Hello everybody, welcome to Barn's Takeout, your daily serving of art. I'm Robin Quarren, Collections Research Coordinator at the Barnes Foundation. Today, I'm going to talk to you about this painting right here. It's on the south wall of Room 5. I want you to remember the size of this painting when we look at it a bit further. So I told you to think about the size. So even though it's a very small painting, it really kind of gives off this sense of monumentality. And it has this really interesting framing device, which is very architectural. It has these columns here and this framing. And we're seeing it from kind of off to the left from a particular kind of vantage point as if we're supposed to be seeing it from that viewpoint. Part of that is because this painting is actually a modello, which is a small oil sketch for a larger tapestry. It would have actually been shown in reverse of this. So this figure right here would have actually been on this side and these would have been over here. Tapestry was one of the most luxurious and prized art forms during this period. And it was far costlier to create than painting or sculpture. So therefore it in some ways wasn't as common. And I think we kind of forget about it now because of how much they have faded over time or are in much more poorer conditions than their painting or sculpture counterparts. But they would have been these really vibrant, beautiful representations of a beautiful art. So like I said, this is a modello for a tapestry, which is part of a larger series that was commissioned by the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia. She's a Spanish princess, but at the time of the commission, she was the governor general of the Spanish southern Netherlands. She commissioned Peter Paul Rubens, who was a Flemish painter and who was her court painter to her and before that her and her husband. He was also a trusted diplomat of her and he was a knight of the Spanish crown. He devised the plans of these tapestries in his studio in Antwerp and then they were then woven in Brussels, which was her where she her court was. And they were woven by the prominent workshops of Jan Ross, the first and Jacob Hobels, the second. Isabel gave these tapestries as a gift to the Franciscan Monasterio de las Descalces de Arres, which is the convent of the Barefoot Royals, very funny name, in Madrid in the 1620s. She commissioned it probably as early as 1622. She grew up in the Spanish court. She was born in 1566, the eldest daughter of King Philip II, who was a Spanish king and his third wife, Elizabeth de Valois. The king and the royal family actually attended mass in the convent, the church of the convent, which was really kind of treated as the royal chapel. The convent itself was home to many widowed noble women, and what she should take note of and remember later when we talk a bit more about that. So she was actually married rather late in life to her cousin, the Archduke Albert of Austria. He was the fourth son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. When she married him, she brought with her as the dowry, the southern Netherlands, for which she was then appointed co-sovereign with her husband. This was part of a strategy to calm unrest in the region. Spain was Catholic, and the crown wanted to protect and maintain control of the territories from the Protestants who were in the north. So she was really seen as this defender of the Catholic faith in the region. And it was a particularly turbulent time in Europe between Protestants and Catholics. It was a period of the counter-reformations of the Catholics, capturing what the Protestants had said before. But her father put a clause in the dowry. If she and her husband did not produce an heir, the territory would go back to Spanish control. So around this time when she became the co-governor of the Spanish southern Netherlands, Rubens actually became her court painter. So he entered into her life around the time when she became a ruler. She enjoyed a pretty peaceful rule until 1621, when her brother, who was the king of Spain, died. And a treaty which had put a stop to conflict between the Protestants and Catholics ended. And then later that year, her husband died. So as you remember, the control of the region went back to Spanish control. So the new king of Spain, who was her nephew, Philip IV, instructed her to stay there. She actually had requested to return to Madrid, and she wanted to join the Order of the Convent, the Discalsas Reales. But he told her to remain there as governor general of the Spanish southern Netherlands. And this was really done for a specific reason. She was actually relatively popular as a ruler, and it was, like I said, a time of particular unrest. So she was seen as an important figure in maintaining Spanish and Catholic control of the region. So instead, since she wasn't able to actually return, she commissioned this tapestry series, which can really be seen as a showcase of her devotion to the Catholic faith. And it being in a church, the church of the convent, which she would have liked to have joined, and which the royal family went to, it was like a symbol of her as well. She actually did join a secular Franciscan order and wore a habit, like wore the clothing of a nun the rest of her life. So she was a very pious woman. So this series is called The Triumph of the Eucharist, and its imagery glorifies the Catholic Church. It really sought to express the church's triumph over heresy, a major theme of the counter-reformation period. They really reflect this dynamic relationship between Isabel and her court painter Rubens. And Rubens did a really beautiful job of showcasing the imagery and the iconography of these scenes. The tapestries would have been hung in the church. It was a rather austere church at the time. And so it would have decorated the church during Eucharistic feasts, and they would have been hung on the walls likely. And they would have shown these really beautiful figural compositions like this one, and these illusionistic architectural frames. And they would have been on multiple levels, most likely. The main tapestries of the series, for which this one is not one of those, it's a smaller, part of a smaller series within the series. So the largest ones were over 16 feet tall and 24 feet long, so very big. And there were 11 of those. And they would have covered the side walls of the church and possibly the Presbytery. And they had a lower row and a top row, like I said. The lower row features Tuscan columns and had a more level viewpoint. So it has the implication that they were meant to be seen kind of more at eye level or close to that. And they included Old Testament prefigurations of the Eucharist. The upper level had a vantage point, which suggested that you're meant to see it from below. And those featured Solomonic columns. They had really dramatic scenes of the victory of truth over heresy, and the victory of the Eucharist over idolatry, among others. So they were these very triumphant scenes. So on the wall opposite the altar, there would have been five smaller scenes. They also had upper and lower registers, featuring the same Tuscan and Solomonic columns. But this one is, they think, probably would have been hung above those. So kind of like at the center, it has different columns, Tuscan, not quite Solomonic, that differ from the other ones in that smaller series. And so that kind of suggests that it would have been above. There's also a sketch by Rubens of what we assume he would have wanted them all to look like. This one is not shown in it, but the scene right below, where they think it may have been, has these same columns. These scenes show sacred and secular figures in adoration of the Eucharist. So this painting shows, let's talk about it and let's dig a bit deeper. This actually shows the King David. He is an Old Testament figure. You'll know him from the story of David and Goliath when he killed Goliath during a battle with the Philistines when he was in his youth. But he was also the second king of Israel. The first king, Saul, was showing, was failing in the eyes of the prophet Samuel. So he actually anointed David as the next king of Israel. But that happened much later in life after his triumph over Goliath. And a series of events. David is often shown with a harp or a lyre like he is here. And that's because he was said to have calmed King Saul's mental and emotional instability by playing this musical instrument, because he was well versed in playing it, in playing musical instruments. But he also angered Saul. Saul became jealous of David and in a rather long and elaborate cat and mouse game he tried, he chased and tried to kill David. But he eventually saw that David was loyal to him and the drop the endeavor. And David, like I said, would later become the second king after Saul and his sons died. And we see this crowd over here, which is another signifier of the fact that this is King David. But we don't see him as he normally would be with Saul. Normally when he's playing the instrument he's shown with King Saul.  But here he's shown presumably in heaven because they're all sitting on these clouds and he's shown with angels and they are holding these sheets of music and really just celebrating him playing this instrument. And like I said, they're framed within this really interesting architectural space. And it's part of this larger series, not as elaborate as some of the other tapestries within the series, but still very important and part of this story of the triumph of the Eucharist. And the whole series can be seen as a representation of an important act of patronage by Isabella, one that shows that she was her true devotion to the Catholic Church. So I hope you enjoyed today's Takeout. That's it for today. To get more daily servings of art, please subscribe to our channel. And as always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Thank you. And for your support of the Barnes Foundation.


Today is the 37th birthday of Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone and the last one year has been quite an eventful one for her. She was chosen as the global brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton and also as the ambassador for Cartier. Apart from that she became the first Indian to unveil the FIFA World Cup trophy which was a big movement for Indians all around the world. She also turned entrepreneur recently with her self-care brand called 82 East. Now the name of the brand is inspired by the meridian that runs longitudinally through India and also defines the standard time of the country. Going forward a lot of other movie projects are of course lined up for Deepika this year and the next who actually became a global name with a Hollywood debut in 2017 with the sequel to the movie XXX called XXX Return of Xander Cage where she starred alongside Vin Diesel. In the projects which are coming up for her there is Javan, Adipurush, Project K and Spider. Clearly a big year and more to come for Deepika Padukone.


