what's the word y'all welcome back man see a lot of things have changed just 24 hours we talked yesterday and uh there was nothing in this room man and we have changed dramatically now the sound is still kind of trash but we're gonna put some rugs in here other than the one rug that I already got which some of y'all might know what this is some of y'all might not I'm not even gonna show the rest if you know you know but I did get my Michael Jordan thing here and let me let me talk about that for a second before we get into the real topics I talked about yesterday of mentioning how I spent a couple stacks on that and people in the comment section like Kenny why would that is a one-of-one painting hand-painted from the great Erin Erin McLaughlin I think it's her name she's great and she does some crazy work and this is a one there's only one person in the world with this exactly I got the certificate of authenticity and I needed it so I also put up like two of my jerseys from like showdowns and stuff even though I'm shooting zero percent I don't have any wins having a custom jerseys always better than not having a custom jersey and then these things over here are things there at the old apartment or old house but you just never saw it because they were behind the camera and then we got this coffee thing that I'm not using for coffee I'm gonna put like memorabilia and stuff up there either way we are getting closer and closer to the point where I could call this a home and it's kind of weird to say okay so there's no basketball on for the next couple days which is scary I guess is the word like yesterday y'all made me do work usually at six o'clock every single day I come in here and I just watch basketball and that is my excuse to not film and like edit videos but since it was nothing on I recorded like four videos y'all what the hey I'm back at work that's weird but um with the NBA not being back it's kind of cool just to look at stories on instagram and snapchat just to see all the players taking this three to four day break LeBron was in a place where it looked like he was in a spa but also in a volcano I don't understand any place outside the United States it's all foreign to me like literally it's foreign but like I don't really know where things are but it looks he's having a great little vacation hopefully for his sake in the LA Lakers sake when you come back he's better I can't even tell LeBron to be better bro everybody what what is the rest of his teammates doing to be better so when you get to this point of the season where there's no basketball along you know reddit kind of go a little bit crazy and um somebody had a thing named dumbest NBA takes you've seen on social media and anytime I see a dumbest takes post that got over a thousand comments I'm ready to dive in and talk about some dumb takes I am not immune to those things uh as the guy that talks basketball or people that talk basketball you're going to have a bad take or two every once in a while there's plenty of videos on the internet of me having bad takes so I'm not making fun of the people that have the bad takes here I just think it's entertainment adding KD made the Warriors worse calves in five Nick Wright okay Nick Wright actually like can I talk about Nick Wright for just a minute listen I don't watch a lot of television especially sports television um and I know that people on tv typically say things because they they're looking for clicks and getting interactions and I guess I'm falling to the trap as I usually do but I saw a clip on Twitter just yesterday just yesterday of Nick Wright talking about Nicola Okich now Nick Wright I've seen him multiple times over the last season and a half just have like bad take after bad take after bad take about Nicola Okich he called Nicola Okich the worst MVP of all time basically he got MVP because of circumstances LeBron was supposed to win it then he got injured Kevin Rents supposed to win it then he got injured James Harding got injured all of that stuff but he took it a step too far in my personal opinion yesterday when he was talking about Yochich as being an MVP player but in the all-star game he couldn't play in the fourth quarter how have listen I would expect a random person on Twitter to have a take about the all-star game being blank blank blanker player not playing hard enough or not performing well in the all-star game but the fact that this man Nick Wright is a co-host on a show that is on national television and he's trying to dissect the minutes played in an all-star game in an all-star game that is an all-time wild take if you ask me he talked about oh Joel and B was dominating the fourth quarter of the all-star game and what was Yochich on the bench and you know why with Yochich was on the bench first of all Yochich said after the game listen I don't really like all-star games because I never really know what to do understand I mean are you supposed to play defense are you not supposed to play defense and secondly we're in Cleveland and they decided to let Jared Allen play the fourth quarter because we're in Cleveland are we really up oh you remember that one year Jimmy Butler didn't play in the fourth or didn't play at all in the all-star game let's dissect that you see how foolish that can sound oh Jimmy Butler did it again by the way Jimmy Butler's just a dude that gets into the all-star game just for the accolades so his basketball reference thing he played nine minutes again why are we not talking about the fact that Jimmy Butler didn't play in the all-star game he only played nine minutes y'all oh this is the number one team in the Eastern Conference are they really that good their star player didn't even play well in the all-star do you hear how ridiculous you sound now understand trying to push narratives one way or another for your favorite for MVP or whatever you got to try to pull everything out of the hat but there are other ways you can go if you want to say Yochich it's not the MVP this season and him saying that he didn't play in the fourth quarter of an all-star game is the one of the reasons why he's not an MVP player is ridiculous to me you can say who you want for MVP I'm not going to argue but you can't say Yochich is less than the MVP player because a random exhibition game on a Sunday but back to the original take adding KD made the Warriors worse I just don't understand that uh that sentiment slash idea I am definitely a dude that thinks that when it comes to building super teams more likely than not it might take longer than you expect for them to jail and start looking great and start to do the things but when you have a guy as selfless there was a reason why there was a big uproar about the Warriors and you have one of the most unselfish superstars of all time and Steph Curry one of the greatest players when it comes to catching and shooting and just can light it up any single night and clay Thompson one of the greatest defenders of this generation and Draymond Green and probably the greatest score of all time in the game of basketball arguably there there was no recipe where that team was not winning multiple championships let's be honest hey but shout out to LeBron him bringing some of those Cavs teams to the finals is is better than a lot of things on anybody resume but no matter who he brought to the finals versus Steph Curry Clay Thompson Draymond Green and Kevin Arrant they didn't really have that much of a chance let's be honest for me it's when people criticize players for having too much help but then simultaneously criticize players for not sticking around with an organization not surrounded them with enough help yeah I I think Kevin Arrant's tweet pretty much says it all when he says NBA fans don't know what they want or something similar to that it's it's facts man I've seen this argument one way or another so many times in my life that it's it's kind of weird I mean Damien Lillard is the prime example of this right and I was I've said this before I was team trade Damien Lillard Damien Lillard free yourself and now I got to the point where I don't really give a damn of what Damien Lillard does in his career right everybody wants to see Damien Lillard request a trade out of Portland I think that has a lot to do with us respecting Dame and wanting him to play for a competent team but if he did go team up with the Brooklyn Nets so he did go team up with this team of this team then all of the people that was telling him to free himself was gonna be mad at him because he freed himself to a good team when in reality anytime you want somebody to be free you want them to upgrade right I still gotta figure out the lighting in this room because the camera is good but it's not as HD as I wanted to and a lot of that's probably my lighter while we're sticking on the topic of Damien Lillard let me quickly say this even though I made a tweet about this during all star weekend I have got to the point where I don't care what Damien Lillard does because I realized very recently that a lot of the stuff that for me and you it's strictly basketball because that's what we watch we watch it a 48 minute game every single day and that's how we know these players we can follow them on socials and things like that but we just know them as basketball players and when I figured out in the Tyrese Halliburton trade is that a lot of the things is is deeper than basketball the idea of getting freed from basketball purgatory that is Sacramento sounds amazing right when you really think about it and then you saw this in his players tribune post that it was deeper than basketball bro was a meeting with nonprofits he was trying to be a good person in the community trying to build the city of Sacramento so yeah we would love to see certain player get out of their city but in reality is with Damien Lillard's case he's been there for what a decade now he's built a family there his kids are in a school district that they really like there's a lot of things that go into it more than just like hey let's go hoop somewhere else because you gotta think about it these players are playing basketball for how many months out of the year is it October to to June July I mean if you make it to the fine you know I'm saying that's a huge chunk of your of your life there's some players and I've seen this and I think Chris Paul is a player that does this where they are part time in the city that they hoop in and I do believe it takes a very special type of person slash player to be able to do that because me as a person