this video I know it's long overdue girl it's gonna be this shower video showing you how to have a wash day that encourages lip retention. So one thing I want to say before we get started I showed you guys what products I'm gonna be using some things may change and if it does change everything will be listed below in the description box. I'm gonna stress this and I think I've said this so many times I still firmly believe that when it comes to growing your hair and having healthy natural hair that it's all about your regimen okay so there's not one product yeah there's rice water may help you with a little bit of length but all this comes down to what it really boils down to is your regimen how are you taking care of your hair how are you moisturizing your hair if you are detailing properly if you're clipping those ends and I know that us especially as black women we tend to shy away from the sheers but it's really is important to get rid of those dead ends so that your hair isn't splitting and really sabotaging your hair growth so let's hush up and start to section off my hair this is an old wash and go it is about a week old okay gonna apply the moisture now another thing about products you guys I read that I have reviewed a lot of products just go through and do a search on my channel I like to use very affordable products because again is not necessarily the products but how you are using the products okay so this hair I'm gonna show y'all that it is so my hair is very dense so you can see here I'm having to really separate this that shrinkage is the shrinkage is something real you see how much my hair streaked up back there I'm just gonna show you an example I'm put some more moisture on here and again this is olivera juice I'm gonna see if I can bring one of these hair strands down this is really and this is not it look at that look at that it gets that spider web type of yeah so let's get started we're gonna really really really go in here so I go into finger detangle first and then I use our comb okay getting those ends so I have several combs here I probably need another see that's not bad at all but I'm also going to put my hair in twist while we're doing this too all right you guys I'm gonna continue to detangle my hair now typically I will say at least once a month I take my time and really sit down girl pour myself a glass of wine and it takes me around two to three hours to really really get in and detangle my hair but for the purposes of making this video I just wanted to do it really quickly so it took me about 30 minutes to detangle my entire head of hair okay so finishing up this last section and now I'm jumping into the shower I'm really taking in time since I am low porosity ensuring that my hair is properly saturated with water before applying any shampoo this can take a couple of minutes I remember when I used to go to the stylist it would take her five to eight minutes just sitting there with my hair under the water before applying any Cleanson products going in with the VO five strawberry that's the strawberry and cream shampoo work them that into my scalp massaging it in and letting the product run all the way down my hair strands like this shampoo and I love the lather that it gets my hair now typically y'all yes I do cleanse my hair twice when I'm for wash day and yes because I'm extra I typically do use two different types of shampoos my favorite lately has been trust them as flawless curls I typically do follow up with the TGIN moisture shampoo also conditioner now and lately y'all I have been skipping this step but I'm doing the strawberries and cream VO five this is just a cheap conditioner just to get my hair ready for this look this is me getting my hair ready for the deep conditioner I have stopped putting a rinse out conditioner on my hair when I'm deep conditioner because it's just redundant it doesn't really make any sense and it saves myself time saves me money and saves your money on a product so just for the purpose of this video video again I wanted to use a rinse out shampoo before applying my deep conditioner so that right there is the Queen Helen cholesterol I tend to be very heavy-handed when it comes to deep conditioners and I did mix this with two packages of that ORS I also sometimes put her all just whatever I have on hand just again applying the product in sections making sure I am working the product from root to end now I am deep conditioning now every time I wash my hair just because I want to give my hair some extra TLC and make sure that it's properly properly moisturized as I stated earlier in the video I do girl I have an attitude excuse me I do like to do a protein treatment every three months or so so again using a wide-tooth comb to go in and detangle my hair why rinsing out the product you really want to make sure especially with a deep conditioner to ensure that you rinse out all of the product from your hair now you guys I'll be honest typically when I'm doing my hair in the shower I like to go ahead and apply my leaving conditioner and my hair oil while my hair is saturated being low porosity my hair will literally just the products we just sometimes sit on my hair unless it's properly wet so now I'm gonna go ahead and put this towel around my hair and then I'm gonna jump out the shower so yeah a couple of hair clips here in front of me is that all of them let me show you what low porosity hair does I got on the shower list in 10 minutes ago and look at it it soaks up it can't really soak up moisture like that the water it's already looking puffy looking I put this down and so yeah I literally just got out so we're gonna go ahead and start to moisturize my hair I have two different moisturizers I have can to leave in conditioners is a oldie but goodie and so you guys can see that okay and I also have curls cream relate now I play on layering these products and I have my hair oil I have some water I'm gonna go ahead and it's not dry but it needs to be a lot wetter than this to girl I'm serving you Frederick Douglass natural deep part and that's how I'm gonna do my hair because this is how I style my hair it's crooked you can't see it but if you all of my hair are like that you wait too close so just gonna go ahead and again working with my hair in sections just to make it easier okay yeah we're gonna use the cream relate I'm gonna use for that big section because it's wet girl you know you need more than that stop playing and I'm gonna go in some hair oil when I mean I'm a nap our lazy natural I'm literally I'm going to go back and put my hair in medium twists use these hair clips to clip it up and yeah alright you guys I am done my hair is properly moisturized it feels great now how often do I wash my hair I wash my hair now on a weekly basis I also moisturize in my hair about twice a week two to three times a week and so I just make sure that I want to make sure that my scalp is clean okay that is very important and that my hair is properly moisturized and that my hair is it let me back up my scalp and my hair is clean okay one big I do need to get better about is having my hands trim which I'm trying to persuade my auntie to trim my hands when she's she's a little intimidated by the amount of hair I get it together I'm glad it's anyway you guys that is it for this video thank you so much for watching I think it was always all already subscribers take care bye


Hong Ik really comes from that foundational belief that I am precious as well.  However, it's very difficult to practice that same amount of love you have for other people for yourself. But Hong Ik works on the idea that you also are a very special and precious being that needs your care and love just as much as anybody else. Hi guys, this is Linda from Brain Education TV. If this is your first time, welcome! Please consider subscribing to our channel, like this video and click the bell for notifications of each new episode. In this video, I'm going to talk about something that I think will change the world. The idea and term I want to talk about today is Hong Ik. Hong Ik is a Korean word, but actually not many Korean people know about this term either. Hong Ik means widely benefiting all life. And the keyword here is all life because it's not talking about benefiting some people, benefiting these people, benefiting just a certain group of people, it's benefiting all life. So when we talk about all life, it of course includes you, but it also includes me. And I think that's a very important idea to grasp because most people when they think about helping somebody, they think of it as sacrifice, giving up my well-being and comfort for the sake of making someone else more happy or comfortable. And I think the movies and Hollywood do a really great job of depicting the hero as somebody who dedicates themselves or sacrifices themselves to save the town or save the lady or save the man or save the people. So most people think that helping somebody else is sacrificing my comfort, my well-being, my time to help the person that I love. And maybe you're doing a lot of this in your life too, especially people who are in positions of helping people like nurses, doctors, caretakers, teachers, many people like this therapist, counselors who are in the practice of helping other people. But what I see most of the time is that people who are in a position of taking care of other people, they're the ones who are burned out. They're the ones that are the first to be so burned out and have this feeling of, who's taking care of me?  