Welcome to Adventures in Small Business, a collaborative effort by the U.S. Small Business Administration, Hawaii District Office, the Small Business Development Center, the Veterans Business Center of the Outreach of the Pacific, and the Patsy Teenage Center for Business and Leadership. I'm Terri Funakoshi, your host for today. And today we're talking to Crystal Van Putten, Hawaii artist who's going to talk to us about art to product. So welcome, Crystal. Thank you for having me on the show. Thank you for coming. So, Crystal, tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm originally from Washington State, and I moved here about 15 years ago. And when you first arrived to Honolulu, you just smelled a beautiful fragrance on the trees, the flowers. Is that what you loved? Yes. And, yeah, I loved the flowers, the beauty, the bright colors, the vivid colors. So did you move here by yourself 15 years ago? My daughter and I. Oh, nice. So this is your home now, 15 years? Yes. Been here 15 years. Great. So what brought you to the islands? I just loved the beauty. I loved the travel before, and who doesn't love Hawaii. And so you was telling me, so when you got here, you actually went to school? Yes. I went to KCC. I was taking new media art, and I was going for web design and graphic design. And I was taking elective as painting is elective, and I just enjoyed it. So is that where you picked up your love for art? Yes. When KCC had some beautiful flowers and cactus garden and just beautiful grounds. And I just fell in love with it, and one of our assignments for a painting class was to paint something outside. So I know you were telling me that you took it as elective, but today you're an artist, so tell me more about what was that road like? Did somebody help you, or what was the journey? Yes. I had a great teacher, a mentor, he was a great instructor.  And then I wanted to advance more in paintings, I enjoyed the colors, the mixing the paint, and putting it on that canvas and experimenting. And so I know you're telling me the first thing you did was a diamond head? Yes. Yeah, tell me about that. When I first arrived I saw diamond head, I just fell in love with Waikiki and diamond. That's the first painting I wanted to paint, and I wanted to put it on my wall. So I know you switched over to floral, so can you tell us what motivated you to do this collection? Yes, back at KCC I would say I saw the cactus garden, and they would have the flourish cactus, agave, and then we have the other agave, and I painted that violet. So are you talking about on the grounds of KCC? Yes, I changed the colors a little bit, because why does the cactus have to be green, so I wanted to change up the colors, make it a little vibrant and vivid. Because I've been to the campus and it's beautiful, but I actually didn't notice all the plants there, so it's interesting that walking the campus you got motivated by all the plants. So I know we have some of your pictures, your art pictures that we want to share. Let's see, I know you have the persimmon, do you want to tell us about that painting? Yes, persimmon was my first painting that I did, and what I did with the painting is I, with my graphic design skills, I made them into cards, and packaged it like work. So I know you said this design, a lot of people were interested in it, so was this the first one that you actually did, to make as an art card? Yes, it is, it's called persimmon hibiscus, and then how I got the name was from the YWCA, and because it's orange and persimmon is orange, and that's the YWCA's colors, so we wanted to promote myself, right, as an artist, so I wanted to name it persimmon hibiscus, and then we got to package them into these cards. Oh nice, can I see that? Yes. Oh, okay, so I remember, so I bought this, I think last year you brought this out, right, and I know you, it was a donation to YWCA, so that's great, so this was your first, and then what came out next? Okay, so I'm working on a new collection, so we have some new cards coming out, before more, and I'm going to be packaging them in five, I'm going to continue with the persimmon hibiscus, and then have four more paintings on the card. Let's take a look at it, so what's next? Do you have the rainbow leaves you're talking about? Yes. Nice, okay, so tell us about that one. Okay, the rainbow leaves, this is an elephant ear plant on KCC grounds, and I was walking by and I just thought these big, huge leaves were just fascinating, so I wanted to paint it, and then I decided to change up the colors, and paint some of my favorite colors, phthalo blue, and cadmium yellow, and then when I was naming it, I just realized it had the rainbow colors in it. It's very pretty, and how did you see those colors, because I know this plant is just green, right? Right, yes. I mean, I'm not creative, so I just see the green plant, how did you come up with this palette? Well, one of my ideas, when I saw the cactuses, why do I have to paint the cactus green, it's like I want to paint it my favorite color, so I painted one cactus blue, and then I started expanding where I just changed the colors, and I was experimenting with the paint palette, and mixing paint, and I really enjoyed the process. Oh, nice, and this is all oil painting, right? Yes, these are oil painting. Nice, that's really cool. So I know, what's your next one? I know you have five, so I want to get through them, so plumeria, can you show the card to us? Plumeria? Plumeria Paradise. Plumeria Paradise, okay, I think we have a shot of that, there you go. So tell us about this one. Plumeria Paradise. Well, I saw that first beautiful burgony, maroon color, plumeria on a tree, when I was actually walking home from KCC, and I thought it was gorgeous, and I take pictures of, these are all actual plants and cactuses, so I took pictures of them, and then I printed out, and then I paint from the picture, or sometimes I paint plein air. So, and I really loved it, and this is one of the fragrances you can smell all over Hawaii. Right, we love plumeria. Great, so, okay, I know you have another one here, Royal Moonlight, which one is that? This one? That card? Royal Moonlight. Yes. I love that, that's beautiful. I love the purples and blues. Tell us a little bit about that card. Well, I just thought the curves and the form of this cactus was interesting. Where I'm from in Washington State, it's on the rainy side, and I haven't seen really much cactus, so I saw the cactuses in the cactus garden, and I thought they were very interesting, and I just like the form, how it folds, and the lighting, and so, and I wanted to change up the colors. I love it, the purples and blues. Thank you. It's very royal. It looks nice. Great. Okay, I know we have one more. Yes. This is like a lot of people's favorite. Tell us about this one. This one's called Emerald Flourish, and I named it Emerald because it has the Emerald colors, and it just kind of reminds me of the ocean I'm a paddler to, so just kind of like the waves, you know, with the greens and the blues and the ocean, and also Emerald is Emerald City, Seattle, and I'm from Washington State, so I wanted, and I just really love the color, the Emerald color, so I wanted to name it Emerald, and then Flourish, how I got that was, it seems like it was thriving, and it just reminded me of success, and just flourishing and prospering. I think that's what, that's a lot of people's favorite. So you're telling me that, you know, you did the paintings, and you have it at home, you're enjoying it, but people kept asking if they could buy it.  Yeah, I was approached a lot to people who wanted to buy my paintings, and then why not? Why shouldn't I sell it to them? I was like, well, these are my paintings. I have them on my walls, part of my family, and they're the originals, and, but I wanted to share my art, so I wanted to put them on note cards, and my goal is to put them on tote bags. So you want to share your art through the products, and then keep your paintings for the family. Mm-hmm. Oh, that's great. Yeah, so, you know, another thing I wanted to ask you, I have to hear is, you know, what really motivated you, and how did you get to this point? I know you were telling me earlier you had a lot of help, and you really pride yourself in making it in Hawaii, and I know that's hard, so can you tell us a little bit of the journey on how you got to this point? Okay, well, I wanted to develop my, I wanted to take my paintings into a product form, so having the new media art skills, which is photography, graphic design, web design, I was able to do that, so I would take the photograph of the painting, and then bring it into Photoshop, make sure, you know, the colors are gray, and then printing it out. But I went to the Meek Center, and for business classes, launched my business, and they actually helped me to form my business, so there's a step and then process. Oh, great. So we're going to take a short break right now, but when I come back, I'm going to ask you the hard question of, you know, how it is to be an artist and an entrepreneur. Okay. So we'll be right back in one minute. Thank you. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Hello, we're back, and we're talking to Crystal Bandputt, an artist, and she's going to tell us about the students of our schools who are participating in science fair, so young talents making way every Tuesday at 11 a.m. only on Think Tech Hawaii. Mahalo. Aloha. We're back, and we're talking to Crystal Bandputt, an artist, and she's going to tell us about her entrepreneurship journey. So Crystal, when we left off, I really wanted to know, how did you get to this stage here with your cards? And a lot of people out there, you know, have art hobbies and are playing with them, they think, should I make products? How hard is it to make? So can you share, you know, some advice on how you can actually make the products? Yes. Well, I took that launch, my business class at Meek Center, and we had to make a business plan, and write out an action plan, and the steps. That's the, you know, you can see your painting, and then what you want for the end product, but how the steps is a big process. That's the hard part, right? Yes. So how did that help you? Oh, it helped me a lot, because you have to write it out, but you can write it out and talk about it, but actually doing it is a lot different. Because you have to keep proofing your work. So did they help you along the way? Yes, I got a lot of help. They're a great center, and I recommend going there. So I, yes, I got feedback. I got mentorship. I got business advice. And I know you're telling me you did some research, so how did you end up, where did you end up printing the cards? How did you print it? Oh, professional image, downtown, local business. I worked with Clover. She's great. We have a great relationship in getting my product out, and she's very efficient, and I just really appreciate it. She's the one that helped me get these products out, and she helped me with my tags, and I was able to do my first show last year. Oh, great. So I know here you brought some proofs. Can you tell us about this? Yes. These are the proofs, so this actually comes out like this on the printer, you know, with the logo and the name on the side, and then the print. So, and so it's nice seeing it coming out of the printer. It's like, oh my gosh, it's happening. And then they crop them and make the cards out of them. Oh, okay. So how was that process? I know it, you know, people think it's maybe easy, just create the art. Take a picture, and then, you know, have it printed. Yes. It helps if you have graphic design skills, because you can see if the color is right, or does it match my painting or not, and then I think the hardest part is really, I wanted to get the right names for my painting. I know I did a lot of research and remembered how when I painted them, and, you know, to match it and to have a nice collection. Mm-hmm.  