Welcome to the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. Hello, I am Wihaki, a communications officer at ILRI, where we host 10 international institutions working on all aspects of food systems in the continent. This campus is a world-class research facility. Completed lab testing and research facilities used to do lots of cool science that is helping improve food security in Africa. Here we improve crops and livestock breeds and develop new vaccines for livestock. Let's go on a tour. I want to introduce you to Catherine, a molecular breeder and a plant scientist. Thank you, Wihaki. Welcome to our research facilities, where we use biosciences to address some of the key agricultural constraints and foster the next generation of African scientists. The facilities we have here allow scientists from across the continent to use science tools to solve some of the key agricultural challenges facing crop and livestock production today. The facilities we have here allow us to carry out food science and nutrition analysis for assessment of nutritional quality. We combine nutrition analysis, plant breeding and food processing to develop nutritious foods for those who need them the most. Let me introduce you to one of our young next generation scientists, Mokani Moyo. Hi, my name is Mokani Moyo. I'm a food chemist at the International Potato Center's Food and Nutritional Evaluation Laboratory here at the Elri campus. We evaluate the nutritional and food safety aspects of different crops and food products. Welcome. Thank you. Like this sweet potato? Yes, this is an orange-fleshed sweet potato, very high in vitamin A content. What we do here is analyze the exact amounts of vitamin A in different orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties. But why is vitamin A important? Malnutrition is a big challenge globally, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where almost 50% of children under five years of age are affected by preventable blindness and childhood stunting due to lack of vitamin A in their diets. So this orange-fleshed sweet potato is part of the solution. How cool is that? I love science. Now let's visit JB in one of the DNA sequencing labs. How do you train Mokani Moyo in bioinformatics? Is that true? Yes, that is. You know having good equipment like this goes hand in hand with having the human capacity to operate it and to innovate with it. So that's why we are very proud at Elri that we are training the next generation of African scientists. We are equipping them with the tools to tackle the research questions of the day. That's fascinating. Now let's meet some other scientists working on animal diseases. Bernard, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and how animal and human health is linked? Thanks, Mihaki. My name is Bernard Bet. I work here at Elri as a scientist. So one of Elri's key research areas is that on the interaction between animals, people and environment, what we call one health. We have been using this approach to study global health challenges like COVID. This is quite important in Africa where a majority of the people derive their livelihoods income from the environment. And so that enhances this interaction which we are talking about. And hence enhances this transfer from animals to people. This is Sam. Sam, tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do here. I'm Mihaki. My name is Sam Molo Yola. I'm a senior scientist here at Elri. I specialize in molecular biology and genomics. We work on a number of diseases. So these diseases are diseases that affect African livestock. And these livestock are crucial for the food security and livelihood in Africa. So at the moment what is going on here is that the people are testing COVID-19. When COVID-19 struck, the government of Kenya asked Elri to support with the disease testing. And because we have the facilities and the expertise, we were able to transform part of our lab to be testing COVID-19. These are just a few examples of what we are doing here at the Elri campus. A lab may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the food that you have on your plate. But these research and testing facilities help ensure that food is farmed sustainably, is safe to eat and is nutritious. These labs make it possible for us to do this in Africa. Thank you for joining me on this tour. Find out how cool science is helping improve food systems on our website www.elri.org.


Our bodies are meant to have a certain balance of sodium and potassium intake, yet the majority of people in the U.S. get vastly more than the recommended amount of sodium, and it turns out far less than the recommended amount of potassium. In this three-part video series, we'll look at the optimal levels of sodium and potassium, and then add a salt substitute that may help balance out this ratio and save lives. Worldwide, physical inactivity accounted for more than 10 million years of healthy life lost, but what we eat accounts for nearly 20 times that. Unhealthy diets shave hundreds of millions of disability-free years off of people's lives every year. What are the worst aspects of our diets? Four out of the five of the deadliest dietary traps involve not eating enough of certain foods, not eating enough whole grains, not eating enough fruits, not eating enough nuts and seeds, and not eating enough vegetables. But our most fatal flaw is too much salt. That's only order 15 times deadlier than diets too high in soda, for example, just to keep things in perspective. There remains no single more effective public health action related to nutrition than the reduction of sodium in the diet. This is why national and international health organizations have called for warning labels on salt packets and salt shakers, with messages just like, too much sodium in the diet causes high blood pressure and increases risk of stomach cancer, stroke, heart disease, and kidney disease limit your use. Salt also increases inflammation. For example, sodium intake is associated with increased disease activity in multiple sclerosis in inflammatory autoimmune nerve condition. About three to four times the exacerbation rate in those with medium or high sodium intakes compared to those getting less than a teaspoon of salt total in a day. Just as you can see, higher sodium levels in the tissues of those who suffer from lupus and other serious inflammatory autoimmune disease, you can correlate high sodium levels in the spinal cord of MS patients with the disease and decreased structural integrity. Where is sodium found, though? Really crappy food, so it's hard to know if increased salt intake is just a marker for a bad diet overall. But what we do know is that salt and high blood pressure are caused in effect. How? Because we have more than 100 randomized controlled trials demonstrating that if you cut down on added salt, your blood pressures fall, and the more you cut down, the better. Part of the mechanism may actually be the damage salt may do to your microbiome, the friendly flora in your gut, and no wonder. Our bodies evolved only to handle about 750 milligrams a day. The American Heart Association says we should stay under at least twice that about, but we're eating more than four times what's natural, and it's only getting worse, increasing over the last decade. Anyone care to guess what percentage if Americans exceed the 1,500 milligram upper limit recommendation? 98.8%, and that was more than a decade ago. The vast majority of U.S. adults consume too much sodium, and at the same time, too little potassium, a mineral that lowers blood pressure. Less than 2% of U.S. adults consume the recommended daily minimum intake of potassium, so more than 98% of Americans eat potassium-deficient diets. This deficiency is even more striking when comparing our current intake with that of our ancestors, who consumed large amounts of dietary potassium. We evolved getting probably more than 10,000 milligrams a day. The recommendation is to get around at least half that, yet most of us don't even come anywhere close. Put the two guidelines together, and sodium and potassium goals are currently met by less than 0.015% of the U.S. population. So we're talking close to 99.99% non-compliance, as in only 1 in 6,000 Americans even hits the recommended guidelines. What about using potassium-based salt substitutes? Instead of using sodium chloride salt, why not shake on some potassium chloride? Seems a little too good to be true. I mean, same salty taste, but you're reducing sodium, while at the same time increasing your potassium intake? Is there a catch? Are potassium-based salt substitutes safe, effective? We'll find out. Next.


