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Tom here from warm systems. It is March 2nd of 2023 and no, this is not a new breach from last pass I want to just reiterate that this is just a deeper dive into what happened because friends and investigations take time and Good news is last pass hired Mandiant. Mandiant is a very well respected when it comes to Dealing with this type of situation. They focus on that enterprise market and they do deep dives These deep dives take a lot of time and now we know the results. We know what last pass did wrong They mixed business and personal a DevOps engineer was using his personal computer to do some business work And we're gonna dive into exactly what happened, but I just want to reiterate This is a mistake, but not like an amateur mistake This is a mistake that is well documented in plenty of other places that you don't do this You don't mix business to personal you locked down, especially if you're last pass or any high value target You really create a extremely clear separation. So this doesn't happen Let's dive into the details and the results that they share from their blog post and a little bit of other news that Was from our technique on this topic Now we're gonna start here with the initial details attacked everything. I'm talking about here will be linked down below Despite high confidence in the outcomes our investigation and actions taken in response to the first incident the threat actor leveraged information stolen during the first incident now these are the both the incidents I've talked about already and Then the information available from third-party data breach and a vulnerability and a third-party media package this part I think is really interesting a third-party data breach We don't know what data breach that is but it almost suggests password reuse because if you have a data breach at a third party And they get the passwords those passwords should be unique to that provided You're using a last pass password manager or some other password manager of your choice But the idea is to have a unique password everywhere So I think that's an interesting statement they put in there But we don't know enough details that really tell us how that information was leveraged now the vulnerability a third-party media package We're gonna jump to an arch technique article in a moment to cover that but let's dive into why it took them a little while to figure this out and because Specifically the threat actor was able to leverage failed credentials stolen from a senior dev option engineer to access shared cloud storage environment This is why it took them so long to find because which initially made it difficult for investigation to differentiate between a threat actor Activity and ongoing legitimate activity. This is where It's kind of I don't know why they don't have better controls over this because they do say they're using AWS guard duty alerts when someone comes in from the same VPN or the same IP Maybe this person traveled and they were coming in from a lot of different IPs And that's how the threat actor was able to go Hey, this person bounces around from coffee house to travel and that is a common use case And you have to really be vigilant on monitoring the different IPs your users come in at If you're a company of the stature of lash pass and not everybody does this It is obviously a burden because if you block only maybe a small list of IPs or maybe you filter your VPN to only US IPs we still know where this person live But maybe you geofence them a little bit and flag when something tries to log in outside that geofence And then you have to you know go through a secondary alerting process These are all things that their systems for but I don't think last pass was doing it is the impression I'm getting here. Now. This is where the targeting of that DevOps engineer and the non-proper They just didn't separate their business and work life This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineers home computer and exploiting a Vulnerable third-party media software package which enabled remote code execution capability and allow the threat actor to implant a keylogger And I covered this in the Cisco event when Cisco had someone breach their system Cisco knew everything that was typed right down to the typos and I point that out when I covered that breach I have a video link down below and I have a feeling that last pass doesn't have that level of visibility or This was the personal computer that they allowed their company VPN to be loaded So that's a pretty big security Event right here happening all because someone was using their personal computer or maybe they had access on their business computer to load This software. I'm not a hundred percent clear on that But that's not good either way you slice it now Here's the arse technique article and according to a person briefed on a private report from last pass who spoke on the condition of an Anonymity the media software package that was exploited on the employees home computer was Plex and they do point out interesting Plex Reported its own network intrusion on August 24th and this was a password breach over at Plex now This is interesting because that first line I mentioned where they used data from a third party app Now did they just learn this person was using Plex from that because maybe they were using their last pass email address and registered Plex with it Maybe that information is not available to us or did they do some password reuse? I don't know I hope that's not the case but this is an interesting coincidence, but we only have this from our second year We don't know absolutely for certain that was Plex and Plex did comment on this We have not been contacted by last pass so we cannot speak to specifics of their incident because the question is Is there a flaw in Plex? I know a lot of people run Plex and I preached a lot on this channel about keeping everything in separate buckets and separate VLANs separate security So you have your Plex and the things running on one side of the fence and maybe something that you care about like Your work computers on another side now just getting access to Plex and getting access to a local server is one thing But Plex running on your computer is a whole different ballgame and should never be done for a work computer Kind of an odd use case in my opinion But that seems to be related to this incident that media software was involved now I'm gonna leave this link here episode 86 The LinkedIn incident This is a fun deep dive for any of you that are wondering this actually happened a number of years ago So there's plenty of corporate evidence of targeting and I'll highlight. I won't spoil though So the hacker starts by looking at LinkedIn's website for people who work there engineers system administrators Anyone who might have access into that VPN and you know LinkedIn was breaching This is a great dark net Diaries episode that walks through what happens when a threat actor a very determined one has decided He wants to target and there's a lot that goes into this one It's a great episode, but this sophistication was years ago threat actors have