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If you would like a commercial-free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars 2024 QuickBooks Online sample company file. We set up in a prior presentation, opening the major financial statement reports as we do every time. The reports on the left-hand side and the favorites, right-clicking on the balance sheet to open a link in a new tab, right-clicking the profit and loss to open a link in a new tab, right-clicking the trial balance to open a link in a new tab. Let's go to that tab to the right, close up the hamburger, change the range. We're going from 010124 Tab 022924 Tab. Let's see this on a side-by-side with the months and run it, tabbing to the right, closing the hamburger. Change in the range, 010124 Tab 022924 Tab. Month by month on the side-by-side, run it to refresh it, tabbing to the right, closing the hamburger. Once again, 010124 Tab 022924 Tab, side-by-side on the months and run it to refresh it. Let's go back to the balance sheet. We're now looking at another adjusting entry, adjusting entries happening at the end of the period, month or year, typically, in our case the end of February, because that's the last date that we were working on, typically used, adjusting entries that is, to make the financial statements as close to as possible the type of method being used. In other words, usually a cruel method, but could be used for a cash-based method or could be used for a tax-based method. We're now looking at accounts receivable again, but in a different way as we saw it before. So we saw an adjusting entry for accounts receivable before related to an invoice that we might have entered, which was entered after the cutoff date, in our case after February, sometimes in March, but the work was done in February, therefore we had to do an adjusting entry to bring the invoice back into the current period. So we recorded revenue when the work was done. We're going to do this time an adjusting entry related to unearned revenue. Sometimes it would be a customer deposit situation. This one often confuses people because it's going to be different than what we typically see in a book problem for unearned revenue. So I'll try to explain why that difference comes into play, when this might take place. This is also a transaction that isn't something that would be typical for every type of industry, but would be specific to particular types of industries. So let's look at a flow chart. This is a desktop flow chart that we're using for online purposes just to look at the flow of the forms, which will in essence be the same for any accounting cycle. We're on the customer cycle or revenue cycle. Remembering that the revenue cycle might look different depending on the type of industry that we are in. At the end of the day, we typically would expect cash to be going up for goods and services that we provide to customers. So the easiest revenue cycle typically would be like if you had YouTube paying you or something, then you just might wait till it clears the bank with the help and the use of the bank feeds, record a deposit form and the revenue at that point in time. You can automate that. That would be very easy. But sometimes you might be at a cash register. If you're in a cash register situation, typically you want to record the sale at the point in time it was made, still being a cash-based system because you're doing the work at the same time you get the money. But you will usually have to then put it into a clearing account so that you can then deposit it into the checking account in the same format, same grouping as will appear on the bank statement to help match out to the bank feeds and to do the bank reconciliations. And then we have an accrual system in which case we're going to do the work first and then bill or invoice the client, increase in accounts receivable, which we'll then have to track, receive payment on and then make the deposit, noting that we can't really choose which of these methods we're going to use, right? If I'm a YouTuber or something like that, then I'm going to have this method that's the industry I'm in. If I work at a food truck or something like that, a restaurant, then I'm going to be in a cash register situation. It's just how it is for restaurants, right? And then if I'm in a law firm or a CPA firm or some service business landscaping, I typically have to do the work first so I can bill the client for the work that was actually done, invoicing, tracking the accounts receivable. Now, we noted before that you could have a situation where you enter the invoice and it's not exactly at the same point in time you did the work. In other words, if I was at a CPA firm, for example, then I'm going to have my staff, if I was a partner, the staff would be doing the work. I would just be lounging and then talking with the clients and whining and dining them and whatnot and then having the staff do the work. And then I would then I'd bill for the work that they did in the last couple of weeks or last month. That means that the invoice, although it's the closest form to the point in which the work was done, was actually entered after the work was done. And in that case, you might end up with that transaction where you have to pull the work back into the prior period to be exactly correct on an accrual based type of system. So we looked at that before. The situation we have this time is that we might have something backwards. I might receive the payment before I actually do the work. When would that happen? The classic example would be a newspaper type of situation. So if someone purchases a newspaper, which I don't know why anyone would do anymore, given the fact that the legacy media is on its last lame leg and the newspaper is nothing but a rolled up brick that you're paying for someone. I've talked about this before, but I'm just saying, rolled up brick that you're paying for someone to throw at your house. That's what you're buying with it. But some people still buy the newspaper. And that means that when you purchase a year subscription on the newspaper, you haven't actually got the newspaper at that point in time. So from an accrual standpoint, you haven't gotten what you paid for. So if you were the newspaper company selling those bricks that you're throwing up people's houses, then you have to basically record it as a liability until the point in time you earn the revenue where you actually have that kid throw it through someone's window. That's the idea. Same with a magazine item. But any subscription would also be similar. So if you were an online application, you made applications that were actually useful to people, unlike the newspapers and stuff.  Then you might have a similar situation because you're getting paid before you actually provide the software in that case. So then all the money that you receive for every sale you would think would need to technically go into a liability until you actually earn it and then you would reduce the liability. Another situation which is similar is one in which, let's say you're in the music industry and you put on concerts or something like that. Well, any event like that, a concert is one in which you're going to collect the money before the concert. So that means that all the money you're collecting should technically go into unearned revenue until the concert happens at which point you've earned the revenue with the concert. We have a similar situation with rental property. If a rental property happens, someone's renting out an office building or an apartment or something like that, you might collect the first and last month's rent to make sure that you have a rent being covered in case you have a deadbeat in your apartment building, which happens a lot. I'm in California, so that's kind of a normal kind of thing. So then you have to collect the last month's rent in order to kind of safeguard for that or get a security deposit, which is a similar situation. That's money that you're collecting that you haven't actually earned. So you'd have to put it on the books as a liability. In our case, we're using an example similar to that in which we're selling stuff. We're selling guitars in our case. So now we're going to say, if there's a guitar that someone requests, but we have to order it or we're going to hold on to it in the shop for you and not sell it to somebody else, then we want you to give me a deposit so that we will go and follow through with the request or we will hold on to the guitar and not sell it to someone else until you get here. And so in that case, again, we're getting the money, a down payment, a deposit before we actually do the work. So there's a couple of different ways that we can account for this in QuickBooks. The way that I think is easiest on the bookkeeper is to simply record the received payment before you enter the invoice, which results in a negative accounts receivable. That negative accounts receivable isn't exactly right from a financial statement standpoint of view because it should be a positive liability of unearned revenue. But from a bookkeeping point of view, it works quite well. Now, there is also a workaround that you can use that we looked at in a prior course or section where you can use the items to have it properly record as a liability when you record the deposit, although it's a little bit more difficult to deal with internally on the bookkeeper side of things. So I actually feel like this method with a negative receivable is better because I would rather be nicer to the bookkeeper, making sure the bookkeeper who has to deal with day-to-day transactions has as easy a process as possible to do that, trying to keep the customers as happy as possible in that way as well, and then simply do an adjusting entry at the end of the period. So let me try to explain that over here in our financials. So the scenario would go something like this. If I hit the dropdown, we're going to say we're going to get paid first. So if we get paid first, instead of having an invoice and then a received payment, we're getting the received payment before we have the invoice. You might hear that and think of that as a credit balance to a customer account, right? We're crediting accounts