Today, I'm going to talk about virtue epistemology, and the lecture will be divided into four parts. In part one, I'm going to talk about what is virtue epistemology, how should we understand this approach in epistemology, and also what are some of its advantages? Why might this approach in epistemology be attractive? In part two, I'm going to talk about two kinds of intellectual virtue. On the one hand, there are what virtue epistemologists call character virtues, and on the other hand, there are what we call faculty virtues. And it's important to get straight on this distinction, and so I'm going to talk about that in part two. And then in part three, we'll look at how the two kinds of virtue are related. And then finally, in part four, I want to talk about the particular virtue of intellectual humility and how it fits into the broader virtue theoretic framework. OK, so part one, what is virtue epistemology? Well, epistemologists tend to understand virtue epistemology on an analogy with virtue ethics, on an analogy with virtue ethics. And so it's going to be important to just talk a little bit first about virtue ethics, and then we can talk about virtue epistemology as an analogy to that. So a little bit about virtue ethics. Well, ethics in general is concerned with various sorts of issues. So for example, one main issue in ethics is what actions are right, or what is the nature of right action, what makes for right action. Another kind of question in virtue ethics is what sort of things are valuable, what sort of things are worth having or worthy of pursuit. So for example, if you ask one of the most valuable things in life, you might say money. You might say having nice things. Some people think it's experience various kinds of pleasure. Or maybe you might think education is valuable, reputation is valuable, maybe you think friends are valuable. So that's another main question in ethics, what sorts of things are valuable. A third question is what makes for a good life or a desirable life or a life worth living? What does it mean to flourish or thrive as a human being? So that sort of questions about what kind of life should I lead? What does a good life look like? And then finally, in ethics, we're concerned about what makes for a good person, or in other words, what makes for a virtuous person. So what does that consist in? What does that look like? Now different ethical theories tend to make one of these questions most fundamental. And then once you've got an answer to that fundamental question, whatever you think it is, then you can go on to answer the other questions by referring back to what you think is most fundamental. So for example, in ethics, there are deontological theories such as a manual Kant's theory, which tends to focus on the issue of right action, what makes a right action. Only when he's got the answer to that most important question, does Kant then go on to talk about what's valuable, what kind of life should I lead, what kind of person should I be, or what makes for a good person? And these tend to be in terms of which actions are right. So for example, a good life would be a life full of right action understood in this Kantian way. Now consequentialist theories, such as Mills' utilitarianism, they make the question of what's most valuable, the fundamental question. So what things in life are most valuable? And then you can understand something like right action in terms of, well, the right action is the thing that promotes that which is most valuable or a good life is that which contains many valuable things. So you get the idea that the fundamental question is then on value and then goes on to answer the other questions in terms of value. Okay, well, that brings us to virtue theory. As you can imagine, virtue theories focus on the question of what makes for a virtuous person. So they're going to make that question about what makes a virtuous person. That's going to be the fundamental question. And then we're going to go on to answer questions about right action, a good life, what things are valuable in terms of the answer we give to the virtue question. So for example, we could understand a right action as roughly the sort of action that a virtuous person would perform in the circumstances or we could understand a good life as a life that a virtuous person would lead and which would have the sorts of things that are necessary to lead a virtuous life, things like that. So what we're doing here is we're taking with these different theories, we're taking different approaches to what you might think of as the direction of explanation. So some theories think you make, for example, the notion of right action fundamental and then you explain other things like what makes for a good person or what makes for a good life in terms of right action. Virtue theory makes the concept of a virtuous person fundamental and then it attempts to explain other things like right action, a good life, valuable things in terms of a virtuous person. So that's virtue ethics. So virtue ethics is understood as taking that sort of direction of analysis or direction of explanation in a way that makes virtues fundamental. So now we can talk analogously about virtue epistemology. So consider various issues that are of concern in epistemology. We might ask what makes a belief justified or reasonable or rational to hold. Actually epistemologists usually want to make a distinction between rationality and reasonableness and justification but for our purposes, let's say those are roughly in the same ballpark, the same sort of thing. And that's one set of question. The question is, what makes a belief a good belief in the terms of being justified or reasonable or rational? But another kind of question would be what sorts of things are intellectually valuable? So for example, what sort of things should we pursue as intellectual beings? So you might say truth. You might say reasonableness. You might say knowledge. You might say wisdom. These are various candidates for epistemic or intellectual goods or values. And we might take that as fundamental. We could ask what makes for a good intellectual life or what makes for intellectual flourishing, so to speak. What does that look like? Or finally, we could ask what's an intellectually virtuous person look like? What does that consist in? So again, as you can imagine, virtue epistemology is going to take that last question about what makes for an intellectually good or virtuous person as fundamental and then it's going to try to understand intellectual goods, the intellectual properties of belief, these sorts of things by referring back to our answer about what makes for intellectual virtue.


This study developed a dynamic model to analyze the effects of subsurface mesoscale cracks on the outer ring of full ceramic ball bearings, FCBBs. The model was based on strain energy theory and used to evaluate the impact of different crack lengths on the device's stability. The presence of cracks was also identified through analysis of the vibrational signals produced during operation. The results showed that a small wave peak appeared in the vibration time domain signal when there was a mesoscale crack on the outer ring subsurface, indicating that the crack had evolved from a smaller size to a larger one. Furthermore, the amplitude of the corresponding feature frequency could be used to estimate the crack length. The model was validated with experimental data, demonstrating its accuracy and reliability. This article was authored by Xiaotian Bai, Zhenen Zhang, White Escher, and others.