Moms are especially prone to this, sacrificing themselves to help their family. So although sacrifice is great, it's noble and I commend people who sacrifice themselves every single day to help other people. My point is that it's not a sustainable way unless you know how to take care of yourself as well. So maybe some of you are already excellent at practicing self-care, so this is no problem for you. But I would say most people have trouble taking care of themselves in the same amount as they're taking care of other people. So this is where the idea of Hongik comes into play. Hongik is very different from sacrifice. So let me give you some clear examples of how Hongik is different from sacrifice. Example A is an example of sacrifice. Let's say you have one piece of bread and you're with somebody else. So there's two people and one piece of bread. You are both hungry. Someone who is sacrificing will give up that bread, the entire bread to the other person so that the other person can eat and I am going to starve because I care about the other person's well-being more than myself. So while the other person might be happy, I am starving. That is an example of sacrifice. And now on the other hand, this is an example of someone who is selfish. The selfish person is the same situation. Two people, one piece of bread. The selfish person does not care at all what the other person feels or needs because I'm hungry. I'm going to eat this bread all by myself. I don't care about the other person. So it's one extreme to the other. Now the person who is practicing Hongik recognizes that there are two precious souls who are both experiencing a need. And there's only one bread, which means there's lack of resource. The Hongik person splits the bread in half, gives half to the person who is hungry with me because I recognize that this person is suffering too. However, I see that I am also in need of some food. So I'm going to take care of myself at the same time. So yes, it's not enough to make us full. However, we are both being taken care for. That's the difference between sacrifice, selfishness and Hongik. And now the reason why I think Hongik is the thing that will save the world and change the world is because don't you think that all the problems in our world stem from either complete sacrifice or complete selfishness? All the systems and the capitalistic society that has put more money for the rich people and have left poor people, even poor, that is a pure act of selfishness. Whereas on the other hand, people who feel burned out, people who feel resentful, people who feel emotionally exhausted, people who feel emotionally drawn out, like nobody cares about me, nobody takes care of me.  However, if we all practice Hongik, if we can all see that we are also precious too, because Hongik really comes from that foundational belief that I am precious as well.  However, it's very difficult to practice that same amount of love you have for other people for yourself. But Hongik works on the idea that you also are a very special and precious being that needs your care and love just as much as anybody else. So if everybody on this earth can recognize that, start from a place of self-love so that whatever action they take, whatever words they speak, whatever thoughts they have are of Hongik benefiting you and also benefiting me, don't you think everyone will feel happy and taken care for? Because Hongik ultimately is love for myself and love for others. If you are at a place where you are practicing love for yourself and love for your others, what greater place can you be in? Mentally, emotionally and physically. So Hongik is a very foundational teaching in brain education. Il-Chili says that someone who has recovered the power of their brain is operating from this place of Hongik. They can see that they have needs too and fulfill their physical, emotional, mental needs while at the same time, because I know how to take care of myself, I can help take care of other people as well. A person who takes care of themselves and takes care of other people is someone who is a Hongik person. And the goal of all these brain education instructors who are working with me out there in the world, our job is to, because we learned how to take care of ourselves, now through channels like this, like on YouTube, we're helping you guys take care of yourselves as well. So I invite you to reflect on your own life. How much of your time are you spending doing Hongik in your relationships, at work, in your family and all that you say and do? How much of your actions are truly Hongik? Is it 20% Hongik, 80% sacrifice or selfishness? Or is it 50-50? Or maybe it's 80% Hongik, 20% sacrifice selfishness? Where do you fare in this scale? Just, you don't have to say this out loud, but just reflect and think. How much of my life am I really practicing Hongik? How much of my focusing on helping myself while helping others too? I'm sure you guys are all good at helping other people, but how much of that energy and love am I spending on myself? This means how many of my words are words that uplift other people, but also uplift me. Maybe you are really good at saying good words to other people, giving them compliments and praises, but you're very nasty to yourself with your negative self-talk. That is not Hongik. So these are the things that I'm talking about. Maybe you're very good at showing love to other people, how much you care about them, giving them gifts, all of this, but when you look at yourself in the mirror, all you can see are flaws and all you can say is, oh my god, why do you look like this? Why are you fat?   So I'm really curious to hear your thoughts. Let me know what you guys think about Hongik in the comments down below. And also let me know about when you did your own self-reflection about am I living in Hongik or sacrifice. How do you fare in this scale? And now before we end this video, I want to share with you a poem by Il-Chili about Hongik.  Either way is fine. Just get into a comfortable place and listen to these words through your nose. Hongik by Il-Chili. Hongik is a beautiful poem and humbleness. Hongik is infinite art and enlightenment. Hongik is love, faith and gratitude. Hongik is a sense of responsibility, patience and forgiveness. Hongik is a life of health, happiness and peace. Hongik is planning, design, prayer and creation. And it is endlessly rising to the challenge for boundless freedom. Hongik is brain power. Let the words of this poem seep deeply into your brain. May we all become Hongik humans so that this world can finally know peace.


It became known that the Freedom of Russia Legion, Red Army of Ukraine and the Siberian Battalion entered the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation as part of a joint operation.As reported by Russian opposition leader Ilya Panamarov, the border town of Lozovgorodka in the Belgorod region is completely under the control of the Liberation Forces. Representative of the main intelligence directorate of Ukraine Andrey Yusov, in a commentary to Channel 24, commented on the entry of. The Freedom of Russia Legion, the Red Army of Ukraine and the Siberian Battalion into Russian territory, the Legion Freedom of Russia, the Red Army of Ukraine and the Siberian Battalion on the territory of the Russian Federation act as independent units, since they consist of citizens of the Russian Federation. They, after all, are at home, Yusov noted.


Ukraine strikes bridges in Crimea with NATO-supplied missiles. Ukraine has launched a barrage of British-supplied storm-shadow missiles at two bridges connecting the Crimean Peninsula to Russia's Kursan region, according to its acting governor Vladimir Saldov. Some 12 missiles were fired during last Saturday's attack, with at least three making it through Russian anti-aircraft defences, Saldov told Russia 24 TV Channel. The strike damaged two bridges across the Strait of Chonga and the Tonki Strait, the official stated. The Chonga Bridge sustained at least one hit, according to the acting governor, who shared imagery of the aftermath of the attack on his Telegram channel. The missile left a large hole in the bridge deck-paving images show. The attack damaged a rural school and ruptured a local gas pipeline, leaving the nearby town of Genichesk without supply, according to Saldov. Both bridges have hardly been used for military needs and are purely civilian infrastructure installations, he stressed. Saldov said that the armed forces of Ukraine struck the bridge across the Henechesk Strait, connecting occupied Henechesk with the Arabat Spit. The Strelkov Field Henechesk gas pipeline running next to the bridge was also blocked. More than 20,000 city residents were left without gas supply, said Saldov. He assures that this bridge has no important military significance and that the damage, according to preliminary data, is small, while Saldov did not elaborate on the damage sustained by the second bridge. Unverified footage circulating online suggests one of the sections has partially collapsed. The images show a gas pipeline running alongside the bridge ruptured and aflame. The bridges linking the northern part of the Crimean Peninsula and Kursan region were targeted by Ukraine in another major attack back in June. At that time, the Chongar Bridge sustained considerable damage and ended up shut down for several weeks during repairs.


