Hi everyone, welcome to Ask an Expert, an interview series where we talk about topics around mental health with experts, ranging from clinicians to people with lived expertise. My name is Monica and I am a neuroscience postgraduate student at the University of Oxford. Here I study depression, a disabling, debilitating mental health challenge that is the leading cause of mental health disease related burden worldwide. And so it's especially important for us to talk about it, to talk about ways to cope and what potential treatments could be like. And so I feel especially honored to be joined by Scott today, someone who brings on lived experience and expertise. His story is incredible. You'll get to hear from him in just a few moments. Welcome Scott. Hi Monica, thanks for having me. Thank you so much for joining. It's great to be able to chat today about living with depression and what's that like for you? Oh gosh, what a question. You know when people describe depression we have to use metaphors. Because if you just say I'm sad, I'm low, the world's a little dark, it doesn't encapsulate what it actually feels like and feelings are impossible to describe. Like how do I describe beauty or well-being? How do we describe even happiness? When you're happy you just know you're happy, right? So depression for me wasn't like a black cloud over my head and it's not like the world is losing saturation and the colors aren't as bright. This was far more serious for me. This was, I asked people to imagine waking up every morning and every morning you get a phone call and your cell phone's right by your bed, right? And it's a phone call. And you pick it up, you say hello, good morning. And someone says, hi Scott. We just like to let you know that everybody you know has died. Your family, your friends, and now you're completely alone. Okay, goodbye. Click. And you have to go through the day in this grieving and sense of aloneness. Like you're nobody in the world anymore and there's an alienation and an isolation. And you don't know how to make sense of it because you're like, it's not my fault. I didn't know what I did, but I still feel responsible for that.  And then you get the phone call and you're like, oh, I remember what this is going to be about. And we have to go through the day like that. Depression for me is it was a sense of grieving for a life that didn't exist. And this is a lot of people kind of resonate with this and it's that heaviness of existence. It's a heaviness of life. And through practice and what we'll talk about today a little bit, Monica is and everyone watching is how can we wear the world lightly? Because depression really makes us wear this heavy robe and it's wet and it's like it's totally heavy on us. How can we wear something a little lighter? What tools can we practice to really just feel some levity and lightness in our lives? And it's very difficult with depression, but I hope we can get to the bottom of things. But that's how I describe it. Yeah. Thank you. It's, you know, I'm reading the chat right now. Blake is saying, oh my goodness, God, you are so right.  It's such a difficult thing to go through every day, essentially. Yeah. Yeah. And Blake's not wrong and everybody has their own experiences with depression, right? Like, listen, I was diagnosed in 2008 and it's been a journey, man, 14 years. And I've had amazing moments in the last two years have been very, very interesting for me as far as growth and seeing depression in a new way. But I still get low. Like people say, Scott, did you beat it? Did you cure yourself? And I don't even know what that really means. I still have really tough days. And the world sometimes is too much for me to handle. It's all too much. Every making my bed is too much. Showering is too much. The feeling that work is part of the day. Sometimes these things are just too much. And that's where compassion can come in a little later on. But if people feel this way and Blake knows and people in the comments know you're not alone in that feeling, man. No, it's very real. And I empathize with that and I understand that. And you need to find people that can relate to that. It helps us feel not so alienated and that the world has left us behind. That's the sense sometimes that everything else is moving on. Everyone's doing this. Everyone's smiling. Everything's happening. But I'm left behind. What's that? Why is that happening? What does that mean? Did I do something wrong? Am I going to feel like this forever? What is this feeling telling me? And what can I do about it? These are the kind of questions that cycle through our mind. Right. Because everyone experiences something very different. It could be useful to talk about different ways that people cope. And coping can come in many different stages and I think forms to whether it's hearing that one has been diagnosed with the depression or hearing that a friend has been diagnosed with depression or hearing if oneself has been diagnosed with depression. And so it might be useful to kind of share a bit about what that might look like for you in terms of coping. Yeah. So like any diagnosis, right? It's like, yeah, I remember I fractured my tibia and tore my PCL in my left knee. Monica knows all about anatomy. She's going to medical school. She knows exactly where those tendons are in ligaments. So I was given that diagnosis. I'm like, okay, well, what's the plan? Like, okay, so I got that fracture. Okay, we're going to put the cast on. This is what your rehab is going to be like. This is when you've got to get the cane. The crutches, all I see with a mental health diagnosis like that, depression, anxiety is, you know, we tend to put ourselves in the boxes and then that's not all you are. That's just what's happening right now. So I saw a diagnosis and I see it now as it's a launch pad. And we need these launch pads in a solid foundation. If you're going up to space, you're not taken off on the rocket in a desert in Dubai. With no concrete padding and out of the sand. The rocket ships, it's going to tip over. A diagnosis can be a foundation and a launch pad. So then we can move towards something better, something a little higher. Something that's for our best selves, right? Something that'll be good for us. But a foundation of, okay, this is what's happening right now. Now I can put a little label on it. Because what is a diagnosis anyways? We get cluster of symptoms and then we're just laying out, okay, this is what it could be for sure. And now we can go into different streams of what would be good for you. Okay, you're feeling this way. This is what we think it is. Okay. What would be good for you then? Because of that, let's try that and let's see how that goes. Okay. Let's tweak that. It didn't do too well. Let's try this with you. So for me, it was, it wasn't as intimidating as I thought because it allowed me to create that launch pad and now I can almost rest on that diagnosis a little bit. Be like, oh, that's what's going on. Okay. Now let's go for some solutions, but you can make a plan on that launch pad. You can take a nap on that launch pad, right? You can rest on it. You can set up camp for a bit. If you're like, I don't want to do anything about it right now. Okay. Well, at least you got a little place to nap, set up camp, start a fire, chill out a little bit. It's like right when we get the diagnosis, we think, oh, now everything has to change everything. No, it's sometimes it's up to you too to be like, yeah. Okay. I got it. Now I take my time. Now there are options. Options are good with depression. You're not just confined to one thing options choice. Okay. I can do something about it when I feel maybe I'm ready. But I say, I like to think of the, think of that launch pad idea. That really helped me. That's amazing. So what I really hear is just kind of reframing the whole, the whole kind of scary daunting feeling of a diagnosis as something that you can take as an information source. You can sit with it. You can do something about it. You have ultimately choice. Yeah. I think that's a great way. Yeah. The doctor, they're there to help you. The diagnosis is there to help. And I know it's daunting sometimes, right? But like you, I don't know. I went, it was like a cheap H&M shirt, but I went to the store and I'm like, I got to look for them. They have the tags on it for sizes. I'm like, I'm looking for the label that's a medium. Okay. I used to be a small, I'm getting bigger, but I am a medium now because this helps me make the right choice for me and thing to fit me the best way. So a diagnosis, it's just finding something at this point in your life. It's not a forever thing. It doesn't have to be at this point in my life. I'm looking for medium t-shirts. We go through another pandemic. I'm going to be looking for large t-shirts, something a little more room in the gut. Okay. So it depends what stage you're at in your life and what's going to fit you best in a diagnosis. That's all it has to be. It doesn't have to be bigger than that. I love how you use this reframing tool. You know, in the idea of cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, reframing is also one of the many different tools that a therapist or even a friend might recommend someone else to try. So I'm really glad that we brought this up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And what has it been like for you on kind of a day-to-day basis? Because we mentioned more like the time before hearing about the diagnosis. And I thought it might be useful to focus on just, you know, every day. When you, when I look back at my life, it's very easy to think that years were terrible. That I had weeks that were all bad, days that were all bad, 100% bad. And then if I reframe and I really think about it, I really think about the years, the last 14 years since that diagnosis, how many days, if I had a calendar and a stamp, right? And I had this big red stamp that said failure, right? How many days could I really stamp?  How many days could I write off? I don't think I could write off one. To be honest, in every day, even if I deal with depression for the whole day, there is a shining light, no matter how small. There is one little good thing that came from that. I don't care if I'm in bed all day and I discover a new Mozart song that hit me just here. I'm like, ooh, I felt good for a second. Then I can't write off the whole day with a failure stamp. If there's one good thing in the day, that means it's not a write-off. And anyone who's been through depression had panic attacks during the day. It felt completely low and hopeless. If we can just shift and just see, okay, hey, I ate a meal today. Hey, I had a cup of tea today. And that warm sensation in the body, that felt good for a second. Because with depression for me, I just had to wait some days for the clouds to break for a second. And then, okay, I feel good. Oh my God, I feel, okay, there's a bit of hope in the future. Okay, yeah, yeah, hold on to that. It's gone, okay. That's the day it's not a write-off. So, listen, the last many years have been, to be honest, like 99% fantastic. I've been very happy the last 14 years. It's been an incredible life. Going to school, working in all types of jobs, nonprofits, for-profits, in tech, in mental health, right, for the Canadian Mental Health Association, helping people with my YouTube channel and podcast. If we can, the biggest thing that helped me was being of service. Because with depression, people who deal with depression and anxiety, we're more likely to use the words I and me in our vocabulary. That's pretty standard. I feel this way. I can't believe I did that. I'm such a failure. What did I do wrong? They don't like me. They look at me that way. I wonder how they perceive me. When we be of service to others and we do things for other people, it takes the thoughts about ourselves, how we're all consumed, and it puts our energy towards something else, someone else. It's called a distraction, but it's a good one. If you want to lose your sense of self and ego, do things for other people.  