Hello, my name is Dr. Demetria Rujo-Chabaz and I am on the board of registers for the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. And today we're going to be focusing on our new town clerk and her many roles within this community and on voting. So I'd like to introduce our guest, Shaveena Martin. Shaveena, hello. Good morning or good afternoon. Good afternoon. Shaveena, thank you for joining us. Shaveena is a lifelong resident of the city of Springfield. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from American International College and an advanced paralegal certificate from Bay Path University. Go Bay Path! I'm taught there, so I know the folks are really wonderful. Shaveena's career path includes experience in optometry, banking, medical billing, and entrepreneurship. However, in 2013 she discovered her passion for elections and municipal government. Initially hired by the city of Springfield Board of Elections as part-time election assistant. Shaveena excelled and was promoted to full-time election assistant within six months. That's pretty rapid. Five years later she was promoted to the election specialist position which ultimately led to her appointment as the Amherst town clerk. She's single with no children and no fur baby, so no pets, but we are so glad to have you here in the town of Amherst, Shaveena. Thank you again for joining us. Shaveena, can you talk a little bit about what led you here to Amherst and what does a town clerk do? Sure, so I absolutely, I, what I left out of my bio is I had, ever since I was six years old, I always wanted to be an attorney. Knew that that was my career path and I have struggled, I have always struggled with standardized testing and so I had taken the LSAT two times and both times fell short of mark by six points of where I needed to be to gain acceptance at Western New England University. When I first started it was still Western New England College and so one of the things I used to always say is I never wanted to get into politics. I was like I never wanted to get into politics and lo and behold right at the height of the, when the, we have the mortgage crisis and things like that in the market dropped and we found ourselves in, you know, our generation's recession and degeneration. I was unemployed and, you know, when you have student loan debt and you have a mortgage, you know, you're looking for a job and so that's what I was doing. I was applying everywhere and it was the city of Springfield that, you know, was the first to say yes and I had no idea what being an election assistant consisted of but, you know, just based on the job description, I think that I can do that and when I got hired and, you know, it was everything about municipal government unless it specialized like in finance and you kind of learn it on the job and I just, I don't know, when I got there and I had the environment and just learning about elections, I had no idea as a registered voter who's been voting since 18, I never knew the behind the scenes and I, when I began, it was right after Senator Kennedy had passed so we had a special election. So in my first, right, two weeks after I got hired, we had a special election and then Springfield had a special election for the casino referendum. So in 2013, I was kind of thrown into the fire. There were five elections in that one year. So that's I was able to move straight up and I just took to it. I have no idea. I just took to it and it just has become part of a passion that I absolutely love all of it, all of the moving parts. Fast forward, you know, I had moved up as far as I could move in Springfield. So being the election specialist was right under the commissioner and so and that would be the next progression up in Springfield would have been the election commissioner.  And so nobody was retiring. They still are not going to retire. They probably still have about 30, 40 years before they're towards retirement and in municipal government, that's the typical span most people stay 30 or 40 years. So one actually just like yourself, Dr. Chavez, one of the board of registrars had seen the opening the first time the town clerk when Sandra had originally retired. And so he has said, I think, you know, he came when they had a meeting on one of their quarterly meetings and he goes, you know, there's an opening in Amherst and he had just put it out there to all of the students.  He goes, sounds like, you know, position. And so I was like, I don't know. And I went ahead and I applied and I went through the interview process and I wasn't selected first time. And so last year when the position reopened after Margaret left, I didn't apply. So that's it. It's a one of those I call it when opportunity knocks at the door because I didn't reapply. And I was working and preparing for the November election when the HR director, Evelyn, she contacted me. She said, Hey, we still have this, you know, the position has reopened. We still have your application on file. We were wondering if you were still interested. And I was like, Sure. So we kind of, you know, I gave, I sent over an updated resume and that was called the second time. And it was quick. And I got the appointment. And so here I am. And so the things that appealed to me about the job was the difference between Springfield and Amherst and a lot of communities because of the population size of Springfield, the clerk's office and the election office are separate here in town. I do it all. So I have I call them subtitles on the town clerk with a laundry list of subtitles. So in addition to being the town clerk, I am on the registrar of voters. I am the records access officer for public records request. I am also a justice of the peace. I'm a commissioner to qualify so that I can swear in all of our elected officials and anyone who gets appointed to any border committee, and all of those titles that come with being a town clerk. And I absolutely love the position because I have a passion for elections. That's, you know, the belly of the of the role, but the town clerk learning vital records and all of those things I love to learn and the challenges that come in the role are what keep me interested in keeping me hungry. It's amazing. It's you don't realize how central a town clerk is to the running of this community. It is. We are truly, you know, part of our role is the biggest part of our role with handling vital records, which is vital to every community in the state. We handle all births, deaths and marriages. So all walks of life from the day you're born, you get married into the day you pass away. We handle it all here. And it's been more important in this season, especially with COVID. And I won't I don't want to jump ahead, but we'll get into, you know, the how vital we are to a community. And in addition, we handle all business security. So, you know, we get entrepreneurs and young people who are coming to start businesses.  So it is our office is central to many, many parts moving parts within the town. So that's that's interesting, because you had been on the job. I mean, relatively new hire, you had been on the job for pretty short time. And then all of this hit in terms of the quarantine and COVID. How has your job changed since the quarantine? The job itself has, it's improved. That's what I will say. So personally, COVID and the shutdown and quarantine has been a blessing for me personally being a new town clerk and a new department head. And while I love the public, I absolutely love the public, having the restrictions and having the isolation from the public has allowed me the opportunity to really get a handle and learn the role of being a town clerk and to be able to develop as a town clerk to develop as a department head, and to really build a rapport with my staff. You know, I came in about a week and a half before the November local election. And so, and it was just elections back and back. So we had our local election in November, as soon as we racked that up, we had early voting passed for the presidential primary. And then right after that was the presidential actual primary election. So that's where we were in the in my like first 90 days. So I was still in my election mode. And so that's how I was able that's how I was operating. And so it didn't allow me the time to really get adjusted in appointment with the office and with the staff, we were just boom, boom, boom, moving. In this season, we've been able to slow down. So what we did was part of the town itself shutting down. We built a contingency plan and we kind of went back to basics. Because our office handles so many different things. One of the things that fall asked us, Tommy and your bottom and asked all department heads was review your department. And what are your vital roles? Because those are going to be the things that we focus on. But sometimes we have a lot of roles that are kind of that have been additions that we do as either a courtesy or things like that that aren't the main focus of what we do. And so getting back to that has been helpful. And for instance, in it, you know, we were preparing right after the March election to get into dog license. I didn't have any experience with dog license.  