Hey, what's it you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here. Hi. Hello. I'm Lydia and today we're gonna be talking about my diagnosis This video was the most requested on the poll I found on Twitter. If you don't follow me on Twitter, it's there on screen right now Twitter's where I go to to do polls And I go to Instagram to do Q&A's so My diagnosis. We're gonna go over every diagnosis. I have physical health included And then we're gonna focus on mental health Video so let's start with physical health and diagnosed with arthritis, POTS and type 1 diabetes Now for the rest of it. We've got ADHD autism, bipolar, DPDR It's just depersonalization and de-realization, EDNOS, eating disorder and otherwise with wife, PTSD which is post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and Insomnia. So now I'm gonna focus in on mental health. Bring it in, mental health. So I was diagnosed with bipolar when I was 13 years old I made a video talking about this a few years back. I got diagnosed when I was inpatient I take medication to manage my bipolar. I take haloperidol, I take lithium, I take bortioxpn, which is an anti-depressant. I take canazapalm and I also take the Zopi clover. They're the psychmats that I date. I was diagnosed with DPDR when I was 20 years old. Something really really weird happened just a bit and I was gonna film a video about this but I don't really want to set up a camera because I think it's too much, right? I'm still quite afraid from all of this and I don't really know 100% what happened. Long story short, I woke up this morning, I was up the noon, went to an appointment, checked my call, I just realised that what I dreamt and actually happened. What I thought I dreamt was actually what had happened last night. I can't remember anything after about eight o'clock yesterday. I had a dream. Well, apparently I didn't have a dream but it was a dream to me about these people who are following me, that they transformed into animals but they went from being human-versed to invisible to like the ghost shape. I can guarantee this whole thing happened because of the state of my phone screen because I've got quick knees and because of the call logs. These call logs are actually on my phone and I'm gonna insert a screenshot here. It was, I don't know, I don't know what happened. I don't know, I don't even believe in my flight. I don't remember any of it.  It's a scary situation. I don't really know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what it's about.  I was, I just, I don't know. I don't really know. Troubling. Troubling to think about. It's scary. Scary, scary, scary. Scary stuff. I really don't know what happened and I'm very afraid of it. I don't know. I'm afraid to get to sleep again so I don't know if it's gonna happen again. I don't know if I'm at any of my dreams. I don't know if I'm afraid. I'm so afraid of it. I'm hardly afraid. I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. I don't really know what happened. I just feel like it doesn't feel real. It wasn't real, but it was. And I don't know. It was such a vivid dream that I don't know. It woke me up this morning and when I woke up I was like, oh, it wasn't a dream because it actually happened because I got the call logs and the cubs and the brewers were meant. And how that affects me is it makes me feel like I'm dreaming all the time. So my memory is useless. I write everything down that I do. I'm just diagnosed with PTSD when I was 20. EDNMS I was diagnosed with when I was 17. EDNMS affects me where I go through phases of starvation and then I go through phases of bingeing. So there's starvation and then there's binge eating. Currently I'm not doing so great with it. In some years I was diagnosed with age 16. Though for me sleep has always been an issue. Now I'm on medication for sleep. I actually used to sleep at night. Before I would wouldn't sleep through the night and then I'd sleep all day. I basically did it myself. So for me mental health really has been my entire life growing up. But yeah, that's my diagnosis. Do that as you will. Thanks for watching. I'll see you guys in the next one.


