Hello and welcome to this session in which we would look at introduction to investments. First, we need to learn why do companies invest in other companies? So why do companies buy stocks, buy equity in other companies? Why is this topic important? Well, two reasons. One, it's covered in your advanced accounting course. So if you are an accounting student, you need to know this topic. Also, it's covered on your CPA exam. So whether you are an accounting student or a CPA candidate, what I suggest you do is to take a look at my website, farhatlectures.com. Most likely if you're studying for your CPA exam, you do have a CPA course already. That's fine. I don't intend to replace your CPA review course. My lectures, my material about this topic is to be a useful addition. How so? I can explain the material differently. I can give you an alternative explanation. I can give you alternative resources to help you understand your CPA review course, which in turn will help you understand your CPA topics, which in turn will help you pass the exam. Your risk to try me is one month of subscription. If it works, you keep it. That's a subscription. If not, you cancel. Your potential gain is passing the exam. Now, I do have resources for other accounting courses, as well as CPA sections, as well as the CMA. So I strongly suggest you take a look at my website. If you haven't connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so and take a look at my LinkedIn recommendation, like this recording, share it with other, connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. So the first thing we want to know is why do companies invest in other companies? Well, let's think about it. Why do we invest? Why do you invest? Well, you invest when you have idle cash, extra cash, and you want to earn a return, a better return because cash don't give you the lowest return. Cash is safe. If you have your cash in the bank, you should not be compensated for any risk because you're technically not taking any risk. But if you want to invest, the assumption is you would earn a higher return, but also you can lose your principal. But the point is to earn a better return. That's one reason. Companies also invest for other reasons. What are those other reasons is to gain voting privilege, to elect board members, to elect members of the board, to elect the officers of the company. That's why companies do invest in other companies some of the time, is to have sayings, to have some sort of an influence. Why? Because they want to help the company direct their operation in a strategic way, strategic planning or strategic direction. They want to influence that company. Maybe because it's in their best interest to do so. Maybe that company is their suppliers. Maybe it's a potential competitor. For whatever reason, we want to be on board with them to see what's going on. Also, if we are on board, if we are part of the company, we can advocate cooperation between the two companies in terms of R&D, distribution, knowledge sharing, advertising, strategic planning, so on and so forth. Basically, you have an ally. When you have an ally, you have more resources. I always think about my business. For example, I operate by myself. I really don't have a partner. Well, sometimes I really hope I do have a partner. Why? Because it's another brain working with you. Think about two companies. You have many brains working together. The more you can have people working together, supposedly the better off you are. Also, it comes with disadvantages, but the point is you have more resources, more human resources. That's the least. Let alone, you might have more financial resources or physical resources. How to report the investments? Because this is what we care about as accountant. As accountant, we want to know, okay, we made an investment in another company. How do we report for this investment? At the beginning, it's easy. All investments are recorded at cost. What does that mean? It means how much we pay for them? We record them at that cost. What about subsequent changes? What happened after we buy the investment? The investment might go up in value, go down in value, might pay us dividend. The investment could go bad. What do we have to do? Gaps, as we have four methods that we have to deal with. We have the fair value. We could report it at cost method. We could report the investment using the equity method, or we could use the consolidation method. How do we determine which method are we going to be using? Well, it depends mainly on the degree of control. What does that mean, degree of control? It means how much do we control of the other company? Simply put, let me do this. Let's assume this is 100%. And here's how it works. If you own, okay, and I want you to kind of, you know, keep that, keep those percentages in mind, but don't, you know, don't take them to heart. But this is just an overview of what it looks like. If you own up to 20%, up to 20% of the stocks of the other company, up to 20%, okay, you can use the fair value or the cost method. And we're going to see, we're going to talk a little bit about those. If you own between 20 to 50, you have more than 20, but less than 50, you would use the equity method. If you own more than 50%, 50% plus, 50% plus, you would use the consolidation. So those are the three, when do we use the method? Now we're going to look at each method separately. So it's very important when you are giving the exercise, whether on the exam day, the homework or the CPA exam is, look at these percentages. And those are a good starting point. How should I report my investment? I'm going to talk about each one of these investment categories separately, investment categories separately. But let me tell you, I'm going to tell you right now, the whole course is about consolidation. So the course that I am starting today, it's going to be all about consolidation. We're going to devote a lot of time, not a lot of time, maybe one or two lectures about the equity method, the fair value and the cost method, you should be familiar with those from your intermediate accounting. But consolidation is what we focus on in this, not in this session, in this course, in this whole course. So let's talk real quick about the fair value. Fair value is one of the four options, usually when you own less than 20%, okay? Not, you know, in the real world this percentage could differ, but let's say less than 20%. And here we assume you have no influence. The reason I say this, because in the real world sometime you might own 6% and you might have influence. But from our perspective, from the CPA exam perspective, from a academic perspective, we say less than 20%, you have no influence. And that's not really true in the real world. So what happened when you invest and you own less than 20%, you're looking for dividend, you're looking for income, and you're looking for capital appreciation. So you bought some stocks and another company, you're looking for them to pay you dividend from their profit, and you're looking for capital appreciation, the stock price to go up. So any changes in the fair market value will be reported in income as an, an income as an adjustment at the end of the year. And dividend is reported in income. So anything, any profit you make from this investment, it goes into income. First, it used to go into stockholders' equity and to available for sale, but for stocks, it goes directly now into income and you changes. So it made it easier for us. Everything is reported in income. Okay? And again, you should be very familiar with this one from your intermediate accounting course. Now, if you are not, here's what I suggest you do. You go to Farhat Lectures to my intermediate accounting and learn about the fair value because this is supposed to be a review. The cost method is used when the fair value is not readily available. Here also we are assuming you have no influence and no control. So you own less than 20%. But what happened, you purchase an investment in a company that they have no fair value. It's not a publicly traded company. Okay? If it's publicly traded, it's easy. The stock is well known. The price of the stock is well published, well known. But if you invest in a company that it's private, they may not have a fair value. So what do you have to do? You would report it at cost. It means you would keep it at cost until something else happened, which we'll talk about this. If you receive any dividend from this company, you would report the dividend as income. Obviously, if they gave you a dividend, it's a dividend income. However, although it's called the cost method, you can gap allows you to do two fair value assessment. So in other words, although it's reported at cost, although there's no publicly traded prices for that company, but you have to assess for impairment. What is impairment? Impairment is when that investment go down in value and you don't think it's going to go up. So you purchase an investment for a million dollars. That's great. Let's assume you invested in a small pharmaceutical company for a million dollars, just for the sake of illustration. And that company has only one they're in only one line of business. Let's assume, just to even make it more interesting, they started this company to find the vaccine for COVID. That's the whole purpose of the company and you invested in it. There's no public information or no public stock for this company. Let's assume the request was rejected by the FDA. So they submitted their research, they submitted their vaccine and the FDA said, no, it doesn't meet our standard. Well, guess what? At the same time, Pfizer, Moderna and all the other companies, they already have a product on the market. So it's too late for them to come up with a new product. What happened is, this company is now it's impaired because the value of it is gone because they