You see, we wear shoes not only to protect our feet from the elements of the ground, which might be too hot or too cold against our souls, but also to provide comfort and elegance to the wearer. Eventually, what was primarily created to provide comfort and protection to human feet became yet another symbol of luxury. Designed by top designers, high-fashion shoes are made using expensive materials, which is why the cause of fortune. So, in this video, I'll share with you the top 10 expensive shoes in the world. If you are new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Jada Debye and Passion Droolers Passion Diamond Shoes United Arab Emirates-based luxury footwear designer Jada Debye collaborated with Passion Droolers to create this shoe, Passion Diamond, which is the most expensive shoe in the world right now. The pomp is worth $23.6 million. Passion diamonds were made in 2018, and the golden pumps are covered in hundreds of diamonds made from real gold and made with leather and silk. The stiletto was first showcased in the world's only seven-star hotel, the iconic Burj Al Arab in Dubai, along with a less exotic red pair encrusted with rubies. Let's say it took nine months to craft the shoe from pure gold. The Passion Diamond Shoes features as many as 236 diamonds, along with a 15-carat deflawless diamond near your toes. It is equivalent to the value of $23,448 pairs of Christian Louboutin's sole cape pumps. I guess this says a lot about why the Passion Shoes are that expensive. 2. Debye Wingham High Hills Next of the world's most expensive shoe is a Debye Wingham High Hills, which is worth $15.1 million. Debye Wingham High Hills was designed by the British designer Debye Wingham, who collaborated with Foot Gear designer Chris Campbell to create the ultra-locked stilettos for a private client as a gift to a family member for her 30th birthday. The shoe was unveiled and commissioned in 2017 at the party. The pomp, which is meant to look like a cake, is loaded with precious gems including three-carat red-pink diamonds and one-carat blue diamonds, which alone costs over $128,000. Debye Wingham's shoe has gold soles and zippers, 24-carat gold paint on the leather. The stitching is done with an 18-carat gold thread and features a gold thread inlay. The shoes were finished off with a rose gold accent and a leather Iranian jasmine flower at the center of the shoe. 3. Harry Winston Ruby Slippers Taking third place in this list is a replica of Dorothy Slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Harry Winston Ruby Slippers, which is worth $3 million. The Ruby Slippers were made in 1989 when Harry Winston's son, Ronald Wilson, wanted to pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. The shoes, which took two months to make, are studded with expensive jewelry, 4,600 rubies, and feature artwork. The shoe features 1,350 carats of rubies and 50 carats of diamonds. 4. Stuart Weitzman Reader Hayward Hill American designer, Stuart Weitzman, has a number of ultra luxe million dollar shoes, but the Reader Hayward Hill is the most expensive of all, which is worth $3 million. Weitzman was inspired to create this shoe thanks to a pair of earrings worn by one of Hollywood's darlings, Reader Hayward. The open-toed shoes are made of sienna satin, a brown rust-like color, and have sapphires, diamonds and rubies encrusted into them. The earrings are featured in the middle of the shoes, adding elegance to it. The pair of shoes belongs to Hayward's daughter, Princess Yasmin Egekan. 5. Stuart Weitzman Cinderella Slippers Stuart Weitzman's expensive shoe collection has once again made it to the list of top 10 expensive shoes in the world. And this time, the famous Cinderella Slipper takes the stage. Cinderella Slippers, inspired by the fairy tale character Cinderella, is worth $2 million. The sparkling stiletto was worn by country singer Alison Crows at the 2004 Oscars. The shoe features Italian leather and 565 quiet diamonds in platinum-setting in laces. The right shoe houses a 5-carat Amaretta diamond, which alone costs over $1 million. 6. Stuart Weitzman Tansanite Heel Another stunning pair of Stuart Weitzman's collection makes it to the list. The Tansanite Heel is also worth $2 million. This time around, Weitzman collaborated with Eddie Levion of the prestigious Levion Jewelry for the production of the stiletto heels. It is adorned with tansanite, a gemstone of extraordinary appearance. The shoe has straps that feature 185 carats of tansanite, along with 28 carats of diamonds. Adding to the beauty of this shoe is a 595 carats of quiet diamonds set in platinum-encrusted on the 4.5-inch heel. 7. Jason of Beverly Hills X Tomfroyd Lofors Just in case you recognize this shoe. Yes, it is the same one by Nick Cannon. Under 2014 season finale of America's Got Talent, this Tomfroyd Lofors custom, designed by Jason Arashaban, a famous jewelry designer, is worth $2 million. The 240 carat pair of shoes has more than 14,000 cut-round white diamonds carefully set onto white gold. The Lofors took more than 2,000 human hours in almost a year to complete. Cannon later donated the shoes to a charity that year. 8. Stuart Weitzman's Ruby Slipper The Stuart Weitzman Ruby Slipper is another pair by the Wizard of Oz. It's worth $1.6 million. This sherry red stiletto, designed with 642 burnished rubies, each of them weighing nearly 1 pound, ingrained in the red satin delicate upper straps, was made using 123 carat rubies. 