And when you get inside, it's only one real big one. All right, well, now that we've got that out of the way, what does she do about it? My approach would be to say, look, I learned things the hard way. I made my choices as I came up. I've done the best by this trial that I could do at the time I was doing it. She's going to have to learn her way. Is that wrong? Oh, it's very important to let it be that they're going to learn their way. It really is important, too, to bring it off the screen in the sense that, initially, it's just seemed so natural to start to analyze the motives of others, to try to kind of get inside their heads. Like, what are they thinking? What must they be going through for their decision-making process? And that is the major ego delay tactic in coming to a resolution in one's own mind, is to, so to speak, get out there and start to figure and analyze the motives of others. Even, it can seem more tempting, once again, if it's my daughter, though, I'm not concerned about the guy on the news that's having a problem with his geo, but this is my daughter. And it seems like with certain people, it seems important to know their motivations. And Jesus is saying, come back. Don't get so concerned about this other person's behavior. Don't get so concerned about what's going on in this so-called other person's mind, but bring it back to, first of all, how am I feeling? If I'm feeling like there's something a little uneasy and maybe even like I want to avoid it, but I don't want to even talk about it, then there's an uneasiness there, and that is what needs to be addressed. How do you do that? Well, it's an inward process, again, of looking at, if we get back to our rings on the chart that you have, that the outer rings are determined by the inner rings. So, in other words, the second ring next to the outside is emotion. So, if you first get in touch with your emotion, like you're feeling... So, let's do this as a demonstration of how you trace it back. So, just with the situation, when you think about the situation, and how do you feel, what kind of feelings are coming up? I feel really anxious about the fact that she's doing this. And more about the fact that she's going to bring this car back, which I think is to be moved, than the fact that she's driving across the country by herself in a car that may not be dependable. And that really bothers me that I'm putting emphasis on this material thing, rather than on her, yes. So, you feel guilty? Do you feel guilty that you're thinking more of the value of the car than her being able to use it to get back across the country? That would be, you know, part of it. That's another area. We kind of explore with the financial thing, but the whole idea of perhaps fear for safety of driving a three-cylinder car over the Rocky Mountains, and what would happen if it just broke down in the middle of nowhere, and so on and so forth. And again, what's below the ring of the emotions out there hits the thought. So, you have concern for your daughter's safety. And again, whenever there's concern for somebody else, there's concern for bodies. You know, it's not like you're concerned for her spirit. Like her spirit's going to get stranded on the Rockies, or, you know, that somehow your spirit could get stranded on a highway or whatever. But obviously, there's body parts involved there. There's concern over the welfare and the safety of the body. That ain't different than the concern over the welfare and the safety of these, of the body that seems to be the self, too. I mean, that's why all these extravagant measures of health insurance and life insurance and, you know, food and nutrition and exercise and just think of all the energy and work that goes into protecting and guarding and keeping maintaining this body. So, you can see where it starts to work out the thoughts that it has a concern over the thought for your daughter's body, then that would be at the thought level. Now, the thoughts spring from the beliefs about the body. It traces down to the ego belief that one is, that one is the body's daughter. So, it gives you a little sense of how it starts to trace down that there's this belief in separation.


Uh oh. What am I supposed to see? We're live. It says we're live, but it doesn't show us anything. Oh, I think it's working. I think it's working. It's working. All right. Cool. So hello everyone. Matthew Coast here with Helena Hart. Say hi, Helena. Hi, everybody. Hey. Can I share my Facebook page? I'm going to share it with you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know how to share it? I'll figure it out. Okay. Yeah, there's a button. There's a link on the bottom right hand side of the streaming page. You can share it if you want to share it. And if you're watching and you want to share it, that's cool. You should share it for sure because it's awesome. And we're trying to help people out here. So the topic for today is how to make a guy fall in love with you. I know that this is kind of a surprise.  You should probably do live streams like, you know, like planned, not live. I think that's probably better. So yeah, let's talk a little bit about, you know, how men fall in love and, you know, what makes a man fall in love. And I think there's a lot of kind of confusion around this for sure. There's a lot of frustration out there about men not falling in love. And, you know, if you're struggling with a guy and you're not really sure what's going on, there's kind of different phases. And the first thing that I want to talk about is kind of the difference between lust and love, right? So lust is like this thing that it's like this infatuation. It's like this attraction. Usually it's a physical attraction that you have with a guy. And a lot of people kind of confuse that with love, right? And so they will have, you can have lust for a really long period of time. And it's confused people into getting married to each other, even though it's a really bad idea to get married over lust. And actually I think just the idea of marriage, or sorry, just the idea of being in love isn't the best reason for marriage either. I think you should think about other things as well. Now I'm like preaching to, you know, to people over here. But, you know, the difference between lust and love is lust is a very superficial physical connection that you have with somebody. Usually it's, you know, butterflies in the stomach. You're feeling like, you know, you're really excited about somebody. But love is deeper, you know. It's knowing it's, a lot of people kind of like to talk about it in this like spiritual type connection type of thing, right? So you're like in love with somebody.   You love their imperfections. And when a guy's in love, particularly, you'll notice that he will love things about you that normally you're like embarrassed about, things that you're scared of. Whereas lust, lust breaks really quickly and really easily. So if you're in lust with somebody, or if a man is in lust with you, it's very easy to kind of break that connection that he has with you. It's very easy for him to want to leave and go somewhere else or do something else or find somebody else. Whereas if he's in love, it's like, it's like you're the only person in the world.  You know, when he sees other women, it's like, man, who cares? You know, other women that he might have been interested in before is are no longer interested. He's no longer interested in because they pale in comparison to you. You know, it's something deep is really what I'm saying. Is there anything you wanted to add to that, Helena? I love that. No, I love everything you're saying. I was just looking at the chat, the questions and so they're coming through. Oh, are people talking? Feel free to let us know. Help me. They also run from love because they don't understand the feeling. Yes. Okay. So if you guys have questions, type them in. We have about 30 minutes. So any, you know, situation around this that we would love to help you out. No, I love everything you were saying and just the, um, there's so much. I just have so much to say about this topic.  