. With my video, I've run through the major events and corporate and economic events of the week, and then a look at the major markets. So we get articles that can be found on our website under cmcmarkets.com, under insights, under latest news and analysis. So today, we have put your figures out from ITV, both revenues and profits dipped, and the share price sold off on the back of that. AMC Entertainment, they've been in the news recently, and given a similar vein to the GameStop mania, but they're a cinema chain over in the US. The prospect of economies reopening again greatly benefits a company like theirs. On Wednesday, we have a meeting from Bank of Canada. We're not going to be expecting any major changes to monetary policy from Bank of Canada anytime soon. On both the dating app, they have four core numbers coming out on Wednesday. One of the bigger events on Wednesday is going to be USCPI. At the start of the video, I talked about how the fears of rising inflation is pushing far new years higher, which in some instances is putting pressure on stocks. So a jolt higher inflation on Wednesday could be a catalyst which puts pressure on stocks. Conversely, if inflation is fairly muted, it doesn't really change a whole lot. That might be the sign that there's nothing to get overly worried about inflation. Church of the Capital has four key numbers coming out on Thursday. We also have the ECB meeting similar vein with the Bank of Canada. No greatest change is expected on that front. If anything, the European Central Bank, I suspect, would like a weaker euro, but how they have to get that, it's going to be a different story. Morrison, the UK supermarket chain, has full year numbers coming out on Thursday. We also have full year figures out from Rolls Royce. We've also had a very tough time in the past 12 months because of the pandemic. Their aviation business has been under tremendous pressure because of what's going on with their travel. Then on Friday morning, we will have GDP numbers coming out of the UK. This is going to be closely watched in light of the fact that the UK economy grew by 1% in the fourth quarter of 2020. In the last quarter, how things are going to be shaping up with respect to growth and output given the post-Christmas slump that is off from there, given the lockdown situation and overall general lower activity mood that often prevails in January. At the same time, we also have manufacturing production numbers coming out from the UK too. Starting off with the 4200. A multi-month high was achieved back in early January. The market had a sell-off. It has been pushing higher ever since. It's been broad, it's been moving higher the last few sessions. We're back above, cut to be above this blue line here. We've faithfully moved the average in a 6,638. While we hold above that metric, it's likely that the wider upward trend is going to continue. Should that be the case, we could be looking at retesting the mid-February highs and then beyond that, we could be looking at targeting the multi-month highs. They're going to almost a year high. That was set back in January. Any moves to the downside could find support. In the yellow line here, the water is moving average. That comes to play at 6,432. If you go below that, keep an eye out for this area here. It loads in late November in around 6,248. Notice how that coincides with this red line, 200-day moving average. Seeing those two price points overlap, that's most likely to make that particular price point more significant. Obviously, there are no guarantees. Turning our attention to the tax, the tax has been very strong. The record highs racked up. You can see here very much in a strong position. The gains today have been particularly huge, but nonetheless, moving higher on the same. It remains in a strong upward trend. We're currently trading around 14,430. We're moving on higher from here. We could be looking at targeting 40,500, 600, so on and so forth. That's really up until the next big number to watch out for on the tax will be 15,000. Any moves to the downside could find support in this blue line here. The 50-day moving average in a 13,915. The entire zone between 14,000 and 13,915 is likely to have active support. Notice how on a few occasions there are about the 50-day moving average active support. The metric has been of importance in the past. It makes it more likely to be of importance in the future, but once again, there's no guarantees. Looking at what's going on over in the U.S., taking a look at the S&P 500. An all-time high was set in the middle of February. We have had a fairly decent correction or moved to the downside pullback in recent weeks. This is partly because of the move higher in the U.S. government bond deals have spooked traders to a certain extent, also playing into the mix, because the aggressive sell-off in tech stocks and the tech weight on the S&P 500 is relatively large. Therefore, we've had a decent enough pullback in the S&P 500. Despite the fact that we've seen a few choppy sessions recently, and despite the fact that we've actually moved a bit lower yesterday in the S&P 500, the market is still above its 50-day moving average, while it continues to hold above that metric in around 3,834, I believe. While it continues to hold above that metric, it's like the broader upward trend is going to continue. Should that be the case, we could then be targeting the late January highs, and then beyond that, we could then be looking up towards the all-time high that was set in the middle of February. Sorry, as I said