David, do you want to kick us off? Yeah, sorry, I'm just... Oh, no! Hi everyone, my name is Debbie Harris and I'm a senior recruiter here at GitLab. Today we have with us Nadia Vattelidis, Aigar Grumblyd and Macintosh and Rose Tappen to talk about country conversions and international expansion. So GitLab has clean members all around the world in more than 65 countries. And within people, group and recruitment teams, we often get the question but how do you employ all these team members while also complying with local rules and regulations? So that's why we decided to record an interview and share some of those frequently asked questions with you. So first I'll kick us off with questions which are related to recruitment and onboarding and thereafter, Rose will take it over for team member specific considerations. So let's get started. Nadia and Aigar will be explaining some of the answers to our questions. So Nadia, that is certainly a lot of countries that we can hire in. Can you tell me in what main forms GitLab has team members across the world? Yeah, sure Debbie. Basically we have a bunch of different models. GitLab's got a few entities across the globe and in those entities we're able to hire employees. In other locations we use professional employer orgs and we have a bunch of those vendors and depending on the location we would then go and find an employment scalable solution through a professional employer org. Similar to locations like Russia, Ukraine, even in South Africa we have a PO and a few other locations across the globe. We also as an early stage model and when we were a startup we hired contractors. These are not traditional contractors and how the rest of the world would view them. These are through one of our Dutch entities under our GitLab ITBB entity and usually what we aim to do is convert those contractors to employees or under an employment scalable solution in the very near future. Does that answer your question? Yeah, that's great. Thank you. I just want to add from time to time we also have vendor consultants which aren't true contractors. This is an agreement through a vendor and this is usually for very short-term needs and not something we do on a very regular basis. Perfect, thank you. And I go why does GitLab convert countries to professional employer organizations or entities? Well to start with if a certain country hits a threshold of five people that are individual contractors that's usually our starting point to look at a certain country where we say well we have a certain workforce. We are apparently scaling in that country so we need to basically get a scalable employment solution in and that's usually where we go to a PEO, reach out to them, ask for a quote and start considering what we can offer our employees. And it's also to mitigate risk in terms of tax risk and employment risk to be honest. And that's the PEO part. When do we convert from PEO into entity? So there are two decisions that are generally made. Either we set up an entity or incorporate an entity due to the fact that the business requires it. So let's say in South Korea and Japan that was really requested by sales organization because it's an interesting market for GitLab to be in. Although we didn't have employees there we just went ahead and set up an entity. The other one is for instance right now in Ireland where we have more than 30 people covered by a PEO and having a PEO that costs quite a lot of money for GitLab and it basically is a cost-benefit analysis where we say what does it cost to have a PEO in place and what does it cost to manage our own entity. And yeah basically if you're with more than 25 people in a shorter country it's more beneficial in terms of cost efficiency to set up your own entity in that country. Great thank you that's really interesting. So if there are countries where GitLab indicates they can't hire I go how likely is it that it will change in the future? Where could I as a candidate monitor that change? For some countries we really cannot hire if you talk about Crimea or Syria or those countries that are basically excluded from a US perspective. Some countries we tend to pause where we hit that threshold of five or more people where we have individual contractors in. So one example current example is Singapore where we paused South Korea we paused until we have scalable employment solution in place. So it does change in the future for some countries but it really depends on which geographical location we're talking about because what I'm thinking like countries like Crimea we will never be able to hire. And for instance in terms of countries like Singapore or maybe France maybe not a really great example but I see a change there coming. So and where we where you can monitor that change we have a website of GitLab it's found in the handbook. I think it's a country hiring guidelines page where you can check which countries are non hiring countries and you can always reach out to the to the GitLab team and we have an issue country conferencing issue where you can go to and ask questions. That's great thanks Ivo. So why do we have two different compensation factors so for example 1.0 and 1.17. Nadia could you take us through that? Sure so we have actually documented this in our compensation section of the handbook as well if anyone wants to go to refer to that but ultimately in locations where we have not yet set up an employment scalable solution we offer an additional 0.17 so 17% to assist with additional costs and whether that's benefits payroll or accounting costs in setting up a company to invoice GitLab if that's a requirement in your location or if that is if there's additional expenses to run a company in general. The 1.0 is for employment costs we are sorry for the employment factor which basically means that the person is is working for us full time we potentially have benefits linked to that and that's why we we offer two different percentages does that make sense? Yes it does that's great thanks very much so so then what happens Nadia to the 17 contract factor once the country's converted but was it originally included in my compensation? That's a great question sorry I just closed some doors having kids at home and basically we we we do a full analysis on every single country before we just make decisions based on we whether we're going straight to an employment factor or not and one of those decisions is based on