The CPSC works with companies to recall products with problems. McDonald's recalled 12 million Shrek glasses in June. The designs contain cadmium. Last year we saw the highest number of recalls in over a decade. Recalls last year up 12%. Well there's an important consumer alert out, a major recall involving half a million hoverboards. Our report on some Samsung washing machines that families say had blown apart. And now tonight we're nearly three million washing machines are being recalled. The recall of a million Fitbit smartwatches. Yeah the consumer product safety commission just issuing this alert and some of the burns have been serious. Twelve inch curious George Dolls reported from China have lead paint on their plastic faces. Ikea dresser, the viral video that we saw, we actually did testing on that very dresser that was recalled. 2010, zero crowns were recalled last year, that's good news. And for parents out there who are wondering what can we do, how can we help protect our kids. Go to SaferProducts.gov, that's where you can report any issues involving your products.


If you're considering getting a cat you have a lot of options. There are dozens of different breeds, all with their own defining characteristics and personalities. Today, we're taking a look at the top 7 cat breeds with the longest tails. The average cat has a tail length of about 30 cm, about 12 inches, but there are many breeds that have way longer tails, as well as shorter. There are different reasons why certain cat breeds have longer tails than others. Some use them to keep themselves warm, while others utilize them for hunting and balancing. While a tail may be a communication tool, it's largely used for maintaining balance. If a cat shifts its weight to one side, you'll notice its tail flicking to the other side. Likewise, if a cat falls, it will use this technique to land on its feet. By whipping its tail, it can shift its weight until it's re-centered. With its feet facing down, it can land correctly. Curious which cat breeds have the longest tails? Let's find out. Main Coon. Main Coons have the longest tails of all cats. In fact, the world record of the longest cat tail belongs to a silver main coon called Cygnus Powers. Cygnus has a tail that measures an impressive 17.58 inches which is longer than the rest of his entire body combined. Not all main coons have such extremely long tails, but they do have much longer tails than other cat breeds. On average, expect the tail of a main coon to be around 12 to 17 inches. The reason why they have such long and hairy tails is that in the wild they used it to protect themselves from cold weather. This, in combination with their thick coat, allowed the main coon to survive in very cold climates. It's not all that surprising that main coons have such long tails. After all, they are one of the largest domestic cat breeds. They boast a big, strong, and muscular body with a long coat and possess excellent hunting skills. Furthermore, main coons are very affectionate, playful, and gentle. They can even be taught tricks and play fetch with their owners. On the whole, if you're looking for a cat breed with a long tail the main coon is your best bet. American Shorthair The American Shorthair is another breed that has a surprisingly long tail. Unlike many other cat breeds that boast a long tail, the American Shorthair doesn't have a very long body. Instead, they have a stocky, muscular body, perfectly suited for hunting mice. Their tail however is quite long relative to the rest of their body. According to the Cat Fanciers Association, CFA, the length of the American Shorthair's tail should be equal to the distance from shoulder blades to the base of the tail. In addition to its length, this breed's tail is heavy at the base and then tapers to an abrupt blunt end. American Shorthairs are kind, affectionate, and loving pets that are easy to groom. Because of this, they're one of the most popular breeds in the United States. Balinese Many people mistakenly believe that the Balinese cat is native to Bali, Indonesia. This is not the case. The real origin of the Balinese cat starts in Thailand, with the Siamese cat. The Siamese cat was brought to the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1800s. Some of these Siamese had a gene that gave them long hair. Selective breeding made this genetic trait more pronounced and thus the Balinese were born. The Balinese is known for its slender body, long legs, need-oval paws, almond-shaped eyes, large pointed ears, and of course, its beautiful long tail. The tail of the Balinese is not only long, but it's also beautifully unique. It has a definite plume of longer hair at the end. In addition, the hair of their tail is often a different color than that of their body. Balinese cats are extremely fond of people and love following their owners around the house. They are true lap cats and enjoy spending lots of time with their owners. This is an agile, intelligent, and playful breed that needs lots of mental and physical stimulation to stay happy. Furthermore, this breed is quite chatty and is not afraid to make its demands heard. If you think a chatty, slender, graceful cat with a long tail is the right one for your household, the Balinese could be a good fit. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. Russian Blue The Russian Blue has a relatively long tail, but it's not disproportional to the rest of its body because they're quite long cats. Their tail tapers from a moderately thick base giving them a relatively narrow tail. They're also known for their thick double coat that feels like silk when you pet them and rounded vivid green eyes. The Russian Blue is, as the name suggests, native to Russia. After the devastation of two world wars, the breed was almost extinct. Luckily, through the efforts of breeders, the Russian Blue survived and is thriving today. The Russian Blue is known for its gentle and shy temper. It's a relatively quiet breed that doesn't meow a whole lot. However, just because they're sometimes a little shy doesn't mean that they're boring. These cats love to play and enjoy jumping and climbing to high places where they have a good vantage point of their surroundings. If you want a short haired, calm tempered breed that has stunning green eyes, a beautifully thick, silky coat, and a magnificently long tail the Russian Blue might be the one for you. Cornish Rex The Cornish Rex is a special kind of breed. Most cats have straight hair, but the Cornish has a curly coat. Not only that, but they also have a slender body with a remarkably long tail. The first Cornish Rex was born in Cornwall, in the UK in the 1950s, which is where the breed gets its name from. The Cornish Rex is a slim breed, weighing only 6-10 pounds. They have a small, egg-shaped head, and huge ears. The Cornish Rex is very playful and loves being a willing retriever for throne toys. In addition, they're an intelligent breed that loves to be the center of attention. Furthermore, they love exploring and if you leave them alone you might find that they've opened a closet to check out the inside. They also enjoy being handled and like sitting on people's laps. These cats are active and need a stimulating environment to be happy. If that's something you can provide for them, then they might be a good fit. Egyptian Maw The Egyptian Maw is the fastest domesticated cat in the world. They can reach incredible speeds of up to 30 miles per hour, for reference, that's faster than the top speed of Usain Bolt. Part of the reason why they can run so fast is because of the Egyptian Maw's long tail. The primary reason why the Egyptian Maw is so fast is that they have longer hind legs and a unique skin flap extending from the flank to the back knee. This skin flap allows them to run very quickly because it provides them with greater agility and length of stride. However, another important component of why they can run so fast is their tail. The Egyptian Maw has a long tail which they use to balance themselves while running at high speeds. Funnily enough, this breed also wags their tail when they're happy, kind of like a dog. As the name suggests, the Egyptian Maw is native to ancient Egypt, where they were used in duck hunts. They're easy to identify because they're one of the only domesticated cat breeds that have a spotted coat. If speed and strength are what you're looking for in a cat with a long tail, the Egyptian Maw might be a good choice for you. One thing to note though is that this breed is more temperature sensitive than other breeds. They prefer warm temperatures and do not do well in the cold. Norwegian Forest Cat. Last but not least on this list of cat breeds with long tails is the Norwegian Forest Cat. The Norwegian Forest Cat has a massive, thick tail. This breed is native to the forests of Norway. The temperatures in these forests can be very cold, which is why the Norwegian Forest Cat has evolved to have a very thick, long tail which it can use to keep itself warm. Their tail can reach a diameter of up to 20 cm, till to 8 inches. The Norwegian Forest Cat is sometimes a little shy around new people but once it gets to know you it's one of the sweetest and most gentle breeds around. They enjoy the company of humans and do very well in a family environment. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


Famous gospel singers Faso Dladla has passed away. The office of KZN Mech Lenjawe Mavimbola issued a statement on Facebook following the passing of the singer. Mech said this came as a shock as there was a hope that he will make it. She said, Dladla was in ICU. Losing Dladla came as a shock. When we heard he was admitted to the ICU, we were hopeful he would make it. The passing of Dladla will leave a dent in gospel music especially in KwaZulu Natal. Faso was involved in a shooting about two weeks ago. A close friend told Breaking News that he was shot multiple times in the V-section in Ume Lazadurban. A friend told the publication, We'd been complaining about the high crime levels in our area but nothing was happening. On Sunday March 14, we decided to catch the criminals, we knew who they were. They don't live far from us. We gathered a community and went to a house to confront the criminals. Faso succumbed to the injuries yesterday, March 24. Mech Lenjawe Mavimbola also passed her condolences to the friends and family of the singer. I would like to send my heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and members of Ithambaga gospel group for their loss. The passing of Dladla will leave a void, especially to his fellow group members. I hope you find strength during this difficult time and continue creating memorable music to honor him for the amazing contribution he made in the music industry, she said. Fans and followers of Ithambaga music group are shattered by the news, they have taken to social media to share their heartfelt condolences. Urlflau Mabasso wrote, The community of Umlai Zakaji has truly lost a good man. I remember when I encountered a problem he was there to help me find my own fault to rectify it, I learned a lot through this good man, it saddens me to hear of his passing Mayfuelas Faso, the two AM cooking I enjoyed during my visit in Durban. I am torn. I had hoped you will pull through. Ithambaga musical group also bid a farewell to their member on their Facebook page with a message that read, Good night Game Puefu, we will always love you. Last month the group was laying to rest a mother of one of their member Linden E. Como.


