Hi everybody. Thanks so much for giving the time to listen to this recording. My name is Casey Seekman. I'm currently a software engineer and instructor at Prime Digital Academy. One of my responsibilities as an instructor is to teach my students how to code, but a bigger part of my job is effectively communicating with them and showing them how to effectively communicate with one another. To help me with this, I've read a ton of books, listened to TED Talks, listened to podcasts, watched countless YouTube videos, read articles, but something that has also really helped me other than just reading is being able to apply these things to my real life, in my personal life or my work life. And I've been able to filter out what has worked for me and I'm here to share those items with you. So I'm going to share with you a concept that started my journey into understanding communication better and has had a big impact on me and my interactions with others. I even got my undergrad degree in communications, and I didn't really learn any of this stuff in college. This is all just kind of on my own because it was something that interested me. So this is definitely something that anybody can pick up and learn on their own time without having to be formally taught. So if you are here, hopefully that means you are interested in learning some good communication skills, some better communication skills and focusing on that. And that right there is already hugely important and powerful. Just the fact that you are willing and able to take a look at yourself and try to better yourself is something that's really admirable and something hopefully you can kind of spread around to others around you with your effective communication. So back to nonviolent communication. To quote an article, the key assumptions and intentions of NVC, they sum it up really nicely of what it is. NVC is based on the assumption that all human beings have the capacity for compassion and empathy and that people only resort to violence or behavior harmful to others when they do not recognize more effective strategies for meeting needs. So if you are here for a quick tip on how to solve all your communication needs with one easy saying, this is not quite the talk for you, learning how to be more effective at communicating, especially using nonviolent communication, takes quite a bit of work and it takes a lot of internal work. We have to start with ourselves. It doesn't even start with how you communicate with others. It's how you communicate with yourself. So it requires a deep dive into understanding ourselves first and analyzing our thoughts and feelings so that we can understand what needs are being met and what needs of ours are not being met and how that makes us feel and how we react to that because that is going to change the way we communicate with others. Once we have that information, we're able to collaborate with others to develop strategies and then make requests of others to help meet those needs. NVC is a guide that helps us kind of reframe how we express ourselves and how we hear others. I can only hope to pique your interest today because obviously we only have about a half hour here and so that'll just kind of scratch the surface of what NVC and other communication skills are available to us. So I'll be kind of presenting these new tools to you but it's up to you to grab one of those, put it in your tool belt and kind of I'm trying to think of like a thing to invest in your tools, polish it up, sharpen it, sharpen that tool. So it's going to be up to you to put it in the work and really focus on yourselves and pay attention to your communication. So to help pique your interest I'm going to break things down into the four categories of nonviolent communication and then I'm going to follow up with a couple other strategies that we can add on now to the nonviolent communication. So the first thing, the first part of nonviolent communication is observation, which is the concrete actions we observe that affect our well-being. The most important thing here is that these observations can't have any evaluation impressed upon them. It has to be just a straight up observation. This right here, if you're interested in anything after this talk, if you want to put time into anything, this is a great thing to put time into because it is harder than it sounds. I was just looking to see if I have the book close but I think it's in my office but even in the book Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg when he was told about this learning how to observe without putting on evaluations as soon as he heard that he remembers thinking to himself that's so stupid and so he right then and there he impressed his own values upon the statement of you needing to learn how to observe without evaluation. So it was kind of a funny anecdote that right off the bat he had just impressed his own evaluation on it and the thing about that is that it brings our own morals and ethics and judgment into what we are seeing instead of just being able to straight up see or hear what is presented we're already impressing our own thoughts upon it which changes the meaning of what we're observing. The second part of nonviolent communication is feelings, how we feel in relation to what we observe. This right here also takes a lot of work because I think especially in our culture in the U.S. we don't have a lot of, we don't focus on our feelings a lot. It's kind of seen as selfish to look inward and spend time with ourselves and really evaluate ourselves and we don't, there are words out there but we don't use a lot of words to express our feelings. We're happy, we're sad, we're mad, disappointed, angry but what kind of happy are you? Are you jubilant? Are you giddy? Are you excited? Are you gleeful? Are you just wide awake and buzzing? You know, like happy is kind of an umbrella term and it doesn't really get to what you're actually feeling. When you're sad, what do you mean by sad? What is causing you to feel sad? Are you lonely? Are you not feeling well? Are you disappointed in yourself? What kind of sad are you? If you aren't able to really dig down into how you're feeling, it's going to be hard for you to express yourself to others so that they can help you. If I'm sad, that doesn't really tell you a lot of, it doesn't really give you a lot to go on. If you want to help me and I just tell you I'm sad, what does that mean? I could be anxious, I could be depressed, I could be lonely, disappointed, guilty feeling. There are a lot of different ways that somebody could feel sad and so the more specific you get, the more others will be able to help you and the more specific you get with yourself, the more you'll be able to realize what needs are not being met and what you need to do to get those needs met. In the book along with that anecdote, there's also just like four pages, two or four pages. I can't remember because it's either one full page for good feelings, one full page for bad feelings or it's two full pages for each. I can't remember but there are just like pages of words to describe our feelings and it's a lot of stuff we would never use in our everyday conversations so kind of starting to build those words into our vocabulary can be super helpful for expressing ourselves. The third part of nonviolent communication are needs. You've been hearing me talk about unmet needs. We resort to this kind of violent communication when our needs are being met so now we have observed, we have our feelings and we have now we're figuring out the needs that aren't being met that lead to that. So needs are the needs, values, desires, etc that create our feelings and so you kind of work backwards a little bit here because you want to identify your feelings first so that you can get to the need that is not being met or is being met. If you're feeling jubilant, gleeful, proud, you're able to kind of track that back to see what need was being met that made you feel that way or if you're feeling sad, depressed, anxious, disappointed, lonely, you can identify that feeling and then start to trace it back to what caused that, what need was not being met that caused you to feel this way. And the last part of nonviolent communication is requests, the concrete actions we request in order to enrich our lives. Once you have been able to identify your feelings and the needs that have caused those feelings, you're now better equipped to now outwardly communicate. Here's the final moment when we're actually communicating with others instead of just consuming information, analyzing ourselves, we're now able to communicate with others now that we have that information. So once we get to that point, we're able to make requests that are actually going to help us and that we can specify and correctly state so that others can actually help us instead of being like, I'm just sad, you know, that doesn't give the other person a lot to go on. That doesn't, if they want to help you, human beings love to help each other, it's inherent. We want to help. And when we can't help somebody, it kind of tends to make us shut down. So the more specific we can be with our requests, the more likely we are to get the help that we need and to get the needs met that make us feel good. So NVC allows us to connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. I can say that it has impacted me the most in being able to understand my own feelings. Like if it sounded like I was really passionate about understanding yourself, that's because that's the biggest thing that has happened for me. I used to feel like I was being controlled by my emotions and I had such a hard time snapping out of things. I would just sit and stew and just kind of dig my heels in. I viewed things through a very negative filter. If someone didn't respond to my email, it's because they didn't care about me being successful. And if someone was late to dinner, it was because they didn't respect my time. But those feelings, but those were the feelings that I was impressing onto those events. Those were just events. Someone was late to dinner. Someone didn't respond to my email. And that quickly, I told myself a story. I impressed my own evaluation on those events of like, they don't care about me. They don't care about my success. They don't care about my time. But nothing in those situations said that. That was all me. So Karen didn't respond to my email because she was slammed at work trying to get a report out the door that she feared she could lose her job over. My friend was late for dinner because they forgot their cell phone at home, which they needed to find the place and then also couldn't text me because they left their cell phone at home and had to turn around for it. But because I didn't recognize the root of my feelings, I wasn't correctly able to express myself. And that in turn gives them the opportunity to fill me in on the real information and gives them insight into my feelings. Instead, I huff and puff and hold a grudge. And then I probably act like everything is fine. It's fine. I just shut down. But then that changes my interactions with them in the future.  She doesn't care about me. I don't care about her. You know what? My friend's late for dinner. I'm going to be late for dinner instead of having a conversation with them right away. Can you imagine if my friend would have showed up for dinner? I'd be like, Hey, man, you were you were late. Like that makes me feel really just like kind of dispensable. That's really bummed me out. And I'll be like, Oh, my gosh, Casey, I'm so sorry. I forgot my cell phone. And then I had to turn around and I didn't want to text you because I wanted to start driving right away. And then I was driving and I couldn't text. So that was my mistake. I'm so sorry. And that would have made me feel so much better. And if I would have said to Karen, like, Hey, when you don't respond to my emails, it makes me feel like you don't really care about my projects. Like I have projects too. And and it makes me feel like you don't care about my projects. And then Karen can say like, I'm so sorry. I saw your email. I was just heads down on this project. I had to get out by five.  And it kind of slipped my mind. I really apologize. If I would have had the conversations with them. I think everything would have been cleared up. It would allow me that moment of I would have to be vulnerable and let them know that their actions, even if they weren't malicious on purpose, they still hurt me. And I think that's hard to admit that we get hurt by people's actions, even if they're not trying to hurt us, especially when they're not trying to hurt us, because then we seem like maybe we're overreacting. But in those scenarios, I'm losing out on the opportunity to connect with myself and connect with those other people connect with Karen connect with my friend from dinner and find some compassion in the relationship, instead of building a bigger and bigger wall that keeps me further and further away from those people. It might feel weird at first. And I feel like TMI, just like I said, like it might feel kind of weird to be that vulnerable and let somebody know that what they did kind of hurt you. It might feel too mushy or emotive, especially for work. But if you're open and honest with yourself, then you can start to be open and honest with others. Once you kind of start to realize like how you're feeling and what's causing that feeling.  