9. Stuart Weitzman Platinum Guild Stiletto Coming in at number 9 on our list of top 10 most expensive shoes in the world, is yet another one of Stuart Weitzman's collection. The Platinum Guild Stiletto, which is worth $1.9 million. The shoe is made with platinum fabric and decorated with 464 natural diamonds all over the body. The removable diamond straps of the shoe, doubles as a statement piece necklace. It was showcased at the 2002 Academy Awards, as they were worn by former Mies USA and actress Laura Haring. 10. Stuart Weitzman Retro Rose Pump Finally, on this list, it's Stuart Weitzman Retro Rose Pump, which is worth $1 million. This vintage-inspired slippers, designed in the 1940s, pay homage to the glamour of the era. The retro heels feature a signature t-strap and roses worth 100 carats of 1,800 croyote goes in the top portion of the shoe. It also has 400 more croyote diamonds that embellish the shoe throughout. The shoe became famous in Tinseltown, when Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer for Gino, refused to wear them during the 2008 ceremony as she felt they were merely a cheesy publicity stunt. To our shoe lovers, which of these beautiful ultra-look shoes do you love the most and why? Thank you very much for watching our videos. If you like this video, watch more videos in our channel and subscribe. We Love You


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It's May 13th today, May 13th 2023. On this day in 2013 I went to court and got sentenced and went to prison. The reason that that day is so significant is because on that day is when I started my sober journey. So I was sober all throughout my prison sentence and then I continued that sobriety upon my release. The reason that's significant for me is because drugs and alcohol were the main driver to everything negative in my life. So I think it's pretty easy to see that if you have been not had a drug and alcohol problem or if you're not from the kind of place I was from, you know, it's easy to look from the outside and see that drugs and alcohol are a huge problem. But when you're in that mindset and when you're on the street and when you're involved with gangs and violence and you have addictions, it's actually pretty hard to see where the problems lie. When you're in it, you really don't see the problem so clearly as when you pull yourself out of it. Yeah, going to prison really hindered my drug and alcohol use or obviously alcohol use. But there are drugs in prison, but I decided to keep a clear head in prison because of the politics inside prison and I wanted to keep my head screwed on. And if I was under the influence of any substances inside that, it might get me into more trouble than I needed to be in. So I just wanted to keep a level head. And when I was released, I was on parole for seven months, actually. And they test you urine. So it stopped me from using drugs and alcohol. It was about a month after I was released, actually, that I became vegan. And I've been an activist ever since.  But really, the gang world, the underworld, the drug dealing world, experiencing it is a lot more heavy than just watching it on a show. You know, because there's a lot of a trauma involved, there's a lot of emotions, there's a lot of anxiety, there's a lot of violence. And the thing that repeats on you for many years afterwards, you know, being involved in incredibly brutal acts of violence and using all these amphetamines and substances and constantly looking over your shoulder and police and all of these things that scars you in a way that you don't really realize until you stop using all these substances and then you're just kind of a sober blank slate. I assumed that just stopping the drugs, stopping the alcohol, leaving the gangs would be a solution to my mental health issues. It stopped me creating new problems, but then there's a mental health issues that just stay with you and the nightmares that repeat on you and PTSD and things like this. So that took many, many years to get through. In 2018, I ended up getting some help for those issues. I didn't actually know what these issues were. I didn't have a good understanding of these mental health issues that stem from being involved in traumatic experiences, perpetrator-induced traumatic stress as well. I didn't realize what I was having recurring violent nightmares and screaming in my sleep and things like this until I went and got some help for it. But that took me a few years. But now I'm looking back like 10 years now I've been a different person kind of thing. It's still the same underlying character. Always been a good guy, but I've done some bad things. It's bizarre looking back because when you look back a decade ago, you never think that you're actually going to get there. When I was six months sober, I was like a month out of jail or something. I was like, yeah, I'm six months sober. Let's keep going because I'm on a good run here. And no one thought that I was going to continue that way. I remember putting up my one year sober post on Facebook and I had people hating on me going, this is just a phase. He's going to get straight back into it. He's not serious about this because I was a heavy drug user. I was known for my heavy drug and alcohol use actually, just more than average, a lot more than average. And I was a loose cannon as well. I was a loose cannon carrying weapons doing this and that and terrorizing people and being terrorized myself. It's the gang world. It's like, that's the way it is. People just are not expected. And honestly, looking back from the start of my journey, it was just like taking each day as it comes and just not giving myself the option to use drugs and alcohol, even though the temptation is really full on, especially when you're going through some hard times, like when you say you have anxiety or something happens and you're feeling lonely and this and that.  