Thanks for joining us again today for another Adventure in Small Business program that's put together with ThinkTech and the U.S. Small Business Administration, along with our other partners, the Veteran Business Opportunity Center, or excuse me, Outreach Center, the Small Business Development Center, and the Ming Center for Business and Leadership, our Women's Business Center here in Hawaii. Today, I am joined by a very special guest, and I think many people will recognize you, but he is a special title today. He is our designated provocateur. Welcome, Jay Fidel, to the program. It's great to be here with you, Jayne. Thank you. Thanks for joining me. I think it's a perfect setup because today, I wanted to talk a little bit about SBA's year in review, SBA reinventing itself, and some of the great things that have been accomplished in the last year, where we've been, where we're going. A lot of people may be aware that last week, the SBA administrator, Linda McMahon, visited Hawaii for the first time. She's been our administrator appointed by the president for just about, just under two years, and then in that two year, she took a tour of the entire United States, and she's the first administrator ever to accomplish this feat. She visited every one of the SBA offices, 68 across the country, and she went out to talk to small businesses, both about what SBA is doing, what SBA can do better, and learn about how we've helped small businesses grow. And she found out that a lot of people really don't understand what SBA does. So, why don't you take a moment and tell them? Okay. Well, it's, SBA has been around for about 65 years, and a lot of people don't realize that SBA is actually an independent federal agency. We're not under the Department of Commerce or Labor or anything like that. So, we're pretty small operation in the grand scheme of things, but we really accomplish quite a bit. We're the small business bank for the country.  So, it provides a lot of opportunities. And 23% of the contracts let by the government are supposed to go to small business. That's a congressional requirement. That's a good thing. Why is small businesses better, you know, why is the federal government in this policy favor small businesses? I think the thing that's important to realize is that small businesses, not just in Hawaii, where most of our businesses are considered small, but small businesses create most of the jobs. They create also most of the new innovations because they're smaller, they're more nimble. They can develop ideas or take a new idea and run with it. So, it really helps us stay on the cutting edge with newer technologies, newer procedures and processes. So, it really makes a difference in keeping our economy strong across the country. Now, I'm very impressed with what you were saying at the very beginning. I'd just like to comment on your office. You've done a great job and everybody knows that. Thank you. You're welcome. True. Is your in partnerships and affiliations with so many organizations? You've been reaching out and that's the only way to really do this in order to reach your market, your customer market, so to speak, client market.  It's really made a big difference through a lot of public and private partnerships. We partner with D-Bed. We partner with the University of Hawaii, with the University of Guam, with American Samoa Community Colleges, so educational institutions, other non-profit organizations. Our Women's Business Center is a partnership with Hawaii. The High Step Program, which we bring in anywhere from $450,000 to $750,000 to the state each year, helps small businesses expand into export markets. That also generates new money coming into our economy, not only in Hawaii, but across the country. That's a great program. You're stimulating me as the designated provider. Okay, here we go. When I practice law, no small business got started without help from the SBA. The SBA was part of the checklist. You want to get a bank loan, go to the SBA. SBA will guarantee the bank loan and therefore the bank will make the loan. If you don't have the SBA guarantee, chances are not nearly as good that the bank will make the loan. So it was a mom and pop kind of business and a small business where there wasn't a lot of external capital available right now. It was part of the routine, part of the checklist to get started. And the SBA was always there. Is that the same today? Well, I think it should be if it's not. And for example, I just had a call into my office yesterday, and I was really surprised at the gentleman I spoke to. He and his wife were going to start. They were looking at opening a new restaurant, and they were needing financing to do that. And he was ready to go sign a lease, but he hadn't secured his financing. He hadn't really, I said, do you have a business plan? And I said, I'm not talking, you know, big academic kind of thing, but I'm talking about a real plan and a timeline going forward so that you know where that rent money is going to come from. Because trust me, if you're signing a lease, they're going to want their money and that can make or break you. There are a lot of variables you need to look at. So along with the financing, we do recommend that you get in touch with one of the organizations that we work with to get some free confidential counseling so you can make sure that what you're thinking or what you're assuming actually has some basis in reality. And you know what you have to do to deliver it. Because oftentimes, you know, the best made plans don't work out.  As we talked earlier, unemployment is about two, two and a half percent. So where are those employees coming from? Maybe you're going to have to give them different compensation package than you originally estimated or what you got paid when you were a major D or a wait staff years back. You know, there are rules of the games can be a little bit different when you're an owner instead of an employee and you're responsible for the bottom line. I hope you're writing this down, you guys. Because no, you know, my statement before was kind of shallow. It's not just the loan guarantees. It's advice. It's mentoring. It's putting people in the right direction. It's connecting them with all these outreach organizations to give them a real start because most people who go into business, you know, it's like opening a restaurant. I like food, so I'll open a restaurant where you have to know a lot more than food. Yes. And so you're there to help them. It's not legal help. It's kind of practical business help. It's common sense kinds of things that somebody who's been around can help somebody who hasn't been around, you know. This is so valuable. Write it down. It's going to be the final exam. The final exam may be if you can meet payroll or pay the rent check. So study up a little bit. There are some good mentors available, whether you're looking at the SCORE chapter or the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network, a great program, a partnership between SBA and University of Hawaii. We have offices and senior business consultants available to you on all the islands. And so you can find them on Kauai, on Maui, West Hawaii. The neighbor islands are so important, really.  There's so much, you know, opportunity and they really want to develop. So there are some great, great programs out there. We even work with other nonprofits that kind of diversify a little bit. We work with the USDA for rural development. And we partner by, they help with some of the other programs and some financial tools that give different advantages. And we, our consultants, will help them or help a small business qualify for that kind of financing as well. You would never know, you know, the entrepreneur would never know about some of these programs unless somebody tells them about it. You know, they can be very, very resourceful looking at our website. There are interactive trainings on the website. There has been a list of like 45 different classes that have been designed by different experts across the country, business colleges, and they're all up there for free. You do have to go in and sign in and register just www.sba.gov and search for training. Look for workshops. And there's so much information there that just, tools and templates that can help you set up your books because that's an important thing too, can give you financial management training. I don't forget when we started our law firm, this is back in 1974. I got a call from a friend of mine who had been with the Internal Revenue Service and he called me and he said, now is the time to be careful about your books. If you set them up right, you'll thank me for years to come. If you set them up wrong, you're going to pay a terrible price. So that was a friendly call from the IRS? It was. Well, he was not in the IRS at the time. But he, you know, he had a lot of experience on where it goes wrong. So I guess that's another part of this, to steer people away from where it goes wrong, keep them out of trouble. You know, even when I just started with the SBA, one of the SBDC consultants told me, my job is not just telling people what they should do, but it's sometimes telling them what they shouldn't do. And sometimes that was to start a business when they wanted to because they weren't ready. You know, or they really hadn't researched it enough. And I can say that to people quite easily because I started a business when I shouldn't have. What great experience to bring to the table, Jim. And that's how I found SBA because I went to SBA for help. And I didn't think they were right at that time offering enough to women who were starting businesses. And so we partnered that time, me as a wayward business owner and the SBA, so that I could learn. I'm so curious what kind of business was it. It was a small business that did daily money management and protective services for elderly and disabled individuals, so they could stay active in their homes and in the community longer. Very worthy. So it was a little bit before it's time. But it shows you something. I mean, I'm sorry it didn't work out. Well, it did. It did work