I did. And you got to have the right printer. And, you know, we got it worked out. Which printer I like, and the outcome it comes out. And... The attention to detail. Yes, attention to detail. I know I work with a lot of artists, and then, you know, you print something, and then when you see it, you're like, oh no, that's not it. And, you know, you can waste a lot of money that way. So I know you're very, you're really good with, you know, your eye is really good, and your attention to detail. So it's exciting, because I did buy these cars last year, and it was a hit. Everybody loved them. So from there, from your painting to the finished cars, this is great. And let's see. So this is to be available again this year? Yes. And then tomorrow, the new four, the four new cars are going to be coming out, and they're going to be packaged five together, like a variety pack. Mm-hmm. So it's really hot off the press. Hot off the press tomorrow. Yes. So they'll be available tomorrow. So you said they'll be available tomorrow. Where is that? Downtown Court and Court. Are you going to be on any event? Yes, I am. It starts at 5.30 at the YWCA on Richard Street, and it's the route to Veterans Fundraiser. So I'll be there showcasing my cards. Great, great.   Well, after this collection, I'm working on five more cards coming out before Christmas. Kind of a different art, but it's still my art, and then, I mean, it's still floral and plants, but different technique. And I want those to come out. I want to, like, make a tote bag. So I have a design that I like to produce and we get it manufactured here, so it's made in Hawaii. And then I like to see it in stores. The cards, tote bags, maybe merchandise, maybe apparel, and then long-term goal would be exporting. Oh, great. So are we going to see these designs on apparel and totes? I hope so, yes. So the tote bags will be easy. I just got to figure out how I'm going to do it on the clothing, so how it's going to work into the design. Oh, great. I know we were showing your art earlier and somebody was asking for pillows and home accessories. Very exciting. It can expand. I think it's a really great industry to get into. And then, you know, people look at art. I know that art is subjective and it's to the eye, but what's unique about your business? What do you think is the selling point? Well, I believe I have saturated colors and arbitrary colors, so I don't like just paint the green leaf like we were talking about earlier and paint them in different colors. I like to expand off the canvas. I would say, I don't know, I just think the vivid colors catch people's eyes. So, you know, you said you like to expand off the canvas.  Are they big? Yes, they're pretty big. The plumeria, excuse me, the persimmon hibiscus one is 20 by 30, but the rest of them are pretty large. Like, yeah, pretty big. So that's pretty hard, so you have to scan that? Yes, that is, takes some money to do that, so the next step I need to do is fill a lot of cards and then get them all scanned so they're a great, so they're a digital file that's quality. So I know there's, you know, a lot of competition out there, so how do you take, you know, how do you look at competition here in Hawaii or do you look at that? No, yeah, it doesn't scare me. It's like I have a different technique or a different style of painting, and I think a lot of artists have their own style, and that's what you got to pursue your passion and then it comes within and how you see things and how you feel and your creativity. So it depends on the artist and then what other people like, too. Have you had any challenges with your art people? Well, I had, yeah, a couple of challenges where it took me a long time to get the paintings titled. I think this one here, when I first put it in a show, it was called Violet Cactus. It was kind of like two planes. I wanted to make it interesting, so I named it Royal Moonlight. So coming up with the titles and the meanings and double checking them and that was one of my longest times. And I date everything. When I do a process and I write notes, I date everything because I started really researching back in April. And I had to do some sacrifices. I'm a paddler. Right now, all my friends are having fun paddling and going out and having fun and I'm sitting and working. And I had to step back from that and I was even on the board as the secretary and I had to resign that because I wanted to move forward in my business. And it takes a lot of time and focus and effort and process and, you know, like sometimes I'd be sitting home figuring I'm looking up in the dictionary online, these names and double checking everything and it takes a long time and just being that creative mode. Right. I mean, that's what I was going to ask you. I mean, you know, to be an entrepreneur it is a lot of sacrifice, a lot of hard work.  Oh, I know in school you said you went when you went to UH. I learned the new media arts at KCC and it was very nice because they teach you the software and you can do a client showcase and portfolio and website and then I went to UH and they have a different approach to it more hands-on and it actually helped me because I didn't think that at the time when you're cutting out sentences and pasting it on paper and I was like, oh, I just came from a technology school and I'm going to this and then, but actually it helped me really because I can catch things now and I can proof it and I can catch it so it's like I really liked that at the time it was really hard but and then the other question was Well, I know you said you had challenges, you know, people, you know, questioning your art and things that you just pushed forward. Yes. That's what you got to do. You got to pursue your passion and believe in yourself and just keep pushing through it and I wanted these cards to come out a little bit earlier this year but, you know, I wanted to re-photograph some of the work because the files I had were a little bit earlier or smaller file and I wanted to re-photograph them and then we're having our storms coming in to Hawaii and I had to wait to photograph and then so I wanted to do that and get the right file and then make sure it's edited right and graphic design correct right and I know a lot of artists I mean, you're very persistent a lot of artists, you know, people say oh, you know, it's hard the whole cliche starving artist you know, how do you deal with that because I know a lot of times, you know, you get defeated and you know is my art good enough or not I mean, it's a real thing, right you hear people saying that how do you, and you're so positive how do you overcome that Well, a starving artist how do you spend going to restaurants eating and celebrating and after each regatta and even now, you know and you have to, like, think okay, my money's gonna go to my print or my money's gonna go starting my business so you have to make those sacrifices and, you know, it's off season right now so I figured I can get back into the game and competitive season so, which is in March so I wanted to do that I wanted to tell all your palaces to buy your cards then they're very supportive I have a great team and a great crew at La Cají so what else do you want to tell us about your art career or your art where do you see it going well, I would like to get the cards and tote bags and merchandise into the local stores here nationwide and then the long-term goal would be exporting and I know you were saying that you were working with YWCA can you tell us about your what you were doing with them last year for your... oh yes, well the Prasim and Hibiscus, I was their featured artist and the YWCA was my biggest client and they had sent it out to their clients, their donors for a Christmas card last year and I was in the arts and crafts fair at the YWCA and this is what we're selling, you know, these packaged ones they're for in a set and then I was selling them at singles too I just want to bring that up because I know you have a really big heart and all the proceeds went to help all the programs which I know you've taken so thank you for that I really believe that any business with a social arm is really awesome so thank you for supporting the community yes, thank you very much so we're almost out of time Crystal but I wanted to make sure that everybody knew that they could, you know, check out all your stuff you want to let them know you have a website? Yes, it's crystalvampatton.com and you can find some of my pictures on there and then some events that I've been in and so do you plan to do more events this year? can we find that on your website? yes, so I'm going to be tomorrow night it's the downtown and court so that's the first event and then I have some other ones lined up for December okay, great well we look forward to seeing all of that Crystal thank you so much for being on today thank you for having me you're welcome thank you everybody, this is Adventurers in Small Business and I'm Terry Funakoshi from the Patsey Teenage Center for Business and Leadership join us again here next week Aloha