So we had like in that first week, when we shut down to public on March, we had already had like 300 dog licenses that were that needed to be processed. But we were able to do that and do it in a timely manner where people's checks didn't start to stale date and things like that. Because we were close to the public and we weren't performing at full capacity, we were really down to the basics of the vital records, dog licenses, business certificates. So you came in right before the November election, I was appointed one of the board of registrars. Can you explain to those watching what does a board of registrar do? And how do they work with you within the town? So our board of registrar, we're required to have a board of registrars that is three or more members. That's mandated by the mass general laws. And everyone has to be representative of all political parties. We can have a minimum of three in your advisory in your capacity in that we meet as often as we need to discuss things that are relevant to elections, the operations of elections, the office. And we discuss those things. So when we meet, we discuss anything that's upcoming in elections, we go over what everyone's roles and responsibilities are. And then you all give us feedback based on what you hear from the public. And you can make just, you know, you can make observations and suggestions on maybe ways of improvement or policy changes and things like that. So you're an advisory committee, and you're you get appointed by the by the town manager for a term and it's either usually two years. Some are longer. The NGL does not state the length of your appointment here in town. The town manager typically does it on two years just to see where you are and how you're feeling and if you're comfortable. But yeah, so it's been a pleasure working with everyone you all have been vital for us. You've been an extra set of hands and ears because you do you have that ability. Part of your role in some of the powers that you have are that you guys are key on election day. And you can go out and perform the same duties I can. So you can go out and oversee all of our polling locations. And you were vital during early voting. You guys were very vital and early voting you help you are hands on on election night and part of your role also includes you review all provisional ballots and you determine whether or not those are if they are going to be accepted. And I don't think many people understand or you're even aware of that you all we have a special meeting right after the elections and you all review all provisional ballots. I was not aware of it and it's actually been a really informative and exciting way in which I can play a part in not only the elections but in our town's government. So I've been really pleased particularly with your clarity. I think it has made my role as a board of registrar easy, you know knowing what we're supposed to do and when. So I hope that you know when people watch this that they really appreciate what you're doing in town what your role is and other volunteers such as the board of registrars speaking of elections. Of course we have another election coming up this November. Are there any laws or policies that are recent that we should be aware of as the voting public such as mail in voting such as early voting. How is that going to operate in 2020. So there is there's been a lot of legislative change. So beginning right after COVID. So once we went into quarantine our legislators and our governor knew that we were going to need to respond to COVID. We knew that this is a state and federal election year. And we meet we knew that many of the changes surrounding elections was going to require legislative change because most of the elections are regulated by state and federal law. And so with that our local state reps and our senators and our congressmen and women they began developing bills around that. So I was I had the fortune the good fortune of being able to I'm a first I'm a member of the Massachusetts Council for Association. So that's an association with all of that any clerk in the state can be a member of. And so they work closely in conjunction with our legislators. And so myself state rep dome have reached out to me there were several bills that were created. And so they were asking for you know our feedback and input on those bills. I began reviewing bills in late April going over the different bills that were being proposed by the different state reps and legislators just to develop a plan on how we could respond to COVID and make in person elections and early voting and things like that because in just as a little background education so and for our voting public. The easiest way to think of elections is every year there's an election. Elections are dictated by if it's an even number year or if it's an odd number year. So all excuse me all of your local elections occur in odd number years. And many towns have annual town meetings that was fired by the national law. Even numbered years are always state and federal election. And so in even numbered years is when we will have early voting and early voting became effective in 2016. And so and that was by legislative move. There was a group who had that as a ballot question ballot question made it on the 2014 ballot and passed and went into effect. So we are now embarking 2020 and Bart makes the third year or third time that we've held early voting 2020 has been significant and historical for a number of reasons. Initially early voting was only in October and it was only held in advance of the general November election. And there was legislation that passed last year so that we could have early voting for the presidential. And so now these bills came about in response to covid to allow early voting for September. Our September state primary. So our state seats are up. So your state reps and depending on your district or your where you are. It could be your registrar probably in those state held seats could be up for reelection for September. Now November is always the general election. So you'll have all of the state seats plus the federal the presidential election will be all on all on one ballot. September is election is what we call a partisan election. So there will be ballots. There will be several ballots based on political parties. And so in the state we have Democrat Republican Libertarian and Green Rainbow. So there'll be those four ballots. And then if you are an independent or in the state of Massachusetts with no more than an old voter you get the option to choose which of those four ballots that you can vote on. November it'll be down to just the Democrat Republican Libertarian and Green Rainbow if there are candidates for all four parties for November. Just that's my election geek. But I also like to educate the voters in the public so that they will know what to expect whether they choose to vote by mail or if they go out in person. And with that getting back to the legislation. So fast forward we got down to a bill last month where both the House and Senate had agreed upon the language for the bill that would go before the governor for the governor to sign. And so that bill went into conference committee the last week of June. And so because some of the language different. And so they came to an agreement last week and it made it to the governor's desk right after right before 4th of July. So the governor received that bill on last Thursday. And then he signed it on Monday of this week. So July 6th. So everyone you're getting this hot off. Right. And so here it is. Hot off the press. So we will be having early voting for the September primary. And those dates are the. And will. And I will do later on. Those are going to be up on the town clerk's page. They're up on the secretary of state page. And then we'll do our. And we'll have it up on Amherst media as well. We'll put it up on Amherst media. So here's some of the changes. So early voting will be beginning Saturday, August 22 through Friday, August 28. The law has required that we offer early voting in person on the weekend. So that's August 23 22nd and 23 Saturday and Sunday. And we haven't set the times yet or the location. And so that information will be forthcoming in the weeks to come. It'll be really soon. Ironing out some things there. So TBD. And then election day is September 1st. One of the other things that occurred is there will be early voting in October. And October begins. And I just going to check my notes because those dates have changed several times. But I want to get everyone final dates. So for October. October is a longer period. So typically in October, early voting is 11 days before the general election. So it's going to begin Saturday again, October 17th and run through Friday, October 30. And so again, those dates and time those hours in the location have yet to be set. So TBD. And we'll keep everyone posted on that. And you'll have well enough notice. And if you are going to to vote by mail, then those dates, you know, you don't really have to be concerned. Now what to know about vote by mail? So everyone, part of the legislation that changed as well as it required that the Secretary of State mail every registered voter in the Commonwealth a 2020 vote by mail application. So