Good afternoon everybody. Thanks everybody, despite a few stragglers that come from the sausage rolls and hot pies. For those who don't know me, my name is John Haynes. I'm a deputy chief in charge of service delivery strategy and I'll talk a little bit more about that. And I'm doing a bit of a tag team today with Tammy Garrett, who's the manager of community safety north-east region based at Lillida. So she's going to cough and yell when I go over time so I stop. So for the next half an hour or so, we just want to talk to you about service delivery strategy, the future and also where we're heading and what it means to you at a local level. So my day job, I look after service delivery strategy and it's a role where the chief formed a new team three years ago about thinking about the future. Where are we going to be in five years time, 10 years time, 15 years time? We want to be proactive, not reactive. So my job three years ago was to form a new team and a new team that was taken from all different parts of CFA. So the service delivery strategy, which we've just got ticked off by the board in June and over the next five years you'll see the outcomes of that. But what we want to do is to change the culture and direction of the organisation. And you look at the past culture of CFA and me being an operational person it was pretty much bombs, tanks and airplanes. It was very much about response and the forums such as this and the increasing interest in forums such as this shows that we've got a wider view and we want to go in a different direction. So without any further ado, we've got a service delivery strategy which has got a tagline of supporting local people to solve local problems. It's all about you. So it's not about some deputy chief with stuff on the shoulders saying well this is the career we're going to go, this is about you and we want to change the culture where we want to go. And the word strategy is overused a bit and people talk about a strategy for this, a strategy for that. If you go down to shop and buy a pie there's probably a strategy behind it. A strategy is really just about getting from here and I'm going to test out Keith's camera skills from this position the strategy is about moving things. If we want to stay the same we'll just call it a plan. If we want to move somewhere different we call the strategy. So this is where we want to get to. So remember supporting local people to solve local problems, one of the key things part of it. And in that also we've worked very hard with what we call the coalition of the willing to get a network of strategies for an atomic strategy where service delivery is a centrepiece and we've got people strategy, volunteerism, finance and assets. So you can't deliver a service unless you've got all those things connected. You can't deliver a service if you haven't got any dough, you can't deliver a service if you haven't got some sort of asset base. And of course we need people and we're a largest volunteer organisation and if we don't invest in volunteerism we won't get anywhere either. So they're all connected to deliver a service. And if you ask what service we're in, well a lot of people still say different things. So some people still say bombs, tanks and airplanes. So we're a response. Give us a new fire truck, give us more gear, give us more firefighters and check the box that we've done our service with. But if you listen to Craig Lapsley this morning, service predominantly is what we do before, during and after a fire or emergency. That's what services in a service to the real organisation. So out of that, our four key areas in the strategy, empowering and sustaining the front line, we want to make sure and the front line for us is district and above. And you'll get the above bit in a minute when I show you another slide. Transforming service delivery to meet local needs. Base water is different than your life. Hisman is different to Jirangirang. If one knows where Jirangirang is, district 17, there you go. So we're just kind of a blanket way of doing things. And Tammy was just having a discussion before about some people coming up and saying, oh, yeah, this brochure, we don't use it like that. We use it like this for our community. That's fine because we're actually doing something that meets your local needs, but still get the job done. Working with communities. Not force-feeding them, not doing anything else, but working with communities. And I know you, especially in this room, are excellent at doing that. And the last one is about strengthening relationships through collaboration. So in the world we live now, with emergency management, Victoria and the sector, and all the agencies, not only emergency services, but the agencies that Craig talked about this morning, unless we have really strong relationships with everybody and collaborate, we'll keep on doing the same old, same old. So we've got to be strong in that. We've got to invest in our relationships and we'll reap the benefits. So a couple of years ago, we did a discussion paper called Service Delivery Strategy 2025. And it was trying to get people's juices in their minds going to say, what's the world they look like in 2025? And some of the drivers of that, and we call severe weather. Is severe weather caused by climate change or not? If you cut the room in half, 50-50 would say yes or no climate change. But whatever it is, we've noticed really hot heat waves, we've noticed floods, we've noticed cold and we've noticed extreme storm damage. So whatever it is, we've got to live with severe weather. There's not a bottomless pit of dough. So what we do with our dough, we make it worthwhile and invest in the right things that make a difference. We've got an approach across the sector now. So everybody has to work together and we work as one. And no matter what we do, there's always going to be community demands that just keep outrunning what we expect. And I just think pre-2009, and we had the Alpine fires and we had a lot of the community briefings and things were going well. We thought we're going really well. We've got this community engagement stuff nailed and we're sorted. And we did. And we did for slow-moving fires. We know in two days' time it's going to come at the back of Brightville and Mansfield. But when the roaring fire of 2009, we just weren't quick enough at that time to do the community engagement, community warnings and information. So every time you think we've got somewhere, we get tested again. So part of the strategy is about something. Well, what do we need to think about? What's our lose-paste scenario? How do we actually get there? And now that the driver has changed, we just want to do better. As an organisation, CFA, I know everyone in the room just wants to improve and do things better. And that's an internal driver that always drives us. So this is a little bit of a structure-wise. And it's a bit like the DaVinci code, if you think about it. But we've got our mission is protecting lives and property. All signed up for that. That's what we're going to do. And we've got four long-term outcomes and I'll discuss them in a tip signed up by the board. We've got the strategy in the middle. The network strategy is the atomic strategy with service delivery as a cornerstone. And then we're going to make sure we've got all the ducts lined up. So we have manual planes. We've been working on manual planes at the moment with regions and districts. And then we're going to get down to the brigade plane level. So in a structure-wise, what we want to do is to have the one mission, one goal. And we use the NASA model. And we're talking to Craig Luxe the other day, the commissioner, saying, you know, it's just like the NASA model for the mission to get man on the moon in the 60s. And he said, no, it never happened. It only happened in the studio. Non-believer. But out of that, what we want to do is everyone's role in CFA is about service delivery and making sure we get to the mission of protecting lives and property. So the long-term outcomes, what do we do things with? And the board has signed off these to be our targets down the track. If we've got nowhere to go, how do you know when we're going to get there? So what we're trying to do is to reduce incidents and impact the fire emergencies on the community. Reduce the impact of non-fires. So we don't, you know, only do fires. We do hazmat. We do a whole lot of other services, if you like, with the community. Be highly entrusted and respected fire and emergency service. We have to just get working on that one. And increase community resilience to fire and non-fires. So it's increased community resilience. It doesn't mean we own it. And the communities own the resilience. We just got to help them. And I know you do that very well. And this is the other part of the Vingiko. There's one tribal. This is the second tribal. This is our service delivery model. And you hear, you influence and talk about the inverted tribal. And what it means is it regains in the community at the top. And the rest of the organization supports regains and community to solve your local problems and support you to do that. So with that as well, the community got a shared responsibility. So we can't do it all by ourselves. And you know that as well. So unless the community are engaged or connected or whatever word that we want to use in the future, we can't do