I'm here at VIT Studios in Geneva and I'm very pleased to be joined by Leo Liemen, Chairman of Study Group 13 on Future Networks, IMT 2020 and Cloud. Leo, thank you very much indeed for joining us here today. Thank you very much for being here. So could you please explain to your viewers a little bit about your study group's work on Future Networks and where we might see this technology play in our daily lives? First of all, SCOBE of Study Group 13 covers three very big and important areas for ITUT. First is IMT 2020, you mentioned it. Secondly, it is cloud computing and big data. You miss big data, but big data is a very important part we have beside cloud computing. And thirdly, it's trusted networks or trust. Coming back to IMT 2020, I think it has a biggest focus in other communities. It's called 5G and we have started now work on during our recent study group meeting, defining the first delivery packages for this year and for next year that will cover architectural view, will cover softwareization, orchestration and will although cover aspects of trust. So let's say we have a future of standards work largely driven by 5G and trust. Is trust something that can be standardized and how do you develop technical standards for trust? Good question. I'm not sure whether or not it's so good so far. Trust is in very important aspects for future networks, not only for 5G, it's for all networks. And it's based on the fact that networks become more and more complicated and complex and without trust or means of trust implemented in the networks. You won't be able really to succeed with future applications that require that the users have trust in the application and the network and with the applications are running. Considering trust, I think if you look at the meaning in normal life, trust is something when I tell I trust you, I mean that I believe in your correctness, in your integrity, in your truths and that the first step what we have to do now, we have to transform this into technical means, means security, reliability, dependability. Study Group 13 has already done here first important steps during last study period by defining technical terms of trust with currently still let's say a little bit more refined with our colleagues from Study Group 17, they have to lead on security. And in parallel, we although develop here our plan to develop recommendations related to trust that have a focus on trustworthy architectures or network architectures as well as all the trust in the area of cloud computing and big data. And speaking of big data, you mentioned that earlier, you know what's the relationship between big data and cloud and what are some of the key standards that your group has developed in these areas? Yes, so first of all the big data and cloud to cloud is a mean in order to realize big data as a service. On the other side, cloud is dealing with big data, so big data is an aspect included in the standardization of cloud. And in this aspect, we have developed already recommendations that exactly and much more precisely than I do it now in this interview defined and explained the relationship between big data and cloud. And like I said, big data as a service will be very, very important. That may be also help for applications related to 5G verticals like IoT, very important there. Then in general, big data driven networking is a very important aspect that where we start now, first work items and we expect here recommendations with the next, I would say 24 months. And an important part of your work leading towards 2020 is supporting innovation in 5G wireline networking. What are some of your achievements in this area? That's what you mentioned here. That's exactly the focus we have. You know, 5G is very big and 5G has a strong mobile part and radio part. Indeed, radio part is done by ITUR. The mobile part will be done partly with us, but I think we cannot close our eyes that industry is doing here a lot although in 3GPP. But exactly the wireline part, the wireline access. That is this part where we expect our deliverables. And as I mentioned already in the beginning of the interview, when I talk about architecture and recommendations on softwareization, I have a strong and fixed mobile convergence. I have a strong more focus here on the wireline part of 5G IMD 2020 networks. And like I said, I expect here all the cooperation with other STOs because it's an issue that our members of study group 13 are involved in several groups. So it's important that we have a coordination and harmonization between these groups for this purpose. We have also established a JCA of IMD 2020 in order to secure that these parts, these wireline part developments are done in good coordination and positive coordination with other STOs in order to achieve here with big success. Like I said, first deliveries within the next 8 to 24 months. And we're here at the beginning of a four-year study period and the work of your group covers many topics. Are there any other topics that you'd like to highlight for the next four years? I think what will be an important area is in cloud, everything as a service, for instance, further developments in trusted networks. But we should all do not forget we have a so-called question 5 in study group 13 dealing with IMD for developing countries or it was an old name. I think the new name, I forgot now, it's related to innovations and networking for developing countries. And I think to support them, that will be a big, big goal for us and a big commitment for myself as a chairman of this group for the next four years. And what would be some of the challenges that these countries would require, you know, special specifications or new worklets? That is what we try. I can't tell you today, but based on contribution we received at the last meeting, we have started exactly to analyze by question 5, by the experts of developing countries, because this question is based on members who come from Africa and other developing countries to analyze which topics are important for them. And based on this, we will ask then our experts, our reporters and editors to develop in parallel to, by established standards, we all ask them to develop appropriate guidelines for the developing countries. Very interesting. And I'd like to thank you for your time. And I would like to wish you the best of luck with your new study peers. Thank you so much.


