So my friend, Sean, grew up in Connecticut and Sean's father, Henry, was a World War II fighter pilot. He was a World War II hero. He was shot down, spent a considerable amount of time in a POW camp. And when he came back to the states, the first thing that Henry did after the war was he bought a piece of land outside of their little hometown in Connecticut in the woods because he had enough of being around people and he wanted to kind of be out in the woods. And the second thing he did was he married his high school girlfriend, Mary. He and Mary had four kids. My friend Sean was the youngest of those four. And on that piece of property, Henry built his house. Now I'm not talking about what we would describe in the suburbs of we're building a house. I'm saying Henry built his house. Henry poured the foundation. Henry did the framing. Henry did the electrical. Henry did the plumbing. Henry did it all. It was his house. And in that house, for, I don't know, 50-ish years or so, Henry and Mary raised their kids and enjoyed their life together. Several years ago, Henry passed away. My friend Sean, the youngest of the four, went back up to help his mom because his mom, being in Thomaston, Connecticut, and on her own, decided to do what most people in Connecticut do when they retire and that is move to Florida. And she said, you know, Sean, I want to sell the home. And I want to move to Fort Myers. So Sean went up and he helped her get the house sold and it comes moving day.  And Sean is ready to help his mom drive down to Fort Myers, Florida. And he says, Mom, before we leave, do you mind if I walk through the house one last time? Because it's not a house. It was a home. And so Sean walks through the home and he's just kind of reminiscent. And all these memories come washing over him and of his childhood of him and his brother and his two sisters and his dad teaching him to throw a football and his dad teaching him to shoot a rifle and his dad showing him how to drive and he and his sisters fighting in the basement. And he's just kind of remembering all that. And he goes upstairs to the main master bedroom and he's looking around and he looks at the ceiling above where his parents' bed had been for all those years and he noticed this little tiny screw in the ceiling. And he looked at his mom and he said, do you know what that is? And she said, no. And he said, you know, dad was a really careful craftsman and if that was a mistake he would have fixed that. I want to see what that's about. So he goes down to the truck to the van.  And on that panel is a Folger's coffee can. And Sean looks at his mom and she says, I have no idea. And Sean peels off the plastic lid or the cap on the Folger's coffee can and he looks inside and there's $500 in cash. And he says, you had no idea this was above your bed. She goes, no clue. Sean goes, you know, dad was a very careful guy and he was a very meticulous guy. And so if he hid one Folger's coffee can in the house, who knows? So he and his mom, Mary, spent the rest of the day and they scavenged and they scoured and they searched and they looked everywhere in the walls and the ceilings in the basement and by the end of the day they found 12 Folger's coffee cans hidden throughout that house filled with $5,000 in cash. Because Henry, being a child of the Depression and being a World War II vet, knew what we've all re-earned in the last 8 to 10 years and that is you can't trust banks, right? And so Henry had his own private retirement plan going on in his own IRA, if you will. But the cool thing about those Folger's coffee cans wasn't just that there was cash in there but there were also stashed in there report cards from Sean's childhood and pictures of his sisters and birthday cards that they'd made for their dad and father's day cards and Valentine's Day cards all these memories that his dad had sucked away and stashed away and hidden in the walls of that old house. Sean says, it was about that moment that I flashed back to my childhood and I remembered as a kid, 6 times, maybe 8 times, it wasn't all the time, but every once in a while my dad would take me by the hand and he'd walk me around and he'd look around and he'd say, Sean, this house will take care of you. Everything you need is in this house. And he said, I used to think that was the stupidest thing that any dad ever said to his son. And now all of a sudden I realize he actually meant it. That he had provided for us, he hadn't told us but he had provided for us that in the event of an emergency we had resources. I start with that story because in many ways that's my own spiritual journey. As I mentioned yesterday in my little workshop, my uncle was a Methodist pastor. My parents worked at Methodist colleges. My grandfather was a Methodist pastor and his father, my great-grandfather, was a Methodist pastor and his father was actually a Methodist pastor. And his father, surprisingly, my great-great-great-grandfather, you'd never guess what he was. He was a Methodist pastor. I mean, who'd have thunk it? And so I grew up in this very rich Methodist environment for which I'm very deeply grateful. Also, I grew up in the mountains in North Carolina in my little hometown for many years. We didn't even have a Catholic church. I didn't know what Catholics were. And so when I was in high school we moved to Florida, Lakeland, Florida, home of the Detroit Tigers Spring Training Center in case you care. That's right, that's what I'm talking about. It's good to see some smart people in this crowd. And so, and good-looking. I just want to point that out. And so we moved to Florida and I had all these friends who were Catholic. A lot of them were of Cuban descent and I began to discover this thing of Catholicism, but I really didn't know that much. And so I want to share a little this morning about that because of a couple of things that happened in my life, I began to discover that I was wrong about Catholicism because I used to think that Catholicism was just like an old house. And all churches were like an old house. I mean, my town, the Presbyterian church, was an old house. Methodist church was an old house. The Baptist church was a lot of old houses. And the Catholic church was just an old... I mean, churches were old houses. But there came a couple of moments in my life where I discovered that the Catholic church in the church, God has socked away treasures that as I've discovered in my eight and a half years since becoming Catholic, many converts discover and that many cradle Catholics oftentimes have either overlooked or forgotten or grown immune to or taken for granted. But that God has socked away in this old house that we call the church, life-changing treasures, church. And when I say life-changing, I mean life-changing, as a friend of mine says, when you have a life-changing moment, it tends to be life-changing. And so I had a few of those because of the treasures that God has socked away. And so I want to share with you one of those special treasures this morning as we gather together as God's people in this place. And I'm not talking about the obvious treasures of being Catholic. I mean, let's just be honest. It's good to be Catholic. It is. And... I don't care what Anderson Cooper or Dr. Phil or Oprah or Joy Behar say. It's good to be Catholic. It is. And I'm not talking about the obvious treasures because there's a lot of obvious treasures for being Catholic, and I know that I'm preaching to most of you are Catholic and devoted Catholics.  Man! I'm a part of the group of people in another group. I'm a Catholic.  I may be some of God's best work because I'm a part of the group of people on planet Earth today that will house more people today than any other group on planet Earth. I'm a Catholic. And then as you made your way here today into the finnigan field house finnigan field house and as you came in and you opened the door you saw your reflection in the door and you paused for just a minute and you straightened your hair which I was a little late because that took me a little longer. Western do not work. That is a problem.  I may be the best-looking Catholic in North America because I'm so excited, I'm proud that I'm a part of the group of people that will not only feed more folks and house more folks and so you came in and much to your surprise you discovered that there were 1,550 other people that were as good-looking as you and went, man, I'm a part of this really good-looking people. These really handsome folks and some of them are really intelligent Tiger fans. I mean, I'm part of this really good-looking group of people that will feed more folks and educate more youngins and house more people and clothe more people than anybody else on planet Earth or Catholic.  Now, it's important to remind ourselves of those obvious treasures because we're not very good at telling our story, are we? Amen? In fact, we're usually bashful. We like to call it modest, but we're bashful about sharing our story and oftentimes we abdicate that and we give that to the media to tell our story and the media doesn't do a very good job of telling our story. They do a good job of telling their story about our story and they have truths and they like myths and they like outright fabricated lies and so we don't tell our story, we let other people tell our story and sometimes it's important to remember our story. It's good to be Catholic, but I'm not talking about that today. I just wanted you to remember that in case you zone out for the rest of the time and you're waiting for Kimberly's excellent talk on marriage in a few minutes. Just wanted to remind you who you are for a second. I want to talk about a life-changing treasure, treasures that will change you from the inside out to the outside. And I want to share about one of those. We gave you a free copy of my book in your bag. I hope you got that. And it shares six of those. It's one of the best books that my wife has ever written. And so it describes the six treasures that changed my life and I just want to share with you about one of those treasures this morning and to me it's the supreme life-changing treasure, but before I do I want you to turn to your neighbor and say, who are we? And now this time I'm from Georgia so I'm going to teach you some Georgian. I want you to turn back to them and say, I don't know, but we're fixing to find out. Here we go. That's who we are. Here we go. So to remember who we are some of y'all been eating grits. I can tell it because it just kind of came right off of you. This is kind of fun being Georgian, isn't it? That's right. We could use you. We're getting invaded by a lot of other folks right now. And so I want to talk about one life-changing treasure and to do that I need to take us back in time back to the early 90s, way back in the early 90s. And to New Haven, Connecticut I had just graduated from seminary at Emory University in Atlanta which is typically if you're going to be a Methodist pastor in the southeast you usually go to Emory. And I thought I was going to go pastor at church but I had a couple of professors that really wanted me to go do a PhD and so they kind of used their influence and got me into the PhD program in New Testament and ancient Christian history up at Yale. And so Anita and I we packed up our van and we moved to Beverly and so and we took our six month old and our two year old and there was no oil in New Haven, Connecticut. I can assure you nor were there wealth and riches but we moved to New Haven and so we're going up there and there were only four people who were admitted into the program. Usually in any given year they would admit between two and four out of about 100 applicants. And so there was me who was a Methodist there was a Presbyterian there was a Jesuit and there was a Dominican friar and since I didn't know much about Catholicism I didn't know what a Dominican was and a Jesuit I knew because I'd seen that movie The Mission you know and that was about it. So I figured that my closest ally Scott would be the Presbyterian right and so I go to the orientation session the first day at the Religious Studies Department and I'm seated next to this guy in this really interesting outfit and I said hey how are you and he goes and I said tell me a little bit about your