Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at a bank reconciliation that could appear on the CPA exam or in your accounting courses. If you want to succeed on the CPA exam, bank reconciliation is a critical component. It appears on the exam again and again in either form of multiple choice or in form of simulation. This simulation that I'm going to be working with you today, I would consider this a tough, a hard simulation. In other words, if you can finish this simulation, then you should be good to go as far as bank reconciliation and I will try to do so. Now, before I start, I would like to remind you that if you are a CPA candidate or an accounting students, you should check out my website, farhatlectures.com. If you are a CPA candidate, I don't replace your Becker, your Roger, your Glimmer, I don't do that. I can't do that. What I can do, I can be a useful addition. 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If you like this lecture, please like it and share it. If it helps you, it means it might help other people connect with me on Instagram and Facebook. Let's dive into the CPA simulation. Like these are all exhibits. So this will be an exhibit. This will be an exhibit. This will be an exhibit. So you're dealing with three different exhibits here. West Goshen Company maintained a check and account at Wells Fargo Bank. Fair enough, bank statements are prepared at the end of each month, which they should. The November 30 reconciliation of the bank is as follows. So this is the November 30 reconciliation. So they're giving you already a completed reconciliation. Now, if they do this on the exam, this is easy for you. Why? Because this is going to kind of remind you what does a reconciliation looks like. So here they're showing you the account per bank balance, less outstanding checks, add deposit outstanding or deposit and transit deduct less outstanding checks gives us the adjusted bank balance as of November 30. So they're giving you kind of a half a solution and they will give you that because you will need this information for December bank reconciliation, which we're going to be preparing December. The company general ledger check and account showed the following. Now, this is the general ledger.  Maybe on the general ledger of the exam, they could give you the check numbers, but all the check numbers, they should add up to 42,153 and all the deposits, they should add up to 42,950. So this is the general ledger. So first you want to make sure you understand what you have. So the balance as of December 31 on your books is 4,440 how much cash you have as per your general ledger. The December bank statement. Now this is the bank statement. So notice they're starting with 32 61 the bank statement is showing this balance because remember the bank statement ended up with 32 61. Then they have a deposits of 43,300. They process checks of 42,215. They deducted $25 as a service charge and there was a non-sufficient fund checks for 470 per your bank statement. You have cash 3,848. Now the question is how much cash do we have? This is what the bank reconciliation is for. We want to make sure those two numbers equal to each other. After we account for the reconciliation. So here you are giving three exhibit November reconciliation, your general ledger for December and your bank statement for December. Let's look at additional information. Again, I would say this is a tough simulation, right? The checks were processed by the bank include all the outstanding checks at the end of the November except check number 365. So the first statement is telling us the following. All these checks, those were the outstanding checks. They were all clear except check number 365, which is for $204. Let me put it up here. There's $204 that's still outstanding. In addition, there are some December checks that had not been processed by the bank by the end of the month.  Also, you discovered that check number 411 for $650 was correctly recorded by the bank, but was incorrectly recorded on the books as 560. Let's figure out what do we need to do with this check. Let's go back to check number 411. Check number 411. Well, it's not shown here, but let me tell you what happened. When you wrote the check, when you wrote the check, you actually wrote the check. This is this is the check and you wrote the check for $650. So this is the actual check. You know, this is the name of the person that you pay to the date. All of everything is correct and you wrote it for $650. Now, what was that check for? Advertising expense. So here's what you did on your books. You debited advertising expense. 560 credited cash. 560. So who made the error? First, you have to figure out who made the error. That's the first thing because you have to find out who made the error. Well, the check cleared for $650. The check is for $650. However, you recorded it as $560. So who made the error? The company made the error. How much is the error? The error is $90. What does that mean? It means your cash disbursement is understated by $90 because you wrote the check for $650 and you said you paid $560. Right? So simply put, in other words, if we go to your GL here, you said disbursements of $42, $153. We have to add to this disbursement negative $90 because your disbursements are understated by $90. So this is what this information gave us. It just showed you the check as well as the journal entry so you can visually see what happened. So kind of we took care of this. Included in the bank deposits is a $1600 deposit incorrectly credited to our bank account. That's excellent. What should we do? We shouldn't do anything, right? Now, but basically the point is the bank made an error. Now this is a bank error. Bank error. The bank gave us an additional $1600. It was for someone else and they gave it to us. Now it could be the name of our companies are similar. It could be the account are similar. I audited credit union and those mistakes happen. Those mistakes happen. The person punching the wrong number because they were very close to each other and they gave the credit to the other, to the other, to our company. Now here's what I need to tell you. This is the importance of a bank reconciliation. You know, if you really want to be an ethical, which you should not, but I'm trying to show you the importance of a bank reconciliation. If you don't say anything about the 1600 and the other party and other words, if they gave you 1600 of cash, it means they took that money from another account because the other account was not properly credited. Your account was credited credited in the banking language means they gave you the money. Now if the other company don't prepare a bank reconciliation, they may not discover that their account is understated. So that's the importance of the bank reconciliation. So if somebody wants to be an ethical, they wouldn't say anything and they would wait until the bank contact them and tell them, look, there was a deposit that wasn't really yours. We need to take the money out. But if you don't say anything and the other company don't prepare a bank reconciliation, basically they lost 1600, which is you should not do that. But the point I'm trying to make is the importance of a bank reconciliation. Okay, so there was a bank error. Simply put, how do I translate this? It means the bank balance here, it's showing the bank balance of 3261. We should deduct 1600 from it. We'll get to all of this. But this is what this error means. The deposit should have been posted to the credit of Lowe's Garros Company. That's fine. We don't care, but it's not our company. The non-sufficient checks has not been redeposited in the company and will seek payment by the customers involved. And here there was a non-sufficient checks of $470. What is a non-sufficient check? Simply put, somebody paid you $470. When you receive the check, you debit that cash, $470. You credited your account receivable $470 under the impression that this check is good. You don't know whether this check is good or not.  So what do you need to do? You need to debit a account receivable $470 credit cash. You need to take out that money and we'll look at that later on. This will be a book adjustment. Also on the bank statement, there was a $25 service charge. So this is, I gave you an overview. Now we're going to start to prepare, we're going to start to prepare the bank reconciliation. On the exam day, what you should do, what you should do, in my opinion, if you're giving a bank reconciliation, depending on how easy it is, if they're giving you a prior month bank reconciliation, showing you a prior month bank reconciliation, which is they're showing you November, if that's the case, I will start with my book adjustment. I think the book adjustments are easier in this problem. So start with the side that you think it's easier for you. Why? Because once you start with that side and you find the answer, then if you're confident that's the answer, at least you can plug in that answer in your bank side. So you'll get some points. In my opinion, the book side is easier for this, for this simulation, but I will start with the bank side. It doesn't really matter. So how do you start your bank reconciliation? I'm going to start with the bank side. Well, I'm going to start by, what's my balance per my bank? What is the balance per my bank? Now, remember, the balance per bank is given to us. So we'll start with the balance per bank, which is 3,840. Here's the bank statement and this number is given to you. So now you get some point. So how is the bank adjusted? Always on the bank reconciliation, you're going to have to add deposit and transit and deduct what I called outstanding checks. Now, the bank reconciliation, I have it much, much more covered in details on farhatlectures.com, but I just want to, you know, like, this is what should go there unless you have some errors, which we do have some errors in this example. So let's see. So we need to add deposit and transit. Now, what are deposit and transit? Deposits and transit are deposits that we made at the bank, we made, but it's not showing in the bank account. Now, how do I know what's my deposit and transit? I compare. How much did I deposit? I deposited 42,950 and the bank is showing 43,300. Well, hold on a second, that does not make any sense at all. How is that possible, right? If I deposited 42,950 and the bank's showing me, you deposited actually more 43,300. Well, that's really good news, but that's not true. So this is your initial, this is your big, the big idea. Now you have to dig into this. Well, remember, so what's the difference between those two? What the difference is, the bank is showing you, you have $350 more, which is not, that's not really true. Okay, that's the difference initially. Why that difference exists? Remember, the bank gave you $1,600 deposit. Then you have to deduct this. So you have to deduct $1,600 from that deposit. Remember, they gave you money, that's not really yours. That's fine. Also, you have to take out, remember this, you have to take out also any deposits and transit from the prior month. Hold on a second, why am I doing this? Why am I taking out my deposit and transit? Because my deposit and transit last month, I accounted for them. So I have to do, I have to go back to my prior month bank statement and I have deposit and transit of $1,230. So I have to take out $1,230 as deposit and transit. Why? Because this deposit belongs to, as far as I'm concerned, those $1,230, I'm aware of them. They belong to November, they don't belong to December. The bank is showing them in December, but there's in this number here, $1,230, that belongs to November, not December. Well, basically once I account this, I notice that I have deposit and transit. The difference now is $2,480. Simply put, my deposit and transit $2,480. It's simply put after I make the adjustments. I notice that in other words, in other words, here's what I'm doing. Here's what I'm doing. I take $43,300, what the bank is showing, that's what the bank is showing. I'm going to deduct from it $1,600, which