days here and we got trucking to do. Forgot to turn the heat on again yesterday before I parked it. It's still cold in here. This engine's ready to go. My body is definitely adjusted to warmer weather already because it's plus two outside right now. It's two degrees above freezing in Celsius and I feel cold. Then again, I'm not wearing my big winter jacket. I couldn't, I had it back there. But it's gonna warm up today so I bother. We didn't film a video yesterday on Tuesday. Took a little day break there. I try to get new videos out every day but in all honesty, I do miss one or two here and there. We'll just grab our coffee and we'll be on our way. Today I actually know what we're doing. We're gonna be pulling a curtain side trailer or a roll tight as they call them. I don't think it's actually called curtain side. I call it curtain side called roll tights. Because you roll it up tight, I guess. I like the trailers. I like the idea. I like the idea of not having to tarp and just roll the thing over. But it does get a little tricky, especially in the wind. But so does tarping. Still easier than tarping in my mind. So we're gonna grab one of those trailers. We gotta load some stuff on it, bring that up to Arbor, going back up there again and we're gonna reload right away so we're gonna unload and reload and come back. That'll be a big chunk of the day. Big chunk of the day. Not the whole day, I don't think, but. Are they gonna medium coffee? One cream and a shot of espresso, please? Medium one, cream and a shot of espresso. Do you wanna try a crueler with that today? No, thank you. Thank you. No super duper today. Tempting me with the honey crueler. Oh, how do I know that's my favorite? That was hard to say no to that. No, no, no honey crueler today. Maybe later, maybe later. Trying to stick to just the coffee in the morning. Yeah, we're gonna hook up to this trailer and that'll be a lot of the day. I think I said, what did I say? Two hour drive up north, two hour drive back plus loading and unloading. Definitely won't be the, well, you never know.  On the debit, is it 4.30? Oh really? No way. Cool, can I pay for the guy behind me then? That's okay. Have a good day. That's gonna be a good day. That's gonna be a really good day. Someone bought me my coffee. Thank you, random, anonymous person in front of me in line. Very nice. So that's something that happens at Tim Hortons up here in Canada. It's called paying it forward.  I mean, if you can afford to, you pay it forward and pay for the people behind you. Unless if they ordered Thanksgiving dinner, then you think about it. But yeah, every once in a while, going through the drive-thru, I get a free coffee. Now you know it's gonna be a good day. Wake her up. I'm usually one of the first ones here. Not the first, but the truck's all running already. That's a highway driver there. There she is. Still sleeping. I'm gonna pay for five, four, six. Good thing I checked that. I was gonna start looking for five, six, four. Five, four, six. Roll tight. That's her. All right, so it's a flat bed, roll tight. You guys wanna see what's inside there? I do. Help me open it. The front door. That's a little dark out to see anything. Air in every single tire. Fantastic. This one's got extra mud flaps you gotta look out for. Make sure they're not ripped off. Ones in the back are the most important. Both intact, both in good shape. Now with these roll tight trailers, you're also gonna wanna make sure that these are tight and not left open or loose. I wanna make sure you have all your equipment. So in here, I've already checked, but you're gonna wanna make sure you have your tensioner. I gotta load a pallet right away. Gotta make sure you have your tensioner to release the tension at the back here. Up here, there should be a long stick. I haven't pulled this trailer yet, so I gotta figure out where it would be. Yes. Supposed to be a long stick that helps you roll up this back curtain. Every trailer, or some trailers have them in different spots than others. Maybe this one has it in here. I gotta pull it out into the open and I'll figure it out there. Just quickly double check these. Mudflat, mudflat. There you go. So I just gotta open up the tail, but like I was just telling you, I gotta figure out where that big ol' stick is. Thought it was supposed to be underneath. See, it goes in to the side of this here. Or does it? Well, this one's a little different, is it? No, no, there it is. It's just in there. I'll figure it out. I like a challenge in the morning. See, the other trailer had it in here. And it was very obvious. There's a grate in along the side here. This one is obviously designed a little different. Just to challenge my brain on Wednesday morning. Oh, maybe it's in here. I'm gonna loosen these things on both sides. Come out of there. Take them out of there. This whole thing. See, then we can get in here. That was that tensioner borrow I was talking about before. Gotta make sure your trailer has that, otherwise you can't release the tension on here. So the tool I'm looking for, it goes right into this thing here, and it's a long bar, with sort of like a hook handle at the end. And it spins it so you can roll this up and put it on top of there. I'll find it. I'll find it. And if I don't, I guess I'll just ask for help. Nothing wrong with asking for help, they say. I guess my pride could take a hit. Where is that little bar? I wonder if they keep it up front with all the equipment up at the front of the trailer here. See, it was too dark before where we were parked in the back. Maybe it's up here. If it's not here, I'm gonna have to go. Man, it's a really long bar, so it would be tough to hide it, you know? It's a long skinny bar with a handle at the end. It's all the chains I would need. It's definitely not in here. Okay, okay. I might need to humble myself and go ask a question. And one more look before I go and ask and look what I found hidden away up here. This is what I was talking about. Do those here. End of this bar here goes into here.  Brendan is gonna go and grab another forklift so he can grab it from this side. It's got longer forks. I'll tie it down or roll down the curtain. It won't be on our way. Easier, but still not bad. So apparently it's just a bunch of old wood.  Looks like done-age and stuff. A lot of this is all custom cut. It's wrapped in this foamy stuff that protects. They put this between their product and our trailers just to protect their product from getting scratched when the trailer moves around and stuff. Specialized cuts in there. This is all strapped in nice and tight. See what I mean? So instead of wasting the wood and just throwing it out, like a lot of places do, it's just how it is.  I'm gonna say two straps for that. Two. All right. Everything aside. Oh, everything's hooking on everything. If it's got a hook, it's gonna hook. That's my model. Okay, so this is supposed to go a lot smoother. We'll grab the hook end over here, okay? And we'll bring it with us over here and we'll just slide it right through here. It's easier to just pull it through. This is some tough rubber in here. Probably because it's cold. It comes through there and it hooks on there like that. You tighten it on the other side. So I just pushed through a little loop like that. Just enough for the binder. Now leave the excess strap inside here. You don't want that flailing out in the wind. It'll be safe in there. You want it to come through and around like this so that it gets pinched in there. See, that's what keeps it tight with this here. Then you go get your sight bar, which I should already have close by me here, but it's the morning time. Still bring this to the back and this will go in there. Gonna do the same thing with the back one here. Down this curtain and off we go. Going to the bumper. That go right through someone's windshield. I like how this trailer has the pressure gauge right in the back, easy to find, easy to see, but I guess it'll get real dirty there. Hi-ho, hi-ho, off to where I go. All the way up to Arbor again, about a two hour drive or something. It seems we've gotten rid of the snow yet. You see, I unlock it from the bottom of the deck like that. Tell you what, it all folded up to the front here. I can also glide it to the back. It worked this time just pushing on one side. Sometimes you gotta push on both sides, go back and forth and back and forth. Now we got an open deck back here. We take these straps off and unload this stuff. And that's what it looks like from out here. Pretty neat, eh? And there we go, we got our all button back up. Load it up. Look at that tarp job, eh? I'd say that's one of the best tarp jobs I've ever done. That was actually pretty easy. The guys here are really nice. They helped me roll it back. It opened just on the one side. I got very lucky actually that I could roll it all the way to the front without going to the other side. Usually it jams up. You roll on one side, it'll jam or get stuck. You gotta go to the other side, push that a little bit, get stuck. Go to the other side, push that a little bit and get stuck. And you can see that if it were windy coming from behind there, it really would have grabbed it and pushed it all the way to the front, could damage it. So you gotta be really careful in the wind. But this is my second trip now with, I keep calling it curtain side trailer because that's what it is to me. But roll tight is what everyone else seems to be calling it around here. It's a roll tight trailer. It's my second trip and this one went a lot better than the first one. I mean, the first one was bad. Thank you. That should be enough to get me home. So we were here for an hour. It's got a two hour drive back. It's 1130, 1231, 30. We should be back between 130 and two o'clock.  Probably have one more quick assignment yet. And then it'll be home time. This is all ready to be dropped. Trip complete. Let's say five hour round trip, maybe a little less, a little over two hours both ways. It's got an hour there being unloaded and reloaded. And there we go. Leave it here in our loaded line. So I'm not too sure what I'm gonna be up to this afternoon yet, but we'll probably make this trip the feature of the vlog. You guys wanna see what I picked up, what it looks like. See, walk in the front door here. And there we go, you can see. And this stuff can't be out in the elements. So can you imagine tarping this? Before we had all these curtain side trailers, we would have to tarp this, definitely, if we had this freight. So all of these corners, stuff like that, stuff like that right there. This big time, this and this would definitely rip through our tarps in the wind as you're pulling it down the highway. And not only that, the tarps on this equipment might also damage this equipment as well, right? Sometimes it moves around, you'd have to make sure it's very tight. Or use a lot of rugs and protectors underneath there and cover all the freight and then there's ways of doing it, right? It's just more difficult. It's almost like a van trailer, right? It is exactly like a van trailer. I really like them. I really do. So they're a really neat idea. It's another Ford. Check this thing out. Just mint. Apparently we have close to a hundred classic and import and exotic beauties coming here in the next month or so as everyone's bringing their cars home. So shiny. All you can see is my reflection in it, eh? Wouldn't you just love to sit in it? So would I. So would I. I had to quickly include that at the end here. I've got a few more assignments to do. Gotta bring a van trailer into Winnipeg, pick up another one, bring it back here, but I think we filmed enough for today already. Just wanted to show you that car. The definition of fine right there. A lot of that kind of stuff. And now that, like I was saying, like spring is coming, it's starting to warm up here. All the snowbirds with their beautiful homes down south are all now coming home for the summer. And we're bringing their nice, fancy cars up here for them. Four o'clock. Oh, that's it for today. Tuck her in here and we'll see your first thing in the morning. Parked with all her friends.  We gotta work in the morning. Crazy kids. You on the other hand are looking pretty nice. Nice and shiny. Good, good, good, good. Whoa, my keys are all tangled up and everything. Oh dear, oh dear. Guess I should turn her lights off. From the pater to the Chevy. We can pull anything light and heavy. Before I go though, I better not forget to hand in that paperwork from that load I just picked up and wanna throw it in the slot here. Now we can go home. Nice truck. I hauled many of those trailers when I was on flatbed. It's kind of tricky tying them down. I would have done them a little differently than that driver did, but some drivers got some different techniques. I just noticed I got a chip in the bottom right of my windshield over there. Oh, come on, I just put a new windshield in here, I thought. When did that happen? Can you guys see it over there? If not, good. Forget I said anything. Believe that.


