Restoration, and I am the host here of Finta Kauai Show, Finding Our Future. So here on the show, we talk about sustainability, politics, things that matter to local people and future generations. And we're here every other Tuesday, one to one thirty, and today it's Super Tuesday. So I'm really, really excited to talk about the 2020 election, especially in terms of Hawaii primaries and just in general, having a read on the elections. My guest today is Bart Dain. Bart, thanks so much for being on here. I'd love if you can just give a quick intro of what you do. Well, I wear multiple hats. I think for the purposes of this discussion, I'm a long time Democratic Party activist, and I've been involved in a lot of the presidential campaigns in Hawaii over the years. I'm also right now, I'm the National Committee man for the Democratic Party. So when you hear about the evil DNC, I'm one of the members of the DNC from Hawaii. We are the policymaking body for the National Party. There are 400 and I believe it's 447 members of us. And in addition to members of Congress, we will be potentially be super delegates at the Milwaukee National Convention. OK, well, great segue into conspiracy theories about super delegates and stuff like that.  Like, is there that risk that people are so worried about? And yeah, I just want you to give some some top of the line. Let me give you a little bit of history. The official term for what are being called super delegates had been unpledged delegates. So the unpledged delegates were the Democratic members of Congress, the including both chambers, the US Senate and the House, Democratic governors, a few sort of dignitaries like former party chairs. And in addition, there are about 447 members of the DNC itself. And DNC in this context means the Democratic National Committee. Like I was saying, that is the sort of board of directors for the National Democratic Party. I believe it was in in 1984. They created this category of unpledged delegates and inserted the politicians and the party leaders into the process as a certain percentage of the national delegates with the idea that the super delegates might be able to take control of the rudder should the party start heading towards a reef in the nominating process. So sort of a failsafe backup system. It wouldn't be enough votes to totally control the process, but enough to put their thumb on the scale in order to ensure that a responsible and electable candidate be elected. That has gone through a lot of changes. There was a lot of controversy in 2016 when the super delegates about 93 percent all lined up behind Hillary Clinton before even a single ballot was cast. And so there was a lot of effort to reform the process, make it more democratic so that the nominee will be elected by a vote of delegates to the National Convention, who themselves were a portion relative to the votes received by the candidates in every state's primary and caucus rather than by these powerful insiders. We tried to abolish the super delegate completely, but we reached a compromise that said the automatic delegates this time will not be able to vote in the presidential nominating race until the second ballot. So if no candidate goes into the convention with 50 percent plus of the pledge delegates, those that are elected as a result of the primary vote and the caucus votes, then the super delegates can resume our superpowers and vote on the second or subsequent ballots. So you said you guys tried to abolish it. What I guess from your your sense of what's happening today, do you have confidence of the system? Are you super? Are you also suspicious of how how it will play out? Because of course, there's a lot of the worry that the establishment's anti-Bernie and therefore the super delegates are used as a feel safe to protect from Bernie, not not a dangerous candidate, but just someone that they don't want to be in power. So what is your read on that? Well, I think when we pass this reform, we passed this reform like two years ago after a long process of arguing and it was a compromise. And I think most of us thought it was a far off possibility that they would be that super delegates would ever be reactivated because there'd be a brokered convention. There hasn't been a brokered convention in the Democratic Party since 1952. So there is a rip this year, the way the votes are amassing that no candidate will get at least half, well, half plus of the pledged delegates, so it may be that super delegates will reemerge. If the super delegates do reemerge and do get to vote, they will be about 16% of all the delegates at the National Convention. So you can see if there's a close race, even the close within, you know, within 16%, it is conceivable if the super delegates all voted as a block that they could pick their favorite candidate. And overwhelmingly, I think a majority of the super delegates would support the more conservative establishment candidate. In this race, it appears the race is narrowing down to a two-person race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. We still aren't sure what the heck the role Bloomberg is going to play. But most of the others have dropped out, except, of course, for Tulsi and for Elizabeth Warren. What do you think is the what do you think is Bloomberg's and Warren's strategy in staying? Do you think that they're understanding these rules and in some way trying to help Joe Biden? Like, what do you think? Or do you think that they just hope that they can convince super delegates later on that they can win? What is their? What do you think that they're trying to do by staying so long? First, I contrast what's happening with them versus what happened with Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar who dropped out, right? So they looked at the math. They saw they weren't gaining any traction. Pete did OK in the first two primaries, but it was clear that we didn't catch on with Latino or with African American voters and had no chance of winning the nomination. So I'm pretty sure that they got all kinds of communications, not just from DNC members, but from their major donors, perhaps from in the case of Klobuchar, maybe through the Senate colleagues asking that they drop out in order to help Joe Biden. I think it was very consciously designed to ensure that moderate votes could congeal behind Joe Biden. I mean, this strategy is openly discussed and being promoted in the commercial media. It's not a secret strategy. Now, in the case of Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren, they are kind of exceptions. First, it actually helped Joe Biden for for Warren to remain in the race, at least through today's vote, because she can collect votes that otherwise would likely go to Bernie. And so the idea, the name of the game right now for all these candidates is to try to keep Bernie from amassing too many delegates. Warren's campaign has put out a memo, which they circulated fairly publicly, which basically acknowledges she doesn't have the chance to win enough delegates herself to win the nomination. So she is angling to make sure we have a broker convention. And then if she goes that convention, she seems to think that even if she's, say, fourth in the delegate count, that she is so appealing as a candidate that the superdelegates will swoop in and give her the nomination. Bloomberg has a different strategy and he's in the category by himself. He's, I believe, the ninth richest man in the United States. He's worth sixty something billion dollars. So he thinks he can basically buy enough ads, convince enough people, probably bribe enough politicians, frankly, that he thinks he might be able to come out of a broker convention with enough votes so that he might be able to win it. So both of them are aiming to get a broker convention. I don't think they're aiming so much to directly help. I didn't get the nomination. I think they both want the nomination, but it serves the interest certainly of Biden for warrant to remain in the race. It does not serve his interest to have Bloomberg in the race, because we'll see what happens today. But Bloomberg is likely to draw off a lot of conservative voters who otherwise would vote for Biden. It just to me, it just is giving me like PTSD to go through something like this again, because after 2016, when there's pretty, I mean, 70 percent of folks in Hawaii voted for Bernie Sanders and, you know, there was all this stuff that came out with Hillary Clinton and the DNC in some ways rigging it towards to favor Hillary and then she lost the general election. So I'm getting a little bit of PTSD that something similar is happening again. The establishment is getting involved. They're strategizing behind the scenes, using money and power to shift what would have happened if democracy had just played out in a cleaner way. And then I'm worried that if Joe Biden or an establishment candidate becomes a nominee that will lose the general election again. So I'm looking for some comfort from you, some other reactions. Just, you know, what are you sensing around all of that? I think those concerns are perfectly valid. What I push back sometimes when people say the DNC is going to do this or the DNC is going to do that. Now, under Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC violated its own charter, was not neutral, saw itself as an extension of the Clinton campaign before she had the nomination wrapped up. And that was wrong. But that's generally universally regarded by DNC members as having been wrong. Tom Perez, the current chair, is much more sensitive to the image and trying to rehabilitate the image of the DNC as a fair and neutral body. And even though this effort to reform superdelegates originally came out of the Bernie campaign, Perez looked at it and embraced it and saw it as important to clean up the image of the party and the DNC. And particularly to overcome the alienation that young voters were feeling that the Democratic Party was too corrupt for them to get involved in. So that young voters are a core demographic that the Democrats are hoping will turn out in large numbers and help us win, not just the White House, but also keep control of Congress and win the US Senate. Do you think that? I mean, it seems like there's kind of two ways that this can play out, right? Bernie could win and there's a whole progressive uprising and, you know, that he wins and maybe he was a general. But there's another side that's like, OK, well, Joe Biden could win. Potentially alienate a lot of the younger, more progressive voters that don't resonate with him, nor the complex tactics of the way the Democratic Party runs their primary system. But then there's this idea that the down ballot races like the House, Senate, local races will do better with the Joe Biden nomination. And I don't know