January, I apologize. The late February highs, then looking towards the all-time high that was set in mid-February, and beyond that, we could be looking up towards the 4,000. Should we move lower from here if the market turns over on itself yet again? Keep an eye out for the recent lows, the lows in around last week at 3,723, and below underneath that, we could then be looking back towards the lows of early February in around 3,664. Take a look now, what's going on over on the currency markets turning up a euro-dollar. As we can see here, after achieving a multi-year high in January, we've had a pullback in the downside in euro-dollar, so we've had the lower low, the lower high, the lower low. Granted, when the market did push higher in late February, the highs of February did manage to take out the highs in January, but the highs of late January, but have moved the recipe lower yet again. In fact, even today, we've printed a new multi-month low back to low levels last seen in November, but we can see here that it's holding above, it didn't quite get as far as this red line, the turn-de-moving average. If you take a look at the price action, despite the fact that it has moved lower, it has aggressively turned around, so this could be beginning, this trading day obviously hasn't ended yet, but if we could be in for a potential bullish engulfing, what that would look like would look similar to this candle over here. Notice how the body of this candle here, this positive candle here, completely engulfs the red rectangle here, which is the body of the previous day's candle. I'm talking about the 4th and the 5th of February. If we see something similar to that, depending how we finish up today, if we finish up near the high of the session and the candle closes well above yesterday's high above the body, it could be a sign that we're in for a move to the upside, and that wouldn't be a surprise, given that we have been moving aggressively lower recently. Should that be the case, we could look the head back up towards 120, or this yellow line here was really moving average in a one-spot 2033. On the flip side, if it didn't manage to turn over on itself and we take off today's low, we could be hanging back down towards one-spot 18, a level last seen in late November. Speaking of the currency theme, looking over now, it's coming up the pound versus the US dollar. The pound hit its highest level, going on in about two and a half, nearly three years against the US dollar in late January. Since then, it's been a bit of a pullback, but notice how even though it did move to the downside, it didn't even get as far back as this blue line here, the fifth of the moving average. While we hold above that metric in a one-spot 3765, it's likely that the broader upward trend is going to continue. Should that be the case, we could look ahead and back up towards one-spot 40, and then beyond that, if you're looking at retesting the multi-year high in a one-spot 4241, any moves to the downside could find support from the fifth of the moving average, the blue line there, and then if you go beyond that, you'll find support from the one-hundred moving average, well, just north of one-spot 35. Looking at what's going on with the gold market. So we talked about how, talk about currencies there. If you are going to be trading gold, it's worth you while keeping in mind what's going on with the US dollar. Gold's trading US dollar, so a firm of dollar tends to hurt gold, which is something that we've probably seen here recently. Notice how we've talked about how we've had sell-offs of zero dollar and sell-offs in pound dollar. The stronger dollar is a common theme there, and what you know, we're seeing a move to the downside in gold. But, so if you do continue to kind of push on lower from here, if you go back below seventeen-hundred, you could be heading back towards the lows of late May, back towards sixteen-seventy, and then if you have a thirty-size of break below that, it could take us back down towards this yellow line here, the one-hundred moving average. We've actually had support back in November 2019, and the one-hundred moving average comes into play at sixteen-forty-eight. But what we are seeing here is we've had a clear, you know, near-turned negative trend, but we are seeing a relatively long wick on this candle. So this kind of potential has the potential to be a doji, so which should that be the case that often denotes indecision? Not to say that the market's going to turn around again, but it could mean that there is indecision potentially on the horizon. And if that is the case, that could lead to a bit of a reversal. And if you do turn lower, turn higher from here, it could be like me heading back and forth, eighteen-hundred. But we really need to get above the blue line here, the fifty-moving average in eighteen-twenty-seven. Notice I've acted a few occasions as a support. We need to kind of retake that in order to be more confident of the upward trend continuing. That should that be the case. We could then be looking at it towards nineteen-hundred and then up towards the highs of early January. And lastly, I take a look at what's going on with Brent crude oil. Brent crude oil, cash contract, yesterday traded north of $70 a barrel. It has retreated ever so slightly since. It's in a strong upward trend. I'll just assume out here, it's in a strong upward trend. If the broader bullish trend continues, we could then be looking at targeting seventy-five spot seventeen, a level last seen in April of twenty-nineteen. If we do move to the downside on Brent crude rather, we could look to head back down towards the lows of early March, in around sixty-three spot eleven. And if you go below that, we can head back down towards this blue line here, the fifty-day moving average in cash. We'll just sell the sixty dollars a barrel, fifty-nine spot forty-nine. So that in the horizontal between sixty bucks and fifty-nine spot forty-nine could act as support. That's all from this video. Thank you for listening. Have a good training week. Have a good training day. Have a good training week.


