introductions therefore it's time for members of statements to member from Whitby Oswald. Thank you speaker Roger Anderson the regional chair and chief executive officer from the region died this past Saturday as someone who served with him on regional council for eight years I'd like to speak to his character he was a he was speaker a man who believed in things not seen a man who believed there were better days ahead off in the distance a man of public service who persevered knowing full well he would not receive all those things he was promised because he believed his efforts throughout the region of Durham would deliver a better life for those who followed the regional chair for 20 years Roger embodied a politics that was neither mean nor small speaker he conducted himself quietly and diligently and he encouraged progress not by pushing his ideas alone but by seeking out your ideas partnering with you to make things happen he was full of empathy able to walk as somebody else's shoes and see through their eyes Roger never tried to make anyone feel small speaker powerful as he became he never took advantage of those who were weaker strength he believed was never more admirable than when it was applied with restraint it made no difference Roger treated everyone with the same on failing courtesy acknowledging speaker the innate dignity in us all what a good man speaker sometimes I think that's the best thing to hope for after all the words and resumes are read you just say someone was a good man and as Roger took the last journey and has heaven's morning broke I'd like to think in the words of Bunyan that all the trumpet sounded speaker we hear still move in twilight but we have one beacon to guide us the Roger Anderson never had we have the significant accomplishments speaker let us give thanks today for a life that achieved so much for so many in the region of Durham and Ontario God bless Roger and his family member from London fanshow speaker I am delighted to stand today to talk about an event I'm holding next week with my colleague from London West as we get together to acknowledge women in our community making a difference we will be hosting a reception for the winners of the leading women leading girls building communities recognition program and I have the distinct honor of celebrating six women from my riding of London fanshaw Rosemary Nyhoff Marcia Beaton Janice Johnson Dana Copeland Betty Joseph and Misty Craig these women exemplify leadership generosity and perseverance each has made remarkable contributions to their community in their own way they are positive role models in our community showing other women and men alike what it can what can be done and accomplish when people bring their talents skills and passions together for a meaningful cause in a world often caught up in negative news these women demonstrate their actions that change and improvements are possible when people come together with a positive purpose I have nominated women for these awards in the past year and I am struck by the humble and modest attitudes of these leaders they simply see a job that needs to be done and they do it they are not looking for accolades or celebration they are looking to help others but without their initiatives and hard work our communities would not be the same I am looking forward to the reception because these women deserve public recognition the effects of their work reach far beyond what they realize sometimes they are truly an inspiration and it is my pleasure to honor them and recognize them for the heroes that they are thank you thank you Mr. Speaker everyone in this house annually honors all places of worship including Tamil, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and is mainly observances to name a few and including ceremonies of Thipongal, Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan time fasting for Muslims and Holy and Diwali, Yonkipper, Passover and Raj Hashana. Christians celebrate Easter season the faithful observance celebrated worldwide by almost 2.2 billion Christians. Easter is preceded by Lent which began on Ash Wednesday February 14th this year and lasts for a period of six weeks. I attended Ash Wednesday services as I always do and on March 30th this week marks Good Friday and commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary with Mother Mary at his feet. Good Friday represents the sacrifices and sacrificing in Jesus life and selfless acts form a man free from sin to save sinner. They placed a crown of thorns on his head causing further pain and pierced his side with a lance ensuring his death. The crucifixion was the culmination of a number of events in Holy Week including the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday April 1st three days following the crucifixion and his ascension into heaven 40 days later. Holy week including the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ is observed by Christians and Catholics in Ontario alone in pray in 30 languages at Easter. Thank you everyone. Thank you. Please remember from Leeds Grenville. Thank you speaker across Leeds Grenville volunteer groups work tirelessly to make their communities better places to live and to visit. I rise to highlight some exciting news for a group of volunteers in the village of Rockport in the township of Leeds in the Thousand Islands. This month the township closed a deal to transfer ownership of the Rockport customs property from the federal government. The agreement followed nearly a decade of talks and came after a last-minute hurdle with the province was cleared. I want to thank the current Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry and her predecessor for working with me in the township to resolve that issue. My federal counterpart Leeds Grenville Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MP Gord Brown has also been a champion of this project. However the real credit speaker goes to the volunteers with the Rockport Development Group and the friends of the Rockport Customs. They had the vision to revitalize this abandoned property along the St. Lawrence River in the heart of the village. Their efforts provided us with an invaluable place for people to connect with the river. I look forward to being in Rockport soon when friends of Rockport Chair Wendy Merkley and her incredible team will launch their fundraising campaign. We're blessed in Leeds Grenville to have so many dedicated volunteers willing to take on these challenges and make their dreams a reality. We all benefit from the work of these community groups and I extend a heartfelt thank you to them on everyone's behalf. Thank you Speaker. Thank you. Further member's statements? Further member's statements? The member from Sault Ste. Marie? Thank you Mr. Speaker. Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the Liberal Government's Bill 148 having received royal assent. At each stage of the legislative process my colleagues and I cautioned the government with respect to the effects Bill 148 would have throughout the province. Unfortunately Mr. Speaker our concerns have shown to be true and continue to have a negative effect throughout the province but most specifically I wanted to just discuss some of the impacts in my region of Sault Ste. Marie. In varying degrees we have three metro grocery stores in Sault Ste. Marie that are open 24 hours. Not since Bill 148 took effect. Those stores are now closed so people can't shop in the evening or morning hours any longer. Disappointing I used to do a lot of my grocery shopping late at night after the kids had gone to bed. Other impacts have been significant. A number of employment agencies within our community have reduced their staffing hours and reduced staff specifically. Prices are going up. One specific concern of a great nature is that recently the Executive Director of Child Care Algoma Anna DeLucco issued a memo to all of her staff indicating that child care Algoma is making $300,000 worth of cuts in fact of this April. They're removing 15-minute breaks to cut down on staff hours.  They're closing a number of programs and in some cases even reducing staff pay by a dollar per hour. This is just one of the many examples of how 148 has affected my community. Thank you. Further member statements. The member from Timmins James May. Thank you Mr. Speaker. We know in our communities throughout Ontario it's always a challenge in terms of finding home care. The current system that we have sometimes it doesn't allow the services necessary in order to ensure care at home. And when I look at a community such as hers that has a very interesting project that says instead of implementing a system that's managed in Sudbury or in Timmins why not bring all the services together in the community of hers where everyone can be covered by the hospital or other organizations such as community health centers. When they can then manage home care for people in the community they know who the people are they know how to manage the services and they have the ability to provide the services to the community that is reasonable. I think Mr. Speaker it's time in this assembly to recognize that there are solutions that can be found locally when it comes to providing services home care and long-term care services so we need to support those services in order to implement a system that is more locally focused for the member statements. Thank you very much. Further member statements? A member from Dufferin, Caledon. Thank you speaker. Today the Liberals will introduce their final budget before June's general election. After spending weeks criss-crossing the province making promise after promise after years of neglect and mismanagement we are expected to forgive and forget but we will not forget the billions of dollars that the wind Liberals have wasted on everything from e- health to cancelled gas plants. We will not forget that after promising a balanced budget Ontario has a multi-billion dollar deficit. We will not forget that the wind Liberals have doubled Ontario's debt to over 300 billion dollars. We will not forget that Ontario has the highest debt of any sub-sovereign state or province in the world. The interest on debt alone costs taxpayers one billion dollars a month and worse the Liberals have no plan to pay down that debt. We will not forget that in the last 15 years the Liberals haven't spent a dime on reducing Ontario's debt which of course eats into our ability to pay for the services Ontario families need and deserve. When students visit Queens Park I often ask them what the top three expenditures of the government are. They are shocked to learn that servicing the debt is the third largest government expenditure. We can do better. We need to do better and under a Doug Ford led conservative government we will do better. Thank our members for their statements it's therefore time for reports by committees. I have a point of order and the member from London


