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- Welcome back to the Straight Truth podcast.

I'm your host Josh Philpot

and we're glad you've joined us today.

As always, I'm joined by Richard Caldwell,

the pastor of Founders Baptist Church.

Our special guest today is Dr. Nicolas Ellen,

a senior professor at the College of Biblical Studies

and also pastor at Community of Faith Bible Church.

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One question we often get, and I'm sure you pastors get

with your congrugence is, this intermediary place

between death and Christ's return.

And I'm thinking in particular about

when Christ himself dies,

he rises from the dead in three days.

Where does he go in that intermediary time period?

And then also for Christians who die today

and Christ has yet to return, this intermediary state,

where do Christians go, where do Christ go?

- Well, on the day he was dying, he had a thief next to him

to whom he gave a promise.

You find that promise in Luke Chapter 23 Verse 43.

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you,

today you will be with me in paradise.

So he says to the believing thief on the cross,

today you'll be with me.

Today, you'll be with me in paradise.

The debate centers on where it was, paradise.

And so some have taught that in Old Testament times,

part of the resurrection and extension of Christ,

the abode of the dead, was made up of two compartments.

On on side you had a place of darkness,

where unbelievers were assigned.

The other place, Abraham's Bosom,

they would say, was paradise.

So someone who died in faith would descend into Hades,

into Sheol, and they would be in this place,

sort of a holding tank, I guess you could say,

a spiritual holding tank.

What's interesting about that is,

there are two other places the New Testament,

or paradise, is mentioned.

In both cases, it's in the very presence of God in heaven.

So, for example, said in Corinthians 12, Paul says,

I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago

was caught up to the third heaven.

Caught up to the third heaven - whether in the body

or out of the body I do not know, God knows.

And I know that this man was caught up into paradise -

whether in the body or out of the body I do not know,

and he goes on.

So paradise, for Paul, was the third heaven.

Paradise was up, in the presence of God.

In Revelation 2:7, this is the other place

we find paradise in the New Testament.

He who has an ear, let him hear

what the Spirit says to the churches.

To the one who conquers

I will grant to eat of the tree of life,

which is in the paradise of God.

So the very presence of God in heaven.

So what about those Old Testament sayings?

I think about Enoch, who walked with God and then was not.

Well, if you look at Hebrews Chapter 11 Verse 5, it says,

by faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death,

and he was not found, because God had taken him.

So Enoch, the language of Hebrews 11, he's taken up.

And I think about Elijah, who is caught up in a chariot,

into the heavens, he's caught up.

And then I think about the transfiguration of Christ,

where he's meeting with Moses and Elijah,

he's talking to Moses and Elijah.

Well, Moses died a natural death.

Elijah was caught up.

And so where was Elijah?

In the very presence of God.

Where's Moses at?

In the same place where Elijah is.

So I don't think you can make a case, my view,

that there was this holding tank concept.

Paradise is the very presence of God, it's in heaven.

That's where the Old Testament Saints went,

on the promise of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection,

which he accomplished.

So they were saved in view of what Christ would do.

And now that Christ has accomplished that,

where do believers go?

Right at the presence of God.

To be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.

This is the language said in Corinthians Chapter 5.

So we're in this earthly house,

awaiting a day of future resurrection,

where we'll have a new body that matches the new us.

When this body expires,

we are glorified spirits in the presence of God.

Comfortable there, at home there.

Paul says when he was caught up in the third heaven,

he didn't know whether he was in the body

or out of the body.

So a place where we're at home,

we're still awaiting a future resurrection

where we'll have the new body that matches the new us.

So paradise was in heaven,

this is where the thief on the cross went,

this is where Jesus went, and this is where we go,

between the time of our physical death

and our future resurrection.

- Dr. Ellen, would you like to add?

- I just think Revelation 6 talks about that,

where John is sharing one of his visions,

and he's seeing those who had been slain in the past.

And they are in the presence of God, saying,

how long, O Lord?

I think that's just another example of

to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

- Thanks again for joining us

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Was Robin Hood A Real Person? - Duration: 5:01.

Hello and welcome back to Life's Biggest Questions, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.

We all know the story of Robin Hood.

The ballads tell of a bold Robin Hood born and bred in merry Nottinghamshire, in Locksly

town, whose father was a forrester who was excellent with the bow.

Robin grew up, donned his Lincoln green outfit, and took to being an outlaw with deadly accuracy

with the bow and arrow, before winning the heart of the fair maid Marion.

But was this story pure fiction, or does it have a basis in fact?

Let's comb through the evidence and try to come to our own conclusions.

If you want Answers, check out our "Biggest Debated Topics" playlist on the channel.

Now get ready, it's time to ask the question: Was Robin Hood a Real Person?

Robin Hood has his roots in ballads.

For that reason, I will be presenting the rest of this video in ballad form…

In Nottingham there lives a jolly tanner, with a hey, down, down, a down down.

(G, G, F, EF D) Just kidding.

However, it should be noted that the ballads did paint a rather different picture from

the fun-loving, steal from the rich and give to the poor vagabond we know now.

Earlier stories told of a much more generic outlaw, with the giving to the poor aspect

of his character showing up centuries later.

