So, thank you all for joining. Great that you could make it and join this presentation about the signature collection and how to get it done, because this is what we're doing at the moment for Meta 25 in Germany, we need 5000 signatures to actually get on the ballot and we need them until end of February. So we need a concerted effort now for people to go out and collect signatures. This presentation will contain everything that you need to know. The first things are already mentioned, goal of 5000 signatures by 29th of February. The most important information in English, you find on our homepage on Meta 25.de slash you for English Meta 25.de slash over by in German. And this presentation will be about the preparation, the forms that we actually need to fill, then about the collecting itself, our core content for the European elections that we present to voters. And in this phase to people that hopefully give us their signature, how we can also gain support for Meta during that phase and then the final confirmation phase for the signatures to be confirmed and then finalized. We start with the preparation would be good to have some kind of clipboard or other document that you can put below in the forms because it's a sheet, it's a sheet of paper each form is a whole sheet of paper, black and white. It's important if you print them out to print the front and the back. There's a second page that doesn't need to be filled but needs to be printed for everything to be in order and get the confirmation at the end. It's also good to print out some additional form for EU citizens, not in the same number but to have some available, if you meet EU citizens, and you can request larger numbers of forms and Meta 25 flyers by writing at info at www.meta25.de with your address for bigger amounts, and we can send you some, if you have smaller amounts of just collecting it with at friends and family which is also already helpful, you, we ask you to print yourself. And again, all information and links, also the forms you find at Meta 25.de slash, for German and slash, for English. Now, this is the forms to give you an impression. And you see on the left side, the main form for German citizens. And you can see this square in the middle. This is what needs to be filled. The rest below will be filled by the authorities. We don't need to fill them. It's just what is what is in the box. The middle sheet here on this presentation is the second page of the form. You don't need to do anything with it, just print it on the back. And just so you have seen it. And the right form is the additional form that EU citizens have to fill. EU citizens living in Germany can also give us their signature, but they need a second form. They need to find the one to fill the one on the left, and additionally the one on the right. And they also need to have data ready as identity document number. So not everyone on the streets has that. But sometimes you meet people or you can maybe stay in contact with them. And for this, of course, in your local group, if you're with a local group of men are 25 might also be good. Yeah, to have someone that speaks German so you can actually know exactly what is what it is on each part of the form. For the German for German citizens, the form is much easier. You just need first name, last name, birth date, place of living address, then the date of the day where they sign and the signature, and that's it. That's the rough overview. When you are then on the streets, or what are good places in general to gather. This is the gathering phase from our experience, but of course, you can experiment yourself in your city in your place. And left wing events demonstrations at the moment, very recommended Germany demonstrations, although they are small for the cause of the Palestinians, where we are more known than other places. The events demonstrations big gatherings of people and left wing neighborhoods on the street in front of the supermarket or such can also work just you know where you can speak to a lot of people ask them. And universities are also of course definitely recommended at noon where the people go for lunch for example is a place where the university where a lot of people pass. And you can ask them. It's important to have a place where you can just ask for like one two hours, just everyone passing. That's at least my goal that always set myself and so that you have some people that actually then also stop and sign. There is a rule that we should be aware of. People can only sign one signature per election per party. So if they have already signed for this European election for a different party. If they say I've already signed for someone else, then they cannot sign for us. Who's eligible you citizens living in Germany, German citizens, obviously, and if people are over 16 years old 16 years old is the threshold and then date of the election counts so ninth of June 2024 when is when the people have to be 16. And so, all those people can vote and everyone who can vote at the election can also sign for us. And if people feel the form, it's really really important to check the readability of all data. So it's written in a way that the authorities later can read it. Otherwise, they will not stamp it and make it valid. It is really really important to do that and also to see that all fields fields are filled. It's always good if you collect that you actually check if you can read everything if you can read everything probably also the authorities can read everything. And to also say that to people who fill everything that they are aware of that from the beginning and data protection some people have concerns about it so it's always good to protect the data by putting the field sheets somewhere where others cannot read them and also to assure them. And this is important for us that we we don't share the data with anyone, we don't use it for other purposes than the signature, and also the authorities in Germany will not use it and or store it somewhere other for this particular signature. So sheet of paper it will be signed once will be going to the authorities will be validated will go then to the central authorities will talk about that later, and then it will not be stored somewhere, just some people have this concern. And that is what we should answer and of course that's also how we act. Very important to mention that this is not voting people don't vote for us. They still can decide whom they vote for on 9 of June 2024, or by letter vote a bit earlier but this is just for to help us to get on the ballot. You need this signatures to get on the ballot voting will be later on. That is a good argument for also people that maybe would vote for another leftist party, or, you know, would vote for someone else but it's just for them to help us to get on the ballot, and to give the voters more choices. It is very important I think to have a personal approach and have some choose a topic from the flyer that you are passionate when you're collecting signatures. And so you can also be passionate when you speak to people and make them excited. One thing that I always mentioned in the very beginning is that we are an internationalist party we're not like the other national parties. We are doing this transnationally. And this is a core thing that sets us apart and sometimes this is even enough for having someone to sign with us, just to say that we are leftist internationalist party. And sometimes, but rarely people get want to get into a discussion with you. And if it, if it's getting a bit too long, because you want to also ask other people. I think it's good at some point to just mention this to us for late politely say that you want to go on and maybe ask other people. Of course that's up to anyone who's collecting signatures. And sometimes there will be difficult topics that people will ask you very specific question. This is rarely the case, but sometimes. Of course, on matter 25.te and also on DM 25.org, you find our whole program manifesto and I think it's always good to come from our core values that we all share, and where you can already answer a lot of questions. And if it sometimes go and goes into a detail that you don't know how to answer that's also completely okay to say that you don't know the specific detail. That you can look it up on the website that you can look it up afterwards and be able to answer it next time. Just to mention that I think it's no shame to say that we all don't know every line of our big program. And then last but not least learning by doing. I think it's best if you go out, try a place, see if it works, see what kind of questions people ask, and then go home and see. Okay, what can you learn what can you adapt. What can you do better next time. And one important thing if people talk to us on the street and they seem to be very interested. It would be good to get newsletter subscribers. So on matter 25.te, you can actually open it on your phone and on the front page the first thing is a form for people to fill in their email name surname and post postcode. You can write on our newsletter, and you can have them yours on. And if someone's very interested, it might be a good idea, or it would help us if you can also get the contact and then at home, they can confirm the email, the email subscription on their email, and when they have filled the form on your phone and donors of course if someone wants to give us money that's also on the website, there is a button on the top right. There's a flyer of course we also have a link to the website, and to the donation page. And ideally, you might even grow your local group or organization by getting a new member, the form is of course also on the website. And this is the case for people who are very interested and might want to join us in our effort or support more than just getting the signature. What's the core content. Yes, we have three topics that we decided by the N25 poll member vote that we want to put to the forefront. And on the top of our flyer and Meta 25 Germany, and we have live and decide independently that's our goal. And we have three core things that we focus on next to our vast program, and that we want to get people's votes at the European election that's first of all, a basic living income for all people living in the EU. We all know people are struggling from inflation and so on and we want to achieve this basic living income. We want peaceful and international relations. Lasting peace can only be by good relationships between countries people around the world, and we want them in all directions and be independent in that as European continent in good relationships with other countries peoples around us. There's not only green transformation for Europe, but not only green transformation, of course fighting climate change but letting the ones that actually are responsible for climate change the big industry, the rich, the super rich, we want to make them pay for the These are three core things that are also defined on our Meta 25 flyer, of course, and I personally use them a lot to give people a bit of a feel of what we stand for, and mostly people don't even have more questions and get the gist of what we are about through these three topics. And that's why I also would probably in your case, either choose one of them. But of course, as I again said before, choose something that you feel that DM 25 or Meta 25 is about and that you are passionate about can also be the issue of Palestine can be something about, you know, post post capitalism, nationalism, whatever you feel is the thing that you want to convince people with. And then finally, and this is now the very, you know, quick overview of everything. We will put this video later on YouTube so more people can see it. And you can also of course rewatch maybe one or the other parts and afterwards we'll have a bit of time for questions. The final part is, if we collected these forms, they need to be confirmed. They are only a valid form that we can hand in in early March, if they are confirmed. This needs to be done locally. Unfortunately, in Germany there is no central entity that does this and there's also that's of course the first thing that you ask before entering the process is there any way to do this online. Unfortunately, not dissolved as paperwork, and each signature is one full paper. They need to be handed in locally to the authorities for the authorities to confirm them. There's three ways on how you can do this. First of all, we have local groups and we have some people on our website that offered their address for you to send forms in if you live in a bigger city. If you live in a place where you have a 25.e. slash, you will find a list of cities that you can choose from and you will find an address and you can just send the forms there. Once they are filled. So someone takes gathers all the forms and takes them then together to the authorities. If you want to, if you live in a place that's not on the list, you have two other possibilities or generally you have them, of course, you need to hand them into your local authority, which is a bit can be a bit different and each small unit of bureaucracy in a German. Yeah, community somewhere. And the best thing is to search for violent selection office, and then the name of the city, or village, or burger, burger service or citizen service, and where you will then maybe also find a telephone number that you can call and ask for the details, but mostly you will with volume to find an address that you can either go to and hand in the signatures and ask them to confirm it and then for them to send it already to me. And the person that whose address is on this page now, and the, then the local authority will send the confirmed signatures to me directly. You can see it here on screen or copy it from the website. The other possibility that is recommended actually rather than going there yourself, send in a letter and put in a little envelope with a signature form. With a signature form and a little note that says, dear Sir and Madam, please send the forms after you confirm them to the address that I mentioned before, you would have to pay the letter to the authority. But they will then take care of sending it to us here. So you don't have to make a second envelope, you know, and pay for it, just one envelope and they will then forward the confirmed signatures to the central collection. And that's the last point we must collect these signatures centrally, and then submit them together to the central election authority in Germany. Latest by mid March. So we need to have a bit of buffer that's why we're speaking about getting things done in February because sometimes also the authorities take a bit to go through the signatures and confirm them. It's really important that we, yeah, by mid of March have everything and then at the central authority and that it is already confirmed and insufficient numbers. That's our goal. Thanks a lot for watching. We hope that you can get involved. If anything helps from just asking from yourself, signing the form and sending it in to going out on the street to collect signatures to asking around your friends and family, and so on to even do this on a higher level. And would like to do that every week for hours of signature collection would really help us. It's just for the next five weeks, or, you know, until the end of February. The info at Meta 25.de is the address again where you can ask any questions get signature forms and higher numbers get Meta 25 flyers when you send in your address and say hey I'm really up for this I want to help you on a constant every day, or every week basis. We can exchange phone numbers we can be in closer contact put you in chat groups to be supported. Why because you're helping us a lot. That's it. Thanks for watching and thanks for helping everything will also be in the video description say again to those people that watching other watching the recording later on would be really much appreciated if you can help us in the next It's really urgent. It's really a big possibility for us that the current political climate is so that we can actually, you know, drive some change and we have some unique positions in the German political landscape. And yeah, every help counts info at Meta 25.de to reach out. And thank you very much for watching and supporting us. And yeah, being with us.