There was one day I got super upset, because me and my partner drove to like a cupcake shop or something and they were out of like the cupcake that I really wanted. And I kind of stewed about it.  I'm upset because I didn't get the cupcake that I wanted. And it totally came off to my partner as me being upset with them or just being upset at the situation.  Is it really the cupcake? And as soon as I said out loud, I'm just really disappointed they didn't have that one cupcake I really wanted. Drove all the way out here and we didn't get it. And I'm just like, disgusted.  And we were able to laugh about it and kind of move on with our night. And I, because normally before all of this, I would have just like stewed, but then I would have felt bad about stewing. And I wouldn't want to speak up because the reason was so insignificant and just ridiculous. But instead, and then I would keep it inside and be upset about it all night, which is even worse. So that is definitely, I can tell something right there that has changed for me. So that's kind of my personal story. I have stuff written down. So I'm trying to keep notes of where I'm going. And now I kind of lost my place because I've tried, I have like, like a scaffold of what I want to say. So if you're open and honest with yourself, then you can be open and honest with others. And it feels so good to have that connection. If you are able to do that and open up with others about how you feel and what you need, I think you'll actually be pleasantly surprised to find out that others are grateful for the opportunity to connect and to give by allowing them that sight into yourself. You're opening up a connection without having to really say like, Hey, let's hang out, let's connect. You are actually walking the walk. You're showing them that that the connection between you two means enough for you to be open and honest with them and be vulnerable. And the other person is going to be grateful that they can help, that they can be there to listen and hopefully give and give something to you that is going to help you. Human beings enjoy giving. We inherently enjoy contributing to others when we've connected with our own and others' needs and can experience that giving coming from like our choice. When we are able to choose to give, it's the best feeling. When we're able to decide, like, see that opportunity in front of us, somebody has said, I need help. When you're able to help them, it's a pretty amazing feeling. When we present, when we prevent ourselves from giving, we present, we prevent ourselves from making connections and then doing our best work. When we make connections, we build trust and building trust can lead to having critical conversations where some amazing work can happen. Critical conversation sounds like a bad thing, but it is a good thing because that is when real stuff is talked about. And it's helpful to have trust built up because then you can speak to each other without having to dance around the issue. If you have those experiences of opening up to them and communicating with them and telling them how you're feeling, what your needs are, and making requests, that slowly builds up trust between the two of you because that then allows them to do the same to you. And when you have that type of communication, the trust is building and building and building so that when you say something to the other person, especially if it's maybe feedback or something that might be hard to hear, if you have trust built up between you, they will hear that piece of feedback coming from a person that they know cares about them and they won't just get defensive right away. They're going to hear that feedback and say, Casey has been really awesome in the past. She's been helping me. I think this is just another piece of feedback that's going to help me. She's not saying this to be mean. She's not saying this to cut me down. She's saying this because she wants to see me succeed. I know this is coming from a place of good. We have this trust built up. If you haven't had a chance to build up that trust, if it's kind of like at a new place or if you've been there for a while and you haven't had the chance to really connect with somebody and build up the communication, build up that trust, you can kind of inoculate your feedback or the conversation that you're about to have because emotional responses are inevitable. It's the way our brains are wired. The stimuli hits the emotional part of our brain, I think right here, before it hits the logical part of the brain. It's evolutionary. It helped us survive for so long. That's what prompts the fight or flight. When people get a stimuli, it's going to hit the emotional core first. If it's not what they're expecting, they're going to get defensive. If the trust has been built up, their filter that they're viewing things through is already more positive. But if the trust hasn't been built up yet, that filter, that emotional part might say, this is negative, this is negative, this is negative, and then it hits the logical part, but the emotional part is so strong, it's pretty hard to overcome that. Knowing that the other person is going to have an emotional response, it's inevitable. We can try to prep the receiver by inoculating the conversation. You can do this by making sure you're explicit about your interest in their success and well-being. Saying sentences like, I really appreciate the work that you're doing here, and I'm super excited to work with you. I know that our boss is pretty strict about coming in on time, and I think you just need to make sure you're in by nine, because I really don't want to see anything bad happen. I just know he's a stickler about that. Or it's been great working on a team with you. You've helped me better understand Redux, and I know you hold the success of the group very highly. But sometimes when we're in a brainstorming session, you can kind of, it feels like you might be talking over me, and it makes me feel like my opinion doesn't matter. Something like that. Something where it's kind of like the Oreo method.  You can still end this with a compliment to kind of sum it up, but kind of prepping your receiver to kind of already feel a little more relaxed. Like prepping them to know that what you're about to say might be a little sour, but it's coming from a place of good. You're not telling them this to make them feel bad. You're trying to help them. Another benefit of building that trust is, again, being able to have those crucial conversations where some really amazing work can happen. Being in a trusting environment means that people can be open and honest, and that real debates can happen. Not debates where somebody is just trying to win the conversation. It's like, no, choose this, choose this, choose this, and they're not actually listening to one another. I've been in so many meetings like that where the trust isn't there. So when somebody has an opposing opinion, this person thinks it's because they're just butting heads and that they can't actually listen to this person and hear their opinion, they just want to win the conversation. And they now just want to win the conversation because this person just was like arguing with them and not actually listening to what their opinion was, what their new idea was. So then it's just like no listening and just arguing, and then the meeting is over, and then you have to schedule another meeting to go over the same thing. It is so draining, especially being someone that's just watching this happen. So some really great work happens when people can be open and honest and discuss their ideas and listen to other people's ideas and not worry about winning the conversation, but about winning the, like not all winning the conversation, it's about finding the direction that's going to give your team the most success, using that as your North Star, being like, I, at the end of this meeting, I want us to choose a database, right? And so at the end of it, the goal is to choose a database. The goal is not to win the argument. So be sure when you go into one of these conversations, you focus on the goal and not winning the argument. Because winning the argument, it kind of means nothing. Yeah. So actually, I have a story for you. I heard it on a Freakinomics episode, and it was called How to Make Meetings Less Horrible, I think, Less Terrible, something like that. But it was basically about an architecture firm that's 70 years old, and they were about to figure out their vision for the future. And they were debating whether to maintain being an architecture firm, which meant in their case, whether to continue being bricks and mortar, building buildings, basically, or whether to pivot and become a design firm. And there was a real disagreement in the firm, but you wouldn't know it by being in the room. Anytime somebody would say something even related to one of the possible visions, everyone would shrink back. They were not willing to go there. It was very polite, you know, like very Minnesotan. But because this team hadn't built up that trust between them, because they didn't feel comfortable expressing their true feelings about this, and this is huge. This is like this 70 year old firm figuring out what direction they were about to go in. It's a big deal. And people weren't saying anything. It ended up the person that came in to consult, they told her, it's like, we need some heat. We need something to spark this conversation. And they kind of did like a mock wrestling ring and had one person be the architecture firm and one person be the design firm. And then they had sides and people, I think, were so distracted by the pump and circumstance of it all, by the visuals, they were able to kind of let down their guard and say exactly what they wanted to say is like, this is why I think we should be a design firm. This is why I think we should be an architecture firm. And they were able to open up. And so I don't know if that exercise had any long term effects, but maybe it showed them that things can get done when you have real conversations and when you're able to really be open and honest and express how you feel about something. And knowing that just because I say I disagree with that direction doesn't mean that I disagree with you and that I don't like you or that I'm saying that you have a bad idea. All I'm saying is that I disagree with that. And here's why I want to go in this direction. So knowing that you can be open and honest and tell each other how you feel without being worried about hurting their feelings. And knowing that you're both there to move the company forward, move the team forward. So not being able to effectively communicate is preventing us from doing our best work. You'll notice when you work in groups, and if you work for your group projects, when you're working together, sometimes the code is not the hardest part. I'm sure you had those thoughts where it was like if I could just do this project on my own, I would have it done in a day. So obviously communicating and working with humans is really hard. And when we are able to streamline that and really focus on effectively communicating and get it really just like click in, get click in with each other, that project that you could have done by yourself in a day can now maybe get done by lunchtime. When you have that efficient team that is effectively communicating, it kind of gets to the point where it's like if you are on a wavelength, you can communicate in kind of short bursts. You kind of speak like a different language with one another. You get on the same wavelength with your team members when you get that trust and that communication flowing.  People are looking to you to understand the vibe of the environment. If you are stoic and quiet, they will probably do something very similar. But if you are open and honest, they will feel like they're allowed and maybe even expected to be open and honest as well. And that's when the really exciting ideas are shared. When coworkers become a team and you become a leader. So in VC, it requires you to give from the heart. None of this can be faked. You have to really honestly want the best for the people that you are engaging with. You want to have them be successful because you know that that in turn is going to help you be successful. Or maybe just because you really like them. So it requires you to give from the heart. Be compassionate and care. It's not a silver bullet to fix all your problems. But I think if you start to incorporate these ideas into your life and really pay attention to communication and not just let it happen. It can happen so easily.  So bringing your attention back to what you're saying, how you're feeling, what your needs are can open up new feelings, new opportunities and new doors. All right. That is it for me.