receivable, which means a credit balance that we can apply the invoice to at a future point in time. Now normally, what would happen in a book problem is if I got paid first, then I would put it down here as a liability called unearned revenue. So we'd put it down here in unearned revenue. You might call it customer deposit or something like that because any of those scenarios that we talked about, whether it be a rental company, us getting a deposit on the guitar, then people have prepaid for the newspaper or application subscriptions upfront before we do the work. All of those situations, we debit or increase cash and the other side should go into a liability. Why? Because we owe them the money back or we owe them the service. And then what happens in the future is we're going to complete the work. Now in a book problem, what would happen is that we're going to say that once we do the work, we're going to determine how much of that revenue we have earned. If it's a year's worth of subscriptions and we did six months of the descriptions of the year, we can reduce this by half, right? And then put the other side over here to revenue as we earn it. That would be the normal book problem adjusting entry. In practice, however, we have an added problem in that this earned revenue isn't tied to. It's not linked to the internal account to track this information by customer because the customer center, if I go back on over here and I look at my sales tab, the customer center is here. The customer center in this area is linked to the accounts receivable. That's the account that's linked to the customer center that has all the special widgets related to it so we can track everything by customer. So, for QuickBooks then, it's better for us not to use this earned revenue from a bookkeeping standpoint and rather enter a negative accounts receivable for that particular customer, even though it's not technically right from a bookkeeping standpoint, it then underreporting accounts receivable and underreporting the liability, but tracks quite easily on the plus side of this method within QuickBooks. So, let me show you what that looks like. If I go to the tab to the right, we're going to right click on it and duplicate this. So, this is something that you might run into. If you're a bookkeeper, then again, you kind of want to start to know what industry you're specializing in. So, if you specialize in industries that get paid before they do the work, you're going to run into these kind of problems and then you can come up with what you think your best solution is and you might have a specialty field in those types of industries. So, I'm going to then go up and say, this is going to be, let's go down this way. Who owes you? Let's go to the Customer Balance Detail. Customer Balance Detail. And so, let's put the date as of the end of February, 0229 to 04. Run it. Okay, so if I scroll down through here, I can say, do I have like this one right here? So, now we have Eric Music has a negative accounts receivable. If you talk to someone like your credit card company or something and they say, you have a credit, we're crediting your account or something like that. We usually think of it as a good thing, right? If we have a credit balance that we're going to apply to a future purchase, we think of it as a good thing. So, if we were QuickBooks, Eric Music contacted us. We would say something like, yeah, you have a credit balance, meaning it's an accounts receivable which has a debit balance normally to it because people owe us money, which would be an asset to us. And you have a credit balance, which means we actually owe you money. So, we have a credit balance here, but we'll apply that credit balance to a future purchase would be the general idea. So, you can see how it would link out to the future purchase. But technically from a bookkeeping standpoint, from a financial reporting standpoint, we shouldn't have negative ARs, accounts receivable. It should be in a positive unearned revenue. But you could see logistically, that will cause problems because if I put this into an unearned revenue account, it's going to confuse the sub-ledgers that we want to track internally to be able to communicate with our customers. So, that's why we end up with this negative receivable. So, we have the same thing down here for Sam the guitar man and so on. So, we have these two amounts. So, that means that our, this is 250 and this is 200. So, our accounts receivable is basically understated by 450 and our liabilities are also understated by that same amount, 450.  You might be able to use this method and say, well, I'm only doing my books for tax purposes and for tax purposes, you just need the profit and loss because the schedule C is based on the profit and loss. So, in that case, you might not even need to do this adjusting entry because the adjusting entry has to do with two balance sheet accounts. In that way, it's a little bit strange of an adjusting entry because it deals with the two balance sheet accounts and doesn't have an income statement account to it. So, it's not going to affect like a schedule C on the tax return generally. So, just keep that in mind as well. But if we're doing this for external reporting, then we should have this be higher by 450 and we can have the other side on the liability. Let's just take a look at it internally before we do that. We did one of these for Anderson guitars just to see how this looks internally and why this method might be useful. So, in Anderson, for example, we had this one where we had an estimate. So, someone called in and made an estimate and it looked like this. So, we had these two guitars and we made the estimate of $1,300. We used that to calculate the payment, the prepayment. So, then we got a prepayment of the $300. Now, this $300 was not originally assigned out to an invoice because we got it before we got the invoice resulting at that point in a negative $300. And then when they actually received the guitar, we then entered the invoice and connected it to the payment to close it up. So, you can see how everything kind of works beautifully internally with this method, although we have that difference, that problem financial statement reporting-wise between the step when we got the deposit and making the invoice having a negative receivable instead of a positive liability. Let's look at the same thing for one of these other ones, which was let's do Eric Music and look at that one. So, if I go into Eric Music, so this one has an outstanding unapplied. So, if I look at what happened here, we could say, we made an estimate and then based on that estimate, we then created a payment. So, here's the payment that happened. But that payment, if I edit it, the payment decreases accounts receivable and is usually linked to an invoice. We're not linking it to an invoice because we got the payment before we got an invoice. So, it's still going to be decreasing the accounts receivable, but because there's nothing in accounts receivable for this customer, it's going to result in a negative or credit balance for this particular customer. You can see that works great internally because if someone comes in, Eric Music comes in, I can see exactly what is happening here. I'm going to say, oh yeah, you have a $200 unapplied credit balance that we could apply to a future purchase, which I'm assuming would be based on this estimate that was created. So, I can convert this estimate into an invoice and apply out that credit balance to it and I can see exactly what is happening. So, that's why this method works good kind of internally. So, that's going to be the idea. Now, notice if you were in the type of industry like a newspaper, then it might work out a little bit differently in that all of your payments would be prepayments. You could still use this method of having a negative accounts receivable if you wanted to. You could use the other method as well, but then you might create periodic invoices based on that that will actually automatically move the money from the negative receivable to the revenue, right? Because then you say, okay, I gave out a year's subscription each month, I'm going to make an invoice which will basically reduce the payment, the accounts receivable and record the revenue. So, it's a little bit different of a method, but you might not need like an adjusting entry at the end of the year. You might be able to do it kind of internally by creating invoices periodically and monthly to deal with those prepayments you're getting in a subscription model. I think we have another course or section on that if you want to get into that in more detail. For now, we're going to say, okay, if I'm trying to make my financial statements correct as of the cutoff date, then I can see these two amounts are understating the accounts receivable and I'll just do a journal entry for it. So, that's not a problem. But we have that same issue we saw before in that if I make a journal entry to accounts receivable, it's going to force me to have a customer. And if I have a customer, that's going to mess up the internal subledgers in here in the detail. And I don't want to mess up the internal subledgers. So, what are the methods we could use? Number one, we could make another account just specifically for our adjusting entry. The problem with that, however, is I can't really make a sub account of accounts receivable because it will still have the subledgers, which is what I'm trying to avoid having. So, I would have to make accounts receivable adjusting account as an other current asset account, which that's not too bad, but it's still kind of ugly because it's not like right next to each other. That's one method. Second method, I could create a customer that is just going to be like customer ZZZZ, for example, so that I can still assign a customer, but it won't be an actual customer so it won't show up in any actual customer detail, therefore hopefully minimizing the impact to the bookkeeper because we love the bookkeeper and we don't want to mess their stuff up. Method number three, we could use the actual customer to record the adjusting and reversing entry, which we should be able to tie out against each other, so it shouldn't be like there's going to be