Okay, it's 9.58 now and I'm still in my pajamas. I started a list on my computer, a Christmas wish list that's not a things list. It's more of a activity list, time, commitment of time list. I don't know what you call it. Things like, what would I like? A road trip, a beach weekend. A sketching or art inspiration hike or drive. A shopping or thrifting day with me with lunch out and all that. If you were gonna create a list for your children or significant others of what you would like for Christmas but it's not don't buy me things, I'd rather you spend time with me doing blah, blah, blah. What's the blah, blah, blah? What's the thing? Give me some ideas, leave a comment down below. All right, I also did two more pigments because I had some red onions so I wanted to lake them and get that done and I also had some avocado seeds. So we're gonna see on the avocado what color comes out on the red onion. I'm pretty sure I know what color it's gonna come out but we'll test it out and we'll see. Now I should probably go take a shower and I think we have to figure out how to fix my car seat today. Hopefully we can figure that out otherwise we have to take it in. All right, I'll be back. You gotta see that giant blue jay I think that's what that is, it's huge. A lot of critters out there this morning, pretty cool. Guys, yes, I'm all bundled up. It's cold, Bob says I've lost too much weight. I don't have any more fat on my body to keep me warm but it wouldn't be too bad but we've been getting these winds. The winds are freezing and my face is cold so I made these for COVID but I'm glad I have them now. Anyway, we're gonna go get some steps in. This morning, Bob figured out what's wrong with my car door. We can't get the seat, not the car door, the seat. Anyway, we can get the part but not until tomorrow and he can fix it himself. So yay, 50 bucks instead of like 500 bucks. I'm all about that. 50 bucks instead of a new car. Instead of a new car, yeah, the kids are like, why don't you just buy a new car? We could but I don't want to. Anyway, also I closed all the listings for all the stencils in my Etsy shop. So if you want one, private message me. It is Monday morning, 10, 24 a.m. November 21st, I think. Watch the red lights. We're obviously in the car. Bob is off this week because of Thanksgiving so we are going to start his office remodel by going to the hardware store and picking out some new flooring and starting to plan that out because Black Friday is coming up. He probably should order his desk because it'll probably be on sale or there'll be some kind of discount or something. So don't mess with your discount yet. We're also gonna check out two art supply stores in Portland that I've been meaning to check out since we moved here in 2018 and I haven't done that yet. So we're gonna go do that today and we also have to pick up Christmas stamps from the post office because we are people who send out Christmas cards once a year. So we are going to be remodeling Mr. Bob's office because going forward, he is gonna be working at home full-time. So we are going to be getting new flooring, painting, new desk, like the whole nine yards and I have no say in it. It's his office. Remind me that I said that, you guys. Anyway. No say. That's funny. I have no say. Anyway, we are off to the hardware store this morning to pick out flooring. He wants something similar to what's in my office but not exactly the same. In my office, I have a Pergo and it is color Bayshore Gray Hickory, this one. So we are gonna go see what we can find and hopefully get that ordered and the measuring scheduled and all of that stuff. Yeah. We're at Artists and Craftsman Supply in Portland on the other side of the river. Look at that building, you guys. It's not honestly in a super great neighborhood but you gotta love the artwork on the building. All right, let's go check it out. What did you just say about the store? It's got a lot of stuff in it. Yeah, for a small building, it has a lot of stuff in it but that being said, they don't have lots of watercolor supplies which is primarily what I'm looking for at the moment. That being said, if I need pretty much anything else, paint-wise, I would just come here if it was convenient and I was nearby because they have everything else. So anyway, we're gonna check out one more, I didn't buy anything, by the way. We're gonna check out, I know, right? We're gonna check out one more place, I'll be back. We're at Columbia Art and Drafting. Now the first place, well-stocked, prices comparable to Dick Glick. They were really cute because they had their own parking lot. Here, they do have free parking but you have to park on the street, which we did. So we're gonna go in and check it out and I'll be back. While neither store has a ton of watercolor supplies, if you need an art bag, come to this place because they have tons, all different kinds. Oh my God. Okay guys, I got a clipboard today when I was at one of those art supply stores and it came with this red band on it for holding your paper down when you're drawing with it. I made this band out of some elastic I had and some scrap fabric. Wanna see what I turned it into? You know how I like to do my daily sketch walks while my sketch walks around the neighborhood. So my sketchbook is being held in by the clip on the clipboard and that red band back here underneath the pages in the back.  I can hold two of the mini palettes or one of my larger ones. On the elastic band at the top, I have attached a pocket for my pens and brushes. This is a pocket for other random things, including some templates that I use to make these squares on here.  How cute is that? So this is my big one that'll just stay out and set up like that. And then when I wanna take my old handbag, when we're going to stay on a road trip, I have this little tin that we got from Hawaii and I had cookies in it. I have a mini clipboard that I've also glued a big giant magnet to. And in this box, I have another rag I can wipe my brushes on. This one happens to fit on my wrist. It has elastic inside. I have a couple of sketchbooks, one that I'm trying to finish and the new one. Pens and brushes, a couple of watercolor palettes, little ones, and some binder clips. And this one sets up kind of the same way. Clips to in the, whatcha who's it's? The clipboard thing to hold the sketchbook down. This one does have an elastic strap back here to hold the sketchbook closed. But if I wanted to, I could use it to hold paper like that. Could pick one of my watercolor palettes. I think this is the one from Earth Pigments. Yeah. It would go there. I need to put this somewhere or usually what I would do is have the color chart like handy like that. And then I've got a couple of extra clips you can put pens in, you're gonna be drawing with one. You could put brushes in. I do have a little water bottle too. Anyway, it would look something like this. I like that. I am thinking on this one about creating some sort of little hanging pocket or something to put like these in, like instead of this. So let me see what I can do. Because I kind of like the way that turned out on the other board. But it has to be something that can fit in the tin. Okay, so I used the same fabric and elastic to create this hanging pocket. So when I'm holding this and sketching, all my things are right there. And there's room for a little bit more. And the clip will keep them in there tightly. That works. So now the only thing I have to do with both sets is I like to put a label on the paint brush, what size the tip is, because most of these water brushes, it's kind of a little bit hard to tell, especially once they get really used without pulling the caps off, which when you're out sketching and it's, you know, the weather is not great. You don't have time to be looking at the caps pulling all the caps off. So anyway, let me do that and make sure everything's filled up with water and I'll be right back. The other thing I would always have in any of the kits is some kind of little Ziploc bag because sometimes you're wanting to put things away quickly because of the weather or something else and the paint or something is still wet. It's always good to have a bag. But anyway, now it's all full and ready to go. Both of them are done. How cool is that? And I should say too, if I wanted to, because I have two, I actually have three of these little mini palettes. I have two of the ones made out of the aspirin tins. And then I have this one made out of a kid's watercolor tin. I think on both boards, I can fit two on this one. I would have to move this clip over here, but I could definitely do that, but that actually works. So, and that reminds me, I need to put packing tape on this. So anyway, you want to take your art with you. You want to do drawing outside. If I can do it, you can do it. And it doesn't take a lot of money. Morning. It is Tuesday morning, November 22nd, just before 10 a.m. Because Mr. Bob is off this week, we're going to go for a walk. We're doing it early because it's supposed to rain all day today. And it is already drizzly out. We have these just in case, but we're going to go get some steps in and see what we can see and I'll be back. If it doesn't rain too hard, I might get some video or some pictures, but we'll see. I'll be back. I would bring my new sketch board with me. Urban sketching, neighborhood sketching, decompression sketch walk, whatever you want to call it. But if it was just like right now, it would be fine. But it looks like it's going to dump any second. And I don't want to get my brand new board soaking wet. So, and unless they make an umbrella hat that's like four feet wide, yeah. That's just not going to happen. So anyway, we're going to just go walk. I'll see if I can get some inspirational pictures to sketch from. And yeah, we'll take it from there. I'll be back. Good afternoon. It is Wednesday, November 23rd. It is 117 p.m. Don't get excited. I'm looking at my tablet. I have a vlog before now because I started my day with the counseling appointment so that always throws my whole schedule off. But it went very well. I have a few things I have to work on always but it went very well. I think I'm going to start writing daily pages again. Oh, sorry, which is in this little notebook actually right here. It's a very therapeutic way of just letting go of all that stuff that's up here. I'm also going to finish my watercolor sketchbook today and Bob fixed the water leak in the car, the drains that were clogged or whatever from the sunroof. And he's off right now picking up a car part for the Subaru, my car, to hopefully fix the power seat thing that's not moving because the seat won't move back. Anyway, so that's all good. I think he's going to be able to get that done today. I decided that I'm going to take a vlog break. You guys really won't notice a difference, but I will. So I am a couple of weeks ahead at the moment in my vlog, which is cool, sorry, ring doorbell. I am going to film little bits over my two week break, but I'm not going to air it until probably just after New Year's. We're going to stay on the same day and time. I'll be airing vlogs up until then. But like I said, I'm two or three weeks ahead at the moment. Those are the little girls from next door. So I am going to take a break and I will catch you up with the new year. Anyway, let me go see what they want, but I can guess. I'll be back. Bob is back from picking up the car part.  I just finished the sketchbook. So we are going to let that dry and then put it away with its brothers and sisters upstairs and onto the next. As soon as Mr. Bob is done, I think we're going to go for a walk before it gets really dark outside. We have an hour, maybe hour and a half before the sun is setting right now. Anyway, I'll be back. Guys, I got the sketchbook done. It's all put away, we're ready for the next one. Bob put the part in the car, but it didn't work. So something else is wrong with the seat. So I guess I get to drive over to the car dealership on Tuesday and then again on Friday. Maybe I can get him to do the oil change while I'm there Tuesday. Maybe, we'll see. I'll be back. We're out walking by the golf course, just a few geese. Mr. Bob says about a hundred of them or more. Yeah, they're there often, but wow, what a sight. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. It is Thursday morning, November 24th, about 1130 a.m., Thanksgiving day. And we are just getting things ready. Rebecca and Polly's and Grand dog Lily are coming over for dinner, although probably coming over earlier than that. So we're just getting chores done. Mr. Bob is going to go feed his wild animal friends, his critters, his pack of critters. I've got bread making, laundry working. I made another travel watercolor palette because, you know, Kit, because I just love them and I like the idea of being able to go somewhere whether it's walking the neighborhood or going on a road trip and looking in my basket of travel watercolor and go, which one do I want to take today? Oh, I'll take this one. So I did that from things I had and yeah, so it's all good. It's gonna be just a nice quiet day at home. Guys are gonna think they're gonna watch football or soccer or something on TV and we're gonna just eat and hang out and at some point tonight or tomorrow, we're gonna put out Christmas decorations. The kids always come over and they spend the night and they help us put out Christmas decorations. So that's fun. Anyway, that's it for the minute. I wonder how many minutes it'll take for Bob's little critter family to figure out he put food out probably like less than five minutes. All right, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. It is, I don't know what time. The day after Thanksgiving. Quarter to 12th, Friday, November 25th. Yeah, okay, I got it right. Big surprise. Yes, it's raining. Yes, we're going walking. We have Lily while the kids do some black Friday shopping. The kids stayed for breakfast. They stayed overnight, they do every year and they help, we make breakfast for them the next morning and then they help us decorate for Christmas. So we got all the inside decorations up and done and the two nutcrackers are by the front door. We have, obviously it's raining. So we're not doing anything electrical outside. We will wait until sometime this weekend, they'll go up. I don't know when. Bob's also gonna try one more thing with my car seat. Let's see if it can diagnose what the issue is. But as long as it's raining, I don't know if that's gonna happen. We'll see. Anyway, let's go get some steps in, see what we can see. I didn't film any of last night because we had the neighbor and her two kids over. Her husband's a firefighter. He was on duty last night. They were gonna be home alone.  Green beans came out a little mushy, but they were good. So anyway, don't waste something, right? All right, let's go get some steps. I'll be back. We got to vlog this morning because you know, obviously we're in the car. We're pulling into the grocery store parking lot. We spent the morning catching up on chores. Mr. is a little grumpy because he had to pay bills this morning. We're finally feeling the effects of the utility rate increases that are going on here in Oregon and honestly in around the world. But anyway, we're feeling them now too. But anyway, I made some more pigments including red cabbage powder and beet root. I'll put the pictures here. Oh my God, they turned out great.  And I don't wanna know what she did to brush her teeth this morning. Ooh, I'll be back. Hey guys, it's well after 11 o'clock. We are headed to bed and I almost forgot to close the vlog. Anyway, it's been a good week, but on to the next. So anyway, if you have questions, comments or concerns, leave them down below. I hope you're making your way through the holiday season safely and calmly. That's my best advice. Anyway, don't forget to check out the video description and leave comments and concerns. Maybe think about joining my Facebook group or my Patreon to support the free content. In any regard, have a good day, have a good week, do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys.


or shall we move on to the next sample? Again, in here is number two. As you can see, the material touched the side of the ampoule during the melt. We've got good video. Your cylinder, could you show us the bottom a little bit more? The other way. Move the other way. That's good, right there. Piazza, thank you very much. We've got a couple more items to give you here after you get your hands empty. For Houston, we sent a bunch of folks outside as you flew overhead. It was all reports of gorgeous sight of the antenna and then yourself and also the Spartan as three clear points of light coming across the sky. You understand you can see all three of us. Where's the antenna in relation to us today? It's about a thousand miles ahead of you and you and Spartan from Houston's point of view are about two thumb wits apart. We have Spartan inside up here again. Copy all that. Good morning to you and Wayne and the rendezvous team there. Good morning, Kurt. We really have to thank you and the Endeavor crew for the spectacular show about 5.35 a.m. local. We first got a view of the inflatable antenna element passing overhead. It was the brightest orbiting object I think most of us had ever seen. Three minutes later, we saw a faint little Spartan streaking across the sky with endeavor and hot pursuit. That's a great news. And, John, we think so and the preview we saw sure got us in the mood. Okay, Bill, we got all those changes and we'll go ahead and plan on using the onboard solution. Houston Endeavor, we have Spartan. Congratulations, Mark. Nice job.  Non-view the Gulf Coast and Corpus Christi, Texas and Padre Island along with the mouth of the Rio Grande. In view Matagorda Bay and Corpus Christi Bay and the Laguna Madre behind Padre Island. The view moving now toward the central Texas coast. This view showing Galveston Bay with defined by cloud cover on the land surrounding it and Galveston Island. The view now showing the United States Gulf of Mexico coast from the far left, the Texas Gulf Coast to the mouth of the Mississippi with silt from the Mississippi River. This view showing the Mississippi Delta. Now in view the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula and the island of Cozumel.


It's Vlogmas! Right to my channel, it's your girl Cara. I am doing Vlogmas. It's officially my first Vlogmas vlog. Are you excited? Are you geeked? Are you not? If you not, you! Ooh, this lady looking at me, looking at me. But y'all, before we get started into this video, I wanted to tell you guys about the hair that I just got installed in my head for Vlogmas Day one. Y'all, this hair is so bomb. It's by Dizor, D-S-O-A-R, hair. It's so bomb. It's supposed, I mean, it's body wave hair, but y'all, like, I needed it straight because I feel like a baddie when my hair is just bone straight, middle part. You just cannot go wrong. I don't know, it just makes me feel like a baddie. But this hair comes at, what is body wave hair? But I like body wave hair because it just adds extra volume to the hair. That's just my personal preference because body wave hair, I feel like holds out curl more when I wanna curl my hair. But if I really wanted my hair curled, like, if that's the style that I wanted to go for, I'll probably just, like, cut this a little bit. But I probably won't because I'm feeling this long hair. Ooh, I just swelled some lettuce. And my inches are 26, 26, 22. And the closure I have in my hair is a 20. And y'all, the closure is bomb. Super natural. It was super easy for her to dye. Like, I brought it to her, she dyed a quick ASAP. So that's easy. And it blends super, it blends super nice with my scalp. And I just love that about closures. Like, I needed a break from the lace because since I need to put castor oil on my edges because them laces be like, them laces, something says, like, you already know. So yeah, this is the hair that I got. The shipping was super fast, y'all. Like, ASAP, y'all know, I don't play, like, when I need my hair done, I need it done. So the shipping was super fast. It took like, I don't even know, like three days. And that's pretty fast. So I was super geeked about that. The packaging was super nice. It comes in this little boxes, purples, hilt. And it was just wrapped up nicely. And the body wave pattern was so perfect, y'all. I wish I would have had it, got filmed it, like filmed it, like straight out the box, but I didn't. But it was super pretty. Like, it looks exactly like the picture on the website. I'm gonna put it right there because it looks so bomb. And it comes just super nice and soft and silky. And you can run your hands through it, literally. Like, no tangles, no nothing. And my hair is pretty long, so. And I don't like when I get long hair and it gets netted in the back. And girl, it's not even netted. My stuff, my hair is super flat and it's super bomb. Like, this hair is, this hair is some cis and it's affordable. So you already know I love affordable items because that's just how I do. That's a baddie zoo. We make it work. On a budget, we make it work. On a budget, mm-mm, budget. Ah! But yeah, y'all, y'all gotta cop this hair. And everything about this hair will be in the description box below. Y'all, I'm just so happy right now because it's Christmas time. It's vlogmas. It's my first year doing vlogmas. It's like my first time doing anything on YouTube. So I'm just so happy about it to be a part of the YouTube community. And just giving you guys content and just having y'all enjoy it. And y'all enjoying my content just really makes me happy. And the video I have posted on Sunday is just doing numbers. And I see all the comments. And I know y'all writing with me and I know y'all is like, is y'all doing vlogmas? Is she doing vlogmas? Yes, I'm doing vlogmas. Like every day, like every day I'm coming with a video for y'all because y'all deserve it. Y'all deserve to see me, duh. And I want to hear from y'all. I don't want to talk to y'all and I want to engage in the comments with y'all because that's what we do. But yeah, this hair is so beautiful. And yeah, I just, I mess with it for sure. Let's show. So yeah. And I didn't even dye it and it's pretty black. I feel like it's pretty, it's like a pretty natural color. And I love dark hair. So with my pale skin, honestly. But yeah, so go ahead, cop this hair. And if you get this hair, let me see y'all. Let me see what you rocking with on Instagram. Tag me cause I want to see. And yep. So let's just get into the vlog and y'all are going to see, firstly, get in my hair and stuff like that. Yeah. Okay y'all, let's get into the video. While you would know that my, so you get to choose from here, but I told the lady about my procedure and she told me I should choose like forcing Caricol, which I was going to do anyways, but I'm going to get that one right there. I don't know if y'all can see it. Yeah, I'm just so happy to get my earrings in and wear earrings again. But she's about to get everything ready. Yeah, I'm just so excited to get my dress this time. Look how many people are up and early. It's, the mall just opened. It's 10, 23. Like everybody's up shopping, like doing stuff. It's just like great week. It's definitely holiday season. And yes, this is vlog day one.  Like get ready for it. My real writer dies don't really rock on me through this whole month. So I'm a really sweet, really rockin' for me and who really ain't, you know? Gotta fill out all the real ones with the fake. Oh my God, y'all bad. The body work is just packed, it's like, look. Look at that. That's crazy. Super quick too. She was like, do you want me to just come or just do it? I'm like, girl, just do it. Like what are you talking about? So yeah, it was super bad. Now I'm about to get my hair done and I'm about to get cute. I'm gonna record a video but I wanted to show y'all. Or just Gucci shirt is ripped in. But yeah, I'm just about to film a video. I'm in story time, that should be up. Yeah, I just wanted to show y'all what I had on. It was kinda cute, fly-ish. Once again, I wasted an outfit, but you know what?


