Joshua Cooper, your host, and welcome to Cooper Union. What's happening with human rights around the world on Think Tech Live, broadcasting from our downtown studio in Honolulu, Hawaii and Moana, New York. Today, we'll be looking at Ukraine in the United Nations, the Human Rights of Self-Determination and UN reform. I'm so honored to be joined by the Council General in San Francisco, Dmitry. Thank you so much for making time. Hello, just thank you very much for having me. We'll be looking at the United Nations, which is commemorating its creation in San Francisco and its promise of the right to self-determination for all peoples on the planet. On the 77th anniversary of the UN Charter, it enshrined human rights for all people everywhere on earth. And Ukraine is demanding its right to self-determination, but more importantly, reform of the UN to make sure all people have their rights. Ukraine is demanding reform so all people can live in a rule of law-based order rooted in human rights. And today we're actually recording live from the Palais in Geneva, Switzerland, where the League of Nations was created in the early 20th century. And Ukrainian people have been demanding their basic fundamental freedoms and core human rights since then, and were there at the founding in San Francisco in 1945. Dmitry, thank you so much. And maybe you could share with us a bit about the right of self-determination for the Ukrainian people then and today. Hello, again. So, you wanna start with the United Nations thing or you wanna start even earlier? We can begin where you desire. I know we can look at the League of Nations. So many people, when they look at the right of self-determination for Ukrainian people, the exciting part was Woodrow Wilson, demanded the right of self-determinations in the League of Nations Charter, the precursor to the UN. So I know the Ukrainian National Republic had participated even back in 1918, 19 and 1920. Maybe you can share a bit about that. Yeah, so I would probably start even saying that when this war, the Russia started against Ukraine right now. And many people, while I was meeting with them, asked what's the historic context? What is it about? Why Russia attacked Ukraine? And so because Russia was trying to explain to the world that Ukraine has always been a part of Russia. And apparently that was not true, never. And probably you know that Ukraine was founded as the country, as the city of Kiev was founded like many, many hundred years ago before Russia. And so like Kiev is 1,500 years old and Moscow is only 800 years old. And that's why historically, we always been different. And it exists before. And then it's all continued during centuries, centuries. And then at the beginning of the 20th century, there was the Second World War and the revolution in Russia, where the communists basically have taken power and got rid of the emperor, the tsar and killed him eventually. And Ukraine used that situation to start another round of fighting for the independence. And that's why Ukraine People's Republic was created in 1970 and later the West Ukrainian People's Republic was created and then they united together and denounced the joint Ukraine. And when that happened, Ukraine, Ukrainian delegation to the League of Nations tried to get the kind of approval or kind of information from the League of Nations so the Ukraine would be recognized as a country after the Paris negotiations, which were taken after the Second World War. And at that time, we had actually resistance from the Western part of Ukraine, Western Ukraine had resistance from Poland, to be honest. And that's exactly opposite from what's happening today because right now, today, since Russia started the war against Ukraine this year, the Poland is our biggest ally. And as it was said, all the historical differences which existed between our nations in the before have just stopped to exist because there's such a unity between Ukrainian people and Polish people right now that I don't know, it's never existed before. But you know, the time what happened in history was a little bit different. And at that time, different Polish government wanted to have control over some Ukrainian territories because they understood that if they don't, then Russia would take over Ukraine. And unfortunately, at that time, the League of Nations was not, I don't know, strong enough or the organization did not work as needed and it happened for a long time but all the efforts and the attempts of Ukraine to get confirmation of its independence or at least the subject of international law in order to be recognized by the League of Nations failed and eventually the League of Nations failed itself because the main purpose of establishing the League of Nations was to preserve peace and territorial integrity of countries of Europe. And even at that time, one of the diplomatic nodes which Ukrainian delegations and to the League of Nations was that Soviet Russia is attacking Ukraine, is killing its citizens and we need protection. So basically the same thing was happening about 100 years from that time right now. And again, the League of Nations was not having enough power to do anything about it. And then eventually Russia has captured Ukraine and Ukrainian and included Ukraine as an autonomous republic in the big Soviet Union. And then Ukraine after the Second World War joined the United Nations as a kind of a separate founding member in 1945. So it was the Russian, Soviet Republic, Ukrainian and Belarus at that time. So that's how it is and that's the historic context which can act the events 100 years before to the war right now. Oh, that's an excellent historical context for people to understand because exactly what Russia was trying to claim about being part all the time is ignoring that history. And I think what you also brought up regarding League of Nations was one, it was interesting that in 1919, 1920, it was regarding violations in Poland but now Russia's actions have united you. But the other big issue that gives a historical context before going to San Francisco where you're now based is that aspect of the Holodomor and that starvation to inflict death where another totalitarian leader of Russia tried to run over and caused at least 3.9 million deaths and almost 13% of the population being eliminated. And that's one dictator wanting to replace the small farms of Ukraine and punish the independence mining Ukrainians that were posing that threat to the totalitarian authority. And I know that I think was one more thing that maybe people don't know enough about and maybe you could share that before we get in to San Francisco in 1945. Yeah, I will just tell you that I was surprised maybe a week ago I was walking on the street in San Francisco and I heard the people like local people speaking between each other like about there were three of them and they were talking about Ukraine and one of them was explaining to the other ones about did you hear about this thing Holodomor? So the famine which exists and people said no and he was started telling them and it was great for me to hear that people even who didn't think or heard anything about it before started to learn that, I don't know maybe from television maybe from reading something but it's great thing that happened but the historical context is such that Russian government as a time is telling wanted to have control over Ukraine well, I think actually kind of did but there was a strong Ukrainian resistance as always and so they decided that they need to make more control over people and make the population of Ukraine less and that was easy for them to do by taking the harvest, the green, the weeds that people had especially as farmers taking that from them and not allowing them to consume it themselves and then basically leaving people to starve and the numbers of people who died in 1932-33 in Ukraine because of Holodomor this great famine are actually much bigger those numbers vary from 8 to 10 million people and there are some arguments about the exact number but it's a lot, it's huge especially so there was no war at that time it was absolutely a peaceful time and it has been brought to the world's attention by some US writers and journalists who brought it to the attention of the world because at the time there was the internet there was no social media so whatever Russia wanted to control and does not allow the information to go in the world it could do that and you know that again we can connect it to the events right now there's Russia right now by imposing a blockade on our sepores and not