Cryptocurrencies, Cannabis Stocks, and CEO Interviews brought to you by RichTVLive. Hey guys this is Rich from RichTVLive and today I want to talk to you about Lightlink Technologies. Lightlink Technologies launches Alpha Release for first shift logistics platform. Lightlink Technologies an artificial intelligence company for the logistics industry and I've done a video for them before and I wanted to bring you this information first. Take a look at this. This news is breaking today. Lightlink Technologies Inc a key player in technology and artificial intelligence within the logistics sector is pleased to announce the release of the Alpha version of the first shift logistics platform to begin the trial program with inline nurseries. Here we go. First shift logistics, simple, powerful, painless, end-to-end logistics ecosystem solution interested in reducing your costs by at least 30%. Let's chat. Call us today for a free demo. This is breaking news. Literally hot off the presses. This just broke. Lightlink combines deep industry experience in logistics with leading-edge technology to create an ecosystem of shippers, third-party logistics companies, and trucking carriers to operate together with a reduced effort, lower costs, and greater predictability. This is the future. I've been talking to you guys about the blockchain. I've been talking to you guys about artificial intelligence and this is a company that is leading the way. They are leading the way. First shift, this company right here. I'm going to continue to show you guys and educate you guys about first shift. First shift will enable customers to negotiate with insight by presenting key historical data, partner ratings, and current market factors relevant to making informed pricing decisions in real time. This is what it's all about in 2019, people making decisions in real time with artificial intelligence, which is the future. The first shift marketplace expands the trusted network of logistics partners. Its customers can access for the most cost effective shipping rates and to ensure that all of the loads will always be covered. The platform allows for greater control of the trip, starting with optimized routing and tracking transparency with proactive management of issues to avoid delivery delays, late fines, and time consuming disputes. This is huge. This is an amazing deal. What do you think about this? Now remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for education, entertainment purposes. Always do your due diligence. Always do your research before you invest in anything that we talked about here in Rich TV Live. You can see all of our featured videos, breaking news, stocks, all the information you need. You want to follow us. You want to see us on all social media. Just go over contact and see all of our social media. It's all right there, absolutely free. Now what do you think of this news? This is big news. The platform allows for greater control of the trip, starting with optimized routing and then tracking transparency with proactive management of issues to avoid delivery delays, which is huge. Late fines, which will generate and save a lot of money and time consuming disputes. These are some of the numbers. Look at this. Annual US trucking industry revenue, 700 billion a year. Trucking industry annual growth, 1.6% a year. Tons of freight trucked in the US annually, 10.5 billion and 195.8 billion yearly revenue in the United States. It says right here, first shift focuses blockchain and AI technology to provide logistics companies with unique competitive advantages. Smart decision making enables business to make better tactical decisions that save time and money. This is the wave of the future. Machines are going to take over. Artificial intelligence is the next wave. It's the next massive industry that is going to change this world. Lighting technologies is on the cusp of greatness. The first shift trials will deliver the core capabilities. Now before I get into that, streamlined workflow and transactions are also going to be generated through this and are tracked using a distributed ledger to record the golden source details of the shipment, which is vital for these companies, automate the paperwork and provide confidence in issuing payments. This is vital for this industry and this is why this is huge news. The first shift trials will deliver the core capabilities for a shipper to select amongst a preferred set of carriers and then track the shipment until it is successfully delivered. A trucker will provide trip status and flag any issues via the mobile phone application to minimize the required communication with the shipper and get help to clear any obstacles from on time delivery. The first shift alpha release is a major milestone for light link and we are extremely excited to onboard our first customer and start trials to bring together shippers and carriers within the first shift marketplace. We are planning this three month customer trial to capture important customer feedback that we will fold back into the solution and further build confidence for our commercial launch early next year said Kent churn light link COO trials of the first shift platform are an exceptionally