Okay, so good morning folks in Europe, and let me share the, I'll put this on the chat window for a note-taking. So welcome to the June QWERTY meeting, yeah, feel free to add your notes here while people are going through slides, and I think I covered everybody in terms of the attendees, so we'll just get started without further ado. So the slides been, it's on the Google Sheets, so you should be able to see the link. And just four things on the agenda, but if you have time, obviously we can cover other topics. Just a quick one, I think I copied all the QWERTY members on the MR, just wanted to make a slight tweak to the QWERTY mission to cover, you know, what kind of contributions that we're looking for from the potential QWERTY members, and it's been discussion on that in a couple of other issues, that's one. And David's going to talk about, I mean there's a discussion on a couple of issues, but the feature of contributors.gitlab.com, which obviously hasn't been updated for probably like close to seven months now. That's the next one, and I'll do a quick recap of the hackathon that just happened a couple of weeks ago, and we have an existing issue. This is following conversations that we had in New Orleans about creating a handbook page for the QWERTY. I mean, we obviously do have a web page, but I thought it would be nice to create a handbook page to have more details on logistical stuff as well. So those are the topics that we talked about, but let me know if you have anything else that you want to add towards the end, either now or I mean towards the end of the call. There are no objections, I guess we can just proceed on the topic. So, I mean, so here's the, I mean, QWERTY mission at the top, I mean, which we kind of iterated last time, we did, I mean, George led the redesign of the page, but I thought it would be good to sort of go into more detail about what we mean by contribution. We have this link to the contribute page, I mean, this shows you all the different sorts of contributions that we're, we welcome from the community members from development on to UX design, translation and documentation, but I thought it would be good to sort of be explicit about, I mean, we're not just looking for programmers or people like that are just willing to write a lot of code, so I, so, and I think Takuya, he's not on the call today, had questions about other examples from other communities where the equivalent of the core team or leadership team, where the contributions are not just co-development. And I found a couple of examples, I won't go into a whole lot of details here. These are all live links that you can click on.  And I mean, basically it says, I mean, any contribution you make in terms of issues or discussions are all valid. So you can take a look at sort of their charter in their GitHub repo. And OPNFEM, this is a community that I was a community manager for before I came here. And there, we also explicitly made a point there, point where we weren't just looking for people that are writing codes, and this helped make the community more inclusive. And then, you know, it sets an arbitrarily high bar, I think, if, if we give people an impression that all we're looking for is people contributing code. So let me, I'll just like pause there real quick and see if people have any questions or comments or other concerns. And there was a discussion in terms of like a future core team members, you know, what are we looking for? So that's sort of what caused me to think about this, but let me know if people have any concerns or questions. Well, really quiet. Either you all agree or.  I mean, I've got a couple of comments myself. I mean, I think, I think we should, if our, if we say that everyone can contribute, I think we should make it as easy to contribute with any kind of contributions. And as celebrated the same way we celebrate code contributions, we should celebrate contributions to the forum. We should contribute, celebrate contributions to the documentation. So in that regard, I fully agree. I'll mention a couple of things that are indirectly related to this. One is I think, I think that if the discussion on the mission is happening on the on the web page and that's fine. But I think it might be worth moving forward to to move all of this to a mission and how the team works to the handbook, as we discussed on on contribute. There is no mentioning this because so it was changed on the page. And I'm afraid that the page will keep growing and growing. And also, if we, if we modify the web page, we always have to make sure that we don't break the lay out, whereas the handbook is more agile to more for modifications, essentially. So as a summary for me, yes, I agree. Let's consider moving forward, perhaps having a handbook section for the for the core team. Well, I think we're getting contributions outside of code. I think for docs, it's just the amount of much requests that you can count that gets probably more difficult in in other areas. For example, the the forum or I'm not sure, like general community support is probably more difficult to measure. But I think that's not a huge problem if you see people very active in those areas, areas we can still discuss if everybody agrees on that. So in making terms of code changes or docs changes, the metric of number of much requests is quite easy, but I don't think that should keep us from adding other people. Yeah, I mean, I agree. I mean, in terms of like metrics or measuring people's contribution, yes, it's obviously easier with with merge requests. And that's why I think there there might be like bias towards code and development. But but I mean, there are other ways to sort of see the see the impact that people make, like in Gitter or other forums, like the type of support that people provide, like even on IRC channels. So, yeah, I mean, it may not be as easily quantifiable, but, you know, I think people could can sort of see the body of work and make decent judgment. But, you know, so sort of following up on what David said, I mean, the tweak I made to the to the web page through the MR is kind of minor. I didn't want to make it too long. I just sort of spelt out community support development documentation through like UX design. So, but if you have any comments on the MR, other suggestions, let me feel free to let me know. But I agree, David, we could probably add a lot more details and more maybe even detail steps in the handbook page when we have one. Other comments or concerns or? No, from my side, this looks good. If we make a handbook page, can we directly link that from that on the Quotiment page? Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, that we should be the goal. So, I mean, you know, maybe this is I don't know if this is the right terminology, but the web page could be more of an executive summary, but with more details that could be found on the on the handbook page. And then, yeah, they could sort of. Yeah, that could be a cross link between the two. Yeah, actually, one one question relates to the topic, but looking at the web page. George, here's a question for you in terms of the of the design. I know that we added all of the information. To the team YAML file for 14 members in the same way that we do with the heat lab team. There used to be like blurb as in something about the members. This doesn't appear as a pop up on the on the court in page. Is it because of I mean, if there is any technical difficulty in implementing that, it's just a lack of time. Is it something that you were thinking as living as it is? I'm just curious. That's all. Well, I think it's possible. I'm not sure why we skipped that, but it was mostly just to quickly get this in and apply the new design. The this part is also visible now at the team page, the combating page for all members, including core team members. But we can investigate to see if this is easy to add to the core team page too. Cool. Yeah, yeah, because I think I think it's it would be whenever we point new committee members to the core team page, for instance, for instance, I think it's good to to see to see or to learn a bit more about what members of our community, what they're doing, where they come from. That's that's all. Yes, I think I agree. Yes, it would be nice to have it. Awesome. Thanks. Cool. OK, so it I mean, I don't think there's a reason to sort of be labor in the discussion. It looks like we're in agreement. But if you have any questions on or comments on the M.R. on this slight tweak that I made, I appreciate it. And then we could add more details on the handbook page, which we'll talk about in a few minutes. OK, so moving to the next topic and David, I'll I'll turn things over to you. I think you have a couple of you started a couple of discussion on some of the issues. So I'll turn things over to you and feel free to share it. Let me stop sharing so you can share it like or do you want me to keep sharing? I can share myself. I'll just show the. OK, let me just stop sharing then. So that's right. Yeah. OK, so essentially, it's a source of content where it was where it is all started. Reimagine it already. We used to have or we still have the contributors.kitlab.com page, which essentially showcases the contributions to to GitLab from the whole community, either GitLab team members or the wider community. The issue that we have with the site was essentially that after it was all set up, it was maintained for for quite a while. But at some point, this this stop has been yeah, seven, nine months up until now. We don't really have the resources right now to to keep it up to date and not even to to maintain infrastructure. So in the spirit of reducing the number of things that that we have, but still making sure that that we have an alternative for it. What we were proposing was to replace the GitLab contributor, the current GitLab contributor side by a dashboard on the from the bitergy from the set of bitergy dashboards that we already used. The advantages will be would be that there's no nothing that we need to maintain. We are flexible in terms of updating the the metrics that we want to show on the on the dashboards. And yeah, essentially, we don't have to maintain either the code of the infrastructure that's what I was trying to say. I think I mean, some of you might have been involved in maintaining or developing the site. So you might want to add more more on this. But essentially what we're showing here is the is the ranking of contributors. And the the proposal was to replace it by a dashboard. This is one that we could use, for