Hey Aloha and welcome to this episode of Security Matters Hawaii we're live in the Think Tech Hawaii studios with my friend Paul Cohn from Phoenix and you're the general national business development manager like you got a long title man good for you thanks for coming in today I really appreciate it thanks for having me we're gonna talk about the cloud and and some of you know about cloud this and cloud that and Google and Azure and Amazon but you may not know a lot about cloud-based access control and access control has moved into the cloud very aggressively it's a it's a very easy play and we're gonna kind of drill into some of the things reasons I think that it took so long to happen and white people didn't do it Paul brings a lot of expertise here today so we're gonna have some fun chit-chatting so I know you know about access control in the cloud but the first thing I always got to ask my guess is sort of what what you know for you and from a security perspective you know the people you're talking to in the industry what keeps you up at night these days man what keeps you up at night that's a good question usually it's my dogs see barking dogs and that no one ever gives me that answer that's a great answer but from you know in this context I'd say you know really trying to truly understand when this adoption is finally gonna take place you know I see this conversion party your job keeping you up at night yeah absolutely you know when are we gonna start to see the the true adoption of cloud specifically in the security industry you know we've seen it on the IT side when it comes to voice systems and and all the converting to IP and all these IOT devices and so forth and we just been so far behind in the physical security industry just waking up one day and realizing all right we're finally here we're there and you're gonna be part of the you're gonna be part of the charge yes so you know to that point what do you do you think it I mean the manufacturers we know like there's big names out there in the industry that've been around there established and they've got a big thick heavy software package right that really needs a lot of processing power to run on your PC and then they got a big back-end database structure with sequel do you think that's been the problem for them just to retool that stuff or do you think it took somebody new to kind of come along and build it fresh I think it's a combination of both I think that the the underlying architecture of how a true cloud-based access control platform is built really plays a lot into a lot of factors I think that from a from a scalability perspective from a usability perspective you can't just take a piece of software and put it in a data center somewhere sure and expect it to be cloud doesn't perform right it doesn't perform the same way so taking a look at how it's developed how it's architected and then you know increasing the adoption rate from that perspective right and realizing what the true driving factors are when it comes to adopting cloud access control and I know to that point so Phoenix was able to adopt a different database structure instead of like traditionally it's always been SQL yep the world knows SQL the access control world definitely knows SQL but you guys went down a different path you can talk about that a little bit sure yeah so our our latest platform has been architected and developed around what we would consider a no sequel database okay wow there's a number of different no sequel databases we chose a solution called Mongo database okay they're really the industry leader when it comes to to no sequel and there's a number of different benefits that you get from a no sequel database you know the biggest thing is the scalability factor traditionally Microsoft SQL or any other kind of traditional SQL database really what is considered scaling vertically right meaning that if you need more database structure you got to pay for it I see it's expensive it's heavy with a no sequel type of database that scales horizontally so it allows us to provide the necessary database structure or capacity if you will to our clients whether that's small amount of data or a large amount of data so and it's very fast there's a couple other you know benefits that that you get as far as recovery and how quickly you can retain data in the off chance that your system goes offline or something happens like that so a number of different features and benefits from from a no sequel database also sits in the cloud as well yeah so it seems awesome because you know the I think access control systems where you you know the challenge for all of them was always how many transactions can you process right so you know when you've got a database like you folks have they can scale rapidly you know because I don't know if our audience knows but if you've got huge office buildings in New York or San Francisco everybody's shown up to work at 8 a.m. and and you've got tens of thousands of transactions that got to get done rapidly right and so that scalability you know in performance gives you that with this you know in the cloud architecture absolutely as well as redundancy as well so yeah you know in the traditional model you're buying multiple different SQL databases right they're running in multiple different environments with with a no sequel or with our Mongo it's it's multiple replica sets so the transactions the data that's getting processed everything that's that's getting written to the database is is constantly being mirrored so you have that redundancy built in as well that's awesome it's generally less expensive than SQL and we're talking about an Amazon hosted AWS hosted environment first Phoenix specifically yes we are hosted in AWS excellent yeah so there's there's a and so that you know what that gives you is a global infrastructure that you know when you say resilience I mean your uptime is basically infinite right this thing I mean let's the world ends or all the power of the world stops or something yep you know you're just not at really at risk of losing your data or your data not being replicated there's multiple instance of it available all the time dynamically absolutely that's super expensive to try to reproduce in a on-premise environment yep you know I I recall the days of legato and failover SQL clusters and all this kind of stuff just to you know get five nine resiliency for our military folks you know it's super super pricey and so this this the customers are getting the advantage of all of that built into a package like you folks are building already out of the gate and there's no cost it grows you don't need the different version of SQL or whatever right it's just no cost that's amazing so cloud some people freak out about you know oh where's it where's all my data going how does it get there let's talk a little bit about getting it out off the premise because you know you've in a traditional access control system and they're all about the same you've got a card that you know you use on the reader or your phone on a reader then you've got some data that goes upstream to the controller and in your case the controllers talking instead of to a local database it's going right out through the firewall to the cloud correct and so let's talk tell us a little bit about what's going on there you've got some encryption happening and you're sending that data up one side that's correct yeah so it's encryption as far as TLS 1.2 goes it is a standard which is a standard absolutely it is optional but you know all of our boards get shipped out with it enabled okay you know it's completely serverless infrastructure nice or architecture so it's controllers talking directly to the cloud outbound communication only establishing that trusted communication within the AWS cloud environment so that those transactions can flow bi-directionally fully encrypted nice you know there's there's there's some inherent value as far as total cost of ownership or you know just the reduction of infrastructure cost on that alone right being able to just have that that controller talked and communicate directly to the cloud and I know our team set some of these up and it's it's absolutely takes like minutes yeah so that's in it was that a function that you decided I guess when you're firmware so you and you guys we should talk a little bit about about mercury hardware mercury hardware is used by a whole lot of