allowing Ukraine to trade to send grain and wheat to the world is basically creating another famine another okay maybe not famine but at least a huge food insecurity situation in the world and the countries which are suffering which might be suffering a lot from that the Northern Africa or some Middle Eastern countries and some other ones where Ukraine was a supplier for 30 or 40% of the wheat or grain they consumed so right now is again a huge efforts being taken by Ukraine together with international allies and also including Turkey with the we hope with the United Nations and the World Food Program in order to introduce some instruments which would allow Ukraine to send the grain it has which is already sitting in under some ships who cannot leave the port or in the grain storages to be sent to the countries which need them and I was just last week I was participating in the Summit of Americas which happened in LA and almost all the small island small island countries were mentioning that this war the trash start against Ukraine has already influenced on them even though it's too far and the influence is because they already feel that the food insecurity and the perspectives of this are even worse that's why it's very important to the global context because I know that some people think like yeah there is another war happening very far and it doesn't touch me directly while it does already and it will eventually even more and that's why we have to do everything possible to stop it and while it's still happening to use international influence on Russia to let the grain and wheat and all the Ukrainian ships with food to leave to allow Ukraine to trade in order to save the people to provide it to help to the people who need it in the other parts of the world who do not have the earth, the soil which produced a lot of these things that we produced and will produce in future. Those are excellent points and it also connects it all together because the truth is as you talked about the Holodomor it is true that Ukraine has really been a bread basket sharing and exporting wheat to so many and it gets back to the origin of the UN Charter the idea in 1945 was never again and the other aspect was article 55 and 56 that if there's ever a situation where anyone's rights are denied we all have a moral obligation to stand in solidarity together because if one conflict happens in one part of the world the world understood in 1945 it ripples everywhere and you're just illustrating now if we can't solve this situation and connect the consequences there'll be more and more uncertainty and instability around the world and that's why we have to stand up of that right of self-determination and all human rights for all people. Right, absolutely, absolutely and as you mentioned at the very beginning that in a couple of days there will be a celebration of 77th anniversary of the creation of United Nations here in San Francisco which is where I am located we can now say that it's now clear that the goals set in San Francisco in 1945 during the creation of this global international security organizations have not been achieved and it's impossible to achieve them without the reform because therefore we must do everything possible and our power to pass on to the next generation and effective United Nations with the ability to respond preventively to security challenges and thus guarantee the peace because peace, establishing peace and preserving peace was the main objective of the United Nations and if it fails to deliver this result then as our president Zelensky says maybe it should just stop existing maybe it should be replaced by a new organization with a different charter and different way how to organize so the countries are cooperating because on one hand we have the organization existing for 77 years and it probably has provided some help in many situations but in the main one so to preserve peace it failed and not only in this case right now with the Russian war against Ukraine but it has failed in many other ways and that is because the coming back to the creation of this organization it was basically created by winners of the Second World War and those winners were those who actually are a permanent member of the Security Council of the United States Soviet Union, UK, France and China maybe by the way France was not a huge winner but it was good that at least we have it there and it happened that these five countries have made the UN charter in such a way that they can block any decision which the United Nations wants to take yeah there is also General Assembly where the members are almost 200 countries but the main decisions about the security and war and peace are taken by the Security Council and this was the first time Ukraine felt that it's the United Nations was not effective it was in 2014 when Russia first attacked when it actually invited Crimea and then made the annexation Crimea and occupying it now for eight years and then entered an attack feed on bus but at that time Ukraine was not prepared for this war at all and we are more prepared right now but nothing has changed so no reforms have been taken and the idea right now is that as our president says we should reform the United Nations in such a way so that all states abide by international law so that no one violates the world order and in the United Nations system and in particular in the UN Security Council so that it would provide a fair representation for most nations of the world and the voices of all entire regions should be heard, which is vital and by allowing Russia to keep the right of veto power over any decisions we have this situation when it blocks any possible resolution against itself we also understand it's difficult that the United States also has veto power and sometimes it's important that it uses it but probably those five permanent members should sacrifice their veto right and rearrange the or make reform to the United Nations at least in such a way that the country which is participating in the international dispute cannot vote and has no like it actually kind of exists right now but it just doesn't work, unfortunately and it's exciting because we're talking about San Francisco which was significant and it's exciting you're posted there now because that's where for the first time it said every person, everyone on earth was born in dignity and rights and so that was a significant step but as you said, one of the weaknesses was creating the security council with the veto another body that was created is right upstairs for me now it is the UN Human Rights Council and what was exciting was when Russia invaded this time many people thought because it is a so-called superpower nothing could be done but the US had just rejoined the human rights council and one of its first acts on the council with all of the like-minded states to stand up for liberty consistently created a commission of inquiry on Russia and even had a special session at the human rights council so those reforms you're talking about need to happen but it's exciting to see the commission on human rights be able to transform to the human rights council and make sure that even a large superpower who's violating the charter that was established in San Francisco could still be raised on those issues and now a commission of inquiry working with to document all the human rights and international humanitarian law violations as we're also near the international committee on the Red Cross or across the street Right, absolutely and also as you know that Russia was finally expelled from the human rights council yeah, probably maybe one of the first times it happened when a big power of the world has been expelled and Russia would not believe that it's possible to do but yeah, it's important but much more should be done and has to be done and there's also one thing which exists in the United Nations it's so-called RFP, it's the responsibility to protect and that means that whenever some injustice happened in the world and this war is definitely injustice but this is unprovoked absolutely war by Russia that the countries members of the United Nations have to unite and to act against these countries but and this is enough grounds to act but unfortunately the United Nations has done nothing to act and we can also remind us an example when even without the United Nations resolution the United States together was native countries it has acted before in the 1990s when Milosevic in Yugoslavia was killing actually it was a slaughter or even maybe genocide of the other peoples of former