What's up guys and welcome to yet another episode of Buzz with Stars right here on SPM Buzz. My good name is Miss Kithingi and today I have a legend. I don't remember the last time you saw him but he's going to be telling us where he's been. What's up? Mambo mambo. Ukwaji. Chilling chilling manze. Ehe. Kuna jokuna maiang stars. Ambao labda hajiyu uiuninani. Please introduce yourself. Um. Sukari me panda siwazi. Ugeali me panda siwazi. Sukuma hakunasiwazi. Maishaningumu siwazi. Narudi ocha. Ocha. Narudi ocha. Ya everybody this is Q to the T to the A to the S I, it's Q to C. And we hanging out with SPM Buzz you know what it do what it is. Let's go man. Q to C let me ask you where have you been bro what happened? Did you decide you know music in Kenya does not pay so I'm not doing this anymore. Kuliendaji. Um. It's a long story because it's been some time. It's been some time. I think I last last everybody checked. I think I was doing gospel something like that. Then I went on the low a little bit. Ya at that point I decided to invest in a company first of all. So I started an event and PR company. Ya so I've been walking on the low doing that stuff. Then definitely I know guys are asking when is the comeback and she take that. Ya I'm walking the comeback definitely. But what I realized show business is not a cheap is not a cheap or deal. Ya it's not a cheap or deal if you want to do a video you have to like budget like 200 K 300 400 K. You know to do a quality video and a good standard video that can compete in Kenya and internationally. So I said let me get myself financially stable. Ya. Lemi washan kwe bazu kwanza. Ya lafundu at least ni kama ya ni na kam tu ya ni, bitu zna flow tu ya ni. Ya zi kwe fit ye. Ya so I've been doing events and PR and Espressovenis is my client. Oh okay okay that's good. Now you know Kytasi lemi ask the moment you decided to stop doing secular and decided to start doing gospel. What was what was where the change? In 2013 that change happened around 2013 2014. So in 2013 my dad passed on. Ya so at that point I really okay it was the first time I lost a close family member. Very very close like that. So that stuff got me into some mad depression. Ya it was really really really really crazy. I didn't want to sing no more. I didn't want to do this show biz stuff no more. I didn't want to be in the public eye no more. I didn't want to do anything show biz. But but but there was still pressure like when releasing some stuff when are you putting out some work you know. So I just coincidentally had to turn to God you know. Cause when you are depressed and when you feeling kinda crazy up in there you know.  Then at around 2016-17-18 I just lost the taste of it. Ya at that point also the gospel industry was going through some thing on its own also. Ya so I was not ready to go through what the gospel industry was also going through at that point. So he said because I had developed a relationship with God personal one. So I said I would not be those ones who just say ati ni mi atakufanya gospel na ati ni mi rudisa secular. I didn't think that would have been fair. Ya so so what I did is I said let me just keep it on the low. Ya let me keep it on the low and when in God's timing it a rudi. Ya ya so so instead nika put your energy na ujanja show biz na everything I used to do into events and PR. Ya okay. I mean it seems like it really took hat all on you. I'm so sorry about that.  But then in Donna recover say in Kiawa bia ni kisema I'm coming back to do an album. Ni kisema na rudi sayi. Sendon mi rudi, sendon mi rudi poa. So for every fan of mine who had missed out on me and everything. We can't wait to see what you're going to do. Now, Kitasi, depression is rather just mental health issues in this country. Nino, especially for men. It's you that has been through all this and now you're getting back better. You're even wanting to go back to music. How are you able to do this? How are you able to get through this? It was not a security issue. I had to go through it. I went through alcohol, drugs, it was bad. I almost lost my trajectory in life completely by the way.  I'll just say it was really really really bad. I have had a tough talk with myself. Had to sit myself down above. I had to sit myself down behind the head of the chair. I had to walk down to the laundry room… I had to sit myself down and follow in. I had to sit myself down with the chair. Now I'm going to tell you what my problem is. I had to sit myself down, I had to start from scratch. Like really really really start from scratch. And it was crazy, my phone is blowing up. Hey, muna biya shara, wukwanzo kusya oni yoka bambi? Ndoina shugulike ya mpesa? I have an event here right now. So everybody is on my case for a minute. But it's going to be fine. Sizi wa hacha bakat maresi story. Now let me ask you, have you ever thought of you know just starting a model or rather a platform whereby you can speak to your fellow men because you've been through it all? I think that's a very good idea. But maramingi kenya mtu akiansi shakitukama initiative. Sometimes people think you're out there to get money. Sometimes people think you're out there to get money. Kenya ani kuwanzi shakitukama initiative in maipoteza trust. In maipoteza trust ili wukweli wunajua. So mini kisimati, I'm championing this. Someone thinks it's just a gimmick to just get mileage. But kiyukweli, my heart goes out to anyone who goes through this depression thing because imagine ya life imekwa hard ili wukweli. Life imekwa tough, by the way, saywa saywa yonadani life. Life imekwa zi, life imekwa norma, wato na chukuliyati life ni jokes o party ni ni ni ni. Manze zi, ril ril ril ya nukshatukau shacha na maparensuwa kono niwewe. E life kongim chesu. So alafuji patretna tu kukwa depression iwi. You don't have the strength to wake up and go and battle. You don't have the strength to learn life itself when you go through life. So wukamu na yunguwu, ina tukakuwako e monye, manze wutatua pe yunguwu. Probably you don't even have a supportive family. Probably your friends are being fake. Kwanzu ke kwa shobis. You don't even know who is championing. Exactly.  Ubaya utangali e iwi 90% of the time wutapata ku namu. 99% of the time kuna patanga ha ku namusi. So hata ukona, ukona wutukanya shinskya lukona siyami ali hafuku, ali hafu ku, un-learn ku kuafimas. He had to unlearn it. Then when he came back now he's realer than ever right now yuna. Icki come back inshalla niyungu mbe bebe dakwa as real as it gets. Ya, but you guys are very lucky, I've been dodging all this media stuff.   Is there anyone that is notable that stood by you and encouraged you at the time? Is there anyone? A, sadly, na, na. Is there anyone that you reached out to that new your situation? Tato ni kwa bia. Niku fek tuivo. A tato tui se mevi ni kwa. Niku fek tuivo, ni kfu fek. Ha, ni kfu fek.  