different manufacturers today you guys adopted mercury we did that it would be I guess well-known absolutely easy to use yeah I mean we have a philosophy a couple a couple things that really hit home for us as far as what our philosophy is and one of them is open hardware okay you know we have our founder and our entire team really has a philosophy that the customer always should have a right to choose right and should never be locked into anything proprietary from a reader and credential perspective as well as a door hardware door controller perspective so we chose mercury for that reason we also have a number of different you know options and features obviously that come along with that but you know mercury is open so really gives the customer the right to choose that's awesome and so so then you in the factory you're basically building your firmware into the mercury panel so when our installers get it and they bring it online to customer's place it it goes out and establishes this connection to the cloud correct right in the traditional model with a premise-based access control system mercury or anybody else those controllers are what are getting shipped out with what we would consider IP server mode okay as far as the communication mode goes ours get shipped out an IP client and that allows that controller to call outbound right one of our benefits is that we don't require any inbound ports be open up on a customer's network nice it's an outbound call again establishing that communication you have a number of different port choices that you can choose but it's all outbound and yes that is how it gets shipped out the setup process is you know like you said a number of minutes because we've taken care of most of the heavy lifting before that board gets out the door isn't that something so we've got a with cloud-based access control if you're just joining us you know we've got this resiliency in the cloud we've got a very secure infrastructure to provide the the transactions and the data from the system on-prem up to that cloud server talk a little bit about this the software development that you folks have been done oh you're you've got a fairly mature version product now it's been out around a while what what what have you seen in growth there as far as ease of use and those types of things yeah I mean really it's there's a lot of factors that go into that okay again when our founder when when he went to work and developed our first version of the software that version itself was developed around cloud okay wow from from day one cloud and and we chose AWS because at the time Amazon Web Services was really the industry leader and I you know okay I still believe that they are but we have Google cloud and you know Azure now and so but it was built around the cloud so again we're not taking a thick client or a piece of software and putting in a data center somewhere and calling it cloud we utilize a number of different services around AWS that really provide us the capability to make those API calls change code on the fly so that all plays into the user experience very low latency when it comes to transactions you're seeing things in real time and again you know number of different features and benefits because we use a single AP arrest API okay so that it's one API that that that is the product right and that's what sits in the cloud and the performance that we get that tacked on with Mongo database is really where is where you see the scalability in the performance yeah it looked down we were looking at this in the shop Monday and you know it looks very mature to me you know from an access control perspective I didn't see and I didn't hear anyone in the room bring up things that that they wanted to see done that that the products not already delivering yeah to the point you have visual visitor management and video integration already there yeah so I mean from what we've seen you know cloud access control has been around for quite some time there's some you know manufacturers that have developed it and you know have really brought it brought it to life what we wanted to do is we wanted to build an enterprise class access control platform meaning that it has all the features and functionality that an enterprise customer whether you have two readers or ten thousand you have what what I would consider a true access control solution there are other solutions out there that in my opinion are really just keyless entry solutions right and so when you think about the reporting the number of different you know triggers and procedures the visitor management the the integrations that we have that all kind of plays into what I would consider a true access control solution and especially from that enterprise perspective which you mentioned our enterprise your larger clients that have multiple sites or multiple things happening that there's that they're concerned about from a security perspective we're bringing all different types of data not just forced door they may be more bringing the video with that forced door or they may need to bring some visitor management in the video to confirm that that that guy down there is really the guy that they need to go see that's locked in their man trap or whatever it may be so there's there's a lot of value in that and approaching the enterprise and they've sort of been the last group you might say to say who can you really handle us because they're sure mobile implementations you know probably a hundred thousand readers I don't know I don't have customers like that in Hawaii but yeah really large implementations yeah I mean there's a number of different objections that we've seen and we've had to overcome when it comes to presenting our solution to the enterprise customer you know I often you know ask people what what does enterprise mean to you is that you know it does it is it number of employees is it number of sites is it you know number of card readers and you'll get a different answer from anybody you talk to you so for us it's really being able to scale up or down as you need to and support you know that that environment no matter how big or small it really is wow yeah the cloud's gonna make us infinite even for access control we're gonna pay some bills we'll be back in about one minute aloha I am Howard wig I am the proud host of cold green for think-tech Hawaii I appear every other Monday at three and I have really really exciting guests on the exciting topic of energy efficiency hope to see you there hi I'm Ethan Allen hosts on think-tech Hawaii of Pacific partnerships in education every other Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. I hope you'll join us as we explore the value the accomplishments and the challenges of education here in the Pacific Islands hello my name is Stephanie Mach and I'm one of three hosts of think-tech Hawaii's Hawaii food and farmer series our other hosts are Matt Johnson and Pomei Weigert and we talked to those who are in the fields and behind the scenes of our local food system we talked to farmers chefs restaurant tours and more to learn more about what goes into sustainable agriculture here in Hawaii we are on a Thursdays at 4 p.m. and we hope we'll see you next time hey aloha and welcome back to security matters Hawaii I'm with Paul Cohen of Phoenix and we're talking about cloud-based access control you might want to take a look at this if you're like considering replacing upgrading or doing some of your access control systems because cloud is happening big in this space and these are these are one of the leaders that are doing it I'm Paul different customers you were just talking about how they have different concerns you know maybe based on their size or based on their past experience whatever it may be what do you think are or what's that what you see when you talk to you know integrators like myself what do you think the driving factors are for cloud adoption you know what's making them say yes so I think there's really there's probably three primary concerns as far as what we see in the industry and our philosophy is that one it has to be mobile meaning yes you have to be able to access your system and manage your system from anywhere in the world anytime anytime without having to be on a corporate network or some sort of VPN type of scenario it has to be secure from a cybersecurity perspective we take cybersecurity very seriously doing a number of things that you