The means of grace is the sermon for this evening and by way of introduction to this essential truth of our faith, hear a proverb and consider an illustration with me. Proverbs 28-19 says, He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough. So an illustration. One two farmers, one named Mr. Plenty and the other named Mr. Poverty. Like the proverb, Mr. Plenty exercises the critical means of farming, which lead to the blessing of plenty of bread, whereas Mr. Poverty does not exercise the critical means of farming and is left with poverty. Is it not God who gives the increase from the crops? Then why does one piece of land bear an abundance of fruit and the other little to none? The answer lies in the means of farming through which God ordinarily blesses. Mr. Plenty weeded, tilled, sowed generously and watered. And although these means were not the source of Mr. Plenty's harvest, that glory belonging to God alone, it was precisely through these means which God was pleased to provide. On the other hand, Mr. Poverty let his weeds remain. He refused to till his land and he sowed sparingly and watered little. Therefore he reaped little to none precisely because he neglected to implement the means of farming through which God ordinarily blesses a crop. This illustration concerns agriculture, but serves to introduce the means of grace for the Christian life. We know the means of farming and their importance to farming. However, what are the means of grace in living the Christian life? And through what biblical means does God give grace in the Christian life and sanctify as people? So tonight in an outline we're going to look at a representative definition of the means of grace and then the necessity of the means of grace and some application of the means of grace. And the text that I would like to use as a starting point is Acts 242. So if you would please turn there. And I expect and plan to use a lot of text because the means are plural and there's not one exhaustive place in the Bible that's going to go through all the means so you're going to have to look at many texts to get even a representative list of the means of grace. So be ready with your Bibles. So Acts 242 and they continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers. This text only shows four means of grace and will be representative for this sermon. The Baptist Catechism which describes the word baptism, the Lord's Supper and prayer as means of grace is an example of others that have attempted to list those means. However, here being for Baptist Catechism recognizing for the means by which God gives grace in living the Christian life are many such as teaching and preaching of the word baptism, the Lord's Supper, prayer, worship, church discipline, giving, spiritual gifts, fellowship and evangelism. So as we focus on a few tonight, remember that it's representative and not comprehensive. So let's look at Acts 242 and just remind ourselves of the context and look a little more closely at this verse before we go elsewhere. In Acts chapter 1 verse 8, Jesus Christ said to the disciples, you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. That serves as like a table of contents for the book of Acts and you can easily divide the book up into the ministries into those areas and categorize it thematically as the work of the Holy Spirit through the apostles. Well exactly as Jesus said came to pass in Acts 2 verse 1, when the day of Pentecost had fully come they were all with one accord in one place and there suddenly came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire one sat on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. And what was it that they were saying in verse 11? We hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God and as you look and see what the apostles preach in the book of Acts you'll see that it centers on Christ. So the wonderful works of God in relation to Jesus Christ. After this miraculous event people accuse these foreign tongues as drunkenness and Peter uses that as an opportunity to preach the first sermon recorded in Acts. And in verse 22 he says, men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth a man attested by God to you by miracles wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst as you yourselves also know him being delivered by the eternal purpose of foreknowledge of God you have taken by lawless hands and crucified and put to death whom God has raised up. And he goes on from there to proclaim more of the gospel about how it was fulfilling of the scriptures that he would raise. After this sermon and with many other words he testified be saved from this perverse generation and those who gladly received his word were baptized and that day about 3,000 souls were added to them. And from that day they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine, fellowship and the breaking of bread and in prayers. What I want you to see there is the promise of the spirit, the coming of the spirit, the preaching of the gospel, the salvation of sinners and then following the salvation of these believers, the practice of these means. The means of grace are the outworking of our salvation. They're the fruit of the root being in Christ. We're going to participate and employ the means of grace in our life as Christians by the very relation that we have to God in Jesus Christ. We have a new heart. So let's look at Acts 242, the apostles doctrine. What is this? The apostles doctrine in context centers on Christ just as the entire word of God does. In the days of the apostles as their ministry began they were considered to be teaching something new and contrary to the Bible at that time. Acts 4 verse 16 saying, what shall we do to these men for indeed that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem and we cannot deny it. But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them that from now on they speak to no man in this name, the name of Jesus. So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God you judge for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. Turn to Acts 528 saying, did we not strictly command you to not teach in this name and look you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood on us. So the apostles doctrine centered on Jesus Christ. The problem was that the Jews rejected their own Messiah in their blind suppression of the truth and of the oracles of God which they already had. With the coming of Christ the light came into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light. However, the scriptures always testified to Jesus Christ. John 539, you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life but it is these which testify of me. And the apostles are now proclaiming it with boldness by the power of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the ascended Christ. All of the New Testament is what was written during and through the apostles time of ministry. So if you think about the New Testament itself when was it written? Who was it written by? It's the apostles doctrine. It's the doctrine that is laid on the foundation of Christ or the cornerstone being Christ they laying the foundation. And going further, the New Testament is the fulfillment and progression of the Old Testament. The Old Testament was preparatory and it was patterned after the New Testament realities. So the apostles doctrine was essentially the correct interpretation and teaching of all special revelation including the Old Testament which Paul would later use to refute the Jews. The word of God brothers and sisters is an indispensable means of grace. So when we hear apostles doctrine we shouldn't think small we should think of the entire word of God. So turn with me to John 17 and I'm going to start in verse 14. I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that you should take them out of the world but that you should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world I have I also have sent them into the world and for their sake I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified by the truth. Here very plainly and clearly the truth is the word. The word is the truth. How are we sanctified by truth? And the word is truth. This is an indispensable means of God's grace by which we are sanctified. When you hear grace what do you think of? It can be a very broad word and mean various things in various contexts but essentially it is the benefits promised by God in salvation by virtue of being in union with Christ and those benefits that we receive which begin with our regeneration, our new life in Christ are then further communicated in various graces throughout our life as Christians as we overcome sin and grow in maturity. So God's grace is him blessing us according to the work of his son and in union with his son by the Spirit. And God does that by the means of his word. Look at Psalm 119 verse 9. How can a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to your word? That by shows the means. That way by what means will he cleanse his way by taking heed according to the word? One wise for salvation and for living the Christian life. So that the man of God is equipped, thoroughly equipped for every good work. So let's move back to Acts 242 and go to fellowship. The word fellowship in context is Koinonia in the Greek and this is the only use of that word in the whole book of Acts. The term is mostly used by Paul and if you remember Luke is the author of Acts. In context though it means close association involving mutual interests and sharing. Other words for it would be association, communion and close relationship. This word Koinonia was commonly used by Greek speakers in this day to reference the relationship that exists in marriage. It was a commonly used word to reference the type of mutuality that exists in marriage. Fellowship. If 2 Corinthians 6, if you look there, 14, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what Koinonia, what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? And what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. There is a lot of synonyms happening there that will help teach you what that word Koinonia is. It's using a negative light like what relation they don't have, these are things that don't have fellowship with each other. And it's not talking about Christian fellowship as much as it's talking about various things like light and darkness, righteousness and lawlessness, Christ and Belial. But the point I want you to see here is learn what this word fellowship means from this context. Other synonyms for it are communion here, accord, part. When you don't have a part with the household of God, then you can't say you're in fellowship with it. If you're not in communion with the people of God, you can't say