the benefits in a country in some locations the state benefits are exceptionally high and awesome and great but in third world countries or other countries across the world benefits are necessary and so we've got to see what we can replace that 17% and what's viable keep in mind we also incur quite a large cost by hiring through a PEO so addition to that 17% we do take in consideration as I mentioned earlier payroll costs and for that reason we then analyze you know what percentage are we going to drop the person's compensation or the country's compensation by and that can vary again depending on the country depending on the benefits depending on the on the obviously analysis the benefits and as well as the people special sorry the total rewards and the people specialist team then conducts okay okay that's really good I suppose another question that comes up if I'm part of the sales team and I receive a variable bonus as part of my comp would a country conversion impact that would it say affect my OTE split from my understanding it won't impact the actual percentage of the split there could be an impact on the base salary depending on the country we converting and depending on the benefits we're offering but it won't impact the actual split so for instance if it's a 70 30 or a 50 50 split it should not impact the percentage of the split does that help answer that question for sales yeah cool variable pay great yeah so yeah we can see what a great job the team is doing with the many country conversions and there are a lot on the list and and the entity creation tracking issue that you can see on the website so I realized it varies according to the country but how long does the process take and briefly what is involved well thanks for stating that we are doing a great job to start with so how long does a process take in general it takes for instance payroll it takes payroll three months to from the kickoff of a country until payroll go live date and we tend to and it's really it really depends per country but I think a three month window is something we can bear in mind when talking about one country conversion but for instance you need to get wet signatures if you want to incorporate an entity and getting wet signatures is quite a challenge at kitlab especially now during covid but I think three months is more or less the the other term and what is involved in terms of stakeholders I already mentioned payroll but we have of course people ops payroll we have tax we have legal we have finance we have controlling external stakeholders like payroll consultants we have tax consultants we have legal consultants and last but not least we have basically a third party supporting on setting up the the corporation in that specific country if it concerns the incorporation of an entity so there's a lot yeah a lot of stakeholder management taking place if it comes down to country conversions wow yes it certainly is and it's very complex by the sound of it lots of things to think about lots of balls to juggle in the air um and especially at the moment so I go how do you prioritize or decide which countries go next then um well we just had a had a fantastic exercise as far as I'm concerned I think it's fantastic or what we did is draft a decision matrix where we combine certain factors and mark certain countries as as red orange and green so green other countries where we don't need to prioritize yet orange basically the risk is is is higher in terms of exposure for kitlab and the employees and red is of course we need to take action right away so and that really helps us in making a decision where we say okay this country needs a conversion this country needs an entity and these countries we just put this aside until we have more time to focus on those also currently as a team deciding if we can share this on an issue to the entire get lab I don't think this will be externally shared because there's compensation data on there there's not per team member data but there is country specific like overall com data and I think we will seek approval to see if we can share that with the entire get lab because it's a it's a really awesome risk matrix to as ever mentioned and this was equals idea and the people specialist along with the data team was able to implement it but it would certainly give great insights into why are we converting it's why did we convert India before Philippines or whatever the case may be if that makes sense yeah that's great that's really good information thank you thank you both so I'm going to hand over to Rose now who will take us through some of the IQs we see from current team members rose yes thank you Debbie and also thank you Nadia and English for this has been super informative for me as well so as Debbie mentioned I'm going to take you to some of the frequently asked questions by team members right because like team members are impacted and there are so many stakeholders internal to get lab so I do I do have some questions some were already answered so I'm just going to go through and and see what else what's what what more information I can get from you and so I think there already has been a great explanation about like why we convert certain and certain countries right but when these convert like when we have decided we're now going to go for this country what is approximately like the timeline or when are team members involved or informed about this decision right away to be honest I think that that's I have to give thanks to to the people of the organization so Nadia and her team they did a great job in basically in the past when I joined up was a year ago it feels like ages but that there wasn't really a clear communication towards the team that was in fact affected by this country conversion and right now it's just like okay decision is made we are going to convert that country and basically within 24 hours either Ross or Helen or whoever was taking control of that country sends an email starts an issue copies every every manager involved I think that's that's that's a fantastic way of basically getting everybody involved from from day one and when we get the basically when we get the quotes from the POS then we have an AMA session with the team that is affected to gather their feedback to be honest and that also helps us in efficient decision making and and of course kid lab is all about feedback so we need to yeah have the team involved