We think that one of the reasons menopause happens is that there's a by-date on the eggs in your ovary and those eggs were formed, believe it or not, literally when you were developing as a fetus and you were born and you carry those eggs throughout the rest of your life. And those eggs unfortunately age as you age. And the DNA damage to those eggs can accumulate. That's why many of you know that if you get pregnant in your late 30s and early 40s, you may get genetic testing of your fetus to make sure that it doesn't have a genetic defect, for instance, like down syndrome. So we think that the reason menopause happens is to keep you from having a potential child with significant genetic damage. Now men in general, we make new sperm forever. And one of the reasons that men can still foster children in their 80s, even 90s in some cases, is that we're not born with our sperm supply. We constantly regenerate, make new sperm. So it's probably a protective mechanism to keep children being born with severe genetic defects. And the way to stop that is simply to have you stop cycling estrogen and progesterone. So it's not a bad thing. It's not a horrible thing. It's just a way to prevent you from having babies. Now, there's a lot of interest in, okay, do hormones keep us healthy? Do they keep us young? That's a very, very, very controversial subject. And let me say this about how I approach this in my practice. There's evidence from the women's health study and evidence from Europe in particular that in the perimenopausal period, the time when your periods are becoming different, where you're maybe having intermittent periods, you still have some estrogen and progesterone levels that are measurable, that hormone replacement, primarily topical estrogen, and you can, believe it or not, swallow progesterone safely. But please, whatever you do, do not swallow an estrogen-containing compound. It probably is safe. You probably have a three to five-year window where starting hormone replacement may be safe. Now, I use the word maybe because, quite frankly, the long-term studies are not there. Now, when I say safe, what does that mean? The worry about continuous estrogen and progesterone treatment as we age is that up until menopause, you always cyclically had periods of high estrogen, then low estrogen, high progesterone, then then low progesterone.   So that's the caution with all that. There's even a interesting protocol based out of Santa Barbara, where one of my offices is, that uses cyclic estrogen and progesterone therapy with about a 10-day cycle per month where you stop both of those. It's called the Wiley protocol. I know Ms. Wiley and it's a fascinating idea. One of the problems with that protocol is that most women will have a period once a month, even in their 50s, 60s, and 70s. And many women don't want to do that. But in terms of physiologically how to use estrogen and progesterone, it actually makes a lot of sense. Now, on the other hand, many women come to me in their 60s or 70s and they've heard that estrogen and progesterone and testosterone is going to keep them young. There's actually very little evidence that that will occur. And in fact, there is unfortunate more evidence that the exact opposite may occur. That estrogen late in life can actually promote bone loss, can actually promote cancer, and can promote cardiovascular disease. The main three reasons why women are told to use hormone replacement. So as a general rule, and I'm not giving medical advice here, if you're thinking about hormone replacement and you're in the perimenopause period, that's the appropriate time to discuss this with your physician. If you're later than the perimenopausal period, if you've been in menopause over five years, in general it's probably not time to start hormone replacement. Now, does the plant paradox help with perimenopause? The answer to that is fairly complex, but a lot of the compounds that I recommend people eating in the plant paradox have definitely been shown to help with menopausal and perimenopausal symptoms. And one of the best examples is actually flax seeds. Flax seeds are actually in several of my products. And flax seeds contain estrogen-like compounds that can substitute for estrogen with an important proviso. They are not estrogen per se. And many people, particularly if they have breast cancer or varying cancer, are told, please avoid flax seeds because they have estrogen in them. Well, in fact, that's absolutely contrary to the evidence. Flax seeds and the estrogen-like compounds in flax seeds actually block the estrogen receptors in cancer cells.  So please don't be afraid of the estrogen in flax seeds. They're going to really help a lot of women get through this time period. Now, pomegranates, pomegranate seeds and pomegranate juices have a number of estrogen-like compounds. And if you are going to take one supplement or eat one fruit to help you get through menopause, definitely consider flax seed oil and flax seeds and pomegranate seed oil or pomegranate seeds themselves. They're available right now. The fall is the best way to get them. But you can actually take pomegranate seed extracts throughout the year. There's several companies that make pomegranate seed oil and pomegranate powder. The other opportunity is that most yams, now I'm not talking sweet potatoes, but actually yams, how do you tell the difference between a sweet potato and a yam? Yams in general are the long, ugly, skinny ones. And they're usually pale flesh. Most sweet potatoes are the bigger, rounder ones that usually have an orange flesh. Now in the supermarket, they're often mislabeled. The sweet potatoes are often labeled yams, and the yams are often labeled sweet potatoes. So as a general rule, if it's ugly and it's white inside, it's probably a yam. Yams have estrogen-like compounds that also block the estrogen receptors on cancer cells. You can actually use wild yam cream or just make a habit of eating yams, and you'll get these estrogen-like compounds to help you through the perimenopausal period. Finally, there's a really great oil called borage oil. Now, borage oil has several interesting compounds that will get you through the perimenopausal period. You'll see a lot of these compounds advertised in magazines, but borage oil of all the different oils that you'll see advertised has the highest amount of these compounds. And borage oil is actually very cheap. It's convenient. And the dosage is 1,000 milligrams. They usually come in 1,000 milligram capsule and take two a day. And that's another great way to get these estrogen-like compounds into your system without the fear of estrogen. Now, everybody knows about what's happening in perimenopaus. You usually have hot flashes. You can have mood swings. Many women notice that their sex drive may diminish. Obviously, vaginal dryness and hand dryness is a big deal for many women. There are many ways to avoid these problems, including using flax seeds and borage oil and pomegranates and wild yam creams. There are even vaginal wild yam creams that can be used for vaginal dryness. Believe it or not, lubricants are perfectly appropriate to use at this time. There are prescription vaginal suppositories of estrogen-like compounds. Be careful with these. I see a lot of women who think they're supposed to use one of these vaginal suppositories every day.  On the other hand, it's usually safe, and I track this in all my female patients. If you use them every day for two weeks when you're first starting and then go to twice a week thereafter, you'll stimulate the vaginal mucosa enough to have lubrication, but you will not absorb estrogen for the most part. And even if you do that, make sure your physician or your nurse practitioner or physician assistant is tracking your estrogen levels whenever you're using these. Finally, I'm going to make an editorial comment about getting pellets for testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. Let me please ask you not to do that. And I ask you having looked at thousands of women who've gotten these pellets. I see some women with testosterone levels, the level that we see in men, and they're growing hair and they're aggressive. I see some women who have estrogen levels higher than would be normal and they're continuing for months at a time. These are uncontrollable once you get them inside of you. It's much easier to topically use estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone if you and your physician decide to do this. But please avoid the pellets at all costs. I've seen too many examples of damage done with pellets that can't be reversed. And that's an editorial comment from me. Again, I'm not giving medical advice, but please be cautious with pellets. So that's how to get through this. Is there one food that you should be eating? I think if I want to get you through menopause properly, yams are really one of the ways to do this. And interestingly enough, as you'll see in the longevity paradox, one of the foods that are going to be most useful for you for maintaining vitality late into life is the use of yams and tubers and fungi like mushrooms. In fact, I'm having some mushroom tea right now. And these compounds have been shown in animals and humans to make you die young at a ripe old age.


Programmable logic controller, a programmable logic controller PLC or programmable controller is an industrial digital computer which has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, or robotic devices, or any activity that requires high reliability control and ease of programming and process fault. Diagnosis They were first developed in the automobile manufacturing industry to provide flexible, ruggedized and easily programmable controllers to replace hard wired relays, timers and sequencers. Since then they have been widely adopted as high reliability automation controllers suitable for harsh environments. The PLC is an example of a hard real-time system since output results must be produced in response to input conditions within a limited time, otherwise unintended operation will result.


