Alright, hey, welcome back to the channel today. I have a special guest and I'm so excited to introduce you to Ivy from pathways immigration and I just thought that we would bring her on today because she'll be so much better than me. And talking about the recent changes to the skilled migrant category, which is a huge deal because that's most of the people that come in are interested in that and there's been quite a few changes. She will also be overreviewing some other changes that have been happening over the last six to nine months. And they're just really great company. If you have any questions about immigrating here or just thinking about it, you can literally just reach out to them and they can just answer those and just see, you know, what visa possibilities you have and I will put all her information in the description below so be easy for you to access that so welcome Ivy thank you for coming. Hi Tara, thank you for having me and hello to your viewers and it'll be, it's good opportunity to be here and to reach out and also to assist everyone who has got questions about moving to AZ1. Yeah, so I just, we're just going to dive right in guys to the skilled migrant category changes and she'll overview kind of where we're at now and what the changes are, but it's great. And it's a big one. And so there's, there's lots of nuances to it so we'll do our best to cover it but go ahead and post questions below and we can just work together and getting those answered as changes are good. I think it's, it's moving in a good direction. So, that's right. So, here in New Zealand, there are several residents categories we've got, you know, the active investor, but the parent residents, but the main one where people would qualify for residents is the skilled migrant category so this is the points based system, which has been reviewed and the changes will be introduced in November of this year as it stands the current skilled migrant category is the points based system. So, you know, you get particular points for a particular criterion. At the moment, the minimum points for for a skilled migrant category expression of interest is 180 points. So you've got points for your age qualifications, skilled work, skilled work experience, skilled employment in New Zealand. That kind of that that kind of thing. So at the moment, if you want to apply for the skilled migrant category you need to apply for what's called an expression of interest so this is the first stage. Sorry, you can't even do the expression of interest unless you have those points is that right. Yes, unless you have claimed your points correctly claimed your point. No, that's a good way to say it. And just so you guys know like I moved to New Zealand in 2013. And it was 140 I believe at that point and then it went up to 160 and 180 so it's just it has gradually been getting harder. And so as you guys know I help a lot of people move over here, and they just hit it's hard to hit that 180. So let's I'm excited about the changes. So, but that's right Tara said that did come from 140 them to 160 and then last year they when they reopened the skilled migrant category. They said the 180 points would kick in earlier this year. So the 180 points like I said is made up of age qualification skill employment, but on top of that you'll also need to meet English requirements for primary applicants which could be an IELTS test. You'll also need to meet point five for the principal applicant and five for secondary applicants that would be your children or your spouse. And you'll also need to meet health and character requirements, which means you know, and nothing of a disease that would cause the New Zealand government money wise and resource wise so that kind of thing so. So those are all still in place. The, like, those are still remain health exams that you have to do, like as a as an American citizen, I don't know that's for every. You know, immigrant that comes over but like we had to do FBI fingerprints and we had actually show pictures of our family being happy like a real family over years. Like you couldn't just say that you were together like I actually had to send in actual photos. I don't know if this is still the case but it's kind of funny. But yeah, I really like it I think that immigration is only bringing in people that is useful to New Zealand, you know, where we have a lots of whatever you think about immigration here in US. You, New Zealand doesn't have a border and so they have, they're just they have really good rules around it I like it. It's hard to get in but it's fair. It's hard to get in.  And so that's that's been the focus of the skilled migrant category hence the name. So, and that's correct. You said that you talked about FBI clearances that that remains. So if you, you know, you present a police clearance from your country of citizenship in any other countries, you live in for 12 months or more in the last 10 years. So that still remains. You'll still need to provide general medical and x-rays for applicants that would need to provide those so those haven't changed at all. So the skilled migrant category. This will be ended. Well, the current policy would be finishing by the, I don't know, finishing the right term but the last expression of interest draw under the current policy would be the 16 this August. So the 16th of August, which is the Wednesday a couple of weeks from now, but the expressions of interest have to be in by the 15th of August. Otherwise, basically, you miss out. So that's to get in the current way that it's done under the current under the you know the 180 points system. Right. So that's what it is. So if you're not finishing all that paperwork get it in. That's right. That's right. So, you know, and like I said, you'll need to have claimed your points correctly, because at the moment you'll also need for you to be able to put in an expression of interest. You'll also need to meet the median wage, which at the moment is $29.66. So even if you've got a skilled job, you wouldn't be eligible to and remember with in terms of skilled employment. These are still immigration still relies on the Australian and New Zealand standard classification of occupation or end school. So, you know, the job has to be classified as an end school skill level one, two or three, and the applicant must be deemed suitable for the role by meeting the requirements as set out an end school. So there would be, for example, requirements for bachelor's degree qualification, or any actions of a bachelor's degree qualification five years of relevant work experience to substitute for the qualification. So there are a lot of variables that can come into play with the expression of interest with the current skilled migrant category your employer does not have to be an accredited employer. And so if basically you have a skilled job you have a, you know, you're paid at the correct rate, you meet other requirements that the English and the points then you can put we encourage everyone who qualifies under the current policy to get it in there. Now, because you've got a very small window of opportunity, right, because you already worked, so like just leave it. If you if everything works, I would definitely put it in I totally agree. Yeah. So can I just ask a quick question at the moment. Yes, sure. So when you put your expression of interest, when I did it it was, how do I say, it was still like a pool, like they randomly would pick people is that still the way that it works. Okay, that is correct so at the moment you put in your expression of interest, it goes into a pool and if you have 180 points, it will be automatic, at least 180 points, it will be automatically picked from the pool. Yes, so the expression of interest, basically is information, a lot of information that you need to put in there and to justify how you meet the points criteria. And you once you put an expression of interest at the moment it's $590 New Zealand dollars when you put it in, and think about give or take probably a few days to maybe a couple of weeks they'll issue what's called the invitation to apply. So the invitation to apply basically means your expression of interest has been picked from the pool. Now these are the requirements for you to complete in order to apply for the skilled migrant category. So the intent, the invitation to apply or the it a lists all of the mandatory documents that need to be submitted with the skilled migrant category. At the moment, the, well, the immigration fee for the SMC for SMC is $4,290 on launch of the application. And the reason experience is that it's processed anywhere between two and four months. So that that's the current skilled migrant category. Oh, that's not too bad. Well, it's like a year. It's not too bad. No. But yes, they had a, you know, the processing times before weren't great, but in saying that the two to four months would be for countries that would not require was all a national security check. So the national security check is a third party check that's undertaken by a different agency within different agency. And there's no timeframe for the national security check. So sure. That would probably throw a spanner in the works in terms of processing times, but another government needs to get involved. Yeah. Okay, so question about application. Okay, so what was my question. So what you're saying, just so I make sure I understand is that someone puts in their expression of interest that the way they've calculated they have their 180 points. And you look at it and you and immigration looks at it, and they see that it's accurate and they allow you to go in so that's the point of the expression is just to make sure that you fit all you tick all the boxes and have enough points and then you can apply. And isn't there like a limit to the amount that they can let in or and no moment there. There is well accused to be a quota system but not but I don't think they're doing that now because skill microcategory was suspended over COVID. And in