important step to verify our solution in the marketplace and attract large scale clients based on the experience of pilot customers like inline nurseries who is onboard to be the first shift customer commented light link CEO ashik kareem wow this is huge news what do you think about this news to learn more about first shift schedule a demo of the solution or request to be a trial participant please visit firstshiftlogistics.com or email kent dot churn at firstshiftlogistics.com now let me just explain to you a little bit about light link technologies once again we'll get into it so light link technologies provides enterprise level solutions utilizing artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to solve the logistics industries fragmented and outdated technology problem light link technologies is creating a unified communications platform for tracking shipments disputes and errors to increase efficiency and reduce costs for three pl's carriers and shippers find out more about the company at lightlink tech.com and the first shift products at first logistics.com now what do you think about this news it's breaking news it just broke today okay let's just talk about it negotiate with insight first shift shows live capacity by lane to quickly understand the market review historical pricing information partner ratings and current factors such as fuel prices weather and backhaul capacity to make informed pricing decisions real time this is what is going to change the future artificial intelligence making great decisions so eliminating human error the first shift marketplace expands the trusted network of logistics partners to access the most effective shipping rates and ensures all loads are always covered sign up for first shift and easily invite your current partners to join the platform then decide who else to trust based on partner ratings and review love that absolutely love that be in control of the trip first shift creates tracking transparency and enables proactive management of issues to avoid delivery delays late fines and time consuming disputes cut out phone calls to get status from the trucker and receive timely alerts to help clear issues only when needed so these are all the unbelievable breakthroughs that are happening with this huge news that is just broke it's true lightlink launches alpha release for first shift logistics platform this is the platform right here first shift logistics this is the platform so i'm going to do more due diligence i'm going to do more research and i'm going to get to the bottom of this but this is breaking news it literally just broke artificial intelligence lightlink technologies first logistics platform that you literally just broke this morning lightlink technologies ink currently at 20 cents what do you think about this news if you like this news smash the like button comment down below lightlink launches alpha release for first shift logistics platform what do you think this is your boy rich if you're not winning you're definitely not watching


So, for all the above categories, it is crucial to properly allocate any reimbursement from employers and understand the rules regarding the deductibility of meals and entertainment expenses. So, clearly, if you're going to get a deduction for it, you would think the idea would be that if you paid for it out of your pocket, then that's the thing that might be subject to having a deduction. If you were reimbursed for these expenses that would otherwise be deductible, then you would think they wouldn't be deductible because they were paid for by basically your employer in that situation. And I think in most cases, like these days, the armed forces is pretty good at basically reimbursing people because obviously there's moving that takes place and so on and so forth. So I think generally they get oftentimes reimbursed for those types of activities, but possibly not sometimes. Generally 50% of business meal expenses can be deducted unless specific exceptions apply, such as being reimbursed under an accountable plan. Detailing guidance on these deductions can be found on IRS Publication 463. Then we have the 50% limit on meal expenses applies unless an exception applies, which might include expenses treated as compensation, employee's reimbursement expenses under the accountable plan or self-employed individuals whose meal expenses are reimbursed by a client or customer. For detailed instructions and eligibility criteria, you can refer to Form 2106. You can look at the instructions for them and Publication 463. Let's look at the line instructions. Line 12, certain business expenses of reservists performing artists and fee basis government officials include the following deductions on line 12. Certain business expenses of National Guard and Reserve members who travel more than 100 miles from home to perform services at a National Guard or Reserve member performing arts related to expenses as a qualified performing artist. And then we have the business expenses of fee basis state or local government officials. If you need more information on those specific categories, which are far more restrictive than you might think of the once were, then you can go to the form 2106.


