The JFOs work with the JTACs to help control helicopters and attack aviation fixed-wing jet fighters. And they have to work with the planes and work with the helicopters actually shooting ammunition. So our guys had the opportunity to train side-by-side with the Maryland National Guard. I couldn't be more proud to see them together with the ATEMs doing this fantastic job here. And I want to thank Maryland National Guard for being such a great and good partner for 21 years already. When you're listening on the radio, you don't know if it's an American JTAC or a JTAC from the Armed Forces Advisor to the Governor. You can't even tell. They're just as professional and proficient. And that's super humbling to get to work with professionals like that. My guys aren't going anyway. They're going to keep doing this for years and years and years. And we're going to do this again every year. And I'm looking forward to keeping this partnership going.


This is a businessman. His business is organized crime. His products include gambling, narcotics, vise, loan sharking, stolen goods, labor racketeering, and goons for hire. Illegal gambling brings in his biggest profits, working capital to finance other criminal activities. Bribery and corruption of public officials, including some police officers, almost always accompany large-scale illegal gambling. The law enforcement officer must avoid any such involvement. Besides corrupting the community, he is sworn to protect. Involvement puts him in personal jeopardy, from local statutes and from the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. This provides federal penalties for public officials who conspire to obstruct enforcement of local laws against gambling. Besides protection, Organized Crime provides layoff service for bookmakers and numbers operators, two of the largest illegal gambling activities. This call comes from the office of a numbers operation. The office manager may be called a controller, the office at drop, check up, or counting house, the clerk's inside men, varying with the locality. Here numbers bets are received and tallied, necessary records kept. Numbers operations take bets on number groups, usually three, in a given order. Digits are determined by drawing, as in policy and belita, or by daily published figures such as paramutual payoffs, treasury balances, or stock exchange action. A lookout guards the outer door to the numbers office. But this and the other elaborate security precautions are no match for good police work. A stakeout team has had the building which houses the numbers office under visual observation. Binoculars pick up significant details of visitors and their cars. A telephoto camera records any suspicious activity to be later used as evidence. From this command post, the officer in charge maintains radio contact with other police units, prepared to coordinate the coming raid with citywide arrests of numbers salesmen. The numbers salesman is usually called a writer. He may work a regular route or from a fixed place of business. Most of the bets are small, but the day's total will be surprisingly large. The marker lists the three-digit number and the amount bet. Markers are prepared for secure delivery to the pickup man or runner. But numbers sellers need customers. They cannot long remain unknown to the police. Winning numbers are called hits. The writer pays off his few lucky winners. The payoff on a straight three-number bet runs from 400 to 600 to 1. Smaller odds are paid on cut numbers, those heavily played because of superstition or other reasons. Correct odds should be 999 to 1. This differential leaves a small percentage for the writer. Huge profits for the numbers operation. The temporarily happy winner is not the target. The stakeout waits for bigger gain. The runner works for the office or bank that owns the numbers operation. He controls as many writers as he can handle. He makes his pickup like an ordinary customer to avoid detection. This time it doesn't work. His departure is noted, and the command post watching the numbers office is alerted for his arrival. The runner reaches the innocent seeming outer door of the numbers office. The lookout signal clears him through the secured door inside. Unit five, take the lookout as planned. It is the last free action the lookout will make for some time. The heavy door with its alarm system is open for the runner, bringing in the last of the day's bets. The cash has probably been rooted separately to another location called the bank, headquarters or clearinghouse. The clerks have run up the totals and the controller is ready to make any necessary layoffs on heavily played numbers through an agency of organized crime. A perimutual payoff at a distant track determines the final digit of the winning number. Unit three, lookout neutralized. Move on in. Police. We have a warrant. Open up. Open up when we're coming in. Judicial approval may authorize immediate entry without waiting for permission. Know what method of entry is authorized in your case. All surveillance units proceed with pre-planned arrest. When there is no longer danger of premature tip-off, the small fry of the numbers operation are arrested. With the subjects from the numbers office on their way, detectives are collecting, identifying and preserving the evidence. Some of it partially burned but salvageable by good laboratory work. The patrolman guarding the rear exit during the raid brings in the important records that literally fell into his hands. Usable evidence results from good police work. Planning the raid for maximum evidence and for swift entry to prevent its destruction. Effective uncompromising law enforcement can make numbers operations increasingly hazardous and unprofitable. Illegal dice or card games and gambling casinos are often linked with organized crime and the corruption which is its trademark. Gaming may be found in the plush legalized gambling casinos of Las Vegas. It may also be found in illegal floating dice games often set up in hotel or motel rooms or their one-night stands. The equipment can be transported in a suitcase. Every part of it from the layout to the dice is suspect. So are the operator and his assistant. Some players are regulars informed of the floating location. Many are transients looking for action and are easy to cheat safely. To find these marks the operator uses stirrers taxi drivers bartenders Bellman. This driver is kept posted on the game location and will get a fee or percentage for the apparently half drunk well-heeled sucker he brings to the scene of the action. A confederate keeps watch in a separate room ready to signal an alarm. He may also double a strong arm man in case a loser starts trouble. It is to the lookout's room that the stirrer has sent his passenger. To the cold and experienced eye of the lookout this half drunk sucker looks ripe for picking. He gives him the room number of the floating crap game and signals the operator to expect him.  A suddenly sober undercover detective. His concealed mic gets word to the team waiting below. Unit 5 this is T1 the lookout in 514 has an alarm buzzer in the door frame. I'm proceeding to the game in 519 monitor me and execute the plan when gambling is established. Unit 5 to all units proceed as planned. How about some chips chips and what's that $20 about 20 take a big 20 there for you. Hey here we go. Here we go. Here we go. What's the point. What's the point. And the point. And the point. Eight. Okay, baby. Okay. Okay. Come on there. Statutes concerning players in an illegal game vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.  