instance. But we can, as I said, we can treat the visualizations that are shown here in any way right now. It is it is set up to show by the committee members by default, but we can change that or we can also change that on the fly. And it shows other metrics such as total contributors, which is one that we always show in different places across the website and in presentations and some other information that might be useful, such as the organization that that contributed to get up or have contributed to get up. It shows things such as the we're doing in terms of meeting open days for first response. It shows a backlog of repositories and also like the actual backlog as in life every every day. But to me, the approach of the question would be as it seems, there is consensus on the on the issue. I would advocate for just doing the redirect to the to the dashboard. And then I was originally thinking of sunsetting the club contributors side. But I'm thinking, I'd like to be reducing, perhaps we should move it to an archived instance so that it doesn't disappear. That would be my question. My question is a, if everyone agrees that we should go ahead and just do the right thing. And then what we do with the actual site. So I agree that we could redirect it. But I think we should redirect to a dashboard that displays a little less information than the one you just provided. Simply because if you use that as an entry point, there are too much too many information that kind of wins you. And if you compare it to the current contributor page, you get like three informations. So the name of the contributors, the number of commits and a list of the contributors. And that's pretty much it. And we have that in the particular dashboard in one graph, I think, or two graphs and a whole bunch of other informations that I don't think are relevant as a start. We could link to that dashboard as a means to get further information, I guess. But I think as a start, we should use a minimal dashboard. Thanks. Yeah, we can definitely do that. I mean, to me personally, what the information that's important is the ranking of contributors because there's something that can be, well, like aspirational info or inspirational info for new contributors and also for existing contributors. And perhaps then the total number of contributors. Any thoughts on what to do with the current box would you favor just removing it or moving it to an archived URL that has at least the partner that says this information is no longer updated with historical purposes? I think if we have all the information that was included in the old page, we can simply remove it in favor of the new one. If there's no information missing, if there's information missing, maybe we should add it to the new page. And I think it's a rails application. So if we keep it unmaintained for a long time, it could be that it attracts security issues, vulnerability that we don't want. So if we want to archive it and keep it online, maybe you should just export the application to static pages and link them, which may already be too much work for just the purpose of keeping it archived. Cool, sounds good to me. I mean, yeah, I think both security and missing information are really good points. One of the reasons why I mentioned giving it as an archive was also, I didn't just want to throw the site away because people have been putting quite a lot of work on it. But yeah, it's up to those people to decide what to do with it or have a say in what to do with it. I'm more than fine with that.   Yes, sorry, yeah, okay. I mean, I think that makes sense, yeah. The code will stay on the repo as it is. I was thinking of, I'll say, moving the site to, let's say, archive.contribute.github.com, as a URL that makes that clear and perhaps adding a banner. But as we need to say, if this is A, too much work, B, my post-security risk is maintained and if there's no missing data, then it might not make sense. Yeah, okay, cool. So, I think I'll be next step, then I'll update the issue with a comment on, yeah, let's sunset the site and then let's do the redirect and let's simplify the dashboard. Yeah, I haven't thought about Hannes' point, but I think that's valid. I think what we had before, it's pretty simple and then people can always drill down if they want to, if they want details, yes. Might be a little bit more overwhelming. Next, David, I guess I'll go back to sharing my screen. Hit the share button. Okay, so back to the slides. So, a quick update on the hackathon that just got wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. I just went to show a chart. I mean, we're doing really well for like our first three hackathons in terms of like MRs coming in and there's been a bit of a decline for the last one. So, I think David and I are both hoping for like a continued increase, but the quality MRs were good. I mean, there were like MRs or issues that were highlighted by product managers on day one and somebody like picked it up within a couple of hours. So, that was pretty impressive and a couple of people or at least one of the people that won the second prize is like a new contributor. So, that was pretty, that was pretty cool. So, you seem pretty excited about that.  I don't know if that's the case, but if I felt like you guys or that didn't want to monopolize their first place prizes, but I think I even played a little guilt trip on George to submit an MR, which he did in the last few hours. But so, I mean, one of the things that we want to do for a future hackathon is to make the date, I mean, set the date earlier. I mean, I even got this feedback from people within GitLab to see if I can schedule the date last sooner than announcing it like a month before, which I used to do. So, the hackathon date for Q3 is going to be the last week of August. So, hopefully a lot of people will be back from vacation by then. Obviously, there'll be more announcements, but, yeah, I mean, it's... Even if it's like all virtual, I think it's like a fun way for people to kind of get together.  So, hopefully we can keep that going. So, cool. Okay, I think that's it. David, did you have anything you wanted to add? I have a question, Ray. Yeah. When you think that the feedback that you got from Fox was that we should set the date earlier, you mean for this particular hackathon or in the next one? Or in the future, somebody was asking if I have the dates for Q3 and Q4. So, a couple of weeks ago, I mean, yeah, go ahead, sorry. Yeah, so I'm just trying to understand the feedback. So, was the feedback that it would be better to publish the dates earlier or to choose earlier dates? No, no, announce the dates earlier. So, yeah, yeah. So, the people can sort of plan ahead of time. So, that was sort of the feedback I got, especially people within QLAB. Yeah, I think now then, I mean, at least in this one, then you added the date already on the landing page and the countdown is over. So, I think we're good there. Okay. So, any other questions or comments on the hackathon? I think we should perhaps spend some more time on the prices next time, perhaps make it something that's not that specific just to test if that would be an incentive. I think Ray and I had this conversation. I'm not sure about making it like super big prices because it should be a funny event and people should not just participate for, let's say, price money or things like that. But I think for the last seconds, we've been using things from the QLAB shop. I'm wondering if we could get something that's in some gadgets as a price that are not in QLAB specifically. Yeah, I'm open to suggestions. Yep. Okay, so let's move on. Yeah, we sort of already talked about this when we're talking about updating the mission and here's a relevant issue that I think I opened either during or right after Contribute in New Orleans about a month ago. So yeah, I think it definitely makes sense to create a handbook page. I can get started with the draft and if you can all provide your feedback and chime in, that would be appreciated. I mean, we might repeat some of the introductory information on the web page. I think that's fine, but we can definitely get into more detail and it's a little bit more free form. You know, we can talk more about like the onboarding processes, processes, more details on monthly calls and expectations and et cetera, et cetera. So I could definitely get started on this. Let me go back to the slide and make sure that I'm covering everything here. Yeah, so yeah, and then this could be one of the sub-page from under the Code Contributor Handbook page. So that's sort of the proposal, but David, you had probably have more thoughts on this ago. I'll let you add your thoughts here. I think that looks perfect. I mean, it's more or less what we discussed at Contribute. To me, personally, the point was let's make sure that there's a place where the team policies, the mission and the thing related to the functioning of the team can be updated. In the same way that it is done with other teams at GitLab. So let's not make the core team special. And then, yeah, let's not keep the web page growing. So other thoughts from people on the call? Or, okay. So that's actually the end of the formal agenda topics, but other, it looks like Ben and Remy joined early in the call too. If there are other topics that we don't cover, we still have time to cover them as well. I've got a question. There is an ongoing discussion about adding a new member to the core team. I wonder if the students in the call want to discuss it, but without it being recorded, so not to... Yeah, I need, I'm having conversation with that individual to see if he would be interested. So I might have some news in the next couple of weeks. But yeah, let's keep that sort of under wraps for now. But I'll, yeah, I can definitely reach out and see if he'd be interested in joining. But, and then we can open that up. I mean, which brings up another point. I mean, I don't know if there are other candidates that we should think about, but I mean, that we don't have to go into detail today. But I mean, if, you know, people that are on the call or others can think of other candidates that we might want to consider for, for addition to the core team to open an issue or just let me or David know. Okay, that might be all this. There may not be other topics then, so going once, twice. Here's reset. All right, so like folks in Europe, I'll let you go grab your coffee or second cup of coffee if you need it, so. Thank you, Ray. All right, thanks everybody. Have a good day. Bye. Bye. Have a good day.


