This is stock number 21T34B. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near new and used car headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2012 Volkswagen Passat. This car has the SEL Premium package. It has the 3.6 liter V6 motor. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires, brand new front brakes, and is 100% ready to go. Reflex Silver is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out more photos of this car in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link right to our website. Click that and check us out there. It comes with the 18 inch painted alloy rims, brand new front brakes on the front. We put those on in our safety inspection. It has Uniroil Tiger Pot 23545ZR18 tires, and these tires are brand new all the way around. Once again we put those on in our safety inspection as well. The front fender is in excellent condition, headlight lenses are nice and clear, and you do get fog lights on this car as well. Front bumper is in pretty nice shape. The hood is in nice condition as well. That inching dense on there. Passenger side front fender, no major dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down the passenger side, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective, and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the car, you can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fast Pass option in the upper right hand part of your screen, a link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade-off from the comfort of your own home. So when you do get here all you have to do is check the car out, drive it, and you'll be 100% ready to go. Back tires are brand new as well, you can still see the little wear knobs on them. And it does have four-wheel disc brakes, no scuffs or scrapes on this back rim. As we come around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in nice shape, didn't see any dents or dings or cracks on that, and you do get the chrome-tipped dual rear exhaust. The deck lid is nice and clean, you get a Volkswagen Cargo Protection System. Those seats do fold down for extra storage and you use these tabs right there. And if I can get underneath here, we'll see if it has a spare tire or an inflator. This one does come with a spare tire and all the jack tools. And very nice and clean back here. As we come around the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, rear quarter looks really good. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent condition too. Down the rest of the side of the car, no major dents or dings on the doors, looks really good. And you do get power mirrors with built-in directional signals. Inside the SEL Premium Package gives you the gray leather and suede interior, no rips or tears on the seats. Pretty nice shape, memory driver's seat. These front seats are heated. You do get auto headlamps, tilt and telescopic steering wheel, heated mirrors, power locks, and power windows. As we hop inside the vehicle here, you can see that this one has 99,765 miles. You get the leather-wrapped steering wheel. Pretty nice shape, just a little wear on there, but no rips or tears. You do get information center controls on the right and Bluetooth and audio controls on the left and paddle shifters up there as well. We'll turn the ignition on so that you can check out the radio and everything. So this one has AM, FM. It also has the factory navigation system. You get a CD player on there as well. And you can see it does have Sirius XM radio capabilities as well. There's Sirius XM and FM. And then if you go here, you have the nav system right there. Down here are your climate controls, including your heated seat buttons. Automatic transmission. This one does have remote start on the key fob. And it is a push button start as well. Passengers side format and seat are really nice shape. And it does come with the power sunroof. Up here you get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, map lights, and sunroof control buttons. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will start it off and check out under the hood. Back seats are in really nice shape. No major rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Factory all-weather floor mats back here. Carpetting is in pretty nice shape. And those seats do fold down like so. And you get that wood grain trim on the doors back here and child safety locks. We'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights on there. Now I'd personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have a 3.6 liter V6 motor. 280 horsepower. The engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth and it is very clean under here. Once again this car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this car I want to rather 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers. You name it we got it go to our website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. 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Hello everybody, HoodedCobraCommander788 here, and this time we're going to do something a little different. This time I'm going to review a piece of G.I. Joe fan fiction. Now I know what you're thinking, fan fiction has a reputation for being pretty terrible and sometimes creepy. And then Flynn put his hand on the round jiggliness of her booby. I don't like that at all. This is good fan fiction if ever there was such a thing. If you've been around the G.I. Joe community for very long, you're probably aware of Justin Bell. He's a great contributor to the Joe community. He runs the generalsjoes.com website and he's a co-host on the G.I. Joe podcast, What's on Joe Mind. He also wrote a three book G.I. Joe series called The Price of Peace that was available on Kindle Worlds, which I have read and enjoyed. You may also be aware that at the G.I. Joe convention, JoeCon, this year in Springfield, Illinois, Hasbro announced a new set of G.I. Joe toys that will be coming out this year. The new toys include some classic vehicles that have been recolored and repurposed along with some new action figures and one new character that Hasbro gave a filename of Gary Goggles in tribute to the late Gary Head. The new G.I. Joe lineup coming out inspired Mr. Bell to write a new G.I. Joe novella titled Welcome to Wolf Squad. I'm going to try not to give away any spoilers, but just to set up the story, Cobra has obtained G.I. Joe technology and now the Joes have to stop Cobra from developing these new weapons. The opening scene has a bit of a James Bond feel that's very tense and exciting with a little bit of cloak and dagger. After that initial set up, the story moves to an environment that will bring all of these new toys into play. No pun intended. Within the story, the writer works in all the new G.I. Joe products so we get to see a lot of familiar faces, some old favorites like Bazooka and Dusty. We even get to see a couple of the original Green 13, Steeler and Grunt and Chuckles really shines through as an important character in this story. Amidst all these familiar names is the new character, codename Sightline, filename Gary Goggles and for what I assume is the first time this character has ever been represented in any G.I. Joe media, the character is remarkably well rounded and developed. There also seems to be a bit of biography here as it looks like Mr. Bell has added his own tribute to the late Gary Head. The story wisely focuses on the action which is exactly what it should do for a story this length. It's not very long so for a short novella like this it could become very cumbersome if it were plot heavy but it's not excessively plotty, it really does drive home the action. What this means is the story is exciting pretty much from beginning to end. There is some proper pacing so we do get some breaks so the action doesn't exhaust the reader but I can guarantee that as you read this story you will not be bored. Are there any knocks I have on this story? Well a couple minor ones. There is one character that shows up rather abruptly and then also leaves rather abruptly. Kind of feels like he was shoehorned in. There's also this character Luis Chavez who's very important to the story in that he kind of gets the adventure rolling. But it's a continuation of a very long trend in G.I. Joe media in which anyone who is in the intelligence services, anyone who works behind a desk and essentially anyone who's not a combat soldier kind of gets short shrift. They're often treated as backstabbing cowards and that happened many times in the G.I. Joe comic book series. Always thought this was unfair because there are a lot of good people in those services who work very hard defending this country and in the G.I. Joe comic book they're always treated as the bad guys. So it helps a lot if you're already a G.I. Joe fan and are familiar with these characters.  But if you already are a fan and you know the G.I. Joe characters I think you'll get a lot out of it. Those are very minor issues in what is otherwise a very great story. If you're a G.I. Joe fan I can't recommend this enough. This is the best kind of fan fiction. I think anyone who understands the history of G.I. Joe and anyone who is a fan as a kid is going to love this. It's also a great promotion for the new toys. Even though I only collect vintage G.I. Joe's I don't get the new stuff. After reading this I kind of want to get some of the new stuff. It's only $1.99 on Amazon. You can download it on your Kindle which is what I recommend you do right now. And after you've had a chance to read it leave me a comment and let me know what you thought about it. Thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon with another vintage G.I. Joe review.