you're in fellowship with them. If you're not in agreement with the household of God, you can't say that you're in fellowship with it. These are words to help us get an understanding of what fellowship means, and it's a means of grace. Another text, 2 Corinthians 8, it shows the word, we'll look there, 2 Corinthians 8, 4, imploring us with much urgency that we should receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And I'll read earlier, for I bear witness that according to their ability, yes and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, imploring us with much urgency that we should receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. This is Macedonia out of their need providing for the church, Paul's deliverance of it to the church in Jerusalem. And they call it the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. Fellowship in sharing life and communion with one another involves serving, bearing one another's burdens. It's not merely conversation. Also in Philippians 1-5, for I thank God, I'm reading from verse 3, I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine, making requests for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, for your fellowship which exists in the gospel. Fellowship is based on and related to the gospel. It's a spiritual fellowship by the Holy Spirit in union with Christ. Albert Martin said, fellowship is not simply sitting in the same seats or under the same roof or on the same day being together. Fellowship is shared life. How can we carry each other's burdens if we do not get them out there where we can see them and put our shoulder underneath them? That's fellowship. Let's Acts 242, breaking of bread and the breaking of bread. It's not clear whether breaking of bread, that phrase, is a reference to the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, the Lord's table, or is reference to a common meal, or is a general to include both in Luke 2435 and they told about the things that had happened on the road and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread. That's not talking about the Lord's Supper. That's talking about a common meal and it's used, the phrase is used, breaking of bread. But go back to Acts 20, verse 7, now on the first day of the week, Sunday, which is the resurrection day, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until night. That right there, I understand in comparison also to 1 Corinthians 11 to be the Lord's Supper, breaking bread particularly on the first day. In 1 Corinthians 11, verse 17 and following, there's this practice of the Lord's Supper on the first day and they're coming hungry and getting drunk ahead of others. So they're selfish and that they don't care about the Lord's Supper together and then they're getting drunk on the day. So what that helps us to learn is from history is that they didn't practice the Lord's Supper exactly like we do. We don't feel our hunger through the Lord's Supper. But the Lord's Supper would be administered in the midst of a meal that was actually used for hunger. They're like, meal, practice the Lord's Supper together. That's why it's not easy to know if that verse is referencing one or both. In Acts 242, it could reference common meals or be inclusive of practicing the Lord's Supper in the larger context of eating both common meals and meals on the first day of the week which would include the Lord's Supper at some frequency. Either way, we only need reference other texts to know that the Lord's Supper is an ordinance. And in considering the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, it's fitting we include the ordinance of baptism to consider both. For the sake of moving, I want to just summarize. The Lord's Supper, seen in Luke 2219, where the Lord said, and I'll read that, Luke 2219, and he took bread and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying, this is my body which was given for you, do this in remembrance of me. Likewise, he also took the cup after the Supper saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you. The Lord's Supper is instituted by the Lord Himself and is a means of grace by which we are to remember His work for us. In the remembrance of and edification that comes by that remembrance of the Lord's work on our behalf and atoning for our sins, we are sanctified. We grow in grace. And the Lord's Supper is anticipatory because he actually will not partake of the fruit of the vine until he returns with us. So it causes us to look ahead to the consummation of what his death pointed to and achieved. Matthew 2819, you see baptism, go therefore make disciples of all nations, baptizing them, immersing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Baptism is also an ordinance given by Christ and is a means of grace. In the practice of baptism, God communicates grace to us and our growth in the fruit of the Spirit and our dependence on the Lord, our edification. It symbolically testifies of salvation. In regeneration, one is come alive. He's made a new creation and he's cleansed, purified by being indwelt by the Spirit. And the baptism symbolizes both the coming alive and the cleansing. And then the testimony and regenerative work that's being testified of is identifying one as part of the body of Christ. So baptism proclaims salvation and identifies us with Christ and his body. In the next means of grace, Acts 242, we have prayer and prayer is broad. It should be practiced privately and publicly just as with the word. However, to be succinct, I'll read our confession. What is prayer? Prayer is an offering up our desires to God by the assistance of the Holy Spirit for things agreeable to his will in the name of Christ, believing with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgments of his mercies. Essentially, it is an offering up of our desire, our holy desires to God. Prayer begins with holy desires. Holy desires begin with the work of the spirit in our heart. And yet it is our responsibility to pray according to those holy desires. Prayer should be practiced both privately and publicly. If you want to learn more about it, I know Tyler has been teaching on it and I think that that's been recorded on the Lord's Prayer. Also, our confession deals with that one I read there deals with multiple verses as reference to support that definition. But I'm going to continue moving because I want to get to the next point, the necessity of the means of grace. Why are let me ask some questions. Why are these means of grace important? And I don't want to create any doubt. I want to ask questions that men ask, not sanctified men. Are they necessary? Can someone substitute the reading and hearing of the word of God with watching Christian movies and plays? Incorporate worship. May we not substitute singing with miming? And what about fellowship? Can't we just stay in our homes alone until Sunday and show up for a few hours and be okay without fellowship? Why are the ordinances of the Lord's Supper and baptism important? Are they necessary? The means of grace given in scripture are not only important far beyond the degree of those questions and what they imply, but they are indispensable necessary for effective growth and sanctification in the Christian life. No one can possibly effectively grow in grace apart from God's appointed means. Why? Because God has revealed, according to His pleasure, the specific means through which He will communicate the grace of the new covenant and our sanctification. This truth is not merely proven by the regulative principle and the second commandment you shall not make for yourself a carved image, which commands us how we are to worship God. We cannot, it's true, we cannot mime in place of singing hymns and spiritual songs because God has not commanded Himself to be worshipped this way. That's true.  That's true. The regulative principle and the second commandment in how God is worshiped is answers those rhetorical or demeaning questions sufficiently. However, God reveals more than just those facts as to why they're necessary. The regular principle and the second commandment inform us sufficiently and inform us sufficiently as to why the means of grace are necessary and yet there is more and I want to show you that. So let's look at Romans 15, 14.  I'm sorry, it's not 14, it's verse four. For whatever things were written before were written for our learning that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope. Think with me about what is being said here. The word of God is a means by which we grow in grace. And from this text it says very clearly that through patience and comfort which come from the scriptures we might have hope. God intends to give His people hope and that by the scriptures God intends to bless and has specifically tied himself to blessing through the scriptures and hope is nurtured and grown by a person that employs this means of grace. Look with me at Romans 12, 15 and then we'll go to Galatians 6, 2. Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep, speaking of fellowship. Rejoice of fellowship is not always saying words to people. It could be just rejoicing with them or weeping with them. And we know made in God's image what it is when someone, I hope you know, comes with you and rejoices with you. Comes alongside you and weeps with you and carries your burden with you. When you are edified and comforted and encouraged with that fellowship that comes from another believer, that's God comforting you. That's God giving you joy. And He's doing it through the means of the fellowship of that brother or that sister. Fellowship is the means by which God comforts His people. Go to Galatians 6, 2. Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. The law of Christ, the law of God, intends, has a purpose to bear other people's burdens and when we employ bearing other people's burdens in fellowship, we are fulfilling the intent for which God gave it and it is to support and strengthen and comfort His people. That's another reason why you cannot go home and just practice the Christian life alone and come here one day a week, hear a sermon and go home. We have to have life on life. We must share life because God, and we could go to Romans 12 talking about the nature of the body and its parts. We're not individually, we're individually members of one another or 1 Corinthians 12 as well. The hand can't say it doesn't have need, the eye can't say it doesn't have need of the hand and so forth. Look at James 4-2 with prayer and I'm going to start in one. Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that warren your members? You lust and do not have, you murder and covet and cannot obtain, you fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask a miss that you may spend it on your pleasures. God intends to give you what you desire when those desires are appropriate. They're holy, dependent, and they're not seeking for selfish gain. And many things people do not gain in this life in their Christian life that are good because they don't ask. They don't pray. It's like Mr. Poverty. He doesn't, he's so sparingly. He doesn't till his land, he doesn't water it. So he doesn't have much increase. But God has said these are the means, these are the means, and the wise man, Mr. Plenty, says I'm going to sow heavily with these means. I want a fellowship. I want to study the word. He prays and through that God grows. God is not bound in that he needs those means, but he's chosen in his good pleasure to bless according to those means. It's not the same but similar to justification. It most reformed us, reformed in other circles too.  And it's true, that's terrible. Because we know with very clear conviction and implications to some degree the detriment of considering justification by anything but faith alone. And we see the fruit of it in the Catholic church particularly. And even in our own lives and in the lives of others, we know that the means by which God justifies somebody is faith alone. And we have a deep conviction on that. But often we don't have a deep conviction that God grants grace in living the Christian life according to these means seen by our neglect of them. But it's similar brothers, sisters. God has chosen these means through which and by which he blesses. It's not that we don't have every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ and that these are sacraments where we're continuing to earn more and eventually we'll be justified. We already have all things in Christ but we don't enjoy them. We don't actually experience experimentally as Christians the grace that is ours by our neglect of God's means of grace. And I could go to Matthew 7 where Jesus says after towards the end of the Sermon on the Mount, he says ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find and knock and it will be open to you. And in that context he's talking about heart righteousness according to the law. And that should be our holy desires that we want to honor God in our hearts by being holy unto him. That we want to have internal righteousness. So Jesus says ask, application. And I'll end with two. From Matthew 6, reject brothers, sisters hypocrisy. Reject hypocrisy with the means of grace. As seen in the Pharisees in our day and in our hearts at times because as water reflects the face of man so one heart reflects the heart of another man and when we see the Pharisees we should see our own remaining sin in ourselves. But the Pharisees did things publicly to be seen by men and yet they neglected God privately. When you apply these means of grace, apply the ones like reading the word prayer privately as well as publicly. But when you're practiced in publicly consider your motives and your goals. Reject hypocrisy in the application of these means of grace. And from Luke 18, I'll end there if you'll look at that briefly. It was a parable that men always ought to pray and not lose heart. And in this parable there's a wicked judge who won't do justice but the woman is persistent and he eventually gives her justice because he's just tired of her. And then Jesus says, shall not God avenge his own elect who cry out day and night to him though he bears long with him? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes will he really find faith on the earth? In contrast to this wicked judge, God is benevolent. And if he who gave his only son that you might have eternal life has now brought you into his household as an adopted child will go and giving his son to you, will he not give you bread if you ask for bread?   This is meant to encourage our faith. That's the issue is you are, when you neglect these means of grace, you're exercising your own selfish pride, your own self-sufficient blindness. You're thinking to yourself, I don't need the Lord. And you're having to impugn his character saying that he won't give or he doesn't hear and it couldn't be further from the truth.  As the pastor said this morning or maybe it was Pastor Michael of this world passing away, so why would you cherish the things of this world and neglect the eternal riches? Let's pray. Father in heaven, we ask now, knowing that you bless unlike the wicked judge. I pray Lord that you would grow us in holiness, that we would grow in our faith, our humility as we employ the means of grace that we would be childlike in our spirit and glory in Jesus Christ. I pray that we would see the relationship between the means of grace and effectual growth or a sanctification and living the Christian life. Lord, I pray that you will help us not only recognize where we ought to be growing in or not, but more that you would turn us, Lord, to yourself and cause us to pick up these means of grace where we have neglected them or are neglecting them. And I pray these things in Christ's name, amen.


Hey guys, this is my review for Supernatural Season 2. Good girl, good girl. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. So thank you guys once again for coming along on the ride with me. Thank you again for just joining along the journey with talking about Season 2. The fact that I was able to finish this in less than four years is already an accomplishment in itself. Hopefully Season 3 will be a lot faster. I've actually already watched the first two episodes of Season 3, so hopefully I'll be able to get through that. My goal is to actually get it done before Supernatural supposedly returns in September or October or November or whenever in the fall of 2020. So talking about Supernatural Season 2, most definitely one of the most rewatchable seasons of the show, especially the five-core season. I know this because this is probably the upteenth time I've watched this season. I remember when my brother and I had to live in the same room because there was painting and construction going on in one of our rooms and it took a lot longer than expected and we just kept watching episodes of Supernatural Season 2 and we literally watched this season to the point I think most of the discs are damaged. And I would also say that this is the season that really, really nailed down the core of Supernatural. The horror elements, the brotherhood elements, the humor elements, and the entire grandiose scale of the show. The show really got a main narrative going in this season, whereas in the first season it was all about them trying to find their dad. There's a lot of filler episodes, monster of the week episodes. It's not to say that there isn't any in this season as well. Everything's a lot more narrative based because their father died. We've gotten already the introduction kind of of the brothers, but we're still finding out a few new tidbits here and there about each other, about themselves. But also the other thing that's so great about this season, when I went through my entire review of this season, I only ever gave one episode a negative review. And there's a lot of rewatchability, there's a lot of really classic episodes. It starts off with a bang in my time of dying, which gave a little bit more of a backstory on the idea of ghost specters, ghouls, all that stuff, but it also killed their dad. They had been after for the entirety of the first season and boom, he's dead. Started this revenge trip and then kind of rebuilding themselves as well as the Impala and starting to really take on more responsibility. We get introduced to the Roadhouse with Ellen, Joe, and Ash, Joe Dirt, wannabe guy. This was actually a big point of the show for this season and they completely destroyed it at the end with the finale. And I've always found that kind of interesting that they didn't keep this place. They tore it down, they immediately destroyed it. And I don't know whether they had to because of story reasons or they just wanted to because I'm actually kind of curious to see whether Ash actually had whatever information that Ash had because I don't even remember. Harmony's kind of wondering, I figured it out in the second episode of season three, but those were great characters. I know some people had issues with Joe, but I liked her character. Unfortunately, she wouldn't come back for quite some time after this season. And same with Ellen. Ellen was a great character and I was always upset that they kind of shoot her out of the show.  There was only the one kid that they came across in Nightmare, but now they meet Andy, they meet Ginger Snaps. There's that other guy who gets killed by Gordon, which by the way, fantastic human villain, fantastic adversary for the brothers, fantastically acted by Sterling K. Brown. He was first introduced in Bloodlust and he returned again and hunted. I was really happy to see him return in season three. He actually, that is one of my favorite episodes in season three. I'm very happy that he's gone on to do a lot more things in his acting career because he deserves it. He's a fantastic actor. What was really great about this season is that again, it laid down a lot of the groundwork about demons. We found out that possessions can kind of happen without anyone knowing and with born under a bad sign, which then birthed that tattoo, which I almost, almost, almost got. But thankfully I didn't because with how the show's gone on now, it'd be kind of the amount of sevens I gave in this season. I'm kind of curious to see whether it's going to be beat again until season five. Crossroad Blues is probably one of the best episodes to show someone who's never seen the show before. It incorporates urban legends, but makes it its own. That was something that I had an issue with with Hookman in the first season is that it took this big, big urban legend, but it basically did everything exactly like how the urban legend works, whereas Crossroad Blues is kind of a varied tale.  