exist for the vaccine, they failed, therefore they are impaired. If that happens, if impairment is likely, that's it, the value goes down, then you have to report a loss. Okay, so you do adjust them downward, if anything. Also, let's assume a similar company to yours or identical company was sold recently in an orderly transaction, in an arm length transaction, and it's exactly like your company. It's identical, identical to your company. It's misspelled. Under those circumstances, if that's the case, you can use the basis for market adjustment. We go back to the same company. It's a million dollar. Another company for us, you know, has similar size, similar purpose, was sold for 1.2 million dollar. Well, you'd say my company is comparable to that company. It was sold for 1.2. It means my investment should be worth 1.2. Therefore, you adjust your investment for an increase of 200,000. So under those two circumstances, you can adjust your investment, although you are using the cost method. But again, those are special circumstances, but you need to be aware of it in the real world, as well as for the exam. Consolidation, here's where you have control. Control means you own more than 50% of the company. When you own more than 50%, you direct the whole operation, because you can select the people to run the company. You can select yourself to run the company. So you direct everything. Okay, now what you have to do, once you own more than 50% of the company, you own it. You only have one set of financial statement between the parent and the subsidiary. And we're going to talk about parent and subsidiaries much, much longer in this course. Now, the control, it doesn't have to be 50%, and we'll talk about this later on when we talk about special purpose entity or variable interest entity, is the control can be done through some contractual obligations, special contractual arrangement. So rather than owning 50%, you might own only three or four or five percent, but you finance the company through that. Well, you don't own the company by stocks, but you own the company by debt. Guess what? Or you don't own the company directly. You own it through subsidiaries. That's still your company. So that would amount to consolidation. And we're going to talk about this topic later on, which called the special purpose entity. And the reason is because Enron, what happened with Enron is Enron owned many other companies, and they did not consolidate because they did not own more than 50%. Although they did not own more than 50%, they really direct those companies. They were in control of them. Therefore, we have no rules about this. Again, consolidation, this is our course. We're going to have a complete course about consolidation from A to Z. So we'll talk about all these topics later. But the point, all you have to know for now, consolidation is when you own more than 50%, you have controlled, you control the whole company. The equity method is the fourth method. This is when you only remember between 20 and 50. You're more than fair value, but less than control. Here you assume to have significant influence. You assume you have a saying in the company. And what I suggest we do about the equity method is to devote one or two full lectures because we want to examine the equity method in depth. And we will not be given the equity method any justice if we dump the equity method in this recording. So what I'm going to do, and the next recording, it will be all about the equity method from A to Z, from purchasing the equity method, to disposing of it, to subject for impairment, to changing the equity method from the equity method to control from the fair value to equity. So we'll talk about the equity method.  I don't replace your CPA review course. Are you willing to risk $30 to try whether you're, whether my resources will help you pass the exam, which is you pass the exam once, it's a permanent success, and you're good to go for your life. Good luck, study hard, and of course, stay safe.


All right, folks, good afternoon and welcome on back here this Wednesday, July 6th, I'm sorry there. Great to see Grant, great to see Norman, great to see all of us live inside the cyber group room. Just making sure my internet was not going out like it has been recently. I know the morning meeting we were good to go, but great to hear, great to see Kathleen, great to see Alex, great to see all of us just live inside the trading room. Great to see all of us back on social media, Facebook, live YouTube for those of us joining us there. So folks, right now finally, little excitement right now.  I'm not going to recite them all to you right now. But for right now, we're getting a nice little pop back up within the market on the spy, at least on my five minute chart on the bottom of it, you could see at least coming off the minutes meeting at two o'clock, we had an initial reaction up and then it started to pull back. That's normally what we expect coming off of like these bigger minutes meeting or these bigger meetings that we have from the Fed. So with that, we ended up seeing the drop off, but well, we ended up just getting a nice pop over the last like five or 10 minutes here, right? So interesting move, hopefully see continuation higher into the close. With that though, that I just want to go over a couple of trades that we had from the morning and if the markets look to continue to push up here from this point, you know, some stocks that were pretty strong from this morning, that could be a nice afternoon trade. The EVFM just to begin, it's not one that says likely to go with the market here per se, but just the stock's been really strong today. It's been very strong over the last week, week and a half. It's just been on our list on and off, just dating back to last week, ended up popping up from like 70 cents, 68 cents there, ran all the way up towards just about 150 at the time. And then, you know, right now it's kind of getting close, but, you know, for right now, I'll put this on our like list just to begin. The EVFM, one that could look to go with the market just more, should be get just a natural push up on the spy and like the cues and all of that. One from this morning also from our list, the Rivian trade, RIVN's up over 10% right now. It ended up making a beautiful push when we started the morning meeting earlier today. And then it ended up just continuing, you know, not the prettiest chart at first, ended up grinding around and then, you know, pushed on up off the lows from there. So, you know, nice result, at least in the end. And, you know, at least if we got a nice push up on the spy, this could be a nice retest of 30 coming up here on the RIVN. Just given the overall volatility of this stock, I have no problem just putting this on our watch list to begin this meeting. It's extremely liquid. It's still within our price range. I've been trading this all day myself. I mean, this has been a better trade for me as a long, I guess, compared to NEO as a short, NEO is a short. I actually took earlier today, but on a smaller share count, I didn't chart my stock here, my NEO.  Maybe we'll get back to this at the end. It's not really as, you know, good of a long opportunity from this point. Definitely showed some great weakness going into the open and afterwards. That's why I was more interested in the RIVN for right now. But just point being, like, I'm not in love with one stock every single day. I was all over the RIVN here way more than NEO here throughout the entirety of today. So, RIVN's on our list and the EVFM, those two. So, what we'll do, just go right from top to bottom. Otherwise, we had a couple of other trades that ended up running from this morning. At some point throughout the morning heading into the afternoon, you know, the IINN trade was more of a pre-market one leading into the open here. So, this one will at least quickly review, but this one not really looking as clean for the afternoon. Just, it's to say that this stock from pre-market treated us pretty nicely afterwards when the market opened up inside our live trading room. We saw a bunch of us get in and out for about 10, 15 cents at least. You know, a couple of us more, you know, getting about 20, 25 cents, 30 cents there. But it ended up making a nice squeeze to begin.  Normally, the stock's just gonna begin to peel back and solidate. And then eventually, do with the stint, just completely tank. You know, this was already a big in pre-market, so you would expect that to happen naturally for a stock that made a 75% gain or, you know, even more at some point today, you know, from yesterday's close. But for right now, it's not really doing a whole lot from me here. RFP's a buyout. I can't know war and CANO had worn said and see that. I'll check out CANO the stock, that one I know ended up making a nice little pop here this morning too. And KAL, I didn't check this one out up until right now. Looks like this thing had a big pop going back into the end of June, completely tanked from there, from like 15 all the way down to like three, seemingly looks like.  And I'm trying to get back up there here. Maybe I'll come back to this one at the very end. Cal, I don't mind looking at this at the end, giving it a second opinion. I remember this morning, the whole gainer side was littered with a bunch of like stocks below a dollar, these cheapies that were not normally as interested so I'm going to pass on those for the most part. RDVB, geez, how the mighty fall.  