Or, hey, dad, I saw the car is a little dirty. I brought it to the car wash. I went for a drive and washed the car, or I vacuumed the mats. Like these little things. I'll tell you, a few weeks ago, I had a low, low, low day, and all I could do was wash the car. And that brought me comfort because it was a tangible action for us to do and something we'll talk about with compassion in a second. Car is dirty. What is the best possible thing in the world, in the universe that I can do? Wash the car. That brings comfort. We have a problem in everyday life. This is life. This is very standard, easy, simple living. And I love that. The car is dirty. What would be good for me? What would be good for my dad? What would be good for the car? Let's wash the car. That's all I did that day. Three hours. I detailed that thing. I waxed it. I vacuumed it. These are the things that are important for me when I'm dealing with depression. And that day, stamped with a win. These are the wins that we can take care of ourselves with when times are tough. I absolutely love this idea of celebrating little wins. It doesn't have to be huge. It could be something just as meaningful as getting out of bed because that in of itself can be quite difficult to do. Yes. And Monica, man, we got to talk for an hour, but we'll keep it short. I just want to say, you know, people listening to what is a win actually is we compare ourselves, social media and what we see in the world. We think that we need to achieve this grandiose purpose in life that we need to be this famous, successful, amazing person. And then we'll be happy. Then we'll be somebody. And we need to redefine the word win or amazing in our lives. The fact that everybody here joined this and watched it and came to learn something new.   These are the things in daily life that are amazing that you do. Why do you think we need to prove ourselves more than that? Why do you think you need to be better than that? That, oh, I'm not good enough because I didn't start a business. Oh, I'm not good enough because I don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend. I'm not good enough because I'm not the most popular person in school. I'm not good enough because the A minus didn't feel that I only got a C plus. You're amazing just by existing and by existence. We're moving forward by existing just by being here, by doing what you do by being who you are. It's an incredible feat. We need to show ourselves that and start to believe that within ourselves. Like, hey, I'm me. I'm doing this life thing. Sure, it doesn't feel great sometimes. Sure, I get really down and things are really tough because I'm a sensitive person. But man, let me beat my chest a little bit. Let me walk to my own drum and say, I'm doing it. I'm doing this life thing. I don't need to prove myself to anybody. That for me is amazing. That for me is a win. So we don't need to achieve this grandiose thing that we're taught that we need to do to be somebody. If you're kind, if you wash that car, if you went to school, if you smile that somebody, that's a day. That's a day in heaven for somebody else and for yourself. Just mark that win. Those are the things that I think about during the day when I have a bad day. And I'm like, hey, hold on. You're awesome. Chill, chill, chill. Be gentle with yourself. Be gentle. What I hear is a lot of the idea of self-compassion. I think this is something we can focus a few minutes to talk about. It's definitely a topic that we can talk about for hours. So if anyone here is interested, please give the idea of compassionate inquiry or self-compassion, a quick Google search and do some research because the field is absolutely phenomenal. But yes, I'd love to hear your perspective on self-compassion and what it really means to you. Well, okay. So we hear empathy a lot. We hear of sympathy a lot. But compassion is a little different. Compassion, if you see someone struggling, okay? Compassion is the felt urge to relieve that suffering from that person. So compassion, I feel like it rhymes with action, okay? So the action is in the word compassion. When you have compassion for yourself and other people, you're actually taking action. And think of that word passion, Monica and everyone. Think about, if you're passionate about something, if you're passionate about basketball, all right? And I ask you, oh, you're passionate about basketball? You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.  You're like, no, no, no. I'm like, okay, do you watch basketball? No, no, no, no. Do you own a basketball? No, no, no, no. Do you have any posters of basketball players? No, no, no. Then where is the passion? Right? So if someone's passionate about something, you're watching basketball. You're playing it. You collect, you know, basketball cards, something like that. So when we offer ourselves compassion, passion means action. And it's being passionate and offering yourself a sense of action towards yourself. So if I'm offering myself self-compassion, what does that mean? That means that if Monica and I, if right behind me, near my little light there and by my map, which is of the Roman Empire in Constantine's, the Roman world, yeah, 337, whenever Constantine was running the world. Love that map. And I'm passionate about the Roman history. That's why I got the map. See, it works. It's action. So self-compassion is if someone was behind me right now, and you can practice this yourself if anyone wants to close their eyes. Are we okay to do that, Monica, real quick? Okay. I'll close my eyes too. I want to do this practice today too, because this morning wasn't the best.  And if you can imagine just creating a bit of space and distance and hovering over yourself, looking at yourself from behind your chair, wherever you are, just watching yourself from behind. What do you want to say to that person that's sitting, watching this stream? What do you want to tell them? And what do they want to tell you? And as a best friend would come a little closer and maybe give that person a hug or whatever they need in this moment. What do they need from you? Whenever you're ready, you don't have to. But if you'd like, you can open your eyes again. Usually this is over like a 10, 15 minute meditation. But what I usually get from people is the person behind us. That's like acting like a best friend, caregiver, the higher self. And we see my, I see myself sitting in this chair. And what do I want to say to myself? I want to say, hey Scott, good job on the stream so far. And I know you were tired this morning and that's okay. You know, and maybe for some of us today's been a hard day. And then that person that saw us from behind says, I know it's been hard. I know, I know you're going through a hard time. It's going to be okay. I love you anyways, right? No matter how you feel, I love you anyways. This is when we create that distance from emotion.  Why am I feeling this way?  Create distance. That's all that exercises. You create some distance between you and the emotion and you see that person there. Who's dealing with that? That's the distance from emotion. Other things to offer a self self compassion is you can hold all of these emotions that we feel in a ball and just look at them. And you hold this ball and how emotions are so complex and they have different layers and they get all tangled.  You can see it from different angles, right?  Look at these things, huh? Okay, I'm thinking that. Is that really true? Is me beating myself up right now? Is that I see that thought there that I'm no good and I'm never going to be loved by anyone? Is that true? No, I don't think so. Let me look at that from another angle. Oh yeah, my mom and dad love me. Oh yeah, people at school, they smile at me today. Yeah, so that's not true. Okay, okay. And offer yourself that kindness that we know we have in ourselves. What a best friend would say to you. What Monica would say to you in her soft podcast voice. What would she say to you, right? So these are the perspectives that we can bring to offer ourselves some compassion and love. Because I know we're over time, but just 10 more seconds. With depression, I had to really realize I blamed myself for 10 years. I always thought it was my fault that I wasn't thinking the right way for all those years. And you know, oh, it's because I didn't exercise enough or it's because this happened in childhood and this and this and this. Is that my fault? Oh yeah, my life was going just great.  Yeah, that would make my life great. Do you think I did that? You think we wake up every morning everybody and think, hey, I don't want to have a good day today. How about a little anxiety and depression, spice things up? Of course not. It's not our fault that we go through these things. The blame, you know what I mean? It's like, wow, let's really be like, it's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's not. We're just, sometimes we lose genetic lotteries. But I tell you what, that I promise you there's another side and I've seen the other side and our sensitivity to the world and our emotions. It is a gift. If like I've used it, you know, for the betterment of myself and it took a while, but anyone who's struggling right now, hang in there. There's another side. I promise. Off yourself some love and compassion. Thank you so much for sharing this powerful exercise. I could just feel the difference. I feel so much more like happy, just the warmth in what?  And so, yes, thank you so much for sharing your story, for telling the whole community about the power of reframing situations. I think we mentioned celebrating little wins, seeing things in a different perspective. You know, you can just take information and sit with it. You don't have to go do something about it immediately. Just sitting with it and then practicing our short little exercise. I know that you also have a wonderful platform where you go through mindfulness exercises. I would love to hear more about that and do tell the community about ways that they could also get involved with you. Yeah, of course. I feel like before, like I've been on YouTube since 2014, and I was always the guy offering like tips and all of this. And now I feel like I'm just the guy with my YouTube channel and podcast that I'm just like telling people that everything's going to be okay. I think that's my role now. And I find comfort in that now, saying that. So I have a YouTube channel.  It is. We didn't ask to be born. We didn't ask to be here given our situation. And so we're doing things the best we can and the best we know how. So the Being Human podcast is really fun. And then there's a something you can sign up for. If you ever want to meditate with me on zoom, we do these small groups and their support chats. It's peer support. We get on zoom. People chat with me.  We meditate. We reflect. And then we connect. And the, the amazing physiological benefits of belonging and sharing how we feel. It takes that heavy coat off. You know, we feel a little lighter when it's like, oh, you feel like that's what that is. Me too. Me.  You went through that. Me too. And it's just fun to connect and to, you know, have space together in an area of compassion and non-judgment. You know, where can we go in life where we don't think people are judging us? There's zoom group. That's the place. So that's something I offer as well with, with my work. Thank you so much for sharing. I put it in the chat for any of you are following just scroll up and you can see the link of where you can join Scott. And hopefully a whole community of people who just understand you who also hopefully will be able to practice compassion. Yes. And like, I don't know what age people are, but my, a lot of my work is going to high schools and elementary schools and giving talks.  That's my thing. We can meet in person. How about that? But that's, that's just another piece. So we've heard just a small part of your incredible story. Definitely urge all this like to go community members to please follow Scott and just, he's doing amazing things. Just follow and yeah, you'll find a community of people who support you who want you to be happy. And thank you so much for joining us today. So let us know what you would like to see next in terms of story content in the comment section below. And thank you Scott again for joining. Thanks to all of us like to go community members and wish you a great day. Bye. Bye everyone.


