Yep, I was wrong about the surface book three, but not the way you think Hey guys, Thundie here and first off. I just want to apologize because I made Big mistakes in my surface book three review, which a lot of you guys pointed out I want to thank you guys for actually pointing that out. It helps keep me honest I can make better videos for you. So I do appreciate that not angry not pissed I actually like the fact that you guys do that. So I definitely appreciate it But I made some mistakes on my surface book three review now my thoughts about the device is still around the same But this mistakes are quite key So one of them was of course with my game benchmarks for Tomb Raider shot of the Tomb Raider I had on-screen benchmarks from my Ryzen 3 build Don't know how that happened. I apologize for that But you know that kind of gives you different light and tells you a different story Than what you're hearing from me as opposed to what you're seeing on screen. So Also had some had some interesting benchmarks also for Grand Theft Auto Five which again a few of you pointed out and it makes sense for me to just redo this review for you So you get a better idea of how well this device is. So I'm shooting and capturing everything off-screen So which means you're gonna see the device you're gonna see the benchmarks You can see those numbers for those games in question. So let's start off with what this device is I'm talking about the brand new surface book three. It's the latest surface book from Microsoft This is the 15-inch variant that I have which sports a 4k display 10 Finger touch multi-touch display pixel-sense display running the new Intel 10th Gen Kauai 7 processor. It's a quad-core processor. You've also got the NVIDIA 1660 Ti Max Q, which As you know, we're gonna put through the benches for gaming, which is what you guys care about here Now storage goes from 256 to either two terabytes. You do have two USB Type A ports as well as also one USB type C port and then you've got the surface connector You've got headphone jack on the top And you've also got I believe an SD card reader. Now this thing weighs about 4.2 pounds And when you detach which of course it can do the tablet side it weighs about 1.8 Now there are a bunch of things you can do with the surface It's got a really nice keyboard probably one of the best keyboards and track pads and a great display, especially using it for touch So you've got great typing experience backlit keyboard all that fun stuff But the main thing is game now as I mentioned earlier, I messed up on Tomb Raider with the benchmark So here are the benchmarks for Shadow of the Tomb Raider here running on the surface Book three might I add I also got some updates on the system itself on Windows as well as my driver's I'm stuck using studio drivers. I just have to point that out quite effectively I try to switch over to game drivers. It did not switch over. I could not get an update for it I got an update for my studio drivers that being said let's start off with the benchmarks for Shadow of the Tomb Raider where you can see that this thing really does a really good job And you can see the range and skill of what you're getting with this And when we go at the end to see the full benchmark numbers again, this is at 1080p So we drop the resolution down to that because it makes sense for the GPU that we have here We get an average of our 7.1 frames per second which is higher than even the Ryzen 3 that I showcase. So again I'm so sorry guys But when you're playing this it plays pretty smooth and well And you can have a great gaming experience playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider on The surface book 3 now moving on to Grand Theft R05 now the benchmarks for this show a wide range you can go as low as a 58 a Frames per second all the way to about a hundred and something depending on where you are Within the game and the landscapes and things like that when you get into actual gameplay I was fluctuating between roughly about say again 58 to about maybe 80 frames per second Depending, but he ran well brand smooth and also much higher than the 30 frames per second. I showed the first time Sorry again. I apologize guys. I I I'm glad that we're doing this again I'm glad we're seeing how well this actually performs in that gaming process now We're moving over to call of duty war zone now war zone is always a funny one Benchmark numbers are actually quite similar the same in terms of this gameplay Fructuring between about 56 frames per second to about 77 For this but it plays well it handles well and even if you went back to the old footage The last review you will see that again. You're getting those kind of numbers And there are games you can play on this device besides of course those key games. I mentioned We definitely tried out Street of Rage, which of course you do not need to use the GTX 1660 ti to play you can play it on the tablet itself and it plays quite well quite effectively a very great experience Also some older games like of course. Halo You know anniversary edition that played really well on the system I'm gonna solve the 60 frames a second and that continues to be the case there as well I think overall when it comes to gaming and performance, especially seeing this after doing it again This is almost about a month or so and also seeing this with better software updates I would say the experience is much smoother much better now System still runs loud when you are gaming which is very typical with most laptops You're gonna be gaming because the fans that churn in and things like that But again the experience there is really solid now the other things of course with the surface book 3 that you can do In terms of battery life at Microsoft is expecting about 17 hours, which you should get which with The watching content to streaming not 17 hours in you know in one straight shot, but a good amount of time that buddy The Unlocker basically did a video and you can check out his video on the surface book 3 on that now when it also comes to Just pure functionality. You've got a wider way of functionality with this taking in a tablet mode watching the movie Reading news or whatever you want to do is great You also have a pen which you can buy separately, which I do not like Plus you've got probably one of the best webcams on a laptop Which is something you a lot of people need right now at this point. The one thing I'll say is that it's quite an heavy piece of device and also a little bit Obnoxious in terms of design now design has been great over the years and I wish it seemed better iterations Less of that dip of the corner Also that hinge area in the corner I said dip But I would like to see that improved. I like to see if it feel more Flexible less less rigid. Yes, it's great. You can detach it. Yes, it's great that that locks in quite well But I want to see just a jump with that design. This is something I'm expecting So hopefully with the book 4 which I think that's probably the case We will see that design change and that design change element, but again, you can also increase your graphics card to the RTX 3000 quarter and that gives you more capability, especially if you're into maybe Graphic design and things like that on the road that is where this actually works out quite well I think the idea of a workstation is quite palpable for this or somebody who is looking to do more serious Working on the road now as a gamer this will handle your gaming needs quite well and as we've seen I think you will cover the basis for you easily now Thank you very much guys for checking this out. I do again apologize for the fact that I messed up my first video I didn't give you guys clear analysis of what this device can do Hopefully this gives you a better idea of what the surface book 3 can do and also all what you can actually game On this device quite effectively. So if you have any questions on your comments, let me know If I make more mistakes guys, please leave your comments. I do definitely appreciate it Otherwise, don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment


Good morning everyone. I do think we're ready to begin now Welcome, my name is Susan Cotay, and I'm the current president of the Williston-Richard Rotary Club I'm happy to welcome you to this gathering today. Can everyone hear me? All right. I'll just hold this better Okay, I want to thank Eric Wells and the town of Williston for helping us put on this Veterans Day event and All of you for coming How lucky are we? How lucky are we to be able to choose to be here on this cold morning? How lucky are we to be able to choose to be here in this small park this morning to honor our veterans past and present? We are fortunate to enjoy the freedom of assembly and our freedom of speech To enjoy the relative safety of our community and our country For this great fortune, we must thank our veterans Those who have served in the past and those who to continue to serve today Oh beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife Who more than self their country loved and mercy more than life You may recognize those lines from America the beautiful In times of conflict and in times of peace Men and women in the armed forces have stood ready to defend our homeland and to defend the ideals of freedom That lie at the foundation of our union Whether on the front line in harm's way or in supporting roles these men and women have and do Step forward to offer their talents and their time Time away from family from friends from work from hobbies to offer their best for their fellow Americans It is that sacrifice that we honor today Some of you here are counted among them today. We express our gratitude to you and To the many willestonians and brahmoners before you who more than self their country loved We also express our gratitude To your loved ones who have supported you and who have helped you to make your contributions possible The freedom that we enjoy today is precious and we must defend it So now is the time to not only honor those who have fought or are fighting for our freedom It is also the time for each of us to take part in protecting it each of us shares that responsibility if We want to preserve our freedoms. We must put them into action For example by voting in elections speaking out against injustice and volunteering in our communities We must also ensure that everyone everyone feels the benefits of freedom Veterans day is a day for all Americans It's a day to remember and appreciate why our veterans served And a day for all of us to commit to honor them with our actions Not just our words by protecting our freedom and the freedom of future generations Now I would like to welcome Ted Kenny Rotarian and chair of the willeston select board So would you would you please join me in saying the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God Indivisible with liberty and justice for all Thank you I'm reverend paul ire pastor wilson fairy of church with the white steeple just down the street And in this moment, I invite you to join in a moment of prayer On this day, oh god We honor those who served In this moment when the anguished images of war Fill the airwaves and sadden our very souls We are grateful Grateful for those who stepped