Well, within the same day it ended up popping and dropping. Same thing happened pretty much here. It just hasn't closed lower than it's open yet so far. Still plenty of time left. All right, here's Kano. CANO, the warrants were really at the top of the gainers list there. It's really flat right now so I'm not too interested in it right now but popped from earlier today. Maybe to keep it in mind on your side list for tomorrow or Friday. I'm sure we'll find some stocks that like, again, side list stocks that will look to move with the market but nothing really up is big right now. No familiar names at least. Rivian, we talked about. IMTE maybe. Viru I know is flat. I was going to skip over Viru but just to show it at least after the market opened this one ended up making a beautiful pop and run. You know, this one was on our pre-market list but it was really funky afterwards so I didn't really think of it as much leading into the market open but shortly afterwards we called this out and we were on top of it from there but obviously right now at this very point it just really died off, flattened out. All right, so might be a slower move up until 3.30 then maybe some late fireworks from 4th July here heading into the afternoon, maybe a bigger pop into the close. So see what's on the loser side at least here otherwise but we'll jump back to see what's on the side list here at the end. VSCA, it's kind of at the lows but not really doing it for me there. I said in the trading room earlier I thought the RADA trade would be more of a short opportunity into the close. I had called that out before I started the meeting so I said that just at the time because it was just right there at the lows it's $7 stock, not really trading a whole lot of volume per minute but at the lows and at least on my platform, shortable. The stock actually I'm pretty familiar with number of years back I did like a swing trade on it at the time. I don't remember how I did to be honest with you it was like very probably so-so.  This is an Israeli defense stock. So this one ended up making a nice run at least back from the end of 2020 much after I was in it but a huge run back up to begin this year and for right now I mean this thing took a huge hit but could make another drop off heading into the market close here, the RADA trade. So I don't mind putting this on the main list as a short. Potential support off of 750. STNG here maybe. Tanker stock, Scorpio tankers. I don't know if there's any other tanker stock so we know of or look to trade but maybe that's something we could check out. I don't know if this is just specific to STNG but nice little drop off from earlier today if there's anything that's closer to the lows I'd be a little bit more interested in it. FRO front line. Ooh NCLH, Norman wrote that in the trading room and right now I just see it on the loser's side here. I didn't realize Norman, this thing took a huge hit today. Wow, down over 9% here and just truth be told I mean hey there's plenty of fish out there in the sea to catch. I just didn't really have my eyes on this. Made a huge drop off this morning and you know right now again seem to be said on this as I just said before on the other one like you know if it was showing more direction downward at this point great if the markets were dropping off great but the markets are pushing up so if there's anything that's like really near the highs right now or like was kind of going against the grain from earlier today and is like showing good strength right now at this point it would be a pretty good play. Speaking of which as I'm kind of just skimming through myself one last time on the gainers list REV so this is up over 8% we had called this out early in pre-market although I don't think we put this on the main list truth be told you know it didn't make the morning cut but you know it's pretty funky afterwards then had a huge pop after 1030 but right now it's still showing good strength I mean this is as good now compared to you know at least from pre-market so you know not too bad I don't mind giving us a second look here the REV we got RIVN we got RADA and we got REV any other ours our stocks out there not RFP that's a buyout Norman also called out TRVI earlier and I just you know I saw that pop up on Benzinga Pro right now Norman so I'm going to beat him to the punch probably on that but yeah I mean TRVI making another squeeze here it just needs a little bit more of a kick in volume right it's up over 13% at the highs so I don't mind at least putting this on our list giving it a look I had an email from one of us on Facebook or on YouTube actually I should say they were looking to go over crypto I don't have my charts on me today but you know again not a whole lot's really happened over the last couple weeks you know I gave my thoughts before the crash down to 17,000 or 17,000 around there and it bounced a little bit but it's been flat since all together so no I'll go over it tomorrow I will grant that you know request and we'll go over crypto altogether like Bitcoin and Ethereum mainly tomorrow maybe a couple of others if they look good but nothing really looks too good in the crypto market now not nothing really will look that great for a little while I think alright folks I think that's just about it for the meantime here Jeff says I'm sorry Jeff says CVNA watching it follow the market too okay so let's take a look at that I'm sorry CVNA was one from yesterday that ended up making a huge squeeze up and it's down though right now you know it's trying to make a bounce but you want something that is at the highs right now let me just flip over on my Benzinga scanner here really briefly and you know what actually I'm set up like in a certain way today that I'll be able to do this here really briefly if you want to just give me a quick second I have a pretty good idea to show you alright so I got a little time on my hands here and hopefully my internet does not crap out on me I don't want to wish that into existence but let's see if I can do something here if I may oh it might not let me give me a quick sec nah I got to log back in give me a quick sec damn alright never mind I was gonna try and show you my Benzinga scanner there too little too late at that point I got to re-log back in but I'll do that tomorrow at least on top of crypto but you know I always like to show that every now and then if I have the chance I'll definitely do that tomorrow there's nothing really that we haven't missed so far that's at the highs right I mean like so the airlines and cruise lines a little bit but they're coming off the lows a little bit AAL I guess looks alright but it's like not even up a whole lot F cell at the highs and you know I saw one of us call this out much earlier in the day it's a little slow for my liking though I'm not really too thrilled with like lack of volume on that so I'll tell you I think that I like what we got so far folks we don't need to catch them all and we got RIVN here ready to explode over 30 I believe the EFVN still in play the REV looks really good and a couple of others though you know to begin you know as always though keep in mind folks we're gonna start and stick with this list just scan the market for the last you know 13, 15 minutes so you know if unless if there is something that you see that makes an enormous pop or drop that you know that we're gonna watch I would look to focus on this list to begin inside the chat board and then you know when Rich gets on the mic at three o'clock three p.m. Eastern time then we'll look to call out the sideless stocks the runs the BTUs from Michael and all of that so you know right now listen we just went through it all so again unless if there's anything that makes a dramatic pop or drop I would look to start with this list all right for all of us on social media I appreciate you sticking with me each and every day each and every afternoon and for the remainder of this week I'll be doing the morning meeting tagging in for Fausto I just always a quick reminder with that but if you have any questions send it over through email Josh at C2Trading.com I always like to post my email email here at the end of these streams any questions, thoughts, comments, suggestions and then otherwise if you wanted to join us inside our live trading room just go right down to the link on the banner below right there in yellow for Leda, John, for Michael for all of us there live right now Norman, Jeff, etc. I look forward to talking to you folks later on this 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Right. A few questions before we get to the start of this video and there for you, the question is I want to know what is your handicap? The second thing I want to know is when you hit Driver? What is your ultimate aim? I suppose at the farwit. Is that good enough second question? Ains aiming at the green, what is it you want to do? Hit the target, I assume and I wouldn't go a wedging in the shop you play. Do you like to hit that one? That low zipper that takes one bounce checks and stops, yna y cwestiynau tîm y gweithio'r ysgol. A'r cwestiynau ymlaen nhw'n ei gael y gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'n gwneud hynny ymwysg ond rwy'n mynd i'w gwybod eich gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio er mwyn yn llawer. Ond, mae'n gweithio. O'r gweithio'n gweithio ar y gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. Dyna'n lefio'n gweithio'r gweithio arall yn y gweithio. ac unrhyw o'r supermarket a rai gen i'w'r wych gweithio'r gweithio ar ei ydych chi o'r un o'r fath. Felly, yn ymdweud yw'n gweithio'r gweithio, rwyf yn gwneud dwg dweithio'r gweithio y mwy o'r fath gyda'r cyfrifau ac yn ymdweud ydych chi'n gweithio'r bwyll ymddangos chi'n gweithio'r gweithio. Rŵl, mae'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio yn ymdweud, dweud yn ymdweud gyda'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. A gynnwysch chi'n gweld yn y wneud yn y ffaen. Gwyddo chi'n gwybod, rwy'n gwybod 20 yddy. Felly, mae gynnwysch chi'n gwybod y gynhyrch, o'r gwybod y dyfynol, o'r gwybod y ddweud o'r rhan o'r ffordd o'r ddechrau. Mae yw gwybod o'r ffordd o'r ddweud. Mae gynnwysch chi'n gweld yn dweud i'r ffaen, a'r rhan o'r gwybod yn y rôl. Mae gynnwysch chi'n