Good day, fellow investors. I think everybody will be expecting my take on Amira's earnings. Now, this is a really great example of how I approach investments. You find something, you expect something. If it fits your expectations, you make a lot of money. If it doesn't meet your expectations, you don't lose a lot. The first time I recommended Amira on this channel was at 4.75. When I really thought, okay, at this price, Amira, there is little room for losses, and there is a potential for a huge gain if the increase in Basmati prices reflects onto the financials. That, unfortunately, in this first six months didn't happen. Is this possible that due to the seasonality of the business, Amira's earnings improve significantly in the next six months? However, we will know that first time somewhere in May when the company announces their full year results and then really see it in the audited report coming out at the end of July. So that is six months from now or eight months till the audited report in between. There perhaps will be some financing, but don't expect much. There is little probability of catalysts coming up in the next eight months, which could make Amira a value trap. So let's first dig into the earnings and then I'll discuss my view on what's going on. Revenue increased 8%, but I expected much, much more. The 8% will just be from rise increases, which means they didn't sell much more. The margin is always the healthy margin of 14.7, which is okay. Profit after tax in line with previous earnings, which means that really wasn't an improvement. Even if we'll see later in the balance sheet, there should have been. I really expected higher revenue, at least 25% from the sales. Then I expected higher cash. This was really my catalyst, much more cash on the balance sheet coming from profitable revenues, profitable sales. That again didn't happen. If we look at the revenue, it did increase from 210 to 228 million. What increased significantly and what I expected to increase was the change in inventory of finished goods. So the value of the inventory due to the seasonings, the aging of the paddy increased from 12 million, the benefit to 36 million, of course, in relation to higher prices. However, this means that if there wouldn't be the change in inventory benefit, there wouldn't be profitability for Amira. So you really have to see from different perspectives those basic earnings per share of 9 million or 30 cents, 29 cents. This is my biggest worry and something I really don't like. It could really be due to demonetization in India. But nevertheless, in the previous quarter, past due, trade receivables were 43 million. Now those 43 million are still there. Okay, six months has passed, which means there have been some payments from the past due receivables. But now the past due for more than three months and less than six months are 45 million, which means that the company like Amira that really depends on the trade receivables has 78 million past due. 78 million is $2 per share, almost, which would completely change how Amira looks. This is a catalyst to look at in the next earnings. If Amira manages to get paid in time, the debt would be much lower, the debt cost would be much lower, profitability would be much higher alongside the debt financing. So I really don't like the earnings. I hoped it would be better and that would that better debt growth has been my catalyst for holding Amira. Such catalyst didn't happen. I will be researching other stocks. I will be looking at other stocks. I will be keeping an eye on Amira to see what happens. If the stock price goes significantly down, creating another bargain, I will look to open another position looking into July 2018. However, there is still plenty of time from there. The risks have increased because of the past due trade receivables, which could really put in Joe Party the whole company possibly, because the inventories guarantee Amira's debt. If Amira loses those inventories to guarantee its debt, it cannot sell. It cannot make sales. A very, very tricky situation can arise. From my perspective, even if it looks like financials have improved, everything has grown a little bit. From my perspective, the company is much, much more riskier now. So it didn't work out, let's say. We'll keep an eye, we'll keep adjourned and that's the story. That's how investing goes. I hope you're not disappointed. Well, I think a lot of you will be disappointed, but that's how investing is. Thank you for watching. I hope to see you in the next video and I'm looking forward to your comments. It's a great learning opportunity, so we'll see how it works out. And that's it.


Hey everybody, we're back again. This is Tools for Archiving Sites. I have 25 minutes and a lot that I want to demo. So I'm just gonna go right into it and there's not gonna be a lot of pretext here other than kind of mentioning the different types of categories of tools we're gonna talk about. One thing I want to point out is on the main workshop site, you should definitely check out the session description. So if you click Tools for Archiving Sites, I've got pretty much all of the tools I'm gonna talk about linked up here and some of them will be spending more time on than others. So you may want to find more information, that's there. So the first thing I kind of want to mention is the difference between, and I should say what I even mean with archiving. So by archiving, I just mean taking a version of a site that exists and making a copy for yourself that you can store someplace else. And that can mean a lot of different things. But the main two things we're gonna talk about is HTML flattening. And I don't really know what to call the other one. I'm gonna call the other one web recorder because it's kind of its own thing. They call it web archiving, but I feel like that's maybe too general sounding if you're not familiar with it. HTML flattening is great and all it does is it's a way to take a site like a WordPress site or it could be of other technologies. And basically it's a little virtual browser that clicks on every link and makes HTML and CSS and JavaScript only versions that you can then get a folder of and put anywhere. So the advantage being you could say, take a site made in like a really old version of WordPress that you don't want to run anymore. Maybe it's like WordPress, I don't know, three, really old and probably very insecure. And you're like, we want to keep this site but we never need to change it again. We don't need to log into it or do anything like that. You could use an HTML flattener to make that site just HTML files. And then you could put that on your domain of one's own in using the file manager or an FTP client or any other web server for that matter. So that's really a great method. The first thing that does this and is probably the first thing I'd recommend if you're unfamiliar is simply static. Simply static is a WordPress plugin. So it only works with WordPress sites but basically you can install it and it will make a static version of your site. And then you can then take that static version of your site and move it to wherever you want to archive the site. Once that's done and you're sure that the static version has been made and is all good, you can remove the WordPress site. You won't need it anymore. A couple issues with it though, like I said, it's WordPress only and then the other main thing that is kind of problematic about it is it's got to make a static copy of the site in the same location or in the same account as your WordPress site in most cases. So sometimes you can end up running out of space because it's essentially making a duplicate copy with all your images and stuff. So that's one thing to think about. That being said, the other reason I'm not gonna spend a lot of time talking about it is I think simply static is relatively easy to use and is also pretty well documented but I think a lot of times when people are trying to archive these things they're talking about things that aren't WordPress. So the next two tools I'm gonna talk about together. The first one is Site Sucker and it's a macOS only thing and the other one is HTTrack and it has a glorious like 1997's best website. It's amazing, I love it. And it's got a Windows GUI or it's command line based. So I use it a lot at the command line on Reclaim Cloud or on my Mac sometimes. But Site Sucker for macOS is also great. Both of these tools you just give it a URL and it will go make a static version of the site. The thing to keep in mind though is it's going to crawl the entire site. So it's gonna click on every single link and try to make a local version of the site. Usually the default settings are set so that they will not go to other domains because if they did you could imagine that it could crawl like hundreds of web pages thousands of web pages and never finish essentially. Like what if you linked to Google.com? What then? Or Facebook or something, that's pretty common. So usually they will say, all right, like my blog's jaden.me and they're gonna go through and click on every link on jaden.me but skip the ones that go out to external domains. So those are two tools. I'm also really not gonna demo them because, well I actually will demo HTTrack here in a little bit, but Site Sucker for macOS is really easy to use and the Windows version of HTTrack is pretty easy to use. But the problem is I think the more advanced versions of these tools are not easy to use at all. The first one being HTTrack's command line version which is what I use most of the time when I'm making these, it's not too bad but you need to set it up and folks aren't always familiar with how to do that especially if you haven't used much command line stuff. It's not necessarily simple. And the other one is web recorder and web recorder is a whole project that's really fascinating and it can do, it's like a extension, a Chrome extension I believe and the main difference between web recorder and HTTrack or other HTML flatteners is web recorder makes a singular file of whatever you're trying to archive that is viewable via a lot of different ways. So basically what you can do is you can install a Chrome extension and visit a page and it will save the page and then when you're done you end up with this WARCZ file that you can then go to replay web.page and view and that's really, really cool. The problem is by default archive web.page does not have any way to crawl an entire site. So it doesn't, it's just gonna do the single page that you visit or a couple pages that you visit and if you wanna archive like an entire blog you're gonna be doing a lot of manual clicking. The big advantage to web recorder though is because it packages everything in that WARCZ file it's really great for folks who want to view a copy of a website later but isn't necessarily hosted on a web server. So maybe you have a student or a faculty member who's like, I want a copy of my site and I'm not moving it anywhere.  