Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make a little folio case or a little storage pocket. Basically I've always got little bits of paper lying around which is something that I've maybe got to do the next day or and I know I could probably just jot it down into a diary or something but it might be something I've seen or something someone's asked me to do and I'll just quickly put it on a post-it and I end up just having loads of post-it notes and bits of paper so I have got this that I've made and it is literally just a little kind of yeah just an envelope I guess just to pop bits and pieces in and then I can just slot that on my desk and it just looks much nicer than paper lying around and post-it notes stuck up on things so I'm using my laminator today I've used these papers from Beyond the Shore by First Edition and then this lovely sentiment which was from one of the Creative Stamping magazine sets a few months back might have even been last year actually towards the end of last year always be yourself unless you can be a mermaid then always be a mermaid so yeah perfect so that's my one there it's really really simple but it also does look like a card so if you wanted to do laminated cards then this would work for that as well so that's what we're going to do today so very easy a little bit of a stationary kind of project today so I've got this one here and I'm going to be making this one for my mum and this was just brilliant and this is one of the Fiskars stamp sets and I'll share all the links in my blog but whenever I go to my mum's craft room she is very tidy but not so organized not like me and I will say to her what's this what's out and she'll say oh it's just some stuff oh that's just stuff so when I saw this I thought this is perfect so mum this is for your stuff so you are going to need two pieces of five and a half by eight and then two pieces of three by eight and then just a sentiment or something to put on top now if you want you can have your sentiment under the plastic as well but it needs to be something very flat you might want to stamp directly onto this paper or heat emboss onto it first or maybe just have one of these and like you can see that I've got that mounted on foam you may not what you you know but you can't put it on the phone because it won't go through your laminator so just things to think about when you're putting it together so then you need one of your laminating pouches and obviously your machine and what you want to do first of all is set this all up so it's a very quick you can these are great for craft fairs as well so that because they're very quick to kind of churn out so what you need to do first of all is flip over so this is going to be my front with the captuses on and this is from the Simply Creative um so either razzle dazzle or stag um uh Tropicana set but again I'll share the links to those so you want to put it in there and right up to the edge of your pocket your laminating pouch sleeve pocket whatever they're called make sure you get no hair I've got a stray hair here let's get rid of that you don't want anything else in here that shouldn't be then this one here you're going to sit next to it leaving about a quarter of an inch gap because that's going to create your little spine like so and these pieces I've got them on the other other way around so I've got the cactus now facing up and again that one needs to butt right up over the top here so you don't want to see any of the green underneath and let's just move that one back into place once you put the the top of this sleeve down it does hold itself in place and then that one see I've cut that wrong haven't I because this one I've got it all facing the cactus the right way and then that one's facing that way but because they're pockets it doesn't actually really matter so I'm not too worried so again make sure that's all nicely lined up you could have this any shape you might want to do these on a kind of a triangle you might want to have a really little pocket like that just down in the corner some more of like a little um what are they called just like a little slot rather than a natural whole side pocket I guess and then just slide that over and a lot of them form static inside so they do kind of hold themselves shut and just make sure see that one there still needs to come down a tiny bit more bring with it until you're happy that it's all lined up like so and pinch the end the rest of it will all stay in place bring in your laminator make sure it's on the settings that it will stay in the manual that whatever whenever you got it because everybody's are different some of them you might have to have a feeder sheet you might have to put this through with some a4 copy paper I can just put this straight in so mine's got two settings it's got the 80 mic 125 that's basically the heat different heats are for different thicknesses of laminating pouches so if you're unsure or you've brought other laminating pouches after you've brought your actual laminator start off with the lowest first run through your stuff if you find it's maybe not quite sticking as well then turn it up and run it through again basically what will happen if it's too hot it will end up um really really warping so then just run this through okay so it's just the last bit coming out now and I'm holding this other side and keeping it straight because if you let it drop down because it's so hot again it will create like a curve so try and keep it as straight as possible when you bring it out and we'll be running this through again once we've cut it so right let's just pop that back out of you there okay so there really is all laminated so now we've got these pockets but you can't get into them so grab yourself a cutting knife now this bit is um you've got to take some care take your time with it but you just want to start off in one corner and you'll see here um it's hard to kind of pick it up but you can you can see where the join is well where the laminate where the laminating pouch has gone over that layer on top it hasn't quite stuck to this piece underneath there'd be a very very slightly um cloudy looking strip and it's that piece there that we want to just pop in our knife and just very carefully I need to lean down on here keep your knife more on the side obviously watch your fingers and you're just you're just wanting to just create a little like hole right on the edge just enough to start off with your knife like so and then I can just literally very easily just cut along and you can see now look I can get right under there but I haven't cut through to the paper underneath so you need to keep that knife really like flat and you're just cutting in to that piece and if I open that you can see that there's no laminator inside there that's just the normal paper okay and if it's lifted up a bit which it has there where it's gone a bit cloudy that's because we're going to run it through again and reset it so again go around to the next side just you want to just start off in the corner just kind of getting in there and then once you know that you're under it's almost like when you cut scissors very sharp scissors on a piece of paper and you can just run it along very quickly that's what you want see now look I can just run that long and it's just cutting that plastic really well so now I've got my two little side pockets so now we want to run that back through before I do that I'm just going to trim off this end here and some of my sides because then the last time we run it through it can kind of just tidy everything up so you just want to go around and give yourself about a quarter of an inch three eighths of an inch border of the laminate of the clear laminating plastic laminated plastic even so I'm just gonna don't worry if it's a little bit wonky it's it's clear you you know you're going to really struggle to see if it's perfectly straight anyway so don't worry I was one of these kids um that had a really old laminator and I would laminate everything it was it was ridiculous there was a little stationary kind of nerd when I was younger and we've had a bit of a running joke lately in our family because I broke my mum and dad's or my dad's laminator uh and not too long ago actually and um I promised I'd get a new one and I did I ordered it from amazon and then amazon emailed me to say it's been returned so they refunded me and then um I totally forgot to reorder it for him so I Skype them the other day and dad said look what I've got and he showed me his new laminator and he said yeah I went to go and use the laminator the other night and uh when I asked your mum where it was she said oh remember Samantha broke it um so yeah they were cursing my name in the household and dad had to go out and get himself a new laminator which I need to re reimburse him because I did break it didn't mean to but um it was when I made those um hunky dory um book cards with all the bookmarks one of those bookmarks got stuck inside the laminator and curled up around the the runners so yeah if you remember me making them I actually broke that laminator so he's got a new one now and everything's fine in the the laminating world so we're okay okay so I'm just running it through again there it's just coming to the end and already now I can see it's just finished it off really nicely and it just um it resets where you've cut and may have lifted it up slightly and it won't reseal it so don't worry so you can see now that that's come up but it just means that that's set now perfectly on that bottom piece and it's just given you a nice finish here and again on this side it's all set there as well so it's still warm just while it's warm just keep your hands on it just to keep it flat as possible I mean it's not really warped because it's it's intended to be that hot for this particular laminating pouches so if you're ever looking that's what this means is to do with the thickness of your um the pouches because you can buy them with um like I said 80 or 125 okay I've never used cold I don't know when I would cold laminate I'm not sure how that works maybe I should look that up because yeah I wouldn't do that okay so now that's done you want to fold it over and it will fold perfectly in half and then just grab your bone folder and just burnish that plastic it'd be a bit um kind of bouncy at the beginning because it's new but once that gets used and you're slotting it in where you need it to be and it's filled with stuff but I really like it so now I just need to decorate it so grab this one here and I put thick red tape on the back because that sticks really well to the plastic um I mean if you're going to sit there and pick it off then it will eventually come off but this is stationary so it's not going to get you know bashed about like that so um I'm going to stick it up the top give them myself a nice even border I think that's about right there and they have it a really cool fun I think they're great how lovely is that so now mum you can put little bits and pieces in there your stuff those just random bits that you never know where to go and they just annoy me when they're on your desk and everywhere but there are two very easy little laminated um folio cases or pouches sleeves whatever you want to call them so there you have it I have so many fun projects to do using the laminator um and I plan to maybe throw in maybe a couple of months um so look out for those and I'll have a separate playlist for all the laminating projects that I do and any previous ones I've done over the last couple of years I will throw them in there as well so I hope you've enjoyed today really quick really easy and give it a go give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the channel to see more thanks for watching bye


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question is, so 3x squared minus pi-rex plus 2 is equal to 0. Let's start the solution now. We are given this quadratic equation. So the given quadratic equation is 3x squared minus pi-rex plus 2 is equal to 0. We will solve this quadratic equation by factorizing. For this we will split the middle term. Now the quadratic equation is 3x squared minus pi-rex plus 2 is equal to 0 and the middle term is minus pi-rex. We will split the middle term into three terms such that the product of these two terms is equal to the product of the first and the last term of the given quadratic equation. Now minus pi-rex can be written as minus 3x minus 2x. So we have split minus pi-rex into minus 3x and minus 2x. Now if we see the product of these two terms that is minus 3x into minus 2x this is equal to 6x squared which is equal to 3x squared which is the first term of the quadratic equation into 2 which is the last term of the quadratic equation. So the product of these two middle terms is equal to the product of the first and the last term of the quadratic equation. So the middle term can be split in this way. So this implies the quadratic equation after splitting the middle term becomes 3x squared minus 3x minus 2x into minus 2 is equal to 0. This implies we will take 3x common between the first and the second term. So 3x into x minus 1 the whole. Next we will take minus 2 common between the last two terms. So minus 2 into x minus 1 the whole is equal to 0. This implies 3x minus 2 the whole into x minus 1 the whole is equal to 0. So in this way we have factorized the given quadratic equation into two factors. This implies 3x minus 2 is equal to 0 or x minus 1 is equal to 0. This implies from the first equation we get x is equal to 2 by 3 or from the second equation we get x is equal to 1. So the final answer for the given question is the two roots of the quadratic equation are x is equal to 2 by 3 and x is equal to 1. This is our final answer. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