For those of you guys who don't know of me, I'm Father Chris O'Connor from The Great Dice of Brooklyn. And this year, just not that many of us, we still have a very large presence here, right, Frank? There you go. So, I started good, that was good, there you go, okay.  I was in my office writing a letter to the parish and I was sitting here, I heard an ambulance. Now, that might not seem unusual, especially in New York City. I mean, we hear sirens all the time. Actually, it's weird we don't hear the sirens. But it sounded louder than usual and I have a severe hearing loss on completely deaf my left ear. And so, for me to hear the sirens was kind of loud. And then, I heard another ambulance and was loud. And then I started realizing part of it, maybe because it was no traffic, because New York City, just seeing it in every sleet, is pretty much dead at this moment, nothing was happening. And then, I'm typing the letter and hearing another ambulance and it's loud. And then another one and then stop typing. Lord, have mercy on them, what's going on? Lord, help us. And I found out later that the reason why the sirens sounded louder to me was that New York City didn't have enough ambulances to take all the COVID patients to the hospitals. We had ambulances come from out of state. And in New York City, our sirens only use 100 watts, but once we're out of state, we use 200 watts. And the reason why I heard the ambulance is so loudly is because less than a mile away from my parish was Elmhurst Hospital, which was the epicenter of the entire country for COVID at that moment. They ran out of beds. Then the messages started coming. Father, can you go to the cemetery? Because we have no funerals. We have no wake services.   What? How am I gonna pray for these people inside the car? Do you want me to bless the coffin if it's in my car? What's that the heck with that? I got out of the car, but they had the coffin. I can build the driveway to the cemetery, and the family is in their car watching me, and the cemetery workers are dressed in practically hazmat suits. This is the very beginning. No one ruined what's going on. And then went, I just shrugged at the family, like my hands and hearts, I'm sorry, and just blessed the body and got in the car. Couple of days later, my funeral home close by me says, Father, we have two. Can you go with us to St. John's Cemetery? One of them ran by my diocese, that's sure. We go and we get there. And so I go and, guys, it was awful because there was a new section at cemetery. It looked like France in World War I. It was like trenches, because in New York City at that moment, there was a two-week waiting list to get buried, three-week waiting list to get cremated. In New York City, on average, before COVID, 110 people died a day. At the height of COVID, 580 people were dying every day. If you wanted to get buried in New York City, you had to wait two, three weeks. Funeral homes are actually telling people we couldn't take you anywhere. So there I am at the cemetery, and I bury my parishioners, and they're going, Father, we're gonna go back and pick up the next one. Can you wait? Sure, so I'm waiting. And then there's this other family sitting there and they're crying, and they come up to me, and I know what they're gonna ask me, and they say, Father, we have nobody to pray with us. Can you pray with us? Absolutely.  And then I got to the point, though, because they were so backlogged, like, I could go to the cemetery and wait two hours to do the five-minute service. So the funeral home and I, we talked and said, we're gonna do, which is not a good term to use in New York City, but we did drive-bys, where they would text me, Father, we're on the way, I'd be in the church, ready, invested. The hearse would pull up in front of the church, I'd ring the funeral bells, and then I would go out, and the funeral director opened the back of the hearse, pulled the coffin out a little bit. The family would gather, six feet distance, I was wearing a mask. I'd go to the family and I'd just apologize if I couldn't do a funeral mask. My heart really hurt for them, because my own father, my grandparents, friends, we had to wait, and we could mourn, we could cry, we could laugh, we could tell stories. The funeral mass, like nobody does funerals, nobody does death better than Catholics. I mean, our funeral masses bring such healing for the family, but also for the soul of the deceased. And I told them, I'm sorry we can't do this, but once we can have mass again, let me know we could do a memorial mass. So then I would do the burial right in front of my church. And sometimes it was like, okay, Father, our next one's coming. Then there's this young lady from my last parish, text me, Father, it is now my dad dead, and I can't see him. Her parents were separated. His cousin went to pick him up to go to work. He wouldn't answer the door. He was fine the night before. And he's dead. So this poor girl couldn't see her dad one last time. They did a direct cremation. She closed me up, what am I gonna do? I didn't know what to do. I went to the Lord. What do you want me to do, Lord? He goes, you zoom. What? Zoom? I never used zoom before at that moment. I had heard about it. We started using CCD, so I went online, looked down on it. So I told Tatiana, I said, Tatiana, I said, I'm gonna do a zoom service for your family. So I'm gonna figure this out and send a link. We're gonna do that. So then I sent the link. And her parents were from Ecuador. So then we did it. I was in my bus sacrament chapel in the rectory. I had some nuns staying with me. We were musicians. And I did a prayer service on Zoom. I did a wake service.  Yeah, over 50 people in this Zoom wake service. And I said, I was so sorry. This is all I could do. And the sister sang some music and we did the wake service. And at the end, I said, if you guys wanna say anything about your brother, about your dad, about your friend, now's the time. And it all starts sharing stories. And even though we're all sheltering in a place at that moment, the Lord brought us all together in that moment. And I share these stories with you because it's been a hard year for all of us. And we're trying to figure out what to do to be with our people. To reach out to them, to love them. God didn't know they were not forgotten. He didn't know the doors are closed. He couldn't have masks. He couldn't have confessions, sacraments. The Lord took care of me in a certain way because before COVID, I heard about that book, A Consecrated State in Joseph. So I pre-ordered that on Amazon. I couldn't wait. I was gonna do it. I was gonna consecrate myself on March 19th, 2020. But then Amazon could never deliver the book. So after Christmas, I get worried. I'm looking. I'm still not available. I'm still not available because I wanna get it so I could do it in time. And I didn't get it in time to do the consecration March 19th. Eventually, I had to cancel Amazon. I knew it directly from the Mary and Simecha Conception. Then I got it. But the Lord knew what he was doing. Because I had to start that consecration in the middle of COVID and make my consecration on May 1st, Joseph the Worker. And every day, for those 33 days or so, I was praying with St. Joseph. In St. Joseph, it's been a great example to me because he's confirmation of the Saint name and so forth.  I mean, he had his whole life planned out. He was married to this beautiful girl in Nazareth. They're gonna have a bunch of kids, maybe expand the carpentry business. And then, boom, Mary comes and says, Joseph, I gotta tell you something. Turned his world upside down. And then they gotta go to Bethlehem, right? For the census. And they go there. He thinks, I'm going back to my ancestral home. This would be great. We're probably gonna have some great reception and all that. And they get there, and you can't find anything. They gotta go to the stable. And then they go to the temple. And this is a great moment of presenting to the Lord.  And Joseph's probably like, what the heck is going on, God? And then they get back.  