that's currently yeah not having sleepless nights but I can understand that they yeah it can be overwhelming being appointed as a second next country to be converted yeah exactly and it's really great that that we have the communication flow going but also that team members really have the opportunity to give feedback right I saw a lot of issues where we converting that seamlessly the members can get feedback there and and this is maybe a bit of a an answered question already but if I if a country converts like which team members are impacted generally yeah all the all the people in that country that's one thing and their managers um of course they are family as well but um just I'm not mentioning a certain location but sometimes people have situations where you really feel sorry for their situation and you're just you know it's not like you're bringing bad news but in some countries they're heavily impacted in terms of their their net income position and it doesn't keep me up at night I can still sleep but those are the not not the most fun conversations to be in so yeah that's an answer your question people I could I actually want to add like I think joining joining GitLab as any team member what's super important to note is if we hire you as a GitLab ITBV contractor or if we have in the future we will converge you and I think coming into the environment with that in mind will definitely take away the feeling of being vulnerable ultimately like one we want to be on the right side of the labour law and we cannot continue hiring people on a contracting basis in a lot of countries across the world and and not you know and legally ensure that we're compliant so if we think about things like IPO or just being on the right side of labour law in in 68 different or 65 different countries and that is something to keep in mind once you hired and so I think if yeah moving forward we've also indicated to the recruiting team we've also updated the handbook to make it very clear that if you are selected as an ITBV contractor or GitLab we will convert you and we have an okay RM case as well to convert every single country in the world and we're working hard and fast to to reach those locations so as empathetic as we are it is a it is something that we have to do to ensure that we're on the right side of the law long-term yeah that makes total total sense and of course it's some some situations are difficult or complex and I also hear the whole process is pretty complex so I can imagine this is well it's just a big chunk of work for for everybody involved and then maybe a bit more on the compensation side right we also get like compensation questions with the conversion already a great explanation of the 17 percent but if I look at when we are converting or in general like our compensation benchmarks for example reevaluated for specific countries depends on so many different factors so if we're converting in in times like February every year or March or April that's very close to an evaluation that's just taking place during the comp review the annual comp review so chances are very low of having an additional evaluation if it happens later during the year that would really be based on feedback from team members even if one team member shares that there seems to be misalignment the total rewards team will go above and behind to make sure that the location factors are accurate and that you know either we need a reevaluation or not and it also it's really based on the feedback that we receive from team members so it's important that we get that feedback from the start that if there's any concerns that they feel that they are being unfairly paid or that it's under the the the location factor of what it should be then a reevaluation will take place and that has happened for locations but in other locations evaluation just happened due to comp reviews so I think it's quite situational and depending on the time of the year yeah indeed makes sense good um then um I think also with converting it could happen that your pay frequency changes right I think with different types of pay frequencies but also with conversion like how do we see that often that the pay frequency changes or is that always standard thing or like how how does it work? Ultimately our githlab ITBB contractors invoices githlab monthly and so in most cases your pay will remain monthly but if there's a mandatory requirement in the country to change that then we will have to comply to the mandatory compliance in that location and it also depends on the PEO so depending on you know on their advice to us to say the standard for ex-location is you know 12 months or bi-weekly or whatever the case might be we also need to be compliant of that and the payroll team will look into information like that and do an analysis and and see how that aligns with their best practices if it's an entity we will use local council and githlab's local council to make those decisions as well and to get like mandatory requirements versus like that's just a suggestion so we can't actually suggestions for those things we need to ensure that we compliance based on what's the standard for that location yeah yeah exactly good and I think earlier Igor mentioned that um your team I think Nadia loops in um managers too like if I'm a manager and somebody in my team is converting or there's a country conversion happening for somebody in my team like what can I do or what should I do? I think we're trying to create awareness by communicating that the manager needs to keep in mind that this is a business requirement and we would really like managers to um to to get on board with convert conversions on a larger scale and if there's any concerns or questions they have or misunderstanding about why we're converting a country I'd highly recommend that they reach out to us immediately they can either reply on that straight to the person that sent the email directly or they can reach out to any of the people specialist team or really anyone an international expansion which includes social rewards Igor Oveya myself the entire people specialist team um or even payroll so if they have very specific concerns or questions they can reach out to us directly with that but I think one thing to keep in mind for all managers is that all countries where they have someone in the team that isn't a githlab ITBV contractor will convert at some point so that's important to keep in