Hey guys, so if you're wondering why this is happening with my hair, it's because I'm getting it done today And we me my hairstylist were very inspired by Why don't you come in here and talk about it? This is Robert Tina not to be confused with Tina Turner Tina Turner. So today Robert, what are we doing? We are gonna turn you into a beautiful Sprite can We saw this in a store. We didn't really actually this is all me I just picked up a few spray cans just to give you guys some imagery of what we're working with today You did read the title right? I am transforming into a sprite living queen I just thought like what have I not done with my hair? I have not done yellow and I have not done Green so like what better day to do it than right now when my hair looks this bad And I have nothing to lose so we're gonna cut it We're gonna color it and it's gonna be so much better and I'm gonna feel like a human again inspired by Sprite So therefore we're doing what are we doing? We're doing like a half We're gonna do half green half yellow where they all intersect in the middle It's just gonna be large somebody should honestly just do a reaction video reacting to how bad my hair looks right now Because I deserve all the hate. Please leave a hate comment about my hair right now Please just on my life. I understand I always tell everybody else their hair looks bad And honestly mine has never looked worse, but I did it because I want to get it transformation So it was all for you guys. You're welcome.  Okay, so this this is the original logo So like I want to do a little like line thing and then do like a green and a yellow But like right so you want to see that and I wouldn't understand if you wouldn't want to I don't know you're crazy. All right, Robertina.  Let's do it I'm so excited Robert. I'm so excited.   My hair lightens really easily. So that's kind of my secret people are always like wait Why is your hair gets away? And mine doesn't I'm sorry. It has nothing to do with like the technique. It's just like she's blessed It's just I have a like I think level six. Yeah, I think like level seven six and a half seven. Yeah, like prime color for Bleaching totally. Oh my god. I've never looked better. Yeah, give me katoa. Oh my god. I look so bad Oh my god, I'm embarrassed. All right, so we're gonna first mix up what our beautiful guy Tang cream liner I love this lightener you guys. I'm forcing him to use it for the first time and he's gonna love it I'm actually really excited. I've been wanting to try it. It lightens so White and fast. It's just easier to apply it We're gonna use 40 volume first in the back of my head with Ola Plex Which is gonna make into a 30 volume Yes, so we just put a little one sixteenth of an ounce of Ola Plex with our 40 volume guy Tang My identity my identity How's your technique? So normally with my double processes I like to start right at the apex of the head and then work my way down the back And then that's when I start working on my front because this hair around the hairline's a little bit more fragile than everything else We want to make sure she keeps all her hair Oh, also there is a haircut in like months and months six months. You said six months. Yeah I was planning on growing it out really long and now I don't want to So getting it cut again today. See you guys always think like I think I'm perfect I never have bad hair and you never like mess up anything. No, listen. I have bad hair, too I have bad hair moments. We all do a lot of hair cells have bad hair because we don't care for ourselves We care for other people, right? Hello, but it's like they program you in School to like really pay attention to other people's hair. Yeah, and it's like I walk down the street And I'm just like clocking every body. I see do we have any clippies?  Amazing actually if I could go back and talk to Bertha in Cosmetology school should be sure your teacher. No, that's me Bertha Robert Bertha. Come on Like she would literally be shook, you know, I always told my cosmetology teacher. I was like, I'm gonna be to New York She's like, okay, you know why I had to retake the test again in New York Why because I only had my license for a year when I moved here and to transfer from Massachusetts to New York It's like four years experience. You need to have with the license So I had to retake the test like go in do a mannequin do all this When I've already been doing hair for like so long even before I got my license It was so awful. I don't remember all those like nail diseases and all that kind of stuff Like it would just be so you guys cosmetology tests are so hard.  You name it. We have to do it It's intense just working in New York City to Everybody here that's a hairstylist wants to be the best hair stylist So there's a lot of personalities a lot of attitude you have definitely to pay your dues as an assistant You really do y'all So there's some people out there that think I'm not a real hair stylist Which is the funniest thing to me It was brought to my attention that there's reddit article that say I'm not a real hairstylist Which is so comical because the amount of shit go through to get to this point is stupid Just like licenses and everything like I just said I had to get two different licenses in two different states I had to go to school I had to work at my dad's salon for forever like as an assistant when I was like 13 to 18 Then I worked in Salon's in New York and then I did freelance like there's so much stuff Like be told I'm not a hairstylist is like absolutely absurd So all of you that think about a hairstylist and get off my channel. Thank you. Bye Anyways, yeah, yeah, I met this one when she was an assistant. We were both assistants at the same time It was so weird to go from being kind of a big deal in my salon back home in South Carolina Oh I thought I was hot and then like looking back now at when I first moved here. I was like, I didn't know a thing New York City got another level of like hair We all came here to do the best hair in the world, you know There's always that one girl on stripes always this one girl wanted stripes for me and I was like I am not doing stripes I'm not letting you walk the streets of my hair color looking like that, right? But see that's the biggest thing that people don't realize is it's our names that are attached to your head Even though you want something Very specific like stripes if it isn't gonna look good.  Mm-hmm, and then Never going there I was just always over a book to the max and wild Where the point where they would like just shove clients in your face and you're like I literally can't do another one, right? And they're like no you're doing it So what walk us through the inspiration? Hi sister Just filming right now. We're gonna slumber tomorrow. All right. The monos have to go out though Like what are people gonna do if the monos aren't out, right? It would be a crisis. All right, sweetheart. You keep me young Great What are you doing the salon a lot lately are we seeing new trends? It's really shifting back into like natural wearable hair Which I love haircuts are moving a little bit more edgy where I feel like maybe like a year two years ago Your colors edgy and your haircuts boring. Mm-hmm now It's more like let's have an edgy haircut with like a really beautiful natural color and I'm so here for that It's funny. Oh my god. Have I ever told you like drinking on a alter ego's name?  No, what is it? Her name's Tammy, of course legit Tammy. I'm like, you know Do you mean Tammy's are probably watching? Sorry I Mean if you're Tammy, you're probably a wild girl and I like wild wild. Yeah She's getting on top of the bar. She's taking her top off.  You rock it. I'm more for Brittany myself You know, yeah, you always have to praise your drunk self. Mm-hmm So that way they take care of you. Mm-hmm if you don't praise your drunk self. No, who else is gonna love your drunk self Exactly when I wake up in the morning and I like have my wallet and my phone like oh my life basically It's a good morning. Oh, that's what I'm like. Tammy. Thank you. You looked out for me girl No, you look at Tammy Tammy thank you. Tammy Thanks, girl Your profile is amazing. It's kind of fishy. It really is honey. Just like jawline right? It's all the work that I got done Ah, it's finally paying off. It's working Robert Tina just finished. Yes, ma'am my little process with 30 and 40 volume bleach And now we're gonna wait 45 minutes I'm gonna put a plastic bag on my head rinse it out and then hair cut and then let's do that Okay, and then we're gonna do the green and sprite inspired a moment. So get ready kids. We're gonna do it I'm an influencer. Okay. Let's go. Yes. Oh I have to go this way. You're so blonde. Drickle muffle It's home. So as you can see we just finished my color.  It's a little snippy Hello. Hello. Hi. I'm blonde again. Oh my god Come over now. I'm two blocks away. I'm coming over. I'll see you then I could not imagine you not having like a southern accent like what if I just busted out in like a british accent Can you just like a regular like american? Like no southern just make it like regular. Yeah, I just talk like that No, you still sound southern. I don't know how to do it. Who am I? Her cut is done done Done and now we're gonna mix up some koala Wait, why am I talking like that? I'm like so annoying. So we're gonna use pulp riot. Yes, ma'am today never use it He has amazing. You like it? I love it. Um, and we're gonna use amethyst and lemon Absence because amethyst is not green is it? It's purple Anyway, so we're gonna do one side of the lemon and then we're gonna mix a little bit of The absence with the lemon to make it like a limey lime green. Yes, ma'am. Great She's dark. She's real dark. Should we just do that? This looks good It literally looks like the color on a sprite can I think that's pretty much that's almost spot on. Wow Yes, ma'am. Oh, that is really spot on right? Lovely.  Let's do it. Why not? All right, show them that we're gonna do All right, we're gonna do a nice little squibble Should we take a hardcore squibble in the front though? Should we like start over here? Do you want to start over over there? Wait, what did I just do? No, this is the hardest thing I've ever done seriously Wait, okay. Now we're working.  I feel like if this is making me a little nervous. I'm scared It's okay. I'm already pulling my hair green and yellow. So it's the hardest part of the entire thing Wait, is this like too green? Oh, it's the exact color. Yeah, but do we want to like lime green? Smells good. I do like the way it smells Okay, that'll be fine. Yeah, that's it, right? We feel comfortable with this.  