out. Okay. You know, after I helped develop it, got it funded, wrote my first business plan, learned a lot, and hopefully helped a lot of other people get started correctly in business by doing a lot of workshops and producing and conducting a lot of workshops in affiliation with SBA. But I learned and saw a need. And also it really reinforced to me what a great opportunity, small business ownership and entrepreneurship can be for a person who wants to kind of set their own course or determine their, you know, become a little more financially independent, who may not be a good employee type. Looking at the policy side though, what I see is that, you know, that particular and so many areas like that, that area of helping the elderly, helping the seniors. So we have so many shows about that because it's so important, especially when the bell curve changes and there are more elderly among us and they're, you know, exposed to so many risks. And so that was very charitable. But it was a business. Yes. And you made a profit to stay in business. And you did things that charitable organizations might otherwise have had to do, that the government might otherwise have had to do, whether it did it well, who knows. But when you have a profit company, an ordinary corporation, an ordinary business that does things that fit with social policy in this country, you're really contributing to the country in so many ways. There's a humanness about that. And it's the best side of capitalism as far as I'm concerned. Yes, yes. And I mean, and it fulfills that kind of business contract as well, that people need this product or service and they are at some point willing to pay for that kind of product or service. They wanted to stay in their homes. We helped families stay together. So it was, I mean, I mean, it was incredible. Some of the difficult things that I learned about and was exposed to through that, because I didn't grow up around, you know, grandparents or elderly people. So it was it was lessons on so many levels for me that I took away from that experience. Yeah. Well, I say, you know, every business you're in, whether it works or not, is a preparation for the next one. And you get to be sophisticated. And maybe it's all preparation for being manager of the SBA here. I'm not sure. I was really that well prepared for that. But I've learned a lot. And from my colleagues and from other mentors, from my previous director. But we'll pick up that note in just a few more minutes. We're going to go to a quick break, but please stick with us. Hey, loha. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your coworkers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that, you know, may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me because security matters. Aloha. All provokedly with the answers. Okay, here we are again. I am with the designated provocateur today. Thanks for joining us in adventures and small business with Jane and Jay. So Jane, I want to take you back to, I guess, almost 20 years ago, the Hawaii Venture Capital Association. We both went to the meetings. You spoke frequently on behalf of the SBA. You were very interested in what was going on. And what was going on is that we had a lot of entrepreneurial activity in those days. Really high flying companies. Some of them failed. A lot of them failed. Some of them succeeded. A lot of them were tech companies, innovation companies, one kind or another. They would have these pitchfests. They would approach the angels. They were always a stream of venture capital guys coming in from California. It was a celebration of entrepreneurial activity, especially tech activity. And my observation, I'd be interested in your observation, is that that doesn't happen so much anymore. It's different now. You get the Blue Planet Foundation doing this cohort arrangement and have the Elemental Accelerator doing the cohort arrangement. And those companies are not necessarily from Hawaii and they're not necessarily going to stay in Hawaii in those cohorts. So it's different. And I just wonder your thoughts about the comparison of then and now and the role of SBA and all of that. Well, I think it has always been a very, very interesting and exciting area to be in. And often it seems like some of those companies, even with the efforts to diversify our economy over the years and look at, okay, this should be a great place for tech companies to get started and grow because of the environment, because of so many of the different conditions. But we are not an easy place to do business. And our business models have remained somewhat traditional. So an SBA in using the debt financing model and the guaranteed loans from banks hasn't really brought as much to the innovation ecosystem as I would like to see. We've been doing a little bit more over the last, say, eight or 10 years, I would say, in terms of supporting some of those cohorts or the accelerators. Accelerate UH, the GBA's accelerator, the Maui Food Incubation Center, have all gotten some accelerator awards from the SBA. SBA has an Office of Innovation and Investment. And we also are the administrators of the Small Business Innovation Research Grants and Awards and the Technology Transfer Programs as well. So in that respect, we do help those organizations who are developing or researching different topics that, again, have that dual interest with the government to find funding and then move toward capital, getting capital so they can go to commercialization. But Hawaii has still not been as active. SBA has had the Small Business Investment Corporation, SBIC program, for years. And in some states, it's one of the, you know, nationally we are the biggest investment fund or provide money to investment funds in a bigger way. We haven't had anybody active here in Hawaii in a long time. And I'm hoping we're going to now turn some of our attention with our administrator to the innovation side so that we can support that and perhaps get an SBIC started here or servicing this area. So we would have more funding that would allow people to get started and potentially with those more resources be able to stay. We still will have those companies as they go to commercialization. If they're looking at real estate, if they're looking at employees and all of those things are still going to be challenging. So it can be very attractive for them to move to another location. Some place else, yeah. There may be more funding available. So we have to, you know, whether it is through the legislature, whether it is through our financial community, look at how we can better support those, that ecosystem here. Yeah. I remember one of those venture capital meetings, Ted Lu, who was then the D-bed director, he came in and he sort of crashed the meeting and took the mic. And he said, I have just come from a meeting of bankers down the street.  They're going to support the hotels in Waikiki. They want to support big projects, big capital. That's who they want to make their loans to, because that's a guaranteed loan. I mean, it's not guaranteed, but, you know, it's not, it'll be a performing loan. Right. Right. They have deeper pockets. They have other backing. Right. Right. I said, oh, gee, that's really awful. Yeah. You've weathered that storm.  You keep on helping people who maybe the banks don't help or at least they don't help without your, without your guarantee. You know, it's been very, very interesting this year. And, you know, SBA lending does kind of track with the economy. And sometimes as the economy becomes better, banks and individual business owners don't necessarily need to turn to SBA for the guarantee quite as often. There's still our situations with newer businesses or, you know, smaller businesses. Sometimes those difficult industries like restaurants, you know, they're higher risk. So the banks like to have a guarantee and our loans can be guaranteed anywhere from 50 to 90% depending on the amount of the loan, the term of the loan, the use of the proceeds. And we can guarantee a loan with a bank for almost any business, any business purpose working capital, you know, for real estate for all different kinds of things. I've noticed that not only that, but you're flexible. You're not bureaucratic. You can, you help people and it's all in the same, the same, the same moment that you help them. You make a loan. You tailor it for them. This is, this is not necessarily what would, what would expect of a federal agency, but fact is you're very kind and flexible to your borrowers. Well, we, we try to be, we try to, the banks are the ones that actually make those credit decisions and we set kind of the framework, but we try to be as responsive as possible to them so they can kind of tailor the loan. They can look at the terms. They can decide, you know, cause we'll do lines of credit. We'll do, we do, we guarantee surety bonds even for the contractors. A lot of people aren't aware of that, but a lot of people still stick to the idea that we're old and bureaucratic and there's a lot of red tape. You have to have decent credit. You have to have a plan. You have to show repayment ability. You know, we don't, you don't take wooden nickels. We don't take wooden nickels. We don't, we don't spend taxpayer money, you know, and a lot of people think we're giving a loan. The only loans that we actually lend taxpayer money is disaster loans and we've done a lot of disaster loans in this territory over the last year. So that's another whole other side of the business and another big story because we've, we've had the Kilauea eruption. We've had the Kauai floods. We've had, we've had, we've had a lot of SBA people here working on all the neighbor islands, Hurricane Lane, the, the fires on Maui, you know, that came after the hurricanes and with the flooding there. So... We're going to have more of that, Jane. Yeah, it's going to continue. You're going to be able to handle it? I mean, where, where are your limits? You know, it's, you know, I'm lucky that we have a great Office of Disaster Assistance and some great people that they can call up when, when these conditions come up. So they're, they really kind of rock it and they're on the ground. They're calling me to say we've got team coming down to do a preliminary disaster review within hours of a storm touching down. That's great. So they really... That's so comforting to know you're there. Into CNMI and American Samoa as well. So, and that's, you know, an agency that really responds. Because we're going to need all the help we can get when El Nino is coming up and, you know, Hawaii could be in line for some extreme weather. Yes, we could be getting hit again. So get prepared, go to our website, sba.gov and look up disaster preparedness. There's some great kits there and it will make a big difference because so many businesses don't recover after a disaster. They don't get back to what, they have a whole new normal. So we encourage you to do that. On that note, I think we're supposed to wrap up now, Jay. So I think, thank you designated for Varkatur. And for both of us, we want to wish you very happy holidays and we'll be seeing you soon. Aloha. Aloha.