Over the last 12 months, have worked very closely with the PEO to ensure that we keep LCS Head of Fair in the channel, that we keep the Mission Models Head of Fair in the channel, and that we keep it rolling. And they do superb work for you, for us, every single day. Tate Westbrook back there, recently reported from Joe Malloy's front office, where he was working over at FMB, now he's the Assistant Programmer. And his FM chops are undeniable and gives us great support every single day. Let's see, where's Dave McFarland? Dave McFarland back there in the back, Dave McFarland took over as a deputy in Op-Nav N96 with some reductions in flag officers, Ron Boxl took off and departed, he's down on the J5 on the Joint Staff, Dave flitted up from the Assistant Programmer to the Deputy, Dave does absolutely superb work for us. And I couldn't get it done without him. Robert Tortor and Craig Fajardin, they do training and it gives me just a short to recognize them to the Pacific. And how does this all, and have we got our priorities in 96 in order to be able to take advantage of this time here? I think about the time that I spent when we would get Bunker Hill underway and we would steam out of Tokyo 1 and as we went by the sea buoy within two hours we were being flown on by the Soviets every single day. We'd go through Tsushima, we'd go through Tsugaro, we didn't make a darn bit of difference, but we were going to get flown on every day. We worked on the inter-screen, on the AFW inter-screen every single day. And we had to be good. We had to be good because it was right there. It was right there for us. We had to work on the inter-screen. We had to defend the carrier. It was midway. We had to defend the carrier. We had to intercept and escort at 125 and we were running cap stations at 125 and doing intercepts at 150. Those were the good old days. Reeves was out on picket. We were in close. We had four or five, six ships around midway getting it done. Air defense, the inter-screen and the war in sea. It was our bread and butter then and it is our bread and butter now. It is core to surface warfare. It is what we do. But 80 and 90 are around. The Berlin Wall comes down. The Soviet Union is dissolved. We get involved in different kinds of wars, in different types of conflicts. We are really into power projection. And the challenge on the sea, the challenge to sea control is not there. We have unfettered access to all of the oceans. The enemy is gone. The Soviet Union is tied up or the Soviet Navy is tied up and the Soviet Union is dissolved and we get into the first Gulf War and the first Gulf War is about. It is about power projection and I tell you what, we got absolutely phenomenal at strike. You want a tomahawk at this latitude and longitude, at this time, you are going to get that tomahawk. You want 100 of them, you are going to get 100 of them. We took SSBNs and we turned them into SSGNs. Strike.  And think about those sorties that were coming off that aircraft carrier. Where was the screen? Where was the challenge to the aircraft carrier? Where was the threat? What was the threat? We would operate routinely, sometimes with zero escorts with the aircraft carrier, most of the time with one, certainly some playing guard at night, unchallenged, unchallenged. I remember when I deployed on Milius in the 2000 timeframe, my sonar techs, my wonderful, beautiful, amazing sonar techs, banned the 50 cows. As we went through this raid of Hormuz, is the emphasis on the inner screen? Is the emphasis on defending our high value assets? Is the emphasis on ensuring that we control the sea? We control the sea in the United States Navy and core within surface warfare, we execute the war at sea, we execute the inner screen, we protect the aircraft carrier, we protect and we enable the ability to project power and we execute our defense. Not that those have taken a back seat and not that those have, that means that we have gone away from those, but we haven't had to concentrate them on them with a significant amount of our gray matter. Well, look at the quote from President Kennedy. Control of the seas means security. Control of the seas means peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect our security. So as we got together in 1996 and we looked at this at a course correction and we started to leverage the gains that we had been made, especially in our number one priority, which was to make stuff work, make the stuff we have today work, working on the maintenance side of the house. Captain Plath and Thomas Cicciolo, working with fleet maintenance officers, working with the type commanders, working with our naval sea systems command. We started driving down a path that gives us a well-defined requirement that we can defend and we can fund. And we're driving in a direction that's going to allow us to be able to ensure the maintenance of our ships, ensure that we can get them to their expected service side, ensure that we can drive them into their midlife availabilities or whenever the modernization availability occurs for them. Tremendous, tremendous work, not only on their part, but on the part of the Tycoms and the part of the fleets and on the part of the Naval Sea Systems Command. Admiral Dave Gale working over at C-21 and prior to him, Admiral Jim Shannon, superb work, superb working relationship. We were able to leverage the work we've done to get a well-defined requirement for training and to get the funding executed. That doesn't mean we need to put that away, but we needed to shift around our priorities slightly, provide a slight course correction. So this is where we're going. The third priority, which is still there, is to make the stuff we have today work. We've got to keep our eye on the ball with respect to maintenance, with respect to training, with respect to manpower, with respect to the support that we provide to achieve that current readiness. And I would also submit to you when you see that getting LCS to the fleet has not fallen off the page, it is right there. In making the stuff we have today work, we deployed LCS. We brought her home under a new manning concept, a new training concept, a new maintenance concept, a new employment concept. We flew a crew over there, and that crew turned over, and two days later, that crew was underway, the entire crew, the first time in the history of the United States Navy. And we were able to do that, and we proved that we can do that. We're going to do it again with Fort Worth, a lot of part of this year. That's where LCS fits into this, building to the future. I'm going to talk a little bit later about building to the future. We've done a lot of work this year in order to get to where it is we need to be to understand how we can build ships affordably, how we can upgrade them affordably, and how we can get them to their expected service life. And the number one priority really is, and it's about controlling the sea, about what President Kennedy talked about, about resourcing our ability to do sea control, because air and missile defense, integrated air and missile defense, the inner screen, and the Ward C, offensive ASUW, clearly, squarely in the wheelhouse of surface warfare. Go to the next slide. So this is the programmatic slide that I have for you today. In the past, I've gone through a lot of our programs. I'm just going to talk briefly about these, but I can tell you that between Charlie Williams, between Joe Kilby, between the maintenance of the house, between Dave Welch, we've got everybody clearly and squarely focused on making sure that the entire kill chain that Vice Admiral Coleman referred to, we've got that covered from soup to nuts in executing these capabilities and ensuring that as we continue to operate in those contests, as the waters of the future become more contested, whether it's the Western Pacific, whether it's the North Arabian Sea, or whether it's the Eastern Mediterranean. Then when they say, hey, you've got to defend the high-value unit and the inner screen and defining the inner screen, which is growing right now, given the range of weapons that we're seeing out there from some of the undersea defense, that people aren't saying, well, what are we talking about here? Nope. We are responsible for making sure that the QQ80 on AV-50 system, which is the premier sub-hunting system that we have, and it is performing phenomenally that we have the training in place, that we have the training for the manpower in place, and that we have the training for the operation of the system in place and incorporating it into the larger picture of ensuring that we can defend the aircraft carrier always, because that is our purview. On the ASUW side of the house, a lot of work is being done on here. On the ASUW side of the house and on Harpoon. People say Harpoon, 65-mile missile. Harpoon is a very, very, very capable weapon, and I am absolutely convinced that we have good years left on that weapon, but we have to move further. We have some unique partnerships that we've developed as a result of trying to drive this down the road. One of them is OSD's Strategic Capabilities Office. Doing a lot of work with them, getting a lot of assistance from OSD's Strategic Capabilities in order to be able to ensure that as we move forward into the future, we've got ASUW and we've got the war at SeaWire. I'll talk a little bit more about DDG-1000 a little bit. We've got Flight 3 DDG coming online, Second Ship and 16. It's going to be a Flight 3 DDG. It's going to have the air missile offensive radar. Prior to that, and as we roll out, the Advanced Capability Bill 12, which is on Tech Insertion 12, which is Baseline 9 for our Aegis Weapon System, which is going to allow us to execute Navy-integrated fire control counter-air, which is a phenomenal, phenomenal capability. We're testing it out and we're building the concept of operations. We've got the crew of Normandy, which is going to deploy with a Theodore Roosevelt battle group, locked and loaded in order to be able to ensure that when we deploy Navy-integrated fire control counter-air, we can use the Santa Missile 6, which is really one of the centerpieces of Navy-integrated fire control counter-air to the maximum extent of its capability. We are delivering phenomenal, phenomenal capability and we need to be ready for it. And so as we sat back, our team in N96 said, okay, have we got it right? Do we need to make some corrections when it becomes about controlling the sea? And I do find it interesting that you hear a term anti-access area denial talked about quite frequently now, but I don't think that the anti-access area denial that we're experiencing today is really any different than some of the anti-access area denial threats that we experienced back in the 70s and 80s. But this is clearly, clearly our wheelhouse. So we're gonna continue to ensure that we have the entire readiness kill chain squared away and properly resourced in order to get these capabilities to the fleet, get them in the hands of our sailors and make sure that they can operate them and operate them properly as we move towards having to ensure or as we ensure that we continue to be able to control the sea. Next slide. The outlet for surface warfare, DDG-1000 in the water up in Bath Iron Wars last year. The latter part of last year. Tremendous, tremendous capability. A lot of new technology going into the ship. Integrated power, electronic module enclosures on this ship, long range land attack projectile, Mark 57 PVLS, a lot of new technology we're gonna learn a lot. And if this ship right here is achieved 75% of what it's touted to have, and I fully expected to achieve 100%, it is going to be a force