Rhaid. Yn gwybod hwn yn bwaith yn eich bod yn llwy, ac yn dweud y cyfnodau'r gennych, boedd y byd yn gwneud hynny yn ei bod yn gweithio'r ffordd. Rhywbeth yn cael ei gwybod hefyd yn llwy, ac yn fawr eich bod yn cael ei gwybod hefyd. Rhaid ydych chi'n gweithio'r golfa, rhaid hynny'n gennych y tiffau o ddweud o gweithio'r YouTube. Mae cyfnodau'r tyfu yma eich bod yn cael ei gweithio. A daeth i chi ddechrau'n cael ei gweithio'r channel Alex Elliott. felly wel hynny'n gweithio cyfaint o gyfaint iawn, roeddwn i'n meddwl yn Yma'r grath ac os gweithio, mae'n ddiweddfa effeith cerddwyddiol. Ac esgolffball fel ddayl ei wneud mae'n rhai wneud bod chi'n adegwyddiol. Nar siarad yn gallu i oes i ddynol eich ôl yn gweithio gynghreib. A pob oedd yn ddau yna sut mae gen i'r ddeithas yn ddiwethaf. Mae'r ddweithio yna d câl gyda'r peiriau a'r zyw, y rhywfodol o'i g湴au sy'n nerod o'r pryd yn mynd fwy bod hyn yn ei gyfysig ac rhaid i gyda unig. A dyna'r rhain o'r bobl sy'n ddim eich bobl yn gweithio'r ystod p'n ddau rhaid i ddau ac yn lleol i ddod hynny'n eich gweld ac yna rhaid i gyda'r rhaid y cyfysig a'r cyfrifyng i ddau. First of all, starting with driver and how these three little dots are going to help get us in a perfect driver setup. Now the first thing we need to do is mark the golf ball and that's where we'll start and I'll explain as to why, but essentially we're going to put three dots on the right hand side of this golf ball. I'm using this centre line, in my Mizuno golf ball there's my three dots and then on the opposite side of that I'm going to put a cross. Now what I would suggest is you use your regular marker pen and not a ball point because they may stay on a little bit better. But the question is why is that going to help us with our setup? Right, so the first thing we're going to do with these three dots is we're going to use them to get our stance and ball position correct. So all we're going to do, we're going to address the ball with the centre line in between the middle of our two feet. We're going to flare our left foot a little bit and our right foot, we're just going to take a step back to our normal driver position. And straight away, as you can see from above, I've now got a perfect position in terms of that ball ready to hit my driver on the upswing. The next thing I'm going to do, it's about that tilt in the shoulders to make sure they're on an upward angle. And the way we're going to do that is that our top half, our chest, centre of our chest, is going to be leaning backwards from our belt buckle, if you like. So belt buckle stays where it is. I look and focus at the three dots and I look at them on the backside. So the X being this side, the three dots being that side, I keep my belt buckle where it is. And then I look to look at these on the backside and straight away, you'll see the plane of my shoulders is now in a perfect driver position. So the stance is correct. I've now got a nice position in terms of those shoulders. And then there's one final thing and that's the grip. Now you may notice we have moved T-box because we had a game coming behind us, but I can demonstrate how quick this is to put into action as well. So we start off, like I said, two feet together, centre stripe at a ball is going right through. I flare my left foot and take a step back with my right. Then it's about getting the centre of my top half moved to the right and keeping my belt buckle still central, if you like. So that tilt comes from looking at that golf ball. And I'm good to go at this point. There's only one thing left and it was the explanation as how and where my hands are positioned in this swing. And once again, that is going to be those three dots that play a key role because from where I am right now, I'm just going to push them slightly forward so that my knuckles are in line with those three dots. And I don't know how that looks, but it feels like a real solid setup position. I've got my fundamentals right with my driver set up and there's every reason why I cannot or there's no reason why I shouldn't hit a good swing right now. That's exactly what we're going to do and then I'm going to explain how you do the exact opposite almost in your iron set up and use that cross. That's a little bit tighter to the water than I'd want it to have been. Let me see it bounce. It's bounced and it's gored and it's just a quick and easy way of making sure you get into that exact position. It's fundamentals at the end of the day, but they've got to be right. So now the little bit of extra is how we're going to use the cross on the ball to make sure we get in the right position for our irons because it is very, very different as you probably know. But if you don't, make sure you check this bit out. Today's video is brought to you in association with Channel Travel Partner Glencore Golf and this week they've sent me out onto the Algarve in Portugal where I will be playing three different golf courses. Cinta de Val, Cinta de Ria and Cinta de Sima. I'll be staying in nearby Tvera at the Apeca Banas Resort. The hotel is a modern design with stunning rooms and balcony views to match and this resort has an all-inclusive option.  The nearby town of Tvera is just minutes away. Today's video is filmed at Cinta de Sima, which is located alongside sister course Cinta de Ria, both of which are just a five minute drive from my Apeca Banas hotel. There is the odd water hazard to avoid and then you can finish the day off with a visit to the contemporary clubhouse. So, if you want more information about this golf trip itself or any other that you might be considering planning right now, then please head over to GlencoreGolf.com for some more booking information. Now, as ever, I examine these tips and there's a slight flaw in this one for me in that the cross is used to get you set up with an iron. The problem with that is you can only use that when you're on a T-box. You can't obviously reposition your ball when you're in the middle of the fairway and they're likely to come into rest in the exact position you want it to be in. That, like I said, is not going to happen, so that's something to be mindful of. But for the sake of this, what we're going to do, we are going to point the cross, if you like, at our alignment target and I'm going to use the principle that Alex suggests now that we adopt in terms of these three dots and how they become the focus of attention for our iron setup. So, the three dots are always the thing that become our focus of attention. The cross is obviously the bit that we don't want to be looking at. So, we're going to address the ball first of all, feet together, line of the ball is centre to my two feet. I'm going to move one to the left and one to the right and I've got a ball that's pretty much centre of my stance. That's all fairly straightforward. We've then got the position of my hands which we looked at, which was basically this time. As I'm stood right now, my hands are or my knuckles are in line with the cross on top of the ball. I'm going to move them forward so their knuckles become in a much more forward press, almost like position, and in line with those three dots, which have now moved to left of centre with driver, they were right of centre. So, I hope that makes sense. So, I'm now in this good position, but you'll have also noticed my chest as well. We're not looking for that tilt that we adopt when we're playing driver. We're looking for a slight sort of almost keeping the shoulders level, but making sure that we're slightly balanced towards that left-hand side. Now, I mean slightly, it's pretty much a central situation we're trying to adopt right now. So, stance is good ball position wise, shoulders are good and my weight is slightly on the forward side, but my hands again have adopted position that are leaning towards that left-hand side, and knuckles are now looking right down where I'm at right now, are looking at those three dots. It's the perfect check point. And obviously, when we're in a real-time situation and we can't do this, the ball has come to rest and we can't see those dots, then you've got to visualise that same principle and get your setup nice and quick. Now, all we've got to do is hit a golf shot. A really solid strike. The first thing that was of note was how crisp that was and more of a downward blow that you're looking for with your irons. And for me, one thing I've learnt and one thing I've picked up on from this tip is to get my hands forward. They sort of creep a little bit back in my almost like my driver position, and that means I'm not in a position to put a downward blow onto the iron. That has helped out massively. And it's then just that overall ball position. You'll notice again from the ground, I don't take a divot, this has got a downward blow and taken just a little bit of a clip as well. So overall, I just cannot thank Alex Elliott enough in terms of single-handedly giving me some negative information that are helping me throughout the game, and I hope that can help you as well. It's all about the viewpoint.   I hope you enjoyed that one. I'm here at Quinta de Sima in the Algarve Portugal with Glencore Golf and plenty more to come from here. I can see someone is arriving on the TBA Army. So I'm going to go and I'll see you tomorrow night.


