In this presentation we will take a look at classifications of cash flows on the statement of cash flows. There's going to be three major categories on the statement of cash flows. Those will be operating activities, support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it investing activities and financing activities. So our goal here when we go through the statement of cash flow as we work through the statement of cash flows is going to be in part to decide which area these cash flows should go should they go into operating investing or financing. It's going to be common questions and common problems and really just information we need to know when reading the statements of cash flows. So we'll start off with the operating activities. We're just going to look at the major components of the cash flows within the operating activities. So we'll talk about in flows and outflows. Remember what we're talking about here is cash. So when we're talking about the statement of cash flows, we're talking about cash flows, the cash that goes into the company, the cash that goes out of the company. We're going to talk about in flows and outflows here related to operating activities. Before we go into the list of in flows and outflows related to operating activities, we want to know first that operating activities is going to be similar to us thinking about the income statement on a cash basis. So when we think about the operating activities, we're really thinking or one way to think about it would be that if we were to have the income statements on a cash basis, then what would the inflows and outflows be that'll basically be what are in the operating activities? When we get to the thought process in terms of how to determine operating investing and financing activities, we'll go more through that in the thought process. But just note operating activities you want to tie out in some way to income statement on not an accrual basis as is a normal income statement, but a cash basis. So any kind of sales then of course would be the operating activities, the sales related to cash sales or sales from collection on credit sales. So in other words, that would be sales from a cash flow basis that would be the major component of the operating activities. And that would include the sales that would be cash sales that we made now and sales that we collected on. So if we made a sale in the past, say last month, we made a sale or last year, let's say we made a sale on account, we did the work recorded revenue last year, but we got the cash this year from the accounts receivable, we reduced accounts receivable and recorded the revenue this year. I mean, recorded the cash when we got the cash this time. Well, from a cash flow statement, of course, the cash was received now this year, even though the work was done last year. So that would be from a cash flow perspective, cash flow this year from the sale that happened last year. On the outflow side, we'd have payments for operating expenses. So that would be the typical outflow. And again, you can think of it as a comparison to the income statement, where we would record the expense when we incur it in accordance with the matching principle. But here, of course, we're talking cash flows. And so the expenses that we have, similar to the income statement, we're going to record them here when the cash goes out, whether they be for expenses that we paid at the same time as we consumed the expense, or if they went through accounts payable, meaning, for example, if last year we paid for an expense, and then we didn't pay for it last year, we put it on account, we had an expense that we put on account into accounts payable and paid for it this year because we're paying off the payable, then that would be included in the cash flow this year, although it would not be an expense because we've recorded the expense last year when we incurred the expense, not when we paid for it. So you can see that relationship here. These are going to be items that are in the revenue cycle, meaning revenue and income and expenses are going to be our typical cash flows for the operating activities. However, on a cash basis, rather than an accrual basis, we're kind of converting the accrual basis to a cash basis for the operating activities. Now those two ways that we can do that, we can do that with a direct method and an indirect method. We'll talk about that later, but just note now that when we talk about those two methods, they apply only to the operating activities. Now we're going to go to the investing activities, same things, inflows and outflows for investing activities. Now note that when we look at cash inflows and outflows, we're hoping that most of the activity, like a lot of the action that's happening, is probably going to be in the operating activities because that's what our normal operations are. But we have other type of activities that we'll be dealing with other areas, income, investment activities and financing activities. And these are things you might want to think about in terms of the way I would think about it is, if you think of the normal journal entry related to something, is there an income statement account involved in it? If it is, then you probably have something dealing with an operating activity. If not, then you probably have something dealing with investing or in financing. So we'll talk more about that later, but just get an idea of that now. So sales of property plants and equipment. This is often one that was confusing when I first learned the statement of cash flows because property plants and equipment is going to be an asset and we're using the term investment activities here. So note that when you think about investments, you may be thinking like I used to of just stocks and bonds as like the types of investments and property plants and investments is a fixed asset. It's not in the same category, but in another sense it is. All assets that we have on the balance sheet are investments in a sense because that's why we bought them. We bought them in order to help us generate revenue in the future. They're not helping us generate revenue now. That's why they're assets. That's why they're on the books as assets. We're investing in them now. We put the cash, we got the cash, we left the cash, we spent the cash and we got something else. We didn't expend it now. We didn't get an expense and consume something. We got an investment in this case in property plants and equipment. So anything so you could see the journal entry. If we were to buy it with cash, we would credit cash, debit property plant and equipment, an asset. Neither of those two accounts are income statement accounts. Even if we financed it and got a loan, it would be a liability. So therefore it's not going to be an operating activity. That's one way you can think about it and say, hmm, probably not an operating that would leave you with investing or financing. And it's going to be an investing activity because we're investing in the equipment. And then we have the sale of long-term investments. So if we have an investment on the books as an investment, possibly stocks, then we could sell the investment and then that would be an investing activity as well. That's probably one that would come to mind as an investing type of activity if we bought and sold our long-term investments. If we go to the outflows then, we have the purchase of intangible assets and we've got the purchase of property plant and equipment. So once again, note that anything dealing with property plant and equipment is going to be on the investments portion. And you can think of that journal entry again, what's going to be the major journal entries related to property plants and equipment. Well, we buy it, which would be a debit to property plant and equipment, credit to cash, possibly a credit to notes as well to finance it. None of them have to do with the income statement. And therefore it's going to be something else, either investing or financing, in this case, investing. Or you can just memorize