mind even during hiring um and to not perhaps not over commit that they can remain a contractor because that's not something we can offer at this time does that help on so is there anything else you have in mind for managers? I for me no maybe Igor I don't know nothing too awesome good I think we're entering my last question and this might be a bit of a difficult one because sometimes on ITBV contractors we offer the opportunity to not be paid in local currency right if people convert to for example githlab entity is it still possible to to be paid in another currency than the local currency? Yeah that's really it's a simple question but it's a difficult answer basically if you have an entity it is subject to local regulations and if you want to basically basically report revenue or report any kind of things in US dollar you have to apply for approval for that and it's it's we need to get a US dollar bank account we need to take into account the fact that we have to keep US dollar reserves and that costs a lot of money to be honest so it's not that githlab can't pay in usd currency but it's just a choice across the board if you have an entity you have to think locally and if because these entities generate revenue they get cash in in local currency and there's cash if you want to pay out the US dollar you need to convert that cash into US dollar that costs money you need to and there's an effects result in that and overall it's a cost decision not to do it because it costs githlab too much to keep those reserves. I want to add for our PEOs 95% will tell us that you cannot pay in another currency than local and the reason for that is it's a local company that is paying those team members and so that's also been a mandatory requirement to pay in local currency we have the exception of three or four locations currently with githlab that are hired through a PEO as contractors and that was due to the fact that in those locations so I'll use one example Poland it's socially acceptable to be a contractor and we went that route to both from the feedback from the the team members in the location but also the feedback from local council including our PEO and in those instances we were able to offer a fluctuated like a different currencies or a different way of paying but that's hard and far to find and again it's it's really dependent on the country plus the way first those folks were hired and so usually there's like a five percent exception but if if it's if it's a local company it's really hard to do that if even if it's not a githlab entity but a PEO. I see I see thanks for thanks for for finding the information I think I'm gonna hand it over back to Debbie. Yeah thank you that was really good very interesting and thanks for all anyone out there joining the call anyone who needs more information we encourage you to go to our website and githlab.com and our handbook which has loads of other information so appreciate it thank you thanks everyone bye thanks


Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. Today we have a special episode. We're going to talk about twin flames. We're not going to so much as talk about them, but we're going to do a bit of a meditation or activation maybe. Some kind of an energetics kind of vibe going on here. And I said actually I'm sharing this Sunday Morning Coffee episode right before. I'm sharing on above life channel my weekly channeling where I'm actually talking about the topic of twin flames and soulmates with an afterlife celebrity guest. So this is actually preceding that, so you're going to get this ahead of that. But this twin flame energetic connection is something that I think I was curious about in order to be able to actually help you understand this a bit more and for myself. So when I see the energy of twin flame, I see purple, the violet flame, which is often connected or associated with the Ascended Master Saint Germain. And that energetic vibration can also be connected to metatron and it can be used for healing. It can be used for advanced cognition. It can be used for advanced healing techniques and strategies and it can also be used for communication. It can be used for reunification as well as part of what is coming through for me. As I'm connecting with you right now, I'm also connecting with the energies of Saint Germain and also the energies of Archangel Metatron. So that's what's coming through. So when I see twin flame, I see a violet flame that is split into two. And when the two become one, it becomes kind of this golden and silver intertwined energy. And it's kind of gold at the center and then outside the outline is silver. Now for me, most recently in my own spiritual work, I have worked with the alchemical energies of masculine feminine. And for me personally in my body and my energetic body and in my human body, the embodiment of my divine masculine is very silver and my divine feminine is very gold. And so this is how it works for me. So this is how I'm going to share this. So I always say to you when I'm working and doing psychic work or in spiritual sessions or as a mentor, as a teacher, as a speaker, I always say that my perspective is mine. Like I'm sharing through my lens of my personal experience and that includes all my biases and my filters. And my 40 plus years on this earth have given me a lot of those. So I'm very careful to say to you that the way that I share and express this and the way that I enter into this with you and help to facilitate a connection for you regarding this concept of Twin Flame within yourself, it is through those lensings or those layers of filters, which means for you, I highly encourage you to explore this, to go deeper with this. You probably already have. There's lots of spiritual teachers out there on YouTube and who've written books and are lots of great resources about Twin Flames. There's also lots of bad resources too. Okay. So go with your intuition and what feels in soul alignment for you at this time. And guess what? That also evolves over time because I never would have thought that I'd be having this conversation about Twin Flames with you here on the podcast for Sunday Morning Coffee. But here we are. All right. So let's feel in first of all, there is a distinction between soulmate and Twin Flame. And between Flame is a deeper energetic connection and intertwining wherein if you consider it a tree energy like where roots of a tree kind of branch