gotten better out worse One of the points I just really want to hammer home in this video is this is why I talk so much about separation of things Because you're worried about your computer being compromised if you do work you do personal work You're a home user even more so when you're a business user and that gets amplified if you're a Enterprise business usually you work for a large company that has something that a large threat actor is interested in whether it's to ransomware to gain access to steal intellectual property These are more and more reasons you can keep things very very separate. We do this internally with my company We do not load extra software. There's not my employees even the ones that work from home They are provided a computer to do so and I'm a small little company here doing this. It is just imperative It's important I want people to really think about it because these things happen that dark net Diaries episode like I said it's an older one But boy, is it good? I just it'll walk you through it Just you know, I like dark and Diaries is in general But it really walks you through the sophisticated attacks that are occurring when there's a high value on the other side home users I will say could be attacked on this This is one of those things that come up sometimes of you know How worried should I be if I'm running plex and I don't know do they want to steal your plex library? Do they want to encrypt it ransom you could you pay it threat actors do go after home users that got a more Automated way if there's a problem, they'll exploit it But it's still good Practice and if you are a home user and a lot of you have a job in corporate Even if that job may not be technical You still may be a target for things like this because if your company has something they can exploit It's all about figuring out ways to be leveraged inside. So let me know your thoughts down below Head on my forums for more in-depth discussion and thanks


What's up everybody, I'm the Mangoes, you are awesome and welcome back to another edition of Paragon Storytime. Stories from you about Paragon or its mini-successors. If you have a story you'd like to tell, please use the E-Form link below. Today we have a story about a competitive Paragon, surprising people with Kuang and a Wukong Muriel 1-2 punch. Let's start off with a competitive story from Errolorn Wolf. Snatching from the Jaws of Victory, Defeat! On November December of 2017, I was convinced by SoccerFan55 to join his competitive team. He then decided to have a junior team and I was placed on it, with me support, or Teenage Killer 1 Offlane, Mama Luigi 117 Jungle, Fluffapuff TKC Carry, and Mayo 271 Midlane. Now as part of our agreement with SoccerFan55, we were participating in a Paragon Competitive League. I was the only person to have Platinum according to a GoraGG and I was constantly high gold since version 42, New Dawn. Mama Luigi was the second highest skilled player, the rest were low gold. In this league, the second worst team was comprised solely of Platinum tier players. The best teams had a mixture of high plat, diamond, and rank players, occasionally with one master rank player. To say we lost every single game would be an understatement. A good game for us was when we had more than 5 kills or so. Raffle. This game started off like usual. We draft our heroes, get into the game, lose our lanes in the first 5 minutes, then, surprisingly, we won a teamfight and got Fangtooth. We were able to take the advantage to push and push them we did, right to their left inhibitor. Another surprise, we took it. Then once everyone was back up, we were pushing the right lane, and it was a showdown for over 30 seconds as neither side wanted to initiate. I saw the minions approaching their core and I was about to mention to our shot caller to wait, but he went in, followed by the carry. I was keeping distance from the enemy team because I didn't want to get caught in the Gideon teleport plus Black Hole, the 2.5 second AoE stun plus pull ultimate that Epic said was balanced. So Gideon was successful in ruining the engage and he was able to catch the carry Black Hole as well. I attempted to help with Zinx's stun, but it was too late. They were melted by the time my stun landed. I was the last to die. That ill-advised engagement resulted in a team wipe, and then they took our core before our death timers ran out. All we had to do was wait for one of them to go deal with the minions to engage, but no. From the jaws of victory, we were defeated. Note, I don't have any good stories from that period of Paragon. Paragon I liked was mutilated by version 42. When Epic announced that they were shutting down Paragon, I mean launching Paragon into a volcano in the spring, I quit Paragon entirely.  Their items were cheap because they had to be cheap, as supports were entirely dependent on getting Kill's Assist to buy gems. And making the wards of 300 GP to buy hurts us just as much. Sure top tier players had no problem, but that's because they could rely on getting gold from their carry's last hits and get Kill's Assist consistently. The average supports… well, no. I'm not going to say Laysaw. That was a heartbreaker. I kind of sympathize with the shotcaller, though.  I probably would have just charged in, too. Next up is a story about a well-placed Kwan sword from Kwan Bomb 23. This was in the good old Legacy days. I think it was the day Kwan was released, maybe the day after.  I covered for him until he returned and laid down my sword in lane and backed myself. I hit him with the Be Right Back ping, but I don't think he was expecting me to teleport right back on top of the enemy mid laner. It was epic and you could just feel the vibe of the enemy mid laner change for the rest of the match. Truly intimidating. Good times. You know it took the community a bit of time, but we all soon realized that a lone Kwan sword in the middle of the lane was just nothing to be trifled with. Our last story is about Wukong and Muriel working together from MikeGC. I used to play with my cousin. He always used Gadget and I would choose different heroes. This time he decided he wanted to play Muriel and I played Wukong with my Emmerich ready. We were like one hour into the game and we had taken mid in him and lost both side in him. I saw an opportunity and told my cousin I would sneak into their core and convert a wave, and he should pay attention to ult me. Didn't tell the rest of the team, but they got it right away. They defended the core like crazy and I managed to get to their core while two siege, two were in prime and one was dead. When I got to their core they immediately backed, but my cousin timed his ult perfectly and we were able to win that match with lots of good game pings from the rest of the team. One of my fondest memories I was literally shaking from the excitement and adrenaline.  That's it for this episode of Paragon Storytime. I appreciate you watching and I appreciate all the stories you guys have submitted, but for now this is the Magoo signing off. You guys have a good one. Mangoo! Special shout out to Foolish Bloodhunter, Jelly Knees, Meowmix4Men, Stunt, Farenth, and Raven.