So resisting those temptations for 10 years is quite crazy. And also the temptation of drugs, there's certain triggers that make you want to use drugs again. And the main thing that kept me from using drugs again and using alcohol again and getting back involved with the riffraff and the characters I used to be around and that world I used to be in, the main driving force for that was that the feeling of being in prison, the feeling of losing it all, the feeling of losing my mind, that feeling of anxiety, that feeling of what alcohol does to you, that feeling of being involved in insane crazy gang politics and police, all of those feelings I associated with drug and alcohol use and being involved in that world. My whole thing is like, you get one shot at life or we only think what we can prove, we get one shot at life. And I thought like, what legacy am I going to leave behind about what impact should I have? Should I have this negative impact? Should I be staring at four walls in a prison cell, out walking the yard with people who wish they'd taken another path and filled with regret? So am I going to leave a legacy behind that that makes a positive impact on the lives of humans and animals? And I believe that now looking back 10 years, like I've achieved things that I never dreamed that I would achieve, you know, I always knew that that gang life and the drug life, it was like, it's like I was in there playing a character, you know, I mean, I shouldn't have been there. I should not have been there. Like I had so many introspective thoughts about the world and philosophical thoughts about the world. And I thought, you know, I really did want to make a difference. I was really inspired by people who were activists and who changed the world in a positive way. And I was always around negative people. So whenever I spoke about these, these sort of topics of awareness, I just didn't feel like anyone was listening. There was a few, but you know, it's just people don't want to hear that in that world. So basically the environment that I was in, the environment that I was in was really holding me back and not allowing me to flourish into like that person that I was underneath. So there are a lot of, a lot of people, right, that are involved with that world. And they're, or not even the world that I was in, just like drugs and alcohol on that. And if they let go of those things, they would actually evolve into the human they were born to be. I truly believe that there's, you know, there's so many talented, good people that are sitting in a cell right now. And they just didn't have a father in the home or they were born in, they were born into poverty or they just, they had the old stacked against them. They didn't have the right environment for them to turn into the person that they should have been. A lot of people don't make it out of, out of the system, out of like, out of addiction. So a lot of people, they are the, you know, they lose everything, they lose their family, they end up on the streets or they end up in prison. Generally, they could end up dead, they could end up with an addiction for life. So it's really a, it's really a tough thing to pull yourself out of. So I guess, knowing that, knowing that it's so tough to pull yourself out of, don't want to get sucked back into it. That's for sure.  Don't throw it all away just to get back on it. Because, you know, now, now looking back 10 years, looking back 10 years, imagine like, this is how quickly I could throw it all away, just by having a drink, you know, one drink of alcohol, it would just be a huge slippery slope back into exactly the same life I'm from. So a lot of, there's people who are more susceptible and less susceptible to this, and I'm someone who's really as susceptible to it, you know, with me, getting into substances was like, it was like an escape from my reality, but it soon fell into like addiction and, you know, and that coupled with the environment and your peers and, you know, and maybe your socioeconomic status and, you know, where you don't see any way out except drug dealing, and you might not have any good, you know, male figures in your life, or maybe they're lost as well. It's just a cocktail for just getting stuck in the same loop, trying to prove something to your mates and taking a bunch of substances and trying to deal with your mental health issues with substances and then turning yourself into like a monster and going out and committing acts of violence and then retribution and then prison was something that changed my whole mentality because I had, I just cleared, cleared my eyes and cleared my mind and I was able to see things so much more clearly from jail. And the problem is, is that you don't want to be sitting in prison having this transformation. I got let off with a, with a light sentence. I got caught with a firearm. I didn't do anything to anyone with that firearm. I had it on me. So I got a smaller sentence than say I shot that firearm towards someone. Then I would be looking at five to seven years. Imagine if I didn't have that shorter sentence and just got caught with the gun, maybe I got caught. Imagine if I shot it at someone and could have killed someone, could have killed someone. Then I would be sitting in, in prison having this transformation, trying to make an impact, but sitting at four walls. You really want to make that change before something really bad happens and you end up