Na nya li reach out. Sisa, na otwa lim tchekele ya jimi gita ulkona kama neno kamaneno na nya li reach out. Sato nimchikelea. Nona, so mitu se maji, yotei miya kuikfika ya yo unaoma. Nona, eka tiyo hati ya ko down, tuu seleb. Nona, kumbuka mi, mi name is Kevin. So kumbuka Kevin. Just remember Kevin. You know, because even before I blew up and became a star or whatever, I was Kevin. See, I worked for it and I woke up and went out there to get it. So I had to remind myself where I was before I released Narodi Ocha. I had to remind myself what was I thinking, what was I telling God, what conversations were we having with God. So I remembered if God gave me that situation and brought me out and made me Qitasi, God can return me, can restore me, can return me back to glory. And I wouldn't lie, banyan liya moku, sasa nika decided okay, I'll get established first. Mi kasi ma'nda fanyanini, dha fanya events na PR because that is something within the showbiz entertainment industry which I'm good in. So when I started that, it just started me and God. Said this is what I'm good at. Ya, other than singing this is what I'm good at. So God, I want you to help me in this new journey. So I want to thank God because Espressovenis is not a small club. Ya, it's not a small entity and it's just among other clients that I have that I do marketing events and PR for. Ya. Okay, okay. Now you know the industry has changed from when you are doing music and right now that you want to do an album, what are you planning to put into your album? That is when you know to just make it like you know something that we know right now. What are you planning to put in? Definitely there'll be features, there'll be features, there'll be, you know me as an eclectic artist definitely. I'm RnB, I'm Genge, I'm going to infuse this new school Genge artists in my craft also and because of the Palimifika Sahi competition ime kwa international, I will try to put in some few international acts daniya album PR. Just say, say to na dosayu na na. But you say? Say at least to na Venya, to na Nezafandisma project. Nna glory to God though at the end of the day. So sayi nizari chout kwa any other artist ama any other entity, any other international connect, we sit down to a project so I don't reveal much, but chuta wakna matisunye, wakna wukitambo, when people like meja will definitely work with meja again, definitely I'm trying to look for other people who like minded like me. Chuta pigama vitu, chuta, I'll try to make it as relevant as possible. I'll try to make it as relevant as possible. What's banging right now, I'll try to incorporate it. What is to bang about me the other times, I'll try to bring it back so that... I'm glad you're not resistant to change because some artists are and I feel like it's not really a good thing. I'll try to make it as relevant as possible. I'll try to make it as relevant as possible. What are your plans other than music? Is there something else that you're planning to do for us in you know because Shobiza's expanded, artists are doing so many other things other than coming back with music and your PR business. Is there something else that we intend to see you do? By the way, I manage, even artists, actually we are briefly working with Miss P. We are working with Miss P. Anla? Yea. We are working with Miss P. We are working briefly with Miss P. We are working briefly with Miss P. But I'll get back to sign an actual contract and things like that. I'll see you in a month. Mambozake tuta juwavile tuta fanya kama inshala Goda medisai Tresonga mbele, tresonga mbele So I manage artists, I manage a band I'm managing this club, I'm managing another club Karen, I'll just say there'll be a lot of You'll see a lot of people who When you're met piti amikono zango Na ata amgewa hijua, nivenye tumu uleiza Ya amgewa hijua So it's a PR fam So PR fam meaning we are doing marketing and all that Zirituwaji PR, nini ginia PR ni kumaga Na it's more of a marketing Publication Ya, ni marketing too, it's a sort of marketing but Kuna kaji na Kuna kaji na zitu kilita aji Na it's marketing Mr. Awa too Kwa liya mwishok nisi As we let you go Which artist amba eniwa timiako Nabadu yuko saizi That he's or her growth has really impressed you I won't lie He's the one that got it Kuna boi wangu flanya apat na kwangat Titu toka fanya Na aviana evolve Na nibamba na Kama kenya na tsukiza sai Otojiwe, there's a new king in town Meja Okunko Any besti hangu iniwe So Tumu kwa mejte As much as away from just Shobis She was been my friend for a long time Kuna tima li nishikili atamkono Kwa groti hangu kakitasi Miki vile ni mou na toa ki evolved vile Mepenya, penya baka kakuja kakuwa Miki wangu endo king of genge Sahi Na ali deserve yo crown Kitambosana atabili Na sujimbaka sahi kwa ni ni wajampia So kama kenya na nishikia Sahi Ojo mi na crown Sahi E na crown Sahi King wa genge Sahi Ni ofuwa ni okonko Ni meja Na na, e ni me crown Na kama mi sayana dispute atu ampie poinsakini gani Na mi indama ampie poinsakini gani Na na, this guy Na na, aja achakunanjaflani Sta kudanganya, kunanjaflani jo okonko kwa naio Iunja bados jauna ati sto kenya kuna Kusimukweli Okunua tu me fika place flani E niya me fika walshato sheka Onona Mi ma story is different Mi me toka from the gutter right now Onona So mi sama, muna zimana Kwa ni wepi espi ule to sheka Pa na mi sule to sheka Mi, I was going to something So mi I had to get out of it first Then come back and dress up In Chita Siya Ata ya Get But as far as okonko is concerned Ononko ame giri in vent Aka giri juvenet Aka giri sto Anakam Mi na muna 2030 bado akishain A mi na muna 2030 Na muna, onona Na siya ati Mi simsifu because Mi na msifu because Mi mi background yangu sayini events Apir So as a PR practitioner You can tell the trajectory of a brand Ya you can tell the trajectory Mi na inja ya kevini anenda A uata amutam stop A kuna umutam stop Na ita isakana Because he's thinking And the way he's thinking Anafkiri outside the box Na kitu moja ni me notice na Ya afkiri usta Ya na afkiri ya work He's putting in work He's afkiri usta Ya na afkiri Watu ingine is by now Aya onko komesumbu adyosa Aki alaf piya na si mati piya ni Na kongratulit niya Shinski It's not easy to come back And do it the way he's doing it Ya so na kongratulit And I like the way he's trying to push it Push the envelope He's trying to lead from the front Ya so guys mazei kamam jabaiti koza Shinsiti mazei go God support onia God support that dude Mazei he's trying something out by there And then imu jari boku check out Mi support Tu mazo kusapot tu zi ma staff zetu Poli poli one time Tu anga liyebitu zi menye Kamatunke support Nyatunke kwa Ukenga liya wan na ija Ija wan na support futuzao 100% Nona sautee wan na support futuzao 100% TZ bona tu zi buru From TZ TZ mazo na skiza bituzao 99.9% Nona kupeni wu kukwa uningumu Nona heri wata wakukopi Ndi usinge kwa makatiao Heri wakukopi Ula sahizi wuna TZ wana fanya mapiyano Ndi wama piya nu usinge kwa Yonia food for thought guys Food for thought Jutuwa ame piya nu Sobat ame piya nu zi naka They used to do the niaija sound so that the niaija sound does not penetrate them Hupia sisi Uzutieka, uzyetu skiyetu kamakanya We don't fake it We