Hi, so you've got an asparagus fern and want to learn how to care for it, this video is for you. It's known as the asparagus fern. This plant is not a fern and it is actually a close relative to lilies. So if you have problems with ferns and you're trying to stay away from them, don't let the common name fool you. This is not a fern and this may be a very good plant for you. I can tell you for me has grown really nicely and the new growth is really pretty. I'm going to show you right here. This plant first grows out a stem from which a small front will come out and that will be a little bit lighter and more fragile but they're really pretty. So as I said, this one has been growing really nicely for me and I can tell you in my experience the most important thing for healthy growth is light. So let's talk about that. Okay guys, so when it comes to light the asparagus cetaceous will love bright indirect sunlight. Now I can tell you that with this one right here I actually have her right in front of a south facing window and she's doing really really well. I can also tell you that my south facing window has some protection against really direct sunlight. So this may be helping her get the bright light that he needs but not so direct and intense light. What I would recommend is that you provide lots of bright light and observe your plant. So you can start with bright indirect sunlight, this means that your plant is going to be able to see the sky but not the sun and to do this you can place her close to a window and add some sheer curtains or some barrier between the light and your plant. So this could be even trees outside of your window and observe your plant. So if you see that the fronts are starting to burn a little bit, try to move her a little bit away from the window. If you see that your plant doesn't have so much growth, maybe try to provide a little bit more light. Always observe and adjust accordingly but again in my experience this plant has been doing really well in front of a south facing window so I'm gonna keep her there and observe her throughout the summer. If you would like to learn more about light for plants, make sure to check out the playlist that I made for you where I talk about window orientation as well as different definitions for light for your plants. But now let's get to humidity. You know this plant is super adaptable. One thing that I have observed though is that it doesn't like to be in dry spaces. This means that you shouldn't put her close to a heating vent where the air is really really dry or if you do have an apartment with dry air you may want to place her on top of a humidity tray or close to a humidifier. In my case as I said I have her right in front of a south facing window on the window sill and below I have a heating vent. So in the winter when I turn on the heating vents to keep the humidity high I place small pots on the heating vent with water inside them. This water will evaporate with the heat and produce some humidity for my plants. This has proven to be really great for this one so if you do have your plant right on the window sill above the heating vents try this strategy and see how it works for you. Okay now that you know how to provide the right light and humidity for your plant let's talk about water. In terms of water this plant will like the soil to stay moist and dry partially before you water again. So we don't want the soil to dry out completely between waterings and at the same time we want the soil to dry a little bit before we water again. This will help you prevent over watering. In order to determine whether my plant needs water or not I check with my finger so I stick my finger inside the soil and I try to feel if the soil is drying out. If I feel that it's drying out I water again. How often you check the soil will depend on many different factors around your plants. For example how much light is your plant receiving as well as how humid or dry the air is and of course the pot that you're using. If you have a terracotta pot the soil will tend to dry out more quickly whereas if you have it in plastic the soil will stay moist for longer periods of time. You can start checking twice a week or every week and see what's the best schedule for you. Now when we water we want to make sure that the soil is evenly moist and for this I've noticed that the bottom watering method is really good because I make sure that the water gets into the roots from below and once I am done I make sure that the water drains down through the drainage holes and this is key if you're starting with your plant I recommend that you get a pot with drainage holes because they're very helpful when preventing over watering. The last thing that I can say about watering is that depending on where you live in the world the tap water may be too harsh for your plant. For example I live in berlin and the tap water here is really harsh for my plants so what I do is I always filter the water with this filtering can right here and then use it to water them. If you think tap water may be too harsh for your plants you can also collect rain water or buy distilled water but at least in my case filtering the tap water has been enough to keep my plant happy and healthy. The best time to repot your asparagus friend will be in the beginning of the spring because this is the growing season so they will need more space to grow but there are some signs that you can look for just to make sure that your plant needs repotting or in case you think that it needs repotting outside of the growing season. For example does your plant have yellow leaves even though you're providing the right amount of sunlight and adequate watering? Are the roots growing on top of the potting mix or growing through the drainage holes out of the pot? Are they growing around the potting mix? If you see this with the roots it is a very good sign that your plant needs repotting. The way that we propagate this plant is really fun it's actually by division and you get two plants out of one. I actually did it a while ago so if you would like to watch the video and learn how to propagate yours make sure to check out the link right here and I would love to ask you how do you take care of your asparagus friend? Make sure to share in the comments down below I can assure you the whole community will appreciate it and that's included myself because I always learn so much from you guys so thank you so much for commenting down below. Also if you would like to support this community and the work that I do here we do have a patreon page where we meet every month and we talk about plants and we repot together and we propagate together so if you would like to join us make sure to check out this link right here and as always I will see you in the next one okay adios


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The EDUCAS Core Data Service was created in 2001 and the idea was to help institutions figure out how they compare to other institutions. So essentially you have your group of peers, your buddies, and then you also have a group of institutions that you probably aspire to be like. And so the idea was, well, we're going to ask you guys a set of data, the core data, about your institution, how many staff you have, how many, which budget it is, that kind of thing, and we're going to put all that together and then you will be able to compare your information to your peers' information. So the EDUCAS Core Data Service has four basic components. First is an annual survey that all the worldwide membership is asked to complete. Then there's a data access service. All those who participate in the annual survey are enabled to compare their responses to the survey to other participants. Third is a set of aggregate summary reports that EDUCAS produces that don't disclose the identities of any of the participants but provide broad overviews of the IT landscape. And fourth, tying it all together is an appropriate use policy that clearly prescribes how the data that are in identified form may be used on other campuses. And here we are in 2011 and it's time to look at it again and say, okay, what's changed in the industry? And the answer is a lot, as you guys can imagine. So it was time for us to look at the questions and make sure that they were actually representative of what IT on campus is doing. And what we found is that some of them weren't, some of them weren't. The first thing we needed to do was find someone to help us lead this initiative for the members. Dana Uptigrove, former CIO at Yale and UT Austin was a great choice because he has had a lot of experience in many university environments. The next thing we did was create a member working group from large and small institutions, public and private, domestic and abroad to help really guide the process. There are 15 of them who've worked tirelessly since last March, helping us every step of the way here. The data collection process we put in place included phone and email interviews, in-person interviews, focus groups, a web-based survey that we did last summer, an alpha test of the first draft of the redesigned survey, a blog that kept the community informed of developments. So we've been very pleased at the number of members who've engaged with us. We gathered a lot, lot, lot of information that really showed us that our thoughts about the product were very much on target. Let me share with you some of the feedback we got. In the case of the survey, it was a wonderfully bimodal response. Some people said the survey is too long and difficult to complete. We need something streamlined and simplified. Others said they were disappointed that the survey didn't go broader and deeper and couldn't you please give us more detail. So our response was to substantially enhance and enlarge the survey content space, but to make the survey modular so it would be more straightforward for a CIO's office to delegate big parts of the survey to the cognizant director. And then many of the modules are optional. One thing we heard from the members loud and clear is we don't want to learn a whole new tool for munging the data. We want to use the tools we know how to use and in a lot of cases it was Excel or some statistical packages. So our response is to create essentially a batch downloading capability. So you can define which module are you interested in having access to, which institutions are in the peer group that you care about. Press one button and download all the data and then you can analyze, sort, select, graph, report any way, any way you want and you don't use your familiar tool set. Another piece of member feedback we got was that you want help understanding how to use the data. So you've got all this data, it's a gold mine, but what do you do with it? How do you begin to make sense of it? And what we heard was that our annual summary report, while it's interesting, doesn't give you enough information to really dig into the details. So we're going to have a whole new focus this year on how to use the data. We're going to be looking at case studies of other organizations using the data. We've also relaxed the acceptable use policy so that you're able to use the data to make your points in your presentations. As long as you don't identify, you know, X-schools data, as long as we're looking at aggregate data, you can use this as part of your suite of tools that you use to make the case on your campus. We envision in many ways that CDS is not just a database and a toolkit, but it's a community of practitioners and an intercause is in a position of kind of facilitating and brokering a set of IT leaders, planners, managers who are all working together in some cases in fairly adverse economic times to do the best they can do for their institutions.