Longerberger, the Ohio-based manufacturer of iconic picnic baskets, has put its company headquarters up for sale. The problem is, the building is shaped like a giant picnic basket. Nobody wants to buy it. The headquarters was constructed in 1997 for $32 million. It's now in the market for $5 million down from the original listing price of $7.5 million. Longerberger's problems in selling its corporate headquarters illustrates the point that in a complex modern economy, resources are complex and specific. In other words, productive assets like land, labor, capital, and machines tend to be highly specialized where they're more valuable in some uses than in others. A skilled surgeon cannot immediately become an auto mechanic if the demand for surgery should fall. A combine harvester cannot be used to provide taxi services without substantial cost. Of course, some resources are less specific, unskilled labor, desks and chairs, maybe delivery trucks. Even office buildings, however, can be specialized or specific to particular uses or users if they're designed in a particular way. Why does this matter? You need entrepreneurs acting in a free market to figure out what resources to produce and how to use these complex specialized and heterogeneous resources in a way that best satisfies the consumers, that produces the products that consumers want at the lowest possible prices. In his famous critique of socialism, Ludwig von Mises explained that it's impossible to allocate productive resources to their most valuable uses without private property, free markets, and prices. There are many ways, for example, to produce a mousetrap. What's the most cost-effective way? How many mousetraps should be built? What features should mousetraps have? In a free market economy, entrepreneurs are free to experiment, to try different combinations of resources to produce products in the most effective way. To experiment with different features and qualities of products to change the quantities to produce more or to produce less. Entrepreneurs receive feedback from the market. They have profit and loss information to tell them when their experiments have been successful. Under socialism, the government owns all the resources. Resources have no prices, there are no profits and losses, so production is chaotic and ineffective. There's simply no way without private property and free markets for resources to know how resources should be used to produce goods and services that people want. This is especially important when resources are complex and specific, when they aren't perfectly substitutable among productive tasks. The Soviet Union and more recently countries like Venezuela are famous for their idle and misused land, machines, buildings and workforces. Socialist planners don't have prices for complex and heterogeneous assets, so they have no way to use those resources in the most effective manner. Even in a market system, there's the risk that government regulation will prevent entrepreneurs from trying these different combinations of complex and specialized resources. Regulations in capital and labor markets, a heavy taxation of corporate profits, bailouts and subsidies for favored firms, and other interventions make it harder for entrepreneurs to produce, to price and to use specialized resources in the most effective way. We don't want a system like this. We want a free market system. Otherwise, we might end up like the Soviet Union or Venezuela with our own economic basket case.


Multiple myeloma, millimetre, is a cancer of the plasma cells found in the bone marrow. Recent research has revealed that the bone marrow environment plays a key role in the development and progression of millimetre. This includes the stromal cells, osteoblasts, osteoclasts, endothelial cells, and immune cells, as well as the extracellular matrix and the liquid melior. These components interact with the malignant plasma cells, allowing them to home to the bone marrow and form tumours. Additionally, the presence of these components in the bone marrow prior to the formation of tumour cells has been termed the pre-metastatic niche, which may explain why some patients develop metastases while others do not. Understanding the interactions between the malignant plasma cells and the bone marrow environment could lead to improved treatments for millimetre. This article was authored by S. Mania, A. Sacco, X. Lelew, and others.


I'm going to first tell you a little bit about the Lumina Foundation. It's a private independent foundation located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was founded in the year 2000. And really it's one of the few foundations in the country that's solely focused on higher education and especially higher education attainment. The grant making goes to states, systems, individual campuses and communities. You have a couple of their community grants, I think at least one in Milwaukee here in Wisconsin. Oh, and let me just, I'm sorry. There's a focus on attainment. The national goal is 60% by the year 2025. And some of this may be redundant for some of you, but I think I always try to make sure that we're all on the same page at these events. So this shows you a map of states with attainment goals. Most states now have goals in the work that I've been doing. I worked in the upper Midwest. Michigan's still kind of working on theirs. Nebraska, California are working on it as well. But you can see that in the upper Midwest we've got great representation there. So why bother with a goal? I think the main point here is that it really is a way to increase your economic prosperity as a state, improve the quality of life here in Wisconsin, improve your outcomes education overall, and just decrease disparities in your population. And I think the previous speakers really spoke well about you have a well educated workforce, but are you positioning yourself in a way that allows you to really stay ahead of competition and maintain the wonderful quality of life that you have here? So just to kind of do a refresher here on attainment versus completion, I think most of you probably know those differences, but for those of you who don't, completion really, they're both very important. Completion refers to the credentials awarded annually to students at an institution or a system. So UW, the tech colleges, the private colleges, you can roll that up to your system level or desegregate by campus, but that's really important. But attainment is something that looks at the state as a whole. And so completion rolls up into attainment, and it's something that funders pay attention to, your employers pay attention to that. And you get to count people who come over the border from Illinois or Iowa or Minnesota, they all get to be counted in your attainment level. And it's sort of a measure of economic prosperity. So you've got the Stronger Nation report that looks like this in your folder. So I'm gonna kind of zip through the slides that refer to the Stronger Nation report, but that's in here if you're interested. And it's also available online. This just shows, I did a screen shots here, so the quality is not as nice as I would have liked. But this just shows your attainment levels in your state, so your education level. So shows you the percentages of students with high school credentials, some people that have some college but not a degree yet. So those may be folks that need a creditor to, right? Or there's somebody who stopped out, raised their family and now wants to come back. It's a great place to focus. And then this shows the breakout of credentials, certificates, associate degrees, bachelors, etc. Certificates are an evolving area for the Lumina Foundation in terms of the ability to count them. And I'll talk a little bit about that more in a minute. But they're a really important part of your overall attainment. So your overall numbers are 48.4% for Wisconsin. And you're above, of course, you are, the national average in terms of your attainment. And then this is just a trend line that shows over time your progress. I think it's that the certificate number, people get better at figuring out how to count that, whether it's within a system or it's outside of a system. A certificate awarded by a board or by an employer, those numbers will increase. But this just shows your trend over time. And one of the questions, of course, is, well, is 60% too high? I think the idea is not to get too hung up on that percentage. It's more about having a stretch. So Minnesota's at 70, Iowa I think is at 70. I think other states sort of anywhere between 55 and 70% is where states have decided to peg their goal. And then the important thing is you all figuring out how you want to approach improving attainment in your state. And that's the reason I like the work so much is that it's very tailored and state-specific. I'm not going to go into detail on this slide. It's in your packet and Neil's going to talk more about it. But this breaks down the percentages by county, which people are always interested in. And so what's the value of a statewide goal? You know, why bother on doing this? So it sets a target for all the people in your state to strive towards. It addresses the talent gap, better connecting education and the workforce. Gets everybody on the same page. I think as Neil will point out, it shows the region in context, you in the context of the region and the country. And I really think it's important. You can't know where you want to go unless you know where you are. So you need to know where you are in order to begin to position yourselves for the future. So the work that I've been doing in the state with you in 2016, there were a number of meetings before this 2014, 2015. But in 2016, there was a joint board resolution. And this is kind of special because I don't think another state has done this, where the private college association or group has also signed on the line. And I actually worked for the private colleges in Minnesota and they did not do that. They're part of the goal, but they did not do that. And I just give a lot of credit to them for stepping up. So this was among the Wisconsin Technical College system, the university system, and the private colleges all signed a joint resolution in the fall of 2016. That the goal would be 60% of folks in Wisconsin ages 25 to 64 by the year 2027 would hold a credential of high value. And that's something Neil will talk more specifically about later. We announced the grant in 2017 that was a $100,000 grant. You were one of only 12 states that got the grant, so it's great. And there is a focus, of course, on adults and underserved populations. Student success, secondary to post-secondary transition. There was an internal partner meeting held in Madison in November of 2017. And today is really your public kickoff, the first of your two meetings. Here's the letter that was signed by the three systems. And then there's one thing I want to really highlight that's kind of a non-negotiable for the Lumina Foundation is the importance of addressing equity or underserved populations. You know, for some folks, it's a moral imperative that everybody's in. And for others, it's an economic imperative. But for me, it's both. But no path will get to your goal without making sure that you're focused on your underrepresented populations. Older folks, you know, older students, students of color, et cetera. This slide, too, is in your packet, but this sort of shows race and ethnicity. This is a stagnant slide. It's a lot better online and clearer in your packet. So, high value credentials. You've seen one credential. You've seen one credential, right? So, one of the things that is important to focus on is better aligning credentials in the workforce. I've heard Senator Harstoff, former Senator Harstoff talk a lot about this and many of the rest of you as well as how do you better position your state, giving your population to align better with workforce needs. And it's hard sometimes to predict those needs, but it's important to work on that. Some of the early leaders on the work of identifying high value credentials are in New Jersey and Florida, I believe. And the Workforce Data Quality Campaign is an entity that I've been working with. You can Google them if you'd like that has some great research on this. And I think Neil will talk about this as well. But how do you also, when you're looking at credentials, figure out the ones that make the most sense to focus on in your particular state? How do states go about setting a path? Well, you've already done a lot of the heavy lifting, which is getting the goal in the first place, engaging your stakeholders, developing a plan, identifying metrics to measure progress and report that data publicly. So one of the things that I wanted to just highlight is I know that the university system has a dashboard. I know that the technical college system has a metrics and that sort of thing. But are there some metrics that you could identify across all three of your systems or institutions that you might be able to agree upon? Are there five or six things? And then could you then, there could be support for this, technical assistance for this. Could you then put together some sort of a dashboard that's not redundant but then cuts across all that would be available to policymakers and the public? Because that public reporting is really important. Tracking your progress is important to meeting your goal along the way, identifying your key measures and reporting some of that data annually. So I'd love to talk to you a little bit more about that later if there's interest in pursuing something like this. Sometimes branding is fun, right? So here are a couple examples from around the country. What other folks have done? You have decided on 60 forward, Wisconsin 60 forward. And my understanding is there's now a domain. There's a site so that you can look at all the presentations and that sort of thing at your leisure. So what are the next steps for you? Gathering input from this meeting, taking an opportunity to collect and analyze the data, keep focusing on underserved populations, look at your strategic plans and then really think about what you want for your students and communities and workforce. So this is a unique opportunity, I think, and I'm always heartened when I am at a convening like this where I see such wonderful representation of stakeholders across the board.