garb and he said well I'm a Dominican friar and I went oh that's cool what does that mean and he said I'm a priest and I call him Steve because I knew him as Steve before and he's an intimate part of our family now still my best friend married our daughters and so Anita and I had our 25th anniversary a couple years ago when somebody gave us a trip to Italy and Steve pointed out to us that in canon law you're not allowed to go to Italy for your anniversary unless you take a priest with you so our so we couldn't afford for three of us to go so he and Anita had a great time on our so actually we took him there were three was this is being recorded I know so Steve and I became very very close friends immediately and that was good for me because Steve was the smartest person in our program and I'm from the mountains in North Carolina and Steve was the best prepared person in the program and I was not and so Steve became sort of my coach encourager tutor particularly when it came to classical Greek and the things that we had to learn how to read that I had no clue what I was doing and so we just became very close friends so about two years into that friendship Steve comes to me and he says Alan got an idea for Lent I said great he said I want you and me to go out to a group of cloistered Dominican nuns in North Guilford which is about 30ish minutes from New Haven and we're going to give them their Lent and Retreat I said okay I got a bunch of questions about that I said first of all what's a Lent and Retreat and he said well we're going to go out and we're going to give them for four or five maybe six weeks we'll go out and we'll talk for an hour and I said okay I can handle that and I said what are we going to talk about and he said well I'm going to talk about Thomas Aquinas and you're going to talk about John Wesley now if you're if you got friends who are Methodist you know that John Wesley started the Methodist movement and Wesley actually was very Catholic in many ways when it comes to the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of becoming Holy and sanctification so you're going to talk about Wesley I'm going to talk about Aquinas we're going to compare them and what they had to say about becoming Holy and about the work of the Holy Spirit in your life and we're going to use first Corinthians to do that I said great I said I've got one more question and he said seriously I mean how small was your town and I said really really small and he said well there's this group of ladies back then there were about 50 of them and they range from about 25 up to about 85 and they live on this piece of property out in the woods and they take a vow of stability or constancy or community and they become a part of that community and most of them even in the event of medical emergency will never leave I said really I said now what do they do he said well they pray and I said well I assume that they're nuns but I mean what do they do he said they pray that's what they do I went so you're telling me there's 50 ladies they live on this piece of property they don't ever leave and all they do is pray he said yeah I said I'm in man I am so I am so in so we go out there the first Wednesday I guess it was the first Wednesday or so I'm after Ash Wednesday and we go out there we pull into the parking lot and monastery of our lady of grace North Guilford Connecticut and I will always remember this vision we pull in and we walk across the little parking lot we go up to the door we knock at the door the little peep hole opens lady opens the door I mean looks through and then she opens the door and she welcomes us sister Diane and I looked at sister Diane and I thought to myself you may be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen and she welcomed us in and she got us through we went by the little sort of half wall I didn't know what that was where the family would come to visit on this side and sisters would say on that side I mean really I had no I mean I am a rube I had no idea what we were doing and Steve didn't tell me until later he had to get special permission for me to go behind the cloister wall male ever to do that who wasn't an ordained Catholic priest and he had to get permission from the provincial the Dominicans and from the Bishop the Archbishop of Hartford so we go back there and we go into their community room and it was about twice the size of this just kidding and so it was about the size of this and so there's the 50 ladies and Steve's going to have me go first because he said that I was going to talk about Wesley he's going to talk about Aquinas we're going to talk about holiness that's what I heard but what he meant was I'm going to take in front of a group of 50 nuns and make you look really really stupid so you're going to go first and then I'm going to come up the white knight in my Dominican garb and eviscerate you in front of these 50 nuns didn't tell me that I'm good to know so get up and there's 50 sisters there and he introduces me and I go up and we had a little small lectern and I put my notes there and I looked up and first of all this was the most non-Catholic audience of all time I mean it was unbelievable I looked at these first of all they were all on time that's what I thought that's what I thought I mean I had like a 15 minute warm up act because I was figuring people to kind of be straggling in and I was pointing on land in 15 minutes early because I figured people would be straggling out and so it's just only at 30 minutes all I had was warm up and exit time I didn't have anything so they're all there on time and second of all they were all smiling 50 punctual smiling Catholics I have actually personally witnessed this miracle I have I have but here's what just makes you realize this was a once in a lifetime this was a unicorn experience was it they were not only punctual and smiling get a load of this every single one of them had a Bible you can't make this stuff up man and so I look over at Steve and I said man you've been sandbagging me these are Baptist nuns aren't they they really are and so we do our talks and we come to the last week the fifth or sixth week I can't remember how many of those we did and we save time for question and answer which was other than yesterday the last time that I ever did question and answer because I will never do that again so we do the Q&A and the 15th there was a sister seated over here and I call her sister Rose she's no longer with us God rest her soul and she was a very short stout strong fire hydrant kind of a lady and she says Alan you know thank you so much for coming now I have to tell you after I realized with that first moment in all seriousness when I looked up at these ladies I had to take a step back because it was disorienting to me because I had never heard of anything remotely like this before I genuinely had no idea that this kind of person even existed there was no category for it in my background or my training and for those 50 ladies when I looked at them the first time it was disorienting to me because there was this joy that kind of left off their face and there was this radiance that seemed to emanate from their eyes and there was this ruddiness and this glow I mean I don't mean to over sentimentalize it but it was true and I took a step back because I realized that I was actually in the physical presence of holiness when I read about holiness I'd studied about holiness I'd written about holiness I'd preached about holiness but I was actually in the physical presence for the very first time in my life I was in the physical presence of holiness so we had these marvelous weeks Sister Rose raises her hand and she says Alan thanks for coming I said it's been my pleasure she said you know for most of us you're the first Methodist pastor we've ever met I said hey right back at you quid pro quo Sister Rose and she says and after listening to you I gotta tell you you sound really Catholic and I said thank you I'm assuming that coming from a nun that's a good thing and she says so I gotta ask you why aren't you a part of the church and I thought that's a weird question I said I'm sorry I don't understand the question she said could you rephrase it and she said yeah okay why aren't you a part of the church now I'm from Appalachia alright and so I'm used to that you know that people think I'm stupid and they're probably right and so they think if you talk slower and louder he'll figure it out alright so I said why am I not a part of the church well you know that doesn't really make sense to me because you know I got my little card here that says I'm an ordained pastor in the United Methodist church and maybe there's like a special word for church that's different than our word for church but mine says church and I'm a part of the church so I don't understand the question she said well let me put it to you this way why aren't you a part of the church she knew I was from Transylvania County and I said okay I think what you're asking me is why am I not Catholic and I said I don't really know why I'm not Catholic I don't know that much about Catholic I didn't really know much until I got to be friends with Steve I've enjoyed being with y'all and I respect you but I have to tell you one of the reasons that I'm not Catholic is I don't really get what y'all believe about communion so I don't understand that I said as a Methodist it just seems patently obvious to me that the bread is bread and it symbolizes the body of Christ it's special, it's holy, it's sacred but it symbolizes it and the juice as Methodists we typically use grape juice not wine the juice it symbolizes the blood of Christ it's special, it's significant, it's holy, it's sacred but to somehow think that this becomes the body and blood of Christ in a real substantial way I don't understand that I said I love you, I had a great time I've learned a lot and I respect you immensely I don't get that she said okay she said now you're a New Testament scholar right and I said well I'm working on it and she said so do you mind taking out your Bible never good never good and there were 50 of them and I said yes ma'am and she said do you mind opening to 1 Corinthians 11 because we have been talking about 1 Corinthians Alan with you and Father Stephen I said yes ma'am she said would you open it to 1 Corinthians 11 because would you like to read this or would you prefer that I read it I said you're doing great sister Rose why don't you keep going and she said let me read this for you because you know so she opened up to the words of Saint Paul where he writes for I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said this is my body and then she closed the Bible and she said Alan what don't you understand and we all laughed kind of like y'all just did they weren't laughing with me they were laughing at me and then we kind of moved on and I wish I could say that at that moment the heavens parted and the hand of God came down and the voice of God struck me and said Alan I'm inviting you home into the one holy Catholic and apostolic church I'm inviting you into the fullness of the truth I'm inviting you to enjoy the most deeply intimate relationship with me as I give myself to you personally and substantially in the real presence of Jesus' body and blood every time you receive communion but that didn't happen but as I look back now I do realize that the heavens did open and at the hand of God came down with a seed about the size of a mustard seed and planted that seed in the back of my soul and for the next 15 17 years or so God watered that seed and he prospered that seed and he fertilized that seed and he put sun on that seed until it ultimately grew and grew and grew until I realized wow I have no choice but to come home into the church and didn't happen easily it didn't happen quickly it was a little inconvenient I gotta tell you so we finished up in New Haven we moved to Rome Georgia Rome, Georgia and we and it's always important to point that out in a Catholic audience I have discovered and and so we moved we moved to Rome I became pastor of this church and I realized pretty quickly if you gotta preach every week and the main highlight of worship is the sermon there's a lot riding on the sermon and there's a responsibility