hanging invoices that aren't applied or hanging journal entries. However, it's still a little ugly because then there's going to be these journal entries that don't look right really in the audit trail in here because they're adjusting entries, although the subledger will be technically more correct if you needed that for external reporting. So I'm going to choose method number two. We're going to create our own customer, customer ZZZZ to do our journal entry so it doesn't mess up the internal customer information. Okay, so you would think that to do this you could go into the transactions and then say, well, it's a journal entry so I could go into the AR register and do it with a register. The problem, however, is that you can't really add a transaction because this register requires you to have a customer and you can't really do that with the register entry because it's the short entry method. So we basically have to use a journal entry in essence. So I'm going to go into a journal entry here and we're going to say it's as of the cutoff date. It's going to be 022924. Everything's as of the cutoff date for the adjusting entries. We're going to be debiting accounts receivable, accounts receivable. I'm going to do it for 450 which is the amount of those two customers that had negative balances for them. I'm going to call it an ADJ entry so I can see it. I'm not going to put a customer in to start with to let you see how QuickBooks won't let me post it without a customer. And the other side is going to go into unearned revenue which we have set up before unearned revenue. It's an other current liability account so if you need to set one up, other current liability account, some people might call it customer deposit.  It's going to be a liability. Sounds funny because it's a deposit. You're like, that's an asset, isn't it? No, it's a deposit from the customer, though. So it's something that you owe back to them.  So that's going to be the transaction. Increase in accounts receivable, increase in the liability. Now, if I save this, it's not going to let me record it. So it says something's not quite right. What are you talking about? Something's not quite right. Oh, hold on. That's the wrong one. Oh, man. Okay, so when you use accounts receivable, you must choose a customer in the name field. So I'm going to say, I don't want to pick the actual customer because it's going to mess up the bookkeeping, having that in the customer center. So I'm going to say put it in ZZZ. I made ZZZ customer in a prior presentation. I chose ZZZ as the name so that it would show on the bottom last thing in the customer center, hopefully out of the way, not bothering the bookkeeper. Let's see if it lets us record it this time. I think it's going to work. Let's see if we can do it. Boom, records it. Woo-hoo. All right. So then if I go back to the balance sheet here, let's run the balance sheet and we can see that in the accounts receivable, going into the AR, we have then our adjusting entries. So we made two of them. There's the 450. If I go into the 450, we get to our journal entry. And so I'm going to close that out. And then the other side, boom, not on the income statement. So it's not like a classic adjusting entry. This is balance sheet to balance sheet, but the same concepts apply in that we're trying to not mess up the bookkeeper and then make a periodic adjustment for the thing that we needed to do so that we didn't mess up the normal accounting process. And if we are the bookkeeper, again, we might be the bookkeeper. I'm trying not to mess myself up. And as I do the normal bookkeeping process and noting that I'll make it easier on myself by doing an adjusting entry at the end.  No. I mean, even if we're doing the bookkeeping, we want to make the bookkeeping as easy, as automated, as possible so they can do more bookkeeping for more people streamlining the process. And then we do that by doing these adjusting entries to make the cycles smooth. So that's the point. Okay, so I think I made the point there. So anyway, that's the adjusting entry. If we go to the subledger now and run that, so now we have the subledger. Notice I still on the subledger, the downside of this method is it's not going to show like the change here in here, right? The subledger still has a negative 200. The change is happening down here in the ZZZ account. So now we have the ZZZ account that's counter-actoring the other two amounts. So if you needed to present the subledger in your external reporting for whatever reason, you might have to export this to Excel and basically modify it yourself for these negative amounts, removing this, removing this, and removing this, right? They're going to net out against each other. But I think that's nicer to see. Even if you entered it in the proper customer, it would still be ugly because it would show an invoice, which would be, I mean, a journal entry. You see it shows a journal entry. That's not what should be there. It should be an invoice, right? So there's no real perfect method. Now also note that my balance should be tied in exactly because QuickBooks is forcing us to add a customer which would make the subledger tie in. But you'll note here, this is at 22626.50 minus what's on the balance sheet, which is at, as of 229, it's at 23151.5. So there's actually a difference of 525, not resulting from the transaction we did this time, but the one we did last time. So if I go back on over to the first tab here, you can see in this ZZZ customer last time, we did a journal entry on 229 to bring in the invoice. There's the 525. And then we reversed it here on 3.1 after the cutoff date. So this 525 should still be showing up before the cutoff date and then we reversed it after the cutoff date and then we used this payment form to connect the two outs. They're no longer outstanding. So if this was an invoice and I ran it here as of 229, it would show up. But notice because it's a journal entry, I believe it's because of its journal entry, QuickBooks is having a problem linking these two things together and getting the date right, right? So it's still having a problem with that. So just note that it is possible, it looks like, to have the subledger be off, even with QuickBooks forcing you to add a customer because of this issue with the journal entries. But as of March, we'll be back in balance because the reversing entry will be good. So as of 03.3124, then we'll be at then the 03.151.50 and if I go to the balance sheet and I bring this up to 03.3124, so we can see the next month we're at the 03.151.50. Alright, so I just wanted to point that out. If we go back on over, let's bring it back to 02.2924 and run it. So that's what we have here. And then if I go into my internal documents back this way, you can see that it is in customer AziziZ. So these are the two, these ones that are closed in green we did before. Now we have this journal entry, which is open. So note that in this customer center, all of this stuff is ugly. This is stuff I don't really want to bother the bookkeeper, which might be myself with actual customer information. I don't want to mingle this with actual customer information. That's the idea of putting it in the AziziZ customer. Because if I was up here in say Eric Music and I went into their customer center and if I had all this stuff in there with journal entries, then it would look ugly because if Eric came in and was like wanted to complete the purchase that took place and I had another journal entry in there that basically is a journal entry that nets out that 200, it would no longer look like they had an outstanding balance. Next time what we'll do is we'll do the reversing entry, which will do a similar thing we saw in AziziZ for the last AR transaction, meaning the two entries will net each other out one before the cutoff, two 29, one after the cutoff, three one, March 1, and then we'll combine them together so they won't be like outstanding items. So if you put them internally in the actual customer's information, it won't be too bad because it should net out against each other, but still it's a little messy when you're trying to communicate with the customer to have these journal entries like in that center. So I would think that would be annoying as a bookkeeper or for myself. If I was the bookkeeper, that's why I'm putting it into the AziziZ thing. All right. So that's where we stand at this point in time. Here's where we are on the balance sheet. Here's where we are on the income statement. I know I'm scrolling through quickly, but I'll take a look at the trial balance, which I think is the best one to be taken a look at. But we'll go to the trial balance. This is where we stand as of this point in time. And if your numbers have these numbers, great. Let's see if it's a date range issue. And then next time, we will do the reversing entry for this unearned revenue. It is one that needs a reversing entry.


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So they're walking. He's done it, and if they're walking, they're talking. Oh, talking in rather a different way, no doubt. I knew Niels would never let go, as long as he could just get through the first few minutes, just out of curiosity. Now, and now we'll turn into two or three, perhaps. The first thing they ever did when they met was to go for a walk together at Göttingen after that lecture that Niels gave. He immediately went to look for the presumptuous young man who'd queried his mathematics and swept him off for a tramp in the country, strolling along the forest paths at his fielder, going down to the beach with the children, and Heisenberg was holding Christian's hand. Yes, and in Copenhagen, every night after dinner, they would go for a walk and take the children out to the park and down to the harbour. Oh, Christian loved the harbour. Walk and talk long, long before walls had ears. A lot of this century's physics they did in the open air, but this time in 1941, their walk takes a different course. Ten minutes after they'd set out, they're back. Well, I've scarcely had the table cleared when there's Niels standing alone in the doorway. I can see up how upset he is. He can't look me in the eye. I know something terribly bad has happened. My worst nightmare come true.