fact, for the first draw in November, I think they got like 6000 EOS or something. And, you know, they had to accommodate that because it was suspended for such a long time. Okay. Yeah, so that's that's the current skilled microcategory current. So now we're going to move to. So I'm just going to take this up. Yeah, go ahead. So we're going to move on to the new one. So the new skilled migrant category, what they've done is they've basically simplified it. So simplified meaning, instead of the 180 points, you now just need to aim for six points. So with the skilled my current skilled migrant, well, you know, the main difference I guess here is that because they've simplified the skilled migrant category. They've removed the points required for you know, for age, because that was the thing that you had points for in the old skilled migrant category under 40. So I'm just going to cook. Yeah, I'm just going to quickly show you what it looks like now. Okay, cool. Okay. So this is the new skilled migrant, the simplified skilled migrant category points system. So as you can see they are now focusing on, you know, occupational registration or recognized qualifications or the income. And if you don't have enough points to get to the six points that lets you supplement it with New Zealand work experience. Oh, okay. Well, how are you New Zealand work experience if you can't come there and work. That's that's another I'll talk about that shortly but basically to cut and the current scheme and the current policy you'll need to be on an accredited employer work visa. To be able to, you know, obviously to obtain a job in New Zealand so that's a, it's a different category altogether from the policy that was, and that was active last year and pre COVID. So from July in 2022 immigration has introduced what's called the accredited employer work visa. So now with this skilled new skilled migrant category. I said earlier in the current policy for the skilled migrant category your employer does not have to be accredited, but with this new policy, your employer needs to be an accredited employer for you to qualify for the skilled migrant category. All right. So I'm just going to quickly run through the, you know, the simplified point system. So occupational registration, these would be like, for example, doctors, nurses, you know, teachers know that kind of thing so there are corresponding points for the occupational registration. So you can see it goes on from six, five, four, and then two. And the first question about that. So are you that says occupational registrations that mean an occupation where like, you know, you have a, you need to have like a teaching certificate to teach like that kind of like a business person that doesn't count because you wouldn't really have that. No, that doesn't count. So this is like more for occupations that require annual registration, like, for example, I said, thank you. So the higher the, the higher the points. So, and then the next one would be the income. So again, this relies on what's called the median wage here in New Zealand. So the median wage at the moment is $29.60. It's reviewed normally around November and they announced when the new median wage kicks in usually on February the following year. So if we're at 2966 now that's going to change. So the median wage kicks in usually on February the following year. So if we're at 2966 now that's going to change. So does that, does that take in consideration like, like exchange rates because like the New Zealand dollar to the US dollar I feel like that would be pretty easy to meet. The meat. Sorry, the median wage is basically based on the studies done by statistics New Zealand. I'm sorry. Yeah, so it relies mostly on what's called, you know, the median income in New Zealand and why and this is why migrants need to be able to meet this. Right. But what I'm saying is, yeah, what I'm saying is, so if someone in the US is making $20 US an hour, it would still be, you know, like 30 something in New Zealand dollars. So that's what I'm saying.  I think, no, it doesn't, it doesn't. I don't know how, how to address this, but basically it means that this income has to be earned in New Zealand. So I don't see it. Okay, okay. Yeah. Okay. Because the only, for the skilled migrant category, again, you'll either have an offer of employment or already in skilled employment with an accredited employer in New Zealand, which means they've already committed you to, they've already committed to paying you at least the median wage, whatever the median wage is in New Zealand. I think 80% of the time, or maybe 90% of the time, I'm not sure if the statistics, people who apply for the skilled migrant category are in New Zealand anyway. And so, but we'll see how this policy actually comes into play when November comes around. Right. That's true. Like once it actually comes into play. The other question was, so like if someone, okay, so if you're not, if you're not in a, you know, occupational registration, you're not in that kind of job.  So let's say you have a bachelor's degree, which would be most people and they're only getting three points. And there's say a marketing manager and have been doing it, you know, for 20 years, let's say, or 15 years. So what you're saying is they would need to get a job offer in New Zealand. That would be three times the median wage to get those extra points. Am I understanding that? Okay, so the combination is a bit different. So, okay, because it's a laterized system, like I said, if it's a bachelor's qualification, several considerations. So basically, is it New Zealand qualifications authority recognized? Because if it's not, then that's another process that you'll need to go through. Right, the NZQA. That's right. Before you can claim those points. So assuming it's an NZQA recognized qualification. So you've got three points. You have to supplement it with three years of skilled work experience. So this skilled work experience has to be in New Zealand. And the reasoning for that is because it's difficult and it's time consuming to verify work experience from overseas. Yeah. So, you know, basically, or another scenario, for example, someone has got a PhD, so they already have six points. Do they still need skilled employment? Absolutely. They need skilled migrant category. They'll need to be still in skilled employment and just rely on their PhD to get those six points. So, again, a lot of variations to how you can claim the points. A lot of little fish hooks in there. You know, in terms of the qualifications, if they're called, if they're read, you know, if it's in New Zealand recognized qualifications, that's not a problem. Or if it's been completed in New Zealand, that's easy to be claimed. But if it were from somewhere else, then it needs to be checked if it meets policy requirements. And if it's not, then you know, NZQA and then you'll need to supplement it from points with skilled work experience. So just to be clear, if you have a PhD, you don't need anything else, or you also need to have a job offer. You need to have a job offer, a skilled job offer from an accredited employer. So when I say a skilled job offer, again, it's got to be within the ENSCO one, two, three list of occupations and paid at the median wage, at least the median wage, $29.00, $69.00. Okay. Ooh, all right. Okay. There are a lot of permutations that can arise from this new policy. Again, the important thing to remember is that apart from meeting the points requirements, the English requirements haven't changed, the health and characters requirements haven't changed. So those remain the same. Okay, so you still do all those same things. It's just the point situation. Okay. I think you guys are going to need to talk to the pathways.  Like how I would calculate the points for this because just reach out to her and I think that that would be helpful. I think that it's also a good, it might be helpful to talk about so because I can, I'm not seeing a lot of options for people to not get points through getting working in New Zealand. So how would they do that then? So that's the thing. So they, because the skilled migrant category, it focuses again on, you know, it has, there has to be skilled offer of employment or skilled work experience in New Zealand. If they can't get in. Yeah, so that's, that's the other thing that, you know, the, it's cash 22 as well. So if you don't, you know, you'll need to have a job offer to be able to apply for the accredited employer work visa. And then the accredited employer work visa would obviously be a path, hopefully there would be a pathway to residence. So I'm just going to briefly talk about the accredited employer work visa. So Immigration New Zealand has introduced this change last year. So for any New Zealand employer wanting to employ a migrant, a they need to be accredited by Immigration New Zealand. This means they've subjected them, you know, they've submitted preliminary checks and say that we're compliant with New Zealand laws. Once they've got the accreditation, then they'll need to provide a job check, which is basically they've provided evidence they've tried to recruit New Zealanders but there are no suitable people to fill in the roles. And can we please have unique job links for job tokens for these people to apply. So the job, the last one, the job token is the unique link for a migrant to apply for an accredited employer work visa. In the past, Immigration would look at end skull and to satisfy themselves if an applicant is suitably qualified in the current regime. It's the employer who sets the requirements. So for example, I want a painter, for example, painter blast, you know, painter blaster. Normally they'd say they require maybe like three years work experience. But if the employer says this is an entry level role will accept anyone with six months work experience and they're paid at this rate, provided that an applicant meets the requirements, then they can apply for an accredited employer work visa. So