Like for any other international court or tribunal, the ICC jurisdiction rests ultimately on the consent of the state's parties to the court's statute. But in order to know if the court has jurisdiction over certain persons accused to have committed certain crimes, one needs to combine various criteria and see if they meet. The court's jurisdiction must first be envisaged from a material point of view, what are the crimes under the ICC jurisdiction? It must also be envisaged from a temporal point of view, when were those crimes committed? Furthermore, the court's jurisdiction must be analysed from a spatial point of view, where did those crimes take place and also from a personal point of view, who comes within the jurisdiction of the court? It is therefore by combining the issues pertaining to the court's jurisdiction rationer matérieux, rationer temporis, rationer loci, and rationer personne, that one can have a clear picture of the court's jurisdiction and conclude that the court may prosecute certain persons or not. Furthermore, the ICC jurisdiction is regulated by the principle of complementarity that shall be explained later in this video. The ICC jurisdiction can also be extended by the UN Security Council or its exercise can be suspended by the same year in Oregon. And I'll come back on those two features later in the course. Let me turn to the jurisdiction rationer matérieux first. According to Article 5 of the ICC statute, the jurisdiction of the court is, I quote, limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. And those crimes are genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The precise legal definitions of each of those crimes is to be found in the court's As completed by what is called the elements of crimes, which have been adopted by the assembly of the state's parties pursuant to Article 9 of the statute, and which assist in the interpretation and application of the definitions of crimes found in the statute. It is not possible to detail here what are the various constitutive elements of each of the crimes falling within the court's jurisdiction. However, the crime of aggression deserves a special mention because its definition has been added in the statute by amendments adopted by the assembly of state's parties in 2010 and which still need to be ratified by 30 state's parties at least. Moreover, the exercise of jurisdiction by the court over the crime of aggression is subject to a decision taken by two-thirds of the state parties after 1 January 2017. So as I'm speaking now, the rationer-mattery jurisdiction of the court is currently limited to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Moreover, and even if prosecution relates to some of those serious crimes, the court's jurisdiction is limited to cases of a sufficient gravity, lacking such gravity, the case can be found in admissible under Article 17 of the statute. The temporal jurisdiction of the court is regulated under Article 11 of the statute. Rationer temporis, the court has jurisdiction only with respect to crimes committed after the entry into force of this statute. In other words, crimes that occurred before 1 July 2002 do not come within the jurisdiction of the court. And for a state that has become party to the statute after 1 July 2002, the date to be taken into account is the date of the entry into force of the statute for that state. However, a new state party may make a declaration by which it accepts that the court exercises its jurisdiction with respect to crimes committed before the date it became bound by the statute. But the ultimate time limit backwards is 3 July 2002. And when it acceded to the ICC's statute in 2015, Palestine made such a declaration accepting the court's jurisdiction since 13 June 2014. Let me turn now to the ICC rationer-locky and rationer-personer jurisdiction because under Article 12 of the statute, the jurisdiction of the ICC is either territorial or personal or both. The court has jurisdiction over crimes that have either been committed on the territory of a state party or by extension on board a vessel or an aircraft that is registered in a state party. But the court has also jurisdiction over the persons having the nationality of any of the state's parties. So if a crime is committed on the territory of the other state party, by national of that state or by national of another state party, the court has jurisdiction. But the court has also jurisdiction if the crime that occurred on the territory of a state party has allegedly been committed by a person who does not have the nationality of any of the other state parties. Likewise, the court has jurisdiction over the nationals of states' parties when they commit crimes in the territories of states that are not party to the ICC. And the exception to the latter principle is to be found in Article 15, B-5 in relation to the crime of aggression. By the time it will be able to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, the court will however have no jurisdiction over the nationals of a state which is not party to the statute even in case of the aggression that they are accused of took place on the territory of a state party. Rationer-Personnet, it must be added that the court has jurisdiction over persons provided that they have reached the age of 18 at the time of the alleged commission of the crime, Article 26. And if that is the case, the official capacity of the person accused or its status as head of state, head of government, etc., that status is irrelevant and no immunity either under internal law or under international law is an obstacle to the exercise of the court's jurisdiction, Article 27. In those cases of territorial or personal jurisdiction, the court exercises its jurisdiction either because a state party has referred the situation to the prosecutor and the state referral is regulated under Article 14 or because the prosecutor has initiated a prosecution on its own initiative that is Propriomoto in accordance with Article 15. The territorial and personal scope of the ICC can be extended by a resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations acting under Chapter 7 of the Charter. And during the last week of this course, we are going to study what is Chapter 7 and how the Security Council resolutions are adopted. But it is important to note already that under Article 13b of this ICC statute, the Security Council is entitled to refer to the ICC prosecutor, I quote, a situation in which one or more of such crimes appease to have been committed. And of course, the Security Council must act for that purpose under Chapter 7, having concluded that the situation constitutes a threat to the peace, a breach of the peace or an act of aggression. The Security Council has already referred two situations to the ICC, the crisis in Darfur under Resolution 1593 of 2005 and the situation in Libya under Resolution 1970 in 2011. In both cases, neither Sudan nor Libya are parties to the Rome Statute, but the Security Council has expanded the ICC jurisdiction to the situations which took place in those countries. And it is important to note that when it acts under Chapter 7 in order to expand the Court's jurisdiction, the Security Council may only refer to the prosecutor a situation. The Council may not refer the crimes committed by one side of the conflict and not the crimes committed by the other side or the crimes committed by certain persons only. The exercise by the Court of its jurisdiction is always subject to the principle of complementarity, even when it is seized by the Security Council. As opposed to the primacy enjoyed by the ICTY and the ICTR over national jurisdictions, the ICC only has a complementary jurisdiction. A case is inadmissible at the ICC if it is being duly investigated or prosecuted by a state which has jurisdiction over it. It is not important whether the state exercising jurisdiction is party to the ICC or not. However, and as stated under Article 17, if that state is unwilling or enabled generally to carry out the investigation or persecution, the ICC may exercise jurisdiction. In assessing the willingness of the state to conduct criminal proceedings against the accused, the Court looks into the motive of those proceedings, whether they are conducted in an impartial way and an independent way or not. If it appears that the domestic proceedings are not genuine and are only there to shield a person from its or her criminal responsibility, the sheer existence of such proceedings will not prevent the Court from exercising its jurisdiction. To the same extent, the principle of nebis inidem applies. A person cannot be tried by the ICC if he or she has already been tried by domestic Court provided that such trial was genuine. Article 20. On the basis of the complementarity principle, the appeals chamber confirmed in July 2014 the decision of the pretrial chamber, which ruled in October 2013, that the case against Abdullah al-Senusi, the former head of the Libyan military intelligence, that this case was inadmissible as it was subject to domestic proceedings conducted by the Libyan competent authorities and that Libya was willing and genuinely able to carry out such investigations. Finally, even if the Court has jurisdiction, as in N is entitled to exercise it, the UN Security Council may nevertheless decide to stay the investigation or prosecution for a renewable period of 12 months. Such deferral needs to be decided by resolution adopter under Chapter 7 of the Charter. The Security Council has thus as used this deferral powers under Article 16 of the ICC statute on two similar occasions. Under resolution 1422 in 2002 upon the suggestion of the United States, the Security Council requested that the nationals of a state not party to the Rome Statue who participate to UN established or authorized operations be not prosecuted. Such decision was extended for another year by resolution 1487 of 2003, but it has not been renewed further.