Hello, thank you for joining me. You can see where I am. I'm at Bletchley. I've come here today to ride the Marston Vale line. That's the line that branches off over there off the West Coast mainline and runs across the Marston Vale to Bedford. This, of course, is the West Coast mainline. There's a Pendolino just coming through now, so a busy line all up to Glasgow. But we're going to ride the slow train that stops at every station, as I say, all the way to Bletchley. I've only ever been on it all the way to Bedford. I've only ever been on it twice in my life before, once when I was a child, when they were running class 150s. The 150s were then replaced with the D trains, the ex-district line trains, and I came to have a ride on them a few years ago. And then, unfortunately, Viva Rail went into administration and they had to withdraw the trains, and there hasn't been a service for a year, or just over a year, I think. The services are back, and we're 150s again, so history has repeated itself. The 150s are back. I'm just standing here waiting for the train to arrive. I think it's going to arrive on platform 6, so I'll have to wait down here. I'll see it pulling. But in an initiative to get people to ride the line, they've bought in this £1 fare. So here's my ticket. Well, actually, it's £2. A return is £2. A single is £1. If you have a rail card, it's even cheaper. So I thought, well, it's to make use of this fare and, you know, to give the line an extra number, I've got to come and ride the line. So my plan is wait for the 150 to arrive, and then I'm even going to go all the way through to Bedford. I've got an idea. There's one station I particularly want to get off at, which you'll soon see, and I'll talk about some of the other stations on the route. So let's wait for the 150 to arrive. Class 150 has arrived. We're going to go down and get on it in a moment. While we're up here on the bridge, I just want to show you something. See the extension of the bridge and the new Bletchley High Level, as I think certainly enthusiasts are going to call it, even if it is technically just all Bletchley Station. And over there, there's the Flyover, which has been quite a well-known landmark on the West Coast mainline. It's been disused for many years, but they're finally going to reopen that line through wind, so all the way through to Oxford. So hopefully in an opportunistic future, I'll be making a video. We'll be walking across there. We'll catch a train over the rebuilt Flyover. We'll go and visit the new railway station at Winslow. I've often driven through the town of Winslow. I've always wanted to see the station reopen there, so I'll be pleased to see that. So that's a video for another day. I think there also going to be, there might be a new entrance to the station on that side, which would make sense, because Bletchley Town Centre is over there. Let's go down and have a look. I've still got 10 minutes until the train goes. We'll have a look at the Class 150. So it's its new livery. Fifth Marston Vale Bed for Bletchley. So it only ever works on this line. So it's a nice spring day. I had a flower on the station. So let's have a look. There's the front of our Class 150. Let's go and get on. So what we're going to do, as I said, we're going to ride the line. I'll talk about a few things there are to see at some of the intermediate stations. Let's have a look. See, I see. So we're coming here. There's a very almost metro-style part of the train, but I think if you come on with a bike, that's that bit there. And if you look at the seats here, you can see they've still got their Ex-Northern Moquette. So here we are on the Bed for Bletchley Line on the Ex-Northern Moquette seat. Soon it'll be time to go. So let's enjoy a trip along the Marston Vale. Just past Cordeco Lake. I've been there in the past because there's a miniature railway there. So the nearest station to that would be Boebrick Hill. It would be a bit of a walk to where the metro is, but you know, something you could do one day. If you want to see the miniature railway, have a look at the link on screen now. Can we enter Boebrick Hill? Just arrived at Boebrick Hill. I'm sat on the other side of the train. I wanted to look out this side of the windows. Got a nice traditional station building. And I understand you can get a drink here, like tea or coffee. Some stations have cafes. A few stations even have a pub. Or I understand there is also quite a nice old pub. Wherever we're going to see it from the train, I'd like to go to it, but I haven't got time. But I'll show you why. I want to show you the station as we pull out. We're thinking about pulling out. And then I'm going to get off at another station.  It'd be quite fun to do maybe walk from one station to another. Because they really are some quite nice, retraditional, just country stations. On this line, anyway. I'm about to pass the station building. Have a look at this. Lots of fences and new houses have gone. See, it's in a Mock Tudor style. And, oh, it says to let now. There's the old station tavern. So that pubs for me quite good. When I looked on Street View, when I was researching that video, it was a poster. I think I thought it was unusual to see that the station building had been made into a costa business anymore.  I'm going to continue on. Still else we can find. So our train's departed on its way to Bedford and we've got off here at Bridgeman. And we get a better view of the station building when I try to show you out the window and pass through Woven Sands. I have to go to Woven Sands one day though. It's near Woven Safari Park, which has a miniature railway. So that will be featured one day in miniature railway Britain. Although, whether I'd actually come by train, because it's quite a long way. But really, we've got out here to visit this particular station. As you can see, it's probably one of the best preserved on the line. And I understand it's a tea room and a heritage centre. So it seems the ideal station to get out there. The village of Bridgeman, I believe, is up there, up on the Marston Vale itself. The railway station runs along the bottom of the Marston Vale. So this is the station. And you can see it says Bridgeman Heritage Centre and Tea Room. So I'm going to go inside and see what we can find. So now I've seen the other train that's out today disappear off in that direction, back towards Bletchley. Before I continue my journey to Bedford, over there, that's the M1, the second bridge. You can just see a few lorries. This lorry here, that's not on the M1. We're going to go inside the old station because it's a little museum and it's a tea room. So it's just what you want, an old railway station. So this is the old ticket office. I think if we go in here, if you go in, and if you go into here, there's a nice little small artefacts museum that this is the ticket office. So this is where you would have once come and bought your ticket. Obviously I've already got tickets, I don't require one. There's there's bits of track down there. This picture shows one, the old brickworks. This line and this whole area is very well known for brick making. There were lots of brickworks everywhere. And to hear that there's some Sigmund's instruments. And here you can see the Sigmund's log. So Sigmund, his job would have been to have logged all the passing trains here. He sat there logging all of the movements. You can see various pictures. And this is where the where the ticket clerk would have sat and sold tickets. You can see the admins and the tickets. There's our tickets we used to see today. And there's some admins and the tickets. And you'd have put them in this thing, stamped a date on them. So that's quite interesting. Lots of nice pictures to see. And there is a selection of various trains that pass through here. Of course there's the D trains which we know. Steam train, but a 4MT. They did once run a 4MT up and down here. I'd love to have done that. There hasn't been much steam on this railway. Considering it's not particularly busy like it, bigger ones run it all. So you get a few freight going through. Now let's go right up here. Climb away out. Going to have a look in the shop. And then I think it'll be time for some tea and cake. So this is the shop here I think. Oh yeah, look at this. It's a nice little shop. So we've got things like chutneys for sale. All important beer for sale. Secondhand books. And local souvenirs. I think this is the old station askers. So this is the shop. And then what I'm going to do. I'm going to go through there and get myself some tea and cake. There we are in the tea room. I've got a nice cup of tea. And I've also got two nice bits of cake. So I'm going to sit here and enjoy tea and cake at classic railway station. With pictures of trains and signalman's maps to admire how I enjoy my tea and cake. Then I'm going to get the 150 on towards Bedford. That was a very enjoyable tea and cake. And also enjoyed having a look around the museum. I'm back on the other side. I'm waiting for my train to arrive and continue my journey to Bedford. Just found this here. Look, this is a mile post where six and three quarters. So if it was six and a half, there'd be two dots. One dot if it was a quarter. Different railways have different ways of showing their mile posts. But this is what we have. Six and three-quarter miles from Bletchley. I assume anyway. So that's the station building. As I said, it was really nice to go to a tea room. It reminded me a bit of, you may have seen a video I did recently. Where we went to Brickett Wood on the Abbey line. Another branch off the main line, the West Coast main line out of Houston. And we visited the tea room there, another similar tea room. So it's nice to find these traditional tea rooms at these nice little sort of wayside railway stations. If you're coming today, you'd have to buy a ticket from a machine as there's no longer a staff ticket office here. But while they're still doing the £1 ticket, I do recommend doing what I did. I'm going to now catch a train, want to Bedford, and then I'll have a little wander around Bedford and then catch a train back to Bedford. Livington, did enjoy visiting the Heritage Centre at Ridgemont. I was talking to one of the volunteers and he was saying what might happen. I was asking him when they opened the East West line when he got trains from Oxford going right through here, how it will impact on services. They're probably running a bit faster, talking of high speed. Besides us there, you can't see it particularly well, but Millbrook, if you know about driving cars fast and testing them, you've probably heard of Millbrook. That is the Millbrook test track. It's not a motorway. It looks like a motorway from what I can see, but there's no cars on