every registered voter will receive that. It will come postage paid with a postage paid envelope and it will be addressed to your local town clerk's office. So if you choose that you would like to vote by mail, you fill that form out and you just send it right back to us. And then once we receive the ballots, we will mail you a ballot and your ballot the envelope for your ballot you to return your ballot will also be postage paid. And those are things that were passed in the law because previously the postage would be on the voter. But this time to make it easier. And as part of the response to COVID, we figured we the Secretary of State would pick up the tab on that. Some other changes, we still have to offer in person vote. Everyone has the right to show up at the polling location and vote in person. And as such, the Secretary of State is also going to provide PPE. So personal protective equipment and that equipment is consisting of gloves, masks, and disinfecting wipes. The town is going to go a step further. We're going to have plexiglass and we're going to be doing a lot of disinfecting and sanitation in the polling location. So anyone who chooses to go out and vote, the environment will be safe and it'll be safe for all of our poll workers as well. I'm trying to think if I'm forgetting anything. Real quick, you said for the for the mail in voting, it's for registered voters. What if you are a new voter first time voting or just moved to this area? Can you get something to do a mail in ballot? I'm glad you asked. That's a great segue. So the other part of the legislation that changed as well is it extended the deadline for registering to vote. So originally the deadline to register to vote in time for the September primary was August 12. That deadline has now been moved to August 22, which coincides with the first day of voting. And there are multiple methods for registering to vote. So anyone who is not a registered voter, or if you now reside in Amherst and you were registered in another city or town and you need to move your registration here in town, you need to do so by August 22. You can do so right on the Secretary of State's website. And it comes over to us electronic. You can mail you can call us and we can mail you a voter registration form. You can complete it and mail it back to us. And if you go to any state agencies, so if you go to the registry to either renew your license or to register a vehicle, you can register there. If you happen to sign up for Mass Health or WIC, any of those state services, they can register you to vote as well. So that and then the deadline for the November third election, the deadline to register to vote will be Saturday October 24. Same thing. Now once you register to vote, if you decide that you want to that you would like to vote by mail, you can simply we have the application up on our website right now, or you can call us and we can send it to you. And you can always email that back to us as well. We set up a brand new email box about a month ago called vote at AmherstMA.gov. So you can fill that application out if you have the ability to scan it, you can scan it and email it back to us. Or if you if you take a picture of it, you can then upload your picture and email it over to us as well. Great. So these are all new fresh off the presses, so to speak, policies and laws that you've brought to us. Thank you so much for being part of that decision making on the state level and then bringing that information back to us in the community that's really valuable. I'm going to have to have you back to talk about what something that I think is really exciting and really important. You have a passion as you mentioned for public service and working within municipalities. And you want to share that passion and knowledge with younger people and mentor them. So I know that we'll have you back to talk about possibilities of internships and mentoring young folks in the community to work within town government. Yes. So real quick, before we jump into that. So there's so many awesome things that we're doing here in the town third process that I want to notify the public about and our viewing community. So it was something that has been in the work most of the year and we were, I was already myself in several other departments in town. We were working so myself, the collector treasurer and IT. We were already working on trying to bring some of our services online and COVID happened. But it allowed us to be able to move forward with those things. So we rolled it out on July 1st. So now you are able to request the vital record so you can request an extra certificate, a birth certificate or marriage certificate online, pay for it online and we can submit it to you, we can send it to you and you can also renew your dog license online. Wow. So that's so convenient, particularly just in time for the new dog park, right? Yes. So you know, we, you know, town hall is still close to the public but we did not want to hinder residents from being able to conduct business, town business. And so this was one of the things, it was something that we were already thinking of doing anyway and we were working towards how we were going to implement it and I was like, well, we really got to do it now because we're close to the public and COVID and people are apprehensive about coming out and there were people who were, we have a drop box on the main street side of town hall, but you are more than welcome to always use.  You can do so straight from the town clerk, from the town's home page. So if you click on E payments, if you are already set up to pay your taxes and your excise bills with the, with the town, you can do the same thing. We have our own links there and you can choose. And then if you have questions or you're unsure, call us first and then we can walk you through it. So I'm super excited about that. Thank you, Shavita. So you've already made things more efficient here in the town of Amherst. So we have so appreciate that. Yes. And I, I would, I would also like to encourage going back to elections and young people. And I want to just say this really quickly. So I am a strong advocate in this season for voting by mail. And I would like to express this to two communities, to our college students and to our senior community, to our senior population. Those are our two most vulnerable groups. And so I want to urge everyone to exercise that right. We're going to be busy. The town clerk's office is going to be busy regardless. And in the, you know, out of abundance of caution, I would just urge everyone, please exercise your right to vote by mail. Vote by mail. Now the law is in place, everyone. It's a temporary law so it will expire. It's like almost like Cinderella. It's going to expire at 1159 on December 31st, 2020. So exercise the right while you have it. Exercise your right to vote. This is also the 100 year mark for women's suffrage. So women make sure you register to vote. Make sure you exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to vote by mail. Last but not least, if you are well, and I want to especially ask our young people if you're able to, because I know UMass, I know Amherst College has some really strict policies if you're going to be back on campus. The Secretary of State has a push for anyone who wants to be an election worker. We've had our application up online all year. If you feel like you want to participate, please do. Please apply. Take the time to apply. It is a lengthy process to fill out the application, but we can use as much help as we can get and we can use some hard-working, healthy people. And I do. I really want to encourage the young people in town to be involved.  If you're not working, get involved. You can always call me. I can always use you in some capacity. Everyone has a value and a work and I am. I'm a big proponent on mentoring and training up the next generation. I want someone to be able to take my job. And so that's, and it would be an honor to keep the legacy going and to continue to build on what the great things we're doing here in town. And so that's part of why I decided and opted to apply to be the town clerk and ultimately once I got to position I that is I want to open the door for anyone who's willing. Anyone who's interested or it has wondered and how do I go about that? Because sometimes we wonder about things but we don't know where to begin. Give me a call, give me an email. If you see me at Big Y, if you see me at, if you see me because you will see me at the following places, Big Y, Marshall's and Target. Please, by all means, stop me. For Starbucks. Stop, stop and ask wonderful questions because you do want to to bring young people in. We hope that we'll have you back on soon and talk about other things that are going on with the town government but also the electoral process. It has been a pleasure. Chavina Town Clerk of Amherst Mass and I say that so proudly. Thank you for being with us today and we hope that when folks do see you at all of those places that they say hello and words of welcome to you in this community. It's a great community and we can only make it better by having folks like you within our midst. Thank you so much. It is a pleasure and I'm honest.