So, what was your last job you were doing? Sir, I was interning before that I was working with a company which was based as a project coordinator. So, why did you wish to join seven subjects? Sir, there are a couple of reasons. The first and foremost for me is that it offers a great career opportunities for anybody who is professionally inclined. And since I worked for a few years, I realized that I would be able to perform the job that it demands. And so secondly, it would also give me an avenue to kind of understand what I can contribute to society in a more direct manner. Right. So, what qualities do you possess that can make you a good civil servant? Sir, I have an optimistic view of life. And I like to believe that I am a people's person. I usually am able to get along with people from across diverse areas. And that's one of the traits that civil servants should possess because they interact with people from across backgrounds. And so apart from this, I am empathetic towards people. So I am able to understand where they're coming from. And sir, also the fact that I have the capacity to persevere and not give up. So even if there are certain obstacles which might drop off, I would be able to see a task to its logical conclusion. Is this your first attempt? Sir, this is my last attempt. Ms. Sharma, have you heard of the Malabar naval exercise? Yes. What is that? Will you tell me something about it? Yes. So it's an exercise between amongst a couple of nations which is the chart is like by India. There is a participation from US naval forces, also Japanese naval forces. And in the past, we also invited the Australian forces.  But it's basically a triad to the exercise. Yes. What is the purpose of this? Sir, we are, the Indian Ocean for us is a natural backyard. And it is necessary that we keep on developing our capabilities in the Indian Ocean region. And this exercise allows us to collaborate with countries which are apparently doing very well. So is the Malabar naval exercise only heard in the Indian Ocean region? No sir. And one of the regions where it is taken. Where was it held last year? Sir, I don't seem to recall. Of the coast of Guam, which means western Pacific, north of Australia. But you are right, it was basically three countries on a few occasions. Australia has also been invited and Singapore has also been invited. There is also something called the Milan naval meet. Yes sir. Which, what is that? Sir, even the countries from South East Asia also participated. It was a much larger platform. Much larger. Yes sir. And it is, where was it held? It is the Andaman and Nicobar Command. Command. Which hosts it. Hosted it. Yes sir. Okay. Now you know there is a scheme for regional connectivity called Oman. Yes sir. What can you tell me about that scheme? Sir, India is trying to make a foreign in the global aviation market. And at the same time also trying to explore the domestic market. So the idea is to connect the underserved and unserved regions of the country. And could provide no-field airports so that the regional connectivity overall is improved. And what about the ticketing? Is there any? Yes sir. So there is a cap of 2500 on, there is a certain criteria. Right. And how, and the funding for the viability gap funding. Yes sir. By the government, right? Yes sir. Okay. So you have heard of the international court of justice? Yes sir. Now recently there are two for judgment which they have given. One relates to Mauritius and the Chagos Islands. Are you aware of that? I have not. Okay. Okay. Right. The other was of course relating to Kurbushan Chatterjee. So why did we go to the international court of justice in this particular case? As two countries have not been able to come to a conclusion with respect to this particular case. And we hope that the international court of justice would be able to give a favorable verdict as well. No. So what were we trying to do which Pakistan was denying us? Yes sir. In respect of Kurbushan Chatterjee? Yes sir. To turn off. No. Were you trying firstly consular access? Yes sir. They refused to give it to us, right? Yes sir. Then they sentenced him to death? Yes sir. So that was the reason we had no other option but to then approach the ICJ. Yes sir. Now a hearing was held in the ICJ very recently. Yes sir. What happened in that? Sir they were not able to come to a conclusion and the talks will continue to go on. No. Both sides gave their final statements and the court will give its judgment in due time for us. So the hearing is over? Yes sir. The courts will not give a judgment. In December January, a number of youths were arrested by the NIA. Yes. For being radicalized on the net and becoming supporters of the ISIS. Yes sir. They included some people from UP, Delhi and Punjab. So what is this ISIS? Sir ISIS is a non-state organization which expands to Islamic state of Iraq and Syria which had a huge code in terms of control over the oil fields which was trying to create a caliphate in the infestation region and expand it to the larger global gain of footprint. And who was the leader? Abu Bakr. Baghdadi. Baghdadi. Right. So do you think that they pose a threat to India also because of the fact that they are able to radicalize so many Indian youths? Sir India has very very strong ethos of secularism and democracy and communal harmony. But at the same time we need to ensure that there are enough safeguards in place so that we need to undertake deratualization exercise. Okay. Thank you. Thank you sir. In the recent Swachh Subjection. Yes sir. Paridabad did fairly well. You are from Paridabad. Yes sir. Right. That was one factor which contributed significantly to its occupying a higher position than the last survey. Yes sir. What was that idea? Sir to my mind it is solid waste management and the door to door collection of the waste and segregation at source. Good. Right. What are some of the unitary features of the Indian constitution? The fact that we have an integrated judiciary. Our election machinery is integrated and similarly the mechanism of audit under Comptroller and Auditor General and also the all India services is also an integrating factor. We have a unitary bias in the constitution because for instance even the finance commission decides in terms of reference for the states. You are leaving out one of the most important provisions of the constitution which is unitary in feature. Emergency provisions? Yes sir. Emergency provisions. Okay. Now what according to you are the strengths and weaknesses of the Indian economy today? Sir to talk about these strengths that we have become the sixth largest economy and we are growing at a very rapid pace. We have a demographic dividend. There has been some deceleration recently in growth. Yes sir. But still you are right. Yes sir. In the last five years we have gone from 12th position to now 6th position. And the demographic dividend is second. And we are the largest, we are the most attractive destination for foreign direct investment. And so we have a strong banking system and the availability of investment. So these are some of the positives that I can think of. Low inflation. So under the inflation targeting is being managed properly. So that's a strength. Yes sir. The veteran non-indicators are doing fine. Okay. And even in the foreign sector. Okay. Now come to the weaknesses. Yes sir. So some of the, so the fact that the banking system because of its rising non- and apart from this we have unemployment is also one of the problems that the economy is facing. And lack of, there's a certain amount of crowding out effect and private investment is not catching up. No. No private investment. Yes sir. And we've not been able to exploit the entrepreneurial potential that the country has. What about our performance in the trade front? Sir we only account for just about 1.7% of global trade. And we have a long way to go as far as foreign trade is concerned. Okay. Do you have a positive trade balance or? Sir it depends on case to case basis for instance when you are. Overall? Sir overall we are importing, we're still importing more than our exports. Okay. Now do you know anything about the national war memorial? Yes sir. It has recently been inaugurated in Delhi. That was some negativity associated with it also. Sir I'm not aware of the negativity around it. You can read in the news spectrum. The Prime Minister's speech making news of that occasion to deliver a speech which was which had political overdrive. That was criticized in many quarters. What do you ban them out of the express? Sir I'm not able to recall. I'll read about it. Train 18? Yes sir the train 18 has the same. What are the same? So if you are familiar with train 18 so tell us something about it. Sir train 18 has recently been started. It is relatively at a higher speed and with latest technology however. What is the speed? Sir I won't be able to recall this exact speed. You call it as part of the making India effort? Yes sir. Where was it manufactured? Interior coach factory. You have played handball at a fairly state level and journal level. Yes sir. In handball part of the Asian games set you? Yes sir. Is it included in the? Yes sir. Okay. Why is it that our performance has not been very good in handball? Sir there are multiple factors at play. There are institutional factors that we've not been... Our Federation has not been doing very well. There is a lack of adequate investment in the sport overall and particularly in handball. And the talent search has also not been up to mark. Sir there is a lack of overall culture in terms of sports, how we perceive sports. So it is not still seen as a viable profession so to speak. And people are still averse of taking sports as a career. It hasn't assumed a mass proportion as yet. Yes sir. Limited to few states and it hasn't gone down to the grassroots. Yes sir. Thank you. I have been to Rishikesh once and in the recent past I have checked in the Marshall. There is a small cantonment down Sabatu. So I have checked in Sabatu to Daksha. So what's the difference between trekking and hiking? My trekking is usually taken on an uncharted almost terrain while hiking is undertaken on a well laid out path.   And you could do journaling. What is journaling? It's just another name for your diary I think. Is it the same as journal writing? So then why is it called a journaling? Is that some new technique? There is a lot of confusion of new technique when people maintain online journals. But for me I usually maintain a diary and I undertake stream of consciousness writing. Now since you are from Haryana, there will be the status of the Khaapan charts like the legal bodies. Ma'am they are not legal. They are extra legal. And asking the Supreme Court judgment, Khaapan has been asked to not give the tax in terms of which can lead to oracle. So why is there such a strong hold of these camps and the people there? Ma'am this is a strong caste basis for camps. The caste associations form groupings and that's how a village help us come together and form camps. And they have traditionally helped a great sway of people because they have acted as means of social control. Where they would give out messaging where people would be asked to not perform certain tasks. And it's largely because they have been there as a caste association. So have they also given some positive directions? Yes they have been definitely constantly. Let's hear the positive directives given by the tribes. For instance they have been directives against alcoholism, domestic violence. And also the recent beti-bacha-beti for how a mission is also being propagated. So what is this beti-bacha-beti for how? And why was it required? I mean in India overall and in Haryana specifically there has been a student sex ratio. And there has been a better effort by the government to improve the sex ratio overall. So what comes under the beti-bacha? Ma'am if there is some help under the beti-bacha... Yes, PCP and DT Act and also medical treatment is being implemented. The administrative bodies are trying to implement it in spirit and letter. And under the beti-bacha, is the Haryana government also doing something other than the central government scheme? Yes ma'am, there is a Sukanya Samriti Yojana which is under way. Through which you can deposit certain amount in the bank right when the doctor is born. And then that money can be withdrawn. Is the Haryana government also doing something? Ma'am there is a ladhi scheme also. What is the ladhi scheme? Ma'am this is for, if I recall correctly, it is for the education of girls. Now since you had sociology and you were talking about caste, what role does caste play in our society? In children, not just in Haryana, but in children. Ma'am caste plays both positives and certain negative roles. The positive is that it gives you a sense of association. People can identify with the caste. But at the same time caste has been a divisive element in Indian society. And it has led to inter-caste conflict. And also it has also certain connotations wherein it leads to disempowerment of women under certain castes. So would you say that the family structure is changing over time in India? Or has changed over time? Yes, the family structure is undergoing transformation in India. There are new forms of family which are coming up for institutional reasons. Traditionally we had joint families. Now we are looking more and more nuclear families are coming up. Why is that? Because more and more people are migrating, moving out, gaining mobility.  