Alright, it's now time for Interactive. Remember, you can download the Sportsmax app from the Google Play or the App Store and watch a variety of live sporting action, including the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations and the Winter Youth Olympic Games. Also, check out our clips on X, Instagram and YouTube. While on Monday, we discuss the Jason Holder's concerns about the future of Test Cricket, let's get some reactions from YouTube. Okay, so we have Freevor saying West Indies Cricket Board has been historically poor at preserving West Indian players' earnings. We need to have better sponsors and revenue generation. It is failure of the West Indies Board. The ICC is a joke. This user says, I know it's tough. Jason still will have to toil on. Okay, we have Aide Franks saying many people predicted that T20 would destroy Test Cricket. This was predicted years ago. Jassy Brown, that suggestion Holder gave might just be the solution to our problem. Alright, so a lot of people, you know, of course, being angry at the ICC Cricket Board, being upset at West Indies Cricket Board, speaking about Test Cricket and the decline in players' interests. Yeah, well, one of the first responses there spoke about the ability to fund, you know, the players in the right way. But you know, unfortunately, sponsors are attracted to winners. And if this West Indies team was having the success that they had in the late 70s through to the 80s and mid 90s, I think there would be a lot more willingness from sponsors to be attached to the team. And they have had some level of sponsorship to keep the game going to a certain extent. But because they haven't been winning, it impedes their ability to attract major sponsorship. And you know, that is just a reality that we've got to face. If the team starts performing better, then it will attract more financial support. Yeah, there is a comment that we did not take where someone said that it will be difficult to put in place the suggestion coming from Jason Holder just because of the different seasons. And I think I had made mention of it. I think I made mention of it yesterday as well, that the Australian summer, the New Zealand summer is different from the summer in the Caribbean. And plus the fact that as well that every country wants to have a T20 league, but it makes so it becomes difficult. The problem I'm having Lance and Mariah is that it does not seem as if the ICC is trying in any way to fix the problem. It's as if when they're okay with things as they are in the Australia, England dominating the game, both on the field and financially. And everything is well with the world. Do you think it's only because they're doing well, like results wise? Because they always say you have a voice only when you know you're doing well. Well, there are powerful nations aren't they? Especially India. There are powerful cricketing nations that generate a lot of funds because of the popularity of the sport there and the sort of crowds that they they attract to their events. I want to make the point quickly to that the suggestion was made yesterday in the way that FIFA has a window for, you know, non FIFA events. It isn't a seamless with cricket because which is the point I was just making that about the person who made the comment on our YouTube page. That's exactly what they were doing. Not only for the fact that it would be difficult to do the same thing, but the windows are different. Yes, it went FIFA has a window, you know, a FIFA window for international football. It is usually for a week or so or 10 days. The IPL runs for about six or seven weeks. And you know, other tournaments, the big bash runs for five weeks or so. So to have a window, you know, for teams to or players to involve themselves in franchise cricket, it's not that transferable. The football, the football situation is different. Yeah, I think the bigger issue quickly with that is that every country essentially wants to have a T20 tournament. And so let's say if you had a window in April, there's no way the IPL is going to go. Well, we're not going to be going when big bash is happening and the Caribbean Premier League is happening because that in many ways would defeat the purpose of now trying to get the best players and then some leagues would be watered down. But I still think there is a way that it can be done when they have to try and I agree with you and the point that Fazir, who we consider a cricket visionary, would have been making for several years now that there is no seeming effort from the ICC standpoint to address it. And that's a huge problem. Yeah, probably won't be addressed by the way. That's what I think it won't be addressed, but I hope it will be. Yeah, all right. We're going to address this one now, Ricardo and Lance. What about this? Layton Sekani David saying that Spikes are overrated and decided to run barefooted over 100 meters to prove his point. All right, so let's take a look at the run first. Okay. He's just talented. Okay. He clocked 10.4 lengths. 10.4. Yeah, barefooted, faster than your personal best. By far. And yours as well. Yes. You neglected to mention that. Both of yours combined. What about Spikes? Are they overrated? Ricardo, do you have anything to say for that? Lance, I can't comment on that. I would like to know what time he would run in Spikes without that comparison. That's a non statement for me. I mean, 10.4 is a reasonably good time, but I'm not sure. Maybe he's a 10 flat runner if he's in Spikes. Okay, back to you. You always have a response. I agree with Lance. Maybe in Spikes he'll run 10.2 or 10.1. Yeah, yeah. Maybe he'll run 10.6. I don't know. I want to see him in Spikes and then we can make the determination. It's like you say in boat running barefooted and runs 9.8 and goes Spikes are overrated.  Yeah. Okay, fine. Let's move along. Carita Bonichaux is now Manchester City's all-time record scorer in the Barclays Woman's Super League. Let's head over to X now. All right. So, Jon Isall says this is a big deal, Bonichaux. Joelle says we don't talk about Bonichaux enough. Swift, United's male team wishing they had her. Clive Mullings, Bonichaux strikes again. Sage, is she on her way to being our most accomplished footballer? Well, I have a lot of time for Bonichaux. She represents my team. I also have a lot of love for the Jamaica Reggae girls, so I'm happy that she's on fire for the right side of Manchester. Lance? I get the last thing. I will ignore what Roya just said and just say this, that in a team littered with non-products of Jamaica's football domestic game, I think it's significant that the most successful of them all was produced by the Jamaican domestic season from high school at San Diego, which is where she went, right? Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, it's brilliant. It's brilliant. One of these days we should have a conversation about whether she is becoming Jamaica's most accomplished footballer. I was looking at the question. I thought you were just looking at me like, what's wrong with him? Anyways, viewers, that's it from us for today. We're out of time, but thank you so much for joining us, and we'll be back tomorrow with another edition of the Sports Max Zone. Have a beautiful evening.


Hey everybody it's Craig back to here and in this video I'm going to share one simple tip with you that every outdoor portrait photographer should know. All right let's get started. Okay so that one simple tip is if you're shooting with strobes outdoors you can change the skies to become more blue in camera. So this image you're looking at right here is before so this is a raw image it's not edited and I shot this at 5500 Kelvin because that's the temperature of my strobe and it's roughly the temperature of daylight but you can see that the skies are not very blue. Now let's go to this next image here. Now what I did was I shot this at 3200 which is the tungsten setting and that makes the sky more blue and it also makes the water more blue but what you have to do is use a CTO gel that stands for color temperature orange. I'll just let you have a look at one here you can get on B&H. You can just do a simple google search for CTO full CTO gel and you get a bigger size and all I did was I took that size and I put it inside my softbox and I changed the white balance on my camera to 3200 and because the strobe is closer to the person it warms up their skin tone but the skies and the background they have that blue tone so it's a simple trick that every outdoor photographer should try if you want to capture those bluer skies the bluer water and it's a color temperature orange gel. Get one big enough that you can put inside your softbox easily that way you can take it in and out and that's what I did with this one. All right so here's a look at these images right at a camera without any retouching and you can see I shot this one on the left if I click on it you could see the temperature it was shot at 5500 Kelvin with a K and that's what I set my strobe to and I set my camera white balance to that manually and you can see it gives an overall kind of warmness to the image it looks very daylightish but you can see there's not a lot of blue in the sky and the water so what you do is you use the gel and then you set your white balance to 3200 in camera and if you look over here it was roughly 3200 and then what you can do is in post if you shoot the color checker it might be a little bit easier you can see the white shirt isn't necessarily white but what we can do is we can warm that up so we could warm it up to get the white to match the skin tone to match if you use the color checker it would probably be a little easier but you see all I did was sort of take that from 32 to 42 and let's go with about maybe 4100 and we'll see how that looks so we still have a much bluer sky and the whites are close the skin color is close so you could see by just using a gel like that you can get a little more blue on water and sky and like I said if you use the color checker it might be easier to make that adjustment and you can do this by eye as well I just sort of did it by eye and I think around 4000 it looks similar to the original shot and you can do it to taste but anyway it's a neat little trick it's easy to do and it can really enhance your outdoor portraits if you're shooting with strobe now any other tips I can think of well if you're going to be shooting at sunset where it's a warmer sky I wouldn't suggest cooling down the sky with that so I'd say anywhere from two hours before sunset or two hours after sunrise and you've got that window where you really want to emphasize those blue skies and this trick is probably perfect for you so anyway if you have any questions you can post them down below if you found this tip helpful give me a thumbs up if you're new here and you're not already a subscriber my name is Craig Bekta and if you're in a photography you should hit that subscribe button right now and also hit that bell notification because every week I release a new photography tutorial everything from portrait lighting tips to portrait retouching tips and a whole lot more so go ahead click on that subscribe button and hit that bell notification all right thanks and let's continue on with this video anyway thanks again for watching this video give me a thumbs up if you found it helpful if you have any questions about this technique you can post them down below all right I'll see you in the next video