So in Adiyogi transmitted the fundamental mechanics of how human system is made. When we say human system, we are not just looking at your kidneys, liver, this, that. The fundamental human system, how it is created from within and how it manifests itself, how it functions and what we can do about it. One thing is to live a healthy and complete life, another is to take it as an instrument to explore mystical dimensions of life as an instrument to become a receptacle of knowing. So this he thought in seven different ways, he categorized it into seven. It's from that all this misunderstanding of seven chakras and all this stuff. He categorized it as seven, a seven basic segments in which you could teach. So seven schools of yoga started. But as this went by or years went by or centuries and millennia's went by, people started specializing. They say at that time over eighteen hundred schools, distinct types of yoga were established in India. So somewhere around thirty-two hundred years ago, Patanjali Maharishi came. When he came, he tried to assimilate all this into Yoga Sutras. So he assimilated these eighteen hundred different types of yogas into little over two hundred Yoga Sutras and made it into Ashtanga Yoga, that is eight limbs of yoga. Everything falls into these eight limbs. So from then on, he was considered as the father of modern yoga. In India, modern means thirty-two hundred years ago, okay? So he's known as the father of modern yoga. The word modern was used at that time. They said Patanjali is the father of Navina Yoga, that means modern yoga. But we continue to use the same word even today after thirty-two hundred years ago because he kind of… he did not reinvent, he only assimilated. Because it had become too specialized and broken into too many parts, he kind of put it back into one place.


Why do I only watch One Piece Live Action at 1.46 a.m.? Why do I decide to wait until now? I don't know, maybe it's just a cozy late night show, man. I don't know how to describe it. But welcome back to the channel, my name is Jack the Buster, I'm Shinobi. I'm on episode three of the One Piece Live Action. It's been absolutely fantastic so far. All the actors and actresses have been absolutely standout. Some of my favorites being probably Garb, Buggy and Yaki as Luffy for sure. But honestly, the whole cast has killed it so far. I'm super excited to get into it. See where we're gonna go next. I'm guessing we're gonna start getting to the Usopp stuff. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to drop us up and let's hop into it. Surveillance! Let's go. Throw Usopp! Oh my God, run away. He has to hold down in bed! Seven years ago, and as he gets older, I'm like secondhand embarrassment. She already knows. Every day this kid. And now we're current age. The brave Usopp. Thank goodness. All right, so we already get the vibe. Oh, so it is changing. That was Usopp's. I love that. Buggy got the second one. The red line. Wait, what did she notice? Oh wait, that was reverse mountain, I think. My boat. Ah, technically. Ah?  The boat is leaking? Where she hid all the stuff. Oh. Ha, that was her connection to Arlong. He's like, ah, I'll get her. I'll get her. By the garb. Man, they're focusing heavy on garb through all this. And he knows exactly who he's chasing after. Wait, did I have to get you ragged along for this?  Ah, how mebo come around. He's gonna fix what he didn't do. Still got that ego.  Oh my goodness. He said honesty. Oh, bad move, Kobe. Bad move. The whole thing has been about honesty with garb. Wait, garb is messing. That garb is messing hard, bro. Oh, maybe you already fixed it. Dang, my boy's moving up in the world. Yeah, tell him. Your father would have taught you better.  Morgan taught him nothing. Rip Bose though. Yeah, maybe Kobe already fixed it. Either that or garb was just messing. Buggy's. He's worth 15 million.  We should have stopped us in bed. Zoro's really growing on me. What's her plan to get a ship? Well, they're already in, sir village? Oh, really? Really? Oh, for you, one or seven then? Oh, no way. No way. He made it back to his tent and he got his body parts back. Oh, we are going a different path then. Is this where Alveda finds him? Wait, that's a fish man. Oh, shoot. The music. The flood. Oh, our first fish man.  Oh, man. Jigachad.  But we just palmed him. Is he gonna take Buggy to Arlong? Wait, what?  Yeah, how are they gonna afford this? Where is she? Where is she? Oh, OK, yeah, she wasn't expecting to steal it. Luffy, be realistic. Yeah, how are you gonna buy this? Show me. You know you're there she is. She's beautiful, just as I pictured her. And at that moment, the club outer man spawned. Oh, what's up? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. No shot. This is how they meet. Whipstaff, brother, full galley, can and dex, four and aft. Who stops like love for Mary? Of course I do. I'm chief technician and charger of incrustation removal and Avery waste eradication. He cleans barnacles. My closest friend in the world. Your friend owns this ship. Not just this one. She owns the whole shipyard. Oh, Kaia. Ah, so she owns the shipyard. See, I guess it couldn't hurt to say hello. I like who stops like delivery of lines so far a lot. Experiences don't define us. That's what we gain from them that matters. You learned. He just has such good one liners. What? Well game, this looks like a grid board. Man, he looks so serious. Should I know what game this is? I had no idea. Oh, my gosh. Panda. Panda. Oh, man, she's going to steal so much. I like how Nami and Zoro are on the same wavelength. And they will be until Nami opens up more after hour long. Oh, I never use a front entrance. This is more of a VIP. Oh, my gosh, the seahorses. I guess.  Zoro already knows. You know, there's actually a more exclusive entrance back this way. Bro is just sneaking his friends in. How are you doing here? Oh, my gosh, wait. Wait. It's the twins, the black cat twins. Oh, my gosh, his hair cut. Oh, my God, Kurodori. Oh, my gosh, he looks so haunting. He did the thing, the glasses thing. She looks kind of like weak because they keep her here. Like the physical acting is really good. Gosh, he's creepy. It is the black cat twins. Yes, sir. His hair is just, they got it right. That's the one thing I remember about that, that one black cat. This is hair cut. Oh, shoot. Oh, man. Zoro's got a little tingly feeling. It's so cool seeing all this, man. Oh. Let's hear the lies, Usopp. How did you get it? This is adorable. Yeah, she's like sickly from being inside. Man, this is so sad. This is so sweet, bro. What is Luffy doing? Oh, my goodness. This doesn't even seem practical. Oh. He recognizes him as Captain Coro. Rich people don't have the same emotions we do. This stuff doesn't make her feel lonely. It makes her feel important. You don't know Kaia. Rich people don't stay rich by giving things away. What a bet. Well, we know how it ends up. We go with your plan. Oh, steal it? Dang, that's not much confidence he has. There's a no risk high reward for Nami. Of course she would take that. I can hardly believe it. Bruining to such a fine young woman is coming. God, dude. He's haunting looking. Wow, he puts on those crocodiles. He's like, about to tear up. Slop. Blue mashed potatoes. And how are the dinner preparations coming along? God, this kitchen is beautiful. They must be perfect. Ah, it was dirty. Tonight's the night. Man, I can't wait to see him with his blades. Talk. Why is this game so intense? Garb's standing up. Wait, this looks crazy. Of course Garb's