I think there's always challenges present in cybersecurity, especially when we're working in the higher education space, but I think some of the things we're looking forward to over the next 12 months is how we can work in the higher education community to collaborate and kind of dispel some of those, you know, kind of beliefs that cybersecurity has to get in the way of fulfilling the mission of the institution. So some things we're looking forward to I think is working with organizations like EDUCAUSE to help higher education in a more mass, I guess, helping higher education in a larger way deal with big cybersecurity topics, whether it's cybersecurity insurance or working with organizations like EDUCAUSE to assess vendor risk. I think thinking about 2021 and some things that just really get me excited about our work in the higher education space is really collaborating and identifying ways we can make a bigger impact through, again, collaboration and information sharing. More so than any vertical we work in, I think higher education understands what it takes to have a good posture from a cybersecurity perspective. Higher education generally understands that technology alone isn't going to solve cybersecurity to a level that we essentially need it to to protect student information and protect student data and preserve our reputation. So I think just the general nature of higher education being open to collaborating with other institutions, being open to sharing their experiences with, you know, security vendors or security tools, I think is a is a major, major benefit to how higher ed gets ahead from a cybersecurity perspective. And I truly see this in and we work in a lot of different industries. I think there's no industry that collaborates better than the higher education space. I do a lot of volunteer work with organizations like the FBI and, you know, other cybersecurity organizations and one of the most important things they talk about as something we can do as consumers to help get ahead from a cybersecurity perspective is to share information.


Okay, I'm ready. Okay. So I'm going to call Melissa Jenkins.<PHONE_NUMBER> X is not available. Record your message after the tone. When you've finished, you can hang up or press one for more options. Good morning, Ms. Jenkins. This is Krithi Bayani. I'm calling from Yota Technology. We are a cybersecurity and software development company. I called you last week and I sent you an email with my capability statement. I wanted to see if I could have a chance to speak with you about the upcoming opportunities on the IRS or a Treasury forecast list. Kindly call me back at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I repeat<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you. All right. Good stuff. So I was thinking I called Donna and Melissa from Treasury. I think I'll call the SBS and the Chief Procurement Officer from IRS. Okay. Which one should I call first? It doesn't matter. Let me see. Let me move over. Okay, so now you just left the message. Who? With, sorry, I've called Melissa and Donna. Okay. What about Thomas Jacobs on the Office of Acquisition Operations? Yeah, they are VA. Oh, that's not. Okay. That's not IRS. Yeah. So these are VA. Okay. This is Navy Norfolk and these are... Okay. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you. Okay. All right. So you've called Melissa and you called Donna. All right. Correct. Yeah, I left voicemails to them and last week I emailed them my capability as well. Okay. All right. So no. Yeah. Yeah, you can call Latanya. Why not? Bowman, right? Latanya Bowman. What's up, Joey? What's going on, brother? Joey's watching. Say hi to Joey. And Tom's watching. Hello. Yes. Hey, good morning. Am I speaking with the... Actually, I was calling for Miss Latanya Bowman. I'm sorry your voice is breaking. I can't hear you. Okay. Thank you. I could barely hear, but he's a wrong number, ma'am. We had the... You know, Niki and I had the same problem this morning. We called a couple of opposite. It's like, I know that we've got storm here, but Niki, you said you've got storm there as well. Yeah. So we've had the same kind of problem happening with us as well. So I don't know what's going on. We had someone else. I called her twice. She didn't understand nothing I said, except my name. And she's like, listen, I can't hear you. And we need to talk. And then I just had Niki call her. Maybe Niki could call. That'll work. Yeah. Niki was able to reach them because she's closer to them. Maybe because they're close proximity. Yeah. Niki. Oh, Stally. No, that's fine. Latanya Bowman. Okay. Let's see. Hey, Stephanie. Hey, Joey. Hey, everybody in YouTube land. Hey, Joey. Hi, did you just say physical security, ma'am? I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh, okay. We have the wrong number. My apologies. No problem. All right. Bye-bye. All right. That's passing ID. That's passing ID office. Yeah. Okay. That's fine. We've been finding that all morning updating our lists as you call. Right. Yeah. That's why we had that. That's why we call. Remember the Navy list I was telling about credit. We call because they had all the wrong numbers. So we had to get an updated list. So we called the regional person to get us the updated list. I think that's what Niki's working on right now. Okay. So I think maybe I can call the next person. Shana. Or I could also look them up on GoPro. Okay. Internet's kind of slow today. Okay. Yeah. We've had problems. I'll talk to the audience while we're doing that. Hey guys. Welcome Gilbert. Welcome Kiana. Yes. This work is critical. This is essential. You know, not just standing by and watching, but making the calls, going through sending the emails, following up, setting up meetings. But even before we started this in preparation for this today. There's a lot of back in work. So Niki, you want to talk about some of the back end stuff that you did just in preparation while creating, while you're doing your research. And when you're ready to call, just let me know. We'll just jump back on. To that. So now Niki, you want to talk about some of the work that went into. What you did before even, you know, started making calls. Sure. And the whole reason for making the calls. So one of my strategies is to pick a certain region that I want to work at. So I want to work in Rhode Island. And so we identify the basis. And then we identify the commands on those basis. Because as we know, you have several different commands on one naval base. And they all have different POCs. So once we identified that, then we had to start doing some research on who were the small business specialists. And so we tried some of those numbers. We looked up websites. We started with nav C nav fact. And then just started calling, drilling down to get the actual small business specialist for that base. And a lot of times the number isn't correct.  But you just have to keep calling to keep emailing. And eventually you're going to get someone. We've actually had two really good calls this morning. We've had a couple of people who gave us two more contacts on that actual base to contract specialist on one of the bases that we're trying to work on. So now I'm following up with those calls and those emails. So basically a lot, a lot of research goes into your call list before you even call their websites. LinkedIn sometimes Eric pulled up a couple of people in LinkedIn to find out who they knew, and we could possibly call to get their phone numbers. Any questions about that Eric. No. So again, you know, one of the things that I think we've just been talking with. Pretty in her list, pretty can you pull back up, take down that sheet and pull back up the other sheet that you had that how all of the office names on it so we can share. And so one of the things that created. Can you scroll over so we could show it to them just so we can see. Yeah, so pretty pulled up all of the office names here. As you can see on her sheet. And the question that she had was, should she be talking to people directly from within those offices, or should she be talking at the agency level. And so that was one of the things that where there was some confusion seemed to be. We know what we teach and again, anyone can do whatever they like, but the way that we teach the strategies is starting at the office level and getting the office information. And then from that, you then get the contact information for the small business specialist at the office level. And from that info that from that contact is who you should be reaching out to. It's very easy to start off looking at NASA, for example, as a whole. And then coming down from looking at NASA to say, oh, these are the small business people for NASA. But really we had a call this morning between Nicky and I and the Coast Guard and the ladies said, okay, some of the services are bought at the local levels. So working at the regional areas is great for research purposes, but you really got to talk to the people based on the office that you found. So, and again, I know this is somewhat advanced topic. So we're just sharing with folks kind of what we do day in and day out. But, you know, you've got, if this any of this is confusing to you, you've got to go through some of our free trainings first and come up to speed. But for those people who do understand it, you know, that's the folks I'm talking to out there. We want to just keep it focused at the office level because that's the research was predicated on that. And that's where we want to stick to. Unless we're not having success, then we move out to the agency level. So hope that clears it up for some people out there. We're going to keep making calls. Okay. By the way, as always, give us a thumbs up. I know there's only 22 people watching because it is Monday and it's 11 noon, but give us a thumbs up guys for the 22 people watching. Great. You can stop sharing if you want to, or you keep sharing either way. Welcome. Any questions out there? Fiona, Stephanie questions. Gilbert questions. Keona questions. Drop them in the chat. Okay. So, yeah. We originally started off. And, and for all those people are wondering, Nikki and I working together on projects as well as pretty and I. So that's one of the reasons why we get together. We're considering making this something that we can offer to people as well. I think it's been very helpful when you are getting started and you're making some of those initial phone calls where, you know, we're there.  