Place your there's no question anywhere about the arrest of the operator and his confederates. Besides police testimony the case will depend upon the considerable amount of physical evidence and its nature. It will be carefully identified marked and preserved for the trial. Good police work by an undercover detective has put this illegal gambling operation out of business. Bookmaking is a most profitable enterprise for organized crime which provides two essential services to the individual bookmaker laying off his bets and furnishing the information he needs to calculate his odds. The largest amounts of money are bet on sports events football basketball ice hockey and baseball horse betting once the bookmaker stand by is next in volume. A successful bookmaking operation depends upon rapid relay of odds line information and results. Expert sports handicappers often employed by organized crime provide the analysis upon which odds are based. Team and player records and condition. Location of the game. Probable weather. The bookmaker uses long distance phone to get this information fast and frequently. He also makes out of town calls to the bankers of organized crime to lay off his bets and keep the book in balance. So that these incriminating toll calls are not charged to the apartment he rents for a few hours each day. He has attached to the telephone and electronic device the blue box. Like all evasive devices it violates telephone company regulations. The blue box circuitry permits the user to make toll free unrecorded and untraceable calls wherever direct distance dialing is available. Through the blue box phone the bookmaker gets the latest point spreads on the college games he is booking. On football or basketball the better usually wagers eleven dollars on a pick them basis to win ten. Point spreads reflect the handicapper estimate of the competing teams. Baseball bets are usually placed at varying odds based upon the pitchers for the day as well as the team record. To receive the incoming calls from betters on which his livelihood depends the bookmaker relies on several devices which may keep his location or private phone secret. One is the backstrap a simple circuit which connects the bookmaker's unauthorized extension to an authorized and listed telephone at a nearby but separate and clean location. Another way to prevent his incoming calls being traced or his location revealed is by installing a black box a somewhat more complex electronic device. It absorbs the electrical impulses on incoming calls so that they do not record at the telephone company's central billing equipment. This bookmaker however uses the more sophisticated cheese box to conceal his location and private telephone number. He maintains a private phone elsewhere than the apartment from which he works with a number known only to him. He keeps an open line from his apartment to this phone at pre-arranged hours known to his customers. They have a different number to call connecting them with still another phone which may be in an empty room or other clean location. This call is switched through the cheese box to the bookmaker's private phone also in a clean location. Then during the hours that he monitors this phone from his apartment he can converse with the customer who has called an entirely different number to reach him. Other elements in the elaborate screen of deception may be markers or records on instantly disposable water soluble or flash paper but even the tightest screen will not shield against vigorous and uncompromising police work. Informants are a prime source for discovery of illegal gambling. They may be on a police payroll, regular bettors, competitors or disgruntled employees. This is a housewife who has discovered where most of her husband's paychecks are going, betting on sports. She gives the detectives the accommodation number that she knows her husband calls to make wagers. Even then it is not easy to find the bookmaker's actual location. The telephone company will aid in tracing it through the maze of electronic evasion. Having located the apartment that the bookmaker works from a few hours each day they keep it under surveillance. They learn the daily routine and plan for a legal yet fast entry when the action is heaviest. Evidence most plentiful. The bookmaker is off the cheese box open line. With all bets in for that day he finds that to balance his book and ensure a profit he must lay off some heavily played teams. It is time to call the bookmaker's bookmaker almost always an agent of organized crime.  Without it few bookmakers could operate. His heavy work over he waits expectantly for delivery of his daily sandwich. Information leads to investigation. Investigation to surveillance. Surveillance to apprehension. It pays off. Armed with a warrant police plan their raid when the maximum evidence would be on hand and with minimum chance for its destruction. There is no cooperation from the bookmaker but their continuing investigation will uncover other evidence. The unauthorized electronic equipment. The testimony of the not so innocent owners of the apartment. They find the water soluble paper on which the bets were written. And a little black notebook listing the bookmaker's lay off and line odd sources. They lead directly to organized crime. Without organized crime to bank numbers lay off bets protect gaming and bribe some officials and police officers illegal gambling could be stopped. Two gentlemen from the FBI to see you sir. You the officer must be aware of the connection between illegal gambling and organized crime. Only honest aware and informed law enforcement officers can bring the organized criminal before the bar of justice. Only incorruptible impartial and stern justice can make him pay for his crime. You must be informed on the major types of illegal gambling their M. O.'s and the applicable gambling statutes in your jurisdiction. You must be trained in effective techniques to discover the illegal gambling operation to informants observation and investigation to follow the operation as close to the top as possible to plan the arrests so as to acquire and preserve the necessary evidence for conviction.


So first off apologies for some technical difficulties get the stream to launch As you can see I'm not using my standard camera. I'm using a different webcam I don't know what's going on every time I get my main camera, which is right above this one to work streamlabs crashes I Don't know what's up with that. I use streamlabs OBS. Maybe I'm gonna have to switch back to normal OBS I don't know I would hate that to do that because I get a lot of benefits of this I think my next step is probably to uninstall streamlabs OBS Delete all of the scenes and saved Things I have on here Reinstall streamlabs OBS like I'm starting all over again and then try to rebuild my streamlabs for that Which as you can see my stream layouts aren't that complicated any ways to rebuild. I mean I have a few You know Fancy ones I guess like I have my game streaming one But even that one's not that complicated right now my industry event one is mostly just based on an image So I still have all those files locally. It'll be easy for me to recreate it I think that's my next step is to attempt to do that outside of that the only other thing I could do is Maybe there's malware or something on my computer. I'm not sure I could try doing a clean like sweep of the computer Wipe out everything Reinstall windows and try to start from a clean slate and just reinstall all my software But again, that's more of a drastic measure. I would help. I hope I don't have to go to that that extreme I won't have to delete certain data like all my video files. Those are on a storage Unstorage Drives but like the main 500 gig SSD I have I might I might just wipe that clean start fresh again Plus that SSD is kind of close to full anyways And when SSDs get really close to full This probably won't happen on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, but on PC when SSDs get really close to full They tend to have more issues like this caching errors a whole bunch of stuff. So Whatever all right WTF weren't you using that camera normally until recently so I've been using this camera Not this one. This this is my old Brio Logitech camera as you can see the colors aren't as good. You do get a wider angle But the colors aren't as good Sometimes it glitches out as well my main camera I've been using it with three lives OBS forever having that issue, but I don't know what's going on I think I think it's it's it's computer related. I think my I know my SSD has been failing a bit So I probably need to get a new one. It's just I'm just not gonna be able to get a new SSD Until next year, but I just need to be honest I have a lot of money already invested in next-gen systems games all that jazz I'm just not gonna be able to do that, but it's okay. Let's and giveaways, of course I got a fit. I got a wrap of all the current giveaways going on but let's get into Let's get into the meat of this the crux of this the Brux of what's going on Now I understand fully understand that a lot of people aren't going to care about What's going on with me going out with the channel you're just gonna come here You're gonna enjoy the videos you're gonna enjoy the streams and you're just gonna call it a day and that's fine That's the way it probably should be You guys all have lives you guys all have your own problems.  I'm I don't have any major problems going on in my life I got a good life. I got good family. I got good kids.  