I don't know a lot of things that happen in my life like why they happen, but it felt right today So i'm going for it Okay, I don't even like soda we're going for it, but sprite if you want to sponsor me I'm here for you girl. All right. You can email my manager Should give you my rate Yes That is so satisfying. That is so satisfying Uh youtube anymore Y'all if that ain't the sprite can color.  Whatever it is I'm green Okay, yellow time Oh my god, that is so bright. That is so bright I literally look like a sprite can while mission accomplished. Are you seeing it? BAM On the money Roberto just finished my lemon lime sprites inspired look so we're gonna actually didn't finish it We're gonna let this process for 20 minutes and I'll be right back It's a lot Okay, this is definitely the most wild color I've ever done in my entire existence honey. We did it We're kind of living for it though Like it's definitely not for everybody. Um, and we definitely achieved my lemon lime Sprite fantasy minus the blue, but it's okay. You get the idea Oh my god, this is wild. She's like and you did such an amazing job. Thank you, baby You like you slayed it. You slayed my haircut. You slayed my color Make sure you guys follow Robert on instagram in the link below. He does amazing hair. You can see his work He also works at heroin salon in new york city. So if you guys want to visit him He does amazing color not just stuff like this. I know this is very wild But he does like very natural beautiful color also, which you can see on his instagram. Okay, robert Let's go eat some food and go show off this crazy look Let me know you guys think below and thank you guys so much for watching today. Thanks guys Don't forget to live your extra life and I will see you all next time peace


So, thanks very much. Sorry. I'm here to tell you a story of hope. It's really difficult in Scotland to actually talk about anything that's really positive because we are technically Calvinists, aren't we? We'd rather say no than say yes. If it's a nice day tomorrow, it will rain tomorrow. And our favourite sweeties are fishermen's friends extra strong. We seem to think that we're doomed. But I'm here to tell you about a country that's a 42-year law for violence. When we started about over 10 years ago, I remember going to see somebody really, really senior in the prison service, and I said, I want to do violence reduction. And he gave me a cup of tea and a biscuit. And I never went back to see him because he said it's too big, don't bother. Well, it is big and it's really complex and it's really worth bothering about because I don't know, there'll be many people in here who might have been touched by violence, but I never want to meet another set of parents who've lost someone through murder. I never want to speak to someone like Moira Jones' family who lost her through a horrific crime. I never want to go into jail and speak to some young women or some young men who start their narrative where they see when I was eight or see when I was five or see when I was 11. Because the things that happen to them when they're young and the crime and the chaos and the poverty, you can't change. Even now, when I'm dealing with people later on, I can make it better and not worse. But I can't undo 20 years of chaos. I can just try and ameliorate it. So I'm going to talk. Actually, I showed this, I had this slide up this morning on my computer and my husband said, oh my God, I can't believe you get invited anywhere. You're the most depressing person I know. And he said, and it's surprising they said that anybody's married you, including me. So, but I'm going to sort of have a canter through this. I've only got 15 minutes, so if this is a bit glib, you can ask me any questions later on. Firstly, we're allowed to argue about this. You can disagree with anything that I say as long as you come up with an alternative way of doing stuff. And secondly, I'm not going to talk about many stats because I genuinely believe this. If you torture them enough, they'll confess to anything. And I've been in the police a very long time and I'm an expert at it. So I'm not going to talk about much. So this is actually what's happening. I've not got any figures down there, but crime is coming down, absolutely. And you would expect demand to be coming down as well, but it's not, it's gone up. And you'd expect a prison population because crime is coming down to have gone down as well. And generally, it's remained the same. Although our young offenders population has gone down quite dramatically and it's a testament to some of the work that's gone on there that they've managed to prevent young people coming out the criminal justice system. It's something we can be hugely proud of and we'll see the benefits of that in coming years. And what's driving it, and this is my personal opinion, is fear, welfare changes, poverty, public sector reform, mental health issues and an aging population. We live in a complex society. It's, you know, there are some wicked problems that we're going to have to deal with in future years. And the police are not always set up to deal with it. We need great research to tell us how to do best evidence-based practice so that we can use the resources we have to effect greater change. So, this is what happened to us. I'd been away from Scotland for about, well, 18 years that I'd come back about 11 years ago from West Mercia, which was a really lovely constabulary and, you know, Worcester and whatever. I think we've had three murders in three years. And it was, I mean, it was a real rarity, you know, and people were really, oh, that's been a murder. And then suddenly I came back to Scotland and I'd been away for 18 years. And I realised it wasn't just we had one murder, but we had another murder and another murder. We actually had four in one weekend. And there was a story in the Daily Record and it was of a young 16-year-old boy who had bled to death in a gutter. And he'd been stabbed once, and a 74-year-old woman had come out and she'd cuddled on whilst he bled to death, crying for his mum. And I thought, you know something, this is our Rosa Parks moment. You know the bit when people stand up and say, we've had enough and nothing happened because people were enured to violence. Does anybody in this audience think that we didn't have a problem of violence? No. And I decided we'd do something different. So I went away because I'm really, really sad and I wrote a report for the chief constable and pretty much what I said was, chief, despite the best 30 years of policing, we've made he-ho difference to preventing violence. Now he was delighted, as you can imagine. You know what, we'd filled the prisons, but can I tell you, that experiment's not working. You know, if you think that jailing people is going to solve this, then frankly, America would have no crime because they've tried that experiment. They jailed 3.5 million people a year. It doesn't work. We have to think of things that are different. And then this came out and in 2004, it was the United Nations peace monitor. And what it said was, Scotland was the most violent country in Europe and Glasgow was the most violent city. Now you can imagine, visit Scotland, we're delighted. You know, come to Scotland, get chipped.  And then I got invited to Columbia. There was nothing I could do for them. You know, and it's really interesting, when you're faced with this, you have it, you can either, you can do two things, you can either say, these other countries can't be the coordinate right, or you can do that thing, you know that the zeitgeist. You know that the AA thing, my name is Scotland and we have a problem. And I think we did. I think we managed to carral enough people at that time to say that we had a real problem in Scotland and we needed to do something different. And I'm really pleased that we did because we had surgeons in the A&E departments. This isn't just about me, I didn't do this. In fact, not even a fraction of it on my own, I met some hugely brilliant people across the whole of Scotland who really tried to change things.  Now they get, I mean, they normally get about three a week now. And I know that sounds probably quite, you know, three a week, still not good. But can I tell you, it's a lot better than four a night. So, we decided we'd do something different because previously if you think about trying to address crime, we used the criminal justice model, which was you reported a crime, I then recorded it, we then investigated it, and then maybe caught someone and someone went to jail and we've been doing that for hundreds of years and that's why the prisons are full.  And we tried to think about it just like measles, how you caught it, who was at risk, what actually worked in trying to prevent it and then when we found what would prevent it, we'd scale it up. Scotland is the only country that took on a public health model to reduce violence in the world. I'm the only police member of the World Health Organization and I'm incredibly proud that we did that because people didn't say, oh that will never work. They actually thought, you know something, let's try something different because what we've done's not worked. So this is what it is, this is public health in a nutshell. Surveillance, first find out what you don't know. Secondly, identify your risk and protective factors and get some research, and that's why we need people like yourselves who give me some of the evidence base to then decide what I'm going to do. And then, develop interventions and sometimes you need to invent them and you also sometimes have to fail. I have failed spectacularly things, I've got a whole lecture I do in failure, I quite like it, it appeals to my Calvinist thing. And then what you do is you scale it up. So that's public health and that's what we did. And surveillance was really important because that line across the bottom was pretty much all our violence levels, our violent crime levels, the stuff that we recorded in the police. And then what I said to the A&E consultants, could you just count the amount of people who are coming in as a result of violence? And this was a real figure. So when the chief constable was standing up and saying, crime is up 2%, down 3%, up 5%, down 6%, frankly it made no difference because there was a whole section of the community out there who were thinking one or two things, you're either a liar or you don't know what's happening. Because there was a whole range of people who didn't want to report crime for a whole range of reasons, sometimes they were a victim, sometimes they were a fender, sometimes they didn't trust the police. There was a whole range of reasons. I don't commit violence, I don't think. We needed to flush it out and we actually needed to try and get people to increase the amount that we knew about because otherwise we couldn't deal with it because that's like, you know, we were deploying police officers based on 30% of the jigsaw puzzle. So it was impossible, so surveillance was really important. And then we started to look at what do you do then? So we started to look at the teachable moments when we could start to effect change.   