I just know this is gonna be a great show and that's why we're all wearing red, but you're gonna find out more about that in a bit. It's a great start to a great year. I know it. I'm Wendy Lowe and I shall be your host as we journey to take your health back. We are coming to you live from my home office in Makiki and from the studios of Think Tech Hawaii in downtown Honolulu. Think Tech Hawaii showcases many diverse topics with about 35 different show hosts. We welcome you to join us daily. As our boss, Jay Fidel, make sure that we have high quality content to share with all of you. On my last program, I invited Henry Lee to share his heart and knowledge with all of us. I have the honor of meeting this unique young man who was visiting from Ohio and we spent a lot of good quality time together, not quantity, mind you, just quality time. I invited him back as we didn't, we didn't even get to touch upon what we are both so passionate about, about heart health. And being that this February is heart month, I just had to bring him back. Today, the title of our show is Heart Attacks Are Optional, question mark, okay? And you're gonna find out why that is. Keys to prevent heart attacks and strokes. I mean, he's gonna tell us all about that. So I bet we got your attention, right? If not, you're better sit back and see what he has in store for us. So the question of the day is, are heart attacks preventable? Most people believe heart attacks and strokes are inevitable and most medical practices focuses on treating those diseases after they've occurred rather than preventing them, leaving them hopeless and not in control of their health. Today, Henry and I will touch upon ways you can educate yourselves and even reverse some of these symptoms. So sit back, relax, open your minds and your heart to receive this great message from our heart.  Thank you, Wendy, it's good to be back. Yeah, it feels like just last week, right? I mean, it went so fast and we had so much to talk about it and we said, done. And we're like, we didn't even get to the heart of it yet. So here we are, let's get started. So what do kung hei fa choy and heart health month have to do with each other, Henry? That's a great question, Wendy. And so I believe that's one of the reasons why you're wearing red and you're all decked out for Chinese New Year here. You know what, I'm gonna turn it back on you. Why is heart health so important to you, Wendy? Wow, okay, so, and it happens to be, okay, let me just explain really quickly. My sister died four years ago today from a stroke and that's why I'm like happy, sad, and I need to share this information and I thought so appropriate to have you back on, Henry, for that. But also my history is that I am, my claim to fame, I should say, is that I am the first keiki in the state of Hawaii to have open heart surgery here. So I was born in 1959 and they wanted to wait till I was five years old. Then they would send us away to San Francisco Military Hospital. But my case and my health was going down here pretty quickly. The American Heart Association formed the program that they flew in a pediatric cardiologist here about, let's just say, 50 plus plus years ago and it's my broken down and here I am today alive and well. So my claim to fame is I'm the first keiki in the state of Hawaii to have open heart surgery and thriving and so we're gonna hear from Henry on how it is that I can thrive and many more can thrive with just the right knowledge and education. So you share with us now, Henry, what do they have in common? Wendy, thanks so much for opening your heart and that vulnerable share. You have shared that with me before and I wanted to point out too that there's traditionally a lot of medicine tries to do their best at detecting heart attacks and strokes before they become a problem and one of the things that our cardiologist, Dr. Goulder, which by the way, today is his 70th birthday. So happy birthday Dr. Goulder. Yay, we celebrate life. If you're watching. Yay. He practiced cardiology for 30 years in Marietta, Ohio and as a traditional cardiologist, he knew there was something that he could do there had to be something that he could do to prevent the heart attacks before they became an episode. So he teamed up with a young lady named Barbara McClatchy who later became his wife. She happens to be a dentist so it's literally marriage between medicine and dentistry and you can see in this first picture here on the left that's the beautiful couple right there. So hopefully they're out there celebrating today, hopefully. But they developed a program in partnership with something called the bail don't need method which I'll introduce to you later. And basically it's a program that empowers patients with knowledge and personal care and it shows them that heart disease and diabetes and a couple other chronic diseases that we've thought were chronic before are actually reversible. And we empower families and loved ones so they can live longer, healthier, with a more confident lifestyle. You can see on the right, the top right, that is our dental and cardiology team. And we also do all sorts of other fun activities. Part of our dental team is down at the bottom right. Pre-COVID we used to do salad and injured hearties, meal prepping and teaching people healthy lifestyle changes that they can take home and we can literally partner alongside them with their health journey. And of course that bottom left is one of my favorite pictures of all time when I was able to visit you in Honolulu in your home. Thank you for having us over, such a treat. Well, you were able to experience Hawaii and bring in the new year, Hawaiian style and get your year off to a great start too as you shared all that information. We had to give you something to take back home with you. So Henry, what does heart attacks are optional mean? Yeah, so on this page here you'll see that this is something we call your root cause tree of arterial disease. It wasn't designed by us but it's definitely one of the core concepts that we use at the Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Center. So Dr. Bale and Amy Donine partnered up about 18, 19 years ago to develop the system to detect the sources of inflammation before they became a problem. So if you look at those circles at the top that's a cross-section of your arteries and it's supposed to be clear like on the left but over time there's many actors that are involved in this. You see that yellow stuff sort of seeping out into the outer walls. That is the epithelial layer of your arteries and that plaque starts building up and it's not the plaque that causes the blockage. It's over on the right-hand side you see that it bursts back into the blood vessel causing a clot and if it happens in let's say something going up to your brain it can cause an ischemic stroke or heaven forbid a coronary artery and cuts off blood supply to the heart. So what we do is we look at all the root causes of inflammation on the bottom of that tree and you can see the ones in red those are actually stemmed from dental, periodontal disease and endodontic gum disease. We've been able to identify certain bacteria strands that are present in the mouth that are directly correlated with certain diseases that we'll share later but healthy lifestyle, you can see vitamin D levels we take lipid panels and whether you smoke or not, diabetes there's all sorts of indicators that we can use to more accurately assess whether or what your risk is of a heart attack. So when we say our heart attacks optional they really are, if you get down to the root cause of what causes them and snuff that those, the inflammation before it becomes a problem and the program has been very successful. In fact, compared to what they used to use they used to use something called the framing ham risk assessment. And that's an old school method back in the 40s that really just looks at a couple of simple questions like, do you smoke? What's your cholesterol level? And what's your blood pressure? And at the end of the day it misses a ton of episode heart attacks and strokes by just answering those questions. And so we take a look at really what are the root causes before again, you have an episode. I could go on and on but we have a couple of other slides and I'm just gonna sit here and listen because I can so relate to all of this being a heart patient and living my life all these years. And I knew and everyone pretty much knows that the mouth is a gateway to your body. And so for many, many years, every time I went to a dental appointment I had to pre-medicate otherwise they wouldn't touch me and it's because of that maybe and because they didn't do all the other work up like what you're talking about they didn't have that common practice. So they just blanket it everybody by just say, you know what, take the antibiotic, cover yourself and then we'll take care of your mouth. And they didn't ever go further and see the risk factors for myself or for many other patients. So to shave for you, I wish and when I come and visit you in Ohio let's make me an appointment. So I can get up to date on my mask, right? I deserve it, I know I deserve it. And so we can get the word out even further. So Henry, how do you measure how old someone is from the inside out? That's a great question. So if you look at this here, again, we instead of just answering a few questions on a questionnaire, we have a couple different state of the art pieces of technology that we used to detect, not just blood flow but that buildup of that plaque that is hiding within the Intima media. So this is called a CIMT. We introduced this to you two weeks ago