But was there a Robin Hood who inspired the ballads?

Many claim to know the truth behind Robin Hood.

The Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum claim that he lived in 1160 in Lockersley,

while others claim that he was a man from Wakefield who fought in Thomas of Lancaster's

1322 rebellion.

Some believe he was active during the reign of Edward the second, while others hold that

it was while Richard the Lionheart was king.

Still others claim that Robin Hood has no historical basis, and is simply a character

of myth.

Some believe that his green clothes were meant to represent the spring, which was a common

aspect of the ballads, or that they were even meant to refer to the fairies.

And others think he could be a medieval version of the classic trickster of lore.

These folks associate him with characters such as Robin Goodfellow, otherwise known

as Puck.

With so many conflicting theories, it's clear that many, if not all of them, are wrong.

So how can we get to the truth of the matter?

Well, there are a number of records that have been studied and used to speculate as to the

identity of the real Robin Hood, if he did exist.

One way of searching for this man is to look at records of various outlaws from past centuries.

However, one problem with this is that the name "Robert", which would be shortened

to Robin, was a very common name at the time, and Hood was rather common as well, since

it could refer to those who make or wear hoods.

That said, we can look at the stories of men in question, and the circumstances around

them, to determine if they're likely to have inspired the tale, or indeed, been inspired

by it.

The earliest narrative ballads about Robin Hood that have been recovered date to the

late 15th and early 16th centuries.

This would lead one to believe that his exploits took place in and around those times.

However, there are some earlier references to the man, with a poem by Piers Plowman believed

to have been written in the 1370s referencing the Rhymes of Robin Hood.

So it seems it was around long before the ballads that we know about.

As it happens, a number of outlaws in the 13th and 14th century took the names of Robin

Hood and Little John, drawing inspiration from the legendary outlaws.

There are even reports of a real life inspiration for Friar Tuck, who was believed to be Robert

Stafford of Sussex, who was said to have been active in the early 1400s.

However, no clear evidence points to where or even when a real Robin Hood existed.

However, there are reports of men going by a name similar to Robin Hood dating all the

way back to the mid-1200s.

One particularly famous record was of an outlaw named William son of Robert le Fevere, who

was wanted for larceny and the harbouring of thieves.

Sounds an awful lot like a certain someone.

And, the plot thickens, as a later report referred to him as William Robehod.

Put the name and his crimes together, and throw in some archery skills, and we have

what could be the basis for the Robin Hood of Legend.

This William Robehod is one of the closest things historians have to a real life Robin

Hood, but it is believed by many that this Robehod was still based on the legend, rather

than the legend coming from him.

This is because the changing of his name to Robehod could indicate that the clerk who

changed it was himself making a reference to Robin Hood; this would imply that William

Robehod was not the original Robin Hood, but merely one of many outlaws associated with

the legendary name.

It should be noted, however, that some historians believe that the change could simply be an

error in writing the patronymic, and that the clerk simply miswrote William Robert.

If this was the case, it could mean that this William son of Robert did indeed inspire the

many tales of the merry outlaw, with the mistranslated Robehod eventually being turned into the name

Robin Hood.

However, there are several other cases of similar names from that time period, with

some possibly occurring before this; it seems Robin Hood was commonly used by record-keepers

as a name for outlaws.

For this reason, it does seem likely that the legend was relatively well known before

1268.

Unfortunately, it simply isn't possible to determine for certain whether or not Robin

Hood did truly exist.

Due in part to how long ago the events transpired, as well as the inconsistent reporting of the

various ballads and tales, it's difficult to determine when, where, or even if a real

life Robin Hood existed.

That said, I don't know about you, but this is something I'll be keeping an eye on moving

forward.

Maybe in years to come, we'll learn more about this legendary character's origins.

Thank you for watching Life's Biggest Questions, I hope this was interesting and informative,

and maybe even inspired you to look into it further on your own.

If you liked this video, please thumbs up and subscribe to the channel down below.

While you're down there, let me know what other people of legend you'd like us to

talk about, like William Wallace or the Pied Piper.

Until next time, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey with Life's Biggest Questions, wishing you

the best of luck, on your quest for answers.

Perhaps if there's a new discovery, we'll be able to cast more absolute judgments on

the case.

As it stands, however, it's unclear whether the story of Robin Hood is a pure fiction,

or if it was based on a real man, whose records we have yet to discover.

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What If There Was No Money And Everything Was Free In The World? - Duration: 7:37.

What if cash suddenly disappeared from our lives and everything was free?

Sounds fine at first, right- like the perfect solution to all our problems?

The class lines between the super-rich and those crippled by extremely low wages would

vanish overnight.

But how would society react to such a turn-around?

Would there be riots at the supermarket?

Would wars cease or rage over diminishing resources?

Or would populations evolve into simpler self-sustainable groups like the American Communes of the 1960s

and the hunter-gatherers of our ancient past?

What is money anyways and why do we need it to help keep society ticking along?

That's what we'll be exploring today, in this episode of the Infographics Show,

What if Everything was Free?

Like most predictions, there are two ways to look at a world without money.