out and arc out. And the root system, it's like a ball. It's actually connected together. It's one root system. It's not a grove of trees. It's not multi layers of different trees kind of intertwining with each other and kind of overlapping. It is literally not the roots that spread out and go deep into the earth. It's the ball. It's a ball core piece and then roots that spread out from there. Using this visualization, I think makes more sense to help you understand how Twin Flame energies can feel so complicated. It can feel so hard to be with energy of a Twin Flame and so hard to be separate from the energy of Twin Flame because the truth is you never are separate. So I would much more recommend having fun with the soulmate energies because you've had a lot of mates in many of your soul lifetimes in your carnations. So you have multiple choices and options for a soulmate. It can show up as a best friend, as a kid in your life, a god child, a child, a parent, a brother, sister, a really great friend or a lover. It can be a co-worker. It could be all sorts of people, a soulmate. And so have fun with that because the Twin Flame piece is extremely serious and it's far more psychically and alchemically advanced. It requires a new level of yourself beyond a regular conscious, intuitive person. It requires a higher desire for healing and an understanding of vibrational energy and experiences that if you're going to be in a relationship with someone like that, it's much more of a almost a taunt trick, etheric ecstatic connection that isn't all fun and games. It's very deeply woven and tied to your personal healing and for the goal ultimately of advancement for the two souls that are one. So the peace of your souls that you share. So when the two purple violet flames come together and then form this kind of merge emergent energy of this gold at the core to find feminine from my perspective and this outline in silver that's encasing it, holding it to keep it safe and sacred. The honoring and devotion to the divine feminine would be the divine masculine. That's how it represents for me. And then there's actually like a center point. So it looks like for me that root ball looks like it. The root ball is a circle with gold in the center representing my divine feminine, the alchemy, that liquid light, the lava, and then the silver outlining it, the circle, the holding, the safe and sacred container divine masculine. And then right down the center of it, allowing that pranic tube like of our spine almost going straight down or that lay a wish, which is the pillar of light going right through that, not to divide or separate, but to hold a center core like a pole in between. So that there are two spheres of this or two parts or pieces of this that can then come back and click together at a center point of energy. This is how I see this intuitively, psychically, and ethically, and I'm sharing this with you as new advanced information for me. So this is a very high level Sunday morning coffee with Bridget. So let's connect into the alchemical energies of twin flame. Okay, let's feel into that just a little bit and let me share with you through this channeled energetic connection, what that could mean for you and how it can show up in your life. So you're ready for a little meditation, a little meditation. All right, we have to get some water here because got to have this kind of energy flow, right? You need a lot of water to balance that hot, hot fire energy, which is how it feels. That alchemy for me is the very fire induced and the water is the balancing out for me. It's not the adversary or the counteracting. It is really the flow state of energy that honors the movement and the essence of life, that water, which balances my fire. So it's really quite perfect, the masculine feminine for me. So I ask you to take a moment to just take a breath in and an exhale out with intention. I'm going to ask you to visualize that silver pole, silver tube of light right down the spinal column from the top of your head, coming into your body, centering all of your energy, the energy of all the chakras. Now there are seven primary energy centers of the body, the chakras that you work with in yoga or meditation. However, there are really millions of light particles that are tiny chakra points within all of the energy cells of your being, literally lighting you up like a Christmas tree and that energy is profound and beautiful and vibrant and brilliant. So there are more than just the seven chakras and there are seven colors. There are so many more really beautiful ecstatic parts of you. And so as you are focusing on this silver tube, centering the energies, I want you to also be aware of this light body that you have like a Christmas tree with little flickering fairy lights all around you. I'm going to ask for a beautiful circle of pure white divine light to encompass you and fold you to create safe and sacred space as we connect in. Dropping down into the low belly, just below your belly button into the cauldron energy or the womb space. If you're working with divine feminine often associated with the color orange and the fire element. However, the masculine energy is also grounding in rooting. So at the base of that low, low belly, that sacred chakra, we have the root wrapped in the energy of that root ball, which is also divine feminine. Do you see how these two energies masculine feminine are working together intersecting interwoven like a DNA strand back and forth and back and forth. Like multiple layers upon layers of an infinity sign, the number eights, setting straight up and down and horizontally so vertically and horizontally just creating a cellular structure, a very solid core channel for all of the energy to move and thrive and pulse. And the encasement of all of these figure eights, these energies of infinity are housed with a masculine sense of essence of structure, providing structure not to derail or detract from the core essence of the feminine, for she is that liquid catalytic light. She is the catalyst that creates the change. She is the catalyst that creates the earth.  