Iain answered well thank you gernjef and Mr Secretary General everyone here Let me address you as living beings on this planet If we all in this mess together Do ever out rank, would ever opposition whichever country we live in where all of this together I've always loved the forrest I think I fell in love with the hards when I was a child when I met Tarzan of the apes and fell in up with him and dreamed to go to Africa I lived with animals and write books about them, and I ended up in the Gombe National Park. I spent many, many years in that beautiful forest. When I arrived in 1960, you could go all the way along the shore of Lake Tanganita, and it was forest stretching as far as I could see. Climb up the hills, look to the east, trees, chimpanzee have it at a few villages. By the mid-80s, when I had an opportunity to fly over the whole area in a small plain, the little Gombe National Park, 30 square miles, was like a living jewel surrounded by completely bare hills. More people living there than the land could possibly support. Too poor to buy food from elsewhere, struggling to survive. And that is the story of what's happened to so many forests around the world. I think everybody in this room knows an awful lot of what I'm going to say, because that's why you're here. But just, you know, let me emphasise the benefits from the forests. And yes, we all know what they are. We hear about the clean air. We know how many people have actually lived and breathed it for months and years on end, as I have. And we know about the clean water. We know about the medicinal plants that are there. And we know too that these trees and the forest soils sequester CO2. When Nicola Starn announced his report, I was there in Paris. And I remember him saying, ladies and gentlemen, the most efficient and cheapest way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore our tropical forests. And of course we all know that the tropical forests are disappearing. They're still disappearing, as the Secretary General said. And there are many threats to the forest. We have to pick two or three. It's the timber industry. It's cutting down the trees for cropland, farmland, cattle ranchers and so forth. And the need to grow ever more food. Ever more food, because there are ever more people. And it strikes me that if we look across the whole planet at reasons for deforestation, they fall into three main groups. The first is poverty. Because if you're living in poverty, you're going to cut down the last tree. Even if you know you're creating a desert, because you've got to grow something to feed your family or sell the tree for charcoal or something like that.  And the second reason how I perceive the forests are being destroyed are governments handing out or selling large areas of forest as concessions for the timber industry, mining concessions and the petroleum industry. And this is sometimes to line the government's coffers and it sometimes lines the pockets of corrupt ministers. I don't know that and that isn't just in the developing world either. And the third reason that drives deforestation is big corporations coming in to make money as much money as they can as quickly as possible. Cutting down the trees to make cropland. They don't live there. They don't love the land. So it doesn't matter if chemicals are sprayed onto the land. It doesn't matter to them that gradually the land is losing its fertility and it doesn't matter to them apparently that various peasant farmers are driven away from their land and their livelihood and the age-old cultures of producing food in the different seasons are being lost. So what are the solutions? From my own experience, the easiest one to try to solve is an deviation of poverty. And after I'd flown over those bare hills, I realised there's no way we could try and save the forest or the chimpanzees while people were struggling to survive. And so that led to our Dakari programme, which I'll come back to later in the afternoon, but it's basically helping people to improve their lives through micro-preddit, helping them to protect the watersheds, helping them to reforest the slopes, to retain overused farmland so that it once again becomes productive, and better health, better hygiene, micro-preddit programmes and family planning. Addressing the problem of the governments, well, this is what one of the reasons that this conference is gathered together with this call. And it's because a government is going to want some money. The money would have received from selling a foreign concession. And that's where these carbon credits or schemes like the Green Fund can be so powerful. And I think we're all waiting very eagerly to find out the cost of the carbon so that some of these projects can actually start working a bit better. The Red Plus programme, as the Secretary-General said, is very good for helping the poor people, but it's not really helping the government. And then there is the fact that people in many developing countries are becoming much more aware, much more concerned about their own future. And when the President of Uganda was going to give away a piece of protected forest for a plantation of sugarcane for biofuel, the people in Camp Arlam went out on the street and protested, and that piece of forest was saved. And, of course, there are always interest boots lobbying against plans of this sort. And the corporations, is there any solution here? Yes, of course there is. And again, consumers are becoming better informed when they can. Many of them are trying to buy products that have been more efficiently produced but haven't destroyed the forests or other environments, and partly driven by their customers and their customer needs, corporations are beginning to investigate ways in which they can more ethically source the products which they're selling. And although some of this we know has been greenwashing, nevertheless there are those corporate leaders who truly do care, who truly want to help protect the forests and the environments for the sake of the future of the planet and their own children. Are there problems ahead? There are huge problems. Let's make no mistake about it. The problems are enormous. How are the corporations going to find sufficient land to grow sufficient ethically produced food? They're going to have to have partners on the ground like NGOs or local pressure groups to ensure that those products have been ethically produced. Will there be enough land to grow them if our human populations continue to grow as they are growing? So, if we're going to tackle all of these problems in the future, first of all, educate our young people in the rural areas and in the developing countries so that they understand better. Let's listen to them and let's empower them to take action for their own future. These kinds of movements are spreading around the world. Secondly, we must take out of the closet discussions about human population growth. It's politically insensitive to talk about it, but we have to talk about it if we care about the future. The last thing I would say then is that each and every one of us must take responsibility in our own lives, make our own right ethical choices in the way that we live because we are four in this together and each and every one of us makes a difference each and every day. Thank you.


Okay, this is my favorite scripture. It's Messiah 319 and it says, So that's my favorite scripture for many reasons, mostly because of experiences that I've had with it. But I know that if you follow the advice from that scripture and if you truly do what the Lord needs you to do, then great things are going to come to pass and your testimony will be strengthened.