that on our own. And it's proven we can't do that on our own. So we need the community working with us. And we need to work with the community. So that is our service delivery model. And again, in some parts of the organization, that's a cultural change. We can see where we're trying to get to. And this is a five-year strategy. It's not something where we could just cross the arms and blink like I dream of Jenny happens now. It's something we've got to work towards. And we'll get there. Okay, I'll hand over to Tammy and we'll have questions later, I think. How'd I go for time today? So I thought I'd throw all the words up that you've probably heard about 20 times already and you'll probably hear about another 50 to 100 times before the end of the conversation and before the end of the weekend. So we've just heard that we've got the strategy. We don't have a plan. We have a strategy. And we're going to see this happen. And how we make this happen is through being adaptable and using some of the tools that we already have. So what we've found in community safety or community education, we've given you a whole bunch of programs but they've been locked in little containers. And if you've ever tried to open up a Play-Doh container for the first time, they have science degree. So what we're actually meaning with this and all these key terms is opening up a container and let's be flexible. Let's even be really scary and get a couple of them and for any controlling person out there, the hardest thing you can ever do with Play-Doh is blend them. How frustrating! As a mother I know, God, don't mix the colours. But let's get some of our ComEd programs. Let's blend them and mix them. And if it doesn't come out quite right, you know what, we've got a couple of others. There's plenty of containers, different colours. So why don't we start to use some of our different programs, blend them, adapt them, and make them localised for your local problems, your local communities. We've already seen that in what you've heard so far, what you've seen on the bread and boards as you walked along, as you're talking to each other. You're hearing that people have got little different ways and approaches to some of our set, concrete type programs. We're adapting them. And as districts and regions, we're now supporting you to adapt them and make them localised. Some of the things that we can just throw out very quickly. Newsletters, whether it's doing a burns table demonstration. CFA Open Days coming up again November this year. Red Bucket Program was another one. It's using what your community are doing and how you can, your knowledge, you know how to tap into your community. Facebook, social media. MyCFA is the new launched program, so Paul Harris is around and promoting that over the weekend. Try and encourage people to log on and join up membership into MyCFA and that way they can get localised information emailed out to them on a fortnightly basis. Other things that we have, a bit of self promotion for my reporting tool or the app. If we can start to get other brigades reporting what they're doing and advertising what they're doing, we might have a bit more of an awareness of what's going on around you or different activities and you might be able to ring up a neighbouring brigade or one over the other side of the state and say, hey, I saw you were doing this event on this day. How did it go? There's no harm in picking up the phone or even going along and visiting and seeing it for yourself if you're travelling up that way on a quick weekend. Multicultural event was one that we ran out in District 13. We had a bit of a problem with some Burmese fishermen. We had local networks. We've heard that term already today. We had DSE at the time, so DELP. We got Victoria Police. We had the local council and we all put on a big massive day for the Burmese community where each of us got together and each gave our own reason and cause for what we had as an issue and did a bit of an education session right there and then. We've also got the new shelter options. So community fire refuges are starting to be increasingly thought of and being implemented. Also personal shelters with bunkers. A lot more conversation is happening now with bunkers and how do you have those conversations? Horse education or pets. This was one that we came up with, or not we didn't. We saw it just recently where someone didn't know how to do or how to react on a day. So she spray painted her horse with contact details. So then we saw a bit of a need for what education do you need to give to horse owners and was that an appropriate method on the day? So from all of this, with this service delivery strategy it's showing that we can work, make it flexible, blend. It might be a bit yucky to start off with but it might turn out an awesome purple colour in the end or you add a little bit more blue and it'll give them a different colour. So there's no harm in being flexible and adaptable and let's make local problems and work them out with local solutions. Thank you. Questions. There's a couple of mics running around so if anyone has questions for myself or John. One at the front. There's some things that we can start that won't bear fruit for about two or three years. As long as we focus on the five year overall plan that's coming from top down are we conforming to the overall structure? Because there's no one plan survey there's going to be moving different things at different times. If we can get where we want to be in five years time and if you start something before someone starts at three years time it's not going to really matter. We want to get the same place together in five years time. So the whole idea of having the local focus if you like is to give you that ability to mush up the play-doh and say well I need to use the red one this year and then I'm going to put a little bit green with it next year and I'm going to get this different outcome. Because my history in CFA I've been in 32 years and we're in Victoria for the last 18 in the head jet and it's really got to be the local people who understand their local community who drive this not me sitting in the head jet saying this is what you're going to do first and this is what you're going to do third. So the short answer is yes. John, a question about the two triangles. Your first triangle was the strategy direction I think it was. And the strategy is in the middle and that is your annual plan. You said your annual plan with districts and then brigades. But your other triangle is up the other way and says exactly the opposite where the state, the district, the brigades supports the community. Why are we having our annual planning meeting with districts prior to working out where brigades are at? Because then the brigade is and the community is directed by what the district wants to do. Good question, 100%. This first year because strategy is new and in some circumstances at district level planning is good. What we're going to do is get the district in the headspace of planning year one. We've already, the next thing we're going to do is start to do brigade planning to force other way as exactly as you say. So what we have to do is get some enablers done first to get people in the space. Then the next thing is about brigade planning driving CFA's direction. So if we're really, I don't understand if we're true to our word and play the inverted triangle brigades and locals have to drive where the director will want to get to and that'll probably take us 12 months to get that up and going properly. Is it working? You've been in a lot of situations where brigades and communities are very keen to do something. We're unsmacking to district, state, whatever, saying, no, no budget. I'm not on the answer to that, but... The answer's not going to be an open-eyed answer, but we're almost a half a billion dollar organisation. Half a billion dollars is our annual budget. Do we spend our annual budget on things that really make a difference to the community in total? Probably not. So what we're trying to do with this and it might take us five, but is to... We've been working very hard with districts, regions and the state over the last six to 12 months and they say, look, this is coming. This is what it means. A lot of our systems and processes have changed to enable this to happen, but it's going to take a little bit of time because we're also challenging culture. And that's our biggest thing. This is a cultural change and this sort of saying, if we want to get from there to there, it's going to take time, it's going to take patience, it's going to take reinforcement, but this is the direction that the board has signed off. This is where we want to go. So that's the authorising requirement that lets us play in that space. From our job is to say, okay, are we realistic about what do we need to do to help you to solve local problems? Have we got the budget allocation right? If we stop doing something else and invest it in this, we'll make it a better outcome. And that's the four long-term outcomes. Unless we do things differently, we'll just do the same. Thank you for that. I guess the issue in my head is, where's the mechanism for that input to get back to you guys? Yeah, the bottleneck with the two triangles intersect. We've been going around challenging district planning committees for starters. And to say, is there a better way we