Full house to White House. From border to border. From Maine to Hawaii. All over America the sun and the flag rise together each morning. So it has been for more than 180 years. So it was for nearly half a century under our flag of 48 stars. And before that, under 33 stars. And before that, under 26 stars. And so it was under all the flags that came before. Old Glory was born in a changing world. And she wasn't our first flag either. There were many before the stars and stripes. So let's go back. Because our flag story is the story of America. Growing from a wilderness into colonies. Colonies into states. States into a great free nation. In the beginning we were British subjects. We were adventurers, settlers, seekers of religious freedom, yes. But first of all, we were English under the cross of St. George. The year was 1607. Three ships of Captain Christopher Newport dropped anchor in Chesapeake Bay. They were four months out of London. The new land was as strange to them as the planet Mars. Lord Percy's diary for this day says, Assure we found fair meadows and goodly tall trees. Noble forests. The ground carpeted with flowers. Gave. Fine strawberries. Turkey nests. And Indy. Thus began the settlement of Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. Onto the same flag a few years later the pilgrims settled in Massachusetts. The flags of many explorers, Dutch, French, Spanish, and others, have flown briefly over our land. But the first to colonize were Englishmen. This was their flag, our flag, as we started to grow from two lonely settlements to 13 expanding colonies. During our early growth the flag of the mother country became the Union Jack, as England and Scotland united. This became our flag too. Though as we grew we were changing gradually almost unconsciously from being colonists to being Americans. The year is now 1773. And all is not well in the king's American dominions. A new flag appears in Massachusetts. There is talk of liberty. But the king still has his royal laws, his royal governors, and royal taxes. It is the tax on imported English tea that hurts the most. And so one night in Boston Samuel Adams led some friends to a tea party dressed as Indians. The strange new flag said liberty. But it was only a hope, not a reality. And British troops cut down the liberty flags wherever they went up. And so the colonies simmered like a kettle on a fire. And the fire grew warmer and presently came the explosion. The year 1775. Already at Concord, Massachusetts the shot heard round the world has been fired. In June a force of patriots gathers on Breeds Hill and Bunker Hill outside Boston. This is their flag. Hill was the first pitched battle of the revolution. And we lost it. But the British paid a murderous price. They knew now for the first time that it would be a fight to the finish. From the pine forested hills of New England more patriot forces gathered as General Washington took command. Actly enough the pine tree flag was flown by many of them, distinguishing New Englanders from troops of other colonies. Boston was now besieged. The British troops that held the city were cut off by land. Floating batteries bombarded the British positions from the river. Along the coasts armed private tears fought running battles with the British men of war. The American fleet could not hope to match the powerful British Navy. But we could sting them, harass them, and pick off the strays. The first fighting schooners of General Washington flew this flag. It is a Massachusetts flag, but each colony had a Navy of its own too. Ranging from one galley to as many as 72 vessels. Now the year is 1776. After the opening clashes the war thus far is about even. We have one failure at Quebec and one success at Boston. Now another flag appears with a new and deadly device, the rattlesnake. The first Marines land with this flag in a raid on the Bahamas in February. It is seen with the South Carolina Navy also. It seems to express our feelings. At about the same time still another flag is seen at Charleston, where a British fleet is trying to seize the city. For 10 hours the British warships pounded Fort Sullivan almost at point blank range. But for 10 hours the Carolina men fought back like demons, destroying one ship, crippling others until the enemy gave up and sailed back to sea. Thus we gained another victory, but the war was young. So far it was just a rebellion, not yet a revolution. Now as the summer comes on in 1776, one flag rises above all others. The Grand Union. The rebellious stripes descended from an old Dutch freedom flag stand for the 13 colonies. The British Union Jack in the corner shows we have not yet broken away from the empire. But a great decision is approaching. The orators, the firebrands, like Patrick Henry and Tom Payne have been heard. The Committees of Correspondence and the Sons of Liberty have done their work. The word independence is heard more and more. The idea of independence spreads and grows. Now it is the time of the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia. The time of John Hancock, John Adams, old Ben Franklin and young Tom Jefferson. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. We must hang together, almost assuredly, we shall all hang separately. There is but one course, a union, a confederation of 13 states, independent of parliament, of ministers and of kings. And so the day came, July 4th, 1776. Throughout the colonies ran the word. Hear ye, a declaration by the Continental Congress. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations. All having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. Thus in the midst of a war which the king might easily win, the colonists denounced that king is a tyrant and proclaimed independence throughout the land. No sooner had we declared independence than General Howe struck at New York with a big fleet and an even bigger army. Beaten on Long Island, we retreated to Manhattan. Defeated there, Washington pulled back to White Plains, then across the Hudson into New Jersey. And then retreated still farther south and west to the Delaware River. On Lake Champlain, meanwhile, a fleet of our homemade ships was sunk by British guns. Then just after Christmas, 1776, Washington surprised the British at Trenton and Princeton and beat them decisively. The war was a long way from being over. No, the war was not over, but we have arrived at a dividing line in history. Having separated from the crown, having finished with the Empire, the flag of the United Colonies must become the flag of the United States. It is June 1777. The Congress of the United States enacts a resolution. That the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternately red and white. That the Union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Betsy Ross of Philadelphia may have made our first stars and stripes. Or perhaps her part in it is only a legend. No one really knows. But this we do know. The 13 stars were indeed a new constellation in the heavens of mankind. Stars of hope in a dark sky. From this time on, nothing in the old world or the new would ever be the same again. But in those early months, the form of our new constellation was not precisely fixed. At Bennington, Vermont, for instance, a British raiding party was crushed by a patriot force flying this flag. Only a few days later, the battle of Saratoga ended in a great American victory. But there was still plenty of fighting to do. On the high seas, John Paul Jones was doing his share under several different flags. This was one of them. It had only 12 stars. Why, we do not know for sure, but there it was standing for liberty and union. And that was enough for Jones. On land, in 1779, 80 and 81, the war flickered across the Carolinas. An American general said, We fight, get beat, rise and fight again. We lost at Camden and won at Kings Mountain. We won at Cowpens and lost at Guilford Courthouse. But win or lose, the British were paying dearly. This was our flag at Guilford. The stripes were blue and red. The stars had eight points instead of five. And they were blue on a white field instead of the other way round. Everything about the flag was wrong, except for one thing. It stood for the 13 United States. And that was all that mattered. The summer came on in 1781 and Cornwallis took his British army to the Virginia coast to contact the British fleet. But the French fleet, allied with us, showed up instead. What by sea, the British sought to break out of the trap by land. But Washington was there with every cannon the colonies could muster. It was time for another kind of flag. October 19th, 1781, Yorktown, Virginia. 7,247 British troops surrendered. The impossible thing had happened. The impossible dream had come true. It was six and a half years from the first shot it conquered to the last at Yorktown, against the greatest nation on earth. We had won the unalienable right to be free. Now, in order to form a more perfect union, we adopted a constitution. Today, 170 years later, it still stands as the most brilliant document of its kind ever conceived. They built well these architects of ours, planning for the expansion which was then already started. Vermont was the first new state to join the old 13. Then, Daniel Boone opened up Kentucky. Now, we were 15 United States. And the new flag showed not only 15 stars, but 15 stripes as well. The year was 1803. President Thomas Jefferson, seizing a great opportunity, made the Louisiana Purchase. In one stroke, we bought the heart of the continent. A gigantic area from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, from which another 13 states were destined to be formed. The cost was $15 million, the price of the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1812, we found ourselves again at war with Britain, this time over freedom of the seas. In this conflict, the spotlight of history shone on Lawrence and Decatur, on Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie, on Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. And there was another man who saw the bombardment of Fort McHenry, saw dawn break over its battlements, and caught the moment in deathless music. Francis Scott King. The War of 1812 interrupted our seaborn commerce, but not our expansion westward. Five new states were organized and joined the Union by 1818. Now, Congress returned to the original flag of 13 stripes. But since no rule was made as to arrangement of the stars, this flag, the great star flag, came into being for a little while. Most flag makers were content, however, to place the 20 stars in straight rows. Not that the 20-star flag could last for long. No, these were years when the making of flags could scarcely keep pace with the making of states. In the south, Mr. Whitney's cotton gin was transforming the entire economy, along with sugar cane. Government land could be bought for a dollar and a quarter an acre. And if you didn't like it in Indiana or wherever you were, you could go out west to Illinois, or on into Indian country. By 1837, six more states had joined the Union. Every few years, the stars of the flag had to be rearranged and increased. The settlements grew into villages. The villages into towns, and the towns began calling themselves cities. Not everyone thought we'd keep on growing. A United States senator about this time said, After we pass the Missouri River, except on a few streams, there is no territory fit for settlement or habitation. Well, maybe not. But if he'd spoken in independence, his words would have been lost in the clouds of dust raised by the westbound wagon trains, heading out over the Santa Fe Trail and the Spanish Trail, the Oregon Trail, and the California Trail. Trails for the Conestoga wagons marked out by Kit Carson and John C. Fremont over 2,000 miles of plains and mountains. This was also the era of David Crocker, who wrote his name and history at the Alamo. Texas for a time was an independent republic. Then in a short-lived war with Mexico, our southern and western borders were settled once and for all. By the annexation of Texas in the Mexican Session, we had lengthed reach the Pacific Coast. And soon we had more states to add to the growing Union. Our flag had 33 stars in the spring of 1861. But on April 12th of that year began the saddest chapter of American history. The Civil War started at Charleston and ended at Appomattox four years later. While it lasted, 11 states were in secession from the Union. The war raged north and south, east and west. Peaceful farms and villages became battlefields. Brother fought against brotherhood. One under the stars and stripes. The other under the stars and bars. This battle flag was also carried by Confederate forces throughout the war. In the end, the Union prevailed. A Union which now numbered 36 states as Kansas, West Virginia and Nevada added their stars to our flag. Now the nation resumed its march westward, always westward. The herds of Buffalo were banishing and herds of cattle appeared instead. The railroad from the east joined the railroad from the west in what is now Utah. And in Philadelphia, there was a great centennial exposition. 100 years had passed since our Declaration of Independence. To mark this event, a Jubilee flag was flown with the 13 stars of our first constellation, now part of a bigger galaxy. Now the remaining territories quickly formed into states. In one year alone, 1890, five new stars were added simultaneously to our flag. And by 1912, all the gaps had been filled. It was thought at one time that Texas should be five states, California two states, and the Dakotas one state. But when the arguments were over, we added up to 48. And there we stayed for nearly half a century, until Alaska and Hawaii made us an even 50. And so here is our flag of today. Our field of stars has now grown great. And in the 13 stripes, there lives and shall always live the symbol of the 13 rebellious colonies who struck the first great blow for freedom. We began with the Cross of St. George a mere three and one half centuries ago. A short span indeed in the long history of mankind. But what we did in that time with our great proposition of freedom has altered history and lifted the hearts of men. For ours is a flag not of conquest, but liberation, not of oppression, but justice, not of domination, but dignity. To all men in all lands and times, these are the colors of liberty.