how they'll say, and just to transition to the skilled migrant category, let's say they've got a bachelor's qualification. That's been recognized by Immigration New Zealand, and they've got three years of work experiences to send blaster painter. Then that'll give them six points and that'll be a pathway for for residents for them in the future. So for the accredited work visa, is there like a time limit or is that just what's set with each different employer. The accreditation itself by employers is renewed annually. There's no in terms of the time limit, the accredited employer work visa at the moment is valid for they're issuing it initially for three years, but they've announced earlier this year that any work visas for three years. So at the moment, but they've announced that they are now extending the validity to five years. So for anyone who's been granted a three year accredited employer work visa from November this year they can apply for the balance of their visa to get the full five year entitlement. And the expectation is that within that five year period, they'll have a pathway to residents, otherwise there is a 12 month stand down period, you know, whether they'll need to leave New Zealand for a year before they can apply for a further accredited employer work visa. And in November, as of well in November this year, any accredited employer work visa will be granted for a duration of five years. And again, no expectation is that there is going to be a residence pathway for them. Oh, that's, is it me or does that seem like a lot easier, like at least giving options, like because before it was like if you don't have this and you can't do this and too bad.  Some cases there were but I was finding that quite hard. And there is still the work to residents option under the accredited employer work visa. And normally that's for the sector agreements. I wouldn't say it's easy if, if I were to compare to the previous policies, the accredited employer work visa is a lot stricter compared to the previous years. So this accredited employer work visa basically limits your staying using them for five years if you don't have an accredited, if you don't have a skilled migrant pathway or residence pathway, whereas in the past people have been here on work visas for 10 years, and there was no limit on them being on the work But at the same time, if you want to get a pathway to residency and you don't have 180 points and you can't get a job because you're not over there, like you kind of have no option which is what I experienced as the majority of people, unless they're on like the green list or the ones that they're looking for. So, I don't know, so that's, it's, yeah, it's complicated. It is complicated. And that's why some people also approaches for a student visa pathway. Because some people who, who got the funds and want to move to New Zealand, they invest in studying in New Zealand for a year or two, whatever level of education and that sort of, that's them up nicely for a residence pathway in the future. There are different permutations into achieving residence. It really just varies on how flexible I suppose someone is in terms of, you know, their long term goal and the hoops that they're willing to go through to be able to achieve residence. Yes. So the question about the accredited work visa, does that, when someone comes here say like, and they get the five years, do they get the social benefits of New Zealand like the health care and like the right to vote and So for anyone coming to New Zealand on a visa of at least two years, they would be entitled to public health system and they would not be entitled to vote that is for residents or citizens. But I think mostly it's about the public health publicly funded health service is a big one. And that's why that's why when immigration, you know, assesses health requirements, they need to make sure that these people are going to come in, you know, healthy and yeah. Anyone coming on a visa for two years or longer would be eligible for publicly funded health services. Okay, cool. Not not benefits as provided by, you know, the Ministry of Social Development but publicly funded health is yes, voting, no benefits. No. Got it. Okay, got it. Good. So, I mean, I guess, like you said, Tara, there is a lot of fish hooks and the policy there. I know I'm sure people would have a lot of questions about what we've just discussed. So, Tara would be displaying my contact details below. But if you do want to reach out directly. My name's IBM one of the lessons immigration advisors here at pathways to New Zealand. We do have a website that you can jump in. I'm just going to show that. That'd be great. Yep. So that's us. Yes. Okay, so that's Poffice in New Zealand. And we've, we have offices in the Hamilton and Wellington region. We've been, you know, over 30 years. We've been the industry for 30 years. There are a lot of, we've have, you know, tabs for the services that we offer depending on what pathway you're looking at. We also have a jobs board. And so this one, that's nice. Yeah, so this mostly we have, you know, medical fields that are mostly here. I think so feel free to browse through that we have our sister company and ZDR helps with the medical recruitment. But if you've got any further questions, our contact screen is here. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. And we've got, you know, a team of 12 advisors who would be more than willing to assist with any questions you may have. Does it cost to contact us? No, it doesn't. And that's our question. Yes. So, um, it's always been pathways philosophy to give clients or people the correct information at the get go, because it's easier to do that than to fix something. And so we consults are free. We would only be charging once we agree to a visa pathway.  We are probably in the mid range and cost wise in the market. And yeah, we speak several languages in the office as well. So if I'm Filipino. So we've got Indonesian, we've got Chinese, we've got Indian, we've got French, we've got Spanish speakers in the office. So there is a plethora of languages that can be spoken in this office. Oh, that's so great. And I just so you guys know I've like reviewed their, their costs are very reasonable for what you're getting. I just was like, oh, this is great. So I am on board for recommending pathways to guys and definitely reach out. Do not hesitate if you have just have a question and you're just thinking I would love to come to New Zealand. I just wonder if I can because everybody gets lost on immigration site, although I think it's well really well done immigration site and easy to figure out but you know there's all those different circumstances, you know, somebody in the family has a little bit of a health problem and you're not sure, you know, like, there's so many like little things that matter and so just reach out to Ivy and her team and that'll be great. So, yeah. So yeah, thank you so much for joining us today and if you guys have questions comment below, put them in there we I'll do my best and maybe I'll just you know send them to her maybe we'll do another video if this was helpful or if there's more information that you want to know, comment below let us know and I will see you next week. Thank you. Bye.


So all of a sudden I'm looking at this copper coin and I didn't know it Jay But there's a law called Gresham's law and Gresham's law states and bad money enters the system Good money goes into a heif.  I got one dollar for nine holes two dollars for 18 holes Four bags and all the stuff, but I take those dollars. I knew he was fake at that point.  It's called you can buy dirty silver and it's all coins And so I'm 1964 1965 I go to school in New York. I have this big bag of silver coins I come back to Hawaii where I'm from and I asked my mother What happened to my bag of money? He says I spent it So I made a judgment, you know, it's traumatic a bit to psychiatrists a lot of times But this is I mean I made a Decision I Said the reason poor people are poor is they don't know real money faithfully and So our money is completely modestly, but that's why I'm here.  They got what's coming to them. Thank you But now I actually want to go to you with the exact same question if I could I saw you nodding Enthusiastically and I know this is one that's also very teed up for what you do So same question manipulation in the silver market. What's your take and how do you manage that? Well, first of all the way that I manage it So I'll start that first and that's about knowing the true value of an asset or any instrument And that's its fundamental value because ultimately that's where it's going I'm not a short-term trader So I really don't care about the spot market and especially in silver when you look at the supply and demand dynamics It's ridiculous for a spot. I don't know where it happens to be at this moment But like a twenty two twenty three dollars an ounce you can't buy it for twenty two twenty three dollars an ounce, right? There's going to be a premium in there. So what I do is I accumulate I Accumulate because what I know is that we're at the end of the currency's life cycle this whole big experiment Not just the US dollar not just the Canadian dollar, but every fiat government debt-based money We all the debt bubble has already been popped That's the difference between last year and this year is that the debt bubble has already been popped and ultimately all Assets go to their true fundamental value Which to Robert's point that fake money the fundamental value is a big fat zero But for good money for real money that you hold it and you own it outright That too will come to pass and this will indeed go to its true fundamental value And then there are so many opportunities in this wealth transfer cycle that we're in that if you're holding good money You're going to be able to take advantage of it Force the two of you walk around with slip of coins in your pocket. Who do you? Jullery to All right, Peter I want to