zero accounting software 2023 purchase of inventory using bank feeds periodic method versus a perpetual method of tracking the inventory get ready to become an accountant hero with zero 2023 here we are in our custom zero home page going into the company file we set up in a prior presentation the bank feed file we're gonna duplicate some tabs to put reports in like we do every time going up top right clicking on the tab and duplicating it and then we'll right-click on the tab again and duplicate the tab again let's go back to the middle tab accounting drop-down we want to open up the balance sheet report and then we'll tab to the right accounting drop-down open up the profit and loss report and then on the P and the L I'm gonna do the date range chain bringing it back to 2022 which is the same date range as our data input from the bank feed so I'm gonna go to January 2022 it should be and then December of 2022 and the end of it and we will then update the January didn't take it didn't take just impacted on the surface so there we go we're gonna update it all right and so then we're gonna go back to the first tab here and now we're gonna go into our accounting drop-down let's go to our bank accounts this is what happened when we uploaded the bank feed information we've got our bank account drop-down I'm gonna go into the account transactions and then we're gonna go into the reconcile tab so last time we talked about the different methods that we could use when we have the inventory noting that inventory kind of throws a wrench into the system we talked about last time the idea that if we have a little bit of inventory we can try to stay in a cash-based system which will allow us to continue with our strategy of attempting to create our financial statements directly from the bank account data but now let's think about a perpetual inventory system and a periodic inventory system so first we'll do a periodic inventory system so I'm gonna go down imagine that we are paying for inventory again so I'm gonna pick pick one of these items down here all right so we'll pick this one here now note last time we simply recorded it to cost of good sold so now what the system is doing what zero is doing is memorized this transaction it pulled it up from the memorized transaction we didn't make a rule for this one but we have clicked down here that we want to adjust the previous entries if I uncheck that then we don't see that blue box there anymore now note you might actually want to turn that blue box off because that will make it easier for you to make sure that you are actually setting up the rules to be exactly what you want right because that's gonna make it less likely that you make a problem so I've unchecked that box and now we don't see anything here all right and so then I'm gonna hit the details drop down and let's imagine we have a periodic inventory system and we're purchasing the inventory so I'm not gonna track the item again the item represents us tracking inventory within the system which would track not only the dollar amount going to the inventory but also the units creating another sub ledger that creates more complication to track within the system so this time we're gonna say I'm just gonna record it as an account here but instead of recording it to cost of good sold and expensing it I'm gonna put it on the books as an asset and then I will track the inventory in a physical unit method but not use the items within zero to do that instead doing it in Excel which gives me more flexibility to track it in Excel for example and then just simply do periodic adjustments into the system so I'm gonna put it into an inventory account we don't have an inventory account so I'm gonna make an account like one three zero zero let's do so add an account I'm trying to think of the account number one three zero zero let's say it's gonna be a type of account which is gonna be a current asset so we'll pick that up our current asset type of account name I'm gonna call it inventory I'm gonna call it inventory like one this time because we might want to when we do the perpetual inventory method track it in another account so we can see how the sub ledger works possibly so we'll say inventory one description that looks good all right so if I record this what's it what's it gonna do it's gonna increase the asset account of inventory instead of cost of good sold and of course decrease the checking account but we won't have a sub ledger tracking the units of inventory imagining the units of inventory being tracked outside of the system all right we'll save the transaction and then let's go ahead and match the transaction so we are imagining the purchase of inventory balance sheet account updating it we've got the inventory is now on the books as an asset here now remember this is it seems obvious but it sometimes it's easy to kind of forget that clearly the balance sheet is being reported in dollars obviously the inventory itself is in units so if we have five units five widgets of inventory they have like a $10 cost right so we have so we so we have to have that conversion thing of converting the units to dollars now that becomes kind of an issue especially when we're buying the same units of inventory over time as we have inflation typically and the unit cost goes up right because then when we sell the inventory we're faced with the problem of which inventory unit did I sell which is the proper cost to apply to it that's when we have to deal with that flow assumptions like a first in first out or weighted average which again you might do externally in like an Excel worksheet or something like that now the other side of course decrease the checking account there's no impact this time on the profit and loss or income statement we didn't record the expensive cost of goods sold when would we were we record the expensive cost of goods sold when we sell the inventory now note if you're using this method then the next things that will happen with regards to that inventory is you're going to sell it at some time in the future right when you sell the inventory you could do it using an invoice form or a spend money form if you're using the actual bank feeds to record the sales side of the transaction you will receive the money and the bank feeds over here right and then when we get the money in the bank feeds we could record simply that as revenue we could just record it as revenue when we get the money so if you do that then when you get the money and record the revenue you're going to record just revenue and not cost of goods sold we're just going to see an increase in revenue on the income statement when are we going to record the cost of goods sold we will do it on a periodic inventory method meaning if I go back to the balance sheet over here what I would do under this method is continue to record every time I purchase inventory to an increase to this inventory account in dollars I'm not tracking it this units within zero but I am tracking the units outside of zero in Excel so for example whenever I purchase something in Excel I'm tracking the unit increase and I can do my cost of goods sold calculation in Excel I can take a physical count of the inventory and then take my beginning inventory plus my purchases physical units minus the ending inventory that I get from a physical count and that will tell me how many units of inventory


So my name's Doug. I'm the administrative director of Locksport International. You might have seen me upstairs in the lockpicking village. I'm also a geology student at the University of Texas and I've kind of taken on like identification cards as a hobby for the past two years and as a college student you could see why that may be. So this is my presentation. We're gonna talk about the history of identification cards. We're gonna go on to the Real ID Act and how that's becoming a controversy. We're gonna go into something a little more more appropriate for the con which is amateur ID manufacturing and then we're gonna touch on some high-tech ID concepts that hopefully we'll be seeing in the future. So we're gonna go over the purposes and how we've come to rely on identification cards, basically the valid government uses, fake IDs, and influential corporations and organizations. So it's basically the automobiles fault. You know we became to rely on driver's licenses around the 1900s in France and Germany were the first to introduce them and then New York was the first state to follow along and eventually became like the de facto form of identification as more and more people started driving. So and the inherent flaw with driver's license was that they were never designed to be identification cards. So that's the main problem we're seeing today is everyone has a driver's license and they're being used as identification cards and that's the issue that the Real Identification Act is trying to address and we'll go on to that. Of course there are many good uses of identification cards.  