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته ورحمة الله وبركاته ستو بكم برحمضان أتمنى أن أسفحك بشخص جيد جدا سوف تأخذ مني وضع أنتك ونشاء الله دعني أعود أسفحي شخصي بي السلام عليكم شخصنا السلام عليكم ورحمة الله كيف تفعلت today؟ شخصنا، كيف تتحدث عن نيا ومهاتفة أن الناس قبل أن تسكيلون وأنكم أخبرناه لكن لدي بعض الأسئلة في حالة إلى ما إذا شخص ي sleep before the time of the hour with the intention this is fast continue ما إذا شخص ي sleep and after the hour can he still make the intention to fast so the fast was not made at the time of the Fajr and the person slept throughout the Fajr and then if he wakes up before the hour can you keep the near then or if he wakes up after the hour can you keep the near أعوذ بالله السميع العلي من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصل الله على محمد وآله الطيبين اطاهرين with regard to this issue if the one sleeps before the morning prayer then without making the intention of the fasting on that day and he wakes up before the time of the hour his fasting is valid but he must make sure that he makes the intention before the time of the hour he makes the intention of fasting and continues the fasting for the rest of the day so if it's before the time of the hour that's fine he makes the intention and he keeps his fasting and no قضاء required but if he wakes up in the afternoon after the time of the hour in this case his fast would not be valid in other words he must do the قضاء so this fast because you cannot make the intention after the time of the hour it should be before the time of the hour if as long as you make the near before the time of the hour it is valid the fast is still valid but after the time of the hour then it's not accepted there has to be a قضاء is that person actually allowed to eat anything or should he actually remain from eating as well and pay the قضاء no he should remain not eating anything or drinking and he must do the قضاء as well oh wow and okay let's say I was sleeping I didn't wake up for the time of the hour therefore I haven't had any صهور now I've woken up before the time of the hour I've woken up at 10 o'clock 10 o'clock can I eat something can I eat something that's like some صهور or something and then keep my fast before the hour or is that not allowed no because it's the month of Ramadan and you wake up you have to make sure you do the intention because it's واجب to fast that day it's part of the month of Ramadan so even if you missed the intention in the صهور time for example you didn't wake up you have to redo the نية just before the time of the hour and do the نية for the rest of the day otherwise it is month of Ramadan you must fast that day unless you're in trouble as a مسافر or you have an illness so you're not allowed to eat of course no eating allowed you wake up oh I've just realized I haven't I didn't get up for فجر عظان and then keep my صهور you're not allowed to eat but you can keep the نية and the fastest of course before عظان الضهور the fastest is valid after عظان الضهور if you wake up then it's too late the fast is not valid and you have to refrain from eating and drinking till the عظان الضهور شيخنا what about if I slept later than the عظان for الضهور let's say I slept the whole day until مغرب so from the previous night I fell asleep and I didn't wake up until مغرب time the next day well as far as you have the intention before عظان فجر let's say you did the intention you had the صحور but you slept for some reason you slept the whole day it was a winter time of fasting it was only 8-9 hours of daytime and you were at work during the night for example or doing عبادة and so forth and you slept all day you missed your صرات صبح you missed your ضهور and صلاة as well and you woke up after عظان مغرب as long as you have the نية from the beginning in the صحور time for example all the night before that day then the fast is valid صحيح so you don't have to redo the day okay okay and if the نية wasn't there as I've said if there was no نية then and you wake up after عظان الضهور then the fast is not valid even if I woke up at عظان مغرب time well that's after عظان الضهور then you have to do the قضاء as well the fast is not valid and you have to do the قضاء because the only chance you have to make and the time to make the نية the max is by عظان الضهور afterwards it's too late so you woke up late without the نية the issue here is that you have the نية and you slept all day that's valid you don't do the نية for example without the نية in the صحور you sleep and you wake up after عظان مغرب there's no نية the whole day is just gone without the intentional fasting then you have to do the قضاء for this particular day شرحنا sometimes we have issues well it's not really a big issue but let's just say people start Ramadan on different days so let's say ماي مراجع ماي مراجع ماي مراجع has said that tomorrow is not the first of Ramadan but another مراجع has said it is the first of Ramadan what نية can I use then well again everyone should follow his own مراجع do you follow you follow the مراجع that you believe in and you follow if he says tomorrow is the day of Ramadan then you just follow him because the whole idea of fasting to start the fast or to stop fasting for the عيد depends on the sighting of the moon so if two people who you trust and they know the attributes and the signs of the present if they see it and they come to you and they give the shahada the evidence that they saw it you begin fasting or you stop fasting for the عيد and otherwise you don't have that access to those trustees that you can take with regard to the fasting then you go back to your عالم and مراجع if he says tomorrow is the month of Ramadan that's it you start fasting otherwise you just do it as the last day of شعبان so you can do the month of Ramadan could you do an احتيات fast is that acceptable you can't do احتيات because is it as either tomorrow the month of Ramadan or not we have a haqam of the day of doubts which is the last day of شعبان that has it's own always a separate need and rules of course okay it's a separate need exactly inshaAllah come to this haqam inshaAllah inshaAllah شيخنا what happens if you know someone goes unconscious for example you've got an individual who kept the nia at the time of sohoor time he's done his nia and he feints at the time of fajr at Adana fajr the fajr time he's feinted he's unconscious and he gains consciousness around the hoor time is his nia still valid is his fast still valid well in this case he must according to the sayyid obligatory precaution he must complete his fast for that day okay and then do the qawaa afterwards so his fast is valid for the precaution as he mentioned and then completes the fast till the maghrib and then he does the qawaa شيخنا what happens when it is Ramadan and I make a different nia for the fast I decide to do a qadha fast or maybe oh I owe a fast in nidr or I did a qasim and I'm going to use that nia for the fast or even a mustahab fast I'm not going to do the Ramadan fast they're liberally changing you an intention of the fast what happens in that situation is my fast valid for what I intended it to be or is it accounted for accepted as a Ramadan fast and I have to do that one again the one I intended to do that again for the month of Ramadan there's no way for the individual to make the intention to fast anything else except the month of Ramadan this month is the only month that you have no choice no option to fast something else qadha, nader, qasim mustahab even only with the intention of the month of Ramadan the wajib fasting nothing else in your case if somebody makes the intention of not fasting the month of Ramadan but qadha for example or mustahab neither the month of Ramadan will be accepted because you didn't make the intention of Ramadan fasting nor the fasting for the qadha or nader or mustahab none of them will be accepted so in this case he must do the qadha because the fast of Ramadan was not accepted from this person so he must do the qadha afterwards wow so even he began the fasting with no intention for the month of Ramadan so it wouldn't be counted as a Ramadan fast because he didn't have the intention and it was wajib upon him and whatever he intended it to be it's not going to be even accepted for that so if it was a qasem or if it was mustahab it wouldn't even be accepted for that because it's a month of Ramadan how could qasem or nader or qadha be accepted when it's only for the month of Ramadan this is the season of month of Ramadan nothing else no other fast is allowed okay okay شيخنا in regards to Nia let's say not in Ramadan but outside of Ramadan if I've woken up if I had a very very busy day I haven't eaten anything after Fajr after Fajr Salat I haven't eaten anything I go to work I've had a breakfast I go to work it's very busy I didn't get time to have my lunch I'm coming home now 5-6 o'clock it's almost time for Makrib can I keep in Nia for that fast because I haven't eaten anything from the Fajr Adhan though as the Adhan has come and gone and I haven't eaten anything I'm about 5-10 minutes from Makrib can I say oh do you know what I'm going to take advantage of this situation and I'm going to do a Nia for a fast and I'm going to inshallah eat my dinner in about 15-20 minutes and I'll open my fast then is this fast valid is this fast accepted in regards to the mustahab fast the desirable fast yes the timing is for the Nia for the one who did not do the Nia just the night before that day and he wakes up in the daytime or even afternoon the time of the Nia for the mustahab is from the Adhan al Fajr just a minute or two minutes before the Adhan al Makrib so if let's say 2-3 minutes left to Adhan al Makrib you make the Nia that I want to pass this day it will be accepted and validated so for the mustahab yes you have all day just a few minutes and moments before the Adhan al Makrib you can do the Nia and inshallah will be accepted as a mustahab of the Nia inshallah thank you very much شيخنا thank you to all our guests for joining us today on the SOS inshallah you have the correct Nia and inshallah you guys are fasting and enjoying the month of Ramadan and reaping the benefits and spirituality and talk to you inshallah until next time from me and the sheikh السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


