So what if someone wants to collaborate with you, like maybe do some kind of joint venture or they want to interview you or swap interviews, some kind of online collab, as I call it, because it's supposed to be helpful for both of your businesses or whatever. And you don't wanna collaborate with that person. What do you say? I have had so many of these situations over the years as my audience and sort of my, yeah, my reputation has grown in my industry, more and more people want to, I mean, there's like two levels of it, okay? So like one level is literally spam. I mean, so it's like somebody who doesn't know, whom you don't know, or let's talk about that level first, someone who you don't know contacting you. I just had an email this morning and says, we'd like to collaborate with you. And, you know, I can usually tell it's spam because there's like nothing customized in the email, right? Or the message, it's just they're sending that same message out to 500 people, 5,000 people, who knows how many? And those are really easy just to ignore. I mean, of course, just spam. But sometimes even, let's talk, that's level one. Level two is like, it's still kind of spam. I don't know who they are, but they write like a nice paragraph or two saying, George, I really like the stuff I'm seeing on your Instagram or whatever. I love to collaborate with you. Maybe we could swap interviews or maybe you could, sometimes, you know, level 1.5, I might say, people who say, George, I love your stuff. I'd like for you to interview me on your podcast. All right, thank you for liking my stuff and interviewing you in any way is a cost me time and cost me my audience, right? So I only interview people if I swap interviews with them and we have a similar sized audience, then it'd be fair. Otherwise, why am I interviewing you? Just because you emailed me about it, seriously? Like, and no matter how well-spoken you are and how brilliant you are, you want me to just interview you? Unless there's some kind of equal trade, why? Because then everyone under the sun could email me and I would say, yes, every well-spoken, charismatic, brilliant person, heart bet face person under the sun. Why wouldn't I interview everybody, right? So that's level 1.5. Level 2, like I said, is thoughtful messaging. I don't know who they are and they want to swap interviews. They're very nice. I go to their page, nice heart-based person, but it's not an equal audience size. So my audience size might be 10 times their audience. It's just not fair. It's not fair. And so the way I write back says, thank you so much for, again, they wrote a nice message. And it's like a potential future collaborator, maybe even a potential future client or referral source because they actually genuinely follow my stuff like my stuff. So at that point I'd say, hey, you know what? Thank you. I really appreciate your invitation and certainly in the future it might be the case. And I'll just say that there's a lot of my play right now. Can't do it, but if I think of other opportunities or others that you might connect with, I'll let you know. And I will because if I think of someone else who's a similar audience, et cetera. Now let's talk about level three and how to say a graceful no. I mean, level three would be someone you know and well, you could say level three could be someone you know but it wouldn't be an equal trade. And I would send a similar message essentially. Thank you. I so appreciate your work as well. Lots on my plate. I'll think of someone who might be a great fit for you as well and I'll let you know. And that's a graceful no. Level four, you might say is somebody who you know might be more or less an equal trade but for whatever reason you don't want to collaborate with them. Maybe you don't trust their ethics or you don't trust their reliability or whatever reason it's just, we don't want to at this time. And so at that point I would just say, you can always say, there's a lot on my plate. I mean, there's always the option. I just wanna, there's always the option of not responding. I think a lot of us who are watching this need to take that option more often because we're all so nice here. And we feel like not responding is somehow an affront to somebody and yes, it is. It's a slight to not respond. Well, you could of course, someone could say, well, maybe they didn't receive the email or maybe they just don't clear all their emails but if they message you in other ways, you don't respond that is considered a slight and guess what? It's okay to slight people. People? It is. Like you can keep boundaries and not respond. Really can. And, you know, but just know that not responding is basically sending a signal that you'd like to distance the relationship and it's perfectly okay to send the signal that way. Now in the perfect world, if you had all the time and energy in the world, you'll spend an hour crafting a breakup email or whatever, you know, but who has the time? Who has the energy when there's so much we already have on our plate? So I think not responding is, yeah, I can say it's ghosting is a fine response for someone you wanna distance yourself from. So think about that. And then, you know, if you wanna respond quickly and briefly, I just say, hey, thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep it in mind. There's a lot going on on my plate right now but I'll let you know if it's the right fit. And you will because maybe they reveal themselves to be later in the future to be more ethical than you thought or more reliable than whatever it is. So I hope this is helpful. And please feel free, comment below if you have any suggestions on how to respond. You know, I'll tell you another story. I had somebody who, this is the most uncomfortable one that I can remember recently. I had somebody who was new to me. I mean, they were following my content just for a little bit. I mean, it's not like they had been liking and commenting for a long time but they just started