enough about that. I don't want to believe that it should because I am personally a Bernie Sanders supporter, but I just want to know is that, you know, is that true that the down ballot races would probably do better without a Bernie Sanders nomination? Let me make clear that I said I've worked in various campaigns. I am a volunteer for Bernie's campaign this time. I'm not an officer of that. I don't have any official role, but I support Bernie Sanders. And I actually think he is the stronger candidate. I think the dominant corporate media is telling us, yes, Biden is the stronger candidate. And a lot of people buy that because it's bombarded with that. I don't think it's true. I don't think, and a recent talking point, which only started about 10 days ago, was that a nomination of Biden would help the down ticket races. I don't think that's true. I think that the strategy behind Bernie is that by appealing to working class interests, then those voters who were alienated and who've given up on voting either Democrat or Republican, or if instead, if they don't think the Democrats represent their class interests are open to appeals based on racism or nationalism, homophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, etc. And Bernie actually leads together a much more unifying message. There is a division, but the division is basically between the 1% and the 99%. So Bernie is trying to prove to working in middle class people that government can serve their interests and doesn't just have to serve, in his phrase, the interests of the millionaires and billionaires. So that would generate, we think, a larger turnout, which would help sweep more Democrats into office. Yeah, it seems like turnout is a really important thing here. And is that the turnout effect Trump's win as well? Was there a big turnout on that side for him to be able to have that surprising win in 2016? There was a low turnout among a lot of groups in that election. One of the groups, in particular, African-American turnout was very reduced. Now, the establishment people want to say that's because the Russians were targeting the black Americans to dissuade them. But I don't think Hillary encouraged them. I don't think they trusted her, not just on the basis of being black, but also on the basis of being working class. So I think that, yes, turnout was down. Hillary also didn't campaign in the so-called Rust Belt states of the Northern Midwest, and we lost those states very surprisingly, and that really caused the election to go. And I think that an appeal that appeals to working people, but working people of all ethnicities, not just white working class, I think will actually increase our turnout. What will happen this time, we'll have to see, but I think overall in the future, that's the appeal we have to make. The Democratic Party has become the party of essentially the liberal professional class and not the working class anymore. And I think that's a fatal weakness and has resulted in low turnout. We say that in Hawaii, the turnout in Hawaii is among the lowest in the country, and the Democrats probably more controlled here than in any other state. Yeah, I have so much to ask you about the national stuff, but let's get into the primary for Hawaii just so I don't miss that. It's quite confusing for, I know I'm a millennial, a lot of my friends are just like, they don't know why there's so many steps involved with being able to register in the primary. So can you just explain that on a basic level, how one is to vote for the first time or in the primary specifically? Yeah, so the first thing people have to understand is that this election, we're calling it a primary for the first time. In the past we've used the caucus structure, but this primary is not run by the government. It's not the office elections, it's not the county clerks. It is being run by the party itself on our dime with our volunteers and our technology. So in order to participate, even if you voted in the last, say gubernatorial primary where it was EGAY versus Hanabusa, that doesn't make you a formal member of the Democratic Party. And in order to vote in this upcoming presidential primary, you have to be one, a registered voter, and two, you have to join the Democratic Party. So in order to do that, people can do that online, it's fairly easy. So there's the website there.  If you click on that, you will bring up an enrollment page, which is this page here, and you just fill out your contact information, date of birth, et cetera, and you submit that, and that will cause you to join the Democratic Party. Even though this is closed to anyone except for party members, it is very easy for anyone to join the Democratic Party provided that they are a registered voter and they have to say that they support the principles of the Democratic Party and will abide by our rules. Meaning if someone is a diehard Republican, for example, they cannot in good faith vote in our presidential race. Now what we have here is this is a mock-up of a ballot. This is not the real ballot, the real ballot is different colors and different layout, but this is to give people an idea. We are using ranked choice voting for the first time, meaning you get to mark your first choice, your second choice, and your third choice. Now, the field is much smaller now, people are dropping out, but the ballot will still have a lot of those names if the candidates dropped out after a certain deadline of a few weeks ago. By marking that ballot, everyone should mark their first choice. And you can mark a second choice and it's not going to help someone else defeat your candidate. It's not like there's an incentive to plunk like there are in some elections. You can in good conduct, or you can just vote your first choice. Now, if your candidate drops out before the ballot is counted, or if your candidate fails to attain 15% of the vote, then your vote will be transferred to your second choice. Now, on our ballot of people who are still running, we may have at least one candidate who's probably not going to get 15% of the vote. So if you still in good conscience want to vote for that candidate, then go ahead and do it, but protect the strength of your vote by allowing your vote then if that candidate fails to get 15%, your vote will still count for your second choice candidate. So this process is being handled mostly by mail. So if people join by, I believe it's by March 8th, then they will get a ballot mailed to them, but it'll also be a walk-in voting. There will be a walk-in election on April 4th, which is a Saturday, and there will be 21 voting centers run by the party across the state of Hawaii. I think there are five on the Big Island. I think there are three in Maui County, one in Lihue and I think that leaves 10 or 11 for Oahu. You can vote in any one of them. It doesn't have to be in your neighborhood.  And those voting centers will be open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., lots of hours on a Saturday where one can stop by any one of these voting centers. If you are not a registered voter, you can register that day on site. If you have not yet joined the Democratic Party or you have friends who want to vote and they're not members of the party, they can go that day, fill out the paperwork and then vote and leave. Okay, that was awesome. That's all the information I wanted to cover for the local stuff. So that was really, really good. Thank you for covering that. So I guess the main thing is just for convenience sake, for folks who don't hit that deadline, which is five days from today, they won't be able to do it by mail, which I think is personally the most convenient option, especially for people like young people and even elderly people who just need to or want to stay at home or don't have the time to leave work and stuff like that. So do it by March 8th if you want to get it in the mail. And I'm guessing you need to mail it in before April 4th for it to be counted. Is there a rule around that? Yes, yes. And if they're worried in the final days or so, they can actually take it and drop it off in one of the voting centers. But those who want to have a convenience of mailing should mail it at least a couple of days before then. If it comes in on the 4th, I believe there's a cutoff period by maybe three o'clock or whatever, ballots would be picked up from the post office and those will be counted. But if it comes in after hours, then you're out of luck. Okay. And then for procrastinators out there, which I believe Hawaii has many of them and you missed the deadline, you don't get your mail in ballot, you can go April 4th day of to one of the polling centers anywhere on your island and you can register as a Democrat that day and you can vote that day. Can you also register to vote that day as well or do you have to have that before? Yeah, if you register to vote and we don't say register as a Democrat because that causes confusion, we say enroll in the party or join the party. Got it. Okay, good. Okay, well good. That's so helpful. That gives me a little bit of relief that people can do it that day if they do forget. Because I know there's been a few deadlines that came up. So that's really helpful. I do really want to push this idea of I've been telling people you can vote in your pajamas and this is the first year in the state of Hawaii that you can stay at home and get your ballot in your mail if you're registered and enrolled and then do it all at home and do your research and talk to your friends and family members and then just stick it back in your mailbox. So it's super simple to do. And I know for me, I'm in the ballot like all my phone researching like things because I don't know about every single section of that ballot. So it'll, I'm really excited to vote by mail for the first time. And that option is now kind of the standard for all the elections this year. Can you go through the dates in August and November and the differences of those that people specifically in Hawaii should know about and why maybe the primaries are more important than the general here in Hawaii? Okay, well, the first important distinction to be made is between the presidential primary that the party is running. And I gotta say, we are hoping that the state will take over running of the presidential primary. It would require that there be a distinct and separate primary for the presidential run. We would hope that all parties would use the presidential primary in the springtime because it has to be in the springtime because we have to elect delegates to go to the national conventions both Republican and Democrat. And those are held in the summer. So people have to be designated as delegates and a lot of proportion of the votes that can they receive a well in advance for that. So it can't be combined with the August