They keep you secure. It's a constant struggle these days. You know try to travel, work or make purchasing you know they make all those things possible. You know try to make a major credit card purchase or book a hotel room or you know try to do any of those things. I challenge anybody to do that for a week you know without a driver's license or a government issued identification card in their pocket. You know it's it's a pretty hard thing to do. Things we have to you know worry about you know in countries like Europe and Central America and South America you know that they require you to produce identification cards on request and this is you know a problem that we could see in the future in the United States. You know this could be a cause for hassle you know for no reason you stop you don't have your identification cards you know warrant list searches and it's something we have to strive to work against so it doesn't happen in our home country. So we've in the past 10 years or so we've seen a huge increase in the penalties surrounding identification cards and I contribute to that mostly because of the 9-11 attacks. A lot of people will tell you because of the increased worries about underage drinking and I mean that's definitely a valid excuse although 9-11 was basically an instigator for what we've seen in an increased problem with illegal immigration. I think personally I think illegal immigration is the main cause in the increasing in penalties of increasing in penalties surrounding a fraudulent identification cards. So if you're familiar with 9-11 and the terrorists they actually came across legitimate forms of identification and they got these through legitimate channels so you know that's a problem that should be addressed right. So how fraudulent identification cards are obtained they're obtained through online retailers. There's legal identification shops around town and they make cards that you know look surprisingly similar to the real thing and they get away with this because they have certain aspects of their cards that are slightly different than real government cards and you know every once in all these cards these shops will get shut down or get raided but for the most part they stay in business because they do have these small aspects or small loopholes that keep them legal. Of course your buddy makes them he's probably pretty good at it too. And the main problem we're seeing today that should not be a problem is submitting the fraudulent application through legitimate channels and this is submitting your fake social security card or social security number and birth certificate of a dead relative or neighbor or something like that to assume their identity. And a problem that we most likely won't see going away is obtaining these documents through corrupt government employees and I've seen I've read you know about people spending up towards the ten thousand dollars on just a driver's license as long as it's a legitimate driver's license if they can get it through a corrupt government employee. So the market and cash that's available there is not going to make that go away anytime soon. So this was taken from the testimony of the Senate subcommittee on that was addressing the problem with identification cards and it shows you how this is probably a process many of you have gone through where you request your social security card from the Social Security Administration and your birth certificate from the vital records office if you don't already have those and then you send that in along with your application to the Department of Transportation or the DPS. Now the problem is is that when you submit the applications to the Department of Transportation or the DPS you could be submitting fraudulent applications. You could have requested application documents from the Social Security Administration or the vital records office assuming another person's identity to begin with so you would have someone else's documents that you'd be submitting along with your face on the application at the Department of Transportation and then all of a sudden you'd have another person's identity. And the problem we see here is that most states the majority of the states do not validate any type of records with the Social Security Administration or the vital records office and what would end up happening is you would get an identification of someone else of your relative or neighbor and you know six months later they'll find out well that person has been dead for 20 years. By then it's too late because you already have that card in your pocket right. So these are issues that the Real ID Act is trying to fix. Some influential corporations and organizations DigiMark Corporation is kind of the Microsoft of the identification card industry. This company is really unbelievable. They make two thirds of the U.S. driver's licenses issued as well as 25 countries government documents including Mexico and Canada. That's 60 million identification documents a year. L1 which is a smaller company. They produce the other third about the other third of the U.S. driver's licenses. And somewhere in between there is another percentage of states that produce their own documents.  The states are actually making the cards themselves. And these cards that you get are usually the ones that are easiest to forge. There's the AMVA which is the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators which is my favorite government acronym. And they will be doing most of the coordinating effort when it comes to the implementation of the Real ID Act. And this is just a list of other organizations that was vital in the creation of the ID Act. You can choose your favorite acronym from the list. So on to the Real ID Act. We're going to talk about its purpose, legislative history, online standards and requirements. And then finally the controversy which is the most exciting part of the whole topic. So its purpose was to establish new standards for state issued driver's licenses. And this is on a federal level. So the federal mandate to find new standards on the state level. So you can begin to see there's already kind of a controversial issue here. And the official purposes defined by the secretary of Homeland Security are boarding commercially operated airline flights, entering federal buildings and nuclear power plants. So I don't know about you guys but I'm going to be pretty upset if my ID card isn't going to let me get into some nuclear power plants, right? And of course it's designed to fix the current system with the identification card industry. And we go back to the problem with that driver's licenses were never designed to be identification cards in general. Of course curbing fraud and then most of all preventing illegal aliens from obtaining any federally recognized identification. And this is a major concern because illegal aliens aren't going to be able to fly. Theoretically they aren't going to be able to enter post offices. Any type of federal building. So they're going to make the lines longer at the post office so they can check IDs. It's kind of ridiculous. So James Stensenbrenner from Wisconsin Attention as a writer to the Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense Global War on Terror and Sonoma Relief. There was never any committee hearings conducted prior to this passage. There was never voted upon. It was basically just attached as like a must pass bill onto this more important bill. And of course there were some problems. It was implemented in two phases. Phase one and phase two. There was two main problems. The states had very little support for the act. So it was pushed back. And what we see in 2011 here is when the federally mandated it federally it federally mandates that all states have to begin conforming to this act. And by 2014 all citizens under the age of 50 must have this new enhanced driver's license is what they're calling it. So if you do not have this new enhanced driver's license and you're under the age of 50 by 2014, basically you're not going to be able to fly uncommercially operated airlines. And then the same goes for citizens over the age of 50 until 2017. So some of the other aspects of the ID Act is the linking of databases. So what we're seeing here is from now on all the databases and all the DPS offices and all the Department of Transportation offices are going to be linked together. So you get a ticket in one state, they're going to be able to pull it up in another state. So, you know, there's no more running from the law. They're going to have data retention storage outlines. So your documents like your birth certificate, your social security number, your biometric information is going to be on storage for upwards of 15 years before it's going to be allowed to be deleted. And by that time, you'll have to go on to get a renewed driver's license. So they'll have all your information on storage for 15 years in these linked databases that will be available to every state. And we'll discuss why that's going to be a problem in a minute. And then besides that, the main thing that we're seeing that's a difference between the current state of driver's licenses and the real ID act specifications is that all identification cards must have a common machine readable technology. So they all must have the technology that can be read by the same device in every state. And otherwise, the IDs are really no different than what we see now. And, you know, talking to some key figures in the industry, you know, what I've heard is that originally the Department of Homeland Security was trying to make a very, a new secure document that was very hard to, you know, fraudulently remanufacture. And, you know, a lot of key stakeholders in the industry, a lot of the large corporations were saying, well, if you implement these new technologies, then our current technologies are going to become obsolete. Our factories are going to have to be redone. And we're going to lose huge investments. And, you know, the technologies that they were, that the Homeland Security wanted to implement, we're going to be contracted out to smaller companies. And so the bigger companies were lobbying against, you know, these new standards. And what ended up happening is the real ID acts had a dumbed down version of what we could have as a highly secured driver's license. So it's really unfortunate that now our enhanced driver's license is going to be very enhanced at all. So the potential for, you know, fraudulent identification cards in the future is just as much as it is today. So Barack Obama opposes the act. And Hillary Clinton wanted the law to be reviewed, whatever that means. Mike Huckabee called the real ID act a huge mistake. The ACLU obviously said it could be abused by the private sector. And they mean this because the common machine readable technology could be used to track you wherever you go, let it be RFID, barcode, you know, 2D barcode, nag stripe. I mean, potentially people are worried it's going to be RFID. And we've seen a lot of controversy with that, especially with passports. But they're saying, you know, no matter where you go and every time you use your identification cards, you're going to be able to be tracked. You're going to be able to be commercially exploited.  Even some conservative groups are opposed to the act, like the gun owners of America.  