don't fake it We sell it often Koka waka una Tzasa ukueli Uza o kusao naka Шima Igingetunke nisa Nisa naka sisi 2 Niga man sisi 2 So let's take advantage of that because we have our own thing. This gengetun is our own thing. Twekin inguvuko yo staff to pushin ito atu. It's good to know we are hating not yet yet you have janani apana. Piafisi tu kei anza yo genge wa lukon atu. Wa lukon be the same same things. Oh ya wa say ya. Wa lukon be to the same same things. But look, genge imezam toto flanian ito. Gengetun. No na. Yeah, lazima, game recognize game. So lazima me recognize. Lazima me recognize that genge. We used to get putt manze tu lukot na. Before videos it was a play where Ah blood sweat and tears manna. Ah tu liteseka. Minda kumbe tu. Ah tu liteseka manze. Miimi. Eh, niki. Sozi nge na tawna kumbu kanga shubizu na skia baridi. Ahi wa litu tesa lewe. Ahi, miimita siyo na atitu ya tia kina kunguwa patitu lukot na shain. Mufiki reili kuwara isi. Ah pii nye. Heeey, wewe. Sozi rajo me taja pii nye. Pii nye juzia li sema. You know gengetun music. It doesn't look like some genre that could go outside the borders. Look at the niga. Tabiatu was... I don't know what's my name. Still waters run deep. Pii nye tabiatu nizile zile. Ah jye change. Pii nye. Pii nye hajye nicheza. Pii nye never played my music. Pii nye never played major's music. What was his feedback? What did he say? Why can't he play your music? I don't click. No mii nye sema winii ko. Ahi. Ahi, siitu niziteka kana pii nye wikiwa tebumbaka tukunyo. Lakin keshota chesangu maiako. Ahi, rosa afi. You know, it was crazy. Onajiwa sa me tu. I want me to persecute. Mi ala say it was persecution. Ni kumbe ati, the thought of coming back to Shobis ina kwa unas kyeba reidi yani. Because una juli zia ni am ready to fight that fight yani again. Ina kutisha, unona. Ina kutisha kwa it was really, really hard. And that point, that is all I could do. And that point, you know, kutuni kwa ni me sema. Nda survive naio. So imagine siya na unendu na putin, waka kabisa. Ni ambe kama pii niya kuchiza na rugi ocha. Sasa tachiza ni. Sasa kama kuchiza na rugi ocha. Unona, eni, de... Aka ito wa kijua. Some of these things, they are bigger than you. Eh, aata uchikosa kuchiza na kuli endaji. Ita kwa tu, kama ni pii ni kitu wa kutoboa. Ita kutoboa in it's bigger than you. Kitu munga meo dein ita iva. Upende uspende. So even some of these people, luka mautiyawana tu sumboa kwa ishobis. Well, jue tu, kakitu inimoto. Ita kupita tu apo. Eh, initatoboa. Yundi experience, mi meneza kwa mbeya because a lot of our music was not getting played. Tulite seka sana. Uusiyawana kwa kunguwa, na kuna seizit. Tulite seka kwa isi streets, looking for ways to get our music out there, to get our music heard. Mi, mi aja say it the way it is. Ya, they really, well, it's teresa. Akini, because Gracia Godni is sufficient. Tuli go beyond their reach. Tuli go beyond whatever it is. Go beyond their reach. Tuli go beyond whatever it is. Platform they had. Nuna, mi, mi kusimasa easy. Aku chesana rudi hocha. Nuna, but aiko ini. What's the difference anyway. Nuna, so mi, mi atis nili kuja na nika make it. Na kwa ini chesa. So, aya juli zi, ea li kwa nani. Nuna, eh, sozu nisha uriza ken. Na nisha uriza metu, yo ati mania taku support Kenyan music. Kamu utaki, kwen takabisa. Eh, ita kupita tu uto, yo na tu kupita. Eita kupita. Na uta kukumbuka. Na uta kukumbusha. Eh, na uta kukumbusha. Akei toa kijua, because mi nangia reality, mi skuapakudanganya. Na eh, na mi nesima vini aiko. Nuna, eh, because sa iu nuna, sa ii, he's no longer aana yo platform tena. Na sa ata ulizuwa. Ele kumsaidi ani. Aikumsaidi akitu. Senkei tu support tu. Nuna, nuna, unu juna kwangani iniquid proko. Uuna taku kusiza jarul. Lakin ni lesiku uta kwanas jumisiba. Uta pigi ekitu asia kuja kufanya fundraising. Atimatist toke, usi unge kitu kama yo nuna kumbuka ulu kona murushia mukono. Understand? So, let's support our own. Juizi mangoris kikam ni sisi sisi sisi, Dr. Saidiana. Mmm, everybody, if you have a platform, just remember yo guys, because umse utam Saidia. Ata kukumbuka. Believe me, unu jatu ani kama, tiata kwa celebatan kumbuka. Kwanini mi na kumbuka, datumseli ni fanyaikitu. Kwanini mi na kumbuka. Nona, nama unia lini Saidia. Nona, kwa tuva lini Saidia, mi sezi dangania. Tuva lini Beba Angam, baya sana, baya sana. Mi na mkumbuka. A mi na mkumbuka, ei, mi tuva saya kini ambiya, ei maze, kira sinna noma evi nirushie 500k. Dampatia! Dampia! Nanda, ah, dampatia. Tukuwa maze bro. Ei, kwanini. Ju kama mila ei, mi singe kua palini. Palini kua. Una lawa sayu, inini wini waluwa lini kuna nirushia mukono. Unaskiwa, ei, ei, umsa ya kuna nini, ya kuna fundraising, ya kuna nini. A unama bia inama mbo, sei, enda apigeja rule. Ei apigeja rule, aka m. Ei apigeja rule, aka mma ma msa ide kufanraze. A mi na sma evi nii kujumi, akuna sayi, mitua nizani shika maali. Akuna palini nishika. Ei, araba roni kitu anguma angumu, kai mu kijua, mi ima msa apiara sayi. Ujanja mingi, ah, ujanja mingi. Akuna, uta nji. Akuna. Sayi ni me uma. Aya, kitasitri ke malizia. Please speak to artists who are coming up right now and you know, they feel the same weight you felt when you were starting your music career. Please speak to them. Ah, achan nangali e mende. Ah, nombia tu enyewe. Sani usani sihepi. Usani sihepi, ya. Take it as a responsibility because at one time you'll become big and if you didn't have something else that was pushing you, first kwanza, usani ni dangerous. Kwanza kwanza ni anze tunapu. Usani ni dangerous. Usani ni dangerous. Usi oni ama painting. Water kumada. Water kumada. Water kumada. Okay happen kuboloa. Kamame simswa discipline. Usani ita pitanave. Ile uro safi. Usani ita pitanave. Ukitopu kihapen kutoboa. Namene sim, discipline. Usani ita pitanave. Straight up utaji pata umibu ku into drugs, utaji pata ukua addicted into maybe even sex. Ama utaji pata kumalaya online. Utaji pata kumalaya. Raisi sana. Utaji pata into illicit, illicit to behavior. Una joa happy air, happy air, it makes sense. Una joi o time kinamdu. Vinga. Una utaji pata kwa happy air makes sense baby. Kama usi simswa ku anka principle. Usani nasa kumas. Usani nisa sabi yabutu amesha crossover. Meshata oboa. Usani nasa oboa sa samu nyan anza. Niza mambi ani. Now knowing that unata kakwam sana ni. Uzi target at the stardom, hype.  