primary that the state uses for other races. So the August primary is again, it's not directly related to this but there'll be a primary for your state house for U.S. Congress. I don't think the U.S. Senate is on the ballot and the presidential race won't be on that ballot. And then in November will be the general election where people get to vote for whoever wins the various primaries or in our case would be the nominating process at the national convention for the presidential race. It'll either be, well, it'll be a good candidate wherever we come up with would be a good candidate. I hope. And then just that piece about local elections in August and how we're a blue state and why that August election sometimes not matters more but is more important than people think than the general. Can you just explain that a little bit? Yeah, you're raising a good point because the Democrats win almost all the elections here and right now Democrats hold, I think out of the 51 house seats I believe there are five Republicans, maybe there are six, if I blink, I might have missed one. There is only one Republican state senator. So the real contest occur in the Democratic primary. So I actually am of the school of thought even though this may offend my friends who are incumbents in the legislature, I believe that we have to shake up the legislature and elect better people sometimes with fresh ideas. In my view, ideas that are less sort of in the aligned with the business community and more aligned with the interests of working people, stronger protections for the environment, et cetera. Like right now we see the minimum wage bill which allegedly the Democrats all are committed to support at $15 an hour as a step towards a living wage.  Now that's offensive to most of us who are active Democrats. I think perhaps it's gonna require a little bit of shake up in the house and in the Senate to put in Democrats who actually believe in the Democratic platform and in traditional Democratic values rather than the yuppies that have taken over the big square building. Yes, exactly. That's how I feel too. And it's not the most popular idea if you talk to some folks who are entrenched but I think looking at where we are in terms of our social and environmental issues we need to move a lot faster than currently government is willing to move. So thank you for saying that. And last minute here, final thoughts. It's super Tuesday, super important day. How are you feeling about 2020 and what should we expect moving forward? Well, today being super Tuesday it's like probably the most dangerous day of the year for someone to be asked to prognosticate on what's going on. I'm keeping the TV off and I'll wait hopefully until fairly late in the day before I start looking at the returns and see what happens. I've got my fingers crossed. I think you're right there in these multiple crises. I know you're doing a lot of work on environmental stuff but I think that we have an environmental crisis. We have the international security crisis. We've been involved in these endless wars. The economic inequality in the United States is getting worse and worse. Right now we're seeing our inability of our healthcare process, healthcare system to deal with the danger of epidemics. So I think we have multiple crises and I think we have to start moving fast. I think of both the state and the national level there's just too much complacency by careerists who are only concerned with their own careers and the interests of their friends and those that donate to them and really don't share the views of regular working people. So we have to mix it up and put in more people who actually have the working class experience and face the same problems that other working people do. So they're more sympathetic to the notion that government can be an instrument to improve our lives. Yes, well, I couldn't agree more. And that's our show. So thank you so much, Bayer, for being on and I hope I get to talk to you in person soon. Okay, glad to be on. Thank you. Thanks.


Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. It's Justineen. Thanks so much for tuning in. As you can see, my head is looking a complete mess. So it is wash day Sunday and I am ready to wash this hair, get it nice and hydrated and conditioned. So I have my hair in a previous style and my curls right now are just lifeless. They're limp. My hair is extremely dry. I just need to get some life back into this hair like ASAP. The hair color of my hair alone is already dull enough. So the fact that my curls are lifeless and limp just doesn't make it any better. So I had my hair in a previous style. I took it down because I am so ready to get this wash day started. So in today's wash day, I am going to be adding a new product to me. This has actually been out for quite some time, but it is from Atheji, the Curlific Texture Treatment. I'll be using this on my wash day. I do this every two weeks, every so often when I feel my curls need an extra boost. So Atheji has been around for a long time. It's nothing new, but this is my first time purchasing a product from Atheji. This is actually my first product I had purchased from Atheji and I got it a couple months ago because I saw people on YouTube watching hair videos and they were talking about how their curls were popping and bouncing back and just the definition from using this product and just seeing their results made me want to go purchase this product. In some strange way, it almost feels like it kind of relaxes my hair from the roots of my hair to the ends of my hair. All of my strands just clumped together, just nicely defined. I can get my fingers through my roots. I can detangle my hair a lot better. I can manage my hair a lot better. The only thing about this product that is a con to me is the smell. It smells like a strong men's cologne, like an old fashioned men's cologne. It's what it smells like, so it's not pleasing to the nose. For what it does for my hair, it totally outweighs the smell of this product. So as I go through the video, I'm going to be showing you guys each product I'll be using for this wash day. Alright guys, if you're ready to see these like-less, limp curls, transformed into some juicy curls, keep watching. So I've already washed my hair off camera, starting with freshly cleaned hair. I will start focusing my attention on the middle portion of my hair by applying the treatment and working it in thoroughly. Then I'll work it in throughout the remainder of my hair, making sure that my hair is fully drenched, so I do keep a spray bottle and stand by. I also like to concentrate in making sure that the roots of my hair are thoroughly saturated with the texture treatment. This ensures that I get the best curl definition from the roots of my hair all the way to the ends. Rinsing out the texture treatment, you can see that my curls are already starting to tighten up and get more defined. Already starting to clump together. This is exactly the outcome I was hoping to achieve. Okay, let's keep going. Let's keep going. I hope you guys enjoy watching me transform my doll into these juicy curls that you see before you that I did not have to continuously use any styling tools. I just did the right method with my fingers. Got these curls going, popping. I'm just going to let them air dry. So I just want to show you what I do to get my curls popping when I need an extra boost for my wash day. So guys, I will see you on the next video. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe. It's just Janine. Bye, guys.


Hi friends this is Dr Sanjeev Mani from IndianAdiologist.com and once again we are going to do a product review today of a wonderful new printer from SS Digitech. This is the Okie system and it is a Dicom printer. SS Digitech has two printers one is that for A4 paper so that is classically for ultrasound users. So there is another amazing new printer that they have that we are going to review today. This is one that can take all prints be it CT, MR and ultrasound. So basically this printer can take all sizes right from A4 to A3 and it's very simple to adjust. So if you have a look here it's got a mechanical pull out tray right here and you can actually adjust what pictures you need to take or what size of papers you need to take from right here. By just changing this we know what size we want we just push it back in and we are ready to print. So it's very quick this is Dicom so basically it can connect directly to your CT or MR machine and you do not need any intervening computer or intervening software to print these pictures. So how are these pictures? These pictures are on glossy paper there are two varieties that are available one is the plain paper which is laser coated on top and the second is a non terrible paper. What is advantages is the price once again the price is really cheap the printers are costing from 1.5 lakhs Indian rupees onwards however it depends on your volumes if your volumes are good it is pay as you go model again that is being put forward by SS Digitech and the maintenance of the printer as well as the refill of the toner which will be required perhaps once in three weeks for a thousand print will be done absolutely free by SS Digitech. So we have some images here that we would like to show you and also we didn't believe these images only we did a test run with our Voluson G machine which is there in our center and the results are here for us to see. So we can first see some pictures of CT scanner of a cardiac CT and you can see nice vivid colors on this image we also have some pictures here of 3D CT of the skull all the pictures basically all the parts specially the orbit also as you can see here is very well delineated. We also get images of chess x-rays as well as all conventional films it can be used as a default sometimes although the acceptance is still to come amongst radiologists and other clinicians but it can be used as a backup or as a second copy also. So we have thousands of images on our CT and MR and always we do need to give key images to a patient so that even the clinician can look at that's a single key image and know what it is. So this printer is pretty good for you to use not only alone but besides your conventional printing techniques because you can easily print out nice color key images like a click of a button here you have a picture I have got of a sample of a pet CT you can easily see key images given your highlighting wherever the lesion is and you can label them also very easily. So basically what we have in summary is a nice new product from SS Digitech it's not really new it's been around for a year year and a half but it's gaining popularity why because the pictures are nice and crisp you get multiple formats from one printer which is a tabletop model and also this is really cheap.