is the error. I'm going to deduct from it $1,230. Let me show you what the bank should be showing. Then I will compare it to what I deposited and I will find the missing amount. Let me just pull my calculator here. Give me one second. I'm going to take $43,300 minus $1,600. The bank made as an error minus $1,230. The net deposit is $40,470 minus $42,950. That's the difference between this number and this number is $2,480. It means I still have deposit and transit for this month $2,480. I'm done with deposit and transit. Now remember, after deposit and transit, I have to deduct any outstanding checks or any bank errors. Now I already know about one bank error, which is the $1,600. Let's take it out because that money was not mine. I have to take it out. Now I have to account for what we called outstanding checks. Now let's deduct the outstanding checks. That's the second component. That's the second major component on the bank reconciliation. Well, here's what we are told. We are told that the disbursement as per the general ledger $42,153, the disbursement per the bank statement is $42,218. There's a difference between the two. Now I already know that my GL disbursements is incorrect. I need to add $90 to it because I made an error. Therefore, let's start with that. So I'm going to start with taking $42,153 plus $90. Why the plus means deduct an additional $90? $42,153 plus $90. So my true disbursements were $42,243. Those are my true disbursement because I needed to add $90. Remember the check for the advertisement. It was incorrectly recorded on my books. I understated my amount by $90. Now the checks were processed for $42,118. That's fine. But we have to remember those checks, some of them included checks from the prior month. Why checks from the prior month? Because in November I had outstanding checks and those outstanding checks cleared now. If they cleared now, that means they don't belong in December, they belong in November. So I have to take out any checks that belong to November. And I'm told that all of them were cleared except check 365. So if I go back to my November statement, this check was not cleared. I'm already told that. And the other one, $126, $159, $89, and $370 were already cleared. So what do I need to do? I need to take these figures and deduct them from my checks processed. So let's do that. I'm going to take $42,218, and I'm going to deduct from it all the amount of the checks. One check was for $126, another check was for $59, another check was for $89, and another check was for $370. Therefore, my checks processed for the month of December was $41,574. Now, this is how much I wrote in checks, $42,243. The bank processed $41,574. The difference between them, let's find the difference $42,243. The difference is $669. But remember, in addition to the $669, I still have the outstanding check, the $204, check number 365 from November. So $669 plus $204, I have outstanding checks of $873. Therefore, I deduct outstanding checks of $873. And simply put, I'm done with the my bank side, because usually the bank side, the bank side will have three things, deposit and transit, outstanding checks, usually. And this is an unusual, if there's an error by the bank, it's unusual. But usually, once you add deposit and transit, deduct outstanding checks, you should find your correct balance unless there's a bank error. And remember, the bank error could be minus or could be positive. Maybe they did not give you the money that belongs to you, right? Now we know the corrected cash balance is $3,855. Immediately, what you should do on the CPA exam, put that corrected balance under the book balance as well, if you are confident. This way you get credit for it. Now we need to prepare the book side of things. What's the book side of things? The book side are things that the bank charged you, the bank charged you, but you are not aware of it. So it's on the bank statement, but it's not in your books. What could be those? Well, we already told the non-sufficient check and the service charge, you're not aware of the service charged. Okay, a non-sufficient check. And you made an error. Remember, you made the error for the $90. So three things go on the book side. Let's start with the book side. Balance per books 4440. Balance per books it's giving 4440. At least put this down so this way you can get credit for it. Remember, three things we have to adjust the books for. And they're all deductions. Sometimes it's an addition. Sometimes, for example, the bank might give you interest, like $5 interest, then it's an addition, but they're all deduction. Error and recording check. We already know this $90. So we need to deduct $90. And for every thing that we do on the books, we need a journal entry, which we'll prepare in a moment. That's the first one. Service charge $25 in non-sufficient checks 470. Now I'll take 4440 net dose and the amount is 3850. Now I'm good. I'm confident that my bank reconciliation is working. Oops, not this one. Now I know my bank reconciliation is working. That's why I told you once you are confident in one number, put it on the other side as well. This way you'll get credit for it. So now my bank reconciliation is reconciling 3855 to 3855. Once again, this bank reconciliation may take you quite a bit of time if it's on the CPA exam. The key is to, at least if you can, you know, try to finish as much as possible, right? And hopefully you can finish the whole thing. We're not done yet. We still have to prepare the journal entries. Remember, anything that you do on the books needs a journal entry. Well, we need a journal entry for the error. $90. We need to debit advertising expense. Remember, I showed you this early on in Credit Cash 490. Miscellaneous expense, which is for the $25 debit miscellaneous expense or bank service charge $25 account receivable. Remember, why account receivable 470? Because remember what I told you when we received the check, we debited account receivable. I'm sorry, we credited account. We debited cash when we received the checks. We debited cash 470, credited receivable 470 for the non-sufficient check. Well, when we find out it's not good, we have to do the opposite. We have to debit account receivable and credit check, credit the cash. And we credit the cash for the total $585. What I just did is I just went through the journal entries to make sure you record the journal entries. You only do the journal entries for the bookside, okay? The bank you don't do. If the bank made an error, that's their problem. They have to, when they prepare their bank reconciliation, they will have to make this adjustment. So remember, the journal entries are only for the bookside, okay? So any issues you had on your books. You had, well, not any issues, anything you need to update your books for. You had an error. This was an error. And usually, an error could be a positive or minus. For example, if you wrote the check 4560 and you deducted 650, then the error will be positive $90, okay? Because you deducted so much from your checks. This was the GL and this was the check. I'm flipping the scenario. It could happen that you wrote the check 4560, but you recorded it for 650, okay? So the error will be positive. Therefore, actually, you will debit cash and credit advertising expense. But that's not the issue here. Service charge is a typical one. Make sure you get to the service charge. You debit miscellaneous expense or on the exam. If there's a bank service charge, look for bank service charge. If not miscellaneous expense, debit expense, credit cash. And for the non-sufficient check, it's the opposite of what happened when you received the check. You debit or receivable and credit cash. 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Welcome back to the Trade Hacker Mindset. In this episode, we are going to be talking about shiny object syndrome. And we've got a special guest today, Mr. Tim Weiss. Trading the markets can be difficult to master and seemingly just out of reach. Professional traders have a secret.  It requires the Trade Hacker Mindset. All right, so let's jump into this topic of the shiny object syndrome. Like I said, we've got Mr. Tim Weiss with us today. Tim, say hello to Trade Hacker Nation. Hello, Trade Hackers. So I reached out to Tim and because I know that Tim is such a big mindset guy when it comes to trading. And I asked him if he had any topics that he would want to share with the Trade Hacker community on our podcast and he came up with several different topics and the first one that we're gonna be talking about and hopefully Tim enjoys this and he might come back for additional ones in the future but today we're gonna be talking about shiny object syndrome. And this is such a huge topic when it comes to specifically trading but really in a lot of other areas of life as well. For me as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, as a father, as a family person, as everything else that we do in life, shiny object syndrome, another way of saying that is the grass is always greener on the other side and we're constantly jumping around and losing focus on certain things and entering our focus on new things. And so it's no, with trading, it kind of compounds itself because there's so many different ways to trade. There are so many different vehicles to trade, stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto. There are so many different methodologies to trade. So it can be very difficult for a trader to focus on one thing and really become a master at that because of this shiny object syndrome. So I wanna jump into this topic and I'm gonna turn it over to you, Tim, to talk primarily because I really wanna hear your perspective.  Thank you for that introduction. And so just a little background on myself. First of all, I've been a trader full-time pretty much for about over 10 years now since the global financial crisis. I got hurt pretty bad and I vowed to myself that I would commit to learning how to trade the financial markets. And I've traded all types of markets except for crypto, believe it or not, and all types of trading strategies and systems that you might be able to think of. So, and that's been part of what I've done is jump from one thing to another over that entire period of time. So, you know, part of my background that I learned in this process was causing me a liability when it came to trading. And I do have a professional background, business background, entrepreneurial background as well as like Steve, which created this insatiable desire within me to always find something better. So I was also a turnaround specialist. So I'm always looking for what's broken and how to fix it and find something that's better. So when I approached trading, I wanted to screen all of the different trading services, trading systems, trading strategies.  And I was skeptical of everything and including the gurus that are out there. And so, you know, I couldn't really focus on myself as a result, focus on my own trading skills because I always had this attitude that the problem is outside of myself. If I'm not successful in trading, it's because I've got the wrong system, the wrong strategy, you know, the wrong service, the wrong market, whatever, not within myself. That wasn't the problem because I was smart. You know, I could, I'm a quick study. I can figure things out. So this led me to doing this, you know, jumping from one thing to another for quite a long period of time.  