They kind of dumbed them down a little bit in the recent seasons, but they're still the one thing that still scares me on this show. This episode, too, would have a mass of relevance coming around to the finale. And then the next episode, Crotaun, which is the first time they've ever had kind of like a zombie or a rage virus or an infection sort of episode, is one of those episodes where they show you something that's going to happen mid or near the end of the episode, and they cut back and they build up to that. This is something that obviously the show has done to death now, but at the time it worked with Sam's visions. A lot of twists and a lot of turns. There's some really cool stunt work. The whole thing is shot in like one specific section of Fort Langley. I love how it ended, too. You thought that the guy got away, but then the end Meg was there, too. And it's so cool, so cool to see all of the little twists in that episode. And that was a seven. Another classic episode is Night Shifter, which had Chris Gautier in it. For a guy who is literally known for really one episode, he is one of the most recognized one-off characters in the show's history. The only reason why I didn't give it a seven is because the antagonists, the shapeshifter that they're after, they doesn't really have any character. Everything is based on Chris Gautier's character and then them kind of getting out of the situation introduction of Agent Hendrickson and then the awesome use of sticks with Renegade at the end. Even if I didn't give it a seven, it still is a classic one. Tall Tales, where we got introduced to the Trickster. I thought this was a great character because of how long it would go before we would really see his actual purpose, his actual narrative purpose. And I'm kind of curious to see whether Kripke knew that he wanted to have Gabriel be used as this character so early on. Then Heart, Heart is one of my favorite, favorite episodes of the show because there's so much damn drama in it. And it is a little bit sappy. Some people kind of don't like that aspect of it, but I think it's really, really well done. They took that drama aspect and then they toned it down but made it a lot more relatable, a lot more familiar with what is and what should never be, which is a fantastic Alternate Universe episode. Not even really an Alternate Universe because it's all inside his head. It's such a great, great episode. One of the two that were ever directed by Kripke, which is kind of curious because I always wondered why he only directed this one and the other one. Kind of harkened back to when Whedon would come in to direct and write episodes of Buffy. Not the beginning or the end ones, but he would come in these middle ones, in the middle, like just spaced in here and there and always knock it out of the park. Most of the time he would do that and that's what Kripke did with this episode. And then finally, All Hell Breaks Loose, one of the best finale episodes of the show. The Yellow-eyed Demons' plan of the children come to fruition with all of them coming in to fight in Bordertown, which is a set that's in Pit Meadows, and there's a cool show down there, Sam dies, and which leads into Dean sacrificing his soul for one year of life to bring Sam back, which is the entire point, the entire pinnacle anchor of season three, which is one of the reasons why it's my favorite season. The season ends on a bang. It ends on a damn bang, like a good bang because it's the last good bang we're gonna have for the rest of the show, really, in terms of the five seasons. Like I said, only one bad episode, that was a negative episode and that being Roadkill, which I've made comments about, I'm gonna make comments about in my top five, best top five worst videos, but it's just a twist episode that loses all of its flavor once you've seen it. Sure, the first time it was okay, but even then, I kind of was a little bit questioning of why it was the way it was in terms of why they had to do it on this specific day when they've been able to hunt ghosts and whatnot in any other day. I thought that was a little weird. And then also, the twist as okay as it is, watching it the first time, the episode loses all flavor, watching it a second time. Supernatural season two is definitely one of the best seasons of the core five. It's better than one, for sure. I tell people to watch certain episodes of season one, but then to watch the entirety of season two because season two is just when the show really got its hooks into the core aspects of the show and it took it and it wrote it and wrote it and then it killed it. In the end, I'm gonna give season two of Supernatural a six out of seven. It's a great season. It's a fantastic season. I didn't give it a seven because like I said, it's not quite there yet. I think the only season that's gonna get that for me is either gonna be the next season or it's gonna be season five. It's one of the best seasons of the show in its entire history, in my opinion. Those are my thoughts about this. Next video is gonna be episode one of season three, so make sure to give me your guys's thoughts on the magnificent seven episode, which is gonna be great. I'm very excited to talk about that and then also my top five best and my top five worst Supernatural episode reviews will be coming up. 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DNA is a polymer of deoxyribonucleotides or you can say, deoxyribonucleotides are the building blocks of a DNA molecule. What is a deoxyribonucleotide? Deoxyribonucleotide is composed of three components and these are deoxyribose, nitrogenous base and a phosphoric acid. So first component deoxyribose. Deoxyribose sugar is a pentose sugar derivative. It is derived from ribose sugar. Here you can say this is ribose sugar and look at the numbering. Although this sugar is numbered conventionally but only a prime designation is added. So this is one prime, two prime, three prime, four prime and five prime carbons. So if this is ribose, so if at two prime one oxygen is removed this ribose sugar becomes deoxyribose. So at two prime position one oxygen is missing. So this is deoxyribose sugar. So this is one component of deoxyribonucleotide. The second component is the nitrogenous base. Four different types of nitrogenous bases are present in a DNA molecule and these four nitrogenous bases they are derived from two parent compounds and these two parent compounds are purines and pyrimidine. These two are parent compounds and the rest the all the nitrogenous bases four nitrogen bases are derived from these two compounds. So these two adenine and goanine these two are purines. So look at the pictures there are only minor differences for example different slides here and here. So these adenine and goanine are derivatives of a parent compound purine. Look at the numbering again they are conventionally numbered but here no prime designation is given to distinguish this from the numbered atoms in the pentose sugar. So next two are pyrimidines and these are cytosine and thymine. Again these two are slightly different from each other for example differences here and here. So these two are derivatives of pyrimidines. The third component present in a deoxyribonucleotide is phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid has three hydroxyl groups so it can form three bonds with other molecules. So all these three components that is a deoxyribose sugar a nitrogenous base and a phosphoric acid they combine together and they make a deoxyribonucleotide which is the building block of the DNA molecule.


Welcome folks, we had the Dow industrials finished down 874, we had the Nasdaq down 530, S&P is down 154, that's a downdraft folks in the Nasdaq of approximately 4.7%, 4% the S&P, 2.79 in the Dow industrials, gold, gold contract traded down $51 at 1823, we had silver down 82 cents at $21.10, light sweet crude flat, $120.21, that was about the only thing that was flat in the marketplace out here today folks, notes and bonds, this was a killer, the 10-year note down 1 full point plus 19 ticks, trading out at the price point of $1.1506, the 30-year data full 3 points okay, at $132.18, what you have, you have the 10-year right now is yielding 3.37%, so you are talking one monster number, there's no two ways about that. Notes, king dollar, what did king dollar do, bottom line, king dollar goes up over a penny, it goes up 1,056 ticks at 105, 203, Euro out here at 104, the yen at 134 and the British pound out here at 121 to 1 US dollar, we get over and take a look at the S&P what you have out here folks, you took out the B point, you took it out with volume and the thing that's going to be intriguing is that we got a little divergence and this is what it was, so the bottom line is spy took it out with volume, you needed $131 million, you got $143 million, that price projection now is $335 and you're at $374, the NDX100 which you know bottom line should have been easy to take it out were at $89 million, $891 million, so it did not take it out with volume, you needed $91.76, now here's the divergence however, the composite itself, the indices took it blew it away, you're $5.8 billion, you go back to the 20th, it was $5.4, so bottom line, the composite took it out with volume, that's it, the composite's an ABC structure down, the cues, that's a toss up inside the cues, okay, because the bottom line, you're shot by a million shares on the cues, bottom line, well my take is that we get an ABC structure down, have a great night folks, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off 9 o'clock in the morning, great show, look at him folks


Of course, today's telescopes no longer use photographic plates. Instead, a charge-coupled device, or CCD for short, is used. These enable direct connections between an object's incoming photons and its image on a computer. Here's how they work. CCDs are based on a principle called the photoelectric effect. If a photon with sufficient energy hits an electron in the outer shell of an atom, the transfer of energy to the electron can be enough to free it from the atom altogether. This is a fundamental component of quantum mechanics first analyzed by Albert Einstein in 1905. CCDs use a thin wafer of silicon to produce electrons from photons because silicon easily releases electrons with visible light. A tiny positively charged capacitor is attached to the silicon wafer in order to collect the freed electrons. If we get one electron for each photon in the range, we'd have 100% quantum efficiency. The highest quality CCDs can achieve up to 90% quantum efficiency. It's interesting to note that the quantum efficiency of the human eyes, rods, and cones is only 1%. The photons start producing electrons as soon as the shutter is opened. The capacitor collects the freed electrons until the shutter is closed. At that point, the voltage across the capacitor represents the number of electrons the capacitor collected. This information is sent to the computer. All of this is miniaturized into an integrated circuit and represents one pixel. CCDs are made of thousands or even millions of these configured as an array. The CCD on Hubble's Wide Field Camera 2 has 2k by 4k arrays for an 8 megapixel CCD. And as before, for color, we simply repeat observations with filters. For example, here's Hubble's photograph of the planetary nebula MyCN18 8000 light years away. This picture has been composed from three separate images taken with a blue filter to identify light from oxygen, a green filter to identify light from hydrogen, and a red filter to identify light from nitrogen.