Could humans evolve into a species where goods and services are bartered with utopian good

will?

American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the 1950s once wrote, "When can I walk into a supermarket

and buy what I want with my good looks?"

And shortly after, during those heady days of the American 1960s, groups of individuals

did just that and disbanded from common society, forming small sustainable farming communes.

They built their own homes and grew their own vegetables and reared animals.

They had eggs from their own chickens.

They educated their children and lived pretty much the way humans had lived before both

the agricultural and industrial revolution.

Before these scientific revolutions, humans lived in small societies in which food was

obtained by either foraging for wild plants, roots, grubs and insects, or chasing wild

animals with primitive weapons.

This way of life was humanity's first and most successful adaptation to the world around

them, and accounts for 90% of human history.

Of course, today there still remain some hunter gatherer societies in remote areas of the

world, such as the Spinifex people of Western Australia who live in barren, infertile lands.

The Sentinelese people who live in the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean also exist totally

without money.

Areas of Venezuela are home to people who exist totally on wild animals and gathering

with a little horticulture, but no money.

So while we may think a world without money would be a totally bizarre transformation,

it is the way humans have lived for the vast portion of their existence, and some societies

still live this way.

Before money existed, bartering, AKA the exchange of a good or service for another good or service,

was perfectly normal.

Joe gives Frank a bag of apples in exchange for a chick, and their transaction was done.

However, problems started when disputes arose over what items were actually worth, or perhaps

Joe didn't want Frank's chick, but wanted something of equal worth, a duck perhaps.

Commodities thus evolved to stabilize these primitive financial systems.

Commodities are basic items used by practically everyone (tea, salt, cattle etc), so these

were used to set the value of items, becoming the financial vehicle between bartering and

money.

But then there were more problems.

Commodities were difficult to carry around and store, so eventually, around 5000 B.C,

someone had the bright idea to use metal objects as money.

By 700 B.C, the Lydians had invented the coin, and other countries were quick to follow,

by minting their own coins of varying values.

Metal was used because it was durable, and could be easily recycled.

Paper money, meanwhile, dates back to ancient China, about AD 960.

The United States produced her first paper cash on March 10th 1862, with a $5, $10, and

$20 note, and a week later these became legal tender and remain a standard worldwide benchmark

for currency exchange.

Fast forward another 150 or so years, and today we've entered the world of Bitcoin

and electronic currencies.

Money, relatively speaking, in terms of human history, is quite a new thing.

Homo sapiens has existed for around 100,000 years, and the oldest money is only around

3000 years old.

So we've done okay without it for 95% of our existence.

If we wanted to create a world without trade and debt, it would be possible, but it would

not be the type of advanced civilization that most of us are used to.

It would not experience the same kind of economic growth that we see nations experience, but

then again, if sustainable, these smaller self-contained societies who did not use money,

would not be subject to the crippling poverty seen by millions in the failed post agricultural

and industrial worlds where small elites have manipulated commodities at the expense of

the people.

In a world where everything is free, most people would be, by definition, freer.

So let's take a look at what would happen to an advanced postindustrial city if money

disappeared and everything was suddenly free.

Demand would increase for all products if the obstacle of affordability was suddenly

removed from the purchase equation.

With no prices to hold the object, item or services out of reach of those who couldn't

afford it, almost overnight we would experience shortages of these items.

In a world of mass production of products made to appear desirable by clever marketing

and manipulative advertising, we would experience a rush to obtain these items.

Looting and rioting would no doubt occur.

Perhaps once these desirable items were obtained, people would realize what little worth they

actually have in their day to day life.

How many cell phones can you talk on?

How many cars can you drive?

How many items of clothing can you wear at once?

Supplies of free stuff would soon be exhausted as nobody would be willing to work for free

to produce any more of that stuff.

People would wait in lines to receive their free items, and those who were not willing

to wait and were not above using violence to get what they want, would resort to using

force to obtain the items that they either needed or desired.

We would see items simultaneously decreasing in supply, and going to those who were prepared

to use the most force to get them.

The early period of a society where everything was free would be chaotic – imagine a zombie

apocalypse movie to get an idea.

For most people, a day's free time is worth more to them than spending a day in the workplace.

However, some people would still work for free.

Artists would still paint.

Musicians would still produce music, and story-tellers would still tell stories as they have throughout

history.

Carpenters would still make furniture, and naturally curious creative scientists would

still invent solutions to problems.

But with most people not working traditional jobs, this would not only lead to a decrease

in goods, but also in services.

Many medical professionals for example might cease to work leading to a rise in disease,

starvation, malnourishment, infections and other ailments.

Due to the lack of personal incentive, folks for the most part wouldn't produce products

for other people, likely only producing what they need for themselves personally, and for

their immediate social circle.

With individuals focused on their own essential needs, mass marketed products would probably

disappear from the world.

Society as we know it would break up into smaller groups, with each group having members

with certain essential skill sets.

We would revert back to the hunter-gatherer societies from our own ancient history.

Perhaps though, we would lead happier, simpler lives, and have stronger family and social

relationships.

So, how do you think you would get along in a world without money?

Would this all end in anarchy or utopia?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Also, be sure to watch our other video called What is the Dark Web?!