And his whole life is transformed again. But that guy went through so much problems and so many things, and life changed in events in that short period of nine months. So how did St. Joseph handle all of that? He had the real presence of Jesus. He was the first human being to see the face of Jesus. When he was born, he saw Him first and then he came to Mary. And then you can imagine St. Joseph, when he's freaking out, when he's worried, I'm not good enough, I'm not strong enough, I'm not smart enough, what am I gonna do? He's had a look at the Christ child and find that peace. He had constant adoration going on. He had the Lord, so I can imagine, and of course, he went to our lady. And that's what we're supposed to do as priests, right? We're supposed to go to our lady and we're supposed to go to Jesus, truly present to us. One of the great gifts of my diocese is our two last bishops, most virtually mandated. We're highly encouraged that every rectory have a blessed sacrament chapel. And my two pastors, my first decision, each assignment was like, okay, we're a rectory church, wait, wait, I'm gonna find, where is the chapel going if you don't have one already? Because it was during COVID though, I would go to the Lord and he said, Lord, I don't know, Lord, I'm so tired. Lord, I can't figure this out anymore. What do you want me to do? He was like, just stay here. Guys, I didn't love doing holy hours, otherwise I'd spend time for the blessed sacrament. But sometimes I'd be in the chapel and I'd go in my room and I realized I'd been there for two hours. Sometimes I realized I was there for three hours. I'm not saying that to brag, I'm saying that because that's what got me through. I couldn't see my friends. I couldn't hug my mom for six months. I couldn't go out with my buddies. I couldn't see a lot of my parishioners. So I just went to him, like Joseph. And then I was able to meet that consecration of me first and it was just so powerful.  Imagine just growing up in Nazareth in New Egypt and Nazareth and how Joseph would struggle and then he would just look at Jesus sleeping and he just remembered God trusted him. God trusted him of Jesus.  Like in our hands, we get to hold God. And sometimes we say mass so often we might sometimes forget the mystery that we're doing but to celebrate mass, to go to adoration. If you wanted to hurt me more than anything else, take away my faculties.  But Joseph just helped me remind myself, sometimes you don't have to say anything. Sometimes you don't have to talk, just look at the face of Jesus. So go to Joseph and have a help you see the Eucharistic face of Jesus. You remember nothing else when it's homily.  Because great things happen before the blessed sacrament. I don't wanna pray the same way every time. Sometimes I listen to music, sometimes I listen to those of God's music, sometimes I listen to other music, sometimes I put a YouTube video on to help me or something like that. Sometimes I just read something, sometimes I read scripture, sometimes I just sit there and look at them. And then the Lord does interesting things for the blessed sacrament, does he not? Like sometimes I'm praying and then somebody I've not thought about in months will come to mind. And I'm praying, I'm like, why am I thinking about Monica? Why am I thinking about Monica? Why am I thinking about Monica? Wait, where's Monica coming from? So I'll take my phone out, I'll text Monica and say, hey, I'm with Jesus right now, I'm praying for you. And usually reply comes back, how do you know something was wrong with me? How do you know I was hurting right now? Said, I didn't know anything the Lord does. He loves you. Send her a text to someone, a friend of mine, Dominique. Praying for you right now for Jesus, he's put you in my heart. How do you know? I'm really struggling with work. I'm pulling my hair out of my head. How do you know? I didn't know anything. The Lord did. So the Lord wants us to go and know him in the blessed sacrament. And the Sister Mary has been quoting from Father Jacques Joliet, but I want to do the same thing. And it's in the book on priestly fatherhood. It's also at the feet of the blessed sacrament in daily faithfulness to the moments of Eucharistic adoration that a priest truly becomes a father, truly becomes a father. This is where the father of heaven communicates his true fatherhood, his compassion and his tenderness for all his children. This is where in a large part when it requires the attention for others, the one needs.  Because we're bringing our children, our spiritual children, we pray for them, we love them. We pray and we love them like St. Joseph, love baby Jesus, and the child Jesus, and the teenage Jesus, and the young man Jesus. We love them that way. And I know what I'm saying is nothing new. And I know it's been thousands of books written on this. The guy sometimes is so simple. Just go to Jesus. So I invite you now just imagine St. Joseph leading you and pointing to you. To where he got his strength, to the face of Jesus.


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Oh, this could be bad for the Queen, and- Oh, I think it is! Hello everybody, and welcome to a special episode of Jurassic World Evolution 2. Because today, we're not on any- These are the nooblar and any Jurassic Island. To say, no. This is Wayland Corp. If you know Wayland Corp from the Alien movies, well, that's what we're doing here today. Experiments on the Xenomorph Alien. So if we just take a look at our new amazing high-tech facility that's always in the battle arena, just with a few different assets. Mmmm! We've managed to capture and isolate a, uh, a sort of little family, if you could call it, of Xenomorphs. These ones being the, I think what is class, the warrior class, or drones. Basically, without a Queen, any synapse link between the Queen. They really are quite, you know, docile. Awwww In a way, as long as you don't come up to them BOOM But I mean, look! See, we have trucks running through!  Without that sort of link, they are not the deadly creatures that we've seen in other experiments, no. But look at it! It is gorgeous! I love this! The model itself, I mean, yes, it's working on the raptor animations and stuff like that. But oh, it looks so good! Oh man, look at that! Oh, it's awesome! He's got a little bulb, his head is well at the front. These beautiful, marvellous creations were created and uploaded by HeroPrime. There was a couple of other aliens that we will also see in this video. Most of them, again, have been made by HeroPrime, but one in particular is made by somebody else. And I was actually quite surprised. I was like, wait, what? They didn't make this one? Back to the video!  But they kind of stood around their lounge and studying them. It's been lovely, lovely, peaceful, but it's all about to change! Because we have managed to locate the queen. And here she is! Oh yes! Look at her! And she's just gorgeous! The markings are a little bit different in comparison to what the other aliens are. But we are almost 100% sure this is the queen that shares a genetic DNA match with the ones inside. So why don't we just, you know, speed things along and just see if there's any happy reunion between the two of them? And here she comes, the moment of truth, reunited with her papas! Will it be a lovely heartwarming reunion?  She's running, where's she running to? Ooh, are we talking? Are we having some communication? Oh, little hellos! Look at the model on this, this is amazing. So apparently they didn't actually make this model, they just imported it. Wait, what, there's a fight? Okay, never mind! Apparently they are not getting on, or at least that one wasn't. Oh, there's two! Oh, and she throws it miles! The other one jumps, oh, just spins around. It seems like only two of them have decided to attack her. The ones are kind of okay. This could be a dominance display, maybe also a ridge. Oh, God! Where did that one even go? Oh, okay, you know, maybe just killing some of the subordinates. Oh, that one's apparently still not happy. Are they rejecting their old queen? Have they made new friendly alliances and maybe they've appointed their own? Matriarch, I don't even know. But look at that for a shot! Oh, that looks so good! This is awesome! The level of detail in this model is absolutely amazing. Oh, is she going to attack the vehicles? She wants out. She wants to get out the gate. So how many have we lost? We lost two! Two of them died! Jesus, and this one's almost dead. Okay, maybe they actually don't get on. They really don't seem to like it. She's been relegated to the trees. Although, saying that, I think... Oh, yeah, she's coming back. Oh, why? Why? Oh, oh, there's a battle! Or it seems to be. I think there's like three or four of them? Oh, five! Oh! Oh, this could be bad for the queen. Oh, I think it is! Oh, they are attacking from all angles! Yep, this is a rise against the patriarchy. The monarchy with the queen! Oh, it looks so cool! Like, what in the game can you say you can do this? And there it goes! Oh, God, where did it? There it is! Oh, she's not fairing too well. Running away! Well, the other ones are still latch on. Oh, just stopping! And this could be a downfall here. It would be really cool if you could give them like green blood, and down she goes! The other xenomorphs are making quick work of her. A thing once those other two were killed. That was it! They just decided that nap. They were not happy with that. And there you go! Well, apparently these guys they don't want any leader. They don't want any authoritarian dictatorship, apparently. Or monarchy to cover them. They're happy just choosing their own their own ways. Which is interesting because we have another alien type. And I'm wondering if they might get on with it. So shall we take a look? I'm excited! Okay, let's release a different kind of alien and see how well this does. Look at this one! Wow, that did not expect it to look like this. This