that comes with that and you better come to bring what you believe God has brought you to bring because that's why they're coming they're hoping to hear a word from the Lord through you and I realized pretty quickly I better find ways to nourish my soul if I'm gonna try to do what God's calling me to do the Cistercian monastery not far from Atlanta started by the guys that it was a mission monastery I guess they called it from the guys at Gethsemane where Merton was in Kentucky and so they started one in Conyers, Georgia and so I started to go to the Cistercian monastery as a Methodist pastor once a month for a day of retreat and so I would go and God bless him I think he's deceased now the Abbot was Father Bernard Johnson and Abbot Bernard would give me spiritual direction out of his generosity and graciousness now again you figured it out but I was it took me a while so I would go and I'd spend some time there and I'd pray and I would attend Mass I didn't receive communion obviously but I would attend Mass and I'd walk and pray and I went to the monastery library I went to the library and man there was a lot of books in there in their library bunches of books a lot of Catholic books Catholics like to write books Scott they like to write books they really do Protestants I'm kind of like Lou Holtz Lou Holtz says I'm the only person who's written more books than I've read and so I go in and there's all these Catholic books and I said man I never read any of this stuff I wonder why I was never exposed to this stuff so I started to read some of these Catholic books and I began to discover some things and most of you already know this I mean a lot of you have been to this conference many of you have been studying the faith far longer than I have but let me just remind you some things that I learned one of the things that I learned is that in the early church there were a number of people who died for the Eucharist who died for the Eucharist who died for their conviction and their belief in the body and blood of Jesus they were martyred and I was like wow how come I never knew this that must be a really big deal they were willing to die I mean I have to think to myself is there anything that if I was standing before an executioner who had a sword or a lion and was getting ready to destroy me and said unless you renounce this we're gonna kill you is there anything so deep and would I do that for the body and blood of Jesus heavens no are you kidding me I would say oh my gosh no it's a big misunderstanding don't let me live it's a symbol it's a symbol but these people died for the Eucharist and I began to think to myself this must be a really big deal then I came across that little book Jesus Shock by Peter Crafe many of you know Peter Peter teaches at Peter teaches at Boston College which we affectionately call the Franciscan of New England and they don't have quite the spirit of hospitality that Franciscan does it's Boston they do the best they can but I mean this weekend has been tremendous the hospitality here the excellence here thank you thank you I mean I don't have to tell you you're here this is an extraordinary place and so I read this little book by Peter called Jesus Shock it's a short little book you ought to read it's pretty good stuff it's all like I don't know 120 pages and a good chunk of that is devoted to the Eucharist and one of the things I noticed that Peter taught me in that little book is that for the first 1100 years for the first 11 centuries 1100 years a millennium and a century for the first 1100 years of church history we don't have any evidence whatsoever that anybody ever disputed debated questioned or doubted the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist 1100 years ok then we got one guy, Beringar of Tours and then we go 400 more years so 1500 years a millennium and a half 15 centuries 1500 years in a row and we only have evidence of one person ever questioning doubting or disputing that this was truly the body and blood of Christ and then we hit 16th century boom and now we've got more than 33,000 kinds of Protestant Christianity just in America alone each with their own understanding of what may be happening and I thought to myself wow what happened for 1500 years a millennium and a half there was almost complete unity and conviction of the body and blood of Jesus people were willing to die for that how come I never knew either one of those two things with all of my education wow there's a lot going on here so I'm preaching every week and as a Methodist pastor I had four Sundays off every year every Protestant pastor at least when I was a Protestant pastor those four Sundays were really important to me because those were times when I could go to church and sit and receive rather than stand and deliver and so I would always try to find a church that I could go to where I would hope that I was going to hear a good sermon and the problem was we would vacation in different places where I didn't know any pastors I didn't know any churches and so I'd get out the yellow pages and if you're under 40 the yellow pages are kind of like Craig's list but print it out I try to find I try to find a church that seemed like a reasonable chance I'd get a good sermon and I'd come back and Anita would go well what do you think that was just horrible and I'm like now I've burned one I'm down to three you know and so there's a lot of pressure and so after a couple of years you know what I started to do I started to go to Mass when we were on vacation and you know why I went because I knew what I was going to get not that we could but let's say we could vacation in Johannesburg, Sydney, Tokyo Dublin, San Francisco or Honolulu no matter where I went I knew exactly what I was going to get I was going to be there in the stream of 2,000 years of liturgy, of history and of the saints and celebrating that as we came before the altar of God and in Persona Christi as the Holy Spirit came upon the priest and he offered to us the body and blood of Christ and I wasn't able to receive that I was there and I was a part of that no matter where I went and I began to discover that as wonderful as this right here is it's not about this and as wonderful as this can be and has been for three days in the end it's not about that that I could go wherever I was and I knew what I was going to get I went on a mission trip a couple of years ago anybody of Polish descent man y'all are some of the best people on earth those folks are great so I was on this I was on this mission trip and we were training young Polish Catholic leaders and we had two Polish priests with us and so they celebrated Mass for us every day and I mean Polish it's its own language I don't know if you know that it's its own language I'm here to impart wisdom to you and I'm pretty good at languages and I went back after two weeks in Poland and Anita says alright teach me some Polish and I went man I got nothing I said those people don't even know what they're saying I mean that is the that is the most complicated language I've ever seen in my life and I said but I did learn a good joke and the joke is when we get to heaven do you know what language we're going to speak Polish you know why because it takes forever to learn so that's what I got I can't speak I mean I can't speak a lick of Polish and so every day one of the priests who's Polish celebrates Mass in Polish and I didn't understand a single word they said but I understood every single word they said so I come back one year from vacation actually I came back several years from vacation but I'm a fairly stubborn, sinful, stiff-necked hard-headed guy and so I just resisted and so after several years I came back from vacation I had a sense of man God is calling me to become Catholic and so for two or three years I just ignored that and resisted that and did nothing with it but finally after the third or fourth year I came home from vacation I said this is just this is too consistent for me to ignore this so I called up my friend my Dominican friend Steve and I called him I said hey man you got a second he goes yeah for you sure and I said I think God's calling me and I heard him set the phone down for a second and I heard him mixing a martini and sitting in his recliner and putting me on speakerphone and he said well tell me about that and I said blah blah blah blah blah and he said tell me why you think you're being called to be Catholic and I said well there's this and there's this and there's this and he said okay those are all great things Alan and those are wonderful things about being Catholic but I haven't heard you mention the Eucharist do you believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and I said well almost I said you know that's one of the things that I'm kind of making my way there everything else I've kind of gotten there so I'm assuming it's going to come together and he goes um and then he says perhaps some of the wisest words that any priest ever said to anybody he said Alan if you don't believe in the Eucharist don't become Catholic because for us it all rides on the Eucharist I said okay that alleviates a little bit of a problem I've got I'll go back he said yeah and you got a congregation with 8,000 people and you're serving 15,000 people in your ministries every week why don't you just keep doing what you're doing I said great I said now what am I supposed to do with this turbulence I've got he goes well I want you to do two things he says the first thing I want you to do is I want you to read the Catechism you know I gave you that and I said you know I've been reading it he goes I want you to go back and read the section on the Eucharist I said I can do that and I said I've got 200 yards from the church that you're the pastor of there's a Catholic church and they've got a 24-hour perpetual adoration that's what perpetual means it's 24-hour again I'm here to shed light and to make you smart right and so he said they got this perpetual adoration chapel why don't you just go by and sit in there some I said okay I said what am I going to what's happening in there I mean do you mind if I ask you a question about the adoration chapel he goes seriously you don't know what an adoration chapel is I went no and he goes where are you from I said what do people do there and he said well they pray I said what do they do he said they pray I'm like here we go again man I mean what is it with you Catholics I mean just pray pray pray pray and he says you're going to go in and there's going to be somebody there sometimes there may be a group praying the rosary and sometimes there may be somebody who's laying prostrate before the altar or before the blessed virgin and the sacrament the blessed sacrament is going to be exposed on the altar there and so I want you to go and just sit and just whenever you have a few minutes go do that and let's see what happens so I went to Walmart and I got a trench coat in one of those things with the moustaches and the mustache and the big nose and I started to kind of go sit in the back like a creeper in the I was an adoration creeper in the back pew and so I'm there and one day I'm there after going I don't know 6, 8, 10 times and it's 9 o'clock on a week day it's daily mass and Monsignor Paul Reynolds God rest his soul Irish priest about 7-ish pastor of that parish missionary priest had answered the call as a 25, 30 year old man in Dublin and they said Georgia and Alabama need priests and he said I'll go and so he came and he gave himself away generously as a priest bringing the sacraments and the gospel of Jesus and the faith and the genius of the Catholic church to the south as a missionary priest his whole life he died a couple of years ago and I miss him every day possibly the holiest man I've ever known he celebrated mass that day and he gets up and it's the homilien he said today's the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas I went uh oh gotta go and he said I've only got a couple of minutes I just want to tell you one thing about Aquinas Aquinas was this big burly guy 300, 400 pounds bald as a cue ball I mean he was handsome and so he was perhaps the brightest, brightest mind the church has ever produced and so nearly 700, 800 years later he was just processing and