following my content. I think they had commented once or something like that. And then they direct message me, private message me on social media. And they said, hey, I know you're really into collapse. When can we talk just for 15 or 30 minutes? And, you know, in the past when I was less busy I was really open to just getting on the call with somebody, yeah, you know? And they, when I go to their profile they seem like they have their, you know they seem like a thoughtful professional basically, right? Like someone I might typically possibly collaborate with but just the energy of pushiness. Like please everyone do not ask anyone for a phone call before there is a sense that they want a phone call or a meeting with you. It's like, where did you all get this idea? Like networking means the old traditional networking training. You get someone on the phone as soon as you possibly can it's the means to an end. I don't care how you get them on the phone get them on a damn phone or the zoom or whatever, you know? And it's like, so the first thing message was like hey, when can we talk for 15, 30 minutes? It's so uncomfortable for me to say how do you know I wanna talk with you? Yeah, I like your profile everything but how do I, how can you just assume that I have time to talk with you, you know?  So if you get that line from me, you gotta be careful. There's a lot of my play, that's my slight to you, okay? There's a lot of my play right now and I'll let you know. And then what's worse was they wrote back and said I just need 15 minutes, 30 minutes of your time. I said, hey, you know, I don't usually do calls. I just prefer, so you know what I said? This is my second message, my second slight, okay?  If you have anything you wanna run by me, just go ahead and message me back. I'd like to see what you have. It's my signal to you that I don't wanna talk to you. I don't, I don't have time for you. Can't make the time of day for you, okay? Got it? And maybe in the future, if the person does have a thoughtful idea, thoughtful opportunity, something that I feel is a equal trade. And I say equal trade, by the way, I'm not always a tit for tat, I for I kind of person. When I build a relationship with someone, when there is a true relationship, a heart-based connection for some time, I bend over backwards sometimes for my friends, of course.  Because I know we have a trust between each other, we have respect for each other's time and energy. But when there's no trust and respect like that yet, even though there might be in the future, it's rude to ask them one for a phone call or a meeting, you know what I mean? So that's my take on it. And I want to thank Angie for giving a different take on this. I really appreciate it. She said, no thanks is a complete sentence. Yeah, it is. And Angie also mentioned that, you know, giving the excuse of I have too much on my plate, might send a signal that you don't have openings for clients right now. And so someone who might not be the best fit client, you tell them I've got too much on my plate, they might have a friend who's the perfect client for you and they might tell their friend, oh yeah, she's really busy right now. So that's a good point, you know, that's a good point. So thank you for bringing that forward. So let's see here. Yeah, another chat here. People who need the hints the most don't know how to take a hint. You know, it's a really good point. That's a really good point because it's like, it's like there's a certain amount of social graces that I guess I assume, but it's not, it probably shouldn't be assumed for 20% of the population perhaps that they can't read between the lines. And so yes, that's true. And I should say that it's not, you know, it's well known these days that it's, you know, we should accept people with neurodiversity, right? So it's like not everybody, you know, I actually used to think, and I might still, I'm a little Asperger-y, you know, or I certainly used to be, honestly, I feel like I was Asperger-y or just underdeveloped socially for like much of my life. I never was very good socially all the way through school. I feel like I just became a little bit more socially savvy like last week or something like that. Like it's pretty recent. And maybe you still might disagree with me. But yeah, so it is, I think, you know, even though I was kind of blunt just earlier in this video, like I think it is good to be gentle with people, to be compassionate, knowing that they can't, some of us can't read between the lines yet and may never be able to just given our hardware. So be gentle, but also have good boundaries. And if someone keeps pressing and pressing, you can always, it's okay to block them, not block them. Yeah, maybe block them if it's like, if it's really rude or whatever, but to not respond and to, sorry, this is the word I'm looking for, mute the conversation, right? Like on any kind of direct messaging on social media, you can click the three dots and mute the conversation. So you're not constantly notified that person's trying to talk to you again. On email as well, like on Gmail, I know you can mute an email thread if the person just keeps on doing that and you don't wanna block them in a way that they can't find your profile anymore if that doesn't feel compassionate in that situation.