Yugoslavian Republic and in our understanding the United States together with the lies could help Ukraine more and I'm not speaking as a diplomat I'm speaking on behalf of Ukrainian people who like speak a lot about that because the people, not regular people they don't care about what prevents the countries to help they just need real help and we are grateful that we got the weapons from the United States but we think that so much more can be done to restore justice because it's Ukraine right now but it could be other countries and where are the countries and that's why this world order has to be more just. Oh, we appreciate the calls for Zelensky using Ukraine as a model but I also appreciate your sensitivity of what you're sharing today because really every day of war means hundreds of lives are lost lives of your country's best and brightest and that's something that the right to protect and the other new examples that people are engaging in have to be done because every day we don't act too many people die who are innocent who've done nothing who just want what the UN Charter was created to end the scourge of war so I really appreciate you raising that point of what needs to be done and the urgency of it as well. Yeah, absolutely and there was one more thing I wanted to raise is that Ukraine in a way the reason of this war is because Ukraine in Ukrainian people they are a part of Europe and they wanna be part of Europe and Russia is an old-time empire is trying to stop Ukraine and the people to choose their own future and to being a part of Europe that's what's happening 2014 that's happening right now and the result that we have is that today the European Commission has approved the decision that Ukraine is becoming a candidate to join the European Union. That's not of course yet the membership but it's the status of the candidate of European Union, the one which Ukraine was aspiring for many years to be honest and right now this is the gesture that the European Union, the country's European Union has provided to Ukraine is very important and it gives like an inspiration for people in Ukraine for those who are fighting against Russia that they have this perspective for their children so they will have a future which is different from all Russia and from all of that and that's why they will have inspiration to fight for the independence of Ukraine and for the right of Ukraine to choose the future where it belongs. No, those are great points and it's building on just the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron as well as the Italian Prime Minister and that's what's so important because now at least it sets up as you said, complying with the Copenhagen criteria and then moving forward to make sure that as Zelensky often says they're fighting for European and really universal values such as human rights and rule of law, inclusive democracy where everyone can have their rights respected and protected. So that's quite crucial as we move forward and I think you said it's a new chapter in a way building on the legacy of the UN Charter but really looking at important aspect of regional cooperation and how we can go forward. Yeah, absolutely in your right. And that's why, yeah, it's not only Ukraine today, I think Moldova has gotten these status which is also absolutely right thing to do because they are our neighbors and they also have problem with Russia, Kospat or the Moldova territory, the Transnistria region has been occupied by Russian forces since 1990 and they are also threatening Ukraine from the Western side. And being kind of together in this means that with those countries, Ukraine and Moldova and the other ones have, we have just a different historical trajectory of development and when this war stops and we believe it should start soon, a lot of rebuilding efforts will be needed but then there will be a different, I mean a new nation of Ukrainian people who will be like, who are example of resistance for the freedom in the world right now. But there will be a member of a new world where such things as war should not exist. That's a beautiful point and it's also great to see how inspiring it is for the Ukrainian people to stand up. We now even see Russian journalist, Dmitry Morotov, he auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal just on Monday this week for a stunning 1.3.5 million and the funds are going straight to UNICEF to provide aid for Ukrainian children. And he of course with the Novoia Gazeta was an independent publication in East fighting for those human rights you're talking about inside Russia so that Russia could then not be able to take out its actions against neighbors. So it's an important part of if you have human rights in the country and democracy then governments can't take actions lying to their own people. And this is one aspect of solidarity where everyone's realizing these basic rights bring us all together. And those were enshrined for the first time in San Francisco where you're based now. Absolutely, yeah, we just need more people like him in Russia to do such things and to demonstrate to the world that not everyone there supports the war because there are a lot of people there to be honest but not everyone. And these examples are bright, those are needed to the world and this should show to the people in Russia that you have to not, you cannot allow the Putin to rule you anymore and have like continued to wage this war. You have to stop it. It's true. And then you also brought up some good points about the major reforms in the UN that while we're celebrating the 77th anniversary and there hasn't been a world war there are attempts such as the right to protect also the initiative by the countries to focus on the use of the veto and have to defend that, right? That was an initiative by one of the members recently but I think Zelensky's call for standing up for these international order rooted in law is absolutely essential as we move forward and hopefully by the 78th or the 80th session that we celebrate in San Francisco together we would see those important changes in the international institutions of the UN. Yeah, exactly. So there can be different scenarios of this reform like including more countries as the permanent members like I don't know Germany, Turkey and the Korea and many other countries who deserve to be by Brazil for example, right? Or actually like key players in the world and also just to change the way how the veto powers use or just take this veto power away from those who are participants of the international military district and that will create the possibility for United Nations to take decisions and to act and to finally preserve the peace the purpose which it was created for in 1945 here in San Francisco. Thank you so much. And we can all appreciate the spirit of San Francisco of the UN Charter that for the first time for seven spaces in that UN Charter talked about the rights of all people and the right of self-determination and that we can continue that spirit today and make sure that it's not extinguished in Ukraine and that the wonderful people standing up throughout the world and inspired by the people of Ukraine can demand dignity and equality for all. Thank you for joining me. Aloha. Thank you. Thank you very much. It was a great conversation. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