Like some kind of strategy or tactic or way to make a man fall in love. You know what I mean? Does that make sense the way I'm explaining that? Yeah. Yeah. I'm just curious what you're going to say next. I'm trying to think of how to word it. You know, I don't, I don't have anything planned for this. It was like off the top of my head. I would say that like mental strategies, like don't really work when it comes to men and relationships, not in any kind of like permanent lasting way where we really end up feeling secure and loved in the relationship. Um, they just kind of keep us up in our head. You know, like an example would be like playing hard to get, pretending that you're busy so that, you know, to keep a guy interested, all those like superficial strategies to try to make a man interested or make him fall in love kind of just keep us up in our heads, which is in our masculine energy. And they just kind of add to this whole stuck feeling where we want something and we're not getting it, you know, they, and it keeps us from dropping down into our feminine energy or dropping down into like the basics of love and romance. So what we're all about is not the superficial strategies or techniques, but how to, you know, really inspire that love and devotion from a man in a way that's like permanent and lasting. Just like you were saying that doesn't like burn out after the first couple of weeks or months, you know? Yeah, absolutely. And, um, yeah, you know, it's interesting to always hear things from like a woman's perspective because from a guy like from me, from my nerdy guy perspective, I'm always like, I'm like, okay, you know, like I do have some tactics. I do have some things that I want you to do. But, you know, and again, when I say that, um, I'm saying it from this place of being a guy, you know, and being a guy, um, when I think about like connecting with somebody, um, you know, and maybe it's not just but being a guy, but also being an introvert and being super logical and being, you know, a lot of different things that I am as, you know, the type of guy that I am. Um, you know, I think about these different things. So, um, let's move into, uh, so, so yeah, uh, you know, um, I am her said, uh, you know, a lot of men kind of run from the feeling of love and that's true. Um, you know, and, and, and the reason that that happens is because there's a lot of pain, right? There's, there's a lot of guys that have felt pain from being in love, you know, I've felt pain from being in love. You know, my first, the first girl that I ever fell in love with, I wanted to, you know, get married to her and, you know, have kids with her and live happily ever after with her. And she, you know, cheated on me with like seven different dudes, you know, like it was it was a pretty heartbreaking experience, uh, that I had with her, you know, and, and I think most people that I talked to have had some heartbreak in their lives and, um, you know, there's a lot of people that kind of choose, uh, to run from love or to move towards love. And I think that there's, uh, ways to create a, um, kind of an environment for a man so that instead of feeling, looking at you and feeling love and being like, oh my God, I want to get run, you know, you can create kind of an environment that makes him, you know, feel it, kind of get that, you know, like, oh my God, you know, like, I, I know where this leads to type of feeling that he might have and then end up moving forward instead of like, um, you know, pulling back and, um, and, and running away from you and trying to stay away from you. Yeah, that's great. Let's talk about that. Somebody just typed in a question. I'm just reading them from my phone.  How do you balance the nurturing and encourage love sort of along the lines of what we were talking about?  I know I definitely had or from childhood, you know, we've all had things we wish hadn't happened. We've all been hurt or like given ourselves completely to people and ended up totally heartbroken.  I'm sure she wants to hear a man's perspective on that. How do you nurture a man's pain from childhood? Yeah, well, I think that there's, there's a couple things around this, you know, and there's, uh, you know, there's kind of this perspective of like, okay, I want to make him, um, you know, feel safe and make him kind of do this work that he needs to do in order to feel safe and in order to fall in love. And, um, to to a certain extent, you can, right? You can encourage it. You can make him feel that way.  But that's absolutely not true, right? For, um, a man in a relationship, right? You want him to move towards you.     But it also kind of like puts that woman in a category of like, I can't be, I can't be really vulnerable around this woman, you know, because you know, I mean, if I am, she's going to take advantage of that and, you know, hurt that and hurt me in that space. And so, um, uh, yeah, I do think that, you know, you can create an environment, you're like making a lot of noise over there. I'm sorry, my light just turned off so I'm trying to turn it back on because it's pretty dark in here. Yeah, so, so, you know, you can definitely create an environment for a man to come into where he feels safe, right? He feels open to, you know, get into that depth that we were just talking about of, you know, that that's absolutely necessary for him to really fall in love, you know, and to really open himself up.   He's not going to feel like he can do that around you and it's going to limit his ability to open up to you like that. Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. I mean, there's just so many great comments coming in. There's a lot of running from love going on in this new generation. Someone says, yes, I've been going through that with a guy for like one year now. So, yeah, definitely. And I always say like the acceptance of a guy sees you always like judging yourself and being really hard on yourself.  That's something I always say. But yeah, I think men need that safety. I always say men need two things to fall in love. They need safety. And they need mystery. They need to feel like it's like exciting and thrilling to be with you. And a lot of women are already providing that side of it.  A lot of times you're already naturally kind of mysterious and exciting to a man, but a lot of women need help with that safety part, you know, making a man feel safe to open up and safe to come towards you because you know, men don't have a lot of that in their lives. They know like, we women can, we have girlfriends and big like social networks sometimes and we can open up and talk endlessly to lots of different people in our lives. A lot of men don't have that. So if you're like that one person in his life that he feels he can open up to and bounce ideas off of and confide in, it's like you're going to be that one woman that he doesn't want to live without or lose out of his life, you know. Yeah, I want to, you know, just speak to that for a second, just real quick. You know, that is 100% true. Some people don't have that at all in their entire lives. You know, some guys don't have anybody.  They can't talk to their friends openly or vulnerably.  Thank you so much for providing an environment where I can come in and talk about this kind of thing, you know. And so, yeah, I mean I was out with my partner not too long ago with this guy and it was funny talking to him. He was like me and a couple other guys and this woman was there as well and like the guy that I was hanging out with was like making fun of the dude across from us and he's like, yeah, you know like he came over and the other day he was like, oh, you know it's really so great to know you and you know like all this other stuff.  You know what I mean?  Like there's kind of like this weird, there's a lot of weird stuff around emotions with guys and there's a lot of guys that can't open up to anybody and yeah, so yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, you can be that one person that he opens up to and wants to. I know we talked about two live streams ago and one of our, one of the ones from last week he comes towards like he's pulling towards you because he's pulling away from something else rather than feeling like he has to pull away from you and take space from you. It's a really powerful thing if like you were that safe space for him that he just wants to come closer and closer because he feels so good every time he's with you. He doesn't feel like he's going to be judged or made fun of or like you're going to take everything personally. Yeah, and so the other thing that I wanted to talk about in terms of this because we were being asked about you know, if a guy how to create, you know, like how to encourage a guy to do this, right? Like we can sit here and talk about how it needs to be done all we want to but how do you encourage a guy to do this, right? And so I think one of the ways you know, the best way in my opinion to encourage a guy to do this is to be in your heart. You know, is to be in your feminine and is to is to be open. You know, like there's a lot of women out there that close their hearts off as well and you know, everywhere you know, regardless of what's going on and you know, I think that you know, if we're going to talk from like kind of a practical standpoint, you can open up to a guy and it might feel awkward for you to do it. Oh, man but I'm just, man, still I'm just going to be talking from a guy's perspective here. Elena, did you want to talk about a little bit about kind of connecting to your heart as a woman and yeah, I think as women a lot of times we have to go first and we just we just do a lot of times we are the more conscious of what's going on in the relationship or potential relationship just we are deeper than men in a lot of ways generally speaking we have to open up first because a lot of men are afraid to do that or they don't want to do or they don't know how to do that so if we can do that first and open up and express ourselves not coming from a place of like expectation or trying to make something happen but just really expressing how we feel or what's going on with us that opens the door for a man to feel more comfortable doing that as well. If you can learn how to do that correctly in a way that brings him closer rather than like pushes him away you'll see that he will start to open up more to you and that's when you can kind of show him that you have all the acceptance in the world for him that's how you create that heart to heart connection that's kind of like the overview yeah for sure cool so I think we've kind of talked a lot about that whole kind of area I'd like to talk a little bit about another kind of thing involved with a man falling in love and it's something that I think is talked a lot less about and I think it's as important and it's a topic of value right and