can do district planning committees where we get information from the gates? And some at Seymour and Sheppard and I know are already starting to cup-pace modify to have a different outlook. So we're encouraging that sort of discussion and freeing up of some of bureaucracy for life and changing the focus of how brigades relate back to the district and how we get things flowing. Thank you for that. Sorry, I'm listening to this stuff and at the end of the day, we need the tools to do our work, our community work. And if you don't give it to us regarding budget, regarding budget strategies, give us the tools and we'll do the work for you. Simple as that. When I hear you talk about budget strategies and, oh, it does my heading. You give us the tools, we do it. Yes, and I agree with that. But for us, the issue for us is that we need to be realistic about what our best bang for our bang is. And as I said, we've got almost half a million dollars spent on what that makes a difference. So if we're things that make a difference that actually protect lives and property and you've gone and heard some, a few sessions today about how many people die in residential fires. We don't even talk about, we're starting to talk about how many people are injured in fires. And if we're really serious about protecting lives and property, then we need to invest in programs and local solutions that make that difference. And part of that is right, is the tools and programs and mechanisms to do that. So I agree. What do you say to, regarding, we're going to have no variable message boards throughout the daily zones to get the messages across four public meetings, community meetings, open days and that sort of way because I was told there's no budget for it. That's one of the best tools that we can have to get the message out to our communities that these meetings are going ahead within our area or whatever and maybe Tammy can answer this. That's what I've been told. You can, you tell me. It's been, at the moment, where your budget's a nasty word, it's looking at how do we, across the region now, because we've all merged into the regions, out of where with our regional budget makes it very inequitable for everybody. Not saying that there's no budget, we just have to look at where we're going to allocate and put some of our money into areas that maybe haven't had a community engagement or any program for some period of time. We just have to look at what we have got and where we're allocating resources equitably and look at variable message boards. We may not have money from our direct budget, but there's nothing to say that in the background we're not looking at other grants, we're not looking at our networks, we're looking at councils at the moment saying hey look how about you start to support us. So we might not have an immediate budget but bear in mind that the district and the regional team are very much looking into other areas. And the supplementary, so thank you for the microphone again. The chief officer now, as part of our arrangements across the state, is responsible for the whole service delivery budget right across the organisation. So if there's pressures in the northeast budget and through the assistant chief officers says oh look we need to put some more cash into one part of our dollar, the chief can move dollars around. So there are mechanisms that we haven't really tested and tried out yet, but there are, a navel is already there to make it happen. Guys that was almost the open forum that we're going to have tomorrow. So think of your thoughts on along those lines for what you'd like to spend. I think these guys did a wonderful job. We've just got a few minutes have we Jack until the others come down? Everybody from the SDS is going to join us. So if you maybe could squeeze...


Well, hello and welcome to understand men now. I'm Jonathan assay of job that's a comment I'm so excited to be doing this live stream for you today our topic shoot I forgot what the topic is how to make a man see you like the one and only Really quickly if you're brand new to my YouTube channel Please hit the subscribe button hit the bell so you could be notified of new videos And if anytime during this video the content resonates with you Please hit that like button so I can be seen in the YouTube algorithms Really quickly my coaching is what I call heart centered radical honesty It's direct a little tough love and a lot of heart and occasionally I use expletives to enhance the sentence So if an f-bomb or two isn't your cup of tea, I suggest logging off right now Lastly these are my thoughts my perceptions my opinions by no means do I suggest this is the truth You have to decide the truth for yourself. I'm a bit of a contrarian so my advice goes contrary to both public opinion and Traditional expectations, so all I ask is you give it a chance. All right, let's talk about how to get to have someone see you as their one and only You know before we go there I really want to address what I think is the pink elephant in the room and that is that the dating process today is Really really dysfunctional. I mean the complaints from both men and women alike is alarming their operations mostly with the opposite sex and also the amount of effort that people put into the process there are Criticisms on both sides of the aisle and I witnessed this repeatedly when I watch social media when I'm watching videos It's it's fascinating to me. I've lately I've gotten a little bit addicted to tick-tock videos and I can't believe how many videos are there on Narcissisms and sociopaths and bad first dates and men do bad things and women do bad things and I mean, it's no wonder It's rather dysfunctional out there We are being fed with so much Negativity that it makes it very difficult to actually lean into one of the most important Fundamentals of the actual process is that and that is holding hope It's becoming much harder to hold hope these days and it's understandable Why because the reality is is we are no longer meeting people who know us or know the people we know I'm repeat that we are no longer meeting people who know us or know the people we know think back a hundred years ago Most likely anybody who ended up getting married the people that dated they grew up in a small town You knew their parents. They knew your parents. You knew their friends.  Everybody knew each other So there was a level of not just physical safety from that perspective But more importantly, there was a level of emotional safety back then There was an extreme level of emotional safety Which makes it very difficult today because most of the time we're meeting total strangers through these devices And when we're meeting strangers, it's hard to feel not just physically safe And I can't begin to express the importance of physical safety, but I'm talking about emotional safety I'm talking about really feeling safe to be who you are to be vulnerable to be authentic to be Transparent this is why lately. I've been recommending everybody check out the book by Malcolm Gladwell called talking to strangers talking to strangers And that's I can't read the subtitle. Please forgive me what we should know about the people. We don't know Talking to strangers what we should know about the people. We don't know folks These days when we're meeting people and especially when there's long distance involved And I'm talking I mean people are now dating across Continents with each other. They're not actually dating. They're they're Virtually hooking up in most cases. It's a virtual connection usually based In many cases from an emotional place of feeling lack This is oftentimes this happens, but I'm not suggesting that's all the cases and certainly when there's there's the long distance here in the United States of one end of the country versus the other and Then there's just long distance when you leave ten or live ten or fifteen miles apart And I'm only mentioning this is because how do we genuinely get to know someone when we have these long distances and Here's the challenge is it's very difficult to get to know someone through our devices It's very difficult to get to know someone through text messaging and even telephone calls Repeat that's very difficult because think about it for a moment I've had hundreds of thousands of hours of telephone calls in my life I can't remember one telephone call well actually number. Let me scratch that I only remember one telephone call I ever got my life and that was the one where my ex-wife called me to tell me that my son had passed away and those who know Me know my 19-year-old son Connor. There is there. There's the little cutie pie there and there is there in graduation And so all of these telephone calls don't actually help us bond with another human being It doesn't help us bond So it's it really important to get physically face-to-face with someone so you can actually get to know them On a deeper level and it's important to ask better questions in the process Instead of the current dating rhetoric is how's your day going? I hope you have a good day Did you have a blessed day? Most people are talking about how wonderful their day is instead of getting to the heart of Why are we even engaging with one another? Why are we even doing this and? There's this there's this misconception that everybody's on the same page And let me tell you something most everybody isn't on the