but I wanna go a little bit more in depth with it. A CIMT stands for, if you see that on the right hand side there, a carotid artery that's in your back here. And there's a couple of different pathways up there but we look at the carotid bulb and just below that and the thickness of the Intima media. We can detect how much cholesterol has buildup inside of that. And if we see plaque in there, depending on what your arterial age is, then we can take a couple modes of action. We can calcify it, harden it so it doesn't have the capability to jump back into the blood vessel and cause a colot later. Or we can really try to prevent the excess plaque from going into that thickness. So it's an ultrasound instead of on your belly, right? Then it's a simple, non-invasive, non-intrusive, takes about 15, 20 minutes and then can take hundreds of data points and Dr. Golder can even do telemedicine over Zoom. So you don't have to come back into the practice to receive your results. So we can tell what your artery age is the povy and what it actually is. So I got this done on myself. I'm 39 years old and my arteries on the inside measured at 37. So I'm actually here on the inside and not to brag but I think I look at young on the outside too. So I'm in pretty good shape. Wow. So you know how they always say Asians age gracefully and so even on the inside, well, when taking care and doing the right things, you're gonna look as good on the inside as you are on the outside. And truthfully, the inside is what I'm concerned about, right? Because like I tell all my ladies, that's the plan. You can paint the barn, but you gotta take care of the inside of the barn first. Cause if you got all these junk in the barn, how can you have any room for any activity, good activity within? So wow, I'm learning so much and we're just getting started. So Henry, you're reducing systemic inflammation is the key, which we all know inflammation causes disease. What are some simple steps that we can take to reduce our risk of heart attack? Yeah, so another tool that we use in order to reduce that risk is something called an oral DNA test. And it's not your DNA, it's the bacteria that you can find in the oral cavity. So of the over 300 species of bacteria that are present in the mouth, we focus on 11. And of those 11, you can see at the top of this chart and per, those are the severe and it goes down to the high risk and moderate. And you can also, if you can read that, I know it's a little small, but you can read the diseases that are correlated with each of those strands of bacteria. And so this is a picture of me taking my oral DNA test and it's a simple, again, non-invasive tuition spit and we can measure how much of each of those strands of bacteria are present in the mouth and thereby figuring out what type of antibiotics to then reduce that those species of bacteria to a safe level or eliminate them. And we do that through a couple, a three tiered step and I'll show you that on the next slide here. But that's basically what an oral DNA test is that one of the tools that we use in order to combat heart attacks and strokes before they become a problem. Wow, that's amazing. So on your list guys, and we're dating, that's another thing we have to ask, can I see your oral DNA test results? No, no, right? Cause then you'll see how the inside of their bodies are reacting and living. Okay, so we move further on. So have you taken this step to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's, diabetes and heart attacks and strokes? I have, this is actually very similar to Mitra. I was trying to find mine for you, but instead we're just gonna use a sample patients here. And of course we've removed the name and everything for confidentiality and HIPAA. But you can see this is out of the 11 bacteria on the top line there, there are nine that are present in this patient. And that was identical to mine. And especially looking at the FN, right? FN is correlated with a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's and dementia, not just heart attacks and strokes, but auto cancer and kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune and periodontal disease. So the goal is to get rid, clear out all that bacteria and we do that with a regimen of a combination of antibiotics depending on what strands are present there. Second step is to give you probiotics to repopulate that prime real estate. So the bad bacteria can't take hold. And then third, give you Juice Plus. Juice Plus is prebiotics, which basically in your bloodstream and your gut bacteria, it feeds the good guys instead of allowing the bad guys that feed off of sugar and processed foods and refined foods. So it's a multi-step process.  And the two that are still there, those are underneath the acceptable threshold. So that patient is now in good shape. Well, I love it. Prevention, prevention, prevention and this knowledge. That's amazing. So Henry, what other tests besides the CIMT and the oral bacteria DNA testing do you perform in order to guarantee against heart disease and stroke? Yeah, and I appreciate you using that word guarantee and that's a bold statement to make. But that is what we do here. Dr. Golder and Dr. McClatchy, they work together again with and dentistry. And so this is another test that we do. We have something called a comb beam. The beam is a panoramic, basically X-ray that takes a look at your upper torso from your third vertebra up. And you can see this is actually mine. This is my actual skull. It's a pretty dense skull if you compare it to others. And we look at a number of things.  And that top right graphic shows you the root. So if you have a, let's say, a wisdom tooth extraction coming up, then we do one of these scans first. So you can see just how many roots that tooth has or if there's an infection down there, then we can see if anaerobic bacteria is being housed down there. And the bottom graphic shows you the airway. And so it's color-coded based off of the thickness of your airway. And that oftentimes is correlated with your sleep apnea. And so you have this dental problem that you can oftentimes figure out, or sorry, medical issue, that you can oftentimes alleviate or fix by doing, if needed, a surgery or some sort of sleeping apparatus to help you get more oxygen at night. And on the root cause tree, sleep apnea is one of those factors that increases your risk of heart attack and stroke. So we combat it from both angles, medicine and dentistry simultaneously. Wow.  I love it, Henry. I really, really love it. Gives me a good reason to come to Ohio, I tell you. So since your patients, especially your dental patients, only come in once every three, what, three to six months? How do you partner with them in their day to day health journey? We have a number of webinars that we do. In fact, we have one tomorrow that is being given by Brad Bale and Amy Donin. And if at the end I'll put my information on here and you wanna get in touch with me if you're watching this, then we can get that webinar into your hands. That one's gonna be specifically about women's health. But you can see there's a few products that you can see in the background of some of these pictures. I just wanna show you a couple of those. I actually pulled out a bunch of them. I shared with you about the probiotics. And so we have a couple of brands that we recommend that we have in the center, but really you can pick up some from your local pharmacy. We have something called Perioprotect. It's a, they take a mold of your upper and lower jaw and then they put this gel that has hydrogen peroxide. And so I do this each night in each morning for about 15 minutes. And not only does it whiten your teeth, but it gets down into the pockets at the bacteria oftentimes hides in that you can't necessarily get with the toothbrush. We also recommend either a toothpaste or a gum that has something called xylitol. Xylitol is actually more common than you think. But if you look on the back, you wanna make sure that that xylitol, it starts with an X for the first ingredients because that actually is a natural sweetener that pulls bacteria, not just coats your teeth. And so we use that in the back. You also might be able to see something called Stellalife. Stellalife is a homeopathic plant-based ointment. It's also a spray. It's also a risk and it speeds up your healing in your mouth. And I don't know if you see on that previous graphic, there's some bottles in the back and these are one of my favorites. So the red bottles, those are fruits. It's basically the company that has figured out how to take fruits and vegetables, dehydrate them at low temperatures to preserve the integrity of the nutrients, crystallize the sugar out because you don't need the water and the sugar. What you really need is the nutrients. They have three blends. It's a fruit, veggie, and berries. And so it's 30 fruits and veggies in cow form that you can eat before noon every day and an hour before you go to sleep. Dr. Golder shared with me, I think he asked me, well, Henry, when does your day repair most? When does the DNA replicate and your cells divide? It's when you sleep. So why wouldn't you flood your blood with the best of the best nutrient? And there's also one of our favorites that we have in there too, is something called complete. And that's in that brown ox in the back. And it gives you all the fiber, which is super good for heart because it goes into your gut, feeds the good guys, so you have a healthy microbiota in your intestines, but the soluble fiber goes through the walls of the small intestines and helps clear out your arteries. So we really like to take a look at how much fiber is in your diet in terms of soluble and insoluble. So those are just some tools that we use to partner with people in their health at home because we know we can't see them all the time. Wow. So I'm amazed at that gum, the mode that you put into your mouth daily with the hydrogen peroxide. I thought I was your friend. You didn't tell me that greatest secret. I love that, Henry. I really love that. You gotta tell me more about that. I'll connect. I mean, that sounds super- I'll connect you with the inventors. Yeah, and it'll whiten as well. Tonya Duane. Yeah, that is amazing. I love it. Okay, so I know that you've spoken about Juice Plus and a lot of other products that you recommend in your office. I've been eating Juice Plus for the last 17 years myself, so I know the bugger is good and it gets me what I need daily. So how long have you been taking it, Henry? I was introduced to it about nine years ago and I wasn't eating it consistently.  