What's going on everybody? This is Giovanni from spy options trading today is July 16th I placed my first of my very very first trade of the year today Halfway through the month Barely starting to trade Not a good thing not a good thing. I've been extremely busy With work. I was really really busy about two weeks ago last week I had an opportunity to watch the markets But then sort of life hit me and I was busy with just my own personal life And I just I haven't had a really good solid opportunity to trade and even though I placed a trade today I didn't really have a Great opportunity to trade today Let's talk about my trade I'll show it to you here in just a few minutes even though it was a winning trade The execution was terrible in my opinion and I feel like I'm not mastering my craft today's trades Specifically I traded what I feel is pure luck and that's not where I want to be I don't want to be trading off of pure luck and I want to be trading more, you know Strategy I make up a plan. I plan my strategy And I follow through that plan and strategy And that's the only way that I'm gonna get better as a day trader And not to mention I just I have a lot going on with my day job even though it's a part-time job They had me working full-time over the holidays And I'm just now getting around to being my normal self But more so I'm I'm trying to be a better father as well, you know to my son So that's taking up a lot of my time And it just it is what it is and I apologize guys for all my viewers my subscribers That I just haven't been very active in my channel. I haven't been trading at all But let me go ahead and show you today's trade I traded it off the five-minute charts I got this signal here at open as as you guys know I don't like trading the first five-minute candlestick, but Mainly I had to go take my son to school I as soon as I got here flipped on my monitors open up my trading account I saw an opportunity and You know what it? I'll be very honest and same not necessarily. Did I see the opportunity there? I was itching for a trade and I bought the 261 50 calls that expire in two days. I bought them at $1 37 about two of them So the first one at $1 47. I again, I just I get so confused I forget that That it sets a default of Of a limit order, but anyways, I was trying to do a market order It actually sold me out at $1 47. Thank goodness, and then I sold the second one at $1 15 And I bought them at 746 my time. So about 16 minutes after the opening bell Let's just take a quick look here 46 so right here at the start of this candle It was trading around right here where it closed Luckily, it just jumped up like crazy and I ended up selling not even two minutes afterwards Wow, I mean gosh 40 seconds after I bought so I sold the first one and then two minutes after I bought I sold the second one. I was originally planning on holding one for the long haul quote-unquote hoping to Just get Hoping that it would continue to run But you know overall, yes, I am happy With the fact that I made money, you know 20 something bikes after commissions. It's nothing. I'm just trying to hone down on my Trading skills, but anyways, I'm just disappointed in that I got lucky guys like there's no substitution for the truth I got lucky. I bought in mainly just because I was itching to get into a trade luckily It did go in my direction and you know, I could have held through it Gotten down back to even little slightly in the red and then just sold again But I I got to get better. I got to get better guys That's the main reason why I traded today is just because I was itching for trade Not a good situation there So so that was my trade for the day guys and the main reason why I didn't record it is literally as soon as I got home I Flipped on my monitors. I Open up my my trading account. I saw That hey, maybe I can place a trade here without even thinking about it I placed that trade and it went by really quick. So I apologize that I didn't record it live But yeah, I I'm so sorry guys that that I just haven't been trading making videos anything of that I apologize greatly.  That was the first time I've been skiing in gosh over a year about two years And it was phenomenal. I had a blast today my son is participating in the ski school program where they let the kids the excuse of kids from school in the afternoon and They are allowed to go skiing at an extremely cheap price. So here in about maybe two hours or so I'm gonna go in and pick up my son. We're both gonna go skiing. So I'm really excited.  So thank you so much For watching. I apologize for all my viewers all my subscribers for lack of communication Life just gets in the way. So don't forget to smash that like button smash that share and Subscribe button also guys. I Appreciate your support. We'll see you again next time


Our natural world is changing.  To provide comprehensive data that furthers understanding of these impacts, NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network, the first continental scale ecological observatory, is now underway. For the next three decades, NEON will capture a comprehensive range of standardized data throughout 20 ecoclimatic domains across a broad spatial scale from national satellite-based measurements down to observation of ground sites and individual organisms. Currently, there are no facilities regularly available that provide scientists with consistent continental scale ground resolution data on regional landscapes and vegetation. NEON will use innovative airborne mapping methods to close this gap, which will primarily measure vegetation chemistry and structure. The NEON Airborne Observation Platform, or AOP, when fully operational, will include an imaging spectrometer, a scanning waveform recording LiDAR, which stands for light detection and ranging, and a high-resolution digital camera. Three complete airborne systems are planned for installation into twin-autor aircraft. The AOP will use an airborne imaging spectrometer in order to study the vegetation growing in an area, which will provide a picture of how ecological systems are performing. The spectrometer images a wide swath on the ground to measure subtle variations in sunlight, reflecting off vegetation on Earth's surface. The spectrometer breaks this reflected light into narrow bands of the color spectrum, allowing scientists to create images that precisely identify the percentage of individual species of vegetation, both native and invasive, at each NEON site. The AOP will also use a waveform recording OPTEC LiDAR system to capture data that lets scientists determine key structural markers of ecosystem change. LiDAR sends out a laser pulse and then calculates the time difference between the outgoing and returning light to measure the relative distance to targets. The LiDAR scans back and forth to create a three-dimensional view of vegetation and topography surrounding NEON sites. LiDAR data will allow scientists to see changes in the surface of the Earth and the heights of structures, such as plant canopies, undergrowth, and ground topography. Together, these instruments will provide 3D imaging that will revolutionize the way we view changes in ecosystems, including consistent data on such critical elements as chemistry and structure of plant canopies and land cover percentages of types of vegetation. The airborne observation platform flight plans are designed to cover each of NEON's 62 core and relocatable sites each year. Flights are planned at or near peak greenness for each site to ensure consistency of the data. This will allow scientists to detect small trends in how vegetation is changing and ecosystems are functioning. Additional flights will be executed in regions where significant events, such as fires, oil spills, hurricanes, and other phenomena, can be an important catalyst for change. As with all NEON data, AOP data will be free and publicly available. Scientists will also be able to propose additional AOP flights to collect data for specific key research. The capability of the fully integrated NEON AOP will be well beyond existing systems in its ability to produce quantitative information about ecosystem response to climate change, land use change, and invasive species. These leading indicators captured at site-specific scale provide scientists a revolutionary new view of how individual organisms across hundreds of kilometers change over time. It is a critical contribution to game-changing science being conducted at NEON.


Don Blitz-15 is building U.S. and coalition sea-based and amphibious landing capabilities, which are vital to effective crisis response support, regional security, and deterrence. One vital training scenario of Don Blitz was a casualty evacuation. U.S. sailors and Japanese self-defense force sailors and soldiers simulated numerous scenarios involving a service member getting wounded in the battlefield, assessing the situation and calling for an evacuation. This vital training gave the sailors and soldiers the time to learn how to conduct landing zone preparations and how to contact the ship for assistance. This scenario brought together sailors and soldiers from two nations and demonstrated, despite the language barrier, our ability to rapidly execute and assign mission. For more information or to follow the exercise, visit the Don Blitz Facebook page.


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, December 21, that tens of billions of dollars of aid it had approved to help it fight a Russian invasion was not charity, but an investment in global security. In its first visit out of his country since the war began in February, Zelensky told lawmakers in the soaring House of Representatives chamber that he hoped they would continue to support Ukraine on a bipartisan basis. A major point as Republicans are due to take the majority in the House on January 3. Your money is not charity, Zelensky said, clad in the hacky fatigues that have been his public uniform throughout the 300 days of conflict. It is an investment in the global security and democracy. Following a meeting at the White House with Democratic President Joe Biden, Zelensky's speech needed to resonate with House Republicans, who have voiced increasing skepticism about continuing to send so much aid to Ukraine. Zelensky's arrival was greeted with multiple raucous ovations in the newly full chamber. Three members held up a large Ukrainian flag as he walked in. It is a great honor for me to be at the U.S. Congress and speak to you and all Americans. Against all doom and gloom scenarios, Ukraine did not fall. Ukraine is alive and kicking, said Zelensky. We defeated Russia in the battle for the minds of the world, he said. Zelensky joined a long list of world leaders to address a joint meeting of the Senate and House. The decisions had begun in 1874 with a visit by the Hawaiian King Kalakoa and included almost legendary wartime visits by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as well as Kings, Queens and One Pope. House members and senators from both parties lead repeatedly to the field to cheer parts of Zelensky's speech in English, such as Ukraine holds its lines and will never surrender, as he likened his country's battle against Moscow's forces to great battles of World War II and even the American Revolution. There are no signs of peace talks to end the war and both Russia and Ukraine have signaled a willingness to keep fighting, although Zelensky said he discussed a 10-point Ukrainian peace formula with Biden. I'm glad that President Biden supported our peace initiative today. Each of you today, ladies and gentlemen, can assist in the implementation to ensure that American leadership remains solid, bicameral and bipartisan, Zelensky said to the lawmakers. We have no fear nor should anyone in the world have it. Ukrainians gained this victory and it gives us courage, which inspires the entire world.