Hello, my name is Elrubieckus, and I just want to tell you what I'll be talking about during the conference. So primarily about an internet-based intervention for tinnitus and the results of the clinical trial we ran. We were in quite a unique position at the timing of the clinical trial happened to be at the start of 2020 just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit. As a team study, at the beginning we didn't know if the trial would start and be completed and we were in a fort position that we were able to run the clinical trial, but we also were in a unique position to look at the influence of such external events on the running of the clinical trial and the results. So we looked more in depth at influences of the pandemic and the pandemic did influence the trial. The engagement wasn't as high and as we'd seen in other trials so we did a bit of a qualitative analysis to look at why this might be the case and I'll just share a few of these findings with you. So there were some potential barriers because people were ill due to Covid and weren't able to didn't have the energy to be involved in the intervention. Lots of people had increased workloads during the pandemic or had more responsibility looking after a family or more childcare responsibility. And just focusing on the pandemic made focusing on anything else really hard and lots of people mentioned soon fatigue. So all these factors weren't great for trying to really focus on something like an intervention at that time. There were some helpful things for people doing an intervention during the pandemic because the intervention actually helped them deal with the daily stress of the pandemic and help them problem solve wider problems that they could apply the techniques to their wider life and it helped them feel less isolated during the pandemic and better manage all the worrying thoughts they had about the pandemic. So I hope that's given you a bit of insight into the talk I'll be presenting. Thank you.


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Definitely. Yeah. Yeah, it's impossible to stop Lamar.  He gotta win seven So so it's like a Jordan LeBron thing like we all know LeBron is the best ever But because Jordan got six then you can't beat him. Is it one of those things you got to get six? I go like yeah, there it is. Tom Brady cheated like they literally cheated.  Curry is better than curry.   So right every single game And they just quit in it.  They did it fell off If we do if we can't be real about that Then what are we like? What are we saying? You know that we can't talk football boss is boss is trash chase young is trash We knew that though Fred Warner's a God Greenlaw's good Hargrave is good Ward is pretty good, but they lost a lot of people.   You gotta make them pass. You gotta make them past.  No, I'm just saying like come on, bro You can't let him scramble. It doesn't work. Okay, fine.     Definitely. Yeah. Yeah It's impossible to stop Lamar.   Obviously you want to take away the number one thing he does most does best which is scramble That's the best thing he does. Let's not be fooled.   The more thing you gotta do is somebody got take away what they want to do first first and foremost And the Texas was letting him run all the way over the place The Margarh weapons, okay, cuz then when they when they lose they gonna blame the weapons weapons suck Well, that's the wrong button. I forgot what button my tight end was a oh my god The two-man under just had them guys absolutely just in a straight jacket right there absolute straight jacket right there Both of my drags were just Strat oh my god, though.  These are the passengers Big place. He's definitely getting this isn't he boys. What's my penalty for a legal contact?  Oh, you got two extra to lead. It's okay All sides right there You know, I don't know how you can fire I mean, I know how you can but like I still feel like it's a bad look like how could you like it's like like my Organization we're gonna fire anybody that's been six.   Isn't that like a isn't that a reflection on your leadership to have the team? Like Jalen Hertz Honestly, don't know what happened. I think when they switch coordinators, they just like Let's go One more Super Bowl Super Bowl action as we now play the same person in the Super Bowl nice Well done with the A1 Talk why am I getting just a gap right now?    I just didn't get that off for a fat man. I was a dreamer Huh, I'm just not remotely of a good as the kids say at home. Just not remotely of a good All right, who you got a quarterback go for party right now go whoo what a throw what an absolute seed Dude that middle third got all the way over there though. That's actually Oh, you ain't click on him right there.  That's what I need to do.  Oh my god. Yes. No way.  Okay Okay.   Oh, he doesn't have deep in right there. Oh my god I should all the bullet cover to there I played I played outcast one time and he threw outside fade to the running back when I went to cover to so I never Wanted to do it again But I should have did it right there likely the God The bills went out sad again once again the bills when I'll sad I feel like you have first down at the two-minute warning there boys though You have first down two-minute warning or what is it? I feel like you have to like keep the clock running a little bit I feel like they should have ran did they run on first down and get nothing right there Something I think they did they ran on first down got nothing and that's when then Josh out and throw into the end zone And was incomplete when he went down the middle instead of hitting digs on a drag Which honestly he could have hit that throw but he just smoked it. He just missed the throw or he got hit a little bit They play sleigh. Oh man. This game is just comedy right now sleigh That's called when you tell her maze definitely so bold champion of the world


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW personal points plan. I've been getting a lot and I mean a lot of questions about the new way that I'm eating update wanting updates on my health and just questions overall about how I'm utilizing the WW personal points program as well as counting calories. So I wanted to do a quick little Q&A health update for you. I posted in both my Facebook group and on my community tab here on YouTube for questions, any questions that you have regarding my health, the new way that I'm eating, how I came into this new way of eating and really anything that you wanted me to answer.  So if you are excited, give this video a huge thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. I would love to have you here. I do upload five days a week. So make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on so you never miss a single video. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching. I offer personalized to you macros and calories highly recommend and if you need one-on-one coaching, I offer that as well. Links discounts to all of my favorite things as well as my Facebook group coming over join us there. We would love to have you in that community as well are all down in that description box. So I have lots and lots and lots of questions to answer and a health update to give you. So let's jump in. I'm going to start with all of the questions that were asked over in my Facebook group because this is where I got the majority of the questions and the first one is what is your focus? Is it low carb, low sugar, etc. Right off the bat. I'm going to reference the health update video that I put out into what I eat in a day a few weeks ago. I will make sure that that video is down in the description box for you so that you can watch that as I go into detail on my health as well as what I'm going to be doing moving forward as far as the foods that I'm eating and kind of what my new lifestyle is going to be. So I'll make sure that video is linked down below for you. But in that video, I did share that due to some health concerns. The way that I'm eating has drastically changed in a nutshell. I am following a very high protein, high fiber, low carb, low sugar diet, more specifically a very high protein diet with very little sugar. I focus on 30 grams of sugar or less per day and most of this is going to be coming in the foods that I'm eating. So the fruits that I'm choosing versus having table sugar that's added to sweet treats and snacks. So again, it's high protein, high fiber, low fat, low sugar. The next question is what made you decide to make these health changes? Again, in that video, I mentioned that I was feeling really fatigued that I was noticing that I had a lot of inflammation and I was struggling to lose the amount of weight every week that logically, nutritionally made sense for me. The calorie deficit that I was in should have produced well over a pound of weight loss every