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My friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Monday. It's Monday, so it's another meal prep day. I have three delicious recipes for you. Breakfast, lunch, and an amazing dessert. Spoiler alert, it's a pie. So if you're excited for this meal prep, give this video a thumbs up and don't forget if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Down in that description box, you will find nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories as well as one-on-one coaching if you wanna chat with me directly. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and my Facebook group are also down in that description box. Head on over and join us there. We have a super fun challenge starting July 1st. All of my recipes are on my recipe website which is also linked in that description box. So let's jump into this week's meal prep. To do for the meatballs is make our ground chicken mixture. So we're going to add our one pound of ground chicken to a medium bowl, about three cloves of minced garlic, one cup of panko breadcrumbs, one egg, a teaspoon of onion powder, a teaspoon of garlic powder, pepper, and salt. I like to get in with my hands and mix it all together. I just think it's a lot easier and everything gets combined a lot better. So go ahead and mix that until you have that nice meatball mixture. Now we're going to roll out the meatballs. We want them pretty small size. Our goal is to get 12 or 16 meatballs. In my pan here, I have one tablespoon of avocado oil. I've gotten that nice and hot. And now we're going to add in our meatballs and we just want to make sure that they get cooked completely through. Once your meatballs have browned, these look so good. We're going to add in three quarters of a cup of buffalo sauce. Reduce your heat. And then we're going to stir to coat those meatballs. We're then going to stir in one half of a cup of light sour cream and just mix until the meatballs are coated. And here are the creamy buffalo meatballs. You can see that that sour cream just made that sauce so incredibly creamy. I'm going to package these up and I'll be back to share points and calories. So there are our meatballs. I just am going to store them in this glass container. They have these really pretty wood lids. I picked these up off of Amazon. So I'll make sure that I link these down below for you. So the recipe as it stands makes six servings. Now you could put this with rice, pasta. You could even throw this on a hoagie roll and make a meatball sub. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do each day for lunch. I may just eat them as is with some veggies, but let's go over points for just the meatballs. It is six servings total, three points on the blue and purple plan and four points per serving on green, 288 calories. Now that is using the buffalo sauce that I use. So if you use a different one, you may want to recalculate calories, but points shouldn't change. So creamy buffalo chicken meatballs for lunch. As of this week, I am making banana cream pie. I was originally going to do coconut cream pie, but I could not find coconut pudding mix anywhere, literally at several stores. So we're going to change it up and do banana cream pie. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First, you're going to need a pre-made graham cracker crust. You can make your own, but this just makes it a lot easier. Whole milk, one third less fat cream cheese, two packages of sugar-free banana pudding and sweetener of your choice. I have the Lakonto monk fruit, which is my favorite. I'll make sure that's linked down below with a discount for you. So the first thing I did is added my two packets of pudding mix to a medium-sized bowl, two cups of whole milk, and then we're going to whisk this together until it's combined. Set it aside and allow it to thicken up.


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Kyle Damari is a student at the Main College of Art, whose work explores interdependency of humans and the need to work and play together in order to live better lives. Brian Knoblock talked with Kyle about the ways in which individual perspectives work together to form a bigger picture. Kyle, talk about your work a little bit. What sort of inspires you? I come from a kind of community that was really that embraced the community value. So solidarity and unity are really crucial themes to the work that I make right now. You can kind of see these pieces here, they're using each other to hold themselves up, which is kind of a physical manifestation of unity, but also kind of talks conceptually about some things that we need to do as humans to better live. There's a perspective in your work about, as you just said, individual pieces sort of working together to build a whole. Talk a little bit about that. They have a really precarious way of standing on their own, and the use of multiples really helps them solidify a certain form. So my ability to kind of break down these forms and reinstall them using multiples kind of allows that to really manifest itself, it kind of becomes a more cohesive piece. Is their meaning in the shape and the forms themselves or only as they work together as part of a whole? That's a really good question. A lot of times, like in this case, these squares here, they're kind of, these are rooted in the fact that humans often have a certain frame or a certain perspective that they're kind of operating under, and in other case, the piece that you saw already, the triangles, they kind of work to create kind of a signifier. They emulated the contours of a landscape, so it depends on the piece. In some cases, they support one another, and in some cases, they support one another physically, in other cases, they support one another kind of conceptually. The piece that you have in the lobby has very large triangles, and then a series of very small ones, and what's the differences between those, what do they represent to you? The large triangles are, I kind of have really thought about the difference in scale, and the large triangles are there to kind of emulate the landscape, and the small triangles are there to kind of talk about the beings that inhabit that landscape, just like you would talk about kind of a place that you exist in the community that kind of embodies that space. A lot of your forms are very specific. They're very hard geometric figures, and they sort of have their own set of boundaries, but your sort of work is about being without boundaries and unity of a whole. Talk about that sort of contradiction. Yeah, it's really interesting. People kind of set up this kind of notion that they're othered, or there are others from their own, and those boundaries are only kind of constructs that separate, and I thought it would be really interesting if I could use those boundaries as a way to kind of create unification and create solidarity. Is the process of putting together an installation and building it part of the art as well, or does the art only come when it's all finished? Absolutely. That actually is interesting because I can talk about a community project that I'm doing with learning works over in the West End, that I'm currently having the students design their own shapes that they will then, it's kind of a community building exercise. So once they have their shapes kind of in this manifestation, they'll then take their shapes and build together, and the act of building, collaborating and co-creating kind of will create that sense of community with the people that I'm working with. So for you, art is a very relational experience, is that right? Absolutely. And I think in a lot of ways the structures, the sculptures themselves are a more physical and tangible way to kind of see that relational experience, but I really kind of dedicated and focused on the idea that kind of community based work and work with individuals that don't have necessarily art sensibilities, I'm really interested in getting them engaged with how they can work together and how they can make together. If people want more information about you and your work, where can they go? You can check me out at kyledemarie.com.