You know, and I guess it was because some of the people that I started respecting were talking about and they were emphasizing it. And I said, well, I'll get to it one day. I'll get to it one day. But about five years ago, I did get to it. And I started really researching it and studying it quite a bit. So yeah, Mark Douglass trading in the zone is still the Bible for me. But I've looked at several other things, several other, you know, authors and trading coaches that have material on the subject. So what I started doing then was paying more attention to, you know, what was happening with Tim when Tim was trading basically is how I would put it. And I also learned that I needed to find services and coaches, trading coaches, mentors, whatever that I could trust. And how can I do that? Well, it's not easy. It's not easy because I'm trying to evaluate somebody with this critical mind I've got in trying to evaluate are they the real deal, you know, because there's unfortunately, I still believe this, the vast majority of the trading coaches out there do it to make, that's how they make their money. They're coaching and they're giving advice and they're not real traders. So the one thing that attracted me to navigation trading is everything's transparent. Steve does everything transparent puts his real trade results up there and the good, the bad and the ugly, you know, and also explains what was done right, what was done wrong and, you know, things that are gonna be done to correct it and follow rules and stuff like that. And I am very much an admirer of a rules-based trading approach. So that's what I've done is to really focus on what rules-based strategy system, whatever would work best for me. That's how I ended up with the red strategy. The, you know, weekly double calendar was everything that I've looked at seemed to be the best thing for me. And so what I just, just to wrap this up about the Sinai Object Syndrome, instead of just jumping from one thing to another and critically focusing on what was wrong with everything outside of myself, I started looking at it as an experimentation process so Tim could find out what is best for Tim. That's what I ended up doing. So by the time I got to navigation trading, I was fully in that mindset. You know, what is it about navigation trading that is gonna work best for me based upon what, you know, is my makeup? So, you know, I'm very analytical.  And I learned the hard way that that doesn't work very well. What I needed to do was really find a way to trade that was gonna fit within my lifestyle and fit with my psychology. So options, trading options, unless you're just buying and selling, debit transactions, trading options is kind of for the thinking trader. You know, when you're selling premium, you're selling spreads and adjusting spreads, whatnot.  And so options became something I decided for myself was what I was gonna really focus on. So, you know, I've traded all the other ways too. I mean, I'm a stock trader in the past. I'm a futures trader, forex trader. I've taken, you know, longer term positions, swing positions as well as, you know, day trading, you know, during the day. And anyways, so the option spread trading is what I really decided was gonna focus on and the weekly double calendar and my variation of it, the red. So it's really to say that you have tried every shiny object in the world of trading out there, sounds like. Just about, except for crypto, which actually came about kind of as I was changing, focusing on everything else and focusing on myself. I mean, crypto's relatively new in the last five years. So, yeah, and I can give somebody wants to know a particular experience about, you know, volatility trading or about news trading or whatever, watching CNBC and taking their tips. I mean, I've got all kinds of that experience, which is not pretty to say in my background. But this is really what works best for me is option spread trading, basically. So. Yeah, and I think that's just a critical thing for people to understand. And I, you know, I've obviously had conversations and interactions with now thousands of traders over the years. And, you know, I can always tell when somebody has not engaged their mental, the mindset piece of their trading or they're just new at trading all together because of the questions that they ask, you know, about, you know, I just had a question the other day about, I think it was posted on even like on a YouTube video of ours or something on our YouTube channel where somebody asked, what do you think about Tilray and what strategy would work best to trade this stock? You know, so it was a question like that, which obviously if you're asking a question like that, then you probably have not traded much. And I don't want anyone to think I'm talking down about new traders and don't ask questions because that's the only way that you learn. But the point is there's not, you know, just one best strategy to trade a stock, you know, it takes into account not only the market environment, not only the specific stock you're trading, not only what fits your lifestyle the best, but also just your mindset around what you want your methodology to be because we all have different personalities and we all see things differently. And so we are going to manage trades differently than somebody else. And someone else could have the exact same symbol, the exact same strategy, but one trader could be profitable with it and the other may lose money. And so what's the difference between the successful trader and the unsuccessful trader if they're both using the same strategy? Well, it's mindset, right? Right, right. So you do have to have a strategy that you know has an edge. You know, that you've talked about in that in your podcast that Mark Douglas talks about that. I mean, you do have to have confidence that the strategy you're using does have an edge. But the fallacy is looking at, of course, how do you know it has an edge? I mean, you're looking past performance, right? And the fallacy is taking that past performance and saying, well, this is what I'm going to do in the future, right? So that has been, you know, that's part of my sock shiny object syndrome is expecting that I can do just as soon as I start trading, I can do this kind of performance that it's generated in the past. And that's the other thing that I had to realize is that real world trading conditions are never going to be like the past. So every market, every moment in the market is unique. Some way in the future will not reflect the past. May have patterns that are similar, but, you know, it won't be exactly the same thing won't be exactly occurring at the same time that it did in the past. So there will be some variation and I had to realize that. I had to realize that anything can happen anytime in the market. So Mark Douglas harps on that quite a bit. And until I realized that I was not going to figure out what was going to happen in the market in the future. And I, you know, did have a trading strategy or system that I knew had an edge over the long term, but there's going to be variations in live trading. I was never just going to get past this, the mental hang up of trying to predict the future, trying to, you know, what's wrong, you know, it's not working out and, you know, that trading can't be very stressful. I mean, for those of us who've been trading for a while, we know that there's a lot of, you know, I call them emotional booby traps, but basically pitfalls, emotional pitfalls that we can fall into that we're our worst enemy. When that happens, we make our own stress, you know. So I just had to let go of that, right? And that's part of, you know, my background too, right? When you're a business person, a professional person, you're into controlling a lot of your environment, a lot of what's going on around you. You're the expert and when it comes to the market and you start trading and all of a sudden you're no longer the expert, it's really, really hard to let go of that. So it was. And so you were trying all these things over the years and obviously the last couple of years, you have really become pretty laser focused on a strategy that, you know, you took kind of our weekly double calendar strategy, but you, as you say, you revised it, you enhanced it and which is what you came up with for the name red revised, enhanced double diagonal strategy. And so really for the last, and correct me if I'm wrong, but really for the last two years, you've almost nearly exclusively traded this red strategy. And how, how has that felt to you from a perspective of shiny object syndrome? I mean, how are you staying so focused on that one strategy when we know that shiny object syndrome can attack us at any time? And it has, it has during that time, it's attacked me. Particularly this year, performance is not as good as last year. So of course, you know, what's wrong, you know, what, what happened that I'm doing differently. Of course, I'm not doing anything differently. It's just that the market conditions were so much more conducive last year to this strategy than this year. I mean, it doesn't mean that this year's performance is bad. I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm doing, I'm doing better than the stock market with this system, this strategy this year. So I just had to, what, what I did was instead of saying something was wrong with the strategy, I realized that not all market conditions were the best for the strategy. And so what are the pitfalls for this strategy? What kind of conditions and is there a way to refine again, you know, do another refinement enhancement or multiple, as it turned out to be, multiple variations of it to deal with different market conditions. So, you know, I'm not gonna get into all the technical aspects here, but I've been able to do that this past year. In other words, turn what I would consider a challenging environment or at times, at times it's been challenging to my advantage. And that is, you know, now I have these different ways to trade red to make it so much more powerful and robust.  So instead of discarding it, right? The shiny object would have been, well, I gotta find something better. You know, something's gonna be better, you know, than this, which would have been my past MO to discard it and look for something better. So. So just to clarify for those who are not familiar with red. So now you really have, I think it's, is it six or seven or eight different variations of this strategy that are designed to take advantage of certain specific environments in the market, really based around implied volatility and price movement and those kind of things. Is that correct me if I'm wrong? How many variations of the strategy are there? There's eight and one of them is for new red traders, just for new red traders. So it's basically a simplistic version of the others. Yeah, I've got eight different ways to trade it now. So when I first started, there were really, there was really just one. There was just one. So I've been able to now refine it based upon what's happening. Yeah, implied volatility. We trade different with red. We trade, you know, the Wednesday options and Friday options, it's weekly. So we're in and out, you know, every week. I do have a two week trade now. I've got a five day weekend trade. So there's a lot of different ways that I've been able to supplement, you know, the sort of core foundation of the red double diagonal because of what's happened in the market. And quite frankly, if the market conditions were so easy like they were last year, would I have been motivated to develop all that stuff? No, no, I would have sat back, you know, my, you know what?  