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Good afternoon. Welcome back to another vlog. It is currently Saturday afternoon. I just got back from the gym and I was about to hop in the shower, hence why my hair looks like this. It's pretty clean. I just washed it a couple days ago. So I'm just gonna do a body shower and avoid getting the hair wet. But I thought I would start another weekend in my life vlog. I worked pretty late last night. So the first half of my day, I just wanted to sleep in and chill and kind of lay around and do nothing. But then I finally pulled myself together when worked out and now we're gonna get ready because I am going to dinner with the girls from the salon that I work at. And then we're gonna go out afterwards and it should be a fun night. I have some new makeup too that I am really excited to wear and share with you guys. I am showered.  It took me a minute to figure out my outfit. Now I have to decide though what jewelry I wanna wear because the dress that I'm wearing is like really plain and basic. Necklace, no necklace. I think I'm gonna go with this necklace. But now which earrings do I do? The thick hoops or the thinner, bigger hoop? I think I might be leaning towards these. Well, see, I think I should just wait until my hair and makeup is done and then see which ones I like better. But either way, both of these earrings and this necklace that I'm wearing and all of the other earrings that I have in that I keep in all the time are from Ana Luisa and they are sponsoring this portion of the vlog. You guys know if you're a regular viewer of mine I'm always wearing the same jewelry pieces. I just need to have high quality pieces that I can just leave on all the time and not have to worry that they're gonna tarnish or break or turn my skin green. And that's why I love Ana Luisa's jewelry. 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Let's get ready and then I'll decide like the final jewelry once everything else is done. I'm gonna put a little bit of SPF first because the sun is still out and it is quite strong today. This is the Super Goop Daily Dose Hydro-Saramide Boost plus SPF. It's like an oil basically, but it doesn't make your face feel or look greasy. It really just like absorbs into the skin and adds a nice glow. I like wearing that even just like on no makeup days by itself, but under makeup it's really nice too. And then the next thing is a new product, the Say Glowy Super Gel in Star Glow.   The consistency of it feels kind of like a gel and a moisturizer in one. So like the foundation just glides over it so nicely. For foundation, I am gonna do the essence pretty natural. This stuff, I've been using it for years and it is just like I tried and true. It's so good. It's like $6 at Ulta, but it's just amazing. Like the finish is beautiful and it is completely transfer proof and it's so good in the humidity. It's pretty hot out right now. It's super humid outside today and we're gonna go out after dinner and probably be dancing. So I know I'm gonna be hot and probably sweating. So whenever it's a day like that and I need something that's gonna be transfer proof and isn't gonna budge and is gonna like hold up, that's what I will use every time. And it's crazy how inexpensive it is. So yeah, the dinner that we're doing tonight, we are going out to a sushi restaurant downtown and I'm so excited. If you guys live in Wilmington or you're just familiar with the area, we're going to Yosaki. It's a fun place and it's nice because it's right downtown, like right by all of the other popular bars. It's just so fun when we all get together. I feel like we have a good dynamic. We all get along really well. I feel like it's really rare, especially with such a big group, you know? Like what are the chances? Because all together, there's like almost 20 employees at the salon, including the owner. So I mean, that's a lot of women. So to get that many people together and like for all of us to genuinely like each other, it's amazing. But it's really fun when we all get together because, you know, when we're at work, we're professional because we're at work, but it's just so funny to like see everybody outside of that environment, especially when we all get some drinks in us. By the way, I applied the NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer under my eyes and just kind of like highlighted a little bit. And then I used the COSIS Cloud Set Powder in the shade Breezy to set that lightly. And then I did a little bit of the Physician's Formula Butter Bronzer. Now I am using another new, well, it's not a new product, but like new to me, the Charlotte Tilbury Glow Gasm Beauty Light Wand. It's a really beautiful, glowy liquid blush. It's not like the Rare Beauty Liquid Blush, though. Like you can be a little more heavy-handed with this. The shade is Pink Gasm. I'm gonna top it off a little bit because I feel like that shade, especially now I've been out in the sun, so I got pretty tan recently. So it's not as pink as I would like it to be. It's perfect on like a light or no makeup kind of day, but with a full face, I just wanna add a little more blush. So this is the NYX Sweet Cheeks Matte Blush and that will kind of set it a little bit too. And then I'm gonna use the Rare Beauty Highlight Powder. This is another product that I just purchased recently. So beautiful. I've only worn it once so far and it is just so gorgeous. I love it. It's like the perfect glow without being like too glittery. This is in the shade Exilirate and then I'm gonna set my face with the Benefit Professional Super Set. I'm telling you, you will see at the end of the night I'll show you, this makeup is not gonna budge. It is not going anywhere, but like it's still really glowy, which I like. I feel like usually you would think if you're trying to do like humidity proof makeup that's gonna like really stay and last all night through sweating and all that, you would do more matte, but I prefer dewy, glowy. So this is like the perfect combination. But yeah, it's so funny. A couple of weeks after I first started at the salon, they were actually doing their first annual retreat. So she rented out this beach house. I barely knew any of these people and now I was gonna spend a long weekend in a house with all of them, doing all of these different activities and stuff that she had planned and I really didn't know how it was gonna go. You guys know that I just keep it real, like I don't hold back, but you don't even see how I am with my friends and when I'm like having a good time. I'm also gonna put some of this on my lids. Ooh, that's so pretty. Just opens up the eyes. Oh, beautiful. But anyway, like I was saying, I'm very laid back and easy going and depending on my mood, I can come off as just kind of like chill and kind of quiet depending too on like the group that I'm with, but most of the time, like when I'm comfortable, I can be really outgoing. But you know, when you're around a group of people that you don't really know in a new environment, and especially when it's people that you work with and the person that employs you, can I like fully let go and be myself and let my full personality out or should I like hold back a little bit because I don't know how they're gonna take it? Like I don't wanna scare anybody or make them think that I'm like weird. But it was such a good trip because I really just felt comfortable to just let my personality run free and just be myself. And we got to know each other very well, very quickly. I don't know what we're gonna do this year for the Salon Retreat, but it'll be even more fun this year because I know all of them really well. It's not gonna be like the first time hanging out with them. So I did some brow gel. I applied the Thrive Cosmetics Liquid Lash Extension Mascara. This is the mascara that it's like fibers. So it doesn't give you raccoon eyes and it doesn't smudge and stuff. It literally like flakes off and it's really easy to take off. But I decided that I am gonna give the lash extensions a little bit of a break because it's just a pain keeping up with them. I was going for fills every three weeks, but the three weeks was just going by so fast. And it's just annoying like having to take the time each week to just lay there. And it's not like when you're getting a pedicure or something where you can like still be productive and like answer emails or something.  I do love having them. I feel like they make life really easy and they look really pretty, but I don't know, I always go through phases with them. So I'm just gonna let them naturally shed and I've just been using lash serum. My lashes are pretty good. Like they're not damaged or anything and they're pretty long. I don't even really have like that many extensions left. Most of this is my natural lashes. I think I might just do like lift and tints once all the extensions fall off and just use lash serum so that they can grow and be like as long as possible. But yeah, the Thrive mascara is really good. I always have a hard time with mascaras, especially in the humidity and when you're gonna be sweating a lot and stuff cause you get the fricking raccoon eyes. And then I lined my lips with the Charlotte Tilbury iconic nude lip liner. Now I'm gonna fill them in with MAC Bare Bling lipstick in the center. And I'm gonna top it off with this lip gloss, which look at this. My dog got ahold of it. He like never choose things up, but for whatever reason, one night when he was home alone, he got his hands on this and decided to chew on it. So now the packaging is like messed up, but the product is still fine. He didn't get it open or anything, but this is the Too Faced Lip Injection Plumping Lip Gloss. It doesn't really add any color, but just makes the lips nice and glossy and juicy. I was not paying attention to the time. I'm just over here blabbing, taking forever to get ready, and I need to leave soon. So let's go to the bathroom and figure out this hair. It's like so frizzy. So I'm just gonna turn on my, of course, this is dying. I dice in corral flat iron, waiting for that to heat up. I'm just gonna smooth over the spots that are like super frizzy and then touch up some of these waves. What's nice about this flat iron is it doesn't completely fry the crap out of your hair, so I don't really feel so guilty having to reapply heat. The only thing that's annoying about it is you have to remember to charge it because it is cordless. Like right now, it keeps dying. Even though it's plugged in, it just keeps cutting off on me because the battery is so low.  