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Word Forms and Endings in English. This video is brought to you by the following English learning websites. In this video, we'll talk about how word forms can be recognized by their endings. How suffixes, endings can change a word's part of speech. How suffixes can affect a word's spelling and pronunciation. Loss of speech include nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc. Let's start with the verb endings. As you know, there are many verb endings that don't change the verb to another part of speech. These are dealt with in our other videos. See links in the description below this video. For example, ending, function, examples. See our other videos below. Ending, S or ES. The function is third person singular. Examples, eats, works, goes, tries. We have a video which deals with that, S endings in English. I-N-G indicates progressive tenses, eating, running, working, hoping. We have another video which deals with that, verb endings in English. E-D indicates regular, past and past participles, worked, played, planned, cried. Our other video, final E-D endings in English deals with that. Other verb endings, indicate, irregular, past and past participles. For example, eaten, found, told, brought. And sometimes we even change the word, like went. We have another video that deals with that. Irregular verbs finally explained. How can we recognize English verbs by their endings? Here are some examples of words with verb endings. When you see the verb ending, you can sometimes know that it indicates a verb. I-S-E or I-Z-E. Advertise, advise, criticize, organize. What's the difference between these two spellings? Generally, in British English they use I-S-E endings. And for some of these verbs, in American English we use the I-Z-E ending. A-T-E, communicate, relate. I-F-Y, verify, clarify, specify. E-N, soften, strengthen. And then we have the other verb endings that don't change the part of speech. S-E-S, eats, goes. The word remains a verb. I-N-G, cleaning, doing. These are in a different color because they also indicate a noun or an adjective. E-D in the past and past participle, past participle. Topped, played. These can also indicate an adjective. Notice the pronunciation and stress patterns for these verbs. Ending, examples, two syllables, more than two syllables. For I-S-E, I-Z-E, end. Y-Z-E, which is another variation of this. We have words like advertise, advise, criticize, organize, analyze. When there are two syllables in the verb, the second syllable is emphasized or stressed. For example, advise, arise, revise. If there are more than two syllables, the first syllable of the word is emphasized. Advertise, televise, organize, synthesize, capitalize, realize. For A-T-E, communicate, relate. If there are two syllables, the second syllable is stressed. Relate, debate, create, berate. For more than two syllables, the third syllable from the end is emphasized. Designate, celebrate. Notice these are three syllable words, so the third syllable from the end is the first syllable of the word. For the next two, communicate, procrastinate. These are four syllable words, so the third syllable from the end is actually the second syllable of the word. I-F-Y, verify, clarify, specify. For these, if there are more than two syllables, the syllable before the ending is stressed. For example, verify, signify, declassify, em, soften, or threaten. In this case, if there are two syllables, the first syllable is emphasized. Frighten, weaken. For more than two syllables, the syllable right before the ending is stressed. Unfasson, re-strengthen. Note, when you add another ending to the verb, the stress does not change on the original verb. For example, I revised my essay. Revised, revised. The stress does not change even though we add the past tense ending. There's no new syllable in this example. In the second example, we debated the topic. Debate, debated, debating. There's no stress change, but there is an extra syllable with the extra ending. I celebrated my 21st birthday. No stress change even though there's an extra syllable with the past tense ending. Verb endings can be complicated in English. I tell you see the adjectives. Adjective endings involve some changes in both spelling and pronunciation. Word endings, adjectives. Ending, examples. O-U-S-I-O-U-S Humorous, hilarious. A-L-I-A-L Mental, influential. F-U-L Wonderful, beautiful. L-E-S-S Careless, thoughtless. I-V-E Creative, positive. I-S-H Foolish, greenish. I-C Generic, specific. A-B-L-E and I-B-L-E Flexible, available. A-R-Y Primary, voluntary. I-Y Thrifty, glossy. I-N-G Interesting, amusing. These are in blue because they also indicate verb endings, but in this case they're adjectives. E-D Bored, embarrassed. E-N-T and A-N-T These are in purple because they also indicate noun endings, but in this case they're adjectives. For example, distant, consistent. Many adjectives and adjective endings indicate that the word comes from another part of speech. For example, success plus full equals successful. Noun plus full equals adjective. Create plus I-V-E equals creative. Verb plus I-V-E equals adjective. Notice there's some spelling changes here. Green plus I-S-H equals greenish. Adjective plus I-S-H indicates another adjective. Note the spelling changes. Let's look at how that works. Spelling changes. Ending examples. Notable spelling changes. Full, wonderful, beautiful. With wonderful, the original word does not change. With beautiful, the noun beauty ends with the Y. We need to change the Y to I before adding the F-U-L ending. Careless, thoughtless. No change in the ending here. Penny ends in a Y. The Y changes to an I before we add the L-E-S-S. Pennyless, O-U-S-I-O-U-S. Humorous, various. Notice V-A-R-Y vary changes to V-A-R-I-O-U-S. There's some other changes with some words like this as well. For example, continue ends in a silent E. We drop the silent E before we add the ending. Continuous. Fiction is a kind of special one. We add an extra syllable in the middle. Fiction fictitious. A-L-I-A-L. Mental, influential. With influential, we start with influence, which ends in C-E, and we change the C to a T and add I-A-L. Influential. Notice with this word, there's also a stress change. For example, influence, the stress is on the first syllable. Influential, the stress comes right before the ending. Cause, causal. Notice we're dropping the final E here to add the A-L ending. Cause can be a verb or a noun. Causal is an adjective. I-V-E, creative, negative. Create with the final E, the silent E is dropped, and I-V-E is added. I-S-H, foolish, greenish. No change in the ending here. But with words like red and blue, there's a change. With red, you have a short consonant before, excuse me, a short vowel before a consonant. In order to protect the short vowel, you add an extra consonant. So you double the D, red, reddish. With blue, there's a silent E, which is dropped before we add the I-S-H. Blue, bluish. I-C, generic, specific, seen. Drop the final E, scenic, romance, romantic. This is kind of like influence, where the final C-E is changed to T before adding the I-C ending. Romance, romantic. We also have a shift in the stress pattern. Romance, the first syllable, is emphasized. Romantic, the second syllable is emphasized. Why? Thrifty, glossy, lazy. Spice, again there's a silent E. It's changed to Y. Drop the E first. Fun, we have a short vowel before a consonant, which means that we need to double the consonant before we add the Y. Fun, funny. I-N-G, interesting, amusing. Again