Hey math learners, it's Mr. Marks here, your friendly neighborhood math teacher. Remember it's not just about getting the right answers, it's about learning and growing along the way. Today we're embarking on a colorful journey into the world of multiplying binomials, using something called the area model. Now with the area model we'll be using colored blocks to multiply binomials and we're going to witness patterns emerge right before our very eyes. Now as we observe, don't worry if you don't know what you're looking at at first. The most important part is to challenge yourself to think outside the box and explore. Now take a look at this animated GIF that I created. It shows the multiplication of two binomials, X plus three and X plus four, all using the area model. Do you notice the colored blocks? They're key to understanding the process. Now as you watch it, I encourage you to take note of what you notice and what you wonder about the animated GIF, including specifics about its parts and pieces. Now as we watch, let's consider a few questions together. Now feel free to pause, rewind if you need to, just be sure to take your time and explore. What patterns or structures do you see in the arrangement of the colored blocks? How do these blocks relate to the math itself? What do the green blocks represent in the area model? What do the blue blocks represent? What do the yellow blocks represent? How do these blocks interact to create the final result? Now as you observe, I encourage you to watch this animation multiple times. Note your observations and share them in the comments. Each new viewing can reveal new insights and reading what others have noticed is a great way to learn from different perspectives. Are you curious to know more about the step-by-step process? Well then stay tuned for an upcoming video where I'll break it all down for you. In the meantime, why not try multiplying binomials yourself using the area model and your observations? Hey, if you do try it yourself, be sure to share your work in the comments. Hey Prop Steve for taking some time out of your day to do some math with me. I hope you followed along and if you made mistakes, that's all good. Remember that every mistake is a step towards learning something new. This is Mr. Mark signing off. I'll catch you next time with another math problem. What did you think? Did you approach this problem differently? Let me know in the comments. And if you enjoyed this problem, show your support by liking and sharing this video. And don't forget to follow my page to stay up to date on more math-related content. Until next time!


So how can I put that in a few words? Everyone heard what Chris said. Can anyone kind of summarize it into a few words that I can write down? Can anyone do that? Vin? She has to be used to doing poor things. Okay. A challenge for Esperanza is getting used to doing things that are poor or, like, that poor people do. Doing things that she's not used to. Okay. Doing things that she's not used to doing. So here's our challenge. Getting used to doing things that she's not used to doing. That's kind of a tongue twister, isn't it? What is a theme? What might the author be trying to tell us by having Esperanza go through this experience? Talk with the people in your group about what a theme could be that we get from this experience. Like, when you have things, it doesn't last forever. When, like, you have things. Because I kind of like a toy. Like, listen, you love that toy so much and then you just lose it like, losing something really about, like, really special to you.


to make decisions with the S's of decision, that's grand. How'd you go? Maybe. No. With the S, I would put it grand. Well, welcome. And I'm pleased that you accepted our invitation to meet here in Washington. I hope your meetings have been fruitful. As I indicated last night, I think our alliance is healthy and sound. But I also think it's something we're very proud of because we're back all the way in history. And I don't think there has ever been an alliance of so many nations put together so solidly that has for its total life maintained peace. I think we could be very proud of that and very encouraged by what it may mean for the future. I think it's important not only for the fact that it has been an alliance in a military sense, but more than that I think it has been a political alliance based on common shared values that we all have. So we've stood the test of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union has, I think, seen that it can't divide us.  And I should emphasize that there is concern in our own country among our countries about NATO's defense burden. There is a direct link between all of your efforts and my ability to maintain congressional support. I know that's hard for parliamentary systems to understand that the President of the United States can be faced with a Congress with the majority of the opposite party who goes out of his way to find reasons for not doing what the President wants, particularly in an election year. But I am greatly encouraged and I think that you have some discussions about the present intransigence of the Soviet Union. I'm just going to conclude until this meeting open to you with this one line of yourself. Lovely son. Are you traveling again, Mr. President? Tomorrow I'll leave for Ireland and get on to England and Normandy. We're all assembled here. It has been a pleasure and an honor to welcome the ministers of the North Atlantic Council of the White House. And I'm so pleased that the United States is hosting this meeting because we're also celebrating the 35th anniversary of the signing in Washington of the North Atlantic Treaty. Last night at dinner and again this morning we had the opportunity to discuss the major challenges facing the alliance, including the security and defense of the West, relations with the Soviet Union, and arms control. We all recognize that there is no more important consideration than the development of a better working relationship with the Soviet Union, one marked by greater cooperation and understanding and leading to stable, secure and peaceful relations. This has been and will continue to be a primary goal for the United States and the NATO alliance. The alliance is dedicated to peace. And thanks to the courage and vision of our member nations and their leaders, we can reflect on the past with pride and look to the future with confidence. For us, our NATO partnership is an anchor, a fixed point in a turbulent world. And it's our sincere hope that the Soviet Union will soon come to understand the profound desire for peace, which inspires us. And I hope that the Soviet leadership will finally realize it is pointless to continue its efforts to divide the alliance. We will not be split. We will not be intimidated. The West will defend democracy and individual liberty. And the West will protect the peace. At the same time, we remain ready to negotiate fairly and flexibly and without preconditions. It is our hope that the Soviet Union will soon return to the negotiating table. Our commitment to dialogue and arms reduction is firm and unshaken. No other step in the near term would do so much for the cause of peace and stability as a return to constructive negotiations and agreements reducing the levels of nuclear arms. I've said many times and will say again that when the Soviet Union returns to the negotiating table, we'll meet them halfway. I also hope that the Soviet leadership will respond positively to the range of proposals which we and our allies have advanced in other areas of arms control. Our proposals serve the cause of peace, the draft treaty to abolish chemical weapons presented by Vice President Bush in Geneva, the recent NATO proposal seeking to break the deadlock in the conventional force talks in Vienna, and the measures introduced by NATO in Stockholm in our effort to reduce the risk of surprise attack in Europe. Tomorrow, I will leave for Europe. I'm looking forward to the trip and the opportunity to underscore the enduring importance of the political, cultural, and economic ties that bind the industrialized democracies. The meeting of NATO foreign ministers has reinforced my own confidence in the strength and durability of the alliance and the common destiny of free societies. And so I want to thank all these NATO ministers. We're pleased to have had all of you with us as our guests and proud to have you as our partners. Thank you. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, I'm not going to take any questions now other than this. This is news item of the morning. Sixteen ministers here of all this alliance that has maintained peace for more than a third of a century. No question. No question. They would have had a chance. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much.