gwybod o'r ffaen, got a kick on and ended up another 20 yards on. The performance of the balls was identical in my opinion. The only thing that differed was the performance of the individual and in one case I got it right down the middle and the other it leaked out a little bit right. So as far as drivers concerned there's nothing to split the two golf balls in terms of their performance. So the next question is and I'm 70 yards out I've got a 58 degree wedge in hand what is that I'm looking forward from here on in I'm looking first of all to give myself a birdie chance. You can see from the two shots that I've played in they're not brilliant one's gone a little bit long directed the flag and one just took a little bit left but what happened in terms of the golf golf balls performance and what they did from what I can see up here we've got a camera planted on the green so you can see better how they've reacted but they again did exactly the same. We're coming from slightly elevated positions so more difficult to get that ball to stop but from what I can see they came back came down from a similar sort of angle stopped and spun in terms of control in exactly the same way. So yet again 70 yards out 58 degree wedge in hand I can't see any difference in terms of which ball has performed better for me. Now earlier on this morning I collected plenty of dry ball data using Trackman to see how these two balls differed in terms of their performance so we've got a number of shots it with driver with mid iron and with wedge and this is what I found. As you can see from the data there's very little to split these two balls in terms of their performance arguably there's a bit more spin on that pigeon wedge in terms of the Pro V1 which could come in handy but we all know how incredibly good the Pro V1 golf ball is but it does come with an incredibly high price tag. So the other ball in question like I said is from a supermarket it is from Costco and it is the Kirkland signature ball it's a three-piece ball it's got urethane cover I cannot believe how these are priced and my question is why are we spending so much money on a ball that potentially we can't due to our lack of skill set get the true benefits from. Right so one thing I mentioned on the video was about quality of striking your ability I can't decide how well that would have reacted on the green because unfortunately I couldn't hit it that was the Kirkland ball by the way but the second thing of interest was this was the Pro V1 which had right at the flag I've just half repaired the pitch mark which was right by the flag and as you can see it's ran on another 12 15 feet maybe a little bit more than that and we were playing a little bit down ill and maybe a little bit down breeze looking at the flag but yet again it just goes to show these things don't just stop by themselves it's quality of strike that is majorly key to how that golf ball performs so whilst yeah it's done all right arguably could a less expensive supposedly poorer performing golf ball maybe that had run through the back I don't really know but all I'm seeing so far is everything that's happened in terms of the golf balls performance well it's majorly been down to my own performance and quality of strike well the last one wasn't so good but the idea was simple there was alternate balls there and I was just trying to see if there was any difference in terms of the feel between the two and honestly if I was blind tested I can see the logo on the ball unfortunately before I was blind tested I really do believe that I cannot tell a difference between those two balls in terms of sound and feel in and around the green for that short game piece and I've very much found the same with putter as well so if you can find the difference tell me in the comment section below because well if you can you're a better man than me now I've had to double check this because I bought these Kirkham golf balls a couple of days ago when I was adamant in my head they were 27 quid and then I started to work out price per ball because what I haven't said yet is that's 27 pound for two packs of 12 so that's right that's 24 golf balls for 27 quid it is in fact the correct price so you're buying a three piece urethane golf ball covered for one pound 10 one pound 15 a golf ball and you can pair that to the pro v1 at near on four quid and there's a huge huge price difference and I'm not sure we're seeing out here on the fairways nor in terms of dry ball data that kind of significant difference if there is a difference at all for our level of ability so really happy with both those wedges in and in terms of strike the tightest ball which is to the left got a slightly higher ball flight nothing to separate them in terms of strike but from what I could see back there they both seem to stop fairly quickly and looking at the pitch marks I can't really see perhaps that's one there they've again stopped in very similar sort of fashion so again what I'm not looking for people with wedges I think again we play um we play golf with some myths in our heads that it's all about spin and people get really excited when they see a ball zip back and spin backwards well that's okay if you can control that spin you understand where you want to pitch the ball and spin it back to but I would argue that not many of us know how to control that spin and do exactly that so if I can get a ball to just come down and stop where I'm aiming I'm more than happy with that golf balls performance and in that case yet again they've both done it exactly the same I cannot see what splits these two golf balls out in reality out here on the golf course I've seen nothing at all to suggest there is any reason to pay so much money for a pro v1 right so that's me done as much as I can do in terms of dry ball data and out here on the course and like I've always thought it's almost mystical golf at times when we buy into sort of concepts that they certainly exist at the top end of the game and like I said at the beginning this video if you're a really really good player in terms of quality of strike in terms of how sharp your short game is then maybe you'll see the ultimate benefit of paying for a titleist pro v1 ball or similar but the reality is that most of us don't have that kind of ability and what I've seen in terms of the Kirkland signature balls performance it's been really really impressive and yet again to be honest with you there are multiple sort of balls in the top echelons of the tightest equivalents and there probably are a lot of three-piece ball with urethane covers out there in the marketplace as well so I don't think we need to pay any great attention to these two balls that I've used today but all I wanted to demonstrate was that like in most things don't buy into what you see on the tv what you hear a lot of from the top top players just think about it and how it impacts on your own personal game and whether or not you've got the quality in your swing to actually justify from buying this type of product anyway let me know your thoughts in the comment section below if you found different then by all means let me know and get that conversation going down below hit that like button if you enjoyed today's video thank you for watching thanks to Cardin Park for having us and I'll see you all soon


In the first part of this class, we've learned about the chemical and physical properties of the oxide minerals that make up the family of minerals known as the ochres or the earth colors and learned about the conditions under which these are formed in the earth and how they come to make themselves available to humans for utilization as pigments in various types of art and expression throughout human history. In the next part, we're going to move on to talking about the expression and the use and symbolism of these colors in art, and we move on to the art history part of the class. So just one of the things we're going to be doing first in this unit, and this is something we're going to do in every unit, is we're going to explore how we get from the rock to the art material. So what I'm holding here is actually something called encaustic. This is pigment suspended in melted wax. Here it has dried, so it's nice and solid. I can pick up a chunk of it. But in the very late Egyptian period and sort of early Roman period, this was one of the primary uses for ochre pigment, creating a special type of mummy portrait that we're going to talk about. We know that the ancient Egyptians used powdered ochre mixed with gum arabic, which is a tree resin coming from the acacia tree in paintings in their tombs. And so they would have crushed it and mixed it up probably with something like this mortar and pestle or with a grinding stone and then mixed it with that liquid with gum arabic dissolved in water and then used that to paint on walls. Powdered ochre, as Maureen also mentioned, could be used kind of like a crayon. And we know that artists in the Renaissance would actually use powdered ochre, like what we have in these vials here, in kind of like a fine talcum powder sort of texture. They would stick it into bags and use it to pounce onto a wall in order to transfer a drawing. What they would do for a large wall painting, for example, would be to make a big paper drawing, hang that on the wall, put a bunch of little pinpricks in that drawing and then pounce the powdered pigment up against that in order to transfer that drawing to the wall for a wall painting. And in my studies, I actually visited a museum full of these under drawings. So we're going to explore all of that because it was relatively inexpensive and plentiful. We're not going to have some of the really deep meanings associated with ochre that we're going to have with some of our other materials. But we will explore meaning and especially technique and then look into some case studies.