I wanna be able to open it and view it on my computer. That's actually not super straightforward with HTML flattening because sometimes links are set up in a way that they don't point to the right locations when they're flattened. It's a little bit tricky. So that's where web recorder is really great. So then you get into the issue of, okay well sometimes you want flattened sites and sometimes you want this web recorder thing but they do slightly different things and there is a tool that kind of bridges the gap called browser tricks crawler. It is a super mouthful but essentially it uses what web recorder does but it is an actual crawler. So it'll go and click on every single link like HT track. What I find is browser tricks crawler is not at all easy to use. It's extremely oriented towards developer folks or folks who are very, very familiar with Docker. So it took me a little long, it took me a little while to wrap my head around it. So what I've been working on is a script that kinda does best of both worlds and I'm gonna show you what you can do with it and I'm hoping to in the next, like this summer essentially wrap this up into something that anyone can use, run on Reclaim Cloud if they want to or their computer and basically just type in crawl and then the URL that you wanted to do and it will make both a flattened version for you using HT track and a archived version with browser tricks. So I'm gonna show what that looks like. This is gonna be a very live demo so hopefully it works really well. But- And for those of you who haven't seen this space this is the Reclaim Cloud dashboard. Yeah, and that's a good point. We haven't really showed Reclaim Cloud on stream. By the way, I am planning to make this a tool that you could run on either Reclaim Cloud, another cloud service if you really wanted to or your local computer. It won't really be possible to run this on Domain of One's Own for a variety of reasons. The main reason actually being it would be a lot of load on your Domain of One's Own server and it would probably make it slow or unresponsive while you're crawling sites so that would be not good at all.   So I do archive.shslides.jd.me and what it's gonna do is it's going to start crawling the site. And this might take a little bit, this is a pretty small site, but the cool thing that I've got set up here is that this is also a webpage. So when it's done, we'll be able to view the results of the crawl and go ahead and download that web archive file so that we can go look at that and see how it turns out. So right now this is super bare bones and ugly. If you're familiar with this, you'll know that this is just a patches like default. I don't know what to show you view, but it works. So it's still going right now. Taylor, while that's running, Ed has a question. He says, do you intend to offer this as a service? He's imagining, hey Taylor, here's a list of sites. Could you run your script, send me the archives and then deactivate them on the network? I'm intending to offer this as something that is so easy to use that you don't need it as a service. And I know that, yeah. So I know it looks a little complicated now, but the idea will be, this could be something where you would go into marketplace and reclaim cloud, hit go. And then when you're done, you would pop open a terminal type archive and then give it a URL, which would be pretty simple to do. And then we'd also of course document it as well. Cause right now I know that this is a very fast overview. And the reason I'm doing this this way is some of this stuff might change a little bit by the time I have this ready for everyone to use. But yeah, that's the intention is I want this to be something that admins can spin up. And then when they don't need the archiver, they can delete it from reclaim cloud. Cause you could always take what you archive here and FTP it over to domain of one zone or any other place. And on that topic, Jackie had a question about what the system requirements would be for an admin that wanted to spin it up. Yeah, it's just gonna run in Docker. The entire thing will run in Docker. So the advantage of that being is we can run it on reclaim cloud, any other cloud service, but you could also run it on a Windows or Mac OS machine. So your own machine would be just fine for that. The advantage being if you run it on a cloud service, it'll be faster because you're bandwidth. Your actual internet speed on reclaim cloud is extremely fast compared to on your local machine, you have to let it run using your home's internet connection and you need to make sure your local machine doesn't like sleep or shut down or anything like that. I will say if you're doing a couple of crawls doing on your local machine is fine, but if you wanted to schedule this to happen automatically, you probably would want to put it on a server. But that being said, I think making it available as a one click installer and reclaim cloud was sort of bridges that gap where folks can just delete it when they don't need it anymore. So they don't have to pay for it or shut it down. Okay, so the crawl's done. So it made an HT track version. I'm gonna look at that first. And this is just sort of HT tracks, defaults, output. But basically I can click on this and this is my archive site. You can see that it's at crawler.ca.reclaim.clouds slash slides, that's the whole thing. So I can view it and that's all there and it works. The other thing I wanna mention here because I only briefly talked about what HTML flattening looks like is I wanna show you what that looks like in the file manager. So if I go in here, there's a slides.jdn.me folder, then HT track. And then under this folder, HT track makes a little slides.jdn.me. So this is the folder that I could download and move to any other site and it would be archived. If you're curious what this look like after you move it, I did do this kind of thing when I was an admin at St. Norbert. And so I would throw them on archive.night.domains and they would look like this. Taylor, we have a question from Jackie. Will this continue if it gets interrupted? Yeah, so the way I have it set up is so you'll notice that I had the terminal open here. If you close the terminal, it'll keep working in the background. It's not gonna be interrupted in that way. It kind of depends on what you mean by interrupted. Like if you shut down the environment, no, it wouldn't continue. So there are occasions where it would not continue. And this is gonna be something that's always gonna be, it's gonna require an amount of patience, right? Because archiving sites actually does take a while. Like there's a reason I did this tiny little one for a demo. I've been using it for plenty of sites, but oftentimes when you're doing this on a larger site, it'll take 20 minutes to run. So yeah, if you start an archive and close your terminal session, it's just gonna keep doing its thing in the background. So that's the HTTrack version, but I also wanted to show, I'll go back to the main site here, the WebRecorder version because WebRecorder does this, or BrowserTricks crawler does this really cool. And some of this stuff, this like, all these sub-directories that I'm having to navigate through, this is the stuff that I haven't automated yet. And what I wanna do is make this really simple so that you don't have to deal with all this. But if I go and download this, and it shouldn't be a super big file, so we're just gonna do that. So it's 48 megabytes. This capture-date-time.wacz file, this is a totally portable self-enclosed version of the website that you can view if you go to replayweb.page. And then WebRecorder also has an ability to, there's an app you can install, if you wanna do it in a desktop app, you can, it's pretty much the same thing as a website. And if you want to, you could even actually embed this viewer on another webpage. I haven't messed around a lot with that. I know that, I think Edbeck has done that. He's talked a little bit about site archiving before. And so that is also a possibility. So now that I'm at replayweb.page, I can just select my file here. You can even store these in like Google Drive and stuff. It's very flexible replayweb.page. And you hit load and it'll show you, okay, these are the sites that are included in this. So if I click on this, it's got a little virtual browser including the original URL, which is really nice. So I really love this view because it gives a pretty, it's maybe a small thing, but when I'm looking at an archive of a site, excuse me, sorry. I kind of do care about what the URLs were. So it's kind of nice that it will show you that. And that's really, really slick. So yeah, and so that's what a WebRecorder archive ends up looking like. So the nice thing I think about my tool is that it makes both versions because I think there are advantages to both. I like the portability of the WebArchive standard, but HTML flattening is often what domains admins actually want when they wanna throw it on a server to exist in a different location. So I personally think in most cases, you kind of wanna have both and you could like I've got. Well, yeah, just every site's built a bit differently, right? Totally. So I think that's one of the things you have to archive that in some fashion, the better, I think. Yeah, and you could do things like, you could just zip this up and keep both versions or put one version on Domaino One's own. And then you can, all you have to do is send this WACZ file out to, say it's for a faculty member, you just email that to them and say, here's where you go and can play back the webpage. Best of both worlds is what I meant to say. How much time do I have left? Got a little over five minutes. Perfect. Okay, so last one, this is a bonus tool that I, is honestly, this one's rough, but I'm excited about, and it's a screenshotting script that I actually started working on like years ago. And then as I was prepping for this session, like on last week, I was like, oh, this belongs in the same conversation, I think. Absolutely. Even if it's not exactly the same thing. So what, sorry, we got you muted, Jim. What? It better get the best side of BobaTuesdays. So what screenshot collector does, is it is a script that uses Puppeteer, which is a, I think Google made, it's basically a command line version of Chrome. It's not a Metallica song? Yeah, yeah, Master of Puppeteers. And so basically, this is not relevant, but basically what this script does is it makes Puppeteer, I think, easy to use if what you wanna do is take a lot of screenshots all at once. So this is something that I probably will take me longer, but I think I would include in the site archiving toolkit, eventually. And what you basically be able to do is just make a text file that has however many URLs you want on it, and then tell it to do its thing, and it would take a screenshot. I did this with, I made this for night domain, so I can tell you that last time I used this, I think I used it to take like 580 screenshots, which takes a while. But the way the script works is it takes them in batches. So I think it took like three or four hours, which is not that long, compared to some of the earlier versions of this that I was trying to work with. So I'll demo this really quick, and again, this is extremely early. So if this looks complicated, that's because I haven't had a chance to make it less complicated. So sorry. It's cool to see the process though, and I'm particularly excited for the script that you shared just a minute ago too, so. Yeah, so basically in my case here, it's going to do all of the things in URLs-example.text, and I have a couple like whatever URLs like my blog and like Amazon and stuff. And then throughout the day, I've just been kind of collecting, I did solicit URLs earlier in a Discord thread, but I've also just been, any times people have been linking the stuff, I've been throwing it in here. So this I think is 36 URLs, it's not that many, but so my point is some of these might not work, because I haven't really tried this, and it's fine. We're all going to be fine with it. So basically you tell the script to do its thing, and what it's going to do is make a folder called screenshots, it's going to figure out how many URLs it has to work with, and then do it in batches, and it's configurable how many it does at a time. So I have it doing