All right, let's call the August 28th architecture review board meeting it to order At least if you could please read the roll Here so we're missing Bob and Dick if everyone would please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation Under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all any potential conflicts of interest on today's items Hearing none I'll move to item number four looking for an approval of the minutes from our May 22nd meeting Actually, I take that back I'm looking at the minutes rather than the agenda So it's the meeting for the June 26th. So we had a motion and a second Any further discussion Hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Minutes are approved. Thank you I'm looking at the right sheet Uh, there was a request to switch the order. Is that correct? Yes any concerns from the board if we take item number six first All right, in that case we are looking at the proposed exterior remodel of the facade to 1136 indiana avenue If you could come to the podium and give us a little Description of what's being proposed, please I did an introduction first. I think you all have to have the Rendering's we do. Yes At least can probably bring those up Scott can we get the renderings on the screen? So our proposal is to we've already done the roofing portion Of this project, but i'm nick from galling's roofing and siding and We're looking to complete the exterior And we have some products that we were proposing to use And that Is it on there right now currently they can possibly zoom in on there? You can get a really good look at it. So it's a it's a nicer grade vinyl siding with a nicer contemporary color To make this wood building that's kind of dilapidated right now maintenance free So it's not such an eyesore for this community And Obviously the windows and stuff would all be trimmed out with aluminum Wrap and we would do our we would maintain some of the curb appeal with some Like cedar shakes or fish scales if it's required what's what's there right now currently On the existing it's like a fish scale Like sex center here, and then you go up about 10 feet and there's no one right there In the higher section so for my understanding is we would want to maintain that The old style I guess we want to say that the best we can there's the current picture right there and Main culture colors would be like that dark natural slate color With like bright bright white trim To set it off so One of my first questions was on the roof that the brown that shows up on the the google street view Sounds if you've replaced something. Yeah, it's like a dark charcoal or black You would call it right now. Just wasn't sure how well that old roof was going to go in that new color But yeah, that's take care of already even the on the rendering it it's like a dark Um black black it's the color it's called charcoal and then in the gaf line, but it's really just a black Great and then A few questions primarily on the front facade The first thing is the existing building's got a cornice at the top with some brackets. Yeah, the corberals we plan on keeping On there, so we haven't discussed painting yet with the With the building owner, but is an option that we could Have it scrapped and painted so those brackets up there would stay as well. Yeah, they would stay. Okay, they're they're very architecturally like like historical if you want to answer Yeah, I won't ever want to take those off So then the the trim down the corners looked to be about the same width as those brackets Yeah, that would be wrapped the whole thing, but the profile would stay. Yes and then So the the top strip of the scalloped siding is between those brackets Are you looking to maintain that existing and just paint that? No, we're Our plan was to either they they were asking they were hoping we could do a cedar shake style Okay, like that like a nicer vinyl see your cedar shake style um, but if you want I could talk to them about um Like going with a scallop on there. I don't know if they'll have a preference either way I guess it somewhat depends in my mind as to what you then do with that lower band above the maybe the same first floor That's currently some panels within that scallop siding above it With some projections above and below the panel portion And it looked on your rendering as if there was a strip of your cedar shake and then something else underneath it What what was the thinking for what those different stripes are? So there's Currently there's you know, it has like the fish scales and then it has some section of like old Small planks that are kind of like back and forth like that if I remember correctly um So that is Kind of to be determined, you know, I don't have any problem again Having that painted if that's something that the board sees that they want to keep For the historical look of it. Some of it is damaged. They have to be replaced and whatnot That that toss is we're okay with doing whatever with that, you know And it's it's obviously a trade-off to you know, low maintenance I'm sure the owner is little maintenance or a lot of maintenance, right? But also trying to keep that some character with those different bands correct if those can be different siding materials I think I would appreciate that. I don't know what the rest of the board is going to want when we get to a motion But that's probably something that can be done at a level to figure out what you and the owner want to propose And bring it back for a staff level review. Okay, okay, and just Make sure that it's uh, it's getting enough of that original character back in it Other thing while we're on this elevation that panel over the front door That the head goes up to match the height of the windows to either side That's gonna be on missing on your rendering. That'll be gone Is there any way we can keep that with it stepping down it changes that horizontal line that carries through with all three of those elements It was so we're talking we're looking at kind of the the square right there right right there. Yes I I guess I don't know exactly what you would want to do with it if it's Do you have I'm open to suggestion The the the the owner is pretty much relying on us to figure out a situation so as far as like um Anything like the Supports or the corbels On the top We can plan on painting those and then as far as like the stuff in the middle if it's to Keep the integrity of the historical look. We'll plan on painting it You know, we can just say that like they're gonna say whatever it takes for me to get this thing going You know what I mean? So we'll just plan for that and then That That I guess if you want us to keep that Little box look up there If there is a way to trim out The existing trim you have to keep that and then just have an infill of the siding Above the door sure Just noticing in the the renderings you had that the character changed quite a bit by Having now a small door Got you two big windows to either side of it in terms of character So is the door size so we just want to try to keep everything on that plane Alongside the windows correct Like it's almost like a transom it used to be a transom door right it would So trimmed out as if it was a transom, but siding instead of the transom panel. We'll do it. Yeah, super. I don't have a problem with that All right, then look pretty cool actually West elevation There's all sorts of On the existing Meters conduit unit strep with conduit they couldn't tell what it was It's basically a mess Yeah, some of that's existing and there's not a back Are you taking it off the side underneath it and reinstalling? The things that we can't some of that are gas lines that run directly up to The second floor So they're talking right now currently about like what's the best way to do it There's been times where we've just had those painted as a color match So that it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb You know, and then it just kind of blends in as you're driving by, you know with some of this Buildings like this. It's really hard to deal with the way that everything is exterior exterior I would imagine that the the electrical Is staying if the conduit can get painted out Anything that can be taken down and rerun or anything it can be taken down and hidden like that's the plan It's a clean it up The gas line was the one that was jumping out with a unit strut on the side The whore the vertical on there's a way to reroute that so that doesn't have to go back like that. Okay, uh, if it does Certainly understand sort of the the less unit strut we can have hanging out the sides of the conduit The very least we'll have it painted but i'm going to put a suggestion in the owner to have their hvc guy Like run a separate line They were already out there with the maintenance man checking to see what was Dead what was alive what was bad and what was good? And then I think my last item on the west elevation was the No, sorry two items The gable at the back again. There's some pretty decorative stuff going on there The horizontal band below it looks as if you were keeping but then the freeze boards up underneath the eaves And the vertical centerpiece and the diagonal siding up in the gable It looked as if all of that is just getting sided over I'm honestly Our main focus was to Just get it covered and to keep the historical Like look of the front so if that's something that we want you want us to maintain is that Like maybe some shakes in the gable or keep the freeze boards and stuff like that We can do that if if you're able to keep the the elements that are sort of the trim pieces to Trim those out And then the field of the gable is just an infill with one of the decorative panels that you're using from the front That would certainly satisfy me. Okay Okay It just seemed that with just that