Hello and welcome to the session in which you would look at a CPA exam question that deals with how many units a company needs to sell to earn a 10% return. I like this question because initially it looks intimidating but it's going to illustrate the concept that I always try to tell you about. The CPA exam tests your basic knowledge. What does that mean? It means if you know your basic accounting formulas and I mean by basic introductory accounting formulas you should be able to answer most questions on the exam and that's the purpose I want to go over this question. Two, I'm going to show you two methods and how you solve this problem. One is the GMAT method and one is the accounting the CPA method. So I just want to make sure you understand that you have more one way on tackling a problem like this. And this concept is really tested in a managerial accounting basic accounting course. 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And if not for anything take a look at my website to find out how well or not well your university doing on the CPA exam. This is a list of all my course catalog that includes many other accounting courses, advanced accounting, governmental accounting, taxation. My governmental accounting is pretty popular. Also my CPA supplemental resources are aligned with your Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam. So it's very easy to jump back and forth between my material and your review course. Also I have all the AI CPA previously released questions, approximately 1500 of them with detailed solutions so you can take advantage of those. Connect with me on LinkedIn if you haven't done so. Take a look at my LinkedIn recommendation like this recording, share it with other connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. So let's take a look at this question to see how we would solve this question. Adam is planning to manufacture a dinosaur toy based on the Jurassic word came cretaceous show. The expecting selling price is $30. We have variable manufacturing cost, variable selling, fixed manufacturing, advertising and product design. And let me rate the numbers because I know some of my some of my viewers are blind. Variable manufacturing cost is $20, variable selling is $4, fixed manufacturing is $50,000, advertising cost is $50,000, product design is $50,000. And Adam wants to earn 10% return on this operation. They expect this dinosaur to sell for a year and after a year they will cease this product. So how many units will Adam need to sell to earn 10%? Now do you know what 10% is? How do we compute the 10%? Well the 10% is rate of return. It means you have to earn, your profit has to be 10% relative to sales. So when you take your profit divided by sales it should give us 10%. So as I said at the beginning I'm going to show you how to solve this problem in two different ways. And it relies on your basic knowledge of a basic formula you would learn in managerial accounting which is the variable income statement. What is the variable income statement? Well we're going to have to take sales minus variable cost will give us contribution margin then if you deduct your fixed cost you're going to get your profit. Simply put you're going to take the profit divided by sales and the answer that's going to give you 10% that is your answer. Now what you can do is the GMAT way is to kind of okay if you know that your formula try it out take a look at some numbers and see how it works. Well let's do it the GMAT way. Well your selling price let me just come in also kind of condense this formula a little bit further kind of as a review for you because this is this is what I'm trying to do. Selling price minus variable cost per unit equal to the contribution margin. So the selling price is 30 dollars you have variable cost of 24 minus 24 equal to six dollars. So simply put your contribution margin is six dollars per unit and what you do now is if my contribution margin is six dollars per unit pick a number pick 60 pick 80 I'm going to pick 60 I'm going to pick 60 dollars. So if I am if I'm making six dollars per unit and I'm going to just randomly pick 60,000 and I'm going to multiply it by 60,000 that's my contribution it's going to give me by contribution margin. I can also do sales you know take 60,000 times 30 dollars I can take 60,000 unit times 30 dollars 60,000 unit times 24 dollars then subtract them or I just computed the contribution margin per unit I just want to make sure to show you the different ways. So if you take six six dollars contribution margin times 60,000 and that's going to give us 360,000 360,000 now our fixed cost fixed manufacturing cost advertising is a fixed cost product and design development is a fixed cost fixed cost is 180 360 minus 180 will give us profit of 180. Now what we have to do is look at our profit and look at our total sales if we're selling 60,000 unit 30 dollars a piece that's going to give us 1.8 million dollar in sales. Well guess what I happen to choose that number and it happens to be 10 so if I take 180,000 divided by 1.8 million that's going to give me exactly 10% and that's my answer so 60,000 dollar is my answer and how did I solve this I solved this by just picking it knowing my variable income statement and picking a number so that's one way to do it I'm not saying this is the way to do it that's one way to do it I'm going to show you how to do it relying on your knowledge of the variable income statement which is this is the variable income statement which is you have to know by heart when you sit for the exam because the variable income statement remember it's going to help you in the CVP analysis any CVP analysis if you have a good foundation of the variable income statement you can work with that okay let's work basically the accounting way or the algebra way let's call it the accounting way the algebra way so the profit we don't know what the profit is we know that sales profit relative to sales we know sales is 30 dollars per unit so sales is 30 Q 30 dollars times the quantity profit divided by 30 Q it should give us 10% or 0.1 0.1 or 1% now we can solve for profit if we solve for profit so profit cross multiply profit equal to 3 Q all we did is we cross multiply so now we have profit equal to 3 Q again back to the back to the formula back to the variable income statement formula and if you're not comfortable with the variable income statement formula this is what I do in my managerial accounting this is what I do in my constant accounting course this is what I do in my CPA review course I cover the this formula in the tails on the CPA review course they may spend three to five minutes on this formula I spent maybe literally maybe three hours in terms of exercises and lectures so by the time you're done with this you'll be fully fully know this inside out including the CVP analysis so basically what it boils down to is something like this again we know the contribution margin so let's let's do this let's let's I'm going to walk you through the formula step by step so we know 30 Q minus 24 Q equal to 6 Q so we know our contribution margin should be 6 Q 6 times quantity minus the fixed cost we know the fixed cost is 180 000 altogether and the profit should be 3 Q now it's easy now we can solve the formula 6 Q minus 6 times the contribute six dollars contribution margin times the quantity sold which is we don't know we're solving for minus the fixed cost equal to 3 Q 3 Q is 10 percent which is sale I'm sorry as m 3 Q is the profit which should be which should be our profit right here the profit should be 3 Q now we solve for Q 6 Q we're going to subtract 3 Q on both sides so it's going to be 3 Q equal to 180 we're going to be 3 Q we're going to subtract 3 Q both from both sides and add 180 on both sides 3 Q equal to 180 now Q equal to 180 divided by 3 Q equal to 60 000 we're back to the same answer 60 000 show so I showed you how to solve this in two different ways obviously on the CPA exam it should not take you this long real quick you need to know this by hard you need to know this formula by heart again you can use the GMAT if you're really good at that say okay let me plug this number in the formula and see if it gives me profit will give me 10% or you can solve it well using this algebra algebra formula and you'll be able to do it so it should not take you long although at the beginning the question looks a little bit intimidating but again it boils down to do you know your basics and this is what I keep emphasizing on for the CPA exam you need to if you have strong basics you should be fine but if you don't have strong basics even if you know the advanced topics a little bit more in details it's not going to help you because the exam test your basic knowledge test it in a challenging way though although it's a challenge and so if you know if you know the basics you can do it if you know the basics you can be you can get lost very quickly at the end of this recording once again I'm going to invite you to take a look at my website farhatlectures.com again I don't replace your CPA review course that's not what I do I am an adjunct I'm a helper I assist you in understanding the material better the CPA exam is a lifetime investment don't shortchange yourself you pass the exam once throw everything on it 30 dollars it's not going to break you you try it for a month you like it you keep it if it's feel it's helping you you keep it if you don't feel it's helping you if it's if you feel it it's really uh rather than helping you it's hurting you contact me I would refund your money if that's the case study hard good luck the CPA is worth it and most importantly stay safe