Hi, good morning and welcome to today's products and focus so most global equity markets are still struggling this morning Right across the bat with the US 30 having come off quite a hard day on Friday And it's had a just a tiny little bounce first thing this morning But 17 034 is the next potential support level almost a death cross coming on the moving averages Well, the other technicals relatively neutral the MACD is just crossing the zero line right now Which you see a bit of a negative signal I've ever look at the UK 100 you can just see it's moving in this kind of wave formation We seem to be kind of happily through our next potential move, but 57 70 is the next potential support level You might have short-term potential support round about 58 67 And we're on the wrong side of potential support right now at 60 73 They'll be at the top end of our trading range. That's not really saying much right now I'll be on the interday charts. It is just having a little short-term spike up there But the impact on the commodity markets is having a pronounced impact on the UK 100 So then looking at Japan 225 you see this horrible candle that we had there in Japan 225 for initially after the Bank of Japan looked to expand Their QE by buying a lot more localized ETFs With a short-term spike up, but then almost within five minutes got pushed right back down again You can see that negativity is thought has followed through to today We've got a quite a nice look in the doji formation looks to be a short-term bounce of 18 648 The next potential support would be 18 306 other technicals still relatively neutral So looking then at dollar yen the dollar is not really doing a huge amount But you can see the Japanese yen has has wrestled control from US dollar bringing this right back down again Very similar pattern to what we was posted on the Japan 225 We are in the middle of two ranges right now 120 spot 55 and 121 spot 87 trading below both moving averages Mac these crossing the zero line other technicals are relatively neutral So then moving on to West Texas crude Edging ever so slightly lower on the interday charts right the bottom of its scale at $34 30 cents one of its lowest Marks in about 11 years. I think that we're just about to hit the longer-term potential support is at $27 With 35 30 being potential resistance So then moving on to gold golds benefiting a little bit from the safe haven buying aspect But 1072 remains to be potential resistance longer-term potential support 1031 other technicals completely neutral Though you you are in a longer-term negative downtrend here You can just obviously get with an idea from here It looks to be that we've got another little downtrend right here. In fact Probably clean up some of these some of these levels right now because we're a little bit away from right now I Think you could probably get rid of this and just go to my drawing tools for a second Arguably, you could be looking at another trend line right here Could be even a descending triangle formation if you were to cap the bottom of these two Camels right here. My fact, that's exactly what we're gonna do just so we can see if that's gonna come out Could be a descending triangle formation usually a continuation pattern And I'm just gonna redraw that to there It might come back Okay, that gives you a bit of an idea of Of where we are with gold and we finish up now with your dollar and GBP USD So your dollars had a modest bounce and one spot is 08 and 19. It's done it twice now They're on Friday. That's right. It stopped on Thursday. It bounced on Friday and It's just hovering around about that same level close at the top end of this range on Friday It's still hanging about there just now But that will give you a bit of an idea of where we are so close to that potential support one spot 08 and 19 Technicals, we've almost got a cell signal in the slow stochastic arguably. We did get a cell signal in the slow stochastic That was on Thursday. It's not easy fall through this morning energy charts your dollars trading at the top end of this range We are trading in between both moving averages. So you could get a bit of a short-term cap with that 55 period SMM So then looking at GBP USD, we bounced off one spot of 4860 we bounced up there on Thursday didn't do a lot on Friday Probably not going to do a lot today still in a longer term downtrend right now and the other technicals are relatively neutral So I come with data wise you've got consumer confidence from the eurozone 3 p.m. UK time And then if you go on to Tuesday, so there's actually still some data coming out You know you're getting quite close to Christmas. You have US GDP and existing home sales And on Wednesday, you've got UK GDP US durable goods personal income from the US University of Michigan sentiment index you home sales and of course crude oil inventories I'm probably running about 24th. I'm guessing a lot of our traders will be taking a little bit of a break And you'll see slightly less happening in the financial markets thinner volumes more Exassivated moves are things to watch out for so keep your eye on the chart form Make insights perfectly going forward and join me again tomorrow to find out what happened next


Now that we have a pretty good grasp on what a put-out is let's look at something closely related to that and this is called an assist and so whenever we have a put-out remember that is accredited to the player who's responsible for putting the batter or the runner out and an assist will go on some plays where it happens to the player who who helps out or who gives an assist to the player who gets the the put-out so we will let's define What an assist is and this is is when a fielder throws or deflects a batted or thrown ball in a way that a put-out results, so this is a fielder throws or Deflects a batted or thrown ball so that the play results in and out and so Let's take a look at a just a simple example of that probably the simplest way you could we could put it is if we have a second baseman and our first baseman and The batter hits a ground ball to the second baseman and he throws on to the first baseman and gets the out gets the the the batter out so in this case the Second baseman would get credit for the assist and the first baseman would get credit for the put-out so and And so let's throw out just another quick example We said that it could also occur when a player Deflects a ball So for example if we have the pitcher and you'll see this sometime when the balls hit really hard And the pitcher tries to get in the way and or sometimes he tries to get out of the way But if he can't and say you know it hits him on the leg or something and it bounces over to the second baseman He picks it up like a like a ground ball and throws on the first base Then we would give the pitcher credit for an assist We would give the second baseman credit for an assist and then we would we would of course give the first baseman credit for the put-out So we can also say as part of this is is it's also on a play That a So we could say it's a play where The fielder throws or deflects the batted ball so that the play would have resulted in and out Had there not been an error on the play so so or Would have been Would have resulted In and out if not for an error so this would mean in the like the situation that we just Did if we have the second baseman we have the first baseman We have a ball hit to the second baseman He picks it up no problem He throws it to the first baseman, but for whatever reason the first baseman drops it and In commits the error and the runner is safe at first base The second baseman in this case didn't do anything wrong. So he would still get credit for the assist But obviously the runners safe He would have advanced the first base on the error and we would charge the first baseman in this case with the error the kind of second part to the the rule listed in the rulebook is is somewhat obvious, but but it's it's thrown in just to just to make sure and That is when a fielder throws or deflects the ball during a play in which a runner is called out for Interference or running out of the baseline. So so he had this this You can just copy this one This definition down basically except for so that the play results in in a runner a runner being called out for interference or running out of the base and so these are This is Two situations where you know you say well Basically, this is kind of repeating what is set up here because it also results and then out But but technically on this play. There's really no Put out being being this is credited to a player because the player The player isn't isn't you know making the the put out it would be Automatically, you know attributed to him So so we just kind of reinforce it by saying That that an assist can also be be You're given this way the last thing to remember about assists is that a Player can only receive one per play player can only be credited With one put out per Play and and this is is is basically meaning if there is a rundown Which means that there's a player who would be caught, you know between two bases and Somehow he gets he gets caught in between here. We have the different infielders and and So what would happen is this runner he'd say he's trying to run to third and then if somehow the third basement Gets a hold of the ball he in the runner sees this he'll turn around, you know and and try to make it back towards second and When he's doing that in the third baseman maybe throws the ball to the shortstop and then maybe he'll he'll The runner will see this he'll turn back around and try to run toward third base again and and so the the Ball will once again be thrown back to the third baseman So so basically this could go on, you know for as long as the runner can can keep it up And he's hoping obviously that the one of the players eventually drops the ball or or makes a bad throw so But but basically what this is saying is if you know this goes on Long time No matter how many times the player touches the ball he can only be credited with one and I actually messed this up This is one put outs was in the last video So I'm still thinking that but this is one assist Per play and so that is our definition of assists