The Rome Statute occupies but one place in a vast array of global human rights instruments, but it's a significant place. As ICC prosecutor Fatou Ben-Souda's principal objectives are to hold perpetrators of the worst crimes to account, bring a measure of justice to victims and affected communities, and deter others from committing mass atrocities. The work of the ICC therefore constitutes the sharp edge of the protection of global human rights. The prosecution of international crimes contributes to the development of global human rights law in significant ways. With respect to the ICC, of course, we're dealing with the most extreme violations of the most fundamental human rights, given that the court deals with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Punishment of such grave breaches of international humanitarian law gives teeth to human rights law through enforcement, and also by reinforcing the values the law enshrines. Effective prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide signals to potential perpetrators that they may not act with impunity. There will be a reckoning. If belief in and accounting takes hold, then the prosecution of international crimes will have a deterred impact and contribute to the prevention of mass atrocities. Breaking the cycle of impunity through effective prosecution is thus vital to the protection and development of global human rights. The ultimate goal of the ICC is to deter the commission of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, and so to prevent the worst excesses. Fundamental to the ICC's mission. Thus, one of the most significant contributions to global human rights law to be expected from the ICC is simply the enforcement of essential elements of that law. The prosecution of international crimes contributes to the development of global human rights in another way, too. Human rights may remain abstract legal formulations until they are translated into enforceable reality through practical application in real situations. In this way, human rights take on shape and meaning. For example, until prosecutions for genocide were conducted before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Genocide Convention of 1948 was a law gathering dust on the shelf of history. It is now a practical reality with vitality and significance. Genocide and related crimes form part of the cluster of serious crimes that fall within the ICC's jurisdiction under the Rome Statute. Thus the practical application of abstract legal concepts to real situations informs and develops the law pertaining to human rights and gives weight to those rights themselves. At the ICC we are engaged in the same process of translation from abstract concept to practical reality. Each one of the cases we bring before the court compels us in the office of the prosecutor as well as the defense and the chambers of the court to seek to give definition and meaning to the legal concepts, the evidentiary requirements, and the procedural rules found in the Rome Statute. It's an exciting but sometimes frustrating process. We will, where we can do so on a reasonable and principled basis, push the envelope of the law in order to enhance the protection of human rights and the prevention of atrocities. As an example, we're attempting in one of our cases to extend to child soldiers the protection from sexual exploitation that international law and particularly international humanitarian law secures to children generally. Let me explain. The law of armed conflict normally deals with how one treats one's enemies. For example, prisoners of war or enemy combatants who are wounded and out of action, leaving any mistreatment of one's own rank and file to the processes of military justice within one's own army. However, respecting war crimes, we are advocating a different approach in the case of children under the age of 15 who are conscripted or enlisted into armed forces or groups or used to participate actively in hostilities. We maintain that the protection international humanitarian law extends to them as children, remains with them, not withstanding their enlistment or conscription into such forces. Commanders, we argue, are individually criminally responsible for war crimes involving sexual exploitation of child soldiers, even where these children are illegally, I might add, within their own armed forces and the sexual violence occurs at the hands of members of the same armed force or group. This, we suggest, is not an expansive interpretation of the law, but rather a purpose of one, consistent with the special protections that international law affords to children.  If we succeed in this effort, it will be a significant advancement in the law of armed conflict as it applies with respect to children. The ICC and its governing statute are fully integrated within the body of global human rights law. Allow me to speak briefly about the role of the ICC in holding perpetrators of the worst crimes to account. Fundamental to the Rome Statute System of International Criminal Justice are two concepts, namely complementarity and cooperation. Respecting the concept of complementarity, under the Rome Statute, states parties bear primary responsibility for the investigation and prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The ICC can only intervene where national authorities can't or won't. The ICC is thus established as a court of last resort. Given how the Rome Statute System of International Criminal Justice is designed to work, the Office of the Prosecutor endeavors to encourage national authorities to assume their responsibilities and take action. This is what we call a positive approach to complementarity. Thus, where the prosecutor has opened a preliminary examination of a situation, prior to taking a decision, whether to open a formal criminal investigation, we continue to monitor closely the response of national authorities and encourage them to act. Where genuine national proceedings are taking place, there's no need for the court to intervene. And indeed, any case relating to the same circumstances and suspects would be inadmissible before the court, by virtue of the provisions of the Rome Statute. An appropriate response to crimes at the national level has value, potentially, for two principal reasons. First, action at the national level supports the spread of the rule of law. Promotes local responses to the plight of victims and makes dispensing justice particularly relevant to the people and places where the crimes have been committed. It also reinforces the way in which the Rome Statute System of International Criminal Justice is supposed to function, with primary jurisdiction residing with the state's parties. Secondly, encouraging action at the national level addresses the very real challenge of what is sometimes termed the impunity gap. In attempting to do justice in conflict situations, the major challenge is not only to bring those bearing greatest responsibility for the most serious crimes to account, which is often the work of the ICC. The challenge is also to hold lower level perpetrators accountable in proceedings at the national level, where judicial and law enforcement systems may yet remain fragile. Our focus, for example, respecting the conflicts in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has properly been upon those we judge to be the most responsible perpetrators of the worst atrocities. This, however, leaves a considerable impunity gap respecting others under the command of those warlords who have been involved in terrible crimes. Thus, support for capacity building and transitional justice measures at the national level of states requiring assistance is of vital significance to the prevention of mass atrocities generally. It is an essential feature of the endeavor to promote human rights. Where the court does intervene, its ability to enhance the protection of human rights will ultimately depend upon how effectively it does its work. A court that is able to achieve results will be a court that has a preventive impact upon the commission of mass atrocities. To achieve greater results, we've been seeking to obtain the allocation of sufficient resources from the assembly of states parties through the budget process, to apply those resources effectively, to improve our working methods, to promote a culture of excellence within the office of the prosecutor, and to secure greater support and cooperation from states parties, non-states parties, and others. On this last point, I must emphasize just how vital to the ability of the ICC to succeed is the full and timely cooperation of states parties with the court. Where national authorities fail in their duty or are unable to discharge their responsibilities, no justice is possible for victims and affected communities without the intervention of the court. Unlike national courts, the ICC does not exercise jurisdiction over its own territory. It is not supported by its own police service and its direct powers of compulsion are in some respects limited. Thus, the preventive impact of ICC operations will ultimately depend upon the level of support and cooperation the court receives from states parties, non-state parties, non-governmental organizations, civil society, and others. The Rome Statute is designed that way. States parties in particular are obliged under the statute to cooperate fully with the court and the statute provides for the forms of cooperation that are expected, covering a broad range of activities from evidence collection and witness protection to the execution of arrest warrants. There can exist, however, a gap between what the law provides and what states are willing or able to provide. In her work, the prosecutor must rely upon international cooperation and judicial assistance of states. The challenges faced by the court are many and varied. The effort to translate the noble ideals of the framers of the Rome Statute into reality was bound to provoke some pushback as the court applied the law in specific situations. This is not surprising and is not cause for alarm. It simply requires patience and determination. The challenges, however, are real and they must be confronted. To illustrate, I will touch upon three areas where state cooperation is vital to the ability of the court to overcome the challenges it faces. Witness protection, investigations, and the execution of arrest warrants. I can only deal with these complex topics in the briefest terms. However, effectively, we're able to diversify our evidence collection. We will always have to rely to a significant degree upon witness testimony to prove our cases. The well-being and security of witnesses, therefore, is a major preoccupation of the court. A continuum of services is provided to victims and witnesses beginning with the basic steps the prosecutor under the statute's provisions must take to secure their well-being and protection. The Victims and Witnesses Unit, or VWU, which is located in the registry of the ICC, provides a more elaborate range of services and protection measures to prosecution and defense witnesses. Witness security is an important consideration in all ICC cases, but it has become particularly acute. It has become particularly acute in certain of them. We have encountered in one of our current trials an unprecedented level of interference, corruption, and intimidation designed it would appear to dissuade witnesses from testifying and to bring community pressure to bear on them not to cooperate with the ICC. We've employed various protection measures in an effort to counter these pressures. We've even gone so far as to bring charges under the Rome Statute against one person for alleged offenses against the administration of justice. Other charges may follow. Such steps are taken in an effort to protect the integrity of the ICC's trial process. We need to increase the cooperation of state's parties in the provision to the Court of Witness Protection Measures. The Office of the Prosecutor carries out investigations in a wide variety of ways. For example, by the collection and analysis of open source information. Through developing investigative leads applied on a confidential basis, with the assistance of experts having specialized knowledge and experience via requests for assistance to obtain records, documents, and other materials. Through in-country forensic examination of crime scenes and mass grave sites by taking, analyzing, and cross-checking witness statements and so on. Our strategic plan calls for us to diversify our evidence collection so that we do not remain so heavily dependent on witness testimony which for many reasons can prove to be vulnerable. We're trying to make more intelligent, efficient, and systematic use of various information technologies to enhance our capacity to gather and analyze information and evidence. Many of our investigative techniques must involve the cooperation of states' parties and others. As I mentioned, states' parties are obliged under the statute to cooperate fully with the Court and the statute provides the forms of cooperation that are expected, including a range of activities relating to the collection and preservation of evidence. Where we operate in-country or request assistance from state agencies, we necessarily rely upon the cooperation of those, notably states' parties, on whose territory we operate, or who are the recipients of our requests for assistance. We're thus seeking to improve our operational abilities by expanding a new model for international cooperation. Under this approach, the prosecutor's international cooperation section develops a cooperation framework at the diplomatic level with the state concerned, which then permits direct operational contacts to be established between our investigators and state police and prosecution officials. These operational contacts facilitate follow-up for our requests, for assistance, and speed the process of cooperation. This way of working is already functioning well in certain states. Nevertheless, cooperation with certain other states' parties has proven more problematic for a variety of reasons, relating, for example, to capacity, political will, or the sensitivities of the particular case. Other obstacles may stand in the way of investigative activities, a chief concern being the security of the environment in which our people need to work. State cooperation comes into play once again. We may only be able to operate securely if the armed forces of cooperative states or UN missions are in a position to provide us with the necessary level of security. Only think back to the forensic investigations carried out by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, with respect to the mass grave sites associated with the massacres ensuing from the fall of Srebrenica, or the conflict in Kosovo. These would have been impossible, except for the armored cordon of security provided by NATO forces. We face similar security challenges in Northern Mali and Eastern Congo. In addition, the level of the willingness of states to cooperate may affect the degree to which witnesses, who may be state actors or agents, are ready to assist us with evidence. I believe I've made my point clearly enough. The level of state cooperation will necessarily affect our ability to affect, to carry out, efficacious investigations, and thus our ability to conduct prosecutions based on cogent evidence. The court relies upon states' parties for the enforcement of the orders and decisions of the chambers of the court, including the execution of arrest warrants. The timely execution of arrest warrants represents one of the most glaring difficulties the court faces. The court does not have its own police service, but must rely on the cooperation of states to affect arrests. Failure to execute arrest warrants is not always due to unwillingness to enforce the court's orders, but sometimes due to a lack of capacity in the state concerned. Once again, support by donor states for the development of viable and independent judicial institutions and law enforcement capacity in states in need is vital to the overall strategy of combating impunity. Failure to arrest suspects in a timely way remains a serious problem. Victims of appalling atrocities continue to suffer and fugitives from justice continue to evade and accounting for the crimes they are led to have committed. Failure to arrest also means that with no suspect appearing before the court, we have to shelve the case for the time being with a consequent loss of momentum and need to absorb additional costs and a potential blunting of deterrent impact. The Assembly of States parties through its Hague Working Group is endeavoring to improve prospects for timely arrest and surrender of fugitives from justice to the ICC. There are some good examples of cooperation with respect to arrests. However, in some other notorious cases, outstanding arrest warrants remain unexecuted. Before I close, I would like to mention one feature of proceedings under the Rome Statute that has significance for global human rights law, namely the participation of victims in the trial process and their ability to seek reparations and compensation. The statute and rules of procedure and evidence provide for legal representation of victims and their participation at every stage of the process. Giving voice to victims allows the court to recognize in important ways the suffering and legitimate interests of victims. Victims are important participants in the legal proceedings of the ICC. The prosecutor has a particular concern for those most vulnerable of victims, namely children, and the victims of sexual violence. In my remarks today, I've outlined a few ways in which the international criminal prosecution contributes to global human rights law. I've touched upon the way the court must work on the basis of complimentary jurisdictions and state cooperation, and I've described some of the challenges the court faces in pursuing its mandate. To conclude, I would like to underscore the need for the assembly of state's parties to hold fast to the bedrock principles upon which the Rome Statute is built. Those who believe in the purposes of the ICC must stand up for the integrity of the values it encompasses. I include in these core values accountability before international criminal law of even the most powerful and privileged individuals. No one should be above the law. Moreover, it is to be hoped that one day the jurisdiction of the court will be truly universal. There's a thirst for justice among people caught in situations such as Syria, where the court as yet has no reach. International criminal prosecution is important to global human rights law by virtue of its focus upon the most egregious violations of international humanitarian law. The ICC inspires hope in many, but the struggle for the achievement of the ideals it represents is a hard one. It is one that needs the support and encouragement of people of determination and goodwill everywhere. Thank you for your kind attention.