Hi friends, welcome to my channel, I am Arpita Karwa and in this video I am going to be giving you tips on how you can improve your IELTS band score and just get a 9 band score in a matter of few days. Now I know that preparing for IELTS is a very very stressful thing, especially when you are not so good at English and you want to quickly improve your English communication. In this video we are going to look at the 4 sections of IELTS namely listening, reading, writing and speaking and I am going to give you simple tips on each of these sections and how you can improve your band score in each of them. Now there are some bonus tips waiting for you at the end of the video wherein I am going to talk about the common silly mistakes that students make on the day of the exam while they are solving MCQs which actually lower down their score by 1 or at times by 2 bands. Sad right? But worry not I am going to talk about those mistakes at the end of the video and will also give you some simple hacks to avoid making such mistakes. So do watch this video till the end. If you want to do this channel then please hit the subscribe button and press the bell icon so that every Sunday as soon as I upload a new video you are the first one to know about it. So let us first begin by looking at the reading section. Now there are 3 passages that you have to complete in just 60 minutes. The blunder which most of the students in IELTS make is that they read the passage first then move on to look at the questions. This wastes a lot of time. I will now tell you what you should actually be doing. So first you will quickly stream through the passage and then read the questions properly to understand what exactly is asked from you. Now I will give you a very scientific reason behind this. Let us do an activity. Pause this video right now and look around you for 30 seconds. Now look at the screen and answer this question. Name all the white things that you saw around you. Most of you will not be able to answer this question accurately. Now let us do the same exercise in a different way. Before pausing the video I am telling you what you have to look for. You have to tell me all the red things that you see around you. Now pause the video. Look for the red things and then start the video again. Difference dekhakya? Because your brain had registered that it was supposed to look for red things. When you were looking around you, you only looked for red things and discarded all the other colors. This helped you to come up with the answer much more quickly. This is exactly what you have to do for the reading passages as well. If you know the question, if you know exactly what you are looking for in the passage, you will read the passage quickly looking for the keyboard which is asked in the question and quickly answer the question. Now there are two more tips for the reading section. First, please don't apply your own knowledge when you are answering the question. For example, we all know that sun rises from the east. But let's say, the passage says that sun rises from the west and they give a lot of controversial details about this. We know it's wrong. Whatever is written in the passage is wrong. But that is what they have stated in the passage. Now if they ask a question that from which side sun rises and you will say it rises from east and the passage says it rises from west, this will make your answer incorrect. Because sun rises from the west is written in the passage. This gives a hint to the examiner that you didn't understand the passage. Your English is weak. That's why you gave the wrong answer. So while solving the passage, keep your knowledge in your room and then solve the passage. Another tip I would like to give you is that whenever you are filling the blanks, there are questions filled in the blanks kind of questions. Now whenever you are attempting such questions, please check the passage for the spellings. Spellings, recheck, do it. If your answer is right but your spelling, the spelling that you have written in the blanks is wrong, you won't get any marks. That would be extremely sad. Rather you will be marked negatively for this. So keep your knowledge clear from spelling mistakes. Avoid spelling mistakes. Check the spellings again and again in the passage. Keep our study tips, free study material on our Facebook and Insta pages. Moreover every Wednesday we also share quick revision reels on these pages which will help you revise important topics in less than 60 seconds. So let's talk about the speaking section. The most important tip that I would want to give you here is to speak slowly. Speak at a speed 50% lower than your normal speed. The speed at which we think is much lower than the speed at which we speak. And as Indians we think in Hindi, then we translate the content in English and then speak. So in this process if you go fast, you will be using a lot of filler words like, you know, definitely, basically, etc. So when you are speaking slowly, your mind will get enough time to think about the next line. Form sentences better and then proceed. So keep your speed in control. Now a lot of students think that accents carry separate marks. So they start speaking in American accent. Friends, there is no special marks, no extra marks for accent. Speak in a normal way with no accent, neutralized way. But ensure that your content should have coherence, that is, logical flow and your sentences should be structured correctly. Okay, one more tip. A lot of students, what they do is, they keep repeating the same lines again and again. For example, your topic is discipline. You have to speak on discipline. Now you have to speak on this topic for let's say three minutes.  Now you will say that I don't have much to say. I don't know what else to say. In such case, ensure that you use examples. Support your statement with numerous examples. Like you can talk about top leaders in the world who are disciplined or you can talk about someone in your life. You take inspiration from and is very disciplined or a story from your own life on how you have struggled with discipline and how you were trying to build this good habit. So in this way, elaborate your answer. Another important concern of students is that sometimes they get a topic which they have zero information or knowledge about. For example, you get to speak on a topic let's say Colosseum in a cleave, which is a monument. Basically, it is one of the seven wonders of the world. Now let's say you have no knowledge about it. In this case, there is a technique that I'm going to share with you and it is called KEA, Keyword Explanation Approach. Now what is this? You know that Colosseum is in Italy. So you can speak one, two lines about Italy. Then you know that Italy is in Europe. So you can speak two, three lines about Europe. Then you know that Colosseum is a monument. So you can give one or two line about how it is one of the most important heritage sites in the world. Whatever you can gather around the topic, you gather it and speak about it.  They are not testing your knowledge. They are testing your English. So you should know that communication is more important than the information you are supplying to them. Friends, you should also note that in the speaking section, the examiner will also pay attention to your vocabulary. I'll suggest you one thing. Very simple. Make a list of some good vocabulary words, which you can fit in anywhere. Like plethora is a good word. Now make a list of some good English words of this type. You can make a list of idioms and phrases also, just like this. And when you practice speaking every day, try using some of these words from the list when you speak. This way, it will give an impression to the examiner that you have an enriched vocabulary. Don't read too much from your list. But if there are 50 words in that list, try to use 3-4 words every time. Friends, the most important tip in the speaking section is practice. Give yourself 2 topics each day. Set a time of about 2-3 minutes and speak on that topic. Record yourself when you speak. We are often very conscious when we have to speak in front of an examiner. So practice from now on. Speak in front of camera. Camera, start and then record yourself. And this consciousness that you will face when you speak in front of camera will help you to not face the same consciousness on the day of the exam. Practicing will give you that confidence. Remember that you will be evaluated on the basis of your fluency, grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary and sentence structuring. Record a video when you speak. Send that video to a friend or a mentor. Take the feedback. Make a note of all these feedback and then work on your weak areas. Before moving on, if you found the information that I have shared so far in this video and you found that information helpful, then please like this video by giving it a big thumbs up and also share it with other aspirants who are struggling with similar kind of questions. Let's talk about the listening section now. The most important problem in the listening section is the accent. I don't understand what is going on in the listening tape. Students always script that they are unable to understand the accent. So friends, before appearing for your IELTS exam, you need to familiarize yourself with different accents like Australian, American, British. For that, I would recommend you a couple of things. First one in the list is listening to podcasts. My personal favorite podcast is On Purpose by Jay Shetty. It's a motivational podcast and he invites different people from around the world. So a lot