You know, they're saying we're going to lose gun sales. So we don't want that to happen, right? And then Elliott Spitzer is pretty confused also. Although he was giving all of its inhabitants in New York the right to vote by giving everybody a driver's license. He had a good point because he wanted to give everyone the ability to have a driver's license, even if you're not a citizen of the United States. But he wants to keep driver's licenses and identification cards completely separate. And this is a different approach that many states are considering. And it's something that I think we should definitely take a look at before implementing these huge changes. Constitutionally, it's kind of an unfunded mandate. The states are demanding this stuff. And it's going to be a huge, I mean, the federal government is demanding these huge changes. And it's going to be extremely expensive. Again, we talk about the machine-readable technology would turn the cars into tracking devices. And then the linking of databases is going to be a problem because of course we see the leakest link in the chain is going to be the part where the system is going to be attacked. So everybody's information can be attacked from the weakest spot in the chain. So we're talking about extremely expensive, extensive measures that must be taken to secure all of our data. And then we're talking about illegal aliens not having any source of identification. This is kind of a public safety issue. But we could talk about that for another four hours. So I originally made this slide and I kind of forgot what the different colors were. And I still don't even know what the gray states mean. I don't even know what the gray states are. Well, Nevada's up there, right? So this is kind of interesting because the yellow states have actually passed legislation saying they're not going to cooperate with the Real ID Act. And certain parts of the Real ID Act until it's been re...until it's been changed. And then we have only two states that are completely compliant, which is California and Alabama, which is kind of opposite of the spectrum. Don't ask me why. There's a lot of corporation involvement, corporation lobbying going on here. And then we have the states that have passed legislation against...that have spoken out against the Act, but have still willingly followed along like Michigan, Illinois. Yeah. Thanks. Actually, the only state that...there's one state that actually...this is all because of money issues that most of the states aren't complying. There's only one state that actively spoke out against the moral issues of the ID Act and that's Utah. And they said they're the ones making the points about the fact that it's going to be abused by the private sector and that it's going to be a problem for our national security. But deep down inside it probably is a monetary issue. So on to something a little more interesting. Manufacturing at home, what you need to do, what kind of materials you need, the equipment you need, the process. And then we're going to talk a little bit more about the advanced production methods. And I worked really hard to get this guide out before the conference. And it outlines everything I'm talking about in extreme detail. And there's like...basically I'm going to be touching on a very small, small aspect of the different technologies and methods that you can go into when manufacturing at home. It's .pdf, right? Yeah. Sorry. So why would you manufacture at home? You can produce and basically it outlines how you can produce high security documents for your organization, small business or club. You can protect your privacy. You know, it's not illegal to assume and alter identification as long as it's not someone else's. You know, you can kind of start a little consulting business is just kind of the path that I've taken. And then you can produce high quality documents that have nothing to do with identification. Because the technology that we're using here can be used for many different things. And this is my disclaimer here. Obviously, it's going to be a major crime if you're re-manufacturing government documents. All right. So what you need, you need a printer. And I recommend the EBSUN Stylus R800 photo printer. It has like seven ink cartridges in it. It's like an awesome machine. It uses something called pigment-based ink instead of water-based ink. And it's superior for printing on something called Tesla, and it's the synthetic paper that we're going to be using to print on. I'll go into that a little more in a minute. You're going to need a laminator, a die cutter, which is this thing you see on stage here. And that's used to actually cut the identification cards out of a laminated sheet. If you choose to use magnetic stripe technology, you're going to need a magnetic stripe encoder. If you're going to make a hologram, you need a rubber stamp with your hologram design on it. And there are other methods of creating holograms. But this is the method I'm going to explain right now because it's the easiest to demonstrate. A black light for admiring your work. A scanner for scanning in photos. A signature pad for signing signatures onto the screen, Photoshop. And most of the equipment that I'm talking about can be bought at brainstormidsupply.com. It's my favorite vendor. In terms of the die cutter and the laminates and stuff like that, the magnetic stripe encoder and the computer equipment you can't buy there. So the materials you need, laser teslan. Now it's also called polythene and it's a synthetic plastic paper with superior adhesion qualities. So it adheres to the glue on the laminate, unlike normal printer paper or stock paper which won't adhere to the laminate. And then Perlex pigment powders. Now it's a powder and it's kind of optically variable powder and what it does is you look at it at one angle and you might not see it. You look at it at another angle. It might be blue, gold, green, brown. Depending on the hologram you're trying to make will depend on the color that you choose. And then if you're making UV-based security features you're going to need maybe some pigment powder. You maybe want some actual UV-based ink which you can inject into your printer cartridge and you can print directly on the teslan like that. That's another method that's outlined in the guide that's included. I guess it's on the CD. A transparent base which we're going to mix the Perlex pigment powder and the ultra-pigment powder together and we're going to use that to stamp our hologram onto our... So this is my template. It has eight IDs already printed on it, front and back. On the back it has the bylaws of my organization, Locksport International on the front. It's the membership card. So what I do is I'll mix the stuff together. I'll stamp my template and then I'll blaminate it after that. I'm going to kind of demonstrate all that with a video because I can't do it on stage like I was first expecting to. All this stuff can be bought at... All the materials can be bought at practicingperfection.7p.com although I don't think it's up. I think you have to email him instead. You might take several weeks or months to get back to you but he will get back to you. But it's really the only place you can buy a lot of this stuff like the ultra-valid pigment powders and a lot of this stuff outlined in the guide. So you might want to write that down. Practicing perfect... I don't know if it's in the guide. It's definitely not in the guide. So if you're interested. So this is basically the manufacturing process. I'm going to have a video here in a minute. You start off with the ID template and then you have to create that according to your membership or your application. You have your printer template and front and back. So you print the printer template. You add your hologram and your UV text graphics.  So let's see a video here. So I was originally planning on doing this on stage but we didn't have a document camera so we went into the bathroom upstairs and videotaped this. You can see why we went into the bathroom. This is me pouring out some white powder onto a sheet. It's about an eighth of a gram there. So that was the UV pigment powder and this is the Pearl-X. And I'm going to make a gold hologram. So I'm using gold, interference gold. This is my transparent base. It's an acrylic, it's acrylic, a transparent base. It's like a medium. It's used to mix acrylic paints together. And then I have another type which is water-based glazing medium which makes the ink look glazy. Glaze, glaze, makes it have a glaze-like look. So what I'm doing right now is I'm spreading everything together with my finger. And I make a really even sheet across the... I'm using a shiny surface. I usually use aluminum foil but right now I'm just using a piece of laminate to do this on. And I spread it out really thin and when new people attempt to do this for the first time, what they usually do is they make it way too thick and they glob on big. You know, they just use too much. So this is the stamp. It says Locksport International across. And I got that at SimonStamps.com and it's a base set of Canada so you can kind of make the stamps a little bit controversial if you want. I stamped it right on my template and that's Teslan. We went into the bathroom and turned the UV light on. There's a reacting with the UV light and you can see it says Locksport International. All right, let's be putting the laminate on. All right, that's the back laminate. It's a piece of laminate that has mag stripe embedded in the laminate. You can buy that at brainstormidsupply.com also. And I didn't have a laminator so this is a piece that was already laminated and cut in half. And I put it in the die cutter. All right, thank you. $10 per membership fee for Locksport International. All right, so this is a picture of what my template looks like on Photoshop and what I would do is I'd have each individual file and I would scan an image of someone's face and I'd put it in my image spot and then I would change the information in the different spots and I would actually save a copy of that and then I would flatten the image and I'd move it over to the printer template which is what this is. I move over to the printer template so I'd be able to print eight identification cards every time. And you can see the blue lines there, like the template lines that will let you snap it into place so it prints perfectly every time. And that's something that will take you kind of a while to figure out is to get everything printed perfectly.  