to look back at it but at 13-7 you would have felt pretty good I mean I was thinking of taking the Jets just because of two things you know the Jets would try to play hard on national television the Ravens would never really be in doubt but you worry about the second thing the backdoor cover because I figured Jackson would get taken out of as a blow and I was surprised he stayed in the game why was he still in the game unless this injury was Fugazi to begin with he didn't look like he really wasn't that hurt and into his credit he said he was a hundred so he obviously was telling the truth but I'm just wondering if this injury was really anything at all but I can't kill the Jets today they're on the road on a Thursday against a team that I agree with Peter I think they're the best team in football you know we'll see what happens with the 49ers and we'll see what happens with the Patriots but right now this is the team to beat their home on national television and here's the dangerous thing about the Ravens they're so good but yet there could be enough doubters about the quarterback and enough believers in the Patriots where they could still have a chip on their shoulder I think that's why they're covering because they still think they have something to prove because there are some people that doubt the quarterback the doubt when push comes to shove they can beat the Patriots at a big spot and I think that's gonna embolden them to make a run right to the Super Bowl why do you not believe in yourself you said you're gonna pick the Ravens till they let you down I mean you don't even believe in yourself if you don't believe in yourself who do you believe in Peter you know what it's a great point I'm ashamed it would I would have been sitting here I should have thrown three points on I'd be sitting here relaxed oh cigar I don't know how you guys feel I I hate the slate of games oh my god it's awful awful slate of games so it's like you laid off a team that's been scorching hot and has done nothing but cover and now I'm looking at the picks this week and it's and as we know it's moving day yet again yeah it's another big week and I'm disappointed and RJ gave us a winner he said take them in the first half now it it got a little hairy there's driving but they got it they got it they got it was nine and he thought it was seven how about this how about this they cover in the first half they cover in the second half they hit the over everything you could have bet on the Ravens yesterday I think I think Lamar Jackson hit the over on yards certainly hit the over on touchdowns I I just find these stats to be so unique that he's throwing for such a low number of passes at one point yesterday they said he's completed 13 passes he's thrown for four touchdowns it's just bizarre numbers it's a really unique thing and also I said this earlier in the season this team the Ravens have always been great with free agents I mean how good is Ingram to have I mean what what a weapon they have what they did was a lot of teams don't do this they have a quarterback with a certain skill set and they built around them they they brought the people in they brought tight ends in that can block and also catch the passes out of the back out of the backfield they brought in running backs that can you know Jackson could either put it in their stomach pull it back that they built around their specific skill set and teams don't do that the Bears haven't done that with Trubitsky and the bottom line is the Eagles haven't done that the last couple years of whence either you've got to build around the skill set of your quarterback it's like with Eli they didn't build the great offensive line when Eli was a quarterback and Eli can't move so you have to know what you have and the Ravens knew what they had and give them even more credit because they had their forever quarterback and Flacco and they had no issues whatsoever to make the transition and there wasn't a lot there you remember go back to the playoffs it was like well we're not really sure about this guy they they believed and they were able to move on from Flacco who had won them a Super Bowl who was a forever Raven and said we can be better that's something the Giants never did I mean the Giants wanted to hold on to get one more free like one more free like people there was a time I know it to me it sounds crazy now there was a time where the Flacco Eli thing got thrown around quite a bit of them being in a similar category talent-wise and I think Eli is of course the better player the clutch player although don't forget Joe Flacco's playoff numbers are astounding they are career-wise so but you're right they knew the time it was and he could still go get a paycheck somewhere else it's not like they screwed him over he went and got money and they got to move on to Lamar Jackson and I'll tell you this this may be the biggest announcement you hear on the show today this is big news in the world of sports oh wow I am see everybody got quiet yeah you can tell they care I am affirmatively rooting for the Ravens in the playoffs this year why because I want a team to root for Robert Griffin the Thursday back up quarterback I'm not fighting with the people in my area the people who left the Redskins were smart I should have done it instead I'm stuck with my terrible team but guess what I'm not fighting with my friends who root for the Ravens I'm just going I'm not I'm not gonna buy a shirt you might not no I would never do that I can't do it in full about a nationals hat yeah but I always had nationals hats I'm from DC I'm not from Baltimore I'm not buying anything Ravens but I am affirmatively hoping Robert Griffin the third wins a Super Bowl with the Ravens and I will enjoy watching them they have they're a pretty magical team and if we get a rematch from that Ravens 49ers game from a few weeks ago that would be an incredible Super Bowl and you know what I love in a sports time where it's all about let's judge everything quarter by quarter Lamar Jackson could not have been worse in the in the playoffs last year could not have been worse he looked hapless he looked like he was lost that he had no future did they bag him did they give up on them absolutely they doubled down on him and they made it easier for him and now he's gonna win the MVP of the league and they might win the Super Bowl that's why when you have a good coach and you have a good structure you know we throw that word around again it's a hockey term now structure gotta have structure in the game structure in our culture well when you have a good coach and you have the right people pushing the right buttons you could say all right our quarterback is broken we're gonna fix them instead of getting rid of them bring in and somebody else we're gonna put in a system as you said bring in the right guys for the skill set of the player that we have and when you're not flying by the seat of your pants trying to make bad coaching out of something that this is a well-coached team there's a team that that the foundation that was set by Ozzie do some in Baltimore there is a culture there that just seems to work and when you don't have it and certainly the Jets and John Jets we're gonna have to wait and see Giants clearly don't have it right now and that's the difference now


wow two years awesome and I applied and I didn't get in and then I realized oh man this is gonna take a lot longer than I thought. Audio is not too bad recording on my phone as I'm driving down the highway here and I'm uh I'm on my headphones which are actually pretty good surprisingly. I feel like every time I'm on the phone like no one's complaining about uh about like ambient noise and stuff so I think this might actually be a decent recording but if there's too much road noise I'm obviously gonna toss it just maybe record this video some other time but so this is just one of those things that came to my mind and I knew I just had to kind of get on video I might post it I might not I have these things like at least a couple times a week that this happens and then most of the time I end up not posting it either because the quality is so crappy or just because I don't know I think about I don't know saying it a different way or putting it in a more formal video or just not saying it at all but something just came to my mind that I feel like a lot of you need to hear right now a lot of you who follow me are trying to get into grad school primarily PA school and you know how competitive it is that's why you follow a channel like mine you know someone who's been there who's really had to struggle to get in who wasn't a very good student who wasn't a very competitive applicant at first and then had to go through the motions and do the things that were necessary to become competitive and finally get in so something I think a lot of y'all need to hear is that it's going to take as long as it's going to take it's going to take as long as it's going to take and I think the reason I'm saying this is because I had a prepaid counseling not too long ago last week and I looked over her application I read her essay and just wanted to kind of give her a general idea of how she could improve it wasn't really anything specific she wanted to focus on it was just a general look at her application first time applicant her essay basically it was really powerful she had a really interesting life story and it was really powerful she gave some really great reasons for why she wanted to practice medicine and why she wanted to be in medicine but the essay suffered from something a lot of essays unfortunately do and that was that it wasn't specific it wasn't really anything specific about why she wanted to be a PA that essay could have been written about literally anything why she wanted to be a nurse a doctor a pediatricist a dentist and I told her this and so I asked her okay specifically why do you want to be a PA I understand why you want to practice medicine it's wonderful I think you're exactly the kind of person who should be in medicine you're definitely going to be great wherever you land but why PA you know why this very specific route and why are you making life hard on yourself by applying to arguably the most the most competitive field to work in medicine I mean med school is probably more competitive but just by the numbers I think they've done some studies like PA school is the most competitive thing you can do I think med school like by the numbers isn't as competitive but just the quality of the applicants overall is higher so it's harder to get in overall but like just by the sheer numbers PA school is the most competitive and so I asked her like why are you making life hard on yourself why PA why do you want to be a PA so bad if you just want to be in medicine and she told me it just makes sense she said that I can be done in two years and I can you know practice I want to be a provider I don't want to be I don't want to take orders I want to give orders I want to be a provider so basically it's the fastest route to being a provider you know two years instead