So, the main area 3, the question 4-2, question 7-2 and 9-2, so concerning the cybersecurity electromagnetic exposure, and some other question relating to support of developing countries in applying the whole system of cybersecurity of strategic strategic plan about all these important for Santomi principle a small country with some difficult for financing particularly for implementing all what is needed for the secure communication. So for us, cybersecurity is very important because of the some investments in ways so the investor they need secure communication for us is very important. I2D is in its action is helping Santomi in some way so for example where I participate now in the workshop on the cybersecurity for today yesterday on Tuesday and yesterday the workshop for the cybersecurity and the another way is for strategic plan that we need to implement so the some help is underway Santomi principle have only to follow this this help that I2D can give us to implement all our system of security that we need a lot you know because what we need now training for example in Africa in general particularly in the Santomi principle there is the some lack of specialist so this conference and and all the output of the I2D can be profited for this preparation for us to implement all the condition it is needed for the development of Santomi principle today for development of the development country we need a specialist so that is a way that I2D can help us and to develop our country yes you know Santomi principle have a relation with another country so a member states that we have more more connection can I say that is for example Portugal the Brazil and we know we have an association of our regulator telecommunication regulator that is we call this Actel so this association of regulator from Brazil Santomi sentiment principle Angola Mozambique all Portuguese speaking country that we can change experiences so is that associated help us a lot as I said the major issue is to expand the broadband communication so in the to all country so we have we have two islands the Santomi island of Santomi island of principle so we we have a connection between these two to Highland recently we installed the Sumerian cable and the fiber fiber optics so we have broadband connection with all over world so now is the internal connection so this is the big issue to bring communication to all peoples in the country you are we are 185,000 people so I think it's not so difficult to connect all people in the Santomi principle this is the main issue of the government of Santomi principle recently our Prime Minister had contact with Estonia to to implement the how can select the smart city in the Santomi so it's a great job that the Prime Minister of infrastructure they are doing


So the first step is the problem. Really making sure that you have a problem that is appropriate and defines the decision context. Most of the time we're defining problems based off of our own particular perspective. But with environmental management challenges in general, there's multiple stakeholders who need to be part of the conversation. And that means that they're coming with different perspectives about what that problem means. Understanding those perspectives and then defining a shared problem that we're all trying to solve is really critical so that we're not creating options based off of lots of different types of problems. We're really trying to work towards some type of shared solution. The second part is determining your objectives. These are your goals. What do you care about with these systems? So a lot of us care about various environmental goals like maximizing ecological enhancement, maximizing structure and function of the environmental system. However, important to a lot of these management decisions are social goals and objectives that absolutely must be part of the conversation. These are objectives like cost, social equity, making sure that we have a robust participatory process where voices are included. Those objectives are just as important. And one of the ways that it's important to make sure that those are captured is by making sure that all relevant stakeholders are part of the process and have an opportunity to share what matters to them. Thus, when constructing a list of your objectives, your decision model is only as good as the goals that you include in those models. So if you're missing objectives, if you're thinking about trade-offs, your model's incomplete. It doesn't mean that it doesn't provide you information, but it does mean that you have to think through what's not included that matters to this decision so that you can take the results and understand and contextualize them for the problem that you're working on. A couple of criteria one would want to consider with objectives is you want objectives that are complete, that they fully encompass all the things that all the stakeholders care about. They are concise. There's nothing that's redundant or unnecessary. You've made them as parsimonious as possible. They're controllable. It's something that we can influence as a result of this decision. And it's affected by the alternatives or the options that we're considering. So there's nothing that's in the objectives that is irrelevant to the challenge that we're facing, the options that we're trying to consider. You want your objectives understandable. You want someone to be able to look at them and know in general what you're talking about.  Now that means you don't need to know what's happening on one objective in order to know how you feel about another objective. So for example, I don't need to know anything about cost in order to assess how I feel about ecological enhancement and maximizing ecological enhancement.


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We're going to be using the free QuickBooks Online test drive which we'll find by searching in our search engine for QuickBooks Online test drive choosing the option that has Intuit.com in it into it being the owner of QuickBooks selecting the United States version and verifying that we're not a robot holding down control scrolling up a bit on the scroll wheel to zoom in currently at 125% zoom in noting if we hit the cog drop down I'm currently in the accounting view not the business view we could toggle back and forth between the two which will try to do a periodically as we go through the presentation we're going to open two more tabs or duplicate some tabs to put the reports in as we do every time right-click in the tab up top to duplicate it right-click in the duplicated tab again to duplicate it again going back to the middle tab and then reports on the left-hand side at least in the accounting view it's under that on the left-hand side and then we're going to go into the balance sheet and then as that is thinking I'll go to the right to the right tab reports again and this time the P&L the profit lost the income statement scrolling up adjusting the date range I'm going to do this manually by selecting the date range and typing as fast as possible a one or one two two two digit two digit two digit January 1st 2022 and then tab on the keyboard 1231 222 digit two digit two digit and then tab on the keyboard and then run the report to make sure it updates go to the tab to the left middle tab with a balance sheet is located selecting the date again from 010122 tab to 1231 222 tab and run that's the setup process we do every time going back to the first tab we now have the first tab here and then the two tabs to the right being our financial statements typically when working then I'll open up the information and enter the data input forms we need and check as I do the data input what happens to the financial statements so we've been working in the vendor side of things at the vendor cycle or expense cycle at the end of the cycle we expect money to be going out for goods and services that we are purchasing last time we talked about the accrual process us first entering a bill and then paying off the bill with a pay bill form which is in essence a type of check or expense form now we're going to go to the cash flow side of things which is kind of like the easier side of things small businesses often have the capacity to be maybe on a cash to based system for the vendor or payment side of things possibly being able to use the bank feeds in order to record the transactions if you use electronic transactions it would be the easiest thing to do possibly using bank feeds if you use bank feeds you'll be generating expense forms which in essence are like check forms when we think of check forms we usually think of forms that we have a written check with a check number and so on that's a formal check but the form in terms of a data input form for the software basically means that we're going to be decreasing the checking account so the standard form to decrease the checking account you could think of as in essence a check form and then the expense form is basically just a modified check form that doesn't have a field for a check number in it so we don't accidentally put like a check number in in it so that would that's what would be used for like an electronic transfer type of thing so let's just imagine the process here if we're going to pay like the phone bill utility bill or something like that they might then give us the bill from the telephone company let's say and note that the term bill is a specific term I can you I have to use the term bill in normal parlance but it's still not really meaning the same thing when I talk about the actual software so also realize that the bill under normal language even accounting language if I was to say that I'm gonna bill my clients that would make sense but from the accounting software perspective it would mean that I'm invoicing my clients the people that's billing me they're billing me I bill my clients the vendors that are billing me are actually sending me an invoice from their software's perspective the bill that we get might say invoice on it right but to us it's gonna be a bill but even that is not is not specific enough for the software to call it a bill because once I got the telephone bill I might not put it in my software as a bill if I put it in the software as a bill it means I'm gonna be increasing the accounts payable if I just want to pay off the bill that I received directly I don't do anything related to a bill in the software I would instead simply use an expense form if paying electronically or a check form if I'm paying by check or possibly if I'm allowing it to go through the bank feeds I paid electronically allow it to clear the bank feeds and then enter it in the system with the bank feeds which will create an expense type of form okay so let's take a look at it at a expense form let's go into one here and we'll just add another one I'm just gonna go with my AA this time the AA is going to be a vendor that we're going to be paying I'm just gonna set it up so we'll say save that and then usually we're gonna be paying out of the checking account that's what it basically means to be an expense form now you might be paying something like from a credit card so the credit card you can think about as similar to a checking account because basically you're you're making payments it still has a financial institution component to it you can still tie it to bank feeds but instead of decreasing your asset your checking account you'll be increasing a liability the credit card but it works in a similar fashion and so then I'll keep the date just whatever the date is here payment method now on the payment method we've got you know American Express cash check and so on and so forth these these are often more like a informational type of things that'll give you different information when you're searching so if you're going into your your data and you want to search by payment method then that can be a useful component so I'll just go to cash for now and then the reference number if applicable we don't have any tags we might dive into tags at a future point and then down here in a similar fashion as we saw with the bill form I'm gonna collapse the the triangle we have the two categories we've got the category details and the item details normally with an expense form we'll be using the category details the category details are when we're just gonna assign it to account an account like a GL account