property plant and equipment is going to be investing. We're investing in something. When we sell the property plant and equipment also, we're going to debit cash and we're going to credit property plant and equipment. Now, we might have a gain or loss and you might think, well, that's kind of a, you know, what do we do with that? That's on the income statement. But really, the main components are going to be balance sheet type of accounts there. We'll talk about the gain or loss when we get to that information. But note that anything dealing with property plant and equipment typically will be investing, whether we be buying it or selling it. And then we have the purchase of investments. And once again, that would be more of an investing activity clearly because we're purchasing investments, possibly stocks or bonds that we're investing into. And that would be part of the investing activities. Then we have the financing activities. The final component we'll be taking a look at. We've taken a look at operating investing and now financing. That's going to include issue of common and preferred stock. So when we issue stock, that's going to be something that deals with the owner. So the owners were issuing the stock to the owners is kind of like an initial investment from the owner. So that's going to be a financing type of activity. And then we have the re issuing of treasury stock. So if we had the treasury stock, financing activity, and then the issue of debt. So if we had debt that we're going to be dealing with, then also financing activity, note that these types of entries again, don't deal with anything on the income statements, typically when we have the inflow for the issuance of stock, for example, we would be debiting the cash, but not crediting income, we would be crediting common stock or additional paid in cash and or additional paid in capital. So there's no income statement account involved in that. So typically we would say, okay, it's not going to be operating. And therefore it needs to be something with investing or financing. And these two, we're not dealing with anything in terms of an asset. We're not giving the cash away to buy an asset that we're investing into the future. We're financing the company. The point of this is to get the cash in the company to get capital to get cash and or paying back that capital or cash that we use to finance the company in the past. So that's going to be the financing activities. Then we have the outflows or owner's contributions as well. So note here, when we have the contributions, if it's a corporation, that would be the common stock, we would issue common stock, that would be like an owner investment because we would be getting more owner investment. If we're sole proprietorship or partnership, then the owners would be investing their money back into the company. And we would debit cash and credit their capital account, another type of owner investment for that type of business entity. And then we've got the paying dividends. So when we pay back the dividends, that's going to be part of the financing activities. And note again, what's happening here is we're crediting cash and we're debiting retained earnings or dividends. Neither of those two things are dealing with the income statement and neither of them are dealing with something we're investing in in terms of an asset. They're part of the financing activities. And then we have the purchase of treasury stock and the pay withdrawals. These two are similar. Again, this being for a corporation, when we pay the owner's back, this being for a sole proprietorship or partnership, when we pay the owner's back. And then when we pay the debt, when we pay off the debt, same type of activity. Again, neither of the accounts, we're going to credit cash to pay off, we're going to debit a liability, the note payable to pay off. So it's not typically operating, it's typically going to be financing.


We just dropped off our our Taita. Yeah, which is a shaman. We took the shaman with us I was gonna say like we should film that yeah, and I was like yeah Yeah, I really liked the experience but not because of why I originally thought I was gonna like it what I got out Of this was that the realization that I can continue to do stuff like this But I have been given the answers like I know the answers and I just need to So like the visions I was having and dude it's I have like an anxiety about like doing things in front of crowds and a lot of like what I want to continue to break through is is just being comfortable with that and And just like you know having more confidence to take our business to the next level to the next level to the next level And So I had this like vision of me There was a huge pole a picture of fireman's pole in the middle of a Broadway show in New York City And I was doing you're stripping. I was I was stripping bro. No, I was doing Japanese like acrobatic stuff and I was just killing it and it was so real and like people in the crowd Were like reacting and then I would be in their bodies It was very odd what I liked about this was that ayahuasca to me was like the pinnacle of like no There's like deeper shit inside me like I have to get out and like if I don't react and like a really If I don't like barf the whole night and like have these crazy He'll look like hallucinations that I'm not getting to the core of what's going on And I pretty much just realized like dude you can after I took the first cup I was like Dan you kind of know what's gonna happen if you take the second cup Like you're gonna it's gonna do a little bit and then if you take a third cup like probably do a little bit I just realized that what we're doing here at Zendu Fitness and The the direction we're headed in is the right direction and to just cut out all the bullshit and all the The noise and thinking thinking to myself that there's something inside of me That's not complete that I need to figure out before we can move forward to that next level and this ayahuasca trip basically showed me that By by nothing really happening by not something like really jolting me. It was more of like And I could have taken more I could have taken more and had a crazy experience like visually But I really think at the end of the day it would have just been I would have had the same realization of You're going in the right direction Continue to be confident continue to move forward. That's what I got dude I feel like I had your experience up until when I fell asleep, so my intention going into this thing was like I just want to work on patience so I can get more present and like just You know just continue to live a happier and happier life Like that's the end goal always as Zendu Fitness and like obviously my dance life is how do we get? probably the happiest life possible and a big part of that for me is like becoming more patient become more present and So of course because I said this intention. There's 19 people at this ceremony and I think what like? There's like three of us who took a second cup Yeah, not many three people took a second cup and like I was the only Person who took a second cup and like still didn't throw up and I was like, you know vomit purge Whatever and I was like really cuz like usually you purge and then like you start to get more like an intense experience And so I was like, all right. I kind of got to where Dan was just saying where I was like, well, I learned that You know at the end of the day, I know everything I need to know like I'm good And I can just go to sleep now and I'm happy. It was a good experience and then I woke up I woke up like I don't know after maybe an hour or so and I just heard this like woman's voice calling me like spiritual woman's voice calling me who was saying like Like this basically she was telling me I had to go throw up She was like this is like I don't remember exactly said but something along the lines of you have to like pay this toll To enter the next level and so like I got up I went like threw up and so I went and purged and I came back and