horizontal being picked up the transition of the refline Seemed strange that that gable infill just got a lot heavier seeming And then the garage which we can just see in this picture is anything happening to that to tie it into the house Not currently. Okay. Maybe it's getting knocked down next year. I'm not sure So right now I have not contracted for anything on that and then on the east side I assumed that the stairs platform those are all staying there just weren't in the rendering correct But then there were a couple of windows That look as if they're being covered that they're already infilled. You're just going to side over those. Yes Uh, and then the bigger question was the bay window toward the back Was not shown as a bay. I'm assuming you're not changing those That was just easier to model than yeah, like we have nothing currently to change that out We're going to be siding around it and trimming it out Okay That was it for my questions. Thanks for letting me hog the time here Other questions comments concerns All right Uh, any rebuttals to any of the stuff that I was proposing people think better ways to do it or More reasonable requests. Those are all good details. Okay um I guess then on the east elevation there was nothing on the west elevation it was to Gasline and shakes minimize the impact of the the surface mounted utilities Uh, there's a window or there might even be a window to board up over there Yeah, top left. I think you're getting rid of that one that It's already filled in so so be it The that rear gable on the west elevation Just to keep the trim Exposed and then use an infill panel to match something from the front at the gable I don't think everything else is on the front. Yeah And then the front elevation to maintain the cornice and brackets Bring these down Okay And the the decorative infills between the brackets to maintain the two bands of decorative siding of some sort At the first floor level to case out the faux transom At the front door if that was it. What are you going to do with those beautiful mailboxes? That I'm not going to do anything with those So I'll make that motion, please second Thank you. So that's turned into a motion And a second is everyone understanding what the motion included Any further discussion none all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Motion is approved. Nice. Thank you very much. I'll be nice to see you tidy it up. Thank you All right, um, are you going to email me like the I figured as much. Thanks. Thanks Nick All right, that brings us then back to item number five the proposed construction of new bathroom edition at the shboygan bp at 10 30 south 14th Scott if you can you know the drill introduce yourself and tell us what's being proposed, please Hi scott metullo with the spire architecture and design and we are Proposing a small addition on to the gas station that is on the corner of 14th and indiana So that's kind of the existing set up once that gets Blown up to full size Or does it kind of stay that way? Okay, that's fine. Um, let's go back to the existing pictures so basically Where that brick is on the older building the the uh, 19 I don't know 70s 60s whatever building um We're gonna kind of come out there and my client is looking to basically Redo his bathrooms expand out. There's not enough room inside the building So we thought it would be like a natural like transition point to kind of tie those two buildings together Um, and so that's what we're doing. So if you want to go to one of the elevations So that's south elevation. You're kind of looking at it from the street so We thought we'd like to go like a little bit higher kind of create a more natural transition because the way the existing um Green roof kind of ties in it's just kind of it doesn't really have like the best break there so We thought that would be kind of a good break that way and um If you can go down to the end there should be some renderings Which I see I guess that yeah, I guess that's what I have. Okay This are really blue on that screen and don't look like that on my computer Um, but anyway, so that's what we're that's basically what we're doing. Um We are um, we're gonna match the siding we're gonna match the trim um The windows are gonna match what the windows are in that restaurant portion Um, we're gonna we wanted to go like kind of taller to kind of get above that rough We're adding some windows like up above in that taller area. It's really going to be like a glorified attic storage space basically um I I didn't want to go with the green roof So I went with a clear galvanized metal roof on that higher pitched roof is kind of a kind of a terminus between the two buildings And um, yeah, and the siding is going to match that part of the restaurant part of the building And then the that entire south facade of the older 1950s building There's like an old doorway that's there so and then there's some brick underneath the um Glazing so we're just going to make that whole side all All the fiber cement siding to match the the uh restaurant portion And that's Kind of what we're looking to do Anyone else want to go first this time? No, it's so much more fun I was hoping you'd save your best for me Um, certainly understand what you're trying to do there scott. I think putting that note in there as a transition works well um, my my only questions really had to do with The forms and materials that you're using for the roof that it's already kind of a busy building With different roofs going on there's the the flat the gable that the real shallow gable The the canopy the flat projecting sort of awning piece at the restaurant Well, I look at elements got a different gable and it's a different material It just wonder if it's too separate from everything else. Well between you and me. I don't like the green So I didn't I wasn't going to do that um Didn't really like how the flat looked and I actually did a scheme where I kind of extended that flat canopy that's over the entry kind of around there and it that actually to me seemed a little bit more busy um, I think at street level. I think it kind of Ties it in I think a little bit Um, maybe more than a than like kind of like a bird's eye view I would say so that would that's my rationale and reasoning for that Perhaps I would encourage the owner to actually maybe if we go with the same Maybe we can go with the same roof at some point on that mansard and get rid of that green I think that would that would help tie things in. Yeah Um, but I I didn't think a flat roof kind of worked, but we can we can explore it and see um Is on your your east elevation And the existing roof is shown as the gray which would certainly help But that that was the elevation that jumped out at me that it was just Lots of different stuff going on which one the the top the east elevation. Okay, the one up there. Yeah I mean, I I don't I don't know. I mean that's um I mean this building's been added on to a few times and I I think I've to be quite honest. I didn't really analyze The stuff to the right side There's a big canopy in front of it. So I don't think it really You know, I don't think it's something that you look at that you look at it and say well I want to go I want to match the pitch of that little um, that gable that's that's kind of over The windows, I mean we can look at it if it's if it's something that's that important We can look at changing the pitch. I just my opinion is aesthetically that this pitch looks would work better than that personally the fact that it was so different and Wasn't doing anything to tie these various pieces together We've got mansard. We've got gable. We've got flat. We've got canopy and now we're introducing a different gable and a different material Oh, I there's not a rule that says everything has to be the same No, but this is a and I think I think what this does here is this when you look at that corner that ties it together I think when you're looking at this in the site, there's a you know I think we're all kind of forgetting here that there's a huge 20 some foot tall canopy and I don't know six or eight different Guest tanks there so I don't yeah, I don't see that personally as an issue I mean ideally I would love to go back at some point wrap around the side of the building and and tie that all in And I I think I disagree with you scott on the view and the perceptions and this is the street view the Front of the building is very visible under the canopy and past the pumps right and I'm looking at that Tell me on this view where you see the canopy. I'm not the canopy. Where where you see our new rough It's behind the canopy Until I get to the corner or I'm on Is that 14th? And then it's right there and I'm seeing all of it I just feel for such a small building that's cluttered already Yeah, you talked about this thing unifying it and it well, I think what we're doing is making this a focal point Is what we're doing and I don't think there's any focal point on this building anywhere. So now we're creating the focal point I miss doing this. It's kind of fun having the height And the mass of the building the way you have it I agree. I think that that is a focal point in a hub Could work well I just think for it to be so foreign in its language To all the different pieces that are there and ideally it would have taken In my mind Some of the existing building with the green roof or the gable at mansard Some of the restaurant and kind of woven the two together somehow Well, I think we did we we matched the the materials of the of the restaurant Well, but not the roof. Well, I think I think that I think that roof is an eyesore Personally, we're still there, but we're but we're minimizing it We're make we're making it better At the end of the day, we're making it better And that we're made we're