And so with those dehydrated powders, I literally eat over 45 superfoods before noon every day and an hour before I go to sleep. So I've been eating it consistent for three years now. Inflammation has been reduced systemically all over my joints and my skin. Acne scars have disappeared. I haven't had this healthy skin forever. And my immune system is super strong, especially in the world that we live in today for important. So yeah, that's something that we bear by. Well, yeah, it sounds simple and I'm into simple because I'm so busy and I don't have a lot of time to research a lot of things, but unlike a lot of companies out there that have hundreds of products, it seems like juice plus is simple. So that's why I love it. And I believe they have like five different products in their line from a cardiovascular disease perspective. What would you recommend for someone getting started like Omega's heart and body? Or what do you want? I mean, what do I need to get on it? Well, what should I be asking you to help me get started on this journey? Yeah, so for all of our heart attack and stroke patients whether or not they've had an episode or we're trying to prevent long, those Omega's are super important and it's not just Omega threes, it's all five of these Omega you can find within a plant source. And so this is one of our flagship products that we recommend. Wow, plant based. So, you know, that's a really neat question because I always ask everybody, where do you think Omega's come from? And everyone says fish, of course, but then it's fish and not plant based. So they have to rethink it and we know where it comes from. It comes from the great algae from the sea. So again, it's a plant from the sea. So loving it so it stays in line with being vegetarian, I should say. So we're coming close to the end. How do we get in touch with you to learn more about the remote telomelicin, teladentistry, Juice Plus and how to get it free for our kids? You see here, our center is located in Columbus, Ohio. There's the number for office and you can simply call and ask to set up an appointment or just ask some questions to learn more. My information is down at the bottom. That's my personal cell phone. Please don't call it in the middle of the night. More than welcome to drop me an email or ask. And our heart attack and started prevention and complete health industry are under the same roof. And that's our address there too with our website. Wow, the show is over again, Henry. I don't know if you gotta come back again but we'll find another time when we can bring you back. So we just want to say to all of you, happy Valentine's Day, happy heart month, come here for joy, allow let's go out, listen to everything Henry shared with us and take care of your heart. Aloha everyone and mahalo Henry.


Okay, I hope you had a good break it was some stretches. Okay, let's start off So we we saw we saw that This was the ending that one Amos's scripture and James quoting it In the book of Acts chapter 15 He's just talking about the spiritual fulfillment of it that the how that the church should be a place Like David's tabernacle Where the Gentiles would come and you know be saved Etc. Okay The house of worship prayer and worship let's continue reading a few more scriptures Isaiah 56 verse 6 and 7 it says all the sons of the foreigner who joined themselves to the Lord, okay? All the sons of the foreigner who are they referring to? Yes Who joined themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants? Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath and holds fast my covenant even them. I will bring to my holy mountain Even them once again, who is it them? Thank you very much. I will bring to my holy mountain, which is God's holy mountain Zion oh there's someone's on a roll today What'd you have for what did you mix in your coffee or something? Even then I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar for my house Shall be called a house of prayer for all nations and suddenly we Remember Jesus who quoted this verse Isn't Matthew 21 12 to 14 then Jesus went into the temple of God and Drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple and overturned the tables of the money changes and the seats of those who sold Doves and He said to them it is written my house shall be called a house of prayer But you have made it a den of thieves Right. So what Jesus was quoting us from Isaiah 56. Okay, let's remember that and I tried to remember I Have very bad memory and remembering scriptures. I only remember which side of the page it was on my Bible right a left top bottom Which color so if I don't have my Bible, I feel very paralyzed is like, oh lord Whatever to search, you know So, huh? Okay, so just coming back to the point God intends for his people to be a house of prayer for all nations, right? We are to be engaged in a prayer for the Nations we have to be any you need to highlight or underline that remember that line very much Very important. We have to be engaged in prayer for the Nations now what some and oh boy, I don't know some controversial But then we take one verse that says pray for the peace of Israel and we will only play for pray for Israel I'm not saying I was like, uh, what about the innocence on the other side? Let's not pray for them. Okay Francis is right now in the war zone, huh? His mind is there Right, so you see Jesus quotes that from Isaiah 56 when he walked and he overdones the table He set everything in order and then he went on doing his work. What does he do it about healing people? That's what he did immediately, isn't it? So he set the house in order And then he went about doing the work of the father Okay, so another perspective of the The house being the house of prayer the house of God being the house of prayer is from a perspective of the throne room Let's go to the throne room guys Visit to the throne room Now As a throne room was also in in modern days or in ancient culture or civilizations was also known as the room of the Presence or the room of the face Why because so any room? Okay Technically any room that the king was present can be a throne room Now you take a palace have you been to my so palace? Okay, I've been there when I was I don't know. I think third standard or something I've never visited again, but I know it's huge and there are many rooms, right? Of the many rooms in a palace there is one room that is set aside called the throne room and It is that room where in that room where this was one throne one big throne that is set and there you have You know all the small thrones of ministers and all the politicians sitting is it and it is in the throne room You will get the audience with the king Right that you go to visit the king with your problems or issues or quarries, right? If you know minister from one district would come and say okay Lord this district is you know facing this blah blah blah and all of that So it is in the throne room where you get an audience with the king It is in the throne room where all the political decisions are made. They're going to attack. We're not going to attack What do you have to say about this? Right It's it is not an ordinary room not everybody would have access to the throne room You cannot access the throne room just like that It's like accessing the office of the president is nobody can just walk in Right Isaiah was known as the prophet of the prophets He's not just a major prophet. He was he had access to the The throne room. Yeah, because he was related In the year King Uzair died Okay, so and when Isaiah uses the language that When the year the King Uzair died, I saw the Lord lifted high And seated on the throne and the train of his robe was filling the temple Where one one version says the train of his robe was filling It's not filled what there are versions that says it filled the temple, but I like the one that says filling present continuous Right, so why is he using that language is because that you know the train of the robe in general You know the Kings used to wear the longer the length The greater the reign of the King everything the longer the length of the robe Displayed the greatness of the reign of a king and so Isaiah was taking that imagery because he had access to the throne room of a king And he's seen this earthly King with the longer rope and then he displayed in use of that language to communicate about God and say The train of his robe was filling the temple. That means in other words, you're saying there is no end for his reign Okay, amen. Yeah. Yeah So throne room is not an ordinary room when we talk about the throne room of God It's the most happy to say the least right And how is it connected? We'll just look at this verse. I love this verse Psalm 141 verse 2 says let my prayer be set before you as incense See the connection of prayer and incense Right, let my prayer be before you as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice It's beautiful Okay, so we all know the story what happens a couple of famous chapters in the book of Revelation is chapter 4 and chapter 5 Chapter 1 is also awesome Chapter from chapter 2 to chapter 3 is all about seven churches the letters to the seven churches and then Something happens to John At once he was in the spirit It starts up by saying right at once he was in the spirit. He was taken up To the throne room of God and we know about he starts defining a describing. Sorry not defining about the throne room of God surrounded by the sea of glass And you know, this is a rainbow or that encircled his throne.  