usually an expense account utilities telephone so on and so forth if however we're buying directly inventory with the form that's when we would use the item down here because the items are going to be tracking the inventory if we have a perpetual inventory system set up allowing us not only to increase the inventory account which we could do by just assigning it to a category but also track the the inventory in terms of units so let's start off with just a category here I'm gonna say that we're gonna say let's just go with the good old utilities and so we've got the utilities we could have a description if it's like the utilities you might want to put the pay period pay period or the period of use for the utilities that's often on the bill is useful to put there if you want to put anything there you don't have to and then the amount let's just say 340 and then with the billable just like we saw with the bills if we wanted to to say I have a like a job cost kind of system so that when we are paying for something I paid this utility bill specifically for an individual customer that I want to then pull over to the invoice then I can make it billable I can say whether it's going to be taxable or not with regards to sales tax when I pull it over to the invoice and I can choose a customer now we'll talk more about this future this feature in future presentations a bit more you got to be careful with the billable item because when it pulls into the invoice it's not really an item when you set it up in this fashion and so you got to be careful that because it might decrease an expense account instead of recording it in the proper income category and so that's what you need to be careful of when you use it so we might talk about that more later but oftentimes for most company you're not going to have it as the billable and then you can choose other categories of course if there was multiple things that multiple categories you probably wouldn't have two telephones but maybe if you had in some cases that you had two utilities that you were then applying the amount out to two different locations if you had like class tracking on or something like that then you can have multiple lines that you would be applying to some things you might have multiple lines just in general like if I was paying off a a loan then I'm going to have to pay down the interest in the principal to line items components of the loans we can add more lines if we need to we can clear the lines if we need to now if it were an inventory item then I would go into this one just like we saw before and there would be an impact on the tracking of inventory let's just set up an inventory item just for the fun of it hitting the drop down let's just add a new one as we saw in the past and I'm going to make it an inventory item so I can track the inventory I'm just going to call it inventory one we're going to set up the item as we go no SKU no category quantity on hand to zero date I'm just going to say is the end beginning of the period reorder point at zero and then the inventory account that's what's going to go up when we make the purchase which is what we're doing right now the description is going to be the inventory item whatever we're purchasing if we buy and sell guitars it would be guitars whatever it is the sales price not what we're purchasing for not what what's going to show up on this form but what we're going to turn around and sell it for I'm going to say is $400 it's going to go to the sales account when we sell it not this time but when we sell it and in the purchase detail I'm going to say we buy it for 150 and then it's going to go to cost a good sold when we sell it not when we buy it when we buy it we're going to increase the inventory by 150 when we sell it we're going to decrease it typically you know typically by 150 dependent on the cash on the flow assumptions life 05 full weighted average and then the preferred vendor I'll just leave that blank for now and we'll say save and close so now we're purchasing that item so let's say we purchase like three of them at 150 there's the 450 so there's those items and when I put the inventory on on the books it's going to increase inventory because I'm buying inventories in expense form decreasing cash the other side go into inventory and it's driven it knows it's going to inventory not because I assigned it to an account I could just make it go to inventory up top but I don't want to do that if I have perpetual inventory tracking in the system because if I put it up top here it's not going to track the units of inventory in the sub ledger so if I have a periodic system tracking the units of inventory outside the system in excel I might do this but if I'm tracking inventory within the system then I'm gonna have to use items to track the inventory which will increase the asset account but also the sub ledger of three units of inventory which are named the units of inventory we can put a memo if we so choose memo dot dot dot oh and then an attachment we could if we want to attach anything to this we can cancel we can clear we can make a reoccurring if we want if we think this transaction is going to be coming up at a regular basis we have the reoccurring transaction and then we can save it on the drop-down we can save a new if we want to make another one or save in close now what is this going to do if I just look at this transaction it's going to decrease the checking account by the full amount in this case one thousand to ten it's going to then record the other side to the expense accounts in this case utilities 340 and telephone for some reason 420 and then this one driven by the item is going to be increasing the inventory account an asset account by 450 and the sub ledger for inventory will be going up by three units of the inventory item inventory one so let's go ahead and save and close it and check it out and see if that is indeed what the case is let's go to that first tab I'm going to close the hamburger scroll in a bit run the report to refresh the data go into the checking account which is now negative I've overdrawn the checking account holding control scrolling down a bit and scrolling down to the bottom there is our there it is so there's the full amount going down one thousand to ten I can go into that amount and I get to the actual form so there's the actual data input form looks good closing that back out notice in the detail of the checking account how many different transactions we have in the transaction types that's because the checking account is the lifeblood of the company all other accounts isn't going to have this kind of variation in the type of forms that are in place this is an expense type of form if you understand these transaction types the forms then you can understand the journal entries related to those forms you'll know what's going on and you can sort reports more easily by these forms so this checking account transaction detail is one of the forms oftentimes where you might want to use filtering so you might customize this this item which we'll talk more about in the reports but you can filter this item and say we're going to filter by transaction type let's say and say we're going to filter by a check so if I went in here and I wanted to find something or related to an expense form let's say there it is you'd think it'd be some kind of alphabetical order in here something quick books or whatever but whatever so now we're going to run it and so now we can see the expense form so notice that filtering option quite useful we'll talk more about that when we get there but this is the most common place that you might use filters is in the in the cash detail with those types so then I'm going to go back out and the other side we put part of it to inventory which is right here on the balance sheet and we're tracking the inventory in a perpetual inventory system method scrolling down there's the AA there's the 450 that we put into the inventory that was just the part that we put in the inventory if I scroll back up back to our report now the reason we put that into the categories because I have a sub ledger related to it let's open that up by going to the tab to the right right click on it and duplicate that tab and then I'm going to go into the reports on the left hand side and then go into the inventory report I just type it in here usually inventory inventory summary let's see I didn't do it inventory valuation summary as of 1231 22 and run it and so now the point I want to make here is that we've got this inventory item of three units being tracked in the sub ledger the total of the cost is at 1046 25 which should tie out to what's on the balance sheet if everything's working as it should where did my inventory go on the balance sheet this isn't the balance sheet that's why this is the balance sheet so there's the 1046 26 right there on the sub ledger now on the income statement which is this tab the one I was confused at before if I scroll down then we've got the expenses are the other side that we often use when we enter expense categories using a check form which I think we put these under utilities like there's the telephone bill and if I go into that there's there's the expense form that we put into there so there that is I'm gonna go back on over back to the reports and let's go back to the first tab and now let's look at it in terms of a check the check is basically the same thing the only difference with the check is that we would actually be writing a physical check it has a check number field so let's look at that check number let's say this is gonna be for BBB tab and then save it and then checking account so we're gonna say it's it's gonna be coming out of the checking account again so so the payment payment is going to be the date is we'll keep that as the date now this is the field that's different instead of having just a reference field here we've got the check the check number so we're gonna add the actual check number then we've got the tags and then we've got the categories so same thing down here you've got your categories versus your items let's just add a category like supplies or whatever expense supplies expense we might want to say what we bought staples and then the amount of 750 dollars worth of staples and then we could make it that's a lost staple we could make it billable they're fancy staples these things the tax return never comes apart once you anyways you could you can apply it to a customer so that it would roll over to the invoice if you wanted to turn around and charge the customer for this but you got to be careful of that we'll talk more about that in the future you've got the same things down here to adding lines and clearing lines you've got your items if you're buying inventory items by check your memo and then you can cancel you can clear you can print the paycheck now this is the difference with the checks with the checks you might actually for small companies physically be writing checks from time to time and mailing them and that case you don't usually want to use the bank feeds to do that what you want to do is enter the check into the system so that you have the check number in the system and then if the check gets lost in the mail and the vendor calls you BBB calls you and says where's my money you want to be able to know that you wrote the check even if it didn't clear and or if it cleared whereas if you wait for the check to clear the bank you're missing that step so a lot of times small businesses are moving all businesses are moving from physical checks to electronic transfers where you don't have that time difference and therefore the bank feeds using the bank