So I don't do it as a bad thing. It was sort of, you know, maybe what was necessary as part of my development as a trader. And in so doing, by the way, all that has led to me to focus more and more on my skill development. So as a trader, so I've got, you know, lots of positions on most of the time now. And I'm not freaked out. I'm used to what happens with those positions and I can let that stress go. I am laser focused on trading about an hour and a half every day. So, and that's really, except for Wednesdays now, Wednesdays is not going to be a trading day much for me, except to just look at what's happening with open positions in case I need to close some early. But anyways, I've been able to just say, okay, an hour and a half, I can be really focused on trading and then I can let the market do its thing and not be thinking about it or stressed out or anything after that. And so I think as a trader, I know for me, and it sounds like from listening to you as well, that the shiny object syndrome can really primarily come from two different areas. Number one, if something stops working as well as it used to, I think that's probably the number one driver of us wanting to start looking for a new strategy, right? Right. Number two is if we just have one single strategy or methodology in a little box and we're just doing that every day, we get bored, right? And so, to me, it's those two are two of the most powerful drivers of going to look elsewhere for that shiny object syndrome. And if I'm hearing you correctly or at least what I'm perceiving from what you're saying is, is A, you could have that if it didn't perform as well, like you said, as well as it did last year, but two, if you're just doing the exact same thing day in, day out, you kind of get bored. It's not challenging you mentally as it would. And so one of the ways that you've battled that is to find different variations and it really became almost a challenge to you to find, okay, well, if it's this market environment, then this little tweak to the strategy would work better. Instead of going out and completely scrapping it and saying, I'm gonna go find something else to do because this isn't working as well as it did before, you channeled that shiny object syndrome into just finding these different variations in a way that continued to challenge your mind, to challenge you as a trader. And I just, I think that that was a really, I don't know, I admire the way that you did that because I think it not only created some significant value in the strategy that you use, but it also kept you from going elsewhere and just getting back into that never ending cycle of trying to find something new or better. Yeah, I'm really glad you brought up being bored because I forgot to add that in my notes because I am naturally curious. That's part of what was working in my favor, hard worker, curious and getting bored easily. So I was always improving myself as a professional or business person. And as a trader, I considered I need to find, I mean, you know, I'm all these different ways I've traded in the past.  It's just, I appreciate it's a lot of the excitement and stuff. So how do I deal with now a more less action oriented strategy or basis for my trading and not get bored? I don't have the same kind of action that I did in the past always. So that is part of what I did was to investigate ways I can actually have the strategy be more reflective of different market conditions. So I get traded more often and have more positions on. So you don't get bored when you've got eight different setups and you've got, you know, primarily I trade three different underlines and I can have, you know, anywhere from a half a dozen to a two or three dozen positions on at once. So, you don't get bored then. So, but that was a hang up for me is how can I deal with this tendency to get bored and always wanting to find something to improve it or be better or something that's better than what I'm doing. So that is part of it. Yeah. And I talk a lot on this podcast about self-awareness. And so don't forget, if you're listening to this, shiny object syndrome is different for everyone, right? So in other words, you know, for me as an example, I mean, I day trade, I also do swing trade. I do double diagonals, double calendar. So I do those strategy. I also do iron condors and iron ducts and verticals. And so I do a lot of different things. I think for me, what it came down to was, you know, I used to do stocks and futures and forex and I've done crypto too. I've done, you know, so all these different things. Whereas now, I mean, I still dabble in other things, but my almost my core primary focus and the focus of navigation trading is all around options. And there's so many different aspects of options trading that you can learn and then they can help you. You know, I think, you know, understanding, you know, how iron condors and short strangles work is also a understanding that how those work can spill over into helping you understand how calendars and diagonals and other strategies work. So for me, it was really more mastering and focusing on options. And then you can play around, you can jump around in that playground. And so I think, you know, like I said, everybody's different from a shiny object syndrome standpoint, but I think if you can find your sandbox that really excites you, then you can kind of jump around within that sandbox as long as you don't jump out of the sandbox and go play somewhere else. That's a good way of putting it. Yeah, I mean, just option strategies alone, right? Is a pretty large universe. And especially when you consider all the different underlines that you can trade each one with. So that's a pretty big sandbox there. So yeah, at some point, at some point, you know, maybe it's age also with me, but I had to realize, you know, I have to just get better at being in one sandbox. I have to learn how to just really get good at that. And I made that commitment to myself. Yeah, when I started the red strategy and after I traded it a couple of months, I said, yeah, this has got to be what I'm really gonna focus on and get good at it. So we've got a sheet for, if you're listening by audio, you can't see this. We also post these podcasts on YouTube, but Tim just came up with some bullet points. We've already kind of hit on some of these one way or another fallacy of applying skills, especially very strong technical skills used in other professions of trading. You know, I think that's a big one. And just to add a little bit more to that is, you know, a lot of people come into trading who have been successful in other areas and they try to apply what's made them successful elsewhere into trading. And it doesn't really work. Tim, you kind of touched on it as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, as a, you know, somebody who fixed things.  You try to control your employees. You try to control the environment of your business. If you try to come into trading and you try to control the markets, that's where a lot of times things don't work out so well for you. No, no. Yeah, you can't just hire and fire. A strategy or a trading coach.   And then we talked about your second bullet, the endless process of seeking and analyzing new trading system strategies.   So, you know, part of it, part of the process of learning to trade is figuring that out and testing different system strategies, methods, vehicles, you know, all those different things. But, you know, what we talk about with shiny object syndrome is the problem is once you find something that you gravitate to, that's probably what you want to focus on. You know, if you come in and you can't stand holding positions overnight, if you like being flat by the end of the day, you probably want to focus on day trading. If you are the type of person who comes and you can't stand the, you know, the stress or the anxiety or the fast-paced motion of day trading and you want something that can kind of play out over a period of time, then day trading is not for you, right? And so, you know, I think the quicker that you can scale down and really define what it is that excites you the most and or fits your personality the quickest, the better off you're going to be with trading. Right. Yep, couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more. And your third bullet point here, failure to appreciate that regardless of how strong they are, none of these will be perfect and all will have periodic setbacks during real-world trading conditions. Every moment in the market is unique in some way. The future will not reflect the past. And so, as you talked about with, you know, trying to, you know, and I see services all the time advertising, you know, this strategy had a 90% win rate over the last three years and there's so much garbage being sold online where people are just simply going through and doing cherry-picked back tests, taking that strategy and selling it to the public as if it's something valid because of a back test that they did. And so that bullet point that you put, I mean, it hits home very clearly because, yeah, there are always going to be certain things that perform well during certain periods of time, but how you trade and how it performs in the real world and real-world trading conditions is a completely different ballgame. Right. Yeah, I hate to see that too. And I was unfortunately a sucker for a lot of those many years ago when I was naive, but, you know, it's very easy to conduct a bad back test and put in, you know, whatever you need to optimize it and claim that, you know, this has great performance and, you know, you could put up the typical disclaimer, but the implication, obviously, is that that performance is going to continue when, you know, you're trying to sell it. That's what you're looking to attract is people that buy into that. And I was, you know, like I said, I fell for that, but now I understand so much more about markets that I don't, I take that stuff for a grain of salt. You know, and I do back tests. I mean, for red, as people know, I mean, I've done lots of back testing because I just understand the nuances. It does help you understand the ins and outs and the nuances of a certain strategy or system, especially when it is somewhat complicated like red is, so. Yeah, I think just not to dig too deep on back testing in this episode, but, you know, back testing, there's a right way and a wrong way to back test. You know, if you use a back tester to find a strategy, you're always gonna find one, right? You're always gonna find something that worked over a certain period of time. And if that's how you start, if that's how you try to trade, unfortunately it's never gonna work cause you're always chasing what happened in the recent past. The way that, as you mentioned, the way that you back test is really define how different aspects of trading your strategy, which you already know works. You already know it has an edge. Using back testing to find little variations of how it worked in different market environments, that's the right way to back test. Yeah, thank you. Couldn't have said it better. When it comes to shiny object syndrome, it really comes down to you finding something that excites you, find variations of that trading style or methodology that can help you stay within the, like I said, within a sandbox of strategies around a similar type thing so that you don't veer too far off your path and to find a way that it's gonna excite you and perform well and so that you won't get bored. So I hope this episode was helpful. Tim, any last words to the trade hackers before we say goodbye? I just wish everybody a successful trading don't give up right before you find what you need to find to make it all come together and work for you. That would be that, cause I've reached those points several times where I was ready to give up. And I'm glad I didn't. I'm glad I found navigation trading in Steve in particular. That's for sure. Well, I think right before you really started focusing in a couple of years ago before you really started developing red, in fact, we had an email exchange where you essentially were going to quit, right? I mean, you were going to, you were about to go start day trading or doing something completely different. And had you done that, red would never have been developed. That's true. That's all because of the coaching you gave me at that time is what led to the development of red. That's exactly true. Well, that's awesome. Congrats on your success with the strategy and your continued development of it. I know that a lot of folks in our community loves the strategy and speaking of our community if you wanna be part of a community of like-minded traders, just go to community.navigationtrading.com. You can join for free. You'll see Tim interacting in there and we've got different channels for different strategies that we have. So folks are in there not only sharing trade ideas, we're talking about the mindset stuff that we talk about here on this podcast. So community.navigationtrading.com. We'll see you on the inside and we'll see you in the next episode.