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I have had a lot of time with Tekken 8 now and I am still hard stuck beneath the red ranks. And now I know it has nothing to do with the video, but I've also got a trip coming up that's going to take me away from the game for a week. So this is my last chance to make a good push towards this rank up. Will I be able to get it? I guess we're going to find out today. This is my last chance for a few weeks to get this red rank. I need to make it happen. But of course they got to put me up against a Jin on his promo match. So it's not going to be easy. I do like the fit though. Kind of reminds me of End of Z Goku. Chain grab! Call me Oob! What did you say about my mom? That's two hits already. I just got to, I got to make it happen. Vanquisher on a promo chance. I got to make him fight for it. If nothing else, I got to make him fight for it. What do I do? I just got to play the game, play the game, play the game. Go for the low. I'll take it. Jaguar hop. Jaguar hop. Oh, armor up. Go for the legs. Nice. Loving that. Armor up. Grab? That might be enough for game. It's not though. Go for a low. We're going to get a perfect on round one. Wasn't really too intense of a perfect, but I'm still feeling pretty good. Go for a side step. No. It's, it's snuck out. I'm not sure what I do about that. It didn't look like I could crouch. Oh, armor. Grab power by me. RKO. Sorry. I'm still working on crouch. No crouch. Okay. So you want to get grabbed. You enjoy, you enjoy the process of getting RKO. And I understand that. And I want to support you. That's one. Don't let me do it twice. All right. All right. So you didn't want to let me do it twice. Don't go low. Oh, bye-bye. Oh, you already know I got to do, you know what? I'm just going to armor up. Okay. Armor up. Heat attack. This is going to let us go into Jaguar stuff. Into an RKO. Oh, I would never do that twice. I would never do it twice. Is what I would say if I'm lying. Me when I lie. I would never do it three time. All right. So he got me there. You got me there. A little bit of heat left. Honestly, at this stage, I'm not sure if I should try to cheese out one more. I'm going to cheese out one more RKO again. It gave me a little bit of heat back. Okay. We're going to lose it now unless I spam low. Kind of goes into a crazy. I wanted to giant swing so bad. No. Check him. How are you not? How are you this calm in the clutch? How is he that calm in the clutch? I got to give it up. He did not flinch at the side of danger. Okay. Hopback. No, I'm sorry. Lariat. Safe. Give me your legs. Wow. Oh God. He got to grab. I'm kind of down right now. Can't lie. I can't lie. He's got me down. No rush. I'm just going to charge it. Why not? Right? Why not? Let it fly. Go low. No, he's got a hop kick. He's got out of the corner, but I got something for him. Go low. Oh no. No. This can't be happening. I'm going to have to wake up. Yo, I got him looking goofy. We'll take round one and 150 right points. Oh, it's going to be. It's going to be a bit of a long day out here. Heading into the rematch though. I'm definitely more worried than and then ever. I feel like he definitely had the stronger ending couple of rounds there and I have more stuff that I need to learn not to be as fraudulent about like these lows that have been cooking me. Oh, just grab him again. Why not?  That was a great sidestep. Okay. Can't do that. Can't do that. Wake up, cake. Wake up, cake into a grab. He doesn't take it. He doesn't take it. I'm just going to let it fly. Let it fly. Let it fly. Why not? Let it fly. Splash. Oh God. Armor. Oh, okay. I'll take that trade. I'll take that trade every day of the week. Okay. Maybe that. Maybe that trade not so much. Oh, I'm fishing. I'm fishing. I'm fishing. I'm fishing. Big splash damage. It was risky. It was kind of pointless. Don't crouch. Oh, down for the one. Thank you for the free load down for one. You've always been my guy armor up stand up so I get RKO out of nowhere. By God, he's going for it again. Imagine how how much damage I could get if I just didn't miss it every time. Like if I just if I waited long enough just to he actually crouched. Normally I'd be a little depressed but I'm kind of hyped because crouch. Oh, he didn't crouch that time. One, two, one, grab. Armor cake. We'll take it. We'll walk away from this one. GGs, two games up. Couple of right points. We're climbing back up eliminator. But still, it's a long climb. Going into game two. Leo in a suit. Damn, looking crisp. Side step. Oh, into a chain grab. Eight frames. You were not breaking that. In fact, I saw at the winter that I don't think you could break this at all now. So I don't even got to ask. Once you counter grab like that, you're just cooked for life, bros. Sorry about shining wizard. Don't make me side step. Grab you. How does that launch me on a side step, bro? Three dimensional plane. Leo just playing a 2D fighting game out here. I understand. I wish I could. All right. But you wouldn't do that twice. Okay. So it's kind of bad for me. Oh, my last chance. All right. So it's looking. It's looking horrible, bros. Damn. That's what I enjoy about playing Leo. The fast lows, man. That was supposed to be the low. One, two, one grab. Don't attack. Thank you very much for not attacking. I needed that 2D is all I need. But bro, don't crouch. You can't afford to damage. One, two, one grab. Can you I should really just down forward one spam down for one spam in that situation is all I think about. There we go. Make them make them a little confused. Okay. So you got your armor. Wow. That was good. Wow. That was unfortunate. Give me the grab. Thank you. Chain grab. Can you break it? Leo, please welcome back to our chain grab game show and our contestant broken into, but are they ready for the one million dollar bonus round in which you get hit with a counter hit and almost die and then okay. Get off me. Oh, no. No. Oh, wait. You're just getting grabbed. Thank you. God, I am such a scrub in this game, bro. All of my wins are fraudulent. I got a win with the Omega heat. Oh, give me that. Okay. I got it. I got to spam this. No, no, no, no hit spam it spam it. Ah, damn. How about this armor?  What do we grab? Okay. Down for one down for one. Thank you. Greatest move in the game. I'll take another win. I needed that 200 points. That's huge. If we get out of this set with just two wins and that's it. We're at a great position. I should have known. I like this guy for a reason DB Floyd. Could it be Dragon Ball? Oh God. All right. Well, I'm, I'm cooked. I'm cooked. I'm cooked. I got him in the corner though. What do we grab? No, get hands off me. Hands off the merchandise. All right. You can touch the merchandise round two though. Again, we're going to armor here. Okay. You can armor too. Oh, that launcher tracks. Leo give me the grab. Wow. I could have done so much more. I could have done so much more with that block. It's crazy. That's crazy. I need a miracle to win this set now. I need a goddamn miracle to win this set. What are we doing, King? What are we actually doing, King? All right. Let's just get, let's get, let's get scrubby. What? Come on. It's a goddamn miracle. I didn't lose right there and then. Come on, King. Show me what you can do, buddy. Let's go and let us down, King. That was all me. I just missed the inputs. Damn. I could have brought that back. Give me, give me another chance. All right. Heat up. I cancel it and then I crouch and then I crouch and get, I get launched and then I lose a considerable amount of health. Oh no. The wall rising. It's making me want to play Leo again. Making me want to play, making me want to play Leo again. Oh God. Hands off the merchandise. I'm just mashing. I'm straight mashing. I deserve to, what happened to me? What happened? We got exposed as fraudulent in the beginning of the round and now there we go. Am I doing that? I'm doing the order that wrong. Oh, what do we grab? Okay. Okay. That's not too bad. Okay. Okay. Not good. Not good no more. Not good anymore. Please. We barely live. I don't think this kills though. If this kills that is a highway robbery. I should actually serve 60 years. It's not going to except it does. Look at that smile. Look at that smile. That's why it killed. Okay. Big time. Just trigger the trigger the animation. Oh no. Okay. We get to grab. I'm so focused. I'm so tapped in right now. They do have heat. So I'm not trying to do too much. That's exactly why I was not trying to do too much.   There we go. Freelo. Freelo. Freelo all we had to do all we had to do. Look, if I have to win with the cheap stuff, I will win with the cheap stuff armor. That sucked. That was just a good read though. No. Oh, RKO. You know what I got to do to cheese the win now. Somebody stopped the fight. Somebody stopped the fight. It's already too. He did that cancels out my armor. Barely take a good trade. It's kind of a good trade. Let's go. I can tell they were nervous. I was too, but I had to pretend I wasn't. Let's go. Okay. Decent. We're halfway through. Can we get closer to red? I feel like it's just a never ending fight. Of course, we run into another King who is just, he's just wearing whatever the outfit store had in stock. Oh, that was huge. Oh, he got, you know the route? You know the route? He knows the route. That was different from my route. I don't know whose route is better. Probably his. Hop kick.  You got it. Get off me, bro. All right, you got it. Was I was I throwing out maybe one too many armor moves? Yeah, you could say that. Oh, I'm fishing now. Oh, he knows. I'm trying to jab lock into shining with it. I got counter hit on that. That's huge. Let's go. If I could jab lock him, I would. Okay, we're down two rounds and it's looking worse every day. I'm going to start with heat automatically. I think we just need. We just need something to get us going. That's a low. Oh, no. Not my day in the sun, bro. Not my day in the sun. It's clear to me that my cheap stuff isn't going to work. I got to I got to play this one a little more patient here. I got to play this one a little tiny bit more patient. It's a little bit just a little bit. Nothing nothing too crazy here. Guys, we're just going to try to get a little bit more informed. Let him crouch like that. That's really all we're doing here. We're just trying to play that patient game. Get thrown around. Oh God, we got to crouch that. Okay, mix up crouch. No crouch. Okay, it's your mouth. Fish him out. Fish him out. Okay, he's out of heat. There we go. That's what I'm saying. Let's let's play it. Let's play it a little slow. We gave him a we gave him a fast look. We gave him a fast look. Let's give him a slow look. Let's give him a nice slow look. Oh God. What the? Well, that was bro is hitting me with some new stuff, but now I got to hit him with some new stuff. What's good? I he never crouches these. So we just take that every day of the week. He never crouches these. So we take that every day of the week and then he crouches these. So we take those every day of the week. Nice. Two rounds again. This is what I'm looking for. It's it's embarrassing. How many times I can't get this giant swing to work again. He's just going to let me get these all goddamn day. Oh my God. And I'm not going to stop. That's the thing is I'm never going to stop. I'm never going to stop doing it. All right. Well, one one now one one. Does that kind of make a wow? What a payday. We're just win trading out here. That was huge for the amount of points we lost in the first one. But again, I was a very different look. Now we got to kind of hit him with a blend. We got to kind of hit him with a blend of techniques here. There we go. There we go. Oh, so now he's crouching. Oh, let's go. Oh, that's a huge fishing move. Why am I? I don't have to be fishing after it lands once. That's probably good for the round, bro. I'm probably good on the round.  