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today we are doing a very very special episode of completionist crafter The last two it is in fact episode 69. Ha ha get the jokes out of the way. There we go. It's been a while and Today we are happily crafting the wisteria villa, which is from the scroll of fortune You do have to have the scroll of fortune bought and you need I can't exactly remember how many but it is probably more than 2732 the exact number will be on screen eventually, but yeah, you need that it's scroll of fortune only available available during the spring scroll of fortune I don't know if they're gonna bring that back for next year's spring scroll of fortune, but for 2020 spring it is available So yeah, obviously I have the wisteria villa So there's not really any point in me crafting it, but I'm going to do it just because I got a craft everything So yeah, I got absolutely flamed in the last time I did one of these videos because you can buy it for gold as with the last but you you can Need them by with grants which I would not recommend or gold And same with the dragon's fjord which we crafted last time so you can go and check that video out as well if you haven't already But yeah, so we do already have one of these but we're gonna craft it anyway This is what our second house that we're actually crafting as always on screen is everything you will need and require And I'm just gonna quickly go through most of the reagents now So braided vine you need three of those and usually you get them around mirage area some bosses drop them There might be some in the bizarre I'm not a hundred percent sure I just generally have a couple of them wheelbarrow as we did a video on that a couple weeks ago In fact, it might be a week in a bit they go But yeah, that has a video on it on the stone blocks The Athenium is a great place to go and get that or the shadow palace short wisteria and potted ferns These are the ones that you can buy from Petunia, I'd forgot the last name but Petunia in the housing shop and wisteria and Stone bridge we had a video on that just not too long ago So you can also go and watch that to figure out how to craft that and tree fountains There's quite a few bosses and Avalon that dropped them I farmed Veridian the vial and high road which is a side quest boss But there is a whole lot of other bosses that you can go and check on the wiki You can also find this in the bizarre, but it is quite rare Small ferns you can only get these either from the bizarre or farming Prince Alecane Swift Arrow So those are the two bosses you need and you need to amber which I would recommend King Parsley's just to passively get them Yeah, and anyway, we're just gonna create this you can only have one of each castle. This is a great start We're gonna pretend we created it We're gonna pretend we crafted it But yeah, that would be what would happen if you actually crafted it and you'll get this house So if you ever want this house and want to craft it which I would probably not recommend it It's quite difficult to craft you can get it, but yeah for now I'm just gonna run around in case you haven't seen this, but this is my house that I like love to use It's great huge area as well, which is really cool So yeah, you would be able to craft it if you didn't have one already Which I do because I think it's one of the best houses in the game Obviously you can disagree with me on there But I would love to know what your favorite house in the game is whether it be the Wisteria villa the red barn farm What not whatever whatever you think is the best let me know down in the comments below But if you wanted to craft this you can we're not gonna go down there We're gonna go inside just because I don't usually go inside in videos So we'll just show you the inside but yeah I have changed the wallpaper down here just recently because I got something random and decided to but yeah Basically, it's a really cool house There's a wee little courtyard out here, and then there's just a whole bunch of other rooms Those are my skeleton keys just ignore them too many stone ones for other videos in the future But yeah, basically just rooms connecting to the other rooms around the other side of the house and in the middle A great big courtyard where I've put the spiral thing and the anniversary statue and you know, you can decorate it However, you would want but yeah, that is all for today's episode. Thank you for stopping by Thank you for watching remember to leave it like and subscribe if you subscribe press the little bell So you know exactly when I post another video and remember to craft outside the box


Real estate has a really, really big barrier to entry. You need to have at least some money to be involved in real estate, whereas in the stock market, you could open up a day trading account with as little as $500. Now, when I first started, I didn't know what day trading was. I just thought the only way to make money in the stock market was to buy and hold, right? What does Warren Buffett do? What do all these big time people do? They buy and they hold. I didn't know that you could buy and sell on the same day or short and cover on the same day. So that was number one is, I would really educate to the point of what you have to do or the different ways to skin a cat and trade it.


What's up world? It's time for my favorite sound. It keeps me lifted. It keeps me lit. It keeps me Hydrated. That's right. This is it. How to beatbox the water pouring sound in one minute So surprise the sound is actually really simple and easy to do. Let me explain.  Every one of these is a rep so every time you do it you get better It's not gonna sound like Out of the gates probably gonna sound like for a good while, but once you do get it down You can change the shape of your mouth to change how it sounds just keep on practicing it And it'll get a lot better real fast See that was easy. Well, thank you so much for watching my water sound effect tutorial Just remember to have fun and Practice if you enjoy this video, it would really mean a lot if you like Comment it and share this video comment down below Let me know how you're progressing and let me know if there's another sound that you want me to cover And if you haven't already join me on my journey and subscribe well like always I hope you have a great day Go kill it out there and be your best self


We started this a few years back and we are further strengthening it year after year, like we started with our Chennai plant where we manufacture our front load washing machines. And then one, we started our refugitive plant last year with a huge investment and also we are now manufacturing our frost freeze less than 300 and less than 400 liters in Chennai itself and then recently three months back we've added another production line which is cooktop. So normally tabletop cooktop with three burner and four burner we started manufacturing in our Chennai plant and then also we have shifted our ATL means our top load washing machines to India. So a lot of initiatives we are taking for making an India story because it suits us also the way government is you know trying to increase the duties on imports on especially from China. So we are also planning to shift a lot of things to India like for example in our front load washing machines now the localization is almost 65 percent which we want to take it to almost 85 to 90 percent in years to come. This time we are much better prepared so we don't have any inventory challenges. In fact we have enough inventory for everything for all the imported goods. In the long run yes of course there are some critical components which of course everything cannot be manufactured in India. So those will always remain but for example government has given a beautiful PLI on compressors. So very soon in 23 we will see few biggies entering into compressor manufacturing. So we are already speaking to them how to localize the compressor which will help us in our refueling. Target audience is mixed for us like for example as I told you we have a three brand shortage. So for Bosch we have our mass premium segment and for Siemens we have a very niche segment of our built kitchen and for garden house luxury. So there were few gaps in our portfolio which we are trying to build you know which I just shared with you that all new products we are launching. So that will definitely fill few gaps and you know once you are in business there there is always few gaps which is an ongoing process but largely we are covered largely we are covered and by the end of this year we will further reduce our gaps with two categories if we are successful in launching them. One is our semi-automatic washing machines and other is single-dough refiators. So these two are the most popular products in India and still it is 50% of the market in numbers whether it is semi-automatic washing machine or whether it is a single-dough refiator. So in case we are able to successfully enter into these two segments which we are planning and we have moved ahead a lot in this direction then a lot of gaps will. So we've launched a very unique marketing initiative called ABB assured by back wherein we are assuring consumer that even after five it starts program starts from year one but if you look at average nobody exchanges its product in year one but if you see after three or five years or even seven years we have covered that if you want to sell your product in the open market you get nothing after five six years right rather nowadays people pay for reverse logistics in picking up the material. In case you want to upgrade to a new technology so we give a much better price back as compared to open market that's a fantastic thing but yes of course there's always a risk and challenge in working with any new startup because you're always doubtful about their success and their financial health. So we have to be very careful that's why we launched it selectively.