is a very interesting one. Oh, lovely! I wonder how they'll deal with this guy. Long, lanky limbs! Right, I am very interested to see how these aliens or these xenomorphs react to this thing. This is not their queen. It is from a different planet. As you can quite clearly see. A different DNA. So their reaction is going to be quite interesting. I'm wondering if they will actually get on with it. Oh, it looks like oh, maybe this one's the the head? Or maybe they don't have a head? Maybe they're just... kind of going up to it? Oh, okay. They seem to be alright with it. Oh, okay. Yep, yep. No, that's not good. That is not good at all. No. Okay, yeah. I don't know. Oh, God, no! It was just born! Our own experiments! Oh, God. Up, down it goes. Yep, yep. This is not... Oh, wait. It's on the floor and it's... Oh, God. It's heads. It doesn't even have eyes. God knows how this thing functions. But, yep, they are making sure work of it. I don't even see any damage on the other xenomorphs at all. Okay. So, they rejected the queen. They don't like other kinds of species. I wonder if we can sort of create our own alien. Let's give it a shot. Here it is. Our own concoction, as you might call it, of different DNA to do with alien. Look at her. Whoa! Bigger than a queen, more intimidating and with its kind of massive humongous stature. Perhaps this one will be enough to intimidate the other xenomorphs into not attacking it and actually calling it its king. If it's so wished, I think it could easily swat all of these. Like, literally all of these as xenomorphs. Because it is just absolutely ginormous. Look at it! It is just gorgeous! It's brutal! And it is absolutely ginormous.   We've got them running around, but they didn't attack it? Oh, oh, this is interesting. They kind of like started an attacking behavior. And then, oh! Oh, okay! They're attacking each other. This is interesting. Oh, okay. This one's kind of running, as if it wants to attack. Which is very strange. Maybe they're scared. Maybe they're intimidated by our amazing creation. I guess we just have to watch. We have to wait and oh, there you go. Look, a little sniff of the tail, sort of investigating it. I mean, look at the size of the difference between the two. I know if I was that little drone slash soldier warrior thing, I wouldn't really want to take this guy on. However, I'm a bit worried that this running animation that they display is very often like, okay, they're just going to attack, but they don't seem to be doing it just yet. They are running around. Yeah, this is very weird. Really, really weird. Oh, there you go. Just running. This one really seems to have taken a liking to it. Could this be the first of the rest of them falling in line with it? Oh, oh, eating together. Woo. Hold the phone. Could this be it? Could this be what we have been waiting for? Oh my God. Oh, that was a huge chunk. Yes. We've done it, I think. I think the rest of these xenomorphs are not attacking it. That is perfect, because normally by this time, they had already attacked. It was almost like instantaneous that as soon as it was dropped in within a couple of seconds, they attacked it. However, this guy, it does seem to have worked. They are not attacking it in the slightest. This is amazing. Oh, the scientific breakthroughs that we have just created. You know, what does it look like if we put a, I don't know, a spinosaur into the exhibit? Will the new quote-unquote king xenomorph do the heavy lifting and protect her sort of new family and her new pack?  And here it comes the spinosaurus and will it or should I say how will it fair against the xenomorphs? Let's have a look. Now normally, almost simultaneously, yep, there we go already. Oh, already the other one's like, yeah, the king, the crusher is already intimidating it. All the other raptors instantly ran away. Oh, wow, we got, we got a fight right away. Oh, oh, no. Oh, this isn't so good for her. Oh, oh, him. Oh, I don't even, does it have a gender, does the xenomorph have gender? Oh, God. Oh, oh, God, take it down. Oh, wow. Okay. Huh. That was kind of not what I was expecting to happen.  Oh, God, wait. And now they are absolutely trashing this spinosaur. Oh, God, oh, God, how many could jump on it once? Oh, I think it might be dead. Oh, did it get one? Oh, it's rolling over again. Weee! Just skidding around. But these xenomorphs are made of hard stuff when there's so many of them. Oh, I think the spider is going to go all rolled over again. Just trying to get them off. What have you, would you have ever thought you would have seen a sight of a spinosaur taking on xenomorphs and then it just sort of did a weird dance and collapsed there. Ah, what a world we live in. It's beautiful. And here it is, the new moved Carusher. I think it might look a little bit different. We've had to tweak around with the DNA a little bit. We're going to, you know, better attack. Of course it's going to need that. We're going to even better defence. So, you know, a thicker exoskeleton. Although, actually, it kind of looks the same. Yeah, I can't really see much difference if I'm going to be honest. If it's a bit darker? Possibly? Hard to tell. Right, let's get her involved. Just as I thought, it's became the apex as well. As soon as it goes in. Oh, the dinner is beautiful. We must know how good it is against the strongest carnival that has ever lived. The Giga. Which will soon, I'm sure, be getting a re-skin with the new Jurassic World. The Minu Movie. It's there. There you go. And the Giga has just been dropped in. And I don't, I don't, is it terrified? Or is it chasing that one that's running away? I'm not too sure. But it's also going to be looking because we do have another Giga on the horizon somewhere. Ah-ha! There it is. That's what it's looking up to. Two Gigas. Not one! But two! Which will be working together. Now, you know, a teamwork like this is what's going to possibly exterminate the Xenomorph sort of family that we've got going on here. Oh! Oh, that was interesting. That was an equal clash. I don't think one hit the other. Oh, oh, oh! Oh! It's using some telekinesis! Oh, it's killed the Giga! Wow, it's sending the other raptors into a flurry! And it has killed the Giga! Not even a single bit of effort was put up there. So this poses one interesting question. Will the Giga fight the, um, the crusher that's just killed its, you know, its mate, its partner, whatever you want to call it? Or will the small Xenomorphs interfere? But it does seem like they are pretty happy to just let the big one sort of choose what happens. They're not dictating anything until it died with the Spinosaur. In which case, then, you know, the matter was left in their own hands. But look at them, they're all surrounding it! It's almost like they revere it now. Uh, revere it. Press O to lie down. Has it given a call? Oh! Was that some sort of synaptic link or something? They've decided, you know what? Yep, you attack it. Although saying that there's, I think there's only three. Oh! The Giga's running away! Oh! Oh! The other one's gone up now! Oh! It's gone into, oh! I think it's just leaving up to the, uh, the small Xenomorphs to take this on. Oh! I don't know! That, oh, they're not looking too great. They're also a little bit wounded. And you would have thought that they, they would actually want to pack together to take down the Giga. But, uh, no! They've decided to stop. I don't think they've taken any fatalities, which is interesting. But there did seem to be, all of a sudden, a snap in their behaviour.  That one's definitely not letting it go. You don't need this place alive! Oh! Oh! Okay! That's interesting. They've sort of loosened up the Giga. And, oh! Straight away, taken out! Wow! So maybe it was like, okay, I don't want to take any damage from this one. They're softening up. Ah, come in for the kill. The Giga put up no fight there whatsoever. It was instantly killed by the ginormous Crusher Xenomorph. And finally, before we go, let's just see newly acquired from Site B. The book, T-Rex. Ooh! Instantly just slowly walking towards, uh, wow! I've never seen like battles happen this quick. It's almost instantaneous as soon as the T-Rex drops it. Oh! Oh, actually putting up a little bit of a fight here. You've got like a crowd, wow! Ha ha ha! Oh, that's amazing. Look at them like, yeah! Ha ha ha! Oh! Oh, it's tainted down, I think! Yep! Down it goes! Xenomorph kills Rexy! Wow! What would be awesome is actually if, while this, you know, one of the big ones attacking it, the other ones jumped on and started attacking it as well, that would be awesome. Definitely being scarred there slightly. But a victory nonetheless. So, we're gonna leave it there for now until we find some more Xenomorphs or, you know, we come up with some more experiments. If there's anything else that you'd like to see these Xenomorphs come up against, let me know in the comments down below. But if you've enjoyed this video, leave a like. Until next time, I'll see you cuties later. Oh, bye-bye.