forward with courage and commitment to serve our country At a time when our nation and indeed the world Is nearly torn apart by deep division and profound distrust We give thanks for those who modeled a different way We offer our gratitude For those men and women Whose service and sacrifice pointed the way toward common purpose Uplifted by their example May we all aspire to find common ground Amen Hi, I'm phil Stevens and I'm here to talk a little bit about this park and the bricks that are here a few years ago Deb Beckett who was our Town clerk and also a fellow raterian Started this project to have bricks engraved with the names of veterans in place in this park Her idea was to honor veterans and donate any profit to the Rotary Charities Fund to help with Rotary projects On the way to early passing of deb it has become my honor To continue this Rotary project Providing a lasting memory memorial to veterans every member of the armed services deserves our sincere gratitude For their service No matter how small or insignificant they may think their contribution was or is It is not without cost to them and their families Whether they died in battle or suffered physical or mental damage Or returned home to die early from burn pit exposure or suicide Or simply cannot reenter society Because of their trauma or PTSD They have given And we must Show our gratitude If you know of a veteran and wish to have them receive this recognition I have a flyer on the back table that will tell you the process to be able to Include them in this project I will now read the names Of the 41 veterans who are currently recognized By these bricks Deborah Beckett John L. Bevin's senior Ken Blau Norman Boyden Benjamin Brissette Courtney Brissette Harold E. Brown John Burroughs Stuart Burroughs Brian Decatur Lester Duret Armand Fornier Alvin L. Eischem David H. Eischem George E. Eischem Kenneth L. Eischem Roderick C. Eischem Truman R. Eischem Harold Cardamon Stephen LeBreck James Leet Charlie McGill Jack Martin James D. McCullough Kenneth L. Morrison Sr. Lewis V. Nigel Troy Lee O'Brien Linwood Osborne David Raymond Park David R. Park Jr. M.D. James R. Peia Jr. Cecile Phillips Don Phillips Alan C. Rock George D. Rockwood Maxine Rosenthal Robert L. Rounds Kenneth C. Schaeffler Jeff Smarton Ken Stone Arthur F. Tuttle Thank you Good morning I'm Jean Kennedy, a member of the Williston Richmond Roadery Club and I'm going to take a little bit of privilege being the first one to start the honor roll that we will be reading to mention a couple other things. I just wanted to remind people that Veterans Day was designated a holiday by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, Vermont's own in 1926 and some of us remember, some of us here, not all of us, that it was then called Armistice Day in 1954 under the Eisenhower administration. The name was changed to Veterans Day and this day most likely, as Susan so nicely mentioned in her beautiful speech, it touches every single one of us because unlike Memorial Day that honors those killed while serving and Armed Forces Day that honors those who are currently serving. This day honors every single veteran and many of us have those in my life like my son Patrick who is a U.S. Army veteran. So thank you for allowing me that bit and on to the reading of the roll of the Willistonian veterans we are so proud to remember today. Robert Albert, George Dana Alling, Harold H. Asseltine, James Asseltine, Guy Bates, John Bates, Debra Beckett, Paul Beggins, William Beggins, Edmund Beallair, Edward Beallair, Roy Beallair, Rainey Burrard, Charles M. Brown, Amy L. Bhutan, Gerrard Bhutan, Rowland Bhutan and John A. Braddish and I'll pass the mic on to the next person. Can you all hear me okay? Hilda Bruce, sorry my name is Leslie Murray, I'm with the Williston Richmond Rotary Club. Hilda Bruce, Margaret Bruce, Muriel Bruce, Phyllis Bruce, Edward Burnett, James Burnett, Norman Burnett, Henry Campania, Raymond Campania, Howard Casey, Kenneth Charland, William Z. Chisholm, Joseph Christmas, James Cormier, Clifford Cross, Stanley Davis, Robert C. Deal, Curtis D'Amour. Hi, I'm Reverend Debbie Ingram, I'm also with the Rotary Club. Frank Dow, Eugene Defrain, Lawrence Fourville, Lloyd Fuller, Robert Fuller, Noel Goffier, Paul Goffier, Donald Germain, Donald Goodrich, John Harper, Robert P. Goyette, John Elliott Hawkins, Leroy S. Horton, Dwayne B. Holbert, Donald Johnson, Ryland Johnson, Clarence Kendrew. Oh, I'm Barbara Lou Winter and I'm also from the Williston Richmond Rotary. Albert LaCasse, Catherine LaCasse, Clarence LaCasse, Francis LaCasse, Raymond LaCasse, Newell C. Langley, Donald LaRocque, Joyce Larrow, Walter C. Lascha, Nelson LaFabre, David Mace, Ruth Mace, Vernon Mace, Vernon R. Mace, Malcolm C. Martel, Arthur Maynard, James McCullough, Clarence J. Merchant. Jude Hersey, I'm also a member of the Williston Richmond Rotary. It's a great honor to have this service today and to recognize what it takes for families to have someone in the service and not feel like they're recognizing so. It's a real honor for us. Harold L. Merchant, Robert C. Merrill, Randolph Miller, Walter Miller, Clement Mongeon, Julian Mongeon, Leonard Mongeon, Irving Lossie, Ashile Niles, Charles A. Niles, Bernardo Bryan, Julia O'Brien, Marshall O'Brien, Troy O'Brien, Jesse Osborn, Roland Osborn, Frank Palady Jr., and Harry Palady. Good morning, everyone. I'm Sally Metro, also a Rotarian. Fred Pollard, Earl E. Picard, Ralph Pillsbury, Jeffrey B. Pollock, Burnett M. D. Rossin, Robert Robair, Emile Roberts, Gerard Roberts, Henry Roberts, Alan C. Rock, Walter Rule, Ernest B. Sadlier, Kenneth Sadlier, Ralph Santor, Anthony Senna, Harold Senna, Julius Senna, Norman Senna. Again, I'm Leslie Murray with the Williston Richmond Rotary Club, and I want to thank you all for being here, especially on this chilly morning. I will be reading the last of the names. Halsey Short Sleeves, Roy Sinclair, Mark Cyple, Melvin Smale, Value Spalding, Weldon Spalding, Stanley Stanley, Clifford Tardy, Joseph Tardy, Henry Terrier, Clark E. Tulip, Clifford Turner, Carl Urie, John H. Witton, Clarence Wolford, Ira E. Yandau. If anyone in attendance today has names of other veterans, names we have not read, please raise your hand so that we can acknowledge them. And I would like to ask veterans in attendance today to please stand if you can or if not, if you could just raise your hand so that we can acknowledge you. I am so honored that you're here today. Thank you and thank you so much for your service. We will never ever be able to thank you enough. Thank you, Leslie. Before we conclude this morning, I would like to read a portion of a letter sent to us for this day by Senator Bernie Sanders. Dear friends, each Veterans Day, we pause to honor all those who have put on the uniform to serve our country. Thank you to all the veterans and their families here today, as well as the 38,000 veterans across our state and their families for their bravery and sacrifice. We also are keenly aware of the important work of all the members of the Vermont National Guard who are currently deployed overseas and thank them for their dedication and commitment to our state and nation. We owe all of our veterans and their families a tremendous debt of gratitude which we will never truly be able to repay. Today and every day, we must recommit ourselves to keeping America's promise to you, just as you kept your promise to us. And if you'd like to read the full text of the letter, there are copies over on the refreshment table that you can look at or take. Now as we conclude, I would like us to observe a moment of silent reflection to honor our veterans. Thank you. I really appreciate everyone coming here today and so happy to see so many of our veterans with us. You've made this a special morning for all of us. Please join us for hot coffee. You might need some of that right now. And some refreshments home baked by members of the Rotary Club. So again, thank you for being here. On Veterans Day, it's important to recognize that one thing among so many others that veterans model for us is the fact that they come together from diverse backgrounds and yet find common purpose and then serve faithfully in pursuit of that purpose. And that's an example that we can all learn from right now. Good day. I'm Norman Pat Boyden. I'm a veteran, served in Vietnam. I served in West Berlin, Germany for two years. I've served as a chaplain for much of my time. I had a guardian angel on my shoulder in Vietnam. And because of that, I've dedicated myself to being a chaplain for veterans. I've served in that capacity since 1990. So many, many years. I don't have a ceremony in Randolph or Memorial Day many times. I tell people, if you know the story of the cat of nine lives, I'm on my fourth cat. My guardian angel has been there and protected me. There's no good reason that I can honestly tell you that I should be able to talk to you now. I've met death that many times. But I'm here and I'm sharing. So that's it for today. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to this session in which we will discuss the deductibility of business expenditure which is which is called business deductions business deductions they must be ordinary and necessary as well as reasonable this is an important topic in the real world because in the real world businesses like deductions now you might be saying but deduction incur cost why do we like to incur additional cost the reason is as your cost as your deduction if you can take more deduction your tax bill goes down so you want to earn or you want to qualify for any business deduction that's out there because you will be able to reduce your tax bill and the IRS they might look at your business deduction as a form of audit so they might want to look at your business deduction whether they are acceptable or not now the IRS has specific guidelines for what is considered deductible for business expense but the guidelines are not clear cut the expense must be ordinary and necessary also the compensating for services wherever you pay for services must be reasonable and this is where the term ordinary and necessary and reasonable those three terms so in this session we will try to explain what does the IRS means by those three terms when it comes to business deductions because business deductions are good businesses like deductions before we proceed any further i have a public announcement about my company farhat lectures dot com farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's going to help you with your cpa exam preparation as well as your accounting courses my cpa material is aligned with your cpa review course such as becker roger wiley gleam myles my accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics my resources consist of lectures multiple choice questions through false questions as well as exercises go ahead start your free trial today let's go ahead and start with the term ordinary what is what is what is ordinary well an ordinary expense it's it's one that is common they don't tell you exactly what type of expense just they give you a definition that's common and accepted in your trade or business so what's common and accepted in your traded in business may not be common and expected in another trade of business for example you might for example have a subscription for youtube why because part of your business is your youtuber well you want to have some additional features of youtube if that's your business if you are in the construction business a subscription to youtube and you don't use youtube may not be an ordinary type of business for you so it all depends on your business it's an expense that would not be out of place or unusual to find out in that type of business that you are running simply put it's normal usual and customary now the expense that you incur does not have to be incurred on the regular basis or frequently so it doesn't have to be incurred all the time as long as it's normal usual acceptable for your type of business the other indication if other businesses also incur the same type of business then it's considered ordinary so how would the IRS look at this well if you're incurring this business they would look at similar businesses if similar businesses are incurring the same type of expense then this expense is considered ordinary and therefore it meets the ordinary for example if you own a restaurant expenses for قد تفعل is or when you own a restaurant or cooking ingredient cleaning supplies for the kitchen uniform for your staff our ordinary expenses because there are typical and accepted in restaurant industry this is what an ordinary is an example of an ordinary something that you would use in your trade and business the second component of this is ordinary and او بيزنس. ماذا يجب أن تساعد؟ يجب أن تساعد. now it doesn't have to be absolutely critical okay to be considered helpful and appropriate to be considered necessary it doesn't have to be indispensable to be considered necessary as long as a prudent business person incurred that expense then it's necessary as long as a business person another business person they may not but if they do it it is necessary what could be an example now let's assume you have a business can you run your business without advertising sure you can run your business without spending one dollar in advertising so advertising costs for your business would be considered necessary because even though your business could technically operate without advertising you don't have to advertise but it's considered helpful and appropriate to advertise to bring customers so that's what necessary is another example you could be a graphic designer or in the graphic design business so a necessary expense would be the purchase of a graphic design software well we can say well you really don't need the software because theoretically you can work with a pencil and a paper well using a professional software though is necessary because it's more efficient and standard in your industry so it's necessary because you can live without it but it's helpful for your business it's helpful and appropriate therefore it's considered necessary now the third condition is is reasonable it has to be ordinary and necessary then the word reasonable again the word reasonable is not defined but imply that the expense cannot be excessive it cannot be too much okay and would be acknowledged as reasonable by peers in the same industry so simply put if you run this number by someone in your business and in the similar business of yours if if they think it's reasonable what you paid for your services then it's reasonable so it's not something that's it's hard to kind of judge the IRS would generally look at whether the cost would seem reasonable to a disinterested third party how would they know whether it's reasonable or not if a third party pay for this another party pay for the same service the same amount then that's considered reasonable now bear in mind bear in mind if the transaction is between related party transaction what does that mean it means it's between the owner of the business and the business itself so for example you have an S corporation you have the owners they have the owners have rental property now the owners are renting the property to the S corporation well you have to look at this little bit more a little bit more closer because there's a related party when there's a related party transaction the IRS will open their eyes a little bit further at the end of the day you have to look at it from a third party perspective or the third party pay for this pay for this service this much again if the expense appear to be excessive or out of line what would be typically expected in your industry it will be deemed unreasonable and what would happen if it's deemed unreasonable let's assume you're paying rent worth of eight thousand dollar per month but the fair market value should be five thousand let's assume that's the case or four thousand because they look in your area and and the most expensive rental office that you're using is five thousand why are you paying yourself eight thousand why you're paying maybe that you own the rental property or your friend or your boyfriend girlfriend relative well if that's the case it's a related party transaction and it's not reasonable so they will just basically say you we cannot take the five you cannot take the eight thousand you have to consider three thousand another example would be if you're on a small small business home-based business and decide to host a meeting at a high-end luxury resort the IRS might determine that the cost is excessive and not reasonable for a not reasonable business expense if you hosted this meeting at a local office shop or renting a modest conference room it would be not reasonable now at the end of the day bear in mind it's subject to interpretation and assessed case by case basis so it's not like maybe maybe let's assume you are a small business but you decided to host this in a high-end luxury resort luxury resort well the IRS would say well hold on a second that's not reasonable you'd say look i am trying to attract high-end client i'm changing my client base i want to show a different image of the company well then it becomes reasonable so it's case by case there's no answer for these ordinary necessary and reasonable ordinary and necessary it's easy because you could look at other businesses whether it's reasonable or not it gets a little bit complicated especially when you have related party transactions involved the best ways to take a look at an example to illustrate these concepts okay let's take a look at this example adam who works independently as a tax lawyer so he's an attorney along his employee sue participate in a tax conference in las vegas hosted by the american institute of certified public accountant now if you are if you are another student member of this organization i suggest you do so and if you're not a member of your state society whatever for example i'm in pennsylvania i'm a member of the pi cpa if you're in new jersey you want to make sure you join the new jersey cpa society so make sure you do that but always the american institute of certified public accountant so they are having a conference in las vegas his attacks attorney and they paid the following adam paid registration fee for the a icpa conference 1200 it's a three day three day conference and and he paid for sue 1200 sue is his employee they flew from philadelphia to nevada to las vegas nevada adam paid 650 sue paid 400 maybe he traveled first class sue traveled regular class or they paid or they or they bought the ticket at a different time uber from the airport and from the air from the airport to the hotel 80 dollars lodging in las vegas adam 800 sue 550 okay they stayed in a different hotel or maybe adam upgraded it does not matter assuming and we're gonna be assuming all these amounts are reasonable which one of these amounts is considered taxable taxable not taxable deductible for for adam's tax office what we're gonna assume because he's a tax lawyer he wants to learn more about accounting so registration fee for adam is deductible it's necessary ordinary maybe it's also is a tax lawyer they may be getting continuous a professional education cpe credit they may need it for that even required not only necessary and ordinary it might be required for sue adam wants sue to learn more about the business that's ordinary and necessary can they get to las vegas can they get to nevada without flying well they can drive that's another option but they took a plane well if they drove it's gonna take them few days to to get there therefore that's even normal necessary and it costs 650 it might cost up to a thousand dollar the flight that's also deductible ordinary necessary and reasonable uber 80 dollars again you need to get from the airport to the hotel and maybe from the hotel to the conference maybe the conference inside the hotel it doesn't really matter uber is reasonable lodging you want to stay there okay 800 for adam 554 so we're gonna assume these are reasonable let's assume adam wanted to stay in the and adam paid you know 7000 dollar well the irs might might might look into this well it's might be not reasonable okay it may not be reasonable or adam might have paid 7000 but that weekend those were the market prices so adam had no choice so notice even if we go from 800 to 7000 would that be reasonable or not giving the circumstances for that weekend maybe that weekend there was a some you know important event concert and all the hotels were fold fold and the prices were skyrocket and if he paid 7000 that's under the circumstances that is reasonable that is reasonable assuming he did not have any other alternative so this is what we buy ordinary necessary and reasonable again it's case by case but you need to have a good idea about what does that term mean because business deduction to take a deduction it means you are lowering your taxes when you lower your taxes businesses like to lower their taxes the government don't like this so they tell you it's ordinary necessary and reasonable they keep it vague for what purpose they can always question you what should you do now go to farhat lectures whether you are a CPA candidate enrolled agent or an accounting student look at additional mcqs true false resources that's going to help you understand these concepts and get ready for the exam good luck study hard and of course stay safe