So the word I won the spelling bee with is elucubrate and the only place I've ever seen it is on a Starbucks coffee cup as one of the winning words in the national spelling bee. I've never actually seen it used in English and it's very easy to spell. It's E-L-U-C-U-B-R-A-T-E and it means to study at night to work hard at studying. My fifth grade teacher, Mr. Vandermillen, he started talking to me about the roots of words and explained to me, oh, these words come from Latin and Greek and it's kind of like Lego. And that really opened a whole new thing for me. It's like on some video game where you push one button and suddenly of this vista that opens and you see, oh my gosh, there's all this other stuff to explore. And it's completely consistent with my life now as a professor teaching Latin and Greek.


Sir, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. So you're not in any trouble. Just a reminder that you have to make sure the intersection is clear before you enter it, because now he's there, vice versa. It's a bit of a ripple effect. All right, it's a place, so you're obligated to make sure the intersection is clear before you enter it, because now if you see that pedestrian has to go onto the street, that car has to go around you. Stop before you enter the street. But now no cars can go this way, okay? Next time you know. So this is exactly why drivers have to stop before entering the intersection, because now I have to walk into traffic. Cars are still gonna come this way and they can hit pedestrians before they get back in. It's just unsafe and unnecessary.


A bit dark in here, let me correct it. Okay, that's better. Welcome to the first ANFA monthly livestream of 2022. How was your new year? How is everybody? I see there's 20 something people in the livestream right now. Nice. Good to see you. I have just installed a new version of Monique. If you've seen my recent video and it's possible you have seen it, because it did surprisingly well. A lot of people saw it, which is cool. Maybe you've just joined for the first time because you found out about me and you're trying to check out who I am. In case you don't know me, I am ANFA, I'm an electronic music producer and a sound designer. The unusual thing about me is that I exclusively work with open source software and Linux. There's a lot of channels on YouTube about audio production, music making, etc. But very little of that has to do with open source software or liberal software. By the way, I'm going to turn off the LEDs so they don't skew the color balance. Yay. Let me blow my nose because that's what I need to do right now. Classic. Hey, if you're wondering why there's toilet paper on my desk every all the time, that's why. This is precisely why there is toilet paper on my desk because if I would blow my nose on tissues, I'd just blow too much money on that. Alrighty, let's see what does the chat say. Jeremiah Peterson says, first time on the stream, really digging your music, ANFA. Thank you. It's very nice. I hope you'll like the streams as well. Serda Iuzbe says, ANFA, I love your songs. Thank you very much. Lifeline says, a quick question, ANFA, which one of your made albums you like the most? I wonder. It's the most recent one, suppressed. This is the one I think is the best so far of my work. So some of the older ones, I think, call that pretty well, namely Sia and Drum and Bass Payload I think is also pretty fun. I think my camera is not right in the center. Oh, I need to turn off this heating on my computer. Yeah, now it's better. All right. Let's see more stuff. We spoke at a little link and midi o'clock in nightly. Livestream watching. I'm not a 20-something. Oh, Nilsi. Hello. Nils is a well-known troll. He likes to throw people off and say things that are inflammatory just for the heck of it. But I love Nils. He's my man. Alrighty. Toilet paper is better than tissues. I agree, Forest Ellen. Nasal sound design. Adam Adam says, first time catching the Livestream. Happy new year. Thanks. Same to you. Robert F, aka Bo Diddley says, I'm a perfectionist. Am I? I probably am for my detriment, so I try to not be as much. Is it a bit? It's a bit blurry, but it is on my end. I don't think it is blurry. It has to be on your end. Checked your resolution. It should be 1080p. If not, you are missing out on some pixels and visual information. Okay. Let us go to the sweet, sweet ... oh, I don't want ... actually, I don't want to have music playing. Thank you very much. Where is the music? Okay, there is. I hope there is no background music right now. I just need to check the sweet, sweet ... oh, no, there's going to be feedback. Okay. No background music. That's good. Actually, I don't want ... yeah. Streaming is hard. Rob van den Berg says, that joke. My new year's resolution is 1080p. Oh, that's great. That's great. Robert F. A.K.A. Boatily says, I see 1080p60. That's great. I have specifically made ... so that my camera gives 1080p ... sorry, not 1080p60, but it gives 720p60, but it's when it's so small, it doesn't matter. The quality is sufficient. Alrighty. By the way, I've just realized that ... okay, do we have Monique? I've just installed it. Let's see if Ardor detected it, because we could try and play with it, but I am a bit ... I'm afraid it may not detect it, or something may be wrong with it. Okay, it didn't seem to ... is there like a search? No, there is no search in this box. Alrighty. I'm afraid we don't have Monique for today. Okay. Let's make some music. I have had some ideas to do a little bit of what I don't usually do, which is ... Rob van den Berg says, woohoo, Monique, actually not woohoo, because I can't get it to run. It is here, and it is not ... the VST plugin doesn't want to load in Ardor. So, maybe I can very quickly ... sorry, not that ... maybe I can very quickly work this around and try again. This is going to be a bit nasty. Okay. Let's ... additional VST free paths. I'm going to just paste that. Okay. Okay. Rescan plugins now? Yeah. Okay. Look and try and see if that works. If it does, it does. If it doesn't, well, this plugin always hangs. Oh, Monique. I think we have Monique. All right. Let's try it. Full disclosure, I have no idea if it's going to be stable. I have not tried it in Ardor at all yet. Is it going to be listed? No, it's not. Unless it's detected, but it has audio inputs. Ah, that is possible reason. Nope. I don't see Monique at all here. We don't have Monique. Sorry, everyone. Invalid module path. All right. Scan failed. Okay. No Monique for us today. No problem. We'll manage. We have some other cool synthesizers or other things. We could also try and work a little bit with Sphiz. Did I update Sphiz in a while? I think I didn't. Uh, also, I have to, I think I need to restart. Wait a second. Okay. Let's do this. I need to restart screenkey because I think it doesn't work. Now it works. Okay. That's going to be useful. Okay. We could have some fun with Sphiz and SFZ in general because that's a really cool thing. It's a very unique tool for making sounds and maybe SVST3 will be a bit more stable. Let's see. Oh, my Ardor crash counter is like, why is it offset? I am upset that it is offset display. I don't want the secondary clock. I'm going to hide the secondary clock to make it look better. Toolbar? Yeah. Okay. Now it's a little bit better. Still not perfect. I should actually make the crash counter hide until there is a crash because that's a bit like, uh, all right, let's see. This is Sphiz. I'm also going to see if there is a newer version. So yay as Sphiz tab, yeah, I like living on the edge. Sure I want to do that. I'm just going to quickly update Sphiz, build it from source, that kind of thing. This is like an open source, a version of contact. It is a instrument for sample based instruments or it's a plugin to play sample based instruments and it plays files called SFZ and I believe this format was created by, um, the guys from Cakewalk and the SFZ is an open format that, uh, yeah, we're building a plugin live. I'll just need to, uh, make sure you can't read my password when I install the package so I'm going to hide it for a little while. The SFZ format is a text file that defines an instrument. It can use samples. There's also like oscillators, internal filters, a whole bunch of stuff. And it's all open source and like these are text files. All you need to do to create an instrument is just drop some audio files into a folder and make a text file and just type a bunch of stuff.  