Hi there, Jeff Watts here and I'm here to announce the winners of my agile coaching cards competition So a while ago I added some new decks to my agile coaching cards app and these five decks were all taken from my book The Coaches casebook so each deck focused on positive affirmations tools techniques quotes Powerful questions all associated with five of the traits from my popular book The Coaches casebook and we launched the competition so anybody who tweeted their favorite card from any of those decks and explained why it was their favorite would be entered into a draw to win a free deck of cards on my app the agile coaching cards app so we're now at the point where we can release and Tell people who've won It's international coaching week Coming up. So we've got five winners. We had so many entries. We thought well, let's give five winners out so I'm going to tell you who they are which of their cards are the favorite and And they can then claim their prize Drum roll, please Can anybody guess new chairs? No So first up we have Andreas whittler Probably pronounced fitler, but I'm not an expert And and he actually tweeted quite a few cards So he really increased his chances of winning by tweeting quite a few but the one that I think he seemed to really latch on to was What if what you have to offer is just what the world needs Who are you to withhold that? And that's from the imposter syndrome deck People with imposter syndrome really struggle to own their own thoughts own their own successes Understand and appreciate their own worth And they're often thinking everybody else in the room is more knowledgeable more skillful more worthy than they are And a lot of their success has been down to luck. And so they will hold their thoughts But turning that that idea of sharing your opinion sharing what you have to offer more in terms of an obligation And you're letting down the world if you don't do this How can you judge what you have to offer? Who are you to do that? Give someone a different perspective on whether or not they're comfortable to share their opinion So if you are someone who struggles to be assertive struggles to own their own voice Maybe thinking about it in that perspective could be helpful Nice tweet Andreas. Thank you for joining into the competition get in touch and claim your free deck of cards The second winner is Maria Paola Sorrentino. A great name and her Twitter handle is at agile gardener So she picked something from the people pleases deck And she picked the powerful question is pleasing others always the same as helping others And she said that's important to her because it's very easy to mistake pleasing others for helping others And you don't realize what you're doing is not helpful Sometimes telling people what they want to hear or doing something for them Is actually going to set them back when actually what they really need is to hear The truth or hear some things slightly more difficult or perhaps To learn that they have the capacity to achieve something themselves And people pleases can find it quite difficult to give that difficult message And so reframing that as i'm helping that's my overall desire as a people pleaser is to help I'm helping by not pleasing them can be an interesting way of looking at the same situation And helping bringing that people pleasing trait back into balance Remember it's not about not pleasing people. It's not about being someone that goes around upsetting people pleasing people is a valuable trait But we don't want to get in the way of us being successful and helping people So thank you Maria Paola Great quote that you've picked out there. Get in touch for your free deck of cards on the agile coaching cards app The third winner is Thomas Krause or Thomas Krause I'm doubling up on the pronunciation options increasing my chances of being right His twitter handle is Tommy K And he chose what would be the impact of reducing by 10 percent the standards you set for yourselves And he said he loves that because he's going to be using that in the coming days having it in mind He might accomplish more with more impact. Now, I'd like to know whether he did and hopefully that was helpful to him We'll find out but again, thanks for entering Tommy or Thomas get in touch and you can claim your free deck of cards on the agile coaching cards app Our fourth winner was Damian Crawford twitter handle elfigo I'm intrigued as to what's behind that twitter handle, but that's just me being nosy And he picked something which again was from the perfectionism deck He picked a quote from Harriet Breaker, which I put in there, which is striving for excellence motivates you Striving for perfection is demoralizing So he's looking at the motivational aspects of the perfectionism trait All of our traits can be helpful to us as well as being Unhelpful to us So looking at our perfectionism trait The more we push for the more we're likely to achieve The more we push for totality The more quickly we're likely to achieve things. So these things are helpful to us They don't let us settle for mediocrity. They really push us forward, but But if we have them out of balance, then it can have a massively demoralizing impact on us So bringing things back into a more healthy helpful balance It's obviously something that Damian picked up on and I'm really glad that he picked that one out Hopeful that it helped him and looking forward to him getting in touch so he can claim his free deck of agile coaching cards And our final winner Was saline von der austen Again, maybe got the pronunciation wrong apologies And she picked something from imposter syndrome She picked a quote from michelle obama. So the former first lady And someone as successful as her with a best-selling book Who's been first lady of the united states Even she struggles with imposter syndrome and she calls it out and she says you never get over it Okay, it doesn't go away that feeling that you shouldn't take me that seriously. What do I know? And she goes on to say I share that with you because we all have doubts in our abilities about our power And what that power is It's incredibly normal. It's incredibly human To doubt yourself. It's incredibly helpful to doubt yourself You're certainly not going to come across as arrogant.  