going to wipe the floor with him. He's got experience. You're too focused on not losing. You won't win wars if you keep playing defensive. Mm, I can't go with the offense. Garb is the definition of offense. I don't know what this game is, but I really want to learn it. I like that they've taken the creative integrity to add this because this is, I mean, we barely got any time with just Garb and Kobe in general in the anime. He beat him. It's already a cool like mentorship. And especially with these young upstarts. Like the boy with the straw hat. Huh. I like this a lot actually. It's interesting themes. They're dynamic. Mary! Bro, he looks like from Lion, Legion of Wardrobe. Oh, Nami's dress looks so pretty. God, dang, Luffy. Oh, something love for real. I love that dress. Aw. Nami's starting to realize that Kaya might not be this like snotty rich girl that she might think that she is. Oh! Oh, man. Oh. God, dude, he's so creepy. I like how they can do the whole Luffy loves food thing without being too like on the nose about it. They're just like, yeah, he's like, he gets hype about it. Oh my goodness gracious. Or Kaya. I agree.  Okay, I'm pretty sure this is how it goes, Nami. I don't remember a lot of the details. Not sailors. Defeated an evil clown.  He sounded a lot like your adventures, Usa. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. And we're just getting started. Oh my gosh. Watch out. Dude, we can get down from there at once. He's like establishing it. Or even more adventures await us. And at the end of the journey. He's just walking there. A caravan with a sheep figurehead. It spoke to me. That was Usa. Yeah, Usa does look drippy. Aw. We've known Usa would bring riffraff to our door. Riffraff. Oh, it's OK. Give up that, Miss Kaya. Oh, buddy, he realizes this operation is a bit of a misstep. Bystander, bro. Oh my god, bro. Are you interrupting something? No, you're just saving me from getting beaten again. Oh, my boy. We spotted the wreckage of an abandoned sloop. Oh. Now this on board. Oh, no. This is your chance to show me what you've got, Kader. Don't waste it. Aw. Yes, sir. Hope you're already beating him at the game, too. Uh-oh. Almost midnight. Uh-oh. You're trying to. Oh, no. Oh, no. That young woman has been through enough. And I won't let anyone. Zigachad Mary. Uh. Oh, my. Save. Is that Shave? Where are the claws? Where are they? Ew. Oh, my god. Does he survive in this? But he rolled him. And there he comes. It's showtime. Now or never. Oh. Dude, did he actually get taken by Arlong? There's still that. It's carnival, though. A circus. Oh, man. They're already showing him. God, dude. I just don't know about the nose. Let's go. I love those bounty posters, man. Arlong. Ooh. Look at those stoppers. What's he going to do to my boy? Oh, my gosh.  Oh, my god. Ah. Humans to spread their filth. The fishman Arlong mindset. Just teaming up with Arlong. Maybe not Alveda. Maybe it's different in that way. That could be interesting. Oh, my gosh. Okay. So, Mugi's not exactly on the same path as we would have come to expect. Oh, my. How did he scare Zoro? Absolutely. Why don't we see Monchi? Yep. I was going to say he's out of my food. Of course. It was like kind of like a horror movie. I wonder what the thriller bark will be like if we make it there. Oh, my god, bro. She's probably robbing them. Plenty of fine possessions to take. Where's she going to end up? Oh, my god. This is creepy. What? Wait, is this Kaia's room? Oh, my goodness. What are you doing? Is everything right? Oh, she's got the little goggle things. I don't know what those are exactly, but she's got them. I simply meant we can't share it with others. Oh, I bet that feels bad now. This really ain't the rich person she thought she was. We haven't gotten as much time with Usob as I expected. At least like from meeting him. Maybe. I think Nami's going to context clues about what's actually going on here from what Kaia says. Damn. Respect. That's like shot! It's real. This kitchen is so cool. Like the multi-level? Oh, that's sick. Not Liars. Oh, yeah, of course. Usobs are crazy. Yeah, what did happen, Kaia? Hmm, interesting. Interesting. To whom? Sorry, she's trauma dumping. Obviously a little worse and worse. Man, don't get her started. Holy. Take the first smile from Nami, it seems. There's a tree branch outside her window. She's gorgeous. Okay. Ah. Yeah, something great. Oh, shoot. Oh. Usob's like, I never got that. Perfect. You didn't know you were looking for alcohol? Oh, those are cool interactions. You stand right here with all the food. Oh. That's poison. Oh, my God, brah. Oh, wait, wait. Where's Mary? All the candles lit. I'm pretty sure they keep the good stuff over here. His body is just laying there? It's Mary.  That would be dark. I mean, it'd be more realistic, but they're going to set the tone in this show. I think he's actually dead. Oh, he just appears. Okay. Dang, just like this. His face. I knew I'd see your face somewhere. It's a poster. Damn, he like, new-new. 16 million! God, the bounty posters are so clean, man. Oh, my goodness. Y'all know actually facts.  That is shave, right? He's behind me, isn't he? Aw, shoot. Things are getting serious. Oh, man. Dude, the blades on his fingers. Dude, Mary's actually dead. Oh, my God, brah. What about Pal? Pal is so screwed. Ain't nobody getting saved by Oda in this show. Hmm? That's a little too late for that. Maybe not. What a sweet moment.  She's got some respect for Kaia now. Look, he feels like she's going to put it back. A little bit of humanity for Nami. Hmm. Character development. They're straight-wheeling them out. Did they think that the bottle killed Zorro? Oh, my God, wait. When the trailer came out, people thought that Zorro in the well was whenever Mihawk said frog in the well, but he's actually in a goddamn well. Ah, I almost kept him.  My goodness. It's good and intense. It's very subtle how they did the whole Usopp the Liar thing at the very beginning of the episodes. Now it connects back, but it wasn't too on the nose. And kind of like tying in with him and his adventures to Kaia, too. Is this his house? Oh. Oh, my gosh. This is crazy the way they're doing stuff. But I love it. What is happening over here? What is going on? But I love it. It's like I know what happens, but it still keeps me on my toes somehow. It's the way they're doing everything with Kobe and Garp, though. How much more of a focus they're putting on it, and it's delivering very well. The change in Buggie being kidnapped by Arlong is so interesting, meaning that we might see Buggie a lot more for the rest of this season. More than I initially anticipated. Whenever they launched him last episode, I thought that was going to end with where he ends up with Alveda and he's like small. Oh, my goodness. Great. Now Kobe and Garp are here in Sword Village already. So what role are they going to play in the entire thing with Captain Kuro? Oh, my gosh. Like, this changes everything. It's like a what if what if Garp, Kobe, and all of them have been here in Sword Village when it all went down. Oh, man, dude, this is so good. It's so good. Usopp's debut, he's killing it already. I was getting teary-eyed at the end of the episode. Kuro's fantastic casting. They actually killed Mary. Like, they're making money moves. I'm all about this, bro. I'm still all about this. Episode 3 Tell No Tales. That has been my reaction. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll have a fat like on this one if you haven't already, and I'll see you next time. Peace, base.