Hey everybody, welcome to DIY Botanical Art. My name is Sheridan, I work here at the Long Beach Public Library and today I'm going to show you how to make this pretty cool, kind of cute botanical art from really simple things. Pressed flowers, a picture frame that I got at Target, and a piece of paper, and maybe a little watercolor if you're feeling that too, okay? So it's pretty cheap, it's really easy to do, and once you have that flowers pressed, it takes all of 25 minutes to put that together, okay? So get a little closer, we'll talk about how I did it, I'll show you what to do, and we'll even talk about everything that you're going to need. Okay, so here's what you're going to need to be able to make this pretty cool picture frame situation. You can see that I've got just a basic frame, I threw a little watercolor in there just to pick up some of the blue and the purples from the flower, and then just a pressed flower. So I'll show you what it is that we're going to do. First off and foremost, you're going to need some pressed flowers, so what I did was I actually just drove around town and spotted some flowers that I liked, off the side of the road, over at the bluff, the bluff along ocean, along Broadway, a couple of different little places, and I just kind of brought some scissors with me and I clipped them. So I got a few different kinds of flowers, you can see here that I've got several different kinds. I've got these that are a little bit more, you know, like, kind of like daisies, I've got these that were poppies, or that are poppies. These are very delicate though, so they start to fall apart a little bit easy. You can see that I've got some flowers here, and then I've got some petals there that fell off some of the poppies. I've also got some of these bluish ones, I wish I knew what they were called, but I am not that smart, so, you know, bluish and kind of pinkish, but they're, these actually pressed really nicely because the bulb kept all the petals upward, so you can still see that shape, that very floral shape. This is another poppy. This was kind of like one of those flowers that's a little bit of like a, it looks like a thistle almost, I don't know, but this one actually turned out really well. You can definitely see the silhouette of the flower.  And then these daisies actually did not press very well at all because the bulb, the head of the flower was really thick, and it's really hard to press kind of thick items like that, so you can see that they kind of look like, I don't even know, you know, they just don't look that great. So these I'm not going to use. A tip if you're going to drive around and pick flowers is to pick a few more than you think you're going to need because, like I said, sometimes they don't turn out that great, and so if you just drive around and pick exactly what it is that you think you're going to need, you press them and then a week later you find out that they're not going to work, you've set yourself up by a week, especially if you're going to give this as a gift. Take a little form, take a little bit more than you need, obviously forage responsibly, you don't want to go into people's backyards or anything, or take more than you're going to need, but just take, you know, three or four more flowers than you think you're going to use so that you have some options later on. So these daisies we're not going to use, we're going to stick to these here, and then what I think I'm going to do is actually select these and maybe the poppies. So these we'll use for another day, or another, you know, place or whatever, another frame. So how do you press flowers? So basically what you want to do is you want to pick blossoms that are not super, super thick, are colorful if it is that you want color, and then what you do is you actually take a book. So what I did was that I took one of my old college textbooks about culture and history of Latin America, and I put the flowers, I laid the flowers down on the inside, you can see that there's still one in here. I kind of arranged them carefully so that they weren't overlapping with each other, each one should have its own little, you know, little space to be able to get pressed down. And then what I did was I actually took this and I pressed, you know, I laid the flowers down and I closed the book. I actually did a few different types, different flowers in this same book, and then what I did was I laid a bunch of books on top of this book so that it would have a lot of weight on top to really start crushing the flowers and making them flat. I left this in a place where nobody would bother it for about a couple of weeks, yeah, and then I took the books off, opened it up, and the flowers were pressed, they were flat, and they were ready to be framed. So you can see here that this one is really nice and flat. Once you turn it to its side, you can barely see it. It's kind of like, you see that? You can barely see it. That's how flat it got, and it works really well because you can see the different color, kind of yellowish of the blossom. You can see the leaves, you can see the stems. It just looks really good. So poppies are really good for this, but, you know, maybe you've come across some flowers that are all, that are even better for it. It's up to you. So that's kind of how you press some flowers. You don't want to leave them in a super hot place because the heat starts to degrade the colors of the blossoms. So, you know, make sure that they're in a cool place. Make sure that there's books on top, a lot of pressure, and that nobody's going to bother them and keep opening them up to check out what's inside. So now I've got these blossoms here that are ready to be framed. So what am I going to do next? I need a picture frame. So, I bought this frame at Target. I think it was like $3, but I'm sure that they sell them too at like the dollar store or whatever. So let's open this bad boy up, and we can start getting these flowers on the inside. So it comes with the backing part that has the, you know, the supports.  