eight, which is great on Reclaim Cloud because you have all the bandwidth and resources, but if you're doing this on your own machine, you may need to play with that. I will say when I did this for night domains, my old computer could only do five before I ran out of RAM. So, or I don't remember, maybe it was not RAM, doesn't matter. So you can see it's already done, it's on batch three of five, and yeah, it gives a little report of what it's doing. So the plus sign means it took a successful screenshot, and I think it'll put an X if it doesn't. I know there'll be at least one X because it currently has a bug where it reads a new line character as a URL, and that's just because I'm not even close to done with this, but I wanted to show this because I wanted to see if this would be useful for anybody essentially. I think it could be, like I think one version of this could be, you could have it do this like once a month or once every six months or something on your domains project and feed it the list of URLs from the last login script and get an overview of like, this is what every account is, this is how many hello worlds we have and stuff like that. Also just going back to where we started this conversation, which was trying to see the arc of sites, right? And I know we talked about trying to track disk usage over time is one way, but even just a simple screenshot to see how these sites are changing and adapting over time. And I've even enjoyed that experiment going back and looking at my domains with internet archive for example. So I think there's value there. Can you imagine screenshotting a site like every week and then playing that back as a small video over a year to see how it changes, right? Yeah, like a course site or something. It would be great. It would be crazy to see the theme switchers, right? That everybody knows the people that switch themes like twice a year. I feel like there's always some of those. And I'm not one of them. It looks like Tom said it would be fun to tie in timeline JS for each site. Ooh, yeah. Okay, so this is what the screenshots folder looks like and so the cool thing is if you view this as thumbnails and if I zoom it in a little bit here. In the last minute. Yeah, okay. If I zoom in, you can actually very quickly, it's amazing how fast the human eye can be like, ah, yes. So you can see here's our workshop site and I don't know, I find this very useful and I will say when I did this for night domains it was interesting to see like, ah, we have a lot of people using the 2018 theme but not many using the 2019 theme just because you can kind of pick out even structural elements like that. So anyway, that's all stuff that I'm hoping I'm actively working on to make accessible to admins. This is something that you think would be useful. I guess sit tight because it's coming but if you have like a feature request, feel free to send it. I'm a really bad programmer. So like it's very likely that I'll be like, that would be cool if I could figure that out and that's all I'll be able to say. But I definitely want to hear. A couple people inside in the chat. Yeah, thank you all so much for joining. We will see you in a couple of minutes.


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Income tax 2022-2023, payments, tax software example. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Here we are in our example Form 1040 populated with LASERT tax software. You don't need tax software to follow along, but it's a great tool to run scenario. Scenario! Those with you can also get access to the Form 1040 related forms and schedules at the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Our starting point, single filer Mr. Anderson living in Beverly Hills 90210, 100,000 W-2 income this time. We've got the 12,950, that's going to be the standard deduction getting us to the 87,050 for the taxable income. We're mirroring that in our Excel worksheet over here, 100,000 income, 12,950 standard deduction getting us to the 87,050. We're going to rely on the software to do the tax calculation. Page 2, 14774, we withheld 15,000. We're going to start with to get to that 226 at the bottom line, which is mirrored over here on our income tax worksheet. So now we're going to be focused on the second half of the calculation. 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. That being the payment type of calculation. So remember the first page of the Form 1040 is in essence our income statement. And then the second page is going to be calculating the taxes, dealing with the credits and dealing with the payments. So on the first page, we have the format of income. In this case is going to be the W2 income. So when we have the W2 income, that reporting document will typically show the wages that were earned. That's going to be the amount that's going to be populated onto the first page and then the withholdings that will be made, which will be populated on the second page. So when we do the data input into our system, we'll see something like this. We've got the wages and then we've got the federal income tax withholdings as well as the social security and Medicare. We're focused on the federal income tax withholdings because we're looking at the federal income tax return, the Form 1040. So obviously the 100,000 populated on the first page, which will be used to calculate the taxable income, the bottom line in essence of our weird income statement. The tax being calculated on it on the second page in this example 14774. Then we're going to compare that to how much was with, which was withheld 15,000. Note that if this was a perfect world, this tax return, the Form 1040 would just be an informational return. It would just be saying like payroll taxes, for example, like the Form 941. Look, this is how much I actually owe in taxes. I already paid you in this case through withholdings and therefore there wouldn't be any refund or any amount due at that time. However, the tax code is way too complicated to be able to do that. That's why the withholdings are usually structured and we purposely structure them on our end to try to overshoot the amount of taxes that are going to be paid so that we can result in a refund, hopefully actually a small refund. If we have a big refund, that means we way overestimated and we could have gotten our money sooner by reducing the amount of withholdings. The only reason we want the refund at all is because we want to make sure that we're not getting hit with the penalties and interest. That's the general idea. If I can get the money sooner, that's typically better to have the money sooner, to have more money per paycheck as opposed to a big lump sum refund for the tax time. Now also note that the second half of the tax form you would think would be fairly straightforward. We calculate the tax and then we just see how much we actually paid. But as we have seen, there are going to be areas where this gets more complex because we've got the tax that we have to calculate and then we have to deal with the credits. We'll dive into credits later, but we've got these credits that could be refundable credits and we have the credits that would be non-refundable, which means that we have to kind of break them out separately on this page too. That muddies up the whole situation and we also note that there could be other taxes that we have to include as well. For example, if we had the self-employment tax, so if we had a Schedule C type of business as we saw in prior presentations, we might have self-employment tax that we would also have to add to the federal income tax because it's not being taken care of with the W-2. And then on the withholding side of things or on the payment side of things, we could have payments from the W-2, which is most common, particularly when people are in their working years, but we could have withholdings from 1099s as well. And that might be more common for people in retirement years, most common 1099 form being the 1099R. And then we could have estimated tax payments that we made into the system, which is quite common for businesses that have a Schedule C type of situation. If I mirror this in our worksheet over here, the payment that we made down here, I've made another worksheet for that so that we had the payments and there is our payment for the withholdings and that's going to be pulling into our worksheet on page one. All right, so let's think about a situation where someone is like retired and they're getting 1099 and you have a withholding from a 1099 kind of situation. So in that case, you might have like a 1099R that's coming from a pension plan or something like that. It would be a normal distribution if they were in retirement. So I'm going to say normal distribution here, although I'm not changing the age or anything. Just for an example, I'm going to say 50,000 distribution. It would generally be taxable because although it's coming out of their savings account, it's in a retirement plan and they got the deferral of the retirement plan, therefore they have to pay taxes on it and they have to think about how they're going to be making payments on that money because it's going to be income. They could do that possibly through withholdings or they can make estimated tax payments. And note when people are in retirement, this is often kind of a shocking kind of situation for a lot of people because all of their income has been withheld with regards to income taxes if they were a W-2 employee their entire lifetime and then in retirement, they're going to have to be a little bit more active possibly to think about what their withholdings should be from like a retirement account like a pension plan or something like that or make estimated tax payments which takes a little bit more planning than they may have had to do when they were taking their W-2 withholdings. But in any case, that is going to be, we're on page two again in the payments and it's similar. It's now it's on 25B. So we've made another payment situation. I didn't remove the last one. So we have now the added 10,000. So here's the total tax. Here's the payments that are added together both withholdings one and a W-2 the second on the form 1099 and then the difference between the two is going to be the 1028. So another situation that could come up that's not as common as you might have income from let's say that we have income from gambling. So someone got a W-2G because they had gambling winnings. Let's say it was a significant winnings of like 20,000 or something. In that case, they may be required by the casino or whoever they won from to withhold part of the money. Let's just say 2,500 and so that would then be another withholding type of form. So any kind of income form now being reported here, you want to make sure to check that withholding box to see if they're withholdings on it, but it's most likely you're going to see the withholdings on the W-2s, then the 1099R and then you would think possibly like gambling winnings if they were substantial that they might have a withholding situation there. Okay, so now let's think about a situation where we have a schedule C. So if I have a schedule C, then I don't have a withholding situation because no one else is going to be doing my withholding. I'm not going to be able to have my employer do the withholdings. We're going to have, in this case, we got our standard 100,000 and we saw all the other things that happened with the schedule C, self-employment tax being calculated. That's going to be populated up here on the form 1040 page number two. So now we've got the self-employment tax because we have to deal not only with the federal income tax, but the social security and Medicare because that hasn't been taken care of with the payroll taxes. And so that's going to be included. So that's included with the federal income tax given our tax calculation. And then our payment situation would have to be made with basically estimated tax payments. Now note, this is something oftentimes that new businesses overlook because if you go from a W-2 situation to a situation where you have a schedule C business, many people just aren't, they don't have the mindset. It's a mindset. Just think, oh, I have to make estimated tax payments as I earned the money because when they were a W-2 employee, it happened automatically. They didn't have a choice. They weren't actively participating in the process. They weren't writing the check. So because of that, I think a lot of people get behind on their business. So you got to make sure that we make the payments during the year.  