The second of two men charged in connection to the murder over a shooting at a Mingo County Cemetery appeared in court Wednesday morning. 20-year-old Anthony Rahim Ariaga of Ohio appeared in Mingo County Magistrate Court for a preliminary hearing for the murder of coal company executive Ben Hatfield at Mountain View Memory Gardens in Mayer. During Wednesday's hearing, the assistant county attorney brought forth witness Deputy Allen Mounts with the Mingo County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Mounts investigated the murder and told the court Ariaga admitted to the murder during a video statement. He admitted that his intention was to rob Mr. Hatfield and during the course of that robbery he murdered Mr. Hatfield. Officials have said they believe Ariaga and conspirator Brandon Fitzpatrick were trying to get money for drugs. Before court adjourned, Attorney David Foley brought forth allegations of misconduct by correctional officers while Ariaga was being transported. Foley will give that information to administration at Southwestern Regional Jail for an investigation. However, no action was taken during Wednesday's court hearing. Based on Wednesday's preliminary hearing, Magistrate Barry Markham determined the state has established probable cause to believe the offense was committed and the defendant did commit the crime. The case now moves to Circuit Court for consideration by the grand jury. Reporting in Williamson for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.


A young professional named Chirag Shah has come up with a unique solution in the physiotherapy sector of medical industry. His company called RIMO focuses on accelerating physical recovery by providing objective and goal-based training using robotics and virtual reality. Welcome to another edition of Chainmakers. Technology-based solutions for physical rehabilitation can provide a wide range of benefits for patients. They can provide more accurate and precise treatments, reduce cost, reduce the need for manual labour and even allow for more efficient rehabilitation. Technology-based solutions can also provide a more personalized experience for patients, allowing them to monitor their progress more closely and easily. Today we have with us an entrepreneur who has made a mark in the field of technology-based rehab solution. Let us know more about it from the man himself. Hello Chirag, welcome to the Chainmakers. Thank you so much for inviting me to the Chainmakers and featuring our story. I am looking forward to our discussion today. Yeah, thank you Chirag for being with us. Achirag, what is the problem that you are addressing through your startup? Startup is actually focused on a very specific domain which is kind of encapsulated in our name itself. So, the startup name is RIMO and it stands for Redisturb Your Mobility. In India and across the world, if you look at the number of people who are finding it difficult to move on their own independently, it is a whopping 2 billion people. Now, if you look at what they need to start moving themselves or become independent, the simple question is physiotherapists. But if you look at the vast difference in the number of skilled therapists and the number of people who require it, you realize that there is some drawbacks which come along with it. Especially from a patient perspective, there are three major pain points. The first is they find it very difficult to understand whether they are improving. When we COVID came and hit us, we all had our COVID reports which showed us our difference scores or severity of COVID. But in physiotherapy, it is very difficult to do that. So, patients don't realize whether they are improving. Second problem is it takes a lot of time. So, it probably could take you one week, or it could take you one month, or it could take you even five years to recover your independence. So, it is a very time-staking process to do it traditionally. With the use of robotics or different technologies, we believe that we can kind of help them recover faster. And the third most important aspect is to make sure that people don't give up and they are motivated to continue. Like many difficult things, exercise is a very, very difficult habit to form and not many individuals can do that. Physiotherapy is exercised when you are in pain. So, nobody likes pain, nobody likes exercise. If you mix it together, that is physical therapy. So, for us, it was important to make sure these demographic people can recover, they can become independent and live life like they are supposed to, full of freedom and full of energy. So, this is probably where AIMO comes in to make people independent and live a complete life. Thank you, Chirag. Thank you for sharing your insights on the problem of your startup is addressing. It is inspiring to see the impact you are making in the healthcare industry. Chirag, please tell us in detail about the work that you are doing. So, thank you so much for bringing upon the impact that we are making. And that is probably the only reason why we began this journey. So, so far, I think so, we have just touched the surface, probably not even touched the surface yet. Going is just to cover up what we have been doing in the healthcare sector. First, as we identified the problem and the domain, we spent probably more than two years in evaluating the problem and spending time with patients and physiotherapists. In this journey, we learned about different aspects of rehabilitation, specifically physical rehabilitation and occupational therapy. And we've integrated that to technology and made a very portable and easy to use device, which is built on the technology stack of robotics and virtual rehabilitation are also known as gamification. These two technology stacks have been incorporated and a company is now focused on making it accessible to the world. So, we have kind of launched this in India. We have 20 plus installations across India. Probably we have now located in all the four macro cities and looking going forward, we are looking at expanding this to the world. So, we have just started and though we have had around 700 patients in their recovery journey, I think so, we could reach 7 million in the future. So, that is why I would stress on the point we have just begun. But yeah, great. But you just, you are saying that you just begin, but you are beginning with the 70 places already, your devices installed in 70 places, it's good to know. From your informative response, it's clear that you have a deep understanding of the work you are doing and the impact it can have on patients. What are the advantages of using robotics and VR in the rehab therapy, Srirag? So, there are predominantly three advantages that we are looking at when we try and do technology in physical therapy. Like I mentioned the first problem was of lack of awareness or monitoring progress. So, when do you use or incorporate robotics or virtual rehabilitation or virtual reality into physical therapy, you can measure. With robotics, you can measure how much a patient has moved, how much strength he is applying and whether physical therapy or whatever treatment he is doing, it be it medicines or anything else, whether that is okay. So, you have a number to your recovery and when you see progress, you kind of, you know, are more motivated to do further. The second thing and the most important thing is you get personalized training for accelerated recovery. Suppose imagine you are, you don't have any robotics or virtual reality training, you would end up doing a traditional thing for a few days and you leave it out. But with robotics, you can give a patient enough assistance which is customized for the patient. So, even if there is a therapist who is not able to dedicate 100% of his time, they can still set the personalized protocol for the patient and get them to do the number of repetitions that they want. Especially in neurological cases such as stroke, it is proven that doing hundreds of repetitions helps improve the learning curve of the brain, which is also known as neuroplasticity. So, with robotics you can accelerate the process in which a patient, a paralyzed patient can learn how to do things again. So, robotics can help you significantly in improving your neuroplasticity and accelerating recovery. The third most important aspect is engagement and fun. You don't need to pop a medicine every day to recover from such diseases. Generally, that is also not a way to go forward. So, what patients have to undergo is physiotherapy. Once you are stabilized medically, your medications can continue. But for recovery, you need to take the daily dose of exercise that you require through physiotherapy. Now, like I mentioned before, it is difficult. So, by introducing games, patients start enjoying what they do. They don't realize that they have worked out for half an hour, one hour or sometimes even more. So, when you immerse a patient and make it fun for them, any activity which is fun, you end up doing for hours. We watch Netflix for hours. All of this kind of helps a patient recover. But predominantly, the baseline is a good therapist with robotics and VR makes them super-powered to treat patients in a better fashion. It is not an independent technology. It works with the physiotherapist and it is like with super power which helps you run 80 percent faster or something like that. So, that is how we know our technology is helping the patients. Yeah, great chair. It is good to know the numerous advantages of using robotics and VR technology in rehabilitation therapy. It is exciting to see the potential of this technology to transform the industry. What are the certifications and approvals were required for your devices? How did you manage to obtain those? So, when we started back in 2018, just after the smart India hackathon, physiotherapy was not regulated. So, when I say that any equipment being manufactured for physiotherapy did not require a certificate or license which is special. A normal license which is required for an exercise equipment would have been okay. But after 2020, Indian government has introduced multiple regulations for better managing the entire healthcare equipment area and physiotherapy which comes under it. So, it was to be honest and very truthful. It was definitely surprising and stressful. Being fresh graduates, we were not aware of how we will be able to do this. So, to come back to your question, what currently is required is based on the classification of your product. It could be class, severe class risky, higher class device if it is risky. A lower class device is safe, very safe and not much risk. You have to classify it and then take approval