YouTube confirmed they will unlink all channels from MCNs on February 20th, 2018 that do not meet the 4K 1K rule. Let me read on the official YouTube help, the link is down there in the description below, that a channel that reaches 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers will be reviewed to join the YPP. Channels that are in an MCN and below this threshold will be released from the MCN. We actually met with our YouTube representative today and he confirmed that means YouTube will unlink these channels from all MCNs on February 20th, maybe plus or minus a few days, we don't know exactly on that, but it is confirmed. So that means freedom family that we need to find a way to help you grow so you don't get unlinked from our MCN. This has a lot of repercussions. One is what about position music, epidemic sound, audio, micro, all the other sponsorships that we offer because you, you are a freedom partner. If you get unlinked, technically you're not a freedom partner anymore and you need these resources to grow faster to get to that 4K, 1K threshold. So my next job is to extend these licenses to include all channels in freedom that will be unlinked by YouTube that still want to be with freedom. We don't know exactly what that will look like because you won't be in our CMS anymore. You will be just independent on YouTube but we can still, through the YouTube API, do most, if not all of the things that we currently can do when your channel is in our CMS. We have to do a little research on this guys, so bear with me, I'll update you as I know more. So what is, how does that make you feel? I'd love to hear down there in the comments below, like you've been very vocal in the last two videos. Click that I to see the previous video where yesterday I talked about let's beat this 4K, 1K rule together as a family. That's how we do everything at freedom here, that's why we call it the freedom family. And in that video you sent a lot of amazing comments and tips and suggestions for people to grow faster. Let's read some of them now. The first comment in yesterday's video is by decrepitSundoo3. He wrote, from reading all these comments I can see a few things stand out as well as seeing things from the other side of the fence. So first the positives, motivation. This will hopefully motivate smaller channels to push for this goal. And I also noticed some larger channels who are already past this threshold saying I will help the smaller guys reach that threshold, that's awesome to see. That comes to point to collaboration. Reaching this goal isn't easy, therefore channels will have to work together and that's the fastest way to grow on YouTube, collaboration. Then communication. Channels and networks will be communicating a lot more. That's why I'm doing these videos to communicate with you as much as possible. You should do the same on your channel to help spread the message on how we can all beat this 4K, 1K rule. And now the negatives. The why question. Several smaller YouTubers would ask, why carry on? What's the point? This is where we need to help each other stay motivated and not give up. Hashtag never give up. Remember that. Botting. Don't do this. Some channels might try to take the easy way out and start botting. YouTube is getting very good at detecting bots. And what do they do when they do detect a bot? They terminate your channel or they demonetize you. Do not do that.  So definitely no botting. And termination, not the I'll be back kind, but more like I won't be back. This is part of the giving up. Do not say that. Even if you need to take a break because you're frustrated, take a break. Just don't say I will never come back. That's the worst thing you could do. Just say I need a break and then I'll be back. Much better. Rex asked, how does stats.tm help us beat the 4K, 1K rule? Kind of getting tired of freedom. I haven't gotten any help from you guys on how to grow my channel. Except for obvious things like tags, thumbnails and titles. What will freedom do to help its creators have yet to see? Stats.tm is our brand platform. Early alpha, very early, many features missing. But the core of this platform at www.stats.tm is this advanced filter. This is where brands will be able to locate channels exactly the kind that they're looking for by dragging these sliders and there will be many more along with categories like gaming or music or vlogging that will very quickly limit the list here to channels that exactly match those criteria. That's how it'll help you because it'll be easier for brands to find your channel and hire you. Pay you money outside of the YouTube revenue stream to make content for them. Appropriate both for your audience and their brand. That's at least the theory. Can we do it? What do you think? Tell me in the comments below, I'd love to know. Smart Facts UK wrote, George, please tell people what not to do. I see so many people trying to do sub for sub and cheat watch time. The way to grow is to work together. Exactly right. If you do sub for sub, all you're doing is you're faking your subscriber count and you're not getting watch time. That may help you solve the 1k half of the requirement but not the 4k watch time requirement. You don't just get people to sub to you. That's useless. They're not going to watch your content. You need to find people who enjoy your content and you enjoy theirs. One thing I'd love to do is to create a better matchmaking service on our Discord chat server, on our community forums that help people exactly this way. Help you discover each other's content that you enjoy watching so you can contribute to each other's watch time which is much harder to achieve than subscribers. How many of you would like such a collaboration service on Discord and the forums? Our Discord and forums are linked down there in the description below and the forums are easy to communicate. www.community.tm It's a community of creators. I don't have such a nice short simple link for our Discord chat server so you have to get that from the link down there in the description below. Again, how many of you would like to have a better way to find similar interesting channels that you can collaborate with, subscribe to each other and watch each other's videos? Tell me down there in the comments below. The Supreme Emperor Mittens, that's an awesome name, said, So let me get this straight. So if someone gets demonetized, does that mean YouTube will kick them out of the freedom network? If that's the case, would YouTube not be going overboard by doing that? Yes, that's exactly what YouTube said they will do. If your channel does not meet the 4K-1K requirements, you will lose your YouTube partnership program YPP status and as a side