same page This is why it's important to ask questions and because most humans believe chemistry equals relationship success I'm repeat that chemistry equals relationship success They're they're actually finding themselves More disappointed than any ever before and if you're not familiar with my relationship iceberg chart I'm going to put it up on the screen You can see above the water line is the word attraction and you can see the tip of the iceberg is chemistry But below the water line is compatibility which says shared values blendable lifestyles and most importantly emotional maturity If you genuinely want to be in a relationship that's in it then it is imperative to understand that chemistry doesn't equal relationship success and yet we are so driven by chemistry and romance in the early stages because in many Cases particularly for men. We are driven by lust or limerence Lust or limerence and what that means is we either want to fuck you or we're just extremely Infatuated with you based on putting you up on a pedestal and that is not a healthy way to approach a relationship This is why if you follow my work and you know my rhetoric I always say the same thing before the penis goes inside the vagina purchase two copies of the book eight dates by Doctors John and Julie Gottman purchase two copies of this book and study this and read it together This will actually build the intimacy The intimacy that actually will start Shifting this dynamic between the two of you to something where you really do look at someone as they're one and only So I want to share something with you as I was preparing for this video Hmm my coffee mug says coffee tastes better when shared by the way, I'm just drinking lemonade Coffee tastes better when shared when I was preparing for this I was actually thinking of the movie when Harry met Sally when Harry met Sally and for those of you that know the movie I'm going to give you a quick recap of it because there's some four key points that I want to bring up today That will help put you in that space of being someone's one and only What was unique about this movie? There were two people that met a driving cross country And they found themselves not very particularly liking one another and then a few years that go a few years later They run into each other and they were both in relationship at this point They still didn't like each other and then about 10 years had passed from their original meeting And They met up and they just and they're both single at this point So they decided to build a friendship with one another they built a friendship with one another Now what I love about this story It's a classic example of two people being genuine with each other Being genuine with each other because there was no agenda in the process So what I like was that each one of them was comfortable in their own skin comfortable in their own skin By the way, I have my notes comfortable in their own skin And in addition what was unique about them Was that they were radically honest with each other about their feelings. They were radically honest with each other about their feelings And and even if I want to piggyback on that they were also their true genuine self and there was something very unique about sally For those who remember her she was very neurotic in the way she ordered food Um, she was you know, I'd like to have the the meatloaf But if the gravy I'd like to have the gravy and a cup on the side and I'd like to have the Caesar salad But if it has croutons, I'd like you to put it on the left corner of the plate And I'd like to have the pie ala mode But if you don't have vanilla ice cream that I want cherry pie instead of apple pie I want it heated that if you can't have it heated then I want a chocolate bar instead and harry's looking her and like Oh my god, she is insane. She is neurotic But she was just comfortable in her own skin And more importantly the two of them were radically honest with each other. They actually shared their genuine feelings with one another And in addition to that You know as they built this friendship up they genuinely cared for one another They genuinely cared for one other. They were looking out for one another as if they were, you know, like I've got your back I've got your back And lastly they finally met each other where they're at and what I mean to say is when they end up getting into a fight in this dynamic harry realized How much he cared for her and what he realized most was he didn't like all the great Qualities that she had that she was attractive and cute and charming and that sort of thing He liked those qualities in her that were weird that you know at the end of the movie He says I love it that it takes you an hour and a half to order a ham sandwich I love it that you think 71 degrees is cold I love it that you're the first person I think of when I get up in the morning And you're the last person I think of when I go to bed and when he realized um when he realized How much he cared for her He realized she was the one and only and he rushed over her over to her during new year's eve to tell her So what's the moral of the story here and how does this relate to your relationship? Whether you're currently dating with someone or you just you're looking to date someone in the future I think what's really challenging today as I started this broadcast is that fact that we're meeting total strangers today And in that because the current dating process is hyper focused on romance on romance leading relationship success I always believe that romance should be reserved for once you're in a relationship Not as a precursor to be in a relationship I'm going to repeat that not as a precursor to be in relationship And what lesson we can learn from sally most importantly is that she operated from her sovereign self She was comfortable in her own skin. She wasn't trying to impress him She wasn't trying to shift his perspective She was just being her authentic self and it's as if she read my book and if you're not familiar with my book What the heck is self love anyway, by the way, there's a link below to all the books I recommend it's a journey of personal development self-help and spiritual work So we can lean into finding our genuine authentic self and that's what sally did And there's something incredibly attractive about that when a person is just being Their true authentic self warts and all in other words the way she ordered food and by the way harry had his own You know a misogynistic Qualities that probably wouldn't be acceptable today. In fact most movies Produced 30 or 40 years ago aren't don't seem to be acceptable today, but but and but and Certainly in our current times ultimately it's about being our authentic self Now here's the thing about self-worth a lot of people lean into their self-worth from an egoic Entitled place. There are so many women The biggest complaint by men is that so many women are acting from an entitled place and at the same token There's so many women operating from a doormat place So we have the book ends entitled in one end and book or doormat the other Ultimately, I want you to sift through all that dysfunctionality and find your genuine authentic self and show up In that capacity in your relationship. So coming back to my book Chapter one is speak your truth do it with kindness speak your truth do it with kindness And eventually later on the book There's a chapter called if it's sincere and from the heart you can't say the wrong thing to the right person Ladies I want to encourage you stop giving your power away to men I know you love the idea of you can just sit back and your feminine energy and the guy is going to claim you But just recognize this Most men are bad at the dating process This is why you are in charge of your relationship destiny and what I encourage all my clients to do is lead by example Lead by example Now, I know this is scary and this is tough And it's very difficult to be genuinely vulnerable. I understand that because it's a it feels like a huge risk This is why I want everybody to check out this new book. I just purchased. I just got it today But it's called emotional intimacy.  Why is this so critically important? Ladies I recognize you think men are either emotionally dysfunctional or weak Or unavailable, which is true But women you ladies are no better at this You know either just because you can vomit your emotions to your girlfriends and you have an outlet to vomit your emotions Doesn't mean in relationship You have a healthy relationship skills Let me repeat that a lot of you think just because you can express your emotions to your girlfriends Doesn't mean that you actually have the skill set to actually be in a healthy happy relationship from a healthy communication standpoint In fact, most communication comes from a very victim consciousness And a very violent way. This is why um, marshal Rosenberg wrote the book nonviolent communication Marshal Rosenberg nonviolent communication and why I'm recommending this book is to actually learn to communicate your emotions In a healthier way and with this book emotional intimacy when you're actually dating someone you should be reading these books together Ladies Don't let the penis go inside the vagina until you've actually vetted one another to determine if you're on the same page I'm going to give you three quick questions You can ask a guy right from the gecko to determine this What do you want in a relationship not do you want a relationship? What do you want in a relationship number one number two? What does a relationship mean to you? That's a really powerful question. What does a relationship mean to you and lastly? Why should I consider dating you? Why should I consider dating you and folks? Both of you better be answering these questions together because you have to show up You know confident within yourself to describe why should he should date you and you should ask him? Why should you why should he date you and why should you date him? I think these are really radical questions to ask.  