You know, that's your teachable moment, prosheco en dichlimenti, the motivation to change. And public health says you do four things. You do look at primary prevention. If you really want to change something, you do primary prevention, secondary prevention, tertiary prevention and changing social norms. Now I'm just going to talk about a few of them really quickly because I don't have a great deal of time. First off, parent time. Kids follow their parents. Great parenting is as close as it gets to being magic without being magic. In the early years work that's going on in Scotland will reap rewards way beyond the money that's put in just now because I've got so many kids who don't have that good parenting model and there's a big campaign just now to start to look at a kindergarten system for kids just now up until the age of seven where we think about play and try and develop all the skills that help us get through life without bumping into violence because early years is where you get communication, problem-solving, team-working, empathy. These are all the skills that you have that help you get through life without bumping into violence and drugs and chaos and help you make good decisions about your life and if you don't get it, it's really difficult later on because when I look at some of the adverse childhood events that some of the people that I have having their background it's pretty overwhelming. If you have one or two of these, you might be able to survive and get through it. If you have three or four or five, your chances of developing alcoholism, heart disease, and a whole range of other problems is hugely raised and the people I work with have every single one of them in their background. Their lives are incredibly complex. Before they even get to school or they're dealing with a complexity that most of us don't even understand and we will look at things like some of their life experience the first two years is when babies' brains grow and develop and if you're living in chaos and stress that really affects you and what we know is that when we've got some of these kids who are growing up in domestic violence and addiction and parents have mental health problems and there's neglect for normal kids, if you're at rest and then you get a threat you get the fight or flight reaction and then you become exhausted and you recover and then you're at rest again for the kids who have brought up in that chaotic environment they remain at that fight or flight now you will all have met these people and pubs you know the guys that you meet in the pub and they're always in the balls of their feet you know that they're always in the balls of their feet and then you bump into them and you spill their pint and they're like you know it's the big movements who you're looking at you know what are you doing because they're always at that fight or flight reaction and it's really really difficult to try and to try and deal with these kids in a classroom because they become anxious they're disengaged they're poor learners they have this over-preserving life-brain because if you're a kid and you're brought up in domestic violence every time you hear the rattle of the door you're not sure whether someone's going to come in and they're going to beat your mother there's going to be food in the fridge they'll live lives of chaos and it's incredibly difficult so for me parenting has always been one of the biggest strands of the violence reduction strategy and there's some great work now by Mark Bellis who said that if we could reduce some of the adverse childhood events we could reduce violence by 60% in Scotland early sex by 33% heroin crack cane use by 60% when you think that violence costs about 4% of the GDP of this country now I don't know what it is now since the recession but it used to be about 160 billion a year imagine what you could spend that money on so this is really worth doing if you're not convinced by the moral cost of doing this even the financial cost should start to get you thinking about why it's important everybody takes a responsibility in this because no one is safe until everybody is safe we all have a responsibility to do this this is not my responsibility it's not a public service responsibility it's ourselves, it's Scots and it's community members and it's family members to try and make this country the safest country in the world but I know that lots of the kids I can't undo lots of this stuff but what I do know in some of the evidence base that's coming out now is that if we build resilience in these kids it can help them overcome some of the challenges that they have in their background the Swedish Children's Commissioner said to me can what you need is dandelion children and I was like I don't know what dandelion children are and she says these are children who are brought up in really dreadful circumstances who thrive despite the worst of circumstances and what makes a difference to them is resilience and a good role model in their life 60% of the households in Glasgow who are single occupancy are single parent households I've got whole groups of young men who are growing up without any idea about what it is to be a man in 21st century Scotland now I'm quite a strident feminist who do I know in but I realise that you guys are really important and there is something about masculinity and what it is to be a man that I think we need to have a conversation with and particularly with some of our young men because they don't know what it is to have a good relationship they don't know what it is to deal with women in a different way how to interact with a world without thinking that you have to you know solve everything by violence and this is tertiary prevention because obviously we still have to deal with those who are affected so um I'm just going to talk about a few things so we'd um I'd been talking to dentists because if I punch you in the face not that I'm likely to the first thing you lost was your teeth and I thought I wonder what dentists say you know and I went up to a group in Aberdeen and I'd said to the dentists I said has anybody ever seen domestic violence in their chair and this guy put up his hand and he said he said oh I had a woman in my chair he said two weeks ago he said she had cigarette burns on the top of her mouth where somebody had stubbed cigarettes out in her mouth I said right I said what did you say to her and he said I said nothing because I didn't know what to say so we decided we'd train all the vets with them Dr Christine Goodall who runs medics against violence here and we'd train them to intervene when someone came in as a result of domestic violence you know that this isn't an injury I would normally see in my chair you're in a safe place they would ask they would document they would refer onwards to specialists even if the victim didn't want to report right then we had some of the documentation so that if she decided to do it later on she would have some evidence base it's been the easiest thing I've ever to do because dentists I don't know whether you've noticed lots of dentists really talk to you you know I mean normally when your mouth is full of cotton wool but they were ideally placed to ask people and facial injury is actually one of the most common outcomes of violence so it was an easy thing to do and then we also decided to train vets we put every homicide on a database and we started to look at the backgrounds and particularly for women for violence against women and what we found was lots of the cases where there was real serious violence against women there was animal abuse in the back I'm conscious that you might have to edit this out but we had people who would squeeze guinea pigs to death in front of them saying you leave and this is what I'll do at you they would break dogs legs you have no idea about how horrendous domestic abuse is until you read some of the stories and the narratives behind it and you realise the control that people exert over it so we decided we'd train the vets because what happened was the women generally took the dogs or the animals to the vets and the vets it was a chance to intervene now it's a really complex course because you've trying to pick up non-accidental injury but again the vets were fantastic the first time we did the course I had someone who phoned me up on the Monday it says you're never going to believe this she says I had a woman in and a dog wear an inconsistent three breaks on its leg and she said and I thought I'm just going to have a try now it didn't quite work out the way she wanted but she said I thought it was an integrity test by the violence reduction unit I said oh yes we sit outside and break dogs legs and send them in just to see if you're intervening although I haven't taken it off my tactical menu yet but do you know that you can get people to do great things the fire service the fire service are no longer doing point and squirt because we're not trying chips quite so much which is a good thing on a whole range of levels people so they decided but what they're doing is they're putting in smoke detectors on people's house people like fire service and the fire service decided that they were also going to get trained in picking up signs of violence in the house and they were also going to intervene I've met so many people across a whole range of lives hairdressers, beauticians who've all wanted to do something because this is about creating a group of people who all want to say something so I had a bit of an argument on the BBC where we were talking about training hairdressers because you get clumps of hair missing from people and we trained some of the hairdressers to intervene in a really low key way and this woman phoned up and she said I disagree she said I can't believe you're doing that she said these women just why don't you go to the hairdressers and look good and I said what if that's the only time someone's ever said are you all right you know you don't have to put up with this you can there's a different there's something else we can do here Adam Smith said way back in 1776 the empathy was the glue that kept society together see the standard