it, so they can test cars at very high speed. If you haven't looked on Google Earth, you'll see it's quite an interesting site. So that's the Millbrook test track. As for driving trains faster on here, the line probably will be upgraded and they will be able to run faster trains. But what will happen? Will this local service continue to run? That's what we're not sure about at this stage. It may well change. Well, it's a shame that it's been on fire in that building. That's like the old station master's house. And it's been on fire. Or perhaps that's the station master's house. But yeah, the building next door, possibly a pub, unfortunately, burnt down. You know, it arrived at Millbrook. So some of these stations may close or move. So effectively, I'm thinking I might have to come out one day and visit some of these stations before we lose them all together. Some of them, they're quite close together. So they might close two of them and build a new station in between the two, which are better served for the communities of people that will use them. I did notice when we were at Ridgemont, the villages up on the hill, there wasn't actually a great deal there. And it's great tea rooms there. So this line probably is going to see quite a lot of changes. And possibly in the future, it will be electrified. We'll have to wait and see. The scenery has changed again. That is the old clay bits. Well, it used to be the clay out of the bridge. We saw a picture at the Heritage Center. There would have been lots of chimneys and lots of brickworks all along here. We now approach the Stuart bridge. On the other side, I can see the overhead wires off the middle of Mainline. So we should assume we actually go under the middle of Mainline and we will approach Bedford Station from the east side. But I'm thinking my plan is, I'm going to get off at Bedford St John just to tick off that station, go for a bit of a walk around Bedford, maybe have a pint near Weberspoons, and then go back to Bedford Main Station and catch a train all the way back to Bedford Station. We are. This is Bedford St John's. We've made it to Bedford, not quite the main Bedford Station, but I'm going to walk through Bedford far more way to there. This isn't the original site of Bedford St John's, as you can see it. So this is just one platform under a bridge. The train continues that way towards the main station at Bedford. Going back that way, see the lines on a curve. The line used to continue along there, and there was another station, the old original Bedford St John's station. I would have pointed it out, but Stuart Brie loads and loads of students got on the train. So the train went from being quite nice and quiet to completely packed. So, you know, it's good to see people are using the line. Now the line is running again. Certainly this top end of the line is very well used and a lot of the students did get off here. So very well used line. That line would have eventually continued on all the way through to Sandy. Maybe one day I'll explore that old line, but when I say one day I mean it could be any time, I don't know when, but it's something I would like to do. So what I'm going to do now is there's a cat up there just crossing the track. I'm going to continue that way, go and make my way into Bedford Town Centre. There we are. We're by the River Great Ooze in Bedford. There's a swan swimming past. I'm going to walk along here, beside the river, over that bridge there. See the older part, Bedford, you see the church and got the modern buildings along here. I'm going to go and find the Weatherspoons, have a drink, and then walk back to the station and catch the 150 back to Bridgeley. So after a pint in Weatherspoons, I'm back at the main Bedford station. A couple of Thameslink units waiting to head south. Thameslink units don't go north beyond here, so that way it's looking south towards London.  The line we travelled on, that actually reached Bedford first before this one. The middle and main line was a bit of a newcomer. If you look at the map, places like St Albans, Harpenden, etc., all of the railways that are now closed, or at least in St Albans, in case the Abbey line is still open, those railways were there first, and then the middle and main line, as I say, was a latecomer. I'm going to now wait for our class 150 to arrive to take us back to Bedford, actually. 4, 1, 8. Thank you. I'm going to go to Lake again, that's what I said this morning. There is a minute to railway, so it's worth going to see. Obviously check their running days. When we get back to Bletchley, I've got quite a tight connection, so I'm probably not going to have much time to have a look at the train. So I thought I'd better finish the video now. I've got about a four-minute connection, and if I miss that, get home a lot later. We're just about to go over one more thing to show you. It's the Grand Union Canal. And then we're soon coming into Penning Stratford Station. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe, and comment. If you want to come and ride this line, obviously the line's always here. If you want the £1 fares, it's some point in May 2024 that they're going to stop. So fairly early in May. So do come before then. But anyway, thank you very much for watching. 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Thierry de Mont-Briel, president of the World Policy Conference, congratulations, this is the 10th anniversary. What have been the lessons you've taken over these 10 years in terms of global governments, the state of the world, geopolitics in general? Well, first of all I would say that the first lesson is the relevance of the project, because the key idea originally was that globalization as a flat world in the Tom Friedman's way is not workable. And I was convinced of that, and I was convinced that if the world is to remain reasonably open, we have to strengthen at all levels governance. But governance, what does it mean essentially? Rules of the game, rules of the game that different actors accept to follow. And we have seen those 10 years that, you know, the financial crisis of the so-called Arab Spring, you know, that has created more and more disorder and then Brexit and so forth and so on and now Catalonia. So this is the key to the success, to the viability of an open world. And I would say the second lesson, well there are many others, but is the importance to talk, you know. For instance, this year we had, close to the opening of the conference, a debate between the prime ministers of Serbia and Albania. Of course, you know, Serbia and Albania is not the epicenter of the world, but it's a key area in Europe, in the West Balkans. And the remarkable thing was that these people now agree to disagree on certain points, but they do so very politely and they accept to talk on many other issues. And if you dream of having this sort of debate among actors in the Middle East, for instance, or Korea, Peninsular and so forth and so on, that would probably change the world. And that's, I think, part of the mission of the World Policy Conference. And you did mention, perhaps as a joke, that we're wonderful if you get Iran and Israeli representatives here next time. That's exactly the case. You know, Iran, it's a joke in a sense, but it's not in the sense that it is a direction of intention. But you could take many other examples. For instance, the Arabs themselves, you know, more often than not, do not like to talk publicly about their affairs. Yeah. A final question. I mean, you mentioned at the beginning of the opening, and you've mentioned just now that you've had the global financial crisis, Arab Spring, etc. We've also, of course, in the last year, had Donald Trump. What do you think the impact of Donald Trump has been and will be? Two things. Donald Trump as Sachs, Donald Trump as Donald Trump, and Donald Trump as maybe a deeper syndrome. On Donald Trump in a restricted sense, the impact is already quite significant for the credibility of the United States in the world, or soft power, if you prefer. You can also say that that credibility had been damaged by his two predecessors, George W. Bush for obvious reasons, because with the new conservative policy, he is responsible for the great disorder in the Middle East to a large extent. But also Barack Obama, and just one example among many, he let Mo Barak down, and that has an impact which is long lasting on the Middle East, especially in this country where we are now. And perhaps also the red lines on Syria. And of course to talk, you know, I have nothing against talking about red lines, but if you talk about red lines, you have to be credible. That is, you have to know what you will actually do if the red lines are crossed. He has recognized this, by the way. But if you now take the longer perspective that Donald Trump as a syndrome, I think one of the points that emerged yesterday in the debate on the United States is that the trend towards some kind of isolationism might survive Trump and be much more long lasting. I think that emerged in the discussion. Absolutely. Well, Mr. President, you've made the WPC a very, very credible conference. Thank you very much and congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Okay, Trump week on a Wednesday, Kim Apachele, Cynthia Sinclair, let's go. First thing is, Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, Trump must be impeached. Any other way, and the whole world knows, that a candidate in the United States is subject to assistance and manipulation from foreign countries. He's been doing it on a regular basis. This is awful. Not only because it skews the result of the vote, but because the winning candidate who has taken this kind of favor, I use that term advisedly, from a foreign country is beholden to the foreign country. There is a quid pro quo there, and so you never know if your president's really your president. Does he belong to you, or does he belong to them? Take a look, Thomas Friedman in his column in today's New York Times. The other thing I just want to mention is that we're getting into a kind of rhythm over gun violence in this country.  