You know, ah, say, wali, come up ni culture. I culture, say, dia. Ono na, mimi kama, mimi ngekonefani, i job bila kina klimo, na kina jwa kali na structure zao. Sida ni nge turn out fini, le turn out. Walu kongana disciplines zao. Kul kongana, we were never clubbing. We were never clubbing. No, no, no, never, ever, ever. You are meant to finish the show. Get out of that, mafakin place. Go to your room. Stay there. Anything dangerous, kina kina kongana kufiawa. Pisi kuma club. Eh, chuki ni mingi bana. Sia ta kwa camp chel e bana. Nga kumbia, nga kumbia msani. Usi kujana happy ya mentality, ya high happy. Usi kumna mentality, ya hype. Kwa drug dealo na say mama, ze don't get high on your own supply. Don't believe your own hype. Don't, where when do you na leta yo hype? Usi believe yo hype. Ono na. Saha mimi kakitasi, mimi siwezi kujatina, yo hype ya kitasi, na mimi do na Johnny Moadanganya. Mimi do na Adanganya. Mimi na believe yo wongo. Aywezi. So we kujukuna craft atiyako. Nuju wuzi kuji separate na yo art. Taimi ya kwa Kevin, Kevin. Taimi ya kitasi, kitasi. Mimi do ma na Beyonsia kuna Sasha Fiaz, na kuna Beyonsia. Sasha Fiaz aki show up, mi kita mi a kuchafua. Aki kwa Taimi ya Beyonsia Knowles, she's Beyonsia and she's very quiet and she's very reserved and yeah and she doesn't talk and even Mikko Jackson used to be like that. You know, aminya mazala mane no ni ni. Lakin akin kiko MJ Sasha. Mamboinkini, ono na. So at least ukeza kuji separate, ono na, ukeza kuji separate, bedewe, ute yo na kabi asha raila design na push hi kama trolli. Ono na, hi ni kata trolli. So kichoka uni wachiliya. Ono na, so uni wachiliya. Meaning kama hi brandiako kama kitasi. For example, uni ichkua kata trolli. Ono na, uni push, ichkua place plani, ono na anime choka, uni ichiliya kidogo, na pumzika, una kwa Kevin. Ono na understand, so you must be able to detach yourself from your own brand. Ono na understand, because it's very unfortunate for what that yo end was going through. That was personal. Ono na, but sila hisi kuji detach, kwa k situation kama yo. Laka ma artist Sasha, ukeza kuji detach, na story kama yo, ata jimi gate, ukeza kuji detach. Ono na, uta sama iso ni ngonza jimi gate, but mi mi jimo. Mi nkhoivi. Ono na, iso ni ngonza jimi gate, una zi kukoko kando, kwa yanda uko. Laki nuwe kama na ni oen, ono na kwa una deal nanguriako kama wewe. Ono na, wezoku separate the public from your personal self. Na, the last thing ni, akunanga overnight celebrity. Okay. And if you waiting to, ati umetwangoma leu una hitkesho. Ha, ha, ha. Eh, uta angoja. Ha, ha, uta ya wewe. Kila amtua na story bana, uta jua uta, uta ambiwa jutuli enda apa ni ni. Walo aso ango keo design ni mungu pekea kendo na jua. No na, mungu pekea kendo na jua. Na, na, 99% watu angu keiwa na kujanga kwa wan hitwanda usi. Yes. Mmm, mi misimu ni alistu keiwa mi amuka. Kkesho, eh, kkesho eme kuwa. Ha, wezifanya ingini, na kongangumu sana. Eh. Na kongangumu sana. Sumutu asika ma kitegemi ati ni mi anza usani leo, ati kkesho na tatoa, na pelikasi dii kuwa, hi kkesho ni hit, hi dii kuwa na enda ma show. Kwa sana kumbe kuwa sana zingini, uneza tatoa hitskanae, mi leo ku tatoa hitskanae. Action. Ne. Juni anze kuwitu ati kitesi wuneza kameldi. Eh. Inne. Ma zi, between iso hitsne, ni ame ni kwa na skiaji. Ni ame ni kwa na skiaji. Before ni toe ocha chipsfunga wuncha shingo, before ni toe iso ma big songs. Una skiaji December, me fika 31st. Kwa sana piga show kila maali, wukum tani, nukola ma hit. Ay, ay, ay, ay. When you're in your life, it's tough. Eh. It's tough, it's tough. So, lazima mutu akam na rohoya pa severeans, nukam tu na rohoya, weweni mufa ni biashara, umekam kuseli hip-product. Sindyo? Eh. Umekam kuseli hip-product. So, hip-products ndi ufokasi ako. Unona, hip-product chef kisha apa, una hi ati liya. Unona, wezifunga duka kutoka, dukutoka 7 baka 7. So, usutafunga duka kutoka 7 baka 7. Eh. So, utaimi kufunga dukik fika. Detach yourself, come back, be real to yourself. And surround yourself with positive people. Yeah. Surround yourself with people who at least believe in you. Depression is real, man. Mi, udakutana, ukutana msa na kumbe wezi, mi, ukutana asa wa ni ambia spazarudi, stazaku. Stazafa ni ambileni li kuwa. Wow. Bagi mi na wacha kelea tu. Na na wacha kelea tu, usutawa na ni ambia kana. Kwa ni wendul kukini nendiki yangana rudi? Wendul nendiki iso hit zingini. Mi, bi zemi ni writer ambia. Eh, so, wakuna wezi ni ambia artist, unani ambia kana ni. Eh, yo si choy siyako, yo ni si choy siyango na mu. Na mu. So, you'll meet, you'll meet people with bad bye, people will tell you can't make it, people will tell you your music is trash, people will tell you your accent, your everything trash. You know, wekama kali grafa ange, ange jyamini. Eh. Eh, kali grafa, kali grafa, kali grafa mi pigua vita, tumikwana ni kutukam tani, umo, all that time ni ni. Na jwana, na jwana, from tani. Yes. Iyo vita li pigua, siyom chezo, ondi watu kila mtuna kwambia, wajimuna, sound rajis dwi ni ni. Ue ni ambi ni ni ni ni, ni ambi. Ue ni ambi wafitungapi. Eh, eh, but you have to stick to your guns, so you endu na jwa kiluna taka. Well, lasma wukwam siyupangu ingwe. Well, lasima. So, let's agree that we must be able to just fight. Agree to fight and fight to the end. Ya, nukifika upo mbele siyati wazu kanyagilia wengine. Jaribu watu wu, kushekamba, buta mtu kama mbilita atu iwi. Na, lesa uti solo me jaribu ame vuta watu, awi li watu atu. Mmm, nata mi na zari choutu tumtuka meja, but meja me jaribu piya ame vuta gengeton. Me vuta gengeton.  But let's make it a habit, na, jwa, let's make it a habit. Namele sa li kambak piya kwa vuta. That was a big moment for me. I really celebrated. That bandana isa situation. To me, it was a big moment. I really celebrated that situation. Ya, ya, ya. To see, to see wangalia iwi sa atu iwi. Atu isa sa. Spanya iwi wo. Eee, pifutane juu, wu juu iwi, wu juu iwi, wu juu ikeshwe kwa iji. Ui wa vute. Because atu indwa, that's tumusa, that's, imi kwa ni kama tunua leta, aondo na hold it down. Aondo mi kwa, sesa wana propagate the future. Aondo na, sesa kama sitriu. Aondo na kama sayi, akin na ruto onongelia about the panguinkui. Aondo na, kama, kama, angeto yungoma, sesa aondo kwa onongelia ni.  So let's learn to also pull each other up. Ya, ukisha fika somsa ni, ukifika kumbuka juu paluli toka, kuna mse juu ukochini, ana kwitaji. Aondo na, probabili pii uli shikwam konu, uli yungu kia kama imi nili shikwam na gengi house, nona kali frekozo lini beba unona. So uli kumbuka pii apeluli kuwa, kuna mitu up or down, enda chikwam mitu flani. Inu aju, for the sake of the future, because we're not doing this for just us, we're doing it for children's children, remember that. Ya, so i give you guys responsibility bro. Ya, so kama sayi ni, ya, na muni umbe bro, muni umbe na mwok. Like this? Muni umbe. So how much go there? Na kama na kama, muni umbe manze. Alright. Safiago. Ya. Umbe eni. Totally. Sawa kitasi asante sana, kukubali kungelesha SPM baz, na jo jungelesha mtu mwingine, lakini asante sana. Inu ano mas jumenia. Ano mas gushana jo story. Mene kelea me. Asante sana. Misaprez. Alafu bede SPM mna dujo poa, I think I'm just a couple for some time. Sini mo me kangape. Exactly. Jo me kama nanguvu, yunguvu ni me feel. Na like. Na me shkurusana that at least ni kukui platform. This is a good platform. Na after exchange contacts. Shafani zima biesha razangu. Taa. So you? After exchange. That's what's up guys. Guys, that was a very insightful conversation by Qtasi. I hope you've learnt something. Ame sema, don't get high on your own supply. Thank you so much Qtasi. One hundred. Alright guys, that was Baz with stars right here on SPM Baz. My good name is Miski Fingi. Until next time, it's goodbye. SPM Baz.