Recorded slogan here, back again with another reaction video, and now today we're gonna be reacting to EZF9 live stage for a song called Champagne that Zuho made, uh, hello! Now I have seen this, well I haven't seen this video, but I have seen like a very wide shot, and you can barely see the members singing the song, but I have seen it once when it first came out, so I'm not really that like, that fatigued with it, I don't even know what I can't English well, it's my main language, but yeah, today we're gonna be watching the stage called Champagne, and I'm freaking excited for this man, I am so freaking excited for this, it's been so long since I last listened to it, and it's EZF9, and it's got to do with alcohol, the song name, so I'm in already, like, yes, win it, but uh, you guys, let's get straight into this, I'm freaking excited, I hope you guys are too, and let's do this! Hey, now this is Young Bin, Hoi Young, and Zuho, for the stage, oh maybe this is the one that I saw, yo Young, oh no, no, this is Young, oh, okay, so this is what the audio sounds like, it was probably recorded from someone's phone, Young Bin, yo, yoza, now I know Zuho's working on a studio version for this, so maybe there's gonna be an EZF9 subunit debut, I'll see you soon, okay, oh, yo, Zuho, wave back, oh my god, what, oh this is lit, oh my god, 16, Young Bin stop, wow, is there a good thing man, I think it's the same, oh, go in, Hoi Young man, Young Bin, I love it man, I love it, yes, ended on the dab, yeah, yeah, hey, that was dope, I wish that there was a better audio for this, but uh, but like, ugh, that was still freaking lit man, like that, ugh, ugh, I wish I didn't only listen to this song once man, I wish I listened to this so much, that is so good, it's so good, I love this song, I really hope that um, that EZF9 make a subunit after like promotion, No one ever, because holy moly guacamole, like, ugh, we need a studio version, that's basically why, okay? that's basically why, we need a studio version, okay? But man, Zuho freaking Stinging, Hoi Young and Young Bin going, and with their rags, like oh EZF9 rappers man, they don't get enough time to rap in all their title songs which sucks, but it shows that, like, they're very talented when they actually like, you know, have time to rap, There's a few rap songs throughout their mini albums and all that stuff, but I've really I've really loved champagne a lot Oh, wow, mainly because they're who's singing and like that I can't do it anymore. Well, there we go, but I you guys I'm gonna be for this video I hope you guys did enjoy and if you guys did then definitely show some support by leaving a like and also comment down Below if you want this sub-unit to happen unit for that's what it says right there unit for champagne Maybe there's four units who knows but yeah But yeah, come on that down below and also subscribe because a new third youngers be more easy No reactions coming to you guys in the near future. So subscribe for that And yeah, I'm in that a whole you guys have a great day and just keep on smiling and I see yo


Good afternoon and welcome to patient perceptions and expectations, building a culture around service and putting yourself in the patient's shoes. I'm Sharon Lee Parker, Director of Patient Advocacy, Hospitality Training, Cancer Coaching, and an author of several cancer books, including Look Out Cancer Here I Come, How I Beat the Odds and came out a winner. Patient perceptions and expectations, it's such an interesting idea. I believe so strongly in patient advocacy after having had cancer myself and knowing that the people who surrounded me and tried to help me made a huge impact on my life that I've never forgotten. We value every person that walks through our doors at the JTCC. Patients, guests, caregivers, healing teams, everyone is important and plays a vital role in keeping us at the forefront of cancer centers across this country. We are a team, really a family working together every day to provide our patients not only the best cancer care in the nation, but also the best overall experience during their time with us. In 2018, U.S. News and World Report raided Hackensack University Medical Center as one of the top medical centers in the northeast of our country. In addition, the John Thurrock Cancer Center, also as we lovingly call it, the JTCC, was recognized as the most comprehensive cancer center in New Jersey. We continually need to improve our cancer center so that we can continue to stay near the top or at the very top in every area and specialty. Patients' expectations, what do they want? When we look at pictures of people and we actually study them, we know that the patient expectations are key for us and need to be addressed by every single staff member of the JTCC family. Each patient is always the most important patient and needs our full attention whenever it is possible. Of course they want to be heard. When a patient feels neglected or confused, it's time to step in and try to fix the situation. They want to know what they're going to go through, try to take away the fear, take away the anxiety whenever you can. Focusing on patient perception is so important. And the first thing to do is to always introduce yourself and call the patient by name. That makes them feel so much more comfortable. Explain procedures and communicate what you are doing. Something like, good morning Mr. Smith, I'm Jane Alvarez from the lab. I'm here to get some blood samples for Dr. Alter. And we thank you so much. Listen to the patient's comments and concerns and thank them if they have merit. This is an opportunity to assess what the patient is experiencing and improve their quality of life. How important that is. Caring and positive responses to a patient's questions or comments can make the difference in the patient's perception of how well we are doing it. I love it when a patient calls me and says, your staff really cares. Your staff goes out of the way. I feel so good when I come to the John Thura Cancer Center. That makes my day, and I'm sure it makes your day as well. In our systems organization, we have to remember to take advantage of following up with phone calls. If we have some laws, if we think a patient needs that follow-up phone call to make sure that they're doing okay, leaving a message even if they don't answer the phone to see how a patient is doing is always an appreciated gesture and something I do every single day. We're streaming our phone's directory system and in fact have done it several times trying to improve. We need to know when do we receive the highest call volume and who is available during these times, even during these COVID times where staffing sometimes may be shorter in one area than we would like. Having a nurse information specialist and additional staff available to pick up during off hours is key. We can't ever be less than A plus even if our world around us is crumbling a bit. We have to stay right on top. Talking to a human being instead of a machine personally, and I'm sure to many of you makes a world of difference and eliminates the patient frustration, eradicating gaps and flaws in the scheduling system, getting everyone involved in the CAT and the MRI scans. We need them on the same page. We need the left hand to know what the right hand is doing. And that is so key, even if you have to call a personal leader, find out the answer if you're not sure. Finding a way to eliminate a patient scuffling.  We want them to know exactly what they're doing in the most positive and constructive way possible. Have designated times for meeting to eliminate patient inconvenience and problems. If they're having a problem, we want to know. And then there are the intangibles. Remember to be aware of your body language. Patients are focusing on not just what you're doing, but how you're doing it. If you're doing it efficiently. If you're doing it with a smile on your face, even if you are wearing the mask. I have the mask. I know all about the mask. I've been wearing it for so long. But as I mentioned, I smile underneath the mask because then I know that my eyes smile and the patient sees it. It's not as good as no mask. I really will have a major celebration the day we all don't have to wear these masks and we can see our faces and who we are. But in the meanwhile, show your passion for helping others, not only in your eye smile, but in your tone of voice. Patients pick up on these indirect signs. Let our patients know you care. A random word of kindness goes a long way to brightening a patient's day. And remember that the patient is the reason we are here. Always keep their best interest in mind. It's a fragile commodity success. We can have it today or lose it tomorrow. Our goal is to have each patient look forward to coming to the JTCC for initial evaluations for their treatments and then their follow-up. And any education that we can offer them that will stimulate and increase their positivity towards whatever is confronting them. It's important to remember that recent regulatory changes have made providing exceptional patient experience even more important than ever. We're not a C. We're not a B. We want to be A plus. And by maintaining our passion for excellence and by working to improve how we do our jobs every day by putting our patients in the forefront, we can achieve the success we desire. Mr.  I'm in the middle of a recording. Even I get telephone calls from family members whom I love and adore, but it doesn't mean that I stop what I'm doing. The expanding role of patient ratings is very important. We are measured in many ways by our peers, by your peers, by outsiders, by surveys, by magazines, by conversation. Measurement provides the vital sign for our cancer center. How we interact with our patients can make all the difference in their perception of how well we are doing. We are all high achievers, so we need to make sure we are satisfying the needs for our patients at every level. Remember my famous phrase, aim for that A. Evaluations that are randomly sent to our patients can mean the difference between securing more funds or falling behind our peers. 30% of total bonus payments paid to us are based on patient experience ratings. It's interesting that nine out of possible 10 may be needed to be eligible for Medicare reimbursement in the future, and even now in some cases. So everyone matters all the time, not only on the personal level, but also on the renumeration level. We want to receive the credit as patients rank their experience as always good and better if it's superior. Improvement caps, hospital rankings are partially based on comparisons to their evaluations in previous years. We go from warrior to warrior to winner. And as we discuss amongst ourselves or during lunch, what have you seen or done lately that is positive and how can you help that grow? What would you like to do? What can we do to improve and communicate? How can we better understand the patient's experience? Patient input while they undergo treatment and post treatment follow-up. How can we improve that? How do we stay in contact with our patients so that they never forget us? Don't forget to say I love you. Don't forget to say I care. Don't forget to say tomorrow we will have so much to share. And by the way, in case you missed it, thank you all for being there. Doctors, nurses, healing teams, and of course caregivers all deserve our love and gratitude because they hear our call. Even when days are stormy and the clouds consume the sky. Remember the words hope and love fill the world for you and I.  Healthy, well and on your way is what we want to hear and to share a great big secret every one of you is dear. So remember folks that in our world, you never stand alone. The JTCC is on your side by car, by plane, by phone. The people's house, the house of hope with windows to the sky, filled with brains and forward thinkers who love life and want to try to give us one that's cancer free so we can spend the day in making our world a better place. So everyone can say I love my life and all it brings the moon, the stars, the sun and thank you all for being here. You are the special ones and remember in order to get our patients well, we need a dedicated, caring, compassionate, highly intelligent staff. Thank you so much.


Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas everybody! I am spending my Christmas morning at a West Texas picnic area over here. That right there, if you saw yesterday's video, is Guadalupe Mountain National Park. We're just on the outskirts of it. And our friend Nick, Black Pearl Trevato, took off. Claire Bear's doing her Christmas makeup. How are you feeling this Christmas day? Cold! Yeah, it was a little cold last night. It was like, I don't know, 29 degrees or something like that. I tried to fly the drone this morning. Something was going on with it. So yet again, DJI Mavic Pro not functioning. Also, the gimbal is not working. I don't know if it's a setting or if it's broken. But yeah, it also wasn't working this morning when Nick was heading out. Today, being Christmas, a lot of stuff is closed, including the National Parks. So we can't go inside there unless we were to walk Anna, I suppose. So we're gonna head west and head towards a hot spring at a resort, which is for sure open.  And we can warm Claire Bear up a little bit. Yesterday's video, you'll see that I did a giveaway for some postcards. I will hand write a postcard to someone. I will do a giveaway in another video. I'll probably do them like a week apart or so. The reason being, I want to space them out and give everybody a chance. Sometimes people binge watch, some people, yeah, like catch up all at once and stuff like that. So I want to make sure everybody has a chance. And I think today's, there was a video, there's two videos that actually went out today. I had to take it down because it was for the giveaway. It was supposed to be for tomorrow. So yeah, it'll just be a simple thing. I'll announce that in the future. But just a little way to give back to you guys for being such awesome viewers, for supporting me on my journey and the channel. And just a little token of my appreciation. Well, chilly, huh? Oh, interesting echo. Echo! Cool. We're just driving down the road. Waterloo Mountains, right back there. You can barely see it. And El Paso is the destination today. Oh, update. I sent an email to the guy over at Riverbend Hot Springs. A really nice guy, Jake, who's a manager, is by far my favorite commercial hot spring that I've ever been to. And today's Christmas, I said, hey man, look, I know it's Christmas. I don't mean to bother you, but we're coming to town either way. And yeah, they're gonna comp us a dip in the springs tonight. It was gonna be awesome. But yeah, we just spotted this abandoned something on the side of the road. I'm gonna guess it was like some kind of old motel. Of course I could be totally wrong, but this seems like it would be a motel. Bathroom? Some kind of something. Looks like that's maybe multiple toilet situation. Is that what that is? Cool. So, multiple toilets and then, or showers. And it looks like there's like little rooms here. Just so fascinating to see these old places and wonder what they used to look like way back in the day. But here's the leftovers. Here's, I'm guessing, maybe is where you park your car or something like that. What do you think? I don't know. It's probably a hotel, I can imagine. Motel, hotel, holiday inn. There's windows on the back. Yeah. This is interesting. It looks like a water tank right there. So that's probably where, well, of course that's where the water came from over here to plumb the toilets and the showers. But yeah, this is just an example of the cool stuff you see when you're on really small highways in middle of nowhere America. I just kicked dirt all in my shoe. So about 30 miles east of El Paso is an alien dome spaceship. Dome office. Apparently it's now for sale. So we're gonna have a peek here. If anybody's interested, well, you can come out and purchase your own spacecraft office building or home. I don't know what used to be here, but it says the office is open by appointment only. Quite interesting. They definitely have a sense of humor because there's a little, it's a Marvin the Martian right there which is pretty pretty awesome. I love when people have creativity and a sense of humor and, you know, build something unique. It definitely makes, it makes for a conversation piece. Just like the bus in a way is a conversation piece. It's not your typical RV. This too is not your typical home. Look where we are. My favorite commercial hot springs in the planet. River Bend hot springs in truth or consequences.  You excited? Yeah. Yeah me too. Here is the hot springs property from the Rio Grande. So there as you can see there are multiple little pools. This is a whisper zone so I'll stop talking a minute. There's three over there and then there's a large one under the shack and this is the incredible, incredible view which is right down on a very, very slow section of the Rio Grande.  Hook me up with a wristband after already being in the hot spring for an hour and Claire and basically we're gonna go now for a one-hour private tub which you'll see in a second but we did stop by. We got a little Christmas dinner over Denny's. Got a little pot roast and turkey dinner. A little bit better than lunch today. It's Sonic. Anyways let's go check out this private tub. So we're good. We have a bathroom. We have a shower 24 hours a day over here. Well overnight I should say and perfect little boondocking spot right on the Rio Grande right at a hot spring. How amazing is that? Outside of the hot spring in this right here is the private pool. I really don't need to tell you guys how incredible it was because I already told you how incredible the other water is and it's essentially the same water. The same incredible factor which is like off the charts and this way you just have a nice private area. You by yourself or you know special somebody in my case it was me very full stomach and the clear dactyl in her very full stomach. Incredible place. If you guys come through to your sea I highly recommend this place. It's very clean very nice and the people here are very friendly. Alright this is what the incredible nighttime scene is like. They have a bunch of LEDs right on the river and really cool light features here as well coming off of a little laser. Laser LED or something like that across the way. There's lasers pointed out across the Rio Grande and in a nutshell you can see why it's one of my favorite commercial hot springs to go to. It's just super nice. There's hands over there, couches, lounges, great water.  I'm sold so it is time now for bed. I am exhausted and I'm still super full.


This is TFNN the tiger financial news network TfNN headline news update Good afternoon everybody I'm Tommy O'Brien company live from TFNN headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida 2 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday two hours left to go in the trading day and we got a mixed market out there big day of earnings That's for sure S&Ps right now positive by two points training at 29 at 33 You get the Dow at negative 77 points trading at twenty six thousand five twenty one and the Nasdaq positive by twenty eight points training at eighty one Thirty quite a number as we start things off. Let's jump over to the futures markets We'll start it off with the S&P so quite a roller coaster in both directions this morning 845 this morning We're trading at twenty nine thirty four essentially where we're trading at almost right now But man we dove south Reaching Lowe's intraday at 10 30 of 29 14 you're talking about 20 S&P points to the downside and boom just like that it turns around trades topside 29 34 40 and as we speak by the time we get through this update We may be at intraday highs Nasdaq 100 not quite up to the levels that we're at this morning, but it's bounced as well low earlier today 77 93 we're now up more than 55 points from that level trading at 78 49 the Nasdaq Dow 30 quite a resurgence as well We'll jump over the biggest culprit in the Dow without triple M The Dow will be having quite a day triple M alone down 13 percent 3m putting a hundred and ninety Negative Dow points and that is that drop-off you see when trip 3m came out with their earnings But man the Dow closet all back trading twenty six thousand five seventeen crude oil under sixty six dollars trading sixty five seventy five Goal contract under 1280 trading 12 79 28 and natural gas We got EIA numbers at 10 30 this morning. There's your volatility We start that number out as in we're trading at 249 prior to the inventory number Inventory comes in as a build of 92 billion cubic feet pretty much right in line with which with what analysts expected Nonetheless, we trade higher 255 45 the price of natural gas as I mentioned The culprit in the Dow. There's the impact that 3m is having so 3m alone negative $27 on the day about 13 percent Accounting for a hundred and ninety points in the Dow on the flip side You got Boeing adding 60 points Microsoft putting in 31 to the positive Disney 20 American Express 15 Stay tuned folks. We got a man Dave white coming up right now She'll he'll have plenty to talk about after the bell tonight Amazon earnings Starbucks earnings Intel earnings Dave whited to Tom O'Brien live from three to five every great Thursday. Everybody stay tuned