I'm Corbin And you can follow some Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content Twitter account ring the bell part of the one occasion squad We were acting to some stand-up comedy Yes was expecting him and it's by on say his name Rick by Sing bossy. I don't think we've seen anything of his I Don't that name does not ring a bell, but you just did a minute ago and so does was he moto?  Thank you so much to our subbers. You're fantastic Yes, hi ready seven Three ready two one go I You can relate Rick Manic but so did I get a ticket to get it over there? I touch wrong My house a phone a Mami, Nibbusha. Yeah, I'm gonna waxing around Chote valley, but soon came over Keri yes, I've got it. Yeah My mummy Gary better.  What happened to me? Overreacted. I'm strong. I come up now Do you know why he is overreacting? Because I have something. My growth is a bit too much. Who will relate to me?  I mean, it's a bit too much. I mean, imagine any highest number. Can you count the stars? It's a bit too much. I can make him pay for it. Do you know who my biceps are? My biceps are Ram Rahim's and mine. We both got this boon. I don't have any idea yet. I'm just wandering around. I got ready. I called an urban clapster's aunt. You waxed him? Yes, aunt came and waxed him. No, sister. I'll tell you. That day, I came to know that the lady who comes to Manju brings this bag with her. This wax box. This is the saying of death. And this lady is Manju's daughter-in-law. She goes home and sells death. It doesn't matter to her. She is a professional. She came home and said, how are you? I said, I'm strong. She said, let's have a look at Manju. She came and showed me five flavours first. She said, make it less painful. I said, it doesn't hurt. Tell me, which one is cheaper? She said, make it less painful.  The saying of death. She took out a heater and put it on it. And it started to get hot. And it got stuck in it. And it got stuck in it. I'm not that strong. It started to become a desire. I said, aunty, you're following the right procedure. This is very dangerous. She said, read it on Google. I read it on Google, but the pain is not written on it. The procedure was written on Google. I said, okay. I said, do it. Aunty heated it up. She said, come son, go to bed. Show me this fear medicine once. I took off my shirt. Aunty got scared. What is this? What is this one birth? She said, there is no machine to cut grass. I said, aunty, do it quickly. She said, son, there is no work for one person. She called in an urban clap. She said, listen, send Sarla also. And the strips that I have brought, nothing will happen with these sticks. Send one Tirpal. Sarla aunty took Tirpal. First, Sarla aunty's party. She said, sister, take 1000 extra from this. This is the work of the workers. She said, will you both do it or just keep talking? She said, wait a minute. Aunty picked it up. Nice silk powder. She put it on me a little. It's over. She said, I forgot to tell you in Sarla. There will be a blessing in her house. Bring it a little. She put the dough on me. Then she picked it up. Aunty said, Hot, hot. She put it on me. Like this. It was so hot, that my soul came out of my nipple. Aunty put it on me. She put it on me. Then both of them put it on me. Okay. She said, Sarla, hold me back. Sarla picked up Manju aunty. Manju aunty picked up Tirpal. Then she said, one, two, three. You pull me on three. I will pull her. When she reached on two, I said, Aunty, wait a second. I said, Aunty, something will happen. She said, you don't have a certificate to be strong. I said, okay. She pulled Tirpal on three. I looked at the window. Then Yamraj's sister was running away. She came to me and said, what have you done? I didn't know. She said, son, you came so soon. I forgot to bring Yamraj. I found the magic in your room on the way. He's funny. I wasn't ready at the end. He's a funny guy. I like him. He's so funny. Can you relate a lot to that?  But you know the story about when I waxed myself? No. You want to hear that story now or is that for another day? How long is it? Let's just say I only did it under the direction of my manager at the time. It was when we were moving from San Antonio back to Los Angeles, and she recommended in order for me to book more commercial things at the time that I'd be better off if I was waxed. Having never been waxed, I just figured I'd do it myself. Now, for those of you who don't know how hairy I am, you need to go to my Instagram page. There's some posts over there that make Corbin sick. It's disgusting. I literally, the first one I did it, you know, had the wax thing, and this was in El Paso, driving from San Antonio to LA. Alexis and Micah were with me. They're very small. They're in the hotel. I'm in the bathroom. On the first pull, I knew I was in trouble and thought to myself, I've already started. I can't not continue this because I have a giant patch missing. But what have I just begun? It was two hours of me doing it. And it got to the point where I was literally trembling and I would tear and I would only get it halfway down. I'd go, and my kids are wondering, what is dad doing in the bathroom? They came, they watched.  Don't wax yourself. There you go. Oh, wow. I've never waxed myself, nor do I plan to.   I have hair, but it's not. I wouldn't consider myself an overly hairy man. And for those of you who haven't seen it, watch the 40 year old virgin. And when you watch the waxing scene, everything you're seeing in there is legit and is not scripted as far as I know. Isn't that your understanding of that scene? He actually got waxed, yes. He got waxed and they just let the cameras roll while he was being waxed. The only preparation they did was they come up, and they, him and the director, Judd Apatow, I believe that's who the director was. It was. He came up with a few funny catchphrases they thought would be funny. And the one that stuck in the film was one that the director didn't think would be very funny, but Steve Carell just blurted out and it ended up being hilarious, which was Kelly Clarkson. It's my favorite one in the whole scene. That's the one that killed me the first time I saw it. But yeah, that's hilarious. Send us more of this guy. He's hilarious. Great job subbing, guys. Yeah, it's hard to watch. Comedy was subs, because a lot of comedy is in timing, but I feel like he did well and the subbers did really well in helping us keep up with it. Excellent job. Because comedy is hard enough to understand in your own language sometimes, much less if you're trying to read something as well, but he's hilarious. Send us more of his stuff, please, and of any others. It doesn't matter if it's in whatever language. A comedian friend told me, he's like, it's funny that stand-up comedy is a primarily American invention. It's pretty American. Yeah. And it's expanded to a couple like English-speaking countries. He said, but one of the few places that it's actually expanded is India. And I said that I guess that could be because there's a ton of English speakers there, maybe. Probably. Yeah, he's like, really in China, he's Chinese himself. He's like, it hasn't really expanded in China or any other parts of Asia very much. He says it's weird that it's English-speaking countries and India, which as we know is an English-speaking country, but he's like, it's weird that it's taken off there as opposed to just everywhere else. And then I proceeded to sell him how much I love Vir Das. Yeah, yeah. Well, this was great, and I'm still my favorite line out of that whole thing was it was so hot that my soul escaped through my nipples. That was great. Let us send us more of him.