finance reports here and our analysis. So in our analysis, we have our reports, which can give us the detail about the payouts that are going to be happening. And then we looked at our finance reports and our payouts to pull the information in. So these payouts right here represent multiple sales that are happening on the third party platform that are being grouped together in one particular payout. When I come over here into QuickBooks, then I'm not gonna have a system where I pull in every transaction and try to enter a separate sales receipt for every customer in every transaction, not pulling in all that kind of information. We're only gonna pull in the summary of the information that's gonna tie into the payouts. And then we're not gonna be dealing with a perpetual inventory system, in that case as well. Okay, so then if I go down here into commerce, let's just take a look at the overview. We've got three tabs up top. I'll close the hand boogie overview and then the orders and then the payments. Now note that most of this stuff, if I go to the overview is just for appearance, meaning it's not actually pulling the information into the QuickBooks system. So it's kind of giving you a nice look that is similar to the look that you would see over here on Shopify. It's just mirroring the same data in a different kind of format over here, but it's not adding to your QuickBooks. So that's what this first page is basically doing. It's giving you kind of a summary of that information that's coming directly from your third party store like a Shopify. Then you have your channels over here. So here's the channel. Now, some people could have, of course, Shopify and Amazon and ebay, and you might have multiple ebay's and Amazon's and whatnot. So then you would list out the different channels would be listed on the right hand side. We've just got the Shopify. If you wanted to connect a sales channel, then you can go into the connect button up top and you can connect multiple sales channels. The number of sales channels that you can connect could be limited to the subscription that you have. And then you've got this, which will take you a shortcut to the transactions and the profit and loss. And you can take a look at some tips on down below. Then, and by the way, if I look at my Shopify for like this analysis, you can see this analysis is similar to what they're pulling in to QuickBooks here. So in any case, then I can go into the orders. Now the orders once again are not actually the things that are gonna be posted to our system. This is mirroring the orders that are over here that are just pulling in each individual order. We're not, if we were to record each individual order into QuickBooks, that would look something like it would pull these each individual orders and into like a sales receipt kind of thing. That's not what's happening. It's just showing you some of the detail within QuickBooks. You don't have to go to Shopify to see some of this detail. So for example, if I go over here and I look at my reports, for example, and I look at my total sales and your reports could differ depending on what, you know, how much you're paying on Shopify, what tier you're in. But here's, you know, each of my transactions, the individual purchases that took place that are pulling in here 1001, 1002, 1003, and so on for those individual items. But again, these aren't actually recording anything. Then we've got the refunds and back to the sales order and then the payouts. So these are the payouts that are actually happening. So this gives you a summary of the payout. The payout represents the money that's coming out of Shopify and is gonna eventually hit our bank account. So we expect the payout to eventually go into our checking account. That's gonna be the idea. So for example, if I go to the Shopify store and look at my payouts, here's that 715 of the payout. Here's the 715 here. If I wanna see the detail of that payout, it's pulling in the detail to help make the journal entry. And just like what we did over here with our journal entry, when we had like the two, you know, the components of the journal entry that we pulled in from Shopify, it's doing the same thing here. We've got the sales side of things. Here's gonna be the transactions that are included in that particular payout.  And this is showing the Shopify expenses. So that's similar to what we had over here when we looked at the two reports that are gonna be in play here. If you go into your analytics in like a Shopify and take a look at the reports and we look at the total sales report, then I don't think it's including that dollar right there. So here's the, you know, the gross sales, the net sales and the shipping and so on. And then this, it's really not including that one dollar right there. So it comes to 870, 870 is this amount right here. And then if I go back on over here and I go to my payouts, which is in the finance and the payouts, then we can see that all of those transactions are included in this payout. And then they charged a fee for the payout fee, which is the fee for them to do the financing of it or to facilitate the transaction. And that comes out to that 155. So those are the two sides that QuickBooks nice and neatly pulls into this little review item here. So you can see it there, which is nice, but this still isn't posting anything. So then if I wanna, you have transactions to review, if I go into those transactions, if I say go to those transactions, they then I, they took me up here from the commerce tab up to the banking tab. Now in the banking tab, we have our bank feeds, which we connected to the bank. So we expect that seven dollars to eventually hit the checking account. We would see that amount that we were talking about 715. I think it was hit the checking account, it would be in here. And, but we're trying to break out the detail of it in a similar way like we did with the manual method. So if I go to the apps tab, this is where it's gonna store that data. So now you've got your apps tab. Here's the Shopify stores. It looks similar kind of like to the bank feeds. If I have multiple channels, I can toggle between, you know, the multiple channels here and then you've got a similar layout for review, reviewed and excluded. You can change basically your date range here and here's the detail of the transaction. So it's got the sales, it's got the shipping income and then there's the subtotal and then the selling fees. So you can see this lump sum is gonna be the 715 that's going into our checking account but it's breaking that information out basically kind of with a journal entry format here, not in the bank feeds but in the app transaction. I can go to more of the detail here. Let's take a look at it in this case and this takes us back to that detail page that we looked at before to give us the actual sales that took place and the expenses. Now before I record this, let's just take a look at how we can adjust the mapping if we wanna see what it's gonna do when we actually record this item. So let's go back down to the commerce tab and I'm gonna close the hamburger and I'm gonna go to the overview and each one of these channels is gonna have a dropdown up top. So if I hit the dropdown, I can go into the settings. So let's take a look at the settings.  How would you like to confirm payments? This setting takes effect for future transactions. The default is manual because I'm gonna say, hey, look, I want to see these in that transactions tab and then I wanna manually say, okay, I approve of that transaction, pull it in. It's probably recommended to do that for a while until you get to the point that you are comfortable and then you can automate the transaction because like with the bank feeds, nothing's really affecting you.


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This study investigated the variability of flexural strength for flame-sprayed ceramic components and determined whether two-parameter distribution functions could accurately represent the experimental data. The Weibull and Gamma distributions were evaluated as they are both widely used in reliability engineering. The study found that the Weibull distribution provided a better fit than the Gamma distribution when there were fewer outliers present. Additionally, the Weibull distribution was more sensitive to positive outliers while the Gamma distribution was more sensitive to negative outliers. Furthermore, the study showed that the number of tested specimens had a significant impact on the quality of the fit. This article was authored by Florian Kerber, Magda Hollenbach, Mark Newman, and others.


As part of a strategy to develop and deliver new robotics capabilities to future soldiers, Army researchers have partnered with world-renowned experts in industry and academia. The University of Pennsylvania hosted a series of meetings in Philadelphia June 5th through the 7th, where principal investigators and researchers from the Army's Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance were R-C-T-A. So, certainly the problem that we are working on is very hard. It's recognized by a lot of people as, you know, it's not quite general artificial intelligence type stuff, but it is very difficult to operate robots in the wild, you know, anywhere in the world, and that's the kind of problem the Army has to solve. And the collaboration we have is with some of the world's best. The group formed in 2009 to bring together government, industrial and academic institutions to address research and development required to enable the deployment of future military unmanned ground vehicle systems ranging in size from manned portables to ground combat vehicles. Partners include General Dynamic Land Systems Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, the Robotics Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, the University of Pennsylvania, Kinetic North America, and Caltech Jet Propulsion Lab. The thing that most encourages me is that we have ARL researchers doing joint research and collaborative papers with the best in the world from these universities. In order for robots to be teammates, he said, they must operate in unstructured, complex environments. We're trying to go from tools to teammates. So, we want robots to not be a tool that you use like for IEDs, exploration where you have to teleoperate it, we're trying to get them to be true teammates so that you can work side by side with them. So, for example, you can articulate what you want the robot to do as your teammate and do those missions jointly or maybe you send the robot out and have the robot be able to communicate back to you what it's doing, what it saw in human understandable terms, not in robot specific terms, which humans don't understand. Over the past eight years of the Alliance, researchers have achieved many milestones in the robotics field. Collaboration is essential to what we do in Army research laboratory in order to access the best and brightest talent around the nation through the robotic CTA, the partners that we have have allowed Army objectives and research for the long term to be realized over a multi-year investment and collaboration with outside partners. The laboratory is focused on transitioning new capabilities to industry partners so they can continue to mature them. So the bottom line is that soldiers of the future who face very fierce near-pair adversaries will rely on the research that we're doing today to help them to maintain technological overmatch over an enemy which frankly we can hardly imagine today. The researchers said the meetings in Philadelphia were a valuable experience as they continue to plan for a capstone event where they will demonstrate the culmination of their research achievements to Army leaders. In order for the robots to be a useful teammate, they have to be able to communicate naturally like a human does and so we're doing a lot of work in human-robot relationships so understanding concepts in the same way that humans do, trying to get the robots to understand those concepts in the same way so that the teaming can occur more naturally.


The integration of renewable energy and optimization of energy use through modern technologies like IoT are crucial for sustainable energy transitions and mitigating climate change. IoT can improve energy efficiency, increase the share of renewable energy, and reduce environmental impacts in energy systems, particularly smart grids. Enabling technologies such as cloud computing and data analysis platforms are discussed, along with challenges like privacy and security, which can be addressed through solutions like blockchain technology. This survey provides an overview for energy policy makers, economists, and managers on the role of IoT in optimizing energy systems. This article was authored by Nasir Hossein Motlak, Masa Mohamedra's EI, Julian Hunt, and others.