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How to add music to your YouTube videos? Hey adding music to your videos can change a lot I mean your music could sound like this Or like this Or even like this But the point is adding music is really cool, but you say JR music is expensive I can't afford to buy rights to music and in this video. I'm gonna show you how you can get all kinds of music thousands of songs Absolutely free and we're starting right now. Hey, this is JR. Thank you so much for joining me on my channel I appreciate you being here. If you're not a subscriber.  Hit that subscribe button hit the bell turn on notifications that way every time I do a video You'll be notified make sure you set it to get all notifications I also have a free course down in the description that can make you a ton of money Check it out. Click the links absolutely free Regular $97 it'll go back there soon. So you better get it better get it for it does. Okay, click that link down there Also, put any comments you have if you want videos on other subjects what you thought of this video What's going on today? Just put some comments down there. I really appreciate give me a thumbs up thumbs down and let's get started Now you want music in your videos But the thing I will tell you before I tell you to add music because I've done this My editor has done this is make sure the music's not too loud The volume doesn't matter quite as much if you're not talking But if you're talking and there's music competing with what you're saying It could be really difficult. Okay, so we don't want to do that But let me show you where you're going to get this music first off and it's absolutely free You can get all the music you want. You don't have to worry about paying anybody. Let's get going Okay, I'm in my youtube studio account right now and what I want to do Is I want to show you where you find the music now right now? You can't even see it Okay, so that's not good. So I'm going to scroll here and if you see look how that's popping out right there That is actually covered. So a lot of people get here and they go, well ggr I don't see any place to get music anywhere in here. I don't see it That's because you got to go over here and go like this and then click on audio library Okay, this is where you're going to find all your music and it's organized pretty cool Um, you're going to have free music right here and then you're going to have sound effects right here Okay, and then it'll switch over. There we go. Okay, so let's look at the sound effects now You can switch this category by what you want. Okay, so let's go with Uh, we'll go with doors right now. Let's see what they've got for doors Now you can listen to any one of these before you download it by just clicking right here Let me make sure we got some volume going here. Okay So it's like a creaking wooden door Now I'm gonna stop that. Let's see a cupboard door. This is a short one only two seconds Okay, uh a deadbolt lock All right, let's see here. Let's pick a different Oh, let's do horror. See what they've got there It's a seven second one aggressive zombie snarls Okay, I'll go along with that. All right, and Let's see here. What else do we have? Cutting flash. Oh, that's a nice one You see I can barely hear that one if you guys can or not so that probably would be a good one Uh Female aggressive zombie. Okay, let's check that out See, I would have a hard time figuring out the difference in a male and female zombie according to that Let's see what else we got in here guys Uh human voices Let's see eating and slurping Yeah, I don't think I could listen to that for very long. How about female screams? Okay, so we've got that so let's move on over here to free music And all we do and I didn't show you on the other screen, but all you do is click right here. You can download it Now this is where it's going to get a little bit tricky guys Um, you have a lot of different choices here independent upon what you're picking. You have different requirements Okay, and some of these songs are long 17 minutes 17 minutes. You can pick your genre right here And they've got alternative punk ambient children's cinematographic whatever it is you want So let's pick, uh, what do we want? We're going to pick hip-hop and rap.  You want dark calm bright angry Let's go with dramatic Okay, so as you see it constantly changes down here based on what I'm doing up here We can also pick the instrument. I'm not going to worry about that for rap. That's not that important Duration if you want short ones long ones, whatever. I'm not going to worry about that Here's the one you got to worry about guys if you want to use this music And you don't want to have to attribute it to anybody. Okay, then you need to pick attribution not required If you pick your attribution required, you have to do what it says. Let's pick that one to start off with And it says, uh, uh, nothing in that category We'll take off some of these filters here. We'll say all moods. All right, there we go. So These here are attribution required So if I click on one of these, it's going to say down here what I have to do Uh, you're free to use the song in any of your videos, but you must include the following in your video description Ice cold by audio Nautics is licensed under creative commons attribution license right here. So that's what you would have to put in your description All right. So if you don't want to do that, you would have to select over here And whoops go here. You'd have to select over here attribution not required Okay, so now all of these songs I can use in my videos I don't have to worry about somebody saying, hey, you can't use that music. So let me play one of these here Can you can fast forward because some of them have long lead-ins Okay, uh, let's see what else we got. We got the joker here. Let's see what that is. That's interesting That was wrong. It's not that interesting Okay, cutting it close right here And I tell you what I'm doing these Um, it's really hard for me to find music. I like there's a lot of good music in here Guys, but I tell you, you know to get that exact mood is super super important And I do want to reiterate what I told you in the beginning of this video Is that you don't want to have your music too loud One thing you can do If you're using something like camtasia, which I will put a link in the description below for camtasia That is the editing software I use But what you could do is if you're shooting b-roll In other words, you're not talking on screen You can have that music real loud and then when it goes back to you and you're talking on screen You could