effect, you will be demonetized and unlinked from your MCN. Not just freedom, but any MCN you might be part of. The key is you need to have an active YPP membership in order to be able to monetize and be part of an MCN. Those are the new rules. That's just how it is, guys. Remember, it's YouTube's platform. They get to set the rules. However, we may feel they're fair or unfair. We do benefit from the amazing community that the YouTube platform has created. We wouldn't be here. I wouldn't be here if not for YouTube. So while it is easy to criticize and feel like they're just out to make it difficult for the little guy, we have to remember to see it from YouTube's perspective as well, which is they need to have a positive PR so brands will trust their platform and spend ad money on YouTube instead of Facebook or other traditional media like television. So they're doing this to help increase the quality of content on the platform. And from that perspective, they're assuming that a creator needs to get to 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers in order to have quality content that's worthy of advertisers putting their money to pay to advertise against those videos. So I do see it from YouTube's perspective as well. I hope you do too. And so in the meantime, our job is to help you create better quality content so you can get those 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months and 1,000 subscribers and be part of the whole monetization of YouTube not just making videos for others to enjoy. Now on that topic, I mentioned a few videos ago that I'm building or we are building something called the C thing. So the B thing was the brand platform. That was one of the reasons I went to Vietnam. And the C thing is going to be another completely separate project that will help you earn money from your computer, your talent and other things that I can't tell you about just yet but it'll be a new revenue stream off YouTube. It won't rely on YouTube's AdSense algorithm and it won't be brand deals. It'll be something else. It won't be merchandise. It won't be the traditional ways you're used to making money in addition to the YouTube AdSense revenue. Anyway, the C thing, I promise I will tell you everything about it as soon as we're ready to unveil it until then just know that we have your back. We will be launching more tools that will help you grow and make money and not just try to reach this 4K, 1K goal which is also what we're trying to do. And speaking of other products or services that can help you grow faster I mentioned a few earlier in this video. Position Music, Audio Micro. We have sponsorships with companies like Envious Host which is a Minecraft server company. Which other sponsorships do you feel we should get for you to help you get to that 4K, 1K threshold sooner? Tell me down there. You know the drill in the comments below. So I have a lot more comments I want to read but I just realized this video is getting a little long and there will be a lot more news to share in future videos so please keep leaving those comments. I do still read every single comment and I will be featuring more in the next episode. I'm going to try to make these videos daily so I can make up for those long pauses in the past and I hope to speak to you in 24 hours or less. So who am I? I am Papa George. George Sunpai, the guy who reads your comments and I hope the guy who helps motivate you to keep going and never give up. I am George, CEO and founder of Freedom for Freedom and the Freedom Family and all of us who will be helping each other grow together as a family. Spirit of Freedom! I am George and you've been watching... Click that I to partner with Freedom and join the Freedom Family so we can all grow together. You get many perks like position music, you also get epidemic sound, a lot of other access to royalty free videos, sponsorships and many things to help you grow. Just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community, our forums, our Discord chat servers, meet our graphics team, meet our community team, all of that on Discord and the forums. What are you waiting for? Get started. And we will grow together as a family because this is the Freedom Family. You are part of it, we are all part of it and we're all growing together. To get more George, click that big F that will subscribe you to Freedom Central, home of the George Show.  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Good afternoon, fellow cloud nerds, and welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of AWS re-invent here in a fabulous Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada. My name is Savannah Peterson, joined by my fabulous co-host, John Furrier. John, how you feeling? Great, feeling good. It's getting going. Day one of three more days after today. Yeah. So much conversation talking about business transformation as cloud goes next level, next generation. Later's classic is still around, but the next gen cloud's here, it's changing the game, a lot more AI, machine learning, a lot more business value. I think it's going to be exciting. It's the next segment, it's going to be awesome. It feels like one of those years where there's just a ton of momentum, I don't think it's just because we're back in person at scale, you can see the literally thousands of people behind us while we're here on set conducting these interviews. Our bold and brave guests, just like the two we have here, combating the noise, the libations, and everything else going on on the show floor. Please help me welcome Mike from ScienceLogic and AJ from Zebrium Gentlemen. Welcome to the show floor. Thank you, Savannah. It's great to be here. How you feeling, Nick? Are you feeling the buzz, Mike? Feel the energy? It's tough to not feel and hear the buzz. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you hear me now? What about you, AJ? How does it feel to be here? Yeah, this is high energy. I'm really happy to bounce back from COVID. I was a little concerned about attendance, but this is hopping. Yeah, I feel it just, you can definitely feel the energy, the sense of community. We're all here for the right reasons. So I know that I want to set the stage for everyone watching. Zebrium was recently acquired by ScienceLogic. Mike, can you tell us a little bit about that and what it means for the company? Sure, sure. Well, first of all, ScienceLogic, as you may know, has been in the monitoring space for a long time now. 20 years, I believe, just about. And what we've seen is a shift from kind of monitoring infrastructure and monitoring these increasingly complex, modern cloud native applications, right? And so this is part of a journey that we've been on at ScienceLogic to really modernize how enterprises of all sizes manage their IT estate, okay? So managing now workloads that are increasingly in the public cloud, outside the four walls of the enterprise, workloads that are increasingly complex. They're microservices-based, they're container-based. And the rate of change, just because of things like CICD and Agile development, has also increased the complexity in the typical IT environment. So all these things have inspired to make the traditional tools and processes of managing IT and IT applications much more difficult. They just don't scale. One of the things that we've seen recently, Savannah, is this shift in sort of moving to cloud native applications, right? Huge shift. Today it only incorporates about roughly 25% of the typical IT portfolio. The most of the projections we've seen indicate that that's going to invert in about three years. 