Good morning everybody and thank you for joining us this morning for today's webinar on the RTA Web Services. My name is Lynne Smith and today our guest speaker is Hobie Bennett. Hobie is from the customer experience team but is currently working as a project officer in our web services area. So welcome today Hobie. Thanks Lynne, thanks for having me. In today's seminar we will be looking at the RTA's web service and particularly the update on the bond lodgements. We're going to be showing you a brief video on how this particular service is going to work and this will be replacing the existing PDF upload facility, so the one that you use through the e-services. We're also going to be looking at the upcoming changes to other RTA services and that's going to be including the printing of ceasing to do the bulk printing at the end of this year. We're also going to be looking at email notifications, ensuring your security and privacy when receiving email notifications from the RTA, look at median rents and how to get that information and also if you do have questions feel free to submit them through and at the end of today's session we will look at doing some of those questions for you. So just before we start I am going to launch a poll just to gather who is in our audience today. So in this question we're looking at which group in the rental sector do you belong to? So we're looking at whether you're a tenant or resident, a property manager, an agent, a landlord, community support organisation or other. So I'll just leave that for a few more moments for everyone to complete that for me. Great, thanks everybody. So what we look like we have quite a few people that are actually more property managers and real estate agents and a small percentage there of landlords as well. I'll just close that poll. So customers have actually told us that when dealing with the RTA with any tenancy transactions we need to have faster and more convenient ways. The RTA currently offers property managers and property owners and tenants three ways to lodge a rental bond. So our new RTA bond lodgement web service so that's lodging the rental bond online. We also have by way of e-services where you can scan a PDF version of the lodgement form and upload that through our system and pay by B-pay or we also have posting the pay for forms in with a check on money order to the RTA. And keeping in mind that some of the questions is that can a tenant actually lodge a bond? The tenants have always been able to lodge their bond so while the main bonds coming through are from property managers and owners they can come through the other way as well from tenants. But as of 1 October 2019 the RTA's bond lodgement web service will replace the option of that e-services PDF scanned form. So again as of 1 October next week the lodgement service will actually be through our web service and not through the e-services PDF scanning of the online of the upload facility for the lodgement form. So Hope is going to be demonstrating the web services to you shortly by way of a quick video so we will then be able to explain a little bit more then. The benefits of the web service is that it's easy, fast and convenient. It is a secure way to pay the bond to the RTA. It will also minimise the risks, delays and administrative work for property managers and owners and tenants to lodge a bond and also to reduce the pay for forms missing that information or are not legible. So a lot of the times that the RTA does get our forms through we are unfortunately seeing that it's either missing signatures or information and on occasions the checks don't actually add up to the bonds that's been lodged. So that's going to cause delays in processing for the RTA and on sometimes the RTA has to return those lodgements back to the people and again that's more paperwork. So the web service will minimise a lot of these administrative errors. The benefits of the web services for tenants that they will be able to lodge the bond directly to the RTA and get an instant receipt when they pay by credit card or debit card and for property managers and agents. If your tenants lodge the bond this will save your administrative work and you will be notified by the RTA once that bond has been processed. So most agents will be asking tenants to pay the bond money well before they move in and hand over those keys. So we're just going to go and play a very short video. This video will show you the steps required to create a QGUB identification process and also to complete the lodgement form online and also the options of the payment. We're going to be stepping through the whole process. It is a very short video. Some of it is a little bit faster than other areas so just keep that in mind. But again remember a copy of this webinar will be available on the RTA's website. So if you do need to view this process again along with we also have fact sheets and other information available as well. So Hobi I'm just going to play that and over to you to explain the video. Cool thanks Lynn. So first we're going to go to the RTA website and we're going to navigate to the lodgement form. So if you click on that you'll take you to the terms and conditions. You'll scroll down, you'll be able to click that you agree, indicate the properties in Queensland and that's rental property and proceed. So here is the QGUB website. You click on the registration page. Here's where you complete your details. It's very important for this process that you have your ID that you need. You need a hundred points of ID. On the further page it will be able to explain what those ID will be but you'll need an email address that you'll be able to use to register as well. You'll have these details in. You'll have another terms and conditions that you can read and agree to there. And this part here it will send a confirmation code to your email address. Just double check your junk folder as well. Make sure the confirmation code is there and then you'll click continue. So this is the details page as I was pointing out before, the hundred points of ID. So that's the list down there you'll be able to see on this page explaining what types of ID you can possibly use. In this example we're going to use a driver's license and a Medicare card. So here you'll put in the details. This obviously is a very important feature of the QGov website. It makes sure that it's very secure and helps us function with the online process a lot more securely. So just completing these details here on the QGov website and read that there. Declare that this is your information you're providing. Confirm some more details here. And then this indicates you're wanting to share details with the RTA. And this is our online log form. So this is the information that you're indicating to do with the bond log form itself. So you'll indicate what your relationship is to the property itself. This is confirming your QGov information at the top is for your QGov account. You'll put in a phone number for yourself and RTA ID if you have. If obviously if you're an agency you'll know what your client ID is a lot better than maybe a tenant would. This is the information about the company. Here we have validation in this field that helps to identify the account that's actually going there. So it helps us match it to the correct client. Here's some more details. If obviously if you have an account with the RTA already you do business with us. You obviously do have details with us. So we won't override your details. It's just important that we have as much details as possible currently so for all of our communication possible. Company email addresses is obviously very important for us moving forward with our online forms and currently as well just so we can make sure we get any important communications to you guys as you would know. And this is also another additional field here for a company's mobile number as well. So if we don't have that on file. So this is about the property itself so indicating what type of property it is having bedrooms and the address. This also has a validation field here where it's looking up via the Australia Post database. It'll auto fill the rest in this once you select that address out of the drop down box. This is about the rent so there's also some smarts in this field here where it's going to automatically validate and calculate what the maximum amount of the bond should be based on the property. And as well this is if you do have a lease end date it will pop up here when you click yes. And you better put in the end date of that lease and just complete that there. And then as well this is about the tenant so you put in the tenants details. Very important as I was saying before that we do have an email address for the tenant for communication. As we normally do this is very important and integral to the online forms processes that we have. And you can also add an additional tenant if you wish and you can confirm the contributions for each tenant. This is the summary page here so good part to take a screenshot possibly of this if you need to just in case for your records. However you'll go to the next page and be able to proceed to payment. Here we have MasterCard and Visa payments and BPay payments so just completing there. Okay great thanks Hoby so oops sorry everybody. So what happens if a customer cannot access the web services? So lodging forms will be available to download from the RTA's website or you can order by phoning the RTA contact center on 1300 3double6 3double1. Paper forms will continue to be accepted via post for those customers who do not have digital access. So this may be that you don't own a computer or that you are unable to get assistance from family or friends or the local library. Remember there are benefits of doing the online web services that being it's quick and easy and this is what our clients are looking for. Right what I might do just now is thanks Hoby we might just launch another poll. Just ask them quickly the question did you find the online web service lodge went easy to understand and follow. Now whilst I understand it was you know done fairly quickly and and a lot of information there. I suppose what we're looking at is just gauging people's responses. Look it was easy to follow look it was but I might need more information or now I really do need more information or I really just did not understand it. I might just like go to a couple of the questions that's coming through. And I suppose one of them is in relation to the auto population field from Australia Post. So if there's no Australia Post address yet the system you can actually just do a manual field. Can't you Hoby? You can manually enter in the address. Obviously that's going to be the case for a lot of new properties that databases updated quite often. But if it hasn't been added yes you can go in or like a more difficult address that actually post would track. Okay and another question that's come through about you know do they have to give all the agency details to the tenant if they're going to be lodging the bond and we'll realistic probably yes and that's probably whether the ABN numbers there or whether it's having a copy that lease agreement with all your details on it. Yeah absolutely yeah and like I said I mean having a lease agreement having those documents in front of you are going to be very important for doing that lodgment process so we do suggest you have them from you going through that. Okay I'll just close that poll thanks everybody for completing that and it looks like the majority of people did say that it was fairly easy to understand and all they did understand it but may need a little bit more information. So