She is the unseen and the unspoken. She is what you feel that calls you and pulls you into the desire to want to know what your life purpose is to want to have deeper meaning in your relationships, you want to have a deeper understanding of why you are so drawn to the sun in the morning sky, or why you feel such a dreamy longing for the stars in the night sky. All of these things are alchemical connected to divine masculine divine feminine and are representative of twin flames. The two, the masculine and feminine, as one whole, the oneness. And as we separate into parts, there are two parts of us that go out into the world, that show up and incarnate into the world, that also, yes, hold the memnos of the masculine while they embody the feminine, and of the feminine while they embody the masculine, and of either or and both they, them energies. They, them energies, does that sound familiar? This is not body specific nor gender specific. This is transcendent, transcendent of the pure basic terms of human, of the human expression of a body. But it houses and holds through its biology the nature of the alchemical means to transmute and translate the energy of the opposite, that which is the opposite, that which will balance and complete the wholeness. So the masculine and feminine energy and the twin flame energies are very similar. You need both of these parts of you, regardless of how you lead, how you express, how you feel, what your body type is. It's not about gender. It's not about soul type. It is transcendent and the encompassing of the whole, because the whole was one and then becomes two. What was one becomes two, not to separate or tear apart, but to open, to unfold for the opportunity then to go out into the world to express together, to collect experiences as an embodied human, and then come together at some point, maybe in this lifetime, maybe here as you are now, in this lifetime, to know, to reignite, to unite, to activate deeper healing, transcendent healing, more profound calling toward your highest version of incarnated self, which can create challenges and struggle. And struggle is natural and challenge is natural. It's how you grow and you're unfolding, enhances and encourages those opportunities. And so too does your twin flame, he, she, they, them will call you into the reflected version of what you do not like of yourself so that you may correct and choose into an alignment back into that cellular structure of the infinity energies that are at the core center of that beautiful silver pillar of your body, honoring the essence of that gold, a chemical energy pulsing from the womb state of you from that core, sacred chakra up into the solar plexus and then beaming out the rays of light, that golden yellow purposeful soulful work of your expression of your pure and blissful love in this lifetime. And this is where twin flame comes into play with love, the expression of love, the expression of love because that's all it is, it's pure love. That's what it is at its core. It's pure love. And the human body and the mind have a really hard time understanding and processing and the mind can never really understand this. So you must experience twin flame energy as an energetic experience, as an energetic practice and advanced quantum healing in up leveling the energy of the vibration of your body through what you eat and how you treat your body and how the temple that holds the capacity for the connection of twin flame energy to be in the most profound state of awareness and access, while also being a very real human being, which you are. So within you, you're not looking for someone else, another person embodied. You may be looking for a soul facet of yourself that you recognize in another person that comes into you, clicks in during that expression or connection, good, bad or other with another being, and you gain that piece of your soul back and it clicks into place and then you have the reunion. This is what the twin flame energy's goal is, this is what the purpose is, this is what the intent is. The reuniting for the advancement of not just you in this lifetime, but all souls that have encountered you and all the expressions that you will then share because of who you are and how you are leading through your day to day life while you're going to the grocery store, where you're going to your job, where you're dropping your kit off at daycare, while you're writing your book, while you're painting in your studio. While you're making music, while you're healing from that surgery and all of the ways that you are a human being. This is the embodiment, this is the intent. It is not an either or it is an us, they, them, a both and an all, it is oneness. You are not separate. You are always at the precipice and the opportunity of wholeness. This is what twin flame is. Breathe in and exhale out. Feel that violet flame opening up like a lotus in your heart chakra. The purple imagery of the energy of a flame in the heart imbued with that crystalline light that looks very silvery when I see that. You might see some yellow and golden energy also coming out the top crown of that beautiful lotus that is the purple flame. That is the violet flame archangel, metatron stepping in to honor that energy up and down the spine to allow it to permeate and go into any parts of your physical, emotional, etheric bodies, your light body that chooses to accept and receive this healing transcendent energy at this time. And if not, you can come back to this beautiful imagery of this glowing violet flame lotus and dip into it and feel into it and sit inside of it. Wrapping its beautifully softened blossoms, the petals around you to cocoon you in safe and sacred space as you meditate on these energies as you receive these energies for you where you're at right here, right now at this time in your life. So breathing in and exhaling out. This is the gift for you today in regards to twin flame energy. You can stay in this blissful state as long as you choose to. Give yourself permission.  When you touch, you come back. Click yourself back into place so that you are in alignment, body, mind, heart and soul to present yourself into the very real human world. This is Bridget. I'm a psychic medium and an intuitive life coach. It is my pleasure to be able to connect with you every week at Above Life Channel on YouTube with Sunday Morning Coffee, our podcast on Sundays and on Mondays with our weekly channeling session. You can also find me on Fairy Grasshopper YouTube where I talk about all things intuitive and I share some vlogging about my psychic life on the Fairy Grasshopper YouTube channel as well. You can also find me on Facebook and Instagram, Bridget inspired. Thanks for being here.