come to you next because when that you mentioned, you know You're not a short-term trader you guys are going to get so sick and we're talking about time arises But I just think it's so important. So Peter you wrote a book recently became a best seller of this industry Aligning the case for why you feel like silver is the best investment of the generation or less to summarize So what would you have to say to investors who have been beating their head against the wall for a long time? Stating on silver or silver stocks with no price action Well, thanks, Jay. What I would say is that one of the rarest commodities is patience and Especially in silver but As Rick rule told me silver was has been an outside contributor to his net worth I was chatting with a little middle cope just yesterday and he said he absolutely loves silver Then it's a fantastic asset to own Could be a fantastic asset to trade But if you know if you're not patient, you're not going to benefit from the upside that comes from silver Jeff Knows quite well in his presentations. He tells us how and I talked about this as well How it goes through these long periods of doing absolutely nothing and then it explodes And if you think that you're gonna jump right in right before it explodes, you're wrong You need to be sitting there and you need to be waiting take your time and do the research I mean as we know silver equities have been challenged and they're not different from gold equities But if you do your your research and you accumulate these positions, you don't have to jump Hit it strong into a full position Accumulate and over time you'll be rewarded that it's proven itself time and time again And and you don't have to take huge risks. I'll give an example Wheaton precious metals in 2008 November 2008 to April of 2011 was up 17 times This is the largest silver Company public company out there. So again, you don't have to take outsize risks You can invest across the board or anything from and I do recommend physical silver You go into silver ETS and all the way down to the juniors Depending on your comfort and your own risk profile. There certainly is something for everyone and I feel that You should take advantage of the volatility. So Silver doesn't in mind you belong in everyone's portfolio. It's a matter of it's a matter of proportion and you have to put yourself You know Wheaton precious metals as you just mentioned. They're set to generate a billion dollars in free cash flow this year It's amazing business Okay, glad I want to pass it to you because I bet you have a different take on this or maybe my conversations with you About me to believe you're really good at just kind of emotionally detaching from the silver price You don't care your job is to find metal pull it out of the ground and sell it, right? So how do you process the volatility volatility in the sector and the sick mentality? Well, look patience I think everyone here has said patience People don't understand how long it takes and you have to be willing to be there for a long time If you want to make a return example, we built three large silver mines in Mexico and our careers already you sold three to majors It takes a long time the current company I'm working with right now Silver Tiger seven years $100 million to get to a feasibility study in June so we can build it and have it in production in 2026 That's what we think about anybody who invested with us Back then has to wait all the way until we build it to get a return But there are three numbers that I think are really important I'm sure all these smart people writing books have these numbers, but as someone who's going to make that metal They're all waving around here. Someone has to make it. That's how it works. Yes I don't have a coin, but she just told me here's this 51 44 38 That's what I think about because I'm going to be in production in 26 and in 2027 There's going to be 44 in 2028 there's going to be 38 every day


The dairy council denies there's an association between milk and increased mucus production, and they blame it on the Jews. The original myth, they claim, stems from a 12th century Jewish physician. Not just any 12th century Jewish physician, though, but none other than Moses Maimonides himself. What have we learned in the last 800 years? The latest review on the subject was published last year. Does milk increase mucus production? Is that fact or fiction? It appears to be fact. The milk protein casein breaks down in the stomach to produce a substance called casomorphin, which, as its name implies, has opioid effects. Which makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, because species survival may depend on a close maternal bond between infant and mother. The guess is that opioid receptors on the mucus glands in the respiratory tract may respond to the case of morphine from milk, which could potentially stimulate the production and secretion of mucus from these respiratory glands. This may explain why a subgroup of the population who have increased respiratory tract mucus production find that many of their symptoms, including asthma, improve on a dairy elimination diet. Maybe Maimonides was right.


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Well, tonight, excitement mounts at Fever Pitch in the little town of Weaverville, for tomorrow is the traditional football game between Weaverville High and their bitter and hated rivals Middletown Prep. Needless to say, every loyal Weaverville alumnus is praying for his team to win. For when one spends four years at a school, one becomes enormously attached to it. And our young hero, Dennis Day's feelings go even deeper than that, having been there for seven years. We find him now in the living room of the Anderson boarding house, where he's been telling his girlfriend, Mildred, of his past days of glory on the gridiron. Of course I don't say I was the best water boy we ever had, Mildred. Oh, no? No. As a matter of fact, they fired me after the first day. I guess it was because I took so long to bring them the water. You couldn't run fast enough? Oh, it wasn't that. I used to take it out a cup at a time. The regular bucket was too heavy for me. Well, maybe you weren't so strong, but I bet you were awfully cute when you were in high school. Oh, sure. Naturally. Well, I probably wouldn't have paid any attention to you if I'd known you. I thought I was madly in love with my French teacher. Did you ever have a crush on one of your teachers? Nah. Well, that's funny. I thought every kid got a crush on one of his teachers at school. Oh, not me. I was too mature. Besides, all my teachers were men. Might have had something to do with it. Gee, I wonder if my French teacher still remembers me. I'll bet mine remembers me. I took French for two years, and when I got finished, all I could say was CC. A football game like this certainly brings back memories, doesn't it? Yeah. Gosh, I sure hope we win it. I've never seen the town as excited about the game as they are this year. I know. That's all anyone talks about. Even mother and daddy can't think of anything but reading. Oh, hi, Daddy. Rock, rock, rock! Just boom-bop! Hear him in the belly with a trolley car! See, Poopsie and I are going down to the school to see the team off for Middletown. You kids care to join us? Oh, sure. I hear the coach is an old friend of yours, Mr. Anderson. Yes. Old Rocky was coaching the football team when I went to Weaverville. He was? Oh, that was football in those days. No passes and trick plays. It was bone against bone, muscle against muscle. Skulls cracked like celluloid. Why was lucky if I lasted through the first quarter? You mean you played on the team? No, just watching. I had a weak stomach. Steve Herbert. Why, mother, you're wearing your old Weaverville sweater with a W on it. Yes, and it still looks as good as the day I bought it, except that the W seems to have shrunk a little. No, I doubt it. Poopsie, the background's just gotten bigger, that's all. Maybe. After all, it was 28 years ago that I first wore this sweater. Well, 28 years ago. Gosh, it doesn't seem that long, does it? Well, not to me, naturally. I'm only 10 years older. Do you really think we'll beat Middletown this year, Mrs. Anderson? Well, of course we will. I've even bet $5 on it. $5? Oh, Poopsie, you shouldn't have. You know how badly I need new shoes. I could have taken that $5 and added it to the $5 I have under my handkerchiefs in the bottom drawer. Oh, now I've told you where it's hidden. Don't be silly. What $5 do you think I bet?  Where did Poopsie and Middletown disappear to? Oh, they're over at the bus talking to some of the boys on the team. Gosh, those football players sure are big guys, aren't they, though? Yes. I'm certainly glad I'm not that vulgar muscular type of man. Yeah, me too. I like my bones where I can see them. Now just look at the fuss Middletown and Poopsie are making over them. Impressed by a few biceps.  Certainly. What good are muscles anyway? All they do is put a strain on your skin. Muscles, blah. And also, blah. And likewise, poo. Done right. I might say the same thing if I had some. Oh, there's the coat. Hey, Rocky. Gosh, Mr. Anderson, I wonder why he's looking so sad. Hello, Herbie. Hi, Rocky. You remember this young fella, don't you? Huh? I used to be the water boy. Yeah, well, we've had so many water boys, you know. Oh, I was the one you said carried less water in his bucket than on his brain. Glad to see you again, Dave. Say, is anything wrong, Rocky? You seem kind of upset. Upset? I'm half crazy. Didn't you hear what happened? I just found out ten minutes ago that a spy from Middletown sneaked into our secret practice and stole every one of our plays. What? Yes, they've got all our plays and it's now too late to line up any new ones. We'll be slaughtered. Oh, my gosh, the rats. You said it. Of all the dirty, low-down, sneaking, unethical tricks to pull. But where were you at the time, Rocky? In Middletown on a roof across from their field with my telescope. Did you spot any of their plays? Not one. They chased me away the minute they saw me. Oh, dear. Oh, there you are, Herbert. I've been... Why, what's the conference?  