when I came back I Lay back down and I started to have Like this experience where I was like coming in and out of like reality were There was like this spiritual woman, you know I'm sure like someone who like is is very knows Jahe or I was like, oh, yeah, that was like this Spirit the ayahuasca spirit and she's basically saying like you have to let go and you have to let go of like this physical body If you want to go to the next level and so I was like going back and forth between like laying because it's cold We're in the mountains like shivering freezing freezing shivering in my physical body And then completely snapping out of it not shivering at all and like going to this other Dimension or something and like being completely like comfortable, but also Having a lot of like, I don't know like kind of scary visuals Like it was like a spear was like testing me and like messing with me being like are you ready for this? Are you ready to and I kind of went back and forth between this for I don't know an hour or two until I Got to a point where I was like I couldn't let go of me I couldn't let go of the physical body to completely go to another space And so I kind of I was like, you know what what I can do is like I can go integrate And there was like a big circle around a fire of you know, that's why you went sat down Okay, I saw that music and like everyone was just like Singing songs of like gratitude and just beautiful stuff all in Spanish don't know what they're saying. It was awesome It was wonderful though and I went to sat in there and I was like, you know what the The work is being able to take all this stuff whether I'm living another dimension or whatever happened and Integrating in the world and like bringing this love to what I do in my everyday life And it was just like this like fluidity fluid energy moving through me Just saying like yo you need to bring this like love your feelings this integration more into that new fitness You need to bring this energy more into you need to give more you need to be More present you need to be more with it and you have to like with everything you're doing with all the experience you have because a lot of times I do let my mind go wherever for the next task and this was an Opportunity for me to like just sit there and like, you know, I took out some little shakers I started playing some music with them and really just integrated in that moment and that was a work And I think I'm curious to maybe do jahe again because this is my that was my second time doing it and the first time like nothing Nothing happened the first time the second time.  So I'm like, yeah spirit.  Maybe it is a spirit possessing my soul Whatever it is. I had a taste of it And it was kind of intense and I kind of want to go back and see what else is there because she kept telling me like There's like this. There was a ceiling and I couldn't break through it She's like just wait and see what will happen to your whole life including your business everything Once you can break through the ceiling and live up here, dude That's super interesting because I think it is like my opinion. I mean doesn't matter Like we both have our opinions on this like I like for me personally I think it's whatever you create in your mind Like I was trying to get weird and and my and it was like and my body was like Dan You're not gonna trip balls. Stop it. Thank you're not you don't need to do that I like the the funny thing is like the first time I did John.  It's like what's real what's real is that like we're on the right path and the more The more deep we go with this the more present we get the more fun We have the more we enjoy the process the better things are gonna go and like it's these psychedelics and things like this just remind you of that and Yeah, remind you what's most important. Yeah, and Let's not get it, you know Vren and I like like he said we do we do these things for educational purposes. All right, Zendu nation Now it's time to reintegrate back into the city of Medellin I'm gonna go home and sleep. He's gonna go home and maybe sleep. I don't know what he's gonna do We didn't sleep last night. Oh, yeah, there's no sleep told Brooklyn. Oh, I guess it's me. We got like an hour or two each Yeah Yeah, that's true. It could have been for could have been four minutes I don't know really don't know don't know but What we do know is that we love you and we'll see you on tomorrow's vlogs and do nation You guys usually don't do this, but yesterday we were recording our ayahuasca Like at the end of it. We were recording We're unpacking our ayahuasca trip and then the SIM card got full and then our battery died The things that everything happened so you couldn't finish the video So this video is actually like Brandon's gonna post this in a few hours What you're seeing right now is today and yesterday. Yes So and you're gonna throw him a clip right of our we started to talk about it yesterday on the car right home And then the battery was like screw you. Yeah, so you guys just saw that you saw it like Second ago right there. You just saw it. Yeah, and now we're engaging to finish that conversation and talk about yeah, our experiences and You know Dan's experience you guys just saw you heard from it. You heard most of my experience. I think we just wanted to Just package everything up and and share with you guys a little bit more about like what we've learned from overall experience And it's cool to do this now because we're one day removed. So I think we have a little bit greater perspective I know Dan I both have something want to share. So we're gonna do a little Pop what's it called popcorn wrinkled popcorn sharing. So Dan you pop corn first Thanks, dude All I was gonna say was that this is something I noticed Yesterday in the car ride home. I think I had a little bit more of like It was good, but not what I expected and I also figured out why I didn't tell you this yet So I said it in my vlog like 10 minutes ago One thing I didn't like about the trip initially and especially like yesterday as we were going through it Was that I realized that I was getting irritated without knowing it like subconsciously that I couldn't control the environment so like When we've done other psychedelics, it's like you and me are like, okay Let's go here. Yeah, and then take it and then we're gonna trip Learn some stuff and then go do whatever we want and leave You know this we don't like structure you want the structure I don't like structure and so like we went there and the shaman who was like like we said an awesome dude Who like we definitely will I would love to do it with him again. Yeah, I'd love to do it with him, too. Oh You bad boy Where's I go with that? Oh? He got there late. It's freezing cold. We're sitting outside the entire time. So after we take the ayahuasca I'm also puking so I'm not feeling that great I don't really want to talk to everyone and like some of the people have super intense experiences and we're for lack of a better phrase kind of annoying and It just like I'm trying to sit there like and have my thoughts and I'm freezing cold I got blankets wrapped around me So I realized that that played a role went during the trip of making it Like why can't I just take my cup and then like go do my like go walk around or do one thing? Like why is that to be freezing cold? Yeah So I think what I then I woke up today. It's just a huge amount of happiness like I felt rested and In thinking about I feel I feel so light today That's one thing that like I don't know if you've noticed. Yeah, like I feel very light and also you'll jovial good word I think I feel Much better much more present and just a little bit Taking down a notch like not in terms of my energy levels, but just I'm kind of like lightweight like Cool. Yeah, I think it's a perfect timing because everything our lives really heavy You just got a relationship the business is getting super intense like we literally can't handle what's happening right now But we're just rolling with it and so it's good time.  