All right. He got me. Bros in the ripped jeans, man. Where's King off to after this? Give me that chain grab. Can you break it? I don't care if you're another king. I'll snap your neck like a twig. Run the outside one more time over the back. I'm thinking maybe one more grab. What are we thinking here, boys? Oh, he broke out. Oh, God. Oh, no. No, thank you, dude. He's not crouching it though. There we go. He's finally crouched it.  Shining with, I think he got my, I think he got my lungs. I think he got my lungs. I think he knocked the air out of me. I got it. I'm going to crash this every day. Okay. Okay. I was afraid. No. This is bad. I'm not going to lie to you. Okay. This is bad. This is very, very bad, boys. Very, very bad. It's over. I couldn't get it done. Koniki. Finally into our next match and we're back. Feel it hopeful. I just, I got it. I got to play better. I got to play better. Oh, no, it can't be. Why am I trying to play fair and square when I got heat? That's just not, that's not how you play the game. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Don't block low. Don't block low. Never block low. Is it going to be our chance to get something going here? Take the legs. Oh, no, the heat.   My buttons just don't be acting right sometimes. Man, I swear. All right. All right. One, two, one, grab. Okay. Come on. Come on. Hop kick. Big damage. All right. That's fine. One, two, one, grab. No, no, no. Why would I go for that? Why would I go for that? Oh, that was unfortunate and I do do a move getting up. I'll take, no, that trade wasn't really good. No, that, no, that wasn't, it wasn't really my kind of trade either. No, no, thanks. Oh, God. Please. I'm getting cooked out here. It's not looking good. Um, was that trade in our favor? Give me the grab. Okay. All right.  Is this person be crouching? Yeah, you like to crouch, huh? Yeah. Well, how about you crouch now? Yeah, but you crouch now. Yeah. Crouch again. There's no shame in it. There's definitely no shame in it. That's, that's for sure, dude. That's for sure. You should crouch again. Well, you shouldn't do that. Oh, I still got hit. I did a lot of damage though. I got mine before I got God. I think I just try to go into the heat mix as fast as possible here. I think that's actually the play. Oh, God. Oh, we don't even need to mix up portion. Just slam them into the dirt. Stayed up. Oh, so you like to crouch, huh? So you like to crouch. Oh, crouch then. Crouch then. Yeah. Go ahead. Keep crouching. Go ahead. Keep crouch. Ow, ow, ow, ow. Oh, God. Why don't you crouch? Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. I didn't do that, right? No, no, I just need to mix up and I'm failing. I just need the heat mix up. The heat mix up is all I need to win here. There's no way. Oh, I'm sorry. That was so lucky. I'll step on them. Oh, let's go.  You got heat. I respect that. I respect that. Ouch. No crouch. I'll take the grab damage then. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta want it. I'm worried about that rage. They couldn't turn around. They couldn't turn around in time. King's gonna steal a win. Oh my God. That was okay. All right. That was a hard set.  A lot of cheap, cheap stuff in my favor there, but that's, that's definitely where I'm at as a player though. I feel like I'm only really winning off cheap stuff and like big damage hits from King, which don't get me wrong. I'll take all day every day of the week. Don't crouch. Oh, hello. Hello. Call me Alex. Okay. Heat attack. Why did I not let that fly? Crouch. Thank you. I jumped it. No way. They know a combo off that. Oh my God. Oh God. What was happening there? All right. We'll take it around one loss. Take it around one loss. Just think about what we did. Oh no. I'm definitely going for a cheesy. You broke it. What the? Listen, man. I don't even know what you're doing, but you're going to get you're, I can't believe you're breaking these. I crouched on the last one because I just, I believe that I was going to get my day in court. I will have my day. Oh, you are not Jaguar stepping out of that one. You are not Jaguar stepping out of that one me. Wow. Free damage. We're not out of this just yet. Shining. No way. Well, we died as they told us to. Haha. Hopkick. I knew a hopkick would work. Don't ask me why I knew. I don't know why I did that specific route because it's not really a route. It was just buttons, but I'm feeling pretty. I'm just spamming out. Oh God. Oh, wow. What was me, dude? I can put together something though. I can put together something. You give me a few seconds. I'll put together something. Nope. It's over. I hated that. I was not a fan. Not a fan of how the last one ended, but we still got to go out here and what? What? Okay, just down for one down for one spam it out. Okay. I'm happy to have gotten around that. I'm not going to lie. What do I do? What do I do to stop her from doing that in the air? I just block. Is there is there a clear punish after that? Okay. Oh, I would never do it twice. I would do it twice. Oh, I just lie all the time. I'm sorry. It's over. I'm sorry. I just it's a real habit of mine. I got to stop. It's a bad habit. Don't say it up. What are you doing? I'll take it. Hey, if you're going to roll around in the crowd. Hey, I'll take my free round. Say it up. Oh, oh, it's true. I wanted it. What is happening? What is happening? That move on King is so cheap. Oh, chain grab.  I'll give that. I'll give you that. I'll give you a shining with. Oh, you do not get to do that for free. No longer do you get to do that for free? I'm up two rounds. I'm feeling good. Okay. I was going to go into the giant swing, but okay. I couldn't I couldn't hop kick there. I'm not sure where the hop kick spot I did was. Okay. A little cheap damage. Kind of cheap damage. No, he'd attack against the wall, but we I stay alive. I stay alive. A little cheese there as the corner kind of pushes us out, but that's what the game's all about. We escape with 300 points and we're we were still pretty far from I'm not sure we're going to get there today. Oh my goodness to lag. What? Why was I lagging? What happened? Okay. The connection doesn't look all that bad now. Oh, armor up. Come on.  Oh, sorry. Sorry. Don't hit me that hard, man. I'm sorry. Hey, bro. We both have one win. We both got out of our last sets to one. I can't I can't let you do that one to one grab. I feel like that's going to get me pretty far in this set. So I got it. I got to let him see. Oh, okay. If you want to.   It is like you, but I just got to get I got it. I got to do it. I got to do it. I was born in 19 frames. I don't care where it is or who it is 19 frames or less. Give me that low counter hit. That's cheap. Oh, so you know, don't crouch against it. Very few people get to crouch against that and lift to tell the tail.  Hop kick.   That low kick is going to be my guiding light. Hop kick round start. Who ordered the hop kick? Hey, who ordered the hop kick? Midi, we got a hop kick. Going down. You know, I got to be the cheap stuff. You know, I got to be cheap. This is literally my favorite map to play as King. You want to know why? Let me show you why it's my favorite map to play as King.   And you know what's coming next except I dropped the combo, but I'm still going to take some damage. It's over. I probably won't be rematching because well, it's running in three frames right now, but GG's got the grab. Still a great match. I'll see. I'll get it. I'll get us better interconnection. We'll run it again one day. An important set in the overall state of this game. I've got to be hit. Oh, God.  Park Hill. One, two, one, grab. All right. This person loves crouching. This person loves crouching. We can use that against them. Oh, if we're not already dead. I think I'm going to get hit. Look chain grabs. I didn't know I didn't know you had those. I'm going to be honest. I didn't know Nita could do that. All right. Stand up. Oh, it was a combo. I didn't. I'm sorry. I didn't know. No, I didn't know. Stand up. Crouch. Thank you. Stand up. Stand up. Oh, so now you're blocking. Now you now you respect little old King. Okay. Maybe you don't. Okay. Maybe you don't. It's low and then mid upper. I get it. I get it. I think it's low, mid, mid honestly, but. Give me that chain grab. Can you break it? Can you break it? I saw you hit one of your own. So, you know, hey, maybe you can't three. Can I get four, four, about five. Can I do it? Can I do you for five? I'll take it. I think that move is going to cook me all day. No, hey, it's off. Walk him down. Get off me. I'm going immediately into this. I could tell. I could tell you were the kind to click buttons. Oh, that is not good damage though. That is not good damage. Give me your legs. I knew that was going to be cheesy. I will never be able to pull that off in this set again, but I'll take it. No, what? I can't escape this. I can't escape this Nina on slot, dude. In the corner. You got a fear for your life back there.   I what what if I think on the bright side, maybe I can still get two wins here. I don't know what to do with that. This is this. These are the moments. These are these are the tech in moments. I don't know how to get around that string. I'm not sure what to do, but I need to find a way right now or it is not going to end pretty for me. Oh, no, clipped out of my armor. I need to find a way around that movement. Okay, the game kind of gave us out there. What can I punish that with? I don't know. I don't know what I can punish it with. I'm scared. Okay, I'm scared. Give me your legs. I was pretty nasty. I even said when I hit it last time, I was not getting away with that again. I just didn't think it was going to be in that fashion. That is so crazy. What do I do about that? I don't know what to do. Oh, the worst feeling in the world. Whoa, that was a mid. Damn, I got washed. I wonder who this character is. Last set of the video. Let's try to make it a decent one. Crouch. Oh, yes. Don't crouch. Yes. Okay, I'm feeling good now. I'm feeling good with that beginning. Now that being said, I still have to play the game. Oh my goodness. I can't play. Oh, dude.  