OK, your position looks good, Joe. Let's go to Elisaian. Position is good, Joe. The X-15, research aircraft, designed to investigate the problems of manned flight in a near space environment. Altitudes up to 50 miles, speeds up to Mach 6. High speed aerodynamics, aerodynamic heating, structural design, aircraft stability, and control in space and reentry. This was the kind of information it was to provide and provided it did. Here's the story. Before the X-15, the question had been, what is to be man's role in space travel? Can he pilot an aircraft out of the Earth's atmosphere, fly it in space, then reenter the atmosphere and bring it back to a safe landing on Earth? There were many unknowns to be discovered. Many problems to be overcome before the answer would be known. That today's test flight is almost routine, is a tribute to the comprehensive program that has moved step by step to prove that man can pilot an aircraft into space and return. Give us a 20,000 foot check, Joe. OK, I know you've done it, but check your flaps and circuit breakers. Ready to go pressure on us? Pressure on us. You're in good shape. Real good flight, Joe. This is your happy controller going off the air. There have been many men who have helped make the X-15 project a success. One of them is aircraft research engineer, Hartley Suley, who was originally in charge of designing and building the X-15 aircraft. Of course, I'm retired now. In the X-15, she's not the queen of the hangar anymore, although she's still hard of work. But I remember years ago. You know, it was long before Sputnik that we decided to build the X-15. This airplane, the first hypersonic aircraft, was going to be our first manned space probe. This was a logical step in the research aircraft program that had begun even before the end of World War II. From the beginning, the research aircraft program was a cooperative affair. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics predecessor to NASA, the aircraft industry, the Air Force, the Navy, working together. Their first effort was directed at breaking the sound barrier. And the aircraft that would do it was the X-1, designed to acquire flight data at the speed of sound. On October 14, 1947, with Air Force Captain Charles E. Yeager at the controls, the X-1 made the world's first supersonic flight. Other research aircraft soon followed the X-1, the Douglas D-558 Phase 1, to investigate flight with a straight wing at high subsonic speeds. The Northrop X-4, designed to fly without a tail. The Douglas D-558 Phase 2, to study flight characteristics of swept wing aircraft at transonic and supersonic speeds. The Bell X-5, designed with variable sweep. And the Douglas X-3, to investigate thin, straight wings at speeds beyond Mach 1. The Bell X-1A, with its increased performance, first of a series of follow-on aircraft to the original X-1. The X-2, another Bell airplane, designed to explore aircraft behavior at altitudes above 100,000 feet and Mach 3 speeds. The X-1E and X-1B, both later follow-ons to the X-1. Step by step, these different aircraft helped nibble away at the unknown. Until by 1956, the frontiers of manned flight had been advanced from speeds of 500 miles an hour to Mach 3, and from altitudes of only 40,000 to more than 100,000 feet. Speed, altitude, sure we kept going higher and faster than we'd ever been before. Only because that's where new information, where the unknown, has always been found in flight. Above and beyond the limit you've already reached. As early as 1952, the X-15 aircraft was being conceived by the people at NACA. At the Langley Center in Virginia, they began investigating the unknowns associated with flight to the thinnest edges of the Earth's atmosphere. One unknown concerned aerodynamic heating. The X-15 would be the first aircraft to push from supersonic to hypersonic speeds, where the flow of air would heat the leading edges of the plane to 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit. Experiment after experiment was run to see if this extreme temperature would weaken or melt basic materials. The data resulting from tests run well beyond temperatures expected for the X-15 proved that there were materials that would withstand this kind of heat. Another problem, after rocket engines shut down, the X-15 would be thrust into a ballistic arc in air so thin that normal aerodynamic control would be impossible. How then could the pilot control the aircraft? The answer, reaction controls that would allow him to correct roll movement and position the aircraft properly for reentry through the atmosphere. But the designers knew the problems of control would never be fully solved until an X-15 aircraft was actually built. We knew the X-15 would look something like this. We knew that it would be a manned aircraft that would fly more than 4,000 miles an hour and as high as 250,000 feet. We knew that like the X-1, the X-15 would be air launched and propelled on its flight by a rocket motor, the most powerful engine ever installed on an airplane. Of course, we didn't know what kind of rocket motor that would prove to be. There'd never been anything like it. Designed for a manned system, the 50,000 pounds of thrust in a single chamber had to be controllable at the pilot's discretion. He had to be able to throttle this engine in flight. This is Harry Cook, program manager for the X-15 rocket engine. The LR-99 rocket engine was designed and built for the X-15 by the Reaction Motors Division of the Thyacal Chemical Corporation. We had had some experience in this field. Reaction motors had built power plants for all of the X-1s and for the D558 Phase II aircraft. But those rocket engines we had made for earlier research planes were primitive forerunners of the engine we built for the X-15. 57,000 pounds of thrust with a throttle attached. No engine like this had ever existed before, but Thyacal built one for the X-15. What kind of airframe could be designed to carry such an engine? The X-15 was designed and built to take the stresses encountered at hypersonic speeds, to go to extreme high altitude and to beat the heat, survive the extreme high temperatures that build up on the wing, fuselage, and tail during the re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere. The engineering research contribution we made at North American Aviation to the X-15 project was to take NASA's proposal to build this aircraft and to find out how they could be met. Harrison Storms, he was in charge of the X-15 program at North American Aviation. For example, they proposed to use a new nickel alloy metal for the protective sheet or skin on all three of the airframes of the X-15. We had to find out how it could be used. Inconel X was the name of the new nickel alloy. It was developed to withstand the searing temperatures at hypersonic speeds, temperatures of 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit or more. But to use Inconel X, it had to be cross-welded, and no one had been able to do it before. A major milestone was passed when North American discovered how it could be done. North American also originated the idea of fairings along each side of the X-15 fuselage to house control cables and hydraulic lines. This left the entire fuselage volume for power plant plumbing as well as fuel and propellant tanks. Another invaluable North American contribution was the X-15 flight simulator, permitting pilots and ground controllers to plan and practice flights without ever leaving the ground. From an exact replica of the X-15 cockpit, the pilot could actuate hydraulic and control systems identical to those on the aircraft itself. All this was tied into an analog computer that could program actual X-15 missions and simulate every conceivable in-flight problem the pilot might expect to face. Practice in the flight simulator was just one phase of pre-flight preparation. Another took place in the centrifuge at the Navy's Air Development Test Center at Johnsville, Pennsylvania. There, pilots learned how to take the heavy G forces they would meet when they flew the X-15 up into space and back down again. Hours of training here, added to hours in the simulator, extended the pre-flight pilot training period into weeks and even months. Then came the dramatic moment. The X-15 and its B-52 launch aircraft were ready. North American test pilot Scott Crossfield was ready. Step by step, the X-15 research project had moved to this important event. Now, the first of three X-15s was about to begin a series of test flights. The schedule called for an orderly progression of tests. In the first flights, the X-15 would remain attached to the B-52. Then a glide flight would be tried. Only then would powered flight be attempted. This careful program of flight tests, flown by pilot Scott Crossfield, proved the X-15 would do just what its designers hoped she would. From March 10, 1959 until late 1960, when we delivered the third aircraft to the Air Force, I made 14 captive flights, one glide flight, and 10 powered flights. It was all pretty much routine. We, North American, that is, went up there to check out the aircraft, to check out the systems, to see how she handled and whether or not she'd meet the specs before we turned her over to the Air Force. But you'll have to go up to NASA's Flight Research Center at Edwards to find out how the actual test programs worked. Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in California. This is where the X-15 story comes together. For here is where test flights of all high-speed research aircraft since the X-1 have taken place. Like all the programs conducted here, the X-15 Flight Research Project had a simple basis. A series of progressive steps to higher speeds and to higher altitudes. But each step, each flight itself had a more immediate purpose than simply to gain more speed or altitude. And each flight was carefully planned to make the most effective use of this aircraft as a research vehicle or tool. Paul Bickel, director of NASA's Flight Research Center. Each flight provided new information or confirmed one tunnel or theoretical data on the characteristics of an airplane performing in a very advanced flight regime. Each flight grew out of one that had already taken place and led to another still to come. Of course, the X-15 flight program really began in the simulator months before the first airplane was delivered to us. Joe Walker, Chief NASA Edwards Research Pilot, physicist and pilot of a long list of research aircraft. Practice for planning in the simulator is the beginning of every flight that's ever been made in the X-15. All pilots assigned to the project first become familiar with the handling characteristics and timing of the X-15 on any given mission in the flight simulator. It's been good insurance for all of us. One of the X-15 pilots who has spent many hours in the flight simulator is NASA's Milton Thompson. Here, Thompson flies a practice mission under normal procedure, with pilot engineer John McKay working as his flight planner. In a nearby room where the analog computer is housed, the activity in the cockpit can be monitored on closed circuit TV. The pilot's control movements and the airplane's simulated response are checked on a plotter by the flight planner, who will monitor the actual flight from the NASA Edwards Control Center on the ground. The pilot's inputs may also be monitored and recorded by other instruments. Variations from the planned mission are then simulated, so the pilot will learn to recognize their effects on the aircraft. For example, he