Like you should be able, if it's plugged in, you should just be able to continue using it. Putting some Sebastian dark oil on the ends. Just smooth it down a little more. It also makes it smell really, really good. Whatever's left, I'm just gonna kind of tap over and especially rub it like underneath here in the back because I wonder if they are always gets so frizzy and so dry. Not perfect, but definitely better. I'm sure it'll be a crazy frizzy mess by the time I get home, but that's fine. Okay, I'm gonna throw a little bit more jewelry on. I think I'm just gonna go with these earrings. Cute perfume. dossier, Amberie Saffron. It's a dupe for the Baccarat Rouge 540. Let me show you my outfit for the evening. So this dress is super old actually. It's from H&M. My Steve Madden shoes, I was gonna wear like cute heels, but I don't know like how dressed up everybody else is getting and I don't wanna be like overdressed and plus I just wanna be comfortable, especially since we're going out after.  I'm all ready to go. I'm gonna take Benny out really quick and then I'm gonna head out. I'll try to get a good amount of clips while I'm out and I will show you the makeup when I get home and we'll see how it wears throughout the night. Hello, it's currently 4.39 in the morning, but here is, the only reason why I'm vlogging is to show you how my makeup looks. I know this lighting sucks, but considering, as you can tell from my hair, I got caught in the rain on top of also sweating and it being really hot. It was a fun night though, I needed that. I'm at the point in my life where going out and staying out this late, I can't do it often, but like a few times a year, it is fun once in a while, you know? But I'm gonna show you that I practice when I preach. I always get told that my skin looks good, I look young for my age, what's your skincare routine, what's your secret and I always tell people, no matter how late it is and no matter how drunk you may be, always do your skincare every night before bed and never sleep with your makeup on. Do your skincare routine when you get home and drink a lot of water before you go to bed. I also stopped drinking like hours ago and I just make sure to hydrate a bunch before I go to sleep. That way I'll wake up tomorrow feeling amazing. It's the next day, I'm alive. It's about 1.30 now. I don't even remember what time I woke up because I feel like I woke up and then went back to sleep multiple times, but I like finally actually got up out of bed around like 11 and chugged a bunch of water, took some excedrin, had coffee, took a shower, and I just ate a bacon egg and cheese bagel, which was so good, I feel like I needed that. I was gonna maybe hang out with some friends later, but I decided I'm not going to. I just kinda feel like my social battery is completely empty and I just don't really feel like going out and doing anything else. Like I really am looking forward to just staying home all day. I'm like all caught up on work and everything like that. So I can literally just lay in bed all day, which is exactly what I'm gonna do.  I think I might actually have some liquid IV as well to help with the hydration. Putting this on in a really thick layer, like a mask, and then I just leave it to absorb into my skin. This is what I do literally every night before bed. I look so ridiculous like this, but I'm gonna have some liquid IV. This always makes me feel so much better. This is the guava flavor. It is so good. I like always keep a full stock of liquid IV.  I'm pretty sure the discount code I have with them is still active. I think that's for 20% off. I'll link it in the description if you guys wanna use it. Try to add ice. Oh, there's nothing better. But yeah, I'm just gonna go lay in bed for the majority of the day probably. And it's kind of the perfect day to do it because it's really windy outside and like keeps raining on and off. So I feel like it's a nice day to just kind of like cozy up in bed. But I'll check in with you a little bit later. It is now 10 p.m. You can't even see that. There you go. And I had the best day. I literally was in bed all day long. Sleeping on and off, watching yellow jackets. But it was just so relaxing and nice to just rest. You know, I like to try and give myself one day a week where I just have off and I don't have anything that I need to do and I can just stay home and not leave the apartment. Just like reset, recharge the social battery, all of that. But I usually end up being somewhat productive even on those days. Like I'll do some laundry, I'll clean, I'll meal prep, I'll work out. Today I literally didn't do any of that. All of the meals I ate, I got delivered and I had some yogurt. But like I didn't have to actually cook anything. It was lovely. And I don't even feel guilty about it because I couldn't tell you the last time I had a day like this. It was probably a year ago. So yeah, I am gonna end this video here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to check the description for my link and discount code to Annalisa. And I'll see you really soon in my next video. Bye.


The battle of Mu'adah, the Muslims went, they were 3,000 of them, they were fighting the Byzantine Empire, they were fighting like a hundred thousand. It was such an intense battle. Subhanallah, this is right after Khadim Ali becomes Muslim, he they engineer this way to like safely retreat, they run back to Medina. And they're on the outskirts of Medina and the women of Medina come out to them because this is the first time in Islamic history that the Muslims have left a battle.  And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam comes out and intervenes and he says, balhumul kurar, balhumul kurar, there'll be another round, I promise, please let them home. And the Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said we were far more afraid of the women of Medina than we were of the Byzantine Empire that we were like fighting the day before. Our strength is believing women. This is what made Medina. This is what made the community that took in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.  Subhanallah, this is the weight of the women in our tradition and stories like this are endless.


At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. On Tuesday, January 17th, the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce held a membership meeting to discuss events from last year and what the members will be doing moving into the future. Attending the meeting as a guest speaker was COO of SOAR, Joshua Ball, who shared his insights with the other members. It's always great to visit chambers of commerce. You have a mixture of business leaders, community leaders. You have just individuals from respective communities that are just very passionate about the future and creating opportunities for their kids and their grandkids. It's always nice to come in and share the resources that we have. I think the major point was to share some of the specific stats from 2022. It was such a challenging year and many respects.  I really wanted to talk about some of the things that were accomplished despite all the challenges, but also paying respect to the magnitude of the flooding and what it meant to our communities and really what it meant to our families and understanding that that is always in the back of our minds and that we're working hard every day to work towards that long-term recovery that I think everyone wants. After speaking to the Chamber, Ball is optimistic about what's to come in the East Kentucky region. Communities and individuals will have plenty to look forward to in their lives and future generations.  So really just empowering communities and individuals that the future of our region rests in our hands and it really rests in our efforts and our desire to work together and to truly understand that to get to where we want to be, it takes a lot of work and a lot of grit, but we're a region full of grit and perseverance and faith. Reporting from Out in Top News, I'm Nick Collum.


Good morning and welcome to Skapa skolan, south of Stockholm in Hudinge. Around 20 kilometers from the center of Stockholm, we're a school with grade 1 to 10, around 485 students today and 53 people in the staff. We've chosen to have a different kind of classroom than traditionally used in Sweden. We've chosen to have larger classrooms or as we call them studios, around twice the size as a normal classroom and to be able to do that we have larger groups, around 50 students in every group and the reason for that is that we want to have two teachers in the classroom at all times. So in a grade here at Skapa skolan we are about 54 children and during the day we mainly divide them into two groups but we also can divide them into smaller groups or we can be all together all 54 children and that's mainly when we do morning assembly, story time, show and tell or other gatherings and most of the times we then gather here. When we do split them into two groups, me and my colleague mainly split them into studio A and studio B and then we have an introduction or we have showing a movie or something like that and then when the children start working together they kind of blend together so some of them can be sitting and doing math and some of them can be doing a science experiment or reading or something and then they can be anywhere in the room so they could be up in the loft or they could be in a choir room or just in front of the screen. How do we keep inside voices? How can we be everybody in one room doing different things? That's something you really need to work with the children but it can be a challenge as well with the cooperative learning strategies that we do a lot. We need to teach the children how to cooperate for some children it comes natural for other children it's really a struggle. The reason we've done that is that we want active students, we want to have variation in our teaching, we want the children to cooperate, we want to create safe places for the students where they can work individually and we want the teachers to keep learning by working with someone else all the time during the day. And if they do have papers and pens for example we have creative solutions with a set stool or we have clipboards or they come up with other solutions. I think that anyone can do this no matter how your classroom looks today. I think the most important thing is that before you start to do any change be sure of what you want to achieve or have some idea anyway and then start.