We're sunk. What? It's true, fairy flower. But they can't do this to us. Do you realize what's at stake? The glory and honor and pride of Weaverville High and my five bucks. Action, that's what we need. We'll send a spy up to Middletown to steal their plays. Well, if they caught him, they'd murder him and skin him alive. I couldn't order anyone to go on a mission like that. I've got two volunteers for you, Herbert and Dennis. Huh? Well, folksy, you just heard how dangerous it'd be. You might lose me. Herbert, Weaverville High gave you to me. Weaverville High has the right to take you away. It is our only chance. Now, look, they'll have a secret practice session before the game. All we gotta do is figure a way to get you two guys in. I have it. They can pose as doctors. Doctors? It's perfect. Tell them you're there from the Board of Health to check on the players. I'll go home right now and clean out the medicine chest and throw it all into a little black bag. I'll meet you back here in ten minutes. Well, I guess it's for Weaverville, Rocky. Say, get me. See that I'm buried back at the chemistry lab. Will you, old man? That's where I spent my happiest hours in school.  How about you, Dennis? Any last requests? You have buried me in the principal's office. Many's the time I wished I were dead there. Okay, fellas. I don't have to tell you what this means to the old school. Oh, I die for dear old Weaverville, Rocky. You know that. Shall we all sing our Alma Mater together? For what? Maybe the last time? Yeah, let's. Very well. Bow your heads, gentlemen, and face the east. Weaverville, love thee still. Me, too. If we can only make these Middletown coaches think that we're really doctors. Well, in case he wants proof, I brought along a pack of camels. Well, I hope it's enough. Look, look, there he is coming towards us. On your toes now, Dennis. Sorry, Gents, but this is a secret practice. Can't allow anybody on the field doing it. Well, just a second, my good man. We happen to be from the Board of Health. I'm Dr. Cronkite, and this is my colleague, Dr. Belchmerz. From the Board of Health? Yes, we're investigating football. A very unsanitary game from what we hear. Most unsanitary. Unsanitary?  You can't argue with Fax Coach. A recent survey of the Harvard football team of 1839 showed that every one of those players are dead at the present time. Every one. Well, of course they're dead. And not only that, but at the end, they all showed exactly the same symptoms. Yes, extreme old age. Oh, now look here. I'm sure that you all agree there must be something basically wrong with a sport that takes fine young boys and turns them into old men within 70 years. Yes, this threat to public health cannot go unchallenged. We've got to find out what makes this game so unsanitary. Now, tell me, how many men are there on each side? Eleven, but please don't interrupt. How many footballs are used in the game? One. What? Twenty-two men all using the same football? Shocking. It's a disgrace.  Gosh, Doc, maybe you got something. I never thought about it before. Of course. Here, give one of these pills to every man on your team immediately. Yeah, well, what are they? They're new secret vitamin pills. Each pill contains as much nourishment as three dozen eggs, five quarts of milk, four T-bone steaks and an order of chopped liver with schmaltz. Well, sure, Doc, whatever you say. Thanks a lot. Dennis, what did you do that for? Look, he is giving the team the pills. Oh, they were only some aspirin tablets I found in the bag. But even so... Well, we had to get rid of them, didn't we? We want to write down those plays. Anyway, it made them less suspicious of us. Well, maybe. Say, that is a pretty nifty football team he's got, isn't it? Yeah, I'll say. Hey, look at that play they're running now. That's pretty cute. Well, don't you worry. I'm putting it right into my little black book here. Atta boy. Our boys look... Oh, my gosh, Dennis, look. One of the boys just got hurt on that last play. Yeah. Holy smoke, they bring them over here. Oh, I know. We're supposed to be doctors. Oh, my gosh, that's right. I wouldn't be in that kid's shoes for anything. We've got to keep up the bluffers. Here they come. Here's a patient for you, Doc. He was just hurting the scrimmage. And the scrimmage, huh? Mmm, bad. That's bad. That's right near the liver. It's nothing, Doc. I'm just a little shaken up.  We'd better play it safe and take a post mortem. A post mortem? Well, I think maybe the first thing to do is feel his pulse, Doctor. All right, Doctor. We'll work it out together. You find it and I'll feel it. And why bother? This man's ailment is quite clear. A appendicitis. Hey, but, Doc, I had my appendix out last year. Oh, well, what I meant was tonsillitis. I had my tonsillitis out the year before. Okay, you've had a heart attack. Let's see you get out of that one. How is he, Doc? Oh, he's very bad, Coach. This boy must have complete quiet. I want him to stay right where he is for 48 hours. 48 hours? But we've got a football game to play in this field at 2 o'clock. Well, in that case, one of the players is not to step on him. Complications might arise. Come, Dr. Welsh Merrills. We must be going. Coming, Dr. Cork height. I'll see you later, Coach. Okay, Mike. Get up and get back in there. Hey, but, Coach, the doctor just said... After my eye, those guys aren't doctors. There are a couple of spies from Weaverville trying to get a line on our plays. What? But they even gave us pills. Nothing but aspirin. I saw the bottle in their bag. I also saw a little book with one of our plays in it. And you're letting them get away with it?  I tore out the play they hadn't filled up the book with phony ones. Now, every time they think they know what's coming, they'll get something else. We'll murder them, Mike.  That game will be a massacre. And this operator, Weaverville 227. Oh, thank you. Hello, Poopsy. This is your lover boy, the Mata Hari of Weaverville. Sure, we just delivered a whole notebook full of their plays to Rocky. Yeah, I think your five dollars is safe, dear. Tell her to bet some more. Hock the furniture, everything. It's in the bag. Bet all you can get down, Poopsy. It's a cinch. Yeah. No, we're not staying for the game. Someone might get wise to us. And we'll be home on the next bus. Huh? Well, you're my big boofy baby doll, Smokey Wookiee, too. You wonderful boys. Why, Weaverville will run all over Middletown now. Yeah, thanks to us. We did a pretty brilliant job, didn't we, Dennis? Brilliant. Oh, shucks. There must be a stronger word than that. Oh, I agree with you. Sure. Who needs muscles? We may not have them, but we got brains. Mr. Anderson was so clever about writing down those plays in this book, I didn't even see him do it myself. Me? I didn't write those plays down. You did. No, I didn't. But you must have. Well, I ought to know I never left my side for an instant. But if you didn't write them, and I didn't write them, who did? Well, let's face the facts. There are only three of us anywhere near the bag, you, me, and the Middletown coach.  Uh-huh. No muscles, no brains, nothing. Will someone please tell me what this is all about? We've been tricked, Mildred. That coach must have gotten lies and written the plays in our book himself while we were working on an injured player. Meanwhile, we reveal we'll get the worst beating in its history. Oh, I feel faint. Take my hand and lead me to the sofa. We'll have a pretty long walk. That was one of the things mother hocked to bed on the game. Oh, my gosh. Well, something's got to be done. She'll be down any minute to listen to the football scores on the radio. Oh, my soul and former body. Well, my two brave, wonderful heroes. Hello, Poopsie. Well, what are we waiting for? Jack Collins is on right now with his sports broadcast. Let's turn him on and get the good news. Oh, we can't hear him now. We've got to tune in the Green Hornet. Oh, yeah, yeah. We just must have to hear that. The Green Hornet? Why this sudden interest in the Green Hornet? In the last episode, a stinger was caught in the door and he was turning blue. I want to hear that score. There.  Excuse me, I'll be right back. Dennis, I can't believe it. Me either. Must be a dream. I thought I could stand the pain. I'd pinch myself. It's no dream, my boy. But what do you suppose happened to the Middletown team? We'll probably never know. I've forgotten my excitement.  It has all the medicine in it and I want a sleeping pill to calm my nerves. A sleeping pill? A sleeping pill, but there weren't any sleeping pills in the bag, Mrs. Anderson. Oh, yes, there were. I had them in an old aspirin bottle. An aspirin bottle? Yes. The mists are beginning to clear away. Gosh. So that's why they stuck. Gosh. 