that loves his fiance and future kid that's going to come out I can't imagine being away from them that long Chris Paul's family as far as I know doesn't live in Arizona with him during the season so it's like facetimes and phone calls to keep up with the kids and stuff I couldn't do that I need to be able to go hoop if I was an NBA player and drive home from the arena and open up the door and echo my kids so it's deep in the basketball so if Dame don't want to be free look at my boy out there y'all might see this a lot in upcoming videos um if Dame don't want to be free let them do a thing Julius Randall was better than Pete Chris Bosch I am confident no one has ever said that here go receipts what do the receipts say legit question at his absolute apex was Chris Boss ever better than Pete Julius Randall the answer is no and he got ratio to eternity on this one I ain't even got nothing to say on this it's a really bad take and it deserves to be here what the heck is this I have a friend that has sworn for years and still does to this day that Steve Kerr is only riding on the team that Mark Jackson built and that Mark Jackson was fired and replaced with a no coaching experience white man because of racism that's very interesting I've definitely heard people say something similar to this talking about how like um this team doesn't do anything without Mark Jackson was I think it's true but I do believe there's cases where a team max is out under the certain under a certain voice right and I've seen or listened to Draymond Green's podcast or Steph Steph Curry talking and they basically I remember a story specifically that Draymond Green said the very first practice of having Steve Kerr um Steve Kerr was telling them don't worry about getting the ball to Steph Curry because the ball will eventually find the best players and Draymond Green said in that moment he was like bro is crazy shouldn't we want to get the ball or force fee Steph Curry because he's one of the best players on the team right now but in reality uh Steve Kerr was trying to instill this this selfless basketball selfless basketball that we see the Warriors thriving so I'm a guy that recognizes that that Mark Jackson as a coach with the Golden State Warriors was very crucial very beneficial a very important part to the success that they have now but I am also a guy that thinks that Steve Kerr is a guy that came in and immediately elevated them I don't know if they won that first championship of Mark Jackson's to the coach I don't know I do believe that Steve Kerr deserves to be a guy that is in the conversation for best coaches of all time I know he ended up in top 15 and maybe he's not 15 maybe he's top 20 regardless he is a guy that has done a lot to elevate his teams in his spots except for the one year they won like 19 games like what was he supposed to do with that roster hey there was a lot of stuff said about that team and and Steve Kerr specifically that season I ain't forgot Sabonis is the worst all-star ever and that's from Nick Wright again bro what the heck has he never heard of Jamal McGlure or Tarron Hill that's actually insane is this just a Nick Wright post but I do know this right um I made a joke about that like when we were talking about Wiggins y'all remember that video I was talking about Wiggins and I made that joke but I didn't remember that it was Nick Wright that originally said it I remember that it was somebody on tv I didn't know it was Nick Wright bro are you that's that's crazy the shout out to the monster bonus I saw someone say that Carlos Bulls was better than Tim Duncan okay all right all right in his freedom gave up a likely hall of fame career in order to fight for human rights in China this guy right here I'm not going to click his account he's been blocked on twitter for about two months now just us just the stuff that he puts on the timeline and some people I follow like funny retweet him like ha ha this guy's an idiot retweet him and even that's not funny to me so he got blocked a long time ago I can't believe either James Harder Carmelo Anthony and Anthony Davis should have been okay that's weird I do believe that James Harder and Carmelo Anthony both deserve to be top 75 am I bugging am I is that a controversy take to say that James Harder is one of the 75 greatest players of all time who are the people on a short list that have had better careers than James Harder that didn't make it or even Carmelo Anthony it didn't I know these players don't have rings but like there are a lot of players on this list that don't have rings it's talking about an MVP player we're talking about a dude that immediately came into his team and changed them and put them to playoff position an all-time leading score talking about top 10 I don't understand how you can have to join me now Anthony Davis the guy that surprised me like even when that thing came out I was like Anthony Davis is on it yes Anthony Davis on the list I understand why all the takes where a player won't survive in a certain era pisses me off every time and it doesn't make any sense I've said this before when I go to the barbershop I very rarely talk basketball my barber understands what I do for a living he tries to talk basketball with me or the people inside that try to talk basketball with me and I always just basically give them one word answers because barbershop basketball talk is not the same as real basketball talk it's cool it can be fun but some people take it too seriously and the I've heard this maybe 30 times in my lifetime of 25 years of me going to the barbershop and getting haircuts on the biweekly baseless basis I've heard player X wouldn't survive in an era so many times and it always confuses me because based on what based on what oh they found hard back then okay the player X will probably adjust oh nobody was shooting threes back then well this player shoots three so so he would change it just early he would change the NBA earlier it just doesn't make sense or the pace is too fast for a player X that played in the 80s I don't look people adapt to their surroundings basketball is still basketball at the end of the day and I just feel like majority of players could be uniformly good across are we talking about the greatest of the greats when you're just great at the game of basketball you're able to be great regardless in my personal opinion unless we talk about like 50 60s realm of basketball because oh no disrespect to some of the greatest of all time but I was in the arena during the all-time 75 thing all star weekend uh Sunday night halftime show and they were showing footage of like some black and white footage of some players that made the list and I was like no that was just my reaction me and me and me and Mike would look at each other and be like no uh-uh nope oh snap I'm becoming a dude guy wouldn't last in 2022 with that slow jump shot you know what I'm saying I mean I know it's bigger than what they did on the court or the impact of basketball but yeah a good one I'm seeing here but it's not like one specific person saying it is how us NBA fans when it comes to our own personal players we overvalue them and I'm guilty of this as well um but not to the extent that some of the people say somebody here said Fred Van Vleet and O.G. Ida Nobby for Russell Westbrook who says no and yeah everybody overvalues their players but not to this extent I've seen this a lot on more specifically Instagram NBA Instagram is what a wild place and I want to do a video of me diving into NBA Instagram but I don't want to come off as like jerkish you know what I'm saying like making fun of somebody running the page because but but like stuff like this I've seen all the time if Rob Polinka were to pull off a Russell Westbrook for Fred Van Vleet and O.G. Ida Nobby Trey get that guy his own statue outside of formally known as the Staples Center or whatever it's called now give him his own statue bro because that is the craziest trade of all time the the biggest fleecing of all time I think that's good enough those are some bad takes and my reaction to those bad takes I need stuff to put on this this coffee thing so let me let me know what you think I should put up there I got a couple pieces that I just too lazy to get out the boxes but I need more so let me know oh I haven't told y'all to enjoy basketball in some time so I'm gonna remind you right now to enjoy basketball actually the enjoy basketball brand we just launched one of our logos and so if you want to follow us on twitter go ahead do that we get in the samples in for our first design going on to t-shirts and stuff coming up very soon so if you are an enjoyer of the game of basketball I highly recommend going over there following the twitch or the twitter and be out on the lookout for some some projects that we work on all


What's up everybody Jason here for Jasper's case brace calm We just sold out museum collection baseball picker team number six with this random number block that features the rays Royals Cardinals Mets blue Jays Tigers Pirates Padres Nationals Astros Reds Brewers Rangers Marlins Guardians and Rockies and instead of selling ten full spots We're giving away a free spot. We're selling only nine So if you bought a spot in this break you have a chance to win an extra free spot And again, of course, any of these hits come out in this Pitching number six for any of these teams will be distributed via random number block style So you get a sign around a number you go by the first number on the left side of suit number dash Of course any non numbered base cards are randomized To the group any non numbered cards base or slash hits as well so Here's a dice really here's the cousin of names sold from Shawn down Steve bird sold that out and We've got the list of names and numbers So we're gonna use the same dice roller first one's gonna be for the free spot that won't paste it in and then we'll use The same dice roller for the list of names and numbers So roll it it is a five two seven times. Good luck number one gets a free spot one two three four five six seven Boom Matthew would congratulations five and a two seven So you got a free spot So there you go now seven times down the list of names and the numbers one two three four five six seven Seven times seven times Steve Burge down to Steve Gilbert and Let's go seven times down the numbers zero one two three four five six seven eight nine one two three four five six seven seven seven Five to four here. We go. Good luck guys So numbers here for Steve Burgess five Nicholas nine Michael You have any one-to-ones Matthew Wood with two and three Steve was seven Michael. We'll see with Lucy. I'm sorry with the six spot Sean with eight chat any in our redemptions for any one of these teams To be yours than the Steve Gilbert for four So there you go guys coming up next is museum collection baseball. So thanks