The stress levels will be unmanageably high So the cards in that deck will hopefully help people bring their imposter syndrome into something more of a healthy balance You're able to get the positives from it without it overwhelming them So those are our five winners. Well done to all of you and thank you to everybody else who joined in the competition I'm sorry. I couldn't give a deck out to everybody that entered Maybe we'll have another competition in the future. So keep your eyes out for that In the meantime, check out the agile coaching cards out. We've now got over 15 decks We've got nearly a thousand cards in there. They're double-sided. So you've got double the value for some of them now You can buy them in bundles, which gives you great value 50 off the rrp And that's even cheaper than buying the physical decks. So get in touch. Let me know what you like Let me know which cards are your favorites. Let me know what they're doing for you how they're helping you I love your feedback And thank you again for everybody that's joining in and take care


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Today I have the distinct pleasure of speaking with one of the world's top experts on graphene, Dr. Ian Flint. How are you today? I'm very good. Thank you. So happy to have you here. I have so many questions. But let's just hit the ground running with what is the number one most exciting application of graphene presently in the market? I would say probably water filters. That includes desalination or oil-water separation for contaminated sites, removing heavy metals from water. That's what I think is the most exciting one. And for those of you out there that don't know what graphene is, let's do a quick overview. Graphene is a single sheet of graphite. It's a series of hexagonal carbon bonds that basically goes on a atomic level, what seems like forever. But for us it's only a few microns long. This is not only one of the top sizzling online search topics in the world. It's also a topic where there's more misinformation than just about any other topic I know. So let's just start at the top if you don't mind. Number one, is it true that graphene coatings on fighter jets will make them impossible to detect through a radar? The short answer is yes. The long answer is no. What you have to do is you have to tune the spaces between the graphite and put different, basically metal ions in between them in order to make it absorb certain things. It can be done and it can be done so that it's active, which means you can turn that, basically that stealth on and off. But it's a long way away. Okay, so our military does not currently have utilization of graphene coatings for their fighter jets. No, they don't. Okay, myth number one. The next one I have for you, space elevators. That seems really cool to us. Our numbers went through the roof with a graphene expert telling us about space elevators. Can you tell us quickly what they're talking about? Well, what they're talking about is graphene as an infinitely long molecule that where one molecule goes from the ground up into space. And if you can do that, yes, you can have your space elevator. But at the moment, a graphene crystal is, let's go to that size. A few microns in size and that there's nothing near going to space. So what you'd have to do is you'd have to stack all those crystals together and somehow bond them together. We do not have the technology for that. Okay. Is it possible? We could in the future. I would assume it is. Okay. Very exciting. The next one I'd like to know personally is we had companies coming to us claiming that graphene was the strongest material in the world. Is it the strongest material in the world? Yes. It is. But only under tension when you pull it. When you push it, it just goes right into a little ball. And they were explained to us that they could take the iron bars that you use for building large buildings and use graphene it to make an even stronger steel bar for, say, the Chinese infrastructure. Does that sound? Yes. The same answer is the space elevator. Okay. You have to bond them all together to make one molecule out of the whole thing and we are not at that point yet. There's other ways you can get close to that which is to put the graphene into other things. Whether that's ceramics or metals or plastics, then you are using some of that strength of that graphene to augment the strength of the material you're putting it in. And you can get it significantly stronger than those current materials. But it's nothing near what pure graphene would do. But I won't even call it graphene because it's essentially a carbon crystal. If you had that carbon crystal, it's about 600 times the strength of steel. Okay. So, let's go to membranes, though, because they are real and they could potentially be on the market in three months. Three months. And what would these membranes do? I think you were talking about water filtration. Yes. That's what I'm involved with right now. The company is Zero Energy Waters, one of my projects. And what we're doing is we are basically coating other substrates and then using that to... I was a direct replacement for the membranes that are used in desalination plants. And the way to think about it is that the graphene is only a few molecules thick, which means that the pressure required to push the water through that is very small, whereas currently there's a lot of pressure required. So what is happening is that membrane, essentially you eliminate that pressure that is needed so that you're saving maybe half of the energy that you would for desalination. So we'll call that half the cost. And at half the cost, it makes desalination from an ocean economic, even for an agricultural purpose. Okay. So Dr. Flint, I need you to dump this