the new Samsung Galaxy S8 is out but let me tell you why I won't be getting this phone. All right, so yesterday Samsung announced the new Galaxy 8 phone, S8 phone and it looks pretty awesome at first glance and I wanted to just take a quick second to talk about why I won't be getting this new Galaxy S phone. Now before you get up in arms I know that this isn't a tech channel per se but as a photographer we use a lot of tech things in particular we use our phones quite a bit especially when we don't have a small camera or DSLR with us we usually reach for our phone and that's not just for photographers per se that's just life these days in this new era. So I wanted to talk about why I won't be getting this new Galaxy S8 phone. First I want to go back a little bit about six years ago you may or may not remember that Samsung and Apple had this huge fallen out this big lawsuit that came up saying that Samsung had patent infringements against Apple and Samsung was supposed to pay Apple $400 million which the Supreme Court overruled and this is still apparently an ongoing battle but ever since then I had bought in my first iPhone now there was a couple reasons for it one the whole patent thing was kind of weird and two I had just gotten into the Apple ecosystem I had just bought my first MacBook Pro I was going to school for design and using Mac products so it just seemed like the smart thing to do was to buy an iPhone so ever since then I've been in the iPhone ecosystem then Samsung came out with the Galaxy S6 the S7 edge which was a phenomenal phone and then now the Galaxy S8 which looks very similar to the 7 edge in my opinion and it's getting some really great reviews another thing was that the Galaxy phones as we know were exploding Samsung is recalling millions of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after reports of the electronics catching on fire while charging and so that was another reason why I wasn't really sure but Samsung has ensured us that these new phones the Galaxy S8s won't be blown up anytime soon we must be building up to step into the unknown and humbling to learn from our mistakes we'll see but with that said there are a lot of things to love about the Galaxy S8 as well as some of the new iPhones in my particular instance I'm going to need to pick up a new phone soon because I smashed to pieces my iPhone 6 and so when I started looking at some comparisons whether I was going to buy you know another iPhone 6 maybe the iPhone the i7 or wait for this new S8 to come out and I started weighing all the pros and cons it started to become more obvious to me and so I wanted to share with you a few of the things that brought me to my result first of all the display right we take pictures we look at the display and the display is kind of showing us what's going on and that S8 display is nothing short of excellent it seems like with a 5.8 inch display on the S8 as well as a 6.2 inch display on the 8 plus there's a lot of real estate there and with these new edge to edge images or that beveled lack there of soft edges they're calling it the infinity display you get these beautiful looking images but that wasn't enough to sway me we also have gorilla glass on there which is pretty exciting because it never fails that these iPhone glasses seem to break but that wasn't enough then I started to look at the camera and it looks like while iPhone has made great strides in a lot of their cameras and each phone seems to get a little bit better it still doesn't seem to compare to what the new Galaxy camera phone is doing but there were some things about the phone that made me want to think twice first of all I'm not ready to make the change to USB-C yet and the Galaxy S8 is on USB-C now so is the iPhone 7 but all of my products including my 2015 MacBook are still using a regular USB not USB-C so I'm not ready to start investing in that kind of stuff yet another big big thing for me and the main reason why I find myself not being able to make this switch is the fact that the ecosystem has forced me to kind of stay where I'm at what I mean by that is all of these apps that have been invested in and purchased whether it's for productivity whether it's for photography whether it's just for whatever it is all of these apps and music and such that I've had to pay for over the years I don't want to have to now go to a new system and have to rebuy all of these apps for so that right there is probably one of the biggest reasons that I can't make the switch tack on maybe you know the USB-C thing another thing that I did like was Samsung kept the the headphone jack as we know iPhone 7 they've gotten rid of that so it's close it's a close close thing but not enough to push me over the edge so I'm curious though I wanted to have this dialogue with you nerds out there to find out what if you're in the same boat that I am whether you are kind of getting stale maybe it's time for a new upgrade on your phone and you've been thinking about making the switch to something like a google phone or Samsung but you just haven't been able to pull the trigger maybe because you're locked into your ecosystem as well I'd be curious to hear what you guys have in the to say about it in the comments down below and if you guys have any suggestions as to ways that we can maybe navigate this stuff I would love to hear those options there so drop us a comment down below thanks to my favorite youtubers out there I'll leave links to all of the videos down below so you can check out their channels and see what they have to say about the new galaxy s8 thank you so much for watching we'll catch you in the next episode my name is Adam I'm out