I think I said slayanna and I'm here today to talk about a study in scarlet. I've never read any Sherlock Holmes before and I don't know exactly why I decided to do that.  I was panicking about getting through the challenges and I was like Lord of the Rings counts for like a bunch of different ones of these so I think I officially slated it as I decided to like shift things around and I was like I'll read this for my classic because it's actually really short which I also didn't realize for some reason I imagined Sherlock Holmes books to be like tomes which I mean I was clearly wrong so yeah I have seen like nearly every adaptation there is of Sherlock Holmes. I love, I think I talked about this in my like chatty get ready with me video that when I'm watching movies and TV shows I watch like mainly who done it. I love that but I don't really read them. I don't, the few times I have I haven't, that's not true. I grew up reading exclusively Nancy Drew. Like I pretty much read nothing by Nancy Drew until I discovered Harry Potter. But I didn't care for Poirot when I read Poirot and I love all the adaptations of Poirot like all, I've seen like all the David Souchet ones. I've seen all the Marbles. I've seen all of Sherlock Holmes. I've seen pretty much any Agatha Christie adaptation there is. I love Wilkie Collins like The Woman in White and The Moonstone, stuff like that. So I love that kind of stuff but I don't read it. And I guess I always imagined Sherlock Holmes to be really dry, really boring and really long and I don't, I don't know again why I decided now to be like oh I was watching re-watching Sherlock and I thought to myself for some reason that I want to know what the books actually like. So I read A Study in Scarlet. And I actually, I read it on Kindle not on this paper copy which is relevant because there's a part in it where I genuinely was concerned that I had got like a weird shitty villagey copy because it all of a sudden like the story is just like about something else for like a huge chunk of it. And I was just like is this still A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Because what is this? What is going on right here? What is this doing here? But all that to say, I did really super enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. And the character of Sherlock Holmes, he's not like he's portrayed in like any adaptation which is shocking to me because obviously there's a, there is a lot of variety in the adaptations and in the portrayals and interpretations of the character. From the black and white ones with Basil Rathbone which I have seen all of. I'm telling you I love who Dunhands. To the various BBC ones like the guy for my fair lady. He was in like a made for TV, like a few made for TV ones. Rupert Everett played him. I think Michael Cain played him. Obviously most recently Benedict Cumberbatch has played him. Obviously also Robert Downey Jr. There's a very, there's a big variety in terms of who's played him and how they've chosen to interpret the character.  But in the book he honestly struck me a lot more as being like the doctor in Doctor Who or Jacoby in Jacoby. There's a fun quality, a quirky quality, a self-deprecating quality to Sherlock. And yes self-deprecating I stand by that because he is snobby and he is very, he's very confident in his own abilities. But he also doesn't care that much about not getting credit for it. He just, he's like it's enough for him to know that he got it right and that he knows more than everybody else. But he's not cruel. He really didn't come off as cruel to me. Like it's just like he loves the puzzle of it and having the puzzle is enough for him. He doesn't care that he doesn't get credit for it. And for you know in the public at large or the detectives who work for the police they get credit for it. He doesn't care. He's just like I know more than you and I don't need anyone else to like boost my ego because my ego is just fine. Which have reminded me a lot more of the doctor in Doctor Who. Who's not going around being cruel and insulting people and he doesn't really care that no one knows that he's saving the world because exciting, interesting mystery of it all is enough for him. Exciting new places and new worlds and it's exciting for him.  He does make the doctor in Doctor Who makes comments about people being dumb all the time about how they have these tiny brains and they're like they don't, they're not on his level but he's also not mean about it. He's just like it's not your fault you're not on my level. Like you couldn't be. You're not born with this level. So I was surprised by how much I liked the character. That's I guess another reason why I didn't really want to read it because I was like I don't really want to read a dry dusty tome about a jerk you know what I mean? Yeah he's really clever but you know and he was actually quite likable and charming in a really eccentric way. I feel like he had a good like repartee and banter with Watson and yeah I just I liked him a lot more than I thought I would. And then yeah then all of a sudden we go to the American West and we're reading about Mormons for like a third of the book and I was like what? And of course that does all tie into it so I would say like obviously as a modern reader some other tie-in to like make the reader aware that this is going on that this does tie in might be good because it doesn't. It's just like like Sherlock Holmes has like figured it out and he's like he's been refusing to offer information because he's like nope not ready yet and then finally they kind of catch the guy who no one thought was the guy and he's like okay we've caught him so now whatever questions you have now I'll answer whatever you want to know. And then all of a sudden we cut to Mormons in Utah for like a third of the book and I was like I'm when I was a little worried that again that I had a janky kindle addition I was like this gets placed with a different book is this not a study in scarlet or a study in scarlet anymore then I kept going and I was like this is probably back story this is probably leading somewhere and it does and it is part of it and it's meant to be there but I was like what? Sherlock was about to tell us everything and now we're with Mormons in Utah what? But even that part I mean like the thing that convinced me also that I didn't have a glitchy copy was that Ser Arthur Conan Doyle has a really distinct uh authorial voice which was present still with the Mormons in Utah and I was like this feels like it's still written by Ser Arthur Conan Doyle his style is here so this must be related this must be tied in somehow and obviously it was and then it all wrapped up and it was over and it wasn't like unnecessarily dragging which is what I associate with a lot of older books because everyone was just wordier and longer and they were paid by the page and were by the word or whatever so like even I love uh Duma but a lot of Duma was really long and Dickens is really long because of that so I associate old books with just being needlessly long and wordy and Sherlock Holmes was not it got to the point it had told you the key ingredients told you the key people it very quickly almost in it's nothing like Neil Gaiman but I always praise people and to compare them to Neil Gaiman when they can effectively paint the portrait of a character in very few words Neil Gaiman his one of the strongest parts of his writing he's obviously great at story and and building worlds and interesting magic and stuff but one of the things that I think is the most amazing about Neil Gaiman's writing is his brevity the the short amount of words in which he's able to paint a complete portrait of a place situation of a magic of a people and so here to the fact that Ser Arthur Conan Doyle in very few words you you're like I get I can see Sherlock I get who Watson is I get this mystery all these like side characters I'm picturing them to like it's it's very concisely but effectively describing everything to where you don't have time to be bored and even like the minor characters that are now all backstory that you're never going to really need to know about again because it's all just tied to this one case so like for future Sherlock Holmes stories you don't need to have established who these Mormons are but even that was told in a way that you really got quickly invested in these Mormons in Utah and in their story and for like a hot minute there I forgot I was reading a Sherlock Holmes book and I was just invested in them so it's just well written so I guess it's classic for a reason I shouldn't be surprised but having read a lot of classics I am sometimes bored out of my mind so it is refreshing when a classic is actually it's not just like I can see why this is a classic but that wasn't fun this was a lot of fun to read and I enjoyed it and I have since purchased one of those like giant collected works of collected Sherlock Holmes mysteries or whatever so you play on right on through that soonish I hope so yeah let me know the comments down below if you've ever read any of the actual Sherlock Holmes stories if you like me have only ever seen the adaptations or if you haven't seen either ever and you're here because you're like what is this Sherlock Holmes that you speak of please tell me more then uh I feel like I didn't explain at all who Sherlock Holmes is and this was a terrible video for you but let me know whenever you want to let me know I post videos on Saturdays sometimes Wednesdays so like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you bye


Hello and welcome to the session in which you would look at intra-company land transfer. What does that mean? It means when one company, a parent company for example, sells land to the subsidiary or the subsidiary sells land to the parent company. When the parent company sells land to the subsidiary, we call this a downstream sale and when the subsidiary sells land to the parent, we call this an upstream sale. Now this transaction is not common in the real world, not as common as for example inventory. And the reason is in inventory, many companies they have a retail distribution relationship where one company sells the inventory to the other company, they're both related somehow, then the second company sells it maybe to a third company, an outside party or within to another subsidiary, then the subsidiary subsidiary sell it to a third party, outside party. But for land, basically you're transferring the land from one company, putting the title of the land in another company. Not as common, nevertheless, it's very beneficial that we learn about this. So usually the seller would records a gain that doesn't have to, it can't be a gain, but usually it's again not a loss, not likely to have a loss. And what's going to happen to that gain on the seller's book, remember the gains are closed to retained earnings. So just I want you to keep this in mind as we go through the transaction. Now the buyer will have an inflated land book value assuming the seller sold it at a gain. It means now the buyer paid that cost plus the gain, now the land is inflated on the book value of the buyer. So unlike inventory where inventory is sold after a short period of time, land on the buyer's book might sit on the buyer's balance sheet for many years. The good news or the easy part about having land transfer is you don't have to worry about depreciation. But what's going to happen, you're going to have an inter-entity gain because the seller has a gain that must be eliminated for subsequent period until that land is sold. And remember we have an inter-entity gain and also what we have is inflated book value of the land. So both of those will have to be eliminated in the year of transfer as well as in subsequent years, which will see how we perform those transactions and those journal entries by working this example. So let's assume in year X1, Adam Company sold a land to Ryan Company for 100,000 with an original cost of 60,000. So Adam is the seller, Ryan is the buyer, the related party. It doesn't matter what Adam is the parent, Ryan is the subsidiary or vice versa. The key is to learn about the journal entries and I will show you what difference does it make toward the end. Before we look at the journal entries, I would like to remind you whether you are a student or a CPA candidate and most likely you are. 