thanks very much for actually answering that particular poll I'll just do one more question another one's coming in people one of the agencies looks like they're working with the elderly and they don't have email address so and that may actually be on the on the occasions that that does happen so I suppose at the end of what you have said before if people don't have access to web services or computer that they can actually still do the pay-per-form if need be. Exactly yeah we're still going to continue to cater to all types of clients we encounter so that obviously means that if you do not have an email address you can still interact with the RTA. Obviously we want to have as much information as possible for our processes so contact numbers that's obviously important for this fee process but an email address at this current time we can still function with the RTA correctly. Great so again there's a lot of benefits again just summarizing what Hobie's gone through is that you know we're no longer going to be reliant on signatures it is faster and easier to do this particular process it is going to reduce a lot of administrative errors and I think that's a very important point to create us to make sure that people follow this process and again to moving on in the lead-up to more services that may be coming available online this is an opportunity for people to jump on and create that QGov process. Okay so everybody so there will be some more changes to the RTA services coming soon and that's going to be expanding the web services to include the refund a rental bond process so once this is available this will also replace the e-services PDF upload facility for refunding a rental bond so clients will still be able to use the e-services at this point in time but again later on we will be turning off any of the other upload facilities so we will be notifying all our customers throughout various methods and providing information and education once that is actually released but as the RTA progresses towards paperless services we'll be expanding our digital services this is also going to reduce our environmental footprint and the RTA will be in a position then to enhance and tailor our customer services and support for the rental sector. Further to this as of 1 January 2020 the RTA is going to be cease bulk printing of all our forms and publications so customers can download these directly from the RTA website and single copies are also going to be available for orders by customers who don't have that digital access remember you can send tenants a copy of the 17a information statement that publication for agents and landlords to give tenants by way of a PDF in an email that if you turn a degree site this also is going to give you evidence by providing them with the document so again that's part of a requirement under our legislation to make sure that you actually do hand over an information statement for general tenancies. With the removal of the witness box from signature page of the tenancy agreement you can also do digital signatures on this form and also again email a copy just need to make sure that with everything that you're doing that you are still complying with the legislation and for any of the customers who don't have access to a computer or the internet again you can still contact the RTA call centre who will be able to send you out the required form so again there's going to be more information available on our website over the coming weeks in relation to these changes so have you just before I go on to the next slide there's still a couple more questions coming through and one of them that there's quite a few coming through about how long does it take to receive the receipt and notification by doing it through the QGARV and as you had rightly said that when it's paid by a direct debit or credit card it is literally an immediate kind of receipt but if it's by BPAY what sort of timeframe are we looking at? Well we're going to generate the BPAY depending on what type of lodge we get in obviously if everything goes correctly the BPAY reference will be generated quite quickly so we're talking about very very very quickly with that sort of situation but it does depend on each form so with that obviously it's important for us to making sure that we're getting the right information for the address we're getting the right information from everyone so we can contact people about the BPAY reference as quickly as possible. Yeah so literally once the RTA has processed it here the acknowledgement of bond receipt that is sent out to all parties is sent straight away so whether they're paying by debit or credit card or paying by BPAY this way. Yep okay over to you Hobi for the about the email notifications. Thanks then so currently the RTA sends out notifications to our customer and customers and this includes bond acknowledgments and receipts. If there are changes between shared bond contributors we would send out a notification which would include to the new contributors or if there's a change in managing parties. The time sensitive notices the RTA sends out includes the notice of claim and notice of unresolved dispute. Notice of claim is where there has been a claim on the bond by one party and we notify the party who's signature or agreement missing asking them do they agree or disagree. If they disagree this proceeds to the RTA's free dispute resolution service for the conciliation. If the dispute is unresolved at the end of that process then a notice of unresolved dispute is issued which allows the person to apply to QCAP for adjudication. Again time frames apply with these two processes. For agents and managing businesses if you have changes within your business with staff it's important that you notify the RTA of anyone who no longer has the authority to deal with the RTA and sign off on bond related matters. For tenants and for landlords to protect your privacy ensure your email address that is provided to the RTA is an individual one and not a jointly accessible email. This is really important and we also ask that you provide an email address that you regularly access and check. Remember some notifications that are sent by the RTA are time sensitive regarding actions that require a response or a further step within a set time frame so it's important to make sure customers check their emails regularly. It's a valid point too what you're saying there. We do take privacy and security very important two points so we really need to do as for individuals so as for a property manager or an owner make sure that when they having their tenants send information to the RTA with the lodge form or anything that they do actually have individual email addresses and not ones that it's jointly accessible. So one of the questions coming in in relation to the bond loan the 2C the Department of Housing bond loan forms that's not acceptable through the online process they will still have to people still have to send those forms in what they're hoping. Yeah so there won't be any changes in regards to that process currently. Okay. Okay just going to talk quickly in relation to median rents we have a lot of questions coming through just to give people an idea we have over 600 registrations today so there's a lot of questions coming through and I'm going to sort of like I've been trying to sort of like summarise some of those in little different topics so that we can actually address those. So what I'm going to do is just quickly go through the median rents. The median rents are calculated by the RTA and we provide information on what the typical rents are for recently rendered properties in a particular area. This data is analysed on information gathered from new rental bond lodge once each quarter so the data doesn't gather information on the condition or the age of the property or any other inclusions. So to go and find out more information what you do is go to the RTA's website and in the top corner up here where I've got the mouse hovering over you'll see forms and resources and then just quickly come down here to the side here where it has the median rents quick finder. In the median rents quick finder this allows you to see what new rental bonds are lodged each quarter and you can also select a postcode for the property and also the dwelling type. So in this example we're looking at the April to June quarter the postcode 4101 and we're looking for flats or units that's in that particular field. When you then submit you'll then go into our rents quick finder and in this particular situation we can see that a two bedroom unit the median rent for that particular postcode is $520 per week and in that particular quarter we received 430 bonds that's actually been lodged through. Another tool what you can actually do and I'll just quickly just highlight this part if you then are on this particular screen if you just I'm just highlighting that service sorry you can also click on here to view the latest detailed spreadsheet data and what this will actually do is take you into an area where you can actually sort in relation to the regions. So this is where again we're looking at one two or three virgin flats and houses and townhouses but what you can also do and this is also go through the particular areas. So if I clicked on central Queensland when I go into that that will actually split into whether it's like Rockhampton, Makai or the different regions. So it's one way to actually see also the information about the types of properties not just from a market rental but also to see how many properties you may actually be that may be let in your particular area during that quarter. So coming soon is actually going to be an update to this and that's going to look he'll have a look in a field that's slightly different but it's also going to be easier to use so do watch this space as there's a lot of information out there in relation to the rental sector and this is also another way just again checking on those market rentals. So again I'll just go through just in summarizing today's webinar from 1 October 2019 the RTA's bond lodgement web service will replace the option to upload those PDF versions of the bond lodgement forms. We also know too that some agents are actually emailing scanned copies of the lodgement forms through that will actually cease as well the only way to be doing things online will be through the bond lodgement web services and again that's requiring that QGOV account to be created first and going through that. So the web services are new fast and efficient and secure way to lodge the bond and again we're removing that risk of all the incorrect information that the RTA is getting all the missing information from forms. Coming soon they will be the refund of rental bonds online and so once this is online the RTA will be turning off the e-services upload of refund forms but again more communications going to be coming from the RTA when that is available and again along with any other new online forms such as you change to details and also the bond disputes. Remember individual email addresses particularly for tenants and landlords for agents and property managers if your staff changes please ensure the RTA has up-to-date information as in who has the authority in your organisation to be dealing with the bonds and again from 1 January 2020 the RTA will cease bulk printing of all forms and publications. Remember you can download versions from the RTA's website or if you require a single form again give our friendly staff in our contact centre a call on the 1300 366 311 number. Okay that's our contact details and again keep on there's a lot of information in relation to what we have