doing a long stretch in prison and getting sober in prison. I just, I don't wish that for anyone. I want people to turn their life around now where they have a chance. In the last 10 years since I've been out of that world and out of prison and out of the drug scene, I've achieved more in that 10 years and I'll have it in my, then the entire 26 years before that. You know, I never, I left school early, left school at 14 and from basically 14 to till I was imprisoned at 26, 12 years it was just the same. It's exactly the same stuff constantly. It was just, it just kept getting worse and worse and worse and worse to the point where I got put on house arrest and then put in prison and got sober. So I honestly believe like I got really, really lucky. The one thing I didn't want to do is ruin the chance that I got. Basically, I got a really good opportunity when I got out of prison to take this as a fork in the road and take the right path. If I didn't, I'd be doing, I can only imagine what, what would have happened. The probability of something really, really bad happen is extremely high. So I took that opportunity and I didn't want to waste that opportunity, basically. And I had a desire to make a difference. You know, I really had that desire and I didn't know what it was going to be. I just knew that I wanted to, I didn't know how it was going to come about or in what avenue it will be in, but I knew that I wanted to make a positive difference. That's all I knew and it was that knowing that I'm going to make a positive difference is what opened up the doors to what avenue it was and it happened to be animals. And I just so happened I used to have a affinity for pigs when I was really young and I didn't know where that would lead, but it turns out I spend a lot of time defending pigs. So the reason you need to protect your mental state from substances to the highest extent practicable is that your mind is all you really have.   You can really make better decisions when you have a clear sober mind. I used to make such all the wrong decisions. I didn't know who was ready, who was the captain of my ship because I was just clouded all the time and I was being misled easily and I couldn't see things clearly, couldn't see who was there manipulating me, couldn't see who had good intentions for me, who was really trying to help me, who, who's who because I was clouded by substances all the time. So I got misled and I got manipulated and then I would get angry and be filled with vengeance, with revenge, I wanted revenge and but I allowed the thing is I want to revenge on all these people that I feel like were manipulating or doing me wrong, but I was doing myself wrong. I was allowing myself to be manipulated by people and I was allowing, I was, I was lowering myself and allowing people to walk all over me and that's because I wasn't in a good mindset and that's because I was, my mind was taken over by substances and now for the last 10 years I've been able to make really good decisions on who I spend my time around. For, for any reason I feel like I shouldn't be around this person that they're going to, they're, they're into that or they're into this and they might be still connected to the gang world or whatever. I don't make that decision. I make very, for the most part, very well thought out decisions that I think are going to impact me in the best way and, and I'd never thought like that. I always just let, I always just felt like I had, had to, had a commitment to people that didn't really care about me, you know, that, that wouldn't care if I got a 25 year sentence for shooting someone in the head.  You know, just people, people that I committed myself to that didn't really have my best interest in heart anyway.   Not saying all my friendships were like that, but there definitely were some. And yeah, sobriety is the most important part of what makes my life livable now. Definitely didn't see a long life ahead of me the way I was going. And now I had a huge opportunity now to, to create an insane impact and built all these platforms. I had no education. I didn't have a very wide vocabulary and every second word that came out of my mouth when I first got on YouTube was a swear word. But now I'm, you know, I feel like I've educated myself. I've even though I had a leg down, I've been able to still achieve quite a lot. A lot of people who didn't know what my past is and where I come from kind of used to give me a hard time like, who is this guy? Why is he so aggressive and listen to his attitude and who is, you know, but I think if they knew where I come from and who I was before, maybe they would see it's just like night and day because a lot of my friends and family, they see it's like night and day, you know, and they'll say, wow, he's a lot. He's, he's, he's changed a lot. This guy, I don't really think about my past too much anymore. That's how long it's been. When I was five years sober, things like that, I used to have, I was still having recurring PTSD triggers and boom, boom, and I have this like, this is like, it's almost like mental flashbacks. And they would come something in an environment would trigger and it would come and I'd have all these flashbacks and I just don't get that anymore. Like I feel like it's faded away, but you're talking like 10 years to have those things fade away and living with those things and trying to function with those things for the first five, six years is terrible. So a huge inspiration actually to see other people who pull themselves out of prison and gangs and then violence and things like that. And you can only imagine like what soldiers of war feel after going through such extreme levels of fighting and things like that. And I do understand complex PTSD and things like that. And I know there are different levels to it, but it is a really debilitating thing. So if there's any young people out there, just don't get yourself down, don't take yourself down that track, because it doesn't end there.   