lower that volume super easy to do in camtasia But that's what I would recommend you doing music can make or break a video I've seen music on videos that so did not match the video. I mean it just didn't It was upbeat music where somebody was getting killed or it was you know Somebody who was very upbeat and happy and they had some you know horror dramatic music behind them So you don't want to do that. You want to be very careful about that Okay, so that's where you're going to get it from and once again You're going to come right over here and you just click download And that's going to download that music that just did that was joker So I just downloaded joker that you're going to find that file Mine goes into my download folder right here. So let me find that real quick And there's joker and I can play it now. And it's on my computer That same music and we can insert that wherever we want Into our videos into our audios and all this music is free You know youtube is nice enough to provide all this to you and they also put these little buttons on here If there's new ones, let's say you've been through it, you know a week ago And you couldn't find anything one of these new ones I don't know how new they consider this Uh, let me click on one of these here But they got some they got some really cool stuff in here guys There's no need to pay one of these services if you don't want to Certainly you can if you find a service that you like and you think they're really cool And you like the kind of music they provide go right ahead But it is free here and uh, then all you have to do is upload this to your timeline In any audio file that you have any video file that you have And uh, you're good to go So guys, that's all there is to it if you want to add music It's there for you. Don't worry about that and I do suggest you having some kind of background music It does make your video sound a little bit more professional a little bit more polished But like I said be very cautious To to knowing that that music should match the mood of your video What I like to do is make folders of different moods and then you can you know categorize it So I may have a folder that is happy and then when I go into the folder I may have another folder in there that says guitar Piano instrumental whatever it is that way I can quickly go back and find it because I tell you Searching through music can waste hours of your time. I know you don't think it will but it will So once you get in there you're going to see that this is a time to suck So and and don't think that you have to have new music for every single video If you get a couple tracks that you like I've seen a lot of the food bloggers and recipe people They'll have the same music on every video. I know chef john. I watch chef john's Channel all the time and he's had the same piece of music. I think for 15 years has been it seems like it's been there forever But it works for him It works for his tone his voice and everything he's doing and you know You're listening to one of his videos because you always hear that same music So if you think you want to build a brand and do that it's another cool thing you can do I really appreciate you listening to this video I have a 97 dollar course that i'm giving away free for a limited time There is a link in the description down there Go down there and grab it while it's still free. Don't miss out on that Don't forget also to subscribe to my channel if you haven't done so make sure you ring the bell That's right ring the notification bell turn on all notifications That way you can be part of the fisher family the vip group It gets notified every single time I do one of these videos wouldn't that be cool?  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Talk about climate change and its victims. Well, one of those victims is the German economy. The German economy shrank in the first quarter for the first time in a long time. It's technically in a recession. You've seen this in difficulties in manufacturing, difficulties with exports, costs have gone up, inflation is hit, and a big driver of the cost increase, the inability of German manufacturers to be competitive on a global scene, is the cost of energy.  It's shutting down all of its nuclear power plants now. It's moved to windmills and solar, which is not just unreliable, it is expensive, and again, it can't actually provide the energy because the sun doesn't shine much in Germany. Instead of, and of course, a reliance for a long time on Russian natural gas. Now, they've got over that by increasing LNG, but the reality is that they are moving more and more of the economy to windmills. And the consequence of that is now a recession. Now, I'm sure the other bad economic policies, the cost of labor, is really, really high in Germany. The taxes on labor, particularly at a higher end, are very, very high, which motivates people often not to take a raise because the marginal cost of taking a raise actually makes you poorer because you pay so much more taxes at the next bracket. And what's interesting is because of the hugely labor-friendly policies that the German economy has in it, even though there were some pro-business, if you will, reforms that were done in the 90s, Germany still is massively pro-labor in its reforms, the amount of vacation time, and so on. But on the other hand, it's easier in Germany to work part-time. It's easier in Germany to get a part-time job than in the United States. The United States has all these rules about who's part-time and who's a contractor and who's an employee. I mean, the United States regulates these things to death. It's actually simpler in Germany. But the reality is that workers in Germany work a lot, and I mean a lot, fewer hours per year than Americans do. I mean, the numbers are huge. Americans work 2,400 hours per year, 2,400 hours per year. And Americans will be working about that amount 24 hours. I don't know what we got for 24 hours. Sorry, not 2,400 hours a year. The Americans work about 1,800 hours a year. And how being basically at the same level, maybe it's being as high as 2,000 during some periods of time, but basically it's being the same level since 1950. So Americans have seen a slight decline in the number of hours worked maybe from 2,000 to 1,800 since 1950. Germans, on the other hand, in 1950 worked 2,400 hours. They worked significantly more than Americans. They worked on weekends. They worked nights. 