multiplier for our fleet commanders and for our command commanders as we get it out there. We've got some work to do to get it out. No doubt about that, but I am confident we've got the right team on the ship in order to be able to get it out there and get it operating. Flight 3 DDG, up gun to 4160, 4,160 volt buses in order to be able to support the installation of the air missile defense radar. And as I said, it'll be coming out in the second ship in 16, will be the first AMDR ship. You heard Vice Admiral Coleman talk about the littoral combat ships. And where are we on that? A superb deployment. We're gonna go to IFC on the SCW mission package this year. We're gonna go to IFC on the mine sweeping package in the 15 time frame and in the 16 time frame that ASW package that Vice Admiral Coleman referred to earlier will be IFC in that particular year. Where we're driving into the future if we go to the next slide, the future surface combatant. A lot of work, I talked last year about scalability, flexibility, modularity. And I formulated that into, in my tip of the hat to the USNI and proceedings for publishing the article that I, that we wrote in OPNEVN 96 about, about where we're going with respect to our future ships. I think it is about integrated power on the right side ship. I think it is about the right weapons systems. I think it's about affordability, affordability, affordability. I think it's about ensuring that as we lay the ship down and we get the ship out to the fleet that we have a good plan in mind to ensure that the weapons systems paste the threat throughout the life of the ship. I think we have to think about the capability that we build into those ships. We've been building multi-mission ships, our God of missile destroyers and our cruisers. Are we still headed down a path that's gonna drive us to a multi-mission ship or are we looking at preferencing one mission area over another on the ships that we build? And I'm thinking about, as I think about directed energy and these other technologies that we're gonna build into these ships. I'm talking about moving into the latter part of the 20s where we're gonna start contracting for these in order to be able to replace our cruisers that are gonna be retiring in the 30s timeframe. A lot of great work. We did a war room effort in the mid-part of last year and partnering with UPNAV N81, the Assessments Division on the UPNAV staff. We have driven to a study on how we're gonna get to these capabilities. So we're gonna be culling through that and ensuring that we have a roadmap to get to these future surface combatant in the 20s timeframe. Next slide. So I'll wrap it up now and turn it over to my battle buddy, General Walsh. But I'll leave you with a couple thoughts. I think our third priority, which is still tile my list, flows into the second, which flows into the first, supporting that rebalance to the Pacific, ensuring that we're resourcing properly, which really supports the CNO's number one tenant of war fighting first. When I was in command of the Nimitz Strike Group, I used to go on board the destroyers and the cruisers and into the ready rooms and the squadrons. And I used to talk to them about the choice that we are faced with as we step into a position of responsibility, whether it's in command of squadron, whether it's in a department head on a ship, whether it's a leading chief petty officer in a division, and that is a choice that we are faced with respect to, with respect to whether or not we are going to be good or whether we are gonna try to get lucky. Now, and I would say to them, we in the strike group have to do everything we can to be as good as we can possibly be because there is an element of luck associated with going to sea. And what we are focused on in OPNAV N96 is to ensure that in our resourcing, in our requirements, in our support to the type commander, in our support to the fleet, in our support to our fellow resource sponsors that we are as good as we can possibly be. So as we drive towards this war fighting first, as we drive towards the sea control, as we drive towards these things that lay clearly in the wheelhouse of surface warfare, we are as good as we can possibly be. If we do that, we're gonna continue to head on a great path to the future. I look forward to your questions at the end. We'll try to, I think I'm out on time. I'll turn it over to Waila Wash. I think I got one more. And I think that's attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but we're gonna continue to work pretty darn hard in OPNAV N96 so we can be as lucky as we possibly can be, okay? So thank you very much. I look forward to your questions. With that, I'll turn it over to my shipmate and friend, Waila Wash. All right, well thanks, Tom. And with all of thank you very much and to the surface naval association. Appreciate this opportunity to kind of tell you our story a little bit on the amphib and the mine warfare side. The other thing too is we've got a great team on N95 that works amphib ships. We work mine warfare. We also work the naval expeditionary combat enterprise. So those are the three pieces. We're very close with Tom's team over at N96. Try to align as best we can with the same processes in place. Working with Admiral Coltman and his team to try to keep these things tight and aligned to keep moving forward. From a resource sponsor standpoint, one of the things I think that we focus on is that balance between current readiness and future readiness. On Admiral Coltman's team the surface warfare enterprise, Admiral Gubitow-Tow, Pete Scott, the future readiness piece. Tom and I balance that future readiness. But we also have the money on the manpower, the training, the maintenance dollars that come into us and trying to balance that piece. So we have those resources up there and trying to always look at what the fleet needs up there to try to balance where Tom's projecting, where we're trying to project out into the future with what the current fleet needs and what they're trying to do on a day-to-day basis. It's a real challenge in this budget environment that we're in, but we're working hard to try to work that. Next slide. I think the Secretary hit on this pretty well. The world today isn't getting any nicer and I don't think there's any peace dividend. So if you look at it is what he's talking about, you can go right to the next slide and talk about Ford Presence. And he touched base on this. On the Navy, the Marine Corps team and what Ford Presence means to that team of being Ford deployed and being out there all the time. The strategic value that we bring for our national interest. And I don't think there's any question about that is we come out of Iraq, we come out of Afghanistan. Looking at that, we're not garrisoning. We're going to continue to stay as a strong Navy Marine Corps team for deployed meeting our interest. And being able to do that for Ford Presence but also being able to scale up. So if I talk about the amphib fleet here just for a second and what the amphibs really do forward. I think if you look at phase zero, phase one, those operations, we don't get a lot of credit a lot of times for what we do in that area. We talk a lot about major conventional operations, what the blue kill chain can do with the red kill chain and that. But if you take a look around the globe today, our partners that we've got out there working those phase zero, phase one operations that the surface fleet, the entire Navy Ford deployed and entire Marine Corps team.   And I think as you look at those at that amphib force, it's certainly that Swiss army knife to be able to get out there and do phase zero all the way on up to major conventional operations. And I think the times here are very right for that Navy and Marine Corps team to be for deployed doing all the things the Navy and Marines do forward. Next slide, please. I kind of wanted to show you this. This is kind of where we're trying to head. As Tom talked about, rebalancing to the Pacific. A key part of that rebalancing to the Pacific is we have always had our ARG-MU4 deployed in Japan. That's gonna continue to be a constant for us. We've also had an ARG that's always been in the CENTCOM AOR. That ARG we expect to be continuously deployed. That's kind of our requirement to be able to man those two deployments. But there's a lot of other demands and as I had on that first slide, kind of a nasty dangerous world we're in. Not only are we in this rebalance to the Pacific, but we also have this new normal that's going on across the globe and trying to stay actively engaged, trying to prevent conflict in those areas. The one that you see in the med there, the special purpose magtaf crisis response. That was really the Marine Corps answer to the joint requirement to be able to have a crisis response force in the Mediterranean. Many of you old salts that are in here today would remember the days of the ARG for deployed, the MU4 deployed in the Mediterranean. We don't have the luxury, we don't have enough ships to be able to do that today with that requirement. So that special purpose magtaf is forward and it's not on ships. We'd like it to be on ships. You also see down off the coast there of Africa, down further south there in the Gulf of Guinea down there. A presence down there that we'd like with the new normal that we've got today. So being able to try to get independent steamers, ships that could deploy on there we're working. Going back to the Pacific, we've got Marines that are shifting out of Japan as we rebalance the Pacific. We've got Marines down in Darwin, Australia right now today operating there, along with his re-rebalance and move forces out of Japan down the Guam as part of that rebalance, putting Marine magtaf there. So trying to get those Marines to see, those sailors to see to support that is going to be a critical goal in that area. So that's kind of one of the challenges we've got is trying to ensure that we keep that piece up. One of the things that we've done with our ARGs and muses, the group sail, those days, we now desegregate, we do split ARG ops. We are constantly taking our muses, our ARGs, splitting them along, sometimes into different COCOM AORs to try to gain as much presence as we can. Next slide. This is kind of the demand that we see in the, if you look at the amphib fleet. If you look at the core capabilities of the Navy, there's no surprise that demand on our amphib fleet is high. And you could see it's high across the Navy, but I just look at, you could kind of see some of the sourcing requirements we've had, COCOM demand to get amphibs forward has been very high. And we continue to try to struggle to meet that demand. Next slide. One of the things that we find, you know, I was down at Quantico working down there on the marine side, and now up at N95, is we deal a lot with a lot of foreign nations and a lot of foreign nations, navies, marine and army, a lot. We had a lot of discussions with a lot of armies across the world, because they quite a matter of factly, look a lot, try to think of themselves a lot more like a magtaf, trying that we're smaller, we integrate, we task organize, and sometimes I think they can relate to us and how we organize. And the same thing with the fleet, is what we're seeing here is a lot of countries around the globe expanding their amphib force, and growing the amphib force throughout the globe, and that gives us a lot of opportunity. I think if you go back to that piece I was talking about, of building relationships, building partnerships, that gives us that opportunity there to work together as Navy, as teammates there to build those relationships and partner