Hi there and welcome to my channel. So today's video we are going to be doing some propagating of some of these flowers that I have taken for my garden last fall. These are a couple kinds of coalesces and these are two impatience plants.  I had some blooming of these impatience a couple times over the winter which was really nice and as you can see these coalesces are growing like crazy. So today I'm going to try to go back to taking some more cuttings, putting them into water, rooting them and see if we can get some nice plants ready to put outside in my summer garden again. So as you can see here these impatience are really getting quite gangly and long and I'm going to see if I can get at least about four cuttings off of this one plant here and we'll just put them in some jar of water here. This is just tap water that I've had left-setting for a couple days. So I'm going to take a cutting right down to this main stem here. I can see that there's some sprouting happening, sorry, I can see that there's some sprouting happening down here so it could be that this this original plant will grow some more from the from the base here. So here's one that I just cut off and I'm going to just snip away some of these branches and hopefully some some rooting will come from them. Each of these nodes is already shooting out a little green flowers. I'm just going to remove them right now. So I want to just remove some of these bigger leaves just because they're just taking up extra energy. I might even just take away this big one. So I'm basically cutting them right down to nothing but as long as I have some of these nodes here under the water I think they should send out some roots. I just had to pause the camera here because I could see that these were not going to sit in this wide-mouth jar very well. So what I've done is I've taken some painter's tape and just created kind of a crisscross pattern over the jar so that you can stick your cuttings in here and it's got something to kind of hang on to and you can get about five or six into this one container going. Okay so from these two impatient plants that I've chopped right down we now have about eight or so in this one jar. So I have found coalesces are super easy to propagate in water. One thing that I have learned about them though is to not put them outside too early in the spring because they are not very frost tolerant at all. I lost a whole bunch of my coalesces last spring that I I put out in my pots too early and we had a late frost and I killed most of them so that was too bad. This is a beautiful one once it really takes off in your flower pots or flower beds I really like this. I'd like to get more varieties of coalesces this year, some different colors, try to keep them going, keep them alive all winter. They make a wonderful house plant. Okay so that was super quick and you can see now we have probably eight or ten coalesces here that we'll try to root. So I'm going to keep these up here on the top shelf of my growing station here. They will not be in direct sunlight but they will get some natural lighting from the window here and these guys that have been hacked right down to nothing I'll keep them here in the window. They'll get some morning sun and we'll see if they grow back and we can get maybe even some more cuttings off them in another month or so. So next up here I want to do some propagating of herbs into these little jars here that I got set up and see if I can get some rooted and ready to go outdoors into my herb garden. Every year I'd like to set up a small herb garden on my deck just off my kitchen so that when I'm cooking and stuff I can just step outside and cut off some fresh herbs and add them to my cooking. So these herbs that I have growing here are all done using a hydroponic method rather than being grown in dirt. If you follow me on my channel you know that I do a lot of hydroponic growing using the Crap Key method. So basically all these are our plants that I have growing in water. This is my rosemary. I just want to show you they're just roots growing in nutrient water. There's no dirt at all. So all winter I have an enjoying my basil, rosemary, oregano. I got some fresh dill and also some green onions here. So all winter long I just come and snip away some fresh herbs whenever I'm cooking and it's been really great. So I highly recommend if you want to start a hydroponic growing whether it's just in the winter or all year round. Herbs are something that are super easy to get going. I have a lot of videos on them so just be sure to check that out. So today in this video I'm going to just going to be taking some cuttings from my oregano, rosemary, and basil. So this oregano plant is getting pretty full and bushy so I probably will take some cuttings and dry these as well. So if I can't use them fresh then I can just dry them and keep them in my spice cupboard. So I'm going to do the same as what I had done with the coleuses and the impatience and just try to pinch off a lot of these leaves and just pinch it down to the nodes here so they have something to root from.  I'll just pinch them off now and I've done the same thing with these little jars if you can just find some kind of tape to make a kind of a crisscross to help hold these in place a little bit better. The tape I did use didn't stick very good so I've used some electrical tape so I think the best thing is electrical or maybe some painter's tape if you can find the thinner stripped stuff. So that way you got kind of something to hang on to here.  So there is my little cuttings of oregano. I probably have about eight or so going in there but you can take as many as you need or as many as you want depending on how much you want to put out in your garden. I don't keep a very big patch outside in the summer but that's totally up to you. So I just also wanted to show you here this is my no electricity required dehydrating system that I have downstairs in my grow space.  This is some basil some dill and now all the leaves that I took from my oregano just now and I just throw it in here into these coffee filters and let them dry naturally and keep a one on top just to keep the you know any dust or dirt or whatever off of them and then once they're completely dried I can just throw them into a jar into my spice cupboard and use them as needed. So I'm really happy with the growth on this rosemary plant. They are really slow to start and grow from seed I found but again I just I'm growing these hydroponically and it has really taken off I've got some really nice thick stalks here that I can take a cutting of and pull all these extra leaves off put them in my little dehydrating system here in the coffee filters. I really enjoy having herbs growing indoors I find that the when I'm downstairs just working in my growing space I always have to rub my hands on a little bit of rosemary or the basil oregano and just enjoy that aromatherapy that you get from these spices. So I think that is a pretty good cutting here there's a few different nodes here that these leaves came from that should hopefully sprout. So basil is a very easy plant to propagate cuttings in water seems to root pretty fast. I haven't tried this myself but I'm pretty sure if you were to buy some fresh herbs from the grocery store such as you know the basil the oregano rosemary that you find in the grocery store I'm pretty sure if you took a couple of those sprigs put them in some water that you could get them rooting and grow them in your garden next year. So my herbs are all in water now and again I will make sure that the water level stays up high so that these can root and to also make sure to refresh the water every week or so and now I also have a good supply of herbs drying here that I'll be able to add to my spice cupboard soon. So as I mentioned earlier these will be sitting on the shelf out of direct sunlight while they root but I wanted to just bring them here and put them into some good light because it has been about a week since I have taken the impatience and colius cuttings and I just wanted to zoom in here to show you how we already have a lot of rooting action happening on the impatience here and over here with the coliuses I hope you can see this but there's lots of roots coming on them they root pretty fast and also see on these coliuses that we have some tiny little roots coming so that's very exciting. So as we get closer to the last frost date when we can safely plant these outdoors I will pot them up in soil in containers and get them transitioned and hardened off and ready to go into my outdoor garden. So I hope you enjoyed this video on how you can take your plants and multiply them into many many more for free or for a very low cost. If you choose to go buy some herbs from the store and try rooting them I encourage you to give that a try or if you have any plans that you can propagate and root and multiply for your outdoor garden give it a try. Rooting in water is super easy so I'll be doing a follow-up video in a month or so potting these into containers in soil so please stay tuned for that. If you haven't already hit that subscribe button and click on the notification bell so you don't miss out on the next video. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Bruce Gulland. And I'm Liz Wade. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Imagine a building full of graffiti. Pictures and words are painted all over the building. This graffiti is crude. It says hateful things about black and brown people. Next to this are symbols from Nazi Germany, Swastikas. Above this, someone has written My Hitler. This graffiti is meant to be offensive. It is meant to spread hate. Then a man appears. He is carrying dozens of cans of colorful spray paint. He stares at the wall for a moment. Then he begins to paint. Over the swastika, he paints two large purple cupcakes.  