not making that mansard We're making that mansard less of a feature than it is right now I'm having a hard time buying that the mansard's still there. We're covering up part of it But not in any way that So what do you want me to do these together? I'm not sure I guess one option I wondered about was putting a flat roof on it similar to the restaurant Another would be to just go with a shed roof with the same pitch as half of The existing gable at the front of the gas station um Just looking for some element of the existing Getting brought into that new piece that you're adding rather than something completely foreign Well, I don't believe it's foreign It stayed in my opinion other folks on the board Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts We look at this super quick here. I better save this as something else so I don't ruin my existing file But this one is joe's idea. All right Me a second I can share this if you guys are interested So you're sending images to a lease or I am redesigning it as we speak here But where would I where would you guys want me to I can send this or something you can email them to me if you'd like Or is it can we Well Shoot I didn't bring my adapter do we have cables that we can make do you have any I did not well Is the podium all prepped with Unless you have a usbc What is it well the the other thing you can do is What cable would you need? I need a usbc usbc to hb di hdmi or dmi whatever they're called but here I can do this too. I got there's always a solution that can be rendered but Do this All right, who am I who am I emailing this to or could I text or email or what's the easiest here? You tap in via what's on the screen What What The way it says on the screen I'm sorry. What am I looking at here for to to to airplay you mean or for Oh Oh, yeah, okay. I can airplay I believe this is airplay console chambers. Okay, hold on a second here There's airplay yet. Let's do it this way I'm only seeing my computer pop up here You can just bring it back Just bring it back Do you see what you needed? Um, I Prefer that granted it's it's a little boring if you wanted to do it as a shed roof scott matching the gable Of the front well sheds pitching from low side on the The restroom entry side up You wouldn't necessarily have to be as high with it as you were with the gable then I'm assuming that's a portable That concept. Yeah, whatever the pitch of that front gable is it looks pretty close there You say you didn't like that So I Is flat an option are there things that they Our preference is a pitch because that's what we came in at We can talk to my I can talk to my client and See what he says Can you get my swing back? Oh, I didn't take that did I? No, no To me I I did much prefer the flat roof to the the gable That it's that gable element that's just foreign to Everything else. It's one more element that's thrown in there. So rather than Being more cohesive with this it just feels to me like we're adding one more layer of clutter to the building but You guys may have totally different opinions I I just know what what what you did scott. It looked like it in that view. It had more of a linear appearance which I thought was a little less This one Well the one that you showed us before. Yeah, I just thought that that just had a more linear look to it Didn't uh create an eyesore. I don't feel like you're almost an eyesore No, I see a point. I just I think from a clean look on that corner, which is a High volume corner. I go buy it every day I think that look is better in my opinion So I make a motion to approve that one Subject to owner approval and staff recommendations We have a motion and a second everyone clear on the motion in front of us And if the owner doesn't like that then it's up to them to come back with a Proposal for either the same thing again or something different So any further discussion Hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Motion is approved Thank you scott. Thanks for going back to the owner for us Next meeting is currently scheduled for september 11th. Is there a schedule change with them? Usually the first Tuesday afternoon When you have holidays Let us know if it's different. Okay, so we're planning unless we hear otherwise september 11th any additional items All in favor. All right. All right. Thanks everyone. Appreciate it. Yes


Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced today the discovery of a huge cachet of sarcophagi near the ancient ruins of Thebes, now Luxor. An incredible discovery by any standards, apparently discovered in the condition the dynastic Egyptians had intended them to remain. Meaning they are still sealed and this will offer a small glint into the past emergence of an ancient civilization. And these sarcophagi demonstrate the mortal reality that these people sought to conquer. Cairo officials have described the discovery as one of the largest and most important discoveries to have been announced in the past few years. In a press statement they say they will hold a press conference on Saturday morning in Cairo to officially announce these findings to the world. Explaining that this is one of the most important discoveries in the past few years as it includes much more than 20 colored wooden human coffins in a state of conservation, colors and inscriptions in full splendor and view and steel sealed closed. Thought to date back to 1975 BC in the dynastic middle kingdom period, it's close to the valley of the kings which was used as royal tombs for over a 500 year period. The site too is a royal cemetery so it's most likely that they were the sarcophagi of prestigious members of society who would have been known by Pharaoh's extended family. Some of the tombs here are incredibly colorful and remain in pristine condition. Queen Hattep suits temple in the distance makes for a glorious vantage. It is just the latest discovery of ancient Egypt's artifacts in recent weeks. It comes less than a week after Egyptian authorities published details of an ancient industrial area in the Luxor area. This find included as many as 30 warehouses for workers. Many major archaeological discoveries could also help revive Egypt's flagging tourism sector which was badly hit by the turmoil following the uprising in 2011. And one can't help but feel that these types of releases may be on a schedule and having already being examined for importance before being made out to the world like they found it yesterday, maybe not. The Egyptian authorities have released a healthy collection of photos on the discovery and we can expect much more on the matter on Saturday. We will of course be keeping you guys up to date with the finer details of this so called biggest and most important archaeological finding Egypt for years. What do you guys think about this anyway? Check out our recommended video that is appearing on the screen right now. Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.


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He's right out of the gate doing what Scott and I've always called romance or the hard eye lock as he's paying attention. What he's doing is looking to see if you believe him or not. This guy's self-amused. You want to say self-amused? Look at that smile as he's talking about sharks. And I don't know. I told her there's no sharks on a robot. And this is his first eye contact break and some flushed cheeks as he's talking about that and he's showing this piece. Does it mean anything? No, not necessarily, but it means that we need to pay very close attention moving forward.


Hello, I'm Brett Whiting. I'm the loan officer with the City of Columbia. And I'm James Chaffew, Chief Lending Officer with the South Carolina Community Loan Fund. Today we're here to discuss an ongoing partnership that we have with South Carolina Loan Fund. We would like to make note that South Carolina Community Loan Fund will be hosting our first annual Investing in Community Summit at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. That's going to be held November 6th, 7th, and 8th of 2018 right here in Columbia, South Carolina. At that event, we'll be connecting entrepreneurs and developers across four different sectors. We have over 50 different speakers, a host of sessions, as well of folks sharing expertise with folks that may have ideas for community development projects. We have developed a very close relationship and partnership in many of the projects that are currently going on in the city and we're looking forward to the future of expanding on those partnerships. We are extremely excited about our partnership with the City of Columbia and the Office of Business Opportunities. I've had the opportunity, as Brett mentioned, to work with him on a couple of different projects and look forward to working on many, many more. Anyone interested in registering for the conference, we will be happy to have you. We still have tickets available. You can get more information at our website at investingincommunity.sevent.com. Folks that are on the fence about attending the conference, I would encourage you to please come out and attend. As I said, we do have over 50 speakers and a host of sessions for folks at various parts of development of their project. Whether you're an experienced developer or entrepreneur or if you're just a person that has an idea and don't know where to get started, we'll have resources and partners, much like Brett from the Office of Business Opportunities who will be in attendance, but we'll have partners from across the state there to answer all of your questions. Whether you're a novice, a new business owner, or someone with just an idea that you want to know where and how to get started, I encourage you to sign up for the conference and come and take advantage of the resources we'll have available.