you know being somebody that he looks at as a valuable kind of human being somebody that is valuable to his life right the more valuable that a man perceives you to be the more he will feel like excited about you right so and there's kind of a whole bunch there's a big array of what that really means you know like value it's kind of like this heady thing that you know I came up with it's like so for instance one of the ways to be really really valuable to a man is like what we're just talking about like being being in your feminine you know and and it's not necessarily like just being in your feminine but being in your feminine to the extent that he's in his masculine right because we live in this world where there's a lot of feminine dudes out there these days but you know being in your feminine and being a compliment to him you know is is incredibly valuable to a man and I think a lot of women don't realize how valuable it is because as a woman so what one of the things that happens in dating and relationships is that we tend to want to do to others or show others things that make them like interested in us right there's kind of two different ways one is kind of doing things to other people that we like right that's that's a big one that I see a lot of women doing that I think is kind of a bad idea in some ways right so for instance like if a woman like really values a guy who has a great job and you know has all these this list of like really great things that he's done in his life a lot of women will like go into a date or into a relationship and they'll like try to like talk about all these impressive things that she's done you know into a guy it's like oh cool you know what I mean like I found this woman that's smart and successful and you know all these things but from an attraction standpoint and from a you know like opening himself up to fall in love with a woman standpoint that does not create that kind of draw to him right what does create that draw to him is a woman who's in her feminine you know as Helena was talking about a minute ago she was talking about like having that mystery right like the most mysterious thing that like because mystery mystery is a great thing for creating attraction and creating that draw and creating that you know desire in a man and like being in your feminine is the most mysterious thing in the world to most men right like and see a feminine woman and they're like like what is going on over there you know I mean it's like you know there's like this kind of like excitement and like you know like you know like this woman is like really awesome and if he experiences enough of that he will fall in love with it right like if a man is around a feminine energy for long enough I have a good friend of mine actually is a dude well he used to be a good friend of mine we don't talk a whole lot anymore but he like when back when I used to hang out with him he was like he was like Mr. Player dude you know he's like out at bars all the time you know like meeting these girls and he's always like hooking up with these new girls and stuff and and he always went for women that were very specific it was like this blonde like super skinny like you know I mean like whatever type of woman and he's been in this relationship now for about three years with this woman that is nothing of any of his types right and it's so funny to see it because it's like you know like part of it's like this anomaly right because it's like you know how often do you see something like that but like this woman that he's with is like she's not skinny at all you know she's not blonde and she's none of the things that he like would normally go for but she is incredibly feminine you know and when you talk to him about it he's like he's like I don't know what it is about her it's just you know like I just every time I see her I just want to like I don't know just grab her and like hold on to her and just make love to her you know and it's just it's funny you know like it's interesting and it explains kind of like this thing that guys experience when they you know see or like are around this feminine energy thing so I love that I love hearing that so that's like just everything I always say yeah doesn't necessarily you know matter if you're a guy's like typical type or not it's like the feminine energy thing is like so powerful that it's just like just totally magnetic it's I love that we're getting some really good questions you want me to read some of them sure okay let's see let's go up um what about a man's pain who has been cheated on by his ex he's opened up about it but he still has the knife in his back I would be curious to hear what you have to say about that one that's a great question here's a question Matt please go ahead and answer it um yeah so a guy who's so you know we were talking before and I guess we have to go back to what we were talking about before I kind of love the value idea around love and attraction but let's talk about this idea of um yeah a man opening up um so so like like we were talking about before you know you can encourage a guy you can create a safe space for a guy um you can do a lot of things for a guy um but at the same time the guy has to move forward right and there's a lot of things that you can do from a tactical and technique standpoint from a verbal standpoint things you can say to kind of encourage him to uh you know look at you differently and be willing to open up even though he wasn't willing before um but there's also the kind of this thing where he has to take that step right he has to be willing to do it um and uh so man I oh god should I say this um so so well it kind of depends right like so as a woman there's um you know you've got kind of this uh you know like limit right because if you go and it depends on how your relationship is right so if you're in a relationship with a guy and you're like this is a great relationship things are moving forward um you know everything is going great uh you know I just kind of want things to be deeper um you know the question is should you even do anything about it right um you know I don't know um if you feel like you're settling and you're in a space of settling um I don't think that kind of trying to do something to kind of force him to open up in that way is necessarily um all that beneficial uh from uh but if you feel like you are settling and you feel like you know this kind of going the way that you want it to go and um you feel like he's not really moving in the direction that you want him to go into um you know there are things that you can do to open him up um but they're kind of uh uh you know I don't know they can be painful you know like because if a guy is in pain from his ex who really hurt him a lot um that means that anytime you talk about anything around that topic it's going to be painful for him you know and so um do I want to talk about this or not um it it uh you know what I'm not going to go there I'm not going to go there um I'm not going to talk about it because I don't think that it's going to be beneficial um is there anything that you wanted to say about it Helena? you know all you can so if you're not going to go there and talk about it re-open up that pain like all you can really do is um be in the moment where you know create a connection with him in every moment you're with him rather than going back and encouraging him to like dig out the past you know why not just work on creating that heart to heart connection between the two of you right now and if he's capable of um getting over that and it's funny I just created a video like an hour ago on what to do if um if a guy wants a relationship and he's scared and that was one of the one of the points is that you know he has weird relationship baggage it fits right into that so um that should be coming out in a few weeks maybe that'll be helpful but um creating a safe space for him right now with you rather than um talking about it talk you know going back and encouraging him to like you know dig up those painful memories and try to convince him logically that you'll somehow be different um maybe going a different route and just creating um that connection with him in every moment you're with him and and see if he's even capable or willing to get into a new relationship if I don't know what the situation is if you're with him or if you're not if you want to be with him but you can't because of this I'm not exactly sure of the details yeah it's it's hard to say you know and uh you know the reason I'm kind of hesitant to talk about what you know I'm thinking is because um you can go into like super manipulative kind of land and um you know if you're not doing it the right way um and you're not doing it from a good space and um you know he's not your relationships not in the right space for it it can be really harmful and so um you know there's there's ways to talk to him uh like to encourage him for instance we talked before about this this idea of of saying things that are attractive right um like saying things are attractive um I think we talked about that in one of our livestreams and it's like you know if a man opens up to you in any way right and you want him to open up to you more right you can like show him gratitude for opening up to you in the first place you know uh show him um like be uh you know tell him it's attractive tell him like you know like it makes you feel closer to him tell him it makes you feel uh like he's more attractive