you walk by is a standard you accept I get myself in loads of really difficult situations let's not mention football you know because I just think we all have to try and do something different oh zero I'm at zero can I just put that last one up this is my zero two years ago when we had the calm wealth games I had a this is we took I had a bit of brinksmanship with the calm wealth games did you know that if you had any criminal conviction you weren't allowed to work at the calm wealth games so we flattened your community centres we built velodromes that you couldn't afford to go into in areas that you were going to have be looking at for the next 20 30 years and yet you weren't allowed to you weren't allowed to be there and so I decided I would um I'd have a game of brinksmanship and said I think that's dreadful we should really we should really do something and Scottish government were very good and gave me some money and I did the most unusual job descriptions ever and I'd put a job advert out in alcoholics anonymous narcotics anonymous the jails the homeless and the girls who were working in the sex industry and I said come and work at the calm wealth games and then we did interviews and it was that interview thing you know that you know we did that old interview question why should we take you and this girl who was about seven stone and had been in drugs and a whole range of other things she says oh I wouldn't take me so we did you know and we had a guy who walked five miles on his birthday to come for the interview and we took him too and we are the most motley group we were pretty much all addicted we work an abstinence based programme and we took them and we worked at the calm wealth games we navigate them for 18 months 80% of them are in full time jobs and I had a phone call from a journalist who said to me can you tell me because we paid them as well because you need to earn square money this isn't all about volunteering your life needs to be predictable, understandable and manageable and you need to have a sense of hope and this journalist phoned me and she said can you tell me why you're working with these bad boys and I was like here we go again and I said to her can you tell me what you tack this is this week as you'll you'll have to guess what newspaper this was I said is it welfare scroungers or you don't want me getting those bad people jobs I said because it's one or the other and I could hear at the end of the phone saying damn and she says it's welfare scroungers I said well I'm getting them to be part of the wealth creation of Scotland because lots of the people there make themselves really hard to like and really hard to love and they've done serious jail time but between them they had 147 children and I really love their kids and I need their kids to see their mums and dads going out to work because that's how I really think that we're going to change Scotland in the future and make it better for everyone so for all of you I know there's some great people on this audience who've who'll make a contribution going forward it's a great journey to be on and um I hope I'm not going too much over time thanks very much


Hey everyone we'll come back to counter side so today we'll discussing the update for January 5 it will happen at 7 a.m to 9 a.m GMT plus 7 so as you can see here with the update object is all servers compensation is quartz 300 turnium is also 1000 so for the details of the update so new content ship a new ship bridge mark to release so so far we are actually hyped for the ship the rating for the ship is actually insane so we'll go through the review in a while we'll just finish this the details for this update number two is going to be your new challenge act for unlocked number three is going to be new challenge plow is gear material search unlocked okay number four is going to be your placer queen contract mission starts so an event regarding the placer queen number five is going to be replace her season punch in so this will be from january 5 up to february 2 okay number six is going to be new operator recruitment uh replace her king probability up so he is going to be a operator with this one i hope he's available through the shop and number seven is recruit new classified recruitment replace her queen probability up so this is the real deal guys we have a new awaken banner for the replace her queen so i'll have a separate you know a separate video on specifically on her and a comparison to a similar unit or to a rival unit apart from her um at number eight we have a shop added ship launch special package to the shop then at nine added replace her update celebration classified recruitment package volumes one two and three so way to go for the first update for the year so there is a couple of optimizations here including this update so just the rewards in counter testimonial sr counter testimonial ssr and task planet testimony ssr adjusted the following employees so there's a adjustment for awakened hilde special skill leaves backward into the air and crashes into the ground inflicting aoe damage afterwards creates a non-cancelable barrier by 25 of max hp and becomes immune to all kinds of hits done for this barrier's duration ultimate skill as well there is a change level one charges forward and inflicts aoe damage on contact with the first enemy in her patch or path probably the increases damage taken by 30 percent and immune to all non-permanent debuffs for 10 seconds afterwards or onwards level level five casts some special skill ignoring its cooldown and during the debuff so another um change in the skill which is awakened you mean as well passive is level five perfect evasion and attack speed plus plus 30 percent for four seconds after deployment same effect after passive is cast special skill charges at the target and swings her sword including aoe damage and surrounding the enemies then then she fires a blaster upwards inflicting additional damage aoe damage the skill of the target damage but the last attack sealed for six seconds bosses included so ultimate skill hits done targets in special skill mode so those are the changes for the following um awakened units so these are going to be good changes but let's move on to my review for both replacer queen and also blue bridge mk2 i'll also be reviewing the replacer king as an operator so let's go into it okay guys so we have here ssr replacer king as an operator so as you can see here in his rating he is an f in pve and a d in pvp so again nothing too special with his kit so let's check out his abilities guys soldier on level one adds attack speed reduction immunity and attack speed and ultimate damage to all allies for 15 seconds level eight attack speed reduction immunity 12 percent and 30 percent ultimate damage to all allies for 15 seconds so definitely um kind of weird skill to have skill trigger order is defender sniper and striker also a weird order for this operator so let's check out his analysis so i just want to read this one for a long time both replacer king employee and operator were considered a meme because they were they were useless till a few months ago rk employee was buffed and now is really good in pvp but operators operators rk likes forgotten by developers so again um his operator version needs a lot of love moving forward so again pros no prongs uh no prongs no pros and for his cons is everything so he needs to be redone or he needs to be rehashed or you know i don't know what's the term but he needs to be improved for him to be usable and counter side okay guys let's take a look at ssr blue ridge mk2 so for pve his rating is an s and pvp is an ss so uh with that rating alone i guess he is going to be a must summon for all of us um let's take a look at his abilities guys so blitzkrieg increases deployment increases deployed unit speed and attack speed for 40 seconds max upgrade bonus deployed units speed and attack speed plus 40 for eight seconds next is advanced forward base so this is going to be his active skill blitzkrieg is going to be his passive skill fires a high speed rocket containing supplies casts a buff in the selected area that increases skill haste and recovers hp for eight seconds so nice this is going to be good especially for um rush teams um if you want to do more skill haste and while they have hp recovery as well max upgrade skill haste plus 20 percent and hp plus 2.5 percent uh per second for eight seconds okay so the last uh uh active skill that we have is advanced gunfire wave so drops three structurally improved paratrooper pods onto the selected area inflicting damage worthy land and deploying a shieldman a rifleman and a sweeper once every 10 seconds this is kind of interesting max upgrade please a pod that deploys up to three units successful deployment decrease the pods hp by 40 percent so again a very interesting ship um kind of good for everybody um these ones the um the advantage gunfire wave is going to be good whether you are a mech or a soldier-based team or a counter-based team so definitely a must summon or a must construct for everyone okay so here is our queen so assr replace her queen range attacker that meterizes enemies and continuously enhances herself so as you can see her rating for pve especially so this one she is a must pull guys if you're not concentrating in pvp she can definitely help you in pve so take note everybody must get her by tomorrow that's just a joke so as long as she has her banner everybody must get her so again pve uh she's going to be good in pve um abilities basic attack fires an every energy projectile at enemies in front why can't i speak well so she's a sniper by the way counter and her deployment cost is five that is where her value is definitely going to summon for her tomorrow so shackles permanently increase her skill haste by one percent up to 15 percent every time any unit in the field is killed after every fourth basic attack she knocks surrounding enemies backward and stuns it target and seals its skill for three seconds so again a very good passive skill and this one the valid hits is going to be two so next is going to be queen's gambit her special skill vertically discharges uh energy inflicting aoe damage on enemies on the broad areas stuns the affected areas so this is going to be good crowd control as well and her ultimate skill which is checkmate summons a globe that follows an enemy and repeatedly inflicts aoe damage in a broad area so again she is going to be a must pull probably one of the top snipers that we have in this game um especially that she is an awakened unit and especially that she is only costing you a deployment cost of five so again a must pull tomorrow guys be sure that you have your currencies ready for the class classified recruitment contracts because you will be sure to pity her if you don't get her early okay so that is it guys for this review and for the update tomorrow hopefully i'll be doing a summon session for tomorrow for the placer queen and i'll see you there as we summon for the replace her queen tomorrow and i'm not sure with uh blue blue bridge mk2 i don't have the components for that but definitely for this one for the queen i will be waiting for her tomorrow to come home thank you guys um hopefully um if you've gone this far please do consider subscribing because this helps my channel a lot thank you stay safe take care there's the warden and i'm out of here