of 10 whatever med school would take and so I said okay that makes sense on paper why you would want to take kind of the fast track you know to being a provider I think that's what attracts a lot of people to being a PA but unfortunately unless you are just an outstanding applicant unless you've been getting very good grades your whole life and you happen to have an excellent GPA and you happen to also have a way to get patient care hours or you've had patient care hours pretty quickly when you decide that PA is the route for you unless you have all of that it's not going to be a fast it's not going to be instantaneous like okay I'm applying and I'm going to get in and in two three years I'm going to be a PA and I'll be a provider like for the vast majority of people at least for the vast majority of people that come to me that's just not going to be the case because it's very unlikely that you're already competitive for this insanely competitive program maybe you are and maybe you can get in and that's good I'm not trying to discourage anyone but for most people you don't have an excellent GPA you don't have a ton of high quality patient care hours you don't have shadowing this person that I talked to hadn't even shattered she's never worked with a PA she just like did research on medical jobs and said literally said to me like this one made sense and I told her it made sense on paper you've never actually seen a PA at work and like no deep down in your soul like okay this is what I want it just made sense on paper and so that could still be the career for her it could still be the career for you absolute I would never discourage anyone but what I do want to communicate today is that uh sorry it's early I haven't finished my coffee so I'm probably rambling but uh if this is what you want I think that's the main thing if this is what you want deep down in your heart you know this is what you want you know this is the only thing that you'll be happy doing for the rest of your life or at least for the next you know 10 15 20 years or however long your career is going to be if you know that and you're willing to do anything it takes to get that to become competitive enough to get into a PA school which is hard it's very hard then it's going to take as long as it's going to take it might take you a year to get your grades to where they need to be to take the pre-rex that you need to get the hours that you need it might take you a year it might take you two years it might take you three years so that difference of you know two years plus residency obviously but that difference between med school and PA school you might have to do that amount of time just to get competitive enough to be in PA school so it's not necessarily a fast track at least not for everybody so it's going to take as long as it's going to take and if this is what you want you have to be willing to accept that and be willing to just do whatever it's going to take to get in and make kind of think from the end figure out what is it you need to do make that list of things you need to do you need to do the classes you need to take the people you need to talk to the contacts you need to make the the hours you need to get the job that you need to get the shadowing that you need to get the experiences you need to get maybe some volunteering whatever it is you need to do to become competitive that list of things you need to make that list think from the end and then commit to knocking out that list of things no matter what no matter how long it takes no matter what you have to do how many late nights how many early mornings like what you have to do it doesn't matter you just have to commit that that's what it's going to be and it's probably going to take longer than you want it's probably going to take longer than you want it to and you think it does or that you think it should it's not necessarily going to be a fast trip but as someone who has done exactly what I just told you who was thinking that originally like wow two years and I could be a provider awesome and you know have this great lifestyle and you know care for people and do this thing that I want to do and make great money wow two years awesome and I applied and I didn't get it and then I realized oh man this is going to take a lot longer than I thought but I also knew that it was worth it and now being here being done with school looking ahead at my first job as a PA I can tell you it was worth it but it took a lot longer than I thought it would


Hello doing a sound check sound check. Hello should be working. It is working. Great. Okay. I'm just not using my microphone because the microphone is not working. This is the computer. All right. We're going to be using the computer mic. I don't know what's happened to my mic from a beautiful microphone. My microphone and my computer might have broken up. I don't know what we're going to do about this. I have to get them reunited. Reunited. Okay. Thank you for your patience for point four minutes in. We are finally going to have a conversation tonight. My friends, thank you for being here. You can hear me. Yes. Yes. Yes. Give her audio, please. Yeah, I had my tech guy come on downstairs in the office and try to fix the mic and we're just having so many troubles with it. I've been at, I don't know what's going on. Hi, I'm going to say hello to you in the chat. Hi, Mari. I haven't seen you for a while, honey. Nice to see you. The journey to becoming me. Hi. Nice to see you. Welcome. Hey, Patty, our mods in the house. Hello, Jeannie. Nice to see you, Nancy. Freelyan. Hello, welcome, Rick. Hey, nice to see you. All right, everybody's welcome here until you're not. Hi to those of you on the live stream. Oh, I miss you too. Thank you, honey. And hello to those who are watching after the fact. Thank you so much for being here on Sunday out Sunday evening with me tonight. Sunday evening. Hi, Jennifer. Oh, hey, girl. My Cali girl. I think you're Cali right. Yeah. Girl. Nice to see you on here. I'm glad you're here tonight. Tonight I am having a beverage. It's just not the morning kind. We're just going to leave it at that here. Cheers. Just poured a glass for the evening. I had a wonderful weekend. Let me tell you all about it. Let me tell you all about it. Okay. So where to begin? I started out a boxing class. It was awesome. It's more like a crossfit thing.  And I will say I did not realize that it's her family's gym. They own the gym. She's part of the family that owns the gym. And I knew that her family was big into the gym, but I didn't know they owned it. I'm like, Wow, cool. And I work with her at the community center. And so she invited me. So I decided to go and check it out and all that kind of stuff. And I, I really this is my second time I've been there. It was another very hot evening in Minnesota. Oh my God, you guys, it was so hot. It was August fourth. It was sweaty hot. And it was like literally 90 degrees. It was so hot. But I got to use my gloves. Oh, I don't have them. Oh, oh, they're at the townhouse. Sorry, I'm at the main house where the my office is here to do work with you guys. I like to work here. It's the best. Good, usually good internet, usually good. Good internet, good internet here. Seriously, I'm not kidding. It's a thing. And so I left my boxing gloves there. I got Everlast boxing gloves and I got like actual kickboxing gloves for underneath. So I can use those if I want to. And oh my God, it was awesome. My stomach, my stomach muscles are a little sore last time I quads, my legs were sore, but my stomach and then my upper upper arms right here, great, like my bicep triceps area, very sore in a good way. So yeah, then I went to a concert yesterday had a friend of mine come into town and she got a hotel for us. And we got to just chill in these really comfy beds like hotel beds are the best. And sometimes they're the worst. These hotel beds were awesome. And she said, Hey, I told you, I know what I'm doing because she travels for work and stuff a lot. And she also just travels a lot. And she said, these are the best. Yeah, trust me, these are the best beds. And I'm like, okay, because I'm thinking this isn't the best hotel. And it was awesome. It was the best hotel. Like you're awesome. That was great. So she did that. And so went there and then met a couple of other people at the concert itself and went to an outdoor concert. Of course, just to see the indigo girls. Yeah, the closer I am to find today. Can't you tell I'm just so much closer to fine. I might ask you to come to my window. Or maybe we should howl at the moon. But don't ghost me. Those are all song lyrics. Okay, our song titles, in case you're wondering. So if you like indigo girls pop in the chat, what your favorite songs are, or even if there's only one, you know, just pop it in there. Or if you've seen a concert this summer, pop that in there. Who have you seen this summer? If you've seen a concert, I made a one of the things for my 50th year, when I had my 50th birthday, one of the things I wanted to do this year was go to more concerts than I have. I have for sure. And I have concerts. I have tickets to Queen in October. I have tickets to another local concert here in like two weeks. And so I think she's going to come back for that one too, to go with me.  So that one's like a DJ thing, kind of. It'll be fun though. So it'll be outdoors. So what have you guys seen outdoors? The time. Wow, like more is day in the time. Of course, you have no surprise. Howl, howl, the indigo girls. Yeah, Galileo. Oh my gosh, I just put that, the hey journey. I just put that on my TikTok page. I used the Galileo song to show the pictures of indigo girls that I had. The concert. Chase and ovation. Oh, interesting. Okay. Patty. Oh my gosh. What was an outdoor show on Friday night? I can't read what that says. Buddy guy on Friday night. Cool. Cool, you guys. Great. Hi, Bromley. Nice to see you. Duran Duran, a psychedelic furs, Sisters of Mercy. Wow. Awesome. You sound fun. You sound fun. Here I am in this Sunday night reminiscing about my weekend, which was really good. Anytime you can use your priestessing oils, which I did, your new Magdalen Rose Oracle deck, which I did, and have your feet barefoot on the grass at a gorgeous summer's night. Which I did. And food trucks. Food trucks. You guys, I had this incredible acai bowl thing that was plant-based, completely plant-based. And it was the coolest thing ever. It was so good. We split it. It was like coconut milk. Oh my god. Oh my god, it was so good. I could use some right now actually. Very, very healthy too. I know.  Karen Carpenter. Oh my gosh. We're not chili peppers. Iron Maiden. Jane's addiction. Nice Brazilian fruit to the rescue. Okay. All right. So just there to just chat about people we've seen live or seen, I'm sorry, not live this summer. Oh, why am I talking? I'm talking into the microphone. I need it as a prop, you guys. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Remember like NBC News or whatever it was or CBS News or whatever. Oh, it's cool. I think I missed my calling. All right. So, yeah, I had just had a really nice time. There were four of us ladies that went. I never, I hadn't even met one of the ladies before. She just got one of my tickets and I said, yeah, come on, it's fine. The more the merrier kind of thing. And she was cool.  Does cranial sacral work and isn't energy? Isn't that cool? Now that's kind of friends you want to have. Plus she drove. That was very helpful since we came from the hotel, you know.  But so, yeah, then met another friend.  We had a good time. All right. And my friend too. We had such a great time. It was awesome. Okay. Oh, and then, okay, so here's one more thing. So she, this morning we're talking and she was like, okay, I want to see what kind of human design you are. I'm like, really, somebody else asked me that before. So I knew that I was something I'd seen it before. I didn't know which one I was. I know in Enneagram, I'm too, I know you'll be shocked by that. I don't know that much about Enneagram, but I'm to everybody in case you're wondering. I wish I could remember my Myers-Briggs. I can't top the top of my head. I can't remember. I have to look it up. It's been a while since I've done it. I'm actually certified in one version of that. Anyway, back from back in the day. And I'm trying to think.  What's your birthday? Okay. It's kind of like an astrology thing or something. I don't know. I'm like, yeah, okay. There's enough of that stuff out there. I'm like, yeah, it's cool. But I'm like, okay.  I'm like, yeah. She's so funny because she was like, I thought you were a generator. I totally thought you were generating manifestor, maybe, but I thought you were a generator. You just seem like a generator. And I, she's like, I'm a reflector. So I get my energy from people like you. I really thought you were a generator. I'm like, okay, is this bad? I have no idea what you're talking about. So she's on her way home and she's like, Hey, here's some information for you.   So just a new thing. If you're curious, you like stuff like that, you guys check out human design. I guess it's a bit of things. It's like 2020. I missed the boat on that. I don't know how, but I just did. So human, or human, human design, what are you, if you know what your human design is, or your enneagram, put it in the comments below. Enneagram, you can put en. My en is this. Human design, HD is this. I'd be curious to know. We're still talking about flock at Seagulls. Hi, Elizabeth from Florida. Oh, Rick, I'm sorry, we don't usually just talk about channeling stuff on Sunday morning coffee. Sunday morning coffee is an opportunity for me to kind of connect with you all, the viewers, and I also pick an energetic topic either out of the field, or I pick something that's kind of showing up throughout the weekend, and I do kind of a little channeling talk on it. That's how it works, Rick. So welcome. Welcome to Above Life Channel and to Sunday. Morning coffee is usually, but tonight it's Sunday evening with me. So cheers and welcome. Yeah, it is good. Lots of good people to interview. Okay, so human design stuff. Does anybody know anything about that stuff? Maybe you guys aren't into it. Some of you might be, you know, Sunday wine, I know. I don't really want to, it's tricky, because I don't really want to promote that, especially because I do have people who are younger people, and I also have people that are on a sobriety journey that might be watching me. So I would really want to honor and respect those things for people. I don't want to be a trigger for anybody, and I also don't want to misrepresent using tools or vices too much. However, lots of things can be vices, right? If we overuse them, any quality, I learned this in human resources and organizational development and learning. Okay, because I had a big HR career for a while, right? Which was good, grateful. But I learned a long time ago that any skill that you have, that's a real big asset of yours, like one of your best attributes, when it's overused, it becomes a detriment. It actually hurts you when you use it too much, a skill that you rely on way too much. It actually hurts you eventually because you overcompensate by the things you don't have as strong in, but you need maybe for the job or the relationship or the person that you're talking to, and they're not as strong as you overcompensate, which actually really kind of throws you out of alignment.  That's a good morning coffee actually, because an overuse of a skill is not helpful to you. So that's why you constantly get to learn and grow and heal and move through things, not because you're not good at it. So you have to do it again and do it again and do it again. See, it's not like a driver's test where you fail and you have to keep retaking it. That's not why you're here.  So let's call this a Sunday evening chat about, let's call it get over it. Let's call it that. I'm going to ask for that. I'm going to remind myself that I said get over it. And the reason I want to call it that is because I feel like whatever it is that you're dealing with that you're facing that's coming up again. That's a reoccurring pattern.  Just drop it. Or it's not rational. It doesn't make sense. Maybe your heart is feeling a lot tonight. Maybe you're feeling seasick. Like one of my clients today, I would say that she is has so much grief. She has some twin flame stuff going on. She has so and I'm so compassionate toward the challenges that she has right now with that and and knowing what the twin flame energy is and what it's not. And that she's just in this place where she has so much sadness. And I know many of you can relate to that, right? And so get over it. Our topic tonight isn't about you're doing something wrong. Because having you heard from people, oh, just get over it.  I don't know. And now she's dating your friend, whatever it is. Okay, not saying that that's that's that's not my example. I'm just saying whatever it is for you, you might have this underlying expectation that other people maybe are feeling like, Oh, just get over it. Just get over it. But really, the truth is, is you're telling yourself that get over it, get over it already. Like I should be further along in my career. I should be, I shouldn't be here right now. This shouldn't be happening to me. Why is this happening to me? Whatever the it is, what is your it? Is it your landlord is raising your rent and 100 bucks or 300 bucks makes a big difference? And whether you're able to make your bills or not? Or maybe it's a situation that you're in your it is about you're on this edge of trying to decide if you want to change careers and you're like, Oh, my gosh, do I really want to invest right want to go to the night school? Do I do I want to do that? Do I can I go part time at my job? Do I want to ask my boss? What am I going to do because I know that, you know, maybe they're like going to lay people off of the economy, all this stuff, right? Whatever your it is, that's creating the challenge or the opportunity to get over to jump over it. But is it really to jump over it? Or maybe it's to go through it? Or maybe it's just to witness it. It depends on the person in the situation that you're facing. Okay. It might be go over it. You jump over it. It's an obstacle. You're hurtling it. But if you're hurtling it, are you really addressing it? Or are you just trying to not let it not touch you too much? If it's a emotional thing, loving thing, a grief thing, yeah, you probably don't want it to touch you too much because you're afraid you're going to get contaminated by it or something.  Like, and is that dramatic? It feels like that doesn't if your stuff is in your heart, this is the person I was talking to today, you know who you are. So I'm just going to feel that energy and I spread them to just presence that. What is your it? Is it something you're facing, a challenge? Is it something you've learned recently about your relationship or about yourself? Maybe you've done some some personal history stuff, some lineage ancestry in me or whatever it is, and you've learned some things about your past about your ancestors that aren't so good. Maybe you just had some medical work done and you thought it was just a normal checkup and there's some stuff that showing up that you're really shocked about. Maybe you're prone to certain things genetically that you didn't know. And so maybe you're facing something that's an it that feels hard. I'm talking about the hard it's the get over it. Although an it could be something good to like a great weekend with awesome people. It's fun with the people I hung out with. Oh my god, they were so awesome. If you're watching you guys were awesome. You guys were really nice to be with. I really, really enjoyed the time together. It was cool. It's cool getting to know you guys and to be with you and stuff. And so yeah, that was great. So great. So your it might have been something good, but you still have to get over it because it's over. It's done. It's part of the past. It's a memory now. And it's okay to like think about that and integrate that and bring it into your heart space because that's where we're at right now is our heart. This is where we're focusing on for the Sunday evening conversation that we're having here. Get over it. It might be a situation where you really are it's a part of your process. It's not see the thing is I think people feel like and I know I felt like this before too that there's the obstacles that are placed in our path because we have to like pass a test or prove our ability in order to continue just like in school, right? You have to pass this test. So you get to this level and then you pass this test and you get to this level. Could be like physical fitness class and gym or something or could be like a certification you're going through and however high you rank is how high you get. You know, it could be like a military thing. It could be anything. There's just this valuation. Isn't there? There really is. So whatever this is that you are identifying in this moment as coming forward as the thing that's kind of pushing against you. It's not like it's fighting. It doesn't have a big sword. It doesn't have a big sword and it's not challenging you. I know this is a dagger but this was the inspiration for my latest tattoo which I would have shown you but I have jeans on so I can't really show you my tattoo but I got a tattoo on August 1st. It's this sword. It's exactly this. It's the dagger and it's going down. It's on my left thigh if you must know. You can see it when I wear shorts. You can see it. It sticks out and it's wrapped with some roses and some leaves and then it has two swans on it. Yeah, side by side. One's facing this way. There's this one and she's a little bit smaller and she's facing that way. So yeah. So here we are. Okay. So let me, oh somebody just messaged me. Sorry just a second. That's weird. I want to make sure my, oh I just wanted to make sure my, I wanted to make sure it wasn't the sound guy upstairs telling me, hey, you have no sound again. I have lost my voice. I have not lost my voice because I have benefited from all the conversations I've had with you, my friends here, whether or not you've heard them. Sorry about that. It is what it is, right? It's a thing. You think that mercury is in retrograde but it's not. Okay. So get over it. Maybe part of the meaning of that is about being over. Not over as in done. I'm through it. I'm done. Goodbye. Good riddance. Bye gums. Bye, Felicia. It is maybe perhaps the over part is the overview, oversight, the overarching theme, the understanding that comes from a perspective as an observer to be able to see this big open vastness looking down upon the human circumstance situation that you are experiencing. Having a completely different experience. Your higher self, your spirit is having a completely different experience as you are breaking down in your heart space, as you are grieving, as you are getting all sorts of stuff stirred up. Now remember, we are also astrologically in this Lionsgate portal, which apparently is a big freaking deal. And I would say, of course, it is anything with a lion and you're dealing with Archangel Ariel because she's really into the lions and Sekhmet, who is one of my guides.  