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in at the range now and we're going to do a comparison video with the FNS 9c and the canik TP 9 elite subcompact both subcompact guns both hold 12 rounds and both have a 3.6 inch barrel length So they measure up very well, and we're going to do a comparison here and check them out now Let's start with the canik TP 9 Subcompact this is canik's smallest gun. You may notice that it has a tungsten Finished circle finish on there. That is a dark gray It has a ton in the case really does has a 12 round and 15 round magazine an additional backstrap and Ambeductress gun Ambeductress slide stop does have a rail there. It's optic ready 3 dot sights serrated rear sights. They are metal and all a very nice package I'm seeing this selling for right around $380 also comes with a holster, which is very cool, but here we are. Let's see how it shoots Also has a striker fire indicator dot there that is red and a loaded chamber indicator bar So this has a lot of gun for the money and right around $380 is what you'll pay if you want the canik TP 9 elite subcompact But now we have the FNS 9c. I've had this one for quite a while now It's about $100 more. So the street price is right around $480, but I love this gun. It has Incredible reliability. I took it to a training class and performed very well I'm yet to experience a failure that I can remember. I've owned it for five or six years now but also a 3.6 inch barrel this has Night sights to it. So that that adds the price a little bit right on 480 additional backstrap very aggressive Grip texturing this comes with three mags 212 round and a 17 round mag Okay, full-size FN model magazine that comes with it and a very nice looking gun carries Well, it's also ambidextrous. You can see that it does have a mag release and slide stop is both ambidextrous very reliable gun and I've enjoyed owning it throughout the years. I think this is a nice gun I know a lot of FN fans out there who really enjoy the FNS 9c and I am one of them so the question boils down to which one of these would make a better CCW gun range gun home defense gun both have rails for lights and Lasers and anything else you want. This one's optic ready. Although FN now makes this being optic ready They have very similar size the canik loaded weight is right around 30 ounces 29 ounces So very close in size and weight and overall feel So what I want to know is which one do you prefer before we get there though? I want to tell you what I prefer I Enjoy both the guns. I've owned the canik. I don't know for about five to six months now I've had the FNS 9c for five to six years. I really have a Strong feeling about this in terms of reliability. I think it's extremely reliable I've run all types of ammo through it I carried it on occasion and I feel very confident with this that's not to say this isn't a quality gun But if I had to choose one, I'm taking the FNS 9c. It's about a hundred bucks more this is Loaded with features and additional accessories in the case a solid choice But I'm taking the FNS 9c what I want to know is which one would you take if you like videos like this? Please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


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Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at PagerDuty Summit in downtown San Francisco, actually out on the war if it's called Pier 27. Never been here before. Pretty cool venue between Pier 39 and the Bay Bridge. We're excited to have a very seasoned Silicon Valley veteran. Nick Metta, he's the CEO of Gainesight, but look at his LinkedIn profile. He's been on startups, he's been at venture capital companies and now we hear you're maybe growing a little unicorn thing out of that. That's the last round. I don't know about it. You an unicorn, but a gray hair for sure. Season ethic just means gray hair, so that's growing in my head for sure. So for people that aren't familiar with Gainesight, give them the basic overview. Sure, Jeff. Gainesight, we really believe that almost every business model is shifting to ones where customers have more power. And so therefore you can't afford to just sell a customer and move on. And for a long time, businesses, the vendors had all the power. You sell a software product or hardware, you sell a device, and once that customer has it, it's up to them whether they get value. Gainesight, we're trying to help enable a shift to this concept we call customer success where companies have to own whether or not their customers are getting value, whether they're getting the outcomes they want, whether they're using the stuff they bought, and we build a software product, a SaaS application, that helps companies make sure everyone in your company is orienting your customers towards getting more value.  Right, so I imagine a lot of people might confuse it with CRN, right? Yeah, that's it.  I've seen the building, and we love those guys. So we're kind of a, think of us as a adjacent product to what you might do with a Salesforce automation product like Salesforce.com. We actually integrate very tightly with Salesforce as an example, they're an investor in Gainesight, and but as you're managing sales with your Salesforce, you're managing your support team, you're managing other systems, how do you manage your customers and make sure they're getting value, make sure they're going to stay with you and grow over time, that's what Gainesight does. And it's really interesting, as people have been talking about a 360 degree review of the customer forever. Right. But that's the challenge you guys went directly after, right? Yeah, it's funny. That's right. And I think for a long time, people were trying to solve 360 view of the customer, but what they're really solving was 360 view of the deal, because it was all about the sale and the sale is important and still very important, right? And it was about marketing leads and who I'm selling to and who has power and those are all really important things. But now if you think about a world where the customer has power, you got to look at 360 view of the customer, are they getting the outcomes they're looking for? Are they adopting and using what they bought? Are they having a good experience? So it's a totally different pivot on the world. It's about the customer, not the deal. Yeah, and it's interesting too to parallel that with just SaaS and cloud. Yes. Because when you have a SaaS relationship with a client and an ongoing subscription revenue model, right, you have to keep delivering value. You have to make sure they're going to pay you next month and the month after and the month after. It's not just to sell it and walk away. That's exactly right, Jeff, as you know, like first of all, it's way cheaper to keep and grow an existing customer than to go get a new one. And because of that, the SaaS business model depends on actual high retention rates. People talk about gross retention rate, basically, are you keeping the customers you got? And then also your net retention rate, are they spending more money with you over time? And the most successful SaaS companies, the highest valued ones, are keeping their customers and getting them to spend more money. And so that's like one of the most important value drivers in SaaS. So I'm curious when you guys deploy into a new company, new customer, what are some of the early ahas that you just see over and over and over again that they just missed before they had kind of this view? Totally. So number one is almost every company feels today like they're reactive. Like they find out about things but very late. A customer leaving them, somebody unhappy, a missed sales opportunity. So number one is just getting your organization to be more proactive. Number two is how do you get everyone in the company aligned around the customer? You might have somebody that cares about that one customer, but that customer is talking to support, they're working with your services team, they're going through training. How do you get everyone aligned around the customer and really have a good view across your whole organization? So they're all marching to that. Number three, the third aha is how do you scale that? You might have a hundred customers, you might have a thousand, you might have a million. And how do you scale the right approach with the right customer? Whether it's a human outreach or whether it's a fully digital experience which we can do both of those. Right. And then what about the, there's customers that are in your sales book as a company, but then there's individuals that you're interacting with. That's right. And then a big company to big company relationship, it's not just two companies, it's thousands or hundreds if not thousands of people that are interacting at a bunch of different levels. I'm so glad you said that. How do you integrate that in? Yeah, totally. Because when you're, if you have a big customer and somebody says is your big customer happy or not, there's no one answer to that question because there might be one part that loves you and another part doesn't like you, one part that's rolling out, one part