feeds to actually enter the transaction becomes more relevant more feasible but if you're still if you're writing checks not it still it could be a useful thing but you want to make sure that you enter the check when you're writing it usually so you can you can mark it off to print it later now if you're printing the check within the system then you can't just print this check on a piece of paper because you have the internal control of the pre-printed checks that have the pre-printed check number the check number has to tie out to what's on your actual physical check and then you got to make sure you put the check into the printer in the format that it's going to print out properly on the pre-printed check if they don't print out properly you can void the checks right and then you can do it again but you wasted some checks and and so that's going to be basically the process for printing the checks you can go the ordering checks you can make it a reoccurring transaction and you can void the check down here so you got the same save and close and save and new so I'm going to go ahead and save and close this and again same process let's just take a look at it on the balance sheet tab to the right and refresh running it again run it I was running why cuz Jen I told me to okay we're gonna scroll down so now we've got our check form which has the check number included same type of transaction these two forms are very similar except the check form is gonna have the check number so they made a different form for it they could have just put it in the in like if I go into the expense form tab like you would think their other option was just to make this payment field include like a check like a check form right so I got a check form and then you could change but they have a whole different form for basically the check forms by the way if you wanted to add a new method here let's say you didn't want to put cash but electric like a wire transfer then you can add like a like a like a e-pay or something like that if you wanted to and again it's basically just for informational purposes this field which could be useful if you're sorting your data but it's not like a required field doesn't it just add a whole lot do do you want to save it so I'm gonna say let's do that all right so then I'm gonna scroll back up and go back on over and then if I go back to the first tab again notice that if you're entering the expense and check forms first then you're gonna have to tie these out to the bank when they clear the bank so you could do that with a bank reconciliation and or you can have the bank feeds turned on to help you with that process if you're gonna make electronic transactions and use the transactions from the bank to create your your journal entry then you're gonna be basically creating the expense form so to take a look at that let's go into the banking tab and remember again I'm on the accounting view I'm in the banking tab banking is up top here's my checking account so so if as I start to add the data from the bank feeds down here and remember the bank feeds what does the bank feed have it's got increases and decreases to the checking account if they're electronic transfers they're gonna have the the the description like the bank memo that comes along with it the date and then the increase or decrease to the to the account and then we're gonna have to add the payee which may not be a required field but you typically want to do that so you can sort by vendor and then you're gonna have to add the account that it's gonna be going to so let's just take this one on 1221 and I'm just gonna say just to show you how it pulls over into the system and so I want to add a vendor which you might get through the description oftentimes so rental I'll call it I'll call it just back back ho rental I'm not sure if back over if that's really a name but we'll pretend that that's their name that we would see in the memo and then I'm gonna I'm gonna add it as a vendor and then I'm not gonna put it into uncategorized let's make another account just so I can just so I could find it easy and I'm gonna call it an expense account and I'll call it I'll call it the the the miscellaneous or test let's just call it a test account so I could find it easily description and then this one doesn't matter too much this is the subcategory I'll put other other business expense and then there we go so that looks good and you still have your billable option here in this case we'll talk more about bank feeds later but notice you're doing a quick data input form it doesn't look exactly like a check form or an expense form but you could see you're basically put in the same data as the check or expense form the amount has already been populated the date has already been populated you're adding the vendor typically from the memo section of the bank feed if it was an electronic transfer and then you got to add the category which is the GL account and then you could add the other stuff like a billable item your tags and attachment and so on and we'll talk more about rules later let's add it though and then go to my balance sheet and run it again and then we're gonna go into the checking account so let's see if I can find this one so here it is the the backhoe rental notice my point is it that it came in as an expense form so instead of us entering the expense form first and then using the bank feeds to match we entered the bank feed the expense form from the bank feeds that's quite common to do for small businesses we'll talk about more how to do that in the bank feed section or course but just just realize that it's still important to note what the accounting is what form is it using right it's using the check the expense form that decreases the check in account if I go into that form it doesn't take me to the bank feed layout it takes me to an expense form that QuickBooks created from that bank feed transaction so we still need to know what forms we're using when we're using the bank feed sometimes you got these faster ways to enter things into the system but you're still in essence using the same form that will be constructed so if I go back on over the other way that you might enter things into the system if I go to this first tab if you wanted to enter things directly into the checking account and a lot of well you this first of all when you're entering things into the system you want to first think is there a form related to it if there's a form related to it you want to use that and not use just a journal entry and then if there's not a form related to it then you want to go to a journal entry possibly if there's no form well if there's not a form related to it then you might want to think is the cash account affected if it is I might go to a register type of account the check register it might be the easiest place to go or use an expense or deposit form if there's not anything related to it then you go to the journal entry right so if you want to enter something fast like an expense or check form you could go to the register which would be in the accounting area and then you've got your chart of accounts up top I'm going to see the register here's the checking account and then you've got this register option notice you have the register option for a bunch of different accounts but I'm just going to use the checking account now and then I can enter directly into the checking account with this little drop down a check form or an expense form again this is a fast way to enter something into the system I'm going to make it 1231 222 I'm going to pay I'm going to pay just miscellant or ccc that's who I'm on let's say that and then there's your memo option your payment let's make it for 430 and the other side going to the test account again the test account okay I thought I already set this up this was an expense account expense save it and close it uh so there there it is so I can so notice this has some limited fields here but I can save it and close it and uh there so there is that item if I was to go into uh that item I can look at the more detail of it so if I want to edit it this way then it's going to take me to an expense form that's my point even though I'm in entering it into the register in a simplified kind of quick fashion which might be done if you want to enter something directly the register a little bit more fast but it's still making an expense form if you drill down on the data if I go back from the from the bank account into it it's going to be an expense form so let's just try it I'll go into the bank account and then scroll down and now we've got another form here it's an expense form for ccc okay so that's the general idea if I go back to the first tab I just want to open the hamburger and hit the cog up top and look at the business view just so we could see the stuff on the business view side of things so if I open up the business view then we still have the same plus button up top in order to find our check form and our expense form and so on and so forth when we go into the reports under this view it's under our business overview and then you go to your reports right here and so there's your balance sheet and your income statement and we went to our inventory there as well if you go under the bookkeeping area you've got your nice transactions up top and if I go to my expenses this is another way that you can kind of sort by your expense forms it's in a different slightly different area under the accounting view because it's it's in with the other kind of vendor center stuff but I can sort by expense here which I don't think I mentioned is a you know it's another way you can kind of sort by expenses on there and you can also go into your chart of accounts this is where your chart of accounts is and this is where you'd find the checking account and you can view the register for the checking account in this fashion under this view so remember whichever view you're in whether you're in the accounting or business view you should be able to find mostly the same stuff some of the things they do are a little bit different functionally so if I add an account under the business view sometimes they're trying to make it a little bit different on how you add the account which I don't like as much but the general how to find everything it works pretty much the same under the different views it's just a different layout


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We explain and wish a happy Mother's Day. There she is. She has brought you into this world and cared for you. She has raised you. And as you grow older, she keeps caring for you.   That's why we celebrate Mother's Day. In most countries it's the second Sunday of May. In others it's on the first or the last one or any other days, like the 21st or the 8th of March on the International Women's Day. Whichever date, people all over the globe honor their mothers by presenting them cards, gifts and flowers. The holiday has its origins in the United States. In 1908 Anna Jarvis, a social activist, founded it to credit her mother who helped the victims of the Civil War. Later in 1914 it became a national holiday and spread all over the world. In many countries Mother's Day has been adopted to fit similar established holidays. Over time the holiday has become highly commercialized by florists and the gift industry. Upset, Anna Jarvis fought against it. Making people buy run-of-the-mill presents wasn't her intention. But to honor their mothers by creating individual gifts with their own hands, let's follow this tradition. Give your beloved mother a visit or a call. Or invite her for dinner. Or simply show that you care for her. Happy Mother's Day.


Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. And I am delighted to be joined by Yaroslav Ponder, ITU Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor. And people tell me that informally you're known as Mr. Wissis. It's the first Wissis since the Sustainable Development Goals were set last year. And one of the big challenges of course is aligning the Wissis Action Lines with those SDG goals. How are you going to go about it? In fact, we are not seeing this as a challenge. This is a great opportunity. And our community was already preparing for this opportunity since 2015 when we developed in the collaborative effort and the Wissis SDG matrix, which puts in a very nice and easy to understand framework how the Wissis Action Lines in fact can address and the achievement of the SDGs and how the ICTs can accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. This is the reason why we are not talking in the Wissis about the challenges. We are much more positive and we believe that we will be able to turn these targets, which were set in September 2015 at the SDGs summit into the great opportunities and the most important into the partnerships which will lead towards the concrete work on the ground. And talking about the work on the ground, we are always have to see what is happening also at the global level, but also at the regional and the national level. And this makes us believe hearing here at the Wissis Forum so many best practices, stories and projects that in fact the work is going on, but we have to only provide the concrete orientation how this work, which is underway, can be addressed in the context of the SDGs and strengthened in order to help the nations to achieve the SDGs on time. And how are you going to monitor that exactly you are on track and on time for the 2030 deadline? This is something which we are addressing within the UN system and tracking the all targets with the statistics provided by the governments, but also we are trying to see how the new sources of the statistics, particularly addressing the challenges of the SDGs, could help us understand where the policymakers and also the implementers can use in order to strengthen their efforts in particular areas. Of course, there is a lot of challenges to be addressed. We are still working heavily on the connecting, the unconnected. We have identified during the UN General Assembly overall review several and divides, including the gender divide, which was placed very high as the cross-cutting issue on the agenda of many WSIS action lines facilitators. And now this is the time when we are also with the communities, organizing ourselves in order to make sure and that we have on the annual basis at the WSIS Forum, the good understanding if we are on the track or some corrective measures have to be implemented. So of course, we'll have another WSIS Forum in 2017, but 2016, what sort of spirit have you seen here at the Forum? This is definitely a big change. The outcomes of the UN General Assembly decided to hold this WSIS Forum on the annual basis. And we have already planned that for the next decade, we'll be using this platform together with all UN agencies as the key place to discuss the role of the ICTs for the SDGs. So we are kicking off a very nice journey of the building, the community and in fact attracting the other community working on the development issues and to be able to understand that the ICT is a real enabler of the development. And this brings us to the cross-sectoral planning and moving from the vertical orientation towards the horizontal approaches, addressing not only the one sector, but having incorporated ICT component in the health sector, in the education sector and the others. And we believe that this is a right moment to use the WSIS Action Line framework to make the real change. And from the participants and from those who are coming in different levels, from the Ministry of the Infrastructure through the Ministry of Modernization through the Ministry of Education, Culture and Health, all those stakeholders are here. Also the private sector working in those sectors are coming here to exchange their great stories and lessons learned and sharing them with the other nations. And this makes this forum very unique. That's not only we are talking about the high-level guidance, but also we are going towards creating the partnerships which will help us to advance and achieving the goals set by the Sustain Development Goals Summit. And collaborative partnerships, there's really a buzzword here. Have you actually seen this in action? Have you seen people being brought together, sharing experience, sharing know-how, sharing best practice? Yes, exactly. So this year we welcomed more than 250 leaders who are addressing the meeting in the collaborative high-level policy sessions. All these guidance, now exactly today and tomorrow, is addressed within the framework of the Action Line Facilitation meetings where the real partnerships are discussed, where the proposals and the opportunities are tabled to the all stakeholders that everybody can be part of those. And this brings us to the concept of inclusiveness, which was proposed once the WISIS was intercepted in 2003 and 2005, where we were committing towards the building the Global Information Society, but inclusive one. And so that's why it makes us happy to see so much of excitement and very nice flow from the high-level guidance towards the real implementation and real action on the ground. And we hope that in the next WISIS for us we'll have even much more real examples of the implementation of the actions generated by the WISIS Forum. Also during the WISIS Forum we have the new components which are fostering the collaboration and fostering the outcome-oriented discussions. We will have the innovation track, we have also the hackathon track where the experts are ready joining the forces in order to work on some concrete deliverables. And we hope that this will be the spirit which will be evolving in the future at the WISIS Forum, attracting much more stakeholders and grassroots working on the ground and willing to learn, but also to share with the others their experiences. Yaroslav Ponda, ITU Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much. And please do join us on the ITU YouTube channel, where there are many interviews with experts here at the WISIS Forum 2016.


I don't know. The market may be a late setup. I like the spy, but it may not set up quickly. It may set up late, so I don't think we want to day trade that, although I can watch it. And Gyro's Idea Snap, which could have one quick move. Can't break 16. And again, this has to set up right. I don't know if it's going to, but I guess it's worth watching. Other than that, I don't like any of the downs. There's very little to be looking at. I don't like ILMN. Don't like Facebook. I literally, there was no earnings this morning. There's some things cappied on news or related stuff. We'll watch them. But I'm not overly anxious to do anything today based on the fact that we don't have a lot to look at. I will watch Snap to see if it sets up. No promises here. And the market's going to set up, but it may not set up till like 11 o'clock. So that's the problem. Vee, I will look at, I'll look at anything. Got two minutes, but I pretty much looked at everything at least once, if not three times. No, I mean, this is a nice swing trade. These banks are moving higher. Mastercard, Visa. I don't like this as a day trade. Again, probably moves higher today, but no real day trade set up. Remember, we day trade, we have to make money, we have to get in, we have to get out. We have to get in, we have to get out. We only have six and a half hours to do that. Although it sounds like a long time. It becomes really long when it doesn't set up in the morning. It becomes annoying actually is what it becomes when it doesn't set up quick. What was I going to say? Oh, MCD. Let's just watch that. It sets up, we'll do it. But it's going to be a fast trade for me, that's for sure. All right, good luck, everyone. And again, if you're here for the open house, just watch and observe. When he's using starts next week and I am more than ready. This has to go pretty quick. And like I said, can't break 16. Okay, stop and this is going to be 1590 tight. Don't have the entry yet. We might get this. Stop is going to be 1590 and I don't have the entry yet. Just wait. Didn't call any entries yet at all. No one should be in anything. If this breaks 16, it's completely off. Let's try 16 exactly. Interesting. Nope. Nope. No, no, no. All right. Switching gears are looking at the spies. Snap is off. Good read on that. All right, let's just stay here. We'll talk about Amazon later, Robert. Follow your money management, whatever you do. Let's see if we can get something here this morning, which I don't know. But this is the only other thing I liked. Okay, this is going to be a wide stop. 299.40. If we do it, I don't have the entry yet. 299.40 spy long. I don't have the entry. That's the stop. And I don't know if we're going to get this or not, but I'm going to give it a chance. Snap is off. Nobody should be leaning on their keyboard. Let's do 90 by 40. And that's still a really good entry. If in fact it even hits, which again, I don't know if it's going to. Snap did it. 90 by 40 long the spy. And again, this doesn't mean this isn't going to rally today. If it doesn't hit here, it just means we won't be day trading it. We don't do it in a good day. I'll go over the options, but let's just stay here. 90 by 40 spy long. You got to wait. We may not be getting this. We may not be getting anything today. And that's the way the cookie crumbles. But I'm definitely, if I do anything at all, I'm going to be making money. 