That's that's a great point because like even today, you know, we're like What time is it five o'clock? I feel like it's 10 in the morning Like it's just we've been at it all day long. And yeah, I think the ayahuasca for me just kind of was like Yo, you go do your human thing and keep growing your business like I get it But like don't freak out man. Like it's gonna it's one gonna be fine If you keep working like this you're going to succeed and number two It doesn't matter. You can choose to be stressed out and not so choose not to be. Yep So cool and for me There is like a lot of beautiful stuff that happened I guess during the ceremony and then like reflecting afterwards and one great example is like you get like a one-on-one Session with the titan the guy who liked the ceremony the indigenous dude and afterwards he like shares and things are really helpful for He was like do you like have prayer in life at all? I was like no because I'm not really a religious person, but I told my shared like I believe in something bigger than me I don't know what that is. I just know that there's some kind of redemptive There's some kind of event redemptive force in the universe that You know creates awesome things if you put your intention in the right place and he was like well You know you can like pray to that like whenever things seem out of control I'm like why is this happening or why isn't this happening? Why hasn't this happened yet? Just like do a former prayer like yo, I don't know what's happening Assuming that whatever it is is for my best interest and I'm just gonna let go of feeling after like I have to hold on to Something and force it to happen. Yeah, and so that was awesome. The second part was My patience thing right and I think I talked about this a little bit in the video you just watched but I was trying to work on patience and Something he said was like when you feel impatient We want something to happen faster or you're impatient with like how people are acting or treating you or it's just how things are Going to take a moment to stop and kind of recondition your mind Tony Robbins yourself or a neurolinguistic program yourself to Shift the way you're seeing the world now moment and had a perfect opportunity last night My free you my girlfriend my free Friends over some of the club me homies awesome dudes and I want to go pick up some pizzas And this kind of stuff happens me all the time in Columbia like I'm speaking things correctly But things just don't work out the way that I want them to so that's the two large pizzas And I got a large of the medium after like, you know drilling them super hard like this is what I wanted And I was like, ah, you know, I started to get upset like dude like I literally said what I wanted Why didn't you give me what I asked for? A lot of times in the u.s. Like when there's a problem with like services or my dad They just give you what you asked for for free here in Columbia a lot of times are just like oh Like sucks for you. You don't get like a refund. You don't get anything else like good luck And so when I went through that I used the thing that he taught me which was Imagine like kissing your girlfriend or the person that you love and like what that experience is like and bringing up that in Patience that feeling you feel and then kind of smothering it with this feeling of love what it's like to have a hub That I that feels awesome or a kiss or like sharing that moment and I did that and it worked and it was super cool because For me like I and for Dan too. We went into this. I lost your Jahe experience to come out a better person to grow and to get actually like actual things We can do and so now I have tools more important in my life to be happier And to just be more present and like Dan said like we feel it today I think it's something that we're carrying with us and it's awesome And that's why I think we think it's so important to do something to shake your cage and get out of your comfort zone Every like three to four months or that'd be psychedelics or you know jumping in the cold freezing cold water Exactly or a medication retreat or like something just out of your comfort zone. We're going like learning Tantra Which I did the other day. Yeah Learning new language. I mean there's so much that you can do guys. So just remember to rattle your cage a little bit and Get yourself into a state of being where you're not thinking the way you usually think that's that's all we're asking for And that's all we're we're encouraging you to do here and that's the end of the law


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There are 50 days. So from a personal viewpoint, I was happy that we went from five to nine days. It takes a big team to launch something like the TDRS-IUS complex. They're used in communications with the shuttle from the shuttle or in orbit. And they're also used to process data from a lot of the NASA satellites, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Things said about the ozone layer and what destroys it and what doesn't. Certainly I think it's well documented that it can be destroyed both by natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. But the extent of the damage and how those things play against natural cycles in the ozone layer is not well understood. Lower body negative pressure in conjunction with fluid loading has proved to be a more effective countermeasure than fluid loading by itself with regard to orthostatic intolerance. What that will cause is a stress on the heart, roughly equivalent to one gravity here on Earth. This was taxing into the ramp, our second launch attempt, getting ready to go for our mission. Again, as you saw there by that little bit of a lead-in, a lot of things go on leading up to a flight and a lot of training. And that was a little bit of a summary of it, just to try to encapsulate that timeframe of the flight. This is about 7 a.m. We're getting our launch and entry suits on and getting them all checked out before we go out to the vehicle. It's going out to the crew van, I think, if I could remember the time about, let's say, 7.50 in the morning. Out on the pad, and about this time during the count, you really start putting your thinking hat on because you've got to go to work. The main engines start running and we run them for about 6 seconds. The computers make sure they're good and all the smart people have figured out how to make all that work. And that's amazing to me that we have people in our country that know how to do that and bang, boosters light up.  In fact, I think the first 2 minutes, 10 seconds of this ride is the safest time during that timeframe. It doesn't bother me at all. I've watched those people with thigh-call, really proud of them. And we sure had a good ride here. Right now it's probably about a minute and a half into Ascent. I'm getting ready for the solid rocket motors to separate. It's kind of a nice shot here. You can see the shock waves on the orbiter and on the external tank. We pushed the limits this time a little bit more of the envelope. Went to a higher dynamic pressure than we've been to before. At this point it's probably about 2 Gs, 2 to 2.5 Gs. The ride is a little bit rough on the solids. It smooths out quite a bit once you get rid of the solid rocket motors. There they go. Another close-up shot of the SRB SEP.  