But SFZ specification is there for the help SFZ format. Oh my goodness. The background on this page is really not what I would call eye friendly, holy snap. If the creator of this website is here, please make the background less like remove this texture. Yep. So we have special codes and we can just type stuff. We can also add groups. Oh, there is a combo. Yep. On fire. You can simply drag and drop a sample in SFZ UI and play it instantly. Oh, wow. So we can just work as a sampler. Sweet. Let me try that. I have actually made some new audio files the other day, which was today, because I have been recording New Year's Celebration fireworks and got some nice new explosions. Okay, let's explosion fireworks. Let's try. Oh. Okay. I need to make this stay on top. Whoa. I opened it in audacity by mistake. Hey, that's not fair. It hides. It doesn't want me to drop anything onto it. What the? Oh, man. Okay. That's it's not. It doesn't want to cooperate. I'm going to try the LV2 version. Okay. I'm going to remove all of these. I'm going to add the plugins once again, just use the LV2 format, which is what I generally prefer because it didn't originate from Stainberg, who has previously killed off their, I don't know, it's the same thing, VST2 format and forced developers to switch to a new one. And that wasn't very fun. Okay. It looks like I can't drag and drop because the window manager won't let me. No, it's not possible for me to do that. But maybe if I go edit with generic controls, then we have this thing and, okay, no, it does this again. I think there's a setting in Ardor I need to change because this is clearly not, not okay. Show hide splash screen instead of that. All floating windows are dialogues. Yeah, let's try that. These will only take effect after Ardor is restarted. Okay, I will restart it. Just let me use that thing. What did I click? Ah! Okay. I'm clicking random things because I'm in a hurry. And that means I'll take more time. Oh. All right. Ardor 0, ANFA 1. Okay. Let's try again. One more time. Let's do that one more time. Navin says, Happy New Year, everyone, ANFA. Happy New Year, Navin. We just had some fireworks. It was Ardor crashing. Let's see if now I can drag and drop. Yes! It works. It works. That is mighty cool. And also shows you the memory usage. Oh, man, I love that. It's a little bit of shame that the UI is not scalable, but, okay, never mind. So there is, there is also a plugin called Drops, which Nils says, sorry, I have to go. Bye. I'll miss you. You say there is no sound? All right. Of course. Because I need to send the audio to the stream. Now you can hear it. I can play with fireworks. Now, notable uses of Sphiz in my work has been I had to, I was making a trailer for a game and it just so happened that I had to totally recreate all the sounds in the trailer because they didn't record properly. So I had to make them from scratch and I've made all the sound effects. So that was easy because I had the raw, the raw assets, but I had to, you know, process them and sequence them in a believable way to make it seem like it's the game playing the sounds. Well, it was me sequencing that in order. And for things like bullet hits and footsteps, I needed a simple way to randomize a bunch of files and I used Sphiz for that. I made a simple file and I defined a region and a bunch of different samples and what prayed them on a random and this way I just had to click one note or I could assign different sounds to different notes and then this way easily map my sounds to two different keys. How is our plugin? Oh, there it is. Okay. All right. Yay. Levin on the edge. Can also try and install drops. I don't know if we'll have it. Yay. Drops. Get. Let's do that as well. Sure. I want to clean bill it. Okay. I have to change Sphiz skin. It has really bad colors and X says, I don't know what it has on your side when I look at it. It looks sweet. Okay. Now, just to be sure, I'm going to reload Ardor because the plugin changed. Yeah. That wasn't a crash. Okay. That's not fair. Maybe I should reset that counter so that we don't like give it unfair advantage. There was one crash, but we weren't doing anything serious at the moment. Get. Rob van den Berg is the creator of drops and yeah. Look at that. Okay. We'll have drops as well. Let's see if the new Sphiz loads. It does. Oh, Mr. TXT, you've connected to the meeting. Welcome. And I will have to mute that meeting. Okay. You saw nothing or you heard nothing. All right. Let's do some stuff. We can load some instruments into Sphiz. That's the easiest way to use it. So we can just click on this and I said we can just click on this and I think we're, oh, okay. Okay. There it is. Oh, by the way, it bundles the file you load into it into the session. Library. Yeah. Actually, I have created a folder named sound fonts, which is a silly name because these are not sound fonts. These are sampled instruments. We have things like Splendid Grand Piano Master. I have never used this, but it's an SFZ instrument. Let's load that and see. It works. And it sounds nice. I like that. It's an instrument I found, which is on in public domain. By the way, about the meeting, just as last time I have been making a, just as last time when I've been making a live stream, I have also scheduled a live play testing of the game I'm working on with a small team called Liblast. And right after we finish making sounds and music with open source software, I invite you to join another thing and play a game I'm working on also with free on open source software. And the game is also free on open source software. Hopefully it will be something fun for us all to enjoy. And there is a small team, namely seven people, including myself. I'm the lead. And we're making a first person shooter, a multiplayer one. Anyway, I'll mention that again on the end of this stream. That's a digression. Okay. So we have a nice piano. Let's make this a piano. We could try and sequence some stuff. Also, we could maybe fit the tempo. I want to make something a little bit a little bit late back 72. Rob von den Berg says, how my potato PC can't run that. Yeah, I'm sorry. The Godot 4, which we are using is right now, it requires your computer to support a volcano, which is a newer than open jail rendering thingy. I want to make this a little bit dancer to resolve the melody and access. I hate games, but I love on for I respect that. A minor A. Is it a minor? I guess it is because I'm it's minor and I'm finished on a lifeline says, note velocity changes work great for piano. So I do advice trying to edit some. Oh, yeah. The silly thing is, unfortunately, our door doesn't have like a lollipop graph editor for velocity. So editing velocity in order is kind of weird because velocities are denoted with these little dark bars. And how you edit them is you select notes with your mouse and then you move mouse up and down, or you hit alt to change them by higher numbers or. Yeah. So basically, this is how you change your velocities and other will also like interpolate between multiple notes. So if you have like loud notes here, quite notes here, you see, I've made new notes in between and it like ever just between that. So I can make these louder. Well, I'm in the wrong mode. I'm using the wrong key. And we end on a nice A major. Maybe we couldn't at least flip that around. I think we should make this louder, this a bit louder. And then we just go. We probably should do like that. Oh, no, that's weird. We could also add some nice humanization using a MIDI plugin. MIDI Strum by Robin Carias, who's made a lot of awesome plugins. And he's also working full time on Ardor as one of the two main developers. MIDI Strum is a plugin that tries to simulate strumming on a guitar, which means it's going to like delay playing notes inside of a chord, which, of course, right now, it's a little bit exaggerated. No to collect time out. Strum duration and beats I want less. So now we have a tiny bit of delay. It's like I could do this manually, just move the notes like that.  If there was a little bit of randomness possible. Oh, randomized acceleration. Yeah. There will be like a random option here. That would be also great. Randomized velocity as well. I think we could use some reverb. Also, maybe there is some other humanization. MIDI velocity randomization. OK, also by Robin Garry is. MIDI can see what are all the MIDI plugins I have. MIDI, even the generator, there is lots of stuff. Quantization, Sostenuto. OK, I think we don't need that. I want to add some reverb. And recently, my favorite reverb is ether caps lock. Nope, it's it's awesome. I love it. Ether for the win. Also, I think this is all quite quiet. I think I need to make everything a bit louder. Don't you agree? I'm going to make this fizz have more volume. Also, let's see their settings expression. Are there like switches? Two hundred twenty six samples. Curves. Hey, there's a lot more settings now than what were previously. So I see that we indeed updated the. What is that? OK, we can have release, volume, panning, expression, especially this loudness, pretty much resonance. I don't think a resonance does anything. But ether does. Let me see. I'm going to add a limiter to my master. Of course, X42 digital peak limiter. That's the best. In my opinion, what six decibels? No more or less. Is it better now? Or is it still too quiet? OK, this final chord is doesn't match anything. Because that's much better. Rob van der Berg says resonance only works when pressing sustain pedal. B-Music says ether with only 20 percent DSP load, unbelievable. So you say ether is very heavy. CPU profile. Ever just two milliseconds to evaluate it. My CPU. Be top. My CPU is in the safe space. I am happy with a CPU load like that. But dude, we didn't do anything yet. Also, look at how much OBS is eating. Like it's three and a half cores. That's why I have 24 friends in the CPU. Spread notes. They mean go in larger intervals, more higher and upper notes. I can just, you know, move the lower parts down an octave and see what that does. Oh, this is weird. I love that. So I'm going to copy this control Z and paste that. That's not going to work, isn't it? It does work. I have cheated. I've made a tunnel across time. I copied something and pasted it in the future and works. Triplets also sound good. You mean triplets as in rhythm or triplets as in just triads is the term for like vertical. Do you want to meet you do triplets? I'm going to do a triplet here. S for split. Oh, S for split to that. And I'm just going to scale this from two and three to two. And now go with that. This can be deleted. This can be moved back. I said moved back. And there we go. Can do another triplet here. And yeah, I could just switch to like 12 notes. Yeah, maybe that's easier. Guybrush Deepwood says, Anfa, can you link to the piano once again, please? I have not linked to the piano. You know what? I need to find where I got it from because I've been. I've been seeking splendid. Oh, it's from Git. All right, let me pull up there. Read me. Public domain samples by