in a lot of different areas. So I think that's a key piece here, is this area here, more and more opportunities to work with partner nations around the globe in many different areas, all the way from the lower end on humanitarian assistance disaster relief all the way up on some of our major fleet exercises that work with some of our large scale amphibious landings. Next slide. The amphib ship numbers here you'll see is the requirement we've had over the years is to have 38 ships as our requirement to do our 2.0 MEB assault echelon capability. But we also see that matches up pretty well with our amphib force requirements. But we've looked at that and said, hey, we're gonna acknowledge the fact that during the fiscal constraints that we've got the 33 is the number. And that's the number that we're kind of working to and striving for. And you can see here with the ships that we've got coming online, particularly the LXR, we'll be able to meet that requirement out there in 25. So what you'll see from that is we don't have enough ships. The United States Navy doesn't have enough ships. We heard the Secretary of Navy there. So the key part here is maintaining the ships we've got, the readiness we've got is we keep these procurement plans on path as we try to keep that force coming online. Next slide. No question that the ARG-MU is our centerpiece. This continues to be our centerpiece as we go forward. It comes with an enormous capability. You can kind of look at this. And I found it interesting when I first kind of got here and heard the surface community and the C&O talk about platforms and payloads. And I don't think that for the amphib fleet, for the ARG-MU commanders, that's exactly what they do on a day-to-day basis. Platforms and payloads I think is right in line with where the C&O is trying to take us. And it's right in line with what we're doing. All that gear, all that equipment, every time these ARG-MUs to sail and deploy, they take a look at what the mission is, how they should task organize their gear, their equipment, their troops, and they put it on those platforms in the right way. Are they going to steam independently or are they going to stay together as a group and they organize themselves that way? So I think where we're headed with the ARG is a centerpiece, but the ability to shift gears, to split ARG ops, maintain the C2 requirements that we need in there is going to be very critical as we go forward. Next slide. One of the things that we had was in Bold Alligator 12. If you think about where we've been over the last few years after 9-11, we had not really done a major amphibious operation, exercise, really, since prior to then. And in Bold Alligator 12, we brought the fleet together off the east coast. We did that on the east coast and we also do it on the west coast with Dawn Blitz. We brought those ships together, the Marines together in Bold Alligator for the first time in over a decade. And we did it, and I would tell you surprisingly, the lessons learned were good, but I think that the old salts again in here I think would be proud. A lot of this stuff came together, but now we're looking at new gear, new equipment. How do you use them? We start looking at capabilities like ospreys, being able to go way deep inland in maneuver warfare. Those were new things that we had, new capabilities, how do we use those? So I think as the C&O went out there to get the after action and the debrief on there, one of the things that I think he highlighted was things had changed. The C2 capabilities needed to be improved in the amphib ships. In fact, we've heard the C&O talk about one of the things he says is the Marines came aboard after Iraq and Afghanistan and they had their stick in their hand and said, where do I plug this in? And he said, we plug it into the three-plong plug over there on the wall. And that's kind of really where you're at with where we've gone. If you try to take a look at the Marine Corps, really kind of working hard in Iraq, Afghanistan, constantly upgrading our C2 capabilities over the year when a walker board wasp and a boat alligator and look in the alfak and you go, yeah, I feel comfortable in here. This is what I'm used to in a regimental COC or division COC or an ACOC. You kind of look at that, go, this is all the high tech stuff I expect. You walk over on the other side and to the Navy side of the command operations, you look in and you look around and go, boy, I feel like I'm back in the 70s. And that's what I think the COC saw in there that we got a lot of work to be done in the C2 to make sure that we're interoperable in that C2 capability, but also to make sure that we can talk to the rest of the joint force and the rest of the battle force. So he gave us that task to really start getting after C2 with us, the N2N6 as the resource sponsor along with us to really get after that. So what we've done is the Marine Corps had a pretty good process in place with a requirements letter that they would send forward from Quantico every year with the Marine Corps requirements. And we weren't getting that really on the Navy side. So Fleet Forces Command now is giving us those requirements and we're bringing those forward in what we call now the amphibious and advanced naval amphibious baseline to be able to get all the stakeholders together, to be able to integrate the requirements to the Marine Corps and the Navy to make sure they talk back and forth, to make sure we're integrating the new capabilities that are going on across the fleet along with configuration management and trying to make sure we prioritize that right across the two services and integrate so we've got the right priorities. Palm 16 is the first time we're doing that right now. And I think there's really a lot of opportunity here to use the right resources in the right way to get after that. Next slide. This is one I think is what Admiral Coppin was talking about, Tom touched on that also, is many of you have looked at the Bilal Report and where the surface force was to look at where we could get better. And I think there was a lot of tremendous good work in that report. I think there were 36 integrated recommendations that came out of that report. And since then, all of you, many of you in here over the last several years have been doing just tremendous work taking that report, trying to figure out where do we get better. We talked, Admiral Coppin talked about the Pesto, the different pillars that we've got to kind of line up as lines of operation with lines of effort below that. And that key part there is you kind of crosswalk those things that we've kind of identified that needed work into the processes that need to be put in place. You can kind of look at that across there and I will tell you, there's been some great work done in that area. And I think we are on the right path to really kind of drive home the best amount of readiness we can get in the fleet using the budgets that we've got. We have to do that. There's no question about that. We can't have efficiencies. As I talked to our guys, we need to have a culture of affordability but we have to question every requirement. Everything that comes up, we have to question, we have to watch to make sure we're spending it in the right way. And so this piece here, I know the processes are in place. The Surface Warfare Enterprise has this and I think the key thing now is it's gonna take some time for it to work but we really need to develop which we're in the process of doing across the Surface Warfare Enterprise of getting those metrics in place to really set those standards and define where those metrics are and now track the task. Break down those barriers, really find where, why are those yard availabilities? Why are we coming out late on the backside all the time, not getting the work done and spending too much money on our end? So trying to drill into that and really take this down to that readiness kill chain approach, I think is one of the things that, you know, in the next year, we're gonna be really teamed up really close with Admiral Copeman on this to make sure that we drive towards that with all the other stakeholders in here. Next slide. Next slide. Just kind of a quick look through our programs here as I look at this is the exciting time in the, I think in the Amphib Force, LHA 6 America. I don't know if Dave Lewis is in here, Admiral Lewis, but tremendous job these guys have been doing on this program. Finished its builder's trials, getting ready to do acceptance trials. We're gonna take this ship at the end of March and this is gonna be a quantum leap in capability. When you get a war, capital warship like this out there with the capabilities that the Marines are gonna be bringing out there with the MV-22s that we have today along with the Joint Strike Fighter, that's gonna be just a tremendous capability. When you think about the Joint Strike Fighter, and I know this is surface naval association, but that aircraft, the reason the Marines really want that aircraft is not for its ability to close their support over the battlefield. That's a given, but that thing is an air combat system, sensor, that can bring in information like no other aircraft out there today and in the future with the processing capability and growth capability that's just gonna be phenomenal. To be able to connect that into the battle force, not just to the Marines on that ship, but into the battle force, to be able to tie in with the carrier battle groups, to be able to tie in with Tom Shooters on the ships and be able to pass that information, be part of that NIFCA approach. I think that's gonna be the exciting part of, yep, there'll be times when that ship will be out there supporting Marines. There'll be other times where it's out there as part of the Naval Task Force supporting the Joint Force Commander and that Naval Task Force Commander with those great capabilities it's gonna bring to the fight. We can't afford to do it any other way with that capability that we're gonna be bringing to that ship. And in three years, we're gonna have the first F-35 squadron for deployed in the Pacific on a big decan fit. So it'll be the first ship, first Navy warship, force warship anywhere that's gonna have an F-35 fifth generation capability on a ship for deployed. And we need to use that right. Next slide. The San Antonio class. What I would say about this is, the sailors and the Marines love this ship. The Marines can't get enough of this ship. The C2 capabilities are the best capability that we've got out there in the amphib force right now. And I tell ya, just like any platform coming in, when it's new, you're gonna go through some growing pains. We've got 10 deployments under this ship right now. And it's gotten through those growing pains. And we're doing a phenomenal job. The summer set that just went through its acceptance trials, zero star cards on that ship.   