What's up everyone? Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be talking about what to do if you tried to turn on your PlayStation 5, but you're only getting a black screen and no image. This is known as the black screen of death. So today we're going to be talking about how you can fix it. Let's get right into this. So the PlayStation 5 black screen of death is very similar to the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 4, and also something known as the blue light of death which also was on the PlayStation 4 and is also on the PlayStation 5. So if you notice that your PlayStation 5 has a solid blue lights and or also has just a black screen, today we're going to be talking about what to do to fix that so you can actually play your PlayStation 5 once again. The first thing you're going to do is to check the power cable. First you're going to turn off your PlayStation 5 and unplug the power cable. Now you're going to inspect the port and the cable for any damage. If there's no damage, plug it back in and make sure that the cable is not loose and that it is secure and try to turn on the system to see if it will now work. If it still won't work, if you do have a second cable, try using a different power cable because sometimes it is a power cable that is faulty and you just don't realize it and whenever you do switch the cable it hopefully will work for you. If not, move on to the next step. Next, check the HDMI cable and that is the biggest culprit for the black screen of death and the blue light of death is just a faulty HDMI cable which you were not aware of. You're going to unplug the HDMI cable and you're going to inspect the ports and the cable at both ends, not only on the PlayStation 5 but also where it connects into the TV. Now if your TV does have multiple HDMI ports, I do recommend trying to plug it into another one and trying to turn on the PS5 to see if that works. Sometimes the HDMI ports in TVs, sometimes for no known reason, they just stop working. So hopefully if you have multiple HDMI ports in your TV, you can just switch to different ports and hopefully it will work for you. Or another option is if you do have a spare HDMI cable, try connecting that cable to the PlayStation 5 and using that one and try turning it on to see if it works. One thing that I've noticed is with a lot of people, the HDMI cable that came with the PlayStation 5 does at times become faulty and by looking at it, it might look fine but once you take it off and replace it with another one, usually it will work for you and hopefully that is the culprit for you. Either the HDMI port in your TV or it might be a faulty HDMI cable which is the biggest culprit for this problem. If that didn't work, the next thing to do is to enter safe mode and to try these steps. Now to enter safe mode on the PlayStation 5, just like the PlayStation 4, you're going to turn off the PlayStation 5, you're going to press and hold the power button for seven seconds, you are going to hear two beeps and then you're going to let go of the power button. You're going to connect the PS5 controller and you're going to press the PS button and now you can navigate through safe mode. The first thing to try in safe mode is to select the first option and that is to reset the PS5. Now that is not a factory reset and you will not lose anything so don't be scared, all that's going to do is basically restart the console from within safe mode. If resetting it didn't work, this time you're going to go back into safe mode and this time you're going to select change video output and then you're going to select change resolution. You're going to go through the steps and hopefully that does fix the problem for you and now you can actually use your PlayStation 5 and it does appear on the screen without the black screen of a death. After you change the resolution if it still doesn't work you should try power cycling the PlayStation 5 which again is not scary. To do this simply turn off the PlayStation 5, unplug all the cables, you're going to wait two to five minutes with it unplugged, now you're going to press and hold the power button for seven seconds while it's still unplugged, you're going to wait another one to two minutes, then you're going to plug all the cables back in and try to turn on the PlayStation 5 to see if that did fix the issue with the black screen of death. This is also another big thing that does work for a lot of people so hopefully it did work for you. Now unfortunately if you do all the safe mode options and everything else that I talked about in this video and none of that worked for you then unfortunately the last thing to try is to factory reset your PlayStation 5 which will erase everything. Now hopefully you have everything saved to the cloud so it's just a matter of signing back in once it is fixed and you'll get everything back but hopefully you did back everything up prior to going and doing this. To do this again you're going to enter safe mode and you're going to select option six this will factory reset your PlayStation 5. Now unfortunately if you even factory reset your PlayStation 5 and it still is in the black screen of death hopefully your PlayStation 5 is still under warranty and I recommend contacting Sony or where you bought it to see how their warranty situation is and hopefully you can get it repaired or a new one under warranty but unfortunately if you tried everything that I talked about in this video and you still have the black screen of death or the blue light of death unfortunately there's nothing more that I can share with you guys because there's a bigger problem with your PlayStation 5. Now most people don't get to this point most people with the HDMI port usually that does work or one of the other options in safe mode usually does work for people most notably the changing resolution for some reason works for a lot of people but most of the time it is a faulty HDMI cable so hopefully something I talked about in this video does work for you if so leave a like in the comments and I'll see you guys in the next video please take care peace.


Good afternoon, everybody. In close coordination with Ukraine has made the decision to provide the M1A1 variant of the Abrams tank, which will enable us to significantly expedite delivery timelines and deliver this important capability to Ukraine by the fall of this year. It will also give Ukraine a very similar capability to the M1A2, which includes advanced armor and weapon systems to include a 120-millimeter cannon and 50-caliber heavy machine gun. So we never got into the specifics, other than to say we were projecting it would be probably over a year or so before we would have been able to deliver that A2 variant. And so, again, this approach will allow us to get that combat capability then quicker. So my understanding, Tony, is that these will be excess hulls in our inventory that we will refurbish, refit through a combination of USAI and security assistance packages in order to make them combat ready. So really, to put that into context, what we were talking about at the time was whether or not we had M1A1s that were going to roll off the line ready to go forward. So we're talking about a different thing here, right? We're talking about refitting, refurbishing these hulls to make them ready on a quicker timeline for Ukraine.


Russia's nuclear attack on Ukraine will be considered an attack on NATO. The White House has commented on the Sunday statement by Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, in which he once again threatened to use nuclear weapons. The White House National Security Council spokesman said, the US representative called Medvedev's rhetoric, reckless and irresponsible, stressing that so far Washington has not seen any signs of Russia preparing a nuclear strike. The use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine or anywhere would be disastrous for the world and would have severe consequences for Russia, the spokesperson said. He stressed that the United States continues to closely monitor the nuclear threat from Russia but so far sees no reason to adjust its own nuclear policy. Earlier on his telegram channel, Medvedev got scared of Ukraine's counter-offensive and wrote, just imagine that the offensive, in tandem with NATO, succeeded and ended up with part of our land being taken away. Then we would have to use nuclear weapons by virtue of the stipulations of the Russian presidential decree, Medvedev said in the post. There simply wouldn't be any other solution, he added. Our enemies should pray to our fighters that they do not allow the world to go up in nuclear flames. Lindsey Graham, the United States Senator from the Republican Party, has commented on the statement of Dmitry Medvedev. According to Graham, it is time for Russians to sober up, realize that their barbaric invasion of Ukraine is not working. Withdraw and save many young Russians from a pointless death. To my Russian friends who talk about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, you need to understand that would be an attack on NATO itself, given Ukraine's proximity to NATO territory. Graham emphasized.


Hi everyone, I'm Damian. I'm a developer here at Moodle HQ. I'm going to talk about the new theme in Moodle 3.2 which is called Boost. This is an exciting new theme that we're developing with a focus on accessibility and the user experience. In Boost you have clearer ways to navigate around Moodle with key points in each page that you can use to configure the courses and activities. There's more space on the screen for your content with a navigation drawer that can slide out of the way and you have the option to switch back to the old theme and the old interface at any time if you want to. If you're a developer, Boost is built with Bootstrap 4 and there is a new SAS compiler in Moodle and there's a lot of new templates that you can use when you're extending Boost. We hope the themeers will come up with a lot of new and exciting things based on Boost in the future using these new features. Boost is a fresh new beginning and we will continue to develop it in response to user feedback and keep improving it. Thank you.