Well, good day and thank you for joining us here on theCUBE. John Walls here, bringing you to this conversation as part of the AWS startup showcase. And we're joined by Justin Bauer, who is the SVP of product for Amplitude. And Justin, good to see you today. How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thank you for having me, John. Oh, you bet. Now a pleasure looking forward to it. You know, personalization, that's where everybody's talking about these days and how do we better personalize our digital presence, our digital products? How do we get much more acutely aware of the end user at the end of the day and grow? I know that's what Amplitude's all about. So maybe if you just give us a 30,000 foot perspective on that, about your thoughts about personalization today and how Amplitude tries to affect that. For sure.  I think we live in a world where as, you know, we're drowning in content and distraction and it's been proven that customers respond better to digital experiences that are more personalized, that are more relevant for them and frankly, just save them time. And the nice thing about this is not only do customers benefit, but companies do too. We actually see that a big impact on a company's bottom line if they're able to deliver a more relevant customer experience to them because that leads to better engagement, better retention and higher loyalty and lifetime value for those customers. So, well, let's just go right to an example then. I know you work with a lot of different people. There's anybody in particular that stands out. Maybe give us an idea of a case study here about what practices you put into place, the kind of evaluations that you do and ultimately the service that you're providing that allows them to increase sales and get a little more stickiness with their customer. Yeah, that's great, that's great. So, I think one company, customer of ours we're working with right now on this is actually Chick-fil-A. So, people probably familiar with Chick-fil-A, their mission is to be the most customer caring company in the world, which I love. And personalization is critical to that strategy because it helps them create a more relevant and seamless experience for their customers. And the experience itself in the app is actually pretty simple, which is the magic of personalization. So, you open the Chick-fil-A app, you see a list of menu items and those items are relevant to you based on your previous behavior. After you order your entree, you're then offered a list of personalized sides. And then after that, a list of personalized drinks. And the great thing is that as new items get introduced to the menu by Chick-fil-A, you see the ones that are most relevant to you based on predicted affinity and all of the machine learning that we're doing in the background. And so really now Chick-fil-A is actually, they're able to deliver a customized menu for everyone that automatically updates based on your behavior, your preferences. And I think the real beauty of this is that they're able to configure all this by a marketer through a simple UI. This did not require an army of data scientists or engineers, they're able to use the Amplitude platform to build out this entire experience for their customers.   And a lot of times people worry even though they have on hand. And so you got to help them sift through all this, right? So let's talk about that process a little bit for somebody who's watching and thinking about, well, that's all sounds well and good, but how do you kind of automate this? How do you make it so that we don't have to invest a lot in a team dedicated solely to, you know, sifting through our data and making it valuable for us? Yeah, I mean, I think that's the beauty of Amplitude, actually offering this in that that's actually our original first product, product analytics, that's what we've done. So we've actually made an out-of-the-box system that can read from all your different data sources. So whether those be your product sources, marketing channels, data that sits in your data warehouse, but it's not just piping that data. We then combine that into a unique identity profile for that customer across all those different touchpoints and also have out-of-the-box data governance so that you can make sure you maintain the quality of that data profile over time. And then that gets fed into our, we call our behavioral graph, it's our database that's actually built to both understand and predict future behavior. And so all of this happens effectively out-of-the-box for a customer. They don't need to do any of this themselves. We're managing all this for them. And then what they experience is an analytics application so they can analyze that user behavior, understand kind of what the drivers of different things like engagement retention are and then use that to actually personalize the product experience. And you mentioned machine learning. Talk about that aspect of this and how much more capability you have now because of what NL can deliver. And in some ways it adds complexity, but also obviously delivers exponentially, I would think, in benefit and value at the end of the day. Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's just not possible to do one-to-one personalization without machine learning. I think that's actually, when we talk about the benefits and the advantages of personalization, it's probably even worth taking a step back. Like there's a lot of different types of personalization. I think when you wanna do behavioral personalization, where you're truly getting to one-to-one experiences, you have to use machine learning. You compare that to maybe demographic personalization, which is actually, I think, when most companies talk about when they're doing personalization, they're actually doing demographic personalization.  What's, are you living in a city or a suburb? But the reality is that light segmentation, it's not really that effective.  Obviously not. And so we want instead to use behavior because your past behavior is the best predictor of your future behavior. And you need machine learning to be able to actually come up with for an individual what is their likelihood, propensity, to actually engage on any piece of content, of which think about for, you think about Chick-fil-A, how many different items they have on a menu. You can think about, like we work with a content company that has millions of different articles and they want to figure out what's the right article to put in front of you. That's just not possible to actually analyze that by hand nor actually orchestrate that in real time without actually leveraging machine learning. And so that's the exciting thing that's happened with new advances in supervised and supervised learning models that we can actually do those in generalizable ways for our customers. We've talked a lot about behavioral. So that's obviously metrics you can track, right?  These are all very measurable activities. On the other hand though, as you know, in the consumer space, a lot of it's emotion. Two, I make decisions based on my feelings or my thoughts or whatever. Can you do any kind of unpeeling of my motivation in this? Almost like empathetic investigation so that you have an idea of what social views I'm emanating or I'm sending off. So, hey, yeah, we can get John this way too. Yeah, so I think a lot of it is, I mean, we're talking a lot about the science of product development for sure and how do you bring personalization leveraging data. There is then the art of actually understanding like what are the emotional states that users are in like this isn't to say that the ability to personalize the product means that you're not to actually bring in the art as well. Like it actually is both about the art and the science coming together.  But this is then taking what you have which you've built as a great product and then how do you optimize that? That's why we call it an optimization system and actually deliver the best experience based on that customer's behavior. So just to kind of flip this a little bit then what are you doing amplitude? What are you doing that hasn't been done before? I didn't understand that a lot of people think personalization just has a great horizon has a lot of great promise. Oh, but we're not there yet.  Yeah, so I think there are a couple of things there as to why we haven't fully seen the promise of personalization deliver. And I would say we're really starting to see that chasm emerge where there are some companies that you think of Netflix like obviously Amazon and others who've been really successful here but they've done it through armies of people. What hasn't happened is a self-serve way of doing this so that it does not require massive investments in technical resources. And so what we've solved for three things. One, we've already talked about it, but it's just so true. Like this actually in and of itself is not an ML problem first. It's actually a trustworthy data problem. Do you actually have the behavioral data that you can trust? Can you actually capture that across the entire customer journey? Because you can't personalize a journey if you don't even know what your users are doing to begin with. So you have to start there at that foundational level. And that is a big part of our secret sauce is that we've built a database specifically cater to helping you understand that journey of that customer across all the different platforms and channels that they do. That's not easy to actually unify behavior in that fashion and allow you to analyze that in real time. So that's the first thing we did is build that database. So that's number one. And that's just the foundation. You have to have that. Like I said, I think so many companies fail because they think we can go higher ML engineers, but if you don't have the foundation it's not gonna work. The second thing isn't necessarily technological. It's more cultural, but it is really critical. And I think our analytics applications helped a lot here. Which is you gotta break down the silos between marketing, product, engineering and data science. You actually have to have all of them working together to really be able to fulfill the promise of personalization because you have to be aligned and what's the outcome we're trying to drive. Like that's actually how I literally can walk you through like how the actual product works. But the first starting point is what are we trying to accomplish? Like in the Chick-fil-A example, it is we want people to buy more than one item. Okay, so that's your goal. Like you have to get alignment that that is the goal. Cause if everyone's arguing about different goals it doesn't matter what ML model, like the model needs to know what we're trying to actually focus in on. And so how do you bring people together and you do that through shared understanding of data? Like you do that through what we call it a North Star. Like we're aligned and what is the North Star that we're focused on and can you measure that? And that's analytics is focused in on that. And then when you have both of those you've got behavioral data, you understand the journey of a customer, you're aligned in the goals and outcomes you care about, then you can leverage machine learning to actually deliver that personalized experience. And the advances that we're making there are actually doing that in a generalizable fashion. So that does not have to be custom built for every single use case. And our models are now able that we can run a model basically every hour to update for a customer. And that scales horizontally. Well, I know Chick-fil-A certainly has a track record that is inarguable, right? And you've had a lot to do with satisfying that appetite for success. So Justin, congratulations to Amplitude. It's been a real pleasure speaking with you and thanks for the time today. Of course though, it's been great. Thank you for having me. Excellent, speaking with Justin Bauer, the Senior Vice President of Product at Amplitude and you've been watching the AWS startup showcase here on the Q.


Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching so a few bits and pieces over the last couple of weeks so I'll start sharing them first of all I always get sent the magazines that I feature in so I'll share those ones with you so this is the latest sentimentally yours box magazine this is number four and it's the first time I've made it onto the cover of a kit this is my card I was again you never know it's going to happen so when you when you just received them through the door it's like oh that's really nice so yeah I done that card so it was a lovely kit to work with so it's got a kind of I guess a new year's theme to it but you can use these you know for many other things so this is the lovely a4 stump set that you receive hopefully the glare is not on there we go and you know things like the numbers and all of these you can use obviously for birthdays throughout but you do have this beautiful this is all one stump here but these will like sit around it and then all of these you can work around it and I'll give you a glimpse of the card that I done using a lot of those you've got these beautiful dandy lines here more fireworks so it's it was really nice to have because I don't have a lot of fireworks if well I've probably maybe got a handful of firework stamps and I remember using them on a scrapbook layout once so it's quite nice to have this you know because the fireworks you can use for birthdays as well you know if it's a special birthday or a wedding you know the fireworks are great to use on those kind of cards as well so you've got each of Beth there you've got the clock there time and then you've got time to which is separate and then you've got celebrate congratulations on your anniversary so they've separated a lot of stamps so you can make up your own sentiments so yeah it's a really really fun one I did enjoy these projects that I done so you also get I forgot you get this set here I'll just show you you get another large stamp this one's beautiful she's a bit of scrap paper there so you can see that's one big stamp so I think I heat embossed that one on one of my samples in silver and you just got all those different cent words even pop fizz dance celebrate celebration it's a really great one again to use for many you know occasions really so you get that so two two stamps you get this embossing folder with the firework at space here to be able to pop a sentiment in there as well if you wanted to and then you get the dies here and they will cut this design here and then you've got the sparkling which is there as well so you get that and that and then the papers are in the magazine and they're all of these ones here and there's a nice mix of like masculine you know the darker colors as well not that they're always on masculine cards cuz I like dark colors on cards but can you look at that all the firework they're beautiful really nice but you can imagine on a wedding card I think I look lovely and see them there that one again really nice so if you do like to send the odd New Year's card then perfect but things like this they're very much my kind of style for birthday cards I think that's gorgeous absolutely beautiful so yeah you get a nice amount in there and then you've got all the magazine with the inspiration so I'm not going to show everything because it's always nice for people to have that as a surprise but I know what page it minds on so I just show you those ones and just give you some more ideas for that I've done a bridgefold card with and I heat embossed so I kind of ink the background first and then I went over it with the silver embossing powder with the happy birthday and then I just lay it up all of the firework dies and I use these little ones here and then I put 2021 along the bottom with the clock face there as well slowly approaching midnight really really fun card but you know take out the happy new year and you could put happy birthday in there you could have the number you know the age sorry or you could have happy birthday there and then a big number in the middle so that one then I done the triple box card I just thought it was a good way to show the papers and I done a nice New Year's card there time to celebrate then this is the cover card so again the clock face but you could have time to celebrate but you can also have happy birthday and then I you know they didn't ask me to do the sympathy card they just wanted different shape cards but when I saw the dandy lions and all the I'm not sure what they're called when all the bits come off because I remember used to blow them when we were children but to me it just had us with sympathy it just had that kind of feel about it so yeah that's that's what I turned it into and I think it's turned out really nice they're the papers that you can get and that was just you know quite a straightforward quite a simple fold really it's just a few school lines but it's got quite an impact so yeah I like that one then here's the this large one and I've done it as an easel card so this is all embossed with silver powder and then again I've done the little kind of I guess they're like more of a work sparkler but anyway I've got them all coming out the top and I just use the papers you can get these tiny little stars which I took from the dyes I think that was all of them yeah five and then you go on to truly how a cheese the illustrator for simply for a sentimentally yours so some nice cards there as well so yeah that's all I'm going to show you there but you can see you've got box cards you've got all different you know styles you've got 3d makes there as well competitions interviewer feel and then it always talks about his latest release as well so that's everything in the number did I say that was that's number four of the sentimentally yours magazine kit then I have the latest simply cards and papercraft although I think now by the time this is gone out I think there'd be a newer one again so let me just take this one out again I enjoyed doing the samples or some of the samples for this one so you get all your bits and pieces there for this is the free gift so you get this stamp set here with all these little buildings this is a paper discovery freebie okay and then you have this embossing folder but it's an embossing cut so it will cut this bit and then you'll have all this embossed and all the snowflake boss yeah the snowflurries there and you can create cards like this so can you see when that's cut beautifully and it's been I would imagine that stuck with a bit of foam to create that background when you can build up your scene there so you can do new home cards you can do Christmas cards with like the Christmas Village and things like that so it's really nice this one on the front here's a box one and that will be inside should be able to see how to make that I like that I like the diorama style and then this one's mine again really fun I made my slider card so they're my slider dies but I turned the front into a shaker card and I put the little polystyrene balls inside and you see the little house there really cute I like that one so again I'm not going to show everything I only really ever show my makes so my brief was to do kinetic cards so again I love anything with movement so I've done my slider one so they've got it closed there but that pulls and then it reveals a message underneath there this one I love doing so it's a circle spinner card and then you've got the new home that is mirrored to the same houses on the the you know the reverse so when it spins around if you do it fast enough you see the image kind of constantly it's a bit of like an optical illusion kind of thing but I've done that one and then I this one's my wiper card so actually when that pulls open the sentiment I think I believe it'd be inside your seat in a minute I can't remember and then this one here's a pop-up card so you've probably seen me do similar on my channel this piece all pops out here and I created that really lovely little scene I done a shutter card and you can see when the shutter opens it reveals that cottage and that one says have a wonderful day and I show you how to make that size so that's a different size I've done there as well and then here's the white books what did I have popping out again from our home to yours on the speech bubble that pops out the top then it tells you that that's what it does and it shows you again there when you pull the slider says wishing walking in a winter wonderland and there's a close-up there of that one so this is just you know some inspiration if you want to do those kind of kinetic style makes how those stamps and the embossing folder will work there's a close-up of the spinner again really really cute then I done this one here this panel card so when it opens up this is kind of like a Z fold no it's not sorry it's a W fold W fold you can see there so I had to do like they always like you to do some simpler makes and then more complex ones so the complex one was the shutter cugs you get the step-by-step instructions and then something like this is a bit more straightforward and again there there's that public car and then I think that was it did I do seven I think it was seven in total I had to do yeah and then it goes on to some cool mixed media kind of projects that is the issue 211 and then this one here is the tonic studios and this is volume 13 it feels ages ago that I done these because sometimes we get the briefs and then they're not out for four months so this I think was one of them I think I done this quite a long time ago now and you kind of forget really what you've done so in this kit here it always tells you on the back you have 68 page ideas magazine 14 piece all occasion wreath die set which is this one here versatile six in one stencil this one here 13 coordinating focus sentiment and image stamp so 198 element all occasion papers and toppers okay and again that's just some of the inspiration on so this is the free gift just get into this one so if you like your tonic studio stuff or maybe I always say the kits are good if you're just starting off because it's a nice way to build your stash so this one here you get again I'll just pop it behind here this is the stamp set it's mainly sentiments on this one so you can see all the ones that you get there and then this