Thank you so much, Mayor Adams, and I'm joined by the District Attorney Braggs and the Police Commissioner, Commissioner Caban and our support teams. It does not give us any joy in coming here to talk about another case where a home daycare provider had children in a dangerous environment. And as we lay out this case and answer the questions from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to give clarity on the roles we are playing, we just want to really say to the parents who are dropping their children off every day to these centers that we are going to remain vigilant. We're going to continually modify the rules like they have been modified throughout the years to stay ahead of bad people that are doing bad things in environments where our children are. Who would have thought that we must add to our list of inspections of do we have 3D printers that can print guns? Do we see the presence of various items like fentanyl and other items? These new methods of creating unsafe environments demand that we stay ahead of those who are doing terrible things in centers where we place our children. This is a terrible case. We saw the presence of fentanyl in the Bronx and just really want to commend the law enforcement officers and the first responders who immediately made apprehensions. I believe we picked up one of the last people involved. If not more, we will continue to pursue that. But now we're finding, in addition to fentanyl, that in a similar setting, we saw the presence of ghost guns and devices that appear to make those guns. And so there is a law enforcement arm that we are going to continue to pursue. There are things that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that we are going to sit down with a small broken group to look at what we must do legislatively. What we must do in enhancing the types of inspections that we do and continuing education. And then there's an educational component that we are going to roll out with families because many of us that are parents are not familiar with some of the new devices that are being used to make guns to store narcotics or drugs or opioids. And we need to really support families and parents on what they should look for in their household. I remember years ago when I was a state senator, I put out that video, what to look through your child's room and many people criticize me for doing so. But it's an educational material. It is unfair that parents are having this awesome responsibility while social media is teaching children how to do dangerous things. We need to teach parents how to stay one step ahead. And that is what we're going to do. I did as a state senator, a president, and I'm going to continue to do it as the mayor to give parents the tools that they need.  And again, I want to thank the men and women of the New York City Police Department for moving in a rapid pace. And the district attorney's office and the judge for taking the steps that we needed to further this investigation. And we're going to work united. We are clear that we must protect children in this city. And we're going to lead the entire country on some of the methods that we will put in place to carry out this awesome responsibility. Please commission a command. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. And thank you all for coming. This rough in the flow of legal guns has been a top priority for this administration since day one. When it comes to taking conventional guns off our streets, the NYPD is doing a fantastic job. Taking in excess of 12,000 legal firearms since January of 2022. We've also been tracking an emerging trend involving Polymer, P-80 guns, or ghost guns as they are called. These plastic guns have been showing up more and more, demanding the attention of our intelligence division. In fact, a specialized team was created to go after those who sell and purchase ghost guns in New York City. We've also had great success in this area. And Deputy Commissioner Weiner will get into specifics shortly. With the world of guns continues to evolve, criminals are always searching for ways to avoid the police. And the new frontier is 3D printing. 3D guns, 3D printed guns are among the easiest ways to obtain a gun. They can be made in your home. They can be made anonymously, and they are cheap. Causing a fraction of the price for a traditional firearm or even a P-80 firearm. 3D printed guns have dedicated online forums explaining how they work. And as today's arrest shows, these types of guns have captured the attention of our kids. The NYPD is not going to stand by and allow this emerging trend to take hold of our city. Today is a call to action. We are talking to the parents. Please check on what your kids are up to. Monitor the internet activities. We are also speaking to those who think printing 3D guns is the wave of the future. You are wrong. The NYPD is dialed in on this trend. We will hold anyone accountable who emerges in these crimes. I want to commend Inspector Nyland and her team for their tireless work. These cases are not easy. So much goes into tracing the online footprints of the suspects. Of course, once the case is made, we rely on our strong partnerships with the prosecutor to hold the suspects accountable. Today we stand with the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, whose presence here sends a clear message. There is a united front on this issue and all matters of public safety. Together we will continue to protect New Yorkers and make the safest big city in America even safer. Thank you. Now I will turn it over to Deputy Commissioner Weiner. Good morning. Good afternoon, everyone. Rebecca Weiner, I am NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism. Yesterday members of the Intelligence Division's major case field intelligence team in coordination with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office executed three search warrants in Manhattan North related to a long-term investigation into the manufacture and sale of privately made firearms, what are called PMFs in New York City. These warrants resulted in the arrest of three individuals, including two minors, and the recovery of multiple 3D printed firearms. This is an ongoing investigation and the information that we are going to present to you today is preliminary in nature. What I can say is that our investigation began with a group of individuals, including some minors, who are purchasing ghost gun parts from online retailers, as well as materials and filaments required to print 3D firearm components. Some of the purchases were made through fraudulent means, including the alleged identity theft of multiple victims across the United States. During the analysis of evidence recovered during the first two search warrants, investigators determined that an individual identified as 18-year-old Jamal Kohli was also involved in the 3D printing of firearms. Acting swiftly on this new intelligence, our detectives worked with the Manhattan DA's office to execute an additional search warrant for Mr. Kohli's residence. It's important for us to underline that this private residence, located in the 25th precinct, is also a licensed daycare operated by the subject's mother. Inside this daycare facility, investigators recovered a 3D printer, 3D printing tools and plastic filament, two completed 3D printed firearms, one 3D printed assault pistol in the final stages of assembly, and one additional 3D printed lower receiver. Mr. Kohli was arrested. At the location, investigators also found an obviously maltreated and neglected dog. The NYPD's Animal Cruelty Unit responded and removed the dog for evaluation. The circumstances around these galling arrests are part of a larger trend into what's become a global problem, namely the manufacture and sale of privately made firearms or PMFs, which include ghost guns as well as 3D printed firearms. When made well, ghost guns and 3D printed firearms operate just like commercial firearms. In the hands of teenagers, they can inflict just as much violence. This is a growing trend in New York City and one that our major case field intelligence team has been at the forefront of grappling with for the past several years. We take an intelligence based approach to identifying and disrupting individuals who are engaged in the manufacture and sale of PMFs with the aim of intercepting guns before they make it to the streets. We follow the data where it leads us and the data is alarming. Within the last three years, the number of PMFs and gun parts that we've recovered has increased significantly. In 2021, the NYPD recovered 260 PMFs, 263. Last year's number was almost double that, 436 recoveries. Year to date, the NYPD has recovered 290 PMFs. Compared to last year, we've recovered three times as many 3D printed firearms this year and the year is not over yet. Since the 2021 inception of what we at the NYPD like to refer to as Inspector Courtney Nylen's ghost gun team, we've recovered 500 PMFs and enough additional parts to construct 200 more. All of these guns and gun parts could have resulted in violence in our communities. We couldn't have done and don't do any of this alone. Our approach to combating the scourge of PMFs relies on relentless collaboration with our federal, state and local partners, particularly the Manhattan DA's office. We also want to recognize the New York State Police, HSI, CBP and ATF for their partnership. Thank you so much and I'll now turn it over to DA Bragg. Thank you so much Deputy Commissioner and thank you Mr. Mayor, Police Commissioner, we've all mentioned the United Front. This work in collaboration is one of the best collaborations I've seen in law enforcement. I want to be clear about that and I want to in particular thank her name a couple of times by the Inspector Nylen. The Ghost Gun Initiative started in 2020. Her team of dedicated detectives who put themselves in a harm's way daily are keeping our city safe. And it is due to her tremendous leadership and it is an honor and a privilege for my office to partner with the entire NYPD, but in particular Inspector Nylen and the Ghost Gun Initiative. And with me today for my office are Jody Kane, the Chief of the Rackets Bureau in which our Ghost Guns work is housed and the Acting Chief of our Investigations Division and ADA Bonnie Sealeck, who is the driver of this work in our office. And the collaboration is second to none in terms of what I've seen in my time in law enforcement. Since 2020 our office has bought prosecutions based on this collaboration that involves seizures of 93 ghost gun parts, 66 ghost guns and firearms, 428 high capacity magazines and 47 silencers. Those are prosecutions that made New York and Manhattan safer and that