We got a New Jersey supermarket and retail roundup for you today That's a little bit different than the last couple months. It's has something to do with this big thing that has Overcome the planet over the last few months Hey there and J route 22.com here with another New Jersey supermarket and retail roundup This is for June and this is more of a retrospect. We're not talking about sales or what good things You can find here and there. This is sort of a like a flashback To what has happened over the last couple months. I guess since March You know The last two months if anybody watches my videos, which I can tell you that really nobody is Because I get like 10 or 20 views if I'm lucky sometimes I get 500 views I think I've gotten 2,000 views on one of my videos where I fixed my dryer I'm gonna do more of these helpful videos by the way. Anyway, I have to say that We've been living in a kind of a mini Twilight Zone here with this This virus I'm not going to mention the name or anything It's just a it's just a human human crisis. We're going through right now whether it's a real crisis or manufactured crisis or Psychological crisis. I'm not going to get into that right now, but let me just lay the foundation here I'm perfectly willing to go to the supermarket with no mask. I have no problem with it I kind of know what's going on. However, I have other people in my family that would Liberally disown me and and and like go through legal Actions to get me out of here if I went to the supermarket and bought things So I've kind of played within the rules here Because I want to kind of avoid problems. So we buy things, you know Shop right from home is one of the places we've gone Or pretty much solely and then there's other places we go like butchers in various local municipalities around our Living area. So I go to shop. I've gone to shop rights in PA and New Jersey and so on and so forth and it's sometimes like one thing we've noticed is that It's next to impossible to get a slot depending on which shop right you want to Order from and there's very few shop rights if you like depending on where you live in New Jersey You may only have one shop right that will be willing to deliver to you So you're like your odds of getting that like I think it was eight o'clock p.m I figured out just by trial and error eight o'clock p.m In our shop, right? It was the time that new slots opened up and by eight oh One p.m.  Who knows but I've gone all the way out to like Easton and Bethlehem and and beyond In Pennsylvania and and everything was great but You know, I go to the I went to I think the shop right in Branchburg, New Jersey Recently, and I took a few pictures you could see here all these people walking in and out of the store with masks on and like I don't know if you've read any of the stories about the size of this so-called virus and The protection the so-called masks can give you Apparently the virus is so much smaller than the mask can protect that it's just going to go right through the mask And what bugs me most is this surgeon general person said something so contradictory On on TV, I think it was back in April of 2020 this individual said wearing a mask Will not prevent you from getting the coronavirus however Wearing a mask can help you prevent other people from getting corona virus let that sink in again and rewind back to what I just said and Let that sink in for a minute. Can you not realize how? Ridiculous that statement is Wearing it doesn't keep you safe, but wearing it keeps others safe like When I saw that on live on on a stream we were watching I laughed so hard I'm like what did this guy just say he just contradicted himself like what is the mask have it? Well, then turn your mask around. I mean, I don't know Whatever so I watch all these people and like I'm not I will not wear a mask I will not wear a mask. I have I have some masks, but I'm never gonna wear them unless someone puts a gun to my head and I have determined that I cannot overpower them and and take their gun away from them without them shooting I'm never gonna wear a mask But I watch these people go in the store and they're wearing masks and they take them off and then you look at the press I don't know if you saw this recently, but the press wears their masks while the cameras are filming when the cameras are off They take them off. It's like it's like an act, but whatever it really is I Don't know if anybody any insane human being can tolerate this kind of fear mongering for much longer Because they're realizing that like wait a minute. This is not really a big deal. It really is just a flu Maybe it's a little bit of a more robust flu and perhaps maybe in the fall and winter We're all gonna die. Who knows but there's no body bags piling up, but I want to get back to this Like the ordering online thing is it has caused such a problem for us Like we buy our stuff and you try to figure out like it's so much better to go shopping You know, you know what you need you can go two or three times a week four times a week if you need to but when you buy online You typically buy a bigger order and end up buying a little more than you need and and you never know like especially with shop right you never know Because they say we can't guarantee that we're gonna have this stuff So let's say I ordered six organic Valley milks and we got zero Okay, so that makes you say okay. Well next week. I'm gonna order three or four different brands of milk two of each Just to make sure we get some and then they give them all they give you all it's like weird how it works Because shop right obviously has it has a little bit of an antiquated like I guess with supermarkets. You can't necessarily Keep track of there. There's fifth hundred thousand items in their inventory Like they have to track live in person purchases and online purchases and It's very difficult to keep track of inventory. So I understand why they don't have Real-time inventory maybe one day in the future. They're they're going to have a better Algorithm that can track their inventory, but it's just like I've placed a four hundred dollar order and we got a hundred dollars And then I said, okay, let's cover our bases and I placed the three hundred dollar or two hundred and eight dollar order And they fulfilled it almost a hundred percent then we had so much extra stuff I had like nine hundred stalks of romaine lettuce that a lot had to be either donated given to neighbors or Thrown out because they went bad. So this has been like like a little bit of a troubling situation I'm rambling here and I don't really know what my point is but this is my supermarket retail roundup and for two or two months plus now we've Kind of stayed away from everything when I'm gone into any stores and done everything a curbside I don't like this whole curbside thing. I think it's bizarre. I think it's unnecessary. I think it's social conditioning I Think herd immunity is important. I'm sure you do too if you're watching this video We're in when they say uncertain times and and all this stuff It's not because of what they say it is it's because of what they are Making happen with these weird rules and how people are following them and I'm very happy to see that there's many Areas in the country that are fighting back. They're not wearing in their masks and they are They're they're proving that they're just surviving perfectly I Just think fear I I've said this on many of my other web Publications in the past fear is the number one way to influence people it always will be just think about it think about Read your history books the wars the the nuclear Holocaust that fallout shelters the the Whatever was it aids and then they had weapons of mass destruction all these things that they've always tried to scare The populace in general and it works every time because Those people that control the narrative and the medium of where how people get their information is Is important and I it's kind of breaking down slowly with fragmented you know internet I Guess Sources I don't even know a better way to say it. There's various news groups and message boards and stuff But social media is probably something you don't want to engage in They have private groups that aren't Moderated or a censored, but they're those are very the very small in comparison to what reached at the previous News organizations that that's it. I've rambled way too long And I'm sure probably one or two people got to this point But that's my supermarket roundup. It's been bizarre. I can't wait till it goes back to normal But soon we're gonna talk about some benefits that we have found from this whole lockdown That we'll save us money and if you listen to us It'll save you money as well have a good week and hit the like and subscribe and I Appreciate your viewership. Thank you You


Welcome to All Hands Update, here's what's happening around your Navy. Military leaders and maritime forces from participating nations kicked off Seabreeze 2016 in the Ukraine. Seabreeze is an air, land and maritime exercise designed to improve maritime safety, security and stability in the Black Sea. Ukrainian naval forces demonstrated a casualty medical evacuation and special forces parachute insertion during an air component demonstration. The Boxer and Phibious Ready Group entered U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations after four months supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. While in 7th Fleet, they will conduct exercises to enhance maritime partnerships in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. Vice-Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Bill Moran held an All Hands call during a visit to USS Nimitz, discussing the extended yard period. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at Navy.mil.