proudly we hail from New York City where the American stage begins here is another program with a cast of outstanding players public service time has been made available by the station to bring you this story as proudly we hail the United States Army our story is entitled portrait with a future this is one of those stories that certainly proves it's a small world when an American GI on duty in England sees a portrait that looks a great deal like himself and well that would give the story away our first act curtain will rise in just a moment but first young man here's news about an important opportunity for you right now the United States Army the senior service of our armed forces has an urgent need for qualified technicians to operate and service the complex equipment that science has brought into being the need is vital and you can be trained in such interesting career fields as radio electronics radar photography meteorology mechanics and many many others yes indeed here's your chance to acquire a skill there will be a value to your country and help you later in civilian life too for full details visit the recruiting sergeant at your nearest recruiting station today and now your army presents the proudly we hail production portrait with a future a lonely boy and a lonely old man one American the other British these are the two most important characters in our play without the United States Army they would never have met and without chaplain Gerald Wilkes they would never have followed this meeting to its natural conclusion excuse me chaplain of course corporal come in and may I speak to you for a few minutes sir my door is always open what's your name Anderson sir corporal Richard Green Anderson well close the door corporal and make yourself comfortable thank you sir relax son you look about as wound up as a watch spring I guess I am chaplain something something happened to me yesterday that's got me tied up in knots do you want to tell me about it well that's why I'm here sir but now that I am it isn't as easy as I thought it was going to be how about a cup of coffee it's my one vice I keep a hot plate here in the office coffee would be wonderful sugar cream little of both please sir you're very polite your parents have brought you up very well what's my parents are they both dead I was brought up in an orphanage no relations at all no sir here's your coffee son oh thank you sir and now do you think you can tell me whatever it is that's bothering you I'll try but may sound a little peculiar well that's possible but I doubt it over the years I found that very few people's problems are peculiar or funny if a problem is on someone's mind it's a serious one yes sir then go on I'm not going to laugh at you well sir you see I've never had a family my parents died when I was seven since they had no relatives I was placed in an orphanage any brothers or sisters no sir I see excuse my interruption only orphanage wasn't so bad you see there were lots of other kids around I was never alone but when I finished training school there they got me a job and told me I was on my own what kind of a job did they get you I was trained to be a mechanic sir I seem to have a knack with motors they got me a good job in a garage and then you were on your own that's right sir it's when my trouble started you see all of a sudden I was alone during the day there were plenty of people around and everything was fine but at night when I went to my room I was alone for the first time in my life then and I realized that I was alone in the world that I had no one to love and no one who loved me that sounds silly doesn't know son it doesn't sound silly after couple of months I couldn't stand it got so I have one home at all just wall night movies I knew I was gonna be drafted soon so I thought why not in list now you'll make friends in the army you'll belong to something so that's what I did sounds like a smart idea yeah worked out to the army's all right as far as I'm concerned but but what I'm still different from most of the other guys they have roots outside of the army they get letters and packages from home they write home to family to their girls the army's only a part of their lives it's all of mine I'm happier in the army than I've ever been in my life but I still feel lonely at times didn't you have a girl back home not really sir I met a few girls after I got out of the orphanage I had a couple of dates but I was only out a couple of months before I am listed what about the orphanage couldn't you write to them sure but what's use of kidding myself I'm just one out of thousands they can't be family to everyone so I'd it's a funny thing once you're away from something for a while seem to lose your ties except when it comes to your family and you can't adjust to the fact that you don't have one is that it why think I have adjusted as much as I can you can't stop your mind from thinking can't force your heart to stop dreaming no I don't think you can so you feel alone yes sir except for Sally I just don't have any roots Sally you haven't mentioned her before no I guess I haven't it's funny too because she means so much to me is she an English girl you met over here no sir she's a member of the wax station here and are you two very close planning on being married in two months I see congratulations thank you sir but still a butt yeah I'm afraid so sir you see last weekend we both had a pass and decided to go sightseeing around here on Sunday after church we we went to visit Greenlee Hall that big manor house up the road about 10 miles the Duke of Greenlee has thrown the house open to tourists at 50 cents a head and we were taking the tour this was the main banquet room in the days when nights were bold gosh dick I can hear the armor clanking can't you the corridor on your right is lined with family portraits not very good ones at that we'll pass over them for now and go on to the study I don't want to pass over them neither do I let's hang back and lose the tour so we can look at them okay that guy's been pretty much of a bore anyhow the old paneling you see in the study was added to the house in the 16th century at that time it was thought that all studies should be dimly lit and have a very serious mean they're gone come on I want to see those second-rate ancestors now there's a real ugly one I don't know who she was it tells on this little plaque it's Amelia fifth Duchess of Greenlee look at this one is he a monster it's not exactly a monster but he certainly isn't handsome when you marry me if I look like him not even if you were a Duke I love you Sally very lucky that you love me too oh no I'm the lucky one because I found you trapped I beg your pardon I didn't mean to I thought I was that is our fault we just couldn't help it you see we're in love and we're gonna be married in two months and oh please don't apologize I should know better than to walk around in felt slippers on visitors day you're not the first young couple that's stolen a kiss in the halls of Greenlee I'm afraid it isn't very proper though I don't know perhaps it'll warm the place up a bit I it's always confounded cold in here I don't think we noticed just think of all the history that was made in this drafty corridor true but history never took the place of central heating but I must go excuse me you don't think the Duke would mind our looking at these pictures do you I'm positive he wouldn't the only thing that puzzles him is why people bother well cheerio a good bye sir what do you think we ought to leave now let's look at the rest of the pictures first all right hey don't go so fast hey is for horses oh dick dick come here what's the matter honey look at what at the face in this picture what good lord it does it's weird but without that little beard the man in the picture and you could be twins Alfred second son of the eighth Duke of Greenlee it's just a coincidence maybe but that man we met in here before why in this half light I thought you looked a little like him of course he was older Sally you're imagining I could be but your mother's maiden name was green Greenlee whether almost the same it would be like a dream come true but it's impossible why impossible your mother once told you her ancestors were English oh dick you've wanted a family route the home for so long why don't you try and find out I'd give my right arm if it were true darling talk to someone see someone I couldn't face it I'm afraid afraid of what what couldn't you face one simple word no they chaplain I haven't been able to sleep I've hardly eaten I just think about it races through my mind over and over again family home a place to sink your roots but son how can I be of assistance help me chaplain Sunday I started out for the place ten times and ten times I stopped and came back would it help if I spoke to the Duke would you say if you could just take the first little step for me I'll tell you everything about myself my parents everything but I just can't get myself to go and ask go outside for a few minutes and wait son I'll make a call if his grace the Duke will see me I want every fact you have about your mother I'll have to know where you were born exactly what you remember telling you about her mother and father everything I'll do what I can say dear father they will be done operator I'd like to make an outside call but I don't know the number chaplain Wilkes yes oh Greenlee Hall it's about ten miles north of the camp I don't know what town yes you can call me back you're listening to the proudly we hail production of portrait with a future we'll return to our story in just a moment young man if you're interested in continuing your education here's important news for you the senior service of our armed forces your United States Army urgently needs qualified technicians to operate and maintain the many kinds of equipment that science has brought into being and right now men are being trained in wonderful fields like radio radar meteorology mechanics photography and others and this training is given by the finest technical training schools in the world yes here's an excellent opportunity for you young man with intelligence and ambition your opportunity to start a career for yourself not only for now but for when you get back into civilian life for full details visit your nearest recruiting office today you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of portrait with a future most of us are blessed with a family and friends so perhaps we never realize how alone we would be without them even chaplain Wilkes cannot feel the deep loneliness of Corporal Richard Green Anderson but in his capacity as chaplain because someone has come to him for