from CDSEO which is central authority to regulate these devices. So, so far, Raimo started our journey for regulating almost one year back and we are very happy to say today we stand on a position where we have international certifications like ISO 13485 which is the gold standard for a process to maintain quality of your medical device. We have an electrical and mechanical safety certificate as per international standards tested in an NABL accredited lab. And we have also received the necessary permissions from CDSEO and a final few communication stages are ongoing. But we have the necessary licenses to sell in India. Yeah, great, congratulations. You already obtained the international certifications. Thank you for sharing the regulatory process you went through to ensure your devices met the necessary standards. Hope it will be helpful for those innovators in the similar field. Apart from the technology or equipment, the vital part is that the therapist should be trained and skilled and the patient should be motivated. How do you deal with this? A very well thought question and something that was on top of our minds right from day one. We have heard stories where there are expensive equipment which are not being utilized because of lack of training. So, what we have done right from the conception stage, we have spent significant amount of time with the therapist with each of our prototypes as well. So, we have asked the therapist to use our devices right from the early stages and also the patient. So, what we got was very early feedback from the customer itself and which helped us build a very simple to use a very user friendly mobile application which the doctor uses or the therapist uses to use the machine, set different protocols, etc. With this, we have found out the training time to have reduced significantly with the easy to use product and just a three hour clinical training during installation. We have found our customers to become comfortable with the device at least to start exploring the product and then it takes around one to two weeks more of personal usage to get the confidence to use it without any doubts. To further on improve the experience, we have brochures, digital content specific to different parts of the body and different features of the product which we share with the doctors and they can refer that to train new therapists who join in or refresh anything that they've forgotten. So, that kind of helps and reduces their reliance on the developer and the manufacturer in learning to use the product. For the motivation, what we have found is a demo session. So, every patient, once they do a few sessions on the machine, we have heard the single most important feedback is the patients love it and whenever they come walk into the center, they want to use it and they demand for it. So, when something like this is coming from the patient, we have understood whatever we have built patient feedback has been working really well and our therapists and patients are enjoying what we have done. Chirag, it's good to know that already you have positive feedback from the patients for your equipment. The role of therapist and patient motivation in the recovery process is indeed critical. It is impressive to see the measures you have taken to ensure that healthcare professionals receive proper training and patients receive personalized treatment plans. It's good to know all your treatment plans. Using robotics and VR to deal with the patient recovery in physical rehabilitation is not very common. Did you ever doubt the success or accessibility of your techniques? Actually, this is very true and I think so it is a good thing to doubt whatever you are building. When you are in the zone of critical thinking, you will try and improve and make it better for the end user or the customer or the doctor or the patient. So, for the initial two years, we did not incorporate as a company at all. We were just a group of individuals who are highly motivated trying to build something if it benefits only then we will form a company is what we have decided and I would say that almost two and a half years, we spent just doing this. This kind of helped us understand the magnitude of the problem and gave us the freedom to not be scared of failure. So, we tried different prototypes, we changed it across and we built what the end user wanted and not what we knew how to build. So, I think so there was a lot of doubts and even now we have some adaptability, more than 20 units are there installed in the market but we still feel that today also we have plans for doing clinical validation with prestigious medical institutions. So, the validation of the product is there. We are also trying to see how we can validate our product in different geographies. So, we are planning to do at least four or five international departments in this year. So, anybody who is watching this and has connects outside India, you know, feel free to recommend. So, this will also help us validate whether this problem is being addressed not only in India but outside India as well. We are also trying to figure out whether this is a solution only for the urban population or for the rural areas as well. So, we are trying to see if we can find some corporate partners or we can partner with NGOs through CSR engagements and see whether we can deploy this in rural settings and provide them also the best rehabilitation tools. So, we have some validation but the process is still ongoing. So, probably till we don't have 10,000 installations, I think so, we still need to keep asking this question. We wish you to have 10,000 installations very soon. It is inspiring to see that you have confidence in the potential of your technology to make positive impact in this industry. So, making patient recovery equipments for physical rehabilitation is a very specialized and demanding business. How challenging was it for you to start such a venture? This is something which is very true. What started as a small project in college and taking it to a business was extremely challenging. Three points like you mentioned in the question itself. First is domain expertise is not only engineering, you also require medical knowledge and domain specific knowledge which is medical also physical rehabilitation. The second aspect is we are quite young as students just starting off for the first venture. So, prior business experience was lacking. So, we also had to kind of, you know, learn all of that during the process. And the third thing is we had to do this in a very frugal budget and a resource constrained environment because it is not so easy to, you know, start a business without adequate resources.  We enjoyed some moments. We've been down in the dumps. So, it's all been a graph of continuous learning and growth for both me and my team. Some few areas which, you know, were extremely challenging to name specifically three probably was the first decision to take, you know, probably set that goal for yourself that, you know, you want to build this. So, after the Smart India Hackathon, the first decision that we took was, you know, we gave up our campus placements and we said, yeah, we don't know what we are going to do, how this is going to help us or what is going to happen in our career. But let's kind of, you know, take this decision to build this. This is a technology or tool which will help patients recover from cases like stroke, paralysis, orthopedic injuries, what all. I think that was the most challenging and scary decision that we took because probably all of our friends were going somewhere outside India or taking up jobs and, you know, you are out there doing your thing in that room. The second most challenging phase was probably COVID where, you know, though we had by touch of luck a few grants, but we couldn't get that money into our banks because of some issues which came up during COVID.  All of our team was, you know, help went on working even if we couldn't draw salaries, etc. So kind of helped us a lot go through that phase. But that was definitely a very challenging journey. And third part is, you know, trying to take the decision of going from a project phase to a company phase. So in this, we had a very clear metric that if we find a buyer for a device, probably that is when we will, you know, start a company about it. And luckily, we found a few early people, customers whom we met at conferences and, you know, through demos, even during COVID who kind of supported us and told us, you know, what we're doing is good.  So give us your machine and, you know, that kind of helps us build a company. And I think so we are now facing a lot more challenges like fundraising. Now, launching in India is a different story. The quality requirements, the regulatory requirements are very different from launching in the US, the Europe or across the world. So the bigger challenges are that now, we have overcome the first barrier of taking that decision. But let's see what the story, how the story will unfold. Really, it's inspiring to see that you overcame the obstacles through persistence, hard work and passion. We wish you whatever the challenges you face and make it as a opportunity for your product. How did you make the product validation at the level of medical professionals as well as the patients, Chirag? So there were three phases to this. The first phase was through literatures, which is secondary market research. We went through probably hundreds of clinical studies. And probably that kind of helps you make a basic assumption, because this technology is probably new to the segment we are addressing. But in the world, robotic rehabilitation exists for 20 years. So we could back our work based on those secondary research documents. So there is research on how robotic and virtual reality or games are helping physiotherapy patients. And we kind of use that as a reference to draw the first step. The second is to understand whether this is relevant to the technology that we are developing. So we have always been in touch with a wise number of physiotherapists. So we always try and take this approvals or feedback right from the early decision making of the product from our esteemed panel of advisors. And they have been very upfront in giving us those feedback early on in the design piece, which ensures that the technology that we are building is similar to the secondary research that we have done, and is also consistent with the Indian ecosystem. And it will be helpful in this in terms of promotion and both technological and clinical perspective. And the third aspect is actual validation. Once we had the necessary quality standards approved, we have predominantly