are based on this extraordinary collaboration. As for today, the hard work of the NYPD and the District Attorney's Office has resulted in charges that will be presented later today and there will be an arraignment. The charges will include a legal firearms possession, manufacturing of an assault weapon, and reckless endangerment. And I want to underscore as Deputy Commissioner Weiner said, this investigation is ongoing. Thank you Mr. Mayor, thank you Commissioner, thank you Chief, thank you Inspector, thank you Deputy Commissioner for this collaboration onward. I would take a few questions on this case. I'm going to start off with Miles Miller, NBC. The last time this daycare was inspected was in February. Was there anything found during that inspection? I know that they had kids who were not of age in there at the time. Second, is April his mother being charged in connection with this case as well? Hi, my name is Christina Chang. I'm with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. With regard to the inspection, so there was the last inspection was February of 2023. They did find three violations that were related to documentation around feeding and sleeping schedules and preferences in the family as well as verification from doctors that children don't have. Didn't have any infectious diseases. They were cited those issues and they were taken to corrective action and verified that the paperwork was done. So that was the last time that we were there. Thank you. Do you want to answer? Sure, the charges are as Deputy Commissioner described earlier in her remarks, the investigation is ongoing. Dean Moses, A.M. New York. How often are these daycares inspected? What does that process look like and who does it and how are you guys making sure now in light of this new products being found in underground trap doors? How are you making sure that these spaces aren't getting looked over in the future? I'll take that as well. So every daycare center has undergo initial inspection before they can open and so we're making sure that our priority is that it's safe for children. And so we're looking at things like fire exits, we're looking at window guards, we're looking to make sure that medications and cleaning products are locked away and out of reach of children. And then we will conduct annual inspections following their initial license. Some of them are announced and some of them are surprise inspections. I'm going to go with Tina Moore, New York Post. Thanks. Hi, this might be for the health department. How long has this daycare been in business? The initial license was issued in February of 2021. And then also for the police department, have guns been sold out of this location or do we have any idea what they were doing with the guns they were making? That's still under investigation right now. Jay Dowd, pick 11. The first is, did this execution of the warrant and the arrest of Mr. Foley take place during or after daycare operating hours? And second for Ms. Chang, regarding annual inspections, there are about 7,000 in the city from what I understand $18 million in funding to the city. Is there any effort to increase the number of inspections besides that one time unannounced annual inspection? The warrant was executed after daycare hours. Well, there's at least one annual inspection. If there are any violations that are found that need to be rectified, there will be compliance inspections that happen as well. And we're always working with both internally and with our state partners to tighten up our inspection protocols so that we can assure the safety and welfare of our children. Michael Garlin from The Daily News. Before you do that, Mike, just to point out, there is no backlog now on inspections. Inspections are up to date so it's not as though we have a backlog of inspections. They are up to date. Just about that. Exactly. I was wondering if we could get a little more clarity on that, like in terms of, you know, Hassan talked about this, I think, with the fentanyl situation. What might inspections be brought into cover? Like what is the city looking at in terms of that? What's being considered?  Well, there is an extensive list that the inspectors go through now. And it's pretty elaborate and extensive of what they have to check off so that no one is going in trying to guess on what you need to be inspected. What we want to do working with the team of health professionals, law enforcement professionals, prosecutors, to sit down and put together a working group, look at the preexisting list, and state are there other items we can include on that list? Are there things we can do to assist those inspectors as in training with those who are knowledgeable on how to look for firearms, firearm parts, how to look for illegal substance and other dangerous entity that has been introduced into this conversation? And so once we come away from that working group, we will report to everyone what is our finding and how we're going to expand these inspection process. Yeah, it's a challenge. I think when you looked at the Bronx, there were trap doors and there were places that were hidden. And after the incident happened in the Bronx, I spoke with Dr. Fassan and his team, they're not just walking through. I want people in New Yorkers to know that it is not walking through, they're looking in closets, they're looking in bathrooms, they're making sure that people actually live there. And so there's an extensive process already in place, but we are just dealing with a new enemy and we have to stay ahead of those who are finding creative ways to create dangerous environments. And so even the presence of a manual on how to make a ghost gun, that should peak a further investigation. Sometimes you see something and say, wait a minute, we want to dig a little deeper, seeing powder substance. It's just going to take us to sit down with our law enforcement experts and say, what are some of the things that we can further enhance our training? We don't want to sit back and say that, okay, we're doing a great job. No, we found fentanyl in one daycare center and a few days later we're finding guns. We have to continue to evolve our product. Can you describe the daycare? Is this the similar setup to the Bronx daycare where it was run out of a home? And where were the guns and the 3D printers found? Were they in areas where the children were? Let's first describe the daycare. It is a family daycare site, so it is in someone's home. And it's similar to the one that was in the Bronx as well. I think that's an NYPD question. Well, they were found in an unlocked room. Good afternoon. When the city is going to do the inspections, do they previously inform the owner that they are going or they're doing it randomly? There are announce inspections and surprise inspections both. Is there any occasion where you guys go like randomly because you have any information or something like that? If there is something that's reported, is that what your question is? I think that if there's something that's reported, we might talk with law enforcement about that to follow up. But there's a reason for us that's raised for us to go in. We will perform an inspection. Inspector Allen, you would mention that you were seeing a spike in those guns being taken off the streets. And you mentioned there's an internet component to these guns being found. How are you discovering these guns on the internet? They're being sold on the internet and you guys are tracking that? Well, there's many ways. Through our partnerships with the district attorney's office and legal process, there's a lot of chatter about these guns on open source. There are actually forums on open source where people are readily teaching each other how to make them are putting up the blueprints for the 3D printed firearms and are pretty much trading blueprints for 3D printed firearms. Because as of right now, there's no legislation for 3D printed blueprints which are then sent to your 3D printer and the guns are printed. So you can get these pretty much for free on many different websites. And in addition to that, you can buy again on open source subscriptions to get a little better quality 3D printed blueprints to make these firearms. And so we have to keep up. This young man was 18 and any of you who, if you have a young child, technology they're just extremely comfortable with. They can navigate these devices from cell phones, iPads, to so many things. And these folks are praying on our children. You've got an 18-year-old in his room, 3D printer. He's not making little robotic toys. He's making guns. That should be scary to everyone. That's extremely frightening. You've got time for about two more questions. We're going to go back to Miles Miller. Just to, D.A., if you can talk about who's been charged in this.  Is it still operational today? You don't have to answer that. I mean, anybody else can answer too. So we covered the person charged and the charges earlier. So I built an ad to that. I believe it was covered in the Deputy Commissioner.  We had an inspector go on site this morning. And there was no access. So it's closed. All right, we'll go to our final question over here with Jay Dao. I understand there's a lot of discussion about enhancing the training of the state and local inspectors. But is it possible, given the NYPD's wealth of experience in detecting guns and drugs out on the streets, that we could see some kind of formal partnership with members of the NYPD joining those inspectors out during those inspections to see if there's a 3D printer or a ghost gun or fentanyl or traces of it in a daycare center? And as part of the assessment that we want to do, we really believe that there's going to be a need of a combined effort. And these skills can be learned and acquired. And if there's a period of time we need, before we can totally take off the training aspect of it, we're willing to do so. And that's what this working group is going to do, do a real analysis of how do we go about enhancing the level of inspection. Dr. Fassan alluded to that. I'm at the Bronx situation. And we're going to make sure we can come up with a good tool. And the police department, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, DA's office, this is a team effort. All of us feel the chill of what we saw in these last two incidents. And if you are an adult, we're asking adults to be extremely vigilant around determining what is inside the households and we want to give them as much information as possible so they can become knowledgeable of these items. But we are looking at that to see how do we go about executing this next phase. All right. Thank you everyone for your time and attention. Thank you.