may not see in the industry so it has to be secure by default it has to be encrypted by default because one of the biggest objections with cloud anything cloud applications in the cloud cloud access control is that it's got to be secure mm-hmm and then the convenience factor and this really plays into the user the administrator different organizations within the company or different you know areas within the organization IT facilities it's got to be convenient mm-hmm you know the setup and the and the process of deploying cloud access control can't be difficult mm-hmm you know there shouldn't have to be any kind of you know changes that you got to make on your network from a firewall perspective or anything else you know updates and patching as far as keeping your system up-to-date has to be easy it has to be automatic I mean imagine if you you know on your iPhone your mobile mobile device if you had to go through a rigorous process just to update to the latest iOS the latest version I do but you just have to click update yeah exactly and it does it for me with with with this you do it for the everyone correct you just update the cloud instance yeah yeah and so you know those I would say those are the three primary driving factors mobility convenience and security cybersecurity and convenience is a big thing and I think it's lost I've definitely been through a lot of organizations and when they get start to get a little bigger and it's out of the hands of one person and you've got different organizations that need a different feature one one's gonna issue badges one's gonna get the alarms one's gonna do the IT management side perhaps or or the set the authentication levels or whatever manage access levels or whatever it may be all of a sudden those guys they're not talking maybe they don't even work in the same departments and in the management of the system becomes like this hassle yeah so when it's easy and when it's cloud and there's like training right on like YouTube for it right these person these people can learn their piece of the pie very very easily and I think it shouldn't be lost because we said mobility everyone's really used to that phone but it should not be lost about this mobility comment because there is a browser based instance there's a mobile you know device instance and you've got all that same functionality in all of those correct so this truly goes with you anywhere so you can do whatever your tasking may be you need to get approved for badge for printing for example yep that can get done you need to get an access level authorized for someone that can get done you know while you're at lunch yep amazing or on the beach and it can be done securely absolutely right so that's we didn't really talk about that that the other side of that pipe you know from the cloud that the client side is also encrypted down to the device so we've got this end-to-end encryption everything goes up through one pipe and it's encrypted everything comes back down to the devices for the user experience encrypted it's correct very safe very secure very functional this is why everything's gone that's why everything's going cloud because it works like that amazing let's get in now we we brought up a couple these other points and maybe you've heard some of this I don't know but the stereotypes and we touched on a little bit and perceived barriers so how's that going you know you got sort of a national vision on some of the big boys and the larger medium-sized companies let's call them and you're down to small guys well what are you seeing you know is it is it is that barrier dropping I presume so yeah definitely for sure okay you know I would say five years ago you know or even even sooner than that three years ago we we're still trying to overcome you know the the barrier the objection that your cloud access control is only designed for small customers it's only good for the the one to ten door environments right and doesn't scale you know some some other objections as far as you know we there is limited on integrations or you know the is some certain but it's not secure certain industries won't won't adopt it like the financial or banking industry and yeah because there's dust not in the cloud right because your bank because your your bank accounts not right yeah yeah so I think we're starting to see you know that change and I think the technology obviously is changing and and and it's getting less expensive as well you know one of the I'd say one of the bigger objections is yeah it's a it's a recurring model right so just like we have music or Spotify or Netflix or whatever we pay it every month or every year and we have everything our fingertips and we can get whatever we want that that took it took a while for companies to to really understand that but you know we're helping as well as you know firms like like yours helping our customers understand that there's a number of benefits that can be gained through that you know you utilizing operational expenditures versus capital you know really having that predictive model so if you're you know if you're rolling out sites once a year you know what that cost is and you can predict it and budget for next year and the year after in the year after so yes it is recurring but you know there are customers are really starting to benefit from that and and all the other features that go along with it as far as uptime and resiliency and redundancy that all plays into it yeah and we looked at an ROI tool that you've got that really showed that gap you know there's this this OPEX model for recurring revenue it really gets the customer everything that he wants it from a down downtime perspective a backup and encryption they get all of that and it actually costs less and I know that the pricing there's a point at which if you're really big you got to kind of come to you guys that work something out right so some of these guys are consuming if our audience doesn't know they kind of consume cloud services with the amount of CPU that they use in the cloud and the amount of storage that they take and so this this model is not quite there yet and it because it is kind of transactional based and it's reader based and it's credential based there's some other factors in access control that don't quite fit that model but the big boys will probably come at you with some of that right more of a cost plus computer something sure potentially yeah I mean and we you know there's a number of different options as far as you know what that looks like but and there certainly is a breakpoint you know but again we're we're trying to sell the value of this right and there's a lot of hidden costs that go into a traditional premise-based model and yes the things that all the way down to how much it costs to power and cool server yeah I know why that's super significant right electricity yeah how much time is it does it take for your administrators your IT folks to make changes and do updates there's a cost associated with that it may not be right in your face or up front but all that kind of plays into it and again you know sometimes we pay more for value than then you know trying to go with the cheapest option so and then and again it I think we saw that it was actually less expensive and you get all that value anyway which is amazing for those people that fall into that level which is a lot yeah I want to get to some of this stuff we talked about some of these these these customer problems so you know when the customers start where when you get brought in I'm sure you're you know you're visiting with integrators to a customers who's like you know I need a new access control system and then the vars like well why and so do you have to kind of walk them through some of these value propositions that we've been discussing today is that what it takes for the customer to understand absolutely yeah and it's always been my philosophy and I think really everyone at Phoenix and a lot of people in the industry as well is that you know there's some really really good solutions out there when it with access controllers people that have been doing it for 20 plus years right and a lot of the problems and challenges that our customers have been having don't aren't aren't necessarily access control related yeah the door opens right card works it works right we get we get the forced door alarms we that all works but there's there's a number of things that