In this presentation, we will take a look at equivalent units of production using a weighted average method. We're going to calculate this within Excel. This is going to be our data down below. We have the given data in terms of units. And then we got the percent completed for materials and percent completed for the conversion. Remember that the conversion consists of those things to change the material to the finished goods. That includes the direct labor and the factory overhead. We've got the work in process for June 1st. We're talking about a particular department here. So we're calculating for a particular department processing this department. Units started into production in June for this time period, June, the month of June. Units completed and transferred out of department A during June. So we're going to say this is the amount of units that we took out. And then we've got work in process for June 30th. So notice what we're talking here are in terms of units. So we have units that we're talking about. And we need to determine the units that are involved so that we can use those as well to apply out the dollar amounts that will be involved. When we look at the financial accounting, of course, we're going to be talking about dollars. We're going to use units and equivalent units to help us to apply out the dollar amount to the portion that is still in our department. The stuff that's still in the work in process and the stuff that has been completed and has been transferred out of our department. And we're going to do that with the use of units. To consider the units then, we have the total units that we need to account for. But some of these units are partially completed. So then we've got to think, OK, well, if they're partially completed, there's two ways that we can consider the partially completed numbers. One, materials, are they partially completed in terms of the material involved? And two, the conversion. Are they partially completed in terms of conversion? Now you might think, hey, there's three things involved in inventory. Materials, direct labor, and the overhead. But note, we only have two things we're considering here. And that's because we're combining together the conversion, which is the direct labor and the overhead. So we're combining those things together so that we only have two things we have to consider. So we have the utilities, units, and then the percentage completed with regard to materials of the same 330 total units. And then the percent completed with regard to the conversion of the same 330 units. So that's going to be the data that we have here. 40% complete for the working process in June 1st. 20% complete for the complete conversion costs, the direct labor, and the overhead. So we have 330 total units. The amount that's going to be completed for materials and conversion is always going to be something equal or less than that. It can't ever be more than that, the 330 total units that we're accounting for. And then we're going to do the same for the ending process here. The units that are started into production are the 6,600 units completed and transferred out of the department. 5,940 working process, what's still in there at the end of the time period, the end of the month. 990, 60% complete with regard to materials and 30% complete with regard to the conversion. So then we're going to go down and compute the equivalent units of production. So the equivalent units of production. We're going to start with the units completed and transferred out of the department in June. And notice how easy this process is going to be. We're just going to say that that is equal to this 5,940. And we're just going to say that that is it. It's going to be it for both the materials and the same for the conversion. Notice what we're not doing. We're not trying to break out the portion that was in the beginning work and process. And that's going to be the weighted average method because we're kind of averaging out the beginning and ending work and process. And in doing so, it's basically less calculation. So when we consider the first in, first out method, it'll be a bit more complex, although it might make a little bit more sense because we're assuming a first in, first out flow method. In this case, we're just basically kind of netting out or averaging out the beginning and ending work and process. And therefore the calculation is going to be a little bit more simplified. The units completed and transferred out of the department in June, we're just going to say is the 5,940. And then we're going to take with that the work and process for June 30th, the end of the month. So we got June 30th, the end of the month. That was this 990. This one, we're going to take into consideration the 60 and the 30% completed. How did we come up with these numbers? Most book problems will of course give them to you. In practice, we would have to determine how much in ending inventory, how much is there, how many units are there in ending inventory and how much is complete with regard to the materials and conversion given our best estimate and the industry that we're in. We're going to take this as the given on the book problem, that it's 60 and 30 materials and conversion. So what we're going to do is we're just going to take that 990 times .6. That's not right. That's going to take the 990 times .6 and that's going to give us the 594. So we're going to have the 594 here. And then we're going to take that 990 times the .3, the .3 and that's going to give us the 297. Let's do that in Excel. So we're going to say this equals the 990 times the .6 tab. That's the 594. This equals the 990 times the .30 and that gives us the 297. Now we're just going to add these two up. That'll give us the 6534 here and it's going to give us on this side the 6237. We're going to use the sum function to do so. So I'm just going to say equals SUM and sum these up. I'll do the same here equals SUM. We're just adding those up, of course, and that'll give us equivalent units of production in the department during June. And then the next thing we'll calculate is the cost per equivalent unit so that we can assign out the costs to the units. And that's going to be the costs here. So eventually we want to be able to apply out the costs to the amount that are still left in ending work and process and the amount that have been transferred out. Now of course we've got the units involved that are still in ending work and process with regard to materials and conversion and the amount that has been completed and transferred out. And so now we're going to take those amounts and use them to apply out the cost and we'll need to, in order to do that, get a cost per equivalent unit calculation.


QuickBooks Desktop 2023. Bank Reconciliation Mythbusting. Let's do it within to its QuickBooks Desktop 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 QuickBooks Desktop. Get great guitars, practice, file. We started up in a prior presentation. Going through the setup process we do every time. Maximize on the home page to the gray area. Going to the view drop down. Noting we've got the hide icon bar, open windows list checked off, open windows open on the left. Reports, drop down, company and financial. Profit and loss standard. Change the range 01, 01, 2, 3 to 12, 31, 2, 3. Customize the report. Fonts and numbers changing to 14. Okay, yes and okay. Reports drop down again. Company and financial again. This time the balance sheet. We're going to customize the report. Change the range 01, 01, 2, 3, 12, 31, 2, 3. And then fonts and numbers are changed to 14. Okay, yes and okay. That's the setup process we've been going through every time. We're now looking at the bank reconciliation process addressing a few myths related to it. One myth is that you don't need bank reconciliation or to do bank reconciliation if you have bank feeds turned on. So we'll address that in some detail. Typically you're still going to want to do bank reconciliation in essence, no matter what. Another myth is basically the idea that you don't need to really do bank reconciliation because all you're doing is verifying the checking account. And you can basically look at the checking account by going to your online banking and kind of double check it in that way. That's not exactly true as well because the bank reconciliation process does not just verify the Indian balance in our checking account. It's a verification of much more. It's a huge internal control second only to the double entry accounting system itself. Another myth is that the process of the bank reconciliation is confused oftentimes with being the bank reconciliation. So in other words, when we do bank reconciliation, we'll go through a process of reconciling, which can be found. You can get there by going to the banking and we can go to the reconcile. And this will take us through the process of reconciling, which is really important. But the process of reconciling is not the same thing as a bank reconciliation, which will be a report closing this out. After we have done the reconciling process, which will be tying out the differences between what's in our books in the checking accounts and possibly we could do the same thing for the credit card accounts and what's on the bank statement as of the same point in time. You could find the reports, for example, in the drop down banking, and then you can go into the previous reconciliation. Note that the reconciliation reports are different from the other reports because they're not reports that are being created as we enter the information into the system, but rather they're a report that's created for a double check and internal control as we compare our books to the bank statement. So, for example, let's change the date up top and I'm going to customize it in here and just through the month of January 01.01.23 to 01.31.23. And if we say, okay, there's what's in our books as of the end of January. If I look at a bank statement, we can then see the bank statement here. This is just a mock bank statement we made up. But at the end of the same balance, we're at the 61-241-85 versus here, we've got the 88-810-25. So there's a difference and we're as of the same date using the checking account between our books and the bank. So the idea then would be, well, there's something wrong with our books, right? We need to fix something. But if we're doing a full service accounting system, that's not necessarily the case because we might have entered transactions in our system that have not yet cleared the bank because oftentimes it takes time for them to clear the bank. That's the outstanding checks and the outstanding deposits. Now, that kind of leads us into our first kind of myth, which is that if you have the bank feeds on, then you don't need to do a bank reconciliation. Now, the reason that let's if we go back to the homepage just to address that, we'll have a whole another course or section on bank feeds themselves. We'll talk about this more. But just note when you're looking at the bank feeds, you got to think, how are the bank feeds going to fit into my accounting system? And we can think about it by cycle, vendor cycle, customer cycle, employee cycle. So taking the customer cycle, for example, we could be on a basis where we have an accrual basis, we might be on a cash basis, and we might have a step further or easier step from a cash basis to one where we're reliant on the bank. So for example, if we had a gig work situation, that would be a very easy situation for us to rely on the bank, possibly if we're just getting paid like from YouTube or something, we wait till something clears the bank, record it with bank feeds after it has cleared the bank using in essence, just a deposit form that on the revenue cycle would be the easiest kind of format for us to just rely on the bank feeds to build our our books. That's not a full service accounting system, because usually the full service accounting system results in us entering the data first, and then verifying double checking from the bank. If you have the type of company that can do that, rely on the banks to create the books, then the bank, you still probably want to do a bank reconciliation, but the bank reconciliation will be much easier, because the balance that we have should tie out in that case, to what's on the bank, because we would have built our entire books from the banks, the bank data, as opposed to us building our books, and the bank then doing their thing and us verifying the transactions with the bank. You have less internal control. It's not as full service of an accounting system, but works quite well. If you have a type of industry that you can do that in, if you had a cash based system, which was full service cash based system on the revenue side, you would be entering a sales receipt, and then making the deposit. So then if you have bank feeds turned on, you got to think, okay, how's that going to work? Because I'm going to have to, I'm going to probably want to enter the sales receipts if I was at a register, and then get all my cash together and tie out my cash to what the sales receipt report was, and then make my own deposit into the bank here. So I would probably want to use my bank feeds more as a double check of verification, not as something recording the transaction, but verifying. In that case, the bank feed would be helping me to kind of do my bank reconciliation. It would help me tie out what I put into what's on the bank instead of creating my financial statements from the bank. If I have an accrual system, then I'm going to invoice, which doesn't have cash involved at all. And then I've got to receive the payment and make the deposit. Once again, because it's more complex, I'm probably going to want to go through this whole system, and then use the bank feeds to verify the deposit. So I still need to do the bank reconciliation process in that case. So we'll get into that a lot more when we get into, when we get into the bank feeds area, we'll discuss how the bank feeds can fit into each one of those kind of categories. But you're still going to want to do the bank feed. And even if you're building the books simply from the bank's data, you still want to do the bank feeds to double check that you haven't duplicated anything, or you