Welcome back to Investor Intel at PDAC 2018 and pleased to be joined today by Oscar Joffrey. Oscar you are just on a tour right now called the Wild Wild West Tour. Tell me what that's about. Well the Wild Wild West Tour is really about the blockchain revolution and how it's really shocking the waves around the financial markets. Everybody's getting the frenzy of Bitcoin this and Bitcoin that crypto currencies and it's created a very cowboyish style of approaching how to buy them sell them and operate and like any type of environment like that you're gonna have some strays and we've we've gotten that to that stage now. So part of this tour is providing an educational framework about what's actually happening how to prevent it from occurring and how do we move forward because the underlying technology behind all this it's here to stay it's not going away. So whether the crypto currencies are going to zero or not which I happen to believe it's a lot of people don't you know you think that the blockchain is just a key key part of the internet moving forward. A hundred percent and and and even more exciting there's not just one chain there are different types of chains and each one of them have particular attributes that depending what the type of company you are that attribute could be enhancement. So and finally because of cryptocurrency it's accelerated the advancement of companies adopting it. I mean in many ways I agree with you a crypto is going to zero but in many ways what it did for the rest of the world it woke everybody up and saying wait a minute there's something really solid here and so from that perspective I'm excited look at cannabis right cannabis is perfect example where blockchain was a meant technology to be in and the federal government decided to build its infrastructure using blockchain because we know now that whatever goes in there is never going to get erased it's never going to get deleted. That's fantastic so it you know our audience our investors what should they be looking for if they're going to invest either in cryptocurrencies or in the blockchain. Well so there are there are two different types of investments occurring right now so if you're a currency player you're buying Deutsche dollars and so forth in American dollars keep playing it there's another ride about to occur in cryptocurrency so which means that you will see another spike and when that spike occurs I I'm not a particular but it will occur. We are determined that at that point the regulars are going to step in and say enough is enough it's time to regulate you it's done and the reason for that is because what people don't realize 97% of all the cryptocurrency in the world is controlled by a few group of people so they are in some ways manipulating the price very easily so because of that the regulars are only going to allow to certain degree so you have to be careful what you're doing get some advice you know is Bitcoin better than light or dash it's neither here or there what you need to get comfortable with this is pure 100% risk there's nothing backing it now the only one would be an exception to that would be Venezuela with their coin which is backed by oil the other side that they need to look at is tokens this is the other one that became a frenzy in 2017 over 3,500 companies went out there calling themselves coin offerings but they were actually selling tokens in their company so the difference between a token and a coin coin is a currency a token is an extension of the business it's a digital take you know piece that you own you don't even know in a piece of the company you just have a right to something what could it be it could be you get a share of the revenue but there was such a frenzy people buying and selling and the value of these tokens keep going up like in the stock market and the regular said whoa wait a minute were these people even qualified to buy I mean so there's the wow wow west side so there's a everybody is using this technology for all these different elements and unfortunately some investors are going to get hurt so rule number one if somebody's trying to sell it to you and it's in an offshore country which is most likely where they all are the likelihood that you'll lose is a hundred percent to that when you're asking what type of currency or coin or token they're selling you hasn't been registered with a regular and they go oh no no we don't need to run it so these are the big signs out there there are legitimate companies that are building that are selling their tokens and raising capital for their blockchain companies because there is a huge opportunity I mean we're just at the early stages of what this thing can do well that actually is my next question I'm a baseball fan so what inning are we in and the first of all in the crypto currencies and second of all in blockchain yeah that's a good question what inning right you know I would say we're just getting ready to go out bad okay because it because now we've had the craziness right and sometimes you need craziness in order to bring some conformity into a market so but along the way yes and and I'm saddened by this but at the same breath I I carry this forward that yes a lot of people lost a lot of money or they're about to in in this process but going forward we now know that the technology is the reason why they got caught as fast as they did so going forward we now have a foundation that everybody loves one thing about blockchain in general what people must they enjoy about it is that it's trustless it's immutable it can't be erased so you know that if it was Darren who went in there made that transaction it's you you can't lie so you're the process of getting investigated on it's go ding ding ding it's fast to what does that tell you now we build it into people's minds that I can trust this immediately I'm really glad you came in Oscar I'm sure we're going to talk about this further on upcoming episodes with investor Intel because it's awfully topical so thank you and look forward to talking to you again soon likewise thank you


This is Dr. Pagni also here I will be discussing about Crohn's patients with Crohn's kidney. Introduction. Crohn's kidney disease represents an increasing epidemiological burden in current scenario with a global prevalence of 11 to 13 percent. Its detection in current medical practice relays mainly on biological markers irrespective of the underlying etiology. CQD progresses with parantimer fibrosis, tubular intestinal atrophy and sclerosis of the glomerular compartment. These structural abnormalities as detected by conventional grayscale ultrasonic images are not objectively qualifiable. Therefore, a qualifiable non-invasive imaging method is needed. A real-time short duration acoustic push pulse is used to generate shear wave that propagates perpendicular to the main ultrasonic beam. When the waves hit the targeted tissue, the tissue is pushed in the direction of the propagation of the waves, causing it for temporarily to deform or displace. The ultrasound scanner can monitor the tissue displacement measuring the time to make displacement and the recovery type. Shearing velocity increases in decreased tissues, disease tissues, which can be significantly stiffer than normal ones. The parameters are expressed in pressure unit of kilopascals and velocity meter per second. The objectives of the studies are assess elastographic values in patients with chronic kidney diseases to compare the elastography values between the normal participants and patients with chronic kidney diseases. Methodology. All the patients were explained regarding the procedure and written informed consent was taken. Source of data was conducted in the department of radio diagnosis, myso-medical college and research institution. And all the patients including the study underwent conventional abdominal ultrasonography to measure the kidney length, cortical thickness, shear wave elastography to measure the real and parallel stiffness, patient details, creatinine values and EGFR was calculated. The samples size included 60 cases and 60 controls. It was a cross-sectional study conducted from January 2020 to December 2021. And the data obtained from the study were entered in the Microsoft Excel sheets and descriptive statistics such as percentage proportions were used for the preliminary analysis, mean and standard deviation were calculated to meet the objectives and appropriate test of significance such as independent sample data were applied. Data was to be presented in the forms of tables and charts. Inclusion criteria included all the patients of age groups of all age groups referred from department of nephrology, internal medicine, urology, surgery, department and which were referred to our department for the renal elastography with chronic kidney diseases. Controls were the patients with no other comorbidities or other comorbidities subjected for abdominal ultrason for other causes without chronic kidney diseases. Exclusion criteria were the patients with renal cortical thickness less than 10 mm and patients not giving written informed consent and patients not willing for the bloody investigations. After taking written informed consent, all the patients included in the study underwent abdominal ultrasonography using 1 to 5 MHz high-frequency convex transducer C5-1 influence affinity 70 ultrasound machine with shear wave elastography technique. On conventional ultrasound renal length with cortical thickness was measured. For calculating the elastography values, the probe was to be placed on the patient with minimal compression techniques in the lateral ridiculous position and the patient was asked to hold his or her breath for a few seconds in the inspiration. Then the predefined area of interest of the box 10 x 5 mm was placed at the renal cortex of the kidney excluding the renal medulla. The axis of sample box should be kept parallel to the axis of