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Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott of Kataya here at telecom exchange NYC With my good friend mr. Eric Ballard stream data centers Eric welcome back to JSA TV. Thank you. Welcome. Hi, Jamie How are you doing so great? And I want to say thank you again for returning here to telecom exchange or with me Of course in streams hometown Dallas Yeah, just a few months back yet so much has been happening. So we had to bring you back on Including a massive acquisition announcement of a hundred and fifty seven acre of land and In existing let me make sure I got this right four hundred and eighteen thousand square foot facility in Phoenix, Arizona Yep, actually a little outside Phoenix and Goodyear, Arizona So we're out in the West Valley out there and let me tell you it that four hundred and eighteen thousand square foot building It's a big building and we're in the process of wrapping up design work to redo that We're gonna do a lot of modifications to really take what is an existing industrial building and turn it into a data center product And you know that's gonna roll out. We'll bring that live kind of first quarter of next year We're gonna have an onsite substation 100% dedicated to us We have 126 extra acres to build on and we're gonna be building out there for quite a few years to come And we're gonna build one heck of a campus Eric It is always so exciting to talk to you. Tell me about any other project So, you know, we don't have a formal announcement yet, but I think that very soon We're gonna have something to announce in northern Virginia So I think you'll see stream coming into the northern Virginia market and doing something up there So, we love that headquartered in Virginia ourselves. We're we're we're big Virginia fans And I will say a lot's been going on northern Virginia. It's a good place to be. There's a few data centers up there And what are some of the stumbling blocks, would you say that? Enterprises face as they work to migrate their resource planning solutions to the cloud just changing topics there for you So, you know, I mean, there's so many stumbling blocks that a lot of enterprises can meet whether it be a Resource planning application or HR application or anything like that So, you know, the things that we see is a lack of understanding of how that cloud environment works A lot of security concerns security is a huge aspect of what's going on as people migrate resources to the cloud Yeah, absolutely a lot of conversation here at telecom exchange happening around security and the need for education So tell me how does stream go ahead and help with these companies overcome these challenges? You know, the number one thing that we do is we try to help with customer education making sure that our customers know That we are a resource and that we have tools and planning and resources available to them You know, we partner with people like Megaport to bring direct cloud connectivity and it can help with speed reliability security We still believe that the direct cloud connection to tether into the existing data center is absolutely the best path to the cloud and Offers companies the best security mechanisms. Yeah, I love my Megaport friends So great having the stream and Megaport logos together for sure. Now as enterprise workloads go ahead and increase and span multiple clouds How is stream positioning to let them run in the networking software that they need and where they want to be? So, you know, I mean first of all, we're a carrier neutral Planning neutral data center. I mean we we believe that our customers have the rights to come into our facility and do whatever They need to do. We don't want them to add, you know, we don't want them to be encumbered by anything that we put in place We get asked that the first question. Are you carrier neutral? Are you cloud neutral? The answer is absolutely yes We want our customers to have the flexibility to work with whoever they want whenever they want and You know, whatever whatever software it is that they need to run We hope to be able to help them and support them and whatever those goals are, you know Once again, we talk about Megaport. Megaport is very flexible and have a lot of Capabilities and APIs to be able to open those up, you know And we have other capabilities for cloud interconnection as well for our customers Absolutely, absolutely, and I do also love that you put a lot of emphasis on that holistic approach to security Increasingly multi-cloud environments coupled with emerging tech like AI. We're talking a lot about AI here today machine learning How do you see automation and Security going hand-in-hand from the ground up in data center operations. So, you know, I will say, you know I've been in the data center world now for about a decade and networks for a couple decades before that I think at this point, but you know automation is Absolutely the way of the future right we have to automate the processes because everything gets at a bigger scale But and with that has to go hand-in-hand has to be security as we look at building automation systems and you know the evolution of the data center the data center continues to grow the IoT aspect data centers have been IoT for the last 20 years It's really an adaptation of technologies with more and more sensors and more and more aspects to that And so we see that you know all of the AI and automation brings more capabilities More information to the data center providers such as ourselves to be able to offer More capabilities to our customers and be able to react to issues that might arise before they ever happen for sure yeah, and And we're hearing a lot about that today. We just got done actually with the humans and AI Roundtable where we're talking about safeguarding our networks and our data centers but but really the the whole sort of takeaway was that collaboration of Machine learning and and getting the best possible results fastest without human error But still that human oversight so So we're still putting our best our best what we do best as humans into play And certainly stream the leader there Yeah, we always have to have a human at the helm to make sure that they're making the smart decisions We can have there a lot of data and a lot of analytics and we use AI to process that data But at the end of the day, it's a human making those decisions. Yes, very important Well, always a pleasure speaking with you again such a thought leader. We love having you on Thank you for coming to our techs here in New York City and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV. Happy networking


Income tax 2023-2024, itemized deductions, state and local general sales taxes. Get ready and some coffee because we're setting our refund to the max with income tax 2023-2024. Most of this information can be found in the instructions for Schedule A Tax Year 2023 which you can find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused on what I would call the below the line deductions more specifically the itemized deductions. Remember in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence a funny income statement. Most income statements having income minus expenses resulting in net income here having income minus various deductions resulting in taxable income. Remembering deductions for taxes is good. Therefore, we're typically looking for more of them noting the difference between the adjustments to income or above the line deductions and the below the line deductions being the above the line deductions do not have to clear a hurdle such as the standard deduction before you get a benefit from them whereas the itemized deductions do typically have to clear the hurdle of the standard deduction before they become beneficial. First page of the form 1040 we're looking at line 12 standard deduction or itemized deduction taking the greater of the two. Our focus here the itemized deductions which come from Schedule A. Here is the first half of the Schedule A itemized deductions. We can see the categories on the left although this isn't the entire schedule. This gives us a look at the standard deduction hurdles that we have to be clearing which will be dependent largely upon the filing status. Single filers having a 13,850 standard deduction we would have to clear to then itemize doubling that to 27,700 if married in the middle head of household 20,800 and then if over a certain age and or blind we have increases to the standard deduction. Single filer could be one or two married filer two people with two items so you have one through four related standard deductions on the right and then we have the head of household and so on. So now we're continuing to look at our state tax deductions. Remember in the general premise we're talking about federal income tax here and therefore you would think you can't deduct the federal taxes to calculate the federal income tax because you would result in a circle reference. However, what about some state and local taxes? Can we deduct those on the federal income tax return? We did an intro into this in a prior presentation and are continuing with it at this point in time now looking at the state and local general sales taxes. So quick recap, you'll recall that the federal government pays for certain things. They should be paying for the military instead of out of our business with everything else but they do a lot of other stuff and whatever and then the state is responsible for taking care of certain things. First a word from our sponsor.  Like our CPA six pack shirts a must have for any pool or beach time mixing money with muscle always sure to attract attention. Yeah, even if you're not a CPA you need this shirt so you can like pull in that iconic CPA six pack stomach muscle vibe man. You know that CPA six pack everyone envisions in their mind when they think CPA. Yeah as a CPA I actually and unusually don't have tremendous abs however I was blessed with a whole lot of belly hair allowing me to sculpt the hair into a nice CPA six pack like shape which is highly attractive. 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If you would like a commercial free experience consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com such as law enforcement on the state side of things for example the state then has to come up with some way to pay for the things it's responsible for but it's not required to use the same tax system such as implementing a income tax system because it's sovereign from the federal government so it might decide that a sales tax is more appropriate for the state so therefore the states are going to have different tax taxes for state and local taxes then you might see on the federal government and the states could differ from one another so when we come to the question of should we be able to deduct state taxes on the federal side it becomes confusing because not all states are the same in the format of how they're going to be calculated in the state tax we also have the normal confusion of the federal tax having an income tax system means that the natural types of things we should be able to deduct are business things things that we needed to expand in order to generate the revenue and if we had to expand sales tax or state taxes to generate business revenue you would think it a legitimate deduction but these itemized deductions are typically other kind of deductions that don't really fit that mold and they've allowed basically some state taxes to be deductible as itemized deductions for federal income tax calculations so some states like California for example have a state income tax which is the tax that you would typically take because it's going to be the greater than the sales tax when you're trying to see if you can calculate tax as a deduction as an itemized deduction but some states don't have an income tax in the same way and therefore you might have to calculate the sales tax so to be fair to those states to give them the same benefit and sovereignty to tax the way they want a tax you would think you'd have to allow the sales tax as something deductible or remove the deduction for the state tax as an itemized deduction so now we have to include the sales tax so now the question is well how exactly are we going to do that so if you elect to deduct state and local general sales taxes instead of income taxes you must check the box on line 5A so now we're saying we're not going to be using the state taxes to deduct on schedule A but rather the sales taxes I believe before that it used to be that they only allowed like state income taxes which again was clearly benefitting certain states who modeled their state taxes after the federal income tax most likely in an attempt to basically subsidize themselves whereas other states didn't subordinate themselves to the government in that way because they said that we're going to apply the tax we think is best for our place and we're not going to listen to the federal government and be under their thumb in that way and you see this tension that ends up happening and then they added the sales tax so that you could basically include the sales tax to try to even things out so to figure your state and local