these are blue to indicate that they also are verb endings. Bore, drop the silent E. Boring, amuse, drop the E, amusing. Bored, embarrassed, ED, ending. Bore, bored. In this case, instead of adding an ED, we simply add a D because there's already an E there. Satisfy, drop the Y, change it to I and add ED. Satisfied. A-B-L-E. Available, reliable. Again, the word rely ends in the Y, so we're going to drop the I and add an I before the suffix A-B-L-E. Reliable. When you have a short vowel sound before a single consonant, so you're going to double the consonant. Winnable, before adding the ending. I-B-L-E. Flexible, incredible. Now in this case, it seems like the whole word changes. We have the word creed. When we change it into an adjective, we change the pronunciation and the spelling. So instead of creed, it becomes credible. So we drop one E and change the pronunciation from E to E and then add the I-B-L-E. With eat, there's a similar change. We change the whole word. Eat, edible. With eat, you have a long E sound. You change that to a short E sound. So we change the T to a D and add I-B-L-E. Eat, edible. Next, A-R-Y. Primary and voluntary. With this one, there's some words that completely change. For example, third becomes tertiary. The word itself changes almost completely. Then we have judicial, judiciary. We add I-A-R-Y. Now judiciary can be a noun or an adjective. E-N-T, A-N-T. Again, these endings can sometimes be used as nouns. That's why we put them in a purple color. Some adjective examples would be distant and consistent. With different, the ending is added without changing anything in the verb or the word or the ending. But with words like valour, in order to make it into an adjective, we have to add I-A-N-T, valient. How about adverbs? Changing adjectives to adverbs can be tricky. Because of that, we have created a separate video for you. Please check out the link below this video. Changing adjectives to adverbs. Review word endings. These are verbs and adjectives. Take a minute to look at the chart below and see how these all fit together. Try to remember what you just learned. Are you ready for more endings? The biggest list is the nouns. There are so many of them that we'll divide them into two parts. Word endings, nouns. The first and second column indicate word endings for nouns that are people or persons. The third and fourth columns indicate nouns that are activities, fills, or qualities, as well as examples of them. Let's look at the first two columns to start with. E-R or I-E-R. Teacher, cashier, O-R. Actor, mentor, E-S-S. Actress, waitress, E-E-R. Volunteer, E-U-R. Entrepreneur, E-E. Employee, trustee, I-S-T. Artist, gymnast, M-A-N-W-O-M-A-N. We can also change this to the plural. M-E-N or W-O-M-E-N. For example, salesman or salesman, saleswoman or saleswomen. Person or people, salesperson, salespeople. I-A-N or A-N. Electrician, vegan. I-C. Mechanic, psychic. A-N-T, E-N-T. Accountant, agent. I-A-L or A-L. Official, principal. The ones in purple indicate adjective and noun endings, both. In this case, we're using the nouns as examples. Let's look at column three and column four. T-I-O-N or A-T-I-O-N. Reaction, communication. S-I-O-N. Vision, confusion. M-E-N-T. Document, requirement. N-E-S-S, happiness, kindness. U-R-E, architecture, seizure. L-O-G-Y, biology, genealogy. I-S-M, journalism, activism. I-T-Y or T-Y, activity, specialty. T-R-Y, dentistry, carpentry. Y, philosophy, botany. I-C-S, linguistics, mathematics. A-N-C-E, E-N-C-E. Distance, preference. I-N-G, accounting, swimming. Again, the blue ones indicate that they can also be verbs. In this case, they're indicating nouns. For example, swimming is a fun activity. Practice time. Fill in the blanks with the correct endings. Let's see how you can do. You should be able to determine the part of speech from the context of the sentence. Go ahead. Feel free to stop the video if you need more time to complete this. Here are the answers. Denny is a great actor. He can relate well to the main character. Please organize the file. The accountant says it looks awful. What should I major in? Sociology, journalism, or linguistics? That video was hilarious. The employees couldn't stop laughing. The professor was so boring. We felt really sleepy in his class. Jen was careless. She dropped her fishing pole in the water. Biff is too flexible. He needs to strengthen his management skills. We hired a new electrician. The old one was lazy and unreliable. How many volunteers do we need for the swimming tournament? Can you clarify what you just said? It was incomprehensible to me. Hope that was helpful. Don't forget to check out the links in the description below. And please remember to subscribe and give us a like in the comments section. Thanks for watching. If you have ideas for our next video, please let us know. Send us an email from the web page below.


Nigeria, isilu wa kagh Torresבע Mooda tan y疫 Council preetafuza kiviwa kab snakeshtu kiniwae pizad네요, na kwaemu 1,119,000 kere na, Againakun을 bata y kazi kansu akua in Afrika in 2020, akunting for 22.5% of the global burden. There is therefore an urgent need for effective and sustainable interventions to prevent and control cervical cancer in Nigeria and other African countries. Gadaseil is a vaccine that protects against human papilumia virus, HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical, vaginal, vulva, and other cancers recommended for girls and boys aged 11 to 12 years, but can be given as early as 9 years or as late as 26 years. We are going to continue to have engagement internally with CBN, federal minister of finance, customs, NAQS, and externally with European Union. With European Union we are already getting some results. The EU has reduced the inspection of melon from 100% to 50%. We're not there yet but it's better than 100% all the time. In the interim, I implore all Nigerian exporters trading in NAVDAC regulated products to obtain necessary certifications for processing of their products. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, will commence the introduction of the off-label use of quadrivalent Gadaseil vaccine as a single dose shadow into routine immunization in Nigeria in the last quarter of 2023. The decision to deploy the off-label Gadaseil as a single dose shadow is based on the scientific evidence that shows that a single dose of Gadaseil vaccine can provide solid protection against cervical cancer caused by human papilumia virus, HPVs. NAVDAC is in support of this decision as data from immunogenicity trials post hook analysis of every KC trials and post licensure observational studies amongst females have demonstrated that a single dose of HPV vaccine is sufficient to elicit an immune response that provides similar protection as a multi-dose regimen against initial and persistent HPV infection. I am delighted to stand here with the DG of NAVDAC and our partners and donors to share that this vaccine will be provided free of charge to all eligible girls in Nigeria commencing on October 24, 2023. Alongside our partners and donors, we have secured over 6 million doses of the HPV vaccine and essential supplies. We have conducted numerous fora to raise awareness amongst stakeholders including parents and caregivers regarding the pivotal importance of HPV vaccination. To address any concerns or misconceptions, we have engaged with communities and established a robust monitoring and evaluation framework to measure the impact and progress of the vaccination campaign. Thank you for watching.