So my life's going pretty good My kids are pretty happy me and the fiance are really happy She's also working towards graduation in college as well. We I have a bright future ahead of us We're going on a cruise next year all this jazz, right? Everything's all good. I got next-gen platforms on lockdown I got plans galore for all that. It's going to be good times but one aspect of my life That I really enjoy it's kind of like my escape from Some of the everyday Congolings whether it's you know stress as a parent because parenting can be stressful Whether it's stress from doing college work because that can be stressful. Maybe there's you know Issues with the relationship. There isn't really any issues with a nice relationship But I'm just saying like if there's a fight or a stressor or something one nice escape is YouTube I enjoy YouTube. I enjoy making content on YouTube. Whether it's a standalone video or whether it's live stream Whether I'm streaming on Twitch playing a game when I'm streaming here and talking to you guys. I really enjoy this stuff but Obviously, I'm a really busy person with three kids college another job besides YouTube and As much as I enjoy this it's it's hard to To It's hard to justify spending a lot of time doing something that I really enjoy when there isn't a lot of Let's just say Boost to my life because of it now there are certain emotional boost, but let's just say I Hate to make it about money because everyone's got money issues. This is 2020 and I'm fine financially but the channel is Struggling through no fault of my own or no through fault no fault of anyone really because of YouTube YouTube as Essentially blacklisted my YouTube channel now. We're not talking about you can't find my content. You can't search for my channel Not that kind of lack listing They have decided That my viewership is How do I put it? I'm gonna use their exact words. I'm not gonna put words in their mouth use the exact words because They've decided that All of my traffic is invalid No, what is invalid traffic mean invalid traffic is Determined by YouTube determined by Google AdSense to be any traffic that is bought or paid for From a third-party vendor or website Any traffic that is Myself clicking on ads Yeah, damn right you're fine financially I was serious X in places you're five unlock like yeah, like I'm fine or I have you know Other other issues Other things that other extraneous sources for traffic that are not natural organic They want all traffic to be or go organic. They want all traffic to be natural in September We obviously had a massive boost right 3d all-stars videos blew up I've told the story already, you know YouTube went ahead and removed three thousand dollars worth of my revenue they wiped out traffic for two straight weeks and Because of that I've been in a back-and-forth with YouTube pretty much all of October and the scary thing is in October All of my revenue is being zeroed out every day. So I have made So I think it said last I checked 68 cents. I have made in October That is stupidly stupidly low For the amount of views I'm getting and it's kind of discouraging because I don't make this content Like I don't look at YouTube as like this big You know, oh my gosh, I'm making lots of money I look at YouTube as a way for me to escape, but also I'm able to justify to my family that I can escape more often Because of the money The money is nice to have Going to be honest. I was able to buy an Xbox Series X on a PlayStation 5 because of the money I made on YouTube Straight up. Otherwise, I would not have those pre-ordered paid off all that jazz So the reason I'm able to get this next-gen platform is because of YouTube the reason I'm able to you know Maybe take a family vacation like I did a few weekends ago is because of YouTube So I'm making enough money to get by but I'm making enough money for nice cities in life YouTube provided that YouTube has responded and gave me the official response. They have they have given to other people Here is the response and I have been through all the paperwork and I'm really left without a like to stand on There's things you agree to when you sign up for Google AdSense that basically signs all your rights away legally To fight something like this with invalid traffic because invalid traffic is determined solely on the discretion of YouTube There is nothing I can do about it. So here is the email. I finally got after a month. I've been waiting over 23 No, I'm sorry 20 days for this response. I've had back and forth of them for 20 days exchanging a bunch of information Here's what they said from YouTube partner support at Google.com. Hi there I hope all is well and thank you very much for patiently waiting I've just heard back from our internal team and here's what I'm able to share after careful and thorough investigation on the matter Our team has ruled out that the system has ruled As ruled that the system is working as intended you may have seen your revenue drop in your YouTube analytics account And it is determined to be a result of invalid activity on your videos and our channel This is because we filter invalid traffic and he links to an article here as a way to keep the YouTube Ecosystem including creators advertisers healthy keeping invalid traffic out of our ad systems helps advertisers feel safe running their ads on YouTube And make sure the creators maximize their launch and revenue. Okay, so I have invalid traffic Let me click on his article that takes you through the definition of invalid traffic This is the Google adsense definition of invalid traffic invalid traffic includes any clicks or impressions So specifically about clicks or impressions on ads That may artificially inflate an advertisers costs or a publisher's earnings invalid traffic covers Intentionally fraudulent traffic, but also accidental clicks So invalid traffic includes but isn't limited to and that's a key legal term isn't limited to this includes clicks or impressions Generated by publishers clicking on their own live ads. So this is me. I can't click on any ads on my video period I don't But I can't click on any ads on my video not even one click. All right Repeated ad clicks or impressions generated by one or more users So this would be like one person or several people repeatedly clicking on ads, right? I don't know. Maybe you guys were doing that. I certainly didn't tell you to do that And I don't have any evidence suggesting that somebody was repeatedly reloading videos and clicking on ads I actually wonder if this is a ghost way for people to take out channels now I'm actually wondering if my channel if my channel was targeted by somebody Because if that's that's the only thing I could think about if this is why I have invalid clicks Invalid impressions. What is there somebody out there that instead of using the Google copyright system?  Very interesting tactic that could be done here. Anyways, that's a theory. I don't know that that happened And it says another invalid clicker impressions as publishers encouraging clicks on their ads Which I did not encourage anyone to click on ads on my channel And it can be any language encouraging users to click on ads add limitations that may cause high volumes accidental clicks, etc So add implementations that may cause accidental clicks isn't us Now that would be on the advertisers automated clicking tools or traffic sources robots or deceptive software clicks on Google ads Must result from genuine user interest and any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions is strictly Prohibited by our program policies. We observe high levels of invalid traffic On your account. We can suspend or disable the account to protect our advertisers and users Additionally, we are unable to verify the quality of your traffic. We may limit or disable your ad serving. So my ads aren't Disabled my ads aren't whatever ads are being served on my videos to this day But the pump but the ad companies aren't being charged. They're being refunded Which is why I'm not getting my money because my traffic is considered invalid all of it Every last bit of it is considered invalid So you'll notice when I went through that are definition of invalid traffic. There's none of it. I haven't I you go to everybody check I don't do that check. I don't do that check. I don't do that check I don't do that of the four things they have listed I do none of it my channel as far as I can tell it can at my back end is guilty of none of it I have no abnormal traffic from third-party websites. I don't have any particular weird behavior on certain videos All of my traffic was organic through YouTube's own algorithm So getting into the rest of this email says as our systems go through the process at the end of the month to finalize payment amounts This process brings all of our systems up to speed to ensure the accuracy of our payments Additionally, we introduce new slash better ways to detect invalid traffic on an