Look, here's the money that was electronically paid to whoever the vendor is, and it's a legitimate business expense, right? So that's why for any legitimate business expense, you would typically wanna write a check. You would typically want an electronic transfer so that you have a clear audit trail of who you have paid. If you're paying cash for something, you don't have an audit trail, you have to save receipts like the old days. You're gonna have to have a bunch of receipts that you can then make a copy of and put into the system, but that's not the ideal way to do it. Now, sometimes cash is still king, like if you're tipping people and whatnot, maybe the cash will go a little bit longer. Some people like doing transactions in cash, so if you still have to use cash, fine, but the general rule is I would like to not use cash and just use electronic transfers and checks for business stuff if possible, and therefore any draw of cash, I can assume will be a draw from the owner for personal use. In that case, it'll be part of the equity, decreasing the equity account over here as a draw instead of going to the income statement as an expense. So we'll show both methods here. I'm gonna imagine it's an expense. So we're gonna say it's an expense. I don't know what it was for. I'm gonna put it into miscellaneous expense. So other miscellaneous expense. And then next time we'll show it as a draw and we'll look at the difference between those two things. So let's go ahead and save it. So we have recorded new transactions that we knew about now because of the bank reconciliation. If I go to my balance sheet, my bank balance has now changed. If I go into the transactions, we should have then the bank charges and the expenses that we put in place. Let's go back. Let's go to the income statement. Where do they show up on the other side of the transaction? We should have bank fees that are now under business expenses. I'm not sure I need the subcategory of business expenses. So I might remove, probably if I have time we'd remove that, we might do that later. And then the other side, we put into miscellaneous expenses which they put down here into other expenses which it may or may not belong in other expenses. A lot of people dump stuff into the miscellaneous expense that are normal business expenses but they have no other place to put it. So again, I'm not sure that categorization down here would be appropriate, but if you properly used it that might be the way to do it because these would be expenses that we don't know where they go, can't categorize them, therefore they're down in the other area. But there they are. So that's that. And now if I go back to the first tab and we go back into our transactions and reconcile, we can continue with our reconciliation, we will resume the process. Closing this out, don't show me this again. I've told you once, if I told you once, I told you a thousand times. So this is gonna be then 15 and 150. We should be able to find those and check them off. Here they are, the 150 and the 15 done. We'll X those off. These have been found. Boom. All right, so now we have everything that has been found except for these two. So if I look at my balance now at this point in time, I'm gonna say, okay, what is happening here? We've got this 11829 that should be there minus the 1000 minus the 4000 is gonna give us the 106829. And that's what should be over here now, 106829 because I have that 5000 that's messing me up right now. So I have the 5000 messing me up there and I have this 30,000, which is messing me up for the beginning balance which is showing on our side as a deposit instead of the beginning balance and it's showing has 25,000. Notice that those two things net each other out. We'll talk more about it later. But if I was to say, hey, I'm off by 25,000 right here. I don't know, like if I didn't know what was going on, I might say, well, I don't know what's going on, but if I just click off that 25,000, boom, the difference is down to zero. I'm good to go. And you could kind of do that if you, in some cases that might work. However, you're not really entering everything in there and that will not always work, right? Why does that work in this case? Because the difference between the beginning balance of 30,000 and these two checks is the difference of the 5000, right? That's netting out to the 5000. But if these checks didn't clear, meaning these were checks that were written, we're assuming in December, but then they cleared in January, which we're reconciling now. But a lot of times you'll have checks that are on the books that shouldn't even be there because they were entered twice or something and they're never gonna clear. If they didn't clear in January, this will not happen. If this check right here, this 1000 doesn't clear in the following month, then that won't work because now you're gonna have 4000 here versus a difference of 5000. So I just want to note that that could happen and that could kind of work. Even if it does work that way, you still wanna be skeptical to do that because what you'd really like to have happen is to show that these checks were written in the prior period and they were cleared in the current period, which means we would like to actually physically put these checks in our system as of the prior period and then we'll adjust this beginning balance to be 30,000 so it'll match what we have. So we'll have the same beginning balance of 25,000 but it will be in there as a 30,000 here and two checks, the 4,000 and 1,000 representing the outstanding checks that were in our system simulating what we would have had in our prior bank reconciliation in the prior accounting system, having those outstanding items representing the beginning balance so we can properly reconcile. So we'll do that next time. So I'm gonna uncheck this right now and then we'll dive into that in more detail next time and once we do the first reconciliation, again, the next reconciliation will be easy because we'll have a beginning or cleared balance which will be proper, which is in the same accounting system which will then be the proper beginning balance for the following month. Let's take a quick look at our trial balance just to see where we stand because we did make a change. So here's our trial balance as of now. So these are our balances. If your number's tied to these numbers, great. If not, try changing the date. See if it's a date range issue. All we did was adjust the bank account and then we made adjustments to that miscellaneous account down below as well as the bank charges which are right here, I believe, the 15.


Hello there, so today I wanted to talk to you about a certain concept that that I got from a book. I read recently It's called originals by Adam Grant. It's an excellent book by the way. I liked it a lot I won't talk about the whole book here Because it's I mean it is relevant to what we do it basically what he's talking about he's talking about people who do original work and By original work he means obviously works that are hits that change the way in which we see things that You know our game changers in their own specific industry or field or whatever it is and he talks about how they're able to do it why they're able to do it and you know how we can replicate this and in essence, I just wanted to talk about one concept that he touches on here that got me thinking about Doing original work and how it relates to what we do to being a freelancer and And to our work as freelancers and as entrepreneurs and so this is what he mentions This is the quote. I mean the quote more or less. I did this from my notes of the book So here we go Mozart Mozart composed more than 600 pieces Beethoven 650 Bach over a thousand the more pieces a composer produces the greater the chances of a hit Picasso made over 1,800 paintings 1200 sculptures 2,800 ceramics and 12,000 drawings Maya Angelou wrote a hundred and sixty six poems and seven autobiographies Einstein had two hundred and forty eight publications So His well his conclusion for the whole thing is if you want to do original work as he calls it original work do a lot of work So great, so how does this apply? I mean, this is definitely an interesting factoid, I guess But how does this apply to what we do? Well in essence What we're doing is well, you know, we're basically trying to build our own business And we're trying to create something out of nothing, you know our we're trying to earn a living from being freelancers and So and we want to see results whenever we start off. We don't get results It's very rare that someone on their first application to their first client, you know actually gets business and so we start off slowly and then we build it up and in essence what he's saying there is that if you want results from what you do you have to do a lot of it and You know anyone who's had some success can can attest to this You know can say well it took a long time, you know at the beginning You're just trudging along trying to figure out what sticks and what works and then after a while you get to it and you know something works out and But the way I want to relate this is because right now if you if you're struggling to become a freelance translator Then that's what you're trying to do But even if you are, you know, okay as a freelance translator Then chances are you're still struggling with something right like maybe sales. You're not good at sales You're very good at the translation part, but you're not good at sales I know that was the case for me, right and Because and I feel like it's a lot of that for a lot of freelancers because if you're freelancing you like to Work on your own maybe you know work from a laptop in a coffee shop or something like that And you don't like dealing with people too often and sales you have to deal with people unfortunately But it could be anything else. Maybe you're struggling with some of the translation quality for what you're doing or maybe it's Learning a new language it could be anything but you know if we stick to translation or to freelance stuff then yeah It could be some skill that you're trying to to it's something you're trying to accomplish basically let's say sales Because I imagine that's the deal for a lot of you a lot of you are trying to pick up sales and trying to get better at it And maybe you're not too good at it. You don't like sales You you know you want to be a freelance translator or freelance whatever and not to be a sales person So how do you get better at it? Well, the secret is unfortunately there is no secret formula but it's just to do a lot of it and For those of you who know Malcolm Gladwell, you've heard that a 10,000 hour rule and you know, basically there He's saying that people who are experts at stuff. I mean he quotes like you know the Beatles and stuff like that That you basically spend 10,000 hours doing something professional athletes and stuff like that now I I've Several issues with that. I don't think you necessarily need 10,000 hours and there are many ways around that but Look, let's face it if you do a lot of something You're gonna get it right after a while and the good thing, you know So when Picasso or Mozart did all their works, you know, they got some right and that's why they're famous But you know Picasso did 1,800 paintings 1200 sculptures 12,000 drawings 2,800 ceramics, he's not famous for all of them by any means, you know He's famous for a handful of them that we know and and then and all the other ones He's not famous for it all and probably would not be famous had he not done those few that we know him for and So how does this apply to us? Well, the good thing for us is that in sales What we only need to get it right once, you know out of all the times we try because once we figure it out What works and what doesn't then we know what to point out So, you know, if we're trying like Facebook ads and those don't work We try face-to-face meetings. We try email blaster, you know, whatever it might be and then we realize something works All of a sudden you're like, oh when I do face-to-face meetings in this certain location I got clients then you keep doing that you only need to figure out what works once and then you can keep doing that I'm replicating it copy and pasting it and making it work over and over and over again Unfortunately to find out what works in the first place that's when you need to be doing a lot of it and you need to be doing it all over the place and you know, that's the hustle and so in essence the hustle means to keep doing what you're doing and Keep trying and keep going at it. It's always a numbers game as I've said so many times in these videos And so you just need to keep trudging along and figuring out what sticks and in this book originals talking about how these great people Did so much of what they do it shows that