We discussed the purpose of the call, the intention behind the calls. Which also, and like talking even with credit here, we end up having to go back and refine their list. More so when we sit down and actually talk about the call. So I think just going through that, that exercise helps people go back and refine their list. As well. What do you, what do you say, what do you think Nikki? Yeah, absolutely. Because like we said, sometimes the phone number is wrong or we'll reach the person and they've been, they've retired and there's someone who's taken their place. So there's always changes and the websites unfortunately aren't always up to date. So yeah, we're always refining, refining our call list. Okay. Welcome Sharon. Welcome mentor. All right. Let's go. We can keep making calls. Okay. So I updated the number I found another number and an additional email. Okay. I'm going to call. It's going to be either of these three. Okay. Hi, good morning. This is Krithi Bayani. I'm calling from Yota technology. We are a software development and cybersecurity company. I am trying. I looked up some contracts, some opportunities on the forecast list for the IRS. And I'm calling to see if I could speak regarding that. I will send an email with my capability statement to you. And my callback number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. I repeat<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you. Have a good day. So confused. There's a man and you see all the female names here. Yeah. So one of the things that we've done and Nikki can, you know, we've had the same experiences. Remember, they're always changing positions. I see. So, you know, you have to, and I actually a really good example. They're always changing positions. And so for me, one of the things that Nikki and I did earlier and I'll share my screen is on one of our lists. Hold on. Let me find it. I'll pull it up for you. So here. And also he didn't mention IRS or anything in the call. It sounded like a person's personal cell. So here on this list, when we call this number for Jane, she actually retired and then they gave us this guy, Sean's information. But it was nowhere public. His information. So we, we just kind of are aware of that. And we. And making the calls. We just keep that in the back of my mind. They could have changed people. We make that. So we just, just keep that in your mind when you're calling. It may not be the person whose name is on there. We had another incident as well here. I'll pull that up where. Where is it at? And this brochure that I was looking at on this particular NAFAC brochure. We call this person here. Oh, I've already deleted it. It was the name was Keith Logan and the lady Jennifer picked up the call. So it was okay. And then the other thing to keep in mind as well is remember people are, they're working from home. So, you know, because of COVID. So that could be another, you know, reason. As well. So many, many different reasons.  Should I call. Shannon. Go ahead. Go ahead. It's not available. Record your message after the tone. When you finished, you can hang up or press one for more options. Good morning, Miss Davis. This is Krithi Bayani. I am calling from Uda technology. We are a software development and cybersecurity company. I saw some opportunities. Some opportunities on your forecast list of IRS. And I wanted to see if we could speak regarding that. My callback number is two, eight, one, three, eight, seven, five, eight, one, four. I repeat two, eight, one, three, eight, seven, five, eight, one, four. And I will email you my capability statement. Thank you and have a good day. That was good. Also, for everyone out here watching, keep in mind that most times if you wait, you'll be able to re-record the message. So if you make a mistake, you can always re-record the message. But also keep this in mind is that. It's really. It doesn't really matter because for the most part, these are regular people that we're talking to. And so it really doesn't matter. Even if you make a mistake, you just continue doing the exercise because ultimately what we're doing is hard. And it's not something that people do day in and day out. So they recognize that you're going to make some mistakes. The important thing is to obviously connect with someone. Let them know what you're doing. Let them know what your company does. And then try and ideally set up a meeting to discuss your capabilities and how you can help serve them. So at the end of the day, it's really, you know, we're trying to help with the mission. And that's what we want to focus on. So even if you make a mistake on the call, that's okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. Also, I was trying to call Shawna Weber's, but Amy Davis was the receiver of the calls. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, you're seeing that more and more.  The information is different. I'm not matching some, the next person on my list is the department of state. Okay. From our previous discussions, I looked up the, the agency information, not specifically office information. Okay. So just give me a minute. I'll just confirm that. Okay. Okay. All right. No problem. Okay. Okay. So I do have. Can I just call the hospital and ask them for that office's information? Yeah, let's do that. That's a great exercise. Let's do it. Should I share my screen? Yes. Let me stop sharing. I was just sharing in your place. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What else you got? We want to work on. King love. Welcome. The duck. I'm a technical difficulty. Sorry. I wouldn't. I'm just working on these follow-up emails and update my call log. Okay. By the way, Nicky. Real quick. Freddie, before you share, can you stop sharing? Nicky, can you share your, your call log sheet that you have? Just sure. People can see. You know what it looks like. Let me get it up here. And then create. You could keep doing some research while we do that. And then we'll get ready to make the next call. Can you see it? Yeah, I can see it. So I just have the contact name, the agency, the address. If I have it, the contact information. And then my notes. And then a lot of times the website, because you can search so many websites. It takes 20 minutes to get to the correct one. So I put it in the, in the website area. But the notes is really the most important. It says, you know, what project I'm following. For them, what was our last conversation? Have I ever spoken to them or have I just said emails? Do they have my cap statement? And then I keep adding. You know, each week. And sometimes I'll just have a name and a phone number.  Because you'll forget if you don't. Okay. All right. Thank you. Someone asked a question. Stephanie needed that. So she said, thank you, Nikki for sharing. And Stephanie, I can make that available to you because I actually, I gave it to Nikki. So if anyone, any of my 2.0 people are watching, I can make it available. Just send me an email. I'll give you my template. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Can you pull up your capability statement and share that first? On screen. Yes.  That way. And so by the way, Nellie is asking the question about coaching versus the course. So for everyone out there who's watching, we only have one program. So we have two programs, one is the older version of 2.0. And then we have coaching, which is totally different. So just Nellie's asking that question for anybody else. Make sure hit the thumbs up, please hit the like button. So we can have the social media people take care of us. And this is part of the things that we do. You know, regardless of whether you're a consultant or you have the business, there's a lot of things that we do in addition to the source of thoughts, RFIs and reviewing opportunities. So these are the things that we do. And so I just want to kind of share that with folks and these kind people were very open to coming on today and sharing their experiences. So I thank them as well for not being ashamed to come on camera and show their face and to show the activities. So all right, okay. So this is my company. And I will be the prime contractor for this. These contracts are subcontractor. And this is my capability statement. Oh, all right. So there you go. Oh, she's got two pages. Nice. All right. And what do you guys do? Okay. I see it there. Software cybersecurity. Rams cloud hosting. You know what? I'm going to say something, but I'll sit right make a note for the ask me about it later offline. Okay. Someone said, nice capability statement. Oh, thank you. How many iterations did it take? That, you know, that's the part of people don't know. It's like, you know, people see this stuff and they think like blues. It just showed up right out of it in there. Like it just happened. Okay. The final version is definitely not the first version. By the way, yes. Something else I think is important. To say. You can stop sharing now. Okay. Something else is important to say. Pretty. How much pain have you gone through and getting to this point? For the capability statement. Okay. Not just even preparing for the calls. Then we have a one or two iterations beforehand. It's multiple. I've lost count.  Yes. Painful. It's been the process works. So keep doing it. And I'm still learning. Right. Right. And hopefully everyone's still learning. Right. Hopefully you never get to the point where you're not learning. Right. Right. Yep. All right. And, and I, Eric and Nikki know this, but so far. Out of all of the calls that I've made. I've spoken to only two people. Nikki has an opposite luck. She's probably left to always smells, but. We've warmed them up. We've warmed each other up though. Yeah. Just a nugget of. Learned less a lesson learned is for me to remember why you're calling that person. Because if you can't, if you call and say you have the wrong number, then you go up a level to the command level.  That you want to give the capability briefing to. So you can get lost in the sauce, if you will. So it's important to remember why you're calling a person. If you want to leave a message, we will get back to you as soon as possible. Record your message after the tone. When you finished, you can hang up or press one for more options. Good morning. This is Krithi Bayani. I am calling from Utah technology. We are a software development and cybersecurity company. I am calling because I saw a few opportunities on your forecast list. I wanted to see if I could speak with somebody about it. If you could call me back at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I repeat<PHONE_NUMBER>. And I will email you my capability statement. Thank you and have a good day. So one of the things that Krithi did that I like that's important is also letting people know that you are going to be emailing them your capability statement in addition to the phone calls. So that's one of the things that we teach is when you leave the message you leave your number, I leave my number twice. And then I also like to leave them, let them know. So they're expecting an email from me. I do this before I send the email. So a lot of people like to email folks, just email, email, email. I like to leave a message letting them know to expect an email in addition to the call with my capability statement for their consideration. And so those are the things that's what I do. By the way, thank you, Elevation. I appreciate your brother. Listen, you know, we, you know, we're doing, I'm doing the things that I believe other organizations should be doing for small businesses. We're doing them. So thank you for that. I appreciate it. We're instead of just talking about what we do for people, we actually show it and we do it because I do have a much bigger plan for all of you out here. And so this is part of my bigger plan and mission is to help again, hit those 200 companies, get the 5 million. And so far we're really, really, we're getting closer by the week. Okay. We're really getting closer by the week. So. All right. The other thing is, is that Nicky now I like to batch my calls. Okay. So, which that means is I like to have my list prepared, like what you saw pretty sure on the screen.  