help he's doing all he can and then a little more you wanted to see me chaplain private Robertson yes sir please come in sit down I want to talk to you about Corporal Anderson I understand you too are planning on being married and well there's nothing wrong is there he's not in any trouble if that's what you mean but yesterday he came in to see me on a personal problem of which I think you were aware and asked for my help now before I can help him I need to find out more about him and for what he told me you probably know more about him than anyone else in the world well he has confided in me if that's what you mean he asked me to break in on someone's life to ask very personal questions and possibly revive family skeletons I don't mind doing it if he's really sincere if his need is great enough do you understand yes chaplain I do and his need is very great I noticed him first at the service club he'd sit with a group of fellows and then one of them would say he had to write a letter one by one they all drift away to write to their families and their girls he just sit there with his face tight and drawn after I got to know him I I found out that there are only two words that he's never heard in all his life two words that he wants to hear more than life itself and they are welcome home I see I keep telling him that after we're married my family will be his family and he says it's not the same thing well he's right I suppose but they'll love him I don't see how anyone can help loving him he'll lead their love too now there's just one more thing Saturday when you were at Greenlee Hall did you really notice the resemblance between dick in the picture first or did he notice it and talk you into it what a dick say what do you say I noticed it first chaplain and I called him over he wasn't even near it at the time and that's the truth I believe it is Sally do you believe this is possible yes I do then I say to myself maybe it's because I want it to be true I think dick's a very lucky boy thank you chaplain but I think I'm the lucky one are you seeing him tonight of course I have an appointment to see his grace the Duke tomorrow I don't know whether tell dick about it or not dick knows I called him so perhaps you had better tell him in any case ask dick to come to see me tomorrow afternoon oh I will chaplain and thank you and Sally tell dick that I'm hoping it's true just as much as you both are yes sir I'm chaplain Wilkes I have a 10 o'clock appointment with his grace oh yes sir come right this way please chaplain Wilkes I chaplain Wilkes so kind of you to come that'd be all climb yes do let's sit close to the fire chaplain this house is blasted coldest thank you that's the reason I allow these confounded tours with the extra money I'm going to put in central heating that's one thing you Americans have that we English need badly on the other hand we might learn something from you about how to build houses that last a thousand years what oh quite yes quite now chaplain as to the reason for your visit you can imagine that your news came as quite a shock I admit it all sounds like a plot from a movie but young Anderson and I think it may just possibly be true and I'm an old man chaplain and quite alone in the world I'm the last to the Greenleys I must admit to you that if this young man is as fine as you say he is I I'd like it to be true myself that's good to hear your grace there's still a bit of money in this house should an heir appear however I want to be sure that he really is related he'll come into it all someday I understand all my family is dead almost all my friends are gone I sit in this old house day after day with no one but Clive and the cook I must admit it would be nice to have a young person around the house when our down to cases are just what can we do I mean where can we make inquiries and all that sort of thing well your grace I've started already I've asked the Red Cross to check with the orphanage where the young man was brought up and then they're checking on his mother through whom the two of you would be related if you were at all the mother and yes you see her maiden name was green green incidentally which portrait was it that the boy resembles so strikingly the one of Alfred second son of the eighth Duke of Greenley really my uncle Alfred has strange and yet how possible why does that make it so possible your grace because in his youth Alfred and his father fought constantly and once after a particularly bitter quarrel Alfred left the house and never came back the family received just one note from him after that saying that he'd gone to America and that they'd never hear from him again and did they never when Alfred's older brother died childless and he was in line to become the ninth Duke they began a search for him in America but to no avail it was it was then that my father inherited the title I see I wonder why they never located him well one reason that occurred to them then and seems even more possible now is that he changed his name of course from Greenley to green exactly if this young man of yours is related to me he must be Alfred's grandson amazing not only a family but a title now just a minute chaplain let's not count our foxes before their court at this is still a supposition we have no proof is yet and proof is what we need now you're doing all you can on your end if you'll give me all the facts at your command I'll start on this end it should only take a few days at most to check birth certificates and all that but we must be sure I'll tell you everything I know your grace good then let's get to it believe it or not chaplain I I was anxious as you are to find out that it's true that's what happened yesterday selling they're checking all we can do is sit it out on pins and needles you might add on worse than that Sally I've been praying every minute all night long I lie in my bed and I can think of just one thing then I say to myself just a day or two more maybe in the suspense will all be over dick what will you do if it isn't true isn't true it must be it's got to be no it doesn't your mother could have been just plain miss green with no relation at all to the green leaves you're right but I don't know what I do you've got to promise me something what if it isn't true you've got to go on never lose hope most of all please go on loving me I'll always love you Sally no matter what is that a promise with all my heart I promise well chaplain as you American say I'm as jumpy as popcorn over a fire I'm not exactly calm myself your grace still no word I'm expecting the final information any hour now you know I've been thinking how wonderful it will be for me if it is true to have to have that young man here I there'll be young footsteps in the house again perhaps even children running up and down these corridors I wouldn't count on that your grace why not he likes the army he's planning to make it his career yes I see then I'll still be alone after all no you won't your grace not really remember those little miracles that men have made that we were talking about a few moments ago oh you mean the telephone of the wireless yes those two but mainly the airplane they'll come to see you every year and I'm sure you're not too old to get on a plane yourself to visit them too well for flying of course I'm not well then well you're right perhaps having all that youth around all the time might be too much for a grumpy old man like me excuse me your grace but there's a telephone call for chaplain Wilkes oh well thank you Clive this must be the answer we've been waiting for chaplain I imagine it is you you wish luck chaplain more than that your grace I'm praying for you both I'm Corporal Richard Green Anderson I have an appointment with his with his grace the Duke oh yes Corporal Anderson you're expected will you follow me please Corporal Richard Green Anderson of the United States Army your grace thank you Clive that'll be all yes I don't think I'm going to be very good at this after all Corporal I had a little speech plan but I I don't know what to say myself your grace your grace I'm not your grace to you my boy our investigation has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the grandson of the man who should have been the ninth Duke of Greenlee my uncle Alfred the man whose portrait you resemble so closely no indeed not your grace I'm your cousin Charles yes your grace I mean cousin Charles the cousin Richard out of all the things that I was going to say I can remember only this and I say it from the bottom of my heart cousin Richard welcome home the US Army needs men men who take a special pride in being part of a man's army if you're a high school graduate you can join now at after basic training apply for assignment to any army school for the finest technical training now if you qualify for the school you select and come within the quota you'll be assigned to it but however you choose to serve it service that means a special pride the sense of a job well done in a man's army young man between the ages of 18 and 34 men who look to the future are now choosing the United 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The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning From the Junior Classics, Volume 10, Part 1, Poems Old and New, Red for LibriVox.org Hamelin Towns in Brunswick, by famous Hanover City, The River Weiser, Deep and Wide, washes its wall on the southern side, a pleasanter spot you never spied, but when begins my ditty almost five hundred years ago, the town's folk sufferers so, from vermin was a pity. Rats, they fought the dogs and killed the cats, and bit the babies in the cradles, and ate the cheeses out of the vats, and licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, spilt open the kegs of salted sprouts and nests inside men's Sunday hats, and even spoiled the women's chats by drowning their speaking with treaking and squeaking in fifty different sharps and flats. Last the people in a body to the town hall came flocking, to his clear cry they are mayors and naughty, and as for our corporation, shocking to think we buy gowns lined with vermin for adults that can't or won't determine what's best to rid us of our vermin. You hope because you're old and obese to find in the furry civic robe ease? Rows upsers, give your brains racking to find the remedy you're lacking, or sure as fate you're packing. At this the mayor and corporation quaked with a mighty consternation. In hour they sat in council, at length the mayor broke silence. For a gilder I'd my ermine gown sell, I wish I were a mile hence. It's easy to bid one rack one's brains, I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it so, and all in vain. Oh, for a trap, a trap, a trap! Just as he said this, what should a trap at the chamber door but a gentle tap? Blessed cried the mayor, what's that? With the corporation as he sat, looking little wondrous fat, nor brighter was his eye, nor moister than a too long opened oyster. Save one at noon his paunch grew mutinous, for a plate of turtle green and glutinous. Only a scraping of shoes on the mat? Anything like the sound of a rat makes my heart go pit a pat. Come in, the mayor cried, looking bigger, and in did come the strangest figure. His queer long coat from heel to head was half of yellow and half of red, and he himself was tall and thin, with sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, and light loose hair, yet swarthy skin. No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, but lips were smiles when out and in. There was no guessing his kith and kin, and nobody could enough admire the man in his quaint attire. Quoth one. It's as if my great-grandsire, starting up at the trumpet of Doom's tone, had walked this way from his painted tombstone. He advanced to the council table, and, please, Your Honour, said he, I'm able, by means of a secret charm, to draw all creatures living beneath the sun that creep or swim or fly or run after me, so as you never saw. And I chiefly used my charm on creatures that do people harm, the mole, the toad, the newt, the viper, and people call me the pied piper. In here they noticed, round his neck, a scarf of red and yellow stripe, to match his coat of the self-same check.  