And even if the business was successful, it's going to be a problem. Also, people tend to forget about the Social Security and Medicare, their self-employment tax, which is substantial. And even if they do factor it in, they may undershoot how high it's going to be because they're thinking of it as being similar to Social Security Medicare on their withholdings when they were a W-2 employee. And as we talked about, it's actually double that or close to double because they assume you are the employee or an employee. So you really want to make sure you're doing those projections. And if you're helping anybody with their business to make sure that they're on there, they're factoring in the tax payments. So the tax payments would be done with withholdings. So they'd have to make withholdings usually on a quarterly basis then. So if I think about the quarterly payments, let's go down here and just say that we made, I'll just say 10,000 each time, 10,000. Notice the due date for the first quarter, which is three months of the year. So January, February, March of 2022 is due by April, the following month. So let's say we made it 041522. And the second quarter payment, we'll say 10,000 again. We'll make it even and it's going to be on 061522. And then let's have through here, then 10,000 for the third quarter, which might have been on, we're going to say 091522. And then finally 10,000 for the fourth quarter. This is where it gets a little bit messy because the fourth quarter payment for 2022, fourth quarter ends in December, isn't due until January 15th of 2023. So you've got this crossover and they've got to make sure that when they're making their payments, it's being allocated to the proper year. Let's make sure this, let's say this was made on 011523. You also have to be careful on the state payments because if the state payments are deductible, if you have state income tax, if they're deductible on the federal side of things, the question is, is it deductible when I made the payment? Usually it's deductible when you made the payment, right? Even though it's not, it's on a cash basis, meaning not the fact that this last payment would be deductible possibly if it was a state tax payment on, for example, the form schedule A, but it wouldn't be until 2023, right? Even though it was made for the federal income, for the state income taxes for 2022, right? You have that cutoff problem is going to be an issue. So if I go back on over here, then we're going to say now I have the payments that were made, estimated tax payments are the 40,000 that are pulling over even though that last payment here was made for in 2023. We told the IRS to apply it to 2022 and so they properly did that. Note that usually the assumption for your income for the schedule C is that you earned the income like evenly over the years. Therefore, they want you to have an even number of payments, although that might not always be the case. And so you could look into exceptions if you're saying, hey, look, I earned all of the income or maybe I didn't even start my business until like December or something like that. Then you have an uneven earnings and so you would think it wouldn't be fair to make your payments evenly throughout the year. But the general assumption by the IRS is that you made your earnings evenly throughout the year and they want to be paid then basically even payments throughout the year. And oftentimes the way that's going to be structured is that you will base it on the prior year tax return and think about how much you think you're going to make in the future year based on that and then set up your estimated payment structure based on that is the general idea. Now also note you may have had in a prior year a refund of your 2021 taxes. If you had a refund of the 2021 taxes, you could have the IRS give you the refund and then maybe make a payment for the estimated taxes for 2022. Or you could just say, hey, take that refund and apply it to 2022. So you got to make sure you pick in that up. Notice that this amount is usually will be picked up by the tax software. If you're using the same same tax software from the prior year to the current year because it'll roll over and say, hey, look, you got a refund. And you told the software that I want you to take that refund and apply it to the to the payments in the following year. And so you'll be able to do that. But if there was a change saved by the IRS that said, hey, look, your refund was adjusted and you accept the change. They adjusted and say and say maybe they adjusted to like 2000 instead of 3000. If you don't adjust that in your software or you don't get the letter because the client doesn't give it to you, then that roll over can get messed up. So you want to make sure that you want to check that.  So it's a good practice these days to have a client or yourself for your own tax return. You call this a tax return? To go onto the IRS website and look up and see if you got any notices or any changes in the tax or something like that. That would mess up any of those rollovers to make and look at your estimated payments. So to make sure you have it right on your side compared to what's on on their side, which again, that means that you've got the right cutoff date. You applied the payments to the right period and they've got the right cutoff dates. They got the payments applied to the right period. The rollover from the prior year is rolling over properly and they didn't change the prior year tax refund that got rolled over. Now note down below, you've got your overpayment here and this is the amount that's going to be refunded to you. And notice line 16, the amount of line 34 you want applied to your 2023 taxes. So this is where you would tell them if I was in 2023, apply overpayment to 2023. Let's just say it like 2000. And so now I want you to apply the 2000 over to the following year. So I can get the refund or I can say keep it and apply it to the next year. Now also note when you're making these estimated payments as a sole proprietorship that if you get backed up on the estimated payments, you can see how much of a mess this will be, right? If you didn't make any estimated tax payments, you're going to be owing the taxes for the whole year, plus federal income tax plus the estimated tax payments and you're going to have to be paying the quarterly tax payments for the next year. So by April 15th you're going to have this big tax bill. Not only do you have the big tax bill for 2022, but you've got the first quarter of 2023 that you need to make the estimated tax payments for. Now, usually the way you figure the estimated tax payments is you work with the software typically to take your prior year income and try to figure out if you project that forward what your estimated tax payments will be and you could generate the vouchers or have a schedule and pay them in whatever, pay them online or mail a check if you want to use a voucher kind of system. But you can use that at least as the baseline and you can think of possibly having some safe harbor rules based on your prior year income to avoid penalties and interest. In other words, you really don't know what your income is going to be next year. If your income is quite volatile on a new business in particular, your income could be much more or less. So what you want to do then is try to come up with an estimate based on the prior year as your baseline and also if there's any kind of safe harbor that you could say, hey, look, I made my estimated payments based on last year's income. If I made more, I didn't really know that. So maybe and so then that's so I can avoid basically penalties and interest. So in other words, if you can, if you get to a situation where your income was higher but you were still able to avoid the excess penalty and interest, that's still good because that's what our major goal is to not have to pay more taxes than we otherwise would have to pay is the general idea. So you can look at your prior year tax returns. You can use that as the baseline to figure your estimated tax payments, see if you can get a safe harbor kind of situation. So they're not going to hit you with added penalties and interest.  So that's the general idea with that one. Now just a quick note, if they were, if you have a married couple type of situation, you can see how things get a little bit messy because now when you file the joint return, let's pick one up here, so now we have a married filing joint return and we have the one person, one spouse is earning income through the Schedule C and the other one is doing more work with the W-2. Now note that they have a, if you have a big substantial difference in the income levels, then it gets kind of messy to figure out what the estimated tax payments should be from one spouse to the other because note that obviously the spouse that's making the lesser income, in this case the W-2 income is going to be pushed into a higher tax bracket on the joint return than they otherwise would have due to the higher income when you combine basically the incomes together possibly. So then the question is what's the fair breakout of the withholdings from one to the other because if they were filing single, they would have a lower amount but and at the same time, of course, when we're talking about income taxes, we're only talking about work that is being taxable with regards to the internal revenue service and we're not talking about housework and that kind of stuff, so you got to take that into consideration when you're trying to figure out what would be appropriate for the withholding structure as well as what would be appropriate for the refund. So clearly when you're married filing joint, you're going to have a, if you have a refund situation or amount that is owed situation and you're trying to figure out who, you know, which partner should be paying more out of whichever, you know, paycheck versus the business in this case, it can get a little bit confusing because of the different income tax brackets when you have people that earn different amounts and because of, again, work that's not being included in the calculation of taxes when you get to taxable income, that's going to be because of, you know, other work like taking care of the home and that kind of stuff. But usually it comes up to a better, you're in a better spot by filing married filing jointly and then figuring out how best to to divvy up any refunds or how to deal with withholdings rather than filing married filing separate, because a lot of times when you file married filing separate, you're going to be, you could lose some capacities to take some credits and deductions, which we've talked about a little bit before. We might talk about a little bit more when we get into the credits.