Thanks for watching, and, as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

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WHAT IS BULIMIA NERVOSA? | Video by Psych-Minded - Duration: 3:47.

Welcome back to Psych-Minded.

I'm your host Kalley Marie and today we are going to continue on with the eating disorder

series and talk about Bulimia Nervosa.

Bulimia Nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder that can affect any demographic of

person, any gender, any class of people, and can be very severe.

The main symptom of Bulimia is uncontrollable eating, followed by a period of essentially

making up for the intake.

So the individual with Bulimia will have a period of time where they feel uncontrollable

in their eating and then eventually either make themselves throw up or use diuretics

and laxatives to help the food exit quicker.

It sounds very uncomfortable to talk about or think about, but for someone with Bulimia,

this a compulsion -- an obsessive thing surrounding food and is deeply rooted in a lot of different

issues.

The behaviors of somebody with Bulimia Nervosa are going to be, typically, revolved around

dieting, weight loss, obsessions and preoccupations with food.

You may notice that they take frequent trips to the bathroom after eating meals or before

meals.

Along with disappearing after meals, you may notice that they skip meals entirely.

Part of someone's Bulimia might be that they're afraid to eat in front of other people.

And so a lot of their eating is secretive.

This can only add to the problem because they feel a sense of shame surrounding their food

intake to begin with, and do it in secret -- only adding to the guilt that they feel.

So socially, Bulimia can be a huge roadblock to leading a normal social life and maintaining

an active social network.

Someone who has Bulimia is going to be constantly worried about what their body looks like,

if they've lost weight, if they're gaining weight -- there's going to be a constant preoccupation

similar to Anorexia or any other eating disorder, where it seemingly overtakes the mind of the

individual.

At a certain point, someone with Bulimia might feel completely out of control, and as though

they are unable to stop these behaviors and these thoughts; which is why it is imperative

to get help with eating disorders, whether through therapy or support groups in order

to help combat some of these negative thoughts and these obsessive behaviors.

Additionally, someone with Bulimia may have bad mood swings due to blood sugar levels

being off.

They may show weight fluctuations, whether losing weight or gaining weight.

And this may happen in a very short period of time.

They may also complain of stomach cramping, of feeling dizzy, or being unable to concentrate.

One of the most damaging symptoms of Bulimia is the damage that it does to one's esophagus,

teeth, and gums.

When you're forcing yourself to throw up, you're forcing your body to do something that

typically isn't always natural.

It's a mechanism the body uses for a specific purpose and certainly not to get rid of nutrients

that the body needs.

So when you're forcing yourself to do those things, it can cause a lot of damage to one's

throat and to the teeth.

This is due to the stomach acid that is regurgitated and can hit the gum line and start to erode

and decay the teeth of someone with Bulimia.

Additionally, the stomach problems from taking diuretics or laxatives can be absolutely detrimental

and cause severe pain and serious medical problems.

If you're struggling with Bulimia or an eating disorder or you're not sure, please visit

the National Eating Disorders Association.

I'll leave a link in the description below.

And if you have any questions for me, or any other thoughts on Bulimia Nervosa or eating

disorder in general, please drop a comment and let me know.

And if you haven't yet, please subscribe.

I'll be doing more videos on eating disorders in the near future, so you'll want to know

when those are out.

And if you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up.

Don't forget to subscribe and I will see you guys next week!

Bye!

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What Was the Latest Trucking Case You Tried? - Duration: 2:12.

The last trucking cases that we tried last year involved a company that had trucks going

between North Carolina, all over the south, southeast, carrying grocery products.

What happened was: this driver then was involved in this wreck with a 17 year old girl, who—he

just changed lanes on top of her and he trapped her car under the edge of his trailer.

And actually she couldn't drive it anymore.

She was stuck and he… he didn't even know that he'd hit her and trapped her and dragged

her eight hundred feet with his trailer in the middle of this… she thinks she's, you

know, the roof is… is crushing the grass and her windshield breaks that.

Her back window breaks and she thinks: I'm gonna be crushed in this car.

And midway through it, she jumped out the passenger door and, yes, she was hurt pretty

badly.

But she thought that she was gonna be killed.

That was a terrible thing.

They tried to blame her, saying that she was in his blind spot what he had overtaken her.

That wasn't true, but we had to go to verdict on that.

And that's how we went to trial.

They'd have been on there two years since that wreck, the guy still worked for them.

He still drove for them.

They were not going to have that committee meeting until they heard what a jury said,

which I was like: wow, how more obvious can it be that this company doesn't care for its

own sake and for society, they only care what a jury is going to do to them, what the jury

really hammers them?

Then they're gonna do something about it.

Neither day trucking companies nor the medical profession more people, in general, they don't

want to police themselves.

They're not doing a good job of that, so since they won't police themselves, that's why we

have to have the photo justice system, the jury trial system, so that we can actually

tell them what we expect as members of the community.

At the MacArthur Law Firm, our job is to fight for you, to make sure you get justice and

reasonable compensation for your injuries.

To get in touch with us, call 1-888-WE-FIGHT or go to our website McArthurLawFirm.com.