that's using some new stuff, one part that's not using anything. And so you have to be able to break up that company in a lot of little pieces, we call those relationships and then measure each of those differently and be able to drive each of those forward. So you're totally right. It's not about one company. It's about a lot of little customers within that big customer. Right. Now you bought into cloud early on, I think you're actually a VC firm looking at cloud and obviously your gain side SaaS application. As you look forward, you just got off a panel, kind of what's next? Where do you see kind of the next big evolution or revolution, if you will, in the way IT services and software are delivered? Totally. I think the biggest thing that's happening right now is that, you know, cloud is just a delivery vehicle. I think everyone knows that. SaaS is kind of table stakes. Mainstream companies are saying, how do I reinvent my core business by shifting to these business models that are digitally enabled? People call that digital transformation. That's what this panel we just did was all about. And that's happening not just in Silicon Valley. That's happening in manufacturers and retailers and financial services companies. When they do that, they're rethinking everything about what they do. How do they manage product development? How do they actually sell? And also the customer experiences, which is where we come in. So we think the biggest thing is kind of obvious. It's digital transformation. Now, underneath that, you can leverage all kinds of new technologies, whether it's artificial intelligence, machine learning, bots. But the transformation of mainstream businesses is happening at a rapid speed right now. So I want to get one last point before we let you go. Is the impact of social, direct social back to these big companies? My favorite one is Comcast Cares, right? Every time my internet goes down, I jump on my tree. Oh my God. I feel for those Comcast Cares social people. They deal with a lot of mean work. But it's, yes, no, it's not Xfinity Cares, it's Comcast Cares. But it's a really interesting paradox for companies because people can reach out directly in kind of a semi-public form. Which it wasn't just calling the 1-800 number anymore. So how are they integrating that into kind of this customer relationship management? Oh my God. I think the biggest thing, we talk about the fact that customers have more power and they have bigger voices. One customer has a much bigger voice than they ever did. And so you have this amazing opportunity to either create a great advocate who could bring you new customers and new sales or create all these detractors, right? And I think that that public voicing of customer experience has made CEOs much more aware of why it matters, right? Before, a customer has a bad experience. They want to type up a letter and mail it to some office that nobody ever reads. And now the CEO is seeing on her or his Facebook or Twitter feed or LinkedIn the customer upset. And I think that's making them much more aware of customer experience being really important. Right, right. And are you seeing, it's interesting to me that there's some senior executives, Michael Dell, Beth Thomstock, just picked you out of that, that are super active on social and direct engaging with their community. There's other big companies which I won't name where people don't even have a LinkedIn account, much less a Twitter account. Is there a direct correlation that you're seeing between kind of embracing a direct engagement with your community versus, eh, I don't want to say anything bad, which I think is the end of it or the other. I empathize with the fear because I think people worry about saying something bad. So I get it. I think it's definitely misguided and kind of backwards.  Take somebody like Mark Benioff who's so great at this and he's on Twitter, he's advocating for causes. He's taking maybe controversial stands in some cases, right? But he's putting himself out there and he cares about his customers. Same thing with Michael Dell. Same thing with Beth Thomstock. There's so many great CEOs out there. So honestly, at this point, if you're not out there, you look like you have something to hide, right? Which is not good. Which is not good. All right, Nick. Well, thanks for taking a few minutes and congratulations. I saw you were the top 50 SaaS CEO of 2017 and continued success against time. I don't know how I made that list, but I felt honored. So thank you so much. Absolutely. We'll see you next time. Thanks Nick, man. I'm Jeff Frick, you're watching The Cube from PagerDuty Summit 2017. Thanks for watching.


Hello, developers. My name is Matt Raebel, and today I'd like to show you how to create a CRUD application that's create, read, update, delete application with Spring Boot and Angular 9. Let's get started. This screencast is based off a blog post that I published back in early January of this year, and I wanted to capture the newness of Angular 9. So I actually wrote this post before Angular 9 was released, but I've been updating it as release candidates have come out and then finally for the general available to release that just came out a couple weeks ago. So Angular 9 brings one cool new thing to the table, and that's Ivy. So your bundle should be much smaller. There's a bunch of other features, but that's the main prominent one. There's also Spring Boot 2.2 that we'll be using in this tutorial, and Spring Boot really is the de facto standard for doing Java applications nowadays. It's just so popular. Most developers know how to use it. Of course, there's other options, but I'd like to show you Spring Boot. First of all, I want to recognize Reverend Geek, David Neal for his beautiful artwork here. Beautiful Angular. Love that. So there is a GitHub repo. If you go all the way down to the bottom of this post, if you want to go and find it on GitHub, here it is. And if you like other versions of Angular, there's links to previous ones that have screencasts and betters as well. And you'll see there's a change log of what I updated between releases. So if we click on this GitHub repo, you'll notice there is a pull request. I haven't merged yet, so I'll merge it now. I had a demo script today that will follow everything that we're doing in this tutorial. And so it's just a condensed version of the actual blog post. So if we refresh, you'll see it's demo.adoch written in ASCII doc. I love ASCII doc and ASCII doctor. Markdown is great, but ASCII doctor is even better. So if we click raw, we can see the raw version here. And you'll notice, if you scroll down, that we need some prerequisites. Node 12, Java 11, and an Okta developer account. So if you go to developer.okta.com, this is where you'll create an Okta developer account. You can see the create free account button. Prompt you for your first name, your last name, your company, your email, and that's about it. So no credit card required. You get up to 1,000 monthly active users for free. And if you want more, you can pay for more. So we'll go ahead and close that down since I already have a developer account. And we'll start by installing Angular CLI. So I'm going to put this on the left and then I'll go ahead and open up a terminal on the right. And I already have Angular CLI installed. So if I do ngversion, you'll see I'm using 9.0.3. So I'll create a directory called Angular Spring Boot and cdintuit. And then I'll create ngnew, a notes application. And I'll say routing is true and we'll just use plain old CSS. You can see that took just about 30 seconds to run. That will depend on your CPU power and your internet connection mostly. So if we go into that directory, cdnotes, we can do ngserve and dasho will open it in your default browser. So you can see that open it up in Firefox. That's my default browser. And that's what a basic brand new application looks like. So now we can go ahead and register our application on Octa. I have an account at dev13320. I'll log into that. And I'll go to applications, add application, single page application. And then I'll just call Angular 9 and set the base URI to 4200 as well as the login redirect URI and the logout. And then click done. You'll notice this is using authorization code flow, not implicit. So it's the more secure version of browser based OAuth. And we're also using Pixie. That's proof key for code exchange. And that generates a code before you send your request to Octa or any OAuth provider. And then it also validates that code when you go ahead and exchange the code for a token. So we have that created. And then one thing you want to check is if you created your application and you did not set 4200 initially, you might want to check your trusted origins to make sure 4200's in there. Now you notice I have Angular 9, 4200 in there. You can get a core there if you don't have it in there. Now we'll go to authorization service because we're going to need this issuer, URI. So back to Angular, we can cancel that. And we're going to add Octa for authentication. Use an ng add octa dev schematics. This is a schematic that we wrote to make it very easy to add authentication to an Angular application. So this will install our Angular SDK. It'll also install a number of files, a module, and an authorization interceptor that adds the access token to any outbound requests. So it prompts us for our issuer URL. We'll put that in there. And then our client ID is part of our application. So you see it there. Okay, so that only took 30 seconds to run. And now what we can do is open up our application. We'll just do this in code so I can show you what it created. So it went ahead and created an auth routing module. So this has your octa config in it. So if you messed up anything that you typed in, you could just go change it here. That's the only place it's at. And a couple of routes. And the HTTP interceptor. So if you went to shared and then auth interceptor, you can see this is what adds the request with that access token to any outbound requests. If you go to production, you're going to want to add another origin there. We just have localhost right