It must be going up like that, and all these deaths, and there was the shooting involving a kosher deli yesterday, and the police chief in New Jersey, or was it the governor and some official New Jersey, said, this is an anti-Semitic killing. This is a bigotry, and my God, we're having it every day with the guns in various places in the country. It's not one place. It's all over the place. No place is exempt. And the backdrop of that is Congress is doing, how do I say this, nada, ryan, nothing. Congress is doing nothing. And so it's kind of interesting that the Democrats now support a new trade agreement. We call it a miracle negotiation between the U.S. and Mexico. What's that all about? We're in the throes of an impeachment process that's white-hot. Why are the Democrats now making love, if you will, with Trump? Anybody have an answer for me on that one? Because they don't want to look like all they do is impeachment, because that's what they've been accused of. Yeah, a tactical error. They're trying to show that they're doing more than just impeachment, which is dumb. It's really the Senate that's not doing anything. The House has sent them more than 200 and somewhat, I think, bills that they have sent by partisan bills that the Senate will not take up. Not a smart move. What do you think? I agree completely. They've got to get their attention off the impeachment. That's why they want to wrap this up before Christmas, get the vote in. And they don't want to be seen and perceived by all voters, not even in the red states, but also the blue states, the purple states, that they're not fixated on impeachment. That's how they won the 2018 election in Congress, in the House, based on policies and things that matter to the voter. I hope you're right. I hope it has that desired effect, but frankly, you could take that to say that Trump is being reasonable. Not so much that Democrats are being reasonable, but Trump is being reasonable. So he's an okay guy. All we have to do, Democrats, is negotiate with him, and we'll have reasonable results. The problem is it's a distraction on both sides, and I don't think Nancy Pelosi's strategy was any good on this. We have to focus on what Thomas Friedman had to say. Okay, let's talk about the inspected general report, because I'd like to sort of preface that by saying, is that really important, or is the impeachment that's happening? How many months have we been at this table? How many months? Knowing full well whether it would be the Mueller report, or any kind of impeachment discussion inquiry, and now vote, potential vote, that we knew Donald Trump was going to do something to distract the attention away from this. Need we say more? Is it coincidental that this report's coming out exactly at the time that this is being looked at? This vote is going to take place? It's a distraction. And we've been talking about it. We predicted it, and here it is. He's controlling the agenda in the media, and then with William Barr and a ridiculous remark about how he doesn't accept the inspected general, and then Trump putting down the FBI yet still again, I mean, destroying the credibility of the organization and the federal government in general. I just do not understand. There's no benefit. It's a lie. It's just one of his many lies every day, and at the same time, it's the top of the agenda. If I was mainstream media, I wouldn't pay attention to any of it. The issue of the story is he's being impeached, as he should be impeached. This is a historical moment. It is. Unless we forget. And, Mellie, you know, we've had other presidents impeached, but not for this kind of stuff. Right. So this is truly a historical moment, and you're right. The media should be focused predominantly upon that. I agree. You know, what I've seen, too, the Republicans are saying over and over is that the Russia thing would not have even happened, right, if it wasn't for these FISA warrants. There was a little bit of a mistake from that, right?  But really, what the report has said, that there was no sign of impropriety. There was no sign of bias against Trump. None of that. So in a way, I think it's kind of good that it's coming out right now, even though the Republicans are twisting it to fit what their narrative is and what they want to say. The same thing as Barr's comments after the Mueller report. He lied about what was in the Mueller report, and he's lying about what the Inspector General has to say. And furthermore, the FISA affidavit or motion, whatever it was, was after the investigation started, the Inspector General was supposed to see if the initiation of the investigation was bona fide. Well, he did. It was bona fide. No question. No question at all. Never really a question. And Trump is raising this kind of crazy, deep-state conspiracy thing, and he has nothing to back it up. But him and Barr together make these statements. And here's the part.  That's why I'm wearing my pin today. This is a pin that Andrew Yang wears, the Democratic candidate. He wears, and he always wears. Do you have to, can you see it? Math. Okay, okay. Math, M-A-T-H. At first I thought, well, math, it stands for mathematics, and he wants to have everybody go to school and study math. That's not it at all. Math stands for make America think harder. That's why I got the pin. Not for Yang, but for the notion of make America think harder. I thought if you take the T out, it's mad as hell. I know we're going to take it more. We're not taking more. Okay, what do we got here? So let's see. Oh, trade agreement. Go ahead. Well, I'm sorry, but we're kind of guilty of what we just accused the media of doing. And that was not talking about this impeachment, this historical moment. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm going to take your mic. I want to talk about Goldman and Castor. Where are we in the impeachment? Okay, look at, okay. So when we got to this point, we said, how many articles are there going to be? And we said, are they going to bring in the Mueller stuff? Are they going to talk about the obstruction from Mueller? And we debated that. And we said, well, maybe not, and we said, no, they're going to go to the simple, the simple articles of impeachment. And so let's, for historical sake, let's talk about what those are. One is abuse of government, and the other one is obstruction of Congress. Can't be any smaller than that. Could be one item, but it's two items and as simple as pie. Well, the question is, is the American public going to understand it? I think that's their main goal, isn't it? To keep it simple so that people can understand it. And that's why they decided to keep it, just those two. But if you look into exactly what they list under abuse of power, it talks about all of the Ukraine stuff, all of the telephone calls. You know, removing Yovanovich, the different witnesses that came in, the ambassadors that came in and said what he did. And that there was a quid pro quo and all of those things are in it. But that you hear the Republicans sit there and say, well, what happened to bribery and control, you know, and all of this other stuff, when it's really just these two. And it's like, well, if you read into what those two are, that's what they did. They put it in underneath abuse of power. So we're now in the process of the markup, right? Both sides get to look at it and mark it up as if there were anything else. This is the part of the process. To what degree do we get through the markup process? And how long does that protract? Any guesses? No, they're having debate on it, like today, tomorrow. Yeah. And well, McConnell has come out and said he's not going to do it until after the first year. There will be no trial in the Senate until well after the first year. And until maybe even this next report comes out from Durham of the IG stuff, and the Russia stuff. Well, let's go back to the skinny versus the broad thing. You know, I think part of Nancy's strategy is that she doesn't want to confuse people with other claims, a bribery, for example. That's a two-edged sword, because they could say, well, good. Let's focus on the ones that are clear. Let's focus on those. There's lots of evidence. We all saw the evidence. But they could also say, and it depends on where you start out from, where your original loyalty is here. They could also say, well, they didn't claim bribery. So he's not guilty of bribery and all these other things. He's not guilty of that. He's not guilty of the obstruction that was reported in Mueller's report. Because that's outside of the current obstruction in the course of this impeachment. So he gets these skits on that. And I think that some people, depending on where they're coming from, will say, well, he's been exonerated. But they're bringing that in there, though. It's part of the abuse of power is that whole part about Russia, and that it is a pattern of behavior. And that's a very big part of their abuse of power, is that this is not just a one isolated incident. It is a pattern of behavior. Well, I hope there's evidence on that. I don't know where that would come from. Because it was not present in the impeachment hearing. OK, let's talk about that. How useful was the Goldman versus Castor hearings that we had? In your opinion, did you watch that enough to say, was it clear to the person watching at home on the points of evidence and the rebuttal to the points of evidence? The thing I got most out of it was, this was valid evidence. Whereas, of course, we know the Republicans say, it is not valid evidence. So I mean, did that, are we still in our silos and we hear what we want to hear? Of course. And both sides hear what they want to hear. It doesn't matter how valid the facts are. No, I disagree with that. I mean, it sounds like balanced reporting. Both sides are in their silos. I don't think that Democrats are in their silos. I think the Republicans want to paint them that way. The people who are in the silos are the Republicans.  Distortion. If you look at those hearings that took place over the past couple of weeks, if you look at the statements they've made this week, if you look at the statements they're going to make in the debate now to follow in the, I guess the judiciary committee and then on the floor, you're going to find they're lying like crazy, mischaracterizing, a lot of disinformation. It's going to be terrible. It's going to make you sick to listen to it. The Democrats are not like that at all. The Democrats are straight shooters. I don't know why people say, well, look at both sides. Yeah, good point. So we haven't seen any poll data lately, have we? It's unusually quiet right now, isn't it? It is. I've seen two references to polls over the past few days. One reference was that as the impeachment hearings have gone on, Trump has actually gained in support. And I saw another one where the reference was that he is losing in support. So I would say it nets itself out. And it's probably no big effect either way. On the other hand, let me offer this thought to you guys, is that the public is a strange animal. The public does not necessarily reflect in polls immediately. Sometimes it takes weeks, months even, for it to all settle in. For them to talk to each other, meet at the coffee shop, whatever they do to sort of solidify. I hope they do that. I hope they don't just go by social media and learn what they know from Twitter. That would be really bad or Fox News. So I think we haven't really seen the effect yet of this event, this whole process on how people feel. It's still happening. The other thing is some of these TV news series are, as I said, quote, balanced. And they seem to sit on the sidelines and watch it as if it was very far away. And oh, boys will be boys. There they go fighting again. But that's really not what's happening. Read the Friedman article.  