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Why not share it with other and press on the like button. Obviously, if you liked it, connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and I created a group me account called CPA exam support group. Okay, let's journalize the entries from Adam's perspective. Adam is the seller. Adam will debit cash, assuming it's sold for cash for 100,000, credit the land for 60,000, the original cost, and Adam will record a gain on their books for 40,000. Now, from Ryan's perspective, Ryan bought a piece of land for 100,000. Ryan will debit. Ryan is the buyer will debit land for 100,000, and they will credit cash for 100,000. Now, at the end of the year, we're assuming this land is not sold to a third party. What's going to happen? We have two issues. One is the gain. When we consolidate, this gain should not appear. And we have a land inflated land, inflated land by 40,000, because 60 is the original cost. Now, it's reported at 100,000 at Ryan's company. Simply put, we're going to have to eliminate those, because let's think about it just kind of real quick. The cash can't show it's other debit cash, credit cash, and we have land of 60,000 debit, a credit land of 60,000 debit, we still have a land inflated land of 40,000. So we have an inflated land of 40,000 and a gain on the sale for 40,000. Well, let's clear them.  So in year one, what we do is we debit the gain because this gain, when we consolidate, should not be there. The gain sits on Adam's books, but not when we consolidate. This gain has nothing to do with the overall group, which is Ryan plus, Ryan plus Adams. Now, in subsequent year, the gain will remain in retained earnings. Keep that in mind of the seller and the land is will be inflated will be inflated on the buyer's side. So what do we have to do in subsequent year until the land is sold? Well, what we have to do, we have basically book the same entry, except the gain is no longer there. What we have to do is debit retained earnings for 40,000 and credit the land until that land is actually sold until the land actually sold. This is in subsequent years. So notice those two entries are technically the same, except that in subsequent years, that gain is gone. What's left with us is the gain was booked in retained earnings of the seller of Adam's company. Now, if this was a downstream sale, what we do, we debit rather than retained earnings, we'll debit the investment account just so you know whether it's a downstream or upstream. This is this is the difference that it's going to manifest itself. Now, eventually the land will be sold. If that's the case, once the land is sold to an outside party, we need to remove the third gain from retained earnings. Remember, we had that the third gain every year we take out of retained earning or if it's the downstream sale from the investment account. And once once the land is sold, we remove it for the first time. And now we book the final actual gain. Now we are ready to book the actual gain. So once that asset that land is sold to an outside party, what's going to happen is we're going to debit retained earnings. Remember that retained earnings that we debit every year until the asset is sold. Well, now the land is sold and we credit an actual gain. Now, this gain is basically permanent. It's going to stay with us. And for the sake of illustration, let's assume this piece of land was sold for 115,000 by Ryan. Well, Ryan will debit cash 115,000. They will credit the land for the cost that they had 100,000 and they will have a gain of 15,000. So notice what happened. The gain in total between Ryan and Adam is how much? 55,000. Well, does this make sense? Yes, because we sold it for 115 and the original cost of the land was 60,000. So the total gain is 55,000. 40,000 of it now booked on Adam's books and the remaining 15 is books on Ryan. 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Okay, good evening everyone. I'll start with the session now. Can you see the screen all of you? Good evening everyone. Can you see the screen now, all of you? Okay, fine, fine. So what we need to do is, today's topic would be to identify geometrical patterns and seating arrangement. Now, can you guys hear me? Is the screen clear now? Hear me? Is the screen clear now? Okay, fine. So what we have to do today is, we have to do geometrical patterns and in geometrical patterns, as you can see the first question, the first question tells me that account the number of squares in the given figure. Now, how do we solve this kind of question? So, basic idea about this kind of question is that we have to identify number of geometrical patterns like squares in the given combined square. So, a bigger figure would be given to you and what we will do is, in that particular big figure, we will identify how many squares are there, how many rectangles are there depending on what question is telling us to do. So, in this particular case, what happens is that let me identify a small question for you. Okay, I give you question number, I give you question number four without telling anything. Try to solve question number four and try to give me answer for question number four. Okay, if you are saying B, if you are saying D, if you are saying some other answer, the problem is nobody asked me how to solve this kind of questions and I also didn't tell it. Now, I am asking a few questions, I would like you to give me an answer about that. How did you count it? How many of you counted the number of triangles and squares without naming the vertices? Here, there are many vertices. How many of you just type this answer in the chat box? How many of you tried to count out the number of triangles and the number of squares without writing the names of the vertices and by writing the names, I mean A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, likewise. Whosoever has written, I did like that, has also given me, I don't know the name because the name has been given as irrational good. If you have done by naming the vertices, that's the right option to do it. If you have not named the vertices, that's not the right version to do it. So, try to understand how I will solve the question. So, to solve this question, what I will do is, I will start marking, I am solving question number 4. Suppose this is A, this is B, this is C, this is D, this is E, this is F, this is G, this is H. So, to do this kind of question, you always have to mark the vertices. After marking, I have not marked 3 vertices here. So, this G, H, this is I, this is J, this is K, and this is L. So, I have marked several vertices over here. Now, you have to calculate how many triangles are there and how many squares are there. So, if I calculate triangles, calculate the number of triangles starting with A. So, you find that ADJ is a triangle, you also find that ADF is a triangle.  Similarly, one triangle here, first calculate the smaller triangle. So, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So, you can write like this, what you will do is you will write the names of the smaller triangles, you will have better idea. Now, how many triangles you are leaving here?  So, what is the bigger triangle? ADF is a bigger triangle. Now, if you look at this square, so if I look at this square, inside the square, how many triangles are there? It's something like this. Let me make a square for you. The square is something like this. So, I have to calculate how many circles are there. So, what I have named this, I have named this DIE, I have named this JFL and I have named this GKH. Now, how many triangles are there? So, if I start writing the names of the triangle, the number of triangles would be, if I look at this half, in this half, the number of triangles would be 1, 2, 3, 4, then a bigger triangle this, 5. Now, if I look at this half, 1, 2, 3, 4, so 8, a bigger triangle this, so 10, 5 here, 5 there, 10, then this triangle would be taken, so 11, this triangle would be taken, so 12 and this is F. So, what I am writing here, name would be JGF is one triangle, GFK is another triangle, FKH is another triangle and FLH is another triangle, then this bigger triangle which is GFH. Similarly, on the other side, I have, let me write here, let me write here, this is DJDF, then DIF, then IFE, then FEL and then I have this bigger triangle which is DFE, so 5 here, 5 here, 10, then I have this triangle, so this triangle I am writing here, DFG, then I have this triangle which is EFH. So, how many triangles here? I have 12 triangles here and is there any other triangle which I am missing out? So, likewise, how many triangles I have here? So, if I include this, I have written here ADZADF, now I will have triangle from this side, I will have triangle LEC and I will have triangle, the bigger triangle here which will be EFC. What I am trying to do is, what I am trying to show you over here is that how do you count the triangles and to count the triangles what I do is, first I find out the square, the procedure is first I have taken the square, in that square I have tried to identify how many different triangles are there, I got different triangles as 12 here, 5 here, 5 here and 2 here, so I got different triangles as 12 here, now what I will do is, I will try to find out triangles with the help of different lines of the square, so one triangle is here, So, till now I have identified 12 here, one here and the second one is here and the third one with A and this is the third one, so 3 here, then what I will do, 1 here, second here and third here, so 3 here, then this triangle is 1, this triangle is 1 and then the complete triangle is 1, so 9 here, 12 plus 9 is 28. Now what I will do is, I will, in this particular square, I did not take 4 triangles, the 4 triangles would be 1, which I write here GBD plus, then what you do is, you take from this side which is DEF, then what you do is, so 12 plus 9, 21, 23 I have identified, the triangle is getting bifurcated, so this particular triangle itself remains a triangle, so that becomes nearly 25. Now what happens is, in this particular square, let me, it's just muddled up now, let me just clear the idea for you, because everything is getting muddled up, so what happens is, first I draw this square, in this square I found out 12 particular triangles, then from the triangle itself there would be 2 components, which will be, suppose I name this I, I name this B and I name this O, I name this, let me name it ACBEGHKFJ, so what happens is, 12 simple triangles would be, as I told you, this side, this side, this side, what I have already told you, so there would be 12 simple triangles, now from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, so 12 simple triangles like this, now what happens is, if I start taking 2 components of the triangle, so if I take 2 components of the triangle, 1 component here, 2 component here, 3 component here, 4 component here, so that becomes 4, 1 component here, 1 component here, 1 component here, that becomes 3, 7. Now what happens is, 1 component here, 1 component here, that becomes 9, so 12 plus 9 is how much, 21. Now triangles which are made of 4 components, so 4 components is IBD1 component here, the 2nd one is BDG, the 3rd component is DGI, 4th component is GIB, so GIB, then 5th component is ACO, the 6th component is COE, so 6 components from another place, so 12 plus 9 is 21, 21 plus 6 is 27, and 1 bigger scale which is ACE, so 1 scale here, so you get how much, you get 27 plus 1, 28 triangles. Now let me calculate squares for you, if you are not understanding, let me know, I will repeat it once again for you, don't worry, if you are not getting these kind of problems, if possible we will do only one type of question, which is geometrical patterns because this is very, very important, you will get at least 2 questions from here. If you are not getting it, please let me know, suppose this is B, this is K, this is D, this is J, this is O, this is F, this is I, this is H, this is J, so what I get is, 2 components, squares having 2 components are B, K, O, J, then K, O, B, F, this is half half, so this is 1, this is 2, this is 3, this is 4, so J, O, I, H, and F, O, H, G, so these are the 4 squares that you have in the half components. The other square which is difficult to find out over here is, that square is try to understand, if you look at here, if I remove everything here, one square is B, D, GI which is visible here, so most of the people will write 5 squares. The one square which is difficult to find out over here is, you look at this, this if I mark