is the die set so this is a separate die so you got your outer frame and you have your detail and then you have your inner frame so you can really create some nice effects and you've also got love there with and then that says just for you and then you've got again it's Christmas feel I guess because the wreath and you've got the holly leaves and the snowflake but you take out the Christmas bits this wreath can certainly be made to look like a summer wreath because you have the flowers here that you can then pop on there and you'll see that was some of the samples that I done and then this is a nice big stencil I used the this one here no sorry I used the snowflake one this is the one that I used to make a wreath is really nice actually so it's a great size stencil and then here is the magazine again Bumple on the kit you know the ones that come in the box kits always nice thick magazines so these are the papers set the polka dots you know they're all year round and then you've got your snowflakes perfect for winter you know even January February if you're doing any birthday cards they're always nice and then you've got these ones here with the flowers and snowflakes and you've got all these strips so you can create some nice effects on your cards you can die cut these you can fussy cut them or you can use a punch to cut them out along with the sentiments there as well and it just doubles you get two of everything and then it goes on to all of the inspiration and then my ones here so you've got all your regulars all your tonic design team they're always in here with all the makes and then I got to do these ones here so they wanted me to do some gift ideas so I done this wreath here using an embroidery hoop and I heat embossed using white embossing powder using that stencil and I went all the way around and then I made a little rosette a die cut all the little snowflakes picked a sentiment fussy cut some flowers and I just finished it with some of the pearl bead trim there and a bow but what a nice you know you could give that as a even like a little housewarming gift a nice little present for a friend for Christmas or make it for yourself it's really really sweet and then I also done a notebook so I covered a notebook here so it's just a nice thing to keep on your desk again give to a friend or maybe a work colleague and I've done these coasters here I done four tied them with a nice little tag then it says here's to new beginning so I the idea was that you'd give back someone is a little moving in gift and I tell you what to do how to prime them as well coat them so they're you know going to be safe to use with your drinks and your liquids and then I down the gift bag so you can see that wreath it's a good one there to see what that wreath looks like and I've put the flowers on there so it's not Christmasy at all just a nice little gift bag and then I done this little gift basket you can see I've used all the winter snowflakes there and the papers and then they filled it with some sweets I think that was it then tons and tons of stuff that's the three magazines and then I was contacted by crafters companion they very kindly asked if I'd like to try the tri blend brush pens and actually the day I received the email was during when I was doing a Facebook live and I was actually talking about wanting to try a brush and nib because all of my alcohol markers are a bullet tip and a lot of people say you know there's a you really know it's a difference with the brush nibs and there's more control you can get right into the details a bit better the blends are better so yeah when they asked if I'd like to try them I jumped at the chance so I've got these three here there are another five or six to form the whole collection but if you're unfamiliar with the alcohol markers or in particularly the tri blends they have three of the nibs in one pen so you have your light tone your mid tone and your dark tone and they've already worked out the blend for you so those three will work really nice together and give you a really you know good blend so also it's great if you don't have a lot of space so you you know here I've got nine markers basically just you know in in that little bundle just great yeah if you have just maybe you keep all your things in a little caddy or something and also if you're someone that maybe is a bit unsure about what colors would work together having them already done for you is is really useful so yeah I'm gonna look forward to using these more I did use them briefly during another Facebook live and it was coloring in the snowman for the bridgefold the acetate bridgefold card that I done and just using them just briefly you know making that card up I thought they were really nice definitely different to use much lighter as well I don't find you get such a I don't know how to explain but anyway I really really like him so far first impressions are really good the reviews for them are very good anyway and you they're made by Spectrum Noir so you know you're already on to a good a good thing there but thank you crafters companion and I'm looking forward to using these a bit more and perfecting my coloring using alcohol markers then craft stash are starting to send the design team the they're calling this they're kind of essentials and they're starting to do their own product so this is all craft stash branded and you've gotten it I've got you know an adhesive eraser here and I've got this pack of blending sponges price points are really reasonable within the essentials collection so have a look check it out because if you again you're starting off we just want to try some other things and you know replace things that you might have already had then head over to their essentials section the adhesive erasers are like you have to have them in your stash if you're a crafter because they're fantastic to use and they're those kind of things that they get quite clogged up I always just cut mine off and they will last a long long time and I actually picked one up not too long ago at a charity shop that was brand new so I've got enough now to probably last me literally for the rest of my life they last that long so really really useful to have and then the blending sponges these are nice to use I prefer these to the round sponges with the applicator or the square ones I you get a nice blend with these and along with the brushes they're that they're kind of my two things that I would use these are nice to use with light stencils as well just to get quite a full cover so yeah you get loads in there as well they call them little buds as well so but yeah if you are if you're not aware of this section then check it out they used to have they have had their own label before this is the old label or their old branding and I'll show you this stuff in a minute because it was all the pounds stuff that I got yeah so I was sent those and then I picked up so basically I needed to get those stamps just the two and the five for my advent so I found this online store called Laney's crafts I think it was so I just filled up my basket with a couple of the bits and I really liked this one it's a stonework mask by for the lover mask by Hunky Dory just thought it was a really unusual and effective you know background especially just for adding depth to your cards if it's more of a masculine make you know I can imagine like a tool kit and a garden you know seeing all that kind of stuff on front on the front for like Father's Day cards and things so yeah it's the first of their masks I've ever had actually I don't have any by Hunky Dory got lots of their stamps but not their masks and then I also picked up this I love mini pom pom trim anyway and this is a red one yeah just thought I'd fill up my basket with something so it wasn't just those stickers that I was ordering and then I managed to grab some really good bargains from the craft stash pound it was the secret pound sale that they had and I did share the link and you basically you had to sign into your craft world account or register and then you were given a code to access the secret sale and it was everything that was there was shown at full price but when you went to check out you entered your code and it reduced everything down and I got 130 pounds worth for 2021 or 22 pound and now I've got some of that I wished I kind of got a bit more for example these ribbons these are card making magic ribbon I don't know how much it's on there but there's loads but I didn't realize it was so thick and I wished I got I would have got maybe two or three of these for a pound because this is beautiful ribbon I know I use it in the springtime like Easter projects and stuff so yeah for a pound for the amount on there I thought that was really good and then the other one was this one in that beautiful turquoise color and this lovely white so I wished I got like I said two more of those and then I got these packs here these were a pound each they're just 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 5 I don't know if the stuff's still available I know a lot of it sold out so if I can still find the link then you know go over and have a look but you would again like I said if you're not on craft world you'd need to register which is free and and then you can see if there's anything left but just stocked up on some ribbons at those prices I just thought it was brilliant and there's loads on those spools so yeah so I picked up those and then I picked up these flowers I have a few in this color but only like a couple so it was nice to get a few more again card making magic and they were light green paper flowers and then I also got some apple blossom this was all a pound I did get more but I can't show you that because that's actually gifts I've made a really nice package up but I got these two here I just I like these more for creating a background just heat embossed I just think they're gonna look really pretty so this one here is your floral mandela and this is your heart mandela really pretty I bring them up a bit closer and see there we go see all the hearts that's a lovely I'll probably actually put this in I've got a category within my stamps which is love so I'll probably pop that one in there because then it would be one that's probably useful like valentines and then there's that