They literally just go opaque. Very bright flash when they come off. Of course the rock-a-dine engines keep on running and boy, those motors are complex. I see all those people and they do a great job making those engines run. Our major activity on the first flight day besides the launch was to launch the TDRS IUS complex. Here we are. We're up at 58 degrees and getting ready for the deploy. Inside the cockpit there's a lot of activity. It takes all five crew people working together to launch something like this. Jim and I were the primary people that were involved in checking the IUS systems, making sure everything was ready for deploy. And Mike's job was to make sure that the shuttle was in the proper attitude for the deploy. David was the person that did all the fine photography and it's his work that we're looking at right this minute. And then John's job was just to make sure all the rest of us were doing our jobs. And when we actually did the deploy it looks like it's coming out sort of in slow motion. It's not. That's real time. And the thing that always surprises you is how close it gets to the vehicle. And we're all looking out and commenting on how close it was to the vehicle. And then John puts in some impulses to move the shuttle away from the IUS. We'll see this in just a minute as we begin to move away. Now to do a deploy involves not only the crew people inside the shuttle, but involves all the people in mission control that are monitoring systems. It also involves people out at Sunnyvale who are monitoring the IUS systems, involves people at Boeing, involves the people up at Goddard who are looking at the TDRS systems. So you can see it's a huge teamwork of people, big network of people all across the United States that are involved in launching something like this satellite. Now our job as a shuttle crew ended as soon as we got the satellite out of the bay and then a little bit later as we backed away from it. But then people had to continue to monitor as the IUS was bringing the TDRS on up to Geosynchronous orbit. Now after we got rid of our major payload then the activity sort of focused down in the mid-deck. We sort of looked at the mid-deck as a place where we do our eating and our sleeping and it's also our laboratory that we have on orbit. And here I am working with a biomedical manufacturing module. And this module had flown before and it's going to fly several more times and it has several syringes and then you can put in different samples and the samples that we had we were growing different types of cells and cell culture to see if they would manufacture different amounts of enzymes that would be of use and a later type of manufacturing process. And the mid-deck is a very, very valuable asset that we as a country have to do all these types of experiments. As Shannon has indicated we turned the shuttle into a flying laboratory after we deployed the IUS TDRS satellite and here you're seeing us perform, Shannon and I are performing one of about a dozen physical science type experiments. We had about an equal number of medical supplementary objectives or experiments on board. This particular one is a setup for an optical coupler that actually transmits video and audio signals through fiber optics and through video couplers in the windows that you see here. This is really a test to find out if it's practical to use fiber optic technology to transmit audio and video type signals in and out of the cargo bay from the crew compartment of the shuttle. You're seeing a whole maze of fiber optic cables here that I'm manipulating there and also the audio and video signals that come from the TV monitors and go to the video tapes that we have on board the shuttle. Shannon and I did a series of experiments using this equipment and took about an equivalent of about three hours of data on video tapes to bring back for analysis to find out how good a quality we could maintain and what the practicality is of doing this in the shuttle. This is another experiment where we undertook to analyze the propagation of flame fronts in solid materials, in this case an ashless filter paper that's inside a containment. I'm igniting it here with my push button. You see the flashing light and the moment you'll see the flame you'll notice that the flame is round. It doesn't point up like a candle flame. In zero gravity a flame forms a sort of a ball flame front as the paper burns. We've got a series of thermal couples attached to the filter paper above and on the paper to determine what the nature of flame propagation is in zero gravity. Okay this is the view of the payload bay and on the right side you can see Cher. Cher was the space station heat pipe advanced radiator element. It's a mouthful but we took that up. It consists of two heat pipes which you can see here that we tested for use on space station. These would reject heat on space station. You could use many of these elements in a row basically and the advantage is there's no moving parts, no pumps involved if they were to take a meteorite hit the whole system would still work unlike the systems that we now use on the shuttle for instance. The results of the test were excellent. It worked just as expected. One of the experiments that we did for the space station was evaluating different kinds of cursor control devices for use on board the data management system on space station. We used a Macintosh computer and four different kinds of cursor control devices. Jim Adamson, Shannon Lucid and myself evaluated those throughout the mission. One of the privileges that we had on this mission was to fly some new software and some new computers. The first time that the combination had ever flown together in the space shuttle. We've upgraded both systems and among the software changes that we've made is a new digital autopilot for flying on orbit called an alternate digital autopilot. In this particular scene I'm working with John to do a series of 22 flight tests on the digital autopilot to find out what kind of responses it provides for the vehicle. This is just a little view up on the flight deck that I put in just to show you three really great people working on orbit. This is in between while I had different clocks running on different things they're doing. I'd catch them like this every now and then so I thought I'd capture this once on film. But it's really a neat thing to see all these human beings working in space so well with the ground trying to get everything accomplished and I just think a lot of that and think a lot of that capability that we have in the country. There's another demonstration of some physical principles in zero gravity. You can see a pair of long nose pliers there that are very stable in that mode. When you open them up a little bit you can see that they've got two stable modes. You can see them flipping back and forth between those two. I saw David do this once so I told him I had to get that on film. This is Jim working on the aft flight deck for SSBUV, the Space Shuttle Solar Backscatter UV experiment or data collector actually. It took both of us essentially to work this secondary payload that's in a gas can out in the payload bay. It took the orbiter to either earth viewing attitude or solar viewing attitude and Jim would operate the APC to open and close the lid and start the different modes of the SSBUV. The experiment was housed in what we call a gas can which stands for getaway special and you can see the mechanical lid that we actually activated from inside the crew compartment using a little computer and entering inputs. Very fascinating experiment not designed to measure the ozone layer but actually to calibrate other satellites and instruments that do measure the ozone layer. What we would do is actually measure the backscatter ultraviolet rays directly emitted from the sun and also then backscattered off the earth so we would actually look at the sun with the experiment and then turn around and look at the earth. This was the Battelle Materials for Commercial Development of Space Investigation of Polymer Membrane Processing. The bottom line is microgravity. They can get some idea of the physical and characteristics of materials and as a result develop improved membranes here on the planet to be used to help better filters for liquids and solids. I think this was a sunrise and this is up on the flight deck. It's just a nice picture of the flight deck and space. Me looking at the flight plan there and it was something I did a lot so somebody took this picture of me once. We thought we needed a picture of John being the commander keeping track of all of us doing our thing and making sure we stayed on the timeline. A great man to work for. This is down in the mid-deck. Again you'd see this