whenever he does that kind of thing right that's like the super like like that is like the super lowest level of being manipulative in this situation as possible I don't think that's being manipulative even just saying like you know thank you for sharing I feel so honored that you you know that you share this with me I don't think that's manipulative yeah I you know like there's there's a lot of things out there that are kind of borderline manipulative and so I just kind of like I don't know I hate going into it because it's like you know what I mean like because even just that you know just saying that can be uh you can use that in an evil way you know you can use that to hurt a man you can use that to trick a man um and uh you know if you change the way that you use it and so I'm very very hesitant sometimes to talk about that kind of stuff but I can tell just but you get a certain look when you don't want to talk about something because you're afraid it's manipulative and I totally knew that that was what it was um okay someone said that's a great point oh thank you I love you too you guys are so sweet Karen says I love that story about the skinny blonde type wow so awesome I love that um someone else asked what do you do if your man's angry and doesn't want to talk to you um if he doesn't want to talk to you don't force him to talk to you right now I would give him some space let him cool off um and then see if he comes back towards you on his own don't the more you try to like force it out of him and get him to talk to you when he doesn't want to talk to you the more he's going to pull further and further away right and the more he's just going to get angrier and angrier like there's a thing that a lot of women do when they feel kind of disconnected where they uh will like get on a guy and be like what's going on with you talk to me you know the dude's like oh my god get away from me I just need some space you know and and it's kind of this disconnect thing that a lot of uh like men and women have um and uh you know if you're trying to like jump on a guy when he um is like angry and needs a space like um like for real like and I'm just saying this like in the most uh honest up front way possible like if a guy is angry you know and he's trying to distance himself from you like um he may even be trying to protect you right then you know like because if he's angry and he's just like you know I mean like I you know I mean I'm filled with rage right like guys are you know we can be all kinds of mean bad people things right and if you're like uh you know coming closer to him and he needs some space give him some space for the love of god you know it's like you know he he he's doing that um uh for a number of reasons one because it's it's more difficult I think for a lot of guys to kind of manage emotions like it's really hard to manage a lot of emotion when you're a guy um and you know and and he might even be doing that he might even be kind of pushing you away because um because uh he doesn't feel like uh you can be around him when he's like that you know if you can just like there's this thing that I talk about it which is just like hanging out with a guy right not talking to him not bothering him not doing anything with him just leaving him alone but being there with him at the same time right and that's a very powerful thing that a woman can do to kind of bond and connect with a man is just be there with him without touching him without talking to him um you know I if you're a guy and you're hanging like as a guy if I am with a woman that I really like and we're hanging out together um and like we hang out for an hour and we don't even talk or do anything I feel more connected to her you know it's like this it's just I don't know like what she feels but I feel connected to her yeah it's the best feeling we I mean we women can we can go like talk to our girlfriends forever and you know get all the details about everything that's going on and that's how we feel connected a lot of times but men just like you said feel connected when you're just hanging out and you're silent so when a woman's like comfortable with the silence that's like really um like a really powerful attractive thing I've found um these are great comments what um what if he tells you he's working some stuff out should you text him to say hi or don't text or call until he reaches out what would you say about that one well I think it depends you know I think it depends on him you know you can try contacting him if you do it in the right way I don't think it'll be a bad thing um yeah similar question how does a girl reach out to a guy who's shy without stepping into the masculine energy kind of a similar it's a similar theme well there there's kind of this thing that women do which is kind of like an invitation thing um and it's it's uh you know there's like reaching out and connecting in a masculine way and there's reaching out and connecting in a feminine way you know and and the masculine way is like hey we need to talk you know like let's chat let's hang out let's you know like like talk to me you know what I mean like that's a masculine way of doing things right whereas a feminine way is like um kind of like this question kind of like this um opening space kind of like this invitation you know um and it's that's attractive right the masculine way of doing things like you need to talk to me you need to you know hang out with me you need to do all these things that's the not attractive way that's the masculine not attractive way so hey did you uh do you need to go I have like um an extra 10 minutes I got an extra 10 minutes because this is really fun I want to make sure we get to everybody okay is that okay is that good yeah no no did you want to speak to that at all yes yeah so for these two people I'm trying not to like say names in case people don't want their names on here but for the two like should I reach out um ask yourself if you know see if you have an expectation attached to it if you were to just like send a quick text and you didn't hear back or you didn't get the response you were hoping for if you're going to be totally devastated if that's going to ruin your whole day or make you feel super disappointed don't do it just give him a little space and see what he does you know give it a few days give it a week and just see what happens but if you have no attachment to the outcome if you're like you know I'm just going to reach out and you know just just say hi something like really simple um we have a whole we have a whole playlist of you know text messages right we have a bunch of videos like on what to how to text a guy those will like be really helpful for you if you are more than what we can like have time to describe right now but um if you can do that and not have any uh attachment to the outcome or result of that then just try it you know try it once if you don't get you know if he doesn't respond then let it go just wait and see what happens if you're not if you don't have this like huge expectation attached to it if you're not trying to make something happen then you can kind of do anything almost when you're coming from that place most of us are not at that place especially if a guy's pulled away or we're feeling really anxious and we're trying to like reconnect the relationship or like recapture that that bond um a lot of times we have these attachments to the outcome and it and a man can pick that up in our energy and that will keep him at existence a lot of times yeah absolutely already gone away so hopefully that was helpful yeah i mean we i could sit here and talk about expectations all day long because i really i think that expectations are kind of like one of the biggest barriers for most women between uh them and having the relationship that they want because there's like this um um it's it's you know it's pure masculine energy um and it's not a good kind like it's like putting this thing on top of the uh relationship where it's like you know things have to go my way you know and it's just uh i don't even want to call it masculine energy because i think it's kind of toxic no matter what um uh what side it's on is it's really like uh painful um you know for a guy when a woman comes to him and she's like uh she has an expectation around the way that she communicates with him um he knows it immediately right and sometimes it's not a big deal you know um if he's in a good space it's not a big deal you know if if you know you come up to him and you ask him a baiting question right and he knows that it's a baiting question you know like the the old like how do i look in this dress question right um it's a bait question you know what i mean or or if uh you know she says something about um uh whatever and she's trying to get some kind of response from him you know like a very specific response you know it's it to a man it's like it's kind of gross you know it's like uh you know like why are you doing that to me you know if he's in a really really good space um it can be fine because he'll be like oh yeah and he'll just say what you need to hear and he'll be like yeah whatever i don't you know i mean whatever you know but if you're if he's kind of like there's something going on with them at all you know and he starts feeling that kind of expectation where he knows that you're trying to get him to act a certain way trying to change his behavior trying to get him to stop hanging out with his friends start you know try to