one there and I'll put this in with my flowers so yeah thank you hello happy birthday but again for a pound really really good and these are photopolymer they're really good quality stamps as well thinking of you happy birthday with love and then the stencil really nice I put a little hole punch in the top and then I've got all my stencils on a binder ring and this is the heart mandela stencil so you know that will work really nice together for a valentines project and this with you know some of your mediums your embossing pastes and moose and things like that would look lovely yeah so I've got those and then I've got this one here pretty quick and it's the weather sentiment stamps it's this one I thought for a pound I'm going to grab it and it's got sorry your feeling under the weather you are my and then you've got love I'm here for you you're a ray of and then you can have sunshine it's right there in front of me shine bright you color my world wishing you brighter days be a rainbow in someone else's cloud hello sunshine and actually I've got a nice stamp set which is from creative stamping and it's got the little girl with the umbrella and the rainbow and this would probably work quite nice with that they do have kind of maybe similar sentiments on there but it's nice to have a few more again for a pound I was like a macabre I thought I've got to have it and then I picked up these bits because I already have the dies which I am now I was going to do them for Christmas cards but I'm literally done I have 42 Christmas cards already to well I've actually started writing them out already and they're all ready to go I don't need to make any more Christmas cards now I'm done so I am going to use my Wallace and Gromit dies and make some really nice fun or you know birthday kind of cards really I guess for the new year so I picked up these bits so they were a pound so I've got the dog dog bone and this is the fish six by six going to look lovely when you ink them up I just love the packaging Wigan 26 of the 11th 2010 Great Britain so and then on the back it's got London 13th of the 5th 09 just funny I just I love Wallace and Gromit it's something I watched as you know when I was a lot younger and then I picked up the stamp set and I can't believe how big it is it's lovely really really nice got that lovely big time for tea which you can use for all kinds of things you know I've got some lovely tea cups and tea bags in you know stamps so this would be a nice sentiment for that big cheese one there so again you could use that if do a jokey card for someone who you know you've got someone who's a cheese addict you've got Gromit 100 genuine love the happy birthday one there that's going to be a lovely heating boss because all the black is all solid so that would look really nice and then you've got old chum again how nice is that just to send you know to do one like a vintage style card that would go lovely with my Spitfire and the the best of British stamp set that I've got by creative stamping you've got another one there happy birthday and then cracking job again so that's great for somebody who's got any job you know pop down there and then this one says silly old pooch so you could put that onto any other cards I've got that lovely again creative stamping I've got the animals stamp set so yeah just thought it was really really nice a pound you can't go wrong and it's it almost completes my collection I'll quickly show you these are the dice so these are what I picked up and showed and I I haven't got around to using them yet because they're obviously they're not really Christmasy but I was going to make them Christmasy and then I had too many Christmas cards so I just don't need anymore now so I'm going to save these and they're going to be something for me to start working with in the new year and I can't wait I'm going to do some really fun cards with them and now I've got it's nice to have the embossing folders and the stamps so I can really build the scenes and yeah I'm looking forward to them I think these ones are still actually on the website but I got these when they went down they had they had like an offer on and I didn't pay much for them at all I paid very little for these I got a real bargain so they are back up to their normal price I think but again if you're interested I will link them below and then I also just forgot this was on the floor I picked this up now I'd seen this on Hachanda ages ago and we were talking during a Facebook live about it's not like I don't I wouldn't say I struggle getting my dies to cut because they always cut but it's them then actually releasing from the die sometimes they can get stuck in there and there's there are a few different things on the market now when you feel this it feels like that oven filter I'm sure it's not it does feel a little bit different isn't just that it's actually a lot more I guess tougher and what they do is they I don't know if they use both at the same time was it to first activate your pads take each pad separately and run through your machine between your cutting pads without card or dies I think that's that should say plates maybe that makes more sense first activate your pads take each pad separately and run through your machine between your cutting plates I would have thought that should say that without any card or dies your easy shim I'm sorry I should have said that's what these are easy shims your easy shim will now self mold to be compatible with your machine continue to use your pads either together or singularly as your particular dies demand to use your shim place die on card stock then place the shim over the top of your die and add your top plate creating your sandwich and run through your machine as normal I'm always putting extra shims sometimes or copy paper in my die machine so now I'm going to use this so yeah it's a bit of an odd one but yeah so that's those so it's by scarlet rose crafts I've never had anything from them before but I do remember seeing it it was either creative craft or a chander I think it was a chander anyway so that is I think everything okay so I will try and link as much as possible some of it may well have sold out because I have had some of this for probably maybe three weeks actually but thanks for watching as always I'll be back very soon I've got lots of really fun 3d projects to come because I've done my cards for now so you're just going to be kind of bombarded with 3d makes which hopefully you'll really enjoy so thanks for watching I'll see you all again soon bye


So I can't believe my eyes. I'm getting messages from all kinds of agents up in New York telling me that they shut cold calling down till September 7th because of the coronavirus and the lockdown quarantine going on up there. They issued an email that I got a copy of and it seems to be legit. I think they've actually shut cold calling down for real estate agents in New York till September 7th. Why September 7th? I don't understand why they're extending it that long. Why not a month or two? See what happens. September 7th is the date. So what I want to do is I want to help the agents in New York right now. Everybody comment below and let us know what you would do if you were in their shoes. Okay, what would you do to stay busy? Because there's tons of stuff to do to stay busy prospecting in different ways to stay in touch with people, stay in touch with your past clients, prospect for new clients. I'm gonna give you a couple right here. First thing I would do is I would call back through all my past clients. Okay, I would also go back through all my emails for as long as I've been a real estate agent. I would go through inbox and sent folder and I would email every single person checking on them, seeing how they're doing. That's gonna take a long time. You can also DM random people in your market. DM them on Instagram, DM them on Facebook. DM all your Facebook friends. Reach out to them. See how they're doing. See what's going on. Communicate with them via email, via DM. Another thing I would do is I would call as many local real estate agents as I possibly can. Yes, local real estate agents. I want to hear what they're doing. I want to network with them. I want to come together with the local agents and see what we can do to stay productive. I'm gonna put a link to the email below so you guys can read this for yourself. Another thing I think I would go crazy on is direct mail. Handwritten notes. If you handwrite the envelope and you handwrite the letter, just one sentence, one or two sentences with a question, you're gonna get a 90% or more open rate. So you have their attention. They're gonna know who you are and they may call you. I would also keep red X because I wouldn't want to lose my database. But what I would do is I would go back through all the numbers I've already called because now we're calling them for a second time and if we disposition them like we should as far as not interested or never call again or whatever the case may be, we can go back through all the good numbers that we call that we talked to people and had good conversations with. We can go back through all those phone numbers and check on those people. It's not a cold call. We've already talked to them. We've already had a pleasant conversation. You can also use red X for your past clients. You can plug all your phone numbers. You can export them from your phone and download them into an Excel sheet into red X and use the dollar for those phone calls. I'm gonna tell you right now, if I was in New York and this happened to me, absolutely nothing would stop me from continuing to push forward. A lot of agents might lay down. This may be a huge opportunity for the real workers out there that will find other ways to communicate with people in their market. So those are just a couple of ideas for me. I could probably think of tons more. I know I can. I'll actually go inside right now and make a list. I'll probably post it in the Facebook group. Please comment below if you have any ideas of things that these agents in New York can do to stay busy and stay productive. New York agents, I want you to know that we're here for you. We want to pull together and do everything we can do to help you pull through this situation. Much love to all. We'll talk to you soon.