it's the same no matter where you go You have to keep going at it keep going at it keep going at it until it works out and then once it works out it really works out and and so that's what you should be shooting for and So yeah, I mean that's in essence what I want to say So if you are struggling with sales The secret to having better sales to doing better sales is to do a lot of them And I know it sucks because sales is the last thing you want to do usually I know that that was the case for me I'm like I'm good at translation. I want to do my translations. Why should I be doing sales? I was doing the bare minimum and then I got one sale. I'm like, okay I can relax for now, but no, you know, that's the thing you should be getting good And so my goal there for sales and that's why I could relate to this was I was like, okay I need to obviously dedicate more time. I need to get good at this So my goal was I want to be able to teach sales to someone I want to be able to you know, teach other people other freelancers how to go about sales and marketing and And that's what I did. I literally have a course now. It's up on you to me. I'm not gonna link to it I'm not trying to also because I don't feel like looking for it now, but It's you know, I because I was able to gather enough information that worked and I was able to make it work out But I really had kind of the switch mentality. I was like, I want this is something I don't like I want to be able to teach it I want to be able to know it so well not only get to know it and get to know, you know The basics and all that I want to know it so well that I can teach it So right now for all of you struggling to do something probably something you don't like doing much I imagine sales or marketing or something along those lines is a big part of it I challenge you to do a lot of it and for your ultimate goal to be able to do so much of it that you could teach it to someone else and That because if you learn enough of it and you apply enough of it not just learn the theory but actually use it enough that you Can teach it to someone else at a certain point You'll find that it's really starting to work something is gonna work out and then you can concentrate all your effort on that and then you'll have it down and And that's gonna take a lot of work So Yeah, that's it. Unfortunately, it's not a not so much of a hack or a Get rich quick scheme or anything But you know, I'm just telling you you're gonna have to do a lot of work but a lot of work that's targeted in the right way can really show results and Anyway, that's what I got from this book, which by the way is a great book for other reasons as well but It's it's just a concept that I wanted to share with you guys that I think is very useful that I know I've found useful in the past and I could really relate to it when I read about it in this book and Hopefully you can find useful as well. So that's pretty much it for now So don't forget to click thumbs up and like if you do don't forget to subscribe if you haven't and I'll see you in the next video Thanks. Bye


OK, so we're still talking Cricut on the Sportsmax on the West in this team will start their tour of Australia later this evening Caribbean time with their three day tour match against the Cricut Australia 11 led by Peter Hanscom the squad includes seven on cap players some of whom are expected to make their debuts in the first test. Let's have a quick look at the squad. Bradford captain Azor Azar Joseph is the vice-captain. Tatian Ryan Shandepoel, Kurt McKenzie Alec Athanez, Kevin Hodge, Justin Graves, Joshua De Silva, Akeem Jordan, Gurakesh Moti, Kimar Roach, Kevin Sinclair, Tevin Imlak, Shamaar Joseph and Zachary Makasky. Coach Andre Coley is confident in his team's ability to compete even with the new players. They're not strangers I would have played against each other in the original Cricut and recently we toured South Africa some of the players are here and the comadres been been very good I'm actually been very impressed in terms of the feedback and some of the nurturing from senior players you know watching them take leadership I mean Azari, Kimar has been very good in terms of older and younger players and giving insights around their experiences so that's been good to watch as well outside of the obviously the ship of myself and Craig. Andre Coley there the head coach of the West Indies test team now international Cricut commentator Nikhil Utam-Chandani joins us via zoom from South Africa Nikhil welcome to the Sportsmax zone great to have you on the show and happy to hear that you're in in South Africa getting ready for a major assignment thank you very much Lance and great to be here as always discussing West Indies Cricut happy new year to the entire zone family yeah all right let's talk quickly about the huge challenge that faces this inexperienced West Indies team because seven on-camp players going to take on an Australian team which in the past week reclaimed the number one spot in the world test rankings seems a mountain to climb and Geoffrey Dujan the former West Indies wicketkeeper batsman suggesting that he lightens this to sending the lamps to the slaughter would you go as far as to suggest what Geoffrey Dujan has said well to be honest Lance I'm always very optimistic about what West Indies Cricut and I'll give Cricut West Indies some credit as well I heard what Andrew Coley said just now the fact that they've been able to organize a few tours one to Bangladesh one to South Africa away from home where the nucleus of this current test team has been thinking it will help in terms of the experience but I watched that Pakistan versus Australia test series very closely almost every single ball really given that time difference and how well it worked out for us in the Caribbean and boy I can tell you by the world test championship by the rankings by the personnel that Australia team is I think can go down as one of the best that we've ever seen and I think it's the boiling attack that has a lot to do with it you've got Steve Smith who's averaging over 60 and probably luckily for the West Indies there's no David Warner but Kawaja La Bouchaine and the list goes on and on so I think it's going to be a steep mountain for the West Indies to climb and I think for me I look less at the results and more about an opportunity for seven and cap players to really stake a claim and really put their name out there and show the world what they're capable of doing against the world's best yeah I'm talking to us quickly about some of the on-cap players though Nikhil because for decades we have accepted that here in the Caribbean or domestic structure doesn't properly prepare our players for international cricket and Wave of Hines who was a co-host of mine at the Sportsmax zone here when we just started 10 years ago had always said that our players have to be learning on the job at the highest level because that's where they really start to take on the level that they're asked to compete at at international standings but you know some of these players a few of them Barbadians like Hakeem Jordan and Justin Graves and Zachary Makasky and and the seven on-cap men generally how talented are they because I don't want to write them off we know that Australia are going to be huge favorites here that's for sure there's no question about that but sport is played on the field and we've seen upsets and we've seen surprises is there enough quality in some of these players you think Nikhil that that could probably create some surprises for the Aussies yeah I definitely think they have the capabilities to challenge I think another factor going into the series I mean cricket has become so technology driven now where teams are able to plan and really able to set up for our positions but I think the fact that the Westinese have got so many new faces could almost work in their favor there's almost not enough about these players to sort of for other teams to plan for however I'll say to your point about the pitches it is a big step up for guys like Hakeem Jordan Shamar Joseph who's one I'll be keeping a close eye on just to see I think how far our fast-balling talent is from playing in the best surfaces or sort of more conducive surfaces but also the step up or the difference in the levels because in the Caribbean we've grown used to very spin-friendly pitches in our first-class setup and pitches on the slower side so for someone like Joseph who's short at times you can get up to 145 kilometers per hour he just took 12 wickets in two matches in seam friendly conditions in South Africa I think that in itself is a step in the right direction and something for Westinian fans to be excited for because when he goes to Australian conditions with green grass on pitches and some variable bounce he could be effective and maybe cause some problems for that Australian top order Hakeem Jordan Justin Graves both have also had success but there are more swing bowlers so think they'll be relying on that new ball to really make an impact and it'll be interesting to see how Zari Joseph as the leader of that attack now fits himself into the puzzle with all these pieces around him. Yeah and as we talk about the seven uncapped players Nikhil I think it's very very important that we recognize how essential how crucial the three senior players will be because we have Craig Brassway as you mentioned Elzari Joseph and Kimmar Roach because of course these youngsters and some of them not so young but it's their first time playing will be depending on the experiences of all of these players to ensure that you know they do the best that they can. Well I think starting at Elzari I mean he has shown us so many progressive strides in all three formats in 2023 so I'm really excited to see you know with new responsibility I think he's learned a lot more about his personal game and development so this will be a big challenge but I'm sure he will be relishing it and also I think is why he opted to go out to the series as well understanding that test cricket is really the pinnacle and this is a great opportunity for him but I'll say Craig will be I think even more important if that's possible than he was last year because remember he scored 110 when the West Indies actually challenged Australia in that first test and many thought at that stage that you know the West Indies had a chance of winning that test match obviously things became a bit difficult but I think just on the basis of that stage during Channel Paul that's where he began his test career and was very positive actually found benefit on the pitches there being a bit quicker ball coming onto the bat a bit better and he actually played his shot so it's a great opportunity for the three of them specifically Joshua the Silver's been around for a while and he will obviously have new responsibilities and probably a bit more to do behind the something with batting hand and whether he goes up the order we'll see but I think all for the senior and the uncapped players this is a special opportunity and yes Australia are playing the cricket of their lives however you do well in this series you know the world will will notice the world will know because this is an australian side who have won the ashes they've won the word test championship and as Lance said at the beginning of the show they're number one in the world yeah I don't want to harp too much on what is not or who's missing but how much will be miss adjacent hold on a Cal may has given the conditions. Yeah a lot Maria a lot in terms of the fast bowling pedigree I even think like someone like a German Blackwood who I know has struggled in recent times Ramon Rifa as well but the fact that both of them were on that Australia tour a year ago it was quite surprising to me to see them not return just because of the experience of these conditions and how menacing they can be I mean I look at Baba Azam who has dominated cricket in all formats for the last two to three years and even in Australia every time he looked like he was getting a start and this could be his day he'll get a big hundred they just found a way they threw so much at him to made him play and really challenged him and he's one of the best in the world right now so it just tells you how difficult of a place is to go to and yeah I mean good luck to the West Indies and I think all in all they'll come out as a better team and better individuals. Yeah Nikhil we look forward to see what will happen in that West Indies versus Australia test series I do have one for you though because I see you are traveling the world and having a wonderful time at it we could call you a limited over specialist maybe even a T20 specialist. I do wonder though if you want to do a test cricket. Oh Ricardo a test cricket as I said is the pinnacle you know so anytime the opportunity is awarded