And then I'll go through and I'll send 20 emails bump, bump, bump, bump, bump. Now that's my approach that I, the way I handle things. So Nicky, which, what are you like, would you tell us what your opinion on that or your, what your thoughts are? Sorry, I was on mute. So I tried both. I did the batching and then when it came time to do my emails, I had all these notes scribbled and I forgot what I was doing. So the next time I did it, I made a call sent the email updated my log. So I didn't finish my calls to lunch, but when I fit went to lunch, I was finished. I didn't have to come back and send any emails. I didn't have to update my log. So the, the, the point is find what works for you. But making that call list and have it available is a must. That's not optional. Right. You have to have all your information available. You don't want to research, then call them email, because you'll spend all day researching and make one call. So how long do you think it takes to research? It could take two weeks, right? To prepare a call list, Eric. Cause I thought you said your team, it took you a couple of weeks each time to give. Yeah. I had a full-time person do that for eight hours a day. Oh yeah. It takes a lot of time. Great. How long has it taken you? Oh no, it is, it's so far like two weeks. And I think because of the setback where I was looking at the wrong, like I was loading the agency, not specifically the office. It's going to take another two weeks. All right. So I would say four weeks put together your list. Because one of the things that we have to do is I do, I grab all of the, I'm looking for a document. I grab and I want all of the information about the organization that I can grab. So I like just literally just data mine, everything I can, because for me it's really important to have an understanding of the organization structure. And I'll even show you in a minute, the organizational chart that I pulled down, because that for me is super important to show that I'm knowledgeable. And that I'm not just some person wasting folks time here. So I want to be as knowledgeable about the agency and their structure as possible before I actually make my phone calls. That's just me. It makes me feel better and more confident when talking to people. And you sound more confident on the phone.  Yes, print out your own capability statement. So when they ask questions, you have the answers. So yeah, what I was talking about was this is literally my weekly activities is these three things here.  I try to get to a week. So crities, it's not too bad. Okay. If you only had two people because, and I try to attend two events. And again, like, I think last week, Nikki, Critty and Pierce, you guys were all in that NASA webinar. I shared that with folks out there. And then again, I'm constantly talking to a teaming partners, suppliers, subcontractors, future staff, and then we're reviewing source of thoughts, qualified bids, and IDVs. So that's my really, my weekly activities that we do weekend and week out. Now, Critty, how do you feel about the whole batching, non-batching thing? I'm with you on that. I like to make my calls together. And I'm like, I make my notes. Who do you call? And if I don't have their email, I'll write their email. So in the end, I just give them a call and I have my notes. It makes it easier. Otherwise I'm taking breaks and calling breaks and calling. No, that's good. Yeah. No. So when I say daily, daily is, is all is I'm doing one of those things. I'm not doing all of those things daily. So don't feel overwhelmed. I normally like to say Mondays, I like to make calls. That's normally my, you know, like, so, so Nikki and I do this once a week, the bacon calls, and we just pick Mondays. It's just because it works for us. Yeah, it's weekly. Go ahead, Nikki. Yeah, I was going to say Mondays definitely sets the tone for us because then we can look for follow-up emails. We can make follow-up calls as the week goes on and we can move on to another activity. But the most important stuff was done on Monday. Right. Yeah. King love. The hardest part would be getting a team together that handle the job. Yes. Great. Correct. And that's part of the initial experience. Right.  And now, and, and by the way, that, you know, that comes with doing your research for the industry, knowing how the government buys, knowing what the qualifications of a team need to be like, you got to do that first before you get to this particular point. So for all the new people out here that are just getting started, putting your team together is the most critical part of before you get to this point of exercise. We are basically at probably, if you were to say that five phases, this phase four, right before we're ready to start talking about contract opportunities. So putting your team together, that's probably phase two. And then phase one is doing your initial research to see how the organizations you want to work with buy and spend and what the pre qualifications of a good team look like. That would be phase one. And then phase two, at that point, we're putting the team together. So these two young ladies are already at like phase four. They've done all of that stuff. And so now we're just getting ready to line them up for contract opportunities. By the way, 44 people watching, give us a like, please share so that we can continue to receive the blessings of all the social media gods out here. So thank you. Hold on. Let's see a seven. Good morning. New here. Is there a software program that helps you design and create proposals for bids? I don't use the software. And I don't think so because really all of the proposals responses are different based on the organization. So having a software. Won't help you because everyone has their own forms and documents that you have to submit. So that's all specific to that organization. So, okay. Great. You had a question. I was just ready for my next call. Let's go. Let's do it. Okay. Just filter this thing. Sharing my screen. Well, cannot be completed at this time. Please hang up and talk. Yeah. This number is auto service. Going to try the deer. Okay. Record your message at the tone. I'm calling from Utah technology. We are a software development and cybersecurity company. I'm calling because I saw a few opportunities on your forecast list. I wanted to see if I could have a, if I could speak with you about it. I will email you my capability statement in the meanwhile. My call back number is. Two eight one. Three four. I'm calling from Utah technology. We are a software development and cybersecurity company. I'm calling because I saw a few opportunities on the phone. Three eight seven. Five eight one four. I repeat. Two eight one. Three eight seven. Five eight one four. Thank you. Have a good day. Did you leave it? Yeah. Okay. I didn't know if you want to re-record it because it makes up in the beginning. That's okay. No, you're like, look, forget it. I'm just, look, I'm riding out. I got this. It's fine. I, I think I'll do it again. So. Okay. Hey, listen. Again, that's fine.  And that's why we're sharing that because we do recognize it's uncomfortable for folks out here. So I, I, again, I thank you for stepping up. Oh, my man, rich is calling back. Nikki. All right. We're going to, I'll talk to him later. I don't want to put him on the live stream. I know, right? You know, because he got that. Yeah, we need to talk to him though. That's good. I'll call him back. Yeah. All right. Let's see. I'll take some questions while you're getting ready. I can call another person. Let's go for it. Okay. Wait, hold on. So elevation says this is about finding who sponsors for a particular project. So elevation, no, you know, the great question. We, we, we are not calling for any particular projects. So no, we are calling the purpose of our calls today is so that we can have our companies. The whole purpose is actually to get a one on one sit down meeting with somebody in that contracting office who buys our services. So the intent is to get a one on one meeting face to face, not over the phone call, a one on one meeting with someone who actually buys our services at that particular contracting office. So remember when we talked about the video on putting your target market list together and using FPDS or using the other one, what's the one that you use? I forget it now. I'm not sure I have a pretty. What's the other side? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, the one is like FPDS. I forget. There you go. USA spending right. So when you do that, when we do that research, we want to get the offices that we're then set up the small business specialist. So we can have a call with them to then set up a meeting.  And again, this is all based premised on your research. Now, it increases the likelihood of them wanting to give you your first shot at a contract opportunity. So elevation, that is the purpose and objective now. And before we even get to that point of actually doing the meeting thing, right, we've got to do a lot of other stuff in between. And so this is some of the in between activities that we must do, which is first letting them know we exist, letting them know what we can do that then that will warrant whether or not they want to invite us to do a sit down meeting. So that is the ultimate goal. It's not predicated based on any specific contract in mind at all. The reason why we do research is because and I think that this is something that's pretty actually talked we talked about last week. So this is a very good point. If you try to go from the standpoint of I have this one contract that I that I've seen them and I want to call based on that contract. What will happen is this you're going to find organizations, offices that maybe only bought that service once. And so yes, they may have that one opportunity. But then there's no one in the office that handles that because they've never bought it before. And it's not something they regularly buy. We're looking for organizations, offices that have a pattern of buying your services, your goods, all the time, right? Historically, presently and in the future. So that way, and that's when we talk about having that laser being focused. So then that way, when you're focused on that particular office, you know that next year, they're gonna be buying a year after they're gonna be buying. So once you form those relationships with those people inside those offices, and that becomes your best friend, then that's how you end up like Randy and just start getting contract after contract after contract after contract after contract after contract.  And because when you first did your research, you figured out that they were buying this stuff a gazillion times, you know that it's just a matter of time that once you break through, you're going to have unlimited supply of work. And remember this, we're looking for negotiated projects, not for bid contracts. So we want negotiated contracts, we want sole source opportunities. And that's how we start building it. Hit the hit the like button if you like anything we're talking about. Anybody want to add anything? Cody, Nikki, for that? No? Go ahead, Cody. I have a question. Sure. Show this. It's a question for you. So I was calling this person on the small business representative. Okay. And since I couldn't reach them, could I call the Procurement Office? So no, I would go back and I would call DC.  Now, which one did you call? This. Okay, so that's what you want? Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms? Yes. Okay. And that's DC? Yeah, it says DC. Okay. Yeah. No, well, well, when did you call them? Just right now, like the one that wouldn't connect at all that one. Okay. So wait, the number didn't connect? No, it just didn't connect. So all of these offices like ADF, BOP, DEA, FBI, USMS, all of these are under Department of Justice, DOJ, this one. And all of their emails are also not all majority of them are like at usdoj.gov. Now, but is, okay, and your target market list, who is the contract and office that you're trying to reach? This ADF and DEA and USMS. Okay, so those three. Okay. Now, did you call three of them? Yeah. No, pull back up on the other screen, the other list. I'm sorry, I'm just showing that one. Yeah. Okay. So you called all three of those people? I was about to call this Lauren. Yeah, the reason, yeah, let's call the next one. Yeah, let's try, let's call three of them, since they're on your list of people that we want to talk to before we go on to procurement office. Let's go through that whole, all of that stuff first. We'll exhaust all of those, those capabilities first before we move on to procurement office. Okay. Oh, there's not a working number. Please check the number inside. Okay. Is that their website? Yeah, it is their website. Yeah. And the DEA, I love the voice mail. Okay. Do we have one more? Okay, DEA, okay. Wow. Not a working number. Interesting. Okay. Well, you know what? Hold on, guys. So, Niki, this is funny. And this is why, I mean, okay, let's not be discouraged, because look at their website. What does it say in the right and blue? How long? FedBizOpt has been gone for almost a year now, and they still have this on their website. So, obviously, they don't prioritize. Hey, by the way, anybody's here from the Department of Justice watching, you guys really, I mean, like, if we want to help small businesses, we should prioritize, like, update our website at least once a month, you know, maybe not every day, but, you know, maybe monthly would help. So, yeah, they're not, they're not interested in getting that, making that a priority. So, you know what? That would also spell to me, just to me, that maybe they're not as friendly as working with small businesses as some other people. Because remember the example that we talked about Critty with NASA has webinars every single week. That's to me is very inviting, right? They're like, come talk to us, come, you know, if they understand, so for me, the fact that they didn't update the website, the numbers of discontinued, they're not showing to me that they're small business friendly, and that they're very inviting to work with. So, that could be good or bad thing. It could be, for me, it's, I want to work with people who want to give me the small business guy or girl a chance. So, that's why when you said the comment about Nikki, having more favorable results, because we were strategic in choosing the people to call. And Nikki had the advantage also that I knew some of the people and organizations, and I knew that they were responsive. So, we actually have two more pages of lists that Nikki and I did not call for that reason. So, I didn't give her those other names. I wanted her to have some success in the beginning. Does that make sense? So, then that way people can get, like, they can, like, okay, like Nikki said, this is a great way to start your Monday. So, now, Nikki is excited to come out with me every Monday. If she experiences a lot more pain, she might have been so excited to be with me today. But I want to do it. Okay, you want to do it. I know because you're just had two cups of coffee. Right. So, it's good. We have two sets of examples now. And that way, anybody can take whatever lessons they want. That's right. And that's the point. That's why I said let's just stream it live so people can take whatever they want from this. So. So, in this case, and also I look at it as they probably need some help in the IT division. There you go. So, that's another way to look at it, right? You could say they need help in our IT division. It's hard to break through. So, if I break through, then, you know, there's nobody going to be coming right behind me. Or you could say, you know what, let me find somebody that's going to give a small business guy a girl a chance. And by the way, for everyone watching, please, please, please, there are always people who will give you a chance. So, you just have to find them. Do not be discouraged because one person told you, no, there's always someone that will give you a chance. We just have to find that person that's for you. All right. I'm ready, Kriti. Okay. So, now, in this case, shall I call the procurement office? I would wait. Okay. Because you just left messages. You're going to send emails. You didn't even give them a chance to respond back yet. I left one voicemail over here. Right. But these two didn't, they didn't connect. Okay. But I would still wait till I reach someone before I went to the, because you don't want them to say, did you try this first? And then you're like, no, I didn't try to try the email. And then let's wait. Because remember, Nikki and I left some messages a week ago as well. We didn't just jump to the procurement office yet. We still are, because there's probably someone else at the Department of Justice that we can find that we could talk to that will get us the new contact information. So I would do that before I go to the procurement office. Procurement office to me is like last. Make that exhaust all other options first. And then procurement office will do last. Make that. Wow, Nikki, someone gave me a thumbs down. They hit the wrong button. That was an accident, I'm sure. Someone give us a thumbs down. Well, you know, they could just not agree with something. That's fine. Oh, I'm sorry. The person gives thumbs down unhappy. We're sorry. We're sorry. You should probably go watch a rap video or something. No, tell us how it can be better. What did you not like? Maybe we can address your concern. See, that's why we have a woman around me. See, I'm like brushing him off. How can we help you? Tell us, how can we be better? That's very nice of you. I like that. Yes. Critic, what Critic said. How can we help you? How can we better respond to your needs? How can we improve as a small business? Sharing with you the stuff that we're doing behind the scenes that we don't have to go live and share with people. But we want people to get experience because this is for. We're embarrassing ourselves for free people. Yes, exactly. We're embarrassing ourselves at our expense to show folks what we're actually doing and how we get the results. Because guess what? When you're watching this video and it's the year 2022, 2023, and you're saying, how did they have all of these contracts? Yes, this is where it starts right here. OK, it doesn't start bidding the contract in 2023. It starts today and then we're going to get the opportunities tomorrow and then we're going to be the successful award winners in the future for all of these products that you're going to then learn about after the fact, because a lot of people will focus on looking at the bids that are coming out now. So. All right, go ahead, Trudy. So I wanted to call HHS. OK, and the problem that I'm facing with them is. I can't get their forecast list. OK, that's OK. We just don't call them without the forecast list. So what we could do is we can call them and then see if they have it available for us. OK. So. I'll. Get them a call. That's right. I don't know if they want you to free go free game.  I don't know what else they want. They want to be caught up, Fiona. That's correct.  And no one's paying for this stuff. And the thing is, this is what Eric actually does to get contracts. He's not hiding any hiding anything. You're seeing my names, my list, my people. So I don't know what else more we could do. I'm calling. Go for it. All right. At the tone when you are finished, hang out or prep pound for more options. Good morning, Ms. Natasha. This is Krithi Bayani. I am calling from your technology. We are a software development and cybersecurity company. I was trying to find your forecast list, but I wanted to see if I could speak with you and see how we can serve HHS. My callback number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. I repeat<PHONE_NUMBER>. And I'll be sending you my capability statement. Thank you and have a great day. I have other numbers from HHS. Like they have given their full list. There were a lot of people on it. Go ahead for it. OK, just for reference, it's such a long list. Oh, sorry. I was on mute. I'm sorry. Is it just a reference? What I'm sharing how big the list is. Like, OK, like, like all of this, this is just tough. Now, but again, HHS is a large organization. Is yours HHS or is it a specific office within HHS? I don't know how they buy, so I'm just asking questions because it looks like all different groups within HHS. Yeah, that's the thing I was trying to call the FDA, the Natasha from FDA, but I don't have their full cast list, neither for FDA nor for HHS. Like I can't find it. And I think there is a way to get into it. It's not that there isn't. It's just that my sign-in is just not working. Like I register my dance and my company through it. And it doesn't send me an email to verify anything. I'm not able to log in. There's some error going on, no matter how many times I go register or the password security reset. Could be me, but it looks like she has another number. So I'm going to try her other number. All has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system. Natasha, she texted me. Please text me. Really? Yeah, maybe she's in training or something. Maybe, again, a lot. Hey, listen, there you go. You got your federal human. Exactly. Hey, you were just talking to see you don't get anybody. So look, someone texts you. That's beautiful. Look at that. Now I feel like I should have left the voicemail, OK? Is it? You got nervous that it takes you. Remember, people are working from their cell phones because they're working from home.  They call me to text whatever because they they're not working from their cell phones now because of COVID. So they're probably still not back in the office. Should I text my community statement to her? No way.  No, I'm not. You really want? Yes. What if they're like 60 years old? Sixty. If she was 60, she wouldn't know to respond. Didn't decline or call it a text. So. Sure. No, not sure. I'm pretty tech savvy. My mom is pretty tech savvy. My dad's tech savvy.  She's tech savvy. So he's not going to read. No, he's not going to be putting PDF on his phone. I'm not pulling PDF up on my phone. I'm not pulling up on my phone. No PDF image. Image. I'm pretty sure it's an image. We're not doing that, girl. You try. It's a stretch. It's a stretch. It's a stretch. It's too. It's too millenially, I guess. It's very millenially. Yes, it's very millenially. OK, so I'll send her a message the same white same thing that you're going to say.  You'd like to do a one on one. Same thing. Yeah. Joey says, you said, Texas, go for it. Yeah, Joey, remember, it's coming for our buddy Joey over here, so. Somebody says, where's the website? I can get my Duns number for free. Duns number is free. Right. Everywhere. You should know what to be paying for. It's by the way, for all the new people, make sure you hit the like button, please. Duns is free. You should not be paying for Duns number. If someone's charging you for Duns, you're you're being scammed. Sorry. You're being scammed. That's right. Duns cage, all that free. Sam registration free. You do it yourself. And I'm looking at the website now. It's dnb.com. What's why would you? Oh, it's my hair. I'm going to drop that in the chat for this person right there. Get a Duns number. It's free. Pretty. Let me share my screen real quick. Sure. I just want to share. Oh, OK. Yeah, sure. All right, Nicky, that's good. Well, I mean, we've been on for an hour, so I'm going to probably log off anyways. For folks, let me just do this for this person here. That's the link I just dropped. Get your Duns number, select US business. That's it. Or I'm going to use government contractor. There it is. I'll drop this other link. There you go. All right, I'm going to stop sharing. I'm going to sign off from YouTube. Thank you, everyone, for joining us. I just kind of want to give a shout out to your course first. You can give a shout out. Yes, you guys. If you we do this every week, Tuesdays and then once a month on Mondays, Eric brings people in the industry from the government, CEOs, business development people to teach us. So if you do the 2.0, it is worth it. It is worth it. It is worth it. Do it. Sign up. Yes. And again, just keep in mind, I invest my time in people who invest with me. So while I appreciate everyone for watching on YouTube, that's great. But until you make a commitment to yourself and further your learning, it's really, you know, it's going to be hard for me to want to take away time from people who pay to be with me to pay to have these experiences to give to people who don't don't even have enough invested in a game. So again, very minimal investment to get started. So thanks, guys, for joining. Canty Enterprise. Thanks for watching. Thanks, Edub. Yeah, I don't know what people want. All right. So thank you, guys. I'm going to stop off YouTube.