Akai. The samples that was released as public domain in early 2000s by Akai company. Ooh, it's a stain away samples with four velocity layers. Blah, blah, blah. All right, let me give me the Git remote show. It's not a piano, but it is. All right. Let's just search on GitHub. GitHub Splendid Grand Piano. Also, this whole thing is like 70 megabytes in a zip. All right, I found it. I should also link to this in the video description or the live stream description. So I've just linked to the piano in the chat. You can download this very same SFZ instrument. Something makes me want to break the pattern and just have two more pulses here. So maybe we're going to go to 64 as I feel like it. Doesn't matter, though. What do we call it? I think it was an two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Or actually it was eight. Yeah. No. 10 for them. Ta-da. Ta-da. This needs to be louder. Maybe not as much louder. OK, we'll do the same thing that we did here just on that. I think I'm also going to just select the region or the range. I'm sorry, range. So R for range tool. I select all that, right-click, consolidate range. Call this Melodech. And now we have a single region instead of a bunch of regions. I'm going to Alt-D to copy that, duplicate it. And now I will work on this one. Just do what I did before. Shift notes around. Well, active lower. Oh, this one should go up. Sahativa says, happy new year. Happy new year to you too. Huh. All right, we have some piano action. Maybe we could do a bass, like an acoustic bass. Use a sampled double bass, maybe. I'm just going to call this bass. And we'll see what we can do. Let's find something. Ah, OK. One thing to note about Sphiz, the plugin, is that the LV2 version will bundle the instrument that you use with it in your order session. The VST3 will not. Lifeline says, I haven't seen such fat media editing from ANFA in a long while. Fat? Fast. OK, I see. Well, thank you. Sound fonts. OK, public domain. There's also other things. There's unreleased instruments and virtual playing orchestra, free pads. What do we have here? Finger bass. OK, that's going to be probably not a double bass. We could do double bass. Let's go virtual playing, orchestra, strings, solo, cystain, cell, accent, bass solo accent. OK, let's do that. OK, I like the plucked one. Pizzicato? No, cello, bass. Bass solo pizzicato, right? Oh, yeah. That's going to be great. VSTO all the way. Virtual something chamber orchestra, I believe. That's what it says. I'm going to move this ether plugin to a new bus. So I'm going to add an audio bus, make it stereo, we'll call it reverb. And now I'm going to cut and paste. Now I will disable the dry signal, so it's all wet. And now I can do aux send, new aux send, reverb. And this is going to be done. And I can also paste that same thing to the bass and have them both play. Lifeline says, time for jazz. Yeah, I haven't done any jazz. I could use my mouth saxophone skills with that. So I don't know how jazzy is this going to be. I can try to maybe, definitely, we don't want the high part. And we just want one note. I want to sustain this with a compressor before the reverb, please. I'm going to mute the reverb for now. OK, this is quite quiet. I'm going to make it up. All right. I can also use an EQ. I can use simply, X42 parametric equalizer is nice. And we can up the bass a bit. Now we can up the bass after we send it to reverb. Also, we can not compress it before the reverb. So the reverb gets less dynamics. Oh, I'm in triplets. OK, I'm going to go one step higher. Triplets. I'm not sure this is OK. I think I need more resolution. No, this is going to be very confusing in this context. I think I just should follow the triplet of this notes above, otherwise I think I'm just making a mess. Rob van der Berg says more notes. We should have some drums for that, shouldn't we? And it's cool because Airwindows has recently released a bunch of drum samples in public domain. They are called Airwindows production drums. I've put that up on musical artifacts. The issue is just there are no kits made. There are just samples. So what I could do is just drop a bunch of samples like a kick drum and try to make something with that. Maybe the bass should go in triplets all the time. This sounds the bass is not resolving properly. Of course, we need to finish on A. Chetju says, OK, I was bringing cafe. You see, I don't have coffee because I drunk one coffee a little bit before and then I was too late. I think I won't be able to use the Airwindows production drums because I just can't organize them into a drum kit. So I will try to find some other drum kit. SM drums for sound percussion. So this is Free Pats. This is another project. See what that has. OK, that doesn't sound at all like what I imagine. We need to sort this. Virtual something playing chamber orchestra. Let's see if they have drums. They have Tim Panney. They have percussion. OK, that's the samples. OK, give me sorted by names and then I will find them. Oh, percussion. See. I can't see anything. Is there any percussion here? Can you see any percussion here? There's glockenspiel, GM style perk. All right, let's try that. All right, I think this is this might be all righty. Just have no idea what notes are where. So that's going to be. We have a kick drum. That's nice. Oh, yeah, because we made up this weird meter. It's going to be strange, OK. And I'm in strip less. Oh, OK, I was and we can as some of them have reverb and some don't. So I'm going to paste my reverb send. Oh, looks like this is delayed. Oh, yeah, I think I need to like preemptively just do. Oh, wait, I think I just shouldn't use this sound on the downbeat. Because it is clearly not intended for that.  I think I should. Oh, oh, this again. Welcome to Ardor, where MIDI notes don't go where MIDI notes should go. Sometimes. OK, I'm going to just do that. See what happens. I think I'm going to do this earlier. And then is there a kick drum? Oh, yeah, we have velocity layers. Sweet. Am I in a triplet? No, then I need to be in a triplet because it doesn't feel right. That's going to be better. OK, B music says I still haven't any idea what I'm going to make today. Neither do I. And that is the beauty of it.  But I am sure it's going to be something beautiful. I'd like to start with a crash. Or maybe a gong. What is that? I like that. I don't know what it is, but it's cool. I'm going to actually use that more. Yeah, just slice this in three. OK, so I'm free, free, two, two. That is a nice and interesting idea. Airwindows says, hi, Anfa, hi. Nice to see you there. I was trying to use your production drums, but I realized they are not arranged in a kit and I would have to actually first make a kit. And I don't have time to do this right now on the stream because otherwise I won't have time to make any music. So I went with some other public domain drum kits in SFZ. Let's see. That sounds bad. OK, I think what happened is also I don't want this to be such a loud kick. Oh, this thing sounds like that. OK, maybe I can do it like that. Oh, yeah, I want to go in with a beat. Let's do the ride. We need the ride symbol. We need a ride symbol and we need to swing it. Come on. I don't know if this is going to do it, but I want to try. It does. Oh, I love that. OK, so I'm going to make every other quieter. So we have some. Yeah, I'm just going to. I am definitely going to make this a hybrid. Like I'm OK, let's do that. Oh, I need to go out and get out of the triplets on this snare. Roll doesn't doesn't work. Oh, aha. OK, that's a tricky one. OK, it's not a triplet, but it feels off because we are in the triplet zone. This is that. That's what I have in mind. That's what I wanted. Yes. Oh, that is fantastic. Holy smokes, I'm going to save the session in case Arthur says, hey, nice, nice music you have there. Be shame if something happened to it. So I want to maybe give it a little hint. I'm going to get rid of everything. Just leave this right swinging right and maybe make it louder towards the end to build up and even double it. Yeah. You know, let's maybe listen from start to finish. Let's see what that this thing does. Also, I would maybe high pass the reverb so we don't make a mess of our bass. Oh, wait, that's not that's piano cut this, paste this on the reverb. And I'm going to 24 decibels high. I don't want to trunk. Come on, this rocks. I have a little bit of a mess in here. Not sure what I'm going to do about that. So I am not entirely sure. I think I want to lower this ride. I don't want to have it so loud. I want it to be very delicately building up. And now we need another roll. And I think what I'm going to do is just cheat. I'm going to copy this, shorten that, and just make it different. Make it different like what? We simulate that the drummer has hit the sticks. I think we should record some skank vocalizations. You ready? High DeGel says, liblast is cool. I'm testing it right now. Oh, thanks. We're going to play it together later. OK, I'm going to lower the volume of the microphone and I'm going to record some skank vocalizations. I just don't want to have microphone play through because that's going to be really odd with 20 milliseconds of latency, which I have. That's not much, but it is something. We could pitch shift that for a fun effect. Am I pitch shift? I like it. Oh, wait. There's something called Glitch Shifter from Airwindows. I never tried that. What is it? Does it pitch shift? Or does it not? Let's feedback it. OK, so that is this quantization. And this is a pitch shift. What is negative value? So OK, I like it. Yes, we need this kind of stuff. Yeah, the first one was weird, a bit of a deep. Oh, I should do reverb send after fader. Or I could do it before. If I want to have reverb louder than the source. And I may. I also think I just need to compress this. It's very quiet. It sounds like also going to disable strict IO so we can have this in stereo. Are we doing? Let's do another, like, do you have any interesting plugins, especially Airwindows plugins you want me to test out? Because I haven't used them on a stream that much. Despite the very popular two tape and also two vinyl, which I use for stereo base control and also limiting highs, because that's really useful. It's like a plugin that does two things. But sometimes it's just what I need to get a sound to stay in line. Yeah, what is Titan also? Also, we can make like we can have glit shifters after the reverb send. Still want to make more makeup.  