guys this has been by far my most favorite little camera since I've started creating tutorials and we're gonna talk about the insta 360 go I bought the insta 360 go mostly to use it for behind-the-scene or my filmmaking tutorials and this has proven to be very useful so to give you an idea we're going to look at the built-in handling of the 360 go we're gonna look at the performance and shooting modes we're also gonna take a look at the app which comes with an editing tool and my final thoughts on it there will be a timestamp below if you want to skip or go back to a particular part of the video okay let's talk about built-in handling of this little thing the insta 360 go weighs less than 20 grams and is literally the size of my pinky finger or the size of something else he means the size of his small brain I need to stop this jokes it did hit the ground a couple of times but it still works like a charm the front is made out of plastic and the back is out of metal the metal part is actually magnetic and can be attached to any metal surface you can wirelessly charge this camera on the go using the battery case which will magnetically attached to it super awesome also in the back you will find a small button to turn the camera on and off the camera is also water resistant which means it can handle splashes and rain but it's not waterproof you can submerge it into water but for only around 10 seconds but I wouldn't recommend doing it so the way to record video with the insta 360 go is really simple while the cameras off pressing the button once we'll start record a 15 second video that is what I use most often but in the option you can also set it to record 30 seconds or 60 seconds well when I record b-roll or behind the scene usually I don't need much footage just a really short duration so turning the camera on with a longer press will allow you to access other recording features pressing the button once we'll take a photo pressing the button twice will allow you to do a hyperlapse video with three presses you can take a 15 second slow motion video one thing that I really like is that the camera responds to each of these commands with a short vibration it lets me know if the recording has started or if the recording has stopped also a white light will start flashing that will let you know when a video has started recording now if you're starting out the controls might be confusing but if you do it a couple of times it's really not hard to understand at first I thought the video recording limit of 60 seconds wouldn't be enough but after using it for a while I really like the idea of it and I usually don't need 60 seconds especially for behind the scenes video you can really just tap it once and it does all the work for you the insta 360 go has motion stabilization which helps with the smoothness of the video it almost looks like as if I would hold a gimbal the way how it works is that this camera records 27 20 by 27 20 which is a high resolution image and takes a portion of the frame and processes it into creating a stabilized video for a small camera like this I find the video quality really impressive it's not really GoPro quality but still a small camera like this one produces smooth stabilized video with nice punchy colors now you probably wouldn't use this for bigger video productions but for posting videos on social media or using as an additional camera to capture b-roll this is certainly great because it really is easy to use the fixed lens gives you an ultra wide angle perspective which is great for getting everything in the shot especially if you're not able to do a live view with this camera there is no screen on it and you can't really monitor live over your phone I don't recommend using this one in low light situation since it produces a lot of noise and makes the footage unusable so with the action camera you get a few useful attachment options so the way to use the magnetic pendant is to strap it around your neck and attach the camera to your chest it has a soft silicon pad that faces the body which helps keep it in place I recommend mounting your camera on a one single layer of clothing otherwise it could easily fall off having it this way will allow you to capture POV shots so the pivot stand is great for sticking it on surfaces like your helmet or car you can easily angle it to get the necessary shots you need the easy clip is great for doing sports or any kind of extreme activity that keeps the camera in place this is definitely the safest option and what I use most for my behind the scenes tutorials all right let's talk about performance so the battery on this go last for 60 minutes which means you can take around 200 video clips averaging around 20 second clips for me that is more than enough but if I need to record more I can easily transfer the clips to my iPhone with the case and delete them from my camera now I've been shooting a lot with this during the winter as well and it drains the battery twice as fast it's important to keep it warm or keep it in the case so that it won't drain the battery as quick now the go comes with a small charging case that takes around 20 minutes to recharge it the case holds another 2.5 hours of charge and also protects the lens from damage you want to charge the case there is a micro USB port on the side here what's great is that the charging case has an apple lightning connection which allows me to transfer the footage to my iPhone quickly okay so let's talk about the different shooting modes so you're able to record up to 60 seconds of video now it happened to me a lot that I accidentally pressed the button and then it all of a sudden started recording you have to be careful of that now you also have the hyperlapse mode which are able to create a moving time lapse that speeds up the video at six times normal speed you can also of course take a time lapse using the pivot stand as for slow motion you can capture a 15 second clip at 100 frames per second now you can also take still photos with this but that is the least feature I use because the image quality looks just decent and I rather use my iPhone to take pictures so let's look at the Insta360 Go app you can pair your smartphone with the camera via Bluetooth that allows you to control it wirelessly when connecting the charging case to your phone it will instantly transfer all of the clips to the app once all footages have been transferred the footage will auto-delete from the camera now I prefer it that way so I don't have to manually delete the clips using the app will give me access to the editing tools which is great if I want to edit my videos on the go and export it quickly to my social media I can trim speed up and add royalty-free music to my clip I'm also able to adjust exposure temperature contrast to complete the look so is it worth buying the Insta360 Go to me this action camera is really great for shooting behind the scenes like I said before this is super valuable also for you guys so that you know what's happening the cool thing is that it's wearable doesn't take up much space and it also doesn't draw a lot of attention like when using a GoPro also in terms of framing when I film myself I don't have to think about it because it's an ultra wide-angle view now I think this is also great for capturing b-roll with a single press I can start recording the moment while also being in the moment the short recording time doesn't bother me at all since I don't really need to capture the entire day that would be boring anyways I'd rather capture those short memorable moments which also makes it easy for me to edit the story together the video quality is decent when shooting in good lighting situations for vloggers that need additional footage this action camera offers really good shooting modes now because of the recording time limit it might not be great for talking-headed video now I also did a short vlog with this so that you can see for yourself I'm doing a little audio test here shouldn't sound that bad it's not so windy outside also and yeah the weather is pretty nice currently the sun is shining and I should get a pretty decent image quality now the audio quality isn't that bad but if it's windy outside you get a lot of noise so overall I'm really happy that they created this unique type of action camera I could see myself wearing it on every shoot definitely adds a lot of value to my videos so guys let me know what you think about the Insta 360 go if you like this video then leave a thumbs up subscribe to my channel so that I can keep creating awesome tutorials for you guys thank you so much for that make sure to also follow me on Instagram at bennettgrazer make sure to check out these two videos that will certainly improve your mobile filmmaking skills or filmmaking skills in general thank you so much for watching stay creative and I will see you in the next video guys see ya


This is Stink Tech, Hawaii. Community matters here. It's Thursday again, 3 p.m., time for another Kondo Insider show. Hawaii's show about living in a Kondo association or a homeowner association. We hope you find our show interesting as we talk about industry-related topics, trying to educate our board members and owners about making their association better. All over the press we're reading today about problems with embezzlement, fraud, theft, internet issues. And so I have had the pleasure to have a great friend of mine, Dave Levy from San Francisco, who's visiting us right now, who is going to talk to us about embezzlement and fraud. And let me tell you, Dave has huge amounts of experience as a CPA with the relative issues on this matter. And we certainly want every association to be protected. So Dave, welcome to the show. Thank you. I know you have an impressive resume, but let's talk about you first. Tell me a little bit about your background and your credentials. Sure. I've been involved in the homeowner association industry for more than 30 years in Northern California. Our office does work for more than 2,000 homeowner associations. And as part of our practice, we occasionally have run into fraud and embezzlement. And at today's show, we hope to provide some answers for boards to help them avoid some of the problems that other associations have encountered. And you also do reserve studies, right? You're one of the few accounting firms that I know of. It may be the only I know that actually is engaged in the reserve studies side of the business. We do part. In California, there's a requirement to make disclosures about reserves. We don't do the actual cost estimating, but we do the financial calculations for funding the reserves. And what method do you do? Is there a method you use for funding calculations? It's essentially a cash flow methodology, which is similar to out here. Yeah, interesting enough under Hawaii law that they have under the statute two choices, one's called percent funded and one's called cash flow under the statute anyway. And I would tell you about 99% of the associations use cash flow method funding, which is under Hawaii law is a 20-year projection of your needs and your expenses, income and inflation. Sure. California is somewhat similar. We have to disclose what the percent funded is at a current point in time and our funding goes over a 30-year horizon. Yeah, and most people who have the software knows that the software itself kind of calculates out to infinity and you just select on the report how many years you want it to show, but that's all kind of a repeating type thing. Well, tell me about your firm now. Tell me some of the things you do in your firm besides audits and tax filing. Sure. Besides audits and tax returns, we do a lot of the