gone through today about our web services and to lodge that online. I probably recommend people go and give it a go in relation to creating that QGov account again in the lead up to more online services being available this is an opportunity to make sure that you are registered and be able to do this particular process as we launch further online processes. So we also have a video and a fact sheet on both tenants landlords and property managers on this new process and again we also have a people in our call centre who have been trained up to take inquiries in relation to our web services so if you do need more information again please contact our friendly staff on our 1300 number. So I think we've got a lot of questions coming through more than probably what we might have realised but I suppose there's a lot here in relation to about when the rent increases and the bonds increases so this is that top-up process so will the online services accept the increase so this is the topping up of the bond. So the online services will allow you to do the increase currently there's not a specialised lodgement service for that top-up itself but you currently can do that it will be designed in the future the future will be put out that your top-up service will be available. Yeah okay and and there's a lot of people asking in relation to whether it has to be the licensee or the company account or is it a personal account so can a property manager do the registration or does it have to be the licensee and I suppose at the end of the day the licensee is the person who is actually in control of that particular agency but probably either the property manager or the licensee can do the registrations. Yeah either the property manager or the licensee if you are the property manager just go to please ensure that you use your unique working email address so we can verify your profile for transactions with the RTA you also have to make sure the lodgement form has the correct contact details for your organisation so we still need to make sure the official correspondence goes to the right place basically. Okay and how secure is the QGov and the RTA site? Yeah it's a very secure site so basically the whole process that went through with the 100 points of ID the whole basis of that is to basically replace signatures and by doing that we need to make a very secure website and use sorry the QGov's already secure website so QGov have a lot more information available if you go to their website so a QGov for FAQs as well on there. So the service we're providing is similar to all online transactions such as your banking and the RTA has built the system to international standards so both sites are very secure. Right and there's a lot of questions in relation to the bulk lodgements so as a real estate agent or onsite manager what's actually happening about the bulk lodgements? Sure so the RTA has continued to investigate the feasibility to create a digitised service for multiple bulk online lodgements. At this stage this is not available and only the single bulk lodgements available so your current process that you have for bulk lodgements can still go on so you can still use that. Okay so people can still do the paper form but we are encouraging them to give the QGov and the online process a go and again particularly with the fact that we are heading more down this path and creating more online forms and more services that way. Just quickly I can see one question I just want to quickly point out here so you don't need to do screen principles submissions that you're going to say what exactly was submitted there's a summary page there that you can print off it'll you'll be allowed to take that at the end of that process just to keep the record I mean obviously you'll get some confirmation from us as well when you do that lodgement I just saw a question there. Yeah I manage accommodation for international students they don't have Australian identification. So if a tenant doesn't meet the requirements then you can still lodge a paper form on to the RTA. Okay and likewise it goes back to one of the other questions earlier about you know work with the elderly and they don't have email addresses so again there still is that opportunity to still lodge the paper forms. So I'll take this one from in relation to the removing of the forms so the question is about sending tenants a PDF form by email and again as of 1 January we are going to be removing the bulk printing so that information statement yes you can email a copy to your tenant and again that gives you that protection in relation to showing that you actually have given them a copy of that information statement as well. Remember any of our forms and publications you can download and complete any of our RTA forms from the RTA's website and again if you don't have access to the internet or through to the website you just give us a call and we will send out the required form. Remember our focus is actually reducing our environmental footprint and focusing more in relation to tailoring our services for other areas that the RTA provides. So I think we've still got quite a few more questions there in relation to do you still need a tenant to sign a bond form going through this process is actually removing that signature. Yes absolutely but with a bond lodgement form at paper based you still want to be great gathering that signature if you can but for the online bond lodgement you don't need a signature. Yeah and one of the questions who's responsible for lodging the bond to the tenant or the agent and realistically either party can actually lodge a bond and it always has been that way and I suppose what you're looking at as from a real estate agent point of view you're wanting to make sure that the bond's been paid and held here at the RTA obviously as part of your practices before you're handing out the keys so again looking at that timeframe when you're getting tenants to pay if the tenant is paying the real estate agent just keep in mind there's a 10-day timeframe that you must after receiving a bond that you must lodge that bond with the RTA. Again that 10-day timeframe is under the legislation under section 116 that you need to comply with that so a lot of agents will find that once a week that they pull all the bonds together and lodge it but you may find that your business practices might start changing in relation to lodging those bonds as they come through if it's that way alternatively asking your tenants to actually pay the bond and reducing that administration task yourself and that probably pushes about is the RTA pushing for the tenant to lodge their own bond and again it goes back to either party has always been able to lodge a bond so I suppose what we're looking at is just starting here ways how to introduce some of the changes that's coming through into your business for agents and managers making sure they're getting emailing copies of information statements we do see a lot of agents already emailing notices as part of their processes during the tenancy but again this is just all that pre-tenancy stuff as well so again how long until we receive a BPAY bill of code from when it's lodged? So for one it's successfully created so all the details are correct it's gone through on our we've got a process successfully the BPAY code is going to go out instantly so when we're lining up with that process of confirming when the the tenant a couple questions there pointing out this as well when does the tenant pay to the RTA that was stuff with this process of being online it's a lot quicker so I mean we're talking about potentially of getting these things sorted out a lot quicker than currently like a check or something in the mail to be able to confirm that payment with the RTA because that BPAY process and processing that is a lot quicker. Yeah and one of the questions coming through in relation to the if you have multiple tenants paying a bond on the video when Hobie was going through it there is a part there where it actually fills in where the example showed one tenant but you can actually add in more tenants so you know if you've got three tenants moving in you the system will can actually calculate what the if it's divided by three or if there's particular amounts in relation to what each person is paying as bond contributors remember the RTA is only wanting bond contributors so there may be two or three people on the list but maybe one person only paid the bond we just need to know who actually is the contributor of the actual bond. Look I think we can actually do one more question and I suppose that is in relation to a lot of it's coming through about the timeframes so you know as I said it's going to depend based on which lodgement comes in obviously it's hard to give a hard and fast time frame with sort of stuff obviously just because if there is issues we don't want people to be expecting something that just if there is the odd case where a bond launchment won't be able to go through we will need to be able to contact you guys and sort it out as quickly as possible so what I like to say on that though is that once we get the information it goes through and a lot of cases it's going to go through very very quick with our lodgement process that we currently do generating that BPAY then it depends when we receive that money back and once we receive that money back then we will automatically generate that acknowledgement of bond and so on. I'll just do the one last question here is in relation to do each property manager required to create a QGov account well the answer is yes if they're actually going through and authoring a bond lodgement form with us or doing any transaction with us online then we need to identify them and obviously they need to be using their work email address and going through that particular process but yes anyone that is actually going through the online services whether it's the currently online bond lodgement or down the track in relation to the refunds and other forms and services that we'll actually have available you will actually have to have your own QGov process and again if you don't actually have that 100 point ID and unable to go through that particular process we still will actually have the paper process available but keep in mind too QGov is actually and we can provide feedback to QGov as well but they're actually looking to enhance and add more bits and bobs to their services as we progress. Okay look thank you everybody for attending today's webinar I know we've just gone over time and I do apologise for that a quick survey is going to pop up on your screen once I close the webinar and we would really appreciate you completing the form and providing us with feedback along with the topics that you would like to know more about now I haven't gotten to know any amount of questions that we have gotten through but I think we've kind of summarised in a lot of different themes that has come through but this is also great feedback for us because then we can then look at taking tailoring and making sure that any informational questions that we are asked if there's if there's multiple questions on that type of things we can actually create more resources on our website. So again a lot of this information helps us put together future webinars and again also to in that survey if you put down what types of topics you would like to know more about that will actually assist us greatly. So again thank you very much for your attendance everybody we really appreciate your time the webinar will now close and again the survey will be available so please complete that survey thank you and thank you Hoby for your attendance today too.