And that will all repeat on you, you know, for years. And in the moment, you might not think it because you're smoking weed or you're taking drugs of alcohol, you're drinking in a way. But if you get sober, you'll start to realize how much this stuff repeats on you. I feel incredibly grateful to be able to have the freedom to talk to all you guys who watch my channel, to spread a positive message for animals and animal rights. And like, I feel like I dodged a huge bullet. So basically, now I can do 100% of my, spend 100% of my time on animal rights, which is an incredible blessing, really.  And it's a battle, but it's a battle that I'm grateful to be able to, to fight because there are other battles, you know, like being in prison forever, you know, that's not a battle I would have wanted. So this here, I've got my freedom and I use my freedom to try to, to help those who can't help themselves. And yeah, I've got to always have that as a reminder. And I think that I think that that general mentality will help anyone, even someone who didn't pull himself out of like gangs or whatever, but you should always think like this, right? No matter how hard you have it, there's always someone out there that has it harder. And when I look at what's going on to the animals, it's like, Oh my God, they're sentient beings just like me. They are they are imprisoned in these factory farms. They're suffering, their children are being stolen and murdered. And then they're about to go into a slaughterhouse or a gas chamber to be executed. And someone else has got some oblivious person is going to eat their body.   And they see violence constantly. They don't have the same kind of rights. And, you know, so there's people just doing decades of time for something they didn't even commit. They're falsely accused. There's always situations where like you can draw on the situations of others with people who are less fortunate or have got themselves into something horrible by their choice or by not. And you can say, well, you know, I should I've got this opportunity here. I should be very grateful that I I'm actually born into a country where I do have rights and I do have freedom to be able to help others.  You know, don't think about how we're spending our time. And could we could we be spending our time better to help others or to make a better impact?  But I wouldn't find that fulfilling at all. So yeah, I'll just encourage people to get involved with doing something for others and dedicate some of your life to making a difference for or for the animals or for people. I encourage anyone else who is going through any kind of issues with substances to pull yourself away, change your environment. If you can change your change your friend group as well, fulfill yourself with something that brings your life purpose. If you don't live a life of purpose, you're going to turn to drugs and alcohol.  If you do have mental health issues, I do recommend you seeking help there in the form of therapy. If you wanted to look at look at some of these alternative medicines that they're doing now, they've got these programs for psychedelics or MDMA for trauma, things like this depends on which country you're in. It's probably illegal in most countries now, but I think they're probably going to start introducing some of these things. If you deal with your trauma, then once you deal with your trauma, you can help others and you're a much better human being. If you keep a sober mind and you've dealt with your mental health issues, because a lot of people they've had, they've had a hard run. So it's really hard. If you go to someone who's homeless on the street and they've got an alcohol problem, you can imagine why they've got an alcohol problem when they're trying to deal with what life has thrown at them and they might have had everything come crashing down and they might have lost their entire family or they might have been born into a family of drug abuse and maybe they were abused as a child and maybe that trauma has just stricken them down and they end up on the street. So it's really, it's not just as easy as saying someone, hey, snap out of it, get off the drug, get off the, a lot of people have everything coming working against them. That's why if you are someone who's in a position to be able to pull themselves out of that place before it gets any worse, do it now.  I'm talking from a place where I was incredibly messed up, drugs, violent, loose cannon, a mess. So if you see me from where I was to now, you would say, okay, I'm someone who actually can advise on this. And really, even if you are at rock bottom, because I've been there at rock bottom, you can pull yourself out of it. It's just going to take a little bit of time and withdrawal from what you're used to and a bit of suffering. But the amount of suffering it will take for you to to quit all these substances and pull yourself out is nowhere near the suffering you'll experience if you stay in that. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for following my journey. I've been on social media since 2015. Been a vegan nearly 10 years this year as well. This isn't the end. We'll keep going. Yeah, I hope this inspires you.