I would love to just be around I think what has been cricket's greatest format and I think it's not dead to be honest when I watch test series South Africa India the West Indies and England always have good battles so test cricket is alive and I'm ready anytime. Yeah you know Lance and Mariah and Nikhil the difference is as a commentator the test rewards are probably better than the T20 rewards. I guess they are. I just said Ricardo and you always have me on my toes I just can't even you're I'm pretty tall I just don't know which starts you're going to go in. Well we'll be in touch for sure. Great linking with you as usual and we'll be watching. Well first of all this tour match very closely to see how the Windows boys assert themselves on this opening assignment. Yeah looking forward to seeing you on sports maps guys thanks. OK great. OK just a quick look at some of the stats for some of these on-cap players their first-class stats of course the seven on-cap players in Australia at the moment getting ready for action in this series. Zachary Mckaskey 27 year old top order batter 11 first-class matches 641 runs averaging 30.5 to 100 so far in his career place for Will Dean Barbados. David Imlak the Guyanese also 27 wicketkeeper batsman 17 first-class matches 612 runs 24.48 he's had 100 so we see here as we go through them a lot of lack of experience in the number of first-class matches they've played even coming into test cricket for the first time. Justin Graves a little older than the other two seen bowling all rounder he has 37 first-class matches 1268 runs averaging 26.97 and he's had 100 as well 76 wickets averaging 22.76 he's had four or five wicket holes. He is of course from Barbados. Camim Hodge the Dominique and I can't believe he's 30 years old already he was a junior just a few years ago I guess I'm the one that's getting old and I'm spinner first-class record 55 matches in fact 2,706 of two runs he averages 29.07 he has had 400s in first-class cricket he's taken 55 wickets average 37.80 he's had one five wicket hole. These are the uncapped players on the tour Kevin Sinclair the 24-year-old Guyanese off-spinner and all rounder 21 matches in first-class cricket so far just under 1,000 runs averaging 31.48 no hundreds yet 66 wickets averaging 24.33 and he's had five four wicket holes as a young player I have a lot of time for Guyanese producing a lot of good young cricketers recently Akim Jordan has been around for a while with a CCC in domestic cricket as well fast bowler 15 matches 39 wickets averaging 22.08 he has had two five-git holes so far in his career one of the seven non-capped players in the West Indies squad Shamar Joe's of the exciting Guyanese who has a lot of pace 24 years old only five first-class matches and getting ready to play test cricket 21 wickets averaging 21.80 he has had a couple of five-git holes already in his career so the stats on some of these players based on their experience playing first-class cricket not a lot to go on but let's see how they handle themselves here in this Australia opportunity because they're taking on the best in the world and they've got a tough job to do zone update two coming up after this back in a moment


After you finally completed the Cuba swim I was curious just as a spectator of how you adjusted to life after the goal that you had worked years and years to achieve and was it as easy as I did it? That was that's over and with on to the next project or did it take some time to be like well now what? What comes next? It's a complex question with a complex answer and that is I think every world-class athlete every who retires and unlike other professions you retire when you're young as a general rule you know that's sports although I had this resurgence in my 60s you know so I wasn't so young when I retired the second time but there is a drama and a black and white sort of lifestyle to sports you know you know it Diego from tennis is that you know you don't say I'm going to be the best investment banker in the world who's going to decide that whereas if you want to say I'm going to I'm going to win Wimbledon then there we have a very concrete goal in front of us and we know just what to do to get there whether you can or not so I think there's a depression not only in being the best and being lauded Michael Phelps has gone through a lot of depression well he's had he's admitted in his chemistry he has depression but also to be can imagine to be that the king of the world and now all of a sudden you're just in the airport with thousands of other people nobody really knows who you are maybe with him you know they do they do but as a general rule so I admit that for five years which is a very long time after someone who's just on a solo event usually when we see the Phelps of the world I mean he's winning you know multiple medals over multiple olympics this is just epic whereas I did hold a number of world records but to the world at large I was a sort of a big deal at the end of the Cuba swim in my 60s and for five years after I was on a rocket I was going doing three speeches a day flying by helicopter here and there going international just you know jet setting telling my story writing the memoir people were doing a documentary film I did an off-broadway show which I've always wanted to do my own acted all out and uh all that stuff so I was just at a rocket ship at the end of five years what you're talking about next started to start to settle in I'm not chasing that dream anymore I'm not even kind of dealing with the aftermath anymore I'm on to what what's next what what is life and probably never will I have something that concrete that dramatic to chase again but I realized that what was at the bottom of it was the pursuit was the pursuit of my potential so Diego will tell you the how laughable this could be but honestly I started playing tennis at the age of 68 I'm never going to be anywhere in the category for instance of Diego's wife Natalia I won't be she's a superstar on the court and she's nowhere near going to Wimbledon so there's a there's a big gap between the ceiling of what's great but I have a sport now I have a pursuit of a sport I have a little training center in my garage that's all tennis oriented I'm a little slow off the mark like a lot of swimmers so I have to make up for that somehow I play seven days a week you know I just try to try to learn from all the greats at our club even and watching on television but I I'm so thrilled to be back in the pursuit of my potential at a sport which is very different than pursuing your potential as a business person it really is it has it as I said it has a more black and white defined you can you can write down in your notebook what is it this month I got improved at that follow through on the forehand I've got to get that going so I think there is a there is a depression and a difficulty when an athlete steps away from their sport are they going to feel that talented at anything again are they going to feel that passion at anything again maybe not because sport lends itself you know to to bring out your talents and and and seeking your passion you know but I like to think that everything I do has a bit of a vision and has a largesse to it you know that that inspires me


Today, I'm going to be talking about public money, public code in Europe and basically try to do a very brief overview of what has happened in terms of public money, public code in the EU institutions. Because of time and also because of the topic, I just want to focus on public money, public code because I know that at the moment there are a lot of legislation going on that is worrying a lot of the community but I'm just going to exclude those if you want to talk about those later will be mainly in the booth or you can just shoot me an email and we can exchange some ideas. So I always like to start with the basics and always to put everybody on the same page maybe this is very familiar for you but I think it's super important now more than ever to always remember that free software guarantees the four freedoms to use, study, share and improve the software and whenever one of those freedoms is excluded then we're talking about a non-free software project, how are you going to name it? We at the Free Software Foundation Europe so we empower users to control technology and we do this with free software and among different activities that we have, we have the public money, public code campaign. Maybe this is also very familiar for you and also mainly in this deaf room but also briefly overview of our campaign, we started this four, five years ago, 2017 and we're basically requiring legislation that demands that public procurement or public software that is procured for the public sector should be public code and for this then we have different reasons, we use different arguments whenever we are talking with public administrations with decision makers so one of those is definitely tax saving because then you know the public money should be spending the most efficient way so there is no point to spend public money on proprietary licenses if you can reuse free software then the collaboration part is also super important because we all know free software enhances interoperability and collaboration so administrations can collaborate with each other because it's open because it's there and there is no need to reinvent the wheel again and then it's also serving the public because then the public money given by the public you know the people will know what the money is being spent and then I think we all agree if the money is spending a good way we like that and of course to foster innovation because then we now have to start from scratch again but we can just reuse the solutions that already exist so we have in our open letter we have an open letter that you can sign as individual I mean organizations but also public administrations we have more than 10,000 signatures and now at the moment we have seven public administrations there are some from Germany from Sweden and from Spain I think three of them and then recently one from Luxembourg has also signed our open letter so it is not so many but it is nice to see some administrations supporting our call or campaign but yeah so now yeah there was a very brief overview of the public money public code campaign and within this we have different activities and we also actively try to advocate in the EU level in this regard so today I want to talk about two EU institutions I'm gonna first start with the European Commission what has happened in there over the last three four years and also I will talk a little bit about the European Parliament more specifically about the AI resolution a little bit of the AI ongoing AI act and then I will also talk very briefly about the declaration of digital rights because these are some of the files or legal documents where we have been active and yeah so let's start with the Commission I think in order to talk about the Commission we have to talk about these two pilot projects the EU Fossa and the EU Fossa too so basically these were projects that were given to the European Commission by the European Parliament so basically the European Parliament or the Commission get those pilot projects ready because we need to improve the security of the free software tools that it's that are have been or are used on the European institutions so they did that they did their best they within those those two pilot projects they did 15 back bunties three hackathons to actually you know audit the code of this free software tools within the institutions however that is there was not budget allocated to this projects and therefore they could not run any longer so this was basically you know like a kind of like the European Parliament told them how to do it and what to do it but there was not budget allocated and I think to the my talk you will see that this is a unfortunately this is a pattern there is a lot of nice wardings and a lot of nice initiatives but fortunately there is not budget so they stopped doing this project and in 2020 the European Commission released the open source strategy and this strategy is super interesting because this is as you can read there it's a communication from the Commission to the Commission so basically this is I mean this is not a legal binding document so it's basically the Commission telling themselves how they should work with open source what they you know should what they should do it's like a plan is not not something again and nothing legal binding so in this regard I mean we still have to say that we acknowledge that the Commission has the will has the initiative to set up this kind of things and then you know they're already realizing that open source it's been used in the US citizens and they need to do something about this however