Okay, we're now going to create a material for the pillar, but this is going to be a little bit more complex than the two materials we made so far, because we're going to fade quite a texture look down at the bottom of the pillar into a flat colour at the top. So it's going to take a little bit more work. So for that reason, it's very important that we clear the work area first. We're going to create a new Lambert. So I'll create a new Lambert material. I'm going to call it pillar M, making sure that I rename things very carefully. And instead of just changing the colour, we're actually going to create a connection to a different type of node. So if I click on this little checker box here, it will open up the create render node window. There it is. And what I would like to connect to this is a ramp. So I'm going to click on ramp there. And in my property editor, I will get the properties for this ramp that I have set up. And you can see at the moment, it's creating a shader that fades from black through to white.  And I just want to change that colour. I'm going to use the slider down to quite a dark grey. Like that. So I'm happy with that. That's a nice dark grey. And then, because I want this dark grey to take up most of the texture on the pillar, I'm just going to move this dot about three quarters of the way along. Maybe about two thirds of the way. And you can see now most of this texture is going to be this grey colour with a little bit of the other colour at the other side. Okay, so as it stands, we've got a texture that fades from black to dark grey, which is okay, and it's more complicated than the texture we previously created. But we can do a little bit more with it.  And instead of just choosing a colour, I'm going to add a little bit more of a texture effect to it. So I'm going to click on the checker here, so I'm going to make another connection. It's going to give me a lot of options that I can choose from. I'm going to scroll down in here, and the one I'm looking for is rock. So I'm going to click on that. And now I have some options for this rock, and I can change those to suit my purposes, the look I'm going for. So I'm going to change colour one to a very dark brown. So it's already fairly brown, but I think I want it a little bit more into the orange side of brown. I'm going to bring this slightly down here. So that's a nice dark brown. This is going to represent kind of dirt at the bottom. And then I want to change colour two to a very dark grey. I actually want this to be almost black like that. And you'll see this is an example of how this is going to look at the bottom of our texture that we're creating. And what we're going to do then is we're going to apply this to one of the pillars. So I'm just going to move around in my room. I'm going to find a pillar. This one here we'll do. It's important when we apply this that we look at the bottom because that's where that texture-y sort of looks going to be. And I'm going to right-click on it and choose Assign Material to selection. You may notice that you can't really see the effect of this. And that's because the current renderer, so the software that Maya's using to preview the scene in this window, doesn't show this particular type of texture very well. So we're going to change the renderer to another one that will show it off a little bit better. So I'm going to click on renderer, and at the moment it's set to viewport 2.0, which is actually the best of the three available. But sometimes you want one of the different ones. So I'm going to choose Legacy Default Viewport, which is actually the worst of the three, but it does show this particular type of texture really well. But you still can't really see what's happening to the texture, and that's because there's one more thing we need to change. At the moment, the texture view that we've got only really shows colors and not textures that are connected to the color node. In order to show that, we need to move on to Hardware Texturing Mode, instead of Hardware Shading Mode, which is what we're currently at. So in order to change that, we're going to press number six on the keyboard. And now, if we zoom in on the bottom of the texture we've created, you'll be able to see that it looks a little bit texturing and dirty, and a little bit more interesting than the gray that was on the other ones. So you can now apply that material to the rest of your pillars, and then we'll be ready for the next step. Lovely.


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Isabel says, in my role as a marketing analyst, I've been using Microsoft Forms to gather customer feedback. The challenge I'm facing is in efficiently analyzing the data collected. I need to create detailed reports and extract meaningful insights from the responses. What are the best methods or tools for importing data from Microsoft Forms into other analysis tools like Excel or Power BI? Also, are there any advanced features within Forms or associated Microsoft services that can aid in data analysis and reporting? I think we answered this one yesterday. We had another question. We had another one. Similar one. Okay. Power BI will take a Microsoft Form directly. Power BI will take any data source, and that's just a standard text in a data source. I don't know why you just don't bring it into there. There's no intermediary that you need. Depends on what you're trying to do, because I'm often extracting information from Forms and putting it into Excel and then trying to make some sense or put it into some charting or things that I can utilize and bring it to PowerPoint for senior leadership. It's something that I've bought up with the Forms team, because sometimes the way that it will spit out the results into Excel will sometimes not make it easy to be able to, unless you're doing your 3D getting into Power BI, it can be a little challenging, or maybe they don't even have the Power BI skill set. I don't have a massive, I would say, I don't have a massive amount of skill set in the Power BI. For me, if I'm stuck with using Excel or focused on that, then I can have some real challenges off the back of it without a doubt, because sometimes the way it spits it out isn't as easy as you think. Yeah. I'd say that it's a local file, and when you try to download that from Forms, so you would have to constantly download it, and then connect it into Power BI. So you're better off using Power Automate and use a flow that you can say, hey, I want to take the data that's coming in from this form and put it into this Cloud file, and then that Cloud file can either connect to Excel or can connect to Power BI to build your visualizations in your dashboards or your reports. Another option could be to use some tools like Power Query. You're saying, Kirstie, sometimes it's not in the best format for what you need, and there might be a lot of cleanup that you have to do and reorganizing and taking away what you don't need. So there might be some other things that you could use in that process too, to be able to say, I don't need this column and this column, and I want to rearrange these, and I want to filter it this way, or yeah. It really does also come down to what other type of questions you're asking, because it'll give you those results that it gives you in the back end, then makes a real difference to be able to help you around analysis. If you've got things that are a ton of words, and it becomes a bit more subjective, and it's hard to pull the information, and it's hard to, so that could be challenging. It'd be interesting with co-pilot going, give me what are the standard keywords maybe out of this result for this column. We'll see what happens off the back of that. But the type of questions you ask make a huge difference to what you get spitting out and how you ask it. So think about that too when you first create. I think there's a lot of things that you could do in Power BI too with just the natural language questions that you could ask of that data. I would be interested too, like you're saying, to see where co-pilot might be able to go with that in Power BI too. You don't have to think of the questions that you're asking. It can just maybe go and look based on that keyword or phrase. Yeah. I remember back in the day being an analyst. It was well ago, I was an analyst at a large telco, and having to draw through data and using other systems, some pretty old systems to do full analysis. It used to be very much, a lot of it was a very manual process, a lot of the things, what are the standard keywords? We've come a long way since then, a long way. That's my background as well, but on the tools on the IT services side, I provided, so I actually deployed business objects, SaaS, data strategy, just a bunch of these front end solutions. So I wasn't doing the analysis of it. But I had a thought too, we talked a lot yesterday about adoption resources around there. I'm not as familiar with what's out there, but I have to believe that for Power Platform, there's a lot of adoption resources in Power BI, and guidance on best practices to go and get started, that there's plenty of content out there on how to get started and how to get the most out of the platform certainly. But then again, it goes back to Kirstie what you said, depends on what you're trying to do, what the goals are for the data. So there's a dashboard and a day events that are free. You can just search for those online, and those are excellent. Some of them are online, some of them are in person to get familiar, more familiar with what Power BI is capable of. I believe you can even download the content if you want to run through that a little bit on your own and do some learning. That's a great resource for the Power BI part of it.


What's happening Magnus Arch so um now that looks like there's all these different takes of the Star Wars trailer and this one is the Forth Awakens Rip Flair Edition. Lens Flair Edition so let's check this out. I know it's gonna be funny.  I know this was gonna be just Lens Flair it up. I like Lens Flares by the way. They're done really right. I love Lens Flares. I've actually never ever saw a movie where I had a problem with Lens Flares so I like them. Oh let's do this. The other ones are gonna come out now that I'm gonna have to react to. I have already seen the Lego one. That was pretty good. They did that within like a few hours. That Lego one was on point but let me know if there's any other spooks on it that are good. All right. This one was alright. It was it was funny. It was funny. It wasn't as good as the George Lucas one though. The George Lucas one was funny as hell. So um yeah post your comments below. Let me know what you think of this one and as usual if you want to write me the instructions are in the description box and if I don't react to something it's because I've already seen it. One million subscribers.