you got to do to maintain that system and you know our customers have limited resources we're starting to as I mentioned when I first started that's convergence with it you know I see access control and physical security is falling on it a lot more nowadays yeah and they don't understand it and oftentimes yeah and so you know a lot of these systems out there that need to be upgraded and some of the pain points our customers are having really have just stemmed from not maintaining the environment yeah not keeping your system up to date yeah and when you do your several versions behind and then you know you have to so all that goes away with cloud access control so the IT groups truly understand consuming this as a service absolutely they may not know how we hooked up all the doors and made it work but boy they understand that that consumption of service based model I can see what I've got in the cloud I can see how it works I know where my reporting is I understand how my database is and it's basically headache list for them yep right whereas instead of them getting the oh we need to buy the latest version of SQL for the newest version growing and go buy another new server bigger chassis yeah oh yeah so been that has been sort of the bane of our industry it's never been that the doors don't work it's been that the maintenance pieces is I would I don't want to say overlooked a lot of organizations do a pretty good job of it but oftentimes when you get out of enterprise you get down to the some guy who's got 50 hats to wear and that little piece just gets forgotten until the server dies correct yeah until you walk in there and it's fine and then they're like it's 10 grand for a new server and you haven't bought anything for five years so consuming it all the time you know when an organization is committed to security it just makes more sense to have that as an operating budget I think it's a well-made point there's another thing here about customers about it's outdated and doesn't work so that's an interesting thing to me because it probably does but they I think they're saying they want other features yeah so what do you what do you feel like we'll be able to give you know what what's coming next because the doors are opening we're getting the reports you showed us some great video integration we're going into business intelligence I mean there's a lot of lot to be learned there about how organization works yeah that's a really good question you know I think from our perspective a lot of a lot of our features that we release and new things and new bells and whistles if you will I really driven by our partners and our customers so you know we we've there's no no schedule no set schedule as far as how many times a month or a year we do updates but we'll take a look at it and you know if it's something that the customer really needs but you know we'll do it also you know it's hard to say I I envision you know it's certainly cloud access control becoming more of a of a platform if you will okay outside of just access controls yeah yeah so you know a number of different sensors that we can bring in and inputs and outputs or you know whatever it may be becoming more of a security management platform versus this is access control off you know and this is only access control perfect so dang if you're looking at your access control system and you got questions think about cloud it's real it's happening I really appreciate you being here today man yeah thanks for having me we'll be back in two weeks with another edition of security matters and happy Halloween out there stay safe aloha


Hello, I am Dr. Deepak Dubey, I am a consultant urological surgeon and head of the department of urology at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore and I also perform robotic urological surgery. There are huge number of benefits with robot assisted surgery because essentially it's keyhole surgery so the scar which is made is very small, it's done through tiny keyholes whereas open surgery involves a large cut over the abdomen or the chest of whichever organ is being dealt with and because of the large cut there is more pain in the postoperative period, it takes more time to recover, it takes more time to get back to normal activity and more time to get back to work for those who are working and the incidence of blood loss is significantly lower with robot assisted surgery. So looking at all these parameters, robot assisted surgery definitely scores much above open surgery in urology.


Hey, I'm Anfa. So you have questions about making music with open source software and Linux? Yeah, I see you do. Maybe you have switched to Linux to make music or you are about to or you are already using Linux but wanted to get into music production or some other audio stuff like you know making podcasts sound effects film scores whatever I got you covered the best place to ask your questions is my community chat And there's a couple of reasons one of them is Comment sections under videos are really bad for technical support. You can't share screenshots. You can't share audio You things get lost. It's really bad for this kind of thing the community chat is Way better and also things are searchable. You can like keep links to things and bookmark them and etc Another thing is in YouTube comments. It's hard to like people can't find that in my community chat there's a dedicated place a channel called help you just put your question there and The couple hundred people that are there Some of them I'm gonna see that and they're gonna answer you and they're gonna answer you probably even better than I could Like one thing is faster because you know, they can answer your questions when I'm sleeping or working or making games Blasty or for whatever other reason I can't read your question and answer it Or I just don't know the answer There are things that I don't know how to do well and people from my community know better That's why the community chat is the best place to ask your questions. Have your technical issues resolved Just just go there Okay, so now that I've convinced you to go there or we just turned out this video in that case I don't know why I'm talking to you if you're not here The second thing is how do you join the community chat because there are two ways the first way which I recommend Is to go to chat dot ANFA dot XYZ And what you'll see there is a self-hosted instance of rocket chat Rocket chat is an open-source chat platform this instance is hosted generously by a member of the community and Like it's it's independent. It's like It's ours So the obvious upsides is that are that it's open source and Because I'm all about open source and this YouTube channel is all about open source Then using open source communication tools is also appropriate You can log in with some social accounts like Google Facebook Git lab no git hub works git lab. I think doesn't And also something else. I don't remember Twitter. Yeah, Twitter. I think Twitter also works So we can log in with any of these accounts using so-called social login or oh Oh, oh Nobody knows how it works though and I fail to set it up for all the options That's why there's a limited palette or you can just create an account if you don't want to log in or create an account You can still read everything that is posted there all of the chat dot ANFA dot XYZ Communication is public unless of course it's private messages then it's not public But all the public channels are publicly accessible You can link to them you can permalink to two messages or threads or you know, you can just access them You don't need to register or log in or anything. You can just lurk if you want But if you want to ask questions, you will be required to make an account or register like or log in with something else And that's for security. I really don't have the resources to deal with a you know Random people random bots registering and posting spam and I'd rather not deal with that So this little inconvenience of you having to make an account is a big convenience for me and all the community as well Plus it's way easier if people have consistent, you know names and Advertise and you can recognize them if you would like, you know come over and use a different Nickname every time you come over then it would be kind of bad I mean, it's hard to build a community when nobody shows their name or uses Inconsistent names and changes avatars all the