week and I was struggling with point this and point that. Now I want to stop right here and let you know that for me, the scale isn't everything. I'm grateful that I lost point this and point that because it all adds up to a pound, but something in my body just didn't feel right and we know our bodies. We know when something isn't right. So I actually made an appointment to see my primary care physician. We ran a full blood panel and with the results of that blood panel, that's where my dietary changes came into play and in that blood work, I found out that I have a very, very, very underactive thyroid and that I suffer from a lot of inflammation. So that's what essentially sparked these changes. The next question is, will the medication that you're going to be taking be all that you need without having to make these dietary changes? Are they both necessary? So the medication that she's referring to is a thyroid medication. I started on my thyroid medication on January 10th. Now I've gotten a lot of questions on that as well. Why don't you just start your medication when you made the dietary changes and that's because my doctor decided not to overwhelm me with having to completely change the way that I'm eating and start a new medication. So we kind of took baby steps. I really worked on the dietary changes, got those under control, got those to where I'm consistently doing those and then as of the 10th, we implemented the medication. So for me, it is required that I make the dietary changes and take the medication. Since switching to your new way of eating and following WW personal points, have you found that you're eating a lot less calories than you used to? Absolutely. At the end of all of my what I eat in a day is I always share with you how many points I ate that day as well as how many calories and if you watch back to both prior to my dietary changes, I was generally eating on the low end of 16 to 1700 calories to about 1900 to 2000 calories every single day, which is a deficit for me, which would produce one to two pounds of weight loss every single week. Now with these dietary changes and just really focusing on whole real food, it's so much more satisfying and filling and now I'm eating between about 1300 and 1500 calories a day. Now I was concerned about this because you guys know that too severe of a calorie deficit is not something I wanted to go into because it creates metabolic adaptation and it's hard to lose weight and maintain your weight, but I ran this through my doctor and because the foods that I'm eating are so full of all the minerals, vitamins and nutrients that I need and I'm just not hungry, we decided that that this is an acceptable caloric limit for me as long as I'm getting in my protein for the day, my fiber for the day and my calcium for the day just so my body is not lacking any of the essential nutrients. So the next question is, I would love to know more about what made you decide to switch over to cleaner eating and what do you look for on nutrition labels. I have an entire playlist where I shared the reasons why I transitioned over to cleaner eating as well as lots and lots of videos on the topic. So I'll put that down in the description box for you as well so you can binge watch all of those clean eating videos, but the main reason that I switched over was I was having some stomach distress. I was finding that my stomach was bubbly and gurgly and just uncomfortable and I figured out that that was from the foods that I was eating. So I started doing some research into nutrition which led me to getting a nutrition certification and now being a weight loss and nutrition coach and that's what kind of sparked me to change the way that I was eating and when I'm looking at nutrition label, I'm mainly looking for ingredients that I need to avoid for my body for inflammation for that upset stomach. Those are the ingredients that I'm looking for on the labels. I also want to make sure that the macro profile is balanced. I don't want it to have a lot of calories with zero nutritional value and now even more so than ever. I really don't eat a lot of processed foods at all. So nutrition labels have become really a bigger part of my life now. The next question is how did cleaner eating affect you? Did you find that you had more energy that you slept better that you had more weight loss? How did it affect you overall? So switching over to cleaner eating made a huge and I mean huge impact in my overall just day to day life. I definitely slept better. I have much more energy now eating nice clean whole real food, even though it's substantially less calories than I even did before and that's because of the foods that I'm choosing. I've also noticed a big difference in my hair and my skin. All of these good foods just do a body good and I've noticed so many positive changes in my body. Now I am now having to eat more sugar free items because I have to watch my sugar but I still have those in moderation and I just really focus on a clean whole food real food diet and it has done wonders. The next question is are there any supplements that you take regularly that are related specifically to your thyroid? So the only medication I take related to my thyroid is thyroid medication but I do take quite a few other supplements every single day. Number one is my personal probiotic from Thrive Gut Health which is now Ombre Gut Health that has made a huge difference in my life. Both Troy and I take our personalized probiotic. I cannot recommend the Gut Health test more. It has been a huge game changer. I'm noticing zero stomach distress. I'm definitely much more regular and I just feel like things in my body are moving along a lot better. I also take a greens powder every single day and then I take a mushroom supplement from Vitacap which is for focus and clarity which I've definitely noticed has made a difference as well. And lastly I put collagen in my coffee every single day. I can't tell you how many benefits I've noticed just from the collagen. In fact yesterday I went and got a pedicure. The woman doing my pedicure made a comment about how strong my nails are. She really had to put pressure on those clippers to clip my toenails and that's because collagen really helps with hair, skin, nails and joints. So collagen has been a big game changer for me and something I take every single day. I'll make sure that all of my favorite supplements are linked down below for you. Next is what is your go to WW favorite recipe? Honestly, I don't have one. There are so many WW recipes that I've made that I love and that I make over and over and over again. You can find all of the recipes that I've created on my recipe website and I also have four recipe ebooks breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts that contain 15 recipes points included calories included as well as all of the cooking instructions. So I'll make sure I link my ebooks and my recipe website down below for you. I can't just choose one. There's so many great recipes that I've made. Someone else asked how I started my clean eating lifestyle and again off that playlist will be down below for you. And then the next question was are there any cleaner dessert options besides fruit? Absolutely there are. Now fruit is generally my go to. I like to put a little bit of a light whipped cream on my fruit. You can also gravitate towards things like sugar-free pudding, sugar-free jello. Those are great options for sweet treats, especially if you don't mind consuming sugar-free and also another dessert that I lean towards a lot are smart sweets and also any type of sweeter protein bar like a built bar. Those are things that all gravitate towards for a sweet treat because they're getting because I'm able to get in some protein, some fibers and vitamins and minerals along with my sweet treat. But I will say that my go to now is probably sugar-free popsicles and of course fruit with a little bit of whipped topping. Honorable mention for sweet treat. I like to take my favorite low sugar yogurt, which I generally choose the too good yogurt and I put a little bit of Lily's white chocolate chips in it and stir it up. It is so good. I don't know what it is about that white chocolate chip in yogurt combination. So good. Definitely satisfies my sweet tooth. You're getting in lots and lots of protein plus again, it just gives you that whole dessert vibe. The next question is how are you feeling with all of these changes and do you allow yourself to have one sweet treat every week and how do you navigate eating out? I feel absolutely amazing. I feel so much better. My fatigue has subsided quite substantially. My thyroid is now getting back into check and honestly, I don't miss the processed foods. I don't miss the junkie food. The foods that I'm eating are satisfying and they just make my body feel good, which is really, really important not to mention they're leading to just much more weight loss than I had before. I don't have a sweet treat every week. I generally have a sweet treat every single day. I have a dessert every single day. I just make good food choices kind of like the ones we just talked about in the best dessert option question. And as far as eating out before having to really change up my diet, I would just do my absolute best to make the healthiest choice on the menu. Honestly, I don't eat out a lot. I don't really eat fast food very often and now with these new dietary restrictions, I really just try to avoid eating out as much as possible because I don't necessarily know what's in the food and how that's going to affect my body and generally the foods that you find eating out whether it's fast food or dining in are just too many calories, too much fat, too much carbs for me. So I've really just skipped eating out overall since transitioning over to this thyroid inflammation type of diet approach. I must have missed it, but what were you diagnosed with? So again, a quick recap. Inflammation, fatigue and underactive thyroid. I've noticed that you're moving away from full fat dairy. Is there a reason that you're doing that or is it just tied to your thyroid issue?  