And that is why they would want to remain close to their workplace and have a family. But they also say now there is a concept of jointedness of families. What does that mean? That is wherein you call back your parents to stay with you. So there is a trust on children being taken care of by the grandparents. Where the parents are away at work. Thank you. How do you look at the problems facing Indian agriculture? So there are several problems that Indian agriculture faces today. Some are anthropogenic, some are climatic. For instance, the electricity of monsters that we face in Indian agriculture has been at the receiving end of it. Apart from this, the problems such as the declining productivity and declining yield of Indian agriculture. There has been increasing use of chemicals such as pesticides and pesticides. And fertilizers also. Yes. Recently, the budget scheme was introduced. Tell us about that. So the scheme was called PN-Pisanmili. Pisanmili Samman. Under which the government would give out 6000 rupees annually in three installments of 2000 each. And this would essentially be for farmers who have access to land and access to land fees. How is this money to be discussed? What do we know? What is the mode of dispersing? Sir, if I understand correctly, this would be through DVD. It would be through DVD. And what kind of problems are expected to come when implementing this? So we still have not been able to digitize our land costs. Our organization program has been under way. However, the land cost is still not available for a lot of states. And sir, it would also require a few month cooperation among the central and the state. Yes. Harawani sir, any news? Yes sir. In what context and what exactly is the problem right now? Sir, recently Haryana assembly has passed a law which was in a way a amendment to the previous law under which we are opening up the forest area to non-forest purposes. And this would also... How much land is... Sir, 60,000. Yes sir. 30,000. I stand correct. So what exactly is the direction given by the... So the Supreme Court has put a stay on the law and asked the state government to not go forward with it. And there need to be a deficit amount of studies and research on land so that the forest area is not open up. You are from... Yes sir. MSME sector is quite important. Yes. What is the importance of MSME sector to the country? Sir, MSME is one way of ensuring inclusive and balanced regional growth because that is where the people at the grassroot can come together and work in factories and improve their standard of living. So the first is that they... They have lack of land. They have... The country is not available. Secondly, the standardization is not there. So their products do not meet a lot of quality standards. And so also the infrastructure availability such as power transport is not available. Does the government have anything to do with... Yes sir. One is to make the India program. The government has put a stress on MSME sector. Part of this there is a scheme such as cookies such as the recent... In the budget also the government increased the limit of public government through MSMEs. And also sir, the promotion of... From GST, this has always been announced for MSME sector, right? Yes. For 30 lakhs to 40? 40 lakhs. Okay. Last question. Yes sir. Elections are around the corner. Yes sir. How do you assess the performance of the Indian government? Of democracy in India? Some areas of strength and some records. Sir, democracy is so fundamental to India. They are really similar to each other. We conduct the largest electoral exercise in the world. And we are the largest democracy. And the voter participation is also important. There have been so many electoral reforms in the past. From the exorcists? Sir, the board of bank politics and voting based on class associations, certain tri-voting entities, rather than King-Eye 30 Development as a development definition. And certain marginal communities have not been talked about still in our election discourse. Right. Okay sir. We are talking about democracy in India. Which institution has been the strongest pillar of democracy? Sir, there wouldn't be a single democracy in India as a result of collaboration and cooperation among multiple pillars. For instance, Supreme Court of India, the Institution of Election Commission, the CARE that we have, and so UPSC. UPSC hardly has any voting democracy. However, of the remaining three, which is the strongest department? Sir, Supreme Court of India. Yes. But for Supreme Court, we would have destroyed democracy. There was a very serious attempt at least in Raga this time. Even in present day government has tried to destroy institutions in the Supreme Court as 21. Right. Mass communications is your subject. How will 5G promote mass communication? 5G, you've heard of mass communication. How will it promote mass communication and if so, in what? Sir, the fact that we already have digital India going on, it would increase the speed with which the information is disseminated. The infrastructure is already being built under the Digital India Program and if we can meet the targets under it, we would be able to harness the benefits of 5G also. What is the state of digital literacy in rural sector in rural area? Sir, I do remember the number for rural India which is close to 35%. You're talking of internet connectivity, 30%. Which is mostly mobile. Yes, sir. They are using now digital literacy. What do you understand by digital literacy? How do you define digital literacy? That individuals, the citizens are able to access the service which is provided online and are able to in a secure way and have the knowledge of accessing the secure pathways. We know how to operate a computer to communicate from digital means to receive communications, it is called communication, to create, to create digital content. Yes, sir. This is what it's like to understand digital health. Yes, sir. This is the meaning of digital literacy. Yes, sir. Now you tell me what is the state of it? Sir, overall we have a long way to go. That is a very rich, very poetic statement but it doesn't state anything. It's very poor. 8% in rural area, about 24% digital literacy. Thank you, sir. Did government launch any program for rural literacy? Yes, the government three, Rameen, Distance, Ashutna, Disha, PMG Disha. What was the target and what was achieved? Sir, 6 crore insurance. 6 crore you are absolutely right. Yes. How much was the fee? Sir, that number I am not aware of. Only 54 lakhs or 57 lakhs, 19% only. Now, should there be a regulation of the internet? Is it required in India? Yes, sir, because it affects the public life in a huge way and we need regulations so that the purpose of internet usage can be... So regulating the net, will it not value the principle of net neutrality? Sir, we can regulate it and ensure that everybody has same kind of access so that would protect the net neutrality. Sir, correct me also. These are two different concepts. Yes, sir. Net neutrality is different from net regulation. Yes, sir. That's what you should have said. What are the laws which are used for internet crime or combating internet crime? What are the laws? It should be under IVC. But I am not... Indian Penal Code. Alright, IVC, absolutely right. That's a CRPC. CRPC. There is another law. That's an IT Act. I see it as a function. Yes, IT Act. Now, what are global commons? So global commons are the... It's an optional, it's an abstract concept wherein it could be the space, it could be the environment, it could be the forest resource we have, it could be the cyberspace which everybody would have. We are going to many unconfirmed areas. There are specific areas which are called global commons. Sir. Be specific. Sir, oceans is one. Yes, high seas. High seas. High seas, not exclusive, or high seas. High seas. Which everybody uses. No country owns, but everyone uses. Outer spaces. Not this space here or nearest space. Nearest space belongs to the country. Yes, sir. What else? Antarctica? Yes, sir. Cyberspace? Cyberspace, yes. You have done English literature. Yes, sir. Do you remember anything of it? Can I ask you one of the questions? Sir, I do my best to answer. What? Now, who is your favourite author in English literature? Sir, Kali Jibran. English literature. Yes, sir. English classics. Kali Jibran is not English. Sir, he is written in English also. Kali Jibran is not English. Charles Dickens. Hard Times. Robert Browning. Yes, sir. You read? I've read. Robert Browning. Yes, sir. Can you go any further? Sir, what is the importance of English literature? Sir, lines I don't remember. Sir, would some mistakes be about important quotes? To be or not to be. That is the question. You're right. Does Supreme Court make laws? No, sir. Supreme Court, the legislature makes laws and Supreme Court testifies it under the Constitution, a framework of Article 30, Judiciary. Does the acts of Supreme Court help the power of laws? Yes, sir. Under what article is it in the Constitution? Sir, Article 13 of Judicial Review. And sir, outside of Constitution, sir, public interest litigation that it takes up under its... 130, 141, 142. 141, 142. Are you aware of 142? This is, sir, as a piece. 142 says that in order to do complete justice, Supreme Court, in order to do complete justice, Supreme Court has the authority to issue any order, directive, decree. That is what has the force to do. It is binding on everyone in the country. That's why nobody challenges Supreme Court. We'll be close interview. I will give you feedback. Most questioning we feel could be based on your Friday term. There. And that is where Christians usually expect. Ariana is one, sociology, English literature, mass communication. These are some of the areas. Then, Constitution principles. I'll ask you only one or two questions, but there can be other, like, basic structure, concept. You were asked about unitary features. Most important unitary features are emergency purpose. Second is, you know, second is overwhelming power of parliament in the three lists. Then new process of law, et cetera, etc. Sociology is your subject, and then current affairs. These are some of the... Now, one or two things I'll just quickly point out. In the Indian economy, neither democratic... In democratic, there will be no environment or part of the economy. The benefits of good economy will lead to better employment, et cetera. So, there's nothing to do with it. We have great... Therefore, we have a great economy. That's not... The economy is a certain subject. Neither environment or part of it nor democratic dividend, remember this. And don't say India has a great destination of FDI. FDI, how much was it in this? 2017, 19. Sir, last five years is close to 45 million per billion. No. 2017, 19, it was 48 billion, about 49 million, but this year it is declining to 48, 25,000 crores. I mean, 35 million, sorry. It is declining basically. So, don't say this. America has remained the biggest recipient of FDI, not India. India is a poor recipient of FDI. China gets more. So, these are some of the areas where you should focus your attention. Okay. Doing well and doing well with your studies. What are the benefits? Sir, anything specific that I need to... Other than these, I am preparing, I have prepared what's in there.  Let's check up your friends. Thank you, sir.