time. It's it's hard So, yeah, I don't do that. I always have the same name and the same avatar I mean I update it sometimes the editor that is so that's one option rocket chat Which I recommend The other option is discord discord is of course proprietary and centralized and It has a terrible terrible art style of this, you know this figure discolored Semi-human monsters which are supposed to be happy and upbeat but are really horrific and terrifying Which is called the corporate art style and I hate it But what also has is lots of people have accounts because it's popular and a good thing about it Is that it has a built-in voice chat and video communication? So not many people use it on my community chat, but on the open source side We can use jitsie for the same effect. So it's really not much difference. So discord is discord How do you access that discord? Well, you have to go to chat that unfit at XYZ and When you go there, there is a home page You can also access it if you press the home button and there is a little description of what this page is And there are links to discord if you are so inclined to go there Sorry, I can't have like a you know, I could have like, I don't know make a subdomain called discord.onfa.xyz And make it redirect you to a static invite But I don't give a crap.  Okay Right so rocket chat and discord now Regardless of which option you pick you are accessing the same community the same channels and you'll be talking to the same people It's one community. It's just accessible from two different places. How is it possible? Well, we're using something called matter bridge It's a piece of software that connects to rocket chat and connects to discord and it reads messages on both sides and sends them The other way so it reposts messages from rocket chat on discord and reposts messages from discord to rocket chat Unfortunately, it's far from perfect and it kind of prioritizes rocket chat Which means people on rocket chat have the best experience because people on rocket chat see everyone's attachments and embedded images and see everyone's avatars they see avatars of people from discord But people on discord cannot see avatars or embedded images from people on rocket chat Which is kind of crap Yeah people from rocket chat seem to people on discord like Avatar less bots because they even have the bot tag in the name Which is kind of bad, but Well, that's what it is So rocket chat gives the best user experience go rocket chat All right Yeah, the community chat is the best place to ask your questions There's a lot of awesome people there who are doing amazing things with open-source software and Linux regarding audio music production You can also meet software developers including like Paul Davis who's the author of Ardor He's hanging out there and answering questions and talking to people or Bacon Paul who's that the the main developer of surge or you know lots of other people I'm not gonna list everyone, but it's a great place to be yeah Honestly, I made this video so I can just copy paste it to everyone who sends me messages on Facebook because I hate Facebook And I don't want to use it Okay, that's it Thanks for watching. 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Hello in this presentation, we will define general ledger according to fundamental accounting principles wild 22nd edition, the definition of general ledger is record containing all accounts with amounts for a business also called ledger. When we're considering a general ledger, we're thinking about a list of accounts that's really going to be backing up the data for all the accounts all the accounting activity and doing so by order of transaction or by date. So for example, here we look at this small amount of accounts here we have a trial balance we've got cash count simple supplies accounts payable owners capital revenue wages expense utilities expense. These the only accounts in this company, every account within the company then would be backed up in terms of the data that was compiled within those accounts. We can use the general ledger in order to do that. So every account has its related general ledger cash accounts receivable supplies accounts payable owners capital and the data then is going to be what is recording the transactions and the data will be recorded in terms of the order I don't have the dates here but it's an order by date of transaction within the general ledger the general ledger then comprising of the detail that makes up the end total accounts in this case we're looking at cash the total account being 613940 that is what then will be reported on the trial balance and ultimately on the financial statements in this case on the balance sheet. The general ledger will be created from the general journal we're going to post journal entries we're going to journalize journal entries in the general journal post those to the general ledger the general ledger will then be used to make the trial balance trial balance then used to make the financial statements. If you would like to learn more about the general ledger and related topics we suggest taking a look at the book accounting instruction reference number 100 one of the went main components that can help with these topics is just a table of contents that will put this information in a relevant order and link you to free resources that will help you to look at information within that order for example will have images within the text that will jump directly to free resources on a website which will have instructional videos games and test banks and other types of free resources


Hello, welcome to this week's CMC Markets Commodity Snapshot with myself, Jasper Lawler. This week we're looking at not oil for once, which is what everybody is looking at, but actually another commodity which may be affected by oil, and that's corn. Now what's worth considering when you're looking at agricultural commodities, corn being one of the best examples, is that one of the biggest input costs to farming in modern industrialized techniques is energy. If you look at a farm, what do you find on the tractors, combine harvesters, chemicals, fertilizers, all of them are somehow derived from energy and lower oil prices feeds across into multiple energy markets and just means lower costs. And so these farmers are going to be able to sell their crop on the market at a lower price and the kind of competition amongst them will drive prices down in theory, not to mention that the lower costs will probably encourage them to increase production. And so all these things are probably pointing in the direction of lower prices for corn alongside the lower price of oil. If we have a look at the chart for corn, we can see that actually the price has been kind of steadily rising against this backdrop of falling oil prices. It's only been a few weeks, but nevertheless, a bit of a countertrend. And you can see here on this weekly candlestick chart that there is a downsloping trend line that's been connecting some of the major peaks in the market. So should this trend line come into force again, this is where we could see this downward force coming in from the downward slope of oil, coming into the corn market with sellers coming in around that trend line. There is a risk that maybe just corn and its own supply and demand factors could push prices beyond that downsloping trend line. And there's a slight suggestion that may happen with some RSI bullish divergence. So right around this 390 level on corn could be key for the direction going forward. Now if we look across to what CMC markets clients are doing, you can see that according to this client sentiment chart, clients are generally fairly bullish corn. Keep in mind that these numbers change on a frequent basis, but what we can see on the chart here is that in terms of the number of clients and the position value of all the clients together are strongly along the market. Obviously looking at this big downward trend that we've seen for the last few years since the market peaked out in 2012, looking at this as a buying opportunity. So this trend line break could be interesting for these clients in the market. That's it for this week, CMC markets commodity snapshot. Let's look at how oil and corn prices relate to each other and let's have a look at this downsloping trend line and whether this RSI bullish divergence plays on or not, or whether we see some lower prices.