digesting his brilliance and what he had to say and his philosopher and theologian and preacher and writer and he said one day late in his life I think the year my memory may be off on this but I think it was 1273 it was the feast of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas is celebrating the mass and he comes to the moment where he's elevating the host and he places the host back on the altar and he's dumbstruck he's unable to speak at that day it's a little cryptic but we do know that later that day he talked to one of his close confidants and he said something like this he said at that moment I was dumbstruck and overcome because I realized that when I compare all of my writing and thinking and teaching and preaching and theologizing and philosophizing when I compare it to what happens at that moment in the Eucharist I realized that all of my work is but straw compared to that as I listened to M. Reynolds I was overcome by the Holy Spirit and I said Lord have mercy I do believe forgive my unbelief and I knew I had an ethical problem and I knew and I knew I had an ethical problem and I could no longer with any integrity serve as a pastor in the Methodist Church because I didn't believe what I needed to believe and I needed to find my way home because church that's who we are that's who we are we are we are the people of the Eucharist that's who we are who are we stay with me stay with me who are we we are the people of the Eucharist once more we are the people of the Eucharist so the only thing I want you to understand today is when I was a kid second grade Brevard North Carolina Strauss Elementary School, Ms. Blythe's class I was in there working on handwriting somebody comes from the principal's office and they say Alan Hunt's needed in the principal's office now this was not an uncommon occurrence so I got up and I go down with the messenger to the principal's office and there's my mom and I knew something was up because my mom never came to school she signed me out we got into the car and my dad was driving my mom was in the passenger side my brother James who's six years older than I am was seated in the other side of the passenger of the rear seat and he had on like a coat and tie and on my side there was a little coat and tie and mom said put on the coat and tie and be quiet and so I put on my coat and tie and I looked at my brother and he goes so we drove over the mountain for an hour from Transylvania County to Haywood County and we pulled into the driveway we got out of the car and dad opened the back seat he got my brother and me out he took us by the hand and he and mom and the two of us we walked up to the front door and dad knocked on the door and an elderly woman opened the door and she just looked really gaunt and tired my dad said is he ready and she said yeah he's ready and so my mom went with the elderly woman and they headed to the kitchen and my dad took my brother and me and we were on the right we opened the door we went in and it was a little small bedroom and there was a single twin bed in there and on that bed was an old man who two years before had been 6 feet 2 200 pounds square job bushy hair, thick, strong, robust voice but after two years of cancer he'd been emaciated down to maybe 140 pounds his hair was out, his eyes were that yellow and gray and his skin had the look of death my dad dropped our hands out the door so there's my brother and me and we're looking at this man on the bed and the man looks at us and he says boys I want to tell you something and we said yes sir and he said I want you to write it down and we said yes sir he said do you have something to write with and we said no sir and he said we'll find something and so my brother looks around the little room and he gets a couple of little pieces of scrap paper and he hands me one and he keeps one and so we look at this man and he kind of pushes himself up on his elbows and he musters all the strength that he has in his body and he looks at us and he says I want to tell you something and I want you to write it down and we said yes sir he said so write this down boys always remember who you are that's what he said always remember who you are I wrote it down and I've had it with me ever since and I take it with me in my Bible everywhere I go I wrote it down because these were the last words my grandfather ever said to me always remember who you are so allow me if you would to ask you just one more time who are we we are the people of the Eucharist always remember who you are


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here So in this video, I'm gonna talk briefly or share my quick theory on how Sydney Prescott can actually finally become ghost phase as you Saw the beginning of the video. This would all be picking up at the end Or be picking up from screen for let's say screen forehead in it Just like that as you saw at the beginning Jill Roberts getting Carted out of the house getting carted out of Kirby's house Loaded into the back of the ambulance with all this press in her face And then the movie face to black and then we get the credits and then we're just left out in the open to not know What's gonna happen to going forward? We don't know if Sydney's actually dead We don't know a lot of things that are gonna happen because all we know is that Jill Roberts survived And she seemingly has gotten away with it Now a lot of people are against the idea of Sydney becoming the killer Sydney becoming ghost phase Sydney dawning that costume and going around Slashing up her friends and her loved ones and I honestly can say that if it happens I wouldn't necessarily be against the idea, but at the same time you have to What I'm about to say is literally the only way you could do it that would not diminish anything that has been Established about this character and this is the only way that what I believe would effectively honor the legacy of West Craven And it would be the only only route to take That doesn't like kind of just diminish everything that she's been through because for her to finally just snap like that I Would take that narrative But at the same time it is gonna diminish a lot of the thrust a lot of the stuff that we've come to know and love about this character because she's been through so much and She wrote this novel called out of darkness only for her to then now dwell Into that darkness that she just wrote a book saying she got out of I can see why a lot of people would be against that but jump jump me right on into things This would be set many years later after the fourth frame after the fourth film Jill Roberts is in college Sydney Prescott did in fact survive the attacks at the end of screen for Kirby Reed is alive in this idea of mine and Hayden Pantiers back in Marabros is back This is basically the screen five I hope we could have gotten had Kevin Williamson's ideas for five and six had gotten to come to fruition essentially in the film This is what's gonna happen. Jill Roberts got away with the events of screen four. She framed Charlie and Trevor And nobody knows it was her Except Sydney because Sydney has spent the last several years With a bit of amnesia she doesn't remember too much of the events from screen for and she Is now going to start understanding and remembering what's going on and she remembers What's what's happening is now the events of screen for has led to the staff franchise Rebooting itself and ignoring all those all of those sequels that have nothing to do with the trilogy because remember in screen for at the beginning the actual opening one of the girls I believe it was Marnie or I don't I don't think it was Marnie. I can't remember her name one of the blonde girls She says that after the original trilogy Sydney Prescott threatened to sue the studio So they stopped using her story and they started making things up and now that they have a new story to use They'll just retcon stabs four through eight. I think they're up to now They'll retcon those and they'll have like a direct sequel to the original trilogy now Since Sydney Prescott's life has been brought into turmoil again, and they have a new narrative to tell with Sydney Prescott Jill Roberts is gonna be starring in the film as herself Jill Roberts And the film is the production on the movie is actually occurring in Woodsboro Let's say the production of the film is occurring in Woodsboro during production now. It's very similar to scream 3 during production though Members of the crew and the staff and the whole production start dying one by one and Jill herself now is getting stopped by a ghost face We have a former ghost face being stopped by yet another ghost face now keep in mind This is all going back all gonna be brought up all this whole entire reveal will be brought back around to see Prescott With her amnesia from the past couple of years because now she is now with the production of staff for Beginning and Her amnesia now wearing off. She starts to remember what Jill actually did. I'm gonna get back to that in a minute so as everyone's dying and As all these buys are dropping Jill's getting taught to buy ghost face She's getting all the stereotypical phone calls cliche calls that we know from ghost face that you would get What's your favorite scary movie? Oh, I'm gonna gut you like a fish She's getting taught to buy ghost face who's threatening to expose what she did unless they They're just basically threatening to expose her For what she did all those years ago And they're gonna ruin all this fame that she has acclaimed by going after and ruining the production of staff for to make to make her Suffer and understand that what she did all those years ago was wrong and she's not gonna get away with it They they know that she was the one responsible for the Woodsboro massacres all those years ago Not Charlie and Trevor and they're out to expose her and take all this fame away from her in the end of the film as We're finding out all these people are dying As we're finding out that Jill is Again our she's our protagonist But she is the first protagonist to also be a former ghost face killer Who is the first person to have gotten away with it until this new ghost face came up because they found out her secret? And they're gonna expose her and take away and diminish all that fame She's now so worked so hard to get from those killings.   They did not die not a single one of them died This has been a giant ruse that not only that sydney was in on sydney had helped from The police department in woodsboro sydney had helped from dewy gale all these people that Basically state they staged their deaths and they pulled it all off Of course with the help of some members of the production of staff for since they have makeup artists on set and All these other things now how this playoff on screen That's the tricky part in mine is depending you'd probably have to go about not showing The actual kills they probably have to cut away from all of the actual kills Minus of course just having blood splatter We wouldn't actually get to see any of these people die and I think that would be the biggest clue throughout the film We didn't actually see them die. We just saw like we heard screams and we saw blood getting splattered But we didn't actually see anyone die. So then that's when at the end That would all make sense why we never saw anyone actually died because no one actually was dying This was all a giant ruse orchestrated by sydney And the town of woodsboro to expose jill for what she did all of those many years ago in screen four to reveal Her as the real killer behind the woodsboro massacre remake as they called it in screen four And no again. So basically this is the only way sydney prescott would ever be ghost facing my opinion She basically her amnesia wore off She remembered everything that happened to her remembers that her cousin is Absolutely insane and she's the one responsible for these killings that occurred many years ago And she does not deserve all this fame that she desperately wanted because sydney's gonna have memories of that monologue speech That jill gave her at the end of screen four and she's gonna remember everything that brought her to this point she What happened is she then went to dewy And they came up with this idea To get back at jill and of course expose her and get the truth out there and that of course led to Woodsboro pd getting involved in on it and other people is basically just a giant ruse That was orchestrated to expose jill as the original killer Or the actual killer from the events that occurred in screen four So nobody would have actually died in this idea of mine sydney prescott isn't actually a killer because she didn't kill anybody And jill roberts would be exposed And the ultimate The ultimate ghost face because at this point jill roberts would have been the ultimate ghost face because she would be the first person They got away with it The ultimate ghost face is about to get played by the ultimate final girl sydney prescott sydney is going to orchestrate an entire ruse to expose her cousin she dawned the ghost face mask She dawns all of the she performs all of this stereotypical task and tricks She has partners partners, of course that could be let's say they're actually do we and gale They're her partners donning the ghost face mask as well and This would be the first movie where we have three ghost face killers But the the unfortunate result is that no one actually died sydney and her friends were just basically Performing a a giant joke to get jill to expose to expose jill of what she did in screen four And that's literally the only way I could see sydney prescott ever done in the ghost face mask Let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comment section below If you haven't already make sure you subscribe turn on post notification that never miss a video in the description I have links on my social media accounts on my facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there to limiters any movies news reviews You like me to cover in the future without any mind guys. I will see you in the next video