75% of applications will be what I call cloud native. And so this really requires different technologies to understand what's going on with those applications. And so Zebrium interested us when we were looking at partners at the beginning of this year, as they had a super innovative approach to understanding really what's going on with any cloud native application. And they really distill, they separate the complexity out of the equation and they use machine learning to tremendous effect to rapidly understand the root cause of an application failure. And so I was introduced to Aaj, beginning of this year actually, it feels like it's been a long time now. But we've been on this journey together throughout 2022 and we're thrilled to have Zebrium now part of the ScienceLogic family. Aaj, Zebrium saves people a lot of time, obviously. I've worked with developers and seen that struggle when things break, shortening that time to recovery and understanding is so critical. Can you tell us a little bit about what's under the hood and how the ML works to make that happen? Yeah, so the goal is to figure out not just that something went wrong, but what went wrong. Right. And we took, based on a couple of decades of experience from my co-founders. Casual couple of decades came into this product. Just to pull that out, yeah, great. It took some general learnings about the nature of software and when software breaks, what tends to happen. You tend to see unusual things happen and they lead to bad things happening. Very simple. Yes, mutations leads to bad things happening, generally speaking. So what Zebrium's really good at is identifying those rare things accurately and then figuring out how they connect or correlate to the bad things, the errors, the warnings, the alerts. So the machine learning has many stages to it, but at its heart it's classifying the event catalog of any application stack, figuring out what's rare. And when things start to break, it's telling you this cluster of events is both unusual and unlikely to be random. And it's very likely the root cause report for the problem you're trying to solve. We then added some nice enhancements such as correlation with knowledge bases in the public internet. If someone's ever solved that problem before, we're able to find a match and pull that back into our platform. But at the heart, it was a technology that can find rare events and find the connections with other events. Yeah, and this is the theme of re-invent this year, data, the role of data, solving end-to-end complexities. One, you mentioned that. Two, I think Mike, your point about developers in the CI-CD pipeline is where DevOps is. That is what IT now is. So if you take digital transformation to its conclusion or its path and continue it, IT is DevOps. So the developers are actually doing the IT in their coding, hence the shift to autonomous IT. Now those other functions that IT used to be a department, not anymore, or they still are, but they'll go away, is security and data teams. You're starting to see the formation of new replacements to IT as a function to support the developers who are building the applications that will be the company. That's right, yeah. I mean, that's, and you agree with that statement? Yeah, I really do. And, you know, collectively independent of whether it's like traditional IT or it's DevOps or whatever it is, the enterprise as a whole needs to understand how the infrastructure is deployed, the health of that infrastructure, and more importantly, the applications that are hosted in the infrastructure, how are they doing, what's the health, and what we are seeing and what we're trying to facilitate at ScienceLogic is really change the lens of IT from being low-level compute storage and networking to looking at everything through a service's lens. Looking at the service being delivered by IT back to the business and understanding things through a service's lens. And Zebra really complements that mission that we've been on by providing, in a lot of cases, service equal-equal application. And they can provide that kind of very real-time view of service health in, you know, kind of the IT. And automation is beautiful there too because as you get into some of the scale, AJ, understanding how to do this fast is a key component. Yeah, so scale, you've pinpointed one of the dimensions that makes AI really important when it comes to troubleshooting. The humans just can't scale as fast as data, nor can they keep up with complexity of modern applications. And the third element that we feel is really important is the velocity with which people are now rolling out changes. People develop new features within hours, push them out to production. And in a world like that, the human has just no ability or time to understand what's normal, what's bad, to update their alert rules, and you need a machine or an AI technology to go help you with that. And that's basically what we're about. So this is where AIOps comes in, right? Perfectly, yeah. Yeah, you know, and John started to allude to it earlier, but having the insight on what's going on we believe is only half of the equation, right? Once you understand what's going on, you naturally want to take action to remediate it or optimize it. And we believe automation, it should not be an exercise that's left to the reader. Yeah. There's a lot of traditional platforms have done. Instead, we have a very robust no-code, low-code automation built into our platform that allows you to take action in context with what you're seeing right then and there. Yeah, essentially monitoring in term you use, observability, some use this fancy word today, is critical in all operating environments. So if we kind of holistically, hey, we're a distributed computing system, AKA cloud, you got to track stuff at scale. You got to understand what the impact is from a systems perspective. There's consequences to understanding what goes wrong. So as you look at that, what's the challenge for customers to do that? Because that seems to be the hard part as they lift and shift to the cloud, run their apps on the cloud. Now they got to go take it to the next level, which is more developer velocity, faster productivity, and secure. I mean, that seems to be the table stakes now. How are companies forming around that? Are they there yet? Are they halfway there? Where are they in the progression of one? Are they changing in, if so? Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, I think whether it's an IT use case or a security use case, you can't manage what you don't know about. So visibility, discoverability, understanding what's going on, in a lot of ways that's the really hard problem to solve. And traditionally we've approached that by like harvesting data off of all these machines and devices in the infrastructure. But as we've seen with Zebrim and with related machine learning technologies, there's multiple ways of gaining insight as to what's going on. Once you have the insight, be it an IT issue, like a service outage or security vulnerability, then you can take action. And the idea is you want to make that action as seamless as possible. But I think to answer your question, John, enterprises are still kind of getting their heads around, how can we break down all the silos that have built up over the last decade or two, internally, and get visibility across the estate that really matters? And I think that's the real challenge. And at the velocity that applications are growing, just looking at our notes here, number of applications scaling from 64 million in 2017 to 147 million in 2021, that goes to what you were talking about even with those other metrics. Earlier, 582 million by 2026 is what Morgan Stanley predicts. So not only do we need to get out of silos, we need to be able to see everything all the time all at once from the past legacy as well as we extend at scale. How are you thinking about that, Ajay? You're now with a big partner as an umbrella. What's next for you all? How are you gonna help people solve problems faster? Yeah, so one of the attractions to the ZEPRIM team about science logic, aside from the team and the culture, was the product portfolio was so complimentary. As Mike mentioned, you need visibility. You need mapping from low-level building blocks to business services. And at the end of the spectrum, once you know something's wrong, you need to be able to take action automatically. And again, science logic has a very strong product, a set of product capabilities and automated actions. What we bring to the table is the middle layer which is from visibility, understanding what went wrong, figuring out the root cause. So to us, it was really exciting to be a very nice tuck-in into this broader platform where we help complete the story. Yeah, that's exciting. Should we do the Insta challenge? I was just getting ready to do that.  All right, so we have this little tradition now. Instagram reel, short and sweet. If you were gonna see yourself on Instagram, what would be the Instagram reel of why this year's reinvent is so important and why people should pay attention to what's going on right now in the industry for your company? Well, I think partly what Ajay was saying, it's good to be back, right? So seeing just the energy and being back in 3D and mass is awesome, again, it really is. But I think this is where it's happening. We are at an inflection point of our industry and we're seeing a sea change in the way that applications and software delivered to businesses, to enterprises. And it's happening right here. This is the nexus of it. So we're thrilled to be here as a part of all this and excited about the future. All right, Ajay, your Instagram reel. Knowing what's happening in the broader economy, in the business context, it feels even more important that companies like us are working on technologies that empower the same number of people to do more because it may not be realistic to just add on more headcount given what's going on in the world. But your deliverables and your roadmaps aren't slowing down. So still the same amount of complexity, the same growth rates, but you're going to have to deal with all of that with fewer resources and be smarter about it. So the approaches we're taking feel very much of the moment given what's going on in the real world. I love it, I love it. I've got kind of a finger to the wind, potentially hardball question for you here to close it out. But given that you both have your finger really on the pulse right here, what percentage of current IT operations do you think will eventually be automated by AI and ML? Or AI ops? Well, I think a large percentage of traditional IT operations and I'm talking about network operating center type of, checking heartbeat monitors of compute storage and networking health, I think a lot of those things are going to be automated. Machine learning, just because of the scale, you can't hire enough knock engineers to scale that kind of complexity. But I think IT talents and what they're going to be focusing on is going to shift. And they're going to be focusing on different parts. And I believe a lot of IT is going to be a much more of an enabler for the business versus just managing things when they go wrong. So that's what I believe is part of the change. That's your heart, right? Ajay, what about your heart take? Knowing how error prone predictions are, I'll caveat my width. We're allowing human error here. I could be wildly wrong. But if I had to guess, in 10 years, as much as 50% of the tasks will be automated. Oh, he threw a number out there. I love it. You put a stake in the ground. You got to say the matrix. We're going to be part of the matrix and Star Trek. We can only turn back to this footage in a few years and quote you exactly when you have the Mackenzie research or the Morgan Stanley research that we've been mentioning here tonight and say that you called it accurately. So I appreciate that. Ajay, it was wonderful to have you here. Congratulations on the acquisition. Mike, thank you so much for being here on the ScienceLogic side. And congratulations to the team on 20 years. That's very exciting. John, thank you. I try, I try, thank you. You try, you succeed. And thank you to all of our fabulous viewers out there at home. Be sure and tweet us at theCUBE. Say hello, Furrier. Sav is Savvy. Let us know what you're thinking of AWS re-invent where we are live from Las Vegas all week. You're watching theCUBE, the leader in high tech coverage. My name is Savannah Peterson and we'll see you soon.