Hey, everybody. How are you doing today? Pretty good. Let me get a show of hands. Who is happy to be here? We're missing a couple hands. Let me get a show of hands. I'm just happy to be here. Alright, there we go. That's what I'm talking about. So, how many of you all had trouble finding the place today? I think we're missing a couple more hands. I actually moved the block a couple of times. I don't know, about five or six. So, I actually found it. I'm the owner of America's IT Doctors. We're an IT management company. And that's just a little feel about me real quick. Essentially, I don't know if you can tell, I'm really nervous when it comes to public speaking. So, a buddy of mine actually told me the other day. He said, hey man, you want to know a tip for public speaking? And I said, sure, what should I do? He said, just imagine everybody in their underwear. So, as I'm up here now, I'm going to ask all the gentlemen to move to the back. They're going to come over. But no, really. How many of you all actually have had some sort of age discrimination incident in your life, or day to day? I'm seeing some hands. I think it's more than hands, okay. If you don't want to be calling Adele, rolling the beat, that's how I'm going to remain. She's awesome, from Georgia Tech. So, give me what was your experience with age discrimination? That's good, that's very good. I saw another hand and we were young and they were gay. More specific, my doctor's got criteria for when they want to do certain tests.  And because I had a surgery, I wanted to have a baseline so that they wouldn't have their test when the doctor tried to tell me no. Because I was not old enough to have a mammogram and I didn't specifically want to be living here. Okay, wow, that's a good example there. Anyone else, I think I may have seen a hand too over here. Oh, she's like no calling, please. I think maybe something similar. When I was younger and in different positions, I felt whether or not it was valid that people that were given the older than me had a different impression of my new abilities. I would want to show up stronger and knowing more and to prove that I'm able to be able. Exactly, yeah. I think the feeling is definitely mutual. I can't say the same for mammogram, unfortunately. I don't think they're there, right there. But like you're saying, the feeling of needing to do more and be better and do twice as much because you want to show them that they're capable and even like Adele said, just people not taking it seriously per se. So essentially my day-to-day life, I do a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, a lot of networking, and a lot of people I run into who are usually ages 45, most of them are CEOs, a couple marketing representatives, most of them are usually older, though. And one common trend that I've found is that at first, they may not be willing to give you that shot initially. And as you talk to them some more, they can see that your variety or whatever the case is and then they open up to you a little bit. And sometimes that age, that age discrimination barrier gets there, there's no getting past, but it's fine, move around essentially. So one thing that I've noticed is that I don't tell myself that, oh, I'm not old enough, or they're looking at me this way because, once again, the age-to-age difference. But it's not always the case. A mentor of mine, I actually met him, he was in North Carolina, I drove about four hours in a cast so I could learn from this guy. I told him, I said, well, people aren't taking a serious career, he told me, he said, don't even think about it. It's not that serious, essentially. What he was saying was that, look at it as a plus, and so the age barrier, look at it as a plus.  And so I thought, wow, it's really good. That is really good. And so, day-to-day, I've known him, Chamber of Commerce, and hey, how's it going? My name is Nick, at UIT, this is what my company does. And actually, the moment I had that confidence and I didn't see everybody as being, oh, older and younger type of deal, I broke down so many barriers. And what I found was that these discrimination was there, still in here. And one thing I will say is that if you let it get to you, it will. But if you look past it and you can see past it, the stars, you can see through the stars, essentially. So I would definitely say that it's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you are not. If you wanted to play basketball as a kid, oh, I'm not tall enough. If you wanted to be a, I don't know, hockey player, well, I'm black and I don't really see many black hockey players, take all that out of your head. And the first thing I have to tell everybody is that I'm not old enough. The moment I got over that, I've been excelling ever since. So essentially, I would say discrimination is clearly there, but don't let it get to you because when you tell you who you are not, when you tell yourself you're not something, that's the moment it holds you back. If you tell yourself that I am old enough, I am going to do this, I am tall enough to play basketball if you're only five feet tall. You can shoot the ball, I don't know. Figure it out, one way or another. So essentially, that is my talk on age discrimination in the business world, I guess you could say. So any questions, comments? I'm gonna, okay, here we go. This lady right here. So I'm almost 30 and I was now considering getting into tech type stuff, thinking about learning how to code. What about, like, I think when you grow up in tech as a lot of people have now, people do expect that knowledge to be there. I don't have that. I'm going to be an older person learning how to code and getting into tech. Like what kind of advice do you have for somebody who maybe didn't grow up with tech stuff? Really true, I would say do the reverse even. Find, I think this gentleman over here was talking about the code A and whatnot. And Mike, you know that as well, cool off with the younger generations, the ones that grew in it, and then just make it happen. I would say that would be the best way to bring it through. Anyone else? I'm gonna pick on Mike. I know, I know. Okay. It's true. So essentially, there are concrete examples. What you've done differently with that confidence around older. How's your approach been different? I would say I've been more so a little bit older, I guess you'd say. I'm not so timid and shy of approaching people a lot older than me. Instead, I'll just come at them and say hey, how's it going Bill? Or whatever the person's name is. I'll say hey, how's it going my name's Mike. What can I do to make it work for you? They're like, holy cow. Either they're anything. This guy's potting up, or he's prongs to you better. Let me talk to this guy. I'm gonna get to know more about him. I guess that boldness and the confidence out of it is what really propelled me forward, I would say. Mike, question now. How do you think that age difference kind of affected your brand? Because if I'm not saying you started a company and you was the young guy coming in with a company, that's not something that people see at all. So I guess, how did it influence your brand? I would say a