I know it feels good. It feels good to be romanced. I know it makes you feel worthy But ultimately romance isn't an indication of relationship success Real bonding with one another saying I've got your back. I'm here. You matter. We are important I've got your back. I'm not going anywhere and I only want you that is the core to relationship success And that's what I invite you all to begin to lean into So to recap this conversation before we take questions. I just want to remind you be comfortable in your own skin Be radically honest with one another What else did I share genuinely choose someone where you genuinely care about each other's feelings and meet each other at the middle Meet each other at the 50 yard line Or as I always say look at a relationship like a two lane street where you're both making effort mutually And hopefully and I say hopefully because there are no guarantees in life This person that you're with Will see you as the one and only and my hope is you get to see him as the one and only as well Has this helped at all if it has please give me an amen. Thank you so much All right, well, we're going to take questions in a seconds if you're brand new to my channel There's a chat if you're on the live stream right now. There's a chat box You can post the post write the word question post the question thereafter or purchase a super sticker super chat There's a dollar sign there In the super sticker super chat The funds from that goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son connor as like who passed away a few years going again That's a picture of those are some pictures of him right there The scholarship fund is to help defray the costs of personal development for those who seek personal development help And to donate to those personal development causes that I believe are quite worthy Which include the hoffman process or insight So we're going to take questions now by the way, I got a question before we got started So while I'm waiting for questions to come in and don't forget to purchase a super sticker super chat Oh, and if you're listening to the audio portion, you won't be able to do so this question came in So I want to share this with everyone All right My sweater is a little off uh jonathan Oh, wait, let me keep my glasses on jonathan. There's a guy I met and I'm feeling really anxious because I like him What to do jonathan there's a guy I met I'm feeling really anxious. I like this guy. What do I do? Oh my god, I love this question and it's kind of reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my monthly clients yesterday She has a propensity to get anxious in the early stages of dating And we were talking about managing her emotions during this time And I thought I would share what's actually happening to me right now as we speak So I'm going to share something personal and to help illustrate what to do when you're feeling anxious. So Now let me just be candid with everyone I if you're not familiar with love attachment style I highly recommend checking out checking out the book attached by amir levin and rachel heller Amir levin and rachel heller love attachment. Uh, there's basically three types of love attachment There's anxious and then there's some versions of anxious in there There's avoidance and then there's secure anxious avoidance secure anxious are needy people Avoidant are kind of emotionally closed off people and secure are people that can lean into a relationship Okay, so just giving you the concept of that I personally have what's known as a anxious love attachment style That means and what we typically do is when we're anxious We tend to choose avoidant personalities and when we're avoidant we tend to choose anxious people And what that means is I get highly I get a ton of anxiety when I don't feel safe In relationship, that's what happens to me I get very very anxious And this is even true in the beginning states of dating and it's really fascinating to Witness my personality when I'm anxious and this is just happened to me So about 10 days ago I or you know nine or 10 days ago, I connected with someone through a dating app I'll be candid with you the dating app is called the league the league and if you're not familiar with it I recommend checking it out. I'm currently on bumble tinder hinge Match.com millionaire match I look at each one of them is to spoke in the wheel as an opportunity to meet people I wouldn't otherwise meet my daily life. I work from home. So I don't meet people in my daily life So I use the dating apps as a vortex or a vehicle to meet someone And I met this person on hinge and we exchanged, you know over the course of about four days We exchanged a message with each other And then you know and I was attracted to our photographs and I really appreciated the messages And then we jumped on a phone call And we ended up having a two-hour phone call and we really really hit it off. I was like I was really Feeling like a a sense of like a wow like, you know, and and I've had lots of telephone calls that didn't feel that way And I've had other phone calls that have felt that way as well And I found myself going to bed that night and I was feeling rather excited rather excited In fact, I had a hard time sleeping and she was currently traveling and she wasn't she wasn't gonna She actually just returned today. Um, this was on monday our first phone call We had another phone call on tuesday And I noticed our communication styles was a little bit different when it came to Organizing the telephone call and I found myself getting incredibly anxious. Oh my god What was going on inside my head? I was spinning out of control I was spinning out of control And then we didn't speak the next day, which was wednesday and then we jumped on the phone again on thursday and And I was it was it was fascinating to witness the feelings going on inside of me Now the old jonathan when I was feeling the the mismatch in communication I don't mean when we were actually on the telephone call. I'm talking about our communication just to organize the telephone call felt I'm very demonstrative. I'm very abusive. I'm a flirt and and she's not that type That's not her personality style and for all I know she's just being a little bit reserved because she doesn't know me And the fact that I've gotten over infatuated isn't very uncommon now. You might have heard the term love bombing that men do Listen when a man is excited We can go through an alliteration of different types of feelings when we feel excited and certainly Love bombing or planning the future is very common. You don't have to be a narcissist to do that The garden variety, you know, red-blooded guy can be that way. And by the way, everything i'm sharing a woman can feel this way as well And so what was interesting when I got on the phone with my client on thursday before I spoke to This woman and by the way, we have a date planned on sunday lunch date And what was interesting when I shared with my client because I knew she would appreciate this And I shared almost exactly what I just shared with you And as I was sharing it to her she goes, oh my god, jonathan. I so Resonate with that. I knew she would because we've had these conversations before Now what she pointed out and what was interesting In fact, she pointed this out earlier before we had the conversation Was the idea of awareness awareness. I was aware of my emotions.  