Today we have a potential leaked list of games coming to the upcoming presumed Nintendo Direct. Oh, and also some new information coming out, leaked from box art, actual box art from Nintendo for the upcoming Kirby release. That's right, remember Kirby? Return to Dreamland? Deluxe coming out? It looks like Nintendo is doing even more with this game than you realize and we're not just talking the new copy abilities they announced on social media, but rather an entirely new set of content for the game. Oh boy, are you excited? I know I am, just like I'm excited to tell you about the sponsor of today's video, EWIN Racing. And don't worry, there's a timestamp if you want to skip it. When it comes to buying a gaming office chair, don't just trust anyone. Trust EWIN Racing, who has a chair just the right size for you. Trust me, one size doesn't fit all. Huh, you can relate to this guy right there. 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This is something that we're able to see by going to retailers and looking at advertising box art for this game and glancing at the back. And this is a brand new mode being added to the game when you beat it. So this is going to be content you can do afterwards. And it's the Muggalore Epilogue. That's what it's called. We don't actually know what it's going to be jam packed with or how much content is going to be there or how long it's going to be or how many stages and levels and stuff that's going to go on. We obviously already know about the four player multiplayer and everything and every mode and every piece of content. We know about the new copy abilities that Nintendo announced on social media, but we didn't know about this extra post game content. So this just makes Kirby return to Dream Land Deluxe just that much better. It's always nice to see when Nintendo adds extra content to games. We saw this back with like Xenobrid Chronicles definitive edition when they added an extra content to help bridge over into Xenobrid Chronicles 2 and 3. So look, that's really interesting. I love that Nintendo's working on new content when they bring this stuff out. Bowser's Fury, remember that mode in Super Mario 3D World? So it's just great to see Nintendo putting more attention to detail into these releases and not just doing the stock standard port job, similar to what we get usually with Nintendo Switch Online, although adding online services is nice. Gold and I, a little bit of a mess for some people, but I digress. It's still nice to see these games brought over outside of the typical Wii U game port job and given some extra attention to detail and fresh content. Now next up we have a game leak that also helps lead into a potential direct leak. Look, this stuff, I can't verify any of it. It's just rumors, but it looks really, really interesting. First up is Zippo. And Zippo is going to matter a bit more in a moment for the other leak we're going to talk about. But he's basically saying that we're getting a new Mario baseball game. His post says batter up. A new Mario sports game is on the way. Hey batter batter, in today's NS News, Nintendo is preparing a brand new Mario sports game, this time being developed by Bandai Namco and now production. This is very likely to be a new installment in the Mario baseball series, which hasn't seen a new entry since 2008's Mario Super Sluggers. Though baseball did appear in Mario Sports Superstars for the 3DS in 2017.  If you played the aforementioned previous baseball games as well as the original Sonic riders, you'll know the latter devs work immediately. They were also the developers of last year's excellent Pac-Man World remake, among many others. GameXplain's very own Tris Velbueno also pointed out something that I thought was quite interesting. Last year, it was discovered that Nintendo randomly started updating Daisy renders. One of them, interestingly enough, was from Mario Super Sluggers of all games. Notice the slightly different skin tone that's in line with Daisy's most recent appearances. Now I won't call it evidence per se, but it's definitely something worth pointing out. The only question we have now is, of course, how will they mess it up this time? 10 characters, a meager story mode, terrible post launch support, bad netcode, that remains to be seen when I'm certainly not getting my hopes up here. You guys know what time of the year it is, a director's likely not far away, Nintendo has been very quiet so far. Hopefully we hear more soon. Oh by the way, do you guys think this could have a guest character? You guys can take a shot of that one if you want. Anyone else here are really weird distinct noises just now? Came out of nowhere. Maybe it was just me. But yours ain't so good anymore. Anyways, so there's the Zippo stuff.  I know Emily Rogers has said that she thinks Zippo just maybe talks way too soon about games and so when they get cancelled it just looks bad for him. But so next up I want to talk about this Nintendo Direct leak and this is where Zippo maybe ties in a bit. So this leak actually came from 4chan. You guys know we don't talk about a ton of stuff from 4chan, but you know what? With an upcoming direct, if there was going to be a leak for it, we have seen in the past that direct lineup leaks have happened on 4chan and ended up being correct. So it's at least considering. We'll see what happens on this leak actually happened way back on December 23rd and I chose not to cover it because again it's 4chan. I need to see some evidence and I guess the evidence in this case is the possible Zippo stuff talking about that baseball game. So let's get into the stuff they say are going to be in this direct. The first thing to note is that the revealed games so far are all going to be in there, right? So Bayonetta Origins, Advance Wars 1 plus 2, Reboot Camp, Kirby, Return to Dreamland Deluxe, Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. The only really notable thing in here is that they're saying Pikmin 4 is coming in fall of 2023 and that Advance Wars 1 plus 2 Reboot Camp is going to be launching on March 24th of 2023. So I guess they give us an exact date for Advance Wars. If that ends up being the date announced, I guess that's going to be pretty cool and awesome and amazing. And this, by the way, predates all those Advance Wars being relisted things. So they were calling this back then. We'll see what happens. If March 24th is correct, then we'll know this is naturally a legit thing. Now, in terms of new games being shown off, this list might not excite you so much. I warn, but it is the list that they're providing. Super Mario Batters by Bandai Namco. So it's a sequel to Mario Sluggers. The visuals look cool, but it'll be a downgrade to the previous two Mario baseball games. I think people are just expecting Mario sports games to just be what they are at this point. Next up, Custom Robo V1 plus 2 by Bandai Namco releasing on July 7th two days after my birthday. By the way, Mario Batters or Super Mario Batters is coming out on June 9th supposedly. Next up is the Golden Sun trilogy. It's what Camelot's working on right now, coming out in September. And yeah, it's remakes of all the Golden Sun games, which I think will make some people excited. Nintendo has a tendency to not touch the Golden Sun franchise, so it would be really nice to see them and Camelot team up and at least get the old games back with a fresh coat of paint. IR Mayhem from MD Cube coming out on June 23rd. It's a casual party game that utilizes the Joy-Con's IR camera in motion controls as gimmicks. Now, Nintendo tends to steer away from doing things that exclude the Switch Lite, but the Switch Lite is also the worst selling system. And you know, maybe this is just this company had an idea to use that IR camera that Nintendo's basically ignored since 1.2 Switch, so they wanted to take a crack at it. And maybe it was a cheap to produce game, so it's coming out as a party game. Now they don't have any information on DLC or more partner games yet. What the person is saying is they don't know anything about third-party companies that are non-exclusive games, right? Like is Autobot Traveler 2 going to be in here? You would presume so, but that's not listed here. Are we going to see things that tells us if only a remaster? Again, probably, but it's not going to be listed here. Are we going to see DLC for various Nintendo games? Probably, but this person doesn't have knowledge of it. Again, this stuff is probably not real, so we're talking in the realm of more speculation on it, but it is possible. And every time I've been making these direct videos, I've been asking you guys to comment something down below. The first time was about your dream 10-game lineup for the Direct. Last time was about your five realistic expectations for the Direct, where people were just giving their other five lists. That was yesterday. So, today, let's come up with something completely original. I want you to pitch me an original new IP you would like Nintendo to create out of thin air. I don't care what it is. I don't care if it's a strategy game, a Zelda game, that's not a Zelda game. It's just another action-adventure game. It'd be nice to have more of those right. Whatever. You pitch me your dream brand new Nintendo IP. I want Nintendo to make a Stratigo style game. Yes, the board game Stratigo, but do it in a classic Nintendo way. What that means, I'll leave to your imaginations.  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