haven't missed any kind of transaction. Now, the other thing is that if I go back to the balance sheet, oftentimes people say, Well, look, if my cash balance is is right, or at least close to correct, then I'm pretty content because I'm just checking the cash account. That's not really what you're doing with the bank feeds here, you're really doing an internal control on the whole accounting system. And the reason that's the case is because if you go to the homepage here, you can see that cash is the lifeblood of the company, meaning every cycle, if we think about each cycle has cash involved in it, the vendor cycle, expensive cycle, cash is going to go out at some point within the cycle in the customer cycle, hopefully cash is going to go up at some point in the cycle, the employee cycle cash is going to go out at some point in the cycle. And you could see that if we go to the balance sheet, and I look at the detail in the balance sheet, you could see that we have a wide variety of different types of forms that are that are in the checking account that are impacting various other accounts, whereas that's not the case with other accounts. If I go to accounts receivable, for example, invoices and payments, that's all you see in it. So if I go back to this checking account, notice that because it's a double entry accounting system, if I can verify not just the ending balance in cash, but the transactions that have taken place, then I'm verifying not only the cash balance, but all of the other sides of the transactions at least to some degree as well. So for that reason, it is a huge internal control, verifying not just one account, but huge cycles of accounts. It's an internal control basically only second to like the double entry accounting system itself. The double entry accounting system being the fact that you're in balance, meaning your assets equal your liabilities plus your equity. That has to happen if you're using QuickBooks, because QuickBooks will in essence force you to work in a double entry accounting system. The second big balance you have is the bank rec. So just from me as an accountant doing taxes or doing financial statements, if someone came to me with their data and asked me how reliable I think their data is, if they just give me a handwritten balance sheet and income statement, I don't have a lot of faith about that. It could be completely correct. But I mean, there's no double entry accounting system that I can see that built it, right? They just kind of put it together. Whereas if you use QuickBooks, even if you don't have a bank rec, I have a lot more confidence, because at least it's forcing the transactions to be in a double entry accounting system. However, I don't have a whole lot of confidence that all transactions have been put in place, or that they've been completely put correctly. But then if you add on top of that bank reconciliations, then my confidence level goes way up. And you know, it's not may not be perfect, but I have a lot more confidence because now everything that cleared the bank, I know is at least in place because it's been tied out to the bank reconciliations. And so it might not be going to the right place. You could have timing differences or something like that. But the confidence level goes goes way up.  Everybody should do basically the bank reconciliation process is the argument here. Now when we do the bank reconciliation, all we're going to do is basically go through the bank reconciliation process and the banking and reconcile. And that will take us to in essence the detail, you know, from our transactions that are hitting the checking account. And then we're going to take and tie them out to what has cleared the bank. Now, even though we're entering the data in our system separate from the bank in a full service bookkeeping system, that it should match what is clearing the bank, right? So the general idea would be then if something's on the bank statement, and it's not on our books, then it's most likely the bank statements correct. And we're going to have to say, Okay, what did I spend money on that I didn't record? And I'm going to have to fix my books. If it's on my books, but it's not on the bank statement, then then it might be a double entry or something on our side. But it also might be something that simply hasn't cleared. And the things that haven't cleared outstanding checks and deposits, if we're doing a full service bookkeeping system are what we expect to be the difference, which is a valid difference between the checking account on our books and what is on the bank statement. If I can verify exactly what the difference is in terms of outstanding checks and deposits, then I not only have confidence over the ending balance in the checking account, but that gives me a high level of confidence over all of the transactions within the checking account. And if I can have confidence over all the balances within the checking account, then I can have more confidence on the other side that the double entry accounting system, the other side is going somewhere, right? So that means the other cycles are are are correct to some degree or at least recorded in some fashion using the double entry accounting system for the customer cycle or revenue cycle, the expensive cycle or purchase the cycle, and the employee cycle. So that's the general idea and we'll dive more into it and do two months of bank reconciliation. As we go forward, the first month usually being a little bit more difficult. We'll talk about some problems often encountered in it. The second month typically being a little bit more easier and more routine, that'll be what we would expect going forward.


Now we will talk about some technical aspects and maybe how to solve some problems. And the first problem here from the point of technique is just in the first line and it is this. Why? It is just the range of a hand. You have to play a ninth and not all the pianists who are able to play this sonata wonderful are able to have this range at the beginning. But you have, please show it. Maybe play one bar before and play it with both hands. It looks so easy. And well, what could we do if we play it and we cannot reach this? It's just not only the ninths which has to be played but also the voices within. Normally, and I knew a lot of pianists and I had it in some courses where they just play an arpeggio. Also in other parts of Beethoven where such things happen. But I wouldn't do it because we have this for Tato. It should be a strong and excellent and it's like in an orchestra the chord should be together. My proposal would be to leave out a note. I know this is, well, one can discuss and one can be very angry about this. But listen. The C one which is missing. But you have the chords together. I would prefer this solution. But it's just a proposal. I know we should never leave out a note in Beethoven's composition. But here it would be the solution for a small hand better than an arpeggio. This is the first one. But this has nothing to do with technique but with the range of the hand. The next problem is I think the trill. Can you just show it? And the problems there is you have to play the trill with four or five. And you have to hold the other notes. And which of course is a tension for four and five. And I think one of the solutions you could practice would be take a little pedal and leave the notes. So then you have these notes you have still there. But four and five are a little bit more free. Can you try this? Just for demonstration because you can do the original. Yes. And then of course if you really want to practice it as a student my advice would be really practice trills with four and five. We later need it also in the last Beethoven sonata. So you can take a fifth. And then in other keys you play it with four or five. And this would be a kind of good preparation for this moment. And also to play a trill with four or five and hold the other notes of the chord. Yes. And then in D sharp and so on. Yes. Yes. And maybe also have more range in the chord. Maybe you play like this. But such things there is no secret. You must practice it. Learning by doing. And well also we have to discuss which kind of expression you want there. How many notes we have? One could imagine with five notes. Like a doppelschlag. Can you show this? Yes. Why not? Especially when it comes at the end. The next step would be seven like you do. Can you show it? And if you want to play a virtuoso trulla you can do even with nine notes. I think there it is too much. Because we have this kind of dolce cantabile andante. I would prefer five notes. And well if you try and try and try and it doesn't work with four or five. Of course you could also do this. You take a pattern. And then you change here. Two three or two four whatever. And then here you have a small jump. But I think if you are a young pianist and you want to study this. Just study four and five. And have in mind seven notes. Can you show it again? Then the next one. You told me where is your most difficulty. Please show us. Say it in Japanese. The jump in time. And the jump without accent. Can you show us? I think this is perfect. Because I think one should not try to be completely in tempo. Because if you then you get the accent on the D flat. And it's still a relaxed variation. And it's andante. So I think there is no use to hurry up. Just take the time. Can you do it again? Wonderful. And if you want to practice such a jump. I think it is sometimes very helpful if you do the difficulty even more difficult. So do the jump with two octaves. Can you show? Yes. This is a thing which you can also use in several etudes. Instead of... You play one octave more. Like this. And then the rest is easy. Okay. So let's see the next thing. Well, these are the big jumps in the third variation. Second variation. Sorry, can you do just this one? Yes. And my proposal for this would be first also play hands separate. And then for example do such exercises. Two octaves jump in the right hand. Can you try? Yes. And do in the left hand. Such things. And also you can take out some bars and play in double tempo so that it is really difficult. Maybe can you just do this? Very fast. Wonderful. So also here you could play exaggerated difficulty with the two octaves jump. And then this one. The scale in staccato from sforzato going down to pianissimo. Can you just play? Yeah. Again. Yeah. And my advice would be if you practice scales do exactly what happens here. We have a staccato, a sforzato and then followed by a decrescendo. So you do this. Yes. But staccato until the end. Very good. And then also in parts. One more and one more. Can you try? Good. Good. Good. Good. Then the next thing is here with the melody. Can you just play it? Here I would also take out the difficulty. Mostly play such things in C major that you have just white keys and don't have to think about black keys. And maybe play an octave trill. And also practice this trill with the crescendo and decrescendo. Sometimes here we have also a second finger. So you could do the same with a second finger. Well, an octave is too, five is too difficult, but... And then, well, second movement, we have the thirds. And the fingering of Mare Pereira, I think it's just perfect. It really works. Can you try? And can you show it very slowly? Well, one has to see there is a written legato, but I think the approach should be mostly kind of martellato to bring it out. Can you show? Yes. And here also I would practice two notes, then two, three, four and five. Can you show this? There I have a proposal which is not written in the fingering, but I would do a kind of cross fingering here. Three, two, three, one, two, four, two, four and one, five. Which you can use, for example, in C major sonata, opus two. Look at this. And then three, two. Over with three, two. Yes. Try it first. Yes, it works. And to prepare this, you can play a scale, five, one, three, two. So this is just a proposal if somebody isn't happy with a fingering which is written there, but I think it's perfect and you do it perfect. Okay. Then here at the end I think very important to have a kind of martellato sound, very strong to reach the fortissimo, and so it should be a little bit like this. So if you practice this, really exaggerate. So you practice a scale and you do this. Even with a little pedal. Very good. Very good. Then we have this kind of in the funeral march, and I think you have to help a little bit with the arm. Yes, this is the proposal, five, two of Maré Pereira. I would use five, one. But it's important that you have this crescendo. And then, well, I think this is difficult. In both hands, this semi quavers. Can you just show it? I would practice it always holding the upper melody. Can you try? And then also play it with relaxed notes, leggero. Yes. And of course you can take out such a... You could do this. It can go over the whole keyboard. Can you just take it in C major? You can start very slowly, and then do two fast. Yes. And so I would go on and on, two, three, four. Then you have it. And after C major, do it in other keys, and then it will work. And here we have a beginning piano, the moment we mentioned in the other session, which is kind of inspired by the patetique sonata. But here I think the touch is really... that you don't have a legato. Something like this. Very good. And of course then with a little bit pedal and crescendo to the forte. Can you try? Very good. Then also a problem is to hit the sforzatti. The scale starts with a sforzatti, which normally doesn't happen, but he writes it. So can you just show it? For this I would practice the scales also like this. Then it will work, I'm sure. And the end, the farewell, it must disappear and pianissimo. So at the end here... Yeah, and I think for this it's also very important, such touch that it's like you're cleaning the keyboard from dust. You don't do anything. So if you do a technical program every day, you have to always change the articulation. Play legato, play legero, play staccato and change the dynamics. Play pianissimo, completely relaxed and play as loud as possible. But the trail at the beginning, the jumps and the sforzatti here are some difficulties, but they are possible to solve and you do it. Thank you very much.