Welcome to the Knuckleheads of Liberty. We're talking about the view of one of our old standbys, and it's Joy Behar. And they were recently on the show, and they had a guest host, Lindsay Granger. And that's her right over here. And she was talking to her panelists about how, hey, some of these AR-15s are used for self-defense. And she was giving an example of a black man that she knew of who had assembled his own AR-15 and was using that for home defense. And Joy Behar's immediate response to that was, here's the thing. Once people get guns in this country, or once black people get guns in this country, the gun laws will change. Trust me. So she literally told a black woman that it wants guns. Black people get guns that somehow we're going to put all kinds of restrictions on guns. And they had a few statistics in this story. And what they were saying in here is that, I guess, National Firearms Survey published in 2021. They said that 25.4% of firearms were reported, I guess, owned by black people, which is, to me, that's an overrepresentation as far as the country is only around, I think, 13% or 14%. 14% black. Yeah. I'm not sure what world Joy Behar is living in, but these people who are taking away your gun sites, they don't seem to be connected to reality in any way. You guys have any thoughts on this whole Joy Behar? I am not one to look under every rock to find a racist, OK? Because I always just have to look on top of the rock, and I'll find people like Joy Behar, OK?  The only thing we know to do is to vote for the Democratic Party and just say, yes, Massa, we are very happy with the nonsense that they've been providing for the last 50 years. This is the kind of racism that is coming from people of the left like Joy Behar. Well, gun control is racism. Yeah, it is. It started during the Jim Crow period. Anyway, to stop black some owning guns and being able to defend themselves. And that might be what Joy is mistakenly referring to. I mean, she's correct in the sense that gun control started with the targeting black people owning guns in the first place. And so it's racist and always has been and continues to be.  So if anyone stands to lose by having their gun rights to defend themselves restricted, it would be black people. So you have that. Just a couple of years ago, I actually wrote an op-ed talking about the gun laws are the institutional racism that you've heard about. Yes. Yes. California has a disproportionate amount of gun laws, has a disproportionate amount of blacks in Hispanics, particularly 18 to 40 year old men, serving extremely long jail time. And many have to do with gun laws. So these gun laws that they put in place are disproportionately used against people of color, full stop, that's a statistical fact. And I don't think it's a coincidence and it certainly isn't doing. And what I'm told is it's not doing anything good for their community. So at the very least, they should be. It's important real quick, the folks that are making these gun laws respond to the idea of institutional racism. That's kind of their language.  Well, let's just change the Constitution then. That doesn't resonate with them. But when you do talk about, speak their language. Don't tell them why it's important to you. Tell them why, speak a language they can understand. Hey, this is what's important to you and therefore this is why you should care about this. So yeah, I'm like, I don't like Joy Behar.  But it's a really good idea to find out what does the other person care about and then speak to them in that language. Jay, I'll use that. You look at Chicago right now or look at any other major city, you know?  Nobody's outraged about that, right? Nobody's outraged about that. But Joy Behar is going to tell us if black people ever get guns to defend themselves, oh, then we'll have the image of them. Oh, the scary black man. So we got to be afraid of that. So then we have to change the laws to make sure the scary black man don't emerge. That is what she's talking about. Well, that's our knucklehead fact check for the view in Joy Behar this week. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, always.


Good morning everybody just getting up here a little later than I wanted who the Sun's already up in the sky We have this wide load behind us with 10 foot wide And I can only drive during daylight hours, so I can drive until approximately 6 30 tonight Gives us a little over 10 hours of driving This squeaking your toy over there diesel. I'll say good morning to the good people say good morning Morning everybody morning Nice to see you again These always look at them when you're talking to them.  What the mic? It's just a mic diesel. You don't have to be afraid diesel You ready to go? You ready to go? I'm ready to go. Let's get out of here so today's adventure starts at Kings on Road It's a rest area just north of the city of Toronto On your way up towards Berry way up to Hearst tonight. Hearst Ontario. That means we're going to be taking highway 11 I've got 65,000 pounds of steel on the tracks a trailer behind me So that's why I want to take 11 because there's less hills and less traffic I was telling you last time though that it's sort of a trade-off Highway 11 is a little more risky, especially in the winter time because it's a little more secluded and not many Places to stop. There's also not very many passing lanes.  So we'll see what today brings It should be fun. You guys see that? I'm not talking about the dirt on my window. I need new wipers Spend money on a windshield this month. That's awesome Let's talk for some Timmy's. I get back in my truck and this is waiting for me I mean, there was a little chip at the bottom there and a little crack already at the bottom that I was gonna get fixed But now it's across the whole window. Now I can't wait Now I'm gonna have to get this fixed as soon as I get home So as soon as I know when I'll be home, I'll be after this trip. I'll make an appointment with the shop And get this whole window replaced. I think it's at least around $400 You want to know why it cracked? I had a stone chip in my window because there was a gravel truck In front of me at one point in Alberta Actually, I think it was an oil field truck then when he went in front of me He started throwing rocks at me. So I had to slam on my brakes And two of them got my windshield one of those Created this crack here now that is fantastic.  There's a crack So I see it there I'm acknowledging your comments already I see it there's a crack in my windshield It's getting fixed ace up This guy just turned in front of me just to slow down Why why would you do that? Why I want to know I'm already grumpy now. I got a crack in my window What a day what a day We're in North Bay, Ontario now The bad thing or one of the bad things about Volvo trucks is that they have one windshield across the entire thing if they don't have a Bar or pillar in the middle which most trucks nowadays have I guess they have the single windshield Older trucks they used to have the pillar in the middle right and then they'd have two separate windows That way if one window got cracked you didn't have to replace the whole thing you just replace the one that's cracked But then again at both crack then you got to replace both of them pros and cons I guess Now I got to get this whole thing replaced. I Should be home. I'm thinking Wednesday night or Thursday. So I'll make the appointment to get the windshield replaced on Friday What is this plow doing besides wasting? money and fuel This is the third snow plow within a half mile of each other. There's two more behind me yet going the same way. Look at the road What are they doing? What are they plowing? They're not salting They're just pushing Nothing what a waste What a waste This is Teganami, Ontario Are there ten McGamy ten McGamy they sure got a lot more snow up here than they do down near Toronto That's for sure. I heard it's still pretty cold out west But believe me it's gonna start warm enough soon Then a little colder winter then or the cold is held on a little longer this year than it did the past couple of years But it's been it's held on for longer in the past. We'll say that Nothing unusual about it It's just very inconvenient and it sort of sucks to have it so cold in March because we want spring already I'm kind of tired of winter like that. It's beautiful seeing all this white snow everywhere But it gets old after a while. It's all pretty quick If snow wasn't cold, I think it would be way better There's a way that we could just have warm snow I'd be alright with that And if we could have all heated highways so that they just turn on the heat whenever it's snowing and all the snow just melts off They wouldn't need plows anymore very few I Know I'm a genius. You just didn't know it yet. I know heated roadways I don't know. How are we gonna pay for that? I don't know. We'll ask that Cortez chick from the States She seems to think money grows on trees. We'll just go ask her where she's gonna get all her money from for all her plans She's not worried about money Why should we be worried about money? Look at this guy give her look at him. That's right everybody get past me Spray me with your water I did buy extra washer fluid when you come through Northern Ontario or when you go through British Columbia in the winter You gotta have lots of washer fluid with you Because of exactly this Well, I've had three vehicles going the opposite way Flashing their lights at me. So that means there is a cop around here taking pictures Pointing his radar gun my way At least I think so either that or maybe there's some wildlife on the road or there's an accident up ahead Everybody's flashing their lights for something Maybe just over this hill I'm guessing it's probably a cop sitting somewhere around a corner with his radar gun out You know, it's not really the best thing to warn people. He has a cop right here. I see That's why because he's on the road. All right, we're slowly gonna go around him Sometimes it's nice to warn people about things like that, but if there's a cop sitting out here radaring people for speeding I Would recommend you don't warn drivers Just let them get the speeding ticket if they're speeding that's their own problem Let the cop pull them over The main reason for that is you never know if they're looking for somebody You never know if maybe there's a kidnapper In that car that you're warning that there's a cop up ahead. There could be a kidnapper with a kidnapped kid In that vehicle And the only way that that kid is going to get saved is if that police officer Catches the driver speeding and pulls him over Right that might be the only chance of that kid getting saved There might be a criminal might be a stolen vehicle They might have just committed a robbery or murdered someone and the the the license plates Are in the system and as soon as the cop runs the license plates boom they arrest him However, if you warn the guy that there's a cop up ahead With his radar gun out he's gonna slow down and that cop is never gonna pull him over And if there's a kid not kid in that vehicle that kid might never get saved or could have been saved there And now he's not because of you So for me, I never warn people that there's police up ahead. Now if you're speeding that's your problem Cops are there for a reason they're trying to catch people Don't break the law and you got nothing to worry about The reason I use that as an example is that if It is actually a kidnapper with a kidnapped kid with him or her Or if it is criminals that just committed a crime Chances are they're in a hurry to get away from the crime scene or in a hurry to get to where they're going Right, they might be though. They're most likely going to be speeding to get there And like I said, if I warn them that there's a cop up ahead They're going to slow down and no one's ever going to catch me Or chances are that they're not going to get caught Just let them let them pull them over As much as I really don't like winter that much It sure does make northern ontaria beautiful Like one day they are going to actually build a four lane highway through here It'll probably be in about 300 years But eventually they're going to build a four lane highway through here and you know, it's going to be sad to say goodbye to these old Original routes, you know, this is sort of like our route 66 sort of These old two lane highways the four lane through british columbia is going to be completed in the next decade or so Um, maybe it might take a hundred years who knows But then that two lane road is gone too. It's all four lane, which will make it a lot safer and a lot better I'm saying that's a good thing I hope that they leave the old route there, you know, there's a scenic route Can you see that big crack of my window from here? It's going all the way up there. I gotta clean my My windows off here Just editing up today's vlog Diesel is passed out Oh, no, no, his eyes are open. There you go, bud Just finished editing how many videos here. Oh, let's see One two three four five plus this one six. I just edited six videos Yikes diesel hardcore We're here at the flying jay in kappas casing We've been here for how long does this thing say we've been here for four hours and 13 minutes not bad six vlogs and four hours There we go guys. I gotta shut it down here.