accounting for the change in the current year going forward. So change in payment schedule for services. So if you perform services for a basic rate specified in a contract, you must accrue the income at the basic rate, even if you agreed to receive payments at a lower rate until you complete the services and then receive the difference. So that might be applicable in more kind of a complex type of situation. Possibly you have a longer type of contract that would be involved. So change in the payment schedule. Advanced payments. Payment in advance flower. Generally you report an advanced payment as income in the year you receive the payment. Now notice on an accrual method, usually what happens in an accounting system is you get paid at the same point in time or you do the work first. That's what most businesses kind of do, right? Meaning I'm in a restaurant, I get paid at the same time I provide the food or I'm a bookkeeper or a lawyer, in which case I do the work first, figure out how many hours it took me and then I've got to bill the client, track the accounts receivable, get paid later. But you could have a situation where they give you money in advance. They give you money first before you do the work. Now in that case you wouldn't actually record the revenue on an accrual base system until you did the work. But now the IRS is saying, hey you've got the money, we want our piece of it when you get it. So you can see where the IRS would want to make an exception if you already got the money in advance of when you did the work and they might want their piece there. So however if you receive an advanced payment you can elect to postpone including the advanced payment in income until the next year. You cannot postpone including any payment beyond that tax year. So for more information see publication 538 and section 451 that's probably more of an unusual situation and or one that's going to be specific to a particular industries. So expenses under an accrual method of accounting you generally deduct or capitalize a business expense when both the following apply. One, the all events test has been met, the test has been met when a all the events have occurred that fix the fact of liability and two the liability can be determined with reasonable accuracy. So now we're on the expense side of things which at the end of the day you would think that cash would be going out of of the company but we're on an accrual method system so we're not going to record it simply when cash goes out although if it was an easy transaction you paid for something you got the services at that point in time the accrual and cash methods would be the same it's when there's a difference between when you incurred the expense and when you paid for the expense that the accrual and cash methods could come out to a different time frame in terms of when you would record the expense. So basically you want to record the expense when it has been incurred and that's why we have the events test all events have occurred that fixed the fact of a liability meaning you owe money at that point in time because you have incurred the services you have a contract the services have been done you owe the money even if you have not yet paid it at that point in time be the liability can be determined with reasonable accuracy meaning the contract is usually fairly straightforward before the work was done you could you know how much you're going to owe after the work is done and so on even if you have not yet paid it so you can determine how much to be it's going to be paid so number two economic performance has occurred meaning the work has actually been done meaning you have now incurred the liability because the work has been done that's usually going to be an increase in say accounts payable a liability and then recording the expense from a journal entry standpoint. So income performance you generally cannot deduct or capitalize a business expense until economic performance occurs if your expense for property or services provided to you or for your use of property economic performance occurs as the property or service are provided or as the property is used so so notice that with the expense side of things the IRS is going to be skeptical that you're going to over report your expenses reporting expenses early because expenses are actually good for taxes everything's flipped on its head so you got to keep that framework in mind for income they're going to probably be skeptical that you're going to try to delay the income and report the income later because income is bad for taxes right so if your expenses is for property or services you provide to others economic performance occurs as you provide the property or service so an exception allows certain recurring items to be treated as incurred during a tax year even though economic performance has not occurred for more information on economic performance see economic performance under accrual method in publication 538 if you want to dive into that exception example so you are a calendar year tax payer and use an accrual method of accounting you buy office supplies in December 2022 you receive the supplies and the bill in December but you pay the bill in January 2023 you can deduct the expense in 2022 because all events that fix the fact of liability have occurred the amount of the liability could be reasonably determined and economic performance has occurred so one more time let's just think about those three because all events fixed uh of the fact of liability have occurred meaning you know what the liability is and and it has occurred you've received you know the supplies that you purchased the amount of the liability could be reasonably determined you probably already know how much you you're going to owe because that would be in the you know in the contract of the purchase and economic performance has occurred in that in that year in other words you've got the the stuff already even if you have not yet paid for it therefore they have completed their side of the job so your office supplies may qualify as a reoccurring expense in that case you can deduct them in 2022 even if the supplies are not delivered until 2023 so possibly if you have this reoccurring kind of thing then maybe there's like an exception to the general rule and again you can look at the publication if you want to dive into that in more detail keep in inventories when the production purchase or sale of merchandise is an income producing factor in your business you must generally take inventories into account at the beginning and end of your tax year unless you are a small business taxpayer so note if you have inventory then usually you're going to have to buy the inventory meaning you might pay for the inventory at the time you purchase but still put it on the books as an asset so it's kind of similar to buying like like a large building or equipment you have to kind of capitalize it on the books as an asset you're not expensing it at the point in time of purchase generally and if you have to do that you're doing an accrual thing that's why inventory lends itself to being an accrual component because you're not going to expense the consumption of the inventory until you sell it in the form of cost of good sold so if you're a small business maybe you can still get away with like a cash-based system when you deal with inventory but if you're getting larger and you have a lot of inventory that's on hand by nature you'd be on an accrual-based type of system and I believe the second page of the of the schedule C is the is where you've got the calculation to calculate your inventory which is like beginning inventory plus purchases minus ending inventory gives you you know the cost of good sold calculation that you're going to have to generate when you're dealing with inventory so if you must account for an inventory you must generally use an accrual method of accounting for your purchase and sales for more information you could see inventories later special rule for related persons you cannot deduct business expenses and interest owed to a related person who uses the cash method of accounting until you make the payment and the corresponding amount is included and the related person's gross income so now you've got related transactions notice it gets messy when you're dealing with business of a relative someone that's related right because then you can start to manipulate the transactions and the timing of the transactions between the two entities right the two entities that are doing the transaction so in that case you would need to line up the same timing in order to properly you know record things the errors is going to be skeptical that you're going to use the two entities to manipulate the timing of the transactions so determine the relationship for this rule as of the end of the tax year for which the expense or interest would otherwise be deductible so if a deduction is not allowed under this rule the rule will continue to apply even if your relationship with the person ends before the expense or interest is included in gross income of that person related persons include members of your immediate family including siblings other whole or half your spouse ancestors and lineal depend descendants obviously related transactions from the iris perspective are going to be skeptical of them