90 by 40 is still on. Okay, we're just sitting here waiting. If the numbers change, I'll let you know. If this is awful, I'll let you know. It's still valid if it does anything here. I'm still watching it. Snap's done. Let's see what this did. Nope. That definitely was not as short. And this is a waste of time. All right, we're watching the spy to see if it sets up long. It may or it may not. Might be giving different numbers here. If that's the case, I'll let you know as of now. We're waiting. Time of the day is still early. Everything looks fine. And we will see exactly what we get here. I don't like this under 50. At least from the morning. Patience is a virtue. It looks like Lily was done again today. It's spy. We're watching. Let's look at Lily. Wow, this fell again today. We even had no volume in the pre-market. But look at this, Lily. We did look at this late yesterday. This was definitely lower. I mean, theoretically it got, but no volume. So we wouldn't have seen it. I hear it is now. Wow, interesting. They moved out of the gate for that. Okay, watching the market. So 90 is still valid if this in fact hits here. I'll give this a little bit more time. 90 by 40, which is a great entry if in fact this hits. I'm still not off this, but under 50 I will be. If you end up deciding to do this, if this does hit though, this is pretty much kind of like an all day play though. Just letting you know the way that this is setting up here now, I don't really think this is going to be a fast trade. So if you decide to do this, you could be in it all day to get any kind of risk to reward. Just letting you know. Okay, 90 by 40. Market long. Here we go. Here, you can do it right now. Get in it. Here's the spy it's going, but this is really an all day play unless we kind of scalp it and I don't know what kind of move it's going to have. This is it. 40 is a stop. Here it goes. This is good. Be in it if you want people. The calls in the market are working. We'll go over that later if we have time. Here, let the market hit up. Target's 302 in the spy. For today, at least. Let's go over Amazon. Any other questions before we do that? You've got to be in the market long. Here it goes. Here it goes. That's a good entry. Let's look at Snap again, but I don't think that's going anywhere. Worthless. Robert wants to go over the Amazon option. Anybody else have any other questions? Doesn't look like it. Here's the targets for this. I'll just write it in the room quick. These are just the day trade targets. Actually, 300 was the target which I got to, but I'm going to write it anyways. Who's doing what? We'll go over Amazon for Robert. Yeah, this was profitable yesterday. You could have gotten out. I still think it has more moving it. The option chain didn't have the moja that I discussed yesterday in the room in the morning that I wanted to see in it, but it was definitely profitable and you definitely could have gotten out if you wanted to. And I'm never going to fault anybody for getting out of the stock or any trade at all when you're up. I did get to the first target. I did get to the second target. It went to 220 and went to 225. I think it went to 230. Yeah, it did. You definitely could have gotten out of this yesterday, but because I called it so far out and if you did it, you paid for that. Then you had to decide if you were going to take it and hold it out when you took it. Otherwise, you could have done Friday expiration. Paid less and got out yesterday. If you did this for next Friday, then I think it makes sense to hold it. Otherwise, you could have done this Friday and you could have paid less. But if you did next Friday and you got out yesterday, that was fine. Either way, say, follow whatever your money management rules are. I like this chart. This is going to make a new high. It's just a question of when, but it's going too soon. Hey, Eddie, how are you? So anyways, that's Amazon. I don't have a problem with it. I don't think it... The fact that it closed red yesterday means absolutely nothing to me. So again, if you did this spy long, it's pretty much an all-day trade. That's what I said to get the move.  If you're in some of the longs or some things today anyways to see what kind of moves that they have, well, quickly go over BYND. This had a nice move yesterday. You could have gotten out of half and held the rest for the time I called this, or you could still be in it. Again, it goes back to the same philosophy where if you're going to do something and get out quick, then you could have done the expiration date for today. We're going to get out of it yesterday instead of paying up. But every time I call this, the option chain moves, I've really never seen anything like it quite frankly. I've got to, I've said that before and I'll say it again. I mean, you could have doubled your money in this yesterday. I mean, the way that this moves, I just said, Carl, I just explained it. I just talked about it right now. Did you hear what I said? But if you're into booking profits, then you absolutely should have got out of this yesterday the expiration date. Because VA did not work. Gave it a chance. Didn't give it much chance though. Sent that email out yesterday. So I gave it a chance. And actually in the morning at one point, it looked good yesterday. But if you fill the need to book profits, this is too late here. You wouldn't be exiting this here. So you would have had to exit it yesterday if you wanted to flip it around and make double your money yesterday. I almost wasn't going to do it and then I said, wait a minute. This is good. But I called it out so far. But just because I called something out far doesn't mean you have to hold it. It doesn't mean that at all. And if you need to be booking money, then book it. And Disney just looks good. Disney looks great. So some of you have some nice positions in this for the ones I called far out that are just going higher every second that they're breathing almost. Even the red days, like they don't go anywhere down really. Zen trader, what are you up in the Disney now? Let's pay attention here to the spy. So very light week. No losing trades. So let's continue that here with this spy move. 6600, very good. If this gets anywhere if this gets anywhere to 350 ish for the day trade. I'll just get out of this here this morning. Just make some money call in the morning if I can get there fast. Any questions from anyone about anything? Any questions from traders? Any questions from people who are in the open house? Again, light week, but solid. Which is good. It's very, very good. So we got up to 300. We did not get over it yet. Let's see what's out Monday. I'm going to look what's out Monday. No one has any questions? What is today's date? 12th. Labor Secretary Axe Acosta will resign. Okay, Monday morning. We have a city group. So we do have a good one to watch on Monday morning. And then Goldman's Tuesday morning. The banks are next week. So earnings season starts next week. But we do have something for Monday. Everyone's quiet. Anything on your mind, Gyro? Are you there? So we'll be watching City on Monday. Well, for sure the market will follow through higher in spite if the banks report well. I don't know if they do. I don't know if they do, but for sure the market's higher next week if the banks report well. At least the major ones. Your mind is empty? Sorry to hear that. All right, here we go. Over 300, we're going to do it. Looks like any second. Any second at all. Those of you that didn't go long in the market options, you could still do them. It's not too late. It's not too late. If you're doing futures, you're doing futures. I like stocks. They have big moves. They're more fun, more exciting. Much more passion for stocks. If I did futures, I'd be bored. 299.99 I just got to get over 300. Just got to do it. This will probably have a big move over 300 because it's taking so long. Does anyone want to go over anything? Everyone's so quiet. I've been trading since 1979. I don't know what you're doing here then. If you're making money in the markets, it's 1979. What are you doing here? Reats. If you've been making money in the market for 40-some years, I don't know what you're doing here. Let's see if there's any icon out next week that's significant. Looks like the big day next week is Tuesday, for sure. Pre-market. It's really Tuesday. Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday morning, Thursday morning. The big days pre-market to be watching for stuff. You're not going to learn anything unless you do my class, Reats. If you're making money in the market for 40 years, you don't need my class. That's why I was asking why you were here. You couldn't learn what I know in an hour here anyways. I teach it in a 16-hour class. Nice read here in the market. Nice read on Snap or we would have been stopped out if we had gone long at. Shouldn't have broken that level at 16. Wasn't crazy about it, but it was worth watching. Very low volume in everything right now but you remember it's summer. Some people are still off in July 4th holiday. Some people took this week from last week. Long week, long holiday. Because last Thursday was July 4th. So you will have this. You will have these periods here where it's slow and we're in that right now and that's why I'm pretty much getting geared up for next week. But the banks will move the market next week. The banks will move. We may be playing them. I don't know how. Really trying to see this month. We got two more weeks left in July. But I suspect July and August will be busy from here on out starting Monday. DDD It's just not much week. Oh, you know what? I want to look at our friend Baidu. This is not going anywhere up but it's not really going anywhere down. Wow, look at that. Almost two months. Look at the ranges traded in. And that was a bummer that that was the third, fourth, fifth one or whatever the one was that didn't work out. That's a bummer. Okay, who's in the market with me? Again, this could be an holiday trade. I'll keep the room open for another 15 minutes or so but we may have to wait until lunch for a move. I don't know if all of you are in it or not but I think the market does at some point today. Plow over the high, over 300 and just go straight like a rocket. I still have a bias that the market at one point is going to have a gap down and it's going to be based on something with China but who's to say when now. We see it will play it on the day as a day trade but at this point now trying to predict when that's going to happen is pointless because those negotiations could go on for another six months, another two years. So I still think the market has another move down at one point that could look disastrous similar to last December and that won't break the trend but who knows when that will be at this point. Yeah, if you can't do an all day trade then it's fine Carl. I don't even have any topics to talk about to lecture about here. What topics can I come up with? Both at the moment, Reets, we do the room is for the day trades the options letter is for the options and there are options of the market calls on yes. So the room though is focused on day trading. The options letter is a separate subscription. I've been feeling better but still not a hundred percent. Hopefully I'll be a hundred percent by Monday. Hopefully I'll be a hundred percent by Monday not talking you know over the weekend and then also being able to rest. Need to be a hundred percent for earnings season. Need to be a hundred percent for the class which is why I moved it. We're in a snail gosh I kind of wish we had done the diamonds here today because we would have been out and on with our day already at least to capture something in here forty fifty cents we would have gotten I'm sure. We picked the snail although it still looks good. Alright nobody has any questions I guess I'm going to turn the mic off for a few minutes because I don't have anything to say. We'll sit here and wait and watch if you're in it stop again it's two ninety nine forty I'll write it in the room I'll come back while I have something to say