Hey guys, it's Andy Elliott. After being in the automotive industry for 23 years, what I've learned is the first five minutes make or break the cell every single time. I will show you in this video that if you can become deadly at the first five minutes of the meet and greet, I'm gonna teach you how to master it.  Hey guys, all right, here we go. Meet and greet, how to master it in five minutes. Let's start out number one with the first cell that you'll ever make in your life. And listen, this is very important.  That is the first cell that you will need to make every day for the rest of your life. They can buy, they came to buy, and they will buy as long as I do my job. Now that I've said that, now that I realize that I'm going to sell the next customer that comes in, and I believe it. And I know that it's gonna happen. And I've already envisioned it happening. When that customer pulls up, guess what happens? Or even before I take a phone call, same deal. Guess what? When I go out and say hi to them, you know what happens? The believability in me is so strong. And the passion that I have is so strong for selling them and making sure that they're taken care of. They can feel that. And the power of influencing and persuading is to take the way that I feel and press it into you.  I'm always writing stuff down. And I wanna write down certain steps and exactly how you do this. But I'm gonna tell you this.  If you don't make that sell, what do all those steps matter? Well, none of them do. So now let's get into the steps, but I want you to understand, you need to make the sell that the next person that pulls up came to buy, will buy, and is gonna buy as long as you do your job. That's it. You already envision it happening. It's gonna manifest.   So with that being said, let's get into how I handle the first five minutes during the meet and greet. Customer pulls up. How do I greet them? Let's do a couple of different ways here and you tell me which one you like the best. Hey guys, how you doing? My name's Andy. Welcome to the store. How can I help you? Okay. You guys like that one? You're like, Andy, that's not bad. It's actually pretty good. Hey guys, how you doing? My name's Andy. How can I serve you today? Oh, you like that one a little better? Listen, what do people wanna feel? Significant, special. This is how they want to feel. I know how they wanna feel before they even come on my lot. What is my job to do? My job as a sales person is to do what? Guys, I'm about to get right back to the video. I wanna tell you number one. Thank you for watching this video. Please like this video. If you like what you're watching right now, click the button, give me a thumbs up on it. Comment below anything you need I got you. Also, make sure you're subscribed to the channel. Set your notification bell so every single day when I put out brand new cutting edge training videos, you can get them. You see this giant wall right here? My job is to tear it down. That's the wall that's set up between me and the customer that I'm in. What's the fastest way to me for me to tear it down? Number one, it's by me having a great attitude and smiling and seem like a pleasant person. But secondly, it is by my, let me put it here, my words. Do you think that the last time they went to a car dealership or earlier that day when they were shopping, do you think that a sales person walked up to them and said, how can I serve you? I'm just asking you, do you think so? What's the chance? I'm about 99.99999% sure it was a no. They said one or two things. How can I help you today? What are you looking for today? Is there someone I can help you find? And it's the norm.  Welcome to the store. How can I serve you today? You're like, wait a minute, wall comes down. Who do we have here? Looks like we have a nice sales person. You know what? Why is Chick-fil-A crushing everyone else in town and their clothes on Sundays? Because they can, because they do their job better, okay? Why does Chick-fil-A pay employees $17 an hour? Minimum wage when McDonald's pays $8, $9, okay? Because they want people to treat people differently, all right? And that's what I want you to understand this. If you want to make more money, turn in how can I help you to how can I serve you? Start serving people. Show them that you're different. The beautiful thing about it, your competition isn't doing it, I'm positive of it. They're not training. Guess what, guys, they're asleep at the wheel. And since they're asleep at the wheel, guess what happens during the first five minutes and you come up and say, hey guys, how you doing? How can I serve you? It's over, wall comes down. Now, I say, so who's the lucky one today? Who's gonna be looking for a new car in the future? I didn't say today, I said in the future because I want a soft sell. Low pressure, steady. You know what I say? Okay, cool, so it's gonna be for her, awesome. Now, watch where I start. I don't say what do you want. I say, are you guys looking to replace this vehicle? This is a nice car. And I start at the trade, I always do that, okay?  You can deposit, then you get to withdraw. And you can deposit, and then you get to withdraw. But so many sales people, they just want to take, take, take. Hey guys, how you doing? My name's Andy, how can I help you today? Okay, cool. So what are you looking for? Ooh, watch this. Okay, cool, a truck, what kind of truck? Four-wheel drive, two-wheel drive. Four-wheel drive, awesome. You want a crew cab or an extended cab? Extended cab, okay, cool. Welcome, McDonald's, can I take your order? What are you doing, man? This is awful. And we wonder why sales people have a bad rap. You know what? They expect you to say that when you came in. How about this? Hey guys, welcome to the dealership. My name's Andy, how can I serve you today? Cool, so what brought you guys in? Awesome. That's really cool. And so how did you guys get in the market? Oh, she's looking for a car? That is so cool, that's awesome. Okay, so are you guys replacing this today? Is this gonna be maybe a car that's gonna get replaced? Awesome, it is. Okay, cool, well number one, we love trades. Matter of fact, why we do actually so much business here at our stores because we actually give top dollar for trades, how long have you had it? Okay, great, you know what? I've not seen you guys around here before. Do you guys go to the local gym around here? Do you guys have children? Okay, cool, how many children do you guys have? Awesome, that's great. Okay, and tell me more about that. Now is this car gonna be used for work or is this actually gonna be just with the family? Okay, it's gonna be with the family. That's awesome, man. Well, it sounds like you guys have a great family. You guys look young, how old are you? I know you're something I was supposed to ask that, but you guys look really young. Guess what? Reciprocity, I'm being nice, give things to people, they'll give things back to you in return. This is how business is based, okay? Instead of actually having a process and you're trying to lead them, which is great, I'm okay with that, you do have to have a process, you're actually having real true dialogue. And the coolest thing about this, do you know what you're doing? The entire time they're judging you and they're saying, should I like this guy? Should I like this woman? Should I like this person? They're trying to judge you, but I'm not giving you any way to judge me.  So I'm making sure that everything I do is flawless and I'm smiling and being generous and I'm being kind. Guess what? Now first five minutes, still decide whether they want to buy a car for me or not. I will tell you this, this isn't crucial and this is important. People buy from people that remind them of their friends. I want you to have one thing going on in your head. Number one, they're judging you. Number two, this person here, right? Let's just draw a little stick figure. What's their best friend look like? I'm not a bet man, but we'll tell you this. When I can talk to somebody for a couple of minutes, I can probably have a pretty good idea about what their best friend kind of looks like, what they're like, how they act and what they do. And guess what? I will probably try to mirror image that person. Do you know why? Because the rule is people buy from people that remind them of their friends. And what is my goal? My goal is within the first five minutes. If I want to master the meet and greet, I need to do one thing here. Number one, I need to make the customer feel significant. Number two, I need to make them feel special. Number three, I gotta watch my words very carefully and do an unbelievable job. Number four, I've gotta make the sell that I am gonna sell them and that I will be persistent the entire time. Not telling them that they're gonna buy, but making sure that the sale goes in the direction that I want it to go. And I don't just rely on chances and hope for it to come together on its own. I have a plan. You know what I have here in my hand? I have, and I call it the spotlight. So my customers are here, they're in the spotlight and who's holding the spotlight? It's me, kinda looks like this. See this right here? This is me, I'm holding the spotlight. Who's in it? It's my customers. I'm in control, okay? They are the one who is being seen. The one who feels special. The one who feels significant. Guess what happens? Make a best friend with them. Be special to them. Be loving to them. Don't try to help them, okay? Treat them like they're at your home. Think about this, if I came to your house right now and we were at your home, how would you greet me? How would you take me in, okay? They know they're at a dealership. Don't remind them. Treat them like they're at home and they're at your house. Don't ask them how you can help them. Ask how you can serve them. I promise you, their perception of you will not be shady salesperson. Robber, thief, it will be, man, this person is different. We wish we could find people like this to buy from all the time and that's what we do. So guys, how to master the meet and greet during five minutes. I start at the trade. I have tons of videos about this on YouTube. You can go check them out, by the way. You notice how I didn't script anything out here. I'm not giving you a process in your head to follow. I want you to understand the true psychology of mastering the meet and greet in five minutes and becoming deadly at it. This video will change your life. 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While we visited two libraries here and we had a wonderful time at both of them we're talking about Harry Potter and It kind of fits being a magician You know we can we can do lots of things and and we don't we don't have to admit to the fact that it's Trickery because in the world of Harry Potter. It's real magic. I Started when I was in the second grade I went to a friend's birthday party and I saw a magician there and I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen so I went to the library and I got a book and I learned how to do magic and have done it ever since This is my and being a professional magician. This is my 41st year of being a professional performer a Long time ago when I was a kid I had problems with my vision and the Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis basically made sure that I could see and So I've continued to go there and do shows and and then for a period of time We've had a talent. We had a television show there called the secret place We do lots of things for lots of other charitable groups, too. I Love it. It's just beautiful. I hope to come back again


Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at valuation of property, plant and equipment. And simply what does that mean? It means when we purchase the asset, how do we record those assets? Well, here are the rules. Property, plant and equipment are recorded at the fair value of the asset given up. What is given up? What did you give up? Usually, let's assume you paid $100,000 for an asset. You gave up $100,000 and you got the asset in return. That's pretty straightforward. What's the value of the asset? $100,000. And this is what we mean by the fair value of what you are given up. Or if you don't know this information, the fair value of the asset received. If we don't know how much we gave up, sometimes we may buy an asset other than cash, then if we don't know the value of that asset, the value of that thing, whatever that thing is, we look at the value of the other asset received. If we know the value of the asset received, we use the value of the asset received as the valuation basis. Why are we saying this? Well, there are many methods to acquiring property, plant and equipment, not only one method. Well, we set cash as the easiest method. If you know how much you paid for an item, that's pretty straightforward. Sometimes you might issue a loan or a debt or issue bonds to get the asset. Sometimes you might buy, you may pay one price. For example, you may pay $100,000 for one price and you might purchase many assets, asset one, asset two, asset three. How do you allocate those $100,000? Sometimes you might be issuing stocks to buy an asset. How do you value the asset? And sometimes you might be doing what's called an exchange of non-monetary asset. You are giving up an asset and receiving another asset. How do you record those assets? This topic is obviously covered in an intermediate accounting and on the CPA exam. 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This is a list of all my accounting courses. I have lectures, multiple choice through false. So it's going to help you understand the material better. I have all the AI CPA previously released questions, almost 1500 with detailed solutions. It will help you tremendously if you're preparing for the exam. If you have not connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so. Take a look at my LinkedIn recommendation, like this recording, share it with other, connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Let's start with cash transaction. Cash transaction are easy and straightforward. Adam Company purchases an equipment for 100,000. Debate the equipment for 100,000. Credit cash for 100,000. Sometime you might be asked, what happened if there is a discount? If a cash discount is available and the company took advantage of the discount, let's assume because we pay cash, they reduce the cost by 3,000 by 3%. Well, our cost becomes 97,000. Also, what happened if you don't take the discount? Well, if you don't take the discount, there are two school of thought and they're both acceptable. One is you reduce the cost of the asset. You'd say, I technically lost 3,000 because I did not take advantage of this. Reduce the cost or simply ignore the discount because the discount is worth it. Both are acceptable. Sometime we buy an asset rather than paying cash, we issue a notes payable. We promise to pay for this in the future. How do we deal with this type of transaction? Let's take a look at an example. Adam Company purchases a specialty delivery drone for 100,000 by issuing 0% interest-bearing loan payable and five annual installment of 20,000. The prevailing interest rate for similar loan is 8%. The fair value of the drone is not known. Well, here's what happened. We wanted to buy a drone, a delivery drone for our business. Well, we don't have the cash to pay for it up front. So we promise to pay 20,000, 20,000, 20,000, 20,000 and another 20,000, five installment payment. And that's the deal between us and the seller. Now, we don't know the fair value of the drone. Therefore, we cannot know the fair value of the drone. In other words, we have to know how much are we going to be given up to buy this asset? Well, we're going to be given up in total 100,000, five payments of 20,000. But remember, we are not paying the $100,000 today. If we were paying the $100,000 today, it's easy peasy, $100,000. That's not the case. So what we have to do now is we have to discount those 20,000, five payments to the present value. Simply put, the value of the equipment, the true value is the present value of the payments because what's embedded in those payment is an interest component. Now, they're giving us the interest rate as i. i is 8%. The interest rate is 8%. We know the annual payment. It's an annual payment of five years. What we have to do is we have to take the payment times the present value of the ordinary annuity. Now, in your textbook, you'll go to the present value table, the present value table of an annuity, and specifically, ordinary annuity. Ordinary annuity because the first payment starts a year from now. And what we find out if we take 20,000 times the present value of the ordinary annuity. Now, if you don't know what ordinary annuity is, what I'm doing here, you have to go to my time value chapter and know it in depth because you need to know the time value of money. Therefore, the true cost, simply the true cost of this drone is $79,854.20. Why? Well, what about we're paying $100,000? Well, the difference really is interest. You are financing this transaction. Therefore, what we do is we debit the equipment for only $79,854,020 and we have to pay in total $100,000. Hold on a second. We're missing $20,145.80. We call this discount on notes payable. Now, what is this discount on notes payable? This is the interest component. The discount is the interest component. Simply put, on this loan, on this loan, we're going to be incurring in total $20,145.80. But we cannot record the interest today because the interest accumulates over time. Therefore, for now, we book this interest and quote this interest in a discount. Then we're going to amortize the discount to interest expense and we'll see how. Simply put, this discount will turn into interest expense. But for now, it sits there as a discount. The first thing I want to show you is your loan balance. If I ask you, what is your loan balance? Well, the loan balance is the notes minus any unamortized discount. So your loan balance today is $79,854,020. It happens to be the same as the equipment. And you're going to see why I'm doing this. Let's make the first payment a year from now. The payment is $20,000. We're going to credit cash $20,000. Debit's notes payable $20,000. So let's create an account for notes payable. So this is an account for notes payable. We started the notes payable at $100,000 when we purchased the asset. Then now for the first payment, we reduced it by $20,000. Therefore, the notes payable is $80,000. Now we have to compute the interest. Remember, we have to allocate part of the cost. We have to allocate part of the discount to interest. How do we allocate the discount to the interest? Well, we're going to take the loan balance at the beginning of the period, which is $79,854 times the prevailing rate is 8%. And we're going to come up with interest expense of, this is going to give us $6,388.33. Therefore, we debit interest expense credit discount on notes $6,388.33. What am I going to do now? I'm going to show you what's going to happen to the note. Now the discount on notes payable, we have the discount on notes payable. The beginning balance was a debit of $20,145.80. And now we reduced it by $6,388.33. Now I need to know what my balance is. It's very important to keep track of your balance minus $6,300. So your balance is $13,756.87. So this is your balance after the first payment for the note as well as the discount. Now, why am I doing this? The reason I'm doing this is to show you your loan balance. Now your loan balance, your loan balance, when you start year two is $80,000 minus $13,756.87, which is equal to how much? Let me do this. It's very important to know this in case you are being asked about your interest expense, period two. Now your loan balance becomes $66,243.13. Now, when we're going to be making the second payment, the second payment, well, notes payable and cash is the same. This will be the same. However, what you have to do now, you have to compute your interest expense. Your interest expense will be the $66,243.08. Let me do this times .08, and that's going to give us interest of $5,299.45. Therefore, in year two, your interest expense will be $5,299.45, $5,299.45. Again, you'll have to reduce your note by 20. It becomes 60 now, and you have to reduce your discount by $5,299.45, and you will have a new balance for the discount, new balance for the note, and you compute your new balance, and you keep on going until you discount, until you amortize the whole discount. And we're going to revisit this topic a little bit more in detail how to amortize the loan and how to account for the interest expense in the liabilities chapter. But you have to notice in case you are being asked for the first payment, the second payment, the third payment, it does not matter. It all follow the same concept. Another way we can buy assets, property, planted equipment is through a lump sum purchase. How does it work? Let's assume we purchase a pizzeria for $100,000, and that pizzeria include land, building, and the kitchen equipment. Well, what do we have to do? Well, we have to allocate the $100,000 to the three assets. How do we do so? Let me show you how we do it. We use the relative fair value. Well, we said we value the asset. We bring in a praser, a specialty, and say, okay, value the land. Well, the land itself is worth 65. I'm sorry, the building itself is worth 65. The land is worth 55, and the equipment in the kitchen worth $10,000. So the total fair value of all the assets is $130,000. Now, what we do is we find the relative value of each asset. Building represents 65 out of 130, 65 out of 130, or 50%. The land represents 55 out of 130, which is 42.3, and the equipment represents 10,000 out of the 130, 7.33. Make sure your percentage adds up to 100%. You paid 100,000 for all of them. Therefore, what we do is we take the percentage times 100,000, the percentage times the 100,000, we're going to allocate $50,000 to the land, I'm sorry, to the building, $340,000 for the land, $740,000 for the building, and this is our $100,000. Therefore, the entry would look something like this.  So what you did is you used the relative fair value. We looked at this and when we did inventory, and you're going to see the relative fair value and other concept. Very important and straightforward concept, relative fair value. Sometime we buy property, plant, and equipment by issuing stocks. Well, stocks are a good example of what we learned earlier. Property, plant, and equipment are recorded at the fair value of what's given up or the fair value of the asset received. First, we find out, do we know how much we are given up? If we know the fair value, that's easy. Again, think about cash. If we don't know the fair value of what we are given up, we look at the fair value of what we are receiving. Let's take a look at two examples to illustrate this concept. Amazon purchased a New Jersey on Route 35, a warehouse, a New Jersey on Route 35 by exchanging 800 shares of its common stock. So they wanted to buy a warehouse. They went to the seller and they told the seller, we'll give you 800 shares of our Amazon par value stock. The fair value of the Amazon stock was 3,580. The seller listed the warehouse for 3 million. Well, the seller can list the asset of how much they want to. Amazon know they exchange 800 shares and each share is worth 3,580. Therefore, as far as Amazon is concerned, if they gave up 800 shares and the fair value of the share is known, therefore, they're going to debit the warehouse for 2,864,000. The seller can list it for 10 million, for 20 billion, for a zillion, it does not matter.  So we went with the fair value of what the asset given up. Now we credit common stock for 800, which is the number of shares times the par value and anything left is additional paid in capital. Additional paid in capital, which is the difference between the two, which is 2,863,800. Now let's assume Wawa, rather than Amazon Wawa. Wawa is a private company. If you don't know what Wawa is, it's a convenience store. I love Wawa. It's my favorite store. So Wawa is a private company. So Wawa is a private company. Amazon is a public company and that's why we know the price of Amazon. So the private companies, their stock is not traded. So let's assume Amazon purchased the same house, the same warehouse and they gave the seller 2,000 shares of their Wawa stocks. The Wawa stock, let's assume it has no par value for simplicity. Wawa stock value is not known. As I mentioned, it's a private. However, the warehouse was appraised at 2,950,000. So the seller says, I'm listing it for 3 million. The seller can list it for whatever price. What Wawa would do or what this buyer and the seller would agree to do is to bring in appraiser, someone, an outside party and appraise the warehouse. We could also appraise Wawa stock if we want to, but that's going to take more time because you have to appraise the whole company to find out how much Wawa stock is worth. It's easier just to appraise the warehouse. Now, what we know, we know the warehouse is worth 2,950,000. Well, if the seller accepted 2,000 shares, then that's the value of the deal. The warehouse is 2,950,000 and common stock is 2,950,000. And in a sense, if you really think about it, if the seller accepted 2,000 shares of stock in exchange for a warehouse worth 2,950,000, what happened is they also price Wawa stock at 1,475. Why? Because if the seller accepted something worth for 2,950,000, accepted 2,000 shares of Wawa stock, it means each share is worth for the seller 1,475. And we can say that's the fair value of the stock at that point at least because each exchange, remember, and this is important for the next concept we're going to be talking about, we assume that the exchange is equal. 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We really try to get ones that are going to solve some sort of pedagogical issue and we've we've tried to do that from the get go when we're piloting new stuff. But I think having having that sort of focus on doing it with some care and not just jumping at the new things just for the sake of it being new because at the same time we don't want to pilot a bunch of stuff that we're not going to look at eventually adopting to I think longevity is part of something we got to look at when we're looking at new tools like if we're going to try this thing out. Let's look a couple steps ahead and look what eventual adoption would look like is it feasible, otherwise you end up running the risk of getting a bunch of people hyped on something, and they had it for a semester and then you can't support it moving forward which doesn't help anybody.