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The 3 Accounting Functions: What is Accounting? Who are Accountants? - Duration: 20:05.

Hi welcome to this tutorial on accounting basics. Specifically we're

going to talk about the theoretical functions of accounting and, ah, the

functions of accountants, and why they both exist. So first of all, I want to say

this is the first recording I've done in a few years, so I'm sorry if I'm a bit

rusty, and secondly I'm in a new location ah compared to previous recordings and

nearby they're constructing a block of units so if you can hear a little bit of

construction noise in the background, um, then I do apologise. Anyway here we go!

All right, so what are we going to cover in this tutorial? First of all there's

this introduction, then we want to talk about what is accounting, then we're

going to talk about what do accountants do, and finally we will talk about the three

functions of accounting. and then we'll have a conclusion. All right, so let's

get into it. All right, so what is accounting? Essentially, accounting is an

information system. Now whether an information system is software or

specifically IT related, or simply some sort of manual or paper information

system, it doesn't really matter, um, in this case. Accounting is an information

system. Now this information system primarily uses financial data so things

that involve money and finances such as transactions that have occurred in a

business or an organization, financial statements that are denominated by

dollars or euros, or so forth. And also, this information can also include

non-financial data. Now that's kind of important. Many people think I'm

accounting only involves money, but you'll find that many accounting reports,

specifically in management accounting, do involve non-financial data. So you may

have a management accounting report, like a materials variance report, and they

might have raw material inputs, in those management accounting reports. And that

involves some specific non-financial data, such as raw material. Ok, so when we

say it's an information system, ah, this accounting

information system has to be able to: Collect the inputs, so it has to be able

to collect transactions or collect events, and also then has to be able

to process, store, retrieve and analyze those events, and transactions, and then

generate reports, and essentially produce the outputs. And this is very similar to

other types of information systems. Ok, accounting is used in almost every type

of organization whether they're private organizations, public sector entities or

nonprofit organizations. (It's) We'll talk about why accounting information and

accounting information systems are so prevalent when we talk about the

functions of accounting towards the end. Ok so next up, what do accountants do? So

accountants, ah, interact with this particular information system and they

communicate the results they get from that system. So whether the information

system is a manual, perhaps in a paper ledger like in those old ledger

notebooks you may see from very outdated newsagencies, or in a software system

where I could see today, or even millennia ago they would carve

accounting information to pieces of stone! And accountant needs to be able to

record, classify, summarize, and communicate data into this information

system and, ah, analyze the results. So they have to record transactions, they have to

be able to collect the inputs that will go into the information system, they have

to classify the inputs. So they have to say, "Ok here's a receipt, ah, what part

of the information system does this involve?" Then they might have to

summarize the data. So they might have to say, "Okay well my CEO doesn't want to see

a hundred thousand receipts, all he wants to see is a summary of all those

receipts that I can give him in a five-page report." Um, he may have to, an

accountant, he or she may have to analyze what's in the information system so

accountants aren't simply robots! They often, ah, have to use their analytical

processes. They have to know not only what's going to be a information system

but also how to read the language underlying business. So they may have to

analyze the reports, and then they have to communicate it. You'll find

that most higher-level jobs in the accounting field aren't really about

number crunching, it's more about the communication side. So whether they're

communicating to clients, or to a manager or to, ah, investors, it's about turning

what's in the information system, in the accounting 'language', into something

that's actionable and useful for the people who aren't as skilled in

accounting as that particular accountant is. Okay? And there's a vast array of

accounting roles, specialties and levels of responsibility in general, so I can't

cover everything here, but um you can, if you had to classify them, which you

probably shouldn't, you could probably state (sic) accountants perform their tasks

focusing on either financial accounting, management accounting, taxation, audit,

insolvency, or corporate finance. So, again, it's wrong to put these in mutually

exclusive buckets, but you'll find most accounting specialists, if you go out and

do an accounting career, normally tend to gravitate towards one of those areas. Yes,

again there's overlap, depending on the size of the firm there may be maybe more

overlap or less overlap, but ah, generally you'll become a specialist in one of these

fields, before you want to move around; perhaps for career mobility! And in

general, when you're working as an accountant there are four main areas so

you can work in. You can work at a specialist accounting firm, and that's

known as practice. Like, public practice or private practice, and that's where you

get your KPMG's and you EY's, everything down to your local CA or CPA

at a smaller office. That's where you work with clients, you may give business

advice, and ah, you might help them out with their tax, you might help them out with

restructuring things in their small business. It's a, it's a, whole basket of

choices, but essentially, you work as a specialist accountant and you provide

advice to your clients. Now you may work in a finance team

within a business, that's known as Commerce. That's where you work perhaps

in a large organization, like a large, perhaps in a large retail organization,

or a large manufacturing organization, and they had their finance team in-house.

That's probably led by the CFO, the chief financial officer, and there are

specific managers underneath them, and they handle all of the accounting

functions within that particular business, and only that particular

business. Now there's a similar sort of role within a government department, it's

a very similar role to the previous one, except you're in a public sector

organization. And also some people choose to be a teacher. And they teach

accounting in an institution, and they become academic accountants. And they

may be working at universities, or technical colleges or, um, other tutors and

so forth. Okay so this is this is the heart of the lesson: These are the

theoretical functions for accounting. Why does it accounting exist? What led to the

development of accounting in the first place? And, when you study accounting

you'll be generally told that there are three specific functions to accounting.