Three people have been killed and three others wounded during a shooting at the Siam Paragon shopping mall in Thailand's capital. Emergency services said on Oct. 3.Tai Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a 14-year-old suspected gunman after a shooting at a luxury mall in the capital Bangkok that emergency services said had killed three people and injured four others. The Metropolitan Police Detective Department said on its Facebook page that a 14-year-old suspected gunman had been arrested and was being questioned over the incident at the Siam Paragon Mall.


Hey, it's Bridget. Hi. Hey, nice to see you. Did I just yell in your ear? Sorry about that. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today, I actually got a request from my Instagram because I do post on Instagram at Bridget inspired on Instagram and I asked about who I should channel and I got this great recommendation to talk with Judy Garland again. Now, we have spoken with Judy Garland before and if you don't know that, now you do. Check out the playlist for Judy. It is listed here on Above Life Channel and I actually have a video where I went to her childhood home here in Minnesota a couple of years ago and so I have lots of pictures from the museum and the home so check that out too. So again, playlist above life channel. I'm feeling kind of festive today. I'm actually recording this in the fall of 2021 kind of trying to embrace the gentle ease into the fall time because I'm really a summer person and fall is okay. It's got good stuff to offer but it's colder. So I've got my purple on and my Halloween sort of a tire on a bit and a bit Disney too. So I figure yeah, that's good. That will get me in the spirit to channel with Judy Garland. All right. So let's bring in Judy. There's a specific point or question that this person wanted to know so I'm going to focus the video on that and see where it goes from there. How about it? Sounds good. All right. Okay. Nice. Very nice. Okay. I see her in red evening like sparkly red dress like it looks like she's got a little dress on that's like sequenced and like she's on a stage and it's just her it's like a solo her and it looks later in her careers what it looks like and she's coming out to talk with me. She's actually there's a stool and she's going to sit kind of sit on the stool and so she looks like she's on a stage. So I'm just going to it's not like an interview yet at this point. It literally looks like she's going to do a show. So I'm going to let that energy kind of settle in. She always feels like she has to be on. She really does. She doesn't let her guard down very much. I really respect that. I respect that.  Your spirit feels as though it was you've been you were through a lot. You went through a lot in your life and had tremendous weight that you carried in your heart with such a gift or a talent. We see that with a lot of people people here on above life channel like a reflection reflected in other spiritual channelings that we do that when you have a great talent and your life is really consumed with that and it's all about that your identity gets so connected to it that it's hard to you let yourself grow in different ways or experience life in different ways or step out of what is expected of you because it's such a rigid expectation. So I feel like you are an empath and that's great because we can talk about that. I've talked about being an empath on above life channel and also for a grasshopper so we can maybe talk about that a bit in our conversation today but I'm specifically she's like showing me she's like well let's get on with the show. I specifically am yes communicating with you because someone had reached out to me and asked specifically how do you feel about being an icon for the gay community and that's what the question was and so I'm going to present it to you that way and have a conversation around that. How do you feel about being like sort of an icon for the gay community and let me just be real specific it's hard for me to say that in that way because I feel like I want to be inclusive I want to include all of what we use now today in our terminology which is a wide variety and diverse subsets and segments and populations within that that beautiful robust community of LGBTQ plus so but the specific question was about the gay community and so I have such a why do I have such a hard time with that phrase right now I just do that's interesting I think it's because it feels like it identifies one part and really the question's about all okay so why in particular that subset or a niche of the population why why were they drawn to you or why did you become such an icon for them or representative of them do you think like how do you what do you think about that and how do you feel about that and this is a you guys this is a deep conversation this is a hard one for me to have it is she says because of your own experiences Bridget your own experiences it's because of your dad she says she quote point but okay so this is gonna this chair is gonna squeak I it's gonna bug me you're gonna hear it if that bothers you too bad she says good good she says good all right so she says because of your dad I don't know that my dad was a huge Judy Garland fan but but definitely like uh I can't see her I can see her face but Barbara Streisand oh that should be that should clue you in right there she's like oh that should clue you in oh yes that should clue you in right there she's holding a martini glass you guys and I know that you struggled with at least some substances um alcohol I assume um I assume some some other medication type things scenarios um but she's holding a martini glass and so and it's like it's weird because like dirty martini with like two olives that's what it looks like and I don't know what the heck a dirty martini is I'm not super well versed on the alcohol stuff but that's what she has um although I do like martinis chocolate martinis though that's my thing or I tear in the su chocolate martini yes okay so I like the chocolatey sweet she's like oh no dry dry dirty martini so she's holding it um and she says it's because of your dad Bridget it's because of your dad okay so you might may or may not know here in a bubbly channel that my father was gay and he um he died of AIDS back in 2002 and which at that time was a livable disease but he never he never shared his status of his sexuality with his family and also with his doctors and such until the very end and so therefore he really didn't have much leeway for help at that time it was too it was too full-blown by the time he got diagnosed and he died it was about six weeks seven weeks yeah so yeah it's tough for me honestly Judy talking about it um she says you don't have to be she says um she's like talking about appreciating art and beauty she says it takes a tender heart she says to really appreciate beauty through art and the creativity of that art it takes a heart that has been broken open she's very like i feel her manualism i'm trying like my body just naturally is doing it if that bugs you too bad this is just how it feels like i'm picking up on her energy so i'm gonna share it as Judy garland is sharing and she says it takes a heart that has been broken and she says damaged by others to know what true beauty is and she says through your art you share you can't hide you can try and she says i would sing songs about happiness she says happiness and hoping to find that part of my heart again that was joyful and happy and i think for everyone who doesn't want to be happy and even for a moment to escape the pain of what would be a loneliness she doesn't like to say it she's not she doesn't want to admit loneliness but i see it and so i'm calling it loneliness because that's the truth she said you are so bold in the truth prejudice you are so bold in the truth yes i would expect that of you just like the world expected many many things of me which i could never comply fully always within reach but just out of touch from what the world truly needed there are so many demands once you meet a certain threshold of popularity or a fame there there's not enough there's simply not enough of you as a human to go around to meet all of the demands that are put upon you as a body you push and push and push and push and push and maybe it is that some people would understand what it feels like to show up and to give what others expect of you and to hold back the pain that you personally feel to give them what they need for a moment of freedom from their miserable lives but those who really feel who deeply feel the tragedy underneath the happiness those people those souls who have suffered and been segregated and abused mistreated those are the souls that are worth performing for that are worth sharing your all with in your spirit with them and they gave me so much in return they loved me fully without question it was always good enough it was always magical it was always always enough it was always enough there was not judgment and she says okay you guys so she literally says let's remember the frame of reference in the time zone that timeline that she was in she says the gays they just they never judged they never judged they never judged there's a lot we could learn from people who do not judge other people and it's a good thing because i was always in my own mind judging myself so there was nobody that could actually hurt me more than i have hurt myself and i think many of your viewers could relate to that yes oh yes you guys i'm getting the vibe it's almost like she's really shaky i don't know if it's because of alcohol or medication or what the deal is but when i'm seeing her and she's presenting she's very shaky almost like a parkinson's kind of shaky style she says the freedom to be left alone isn't what i want it isn't what most people want even if they say leave me alone that is the last thing a person wants or needs they just don't want you to see them when they are miserable when they can't get out of bed when their eyes are swollen and puffy from the night before trying to forget the pain of the loss of not being able to be with your children and not and having so many failed relationships and critics reviews of you and how terribly horrible you are and clearly not talented and how old you are out of date that you are it is a relentless beating even those people that try to help you're mean to like i i can't keep assistant to save my life you can't sooner or later people will give up on you and you know i don't blame them i don't blame them but the community as you say as you as your friend said the community they always loved me unconditional really truly you want to know unconditional love you you be with people who have experienced hate and the devastation that hate causes the destruction of the heart the shattered heart that you barely can function with those people who know pain they are the ones you can trust to love to appreciate to not ask you to be more than you are to not expect perfection because there's no such thing and they know there is no such thing it's perfection it's a lie it's a bold face lie a lot of empathic energy coming in i can feel that thank you for sharing this a lot of heart energy and the truth about who we are in our hearts in our hearts and recognition of our own pain our personal journeys and i'm feeling you all as you're watching this it's your as a viewer and you're receiving this channeling this psychic reading it's so much more than that do you see do you feel she just gives me a huge smile and she says you know you know we share she says we share and we connect