now. And then also a home component that is very simple. It just has login and logout buttons. So if we were to look at homecomponent.ts, you would see it uses the octa auth service to determine if you're authenticated and then subscribe to any authentication changes. So now if we were to run ng serve, now we can go to localhost 4200. And I'm actually going to open this in a private window. So localhost 4200. And down at the bottom, there's a login button. That takes us to octa. Login with your credentials. And now you'll notice it's a logout button. So if I were to go back to this window where I'm already logged in to octa, you'll see it automatically logs me in. Changes it to logout. So that's all working. Now let's create a Spring Boot 2.2 app. So back in our Angular Spring Boot directory. I'm gonna go ahead and execute this alias that I have. Boot kickoff. And so you can see what it's going to install is a Gradle project that uses Java 11 and Kotlin. So those are specified right here. And then dependencies are H2, JPA, Spring Data Rest, octa, and web. So we can just run boot kickoff. Or if you're doing this, you could just copy and paste this and that's also in the tutorial. The HTTP command is HTTP, HTT PI. So I always have a hard time saying. So if you go to HTTPIEOT.org, there it is. So you can install that. And we can go ahead and unzip this. NotesAPI.zip into a NotesAPI directory. And then we'll need to register our Spring Boot app on octa. The new app and web app. And we can use this redirect code. So this is from Spring Security. If you're using any OAuth or OIDC integration from Spring Security, you will likely have login OAuth2 code and then whatever the name of your provider is. So we can say Spring Boot 2.2 here. And we'll put in this login redirect right there. And authorization code and click done. So if you weren't setting up the Angular app and you didn't actually start everything in Spring Boot, there's a cool Maven plugin rewrote. So this uses Gradle, right? But if you use Maven and you haven't installed, you can do com.octa maven plugin setup. And this will create an account and configure a Spring Boot app if you're in a Spring Boot app for you. So I just wanna show you how this worked since it's pretty slick. Now I have it running in demo mode. So if you were running it on your machine and you've already run it once, it wouldn't prompt you for these. So I can do maven.rable.octa in my company. And this goes and creates an account, creates an app and registers your app. And so it also goes ahead and puts all that information in source main, resources, application, app property. So it's already configured our app to use OCTA. And if we were to go back and look at our applications, you can see that it created one here. The reason it says no palm is just because it's Gradle and I didn't recognize that, but it configured everything just like we did. So I'm gonna go ahead and create this or delete this one. Just wanted to show you how that Maven plugin works in case you wanna use it for your own demos. And now what I can do is, first of all, open this up in IntelliJ. So I mentioned that there was an application that properties file that had the OCTA properties in it. This is actually not a great pattern because you'll be checking in a client secret into source control. So if you have a private repo, maybe it's not a big deal, but for here it is a big deal. So I'm gonna delete it there. And then I'll go ahead and create a OCTA.env file. So this will just be an environment file that sits on my local hard drive. And then I can specify the variables that Spring Security uses as environment variables. So I'll start with this one. So if we were to go back to our OCTA console and go to dashboard, you can see where your org URL is. So I'm just gonna grab that part and put it in here. We don't need dashboard in there. Come on, baby. And then our application. And we need the client ID and the secret. So scroll down to the bottom, grab the client ID and the secret. And now we can source those before you run it. So the terminal, you can do source OCTA.env. And the other thing you'll wanna do is in your getignore, you'll wanna ignore.env file. So you don't accidentally check it in. And then we can run Gradle Boot Run. And once that starts up, we can go to localhost8080 and we're logged in. We don't have any actual data yet, but if we were to open in a private window, localhost8080, you can see we're prompted to log in. So let's add some more information. Let's add a Spring REST API or just a regular REST API that was Spring. So I'm gonna start, we're using Kotlin here. So I'm gonna create an entity. We're just gonna create a notes API that allows you to basically take notes in the Angular app, save them in the Spring Boot app and might be a nice feature for you to have because they're secure and they're tied to your user. So we'll start by creating an entity. We'll call it notes or just note. And you might wonder, how did I do that so fast? So that is IntelliJ's live template. And I do need to import everything here. So there's some ambiguity, that's why it's prompting me for those. So that's all the imports. You can see them there. And if we were to go back to the top of this instructions, you'll see the brackets that they in the some steps indicate the IntelliJ live templates I'm using. So my live templates are MRABLE idea live templates and you can install them in your IntelliJ instance if you want to do a similar demo. So I added the Kotlin for Spring Boot Shortcuts a few hours ago. So you can see here I've credit any credit repo, credit event, those are the live templates I created. So we have our entity. Now let's create a repository to persist it. So this is a notes repository. It uses repository REST resource. So that will actually create a CRUD API for you. CRUD REST API that you can put, post, delete, and get from. And then we'll also create a repository event handler that whenever we add a new note it automatically adds a user that's currently logged in. So you can see here this is a repository event handler. Do have to add some imports there. And all the imports are up at the top here if you want to see them. And you'll notice before it creates it it goes ahead and grabs a username from the security context holder that's a Spring Security class. And then it prints out that it's creating a note for that user and it sets the user on the actual note. So it's just a string, makes things easier. And now we'll create a data initializer. And this will put some default data in our project. So we're using H2 initializer. And H2 will automatically delete the data each time we reload. So it's nice to have basic data in here. So you can see here it imports notes repository as a dependency. It implements application runner and it overrides this run method. And then it just takes notes one, two, and three and saves them in the repository for a generic user. And so the next thing I want to do is create a user control that allows you to get the notes just for your user. So this takes the notes repository as well and it's mapped to user slash notes, takes in the principle, so you can grab that from the request. Spring Security provides that for you and then it finds all by the user. And if it's empty, it just returns an empty list. Otherwise, returns the notes and there's also an endpoint for the user. So you can see all their information that comes back from OIDC user. So this authentication principle annotation from Spring Security makes all that possible and boy, it's really nice to use. So now we're gonna go ahead and create this method on our notes repository. So if we go back to demo application, we could just add it. So we'll have to add some curly braces and then that's there and then if we go back, we'll see that that's resolved. And then I also want to set a base path. Since we're using user and having these end points notes at the same endpoint might be a little weird. So I'm gonna set a different base path just for Spring Data REST and you can do that with this property. So Spring Data REST dot base dash path API. So it'll be API notes now. And now we can restart and we'll see our notes API. So now if we open up localhost 8080 and go to user, we'll see all the information about our currently logged in user. So you can see all the different roles that I have as well as attributes and preferred username, all kinds of stuff. So that's all from my open ID connect provider. In this case, that's Octa. And then I can look at API notes and see the notes. So if we look at the raw data, you'll see that it just has notes, note one, note two, note text and just links to itself. So no IDs in here either. The last thing I'm gonna do is add a course filter. So in demo application here, just gonna add it to the main Spring Boot application. And this is because Spring Security doesn't really honor the cross origin annotation. I could add that, but once Spring Security is involved, it doesn't seem to work with it. So this course filter is my solution. You'll see it's from Spring. And what it'll allow us to do is talk to this application from Angular. So just get those imports right. The last one here. There we are. And so now we can restart our backend and we should be able to talk to it from Angular. So remember how I added Octa authentication using a schematic? What is another schematic that I helped write for Angular CRUD? So if you were to search for Angular CRUD, scroll down a bit, you'll see Angular CRUD on MPM. And if you were to go to its GitHub repo, then you can read more about it there. But basically, you'll create a new directory, put a model object in it and then run a command. So we'll close that and go ahead and start by MPMI-D Angular CRUD 1.0.0. And then we'll make their dash p source app note and we'll CD into there and create a model.json file. This defines our fields. And you'll see our fields are ID, title and text and the ID is ID equals true and it's read only so we can't edit it or the UI won't make it editable. So now we can CD back to our root directory. Make sure we're in the right spot. And then we can run this command right