down more for me. Okay. I'm probably some of my friends in the industry as well. So we're using this membrane, then, will be more cost-effective and more thorough for water? It's not any more thorough. The membranes that are out there right now do an excellent job. They just use a lot of energy. Okay. So the cost-effective benefit of this is it uses less energy. Correct. Yes. And the price? It's a little more expensive than the current membranes, probably 50% more. Okay. So what about as well the difference between organic graphene and the non-organic graphene, the scientifically created graphene, artificial graphene? We were talking about chemical vapor deposition versus natural graphene, graphene as the source. Okay. One is the reaction of methane or carbon monoxide that results in the growth of the graphene, usually onto a layer of copper. It's very expensive, but you get a very consistent single layer over an extensive period, or not periods, very extensive area. And that is the stuff that is used in the electronics industry. In other words, if you want to make some sort of a transistor or an integrated chip with graphene, that's what you're doing because it's a single layer. The natural stuff, you're making little platelets out of the material so that it's not continuous over that entire layer, which means that you can't really use it for the same purpose in electronics. It still makes the surface conductive, but it's not as monolithic, which means you can't control it. So some graphite companies have come to us and said that their graphite is more competitive for better graphene? Maybe. It may be competitive to make the graphene, but it was unlikely to be competitive once you have made the graphene. There won't be a difference because graphene is down to such a small level that almost all the impurities are knocked out from making the process. You're far below the crystal size of almost all of the graphite that's used as the source anyways. So what you're looking at is the quality of the graphene is not measured by the graphene itself, but what graphite is still with it that has not been turned into a graphene, and that's not so much a function of the source graphite as it is the process that you're using to make it. Okay, so I'm an investor in the market, and I want to get involved in graphene, and I'm super excited about it. What would be your number, say your number, your first, second, and third pick, and what would be the most exciting applications that are real for graphene today? Well, as I said before, the first one is probably membranes. The second one is surface coatings, because the surface coatings can impart heat and electrical conductivities stuff, so that you could coat a piece of glass, for example, and make it into a DV screen, so that you can basically have your windows in your car to be video monitors or whatever, and it also means that you can make your cell phone, the screen in your cell phone, conductive, which currently is using different technology, but it's much faster and much more stable than they are currently. So the coatings is probably the second one, and to a degree they're related, because the membrane is a coating on something. The third one is what you mentioned with the tennis racket, which is the incorporation of graphene into a composite. In terms of the actual bulk of graphene used, the amount of graphene used into the composites is far greater than that on the surface. For example, probably a ton of graphene is enough to coat most of the glass in the world, because it's only a monolayer thick. Whereas a ton of graphene into plastics is 1%, it's only making you 100 tons of plastic. So in terms of volume for the graphene industry, that's where the money is. Well, you heard it here at Investor Intel. Please join us regularly at Dr. Plant. It's always a pleasure. Absolutely anytime.


When I started when it was when it was open sourced at Sun So it's not that I was there from from day one, but pretty much like I don't know I think it was half a year later when I when I started at Sun It was great. I mean it was really In those were the days as the saying goes when when it was such a large project being open sourced Netscape went open source a few years earlier and it was I mean it was a vast amount of code and a great donation to to the community So yeah, initially it was all wonderful and great and people were happy and Adoption I was picking up and the first releases came out and then some port started But over the years There was some some complacency and I mean, I don't know what would you all know the story? How it ended and then people started to be a little bit unhappy about the dominant role of this one company there and well when this when when the ownership of Of the company changed and the politics changed community said well Let's do our own thing that we were promised since day one, but now let's let's act on that ourselves Because otherwise it just won't happen ever So yeah, there was a group of people Coming together from different locations and they were pretty much I think three or four centers of gravity Who independently of each other decided this is it let's do something about it and then Everything thing came to a head at the the last open-office conference And then we went ahead with a with the office and the document foundation Actually, I'm a developer so I'm working on the I'm working in the office code I'm I work I work for CAB, which is a wonderful company We're doing all kinds of people for stuff migrations development Fixing you also do some extension stuff around that so now, but that's what I do and That's my day job and and the the the TDF Things that I'm doing and the work and the board and the ESE that's kind of come to talk Well, I think it's certainly possible. It's not that that there will be intimate knowledge. It's it's a bit like it's a bit like no Active knowledge of eight languages So it's always like well you kind of know that but then there's one or two languages that you speak that you