Good morning, everyone. I mean it's the setup. My name is Patrick, as the setup. My name is Patrick. I'm a WordPress developer. I run a small agency called Moja Studio Limited. It started by my bed site almost eight years ago. I started working with WordPress from 2010. For my presentation, I mostly talk about numbers. And I know most of us don't like talking about numbers. Numbers will have to do with ours, money. And basically what it counts for you to deliver a successful project for large organizations. My clients, some of the clients that I've worked with include Energy Regulatory Commission. I've worked for USAID, East Africa Trade and Investment Hub developing WordPress project for them. I have done most of them at petroleum companies, Action Energy Limited. I've worked for some companies in Mombasa called Dandros, if you know Dandros. Right now, actually I was from a trip. I'm working for a project for Taita County, this CDF portal that I'm building for them. So my presentation will be mostly how to deliver a successful project for a large organization. And it's not just about large organization is how is it that you can use WordPress. You know most of us think WordPress as something that really can only be used maybe either for personal use, blog or what. But today I just want to give out a share. This is the possibility of using WordPress to really feed yourself, feed your family. For me, I have a small daughter, two-year-old daughter and a wife. And we all depend on WordPress since 2010. Wait, if you see typos on the presentation, please do not mind. I was doing this in a rush so that I can be able to present this. So let's see. This thing is not working for me. So as I said, my clients portfolio are those, the ones that I try to show, energy regulatory commission acts on East Africans and quite a number. So this presentation lasts maximum, hopefully in the next 20 minutes. I like presenting first so that please pay attention. So my presentation is a blueprint of how to develop projects for large-scale organization. I'll speak about three things. There is growth. How do you grow to start working with large organizations so that you can be able to do projects for them? I'll talk about the three P's. There's the people, there's the process and there's the performance. And then lastly, I'll talk about investment. Know your numbers. This thing is not working for me. So growth. How to identify key opportunities for large-scale projects? Most of you may wonder how these guys start working for these organizations. Some of them as a developer or as a business person or as someone who's looking to work to grow your career, you should always have that mindset of where can I get these opportunities? Where are people talking? Go to a restaurant. Go to entertainment place. Go to meetups. You'll always find there's always people sitting around. If you see three or four people sitting somewhere, at least one knows an idea of what's happening. I'll give you an example. The way I started doing the one currently doing, the one for constraints in the CDF portal. I went somewhere, then I heard there's a new law that the government has allowed before CDF will only be used for security and building schools. Only that. So they are recently allowed to out detect some portion of the fund to build portals or websites to showcase what they are doing for those constituencies.  You could imagine if you just work for 10 of them. Just 10. Don't take the numbers to 50 or just work for 10. Develop 10 websites. So immediately I contacted my local MP and went to his place. Is it true that you guys have a portal? Then obviously because they're politicians, they'll tell you, you can do this, how much you want. So your business skills will matter there. Immediately I got that one. And I'll be honest, even if you Google, how many constraints have that? It's currently a new thing.  It's a new opportunity and I want that to be built on WordPress. For Energy Related Commission, how it got, I was subcontracted. And I was subcontracted because someone simply Googled. Okay, ERC had a problem with Jumla. It was the issues with security. It was being hacked. Most of the time you'll go to ERC website. Then it will lead you to a pornographic site. So someone told them, the best thing is have your website on WordPress. So the person who got the contract knows looking how will they get a developer who knows how to do this stuff in WordPress and a good developer. So when they are Googling, somehow when they Google WordPress Kenya, WordPress tutorials, if you Google my name by Patrick Motugu, the first thing that comes up is PatrickMotuguTeachPlus.com. How many of you know TeachPlus? TeachPlus is like educational site that teaches you a lot about web development. It happened that when I was hustling then, 2010 when I was by my bedside, I used to write tutorials, these things that you hear people write online. So I wrote tutorials for WordPress on TeachPlus. So because it's a big site, if you Google my name, it instantly comes up and WordPress developer instantly comes up. So that's how those guys go to know me. And that's how I ended up being a subcontractor for that. So put yourself out there. So that's how you grow into it. And again, meetups like this, I'll be very honest. I've been a developer for eight years, but this is my first WordCamp. And I really wish I'd attended the previous WordCamp because I've learned a lot. Like one of the things that I took from here was, WordPress is not just the way I was looking at it, numbers and building a business for other people. Some people are here just to learn how to use it for their personal use. So that's a big thing for me. So it's a new niche for me. So right now I'm on the lookout, who are those young clients who just want to start building something for them? How can I consult for them to be able to grow their personal website? So that's how you grow into it. Before I skip. So I hope to identify key opportunities for landscape leverage on past projects. What I made by leverage on past projects to get leads for new ones is, I'll mention a name, for example, when you go to one of my client sites, let's say axonenergy.co.k. I'll be honest. I was paid probably 350 USD. That is that 5000. It's a big organization. But then when I was being given that project, someone else told me, how can you be paid so little for such a large organization? But at that time, okay, at that time I'll be very honest, it was all about getting food for the family. It was all about that. So I didn't care. I just wanted that mail for that day. But later on, last year, we just launched the ERC this year, but it started in December. Because of that axonenergy project, which was paid 35,000 shillings, and because it's an energy company, that's how ERC saw that. Apart from this guy just not knowing WordPress, he has also built for petroleum companies. And the axonenergy for the 35,000, it really landed me other projects. Like I've worked for, there's a petroleum company in Uganda as over 30 stations called Don Uganda. Don Uganda, I've built a station for them. I've built Tosha, if you have seen ads for Tosha, if you have ever seen an ad for Tosha petroleum, that's my website. So again, leverage on past projects. Even if you do a blog for yourself or a blog for someone, that's equally an opportunity you never know. Tomorrow you might find someone who is a bit established and wants to build a personal site and will get an opportunity of it. And even if you're not into business, because I said I'll speak about numbers, even if the little knowledge that you have about WordPress, you can either develop for someone, even consultancy. Because the knowledge you have here, you can use it as a consultancy for someone else. It's not a mass that you become a developer yourself, but even consulting. Because WordPress powers, we did the numbers, 30% of the world, you could imagine how many people want to get into WordPress. Write a good proposal. For the developers, I'll just link you to because I'm not an expert on speaking good proposals, but go and look for a site called WP Elevation. It's run by somebody called Troy Dean. WP Elevation. You'll learn how to build successful businesses as a WordPress consultant. He has the best tutorials and that even, he motivates you. Out of it, I learned that. So long as I have this skill, it's not necessarily I have an office somewhere, but you don't have an office anywhere. I simply just work from one office to another, one town to another, developing sites. Okay. So I'll speak about now the next thing. The three piece is delivering a successful project. People. Now you get into this organization or you are having a website for your big organization. People. Identify key stakeholders and culture within an organization. I'm not very good at speaking. But the first time, if you allow me to speak about that ERC project, the commission has over 300 to 400 employees in that headquarters. They're in three floors. So I got in the first floor, everyone, okay, the day over there when they are meeting me, hand, okay, I did three meetings of 80 people, 80 people, 80 people. Those meetings, you remember, mind you, I'm talking the same thing to three different groups. So there you understand when people are raising questions like for example, people, like they tell you, you know here we want this website, for example, they tell you, people call about prices. People call about how do they get license. So out of it, I got to understand exactly what is it that ERC wants to achieve and how is it that WordPress is able to help them achieve that. Because the good thing about WordPress we talked about categories, posts, pages, we're able to categorize a number of things. So there and then I actually now started realizing initially I just thought I'll build something simple and it's over, but from just discussing with the people around and the key stakeholders do not mean that I don't mean that the commissioners or the directors, the receptionist. In fact, one of the people who gave me the most ideas of how to build that website and for it to be successful was the person who picks calls. The receptionist there, the first law. So that's where I understand. So that's why I'm saying if you're to deliver a successful project or if you have a company and you want to deliver a successful project for yourself, please, as an MD or as the CEO, please just take time, shut up, okay sorry, give quiet and let your employees speak because your employees right from the receptionist are the people who know what they really want. Process, process, design and development process, content first approach. Now this one is not necessarily even business. Let's say you want to start a blog. Please, think about the content that you want to put in first. Most of us and ideally you so me, what I usually initially what I used to do is if I want to start a website, I immediately rush to think of a theme. Which theme will I use? How beautiful will it look? You go to theme forest and start searching for those themes and install and install the demo one and you really want it to look like the demo. Most of the clients that approach me, some of them online tell me I want you to pick a certain theme like the seven or what and then customize it from there. But it will really help you if you're into developing to WordPress. The first thing that you're supposed to do is to come up with your content. Write it in Microsoft Word. A home about us. Write all the details. Collect your images. Out of it, do a sketch. Okay, my process is, I collect content. I do a sketch on paper. I do a sketch on computer wireframe. After that, I do a mock up on PSD. It's a long process. Then after visualized how the website will be, I go and pick a theme. I'll be honest. I don't hardcore these things. I'll not be here and say, I'm a hardcore. I'll do themes myself. No, I pick a theme. But by the time I'm picking a theme, trust you me, I already know exactly how the outcome will be. So that's the process I insist. And if you adopt a content fast approach, things will be easier for, even if it's your personal blog, think about your blog. List out categories of Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word or Notepad should be your first point before you even think of how your blog will look like. I've moved ahead of my slides. Content fast approach. So mock ups, fast iteration. What I meant by content fast approach, then mock ups, then fast iteration.   