I fully believe that. And it's gonna affect everybody in the country. When people realize that it's not just a football game, half a continental way. It's happening to us, all of us, to our government. It's the worst thing that's ever happened in my life in terms of the relationship of citizens and government. Isn't that an argument for conducting this impeachment in the first place? Even though it may be a disadvantage when it comes down time for the election. But isn't that the priority or the principle that this impeachment was supposed to answer is that this wasn't a front on the rule of law in our constitution. And to what degree is that being emphasized? Well, a little bit, but not a whole lot. No, that's why the three of us recommended to Nancy that she go ahead with the impeachment. I'm so glad she listened to it. She probably went on to do the impeachment. Well, remember, I originally said censored, remember? Remember I did censored. Well, some Democrats, I read this article. Now they're going back to that again. They're going back to that. Yes. And I'm sure it's not going to work. In fact, it's going to embolden him further. The whole thing, everything that happens emboldens him further. Country is at great risk. So yeah. Well, for the record, I don't know what camera I'm at, but for the record, I came on board late. You guys are ahead of me on that one. I fully admit it. And I came on late. Well, but your question is very good. Where's the stress? Where's the emphasis? Where's the emphasis in these hearings?  And so where's the agenda now? The agenda's all mushed up. The priorities are not clear anymore. It's not clear, for example, that you've got to do impeachment in order to save the country. It's not a joke. It's not remote. It's real. It's happening. And it's not some kind of hit job. It's not some kind of political war just trying to take this guy out because we don't like him. That's their defense. OK, well, that's the whole thing. Let's admit this is a public relations war. Yes. And on one side, they're painting it as a hit job. You just said it. So who's winning the public relations war on this? I hate to say it. I don't think it's the Democrats, even though they look better during the hearings, but the spin after the hearings seems to be taking the better, even in the hearings. Republicans come up with this stuff and you don't see the Democrats saying what I think they need to say. Furthermore, it's the press. The press, we live or die. The nation, the republic, lives or dies by how the press reports this. If the press goes soft on it, and I mean all the media, I think Fox News is such an insult to our democracy because it doesn't tell the truth and because people listen to it and they're part of the public conversation and they create and support public opinion, even if it's wrong, just to get eyeballs. And the press is looking for eyeballs and all the press really, and looking for advertisers, so much advertisement goes on around these news programs. So on the query whether the press is accurately reporting what needs to be said here and of course, people on both sides of the fence, they're really dependent on the press.  I'm not gonna make notes about what they said. I'm mostly, I'm gonna listen to the press after it and how the press puts it affects public opinion. Are they doing a good job? I'll tell you later. I don't, I really don't. All in the name of looking fair and impartial, they're letting facts that aren't true be reported and repeated and repeated. I like watching Chris Cuomo because when the Republicans come on and start to. He likes to do that, doesn't he? Yeah, and instead of letting them continue to put forth this false narrative, he says, wait, wait, wait, you don't get to come on my show in line. That's not true and he calls them on it but I don't see that happening on the other shows. I don't see people getting called down for the fact that they're lying and that's what happens with the caster, the same thing. That is the job of the press to call out facts that aren't facts. Or at least question it and say, where did you get your, how did you come to this conclusion? It's not happening? Well, I feel, I have a mixed bag about Chris Cuomo. I mean, he gives them the floor. He gives them the opportunity to do their thing and then he wants to show you what a great cross-examiner he is. It's about him and them. And I'm really tired of listening to them. I don't think they should get any time at all. That's just me. But I enjoy racial or racial matter much more because she researchers and she comes up, she tells you what they've said on the record and then she comes up with her answer. So what is going to happen here? So what's gonna happen from this point forward in the house? And you said that we're not gonna have a trial until next year. When? In the Senate after the first of the years where he said after the holidays and all. And but Nancy has said that she's going to maybe even as soon as next week bring a boat in the house. Yeah, she said that and knock wood that'll probably happen. And then we'll all trundle off through a long Christmas vacation and come back and sometime in, I don't know when they come back but it'll be middle January already. And now we're 10 months away from election day and the job of the Republicans and Trump is to A, distract, and B, which they will do, promise. Because when there's a moment of quiet they'll come in with all kinds of stuff. Who knows what it'll be? South America, Asia, Europe. Who knows what it'll be? Economics, immigration. Look for North Korea, because that's bubbly enough. North Korea. Yeah, that's bubbly enough. Anything and everything to show that he's on it, you know? I'm sorry, I'm losing my lunch. You haven't had lunch yet. If you were, if you were a Trump and McConnell, I guess what we're saying is you would put this off because in the end they set a very good chance of not getting, of acquitting, acquittal in the Senate. Soon that wins the best time for acquittal. It's probably in October or September or October. Right. Trump can trumpet this and say, oh, been exonerated. It was all a witch on seat. I'm completely innocent, and the Democrats are really bad people. And so the idea is to fix a day, a specific day on the calendar, when this would work best. You think that maybe McConnell and Trump are talking about that? Oh yes. And do you think that McConnell in the Senate is capable, are capable, of kicking this football down the road, this can down the road, to achieve exactly the day they want? Oh yeah. Yeah. They get to set the rules. The Senate sets the rules for the way that hearing will proceed. So. Well, this whole thing's been positioned that the Democrats want to get this thing done soon because the election's coming and so they want to speed it up. And that's why this isn't fair because it's speedy and we know it's speedy because we can't get the witnesses to testify and we can't get the documents through subpoena. That's why it's speedy. I don't think this is so speedy.  They're rushing, they're saying you're rushing us and then they're not cooperating. Well, in this case, they're dragging it out because it's gonna be, I think, advantageous to do so. And Nancy says, oh, we're not really rushing but I don't think she's made that point effectively. I think this could have been a lot faster. The guy's done terrible, awful things, nefarious things that have come out for sure and we're really not moving fast enough. And they haven't just hurt us, they've hurt Ukraine also because they had to sit down with Putin and his position was markedly weakened because of it. I mean, instead of Pompeo or somebody from America being there to help them, nobody was there. Trump is a compromised president, my point of earlier. He's somehow been compromised and he's favoring an enemy every time you look. Every time you turn around. Oh, leads back to Russia. Yeah. So let's go back to the actual hearing in the Senate.  This has very, very little to do with the actual impeachment. What's gonna happen there?  Now one point that a story that Time's made, I like to pose to both of you is this. They said that there's a problem for Trump in the Senate because he can't, if the Senate wants his documents, if the Senate wants his witnesses in the White House, those people, the same people who refused to show up or provide documents in the House. It's very hard for him to say, I'm not cooperating, because they don't look like he's obstructing the Senate too. The Senate now. If he says, well, I don't think I'll come down and participate in this. It's all hard wash. I think it's harder for him to say that in the Senate. So the question is what's gonna happen? Maybe the Senate, McConnell, tries to find a way around that by not calling any of those witnesses, by not seeking any of those documents. Right, that's what he's gonna do. I think that's what he's gonna do. I do too. Because it's the thing we talked about just when we were on air. An attorney should never ask a question they don't have the answer to before that witness gets in front of a camera. My gut or a jury, you know? I don't think he knows what any of those witnesses would say under, you know, if the Democrats had a chance at them. And that's why it's a safer nut to get them on the quote unquote the stand. That's gonna be really interesting. And the rules are gonna be interesting.  