century or the brand that the company essentially has at least when they see my face people think, oh, that's Nick. The young IT guy. And so that's actually the basis of my talk essentially. I had a lady who approached me and said, how old are you? And I said, how old do I look? She said, you can't be any older than my son. He's 13. So this is what. So yeah, I would say it also helped the brand. I looked at it as such a negative that I didn't realize it was a positive. So now people associated with me as being that out-soaking, out-soaking, friendly IT guy that's a young guy, the youngest guy most of the time is in the room. So they just say, hey, do you need IT work? Talk to Nick. He has a company that do all that stuff. Who's Nick? Oh, he's the youngest guy in the world. And it's worth it as well. So I see a hand in the back. To the comment earlier about starting later in life with technology, I'm curious, you're a hiring manager now and you feel like your experience is making more open to, more aware of, you know, any prejudice that you might have on the flip side of people saying it's like you all do a job. That's good. That's actually really good. I would say that I necessarily have any prejudice in this or something like this older.  Simply because networking hasn't really changed much over the past couple of years. Pro-cold are most the same as they've been for a while now. I would say I have any reverse prejudices or any that I've seen. Hiring life so, I do know other companies, they will go for older people in the field for positions simply because they feel like there's more experience there. But myself, I don't even look at it. I look at what the person knows, how well they can articulate about it and then I go from there. I've actually, just as a comment, I've experienced a lot of reverse of that and I'm in software engineering, I'm in my late 30s and I see a lot of people as they go into their 40s and later they have a lot more trouble getting hired because people feel they can't continue to learn in the case because technology is changing for so much of it. I would say I have heard of that as well. I guess isn't I seeing that correctly? Another thing that I normally see at least with IT is by time, an IT person makes it to about 50-55, either they go into teaching or they just go into starting their own company simply because they reach the pay grade point where some companies will just say hey, I can be a younger guy at half the cost. I would say that is pretty valid. Any other questions? Comments? Comments? Compliments? Well, if there's nothing else then I will say it's great talking to you all. My name is Nick Wack with American IT Doctors. You take an essay, cut an IT and it works for you. And don't let each hold you back.


Oh, hey, didn't see you there. Okay, I can pass myself. This is an unexpected surprise. Should I do like a casual lean? Okay, we're gonna go back to the original idea. Hey there, Mighty Max, and welcome to a flashback-filled edition of Ask IU. Today, I'll be bridging the generational gap between our faculty, staff, and students. Let's hope they're up for the challenge. Let's go. So I brought a little bag of surprises here and I'm gonna ask you some questions and see if you can help me out here. Do you know what this is? Is it a Rolodex? It is a Rolodex. That is correct. Do you know what this object is? It's a Rolodex. That is a classical Rolodex. I have one on the windowsill. You do? Oh my gosh, look at that. She has a Rolodex right there. So do you either know what this is called or what this is? Do you either know what this is called or what this is? Do either of you know what this is called? Here you go. I have no idea what that is. Do you know what this is? Oh, wait. Definitely some sort of organizer. Address flipper thing. Is this like a phone book? So you find their last names probably or maybe and then you look and you find their number or address. My grandma has one of these. So it's called a Rolodex. Like the watch. No, that's a Rolodex. Do you know what this is? A floppy disk. It's like storage for files and stuff like that. Do you know what this is? A floppy disk. Is, friend, what is this? Floppy disk. This is a floppy disk. A floppy disk. That is correct. It's a floppy disk. Do either of you know what this is called? Do either of you know what this is? Hold on, why do I know the name of that? Do either of you know what this object is? Do you know what this item is? It looks like something for a CD or a computer. A computer chip. Is that like a flop disk or something like that? Is that something like? Floppy disk? Floppy disk? Have you ever heard of those before? No. Do you know what this is? Gosh, this is going back in history. This used to be called the yellow pages. The yellow pages. Do you know how to use the yellow pages? Yes. Do you know what this is? Oh yes, the yellow pages. And I was wondering if you could look up a number for me, plaza flowers. Plaza flowers. First we're gonna go to flowers. Do plaza flowers. You found it, perfect. Flores, here we go. Plaza flowers, here we go. Flores, plaza flowers are found. Look up, I would say like plaza flowers. Oh, I don't know if I can do that. Does florist have its own category? You know what, Alexa? It does. Do you know what this is? Oh, it's a phone book. White pages. No? Do you know what this is? Do you know what this is? Yellow pages. Yellow pages, yes. If I asked you to find plaza florists in here, could you do that for me? You gotta go to P. Do we go to P, though? Yellow pages. Yellow pages, yes. Plaza flowers, using the yellow page. Okay, so good at the P. Oh, this is physicians. Flowers, so flowers. So flowers. My grandma would be very proud of me. Wait, where are we? Now I'm in flowers. I asked you. Oh my gosh, then though, I don't know how to use this. Okay, yeah, so go A. No, plaza. P. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M. Flores. Yeah. Okay. Flores. I'm so confident. Flores. I mean there's flowers everywhere. Plaza flowers. The flowers. Woohoo. I got it, I got it. Let's go. Could you dial that number for me? Oh, God. I think I might know how to do this. Don't you like put your finger in. Okay. Don't you? What is this? I actually have no idea how to use this. Maybe the first three numbers? Do I not need an area code? Do you know how to do this? Yeah, so you have to rotate it, so you take whatever, so what is the first number? 610. So 610. 610. All right, you're gonna slow it down. 6. 1. What? You're picking all the way back, you're picking all the way back. I would pick up this phone like this. It's 6. You pick it up and you actually look at the number. 8825.  What do you do first when you, let's say I pick up the phone, what would you do? There we go. No. You have to pick it up first. Stop. Next time now, when you make a call, you typically pick up the phone and then dial the number. Question, do you know what would happen if I had, I would have turned to the zero button and just dialed zero. O-P-E-R. If you dialed the zero number on that phone, what would happen? Well, I made some new contacts to put in my Rolodex. Until next time, I'll see you in the yellow pages. See you later, Max.