tested this device with more than 200 patients before we actually went out and started selling. So staying within the legal framework, we kind of validated it with proper concerns from the therapist and they kind of helped us do that. And in this one thing we did was we our team completely spent probably more than a month in a physiotherapy center with the machine and the patients and the therapist. So we also got firsthand experience on how the machine was being used, where the problems were, how the features need to be improved etc. So yeah, this was not a very simple problem to solve. And we are continuously trying to you know improve the validation that we have and the market acceptability that can be derived based on that validation. Yeah, yes Chirag, it's impressive to see the measures you have taken to ensure that your products meet the needs and expectation of medical professionals and patients. Every innovator need to concentrate more on their product validation. Chirag, how and when was the product accepted commercially and how did the demand unfold? Probably three years back just before COVID in December, we went to a physiotherapy conference with our prototype and then we met our first customer Dr. Gajanan Balerao who is also our very close advisor from Pune. So he told us that he would incorporate our technology into his clinical practice and we were all I am mighty. Okay, we found our first customer, we started the company incorporation process and as soon as March 2020 came COVID unfolded and everything went under the long term. So demand could not be scaled very significantly but as soon as things got better, we did deploy one machine into their clinic. But we changed our approach. We said now we don't want to sell. So you just tested and let's get feedback. So it took us a while probably one year of improvements and in June 2021 we made our first official sale to a clinic in Mumbai post that we have been getting a lot of customer referrals and probably one year while improving on the product we deployed and onboarded around one customer a month. So and luckily this was also customer referrals. We did not have a sales and marketing team and after the successful deployments, after then the new regulatory procedures came into picture and we had to get the necessary certifications. Last year again we started selling and we've been doing probably one or two units a month again. So this is more focused and now we are expecting three installations in the next month. We are seeing you know things pick up. So yeah now the demand will unfold a bit better is what we are looking at. Yeah good to know that you have at least three installation per month. Thank you for sharing the journey of your product from the development to commercial acceptance. It's really it's exciting to see the demand for your technology increasing and the positive impact it's having on patients. So marketing is a critical component of any successful business strategy. Without effective marketing it can be difficult to reach the potential customers. How are you marketing your products now? Is it based more on the reference or typical sales and marketing avenues work for you? Like you mentioned marketing is very critical but we have to understand the domain and accordingly adjust the marketing plan. So I don't think so a very typical sales and marketing plan will work for either IMO or for any other company they have to customize it within this. But are marketing and PR efforts are focused more on awareness because this is a new concept new technology. So we try and be present in all the scientific events that are predominantly focused for physiotherapy. Indian Association of Physiotherapists Society of Indian Physiotherapists have been closely associated with Ajwani. They have tried to be there at their events right from early incorporation days, idea stage to our current focus right now. And currently we have some awareness in this industry. People know about robotic and IMO. So going forward what we have done is to expand the reach we definitely need more people and expertise on the ground. So we have we are trying to partner with people who are experienced in this domain. So we can focus on the technology and we have good people who can help us do the sales and marketing. Yeah great. So it is important you need to invest time and resources into marketing efforts in order to achieve a long-term success and growth. So it's great to know that you have participated in many conferences and you have reached out to your target audience through that. Today how are you positioned as a compared to your competitors? So the single word I would say in India at positioning is value for many. Whenever a physiotherapist is buying our product probably we are one of the most expensive products in the centre. So our focus is to ensure that our quality and product utility is on par with their expectations. They should not feel that it is a splurging spend that they've done but it is a utilities spend and which is helping the patients and their business which is a physiotherapy centre. So what I'm positioning right now is based on value for money but if you look at competitors mostly all the competition right now is imported in the robotic segment and all of that due to the extra customs etc and also their R&D processes has given us a very big competitive advantage in terms of the pricing and the space requirements. Our device is probably 10 times more affordable and accessible because of both the space requirements, the clinical training etc but one thing that we've identified which is the biggest advantage for an Indian company and for IMO is that our customer support is indispensable. Being an Indian company we are able to resolve customer problems in matter of days if not ours and whether it is an important product generally the timeline could go into months if not weeks. So this ensures that a patient benefit is continuously happening. A therapist is not facing much discomfort and you know we are able to maintain the clear positioning of extremely great customer support and super western class value for money for our products. So it's good to know that customer satisfaction and the customer support is the key value and you are in the in such a way you are just positioning your startup with other competitors great. So what kind of growth have you seen so far and what are your targets for the future? So we have seen tremendous growth in terms of number of deployments in probably the first two years of our journey we had only around 10 installations. In the last six months we have made more than 10 installations so our concentration of number of installations is growing significantly. Like I mentioned in this year we are looking at more than 15 installations in India new installations is what I'm talking about with the help of our channel partners with the help of the positive word of mouth that we are getting from our customers and in the long term so let's say five years down the line Rhino signal focus is to be a global company. So and how do we do that? So here I would like to quote a dialogue from three idiots. So what Rhino is focusing on improving our product quality and adherence to international standards. Once we are ready in terms of regulatory and quality for US Europe we are sure that we will not only see 10,000 of installation probably we can even surpass that value we can probably not only affect thousands of patients but help millions of patients and not only help hundreds of therapists but help millions of therapists also. So that is how we look at growth. We definitely want to grow our business our startup 100x but we want to do it in a very structured manner. We are kind of looking very positively and with the right support from the ecosystem I think so we'll be able to do that. Great. Listening to your future plans it is clear that you have a clear vision for success. We wish you the best of luck in achieving your targets and continuing to grow your business. Chidak you have established a successful business using your expertise in the space of robotics and VR. What guidance would you like to offer to the budding entrepreneur who wish to make a mark in the space? We have probably touched surface probably again I think so we are like this industry is like an iceberg the more you go into it the bigger it is but according to me based on my learning so far I think so early entrepreneurs or young entrepreneurs should focus on the first thing and most important thing that is identification of a problem and they should always look at three critical factors the first is their intent to solve that problem. Probably if it is only money because of which you want to solve a particular problem I think so you should take a step back and reflect because the journey is going to be hard and it might not be always give you enough motivation to cross through those hurdles. The second is try and look at the impact that your solution can create or how big the problem is. If it is a problem which is concentrated to a very few people probably it is good idea to solve it as a research problem and help us scale it using a technology transfer but if it's only a big enough problem you should try and get into a business because then you will have to know figure out a way to sustain yourself for the next five, ten, probably 50 years down the line. So look at the opportunity how big the problem is and how big how far the problem is growing and last but not the least make sure that you value team above everything else if you look at it from an individual point standpoint things will become very difficult but if you have a good founding team probably any problem that comes from your way you'll be able to go through it so yeah that probably is what we've understood the most important thing is problem rest all you can figure out on your way if you have the right problem and a good team you can probably solve any problem in this way. Great Shirak as you rightly said identification of the problem and hunger to solve the problem with a good team is very much important thank you for sharing your valuable insights and advice I'm sure our audience will find it very helpful I appreciate you sparing the time to share the experiences and advice with us today we wish you all the best in your future endeavors both in your business and personal life thank you thank you so much for this insightful session it has been a pleasure sharing our experience to younger audience or older audience people who want to venture into this industry or entrepreneurship I hope that people learn from our experience and can you know solve even bigger problems which will in the end impact probably ourselves and the entire humanity thank you so much again for inviting us and covering our story all the best to all the audience members who are trying to start the business thank you thank you Shirak thank you so that's all for today we will meet some more motivating entrepreneurs in the upcoming episodes till then stay tuned for more such inspiring stories goodbye