What's up, everybody? Ricky Karuth here. So today I'm literally trying to figure out and make a decision on if I should start a real estate team or not. I would love to hear what you think. So shoot me a comment below and let me know if you think I should start a real estate team at this point in my career and why. And for those of you don't know, I'm 17 years in the business. I've been selling over 100 properties a year as a single agent since 2014. I have zero buyer's agents.  I do all of this myself. I do have one assistant, but I have zero agents helping me with all of this business. So let me know what you think. I'm gonna let you know what I think here in a minute, but before I get into that, I wanna make a couple of announcements. Tomorrow I'm headed to Dallas for the WGR Summit. This is gonna be a two-day event. Tomorrow night is the VIP night. It's gonna be an incredible event if you're not going and you're anywhere in the Dallas area or you can get to Dallas. I'm gonna put a link below to get tickets. I'm telling you this is gonna be a life-changing event. I will be there till Saturday, so I'm not gonna be posting any YouTube videos for the rest of the week, but I'm gonna post a podcast every day for the rest of the week. And these podcasts are not going to be YouTube videos that I've turned into podcasts. These are gonna be unique to my podcast. So I'm gonna put links to my podcast below there. So link up there. These are gonna be really, really incredibly high-value podcasts. And I would appreciate it if you give me a five-star review on Apple podcasts. That's if and only if you're finding massive value in the podcast. And since I'm not gonna be posting any YouTube videos for the rest of the week, I'm also gonna link my five favorite YouTube videos that I've made. So in today's description, I've got a link to the WGR Summit tickets. I've got a link to my podcast on Apple and SoundCloud. I'm also on all the other podcast platforms. And I'm also gonna link my five favorite YouTube videos that I've made over the last three years since I started YouTube. So enjoy all that content for the rest of the week. I'll be back on schedule next week with my YouTube videos every single day. Now let's finish this discussion about should Ricky start a real estate team? I really wanna know what you guys think. I wanna know the reasons behind it. I can't wait to read all your comments about this. But let me just kinda break it down to you here exactly how I feel about the situation. About seven years ago, I tried to do a team.  Sales are what gets my blood pumping. It's in my soul. I'm just a salesman. So I actually love being a single agent. I have no desire whatsoever to start a team to build a team to create a team and deal with all that. I don't wanna manage agents. I would rather make YouTube videos, Instagram content, podcasts, go speak in different places than build a team. I would rather keep my real estate business as a single agent and focus completely 100% of my energy there on my clients instead of trying to manage agents. And then I'll spend the rest of my time coaching, making YouTube videos, and all the other stuff that I do outside of real estate, sales in the coaching world. Now, the fact is this, I'm making a million dollars a year as a single agent. And I still have time every single day to answer every single one of your DMs and all of your questions that you're asking me. I still have time to answer all of them. And so what I have to think about is, is would I rather be less happy and make $2 million a year or would I like to be at maximum happiness, make a million dollars a year and still have time to answer every single DM? Another thing I have to think about is as I try to build a team, I'm not just gonna go from one million to two million, it's gonna be a process. And I may even lose a little bit of money in the process to get on the other side where I'm actually making it a profitable experience, a profitable venture. So I can put all that time and money and energy into trying to build a team or I can put all that money, time and energy into just helping people buy and sell property. See, I think that what the problem is is that so many people are trying to build a team so that they don't have to work anymore. They're trying to build a team so that they can sit back and just kind of let the machine make them money while they're just going on vacations and hanging out, sleeping in. I don't know what people wanna do, but it's not what I wanna do. I would rather just step up and do the work. There's many, many, many cases that you can find where if someone would have worked, even just a fraction of how they worked to try to figure out how not to work and just worked and did the work that was in front of them. See, a lot of people are too prideful. They don't feel like they should have to show property or have to work at McDonald's. And I would gladly work at McDonald's if everything just went away and, you know, I mean, I literally went and worked on an oil rig and roofed houses when the market crashed. When the market crashed, there was no downtime. When I went straight from real estate, the day I decided to quit, the next day I was on a roof. And then when I got the job on the oil rig, it wasn't like there was a month of downtime where I was just kind of doing nothing. I worked and nailed shingles all the way to the day that I went and worked on the oil rig. The very next day, I was on an oil rig. There was never any downtime between anything that I did. I've never been too prideful to do the work. And I think a lot of people are just trying to get away from the work part of it, whereas if they would just do the work part of it, they would more than likely make more money and be happier. So I think it's very interesting to think about the balance between happiness and production. I'm at a very extremely over the moon happy place in my life, professionally and personally. Of course we have the baby on the way and, you know, my wife is amazing, I love her so much. You know, everything couldn't be going better at this point. And it's because of all the work that we've put into, that I've put into real estate, that we've put into our relationship. You have to work for these things. And I think a lot of people, a lot of agents are trying to just find their way around it. They think they're smarter than the system.  But in reality, you have to find the balance between working hard and working smart. A lot of people are trying to just work smart, you know, but they don't wanna work hard. But if you combine the two and you work hard and smart and you're willing to do the things that most people aren't willing to do, like I still love to go show property. I still love to go to listing appointments, closings, inspections, negotiate deals. I still love to do those things. I would do them every day. I do them every day. So I think the fact that I'm willing to put that work in is why I'm gonna continue to succeed and my business is gonna continue to grow. When you get to the point where you don't feel like putting the work in, you don't wanna put the work in, that's when your business is gonna start to suffer. And like I said about not having any downtime between jobs, same thing should apply during market downturns or seasons when the market slows down, transitions, whatever the case may be, you should never have a moment of downtime. If the market slows down, okay, good. That means I got time to make calls tomorrow, or whatever, just stay busy. So I think I've just answered my own question. I don't think I'm gonna go after building a team at this point, but I appreciate you guys and I can't wait to read your comments about why you think I should, why you think I should continue being a single agent, whatever you say, I can't wait to read it. I'm gonna respond to every single comment, so please leave me one and let me know what you think. Enjoy the podcast this week when you're driving, working out, whatever it is that you do, there's gonna be an incredible amount of value there. And I will be answering every single DM while I'm out of town, so please keep them DMs up because that's literally the fuel that keeps me going. You guys are motivating me and I'm just so glad to be able to give just a fraction of it back to you. So as always, thank you, let me know what in the world I can do for you and let's go.