general sales tax deduction you can use either your actual expenses or the optional sales tax tables so this is going to be a little bit more difficult because sales tax is on everything you buy so does that mean that you have to track the actual sales tax that you paid which is kind of unusual because typically when we buy something we just record it at the price we purchased we don't break out the sales tax that we paid for it so possibly we can just use tables which will give us like an estimate of the sales tax or we might use the actual sales tax options and that might be the case if for example we purchased something large if we purchased something large in other words we probably paid an average sales tax higher than the average person in our income bracket or whatever that you would think the tables would be based on and therefore it might be beneficial to calculate the actual sales tax as opposed to using tables so actual expenses generally you can deduct the actual state and local general sales taxes including compensating use taxes you paid in 2023 if the tax was the same as the general sales tax rate so food clothing and medical supplies sales taxes on food clothing and medical supplies are deductible as a general sales tax even if the tax rate was less than the general sales tax rate so this is kind of an interesting situation where they're saying it should be basically the general sales tax rate that we're looking at but you will recall that if someone applies a sales tax the rule that people will try to fight against it the people that are against the sales tax for whatever reason will try to say that the sales tax is a regressive tax falling more heavily on lower income individuals who have less discretionary income spending all of their income on necessities like food, clothing and medical supplies or something like that the way to get around that if you still want to use a sales tax would be to say we're going to lower the tax or possibly remove the tax for those necessities and then the sales tax you would think you would eliminate that argument although it doesn't in practice the people that don't like sales taxes and want an income tax which are usually most of the media the legacy media try to just label something so I'm not saying we should have a sales tax especially on the federal level or anything I'm just saying to look at things fairly that's what kind of ends up happening so motor vehicles sales taxes on motor vehicles are deductible as a general sales tax even if the tax rate was different than the general sales tax rate however if you paid sales tax on a motor vehicle at a rate higher than the general sales tax you can deduct only the amount of the tax that you would have paid at the general sales tax rate on that vehicle so now you have some manipulation where the sales tax is higher than the general sales tax rate where we have maybe the cap that could be at the normal sales tax rate include any state and local general sales taxes paid for the least motor vehicle motor vehicles include cars, motorcycles, motor homes recreational vehicles sports utility vehicles trucks, vans, off-road vehicles and so on so clearly if you made a big purchase like a motor home or some kind of vehicle or a van or something then it's likely that you might not want to just use the sales tax tables because you're going to be paying a significant amount of sales tax because you purchased a large item that's going to be useful not only to the current period but to future periods and therefore there's going to be a bigger tax burden on that you would think so trade or business items don't include sales taxes paid on items used in your trade or business so here we come up with that issue of the idea of the sales of an income tax when we're talking about the federal income tax that we're calculating is that we should be taking those expenses as deductions that were needed to generate the revenue so you would think if for example on the schedule C if you bought stuff that you used in the business then you get to deduct the sales tax on it so if you bought supplies it's not like you're going to say I bought the supplies for $100 then I paid $20 sales tax and I'm not going to include the cost of the sales tax and the cost of the supplies no you're going to say it cost $120 basically and that's going to be the expense on the schedule C you would think generally well if you included that $20 of sales tax in the schedule C in the cost of the supplies you can't also include that $20 in the calculation on the schedule A so we have that would be double dipping and we have the same kind of issue in part because we have this weird phenomenon where the schedule A is taking into consideration the deductibility of things that aren't natural to a federal income tax which are those things needed in order to generate revenue on the business but now because they allow you to deduct on the schedule A personal expenses because you lived in a certain state and they taxed you it's not part of a business expense therefore if you bought supplies for the personal side of things you bought personal stuff you would think you wouldn't be able to deduct the sales tax usually you would only be able to deduct it if you bought stuff for the business deduct on the schedule A personal sales tax in essence you can imagine situations where we have this double dipping scenario where we have to be careful of making sure that we only deduct it in one place so instead go to the instructions for the form you are using to report business income and expenses to see if you can deduct these taxes refund of general sales taxes so if you received a refund of state or local general sales taxes in 2023 for amounts paid in 2023 reduce your actual 2020 state and local general sales tax by this amount so if you paid sales tax and for whatever reason you got a refund and it happened in 2023 before you filed the return for 2023 then of course you can just make the adjustment and say ok well just reduce the amount of sales tax I paid because I didn't actually pay that because they gave me a refund for it but if you receive a refund of state and local general sales tax in 2023 for prior year purchases don't reduce your 2023 state and local general sales taxes by this amount so now you are going to say I got a refund in 2023 but the sales tax that I paid was in the prior year so that doesn't so if you got the refund in 2023 it's like well what should I do about that should I reduce the taxes in 2023 that I paid because and the answer generally is no and you might say well I should because last year in 2022 I got a deduction maybe for the sales tax if I got a deduction for the sales tax last year do I have to go back and do a refund of the taxes last year because I didn't really pay that sales tax because they gave me a refund in 2023 no shouldn't do that either what should I do well if you got a deduction for it last year similar to the refund of a state tax if you got the benefit last year you might have to include it in income in other income this year would be the general idea so however if you deducted your actual state and local general sales tax in the earlier year and the deduction reduced your tax you may have to include the refund and income on schedule warm 1 form 1040 line 8z now this situation mirrors is similar to the state income tax situation however less common because with state income taxes as with the federal income taxes they're designed to over pay and get a refund so you're almost certainly going to get a refund for the state taxes if you're following the system the way they wanted it to be followed and then the question is is going to be well did you get a deduction as an itemized deduction last year if you did then you would have to generally include it in income with sales tax it's different because you don't always get a refund for sales tax that would be somewhat more of an unusual thing you pay the sales tax is what it is they can calculate it properly at the point that you pay it and therefore you're less likely to get a refund but if you did get a refund in a similar scenario in the current year that you deducted in the prior year then you don't lower the sales tax in the current year but instead possibly include that refund as income in the current year so optional sales tax tables so instead of using your actual expenses you can use the 2023 optional state sales tax table and the 2023 optional local sales tax tables at the end of these instructions to figure your state and local general sales tax deduction so if you didn't make a big purchase like a boat or a car or a mobile home or whatever then you might say hey look I just want to take the average sales taxes in essence is what you would think that these tables would then be calculating and that would be both the easy thing to do and usually somewhat accurate if again you have normal purchasing habits however if you purchase something that's going to be beneficial for multiple years in the future big ticket items in other words typically then of course that's when you might have to say hey look I'm not going to use the tables because I bought this big old thing and it's going to have a higher sales tax so I got to actually calculate that so you may also be able to add the state and local general sales taxes paid on certain specific items so to figure your state and local general sales tax deduction using the tables complete the state and local general sales tax deduction worksheet or use the sales tax deduction calculator you can find that at the iris.gov and you can calculate that if you want an iris.gov obviously tax software is great for that as well so it can help you to use those tables and and punch in the worksheet so you can kind of compare actual sales tax calculations versus the tables to do some comparisons possibly caution if your filing status is married filing separately so remember if you're married you only really have the option separately of married filing joint married filing separate married filing joint is typically better you can't go back to head a household or single unless you're divorced or separated so if you file married filing separate it's not the same as head of household or single and the iris will often severely limit some of the potential benefits so if your filing status is married filing separately both you and your spouse elect to deduct state sales tax your spouse elect to use the optional sales tax tables you also must use the tables to figure your state and local general sales tax so again the iris might say it sounds like someone's trying to double dip and it's useful to think from the iris aside and a tax manipulator side not because we want to be tax manipulators but because we want to understand the code so that we can understand what is happening here right so the iris so what would happen if someone's trying to manipulate things and they didn't change this if I was married someone's married they can say okay I bought a big item so what I'm going to do is I'm going to write off the the boat and take my actual sales tax on my return and then I'll file separately and my spouse then will take the general sales tax so you're kind of double you're kind of double dipping in that way right so because once taking the general sales once taking the actual so again the iris is saying well you can't do that if you file separate and so on so here's here's the table I won't go through it in detail here you could check it out we'll talk about it a bit in the calculation for when we get to the software instructions for the state and local general sales tax deduction worksheet line number one so let's just walk through it a bit just to get an idea of it on the line by line so if you lived in the same state for all 2023 enter the applicable amount based on your 2023 income and family size from the 2023 optional sales tax tables for your state so read down the at least but less than columns for your state and find the line that includes your 2023 income so if filing married separately don't include your spouse income note the family size column refers to the number of dependence listed on page one a form 1040 or 1040 SR and any condition sheets plus and plus you and if you are filing a joint return your spouse so if you are married and not filing a joint return you can include your spouse in family size only in certain circumstances which are described in publication 501 so obviously if you're trying to create a table for how much someone paid with the sales tax you can imagine just to get conceptually how would that work well you'd have to say where do I live what's the cost of living in the particular state and locale that I live in what's the income that I have because we can talk about the average income levels and average spending for that income level and then we can think about family size how large is the family and then we can look at trends in terms of spending per family size the tables possibly built on kind of actuarial type of calculate or you know average type of spending calculations based on that so income your 2023 income is the amount shown on your form 1040 or 1040 SR line 11 plus any non-taxable items such as the following so tax