1950, they were the poor. In 1950, they were coming out of World War II where their country was completely destroyed by themselves, but completely destroyed. And today, they work only 1,300 hours. So significantly less than the United States, 1,800 versus 1,300. And dramatically less, almost half of what they worked in 1950s and 60s. So labor works a lot less. The cost of hiring that labor is very high. And that is part of the problem. Germany is efficient as it is, as competitive as it is in terms of quality and accuracy and things like that. It shoots itself in the foot by making it so expensive and so difficult. So these are the kind of things that are adding up to cause the German economy real problems and a real need to restructure. So much of the German economy is the auto industry. You've got Mercedes, you've got BMW, you've got Volkswagen. Audi, I think, is owned by Volkswagen. But all of those companies, if you look into the distant future, are going to be in decline. The up-and-coming powerhouse in terms of automobile sales is China. China has seen a dramatic increase in exports of cars, of automobiles to all over the world. China dominates, or is going to dominate, electric cars. China and South Korea have a huge advantage on electric cars over Europe. Tesla is a competitor there, but really at the end of the day, it's going to be the Chinese and the Koreans. China might be cutting a deal with Tesla, given how big Tesla is in China. But it is Germany's in trouble. Europe is in trouble. But the German economy, which is the motor of Europe, is in real trouble. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com.  Also, if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and, of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Okay, thank you. Well, Cyclone Yassi, thankfully, is now a low pressure system close to the Northern Territory border. There are still some residual issues in the area in terms of rain bans and storm activity, but thankfully, we're glad to see the end of it. I can confirm, unfortunately, the death of a young man south of Ingram. Unfortunately, the young person involved, it appears, and I just do stress that the coroner will, of course, determine the cause of death, but it appears that this young man was using a generator in an enclosed environment. Our condolences, of course, go to his family and friends, but again, it's just timely for us to provide a very clear safety message to the many people throughout the region, particularly those highly impacted areas where power problems still exist, that the use of generators needs to be undertaken in a safe manner, and simply that means plenty of ventilation and open spaces. This is a tragic loss of life, and again, our condolences extend to that young man's family and friends. We do understand that many people in the highly impacted areas in particular are getting anxious about the levels of support and contact that they're able to have with emergency authorities. We just ask them to be patient, but we reassure them, particularly from today, that there are large teams of people in the area and moving into the area today and over the weekend to provide that additional support. There have been significant difficulties in terms of access. Roads are cut in a large number of areas. There's heavily debris on many, many of the main access roads, but we are slowly getting people in, and from today, they will see large teams of people in the area. To give an example of the resources which will be deployed, between Cairns and Townsville, there will be 150-plus extra police on top of existing resources deployed, particularly to those highly impacted areas. As we've already indicated, around 500 SES between now and next Wednesday will be deployed again into those highly impacted areas, the Tullies, Cardwells, Mission Beads, etc. On top of that, Australian Defence Force, Ergon, Telstra, Optus are putting in extra people to work on the infrastructure to get essential services back on board. Queensland Fire and Rescue Service have moved their urban search and rescue teams. These are the people that do the rapid damage assessment and are now based in Tullie, and will provide some more detail on that. In terms of power supply, which is a significant issue right across the region, Ergon advises that by the weekend they expect to have up to 850 staff working on restoring the network. The normal workforce for that region is around 300. During Cyclone Larry, there were around 450 people deployed. So in terms of the Ergon assets, we're talking about twice the number of people that were able to respond to Cyclone Larry, and around three times the normal workforce will be in the area over the next couple of days working on restoring power. So the simple message and the clear message to those communities, particularly people in the highly impacted areas, is that we understand you're anxious, but there are large teams of people in the area now, and many more will be moving into the area over the next couple of days. Mr, can you just clarify just how many people are missing and who is missing where? If I could move on to that issue shortly, I'll get the Deputy Commissioner to make a few comments about that. There are a couple of other issues I'd just like to give some information about first, in terms of power, which is of significant concern. I've talked about the assets and people that Ergon will be moving in. Power Link today, for the first time, will now be able to get aerial assets into the