getting getting him to you know start saying very specific things to you um it can it can kind of trigger him um in a really bad way and make him uh you know do things that you don't want him to do um a lot so yeah yes absolutely so she said thanks for answering my question so hey how's your new job going isn't masculine hey how's your new job going could she text him that are you asking me yeah this is the Helena thing to do i'm gonna read a comment on here and then ask Matt what he thinks about it um yeah you know you you can ask him that you know you can ask him um i mean i you know uh yeah i mean i don't see anything wrong with asking him that um you know if i'm like uh if i'm in a um if i'm in a space where i feel kind of like a recluse and somebody asks me about me you know i'm a lot more inclined to like respond to that right um then like if somebody sent me a text and i'm kind of in this reclusive space and uh they're trying to get me to do something you know um then i'm gonna be like uh you know like because there's there's kind of this energy um there's this energy thing that men have right where it's like you know i i think that one of the we were watching a video the other day um about like um a matthew hussey video we were watching this matthew hussey video about uh uh what was it micro efforts yeah um you know effort really does is is a really really valuable thing in a relationship and it tells you a lot you know like if a guy's putting effort into things you know and when a guy goes into a reclusive space um that effort thing gets used up in these other areas right and so um like trying to make him put effort in uh can be really a uh like um uh kind of an unattractive thing for him to experience with you um you know i mean but if but if you're like talking about uh talking about him you know he's he's going to you know and he's kind of in this space you know like um i think he's a lot more going he's more likely to open up than if you put some kind of expectation into this uh text message that you send him trying to get him to do something or act a certain way or respond to you in a certain way or do something um and so um that's exactly right yeah just ask yourself what am i who is this that's asking this um caren ask yourself what am i hoping will happen before you send that you can answer that really strongly well i'm really hoping he'll get connected with me and we'll start a conversation then it's a big clue you have an agenda if your answer to that what am i hoping will happen is nothing i just want to reach out i have zero expectation zero attachment to the result or the outcome then you're fine you can do anything that's i think that's a great thing to ask yourself before you do anything towards towards the guy um these are all comments oh my gosh um they're so sweet and amazing hey something just happened to your uh something just happened what happened um i think i think there's like an echo or something's going on in your uh computer or something oh really is it still happening yeah it's really bad okay well i have to go anyway so all right so uh hey 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Whenever you read a book by someone who has very strong feelings about the person that they're writing about, either positive feelings like they're a big fanboy or negative, they just loathe this person. And they're writing a biography about that person. You need to be careful. Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. And today's book is Such Troops as These, the Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson by Bevin Alexander. I picked up this book because it was referenced in my tactical leadership book that I have reviewed previously on this channel. And it seemed like an interesting book. There are a couple of cool quotes from it. So, you know, I thought I'd get it and grab it. And I got about that far, probably about, you know, two thirds of the way. Two, I'm on page 191. There's about 270-ish pages. And I quit. I just stopped reading. There's a couple reasons for that. The first one is that it just lost its joy if there was joy to begin with. It was kind of boring. The author references a lot of different names and places. There's a severe lack of maps in this book to be able to, I mean, he goes through battles in detail. And this person went here. And this person did this. And this person went here. And that's great. But one, all the names are confusing. I don't know who's on the side of the north or the south. So that's really easy to lose track of. And then two, there's not enough maps in this book. I mean, if you're gonna walk through battles in detail, you need to have maps. This book should be maybe about twice as thick and just have maps all the time so that you can reference and look and show you who moved where. But that doesn't really get explained all that well in my opinion. Which leads me to the last and the biggest issue with this book. Bevin Alexander never read any of his other books. Maybe they're great, no idea. But he is a massive, massive fan of Stonewall Jackson. And which is fine. And this book seems to be written entirely to prove that Stonewall Jackson was the only competent, smart person general on either the side of the north or the south and that everybody else was a complete incompetent moron who did not belong within a thousand miles of a leadership position.  He paints Lincoln in the bad light. I never got, maybe when he gets to Ulysses S. Grant, maybe he paints him okay. I don't know. But he hates on all the northern generals. And granted, to be fair, a lot of these people, he gives good reasons of why they're stupid, right? Or why they're not as smart as Jackson. Okay.  You know, I just, again, I just, I got, I was reading it while I was at my son's jujitsu practice and I'm sitting there and I'm reading it.  What am I doing? And then I looked and I'm like, I still have a hundred pages left of this. I'm like, forget it. Forget it. I threw in the towel. So that's it. That's my review. It's a partial review. I'm gonna go through the whole book. So take that for what it's worth. I will say, look, there are some very small things to glean here. We do need to read biographies about generals, okay? It helps us understand what makes leaders great and what makes leaders not great. And we can then avoid the latter and embrace the former. So if you're at all interested in general ship and stuff like that, don't read this book. Read a different one, because hopefully that will start to give you an even better understanding of that. Again, wouldn't personally recommend this. I do wanna read more books on Stonewall Jackson. I think he's an interesting guy. I just don't think this is the book. Do brave deeds and endure.


We have been through a multiplicity of crises in the last few years. What we're hearing now in Davos is that we've got to find a new path. The situation has been stabilized and we're in a slow protracted way for improvement. But there should be no complacency. You get blinkered. You're so focused on what you're doing that it's very easy to ignore things that are happening in the world and then they catch you by surprise. Dealing with so many challenges requires resilience. If you want to grow in this world, you've got to be planting seeds in a lot of places. You've got to be making things happen and trying new things. If companies are not doing that, they will potentially just disappear from the map. The economy is in an anemic state. Austerity may very well worsen things. The week here in Davos really puts us in contact with people in our industries and across industries that are very much forward-thinking, are interested in talking about hard problems. Sustainability is now a norm within the corporate world, but it's not moving anywhere near far enough fast enough. By being really outside in and connecting to other people in the world, we can do a better job of understanding what society is concerned about and what needs can be fulfilled. What we need today is a new moment in history. China needs to have a free flow of ideas to promote creativity and innovation. Organizations need to address the institutional barriers we all know about. The more women you have in top management, the better economic results you are doing. Davos really is a battlefield for ideas. We don't take a position on issues. What we want to do is have the most relevant people coming together to exchange different ideas and perspectives. It's the bringing them together, making the connections, driving collaborations that can then truly drive impact.   This is the best place to gain and collect the information I need to make the decisions. You want to hear opinions that are very diverse in nature, which helps you form your own opinion at the end of the day. It's an incubator. It's a discussion forum. The people you meet here and the conversations you have with them are not replicable anywhere else. I believe my role is to make sure that we're not ignoring important questions that we're asking interesting questions. We would never have educated 11,000 kids, reached 130 million people if it had not been for a conversation that happened at the forum. Communication is the power of Davos. Only the World Economic Forum has the convening power and the neutral venue to bring together public sector, private sector and civil society to create this 360-degree support system. It has to be one of the most powerful contributions the World Economic Forum has made.