Airwindows says, Titan will go for a more old school glitchy shift less Titan decouples the sound by only switching on zero crosses. OK, so Titan gives me more glitch stuff. Oh, yeah. All right, let's then do it very glitchy. OK, that is why I had issues like these clicks. All right, that's very understandable. I want to do some another pass, something also weird. And maybe less dry wet on all of them. So like more subtle in the background. And you know what? I'm going to smash it with side chain compression because sorry, not side chain. Oh, I haven't made any presets for LSP multi-band compressor. I meant multi-band. Airwindows says, so more Titan means uglier, less Titan means less control over when the pitch shifted sound is happening. OK, I think the times, these times are a little slow. So let's make them smaller. Also, we can do input gain. We should do this. Airwindows has got derailed here seeing Anfa live. I was going to modular jam myself. Might still do so, but I'm amazing seeing all that Anfa is up to. Oh, thank you. My pleasure to derailing you. I'm really glad to see you, Chris, hanging out in this community. We've been using our plugins for a long time. If anybody watching doesn't know who Airwindows is, there's a website, airwindows.com. And Chris is the man running the whole thing. He's creating very weird, very obscure, very specific, and often very experimental plugins like this Glitchshifter thing. They don't have UIs. They have parameters often named in ways that don't suggest much or sometimes are unintuitive. But it makes you think and makes you want to try out what the hell is going on. And there are hundreds of them, and they are all open source and Airwindows is funded through Patreon. The man is doing amazing plugins and amazing live streams where he shows how the stuff works. And like, yeah, it's really awesome to have you here, Chris. So Chris is also making lots of dithering plugins, which I think are totally useless, but let's leave that aside. OK, I think we have something here. Maybe I should, like, switch back to... Airwindows says, Rob van der Berg says, more dithering. Airwindows says, that's right, Anfa. Stream gets the preview. Woo, do humming into Glitchshifter, and you'll hear what it's doing more clearly. Huh, OK. So I have... Hey, it's Anfa. And you can do this. No, I don't want to steal your style. Chris, sorry. Ah. You know what I have an idea of? If we now try to smash this into a single patch, we will resolve the weight up here. That's silly. Should put it down. Maybe after failure. Yeah, that sounds a bit weird. It sounds strange. I'm going to record something up. Ha! That sounded like I didn't like that. Oh, it's very unrecognizable after all the stuff I've done. Yeah, maybe this auto talent is some extra delay. I don't know if I have Bolly delay. I don't have it. OK, let's go with Calf Vintage Delay. It's pretty nice. Sync to the... Shiei. Oh, wait a second. Airwindows says, preview means nobody else knows. It's Z-notch 2 coming. It just caught me hanging out on the stream so you have to be ANFA crew to hear what the newest thing will be. Awesome. Joachim Hillesstad says, this jazz is getting very unfamiliar. See what you did there. You know what, I think we should drop here like a freaking screaming synthesizer solo on this background of the jazz band. We have a jazz trio because we have piano, bass and drums. I think that's like the best possible jazz combination. It's just a trio. It's like so much possibilities. Like, I just think I will offset that. So we have a little bit of a... Or I could record my vocal per... Mouth saxophone. I could try that, but I will need to blow my nose. Oh, wait, let's record that as well. Since I'm doing... Got this stuff everywhere. I don't know what happened, but it was weird. Alt F3 is going to normalize this. Oh, that's... Oh, we're recording from the second microphone. Just far away, I'm very noisy. Okay, let's do this. We're gonna make no trumpet. Come on. Okay, what we need to do is find out what note is this. All right, and for that, we're gonna use a tuner. So it's G sharp. All right, G sharp. Now if we load this into a sampler and apply like an offset, so... I'm going to export this. And now we'll loop around back to Sphys, you know? Blowing nose, or ANFA blowing nose. Flak 24-bit, please. Agging, okay. Whatevs. That is awesome. It has a little bit of like a glissando in spilt-in. That's gonna be fine. It's gonna be interesting. Oh, that's not what I wanted. I wanted this, yeah. So this is Airwindows production drums, but that is not what I will be doing. A smack. Now the simplest idea is to just drag and drop that into Sphys. I see, there's a problem. We have too much. I need to cut this initial part because it has no melodic content. I'm gonna do it like that and export this again. Export. Oh, wait. Okay, it didn't crash. That's for, that's, that's, that's true. Again. Now it just, okay, now it worked immediately. Great. So where is this Sphys? Nose trumpet. By the way, we have a little bit less music today because everyone was, you know, doing new year stuff. Okay. Now we could also do pitch correction. So we could do auto talent. And that would be actually like really good. Correction, fixed pitch. Yes, pull to fixed pitch. Okay, let's see now. Look, that's pitch shift, scale notes. Okay, negative 12. I don't want to pull it up. Is that A? If that's A, then we are golden. Oh, I'm just gonna export this range now because we need this with processing. So I'm gonna go. Nose trumpet. I don't want, I don't want, wait. It seems like Ardor doesn't want to export things. Okay, it's back. It's not just export function that locks sounds. It's export function that doesn't do anything ever. Oh, I'm kinda, maybe I'm just auto tune. I'm gonna auto tune this, the sequence itself. I'm just gonna be safer. I'm gonna mute this because it's our temp track. I'm gonna pull not to fixed pitch. We set that to zero. Correct transformments. Of course, we need to add our reverb send to put it into their space. Let's try and provide something. It definitely sounds like a modern pop star sound. Like all of the modern pop song have this sound. Now we know how they made it. A bit shifted auto tune that and there you go. Actually, this is not auto tuned. Oh, it is. Okay, correction smoothness. I think I need to also compress that. Semi decent and some, some small spots. This is perfect, just a little bit too early. I think this is master fully done. I have an idea to like prolong these sounds. I'm gonna use MIDI transpose. Do it two octaves down. Do it one octave up here and do it twice. There you go. Okay, something's not right. Ah, okay, I see that.  That is not, all right. That's a legit crash there, right there. Can I have Ardor? Can I has Ardor? Okay, yeah, I couldn't run it. So come on. Okay, now, yeah, this is the beauty of Jack. So now I will have to like restart Jack and every all that the entire streaming setup and everything just to get Ardor running again. I say no unto that.  Okay, there is no way for me to run Ardor right now. Just won't run. It will not run. See, Ardor six. See, maybe this is a different version. Loading UI configuration. Can't load Adawita. That's nothing, that's not important. But what is important is I can't run Ardor right now. See, if I, again, I can restart Jack but this will take down the stream so I will have to restart the stream. That's a bit risky. Plus, we actually should go to music contributions, music submissions anyway. So I think I'll just skip that battle of, hey look, we have Ardor here. Oh, oh no, I'm gonna crash Carla as well. No, no touchy. The magnificent sneezing solo is gone. Says musicada sancti, sanctif, sancti. Yay. So, yeah, that was that. And somehow, oh yeah, I see. What the, all righty, okay, okay. Okay, maybe I'll finish this track up and post it on my community chat or maybe on my, like, audience because SoundCloud, I'm way over limit for years and I don't wanna pay SoundCloud. Or just, I don't know. It's been fun. We might have a backup. Oh, we'll surely have backup. Ardor has finally fixed the crash recovery some time ago when I was, like, screaming and throwing bombs at the developers to do that and they did it. I'm not too worried about the crash. I just, I'm a little annoyed that we couldn't do a little bit more. BlueStar says, thought you switched to pipe wire. I did, but I switched back because I had some issues. Namely, I couldn't export from Ardor and I had a lot of crashes of Ardor and Carla, which is part of my live streaming setup so I can't have that. My goodness. Yeah, I have the, somehow the tolls paper just blew to shreds and I have everywhere. It's flying everywhere. Snort trumpet SFZ, please. Okay, sure. I can publish the sample under CC0. It's very crappily made because it recorded from the SM57, which is out there very far away. It has the mic gain turned all the way down so it has a ton of mic preamp noise. I could record some more samples of higher quality but it's not a problem. Alrighty. Let's get on with the music submission. So now I'll play music that you guys have created and submitted to the live stream. In every live stream and video description, there is a link to a form, a Google form where you can submit your music. You need to read up under rules because there are some rules and limitations. You need to use open source software that is quite like the must have and also you must not use any copyrighted samples because that gives me trouble. Let's leave it at that. And I don't want that. I don't want trouble. I want to do this show and have everyone enjoy it and have fun and hear their music played live and me commenting on it and we all like, this is to inspire the community and show and hear what everyone is doing with free and open source software regarding music. So let's go. We're starting with OV's track titled Underground Prison and we're not having audio output. So let me check that because that is something that happens sometimes when you do things and I do things, definitely. That is not the thing I thought this. So maybe it's something else. If that is the case, hold on. Wait, yeah, I don't know. All right, I don't know.  