If you do not struggle from any issue with having full fat dairy, I highly recommend that you have that versus low fat dairy. And the reason for that is because when they process the fat out of dairy, they process out a lot of the vitamins and minerals. So you're missing all of those in low fat dairy and generally full fat dairy is very, very few calories or points more than the low fat. So if it doesn't affect you to have full fat dairy, I would highly, highly recommend that.  I have to focus more on low fat or light dairy. But I'll tell you if I didn't have these dietary restrictions and what I've always done in the past is absolutely gravitate towards full fat. The next question kind of goes with this dairy full fat dairy question and that is what about sour cream and cottage cheese? I really like the flavor of the full fat better and the nutrition label isn't much different.  There's not a lot of differences except for the vitamins, minerals and nutrients that you're getting.  The next question is since changing your diet, how do you still eat the desserts that you prepare in meal prep? For example, your churro cheesecake bars. Yes and no. I did try the churro cheesecake bars. I had a bite of those off-limit foods. I just have to really watch processed foods, high sugar foods, high fat foods, high carb food in moderation. So yes, I had a bite of the churro cheesecake bars, but as I mentioned, in that video, that's a recipe I made primarily for my husband. As far as my high protein jello mousse that I made, I ate that the entire week. I ate all five of those. It depends on the dessert item that I make. Sometimes I like to make one that's more suited for my husband. Sometimes I like to make one more suited for me. And sometimes what I make works for both of us. The next question is I've heard that sugar free is bad for you. That sugar is bad for you. What's the 4-1-1? What's the deal? Apparently this person had some family members cut out sugar and they saw great results from that. Pretty much everything is bad for you. They say coffee is good for you. Coffee is bad for you. Sugar is good for you. Sugar is bad for you. No food is bad or good. It's just how it affects it interacts with your body. Now, I'm somebody that can't tolerate a lot of sugar, so I gravitate towards sugar-free things. If sugar doesn't affect you and you prefer to have the natural sweetener that comes in sugar, honey, agave, definitely gravitate towards sugar. Everybody is different. So there's not just a one-size-fits-all answer. It's depending on your dietary needs and just what foods you enjoy and what foods you gravitate towards. And the last question from my Facebook group is, I don't really have a question, but I would love a health update. Let us know how you're doing with your thyroid medication and how you're doing with your dietary changes. I really wanted to give you guys a health update and I thought about filming a whole video about it. Then I decided to incorporate it into a Q&A because it's been a hot minute since I've done a Q&A. I have lots of new subscribers. We have a lot of new people joining WWW. So I thought that a Q&A-style health update would be a little more fun for you guys, but my health is doing much better. I'm definitely less fatigued. I still suffer from a little bit of fatigue. I don't, I can't give you a huge update on the thyroid medication because I've only been taking it for a short while. I'll know more when I go in for a blood panel here in the next couple of months. Kind of how that thyroid medication is working. But I feel really good with the foods that I'm choosing. I'm surprisingly not hungry on lower calories or anything.  I love anything sweet and the only sweet types of things that I have are generally sugar-free or fruit and I don't miss the other sweets. I don't miss the bread, the pasta. I don't miss any of that. So I would say that overall things have drastically gotten better. I'm feeling a lot better. Now, am I a hundred percent? No, but I'm getting there. I think that with the thyroid medication and my continued dietary changes that my fatigue will subside entirely and again, my weight loss should pick up a little bit and I should just feel back to normal back to a hundred percent and also thank you guys so much for being concerned about me and reaching out and checking in on me and asking all these questions about my health. It really means a lot to me. The last two questions came directly from my YouTube channel on my community page and one of those questions I've already talked about. It was an update on how I'm doing how am I feeling how is everything going what changes I've made in my diet. Am I feeling more full and satisfied but there is one part of this question that I haven't answered yet and that is are you eating more artificial sweeteners sucralose stevia monk fruit than you were before and how is that affecting you I'm absolutely eating more artificial sweeteners now I try to choose good artificial sweetener my go-to's are a hundred percent stevia I really like the whole earth sweetener and of course my all-time favorite is the loconto monk fruit that's really the one that I gravitate towards because these are the more natural make sense these are the ones that affect your blood sugar definitely affect my body a lot less than say Splenda or some of those more processed artificial sweeteners those I actually try to avoid if you were to stop doing Weight Watchers what type of content would you put out in the event that I chose to stop doing Weight Watchers or WW my content really wouldn't change a whole lot I would still be putting out recipes weighing videos what I eat in a days I would actually still be sharing points if you didn't know WW offers anybody you me anybody a link for free month that you can share with friends and family every time someone uses your link and gets a free month with WW you get a free month with WW and because I've had a link for the last two and a half years so many people have used that link that I actually have WW for free through the year 20 29 8 more years of WW for free so even if I wasn't following WW I still have access to everything so I would still be sharing points in all of my recipes all of my videos all of my what I eat in a days so that wouldn't change at all if I ever stop WW it would strictly be to transition over to counting calories and macros because of my dietary restrictions but I actually am finding that the WW personal points plan especially works really well with calorie counting and with my dietary restrictions so I don't see myself making any changes anytime soon nothing on my channel would change at all so those are all of the questions that I received that's a health update again thank you guys so much for reaching out and asking questions of course and for being concerned about me you guys really are such a highlight of my day and you're such an important part of my everyday life and it means so much to me that you care enough about me some random person on YouTube to reach out and make sure that I'm feeling okay so thank you again so much from the bottom of my heart if you enjoyed today's video if you're not of course I'd love to have you here check out that description box for everything I mentioned today as well as nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things and don't forget we'd love to have you join us on Facebook if you're looking for an amazing community to join thank you again for watching happy Sunday friends and I'll see you next time bye