Welcome to ThinkTech on Spectromosi 16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and to Hawaii. I'm Arby Kelly. And I'm Cynthia Sinclair. In our show this time, we'll review the most recent top five ThinkTech talk shows and staff pick. We'll check out the elements of the best of the best and get a handle on the public issues and the guests involved. ThinkTech produces more than 35 talk shows every week in our downtown high-tech green screen studio. Here's a list of all our incredible ThinkTech shows and hosts. As you can see, they're very diverse, and their coverage is also very diverse, showing you things you might never have otherwise known. Every week, ThinkTech chooses its top five ThinkTech talk shows from the week before based on the number of views each of them has had on the internet. For this past week, the winning shows were as follows. Number one from the series Young Talents Making Way on June 5th, 2018, hosted by Andrea Gabrieli. It's called Dementia, Beyond Memory Loss, with guests Ryan Nguyen, a student, and Bebe Davis, a STEM resource teacher. It's on our Young Talents Making Way playlist. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, which makes up 50 to 70 percent of cases. An estimated number of 25,000 people live with Alzheimer's disease in the state of Hawaii. The societal cost of dementia in Hawaii is high, especially for Ohana caregivers, and concern is on the rise. Ryan Nguyen, a student at Honolulu's Kaiser High School, carried out a science project for the Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair to answer critical questions related to this cognitive impairment disease and shared what he found with us. Cutting-edge research at Kaiser High School is furthering our understanding of dementia and memory loss, so that treatments might be found and implemented. We also learned that recent activities in art museums have brought hope for Alzheimer's patients. So maybe, Ryan, why don't we have your first slide up so you can tell us more about this dementia science project that you carried out? So here, this is just an image of the brain. You can see a cross-section. And you can actually see the hippocampus and the amygdala, two of the main regions that I looked at in this project. What are they? Well, the hippocampus, it has large effects on memory. Okay, so it's a memory storage, can we say, for the brain? It creates new memories and transfers short-term memories into long-term memories. Oh, wow. Okay. So it's very important. It's also affected early on in Alzheimer's disease. And there's also the amygdala, which is another one of the places I looked at. Which is the purple one we're looking at in this image, with the arrow. That's right. Right next to the hippocampus. Right next to the hippocampus. And this area has effects on emotion, including emotional connections. Okay, so that's why you focus particularly on this. Definitely. Yeah. So what's your science project about? Well, in this project, I used data sets from two different databases and using a certain program called Free Surfer, I turned these data sets which came from an MRI machine into processed MRI images that were 3D based and there were 3D and voxel based. And I used these to create these volumetric images that I could perform volumetric analysis on and look at how Alzheimer's disease would affect the brains of these different patients. So you were trying to see a connection between the size of these amygdala and hippocampus with normal patients and people affected with dementia. Yes, definitely. And I also looked at two different areas of the brain, besides the hippocampus and amygdala, which were the insula, which has multiple different effects, and the entorhinal cortex, which has similar effects to the hippocampus, which is memory, but it's also the supposedly the first area in the brain affected by Alzheimer's disease. Right. Maybe just a small wrap up about the importance of the science sphere, our state international science sphere. Yeah. The importance of the state science sphere is that, you know, every kid is curious. Every kid wants to learn and know something and there are so many problems they can solve today. And you know, with new technology, innovation and creativity, you know, kids want to invent. And so this provides a platform for the kids to come and try and so with enough support and the right support and the community and a lot of partnership, we help move that kid and make it happen. So we make dreams possible and for one, we have and help the world to be a better place. Number two from the series Beyond the Lines on June 11, 2018, hosted by Rusty Kamori. It's called Miss Hawaii USA 2015 with guest Emma Wo. It's on our Beyond the Lines playlist. In this show, we focused on Emma Wo's qualities and character, why she believes she won Miss Hawaii USA in 2018 and Miss Hawaii USA in 2015, sharing her experiences in a variety of businesses and the keys to her success as an entrepreneur. Viewers will gain valuable insights into Emma's success and constant striving for excellence and the importance of goal setting and being proactive in achieving those goals. You won the Miss Hawaii Teen USA in 2008. Yes. Why did you enter that pageant? My mom and I have conflicting stories on why I entered the pageant. I mean, it was so long ago now, I almost can't remember, it was like 11 years ago. So I think I just wanted something new and I wanted something different and I wanted to flex my muscle a little bit in the pageant space and I had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I didn't know any of the girls competing. I didn't even know all the phases of competition, but it was a kind of fun thing for my mom and I to prep together on. And then the personal transformation that I went through, preparing for Miss Hawaii USA and then preparing for Miss Teen USA was like addicting. I mean, it was so cool to be so empowered, especially as a young woman who was just finding her way in this world to develop those confidence skills and interview skills and things like that. It was addicting and I think it's why I decided later on to run in the Miss Hawaii USA pageant as well. So what kind of insecurities did you have and what did you end up learning about yourself through that teen pageant? Yeah, I learned so much. Not only those public speaking skills, I mean, now I can walk into a room and I'm not scared to do public speaking and I'm not scared to do a job interview or something like that. One of that I was previously so terrified of. I mean, growing up, I was pretty shy and pretty introverted, I would say. So those skills are definitely something that I learned through competing in that Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant. And then also, you know, the friendships that I gained through the pageant. It sounds so cliche. You know, people are like, I don't not doing pageants to make friends, but you are though. And you make you meet so many people that are like-minded and have similar values to you. And those are just invaluable to me still today. OK, so you had a goal of wanting to be Miss Hawaii USA. Right.  So I wanted to be Miss Hawaii USA because I think that that feeling of personal transformation that I experienced when I was trying to be Miss Hawaii Teen USA again, it was so addicting. And I wanted that feeling again and not only that, but I wanted to meet new people. Number three from the series Research in Manoa on June 11th, 2018, hosted by J.Fai Dell. It's called The Continuing Eruption of Kilauea with guest Andrea Gabrieli of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. It's on the Research in Manoa playlist. The current series of eruptions and remarkable seismic events at Kilauea on the Big Island and the destruction of hundreds of homes in Leilani Estates and in Puna generally has been catastrophic for the people in that area and will have huge financial implications for them, for Hawaii Island and for the state. Our hearts go out to the people who have lost their homes and whose lives have been upended. There are many things we need to learn on how to develop resilience to seismic incidents of this nature and scope. And of course, there are many things that the geologists and volcanologists are learning that will be useful in predicting and dealing with eruptions like this going forward. You might not even recognize it, but that's Halema Omao. So Halema... The bottom dropped out. The main, the crater on the summit Kaldera has dramatically changed. Dramatically changed. And so you can see in the pictures, basically, the... OK, here, yeah, the former lava lake has dropped. You can see the former bottom, but it's really... Everything has changed dramatically and the entire northwestern rim of Halema Omao is sliding inward the crater. And that's what... Or the fractures and folds of... And the scars, basically, that you can see on the right hand side of this picture. So it's really impressive. We're talking about millions of tons of lava here. A lot of material. A lot of material. But it's very interesting to give numbers to this phenomenon that we're looking at. Yeah. The subsidence at the summit was basically 1.5 meters. So meaning that the whole volcano, the summit, basically, went down 1.5 meters as a result of this subsidence, as a result of magma moving from the summit reservoirs into the East Drift Zone and fueling the eruption in Pune. So as it drops down from the Halema Omao, then it sort of finds a way... Well, that first chart, the top left, it finds a way elsewhere