We have to remember that, all these involve the idea that resources are

scarce and need to be allocated well, or efficiently or optimally. Okay? So if we

all had as much money as we want and there was infinite resources on the

planet, then accountants probably wouldn't exist!

So let's embed these three functions, based on the idea that we have have to

make choices between: Where we spend our money. (And) have to make choices where we

spend our time. And we have to make sure whatever we spend our time and money on,

that we do it well. Okay, so taking that on board, now the three functions of

accounting are. the decision-making function, the contracting function and

the stewardship function. And we're going to go over them each, one by one.

Okay, the decision-making function. All right. So people in organizations need to

optimize decision making when deciding where to allocate their resources and

how to control the performance of these resource allocations. And accounting

information can greatly help this! Okay so that the general preamble. So we have

to decide where we spend our money, where we spend our time, between choices

and that's pre making the choice, and then post making the choice, we have to

make further decisions about controlling the management of those particular

allocations, so we have to make sure that, after we've made the choice then we have

to make further decisions that: whatever we hoped would happen, is actually

happening. And how do we get a hold all this? Accounting information,

whether they're management accounting reports or financial

accounting reports, greatly assist this decision making. And this function grew

out of the Industrial Revolution so pre-industrial revolution, ah, life is pretty

simple. You had a house, you had your family, you had your kids, you probably

had a small farm, that was right outside your house! So all you ever did was tend

to your farm. What you grew, you ate, and if there's any

leftover you might walk a hundred metres and sell it at the market, or something.

Not too complicated. But once the industrial revolution, um, the ownership and control

of assets and resource became separated. And the scale of projects became more

difficult to manage and control. So there we were in our farm, suddenly Industrial

Revolution occurs, or not so suddenly but um it occurs, and now we don't just own a

farm we may own a factory, ten farms, our employees might not be our children who

are sleeping in the same house as us, but we may have 50 employees in

another part of the country! And we not might not be selling, you know, 40

potatoes at a market, we might be selling millions of dollars of potatoes, in a

foreign country. So all those easy things we could do in

the past, by looking out the window and telling our kids what to do, or doing it

ourselves and watching over it, it was impossible once the Industrial

Revolution. So we needed this form of standardized communication. We needed to

know: What was my factory doing in the south of the country, ah, last month?

What about the north of the country? How did the factory in the north of

the country compare to that in the south of the country? So the accounting

information became the standardized communication

methods, both to make decisions and control our decisions. Alright, secondly

the contracting function. Alright so remember the idea that

now we have, ah, not just our children working for us, or ourselves working for

us, on the farm, but now we have a large enterprise and we may have 50 or 500 or

5,000 employees working for us. So how do we manage and influence, to control these

large numbers of people, that are spread over large distances, where even larger

sums of resources are at stake? You know, I imagine if you're growing up in you

know 15th century farming community and your parents told you to chop the wood,

there wasn't much of a choice. But if you if you're living post Industrial Revolution

and you've got a CEO on the other side of the world, what's making you do the

right thing, when you're being employed by them? What's actually controlling you

and influencing you? And this is where accounting info can again help, because

you can embed accounting info into these employment contracts. And the accounting

info, within the contracts, can overcome the agency problems. And now the agency

problems, are/is a technical term or an academic term, for the situation I

just described earlier, in that ownership of the resources, (and) the control the

resources, like the managers and the employees, they're separated! So they

often have different motives. The managers and the employees probably want

to do as little work and get paid as much as possible. While the owners of the

resources probably want the agents to do as much work as possible, for as little

money as possible! So they have they have different incentives. So by introducing

accounting information into our contracts we can perform: bonding

mechanisms, and monitoring mechanisms. And these are the two techniques to overcome

agency problems. Now an example of (a) bonding mechanism, let's go back to,

we'll forget farming, let's go to mining. Okay? So I'm in Sydney at the moment, and

this is post-industrial revolution, and I want to start a mine. I've analyzed the

accounting data, and I've made the decision that I don't want to start a

mine in Sydney, ah, in Australia, I want to start a mine in South Africa. So I employ

a mine manager in South Africa to open my mine, and operate my mine. Now an

example of a bonding mechanism, we can embed into his contract, is we can say,

"Okay Mine Manager, if our mine generates, you know, X amount of profit this year

then I will give you a bonus." So we're bonding the mine manager's and my

motivations. We're saying, "I want profit as the owner, now if you if you give me

profit, then you'll get a bonus." So essentially we're bonding our

motivations so we want the same thing. That's, ah, one example there. The other

example is the 'monitoring mechanisms'. So, even though I'm using the bonding

mechanism to get my mine manager to want the same thing as I do, that's not

the only way to influence and control his behavior, his or her behavior, I beg

your pardon. Now we can include our monitoring

mechanisms using accounting information into the contracts. I can say,

"Okay Mine Manager I'll only employ you if you send back

monthly mine operation reports back to me in Sydney. So each month he would get

the accounting information, he would do a quick management accounting

information report and he would email me, back to Sydney. And then I could get

the report and I could 'monitor', what his performance is like over the previous

month. And that's how I use that accounting information as a monitoring

mechanism. And that's the second way we can introduce the contracting function,

using accounting information. Okay, and the final function of accounting is the

stewardship function. Now this one pre-dates the previous two functions, although