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QuickBooks Online 2023 Bank Reconciliation Bank Feeds After The First Month Get Ready To Start Moving On Up With QuickBooks Online 2023 Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Here we are in our bank feeds practice file. We started up in a prior presentation using the 30 day free trial. We also have open the free QuickBooks Online sample company. If you want the two open at the same time, we suggest incognito or another browser to open the sample company. You can open an incognito window if using Google Chrome by selecting the three dots in the browser incognito window typing into the search engine, QuickBooks Online test drive. We're using the sample company to compare the accounting view, the one the bank feeds practice file is in and the book view or the business view, the one the sample company is in. You can toggle between the two views by going to the cog up top and then switch the view on down below. We're going to duplicate some tabs to put reports in right click in the tab up top and duplicating it right click in the tab up top and duplicating it back to the middle duplicate a tab down to the reports on the left opening up one of the favorites that being the balance sheet by the way if you're in the business view the reports are located in the business overview on the left hand side and then the reports back on over tab into the right. We're going to the reports on the left this time opening up the P to the L the profit and the loss. Let's close up the hand boogie and change that range we're going to go from let's do it this way this time I'm switching it up a bit let's go from 0801 to to tab to let's go to 1131 to to tab I'm going to 1130 there's only 30 days in November I should know that my birthday is in November I'm going to hit the drop down we're going to say this is going to be in months and then let's run it so now we've got our month by month break out up through November I don't really need November let's just go through October let's go 1031 to to there's 31 days in October okay and then let's go to the middle tab balance sheet same thing closing burger changing ranging going from 0801 to to tab to 1031 to to and drop down to the months by month running it so we got the side by side on the month by month and we did the reconciliation last time for August. So now our Indian balance for August should tie out so the September if we constructed our bank's information our financial statements directly from the bank feeds it should be very easy to do the September bank reconciliation so just a recap now so the bank statement should reconcile for the last period so if I go back to my bank statement over here this is for August now the Indian balance sixty thousand seven nineteen ninety six matches what we have here remember that will only happen if you're actually constructing your books from the bank feeds as opposed to constructing your books and then checking them with the bank feeds and the bank reconciliation in other words we don't have any reconciling items we don't have any outstanding checks or deposits so even though that's the case you still might have that beginning balance issue we talked about last time and you still want to make sure that you do the reconciliation so that you know how to do it if something gets out of whack remember that if there is a difference then you can go to the report so if I go to the tab to the left the bank reconciliation reports are a little bit different than the other reports they're located somewhere different but you can find them in the reports if you wanted to go to the reports to find them and then you could go into the reconcile reports so don't say bank wreck you just say reconciliation reports because I guess that's because there's credit cards to and it actually takes you to whether housed which is down here under the accounting tab and then in the history and then we're in the checking account so that you can see the prior bank reconciliation if there was any reconciling item reconciling items they would be in between here that'd be the major focus of the bank wreck so there aren't any so it should be quite easy then going forward so so that means in the following month now our beginning balance situation should be taken care of and so when I go to the following month my my beginning balance on the bank statement is the same as the Indian balance for the prior period so I don't have that beginning balance issue and if I constructed my books from the actual bank feeds then these two should tie out automatically making my Indian balance the same 97 648 12 should tie out to 97 648 12 here so you might say why am I going to reconcile at all you don't really have to because you kind of did already by constructing your books from the bank statement that means of course that your stuff ties out to the bank statement it's not as big an internal control as if you entered the stuff on your side and then verified it to the bank account because that gives you that double check so we don't better double check it Colonel we're kind of losing that double check when constructing our books from the bank statements but it's easier and if we can do that in certain situations a lot of small-cump businesses would rather do that if it's faster right so that's the general idea but if something gets out of whack you're gonna still have to reconcile meaning if you double entered something somehow if the bank feeds entered something twice somehow or if they didn't include something the bank feeds got disconnected in some way then you're gonna have to fix it with the reconciliation process so you want to know how to do that and it's useful just to go through the reconciliation and finalize it so that you get just in a habit of of doing that it should be quite easy so how do we do that we go to the tab left and go to the accounting tab on down below reconcile if you're in the business view by the way where is it located it's under the bookkeeping most of the stuff seems to be into the bookkeeping and then experts area so you can only reconcile if you're an expert you don't really have to be an expert to reconcile it's really easy you can be a novice and reconcile that's kind of deceptive the way it does that so everybody should reconcile it's just it's something for everyone so in any case down here we're picking the checking account we're in the beginning balance should match up now we don't have that beginning balance issue if it doesn't match up but then you're prior and you didn't a prior bank reconciliation then the prior bank reconciliation was messed up so you might want to go back and fix that bank reconciliation the way to do that is you have to actually basically delete the prior bank reconciliation and fix the last one as though you're beginning balance rules more but once you're in line once you're in alignment then it should be easy going forward I can just say all right the ending balance is just going to be what's here see if I can do it type it right this time 9764812 9764812 is that right it's easier with two screens you do less crazy switching numbers stuff up when you have two screens but that's okay I don't need two screens because my memory is like a steel trap that was like one two three four five seven numbers less I got less like a phone number which nobody can remember anymore and I remembered it for like a second with no problem so in any case this is at the end of September of 2022 right alright start the recording of it so once again we've got the the summary information this is what we typed in this is the cleared balance they match automatically and the cleared balance is consisting of the beginning balance plus what we checked off as payments plus what we checked off as deposits which summarizes basically the top part of bank statement without all the detail down below the reason does that and once again it won't let me check these off it's so so very annoying this has just been happening to me so this is just a little glitchy right now I'm sure they'll fix it but I just would like to uh express my annoyance annoyance so so everybody knows might want to I don't know any case but if you want to edit the data up top there's your edit so you can edit the beginning balance up top and now everything is checked off automatically because it came through with the bank feeds because we constructed our books from the bank feed so it should be that easy to go in and fix it remember that this thing represents that they were added from the bank feeds and everything is connected up you can sort them by payments you can sort them by deposits if this was not at zero then what would you have to do I would sort by deposits and then payments or payments and then deposits and then you'd have to take and tie everything off over here and say okay if it's on the