Welcome traders to another tick mill earning season preview as we kick off results for the third quarter. Today we're going to be looking at JP Morgan but before we jump into today's preview we as always want to adhere to that risk disclaimer. Most pertinence to today's presentation, the views and opinions expressed by me are solely mine, they're not indicative or representative of those held by tick mill at the UK or tick mill Europe Limited. So JP Morgan announcing today before the open of New York trading, we're looking for an earnings per share of $2.90 on revenue of $32.123 billion. I would say there is a whisper number out there that we could see a print of $3.03 on the upside in terms of earnings per share. In terms of the report itself, JP Morgan's net interest margin, which is the measure of the gap between the income banks generate from credit products like loads of mortgages and the interest they pay to depositors and other credit services. It's analogous to gross margin reported by non-financial companies, which is the difference between sales and the cost of goods sold. In extremely low interest rate environments, net interest margins get squeezed as banks lower rates charge to borrowers to remain competitive, but they are reluctant to push rates they pay to creditors below the lower zero bounds. Note that JP Morgan refers to net interest margin as net yield on interest earnings assets in its financial materials. Net interest margin is a specially important metric to watch at this juncture. JP Morgan's net interest margin gradually fell in 2020 and 2021 after the Fed lowered interest rates to mitigate the shock of COVID-19, making it easier for households and businesses to borrow. The Fed's rate hikes have already started to improve the bank's net interest margin. JP Morgan's net interest margin ranged from 2.37% to 2.57% between Q1 fiscal year 2018 to Q1 fiscal year 2020, dropped to 1.99% in the second quarter of fiscal year 2020 and fell further subsequent quarters reaching a low of 1.62% in the second quarter and third quarter of 2021. Since then, it's partially uncovered at a slow pace in the second quarter of this year. Net interest margin rose to 1.8% in its highest in nine quarters. Analysts estimate that the net interest margin will rise again in the third quarter, reaching a potential 1.99%, but still short of pre-pandemic levels. Let's take a look at some of the trading patterns that we can see statistically around earnings. The JP Morgan shares have moved lower in the immediate aftermath of earnings, nine out of 12 previous reports. On average, the stock moved down 1.7% in the first day of trading after the company reported earnings. Based on the previous 12 earnings releases, JP Morgan shares are more likely to trade lower one day after earnings for an average loss of 0.4%, and on average, the stock has moved lower 0.2% one week after earnings from an implied volatility perspective and what the options markets are pricing for the earnings. They're looking for about a 5% move either up or down on today's release. The options market has overestimated JP Morgan stock earnings, moved 75% at the time in the last 12 quarters. The predicted move after earnings announcement has been on average a 3.6% move, but in actual fact, the earnings moves have averaged 2.5%. From a sentiment perspective, there has been notable buying 4,840 contracts of a bullish call expiring at the close of trade today, and options order flow in general is bullish. Investment sentiment going into the company's earnings has 35% of analysts expecting an earnings beat. JP Morgan's share price has drifted down 1.3% post its prior earnings announcements and using the last 12 quarters of data, the average drift between earnings announcements is 3.3% to the up or to the downside. Now, let's pull up the chart here and see if we can identify any near term trading opportunities in terms of the technical setup. Looking at this chart, we have a bullish set up here on the interest rate for our timeframe. We've actually broke out yesterday from this descending wedge pattern. On the daily timeframe, we've got a nice outside reversal candle capping 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 prior days of range yesterday at the close. On the weekly timeframe here, we can see potentially putting in a big bullish reversal pattern. We've got some nice momentum divergence. So, from a technical perspective, I'm constructive on the stock and I'd like to be a buyer on a decent report today on a bullish open. I want to engage on the long side and I would be using a stock of 101 on the downside, but my target for JP Morgan shares at this stage would be a test up into 122. And if we can consolidate there, then I'll actually be looking to move up into the 129, 130 level as the next upside objective. As always traders, plan the trade, trade the plan and most importantly, manage all risk. And so next time, thanks very much.


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Welcome back. Okay the clip you just watched it was just taking you through what an optometrist does. It's all about eye care and they say that the face is like a piece of work and it requires an artistic aspect of good frames when it comes to glasses and also that life is too short to a boring glasses. So today we are looking at the eye care industry and it's all about matters pertaining looking at different business opportunities in this sector which is the eye care industry. In studio I am joined by none other than chatlone Ogingo who is an optometrist and the co-founder of Smarties Eyewear. I said it right yeah Smarties Eyewear. Yes but you missed the name it's fine. Okay this is the opportunity please. Introduce yourself. Oh thank you so much. My name is chatlone Ogingo I am an optometrist. I am also passionate about eye health education so I'm an eye health educator and also an entrepreneur in the eye care industry and like you have rightfully put I last year I decided to venture into that kind of business and besides that I work with the nephromed speciality care where I'm a resident optometrist there and we work with a very enthusiastic team of doctors and nurses just to you know give service to the people okay. All right so who is an optometrist? Okay that's a very fair question. A lot of people really confuse these the people in the eye care industry so an optometrist is a primary eye care provider who is trained to test to correct to correct certain diseases of the eye and the visual system. They are licensed to prescribe eyeglasses in medication but they are not licensed to do surgery. Okay then who is a ophthalmologist? A ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who specializes in vision care so somebody was going to a medical school and then a specialization in ophthalmology and they are trained to do surgery to prescribe medication and also to to manage different eye diseases of the eye. Okay and finally who is an optician? Well an optician is a technician who is trained mostly in lens technology okay so they help patients to choose the best lenses for the prescription that either an optometrist or an opththalmologist writes. All right I think now you have a better understanding of all the three and what you guys do yeah so what you deal with is when I come to you you'll you know do a good a checkup that's when I the vision aspect of it eye pressure and all that yeah yeah so we'll do the examination and then I will prescribe a management plan for you eyelid could be spectacle or medication or contact lens depending on on on the problem that you have. All right so Charlton so take us to your background so who's Charlton why were you born and brought up? Okay so I was born and brought up in Kisumu a place called Nyakach and I when I was growing up I becoming an eye care practitioner was not one of my dreams but I really thank my father who actually shaped me to to to this career that I have right now and I have never met somebody who is more altruistic like him and he's somebody who likes helping people which is what optometry is all about so I after finishing my all levels I enrolled in in my Cinder Muliri University at that time that was the only university it's actually still the only university that is offering optometry at a degree level the other institution that we have is KMTC which offers it at diploma level so I undertook that training and then began my practice or in 2016 towards the end yeah and since that it has been such a fulfilling adventure I mean usually the greatest pleasure that I get from it is probably not the money but the fact that when you hear somebody that say to me that you know right now I can be able to see I mean I can be able to go about my daily activities very well because their eyesight is now good so it's it's it's one of the greatest pleasures that I derive from my profession. All right and for the sake of all viewers who are watching us today and they have an interest to get into the the eye care industry so what is what who is eligible to actually you know be an an optometrist and what should they major on in school? Well anybody who has a passion to help people can be an optometrist and I believe that is what the health industry is all about it's about giving back because trust me there is no amount of salary can be able to match the kind of the fulfillment that comes when you realize that you have just changed somebody's life you have just given him or her the gift of sight so anybody who has that heart of helping can become an optometrist when it with regards to academics sciences would be a good measure you'll have to imagine the sciences especially