Good evening. Myself is Dr. Sneha, Junior Resident, Department of Rhetordiagnosis from M.G. Medical College in Hospital, Kamothi, Navinuvi, Maharashtra. My topic is MRI in the early detection of the spinal tuberculosis. Now the tuberculosis point of light is also known as port 3, therefore to the vertebral body, osteomalitis and the intervertebral discitis from the tuberculosis. The spine is most frequent location of musculoskeletal tuberculosis and commonly added symptoms are the back pain and the lower limb weaknesses and the paraplegia. The spine is involved due to the hematogen spread that can occur via the RTN's veins resulting in the different pattern of the infections like NTA involvement, posterior involvement and the central involvement. Now NTA involvement spread to the RTL arcade that originally supplies the sub-frontal paradiscal bone resulting in infection anterior-superiorly and the anterior-inferiorly adjacent to the disc. In adults and particularly older individuals, the disc is conspicuously spared due to its past muscularity. In contrast in younger individuals, especially children, the disc may be involved early as it has a far richer blood supply. The gradual anterior collapse typically results in the acute kyphotic and the ribose deformity and this angulation coupled with the epidural gravitation tissue which leads to the cold compression. And the central involvement spread via the venous plexus or Bethesda typically results in the infection rising centrally within the vertebral body. More common in older individuals, it gradually collapse can result in the vertebral planar and acute kyphotic and ribose deformity which also leads to the cold compression. Posterior involvement also known as appendiceal pattern is also due to venous hematogenia spread via the posterior venous plexus. Now sinusoidal joint involvement is relatively very rare but can be seen involving the fecib joint and atlantoaxial atlantooccipital joints. Cold abscess in the late stage of the spinal tuberculosis, large perispinal abscess can develop without severe pain, frank pus or the prominent inflammatory sinus symptoms. Thus we call this cold abscess. Now the aim and objective to demonstrate, analyze and evaluate an MRI as a valuable non-invasive diagnostic tool in spinal tuberculosis and to promote its early detection. Now we have performed 30 patients with appropriate MR sequence referred to the Department of Radiology, MGM Medical College in a period of one year with clinically and imaging-wise suspected case of quarts spine. Now I have a few cases, first is a 50-year-old male long case of tuberculosis presented with a low-grade backache for five months. Now in this we can see tuberculospondylitis of L2 and L3 vertical bodies with the collapse of the L3 vertical body. We can see there is a disc-show dyschitis also, destruction and fluid intensity in this and there is an epidural abscess which is measuring in the 6 mm in the maximum thickness and we can see there is a bilateral EU source abscess is also there. Next patient 30-year-old male presenting with a back pain and tingling and numbness in both the lower limbs. In this we can see tuberculospondylitis of L3 and L4 vertical body with end plate involvement. We can see there is a disc is also involved and there is a swath abscess from L3 to lower down on the right side. Next patient 60-year-old non-case of tuberculosis presented with low backache and pain in both upper and lower limb weakness. Tuberculospondylitis of T3 vertical body and T10 to 11 vertical bodies and bilateral pedicures with reduced height of the T10. And there is a disc is also involved and this leads to also the cold compression we can see and there is a pre and paravertible collection is also there. Next patient 14-year-old male patient non-case of tuberculosis follow up after treatment. We can see there is a spondylitis of T4 to T7 vertical body and there is a total destruction of these T5 and T6 vertical bodies with posterior displacement of this vertical body compressing the spinal cord. And there is a collapse of the T4, T5, T5, T6 and T6-7 disc also and there is a paravertible collection is also there. Now results in our study we can we have seen the board span commonly affected age with mainly 20 to 40 years of the age 30 patients 17 patients had two vertebrate involvement and rest of their have 3, 4 single vertebrate also involvement is there. Mainly 55% of patients have seen thoracic spinal cord was more common than the lumbar spine and cervical and lastly the sacrum is least involved and 86% patients had involvement of vertebral and plate of which 80% have disc involvement 20% have posterior involvement and 83% patients had thical compression out of which 36 had actual cord compression which leads to the paraplegia and there is a cord it remind 20 patients. Now we have concluded MRI superior diagnosing for spine resulting short that young adults 20 to 40 years of age were commonly affected with prediction of the thoracic spine. Most cases in the study showed multiple vertebrate involvement but few can have the single vertebrate involvement using MRI it was possible to determine the cord compression, nauseous and non-nauseous involvement and the extent of the disease. Thank you so much.