So now we're looking about other itemized deductions. So now that we're in that other category, we're in the catch all type of category. Remembering this is another section where in the past, there might have been more things that could be included in it. You can imagine this would be one of those categories that would expand and detract as different people, as different lawmakers get into place and into power and wanna do different things with the tax code. Also just recall when we look at taxes, federal income taxes or an income tax system in general, we would expect the natural deduction to be those things that helped us to generate revenue, which we can see clearly on the schedule, see your business income, where we have income minus those deductions needed to generate the income taxing on the net income, not the gross income. We don't see that as clearly on the individual income tax return because most people are W2 employees, therefore don't have those business deductions because the assumption is that the employer is providing those the deductions that we do see are unnatural to a federal income tax system, meaning the government's trying to incentivize us, manipulate our behavior through the tool of the tax code. So just keeping that in mind because that's what most of the itemized deductions, that's the kind of category that they fall into. The IRS is manipulating us with the tax code in terms of whatever behavior they're trying to persuade us towards based on whatever, whoever's influence in the lawmaking. So other itemized deductions, line 16, increased standard deduction reporting. If you have a net qualified disaster loss on form 4684, line 15, and you aren't itemizing your deductions, you can claim an increased standard deduction by using schedule A by doing the following. So we noted a little bit last time on disaster losses, noting that if you have a loss related to a disaster, you would think it would not be something that you would want to only allow people who are itemizing because people who are itemizing are people that are usually gonna be more well-off individuals because they at least own a home, possibly a home in a more higher cost of living area because those are the things that are gonna push people over to itemizing, meaning they're the ones that are gonna need to be paying the loan for the mortgage interest and the property taxes. However, if there's a disaster, you would like everybody to get a benefit from it because it's one of those unusual kind of situations that you're trying to give more immediate relief, most likely relief being more important to the lower income people, those not taking the itemized deduction. So if you're gonna allow the deduction on the schedule A, then you might need an exception to be able to allow a deduction on schedule A, even though you're not itemizing but are taking the standard deduction. Okay, so list the amount from form 4684 line 15 on the dotted line next to line 16 as quote, net qualified disaster lost in quote and attached form 4684. So if you have a net qualified disaster lost in your particular location as a tax preparer, you probably wanna do your research on that situation and be ready for this kind of documentation looking possibly in more detail at the form 4684 noting that the software of course will help a lot because you'll be able to see hopefully the disaster loss listed in the software which will help you to appropriately calculate the disaster loss, but you wanna keep that in mind and it's severely restricted to being a net qualified disaster loss is what we're talking about here. So list your standard deduction amount on the dotted line next to line 16 as quote, standard deduction claimed with qualified disaster loss in quote, combine the two amounts on line 16 and enter on form 1040 or 1040 SR line 12. So net qualified disaster loss reporting. So if you have a net qualified disaster loss on form 4684 line 15 and you are itemizing your deductions, list the amount from form 4684 line 15 on the dotted line next to line 16 as net qualified disaster loss and include with your other miscellaneous deductions on line 16, also be sure to attach form 4684. So obviously if you have the qualified disaster loss and it's being reported on the schedule A if you're already itemizing you're already cleared the threshold you already own the home having the mortgage interest and the property taxes push you over then you would think the itemized deduction would be reportable on the schedule A and you would get the benefit from it because you're itemizing. It's when you're not itemizing then the question is how can the tax system be set up so that you could still get a benefit for the qualified disaster losses even though you're not itemizing because possibly you don't own a home or possibly don't own the home in a high cost of living area for example. Other itemized deductions, list the type and amount of each expense from the following list next to line 16 and enter the total of these expenses online 16 if you are filing a paper return and you can't fit all your expenses on the dotted lines next to line 16 attach a statement instead showing the type and amount of each expense most of the time these days people are using electronic software in which case you might have more ability to add a longer list to the documentation but if you need to then I think the electronic software also allows you to basically add an attachment oftentimes depending on the software. So we have the gambling losses. Gambling losses include but aren't limited to the cost of non-winning bingo lottery and raffle tickets but only to the extent of gambling women winnings reported on schedule one form 1040 line 8B if gambling winnings and losses and gambling in general sounds familiar it's because we talked about it when we thought about the income side of things in which case if you participated in some type of gambling then you might have to record the winnings as income because the general idea from the IRS perspective is that anything should be taxable in income that you receive right unless the IRS says otherwise and that would of course generally include gambling also if your income is above a certain threshold you win more than more than a certain threshold then the payer will most likely have to give you documentation about those winnings going not only to you but like with other documentations like W2s and 1099s also to the IRS and therefore you're gonna have to record it of course on the taxes because if you don't the IRS will most likely question you about it. Now if you had winnings you might say hey look I've lost a lot more money than I won if I do a lot of gambling that will often be the case what about my losses?