as a strategy by itself it's quite rather weak because it doesn't have any real indicators or anything that we can you know you can actually follow up what's happening and see the progress of such plans so far so if you go to the text then you can see warding such as like whatever it makes sense to do so the Commission will chair the source code and again here is like when whenever makes sense or whenever it makes sense what does that even mean like it is not clear when the Commission should chair the source code and then also in some a part there is a part there is a section that talks about that the Commission has the freedom to choose a non open source tool if there are good reasons to do so and again like what it's a good reason what it's not so all of this wording it's a little bit biased and not biased like ambiguous so to say so it is very unclear and therefore our analysis of these strategies like okay nice you want to do something but there is still some I don't know we're not quite happy with the wording and the way it was it was done however in 2021 then the European Commission also realized about this and then they had a decision so this is a decision then we saw this transition between a project strategy a communication to more like a legally binding paper so in this paper they are want to define the conditions under what the open European Commission is gonna chair open source and within this decision then we can we can see that they are trying now to implement all that is already happening the European Commission open source program office so basically this is kind of like the office that will be in charge of taking care of all these plans or all this decision from the past documents I already talked about so this is this is step I mean now there is a open source program office that is actually trying to act as a facilitator so they also do some backbent is they also do hackathons and I have to say that they're really trying to do something about about this they're trying to implement all these projects and all these plans and all these strategy but again we there is not budget allocated to these is a possible so for them it's really hard to you know do what they have to do because there is not human capacity because basically there is no budget so it's really difficult so here we find ourselves again with a very nice you know nice wording you know there is like the will and the initiative to do something about this but there is no budget allocated to to these initiatives within this decision then in the article 6 a public repository is also included and this is definitely something good I mean we have been advocating for public repository for all the open source tools that the European institutions used and this is I mean this is publicly available so this is again another step here from here we can see like that not only the European institutions are sharing what they're using but this is also trying to include member states so they're also trying to see you know to build this interoperable network among member states so in terms of public money public code this is this is again a step and I feel like this is going on on the right path but I can I mean I cannot really say enough that there are some things that need to be work at work such as the wording has to be more clear and again there should be more budget allocated to free software in general and this is not happening at the moment so this is basically what happened like what is happening in the European Commission I know that at the moment the European Commission is proposing a lot of legislation and initiatives towards open source they are realizing that open source or free software it's it needs a special regulation it is important they in my point of view they are noticing that but yeah within the European Commission this is what's happening we can see there is will there is something the Osboy trying to do whatever they can but not budget at all allocated in this so now let's talk a little bit about the European Parliament so as I mentioned very briefly I want to talk about the mainly the EU AI resolution this was a resolution that was led by the special committee that was created in the European Parliament to take care of to do this resolution and this is resolution is again not legally binding is just an opinion they are like a guideline for the ongoing AI act and the AI act is going to be a regulation so this is going to be legally binding but the European Commission the European Parliament decided to create this committee to exchange views to talk with experts with stakeholders and yeah they come up with this resolution so of course we also try to advocate there although we knew was not legally binding but again these are guidelines and the decision makers really this is a good argument for us you know if there are guidelines we can always bring them to these guidelines because that's why they're using them for right because they need to be used they always you always need to go and look back to these guidelines so in this regard it's hard to say if it was completely successful or not but there was a huge step there is a recital that talks about public procurement on AI again we see this pattern from the EU institutions to have this very ambiguous warning of whatever it's appropriate whenever it makes sense whatever there are good reasons and in this recital we see again as you can see I just caught this recital so nice I mean this is step and I guess in this regard we can always use it to benefit the community but it's still it's super ambiguous and so this recital was voted especially like this specific recital and the good thing is that it found a huge majority within the European Parliament so that tells something as well that tells also the will that the European Parliament has but the downside as I already mentioned is it's not legally binding it's just a guideline but at least we have something right so in this regard then we would say that decision makers understood the importance of open source on AI so to briefly talk a little bit about our FSF demands for the AI legislation we basically we are it's very straightforward we said like AI should be fair transparent accessible and this is only possible if it's open source and then of course we have an argument on public research and public AI so whenever there is public money invested on research on AI then it should be also public AI and at the moment the AI act has been still discussed at the European Parliament so nobody knows how the final text will look like we don't know if the European Parliament is gonna go back and see this guidelines for the AI resolution it is not clear but I feel like we step in in the moment that we could we're still gonna try to monitor what's happening there but as far it's really difficult to see how that's gonna develop and yeah from from now on until I don't know I think the last this is gonna be vote by the end of the year in the last plenary I don't know and finally I want to talk a little bit about the declaration of digital rights so this was also an initiative of course from the commission they just want to have this guidelines as well as a reference point for the digital transformation of Europe so we decide to also step in because as well as like with the Berlin Declaration and the Thailand Declaration these are always guidelines that we use to talk to decision-makers to public administrations because they are there and they talk about public procurement and free software so we start like let's try to also influence the way the wording is gonna happen in this declaration again I mean this is just like you know it's a it's a guideline document for their own going legislation so a lot of people didn't really like see the point to work on this paper but I personally I saw that it was like the baseline to discuss further legislation so we went for it and this was super interesting because we also try to we approach decision-makers on the European Parliament then they had an opinion as a European Parliament I win this opinion before going into the inter institutional negotiations the European position at European Parliament position was open source or free software was included on AI system so there was a nice a article there that was in which open source was included however once the three institutions sat down to discuss then this wording was completely gone and then at the moment like the the final text that was signed by the three institutions removed completely the part on open source on AI and then we just have a reference to promoting interoperability open technologies and standards that's the final text it's super and clear I mean is it open standards is it only standards it is for us it was like a it was not there the ideal outcome because we were quite happy yeah quite happy with the with the opinion from the European Parliament but then this was completely changed and that's what usually most of the times happens whenever the three institutions sit down to discuss however again I mean let's look at the bright side as well we saw that the European Parliament in its position included open source free software so again this shows that there is will or there is a there is an understanding from the European Parliament as well on this on the importance of open source free software on AI or on public procurement so yeah unfortunately this is how this end up not the best outcome but yeah I mean this is this is what you get when you try to advocate this European institution sometimes so just to maybe talk a little bit what's ahead of us we see and I think you already got it we have very ambiguous wording on the documents that we have so far so we just really trying to advocate for a clear and consistent wording but free software in ongoing legislation so we cannot change what's done already but we want to I mean now that this has been included we want to make sure that the wording is more clear and also consistent so again the European Commission doesn't have to come up with a new wording with a new inclusion with something different but they can just reuse what it's already there and we want to make sure that if we get to this point then this wording is clear and of course that it benefits the free software ecosystem in general and then of course there is a problem with implementation because now yeah we have nice wording documents but there to practice it's a it's a little bit different so we want to keep monitoring of like how much of this a legally binding documents are being properly implemented so we basically with this we just have to keep advocating for public money public card and then trying to make sure that there is a proper implementation implementation of such documents and last but not least I think that's one of the most important one is that we really want to keep demanding that is governmental budget allocated to free software because as we can see there is there is will there is some text but if there is not budget then that becomes very difficult so that's that's what we have ahead of us it's not quite easy but at least we have seen what's like the transition and not the whole process we have already pinpoint what we need to focus on and yeah we're just gonna try to do our best to to do so so and for this we also need our community we are I mean it is important to talk to decision makers but it's also important that the free software ecosystem the free software community also approaches administrations you know raise awareness of this matter as well so you can convince your local administration and for this if you might be interested I also invite you to see the talk from my one of my colleagues in the community there from he's gonna explain more how you can actually get active on our on the framework of our public money public code because there is this sometimes people don't really see the power that use that you guys have to reach out your local administrations and also you know like we're not talking about European Parliament European Commission we're talking about the library of your town that's also a public administration so I invite you also if you are interested to check that talk you can sign our open letter of course as individuals organizations or if also you want to convince your local administration to sign the open letter well that's pretty nice and of course I mean donations are always welcome with a charity and we are really trying to work as much as we can for to to come up with legislation that benefits the whole free software community and of course spreading the word I know that this public money public code campaign is quite well known but it is you know there is always people that don't know or people that don't really know what free software is so all these things are super important we also have a I mean we