disclosures involving reserves and what we call pro forma operating budgets in California. Essentially, at least in Northern California and throughout the state, one of the biggest financial problems for homeowners associations is in fact funding reserves. On average in California, reserves are only about 60% funded. So larger and newer associations tend to do a little bit better, but smaller and older tend to be worse. In California, there is no specific requirement for funding reserves. It's just a disclosure statute. So you could be 0% funded and so long as you disclose it, you've done what you're supposed to do. That is correct, yes. Yeah, why is it interesting in the sense that says you have to be either 50% funded or I hate to use word 100% funded because the percentage isn't going to be the right terminology. Have a cash flow plan that produces positive balances for 20 years and that's your choices. Sure. California has struggled with the funding terminology and the statutes because some people in the reserve industry will play games, but the current law simply requires that you disclose what your funding plan is and what your percent funded is today. Not that you're going to be 100% funded tomorrow, but where do you stand today and then you present what your plan is. Yeah, it's interesting under Hawaii that I say this comically, our legislature figured out how to solve that problem. We have these national standards for reserves in this national language, so they invented all their own new language. So if you read the Hawaii statute, you can't figure out how that relates to the national reserve study language, so we all end up confused. Yeah, it is very confusing for a lot of homeowners. Most homeowners do not like the word special assessment and unfortunately for many associations as they get older, if they don't have a good funding plan, that's what most of them are going to face. Can an association in California borrow money? Yes, they can't borrow money, but the way the banks look at an association, before they will loan the money, they want to see an approved special assessment to repay the bank loan. So there's no easy way out for the association. At least they can get the money immediately to fix the roof, for instance, but they have to have already approved the special assessment and the security for most banks for their loans is the right to step into the shoes of the board of directors and enforce a special assessment, if necessary, to repay their loan. That's pretty much the same in Hawaii, because you can't have a lien on the common elements. It's not like a mortgage. You can't mortgage the common elements here. They were only rights here to the cash flow from the repayment of the loan as far as collateral. Let's get into the meat of the show today, and that's fraud and embezzlement. Short answer. Do you see fraud and embezzlement? What do you do? Yes. How often? Because we deal with so many associations, we probably see it more often than some people do. Usually, it's not obvious at first glance. Some of the fraud cases we've been involved in were discovered by board members and brought to our attention. There's a common misperception by the public that when a CPA does an audit, that they're looking at absolutely everything, and that's not what an audit is. An audit is a sampling type of an approach to looking at financial transactions, and there is no guarantee that an audit will undercover fraud. CPAs are schooled to be attentive to the potential for fraud, but an audit is no guarantee that you will uncover fraud. Well, I know the word audit under the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts is a very specific protocol versus like a review or compilation, which would be a lower, I can't use the word audit, review of the financial condition than an audit. What are the basic parts of an audit in simple terms? In simple terms, what an accountant a CPA will do when he's doing an audit is look closely at cash accounts, confirm or inspect invoices and cancel checks to see that disbursements are appropriate, read board minutes, do a more detailed analytic review of transactions. So there's more work involved than a review. So unlike Hawaii in California, there's a legal requirement to review or audit if revenues exceed $75,000 for any given year. So therefore, most associations in our experience get a review not an audit because a review is cheaper than an audit. And so Hawaii may be a little bit ahead of California by requiring audits for associations larger than 20 units. Let me share with you the common misunderstanding about that in Hawaii. Our statute requires every association, every single one of the associations to annually do an audit with a CPA, except any association 20 units or less by vote of the membership, the owners, can waive doing an audit and then do something lower or nothing at all. And a lot of associations in Hawaii think because there are 20 units or less that they don't have to do an audit. Well that's true if at the membership meeting, the annual meeting or some special owners meeting, there's a motion to say I move that we don't do an audit for the year 2017. And if that was approved, then they wouldn't have to do an audit. And a lot of people just think well it only says you have to do an audit if you have more than 20 units. It doesn't say that. The statute says that everybody has to do an audit unless you have an affirmative vote by the members at a meeting to not do an audit that year. And that's kind of how our law is. For the benefit of the audience then, I will point out that two of the cases of embezzlement that we're working on currently, both with the FBI, both in progress at the moment, involve predominance of associations that are under 20 units. So just because the association is small doesn't mean that they cannot be ripped off over a period of time. And I can go into some of the detail if you would like. We'll get to that in a minute because what I want to talk about first is that we had kind of headlines here in the last six months where an association, which was self-managed, so they had their own local banking relationship and their employee general manager had a desktop or a notebook and he would do all the association's banking over the internet. I don't know about their internal best practices and protocol, but that's what they did and they suddenly decided or found out that they were missing a quarter of a million dollars. So I'm sure we're both going to agree, but maybe just comment on the fact of this, I'm going to call it internet fraud, this electronic banking fraud, the scope of it and the risk with it. Well, I'll give the audience a personal experience of my own. Occasionally people might have to pay their credit card statement or credit card bill at the last minute, and so I was in that position recently. So I take out my credit card, I look at the back, I get the phone number to call and because I hadn't done this before, I was surprised to get an automated voice and the automated voice only asked for two pieces of information, my bank routing number and my bank account number and after that I hung up the phone and the money was transferred out of my bank account to the credit card company bank account. The same general thing can work for a homeowner's association's bank account. Electronically it is not that difficult to gain access to bank accounts and that's why historically we've always been taught if your blank check stock is stolen or compromised, close the account and get a new account number and this is one of the reasons why. Kind of what you're leading into is that if you did that, it all was kosher and then someone hacked the credit card company's account and got your routing number and your bank account number, they could go into a multitude of ways and use your money without you knowing about it until you catch up with it. True. In one of the fraud cases we're involved with now, the management agent who's also got an accounting background was able to steal money simply by taking a signed check and turning the check over and endorsing it for deposit only to her account and you would think, well isn't somebody looking at the endorsement on the check? The answer is no. Nobody's looking at it. I checked this out with my FBI agent contact and he says, well, you can even make deposits with your cell phone today. That's true. There's nobody looking at the endorsement on the back of the check. Well, the one thing I want to share with our audience is a very common misunderstood issue in Hawaii is we all know under Hawaii law that both the association's board of directors or the association and the management company, if you have professional management, have to have a crime policy or a fidelity bond and everybody thinks that that covers theft. And the answer is yes, it covers theft by association employees or board members or the management company in the case of the management company's policy. This third party theft over the internet when someone's hacked your device and has stolen your money by rerouting it or whatever they do to this foreign country is not covered under the crime and fidelity policy unless you purchase third party theft coverage under the insurance policy, which is about $200 a year. And with all this internet, quote, fraud, electronic fraud today, I would think that every board member out there ought to be asking their agent, do we have third party theft cover for electronic theft? And if they don't, they ought to buy it because that's probably one of the major potential risks in the future with respect to theft. It sounds like a good thing to look into. Yeah, most people don't seem to realize that. Well, tell us about one of these FBI cases for the things you can say about kind of what the common threat is, about what the claim is, what the issue is. Okay. In another case that is currently going on, it involves about 2,000 smaller associations under 20 units for the most part. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to stop you for one second because we're going to take a one minute break and I don't want to interrupt us in the middle, so I apologize for that. But to our audience here, we're going to be back in one minute. We're talking with Dave Levy about fraud and embezzlement and now we're going to get into the really good stuff. Living in this crazy world So far up in the confusion Making sense for me And not to be solution How to make a brighter day It's RB Kelly. I'm your host of Out of the Comfort Zone where I find cool people with cool solutions to problems that all of us face. Now the thing is, we're really cool and I only invite really cool people, but the thing is I think you're kind of cool too, so I think you should come and watch. That Thursdays at 11am here on OC16 Television with Think Tech Hawaii. I'm RB Kelly, host of Out of the Comfort Zone and I will see you next Thursday. We're back. We hope you went and got your popcorn and either a cold beverage. I prefer a beer myself. But anyway, we're talking with Dave Levy with respect to fraud and embezzlement and before I kind of interrupted him because we're going to talk about some specific cases. I asked him to tell us about an FBI case and kind of the general circumstances and so let's go back to that. Okay, great. There are two specific FBI cases that I have in mind to talk about. One was about 15 to 20 years ago and involved a property management agent who would add his name to the bank's signature card before the signature card would go to the bank. This gave him the ability to access the funds of all of his bank accounts, of all of his associations and by doing this, he was able to steal from one association at a time and every time he would get caught, which happened frequently, he would steal money from a different association to pay the money back. In the accounting world, we call that a kiting scheme and it involved a large national bank, not a homeowners association bank so they weren't very familiar with how homeowners associations worked and they were not really savvy to the fact that this manager in California should not necessarily have been signing on all the different bank accounts. I know Hawaii is a little bit different. That's true. In Hawaii, it is a little bit different in the sense that we certainly have this statute that requires a management company to keep separate accounts in the association's name but typically in Hawaii because it's run by a real estate broker who has insurance on this and bonding on this particular transaction they limit who can sign to the managing agent's principal broker because they wouldn't want a board member to be going able to go sign and check that the management company didn't know about because then you lose kind of a control of that particular operating account and money account so it's a little different. What was kind of humorous about this first case that the FBI in fact took on was the national bank, when they found out about the fraud they closed down all the accounts and opened up brand new accounts. So I found out later from one of the board members that when a board would question why was a new bank account being opened up the fraudster simply told the board well there had been a fraud in the bank and that's why the account had to be closed and yet he was still operating as the management agent. In dealing more with the technological issues and people breaking into accounts electronically a current case that is in progress right now involves a management company that had been taking funds from the associations for a number of years and once again he had access to the funds because he was on the bank signature card but the way he was stealing the money was he was providing only limited information to the boards of directors. So he would give the boards an income and expense statement each month and he would give them a falsified bank statement. Now when I was growing up a falsified bank statement meant getting out the white out and whiteing out the numbers and changing things. Well in today's world it's a little different. When the issue came up I checked with a technological consultant one of my nieces and she said well David in today's world you just get Adobe a certain kind of software and you can change the bank statements electronically print them out and you can't tell the original correct one from the falsified one and that's exactly what's happened in this current case. The management agent was simply providing an income and expense statement and a falsified bank statement to the boards each month. He was not giving them any bank reconciliation or any balance sheets. So there was no way to connect the financial statements and this was going on for a number of years and the amount of money taken exceeds a million dollars easily. How did they catch it? The first victim the unemployed wife of the board president was a young lady who was an accountant and she started raising questions and she was the first to discover that there was a problem. We were then engaged to do further inquiries and determined that yes in fact money was being stolen not only from this one association account but from others as well. So in a situation like that okay let's just say we've caught them and they're guilty and the money is missing in California do they have insurance? They protect it? Is there a recovery pot? In some cases yes. We know that one victim had a $25,000 policy with a $10,000 deductible and the insurance person contacted the FBI because the case is still going on and was convinced that yes the money had been stolen and that one association did get their money got 15 out of 25,000 back. I don't know whether there's a crime policy in California similar to what is available in Hawaii but if there is I'm definitely going to be taking that information back to my clients because it's a good idea. Well you know it's interesting you could have a $25,000 policy as you describe but if you have a million dollars lost because you haven't bought enough insurance you have a bigger problem. That is true. One of the things that's extremely important for boards is to be asking questions and looking at financial information on a regular basis. For instance in this last case if the board had gotten a copy of the bank statement directly from the bank some of this problem could have been avoided. In California and probably in Hawaii as well there's no law that says the bank has to send a bank statement directly to the board member. In my personal opinion I think perhaps legislation might help in that regard if it's at all possible. The legislation I would then want passed is that making a law that the board member has to read the bank statement and the financial statement because a lot of people just don't put any attention to it and I don't care what you wrote and might come on a piece of toilet paper they wouldn't really notice. Well that's true and I think for purposes of the viewing audience here because it is not that difficult to commit fraud or embezzlement it's extremely important that the board follow certain procedures to look at financial documents to look at bank reconciliation to look at bank statements to take the issue very seriously because there's only so much that can be done legislatively to protect an association against fraud. One of the things, I've been in the industry 25 years that I want to share this it's on point in a way to what you're talking about but there's been in my 25 years five or six thefts embezzlement fraud with management companies that I'm aware of and the most common thing that was used is what I'm going to call the fake vendor where somebody, property manager, resident manager set up a fake vendor and would charge like $38 this week $110 next week and if you're a portfolio manager making ten projects that's like $1000 a week you see and because people would say it's a small amount, no it's a $28 bills I'm not going to look into that they never really put much attention to what was being paid and the validity so comments? Yes, one of the basic accounting internal controls that CPAs are taught is that when a check is signed let's say by the board the check should go directly into the mail what can happen if it doesn't go directly into the mail it goes back to the preparer a sign check the payee could be altered by simply adding another word to the name of the payee and if a bank account is open the name of that altered payee the monies can come out and we've seen frauds happen in that way in the past as well you bring up a good point about fictitious vendors we often suggest to management company owners that they on a surprise basis accounts payable records and ask for a printout of all the vendors and see if they recognize all the names or if there's vendors that don't make any sense there's a lot of little things that can be done board members as well when they sign the form authorizing that a check be issued they should be looking at the invoice and looking to see does it make sense in some of the frauds that we've seen now the cash is being taken because bookkeeping is double entry if you take the cash out you have to kind of cover it up somehow and the somehow is often reserve expenses or miscellaneous maintenance expenses things that are not predictable so if the board is looking at their financials and comparing to budget on a monthly basis if they see fluctuations that don't make sense they should be asking questions getting near the end of the show so let me ask you if you're going to give boards two or three recommendations of simple things they can do to protect themselves what would you recommend I would say look at and understand how the financials are put together make sure that your income statement ties into your balance sheet make sure that the cash balance is on the balance sheet tie into the bank reconciliation when you're looking at the bank reconciliation that the balance per bank matches the bank statement it all fits together and the board with the assistance of their CPA can be schooled on how to recognize these things it's not that difficult but board members need to understand how it's all supposed to fit together and then look at it on a monthly basis I always recommended the boards specifically the smaller boards that maybe don't have much sophistication and accounting if you simply every month look at the check register yes good idea and you can say well here's the check we wrote and here's the amount does that make sense to me if not can you get me the invoice to support this absolutely looking at the check register both operating and reserve is important but it's not looking at one thing you have to understand how the whole process fits together and if the board is uncomfortable with it ask the CPA that they're using probably at least to do a tax return to help them I don't know if it's the law or just general operating practice in Hawaii but we have a single operating account and any disbursement has to be through the single operating account so if you had a reserve expense you would have to transfer the money to the operating account and then write the check and the transfer has a great value to everybody with respect to doing that any final comments no thank you very much for inviting me to speak today I think we should all recognize that our volunteer board members and our management companies we're talking about the exception but as a fiduciary you as a board member have an obligation to protect the association and carefully look and be responsible about really reviewing the monthly financial statement and you have a better chance then of nipping this in the bud and catching it and not opening your financials the day of the board meeting or not having a designated director who's taking a closer look at that at that point next week our show is going to be about aging in place for seniors my co-host Jane Sugimura will be back I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you a very merry Christmas and happy holidays tune in next week Aloha


So how much does hoarding clean up actually cost? This is situational. So there's no set price on the price of a hoard, but I can tell you guys about what really goes into it. The level of the hoard is always important. There's five levels to hoarding. A level one is going to be very much less expensive than a level five hoard. So just keep that in mind. The other part that has to do with it is the type of hoard that it is. There's three main types of hoards. Clothing, food, and animals.  Food, they'll just be empty pizza boxes and every work. And finally, clothing hoard, there's just mounds and mounds of clothes all over the place. Then the third thing is that it depends on how involved the hoarder wants to be in actually cleaning the home. In that scenario, if the hoarder wants to help out and kind of alleviate some of the times that has to be spent. And then finally, the size of the home. The size of the home matters. It depends on how many rooms are fully hoarded out. We've been in scenarios where there's been four feet of garbage in all 10 rooms of a house because it was like a miniature mansion. And then we've been in small houses where it's only been a few rooms. If you need hoarding services, please feel free to contact us by DM or if you want to reach out to us by phone and the number is right here.