of different accents get covered in every episode of On Purpose. So develop this habit of listening to podcasts. Secondly, you can listen to songs from different countries. Start with reading the lyrics along when you listen to the song. And then once you learn the lyrics, you can even sing along. That will help you to understand what pronunciation is. Thirdly, you can familiarize yourself with accents by watching vlogs or YouTube videos or even movies. Or I would say even web series. Remember that they should be in English. It's not like you start watching your Bollywood web series. And secondly, the things that you are watching should be of your interest. If you pick up history channel or geography channel and you have no interest about history or geography, you will lose interest. So, pick anything that interests you. Otherwise, you will not be able to sustain it for more than 2-3 days. And we have to do it every day until your IELTS exam happens. It's not like you listen to it one day and go for the rest of the day. By the way, comment down below your favorite web series or movie that you recently saw to get acquainted with different accents. I would really love to know and let's see if we have something in common. Next step for the listening section is to do the same listening exercise prescribed in your IELTS preparation book at least 2-3 times. If today you did not understand the listening audio and you think you didn't understand what to do. Don't lose hope. Do it again tomorrow. Listen to the same audio again tomorrow. And then try to understand what you didn't understand. And gradually you will see that if you listen to the same listening tape you will understand the tape more with every passing day. Practice makes a man perfect and such is the case with even IELTS exam. Another very important tip is to always write in capitals or caps lock when you are filling the answers. If you don't make the first alphabet capital in your answer sheet then your marks will be deducted when you are answering filling the blanks for the questions. So to avoid any error develop the habit of writing the entire word in capital letters. Also friends you have to be extremely attentive throughout the listening section. If you get distracted you will lose track and miss out on 2-3 questions. So be super duper duper duper attentive. Let's now talk about the writing section. Friends whenever you write your essay please evaluate it. I know comparison is not a good practice in general. We should not compare ourselves with others. But when it comes to IELTS preparation I would ask you to compare your essays with those off the toppers to understand how they have used words they have structured their sentences. Like I asked you in speaking that when you are speaking make a list of good words similarly in the writing section also develop this habit of making a list of good words, idioms, phrases, adjectives which you can use in your essays and try using words from that list every time you are writing a sample essay. You don't have to use flowery language while writing answers. You have to write in simple words but if you use some good word here and there it will definitely increase your band score. Next up friends please, please don't repeat the same thing again and again while writing.  Elaborate your answer with the help of example. Try not to repeat the same words rather try to use synonyms. Also please use proper punctuation. Use full stop comma exclamation mark question marks were never necessary. Don't skip them. In KB marks hang. A lot of students write in long paragraphs. Cholo your habit. Break your content into 3-4 paragraphs. Write an introduction paragraph. Then 2-3 short paragraphs and then a separate concluding paragraph. The last tip for the writing section is to adhere to the word limit. If the word limit is 120 words the maths you can exceed is 130-140 words. That's it. Not more than that. Writing more won't get you more marks. IELTS rules are like traffic rules. If you follow them it means that you're a good citizen. You're a good student. Stick to the word limit. Remember the traffic rule. 120 words means 120 words. Don't write too much. Friends now as promised let's move on to the bonus tips on how to solve the NCQs. The first bonus tip that I would want to talk about is elimination. It is one of my favourite tips as I derive it from the fictional character of Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Connell Doyle in the 19th century. So Doyle in his work The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes says a very famous line. And I quote, When you have eliminated all which is possible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth. You can apply these words to the four options and get the right answer. After you have eliminated the wrong options the one which remains shall be the correct one. Hence whenever you are confused between the options use the elimination technique to solve the question. Rather than being under confident and taking a shot in the dark the elimination technique will come handy as a smart guesswork and make your answers more probable. The next important tip is to never get attached to a question. Sometimes you get a difficult question and we keep on spending time on it. We spend more than 10 minutes on it and are unable to complete the entire paper. Assume you did this mistake. Now because of spending so much time on that one difficult question you could not finish the last 10 questions which were very very easy. All those 10 questions were very easy. Now you feel sad that you could have solved those 10 questions with so many marks. That's why please note that all the questions should be equally important to you. You should know in your mind the time you have to solve each question. And if you are unable to solve that question in that particular time move on. You cannot keep sticking to one question. The next important tip is to read the instructions very very very carefully. Friends sometimes a question asks you to answer in number or word. In this case let's assume that the answer is 4. Now if you want you can write numeric 4 or F or UR. Whichever way you write your answer is correct. But suppose you missed out on the instruction and if in the instruction it was mentioned that the question specifically has to be answered only in number. And now without reading the instruction if you write F or UR instead of numeric 4 you won't get any marks. So this is the reason why I keep on saying that read the instructions carefully. So this is it. I hope you like the tips that I have given in the four sections as well as the three bonus tips. I hope you secure a band 9 score in dials exam. I'm quite eager to know how you felt about this video. Did you like it? Did you not like it? Did you find it helpful? Please share your views in the comments below. Also if you have any questions, any doubt or if you want me to make any other video on any other topic feel free to put that in the comment section as well. So with that note I would like to take your leave. That's it from my side for this video lecture. I'll meet you very very soon in the next video lecture. Till the time we meet next, happy learning. Keep loving literature and stay tuned to ArpitaKarwa.com.


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video now many of you may already know about this due to social media etc etc but if you don't know Bungie Surprise was just dropped at PSX just over an hour ago and it was sparrow racing yes you heard me right sparrow racing a trailer was just dropped which to be honest did look fucking epic it really did and I'm looking forward to it it starts December 8th and will last for three weeks you can compete against your friends on Venus and Mars and earn rewards such as sparrows and gear exactly what the gear is we don't know as of yet it's called the sparrow racing league and it starts like I said on December 8th which is this Tuesday the weekly reset day now sparrow racing ain't really a new thing it I believe was actually supposed to be in the game from the start if you do your research you'll find out and see what I'm talking about I believe it was taken out not just before final stages of the game were created for what reason I have no idea but either way it's coming back and judging from the trailer it's coming back with a vengeance do you guys want to know my honest opinion on this well here it is although it does look pretty damn epic and I'm looking forward to it Destiny is not a racing game for sure I will be playing it but from PSX I expected Bungie to at least drop a little bit of DLC info in my opinion though after the three weeks of sparrow racing is up I think Bungie will hint towards a new DLC now the sparrow racing trailer is in the background now watch it if you ain't already and tell me what you think I did notice a few things about the trailer like weapon pick up points etc but does that mean you can blow up people's sparrows or damage them or are they just there to shoot enemies in your way who knows as soon as we have more info on this you guys can be sure to find it on my channel but sparrow racing guys what do you think as badass as it looks and I'm looking forward to it like I said Destiny is not a racing game this is something completely different to what we are used to in Destiny but hey it's something new it's definitely fresh and it could go down really well we're just gonna have to wait and see this Tuesday but guys hoping you do drop a like I do appreciate the support subscribe for daily destiny and I'll catch you guys on the next one peace out till next time POST!