Hey everyone, it's Coach Haley here again on your second video on Introductory to boxing techniques or striking techniques last video We spent a lot of time focused on the fundamentals of your stance your basic movements as well as your ones and twos Today what we're gonna focus on is reviewing some of those basic things like your stance making sure always throwing from proper starting point Then we're gonna add the threes and fours work on some combinations and give you a little bit more challenging rounds to work Out to at the end of the video. All right, so let's get back to it Everybody knows that stance from last video where we start with the hip with the part stance Send the right foot back that equal distance so that way if you were to draw an imaginary line Going straight out of your left foot and straight across your body from the right foot They would meet at the 90 degree angle just makes a little easier so you can visualize Having your feet kind of in two corners of a different box Our weight rather is going to be focused on a 50-50 stance So now leaning on one leg or the other not leaning back We're not leaning forward. We're just gonna be nice and solid in that stance We can move in any direction at any time our hands remember protecting the one and make her up top Always coming back to this stance in between strikes. We're never dropping our hands We're never coming up here Throw them from here. We're always keeping it nice and tight to be efficient when we speak in the movement Let's do a little review. Remember whatever Direction you're moving that foot should be moving first. So if that left foot we're trying to go forward. I step step Step step I'm moving laterally. I think you know the drill by now So let's just get right into that mirror game. Just follow along with me You can always grab somebody from the house run them through the stance and then practice it with them as well It's kind of a fun dancing technique. If you maybe the kids or even the roommates need to get out and get active a little bit This is a really easy way to do that. So let's follow along So notice that we're staying nice and light on our feet You don't see me leaning in any direction Right. I'm staying nice and easy nice and controlled. We're trying to maximize that efficiency movement Feel free if you're working with a partner to try to make it a little more challenging Move it a little bit quicker Change directions, whatever you need to do. So that's our second mirror technique I encourage you to take a break grab a drink of water and then come back to this video We're going to teach you a little bit more of a complicated strike So let's get into it The hooks. I know I mentioned last week that the two for that cross was the power strike But the hooks are the ones that a lot of people see damage to that rib cage or right underneath the chin So these are the ones that also happen to knock you out Well, in all honesty, you know If you're throwing your strikes properly You're kind of knocked somebody out with any of them. So just pick your choice throw them correctly and just see what happens Okay, so let's get into the hook The hooks are a lot more rotational in nature So it really focuses in on that pivot that we talked about Last week we briefly touched on the idea of squishing the buzz with that ball of the foot But this week when I want us to practice before we get into the actual mechanics of the hook is really focusing on that Pivot and feeling comfortable doing so.  Notice how the hips are driving the movement Getting that rotation and feeling a little more comfortable on the balls of your feet So I encourage you to practice that kind of motion just that it feels a little bit more natural as you're throwing the punch So let's start with the threes and fours. These are the hooks Okay, so in that stance hands are up The hook again is coming from that powerful pivot that we just worked on So we pivot with the foot as that hand comes out and this time we're coming out to the side and Bringing it back. So it's like stirring a pot of soup to come out and back out and back And back notice my feet and my hand move at the same time But I'm not moving or twisting my upper body. It's just the lower body This comes here Ideally when we throw a hook or keeping that wrist aligned with that fist as well as the Muscles and bones within the forearm that will prevent us from breaking the wrist. I've done it before I've seen it before Not a great situation if you break your wrist while trying to throw punches kind of damage your street cred a little bit Okay, so we want to focus on that pivot and then alignment Ideally we would see the first batch of knuckles if you were to throw that hook properly Some of you might be wearing gloves. So it's a little harder to see when we come out We see those knuckles and come straight back. So again, stirring that pot of soup getting that power Just like so show you from the side as well in That stand so you can kind of see that shoulder movement a little bit better We come out and come back out and back out and back Okay, so practice at three a little bit remember to focus on breathing so that Or whatever the world may be that you're choosing to use when you exhale now we're gonna go to the four The four is coming from that reader leg So we're kind of same principle See how I took it off that back foot Stack that wrist Stack the arm nice and control stirring that pot of soup Notice where that left hand is I'm always protecting the face never dropping never doing like this Right. We always want to stay nice and controlled. So if we put them together three four three four three four Okay, now we got the threes and fours. So now we're gonna work on is putting some combinations together for this week's rounds So last week we worked on the ones and twos number one Two thing goes first two knuckles Now we have three four one two three four So if you had any questions about what this week's combination is Might just have your answer here So that first round that we're doing remember three minute rounds one minute of rest you repeat the rounds Honestly as many times as you wish. I usually shoot for five three minute rounds comes out to about 15 minute workout You add rest in takes a little bit longer, but trust me you're gonna want the rest So we're starting again. So that 30 seconds on 30 seconds on format First 30 seconds is striking Second 30 seconds of that minute is gonna be some sort of straight exercise some sort of cardio exercise I'll show you just a basic breakdown about that round would look like Repeated a couple times and you're good to go. So let's start ding ding ding you hear that round go off We're throwing one two three four one two three four One two three four Ding ding ding 30 seconds goes up. We're going back to those body weight squats again You have an option here.  That's what I encourage you to do So that's the first minute down of the three minute round the second minute your combination is a one two three two one two three two One two Three two you hear the 30 seconds go off. We're gonna drop to the floor and do push-ups Whatever push-ups you feel comfortable doing you feel comfortable doing the push-ups you're welcome to if you want to go to the floor With your toes whatever your push-ups look like you do you Ding ding ding thank the Lord push-ups are done going back to that combination for the round this time we're gonna go one four one four one four one Four, so we're all turning straight punch hook straight hook straight hook Last 30 seconds of the round. We are holding that spot this time So we're just gonna grind out that 30 seconds might have to shift the weight a little bit Stand up if you need to then get right back into it That's your three minute round rest for one minute Then those many times as you want to let us know how it feels for you. You now know the ones and twos threes and fours Tune in for the next video.  We'll see you soon


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