a lot. Different people trying to get different types of work done all in parallel and so it's just a busy place on the mid-deck. Shannon and the medical kit here I asked her to get me some sleeping pills and while she was getting them I thought I'd take a picture of her getting them for me. You can ask her about... Several of the experiments, the medical experiments that we did had to do with assessing the cardiovascular systems. This particular one was called Blood Pressure Variability in which we donned an automatic blood pressure cuff and a Holter monitor. You can see we were wired for sound right there and for 24 hours, three different times during the flight we had our heart rates and our blood pressures taking constantly. Bakes, John and I all did that. In fact we had to do that pre-flight two or three times and we've also done that post-flight two or three times. John's given a sign language there to say that that's measuring his heart rate there. Another one of the cardiovascular medical experiments that we did was running on the treadmill. John and I did that virtually every day for about 30 minutes per day. When we did this we donned a heart rate monitor that went around our chest. We also had a watch on our wrist there that contained a readout of what our heart rate was as well as a time and during this 30 minutes every 10 minutes we had to attempt to step our heart rate up to a different, higher level there. Again, John and I both did that on orbit. Jim was a control subject. He did it on the ground and so we've got some good data of all three of us pre- and post-flight. You're going to see David enter the scene here. While I was running down there I looked around once and saw this and I thought that was quite amazing. He was trying to beat me running around the world, I think. This was our hamster experiment. It's much easier to run on that without these straps. Probably the biggest medical experiment that we had was called lower body negative pressure. In this experiment Bakes and I would slide inside that can there, if you will, which had a waist seal that would come up and seal around our waist and we could lower the pressure inside that bag to about minus 50 millimeters of mercury which is equivalent stress on your heart of standing up in 1G. Again, this took place during four separate days on orbit and as you can see here with the lower body negative pressure device there it took three people, took up virtually the entire mid-deck whenever we did this. You can see Shannon Lucid was taking some ultrasonic images of our hearts while we were in that. She's got an American flight echocardiograph machine that is actually recording that data there. You've got the subject in the bag and then you've got another person that is operating the controls down on the lower end there and entering the heart rate and blood pressure data on board a Macintosh computer. Again, this took up the major portion of our days for four separate days while we were on orbit. As I'm looking at this I'm just thinking I'll comment that the space shuttle is an absolutely incredible machine. I mean it has tremendous flexibility and so as you've seen here we deployed a satellite on the first day and then a tremendous amount of scientific and medical research for the rest of the mission and a real national treasure. In fact the only thing in the world that has this kind of capability so boy Americans ought to be very proud of this system. You might add also that I flew this on SDS-32 and they've made some great improvements both in the comfort of the device as well as the hardware itself. It's more automated and easier to use now. The picture on the flight deck in between experiments. You'd catch different people with different cameras here. Bakes has a telephoto Hasselblad lens camera and Jim had an IR filter on different people trying to take different pictures for oceanographers, meteorologists, geologists all around the world are different requirements. This is a beautiful scene of our planet.  Blue Planet is a good description from the IMAX movie. It's a little sequence where I caught Mike taking some pictures out of the pilots window. This is looking into North Africa. You can see the earth limb there at the top. Morocco, Algeria, Libya. The Mediterranean Sea really quite beautiful our planet and of course these pictures don't do it any justice but they're the best we can return to you.  Make sure you realize there are no international boundaries because I don't see the boundaries of any of those countries there and a real nice place we need to take care of it. There's the Sinai Red Sea down into the Nile River Delta there. Really beautiful coming out of Cairo. Heading down south towards the Oswan Dam. Lake Nasser is coming to the scene here in a second. The real reason I'm showing you that is I had flown on two other missions and I never saw the Oswan this time I did. As John has insinuated, Earth observation is one of the favorite pastimes on orbit for astronauts flying in space. And I think one of the things that impresses me the most about it since I was a young man going to high school, the geology books as a result of the space program have been almost totally rewritten and the whole concept of plate tectonics and shifting continental shelves has really been totally rethought as a result of observations made in space. This scene you're seeing right here is one of the bad scenes. That's all the Kuwaiti oil fires. Burning running south down in Saudi Arabia and boy I saw that and as murky as it looks there that's just was the contrast that we saw on orbit. I mean the planet's beautiful and you got to that area and where it looked like the planet was out of focus. There's no question the Kuwaiti oil fires are putting a lot of stuff into the environment affecting the lives of five billion people and billions of animals and plants all over this planet and hopefully get those fires out soon. You're not seeing this real good you're looking into the velocity vector people always say what does it look like on orbit as if you're on a space vehicle well you're looking right down the velocity vector here approaching the northwest portion of Australia they're quite beautiful you're moving at 17,500 miles an hour and that's what it looks like. One morning I was up eating breakfast and while I was eating breakfast this is what I was looking at boy what a lucky person I am to be able to see this scene really a very beautiful planet except when you see a scene like we saw there in Kuwait it's another flight deck picture of some people taking pictures here of the hurricane that we saw Mike, you want to talk about that? You saw that a lot? Actually we saw about four hurricanes on our flight this was Hurricane FIFA and we had the opportunity to fly right over the eye which was really quite spectacular the first river so that we saw this hurricane the eye was not really well developed and then when the timing was perfect for us as soon as the eye became developed we flew right over it if you keep your eyes on the top left of the screen you'll see a shooting star just went by it's kind of interesting to see that from space as you're looking down on it and sitting up at it We saw different stars there on the bottom of the space and the planet of course dominates the upper 7-8s of that picture and this is a bunch of lightning storms going on people always ask what do they look like from space so I thought we'd throw a little of that in this time and I think this is the sunrise here and we're getting ready for entry day and you're going to see the payload bay doors coming closed I think David came up with the camcorder and got a pretty good sequence of Jim and Shannon putting that in progress on the left side there the payload bay doors starting to close every time I see all this I wonder how does it work so much complexity and I think it's really incredible it's about two hours before the orbit burn roughly about the time they close these doors this is the entry time frame and we're about 250,000 feet