Alright, if you've seen any of my videos then you already know I'm a huge fan of Elementor. In fact, it powers about 90% of all WordPress sites my design studio builds. But there is one caveat to using such a powerful and robust solution that has so many different options and that is it has a bit of bloated code. I mean it's no secret that Elementor is dope. You can do so much with it. You can build websites so much faster with it. But there is that trade-off that it does add some bloat inside the code. But there is a way to minimize that. In fact, to even follow some best practices that I'm going to show in this video that way you could reduce any kind of bloat making your websites faster and leaner. What's up everyone? I'm Jeffrey at Lightbox and I love talking about web design and the business behind it. If you want to stay updated with more web design related content, hit that subscribe button. That way you can get notified when I drop more gems. Alright, let's go ahead and get into this tutorial. And what we're going to do inside this video is I'm going to show you some best practices on how to use Flex with Elementor. That's going to reduce a lot of the bloat that's inside your HTML. Now I know I'm going to use some terms that are a bit techy. But I'll go ahead and make this very simple and hopefully do my best to make it easy to understand. So let's talk about Flex and let's start off by what is Flex? Flex is a display property in CSS that makes it easier to design flexible responsive layout structures and arrange elements within a container. Alright, that was a bit of a mouthful. Basically, Flex gives you flexibility on positioning and where to put your elements within a container. So think of a section in your webpage like this. That's a container. Basically it'd be like your column inside Elementor. And when you put in your elements in there, they stack one on top of the other. What Flex does is you got that container and you can put the elements in different areas on there and you have more flexibility and control inside the layout without having to add multiple containers or for Elementor without having to add multiple columns. Let me just show you it's going to be a lot easier to understand this way. So we're going to use this site as an example. This is something I've been building. This is actually for a course I have coming out. So it's my own personal site right here. But I wanted to use this row as an example. So you see here that I have four columns up here on the top and I have the same exact four columns on the bottom. Even when I resize them, they're all the same. So they look identical, but they're actually built differently. Because this top one right here, this is all just inside one column. It's all wrapped together using Flex right here and laid out using Flex where this bottom one right here, this is being used with the traditional four column structure. Let me show you in the back. So we have this top column here and you can see in my section I have just one column here and everything in here is being laid out horizontally. These are actually just icon boxes in Elementor and they're all aligned horizontally inside one container. Then we look at this one right here and each one of these are columns and it has one same exact icon widget inside each column to lay it out as well. The problem is using this method right here. This is where we start to add a lot of bloat and this is an opportunity that we have to reduce that bloat and to make your site leaner because each time you use a column, there's extra HTML and div wraps that go around that. So if we are using four columns inside one row, we have three times more div wraps on those columns where if we're just using one column. Now first off, let me explain. I'm going to be using the word flex a lot and that's because that's the correct technical term. That's the correct term of the property that we're going to be using but you're not going to see the word flex at all in your Elementor settings or control panel but I will show you where it's at. It's actually in your positioning but before we get into that, let me go ahead and explain how this all works and how the default settings work. This is a bit more of an in-depth tutorial but that's because I'm really hoping by the end of this that you're able to wrap your head around it because that's what's really going to help out by really understanding how this works.  You're going to be able to look at the way you're adding your elements inside Elementor differently. If I just go through too quickly though, you might not really get the whole idea and concept of it so please bear with me. Okay let's go ahead and show you the default so I'll add a section here and we'll just go ahead and add one section. Let me put some padding here just so we got some wiggle room. If we add an element say we add the text right here you can see it covers the full width. When I hover over it you know this little blue box right here that shows it's covering the full width and that goes with any add element I add. I could add a button right here and this little button that's only about 60 pixels actually is taking the full width and so on and basically this is the display block or inline block property and that is default. It's default with Elementor and it's default with all the browsers that use for their display property and what it does is it stacks things on top of each other and it stacks them at 100% width. That doesn't really give that much room to build layouts. It doesn't really give that much room. The only option you have is to create multiple containers or multiple columns in order to control the layout and that's where we get a lot of the bloat by having all those different containers. So Flex what that does is this turns something that's 100% width and you're going to find it okay so this is where you find Flex and how you find where to change going from block to flex. Navigate over to advance scroll down to positioning and right here underneath width this is it right here. This is where you find your settings to go from block to flex. You're going to have four different options here. Default and full width 100% are exactly the same. By default it's full width 100%. That's why it shows it's taken up the whole space in the container. Inline Auto this changes it to flex. This changes it right here to flex and you will see now it does not take up 100% it only takes up the space of the element and if we do this to multiple elements let's go back here to our button which changed this to inline auto it puts them side by side because we have all this space in the container that's open so as long as the let's duplicate this as long as the element could fit inside here is going to stay horizontally but if we get an element that can't fit in there then it's going to go right to underneath and so on and we could keep duplicate and it'll keep going on that way so it's structures like this flex structures like this where block and the default structures like this I hope that makes sense I'll show you more and it should make more sense later on so the next setting that we have let's go down here to positioning then the next one is going to be custom and this is where we can start controlling the width of our element and how much space do we want to take and we have three options in here we have pixel percentage and vw which is vertical width pixel I find that I use pixel seldomly I use it inside special circumstances say like I have a paragraph that I want small with the title big I'll probably use that on the paragraph just to control the exact size of that paragraph I seldom use pixel I hardly ever use vertical width the one that I use most often is going to be percentage and if you want to build a layout like this where it can basically mimic having four columns percentage is a way to go and it's probably