ongoing basis based on emerging trends We find we did this recently to increase detection such defenses for invalid traffic Activity as part of these ongoing updates. This update happened around the last two weeks of September You will see your performance updated in Google or YouTube analytics your traffic will continuously be evaluated If we identified invalid activity You will see fluctuations in your revenue when we finalize these amounts at the end of each month If we detect invalid traffic on your channel, your estimated revenue will be adjusted by the end of the month when we calculate finalized earnings For more information about why this happens. You can refer to this page. Okay, and then I click on this page And it just Shows how your how your revenues report. It's basically your revenue is finalized like two days after the end of every month It's when your revenue gets finalized. That's basically all it says Lastly advertisers don't pay for these ads and therefore YouTube and the creator also do not earn money for information regarding these deductions You can go to the help center article. All right Let me click on that help center article that helps an article is just talking about deductions How how they did how they reduce your deductions why they reduce your deductions? They don't really go into detail about invalid traffic. That's what the prior article was for You can also learn how to prevent invalid activity. All right. I have invalid activity. I don't know how So let's look at how to prevent it This is how how Google AdSense tells you to prevent invalid traffic Understand your ad traffic and site visitors break down your traffic report into meaningful segments using URL channels custom channels or ad units This will help you gauge how traffic sources or implementation can affect your ad traffic Next use Google Analytics to get detailed information about your site visitors and be able to look over any suspicious user behavior Where do my users come from either geographically or on the web? Which which pages do they view on my site? Okay So this breaking down traffic reports in the meaningful segments and using URL channels and custom channels or ad units is Not available for youtubers It's only available for Google AdSense implementation with websites. I have done all the research I have talked to Google support. We do not have access to these statistics We do not have access to the custom channels and the traffic reports on ad clicks We do not have access to any of the analytics on ad clicks We don't have any we always see is these are how many impressions you got on the ads This is your CPM. This is how much you got paid. Those are the only stats. We get they don't break it down by video They don't break it down by traffic source We don't have any of this information available to us as YouTube content creators It is available if the traffic is to a website. It's not available to youtubers So this first tip just monitoring where your traffic is coming from Isn't available to us. All right moving on Avoid partnering with untrusted slash low quality parties Some publishers have had issues with invalid traffic when partnering with low quality ad networks search engines or directory sites in efforts to Increase traffic to their site learn more about purchasing traffic. I don't purchase traffic I don't have my YouTube channel purposely linked on any external websites beyond normal social media like Twitter and Facebook. I Don't have anything. I Don't purchase views that this is basically a you purchase views. I don't purchase views So, okay, I already don't do that. So I'm not doing the first part So I'm preventing, you know, I don't have access to that. So I can't look at it I don't buy traffic. So that's one way that I avoid invalid traffic already Let's go to the next tip don't click on your own ads Even if you think it's okay to do so I don't click on my own ads. I've never clicked on my own ads I don't think I've clicked on the ad on YouTube ever like ever not even accidentally Double and triple check your implementation Some publishers use custom implementations that may have unattended consequences. Well, YouTube Directly implements the ads. I have no say over how ads are implemented on my channel So got nothing to do with me, bro. Next consult the AdSense help forum if you have questions Ask us in the AdSense help forum Which just ends up leading you down the road to having the content customer support So again, all their tips to avoid invalid traffic. I already do or don't apply All right, so I know there's probably some stuff going on in the chat here I'm gonna move this over here. So I can see what's going on in the chat How does YouTube expect you to control who your videos? Yeah, it's weird All right, so here's all I responded because I knew this response was coming I've been talking about this on YouTube I've been talking about this on Google because other people have gotten these responses and I finally did Here's what I said. Hey blank. I'm not gonna give the support person's name I knew this was the response that was coming my way because other creators have already shared with me this exact same response Let me make this crystal clear as politely as possible The article you linked that tells me how to avoid invalid activity are things that either do not apply specifically to YouTube But due to websites and or are things I am already not doing or are doing in the case of preventing invalid traffic Like not clicking on my own ads This means invalid activity is something that is not my fault nor could I have actually prevented it Well, I understand filtering out invalid and I assume bot users Zeroed out days imply for two weeks. I had no valid activity Which doesn't make logical sense considering the likes comments and sheer amount of people that were super chatting during live streams Proving that I had thousands of legit active users Lastly my viewership bump during September came from your browse feature. Here's proof Something I have no control over I give a screenshot of showing where the traffic came from in September If that feature is broken, that's on you. Not me to me It seems like this invalid activity is due to a higher than typical click rate on ads based on my own research During the month of September, there was a very popular ad running on my channel from Nintendo for the very game My videos were blowing up over it would logically make sense that the viewers of any of my Mario 3d all-stars videos Were highly motivated to click on Super Mario 3d all-stars ads to try and gain more information from Nintendo I never encouraged them to click on the ad But I was aware the ad was running on content directly related to the videos I was making and that made sense considering the video in the channel I run Nintendo ads on my channel are going to have very high click-through rates from my side of things It looks like and maybe even you guys are punishing yourselves and my channel for a random uptick and click-through rate Because I had a surge in viewers over a very popular game with an ad running for that game Causing a high click-through rate. It is stated that these are also manually reviewed and I think manual reviews Could easily put two and two together realizing my audience and content type match that ad content perfectly creating valid clicks I would appreciate more feedback then I got a massive email. Oh my god YouTube is Basically telling me I'm boned and I'm boned forever or for as long as they want to bone me It says hi there. Thank you for your detailed response I completely understand that this is not the response you were hoping for even if you may have expected it I fully realize how important it is for you to seek further clarity about this issue So allow me to help shed some light in this by the way He doesn't really shed any light, but we'll get into this as much as I would love to provide more details I'm only able to provide what information is available on my end anything else other than what has been shared is speculative at this point The links provided were shared to justify and support the action of what is transpired Okay, so I went through each of those links right now on live stream with you guys None of it supports the action and none of it Justifies the action nothing in any of those links provided Explains why my channel has invalid traffic Nothing they gave me in the first email explains why my traffic is invalid is explains why traffic can be invalidated And how you can prevent for me and invalidated and none of it applies to my channel my things They say create invalid traffic weren't happening and the things we do to prevent invalid traffic were already