And not only that, is it doing well in that role, but it's doing just an absolutely phenomenal role out there supporting the joint force. And like I said, it's an independent capability to steam away from the big deck. Absolutely has a C2 capability and capabilities to go with it. So that's an exciting story. Next slide. The LXR. This is exciting too. How often do we have a time to take and mold and shape a new ship's capability? And we've got that right now with our LSD replacement, the LXR. So we wanna make sure we get this right. There's a real opportunity here to do that right. And as we're going through our AOA analysis of alternatives right now, we're really taking a real hard look on what are the range of capabilities, what are the options we need, and really try to drive in affordability into that ship. That is a key thing we've gotta do. And one of the things that we've done is we've brought the industry teams together to really work this with us. Trying to do some of that critical design work early up front, not later on, early on, to try to drive all the way down to the subsystem level, try to drive those costs down early on to get the most affordable ship with the most capability. And that's another one. We have to do that. If we don't do it right, we'll get less capability and we don't wanna do that because we certainly have done a good job with the America class coming on and certainly with the San Antonio class. We wanna do the same thing with this capability here. So clear direction from the CNO, clear direction from SecNAB and the Commandant, working together very close, trying to make sure we've got the requirements right. In fact, I think it's next week, we've got fleet coming together down in Norfolk, along with the Marines, to be able to look at what are the capabilities and try to look at those cost trades in the capabilities and there's many different capabilities we set and kind of take a look at that and go what do we really want on this ship in kind of a war game approach to see where are those cost trades if we try to bring costs down. Next slide. The LCACs and the LCUs. These are connectors. You've got a landing force. You've got the ships and you gotta get them to the beach. If not, you're gonna get entangled and you're never gonna get ashore and you don't wanna have to rely on piers to get the Marines ashore. So this is our way to do it. We looked at bringing the two together into one platform that got too hard, too expensive. We stopped, backed up and said, what do we really need here? The fleet got together, we looked at that real hard and said we need more LCACs and more LCUs. We need both those capabilities. They're not separate. They do separate capabilities and what we're doing is we're gonna really design the LCAC. We've got, I think, nine on contract right now. We're gonna start building them this year and we're going through the analysis of alternatives on the LCU. Not looking for anything fancy. We're replacing pretty much what we have right now, keeping costs down because they're effective and it's exactly what we need. Next slide. The mine countermeasures mission. Tying in very closely, working hand in hand with Tom. We worked the mission systems. Tom works the mission modules on the LCS. Key piece here on these ships is this is a very complicated piece. If you look at the legacy force and the demands out there in Fifth Fleet, we've done, I think, a fairly good job of getting upgrades to what's out there right now today to make sure Fifth Fleet has what it needs. We're also bringing out from industry legend capabilities that are improving the capability that they've got out there. But at the same time, we're migrating to the future force with LCS, with the mine countermeasures mission package. That's the future. That's where we're heading, payloads packages. That's where we need to go. I think I saw Brian Antonio, Admiral Antonio, in here earlier. He's got our full support to move this forward. CNO's got us pushing any piece of equipment capability in there forward because there's a lot of good things that are going on in these mission packages, but there's a lot of pieces coming together. Trying to take as much of that and push that forward as we can is what we're trying to do. Very challenging area. You can just look at the slide and see all the moving parts in there and the challenges that go with that in a period of austerity. So we're shifting gears and really focusing out there to that future piece and trying to get that right. Next slide. So the challenges we kind of see here is obviously the rebalance to the Pacific, very clear. The new normal. We're not getting out of that world in Africa, the Middle East, and that piece of there. So we're going to stay there. The readiness piece versus that wholeness piece is going to be a critical challenge that we do that. And so the third bullet, they're looking at operational global employment of our enhanced MIPSROMs. How do we take the capabilities, second half touched on a little bit, join high speed vessel, not part of the MIPSROM, but that type of capability? Our MLPs, MLP, AFSB, LMSR, TAKE, all those ships, how do we maximize their capabilities? Maximize their capabilities in support of the ARGMU, maximize their capabilities in support of fleet operations. Some of it may even be independent operations, looking at what the mission set is and where they need to go. A lot of tremendous capabilities here in these ships and we're looking at it, trying to get after that right now on how we maximize that capability. And then again, the aging fleet kind of keep the ships we've got right now going until we get the new ships coming online, along with the same time we've got the budget pressures that we've got. Next and last slide. So the piece I would end with is, it's certainly a challenging fiscal time, no question about that. But I think we're on a right path with a lot of this. The challenges we've got up here is looking at what we've got in 14, trying to see what's been appropriate, how that all falls out. We've got Palm 15 that's kind of gone up we're waiting to see what the decisions all are in that. At the same time, we're building up Palm 16. So very challenging, trying to make all those pieces knit and tie together. And therefore I think the execution piece, whether you're at the acquisition side, where you're at the maintenance side, the training side, or at the ONM, the ONS piece, trying to pull that all together into whole forces is the real challenge we have. And like Tom said, we've got some great, great sailors and some great Marines working this real hard for you up at OPNEV in 95. So thank you very much. And Mr. President says we have about five minutes for questions and we have a question. Hi, I'm Laura Seligman from Inside the Navy. So in the appropriations bill unveiled last night, appropriators added $2.2 billion to upgrade and maintain seven Ticonderoga class cruisers into amphibs instead of retiring them. So I was wondering, what is the Navy's reaction to that decision? Well, we're certainly gonna take the direction from Congress and we're going to execute. Okay, we've got it obviously, I mean that is for seven cruisers and two little foilers and a steel washer's LSDs. And so we've got to work our way through it and work through the direction that they provided us and how then we're gonna go execute that. But we're certainly gonna drive in the direction that Congress tells us to go do that. Thank you. I'm Paul Rowden, Lee Willett from James Navy International and I apologize for the foreign language. Okay, I'm gonna concentrate real hard here. A quick question on your interesting slide on the future surface combatant, please. You talked about a timeframe of the 2020s, I think if I heard you correctly. And I wondered if you could give me a little bit more detail on the timeframe, any further details on the studies that you mentioned and what you talked about about the affordability issue and how you're driving that down. Right, yeah. That's a great question. As we drive towards this ship, and nominally in my mind, I'm thinking working with the acquisition community and driving in the latter part of the 20s, the 28 timeframe, contracting for it, building in the 30s, although that's just kind of very rough. But the thing that's front and center in my brain as we drive towards whatever the future surface combatant is gonna be is understanding that you have to get the ship to its expected service life. And in order to do that, you've gotta take care of the whole mechanical electrical and the weapon system has to pace the threat, has to pace it or outpace the threat. And you have to be able to do that affordably. In the past, we have retired ships before their expected service life because we couldn't affordably upgrade the combat system. We have to avoid that. And driving in now at the very leading edge, I think that we can work with our acquisition brothers and sisters, I think we can work with industry to drive a ship or ships that is gonna deliver the capability that we need, is gonna deliver it affordably and much more importantly perhaps is getting it to its expected service life in an affordable fashion. That's how we're going to get to the fleet that we need. And that's very, very important. The modularity of the ships and not modularity necessarily in the sense that we have in the littoral combat ship, although that could be part of it. But certainly whether we're gonna put as energy weapons comes online and we have to drive towards integrated power, the scalability of the ships, I think are all going to be important as we drive towards this ship. So we had a work room effort and we had an analysis, a study executed from the August to the December timeframe, N96, N95 in close conjunction with the assessments organization in the hot nav in order to understand what the art of the possible is with what we know now in getting these ships fielded. So that's where we are. And I'm very encouraged by where we are. And I think we're out in front of this appropriately in order to be able to get to the ships that we're gonna need in the latter parts of 2020. One more from Mr. President. Just real quick, Admiral Copeland had mentioned in, sorry, Kurt Warden from Nova Power Solutions. Admiral Copeland had mentioned the interfaces for the modular systems being a key component there. And those interfaces really are the key component of future upgrades and modernization. Can you expand on what efforts you're taking to define what the interfaces are and how they will kind of shape the direction that future modernization will take? Well, what I can tell you is this. I can tell you that if we don't put the engineering rigor into ensuring that those interfaces are well defined and well understood from the engineering acquisition community into industry, we're not gonna get to where it is we need to be. No doubt in my mind. And I think as we go forward, what we owe industry is ensuring that we do have those well-defined interfaces if we're gonna get what we want. And so I can't speak specifically to how we're gonna go. I can't describe the road not necessarily along the way, but I think we have a clear and getting a clearer understanding of where it is we must go in order to be able to feel that capability. Great question. And I think we'll continue to move along on that. So. If I could just kind of adding into the interface piece that ties into the interface is we take a look at building new ships. As we're looking at the LXR, part of the part in this analysis of alternatives we're looking at is looking at early on designing in how you can change that ship out early on to be able to make it more open architecture, plug and play. So when changes are made later on in the life of the ship, it's easier to do that. Along with taking a look at the commonality across the force, are there radars that the cruisers have or destroyers have that we should be putting on amphibes? That configuration management, that commonality is a key piece of this along with how do you get them in and out of the ship to save money that way? Okay, I think we're getting the hook everybody. Once again, thank you very much. I look forward to this great week. I look forward to catching up with a lot of my old shipmates.  Thank you very much. All right, 10 minute break. Please be in your seats at 10 minutes after floor. Siena was expected at 16.15. Thank you.