Thank you so much for joining us live and those of you that might be joining us on one of our various channels in the archived episodes. We like to start every episode of course saying thank you to our presenting sponsors. You can see their logos right in front of you on the screen today. And again, these organizations companies they're here to support you and your mission driven goals. So no matter where you are in the nation. All of these sponsors are here supporting you so please do give them a like or some follow Julia Patrick started this amazing concept called the nonprofit show about a year ago. And Julia is the CEO and the American of the American nonprofit Academy. She's unable to join us today so I've got the reins and as I like to say when the cats away the mice or should I say turkeys will play. I'm Margaret Ransom CEO of the Raven Group, also known as the nonprofit nerd. But today I am thrilled to enjoy to guest we typically have one joining us, but today we have to because two heads are better than one. But we have Kelly Balfas or as well as Heidi Fulcher, both joining us from pet smart charities. Welcome. Oh, thanks for having us. Yeah, I didn't I come as a complete set. A lot of the time we do yes, you can have one without the other. Well, today's conversation and and really I'm just going to share extremely transparently Kelly was on Kelly you were on earlier probably last year maybe and I was like, I would love to have your voice back on. This is important and you said, you know, we would really like to talk to nonprofit leaders about the funders perspective. So today's episode is really about the funders perspective. So I'm looking forward to learning and hearing from the inside. What both you and Heidi have to share. We're really truly honored to be able to talk to you about this. I think a lot of people think there's mystery on the other side. In terms of how do you make, you know, how do you determine who you're going to war to what grants are you going to give what are some of the ins and outs so love to be able to provide that opportunity to talk. Great. Yeah, that's wonderful. And so, you know, as we get started, I know one of our questions is, tell us more about pet smart charities and how you're showing up in the funding space, and I think you had shared with me before we went live or as we say open the digital doors just wrapped up a grant process is that right. I did yeah so Heidi and I are are two sides of the funding coin at smart charity so my programs work with owned pets pets that are currently in homes, and then Heidi works with organizations with adoptable pets so I just completed a grant category. It actually closed on Tuesday. It's for preserving families so it's working for those organizations that are helping keep pets with the people that are in crisis. So it's not the crisis of the pets it's the crisis of the human so usually crisis populations like people with housing insecurity or homelessness or those experiencing domestic violence might be hospitalized or going through treatment. So a lot of those grants what can we do from a pet intervention point of view to allow you to access the human services you need, but still keep your pet. It's so important. Thank you for that because I also, we had, I don't know if this is competition but I'd like to mention red rover on as well. Oh, we love red rover. They talked a lot about how you know individuals experiencing domestic violence typically don't leave their situation because of their pet, and so to have these resources is really important to our communities. We actually work with red rover very, very closely, because a lot of red rovers domestic violence grants will actually support the building of the facilities, and then we support the capacity building are operating to continue running those facilities so love the red rover folks. You do national work so pet smart charities is national. And so that's something that I think red rover does as well but really to have that engagement and again all corners of our nation so that's wonderful. Heidi's got her adoptable pet side Heidi you just finished, or you're just starting, we're just starting with the transport grant so with the transport we're really looking at moving animals from overpopulated areas which are typically the south. Two areas of high demand where they don't have enough adoptable animals, mostly dogs but we're seeing a lot of cats. And so that's where we just opened this grant process. So that's where I'm sitting right now in the grant world is transferred so. Well, thank you and Heidi let's let's go there like what makes a good relationship with funders, because I remember and again Heidi and I go way back not to date us but we were probably shopping at 421 together. I remember our eye really was really funders perspective, I was intended to contact foundations, I didn't know where to start and even that