the easiest way to start to get used to using flex because with percentage will we have 100% of the container of your column so right here there's 100% width so if I want this right here for example to be two columns I would make it 50% and 50% if I wanted to be three columns I'd do 33.333 33.333 and so on if I wanted to be four columns I would do 25 25 25 25 as long as it equals 100% and it has to equal 100% if it's 101 the last one is going to break and go right down to the bottom so we could see right here let's give a percentage was put in 50 now it's taken 50% of the width right here same thing here let's give it a position put on custom go to percentage 50% now it's taking 50% now we have two equal columns right here instead of adding two columns and let's add a third element we're going to play around a little bit right here and we're going to play around with a few things too so we'll add a third element I'll put it right underneath this button let me make this image like 200 pixels right here and I'm going to also make this one right here in line but I'm going to make custom on here and I want this one to be 33.333 and I'm going to do the same here I want to make a three column grid right here see 33.333 and the same thing here 33.333 now we got our even three columns here and they fill out the whole space of it and you can see even if we move it they're all responsive along with it so this is the first part of learning and understanding how flex works is seeing how you could actually create multiple columns but without having to add columns instead creating multiple columns within a single column so when you have something like this with three columns you can go ahead and add in a new element let's add in a text block you could go ahead and give this text block a positioning a custom and let's create four columns right here so it's 25 and let's turn all these to 25 and create four columns five and 25 and now we're just using random elements right here but I want to give you an idea of just how powerful this is and how much it could be used so here is a webpage I created this is for a course that I have coming out on creating maintenance plans and selling them this one right here I have a lot of sections of multiple columns I got this one with three this is all wrapped inside one column I got this section right here with four spaces with four blocks this is all wrapped in one column as well what I did here was I made this 50 percent I made this 50 percent this 50 and this 50 because 50 and 50 that is 100 inside there then another 50 50 that's again 100 so that's how I was able to make the square like that down here I got another one with four that's all wrapped inside just one column and right here I have eight of them I got an eight section grid and this is all wrapped inside one column 25 percent each and they just stack a line in line and then when you do 25 25 25 and 25 and then you put the next 25 it stacks up down here so let's try that here I'll duplicate this and you can see how they start to stack up just like that and then we could duplicate this one and you see each one's 25 that makes you can keep making grids like that so this is flex and flex layout next step now next step is having more control over the positioning more control how they lay out and now that's what I'm going to show you all right to do this let me go ahead and add a couple things right here this one let's actually do a menu let's make a menu right here I'm going to show you how you could use this inside of a menu so I'm going to style this up really quick and I'm just going to add some padding let me make this full width let me add my logo right here I'm going to line my logo to the left make it full and I'm going to make this 250 all right big logo and let me add a menu I don't have a menu right here set up I'm just going to put a list that could be like it so let me add my icon list underneath here you item I'll duplicate this just make a fake menu for right now I'm going to line this in the center let me make the text so we can see it and give it a typography all right and let me add a call to action button and I'm just going to copy and paste this element to make the styling go a lot faster paste out okay so you see each one of these are full 100% let me align this to the left and we're going to turn this right here into a menu all within one column so we don't use multiple columns so starting off here let's go to advance and to positioning and I'm just going to make this in line I'm going to make them all in line we're not going to give any custom sizes to them right now because I want to show you the controls and how to control them all right so they're all in line but you notice that you know they're like they're not really they're they're all side by side but they're all kind of like on top it looks really messy right here so where we're going to find the controls is inside your column settings so go over here click to your column and you're going to see the vertical line and horizontal line these two right here are your controls per flex this is how we control everything that's going to go on with your flex let's start by the vertical line you can make it go at the top which is default you could go in the middle so everything lines up horizontally perfectly you can make them go on the bottom or you could add space between space around space evenly and those don't do anything all we're going to look at is the bottom middle and top and most of the time we'll probably end up putting it in the middle now the horizontal line this is special right here just for flex so we got start center and space between space around space evenly start is the default and that means is where starts is all the way to the left in the center it aligns everything inside the center and this is controlling all elements right here you see that we're controlling all the elements within our flex box and then the end is going to push it all the way to the left what we could do here though is we could put space evenly and space evenly is going to wrap it from the first element's going to be all the way to the left the last element's going to be all the way to the right and whatever's in the middle you're going to have even spacing there we go we got our menu right there that would be enough to create a good menu layout but let me show you the other options we got we got space around which just makes the spacing even around everything it doesn't spread it out though it's the space between spreads everything out and then space evenly which creates even padding in between each section with this one I would just put a space in between and there we got our menu right there and as you make it responsive you see it's fully responsive right there so that is how we work our controls now I'm going to do one more example right here I'm going to do something a little bit more complicated here I'm going to do two columns I'm going to build something similar to this right here and I'm going to show you how I build something like this so I'm actually going to copy and paste some of the elements to make it go a lot faster copy this first let me add some padding what I usually do is I always put 12 I like 12 on my right and left but on my top and bottom I either put 80 or 100 always here I'm going to put 100 I like to keep consistent top and bottom paddings and I never use margins on my sections as a rule of thumb so let's go ahead and just paste in these elements here all right so here we're going to put in we're going to put in icon boxes right here and I'll put the image box here and let me go ahead and style this one up right here line it to the left so I want to make this one 50 percent of the width so I'll put this here go to percentage make it 50 and then I'll just duplicate it then duplicate it again and then duplicate it again and that's how we stack it up and