Yet said he, poor piper, as I am, in tartary I freed the charm last June from his huge swarm of gnats. I eased in Asia the nizam of a monstrous brood of vampire bats. And as for what your brain bewilders if I can rid your town of rats, will you give me a thousand guilders? One fifty thousand was the exclamation of the astonish mayor and corporation. In the street the piper stepped, smiling first a little smile, as if he knew what magic slept in his quiet pipe the while. Then like a musical adept, to blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled, and blue and green his sharp eyes twinkled, like a candle flame where salt has sprinkled.  From street to street he piped, advancing, and step for step they went dancing, until they came to the river Weezer, wherein all plunged and perished, save one who stood as Julius Caesar, swam across and lived to carry, as he the manuscript he cherished, to Ratland home his commentary, which was at the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, and putting apples wondrous ripe into a cider presses gripe, and moving away a pickle tub boards, and a leaving a jar of conserved cupboards, and a drawing the corks of train oil flasks, and a breaking the hoops of buttercasts, it seemed as if a voice, sweeter for them by harp or by sultry, is breathed, cried out a rat's rejoice, the world has grown to one vast dry sultry, so munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon, and just as a bulky sugar puncheon, already stave, like a great sun shone glorious scarce an inch before me, just as me thought had said, come bore me, I found the weasel rolling o'er me. You should have heard the hammelin people ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple, go, cried the mayor, and get long poles, poke out the nests and block up the holes, consult with carpenters and builders, and leave in our town not even a trace of the rats, when suddenly up the face of the diaper perked in the marketplace, with a first, if you please, my thousand guilders. A thousand guilders, the mayor looked blue, so did the corporation, too, for council dinners made rare havoc, with Claret, Moselle, Vindigrav, Hock, and half the money would replenish their cellar's biggest butt with renish, to pay the sum to a wandering fellow with a gypsy coat of red and white. Beside, quote the mayor, with a knowing wink, our business was done at the river's brink. We saw, with our eyes, the vermin sink, and what's dead cannot come to life, I think. So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink from the duty of giving you something to drink, and as a matter of money to put in your poke, but as for the guilders, what we spoke of them, as you very well know, was in joke. Beside, our losses have made us thrifty, the thousand guilders. Come, take fifty. The piper's face fell, and he cried, No trifling, I can't wait. Beside, I promised to visit by dinnertime, bagged that, and accept the prime of the headcook's potage. All these richen, for having left in the califf's kitchen, of a nest of scorpions, no survivor, with him I proved no bargain driver, with you don't think I'll bait a stiver, and folks who put me in a passion may find me rather fashion. How, cried the mayor, do you think I'd brook being worse treated than a cook?    Once more he stepped into the street, and to his lips again laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane, and airy blue three notes, such sweet soft notes as yet as cunning never gave the enraptured air.  And like fowls in a farmyard, when barley is scattering, out came the children running.  The mayor was dumb, and the council stood as if they were changed into blocks of wood, unable to move a step or cry to the children merrily, skipping by, could only follow with the eye that joyous crowd at the piper's back. And now the mayor was on the rack and the wretched council's bosoms beat as the piper turned from the high street to where the weasley rolled its waters, right in the way of their sons and daughters. However they turned from south to west, and to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed, and after him the children pressed, great was the joy in every breast. He never can cross that mighty top, he's forced to let the piping drop, and we shall see our children stop. When low as they reached the mountainside, a wondrous portal opened wide, as if a cavern was suddenly hollowed, and the piper advance and the children followed, and when all were in, to the very last, the door in the mountainside shut fast. Did I say all? No, one was lame and could not dance the whole of the way, and in after years, if you would blame his sadness, he was used to say, it's dull in our town since my playmates left, I can't forget that I'm bereft of all the pleasant sights they see, which the piper also promised me. For he led us, he said, to a land, joining the town in just at hand, where waters gushed and fruit trees grew, and flowers put forth a fairer hue, and everything was strange and new. The sparrows were brighter than peacocks there, and their dogs outran our fallow deer, and honeybees had lost their sting, and horses were born with eagles' wings, and just as I became assured my lame foot would be speedily cured. The music stopped, and I stood outside the hill, left alone against my will to go now limping as before, and never hear of that country more. Alas, alas for Hamelin, there came into many a burger's pate the text which says that Heaven's gate hopes to the rich at as easy rate as the Needle's Eye takes a camel in. The mayor sent east, west, north, and south to offer the piper by word of mouth whatever it was man's lot to find him. Silver and gold to his heart's content if he'd only return the way he went and bring the children behind him. And when they saw it was a lost endeavor, and piper and dancers were gone forever, they made a decree that lawyers never should think their records dated duly, if after the day of the month and the year these words did not as well appear, and so long after what happened here. On the 1376 in the better in memory to fix in place of the children's last retreat, they called it the Pied Piper Street, where anyone playing on Piper Tabor was sure for the future to lose his labor, nor suffered a hostelry or tavern to shock with mirth the streets of Solemn. But opposite the place of the cavern they wrote the story on a column, and on the great church window to make the world acquainted how their children were stolen away and there it stands to this very day. And I must not omit to say that in Transylvania there's a tribe of alien people who ascribe the outlandish ways and dress on which their neighbors lay such stress to their fathers and mothers having risen out of some subterraneous prison, into which they were trepan, long ago in a mighty band, out of Hamilton Town where nations would gland but how or why they don't understand. So will they let you and me be wipers, a scores out of all men, especially pipers, and whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice, if we promise them, ought let us keep our promise. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Wedding Around by Burgess Johnson from the Junior Classics Volume 10, Part 1 Poems Old and New, It was awful long ago that I put those seeds around and I guess I ought to know when I stuck them in the ground because I noted down the day in a little diary book it's gotten lost at somewheres and I don't know where to look but I'm certain anyhow they've been planted most a week and it must be time by now for their little sprouts to peak. They've been watered every day with a very small seed and once or twice I've dug them up to see if they was there. I fixed the dirt and humps just the way they said I should and I crumpled all the lumps just as far me as I could. And I found an angle where I'm a-poken up his head and he may be feeds on seeds and such and so I squashed him dead. A seed so very small and dirt all looks the same how can they know it all the way they ought to aim and are ought to do his best for every single seed. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Wishing by William Allingham from the junior classics volume 10 part 1 poems old and new, read for LibriVox.org Ring Ting. I wish I were a primrose, a bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring the stooping boughs above me the wandering bee to love me the fern and moss to creep across and the elm tree for our king nay, stay, I wish I were an elm tree, a great lofty elm tree with green leaves gay the winds would set them dancing the sun and moonshine glance in the birds would howl some on the boughs and sweetly sing. Oh no I wish I were a robin, a robin or a little run everywhere to go through forest field or garden and ask no leave or pardon till winter comes with icy thumbs to ruffle up our wing well tell where should I fly to where go to sleep in the dark wood or dell before a day was over home comes the rover for mother's kiss sweeter this than any other thing end of poem this recording is in the public domain end of the junior classics volume 10 part 1 poems old and new compiled by William Patton