So your game needs a menu, but you've never made one before. Not a problem. First thing you need when you're creating a menu is to go to the hierarchy, right click, and pick Canvas. Then immediately go into Scalar, set the mode to Scale with Screen Size, and match to 0.5. This really helps make sure that your menu will automatically resize itself to fit different screen sizes. Once you've got the canvas, you can right click, go to UI, and go ahead and start adding text and buttons where you need them. But if you wanna give your menu a background, I recommend adding a panel. Once you've got the panel, go and find a cool image that you wanna use as your background, drag it to your assets folder, click it, and under Text to Type, make sure that it's set to Sprite 2D and UI. Once you've done all that, all you gotta do is click your panel, and under Source Image, drag your picture inside. You're done. If you join me next video, I'll show you how to use text objects to build your UI for the player. Until then, hope that helps. And as always, hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Hello everybody welcome back to another adobe photoshop cc 2021 tutorial in this one I'm gonna show you how to use split warp and not only am I gonna show you how to use it I'm gonna show you how to selectively and specifically warp Local areas or sections of an image and not the rest of it. What am I talking about? Let's look at this pupper dogs ears. This is the final version that I've done This was the original version now. This looks great This is a perfectly good picture in the next version that I've done split warping on The ears have gotten bigger, which is great.  That is the power of split warp and I'm gonna show you how to do that Okay, so I'm just gonna go ahead and delete this layer We're gonna start from scratch here is the original image of the puppy dog The first step is you want to take this image and drag and drop it on the plus icon at the bottom right? this creates a Duplicate layer and it allows us to compare and contrast the Effects as after we're done.  So let's go ahead and do that edit transform warp Okay, this is the original warp and this is a great tool I'll just go ahead and make some changes. You can see here I'm increasing the size of the ears, but notice how when I pull and distort it that the face Goes with it the ears the eyes. It's all being distorted. So we don't want that. So edit Transform warp like I just did there. Now the next step is you want to go to edit Transform and now you'll see split warp. We've got split warp horizontally Split warp vertically and split warp crosswise. We're gonna be using horizontal and vertical in this one But crosswise is also good and I'll show you it at the end. So split warp horizontally I'm gonna left-click on it And you're gonna see here that I get this line Now what I'm going to do to show you how this works is I'm gonna create this split warp I'm just gonna put it right above the puppy dog's ears right there. Okay. Good now I'm gonna go back to edit Transform and that split warp and I'm gonna do another horizontal split warp You can actually have multiple lines or multiple split warp So I'm gonna go ahead and put this one this one Excuse me right underneath his ears because in this tutorial We are just going to split warp the ears and nothing else none of the face or any of that other stuff Okay, good. Hopefully you're following along with me edit Transform split warp but instead of horizontal.  We're gonna put this one right here Right at the edge of the face and the ear. I'm gonna drop that horizontal and I'm gonna drop that vertical right here Okay edit Transform split warp Vertically again, and we're gonna do the same to the other side Right about there. Okay. So the only part that we're really not working with is this Insertion here right at the big right at the where the ear joins the head But that isn't really a big deal because we really want to work on the edges of the face So let's go ahead and get to work now when I click on I'm just going to click on one of these points I'm going to show you what happens. We're working on the ears Right. So when I click this point and I drag it See how the ear is getting bigger So let's go ahead and really do a job on this. Let's get some really big friggin ears on this guy right there Okay, good, but the face and everything else did not go with it I'm going to go ahead and click on this point and drag that one out. So it's not a really Thinner but with you need some width you got to make it look believable And you can also go ahead and click on these points and just drag them as you think the best Places so this one here would be a handle. Let's take that handle out here Okay, let's really go for it. You could take this one here. I'm going to move that one up That does move the face though. So I'm going to go ahead and not adjust that one, but you can adjust A little bit and not have to worry about it. But again, you can just select this point here Maybe make it a little wider. I mean honestly, you got lots of options Let's go to the left side here or the right side depending on which side you're looking for I mean, we're going to make his ear bigger here and then we're going to move this handle up Nope, we're not going to do that command zed. Sorry. That was the wrong one I'm going to pull this one And I'm going to make his ear a little wider there It looks a little weird and distended, but that's okay I'm just wanting to show you how this works And if you feel like you need even further You want to make more split warps? You can always just go up here and go to edit Transform split warp. And if you want another horizontal a vertical or a crosswise, let's do a crosswise just for the heck of it You can see here that this gives you sort of like a t shape And then you can go ahead and I can put one right here for example And this creates another mesh so we can go ahead and start extending this mesh And we can extend that one and we can do this one, but it won't do anything But you'll see here that what we're doing go ahead and change that a little wider This is how split warp works guys. You can go ahead and make specific warps to specific regions It's an amazing tool and I hope this tutorial helped you. I'll be back soon with some more stuff. Stay tuned


So, let me just take some time to ask you, how are you doing? Because we're in week three of social distancing and self-quarantine, and I know that a lot of you are going a little bit stir crazy. So how are you doing? I think it's important for us to take the time to acknowledge that this is a lot to deal with, even if we don't know anyone who's been affected with COVID-19, for those of us who have to stay home and are not used to that. This can be really difficult, like this is going to lead to depression, it's going to lead to excess anxiety, so I really want people to acknowledge that if you're feeling worse because of the COVID-19 crisis, just know that you're not alone. And there's a lot of people, everyone who's currently experiencing the same thing. For me, I'm dealing with quarantine just fine because this isn't that much different than my usual lifestyle, to be honest, but still it has caused some depression because it feels so surreal. You see this kind of things happen in movies, but never in real life. You almost think that a global pandemic, this could never happen, but we're living through something that is truly just, it's crazy. So it really is difficult to believe that this is actually happening, and I think that this is going to become very real as more and more people that we know become infected or affected with COVID-19. So that being said, let's talk about what's going on when it comes to COVID-19. Last week, we left on a really terrifying note where Donald Trump and Republicans were insisting that we shouldn't allow the cure to be worse than the virus itself. And Trump wanted to reopen the country, reopen the country in whatever capacity he can by Easter because the thought of packed churches on Easter Sunday sounded beautiful to him. Now, to me, that sounds like a nightmare.  That sounds horrifying. But thankfully, he has chosen to extend the deadline. But it's important, at least 30 days. Now, you've just got to play it by ear. You don't necessarily know how long this is going to last. Models predict that we won't peak until mid-April. Now, we don't know how long we'll be in the peak process and when we start to kind of go down, but buckle up. We're just getting started, and it's going to be a long ride. Unfortunately, Trump is not choosing to send everyone back to work yet to sacrifice them to the gods of capitalism. And Dr. Fauci explains why Donald Trump came to this conclusion.  Take a look. Why have the guidelines been extended to the end of April? Why was that decision made? Well, gentlemen, you look at the kinetics of the outbreak, the patterns that are going on now, even as we speak. They were not going to reach a peak and turn around the way we wanted to within the timeframe that was originally estimated. So I thought it was prudent, and I think the right decision, to extend them another 30 days. Because what you really want to do is you want to start seeing some flattening out and turning around the curve and it coming down. It wasn't doing that. If you look at New York, it was doing this. If you look at New Orleans, it was doing this. Detroit is certainly going to start doing that. It would not have been a good idea to pull back at a time when you really needed to be pressing your foot on the pedal as opposed to on the brakes. You keep talking about the peak. Can you explain to the American people what exactly that peak looks like and how it will tax the system? Well, there are a number of factors that are going on at the same time. One is the number of new cases per day. The other is the number of deaths that you have. So if you have like 100 cases today, 200 cases tomorrow, 400 cases the next day, 600 cases the next day, you are clearly going in the wrong direction. You don't want to interfere except to try and suppress that. If you reach the point where the number of new cases starts to equilibrate so that yesterday you have 150, today you have 150, tomorrow you have 125, they're starting to level off, which is the kind of the beginning of the