We're dealing with rashes. We're dealing with rolled ankles We're dealing with some situations today. We're in survival mode, baby The survival mode, you know what these types of blogs turn into you just film what you can.  We are surviving right, Joseph Seth how do you feel you feel okay? Do you want me to get you something buddy? You want me to get you anything in the good life living the good life Now Seth has a hundred and one degree temperature. What is happening people? Holy smokes. We're just trying to stay calm and Stay calm and calm. Okay.  I'm filming with a different camera the last Four days five days the other camera had to go get a cleaning if you know what I mean So it's in the shop getting a little TLC. So that's why the framing is off Coloring is off. Everything's off a little bit and I apologize I just am doing my best with it, but it's a it's not a it's the camera is not as nice as the other one Just want to let you know. All right comment of the week goes to Let me find it. Oh the suspense here. It comes Yes Russell. All right, here it goes from the race vlog two days ago. I think you guys so many of you commented thank you for the support and encouragement and Enthusiasm for my attempt to get across that finish line. All right Russell said dude Massive respect for the gutty finish blood is temporary, but pride is forever Exclamation point. This is refreshing to see since it's so easy to simply jog or limp in at the end of an ultra and Take whatever place that yields Self-excuses are endless and loud and no disrespect to hand-holding finishers But I think as competitors you both respect the desire to finish your very best Well done Seth onward and upward. I don't know I just think Russell you encapsulated the moment you captured the moment so well in words because I was Not bitter. I was not bitter I was distraught at my blood the blood coming out of my body But I wasn't bitter, you know if he would have like you know if the guy would have like elbowed me He was not like trying to take me down We were we were we weren't good like first of the course should have been wider It should have been wider, but that's for another that's a topic for another day Now I know next year to go to go wide go wide next year, right? so Anyway, Russell, thanks for the comment and I appreciate it and I appreciate all of you And I just want to say that today was a little bit of a survival vlog Meaning time in today was a little bit of the survival vlog meaning I didn't film a lot I was in catch-up mode and This is what you get. This is what you get and I appreciate you still being here. Just know that True love's home. I gotta go. I gotta go. We're here for you. You're here for us. We're here for each other Let's go seek beauty work hard


Snash drunk around this time 20 years ago people were obsessed with one-on-one fighting games Street Fighter 2 Mortal Kombat King of Fighters Tekken Virtua Fighter if you weren't around back then just take my word for it that each one of these series were seen as a big deal Fighting games are kind of a cult thing now But back then everyone played them both at the arcades and at home killer instinct was largely seen as the next Evolutionary step for fighting games the groundwork was laid by Street Fighter 2 Which refined and popularized the genre whereas Mortal Kombat took it in a more gaudy and gory direction King of Fighters was the first popular all-star fighting game So to speak featuring characters from Makari Warriors and Fatal Fury to name a couple and Tekken in Virtua Fighter Wowed people with its 3d capabilities with Tekken even going as far as doing crazy shit like controlling each individual limb killer Instinct though focused mostly on the gameplay itself while staying in the traditional 2d fighting platform That's why to some people killer instinct comes across as kind of generic like wow Ryu ripoff a werewolf a skeleton Whoop-dee-shit who cares but if you dig a bit deeper There's a lot of substance here most obvious being the intricate move combos that are triggered by a very specific button sequence And some of these combos are absolutely insane. These combos are killer instincts trademark They set it apart from every other fighting game However, the downside to this is that it takes a lot of practice to be able to pull off some of the more detailed Combinations so the amount of practice required to get good at this game could drive some people away Sure, you could play killer instinct the same way you would play Street Fighter and stick to the more basic stuff But then you'd be missing a huge part of the appeal here, but again if you didn't grow up with this game It's gonna take you a long time to get good at it All I can really say though is that this game is worth it If you put in the practice you'll be rewarded with some really fun stuff here because the controls are every bit as crisp And precise as anything from Street Fighter one thing in particular I admire about killer instinct is how diverse they made each character the quicker fighters like spinal and orchid really feel fast While the stronger guys like full gore and saber wolf are really tough can take a beating and can unleash some really powerful Combos bear in mind though orchid has one combo that is literally unstoppable the one where she turns into a tiger So yeah, that's kind of a problem killer instinct also takes a page from Mortal Kombat and includes Finishers so to speak each character has two finishing combos They can do although again one of orchid's finishers is pretty lame her boobs give these guys a heart attack Okay, anyway, these aren't nearly as violent as Mortal Kombat, but they're still pretty fun one interesting thing to note About killer instinct is that a rearranged version of the soundtrack was released on CD and came with the first 100,000 copies of the game. This is the first instance I can remember where video game music was spotlighted as a big deal and a significant selling point of the game people that Subscribes of this channel know how much I love video game music So yeah, it goes without saying that killer instinct had if not one of the best then certainly one of the most Important soundtracks ever made anyway killer instinct 2 arrived at the arcades shortly after this game and a Super Nintendo port was planned But the project was scrapped we got killer instinct gold on n64 instead Oh, well, and I should also mention that there was a remake for Xbox one But I haven't really been able to play that yet not really an Xbox guy So yeah killer instinct holds up great today because it relies on the substance in the gameplay rather than hokey gimmicks with an inherent short shelf Life in other words, you're better off playing killer instinct over any Mortal Kombat game any day of the week


QuickBooks Online, Management Reports, Customization. Get ready to start moving on up with QuickBooks Online. We're gonna be using the free QuickBooks Online test drive searching in our online search engine for QuickBooks Online test drive, selecting the option that has Intuit.com and the URL Intuit being the owner of QuickBooks. Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course, each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Picking the United States version of the software and verifying that we're not a robot. Zooming in a bit by holding down control up on the scroll wheel currently at 125% on the zoom and noting in the cog dropdown that we're currently in the accountant view as opposed to the business view. We'll try to toggle back and forth between the two views so you can see where things are located in each of them. Right-clicking the tab up top to duplicate it as we do every time. We're gonna be putting our reports in the duplicated tabs. Right-clicking again on the duplicated tab to duplicate it again as the tab to the left thinks. We're gonna go to the tab to the middle, reports on the left, and then open the balance sheet of the favorite reports as that's thinking tab to the right, reports on the left, this time the P to the L, the profit to the loss, the income statement. We're gonna close the hamburger otherwise known as the hand boogie, change the range from 010122 tab 123122 tab, run it to refresh it, and then I'm gonna go back to the tab to the middle and close the hand boogie, scroll up to the top ranges, they are a change in 010122 tab 123122 tab, run it to refresh it. That's the setup process that we do every time in a prior presentation. We talked about customizing and memorizing the reports, and that could be quite useful for external reporting, say to clients at the end of the month. Now, the QuickBooks Online has another nice little tool that we could use as well. So if I go back to the tab to the left and we go to the reports on the left-hand side, we've been saving stuff into the customized