And it's going to amp up here. What are we the sixth? I mean, we have a couple days and it's like this part, because it's basically opening, opening, opening, opening, and it feels like it's going to hover for a second. And then we'll start to kind of come back down and it will compost into the earth, lay on the earth to be able to be absorbed so it can be manifested in this lifetime. That's how I see it. It really looks like it comes in.  Then when it's in the earth and we're walking on the earth as humans we're manifesting that. A human design, manifestor. I have no idea even what it means, you guys. I'm trying to learn, but I don't really know yet. At some point, maybe I'll have no little, I need to catch up because she's going to be like, like I need to tell her what I know. Like I have to show up, you know, for this information. I have to like volley the ball back, you know? Okay. So anyway, get over it.  It's not what we're talking about here. Get over it. So we're going to get into awareness as to whatever that issue is. And we're going to look over it together. We're going to arc over. We're going to do a big half circle over and we're going to look into almost what looks like a pool of water. Okay. I want you to do that. Yeah. Okay. Use your imagination. I get that everybody doesn't think they're psychic, but you're intuitive and you can use your imagination. You know, a pool of water looks like, do you like in a picture or on a lake that you've been to, whatever, right? Picture a pool of water. Okay. So we're going to get something, get an issue, something, let something come forward. Doesn't have to be bad. It can be good, whatever it doesn't matter. Let it come forward. Okay. Is it here? Okay. I just got mine. And then we're going to look down at it. We're going to look at it just kind of look at it like as if it's all laid out in front of us, the energy of it, not the details. This is not a timeline. This is not a paper or a speech that you have all these note cards and you're looking at it to move it around. It's not a puzzle. Okay. It's not a puzzle. I'm just going to sit here for a moment and let it kind of come through. When I say, let it feel the energy of it. When it's coming in to your awareness, as we are coming into the over, we're opening it up a little bit. We're just opening up some space for it. That's it. We're not going to fix anything or solve anything, by the way. We're not fixing, we're not solving. Do you know why that is? Because nobody is an expert of you. You are. You're the wise one. As a psychic, as an intuitive, as a coach, it's just my job to give words to what you're already feeling, to ask you the questions and to tell you what your team is showing, so that you can get more information. Okay. Right. Right. So opening it up, opening it up to see what's here and present. So let's look down. You're looking into water and seeing that reflection and see, sense or feel. There's a couple of different things we can do here. You can see an image in your mind's eye.  Use your head in this spiritual connection we're doing here and look down. What do you see? If you need to close your eyes, you can. What do you see in your mind's eye? What do you see in your dreamy state? What do you see in your imagination? In the storyline, what do you see? Might be symbols. It might help if you have a notebook or if you don't just grab a piece of paper or remember this. What symbols do you see? Do you see colors? Yeah. Are they pictures? Now, don't get too caught up in what you're seeing. Just remember what they are. Okay. Just remember the images. The thing you notice about the image. Not every little piece or don't get caught in the why am I seeing that? Why did dad have red shorts on in my imagination of him when I was 12? You know, don't worry about the detail like that. But acknowledge it. Like, oh, hey, red shorts. That's interesting. He had red shorts. That might be a thing, right? But don't remember everything. Just what stands out. What stands out? Okay. Next. More image. You might see sacred geometry shapes. You might see color. Color is super important. It gives you information. You might see a favorite stuffed animal. You might see the title of a book. You might start to see words. You might see the lyrics on a song on a back of an album cover. Okay. You might see an image. You might see a picture. Like something that you've seen on a billboard a thousand times or you might see a treat.   Sometimes we see symbols like the outline of a hammer or a Christmas tree or a triangle or other sacred geometry shapes like the dodecahedron or the sacred soccer ball. Let these things just come in. You might see a feather. You might then start to get spirit guide guidance as in the form of angels. You might see angel wings. You might see an angel feather. You might see a person that is like a card that you've seen that has Archangel Michael. Don't question it. Just acknowledge it. You might see eagles wings are a phoenix rising from the ashes. Those are animal totems. Those are spirit guides. Pay attention. Okay. So we're just in this place where we're getting information at an overview. We're just open. It doesn't have to make sense. It's just we're open. Okay. So nice breath into the heart. And an exhale out. Write down those images and the colors that came, even if it seems simple like a triangle. Why would I say a triangle? Don't ask yourself questions. Don't doubt. Just be open. Should getting the issue or information. Okay. It's centered. It's front and center in the heart space because the heart is where you guys are going to respond and react quickly to and from. Plus that was what was triggered by and inspired by my session tonight. So I'm going to use that to help her more. Okay. And then we are into the space of openness, observing, of seeing the overview. And that comes in forms of first images, pictures, colors, items, things, symbols, a sunshine, a flower. Note the particular flower. Notice the color of it. Notice the time of year in the background or the picture that you see. Little things like that. Dad's red shorts, whatever it is. Okay. Cause that matters. Cause those subtle things. That's where the alignment happens. It's just a little thing. That's it. You're not going to figure it out with your brain. This is not a puzzle. It's all this just information. I'm trying to give you the space to receive the information as much as possible than to practice doing that because this is safe and sacred space. We are in safe and sacred space when we connect. Okay. All right. So then I said sense or feel. So you see sense and feel. So sense is kind of sensory stuff. It could be a feeling in the body, tingling in the shoulders, it could be heat. It could be coolness. It could be a sense of nothingness. Like I can't even feel my hand or whatever that might be for you. Okay.  Okay. So what are you sense and then feel those? Those things really blend together. They're really blendy. They blur together.  Again, there's no right or wrong when you're interpreting or connecting to the information for yourself. You are the expert, not me. I'm just helping guide you through this. So you can experience, gather different kinds of information, have different perspectives, and then give yourself some time to process so that then you'll have some insight, maybe some clarity. As we'll come, especially right now, I think there's lots of opportunities for to come in. So after you feel and sense in your body. Okay. So let's, the issue is here. We've got the issue. We are open. Okay. Now we're feeling into instead of the site, the vision of it, the tangible looking we're going to feel. So close your eyes. Feel your body. If you can close your eyes, feel your body. Where in your body is this? Where is this issue feeling really tight or really present, really dominant? Where's the issue tight or present or dominant? Feel into that. You should feel right away. You'll know. Okay. So mine's my solar plexus. I'm feeling into that. So we're going to breathe a little bit to help open that up a little bit to let it kind of expand. Just be more expanded because then you have room to breathe. We need room to breathe because that's what we create. Room to breathe, your element is creative energy. Okay. It's also supports change and clearing as well. All right. Nice breath in. I'm going to exhale out just to expand some of the energy, expand some of the, just soften. Let's soft, soft, soft, soft, soft the energy of that wherever it is in your body, wherever you physically feel it. It might be a pinch in the back. For me, it's like low back, right hip. Just a little bit right there. Oh, yes. I can feel it right there. Okay. Nice breath in. And exhale out. For you, it might be in the energetic center. Like I said, for me, solar plexus right in the gut. For you, it could be a throat chakra. You might be clearing your throat right now a lot.  