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Now we're going to check in on bond markets. We'll head over to big securities now Simon Michelle standing by there Interested to see what the the bond market has been doing Simon while we've all been watching equities I know yields have moved a little lower as investors seek some kind of respite from this volatility Yeah, good afternoon, Kate and absolutely. It's a good good time to be in bonds at the moment with the also all this volatility We're certainly seeing good demand for bonds. So yields are drifting lower. That means bond prices move higher And that's been a relatively good outcome for bondholders since the beginning of the year I think look, you know, we're seeing that increased demand on the view that you know It's been very tough to get a return out of other markets, especially over the last 12 months and with Investors discounting the number of likely rate increases by the US Fed You know locking a year in a yield of you know, four five six percent seems looks pretty attractive at the moment Yeah fair enough Inflation also is going to to be pretty important at the moment and a key driver of that US Fed funds rate Of course, we know we're expecting hikes for 2016. What are some of the key risks? Yeah, it's interesting. I think you know after we got that payroll data through yet We didn't get that very good improvement in rager's growth there You know just accentuates the focus on inflation and that inflation Data has been moving away from where the Fed would like to see it. It's targets around 2% And so I think the view we got from the Fed back in December when they did increase that Fed funds rate that we would likely see four increases by the US through 2016 the market just doesn't see that happening on this much softer inflation now inflation is very much impacted by Currency and if we see the US dollar go higher, that's actually going to work again against the US Direction it's going to export inflation and keep that inflation domestic inflation low and If we see further moves in oil and commodities as we're seeing at the moment again that just removes inflation out So I think you know the data is moving against the Fed on this inflation target And I think that just removes You know the the view that we like to see a flurry of interest rate increases And so investors are comfortable to lock in at these levels. So what have we got coming up in terms of whisk events now? I guess they'll be particularly important considering the investor reaction We're seeing at the moment to the different pieces of information. What are you keeping an eye on? I know here at home. We have the unemployment numbers out later this week. Yeah, we got some employment figures out later this week in Australia I think they'll be pretty much on the money. No real change expected there I think we'll see that continuing stronger trend emerge, but we like not like to see a lot of volatility there I think the key driver okay, it is really going to be China still and I think we've seen that just today So I think most people are going to be looking at China looking at more of the data coming out of that I think in relation to the US we're going to see some earnings numbers coming out as the 4-quarter earnings season starts so that will build on that narrative of whether we are seeing a domestic Strengthening in the domestic yours economy, but I think the bigger challenges now is the external factors And I think they're going to be a key driver Around the ability for the US to move interest rates So look, I think you know looking at a bonds and sitting on the sidelines. It's probably not a bad place at the moment You guys must be laughing at the moment. Thanks very much. Thanks, Kate. Bye. Bye, Michelle over there at big securities


She said, I don't know when the conversation switched from the discussion of academics to the discussion of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. I don't even know, because if someone had told me they were going to discuss the Prophet ﷺ, I would never have showed up. I was so closed off to this idea. But as they were talking, as the girls were talking, she said suddenly something hit my heart and it just opened. This heart that had been so close to anything related to religion, to Islam, to the Prophet anything, was so closed off and when Hidayah is meant to come, the moment and how and on the tongue of whom it comes with, Allahu ta'ala alam and it just opened. And she said there I was, suddenly I was hit with this wave of love for the Prophet ﷺ. And I found myself listening intently. And then I realized, wait a second, this group is almost all hijabies. And she said, and do you know what I was wearing that day? And this is where the real crux of the story is. I said, could you possibly be wearing? So she says the whole conversation is happening in Arabic. And then when she came to this point, she said, mini skirt. And I said, what? So in English, she repeats again, mini skirt. Clearly it showed on my face, I was just... And she said, you know, Yarania, if the woman had judged me for how I looked, I never would have entered into that room. If they judged me for just what my outside was, I never would have been invited in to study the Dean. If they had judged me and said, ah, she's one of those women, she's one of those feminist, I don't know what woman, right? I would never have begun this journey. And there I was, fully welcomed by this group. And one thing led to another, one halaqa led to another, one teacher led to another, and that brilliance that she took to get a doctorate in mathematics at a time when all their women had a doctorate in mathematics. Imagine putting that brilliance into the memorization of Qura'an.


Good morning everyone. Welcome to today's session. So today we're going to study the second book of the major prophets That is the book of Jeremiah Even before we could Begin, I would request one of us to lead us in prayer. Can I request Jeffina to lead us in prayer, please? Yes Jay heavenly father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. Thank you for this beautiful day and for the Amazing class that we're about to have what I pray for everyone who's right here God we ask your presence to fill us your whole spiritual guidance and fill us with understanding Fill us with your knowledge and for everyone who is right here Help them to open their heart and listen to the words so that they can understand this and apply it in their life And enjoy this life every second with you. I pray for the one who is teaching for us I pray that you fill her with wisdom and knowledge and in Jesus name I pray Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Jeffina. Thank you so much Okay, let me Even before we could start with Jeremiah Yesterday because Isaiah was a long book and I didn't have an opportunity to play a video on the book of prophets and how we can Read the book of prophets keeping the prophets in mind and what type of life they lived in so what is this prophet all about? Are they suit sayers are or are they talking on behalf of God? So I thought even before we could start today's class we can I can share this video Before we couldn't begin with our class. Let me present that video for you That while I present it one of y'all, please let me know if you're if the video is audible Ezekiel Obadiah Habakkuk Was it audible? Yes, well Thank you Ezekiel Obadiah Habakkuk. What do these names have in common? Well, there are three of the 15 prophets that have their own books in the Bible And if you've tried to read these books odds are you got lost in their dense poetry in strange imagery But these books are super important for understanding the overall biblical story. So let's talk about how to read the prophets When I hear the word prophet, I think of a fortune teller someone who predicts the future That's what being a prophet means in many cultures, but not in the Bible while the biblical prophets sometimes speak about the future They're way more than fortune tellers. How should I think about them? Well, they were Israelites who had a radical encounter with God and then were commissioned to go and speak on God's behalf Like a representative right and the thing that they care about the most is the mutual partnership that existed between God and Free in Egypt and invited them to become a nation of justice and generosity that would represent his characters to the nations And so this partnership required all Israelites to give their trust and allegiance to their God alone in the Bible This partnership is called the cup, but the leaders the priests the kings led Israel stray and they broke So this is where the prophets came in to remind Israel of their role in the park And they did this in three ways first They were constantly accusing Israel for violating the terms of the cover the charges usually include idolatry Alliances with other nations and their gods and allowing injustice towards us. That's like covenant lawyers Right. So second the prophets called the Israelites to repent which means simply to turn around They spoke of God's mercy to forgive them if they would just confess change their way But Israel and its leaders didn't change things went from bad to worse And so that brings us to the third way the prophets emphasize the covenant They announced the consequences for breaking it which they called the day of the Lord. Oh, yeah The apocalypse visions of the end of the world. Well, sort of The prophets were mostly interested in how God would bring his justice on Israel's corruption and on the violent nations around And while explaining these local events, they often used cosmic imagery cosmic imagery. Yeah, like Jeremiah He described the exile of the Israelites to Babylon as the undoing of creation itself The land dissolves into chaos and disorder no light no animals or people or as they had described the downfall of Babylon as the Disintegration of the cosmos stars falling from the sky the sun going dark for the prophets when God acts in human history to bring Justice it's a day of the Lord So the prophets aren't talking about the end of the world Well, hold on they're doing many things at once The cosmic imagery shows how these important events of their day fit into the bigger story of God's mission to bring down Every corrupt and violent nation once the prophets cared about the present and the future and the cosmic imagery Allowed them to talk about both at the same time got it So no matter when you live the day of the Lord's bad news if you're part of Babylon But it's good news if you're waiting for God's kingdom the day of the Lord pointed to the return of the exiles to Jerusalem and once again The prophets use cosmic poetry to describe it They see a new Jerusalem like a new garden of each with all humanity living at peace with each other and And there's a new messianic king who restores God's kingdom in a renewed Creation you so those are the three themes in the prophets these prophets must have been very powerful Sweets of speakers well somewhere, but others lived on the margins They would often perform strange symbolic stunts in public to communicate their message Like when Ezekiel lay in the dirt and built a model of Jerusalem being attacked by Babylon Or when Isaiah walked around naked for three years as a symbol of the humiliation of exile So do people pay attention to them? Not really the stories in these books show how the prophets were a minority group Mostly shunned by Israel's leaders and their writings were a kind of resistance literature Most people ignored them that is until their warnings came true in the Babylonian exile and after that people began to take their words Yes, the works of these earlier prophets were inherited by later unnamed prophets who studied these texts intensely They're the ones who arrange the Hebrew scriptures as we know them including the books of the prophets Okay, and there's 15 books of the prophets the big three are Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel and then there's a collection of well smaller prophetic works unified on a single scroll And in each of these books you'll read stories about the prophets and their poems and visions all arranged to show the cosmic meaning of Israel's history how God would turn their tragic story of failure and exile into a story of hope and restoration for all nations That twin message of prophetic warning and of hope that the prophets cared about so much And it's a message that we still need to hear today Yeah, that was a short introduction for the book of prophets Well, uh, now we can begin with our class on Jeremiah. I'll just present up one slide Okay, so the book of the prophet of Jeremiah The author of this book is Jeremiah himself and the date Which this book was written Approximately, maybe 627 to 585 bc and this book contains 52 chapters Before we could move ahead. I see that some of y'all have Just logged in I just admit them Okay, so the introduction of this book is Jeremiah Beginned his prophetic ministry nearly 60 years after the death of Isaiah The book of Jeremiah is an autobiography of Jeremiah Jeremiah's life and ministry during the reign of the last five kings of Judah And this book contains multiple prophecies given at