So another hologram method which is a little more interesting is the Alps printer method. And this printer is like 15 years old or so now. They stopped manufacturing them a long time ago and they stopped supporting them about three years ago. So the only way to get one is to buy one on eBay for about like 900 bucks and they usually come broken so you have to like sell it again and then get a new one and that one comes broken.   If you want to do multiple colors you do it like one at a time.  So this is if you're producing like several hundred identification cards you know a day this is probably the better way to go. And you can also put UV pigment powder and mix it with the Perlex and it works just as well. Alright so we're going to finish up here with the futuristic concepts. So if you've already noticed PVC is kind of going obviously it's being replaced by this polyfin material which is the synthetic paper and this is what this is printed on right here and it's basically a piece of paper and it requires two pieces of laminate and it's more tamper proof and it bends so it doesn't crack it's not brittle and it's being used for the very high security documents. Holograms are being replaced by kinograms which is kind of like a brand name hologram which they kind of have like control over the market you see them on like on your phone batteries and stuff like that. 1d barcodes being replaced by 2d barcodes although this is not a new thing and I think UV is one of the easiest things to reproduce. We're seeing as we see in the past in one dimensional UV we've seen in full color UV and I mean doing full color UV is as simple as getting a color ink cartridge and replacing the ink with color UV ink instead of regular ink so that's nothing new. What is kind of difficult is when they mix the holographic ink with the UV ink but we've seen that defeated with the Alps printer by mixing the holographic Perlex material with our UV pigment powder. Gulloch and Iris print. Gulloch and his security lines with a layout of intersection geometry is unique and it's very hard to reproduce and Iris print is when the colors gradually change shade from one color to the next which is impossible from a normal style scanner to a figure to read that. Some other stuff that's a little more interesting is hidden images available with decoding lenses so they'll make decoding lenses available for like government agencies and you'll only be able to see the image with the special decoding lens and then optionally variable ink you know you change the angle of the identification card and you'll see different things different colors on the text. IR pigment ink which is nothing new and is definitely easy to implement or re-implement. And then if you look at your credit card you've seen the normal mag stripe color is black but if you look at your credit card you'll see that it normally has something written on the mag stripe and it's usually like blue or like gold you know some other color other than black and you know you have to get that customized through a third party to get that security feature done. And then micro text which is still a very highly secure feature and that's very very small text that can only be viewed with a magnifying glass or a microscope. So by far the coolest technology that I've seen is laser engraving and this is like the state of the art it actually was introduced in 1998 but the large stakeholders in the industry said you know we're going to try as hard as you can not to let you implement this technology because it's going to put our technology out of business but they're just now emerging and you know a lot of government contractors a lot of governments are now contracting this technology out and if you have like a green card you can see this on your green card. The laser engraver actually contains a GPS self destruct system so if you take it within 20 meters out of its designated area it will self destruct, it will fry its on circuit so it's pretty cool. It's only licensed for government use. An interesting thing I was talking to the guy well I was talking to a guy who was implementing this technology and he also works for the government and he does it kind of like a license to kill in the identification card industry so what he does is he has permission to take government issued documents and fraudulently re-manufacture them and he does this and then he goes to the airport and it's a government building and he tests them out so I'm talking to him on the phone and he's like I'm like telling him yeah I'm doing some research for the university you know he's like oh yeah are they funding your research kind of and he's like well what do you think about the IDs in Texas I'm like oh I don't know anything about IDs I'm just trying to research the real ID Act he's like well I'm sure you have friends have you seen any good fake IDs in Texas and I'm like I guess my friends have fake IDs they're pretty good and then he starts telling me about well his favorite method is to remove the laminate and then put it in a different picture and then I'm like well you know I never heard of that you know how do you remove the laminate and he's like oh I can't tell you how to remove the laminate that's our trade secret and I'm like oh you know he's like for all I know you could be a counterfeiter and I'm like oh that's not that would never happen you know and he's and so he starts telling me he's like alright he starts telling me he's like so I get this solvent at Walmart and he tells me the solvent and I'm like yeah I'm like writing it down and he's like and then I take it and I let the card sit in the solvent for like 20 minutes and then it just peels right off and then I and then he stops and he's like you know what I think I shouldn't be talking to you and there's like a brief so he's like so where are you going to are you where are you going to be giving the speech at and I'm like is this conference called DEF CON he's like that sounds like one of those hardcore political activist conferences and I'm like yeah that's kind of right and he's like I think I have to go so so that was the guy that he's promoting this technology he told me not to mention his name but he's a really nice guy gave me some pretty good tips but yeah so this is the newest and coolest stuff even though it's been out for a while it basically works like a CD burner does it penetrates through several layers on the it penetrates through something what it influenced something called polycarbonate laminate which the government considers the highest grade laminate in the industry I have some up here if you want to come touch it later and it writes on three different layers of polycarbonate laminate and then eventually it will burn into the test line as well so it's completely it's a yeah sure folks are 40 FM for charity if you would like to shoot he's in the shoot studio later be there for a while room 103 thank you guys I thought he was coming to arrest me alright alright yeah thanks so it's it's pretty much it's completely tamper proof and you'll probably be seeing a lot more of it you see it in the Canadian government I think it was British Columbia or Alberta they started implementing this technology and the US government said well if you implement this technology you'll be violating our terms in accordance with the real ID act because we said you know there's we said certain guidelines and they said well we don't care because this technology is way better yeah right and we can do what we want and so they eventually started implementing it and a lot of the US companies start and then the US government caught on and said well maybe this technology is pretty good and then eventually they allowed the Canadian government's driver's licenses to be used on the border there will be allowing Canadian driver's licenses to be used on the border from Canada to the US so this is like what a futuristic identification card hopefully will look like if we get some parts of the real ID act changed like laser engraving a full color UV image a 2D barcode infrared imaging a kinogram with optically variable ink a magnetic stripe as well as card holder data on the magnetic stripe including all your biometric information and your personal secrets like your social security number and this will have polyphen core Tesla core so overall we've seen identification cards have been around a hundred years starting with the driver's license governments have valid reasons for wanting to deploy security identification cards but we have to watch out so they don't get abused increased concerns on illegal immigration is probably the most driving motivation on the technology innovation you can become involved in your identification card manufacturing at home to maintain your privacy and making your own high security documents and as we've seen all identification systems have strengths and weaknesses but hopefully a robust system will be delivered that will solve some of these problems so thank you so I guess I have like seven minutes for questions and then my question room is like one of four it's like it's rubbery basically I mean the question was the consistency of a Tesla after you laminate it and it's like a really stretchy material you can stretch it out but when you pass it through the laminator and it adheres to the Tesla it turns real hard right right that's just the I've seen states have blue backgrounds gray backgrounds blues just seems to be common like one state started using it and the rest followed the type of thing there's no mandate that says you have to use blue I'll be in room 104


Hello. My name is Justin Hayes. I received deliverance today from what I believe was a generational curse. The spirit of rejection entered me because my mother tried to commit suicide when I was conceived. I was also conceived out of wedlock. So I feel like I've had a lot of things holding me back in life. And I just want to have faith that those things have been removed. I felt a lot of energy, convulsion. I don't know how you explain exactly, but I felt something happening. I know I have a long way to go and that deliverance is a process, but I just want to give glory to Jesus and say thank you and have faith that that generational curse has been broken and that I can now fight on my own. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Hi there. This is Lana. Thank you so much for watching this testimony. I bet you were blessed. If you would like to see more of these testimonies, please subscribe and thank you again for watching.