My Hitler turns into my muffins. Next to the muffins, he paints a small signature. It says, Cibo. Cibo is an artist from Italy. His name means food in Italian. Cibo paints murals of food over fascist graffiti. He tries to make his city more beautiful. But his real goal is to fight hate with art. Today's spotlight is on Cibo. Cibo's real name is Pier Paolo Spinazzi. He lives in Verona, a city in northern Italy. Cibo loves his city. But he also believes the city has a problem. It tolerates hateful people, especially neo-fascists. Fascism is a kind of extremist way of thinking that appeared in Europe during World War I. It celebrates authoritarians and nationalists.  For many years, Italy was too. Neo-fascism is a renewal of these beliefs. Neo-fascists do not like people coming to Italy from other countries. They are often hateful to people who are not like them. They will not tolerate diversity or different ways of thinking. And they will often use violence to enforce their beliefs. Neo-fascism is a growing concern in Italy. Political parties like Forza Nuova express fascist viewpoints. Some groups have committed violent attacks against immigrants and people groups. And incidents like this are increasing. Cibo has experienced this violence. He told Italics Magazine in 2019. I have seen the marks of neo-fascist violence on my friends. Eleven years ago, a group of neo-fascists killed a fellow university student. After that day, I decided that that was enough. Although it was not much, I would have, should have, done something about it. Soon after his friend's death in 2008, Cibo saw a wall full of neo-fascist graffiti. It made him angry. His friend had just died and here were signs from the people who killed him. So Cibo did what he knew how to do. He went and got his paints. And he covered the graffiti with an image of big Italian sausages. The next day, Cibo went back to the same wall. Someone had painted more graffiti over the sausages. But this did not discourage Cibo. Instead of giving up, Cibo painted sauce on the sausage. The sauce covered up the graffiti. And it made his art more detailed. He did this every time someone defaced or ruined his work. The mural became bigger and more interesting. Soon there was an entire meal beautifully painted on the wall. After some time, the neo-fascists gave up. Cibo's mural stayed. This became a pattern for Cibo. He would find hateful graffiti somewhere in Verona. Then he would cover it with a painting of food. When someone ruined his painting, Cibo would just change it. Neo-fascists actually helped him make more interesting art. He told italics, These fascies are dangerous as a group.  I can usually predict what they will do. I use them to create work that gallery artists cannot even imagine. Without their hate, I would never have become so famous. Cibo has made it his goal to cover up all hateful graffiti in Verona. And today he has been doing it for more than 10 years. Not everyone likes his work. He has received death threats from neo-fascist groups. And there are other artists who do not respect his work. But he also has over 350,000 followers on social media. These followers help him locate hateful graffiti. And he has inspired many people to do what he does. But for Cibo, the goal is not to attack neo-fascists. Instead, his art is a message to the people of Verona and Italy. He told italics, I do not want to challenge just those fascists who spread graffiti. They are fools. And they will get tired of what they do. Instead, I want to overthrow the growing acceptance of hate.  They try to forget about hanging statues of people of color at the stadium.  It means food because it helps send a message of unity. Almost everywhere in the world, food is something that brings people together. When people get together to eat, they get to know each other more. It is easy to dislike someone who you do not know. But when you actually meet them, it is harder to hate. Food is also international. Every culture has their unique foods. But everywhere, food is a comfort and a joy. Instead of hate, Cibo tries to spread this comfort. He also points out that even unique national foods are made of ingredients. Each of these ingredients come from somewhere different. For example, the caprese salad is a very Italian dish. It is made from mozzarella, basil, and tomatoes. Cibo often paints this salad. He talked to Quartz magazine about one mural. He said that the caprese is a message. Caprese is a message that food is open to the world. The basil comes from India, the oil is from Syria, the mozzarella is Italian, and the tomatoes come from Colombia. Cibo believes that his country is like a caprese. Its people come from many different places. But this does not make them less Italian. Instead, what makes Italy Italy is all of its people, no matter where they are from. The neo-fascists believe that Italy should only behave like one dish. But Cibo presents a varied cuisine. It is full of spice and flavour. 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Welcome to intermediate options strategies. So far we've learnt about the four different basic options, which is the long call, the short call, the long put and the short put. Now it's time to move our skills to the next level. In this module we'll be covering spreads. We'll study the philosophy of spreads and we'll also study the different kinds of spreads like debit spreads, credit spreads. We'll first look at what a spread is and why we use them. Bear in mind spreads build on the individual option strategies that we've learnt so far and this is just the next step of our options education. So we've looked at four strategies so far. We've looked at the long call, which is a bullish strategy. Then we looked at the short call. Then we looked at a long put, which is a bearish strategy and then we looked at a short put, which is a flat to bullish strategy. In all of these strategies, there are pluses and minuses. When we buy options, although we have unlimited profits, we can also lose money if the price of the stock goes against our expectation. Those losses can accumulate. Although those losses are limited, they can still become quite large. When we sell options, we know we are exposed to unlimited losses and our rewards are limited but our losses are unlimited. Both these kinds of strategies involve pluses and minuses and risks and rewards associated with both of these. When we introduce spreads in this course, what we are going to try to do is to optimize all of these strategies a little bit more. We're going to have to compromise here. We're going to have to give up something to get something else. What a spread does is it takes your individual option position and provides an element of risk control and provides an element of cost control to a single option position. The philosophy of spreads can best be understood by taking the four different examples and that's what we are going to do in this course.


Yes Network presentation, Ryan Ruko and Sarah Kustach now joined with the newest member of our Nets on Yes team, Megan Triplett. How are you, Megan? I'm good. I'm excited. Welcome. Thank you. It's wonderful to have you with us. I know. It's been a day. It's first day. Yeah. Welcome. Yeah. You get thrown right in the middle of it. I did. You know, you get to sit down right away after what was, you know, you may have heard sort of an interesting offseason. Yeah, that's right. Megan's already sat down with Kyrie, K.D. Plenty of great content on all of our Yes Network platforms. Megan, just what drew you to the job? What brings you here? What are you excited about? I mean, you two. Oh, thank you. Okay, good. Right away points. Yes, it was you two. But it was a big deal because, you know, I was in Memphis. I'm born and raised in Memphis, but, you know, this opportunity was something that I just could not pass up, working with some of the best of the best and learning off that and then also covering an amazing team.  And so I'm excited to join. What, what I'm curious about, because you've done so much throughout the course of your career. We're thrilled to have you here with Brooklyn, with the NBA, everything. But when did, when did you first fall in love with basketball?  Yeah. When did you fall in love with the game? Growing up, I'm one of four girls. And so my dad always said he wanted his own little basketball team and we're all married, we're all tall. And my mom is a basketball coach. She is like a heavy X's a nose person and being around her and how much love she has for it. We all played. I wasn't that great. It wasn't like, it wasn't a star out here. But that was like my first introduction to it. My mom and my dad and just like every memory that I had even with my grandparents of being at their house centered around the summertime, those summer trips where you go for two weeks to your grandmother's houses and it was centered around the NBA playoffs. And so like growing up, I was a huge Michael Jordan fan, you know, watching so many different series. It just has like this like heartfelt place in my heart. Well, Megan, we are so looking forward to getting to see your work to getting to know you better. We actually have to let you get back to work now though. I'm sorry to Brooklyn into New York City. Memphis girl, we got you. So excited to have you here, Megan. We really are and looking forward to seeing you all throughout this season of Nets on. Yes, so you guys will get to know Megan much better. Megan, thank you so much. Welcome. Thanks for having.