life sciences biology and then also physics and chemistry so when you are good at those ones then you stand a higher chance of qualifying for for admission into into the university to do optometry. All right so also I understand you're into employment and also you've started your own retail business so what take us through your work experience and at what particular time did you decide to to venture into the retail business of smarties I I wear? Okay I've always wanted to start my own business I have several interests which I'm pursuing one of them being in the IK industry because it's an industry that at least I have an understanding of so we can remember last year there there was a very change in the structure of our lives you know when when COVID-19 struck and as I was you know just thinking through what kind of opportunity exists you know even in this in in this situation and I thought to myself why can I start with what I know with the IK industry and as we know with COVID-19 people went so much into remote working you know companies had their employees working from home government was encouraging people to to minimize going to the offices so that means that working had to come back from home and as people working from home you are using your computer and using a computer is a demanding task to the eyes and as a way just to to prevent the eyes from deteriorating and and being affected by the light that the computer has because it uses high-end technology which cumulatively has effects on the eyes so this is what I thought of and and I I I said why can't I begin a business where I can sell non-prescription spectacle one that doesn't need you to go to the doctor it's just something like it's just like sunglasses but now what is that is meant for computer I like that you saw the gap because most of us also the young young guys are very addicted to our phones so I believe also that affect our eyes yeah it does yeah it does yeah you'll tell us a couple of ways to actually manage that but just getting back to it so was there a business plan when you embark on this journey yeah I had to it was not a very comprehensive business plan but I jotted something down like what did I want to achieve with this how much the amount of money I'll need to put in where I will get their merchandise and where I will get my customers you know so so those are some of the things that I just I jotted down to just help me with the pipeline of implementing the business yeah and since I I immediately wanted to do it online because I'm passionate about digital marketing also I I say that that is the first place that I will start yeah how important was it like the fact that you had structure uh but then you said it was no in detail just ensuring that you stay or you know on on the right lane of influence implementation yeah like you're right to rightfully put um having that kind of a structure helped me to to stay on course of course at the beginning it it doesn't sound very easy and still it's not we still have to you know to to to to have a lot of great to push it on but having that structure help help help us to give some direction to what we wanted to achieve and how we are going to achieve it so that we are not just groping in the dark at least we we we had something that is that was guiding us towards what we wanted to achieve okay nice many of us out here have business ideas I'm telling you but one of the key things that they say just like holds them back is the issue of finances so how did you raise your capital um yeah it's it's usually a very dicey issue because everything boils down to finance I mean the youth of our nation have a lot of business ideas that lay unimplemented because you know there is there is no money so when it took it took planning I started thinking about it earlier and so it took um some savings and also like I've told you we co-manage it with uh with my wife so we we brought our finances together uh portion of highs and some from from from my earnings and then yeah we just uh ordered some merchandise on a small scale okay yes you don't want to go be good yeah don't have to go uh highly yeah you know expectations go all in yeah just started kiddo and then you know we we grow all right so where do you get your merchandise from um so I I get them either locally or or from china yes but the first batch I got from china uh and then yeah then the others locally although that one from china had challenges yeah and you know it got so thinking about just doing it locally because it took a very long time then at at um at the customs office it was also another protracted period to just acquire them so yeah it was a challenge especially with with the importing but yeah those are the two places we are much less okay so what is your value proposition into the market because I'm so sure people think uh we can get glasses anywhere right I can get a glass the people sell you know I wear everywhere so what is how different is it when they come to you okay um at summaries I we believe that um we want to live by the spirit of our name and so we believe that our way is not just some some brand names tapped on the frame but it is about expression of your personality yeah so we we we want to give somebody a frame that also expresses their fashion also makes them to express their personality so that is what we want to do and also we want to to to to to do that at affordable prices you know because most people when they hear of glasses they imagine huge badges and so they they like go wow this is just not meant for me but we we want to be able to to give people an opportunity to to take out their eyes while they sometimes not breaking their bangs for it very very very actually fair and reasonable so let's look at during the early stages of our business are you guys a brand for over a year now yeah close to a year okay so during the early stage let's say three months six months so how was it how was it like like typically on an average uh scene because uh when people starting off their business they're thinking like I need probably it depends on what you're whatever you're doing I mean I need a social media manager I need uh probably if it includes services I need a receptionist and all other things involved but how is it for you during the early stages of the business let's look on a scale of three months uh six months there okay um okay I love I love the beauty of the process and so um like I I have mentioned we we we didn't want to begin on such a huge scale that we will not be able to manage so um at the beginning basically the first three months I was actually me and my wife were actually everything to the business come to customer care to social media manager um but some of this thing I had to to learn them through YouTube you know just go to YouTube learn how uh people you know do social manager managing work and all that so so you wear all the hats I wear I want all the hats okay and still I do because we still don't have a receptionist or social media manager but the beauty of it is that you learn and and the process you know just shapes you to to become you know a better entrepreneur all right so how do you promote your business to the community um okay so like I've seen it's majorly online because um that is where businesses is going I mean um if there is one thing that COVID-19 has taught us is that we have to change the way we do business and and so any other way of marketing um so we we we do online and also offline one-on-one and majorly through status and also Facebook and Instagram especially this status group yeah things happen right there so uh who are your target markets and uh let's start from there let's look at your target market okay um well we we target school going children and also people working the working group these people are very active you know making sure that the the the engine of our economies run well so those are the people we we we we target corporate people okay yes actually knowing the fact that you guys are based online uh is it quite I believe it's not that uh on high expenses when it comes to maintaining your business but maybe maybe the other things that I'm not actually looking at maybe you can take us to that um well yeah there there are there are certain experiments like if you have to promote it on Facebook you'll have to pay Facebook for them to do the odd sponsorship yeah yeah sponsorship um um you know you'll also have to give certain incentives to the clients you know things that are not they do not directly pay for but it's just something to to make you stand out okay and um yeah we also do a lot of we do branding also so yeah it's it's one of the projects that we're having moving forward all right uh this is still like uh this is a very it's a it's a small business and let's look at the fact that how you manage your budget and the priorities just to ensure that the business still keeps afloat even during this time of COVID-19 okay yeah of course during this time of COVID-19 the the the the profit is a lot less but uh we we we ensure that um whatever little money we we get we at least retain some in order to to run the business because you can't eat everything yeah so we ensure that um at least from every sale there is some bit of money that we keep yes this is this is for the business yes a couple of mistakes that you've done uh in this particular business during the early stages um okay so during the early stages after I had set up the the facebook page I took really quite a while to order the merchandise I mean it it's really it it really hit me that while I was almost living the business yeah it took like close to to