And the Republicans took advantage of that opinion. So what's the rules in the Senate are gonna be determined by the Senate, aren't they? They'll be hard and harsh. And they'll just go, that's how it is. And they'll get away with it. And they'll get away with it, I'm telling ya. Where are you gonna go? But remember, I'm trying to think back in the actual trial, okay? They do have a judge. In the actual trial, it's Roberts. And you know, Roberts is not completely predictable as a Trumper on this. He may not be a full-tailed Trumper in the course of that trial. That'll be a lot of pressure on him to make obviously biased moves in presiding over that trial. Wow, that'll be interesting. But it will also be structured to avoid an acquittal at all costs and avoid a conviction at all costs, yeah. Okay, so where are we? Let's connect the dots here. Where are we here? We're three years post. We are in a complete tunnel in the world. But the economy is good and he is pounding on that. And we haven't heard much about immigration lately. And we should, because I think, you know. Still happening, a 16-year-old boy just died. There was an article in the paper about some judge in El Paso, stopped the wall. He said it was inappropriate to use military construction money, including military construction money from projects here in Hawaii for the wall, because that was the violation of the power of the purse and separation of powers. But where are we? Something you mentioned earlier, Tim, we're kind of in a confusion here. We've got so much going on, so many things are happening that even us guys are barraged and it's hard to keep yourself clear on this. What is really happening? Where is it going? It's like an amoeba with 100 pseudopods. I use that word as much as I believe. I love that. Well, I think by design. I think by design. These tweets are coming out in just huge volumes and how can anyone cover it? And I think that's the problem with the press, is that they're trying to cover everything. They're not just trying to select that, which what is the most newsworthy story of the day? They're covering everything, including, if you remember last night, the Hershey, Pennsylvania rally. I mean, we're spending a lot of time on that. And he lied through the whole thing. Yes, but the point is, they're covering things that maybe are human interest stories like how the guards were too politically correct and escorting that woman out of the pavilion. Who cares? We're in the middle of an impeachment. Let's talk about the impeachment, not Trump at the podium and making hay with calling the FBI scum and that the guards are too PC. The press is covering human interest stories within this political environment. I know that gets readership. I know that gets people to click on and they're not doing their job properly, in my opinion. Well, Tegan, how much of what he said you agree with, Cynthia? Most all of it. Yeah, because they don't think they're doing a good enough job of it. Of talking about the things that are important. I even switched off of, was watching MSNBC the other day and they were in the middle of, was it Burke? Barry Burke, the guy who was questioning the two lawyers, right? And it was a really important part of questioning and they switched to the IG report. And I'm like, I don't want to hear what that says. I want to hear what these guys are saying because I thought that both Castor and Goldman were really important and the way they conducted themselves and the answers that they gave spoke volumes about what's really going on here. They caught Castor in three separate lies that he said during his beginning part, right? And out of his 45-minute opening statement, seven minutes were on substantive matters of facts. The rest of it was all process. Close. The audiences are getting burned out. That's why we're seeing a variety of coverage on the Manini, if you will. They're getting burned out, and they can't handle it all like the Nixon days. The attention span of the American public has diminished. Time to press. Okay, we're gonna be off for a few weeks. We'll come back to the beginning of the year, yeah? Be a different world. Be a different world. Make notes. Tim Mappichella. Thank you, Jay. Cynthia Sinclair. Thanks, Jay. I love you guys. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Aloha. Aloha.


Hi Yannick, how are you? I'm very good, thank you! Ok, so today we are going for a lesson of freestyle for your triathlon. Currently you are doing some triathlon race, and in some weeks you will go to Phuket to do a 300m swim. No, 1.8, but for now your average speed is... Two minutes roughly per 100m. Ok, so what I can do today, we check how you swim and from how you look on the swimming we will work on the speed and the sensations. Can you show me how good you are? Excellent! Ok, go easy on me and I'll follow you. Ok, go easy on me and I'll follow you. Ok, super, nice. It's very relaxed, which is great. Try, when you enter the water, your hands is slightly going to the middle. Let's try to open up more. Keep your right hand on the right side, your left on the left side and don't go to the middle line. Just open up your hands and try to swim again like this. More open. Ok, slightly better, less sneaky. Relax your elbows, stretch forward. I keep going, there is 10 more meters. 50 meters, cool. How are you? Ok, do you prefer it? Do you prefer it when it's more open? Do you feel the difference? Yes, I feel the difference, I guess. Well, it feels a lot more dangerous also. I'm not really pushing outwards, but more along the side. It's more when you enter than I want you to open up. When you touch the water and you glide on the front, less middle, more open, more underwater, don't worry, just look for the pressure under your hands. Ok, so there is 40 meters from here to the end. We can do another time like this. Now your kicks, when you use your legs, try to kick not so big like this, but smaller, just smooth on the surface. Faster? Not more powerful, still relaxed, but slightly smaller, so slightly faster. Ok, how do you feel about it? It's a different feeling though. I feel like I'm kicking a bit harder, but I guess it's just compensating maybe. Actually, you're still too big, and amplitude. Try to have it really small, even if you don't focus on the speed, just to minimize it, so just small and fast, but if you focus on the smaller size with your feet, for your hands, that's much better. More open like this, actually gives you a more straight direction.  Ok, let's go. Yeah, that was better for me, in terms of instructions, that's more fast and smaller, so your legs are actually less drowning, more horizontal. The faster you kick, the faster you maintain your legs on the surface.  If you drag water, there's resistance, you go less fast, but you should not be tiring, so the legs are actually very soft. In long distance, it's just to balance your body horizontal. In sprint, it gives you power to move forward. In endurance, it's more to stay horizontal. Now your hands, you need to have a bit more rhythmic, just take the camera, so you're here, right? Before you just like this, and you cross the cut. Now you open more. Let's move. Accelerate underwater, you feel the stretch. Same kicks, same hands, just more rhythmic. Yes, I can feel the acceleration. Your arms are like going straight away. Now your heart, you should feel your bit like getting up now, is okay in terms of, okay, let's chin lower a little bit.  When you breathe after the breathe, you look on the side, and then you chin on your chest after.  With your chin on your chest, accept you don't look forward. Try at them, sometimes you must look forward, but when you don't, you basically sink to the lake, nothing much under the ground. So the more you chin is low, the faster you go, because the more horizontal you are. Good, keep it low. Did you try to chin lower? Yeah. How you feel about it? It's a different perspective, because I don't think I had the right direction yet. You lose vision, but in terms of speed, do you feel a difference? Yeah, you do. You feel you glide faster? Yeah, clearly. So it's not important to see where you go, actually. Just when you breathe on the side, you check if you are pretty much at the right direction. But when you swim, you must just look down under water. You don't need to chin up to look forward. You can look forward outside the water, during the triathlon, exactly, you look for the scenery, you look if you are at the right position, but if not, when you swim, you swim. You just focus on the sensation. Don't focus on the scenery, focus on your sensation. So chin lower, focus on the glide sensation. That's better in terms of speed, that's better in terms of sensation if you start to feel it. So just be used to it. Lose the vision, and let's try again on the same small kick, less vision, and eventually when you don't know where you go, you can chin up one time, like triathlon, you know, and then you see how. Let's go. Hi. Smaller kick. Keep your legs fast and small. Don't run your back. Glide on the front. So how is the sensation? Much nicer in terms of the gliding. You can feel less, I guess, interference. Probably the drag that is normally created. Yeah, it's about the drag actually. It's exactly this. You head low, so you enter the water better.  So now your kick's smaller, your head lower, you feel better glide. There is two ways to improve. We improve on your capacity of being stronger in the water. It means we go faster, we push forward, we pull stronger. That's pretty much physio. And in terms of techniques, if you are well positioned, then you just need to be used to the good position and just force yourself to go faster. It's like running. You run correctly, now you just need to go faster under the timing. For today, in terms of correction on the techniques, I'm happy with what I got. Now I'm going to work with you on the intensity a little bit. And we will start to the timing. And next time, we will see how it goes. Are you okay? Anything like this? Stop the video for the technique at that part. Bye, bye.


Hello, I am Dr. Devananda, Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Manipal Hospitals. I have been practicing cardiac surgery for the last 18 years. We know that replacement, unless it gets into trouble, generally lasts longer. Now how long a repair would last? It again depends on the nature of the valve itself and the pathology, what had caused the mitral valve leak and for which we had done a repair. Now if it is a rheumatic background, where secondary to rheumatic heart problems, somebody had a valve leakage and that we have repaired it, these repairs generally do not last very long because rheumatic heart problem is a kind of a progressive problem. So these repairs probably would work for a couple of years and they would fail. One definitely requires either replacement, generally replacement following a rheumatic heart problem repair. Now in the country when you repair a degenerative valve, these repairs are definitely long lasting. If underlying pathology of the valve is straight forward and simple, like only a part of the segment of the mitral valve is leaking, the long term results of these repairs are very, very good. Like end of 15 to 20 years, one remaining, good with the same repair, freedom from another intervention of re-operation is almost 85 to 90 percent, which is fantastic, no valve can match that result. Now in the country, if I repair a valve with multi-level pathology, you have got different kind of problems, you try to correct all that, our results of repair probably may not be the best like a single segment or one or two segments repair. So multi-segment repairs probably tend to last little less compared to a single segment repair.