occurring So it didn't justify it and it didn't support it There was no actual justification or support for the invalid traffic in the prior email zero none no explanation Just generalized public articles They have that didn't actually explain anything because those articles didn't apply to my channel I can see where my traffic came from on a video to video based on my channel And I know none of it came from these third-party websites. No, no, nothing was bought. There weren't no bots There was no me clicking on my own ads None of this happened all the things to justify the action didn't factually happen on my channel So what the how do you mean the links were provided this to justify and support the action? Support the action none of it justifies or supports it In fact, the very things you linked work against your justifications of it. They don't justify it They just make it look worse for you. All right moving on They wanted to define important important terminologies. Let me get some water here As well as to provide enlightenment on the principles behind this policy plus what can be done about it Well, you are right that there are things beyond your control as a creator So he admits there are things I have no control over if You suspect invalid traffic from a third party you are empowered to use this form to report it to our traffic quality team I don't suspect traffic from a third party I can see where all my traffic is coming from on a day-to-day basis and it's not coming from third parties So I have nothing to report Unless you're telling me YouTube that YouTube is a third party Is your browse feature a third party?  I don't get it. What am I supposed to report? There's no third-party traffic So what am I supposed to report to you? There is so so basically he's confirming here that the reason was third-party traffic third-party traffic is why am I what why all my stuff is invalidated But there isn't any All right next add sense publishers are ultimately responsible for the traffic So this is something that you agree to any sign for answers I'm responsible for all traffic on the ads. That's that's the agreement for this reason It is critical that you diligently monitor your ad traffic to ensure that your account is compliant with our policies and not accruing invalid traffic Sorry, I want to read that again Add some publishers are ultimately responsible for the traffic on their ads.  All I could see is how many impressions that day Here all is how many impressions that day were shown an ad what the CPM was and Then how much money I made off those impressions that is it that is it I can't see per video not on Google AdSense. Anyways, you kind of go on YouTube's back end But Google AdSense is what matters. You can't see it on the back end You can't see where this traffic came from you could see where traffic overall in the video came from you could see Oh x percentage of the video came from notifications x percent came from this x percent came for that But you have no idea which part of that audience was being served ads because the ads are being served only to people I don't have a block on so I have no idea Where the ads are being served or what part of that audience it's being served too So if I am ultimately responsible for the traffic on their ads So I need to diligently monitor your ad traffic then you need to give me the ability to digitally to Diligently monitor that ad traffic, but there is no current ability for youtubers to diligently monitor ad traffic It's not possible. It's not there in the system if I was a website absolutely Google AdSense is fully fleshed out for websites It's not it's not For YouTube so I don't have the ability to do what you're telling me to do Okay, you could check this link to know how to better understand your traffic All right, maybe they're going to explain to me. How can I better understand my traffic? All right segmenting traffic is the process of setting up your ad unit in custom channels So you can explicitly see your different traffic sources. Oh wait a second You know what this is hold on stop Segmenting the traffic the process of setting up your ad units in custom channels so you can explicitly see your different traffic sources. Well Folks, let me show you my back end of Google AdSense because you tell me where's my ad units for YouTube? I'm curious. Maybe you got maybe you guys can see something. I don't maybe I'm blind. Let me open up Google AdSense here Well, I gotta get logged in before I show you guys It's wrong account All right next Next get logged in All right, let's all sort it out. All right ads All right, here we go. So I'm gonna show you guys this quick. Where's where's stream labs? Because you know, I'd have this this evidence out here for folks Where is my media is a media? No, it's not media source. It's a display capture Which I need to move up move up display capture move up All right So here's my Google AdSense background to prove this is my one for YouTube. Here's my payments All right You can see for September. I was paid one thousand three hundred six dollars for August I was paid seven seventy five this used to say four thousand one hundred and thirty one and then they reduced it to thirteen oh six See in October zero dollars. All right Which by the way, I've made zero dollars in October according to them So here I am in Google AdSense their own article that they have linked me to Did I just close it? Whoops? Wait. No, maybe it's over here. Maybe I just have All time so their article Which you can see right here says says Let's bring it up here says segmenting traffic is the process of setting up your ad content or your ad units in custom channels So you supposed to see your different traffic or to help you understand your traffic via segments We've settled the steps you'll need to take below Okay to better understand traffic sources and users you want to see and understand will what prevention, okay? As you can see I already clicked on this and read the invalid traffic stuff use custom channels for for specific ad units All right Here's the different ad units above the full below the full inline content, right? Google search Google plus page social media by Google plus doesn't even exist anymore Showed you how long expensive they've updated this other search engines homepage blog forums Here's my Google AdSense You see it's all zeroed out by the way all zeroed out. Here's my Google AdSense. Okay already showed you guys This is the account that's connected to my YouTube channel. Here's my ad units. Oh Wait a second Where's my ad units They don't exist because ad units is a reference to this watch Watch you go, uh, where is it? You can you can let Google paste at place ads for you or you can do this Boom you can create ads now what you see in here are all these things that are created for prior websites So gamnesia you see Zelda informer in here. You see Nintendo Prime the website by the way This is Nintendo Prime website Not the YouTube channel all this made back in 2016 2015 2014 2013 so these are my ad units, right? None of these ad units are active right now Haven't even touched this in what four years four years last time I even modified an ad you turn on here These existing ad units are all for websites that no longer exist So I don't have anything so let's go to custom channels, right? Oh, there's no data in my custom channels URL channels.  How am I supposed to how much was the track ad units for a YouTube channel that don't exist? They don't exist. So how am I supposed to track it? How much was the track ad units that don't exist? I can't I can't track ad units that don't exist All right, so let's move on to the next part of the email Because I can't track ad use that don't exist. What can I do? All right All right The team's investigation concluded that it was invalid traffic was the main cause of the decrease in earnings during that period So first off they said Main cause which means there's other reasons not being told to me Anyways, so Let me see which was has been corrected and your earnings are now allied to their true values Our team is proactively identifying new and emerging threats to minimize risk And we are rolling out new and valid traffic defenses for our ad systems on an ongoing basis Where appropriate and possible any revenue found to be from invalid clicks or impressions is refunded back to the affected advertisers Including YouTube share this means ads may run but advertisers aren't charged and as a result Nothing, there's no it just ends there so like What they're saying is YouTube doesn't make any money either so what they're saying is we could show you ads But we don't have to charge the advertisers for it, which I Mean