and comes out and forms a river that goes down to the ocean. Absolutely. That's the lava that dropped out of Halema Omao. Halema Omao, and it's going in underground, basically, into the plumbing system of the volcano. It emerges in Pune at the Fisher 8 and then it continues down the Drift Zone. But let's talk about a little bit more about this dramatic changes at Halema Omao, as I believe we have another picture that we can see, maybe. So, OK, this one, so this is a mosaic that was put together by, again, Scott Rowland at the Department of Geology and Geophysics at UH Manoa. And on the left, there is a satellite picture of Halema Omao in 2000. Number four from the series, Taking Your Health Back. On June 5th, 2018, hosted by Wendy Lowe, it's called Powering Over Diabetes with guests L.J. Dwaynes and Doug Park. It's on the Taking Your Health Back playlist. In this episode of Taking Your Health Back, Wendy and her guests talk about diabetes. Who is at risk, prevention, and what type of help is out there for those living with diabetes? The bottom line is that you need to know your risks. And you also need to know that, yes, you can live well with diabetes. A lot of the diabetics forget sometimes that they need to take their medication. They're so busy with their lifestyles that they get wrapped up in doing so many different things. But having said all of that, the major things that affected me were physical also. I had some major operations of a lifestyle that I think elied the fact of what I should be doing. I didn't do. And it affected me that way physically. I had some major operations, as I said. And that changed me also. When I woke up one day after that major operation, I made a promise to myself that I needed to make some changes. And that was to not only my lifestyle, but to do as much as I can to help others with diabetes. Well, you've got a lot of history, 40 years in the making. So when you were diagnosed with diabetes till now, what are the major changes you feel as far as managing your diabetes? Well, number one is education again. And it comes back to not only my beginning to educate myself, and that's what started me on the right track, but educating others, of course. The educational benefits I learned along the way is the outreach programs and being able to speak to doctors who was a lot more knowledge than I did at the time. And based on that, I started to learn a lot more of my condition, what needed to be done and the fact that diabetes is a recent illness. Really, when you look at it, it was discovered in 1969 only. So that tells you that it's a recent illness when you compare it to the rest of the world as far as history, you know. But all of that comes back down to, again, the word education. It's educating yourself and getting to how to improve your lifestyle and doing so much more for yourself. Number five from the series, What's On Your Mind, Hawaii? On June 5th, 2018, hosted by Tim Apichella, it's called Kona Vogue Ignored and More. It's on our What's On Your Mind playlist. Kona's air quality is being adversely impacted by the Vogue produced by Kilauea's eruptions. Kona residents feel that government agencies and news media are not reporting the dangerously poor air quality in order to avoid a negative impact on tourism. What's On Your Mind also covered reactions to the recent NFL rule requiring players to stand for the national anthem or pay steep fines and covers opinions both for and against the new rule. So you live in Kona and you've noticed in the last week or so, week and a half, you've had some pretty bad cases of air quality issues. Why don't you tell us a little bit about it? Well, it started, of course, when the eruption began over a month ago, Tim, and it's been getting progressively worse. And on Tuesday, we blew a 154, which is in the dark orange and healthy for everybody range. And then yesterday, we were back up to 153. And it's ranged from the 80s to the high 120s in the weeks between those dates. And right now we're a little bit better, but I'm looking out my window at the ocean and I cannot see the horizon. And normally I see a real crisp demarcation line between the sea and sky. So it's bad. But the weird thing is that we're not being told how bad it is by anybody in the in the TV broadcast media. And also, I think during these these bad days, and I've confirmed this with both Civil Defense and the Department of Health, the Air Quality Division, is that there's really no official broadcast or alert about a high rating of bad air quality. True. And it's into us over here because imagine like looking at the map you showed, imagine if the tables were turned, imagine if that 160 was in Honolulu and that nice green four was over cone. Do you think that the news now, oops, I mean, Hawaiian news now would actually broadcast it and talk about it? OK, I mean, they have plenty of time to talk about Bruno Mars and Honolulu traffic. But this is a very serious issue that is not being covered. So do you think that's just how the news cycle works here in the state because Honolulu has, you know, close to a million people and Big Island doesn't? Or do you think there's some other ulterior motive as to why the reporting is not occurring? Well, there could be a bit of Big Island fatigue going on right now because, you know, we have to give credit where credit is due. They have all been doing an incredible job covering the lava eruption and they've been doing it with great compassion and with amazing detail. And in some cases, they've been risking their own safety. Staff pick. We also have a staff pick. This time, it's from the series Hispanic Hawaii on June 12th, 2018, hosted by Richard Concepcion. It's called Spanish Teachers Teaching Spanish in Hawaii, with guests, Maida Hickling. The show is in Spanish and English. It's on our Hispanic Hawaii playlist. Teachers are very special and they play an important role in our lives all the way from kindergarten to graduate school. They help us understand the world around us and how to become good citizens in our country. The future of any nation is in the hands of its teachers. Teachers can help in the development of leaders and great leaders build great nations. Education plays various roles in different stages of life. Learning different languages can give us a competitive edge in today's marketplace. And Spanish is the second most highly spoken language in the world. The guest for this episode was Maida Hickling. She is a Spanish teacher at Waipahu High School. She talked about the importance of learning Spanish and the benefit of her school's Spanish program. So you're receiving a word as well, monetary, so they can help? It's like an incentive that you can use for your personal classes. There's no restriction on that. And the condition of this award is that in March of the next year I have to go to Texas to compete against teachers from the southwest region that belongs to Hawaii, which are Nevada, California, Utah, Washington State. We're five states. Five states that are going to compete for each association. He sent his year teacher, so he's going to represent Hawaii. Wow, that's great. Well, let's ask you another question. I got this question and I want to know about the Hawaii Department of Education. Have a requirement that every student who graduated from high school had to have some kind of classes learning a second language. Why is that requirement? Because some of the colleges, especially in the mainland, require that you need to have a two year program in a word language. But because we try to help the students who have more options now in the past was mandatory for word language, but now they give an option that could be arts that is good. And it's important that they have a light, that idea, but that kind of divide the pie now. We have to fight with arts for that requirement. But this new superintendent, she has been very good promoting languages. Actually, she's from Puerto Rico. I don't know if you knew that and she's Spanish. She's fluent in Spanish. And she has been helping helping to develop a better vision for the word language program and hopefully stays the same. And there has been a big push for the seal of bi-literacy that is one of the the benefits for being part of an honor society. You can always find the links to these shows in our daily email advisories. 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I want to encourage you to do two things regarding friendships. On a regular basis have a friendship audit. Audit the people in your life that you call friends or call you friends as to whether that's still true. Secondly then go friendship shopping on a more regular basis as it were in light of what your audit taught you about yourself and those who you currently have in your circle of friendship especially those that you allow into your kind of VIP space as it were. They definitely need regular auditing because we all keep changing but we don't change these most crucial relationships that we give complete access to us and then we get hurt and feel betrayed and let down because we didn't upgrade our whole friendship algorithm to align with who we were becoming and who we are now. So try to do those two things more regularly in your friendships. When's the last time you did a friendship audit? When's the last time in light of what that taught you that you kind of went friendship shopping in a new way now aware of the kind of match you're looking for as it were as you shop for friends? I think it's really important we keep doing that. Cheers.