funders ships. So can you talk about that Heidi in particular to know your opinions and experience with pet smart chair. You know funders for us, you know, just getting to know us is really key just being having those building relationships that's what we do. You know Kelly and I travel before COVID a lot. We go to conferences and I can't tell you how many people are like well I was at that conference and I didn't come up and it's like that's why we're there. So we have a lot of cases are on our website or emails are on our website and you know we as funders. You look at the people who you're funding because you know you can write really great grants, and you can write really bad grants. But it really is your funding and a lot of confidence of the leader and the leadership of the people to execute the grant so building those relationships and being, you know, keeping communications, going and flowing huge. And that's probably a really big key for us on building relationships and growing programs is the is the people because it's all about people. Yeah, yeah, I find it depends on the funder to because not all thunder are as open as we are to form those relationships. But if if an email is up there, use it. If they didn't want you to contact them they wouldn't put the email out. They wouldn't get in you couldn't find it. Yes, yeah, so it's one of those things so if we're open and out there and I tell people contact me on LinkedIn connect with me on LinkedIn. It's interesting to because as open as we are. I have standard office hours every week where anyone on Thursday today being Thursday, could call me and ask me grant questions, I give you my number and say call and talk to me. And they're oftentimes where I'm sitting on my hands on Thursdays, and you should take advantage of that funder, you know, if that opportunity with funders if they provide it do it. As I was saying, you know I just closed a grant program and those are it was an LOI process. So those that I'm moving forward to a full application. I am offering them the opportunity to schedule a 30 minute meeting with me before they submit their application. And I know, and I'm like, I don't think you understand, I'm really urging you to do that. You know, I can help craft your application for you. Because I am not the final decision maker I'm one of the final decision makers and this often happens in organizations where I'm going to have to advocate for those that I want to fund so I want the best applications moving forward. So utilize me if I make myself available. And a lot of folks are like great I'll call you if I have any questions anyway. Yes, I love that and I just want you both to know that you have a fan watching us so Charleston Animal Society is joining us today. Yes, and they say thank you so much for the impact in South Carolina, which is actually my home state. Well, and yes so so thank you for that it shows really the the span of your I don't know if that's the right word but really of your impact and the relationships you're making. What about do you pet smart charities and maybe funders right in general do you think we're seeing a trending of you know, do we stick to proven methods that are tried and true we've done them. You are open to new ideas. What do funders like. Well, we like both charities we like I love new ideas. I'm always known for like I'll take on a pilot project all day long. And because you don't know what you don't know and what the good thing about pilot programs is that it's okay if they fail right we know that that could be a potential, but then you can tweak it and work it so I love new ideas. So they're always the standard true proven data supported those kind of things, but for charities, we like both. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think it again goes back to if you got to you got to do the research on the funder to see if that's something they're interested in. We have, you know, we have portfolios where we look at a portfolio and there's a risk assessment in there, and we have a certain percentage of grants that we might look at more risky. And these are the ones that I'm okay with and maybe it's 10 or 15% of that portfolio. It kind of varies depending on the program where we say this is a new program. This is a risk this has a higher risk but I'm willing to take this risk because of what that information will tell me. But I always tell my partners, I can't fund ideas, although they're great ideas, I want the idea to be a full plan. So you got to understand what you're doing and the usual they the I have no problem with estimates of things, as long as it's good estimates not an, I think we'll serve this many, or I'm guessing no guessing do do the background and to figure out kind of what it really is get your parameters in place get your policies in place get your collaborations in place. It's not a, if you find me, I will build it and go talk to people then to talk to people first put the plan together first. And I will invest in higher levels if you've got a better plan, because we do want it to succeed. And so we want to make sure you have enough funding to have that capacity to succeed. And there were a lot of programs that we funded in 2019 that were pilot programs that 2020 got derailed. Yes, totally and completely understand provide extension see what happens next year, learn from it. That's why the relationship building as you said, take advantage of these conversations. I actually started my business in 2009 and after you know Kelly it wasn't long after we met after that economic