from that soul level she says that's what performers do they do speak right directly to you she says it's a soul to soul connection and sometimes that happens in the heart that's the truest place she says that after all that is the truest place to be is in the heart and she's sharing that that's what she learned from her time on earth the truest place to be is in the heart i would probably say to miss garland that it is also the hardest place to be especially right now i just feel that there's so much heart ache collective aching right now yes she says oh there's always so much she says and she's kind of making it be like this unnecessary excessive busyness loudness she's showing me this loudness energy kind of feeling it in the heart space loudness background noise that's not necessary she's like all of this excessive energy stuff and and she doesn't use the word drama it's not dramatic it's this just loudness this unnecessary excessive extra stuff and it's not attached to emotion she's just showing me that there's a lot of energy that's all fuzzy and linty and and around us and she's showing that it is hard to hear she says it is hard to hear outside of you to get that guidance that you're asking for now so her higher self i can totally feel this higher evolved soul talking to me now as we're speaking and she literally just comes and sits down on the side of the stage and has a conversation with me she's kind of short you're a little petite i didn't realize she kicks off her shoes and she kind of crosses her legs at her ankles and she says there's a lot to learn here she says you're not going to learn at all as a person there's no way she says there's no way relax your expectations of your self-growth can you just do that she says and she's like telling me can you just do that can we all just collectively relax our expectations of our personal self-growth that's what journey girl i'm just giving us as advice oh my gosh you're just lovely i really like you we could have a drink together she said we could do shots i'm like okay not a huge drinker i'm good with the wine and a few drinks yes but i don't know about shots we'll have to see but nonetheless i know that's a numbing she's making a nod to numbing your pain and she says it doesn't help it just temporarily blocks what is building up behind that anyway she says it doesn't work it never works addiction truly she says addiction does become a it's like a tattoo you guys she's showing me it's addiction becomes a very real part of the empathic experience for many people because of the feeling is so much she says it's intense and it's relentless and it's it feels abusive but she says it's not it's it's so ironic she says because that's where this all this power is that you're really looking for to free you so you can have peace and just experience life as yourself and she says i think that's why what many of us are looking for or seeking and while there's while there is so much going on externally internally there is a request for your effort here your presence here your focus here is what judy's saying from the afterlife as an evolved spirit she's giving the reflection of with all the external stuff going on it's internal now it's like there's an invitation a request she doesn't say invitation she says a request for you to recognize inside what kinds of dialogues you're having with yourself what kinds of emotions are your emotions the only way you're going to know what's yours and what's not yours is if you know what's yours she's like you have to identify your stuff and she says i'm not talking about the hard stuff you know what your pain is you know what your wounds are she says you know the experiences i could ask you who told you you weren't good enough and you could list me off five different people experiences etc that you've had that that told you that and affirmed that she says so it's not like you forget like you don't know the pain she says so so what if you knew the joy what if you knew you had instant recognition of connection to the good all of the times you were told you were good not just talented not just that but as a person as a human that someone actually saw you and said you're incredible you're beautiful again not external but internal beautiful spirit light you are pure light you are love you are generous in your capacity not what you're doing or giving to other people but inside someone really seeing you what if you could connect to that as easily or readily as you can connect with your pain and she says i challenge you to do that because you've had many people who have looked at you as if you were the only person on earth who look at you like you are a superhero and yet you instantly in a human mind attach your inevitability of disappointing them letting them down screwing them over making a mistake therefore they're going to shatter your perfect image in their mind so you're like okay yeah you push that away she says no no no no no no just accept that the beauty of the life that they see in you and recognize in you exactly as you are in the moment and let that be just so powerfully inspiring to you let it be what is true what you go to right away but it takes time to be in that space with yourself you have to train she's saying you have to train you have to prepare just like as if you were going to do a Broadway show you have to prepare you have to study your lines you have to be ready it's not a performance but it's a practice it's a pattern she's like it's a rhythm it's a pattern it's a rhythm it's a pattern it has to mean enough to you you have to mean enough to yourself when she says i get i get it it's hard to go there it's new it's a it's an uncomfortable place for many of us she says it's an uncomfortable place i know i know i feel that too i feel bad this bridge it yes i do judy why do i see so much red with you oh it's her favorite color she's showing me red i see a lot of red with you red also connects me to the energy of the heart chakra as a grounded place so giving us a sense of center that connects us to our human life experience while also honoring the energy of our emotion and the creativity that comes from our heart space that we are co-creators of life i definitely feel and sense that from you thank you thank you for your time today this was lovely this was great this was a great conversation yeah it's kind of deep too right you guys it's deep i'm gonna go back and watch this myself thank you so much for your time today judy garland from the afterlife thank you thank you viewer at above life channel for being here today before you go make sure you select to follow and get notifications from above life channel whenever there's a new video i know youtube it's done some weird things lately so some people are not getting notifications rest assured every monday you can come back and just check out the channel above life channel on youtube every monday i also post it on facebook above life channel on facebook the link to the channeling for the week also don't miss any editions of the sunday morning coffee podcast again shows up on sundays it's just an audio 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Welcome back everybody or welcome if you are here for the first time. Today I want to share with you my experience with trusted house sitters and my first house sit which was incredible earlier this year. So I'm gonna share with you how the whole thing works in case it's something that you are interested in and I will also share with you some lessons learned from my experience. If you are hearing about trusted house sitters for the first time here it's simply a website or a platform that connects house and pet owners with house sitters from around the world. So someone with a house and pet they need somebody to take care of their pets and then a house sitter who is willing to travel to take care of their pets and the exchange is you take care of someone's pet house in exchange of free accommodation. There are opportunities from all over the world and there are so many reasons why using trusted house sitters to help with some of your travels is good. It's mostly helpful for budget travelers solo travelers and really just to help somebody and show love to their pets. Now in order for you to start navigating some of these trusted house sits you will have to have a membership and so they have three types of memberships on this website. There are memberships for owners, sitters and then there are combined memberships if you want to be an owner and a sitter at the same time and so for each one of them there are different tiers. So I'm just going to talk about the sitter tier. They have three different tiers for house sitters. They have basic sitter, standard sitter and premium sitter. The very basic one, $129 a year. The standard sitter $169 a year and then the premium sitter $259 a year and so each of these tiers come with different perks. The very basic one you get access to unlimited houses worldwide and then you've got the free background check while for the standard sitter this is one that I have. I will by the way leave the link to the memberships in the first comment so you can go and read through but the reason why I personally chose standard sitter is because it comes with a dedicated member support and then you can have access to a vet if anything goes wrong, if the pet is in distress which I personally needed because I didn't really have a lot of experience caring for pets. I didn't grow up around pets which I made very clear to the house and pet owners but I wanted to make sure that I have that line or that person to reach out to if necessary but anyway so these are the three different tiers for house sitters. I do have a discount of 25% which is a great deal. You can use the link. I'm going to leave it in the first comments as well and so you will get a decent price if you are considering joining trusted house sitters. Once you have a membership you will have to create your profile and so your profile on trusted house sitters is more like your LinkedIn profile because with every house sit you will have to apply and then the pet owner house owner will go into your profile to get to know you, read about what you are interested in, read reviews about you from other pets and house owners and so you want to make sure that you are really particular with putting together a solid profile so you want to talk about yourself, things that interest you but mostly you want to focus on your experience caring for pets and I have a pro tip for you when you are choosing your photos for your profile because you probably have more than like five six photos to choose. Make sure that you have some photos highlighting your experience with pets whether it's your own pet or your friend's pet just to show that relationship that you have with other pets which is a nice to have. The other important things are reviews but the problem with reviews is when you're getting started you're not going to have any reviews on your profile and for a specific house set if there are two people applying one of them has five reviews the other one doesn't have any review it's a little bit hard to to choose them but there is a solution for that you can ask for external references whether it's from friends or family or anyone that you helped in the past to care for their pets you can send them a customizable link from trusted house sitters they can write a review externally and then that review is going to be displayed on your profile which is great so that's exactly what I did I sent some of these links to some of my friends with pets that I helped in the past