We're going to talk about responsive design and how that has affected current design trends. Turn this one on too. Can you hear me better now? There you go. Let's try that. Okay. No? Hello? Just talking to you. Hello, everybody. My name is Sarah. Sinking to... Hello, everybody. Yes! Okay. Let's start over then, just in case you didn't hear me. My name is Sarah and I'm the art director of Big Boom Design, and today we're going to talk about current trends in responsive website design. You've probably noticed that Internet has evolved in a big way over the last decade. We are using phones and tablets more than ever, and with that it has changed the way we design websites. The biggest trend is responsive design. What is responsive design? Well, it is an approach to website design that allows your website to seamlessly scale to a variety of devices and screen sizes. Think of it like this. Your website should respond correctly to the device that it is being viewed on. Take a look at this video of this website in action. You'll notice how the graphics are laid out, and it's scrolling down, and then go all the way to the bottom, and then in order to show you the scaling, I've slowly bring in the website, and you see how the content starts to stack. I'm doing this in my web browser and just bringing it back and forth. It's a great way to check while you're designing how the content is going to lay out. What are some of the main elements that make a successful responsive design? Those would be user-friendly layout, consistent navigation, keep the logo in the menu at the top, make sure your contact info is clear on every device, and your graphics should scale and stack appropriately with your most important information on top. The final most important thing is to make your copy accessible on all of your devices. Now let's look at how this has changed some design trends. When mobile design first started, desktop websites were often designed first, and then simplified versions were created for mobile devices. They were built separately and can only be viewed on their designated platforms. Now most designers create one design concept that can be scaled to various platforms, hence the term responsive design. So here are some logo designs over the last decade. You've got your old on the right for you guys, new on the left. You'll notice that the new style is much more minimal. There's either one, two colors at the most. They've lost all their textures, their gradient styles. They've also limited the colors, which is helpful to, for example, if you look at Dropbox and Spotify, they use one color, and then you can change that color depending on what it's being viewed on if the background color is different. And also logos are horizontal in format and have separate elements that can be used across various devices. So this is the Domino's website back in late 2010. I just want to point out, or I can't leave because of the microphone. If you look over in the top corner, you'll see their old logo up there, and it even has gradients and patterns added to it, which I think is kind of funny because the actual style was 2D, but then during this time of website styling, they were like, no, let's add even more style to it. You'll also notice that it's all on one screen, right? There's a ton of content. We've got a whole paragraph of stuff down at the bottom. There's also a button prompting you to download the app, right? Smartphones had just become popular at this point, so this website doesn't scale. If you wanted to view it on a phone, you had to actually download that separately. This is Domino's website today. It's much cleaner. You'll notice they still have the Domino, which has been their emblem since the 50s, but it's clean. It uses 2D style. There's no gradients. The images are sparing. The text is very limited. This is on the desktop view on the furthest, and then over here is what it would look like on mobile, and it stacks nicely. You can still read all of the content, and the most important information is at the top, the menu, which scales down to the hamburger menu, the logo, and for them ordering online. Here is the Dropbox website from the late 2010 as well. That big button is just super, super heavy gradient, lots of style. You'll also notice they're using their old logo as well, and they just have a solid page. It doesn't scale. This is what their website looks like today. It's much more colorful. They're using their new logo at the top. It's very clear where the sign-in information is, and depending on if you're on mobile or on your desktop, you can find that easily and the content stacks. I also like using this example because while limiting colors is important, you can still use big sections of color with limited text, and it still is very clear and easily readable for the viewer. To recap, there are the reasons and benefits for these current design trends as already discussed, mobile devices. Also, the simple graphics create a smaller file size which makes it easier for the website to load, depending on any device that it's being used on, and also accessibility and all-around user-friendly design. We are relying on technology more and more, and with that, we need to make information easily accessible to everybody. So, with these trends in mind, let's review the basics for managing graphic elements on a responsive design. So WordPress is not responsive out of the box, but most templates today are built to be responsive. You can create a theme using the free templates from WordPress, various online marketplaces, or hiring a company to create a custom template like BigBun Design. And let's see. So, but whatever you choose, when designing a responsive template, you need to keep in mind that what you create will scale down to a smaller screen and the information will stack left to right. Sorry. So, why is this important? It's because it changes the layout of your website and the way your content is viewed. So, more sections on a desktop computer mean even more on your phone. So, something that seems like it's very important and prominent on the desktop will be even lower when it's viewed on a mobile phone. Okay? So, is everybody doing okay out there? Yeah? Can we hold off on questions until the end? Is that okay? Great. So, now we're going to talk about content for a little bit. Without content, there would be nothing to design. It would just be colors and pictures, which is appealing, sure, but not helpful when you're trying to get information across. Your content should influence your design. You should ask yourself, what are the three to five most important items on my website? And then design your site around that information. Sorry there. A little technical difficulty. So, sorry guys, my mouse stopped showing up. There we go. Okay. So, ask yourself the three to five most important pieces of information on your website and design around that. And the most important thing that I'm going to talk about today and what you already saw on the screen is limit your content. You should be direct and clear with your information. Our attention spans are getting smaller and smaller and we read less copy. And I know it's sad, but what you need to focus on is creating a design with clear content that will engage your viewer. So, let's take a look at some examples of responsive design. This is a website that I found that I really liked because it showed an example of how you don't have to have a full-width image, necessarily in your hero section, which stacks very nicely on mobile and obviously this slows down the speed. Also, you can't see it in this, but this is a video and when it scales down it turns into an image, which is helpful. Some other things to keep in mind are does the menu scale well? Is the content clear at the top? Are you getting across your most important piece of information? And our next example I thought was appropriate for today, it's the WordPress.com website. And they also use the small image and it's nice because they were able to incorporate that into mobile, which I thought was nice to show because while we have some limitations in responsive design, it doesn't necessarily curb our creativity. And so now, I'm going to show you this website in action. And so they've used big sections of color and then a lot of their content is still very legible. I also like it because the desktop does have mobile, so you'll see as it starts to scale, the content gets more simplified and more direct. The content also is readable. It all stacks very nicely. They've minimized the graphics on mobile. We've already talked about the videos. So we've covered the basics for creating responsive theme. Let's recap some of the best practices for design and media management on WordPress. Colors, you want to use simple and consistent color patterns. Use more cool colors and limit bright colors. Also limit your patterns and gradients as well. Use 2D shapes, as you'll see in this example here. The one on the left is obviously much more legible to read while with these gradients and these patterns, it makes the copy harder. With logos, you'll want to use 2D style. Remove gradients, textures and patterns. Limit the colors. Keep horizontal in format if possible or create different styles for different needs. For fonts, you want to use WebSafe fonts or GoogleSafe fonts. Sandsurf is better for small copy. Also, you do not want to use text in images. You want to keep all of your text sweepable, is the term here, so that that copy could be copied out of your website and is not in an image where it can't be read. You want to have large sections of copy unlike backgrounds and use dark text and white space is okay. Here's another example. As you can see, the one on the right is very clear and this one is harder to read. And also on the one on the black background, you'll notice that the copy is not WebSafe and it's also hard to read, so it's just all around not a good idea to go with that. So images, you want to make full-width images your main focus, then use the focus of it be the center. So here in this example, you see that their heads, since they're so far at different sections when it starts to scale down, you might just get his nose and maybe an eye or the top of her forehead and the bottom of her chin and it's just not a good idea. But this lovely picture of Asheville, once it scales, it still is pretty good at catching like those clouds in that center section of the frame. Also use your images sparingly, keep them boxed in when possible. Use PNGs for logos and graphics and JPEGs for images. So last thing I want to talk about is SVGs, scalable vector graphics. If you guys haven't heard, scalable vector graphics allow graphics to scale to whatever screen size they are without losing image quality, which is especially helpful with the use of so many devices. So, yeah. We've covered a lot of information today and I want to remind you of some key points to take away. Remember to limit your content. Consistency is key when developing your responsive theme. Strive for simplicity when creating your design and have fun. So if there's any questions, now would be the time. I'm going to go for it. You back there. I mean, sometimes it is hard to find the balance, especially if you have a very content heavy website as well. I would definitely recommend that for your homepage and your top level pages, if you can try to limit the content and be more direct on that and then lead into more content for SEO further down, that's a better way to probably deal with that solution. And it doesn't always work. I mean, obviously when you talk about design purely, it's an idealistic world. And then when you apply that to working in the real world, it's not always the catch-all solution. I think one of the best ways to deal with that is actually to put in some tracking on the website and you can actually track, like Crazy Egg would be a really good example and they give you heat maps of desktop as well as mobile and so then you can see what people are clicking on the most on your mobile phone and then that can actually inform you what sections are not necessary. Yes. And I realize I forgot for the first few questions to talk it back into the mic. I apologize for that. So your question is what is the process of working with design and content when you're dealing with a client? So I would always stress which is why I had a big section about content. Like I try to make my clients focus on content first because it's really hard to start talking about design when you don't have the actual base of what you're trying to design and it can be hard. I get it. Like when we create our own personal websites, we actually hit those same walls that we do with our clients where it's like, well, I don't know what I want to talk to you about myself but there's a lot of great content out there but definitely using website tools and Google searches to see how people are using wireframes and site mapping in order to help bring focus in and then also sometimes if the client just doesn't know sometimes you can propose a set of client and then use that basically like in a testing phase to see if it works and then like go back and edit. So there's a handful of ways to deal with it. Janine. Like having done things