pyramids in medulla and shear wave values were measured in meters per second. Five such readings were taken in each kidney excluding the poles. The same was repeated on the opposite kidney. Blood investigations like creatinine were taken from the hospital records and EGFR was calculated and grading of CKD was done. The values were compared with a control group and analysis to find whether the results were statistically significant or not. The statistical methods applied are as an analytical study which has divided the study population into cases and the control groups mainly based on the presence or absence of the CKD with references of serum creatinine levels and EGFR values. Study population was further categorized depending on the age and sex of the groups and further significance was stepped by the unimerid analysis among these parameters when unparalleled with the respective shear wave velocities and was found to have no statistical significance. And paired sample detest were used to calculate whether mean shear wave elasticity value differences between the right and the left kidney were of significance or not and were found to be not significant. Later, mean shear wave elasticity were compared between the cases and the control using independent sample detests with results providing them to be of statistical significance. The ROC curve was derived to select an optimal cutoff values between cases and the control. Statistical software was used is SPSS 18.0 is used in this case and analysis of the data and the Microsoft world and Excel have been used to generate in the form of graphs and tables. Here is the table of cases and the control groups comparison between the various parameters like kidney length with renal parantimal thickness and the creatinine values along with the EGFR values. Here is the table providing the incidence of predisposing conditions such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension and analgesic abuse in the cases and the control group and was found to be the incidence was found to be more in the case group. And the comparison of the average elasticity values in the case and control group was done in cases the elastography values mean elastography values was 1.474 meters per second in the cases group while in the control 1.316 meters per second and the P value was 0.001 which was found to be statistically significant. And also we have developed an ROC curve for the different stages of the CKD and a ROC of 1.3 was considered. The ROC curve cases versus control here total of 60 number in the case group and 60 in the control group 46 were labeled as positive in the case group considering mean shear wave elastography values of 1.35 meters per second and 18 were positive in the control group while it was in the control group 42 people were termed to be negative with the mean shear wave elastography of less than 1.35 meters per second and 14 were considered to be positive. Characteristics of the test the sensitivity of 76.6% specificity of 70% positive predictive value of 71% and negative predictive value of 75% was there. And the results of the statistical analysis were as follows total of 120 individuals were taken and which were divided as 60 as cases and 60 as controls and in the control group the mean age was 48.1 years and the range of the ages were from 16 to 78 years and of which male and female distribution were equal 30 and the mean age group of the case group was 56.2 years with ages ranging from 33 to 85 years in the case group 45% were found to be female and 55% were found to be male. The mean length of right kidney was 9.62 cm and left kidney was 9.67 cm in the control group and the mean width was 4.31 cm and 4.45 cm respectively in the control group. Mean length of right kidney was 8.8 cm and left kidney was 8.81 cm in case group while mean width of right kidney was 4.03 cm and left kidney was 4.1 cm in case group. Mean parent canal thickness of right and left kidney were 1.37 cm and 1.4 cm respectively in the control group while that of in the case group were 1.27 cm and 1.34 cm. Mean serum creatinine values in case group was 3.67 mg per dl with the range of 0.9 to 12.7 mg per dl Mean serum creatinine values in case group was 0.7 mg per dl with values ranging from 0.49 mg per dl to 0.94 mg per dl corresponding mean EJFR values were 35.55 mg per minute per 1.73 m2 in case group and 102 mg per minute per 1.73 m2 in control group and the incidence of the diabetes meritus, hypertension and allergies were 61.2%, 58.3%, 20% respectively in the case group and that of the control group were 20%, 8.3% and 5% respectively in the control group. Among the case group, average renal parent canal shear wave elasticity values were 1.470 m2 per second in right kidney and 1.478 m2 per second in left kidney and there was no significant statistical association between them. Among the control group, the average renal parent canal shear wave elasticity value was 1.32 m2 per second in right kidney and 1.31 m2 per second in left kidney and there was no significant statistical association formed between them. The mean shear wave elasticity value in control group in various age groups from 1.37 m2 per second in age group of less than 50 years and 1.27 m2 per second in age greater than 50 years where there were found to be more statistical association between the age group. Mean shear wave elasticity values among the male in control group was 1.32 m2 per second and among females it was 1.31 m2 per second with no significant statistical importance. Mean shear wave velocity values among males in case group was 1.47 m2 per second and 1.47 m2 per second among females and there was no significant statistical association while the mean shear wave elasticity values was 1.47 m2 per second in case and 1.316 m2 per second in control group with a standard deviation of 0.1464 and 0.154 respectively and there was found to be statistically significant difference between the mean shear wave elasticity value between the cases in the control group by independent sample test and the p-value being 0.001. Our OC curve for cases in control was used with optimal shear wave elasticity cutoff of 1.35 m2 per second sensitivity being 76.6% specificity 70% while probability predictive value and negative predictive value being 71-75% respectively. Moving on to the discussion, our case is a type of case control study designed to use this novel advancement in the field of radio diagnosis and to determine whether this advancement helps us improve the diagnostic accuracy of diagnosing chronic kidney disease by a non-invasive approach. Cleaner shear wave elastography has the potential to assess the early renal damage hence it is important to assess the normal values of elasticity using shear wave elastography thereby these values can be used as the reference values for assessing the cutoff to detect early renal damages in further studies. Our study showed the shear wave elasticity value between cases and control and tried to determine whether the results were of clinical significance. Cleaner shear wave elasticity values in control groups of varied age group were from 1.35 m2 per second in age group less than 50 years and 1.27 m2 per second in age greater than 50 years. And also among the males and the females there was difference which was not found to be statistically significant in either of the groups. Each of these studies according to their receiver operative works derived the cutoff value to maximize their diagnostic yield with the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value as previously described. The limitation of the studies where the technical difficulty of praising the ROI box in the renal parent primer because it was pretty different and non-adjustable 10 cross 5 mm box and also it had limitation of not including the patients with renal parent primer less than 1 centimeter because of praising the box. And there was also we found there was difference in the shear wave elasticity values with age groups. Our sample group was very small to perform an age derived standardization chart for shear wave elasticity values which could benefit by providing the better characterization as the study was conducted in a similar center with limited catchment area the study results may not be generalized. Here are few of the representative images of the cases and the controls. Moving on to the control one 42 years old male patient with complaints of generalized weakness. The parameters were 0.86 mg per day EGFR 107 ml per minute per 1.73 meter square on grayskill images we have accumulated the data as length of the right kidney 11 centimeter width 5.2 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.8 centimeter left kidney 11.5 centimeter width 5.6 centimeters parenchyma thickness 1.8 centimeter and we have found that the mean shear wave velocity of the right kidney being 1.25 meters per second and left kidney 1.19 meters per second second control 29 years old female patient with history of fever serum creatinine values 0.82 mg per day EGFR being 99 ml per minute per 1.73 meter square grayskill measurements were as follows right kidney measurements length 10 centimeter width 3.9 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.3 centimeter left kidney length 9.6 centimeter width 3.7 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.3 centimeters the average wave velocity of the right kidney is 1.35 meters per second and left was 1.45 seconds meter per seconds moving on to the cases representative image 49 years old male patient with history of diabetes militias since 10 years hypertensives since 7 years and on dialysis since 2 and half years left parameters were serum creatinine 10.9 mg per day EGFR 5 ml per minute per 1.73 meter square CKD stage 5 grayskill measurements right kidney length 7.7 centimeter width 3.4 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.1 centimeter left kidney length 8 centimeter width 3.8 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.2 centimeter the mean share wave velocity of the right kidney was 1.47 meters per second and left was found to be 1.39 meters per second second case 48 years old female patient with history of hypertension since 6 years serum creatinine levels were 1.73 mg per day EGFR 34 ml per minute per 1.73 meter square stage 3 CKD right kidney grayskill measurements length 8.9 centimeter width 4.1 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.2 centimeter left kidney length 8.9 centimeter width 4.2 centimeter parenchyma thickness 1.1 centimeter average heat wave velocity of the right kidney was found to be 1.54 meters per second and left kidney 1.49 meters per second references thank you