crisis. I started as a grant writer and I remember calling a funder, making up a question so that I could utilize that access. And the funder was like, you know what, we're not funding this right now, really focusing on priority. So I think what you know all of what you're saying and so it's just really important, I keep going back to that relationship, you know, but it's really important because if you're if it is a new idea, and you've talked to the funder. They in particular Kelly and Heidi in this case can really help you navigate. Is this a risk that pet smart charities would be willing to make it this time. Yeah, we also look, you know, I did a pilot project for adoptions up in a focused area to increase in stores and you know we actually had the idea and we searched out our partners, but we also searched out the partners that we had built good relationships with. We knew could do it, and brought them all together to say what do you guys think and so that's the other piece of it that you know we're fortunate to be able to do that as well, is to kind of think about what we call the litter box right. Think outside the box. Right now you say that in normal conversation people are like, yeah, so we can say a lot of things in animal welfare that usually might not fly on the other side. But that's the beauty of kind of where charities is is that we can come up with this idea to, and then, and then go look for these groups that we know can help us and are they interested in doing it so it's kind of a fun relationship but you know relationship building is key to at least with us for grant making. Absolutely. Jared you bought up a good point like you said when you call up a thunder you made up a question to be able to ask. That's key. That's key, like, engage us you have to have like, oftentimes hiding I'll get emails or calls that are like, Okay, here's what we do how can you support us. I can't do that. I can't do the other side. So come to us with like, here's what we're thinking here's where I think it'll fit with your program. Am I reading this correctly. So do your research before you come in of some really good ideas are you know do a Google search on both the organization as well as the funder you're actually reaching out to to see what they may have funded in the past. And if you can do a correlation of oh I see that you funded you know remote area medical. We do something like that here in this community. It's slightly different in this way would this be within the scope. It's really good to make those connections for us, because it's hard for me to take a blind call that says how can you fund me, because I don't know you. Give me the options of what opportunity tell me that you did the work first before you before you reached out.  You know if you're applying for a grant that you don't fit into. That's not only a waste of your time it's a waste of everybody else's time so we're really talking about make sure you fit that and do your homework and you know one of the things that we like to say is don't make me work harder to give you money because you're willing to work. So, yeah, kind of like don't make me work so hard. This is really the best practices and I just quickly pulled up that slide so just to reference that again, you know best practices of communication with the funders. Both have said so much, you know, I call them amazing nuggets of information. But I really what are some other best practices because again I remember sitting in the chair as the grant writer or the development, you know person and thinking I like I don't know how to. I don't know how to like even break the ice with the funder but I will tell you and all of you watching Kelly and Heidi are not scary people. They are really fun people. I would want to talk to you now that I know that you have office hours Kelly. How anytime people don't call me I have a lot of time. So what are some other best practices when it comes to communication with funders. I'm going to start at the last minute. Yeah, start the relationship before the grant opens. Yes, like, once the grant opens you're you're on a timeline you're right there. So utilize those conversations utilize the conferences even virtual I have been in virtual booths where no one have come to me this year and those virtual conventions. And they're very inexpensive because they're virtual $60 and you have the ability to have a conversation with a funder. Look into stuff like that and that's just not us I know there are other funders out there that are experiencing the same thing. Start those conversations before the grant opens and then feel free to ask for those conversations when the grant is open look at the questions say here's what I'm here's what I'm asking is this fitting I'm not going to be able to review the entire grant before you submit. But I can I can do the nuggets. Heidi the other one that we talked about previously was having someone else review your grant. Yeah, that's that's big so you know, when I was in graduate school, my sister reviewed all of my papers because you know she was, and it's a huge job to get me wrong but she's stay at home mom and but if it didn't make sense to her. It probably wasn't going to make sense to everybody else because in my head I know what I'm reading and you when you write something you read it over and over and over and you skip things. So, I have a big yeah, I have a big issue with from and form, because spell check doesn't check it. It doesn't find it. And so, every time I hit stand and I'm like, dang, there's that burden wrong again. So it's that piece of have somebody else read it you know somebody else is that I'm not a grammar specialist but I have a co worker that is spot on on grammar down to the comma. Good.  