it's kind of similar. So the previous two functions of decision-making and

contracting we're all post-industrial revolution and

kind of involve the employee-employer relationship, and the profit motive. The

stewardship function predates that, and goes all the way back to the times of

kings and queens and lords and ladies and, ah, so forth. It was when one

person or one organization would own ALL the resources, and not out of an

employee/employer relationship, someone will be given a certain piece of those

resources to manage. So there may be a king in London or a queen in London and

they would say, "Okay, ah, lord, Lord Jamie(!), you can look after this area of land and as

long as you take care of it well, and you're a good steward of that land, and you

know, ah, pledge allegiance to the king and queen, then you can

maintain that land and, get a nice life off it. Now go enjoy that Lord Jamie." So it

still involves similar ideas to the previous two, ah, we're trying to control the

behavior of Lord Jamie, who's looking after the land and we want him to take

care of that land. We don't want him to trash the land, we don't want him to let

it over grow, and, we want to take care of the land, and ah, we also want him to report

back how the land is going, back to the king and the queen, or the bishop in case

of the religious organization. So how can both parties assess if the steward is

doing a good job? How can the king or the queen or the bishop know that the

steward... how can each of them communicate saying, "Yes, are you doing a job?" and the

steward goes, "Yes, I am doing a good job! Like, here we go, here's some information."

So they use this accounting information, um... Okay my slide's a bit wrong there. So,

"Accounting information within contracts can provide the communication of control,

um, control mechanism." Just remove that: "within contracts" so just um, that slide

should read, "Accounting information can provide this communication and control

mechanism." So we may have our the accounting information such as tax receipts of the

land, agriculture output and distribution, you know,

if it's a particular area of the country or land there may be gold treasure stored there, so they

could report back how much gold is on that piece of land, ah, using

accounting information. And they may even report on soldiers and armory available

for wars. So the king, who's in his castle in the capital, would know um, perhaps

how much gold is located everywhere in his Kingdom.

All right. And so you see it pre-dated, and it's a bit of a different relationship,

but they're they're similar sorts of ideas. Yeah, feel free to comment, if um that,

'within contracts' section has thrown you off. I should have double checked that. You know

how you always, you make mistakes, um not when you do typos and they've got the

red line showing you the made a mistake, it's when you

include words that are spelled correctly and obviously grammatically

correct, and ah yeah, completely missed it! So I'm sorry about that. Okay so let's, ah,

have a quick review. What we covered today was: What is accounting? And that's

essentially an information system. What do accountants do? They interact

with the information system and communicate the results. And what are the

three functions of accounting? That is decision-making, contracting and

stewardship. Okay! All right that's it! I hope it helped. Best of success, in your exams, and

your studies and if you choose accounting as a major. If you enjoyed the

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just want to say hello. So, um, it doesn't have to be a one-way conversation here.

If, ah, I can't answer like specific assignment questions, haha! You'd be surprised

how many people just send me their homework and assignment questions and, ah,

want me to give them the answers, but I can't do that. But if you

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comment below. And, um yeah, I hope to hear from you. Alright thanks very much!

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Hamilton has revealed what the pundits missed that really annoyed him after German GP - Duration: 5:25.

Football News24/7  Lewis Hamilton believes he is owed more respect following his wet-weather masterclass in Germany

 Hamilton's comments come after he accused Sky Sports of underrating his performance, and claimed the former drivers-cum-commentators "could not find a good word to say" in a deleted Instagram post

 The British driver will head into the final race before the summer break here in Hungary 17 points ahead of his title rival Sebastian Vettel

 Ferrari's Vettel crashed out from the lead in the slippery conditions at Hockenheim, while Hamilton – who, at one point, was lapping three seconds faster than his rivals in his Mercedes – claimed one of the most impressive victories of his career

 Martin Brundle, who took part in 158 Grands Prix, has been the long-standing co-commentator on British television and is widely considered as one of the most respected voices in Formula One

 Brundle, who has commentated for ITV, the BBC and Sky in a broadcasting career spanning more than two decades, was the only former driver on Sky's commentary team during last Sunday's Grand Prix

 "I watched a race that felt so great in my heart on the track, but there were certain things that were not being perceived that way," Hamilton said on Thursday

"There were also things that were missed.  "There was a point in the race where I was three seconds a lap quicker than the other drivers

The difference that I was making in the car, and the different lines I was choosing were not being explained

 "Considering that we had former racing drivers commentating, I thought they'd pick those thing out, but they didn't

 "If I was commentating, I would have been able to tell you what was going on and I would be to pinpoint why a driver is taking a certain line

 "When I watched the race I could see how Sebastian entered the corner, how he positioned the car, and how that may have led to his crash, but again that also wasn't pointed out