Why? What the? Okay, that's really not nice. You don't do that on my watch. When I say play, you play. Okay. Don't do this. I think something is not right. Well, that much I know. What is more, I cannot tell. Oh, everything hangs when I touch it. That's not good. I think it's all fault. If I, I think it's all Ardor's fault. I think I need to kill Ardor and, oh no, no, no, no, no. Don't start Ardor again. I bet now that we killed Ardor, everything is gonna be better. I blame Linus Tech Tips. That's a good one. You know what? I think I just need to restart my stream and die. Yeah, I think Ardor messed up something really bad. So hold on. I'll be back in a minute. I said, hold on. Alrighty. I am back and so should be the music. Give me the playlist, dude. Let's see. All right, now we go. This is Underground Prison by OV. FN sound design, I think. Dumb, steppy stuff. Very retro, very steppy. This track was made with Ardor, Oden 2, and Zenats of FX. These sounds are very unique. I really like that. The glitchy clicks are a little bit too much, in my opinion. Sometimes they're painful. Alrighty, that was Underground Prison by OV. And now, the Argent Grub, with a track titled, Don't Spread Germs. That track was made with Ardor. Number two, I handkerchief. Excellent. Number three. I guess that's the Albemart. So that was Don't Spread Germs by the Argent Grub. And now, a track titled Champs by, I don't know, they didn't name the file properly. That seemed to have been cut short, for some reason. Okay, the artist is named Le Furpat. Le Furpat, I don't know, maybe this is in French. And yeah, the title of the track, Champs, probably also in French, Work in Progress-ish. And that was made with FAMY Studio, a free and open source, awesome tracker and retro chip emulator. That's new. I have never heard a piece made in FAMY Studio before. Interesting. Nice. Thanks. And now, a track titled, Energy Inside, short by Steve Pixis. So this is Energy Inside, and it was made with LMS, XenotsubFX, Calf Vocoder. Steve also writes, Artistic Concept. Am I a joke to you? I really like the bass and kick sound and how this is all mixed. It's very clean and punchy. Pretty well sits in the style it presents. So simple, yet it does a good job. That was Energy Inside, short by Steve Pixis. And now, a track titled, Pool by SG75. This one was made with Ardor, and lots of air windows, that's what they write. Calf and LSP plugins. Guitars are synthesized with helm and processed with guitarics. Drums are sampled from air windows. Bass is recorded, excused by bad timing. And vocals are in public domain from Frees on the Dark. It's from a Hollywood sound library, which was on optical tape. This is a sound titled, Graph Man Shouts at Two Horses. That explains what the poll means. Strange Animal says, Oh, Anfa, you should really do a video on FAMY Studio. This program is actually pretty sweet. There were some questions if it's open source or just freeware. It is open source, I've just found it on GitHub. It's under MIT. Come on, Sandy! General, McGee, pull! Strange Animal says, I can't believe it's not guitar. It's... Come on! It sounds a little bit mechanic, with the repeated notes. If you can do some more randomness. It would also make it look better, but it's sounding pretty interesting. Very nice. That was PULL by SG-75. And now, a track titled, Insecurity, Broken Progress by Schlagzeugtier. And I can hear some ad-lib sounds. This was made of Ardor 6.6. Ardor... Sense of effects. Search, Vitalyomikitankyou. We're thinking of something else. Calf compressor, Calf reverb. Insecurity, quashing. Interesting, I wonder where do the vocals come from? I guess they are recorded for the song. Schlagzeugtier says, Big of a change in style. Yes, indeed. We're all over the map. I really like the carpis chord. FM carpis chord sound. Schlagzeugtier wrote that they watched a lot of my videos and made the sounds using that info. So I'm glad I could help. Electro-composition. Yeah, a little bit of reverb on the vocal would be nice, I think. Alrighty, that was Insecurity, Working Progress by Schlagzeugtier. I wonder who's singing. Is it you, Schlagzeugtier? And now a track titled Deep Sleep by Lifeline. This one was made with LMMS. This is the NecklacebFX. Also B-Spoke and VCV Rack. Yep, interesting. I like the sound design. I would like a little bit more variation maybe in the flow. It gets a little bit, I would say, hypnotic. But maybe that's intentional. Nice. That was Deep Sleep by Lifeline. And now we'll hear Solstice by Quantizer. This was made with LMMS. The NecklacebFX and Vival, mostly Vival. And Audacity. I like that the bass gives pauses, so it's not like playing all the time. There's like parts where you can... Different instruments are on the first place, in the first layer on the front. I like the chord change here. By the way, I will include links to all the artists in the livestream archive description on YouTube. So you can check back after like usually a few days and you can find the artists in the internet. This is very unique and it's funny because Quantizer definitely has his own sound. It's also a sound I haven't heard anywhere else. But he's evolving with the music and every track is different and I like these especially newer works of his for layers. Alrighty. That was Solstice by Quantizer. And now a track by Outer Mind, titled Crystal Clear. We'll work into Work in Progress 2. Preview. This was made with LMMS. Surge Vatsim SFXR. Limble kick. Valhalla Supermassive. Okay, that's not Frost. Stuck plugins for other effects. B-Music says Hardstyle will never die! I like the melody in the background. Yeah, nice moldical wood rig down. Also, Outer Mind has fit exactly in the time limit. Slotted for these tracks, which is three minutes. So that's nice. Alrighty. That was Crystal Clear by Outer Mind. And now a track titled Candidate for the King's Throne by Xavier Treningovsky. Let's hear it. The hi-hat is kind of overshadowing everything else. I really like the rhythm. It's kind of like a jazzy hard rock. It's like jazzy hard rock. I really like that. Okay, that's all the submissions for today. Huge thanks to everyone who submitted their music. You're co-creating this show doing that. And also, I have managed to load the project. So we can listen one more time for, oh, I see some missing parts. Let's go and fix that very quickly. Oh my goodness. I don't know what's going on here, but it's not good. Oh, it looks like we are missing some drum parts. Important drum parts. Oh, sick. Oh, that's that's our door for you. Yeah, whatever. Let's listen to it. Oh, the no-strumpet isn't playing. Let's go. Let's go.  Okay. I think Ardor just pissed itself and like did some really weird things. Like what the hell is that? And like why there are no drums here? Okay, I can recreate them looking at the live stream. If I need a reference. Yeah, that's unfortunately Ardor in MIDI. MIDI in Ardor isn't perfect and it wasn't and it isn't. Yeah. Okay, that is all for today. I do a live playtesting session of my game Lidlast. Join the team and other people in this game. And also writing down bugs. I'm going to take 15 minutes of a break and I'll see you in the other stream very soon. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for submitting your music. Huge, huge thanks to everyone who supported my work financially. Streams and more videos about open source synthesizers, plugins, etc. Or basically open source audio nerds. You can go to chat.anfa.xyz and then you will find a ANFA community. A lot of people copying each other's solve issues. Airwindows says thank you. I'm going to go jam inspired by what you are doing. Awesome. If you happen to record any of that, I'd love to hear it. And if I say thanks ANFA, take the triplets and the percussion. Yeah, well I'll have to restore them. Even if I begin on time and I did begin on time, Lashdad says dumble the Lidlast now. Awesome. I'm going to frag you with rockets then very soon. I've been working on the game for the past few days. I think questions about what we've been doing, any suggestions for it. Suggestions really help me figure out what the community wants to see, wants to learn about. Unless it's something I am exclusively. Well, it wasn't widely known that Monique has gone open source. I was happy to be able to bring you the news. Okay, I'm saying goodbye for the fifth time now, I guess. Why so slow? Oh, it just ended. Okay. Oh, it's Bristol. Yeah. So now go and make some music. Or maybe possibly first go and download The Blast and play with me and other guys. And there you go, make some nice making music. Unless you have some really good NTS there right now.