Well, it's okay. Thank you for doing the average golfer. I'm down here for golf Chester We're gonna be testing what I consider to be one of the best value versus performance golf balls that there is on the mark in the Marketplace right now, and we're gonna pitch it up against Arguably what is recognized as the best golf ball in the marketplace right now, and that's the tightest probe you want But it's not me. It's gonna be testing it. It's team average.  It's got urethane cover. It's aimed at low spinning off the driver and Great for the short game in terms of providing that extra bit of spin when it's needed the best of both worlds Which is again very much similar to the tail you'd be expecting from the pro v1 We've already collected dry ball data last week, and let me tell you before we go any further There are a few surprises. That's certainly some eye-opener so don't go anywhere. Let's start there one by one Let's look at the dry ball data and see what impact this golf ball had on Performance compared to the pro v1 I was impressed with the consistency of the seed ball in all of the results in comparison to the pro v1 Which I was using to test against it was With my 52 degree wedge I was aiming for a hundred yard shot in relation to all the Pro v1 was slightly under the seed ball was slightly longer, but both in the ballpark The seven-iron again it was consistent in the sense It was a little bit longer than the pro v1 and that was a pattern I found Again with the driver In terms of the dry ball data, it was a very consistent performing ball Which is roughly in the same ballpark as the pro v1 I think the overriding thought I got from dry ball data was how similar the products were I couldn't really differentiate them feel was very much the same perhaps even a bit softer with the seed ball But you know when I actually saw it at the end I thought well, this is a good club is performing Well any club really with the ball and it's performing well just as well as it would be the pro v1 Was you surprised at all? Yes, yeah, I didn't think it would I thought one of these players I suppose like a lot of them they feel guilty if they're not using a tight list Yeah, and you put something else out and you're prejudiced against it.  I've done that a few times. I've gone to Strix on or something like that This ball I wouldn't so when I look through the numbers on both the pro v and the seed they're very very similar There's not a lot in it wedge couple of hundred revs Seven iron again another couple of hundred revs and the same with the driver and splitting hairs really about strike But they both give really good spin numbers. I'd be really happy with any of them if I was hitting them out on the course dry ball data was quite not what I expected the information that came back from Trackman sort of Showed them to the pro v1 to be very similar to the seed to and That was quite unexpected really I expected the pro v1 to be if anything even only slightly better some way better because of well, you you're sort of the price of them you're Encouraged to think that it's a premium ball and therefore you'll get the best best possible Results from it, but that wasn't necessarily the case. Okay, so part one of the test complete a few surprises We've got the opinions of team average, but we all know dry ball data. It's a confined area. It's is it is it real? No, it's not so what we needed to do was face two of this test was to take the golf ball out on the golf course in a real environment and see how it performs in each of the different areas and then it's over to team average to give their Overall summary and what they think of this golf ball when they've put it to the test in a real situation Thought it was not noticeable and I made a point of switching the balls when I played earlier this week between hole after hole I Didn't notice any difference between the seed and the pro v1 in terms of performance So the point where I was having to check the ball at the end of the hole to just make sure which one I've been using on that particular Section, I don't catch the ball Consistently sweetly as often as I would like and certainly didn't that day though Saturday. I had a better day I Found when I was catching the ball sweetly. It was a sweet strike whichever ball I was using and in that sense There was no distinction between them where I did feel Very good with the seed ball was noticeably on putting it felt that it was coming off the putter face very Well, I like the sound of it. I like the little alignment line it has on it and which I have to put on my own pro v1 So yeah around the green I felt I liked it probably more so than the previous. I think pricing seed have got it, right? where seed need to to progress is that most golfers are Habitual players, so I don't buy Brucks of pro v1s at 40 grid I'll wait till titles to have a promotion and then I'll buy the four for the price of three buy them from my club Which gives me an additional discount opportunity or I'll buy pro v1s, which are not brand new but still barely Noticable as far as I'm concerned at 27 pound And I think seed have the opportunity to get into a market They've now got to be really clever about how they change the habits of golfers to get into I like the pricing Their mail order you then stuck with the postage costs I think it's around about five pounds for postage unless of course you buy greater quantities, which might give you a better scheme I think on the basis that Seed want a subscription system That could work But they need to reward loyalty and essentially get it to the point where they have Seed balls throughout your bag because most golfers don't Exclusively play with a pro v1. They'll have other balls that they play with but seed is a price point where you could Actually have that throughout your bag without exception Well, I've played twice with these now one truncated round because of the rain But it was very evident to me though went out there that I wasn't losing any distance now for someone my age senior golfer I know exactly what I hit and I wasn't losing any perceptible distance at all feel was very very good And the accuracy was just the same really I was just again Pleasantly surprised how similar it was to performance of my premium and much more expensive ball Well, I'm sorry to be boring about this But I thought it was very very similar around the green and what struck me most of all and really impressed me was the Softness of the putter face hold a lot of good parts. I felt confident behind the ball It rolled well, but it felt beautiful the face and it felt like I was gonna hold them some of the chipping really nice and soft That's what I thought I didn't notice anything any different. I'm not the best chipper in the world So I'm probably not the best judge, but I have to say it was certainly no worse I would happily put it in the bag on that basis. I was very impressed My overall summer of the ball is it's a very very good ball for half the price of the famous premium product tight list I think the issues are not about the goal for actually acquiring the ball even though it's online That isn't a problem to anybody. What I think it is it says market breakthrough You know, how do you mark your boys? How you might be tight list is that gonna apply to seed? Is it going to catch on in that way? Well, I think it's just about getting the product out there if they can either find a way of getting it into the pros Into the retailers, you know get a little bit wider than that I think if people give them a sleeve of the balls, you know, and they'll try them for themselves I think they'll be very impressed people are lucky to save money because golf products are going up all the time All the clubs the drivers the irons and everything else at last here's a very very good product coming in at half the price Which will give most of us the average golfers everything we need and be very satisfied with so I think it's just a question of them breaking through in the market I think you get them in the hands of the average golfer They'll want to buy them click of the internet and they'll be well worth money well worth spent So using the ball out on the course I pretty much compared it with a tailor-made tp5 So I'd hit one shot than the other And on a couple of occasions there was a yard or two in it. The seed was longer a couple of times I'd actually say on a full shot with a driver you get a better sound out of the out of the seed ball But like I say the distances were very very comparable so again happy with both so again I compared against the tp5 and From full shots in with a wedge Distances were very similar maybe a little bit further with the seed But again, they stopped really quickly like I'd expect them to not a lot of run out with either of them Then I came in closer done little short chips And I would say the seed ball sounded a little firmer off the face However, they still expected at the deformed how I'd expect them to be still stopped relatively quickly They ran out to a very sort of similar distance So no issues with either ball with putter Again putter. I would say the seed sounded a little firmer, but really nice roll Went roughly the kind of distance had expected to compare it with the tp5 And even though there's a slight difference in sound the performance of the ball was very very similar So the price comparison on them they're pretty much half of the price if you're buying them online And the performance out of them. I would say they're very very similar so You know if you want to buy a trusted brand that you know the name of Tell your mates that you're playing a Probe you want them fair enough But if you want to play a ball that performs equally as well and it's half price Then I'd have no issues buying that's all and nowadays the amount of things that people buy online And I don't really see a problem with buying golf balls and things online. I think it shows good value for money As far as on the cause goes It felt no different to to any other ball. I compared it With the Probe V1X more than with the Probe V1 It would the feedback from the ball was very similar if not slightly better from the seed It was slightly softer Probe V1X felt a little bit firmer on the face Whereas that the seed felt nice and soft and compressing against the face as you hit it especially with the irons Driver and woods to me that they're a bit like chocolate You could know you know, there are different brands, but you can't necessarily taste the difference and so it was with these The control on the short game was was excellent for the seed It was as you'd expected for a Probe V1X But having said that There was very little to be gained by paying the extra money for for the Probe V1 in my opinion The seed was as good as it when it took it on to the putting green The roll was true