This game just is so many rules, bro. So many made up experiences. Give me that splash. Now I got to make some stuff up. Okay. All right. Oh, you want it? You want to dance, huh? You want to dance to my fate? Let's dance. Let's dance it. Are we dancing yet? Oh, God. You know, somebody told me to use that move more on one of my twitch streams. Uh, I'm just, I'm not sure if how good Larry it is. It's like a check. I'm, I'm not sure where I should be using it. Stop. No, take that. Ah, I always try to span that heat move, man. I get clipped. No, I'm out of it. Clearly the tech. No, clearly the tech in the tech. It has left my veins. I, I just don't have it in my system. Maybe I never did. I'll take the grab. I can't give up. Uh-oh.  Another chance. Also there in their promo match. Are we actually going to see a red, a red red rank right up, but for the opposite side, it definitely seems that way as I'm getting right over the corner. Help me. Oh, I got a fight. No, now that all the armor in the world is not making up for that health day. I'm getting thrown around. No, there's just no, there's no way. There's no way. I can't. I can't. I can't. I, I'm no warrior and I will never fight again. Okay, big kick. You just got to ask yourself, what does it actually mean though? Okay, three rounds in a row. You know what? Even if I'm feeling down, I got to believe that I'm the greatest ever do it. I just, I just don't know how I'm going to make that happen though. I just don't know. I don't even know how to beat this. I don't know how to beat this. No, it's what you thought. I'm taking that and I'm going to win. I don't care how unlikely it is. Oh, good heavens. She has a taser, bro. I mean, what am I going to do? Well, I tried my best. Now I've got to go take a trip. So I'm not going to be able to play any Tekken for a while. And I was already rusty in this video at the end of it. So it's looking rough for me.


I see y'all. Shout out to all the girls out there, the skinny ones, the big ones. No, because we missing all you big, sexy girls out there. Shout out to y'all with love. Have to throw that out there, you know what I mean? You see how they beat when they see me? Yeah. I don't play, you know what I mean?  Yes, I am.    Yeah, they throw them puppies up on me, real quick, and the airports, all type of places. Puppies be all on the fence. Come here, wild, leave wild, love, love. The big girls run up on wild, they got the titties smashed together like this. Hey, grab me, I go right to sleep. Go right to sleep on no puppies, them joints, man. They love throwing them titties on you, especially the airport. Oh, yeah, the airport, titties, they don't play. They ask me about my wife and then threw the titties on, love, how you doing? I love to, wild, love. I'm sorry, my titties all on you. I be hugged right to sleep. Grrr.


You chasing wingford tomorrow? I was thinking about it, but I think I'm gonna go for supers instead just any super literally any super You didn't hear about Layton's new bounty. No, tell me about it. The new bounty It's a super fracter bounty based around bowman's best any player doesn't matter as long as it's a one-to-one super You can hit the bounty how much is it? The bounty starts at $250 and then every break we complete. We're adding $25 There can be more than one winner and the same person can win more than once each time a winner happens We're resetting it at 250. Hey, how long is it going on for we're doing it for just one week Starting tomorrow Wednesday release day through all breaks on Tuesday grab a team hit a super win the bounty. It's that simple


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today we're on episode 54 of the completionist crafters series Last time if you haven't checked it out already. We crafted the banshee treasure card from mortis and today We are crafting the dark sprite treasure card So yeah, obviously mortis you can only be a death school student in order to learn this recipe So you have to be of the school of death. Obviously I am But yeah, only death school allowed for this episode. So if you're not death school Probably not ideal to watch but you can do anyway, right? So as always on screen is everything you will need and all of that sort of stuff In order to craft the spell obviously it's not too difficult Especially since it's like a rank one spell. So they're never very very difficult Um Did I not buy it did I seriously not buy it? That was my phone as well. What the heck what the heck happened there I'm pretty sure I bought it Unless it's basic crafting station Which it could be I don't know I didn't really look I just assumed it was card crafting station But it is basic crafting station whoa Gosh, I need to remember that That's crazy. Okay. Um, well, it's not the car crafting station You would have probably already known that but it's the basic crafting station. Whoa Yes, not often that these are from basic crafting station But anyway one onyx which you can get from basically any bizarre reagent vendor around the spiral I'd recommend just either the one wizard city or Crocodotopia just because they're close to the entrance Black hole basically again any reagent vendor Bone are bizarre the drops from bosses, but generally if you're high enough level you'll get a whole lot of them as obviously I have a 608 so they come kind of all over the place mistwood I do have a reagent hunters event episode for miss wood which you should go check out, but yeah craft amazing dark sprite easy PZ obviously death school 80 to 120 death damage 85% accuracy This will only rank one. So yeah, basically just really easy really really easy anyway Thank you for watching remember to like and subscribe before you subscribe press the little bell So you know exactly when I post another video and murder crafts outside box


The most common problem students in Japan face when learning English Japan is a country facing rapid change. Due to an aging population and a scarcity of workers, Japan is opening its borders to foreigners, many of whom speak English This, along with the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, has led to an increase in demand for English teachers I currently work in Japan and have had the experience of teaching English to high school Japanese students for the past year Over the course of this year, I've learned of many problems that students in Japan face when learning English Of those, the top three problems for students in Japan are pronunciation, shyness, and large class sizes The phonology of the Japanese language is such that every sound ends in a vowel, save for one the end sound It is very difficult for students to become accustomed to and pronounce the hard consonant sounds of English Students face an additional barrier in the form of wuseigo or loan words from English These words are commonplace and use the Japanese phonology So for students used to saying Koninku, the word Koning is very difficult to pronounce In addition, meanings have shifted as words have been adopted Koning, for example, is a word used to refer to cheating on a test and not someone who is exceptionally clever as it does in standard English So, Japanese students face many problems as they adjust to the phonology and meanings of standard English Another major problem students face here is shyness Japan is a collectivist society The emphasis is on the group here Thus, students are often reluctant to speak out or state their own opinions separate from the group This becomes a problem in the English classroom as many assignments designed to practice spontaneous creation of language rely on students speaking their minds Often, even students with advanced English ability are reluctant to participate in assignments such as debates which are commonplace in the foreign language classroom in western countries As I've learned, it isn't common in the Japanese education system for students to engage in creative assignments Even in their native language classes, lessons tend to focus on concrete facts rather than on creativity Even young students struggle with this and for high school students being asked to imagine what comes next in a story can invoke great anxiety and have further reluctance to participate in the class This is a problem not only in my classroom but in classrooms across the country Class size in Japanese schools The final problem I will discuss is class size English is becoming a required subject for many Japanese students starting from elementary school However, class sizes tend to be quite large 30 to 40 students make up a homeroom class on average This works fine for regular lecture-based classes For foreign language classes, it becomes a problem With so many students in one room, it becomes very difficult for students to work in small groups and for teachers to be able to help individual students with their English In such large classes, it is easy for the noise level to get overwhelming and for shy or quieter students to slip through the cracks and get away with not speaking or participating in assignments Thus, despite many Japanese students studying English as a subject for 10 or more years, the majority of Japanese adults cannot speak English Are you ready to teach English in Japan? In my one year of teaching English in Japan, I've learned a lot about being an English teacher and a teacher in general However, the problems mentioned above, as well as many others plaguing the English education system here, make it very difficult for the vast majority of students in Japan to have meaningful language learning experiences A teacher who wishes to work in Japan in the public school system will have to adapt their teaching practices, often in ways that don't agree with current educational literature in order to meet the requirements of their employer and the education department Still, an English teacher can easily find jobs here and make a difference in the lives of learners Despite all of these problems facing learners in Japan, it is still a wonderful country to live and teach in and one I recommend to aspiring EFL teachers Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today