Well, basketball is still months away, but for the mid-G ninth grade class, there's no off-season. They strive for perfection since the start of their high school careers. Now, they'll get to showcase their talent on a big stage this upcoming weekend. Success has found its way to the ninth grade boy's basketball team since this past season. Win after win after win. Before they knew it, they're still perfect. We don't really tell them every day about the wins and losses, but they haven't lost this season. That's coming from high school ball, so they're 31 and old right now. Fast forward to this summer and the recipe and results haven't changed one bit. No matter who's on the opposing bench, they just keep winning. This summer we've improved a lot. You know, we're trying to build our chemistry as a team. Trying to, you know, have people step out of their comfort zones and take more shots so we can get better. So what's the key for their success thus far? Well, they're all unselfish, play together, and know each other's roles. Some of them come in and they'll do a defensive stance for three minutes. Some of them work really well in the press. When we need a set play, we need a three-pointer. We have a couple of that card plays designed for that. You know, you don't have to teach a lot of team chemistry with these guys. That's something you can kind of limit out of your coaching repertoire for the year. That chemistry is especially paid off this last month, where they won the Pay Center Minnesota State Championship in just three games. That's pretty cool because we were the best team in the state and now we get to go go to the great state and like win those three games. First one was hard. We almost lost. We came out to the top record and it was a fun experience. Now they get the chance to showcase their talent this weekend at the XL Energy Center for the great four-state championships with teams from Minnesota, Iowa, and North and South Dakota. For all these tournaments, we've asked them right away when, as soon as we got the bid, hey, it's something you guys want to do and it's immediately, yeah, so they're excited. We've been building up to it. I think it's been really fun playing the X and they've been excited. I think it's been super fun playing with my team. Definitely exciting playing on a bigger court. A lot of more people, a lot better teams. We're just excited to play. We just want to go out and do our thing and see if we can come out and win it. So keep an eye on them this weekend. They play the runner up from South Dakota, Lower Brew and game one 1130 Saturday at DX. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Here was yesterday's pivot. Tesla 271, if it builds below, can finally flush. And it finally lost the range. It flushed. And this was an absolutely amazing move. Everybody pretty much covers all the way down to the 10-day moving average. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys. Good to see you, everybody. Welcome to another edition of theaxisoftrader.com, a nightly wrap-up show.  Yesterday, there was no video. Kyler was celebrating his first anniversary. We have an anniversary, Kyler, so we couldn't put out the video. He does all the editing, the fantastic job. So last night, there was no video, so I'm making up for it for tonight. If you are brand new to the channel, welcome aboard. Thank you very much for tuning in for 10, 15 minutes of unbiased talk of technical analysis. So please like, share, tell a friend, all that good stuff to help us with the PS16 movement and unbiased technical analysis. So let's get into the tape. So what I've been basically saying for the last three, four days was the market was not overbought. You guys remember that in the last few videos? Market was not overbought, but the market was overextended. Meaning, if you are watching it for the first time, overbought means if we were net up 30%, 40% for the year, and that's overbought. But from 2022, we are net about, you know, 3.5%, 4% from 2022 bear market. So we are not overbought, but we were overextended. And I kept on saying the last couple of videos that we needed a back test to kind of, you know, reset some things, right? Reset some charts.  And that's exactly what we've got. So we got our back test, right? We got our back test. We'll get to the to the pivot in a second. We got our back test. The cues went from, you know, roughly 373 all the way down to 360 in about three days. That's exactly what we were talking about. Nobody was talking about Armageddon. Nobody was talking about the markets going back to bear market territory. We just needed some of these charts to reset. And one of the stocks that notably that we've been watching for a potential back test, ready? Hopefully, people only get charged up for this. I'm just joking. But so Tesla has been on a phenomenal run, right? We caught this whole move up on Tesla and somewhere about five days ago, if you guys remember two weeks ago, right? Two weeks ago, I turned around on the weekend update and said, you know, I think test is a little bit too stressed. Okay, I want to wait for a backside move to see if we can catch the gravity play. And as you can imagine, you know, people lost their minds. How can you say Tesla will ever have a red day? What do you add to your mind? What are you smoking, right? Like the amount of energy being spoke about how could Tesla possibly have another red day? It was crazy. Okay, cool. So we patiently waited. We talked about this every single day. We talked about a nonstop in the webinar. We talked about it in nausea. We're not going to guess. We're not going to anticipate. We're just going to wait for Tesla to lose the bottom of the range from the previous day. And I think that can give us an opportunity. And that's exactly what happened, guys. Patience is a virtue. Okay. Here was yesterday's pivot Tesla 271. If it builds below can finally flush and it finally lost the range. It flushed and this was absolutely amazing move. Everybody, you know, pretty much, you know, covers all the way down to the 10 day moving average all the way down to 250 this morning, which was absolutely amazing. So congratulations for everybody who caught Tesla.  You don't have to fall in love with the stock. Okay, you can fall in love with a range. I trade ranges to long side. I trade ranges to the downside. It doesn't make a difference as long as it's a validity. Okay. And supply demand gets confirmed. That's where the allocation of capital should be, not by guessing, not by forecasting for anybody to turn around and go, I think Tesla's going to be a 200 next year or I think Tesla's going to be a 300 next year. You're guessing, right? Your guess is as good as mine. Who cares? Okay. Who cares about being right? The point is waiting patiently. And for all you guys, for all you guys who took this just amazing move, just an absolute amazing move. It was yesterday, 271, but builds below can flush. This was the result this morning. And we closed at 259 and gapped all the way down. What actually went as low as to 240, 248, 247, but put absolutely phenomenal moves. So congratulations for all you guys there. But not only, you know, not only Tesla. A lot of these names reset over the last couple of days. You know, you saw Amazon resetting to the bottom of the range. We'll get to Amazon in a second. This is definitely the move of the day, at least for me today, you know, the move of the day on Amazon, but get a lot of stocks resetting as well. Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, NVIDIA had its shareholders event today. Nothing to really talk about meta. They all, right? They all kind of sat there, got their wins back, got their sea legs back. And today they resumed the question was, well, how long, you know, how low can this, this move to the downside, at least backtests could last. We got our answer pretty quickly today. You had the Qs, you had the Qs backtests yesterday to 10 day moving average. That's all we wanted. That's all we needed. And today they gapped down and then we claimed it right back, you know, throughout the day to turn them as that green. Here's the point of reference. This is what we need from the Qs for tomorrow. Okay. If the Qs can get above the five day moving average, this 266 roughly 366 40 level, right? Everybody see that guys? If they can reclaim back the five day moving average, I think we'll get a, we'll have, we'll have another run back to the highs. Obviously to the downside, if the bears start reclaiming 360, then we'll go lower. So the ranges for tomorrow on the Qs, you have 366 40s to the upside and you have 360 to the downside to the upside. A measure potential is 375 to the downside. Measure potential is roughly 355. If the Qs start reclaiming the five day moving average, guess what? Everything that's in the Qs that had big runs are going to reclaim them as well. And if you look at the charts tonight, you'll see phenomenal setups for tomorrow. If we can reclaim the five day moving average, right? You have Apple. Okay. You have Apple today. Perfect rule. We had a three day sell off into the 10 day moving average got above the five day moving average. And now all it needs to reclaim this top of the channel from last week's highs. If it does so, you can start looking at higher prices. Microsoft did exactly the same thing. You have a three day move perfectly into this rising 20 day support. Same thing. Watch Microsoft tomorrow. You know, it's going to be mirroring the Qs. If the Qs can reclaim the five day and Microsoft can reclaim the five day, you know, Microsoft can wake up with a potential of roughly 347. Look at, you know, look at Tesla, right? Tesla did exactly what needed to be done. We have the blow off top. Well, I don't need to do a blow off top. We have the exhaustion cycle channel. You know, came back to the five, came back to the 10, reclaimed the 10. Here's the same thing, right? You see the five day, this orange line, same thing with Microsoft. Same thing with Apple. You see the theme of tomorrow, you know, how important tomorrow is. If Tesla can reclaim the five day moving average, who knows? Maybe it could start, you know, start filling in this whole move all the way back to 277. Again, they were coming with some really aggressive call buying table. Hell, we saw some January, we saw a guy come in and buy five million dollars worth of premium for the January 300 calls, right? That's a five million dollar bet.  It's not bad. It's not a small thing. The big mover today and it all came with the options market today was Amazon, right? Amazon, when the stock was today at one, you know, when the, oh, excuse me, I got the wrong chart on Apple's chart. Yet when Apple, excuse me, when Amazon was sitting there below the five day moving average, they started coming in really aggressively today for the 130s, 130 weeklies nonstop, like three dollars out of the money.  And again, I can't reiterate the point more guys. Anytime you see a stock confirming a daily channel and you have repeat option flow of peak call buyers coming in, especially in cult names, okay, like an Amazon and Tesla on the video, there's a high probability it's going to get to that level because it's so much aggressive money flow coming in from institutions. They flow it, you know, pretty organically and that's exactly what happened with Amazon. We'll talk about that as well today. The one stock that can't can can't get out of its own way is AMD. AMD has been absolutely just destroyed the last three, four days. Again, we'll get to the pivots in a second. So tomorrow pretty basic stuff here, the queues of they can reclaim the five day moving average on a weekly expiration. Maybe we'll get a really strong upside day. But if the bear is taking sure we lose back, we lose back to 360, we should see the 355. So again, guys, 36640 to the upside and 360 to the downside for the bulls. If you look at the SPY, again, same thing here, you know, still close below the five day for the spies. We're going to need to really get above. Well, number one, get above 437. That was yesterday's range. Get above 4037. But for the S&P 500 to really have some legs is going to need to get above the 43840 level reclaim the five day. Just the same thing as the queues and the IWM, the Russell had a really great breakout. If you guys remember off the 182 level back tested, right? This is still the one that is struggling. It's always been the it's always been kind of the red-headed stepchild and he's a little bit of work for the IWM to get back up. It's going to really need to get back about 186. So it's going to need a little bit of work. So we're kind of set up for tomorrow. So, you know, let's talk about, right? Let's talk about the pivots from today. Let me just give him some of the parts. Yeah, so let's talk about the pivots today. Obviously, obviously the big one overnight was Tesla. I was up at four o'clock in the morning. You know, my sleeve habits have been really damaged by all these overnight markets, but it's a good thing. So let's talk about the pivots today. ETRN type base 916 never got there. Google 120 if it builds below can flush.  So it took out it took out the 120 traded all the way down to 1883 before the old market woke up. So good job for you guys who caught that at the open. Airbnb I still like watches 129 30 level. BBIO never got to 1720. AUR never got to 250. Yes, they was a massive, massive move in AMD. Yes, they AMD confirmed 1770 1716 40 got down to 1160. That's where the continuation pivot was today. Huge move yesterday 1160 if it builds below can flush more and AMD flush just to just absolutely flush lower yet. You had room it traded all the way down to 109 80s. And again, this is the only stock that didn't participate in the reversal against something to kind of keep an eye on but really nice move there. OSTK absolutely were nuts on if you guys saw the news. They bought they bought the assets of Bed Bath and Beyond who's going bankrupt 2290 23 needs to build and overstock when nuts today, you know, this damn thing when nuts overstock went all the way up to 26 is an absolutely huge move on overstock meta never got down to the 276. NVIDIA never got down to the two 480 Maverin never got up to the 13 level TTD never got down to the 20. Yeah, this is definitely the trade of the day. At least for me, Amazon 127 a quarter needs to build. They stock traded stock closed over 130 just a really, really big move with huge option flow there. And guys watch this AI. Somebody bought the 33,035 weekly puts for tomorrow and initially got below and initially got below the 37 and then they held back the 20 day moving average. Keep an eye on tomorrow. If it starts losing today's channel tomorrow, it could get hit. I know they had their own AI event, MDB never got there. And now, you know, like we had Tesla to the downside, right? We have Tesla to the downside. Again, this is my whole point of, you know, this is my whole point. We had Tesla to the downside yesterday and today reclaimed and 262 needs to build right back to the upside. Again, here's a perfect example. You're falling in love with technical analysis for the ranges. You don't care about the stock. It just happens to be the greatest trading stock, but it got above the 62 cleared 64 and trading. I traded almost up to 267 after hours. Again, if Tesla confirms today's channel tomorrow, it should resume to the upside. So see, you didn't need to take out the Tiki torches, the, you know, the Tiki torches, the knives and the, and the razor blades against me. Again, we're all looking, you know, we all trade these stands both ways. All we were looking for when I made the initial video on Tesla was the initial gravity trade. And that's exactly what we caught yesterday. And again, it's all about the data flow, not about your, your wish and wants. So that was a really good move there. And I believe that is it. The only one that's a little bit of a kind of a thorn in my tush is Roku. So not Roku, excuse me, Rivian, sorry. So that, you know, that's the one that's kind of stuck in my tush. So two weeks ago, I saw the 1750 calls. I bought it at 14, went to 1480s, which was fine. Then I bought it back at 15, went to 1530s, which is fine. I bought it back at 1550. It went two days ago to 1630s and I'm still sitting it. Why am I still sitting it? I'm, you know, I'm valid dollar and changing it.  I don't, 1750 July 21st expiration. Don't know why, but I'm going to give it one or two more days. I think, I think if it continues to hold above the 50 day moving average, I'll keep it. If not, I'll write it off as a loss, but I think I want to give it every opportunity to succeed just because of all those damn call buyers coming in every single day on repeat. We'll see. We'll see. Not everything can be perfect, but overall, very pleased with the day, very pleased with the week so far. Tomorrow is my favorite day because tomorrow is weekly expiration and stocks usually get pretty aggressive. So guys have a great night everybody. God bless hope everybody is doing well and with God's help. I will see you all on the field tomorrow. Take care.