Income tax 2022-2023. Unemployment compensation. Tax software example. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Support a counting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Here we are in our example form 1040 populated with an assert tax software you don't need tax software to follow along but it's a great tool to run example problems with. You can also get access to the form 1040 related forms and schedules at the IRS website irs.gov irs.gov starting point same as usual single filer Mr. Anderson no dependence we've got the 100,000 w2 income the standard deduction at the 12,950 getting us to the 87,050 if I pull that on over to our tax formula worksheet 100,000 income 12,950 87,050 taxable income we've got the tax calculated by the software page 2 at the 14774 the 15,000 of the withholdings that we're going to say gets us to the 22,226 so there is here 226 we're mainly focused on the first half first half hour we separate then the income side the income statement or taxable income calculated on page one and we're now considering the unemployment compensation. So usually if there's unemployment compensation you'll get the form for it and it's a pretty straightforward type of thing because you'll have a 1099 g typically and that usually indicates that we have income the most complicated thing oftentimes from a tax preparation standpoint for the unemployment compensation is discussing it with the client because they're often going to say hey I thought I thought that that they didn't include unemployment compensation and it's like well yeah that's because last year they did funny stuff the whole COVID thing and they tried to remove the unemployment compensation but it was only a temporary thing like a lot of the temporary stuff and now it's back so now they're including it again they might say well why does that make sense because the government is giving me money and then the government wants the money back you'll have your money back in 30 days and it's like well yeah that's because the state government is giving the money for the unemployment compensation or the local government but on the federal side of things they see that as in essence you know compensation compensation for last night's unfortunately and whatnot for the income tax purposes or whatever and that's just kind of like the rule well what about the fact that I didn't and I didn't have any withholdings on the unemployment compensation it's like well that might work out good that might work out bad because if you lost your job in the middle of the year your withholdings up until that point were probably over withheld which means that might be enough to cover your unemployment compensation however if you got a significant amount of unemployment compensation and very little withholdings then yes that could result in a bad tax consequence okay that said if I just jump to the 1099g and we just say this is going to be the state unemployment unemployment I probably spelled it wrong whatever don't let it drive you crazy or anything this is going to be then right here unemployment compensation so let's say we got 10 000 there boom and then if I go back on over that's going to pull on over into our reform so we're on the schedule one and there's the 10 000 line number seven that then is going to be totaling up down below at the 10 000 pulling back into the form 10 40 10 40 still have the w2 income at the 100 000 and then I'm saying that there's unemployment compensation now you would think that maybe the income wouldn't be quite so high if they had unemployment compensation from the w2 income but just an example problem here so that brings us up to 110 000 and then we've got the standard deduction and so on if you want to put that into our form over here we can say that's going to be a schedule one income item and so I've got alimony alimony here so I'm going to add some lines and say I'm just going to say unemployment unemployment and let's make it uh let's make it black and white I'll leave a couple spaces in case I don't know what maybe we got a couple of them for spouses or whatever so this will just be just the first one unemployment unemployment and I said it was 10 000 so this will be total unemployment let's check the spelling of this thing did you spell it right I did of course I did spelling master if I went back to like grade school I could probably skip in like the 50 percent percent tile of the first graders so I'm going to say let's delete the let's pull this in I'm going to sum this up boom let's bring it on over to page the formula 110 and there's the 12 950 get this to the 97 50 97 50 page 2 17 134 so let's put that here 17 134 and the calculation of the 15 000 withholdings gets us to the 2134 but they probably calculated some penalties of 17 dollars put the penalties for 17 2151 2151 so the general idea of course is in most cases the unemployment is going to be uh includeable in income now remember if there was a situation where the unemployment was wrong for whatever reason and there was a lot of fraud cases that it seemed that the iris was was checking on before meaning you got a 10 99 g but you didn't actually get the 10 000 in this case you want to go to the issuer of the 10 99 and try to get them to give the iris that corrected 10 99 otherwise you're going to have a problem if you had to repay some of the 10 000 because they overpaid you then you're going to say okay they gave me a 10 99 for the 10 000 but i paid back like 1000 let's say so then if i go back on over we've got the difference of 9 000 and it's noting here the 1000 that was paid that's important because the iris of course is going to have a 10 99 that says 10 000 on it so you want to be able to tell them yes there was 10 000 maybe on it but i repaid part of it the refund part of it and therefore it's down to 9 000 so that then they can still tie in the 10 99 to your tax form if you just put 9 000 net without this information then that you would expect the government would probably come back at you and and and say that that that you didn't include the proper amount on the form 10 99 so that kind of detail is important now if you had income from a prior year that basically you had to refund then you might need to look at some instructions with regards to should you amend the prior year or something like that but if the prior year if like in the prior year like 2021 they didn't include unemployment compensation and income then you may not have you know you might not have an issue in that in that instance because because it wouldn't have been included in income anyways but in any case that's the general idea it's usually included in income be careful with the withholding situation if you're if you're in a tax preparation situation and people are calling you and saying hey look i'm getting unemployment because i'm i'm gonna be laid off or whatever then the question is should you have withholdings or not and you might need to do a projection to figure that out actually accurately and and so that's something just to keep in mind as well going forward obviously when you actually do the tax preparation it is what it is by that time you're gonna have to do what's been dictated generally by the 10 99 which is generally to include it in income


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With his faithful Indian companion title, The daring and resourceful mass writer of the plains Led the fight for law and order, In the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history, Can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now, To those thrilling days of yesteryear. From the past, come the thundering hoof beats Of the great horse Silver, The lone ranger rides again. Come on Silver, let's go because I am Silver! The lone ranger and Toto rode into the valley. Toto, look ahead. Smoking ruins of a wagon train. Ah, that bad. We're tears for any survivors. Come on Silver! In a few minutes, the last man You'll wane to a stop at the scene of the attack. Oh, oh, oh! These were army transports Toto. Ah, I'm attacked by Indians. We see plenty of them. No, I'm survived. This must be the work of chief life feather in his braves. I hope something could be done to get them To return to the reservation before they went on the war path.  That means more trouble, Kimusabi. We'll ride to the fort and report the attack. Let's go. The lone ranger had come into the territory because of a written request he had received from the major through the Padre at the mission. It was this note which procured him ready admittance to the major's headquarters. Major, here's the mask, men. Oh, have him. Come right in, Lieutenant. You come in, too. Yes, sir. Come right in, mister. Thanks. I think it's mighty good to see you again, my friend. Sit down, sir. Thank you, Major DeWitt. As soon as the guard brought in that note, I'd sent you. I had Lieutenant go out to escort you to my headquarters. Sit down, Lieutenant. Thank you, sir. Lieutenant Kinney is the only one who knew I sent for him. Major, I have bad news. Bad news? What do you mean? On our way here, my friend Totonai found the ruins of a wagon train. What? Army transport. Indians had attacked and there were no survivors. Great help. They must be the wagons that were bringing the rifles and ammunition. We expected them late today. And what I feared had started. Chief Lightfeather and his Indians have gone in a war pass. That's right, Major. The sign showed there were hundreds that took part in the attack. This is serious, Major. We needed those rifles and the ammunition greatly. And to have them in the hands of those Indians means they're now in good condition to make plenty of trouble. The brains that the Indians knew what was in those wagons. We have transports bringing foodstuffs every week. And no one knew we were expecting rifles and ammunition on this trip. No one knew except us, Major, and they trusted picked men who were bringing them in. You're new here at the fort, aren't you, Lieutenant? Yes, sir. Well, that is, I came here two months ago. You see, sir, Kenny's a replacement for Lieutenant... I should say former Lieutenant Hooker, the officer you met when you were here before. Well, what happened to Hooker? I noticed you said former Lieutenant... Hooker was court-martialed and expelled from the service for insubordination and conduct unbecoming an officer. I see. Frankly, I didn't like Hooker when I met him. He was a disgrace to the service, sir. I knew Lieutenant Kenny back east and requested he be sent here because I know he's to be trusted. Well, thank you, Major. No, it was a matter at hand. Make out a report of the disaster, Lieutenant. Then send it by courier with a requisition for more rifles and ammunition. Yes, sir. It will take about a month for the new shipment to come through to the supply depot at Fort Worth. I know, I know. But I hope there'll be no further trouble before they arrive. Why did you send for me, Major? I value your advice and judgment, sir. But your keen knowledge of the Indians, I'd hoped you might help me think of some way to reason with cheap life, whether... His success in getting armed for his braze will make him more determined to resist going back to the reservation. I know. I realize the situation is a tense one. I'll send the Fort McCavitt 30 miles north of here for reinforcements. Then you think the Indians might even attack the Fort? It's possible. How do I keep watch and let you know what we find out? All right, sir. I'll send someone to McCavitt at once. Just knowing you're near will be a relief. Oh, thanks. We'll do all we can. Goodbye for a while, sir. Goodbye, sir. Below Ranger met Totho outside the fort and the two men rode into the nearby hills and made a temporary camp. The sun had gone down and the black moon lighted the countryside. Below