one month before we finally decided to order the merchandise because I I took a lot of time to research and all that yeah so I didn't swing in super fast so that I could order the merchandise um also um I miss sometimes on consistency because uh social media requires such a I realized that it requires a lot of consistency especially with the posting and all that so that is something that we are still working on yeah couple of financial lessons that you have learned along the way um I have learned the value of budgeting and um fortunately uh the the person whom we run with the business with my wife is she's good at budgeting so at least yeah she's grounded exactly yeah so we have been able to to to you know to to to keep to a budget you know you you don't want to to see the money coming and then you get excited and um so so that that that kind of of life that we have been able to develop as a result of that also um the the the resilience you know because it's not going to be easy always sometimes you you will go into your pocket to to get the business running but uh you definitely know that it's worth it was the end yeah so how do you build or rather create ensure that you are credible to your potential clientele especially you on the online platform because in this online space we meet all kind of kindable people we have people who are they claim to be what they are not called people so how do you build credibility uh with your potential clientele um okay first of all people need to trust you uh so you have to to bring out that trust you you ensure that you keep your word to them and um then after that we we and since our every client that we get we ensure that at least we call them some few days after to to just you know ask them how they are doing all the feedback the feedback so that we can be able to maintain that personal touch so I think that that increases um our credibility so apart from uh let's look at the we've looked at what it takes to just get into the eye uh the eyewear industry but let's look at the mindset what kind of mindset does one need to have just to break the barriers of self-doubt or even the naysayers in regard it doesn't have to be in this industry could be in any other industry so what sort of mindset does one need to just break the boundaries okay um so business is is not easy and um if you're somebody who had started something you the urge to always give up is is um is always there but um I believe if you have a very strong why you know the reason why you are doing the business then you can be able to transcend all barriers because when you remember that why and it is a strong why for you then you can be able to to to overcome the challenges of self-doubt and naysayers and um you you you definitely also want to ensure that you believe in yourself uh because they always say that you know if nobody else believes in you then at least you believe in yourself so so believing in yourself will and will help to ensure that you you you are in need for the long run you're not going to give up whether it's become hard or whether you you you sort out you know you're going to do it all right yes let's look at a couple of set bucks that you're facing in this kind of business um well um COVID-19 is an opportunity for the business because it's it's mainly um uh done online um but also it comes with a set of challenges because you have to to reach to the client especially you have to do deliveries and all that yeah which in Nairobi is nowadays a very difficult thing and um also Facebook budgeting can frustrate you yeah it's uh it's something that can eat into your money a lot yeah so if you if you don't take care of it you know you can just burn your money and probably you don't have a a lead or a client and how do you manage that uh okay well you start with a small budget yes you just start with a small budget and then and then you scale yeah at the beginning I have ever run Facebook as before and it can if you if you put a lot of budget you know Facebook will definitely just eat it and then probably won't get your quality leads so you start on a small budget and then you scale up so that you can find value for your money for your money exactly all right so let's look at uh I don't want to give a specific time frame but what does the future look like for a smarties eyewear um okay um there are certain things that we are we are we are looking at especially the technology that surrounds eyewear um there is a technology that is called a virtual try on uh where it's it's it's a it's installed into a website where you can just go and uh use your picture to try on frames virtually yeah so it's a it's a technology that is upcoming that is being embraced by the eye care industry and that is what one to be because the convenience that it gives to the client is huge all right yeah so charlton we were talking about business all this we were looking at the angle of business now it's time to change hats yeah let's change hats to you being uh an opt optometrist yes hi this is the tongue twister of my people several questions a couple couple of questions for you so uh we posted on our social media handles and this is what I have so uh one question comes in like how often should I get my eyes checked um okay so basically we recommend that you have your eyes checked um every two years and of course as you age that frequency increases you're supposed to do it um after one year as you age it's clear from 40 years going onwards and also if you have um mobility like if you have diabetes and all those other conditions then it should be as uh any as frequent as six months every six months like two times in a year okay yeah so if one comes to your office what should they expect take us through briefly the process okay so when you consultation yeah okay so when you come in in in our practice that is at at nephromed we will uh basically take you through uh those registration process and all that after which we will ask you you know several questions just to know what exactly your problem is okay um some of us just come for either check up to know whether the eyes are okay which is good yeah because you you can never say that your eyes okay just because you you read there's a chart that we usually take people through to read so reading that tells not a qualification to do so after you've read that chart then we will do our examination using the equipments that are there to to determine the the health status of your eyes so after which we'll advise you on the best management forward all right I've been to a checkup and it's really very uncomfortable especially the eye pressure when you are checking the eye pressure it can be really uncomfortable yeah yeah I know but they are actually developing equipments where there is there's minimum contact with the eyes but can still take the pressure all right so let's look at the three most common eye problems um in our side of the country the three most common symptoms are first of all allergies it's a lot of people suffer from allergies and and this is usually seasonal especially when it is sunny and and there's a lot of dust the other issue is complaints about um light sensitivity um so we our eyes nowadays is exposed to a lot of eyes a lot of light sorry from the computer and all that plus almost virtually every work that we do is is on a computer so that is one of the major complaints and um the last the the the other condition that is more prevalent in our side of the country is um the pressure issues although this is uh it sometimes um hereditary because of the genes that you have it can it it it's something that I have seen most people have the other one is um short sightedness yeah all right so let's look at three ways to protect our eyes mentioned uh issues with light yeah um okay so I usually tell my patients that they are to there are two ways to to to sort the issue of light either one is to prevent exposure or to avoid exposure yeah because light is something that we need we can definitely not avoid it so we prevent exposure so the first thing that to that we recommend is to use eye glasses okay to to to prevent your eyes from the sun um and and these eye glasses need to have 100 percent UV protection and also we recommend that they are polarized all right yes okay so as we wind up probably you could tell us where people can find you on social media and if they want some merchandise from uh uh uh smarties eyewear where they can find you okay so we are on facebook at uh smarties eyewear we are on facebook at smarties eyewear and also if you want an eye checkup we are at upper hill uh on fortongong avenue that is nephromed you can find us there we'll do for you a very comprehensive eye checkup and also we have an educational channel it's called the favorite optometrist on facebook so we give uh you know cutting age information of eye on eye care there so that people can be empowered is to take proactive management practices on their health well I think you very much uh charlton for kate in time to be with us thank you Michelle you're welcome yeah so that is charlton ogingo who is an optometrist and the co-founder of smarties eyewear so make sure you follow them across all the social media handles keep that conversation going and if you have any other question make sure you reach out to him make sure you don't start that that will be right back with so much right here on why in the morning hashtag to use is hashtag entrepreneurship tuesday at y254 channel is where you can find us across all our social media handles at michelle ashira is where you can find me across all 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