turning around of the curve of it coming down. Deaths tend to linger a little bit more after the hospitalizations. But when you see the new hospitalizations start to do this, you know you're going in the right direction. And we weren't doing that. And we felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration or a rebound of something, which would have put you behind where you were before. And that's the reason why we argued strongly with the President that he not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days, but that he extend them. And he did listen. You argued strongly, you said with the President. Our reporting is that among other things you showed him these models that suggest that even with the current guidelines, the death total in the United States could be between 100,000 and 200,000. So why do you think that was so convincing? Well it was quite convincing. The President, as he said multiple times at the press conference yesterday, his first goal is to prevent suffering and death. And we made it very clear to him that if we pulled back on what we were doing and didn't extend them, there would be more avoidable suffering and avoidable death. So it was a pretty clear decision on this part. So I just want to take a moment to applaud anyone who is close to Trump that convinced him to not reopen the country by Easter. This is a decision that will literally save lives. So thank you. Trump is easily persuadable. It's usually like the last person who was in his ear before he has to make a decision. That will be the most influential. So whoever got to him, you're doing the Lord's work. Thank you. Let me just again reiterate that reopening the country too early is idiotic. He was expecting a trade-off. We can save the economy if we sacrifice people, but that's not necessarily how things work. If you reopen the economy, the economy is probably still going to suffer because people dying is bad for the economy. There's still going to be global economic ramifications. We lived in a highly globalized society. World capitalism is currently dominant, right? So just because the United States chooses to send all its people back to work to die doesn't mean that other countries are going to do the same thing. That's going to impact trade. That's going to impact global markets. So to just think that you can somehow stop the economy from collapsing if you send people to work to die is idiotic.  So I'm glad that somebody convinced him to not do that. With that being said, this crisis is still very real and Trump is still in charge ultimately.  And it's getting worse. And currently the United States is the number one country when it comes to COVID cases. The number one country. And I want to share another Dr. Fauci interview where he kind of tells us a little bit of what to expect based on current models and what they project. Well, Dr. Burke said yesterday, as you know, that she doesn't think any city will be spared from this virus. How many cases do you think the US will reach a million cases to 10 million cases? Or do we not even have any idea? You know, Jake, to be honest with you, we don't really have any firm idea. There are things called models. And when someone creates a model, they put in various assumptions. And the model is only as good and as accurate as your assumptions. And whenever the model is come in, they give a worst case scenario and a best case scenario. Generally, the reality is somewhere in the middle. I've never seen a model of the diseases that I've dealt with, which the worst case scenario actually came out. They always overshoot. So when you use numbers like a million, a million and a half, two million, that almost certainly is off the chart. Now, it's not impossible, but very, very unlikely. So it's difficult to present. I mean, looking at what we're seeing now, I would say between 100 and 200,000 cases. But I don't want to be held to that because it's, excuse me, deaths. I mean, we're going to have millions of cases. But I just don't think that we really need to make a projection when it's such a moving target that you can so easily be wrong and mislead people. What we do know, Jake, is that we got a serious problem in New York. We have a serious problem in New Orleans, and we're going to be developing serious problems in other areas. So although people like to model it, let's just look at the data of what we have and not worry about these worst case and best case scenarios. So I want to just stress here that this is speculation. It's based on models. There's really no way of knowing how many people will be affected and ultimately die because of COVID-19.  He says it's not going to be, you know, one to two million people most likely. It's possible, right? It's within the realm of possibility, but it's highly unlikely. However, what we're looking at is probably 100,000 to 200,000 people dying to put that into perspective on 9-11. We lost 2,977 people and we are already almost at 3,000. When it comes to the lives we've lost due to COVID-19. So if, you know, these models bear out, not the best case scenario, but not the worst case scenario, and we land somewhere in the middle, which is what Dr. Fauci estimates will be the actual case.  And that's true not just for America, but for the human race. That's really terrifying. And it doesn't help that we have the worst possible leader at a time when we need someone who's at least semi-competent, just semi-competent. We see Donald Trump caring more about his own image and perception. He's getting into spats with governors. He is not agreeing with how much ventilators hospitals say they need. He's sending, you know, states broken medical equipment, including ventilators. And on top of that, he's trying to lie to people and mislead them for purposes of doing damage control to make him look less bad. So when it comes to us being the number one country with COVID cases, he said that's because, you know, we just are testing more people, which is factually incorrect. But here's the clip of him saying that we are testing nearly 100,000 people a day, which is more than any other country in the world. And the reason we have more cases than anybody is because we're finding more people because we're testing much more. So when the fake news goes and says, well, we have more, the fact is that if you look at other countries, you have countries with 1.5 billion people, those countries, if they tested everybody, you know, it'd be a whole different story. But yeah, that's just not true. Tests are not widely available. There are people who are taking the social media to voice their grievances about how they're experiencing COVID-19 like symptoms, shortness of breath, high fever, and they are not able to get a test.  If we actually tested everyone who wanted a test or who were experiencing symptoms that needed a test, then the number would be much higher of suspected cases, of confirmed cases, that is. So that's just not true. But look, we don't know how long this is going to last. And that uncertainty is, I think, the most difficult part for people because working within complete information, it makes crises a lot worse. Like if we get a sense of a timeline, it's easier for us to mentally grapple with how long we have to hunker down in our homes. But the fact that we don't know the fact that it's just kind of an open question, it makes it that much worse for people. And I really hope that in the future, we kind of have more measures in place to better prepare ourselves, not just for global pandemics, but any types of crises. And, you know, I don't want to be even a bigger Debbie Downer here, but I don't think that this is going to be the last global pandemic. Climate change will expose us to new diseases as the ice thaws. But on top of that, it will introduce us to new crises. And even when this crisis is over, we could see a resurgence of COVID-19 after we think it's gone. So we just have to be better prepared. We have to give people the option of seeing a therapist online. But that also means they have to be able to afford it and not just afford it. They should be able to get it regardless if they can or can't afford it, right? Because affordability is something that is incredibly subjective. So as we enter this new week, I just hope that people take time for themselves, find a way to treat themselves. If that means being a little bit lazy, lounging around the house, playing Animal Crossing, whatever you can do psychologically for yourself to cope, exercise in your house, do it, don't feel guilty about it because we have to make sure that we social distance, we quarantine. And just from my own experience and anyone I've talked to, I had to leave who starts to work.  They're not taking this seriously. And we need to. There's a lot of people taking this seriously, but not everyone is. So if we all actually abided by what the CDC is recommending, then this would be over faster. That's what people need to realize. But it's impossible to get everyone to do the same thing, right? We can't force everyone to social distance and self quarantine. So those of us who are behaving good, we are only as strong. This pandemic will only last as long as our most stubborn citizens and stubborn government officials. So we don't necessarily know when this will be over, but just understand that it will be over at some point in time. This, like all crises, will come to an end at some point. And that's what you have to keep telling yourself as difficult as it is to imagine because we're not even in the middle at this point. We're not even to the middle point, but just know this isn't going to last forever. Things will be different afterwards, but there will be a degree of normalcy, at least in the sense that we can go to the store and not have to worry about, you know, getting exposed to it or we can go to the movie theater and not worry about getting exposed. So just try to tell yourself that and do what you need to do. Any psychological crutches that you have video games, like indulge yourself if you have food at your house that's unhealthy, eat it. Just try to give yourself a pass during this time because we have to do everything we can to stay sane because it's tough currently, I know. And he's doing a really, really good job. Many people are telling me about how wonderful the humanist report is. Bigly.