 "There are drivers that I grew up watching, and succeed, and their commentary seems different when compared to how an ex-tennis player commentates on the technicality of a tennis player

I don't see that happen as much (in F1)."  Brundle, 59, compared Hamilton to the Briton's hero, and triple world champion Ayrton Senna, during the race

 Hamilton added: "I took the post down because it was (written) in the middle, or towards the end, and then there were good comments from some of the ex-drivers

They have a tough job to report what is going on in the race."  Hamilton's championship rival Vettel was pulled from his media duties on Thursday following the death of former chairman Sergio Marchionne

 The Ferrari flags flew at half-mast over the Italian team's motorhome in the paddock, while staff, including Vettel, wore black armbands

 McLaren meanwhile, have hired James Key from Toro Rosso as they attempt to move out of the doldrums

Matt Morris has also resigned as engineering director.  Do YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? Get started today by signing-up and submitting an article HERE: https://www

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Luxury Homes by Trevor Jones - "What Was The Significance Of Your Seattle Projects?" - Duration: 1:40.

An Interview With Trevor Jones: Tell Us About The Significance Of The Seattle Projects.

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It was Twin Towers in Seattle Downtown, what we were trying to do was rejuvenate the downtown

area because the traffic is so bad in Seattle.

I could kind of see that people were fed-up with driving into downtown every day.

So, rather than being driving, they would rather be at home in 5 minutes rather than

35 minutes.

So, we started, we built this Twin Tower High Rise which was called the "Concorde" and it

was kind of innovative, because it was the beginning of sort of the "internet and Techy"

era.

So our "logo" for it was "Get Connected".

And it was very successful.

As I said it won the "project of the year award" for the whole United States.

It was a delightful looking building, very well received; it sold out very quickly.

And it actually started a trend because, since then; there's been a lot of buildings been

built downtown.

In Fact Bosa out of Vancouver has just built Twin Towers in Downtown Seattle not far from

our initial project there.

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Inside Noah's Ark: Suppressed video shows what was found inside - Duration: 4:59.

Inside Noah's Ark: Suppressed video shows what was found inside

Noah's Ark and the Great Flood is without a doubt one of the most important and famous stories present in many ancient texts.

If we look back in ancient literature, we will find that three are two main descriptions of Noah's Ark. However, the strange thing is that neither of those descriptions satisfies basic naval engineering standards, deeming the Ark completely unseaworthy.

Nevertheless, the Ark did exist, and the great deluge described in numerous ancient cultures dis swipe across the planet in the distant past.

According to a group of researchers from China, not only did Noah's ark exist, but it rests on a mountain in Turkey.

Said to rest on top of Mount Ararat in Turkey, the discovery made by Asian researchers was heavily disputed ever since the alleged finding was made ten years ago.

Regrettably like many other fascinating discoveries on Earth, this discovery was also 'suppressed my most media.'An explorer looks at wooden beams inside a compartment of a structure that his team claims might prove the existence of Noah's Ark, on Mount AraratAfter a decade, the alleged Ark discovered on top of Mount Ararat remains a profound mystery.

"To make a long story short: this is all reported to be a fake," said Randall Price, director of Judaic Studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

"This is not Noah's Ark," adds Bob Cornuke of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute. "This is a fake.

It's a fraud and it's of the highest caliber according to what I can assess from the evidence and talking to eyewitnesses and people from Turkey."Chinese explorers wearing protective gear while inside the 'Ark'.

But what kind of flood could have transported the ark to the top of Mount Ararat? According to many scientists, the idea of such a flood existing goes against ALL geological studies since, according to many, we lack empirical evidence to support a worldwide flood had occurred, wiping out plants, animals, and most traces of human civilization.

Interestingly the story about Noah is what fascinates most scholars. Noah was the tenth of the pre-flood (antediluvian) Patriarchs. His father was Lamech, and his mother is unknown but is thought to be either Adah or Zillah, wives of Lamech.

When Noah was five hundred years old, he begat Shem, Ham, nd Japheth (Genesis 5:32) Noah died 350 years after the flood, at the age of 950, the last of the extremely long-lived antediluvian Patriarchs.

The maximum human lifespan, as depicted by the Bible, diminishes rapidly thereafter, from almost 1,000 years to the 120 years of Moses.

(Genesis 6:3; Deuteronomy 31:22; 34:37 But even though there is plenty of written evidence to support the Great Flood did occur, many scholars believe Noah's accounts of the flood are mythical in nature, others believe that the story of Noah's Ark and the Flood was inspired by legendary floods of stories in Ancient Mesopotamia, particularly "The Epic of Gilgamesh".

Centuries before Noah appeared in the bible, ancient narratives were passed down from one generation to another in many cultures around the globe.

"The earlier Mesopotamian stories are very similar where the gods are sending a flood to wipe out humans," said biblical archaeologist Eric Cline. "There's one man they choose to survive.

He builds a boat and brings on animals and lands on a mountain and lives happily ever after? I would argue that it's the same story." Whether or not this discovery is real remains a mystery.

There are many reasons why it may be another hoax, while some claim there are plenty reasons to suggest the discovery is real. Check out the video and let us know what you think!.