you can keep doing it that way and then when I style these up I would go here and I would add margin to it I give it some padding right here so you can give some margin that'll give us some space you can do things like give it a border and that's how we would give it space around it then I would add in some padding to give some space in the padding 20 and then if we just copy and paste this style right here you will see now how we get the four elements all within one column and you can style it up any way that you like so the goal for this is to look for the opportunities there are going to be times when you do need to use multiple columns for example here I had to use two columns here because I can't stack up multiple texts and have multiple texts and multiple elements all this way these texts I need these to stack up on top of each other uh another thing was let me see down here on my call to action boxes I had to use multiple columns and I had to use these because I have multiple elements that I need to style up separately inside that column so in these cases having multiple columns would help out but inside of a case like this where each one of these are just one widget this is when we should use flex and the power of flex and keep that code lean and clean all right I want to show just one more example before we move on from this because this is something else that'll be really helpful we looked at the percentages there are cases where we would like to use pixels and I'm going to show one right here one thing that I use a lot are share button social share so I'm going to add an element here and I'm going to add text here I'm going to put share all right and then next up I will put let me first style this up so it doesn't look like a big title I'll put my subheader next one I'm gonna put my social share buttons and we got my share icons right here so let's put this over to the left so here they stack up but this is where we could also use inline with pixels so let's go over here and edit this one and make this inline and we're just going to make this inline we're not going to use percentages on this one and we're going to do the same one on this we're not even going to change the spacing on it do the positioning here make it inline inside here let's make sure that they are aligned inside the middle and then the horizontal align you can leave on default or move to start which start is a default here on the share we could go ahead and give some padding right here let's give some right padding about 20 pixels and there we go now we're able to add a social share but you can add a title behind by that right there now we cover desktop using flex how about mobile how about what do we do for mobile and it's quite easy really flex isn't needed too much on mobile very rarely so if we were to go to mobile let's go ahead and style this top section up right here on mobile we'll click over to the mobile view on it and oh we could actually just do this one let's do this one in mobile view so this is still at 50 so it's still taking 50 percent of the width all you got to do is go back to your positioning and put it down to full width and you would just do that on each one of them i'll just copy and paste that style and that's what you do when you go down to mobile for you could do that on all of them so each one of them this is still taken up 25 percent just go down and make it full width and then make all them full width and they'll stack on top of each other again mobile and setting up for mobile is actually pretty easy then you just got to play around with your paddings and margins and always always i suggest whenever you're styling up for mobile make sure you have your phone and adjust your paddings and your margins and everything according to what you see on your phone there's so many different ways you could build a layout and i've been experimenting i've been practicing and i've been finding best practices i could tell you my very first sites on elements were uh we're all just learning experiences but after building it for so long and trying out so many different ways i found out these best practices so something like this social share icon i could probably build this four different ways but not all those ways are really the best way to do it using the flex though whenever you're able to use a flex you're going to be able to improve how you are building your sites you're going to be able to make it cleaner leaner and i hope you just have fun with it elementors fun it's fun uh it's kind of like playing video games while i'm building a website that makes sense all right i hope this video helped out uh yeah if you like it subscribe you know do all that good youtube stuff it's much appreciated i appreciate the support i'll be back again soon with more elementor web design and web design business related topics all right thank you


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You know looking forward to his first game whenever whenever he's cleared and whenever he's ready to have his first game Already told my teammates Dad if they play on the same day we playing then I'm gonna have to catch them next game. So I told you I told y'all Family over everything champs. I like y'all I could definitely got to see brawny's first, you know, it's college game Whenever he's cleared and ready to go. Yeah, I told y'all on the plane. Remember, that's that's my favorite part Nobody has a problem with this, right? This is totally acceptable. He's definitely earned that, you know His son's his son's first College game on top of the adversity that he's been through what he's what he's how hard he's had to work to get back on The basketball court. I think everybody is perfectly fine with that. I'm actually looking forward to seeing This as well. So this is not a problem at all same I'm all fans of the game But I think Brian is such a workaholic when he I don't think he believed himself when he was saying it as you See it in his face as much as he So you don't think he will actually do it. I don't know if he'll actually do it He's gonna actually do it. You know, he loves to compete himself.  So yeah, that's what he does But it's a fan. We're all everybody's looking forward to brawny being back on the court I'm not surprised now that he said this publicly it might get rigged up to his Scheduling sort of changes last minute Everybody I kind of like that actually if that happens. Um, yeah, good. We're all in agreement there John Sally had some words on LeBron saying I think he can play as long as Tom Brady until he's 45 45 though, huh? You played with him. Can he do it till 45? I'm a big believer and No, I don't think you could be father time Absolutely not and I didn't think that he would make it to playing with brawny But the way he's playing this year and how fresh he looks he looked better than last year to me So I think he'll be able to play with brawny but another 60 because he's gonna turn it 39 another five six years for him to play I just don't see it But the way he's he's really making me a believer each year with each game each month of how fresh and how he's chasing down blocking dunks Chasing down blocks dunking the ball having five or six dunks in a game, which is unbelievable. I'm like, man He looks young again. I don't know how he's going. He's beating father time right now But I another five years. I think father time's gonna get another another two or so That's a that's a long time. It's it doesn't seem like a lot, but it doesn't happen in now five years along sounds fun though Yeah, that's fun Jordan Hawkins said the following anybody has the ability to become a 40% three-point shooter yet Danny That'll get you on any team in the league just shooting the ball and defending all that dribbling is cool But I just keep it simple a 40% shooter will get you on any team. Yeah, right. I feel like what's happening here No, I