Hello, and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 system window watchdog. It will cover the main features of this peripheral used to detect software faults. The window watchdog is used to detect the occurrence of software faults. The window watchdog can be programmed to detect abnormally late or early application behaviour. It's best suited for applications required to react within an accurate timing window. Once enabled, it can only be disabled by a device reset. An early wake-up interrupt can be generated before a reset happens to perform a system recovery or manage certain actions before a system restart. The window watchdog offers several features. The user can program the timeout value and the window width according to application needs. It can generate a reset under two conditions. When the down-counter value becomes less or equal to 0x3f, or when the watchdog is refreshed outside the time window. It can generate an early wake-up interrupt when the down-counter reaches 0x40. The early wake-up interrupt can be used to reload the down-counter in order to avoid a reset generation or to manage system recovery and context backup operations. As shown in the figure, the window watchdog uses the APB clock called P-Clock as reference clock for its timebase. The P-Clock is provided by the RCC block. This clock is divided by 4096 and by a value programmed by the application. The application can also program the reload value of the down-counter bit's T. The window width is controlled by bit's W. This diagram illustrates how the window watchdog operates. When the 7-bit down-counter rolls over from 0x40 to 0x3f, it initiates a reset. This happens if the application software does not refresh the window watchdog on time. The early interrupt, if enabled, can be generated when the down-counter reaches 0x40. If the software refreshes the watchdog while the down-counter is greater than the value stored in bit's W, a reset is generated. This happens when the application refreshes the watchdog too early. No interrupt is generated in this case. To prevent a window watchdog reset, the watchdog refresh must happen while the down-counter value is lower than the time window value and greater than 0x3f. This is illustrated by the green area. The refresh operation consists on reloading the down-counter with bit's T. Writing 0 to T can be used to enforce an immediate reset. To enable the window watchdog clock, the corresponding window watchdog enable bit in the RCC block must be set to 1. Note that once the APB clock for the watchdog is enabled, the application cannot disable it. Only a system reset can disable the watchdog clock. A low-power enable bit can be set as well if the application wishes to keep the window watchdog activated. Even if the CPU is in sleep or stop mode, the down-counter uses the APB clock p-clock divided by 4096 and again divided by a division ratio selected by the application. It can be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 as defined in the WWDG CFR register. The formula shown in this slide lets you determine the watchdog time-out value. When a system reset occurs, it's possible to identify the cause of the reset thanks to status flags provided by the RCC block. The window watchdogs can be one of the sources. The early wake-up interrupt can be used in order to perform emergency tasks before the reset occurs such as data logging, data protection, watchdog refresh in order to prevent the reset or other emergency tasks. The EWI interrupt occurs whenever the down-counter value reaches 0x40. It's enabled by setting the EWI bit in the WWDG CFR register. The EWI interrupt is cleared by writing 0 to the EWIF bit in the WWDG SR register. The window watchdog is active in run modes. In sleep and stop modes, it can be frozen by clearing the corresponding bit in the RCC block. In stand-by and shutdown modes, the window watchdog is not available. The format of the WWDG CFR is not identical in the STM32F0 and STM32G0 window watchdogs. The STM32G0 microcontroller supports an additional bit to extend the pre-scaler ratio value to 128.


indicate how much time is remaining. A bell will sound when you have 30 seconds remaining. When your time has ended, the bell will sound again and you should complete your comments. Before you begin your comments, please state your name and thank you for attending. And with that, we call to order the meeting of the city council public comment meeting on February 21st. The first item that we will address is calling my dear friend to the podium, the Pastor Ellen Collins Epps of the Morningstar Prayer Center will bring us the invocation. Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance. Father, we thank you for your peace. We thank you for your love and your joy. We thank you for this time and space to join together to speak blessings over our city. We ask your guidance and every decision that our leaders face, bless our mayor and each council person, give them strength and courage in both their personal and professional lives. We thank you that we are a city that forgives. We thank you that we are a city that loves. We thank you that we are a city that honors you, be glorified in all our different, teaching us to respect and to entreat each other with kindness and love. Thank you for workable solutions in every difficult situation and the faith to trust you. Thank you for Fort Worth, that we are a city not just known, that we're the beginning of the West, but we're a city where we work together and love one another. Amen. Council, the first item of business tonight will be the approval of the minutes from the January 24th and February 7th meetings. I have to approve. Second. Then just raise your hand. Anybody else having trouble voting? That vote is ended. Consideration of those minutes is approved. Mayor Patan, that concludes the business. The rest are the public comments. And I think you have language to share with the public that I will reiterate. Yes, just a note for each speaker. You will have three minutes to speak and the timer will tell you when you have 30 seconds remaining. And just to reiterate, three minutes at some point in time, you will hear one chime, one bell. What that means is you have 30 seconds remaining in your mind. There is a clock, but 30 seconds means you wind down and at three minutes, your microphone will be silenced and the next speaker will be called up. Please call the first speaker. Mr. Willoughby, Bob Willoughby. Bounce through these real quick. That there is, it's kind of bad. Offered $1,000 donation to St. Jude Children's Hospital if Maddie Parker would answer one essential question. There's no reply from Maddie Parker. It's been three weeks and I put a deadline. So when I think I got to say, I'm gonna leave this, you can go look at it better on the website, but I got to say about this. Wester did not supply a word in the dictionary that describes how low I feel about Maddie Parker. The $1,000 donation will not go to waste. It will be used to help expose pro temp Mayor Gina Bibbins. Okay, let's go to the next one. Hey, Mr. Jared, let's see how you take it. $500 to the Children's St. Jude Children's Hospital. These are handicapped kids, Jared. You got your legs, arms and legs and all that kind of good stuff, don't you? Okay, you're in good health. I'm gonna give $500 to them. You just answer why you voted to remove the public presentation from the city council agenda. All the other cities around our habit, we don't need more report work. You took it away from us, okay? That's what I wanna know. Let's see if you do it in that timeframe, okay? Now, let's get down to real business. Oh, wait a minute, wait, nope, that's it. I didn't bring the right one, but I brought that one. Oh, here it is, let's try to contact me about it. What that is is this one right here. This is a bogus report from the police department, okay? Also, I got a no trespassing sign, a bogus, no trespassing. I can't go to the handling community center anymore now. I'll write a bogus thing right here. And it's proven bogus by the people there that can prove it. Now, Attorney Affairs is not doing their job, but what I wanna do and I'm trying to do, and they won't talk to me, the police won't talk, I want to file assault charges against Sergeant Hyrd and Officer Z Board. They are 100% in violation of the efforts code of using unnecessary force. They came into a meeting at the request of Gina Bibbins, my opponent, and removed me from a community meeting because she did not want me there. This can be proven. The report says Gina, what it does, it writes out putting Gina Bibbins on top and me on the bottom, it's not true. 100% not true, it's a lie, okay? I want this report removed and I want someone to contact me so I can file the assault charges.  I call that unnecessary force, okay? Yeah, that's political stuff and get kind of rough sometimes. All right, do I have any more time left from about now? We need to move this to four minutes. You took six minutes from us, give us four minutes. Next speaker is Adrian Smith. Thank you, Bob. Adrian Devine Smith, let the words in my mouth and the meditations in my heart be acceptable and I say, oh, Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Before I begin, I would like to offer some of my, a little of my time to send prayers and condolences and strength and love to our former police chief, Joe Fitzgerald, the Fitzgerald family and the passing of his son. Yeah, I just want to use some of my time for this.  Okay, pass the table. Thank you for bringing the babies out tonight. Glad to get to see this political process and how it works. But I'm glad to see that our chief showed up tonight. It's never personal when I stand in this space. So I let people know it's never personal when I stand in this space, but it's always purposed. Everything I say is purposed. So Chief Noakes, we do not desire and oversight recommendation that you have decided to recommend for this city. Given that we had a racing culture task force, we had a police monitor who made recommendations and we had a 97 page report that's outlined what the problems were within the forward police department. So I say this to say this, we know that the council voted down 5-4 against the recommendations. Not this entire council though, the shoe fits were it. And I like what Mr. Nils said about the caring of the people's ward, I liked it. But Chief Noakes, no disrespect because you had opportunities, sir. What was recommended wasn't nothing that was going to stifle law enforcement's decision-making and moving law enforcement together, moving law enforcement forward, but it was going to bring law enforcement in communities together. Who knows law enforcement better than law enforcement? People would say law enforcement. Okay, well who knows the community better than the community, the community. You put those two entities together, what do you have? I understand you have a collaborate togetherness. It's what I'm trying to say, more togetherness. We could fix some of these issues that we have, but again, it would take the council bringing back the previous voting, putting it back on the table. But again, Chief Noakes, no disrespect, but that's just my stance. Thank you. Next speaker is Bruce Datcher. Datcher, 1901 Amanda Avenue, Passed at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem and council members for giving me this privilege. I come actually this afternoon this evening seeking clarity. We are in the stop six community south side of Fort Worth as well as the Como area of Fort Worth. We are, and when I say we, I'm speaking of pastors that serve in underserved communities that has a history and a track record, Madam Mayor Pro Tem are serving our communities. And I would like to get some clarity concerning the CARES Act funds or the COVID relief funds, the unspent portion that has not been spent and how these churches that's in these underserved, vulnerable, distant franchise communities can help us to help our communities with some of these remaining funds. And what I would like to ask is that maybe at a later time a meeting can be held with myself in about maybe four or five other pastors. Not controversial, but more fact finding, more clarity to see what has been spent and what's left because we all know these dollars has already been allocated by our Congress appropriated already. And so we wanna see what's unspent so we can try to help make a difference with what's left. Thank you. Fernando, I'd like for you to get with Pastor Thatcher and we can arrange some type of meeting. Next speaker is Letitia Wilborn. Miss Wilborn. If we don't see her, we'll call for her again. She's coming. Okay. Hi, I'm Letitia Wilborn. I wanna start with saying I'm here because of the comprehensive plan. Okay, as you can see by the comprehensive plan, if you look at the comprehensive plan, if you see this little bitty blue dot that's WM Green Elementary School. Now, we were here several months ago and the city promised to do no more harm, but this is their comprehensive plan for this area of town. All of this blue around this little bitty school that you can barely see is heavy industrial. Keep in mind, keep in mind that this city has been in trouble with the government for having severe air quality. Number 16th in the nation for bad air pollution. The county gets rated in F, but this is the promise that they made to this community to do no more harm. The children that attend this elementary school pre-K through fifth grade, which means they are four years old to 11 years old. And this includes the staff. What about the teachers? What about the staff? They will have to deal with this pollution. Why it matters?  