And there I allow the client to critique. I always tell my clients, take even a week. Like for example, now for the one for the ERC because now that's the large organization you can speak about. The initial contract was build three websites. You could imagine, build three websites to a point that they're almost what we want, then we'll pick one. Now, let's think about the numbers. Even if you're being paid 500k, if you do three websites and you start doing, which I'll go to investment, which I'll talk about numbers and how I do numbers myself, is three websites, it means you're dividing your profit. And I don't know how you guys, I don't know how developers, I don't mind the way I do my profit is I count the number of hours that it will take. I divide by the rate my rate per hour but mostly here in Kenya what applies is not rate per hour but it's for me it's a rate per day because I develop websites if I'm developing a website during a day I only work for four hours in developing I take one hour for business growth and another hour for accounting just to do my invoices and look at my accounts and see where am I going. So if I take, if I know it will take me 20 days to do this website and I tell my clients I work from Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday I don't work. So Monday to Friday it means 20 times 5 is 100 hours 100 hours if it will take me no, it's 4 times 5 that is 20 hours in a week times 2 weeks it will take 40 hours if my rate per hour is currently my rate per hour is 35 USD I do for 40 hours times 35 I tell you now that's the cost how did I reach to that number of 35 USD 15 USD is mine 5 USD is marketing for my business the rest is profit to takula at the end of the year so know your numbers so first iteration so what I did I gave them only one iteration and they gave them two months mind you these two months are moving develop the DG the next general will give his review who will give the commissioners will come and see for a board meeting again thinking for a big organization or developing a project for a large organization you need to have the patience people think if I win a contract for let's say a county to develop a website for a county it will be so fast mostly they actually tell you this will take two months but trust me it will take more than that like the ERC one I've done it for almost we launched when June and we started December six months so if I was not sharp enough to know what my numbers were in December I would have accepted the first quote was 200G I refused I wouldn't tell you what the numbers I agreed to but I looked at the numbers so first iteration never go for those things that clients tell you do three websites then you will pick one just tell them I'll do one give me enough revisions then I'll go to the second iteration testing is usually with WordPress the other day there's a friend of mine Abdi here who wanted to just know how to install WordPress in his computer so testing with WordPress is so easy so if you know how to install you simply test and the way I usually test is the plugins that I run to test my code the windows that I block yesterday there's something key that you're talking about security briefly let me talk about security before I move to the next slide I'll tell how you handle WordPress security first of all because we are avoiding going to the integrities the first thing that I do most of the websites that I do they warp-admin I usually remove that warp-admin because all of us know if it's a WordPress website and you want to login to the user name and password what do I do I do slash WP-admin so the first security step is very simple eliminate that put a custom URL have my login or something or something you can remember WP-webmystune.com let's say Patrick then it gives me but you have to give that organization what's your daily rate and how many hours do you expect to work out of it they can now start justifying how long will this contract take so the contract was for 20 days it was for 20 days it was for development and we decided the daily rate because I was used to the hourly rate and I quickly go with that so the essence of measuring time and I was able to demonstrate the previous projects how many hours it has taken me to complete so I talked about twos that I use for project management toggle, base camp how many people know base camp base camp okay all of us understand kusueli kituoka hapa when you live here please you came forward camp yes but please go and google productivity tools what is it that I can start measuring my productivity because as youth we like complaining akuna kazi and how is it that you measure your productivity way before you even get that job productivity tools base camp is a project management tool that tells you list in your ideas this is the topic the subheadings, the to-do list so I use base camp to do my to-do list toggle I've mentioned is for time for invoices because I don't have money okay I didn't list it there because I don't have money to do big accounting software I use harvest how many of you know harvest or in other words use an excel sheet now excel sheet and that one I'm ready to even for developers you know of this site called what how many people know Nathan Nello okay Nathan Nello that should be a long charter but there's something he uses he's a freelancer he does 5 figures in the US he does 100,000 every year 100,000 USD and he's a freelance at home Nathan uses what you call a simple excel sheet but he calls it a daily accountability spreadsheet in that daily accountability spreadsheet Nathan has a simple excel sheet that tells this is the client this is when they've paid me my deposit this is when they're paying the final deposit and this is how we pay I'll share this in fact on my that's daily accountability spreadsheet I'll share Google Nino with this camp so you can go and download and start making your own have your own excel sheet if you cannot go into software your own excel sheet of how to just measure your productivity okay final thing that I think I think this is the final thing deals within the deal again as I said my presentation is really into numbers if you're a developer here now this goes to the developers be ready to share your deal online if for example the county is if people refer you to you need to know how to strike deals within a deal don't be a developer and be close minded not to be able to share things with other people or strike deals with people the only way for you to go higher you have to stand on someone's shoulder so you have to allow someone else to stand on your shoulder moving up so you need to know how to strike deals within a deal


Hey guys, it's Brandon, creative, happily dressed, a fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, and welcome back to my channel! Hello guys, I know it's been a while since the last time I posted a video. I think the last time I posted a video was actually February 28th or somewhere around that time. I know I went to New York right after I posted that and I threw my schedule completely off and for those of you who don't know, I just graduated college! You can probably tell from the title of this video, but basically today I'm showing you guys what I wore to my college graduation. So it's actually a funny story. I ended up wearing what I wore to graduation, not necessarily on an accident, but it honestly was not planned at all. So I had on basically the outfit I have on right now, but without the jacket, this is like a, this is literally a muscle tee. Yes, I wore a muscle tee to graduation, but I had on this and the navy blue bottoms, just like running errands throughout the day. I have news that's coming here. Hi, come on outside now. Come outside now, please. Yeah, basically I was wearing this navy muscle tee and my navy blue trousers, just like running errands. Oh, am I a white Nike Air Max 95s that I recently just bought, but they already look dirty AF. My shoes and the next day, they're completely dirty. But anyway, I was wearing that outfit out just to run errands and then I had recently found this blazer on a little thrift haul that I did on a thrift trip, excuse me, that I did with my friend Sidney and Hailey, I believe. But I was like, this blazer is so nice. I can't pass it up because I originally bought something totally different to wear to graduation. So on the day I was running errands like with this bottom base outfit on and I was like, oh, that blazer is navy too. Let me just put that on and see what it looks like. So like I put it on, I button it up and then I also add my pocket chain because there's two buttons up here that aren't really used for anything. So I just put my chain against them and I was like, oh, it'd be cool if it just draped in the back and I did it. And I was like, whoa, that actually does look really cool. And then I just kept my Air Max 95 zone and I wore that to graduation. I'm like done with school. I like graduated college. That's insane. But what that does mean is that I have more free time for you guys and actually sit down and make these videos. I think the last few months are really hard for me to just finish school, get through school, also like work. So yeah, I mean, who knows what's next for Brandon Hayden, but I guess we'll find out together. I do plan to make weekly videos. I have so many ideas in mind right now. Hopefully it just continues throughout the summer and to fall to where I never run out of ideas because that's what really gets me. I recently just bought a new lens. I feel like every time I come on here for the first time in like months, I'm always like, I got a new lens. But no, I did get a new lens. It's a zoom lens. All my other lenses were fixed and awful and whatever. But I'm happy to be back in the money, back in the game and back sharing content with you guys.  Some videos I have in the work next is a thrifting haul, obviously, because I thrift all the time and I've done a lot of thrifting since February. There's some DIY videos I have coming up with my sewing machine and stuff like that showing you guys some jeans that I've made. I made a cool car heart bag. I should show you. Yeah, I don't think I want to make a video out of it, but I made this really cool like car heart. My brother calls it a purse, so it's almost everyone else. But it's like pockets, they function, they work, there's a pocket on this side, there's like an actual inside.  But I got this cool chain from a necklace that I got from a thrift store. But I made this bag out of a jacket. I was super excited when I made it. I actually made another one. Haven't finished it yet, but even the detail around it is really cool. I use like the parts that you like button up on the jacket. I use them as like the siding. It's not even a word or the paneling on the jacket. I made it out of the bag and so like it looks really cool. You can actually button it, which I think is really cool. I didn't even watch any videos. I was like, you know what, I want to make a bag today and I knew that jacket I wasn't going to wear it.  And I made this guy and actually wear him a lot and get a lot of use out of this bag. So I'm excited to make more. I might even do a tutorial for you guys. Not really sure yet. Like I tried to do other sewing tutorials for you guys over the past few months, but it's a lot of work to like make sure the camera is set up. And then now I got to move the camera to my different workspace where I cut and then move it to where I sew. It was a lot like my house is messy and I'm not trying to show you guys my dirty. But anyway, so yeah, I look forward to like cool DIY videos like this. Obviously fashion videos. That's what you guys come here for and a little bit of self empowerment videos. Like I love my last video on how to develop personal style. Please go check it out. It's like literally the last video before this one. If some of you guys are out there struggling on how to find your own personal style, go watch that video. I think it's extremely helpful. I share a lot of good tips in there. And it's actually one of my favorite videos so far and I'm really proud of it. So yeah, that's it for this video. I want to keep it nice, short and sweet for my first video back. So I wouldn't feel so much pressure, but just a recap. This is what I want to graduation. I loved it. It was like an all Navy look with my Nike Air Max 95s. Other than that, thank you guys so much for watching and continuing to subscribe, even though I haven't been posting videos weekly. But no need to fear. I will be now to all my new subscribers. Hello, what's up? Thank you guys so much for subscribing. Go check out all the videos you want. There'll definitely be more to come. Comment down below what videos you guys might want to see from me. Like I said before, I do have some planned, but it's always cool to know what you guys want to hear about or what advice you need or just anything. Honestly, comment down below. I love responding back to comments, especially about just your life. Love to hear about it. I can't say it enough, but I appreciate you all so, so, so much. And I will see you all in my next video. See you guys later.