Have you been trying to get your microbits to communicate with each other via radio? Come in, yellow microbit. Hello, this is yellow microbit. I can hear you loud and clear, green microbit. Over. We'll stick around because in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use radio on microbit through the Microsoft MakeCode editor. And we'll get these two sending and receiving messages to each other in no time. In just a moment. Hello world, it's The Surfing Scratcher here, teacher, surfer, programmer and lover of learning bringing you the goodness of coding through games. On this channel, we code projects together using video tutorials. So if you're new here, consider subscribing. Be sure to check out the show notes and links in the description below where I list out a bunch of resources and unplugged activities that can help you along on your learning journey. Alright, let's get stuck into it. This tutorial is more of our hands on how to with microbit radio. If you want a more of a technical explanation, I've got a card linked above to a great tutorial from the MakeCode website. Alright, the first thing we need to do is delete this forever block. We don't need it. See you later. We need to do everything in our on start at the moment. The first thing that we need to do is head on over to our radio category here because we're working with the radio. And have you ever heard the expression being on the same wavelength? Well, our microbits need to be on the same wavelength, which means the same group. I'm going to check that number to 77 because that is a gnarly number. So now our microbits will all be on the same channel and they can communicate to one another. The next thing that we need to do is set up something to send to another microbit. So how are we going to do that? Well, we need some input. We need to do something on a button press. So when the A button is pressed, we want to do some business. So here I am pressing the A button, nothing happened. Let's go hook that up. So let's go back into our radio category and we said that we're going to send some stuff. So let's look at these three blocks here. We can send a number, broadcast a number over radio to any connected microbit in the group. We can broadcast a name value pair along with the device serial number and running time to any connected microbit in the group. And we can also broadcast a string along with the device serial number. So we're going to go ahead and broadcast a string. Now a string is just another word for text. Now the students in my class have asked that they can send poop emojis to each other. So that's exactly what we're going to go ahead and do. What I like to do with my projects is yes, we've got text here but I actually like to turn this into a variable. We've just got text as it is just there. It's prone to typos and spelling errors. So if we create a variable of the same name, poop emoji then we're not going to have any problems. So on start, we're going to set that poop emoji not to zero. We're going to go down here and grab some fancy quote marks slot that in.  What we're going to do now is send that poop emoji variable. And of course that value is equal to poop emoji that may well have confused you. I'll show an example of why that works in just a moment. So now we're sending our poop emoji string but nothing's happening. We need to now receive it. Let's jump back into our radio. And this time we're going to check out all the blocks that we can use to receive a message. So we can receive the number. We can receive that pair or we can receive that string. So let's receive that string and let's just check it out. So let's just show that string. We go into our variables, show received string and let's do it. Poop emoji. All right. That's cool.  So let's go ahead and change that now. So let's get rid of a show string. Let's get some LEDs. Let's create a poop emoji. Be very interested to see if you can create a poop emoji that looks a little bit better than mine.  Let's go ahead and check out how we're going here. One click to slide in our next marker bit and the next click to display our poop emoji. Boo-ha. All right. So this currently works for any string that's being placed in here. So let's talk about that typo that I was talking about before. So if I were to go ahead and type pop emoji instead of poop emoji and then we go ahead and do the same thing, it comes up anyway. So that's not what we want. We want it only to show that poop emoji when we receive poop emoji. So to do that we need to be a bit more specific in our handling of this receive string here. We need some logic. We need to get an if statement and in that if statement we want to check if that receive string is equal to poop emoji. So we need to comparison. Let's go into our variables. If that receive string is equal to our poop emoji, then let's show that poop emoji. Let's run it and there we go. So if we get our typo back in place here, I'll just drag out our variable. This now should not work and it doesn't. But if we place our poop emoji back in there and we click our buttons, our A button that is working as you would expect. All right. Let's use our other couple of buttons just to pad this out a little bit more. So let's go ahead and get some more input. This one is going to be on a B press and we'll just duplicate that and let's get an A and B press. I recommend on an A and B press, let's just clear it, clear the LEDs.  And I'm feeling a little bit animaty. So what we're going to do is we're going to duplicate our radio send string for B and instead of sending out poop emoji, let's create a new variable and let's animate poop emoji this time. Give it some nice stinky bits. Okay.  Okay. You can see that over there. Animate poop emoji. Cool. We no longer want to send poop emoji in the B press. We want to send animate poop emoji. Cool. Everything is working as it should right now. So if we go ahead and press A, here it has come up in the screen. If we press A and B, it clears that poop emoji. Next thing that we're working on now is pressing this B button and now we want to animate that emoji. To do that, we can just grab this whole block here and duplicate it, connect it. Let's change our poop emoji to the animate poop emoji and now we're going to create a basic animation. So to do that, we're going to go get a short pause connected to the bottom. Let's duplicate that LED screen there and let's change it up a little bit. Cool. Might even add a little bit of stink to the top of it. Let's get one more pause and let's wrap this whole thing in a loop. Let's do it. I reckon three times because three is a great number. All right. So let's go ahead and press our B button now. All right. Got our blue micro bit up on the screen and look there is our stinky pile of poop animating away. All right. So when you go ahead now and download your hex files to both of your micro bits and you can send poop emojis to each other until your heart's content. All right. Let's press the A button to send across that poop emoji and then we'll double finger press to clear the screen and then let's press the B button to send an animated emoji across the other micro bit. All right. It's time for a Cody question. I want to know how you want to use the radio function of the micro bits. Drop your answer in the comment section below or maybe even share a URL to your make code project. That'd be unreal. Hey, thanks for checking out this tutorial. Subscribe, like and ring the bell if you're new around here and be sure to have a scout of some of my other content which is on the screen right now. 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Welcome, this is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm going to go over one month, which was the month of June, one month of using the Golden Gap system for day trades and options. So this is both the equity day trades that she would have gotten the calls in the day trade room and then being a member of the Gap Options newsletter for the month of June. So this is advanced trader risk and we're going to go over the risk and the ticker symbol is $240,986 for June. So it was a very good month and the interesting thing is really it was a lot of it was BYND, Beyond Meat was a big mover in the month of June and it just goes to reinforce what I teach, which is that you really only need one good thing that could make your month. One good Gap, one good trade, one good symbol and that's pretty much what it was for June. So let's go through. If you'd like more information, you can always email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or you can call me at 929-3200 Gap, follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So here it is. It's crazy to think that half the year is over, but it is and you know, I mean it just seemed like yesterday that it was a holidays. I was with my family and all of a sudden now half the year is over and it's the summer and I just don't know where the time is gone, but it's been a good year. 2019 has been a good year, it's been a working year for me, working on the process, becoming better at what I do, becoming stronger. And if you are not in a position at this point in July, it's beginning of July, that you feel that you are making headway in your trading or your finances or your life, that you're making some progress, then that I say it's time to just stay stationary and stop what you're doing and think. Because you need to be coming up, going up a ladder. You need to be going up the right path. You could take a break, but you need to keep going. A lot of people never get on the right path. They never really get on the right path and the problem is that you know, if you're not on the right path in the market, then you're probably losing. And you don't want to lose money trading. You want to make money trading. It doesn't matter if you're trading part-time or full-time. It's important for you to see the benefits, to see the profits, to see the money. You want to be making progress. Again, this doesn't mean that every trade works. It means that more trades work than fail. It means you're moving ahead. It means that you are profitable. So in my class, I teach a course. It's called the Golden Gap course and I teach a 26-point rating system that I look to use whether it's an option trade, whether it's an equity trade. I rate the gap based on the gap and then based on the point rating to determine the direction to go long or short. Now here was a stock I was talking about, which was the Golden Gap of the month, which is BYNT. Tons of plays in this. I have a whole video on it on YouTube. I think there was 11 total and one failed. The rest worked. So this was just an amazing stock to be in pretty much no matter what you did with it, but they were all options trades for this month. And big moves. The stock has a lot of volatility. I'm just looking here from the point before the earnings and then this was like literally from the 7th to the 18th. The stock moved 100 points. So you see here how if you find the right stock to play, you can really get your most bang for your buck. So I teach in my class, it's a system. It's a system that I use for everything. So it's very important to do what? Get the directional bias correct. If you are long stock, then it better be going up or you're not going to make money. You have to get