Hi, this is your host Supreme Bhatia and welcome to another episode of T3M or topic of this month And the topic of this month is security and compliance and today we have with us Linda Brown Director of risk and compliance at small step Linda is great to have you on the show. Great. Thanks for having me I will look to hear from you How you have seen the evolution of security because if you look at the traditional IT security used to be someone else's problem It was not developers problem. They are separate silos But ever since we started moving to containerized cloud native Kubernetes centric world.  We talk about zero trust We talk about shift left. So the security landscape is also changing and evolving. So just can you talk about the evolution of security? Yeah, it's funny. I think it's evolved in a lot of ways. I think One of the big ways is just the ending of the concept that security is all about the perimeter You know, I think that's what zero trust is all about right is the The fact that perimeter security is no longer enough to make sure that organizations are secure and as companies move to Cloud environments and multi cloud environments have actually recently seen Companies that were staunch resistors of cloud environments That just refuse to even consider the cloud as an option They're now moving to the cloud and they're really having to rethink how they do security and if you take out the perimeter and Make the assumption that your human controls can fail, you know, we've seen all these Fishing attempts and you know, it's users. It's all about the user still right And if that fails if that human control fails What do you have in place next to make sure that your data and everything is secure? and I think that Has pushed everything Further down the stack which relates to the shift left movement Which relates to how we secure the kubernetes pods and the databases and the back end communications if all the things are everywhere How do you control them? Uh, the security of them. How do you make sure that the inner object communications are secure? Making sure mutual TLS is there getting certificates everywhere and how do you do it at scale? You know, I think when you when in the past we thought about certificates because obviously they're not new technology There was a lot of manual labor involved and somebody would call somebody and we need a new certificate and ops would take care of it If we're going to move and have zero trust where those certificates really have to be everywhere We need a corresponding scalable Environment where we know we can just get certificates reliably and I really love The change to and and this is a big thing for small step the change to short live certificates I don't think it helps anyone to have One and three and five and ten years certificates when you're talking about Every database and every every kubernetes pod that spins up and even people 24-hour certificates, but how do you meet that demand with a centralized platform that's scalable and also has Auditing and logging. You know, it just really changes the perspective Of how we think about things and that's zero trust to right moving past the concept of perimeter security There are so many different like few weeks ago. There was a report where booking.com They were using oauth and they have an api vulnerability So everything else was compromised. Of course social engineering happens a lot Which was uber. So and these are tech companies. These not even in a mom and pop shops We have nothing to do with technologies and even at kubecon. We see home depot there I still have a home depot mug. So all these companies Hardcore hardware companies. They are doing it. But the thing is that The security the the attack, you know vector or you know, whatever you you call it. They're also evolving There are so many variables now that security as you also said it's no longer It's it never was but it's not a product anymore It's a process which is not just about technologies. It's about culture and people If I ask you when you also talk about these customers who were like reluctant to move to the cloud and you know Cloud itself is very complicated. And when you start talking security things get even more complicated If I ask you, what are your major concern that you feel? Hey companies are not doing the right thing or you feel that hey, yes They are taking security seriously because I was talking to after I was talking to somebody Yesterday also for the topic and you all you said that the best thing that security companies have done in the last five years Is to tell us how miserably they've failed, you know And we're talking with all the traditional, you know security companies or other companies So my question to you is what are the major security concerns that you see that are there if companies don't make it a priority? I think part of the part of the problems I've seen Is still that that shift as people move to cloud and companies move to cloud I still think there's a predisposition and it just comes from habits Of securing the perimeter of all those clouds So I think that there's a a fundamental Mind shift that has to happen And to break those habits I think part of that is you know Shifting how we test You know when you think about just you know the way we've done Vulnerability scanning the way we've done pen testing All of the the things that we use to measure how we were doing with security has been about the perimeter And I think that all has to shift to be Are we protecting all the things in all the places we are? If we assume it's inevitable That someone is going to get to our infrastructure How do we secure it? How do we make sure that each thing is considered the house and we worry about the open doors and windows and it's full stack? Which means we have to push Into every piece of what developers build. I think there was a tendency for only certain developers That were building certain types of components to be concerned about security But now it's everybody and I think From a corporate standpoint I personally feel that shifting A culture to to think more about security anything call I think culture changes hard, right? I I've always Compare it to turning a cruise ship So, you know, you're moving and trying to get everybody to think in this new way and There's bottom up things that can happen to help that I think Small step is especially good at helping people take a single use case And start with that and make it secure and build that Security from the ground up But I think we also need in order to make sure that security moves to all areas of an organization I really believe there has to be a top down will To make security a priority And that is what allows for budgets to free up. That's what allows for Certain business managers to not get away with saying. Oh, I can't do security the right way right now because of money limitations or technology limitations You know, there has to be There has to be the will to say we cannot operate this way You and your business line must make changes And that's across the entire organization. So I think the the top and the bottom meet somewhere in the middle But there are there are plenty of changes to still be made A real thing that you know security is kind of a solved problem when I listen to you and you're like Hey, everybody has totally understood that digital distillation cloud native that is their approach But you know, it looks like that is still a major challenge there Can you talk about what is is stopping or what are the roadblocks or hurdles where Because when we do talk about a lot of I mean, also, I'm in the field where I do See the technology they are building for tomorrow. So I think hey, that's already a solved problem But you deal with that your customer So what do you think are the roadblocks which are kind of these companies are hesitant to You know adopting some of these practices. I think as with every new thing that comes into security There's a pattern and a path that things take I think as we thought about and and moved through the evolution of how do we Secure users We came to a place where there were these great umbrella technologies that helped us manage users and user access Um, you know the idps of the worlds, you know, I think it's a very mature part of what we do I think what has to happen across the industry is there has to be a maturing of products Around zero trust and I think we're really just getting started It's you know, I feel like we've been talking about zero trust for a while now as security practitioners but the businesses are just starting to move from Single zero trust use cases pieces part zero trust to really understanding that It is an entire change in perspective and methodology And I don't think the tools have quite caught up I think you know and and small step is thinking the same way right? How do we Provide an umbrella solution that is the way companies secure all that other stuff That's not people. We've done a good job. I think with people but not all that other stuff And so I think that's what's needed is that evolution in the industry and it's it started right with you know how we do eds and end point solutions and It's all kind of there, but how you know, how do we create that picture that allows security practitioners to Uh audit what's going on to log what's happening to report on where they stand Uh because the reporting is a big piece of this as you go up the chain and ask for money And talk to the higher ups They're looking for those red amber green indicators of what's working and what isn't and so Having that centralized reporting having those umbrella technologies That bring that picture into focus. I think is still developing in the zero trust market And uh small steps thinking the same way right? How do we take the what we're what good things we're doing around getting certificates to Anything anywhere all the time and auto renewing and at scale Uh, how do we present that information? to security practitioners and risk teams So that they can make decisions about what they do next Based on how they're seeing the progress going in in zero trust implementations They're already a scarcity of you know Security folks as much as we like to move everything into dev ops and sre's and zero trust But as long as as much as we want to break those silos, but there are folks, you know, like you who specialize in security So there will always be soft silos like that. You know folks who specialize in security will be there so Talk about the rule that a small step is playing in helping companies lower the barrier of entry So they can with a top down approach bottom approach. They can embrace some of these security practices. It's funny. We've started to really use the the name of the company as A notion about where you get started Take a small step Into this realm and the way we have the company set up and priced we make it easy for companies to Take one use case Get started with it Do it in a way that because we're a sass offering, you know, you don't have to spend A lot of time building up a pki environment Pki is complicated I've learned that even more after joining small step. I've been a security practitioner for years I have my cis sp and I got here and I thought wow, you know pki is just a whole another level of complexity and Here's this product that really makes it practical and approachable So that you can take that single use case Get started and then add on to it. Um, it's not uh, you know while we Want to make sure that we're providing a picture of what's happening auditing logging Um for Visibility, you know across a broader audience to get started. It's a small thing It's just one use case and you can add on to it And the pki infrastructure The deliverability Of those certificates reliably With short life spans is all taken care of for you high availability the whole thing I think that's the that's the beauty of what we've done with small step all with that open source core of pki at the base And so I think um, I think that's what we offer for companies What advice do you have for companies who are still, you know, kind of Still looking at improve They're still like, hey Should be or should be not but let's just keep those kind of coming the company who are looking at embracing some of these practices What advice do you have so that they they can take smaller steps to embrace and adopt a security practice Build a security culture there. I think taking um, the the things you're good at already that you have down where you have set processes and procedures and applying Certificates to them is a great place to get started. I think companies have gotten Many companies have gotten really good with how they distribute Containerized solutions, you know, can you kubernetes is a great example. They've built up that expertise It's a great way in with an established process where you can just insert certificates and You know small step makes that really easy I also love, um, you know, it's a very rude and core functionality It's not about x 509 certificates, but I love our ssh solution. I think it's a no-brainer Every company uses ssh It's a foundational level of access You know, and I see a lot of companies still using shared credentials Well, you take a product like small step and and I was a user before I joined the company And I loved it. I would authenticate to my ids We used oct at the time So I would authenticate in the browser and I could then ssh anywhere I needed to go in the organization With that one login once a day It made my job much easier I didn't complain about the security because it didn't make my life harder I didn't even care that it made the dev ops guy's job easier on the back end I just wanted to be able to do my job easier and Even if I was accessing a shared credential technically on the back end I was still logging in with my individual id So the logging and auditing is is available and visible now Where before you had no visibility into who might have used that shared account So even if you're using it for break glass or whatever, you know, don't change the users that you have on all those servers Overlay a solution like small step make everybody's lives easier from dev ops to the end users and you've secured What is a foundational level of access? That every organization uses so I think that's one really simple way and then again, like I said anywhere you already have Um set processes in place just insert a certificate into that Secure environment Linda. Thank you so much for taking time out today and talk about this topic and also share some of the insights How companies can embrace security practices? Thanks for your those insights and I would love to have you back on the show Thank you. It's been my pleasure. I hope we get to speak again


Welcome to day 7 of the 2016 Jet Boat Mouth and sponsored by ITM and Design Windows. This is the final day of racing with three legs to go. But before all that, here's a shot of what happened yesterday on the Clutha. There's not a lot in it. There's only a couple of miles an hour if that, so we're very, very close. So we're neck and neck there and we're only just edging past, so it's good fun. If we have any sort of failure, any navigational error, Jason's right there. Jason's got a fast boat, a very, very fast boat and it was a lot of fun coming across that lake.