It was not until this pollution that it's the first process of several surgeries to my brain.  I was never ill until industrial came to my home around this same period of time. That is my son's dog. You can see the collar from the vet. My son's dog became ill. The dog, every time it went outside, it would break out in these sores.  My son loved this dog, but the dog suffered. And this was around the same time and the vet said something outside, okay? Their comprehensive plan mattered because my children had hair loss, rashes, asthma. I have asthma. The brain deal you just saw me present, this is my medical records. It does not include, does not include the medicines. It does not include my children still. This is all the medical records from that one deal. I have one daughter had over 50 surgeries from something she was not born with. It matters. Thank you, ma'am. Your time has expired. Eric is Brandon here tonight as well. Eric, if you would, please get with Ms. Wilburne and tell her about the public meetings that we're gonna be having. I think it would be most beneficial. Next. Next speaker is Chris Voight. You might wanna give her your card, Eric, okay. I'm here in regards to the $50 million problem with the new city hall. As a retired construction manager of 44 years, I watched the February 7th council work session at the new city hall on the new city hall and wondered how could the new city hall project suddenly be $50 million over budget? A bigger concern is that there was no discussion or questions raised about the budget shortfall or how it would be paid for. It may be difficult to find the cost savings you're needing because of inflation and labor shortages without cutting added scopes of work. Do the city hall chambers and offices really need all the added scopes of work to function properly? The Pier 1 headquarters were initially thought to be in a good enough condition to move in as is with some minor remodeling is an additional $12 million really needed to remodel the existing floors or could a more conservative refinished approach be taken? These additional costs should not come at the expense of the taxpayers or vital community projects. It's been said that the sale of the existing city buildings include the city library and that would help pay for this overrun. This raises the question of what will happen to our central library. Our library system seems to be struggling and needs to be invested in to prepare our workforce for jobs in the future. Any library funds, should they be used for the city hall overruns or should they be reinvested in the library system? Before taxpayers can get excited about this project we need transparency on how the new city hall will be paid for. Thank you for your opportunity to share my concerns. Next speaker is Keav Tatum. Good evening, Mayor Pro Tem Bivens and Council. My name is Keav Tatum and I rise as the pastor of the Numai Rose Mission and Baptist Church and president of the Ministers Justice Coalition, 2864 Mississippi Avenue, forward Texas 76104. I rise because the mother came to me and I want to thank Pastor Thatcher for the word for tonight, clarity. Many of you have known a long time and so I'm gonna bypass all that. But I want to understand how after we've seen Michael Jacobs, after we've seen Rara Thomas and Jermaine Darden, Noah Lopez, Carolyn Daniels, Kevin Goldstein, Amari Malone, Quavion Sladen, and Tatiana Jefferson, after we've seen Jacqueline Craig and Dorsey Norris, after we've seen police officers punch people in the face, in the hospital, simply because they was trying to find a way home. How in God's name can a forward police officer pull their guns on these little babies? How can you justify in your mind that it's okay for you to take your revolver out and point it at this baby girl right here?  Come here baby girl.  Tell that mom against her will. I like to extend my time to 10 minutes because I brought my 10 people with me. I'll meet the city attorney and city secretary to validate, it's six minutes. You see this baby girl? She was over at her grandma's house for the holidays and joined her grandmother. They don't even live in Fort Worth anymore. Mama was trying to make a better way for them and decided that this time she wanted to let them stay with their grandma. And they had the worst nightmare of their life on December the 31st, 2022 at 11 o'clock PM because the Fort Worth police department did not learn from all of those other incidents. We're calling for an independent investigation of this case and we want the Fort Worth city to release the body cams immediately so that we can get to the truth. As we just witnessed in Memphis, sometimes the officers account do not line up with what happened we seen on the video cam and for the city of Fort Worth to send a letter to the attorney general to prevent this mama from learning the truth by seeing the body cam and listening to the 911 call. It's a violation of this family's human rights and we're asking for independent investigation because contrary to chief note assertion, this department has a history of not being able to manage itself much less hold its officers responsible and accountable for what they've done to the black community.  Every one of them, I wanna know their names, I wanna know their history, I wanna know if they have a family, I wanna know if they have children, I wanna know if they really, really care about what's happening in the black community. Now, following me, the mother of these babies and the daughter of the mother who they pulled out of the house, put in handcuffs and in the back of the police car without a warrant or any reason of arrest, she's going to read for you so that it goes on the record the family's position about what happened on December the 31st, 2022 at 11 o'clock p.m. So I'm Ashley, I'm the next to call, do I? Yes, Ash, go ahead. So hello, I'm Ashley Boylan and on December 31st, 2022, around 11, 20, 11, 50 p.m. for a police department showed up to my mom, which is Demetrius Bill's home on a call that they stated was made. When the officers arrived, from my understanding, they did not knock on the door. They surrounded the windows and proceeded to knock on the windows with guns, ordering everyone in the house out. My oldest daughter was asleep and she heard police officers ordering everyone out the house. My mother grabbed my daughter, sparkle, which is 15, other daughter, Ashley, which is nine and my son, Samorian, he's 12, out of the home. When they opened the front door, they had guns pointed at them. The police officers was also in the next neighbor's house pointing rifles into the front door. They ordered my children onto the ground as if they were criminals. They put guns on them. They had my son that is 12 on his knees as if he killed someone, placed them in the back of a police car and locked them in there. My son, which is 10, has a mental disability. So he can't process on the level of a normal 10-year-old. So when he ran to the door to see what was going on, officers was cursing at him to come back out. He did not. He ran back inside the home with my uncle. They had sickle cell that was laying across the couch. When my uncle got up to come to the door to kind of figure out why were they there? They were cursing in ordering that my son come back outside. He refused because he was scared. The officers then threatened to shoot inside the home if they didn't come out. No one knew what was going on. Michael then took my son, which is 10, my nephew that is six and my niece, which is four. He placed my niece on his back and he walked out the door with them. For a police department also threatened to shoot him if he did not put my niece down. My niece began to scream and start urinating on herself. He then put her down and they were made to get on their knees and put their hands in the air. After that, the police department, Fort Worth police department, then ordered everyone to get in the back of a police car and locked all the children in the back of a police car. They didn't, when I showed up, at that time I had arrived, all my kids and my nieces and nephews was in the back of police cars. When I asked what was going on, they were saying that it was a shooting. I asked who was shot. They did not know. They didn't tell me anything else. They just let the kids out the back of the police car. I have reached out. So I think almost everyone that is sitting up here to ask what was going on. And I wanted the body cam. And also I want the 911 call that caused this type of ruction in Fort Worth. I grew up in Fort Worth and I've never experienced that in my life. If for me to move my kids to the Soto and allow them to come here, they shouldn't experience that in their life. My kids are now traumatized and they do get counseling at school for this. Ms. Bourken, pastor Tatum, I wanna thank you all for coming. Fernando, with your leadership involving the police department, I'm sure you can have a conversation. Mr. Costa. Next speaker is Cynthia Flint Crawford. Good evening. Distinguished Mayor Potem and council members. My name is Cynthia Flint Crawford. I live in Fort Worth, 7405. Oliver Stone Drive in the Black Metal Subdivision. I am a first responder. I'm a nurse. And I wanted to entreat you to provide our communities with access to information in the event there is an emergent situation. We had a gas leak on 18th of January and they closed off our street and they closed off the entrance to our neighborhood. The fire department was there. Atmos knew about it. The police knew about it. And no one let the residents know about it. I heard the blurb going on. I am the H.O.A. president. You hear that? You come outside and I wanted to know. You could smell the gas. It was thick. It was coming into my home. And the police told me that Atmos had been called. But nobody had been notified. There had been no knock.  