exempt interest so veterans benefits non-taxable combat pay workers compensation so these are items that aren't included in income but if we're trying to figure out the average sales tax there are things that you have received although not subject to income tax still having an impact on your spending habits which will have an impact on your sales tax calculation is the general idea so non-taxable part of social security and railroad retirement benefits non-taxable part of IRA pension and or annuity distribution don't include rollovers obviously rollovers you don't have access to public assistance payments now this is getting complicated note software is useful but we're getting just the concept down here what if you lived in more than one state so if you lived in more than one state during 2023 use the following steps to figure the amount to put online one of the worksheet so clearly this is going to happen with some people this is going to get confusing because if I'm trying to find the average sales tax of a particular location what if I lived in multiple locations that have different sales taxes and so on number one look up the table amount for each state using the rules stated earlier if there's no table for the state the table amount for that state is considered to be zero number two multiply the table amount of each state by the fraction the number of of which is the number of days you lived in the state during 2023 and the denominator of which is the number of days in the year so now we're using our good old ratio calculation to say this is the percentage of the year in essence I lived in one place versus the other three so if you also lived in a locality during 2023 that imposed a local general sales tax complete a separate worksheet for each state you lived in using the prorated amount from step two for that state online one of its worksheet in other words you're calculating it for one state looking at the fraction of the year in essence that you're in that state the other state that you moved to might not have a sales tax you might have moved to a state that has an income tax and not a sales tax in which case then you would have the income tax but you might have moved to another state that does have the sales tax and then you'd have to do the same kind of calculation with the proration rate of the fraction of the year in the other place so combine the prorated table amounts from step two and enter the total online one of a single worksheet software is helpful for this so let's give an example you lived in state A from January 1st through August 31st 2023 that's 243 days and in state B from September 1st through December 31st 2023 that's 122 days and the table amounts state A is 500 the table amount for B is 400 so you would figure your state general sales tax as follows so you've got state A you lived in it 243 days out of we're talking a whole year which has 365 days in it about times 500 so that's going to give us the 333 and then state B we lived the 233 days which you know the 243 sorry the 122 the 243 and the 122 adding to the 365 and so therefore we got the 122 over the 365 times the 400 so now we've got the 134 and the total then is going to be the 467 that we can possibly deduct if taken the sales tax deductions on the schedule A itemized deductions so if none of the localities in which you lived during 2023 imposed a local general sales tax enter 467 online one of your worksheet so this is the state you might also have the local sales tax otherwise complete a separate worksheet for state A and state B enter 333 online one of the state A worksheet and 134 online one of the state B worksheet line 2 so if you check no box enter 0 online 2 and go to line 3 if you check the yes box and lived in the same locality for all of 2023 enter the applicable amount based on your 2023 income and family size from the 2023 optional local sales tax tables for your locality read down the quote at least but less than quote columns for your locality and find the line that includes your 2023 income see the instructions for line one of the worksheet to figure your 2023 income the family size column refers to the number of dependents listed on page one of form 1040 so that's on page one of the form form 1040 SR and any continuation sheets plus you and if you are filing a joint return your spouse if you are married and not filing a joint return you can include your spouse in family size only in certain circumstances so what if you lived in more than one locality so now you have state and local sales tax right so you might add the sales tax could be you could be hit by the state and the locale so if you lived in more than one locality or during 2023 the total amount for each locality using the rule stated earlier if there is no table for your locality the table amount is considered to be zero multiple the table amount for each locality you lived in by a fraction same method that we're now using for the localities that we use for the states the number of the fraction is the number of days you lived in the locality during 2023 and the denominator is the total number of days in the year 365 if you lived in more than one locality in the same state and the local general sales tax rate was the same for each locality enter the total of the prorated tables amounts for each locality in that state line two otherwise complete a separate worksheet for lines two through six for each locality enter each prorated table amount on line two of the applicable worksheet let's see an example you lived in locality one from January 1st through August 31st 2023 243 days and in locality two from September 1st through December 31st 2023 that's 122 days the table amount for locality one is $100 the table amount for locality two is $150 so just to recap here we had the issue if you moved from state to state for state taxes and now we're looking at locality which could mean that you moved from one place to another place within the same state but have different localities therefore the local sales tax is different even though you might have the same kind of state sales tax situation or you might have moved from one state to another state which have both state and local sales tax in each place or any kind of combination in between so you would figure the amount to enter on line two as follows note that this amount may not equal your local sales tax deduction which is figured on line six of the worksheet so locality one you've got the 100 times the 243 days over the days in the year 365 so you have your fraction that comes out to 67 so locality two was 150 from the table and then you had 122 days you lived there over 165 365 days in the year that comes out to 50 so you're at 117 line number three so if you lived in California check the no box if the combined state and local general sales tax rate is 7.25% otherwise check the yes box and include on line three only the part of the combined rate that is more than 7.25% if you lived in Nevada check the no box if your combined state and local general sales tax rate is 6.85% otherwise check the yes box and include on line three only the part of the combined rate that is more than 6.85% alright but what if your local general sales tax rate changed during 2023 oh no so now you're living the same place but the rate changed in the year because they passed legislation to increase it most likely if you live in California they increase it so if you check the yes box and your local general sales tax rate changed during 2023 figure the rate to enter on line three as follows multiply each rate for the period at it was in effect by a fraction so we use the same kind of fractual of a year calculation method so the number of the fraction is the number of the days the rate was in effect during 2023 and the denominator is the total number of days in the year 365 enter the total of the prorated tax rates on line three alright let's look at an example let's see how it works in action locality one imposed a 1% local general sales tax from January 1st through September 30th 2023 that's 273 days the rate increased to 1.75% for the for the period from October 1st through December 31st 2023 that's 92 days so you would enter 1.189 on line three figured as follows so you got January through September one times the number of days 273 over days in a year 365 there's the 7.748 in October 1st through December 31st you got the 1.75 times the 92 days fraction of the year over the 365 adding those up that's how you get to the 1.189 okay but what if you lived in more than one locality in the same state during 2023 complete a separate worksheet for line two through six for each locality in your state if you lived in more than one locality in the same state during 2023 and each locality didn't have the same local general sales tax rate to figure the amount to enter on line three of the worksheet for each locality in which you lived except a locality for which you used the 2023 optional sales local sales tax tables to figure your local general sales tax deduction multiply the general sales tax rate by a fraction the number of the fraction is the number of days you lived in the locality during 2023 and the denominator is the total number of days in the year 365 alright let's not do another example let's go over the balls to show you it here similar concept being applied for this one just want to point out at this time it's very tedious right so however it will be dependent upon the state that you are in so the question for you will typically be if you're a tax preparer do I want to focus on people in my state in which case I will have the general scenario for that place do I want to take on more complex returns which have multiple states people living in other states or possibly have multiple states that they have lived in the return and noting that softwares is of course going to be quite helpful for these calculations so if you do the proper data input hopefully the software can help you to do some of these somewhat tedious calculations and allow you to then be able to explain why the calculations are happening happening deconstruct them so that you can double check that the calculations are done properly and communicate to say a client for example what the software is doing


In this video, you're going to see how to install Hyper-V on Windows 10, which is the same as installing it on Windows 11, and the basics of VM deployment. So let's start. First thing we need to do is we actually need to go to Apps and Features, Programs and Features, and what we're going to do is we're going to turn on the Hyper-V role. Now, this is assuming, of course, that your computer will support Hyper-V. So we click OK, and it'll go and install the binaries required for Hyper-V. That requires a restart. So Windows 10 restarts, and we log back in. The next thing we need to do is we need to set up a network address translation on NAT network. Now, we can only do this from PowerShell. The first thing I do is I create a VM switch with the new VM switch commandlet, and call it NAT switch, and configure it as an internal switch. Now that I've done that, what I do is I view the network adapters on this computer, and I can see that I've got my Ethernet switch, and it's got the interface index of 18. I need that for the next command. I clear the screen. So now I create a new net IP address. I specify the IP address, and this will be an IP address on my NAT network, and it's <IP_ADDRESS>. And the prefix length is a subnet mask, it's 24. And the interface index is that 18, the one associated with that adapter. I clear the screen. So then I run the new NAT NAT to create a new network address translation. I give it the name, NAT outside. I specify the internal IP interface address prefix, which is <IP_ADDRESS>.24. That'll be the subnet of my NAT network. Okay, so that's all done, and I've got my NAT network. The next thing I'm going to do is create a virtual machine. So this is the new virtual machine with it in Hyper-V, and I need to first give the virtual machine a name, and in this case, it's going to be Windows Server 2022 evaluation. I specify the generation. I always go generation two. It's a more modern version of a virtual machine. I specify the startup memory as four gig, and then I specify my network connection as NAT switch. I then have it use the defaults for a virtual hard disk, and then I select an ISO file, and this is the Windows Server 2022 evaluation edition that you will have downloaded from Microsoft's website. Now that I've got all of those settings, I click finish. It goes and creates the virtual machine, and I've got my virtual machine. Now one thing you need to do, you need to set the virtual process account. If you leave it as one, it will only assign a single virtual core to the virtual machine, which will make it rather slow. So here I'm saying, assign four virtual processes. I click apply, I click OK, and my virtual machine is ready. I click start. I double click on the virtual machine to open it up. I click in the window, I press space to boot, I maximize, and then we can see this start of the Windows Server installation process. That's how you set up Hyper-V and start configuring a VM on Windows 10, and the same applies for Windows 11.