Alright, now you have commitment. Things are getting serious. So, it looks like there's a relationship that's going to go to the next level. We even got a couple of little rings there, maybe Valentine's Day. Alright, let's get into this and see. Things are getting serious. Commitment is going to happen in January. Okay, somebody's got big plans and ideas. They're looking at, they're looking either at rings or some type of tangible item that is going to kind of confirm a committed relationship. I feel it doesn't have to be a ring. It could be like a, like a promise ring or something. But alright, so you have Aquarius energy, Scorpio energy. You have Pisces Cancer and Scorpio Core Card. Sorry, I don't know what's going on with me. I can't think straight. So this is going to be shocking for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, look at this. I've never seen this before. You guys, when I do my readings, I've been doing them for how long? I always see something different. Always, always, always. I'm seeing fireworks here. I'm seeing fireworks. Now I'm looking at this and I see like, this feels like a ring on a finger or somebody that like, how can I say it? I want to show you. I have to show you. I don't know. I don't know I have to show you.  When I look at that, I've never seen that before, but that's the energy that I'm getting here. Okay, so and for those of you where, you know, like it's not a ring. Well, it's not that it's not a ring, but it's going to either be communication about it. They want to talk to you about like, like, what do you think if I put a ring on your finger or, you know, how about if we, you know, do that? Like, I want to ring on my finger. What are your thoughts about that? You know, like, something's getting serious here. I see fireworks. I see you being like, cabal blown off your chair with this energy happening. There's like, this person is so hopeful for that you'll say yes. I mean, this, I just feel like they've been thinking about this, this queen of cops, masculine or feminine energy. Like, we're really checking their feelings. And I feel like it will come as a surprise to you because this person keeps a lid on their emotions. They don't share how they feel. So it's going to be like, what? Right? Look, it's going to be like, they keep a lid on it. And they don't say anything. And then like, the lid is like, totally blown off the lid, the lid, the lid. I keep thinking a sponge about the lid. So yeah, it's going to be such a shock. So this person's going to initiate communication with you in January about getting into some kind of a committed relationship or if you want to get serious, right? So I feel like, now listen, make sense, will you? I know there's some of you that are like, who could this be? I don't have anyone in my life at all. All right. Like, if you are the Virgo that's listening, and that you've been locked away in your room for five years, and you have had absolutely no human interaction, I mean, this, this likely isn't going to be your reading. This could be coming from a friend. But if you've had interaction, to whatever degree, this could be coming from a friend. This could be coming from a lover, someone you're dating, casual kind of thing, getting more serious. You know what I mean? Some of you, I'm hearing between January 16th and the 17th. There's some type of communication coming forward from this person. Look, again, four of them at once. Okay. So there's definitely a long term committed thing. We've got Pisces here. Okay. They're showing me a celebration at night. An engagement party, celebration, a birthday party, something at night, where this might happen as well. Okay, so somebody's party. I know it's not your birthday party unless you're not a Virgo son. But it may come out like at some kind of event or reception or party. Okay. Somebody like, it's not necessarily getting down on the knee. Really? It's just kind of like bringing it out of their pocket and either proposing or talking about it. It's not tremendous. Look, it's not romantic. I'm not saying anything. Listen, the only like the only cup card here is the Queen of Cups. And the Queen of Cups has a lid on their emotions on that chalice. And the moon can represent deep emotions, but they're hidden. So this is not a very romantic gesture. This is more of like a logical conversation, maybe that someone somebody is having. Okay. And I know there's some of you listen, I'm, I'm, I'm Capricorn Moon. I'm perfectly fine with having a conversation. I don't want to have this conversation over candlelit dinner, like turn a late on, I need to see my food. That's just me. So I feel like this person has been kind of like stuck on you about this. A little bit insecure here with the Eight of Swords. Kind of a little bit. Maybe that's why I haven't said anything to you. Kind of wrapped up in their head with negative thoughts, that kind of thing. And then at the same time, they have like these whimsical ideas, definitely holding you on like some kind of a pedestal. Let's see, what else Virgo?  I'm telling you, I feel it in my bones. Okay, definitely going to be some communication, flirty little so there's your cup, right? So it's minimal. It's minimal as far as the way this person shares their emotions. It's almost maybe childlike in some ways, but it's, it's kind of minimal. It's, you know, sweet text messages. It's not a deep poor you're kind of love out, you know what I mean? I don't really feel like that person, this person wears their heart on their sleeve. So yeah, Virgo, I mean, wait a minute, tell you. Alright, there's your love, right? There's your love come and get your love. Alright, Gemini, perhaps? It's an energy. So yeah, I mean, Virgo, this, this is like love and commitment, long term, you know, two people who are better together than alone. This is, this is like, this beautiful, this is a decision, both of you making this decision, you're gonna say yes to this person, Virgo.  You're both like wanting the same things.  Meanwhile, you're looking up at spirit. You're very focused on the spiritual realm of things. And this person is very focused on your physical beauty or good looks. Okay, there you go. The Hierophant, Taurus Energy. This is the love and the decision to get married to be in this long term committed thing. Yes, in January, say yes to the dress, Virgo. Or the tux, Virgo. You know, how are you do it? Like, I know some of you are just very formal.  Some of you are just gonna hit the beach, grab a pastor, hit the beach, whatever, however you do it. You're gonna say yes to this commitment. Let me see you. I'm gonna just take a quick look at you. Okay, look at you. You've got strength. You, you like Virgo. This person's like a beast. That's what I'm just hearing. They're like a beast and and you just have this way of calming them, soothing them. I just heard, okay, they just told me somebody's a dentist or some type of physician or someone that does something with the mouth could deal with the teeth or the throat or the tongue. I don't know what you do. Maybe tongue piercing. I don't know. Whoever does that kind of stuff. There's something with the throat that down the esophagus. Don't even you're so dirty, Virgo. You are so dirty.  I just have to stop. I'm gonna get banned. Okay, so yeah, it could be like medicine of some sort or physician or dentist or dentist, a stencil assistant or something. I'm just, I don't know. I'm just hearing that. Okay, let me move on.  You're very strong. Some of you do some type of work where you're balancing money accounts. Okay, let me see what else. Oh, somebody got them thigh high boots on.  You're like, you like what you see?  Dentist by day, stripper by night. I don't know what you're doing. I don't know.  However, you got to live your life. You do what you need to do. But you like to travel, Virgo? Do you compete? Somebody you might compete in something where you win or some attachment or somebody has an attachment to the Olympics? Some type of sport? Maybe you're an athlete? Someone's a drummer? A baton twirler? Or maybe you were years ago? Yeah, I really am picking up like a lot of balance here.  Because I feel like you're going to say yes to this, this love thing that comes in this commitment. Show Virgo what their advice is. Okay, you have the emperor. Oh, okay. I just heard now, I don't know, this might apply to someone who's if your if your father's still alive, you need to talk to your to your dad, if your dad's well, maybe you could pray to him if your father's not here. If your father was an Aries, he's watching out for you if he's not here. Okay. That was just a specific message. I don't know. They're just saying if your father raised you to be someone that's respectable, has self respect, integrity, dignity, achievement, a real catch. They're saying to keep doing keep being that way, which I don't feel like I need to tell you that but keep being that way. And also to view yourself as single until you're not until it's official. That's really just the advice I'm getting. And I feel like I said that one of my recent maybe it was just the first reading or one of my recent readings. Okay, let me see. And also put some money away. Just saying put some money away, take some money out of the honeypot and store it away, stash it away somewhere. I don't know why you need to do that. I'm just hearing that. Is it in relation to this commitment or this relationship? Yes. Keep that for yourself. And if that's coming from like a father figure, someone who's watching over you or watching out for you might tell you that. They're saying, Okay, this is what you're going to do. Make sure that you don't let anyone have access to your full finances. You need to have a little nest egg for yourself. I don't know why. Does that mean they're going to steal it not necessarily prenup? That's what they're saying, prenup. You might ask for or demand a prenup if you get involved. And is that your advice? It looks like it. Like what's yours is yours. And what's theirs is theirs. That's what I'm hearing. Okay. Okay, I don't know. Do you have a lot of money? prenup. Okay, that's that was the message. Sorry, I kind of like led this long dialogue up to that. Yeah, so I mean, hey, congratulations. It looks like you're going to be tying the knot in January. Hey, you guys, thank you so much for watching my readings. If you like to get a personal reading, please feel free to click the link in the description box below to go ahead and follow that link and book you're reading. Please remember to book, subscribe, like do all the great things.