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What is ever one and welcome back to another video today. I'll be showing you five creative video ideas using the Insta 360 go to camera. If you're not familiar with the Insta 360 go to it's basically a tiny waterproof action camera that can be worn or mounted anywhere to create hand free shots. Now I have used the original version of the Insta 360 go in the past, but unfortunately I lost it while snowboarding in the Swiss Alps. So it's very hard to find a tiny camera, especially if it's wide and buried under the snow. Luckily a couple of weeks later, Insta 360 released a new version, the Insta 360 go to. I knew that I had to get one because I use it a lot for capturing behind the scenes for my filmmaking tutorials here on YouTube. Of course, that is one way of using the Insta 360 go to the possibilities are almost endless of how you can use this tiny action camera. And that is what I want to show you in this video. The Insta 360 go to was sent to me, but I actually reached out to them so that I could make this video for you guys also make sure to stick around till the end of this video as I will be announcing the winner of the 50 K giveaway. Now before we start, let me first show you the camera settings I use for most shooting scenarios that give me the best quality possible with the Insta 360 go to. So make sure to use the pro video mode. This will allow you to manipulate your footage in the app of the Insta 360. Next is to set your resolution to 1440p, which is the highest resolution possible. You can capture with this camera. The frame rate is set to 30 frames per second. So now that we have that out of the way, let's get into the five creative video ideas using the Insta 360 go to camera. Number one is the overhead shot overhead videos are useful for showing detail. It gives the viewer a bird's eye perspective and is a great way to increase visual interest. For example, cooking videos look great from a top down perspective. And since the Insta 360 go to is magnetic, I can easily attach it on a metal surface with one press of a button. I can start recording the video and later on use it for bureau or post it directly onto social media. Number two is POV or point of view shot. The most popular way to use the tiny action cam is to mount it on yourself to get a first person view perspective. Like I said previously, I use it a lot for capturing behind the scenes, but you can take it a bit further and use it on objects. For example, putting it in a glass or mounting it on a watering can or placing it in a grill use the POV shot to add a unique perspective to your videos. This is also great for capturing the subjects reaction. For example, you have a shot of a character looking at something and then you would cut to a POV shot where you can see the reaction of the character. Number three is to create a hyperlapse effect. I love bananas. As you can see in this example, I wanted to create a fun video where I took out a banana ate it and throw it in the trash can to create this simple effect. I first set up the camera to have a point of view perspective. Then I recorded the first shot in normal speed. The camera settings I use are the ones mentioned at the beginning for this shot. I recorded myself eating the banana. The second shot I used for recording myself walking towards the trash can. But this time recording the video in time lapse mode. Important is to be in the same position so that the first shot matches with the second shot. And once I reached it, I stopped the time lapse and recorded in normal speed again to then throw the banana peel into the trash can. In post, you can simply add the three shots together and you have a fun little video that you can upload onto your social media. Number four is match cut. As you can see, this technique is great for creating continuity in your shot to create a match cut from one shot to another to simply have the composition of the two shots match again set up the Insta360 GO2 for a POV perspective. Then record each shot in a different location, but with the same action. It could be snapping your fingers, jumping or falling forward. Important is that both shots have the same action. This way the transition will look more seamless. In post, I simply edit the shots together and you have a nice match cut. Number five is creating a fake FPV drone shop. To create this effect, you will need to mount the Insta360 GO2 onto a selfie stick. This allows the camera to move slightly above ground. The camera settings I used are the ones mentioned at the beginning of the video. When doing the fake FPV drone shot, it's best to move fast to make it look more natural. In this case, running or walking fast would work well by using 30 frames per second and having the camera close to the ground while moving fast forward will naturally create a motion blur in your video. Once you're finished, you will have to edit the video using the Insta360 app.  First, change the field of view to linear. This will help create a fast moving speed in your video. Next is to change the rotation by setting keyframes. This will add more movement to the shot. Set a keyframe and change the rotation slightly. Move a couple of seconds forward in the timeline to change the rotation angle value. Now you can set keyframes throughout the timeline to add movements to your shot. I recommend not overdoing it too much. Next is to change the perspective. By long pressing on the screen, you can change the framing. I recommend changing both the rotation and perspective.  I hope these techniques were helpful and gave you a good idea of how you can use the Insta360 Go 2 to make your videos more engaging. Now, before I end this video, I would like to announce the winner of the 50K giveaway. Who is? Aaliyah Khaname, congratulations. You won the 50K giveaway. And this is what she wrote. Winning this giveaway would assure me the video stability and sound quality that I'm missing in my current videos. I have so many cinematic shot ideas for future videos and the gimbal and the slide pod will be a huge game changer in my efforts for consistent crisp quality content and production. Best of luck to all participants. No matter who wins, it will be a win for all of us supporting Bennett. Thank you. Aaliyah, you deserve the giveaway. Congratulations. You won the smooth Q3 gimbal, the slide pod E by Moza, the road vlogger kit and the anamorphic lens by Sandmarc. Hopefully you will make good use of the gear. Again, I want to thank all of the sponsors for making this giveaway possible and I want to thank especially you guys for participating in the giveaway and for supporting this channel. Now, your comments were all amazing, but unfortunately it's just not possible to let everybody win something, but hopefully you can be the lucky one in the next giveaway. Once I reach 100,000 subscribers, that giveaway will be awesome. Now, if you're new to this channel, make sure to subscribe so that I can keep creating awesome videos for you guys. Follow me on Instagram at Bennett Graser. Thank you so much for watching. Take care and I will see you in the next video.


Good morning folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of mostly cloudy Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 11 update and currently we have all the U.S. indices that we track trading to the upside. It does up about 200 points, a six-tenth or a percent S&P six-tenths as well, or 24 points there. Six-tenths for the NASDAQ 100, 71 points about a half a percent for the Russell. That's nine points to the upside. Semis are 15 bucks, a little over a half a percent, one and four-tenths for the Trannies. That's 196 points to the upside. Gold is off two bucks, silver's up 12 cents, lights recruit up a buck 41, natural gas pulling back today, it's back 4% or 28 cents, and the 30-year treasury is trading out 131.12, that is up five ticks. Let's take a look at our nine-panel market update chart. We begin in the upper left-hand corner of the ES mini. What do we know about it? Well, I don't have it shown here. I'll show that during the Traders Ed show, the sideways consolidation pattern. Right now price is trading above the top of its daily profile, the top of that profile being 40.64. Closed above it suggests a run for yesterday's high, more likely than not. That would especially be the case as long as the spot volatility remains below its 50-day exponential moving average, which it is. The 50 days at 24.10, price at 22.22. If you take a look at the NASDAQ 100, you've got a good old-fashioned consolidation. Yesterday, price found support at the bottom of its profile and resistance at the top of its profile. That's between 11.783 and 12.257. US dollar index is negating its buy-the-de-point pattern. It will certainly do that with a close below 103.60 out there, and that would then suggest lower price. Gold has gotten A to B equal C to the upside that we sure like to make. In order to do that, it's got to take out resistance, which is an 18.2290. That is the top of its weekly profile. The S&P for the S&P. The silver contract out here has the A to B equal CD pattern underway. Its first projection price target is $2,506. Light speed crude. Right now it is trading with inside a... Let me take that back. It is trading above the top of a new profile out there, which is $7,549. We're trading right now at $7,695. A close above $7,549 would suggest higher price for light speed crude. The natural gas, even though it's pulling back, folks, it is still trading above the top of its daily profile. That's at $6.25. That says it's still bullish out there. Even though I've got an A to B equal CD pattern here, for the 30-year Treasury, it was only 22% retracement. Only retracement that we've seen. That's not really an A to B equal CD pattern. The price is above resistance. That suggests it tentatively to move higher. Folks, stay tuned for the Trader Z Show. If you're off to start your Wednesday, please have a wonderful one. We'll look forward to speaking to you again soon. Take care, though.