different times It takes some effort to reconstruct the order of the main events of Jeremiah's life As the prophecies are not arranged in the chronological order Well, Jeremiah spoke to a nation about to be destroyed by the Babylonians for 40 years And Jeremiah is also called as the weeping prophet because of his deep sorrow over the Unrepentant nation and the judgment that has been approached to this nation And Jeremiah lived to see his prophecies come true And along acknowledged as one of the great prophet of the Old Testament and Jeremiah serves as an example of Someone who remained faithful to God despite of his Countless hardship that he had to face in his life And with that we see the very purpose of this book Saying that, you know, like God proclaimed that God created and controls everything And that is a sin nature to show that the serious seriousness of Judah's sin demanded divine judgment And we also see God's remedy for sin and we see, uh, you know the divine gift of New heart and we also see God's Person to provide the remedy to predict the renewal of Davidic kingship by the coming Messiah And gods we also see God's plan for redemption over the humanity that messiah will one day establish the millennial Kingdom free from the curse of sin and death And we see Jeremiah also as an Isaiah prophesies Written from exile and have two great future events and mind the return of the Jews from Babylon and redeemed Humanity returned to God in the millennium So with this we also see some of the unique features that Jeremiah was one most persecuted Old Testament prophet He was the only prophet forbidden To pray for his nation And he was the only prophet to record as an eyewitness account to Jerusalem's fall And Jeremiah contains bibles most extended and detail the prophecies about Babylon, which is mentioned 160 For times and Jeremiah referred to another prophet Micah by name So Jeremiah himself was referred to by Daniel. Many of the prophets were contemporaries Only one other writing prophet was Daniel was mentioned by name in print by the fellow prophet and Jeremiah also records the last of the Three most important Unconditional covenant that is the Abrahamic covenant davidic covenant and the new covenant has been mentioned and recorded in this book But this we will move on to the chapter wise study So in chapter one, we see the call of Jeremiah Jeremiah was an israeli Israelite priest, but we don't see much of his priestly ritual been performed But we see him most as a prophet as a prophet And he lived and worked in jerusalem during the final decade of the kingdom of southern Judah and he was a son of Hellkeer of the priest of anathos in the land of benjamin And here we see Jeremiah prophesied from the days of Hosea to the captivity and the lord tells him that he was sanctified in the belly Of his mother to serve god and Jeremiah was anxious He is as a child And he could not speak well The lord touches his mouth. So he will be a prophet unto the Nation and the lord plans are compared to the branch of an elementary which comes to fruit quickly And Jeremiah sees a boiling pot Facing the north and evil shall break forth from the north against the inhabitants of Judah And we see Jeremiah will be protected As he prophesies towards the israelites and We see the pious in nature in him that it carried him where he first Entered the promised land israel It forsaken the lord And gone after other gods Uh, its own backsliding will be its punishment from the right seat We see that israel has become a degenerate wine And here it says You know israel is saying to the wood you are my father And to the stone you give birth to me And this sinful nature, you know israel thinks that he's very nosy but this has been very hurting to god because Israel was going away turning its back to god and going away from god So we see Jeremiah was called as a prophet to warn israel Against their, uh, you know the backsliding nature worshiping the idols and uh, he's also warning them of the severe consequence Which will break, uh, you know, uh, which will lead them to break which is leading severe consequence of breaking the covenant And where god through their idolatry and injustice He even predicted that the empire of this Babylon would come as god servant to bring this judgment on israel By destroying jerusalem and taking away the people into exile So this happened because of their own Backsliding because of their own sin and this is just because of the consequence of their own sin and sadly is words Jeremiah words came to reality and he had to see that and that's when we see Jeremiah Moan the curly and he's been called as a weeping prophet and now in this book You know it comes into exist into the real Interesting way in chapter 36 We see that 20 years of Jeremiah's preaching in jerusalem God called him to collect all his sermons and poems and essays and commit them into writing So where Jeremiah employed a scribe named baruch who wrote down and compiled All of this material into a scroll so that it's been preserved. So now we see baruch ascribe also gathered Lot of stories about Jeremiah and he linked all the pieces together So this is why the book reads like an you know anthology a collection of collections So it's all been arranged to present this prophet as a messenger of God's justice and grace So here we see that the book begins with god calling Jeremiah as a prophet and he gives A dual vocation that he will be a prophet to israel But also to the nations his words will both uproot and tear down But also plant and build up in other words He's going to accuse israel and warn them of god's coming judgment But at the same time he also has a message of hope for the future. So Um We see from chapter one to 24. There's some message here where it says the collection of Jeremiah's writing Before the exile and the very core idea Is that israel has broken the covenant with god and violated all the terms of the agreements they made that are written in the Torah And in a number of ways they adopted the worship of all kinds of canonite gods building idle shrines for them and over the land and Jeremiah develops a metaphor of idle I idol idolatry as idolatry And uses the language of prostitution Unfaithfulness to describe how israel has given their allegation to other gods Well, Jeremiah also repeatedly accuses israel leaders the priests the kings and the other prophets have all become corrupt And they've got and they have abundant the Torah and the covenant which They are made to what god which led them to a tragic result In social injustice the most vulnerable people in israel communities where the widows the orphans the migrants And all we take an advantage of this clear violation against the law of Torah and israel leaders didn't even Didn't even bother of what They were heading to even after many times of burning We also see in chapter seven or in the book of Jeremiah chapter seven that Uh, you know, we see the israel israelites are coming to worship the chord in the temple As if everything is just and fine But at the same time Outside the temple. They are worshiping other gods And some of them they even adopting, uh, you know, uh, even sacrificing their children to the canonite gods. So all This stirs gods wrath against them And so Jeremiah makes a very unpopular announcement That god of israel is coming to judge them He's going to destroy his own temple and punish israelite for You know, uh, israelite for doing all such Evil things against god And god will send an enemy from the north and this is an army that god would allow To conquer Jerusalem And with this we also see in chapter 25 that israel isn't turned back to the god even despite of Many warnings given by Jeremiah to israel and israel has not shown or not Given any kind of interest to Jeremiah words and they never turned back to god So in the first year of the Babylon's new king king Nebuchadnezzar god tells Jeremiah to announce that the Babylonian army are headed for israel And all its neighbors will conquer them and take them into exile for 70 long years And here he compares Babylon to a cup of wine filled to the brim with god's breath At all of israel's injustice and idolatry and god will make israel the nation Drink from this cup now this chapter is a key to the book design because Everything that follows is going to focus and Babylon's coming to attack israel And from chapter 26 to 45 Here we see how Jeremiah Begged israel to turn back He literally cries and mourns saying israel repent Repent from your sinful nature come back to god. He literally cries Begging them But we see israelites ignore the man of god ignore the cry The hearts are so hardened that they are not able to give years to the words Which he's proclaiming He's a time and again Jeremiah is reminding the laws the covenant of god that they have made Towards the living god. He reminds them about the Torah, but then israel israelites hard We're so hard that they were they'd never uh, you know, uh, they never They never gave here to Jeremiah and their heart was so hardened that, you know, they completely rejected him Well, this section also concludes with a large collection of other stories of how Jerusalem was under sage and eventually destroyed by babelone and about how Jeremiah was persecuted all through the time and eventually Jeremiah was kidnapped and taken against as well to egypt to a group of israelite rebels I somebody has just logged in Yeah So we see that how uh, Jeremiah was kidnapped and taken against as well to egypt and by a group of israelite Rebels and now right here in the middle In uh in middle, we see that you know dark stories of disaster and judgment is a collection of Jeremiah's message of hope and israelites israel's future So he picks up on moses prediction that after israel had broken the covenant and gone into exile We see in deuteronomy like god would not abandon his people rather He would renew his covenant with them and transform their heart and Jeremiah also reminds them about the promise Uh that god is going to one day inscribe the law of Torah not on the tablet But rather on each one's heart of his own people and he is going to heal the rebellion nature so that they can truly Be One day love god and worship him in truth and in spirit And so one day israel will return back to the land and the messiah from the line of david is going to come And that's when all nations will come to recognize that israel's god is the true god So we also see in this book that despite israel's apostasy god is not going to let israel sin but rather Gods Through god's own faithfulness He will bring them back and fulfill the promise No matter what they are God will never abandon israel like that, but he will see the ways how he can redeem them So we find a large collection of poems about how god is going to use Babylon You know to judge and about how he is going to redeem israel from the hands of such a wicked kingdom And although god used this nation to execute as justice That is the Babylon and Egypt and Assyrians But god does not endorse their violence in idolatry and We see how god stands To redeem his people from the hands of these kingdom which they were taken as exile. So Jeremiah So the book concludes with a story taken from the end of the book of second kings It tells about Babylon's final attack on Jerusalem and how they destroyed the city walls And burned the temple and took the people into exile Well, the story shows how Jeremiah wants judgment from you know from chapter one to chapter 24. We see how they fulfilled You know the fulfilled all the Jeremiah prophesied and we also witnessed people been going to exile And yeah And that's how the book ends. So it's a little glimmer of hope Though he talks about the judgment at the same time Jeremiah also Gives a hope and he also says there's a future for israel because god is a god of mercy and grace And here he recalls Jeremiah's promise of hope from chapter 32 to 33 we see that god has an Abundant people or the promise of future Coming king from david's line here. We see that he is talking about the messiah Jesus who will come to redeem his people and so while this book contains a huge amount of warning and judgment The final words conclude with a note of hope for the future as well So we also see the portrayal of the shadow of christ in this book where it says the messiah is clearly seen In in chapter 23 the first half of the verse as a coming shepherd And the righteous branch will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land So in his days Judah will be saved. He will bring in the new covenant Which will fulfill god's covenant with abraham moses and the people And david so we see that god and israel's relationship began like a marriage God owed to be faithful and israel promised to be lovingly his but israel repeatedly broke that Vav and worshipped and sacrificed the false god So israel even killed their own children in their rituals as we saw in the previous chapters and We we also see Jeremiah called israel as an idolatrous and it worshipped other gods Israel was really committing adultery against god And Jeremiah begged israel to return and repent so that they can be forgiven And be see and and be saved but israel would not listen To Jeremiah because they hard way hard and