Bonjour tout le monde. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. It's an honour to welcome NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Ottawa today. Jens visited Canada's east coast recently for the Halifax International Security Forum, accepting the Halifax Builder Award on behalf of NATO for the organization's work to strengthen cooperation amongst democracies. In accepting the award, he said of NATO allies, in good times we enjoy each other's company, and in bad times we come to each other's aid, which I thought was a pretty apt way of characterising our relationship. Allies, yes, but also friends. It was on this day in 1949 that representatives of 12 Allies, including Canada's Lester B. Pearson, came together in Washington to sign the treaty that created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. So the significance of today, April 4th, is not lost on me, and it's been my absolute privilege to meet with Jens today on Parliament Hill. This afternoon, we have maintained the role that Canada plays in NATO and its long-term commitment to this important alliance. We have also discussed the way NATO adapts to today's challenges in terms of security, including the need to advance the program on women, peace and security. And as our partners know, Canada will always respond to the call for an alliance. Today, Canada is launching a media campaign entitled « Nous sommes l'OTAN » and is adding its voice to those of our allies who have launched similar campaigns over the past year. This new initiative aims to show Canadians what Canada does for the alliance and what NATO does for the security of our country. Recent political instability, civil unrest and threats to democracy remind us of why NATO matters in the 21st century. Not only is Canada an unwavering member of this alliance, we are also active from our leadership in NATO's multinational battle group in Latvia and helping patrol the skies in the North Atlantic, in Iceland, to partnering in Iraq to help build local capacity and denouncing Russian aggression in all its forms. Working in unison to promote peace and security, member nations know that we are indeed stronger together. We share much more than an ocean. We share a vision of what our world can and should be, a place of cooperation and mutual respect. The rule of law, democracy, security, these are principles worth fighting for. Our transatlantic partnership will always hold us side by side to defend what matters. I am impatient to go back to Brussels next July to participate in the 2018 NATO summit. Once again, it is an honour to receive the General Secretary today at Ottawa and I will now give him some words before we move on to the questions. Thank you. Thank you so much Prime Minister Trudeau. Justin, it's great to be back in Ottawa and to meet with you. And as you said, NATO was established by the Washington Treaty 69 years ago today. So, the 4th of April is an important date in the history of NATO. Since then, our alliance has been a guarantor of peace providing security and preventing conflict because North America and Europe stand together. Canada was a founding member of the alliance and today Canada continues to make vital contributions to our shared security. Following Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and aggressive actions in eastern Ukraine, NATO boosted its presence in the eastern part of our alliance. And today Canada leads our multinational battlegroup in Latvia your largest European deployment since the Cold War. When I visited the Canadian troops in Adasi with Defence Minister Sajan last year I was impressed by their dedication and by the fact that so many are serving so far from home to deter aggression and keep our allies safe. Canadian jets have also patrolled the Black Sea region to support Romania and Canadian ships boost NATO's maritime presence from the North Sea to the Aegean Sea. I also warmly welcome the Canadian decision to rejoin our AWACS programme. We have flown these surveillance aircraft on NATO missions for more than 30 years and today we use them to support the global coalition to defeat Daesh. Canada also makes important contributions to NATO partners. Your support for Ukraine helps boost its resilience. You are making a major financial contribution to the Afghan National Army Trust Fund and just last month I saw how your trainers helped Iraqi officers and soldiers in keeping their country safe. Justine, both of you agree that gender equality is not just the right thing to do it is also the smart thing to do. So I also appreciate Canada's work to keep gender issues high on the NATO agenda and I'm working closely with Claire Hutchinson from Nova Scotia my new special representative for women, peace and security. And let me also commend Canada for investing more in defence. After years of decline defence spending now is increasing and I welcome your government's commitment to make further increases. Today we had an excellent discussion on how to prepare for the upcoming summit in NATO and how to continue the adaptation of the Alliance. Over the past few years the world has become more unstable and more unpredictable and NATO has responded with determination. At the summit in July we will take the next steps to further strengthen our deterrence and defence, project stability and fire terrorism beyond our borders and modernise our reliance for the challenges of the 21st century. Canada's contributions to the transatlantic bond and to international security remain essential. Just as they have been since NATO was founded on this day in 1949. So once again thank you so much Justin for hosting me and my delegation and for excellent discussions today.