Aaron, when you see that type of performance out of James Paxton, how encouraged does that leave you moving forward? Well, it's it's a type of pitcher. We know he's capable of being you know that right there You know dominant, you know lefty that can command all his pitches, you know, I was looking up there looking at guard I think I might have been the first or second I knew sitting nine miles an hour, which was you know, we've seen it from before but it was good to see him You know, especially tonight big game like this and He came out to play today. It was awesome. Can you guys do to keep this momentum going now?  I was huge You know, especially against you know an ace like Chris said you got to try to get him early because if he gets In a groove, he's he's pretty much unheadable So it was just you know some timely hitting by you know some key guys for us mentioned sale But he looked different than he did a season ago It's tough to say, you know, he's still able to get the fastball to 96 I think a couple times and you know, he was able to work that slider and change up, you know When he wanted to you know kind of keep us off balance, but we were just able to you know in tight situation Just you know pull out a knock here and there on him What's it like to be part of that lineup tonight where everybody one through nine gets a hit and contributes? What's that kind of night like? Well, just comes down to our approach, you know You know, let's just stick into our pregame approach on what we're gonna do against sale on that and their bullpen and We executed our plan. That's the biggest thing when you got you know all nine guys You know focus on the same plan focus on the same approach and go out and execute it's a pretty pretty tough lineup So we just went out there and just did our job It's just one game, but did this victory feel bigger with all the injuries that you have? Everyone is big, you know, especially right now, but I Like I said before you just got to give hats off to Paxton, you know We fed off his energy early and he just he set the table for us. We went out there and see him go That's our first inning. I'll just show him what he had. I was okay. We got a it's gonna be a ball game tonight Did make a difference maybe it was the fifth inning you were on third Torres hit a ball to Martinez in left field Did you think you were gonna be sent there or what did Nevin tell you in that situation? Yeah, I was gonna go but just based on him coming in, you know JD coming in and you know cook time Take it as momentum forward. You know, I just didn't think it would be You know, especially with Clint Frazier on deck and you know already hit a homer I think his previous at bat, you know, I was you know, keeping my faith in him. So it's It was just a tough read on that one, especially the ball coming in but uh You know, maybe I might test it next time. We'll see


Hello and welcome to North Dakota 4-H, where youth are inspired to reach their full potential. 4-H is a positive youth development program that teaches young people how to contribute to their communities, make healthy choices and thrive. In North Dakota 4-H, youth choose projects that spark their unique interests. The purpose of a 4-H project is to master a subject and foster life skills such as communication, decision making and goal setting. We decided to start off the vision zero week by visiting first graders. Projects are fun to do alone and with your friends. Here are some of the projects you might like to do in 4-H. Fishing, nature trails and shooting sports are projects for you if you like to learn about the environment and earth sciences. If you like to work with tools or make and build things, you could give aerospace, robotics, computers or even woodworking a try. 4-H project learning gives you a chance to be creative. You can have fun with photography, leather craft and other areas like sewing or baking. Whatever your interest, there's a 4-H project just for you. 4-H projects are meant to be worked on over time, allowing you to build your knowledge and challenge your skills each year while focusing on things that interest you. You can use the North Dakota 4-H project guide, which describes all of the projects available to help you decide. So you've decided what you want to learn about and you've enrolled in your 4-H project in 4-H online. Now what? 4-H has many tools to help you succeed. Start with the individual project sheets. They will give you many ideas for activities and exhibits to help you have fun and explore your interests. Importantly, they contain ideas for taking your project to the next level so you can master new skills. Remember, this is just a start. There are many different ways to learn. If you like structure, the 4-H curriculum books will walk you through a project step by step. Or, you can extend your project learning through competitions, events, travel opportunities and even camps. All 4-H events are thoughtfully designed to help you develop confidence individually and in teams. No matter which method you use to learn more about your project throughout the year, you will build your critical thinking skills, develop lifelong friends and become a confident leader. Besides using any and all of the resources available to you, we want you to chart your learning path. Simply put, keeping precise records is an important life skill. When you get to be an adult, you will use records to manage your money, house and job. Once again, 4-H helps develop a skill you will use all of your life. We have a tool you can use to track your progress towards your project goals and record these experiences. It's called the North Dakota 4-H Plan of Action and can be found online or just ask your local Extension 4-H staff for a copy. You have an exciting opportunity to customize your learning by pursuing your interests, setting goals, devising a learning plan to reach your goals and finally recording your success. But wait, there's one more thing. It's important to share with your club and your community what you are learning. This is called leadership. North Dakota 4-H challenges you to grow as citizen leaders through your project work. You will find your voice and develop skills so you can address local issues and design solutions to help your 4-H club and community become an even better place to learn, work and play. For example, you may perform community service or perhaps you will become a junior board member for a community organization. To help you develop skills to lead, 4-H gives you opportunities to take part in events such as Leadership Awareness Weekend at our capital in Bismarck, 4-H Congress in Georgia or the 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C. Don't let cost be a barrier for participating. Even though some project learning requires items to be purchased, each 4-H program has strategies in place to help manage financial circumstances. Project learning is really a way for you to participate in meaningful experiences as you develop the skills you need to succeed throughout life. We are so excited you are exploring North Dakota 4-H. As you get started, make sure to connect with your local NDSU Extension staff for support.


So one time Missy was sitting on a tour bus and or I was sitting on a tour bus and Missy came on a bus and She asked me how things was going how I you know how I felt about being out there And I just told I was like, you know, it's kind of different for me I see when you go in the studio you able to sit there you engineer yourself because Missy was sit at the boards She'll close the door. She'll be in there by herself. No closed session And I was I felt like I didn't reach that status enough for me to ask for that Although that's how I did it at home the same way that she did it So when I told her that she was like, no, you have to ask for what you need Sometimes you don't want that unwanted attention when you go into the studio sometimes with people that are around that You don't really want them to mess up your mental. Yeah, you know Well, there was there was a moment when I was working with Timbaland and Missy, right? Mm-hmm And I was kind of intimidated because they had so many people come on now Do you know at the time? But no no listen they had so many so many other artists writers and stuff like that and They would go to the club like some of the some of the people in a writing camp They would go to the club and then be Go back to the studio like, you know, two three in the morning and I'm a morning person So I wake up early. I like to record early, but I'm not gonna miss the opportunity so I would be up like around the clock and I'd be in the studio recording and a lot of people would just come peeking the session come standing there smoking and all that But I wasn't really used to that.  She'll be in there by herself. No closed session And I was I felt like I didn't reach that status enough for me to ask for that Although that's how I did it at home the same way that she did it So when I told her that she was like, no You have to ask for what you need in order to make the best work because when people hit an outcome They're not gonna know all what somebody was in my session to strike the mean whatever whatever So she was like, you got to ask for what you want so you can make the best work that you can and I felt what she said I felt inspired by the next day when I was in the studio early in the morning There was a drill like Somebody drilling on the door and I'm like what the fuck is going on The handyman was changing the locks and putting a actual lock because you couldn't lock it from that side They put a lock on that and I was like, what was going on? They say oh missy put that there for you You know, I'm saying wow. Yes So that inspired me to and gave me more confidence like she really was invested in effect and Telling me no you got to make sure you put you and your music first, you know what I mean? So yeah, that was like a lot. I mean how long was you running out doing doing this with them? That was about a year and a half. Maybe yeah, so I was in I was in Miami at well that happened at Tim's studio Thomas crown in Virginia, but it was like a year and a half back Did you keep in contact with her? Yeah? Not because I ended up not signing with them You know what I mean? But um, she's like sent messages and said encouraging things, but I didn't end up doing business with them Yeah, yeah, but that do open just for you to see that God has where opening the door so you can peek through it That's a fact I had a question about her music So what is the overall message that you want people to know about your music? What what do you want people to get from your music overall? well a Lot of times that message varies, but I make music for people who may not have That whole cheering section for them. You know what I'm saying? This is the soundtrack for the hustlers This is the soundtrack for people who feel like you know, I would like to have people support me But even if they don't I know I'm one-on-one. I know I'm gonna do you know what I mean? And that's why I named this already legendary my company already legendary because I don't need the validation from others to tell me What I already know about myself. So, you know, I have reality rap, you know what I mean?  I had the song freak like me You know, I mean I have all of those those different elements in my music But the overall message is that even when you don't have people cheering for you, you got to be your your cheerleader I mean, yeah, I say you dope. You always been dope to me. Thank I want the projects to keep coming No cap for the young no cap or they'll say something like standing on business But at the end of the day, I think that's you represent culture and you represent our you know Successful black women man. I mean beautiful black women, you know, I'm saying it I think that's important by young girls, you know They can see the twerking and they can see all the stuff and it's fun But to see somebody that's encouraging with entrepreneurship skills that understand how to brand themselves and be successful in today's times It's remarkable and I see that in you. So thank you so much.  