RL 101-2 The Six Letters That Are The Same

 

Production date:    20 July 2006
Playout date:    21 July 2006
Camera:    Logitech Webcam
Post Production:    Windows Movie Maker – slight use
Location:    Home on the terrace
Genre: Lesson
Soundtrack info:    Oy, Moroz, Moroz! Russian folksong – a capello
Languages used:    Russian
Animals featured:    None
Date added here: 25 September 2010
Number of days this video was up at time of posting: 1527
Number of views at time of posting: 28822
Number of views per day: 18,9
Number of comments at time of posting (don’t forget to click through to read the comments!): 120
Comments per thousand views: 4,2
Likes at time of posting: 198
Dislikes at time of posting: 3
Likes to dislikes ratio: 66
Votes per thousand views: 7,0
Ratio of comments to votes: 59,7%

As you can see I’ve extended as it were the table of stats that there is at the start of each of these vlog reposts. The stats aren’t dynamic – to get the up-to-date ones or to read the comments, don’t hesitate to click through to the YouTube version, just by double clicking on the film. You can do that to any film on this vlog.

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This is the second ever of Huliganov’s Russian lessons – intended originally only to teach the alphabet. Here we look at the first six letters – not in alphabetical order but in thematic order. They spell the word KOMETA, a comet. But even on these six letters there are minor differences to look out for so listen carefully to the explanations!
 
 The song is “Oy moroz, moroz” a well known Russian work. Look out for the jokey switch in the last verse! A few commentators appear to have got the joke. The joke in this part is one of my favorites about the way the youth of today all look like the same gender…

They don’t make ’em like that any more!

 


 

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Production date:    20 July 2006
Playout date:    20 July 2006
Camera:    Logitech Webcam
Post Production:    Windows Movie Maker – heavy use
Location:    Home on the terrace
Genre Intro’d song
Soundtrack info:    Somewhere over the Rainbow – karaoke version
Languages used:    Northern English
Animals featured:    None
 
 This is actually a one off so far – the only film with Arthur Pettycommon in. I have had requests to develop this character and I’m sure that will happen in due course.
 
 The song “Somewhere over the rainbow” of course comes from the Wizard of Oz film – or at least that’s what made it famous. The film is also famous for transitioning between a black and white opening and colour, and that’s also being spoofed with the colour changes here in this film. Had I had the technology then that I do not, I could have even superimposed a whirlwind onto it!

Donner und Blitzen!!!!

 


 
Production date:     17 July 2006
Playout date:      17 July 2006
Camera:        Logitech Webcam
Post Production:       Windows Movie Maker – heavy use
Location:        Home at desk
Soundtrack info:      Nicole – “Ein Bisschen Frieden
Languages used:     English, German
Animals featured:     None
 
 Sproey von Weytzentrenner returns putting the world to rights, slating the advertising going on in YouTube while plugging Lomza beer, expaining why Schroeder belongs in prison and that governments should construct huge batteries to store the power from lightning.
 
 Afterwards, von Weytzentrenner has a treat in store – the German Eurovision winner (the only one until Lena came along in 2010) with “Ein Bisschen Frieden” – but this is the yodelled version!
 

George’s adventures with a remote control and a grasshopper

Production date:  16 July 2006
Playout date:  16 July 2006
Camera:  Fuji Finepix
Post Production:  Windows Movie Maker – slight use
Location:    Home on the terrace
Soundtrack info:    Natural environment only
Languages used:    English, Russian
Animals featured:   Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)

In this one, I try to film a grasshopper – or more accurately a bush cricket – which has latched itself onto my son’s head. George was 3 years old at that time, and we used to keep a pool going out on the terrace in the summer.

While chasing him aroound on his little buggy what I fail to notice is that he has removed the TV remote control. Irina is looking for it and comes to retrieve it but just after he’s thrown it in the pool! We took the batteries out and dried it off and got it working again afterwards.

Excel from the DCF Lesson

This article shows the spreadsheet I made to illustrate the DCF lesson on YouTube. The image that comes next before the table, has nothing to do with it but it came up on the “content enriching” function, and it looked interesting, so I thought I’d share it with you at the same time.

For those wishing to see the DCF lesson, here it is:

Obstacles to the free flow of information online.
Countries impeding the free flow of information on-line
Cost of Capital
0.15
Time 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Cash At Start 100,000
EBITDA (100,000) 20,000 200,000 300,000 350,000 350,000
CAPEX (50,000) (30,000)
FCF 100,000 (150,000) 20,000 200,000 270,000 350,000 350,000
Annuity Value 2,333,333
Discount Factor 1.0000 0.8696 0.7561 0.6575 0.5718 0.4972 0.4323
DCF 100,000 (130,435) 15,123 131,503 154,373 174,012 1,160,079
Value of the Business 1,604,656