use daily And you you you're much more fluent in that But if you really then travel somewhere else and then you pick up the other language pretty quickly and that's how it's in that code by so you you have this overall mental model and You work on some part of the code and you get really really intimate with that And then you work on another part and you get really really intimate with that and then you can swap and and and change that and you'll get Fluent reasonably quickly, but it's still quite a beast. So it's it's So really We're trying to make it really really easy to get into that and if it's a small mean if it's just it's just a Functional it's just a crash. I mean, that's really not hard because the that's one one file One one code file that you need you need to need to to work with the debugger and step around a little bit So as long as the fix or the problem is very local It's easy or it's as easy or as hard as for any other piece of software when it comes to you the You know changing direction changing architecture Having a problem that's caused by five pieces interacting and then misbehaving That that's where this the sort of experience is really helping you Now So my view of the board ideally the board is not visible at all. It just keeps the things running smoothly in the background There's a number of things that needs doing. So I mean Liberal offices or document foundation is very fortunate that we have lots of very generous donors So there's some money in the bank that needs deciding when and where and how to spend it Then there's all this kind of decision-making stuff all this dealing with the authorities Whatever taxes and that's counting that sort of nonsense that We are not doing We're not actually doing that on a daily basis anymore. We did that in the beginning so I'm Quite pleased to say that that this is now kind of we have an accountant who does that for us and so that's Actually freeing lots of nights for me and other directors to do more useful stuff Yeah, but the board is really so the last line So if there's any any conflict in the community or if there's any problem trying to solve that in the In the project slow. So for example if the engineering The developers have some issues which we try to either have that Discussed like one-to-one and if that doesn't work then it's discussed in the ESC and I don't think it ever happened that the ESC couldn't come to a conclusion But let's assume that will be the case then the ultimate place to resolve conflict would be the board But we really try hard that this doesn't happen. So the board is really pretty much there to to crank the handle in the background so that the the foundation is running and The the work or but what really matters and what really makes the difference for for the project is What what the volunteers do anyway, so the board is not actually doing anything in a sense of Sitting down and in my role as a director. I'm not sitting down in code. My role as a director. I Make sure that the proper decisions are made and The project is general direction and then kind of budgets are approved etc. I Was running the lightning talk session and we were kind of introducing one project We just started it's about GPG integration and liberal office pretty exciting other than that. It's really meeting people and Walking around seeing interesting things meeting interesting people lots of hallway talks And community really meeting people in person. That's really what what that's the glue what what's Keeping the community together. You don't need that every day, but like once or twice a year It's really really really really great to do that


Hi, and welcome to 50 Days of Keynote, 50 Things You Can Create for the Classroom, brought to you today by me, Alicia Bankofer. Today is day 29. I'm going to show you how to use Keynote to create an alphabet hunt. What is that, you may ask? Well, it's an activity where children, students can master the basics of language, learn vocabulary, and see words in context. It can be used in many subjects, and of course here, because they're using their mobile device, children get up, they observe their environment, and they explore their surroundings. Why use Keynote for this activity? Well, it's really easy to create a personalized alphabet hunt, and they can add video or audio as they desire or animations, and you can easily share it with others in class or with the teacher. So what does this look like? The idea is to prepare a template beforehand so you can scaffold the work of the students. So I create a slide per letter and explain to them before I share out the template. As you can see, each slide has a media placeholder, a place for the letter, and a place to add text. So the object of the exercise is that they have to stream out, move about in the school building or in the classroom, and try to photograph an item beginning with the letter. And they have to make sure that they also label the item they've photographed or videotaped correctly. You can make this as a game. You can give them, for example, 20 minutes, and then they have to come back after these 20 minutes, and the person who has the most letters or most pictures correctly labeled is the winner. So you here, you can see a few examples of how I've done this in the classroom or in seminars. It's a really, really popular activity because they just stream out, and they just go crazy and look for different examples within the school classroom or within the school building. There are, of course, lots of variations you can use. You can give, for example, each student just one letter. That's quite a challenge, or you can create a challenge based on colors or shapes or textures. You can, of course, use it for different languages, and you can also have them just look for letters or for words. Special tanks goes to Ingolstein for creating the template that I use very often in my teaching. And there you have it. Fifty minutes of keynote. All videos are in Padlet and all keynote flyers are online. See you tomorrow.