agree. I agree with him I don't know if he should have threw a shot at the dribblers in the league the ball handlers He really exposed himself is probably not his cup of tea But no, I agree with this take if you're a 40% guy You're gonna get an opportunity in this league shooting is at a premium You know teams are always looking for a guy that they can throw out on the floor that can go make shots of them So I agree with this take. I agree that you have an opportunity, but I don't agree that anybody 40% right, it's not some guys as much as hard as they work at it They just may not have the touch they may not have the shooting So just not everybody can be a defender He was gifted enough to have the touch the shooting touch and the footwork and agility and you know Hand-eye coordination and the IQ to be able to read people's rhythms and chemistry will play defense Some people can work at it Really hard a long time a lot of hours and still not be great at it So I don't think anybody can do it But to this point a lot of guys are capable of being a role-player and doing or being great at what they're good at and Get an opportunity of playing them in this league dribbling is the hard part just for the record. It's the hardest part Um, I love this Danny Kyle Kuzma talking about the wizard struggles. This is We can't guard a stop sign. That's kind of really what it boils down to we let anybody get whatever they want on us So until we change that then that's probably going to be the result. I Don't disagree with them Who's it fall here? I mean they need some leadership And I think this is him trying to be a leader and trying to set a fire under them or light a fire under them There's other ways to go about it. I don't think this is wrong I'm not gonna say wrong or right, but I think he's trying to point out something and let them know They are lacking some veteran leadership. They're lacking a lot of things I could see them being one of the teams that make some moves because right now I Expected it and be a lot better. I think that the world expected not a lot better But better for sure. Yeah, we expected more from their two guys And they're doing what they can but they said they just lacking that lead that leadership That's the only way I can put it I mean, he's been a part of some of those Jordan pool experience moments though They're just sort of hanging out on court all things are happening all around them. They just bad all the way Yeah, there you go chaos. That's it. This is the question of the day and I've just been waiting to get to this loop Anthony Edwards said he thinks he might be the first NBA player to play also in the NFL Now, of course, he said he wants to win an NBA championship first, but is it gonna happen? Hell no Listen Just imagine an NBA player saying he's gonna wake up and I'm just gonna go play football So I would like to I would like to hear more context of what he what he meant by this You know, maybe if he's saying I'm gonna train. I'm gonna do what's appropriate to try to train train However many months you I'm still saying I'm still saying no. I'm still saying no You just have to be built for it. I think when we train we are big guys. We are muscular guys We are in shape, but we're in shape to do something completely different than play NFL football So no a man. Hell no, you can't play in the NFL.  Come on. I think we are able to adapt and adjust other sports better than other Professional sports, but to be a professional. I think you can try but you have to put your 10,000 hours in Yeah, and I don't think it's gonna happen overnight I don't think six months or a year is gonna where you can just change and transfer over to be in another Professional athlete or another professional sport player. I think it takes some time, but it would be interesting to watch It'd be interesting, you know, I would think it'd be a lot of fun, you know for other, you know Sports bill with chain sports that they can we just don't see it anymore You know with what Deon Sanders was doing back in the day when Mike went to baseball and yeah You know, we had a couple guys playing guys like unicorns. Yeah, you don't have that anymore You know because we had Travis Kelsey on the show and he and Chandler were you know Chandler said he could walk in the NFL and get things done and Travis Kelsey no chance But then I'm thinking Chandler said he can do what he could walk into the NFL and get You know a lot of the world is delusional Listen ant-man on a basketball court. He plays at his own place. He's Smooth, you got three seconds to make a play in NFL.  It takes a while for you to adapt and adjust to it I'm just thinking I can't imagine a guy just going to another sport and how fast that game seems for them Listen as as Freakishly athletic is DK Metcalf is yeah if he woke up today and said I can go play in NBA Every single NBA player would be offended for sure every single one of us would be offended And we will make it a point to make it miserable for him to even think that So for us to think that we're gonna flip-flop and go do something that's way more physical We have a flop rule in the NBA. No, I know if we get pressed at the line We're not gonna fight through that and still run our route. We're gonna be looking at the referees wanting to flag This is always the great debate of every sport and every barber shop We love talking about it and it's gonna be until till it happens Again, because we've seen in the past other players. Yeah, sports They're always gonna debate, you know, whether they can box whether they can you know play baseball whether they can swim Oh, this guy can go here. It's gonna forever to be be a debate until it happens And I think it might be one of the first ones to you know, let us see what happens if we change Well, he said he wants to win a championship first. So yeah first things first Let's get that accomplished and we got some time All right, tell me one player in the league cuz now I'm just I'm stuck down this rabbit hole Who's gonna hit the hardest in the NBA who would hit the hardest right now? If needed He's he's proven he's about that All right, that's gonna be the next example when we try to figure out how to stick someone in the NFL I this topic is one of my favorites to do we could do it every day But we'll move on Darvin Ham said trying to contain Tyrese Maxie is like trying to contain a Lamborghini Hmm, it's a accurate very close. Yes. He's very fast And he's a smart player, you know, he's not just a fast player. He's athletic. He's explosive But he knows the game he understands the game and now the fact that he can shoot It makes it that much harder to guard him because you can't just go under screens You can't give him space or cushion You have to guard him out there That's the reason why Trey is one of the hardest players to guard in this league as well because he can shoot from far out And he's very fast So you have to come up with schemes whether to double them or you know different types of you know schemes on the pick and roll I've had a garden because they're so quick and smart and can shoot the ball from from deep range Where are we raking Lamborghinis on the sports car list? It's pretty high. I'm not much of a sports car type of guy Probably top three top three most money I've wasted in my life or sports cars. So wasted Didn't you not enjoy them? I just don't enjoy them. The engines are too loud They're a little small on the inside it's just it's not a very pleasurable thing for me personally I don't think I've ever disagreed with one of your takes more in my entire life Oh, you're an engine. Well the engines too loud Yeah, and the Lamborghini your engine your engine is yeah, but that means that means it's amazing car American muscle, huh? I'm not American. I'm in the music. I want to hear my music. Oh, that's fair I'm a cruiser. I listen to sports talk like every cool person does