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It's been two weeks since the Petros Castis Taga and motorists as well as small business owners in the Ajah Battery Access of Lagos State are still lamenting the untold hardship caused by this development. Plus TV Africa correspondent Destiny Momo has more. This NNPC along Battery Road Ajah Access is selling fuel at this time, hence the reason for the crowd and long queues of cars, tricycles, motorcycles and fuel gallons. The manager of the station says he is hoping the situation eases off soon as the station sells for 162 Naira per litre at this time. The problem is from on top because you can see this well I'm selling now since about almost four to five days now, the truck is at the depot there, we say they will come, unfortunately they will come this morning and after the charging you can see that the operation starts. Like now right now, yeah we are not selling above the price of the federal government this NNPC, we are selling at the rate of 162 Naira per litre. Having queued for about three hours, these Lagotians lament their ordeal. I feel so bad about everything you know and I feel like I feel that all these things people are doing they're not even working with them or I don't just know so but I just feel so bad. I've been here and I've even scratched my motor as I'm talking now, somebody that was not in the queue. We will never get that buy fuel, this is our Africa, we will never get that buy fuel, they give our safety in queue. Nobody is actually taking responsibility for this whole mess, so I mean it's just crazy. They are calling on the federal government to improve on the situation and ease the tension on citizens. Lysano says when they wanted to increase fuel they said I don't know how much they buy fuel, I don't go to the fuel station, my is I see fuel in my car, I go to the airport and fly to where I want to fly. So the government or the NNPC group should begin to look at the individual because we are the one consuming. But how a small business owners coping with these biting situation. You need power every time, but since there is no fuel now getting fuel is very difficult, last time I have to go get black market and it was quite expensive. So we have to run, sometimes we run 24 hours, no light. So it has been very, very serious. Toss in all angle because we don't get the fuel the way you supposed to get it. So if we want to work now we don't have enough fuel to do our work so it makes us not to do the work we supposed to do. Since there is no fuel now I cannot do like no electricity, no Nepal, it's because of the fuel now. I'm suffering because of fuel now, my office is locked already. The federal government last week raised hopes that the lingering fuel crisis and its attendant queues at filling stations would ultimately disappear this week. Nigerians are still looking forward to this. Destiny Momo plus TV Africa. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


and welcome to Security Matters. I am your host, Keisha King, and today we're gonna have a really good conversation about security in our schools and other important places.  We're gonna talk about now, Safe Defend, a company who is able to help us in reducing the amount of casualties and protect ourselves by getting information to police officers faster. Joining us today, Safe Defend, and our friend Doug, welcome to Security Matters, Doug. Thank you for having me, Keisha. It really is an exciting opportunity and I appreciate you letting us come on today. It's totally my pleasure. I believe in solutions and being solution-oriented. And so while we have had much discussion about mass shootings in our schools and other places of business, I'd love to be more about the results and try and find ways that we can prevent the number of casualties. And it seems as if Safe Defend can help us do that. Before we start talking about them, why don't you tell us about your background? Well, Keisha, I was a police officer for 20 years. I retired as a captain. I ran one of the police academies here in the Midwest for three and a half years. I've trained over 15,000 civilians on how to respond to active shooter situations and I've trained about 700 police officers on what to do in the situation. What was interesting is Safe Defend was a company that was actually founded by a friend of mine. He was a principal at an elementary school and after Sandy Hook in 2012, he started looking at the way we respond to these and he realized that the two biggest aspects were the law enforcement wasn't getting notified in time and we weren't getting our lockdowns done quickly enough. And so he looked at sort of the principles of how do we do that quicker? And obviously, alarm systems is one of the ways it's gonna work. And so he developed an alarm system that can be placed in schools that will notify teachers and staff, notify building occupants and notify police where they're needed within that building. I love it. In a nutshell, faster response is what you're saying. Yes. Yeah. And that's so necessary. Well, one of the things that I look at is I have actually, unfortunately, I had an opportunity when I was in law enforcement, I was a police sergeant and I did respond on an active shooter situation. And by the time we got there, it was in a manufacturing plant. It was a terminated employee that walked out to his car and came back in with a gun. By the time we got there and we did our darnedest to get there as quickly as we could, it was about five minutes of our response time. The perpetrator was gone. Fortunately, nobody was injured in that incident. He did shoot 18 rounds before leaving. But that was one of those situations where somebody actually had to pick up and dial 911. What was interesting is that if there was ever a fire in that building, they wouldn't have to do that. All they'd have to do is just pull on alarm and immediately fire would know where they're needed and would respond. What's interesting is I don't understand in schools why we still think that 911 is the best plan or to try and use two-way radios and things like that. We need to just have our teachers activate an alarm, put that building on lockdown and know that police are responding. It's interesting that you say active and alarmed and that they need to go into lockdown. We have a lot of lockdown drills as it is. And yet there still isn't enough information about where the incident is happening. We just know that we need to get protection or go into the safe corner in our classroom. So we're not fully aware of what's happening and where we have codes that we have to follow. Can you talk to me for a little bit about how safe defend works and how the response time would be quicker for everyone involved? So what we do at Safe Defend is we use just very simple technology. We use text messaging, we use emails to make sure that we alert staff, alert law enforcement. Most 911 centers have text to 911. And so we're able to just piggyback right on that and send a text message right to dispatch. What would happen is that in the event of a crisis all we need a teacher to do is to just reach up and they would have each of these boxes in the classroom. We would have things like this device here in the hallways and then we have siren strobes. Can you demonstrate how that works for us? Certainly and so in a crisis all we need the teacher to do is to just put their finger on that box and then they've activated the system. Oh wow. The system would go off and what it's doing is it would text an email alert, the text here to from text an email alert to going out and what it's providing them is information specific down to like the classroom, the address of the building, the classroom, hallway information if you have blue or color coded hallways, things like that. And then inside the box we have stuff for teachers to assist them help mitigate casualties with trauma response, help them protect the classroom. If the perpetrator was trying to break through the door, things like that. But the most important thing is that law enforcement is notified within seconds where they need to be specifically within that building. And that's the thing that's gonna save lives when we start talking about what's happened in past incidents. Right. So now once a teacher puts their fingerprint on the safety fan box, tons of information is released. But how does the machine know where the incident is happening? It's based upon what information? Because a fingerprint, yeah, please explain. Each of the boxes is coded to the classroom itself. So if this was classroom 201, it would give the name of the high school, the address of the high school, any hallway information say Southeast hallway or Southeast corner of the building. And then it would say room 201. Now the important thing for that is that law enforcement, once they come in, they know specifically where to go. And a lot of dispatch centers have copies of maps. So they'll be able to direct the officers to where, say the cafeteria is where the shop is or the art classroom, things like that. So dispatch can pull up maps within their center and tell the officers where to go within the building. But more importantly is the teachers and staff, they know exactly where they are in relation to that threat. So if they're on the entire opposite side of a campus or if they're in another building, then they can change the way they respond.  But if I'm on the other side of that building, maybe I take my kids to the exits and we head out and we start moving away from the building itself and so that we're moving away from the threat. So it provides a lot of information immediately. Okay, that indeed it does. So now this machine is able to contact dispatch for 911 and then- And we can also directly link, we have, so our system is installed in about 12 different states. We have over 150 schools that we're involved in. And we coordinate with their SROs or their local police chiefs or the police departments. And a lot of supervisors or commanders, they have department-issued phones. So we just take their text phone number and we can send that text directly to them. They can then just start directing their officers where they need to go down to the room number you're needed in room 212. And that's what we're starting, we're needing to do is to cut through all the layers of information of the confusion of two-way traffic, radio, people calling up to the front office, trying to figure out what's going on because everybody starts calling in 911 and they say we've got a problem at the high school. But like at Parkland, that was a 45-acre campus, people didn't know where on the campus to go. Exactly, and I wanna talk about that a little bit more with what happened at Parkland, but I want to get a little bit of clarity because what you're saying is this machine is going to let the police know immediately where we are or where the incident is happening based upon the fact that a teacher's fingerprint goes on the machine first and it identifies the room, et cetera. However, how will they know that there's an active shooter? Is there a separate code for active shooters? Or