reports presumably so that at the end of the month, possibly quarter or year, we then print those reports out and provide them to the client in some way, shape or form. But the online version also has this management report, which could be a good tool to try to make your reports look more professional and a pretty easy like little formatted type of way. So they've got the company overview, which is what we'll look at here. You've got the sales performance report and the expense performance report. Now, I would think that the company overview would be the most common kind of bundle type of report that you might provide on a month-end, quarter-end, year-end basis. So if I was to view that, let's just take a look at what is included. You've got this nice little lead-in page or cover page as it's called here, management report, the title. So that looks nice. And then we're down into page two with a table of content. So it's just including the major financial statement reports. We can change that, so we'll talk about that. And then it goes right into the reports, in this case, the profit and loss, and then the balance sheet report. So it gives you a nice little, little quick and easy type of format. You can, of course, get more complex with the formatting if you were to export the reports to like Excel and make word documents and whatnot for the formatting of the reports, but this could give you a nice quick feel for it. So let's just think about our options then and see how we might be able to customize this in order to provide these reports to clients. So let's just take a couple of our balance sheet reports. We'll talk more about the kind of reports that we're gonna be bundling together and what you might include, but we've discussed a couple balance sheet reports. Let's just open up like our summary report again and make like a comparative report, for example. So I'm gonna go, let's go back here. I'm gonna open up another tab. I'm gonna go to the reports on the left and then I'm gonna go to my standard reports and let's open up that summary report. Again, customize it as if we're gonna provide it to a client at the end of the period. So I'm gonna make this 123122 and then customize it. I'm gonna say no pennies on it. Brackets, negative, brackets, red. And then I'm gonna say for the header and footer, I'm just gonna change it here by saying summary upfront. Let's say summary, summary balance sheet. And then I'm gonna remove the summary at the end, get rid of the date, time, report, basis and run it. So then I'm gonna memorize this report or save it as we saw in the past, save it. And then I can use that saved report possibly to put into my management report here. So I'm gonna name it and put this as number one, just so it'll be the first report that I kinda wanna add which might help my grouping. I'm gonna add a group and I'm gonna say these are my month, let's say month end reports, month end reports. I'm gonna add that group and then select the dropdown and pick that group, month end reports and save it. And there's our summary report. I'm gonna go back to the first tab and then I'm in the management reports. I'm gonna go to the customize here, refresh it by hitting the little refresh button and we should then get our new customized report. So there it is. Let's open up another one. So I'm gonna go back to the tab to the middle. I'm gonna go to the reports on the left, this time standard report. Let's just open up a standard balance sheet and then I'm gonna make it into a comparative balance sheet. So I'm gonna hit the dropdown, let's make it by quarter and then the end date is 123122, run it. There it is, I'll customize it and then say I don't want the pennies, negative numbers bracketed, red on the header and footer. I'm gonna call this a quarter balance sheet by quarter, something like that. Get rid of the date, time, report, basis and so that looks good. I'll save that and then I'm gonna go up top and say I want to save the customization and I'm gonna put this, I'm gonna label this just number two and save that into our month end reports and save it and then let's just do one more and let's say that I'll put this back to the total, run it and then I'll do a vertical analysis and I'll say drop down here, percent of columns, run it, boom. And then I'm gonna say that I wanna customize this. Well, let's just do it right here. I'll just change the name right here to balance sheet. I'll call it vertical analysis, vertical analysis, analysis. So hopefully this doesn't overwrite the other one that I did. It'll save it separately I hope but I'm gonna say save customization. So it's trying to put it into that one again. So I'm gonna try to make it, hopefully I'll make a different one. I should have opened up a new tab but I'm gonna say balance sheet vertical analysis, save it in there. This will be report number three and let's see if it works. We're gonna say save it and then let's go back to the first tab. Let's refresh it. I'm in my customized reports. If I refresh this, then I go to my customized. Now I've got one, two and three. So now if I was to at the end of the month, I'm gonna go back and try to provide this information to somebody then I could print these out one at a time and email it to them or it would be better because I'm gonna have a lot of reports once I start ad income statement reports. I could then group them into a folder and provide somebody the information on a cloud drive possibly or I could then group them into a folder, zip them and then email them to somebody as a zipped file which is a little bit better than like 10 attachments, only three here. But if you had more reports, you can have a whole bunch of attachments which can kind of be tedious to receive an email with 10 attachments that you have to download or we could use Excel, exporting these to Excel and using Excel in alignment with or as well as a PDF printer to print them on one PDF file. So we'll talk about how to do that later. That's a nice option that's pretty quick and easy to do. We could get more formalized by using Excel possibly and Word to create more formalized management reports but that gets more complex to deal with or we can use this management report thing that gives us a nice little bit more formalization. So let's take a look at this one now. We'll take a look at trying to make all the reports on one PDF file using Excel later and the other ways that we might distribute the reports at the end of the month. Our goal is to make it look as nice as possible, noting that just having it look good is gonna be a big part of the bookkeeping process because you wanna have your clients have confidence that you're giving them the right information and she'll be there when they need you which is typically at the end of the year when they're doing taxes and possibly financial statement preparation. So if I go into here, we viewed it, if I edit this now, I'm gonna, now oftentimes you might wanna keep the overview just as it is and then maybe I'll make a copy of it. I'm just gonna make a copy of it so now I can change this one and keep the original and then I'm gonna go into this one and I'm gonna say I want to edit it. So let's go into the edit and then in the first page, this is the cover page. So we've got the cover page here. You've got a couple of different styles that you can go to on the cover page. So here's your styles. Then you've got your logo. So if you wanna add your logo, that can give it a little bit more of a customization feel for that. And then you've got the title, the cover title which by default is management report. So you might call it your bookkeeping report or accounting report, right?  