Hello, I'm John and I'm a chemical engineer. And I'm Simon, a chemist. Together, we're researching ways to replace fossil oil with renewable feedstocks. In this lecture, we will tell you a bit more about why this is important and what we do. Since the Industrial Revolution, fossil resources, namely oil, gas and coal, have transformed the way we live. They've provided us with a stable supply of energy to heat our homes, drive our cars and literally keep the lights on. Fossil fuels are also converted into thousands of chemicals which are used to produce essential products such as plastic packaging, shampoos, medicines, fertilizers and many more. For the last 100 years or so, the supply of fossil fuels has seemed to be inexhaustible, enabling huge advances and improving global standards of living. Unfortunately, this development has come at a huge cost. Fossil-based energy accounts for over 80% of all human-made greenhouse gas emissions, while chemicals contribute an additional 5%. This has led to an accelerating rise in global average temperatures with increasingly severe environmental consequences, including extreme weather, rising sea levels and droughts. Despite significant global efforts to reduce emissions, fossil consumption continues to increase, threatening the future of our planet. Besides climate change, irresponsible extraction of fossil resources continues to cause significant local environmental and social problems, including pollution to ground, air and water. Many chemicals are only used once and can cause long-term damage if disposed incorrectly. Waste plastics, for example, can take hundreds of years to break down and accumulate in oceans where they harm fish, birds and other marine animals. To overcome these challenges, there is an urgent need to reduce our reliance on fossil resources by developing more sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives. Recent years have seen significant development and investment into renewable energy technologies, particularly wind and solar, to produce carbon-free electricity. This renewable energy is already making an important contribution to reducing CO2 emissions. However, it is more difficult to find sustainable alternatives for fossil-based transportation fuels and chemical feedstocks. Although renewable electricity can be stored in batteries to power electric vehicles, this technology is expensive and cannot provide the same driving range as conventional fuels. Alternatively, renewable electricity can be converted into hydrogen fuel, but safe hydrogen storage and utilization remains challenging. Neither of these technologies are compatible with existing vehicles or can be used directly for chemical production. They also rely on expensive and rare metals which can cause significant environmental harm during extraction and refining. So, how can we continue to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals without using fossil feedstocks? To answer this question, we first need to consider the composition of fossil resources. All fossil fuels are made of hydrocarbons, a wide range of chemical molecules consisting mostly of hydrogen, aka hydro and carbon, together with small amounts of oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen. Depending on the size of a hydrocarbon molecule, fossil fuels can either exist as natural gas, oil or coal, with different ratios of hydrogen to carbon. When we burn these hydrocarbons, we break the chemical bonds between hydrogen and carbon and form new bonds to produce both water and carbon dioxide whilst releasing large amounts of energy. Alternatively, we can chemically transform and separate our fossil-based feedstocks into a small number of platform chemicals, which we can use to produce all the chemicals we know today. To do this, we use very special materials called catalysts, which help to drive reactions in the right direction to ensure we obtain the products that we want. But more about this shortly. First, we need to find an alternative source of more environmentally-friendly hydrocarbons, which we can transform into the renewable fuels and chemicals that we need. Luckily, we don't have to go far. Nature already provides us with vast quantities of bio-based hydrocarbons in the form of plants, animals and other living organisms. Together, this source of renewable material is called biomass and can be harvested and converted to produce renewable chemicals and fuels. Indeed, all the fossil fuels were formed from biomass, which died millions of years ago, and slowly decomposed into the natural gas, oil and coal that we see today. Humans have already been using biomass for food, materials and heating since the dawn of time, but now we need to look for new ways to transform this versatile resource into useful chemicals and fuels. As with fossil feedstocks, these green and sustainable transformations require catalysts. But first, what is a catalyst? Chemical reactions for making essential products or in burning fuels require the breaking and remaking of chemical bonds with the form of consuming energy and the latter producing it. If the energy within the reactant molecule is greater than in the product, then energy is released to its surroundings on reaction. So, external energy isn't required to make it go, which can be thought of as like cycling down a hill, easy and spontaneous. However, while an overall process might be downhill, the bonds of the reactant molecules still require breaking and rearranging. This requires an initial input of energy, which acts as a barrier to molecules reacting and slows the process down. Think of the bike ride. In that while getting from the start to the end is overall gently downhill, you must climb a great big mountain in between. You will only get your destination if you have the motivation, or in the molecules case, sufficient energy. If the barrier is high, it might take you a long time to get there. Worse still, you might not get to your desired destination, but find yourself somewhere else. In a chemical reaction, this is when we make a different product to the one we wanted. So, what we can say is that the route a chemical reaction takes matters. It influences the products we make, and if we can make them at an acceptable speed. While we can increase the speed by increasing the temperature or pressure reaction is done at, this requires energy and cost. We can also make what we want by taking lots of chemical steps to get there, purifying things as we go. Yet this also uses excess energy and wastes molecules along the way. From large industrial reactions to car engines and even biochemical processes in your body, there is a way to make things easier. What if we could find a different route on our bike journey? One that has a small hill to climb. From a molecules perspective, a different way or sequence of making and breaking those bonds. Through a choice of route, we can make reactions go faster to the product we want and with less excess energy. A catalyst is a substance that does this by facilitating a reaction pathway with smaller barriers but in such a way that it is itself not changed in the reaction. It can also be used to change the landscape of the reaction in such a way that we can selectively make the products we want. Catalysts, often in the form of reactive solids, are essential to the efficient running of our fossil-based society. Currently, more than 85% of chemical products use a catalyst somewhere during their manufacture and their role is fundamental to many processes society takes for granted. It's clear that as we transition beyond oil and fossil fuels and move towards a low-carbon dioxide-emitting society, catalysis is an essential technology to make this happen. Yet this isn't as simple as it might seem. As I mentioned earlier, fossil fuels are made from concentrated mixtures of hydrocarbons which can be transformed into a wide range of chemicals. This is achieved by trimming large molecules to a more useful length and selectively adding functional components such as oxygen to their chemical structures. However, the structures of biomass and biobased molecules are very different. They are often diluted in water and contain much higher amounts of oxygen and other impurities. So instead of adding oxygen and other compounds, we must remove them, requiring different types of catalysts to those currently used in fossil processes. In addition, many of existing catalysts are unstable in water and damaged by the impurities contained in biomass. So even if they work, conventional catalysts don't need tend to last a long time when used with biobased feedstocks. Although we can try to improve the stability and activity of existing catalysts for biobased compounds, this approach is slow and inefficient and does not address the underlying challenge. So at Laughborough, we decided to take a step back and develop new types of catalysts which has specifically tailored to the types of molecules and conditions expected from biobased materials. In principle, most solid catalysts consist of multiple different components with only a fraction acting directly as a catalyst. These parts are called the active sites and are the places where the chemistry of catalysis happens. These sites are on the surface of the material where they can grab and destabilise the reacting molecules to promote the desired reaction. Their properties are strongly dependent on their shape, size and composition. The smaller and more exact we can make these active sites, the less material we need to get the job done. This is particularly important when we use expensive and rare precious metals such as gold, platinum or rathenium where we want to make every single atom count. Controlling this dimensionality is essential to creating successful catalysts for an oil-free future. Can we make catalysts that have only the special structures we need? The ultimate example of this would be single atoms or tiny clusters of catalyst with no waste material. However, these active sites can't exist floating in space on their own. They require a second component, the catalyst support. This stabilises the metal particles and stops them from moving about or even leaving the reactor. As well as holding active sites in place, the structure of the support can be used to direct molecules to the active sites and block things that we don't want there. Again, we can play with the dimensionality of the support using 2D sheets like graphene or 1D rods or structures full of tiny holes or pores which give them an enormous internal surface area. For example, one teaspoon of such a porous material contained the area of an entire football field. We are designing new catalysts where we consider both the active site and the catalyst support to enhance the stability, activity and selectivity of our materials. To do this, we first need to obtain a good understanding of what type of catalyst we need by looking at the nanoscale interactions between our reagents and the active sites. We do this both experimentally by monitoring reactions under carefully controlled conditions and through computer simulation where we can predict the interaction of molecules with different types of active sites. We are studying new ways of creating single atom catalysts which provide maximum material efficiency. We then look at the real biobase materials we feed to our process to investigate their composition, impurities and impact on our active sites. This helps us to choose suitable catalyst support materials which are stable under the required reaction conditions and protect the active sites from impurities. This approach requires close collaboration of chemists, chemical engineers and materials scientists which combine the expertise on reaction mechanisms, process scale-up and material design. We are part of a research team at Loughborough University with 7 PhD students and 8 academics investigating the different dimensions of catalyst design. We are using nanomaterials to design efficient and precise catalysts with the right properties to facilitate new green processes such as renewable hydrogen production from biowaste and biobusional production from bioethanol. Using advanced techniques, we can video catalyst as a work to see if we are doing what is expected and then use this information to make better catalysts still. We hope we have shown you how essential catalysts are to moving beyond oil and towards a sustainable and green future. Next time you throw away a plastic bottle, wash your hands or use a pen remember that all these products have been made from chemicals transformed by the help of catalysts. All these products are essential for our standard of living and it is engineers and chemists that ensure that we can keep using them without costing the earth.