towards this word So israel chose to break They warped with god and the covenant with god And god promised that he will despite of israel's nature unfaithful nature god You know god promised that he would be faithful As just like a husband. He will be a faithful husband to his adulterous bride So we see the plan of god. He says that in jesus he would begin a new covenant That would transform his people From adultery and make them virgin bride once again So there's kind of a hope in the message though Jeremiah is giving a message of judgment that is Coming upon the people of israel as a consequence of their sin But at the same time we see Jeremiah also give A hope and a future for the israelites that they will not be wiped out But then god is all mindful of redeeming his children Despite of the consequence what they are in so what we learn from this book I Opened this to the class. What do we learn from the book of Jeremiah? What do we learn? Anyone in the class can say this Well, what we learn from this book is we see that God's patience with his people in the old testament reminds us that God has always been And he continues to be merciful And how we can apply it to our times how we can apply it to ourselves personally Though it's chosen people Sometimes we know the covenant that has been made with god and we Try to rebel against god against his teaching Or we go away with our own Own life with the pleasures of our own life But god still gives us a hope Through his mercy and grace he tries to redeem us He speaks to us through the holy spirit who's dwelling within us He gives us many opportunity To repent and turn back to him Though we might have fallen in our own ways But god does not abandon us like that But he gives us new ways where he can redeem us restore us back to that relationship that we have So as god was merciful to the israelites who sinned against god Who broke the covenant and the love with god and still god had the plan of restoration through jesus Today you and i This message we can apply it even though we may go astray we may sin against god. We may go very far at times Or in different areas in our life But here god is saying that he's a god of restorer when we repent our sins when we confess our sins He's a god ready to forgive. He's a god of mercy god of love God of restoration. He opens more opportunities for you and me So that we can be redeemed back. We can be restored back in the relationship through jesus christ Who's in dwelling with us? So with this this book also leaves us with a question Will we follow god wholeheartedly despite Of what consequence we go through in our life? We need to repent and look back to god. So there are some of the highlights here in this book. I will just project it And this is how the whole chapter has been divided chapter One to two we see chapter one. We see the call of jeremiah the prophetic commission and then from chapter two to chapter You know almost yes 46 we see the ministry of Jeremiah the prophecy towards juda and you know the Some chapter two to chapter 30. We see before the fall how the condemnation of juda the Uh Conflicts of jerusalem and later part. We see the fall of juda future Restoration as message of hope has been given to them and then later after the fall the prophecies to the Gentiles and the fall of Jerusalem we see that from 47 to 52 And this is some of the highlights that we discussed from this book We can see that Here some of the highlights. I made a note so that you know Even if we have missed anything in between we can grasp these are the main important things that we Should keep in our mind when we study the book of Jeremiah That the book of Jeremiah records one of juda's greatest prophets prophets during its darkest days and We see many other things your Jeremiah contains the bible's most extended and detailed prophecies about Babylon and mentioning it one 64 times in this book and Jeremiah also records the three important old testament Covenants that is the Abrahamic covenant the davidic covenant and the new covenant and we also see the messiah seen clearly in chapter 23 verse 128 as the coming shepherd and the righteous branch will reign as king And act wisely to justice and righteousness in the land But this we will also Give a reflection that the book of Jeremiah reveals the inner struggles the prophets of God They shared with God how he felt Yet He disobeyed Jeremiah is a yet. He obeyed Jeremiah is a picture of faithfulness to God and Great personal sacrifice in spite unimaginable Opposition so what price we can ask ourselves? What price are we willing to pay in order to be faithful to God? Do we share our feeling to God without any filters? We can ask ourselves and meditate today on the book of Jeremiah as we study Are we faithful to God? Yeah, with this I open to the class you all can share your views your thoughts What was your learning from this book of Jeremiah?  They did not turn to God Um, and you had to face the judgment We see that in the new covenant how God himself made the way. There's nothing that we have done What God himself made the way so yeah, I was just thinking of the words and Psalms were not three Where it says he's gracious and compassionate Is slow to anger and abounding in love? Yeah Thank you. Thank you. Divya for sharing Very important. Yeah, we also see a question from Elisha like what is the relationship between Prophet's bird and Anna's ministry Can anyone answer that take up that question? Brother lubega or brother subashish. Would you like to answer that? What I feel is uh, the relationship between that is we see that God has called Jeremiah from the mother's womb And God has placed that burden God has called him as a prophet and God has also placed that burden for the Israel nation God actually revealed what he feels for Israel We see the heart of God when Jeremiah wept and burdened for Israel time and again though he was mocked. He was persecuted you know, he had to He was taken into exile and you know, he was put in prison Many things he had to undergo many persecution and struggle He had to go through but despite all God has put this burden within Jeremiah's heart that he had to cry and weep for Israel throughout his life We see him struggle to redeem his trial. We see the heart of God in him Actually, I guess that it was put by God himself that burden for Israel was put by God himself and whenever in fact It says that Jeremiah didn't like this office. But then God used him there And when he was prophesying or when he was talking, uh, though he had difficulty in Speech, um, he was very weak. He was not very bold enough But when the time of prophets uh prophesying came he was bold enough to speak He spoke the word of God with courage Which with boldness So we see that in the old testament we see time and again the spirit of the Lord came upon a person and it went We see that he could prophesy with the spirit of God upon him He could speak boldly and at the same time we see the heart of God on him that he wept for Israel That's why he has been called as a weeping prophet mourned bitterly for israel's nature for their rebellious nature And he mourned so in that morning we see the burden we see the heart of God in him And yes, that's his ministry but as call He was not hardship because he had to go because I was calling even Thank you Okay, as the time's up we can end this class with the word of prayer Can I request Elisha to end this to dismiss us with a word of prayer, please I want to thank you for the land you sinned for That has impacted generation And it has impacted us this morning also We pray that oh god Even as you showed mercy grace to your people Will you continue to show us grace and mercy even when we depart from your And disobey you lord may your love consider first love Continue to draw us to your righteousness and to your holiness in the name of Jesus Father will continue to pray That you establish us in your word so that you will not go away or depart from the word that you will pray that if We have fallen into any activity if we are falling into the hands of our enemies As the israelite fell in the hands of Babylon Lord may you redeem us in the name of Jesus Father will continue to pray That you shall spring us in your grace and your mercy throughout the day Father as we are stepping out of God may you continue to love us with your mighty love in Jesus mighty name amen Amen amen Thank you so much Thank you. Laisha. Thank you so much for each one joining today's class. God bless. See you all tomorrow Thank you. God bless


So now we want to focus in on working off of an insertion. So if I came in, let me pick a darker color for that. If I came in and wanted to do something like an insert six. So we'd follow the same rules as a binary search insertion, or a binary tree insertion as always. However, we obviously have to kind of decide a color. So when we're dealing with insertions, insert n as a red node. OK, well, that makes things pretty easy, if you will. We know that we'd make our transition from 50 to 15, and then to five, and then I'd come in and add my six. Now, does that going to always work? Not necessarily. And in fact, we are in a situation where it's OK. You see, if my parent is black, OK. And we keep on moving on because I've not violated really any rules. The same premise is going on that each one of these leaf notes has some number of null black children. Our black depth is still fine. We have not, in essence, done anything. We haven't broken any rules by doing that insertion. However, you can already see that that's going to be a kind of question then. Because what happens if my parent happens to be red? And so let's actually kind of take that same example. What if I were to come in and I were to do, in this case, and insert 21? So just as I mentioned in my previous example, we insert in as a red node. So in this case, this would have to get removed, that little child node would be taken out, and it would become a red node 21. The problem is if we're following the rules of a red black tree, the red node must always have black children. And right now, I have a red node with a red child. So we are put into a new kind of conundrum. So if my parent is red, I have a few cases that I can work off of. And so what I actually want to look at is what we would classify as my parent's sibling. So I'm going to add a few different letters out here. So I have, say, a parent, a parent sibling, and then my in. So I want to look at my s. If, well, we'll just say, if s is red, then what we want to do is we want to do a few what we would call recoloring. So what would we do? Well, we would change p and s to black. Then change what we would call my grandparent. That's all the way up here. And I'll just call them g for right now. We change the grandparent to red. So we would go ahead and do that. You see that I come in, and I'm going to need to make a few changes here. So once again, this node is going to become black. This is probably the only really kind of quick and easy way to do this, I think. If you happen to know a faster way of changing this into a black node, be sure to make a comment below. I can't believe I actually just said that. But like I said, I color out my parent and my sibling, my parent's sibling, done. And then I would come in and I would color my grandparent red and I'm done. Or you might say, well, no, you see, just because you made that black that works there and that red node has all black children, but we're not done yet. And so actually what's going on here is the final step in this process, in this sort of 1, 2, 3 process, is we move in to grandparent and repeat if necessary. So you see that we've just done this recoloring of my parent, my parent's sibling, and my grandparent. So again, I would take my in, take my in, and move it all the way up here. Now when I say move, I don't mean move 21. What I say, what I mean is let's come in and let's get rid of that G. And let's classify this as my new in, this is my new parent, and this is my new sibling. Reason being is because if I scrap them out, I make that same assessment. Well, my parent happens to be red. My parent's sibling happens to be red. And so just like we've seen in the past, I would change my parent and my parent's sibling to black. So yes, I do have to kind of go through this again. I'm going to experiment with maybe that paint bucket. Let's see if that kind of speeds this up. Oh, that did actually quite nice, slightly. And its parent is now red. Now you're probably saying to yourself, but that still violates another rule. Well, guess what? We are not done because what was the last step after we do our color changes? Move in, move in to its grandparents.  It's 50. There is no parent to be judging off of. And if we find ourselves in this situation, so if n is root, change to black. So if we're looking at sort of all my different rules, this was one rule. If the parent was black, OK. If this was another rule, this was sort of a sub rule to it, this is another rule entirely. This is actually the first rule. Because if I had an empty tree, I would insert a red node. And well, that would be the root. And so to kind of finalize that, I'd come in. That was the wrong layer, and turn it black. And so now I have a balanced red black tree.