We get the word magic Right magi magi from the east came to visit Jesus Same word magi magic image imagine imagination Right, so why do we imagine? Something when we have a certain image You watched conjuring in the middle of the night There was some horror movie.    That means you're capturing moments and So There was non-stop revelation of who God is and So the only response is that they worship and they and then then later the elders join them They cast their golden crowns before the king and What do they say? So let's read from revelation 5 8 to 10 It says now when he had taken a scroll the four living creatures and the 24 elders I fell down before the lamp and each having a harp harp represents worship and golden bowls of full of incense Now we don't really know how many bowls because there's a plural there. It's not just saying bowl Bolts Right small Okay Full of incense which are the prayers of the saints So there's worship and there's prayer Happening in the throne room being offered before him and as they sang and they sang a new song You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals For you were slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people in nation And have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth Okay, so you are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals. Why? Why was he the only one who was worthy to take the scroll and open its seals? What he did on the cross, okay, so how many of you know something about the scroll? What's a scroll? Okay, forget who gave it to who? But how did it look like how would you open it? Scroll isn't it like two staff and there's a paper their parchment paper is written with the thing A mediator minister ambassador would carry that But the ambassador was not Was not worthy to open the scroll It was not allowed. It had a seal Right. So if I if I write a scroll and address it to you and I tell you Anand I want you to give the scroll to Francis. You're only a messenger And if you opened it, you'll be killed. I mean you're breaking the law And so opening of this breaking the seal and opening the scroll was a very big deal again the imagery you back then now I think in the 70s or something They found one of the scrolls that belonged to Julia Caesar and said archaeologists and Nobody was worthy enough to open the scroll. Why because only the descendants of Caesar could do that. I Don't know if they found it or not Are you with me? So you You had to be worthy or inherit something if If I was related to Julia Caesar, that means I'm inheriting So I am worthy to open that scroll because I come from the line and I inherited Okay, so that language is used here and we were often a sinners We were dead in our sin We were orphaned we were separated from his presence. Are you with me? Okay? it's But Jesus Inherited us.  Why is John weeping? In the same chapter, you know, I'm weeping because if there was no one found worthy to open the scroll That means there was no one there to inherit us If no, if there is no one to inherit us the result of that is death For eternity separated from his presence We were on our way to hell Until Jesus came to stop where you're going Are you with me? Like you've seen children and parents, you know, and Tyler's running another distance. Stop where you're going, you know And we were headed we were we were headed to being Dead for eternity, but Jesus came and he saved us And because of what he did Okay, let's continue reading that Then another angel having a golden sensor came and stood at the altar He was given much incense that he should offer it with prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar Which was before the throne And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended before God from the angels hands angels hand So coming back to the tabernacle of Moses in the Holy of Holies There was the Ark of the Covenant. Yes or no, which represented God's throne here on earth Yeah, so just before the Ark of the Covenant on the other side of the veil was The altar of incense the closest thing that to the throne of God was the altar of incense That's the closest thing that was to him and We know that the tabernacle of Moses the Hebrew says was a shadow What's the real thing Okay, and here we see it's being just come from before his throne is this altar of incense Where prayers was offered are you guys with me? Okay, just stay with me guys will be done soon Let's continue reading some of scriptures revelation 511 to 12. I'm just reading it from the notes PDF bottom of page 92 going to page 93 Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne the living creatures and the elders and The number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands 10,000 was the biggest number in those days, so they didn't understand millions or Infinity for that matter right saying with a loud voice. This is very important worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing So how many? seven right power Riches wisdom strength honor glory and I'm praise I'm blessing. Yeah, whichever it doesn't just different versions have different names, but Now for him to come to get The title say the king of all kings Why are they using these seven things is a seven again symbolizes the thing of his completion of perfect number and it is He had to be perfect and all of this Again to be worthy and because he is worthy they tell him You know and any king Would be associated with this thing if you're a king of a nation The chant would be you know, it is something similar to this. Are you with me? Are you with me? Okay.  So everything any so everything that is connected with the divinity or Divine thing the color used is blue and This you use a lot of scriptures for that Red is the blood of Jesus and and purple is the royal color of royalty, right? so Matthew portrays Jesus as the king of the Jews Right and Which which gospel? Luke portrays Jesus as the friend of sinners that means The one the son who came to dive the scarlet red It marked portrays Jesus as a perfect and a sinless lamb of God and John portrays Jesus as a son of God So you have four different colors there You have four different colors there Each gospel portraying that isn't it, but you know what is interesting? Does anybody color here? Painting does anybody do any of it? Okay, I don't but I know a little bit about colors One thing is that you never get the color purple separately.  For us, how much more should we recognize that? How much more should we live our life in reverence as a church as a body of Christ? How much more should we honor him? Right and be a house of prayer and worship and everything that we've learned so far Right, and so we are learning about and there are different movements of prayer and worship God has been raising us and it started in 400 AD by Alexander Akimates So he was one of the monks Who lived between who gathered about 300 and 400 monks in Constantinople and just reading from him notes Where he established a movement called loss Perennis, which means continual prayer Pray without ceasing 24 hours, you know the house of prayer and all of that was started way back I'm just going through some of the movements of the houses of prayer moments of prayer and worship So among by Alexander Akimates 727 the Moravians the hundred year praying prayer meeting and subsequent missions And a lot more and then you also have in the modern day, which is the I hop International house of prayer not international house of pancakes Okay Because there there's a place called I hop in the US Which means international house of pancakes because it's quite a change But then this is one prayer movement, which was started in 1999 by a person called Mike Bickel And so from September of 1999 till date There's prayer and worship happening non-stop 24 hours a day from September 19th to 1999 And I have personally been blessed by that ministry by their worship It's incredible some of the songs and all all they do is just open up their Bible and sing songs That's all they do and they intercede They first look at themselves as intercessors and then as worship leaders or musician You're following right? So day and night Isaiah 62 verse 6 and 7 says I have set watchmen on your walls or Jerusalem They shall never hold their peace day or night You you who make mention of the Lord not keep silent and Give him no rest till he establishes until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth In other words keep on praying Look 18 verse 1 and verse 7 then he spoke to parable spoke a parable to them that men always ought to pray and not lose heart and Shall God not avenge his own elect who cry out day and night to him though he bears long with them Some 134 was one two three Behold bless the Lord all you servants of the Lord who by night stand in the house of the Lord So some 134 if