Please welcome Senior Advisor to the Mayor, Joel I. Storfer. Thank you. On behalf of our gracious host, Mayor Eric Adams, welcome to Gracie Mansion. Tonight, we commemorate the celebration of Hanukkah, a holiday full of miracles. We celebrate the miracle of good prevailing over evil, and the miracle of light for eight days instead of one. This is symbolism for the light we get from Hashem, God, even in the darkest of times. In New York City, we are very fortunate to have a strong leader who fights against the evils of darkness and who understands our community. Our very own Maccabee, a warrior, a hero, who has fought to keep us safe while wearing the NYPD uniform. And our Maccabee continues to fight to protect all New Yorkers. With his leadership, we will now allow the forces of darkness and evil to overtake the light of goodness. Relevant to Hanukkah, I had the privilege to join Mayor Adams in Greece at the Mayor Summit against Anti-Semitism. I also have the privilege of watching him up close every day as he continues to lead the fight against anti-Semitism, crime, darkness, and evil. Please welcome your host and our friend, the 110th Mayor of the City of New York, the Honorable Eric Adams. Thank you, Joe, and just so all of you, I am your not strangers, our deep and long relationship throughout the years as we light the menorah this evening. And I want to really thank Councilor General Zemair, who I cross across him, seeing like all over the entire globe, talking about the pursuit of lifting up the Jewish right to exist in a level of peace and prosperity in the city. We understand that so often in all groups. And the long term friendship that's so important. I think Joe says something significant as I see another good friend has been with me a long time. Abe, Abe, good to see you here. I hope you're going to join us in lighting the menorah as well. But fighting anti-Semitism is not a slogan. It is not something we do solely when we see enact. It's not something that we talk about. We must infuse into our lives what we mean to each other. And I talk about the relationship. I was just at the Councilor General Zemair's home. And I talk about the relationship with some of you in his room in general. But specifically, when I think about Abe and Joe Freeman and Joe Eisdorfer, I was there for each one of Joe's children. The birth of his children. I sat down at his table and his children would come and talk to me and share everything from magic tricks to just general conversation. I watched his wife as she carried Esther, his baby girl. And you cannot tell me that when I walk in a room Esther just doesn't smile in a special way because I'm there. Those children were no Jordan, my son.  And when we allow each other into our homes, when we sit around the tables together and engage in real conversation and exchange our culture and our religious beliefs, you cannot hate that what you know and that what you appreciate. If we live in silos, if we believe that if we are a member of a synagogue, we cannot connect with a person that's a member of a Sikh temple, a member of a Baptist church, or a member of a mosque, or a member of a Buddhist temple. If we believe that because of our faith we must be isolated from other groups, then we are feeding indirectly into the concept of hate without even realizing that. The common denominator of all of our faiths tell us that we should be embracing each other. We don't have to believe and pray the same way to the same God to understand that God is a universal emotion and a universal feeling. So if we want to stop hate, we have to start at our tables and whistle on our plate as we share our food of prosperity with each other. That's what stopping hate is about. Building out the pipeline of young people like Joel and his children, and Abe's and your children, and Joel and yours and others. So many of us. Joe Shami, I know all of his children and many of you that are here today. David, I saw your children born as well. I can go through this room and point to the people in this room that I know not only professionally, but I know personally. And we have to start allowing our young people to know each other personally because you can't draw a swastika if you know it personally hurt someone. You cannot attack someone because they're from the AAPI community if you know them personally. That's what 2023 should mean for all of us. We're going to stamp out hate. We're going to demand that social media stop spreading the poison of hate. We're going to demand that those who are arrested for hate crimes are not allowed to plead bargain, but will serve time for doing the crime. We're going to demand that our public schools teach the richness of our culture. And then we're going to do what we did in Brooklyn with Breaking Bread Building Bonds. We're going to be creative about holding dinners across our city where we will sit down and enjoy a meal together and talk to each other. We have to be forward facing and fighting hate. I'm ready for this assignment. I'm ready for this task. That's why we went to Greece because we wanted mayors from all over the globe to understand that there's something unique about the televeic of America, which is called New York City. More Jews live in New York than anywhere else outside of Israel. So it must start here in New York City and it must start here in America. Israel, I'm really concerned about the hate we're seeing. So today, the symbolism of lighting the menorah should be what we will actualize in lighting the light in all of us. Thank you for coming here and gracing us in Gracie Mansion as we acknowledge Hanukkah and all that it represents. You know more than anyone the importance of moving away darkness with the light. And we want to continue to do so in a very real way. So I thank you. I wish you a happy holiday season and a peaceful holiday season for you and your families. Thank you, Joe. We now have the honor to call upon Council General of Israel, Asav Zameer. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, everyone. Thank you, the mayor, my friend. When I was asked to come here this evening, I asked, what's the program? And they said, you're going to say a few words and then the mayor speaks. I said, that's easy. Then when I arrived, they said, it's the other way around. The mayor's going to speak. Then you need to say a few words. And I said, I've been here for a year. I've never seen anyone come back from that. I've never seen anyone speak after you and leave an impression. So good luck to me. And that's it. Good night. Thank you. I see a year into my tenure, most of the faces in this room. I've already had the great honor to meet and to work with and to realize the wide range of friends that the country, the state of Israel has in this room. The wide range of supporters to the relationship between the United States and Israel, the relationship between Israel and New York. And I want to say one thing about Hanukkah. Not every holiday that we have is relevant today. The history is not always relevant, but the history of Hanukkah is very relevant. Because there are three things you need to take away with you from Hanukkah is the memory that for over 2,000 years there's been a group of people in the world that haven't particularly liked Jews. And for over 2,000 years, that same group, always the same group, didn't think Israel was the eternal home of the Jews. This is not a decade old story. This is thousands of years of a large group of people that don't like Jews and don't think Israel is their eternal home. And the third thing you need to remember is even though this group exists, and even though they believe Israel is not the eternal home of the Jews, and even though they are a larger group than us, we always prevail. We always win, and we always fight for our truth, and we succeed because we're not alone. And we succeed because we have many friends. And all of those friends, as the Mayor said, understand one important thing, which is it is very important that in today's world we fight for everybody to have the opportunity to believe what they believe and to live the way they want. The Greeks that invaded Judea didn't want us out of Israel. They said you can stay, just don't show your Jewish. Become Greek, live as Greeks, not as Jews. And there's not one person in this room that hasn't felt in the past few years that he has something that defines him, or her, that they should shush about, that they shouldn't talk about, that they should hide. It can be a belief, it can be a heritage, it can be a yarmulke, and it doesn't have to be amongst Jews, it's amongst everyone. So the group of people that's here tonight is united around the universal idea that everyone should have the ability to live the way they want, and everyone should have the ability to believe in what they want. And it is a just fight to make sure that that ability exists, and that is what Hanukkah is for me. It is the eternal understanding of the Jewish right on the land of Israel and that we will fight the good fight of everyone who hates us to make sure that that right continues to exist. And it is because of all the people devoted to that in Israel and outside of it that we will prevail. I want to thank my mayor and all the people around him and all the people in this room that are part of this administration that are truly fierce friends of the Jewish people, and that stand up daily to make sure that we can live our lives freely in times of alarming anti-Semitism. We are very, very lucky to have friends like