is there something like a special code or something to distinguish between a fire alarm versus an active shooter or a bomb threat or tsunami threat? How will we know what type of emergency that we are faced with? So our system is designed only to deal with hostile intruders so we don't address any of the other threats. There's already fire regulation codes and then there's standards for things like tsunamis and hurricanes and so those alarms are separate and then the responses are separate. So our system is exclusive for the hostile intruder, but in the actual text it'll say active shooter lockdown and what was so important is that we understand that the training comes in where we tell the teachers this is for the type of situation where you have an armed perpetrator who's armed in the building or somebody that's actively hostile towards students and staff and that we need to get the building unlocked out immediately. So the moment that this is activated, you're gonna get what we call a global response and what I mean by that is you're gonna get every law enforcement agency from counties and local police and government entities and security guards that are in that area that are gonna start responding and so when this goes off this is because there is an armed student or an armed perpetrator adult in that building and tend to harm the students in there. So it's only used for that specific purpose. Okay, I got it. So this is specific to that, which is very necessary and I'm grateful that it is, but this sounds like an entirely different type of training that teachers will have to go through. Who provides this training? Who's responsible for that? Well, it is one of the trainings that we do, but it's really not different than anything like the run hide fight or Alice or some of these other trainings. In a lot of these situations, the number one thing we need to know is we need to know that the building needs to be unlocked down and that you need to clear the hallways. And so that's why we have the siren strokes that go off in the hallways so students know to find the closest classroom, not try and get back to their science class or math class, but to get into the closest room. And so what we're doing is, is we're providing information. Number one is there's a threat in the building. So seek shelter or safety. And then the next thing we're doing is following it up with a text message that then tells them where the threat is so that the teacher and staff can make a decision. Do I stay barricaded or do I attempt to run based on what's going on? And then the last thing we do is that we have them a way that they can counter the threat that if someone, you know, provide them with tools like a tactical flashlight and other objects that they can use to prevent people from getting into the classroom. If it happened where the perpetrator was trying to get into a specific classroom. That's what happened in Sandy's class. So who has access to this text message? Is it teachers only? Will students have access? What about their parents? All right, so we definitely won't do parents. And I know that a lot of parents would love to know there's the last thing we need right here is 800 parents flocking to the school before law enforcement gets there. So it's gonna be staff and student, or sorry, staff and faculty, all the adults in the building and then law enforcement is gonna get those texts and dispatch will get those texts. Same thing with the emails that follows up with the same type of information it'll be provided to those people. So that's that first tier of information. The other thing that we do is we also will broadcast this out to say this principles. So if it happened at the high school, we also send texts and emails out to the staff, the administrative staff at the other schools, because they need to go on lockdown. If you have a threat at your high school, every emergency service in the community is gonna be headed to that school. There's nobody to protect the other schools. And we've seen situations where students have talked about creating diversions. So if something's happened at one of your high school, every school in the community goes like locked down because of the potential that all the resources are being used up. And so that's the type of stuff for that. So it's a pre-determined list. These are the people we're putting on that list, law enforcement, whomever they get on that list. The school makes that determination who they want on the list and then they would just get that information in a threat. All right, so it's almost time for us to take a break but I wanna make this point that teachers then have a little bit more power because they'll be able to determine an incident is taking place on the opposite side of campus, for example, and they get to determine where they go. For example, they can run out away from harm's way. With that power though, also comes another aspect of responsibility that I wanna talk to you about when we come back. Because I'm thinking about, or I'm also hearing you say teachers as medics, they will have a responsibility to help in a medical way. So we're gonna talk about that a little bit and then we're gonna talk about Mr. Peterson who got into a little bit of trouble while making a decision for himself in an incident that happened during a shooting at a school. So you are watching Security Matters. 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I am your host, Keisha King, and right now we are speaking with Doug from Safe Defend, and we are speaking with him about protecting our youth while they are in school, if in fact they are faced with an active shooter. Safe Defend will help with a quicker response time from medical and police personnel who can get there and come to the rescue as we so desire for them to do. Welcome back, Doug. Thanks for having me, back, Keisha. Indeed. So the last thing we touched on was teachers as medics. Now, I say that tongue-in-cheek because you all actually provide some basic training and tools for teachers to stop the bleed. King, talk to me about that a little bit. Sure. What I think I wanted to touch on right before break, you did say it does empower teachers, and it really does because within the classroom, all the teacher has to do is put their finger down on the box and that's what activates the system. But then they can get into that safer corner, then they can start to work on the light. So it takes one second to make sure that everybody in the building knows that there's a threat and that law enforcement's en route. It's the same principle with the fire alarm.  That's what we've done is just taken that. The reason we use the fingerprint is for the security of it to prevent accidental or malicious discharges.  It'll actually read the fact. We get a notification that there's what we call a failure to read, meaning it'll indicate to us that someone was trying to, we call them curiosity touches and that's just when the students are like, what would happen if I put my finger on there? When it comes to the trauma, this is part of the whole federal stop the bleed program, the Department of Homeland Security has come up with this program. We've been doing this for about five years, the DHS program I think came out at the end of 2017, but it's just saying that in a crisis situation, we are overloading EMS resources because they can't get enough ambulances there to deal with say five or 10 casualties immediately. Eventually they will, but in the worst case scenario, you've got casualties that are losing blood and that hemorrhaging is what's going to kill them. And so there's basic stuff that being done just with pressure points, with things like tourniquets and then with some hemostatic agents or gauze pads that can be applied just to slow that down. It's all of this borders on the combat life support which came out of the military and what they realized for battlefield dressings and how the first person there just needed to take the first aid kit, bandage a guy up and keep moving and then the medic would come up behind but it bought enough time that it was actually called life extending measures. And we know in those scenarios in the heat of the moment, all of those seconds matter and that's what we want to do. We want to get in there and we want to save a life. We don't want to lose anyone. Certainly teachers do not want to lose a student and I think that with the proper training they can save a life. However, I think there is also that risk that what if they did all they can and they lose a life. I think that is something that probably every teacher would dread the thought of. So that is something that still needs to be considered and I think that the main point is to not have an active shooter on campus in the first place so that we wouldn't have to be faced with that responsibility or challenge. But moving on, I like the idea of everything that you've said thus far. Tell us about where safe defend is now and how it's working there. So we like to say we have 100% deterrence because in all the schools we've put it into we haven't had any incidents. The biggest thing is that the parents feel a lot better. It is interesting that it's a different time. You're talking about your experience with your teachers and your students and I'm sorry even your children. They kind of grew up in an age where doing a safety or a crisis drill isn't that traumatizing but the parents actually are the ones that really worry about this sort of stuff. But the students handle it. So we just have to understand that this is where we're at and that by doing these drills and practicing how to get into the safer corner we can do enough. Where we're at, we have actually, so we are in government buildings so similar to what they had in Virgin Beach. We have city halls that have our system in. We have manufacturing plants. We have nursing facilities, hospitals. We have business offices that do this. Under OSHA there's a general duty to warn clause so there is actually a requirement that employers be able to notify their employees of a recognized hazard and workplace violence is one of the ones that most employers miss out on and it actually ends up having quite a lot of liability.  