depending on the putting green But by and large the results that I got were excellent Overall, it's a ball. I would put in my bag. I would game this one There it's value for money. I would normally use the title as ball and I would use it to a soft This felt very similar to a tour soft. It was nice and soft around the greens, but it got good Low spin off the tee the price point would be similar to the To the tour soft rather than the Probe V1 and Probe V1X and therefore it represents better value for money The the point at the moment that they distribute them from Ireland by post Would be an issue for me because if I lose ammo then I want to replace it fairly handily and not necessarily be held up by postal delays But I suppose if I organize myself, I could get things Sorted so that I had enough balls in my bag As far as the future is concerned. I would not hesitate to put this in the bag Right, okay, so it's over to me to summarize But I think in a way the reason I stayed out the video is because as you know seeds support the channel So I didn't want anything sort of too biased So in many ways, I'll let you draw your own conclusions The idea behind this was in October of last year. I first tried out a seed golf ball I was really surprised and shocked by its performance and have been waiting to do this video for quite some time where we get some for independent voices and Let them try them out and like I said from dry ball data through to out there on the course It seems to me from what I've watched a very very positive response So I'll leave it at that and like I said, I've looked through the numbers Maybe pause a few of those clips and just analyze some of that data if you're interested in that It's very very close indeed. There's very little to separate the golf balls At all and I think it just shows that there's plenty of product out there if you have a bit of a route round There's some affordable product that performs really really well I think the seed golf ball fits into that category I'm gonna put the link down below if you are interested in purchasing these things online Then I'll put a link through to seed on how you can do that as ever Thank you for watching And I'll see you very very soon and oh I comment subscribe like do all them things as well. Yeah, I'm off


I love the edition That's it is every day is dunk life. Good morning. Good morning. How are you good? Welcome dunk life daily Colombian edition. We're on the freaking balcony. I don't know if the lighting's good Seven oh, yes you I'm yelling. It's eight seven thirty welcome episode 17 18 I don't know, but it's two episode two with mom. That's true. And we have magic shirts on Oh What are we doing today? We had a lot of coffee already I'm going to the gym and then we're having breakfast because we're starting off super early. How's your morning mom? I woke up and I saw you and I was very very happy Anyway, I saw michael first and then I came and saw you in the other room Did you but it's good. I had a good morning. We're supposed to take this. Did you have any dreams? I did not have any dreams because I took melatonin and I love My sleep and no dreams. It's like, uh, I didn't join the lose dream. I woke up dreaming of nothing How do you do that? I jumped into nothing. I wanted a dream of nothing to do This podcast is going to be nothing if we keep talking about nothing. That's what it's a podcast about nothing I think they can tell our energy We had two cups of Colombian brutal I don't know where he gets his energy from it's not for me Yeah, right We see it So last night we got in and then there was a lot of stars last night. We saw a shooting star What else would we see and today's plan is just I want to look up on this day. I will we're doing at the end. Oh, I wanted to look it up for you to say You can do it if you want. All right. I left my phone inside So we have to find a basketball hoop because that's what we do whenever we travel with stevie We try to find somewhere for him to shoot a basketball and dunk a basketball I'm not just shooting dunk a basketball. What are your first impressions of columbia? My first impression for me the people are amazingly kind nice helpful Um, I guess tourism is a big part of their thing, but not quite. I hate that. This is a historic city There's not a lot of tourism here. Um, as opposed to other places. I think but um Yeah Think it's beautiful I'm excited for breakfast. I'm like and look at the ocean behind us. I know We've a beautiful golf course the ocean. What do you want to tell the people to start their day?  That's what I would keep it going. Keep going.  Um, no hanging off cliffs. Don't hang over the balcony.   That's my sundae advice. All right. Cheers You pretty much killed it. I think that's what I'm gonna say all I gotta say Maybe go slam it slam it sundae if it's your dunk day a stretch if it's your recovery day what else Keep it smart train smart talk about training. I'm gonna go to the gym. Yeah, I'm gonna go to the gym with you I'm gonna go to the gym work on these There's a muscle up there somewhere underneath that layer.  I got one more. All right Keep it short sundae. We got to get out here so we can do things toodles or no Yeah, we got it on the day on the day you want to read them here? Yeah, let me see. I'll find it All right, so I have the website already. You can just go through it. All right. I'm gonna pick out what I want How close I'll hold it. Okay. Oh On this day on this day July events July 28th Silent Korean organized by James Wellum Johnson of 10,000 african-americans who marched on 5th Avenue, New York City To protest against lynching We read exactly the same 1914 operation Gomorrah rf bombing over hamberg cause oh, uh, perfect Come on. You have to look at these ahead of time. I know That's the fun part. That's the fun part. You just see what I've come back Wait, what earthquake and it's ancient wait here. Not even tell me this is here 1976 Okay, 2005 the position of irish republic. There was sports boys, son. There's a big ones here. All right, 1977 Legendary england cricket go ahead. I love you in england But cricket really really is that really a sport? I don't know the sports really quick people gonna be mad at me 1932 white zombie first feature length zombie film directed by that 1978 600,000 attend the summer jam rock festival of walkins glenn new york at the time of did you go The largest ever audience at a pop festival 1932 I'm just kidding. It said 1978. No, I was in like I was in eighth grade. So All right, let's check a little bit more in sports one more Um, oh, you should have this ahead of time here. We're gonna prepare Okay, so now here's the comments from the last video pick one you like from the last video dunk lifer of the day tell him congrats Tell him this is dunk lifer of the day is power bounce checking in for the 17th day. I love that. Yeah Whoo And that's by a power bounce. I said that right? Yeah, let's see. Um, that's all of them. There's only a few I love watching these podcasts because it's great to learn from you steven dominic bond shout out. Thank you Let's go. All right, learn from me because he learned from me. There you go. What's the last thing you say?


Hello, everyone, welcome back to another AI video. In this one, we're in Chat GPT-4 or Chat GPT-Plus, and we're doing a plug-in review. In particular, we're doing video insights, and I'm gonna tell you straight up, it's a great plug-in, especially because it does what it says it's going to do. All right, so let's get going here. I'm gonna open up a fresh browser here, and I'm gonna show you how to go ahead and make sure that it's installed and ready to go. So I'm hovering over GPT-4. When I do that, I click on this little plugins, and this is the way to set it up so that the plugins are working.  Click on that, and you'll see one thing. You'll see that video insights is installed. If it's not installed for you, just click down here to the plugin store, and then you just sorta gotta dig around and find it in there. It's right here under popular. Here it is right now, and you'll see it says it's installed, but it could be somewhere else, depending on when you watch this. Okay, so with it installed, it's very easy to use, and it does two things. But the first thing I always recommend anybody that uses a plugin is how do I use this plugin? I just ask ChatGPT to tell me, and it will tell me exactly what I need to do to use this. So here it is. It'll give you a quick introduction. It's used to extract information from videos. All right, good enough.  It's a really fancy way of saying that. So while it shows you that, let's go over here and let me show you what it looks like. So what I did is I literally just pasted in the video URL, the YouTube URL that I wanted to use. And in this case, it's one of my own videos because that way I'll know if it's telling me, you know, the right stuff. So all you gotta do is just pick the video you want and then click on the share button, then click on copy so that you've got a copy of the URL. Go back into ChatGPT and Presto. Here we go. So what'll I do? I'll just copy and paste that in there and watch this. It's now gonna cook it up. And here you go. It says using video insights, which is what we want. All right, and now it's gonna tell us what we got. The video you shared is titled Creating Consistent Characters with mid-journey version five, face swapping techniques. It has X number of views, likes, comments. All of it is true. I've already checked that out and here you go. Here it gives you the breakdown of the topics in the video. So if you're doing, you know, research either on like a school project or maybe you're doing competitive research. You're not sure if you want to, you know, make videos in a specific field and you, you know, you're checking out other people's videos to see what they do to try and learn from them. Not copy them, but learn from them. This is an excellent way to do that. So there you go. It gives you a quick introduction here and a quick breakdown of it. If I want to transcript, please, all you gotta do is go please provide transcript and period break into parts. Oops. Let's see if I can type it if it is too long. Hit enter and presto. The only caveat here is it's going to do it, but look, I'm going to show you over here. It gave it to me, but when I clicked on it, here it is. Here's the first part of the transcript. It is literally a wall of text. It is virtually zero punctuation. There's no commas. There's no periods all the way down here till you get your first semicolon. So that is the only drawback is the punctuation is horrible. But look at that. Hello everybody. Welcome back to another mid-journey tutorial. This is exactly what I said. This is an exact, it's a correct transcript. This is a great app. I highly recommend it. Thanks for watching.