Ajok, obviously it must win for Portland, but you guys really matched their urgency and intensity. How did this game work for you guys just as a prep for the playoffs? Yeah, Tom, it was the perfect game for us to be at being a close game. We talked about the progression going into the playoffs to get our guys quality minutes and being a meaningful game where there was an outcome that we had a chance to decide. So very impressive effort by our guys, especially knowing that Portland had a lot weighing on this game. So really give our guys a lot of credit for battling all night. Christian? Hey, Coach, Christian, can you just talk about the night that Karras had aside from that last second shot? It just seemed like he was bending that Portland defense to his will. What did you see from him out there and just talk about what you saw from him? Yeah, he had a really great pace about him. I think overall he was surveying the defense and getting to a spot. Christian was pulled up, also mixing and attacking the rim. And so that balance of creating for himself, getting out in transition, getting to the paint and just making the right play. And no better person to have the ball in his hands in that situation and got a good look and glad he shot the ball. Alex? Jacques, I got two for you. If you could just touch on your offensive rebounding. I mean, there was a couple of possessions where you guys had three or four opportunities at baskets. And then just you talked a couple of weeks ago about, you know, wanting to give Karras opportunities to get into his bag more as you would turn. I mean, is this kind of what you would envision tonight when you had said that a few weeks ago? I think it was let's go offensive rebound. You give TOC, GT and JA a lot of credit for battling and posing their will on the offensive rebounds. So some crucial rebounds that we gained to give ourselves some opportunity at the end of the game. And then Karras, you know, we still get close to 30 assists tonight. A few more balls dropping for us. We hit the 30 clip again. Alex, it's a balance of being able to let players do what they do and not interfere and not complicate things. Possessions where we got a guy that has five files on their team and we're going to attack it. And so the team believes in Karras and what he's accomplished, the work he's put in. And so this is the opportunity for him to show not only his teammates, but the rest of the league, the work that he's put in and the work and the honors and the achievements that he deserves. Nick, go ahead. Jack, you were so complimentary of Dane before the game. You knew what he could do offensively. You've been around the game a long time. Having seen it up close now, how would you put into context his performance tonight and what he's been able to string together here in the bubble? You know, the things that we had to do to stop him, it's the ultimate compliment from full court zones to half court zones to running traps to Litz and the basketball. So we gave him the full vote tonight and what a compliment. What a player is changing the game, the ability to cross half court and shoot the basketball with ease and accuracy. You give him a lot of credit. So it's to me, I enjoy watching it. I enjoy the challenge of preparing for it and definitely enjoyed our guys responding trying to stop him tonight.


An umbrella group representing armed factions in Gaza, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility on May 2 for rockets fired into Israel following the death of a Palestinian hunger striker. The joint command mourns the martyr enclaims' responsibility for bombarding the so-called settlements near Gaza by salvos of rockets in an initial response to this heinous crime, a statement issued by the group said. Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Qatir Adnan died earlier on Tuesday in Israeli custody after an 87-day hunger strike, authorities said, the first such fatality in more than three decades. Adnan, who was awaiting trial, was found unconscious in his cell and taken to a hospital where he was declared dead after efforts to revive him, Israel's prison service said. He had refused any medical assessments or treatment, it added.


Welcome to the loneliest, most terrifying, most isolating level in all of the backrooms. Level negative 627. Oh, and you probably won't ever be able to leave. Let's get into the explanation, shall we? Also, if you want to see a more personal side of me, go check out my vlog channel. It'll be the top link in the description below. Thank you. So, backroom's level negative 627 is a very deep level in the backrooms. It's nicknamed alone with your thoughts, and it's classified as a class undetermined rating because of its overall mysterious properties and randomness. Also, it's undocumented environments. When you first get sent to the level, you'll wake up in a secluded, pleasant environment. These environments look different for each person that ends up coming here, so there's no one description that fits all of them, but they normally have no animals or entities or other people. It's just you. You're completely alone with your thoughts, which sounds like a normal day in real life to me, but oh well. Even though each environment is different per person, I'm going to go over some of the ones that you might run across or you might be sent to.  You'll only get sent to one of these that I'm about to go over, so you better hope you get lucky. And keep in mind that all these spaces are silent and isolated and give you feelings of dread and sadness and existential crisis. There's eight different ones that I'm going to talk about, and these are the ones that have been catalogued so far, and they are as follows. Secluded parks with benches, empty piers over water, damp hallways that lead to light, the inside of broken down cars, lonely beaches with lapping waves, wet dirty tunnels that lead to nowhere, building rooftops over cities and porches or decks that look familiar and liminal. Each of these places is different, but they're all very lonely, and they all put you in a position to where you're alone with your thoughts and nothing else. So get ready to hear some sadness, liminulness, loneliness, and everything like that. First up is the secluded parks with benches. These parks are typically in the autumn season, so they're around the fall time, and it's always dark or sunset when you get sent here. The temperature is around 50 degrees Fahrenheit, or like 10 or 11 degrees Celsius, so it feels cool and calm and empty. The secluded parks are large expanses of soft rolling grass with trees dotted everywhere, and dirt paths or stone paths that cut through them. The only sounds that you might be able to hear in these areas is a slow wind rustling and leaves rustling sound, because that's all there is that's here. The one constant in all these parks is a bench that's alone off the path somewhere. They seem to be made out of some kind of iron, and they look like ones from a real life park. Which just adds to the eeriness of these places to me. Along the path and near the bench, there'll probably be like a single street light that gives off a really slightly bright glow to the area, and this entire place is just extremely lonely and liminul, and it feels like time itself stops when you get sent here. You might also get sent to a bench that's in a different environment, and not in a secluded park at night time like the one I just talked about. And an example of that might be a bench next to a river, or a bench in the streets of an empty city. Just know that this first environment always has a bench somewhere, but it's most likely to be in a dark secluded park. It just depends. Next up is a pier or a dock that you can get sent to, and this is another common environment. The pier is made out of some kind of waterlogged, dark colored wood that overlooks a still and stagnant pond. The pond is surrounded by trees and tall grass, and you can barely see just an old bridge off in the distance in front of you. The time of year here is autumn and fall too, and it's a similar temperature to the secluded park. The only sounds that you'll be able to hear are wind running through the grass and the trees, and maybe a random bird sound or a water dripping sound. Most people that get sent here are overwhelmed with thoughts of guilt and shame, and they don't even want to look at themselves in the reflection of the pond. They feel overwhelmed and they can't really control their own brain, and they just want to let go and jump inside of that pond and never be seen again, which is kind of sad actually. The next environment is this type of hallway. They're typically really dark behind you and to the sides of you, but they lead to a very bright light at the end. The hall itself is made out of some kind of concrete, and it feels very claustrophobic and isolating. Most of the level feels isolating and claustrophobic, but this place is worse. It's been said that most people like to stay in the dark areas here because the light at the end of the hallway makes weird things happen to your brain, like paranoia and guilt and stuff like that. The next place you might get sent to is the inside of broken down cars, which is the smallest and most cramped space that you might get sent to on this level. The car itself is locked and you can't get out of it to explore, and you also can't even look out the windows because you just see a foggy expanse and nothing else. The temperature inside the car is a cool 41 degrees Fahrenheit, or 5 degrees Celsius, and the only sounds that you can hear once again is the wind brushing up against the car. In my opinion, this place would be awful to be sent to because you can barely move around inside of a car, and if you were trapped inside of it with nothing but your own thoughts, I think you would go crazy pretty fast. The next possible location you could get sent to is a sandy beach that looks like this. The beach seems to be at night time with this dark expanse of ocean right in front of you that just seemingly never ends. The only thing in the sky is a moon type of planet, which gives the entire place a very strange ghostly glow, and this is one of the warmest locations that you might get sent to in level negative 627, and it stays around 75 degrees Fahrenheit or 24 degrees Celsius. It also seems to be a summertime area. The water here has this hypnotizing effect that calls out to you in a way, and it makes you want to just jump in the water and never get out. The only sound you can hear is once again the wind blowing, and then the soft ocean water lapping up onto the shore. Like I said, people have claimed that the ocean calls them and tries to lure them into itself, which is weird. So if the ocean talks, don't listen to it. Tunnels like these are also a possible location that the level might create for you, and these are typically circular tunnels that are wet and damp and full of old leaves and have holes in the ceiling, and there's algae going everywhere. They're very similar to the other tunnels from earlier, except they're circular and more dirty and damp, and there's also a light at the end of these tunnels that you can walk towards.   The next place you might get sent to is a rooftop of a skyscraper in a city, and the city under you is always alive.   Which, again, is pretty sad. The last main thing that level negative 627 might send you to is like an empty porch environment. The porch seems random, but familiar at the same time, and is very liminal and very calming. It's also eerie and unknown. It looks almost like your grandparent's porch, or your friend's porch, or your aunt's or your uncle's porch, but ever so slightly different. It stays at about 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or 26 degrees Celsius here, and it's always pitch black. With the only sounds you can hear are the wind chimes, and this ambient wilderness noise off in the distance.  I mean, you're trapped on a porch that nighttime in the middle of summer. Alone. What else are you gonna do? So, what does this all mean? You know, why is there a level that traps people in small locations with nothing else but their own thoughts? Well, no one knows why or how it happens, but it's thought that people who get sent here have done bad things in their life, and that this is some sort of punishment or payment for those things they've done. Or at least, that's what we all tell ourselves to make this level less scary. Most people that end up getting sent here either end up forgiving themselves and possibly escaping, or they get consumed by their guiltiness and are never seen again. Or maybe the worst fate is those who get consumed by their thoughts so much that they wander off into these fake environments and sink so far into this reality that they end up merging together with it. But that's just my opinion. Let me know what you think. People who don't make peace with their past, or they try to escape the level early, might find themselves in one last scary zone.   You can barely move around in this little area, and you can't see your reflection in that mirror. You can only see your regrets and your misgivings from the past, which are continuously being replayed for an eternity on that mirror, and you'll be forced to watch it forever. Which sounds like a grand time, but I think now I'll go over the exits for those of you that want to know how to live longer, I guess. To exit, you have to make peace with the wrong that you've done, double as that. No matter what it is, you have to accept it and move on, or you'll be trapped here in these environments forever, thinking they're real, but knowing they're fake. Good luck knowing why you got sent here. You just know that you probably deserved it. But yeah, that's it for the video. Well, thank you so much for watching. I think this level is pretty great. I love the lonely and liminal and terrifying retrospectiveness of it. Great work. Check out the full article below if you want to know more about it. Thank you for your love and support. Turn those notifications on for all of my videos if you want to see the content. Also, make sure to have a great day. Tell someone you love them. Tell someone you appreciate them. And with all that said, I will see you all in the next video. Peace.