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What I want to talk about instead is about how hard them actually is and Talk a little bit about the experience of actually using them for actual text editing because if you're just the casual Text editor and you just need to pop into a text editor every once in a while It doesn't really matter what text editor that you choose They will all do the job just fine even nano even micro whatever you want to choose they'll all do really well and For the most part you'll get into those programs You'll edit your text you'll leave and you won't think about it again but for people who actually spend their time in a text editor the choice of text editor is a very Personal choice and I think that that is because you just spend so much time in it that it really does impact your workflow how the text editor moves around how it flows through your workflow is just so important and That's why if you've spent so much time in them and you've worked to Develop a workflow inside of them It's really hard to move to something that works Completely differently because it's going to be a completely different workflow even though you're technically doing the same work You know so the choice of text editor is very personal for a lot of people and that's one of the reasons why you have them fanboys It's why you have emacs fanboys It's why you have people who really enjoy things like VS code and stuff like that and those types of people are very proud of Their accomplishments inside of those text editors So if you've watched any number of them videos on YouTube you will find a lot of people who are very Proud about their ability to use them very well, right? Same thing with emacs if you've watched people who use emacs in their YouTube videos You'll see that they're very proud of the stuff that they can do inside of emacs and some of that pride is earned Right because at the end of the day them is kind of hard once you get past the basics Them tutor is fantastic and it will teach you all the basic stuff that you'll ever need to know if all you ever know Is the stuff that comes out of them tutor you're gonna be just fine. There's quite a bit of stuff in there. That's really good It's when you want to expand past that that you find that them is pretty complicated because there's just a ton of different ways of doing things and There's not really one way that's necessarily better than the other but if you want to do something in them there's probably 10 ways of doing it and that's a conservative number probably simply because There are multiple combinations like if you want to skip forward five words, you know There's at least three ways of doing that if you want to select those words You know, there's another three ways of doing that or whatever And then if you want to do other things with a text like capitalized each word in that sentence or whatever you can do that And that takes another Amount of key bindings or another set of keystrokes, you know It's just one thing right after another and that's just one set of text and it could be literally any number of things You know from macros to jumping around between search terms whatever so them is very complicated once you get past those initial steps and That's part of the reason why the pride of being able to do a lot of this stuff comes in now Here's where we get into a bit of my story so I've been using them now for at least three years and The thing is is that I go back and forth between considering myself a really bad vim user and a really good vim user And usually it depends on how many people I've seen use them other than me on YouTube in the last month or so If I've taken a long break of what from watching people use them I consider myself pretty good at it even though I know that Instinctively there's so much stuff inside of them that I don't either know how to do or just kind of ignore because I'm not Used to those key bindings or the certain keystrokes that you need to do in order to do those things There are ways or ways of doing a lot of the stuff that I do Inside of them that I just don't know about or haven't trained myself to use so I know that when it comes to actual vim usage I am a medium middle-of-the-road vim user and my pride in that is Hopefully proportional to my actual skill level. I hope it is But some days I think I'm king of the road I'm the big cheese when it comes to vim stuff and I know that I'm not really but some days I act like that on other days and Usually these are the days where I've gone searching for like the promogen or any of the other vim Users on YouTube and watch them use vim and I'm like man, I Don't know shit about them and that's the thing about vim is that there's always going to be someone better than you Always it doesn't matter if you've used them for 20 years Or you know by before that or whatever, you know If you've spent a couple decades in this ecosystem and you consider yourself a really good vim user They're still going to be someone out there who knows more than you about them and how to do things that you don't know How to do and that's the problem that I have with them. I consider them Fantastic, but is the most emasculating piece of software I know of because if you Think yourself good at something and then to find yourself that you're not actually that good at it It can hurt a little bit now a lot of that is probably good for you because it burst your pride and burst your ego and Makes you realize. Hey, you really don't know everything Surprise surprise, but on the other hand it makes you feel like you're never going to perfect your use of that program And I think that that is a feeling that a lot of them users have you just realize that You may know a lot about using them But you don't know everything and you're never going to know everything You're never going to get to that point where you know how to do Everything inside of them now. I'm sure that there are them experts out there that say well I know pretty much everything about them But those people are gonna be very very rare the boat most Normally them users who have used it for a long time you're going to have a set workflow of Things that you know how to do right the just the stuff that you need to know That's the stuff that you probably know you probably know a little bit extra You know flowing around the perforate periphery But you don't know all of it because you don't need to know all of it right and that's at the end of the Day that's probably okay is and that's the best way of doing things in them Just know what you have to know and just ignore the rest of it But when you do see other people doing really awesome things in them It's gonna make you feel some kind of way about Your abilities inside of them. It's just will and I mean some people probably say well, you know I don't really care.  No But you shouldn't feel pressure to always get better at them simply because it's not Necessarily something that is even going to be all that useful because it can become a bit of a time sink just because you Happen to know more about them doesn't necessarily mean your workflow is going to be more efficient It doesn't mean that it won't it just doesn't mean that it's a guarantee So at the end of the day Vim is one of those programs where you kind of have to be self-aware enough to know Do I need to continue my journey in terms of learning stuff here or is what I've done so far enough? So that's kind of a rambly video. So I don't even know if there was a point somewhere in there I hope you got something from it if you did and you want to talk about them a little bit more Leave a comment in the comment section below. It really does help out the channel You can also hit the like button that helps out the channel. 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So, welcome to yet another episode of China is not our enemy. Thank you so much for your amazing engagement. We're having successes and you know one of the best news we have as we've been able to push the let's go to war with China folks out of getting high level appointments. But we can we hear in the Biden administration that there's, we haven't, you know, totally cleared the way but Senator carries in there really using his voice to say we're not going to get to take care of the climate if we can't be cooperative with China so we're we're happy there's at least one voice in there. And we're thrilled that you joined us today. I'm very excited for this conversation. You know, as we continue to dismantle the anti China rhetoric, led by those in power in the US. We're constantly excited to find more partners in peace, we know that to make have an effect, and to get to peace and unravel this cold war that's being drive driven towards China we have to have a big tent. So, on this episode of China is not our enemy. I'll be joined with Rob Kajora, who's the founder of peace for Okinawa Coalition. Okinawa has long relationships with the US and China. And so I think he's, he's from there and we'll be able to tell us more about what that looks like. You know, as we've seen from the US war in Iraq, always these wars involve more than the country. And Iraq has proved to destabilize the entire Middle East and this growing Cold War on China is also going to affect the entire region. So, I'm using you to Robert Kajora. He is a native Lou Tao, and President of Peace for Okinawa Coalition. He's a regular speaker at the United Nations and other places advocating for Indigenous rights and self determination, and has appeared in numerous media publications. BBC World People's Daily China, South China Morning Post. Robert's petition to stop illegal construction of the new military base in Hinako, Okinawa has over 212,000 signatures on it. So he's also an amazing organizer. His PhD dissertation at Manchester Metropolitan University is on historical Lou Tao and China relations. So we're very excited to have you in conversation with us today, Robert. And I want to start by asking you, you know, tell us more about you. And not only who you are in your relationship to your country, but also why you started a peace collective. Hi, Jody. Thank you. And thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Yes, I am Robert Kajora. I am native Luchuan, also known as Okinawan. I'm I am mixed race. I'm also native Hawaiian. And I do split time between both Okinawa and Hawaii. I am founder and president of the Peace for Okinawa Coalition. We are a Luchuan group founded and led by millennial Luchuan. We have offices in both Okinawa and Hawaii. For those who are not aware, Hawaii does have a large Luchuan or Okinawan population, at least 50,000. We have also been working very closely for years now with native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders and various nations and people groups from around the world who are in a similar position as Luchu in terms of advocating for demilitarization and peace and trying to restore our de facto independence. So yes, I am I am native Luchuan, and we started this group in order to advocate for our independence and demilitarization, but also to spread and promote Luchuan culture, history, language and issues, especially to a worldwide audience, because you don't see that a lot from actual Luchuans. A lot of times when people write articles or books or whatnot about Okinawan, it's written or produced by Americans or Japanese, not by Okinawans. So we really want to get Okinawan voices heard to an international audience. Wow, that's fascinating. I mean, painful.  