So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a little bit of cardstock, which I got here from the library, and I'm going to cut this down to size so that it can fit in the frame. This is a five by seven frame, but I'm not going to do any measuring with rulers or any of that kind of stuff. Why make my life any harder than it already is. I'm just going to cut along the edge of this with a pair of scissors to cut it down to size. And then I know for a fact that it's going to fit in the frame perfectly. So I'll put the extra paper aside. I've got this little piece of paper that's going to fit in my frame very well. And this is what I'm going to mount the flowers to. Then I'm going to put everything together in the frame. So I'm going to put the frame aside for now because we don't need it just yet. So you'll see that in the one that I made earlier, I added a tiny bit of watercolor down here to just kind of pick up the blues and the purples from that flower. You can do that if you'd want to. The only thing I would recommend is that if you do use watercolor, I just use some watercolor here. If you do use watercolor to wait for the watercolor to dry completely before actually framing it. So this watercolor, I just did it really quickly this morning. So it's still a little bit wet. I wouldn't recommend that because once you have moisture in the frame, you may end up with a mold, which you want to avoid because then it's going to start to eat up the flowers and then you're going to end up with, you know, it's pointless to frame something that's going to be, you know, all moldy and stuff in a couple of months. So wait for it to dry completely and then mount your flowers. OK, you can even get super creative. I'm just using white paper, but you can use tan paper. You can use like handmade paper that's got texture and different flecks.  Feel free to use it as a backing for the flowers because it's going to be something that you decorate your space with or that you give away to friends or family or whatever. So this is just white cardstock, a little bit of watercolor. For this one, I'm not going to do any watercolor because we just don't have the time, but I'll show you how to mount. So to mount these, you're going to need some Mod Podge. I've just got this container here. I'm going to use a little brush just to brush onto the flowers. You don't need a ton of ton of Mod Podge. You really just need a tiny, tiny bit. So I've got some Mod Podge there. I'm going to use this. I always try to keep a little bit of water around when there's Mod Podge in case I want to wash the brush off or anything like that. But we're pretty much ready to go. So let's do it. I think what I'm going to do is actually choose this blossom here. And I'm going to paint a little bit of Mod Podge onto the back. You don't need a ton of Mod Podge for this because you're not trying to seal anything per se. You're really just trying to get it to stick to the paper. And I'm going to try to place it somewhere in the frame where I know I'm going to want it. And then just kind of apply a little pressure to stick it down. And then you should be good to go. You can see here that the stem of this is actually going below the frame, which is not going to be good for what we need it, right?  You don't want to do a trim that's perpendicular or straight to the stem because it's going to look, it just doesn't look that great. So you want to trim it in a way that it looks a little bit more natural at an angle. And then that way it looks like the stem kind of ends, you know, a little bit of pointiness on its own there. You can put that flower trimming aside. And you should be good to go. Next up, let's see, what I'm going to do is, oh, actually, I'm going to add a little bit of Mod Podge to the stem itself. So for this, I'm going to hold this in place and just add a little bit of Mod Podge underneath the stem to hold that in place too. You can see I'm just kind of holding in the bulb in place and I'm just brushing a tiny bit of Mod Podge onto the bottom of the stem just to kind of glue it down a little bit. And then I'm just going to run my finger along there. There we go. We're good to go. So that one's in place. I think next what I'm going to do is this kind of pinkish one. And so the same thing, you kind of want to plan for where the blossom is going to land. This one, I think I want it to be a little shorter than this.  And there we have it. All right, so now that I know where I want it, I'm going to add a little bit of Mod Podge to the back here. I may want to move some of these petals out of the way and then just a tiny bit of Mod Podge there. Like I said, you're not trying to seal it or anything. You just want it to glue a little bit in place. So you just need a tiny bit. Put it down. Press it a little bit. And there it is. So now that I have the bulb in place, I'm going to bend the paper a little bit and glue the stem like that. Then press the stem down a tiny bit. And there it is. That one's in place too. OK, so I've got this blue flower, this pinkish flower. I think it's time for a poppy. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this little poppy here and I'm probably going to put it maybe like right there. What do you think? Maybe on the other side. Put one in there in the middle. Take your time when doing this too because you really want to position the flowers in a way that's pleasing to you. You don't want to have this thing that's all like, you know. You want to make it so that it looks kind of cute, I guess. Maybe I'll do this one like this.  Poppies are a little bit difficult because they're pretty much all petal. So when you Mod Podge the back of a poppy, be kind of careful because you don't want to put a bunch of Mod Podge on the petal because it may show through even though Mod Podge dries clear. Okey-dokey. And just a little bit of Mod Podge on the stem here. Press it down. And there we go. You should be good to go. OK. So I think we have room for a couple more flowers. I think what I'm going to do is try to get, what do you think, maybe that poppy there? No.  You can actually split up your flowers too. Even after you press them, like, you know, if you don't want that section, don't put it in. Put that poppy right there. Actually, I think that'll look good. So just a tiny bit of Mod Podge. I'm going to overlap these two to make them look a little bit more, I don't know, I guess, natural. Hold that in place, a little bit of Mod Podge on the stem. Want to move the stem over a tiny bit. Well, maybe that's where it's going to stay. That's OK. All right. So I think I want to do one last little flower here. Or maybe not. Maybe that's all we have room for here. I may do just a tiny bit of green, like foliage, right? Just to, I don't know, maybe accent these two a little bit more. We may be out of room for flowers. But you can definitely still add, you know, if you have leaves and stuff like this left over, you can definitely put it in there. It gives it a little bit more green, a little bit more of like a floral, herbal kind of vibe, I guess. And just a little bit of Mod Podge on one side of it. I'm going to see if I can find some poppy leaves, too, to do the same thing with. Or maybe even, do you see that little pod right there? I'm not sure what that is. But I'm going to add that in there, too, just to give it a feeling of, you know. So this pod is actually a little bit thicker than a flower would be, but that's OK. Because there is a little bit of wiggle room within the frame. Then just glue that down, where you think it'll go well. If you happen to break a leaf, like I just did right now, take it out, because then it's going to fall. It could fall to the bottom of the frame. And then you're going to have this random piece hanging out down there. This pod is a little trouble. So I think I'm pretty much done with this one. I want to wait for this to dry, the Mod Podge to dry completely. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it together with the frame. Well, actually, I'm not going to wait for it to dry. I'm going to put it together right now. But you want to wait for it to dry completely before you actually frame it up and assemble everything. So I'm going to put aside the flowers that I don't need. I'm going to put aside the Mod Podge and the brush. And now that I've got this, what I'm going to do is lay this on the backing. I'm going to very carefully lay down the glass to capture everything, to trap it. And then I'm going to flip the whole thing over and put it inside of the frame. I need to work it in there a little bit, press it down. But there you have it, a little framed flower art. You can see here that I didn't plan ahead. And some of this foliage here is getting cut off by the actual frame itself. So try to think about that. Try to think about where the frame is going to land on the white piece of paper, because it can be a little deceptive. But this is pretty chill. I mean, it's a cute, simple way to decorate a space with a little bit of nature, a little bit of color. And something that you made yourself for like four bucks, which is not too shabby. So yeah, there we have it, some framed botanical art. You can put it on the wall, you can put it on your dresser, your side table, give it away. Pretty cool, huh? All right, y'all, so that's pretty much it. You can see that I've got two pieces of botanical art that I made myself. I've got this larger thing with a little bit of watercolor touch. I've got this smaller one. Yeah, if you wanted to set up a feel to it, you could even turn this on its side and do more of a landscape kind of deal. But it's pretty easy to do, pretty cheap to make if you already have the Mod Podge. Just pick a few flowers, buy a couple of cheap dollar store frames, some nice paper. And boom, you got presents for the whole family, for Christmas, or for Hanukkah, or for any other gift-giving type of deal, you know what I mean, or birthdays. So yeah, that's it, DIY botanical art. Thanks for joining us today. If you haven't signed up for summer reading just yet, be sure to do so by visiting longbeach.beanstack.org. And then also enter the code rainbow into the Beanstack Activity tab so that you can get a point for watching and crafting with us today. OK, take care. Bye.