here and out the front windows you can really see the glow come up with the fire it's quite an amazing ride every time you do it you say wow what an amazing vehicle and what a beautiful ride to come in Jim took this photography as John has indicated you spend most of your time on orbit falling around the earth at about 17,500 feet a second and in order to get back to earth the trick is to take some of that velocity out of your orbit and actually slow down which causes you to fall back into the gravity field of the earth and in doing so you generate an awful lot of heat and some of the fire that you've seen shooting up over the top of the vehicle is a symbol of that here we're going subsonic coming over top to Kennedy Space Center and getting ready to turn on to the heading alignment circle that's about 90 degrees a turn to go when I looked out the far left window it was clear blue down there by the time I got to the front window I thought I was going into the LA smog that's just what it looked like roll down on final boy all our shuttle training aircraft training we get all of our training in the KC-135 and all that really pays off here you feel like you're right at home Biggs put the gear down and boy what a beautiful flying machine to me it's easiest airplane to fly in the world in this time frame a lot of excellent training that makes it easy it's kind of incredible to think that that vehicle lifts off on top of a bunch of rocket engines pushing it out into space you do all that stuff and then it comes back in and lands like this like an airplane unbelievable I don't know where we got all the people that knew how to make that work but we do quite an amazing machine with tremendous flexibility to do many different missions and of course we tell you about that every time you hear about a different mission a lot of people wonder why it takes the crew so long to get out of the vehicle after we land and of course going through the re-entry and everything we need some sort of cooling on board for all the avionics and once we close the payload bay doors we don't have the radiators anymore so one of the things we use to cool the vehicle here is ammonia boilers and the ammonia being given off by the ammonia boilers creates a kind of a cloud around the vehicle and in this particular mission we had to wait a little while to get out there was a lot of ammonia outside blowing out of the ammonia boilers so it was pretty smelly trying to get out of the vehicle so we had to wait a bit for that to clear this little scene there showing you the crew working on that flight deck after landing we've got to do a bunch of little things and I don't know if you've seen that before so we thought we'd throw it in coming out of the vehicle here again I feel very privileged to have had such a great team of people to work with up in orbit and wish them luck in any of their future endeavors they're really a super group of people and here's just a scene of the Kennedy space team putting the vehicle getting it ready for STS-44 in November


Does the word toxic create a very specific image in your mind? Do you think of a friend, a parent, or an ex? Sometimes it's hard to tell if someone in your life is toxic. Do multiple people often say the same negative things about this one person? Do you agree with the group consensus? Or are you still unsure?  1. They're disrespectful of your time. Time is pretty much the most valuable thing we have. Is this person constantly late? When they do show up, they don't give you an apology. Or do they talk over you the entire time? You feel like it's nearly impossible to get a word in. Toxic people often make everything about themselves. You may feel like brick wall in what was otherwise supposed to be a two-way conversation. If you find this is happening to you, maybe try spending more time with other people. 2. Lack of boundaries. If the person is toxic, they might also devalue your boundaries. Remember that it's okay to say no. You should never be made to feel guilty for needing a day away from everything. In many cases, this can be integral for your mental health. If this person calls and texts you multiple times asking to spend time with you and completely ignores your request for a day to yourself, that's kind of toxic. Your day doesn't revolve around one single person, and it shouldn't. It's important to place boundaries, especially at the start of a new friendship or relationship. 3. Jealousy of your success. When you do well on a test or get promoted at work, these are things that should be celebrated and cheered on. When you tell the person about your achievement, do they belittle it? Do you feel worse about yourself after having told them? People that are jealous of your success will go out of their way to criticize you and your work. This can be especially difficult to handle when it's a good friend or a close family member. Chances are the person is trying to knock you down a peg because they weren't able to accomplish a similar goal. Jealous people often project their failures and insecurities onto others. 4. Feel like you're walking on eggshells. If you ever had to walk on eggshells around someone, it means you have to be very, very careful. Are you in a relationship with someone who makes you feel that way? It can be nothing short of exhausting. Relationships, whether they're romantic or platonic, are built on the same bedrock of principles. Trust and honesty. If you don't have either, the relationship simply isn't sustainable. Do you have to second guess everything you say and do around them? This isn't healthy, nor is it fair to you. 5. Not taking responsibility. As human beings, we all make mistakes. Admitting you're at fault for something is never fun, but it can make your mind, body, and soul feel a whole lot lighter. A toxic person, on the other hand, is someone who never takes responsibility. This comes in all forms. Maybe they put the blame on you for their actions, or they make up excuses. Either way, refusing to take responsibility is one of the key traits of a toxic person. 6. They're emotionally draining. If a person is an emotional drain on you, it's super imperative that you take stock of this. Toxic people will often latch onto others like a parasite. A parasite needs another host to survive. On a subconscious level, you may have already clued into the fact that they're toxic. There's a definite reason for this. On a phone, the battery drains faster when there are multiple apps and tabs open. A toxic person will likely feel like multiple apps all at once. Closing these will keep your phone running faster and longer. Apply this principle to your life. Give it a try. Thanks so much for watching. If you feel like you might be the one becoming toxic, we've got a video for that too.


Transition metal. In chemistry, the term transition metal or transition element has three possible meanings. The IUPAC definition defines a transition metal as an element whose atom has a partially filled D sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete D sub-shell. Many scientists describe a transition metal as any element in the D block of the periodic table, which includes groups 3 to 12 on the periodic table. In actual practice, the F block lanthanide and actinide series are also considered transition metals and are called inner transition metals. Cotton and Wilkinson expand the brief IUPAC definition see above by specifying which elements are included. As well as the elements of groups 4 to 11, they act scandium and yttrium in group 3 which have a partially filled D sub-shell in the metallic state. Lanthanum and actinium in group 3 are however classified as lanthanides and actinides respectively. English chemist Charles Barry 1890-1968 first used the word transition in this context in 1921, when he referred to a transition series of elements during the change of an inner layer of electrons. For example, lan equals 3 in the fourth row of the periodic table from a stable group of 8 to 1 of 18 or from 18 to 32. These elements are now known as the D block.