Yeah, I don't think enough of us realize that and your work for self-determination. So as you look out at this growing war, Cold War on China, maybe take us into what is the relationship of Okinawans with China over probably but centuries, I would think. Yeah, so Luchu is geographically located very close to China. We share an ocean border. A lot of Americans have this misconception that Luchu or Okinawa is is geographically very close to Japan. That's not really true. Okinawa is actually very close to China and the Philippines. The largest city, Naha, is actually closer to Manila, Pyongyang, Seoul, and many major Chinese cities such as Shanghai than it is to Tokyo. So historically Luchu has always had a very close and friendly relationship with China, with Korea and Southeast Asia as well, but especially with China. And this dates back thousands of years to informal relations, even before written records. However, in 1372, Luchu and China did start a formal relationship bilateral relationship. This was this is commonly known in English as a tributary relationship. And this term is very problematic because when Westerners hear that term tributary relationship, they immediately think that China oppressed Luchu. That China forced Luchuans to pay tribute and that China invaded and bullied Luchu. The encyclopedia Britannica, if you look up their writings about Okinawa or Luchu, it says that China invaded and subjugated Luchu around the 14th century, which is not true at all. The historical sources are very clear on this. There is no evidence whatsoever of China ever having invaded or harmed Luchu in any way. So this relationship was actually consensual and mutually beneficial. It was a relationship between equals, although China was considered slightly more equal than Luchu simply because of its enormous size and wealth. Luchu is quite small in China, is one of the largest nations on the planet. But China always treated Luchu very well. So the way it would work is Luchu would pay tribute to China. And in return, China would give many gifts to Luchu. And China always gave more to Luchu than what they received in order to demonstrate their vast wealth and power and generosity. So this was China's obligation as the greater power. And so Luchuans were extremely happy with this arrangement. So they sought to pay tribute to China as often as possible. So financially this was a losing arrangement for China because China had to give more than what they received. But the benefit for China lay in prestige. So the prestige they received by having Luchuans pay tribute to them helped to stabilize China's internal affairs as well as foreign affairs. So it was a mutually beneficial arrangement. And there was, there's no historical evidence of China forcing or oppressing Luchuans in any way. So that's fascinating, like how the history is written, who did it benefit to write the history as, you know, incorrectly. And what are the relationships with like Japan or the United States or other powers? Yeah, so prior to the 17th century, Luchu had a positive and friendly relationship with Japan as well. However, in 1609 the Satsuma clan of Japan, which was Japan's largest and most warlike clan, decided to invade Luchu. Luchuans fought valiantly, but they ultimately lost. And so Satsuma forced Luchu to pay tribute to them. And so this was the start of Japanese oppression towards Luchuans. However, Luchu continued to maintain its independence until 1879. At that time, after the major restoration, Japan began to industrialize and militarize in a Western sense, and they wanted to collect colonies similar to the Western powers. So they again invaded and forcefully annexed Luchu against the will of Luchuans. Of course, Japan did similar things to much of the rest of Asia and the Pacific. During the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, Japan purposely built an inordinate amount of military presence on Okinawa Island, which is the central and largest and most populated island in Luchu. They did this with the expressed intent to sacrifice Okinawans in order to save Japan, the Japanese. And so during the three month battle of Okinawa, roughly one fourth to one third of the Okinawan population was killed. It is said that every Okinawan lost family members. I lost many family members. It really devastated the almost the entire island. And to this day, it's a very difficult issue for Okinawans to think about and talk about. Well, can we can we just stop there for a second because you've described like the laying of a trap that obviously the trap laid then the US gets into it and really causes all this to happen by not understanding it to trap laid and doesn't think about the people who live on the island. As an independent people, at least that's what I'm hearing you say. Yes, however, during the 19th century, Luchu and the US actually signed a treaty. So the US was well aware of the history. They were they the US recognized Luchu as a sovereign and independent country with that treaty. In fact, as a gift, Luchu gave a stone limestone to the US, which was included in the Washington monument. This was a symbol of their friendship between Luchu and the US. The treaty was signed in 1854. So the idea that the US was just not aware of Luchu as an independent country that's it's it's false. So they were well aware in 1945. Obviously, the US defeated Japan, they occupied Okinawa and all of the Luchu islands. At that time around that time. The other colonies began to decolonize and began to restore their independence, except for Luchu, because the US military decided to keep Luchu for itself to use for bases. For decades, Luchuans were under direct US military rule with no form of democracy or self governments at all. And of course Luchuans strongly protested this, especially because of all the problems that the US military causes in Luchu. So in 1972, the US gave Luchu to Japan without a vote from Luchuans, which is illegal under international law, and it's a major human rights violation. And so since 1972, Luchu has been under joint US and Japanese occupation.  That makes me very sad. So, what was the relationship that continued with China through all this so there's the relationship with China then Japan takes in. Is there any other relationship that continued with China in the time when it was occupied by Japan and then the US and now joint occupation. However, you know, obviously Luchu being under Japanese and US occupation with no form of self government, the formal bilateral relations between Luchu and China obviously, you know, have stopped for now anyway. But informal relations, yes, of course, have continued. China has always recognized the history of Luchu being an independent country until Japan forcefully annexed it. The People's Republic of China, including the Communist Party of China has always recognized Luchuans right to self determination. They've always said that Luchuans deserve the right to self determination, which Japan and the United States have never done. So actually, China has has actually treated Luchu much better even in the 20th and 21st centuries. So what is what is your concern right now about Okinawa and the growing Cold War and China. Yeah, so obviously this is a huge concern for us. We have no desire whatsoever to get mixed up in this Cold War or whatever you want to call it. We've never agreed to be part of Japan or the United States. We've never agreed to host US or Japanese military forces and Luchu, the majority of Luchuans want the US and Japanese military forces out. Okay, we have nothing to do with what Japan or America's aggressions or foreign affairs with with any country, and especially not with China because of the history of peace and friendship between Luchu and China. So what what steps can be taken to, you know, a raise this in a higher deciple, you know that I mean you've got a lot of people signed on to your petition so you're obviously a really good organizer and there's a lot of passion. How, how can we help because having Okinawa have self determination and moving the military out of their benefits of people but it also is one last, you know, place where the side wars can happen which are the worst as as you've described where a quarter of a country can be killed and it's just not even on the in the history books. Yeah, so what code pink has already been a strong supporter of us. We're very thankful for code pink support. For example, in January 2019, we had a press conference and a rally in front of the White House in Washington DC code pink was a big supporter for us in that. So we look forward to continue working with code pink in our in our mutual endeavors. So we are working at the United Nations and with the international community at large to help restore Luchu's de facto independence. Of course, it's it's not easy. It's it is complicated. So we appreciate code pink and and other Americans who have shown us support for us on our website piece for Okinawa.org. There are various ways people can can get involved. So I encourage people to check that out. And so, you know, in in the relationship between Okinawans in China, do you feel like there's still most Okinawans feel that there's a harmonious relationship with China and they would be concerned about this Cold War. Absolutely, absolutely. And this was actually proven the United States government itself is aware of this. We know this via WikiLeaks, the US government had some internal documents in which they, they admit that the majority of Okinawans do not see China as a threat and have a positive or at least a neutral view of China. So even, for example, not how city maintains a very close sister city relationship with Fuzhou city in China, which historically Fuzhou was the most important city in China in terms of China, Chinese Luchu relations. The relationship continues even to this day. Fuzhou has helped build or sponsor various projects in Luchu they've built a beautiful Chinese garden in downtown Naha they've built other the famous dragon stone pillars in Naha. So, the majority of Luchuans simply do not see China as a threat, have a positive or neutral view of China and certainly have no desire to start any type of conflict towards China. And so, I also, if you could just bring us a little into Okinawa like what have been the costs of to the island and the people you've described how many lost their lives but health costs are like to be that inundated with so much militarism, what, what has the island experienced that we have been hurt so greatly by US and Japanese militarism in Luchu. They overstated the damage they've done in terms of economic suppression in terms of environmental health crime. There are just so many problems that come with this ongoing military presence. For instance, the military takes up 15% of Okinawa's land and around 30% of Okinawa's arable land, yet it contributes just 5% to the Okinawan economy, creating a huge deficit. So, this is economic suppression. Again, it's a major human rights violation, dependent the US are suppressing the Okinawan economy to try to prevent us from, from regaining our, you know, our self determination and our independence. So, well, thank you so much for sharing all this depressing information. But, you know, it's, I have to say, everything you've said is heartbreaking, and I'm so sorry. But, you know, for us it's to, you know, to look at this example of the A the cost of war, the cost of militarism, and the cost of having, and the beauty of having a relationship that honors all. So, I appreciate you telling us that story and bringing us aware.  Rob k a j i w a r a. So, we should all follow you and raise up your stories and engage with you. And we look forward to continuing our engagement, continuing to raise up the costs of war that have been born in Okinawa as as the canary in this coal mine. And that so many lessons to learn from you. Thank you for all your work. No, thank you. Thank you for having me. All right.