here. And you'll notice it create a number of files for us. So we can go ahead and open this up in IntelliJ. And so under app note is all the new files. It created a note module that pulls in the various components and the routes. So if we were to go to the note routes, you can see it has notes and notes ID to edit it, a note service as well as the entity itself. But let's add a link to the notes list from our home component. So we'll do this between the login and the log out buttons. Let me format that. And then we'll change our app component to be much simpler. So get rid of all that default information. And now if we were to run ng serve, we can go to localhost 4200 and we're logged in. So we can see our notes, but there aren't any in there. Well, that's because we haven't created any there associated with this user. So we can create your first note and save it and you'll see it doesn't actually show any notes. Why is that? Well, that's because the service by default doesn't call the user notes. So if we go down to find, first of all, fix that error. And then we can add const user notes equals HTTP, localhost 8080, user notes. And then we can replace this API with user notes. Now we will get our notes. But you'll notice if we go in and edit a note and we add a two on it, for instance, it actually creates two of them. So the reason for that is because we aren't pulling back the IDs and expects the IDs. So it's not sending an ID back to the end point, it's just sending a blank one. Switching projects and we'll create a rest configuration class. So this sets that base path, just like we did in application properties. So we can remove that and it exposes IDs for the note class. So this is configuring the repository rest annotation that Spring Data Rest has. So now we'll start this since that should all be working now. So we have no notes since we restarted our backend. First note, now you can see there's only one. If we edit it, there's still only one. So now those IDs are working correctly. And the last thing I wanted to show you is I did write a blog post on 10 excellent ways to secure your Spring Boot application. So there's tender for things in here like use HTTPS in production, check your dependencies with SNCC and a bunch of other ones. But the four that I wanted to point out is enabling CSRF protection, using a content security policy and using OpenID Connect. So if I were to go into the Spring Boot project, we can create a security configuration class and you'll see this is enabling web security. And this is what's already happening. It's already preconfigured by the Octa Spring Boot Starter, uses OAuth2 and sets up an OAuth2 resource server. And then to add those other things, all you have to do is use this code here. So requires channel and it looks for an X forwarded proto. So if it sees that, it's probably behind some sort of front end load balancer. So in this case, it came in as HTTP and you wanna switch it to HTTPS with requires secure. So this works on Heroku and Cloud Foundry. I've tried it there, I know it works. As far as CSRF, this is how you take it and turn it so it's not an HTTP only cookie and it's a regular cookie that Angular could read and as well as a content security policy. So both of these will make it so your Spring Boot application has a content security policy and it sends a CSRF cookie. Now the issue is that we're not bundling our apps together on the same port. So this CSRF cookie will be sent but you can't read that from a different port on Angular so it won't actually do that. Same thing with this CSP. So we're making Spring Boot secure but we're not really securing anything between Angular and Spring Boot. To do that, you can actually combine them and just have Angular in your Spring Boot app and if you want a way to do that, I recommend jhipster.tech. It does that by default and works really nicely. Let's make sure everything works after we add those. So we can try this browser since we haven't logged in yet. We'll click Login, it'll take us to Octa and we can sign in. Now we have our notes. We can add a new one. Say something like, hello world. Save is successful. We can change that to like howdy. All right, and that's all working. So thank you for watching this screencast. The blog post, the link's right here so to that Angular 9 blog post as well as the GitHub repo. And you can follow my whole team on OctaDev on Twitter. You can follow me on Twitter as well at mrable. And if you like this video, you'll probably like some other ones on our OctaDev YouTube channel. So watch them, subscribe and enjoy your day.


In entertainment news, now five people have been arrested on charges stemming from the violent theft of two bulldogs belonging to pop star Lady Gaga and the shooting of a dog walker during the pets abduction in Hollywood earlier this year. Five people have been arrested and charged for the violent kidnapping of Lady Gaga's dogs and for shooting a dog walker. The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday that four of them were known street gang members while the fifth was the woman who reported she had found the dogs and later returned them safely after a reward was offered. The two bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, were dropped off unharmed at a LAPD station in February. They were handed over to Gaga's representatives two days after they were snatched at gunpoint by two strangers in a car. The dog walker, 30-year-old Ryan Fisher, was shot in the chest by one of the suspects as they grabbed the two bulldogs, but he survived. Another one of Gaga's bulldogs out walking with Fisher escaped and was later found safe by police. Gaga, who was filming a movie in Rome when her pets were taken, had issued a plea on social media to bring them home and offered a $500,000 reward. Police said Thursday that they believed the suspects targeted the dogs because of the value of the breed, not because of the dog's owner. According to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, James Jackson, J. Lynn White, and Lafayette Whaley were each charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit robbery, and second-degree robbery. Jackson, the accused gunman, was also charged with assault and a weapons offense. Prosecutors said the woman who claimed to have found the dogs, Jennifer McBride, and a fifth defendant, Harold White, were each charged with being accessories after the robbery. McBride was also charged with receiving stolen property while White was charged with a legal possession of a firearm. All five defendants pleaded not guilty on Thursday and were ordered to return to court on May 11th.


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What I see is a glorious church rising and the power of the Holy Ghost moving. What God needs in any nation is a righteous remnant who are not willing to let go. So stop throwing up your hands in defeat and saying, okay, Lord, get me out of here. He put you here. That revival might come. Put your ear to what the Holy Spirit is saying. Lift your eyes and see. The harvest is ready. The harvest is ripe. Laborers are few. The issue is not the harvest. The issue is the laborers, that God is looking for people who will surrender themselves and say, here I am, send me. He's just looking for a select few. And you are that remnant. You are that spirit-enpowered group of people who isn't going to back down from the lives of the enemy. If you only knew the power that God put in you, you're not a beggar. You're royalty in the Spirit. If you only knew the places of authority you're seated in, I'm not coming at this going, oh, my goodness, I'm just going to do what little I can to see what little can be accomplished. And hopefully God blesses my meager efforts, and, Lord, please, just a little drop of your spirit here and a little drop of your spirit there. No God has given you the authority of heaven to call down the reign of the Spirit and turn things around. We're the head, not the tail. We're the authority, not the servants. We are God's authority in the earth.


Can you be part of the LGBTQ community and still call yourself a Christian? And if not, why did God even make gay people in the first place? In today's video, I'm going to answer these questions and more as I interact with a video from TikTok by young man named Matthew. As always, let's dive in. So one thing people say to me often is Matt, how can you wear that cross when you're openly gay? Pretty much how it goes is they ask, am I wearing this cross for show? And then I say no because I actually do believe in God and pray every night.  And Leviticus is the part of the Bible where it says that homosexuality is a sin. Okay, so he says he's a Christian, but how he defines that is that he believes in God and he prays every night. We're going to talk about that more, but what does it truly mean to be a Christian? He refers to the verse in Leviticus, let me read that for you so you can get a little bit of context of what he's talking about.  It is an abomination.  