In this presentation, we're going to talk about forms of business combinations, which is basically external expansion, two types of entities that are going to be related in some way, shape, or form. Get ready to act because it's time to account with advanced financial accounting. Forms of business combinations. Now remember, we're talking about expansion here. We're thinking about expansion. We've got the two categories. We've got the internal expansion and external expansion. We're considering here the external expansion. We have an organization that now wants to expand and they're going to be consolidating in some way or have two separate entities that will be combining. Now we're talking about two separate legal entities, typically separate legal entities that are now going to be combined in some way, shape, or forms. The forms of business combinations can be the statutory merger, the statutory consolidation, and the stock acquisition. If you think about, in other words, two separate legal entities and say, all right, well, how can these two separate legal entities be combined in some type of way? You can imagine some different kind of scenarios in which that could take place. When you're imagining those different types of scenarios, you're going to be thinking about, okay, well, what's going to be the key factor here? It's going to be the controlling interest. What's going to be a situation where you had two separate legal entities and now they're going to have some controlling relationship, which could be that they're combined together under one entity at some point, or they are having a parent subsidiary type of relationship, in which case the control would be over the 50%. So that control concept is what you want to keep in mind here. So if we're talking about a statutory merger, we talked about that before, and that really is the case where one company, in essence, you can think about it as being consumed by the other company, right? If you got company A and company B, basically company A is going to be consuming company B, therefore the assets and liabilities of company B will, in essence, result with company A. The end result is company A then, which now has the assets and liabilities of B. So that's going to be the merger type of situation. So that will be assets, liabilities of the acquired company are transferred to the acquiring company, right? Assets and liabilities are transferred. Now notice when this happens, you're thinking, all right, now there's two entities, two entities that have different stockholders at this point in time, typically. And therefore you have a negotiation process. And therefore when that transfer happens, you're going to think, well, it looks a lot like there's going to be some negotiation process. And therefore you may have to revalue that as fair market value as basically an arms length transaction is kind of happening because these two parties have interests that are often different from each other with regards to this negotiation on the merger type of process. So what's going to be the accounting related to that? So assets and liabilities of the acquired company are transferred to the acquired company. The acquired company is liquidated or dissolved. So once the transfer happens, then you're left with what, a shell here, right? You're going to say, okay, now the assets and liabilities are taken out of the books here on company B, they've been transferred in some way, shape or form to company A, if you're thinking about this from a bookkeeping standpoint. Now you've got company B, which has no assets or liabilities anymore. We basically did a liquid, we basically liquidated all the assets and liabilities and are left with just a shell, the shell company not having anything in it. And of course at that end, of course, then you're going to dissolve the company B. And then the result is a single entity is the result of the merger. So now you have company A that now has the assets and liabilities of company B and it has now basically consumed it. So note, you're not left with, with regard to the merger, a subsidiary parent relationship. You just basically had two entities before and they've been consumed to one. You can think about, okay, what is the accounting, what are going to be the accounting concepts, how are we going to do that from an accounting perspective? And you can see basically this is how it's done, right? You had two entities, you're going to combine them together. You're going to have to deal with however the rules with regards to this process, which could involve revaluating instead of just putting the book values over into the prior company. But in essence, obviously company B, clearing it out, liquidating it. In essence, rolling the assets over here left with the shell, then the shell needs to be in essence dissolved leaving you with just company A. Statutory consolidation. You can also imagine this type of situation. You can say, well, what if we had these two companies and we basically create another company and we merge both of their assets into the new company? So that we had company A and we had company B. What if we create, say, another company, company C, and then put the assets of company A and B into it? So it would look something like this, both companies are dissolved, assets and liabilities being transferred to a new company. So we have a new company set up, the assets and liabilities transferred to it. Now you have a new legal entity form because company C is now the new legal entity, however, in substance, the company is often actually one of the combining companies reincorporated with a new name. So in other words, you had two companies before. You could think of a situation, you might imagine the situation as saying, well, now you've got the third company, maybe these are going to be basically even sized companies or whatever and you make another company and merge them together and now you have a new company. But typically, even though in substance, you're going to have a new company. As a result of this transaction, it still is the case that usually you're going to have one of these companies are going to be larger than the other. We might say here that A is larger than B. So even though the inform, you have a new company that has been created in substance, it's often still a situation where you basically had kind of like a merger type of situation, a purchase type of situation, a consumption of one of the companies into another. So that's generally, so you could think of that same concept substance versus form kind of debate, similar type of debate that you might have versus when you think about a lease versus a purchase. When you have a lease that looks a lot like a purchase, you have a similar kind of thing here where you're saying, new entities being created, but inform. However, in substance, it could look oftentimes looks a whole lot like a situation of a standard merger, a statutory type of merger where the new company is basically the controlling company here and the other company basically got consumed by it. Now then we have the stock acquisition. And this is another way that you can see this happening rather than we could then have company A and then company B. You got company A and company B, voting shares are acquired. So now you're going to say that company A purchases the voting shares of company B. So both companies still operate as separate but related legal entities. So now you've got two entities because company A, you can imagine buying the stocks of company B. If they acquire more than that magic number for controlling, which is typically over 50%, 51% or greater, then they have a controlling interest because they can basically influence management. They can influence who is management. They can vote management in and out in and of themselves. Then you can see that relationship. And of course that relationship would result in a parent subsidiary type relationship because now you have the parent who has all the stocks. That parent, the one entity now owns basically a controlling interest of stocks that allows them to control the behavior of the second company. And of course company A's control is controlled or owned by the owners of company A. The acquired company accounts for its ownership interest in the other company as an investment. In other words, when you have this transaction taking place, company A is purchasing the stock of company B, it's gonna be recording this logistically on the books in terms of a journal entry as an investment. So we're gonna have an investment in terms of an asset on company A's books. A parent subsidiary relationship is created. So we have a parent subsidiary relationship, consolidated financial statement reporting is generally required. So note that obviously when you record the transaction of the purchase here, company A is purchasing company B. You can have to record that on company A's books as an investment in company B. However, when you do the financial reporting note that you're then gonna have to report this as consolidated financial statements. In other words, you're gonna have to take the parent in some city area like we said, if there's more than 50% ownership, that controlling point and then report that basically as if it's one entity so that you can report it in such a way that's as transparent as possible to the readers of the financial station statements. So we can break this down basically to the purchasing of the assets versus the acquisition of stock. So if we purchase the assets, then that's where the one company acquires another's assets using negotiations with management. And in that case, there's pros and cons to either method. It might be a little bit more cumbersome to sit down with two company management and try to go basically, you can imagine going line item by line item here and setting the price, negotiating the price for the actual purchasing of the assets. However, you might have more flexibility with the assets you want to purchase and you may be able to purchase simply those assets and you may be able to not take on some of the things that you don't want, such as liabilities and contingent liabilities and contracts that you may not want to take on as well. So those pros and cons, either method or we have the acquisition method of stock. Majority of outstanding voting shares is generally required unless other factors result in the gaining of control. So the acquisition of stock, meaning of course the purchasing of stock over that control and point, which would typically be 51 and above. Again, there's pros and cons to that method. It might be a little bit easier to come to rather than sitting down, going line by line by the items. But again, you could be stuck in that case with taking on things that you don't want, such as contracts and whatnot that the company that's being purchased has adhered to and contingent liabilities and those types of things. So obviously either method has its pros and cons.