have a brochure on public money public code but then we also have a brochure that we have prepared for AI that we use also to reach out to decision-makers it's also on our website so if you also want to take a look at this position paper and distribute it feel free to do so and yeah with this just to close up I don't want to I don't want you to leave this room feeling a little bit upset or like you know sad I feel like personally I feel quite positive for what's happening at the moment with other files as well it is just a matter to you know we that's why I really like these spaces and these events where we can talk to each other we can you know discuss and then we can actually bring all these positions and all these concerns to decision-makers because there is a gap between the community and decision-makers and we're trying to close that gap or build the bridge so the future legislation that is happening it's yeah it really benefits free software so yeah thank you very much and now I'm very happy to take questions okay yeah yeah five years ago open source did not exist in any enterprise at European Commission and any organization nowadays anyone can use mainly or 100% 90% open source software and I hear your own complain that it's not free software the software that is graduated by CSEF in the standards it is supported by many organizations there's a rigorous process to get it through and to get a new release and I I don't hear anything about what happened how much of a change we had the last five years how much much much better the world is since five years ago then we had only Windows and VMware and IBM and now we have large large organization supporting huge amount of code and you complain yeah I mean okay why am I complaining that it's not like free software although we have seen some changes on inclusion of open source in the EU institutions over the last five years right that's basically well but I mean it was not available very like the open source solutions that have been used in the European Commission are not publicly available until they just released this public repository before they were not publicly available so they were using inter-source they were using open source within the institutions but that was not open to the public and that's what we are demanding but is it available to the public yeah but yeah exactly and that's not available to the public and that's our demand I mean nice they're using open source but is it available to us no until now and that's why I mean I I'm sorry but I was not really trying to complain at all I mean not only complaining I was also highlighting the will that these EU institutions have in because I can't see it as well I mean there has been a huge shift and a huge change and there is will now now we have a public repository of the free software used in the public in the EU institutions that's something but I'm sorry this is not good enough yet one short question maybe in the future like you can advocate for don't change why you just wrote the second thing is when you say that I must be accessible what do you mean by that yeah I mean with AI it's a little bit tricky yeah yeah that what what do we mean with AI being accessible I mean I also have to say I'm not an AI expert here but I mean AI needs a lot of data to be trained and then if you're using open data then the results of research of AI to build something to be at least available to people I'm not saying all the AI to be open I mean this is another discussion but if there is public money involved in the research then it should be open and people should be able to see how these AI systems are being trained and what kind of data has been used and yeah yeah sorry yeah yeah yeah I mean I yeah yeah this is a question I regarding the CRA and that maybe it's a huge threat for the free software community in the beginning of this talk I mentioned that I wanted to focus on the public money public codes so basically public procurement on an open source I would be very happy to chat with you about this because we have also been meeting decision makers on this file as well and so far it is still a little bit unclear how we're gonna move forward from our side and also from their side this is just starting so I cannot really tell you more but if for this for this topic I would prefer to keep this out and then I would be very happy to say with you after after this talk and then we can chat a little bit yeah I mean yesterday at 11 there you can see the recordings there was the European Commission was here also with Red Hat they did a panel on this CRA there was it was super interesting so I also invite you if you couldn't attend to see the recordings of this panel yeah this is my time sub yeah I'm gonna reply to this yeah so if this is in line with the research community as well and this is something we have noticed and we are really trying to focus more now on research because I feel like this is a community that we have left a little bit apart and behind and with AI we know we notice the importance of including all these research communities so this is definitely something we want to keep working on and keep I don't know try to do it but in a better way because it is definitely a community that can contribute a lot to us and I think they're quite open to this to to be open to be free software and so on so yeah this is on our agenda yeah thank you very much


Next question is from Paula Angela, how could I better maintain a tight core for a whole set when doing bent over movements? Adam knows this. He does a lot of bent over. Sorry, sorry. I'm sorry I had to throw that in there. You know what's important about this is you might think why would you need your core to be tight when you're bent over? Because the stabilization is coming from your low back. But what happens often for some people is they overarch. And they start to get this shearing pain in the low back. The bracing the other side of the core stabilizes the whole thing. It's like wearing a weight belt. So what I used to tell my client, because naturally sometimes what happens, especially if you're not connected to your core, you'll do a bent over barbell row. And you'll feel your belly hang. And then you're just feeling a low back. Here's what you got. This is an easy one. I used to go up to my clients and I would poke them in the stomach. And I'd say brace like you're just trying to avoid getting poked or tickled or whatever. That's all. Just brace your core. Yeah. And this is one of those things where you start getting into the movement and mechanics of an exercise and you just forget one of the parts. Like so initially you might have that bracing effect, but then you start getting into the movement. Now I'm concentrating on what my arms are doing. I'm trying to really hone in on bringing my shoulders back and getting all that in check. And then you just, it's just inevitable. Sometimes like you just forget how important and vital it is to keep bracing that entire time. You have to stay in that tension to be able to protect your back. So just to slow down is a big part of that is to kind of bring the tempo down, really like hone in on that, especially if you're getting that signal that there's a pain there that you're getting from your back. So I know we rag on each other about how bad of trainers we were when we first started. And I was a bad trainer when I first started. One of the things though I thought I did pretty well was, the core was like the first thing I learned as a trainer. And I was like so fascinated. Like up into that point, I had no idea. I used your pitch like a million times. Yeah, right. The pencil. Yes, right. Seriously, like that was, that was my sales pitch. Here's the pencil. Yeah. Here's the tight core. Yeah. And I was fascinated with it. I was fascinated with it. And I remember telling people, you know, the most important muscle in your entire body beside your heart is your core. And we, of course, without your heart, you're dead. We know that. But your core is the next. Yeah, memorized. Oh, yeah. No, I used to go and like Justin said, I had this whole pencil thing that I used to do and everything. I was doing like stability type stuff because it's really hard to stabilize on one leg and balance without having to activate the core and stabilize the spine. Yeah. So if I have a client that struggles with keeping their core activated, why they do bent over exercises, I might do a lot of single leg or stability type challenging movements. Physioballs. That's right. So I get them to focus on that. We also had a question on a live quad just recently, and that we were talking to this girl. I forgot her condition that she had. It was foreign to me. I've never heard it before. The one that the leak in her spine for. Oh, yeah. That was a pretty rare thing. Right. It was really rare. But we, one of the things that we were trying to tell her was like, you know, a lot of times we don't think about movements as practice. We always think about building muscle or burning body fat and getting the burn and intensity. And I was really big at the very beginning of coaching and training on like getting my clients to like just be super meticulous about their form. And so instead of being hung up when you're doing a bit over row and exercise about how much weight are you moving and trying to progress. Get through the reps. That's right. Try and make it look beautiful. If you're, if your form looks beautiful, I guarantee the core is going to be activated because that's part of it. Part of keeping that spine in a very rigid position in a bit over exercise is the core having to activate. So if you look at the exercise as more of a movement and a skill and you challenge yourself to perfect the form versus trying to always progress weight or reps, this will come along for the ride. So just look at it like that and try and make it in the suit. And so what I would do with a client, let's say, and we're doing, let's use a bit over rows and example. And, you know, we're doing the weight in about seven or eighth rep. I see form break down, even though they could finish all 12 reps, I would reduce the weight and then challenge the technique. I'd slow the tempo down and they'd be like, oh no, no, I could do it. This isn't too heavy. I'm like, no, your form is breaking down. It's not perfect. I want it to look perfect all the way through 12 reps. So just challenge yourself that way. You know, I tricked my daughter into working on her core because I was trying to get them to exercise.  So I said, I'll tell you what, if you can sit on the physio ball without your feet touching the floor for one minute, I'll give you $5. So she's sitting on there with her legs trying to whatever. And it took a while for her to get it down. But then when she was done, I gave her $5 and then she goes, did you just trick me into working my core? Because I feel like I said, I definitely did. You know, one of our videos that's gone viral is the split stance bicep curl video that I teach.  There's a lot of guys on there. It doesn't maximize your bicep activation. That's not the point, dude. Yeah. The point for that movement was I always had a hard time teaching some clients to keep their elbows in position and to stand up with good posture. And I realized when I made them balance on one foot, they would have to. And if you'll ever do this one time, you know, stand on one leg and balance, you'll notice in order to stabilize and balance, you stack the joints real nicely and the core, you'll just slide, you'll feel it. And I would do that. I'd say, balance on one leg. And then I'd say, do you feel your stomach right now? Do you feel how you have slightly drawn in? You've just activated your core.  Say it's tightened up. Five, 30 sessions. That's right. That's right.


Catch and Release Practice. This video shows how to handle catch and release fish, how to hold carp and how to photograph a fish while causing minimum distress. The Wildlife Act makes it illegal to intentionally injure or kill an animal, so best practice catch and release is vitally important. After catching a hard fighting fish, it is good to rest it in the net before taking out water, and many anglers now choose to unhook and photograph fish actually in the water. Species tolerant of low oxygen, especially large carp can be damaged and has placed on an unhooking mat. You should always aim to keep the time out of water to a minimum, so get everything prepared in advance, ideally in shade and on flat ground. Soft cradle mats like this one stop the fish from sliding off, and if you cover them in water and keep them upside down, you can keep them cool. Hand needs to be wet AND cooled, before being tucked under the chin and tail of the fish. They don't need to be lifted high for a photograph, and should never carry them back to the water in your hands.