Hello, hello, everyone. So I'm Rachel de la Cour and I'm trying to give you that first year, you know, a view about what I've been through and what was important to do, what to get good at and what to absolutely ignore. Some off. So, allo, allo, it doesn't work. Ok, cool. Ok, so, I'm, you know, I started the first company called Bi-Manalytics and it was all about Cloud Business Intelligence and we've started this company in 2009 and by 2015, so we've been acquired by Zendesk that you all, I guess, all know and by this time, you know, I was pregnant of my second child in this picture it's a time where I so I've worked at Zendesk it was great but it's also a time where I saw that post-acquisition I put my family in a safe place, ok, just because of money and actually I've read my first IPCC report in a plane while flying, it's not kidding and I just understood that I put absolutely no one of my family in a safe place so I had to try to do something to do my part and I started to tap into the portfolio of former customers I had at Bi-Manalytics but also at Zendesk interviewing those CEOs ok, and they just told me Rachel, yeah, we just what, I was asking them what are you doing guys to save the planet, to make sure that your carbon emissions are on track etc because the world is being completely derailed and they told me, you know what, we just don't know where to start and the more they were talking to me, you know, the more we understood that actually carbon was a data and a network problem, they just don't know where to start and they were actually asking us to do Bi, business intelligence you know, for carbon so we started that company in 2020, SWIP now we are 80 people and at SWIP actually it's a software platform and we are helping businesses to track and act on their carbon so they can become forever companies, they can really transition to this low carbon world but I'm not here to talk to you about SWIP but still you know, in this journey so it's pretty small figures but in this journey through BIME, through Zendesk, through SWIP in figures, this is what I have been through so I have been through you know, I started my first company during the pure subprime crisis not easy but actually it's kind of pretty cool to start during a crisis you know, you are focusing on the essential at Zendesk, you know, I was in this the first year I was at Zendesk I was, you know, witnessing you know, from the inside post-IPO company hyper gross company, you know Silicon Valley based style etc at SWIP, I started you know, in this recession coming you know, time as well in terms of fundraising I've been through 6 fundraising 3 at BIME, 3 at SWIP for a total raise of 5 plus 100 millions by myself and my co-founders and at Zendesk, I've been through it's not fundraising but I've witnessed also from the inside what it is to prepare an earning call when you are post-IPO you know and I can tell you that it's the energy of 10 fundraising when you are preparing this so much stress and in terms of, so I made one exit for 45 millions by Zendesk do an IPO at SWIP this is what I wish for my team and for Klimtech in general to broadcast that message and from an employee standpoint I've been from an environment of 45 people at BIME then at Zendesk with thousands of employees and at SWIP, you know, in a year you know, 80 people so yeah, so we've been navigating, you know those environments with my co-founders from a go-to-market standpoint I've been through an environment of B2B, SAS a very transactional business model at Zendesk transactional but moving up market when I join them and at SWIP right away, so still B2B SAS, but right away in an enterprise size, you know enterprise business model if I'm targeting those enterprise and from an office you know, location standpoint at BIME, we were very traditional world we have to all work in the same room so we had one office in France one in the US but I also discovered even before COVID while joining Zendesk that an hybrid environment could work and at SWIP, because we've started during the lockdown we had to set up our team for being purely remote, you know, and today we are on three continents but we are also getting back to an hybrid model with offices in London, Paris and Montpellier so this is what I have been through as an entrepreneur so far and if I have to tell you tell you my my experience, you know about what to focus on, what to do at least in year one so definitely speak about your business, your idea absolutely to everyone I'm showing this driver but even the driver of your Uber or else you absolutely have to, your former co-workers you have to spread the word about what you are doing everyone is telling you this already there is no, you know it's all about execution, execution etc it's definitely true so tell about that to get as much feedback as possible and during this first year I definitely, so they are my co-founders and I definitely recommend you to share the load and be sure that you are starting your business being several co-founders it definitely helped first to triangulate with people who are willing to disagree but it's also good for the complementary team you know from a gender standpoint of course this is great and most importantly when the female is the CEO and yes it's enriching your experience in this picture we are two above 40 years old and two who are in their 30s and I can tell you that from a dynamic standpoint it's really interesting when you are speaking with customers when we are hiring employees it's really great so and you are sharing the loads and the concerns and the stress etc during this first year also try to start at 100% of your time I am seeing too many founders who are still working I know it's difficult I know it's difficult to give up on a salary when you are starting but the sooner you see results for yourself for your own motivation the better it is because don't waste too much time I am the most of this momentum of motivation and if it means that you have to be back to your parent's house because you can't pay rent accept to do this I have done this and you know what I have done that and I returned to my parents in law and when you are almost 30 years old I can tell you that it hurts but at least we start full time also when you are setting up the foundation there is one with when you are setting up that first year when you are setting up the foundations it's absolutely critical that you think about your future of course and in our case you know it was all about saying what company would we want to be which kind of companies do we want to manage through time and for us it was super important to chase that big corp logo I think the company on the right track because we know that we will win you know that we will be a fantastic SAP or Salesforce of everything related to extra financial through time but we could also become a jerk through time so at least we try to prevent the fact that even if we are making too much money we are on the right guidelines and it's super important also to choose the right equity story so your equity story counts it counts to get access to the right customers it counts to because it has to be you have to enjoy meeting with your financial partners they have to help you on all the different faces of your business so I don't know if Pierre is here but we have the best 2015 New Wave, La Familia, Balderton Nifadel et during this first year and I wanted to mention that it's super cool trying to find a name don't over engineer it because the first company we were super frustrated with my co-founder to not be a rock band and we said at least please ourselves with a name that we find super cool we are cloud but actually it was so bad from an SEO standpoint so the company must be the same name of the product that you are selling or it's super messy and don't over engineer it but you absolutely have to spend money at first when you are finding a name you must spend money on IP checks it's super important because I can tell you that for my two companies fortunately I was really well I had a good counsel for that but when you are starting to raise funds when you start to communicate about your brand there is always people coming at your door trying to get what they can from the name at some point they have registers or else be super careful because if it's not done the right way early on you can really mess with all the marketing you've done all the positioning it's really important so don't save money on that and from just for yourself you know that first year you have to track what matters to you to show progress to you first and don't confuse because I know that there is this hype about being an entrepreneur but don't confuse the company goals with your desires so it's super important to be aware and conscious of that and that first year as well so it's plenty of recommendation but that first year as well what you have to do is so back to the lawyer IP you know to check your IP but from a general standpoint you absolutely must to choose your lawyer carefully a good lawyer is expensive but it's really important I thought to be honest that all lawyers were the same but like good restaurants you know there is a bad restaurant the first one super cheap super junior of the first company I was just thinking that I was thinking some boxes we'll do the corporate but it definitely almost crash the company it was an nightmare so be sure to spend the right money also here and start also to understand that everything is forgiven when you have a revenue traction ok so don't wait don't wait to execute as much as you can and when you start to have also during that first year those first customers ok because there will be plenty of people also your vices ok telling you that you should do that from a product standpoint or the competition is doing this etc you must accept at least this is my recommendation it worked for us you must accept the feedback the product feedback from people who are already paying ok there will be an army of prospects who will tell you if you are doing this I will pay you or if you will add that kind of features yeah certainly no ok so accept feedbacks only from people who start to pay ok who started to pay and I put this picture as well about that first year when it comes to recruit people or if during that first year you have to you have to establish because of the geography of your customers in another area compared to where you are living for example as a founder be super creative you can be super creative and in our case we try to be the big fish in town we didn't have lots of money but when we started very quickly when we started this US office we went super local and instead of picking New York City or San Francisco