QuickBooks Online 2023. Accounts receivable graphs. Get ready to start moving on up with QuickBooks Online 2023. We're gonna be using the free QuickBooks Online Test Drive typing into our online search engine, QuickBooks Online Test Drive. We're gonna be selecting the item that has Intuit.com and the URL Intuit being the owner of QuickBooks, selecting the United States version of the software and verify that we're not a robot. Hey, we don't serve their time here. What?  They'll have to wait outside. We don't want them here. There's not much way up by the speeder. We don't want to be in trouble. I possibly agree with you, sir. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course, each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Zoom in in a bit by holding down control up on the scroll wheel. We're currently at the one, two, five percent on the zoom in selecting the cog dropdown, just to note that we're in the accountant view as opposed to the business view. We'll try to toggle back and forth between the two views so you can see where stuff is under both of them. Right click in the tab up top to duplicate it as we do every time. Right click in the duplicate a tab to duplicate it again. Back to the tab to the middle. Reports on the left. We're going to open up the balance sheet like we do every time. As that's thinking, we're going to go to the tab to the right to go to the reports to the left to open up the P to the L, the profit to the loss, the income statement, and then close up the hamburger. Otherwise known as the hand boogie and range change from a one, oh, one, two, two to 12, 31, two, two, and run it to refresh it and then go to the tab in the middle, close the boogie, ranging to the change in from oh, one, oh, one, two, two, tab, 12, 31, two, two, tab and run it to refresh it. That's the setup process we do every time. We note that these are our major two financial statement reports. We've been looking at other reports, most of which give further information, more detail about one or multiple line items on these major two financial statement reports. This time, we're going to be exporting some reports to make graphs out of those reports in Excel. And this is a technique that you want to be aware of, not just in QuickBooks, but any kind of database program because you could always pretty much export to some kind of spreadsheet program and then use that program to make pie charts and whatnot, which can give you some added detail into your presentations and the information you might be giving if a bookkeeper to a client on a monthly quarterly yearly basis or to a supervisor if you're working in a company. So common types of pie charts might be something like you've got your current assets, you might break out, I'm sorry, you've got your assets in total, you might break out the current assets versus the accounts receivable and so on as a percentage in a pie chart of the total assets. You might do the same for liabilities, equity on this side of things. We are going to be breaking out the accounts receivable this time by who owes us money by customer, making a pie chart from that, possibly a bar chart. We can also do that with accounts payable for who we owe money to. On the income statement, it would be quite common to make say a pie chart of income by customer who we sold to and then we could make it by item what we sold, a pie chart for example. We might make our expenses side, we might have our expenses broken out by vendor who we paid most in terms of the vendors to or we can break them out of course by account. We could break the income out by account, although most companies don't have this many income accounts so there's not a lot of detail but we could break our expenses out by category in comparison to total expenses in a pie chart and that could be a useful graph. So let's do it, I'm gonna right click on the tab to the right and duplicate it and then we're gonna go into the reports on the left. We're gonna close up the hand boogie, I'm gonna hold control, scroll down a bit to the one, two, five percent and move on down to who owes you money. We're thinking about the accounts receivable now so the easiest report to work with would be the customer balance detail, I mean summary, customer balance summary report, that's the one, that's what I'm talking about. Okay, and then we can range change so we've got a custom, let's just make it as of 124122, run it, so there it is. So what we're gonna do is this is a nice report that just gives us basically the customers and the balance and then the total down below which is a perfect type of report to make like a pie chart out of because then I can take a percentage of everything compared to the total and make a pie chart or a bar chart or both, whatever we wanna do we can do it, we can do it. So what I'll do then is export this. Now this is a little bit more tricky because we have these sub accounts which you might be able to close up right here so maybe we collapse the sub accounts which I might be able to collapse them thusly. There, that's even better, that's even better, that's gonna take less legwork or more finagle and once we get it, so on to Excel. Now we're just gonna export this to Excel, it's beautiful that we're able to just hit the drop down and say export it to Excel, por favor, this would only work if you have Excel of course and then we can open it up and I'm gonna try to take this report and put it into our other worksheet where we had the balance sheet and the income statement and so on imagining that we're then gonna make this as part of our reports that we're gonna give to our client at the end of the month, quarter or year. So here's that worksheet and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add my new data worksheet here and then make a pie chart or whatever charts and then I can print all this stuff, balance sheet, income statement reports and the pie charts on this worksheet which could be great, could give you a little bit more personalization to your reports, we like personalized reports. So here it is, so what I'm gonna do if you don't have this other worksheet, that's okay, you can just work in here, I'm just gonna copy the data and put it into the other worksheet and then work on it. So I'm gonna select the entire sheet by putting my cursor on the triangle or you can say control A, right click and copy it and then I'll move on over, move it on over to this and I'm gonna add another tab and put it in A1 or select the entire sheet, right click and paste it regularly. Double click on the data tab down below, I'm just gonna call it data, it's data for the AR because the final graph I'm gonna put into another tab which will just have the graph and not the data and then I'll hide this one so that I don't print it when I actually print out all my stuff. So then it'll be all the stuff will be on a PDF and hopefully look nice and presentable and impressive. So now I'm gonna scroll in a bit. I usually like going over here and back on over so I could see where the page breaks are, scroll in, holding down control, scrolling up to 175, that's where I'm at. And then notice we have a bit of a formatting issue because QuickBooks exports aerial eight and then the headers are different 14 and then anything that doesn't have is that Calibri, I like everything to be standardized when I start out. So I'm gonna put my cursor over here. I want everything just the standard Excel formatting and then I go from there because that's what I know. Gotta start with what you know. So I'm gonna put my cursor over here, home tab and hit the paint brushy and then I'm just gonna brush the entire thing with the triangle so everything is just the normal. And then I'm gonna format it the way I wanna format it which I'm gonna right click and then format the cells and I'm gonna make them currency, negative numbers bracketed, no dollar sign. We don't need the decimals either. Get out of here decimals and we'll say, okay, I like to make everything bolden just so you can see it better. Hopefully that makes it more visible because they're emboldened and that'll emboldened you to follow along with the stuff with what I'm doing. So then I'm just gonna delete everything I don't need without any worry that I messed stuff up because I can always go and I'm just gonna delete this other tab over here. I don't need this anymore because I can always go back and double check my numbers on here. So if I mess anything up, I can check my totals in QuickBooks clearly. Okay, so then I'm gonna do this fairly quick because this isn't an Excel course just to get an idea of it. I'm gonna put my cursor on the one and delete and go from one to five. I'm just gonna delete all of these rows. I don't need them. I don't need them. I don't want them here. So I'm gonna go down. Notice the total down here has this long formula instead of just a sum formula. So I don't want any formulas in my data. I just want it to be hard-coded numbers. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select the entire A with all the numbers or B that has all the numbers in it with the dropdown. That's a column. Right click and I'm just gonna copy it. I'm gonna paste it right over the top but I'm gonna paste it one, two, three, just the values. Don't get me any formulas. Delete the formulas. I don't want them here. I don't want no formulas. And then the total down here is worthless now because it's not a formula. I'm gonna delete it. I'm gonna delete from row 17 on down to wherever 24. That'll work. Right click, delete it. Get out of here. Get out of here. And so now we just got our raw data. So then I'll make this a little bit smaller between B and C. I'm just gonna make that a bit smaller. And then what I need now is to sort this from largest to smallest. There's a couple ways you could do that. I could select the entire thing and I could go to my little filter thing up here in the data, add a filter and then sort largest to smallest. That's Z to A. But I don't like the filters as much because I feel like I get out of whack maybe with my data. So I like making a table out of it even though that's a little bit excessive. But that's how I am, a little excessive here.  Now, as long as you're just in one cell and not multiple cells, it should pick up the entire table if there's nothing next to it or under it. So insert, table, boom. It selects the entire thing. Great. And let's just say insert the table. Boom.  