you. Thank you very, very much. I'm honored to be here representing the State of Israel, Chag Samar. It's my honor to invite Rabbi Petasnik and Devorah Halberstam to the stage, please. Thank you. Thank you for the standing ovation. Mr. Mayor, it's a great honor to be the 110th Rabbi in this room tonight as well. And also, Mr. Mayor, I want to begin with an apology. On behalf of the Jewish people, we are so sorry for the Chanukah traffic in New York this time of year, especially around Rockefeller Center. It will be over soon. And also, I want to thank your commission, Fred Kreisman. He asked UJ Federation. Thank you. He asked UJ Federation, Met Council, Board of Rabbis to be sponsors of this evening tonight. And frankly, we've never paid $125 for a hot dog, so most grateful. September 2001, the holiday symbols were brought to ground zero. A Christmas tree arrived 20 feet tall. A Chanukah menor arrived 9 feet tall. A group of carpenters of different faiths came together and they said, we won't accept this disparity in height. So they built a platform. So the Chanukah menorah and the Christmas tree were of equal height. To say that in America, we stand together as equal partners. So, Mr. Mayor, as equal partners, we stand with you. And we will not allow anti-Semites to define our identity. As equal partners, we stand with you. As proud Jews, whether we are in our homes, on the streets or on college campuses today. And as proud Jews, we will work with you when it comes to education of young people. Because we have learned throughout history that education can make you smart, but it doesn't necessarily make you moral. So we'll work together to make sure that there's a moral component in that educational process. Mr. Mayor, I was with you years ago when you were elected state senator.  And she said to you, now that you're going to get elected, don't forget the small people. You kept that promise to her? You kept that promise to your mother? And we as equals will stand with you in keeping the promise we make to our people as well. Thank you so much. I'm going to ask the mayor to come forward to help light the menorah. And the word mayor, by the way, means bring light in Hebrew. So you are the mayor and the mayor. And this is good practice for 2040 in the White House. Before we light the menorah, I think that no one personifies the energy and spirit of bringing light to darkness, turning pain into purpose, more than my good friend, Devorah, have a sign. You know, during a very terrible moment when she lost her son, she turned towards her faith and she has been a shining light for all of us as we deal with fighting and pushing back against anti-Semitism. And so we want to give a moment to have Devorah come up and say a few words. Devorah? Thank you, my friend.  I want to just say briefly, a mayor, this is Hanukkah. So I feel like I'm in will of fortune right now where we're spinning the wheel. So since the dreidel stands outside my museum, and the winning number is the gemmel I wanted tonight. So what I want to tell you is the first I'm going to give you the gift. And the gift I want to tell you is that in the next two weeks, we are having a summit with all your Department of Education, all the superintendents are going to be coming to our museum, and we're going to bring one million school children to the museum so they can learn about Jewish culture and history, which is what you wanted. So I think that's a great gift. On the other hand, I want to say the gift that you have to give me is that first of all, it's my anniversary today. It's my daughter's birthday also. And you should know that this week we did actually have light over darkness because in this week, the conviction of Ari's murderer and the attempted murder of 15 kids on the Brooklyn Bridge, he was convicted to 141 in two-third years in prison this week on Hanukkah. So with that, I want to say happy Hanukkah to all. Let's bring a lot of light to each and every one of you, and thank you, my dear friends. Thank you. Thank you. Let me call upon Eric Goldstein, UJA CEO to please come forward. David Greenville, Met Council. Benzi Leveritz of Central Hatsala. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. A special song about thanks. Here we go.


How's it going everybody? Dato Doi here with a very quick video on Goichi vs Sonic Fox, the first of five special exhibition match. We're going to cover some moments from this fight as I think it's going to be interesting seeing what happens here compared to what happens during top 8 at Evo. So because I'm making this video today on the same day as top 8 it means I have to work pretty quickly so forgive me if it doesn't feel the same as my usual analysis videos. Really quickly I should address the elephant in the room. A lot of people that are really big fans of Sonic Fox have made the claim that he might have been sandbagging in this first to five. I really hope that's not the case and I also don't think Sonic Fox would do that. Overall on Twitter he did address the loss as a loss. So this could be next level strats, he's hoping Goichi translates this or something. But overall I'm not really too sure he was sandbagging. Okay so game one starts with an amazingly ballsy play by Sonic Fox here because you're going to see after just a couple seconds of neutral he instantly goes in, uses Android 16 assist and then just dashes up on him as begging Goichi to click a button here. Goichi of course playing very defensively respects Sonic Fox's play a lot. He's just going to hold down back which eventually gets him in the corner where he is opened up for a combo here. Later on in the corner we see Goichi miss a reflect due to Sonic Fox's gap in his pressure here and it's going to cost him a lot of life on his cell. This combo is really dragging out. Sonic Fox of course going for a super dash there. Not sure if he wanted a super to come out or not. He is going to get a chance to spark up which means he is going to get a lot of that health back and Cell is going to go ahead and sit back on the bench now with Goichi's Bardock coming out. It isn't too long after that that we see Cell land a hit on Bardock and he's going to get the first take out of the game but Goichi actually does spend a little more meter than he wanted to here. This could be on purpose as Bardock is a really great point character. Goichi is very comfortable having him in this position. It could also just come down to the fact that he might not have wanted Super Saiyan Vegeta out there. As we all know Goichi is super famous for his last standing Super Saiyan Vegeta getting that comeback in the end which is going to happen numerous times throughout this set. After using Sparking to get his 16 out of the corner Sonic Fox is in a very good position to win this game with only a very very weak Vegeta left to go but again like I said before Goichi very famous for this. This is not a situation he's too afraid of. If he can get this 16 out of there and get some Masu back in he stands a very good chance of winning this game. What we're going to see here is Sonic Fox just trying to do too much at a time when Goichi was just doing so little. Really Sonic Fox should have just let Goichi kind of end himself but instead we see Sonic Fox drop two different combo opportunities that would have probably sealed the game for him and instead he just gets antsy tries to do other things. Goichi lands a clean hit and that's going to be the end of his Android 16 for him.  He does unfortunately get hit by a great cross up by Sonic Fox who decides to go for a weird gimmick against Goichi. Luckily Goichi is very good at defense. He was obviously prepared for that didn't work out too well. It's not the end for Sonic Fox as he does have a lot more health to spend but you're going to see Goichi put very staggered pressure on him here and then he's just going to continue jumping back throwing out medium kicks and Sonic Fox again runs into it. Goichi is clearly very comfortable with playing a keep away game and letting Sonic Fox come to him. I know I'm making this point a lot but it's something you're going to see throughout this set a lot and it's going to be important for Sonic Fox to adjust to this if he wants to win Evo over Goichi. I'm not going to talk about every game beat by beat like I did the first one. We're only going to talk about some unique things that I see in the game. For example let's talk about something Sonic Fox does a lot on Zamasu and that is calling out the lightning only to go for a dragon rush. Now if you've played tag team fighting games before for a very long time you probably know about this already but for those of you that are new what he's doing here is making the opponent want to block. It's a very hard mental thing to overcome and it takes a lot of experience in the clutch. It's pretty much the exact same thing as calling out any sort of assist in the game and then immediately dragon rushing. Your opponent sees the assist knows they have to block it and while they're focused on that they miss out on an opportunity to attack the dragon rush. It's a super small thing but it's something that Sonic Fox loves to do with Zamasu and I'm pretty sure it's a safe guess to see you're going to see a lot of that during top 8 of Evo today. The next thing we're going to go ahead and talk about even though it's pretty well known and not unique to Sonic Fox and Goichi is the Bardock mixer. If you're unaware what this is it's a very popular strategy for Bardock players when they get a level 3 on an opponent in the