you look at it in your Bible it will have a title called the song of ascent Look at it or it will be songs of songs of ascent a song of a sense, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so and that would have started from some 120 Go back to some hundred and twenty. Okay. Now From some hundred and twenty that's where it actually starts and the last song of ascent is some hundred and thirty four Now why do these Psalms come under the category of songs of ascent is now a send who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? All right So that means the temple that was pitched on the mountain the hill as People were climbing up the hill. They would sing these songs That's why it's called as a songs of ascent as they were ascending up the hill. They would sing these songs I'm sure there were more More than just the 14 But that's the the last of some of the song of ascent it says What those who watch by night in the house of the Lord? So it's again emphasizing constantly that there was day and night Worship and praise that was happening and The importance of it in the house of the Lord, which is the local church in our context now Are you with me right? We don't just have to do it for the sake of saying it's like, oh, wow You know, well the church does day and night 24 hours Like hey We all ought to do that or live a life like that. Are you with me? You know, there was in 2010 On to this actually is January of 2011 Some of you might have heard of this ministry called face-to-face foundation January of 2011 The first week of the new year we started off by having seven days of praise and worship word and intercession I have never done that. Yeah, which is which is called sore So in January of 2011, we did it for seven days May we did it for two weeks and October November. We did it for three weeks in Syaks um So I remember when we first when In jam when we first started it we were inviting people, you know churches and putting it in the christian cafes Uh, you know, I think in a week there are about 168 hours. I think that's what it was mentioned And here's the thing the comment that I very often heard back then was like, hey, what are you guys trying to do? Are you trying to break a record or make a world record or something? um, but you see that was the question that was posted Across when we wanted to do something like that But the question was wrong What should have been the question is is jesus worthy Is jesus worthy of that one week praise and worship day and night? Yes or no That's all end of the discussions. Let's move on Right, okay, so Some practical ways on how we can establish this uh, a local church as a house of prayer and worship is each people as leaders as ministers as your church lead pastor, whatever each People about it the importance of it. What we are doing is biblical Not not trying to break any records here Jesus is worthy teach them of that teach them of the worthiness of who he is And then develop a strategy right have an administrative system plan Okay roster Okay, uh plan accordingly to the geographical location where god has placed you If you're going to intercede if you're in the land of banglore or whatever, whichever city you come from What are the areas that you need to pray for that? If there's corruption pray for that corruption, right if banglore is known as the suicide capital pray against the spirit of suicide Pub capital, whatever it is, right? You intercede. So what are you doing? You're not just randomly coming into this thing and Blabbering something you have a strategy Why because we are going up against the principalities of the powers of darkness that means you're waiting wall And to wage a war you need to have a plan and a strategy It goes with me Right. Um, so there are some practical tips mentioning your notes. Please go through that when you can Let's go on to chapter 14 um The local church the temple of god The temple of god The place where god dwells the place where he lives So we know this verse first quarantines chapter three verse 16 to 17 Do you not know that you are the temple of god and the spirit of god dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of god god will destroy him for the temple of god is holy, which temple you are So most of the times we take that verse and use it for individual Which is fine Right. I am the temple of the living god. You are the temple of the living god which is partially true but what is Paul is writing to the church of corrent. He's addressing a local community He's not just saying okay you anand from the city of corrent. Don't you know that you are the temple of god?  So he's addressing to the Community and is encouraging them to live a life of holiness Isn't it why because the temple of god is where he dwells And again going back to the point where I started off the first session is that God is looking for a people where he can Some 22 verse 3 it says The holy one of hyzrael who dwells Among the praises of his people in the middle of his praises But you would have heard me say the statement in the praise and worship course that you want to find where god is praise Praises god's address. Okay, someone remember something Are you with me? Okay, so we I mean in the last class I we spoke about the tabernacle of moses We see that god giving the plan in exodus 25 And then again from the life of david we looked at solomon's temple that solomon built his temple, uh, Which later tabernacle of david which later becomes The temple of solomon, okay And so in each of this place From the tabernacle of moses and to the temple of solomon that he built We see that god's glory being manifested The glory and one of the simple definitions of the glory of god is the manifest presence of god right The glory of god is the Manifest presence of god. So when you think about the Presence of god, there are two variations to it What's the first one anyone? Omnipresent Manifest presence of god. So what is omnipresent? Is present everywhere, right? So what is that everywhere? Every everywhere on the earth. Okay. Yeah, simple, right? Every everywhere. Okay. Everywhere means everywhere. Okay Yeah So that's what omnipresent is, right that he's present Everywhere. Yeah Sorry Welcome to that. Okay so so see It's funny because um In our human brains in our wisdom We can only fathom him According to our understanding So when we say that he's present everywhere, that means we geographically think that he's present not southeast west all at once He's present right now in banglore. He's present in the united states of america. He's present in australia He's present in arctic. He's present in Antarctica. He's present everywhere. Isn't it? Psalm 139 starts off by saying where can I run from your presence? Oh lord If I run to the east you are there if I run to the west you are there if I make my Bed in the depths of the ocean you are there if I go up to the heavens you are there Where can I go from your presence? We are absolutely right 50 percent when we say that he is present everywhere Because our brain can't think outside of time because we live in time. We limit him to our geographical space Our space is time and space and mass. Isn't it science? Isn't it? Yes or no okay But god his kingdom He's outside of time He's outside of time. So when we say that he's present everywhere and because he is not Limited to our time and space because he is not limited by the time zone He's outside of it. That means he's present everywhere Yes, but he's also present in your past. He's present in our present. He's present in our future Why Jesus is the only one who can go to your past and heal your past wound touch your heart over there Make it whole make restore you while you are in the present Yes or no And when you're going through a hard phase in life in the present He's the only one who can go into your future and bring a word of knowledge or bring a word of encouragement in your presence And say hey, I know you're going through this right now in the present But this is what I have for you in store Why because he's already there He is not limited. He's present everywhere. Isn't it? um Yeah, I mean think about all the miracles that he did uh Creating the 5000 we think yeah, okay Bread multiplied all of that if you if you're done baking, you know that baking the bread takes time With the flour kneaded rest it related to rise and then bake and then after one some four five hours You have one loaf of bread which can finish in five minutes Isn't it but Or even turning water into wine Turning the water into wine if you know anything about farming first you need to buy a land Plow the land put some seeds on wait for the grape trees to grow grape trees or whatever You know your plants Okay To grow and then for the grapes to come and then harvest the grapes and then Stamp it crush it and then take the juice from it and then ferment it for it to become wine Let's say the process takes a year The time Make wine is a year Just on the water and going yeah Because in my realm I already you know I can do everything just in blink of an eye Why because I'm present everywhere Are you with me? That's the beauty of it. He's present everywhere and then there are times he decides to show up Manifest presence of his glory All right, let me step into the scene now guys You know as moses walked into the temple the glory of the lord came down as the pillar Time and time again. We see that in the old in the old testament you read about it. And so it was visible Right, that's one of the senses of us as humans. Isn't it now in the now It's not just the only way when he decides to manifest If you can hear his voice he's manifesting if you