air to inspect their network. And later on today, we hope to have a more accurate assessment about the impact, particularly on the transmission towers, and that will be happening today. In terms of damage assessment generally, the best form of advice, of course, is on the ground people. But what we've been able to do through the Queensland Fire Rescue Service air operations is to survey many of the affected communities. We will get them today, because we're able to get helicopter assets into the air into some of those more difficult communities. And I'm talking about places such as Lucinda, Halifax and Forest Beach, where we haven't been able to get into previously for assessments. But up to this point, and I do stress these are very preliminary assessments, we know that there are at least 20 homes which have been totally destroyed in the high impact area, and around 400 at least, with moderate to major damage. We expect those numbers to rise as more assessments are undertaken, particularly now that we can get more helicopters into the air and more people on the ground to assess communities street by street. But I do stress that access is still a problem in a number of areas. Very heavy rain, localised flooding in places like Ingham, Garoo and Flash flooding in individual areas of the Macrossan Bridge currently has around four plus metres across it, restricting access out to Charters Towers. But a lot of work has been done to get people through and particularly to get things such as resupply of essential services and food and equipment into areas. Resupply of many of these communities will be a key focus and has been for some time. I can confirm today that a ship will arrive in Townsville with 2,750 tonnes of essential feed items and supplies. That's equivalent of 110 trucks of equipment, food and equipment and supplies. We are looking through trans-Witman main roads as well as opening up alternative routes into places such as Tully and we've had advice later this morning that road access where it's available up to Mackay, we've now got road access at least through to Tully and alternative routes are being sought to ensure that we can get those supply operations underway. The final point I just want to conclude on is to again reassure those communities, particularly in the hardest hit areas that we understand the difficulties that they are experiencing. We know that power is cut. We know that communications is difficult. We know that moving around those communities is difficult. But there are many people in the areas working on those issues and many more will be seen in the areas over the next couple of days. I might just ask the Deputy Commissioner to say a few words and then we're happy to answer any more detailed questions. Thank you Minister and in relation to the missing persons we are still undertaking inquiries to look for two people, both males in that Cardwell area. Certainly they will be a focus when we have the resources available to get in there and conduct appropriate searches. Up until that time we'll be undertaking the necessary inquiries to try and locate them. I can provide that afterwards. Is one of those people that are missing, is that the gentleman from Porch or a ancient book who has been down to attend his job? That's correct. Before we have any more questions I might just ask Bruce Grady for me and Q to say a few words about some of the responses from the Department of Community Safety personnel as well. Thanks Minister. As I advised yesterday, 50 additional SES personnel were flown into Cairns with a further 140 today and 100 scheduled to go tomorrow. With more on standby as the Minister said there's more than 500 who are already ready to deploy into the area. They do need to be staged. We do need to make sure that when they arrive that we make best use of these people and that's why yesterday was spent making assessments so that we can develop the appropriate strategies to get these people in to start assisting the community as early as possible. To give some further indications of the scale of the event the 132500 number to the SES has now taken 4183 calls directly related to this event. That's resulted in 2823 tasks and 960 of those tasks relate to people reporting significant damage to their properties. So they will be the focus of these SES crews as they deploy into the area. You can imagine the sort of work Tupolans on roofs getting these properties back in to a livable state. That's our priority over the next few days and the early weeks of this event. Thank you. The people whose homes have been completely destroyed. That was the other point I needed to raise. The Department of Community and the House of Salvation Army, Lifeline, all of those service agencies are currently operating a number of evacuation centres and they will continue as required and also opening up recovery centres particularly in the highly impacted communities. For those people that do require longer term accommodation the Department of Communities will initially be working with those through the existing evacuation centres to identify appropriate properties and housing to move into for the longer term. So that's an issue which is currently being worked on and will continue to be resolved in the coming days. In terms of the people who are missing, who has reported them missing? In relation to the there is one male who has been reported by his sister and she lives in Brisbane. There is another person who was talking to a friend overseas. This is the gentleman on the boat and that report has come from the overseas contact as I understand. The first man you mentioned, is it the same one yesterday that you thought was missing? No, totally different. We did locate a gentleman yesterday but we've gone back up to two cases today. And this is totally different in terms of profile from the flood events that we had just recently. We think that's mainly because the people were with their friends and loved ones at the time of the