I'm going to talk about why the Pareto principle and understanding it can be so helpful when it comes to personal productivity and overcoming procrastination. So the Pareto principle, let me give you a quick definition of it here and we'll talk then about why it's so important and useful for us in terms of overcoming procrastination. Quick Google search will tell us that the Pareto principle states that for many outcomes roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. Other names for this principle are the 80-20 rule, you may have heard of that, the law of the vital view or the principle of factor sparsity. So we're talking about the 80-20 rule here or the Pareto principle. One way I put it is, is find out where the juice is, find out where the potent stuff is in your day, what is giving you the greatest amount of reward for your input. So let's take a look at the 80-20 rule, look at it this way. Imagine you're trying, you're putting in effort right and so maybe you've disabused yourself of the idea that my procrastination is due to laziness, right, that there's something wrong with me. Well here you are, you're putting in all this effort and the thing is if you're not seeing rewards, returns on that effort, it will be much more likely that you will sort of shrug your shoulders eventually and just say this is pointless, I give up or it's too hard because it may be that it kind of is too hard. Unless you can find the juice, unless you can find that 20% that's really going to pay off for that input. So what we're trying to do here is what I made this video for is to get you away out of the idea that it's basically just hard work is going to get you to where you want to be or is going to help you to overcome procrastination or something like that. There's an awful lot to be said for sitting, reflecting, looking back on your efforts and finding out what one thing or small thing that I do regularly seems to make a big impact on my life or seems to move me forward in my life or closer to my goals or the things that I really desire. And where am I just being busy? Where am I spinning my wheels? Where am I putting in a lot of effort with not really much return? And then basically just simplifying things so that you are hitting that 20% as consistently as possible. You're putting in, you become way more focused on what's truly important and truly okay. So I'll give you an example. I have this YouTube channel and for me sometimes I sit down and well what will I talk about in my next YouTube video and maybe I'll write something about it? I write books as well. I work with people. There's many different things that I do, but for me it just comes down to if I sit in front of the camera like I am right now that seems to be the thing that I'm most glad that I did. I could put it to you that way, right? It seems for me just personally, emotionally and psychologically it's the thing that gives me personally the greatest reward. Now that doesn't mean that it's always easy. In fact, quite often it's not that easy to sit down because maybe there's like this what will I talk about? Have I talked about that too much? All these other things I can guess in ourselves. I can guess in myself when it comes to what I do here on this channel. But the point is I have found out that if I just sit down don't make anything complicated. Don't worry about the lighting in your videos and you know editing the videos or what you want to talk about even. Just sit down in front of the camera and talk. That one little thing that habit that act done consistently seems to pay off. More so than even like planning in detail what I'm going to talk about. That funnily enough actually hasn't paid off that much. So the 20% of the 80-20 rule for me is just sitting down in front of the camera. Now you might just think about your own life. What is it that where's the juice in your own life? Whether it be in your mission in life or any area of your life. What is the one thing that you do that if you do it consistently will give you the greatest return? And just focus on that. Everything else I've found kind of just sort of itself out after that because it's so motivating to see progress and it's only 20% of the effort you're making is going to give you the greatest amount of that progress. So the Pareto principle again states that for many outcomes roughly 80% of consequences or the results you get come from 20% of causes or 20% of the things that you do. So other names for this principle are the 80-20 rule as we said. So a useful one focus on the juice focus on the small consistent things that pay off most and that will have a massive impact on your motivation to keep making progress. I hope that was a useful video guys and I'll see you in the next video. Take care of yourself and bye for now.


This is Ella from When I Work. Today I'm going to show employees how to set availability on a computer so you can let your managers know when you prefer to work, when you'd rather not work, and when you don't mind working. If your manager has enabled this feature, you'll be able to set your availability preferences. Log in to your When I Work account, then go to your name at the top right corner and select My Availability. You can select when you prefer to work and when you're unavailable to work. I prefer to start inputting times when you prefer to work on certain days. For example, I prefer to work between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on days and Tuesdays, so I'm going to left click and hold down starting from 9 a.m. and drag it until 5 p.m. If you'd like to work at any time on a certain day, click All Day. Next, click Unavailable to input any hours you'd rather not work. If you don't mind working at certain times, feel free to keep those times blank. That will indicate no preference. If you have multiple preferences that you'd like to set up, use Advanced Mode. Through the Advanced setting, you can input a title, description, and effective dates to let your managers know when your preferences take place. The preferences I just set up only apply for September, so I'm going to set everything accordingly. When you're done, hit Save so your manager can consider your preferences as they create schedules. Once you set your availability, your manager will be able to hit your scheduling sweet spot when making the schedule, and that's pretty sweet.