can see him and heal someone he's what is he doing He's manifesting If he's releasing a prophetic song what's happening Yeah So he can function and release or manifest through any of our senses Are you with me? Right? See, uh, I hear people say this all the time. I I I can't hear god But I feel his peace. I or I feel his presence That is him talking I will says he is the word Isn't it And so if you're feeling the word that means he's speaking Right his presence is his word. He's speaking to you like that. Okay, so And so again god would be encouraged to be a people who would be a carrier of his presence where who his god's Manifest glory would be would be on display on a regular basis See in the again going back to the book of exodus and you read through that story It says the enemy all the other nations that surrounded israel knew that the lord was with them because they could all see that pillar they could all see The pillar of cloud by day and and the pillar of fire by night They had heard of what this god of israel had done to egyptians Why was jericho afraid is because they had heard that they drowned the he this god drowned the armies of egypt egypt was A powerful the powerful army on earth that at that time And this god defeated that army And so the point is again, I'm reminded of the psalm that says he's put a new song in my mouth A hymn of praise to our god Many will see and fear and put their trust in him So he manifests himself through a prophetic song many will See and fear and then put their trust in him Okay, all right. Let's move on God desires of people who will manifest his glory Let's quickly wrap it up numbers 14 was 20 and 21 Numbers chapter 14 was 20 in the wilderness the book of in the wilderness chapter 14 was 2021. It says Every time I hear the book of numbers, right, I don't mean to be uh, I'm on record also But yeah, the cheesy is uh, it is this christian pickup lines I I don't I don't mean to be unholy guys those online, but you know, I was reading through the book of numbers I missed your number Okay, this is funny. Okay Then the lord said I have pardoned according to your word But truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the lord And the people among who god dwells some 132 was 13 to 18 Let's read that some 132 was 13 to 18 for the lord has chosen zion. He has desired it for his dwelling place This is my resting place forever Here I will well for I have desired it Zion in the old testament is what the local church in the new testament is his chosen people. That's what zion Simply means and he's desiring it. I want to dwell. I want to be among you I will abundantly Bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe her priests with salvation And her saints shall shout a lot for joy there. I will make the horn of david grove I will prepare a lamp for my anointed his enemies. I will clothe with shame, but upon himself Crown shall flourish So there's promises after promises when god chooses to dwell among his people What are the things that he said? I will abundantly bless her provision. There's supernatural provision when he's there This prosperity I will satisfy her poor with bread Verse 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy I will also clothe her priests with salvation. So there is salvation which includes Salvation. What's the Hebrew word for? I forget So so and that word is packed. I'm telling you guys. Rinnin has a is had something else, you know, like a like a magical portion today You know, it's like she's I don't know watch it in the pink cup over there, but You know magic portion to remember everything today, you know so So so it's packed with forgiveness right with healing with deliverance with victory and everything, isn't it? So he's saying that when I am there you will experience salvation in its fullness You will experience supernatural provision Right verse 17 there I will make the horn of david grow So horn represented strength Okay, now again if you again look at the altars that was built in the tabernacle of moses and the four corners There were four horns Okay, the strength displayed four gospels right Strength, okay. Go into Judea Samaria ends of the earth and Okay, let's move on I will make the horn of david grow. I will prepare a lamp for my anointed Yeah I Will prepare a lamp for my anointed lamp or lamp stand was a place of revelation or illumination Right, it would help you to Okay, that the people when he's among us there would be constant revelation of who he is Are you all with me? Right, finally verse 18 says his enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown shall flourish Etc. So Seven I will promises In that some what some did we just read some hundred and thirty two Who was 13 to between 13 and 18? There are seven promises that I will I will I will If I'm if if I make you my dwelling place and if you make me I will be among you and when I'm there with you. These are all the things that you will experience Right some 91 says I have made the most high My dwelling place I will dwell under the shadow of his wings It's not just a safe place when he is there or something beautiful happens. So Let's go through the chapter when you can is this beautiful that we as a local church We were called to be his dwelling place that he would choose to dwell among us And when he does Everyone around us will know that god is with us That his presence is tangible that his presence is manifesting in this place You and I need to thrive for that Right the presence is Is the fundamental thing that you and I were created for is the foundation of human connection When we talk about presence Are you all with me? Right presence is the foundation of human connection Why we emphasize on in-person class so that we can have this connection, right? I can look at you You can look at me Okay, god bless you guys online as well, but you know get the point He's only present you know But that's the beauty of presence isn't it beyond all connections Why do we put when you're meeting someone in? Very important that you put your phone on flight mode or you turn it upside down and keep it away You're simply saying that a thousand people can access me right now But I'm putting all aside so that I can meet with you You have my undivided attention. I'm present not just physically but mentally I'm present and god wants to be present. He just he just doesn't want us to have this idea Yeah Right and so Let's pray that we would be people like moses who would pursue his presence people like david Who would go after his presence so that you and I will be his dwelling place here on earth All right Fantastic. Well, thank you for joining. God bless you. Have a wonderful day


Hi guys, welcome back to the average. I think this video is going to be loads of fun, obviously you've read the title and I'm going to be mixing all my paints together. Now at little disclaimer, I will be mixing my gouache and my watercolours and that does not include my watercolour palettes that I thought would be too difficult to like kind of scrape into it and it does not include my massive acrylic set because I just think that acrylic and gouache probably wouldn't mesh well together. I'm not sure, I didn't want to test it and waste a load of paint. So obviously you're thinking stuff if you mix all this together you're going to get a nice poo brown but really my plan is to take all the reds, all the blues and all the yellows and put them in separate containers so we have the free primary colours then you can mix any colour that you want in theory.  Obviously that's not the case here, I like art supplies, I buy a lot and second disclaimer I buy a lot of art supplies because I also have a YouTube channel and I do plan to use all of these gouache paint. Let's move on. Let's get into mixing these paints. I'm very excited. This is inspired by Sophia Nygaard's series where she just mixes all different stuff like nail polish, um lipsticks and stuff like that into one beautiful colour. So I want to see what the main colour is from all these gouaches. I've got my little spoon here for getting and dumping and then I'm going to wipe it off with this trying to like not get rid of too much and this is just a cloth, I don't want to use tissue or anything because I think that would just be super wasteful. So I hope that you guys enjoyed this fun video, let's get into it. So let's get started with I think I will do reds first so I'm going to start separating all the pinks and all the reds together, yeah. This grey I'm not sure I'm going to use so I'm going to put that aside. Any greys, these two greys and whites I'm not going to use so I have to get the rid of those. I think I'm also going to use the oranges as reds because I think they would have more red than yellow in them and I think they would just make our yellows and orange so that's how I'm going to call it for this. There's a very fine line so let's begin. Okay guys so that's all the reds and pinks and sort of brick oranges and browns put together and now I'm going to mix all this up. At the end of this video I want to challenge myself to paint something using these three primary colors so hopefully it's not brown. Let's mix it up. It's looking like a nice red to be honest, it's quite nice. It's something that I would probably pick out to paint with so maybe that makes sense because a lot of these colors I did hand pick myself so it makes sense that overall it would be a color that I would like and pick so that is the most dominant red in my collection of gouache and watercolor and I really like it. I think maybe I might have some issues with trying to make some contrast with it because it is very pink