It's gonna be okay. Everything's gonna be fine. We have all been saved. The celebrities have taken care of it. Thank you Celebrities. Things got pretty hairy there for a second. I was worried, but thanks to the thoughtful initiative of Gal Gadot We now have all of your favorite celebrities singing John Lennon's Imagine all together in about 75 different keys. You know, this is a very interesting Reharm of this tune and I'd really like to get to the bottom of it and find out exactly what's going on here musically Because who knows maybe I'd want to steal a thing or two and and apply it to my own playing So so let's jump into this and find out exactly how this brilliant arrangement of Imagine was constructed Let's just see what we're working with here Very nice very nice start, let's find let's figure out what where are we? All right, so we're maybe a little flat, but that's okay. I mean if I'm sure it'll just slide right in So that's gonna be C Oh Okay, all right hold on hang on the tempo is interesting here I think we're using more of like a rubato feel like this of kind of a Fluctuating tempo, so we're not really we're not really beholden to one particular pulse throughout the arrangement So it's just gonna kind of you know ebb and flow just with the with the feel I would imagine Easy if you try Okay, so right there we're gonna jump up a whole step we go from C to D. How about that? That's really nice. I kind of like that That's that's nice, that's that was a good idea. That was good thinking know how Okay, so I see I see the motif that you know that's going on here So we we climbed up a whole step and now we've just we've climbed up another whole step. This is a this is really clever This is really clever, so let's see Are you serious It's it's another it's another whole step it's it's perfect. It's brilliant almost like it was on purpose Easy Imagine all the people Okay, now so we've been relatively Diatonic and whole tone and what you know, whatever you want to call it all the way up through this point But Sarah Silverman brings in the first really interesting harmonic shift here, so let's figure out what's going on So so far we started in C went to D went to E went to F sharp And then James Marsden put it back into B, which is still kind of a similar sort of feel there But where are we now? Imagine all the people Whoa Oh I don't know where that went I mean we were in D flat there for a second on the five chord But I'd have to go back and slow that down. I'm not sure what the thought process was there But you know what we're just gonna we're just gonna gloss over it. We'll call it ad lib. That's fine It isn't hard to do My guess is that's Jimmy Fallon doing John Lennon, but the bigger question is what key are we in it isn't hard So we're in like C A quarter flat. I'm really sorry people with perfect pitch.  Three in a row in the same key I don't believe it. Oh, and then we jump from C to E Good okay, yeah, we're getting there. I think we're in E again Amy Adams coming through third in a row in E. We're getting somewhere So we had three in a row and C and three in a row and in E now That's a major third Modulation which is very interesting harmonic device. It's kind of a little bit not as common as maybe the minor third That's an interesting motion. Let's see where we go from here Hey, you wanna join us Hey, look at that. We're back to C and remember we're not really using a steady pulse here We're kind of just floating and and really going Wherever we feel like we want to go so don't worry about the time. It doesn't matter imagine no Possessions we're gonna ignore that one Very nice very solidly in a flat we went there from E, which is another major third. So we're using this We're using this major third motif here. So we're then then moving up moving up again. I Can only presume we're gonna go back to C Let's see what happened no need for greed and hunger Will Ferrell we we almost got there We were a half step away because that was B and not C so kind of ruin the the harmonic motion we had going on there Is that Mark Ruffalo for a second. I wasn't sure if it was Mark Ruffalo or Tai Lopez. You're in my garage Back to C so if Mark Ruffalo got us there will Ferrell drop the ball, but we made it eventually Back into be okay For for a second we were there E flat, okay, I don't think we've been any flat yet. Who knows we might even be trying to use all 12 keys in this arrangement I'm not sure. We'll have to keep listening over and over again Okay, so now we have a tempo we're introducing a tempo for the first time in the arrangement It's right right about here nice little sidestep and a snap. That's nice That's nice So after all this uncertainty and the rubato quality of just sort of being free and letting it fall wherever we want It to now right towards the very end. We're gonna introduce a nice steady pulse. It's an interesting compositional choice But let's see where it goes from here, but I'm not the only one Wow E flat again perfect really really good. I hope someday And bring it back to gal to wrap it all up back in the key of C I got to tell you I for one feel much safer these ideas compositionally are super interesting and I and I'd like to you know experiment with them I feel inspired to kind of you know try these out in my own writing and in my own arranging Well, let me know what you guys think in the comments below. What was your favorite part of the arrangement? What was your favorite key change and who is your favorite performer out of everybody? That's it for today's musical analysis and we'll see you next time. Thanks for watching