And those are the type of things. You know, I don't, sorry to cut you off but that is a huge challenge especially for small business owners because you cannot think of all the different ways to really find or to communicate with your employees that there is a safety hazard. Right, and the biggest thing though is that if there was a fire or a chemical spill or a weather related emergency most of us have these procedures in place that this is what we're gonna do and this is where we'll go. This is where we'll seek shelter. This is where our rally point will be if there's a fire and we have to evacuate the building. A lot of buildings just even the smallest five to 10 person in business has that but they ignore the workplace violence stuff and that's what they need to do is to develop these sort of procedures to just maybe take one room and say, all right this is the room where we would barricade in this is how we lock the door from the inside but if you're gonna be in an internal room you need to make sure that either there's a phone in there or your cell phone work. So walk into that supply room and make sure you can call 911 from in there and use that as your safety room. Just basic things like that will actually help employers. That's true, that's true. It's so sad that we now have to have several discussions about workplace violence and the repercussions that we face if we have a plan in place or if we don't could be fatal. I wanna switch gears just a little bit and talk about Mr. Peterson who has found himself in a little bit of trouble because of his actions during an active shooter situation in a school. Can you talk to us about that and your thoughts? So I'm very disappointed from the law enforcement perspective of the actions of Officer Peterson I wanna say that outright knowing that he stood in that same place for about 40 minutes I think according to the video is just devastating to think that he had an opportunity to save some of those lives. What's interesting is on the number of charges that he had is that by the time he got there there were already 24 people that had been shot which is actually kind of devastating to think how quickly was he was there in under two minutes. He didn't go in but he didn't really have the ability to impact those first 24 lives because that's how quick of the ambush happened. He's really being tasked with the idea that if he had taken action he could have made a very big difference on the third floor. In order to understand a little bit let me run through what happened in Parkland. There was a lot of failures because they focused on perimeter security. Again about 88% of school shooters even in workplace shooters even higher they're intimate with the building they're either domestic partners the disgruntled employees or in the case of schools 88% of them are students. So they're already inside the building that's what we saw in the Colorado shooting really very early is a security guard was protecting the perimeter and the students just walked right past and let the guns hit and did the damage. But what was interesting is that the shooter in Parkland shot the 24 people but he went up to the second floor I'm sorry when he was shooting people on the first floor the dust and the gunpowder set off the fire alarm so the people on the third floor couldn't hear the gunfire so they heard the fire alarm and they came out in the hallways but the people on the second floor they heard the gunfire first then the fire alarm went off they knew not to evacuate. So when the perpetrator went up to the second floor he was actually he could be seen looking into windows but all the teachers have their students over in the safer corners with their lights out and the windows block and nobody got injured on that second floor because it was successful. He then the shooter got up to the third floor and did his damage and that's what that's where Peterson had the opportunity to intervene. The bigger thing though is there was a lawsuit from a bunch of the parents in the gut dismissed in 2018 and the federal judge ruled that the under the 14th amendment there was you know as much as you want to say it but police and staff had no duty to actually protect those students which is very interesting to see how this is gonna go from a civil crime standpoint it was dismissed but now they're gonna charge them criminally so I'm sure they know what they're doing I think it does send the right message and that is if you are tasked with protecting those students you are part of that layer of security you can't really opt out and the results can be catastrophic if you do. Right, you know and I think isn't that their motto protect and defend and safety protect and serve protect and serve is the only law protect and serve and yet they failed in that particular case and had the opportunity to make a difference and didn't so tough case for everyone involved tough decision that he had to face and I'm happy not to be in his shoes but I'm hoping that they all know what they're doing and that justice will be served appropriately for all matters. It's tough, very, very tough. I have a question though. Go ahead. Well the one thing that you want to cover is the number one thing that I tell teachers all the time and this comes down to every business is to be able to have a door that locks the Department of Education recommends that if students are in the classroom the door should be locked because if that door is locked all I have to do is get my kids into that safer corner. That's so important. You also need to understand how to use your PA system at Parkland they had this four digit code they had to type in but it didn't work in the hallways it had all this. So if your PA system is being used to put the building on lockdown understand that you need to have speakers in hallways because it might happen in transition time but teachers need to understand I need to know what how do I use, you know how do I call the front office where is that sort of thing? All that they have to think those things ahead of time because in a crisis they're not going to do it. The number one thing they need to do is keep that door locked though. Keep the door locked. You know, you bring up another point though that I wanted to kind of touch on is the volume. You mentioned that in the case at Peterson or Parkland that they couldn't hear the gunshots over the fire alarm. So it's safe to defend loud enough to get louder than the actual gunshots or the fire alarm or what have you. Right, so the safe defense system we really thought through a lot of things. One of the things that our system does is as it goes off for two minutes and then it goes silent and we do that on purpose it's about enough time that any teacher that might be in band or gym class or have a movie going on they're going to hear the fire alarm the students are going to hear it but then we let it go silent because everybody already at this point knows that there's a threat law enforcement's en route but we want police when they show up to not to be able to listen to gunfire we want teachers to be able to hear threats of violence in the hallways getting closer or coming, you know farther away. We want to hear direction from law enforcement. We want teachers to be able to use their cell phones in the classroom. So our system actually does go silent that doesn't mean the threat's over but yes it can be heard over a fire alarm it's about this depending on where it's at but the most important thing that we tell people if the active shooter alarm goes off and then the fire alarm goes off without sort of heat and smoke and fire you might consider what your options are because fire alarms have been used unfortunately to draw students out of classrooms in the past and so it's one of the things that absent the other indicators of a fire maybe you don't evacuate so quickly if you think there's a threat in the building. Right and so and it appears as though SafeDefend also has lights on it which will help if it goes silent I suppose. Correct? Right, the lights will keep flashing and that sort of stuff. So what we've understood at SafeDefend is where we're failing is that we're focusing so much on access control, we're focusing on external security, surveillance cameras, two-way radios and all these things that we've been using I was involved in when I was in junior high my school district had a shooting and the response back in 1983 was to put school resource officers, two-way radios, cameras and locked the doors and after Parkland we're recommending the same thing and so at some point we have to say wait a second why isn't this working? You know the response to a fire is never to say let's put a fireman and walk through the hallways with a fire extinguisher and hope that he can put it out in time. We need to start doing empowering teachers to say what do we need to do? We need police to the exact location as quickly as possible. SafeDefend does that. We need the system on lockdown immediate or sorry the school on lockdown our SafeDefend system does that and we need teachers to be able to respond in the classroom if they have an injured student that is bleeding and law enforcement can't get some time we need them to be able to help that student extend their life long enough for emergency services to get to them. All of those things SafeDefend does. With the teacher. Thank you so much. You know I love the sound of empowering our teachers with actual solutions and it sounds like SafeDefend is a viable solution that we can use to help save lives in the event of an active shooter. We've been speaking today with Doug Parisi right here on Security Matters. I've been your host, Keisha King. Doug, thank you and thanks SafeDefend and thank you for watching Security Matters. We'll see you next time. Aloha.