Two bakers pitted against each other in a fiery kitchen challenge both hoping to be crowned DCU's best baker Welcome to the great DCU TV bake-off 24 hours ago we provided the bakers with a brief for their first challenge their second challenge However, it means a total mystery as they'll both be put to the test on their baking skill set So no further ado less than on the bakers How are you feeling about the challenge? I'm a little excited To be cake The verb is to be Emma Binkers all of the utensils that you need for your first challenge are laid out on the table The first challenge is the signature challenge and this week it's cupcakes You will have one hour to complete the challenge. So use this time wisely. That's a block. Thank you I'm in the first challenge Too bad, it's gone quite well actually So what twist do you decided to put on yours? I'm gonna do a resume and watch out for the twist You're gonna make sauce all of that? No And how do you think you'll manage with the time? Completely well so far I think yeah 14 minutes, you're feeling confident I'm at the moment It's looking delicious already Thanks What about you Emma, what twist have you got on yours? I decided to go with a pumpkin one I mean he made Dap a tiny bit But hopefully it will cause it will be a long time in a minute So we'll see Right, okay Okay, well best of luck, we still have 48 minutes So it's looking good I'll leave you to it, okay? It smells disgusting Don't panic anyway So there's plenty of time to store it out Just get that sugar in there The only way to expect it It's gonna be clean because I have to want to speak for themselves Well they sound absolutely delicious As on their own So I'm not expecting too depth of them tonight What about you Emma? I'm doing a crew of cheese ice-cream Because it compliments the cupcake And I had to differ it after the sugar Did all those plan out for that? I was wondering why it tasted so good You're gonna turn it okay? I think so I'm gonna try and make it on me Yeah Okay, sounds exciting And you have 35 minutes left The challenge didn't go too bad They rose And the icing went well But they're a little bit burnt I tried taking off some of the burnt but sure I have to wait and see After the first challenge I don't know It was going pretty well Up until I realised I forgot sugar Then I added in the sugar thing Just smooth sailing but I just didn't have enough time to cool down I think Emma's getting done good They didn't rise as much as mine So hopefully that'll be the one winner I don't know He's looked a lot better because His were a bit more cool However, they weren't burnt Coming out of the oven a few of them So I don't know Might taste a bit bad I think the next challenge I'm not sure we just did buns So maybe like bread or something I don't know I don't know, there's a bit of mixed Thoughts about it Some people were saying pastry Just as this is the first dish Which is the cupcakes Please write them So these ones here Like Like look at this On the side here It's over spilled there They're very flat There's no real consistency With them Because some of them have loads of icing on them So I don't know What the baker was doing with that It's bloody insane Yeah That's even extra Very cosy The bit burnt Bit burnt Once you get past the crisp on top The inside of it is lovely and moist It's not too moist I don't know It's a bit dry I don't like the crust You don't like the crust They're asking something inside it So judges, can you please reveal your scores For bacon one I want to give the first cake six Because I think it's flavour is a lot nicer Even if it wasn't consistent I think they're inconsistent So I give it five The cupcakes They weren't cooked all the way through And the icing on top of them was different than usual So I'm giving them a two They were too soggy And they just don't taste that much anyway So judges can you please So judges, can you please reveal your scores For bacon number two I gave the cupcake number two a three Because I didn't like the icing And it was also slightly burnt I really like the icing So I gave it a number eight Same thing, the icing on top is very sloppy And they were a little bit burnt But they had lovely flavours So I'm giving them a five I gave them a seven because they're about cooked And the last one, they get tasty So your next challenge is the skill test And I can now reveal What the challenge is Sugar Cookies I have the recipes here We have an error to complete them So off you go Time starts now They went pretty bad for me Mine tasted better It didn't look as good Potato potato When I saw it first I was actually quite happy I thought it would be easier than it was I think it was pretty easy Just Jake messed up And he put in too much egg Or too many eggs I don't know, the icing was weird Because we both had completely different consistencies About icing, so we didn't know which one was right Jake got on pretty f*** Because he put in too many eggs But it looked great at the end It looked rather Christmassy I do think she got on well Which secures me to say it But um Then she fixed it, so that doesn't matter either Um Yeah, so I'm very nervous Judges here The Sugar Cookies from the second challenge The skills test They're all coming and stuck together I like the consistency and shape The colours are nice That's really the layer With you it's very lazy though With this one I mean, what's What's going to be about this one Someone's going to get more than someone else So I don't like that Whereas with these ones it's more evenly spread And I agree with you I don't understand what they're going for With the DCU TV It's just It's kind of sloppy again A bit more original But still Let's start with this one Crunchy Yeah, it's really frungy Yeah A bit dry I think Yeah There's a cookie though Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking There's not much sugar It doesn't taste that sweet It's okay I think it's like If it was a savory biscuit It wouldn't need the icing The icing is making it more of a confectionary I think it's okay It's not great Sure that is So judges Can you please reveal your scores for Bakern 1 Yeah For the first contestant I'll show you a cookie batch I split it in with 2 crunches I'm going to enter Pretty much the same I didn't like that there was too much icing So I'm going to go with 2 They're a bit too crunchy But they're still nice So judges Can you please reveal your scores for Bakern 2 For the second batch I gave it a 4 The presentation and they're also slightly burnt Of the taste of my food These ones were better There was a better consistency with the icing And I liked the crunch 7 You've had a great DCU TV bake-off history One baker received 37 points The other received 39 points I can now reveal That the winner is With 39 points A voucher for Domino's Well done Are you happy? Anything to say to the loser? I'm going to say half of Jacob's going to win He's a very worthy opponent For the second test Jacob, do you kind of see what's happening? Yeah, actually for the second test I don't even know Thanks for being a great contestant Say goodbye to everyone