Another feature that we introduced in 236.0 is the ability to set user account expiration for individual users in DHS2. So I'm going to go to the user management application here and I'm just going to select one of my users in this system. And you'll see that I have the ability now to set an expiration date for this user. This is useful if you want to give someone access to your DHS2 instance, but you want the system to automatically prevent them from logging in after a certain date. You want to give them provisional access or just access to view data for a week or a month for a particular project or something like that. So you can go ahead and set this to a particular date and I'm going to say 2022 if we wanted this to be for another 18 months or something like that. This could also be 2021 if we wanted it to oops that is not correct 2021 if we wanted that to be just for the next six months or so. And this is useful again for security as well as more fine grained control of when users have access to your system.


¿Cómo está todo el mundo? Bienvenidos a mi canal. Esta semana voy a hacer una cultura de paz dedicada a Puerto Rico. Es un cover-up de la suerte y va a incorporar los taínos, los vejigantes, coques y la garita. Así que con eso vamos a empezar. ¡Vamos! ¿Te hiciste el tatuaje? 2003. 2003. Ya es tiempo. Pero puedes ver el ojo. ¿Qué pasa? Puedes ver el ojo, ¿no? El ojo es... ¡Oh, esta! 20 años después. ¡Vamos! ¡Vamos! ¡Vamos! ¡Vamos! ¡Adiós! ¿Cómo te sientes nervioso? Estoy bien, bro. Excitado? Estoy muy emocionado, bro. ¡Vamos! ¿Cuál es la última vez que llegas a Azure? Creo que... 2010? 2010. 13 años. 8 años, 8 años. 11 años. 13 años. Oh, sí. Son todos los mismos. Chau, chau, chau. Se va a sentir igual que hace 13 años atrás. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Sí. Mucha información. Mucha información. Garita del muro. Garita. También hay otro que se llama Garita del Diablo, ¿verdad? Sí. Garita del Diablo. Estaba mirando la historia de esa y dije... Ok, listo. Listo. Vámonos recibo. Let's go, let's go. Vámonos recibo. Esos otros. Vámonos recibo. Es chéales. Bobo. Que mirá, Bobo. Que mirá, Bobo. Ah. Ese video, mi... Tan tierno. Para nosotros decirle, Bobo, ay, ¿en cómo es? Eso no es ni un insulto. Eso... Y para nosotros también, Bobo, es algo... Como dorky. Sí, dummy. Like dummy. No seas Bobo. Para nosotros sería que... Que tú miras. Tú miras, huevuta. So now that I got the flow going, I already started doing the face area, the chin, the neck area. I wanted to get into a specific rhythm on how I wanted to approach the face.  So the sequence is going from my black, mixing it with my brown, my brown to my lightest brown, so I can make sure that I'm having like a smooth transition between the wrinkles and transitioning from the chin to the mouth to the nose and making sure that I can see the contrast because if I don't have the contrast on the face, it's going to be hard to separate the browns throughout the whole thing. So now... Oh, and I'm using my 14 round liner for the whole entire face. It's giving me the leverage to navigate nicely without irritating the skin and I'm able to add a few layers. So I'm using my 14 round liner with a voltage of a 5.0 and I'm going to keep doing the same thing across the whole entire face because it's working for me. And, yes, let's continue.  I hate it. No puedo. Esta canción me molesta. No sé por qué. No sé por qué. Vamos a poner reggaeton pesado. Ay, Darryl Yankee. ¡Eso es pesado! ¡Eso no es pesado! Pero ella elevando, elevando. So what I'm thinking with this part of the piece is I'm going to be using my 14 round liner to start executing the eyes. All I did was add the black first just to kind of give me an idea of where the contrast is. And then after that, I'm going to be adding my darkest brown and create that shadow underneath the eye socket and then on the side of the head just to give it that three-dimensional look and slowly start transitioning to my red because my red is going to be my brightest color in here so I've got to make sure that I make that my priority color. I ended up, I'm going to be using two different needles, two 14 round liners because one is going to be for my black and my brown and I want to peep the other 14 round liner clean so I can make sure I use it just for my red so I don't consaminate it with my brown or my black because I want it pure and I want it bright. ¡Ah bueno! ¡Ay que enseñarlo! ¡Ay que enseñarlo! ¡Egura que le sirve! ¡Ah bueno! It's not crusty, no tiene nada. ¡No! ¡No, no tan bro!  Oh good. Ghana. No. No, no tan Ghana. Pero es el hotel. Nosotros estamos acostumbrados a dormir con el fan. ¡Oh! El hotel no se escucha ni madre. I'm like, it's too quiet. We try to put the fan on high. No, no, no. Nothing dude. Huella el aroma de mi piel sobre tu piel. Canela, si estamos distanciados mi alma se congela. No. Don't like it. Ok, ahora sí. Hola. Venga. Venga, venga, venga. Esta es la buena. Donde muchos quieren llegar y no pueden. ¿Esa es? ¿Esa es la buena? ¿Esa es la buena? Ahora sí, tiene sentido. Ahora sí. Perfecto. Check out no despejo. Verificar que a ti te gusta. Day number two. De otra batalla. De otra batalla. Day number two. Ya se armó. So here we are second day. This is day two and we're going to be doing the forum area. And on the bottom here we have the frog Koki. So I'm going to be doing the bottom part first. Full color. We got Koki holding on to a leaf because the frog is literally super tiny.  So that's why the leaves look extremely huge. So what I'm going to be doing is doing the green behind the frog. The color choice for this piece is going to be... I have yellow... ¿Qué? How do you pronounce that? A-C-H-R-E. Oakery. Oakery. Oakery. Yellow oak... Oakery. Algo así. Yellow Oakery. Looks like this. The next one is umbleach white. And the other one that I'm going to be using is zorn flesh light. And these three colors are by the brand of revolution. And I really like them because it's almost like oil painting with them. And as far as the top I'm going to be applying like an orange, red, yellowish sunset.  And I like the view that I picked because it reflects like... The vision that I have is making it look like we're taking a photograph from the bottom point of view. And capturing Koki. And right in the background we have a garita. I'm very excited for this. ¿Cómo te sientes? Agusto. Agusto. Ready for war. Venga, venga, venga. I'm using my 14 round liner just to kind of start testing out the area. Start seeing how I was going to start packing in my contrast. And then I realized that my 14 round liner was a little bit too thick. So I ended up switching to my 7 round liner to give me the sharpness that I was looking for. And it is a really tight area. So that is why I decided to switch to a 7 round liner with a voltage of a 5.0. The process, the sequence that I ended up mixing my colors was starting mixing my solid brown with my black. Just to kind of give me the darker brown and slowly transitioning to my yellowish brown. And ended up mixing it with my white. Just to give me all these different shades that I was trying to accomplish to make sure that I match my reference picture. As far as the belly area, I ended up using my 3 round liner to create those kind of scale looking texture on the belly area. And then switched to my 7 round liner to pack in my colors. Moving on up with the face, I did a 7 round liner with a 3 round liner. And continued doing the same sequence to make sure that I made the whole thing look even. And with a nice transition across the whole entire thing. This was a really fun project for me because you guys know I love culture, I love history. And I was able to put something original and unique together for my client. And my client was extremely happy. He just had good vibes. He set like a rock. The whole 2 days was just full of good vibes. So it was a really fun weekend. And anything else? Nope. So if you're a tattoo artist, I hope you learned something from this video. And if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope we were entertained. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you guys next week. Peace.