Hey you guys so I wanted to come back on after a few months to give you an update on my breast reduction. I know I said I will come on for a three month update and a six month update. Yeah girl that didn't happen. So this would be a nine month update. Because you don't know I had a breast reduction in May of last year and now that we're in January they will make nine months. So what I'm going to do is just briefly go over how I was approved and I will be linking in the cards below several videos because I do have videos of the week when I had my breast reduction, the recovery, and also how I got approved but I'm just going to give you a clip notes version right now. If you don't know it's really hard to get approved for breast reduction and it used to be 10-15 years ago as long as you were having back pain and a doctor said that you know approved you, you went to a surgeon, boom that was 10 or 15 years ago. Now insurance companies do not want to pay to shut all that money unless you absolutely need it.  So for me it was two years of gathering documentation and finally approaching my insurance company which I purposely switched over from United Health Care to Sick Now and seeing multiple specialists getting, I mean I literally have 40 pages of documentation. So I made an appointment with my family doctor and let her know and so I was documented as being on a second set of painkillers for three, four, five months. Does that make sense? Okay. The chiropractor wrote a letter of recommendation along with the doctor notes from my family practitioner.  So I would think at this point the surgery was a little over $20,000 and then I received a bill from the anesthesiologist that was like $80 which is nothing but then the hospital bill was $1,100 and my bill from the surgeon was around $400. So we're looking at $1,500 I had to pay out of pocket. So do expect that. So yeah depending on your insurance you still are going to have to pay something out of pocket. It's just not going to be 100% free. My recovery has been pleasant. The only, I'm going to explain to you what I've been having but the week of it was good. The only thing that did happen is that when I tried to lift up the dressing on my nipple it was kind of lifting and it was due to the type of gauze that was used and the surgery that was on call just advised me to use water slowly lifted up and that was fine. It was perfect. Okay. I did have swelling for a while and honestly I still, they still get a little swollen if I've been doing a lot the day before like I was doing a lot yesterday and I woke up in the middle of the night and I could tell they were swollen. They didn't hurt but I could tell that they were swollen. I'm sorry I didn't tell y'all what size I was. I went from a 38 triple D sometimes a double E and right now I can say I am a full C possibly D, 38, 38 C D and I'm very happy with my results. About two months ago my brush dropped because for the first month, not months or so they were up perky. I didn't mind that but they were up perky and hard like I had breast implants and that's I didn't want that but now they're soft and they've dropped I should say. They look great. My shirts are all baggy. I normally would have to get a size large or sometimes extra large but now I'm definitely in a medium, medium top. I also have to have light bulb on the side here because my breasts were so wide they kind of went into my oren pit so I did have a little bit of light bulb which I did not mind at all and so my top here, see if I can show you a little bit. Do you see that? Well you probably can't, yeah now you can see that. See how it goes in. I mean I always had a little curl but it really goes in a lot more now that I've had a little light bulb. I am very happy with my results. So let me tell you guys, I'll show you a little bit more when it comes to scoring and the complications I have had. I will say about, what was it made in July, about the end of July, early August I noticed my skin was very dry.  So I expected that and I had my creams and lotions and everything ready to go but the itching got so bad to where I started getting discoloration. I mean my breasts started to turn like a purple color but only from the nipple under okay and I'm just like what is going on itching, itching, itching. I'm using everything, I mean I literally used everything from coconut oil, shea butter, my own DIY eczema cream, tea tree oil, nothing seemed to help. And I will say this, that it will get better than it would get worse. So it would go back and forth so I'm thinking this entire time that this is just the Norman Healing process. Well I would say about a month ago I finally decided to go back to the surgeon and I had them to check it out and they said oh this is extremely dry skin and you need to go see a dermatologist. So now two weeks ago I went to a dermatologist she took a look at it and she said you know what this is more than just eczema and dry skin it looks like you're having a reaction to the internal sutures and I'm like wow okay. So I would definitely recommend that you, I should have went to a dermatologist earlier okay so that they could have given me my medication and yeah. So I've been using, I'm going to show you what I've been using and this is prescribed for me because it's called Try My Sun Only and they gave me a big tub of it, a huge tub of this because normally it comes in a 30, like a little bitty tub like it's like 30 ml. It's basically a steroid cream and I have to use it, I've used this daily twice a day only for a month, I get off of it for like a week or so and then I'll go back on because if you use it too much it will thin out your skin. So that's what I have to do personally and I would say after two weeks the color is coming back. I mean there's still some itching but not as bad. The coloring is definitely coming back and yeah it looks great, they look great okay. That's the only issue that I have had. Now let me show you what I tried and what I still would suggest trying if you don't have the issue that I have with you know the suture. So I purchased Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Dry Itchy Skin. Now this was working good you know it contains vitamin E, collagen and elastin. Yeah it was doing really well and what I did is I purchased vitamin E oil and started adding it to this and I like it that you can spray it so you can spray it underneath because my incisions or the scar goes from here all the way under okay. So all the way up spray spray spray spray spray spray spray spray and that's it. Another thing that helps really well and those of you who have small children with eczema or if you have eczema yourself Vaseline. Vaseline worked miracles for my breasts when they were on fire. I would literally make sure that my breasts were wet, slather on Vaseline. While I'm in a shower right after the shower I would slather on Vaseline and that really helped in addition to my steroid cream. One thing that I really feel like didn't work for me that everyone I saw what rave about my derma, my derma which is a drying oil, very quick drying oil, very very thin drying oil. Yeah really didn't work that well for me you guys and I used it consistently. I would rather buy this you know I purchased both of these three Amazon okay. I would say about three months ago I noticed that the scar under my left breast started to keloid. Now I've had surgeries before when I had my C-section when I had cysts removed I keloid and I was expecting that so I'm not surprised. I wasn't expecting it but I'm not surprised it happened so when I went to go see the surgeon a month ago she was like oh yeah you're starting to keloid so she's like I would recommend silicone gel strips I already got them girl. So I purchased the scar out gel strips from Amazon and this is what they look like. They come like this you open it up and you will probably have to cut it and apply it under now. I have not been that good about applying these and wearing these you guys because they're not comfortable and it says that it's self-adhesive maybe because I'm fluffy. Chubby. Yeah I they're not that great they're very sticky very flimsy but they don't stick well to your skin you know what I mean they get they catch onto everything else but your body so it did come with a tape and adhesive tape. What I think I'm gonna do is and this is some of the surgical tape I had here that's not even good enough. I'm gonna have to purchase some other type of tape and try it again. Now you can reuse them and I think for these it says it says each gel can last between two to four weeks and total treatment time two to four months. So this entire box two to four months you supposed to see a change after a week. I couldn't even get through a week because it literally kept coming off and I was afraid I'll be walking in public and this thing falls out my press. So I'm gonna have to get some proper tape so that I can apply them because that's what the the surgeon assistant or excuse me the surgeon was recommending that I try or that I use. Now when I have had scars that have keloid it goes away. It takes a very long time like for me personally it takes a good year but yeah. So yeah that is it you guys I just wanted to give an update because I did say I will come back and let you know if you have any questions jot them down below. I will say I've gotten comments or questions or you know whatever from women who are afraid to have a surgery they're afraid to go under. Let me tell you something if you've had a baby you can do this like out of all of my surgeries and I've had this one would have would be mine would have been my fourth or it's my fourth. This is this was the easiest one recovery was the easiest one. If you've had a C section then you can do three or four of these like seriously that's how easy it was for me but I also had a great team so make sure that you research your doctor your surgeon okay. I had a great surgeon I mean was a man of God or he is a man of God we prayed together that made me feel so comfortable because I am a Christian that made me feel very very comfortable. If that's not your thing fine just find you someone who's good okay he doesn't have to be a Christian just find someone that you trust all right I'm serious find someone you trust and that was that will put your put you at ease okay. Ask questions don't go on Google looking at all this stuff because everyone is different everyone reacts differently all right yeah that's what I would recommend but yeah everything has been great I wish I would have done this earlier really like if you're waiting and don't wait girl I wish I would have done this sooner meaning like right after I had my child because I did nurse them I will be I will be a little leery about that if you have not had children are you thinking about it I don't think I would get it done only because my breasts change after I had my child because I nursed them for two years and so they got longer and as you get older also your breasts change so I'm okay at having had this done at 37 years old but yeah you guys that is it like I said do you have any questions you have any comments drop them down below thank you so much for watching take care