as C, this as B, this as D and this as O, this particular square is very difficult to find it out over here, look at what I am doing on the screen and where I am finding out the square, so this particular square C, D, O, B makes my sixth square, so the answer would be D over here, so this is how we have to solve the question, I will give one more question and let's do the first question now, all of you let's do the first question now, if you are not understanding let me know, I will repeat once again, see I was not looking at the chat, it doesn't matter whether it was 30, how do you count 30, okay let me solve this first question for you because most of you have given me the answer, now let me mark it, so this is A, this is B, this is C, this is D, this is E, this is F, G, H, I, J, this is K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, suppose something like this, now I have marked everything, now first thing that I always do is my approach is that if I start counting the components, most of the time I forget to add the bigger square, so my first thing to do is I write the bigger square at the first, so I write A, E, Y, U as the first square so that I don't forget about it, second approach is then going into component, if I get into component 1, 2, 3, component means see this particular square has been separated into 3 or separated into different number of a square by various lines, so try to understand the square is formed by separation of one line, what do I mean by separation of one line, so this line BG here and FG here, similarly with BG you have one more separation which is CH, if you move to CH there is one more separation which is DI, if you move to DI there is one more separation into EJ, so this is in column direction or in vertical direction, in horizontal direction if you look at AB the next separation is FG, if you move to FG the next separation is KL and likewise, so this is called one component, so by one component I am getting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, so I am not writing names of all because I started writing names of everything in the last question and it became muzzled up all the way, so one component you have 16 squares, one component means it is made by lines which are adjacent to each other, so you look AB, FG are adjacent to each other, now I will remove this adjacent line both vertically and horizontally, so how many squares I am getting now I will write the names, so third made with 4 components, so why 4 components, 1, 2, 3, 4, these 4 components gives me one particular square, so what is the name ACMK is first one, then what I do this particular line I shift here, I will not take this adjacent one, I will take this one, so the second one is BDNL, I will not take this one, I will go here which is C E O M, so 3 here, you should understand that 3 lines together, 1, 2, 2 lines are fixed and 1 line from this side, 1, 2, 3 are giving me 3 particular squares, so what I will do, I will keep this line as it is, instead of this line now I will take this line, then I will take this line, so how many squares we will have, I will have 3 into 3, 9 squares I will have, if you want me to write names of all 9 squares, if you are not understanding please write it in the chat box, I will write it, then I will take squares with 9 components, so you should understand that 1 component, 2 component, 9 component, how this is going, this is 1 square, sorry 4 components, so this is 2 square, this is 3 square, so what is happening, 9 component means 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, so how many squares will I get, I will get 4 squares like this, so 9 component, this I can write it for you, it is A D S P, this is the first one, the second one is B E, what is this, this is T, so B E T P is the second one, now let me go here, so you will have F I X U and the fourth one I am writing here, it would be G J Y V, so 4 here, so 16 here, 9 here, 4 here, so 16 plus 9 plus 4, so with 1 component I have taken, with 4 component I have taken, with 9 components I have taken, after 9, 1 square, 2 square, 3 square, what is left out, 4 square, 4 square is equal to 16 which I am getting here, so that is how you come to know that whether you are left out with any square or not, so 16 plus 9 plus 4 plus 1, how much it is, it comes out to be 30, so how much you get, you get 30, so 30 is the right answer, now let me go to another question, so solve question number 2, Dan you are giving me 9, few are giving me, Siddhas is giving me 9, 9, 9, 9, 7, 9, 11, different answers, let me wait for this, let me wait for this, I give you 2 more minutes to answer, ok still the same story, 9, 11, 9, 11 going on, let me solve this question for you, so what will I do, I will start marking it, so this is A, this is B, this is C, this is D, this is E, this is F, this is G, this is H, I don't think I have left any particular edge for you, now what do I have to calculate quadrilaterals, quadrilaterals require how many different edges or how many different sides, 4, so I have to calculate something where 4 sides are there, so try to understand how I do it, try always start from marking those quadrilaterals which are very very obvious in nature, so you look at here, there is a trapezium here, almost looks like a trapezium, A, B, C, D, so the first and the most obvious one which looks in front of me is A, B, C, D, obviously A, B, C, D, opposite to it would be A, D, E, F, that was the most obvious one which I marked, which I marked, now look at here, there is a rectangle made over here which is looking very very obvious which is A, B, D, E, so I have written A, B, D, E, now if I have written A, B, D, E, why not instead of going from D to E, there is a direct line going from D to F, so it means that it makes the quadrilateral, so this was my third one, the fourth one is A, B, D remains same but from D there are two lines, so D I have written, now I write D, F, now if I make, if I saw A, B, D, F, you know that this D, F has two parts, so if you start from D you can go till F, if you start from D you can stop at H also, so instead of writing A, B, D, F I can also write A, B, D, H, so this is the fifth one, the exact story from the other side, from the different side, so I will write C, D, H, A, so sixth one would be C, D, H, A, instead of writing C, D, H, A I can write C, D instead of stopping at H I can go till F, I can write it C, D, F, A, now from D there are two lines, so D, F and D, E, I have only taken D, F, so I will write eighth one as C, D, E, A, this is my eighth one, now let me stop from, I started from A, then B was included, then I went to C, let me start from D, so if I start from D, I have ninth one as D, E, A, G, so D, E, A, G, tenth one as D, E, A, D, E, A, C, C, so D, E, A, C, is D, E, A, C included anywhere? No, so these are the three things, the next one can be D, E, or sorry the next one can be, next one can be D, E, A, F which I have written over here, so how many I have written, I have written 10, 11th one can be D, H, A, G, so D, H, A, G the middle one, so there are how many quadrilaterals I have added, I have added 11 quadrilaterals, this is the answer for you. Now solve question number three, was there something repeated I am looking at here, what was repeated you are saying D, E, A, C was repeated, okay I look at it at the end of the class, don't worry. How many of you are done with this, let me check, somebody is saying C, somebody is saying D, somebody is, most of you are saying CD, okay, most of you are saying CD, so C is the right answer here, so let me solve this question for you, and by marking different things, this is A, this is B, let me start marking it from somewhere else, let me mark it with a different colour all together, so that A, B, C, D, E, F. Now what do I do, G, H, I, J, K, L, then these ones, M, N, O, so marking is done. Now again in this kind of question, the concept of components come, so if I talk about components, I will start with most obvious one, and the most obvious ones are generally made with the lines which are adjacent to each other, so 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, so how many of them, 1 on the top, 1 on the bottom, so how much you get, 2 here, the top one is, I am not writing but I am naming it B, C, D, and A, E, F, these are the 2, so 2 I have written here, now 16 inside, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. So 2 plus 16 with one component I am getting 18 different, so how many components, one component or this is simplest triangles, so how much do I get, I get 18. Now if I take any one of them, now concept of triangle is gone in top and bottom, I am not making anything from this top and bottom anymore. So the concept of triangle will come only in this small square, so let me make one square for you and let me check how many different triangles do I make. So I am naming it once again B, G, H, A, and M, so how many triangles do I have here, try to understand, I have already made this small triangle, so I will not take adjacent lines, you look at here I will take the first one that I write is A, B, G, this is the first one, the second one that I write is, I have started from this particular vertex, I will keep on shifting one vertex anticlockwise, so ABG now I am starting here, B, G, H, this is a different triangle, so B also covered, let me go to G, so G, H, A is a different triangle and let me go to fourth, H, AB is altogether a different triangle, so how many of them I am getting here, I am getting four different triangles and I have four such squares, so this is square number one then two then or rectangle number one, two, three, four, so in first rectangle I got four different triangles like this, if I have four different rectangles of four into four, 16 I will get, so 18 simplest triangle I got, 16 I got with the help of two components, two components means one plus two two components added, so I am adding this component and this component, here I am adding this component and this component, now can I get, by adding three components, one, two, three you know you cannot get different triangles, but by adding four components you can get it, so you look at here from, I am making it here, it's like this, so it's something like this and what is this, this is A, this is B, this is G, H, this is I, J and if you look at this, this is one particular, so I am adding one, two, three, four, four components here and I am getting A, G, J as one of my triangles and one is exactly opposite to it, so you look at here A, G, J is one such triangle, so one, two and three triangles upwards and three triangles downwards, so how much I am getting here, six, so 18 plus 16 is 34, so 18 plus 16 plus 6 is equal to how much, it is 40, so I am getting 40 triangles over here and let me go to squares, now how many squares, so try to understand, let me read the question, okay, so to do this question we have to assume that this lens are same, so one square is this, this is B, this is G, this is H, this is A, so B, G, H, A is one triangle and I have four, sorry one square, so I have into four, so I have four such squares, where are other squares? So other squares are, you look at here, this I named as M, this I named as H, this is N, so other squares are here, M, G, H and N, this is A, this is H, so M, G, H, N, then one square is here, this is the second square and this is the third square, so four squares I have counted this vertically and four squares like this, so four plus three, how many squares here? Seven squares, so answer is C, which is 40 triangles and seven squares, so question number four we have already done, now we will solve question number five, we will not solve question number five, we will solve question number nine now, Ok I have started getting answers of this question, most of you when you are writing answer please write the question number also so that I can identify which question you are answering, so people are saying B, few people are saying D, B, D everything is going on over here, what do I have to find out, I have to find out triangles and parallelograms, Ok let me solve this question for you, a lot of time, let me mark it, this is A, B, C, D, E, F, G, then this is H, I, J, K, then this is L, this is M, this is N and this is O, so I hope I have marked all the, yes I have marked everything, nothing is left out, so if I have to identify triangles, I will always start with the simplest one, how many simplest triangles you can find it out, so