What is going on guys? Welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I bring you this epic guide on farming this week's nightfall for the exclusive weapon being the Duty Band Auto Rifle. But hey people, before we get into that do you want to win a fully customizable controller? If so drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below and enter the giveaway via the Gleam link linked at the top of the video description. Simple, easy and legit. Good luck you succubushtards. Ok so this week's nightfall is the Sabbathensung. His exclusive reward, which is extremely rare, is the Duty Band Auto Rifle. As you can see on the screen now, looking great. Thing is, farmable nightfalls ain't what they used to be. If you guys remember the Omnigodays within Destiny 1, farming for that grasp of Manic, what we have now is a million miles from that. So guides like this are a rarity, but remember they won't ever be as easy as they once were. Now we all know Bungie State, there's a higher chance of the nightfall exclusive dropping from the prestige modes. So today's guide will be for prestige mode only, I mean it could possibly work in a normal version, but because we can't apply our own burns. Plus there is a higher drop rate in prestige, so Bungie State, we may as well go with prestige mode as it is damn simple. So first up you will need to have a challenge card, the Five of Swords, these are brought from there, so make sure you have one. So upon picking the Sabbathensung nightfall, prestige version, go into your inventory and edit the challenge card accordingly. Today I will give you the two fastest ways you can do this, but using this method you can create your own strat too quite easily. So for the first strat you want to use that Void Sing along with Heavyweight. For this strat you will need at least two warlocks using Nova Bombs, one must be using Lunar Faction Boots as well. Weapons I will discuss in a second, other class can be anything, in fact if you want to use a Titan as a third, make sure he has on that rally barricade and a Lunar Faction Boots for the warlock won't be needed as badly. The other way you can do this is by using different burns, using Solar Sing instead of Void Sing along with Heavyweight. Using Solar you will need two hunters using Golden Gun and Celestial Nighthawk. The third character here needs to be a warlock using those Lunar Faction Boots, or a Titan using that rally barricade. Okay so on to weapons, now weapons are up to you besides the Heavy, within that Heavy slot for both Void and Solar Challenge card setups for the nightfall, the Heavy weapon needs to be one of the game's fully auto shotguns, odds are you will have one of the three I can think of, but there may be more. We have the Icarus SG, we have the Perfect Paradox and we have the Hawthorne's Field Void Shotgun. Now obviously the burn on these needs to match whichever nightfall burn seems you go with, so if it's Solar make sure you've got Solar Burn on your shotgun, if it's Void make sure it's a Void Burn. So load up the nightfall and get through as fast as possible, you can get through quite easily in about 5 or 10 minutes depending on how used to the nightfall you actually are, but when you're at the boss, this is what you need to do.  For this instance we will be using the Solar modifier, so what you want to do is shoot the crystal so you start the encounter.  Warlock then needs to drop his rift or if it's a Titan drop that rally barricade, obviously pointing towards where the boss spawns on the right hand side. So yes when you shoot the boss from his initial starting point, he does teleport to the right of the room which will be right next to you. You then need to switch to them heavy shotguns and pummel the bitch, simple as that.  Using the Void cinch, the same rules apply, just fire novel bombs at the boss to make him teleport to the right hand side of the room, drop your rally barricade or drop your rift and do the same with the shotguns.  Now this strat is to get the boss killed as quick as possible so you can farm it more efficiently but the method is getting into teleport as fast as you can. But if you ain't fussed about doing it in like 10 seconds, you can really use any method you want in getting him to teleport to the right hand side of the room. I mean you can use almost any weapon but you are at risk of being shot by the boss and if that Void cinches on, I don't really recommend that. But yeah guys, this strat works wonders and if you are looking for a guide on farming the duty band, this is it. So good luck in trying to get it. But on that note guys, we have come to the end of the video. A big thanks to DarkArmedGames for the info and the strat. So a big shout out to him but I am out people. 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And also, thank you to all of the organizers of Go Ruko. This is my actually first time speaking at Go Ruko. It's my first time giving a programming-related talk. So thanks for having me. Maybe this is why the conference is ending. OK, guys like me showing up. And usually, they say it's hard to follow a great talk. Like, Andy's, it's also even harder to follow a talk when you're trying to desperately dab the tears out of your eyes here. Titleless talk is I made a huge mistake how we got services wrong and what we learned along the way. I think this talk is a version of a talk that's probably been given a lot of different times and different flavors. So this is going to be our take on this topic. It's going to tell the story of how a growing startup tried to break apart its rails monolith and some of our learnings along the way. The talk will be broken down into four talks, four sections, a little bit about me, some high-level discussion around, like, how do you break down a rails monolith? When is the right time to do that? We'll end with five concrete tips or five sweet tips, and then we'll wrap things up. My name's Kelly. I live in San Francisco. I've been there for three years. Before that, I was living here in New York. Glad to talk New York versus San Francisco at the after party. I live with my fiance and our dog. We're getting married next summer. We're having a Twin Peaks-themed wedding. I've been riding rails since about 2005, and I work at a company called Gusto, which does payroll benefits in HR software for small businesses in the US. We'll get into that in a little bit, but right now you're probably wondering, let's talk about Greta, our dog. Figure tender love is going to burn like 10 minutes talking about his cats, so I'm going to burn a slider to talk about my dog hair. So Greta is a very fashionable dog. She likes to keep up with the latest trends. She recently decided to redo her hairstyle and go with an ombre coloring. She's also a very worldly dog. She likes to travel. She likes to have new experiences. So she recently brought back a kimono from Japan. That's not why we're here. We are here to talk about, I would say, rails projects that push the limits of the framework. I think rails doesn't scale as one of the great lies that's uttered by commenters on Hacker News, but there are times where you need to reach for different things, and that's what this talk is about. There's a caveat here, which is you shouldn't take everything here and immediately apply it to your day job. You want to think about it and have a discussion with your team. So let's talk about Gusto. Gusto currently does payroll for 1% of small businesses in the United States. We move over $1 billion per month. Our Rails code base is one of the largest that I've worked with. It's about a million and a half lines of code between the front end and the back end. That's including our tests. We have over 80 engineers, and we mostly work out of the same monolith. We do this all with the Fisher Price framework, that is Rails. One and a half million lines of code is not a small project, especially when you have a language that allows you to be as expressive as Ruby does. The domains of payroll benefits in HR are domains with a lot of incidental complexity. This is complexity that is part of the problem, and it's not complexity that is our fault. Payroll is a careful balance of time, geography, money, and people. There are tax jurisdictions that are as small as the city block or as large as a country. The IRS really gets on your case if you're even off by a single cent, and obviously everyone wants to be paid on time, so unfortunately for Scott's talk, we do have item potent jobs, so you're not gonna get paid twice on Gusto. Sorry. And because there are people on the other end of our software, we are all human, and we are all constantly making a mistake. I'm probably making a big mistake right now. This talk is about mistakes. So all of these aspects need to not only be able to be applied and they change lives, but they also need to be rolled back and corrected when mistakes are made. So reports, it's for this reason that when given like a very important trade-off in application development, we will always choose correctness over performance. We need things to work correctly. The IRS needs things to work correctly. The country needs things to work correctly. So this is like one of the trade-offs that we make, and this is an important thing to keep in mind when you are looking into what is essentially a domain-driven design. So let's talk about how things go wrong, and when things get way too big, like if you are at work and you're like, our Rails monolith is huge, like congratulations, that is a great problem to have. You have a company that exists, and it's useful enough to keep around, so great. So a lot of things that work when you're just five engineers in someone's apartment start to break down when you get to 50 engineers or 80 engineers or hundreds of engineers. So I want to talk about the Swamp. Swamp is another name for a ball of mud. This is when that Rails monolith gets so large that it becomes very slow to develop, and startup times can take tens of seconds. Your test week takes tens of minutes, maybe hours, and you find yourself starting to play whack-a-mole with different parts of the app. Ship one thing, another thing breaks. You fix that thing, and then something else breaks. And you start to kind of outgrow some of the paradigms that Rails gives you out of the box, like an app models folder, or an app services folder, or an app controllers folder. And over time, it becomes difficult to make any changes at all. You might say like, our team is growing, but it feels like we're moving slower. You can feel like you've got your head stuck in a Kleenex box. She was fine, don't worry. So I want to talk about our Swamp. Like, what does Gusto's Swamp look like, right? Like, our Rails monolith, which we are still in the process of piecing apart, right? A lot of people will get up here on this stage for, I think we're kinder than that. They'll tell you like, we switched to service oriented architecture, everything was great, and we're done. As we should have learned from Andy, this is a process, this is a dance. So our Swamp has like four rough domains. Got payroll, benefits, HR, and infrastructure. Exactly what they do isn't too important. But this is the Swamp that we live in. There are 666 models. Don't read into that number too much. And you'll be working like this and someone might show up or someone might come back from a conference and they'll say, let's extract a service. This is a huge Swamp that we've got. And you might say, cool. So let's see how that might work and let's see how we might have done this. So in our case, our team decided to, let's say extract this HR domain into its own service. So an application. And we chose this because HR is conceptually different than everything else, but it's still related to what you do. So in the world of gusto, right? You might keep someone's name, social security number and how much they're paid in an HR service, but the payroll service might be in charge of actually paying that person. So we're like, okay, let's Rails new up, HR v2. We've got a Brand Spankin' new Rails app, Rails 5.2. Maybe we can track master, getting really crazy here.  