The Blue Beetle, weeping down upon the underworld to smash Ganglion, comes the mysterious, all-powerful character who is a problem to the police, but a crusader for law. In reality, Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman, loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a sprained mask and a suit of intendable blue chain armor, flexible as silk, but stronger than steel. Today's episode of The Blue Beetle is the second part of the story entitled, Rounding Up the Payroll Bandit. Those of you who heard the first part of the story on a previous broadcast will remember that patrolman Dan Garrett, who is secretly the Blue Beetle, was talking to Charlie Storm of the York City Sun on the telephone when his conversation was interrupted by some shots outside the cigar store from which he had been phoning. Rushing out of the store, he shot one of the payroll bandits. The bandits' dying words were, I'm through. I tried to go straight, but B.J., and that was all except his final gas, B.J. is Benjamin, and then he expired. As our story opens today, Dan Garrett is in the little apothecary shop of his friend and confidant, Dr. Franz, discussing the case with him. What makes you so suspicious of Mr. Jarvis, the philanthropist, Danny? His first name is Benjamin, isn't it? Yes, yes, but that may only be a coincidence. After all, he's a respected man in the community. He established the East Side Mission for down-and-outers. I know, but I've got a hunch he doesn't do it from philanthropic motives. His voice is too oily, too pleasant. Well, you're probably more sensitive to such things than I am. Perhaps. Whoever planned that robbery certainly planned well. You were the only policeman on the job, weren't you? Yes, and I'd have been with Mannegan if I hadn't dropped into phone Charlie Storm. How much did the robbers get away with? About $50,000. Hmm, it was about that same amount in the bag you saved by shooting one of the robbers. Yes. Uh, someone in the store, I'll see who it is. It's Petroman Dan Garrett here. Oh, yes, I'm Dan Garrett. You shot my father, didn't you? Your father? He was one of the payroll bandits. Oh, I see. Your Blackie Blackburn's daughter. Yes, and you killed him. But it was in line of duty. Your father was... Yes, I know, but I'm all alone now. You've got to protect me. I'm so scared. They'll do something to me. Who will do something to you? The gang my father was in with. It's like Thomas and BJ. BJ? Who is BJ? Well, I'm not sure, but I believe that he... Well, she's fainted, Don. Yes, yes, just a minute. I'll get something. Oh, here. Here, here. Now let me hold this ammonia salts under her nose. There. There. What happened? Where am I? Oh, you're all right, my dear. All right. You just fainted. That's all. Yes, I guess it was the excitement and the fear of men. They got my father into trouble. He was trying to go straight, but they wouldn't let him. Well, suppose you try to keep calm and tell me all about it. You're safe here. Well, when my father got out of the penitentiary, I went up to meet him. But there was someone else there with a car. A man's father called BJ. Did you meet BJ? No, but I saw him. What did this BJ look like? Well, he was about 60, I'd say. Rather portly, iron gray hair. That sounds very much like your philanthropist friend, Benjamin Jarvis. That's true. Nothing.   Oh, but I have no home now that my father... Any folks, Miss Blackburn? Call me Julie. Well, very well. Julie, where's your mother? I don't know where my mother is. She left father years ago. You see, I really haven't anybody. Dr. Front, why couldn't I stay here and keep out for you? Well, I... I'm afraid that wouldn't work out. The proprieties and... Oh, look out! I got nothing! I'm covering you too, Doc. We're covering a girl. You won't get the girl, but you'll get this. You asked for a cupboard? I'll help you! That'll keep you quiet, copper. I'll wrap you on the bean, too. Back up to the wall, Doc. I don't want to mess up your place, but we came for the girl, and we're gonna... If you think you can get away with such high-handed business as this, you're mistaken. Oh, yeah? Try and stop us. Hey, Finney, get up.  It's scram with the dame. What happened? The copper's socked you, and I've beaten you with my gas. He's out like a light. Come on. What do we do? Take the girl and scram. Let's take them all. Be jailed to decide what to do with them. Okay, you'll tie up the cop while I tie up the girl.  Release that girl. He's got something in his hands. Yes, that chemical's so strong that if I hit you with this ampule, it will break, and the contents will burn you to a cinder in ten seconds. Ah, he's bluffing. No, he ain't. Doc Frans knows his business, I heard. Hey, fast, gentlemen. Better drop those guns, or I'll... Okay, okay, okay. Now, gentlemen, back against the wall. Yeah. While I phone the Benjamin Jarvis and tell BJ, I have two of his rescued souls here in my apothecary shop. Oh, no. Turn yourself in to a police dog, but don't tell BJ. Deep up the soft. That's just what I wanted to find out, Julie. Yes, Dr. Frans. Telephone the police department and tell them to send the patrol wagon over here for a pair of BJ's thugs. Honestly, Doc, I'm ashamed of myself. Me, a policeman. Letting two thugs get the better of me while... Don't worry, Danny boy. What's a little setback like that? You've proven your metal many times, both as Dan Garrett and as the Blue Beetle. Yes, I know, but on front of Julie... I understand, Danny. I understand. But what are you going to do about BJ? The Blue Beetle is going to do a little flying and a little bluffing. Where to? The East Side Mission. We still haven't any proof that this BJ and the Philanthropus Benjamin Jarvis are the same individuals. I have a hunch. When Benjamin Jarvis is confronted by the Blue Beetle, he'll let something slip that can be used as evidence. But what about witnesses? I'd like to borrow that portable sound recording device of yours. Oh, I have a better suggestion. What's that, Doc? Call me on your portable wireless phone just before you make your appearance and I'll record everything here. Oh, that's a great idea. Well, the Blue Beetle's going to church, but he won't hear a sermon. He may provide a text for one. Yes, a true one. Be sure your sins will find you out. Perfectly. All set with your recording machine? Yes, I started at the minute the phone rang. It's all connected up. Good. I'm all ready. I'm leaving the switch open on my portable wireless telephone. We should get everything that happens from now on. Go ahead, Danny, but be careful. Don't worry, Doc. Here I go. My sons, we are honored tonight by having with us the great hearted soul who made this mission possible.  I'm sure you'll be glad to hear from your benefactor and friend, Benjamin Jarvis. But first, let us sing one verse of hymn 27. Rescue the perishing. This is an outrage. Who is this masquerader? I'm sorry, Reverend Morehouse, to interrupt your services in this manner. I'm sure you're unaware of this man's real purpose in supporting this mission. What do you mean?  Here, some of you men, grab this man and hold him. Benjamin Jarvis, alias B.J., your game is up. Benny and Eddie are in the custody of the police. They confessed everything this afternoon. All right, those dirty crooks, so they spilled... Yes, they spilled the beans, as you were about to say. Well, they won't get away with it, and neither would you. I have not found that gun, Mr. Chops. Firearms have no place in it. He shot himself. Jarvis has committed suicide. And may the Lord have mercy on his son. You were right, yes, luckily. Oh, what about those other men that Jarvis placed in positions of trust throughout the city to help him in his nefarious schemes? Reverend Morehouse has their names. He'll talk with them and try to really put them on the right track again. He's confident he can make them go straight. You see, Jarvis threatened to send them back to jail if they didn't do what he wanted them to do. He'd have framed them. Yes, he was a bad man. But he's gone now. And his payroll racket is smashed. Yes, thanks to you and the Blue Beetle.  For if you do, you will be found out. And thanks to the Blue Beetle, the businessmen of the city have been freed from the menace of the hypocritical B.J. and his payroll bandits. What new adventures await the Blue Beetle in his crusade against crime? This question will be answered in the next episode of the Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in Mystery Men Comics magazine and the Blue Beetle magazine. The Blue Beetle is on the air twice a week on this same station. Consult the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers. And don't forget to listen in to the Blue Beetle.