Good afternoon. I'm Rene Bauer, the Senior Advisor and Director of the Southeast Asia Program and the Pacific Partners Initiative which focuses on Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific and we are very fortunate here today to have John McKinnon, the the Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of New Zealand. Thank you for joining us John. Thank you. You're here in Washington in part for a strategic dialogue with the State Department and other U.S. agencies. Could you tell us a little bit what's the nature of the discussion and what you talked about? Yeah, we set this up following the Wellington Declaration which was signed by Secretary Clinton and our Foreign Minister, Mr. McCulley in November 2010 and it gives us an opportunity to talk about a range of issues whether in the Asia Pacific region or more broadly when New Zealand and the United States have common interests or common concerns. So it was a good discussion, a very good format and we hope to continue to do that. The talks involved you and a senior counterpart from the trade and economic side. So we're combining security and political issues with the trade and economic issues, is that right? Yes, we're partners with the United States in a number of organizations, APEC, the East Asia Summit and part of that agenda is the Trans-Pacific Partnership which is an initiative to free up trade amongst nine countries. So we were able to discuss issues relating to that, also security issues, issues relating to counterterrorism, proliferation and the like. So it was wide-ranging and very useful. You mentioned earlier the Wellington Declaration. Yeah. Many observers think that was sort of a new benchmark in the U.S.-New Zealand relationship. Would you agree? Where are the U.S.- Well, I think the Wellington Declaration signaled a new phase in that relationship. We're now cooperating together across a whole range of activities, whether that's to do with climate change, to do with areas in the South Pacific where we both operate. Of course, we also have forces together in Afghanistan. There's a very wide range of interactions now between the United States and New Zealand as good as it's ever been. In terms of the U.S.-New Zealand are sitting together in Asian regional architecture, what's New Zealand's perspective on some of this new developing architecture, the East Asia Summit, the ASEAN Defense Minister's meeting? I think there have been some really positive developments because we now have a number of structures which bring together the key players, the key people who participate in the region, particularly with the ASEAN Defense Minister's meeting, plus that for the first time has brought together Defense Ministers and Defense Officials and Defense Force people from across the region, the United States, China, the countries of ASEAN, of course, who are the hosts, ourselves, Australia and others. So that's a new forum, but I think it's making a very valuable contribution to regional security. The United States and China, of course, I think everyone in the region seems to be concerned about that relationship and making sure that it goes well. But the South China Sea has certainly focused attention, at least here in Washington, on the potential for disputes and what's New Zealand's perspective on the U.S.-China relationship and areas such as the South China Sea? Well, perhaps if I just say on the South China Sea, there are a number of claimants there who have claims to various islands in that region. We don't take a position on those particular territorial claims. We just want an urge all parties to resolve them in accordance with international law and the law of the sea, and we're pleased a progress can be made in that way. We have obviously a very good relationship with the United States. China is a very important economic partner for us, one of our big trading partners, and we, of course, like all the countries of the region, are keen that the United States and China can manage their relations productively and constructively. New Zealand is a major trading nation, and you depend on maritime access to get your exports and bring your imports in. In the defense 2010 defense white paper, you lay out some new strategies for New Zealand's defense thinking. Could you talk about some of the highlights of that defense strategy? There are a couple of key elements. I mean, the primary one is that our main region in which we undertake defense activities is clearly our neighborhood, the South Pacific, but we're talking there about an area which stretches from the equator to Antarctica. So that's a big area to deploy forces in, and we have to be able to make sure that we can sustain and project them there. But beyond that, we have an interest in maritime security, of course, so we have deployed our ships into Southeast Asia off the Horn of Africa, and that's a way of saying, yes, we recognize that these issues can affect our security as much as those closer to home, and we remain engaged in the international community for that reason. And you mentioned the South Pacific. It's an area where New Zealand has a great presence, and we just talked to the Fijian ambassador a couple of weeks ago, and he mentioned that New Zealand plays a particularly constructive role, and I think we heard that from other island nations. What more would you like to see the United States do when it comes to the South Pacific? I think there's a lot of areas we're already, we're cooperating. For instance, we have just recently you and we have been helping with water supply in some of the islands which have been deeply affected in a variety of ways by natural pressures and natural disasters. And I think the areas which are important to the Pacific, such as human resource development, infrastructure, the effects of climate change, those are areas where I think we can cooperate very effectively with you and we would be very keen, and I think many of the Pacific countries would be keen to see an increased United States presence. New Zealand's a good friend of the United States, and we should ask friends for advice as we sort of shift our focus, the pivot, or the rebalancing, whatever you care to call it, that the Obama administration has announced on Asia. Any advice for us as we proceed down that path? Well, we don't normally give advice to other governments, but I think from your own forays into the region, I think you'll find that there's a recognition that the United States presence in the region is very constructive and people will welcome that rebalancing. Secretary McKinnon, thanks for joining us at CSIS today. Thank you very much. Good to be here.