Hi, everyone. Happy Saturday. Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 tops. Clearly authentic baseball. One box ran team break number 11 with a chance to win two tops dynamic dual boxes. So we'll re-randomize, since we're doubling up this list, we'll re-randomize the original 14 names right here. In fact, I'm going to put that into a new list right now just so I don't forget. Let's double up this list right here. But we'll randomize the original 14 names. Top two names. We'll get one of these boxes right here. Now the top name, we'll get first dice roll. So that's box A, that's box B. So then the name on top, I'll roll the dice and they'll get first dibs on whatever the dice decides to choose for them. And the second name will get obviously get the the other box whatever that may be. But let's do the break first. Remember, no pirates. We took them out and we comboed Royals and Marlins in this one, right? Royals and Marlins. Yeah, Royals and Marlins. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Three and a three. Six time. Now the giveaways will be a different dice roll. Three and a three. Hard six. Names and teams. One, two, three. Steven Molino. What's going on? Four, five, and sixth and final time. After six, we've got Sam down to Jimmy. That's not correct. Coffee. There we go. We got Sam down to Jimmy Brant. Three and a three. Hard six for the teams. One, two, three, four, five. Good luck. Six in the final time. After six, we've got the New York metropolitan down to the Oakland athletics. All right. So Sam with the Mets and the Diamondbacks. Jimmy with the Braves. Brian with the Cardinals. Blake with the Twins. Jimmy with the Blue Jays. Robin with the Angels. Sean with the Indians. The White Sox. Brian with the Tigers. Jimmy with the Rays. Blake with the Rockies. Robin with the Yankees. Brian, you got my Dodgers. Jimmy with the Orioles. Blake with the Astros. Jeremy Port with the Reds. Jimmy Brant with the Phillies. Blake with the Red Sox. Sean with the Brewers. Andy with the Giants. Sean with the Combos Teams. Royals. Marlins. Jimmy with the Potters. Andy with the Nats. Jeremy with the Cubs. Brian with the Rangers. Jimmy with the Mariners. And the Oakland Aids. All right. Always keep an eye out for mini breaks and filler breaks, ladies and gentlemen. So some breaks may appear to be sold out, but they are actually not. But they're very close. All right. Any trades? Let's give it a few moments for trades. There's the box clearly authentic right here. All right. Looks like no trades. Let's print. Let's rip. Let's see this guy. And I'll rip those boxes open. You can see what's inside. One dual autograph inside each. Don't sleep on these clearly authentic breaks, folks. With a chance to win those boxes. They're really nice. All right. Good luck. We've got for the Phillies. JT Realmuto. Nice. Can I see the autograph right there? Acetate card. Nice. Who had the Phillies? That'll be for Jimmy Brandt with the Phillies. There you go. Now let's see who gets those boxes in the background there. So the original 14 names are right here. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. 12 times. A full 12 times. 6 out of 6. It's not a hard 12. There's only one way to get 12. It's not hard at all. It's kind of hard. 10, 11 and 12 in the final time. Top two names after 12 is going to be Jimmy and Brian. Congrats to you. After 12. A full 12 times. So Jimmy, you get first dibs. You get that.  We'll go 1, 2, 3 for the left side. 4, 5, 6 for the right side. I is off camera a little bit, but it's 1. So it's going to be box A. So Brian, you'll get the other box. So this will be for Jimmy. Good luck. Now previous breaks, I was trying to cut this tape right here. I was just like making fun of tops. Why would you tape over the thumb notches right here? No.  All I have to do, someone pointed this out, is to peel off that bit of tape right there. See? So much easier. So my apologies to tops. All right. So Jimmy, the autograph is always the second card. So we'll show that last. I think these base cards are always the same. They look pretty nice. All right. And the autograph. Did I see a little bit of red there? Oh, 7 out of 10. And it's Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman. Nice. Dynamic duals. There you go. Put this back there. All right. There you go, Jimmy. That's for you. And so this other one will be for Brian. Box B for Brian. I guess it was meant to be. All right. So Brian, let's see what we got for you. I see a little bit of blue. You got it numbered 4 out of 25. We have some Yankees, Jim Abbott and David Cohn. Nice. So a couple nice dual autographs, boys and girls. There's more in the store on jaspyscasebreaks.com. So check it out. And I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.