So if I go to the tab to the right, the balance sheet and run it, we should have an increase to accounts receivable. That's what an invoice does. Let's go into that and check it out. There it is. There's the 3622. If I go into that down drilling down to the source document, that's for the full amount, 362250. That looks good. Scroll in back up. I'm going to close up the invoice and go back to my form. The other side's on the income statement to the profit and loss, run it. Finally, activity has happened. There's our sales. Note that the sales is on the books for, they give us three line items because there were three line items on the invoice, but the total 3450 does not include the sales tax. So they put it on line item by line item and the sales tax is not included. Where does the sales tax go to be in balance? Close in this back out. Back to our income statement. That's going to be on the balance sheet back to the balance sheet. And then we go down to the liabilities. We should have a payable. They put it into the California department because it's going into that's the vendor that we pay for the sales tax and that could help you instead of just putting it into a generic sales tax payable account. If you had multiple sales taxes that you're going to pay because it's going to break it out by department instead of what you would expect, which would be like sales tax payable, but we're going to go in there and there it is. There's the sales tax being calculated and that is that 172 that we put on the generic sales tax item. It's only one line item because we did the generic tax. If you did the California tax that might break it out into three line items because you're actually paying three different kind of for three different kind of things, state, local and whatever.  So if I go up to inventory, that's going to go down. So if I go into that, you can see this one invoice had four line items related to it because there's multiple line items on the invoice. If I scroll down a little bit more and go into one of those, you can see that that 1600, for example, that amounts not here because it's going down by it's going down by the cost, not by the sales price. This is the sales price. So I'm going to close this back out. Also note that you might say, Hey, look, there's three line items here and there's four and there's like four line items here and I believe that's due in part to the fact that they're using a tracking of first and first out for the flow assumptions and so possibly due to layers on the flow assumptions, you might end up with different levels here versus what's on the line items on the invoices. I believe is what's going on with that. So let's go back up. I'm going to go back up and back and then the other sides on the profit and loss report and the cost of good souls representing the expense of us consuming the inventory when we used it to generate revenue. So we're matching the time period. This isn't when we paid for it necessarily. It's when we used it when we sold it. So we're going to go into that and there is the other side for the cost of goods sold. So then the impact on the profit and loss we can see clearly because this is the one only transaction we have sales went up by the sales price cost of goods sold the expense went up by the cost of the goods that we sold gross profit is the difference between the two now also what's impacted if I go back to the tab to the left we've got the accounts receivable also needs to be broken out not by just the date of the transaction but by who owes us the money we can see that in report form and we can see it in the detail on the left hand side when we track our customers. Let's go to the tab to the right right click on it and duplicate the tab and look at it first in report form. So we're going to go to the reports on the left hand side which we've seen in the past and then I'm going to scroll down a bit and we're going to go down to to the AR who owes you and we can look at a couple of these but a common one is the accounts receivable aging summary. Let's look at that one and change the range or just the date 1231 23 run it and it breaks out the dates here because I put it at the end of the year that's why it's all over 90 but the point is we've got the people that owe us money broken out in that format and then the total ties out to the 24122 50 that's what should be on the balance 24122 50 now in practice we're going to have to collect on that receivable so we're often going to go internally tab to the left into the sales tab on the left hand side and then we're going to be tracking this information by going to the the in my one of my on the sales tab and then we might go into the customers and then close in the hamburger and we can look at our customers. We can look at our invoices up top and look at the open invoices this way that will show us our customers that have open invoices this one has two of them for Anderson I can go into Anderson there's our open invoices and then we might also go into our sales tab over here and then look at the all sales up top and we can search in here as well sorting our sales transactions note that if you're in the business view these are in a different little bit different location they're kind of separated if we were on the get paid and paid area that's where your customers are and then if you were in the bookkeeping area that's when you can go into your transactions up top where we saw the expenses before now we're on the all sales transactions they kind of put those side by side and a little bit different fashion on the business view but once in here we can then say okay now we can sort our transactions they got some sorting options up top so we've got for example open invoices I can select that item and there's our open invoices you see the drop down we got all invoices here you can also sort for this way you know all invoices and we've got those invoices here that were set up when we set up the the beginning balances and this is the invoices that we created now we would expect the next thing to happen is we receive payment we'll go into the receive payment in a future presentation and obviously when we're communicating with the client we're going to have the receive payment and we might then send them you know reminders or statements about the open invoices that they have that we could set up to do periodically okay let's do another one so we're going to go back on over and say let's do another one let's hit the plus button up top make another invoice this one I'm going to say is going to go for Jones guitars which I think we already have a client or customer for Jones guitars so it's set up good to go we're going to got the email address and so that looks good billing and we're going to have the terms of 30 days that looks good let's set the date let's move the date up like a day here I'm just hit the plus button so that that moves it up a day so that's a like a little bit of a quick way to do that we've got the invoice number populating automatically the sales location populating which will help us to calculate the sales tax generally no tags that we're going to be adding and then I'm just going to type in what they're purchasing they're going to be buying a g i us a g i us a and so that's a Gibson us a we're going to say the quantity we'll just keep it at one so we're going to say there it is and then that's good and it should be taxable so it is a taxable item so I'm going to say okay and then we've got a ELP so I'm going to say ELP and that's going to be an epiphone less Paul so that looks good so we'll say that one and so that's going to be an epiphone we're going to say we want eight of those and say eight of those it is a taxable item so that looks good and so that puts us at four thousand three eighty and then I'm going to change the sales tax for the generic problem to be to be the five percent so we'll change it to the five percent to make it generic you can change it there or you can change the math here if you just want to work work and make it kind of a generic five percent for practice problem purposes okay so that what's this going to do same thing let's just let's just recite it again it's an invoice that means that counts receivable is going to go up by the full amount including sales tax four thousand five ninety nine the other side then is going to go to revenue but only by the four thousand three eighty on the income statement because that's what we charged the difference is sales tax two nineteen it's not on the income statement because in theory we didn't charge them that amount by the way the expense is also not on the income statement you can imagine a system where we charged the two nineteen as income and then expense when we pay the expense that would be kind of like if we were if it was part of our business but it's we're trying to imagine that we're just a tax collector and therefore the incomes not hitting and therefore we have no expense related to it as well as just going to a payable account it's a balance sheet item not going through the income statement increase in the payable by the two nineteen also inventories going down by an amount not on the invoice but driven by the items and cost of good sold the expense related to us selling the inventory is going up the net impact on the income statement will be the increase in the sales price minus the cost of good sold and the accounts receivable sub ledger will track the accounts receivable by customer not just by dollar amount and the sub ledger for inventory will track inventory on a perpetual basis by unit not just by dollar amount so like a lot going on actually quite complex we're going to save it and close it and check it out so now let's go to the tab to the right to check it out and we're going to we're going to run it up top run it running I don't think I looked at the inventory report last time we'll look at it this time accounts receivable has been changed so there's Jones Jones is on there that looks good that amount four thousand five ninety nine is the full amount including the sales tax closing that back out back to the balance sheet other sides on the income statement tab to the right run it to refresh it income sales has gone up now it's going up it put multiple line items to increase it because we had multiple line items notice the prices though four thousand three and three eighty do not include the sales tax of the two nineteen so we're out of balance by the sales tax where does that go double entry accounting system has to be in balance back to the report it's going to be back on the balance sheet in the liability section and this is the tax we're collecting for our trustee California Department of administration basically sales tax payable there it is there's the difference on that one but we're not done yet we're not done yet going back we also have inventory going down because we're tracking it on a perpetual system not it not a periodic one not a periodic one inventory let's go into that one it's going down multiple line items tracking the inventory for three oh oh one it's going down by amounts here three thousand two hundred three oh four that aren't actually on the invoice but driven by the items the system knows what they are just like when you check out something on the grocery store and you don't know how much they paid for it but the system doesn't records it in a perpetual inventory system even though you just simply running the thing across scanner and then the other side is going to the income statement and the cost of the goods that are sold expensing them as we're selling them matching in accordance with the accrual matching principle at the same time so there we have it so let's close that out also that's not all that's not all the net impact on net income is the income minus the cost of goods sold if I go back to the balance sheet we've got to the A to the R needs to be broken out also by by customer which we could see in report form on the sub ledger updating the sub ledger we ran last time it's now at twenty eight seven twenty one we owe we are owed money by Anderson Jones and Smith guitars for that twenty eight seven twenty one that should tie out to the balance sheet twenty eight seven twenty one also if I go to the tab to the left and track this internally I can look at my sales items I now have five open invoices that I can expect to receive payment on in the future if I look at this in terms of customers sales tab customers then I can look for the open invoices by customer and so now we've got that way to that way to see it as well and so I could go into Jones guitars and say I expect payments from Jones guitars here we can send them statements and whatnot if we so choose let's also look at the inventory this inventory should have a sub ledger breaking out by unit let's go to the tab to the right right click on it duplicate that tab and then go to the reports on the left hand side the reports and then we're going to go into let's just type in inventory inventory valuation summary change the date to twelve thirty one two three run it and so now we've got the unit item the items and the quantity and then the dollar amount forty thousand six seven six that should tile to what's on the balance sheet and their forty thousand six seven six looks good now obviously the invoice would be a lot more simplistic if you just had a service item and no sales tax right but when you get into the tracking inventory perpetually and have the sales tax then there's quite a lot of action going on with the invoices actually a lot a lot happened you got to make sure it's set up properly to have it all working systematically.