How can I quote unquote reconcile being Christian and gay? Here's a controversial take, though. I don't really reconcile it because I'm just Christian, I believe in God, and I'm also gay, because in the same way that most of you I assume are straight, it's the same way that I'm gay in that I was born this way and this is the way God made me. Okay, I have two questions. The first thing is, what does it mean to be a Christian? The second one is, does having desires that feel innate justify our embrace of them? This young man claims to be a Christian, but it doesn't sound like he has an understanding of what that really means. And I don't blame him because within modern Christianity, there are so many different versions of what it means to be a Christian or how to become a Christian. Say this quick prayer and I will ask Jesus into your heart or just kind of believe in Jesus and it'll make your life better. Get baptized, recite this verse. So what does it mean to really be a Christian or become a Christian? For you guys out there, it's important to be aware that people within the Bible don't call themselves Christians. Believers in that day were known as those who belong to the way. It's riffing on what Jesus said and what he said in John 14-6. It says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus is the way. So they belong to the way. Later on, as the church rapidly expanded, people would align themselves with certain political groups or certain movements or whatever else. And so for Christians, they called themselves Christians because they wanted to align themselves with Christ, indicating that they believed he was their Messiah, the Messiah. So instead of getting just our personal subjective opinion about what it means to be a Christian, well, I pray or I believe in God. What does the Bible say about what it means to be a follower of Christ? Well in Acts, after Jesus ascension, Paul and Silas were on a missionary journey. They freed this woman from demon possession basically and they caused a lot of havoc because of what was going on, what the miracles that were they were performing, they were locked up, they were put in jail. Then all of a sudden an earthquake happened and after this earthquake happened, their shackles were released. The jailer came in, he was expecting to see everyone gone and he was about to kill himself because he knew that the penalty for his letting all these prisoners go was going to be death anyway. But then all of a sudden he sees Paul and Silas and he says these amazing words. The jailer called for the lights and rushed in and trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said to him, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household. Okay, it could be seen as basic stuff, but believe in Jesus, put our faith in him. But here's the other side of that coin. When Jesus preached, he said, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. Wait, wait, so what are we repenting for though? And you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is at work in the sons of disobedience. The reality that every Christian has come to understand and that they need to come to understand is that we are sinners before God slaves to sin without hope. The truth is on her own, we wouldn't repent, but that is a gift from God that he grants us repentance to say, God, I'm sorry for my sin. Lord, please forgive me. Okay, second question. He feels like he was born this way. Why was I born this way? If I was born this way, that shouldn't I get to act on what I feel? To give you a good answer on this, we need to go back to the beginning, the very beginning. When God created everything, he called it good, but man rebelled against him. We didn't want what he had to offer. Instead, we played into the lies of the evil one and we sought something that God didn't want for us. So what does this mean for us and this young man in particular? What implications does this have? Well, through Adam, we've inherited this sin nature. Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned. This base level idea that just because we have the desire to do something or that something feels innate to who we are gives us the right to do it. That's just wrong. The truth is, is that what God has created has been corrupted by sin. That means that we don't desire what we ought to desire and that we don't love what we ought to love. We don't love what God loves and we don't hate what he hates. We don't desire what he desires. We can't justify acting on every desire that's flowing out of us simply because God made me this way. The truth is, sin has corrupted our souls. Okay, now we're getting to the nitty gritty because I know what you're asking.   They don't have any place to, you know, pour out this desire in their heart in a way that God wants. It seems unfair. Let's watch on and I'll answer that. And then when you factor in how sexuality works, it being a hormone that your body releases when you see something that you're attracted to, it makes me ask the question, why would God make my body release this hormone if that hormone being released is going to innately condemn me to hell for eternity? Now, in response to that, people may say, oh, you might have been born gay, but you're not supposed to act out on those feelings because that's when you commit the sin. What I would say to that is our benevolent God would not make people have the capacity for love and then in the same vein tell them that them expressing said love is a sin. Right, but here's a point of clarification. That's a result of the sin nature, not God's design. So maybe you're in the same boat as Matthew here. You would say that, yeah, I'm attracted to the same gender. What am I going to do about that? One of the key issues is that you're connecting your identity with something that God calls an abomination. We all experience temptation to one degree or another and in different areas. We have the temptation to find pleasure in something other than God. It's really not about trying to debate whether the Bible supports this lifestyle or not, or, you know, this identity. The truth is, is that when you look in the Bible, it's really clear. The question is, is will you surrender your desires to God? This is when clinging to the words of Jesus becomes so essential and he said to all, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. Now to go back to the question that might still be on your mind, isn't it unfair? Like straight couples get to marry who they want to marry, but folks that have this desire towards the same gender, they can't get married or they can't express this and still call themselves Christian because God said it's not okay and that just seems unfair. There are certain burdens that people have to bear based on their temptation. Like and in this context, it is challenging. I'm not going to say that it's not. It absolutely is. I know people that are kind of trying to navigate their way out of this lifestyle and follow God and try to deny their desires in this area and pick up their cross and follow Christ, but it is challenging and you need to rely on God for strength and yeah sometimes God does a miracle and he changes people's you know hearts and their desires and all of a sudden they want to get married you know and like that's amazing right? But some are just like they just don't have that desire and so they stay single and that's kind of their path and I know that's hard to say but I want to be honest with you and I want you to count the cost but I want to tell you it's gonna be worth it. It absolutely is. Jesus on the cross experienced humiliation, pain, punishment and dying in order that you could live and that you could submit your life to him as an offering of your love and your thankfulness and your gratitude. The Bible calls it presenting ourselves as living sacrifices. Because one of the biggest lessons that at least I've learned about Christianity is that the world needs more people to spread more love and not hatred and yet it doesn't compute in my head that God would make a certain group of people to have the capacity for love and yet tell them to not act on said love. God calls us to love everybody. There's no restrictions on that. When we're talking about romantic and sexual love yeah God did give most people the capacity to receive that kind of love and to want that kind of love but not in just any way that we want it. Adultery sleeping with someone that's not your spouse when you or they have a spouse that is off limits. Fornication sex outside of marriage. Off limits. Porn or masturbation.  That's not good and there's more parameters but it just goes to show that God is no stranger to drawing boundaries around a good gift that he's given us. He wants us to use it in the way that he designed. And when I say love this is really deep stuff but when I say love I'm not talking about like a sexual type of love. I'm talking about a genuine connection on a romantic level but also like a friend sort of kindness and compassion level that goes beyond like the trivial stuff that hookups and hookup culture you know sort of perpetuates throughout society. Notice the conflations of different kinds of love there. He says that you know there's a certain group that's ostracized and pushed away that they can't experience love. Well no they can it's just not in the way that you want it. I've heard many people come from that lifestyle and talk about that desire for love and wanting to feel connected and feeling especially a part of that community and how affirming it is and people are just like loving on you and it's great. But ultimately it's a lie because it's not founded in who God is. You can't know love apart from God because God is love and I've heard enough stories and ultimately just looking at the word of God and where sin leads you to say that it will not fulfill you. It will not bring you this love that you think it will when you open yourself up to receiving this love because you feel like you have the capacity for it. When we are not orienting our lives in the way that God designed we're going to end up empty. This was a little bit deeper than I expected but last thing I'll say though is we'll all find out God's judgment when we die.  So I choose not to do that and live my life in fear. I choose rather to live my life with love. That sounded corny but it's true I guess. So yeah. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who practice homosexuality nor thieves nor greedy nor drunkers nor revilers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God but this next part is so crucial I want you to pay attention and such were some of you but you were washed you were sanctified you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God. God transforms hearts he transformed mind he can do it for you to ask him today ask him for his grace ask him to grant you repentance ask him to give you faith in him and he will. Thanks so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it give it a like down below and subscribe because I'm putting out new videos all the time. A huge shout out to everyone on Patreon it is because of you guys that I can continue to make the content that I do in equipping people to follow Jesus daily. God bless and I'll see you next time.