So So I sat with my emotions and did nothing other than spin out of control inside of myself Now you would think gosh with all the personal development work done work done work I've done How could this happen? I'm a red I'm a red blooded human being like everyone else as much work as I've done To heal my childhood wounds and traumas and my adult traumas and my negative patterns and limiting belief at the core I'm still a red blooded human being in my default love attachment style is a tap is anxious so first An 80 percent of this is awareness. I was just really aware of my feelings And I was able to articulate my feelings to my client to help demonstrate this just as I am with you And I'm in the one benefit I do come to is a place where I can actually articulate my feelings from a non-victim based consciousness I'm going to repeat that the non-victim based consciousness Sadly most human beings communicate their feelings very much from a victim Orientation women you do this men do this and this is one of the reasons why couples are butting heads with each other Because they're not communicating in a healthy emotional way Now to piggyback on this So 80 percent is awareness What I told my client is 10 percent is navigating your emotions in other words. I didn't vomit my feelings with her. I didn't I didn't try to force the situation. I stayed contained in my feelings And then here's what I want to share for this person that wrote in What I did afterwards was take inspired action So we end up getting on the phone last night And as we were talking with one another and again, we're planning our date and we're just getting to know each other She actually asked me a really personal question. She asked about my childhood Which I think is a great question to ask someone to get a sense and and I get us because we had talked about doing therapy and we talked about personal development such she asked about my childhood Which I really appreciated and I said and I'll just Her nickname is Minnie Mouse My Pilates instructor nicknamed her Minnie Mouse because she's got this interesting quality of a very like girl next door kind of voice to her which Which I really appreciate and I said to Minnie Mouse. I said, um I have something very vulnerable to share with you. Is that okay? I'm something very vulnerable to share with you. Is that okay? Now the rule book would say never do what I'm about what I did the rules would never say this but I Love myself enough to know I can say anything because if it's sincere and from the heart I can't scare the wrong person away And what I did was I shared the feelings I was experiencing And what happened next floored me that didn't really floor me. I actually I think I had a sense I knew how she would respond.   They call me pandering to women Here's the thing vulnerability takes courage Vulnerability takes courage radical honesty takes courage. There is nothing wimpy wussy Pussy whatever terminology some people would use there is nothing weak about sharing how you feel And the right person actually leans into the conversation with you and the wrong person runs away ladies you can actually be Vulnerable authentic and transparent with someone and the right person will appreciate it and you will only scare the wrong person away So coming back to this original question Where did it go? Jonathan there's a guy I met and I'm I'm feeling really anxious because I like him. What do I do? You know what you do first be aware of your feelings Next that's 80 percent of it be aware of your feelings 10 percent Is managing your feelings and then lastly take inspired action Whatever that looks like for you and it might not be doing anything in my case I shared my feelings and my hope is That she actually is getting to know me at an intimate level at an intimate level. I don't mean sexual intimacy I mean emotional intimacy Into me you see into me you see because ultimately if you want to be someone's one and only You're going to have to reach that level of emotional intimacy and as I recommended this book earlier emotional intimacy If you really want to experience a juicy delicious happy relationship It's time to get radically honest with people because the current dating process of chasing chemistry and using romance for As the indicator of relationship success isn't working It isn't working And it isn't going to going forward. What's going to happen is it's going to require being a little bit Contrarian than the normal person out there. At least that's my invitation for you I want to thank that person for the question once again. Thank you so much I really appreciate it giving you a big gigantic hug for that one allowed me to share my own feelings All right, we're going to just take one more question for the day because my neck is hurting right now Question what's your advice? He wants to move in together, but he doesn't want to lose his freedom So I suggested saying at hotel some nights days by myself By himself Cocoa, this is a great question. In fact, I know a couple who is married They got married in their late 60s in fact This is her first marriage and this is his second marriage They're about a year apart in age and they they got engaged about eight months after dating. They moved I think they moved in together around that time They got married about 13 months after they met And they found out that the spending 20 and they're both retired. So spending 24 7 has been very stressful to them So they made an arrangement where once a week Each one of them leaves the house, you know sometime around 8 a.m 9 a.m And goes off and does their own thing Well, the person staying in the house does their own thing And they come back around five or six in the evening give or take and I'm sure it's not a rigid System that they have but it's a loose system of about eight or nine hours apart Gives them space and they do it. I think on Tuesdays and Thursdays one goes out of the home and the other person goes out of the home I'm not sure I'd be you know inclined to go to an apartment. That's a rather expensive Proposition, I mean you certainly can do that Or maybe you can just get a crash pad. That's one possibility the thing about losing freedom You know when someone feels like a relationship is Constrictive and restrictive then it's possible that they may not be capable of a live-in type of arrangement And a lot of couples these days are doing something hold on everyone for a second A lot of couples are doing the following They're doing something called living together apart living together apart and coco You may want to check out this book called living together apart, which is a it's a really short book It's a tiny little book. It's an easy guide To navigating a relationship where you're actually living in separate residences And in fact a lot of couples are choosing this as their method of being in relationship And being very aware of it. So they're they basically have made a commitment to be with one another, but they don't live together I have a friend Who's currently uh have been in that kind of relationship for three years Three and a half years and they're actually now finally moving in together But it took a lot of work to get there and they they read this book as a precursor to help them navigate Some of the challenges that happens When two people either live together or don't live together. So I highly recommend checking out this book coco All right, so thank you so much for that question Um, and I hope that helped All right, I'm just going to scroll through here real quick Folks my neck is I've got a little pinch neck right now So it's going to be hard for me to continue But I want to read some of these comments um A lot of people are saying amen. Thank you so much. Uh, amen. Amen. Amen. It's resonating. I'm so happy to hear that Um, I hope you appreciated my personal share as well You know, I hope you appreciated that one and listen, we're going to wrap up today. It's friday I want you all to go out have a fantastic time this weekend Um, and my hope is this content Resonates with you. My hope is you're looking at relationships from a different perspective Not from the old narrative that romance and chemistry equals relationship success What i'm encouraging everyone is to be radically honest be comfortable in your own skin Be more deliberate more intentional because that has a greater chance of relationship success than the way most people are doing it And that's winging it winging it winging it and I don't want you to wing it anymore Are you on board with that? I hope you are. All right. Thank you all so much for joining me tonight Um, and again, uh, please purchase a super sticker super chat the next time so we can build up that connor as like Scholarship fun. All right. I'm going to wrap up this video as I always do first off Give myself a big gigantic job at the barrack of self love I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm asking you to turn to someone a pet a teddy bear pillow and give it or them a hug of love Because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it. We could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye now Let's say goodbye to Teresa And jazz and glenn and jane and kimberley and michelle. Thank you all for being on have a wonderful evening everyone. Bye now


What we've seen is a multinational effort to cross a U.S. Patriot battalion, has crossed a German river using a combined German and British bridge. Our armies are getting smaller and we may not all have the assets that we used to, so we need to rely on each other even more. Combined together with all our forces and equipment, there's nothing that we can't do. There's a lot of wide rivers throughout Europe, there's a lot of wide rivers throughout the world and in order to have our freedom to move around particularly in Europe, we need to be able to cross this sort of obstacle. As our armies have got smaller, the number of people with the capabilities to actually cross a wide, wet gap have reduced. We need to work together, we all have smaller armies, we all depend on each other to provide different capabilities and we always expect to work together. So to have this sort of exercise where we do practice that, working together in difficult shows, it gives us the skills we'll need should we actually find ourselves having to do it for real. We defend in a static location, but we are first and foremost a maneuverable asset. We did that in Iraq in 2003, we moved multiple units, four, five, six hundred kilometers into Iraq to protect maneuver forces and critical assets. So this is a skill that, yes, we most likely have not rehearsed or practiced in the last ten or twelve years due to other focus. But this is the basics that we need to get back to.