simplest triangles would be K, J, N and K, J, O, so K, J, N let me write here because the maximum number is 21 so should not go beyond, we can write it, K, J, O, then where do you find the other one, the other one is C, N, B, these are the ones difficult to identify, so C, N, B and then you have on the other side O, E, F, so O, E, F, then you have here J, I, L and then you have J, I, M and after J, I, L and J, I, M you have smaller ones, B, L, A, similar ones as this C, N, B and O, E, F, B, L, A and M, F, G, so M, F, G, so how many of them I got, I got 8 of them, so this was triangle from single component, from 2 components, how many of them I am getting, so from 2 components I will have one component here C, D, J, this vertical one, so C, D, J and on the other side I have E, D, J, similarly N, K, O, joining these 2 components, so N, K, O, then I have here J, L, M, then I have the below one, J, A, H, so as I write J, A, H, you could have identified the other part also, which is J, H, G, so how many of them I have, 6 components I have here, then so with 1 component I had with 2 components I have, can I do it with 3 components, so by 3 components I mean 1, then 2 and then 3, so B, K, I looks out to be one particular triangle, so by 3 components I have B, K, I, then I have K, I, F, then I have from the other side, so from here, so I can have triangles such as C, J, A from this side, so C, J, A and on the other side I have J, E, G, so 3 components, J, E, G, so 4 of them, with 4 components can I have one, so if you look at the bigger one, so 1 I have never counted this, 1, 2, 3, 4, so with 4 components I have C, D, E and I have here A, J, G, so A, J, G, so 4 here and 2 here, so 8 plus 6, 14, 14 plus 4, 18, 18 plus 2, 20 and the biggest triangle that I never took was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, with 6 components I have B, K, F, so this is one of them, so maximum how much I am getting here, I am not taking here, I am getting 21, I have not counted the parallelogram, so 21 is the right number of triangles, I hope you all understood it, now I will have to mark it once again because I have made everything A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M and O, now for parallelograms what I do, for parallelograms 1 component will never give me parallelograms, so 2 components, so let me start from here, you look at here 1, 2, 3, 4, so C, D, K, B is giving me 1 parallelogram, similarly on the other side D, K, O, E is giving me, no, not D, D, K, E, F is giving me once again, just D, K, F, E is giving me, then where am I getting, I am getting B, I, H, A, so I am getting here B, I, H, A and similarly I, F, H, G, so I am getting I, F, G, H or H, G, whatever you say, so how many of them I am getting it, 4, similarly I can get it with B, K, J, A with 3 components, 1, 2, 3, so on the other side, so B, K, J, A is 1, similarly K, F, J, G is the other one, similarly C, J, I, B is the third one, C, J, I, B is the third one and the fourth one would be J, E, F, I, so how many of them I am getting here, 4, 1, so these are with 3 components, with 4 components, how many of them I am getting, so with 4 components, 1, 2, so I will get B, F, 1, 2, 3, 4, so I will get B, F, G, A, I will only get 1 with 4 components, now there are other parallelograms also, which are they, these parallelograms are, if you look at it very carefully, the parallelograms are like this, this line, this line, this line and this line, so how many components, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 components, so with 5 components I am getting C, D, J, A on one side, so on other side also I will get, which will be D, E, G, J, then if you start from here, you will get C, J, H, A, C, J, H, A and J, E, G, H, so how many of them you are getting, 4 you are getting and then you have 2 more left out, which is C, E, F, B, so sorry, you have 4 more, 2 more left out which is C, E, F, B, how many components here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 with 6 components, so you have with 6 components, 1 of them here and then you have C, E, G, A, so C, E, G, A which has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 components, so 1 of them here, so how many of them, 4, 4, 8 and have I left anything else, so I have left N, J, N, B, okay I have left this, these 2 I have left here, so 1 and 2 here, so N, J, L, B is one of them and then N, O, M, I is one of them, so 2 more here, so these are the direct ones which I left here, so 6, 2 plus 4 plus 4, 4 plus 4 plus 1, then 4 plus 4, then 1 plus 1, how many of them I get, I get 17, so 21 and 17, this is the right answer, okay, so we have done enough questions like this, I will post this sheet on the WhatsApp group, you can solve questions on this basis, now let me move to another particular topic which is seating arrangements, so this is the first question, one thing that you need to make clear in your mind is in seating arrangement, what happens is you have to look at the direction in which the objects are facing, why, because always it would be written that A is sitting right to B, B is sitting left of C, how does the direction in which the objects are facing matters is like this, suppose if they are facing on north side, so if I say that A is sitting left of B, so I will first mark B and if the person is facing this side, left would be this side and right would be this side, so A has to go somewhere here, but on the very opposite, if somebody is facing south, so in that particular case what happens is I say that A is sitting left of B and somebody is facing this side, left becomes this side, so A would be sitting here, so you always have to look at the case where the direction of, I mean direction in which objects are facing are identified by you, always remember if no direction is being talked about in the question, like if the question doesn't tell that in which direction objects are facing, the default direction is north direction, if in the question you are not able to find out or the question does not specify explicitly that which direction the objects are facing and again repeating you have to assume that the objects are facing north direction, but if in any question it has been given to you that the objects are facing east direction, then you have to apply that particular, that particular concept, so if somebody is facing east, this is my east, so this becomes my left and this becomes my right, so if B is sitting here, A would be somewhere here and likewise, so that's how you have to focus on seating arrangement questions, now if there is any extra thing I will help you out in the question, so this is the first question of seating arrangement, first read the question and then try to solve the questions, are you done, the first one looks easy, first one I am getting a lot of answer as A, okay a lot of people have not given me the answer, so I will wait for their answer, because there are 2-3 parts of this question, so first one is A, give me answer of the second one, let me solve this question for you, enough time, so what happens is how many people are there, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H are sitting in 2 lines facing each other, let me make 2 lines facing each other, these are the 2 lines in which 8 people are sitting together, each line has 4 persons, A is sitting between G and F and facing towards north, so this side is facing towards north and this side is facing towards south, so what has been told to me, so it has been written in the question itself that A is sitting between G and F facing towards north, opposite to C, so who is sitting opposite or exactly facing C is A, option would be D option, so A would be here somewhere sitting between G and F, so 2 options A, G and F on this side or G and F on this side, now if G and F has been given don't only take that G can be on left hand side and F can be on right hand side, it has not been given clearly, that's why I am making 2 different conditions, on the other side look at here opposite to C here is C and there are 2 conditions here B and D or D and B, now try to understand H is on the right hand side of D, so if I make 3 people sit like this, H would be either here or H would be here, so if I keep H here and I keep D here, D becomes left of H, H is just right of once again, I am just getting once again, H is not here, H is somewhere here, so H is just on the right of G, so H would be here, so I am just writing it down, so it would be like this once again, this I misread it, so if H is on the right of G, H would be here, so my final answer would be on this side, it will be B, A, sorry F, A, G, H, this is something like this and C is sitting between D and B, here you don't know whether B is sitting on the right of D or D is sitting on the right of B, so answer would be B or D, you don't know here, option would be D option here, now the next one is, in which pair of the following second person is sitting at the left of the first person, so if I take FA, A is on the right of F, that's a wrong answer, GA is the right answer because on the left of G, this GA is the right answer, now let me go to question number 4 and let me solve it for you, so question number 4 tells me who is facing north, so you know that in facing north, C is not there, B is not there, E is not there, only H is facing north because GF facing north if you look at here, FA, G, H are facing north, only one option is there which is H and question number 5 is in which of the following pairs seems, so if you look at here, if you identify D on the side, there should be one option here, none of these because what he is doing in this question is that he is taking the question as it is, if he is saying C is sitting between D and G, he is assuming D and B, he is assuming D to be here and B to be here which is not the right case, even if it has been written in the solution of this and as B is sitting here, it has been told that B is sitting opposite to G, but from my experience, this is absolutely wrong, you have to take two cases, you always have to take two cases, if none of these is not there as in this case, then you can assume that D is here and B is here, so if none of these option is not here, then I am assuming that D is here and B is here, so B and G would be opposite, then in second question you will have to say that D is sitting on the right of C, but this is not a right logic to do it, you always have to make two different scenarios, so these are the questions. Now similarly you can solve question number 6, that's not a problem, once it has been identified that what needs to be done, you can do question number 2, now solve this question, question number 7 to 11. So I am getting a lot of answers, 7, 8, 9 I am getting here, so a lot of people have given me answers for 7, 8, 9, now let me solve question number 7, 8, 9 for you, 5 girls are sitting on a bench to be photographed, Sema is to the left of Rani and to the right of Vindu, Mary is to the right of Rani, Rita is between Rani and Mary, very very simple question, no information has been given in which direction they have been facing, so I will assume that they are facing north, Sema is to the left of Rani, so if this is Rani, this is left, this is right, so I will write here Rani, then Sema would be on her left and to the right of Vindu, so here is Vindu, Rita is between Rani and Mary, so here is Rita and here is Mary, because I cannot put Rita somewhere here, because already Sema and other, so who is sitting immediate to the right of Rita, immediate to the right of Rita, Mary is sitting, question 8, who is second from the left, so from the left is this side, so Sema is second from the left, so option is D, now question number 9, what's the answer, question number 9 tells me who is in the middle of the photograph, Rani is in the middle of the photograph, who is second from the right, Rita is second from the right, question number 11 is altogether a different question, so you will have to solve it, solve question number 11 now, today I will leave by 7.45, what's the answer of question number 11, most of you are saying question number 11 the answer is B, okay let me check what is question number 11, yes the answer is B, as most of you are getting it, let me not waste time by solving these questions, okay solve this question, this is the last question, after this question we will break for the day, done only few people have replied, so take some 2-3 more minutes, solve question number 12-13 both, okay 2 