But as you do that, you're like, oh, huh, there's a lot of stuff in HR. There's a lot of stuff there. Huh, yeah, we missed that. And so you get this, it feels like the goalposts are constantly moving away from you, right? And you're not isolated, you're not just a bunch of engineers banging on code. You need to work with your team here. You have PMs, you have designers, you have the business asking, hey, when is that thing going to be done? And you're like, well, soon, right? And this goes on for a little while and the team's getting burnt out. So you say, well, you know what? We've done this pretty well. HR v2 is, it's got 90% of things moved over. Let's call it quits, project's done. So you say we're done. But then you've got a different problem, right? Which is, we set out to extract this one thing from a Rails monolith and now we've made the problem worse. Rather than there being one place to go look for HR information, now there are two places. There's HR v2, which is really fast, but it's still starting to get slow because you're like, oh, there's a lot of stuff in HR. And now you have this appendage of old legacy HR and chances are it's doing something very important, which is why it's there to begin with and why you're choosing to keep it around. And this is exactly where tribal knowledge comes from in companies. Because now the question of where are names stored or where are social security numbers stored, you have to ask someone. It's not just evident from the names or the structure of the code. There's gotta be a better way. We think we are on the right track, but we by no means have the answer. So you might say, tell me more. So to do so, I wanna first make a distinction between applications and services. I think Scott's talk was great. It did a good job of breaking down and trying to provide nomenclature to these things. I should make a note that this nomenclature is going to be a little bit different, but I think the spirit is the same. So you might say applications and services aren't those the same thing. What's so different about them? So here are the distinctions that we make between applications and services at Gusta. So an application is something that has its own process. It's its own app. It is like that rails new, right? A service might just be a module of code. It might be running in process. It might be running out of process. You might be sending parameters to it via method calls. You might be using something fancy like GRPC or whatever is gonna be cool tomorrow. Usually applications have their own database. Services probably share a database with the monolith. Applications can scale independently where services scale with the host app. Applications might be in another language. Services are going to share the same language here. And for us, we have a rule that we create a service first and then an application. So rails new is one of the last commands we run in this process. So let's take a look at how that works. Let's go back to our swamp. The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna sit down with the teams who are in charge of these domains. We're gonna sit down with the payroll department. We're gonna sit down with the HR department. We're gonna say conceptually, what is payroll? Conceptually, what is HR? Like what are these things doing? What should they be doing? What is the difference between the expected and the actual in terms of how our application is structured? And we wanna get everyone on the same page. We wanna get them bought into the vision that there is a reason why and there's benefit to breaking these things apart. For us, we found that it's much easier to maintain these applications. Even simple things like routing pages becomes a lot easier once these things are split up. And then once we have like the contours or these bounded contexts defined, we're going to start drawing explicitly drawing edges. So this is where you move out of using the database as an interface in a normal Rails application. And you say we're going to explicitly define every single time payroll talks to HR and vice versa. Every time HR needs to talk to payroll or whatever your two domains might be, we want that to be an explicit operation and not just they're both reading out of the same database table. And when we're drawing these lines or traversing these edges here, we're using value objects. Or we have a rule that if data is coming across one of these lines, we are not passing around an active record instance. As we work, these interfaces are going to become relatively more hardened. It's going to be clearer how these two things interact. And then over time, the decision of should this run on its own box, should this run on its own like a fleet of containers, that is a small change. Whether it's running in process or out of process, whether it's running on the same host or on a different host can be configured and reconfigured. When you're doing this, you will introduce new failure modes, which again, Scott's talk is great to cover those things. But we found this to be a good litmus test of did we get the boundaries between our domains correct? If changing a transport layer is a very easy operation, we feel pretty confident in those domains or in where we drew those seams. So in the Rails keynote this year, DHH talked about this concept of conceptual compression. I think this is one of the great strengths of Rails. You don't have to think about this stuff for a long time. Rails is one of, I think, still continues to this day to be one of the most expressive ways of building a web application. Much like Ruby optimizes for developer happiness, I think it also optimizes for developer time. And you get a lot of concepts, just curled up into this nice little ball so you don't have to worry about writing SQL statements or sanitizing SQL statements or validating data. You get a lot of that for free. Everything is kind of curled up into a little ball here. But we found as the application grows, as you get deeper into your domains, you need to figure out which parts of Rails you need to start breaking apart. Which concepts do you need to expand? And the four or five things that Active Record handles for you. How do you start breaking those apart and being a little bit more selective about what you choose to use? So these next five concrete examples are some of the things that we found work for us. They may not work for you. Have a discussion with your team to figure out if this might make sense for you. Our first recommendation, mind and avoid circular dependencies. Although we do not have like import and export statements in the Ruby language, we still draw dependency graphs with every line of code that we write. And so for us, as we grow our Rails applications, we actually have started to question bi-directional relationships. So from a code perspective, this is a very simple, very simple like two Active Record models that you might see in an application. We started to ask the question, do we really need that other direction? Or whenever we have an employee, are we already operating within the context of a company? We do this because bi-directional relationships, by their definition, create circular dependencies.  If you took a microscope and zoomed into a ball of mud, you just see a lot of Active Record relationships and other things like that very coupled together. So we ask ourselves, can we drop one of those lines? Not always perfect, but nonetheless a good discussion to have to improve the design here. Recommendation number two, whenever you are communicating between services, use value objects to traverse those edges. So let's take another look at a very simple service class. So this is a service class that handles what happens after a company signs up. We're gonna send an email using the company mailer class and we're going to track some stats through the stats tracker class. And this looks like perfectly normal Rails code. And actually I would say it's a perfectly fine Rails code for small applications when speed is more important than maintainability. But if we look at this in depth, we'll notice that we've actually coupled company mailer and stats tracker, the two classes here, tightly to the structure or the shape of our company Active Record. And so the problem here is that now if we ever want to change the shape of a company, we need to go and make changes in several different places. And that has a name that is called Shotgun Surgery. So instead, we always ask ourselves the question, when is the best time to bail out of Active Record and just go down to pure values or value objects? Sometimes this might just be strings and integers, sometimes we will actually build up plain old Ruby objects for poros to represent what we are trying to pass around. And now we only need to make a change in one class should the shape of that company Active Record ever change. Third recommendation, callbacks, try to avoid them. Callbacks are incredibly powerful in Rails applications. You would kind of get the sense that it's hard to write a model that does anything interesting without them. But their expressiveness comes at a cost. So I want to talk about that cost and I want to talk about why we say generally avoid them. So let's look at, again, company model here. After a company signs up, we want to send a welcome email. Let's ignore the fact that we might be using a third party mailer behind here and we're tying the ability to create a company to is that other service online. Also never mind the fact that we should probably be using an after commit with a background job. Just bear with me here. So we look at the dependency graph that we just drew with that Ruby code. Again, circular dependency. And this one's even a little bit more sinister than even bi-directional relationships because here we have two different layers of our application, like the model layer and the mailer layer. They're now coupled together. They know too much about each other. And again, this is not a problem immediately. This is a problem when you go to change the thing. So instead, we reach for service objects. We've got a lot of service objects. I mean, one and a half million lines of code, we have to, you gotta write those somehow. So we reach for composable service objects. And here, so rather than having the company model know about this mailer layer, we have something else, a create company service object that knows how to create a company and it knows how to take care of that email that we wanna send afterward. If we look at the dependency graph of that, we have a new node. We have three nodes now, instead of two. But the trade-off that we've decided to make is that it's better to add a new node to a dependency graph than to create a cycle because the cycles are what makes it hard to change. Fourth recommendation, services first, then applications. Try to get these boundaries around parts of your app drawn and hardened before you type that Rails new command. And when you type that Rails new command, make sure there is nothing left over from the previous service. Fifth recommendation, move slowly. This stuff takes time. For one of the pieces of the app that we applied this to, it took us six months and 500 pull requests. We set a vision of where we wanted to end up. We didn't know really how we were going to get there or necessarily how long it would take. But we had the buy-in of our team and of the company, and we were able to gracefully do this and never miss to beat. We were still transacting every single payroll through the system while we did this process. Always move incrementally, no matter how bad the code may be. Rails newing a microservice is akin to a big rewrite whether you realize it or not. You have to stick with what you have today rather than starting to build, trying to build something from scratch. So in the words of Kent Beck, you'll always be looking to make the hard change easy when breaking apart a Rails monolith. That is going to be hard.  And then you want to make the easy change. You can't do this without a great team. And this is not something that you can break easily down into a series of stories or points. So it'll take a while. Trust your team. And good luck.