cyclone pass and so everyone knows that they're okay that they've got through this in the main. And there was also a window of opportunity after Yasi pass that there were good communications still available to people. What's happened now is those communications have failed not because of only because of destruction of phone towers and other infrastructure but because now battery backup is starting to wane on those types of things. The western river to Richmond, Julia Creek and now think about Isoho, are they okay in those places? Yes, this morning's teleconference we had the mayors and district disaster coordinators from each of those districts and whereas there have been reports of trees down and minor impacts in various properties, basically the impact has been negligible. So again, we just really do thank those communities in those regions which have felt the impact of the night for cooperating with their local disaster and district disaster groups and thankfully Yasi has now reduced to a low pressure system, still leaving a bit of rain particularly up in the gulf area. So there are some issues up there in terms of flooding that might develop over the next few days but thankfully as it approached towards Julia Creek Mount Iso it weakened and we haven't had any reports of any significant damage. Which communities have you not been able to get into at this time? Well, many of these communities already do have police and emergency services personnel in them with the local residents. It's been a difficult in accessing those communities by road with heavy equipment, etc. But as I've indicated earlier the areas where we want to do some aerial surveillance today are Halifax, Lucinda area, some of those smaller communities and we'll get the air assets into the air today and this morning we will get a better picture of the damage in those particular locations. So is it damage you're looking for there or missing people as well or possibly? Well it's predominantly damage obviously there is still some communication and intermittent communication into some of these areas and as the Deputy Commissioner has indicated we've only had those two reports of missing persons at this stage so predominantly the focus is on getting an assessment of the damage. There's going to be a lot of rebuilding work in a lot of communities and we need to get accurate as possible an assessment of the damage and if we can do that by air initially, ultimately it needs to be house by house building by building. We know for example in places like Tully it's not just the significant number of residential properties that have been damaged and the CBD there is significant damage to commercial and industrial properties as well. All of those assessments will take time. Will you have to fly supplies into those communities? Well we're looking at all options in terms of resupply that's a key focus of the disaster groups locally and at the state level. Resupply of communities is an absolutely essential role that is being undertaken and whether it needs to be flowing in by track ultimately we need hopefully to get the rail lines open as well whatever means is available we'll be using that to get resupply of essential items and food stuffs into those communities. Minister do you think the state needs disaster insurance? Well if that's an issue which I've heard is raised I mean we have a very significant cooperative arrangement with the federal government under the natural disaster relief and recovery arrangement. It's been long standing it works well. What that system means is that when a particular trigger point is reached in terms of damage about the state and the Commonwealth contribute towards the costs of restoration it's work well in Queensland and I expect it to work well into the future. Audrey Citizen has to have insurance to protect their property. Why shouldn't a state government have insurance to protect public property? Well these are questions which ultimately are not the responsibility of the emergency services and police minister my major focus is an operational response so some of those questions should be directed to others but I will say that we do have very robust arrangements already in place agreements with the Commonwealth government about what we do to restore public assets whether that be state assets or council assets and that system has worked well cooperatively with the Commonwealth for many many years and we expect it to work well into the future. Just in terms of the ship off town for we could just say that was going to arrive? That ship is expected to arrive today I don't have a precise time that will of course be determined by tides but again 2,750 tonnes of essential feed items and supplies which is good news for that community but I just stress again that a lot of work has been undertaken to look at alternative routes to get road access into many of these communities and that work is underway and the trucks are starting to move as we speak. In terms of police or policing in the affected areas has there been any arrests of people? In the last couple of days we've had about 11 cases that could be analogous to looting offences but some of those have been opportunistic like the break and ender of a Yardsie on Wednesday night in Cairns at the height of the crossing of Yardsie and I think that might give an indication of the mentality of the people involved but certainly it's only 11 at this time since Yardsie's event started. How many of those 11 cases are attributed to looting do you think? The 11 are similar or actual looting offences. It's a bit shabby isn't it? I think it's a disgrace and it really is a disgrace that people would even consider doing this sort of thing at a time when the trauma being suffered by our community is so great. Where were those offences? I know the one in Cairns, there was one in Cairns on Wednesday night. The other details I can get to you after. And they've been charged or arrested? No offences. Thank you.