Hello everyone, this is Melissa Arbaugh and I own a company called the Stock Swoosh and today I thought I would review A-CAM. A-CAM was an amazing short today and it's interesting because in the trade room this morning I discussed A-CAM and I said that there were probably people that were attempting to buy the stock today and what some traders term a climactic that is not a strategy, it is a play. It is something that rarely sets up but what I find that is very often traders misread what is climactic. And so I said people are trying to probably buy the steps but really no one in the world, really no intelligent person would buy the stock today. It's not climactic. Traders are going to try to buy it as a climactic but it's not and no one really is going to buy this today at all. It's a goner. Anyways, the trading room made money shorting this today but the interesting thing is later in the afternoon I found a video, I get so many different emails from so many different places from another trading educational company that did a video and put out there that they did buy the stock today twice in the dip into support. I am not going to disclose the company that is but I am going to use this as a teaching lesson for people that follow me so you can get the benefit of what not to do in reference to gap trading. So I am going to play this and then I am not going to show you who is talking but I am going to play it in the background. Then I am going to look at the chart and I am going to talk about it afterwards and I think a lot of people are going to really learn a lot from this but it's interesting because it's ironic I discussed this in the trading room today. Now just listen here. Alright, good afternoon guys. Let's do a quick recap of the trade this morning. I traded AKM. I was trying to wait for it to get down to this pivot level and I took two stabs at it. Didn't get the bounce we were looking for but that's okay. These things happen as part of trading. We had a good spot technically sound support level just the stock ended up being a little bit too weak and since it pulled this hard out of the open I don't find that to be a good place to actually try to get into a position because it tends to be a chase most of the time so I will tend to wait until we hit a big support level because oftentimes these stocks that get sold off real hard like this into a big support level will see a nice bounce and that's what we were looking for since we had a big support level. Alright, I'm going to stop it right there. This here listen the gap is a strategy so that person that was talking was looking to buy the stock into the sport level. There was a bunch of supports in here. This is a support. This is a support. This is a support. Okay. It didn't hold any of these but but but the person is discussing about buying it into a different support. Critical mistake that a lot of day traders make and a lot of traders make a reference to gaps. Okay. Anyways, let's just get back to it. I'll remember what I was going to say after. So let's talk a little bit about the support that we were looking at. If you look at the daily on this there's a nice pivot level that comes into play right in through here. This is what he's basically a double bottom in through 4680 but if we back way out we've got this trend line here. Let's see. We've got this trend line that's put up right here right and you know it falls it falls right to where we were coming at today right so that's what I was looking at to get. I do not use trend lines to trade. They are of no significance. There's no valid reason to use them. You will not trade any better with them. They will not help you make money. Cleaner charts the better okay and his trend line was showing basically a diagonal that went all the way up to here. That means absolutely nothing. That doesn't show you control. It doesn't show you anything at all. Doesn't show you the long-term trend. Doesn't show you the daily trend. Doesn't show you the short term. Doesn't show you anything. You know most of the indicators that day traders use to trade are absolutely worthless. If I took everything off my charts and only read the ticker tape I'd be able to make money in the market. Very few people in 2017 can say that. He's showing a line where the stock went diagonal up to here. That has absolutely no meaning and will not help you predict how to trade the stock on the live day today. We got a bounce on this thing and you can see we initially got a really nice looking bounce to start on it but it didn't actually continue. I started to try it here around this pivot. Got a little bit of a reaction and then once we rolled over I stopped out for about a 10 cent loss and then as we came into the secondary pivot down here I tried again. We got a decent little move up started to roll back over and since I had added into the move here a little bit I ended up stopping out to just under break even there. So you know unfortunately it just didn't end up giving us the bounce we were looking for but we have the right technical levels and you have to take advantage of these situations when they present themselves. Unfortunately today it just didn't respond in the way that we normally see it. It is so important to have a strategy for your day trade. So I mean I'm just going to stop it right there but the bottom line is that I talked about this in the trading room this morning that people are going to try to buy that support that people look at it as climactic and this was a trading room a large trading room actually a trading room much much larger than mine that was directing people to buy the stock today.  There was no way to make money in this today to the upside. The stock is lower it was lower today it is still continued lower actually the stock opened it did something called a stockswush which is the name of my company. It's a play that I teach and something that I teach in my golden gap class but you know I I get very upset when I see people telling people to do things that are so incorrect. It doesn't even make sense to buy the stock today. One of the things I think that gives me an edge as a trader overall is that I know what people like that room are doing. I know what other day traders are doing and therefore when something pushes back against me even if I'm in the trade or I'm waiting for the setup I'm aware of that or knowing that or I step away from that which was not the case today but are I say this isn't going to work today because I see what traders are doing. I do not follow what other day traders are doing. My golden gap method follows what institutions are doing with the stock. Institutions sold the long positions in this stock today they shorted it they sold it everything else. No one that was controlling the stock today was taking any long trades of the upside okay was a terrible thing to do to go along the stock this day. That gentleman did not even discuss climatics he was just looking to buy and to support but you will not consistently make money trading buying support or shorting resistance. If you do not have a strategy to trade you will not make money and buying support and shorting resistance is not a strategy. The irony is I discussed this in the room today and then I found this video tonight and we will talk about this more in the room today but you know I mean this was a great example today of institutional selling you do not buy support in something that is pushing with institutional money to the downside just like you don't buy short stocks and to resistance that are pushing to the upside. How do you know the difference of the control? Okay how do you know the controls to the downside? How do you know the controls to the upside? How do you know control? You you have to have a method to depict that control to predict it and that's what I have in the 26 points and it sounds complicated but actually that's what helps me be profitable and make money and predict the direction a stock will make so often eight out of ten times. Google is a great example and I'm just going to pull this up very quickly before I say good night for tonight because Google gapped down in the earnings but I did not call a put in this as an option. We did not day trade this it had a small bodied red bar the day after the earnings and the fact is it did gap down then it had a medium bar today I do not know what it does tomorrow although Amazon's higher Facebook's higher the stock would rally finally on Thursday Amazon earnings are Thursday night but I will tell you that you know you cannot short every down gap and you cannot go long every up gap and you can't buy every level of support in anything whether it's gapping or not it could trade as important doesn't mean you're going to buy it you cannot short every resistance level I really have something special here and I know that the people that have already done my class you know are fully aware of that we will go into a long long detailed discussion tomorrow about ACAM particularly after I heard that video but you know one of the reasons that people lose money in the market that are day traders or investors or swing traders is because they they believe videos like that they follow people like that they do not understand what to look for in a chart they do not understand how to read a daily chart period end of story they don't have a strategy they don't follow it they think the idea of buying support makes sense so they look to do it and they're following people like that guy who are directing them to do things that are just not going to work and I'm sure that guy does make money some days but ultimately between January 1st and December 31st that guy using the strategy that he described in the video is losing money more than he's making money because you cannot buy every support level and expect to make money in charts in stocks this was not a climactic today nor is that a strategy anyways it's just a play it's not something that I even teach people to do although I know what it looks like ACAM was lower today it fell and bled all day and if you were an intelligent human being you would never have looked to buy the stock today and you know I think one of the benefits of coming to me is that I teach you something that really really really works and it just makes sense if you want to go along the stock today you looked like an idiot this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen to want to go along the stock today there was no one in the world that was going along the stock today and yet that trading room was directing people to do it so I mean you know you really I'm just I'm never surprised why people come to me and they tell me that they're losing money the market because people people do things like this and they listen to that guy and other people too don't don't take any trades that anyone tells you to do unless you know why they're doing them the the trading room that I have is only available to people that have done my class you're not supposed to do trades that I call in the room unless you've done my class and if you did do my class you know how to do the trades yourself I want people to understand why I'm even calling a cam short in the first place I want you to get it and understand the strategy yourself that's why doing the class is a prerequisite okay I'm teaching you how to think in your own head because thinking like that guy is going to get you nowhere and you will lose forever okay you have to understand why a can was assured today you have to grasp that concept if you think like that person in the video that I just played that you're going to buy every support a short every resistance you are doomed to lose every dime that you own for as long as you trade in the market you have to understand that it is possible to make money trading but so many people out there are teaching things that make no sense they make no sense it actually doesn't even make sense okay when you see something that looks like this that is bleeding falling with every breath that's alive every second it ticks on the day why you wouldn't even consider going along with stuff like this is absolutely the most the craziest thing I've ever heard and yet that's exactly what this huge monster trading room way bigger than mine was teaching people and telling people to do today and so people lost twice in this in that room I you know I I feel I feel for people that are losing money in the market I honestly do but you know you're not using your head if you're listening to somebody like that all right so this was a short today this was a short today this is a short for until it continues I mean I wouldn't be surprised if you woke up tomorrow morning this gap down again so I called an option put in this for people in the room and also you could be in this have done the day trade a swing trade it's it's it's you know eight camps lower so I will talk to everyone soon I you know I hope you learn something from this I mean just don't don't go to these trading room trials and just do everything they say and when people come into a trial in my room you should just listen you should just listen and see if I say this is going to happen and it does anything well maybe this girl knows something you're not supposed to trade in trials okay yeah you know you're supposed to just observe and determine for yourself listening to me in the trading room watching my videos listening to webinars if anything I'm saying is making sense I'm telling you if you are looking to buy every support level in a stock you will lose if you're looking to short every resistance level in the stock you will lose overall okay the strategy is the gap not all down gaps can be shorted not all up gaps can be bought you must be able to determine the difference and you have to read where the control is in the stock the control on the live day that's how you make money as a trader good luck everyone if you're interested in the golden gap course it's this weekend July 29th and 30th I definitely will teach you a brand new way to read charts and you will you will get good at reading charts if you can come and do my class and learn from me and be in the room and you'll make money too so we'll see what happens with this and the bigger picture for the option and congratulations to everyone that did this today thanks everybody have a great night