we talked to our man Steve Rhodes. Now folks, you can check out Steve Rhodes every trading day with his newsletter, Mastering Probability. You head on over to the newsletter tab. You can do it while we're sitting here chatting with Steve. Talk to him. I think it was a couple of weeks ago, man, and we were talking about quite a price tag on this S&P and we got him back. Steve Rhodes, good afternoon. Hey, Tommy, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. How about yourself, man? Doing good. Do you have any skin in the game on the football game last night?  We got legal sports gambling in Florida now, baby, and I can't go against my homes, man. I mean, we're watching something pretty cool. I know you love sports, man. I hear you talking in your show and, of course, some of my dads. And boy, just as a sports fan, quite an awesome game last night to watch in person, man. Just sitting here in my chair right at my desk. Just pretty cool. What were your thoughts? Sure. That's really what you want, right? You want a great football game.  Can you imagine you pay all that money and then it's kind of a blowout? I know. Yeah. It's worse here. Just as a sports fan, just nice to have a great game. But, you know, and we obviously will never know if that point after was really the difference, because things would have changed. They had to block the point after attempt out there in San Francisco. It isn't amazing, Steve, how they work so hard all year. There's so much effort for all the organizations we know from playing sports. It's like you put so much into it, man, and these small little details. But when you're playing a one-game winter, oh, it's just brutal, man. Some of the passes, right? Some of the penalties I found myself saying, oh, man, is that going to be the difference when they had the chiefs had some tough penalties, man? So the whole deal. It was pretty cool, man. Great game. It was really following the golf as well. That was going on at the same time, because they had delays and so forth. And the golf tournament went into overtime. So I was flipping back and forth. But you and I were too young to have lived through the roaring 20s. Maybe it's going to be the new roaring 20s out there. We take a look back and try to understand what went on then, what might be going on now, what to be able to look for out here. So the roaring 20s, that rally began, I've got it beginning really in September of 1921 and lasting for eight years into September 1929. Now, we've never seen the Dow repeat this same type of a move over an eight-year period of time. And when I talk about eight-year period, Tommy, it averaged 60% per year. Amazing, man. I'm looking at that chart. Amazing. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So I went back and I went back to like 1896, just trying to find any period that came even close to this. And we didn't. But the important thing about this chart, because we're dealing with markets here that just seem to continue, as you say, kind of defy gravity, continue to move to the upside. We had a similar market, I would say, back in the 1920s. The important thing here, Tommy, is we're looking at a monthly timeframe chart. And those blue numbers at the bottom, those are showing consecutive moves lower out there. And we can see that once we got beyond the 20, once we got into 1925, all moves were two consecutive bars to the downside. So the buying opportunity, one was not inside the market at that time, was to, in essence, wait for a two-month pullback out there. And that's what's represented. And the red numbers up on the top of black digits out there, which is really unusual, is nine consecutive higher closes on a monthly basis. You just don't see that too often out here, probably more so in the Nasdaq, Tommy, than we would inside the Dow. But the point is this was a 1920s. And even during that gigantic rally, we still had time periods where the market moved back for two years. So what I've done here is this is a chart that the folks over at Seasonix provide me. And this tool allows me, here I've selected 1921 through 1929. So we're going from January to the end of the year. And this shows what the, how the market actually traded during that average eight-year period of time. And just simply, again, this just reiterates what I said on that first slide out there, is that we're not expecting, I wouldn't be expecting the market to just simply move in one direction. In fact, when you get a pullback of two months, that's a pretty nice pullback out there. Now this is a weekly chart. And this weekly chart takes us back to September 1921. And I wanted to understand what kind of pattern was present when the market was making a low and the market was generating what I referred to as a roadsman to indicator bottom. As you know, that's something that all subscribers get access to. I teach people about this. You don't necessarily need the automated tool like I've got in my charts in order to identify these. What we can also see here on a weekly basis, we talked about the monthly charts forming two consecutive monthly closes to the downside. And that set up the next rally out inside the markets. Here we can see that on a weekly base, we had a couple of different roadsman to indicator bottom patterns out there. Now, how important are those bottoms? If I just take a bar chart and I go back into those starts in the 1930s out here, if you take a look at the bottom out there, you'll see where these patterns actually form. And they identify pretty significant buying opportunities out there. So I'd say that the weekly bottom pattern, now that just takes us from the 30s into the 50s out there. So if we go from the 60s, 70s and 80s, we can see this pattern here. That's also formed. It's a very specific formula out there. So it's not just the matter that the pattern forms. It's a very specific formula that gets confirmed with a bullish or an atops bearish reversal candles here. If we take a look at the last 25 years, we can see that this signal has been present at every major bottom most recent one being the October 2022 weekly roadsman to indicator bottom pattern for the Dow Jones. Now, just out of, I don't think it's coincidence, but when we take a look at the October 27th, the most recent bottom that we had, Tommy, on a daily timeframe, that was also a roadsman to indicator signal that had identified that bottom. So this is a really great pattern for folks to learn. It's applicable to all timeframes, even intraday charting out there. Now, even though when I take a look at what's going on right now in the Dow, it's up 92 points. And here the Dow itself. So just focus on the Dow actually has a daily topping pattern out there. It happens to be the roadsman to indicator top. And it is present Tommy on the daily equity future contract, the daily cash index, and the Dow Jones industrial. So everybody can really follow this on the Dow diamonds. It's 38778. That's the number to watch your price close above that. This pattern gets negated and really talks about a strong further move to the upside inside the cash indices 3873862 and on the equity future contract 38892. Those are the levels to be watching out there. If we take a look at the Dow's weekly and monthly charts, that's what we have here Tommy on the right hand side there in what I see just a breakout bullish condition. So what this tells me that if we do get some kind of top and a pullback inside the Dow, that the like a two month a two month move lower is likely not in the equation as we speak right now. So what I want folks to really understand is that this is even since the October 2023 bottom Tommy and how these numbers just pop up. This is a daily timeframe charts here. The pullbacks have each been two or three consecutive moves lower before price moved higher out there. So today might just be, well, I don't know what this was taken on yesterday. So I don't it's clearly we're trading higher inside the Dow. But as you said it, I got the diamonds at 38787. So we're right there man. This is pretty amazing. Yeah, Steve, I appreciate you bet you bet. I appreciate it folks head on over. Mastering probability is right on the front page of TFNN.com right now. You can check out Steve's outstanding newsletter for 149 bucks and it comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. You can't go wrong. Steve, thanks so much man. We look forward to the show tomorrow.


I'm Chad Holverson, CEO and founder of this Clix, makers of When I Work. So When I Work is a mobile employee scheduling software that makes it really, really easy for businesses that have hourly employees to schedule, communicate and coordinate your text message, email, social media and the web. So I used to work in a grocery store in 1998 and checking the schedule, knowing when you were supposed to show up was always the biggest pain in the butt. So I thought, man, it would be really cool if I could just go online and check the schedule for my computer. I built a prototype in 2000. It was pretty rudimentary, disgusting prototype. It didn't really work all that well. So after a false start, I parked it. I put When I Work on the shelf and I started a consulting company. When I looked at the market in 2008, it really clicked with me what missing ingredients there were from 10 years earlier. And that was a connected world and mobile. And it was with those two missing ingredients that went to work on building a prototype. And while building that prototype is when I met Dan Olfeldt, we built the first version of When I Work. We try to utilize as much mobile technology as we can, giving the managers the power of their business right on their mobile phone. We also allow employees to check their schedule by texting in to get updates about when they work. A lot of our customers have gone from spending 10 to 20 hours a week setting up the schedule for their staff and then once implementing our product going down to 30 minutes. We're here in a new office because we've been growing so quickly. We're going from 2,000 square feet to over 7,000 square feet. We have over 4,000 customers as of today paying businesses using our product. In addition to that, there's over 7,000 new businesses that sign up every single month to try the product. So things are really hitting their stride for us right now.