may get a problem involving changes in stability. These changes are fed by the computer to his cockpit instruments. The pilot reads the changes and makes control inputs to bring the aircraft back to normal. His response is monitored and evaluated. The pilot also goes through what is called trouble school, where failure of one or more of the X-15's major systems is simulated. Again, his reaction is monitored. Each pilot gets further practice by making a number of flights in a modified F-104 aircraft. He flies over his upcoming X-15 flight course to establish geographic checkpoints and key altitudes in the landing pattern. All flights are made over the high range, a network of ground tracking stations stretching from Wendover, Utah, 485 miles south to Edwards in California. The range consists of a master station at Edwards and radar stations at Ealy, Nevada, and at Beattie. The flight corridor is 50 miles wide, and it contains a number of dry lake beds where emergency landings can be made. Two kinds of powered flights are made over the high range. One, a ballistic type, high altitude run, up to and even above 250,000 feet. And two, a high speed run made at a lower altitude, usually 60 to 70,000 feet. During his practice flights in the F-104, the pilot must also familiarize himself with the timing and positioning for an X-15 landing at both primary and alternate landing sites. And he makes practice landings using predetermined settings that can simulate the low lift drag ratio of the X-15. Nothing is left to chance in the air or on the ground. These precautions paid off during the following flight. When the pilot realized, he could only get 30% power, and that consequently, he would have to make an emergency landing at Mud Lake. Ready to launch, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I love the good life of the good life. Chamber 8, can you give us chamber pressure? Are we going to chamber pressure about 200? Roger, are you got the full throttle? OK. You're running at 30%. You're going by Mud Lake. It looks like a landing at Mud Lake. On the snow down there, life is a very tiny bit of land. Though it seemed to be, both the aircraft and the pilot survived to continue with the program. This was one of only three major accidents, all non-fatal, that have occurred in more than 120 flights with the X-15, a remarkable record of reliability. In February 1964, the plane that crashed on Mud Lake only a few months before came rolling out of the North American plant with a new designation, the X-15A2. This modified version was rebuilt for flight to Mach 8, times the speed of sound, where the airflow temperature rises to 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit. The new X-15 had a new heat-resistant protective coating, a new inertial guidance system, a longer fuselage, external tanks to carry more fuel for longer flights, and lengthened landing gear. The while this new X-15 was being built, tests were continuing with the other two aircraft, and they continue today. For every flight, the procedure is essentially the same. Every phase carefully planned, every second of actual flight time mapped out in advance. That way, every man involved knows exactly what his job will be from the beginning to the end of the flight. Hours of preparation, weeks of planning, months of study, whole years of research. All this goes with the X-15 each time she leaves the hangar for another flight. For after all, no matter how many flights have been made before, each new test will probe a little deeper into the unknown. She is a research tool, this sleek black aircraft, carrying a host of instruments, gauges, and recorders to explore the unknown. And every second of her time in flight must be carefully charted. That's why at the Ealy High Range Station at Beady, at Edwards, sensitive antenna watch and listen to each flight. That's why the pilot's heartbeat never really leaves the ground. And that's why in each control room on the ground, the plotting board is carefully watched for any unplanned deviation, for any unlooked for change in the pilot's reactions or on the behavior of the aircraft. Position and velocity computers, telemetry receivers, and monitors, data receiving and recording equipment, communications receivers, and transmitters, they all go into action at the beginning of every flight. In NASA One, the project men stand by, alert for any possible trouble in the flight. While flight surgeons prepare to watch the pilot's physiological response, his pulse, his body temperature, heart action, respiration rate, all of this will be telemetered to the ground. Then, as always, when time for takeoff draws near, attention focuses on the man chosen to fly the mission. Because of this, the X-15 pilot becomes, in effect, the symbol for the entire research team, the one man who represents all the others who have worked so long and so hard to make the project a success. And it is a proud record of accomplishment they've achieved. They have designed and built an aircraft that could be piloted into space and flown back safely to a controlled landing on Earth. They have accumulated important data on aerodynamic heating at hypersonic speeds. They've learned about stability and control of aircraft during flight in near space and re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere. And perhaps most important of all, they have dramatized the potential of piloted high-performance aircraft in a space environment at a time when much of the world's gaze was turned toward orbital flight. The X-15 research project has long since achieved its original goals. The aircraft has been flown successfully more than 120 times. And although setting new records wasn't its purpose, it has set a few along the way. Altitude, 67 miles. Speed, Mach 6, 4,104 miles an hour. The highest and fastest a wind aircraft has ever flown. Today, the X-15 moves on to further accomplishment. But now the thoroughbred has become a workhorse, carrying a heavy payload of instruments, undertaking studies of the near-space environment possible before only with unmanned satellite and rocket-borne probes. Many people who should share the credit for the continuing success of the X-15 research project. But perhaps they will understand if we seem to focus on those who have actually flown the many research aircraft since the X-1. By saluting these courageous men, we also pay homage to all the others who have helped us move step by step, deeper and deeper, into the unknown outskirts of space.


Why am I so enraptured with the new film Millers Girl, starring Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega, who blur the lines between student and teacher? You can catch the full article review on our latinoslant.com go there right now and make sure to subscribe to our newsletter. The storytelling begins as a stylized dramatic play with Mr. Miller's Bohemian Classroom as our main setting. The four main characters, Mr. Miller, Cairo Sweet, Boris Fillmore, and Winnie, in turn exit said room while giving nods to each other's relationships. Character development is a joy to hear through writer-director Jade Haley-Barlett's witty dialogue. From the adults to teenagers, all are grounded, and yet there is a fantastical poetic narration to the film. Bartlett sets a great Tennessee goth look to the film as she plays with the idea of Cairo, of a lovesick aspiring writer, teenager, to that of a poison ivy trope. It's very interesting as she can hold full conversations with the adults in the film despite her age and reclusive nature. She is that teenager who escaped into her favorite author's books and language, but as hardly any friends her age. When we talk about language and the story, let's hear from the star herself, Jenna Ortega, at this year's Palm Springs Film Festival. I also want to mention is, if you have it in you, I feel like it's a good movie to watch multiple times because, again, the screenplay has been worked on for such a long time. It's so beautifully done. So there's so many bits and pieces that you'll find early on in the script. You'll find, you know, notes and symbolism and the kudzu and just, there's so much that visually went into the film as well that I think that, you know, going into with fresh eyes you're not aware of, but it's so beautifully done. So let's get to the main conflict of the story. Cairo proposes her midterm project of taking on the works of author Henry Miller, which is banned from the school's curriculum, to make it her own. Mr. Miller says no at first, but knows that this type of project would catapult her in her writer's career. This is where both our characters will walk a tightrope with each other as they dive into the affair of the mind, painted in literature and fantasy. Unfortunately, they must come down to earth and those have consequences at the end of the film. Martin Freeman, as Miller gives a very measured, likeable performance, you see his passion to teach literature, but also being lost in his state of stale academia, ultimately not pursuing his own writing career. Freeman and Ortega have incredible dialogue back and forth with each other, which again make this film feel special. They had this incredible passion for each other's writing, which is really the foundation of the relationship. They recite each other's work and define the characters she has created in her stories. Scenes of creative criticism are irresistible to watch as they both respect and love each other's talent for the word, which makes the Henry Miller assignment make sense only to them. This film is both spellbinding and dangerous at the same time as Bartlett, creates a unique story from the tropes of the old professor and young student falling in love or having an affair. An example of this is that Miller's wife is kept in the fold step by step of his friendship and working relationship with Cairo. Beatrice at first luredly approves as she herself is a writer living on the edge of alcoholism and complacency in her marriage and career. Now I want you to check out our article so you can read the ending of this as I don't want to give spoilers soon in the video, I leave it up to you to read, but ultimately want you to watch Miller's girl. Thank you for watching this video. Make sure you smash the like comment and that you are subscribed. Remember wherever you're at, keep your slang fuerte gracias.