those two different ways like frustration and depression. So Janine mentioned that while it's not usually singular in a company you're working with a team in order to come up with this and there's handoff at different points and what do you do in order to help with that? I mean a lot of communication is very important and a ton of back and forth. I mean we must do a ton of revisions and then we'll have these group discussions where we'll talk about well based off of our previous experiences with similar sites how does this elevate your content by doing it this way instead of another way. Another note which I always hesitate to put out there is sometimes you have to be pushy like a client may come in and they're like I really want this specific way but you know based off of current trends or what's the better way to get your information across this would actually be a better way. So if you can talk to them openly and be like I want to give you the best possible option and this is what I think that it is you can actually help push people in the right direction. I don't know if that answered your question Janine. There in the back. So the question was do we use homepage sliders anymore? And yes we do sometimes homepage sliders can be tricky. As we talked about you have to worry about the layout the more slides you have it will slow down the load time on devices. If you choose to use a slider I would recommend only having it on your desktop and then transitioning to a static image. But I mean there's plenty of websites out there that use sliders and also background videos which are very nice too. So it's not a bad idea to have animation I just think it's important to limit it and think about how much of it is really helpful to the viewer. There in the... This view over there you had Braceha had earlier. The question was if we use reliability acorn and I do yeah we do not use that personally but I'm not really the one to ask that that's more of a developer team question. Boomer in the back. So as far as the big sliders there's been a shift towards more of a hero image concept which you can still do a slider and so when you say typical slider you're thinking rectangular, fixed width, fixed height that's kind of a lot more of a big hero image but you can still have multiple slides. And then on the testing side the great tool is which the domain would be easier but it's Brad Frost-ish if you Google name Brad Frost and then ISH it's a really good breakpoint checker and a possible design checker where you can plug in a website and click through all the different screen sizes and there's hopefully a disco mode that will just go in and out and let you just sit and watch what happens to your design at different breakpoints and then you can kind of make notes about you can pause and make notes about how to let this breakpoint this is completely off the screen Yeah, Brad Frost I guess that's the guy's name and then ish, ISH is the tool and if you just search like ish responsive design you can probably just site probably any more questions? Awesome. My name is Sarah thank you guys so much I will be at the happiness bar after lunch if you want to talk I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Istria Croatia is renowned for its award-winning olive oil and wine. Join us as we revisit the region and eat and drink our way through the peninsula. Meet new friends and learn about what makes this place special. It's all in the latest episode of cracking Croatian wine. After months of being locked down in Zagreb thanks to COVID-19, we're ready to get some fresh air. We're headed to Selena. It's a sleepy village that has a handful of holiday homes and villas. Our base for the month is Villa Familia, a luxury house we'll be sharing with our friend, Vederan of Chin Chin Dot Guy. We've seen the house in photos before, but it's more stunning in person. Somebody's excited about wine. Priorities. We get our tasting samples sorted before we go upstairs to rest. In the morning, Vederan hunts down some wild asparagus and prepares a staple Croatian dish, frittaya. This freakishly good omelet has won fans around the world, including Shireen. The town of Vodnian is home to a fantastic wine and olive oil producer called Medea. We've been fans of their products for years, but this is the first time we've visited this state. Winemakers Marco Kirstečić and Ivana Peršić greet us. After a quick look into the cellar, we start tasting the wines. The new vintage of the rosé immediately catches our attention. Very good to me. I really appreciate the spicy notes. Almost like a bird's eye chili kind of smell on the nose. And it's also quite herbal. On a palate, you also have a little bit of capsicum. Obviously citrus. So I find it really complex. And the finish is spicy and quite persistent as well. We get to our favorite wine from Medea, the Punta Greca. It's a single vineyard Merlot from Medea releases olive oil under the name Cervela. They use their own olives and press the fruit themselves. They make several monovarado oils. Some are extra spicy. Shireen's favorite is made from the local variety Buja. It also has a certain freshness, fruitiness on the nose. I think like for me, I don't chase for too spicy, too bitter, to whatever. I like everything but that is hunting for oysters. Just a five minute drive from our villa is the Estrada Seashell Shack on the Limsky Canal. We got the contact from a friend and it looks like we're on the right track. Unlimited oyster. This place sells or produced to local restaurants, but private customers can get in on the action too. We're anxious to chow down so we rush home to shock them. The result of the oysters. The quality is summed up in Shireen's expressions. High above the River Mirna is Ipsha. They're regarded as one of the finest olive oil producers in Istria and thanks to Ivan Ipsha they started the production of high quality wines in the recent years. Their vineyards are among the highest in Istria. This is an impressive vineyard. We take a quick stroll through Ivan's hometown of Operatalia where Ipsha tasting room is located. The village offers splendid views over northwest Istria. We don't have time to stick around though. We're heading to the cellar to taste a few barrel samples. The latest vintages are excellent, but Shireen has her eye on Ipsha's prosciutto. Are you excited about the prosciutto? It's as nice as the wines. Ivan takes us up to taste a few wines from the bottle. We're big fans of the Santa Elena Red, a blend of Merlot and Rafasco. Ipsha is set to release their first single vineyard malvalesia, also named Santa Elena. It has a good balance between the freshness and also a little bit more oxidation to give a little bit more complexity. Just a little bit of nuttiness, also a little bit of tendering fuel and tannins into it. But I think this is the kind of wine that shows that it can break convention. Orange wine doesn't have to be just one style. This is a winery to keep your eye on, but Ipsha still thinks it's had an olive oil production. Ivan tells us what it takes to produce great olive oil. So to produce a great olive oil first we need to be ecological, so without chemicals, without pesticides, everything natural. To have a fantastic olive oil we need to know when to harvest. So the most important thing is to know when they're half black, half green. So it's important, why? Because it's impossible to have all olives around to be black from the outside, green from the inside, because if we have the black from inside it means they're oxidized. So we're trying not to have oxidized olive oil. The third thing it's very important to press it fast. So it's been four to six hours from the harvest. Producing wine you need to work more in the in the cellar, to work with wine, to live with wine. Olive oil, if you do the perfect harvest, if you do the perfect mill, you have the perfect oil. Back at the Villa Familia we try to get some rest and relaxation in before some friends come over. Our house is drawing so much attention. Look how nice it is on the inside. Oh no. Our local friends and wine makers want to come over and eat. So tonight we're cooking up an Austrian seafood feast. Yes boss. Time to scale and clean the fish and then fire up the grill. There's something special about fresh seafood and an open fire. Psychedelic fish. This is the best thing tonight. What is it? It's a meal well done, complete with the wine. The mornings at Villa Familia are fabulous and I treasure my cup of coffee in the peace and quiet. I'm going to miss my daily routine here my morning cup of joa with this outstanding view. Degrassi is one of the original high quality wineries in Istria. Today I've brought along a friend. Giannis is traveling through Croatia back to his native country of Greece and he stopped by for the afternoon. Say hi Giannis. Thanks for coming. This is the first time I actually have been to Degrassi. I like the wines a lot. I haven't been to the cellar. I'm glad I brought Giannis along because proprietor and winemaker Moreno Degrassi only speaks Croatian and Italian. Moreno is a high energy guy that brims with enthusiasm. He's also regarded by his peers as the finest blender in Istria. I think Giannis is impressed. After tasting through the cellar we find that Moreno has prepared us lunch. First up is fresh prosciutto made from wild boar. Next Adriatic scampi which Moreno pairs with some of his finest whites. I wasn't expecting to have some fresh scampi but I'm not complaining. I must say the Terebianke Kuvei Blanc Reservo went outstanding with scampi. Wild boar steaks. Moreno hunted down the animal just a day before we arrived. They go great with Degrassi's signature red wines. Moreno opens up an older vintage of his Terebianke Kuvei Reservo, a serious Bordeaux blend that tastes like a fine super Tuscan. Giannis and I think the tasting is over but Moreno has a surprise for us. He discorges a few bottles of sparkling wine that he makes for his friends and family. We love the wines of Degrassi and Moreno has given us an afternoon that we'll never forget. A few days later our friend Milan Budinski, head winemaker at Vina Luguna comes over for dinner. He's a professional spear fisherman and brought us the daily catch. Scampi, scallops, dentex, sea bream and skousha, also known as macro. I know the show is like scampiorama. We're just lucky I guess. The dentex is superb. How much do you like dentex? It's a great evening filled with fabulous food and wine. However my annoying personality is starting to get to everybody. The village of Caldeir is home to another one of Croatia's wine superstars Ben Venuti. It's great to see brothers and proprietors Nicola and Albert Ben Venuti again. Albert agrees to take us through all the vineyards. Our first stop is Ben Venuti's prized vineyard Santa Elisabetta. Ben Venuti farms four separate positions, some are among the highest in Israel while others face nearby multivroom. The lowest position is on fertile soil which is reflected in the big yields. We need some serious green harvesting. Back in the tasting room, somebody looks excited to try the latest vintages. The Ben Venuti Anodomini Malvazia is macerated and barrel aged. It's one of the finest examples of the grape in Croatia. Any age is brilliantly. Next up are Ben Venuti's two premium red wines, the Anodomini Taran and Santa Elisabetta which is also made from taran. This is only the second vintage of the latter. It's great to see the winery getting a steady stream of visitors, something that's a rare day during this odd year. We finish the tasting with Ben Venuti's legendary sweet wines. Is that your favorite? Yeah, it's my favorite. Fine, it's right. You want to smell it? You want to smell it? Ah, tasting room. We wish we could stay here all day but it's time to move on. What are you doing? Cleaning the pool. Back at the Villa Familia, we try to clean up and burn off as many calories as possible. It seems as all if we do here is eat, though there are no complaints. It's not fully cooked. I just wanted it to sit in the marinade for me.  Oh, the beans are done. For our last meal, we're going to make a traditional Croatian dish. So Pekka is a traditional dish cooked under a ceramic bell over an open fire. We've had one with fish, with lamb, with octopus. So we're going to try to do our little homemade version. Capsicum, some potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic, olive oil, and a little bit of red wine. And finally, the octopus. Put down the octo cover and stick it in the oven. Let it bake slowly until voila. It's so soft. Did we succeed? Let's ask Shireen. No, seriously. I like that it's still quite soft. Perfectly cooked. It's so salty. It's our last morning, so we pack up and hit the road. The space. It's been a great stay at the Villa Familia. And Istria holds a soft spot in our hearts. We got the chance to see some old friends and taste the latest vintages. Goodbye now for Istria. We'll be back soon. Hello. Thanks for watching. Hey, you made it to the end. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Click the bell so you know when new videos are out. If you like content like this, check out our Patreon page where you get some behind the scenes exclusive content. Thanks for watching. Cheers.