Who's the new girls the young girls that you you got the message from Missy and you seen the inspirational moments from certain individuals Who is that young girl that that that you've had the opportunity to say some encouraging things too? You know, that's a very good question because I can't name one. Oh, it's happening No, but the reason why I say that is because I would love the opportunity to be able to name one You know, I would I would hope that my message spread Widen up because I hear people all the time tell me but I haven't worked closely with like a female artist I haven't I just within the last well February February I became On the one of the board members on the Junior Board Association for the Universal Hip-Hop Museum This is a 65 million dollar development in in the Bronx, New York I sit on the board with yo-yo. I sit on the board with fat Joe. There's nars on the board Yeah, so there's a lot of there's a lot of artists. This Project is a huge project and I'm the only one from the south I mean, I'm the I'm the only Independent artists from the South young female on the board or whatever So there's a lot of initiatives that we're working together to do Charity and all of that. But yeah, that's something that I really want to It's coming and there's also they just Honored me in New Orleans with the proclamation This year for my contribution to hip-hop in New Orleans So there's a lot of things that I've done, but I don't sit back and say this is you know what I mean But it's good to be recognized Yeah, but I do want to hone in but I can't say like there's a female rapper that I took under my wing or something Not yet. Not yet, but at the end of the day there's so much more to you I hope I could just be an example by the way that I move The same way that the same way that Missy just saw that there was a you know I said something and she was like alright bam I Hope that I can continue to do that in that way. I think encouragement right now is Encouraging people to have that courage to actually say something because people would think it and not say especially be intimidated by okay That's missy. I'm not gonna say that to her. Yeah, you know what I mean So I love that. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one one-on-one. Yeah, we gonna talk


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What I'll do is I'll just give a brief statement and then you can ask questions after that. That's it everyone. My voice is fairly low so you might have to adjust the sound. And I'm, if you haven't already met me, Detective Superintendent Cameron Harsley, Child Safety Director and Operations Manager for Child Safety Sexual Crimes Group. Welcome everyone. This week is a week which Task Force Argos and the Queensland Police Service is very grateful for. We're currently hosting officers from other jurisdictions which include Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Australia, Federal Police and more importantly, two officers from the Singapore Police Force. This week is a course which Task Force Argos is leading and running. The course is designed to improve and build capability within policing to investigate, detect and solve online crimes against children. The course itself has a high degree of skill and knowledge to complete and more importantly we are sharing our knowledge and our skill base across other jurisdictions to attack what we see as a global issue. Predominantly this crime class is a global crime class in that I say that people from across the world, wherever you have computers you'll have this type of crime existing. So what we're trying to do is build capacity within other countries to help us detect and solve this type of crime. So Singapore Police themselves are here this week to build their capacity in regard to detection of online offences against children. So Singapore isn't a hub though in terms of... We're not seeing more cases related to Singapore at all. It's just that it's just one other jurisdiction. It's just one other jurisdiction. It's a large jurisdiction. It has obviously a network or a gateway as you'd like to Asia. So it is an area that we're very keen to focus on. Are there any new trends emerging? I think what we're finding now is that people with this unsavory interest towards children are starting to engage in what we will call innocent websites to then try and contact children through. So by innocent websites I mean family orientated websites or websites which you would not think child pornography or child exploitation material as we call it would exist. But it's an avenue for accessing children or family contacts through normal activity websites. I'd like to name the websites but can you be a little bit more specific about the kinds of websites you're talking about? Well the danger for websites is if you have a website where you're exposing any personal details i.e. where you live details of your children and easy access of those details then they are targets. Social networking or family? Social networking sites, predominantly. How is this different to anything else in Australia? Task Force Argos is the leader in Australia and also nationally. The methodologies that we're using at the moment I think are very effective. We used to have a minimal hit rate. Our hit rate at Task Force Argos now is 85% plus when we're online. Is this a big partnership particularly in Singapore? Does anyone have any other police services in Australia doing something like this? What do you mean by 85% hit rate? When we talk about hit rates you can get online and you can engage with potential offenders or people online. And often those people online will not engage enough to commit an offence or they may not be grooming children. But the methodologies we're using now when one of our law enforcement participants jumps online tonight within a very short period of time he will have engaged somebody trying to groom a child online. And that engagement traditionally used to take a series of engagements online. We're getting so effective now what we're finding is our officers are online for very short periods of time five or ten minutes and they've engaged somebody with an unsavory interest towards children. Does that suggest that not only are you getting better but there are a lot more of them? I think the use of the internet there's a volume issue there. I think also the other issue too is people engaging in online activity towards children seem to think they're not going to get caught still. Can I just say from the outset that if you're online and you're engaging with activity towards grooming children for an unsavory purpose it's not a matter of if we catch you, it's a matter of when we will catch you now. Can you give us an indication of growth in the last five years in this sort of activity? I will probably just allude to this that online activity that we have at Argos we predominantly may have had 30 to 50 targets. We can generate hundreds of targets now across the world. What does that mean exactly? In a context I'll put it online in this term.  I know you can't tell us much but give us an indication of what sort of methods you are using to catch these guys out? Yes while we're online as doing activity it's known in fact that we use pseudonyms as children. We're having a more and more trend as public awareness has come forward that members of the community are coming forward with details of people that have tried to engage their children online. So often we will take over the accounts of those children and then re-engage the person who was originally target at that child. So community support in that regard has been very helpful of late which we appreciate. Are parents generally aware that this sort of thing could happen to their children? I think community awareness is something we have to continually push. We have had many awareness campaigns previously but still I would encourage parents if you have a child with a computer and online you need to take a very active interest on a daily basis about what your child is doing online. Are there any particular styles of gaming science? What we're finding there's a trend where we will find a forum that is used by children a trend I suppose you'd call predators online very quickly are becoming tuned to those forums. What is a trend this week will not be a trend next week because not only will the children move to another site but also the offenders move to other sites.  What we're finding in Argos at the moment is at about 80% of the people that are engaging on online activity will be contact offenders.  How many people are you like in having per week or do you figure that out for months? Well probably more importantly instead of the arrest of people is the identification of child victims. So this year so far we've identified 18 child victims 10 of those children have been in Queensland. Well this year so far as I've said within Queensland we've identified and proactively removed 10 children from harm. That's a huge majority in Queensland compared to the rest of Australia. Well most of our activity has been targeted within Queensland although we look at activity worldwide. Last year we had a number of referrals to other countries including Russia. We had one referral where 12 children were identified in Russia. So we identified children in other countries which we will share that information with other law enforcement participants in other countries but also our focus is on making sure children within Queensland are safe and this year that's led to 10 children being removed from harm. So it's 10 children that otherwise we would not know about are being offended against. So does that mean that there's been 10 people charged? Yes. With children that are offended against traditionally people think that it's a stranger. Well it's often not a stranger. It's often somebody within the family unit or a family friend or somebody who has engaged in activity to build a relationship with a child in a short period of time for the purpose of offending against that child. So most of those children well I'll say 100% of those children that are offended against their offender had a relationship of types with them. And you identified those children by photographs? By photographs. So the offense there was a the person known to the child was then putting material on the internet which you were able to identify? That's right. They were sharing that material with other people with an interest in child exploitation material and some of that material was shared with law enforcement participants such as ourselves. Once we gain those images we have now in Argos got a victim identification unit which is now full time and the job of that unit is to actually identify those children from that photo. Do people make money from sharing this material? No. It's for a personal gain. Okay is that about it? So do you think the number of victims is increasing or decreasing? I think I can't give a number are they increasing or decreasing because how do we know the number that we don't know about? There may be children out in the community in countries now that are getting abused. So the people that you do know about I mean are we seeing more arrests or less arrests? I think we're seeing more arrests because police are getting very good at this type of work. We're becoming better at our methodologies that we're using and also the increase in the use in the internet. We're seeing a lot of younger children using the internet all the time now. So the sheer volume of use of the internet and children on the internet is also leading to more offending. Is it going to be targeting a specific methodology? It is. There's a series of methodologies that Task Force Argos have been using we've been developing them over years. We have found them to be very effective so what we wish to do this week is share those methodologies with other law enforcement participants and forces such as Singapore and hopefully they'll leave this week with those skills and strategies which they can then put in place in their own jurisdictions. My main message to parents is quite simple know what your children are doing all the time if you don't know, ask the question.