of the session and their patience with my changing schedule and making this connection work across the ocean in a couple of time zones. It's a fantastic opportunity to present some of my data and thoughts on text-talk and functioning. Wait a second. I'm trying to fix the... There's nothing else. Just one? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. This paper has a three-fold aim to present the diachronic evidence for textile production recovered over the previous decade of excavations of the Latin site of Gabi, evidence covering roughly a thousand years ago by history. To use this diachronic evidence for the excavations to examine changes in textile production across what I like to call the site's urbanizing boundary, this fuzzy line when the city moves from a group of proto-urban communities to a more unified and defile-involved urban entity. And finally, to focus in on a pattern that is clear at Gabi but also seems to be evident across the Italian peninsula, the disappearance of a particular suite of textile production tools and probably the associated production system, spools, tablets, and tablet weaving. Active forgetting offers an informative case study for understanding the relationship between community formation, craft production, and urbanization. I'm trying to make sure the slides are changing. The site that would become the Latin city of Gabi is located in central Latia, ancient Latham, approximately 18 kilometers southeast of Rome, along the ancient Via Prinestina. Moderately famous in our Latin literary sources for stone quarries, baths, special arteries, and particular toga style, at its urban height, Gabi occupied about 70 hectares of the slope of an extinct volcano. Over the past 12 years, the Gabi project under the auspices of the University of Michigan has a significant portion of the city center, discovering architecture and fine-stating from the Bronze Age of the Middle Ages here. Although there is occasional evidence for Bronze Age activity in the area, it is our hope that our excavations will reveal broad information. Initial occupation of Gabi can be most particularly dated to the early Iron Age, a period where social reorganization appears to be reflected in spatial reorganization across the city of central Italy. A majority of late Bronze Age settlements were expanded and populations came together at the sites that would undergo the process of state and urban formation in the fall centuries. Our technological circle in the last half century has suggested that these initial occupations were continuous or continuous. Instead, they were broken into different nodal occupation points scattered across the landscape. Each node likely representing a group tied together by actual effective kinship relations. Perhaps best represented in relation by Guayutili's survey work at Gabi in the 1970s here on the left, mine left, I think also your left, MBA's hysteria publication of the necropolis of Osterogalosa across the volcanic crater lake from Gabi. This work suggests the type of multi-nodal settlement pattern at the site during the early Iron Age. Environmental considerations and survey biases alone cannot explain the prevalence of this pattern at numerous sites with varying topographies and land cover. What must be the case is that we are seeing an intermediate form of social engagement between different groups. It is no longer the Bronze Age of the late 2nd millennium with its scattered fortified hilltop settlements. Hector or two in size and each likely representing a single one of these groups. We are all not at the urban state that first arrives at some Italian qualities already in the late 6th century, complete with massive temples on Stone Podia and Ashley City walls. That arrives at Gabi, it seems, in the 4th century with the imposition of an urban grid and the construction of fortification walls, acts of a community which is grown together to engage in mutually enacted monumental works. Instead, in the Iron Age, this decision has been made to join together to a degree. This creates a variety of questions for how this kind of settlement strategy must have actually functioned in every lane. When your nearest neighbors are tens of meters away rather than tens of kilometers. These tensions between nodal groups in the larger community as well as tensions within nodal groups is evident in the decision to move, choice which must have been agreed upon on an inter- and intra-group level with, as we see from survey data, some groups choosing not to be part of this experimental situation. Mechanisms for tying these individual groups together and avenues of negotiation and prevention from the urban communities out of the scattered but linked parts must have existed. Textile production evidence from Gabi suggests. Textile production evidence from Gabi suggests is one crucial mechanism of this negotiation. So at Gabi, our estimations of so-called areas C and D, here are the kind of cut-out, which I didn't make it clear. I hope you can kind of see that a little better. Is it particularly relevant for understanding social, economic, and other dynamics during this pre-urban formative period? The so-called area C and D complex represented one of the few parent-age total occupation areas which has been excavated from any central Italian site. And in particular excavations have revealed the elite core of this type of settlement. The not fully surviving due to a Republican period cistern dug in the middle of the node, we were able to recognize a series of phases spanning the Iron Age and post-archaic periods, about the eighth to late fifth centuries BCE, that followed an established pattern of development, quote-unquote, from huts to houses. The initial occupation took place in the eighth century, beginning as a cluster of smaller cuts. It was then redeveloped with larger hutch structures, circumscribed and enclosure walled in the seventh century. In the late 7th to early 6th century, a stone-built complex replaced the hut and continued to be modified until it's abandoned in the late 6th to early 5th century. Following a brief hiatus, I will discuss in a moment, a new elite residence was constructed that eventually modified, and was then eventually modified to resemble an atrium-style domicile by the second century BCE. So here we have more or less a continuous series of domestic occupations from the eighth century through the second first century BCE. Each phase of the hut house complex, up until the post century hiatus, is marked by the existence of infant cells situated around it in communication with the physical occupation structure. These tombs come with a wide variety of grave good assemblages of various types, including high-quality ceramic and bronze vessels, bronze personal adornments, and beads, pendants of amber, fions, bronze, silver, among other items. And Mojeta and Cohen have a number of articles out and forthcoming on this series of burials. These burials present clear evidence for social stratification, long-distance trade, as well as tantalizing clues that the cohabitation within the area of both elite burying these rich burials, and perhaps their non-elite pendants burying similar in simpler ceramic vessels in the same area. Although this relationship requires further clarification, and our dreams of excavating the non-elite habitation spaces related to this elite complex have not yet been realized. Alongside these infant burials, the other most notable and numerous suite of material excavated from this little settle is textile making tools. Four different types of objects have been created related to the production of textiles, and here it's this kind of mess of colors of the middle right is the area CD complex. These are spools, spindle whirls, loom weights, and tablets. Mostly it appears lost, dropped, or broken, and then reused in leveling fills, integral to maintaining even beaten earth floor circles across the area, sloping topography. The importance of textile production for nodal settlements in the area of Gavi has been apparent since Vieti Cisteri's work at Osterial Dolosa, but our excavations allowed out of her textile production to be contextualized into settlement and track of greater chronological specificity. Five minutes. Okay. The assemblage itself, numbering approximately 229 objects to date, is notable both for what is present and what is absent. Spindle whirls and so-called spools predominate, making up a quarter and two-thirds of the assemblage respectively. Loom weights are notably absent, only 16 have been recovered from the CD complex. This may be related to the manner in which these objects were disposed of after their use life came to an end. Lacking a clear destruction layer, it is possible that larger loom weights were less likely to end up in leveling fills than spindle whirls or spools, after all the use of loom weights in the areas attested at Osterial Dolosa. The profile of the spools in spindle whirls, however, suggests that the absence might not only down to different tapinomic journeys amongst objects. The majority of spindle whirls are light and weight, I'm one side behind, sorry, are light and weight between 8 and 30 spools, between 10 and 50 pins, perhaps hinting that they were used for spinning and weaving of lighter weight thread. The recovery of two pierced bone plaques from deposits belonging to the complex identified as tablets used in tablet weaving, suggests that this technique used to create elaborate belts and borders, but not practical for the production of more cotidian textile may have been carried out and prevalent in this complex. The prevalence of lightweight spools suggested by Greater Newton and Glava to be weights used for small scale or tablet weaving, the small size of most of the spindle whirls, as well as the discovery of tablet woven textile borders in the areas of Osterial Dolosa, further suggests that this nodal settlement may lack loom weights because spinning and tablet weaving were the predominant form of textile production within the elite corpus complex. If this is the case, more cotidian loom based textile weaving was carried out elsewhere, perhaps in other nodal settlements or in the settlements of non-elite dependence we have yet to discover. While more data will help elucidate this relationship, it is evident that this complex played an active role in tying this nodal community together both internally and with other communities in the area beyond. The various phases of the CD complex produced comparable sets of lightweight textile making tools suggesting that this particular technique was passed down across generations as one method of re-afiance of the social makeup of this particular nodal settlement. Here I think it's likely that tablet weaving was particularly a useful tool for reproducing elite identity. I can talk about more in the questions. It's clear about the fourth century that Gavi has transitioned from this multimodal series of communities to something more recognizably urban. The CD complex is abandoned, a grid plan imposed upon the site seen here from our geospatial survey, and this suggests more centralized authority and community action. At the same time, a series of new elite domestic structures are built that occupy the same space as part of this previous nodal settlement, particularly the house in plan on the right. Notably, many of the textile making tools so prevalent in the deposits belonging to the preceding three centuries are completely absent. Spools disappear along with associated small spindle walls. Loom rates remain, but they all seem to be in tertiary or further deposition. Across two domestic structures in one monumental building full of material dated to the first phases of newly urban Gavi, loom weights appear with greater frequency, but spools and spindle walls disappear. They do not reappear in our later antique deposits. Some type of violence disjunction perhaps related to an expansionist realm might explain certain aspects of the reorganization we see at Gavi, but the disappearance of spools between the VRK and post-RK period is not an isolated phenomenon at the site. Instead, the disappearance takes place across the Italian peninsula. I know of no spools or other textile making tools from post-RK settlement deposits, although I would love to hear more about it if anybody knows of this. At the moment that Italian buildings appeared across an urban boundary, this particular textile production system that was prevalent in the pre-urban period appears. Yeah, one minute left, more or less. So, since every two years when Gavi comes close to preserving a continuous habitation across this boundary, I will use the rest of my one minute to try to make suggestions as to why this disjunction takes place. We could be looking at shifting networks of display in exchange, necessitated by external focus on an external network or connected, especially groups, tablet weaving with its unique patterns might have been too individualized to effectively communicate status between urban sites. So, a common productive technique gave way to other methods that produced more ubiquitous visual styles. It's also possible that new technologies replaced this textile making process as markers of status or that exogenous markers such as dies, Hellenized textiles and Hellenized production techniques replaced tablet weaving out of the old and new. Rome cannot be discounted and we also probably move away from domestic production although this appears quite late along in the process, perhaps as more options for the acquisition of goods and the development of a monetized economy created greater market forces and it was no longer expedient to spend so much energy producing this type of textile. An increase in population within urban sites also may have met more unaligned producers and craft production moving outside of the weak hands. It's certainly not a model causal phenomenon, there are other things that can be suggested but it's also certain that these people who produced the tablet weaving did not all disappear across the Italian peninsula. Instead, they must have found better suited tools for this new urban environment and if we take a look at these practices we can perhaps understand the shifts as urban life across this fuzzy boundary between the pre-urban and urban Italian cities and I will wrap up there so I stay on time. Thank you.