So you have started your US visa process. Well, the first thing that you're going to be doing is filling your DS160. DS160 is the six page document that the visa officer is going to have in front of him when you go for your interview. So needless to say, filling this the right way is extremely crucial. In this video, I'm going to be taking you through the five things that are really important for you to know before you fill your DS160. Keep on watching. Hi guys, my name is Shachi and I'm a travel and a visa coach. On this channel, you will find tons of useful content on the US visa process right from filling your DS160 to clearing the interview. Make sure that you check it out. So let's dive straight into this video and get into the five really important things to know before you fill your DS160. So the first thing to keep in mind is as soon as you start your application, you will be asked to set a security question and an application ID will also be displayed on the screen. And it's really important that you keep note of both of these things because every time you log into your application, you will need the security question and the application ID to continue the same. So let's say that for some reason you're filling your DS160 and you couldn't complete it. And if you want to go back to the same application, then the DS160 is auto saved in the consular website. But for you to access it, you will need to answer that security question and enter your application ID for the security question. There are a list of options that you can choose from, such as your mother's maiden name, your place of birth and so on. So pick whatever is easy for you to remember and of course, remember the answer to it. And as far as the application ID is concerned, this will be an alpha numeric digit and just below the application ID, there is a save button so you can click on that and save a PDF version of it on your laptop. If not, you can just take a picture of it and save it on your mobile phone. So the next important thing to keep in mind while filling your DS160 is to block time. Now, like I mentioned earlier, DS160 is a six page document, so there is quite a bit of data involved and there are a lot of questions that you need to answer. And in my opinion, it is better to do this in one continuous sitting. That is because the moment you leave your system idle for more than 15 minutes, let's say that you get up to take a break and the system is left idle for more than 15 minutes, it is going to log you out out of that application and then you will have to log in again by entering the security question, entering the application ID and then continue from where you left off. So a better way to do it is to block 60 to 70 minutes of your time and do it in one continuous sitting so that you're in the flow, you don't have to keep logging into the system again and again and you complete your application. In fact, I have something very useful for you guys. So I have a training video in which you can fill your DS160 with me in flat 40 minutes. In this video, I share my screen with you and I show you exactly how to answer each and every question of DS160 and what to fill in. Now, this video is a part of my DS160 toolkit and in this toolkit, apart from this video, there are also a lot of other useful things such as templates to prepare these answers and a detailed FAQ document to clear all your doubts. So if you want to make the process of filling DS160 really simple and hassle free for yourself, do check out this toolkit. The link for this is in the description box below. So the third really important thing that I want you to know is prepare some answers for the DS160 and keep them ready before you start filling the form. So the DS160 will have certain descriptive questions which will require you to give detailed answers in about a para or a two. And for such questions, it is always better to keep the answers ready and just paste these answers into your form when you're filling it. And the reason for this is that while filling the form, if you take too much time in answering the questions, you know that the system will idle out and it will log you out and you'll have to do the entire process of, you know, logging in and entering all your information again. And the second reason is if you have these answers prepared, the process will be just smoother and easier for you because while filling the form and while typing it, if you're going to sit and think, OK, what should I write? Is this sounding correct or not? It's just going to be a big mess and the process will be really cumbersome. So do prepare some of the answers and keep them ready before you start your DS160 and to help you in doing this, I have a free PDF for you. So this PDF is a template for the work information part of DS160, which, in my opinion, is one of the most important parts of the form. So using this template, you can prepare all the answers that are asked in the work information part, keep them ready and simply transfer it to your form. So do check the link in the description box to get your free PDF. So the fourth really important thing to keep in mind is while filling your current DS160, you should also keep copies of your old DS160s with you. So if this is not your first visa interview, then you would have filled the DS160 form earlier as well, and you should have a copy of that. And while filling this form, keep in mind that the information needs to be coherent and it needs to be uniform across both the old and the new DS160. You just cannot change the information completely in your new DS160. And you don't give contradictory data. This is going to create a lot of problems. So to avoid such mistakes, make sure that you have your old DS160 with you so that you can refer back to it, see what you have written and maintain that uniformity. This is especially important when it comes to information related to family, related to work and related to travel, because these are the details which are not expected to change and you are expected to give the same answers. So now we come to the fifth point. Now, even though this is the last point, this is really important. So once you finish filling the form and you're done entering all your details, go back to all the pages, double check it and make sure that the information entered is accurate and there are no mistakes. After that, you will hit submit and you will provide your e-signature. And then a confirmation page will be displayed on the screen. This confirmation page is very important because this is what you need to take with you when you go for your visa interview. So make sure that you save a copy of it and, if possible, also print out a copy of it. After this, do not just close the browser and do not just finish the process. There is one more important thing that you need to do. And this is what a lot of people just forget. And this is to save your DS160 form. So the browser will give you an option to save your entire DS160 form or to print it. Please do this because you will need this form to prepare for your interview. You need to know what you have entered in the form because you might have filled DS160 couple of months before your interview and it is not necessary that you're going to remember each and every single thing that you have entered. So before you close your browser and finish everything, make sure that you save or print a copy of your entire DS160 form and keep it with you. So guys, these are the five really important things that you need to know before you fill your DS160. To make the process of filling DS160 really simple and hassle free. Do check out my DS160 toolkit. A lot of people have used it and they have found it extremely useful. In fact, all the video grabs that I showed you in this video are from my toolkit. So do check the link in the description box below if you want to get your own copy. Apart from this, if you have any more questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section below. You can also DM me on Instagram. My Instagram handle is at shachi.mul. I'll be happy to respond to your questions and to help you out. Furthermore, if you want a personalized session with me, you can book a one to one consultation session. This will be done on a video call and this will help you clear your doubts, help you frame answers for the interview and also gave you some special insider tips. So links for all of these are in the description box below. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one. Signing off for now. Bye.