bank statement it should be on our books so I'm always going to go from the bank statement to the books and I'm going to go through all this detail and just check it all off and then I'll see what the difference is if there's something on the bank statement that's not on our books it's likely we're going to have to add it to our books because something happened maybe the bank feeds didn't pick it up maybe there was a glitch in the system and the bank feed didn't come through for whatever reason that's why we're doing this that's why we're checking it out and then we'll add it we'll fix it as we go if there's something on our books that's not on the bank statement then if we constructed our books from the bank statement it's likely that we got we entered two things right we got two bank feeds came in for the same thing maybe there's a duplicate or if we constructed our books separately from the bank possibly writing checks for example or entering the transaction first because we had to we had to do our deposits through through a through a cruel system or something then it's possible that that it's a timing difference meaning we were correct it's not like we're wrong just because it wasn't on the bank statement because in that case we knew about it first because there are our books we know about the transaction before the bank knew about it we did it that's what the reconciling item is so when you do the reconciliation report it will be built from this bank reconciliation bank reconciling page this is a bank reconciling page not the bank reconciliation the bank reconciliation will show the difference between the statement balance and the book balance which is not the same as the cleared balance the cleared balance is in essence the statement balance once we've checked everything off that but but in this case it is the book balance because we constructed our books from the bank but if we had outstanding checks and deposits it would not be that now remember if there's anything but zero here then you might say it's only off by like five dollars it's only off by like twenty dollars i don't even care twenty dollars whatever but that it's not just the twenty dollars it's not it's not just the twenty dollars because you're not just checking the ending balance okay okay what you're because that twenty dollars could be like a result of like a hundred deposits and like a thousand checks that just net it out to twenty dollars so now you you're it's not only the ending balance is off you can fix it by like putting the journal entry in but like all the other stuff from the other side of the transactions in the double entry accounting system will be all messed up haven't messed up yet you know so you what i don't care if it's i you know i don't even care if it's like under a dollar you should fit you could you could fix it because you could just go down here and check it off okay so just fix it okay before you before you go forward so in the case let's finish let's finish it up here and then we're gonna go okay so now we're back in our reconciliation if you want to look at the reports we saw how to get there before you could go to reports but it's also in the history information this is the history of the reckons of the reconciliations so we've got the last times ones here this time's one here this is the actual bank reconciliation report when someone asks for a bank reconciliation report you don't show them that reconciling screen you don't say yeah i did that screen and the green zero went down to zero no you got to give them a report reconciling it's reconciling the difference between the book the bank statement that 97 648 12 and what's on the books what's on the register which is the 97 648 12 but it's the same that's right that means it's going to be a very boring reconciliation because this is basically just the bank statement again because we checked it all off these numbers should tie out to these numbers and then and then that ties out to the same thing on our books because we don't have any difference we don't have any difference because we built our books from the bank statement that's why it's going to be quite easy to do but still something we should do as the added internal control making sure that everything is tied out making sure that we haven't entered anything twice or missed something and making sure that if our balance gets out of balance out of whack books not matching the bank statement at some point in the future we know how to fix it you do the you do the bank reconciliations so that's that in future presentations we'll take a look and drill down on the reports a little bit more and just see what we have constructed mainly from entering the data from the bank feeds as we go so we'll do kind of an audit thing going from the end result drilling back down to the source documents that weren't data inputted from the bank information with the use of bank feeds


OK, so this one, I think, will answer that question. What is the Ka of the hydrogen sulfate? Well, we know the pKa from the pKa table. We've got to get this from the pKa table. And all you've got to do, so pKa is just like pH, where in pH, the p stands for the negative log of something. So in this case, it's the negative log of the H plus concentration. So pKa is going to be the negative log of the Ka. So you're going to use this formula, pKa equals the negative log. So in order to figure out what the Ka is, we've got to isolate that variable. So we've got to multiply both sides by negative 1 first. So we're going to have pKa equals the log of Ka. And then to get rid of the log, you just do the inverse log, which is 10 to the whatever. So on this side, it would be 10 to the negative pKa. And then when you do 10 to the log of Ka, what happens is that cancels both of those out and brings Ka down to the bottom. So it's going to cancel all that out. So it's going to be equal to this Ka. So in other words, Ka equals 10 to the minus pKa. So now all we've got to do is plug in our pKa value and see what we get.


Hello friends and how are you all today? The question says, Construct a triangle ABC in which BC is equal to 7 centimeters, angle A is equal to 60 degrees and altitude through A is 3.7 centimeters. How many such triangles are possible? Now here in this question, what I will do is I will write down the steps of construction for you and show you how it is actually done. Right? First of all we need to draw a line segment BC equal to 7 centimeters. Like this. Now on one side of BC we need to make an angle let's say CBX equal to 60 degrees. And now we need to draw this. Now here we have drawn angle CBX equal to 60 degrees on one side of BC. Now the third step is to draw a line BY perpendicular to BX. Now here this is BX we need to draw BY which is a line perpendicular to BX like this. Now the fourth step is to draw perpendicular bisector PQ of the line segment BC. Let it intersect BY at the point O. Now here we need to draw a perpendicular bisector of BC which will intersect BY at O. And remember how to draw a perpendicular bisector we need to take radius more than half of BC, draw two arcs above and below BC and then taking C as the center we need to draw another two arcs above BC and below BC which will intersect the previous arc at point P and Q. So this is the required perpendicular bisector PQ that is a perpendicular bisector of BC intersecting BY at point O. So let this point be point O. Now the fifth step is taking O as center and OB as radius we need to draw the alternate segment to the angle 60 degree of the circle. So here taking O as center and OB as radius we need to draw a segment which is alternate to the 60 degrees like this. Now from the midpoint M of BC cut MN 3.7 centimeter on PQ. So we have written the step also and now we will be doing it. Now this is 3 centimeter and this point will be N. Now what we need to do is we need to draw a perpendicular line through N to PQ intersecting the segment of the circle at two points one will be A and one let be A dash. Let me write down the step also for you and then we need to join these points also. So we have one point is first of all we need to draw a perpendicular line through N that will be this is a perpendicular line which are intersecting at A and A dash and then we need to join AB AC A dash B and A dash C. So we have AB and AC and then we have let it be from a different color A dash B and A dash C. And finally thus triangle ABC and triangle A dash BC are the required triangles. And one thing more was asked from us in the question we were asked how many such triangles are possible. So we can see here we have drawn two triangles ABC and A dash BC. So there are we conclude that they can be two such triangles. Right so this completes the session hope you understood whole construction well do it very neatly and take care have a nice day.