and so the review will be displayed on profile and that is going to increase your chances of being picked once when you submit an application. Now that you have your membership your profile you can go in and browse house sits from around the world and then if you see anything that matches with what you're interested in your destination destination that you're traveling to then you can apply and then when you are applying I would say don't send a generic message to all of the pets and house owners try to make it feel a little bit more personal make sure that you are reading through their house sit you understand how many pets you're going to take care of what are their expectations and so just make that message feel a little bit more personal which will definitely help. On trusted house sitters there are all type of pets that you can imagine so you can be taken care of cats horses chickens dogs rabbits there are all type of pets that you can imagine and so if you have experience with any particular area maybe you had a horse growing up or you have experienced riding horses and taking care of horses you want to make sure that you highlight that in your profile as well and then once you apply you hear back from your host they're good to go you're good to go your house sit is confirmed now at this stage you can get a manual or you can request a manual from the house and pet owner where they can send you more details about their house their pets so that you familiarize yourself with it so with my first house sit which was in Idaho it was just so incredible during winter we loved the family that we met so what we did was we got all of that information I read through I asked them all of the questions that I have via the messaging system in trusted house sitters and then traveled to Idaho I met them the night before they helped us with accommodation the night before and then we got to meet the pets familiarize ourselves with them ask all the questions about how many meals a day I want I asked questions to become familiar with the personalities of all of the three dogs because it was three dogs I felt more comfortable having that face-to-face interaction with the with the host which was really helpful but they were just so incredible so rather than looking at it just like an exchange of getting free accommodation to travel you really get to build these meaningful relationships with people and pets which is just very nice and then you can so for example our host they gave us a walkthrough of their house they showed us like the garage we asked them questions about things that we can use and they kindly offered us to use their snowshoes the cross country skis which was really nice like one of my favorite memories from this house it was taking the dogs out and snowshoeing all together it was just so wonderful I would say it's important to make sure that you are open and honest and you are communicating with the the pet owners as you go if you have any concerns or something feels off which for me personally because I didn't have a lot of experience with pets I was a little bit nervous if I see this that one of the pets is not is not feeling well not looking well I would really get nervous but I had my husband with me so he was more knowledgeable when it comes to handling pets and I was by the way open and honest with the pet owners telling them that hey I didn't really grow up with pets I don't have a lot of experience with pets but I'm going to give it my best I'm going to ask questions and then I've got Alex with me so he's going to be helpful and they were very very very nice and understanding yeah so this is the this is how it works it's pretty simple overall I had a positive experience there weren't really any hiccups if there's anything that I could have done better it would probably be choosing a house sit with less pets because taking care of three pets for first time house sit was a little bit demanding so we want to make sure that they are being walked regularly and then with three pets and snow on the road it wasn't very easy so maybe I would say like if you're doing this for the first time go with one pet or two at max one nice thing that we did I think this is just a nice to do when we were taking care of the pets on a daily basis at the end of the day Alex actually kept a journal what he where he would write about what we did that day we walk the dogs we went snowshoeing he would say like how many meals they had one of the pets was not doing well because some some of the pets they have separation issues like the first day they wouldn't eat so we took detail like Alex took detailed notes every single day and then we left them on the fridge this way when the pet owners are back they get to to see what what their babies were up to which was really nice anyway so this was my experience with trusted house sitters if you guys have any questions let me know in the comments and if you found this video to be useful give it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel this is Habiba from the trekking palace and I will see you soon on a new adventure


Yes, I have What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Come here come? Don't put that paper in your mouth. Don't spit it at me. I will You understand that I have scissors today, right?  This is where my videos are always late Stop trying to hit my lens.  What are you doing? He asked me you think you could like give me a little bit of a trim and I was like I do not know how to cut hair, you know that but I went to the beauty supply store And I was like y'all sell cutting scissors and she was like, yeah bitch right here And I was like do I need a license for those because those are like fancy scissors I don't know why I thought you needed a hairdressing license to buy hairdresser scissors.    I've never done it Usually everyone's like, oh you did pretty good. I I feel like I've got a strong chance of this not coming out. Super great Can I give you a bowl cut today's the day? 100% not so the colors that I got are this like colors that I got Tell us Tell us what you got. I got two So I got a purple and a pink It's like a royal purple sort of in a light bubble gummy pink and she did sell me on a clear Okay, so I wanted to dilute either of the colors, but I'm not sure I want to do that I think I just want to do it It's like having a child Someday if I wanted to go to beauty school, would you support me financially? Because I'm gonna be a k-pop star by then because of my haircut K-pop I said American Higher strand purple if anything it'll look like Tie dye, you know because that says expensive and professional. It's just like getting in all the other hair Stop moving. Don't me cowboy I just said I haven't even moved. Do you watch date line actually?  Why it's just like painting here Yeah, but like if any of it gets in the long part, then it dies the whole strand You know when you walk into a business and you're like, hey, is this Chipotle and they're like no, that's next door And you're like, I mean this business is kind of tight. I'll stay here. That's how I feel Julian What are the breeze to say to his annoying nagging wife when she just wouldn't leave him alone What Julian, why don't you stop French pressing my buttons then they divorced? I mean that looks pretty rad. Don't you talking to me? Please. Are you ready for some pink?  Like I'm a professional I mean it looks cool, but it is definitely blending with the purple. So we let it sit, right? What do we do while it sits?  Who are you?   And then I'll cut your hair Which is why I'm actually looking for arches.   Do you want me to cut it wet? It looks really cool though.  Let's see. Let's assess Okay, we got some strong purple roots happening in the back some mediocre purple roots happening in the front Is it bad? It's a real home done. This part isn't purple at all here But like you got a big blotch of it up there blotch. I don't think that's a word I want to hear when I describe my hair. That actually looks a little better now that it's dry I mean, it's still not Hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, I thought it was because we hated your hair Yeah, let's just protect the left side This is your idea American Horror Story, Jenna's Salon Honestly, it would be their best season yet.    Oh So scared right now Hi, my name is Jenna and I cut hair.  Do you feel like you're in a real barber shop? Okay, what? That was my answer.  I want to go back to the safe ones hairdressers. Are you cringing or are you excited? Cuz I can cut hair now.  Do you want shorter in the front? Not really Shorter in the front. Not really a little shorter up top. No, I'm pretty happy with the length All right now. I'm gonna style it and then you want to do a hair tour. Yeah, all right Give me my money soon. So Julian, let me see. I'm gonna do a hair tour really quick So you guys can see just how bad I've done this is the roots are sort of purple like in places in the back It definitely looks like a lot more of what I intended if this came out like way brighter pink I think it would like be more successful But this color is sort of like the color that your hair was and this is like sort of splotchy But like the purple roots in here came out, okay, but it didn't translate through the front Let me see your face in front. Yeah, so like face on you just sort of look like almost exactly this No, I think it looks like I got my hair dyed purple two weeks ago right.  I think that looks cool, but unfortunately It just is not what we want it to look like right. I would be down with some more purple So let's just dye the whole thing purple.   Let's color again. Here. This is a big trend right now It's really just like dump it on the top of your head Don't stop. I almost gloobed purple all down your neck fam there Exquisite technique. I only have one glove left because you shredded the other one. What can I say I'm a dog Okay, stop moving.  Yeah, I don't want to go bald Okay, I don't know how many times I have to tell you not to move.  So this is round two because my shadow root technique was very very bad It's always good to have a plan B in life Welcome to my library. This is my book club work today Winnie the Pooh gone wrong where he loses his friends he loses his family He takes acid and he doesn't know who he is. I'm recording a book club here. Could you get out? I have a book club Today's edition of Winnie the Pooh gone wrong Okay, if you could please let it roll for maybe like a couple hours, I would appreciate it Jenna I Want to come look at it. I feel like a new person. It's so different. It's so bright Yeah, it's really bright I know this that brand is the one that I used to dye my hair red and then it faded to that really pretty like rose gold So I think this should fade like really nicely.   Yeah, it's gonna bleed onto everything you own Do you like it? I do No, I think I think I want to leave. I think I want to leave the salon, please. Hello. Thank you for cutting my hair I feel totally different. Yeah, like it. No, it's like it's dark. Yeah, cuz I went from a really faded light color So like a really dark bright color, right? I like it though.  These are your mom's scissors son Put them away the color is a lot more even obviously just dumped it in here.  Please.   Yeah, it was cool Let's shave it off. Oh my god. Is airy season getting to you? Yeah Jesus I gotta go to the bank. Let me go to the bank. Make sure you subscribe to her channel She puts out new videos every Wednesday slash Thursday, and if I don't read this, right? I will die because I didn't pay her Sorry, I'm just reading what you wrote It's dangerous Latin