the directional bias correct for a stock. If you're going long the stock, it has to move higher for you to make money. If you're short of the stock, it has to move lower for you to make money. I know that sounds like common sense, but a lot of traders don't think like that ahead of time. You got to think like that. Common sense people. It's all about getting the directional bias correct. Something I'm very good at doing. If you can predict the direction the stock of the market will go before it goes there, then you have master something very, very special. And that is what I have done. How do I determine the direction something will go? I look at the gap. I rate the gap. I rate the gap using my 26-point golden gap rating checklist. And that is what I will teach you if you want to come and learn the golden gap system and the golden gap course. So that's how I've called all these trades. So this is all the day trades. Advanced trader risk. I have in here $2,000. Again, you do not have to risk a $2,000 per trade risk. You can risk $200. You can risk $100 a trade. I'm just letting you know if you had risked $2,000 per trade, the results you would have had for June, for the month of June, if you were in the live trading room would have been $36,816. So there's a solid month. It was an early season. You do see here there is some losses. The parentheses are losses. There's just not that many. There's more wins than losses. And that's how you make money in the market. Nothing's 100%. You have to look at it overall and say, how can I make more? And again, it is about the focus. And you stop, which I call it in the day trading room. So in the day trading room, I call the entry, the stop, and then the exit. We talk about targets in the morning, but I may not hold everything to a target. If people are looking for money management guidelines, I say you really have to go with what you know because you personally, if you're not familiar with booking money, green is important. Green, green, green helps your emotions and your account. But typically what I teach people is we're looking for risk to reward one to one in the day trades. And sometimes there are more return investment in the options 50% to 100% and again sometimes there are more, which BYND was, but you have to use common sense in these because when you're up money, you don't have that money in the bank until you book it. So it's very important for you to book money when you're profitable. Also I get this question a lot, the minimum amount to trade that you need to trade the golden gap system, the minimum is whatever you need to take to open an account. If you want to do options, you need an options account. You just go to a broker minimums, usually 2000 at most brokers, you got to check with the broker using day trades. If you want to trade the system using day trades, you need a day trading account minimum amount is usually 2500 for proprietary day trading account or 25,000 for a retail account. Again, check with a broker. There's plenty of options out there though for people to trade. There's no excuses for people not to be trading saying they don't have enough money. They need a couple hundred grand. That's not true. Obviously, if you want to risk $2,000 a train, you need substantial cash for that. No one's saying you need to do that. The idea is where you can go with it, the potential. The potential is even greater than what I'm discussing here, but it's very realistic to take a position size to see these results as far as quantity of shares when you're taking them in the stocks that we trade. I'm going to go back here for a second. All of these stocks you've been familiar with, you would know. You know the companies. You know Facebook. You know Lily. You know Twitter. You know these companies. You know Cartable Cruises. You've heard of Adobe. All of these companies most people have heard of. It's important when you think about what kind of stocks are we trading, things that are familiar. They're not beyond the realm of knowing and they're real companies, real stocks that trade that have volume too, and they move. That's part of the reason why so many of the moves are good moves where you can be profitable. You've got to find stuff that has movement in it. If you're an active trader. Looking here at the options trades, 204.170. This is a bigger risk for the options because again some of these are overnight. Again, you don't have to risk 6,000. A trade you could risk less. You could risk more. I'm showing here all the trades for June. Only you see all the BYND trades, of which there was quite a lot of them. Very active month in June. It's been a very active year overall. The entire month is here and basically there were some losers. There was a period in the month of June. Where was that one week? Here. There was one week where we had a bunch on and none of them worked. Then we had the BYND. It was at the same time. Then BYND was huge and it was like boom, boom, boom. You have these things and you can set your targets like I said at 100%. If you risk 6,000, you're looking to make 6,000. If you risk 500, you're looking to make 500, but BYND was one of those ones where if you were in the trade and that gap actually happened twice, you just made way more than 100% just because you were in the trade if you held it overnight. That will happen. You don't know when it will happen. It happened with Disney too. You take the trade and you have it on. It's really about results. If you're looking to get results, it's about winning. It's about making money. It's about thinking about what you're doing. It's about going through the process. It is about learning it or following someone that's really good at what they do like me.  It's not about taking pot shots. It's not about taking trades without understanding what's going on at all. It's very important to understand what's happening when you're trading. It's extremely, extremely important. If you want to know what to do and if you want to understand what's happening, then you really, really have to take this seriously. The training room, you're only eligible to join my training room once you do the class. As far as the option newsletter, you can sign up for that. You get the trades. However, you have to money manage the trades yourself. It is important to think about what you're doing in your trades. I can't stress that enough. For me, it really, really is about the focus, to achieve these kinds of results or more. I follow system to system. I create it. I'm a very intellectual person. I'm very focused on how my mind works, keeping my mind healthy. That's how I created my own system. It's called the golden gap. I say, make money doing it all. You can do equities and options. You could do one. You could do another. You could do both. It's totally, totally up to you. But I'm doing gaps only. I'm looking for the momentum. We're taking the trade before the momentum comes in. Again, this is a nice career if you want to do it, if you want to work for yourself. I'm doing a special Christmas in July onward with all Hallmark Channels running Christmas movies. I've totally been into it the last week watching them. It's been really, really fun at night. But I say, learn it and do it all. I teach a class once a month. It's called the Golden Gap Course. The class for July is July 20th and 21st, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Class is during the Eastern time. So it's Saturdays and Sundays. It's online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. Class tuition is $59.99. Email me at melissa at the stockswish.com if you want to register and if you want to sign up. Now, if you sign up for the Christmas in July special, you'll receive the Golden Gap Course, the options newsletter free through 12-31-19, live trading room free through 12-31-19. This offer expires at midnight July 19th, just so you know. You must email me if you want to sign up at melissa at the stockswish.com. This is a great offer. You get all the trades basically for the next six months almost and you learn the system as well, which is important. Okay. It's going to be a great summer. Can't wait till July. Can't wait till the earnings season starts next week. If you're interested or you'd like a trial, email me. Have a great day, everyone.


What's up everybody? Jason here for JaspysCaseBrace.com. We're giving away ten Immaculate Baseball spots away with this 2013 Topps museum age of Baseball one box mini box break round on teams number one. And first we do the break, randomize customer names and teams Everybody gets a random team in MLB. We distribute the hits out of the one little mini box then at the end of the break we'll take all 30 customer names, randomize them and One third of you guys, top ten names to get a spot in Immaculate Baseball. So let's get a new dice roller here Let's click roll And it's a five and a four nine times. So here you go nine times one two three four five six seven eight nine Brandon Hall down to Daniel nine times one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten of a raise out of the Minnesota Twins All right again guys, no trades. Thanks for what you got But I'll give you a quick chance to look at all your teams All right, cool. Here's your mini box Ricky Henderson for the athletics to 50. Looks like we got a redemption guys We got a museum collection canvas collection right there Coward Conjuner. Yes, we do have a redemption now Technically a productive. I mean, sorry tops doesn't have Doesn't honor expired redemptions although sometimes I've heard from customers from our own Breaks have tried they emailed them and sometimes they say hey send it in if we have it will give it to you if not Then you don't get anything but uh, I'm sure this is definitely gonna be expired archival auto base Japanese exclusive of Akuma or Iwakuma, sorry and that is uh expired in 2016 He's Joshi You Akuma So again, like I said, maybe email them let them know. Hey, this is technically expired, but Do you guys happen to have the card let me quickly see who? This was a rookie with and yes, Seattle Mariners So pretty much in Japan and then only play for the Mariners for about six years Yeah, that's the one thing you would think yeah, they want to put it for like ten years or something But I just think that they need a move inventory So once the card is expired then what they'll do is they'll use those cards to be replacements, right? replace this replace that or like I said put those kind of cards in New products that it'll be like updates and stuff like that, you know, that's Seattle Mariners But that's pretty much what they do Is that it'll be replacement for somebody else if you don't redeem it by them or they put it in as an update for the next year Whatever they got All right, so there you go Now let's switch scenes and give away those ten spots in the mac of it. So here's the dice roll Let's roll it. We got a two and a five seven times Good luck guys one two three four five six and seven Seven times remember top ten get in PJ Oliver Brandon Daniel Daniel Paul K John Brandon David Lee and Steve C Congratulations top ten get in there you go. Like I said guys we have a nine left straight up If nobody grabs spots straight up, then I'm gonna turn that Turn the last spots nine spots into a filler guys. So appreciate it. Jasper's case breaks calm