For example, possible or something. And then subtitle, if you have a subtitle here you can add another subtitle. You've got the report period for the period ended and then it's got the dates which will be described when you put the date so it's gonna default to the current date. Prepared by, if you wanna put someone here for who made the report, right? And then we can have the disclaimer for management use only at the bottom. Let's go to the second tab. So that's the table of contents which is gonna include say the reports that we're gonna be having. So include the table of contents. You could exclude the table of contents altogether and then the page title is the table of contents if you wanna name it something else you can. Then the third page gives you like an intro page.  Here's your month in reports for the period ended and so on, blah, blah, that you could add another page in here.  By default, if I go to the reports they have the profit and loss and the balance sheet. Now here's where you can add in instead of having the standard balance sheet, maybe you remove that one and add the ones that we included in the reports dropdown. We've got the month one, that one. And then I'm gonna hit the add another one and I'm gonna be putting this one in and then I'm gonna add another one and I'm gonna be putting this one in. And so maybe you want those, maybe you want the balance sheet reports first. So maybe you pull the profit and loss down here. We'll talk about formatting the profit and loss later. So that's how you can kind of maneuver these reports. This is obviously the meat, the major point of your bundle but in the rest of it is to kind of just make it look nice, have your title page and so on. And we can add then these customized reports in here instead of the default reports and make it give it a little more of a customized field. So this is one option we could use. And then an end note. So then you can say something at the end. So the end I'll just say thank you, you for your business or whatever. You can have an ending note here which might be some kind of closing. We appreciate this and that or possibly something like that on the end. So then I'm gonna save it down here. We've got our options down here to cancel it. We can print or preview it. We have our advanced options in the advanced options. You've got your company name, so you can change that. You've got your header here that you can have an adjustment on the header or put a footer here if you so choose. Show only non-zero rows and columns. So that, remember when we actually do the reports like it'll show a zero depend sometimes if there's activity in it, that's the default setting. So this will actually kind of override that I believe removing line items that don't have a zero which is typically what you want for external reporting. So that's kind of nice. So I'm gonna say okay on that, let's preview it, print or preview and so there we have it. So now we've got the first page with our month end report and so on and prepared by blah blah table of contents. Now includes the reports, that's our intro kind of thing and then our actual reports. So now you've got the month end reports which, so notice like here it's kind of annoying that it's putting in like the group. I would like it to just put the name of the report not what I called it number one summary balance sheet number two, right? I would like it to just say the name of the actual report as printed which would be the balance sheet here. So that's a little bit annoying to do that so we could of course remove the group that it's in but that'll make it a little bit more difficult to add to the reports here. So we can kind of play with that. That's some of the problems you end up dealing with those kind of problems when you have this really kind of a fairly simplified template. So, but in any case it looks pretty nice and then we've got the intro or the reports. This is that intro form where you could say you could put your little blurb in terms of this is the month end reports that we've been preparing blah, blah, blah and here and then you've got your actual reports. And once again, it's pulling in the month end reports which is my group name which I wasn't intending to put on the reports that was just a grouping format as well as the number one. So that's, so you might be aware of that and realize that this is gonna be in the header and therefore you might name it in such a format that it's gonna be a professional name and serve the purpose of grouping your customized reports possibly.  So notice how this, how I would basically break it out have an easy looking form up top and then get into more complex information underneath. And then we've got our month end balance sheet vertical analysis report and then our profit and loss. And then we've got the end note which could be in conclusion, you know, thank you. This is our month end report in conclusion. We're, you know, we're gonna be here for you at the end of next month and at the year end and so on and blah, blah. Thank you for your business or whatever and that's the end report. So it's a nice quick, easy little summary. Again, you can kind of play with it to try to customize it exactly what you would want for like the names of the reports, for example. And you can do that by the way, I can go down to the reports here and I can go into the actual reports with the pencil and I can go in here and just say, I'm gonna delete the number three like this and then I can go into the pencil here and say, I'm gonna delete this whole thing right there, the title. And so that's nice. So you can do that compared previous year. So you could add the comparisons in here but usually I would do that into the report, not within here but in the actual report but let's hit the pencil up top here and then I can remove this bit. Boom. And so there's that. And so now let's just save it and check it out again. Check it out. And so now we've got our actual reports that are showing up without that title. That looks way better. Okay, so it's a nice little touch. Now, so in terms of how you're gonna provide these reports to somebody then the question is going to be, I'm gonna still format the reports and probably save them in such a way that I can group them easily. And then the question is, how am I gonna group them? Am I gonna email them one at a time? Probably not the best way to do it. I can zip them at least and email them probably better in which case you might wanna number them so they're in the zipped folder in order. You could then, you could try to use Excel to put them on one page and the Excel actually allows you to do more formatting. So if there's further formatting that you would like to do beyond what you can do in QuickBooks, then you could export to Excel and do that. You could have a combination between Excel and Word to make say a management report that's more that in that format you combine those two things together and do your own, that gives you a whole lot more flexibility obviously in the formatting but it's gonna add more complexity because now instead of just using the reports directly out of QuickBooks, you might have more formatting that you would have to do outside of it and link together Excel and Word for your reports or you can put the management report words in Excel too and try to do everything in one Excel tab. Again, no matter what you do, it gets a little bit messy or you can use their little template here which works pretty well for a nice formal report given a little bit added feel, a little bit added touch of professionalism and you can get everything on one page, on one PDF that way so that you can provide it to them with a nice one PDF instead of multiple files. So we'll talk about the other ways we can do it using Excel for example to get everything on one PDF in a future presentation but that's a neat little tool that you might wanna experiment with.