why would YouTube want to hurt themselves? Also, I'd like to highlight there are a number of factors why advertising revenue may vary from time to time Now he gets into the generalized reasons why it'll fluctuate and I already know about these It's an automated process which takes various different factors in the consideration Flexuations are largely due to advertising revenue being based on a number of different factors Yeah, these factors include advertiser bidding advertiser availability advertiser demand of your videos This is all just you know, and then it goes in the seasonal talk About how you know CPM varies by seasons So I already know that like January is always like the worst CPM month of the year But September October November and December are the best CPM months of the year That's just that that's seasonal advertising. I already know about this So additionally, please note there are no guarantees under the YouTube partner agreement about how much you can earn well No, duh Earn you can make as little or as much as possible earnings are generated based on a share of advertising revenue Generally when people organically view your videos We're constantly validating views and earnings final validations and adjustments are also done after a full month before any Amount can be transferred to AdSense, which isn't true, but that's besides the point Let me let me put it this way. We get paid. I get paid anyways. It's deposited in my bank on 10 21 2020 that's when I got paid it Here's the funny thing. I got paid on 10 21 2020, right? Oh, it's 30 days later before before right It's a full month before any amount is transferred to AdSense and then AdSense pays you Well, let me tell you something The 1306 was the grand total From September 1st to the end of September Can we do our math here? Maybe I'm maybe I'm dumb, but as a full month as a full month. Let's see here So the 30th, right? I was paid on the last month counted in this revenue was September 30th I was paid on the 21st three weeks later Tell me is three weeks a full month Looks like the money's transferred to AdSense and then able to be paid out to me sooner than than a full month I'm just pointing out like a discrepancy here You're telling me that it takes a full month before AdSense even has the money, but I'm paid before a full month is up Doesn't really add up All right Just just a number of discrepancies that exist in these emails and I don't fault this guy because he's just a he's Just a creator level support guy. I'm asking him questions that are above his pay grade um Then he talks about how your feedback goes directly to YouTube I'm allowing you to express my appreciation for the fact you're on the platform pursuing your passion keep up the fantastic work And I wish your channel all the best So I gave a long-winded response I'm not going to get into but then it basically notes that October is being affected as well So this isn't just some weird issue. This is just happening It's A complicated situation Now when you talk about, you know, Phillips, we're saying oh you need to learn law of contracts has to be relatively fair to be enforceable Just that fact alone. The only here's the thing What we're talking about Phillip is something that just goes in the small claims court in California. All right $3,000 does not dictate anything beyond small claims court in California it's just The process of me filing for it the process of me going through it Even if I hired a lawyer to handle all the technical details It would end up costing me more than $3,000 to get my small claim of $3,000 to come through There's a high chance if I took it the small claims court and my lawyer was anything decent at his job YouTube a cave and just pay me out the three thousand bucks and call it a day and have me go away The problem is that doing that is not profitable. It's not worth doing. I will lose money doing that So then the issue is what can I do that makes a bigger deal out of it? Well, then you start to get into class action lawsuits or other types of lawsuits Where you are trying to go after a significantly larger amount of money and trying to punish YouTube even further for suing them for illegal activities, I am not proficient enough at this to know if this is legal or not what I do know is that Google has a literally entire law firms on the payroll that Get paid whether there's lawsuits or not and go through all of their legalese and even write their legalese with a fine-tooth comb There's a reason that while YouTube Well, Google and other companies make it sued sometimes even my governments YouTube often wins Google often wins Because they know the laws inside and out when they write this stuff so Much as I could point poke holes in it There's holes in the legal system too that allow them to get away with it Ultimately, we're talking about a lawsuit that would cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars to even begin the thought process I've going after them over revenue losses that are only three thousand to go after them over You know creating a unfair situation for YouTubers and this assumes the only way it gets anywhere is if other youtubers big youtubers want to get behind it And since big youtubers don't want to piss off the person signing their paychecks, they're not going to get into it so It leaves me kind of shit out of luck because they know I'm not some rich billionaire that can go after them I'm stuck It's not worth going to small claims car because it's gonna cost me more to file the paperwork and hire a lawyer Then it's gonna cost for what I get back and it's not worth me going for a big massive lawsuit Because I can't afford to do it for starters and I'm not gonna get big-name youtubers to back me on it Because they're not gonna want their paychecks to go away too in the end. I Am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I Want to keep making content on YouTube. I'm going to keep making content on YouTube YouTube be damned But I obviously have to make less content because I can't keep justifying Taking all this time away from my kids away from my family to make YouTube content Because the justification was always yeah, but I make this extra revenue that allows us to go to these fun things I can't do that So now it becomes just about having fun and having a good time and that's going to keep me making YouTube content But every day several times a day No so one thing One thing I'm going to try to do and this is probably gonna really start in September in November Is I'm gonna be doing more live streams now. Why would I be doing more live streams? The revenue I make on live streams is relatively not touched even when you guys super chat YouTube takes their cut But I still get my 70% it's not ad revenue YouTube pretty much leaves it alone When I get obviously donations YouTube can't touch that anyways Whether I'm streaming on Twitch or streaming here on YouTube The revenue I make on streams that isn't ad related Is revenue that I get to keep so I'm gonna stream me now for God knows 40 minutes Whatever I have not made one penny on this goddamn stream. I have no no donations. No super chats. No nothing and that's fine But I need to start focusing on doing the thing is I don't enjoy streams as much as I enjoy making standard content I want to be completely honest with you guys I don't enjoy doing these live streams like not just like this kind of YouTube drama kind of one But I don't enjoy live streams as much as I enjoy making standalone content. It's just a fact But I have to be honest if I want to keep making YouTube if I want to keep making content on YouTube If I want to make it keep making content on YouTube, I need to find a way to make YouTube and make this Side gig I guess more solvent and the way to do that is to focus on the ways that my revenue Can't be impacted and that is live streams So the problem with live streams is it relies on people giving me money It literally relies on people super chatting and donating and that's volatile too. I could have one stream where I make $7,000 I can have another stream where I make zero Okay, I've never had a stream make seven thousand like the most ever made with 700 something But most my streams. Thank you beautiful blades for the $2 super chat. I appreciate the support man Like most of the time I'm not going to make enough money doing that So reality is I've said it before like hey if you guys want to support at patreon.com Slash Nintendo Prime great like that's one way to support me If you guys want to super chat you guys want to donate that's great Those are more ways to support me, but I need you know Certain levels of that support to keep making videos every day to keep making