where we would have cash burn so much money we chose Kansas City so on the misery on the cool part ok but during that first year we absolutely bet on US guys to sell to US customers because that go to market team that sales team they were doing that uddle every morning do you really think that as a French female founder I would have thought about doing an uddle you know everyday coming at the office absolutely no so during this first year you know it's important to be the big fish in town go in an area where you can hire as much people as possible so be creative on all this and don't forget so I know that lots of founders are so disappointed with PR but don't forget that big gates were saying that if you had only one penny to invest you would invest in PR press relations are important it has been important for us go to chase good PRs where it matters for example even if we were a French European company we were not in the US in the first days but we had a US PR agency it was the only marketing budget in San Francisco and because they were writing about us finally European reporters wanted to interview us and you know what it's still working this way so look at where your core activity is and try to chase those reporters mostly in the US unfortunately but yes this is important and just remember that good things take time and be ready for the long run so that picture is a bime when we were in the US but what I am proud of in this picture is that little kid because don't forget to make babies during this first year this kid is staying that bime office is not anymore in the US it's been acquired by Zendesk etc but don't forget to make babies and where to get good at during this first year improve yourself it's about low signals so feel the low signals you have to put yourself in a position where you are taking the pulse of your churn customers at first because it's so difficult to get a paid customer keep them happy it's so complicated be in a mode of capturing all low signals and continue continue continue to be good at selling selling selling the sooner you test your market the best people must buy the other label version so it's referred to what I told you with product feedbacks there will always be a roadmap to sell and to wait for and to perfectionate etc but you have to test your legion because it costs a lot so the sooner you make mistakes the best you absolutely have to nail with the team who is starting to help you you have to nail the commissioning structure this is something that is coming because I am a business angel in many startups etc I am seeing that questions of commissioning structure coming far too late and this is really something that you have to structure to get the smartest sales guys because they won't come at yours if you are not fair and sophisticated also on this so be careful about that there is plenty of literature about it and I am not supposed to talk about to make the promotion of Salesforce or LinkedIn here but because Salesforce is incredibly expensive they are so good but think about the future and when you will grow your company and when you will hire the best sales guys they all want to use they all want to work with Salesforce maybe I am wrong but this is my experience and I can tell you that I am so happy to have started to put all my CRM all my data in Salesforce because now that I am growing I have all the historicals and all those great guys that are now joining they are up and running with Salesforce that reference is good and LinkedIn, yes, abuser of LinkedIn it's your cheapest but you can also really nail it for your prospections matters you also have to accept and you have to get good at understanding that your customers may evolve the persona may evolve over time and you know what, that's okay that's completely okay so yeah don't force so in a low signal capture mode and that's okay and it happens I would say in a majority of time but when it comes to your team in general what you have to get good at everyone is telling you also to hire better oh yes, I have always hired better better than me as a founder etc we know that it's super difficult to do so we have our egos but you have really to fight against that and for real to hire better than you and give them the keys you have to give them the keys because if you want to grow you definitely have to spread the workload and you also have to understand how to fire ASAP okay, how to fire ASAP this is key during this where you have to get good at and there is plenty even in your first year that's fine to buy some software to help us to take the pulse of your team doing those 360 it's not only for a very large companies you can do that and the sooner you are doing this the best, the better I have personally massively invested it's completely disproportionate but I have massively invested in my HR team 80 plus people now and I'm really happy of that because in this world in this hybrid remote world it's super difficult to take the pulse of your company and be there so this is what I have done and so far I am happy and as I mentioned you really have to fire ASAP you have to be transparent with as many people in your company maybe it's because you have to leave them out during this first year also what you have to be super good at it's understanding your ASAP mechanism because you you can have the surprise of having several round of funding you know in a very short amount of time all of them so you have to you have to think about your ASAP mechanism how you will share the value of your company really early on to not be surprised or to not be to please your salaries in the future you could raise much more earlier than expected so it has to be super clean to make sure that everyone will be happy and a good office is important but I didn't put the shitty picture of my first office the former founder on this stage did but it was a same battle and yes you have to be good at understanding that make the most of your financial partners you carefully picked them because of the equity story they are bringing more than money etc but understand that your financial partners are partners do the whatsapp thing be sure that you are Marie Eclon, she is one of my founder she is part of my relationship with all of them and it has to be this way and send love also during be good at understanding that you have to send love to your co-founders because no one is giving good feedbacks to co-founders ok no one so if you are not the co-founders giving them love you know back and you have to over celebrate but it's important to send some presents you know and as a personal you need to invest in your comfort a little bit you can be creative for that but for example during my first company where we had absolutely no money I was trying to save money on the lounge on good wifi because it was costing but it was such a bad decision of course you need to sleep in a good hotel of course you need a good wifi maybe it sounds crazy to save money on this but I started doing so and this is not smart at all so yeah don't save money in the wrong place and don't add stuff to the pain and try to be as good as you can on everything try to be good enough on legal, on security and finance because you can't give all those keys it's important for your company you can't give all those keys all those keys to outsource people so just try also during this first year to get good at some speaking slot you have to get out of your comfort zone for your resume speaker as well for your team they are so glad when they see you but it's coming with lots of stress I completely agree and you have to get good at continue to make lots of babies in this Gitanos parking but yeah you have to to be good at that continue, continue, continue and what to ignore guys but what to ignore the noise of the competitions the noise of the competitions because I love Red Allure like many of you but new is overvalued relative to great you are not here to be freaked out by new competitions or always competitors they are popping up but you know what, that's cool at some point and I don't care I'm building something great and the noise of that competitions you know it's you don't know what there is behind those super fundraising round of my competitions at some point there is lots of cash out so nothing is really going in the pocket of the company you don't know what is behind all those news so just move on and the noise of headlines even if it's not your competitions you know we are seeing lots of headlines about oh they are far better than us they are growing far better than us etc reporters love overnight success but it's so exceptional do something great everyone was praising this guy look at the ftx guy look at what's happening today so just move on as well also ignore the noise from vices cher vici ignore the noise of vices because you know what most of them they are lazy they are not doing their homework so they are counting on you guys to give them as much intel as possible about the market they are lazy to deep dive into so be careful about that they are using your time they are not paying you they don't get their money so move on as well and build a list you want to have a relationship with and stick to it and trust the one and to build that list actually you know what you remember the good lawyer bad lawyer there is good vices but to build that list start with the ones who are giving back who are giving you intel a few ones vices again just ignore some of them they are trying to ask you to scout what the fuck it's a fantastic they focus how can they dare to ask you this while you are building a business so ignore that first run fast and again you know focus on what matters this is my first kid make more babies ignore your company ignore your company everything can fail there is crisis everywhere but at least you have your kids you have your husband everyone is talking about securing the secoya partner was talking about oh you can secure your girlfriend I secured my boyfriend but you can build your family as your personal growth and just ignore also this presentation ok this presentation go back to work and trust yourself you know your stuff more than anyone else don't think that I can give you the best advice etc there is patterns but you know your stuff more than anyone else don't be hard on yourself as well and be responsible start the next you know the fast fashion thing you are building companies now in a world where you have to be responsible so good luck to all of you do care about the planet please of course and if you don't know where to start you can do your you can assess your your carbon if your company is on track it's carbon or not you know with this QR code and don't forget about all this bye bye