I have to make this video and I'll tell you why. I'm seeing a lot of new and interesting people enter the space selling information on becoming rich in crypto overnight and I just want to kind of iron out everything and explain to you the most simplistic way to get involved in crypto and you don't have to spend any money. I'm just going to give you information within 10 minutes and this applies to anybody who's interested in entering the space. First of all, I want to state two things. There's two types of investors in this world. There is a value investor as Warren Buffett talks about and there's traders. For the most part, you need to be a value investor and if you hear anybody promising you about special formulas or techniques in the crypto space, they're lying. Listen, this space, I'm going to be honest with you. This space is heavily manipulated, heavily, right? You have the miners to do their things. You have exchanges to do front running. You have insider trading for ICOs, pump and dump whales. You have all these different cogs in the machine that coerce together for increasing profits, pumping and dumping.  Second of all, crypto is not like stocks. There's nobody on the planet that's a specialist in everything in crypto. You have cryptography. You have blockchain distributed technology. You have economics. You have human behavior. You have game theory. You have all these different applications involved in this ecosystem. So if anybody's coming to you and saying they know what they're talking about, I got this special formula, please don't be bamboozled. So I'm just going to state very simple facts for anyone to get involved. And when it be by simple, I'm literally talking about how to buy two, 300 bucks worth of it, keep it, hold it and forget about it because we're talking about value investing. Let me just move this. Yeah, we're talking about value investing. So step one, and primarily I'm talking to my audience in North America. So that's Canada and United States. So step one, if you are in Canada or United States, you can simply use the two exchanges. So Coinbase or CoinSquare. It's simple. You can use your credit card. Yeah, the fee is a little bit high, but so what? You're not trading. And basically what I recommend and I don't do price predictions. I don't do trading. I don't look at coins. I don't look at white papers and all that stuff. What I suggest is look at the big three. You go to Coinbase or CoinSquare. You look at Bitcoin. You look at Ethereum and you look at Litecoin. And basically what you want to do is spend 10 minutes, sign up to that exchange, put your credit card information in and buy 100 bucks of each Bitcoin, Litecoin or Ethereum. Okay, that's step one. Now if you're not in United States, you have many different options. You can go to your local exchanges. I actually have a link from Blockheeks below to determine which exchange is best in your country. If not, you have different options like local Bitcoin or local whatever coin. They have different variations of that. But the whole idea is you're not trading. You're not looking to put in $500,000 at the beginning. You're just literally looking to get your toes wet. Okay. So let's say you are in Canada or United States. You do Coinbase or CoinSquare. You buy $100 of each. The next thing you have to do is security. Now I never ever recommend anybody to keep any crypto on any exchanges. I highly recommend that you get this little guy, a Ledger Nano, or you can get the Trezor. It really doesn't matter. The reason I prefer this, tell you the truth, it has nothing to do with software. I just like the UX, the design, it fits on my keychain. That's the difference, right? If you want a link for that, it's below this video as well. So you get that. Now this is what you do. This literally takes five minutes to install. You plug it into your computer. It's going to ask you for new configuration, click, and during the new configuration, you put in your password, and then it's going to create a 24-word mnemonic seed phrase. Now this only shows up once. It's really, really important. You write this 24-word seed phrase down somewhere really important, whether it is on a piece of paper, then you laminate it, which I recommend, or you can use something to have a crypto steal from a ledger as well, or whatever you want. I've even heard people putting in titanium. It doesn't matter. Anyways, you want to write this 24-word down, laminate it, and keep it in safe somewhere, or even another way I recommend is you can now make a secondary copy where 12 words goes to a trusted source, and another 12 words goes to another trusted source.  You can call these two people, they don't know they have the 12 words from each side, and they come together and you can access it. So you plug this in, you get your password, you put your 24-word seed phrase down, and there you it. It's done.  That's it. That's investing one-on-one. There's nothing more to it. You're not looking at daily prices. You're not looking at trading. You're not looking at any of this other stuff.  The whole idea of all these other people trying to sell you stuff is over complicating, very over complicated. Listen, I know all the traders in the space, at least the good ones. It's a full-time job. It is. It's no different than 4x. It's a full-time job. They know everybody in the space. They know how the space is manipulated. They know everything. So anyone's promising to something else, they're lying to you. There's no magic formula. There's no I know the next coin's going to be Bitcoin. None of that stuff exists. Nobody knows what they're talking about for the most part, except for a very select few who are the puppet masters in the space. Now that's it. See, it's not complicated.  And then once you feel more comfortable, once you've gone through the process of buying a couple of hundred bucks, holding it for here, hodling, as we say, putting on the side and forgetting about it, then basically what you do for the next part is up to you. What kind of risk, let's say, tolerance do you have? Some people are high risk tolerance. So therefore, guess what? You're going to invest more money. So if then if you're considering investing 10, 20, $30,000, I'd recommend OTC over the counterbroker as opposed to exchanges, at least depending on where you live. Sometimes you'll get even a better exchange rate than the actual exchanges themselves. And it's quicker for KYC and AML with a broker. And depending on what your strategy is, for me, it's always long-term holding. I do zero trading. I don't even look at prices. I buy. I forget. It's like real estate in my mind. So depending on what type of risk profile you have, you'd buy more, maybe Bitcoin, Ether, like, or whatever you choose to buy. And then you sit on it. Okay. That's the formula. It's no different than real estate, right? You see something that you know will appreciate in value in 10 years from now. And you understand the industry, you understand the neighborhood, you understand who's moving in beside you, and you buy, and you sit on it, or you improve on it. Okay. And that's my video for 2018. To begin with, is I just really wanted to clear the air when it comes to all these crypto investing specialized courses. And for you guys to really understand, you know, I love this space. I love 99% of the people in the crypto space. And all of them have, for the most part, the same ethos of moving forward and making humanity a better place. But I don't want to lie to you and say that this space is open. Meaning, what I mean by not open is the fact that there are players that manipulate the market like no different than any market. Stock market manipulated. Yes. Real estate market manipulated. For the most part, yes. Gold market, it is. There's a lot of case studies on that, right? So yes, there are people who are manipulating the market to increase value in their own pocket. Is that wrong? I'm not, I'm not here to judge. I don't know. But I'm just telling you this exists.  Please don't, don't be scammed into that. The people that made well in this industry first came in this for the culture and the promise of what this technology has to give to the world.  It's through their value added ecosystem and it's through them sticking through the ups and downs and the bear markets of losing a thousand percent happen twice. They're the ones that got rewarded. And remember, if you go into an ecosystem, if you plan to be in the space for a long time, price and money is the last thing you should focus on. What you should focus on is long-term thinking, value adding, problem solving, and connecting yourself with the right players in the industry. All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. I will try to be making more videos soon. I'll be, I'll be kind of busy during January, but if you have any comments or questions for me, leave a comment below this video, guys. Peace.