the content I would like to make every single day more often so Basically the future of Nintendo Prime right now is looking like it's gonna be live streams and I'll hell of a lot of them Until the live streams aren't viable either because reality is you know live streams are only gonna stay viable the hours and hours You stream are only viable so long as you know, you make just enough revenue to justify it It sucks now you might say what just do for fun and you know what in my 20s in my early 20s before I had kids My god, I had all the free time in the world man I I could sit here and just make videos all day long not worrying about anything all YouTube took my money Who gives a shit just move on? But I'm not in my early 20s anymore. I do have three children I do have other things I could be spending my YouTube time doing but I choose YouTube because I enjoy it and because there's a Financial reason to do it. There is you know Yeah, my video might make only five bucks for they that's five bucks make three videos That's 15 you do three videos of a five bucks a video 15 bucks it adds up adds up is it you know minimum wage know it's below minimum wage, but at least I enjoy doing it So you know you get the 15, you know, you got you know say 30 days in a month You know you time times at 15 by 30 next thing, you know, that's 450 bucks sitting in your pocket That's 450 bucks I can use on family vacations, you know, it's just It it's just a little bit, you know, but it's something So that's what I got How you guys doing in the chat? I do I stream all game stuff trucker I stream gameplay stuff over on twitch already and I do talky talk streams over here How you been your carving pumpkins nice, I'll be carving pumpkins. I think Friday Make sure no one's messaging me.  Thank you so much pretty good. I'm raging. Are you really raging? Your titans lost a heartbreaker today. Did they I know they came back they were down bigger than they came back. I Didn't even watch the entire Packers game today. I mean obviously a packer fan here, but I didn't watch the entire game I got the W. Mr. Pumpkin. He is favorite. Mr. Pumpkin here. I'll show you The camera working I Can't tell where's my mouse. I think I showed you mr. Pumpkin. I Think Pretty sure I did my stream lapses and up so I can tell he's face down on the ground over there Just face planted It is what it is, you know, I'm not gonna sit here and keep you know I this is probably my third stream about this or for stream and I made a couple standalone videos I'm not going to keep making videos and streams about this because I It's not what you guys subscribed for you didn't subscribe to talk about YouTube bullshit You didn't you didn't subscribe to hear any woe is me story. It's not what was me. I'm fine financially. I just It's frustrating. That's all It's frustrating. It's disappointing in the worst part.   This is the last video I plan to make on this unless YouTube reverses their decision So nothing I could do. I probably made no money in October. So Everything's zeroed out for October. So I've probably made Not even a buck There's what it is man. There's what it is You know, it's not fine Philip Nothing I can do about it. I've already explained all the reasons reasons why I can't do anything about it So time to move on time to move on Make the best of what's still here and what's still here is you guys you guys are still here or 60 plus you watching in the stream You guys are still here. So let's make the best of it, right? You know, again, if you would like to support the channel like to support what I do Obviously, I have three links down in the description.  So check that out Otherwise I have patreon down there as well patreon.com slash antenna prime and there is a streamlabs donation link That's about it. There's nothing else I can do ask for community support in the community There are supports or the community doesn't support and I just move on with my day and I keep making content when I can justify making it Um Age of calamity in a few weeks Hi, I'm back. My name is not John. My name is Nate or Nathaniel Rumpel Jans as I put in all my videos I'm very very upset at you to remember for years.  So Casey's dominating Denver.  I'm not really surprised there How many touchdowns did the Tom Brady throw he I'm going against Tom Brady and he's got what one touchdown Two touchdowns three touchdowns four touchdowns and a Rochstein touchdown. Damn it.  God dang it.  I think it's time. I switch out quarterbacks I've been starting Josh Allen all year, but he's just been sucking for three weeks straight I think it's time to swap them out Time to make the swap and the problem is my backup quarterbacks on you better, but that's alright. Hey, at least at least I scored over 100 this week We're like completely forgot about AOC. I'm obsessed with the rest of the wild too Am I leaving YouTube? No, am I leaving YouTube? I had Tom Brady The year we did fantasy at the center prime. He wasn't as good that year Yeah, Josh Allen's been great, but he hasn't been great fantasy wise for a few weeks so Tom Brady had 37 fantasy points in my league Josh Allen's 16. That's just not gonna cut it Not going to cut it. Plus you had James Robinson for Jacksonville. He has a 31 point game right now. Jesus And the Niners defense at 20 points. No, my god I'm just totally crushed. My team is so destroyed But oh well. Oh well Is what it is time to retool for next week Hi from Australia. Sorry to hear about your YouTube not treating you.  I'd need I need like a sponsor for every video and I don't have sponsors for every video so I Don't have interest from people to be sponsoring my videos Oh Man, what am I yawning? I slept in I got to sleep in the day. So why am I yawning?  It's wearing me down. You'll catch the next stream later, man Do I play among us? I have never played among us ever Might be shocking. No VPN won't hold the YouTube issue. I Don't click on my own ads. So I can't be an issue.  Maybe someday Ace game right you have no job can't drive.     Oh, yeah, but the law to our prime for breathable to No doubt no doubt breath of the wild to man this chat is really slow for so many people being here We got such a slow chat. It's alright. I was a bro till I got to be an adult.  This is Nintendo Prime. This is Nintendo Prime live Thank you so much for joining us here today on today's news.  It's kind of making me depressed I hope my voice is doing okay, suddenly being like Nintendo Prime live, baby Yeah, like I don't have the energy man I it's hard on streams like this to like try to get that energy level up cuz I'm just not I don't have it I just don't have it. I don't have the energy. I Can't have like all this really positive energy right now today I've been dealing with these emails all weekend and have you seen me putting out any videos. I Just don't have the motivation Throw it a hype topic and people will chat. No, thanks. I can't I don't have the I just I don't have the enthusiasm right now I should probably stop streaming because I don't have the enthusiasm right now I'm completely honest. I should probably cut off the stream and just be done. I just don't I just don't have it That's exciting. I have expectations for this Nintendo Prime live. Well, your expectations are probably done What's your opinion on Spyro on switch? I mean it's good That's either tweet from Nintendo I haven't been on the internet today, so no Something exciting happened. That's what actually we're talking about. Let me see here mean do Nintendo of America I see Animal crawler and Pikmin 3. Yeah, if I see online open Is that what people are excited about? Well, it's the finals Okay Five dollars from Mr. Pete 1985 Says hey Nate playing some Yakuza Z while listening. Well, thank you for playing Yakuza and thank you for the $5. I appreciate that so Yeah, I'm looking at I'm not seeing anything crazy on there Am I supposed to see something? Well, I'm gonna go into Sunday night game with a 15-point lead with Wilson and Metcalfers Hopkins Lockett and Carson. Good luck, man Ding ding the bell showering Look up Mario to plumber why Man, she sneak. I want to cut down on the spam before our bots or for our bots. Well, that's right I just admitted we have bots know before our mods come in and sweep you under the rug Mr. Pete 1985 I'm listening while playing Pokemon the latest DLC both of all the post game battles. So they're a lot more fun. Nice That's good For those that are interested good very good So what will you do to eat that's what people are excited about why why are people excited about the what will you do? to eat Nintendo Nintendo of America Forge a path fall in love or foil a bad guy share your favorite Nintendo switch gaming stories