Ranger told Totho of his talk with the Major. Then he added, We'll ride into the foothills and try to locate the Indians in campment. Ah. I noted the general direction they took when we looked at the pony tracks from the valley this afternoon. Oh, what we do if we find the Indians camp? Try to find out what they might do next, Totho. Let's get going. Hello, sir. Below Ranger and Totho continually on the alert for any sign of prowling Indians rode several miles into the foothills. Finally, they moved along a ridge that overlooked the secluded valley. They drew rings along the trees and they heard distant drums and caught a glimpse of a big campfire below. The masked man and his companion crawled to the edge of the ridge and cautiously looked down. These celebrations come to an end, Totho. Ah. Yeah. That's good. The chief is walking to the center of the ring of braze. There's a white man with him. I can't quite make out who. Now he's facing this way. Him. Pull up from forth, maybe. I recognize him. He's Hooker. The man who was cashiered from the army. Oh. Maybe him behind all trouble. That's what I think. Now Hooker's mounting a horse alone. Here, take a look. Ah. Ah. Me see him. He believed now, right to end the valley. We were cut down along the ridge in following Totho. Let's get to the horses. Ah. Come on, Totho. Come on, scout. The low ranger and Totho followed Hooker for some distance. Finally, the ex-officer turned off the trail and stopped before a dark, deserted shack. The low ranger and Totho waited until they saw a light in the shack. Then they approached on foot cautiously. A piece of burlap hung on the inside of the partly open side window. There was a narrow, uncovered space at the bottom which allowed the masked man and Indian a view of the interior. They saw Hooker talking to an Indian dressed in buckskins. Well, I just came from the Indian camp. Now our plans are best. Me, come from Fort Terrace. Wait here like before. You bring more news? Ah. Them sent out riders to Fort McCavitt. Try to get other troopers come to Fort Terrace. That rider isn't going to get very far. Life better have plenty of braves walking the trail to Fort McCavitt. Now, make yourself at know about the requisition blank you sneaked from the office and brought to me a few weeks ago, does he? Him not find out. After you write on blank, me follow Sergeant to take Coopers to get rifles with ammunition. Him think me bring papers from Fort Terrace. Yeah, that did the trick. It's got them to bring all the stuff we wanted. We got it when we attack the William train. Our light, feather, and braves ready to attack Fort Garrett after dawn? Yes. You'd better get back to the Fort. Let's get away from here quick. Ah. They're way here in the trees until they leave. Ah. Me not savvy. What can you say about paper him thick? I don't either. I'm going to find out. I'll go to Fort Terrartotto. Warn them about the coming attack. The Fort should fall. A general massacre along nearby settlers would follow. Ah. You'd like to go out and check now? Yes. So you haven't much time, Tutto. First I want you to go to town and stop the telegraph office. 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Get the whole family off to a good start every morning with Cheerios. Then you'll hear people say, He's feeling his Cheerios. Now to continue. After scribbling a message for Tutto to send by Telegraph, the lone ranger muttered silver and rode hurriedly to Fort Carrot. Now I understand much of what's going on. Major, I took the liberty of sending a Telegraph message to Fort Worth in your name. You mean in regard to that forged requisition you told me about? Yes, that's right. The answer to that Telegraph may decide how we'll meet the expected attack at dawn. Well, we'll return to town now and wait there for the answer. I'll be back as soon as possible, Major. Are you sure that mask man is to be trusted? Uh, just what are you driving at, Kenny? Just this, sir. You trusted Hooker once and he turned crooked. That mask man might betray us to Chief Lightfeather for his own gain. I thunder, Kenny, I sent for the lone ranger. And I... I'll speak my career. I'll resign my command if he doesn't come back and prove to be everything I believe him to be. As time passed, the lone ranger failed to return. Meanwhile, the man Hooker rode to the Indian stronghold and dismounted in front of the Chief's weightwamp. He wore an officer's uniform. All right, huh, huh, Kenny? He stood for a moment watching the war dance which was in progress. Chief Lightfeather came forward and spoke. Land of White Brother, Dunst. Many braves ready to follow you. Chief Lightfeather and other braves follow and wait over ridge in front of Fort. It's good, Chief Lightfeather. We shall not fail. Ah, wisdom of White Brother is great. Now I'll inspect the braves who will follow. They must obey the orders I have given and shall give. I'm short. You train them well. Braves of Chief Lightfeather will obey White Brother. Come, we go see him now. There was a tenseness throughout the fort as the night wore on. This tenseness increased as one of the White Army Scouts arrived with the news that the courier who had started for Fort McCavitt to request reinforcements had been found dead a few miles away. Lieutenant Kenny stood with a major on one of the ramparts near the front gate. He was saying... Major Matters and Most Ferry. If an attack is imminent it seems it's been a mistake to put all our plates in that match. Would dare question my judgment, Lieutenant. No, it isn't that, sir. The fate of all of us is soon to be decided. Dawn is almost here. We're in no position to ward off a big attack. I'm well aware of that. But remember, the Lone Ranger is the one who warned us of an attack. Might be that he did so to keep us all here while the Indians moved to strike elsewhere. I don't believe it. May I remind you, sir, that a trip to town and back would take far less than an hour's time.  Time will tell. The sun's just coming up. If there's to be an attack... Hey! Open the gate! Open the gate! The sun is a little ripe. Look yonder. A couple of troopers is heading for the port. That's still a quarter of a mile away. Shall I give orders to open the gate, sir? Yes, by all means. Stand by to open the gate! Look, Major. It's bringing in a wide circle around them. A horseman riding in a gala. He's got a lot of luck here. Why is the Lone Ranger? Why does he? The troopers are firing at him. He seems to be just out of range. They're shooting because of his mask. He's got none of the gates with him. Over those gates now. Troopers are galloping after him. They're still shooting. They're making a mistake. But thank heaven he's out of range. Here he comes. Oh, he's going to be caught. Quick, Major. Close the gate. That's easy, sir. Don't listen. He's trying to trick us. Those are not troopers. That's Hooker leading this guy's Indians. Close the gate before it's too late. Leave me, Major. I approve. Close the gate. Open fire. I'll not let you make this mistake, Major. Get out of the way. Quick, close these gates. I got a glimpse of Hooker leading them. That's right. Look, others are coming over the ridge now. The rest of the Indians. As the troopers watched a wave of Indians roll over the ridge and moved toward the forest, the disguised Indians and raged by the discovery of their trickery tossed away the army hats and jackets they wore, disclosing their true identity. As the waves of bothered Indians pressed forward, many of those in front rolled back and forth shooting at the stockade walls. A battle went on unabated. The lone rain turned the Major climb to the ramparts carrying rifles. From this vantage point, the masked man saw Hooker encouraging the Indians as he galloped along in front of the stockade and quickly just thought of range. The Major spoke. There's that traitor Hooker. Disgracing the uniform he has the nerve to wear. The law was shot, but I'm going to try to bring him down. As the lone ranger aimed his rifle in hopes of wounding Hooker, two frenzied Indians who had been riding well ahead of the traitor suddenly turned and shot arrows directly at the uniformed man. Hooker fell to the ground with an arrow in his breast. Look, an arrow struck Hooker. I think it killed him. The Indians blamed him for the failure of his own plan. He gave you a bullet. It's best that he go that way, sir. Look, more Indians coming. Our case looks hopeless. We'll soon run out of ammunition. You keep fighting until that happens, Major. As the battle continued without let up, it seemed the Indians would soon win the fort by a force of numbers. Then a welcome sound was heard. Major, look. Now the troopers are really coming. But how did they know? I don't went for them last night. In a short time the Indians, caught between the fire from the fort and from the approaching troopers, tried to fight back. Then as their chief fell wounded, they broke, scattering in all directions. The battle was over. The Major turned and for a moment placed his hand on the lone ranger's shoulder, a silent gesture that spoke his extreme thanks. Then the two men climbed down to order the gates open then to meet the approaching troopers. A short time later, they met near the fort gates. The captain who had led the reinforcements was speaking. Major, today is full of surprises. First, you introduce a mask man as a friend and second, we discovered many of the Indians wearing parts of trooper uniforms and used an army saddle fat. The Major will explain both the mask and the uniforms, Captain. I'll explain about the uniforms first, Captain. My friend whom you designate as the mask man became suspicious concerning a certain forged requisition he knew about. He telegraphed the supply depot last night. This is the reply he received. The slide hearing increased. Requisition forms received by us some weeks ago called for a stated amount of rifles and ammunition and for 50 complete uniforms and army saddles. The requisition for the uniforms and saddles was forged by Ex Lieutenant Hooker. He was working hand in glove with the Indians. The wagon train bringing the supplies was attacked. Hooker planned that when he sent that requisition. You were clever enough to suspect trickery, sir. But what kept you so long? Oh, the telegram was late and coming. I realized Hooker wanted those uniforms and saddles for a purpose. I saw him right out of town followed and I saw him leave the Indian camp with Indians dressed as troopers. I knew his plan. And at the risk of your life, Hooker and his disguised Indians did. I didn't have time to give you the telegram and point out what it meant, Major. I'm proud that you had faith enough in my word to act as you did. I've been listening to what has been said. Well, sir... Lieutenant, I'm sorry for the rough treatment. There was no time for argument or explanation. I don't know how to apologize for what I saw. Apologies aren't necessary. You were doing your duty as you saw it, Lieutenant. Shake your hands, sir. Why, of course. Hooker and Chief Lightfeather are both dead. You'll have no trouble rounding up the Indians to go back to the reservation. With those two out of the way, I'm sure we'll have no further trouble. Pato and I'll leave now, sir. We're glad we were able to help. We're both proud of the men who serve our country so well. And we're proud, my friend, to have two such loyal and courageous Americans serving the West. Howdy, old man. By thunder there goes a real man. I agree with that, Captain. Major, you forgot to explain who he is, sir. Oh, I didn't forget, Captain. I didn't want to embarrass him by saying that his name will go down in history for his valiant deeds. Deeds performed as a true American without the desire for personal gain and glory. 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