All right, let's get to the top of the hour. So welcome everybody to the functional group update for GEO. I'm Stan Huth, intern manager for the group. Just a recap, I can get my slides moving here. Hang on a sec, here we go. This is in a nutshell what GEO is. Sure, many people have seen this before, but I'm just bringing this again in case we have new people. GEO's responsibility basically copy all the data you have from the primary to the secondary. And currently we have a setup right now going between Microsoft Azure in Virginia and Google Cloud Platform also in Virginia. So this is actively running today. On the team, no changes since last time. Same group of people, same great group of folks to work on this product here. We have made one change since our last update. Before we had really only one GEO maintainer, obviously GEO is a subset of EE. So a lot of merge requests were being assigned to other EE maintainers, but GEO does have specific domain knowledge that we need. And we've made Douglas a GEO maintainer. He's done a great job reviewing merge requests. He's been on the project for a long time and knows ins and outs of it. So this will hopefully help reduce the amount of bottlenecks in the review process. We had a problem in last review cycle where four merge requests were being reviewed a week before the release. And it looked like they were gonna make it and then do the migration and lack of bandwidth review. We were not able to get a lot of those in. So hopefully this will help this, but this is a long overdue. Thanks a lot, Douglas for all your work. You deserve this. This is an honor to be a maintainer. Accomplishments for 11, there's a lot of things that we did this past month. In 10.8, we shipped this ability to push to the primary, almost transparently. Using HTTP, if you push to the secondary, it will redirect you and automatically go to the primary. Now that didn't work for LFS at the time and asked it a lot of investigation into why that wasn't happening. It turns out it actually was a bug in the Git LFS client. It wasn't able to handle redirects properly. And for this release, we've shipped the change is necessary in GitLab to support just this transparent HTTP push. It's again, as a redirect, but this also required a change on the client side. And this change was fixed by Taylor at GitHub in Git LFS 2.42, which was released last month or so. Really great work there. We identified the problem, we raised the issue and he jumped on it right away. So thanks a lot for that. It's gonna help our customers a bit too. We've been working on verifying that the references and the Git repositories are correct between the primary and secondary for a while. There have been a lot of cases where things got out of sync for some reason. It wasn't on by default previously, now it is. And there was a lot of work done by Douglas's pass release to make it production ready, really. Just, you know, fixing a lot of the SQL queries, fixing a lot of cases where things were out of sync. So you can look at this merge request for all the details there. We've had this feature on for a while, this ability to move large repositories through just really, instead of doing a Git clone, we do it through a sort of a streaming tarball. And we've been using this on gitlab.com to move some of the more problematic repositories on gitlab.com when the simple clone just takes too much bandwidth or CPU cycles to create. And so we have this ability to snapshot and move this thing over. We turned it on by default 11L. So just to be aware, if a customer starts seeing things that weren't moved before and now able to be a clone, that is likely a reason why. Tone did a lot of work this past release to make the Git FSCK run properly on the secondaries before it was not. If you turn on this repository check feature in Geo, it would only happen on the primary and it wouldn't actually happen on the secondary. So in order to verify objects are actually correct, we have this feature on gitlab right now that we'll look at the primary, but now in 11.0 and also we'll check the secondaries as well. And lastly, Mike really spent a long time chasing down some nasty race conditions and other issues with uploads and object storage that will go into 11.0 hopefully with this merge request as well. So we've been chasing down a lot of the failures we've been seeing as we're doing this migration to Google Cloud and it's been an incredible, helpful testbed to work out issues that you wouldn't normally see in a low bandwidth or low traffic site. And on top of all this work, we've been helping a lot with these Azure to Google migration failovers since the last update. I think we've conducted three or four, four actually updates, four failovers. Brett and Nick have sort of been coordinating that effort, we find new issues each time we do this migration, but we're getting better at them and they're getting smoother each time. So you're welcome to follow along. The next one rehearsal is tomorrow, I believe. Stull, where do we need help? Well, we're finding a lot of issues with using Postgres as a cue for the secondaries. So we're talking a lot about how can we improve some of the performance of our queries? Since some of these things might actually require Postgres 10, it has a lot of new features, including logical replication, including this thing called aggregate pushdowns, which basically allows you to account across different databases. And we're just looking at ways we can make these things better for people at scale, for databases at scale. We have one nasty issue that we're finding that our cue, some of the events that we're processing are being skipped due to the way that Postgres behaves with sequences. So we're looking at that. We're probably gonna need help from the database team, probably need help from the build team to see if we can ship Postgres 10 in the next quarter. So we're finding a lot of new bugs. We're trying to migrate things to object storage. And so for example, when we migrated attachments to object storage, we found a lot of different bugs relating to things that weren't quite working, moving issues, exporting projects. I think Mike found this problem when they have white spaces in the file names, things kind of gotten to a weird state. So I think there might be more things like this out there when we will need help from the development team, other parts of the team to find if there are other issues relating to this because this will help solve a lot of the issues we have with migrating attachments to Google. This other feature I've talked a lot about in the past is just this idea of immutable pass in our repositories. And we like to get this enabled in production as soon as we can. We've converted all 500 products on our dev site to using this. And I think we've ironed out a lot of issues in the past two months with this. But so I think it's just a matter of getting signed off and okay from everybody that we should turn it on, at least for a limited time on gitlab.com because I think this will solve a lot of bugs we've been seeing. So what are our plans going forward? Well, the first thing that is top of mind here is finish this Google migration. We currently have a date set with July 28th. Now we're gonna have a call probably the next day or two to figure out whether that's going to hold or whether we need to delay that date. But right now that's sort of what we're shooting for. And the three main things for the next months are just improving the geo performance usability. As I mentioned before, we had transparent push with HTTP. It's again, it's a redirect. So it's not the smoothest thing, but most people are using push over SSH and Ash has done some great investigation into how that's gonna actually happen. It's actually really tricky. We're actually proxying HTTP traffic over SSH. And so there's, Ash's has this working, this proof of concept that it actually shows this is possible. So this is really, really be really cool for people. For example, they don't wanna think about which remote they're using. They can just do git push, it will go to the right place. We have a lot of database queries that need to be optimized. As I said before, we're doing a lot of things that touch a lot of rows. So again, I mentioned that earlier that Postgres 10 might help here. Smarter ways of using logical replication might help here and so forth. And the last thing we're working on for this release is exposing more information in the UI. A lot of this information about why the sync failed or what happened to it is available in the API, but you can't actually see it in the interface itself. So we're Cushal and Gabriel are working on this, the screenshot that Hazel created right now and just making it possible for admin to see what went wrong and click a button if they wanna force a re-sync, for example, and so forth. So they have better visibility into what is happening on their geo instance. So that's really all I had to say. Are there any questions? I don't see anything in chat at the moment, but I'll open up to the floor in case there's something else people wanna ask about. Is that this is great? And I love all the links to the merge request in the FGU. It is awesome to be able to dive into things. Are there any plans to, I think GitLab pages is the last thing that is not supported by geo? Are there any plans for that? Or is that still unscoped? That's, I mean, it's on the radar. We haven't planned in the next month or two, but I think it's probably worth visiting. There's Docker registries and other thing that's on my mind. But yeah, pages is definitely something we need to look at. We sort of haven't put a priority on it because we weren't doing it for the migration, but I agree that it's gonna be important. We're finding that not having pages is sort of a pain point right now for us. Oh yeah, and you're totally right. The Docker registry might be, I'm almost certain that's more urgent for our customers than pages. And maybe I should tell why because now it's a Docker registry. Dimitri's gonna add Maven support to it. And one of the main things that things like JFrog artifact we do is kind of spread the files across the world. So everyone has quick access. So seems like a use case for geo that makes sense. Great, well, thanks for raising that. Yeah, so I think we'll probably put more emphasis on Docker registry. I mean, we have a story right now if you use a shared same S3 bucket, then it will at least work for geo, but that doesn't actually replicate automatically. Ah, that makes sense. So it's not a problem at us because it uses object storage, that's why. And then GitLab pages, it's not that case. Right. Could we use S3 buckets for GitLab pages or doesn't that make sense? I think there's a discussion about making that an artifact in object storage and then downloading the artifact. So I think it makes sense. I think there's an issue open about how we actually use geo in pages. So I'll have to link that. Cool, makes sense. Great, well, thanks everybody for your time and I will see you next time.