more minutes, I am not getting a lot of answers like I got in the other questions, question number 13, 12 people are giving varied answer, somebody is saying D, B, C, the answer is there, question number 13, I have only got 2-3, 4-5 answers, 13-8, okay let me solve this question for you anyway, what has been told in the question that EFGH IJKN, it means that 8 people are seated around a square table, 2 on each side, so here is the square table F, G, H, I, J, K, so it's not actually in this order, so there are 3 lady member, they are not seated next to each other, okay, J is between L and F, G is between I and F, H is a lady member, it's second to the left of J, F is a male member which is seated opposite to E, a lady member, so how many of them are lady member, I have identified H is a lady member, I have also identified E is a lady member, and there is a lady member sitting between F and I, so that I will get after putting out the sitting arrangement, now try to understand it, J is sitting between L and F, so all the sides are same, now on any side these 2 positions are different, so try to understand, I make different possibilities, so if J is sitting here then L can be here, F can be here, if J is sitting here, sorry, once again give me a moment, if J is sitting here then L can be here and F can be here, but you can say that if J is sitting between L and F, why can't I interchange the places of L and F, so for that I will have to make 2 other possibilities and I am making those 2 other possibilities, so for this first case when J is sitting here, F can be here and L can be here, and for this I am making a possibility here, so which is like this, that when J is sitting here L can be here and F can be here, now I have 4 different cases, in all 4 cases I try to identify which one is suitable for me and which one is not suitable for me, so G is between I and F, so G is between I and F, so in this case G sits here, I is here, in this case G sits here, I is here, and in this case G sits here, I is here, in this case G sits here and I is here, now what has been told H is a lady member which is opposite to J, now in this particular case already opposite to J, I is sitting, so this particular case is not accepted to me, so what about this case, in this particular case also J is opposite to J, I is sitting, so this particular case is also not accepted to me, so I have only 2 cases left out, this and this, which tells me that if J is here, so what is opposite to J, let me read it once more, H is a lady member which is sitting second to the left of J, so I perhaps read the wrong thing, one second guys, question reading mistake, in front of you I am making this mistake, in exam also you can make this mistake, I mean I also used to make this, H is a lady member who is sitting second to the left of J, so if J is here, 1, 2, this case is not possible, this is left, if somebody is facing centre, for J this will be left, sorry this will be right and this would be left, so this is left, so H is a lady member sitting to the left of J, H can be here, now for J again left would be here, so if you look at the second place here is not accepted, so this is gone, now H is a lady member, what is left of J is only there are 2 places left out, now how many places are left out, so this case is already rejected, so see in this case opposite to F H is sitting, so this is not possible, so I have only 1 case left out now, so which is E, F, I, J, K is not here, so I will put K here, so now let me find out the answer which among the following are 3 lady members, so 3 lady members are 2 I have already identified H and E, so the third lady member is sitting between F and I which is G, so it comes out to be G is third lady member, there is no such option here, so answer would be none of these, so this is my right answer, now let me go to 13th question, the 13th question tells me about which of the following is true about J, so lady members are now finalized 3 lady members, so J is a male member that is correct, position of J cannot be determined that is also wrong, so A is the correct answer that J is a male member, now question number 14 which of the following, who among the following is seated between E and H, so between E and H, between E and K is sitting, so answer would be none of these, see here cannot be determined is there, I am cutting this and I am writing it none of these, when I will send you the answer it will be corrected there, so it will be none of these, question number 16 what is the answer, question number 16 is how many persons are seated between K and F, so K and F from all 3 sides, from all 2 sides, 3 people are seated, so answer here would be 3 people, now try to understand if there would have been a scenario where from this side 2 people would have been seated and from this side 3 people would have been seated, the answer could have been cannot be determined, I am taking option 3 here, why because from both the sides 3 people are sitting over here, so that is why answer is 3, I am again repeating if from left side and from right side number of people are different, hence the answer would be cannot be determined in that case, so this is what it is guys for from today's session, I hope you understood everything, if you have any doubt do get in touch with me, so these sheets would be sent to you by tonight and you can solve it at home with answers, I will send it to you so that you can do it at your place, so I hope you understood the session and I am getting doubts only from 1 or 2 students, I do believe that most of you who are solving these questions, also please don't leave the session now, I am planning a test on Friday, the coming Friday, so I will publish the paper in class pro or in the group, the test paper would be given to you and you will have to send me the answers, so one test would be planned this week, coming week on Friday sometime, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, before the next class your test would be there, I will let you know the timing, I will let you know the format in which the test would be done, mostly it will be a 50 question test because we have only done 3 topics or 4 topics, so please send the answers to me and I will let you know your answers, this is very important to track your progress in NTSC classes, so that is how it is, so thank you so much for joining the class and I hope you enjoyed the class, I hope everything you could understand, thank you so much, thanks for joining the class


Getting student placement right, the best esch arrangements for EFL students. As a teacher of English as a foreign language, or any subject really, you have to consider the seating arrangement in your classroom. Studies have shown that seating arrangements where the teacher can see the faces of all of the students at all times increase student engagement and are therefore beneficial for their learning. In this, here are the best esch arrangements for EFL students that you should try out in your classroom. Single rows Setting up the student's desks in single rows is great for teacher demonstrations and independent table work. While this arrangement is very formal and discourages student-to-student interaction, it is highly recommended for the first few weeks of a new class, for example. That's because the single row arrangement allows the teacher to easily engage with all the students through eye contact, it provides easy monitoring and is also great until the students develop their self-management skills. U-Shape This type of seating arrangement allows the students to engage with one another through eye contact very easily and is great for group discussions. The distance between students also reduces the chances of private conversations, which can be good and bad. The U-Shape arrangement also allows the tables to be moved together for group work wherever necessary. Because the students are facing each other, they will always have to turn their heads to look to the board and the teacher, which can be bad for their posture. Double rows With this seating arrangement, the students are facing each other. This way, they can easily interact and communicate with one another. The double row arrangement is great for speaking classes and classes with a lot of student talk time but can be disruptive for other classes. That's because off-task interaction happens very easily and it is harder for the teacher to gain eye contact with individual students. Clusters Often referred to as workstation arrangement, clusters are ideal for students with very good self-management skills. They also work well for group projects or to simply boost the group feeling in the class. However, it is harder for the teacher to maintain eye contact with the students and monitor their activity. The students also lose their own space which can be a problem for some students. If you are dealing with a class with management problems and other difficulties, the cluster arrangement should be avoided. More Things to Consider Regarding Desk Placement All students should be able to see you in the board from their desks. Plan in sufficient tile space so that you can easily move around the classroom and the students have enough individual space. Set up work area tables and storage around the perimeter of the classroom. Consider where students will keep their personal belongings, notebooks, folders, stationery, etc. Are you ready to teach English abroad? When deciding on the perfect desk arrangement for your EFL classroom, you need to make sure that it meets the needs of your students and also complements your own teaching style. Desks set up in rows, clusters, groups and U shapes all have advantages and disadvantages as they each encourage and discourage certain behaviors. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


It's Derby Day, and if you're anything like my friends, you fall into one of two groups. You either think that Kentucky Derby is the brutal exploitation of horses, or you didn't even know it was Derby Day until just now when I told you. But no matter which camp you fall into, you're happy to drink something delicious and alcoholic in solidarity. Don't worry, I got you. Now a quick search will net you dozens of videos on how to make a mid-JULIP, but there's really only one you need to watch, and that's this one. And honestly, I could never top it. No one can. Thankfully, my go-to JULIP is a Jerry Thomas classic called the Prescription JULIP, a tasty variation utilizing cognac and rye. There are other videos on this, which isn't a big deal. But I can't make that one either, because another YouTuber uploaded a video on that drink earlier this week. Motherfuck. But thankfully, a gift fell out of the sky and into my lap in the form of this lovely gift that was put together by the good people of Wild Turkey and Liquid Alchemist. Let's see what's inside. Smallish bottle of Wild Turkey 101, peach syrup, fancy julip tin, and even a metal straw. Shiny. Peach julip in a box, and if you've never had a julip that's been spiced up with the addition to fruit, you don't know what you're missing. Let's make it. Add a decent amount of fresh mint, half an ounce of peach syrup, and two ounces of strong bourbon into your julip tin. Lovingly, press the mint to release the oil on top with crushed ice. Give it a stir, add more crushed ice, and garnish with a few mint sprigs. Beautiful. Let's give this a taste. That is a tasty drink. Now the peach notes are front and center, but the bourbon is still the star of the show. And if you want to enjoy this drink in this manner, you really should use a strong bourbon and Wild Turkey 101 is perfect. Now if you're thinking, do I have to use peach? Obviously not. A lot of flavors work great in this drink, like apricot for example, or really any stone fruit. Don't be afraid to use your imagination and get creative. The real trick is incorporating the flavor into the drink. There are plenty of ways to accomplish this. You could muddle, you could try your hand at making your own fruit puree in a blender, and if you want to go that route, feel free, but frankly, I'm kind of lazy, which is why I think liquid alchemists serve so worth seeking out. But no matter what you do, make this drink or something like it. Not because it's derby day, because you earned it. If you liked it at like, consider subscribing if you haven't already, and if there's something you think I should try, let me know in the comments. Take care, and I'll see you soon.