in the comments You know bonus points if you can do it with only emojis Like I don't it's a cool tweet, but I mean, it's just like, you know, they're just interacting It's not really like an exciting thing If Xbox or PlayStation had to disappear, which would you let stay? I mean The isn't that kind of like a catch-22 question because if one goes away all the games that are on that one will go to the other So you don't really lose any of the games. So then it just comes down to I Guess which controller you like best? I don't know like it's a weird question beautiful blades. I Mean, I like Xbox controllers better than so then then dualshock. So I'll probably rather have I Guess Sony go away because then all their games would just go to Xbox Because it's free twitch prime. What? I'm a bot. I have no emotions. I don't feel pain and I'm not real What phone am I getting? Nothing special. Just I'm getting the iPhone 12, but Only because I had to wait anyways Since I had to wait three to four weeks to get a new phone regardless because all their phones were out of stock I just went with a 12 my whole family uses iPhones, so You know just kind of stuck in that ecosystem while they're on it. I've done. I've used Android I had it oh nine oh ten whatever, but I liked it by the way There's some things I miss about it, but iPhones are fine. They work. They get the job done That was a moral of which ones Shady's practice is you low slightly less Would Nintendo release a digital switch like like a digital only switch. I mean they might I don't think they're doing that anytime soon They don't really need to they already have one that can have cartridges. It's at $200 like what do we need a hundred dollar switch? Do I like Android more than Apple? I don't really know that I like either one more than the other camera wise you bring up the camera Android doesn't have a standardized camera the camera is up to the individual phone maker, so You know so Android's not really responsible for cameras That Neil out you know the different types of phones that are made They decide what cameras going Android is just an operating system The Nintendo phone remember when there was like that PlayStation phone or whatever? totally flopped totally flopped There's a you can still find some of them on eBay Maybe that's what I should have did oh someone stole my phone, so then I replaced it with the PlayStation Oh Wonder what the specs were on the PlayStation with specs for PlayStation phone, so the PlayStation phone See it was back in 2011 weighs 175 grams only as 400 megabytes of memory 32 gig micro SD cards are supported though It comes with the 8 gig micro SD card the operating system was Google Android 2.2 2.3 gingerbread processors of 1 gigahertz scorpion arm v7 Yeah, you got asphalt and journal and six Bruce Lee started battalion the Sims 3 and Tetris preloaded Oh boy, I Mean it's kind of cool the slide all control there a thing I am is kind of a cool idea But bringing the old sliders back back in 2011 Do you think they will add a TV only switch to come with the OG slight no G switch no Yeah, someone stole my phone like last Saturday Switches to XL Vita Vita XL except Vita still has a better screen. I Notice your comments number danger. What's a good TV for next gen? I mean depends on what you want There's no like one answer beats all unless you want like to spend $5,000 on TV Well, you said that slots for SD cards, which is more than you can say about most modern phones. Yeah, I Missed the days when that was like a standard feature on phones But I mean most modern phones give people more storage than they need anyways, you know Most modern forms do hey We're a new follower. I think over on to which.  I think it's a better use of my time Thank you guys for stopping out and listening to me kind of rant a little bit beautiful blades Thank you for the two bucks only as we read. Thank you for the $1 and obviously mr. Pete 1985 thanks for the $5 don't know and thank you so much for using the street labs donation link And just cutting out the middle man and just saying screw it. I want to support Nate directly Thanks for that. Catch you guys in the flip side Which is The other side of the stream.  Will I I don't know catch you in my next video


The Royal Mint has unveiled the official Team GB commemorative 50p, originally intended to be a student 2020, to honour Britain's athletes competing at this year's Olympic Games. The coin is particularly notable as it is dual-dated, so it has the year 2021 on one side and the year 2020 on the other. This will make the coin popular with collectors. The design of the coin essentially stayed the same, so, with the preparations of all the Olympic Games that were going on at the time being recognised as Tokyo 2020, that still featured as the date in the design. But it was essentially about the same way that we've had to make preparations through working over the past year and the challenges and the same way the athletes had. It's about marking that moment in time. Preparations for the actual coin design were essentially the same for the reverse of the design, which features the 2020 date. But the point of difference for this coin for 2020 is that the obverse of the future in the Queen's Head features the 2021 date. So, as a design, because there's the two coins now produced, this might be a bit more desirable to certain collectors, which is good to get that interest around collecting. The coin first appeared in the Royal Mint's 2020 annual set with both sides of the coin reading 2020. Now the coin has finally been released for collectors to buy in gold, silver, brilliant, uncirculated and colour versions. So, with the design, I wanted to feel quite inclusive for all the athletes in the Games. So, as part of that, I wanted to represent each and every sport and with a lot of icons being pictured on the coin, it was quite a difficult challenge to represent that for all the athletes. So, the first stage of the design was to have a look at all the sports and think about what could be represented in one image. For instance, the athletics is represented by the shoe, and then there's water and goggles, which represents swimming in part of the design. But yeah, it was definitely a challenge just trying to condense that all into the one canvas. So, there were a lot of revisions from the first stage of the design where just trying to represent all those games and the best sort of icon to sort of be instantly recognisable and then fusing those into the design. But another feel that I wanted the viewer to get from viewing the design was almost treated as a bit of a game themselves. So, being able to look at the design in detail and trying to guess the sports and creating a bit of a conversation around the sports that maybe aren't recognised as recent Olympic sports, such as surfing and baseball and skateboarding as well. I've been a skateboarder when I was young. It was amazing to have the first UK coin with the skateboard on. The coin is the next instalment in the long-running series of Olympic's 50p coins, which began in 2012 when the Royal Mint issued 29 Olympic coins designed by the public for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. When released into circulation, these Olympic coins became some of the most collectible 50Ps. However, it's worth noting that the new Team GB 2021 coin will not be entered into general circulation.


He made the whole United States of America like dogs. Like, it's a battle between him and Snoop Dogg. They made the whole United States of America like dogs. Like, I remember it was once upon a time where it wouldn't know a lot of dogs, bro. Like, like 1995, 96, I don't remember seeing dogs. Dang. And them niggas came on like that, like a lot of dogs. And then it's like, you know how you buy a Jeep and then you start seeing Jeeps. You'll never see a car to buy. It's like once I finally heard them ex music, I started seeing dogs.


Social security is unsustainable. Created in 1935, social security is paid for by a 12.4% payroll tax on income up to $160,200. Supporters pretend that social security is like a retirement plan where your specific contributions build value over time. But the system is a Ponzi scheme in which current beneficiaries are paid out of new money coming into the system. The problem is that when the program started paying out benefits in 1940, there were 160 workers per retiree, so a surplus built up. Today, there are just 2.8 workers per retiree. In a decade, there won't be enough money coming into the system to cover the current level of benefits. And by law, benefits will need to be cut by about 20%, or payroll taxes will need to be jacked up even more than they already are.