Yeah, that's big. Your sister's going to get a lot of calls. Well, and what did you do. I think the other communication, especially having someone else review it because if someone who has no contact to the organization or what you're asking for doesn't understand. I'm probably not going to either. So from a best practice point of view, oftentimes, the grant writers will ask for feedback. And there's been a couple times like a couple years where I've just stopped giving it because I'm like, I can't it's really hard for me to go back to the 200 applications that I've declined to provide individual feedback on all of those. But if someone calls me during my office hours, I will explain, but take it with the constructive criticism that we're providing because oftentimes a response to that is well that's not what I meant. Okay, this is how it read. So this is what I'm telling you and I can't go back after I've already declined it and say oh well they meant this instead. So, again having someone else review to make sure they understand it and utilizing any of those conversations and relationship building to make sure you're truly getting it across is really really helpful to everybody. I don't like declining grants, I would love to fund everybody and quite frankly everyone continue to give those dollars at the register so that I can give way more money. Shameless talk, good job. Former fundraiser. So, you know, we want our organizations to succeed. We want to fulfill our missions, we just have to do it within our construct. It's not our money. So we got to do it within the contracts of what the what availability it is. No, I was gonna say that's all great points. Go ahead Heidi give it give us more we're listening. Well, Kelly and I did a presentation for Great Lakes Conference, a month or so ago and really about kind of grant making one on one.  It's not going to matter. So it really is about making us see your issue how are you going to solve it if you have data back that data up because we're going to go look. We go back. Yes, you have to do diligence on the other side for sure. It's really helpful. Well, let's move into, you know, I want to talk about and I know here's the two of you and everyone's going to ask how do I get on their, their schedules or what are your office times.  I don't. And I should. I know Kelly Kelly's always steps up to always makes me step up so it's perfect. You know I'm really good at responding on email and I'm also good at saying let's schedule time, because I know sometimes office hours don't fit other people's schedules. And so I'm, I'm kind of that the people want to communicate via email that's great. If they want to schedule time. That's perfect to I love the whole video thing anymore we can't travel and which is really hard on us because we've probably traveled 50% of the time, because we got to see our partners and we got to see shelters and we got to be boots on the ground and so when you're talking about funding and organization we could see we've been there right the physical thing. So I probably should. But at this point that made email I'm happy to schedule time. So I'm going to start with a question. I always like to call these like the million dollar question. I hear so often in our sector that funders talk to other funders. Yeah. Tell me about that. Yeah. Like, well, share more insight about that.  There's a PECO apparently from a funders point of view, we only compete in wanting to do better grants, really truly that's it. But we also talked to them about kind of where they're funding where they're going what they're doing. I was on a conversation yesterday with best friends. I read Rover and I collaborate if I get a grant that I don't think I can fund that might work within their programs I will actually say have you heard of these guys. We talk to each other a lot. And in some cases, we work very collaboratively together as a matter of fact about three years ago. All of the animal welfare organizations that fund in disaster relief came together to create the national animal disaster collaborate funding collaborative. Because during types of disasters, all of us have these funding opportunities. And it's difficult for funders who are in the middle of a disaster to go online and submit 10 different grants. So we created a common application that is launched during times of large scale natural disasters, where the organizations can submit one grant, all 10 of us look at it. We then get in a room and say what can you do what can you what can you do. Wow, that way we're right sizing the funding because often cases that single, you know grant application was $10,000 to each of us, and they only needed $10,000. But maybe all of us funded and they got 40 so then we're over investing and therefore utilizing some of our budget that didn't need to be used. So we do work collaboratively together, not just informally for these conversations but formally as well. And so when we tell nonprofits, you know, our grantees you all need to collaborate together. We're walking the walk to we want you to be efficient, just the same way we want to be efficient with our funding. Tell me when you put this into place was this due to the pandemic or was this done before that. Oh, this was we launched this before Harvey. Yeah, before Harvey it, and it was actually a brainchild that had been around for a while. And it was just a matter of getting everyone on board and finding organizations that could kind of manage it. So the first actual disaster that that we launched this common application for was Harvey. Soon they're followed by Irma and Maria. Right. So it was the perfect time to do this. The perfect storm. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Well, Heidi, tell us more about, you know, funders talking to other funders, but then also what about. And what I say, is there, is there ever a time where you're like, you know what, this is an organization that it just went awry. We took the risk, because you guys shared about the, the risk assessment. Does that happen as well where there's, you know, it's not anyone can support this but let me tell you this is what happened when we did take the risk.  I mean, if you can get from funding from pet smart charities, get some funding from Petco get some funding from Maddie spend. I mean, the bet the better just we don't like to duplicate efforts right. And so when we're looking at just like this transport grant, we're speaking with other large organizations that move animals as well because the last thing we want to do is move a bunch of animals into Toledo, and there's deserts up in Minnesota at Wisconsin and so it really is is like who's moving where it's a kind of a bit of a puzzle. But those are those are the good things that so we don't double fund, we try and make sure that we've got good coverage nationally. And so that requires really some partnerships and just collaboration with the larger organizations that do the same work. As far as things that have failed. We've had some large organizations that have had challenges and, and I'm not going to air dirty laundry to put it nicely. And there's, you know, there's usually a reason if we won't find again. And, and that's kind of the unspoken. Okay, something happened. They're not funding again. Right. Now, again, and none of these questions are scripted. So these are completely off the cuff, but I really like to ask, you know, questions that maybe other people are thinking. And I've been in the sector 20 years and I've are 20 plus and I really have seen a lot of experiences. What if a funder maybe you can talk on your behalf of course you know for pet smart charities said we're not going to fund this organization again. What if there's a leadership change or what if there's a really big change in how they do business. How would we talk to a funder and rebuild a relationship that went awry. I think it depends on why it went awry. And this has happened, you know, if it's a financial issue on why it's been when awry that there was either mish management, or just non reporting. It will have to take a lot of, it's not just a management change because that may be not necessarily a management issue, more of a cultural practice of the organization. Right. So it'll usually have to be something that if we do start those relationships is starting smaller, or that's where we're going to bring into the organizations, the other funders in the area that may be funding that organization how have you worked with them recently what have you seen, we're going to probably check references. That makes sense. Yeah. And maybe not references that they've given you right you're doing right. This is the behind the scenes work we're going to we're going to check your work. Oh my gosh, well this has been amazing I know that I want to share your contact information again because Kelly I don't think you're going to have office hours that you don't receive a phone call and Heidi your email is going to blow up I'm sure as well as your sisters. I don't, there's no connection with your sister's contact. She'll get anything but this has really been I opening for me, you know again I started my business doing grant writing I've been in a sector 20 plus years. There, I still heard new things from both of you and this is really interesting and it keeps me doing what I love to do and we have also received many like kudos and thank you. So, your Johnny Jenkins. Say hi someone saying Johnny. They work with Johnny. Johnny is awesome. East Coast Heidi. Oh, perfect. I like that. Julie Coleman is Kelly's number one fan. And my former boss. Oh, I love that. She still likes Kelly that's awesome. I love it. I'm lovely. Some really great, great accolades and just comments for the both of you so thank you for joining us and I'm sorry to say our time is wrapping up but maybe we'll have you back on again. Julia Patrick typically joins us today she wasn't able to but she's CEO of the American nonprofit Academy. She's also known as the nonprofit nerd CEO of the Raven group. And of course thank you thank you thank you thank you to all of our presenting sponsors. They are the ones that really keep us able to have these expert level fun, very refreshing conversations with people like Kelly and Heidi so thank you for supporting us and the sector at large. What a packed fun show, wonderful for a Friday Eve tomorrow is Friday. I know Friday. Every Friday we do an ask and answer episode so if you have a question that you want to ask us and in fact I did see a question come in for the two of you. Well, so maybe you can answer that for us and we can share it on a future ask and answered so thank you both for joining us. It's been such a pleasure and thanks for all of you watching us live or recording of this. We will see you tomorrow but until then, please stay well, see you can do well. Thank you both so much I am extremely appreciative. Thanks for having us. Yeah.