They have the dropdowns now. Now you can add the total. I can add the total back, total. And it adds that total column on down below. So there's our data. Now I can sort it with the dropdown and just say I'd like to see the Z to A. Poor Favor, boom, does it. Now we've got the people that owe us the most money up top to the least money. We can make our pie chart from this. However, if I make a pie chart from this data, it's probably gonna have two skinny of slices and no one's gonna be able to feel like they're full if that's the case. So we're probably gonna have to slim down the data. Also, let's just calculate what we're doing here just so we could see it. I'm gonna make a skinny C column. And anytime you have just a numbers up top that total up to something down below, you can always create like a bar chart, but we can create a pie chart from that as well. And what we're doing is we're just taking each number divided by the total. Each number divided by the total. And then I'm gonna make this whole column a percent. I'm just gonna copy that down. And because it's in a table here, it should do the proper formula. So it looks like it's doing what we would expect. And then the total down here, if I sum this up, should be 100%. That's what the pie chart's gonna do. So you would think maybe I'd need to make the pie chart out of this data, you could, but we can just make the pie chart out of this data and QuickBooks will of course just do what it needs to do to make the percentages proper, fill in the key and whatever and all that stuff. So it's still got too many columns, but let's just pretend we're gonna do this. I'm just gonna take the meat right here in the middle. I'm not gonna take the title row.  I'm just taking the people, the customers and the amounts that they owe us and then we're gonna go to insert. And then you could go to recommended here and that gives you some neat charts that are usually, these are bar charts, but they give you a little bit more, like that one's a bit different visual than maybe the one that you would select kind of randomly. But I want a pie chart. I'm starting to say pie chart and boom.  It's like there's too much going on here. So to fix that, I'm gonna say, I'm just gonna do it like as we go. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say, I only want like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And let's just put like everything else in total. So I'm just gonna select these. How much does that add up to? It adds up to five, one, five, three, three. So right here, I'm just gonna put one, five, three, three and then delete on call on row 10 to row 17. Not the total, right click, delete. Boom. And then make this other, other. And so then I'll delete this for now. I'll remake my pie chart. And then this adds up to the five, two, eight, one. That still ties out to the five, two, eight, one. I just put everything that's below a certain area in other. So now let's insert the table again. So I'll pick these up, insert pie chart, boom. And that looks a little bit nicer. Does it not? A little bit nicer. Now I could put a title. I'm just gonna delete the title and then I could select different kind of formats that we might want to show here. So, and obviously once you pick one, you could vary it more by adjusting the key and adjusting where you're gonna be putting these items, for example. I just messed them up. So you could move them around. You could even move it out here somewhere or whatever you wanna do with it from that point. But the point is there's a whole lot more options. Once you have the pie chart here, you can adjust, you got your standard color options and whatnot that you can use and you've got all those options. So I won't go into all the options here, but there's that. And then you could also of course do a bar chart with this kind of thing. So I could select the whole thing and say, this time I want a bar chart insert. And this time I'll just, I'll let it pick. So it's picking like this one's kind of a neat one or this one's kind of a neat one. So this one's a little bit more unusual. So I'll say, let's go with that one instead of my normal bar chart. And it gives it a little bit different look and a little bit different feel, a little bit different look, a little bit different feel, look and feel, feeling look. Can I delete this? There we go. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put these two charts on their own sheet. So I'm gonna hit the plus button down below, double click, I'm just gonna call it AR graph. And then I'm just gonna take these two, that one, this one, copy and put that boom, A1, A1 steak sauce. And then there we have it. Now I might want to see this on landscape. I can make it a little bit larger by going page layout, landscape, landscape. Okay. Escape the land, undo. What did I do? So now I can bring it out to like that line. And maybe I put this one on the next page. There's not room for you up there. You have to come down here. And then we're gonna make that larger. So you might do something like that. So now you've got your pie charts over here. And then if I was to print all this stuff out on one PDF, you might say, well, yeah, but then the data tab's gonna print and it's ugly. I don't want that to print. So you can right click on the data tab and then hide it. Don't delete it, because then you'll delete the data and it'll mess everything up. You're just gonna hide it. And then if I go to the file tab and go to the print button, I can then actually I go to the entire worksheet. Sometimes this selection gets messed up when I'm on the actual chart. So if I go back on over and I go to anything else other than that chart tab and then do it again, file, print. And then I'm gonna say the entire worksheet, boom. And then I'm gonna print it to the cute PDF printer, which will actually make it into a PDF as opposed to printing it. And now I've got all the stuff here and there's my graph finally on the last page without the data. So it doesn't have the data tab. You see what I'm talking about? You just have the graph. So that's one way that you can format this into your bundle that you might be giving to clients and put it all on one sheet, which and you can add some graphs to it fairly easily and then just select the kind of graphs that you think would be appropriate. Takes a little bit more work to do that, obviously, because then you gotta make a graph in Excel. But once you get good at that, it's not too difficult to do and it's probably something that most people aren't doing. So it could stand out a little to put in some extra time on that. So we'll do some more, the sales graphs might be more common. So we'll talk about those later, but I'm gonna select, how do you get that thing back, you might ask. Let's say you asked that. I'm gonna put my cursor on this tab and then hold down shift and then this one because there's one in the middle there. Now there's one in the middle. These two are selected, right click and unhide. Oh wait, I hit hide. Well, let's do it again. I'm gonna select these two, right click and unhide and then I'm gonna say okay and then I'll just do it a couple more times. Right click, unhide, okay and then right click and unhide and there we have it. Okay, so it's back now. So that's the process. I don't think I did anything different over here in terms of where things are located. We just went into the reports. So in the cog, business view, obviously everybody knows where the reports are at. They're in the business overview and then the reports under the business view.


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Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries down 169, you get the Nasdaq off 48, S&P's down 21. That being said, bottom line folks is that what you have out here is that you have volume behind the move in the way down. It looks like we're going to finish in the middle of the range out here today, which, you know, one way the bulls can look at it and say, hey this market has come back quite a bit, bands can look and say, hey guess what, you're still down. My take on this is that, yeah, you're in the middle of the range, if we take a look at the S&P out here, the spy today, you're going to see 287's the high, 283's the low. We finish out here anywhere kind of where we are, that's probably the halfway move down as this market makes it down to the Mach 6 low, which would be 272, and right now you're at 286. Gold contract. Gold contract right now is trading up $4.60. You're at 1286, we go over and we take a look at that gold market, particularly coming into Friday. What you have out here folks is that you're pushing with volume once again. So what's so intriguing here is this, we've been pushing with volume, but what that specifically means is that, guess what, when you push swing with with volume, probability is you go top side. Bottom line, you can see each and every time we're pushing up here, well guess what? We're at sell as a $12.90 also. Yesterday we get up to $12.92, sold it down. Today we're at $12.89, bottom line, not necessarily selling it down. My take is that we are going to break top side, but you can see the battle that the bulls and bears are having at that particular point. The Yen, we go take a look at the Yen and the Yen is what's moving gold right now folks, and the Yen continues to get stronger. The Yen is at $109.68, we're down from the last two weeks at $131.12. Underneath this $109.74, which we are, guess what? It opens up the whole bottom out here, which is about $107 all the way down to $104. So you can expect more volatility inside the metals market, inside the, let's go over to the dollar index. So dollar index out here, we have with the dollar down today and has volume. Bottom line, you're at $97.160, what you can expect here is that the dollar is going to start making its way down to this $94.695. We'll see whether we get any juice on the way down, but that's how that baby is set up. NDX100, also NDX100, set up for lower prices. Bottom line, NDX right now is down to $1.70. You did 45 million shares. The volume expansion folks is accelerating on the way down. That means lower prices are coming at us. Recap out here, Dow down 204, Nasdaq 58, S&P down 23, come right back.


United Kingdom to give Ukraine Symitar Reconnaissance Armoured Vehicles. Britain will give Ukraine Symitar MK2 Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles, Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land said, according to RBC Ukraine. Representatives of the Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land have already travelled to Germany to help the British Army in preparing reconnaissance vehicles for the shipment to Ukraine. The specialists provided support in diagnosing faults, gave technical advice and recommendations for repairs, advice on vehicle safety, conducted road tests and took part in repairs. In total, 23 armoured vehicles were prepared within 32 days. The vehicle's armour was reportedly reinforced with additional plays and modules as well as a grille to counter hand grenade launchers. In addition, the hull and turret of the vehicle are equipped with enhanced anti-mine and explosive protection and electronic countermeasures to protect against improvised explosive devices. The Symitar, MK2 modifications include, among others, the Scorpion and Symitar light tanks, the Spartan armoured personnel carrier, the Striker self-propelled anti-tank missile launcher and the Sultan, command and staff vehicle. Newly appointed UK Defence Secretary Grant Shaps said that support for Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion would continue.