corner they can do their uppercut into the air with it which gives those players all sorts of options to mix up the opponent with. You can wait a little while and do an overhead you can land and do a low or you can just land in dragon rush which is a very popular option as the other two both require you to block or reflect and dragon rush addresses both of those really well. The reason I bring it up is because Sonic Fox is put in this exact situation in game 2 of their exhibition and he opts to just use his sparking defensively to pretty much check all of those options at once. Using sparking to address these situations is extremely popular and you are definitely going to be seeing a lot of it during top 8. Now on to the final game of the set where we come in very late and again there's another situation where Goichi is left with just his Super Saiyan Vegeta against a very healthy Android 16 and a completely healthy Zamasu. We are going to see a different take on Goichi's usual game plan and as he does rush in to get the first hitting on Sonic Fox instead of playing very defensively. After he gets the hard knockdown in the corner with his final flash it's completely free reign for him to go in and put the pressure on his opponent. Sonic Fox may be giving Goichi a little too much respect in the corner here as he just sits there blocking for a majority of the time desperately trying not to get hit. He does eventually change out into Zamasu though which doesn't last long as he gets swapped back in. He also whiffs a pretty big level 3 and Goichi takes huge advantage of it and gets a lot of damage and after just a short while we're right back into the corner. After an amazing knee by Goichi and one more hit Android 16 is out of the game leaving Sonic Fox down to Zamasu. Sonic Fox again tries to perform this same mix up from the first game but for the second time Goichi is able to get out of it. And that's not the only callback we're getting from the first game either. As you can see this game ends the very same way that the first one did with Goichi playing very very defensively. Sonic Fox is going to get a little bit impatient and try to rush in here and Goichi back dashes holds it for a little while and then does an air medium kick and converts into a full combo ending the game and the set. Overall a very good performance from both of these guys as usual they are the best of the best for a reason. And there are a lot of things for both of them to adapt to that will improve their performance in top 8 of Evo. Sonic Fox for example could definitely benefit from playing a little more patiently in those clutch moments. Goichi is clearly much more comfortable waiting for him to come in than going to him. Sonic Fox also dropped a lot of combos during this set that would have sealed some games for him which isn't too normal for him. Usually he's very good about finishing those games out. We don't know what could have caused this so it's best not to even speculate but definitely converting more of those combos into big damage is something that he's going to need to do if he wants to win. Goichi on the other hand did have a very dominant performance so it's hard to say what he could do better but it definitely looked like he was giving Sonic Fox a lot a lot of respect. Overall it did end up winning him the game but I could see abandoning that and going for a more aggressive style of play really catching his opponents off guard during top 8 so that might be something you want to look out for as well. Overall it was a very fun exhibition to watch and it gave us a good taste of what we're going to see tomorrow if we even get to see these two players go at it. There are a lot of other killers in that top 8 bracket so you never really know for sure what's going to happen. I think a match between these two would be pretty hype though. Let me know down in the comments what your thoughts on this exhibition were and what your thoughts on Evo overall is. Also be sure to let me know who you think's going to win it all today down in the comments below. While you're down there if you liked this video and want to see more like it make sure to hit the like button and subscribe. I'm Datsudoya, I'll see you in the next video. I'll see you in the next video.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Wrath of Doxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the United Cartist 2016 annual deck. All right, so this is a current Kickstarter. On Kickstarter right now, you can go over to Kickstarter and look for it. You can back it and be a supporter of it. This what I have here is a prototype deck. This prototype was made from MPC, which is makeplayingcarts.com. It is an appearance what the final product will be, but not in paper stock or finish. This is just a prototype. The UC 2016 annual deck is called the Nouveau. The Nouveau deck. Nouveau was actually a previous Kickstarter. It was actually a previous Kickstarter twice before. Both times it was unsuccessfully funded, but the tuck case has been redesigned. The aces, the back of the cards has been redesigned and it's now being released as the United Cartist 2016 annual deck and it's gaining a lot of momentum and a lot of people are saying really positive things about it. This deck of cards was designed by Karen Yan of Bonafide Playing Cards. Bonafide Playing Cards are out in Barcelona. The deck is done in the inspiration of the Nouveau art style. All right, so the Nouveau deck is inspired by mythological and historical heroes and heroines. Originally, when the first deck of cards was released, at least as far as what we know, many of the court cards, the Kings, Queens and Jacks, were inspired by heroes, heroines, people from mythology. And so that is what they are trying to do and recapture with the Nouveau deck. Now the Nouveau movement as an art movement, that came out of the French culture around the 16th century. And so this deck certainly has a French art Nouveau or a 16th century style. What you're getting here from Bonafide is a completely customized 100% original deck of cards. The front of this tech case just simply says Nouveau and you can see all the different greens, turquoises, kind of grassy colors that are going throughout this tech. It says United Cardis 2016 and playing cards on this side. It says Nouveau UC United Cardis 2016. Same on the back. The bottom of the prototype doesn't have any text and the top basically says the same thing. And the back design of the prototype of course is the back design of the cards. And so that is it for the tech case of the prototype. Let's take a look at these cards. Again, I just want to repeat that this is a prototype and so we don't know what the final product will look like. More than likely, it'll probably be very similar to this. One of the things that people have been most impressed with is that razor thin border that you can see right there. I don't think I have ever reviewed a deck that has a border that thin. And I know I've said razor thin border before in the past, but man, I don't think you can get much more thinner than that. If I spread them out and try to get it really tight, you can actually see just how tight that is. Like that is crazy, crazy tight. The back design, again, has that Art Nouveau, very French inspiration. Kind of looks like vinework. Also kind of has this feel of maybe even like stained glass windows kind of. In the corner, you can see the U for United Cardis. That's one of the new features. And it also has the year of 2016 in Roman numerals there in the ring. Again, because this is a prototype, we don't really know all the bells and whistles that will come with the deck. This prototype features two original jokers. They're both different. And again, because it's a French inspired deck, they're going with gestures. They do court gestures. So one of these gestures has like a mandolin or a lute or a lyre. And the second one is more the harlequin, you know, the sad and the or the happy. And this one kind of looks more sad. And at the top, it does say United Cardis 2016 annual deck. Here's a close up look at your four aces, your ace of spades, your ace of hearts, your ace of clubs, and your ace of diamonds. All right. So since each one of the court cards represents a different historical or mythological figure, I thought I would go through them and just show you who they are. So this would be the king of spades. And he represents King David from the Bible. And this is the queen of spades. And she represents the Greek goddess Athena. The jack of spades is the character Osir the Dane. And here we have the king of hearts. He's King Charlemagne. And the queen of hearts. This is Judith from the Bible. The jack of hearts is a French military commander who I probably can't pronounce the name. It's the king of diamonds. This is the Roman leader, Julia Caesar. The queen of diamonds. This is Rachel. She's also from the Bible. The jack of diamonds. This is Prince Hector from break mythology. And the king of clubs. This is the great King Alexander the Great. The queen of clubs is the Celtic Queen Bodica. And the jack of clubs is the legendary Lancelot. When this deck is funded, it'll be printed by the expert playing card company. And it will use their master stock and finish. Well, that is it for the Nouveau deck for the United Cardis 2016 annual deck. And like I said, if this is something that interests you or if you like this style, definitely head on down to Kickstarter and back it today.


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