That's your third eye. It could be anywhere in the chakras. It could be anywhere in the physical body, the shoulder blade. Oh, the shoulder might be that left ankle. You know, it could be just anything tight neck, whatever that is. Just acknowledge it. Acknowledge it. Okay. Acknowledge it. Feel and sense that in your body and then honor it by acknowledging it. Don't stuff it in further and tamp it down. That's how we make ourselves small. Don't do that. Don't do that. Not to yourself. The world's going to do that enough, don't you think? We're going to be nicer to ourselves. I should teach a class about how to be nice to yourself one-on-one. Nobody would ever take it. I'd have to call it how to win in this world. Okay. So get over it. Get over it. Whatever your it is, I'm going to ask for your spiritual guides, your healing helpers aligned with your highest good energy of God, Creator, Source, Universe, Cosmic Consciousness, and Universal Alignment to support you, encompass you, and help you to move, shift, clear, or integrate the information that comes up and through as a result of this conversation tonight about getting over it. As we've gotten into kind of zoomed into a topic or a key area for you, a challenge or a place of strong activity, and to the, oh, the overview, the more expanded, more open view, and then into the allowing the energy of the it to flow and release and become into more awareness. Then you can take action if you need to. We can just be an observance and hold in honor of the space of that. Okay. Nice breath in. I do see a lion right now, exhaling out. So a lion, gorgeous energy. Kind of reminds me a little sphinx vibes from Egyptian time, segment, ISIS, vast, et cetera, as well as then we have the Lionsgate portal on August 8th. If you need to know information about that, I encourage you to check out Molly McCord, MC, C-O-R-D, just a good resource. I don't know her personally. I just think she's a good resource. I'm sure you have astrologers that give you a good information about Lionsgate portal. You don't have to be an astrologer. You don't have to be a psychic. You don't have to be into energy. You don't have to know any of the stuff. Like I don't even know anything about image design. I'm going to learn a little bit. So just listen, maybe listen to Molly McCord's information about that. So you can use the energy because when you're then into awareness with coupled with your openness and your understanding of whatever the issue or topic area is or the theme that's happening is for you, that's when you can actually make change and be in your own power, have your own agency. And you deserve that. You totally deserve that. So now I'm going to have some fun and chat. I said I was going to tell you about something else. What was I going to tell you about? I said, oh, I got to tell you about that. I don't remember what it was. Do you remember telling me in the chat? I don't know if y'all are going to care that much, but maybe maybe baby. We'll see. Oh, I got an indigo girls. I should wear it tomorrow. No, probably not. My channeling tomorrow. I'm going to try to do it early too, by the way. We got stuff to do tomorrow. So I might have to do it later in the day, but it's not going to be the normal time. It'll be a little bit before or later. I'm going to go try to see a movie tomorrow. I'm going to say hello in the chit chat chat. I did get an indigo girls merch. I got a tank top and it was a small and I thought it was going to be super bit or super tiny and it was not if it just is kind of big, actually. Okay. So I'm super confused. All right. There's just chit chatting away to each other. Human design. I'm super confused. Okay. I would take your class. Yeah. Human design. It's a thing. I don't know. It's like a one of the personality type tests or something like that. Okay. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on that chat. Oh, Kathy is eating chocolate. A chocolate frosty. Okay. I don't know what that is. If that a donut or something. I've heard of human design. Yeah. Action speak louder than words. Too much of a good thing is bad as I have heard. It's just too much overused, right? Okay. Got it. Interesting. I needed this. Thank you. Oh, Bromley. Interesting. So you said a school of silver fish swirling in the blue ocean since joy and impending doom. I feel anxious and my sore plexus. Yeah. You know what? It's that sweet spot, that balance, isn't it? It's that ever, it's that dance between, oh, life is good. Oh, but it's too good. So what's going to happen next? Like the other shoot a drop kind of thing. You know, it's like that. I get it. There's a gap, but there's an intended gap because the gap creates room, right? It creates space and there's unknown in that space. That's not an easy thing to manage. It's not. There's a lot of fear that can be a oozing out the gap there, isn't there? There's also a lot of opportunity to create and then it's challenging. You know, I know I feel that same, same, same, same, same way. I can't remember. I was going to tell you guys about something I can't remember. We'll chat tomorrow. I'm not 100% sure I'm going to channel tomorrow. I have a couple people in the shoot that have been waiting, but other people are dying. And I'm like, ooh. Like when Shanae died, we had to talk to her of course. Like it just felt, I, because of my journey and my experience in the last year and a half, a couple, two, three, freaking even know anymore. I can't even tell time. Seriously. Everything's all squishy and crunchy and all that. But she and I really, I really connected. It was like boom right there. Very specific. So I'm thankful for that. But what a powerhouse. But now like Pee Wee Herman died. I'm like, who do I want to talk to him or not? Maybe. I don't know. But I've also been waiting to talk to David Bowie. And there's one other person I can't remember on my list. I have to tell him my head right now. I can't remember who I was going to talk to you because I want to ask about some specific topics, some hot kind of hot topics that are going on because I'm curious about some things, but nonetheless, here we are on Sunday evening. Oh, I wanted to tell you before it gets too late before I wrap up here that I am doing another inspiring psychic experience where I do a small group on Zoom. It's on Thursday this week, August 10th. And there will be a link right away in the description when this is posted. There's a link there. And you can sign up for it. It's $40. I think he's charging right now for a person. It's about it's an hour and it's about it's 60 to 90 minutes, depending upon how how large the group is. And I do a talk. I connect in, I channel, I give us opportunity to connect in, like I kind of make sure we're all connected to each other and we're going to receive energetically when other people are talking. And then I do some kind of channeling or share some kind of message. And then I do question and answer. So you can ask me psychic questions about, oh, my gosh, we're thinking about moving. Where should we move to? Here's my thoughts or whatever. Tell me what you think. Or, okay, I'm having some stress around my daughter. She's X, Y and Z is happening. What do you feel about that? I can do that. Yeah, it's like kind of like old school psychic readings as though I would be kind of doing a group reading. It's not mediumship only because the mediumship is tough. I mean, I can do a little bit of it. But it's not a sure thing in a small group like that for me because it's so personal. And I really just get really focused. And last time I did it was super tough because I had one person with like five people and I'm like, that's not fair to everybody else. But I'm also like, oh, my gosh, there's so much information to share. I can't just stop. I'm like, oh, I can't stop. I can't just go, okay, that's enough now, we're done. Really? Are you going to tell the afterlife that? Are you really going to tell the afterlife they can't talk? It's hard. And usually with me, I have parameters on that. But the inspiring psychic experience is a small group. Sometimes it's five people. Sometimes it's 12 just depends, you know, I keep it a little smaller just so I can have opportunity to interact with you guys because that's kind of fun. But it's not intended to be in lieu of a private session though. So if you do need a reading or a private session with me, there will also be a link to that as well. And I do have one hour sessions available for that. So this I'm talking about is coming up this week on August 10th, Thursday night, and you can sign up for that after this goes live. Alright, so let me just say hello again in the chat. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Patty, for being here. Thank you, Rick, Mari, Bromley. I know Kathy was on here as well. Thank you for being here, Mari. Thank you, Nancy, for being here. Oh, Lisa, hi. Hey, nice to see you. Hey, girl. Hi, my other friend from Florida. Hey, Kim G, I didn't see you there. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Oh, Maria, I haven't seen you on here. Hi. Nice to see you, Elizabeth. I already said hello to you, I think. Florida, right? I can't remember. Is that the same Nancy or different Nancy? No, Elizabeth. There we go. Hi from Florida. Yes, you are. And Jennifer as well. And Journey was here. Thank you guys for being here today. I appreciate you showing up. It's so much fun to have people to chat with on the live stream. I love that. I really enjoy it. So this has been Sunday evening coffee. We've talked about get over it. Whatever your it is. All right. I hope we've inspired your spirit and filled you with some hope tonight and encouraged you to live your life. This is your life after all, and you get to live it. So just live it. Before I leave, do you want me to do a card? Card decks are just resources. They're flash cards. I tend toward Oracle cards instead of tarot cards, because tarot cards have like a whole lineage and history. And if you love that, that's your jam vine. I don't I don't do them. Let me pull from this deck by Kyle Gray. I'll just give you guys a card here together collectively. The Angel Guide Oracle by Kyle Gray. Look like this. I love these. Hello, chakras. Hello, sacred chakra. This is a great deck.  I can feel this one. Sometimes I feel it. Sometimes I get a number and I have to count them. That's how it works for me. There's no wrong way. It's your way is the right way for you. Friendship and union is this card. So two, there are two. You don't have to do things alone. Whatever your it is, you don't have to do it alone. Stop struggling alone. There's a lot of purple here. That is the crown chakra. That means you have a whole crew of spirit guides, archangels, totem animals, saints, deities, god goddess aspects that are supporting you and loving you, ensuring you on whether you know who they are or not. It doesn't matter. They are there. The union energy is really bringing your energy into the center from what I see. It's like the overlap of the vesica pisces, which is two circles. It looks like a Venn diagram overlapping. And then the center line bringing you into alignment. So what really matters is the part where they overlap and they come together and they're really powerful and they're really strong at that center point, that union point, honoring the masculine, the feminine, honoring the future and the past. And what are you? What are you? You are the alignment in the center. Yes, you are. There you are. That's what this means. That's what I'm reading that says friendship and union. Don't do this by yourself. Don't. Do not. And if you are in crisis, go online right now and look up the crisis hotline numbers.  Okay. Tonight I need you to stay just for tonight. So that I know you guys are all here on earth, that'll make me, that'll help me sleep better. That's what you can do to support me in my work. Okay. Just stay for tonight. And then we'll talk tomorrow because we will. All right. Thank you so much for being here. Have a good Sunday evening. Thank you, my friends. I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you.