Nigeria must invest in Africa-creative youth as the most populous nation in Africa in order to boost its economy. These were the views of a dance and fitness instructor who also doubles as the CEO of Café Creative Agency, Café Chafal, while speaking with journalists on the sidelines of a one-week-long African-creative market event held in Lagos. The annual event provided a unique opportunity for a diverse range of creatives and vibrant key players from within and outside Nigeria to collaborate. She holds strongly that Nigeria has one of the most talented, passionate and creative people in Africa who need attention. She calls on the youth not to give up on themselves rather follow the principles and processes believing that they can make it in life.  You know you need to understand how to propose your business, how to communicate your brand. So a lot of this know-how, it's an information gap for young people and who is going to do that, very limited resources. Tywo Ajayila sent Yinka Davis, Iyaba Ojo, Wale Roba are among the personalities who gave a boost to today's session. While Davis calls for partnership with the federal government, Ajayila sent would rather want the creatives to be used to hold the government accountable. The best the government can do is just partner, is to partner with those who are the, you know those who have the know-how, the skills in the creative market. With the caliber of material that we use, with the way subliminally we cannot influence people about their world to be more, I was going to use the word aggressive, but to be more participatory in the polity of this country. We're just onlookers at what's happening to us. It is the job of entertainment to politicize our people. Creative economy has the potential to be the highest contributor to the country's gross domestic product fact. Content particularly is going to be the new oil in the next couple of years and for a country that is the youngest with a median age of 18 on the youngest continent in the world, Nigeria is best placed to take advantage of this evolution towards African arts and culture. Advice to any upcoming dancer is be true to yourself, believe in your ability, don't try and copy or follow the crowd, stay within what you know, train, train, train, always try to look for new ways to be the better version of you. The event revolves around a dynamic panel of discussion focusing on pivotal subjects currently shaping the creative industry with a particular emphasis on the dance scene. Love Ikuku Oyedoku plus TV news. News updates.


So I'm here with Kayla Wilson and Kayla, you're gonna be a senior at Lee High School this year, right? Yeah, and You just started a petition at change.org. Tell me about What that petition says and why you did it? Well, I started the petition when Pooley and Castro called for the renaming of my high school Robert E. Lee and I didn't know that we could rename until he said so. So now that I know I wanted the renaming and when the NEIZ spokeswoman said they weren't considering changing it because they didn't have any complaints. I wanted to create this petition to show that people do have complaints and they wanted to change. Yeah, and then I think I heard it on Express News where they mentioned that this isn't the only school that was called to call to rename. It was also Jefferson, Jefferson Davis Middle School, which is now like Stonewalls Jackson Davis. So if they, you know, if they can change and that was a Confederate general that was named for that school and they named that a civil rights leader. So I thought well, why don't we just like change the name to George W. Lee who was also a civil rights leader. So I thought that would be best. And the last name would stay the same just like it did with the middle school? Yeah, it would be easier transition. And I remember reading about him and I remember how much he did for the South. He was the first one to register to vote in Mississippi and he did a lot for for civil rights in the South and Mississippi. So I thought that would be best. And easier transition for Lee. So now everything will be changed at that school. You started this petition and it's been about ten days now since you started it and you're up to how many signatures? Right now, I think it's like 2,970 something, almost 3,000. Almost 3,000 signatures. That's amazing, that's amazing. I don't think it'll get that far. Yeah, and you've gotten some responses from across the country too, right? Yeah, somebody else? Yeah, I've gotten responses from other people who also are calling to rename their schools that are also named after confederate generals and leaders and I've gotten like responses from alumni's and students who want to see the change and you know, so it's not it's not just people from outside. It's also a lot of people in San Antonio. What kind of reactions have you gotten from your classmates? I've gotten people who think that I don't know my history or I why would I care about them now, but I've also gotten a lot of people who agree with me and they wouldn't mind seeing a change and they feel like there's some people who are more appropriate to honor and name a school by, so, but most people who have disagreed with me have openly done it on Twitter, but people have messaged me who are in my class and alumni's, actually recent alumni's and older alumni's who agreed with me too, so. Well, I mean, let's let's get to the point. I mean you say it in your petition, but what's what's the reason to change the name? Robert E. Lee was a general of the Confederacy who you know did an act of treason and I know a lot of people say that he like did it for his state like he didn't want to fight for it, but he could have like, you know, quit the military altogether, but now he decided to fight for for the Confederacy against America and the Confederacy they were fighting for their right to keep slavery, to own human beings, and I don't think we should celebrate someone like that. I mean, I know he was part of our history, but it's not a history that we should be proud of. It was an act of treason. It was it was for something terrible for incitement of human beings and that's something we should never never celebrate. Did you call the school and say I want to change the name? The first thing I did was contact my principal and actually when I did she emailed me back I was expecting like maybe like, oh, thank you for you know, your concern or you know something on those lines, but she like emailed me back and like kind of gave me a history lesson and said she doesn't feel like the name should be changed and she's not gonna consider it. Lee was a leaf offer his state. He was a good general. He's someone that we should remember and like and I never said we should forget him in my petition because I sent her my petition so I mean, I hope I'm hoping that she read it. I also did email the board members. I asked them when the board meeting was gonna be and I told them about my petition and they responded a little bit more respectfully. They said, you know, thank you for your concern. So when is the next board meeting? The next board meeting will be on August 10th. So and and now you're asking people to sign the petition but you're also asking them to sign the board meeting?  So they can know like because right now the board is saying they're it's not in their agenda to change it and I think if we have as much people as possible come to support they'll reconsider changing the name. I have to say that before we started this conversation just now just it's been within less than an hour ago that you were watching live on CNN on your phone as they took the Confederate battle flag down from the Capitol grounds in South Carolina. Yeah, yeah, that's that's amazing. I mean, it's sad that it had to take nine lives for them to realize the flag should come down, but I'm glad that it's finally coming down.