We weren't told that there was an imminent blow up, but there should be no reason why. We can't have information like when our, there is an amber alert or a silver alert or even sometimes we get a flood alert. I think it's very important if we are notified if there is an incident because people did have a medical response to being overcome by the gas. They had to leave their homes. They had to take their grandchildren out. They had to take medication. They were contemplating going to the hospital. We have mentally disabled people in the community and caretakers who are not necessarily as proficient medically to be able to know and to move these people. So what I want you to strongly think about is in the event that there is a major event going on in the neighborhood, just like my company spectrum, even let me know proactively when we had our electrical situation during the cold, you might have a power outage. It never happened. It would be nice to have something come across my phone like the amber alert to say, this is in your neighborhood. Please do this in the event this happens. I think that it is worthy of the city to strongly look into making our citizens more proactive in their care by caring more about their citizens. I hope that you can find it in your time and in your budget, because this is my sixth time I've reached out, five times by writing first time in person. I thank you for this opportunity. Ms. Crawford, you should know that Atmos is governed by the Railroad Commission, but my office will follow up with you tomorrow for the proper contact with Atmos. Thank you, Connie. Thank you. Next speaker is Robert Harvey. I want to speak about the police departments, abuse and unlawful arrests of me and Carolyn Rodriguez and Manuel Mata for recording the police in public. Now, recently Carolina recorded a Fort Worth cop badge number 4042 saying that they've had training on how to handle us free press. And then he goes on to tell her where she's allowed to stand in public. And then he says he can arrest her for talking, which are both unlawful statements. Texas Penal Code 38.15, interference with public duty, Section D clearly says speech cannot be deemed interference. Also Supreme Court ruling, the city of Houston versus Hill, the court ruled that a city ordinance made that abusive speech toward police officer is a crime was unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment. That means I can say whatever I want to these police officers, unless I'm threatening them. It's a First Amendment protected activity. Now let's talk about House Bill 2319 that Arizona recently passed that said you have to be at least eight feet away when recording police. Eight foot, think about it, that's this far away as tall as I am. How's that relevant to Texas? A federal judge struck down this law as unconstitutional as a First Amendment violation. And Fort Worth cops think they can tell us where to stand while we're recording in public and arrest her for standing 20 feet away on a public sidewalk. I was arrested for standing 20 feet away from a cop sitting in his cop car. How am I interfering with a cop sitting in his cop car recording him? He jumped out of his car and grabbed me and arrested me. We've all seen the videos of Emmanuel Matai getting arrested on public sidewalks being 50, 60, 100 feet away. Remember a federal judge recently struck down Arizona House Bill 2319 that says you have to stand at least eight foot away. Fort Worth cops are arresting us for standing 20, 40, 60, 100 feet away. I was arrested for felony stalking for recording a police officer on a public sidewalk while she was wearing her badge and uniform, a felony. This case is absolutely ridiculous. The lawyers don't even understand how and why Judge Wolfe could sign a probable cause warrant. Taylor Stevens' report is comical. Her proof for such an accusation is I asked her what the tattoo on her arm was. While recording her, she put in her reports and her report the comments from the YouTube video she does not like. She also states in her report that my subscribers love her videos. This is the garbage that got me arrested for a felony in Fort Worth. Are we living in China or North Korea? Has all the politicians and police department in Fort Worth sold out? The next speaker is Caroline Rodriguez.  Buenos dias, como estamos, estamos bien? Disculpa, oh, am I speaking Spanish? I thought I was in a third world country for a minute. Gosh, I guess we're not in a third world country wearing Fort Worth, but it sure feels like we're in a third world country. That's because we only have two times a month to talk to you guys. What's up with that? Two times a month to air our problems that we have with y'all. And then another reason why I'm feeling like I'm in a third world country is because we have these thugs running around in police uniforms. They've put up all kinds of robots for transparency. They took away the police scanner so we don't know what's going on throughout the city. They won't release body cams. We've had that problem. This is not the only family that this has happened to you. This is not an isolated case right here. This happens all the time, all the time. They're thugs and they act like it. That the roadblocks they put up is they won't give us any kind of police records, anything like that. So we took to filming them, filming them, right? So when we're out to film them, they've set up all kinds of roadblocks for us not to see what's going on. On November 8th, the chief said that he knows that there's a culture problem, that he spoke to the city manager about this culture problem. And that was two years ago, but I haven't seen any change from two years ago. I've seen it getting worse, but I haven't seen any change. Has there been any meetings, any training for these officers on the street? Has any of them even know what community policing is? I forward requested any kind of formal meetings that they had concerning culture, maybe some diversity training. They don't give it. They don't give it. So for two years, he hasn't done anything as far as training goes for these guys out on the street. They change the rules every time we turn around when we're out filming them. They'll bring up, tell us that we're trespassing when we're not. They've trespassed us out of public buildings without even committing a crime. You ask, why am I being trespassed from this public building? Because you're trespassing. That makes no sense. They should only be able to trespass you if you are committing some sort of crime. But also, like I said, we took to filming them and you should see who would be appalled at how they treat the homeless people. Sometimes we're capturing them on video before they even know that we've walked up on them and they treat those guys so horribly that they arrest 10 people a day for criminal trespass. We're not playing by the rules because with trespassing, you're supposed to ask somebody to leave first. Then if they come back, that's when you trespass them. And the third time is probably when you arrest them but they're just arresting them as they see them and calling it trespassing. So we need to do something about this non-transparency, how they treat people on the street, how they won't release body cams, why they won't give us any kind of transparency. And we wanna see some evidence of training these thugs on the street because they're thugs.  And when they all show up, it looks like the bunch of kids at the Dairy Queen on a Saturday night hanging out, you know, fraternizing and all that. But you know, it's just a calling and it's almost embarrassing because you really do feel like you're in a third world country. The rest that we've suffered. Thank you, Speaker. The next speaker is Mary Goodwin, or I'm sorry, Terry Roach. Sorry. Thank you, my name is Terry Roach. I know it's not all about me, but I'm gonna share with you that tonight's a special anniversary for me, but a bit of embarrassment and a little bit of pride. I feel like I've come full circle, 35 years ago this evening, my partner in crime and I were breaking into cars in a movie theater parking lot. We were seniors in high school, when a Fort Worth police officer noticed what was up. Good police work brought it into our crime wave of radar detector thefts as the officer escorted us to jail. Best thing that could have happened to me at the time. That arrest was in a sense a passport to a better life, putting me on the path to being an honest, responsible, productive and law abiding member of society. It's that role that brings me here tonight to speak on behalf of some individuals here tonight who have been arrested recently, but unlike the 17 year old me, I was a minor menace to society. I got what I deserved, these so-called cop watchers, auditors or whatever term you prefer, the arrest there of them is shameful. Let me state clearly, I am grateful and give my support to the vast majority of first responders and police who are there to serve and protect. They make sacrifices, face grave dangers. My grandfather was a police officer and the cop watchers, they can be profane, provocateurs, most people would not agree with their choices or their comportment, but they've proven beyond any doubt that there is a cancerous element and not only within the rank and file, but among the higher-ups who turned a blind eye to the bad apples or worse who actively cover up the crimes of the people who are sworn to uphold the law, arresting someone for filming, for openly criticizing the police, for profanity, for the way they look or their attitude. That's what's happening. Any reasonable unbiased person can see the retaliation, the targeting and the abuse of power, throwing someone in jail just because you can, knowing the tremendous impact that'll have on them, depriving them of their rights. Most of us wouldn't do what they do again, but most of us wouldn't stand up to injustice and be arrested 29 times as Martin Luther King was. Whatsoever you do to the least of our brothers. Father Nemoller, he said, I hope it pronounced his name right, World War II, German, he said, I didn't care when they came for the communists, but I sure wish I would have. I have to admit that I didn't care, I didn't even know about them till I experienced abuse of power and misconduct by police. And I've been trying for two years to get body camera video. We should all be able to have body camera video. These provocatures, they're the ones telling the truth. It's not easy to hear and a lot of our major media, they're quiet. I'd like to thank Edward Brown, the Fort Worth Weekly for giving voice, for speaking up. They demonstrate clearly the need for civilian oversight, strong, vigorous, independent, and no one's gonna benefit from that civilian oversight than the good police officers, the vast majority again. I'm arguing on their behalf to ask you make that civilian oversight real. Thank you. Next speaker is Mary Goodman. Good evening, my name is Mary Goodman. I lived in Fort Worth in District 8. Okay, I am a member of the Fort Worth Sierra Club and members of the Echo Heights community came to a meeting that we held this month. Our focus, Sierra Club focus, is now gonna be environmental justice and Echo Heights is an example of environmental injustice. Echo Heights is a neighborhood and community in Southeast Fort Worth. Historically, there were farms, fields, neighborhoods and a prairie dog park. The city moved the prairie dog park for their safety. The area was then rezoned for industrial use and moved trucking firms, light, industrial, heavy industrial and yet the people, families and children of Echo Heights remained. They've already discussed last month the people of Echo Heights fought to keep a trucking company from taking a parcel of open land that is across the street from the elementary school, William Green. They were successful for now. The people living in Echo Heights are in the 83rd percentile in the state for air toxic cancer risk, 95th percentile in the state for air toxic respiratory hazard and 90th percentile in the country for traffic proximity. The neighborhood is 90% people of color. There is severe illness and Echo Heights has been reported. The people in Echo Heights have been pleading with the city to improve the conditions in which they live and to not allow any more industry in their neighborhood. The trucks thunder past the schools and houses, the trucks parked right behind homes were exhausted, stewed in their large yards. It is time for the city to listen to the people of Echo Heights and meet their needs. The city made them sick, the city must make them well. Environmental justice would be to have the comprehensive plan, oops, I'm running out of time. I cannot speak as eloquently as the people of Echo Heights but I want to add my voice to theirs. Please listen to them and act in the best interest of there as you did for the prairie dogs. Thank you. Our last speaker tonight is Charlie Lanza. Hello, good evening. I'm an outsider. I watch some YouTube videos and wow. What do you have going on here? It's just amazing to me. I don't understand how your police force has gotten so out of control. I didn't rehearse to say anything here but just what I've witnessed, obviously I have a serious problem. I feel so sorry for those people that were just here that left, I can't imagine that. So I don't want to get long winded here or anything like that but I think you really need to sit down and have some serious conversation with these police officers and get whosoever in charge and come up with something to fix this. People are having their rights completely violated. They're being arrested for trespassing, for filming an officer. Well, we live in the 20th century and there are cameras everywhere. They have cameras. Everyone has cameras. Everything is documented. You're just gonna have to get used to it. So, what more can I say? I just feel so bad. This is such a great city. And I come from Pennsylvania. It's a great area but obviously there's some serious rot going on here and it needs to be fixed. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem, that concludes all of the speakers tonight. Thank you all for participating in the process this evening. Tonight's meeting is adjourned.


Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, I am Captain Gorky Sullivan, your narrator for this afternoon's ceremony. Welcome to the Knights Air Force Air Force Central Change of Command ceremony. I'm going to use General Eric Carrilla, Commander of the United States Central Command. This afternoon, Lieutenant General Alexis Schiecker-Groisch, Commander of the Knights Air Force Air Force Central will relinquish command to Lieutenant General Eric C. Franks. We are honored to have a member of the distinguished guests in attendance this afternoon. We have asked that you hold your applause until all guests are recognized. His Excellency, Dr. Khaled and Muhammad El-Gayad, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defense Affairs, the Honorable Jean-Baptiste Sabre, the French ambassador to Qatar, the Honorable Timmy Davis, the United States Ambassador to Qatar, the Honorable Lothar Frieschladder, the German Ambassador to Qatar, Staff Director General Khaled Muhammad Heisach, Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Major General Talal Suleiman Al-Ahmadiyy, Deputy Commander of the Royal Saudi Air Force, General Stefan Heel, Chief of Staff of the French Air and State Force, Vice Admiral Emmanuel Slarz Allen Dan, Vice Admiral George Wyckoff, Commander of the United States Naval Forces Central Command, Mr. Shami Grigowich, Wife of Lieutenant General Grigowich, Mr. Justin Grigowich, Son of Lieutenant General Grigowich, Mr. Sergio Orlando Manuel Rivera, Friend of Lieutenant General Grigowich, Ms. Sophia Alejandra Sandoval-Prasad, Friend of Lieutenant General Grigowich, Lieutenant Colonel Retired Jim Granz, Father of Lieutenant General Granz, Mrs. Amanda Granz, Wife of Lieutenant General Granz, Ms. Erin and Ms. Nadi Ms. Sara, the Children of Lieutenant General Granz. We also welcome all commanders, Chiefs, regional coalition partners, and the men and women of the Nike Air Force, Air Force Central, who are in attendance tonight. And those who have joined us virtually from across the globe, please give them a round of applause. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand with me right above the official party and remain standing. The presentation of the colors, the Qatari National Anthem, followed by the United States National Anthem, played by the Qatari National Band and the TZ Band, and the Incubation. West End, your name, my name is Sue, and you're in the parade. Thank you, Chatham. Ladies and gentlemen, please receive it. It's active on the scene. Staff, please make your appearance on the line. We are the seven seats, ambassadors, and distinguished guests. Welcome to that seat. Thank you for joining us on this occasion. It is a pleasure hosting the change of tomorrow's ceremony. And it's a pleasure to have you here in such a beautiful country and beautiful world. As you can see, as an example, there will be no relationship. We have peace and security in this important region, and it's important because we love it. We love this region, and we try our best to work together to make it important. Thank you.  Welcome to Chatham, a new home. The view of the general needs to come. Now, I would present my general language. Thank you very much. Thank you, your Excellency. Ladies and gentlemen, the presiding official for today's ceremony, the commander, General Perilla. To look out at the side, surrounded by a French car, this is what makes us different. The relationship, the days when they return, the deep friendship as a human being is here for Spain. The sacrifice of man leads to leaders, and the air may make sure. We serve our people, and it's a very good experiment to survive this. And the military now, which is the most important one, is home. Synchronizing the efforts of thousands of international team with the fight over your new tactics in real time and in combat, there are too many firsts for us to mention here today. Your work is now done. We begin your work with culture, and it's never early. Seek your friction and try to change. In these past few years, Greece has had a state that has been in command by its people. Building upon us, this is impressive to include our partners. He built a formidable team across the region. There is no more change over the past six months of crisis across the region. The joint regional heritage has been a shining example of who our bulls are. The JRAC has served in safe lives on multiple occasions. And even the most difficult days, the team has created a true combined headquarters in the chaos where our partners should survive. This team is out on the web. Greece directed the members of Task Force 99 absences in a nation's afterwards to run until after. Harnessing the power of our mission delegates that blinded the exceptional system and turned it into the gold standard to be a processing of more than 1,000. Don't worry, I'm still getting there. Granted to be behind it, best of all, you need to be seen when those services set it up and those on the joint status. Determined that it'd be a leader to take this team over there. Though he's coming in after that, he previously commanded the three to be there to fix everything up. And the Saudi, the world's Saudi leader, he has served as the second commentator at DJ3 for our team, and I was as well. He brings depth, experience, and care to one of the most complex security situations in the world. And I hope that everyone who's seen this, seen the days and weeks that come, that it's very just going to put out for you the five reality. Welcome to the team. Probably, well, fear and shy are force-based.  What you're doing is... One of them is, is to be brief, be brilliant, and be non, so I won't take long. Ladies and gentlemen, the actual student masters, Jesus of Heaven, the spirituals, and the friends and partners from the Air Force across the region and the senior guests in the airmen of the past century, I say here, for you to think of it, the existence of gratitude for the privilege of that experience. I mean so very much. So, to his excellency, Dr. Khaled, you're on top of a new disease. We put up a list of benefits that's used with international cooperation. Thank you for hosting us. Thank you for hosting this ceremony. And I'll leave a part of my heart here in the talk. This is one of the first of many awards for teaching this ceremony and for your leadership to navigate some of the most perilous moments we've seen here in the days. You were the title of that gift that our Air Force was central to and trusted us to some of the most critical little senses about the region. Your trust and support was the whole up and down the chain. There's a few Air Force students that I make to thank. Of course, it's not you today, but General Seed Brown was the chief of staff of the Air Force all the time. So we have a lot of and I also, of course, want to thank General Lough and the members of the staff. General Rose Lough, the current mayor of Air Conduct and General Murray Stelly before him. Thanks to them for their trust and confidence as absent in supporting this as we extend this ceremony. To my fellow deployment commanders, it's been a privilege to work with you along the side of the city of 15 players as a dramatic understatement. Your collaborative, your non-progressive attitude puts our Air Force and our armed forces on a tremendous good path. To all my fellow air chiefs here in the region, thank you for your partnerships. Good friends and difficult times that are blocked is a great value for each of our countries. I thank you for all of your support. To the minimum capacity that I would like to call out, I've had a number of tremendous decades I've been looking at them all. You've come to support us. I know the community needs to advance and the best of luck is to move to full force here this summer. My commander, she's not certain taking ground on one of the best ones we can ask for, always looking out for me and looking out for her team. And of course, the demands of our air institution are ranged in the range of 40 minutes and all of the officers in this region are impressed with me. There's a few others I just want to briefly highlight, and that's my current office team. I'll often say it takes a village to take care of the French and not be at home with the best of us out there. My prior executive, Lieutenant General Ryan, I asked him, was she a lot of work or she a lot of, a lot of money? And I was going to pull in my recruiter to my current assistant camp. I think he, my current assistant, came up with me. My current assistant, Jack, Sarah, and my current assistant, Jack, Cass. Thank you guys for everything to do for the front office and the team this summer. And of course, we were missed like I was talking about their support and the support that's been critical to sustaining this current problem and one of the best skills we get is the U.S. military as well as families. They get drafted into this business and they serve unfortunate. And I know many of you are waiting for their families to come up their support back home. But I think they've done this a lot of change and that's their own their own support. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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