Hello and welcome. In the last lecture, we had looked at the basic algebraic formulation for arriving at a mass configuration of a launch vehicle for given values of epsilon and pi. We had also established a need for a formal procedure that would give us the values of pi for the best possible rocket configuration. In this lecture, we will initiate the discussion on the various possibilities among which we will choose one of the possibilities for arriving at the best possible pi values. So, let us begin. Let us begin by introducing the idea of an optimal design methodology. As we have already seen in multi-stage rocket design, basic design variables are masses within each stage. Further, we have also noted that there are two requirements from mission perspective that is the payload mass and the ideal burnout velocity. In a generic mechanism, we can either use payload mass as a constraint and try to maximize the ideal burnout velocity or we can put a constraint on the ideal burnout velocity and use payload mass as an objective function which is to be maximized. The implication of these are that in one case, when you are putting payload mass as a constraint, we are saying that a particular spacecraft can be used for different missions for which you will require different velocities. On the other hand, when we put the burnout velocity as a constraint and try to maximize the payload mass, what we are indirectly saying is that we want to perform the same mission with different sized spacecraft and we will find that both these scenarios are possible to be handled in a reasonably structured and simple manner. Now, we have already mentioned that we would either like to maximize the velocity for a given payload mass or maximize the payload mass for a given velocity. These are going to be our formal design objectives for designing a multi-stage rocket. Of course, it is important to take note of the fact that number of stages is strictly speaking and unknown and along with the stage by its mass parameters, this can also be used as an unknown to arrive at its value through the same optimization procedure. However, there are a few issues that come up when we do that. So, the resulting optimization problem would now be a mixed integer real number optimization problem and these kind of optimization problems are not very easy to solve because you cannot really get the correct optimal solution because the n is going to be an integer number. So, if you are getting a solution which is less than let us say 1.5, you might fix it to 1 and then look at an optimal solution or if you are getting n as 3 or 3.5, then you may say, okay, I will put it equal to 4. So, you realize that it is not a straightforward solution that we will have when we use n also as a design variable. So, what we do is that we take the next best course. We use the number of stages as a parameter. What essentially it means is that we generate a large number of optimal solutions for different values of n and then among those solutions, we will pick one which is the most suitable for our mission objectives. There is another point that can be kept in mind which is that by and large, most launch vehicles will be a minimum of two stages and possibly a maximum of five stages even if we include the strap on or the zeroed stage. So, what it means is that we only have to do this exercise three or four times for different values of n between 2 to 5 and we will have mapped the complete design space from which we can choose the configuration that is best suited. Lastly, we also need to realize that most space agencies will generally have technology to handle rockets of a certain number of stages even though most of them would have in their arsenal rockets which will have different stages within a rocket family. Generally, the number of stages would be not too many. So, the overall exercise for using n as a parameter is still a fairly simple and workable exercise without getting into the hybrid integer real number optimization problem and for that reason, this is the strategy which is most commonly implied. Let us now turn over to the actual optimal design methodology. There are many ways in which the optimization can be done. If you look at the methodology in the books in literature, you will find linear programming, quadratic programming, non-linear programming and a host of other similar methodologies which provide best possible solution for a given problem statement. In the present context, we will find that the gradient based technique which is the simplest and the most intuitive and most commonly employed wherever applicable is going to be used, particularly for those problems which allow differentiation as you will find that the problem that we are going to formulate will permit derivatives. It is possible for us to use the gradient based methods to arrive at an optimal solution. In this methodology, typically there is an objective function which is to be optimized that is either maximized or minimized with respect to the design variables. Further, there will generally be constraints that the solution needs to satisfy. The implication of constraints is that you are now defining the boundaries of your design space within which the best possible solution must be searched. So, the constraints essentially define the boundaries within which you must look for a solution. Because we have stated two separate types of problems that we can solve, we can also have the optimal design problem statement also in both these cases that is we can either take the burnout velocity as an objective function which is to be maximized and the mission payload fraction pi star as a constraint or we can reverse the process and we can choose pi star as the objective function that needs to be maximized and v star as the constraint under which the solution must be obtained. So, how does this gradient based method work? In gradient based methods, what we try and do is to generate the partial derivatives of the objective function with respect to all the design variables. And from your basic understanding of calculus, you would note that an optimal solution would be obtained when all the partial derivatives are 0 at a single point. So, we now get as many number of equations as there are number of design variables which will be algebraic equations. And when we solve those algebraic equations in terms of the design variables, we get a solution for the design variables which optimizes that is either maximizes or minimizes the objective function. And all this must be done while satisfying the constraint exactly. So, if we have an n-stage vehicle, for each stage we will have n values of the payload ratio or pi. So, we can treat them as n design variables which obviously means that we will get n partial derivatives or n algebraic equations. Now, we also have a constraint either on p star or on pi star that becomes our n plus 1th equation. So, we are going to have n plus 1 equations in which n equations are obtained from the partial derivative exercise and n plus 1th equation is obtained from the constraint. And this system of n plus 1 equations is in only n unknowns and you immediately realize that that is something which needs to be now addressed before we can look at the solution itself. Now, let me recall something that you probably would be familiar with. If we have number of equations which are more than the number of unknowns. In the context of linear algebra, we have a very well-established method of least squares which can extract the solution of n design variables using what is commonly called a pseudo inverse approach in which you use the set of n plus 1 equations to arrive at an n by n non-singular coefficient matrix whose inverse will give us the solution. What is the issue with this? The main issue with this is that this is not really an exact solution. What this is trying to do is to minimize the error between the exact solution and the solution given by the least square method and keeping that error to a minimum value using the quadratic formulation approach and that is why it is called the least squares method. That the square of the error is a minimum and that is the condition under which the solution is obtained. Of course, if we are not really looking at a very exact solution, this works very well and is commonly employed in many cases. However, if we are looking at an exact solution then obviously this is not going to work. There are two possibilities that one can think of. One, either we can drop one equation and use the remaining n equations for n unknowns and solve for the n design variables. This methodology can give reasonable solution if the equation that you have dropped is not really of much consequence so that you will still get a reasonably good solution. However, if the equation that you have dropped is an important equation and has a significant impact on the solution then the chances are that you will get only an approximate solution which means you will get what is commonly called a suboptimal solution. The other possibility is that can I add one more and more so that we now have n plus 1 unknowns for n plus 1 equations that becomes our square system and we get an exact solution for all the n plus 1 variables hoping that among that the n required design variable solution is also exact. So, for that we need to ensure the addition of this additional variable in a particular manner so that the solution that we get from such a formulation is exact. We will first look at this aspect through a strategy and then of course we will also look at the other possibility of dropping one equation and still hoping for an exact solution. So, please note our objective is to get an exact optimal solution either through dropping one equation or through adding one additional variable. So, to summarize we have just noted that optimal methods are capable of providing good solutions for stage wise payload ratios. We have also noted that we can make use of gradient based techniques to set up the application solution methodology. Hi, so we have seen that by appropriately choosing the objective function and the constraint it is possible for us to set up a formal optimization procedure based on the gradient methodology for arriving at a reasonably good optimal solution for the stage payload ratios. We will look at the methodology in subsequent lectures. So, bye see you in the next lecture and thank you.


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