but let's push through and do blue next. Some of these are really blue but I think I'm going to leave out this row of greens because I think it will make this blue more green and it will definitely make the yellow just green so we're gonna maybe leave out some more of the light greens. Let me know in the comments if you think that's wrong or right. I'm not sure how to judge this one but let's see how it turns out anyway. Okay so that's what all the sort of blues look like. I noticed that I put this purple in and I'm not sure if I regret doing that but I think it is more of a blue purple than it is a red so I think it made sense to put it in. Like I said I kind of skipped some of the more yellowy greens and I think they're just gonna be skipped because it doesn't make sense to put them in here. It would just make this green and saying that I hope that some of the purple hues make this less green and more blue but let's see what happens when I mix up batch number two. That is what batch two looks like. This blue is amazing. I think it really suits this red and I think this color scheme is kind of going to go well together and this could all fail when we put in yellow but let's test it out and see. Okay so that is all my yellows and yellow ochre together. Probably you're thinking that this one looks a little bit brown but it is yellow ochre I believe so it is yellow. This one is a little bit pink but to me it's kind of like a yellowy pink so I felt like it made sense to put it in here. I tried not to put too much of it in it so it didn't really distract from the yellows. Now let's get into mixing this final batch of the yellows. Okay so that's the final batch the yellow batch and I kind of like it. I think it is a little bit more orange and ochre than I'm used to but I think it's a nice yellow. These are the three primary colors that are I would say the average kind of color of all the colors that I own of gosh and watercolors. Let's see what I can paint with this. I really think these three colors go really nicely together so I'm hoping that it won't be a difficult of a challenge that I think it's going to be but let's let's see how it goes. I will be cheating a little bit and be using white. First of all let's not make the same mistake again and actually swatch these colors like I did before so this is what it looks like not watered down and this is what it looks like a little bit watery. Yeah very nice blue I think that we can work with that. I think that's pretty nice. Time for the mustard orange which actually looks very nice. I started off by painting the background with a mixture of the blue and yellow to make a sort of light turquoise color and then I wanted to have a little bit darker blue in the background and it took me a while to get this gradient right of what I wanted in the background and once I had down that layer of greeny blue I wanted to work on the figure in the foreground so this is an image of hopefully my main character of the comic sort of walking down a street looking like she doesn't really care and maybe a little worse for wear and smoking a cigarette and just chilling down a typical hopefully American looking street and yeah I just wanted to see how quickly I could create a scene well not quickly but just I tried to be a bit more expressive with my brushstrokes with this piece and tried to see how much I could create with limited time and brushstrokes and just trying to be more abstract but in a way that like just block shapes worked and gave the person looking at it an idea or a feeling of what they were viewing and I really like this approach I really like painting like that it reminds me a lot of other artists that I've seen do this similar approach and I think it's something that I really want to look into following the style of the comic I think I really haven't done a experimental style of my horror comic that I'm trying to do this year so usually when you start a project um you look into what kind of style you want to do for it well I do anyway if you really have a set style maybe you want everything to look um similar in your range of stuff that you create but I always like to have a kind of a unique style and it's always fun for me to look into doing that and experimenting and finding something different than before so before I made a horror comic and it was all done with copy markers and um pens and pencils and I really like that style but I wanted to do something completely different so so this is really working for me now I think that this might be the style that I'm looking for and also I never considered using a limited I also never considered using a limited color palette like I have used here and I think they've really helped give a sense of mood to the scene and it's something I'm going to look into doing more probably not having the same color palette on each page but having a color palette within a scene or sort of a chapter of the comic story sorry if you haven't heard about what I'm doing I've been talking a lot about it in other episodes of well not episodes in other youtube videos that I've done but I'm trying to create a horror comic this year and this is sort of my I use a lot of youtube videos to push that drive that project forward and it's so far is going quite well so if you haven't heard of it before and you're interested then subscribe and you can stick along for the ride we're gonna be creating a lot more horror comic issues and things in the future I also tried to do stuff like last week where it wasn't really involved with the horror comic because I think like I don't want every video to be about the horror comic so anyway I really like the way that this piece turned out and I think using these paints these primary color paints really worked and I hope that you guys enjoyed looking and watching me come up with something with just this limited primary color palette and yeah I did a lot of mixing on the paper with the paints and I think that really helped and I also used a skin tone with a little bit of white here and there on the side but you can see that you can create skin tones with red blue and yellow and maybe a bit of white so it really helped to create a nice skin tone and have like a little pot of it right next to you so I could just dip into it whenever I needed to okay I think I'm going to call it because I feel like if I work on this anymore I'll be overworking it and I don't want to do that I want to let this be and I like where it's at now so I don't want to overwork it because I like kind of the rawness of it if that makes sense making shapes with these colors has been really satisfying I think it really made something good happen from it like it had a great outcome I think anyway so let me know what you guys think as always down in the comments and I will read them I think I really enjoyed this one so I hope you guys liked this video if you did please subscribe if you haven't subscribed we're nearly at 100,000 subscribers which is absolutely insane like if I hit that I'm just gonna be over the moon and yeah that would be nuts so thanks so much for watching again and I will see you next time hopefully bye


With the recent stock price falling more than 20% from its all-time high, and some of the tech stock dropping 50% to even 80%, the plenty and Shopify. Some investors are wondering exactly what is going on in the stock market. Are these tech companies supposed to be good companies to invest in the first place since so many of the friends, colleagues and even auntie uncles have been talking about them? If indeed it's a great company, why is the stock price dropping like crazy? If your portfolio is in red right now, and if you're wondering exactly how can you start investing safely like what Warren Buffett has been doing, and how can you use value investing to start investing in the stock market in a very wise manner instead of depending on hearsay, then keep on watching. Subscribe button as well as the notification bell so that you will not miss out any of my future investment updates. And early thumbs up is also appreciated because I will tell YouTube algorithm that you find this video helpful and will actually help to push up to more people to inspire them to start investing safely. In this video, I'm going to share with you the 5 key metrics that Warren Buffett himself looks at before investing in any single company. Before that, I want to give a special thanks to Moomoo Singapore for sponsoring this video. Now let's get started. When it comes to value investing, Warren Buffett says it's very simple. It all boils down to buying a good company at a good price. So firstly, let's understand what makes a company great. The first key metric that Warren Buffett looks at is growing earnings per share. Earnings per share serve as an indicator of the company's profitability, which means it's a company making money or actually losing money. It is calculated by dividing the company profit by the number of shares outstanding. Warren Buffett always advocates in investing businesses that are predictable and consistent earning is a form of predictability. For example, if you look at Apple, which is Warren Buffett's largest holding right now, it has very consistent earnings per share. Its EPS has been steadily growing over the years and if the business does well, the stock price will eventually follow. And that is why you can see that Apple's stock price has also been growing over 300% in the past five years together with the growing earnings per share. Number two, growing operating cash flow. Once you find a company with growing EPS, your research shouldn't just stop there. You also need to look at the company's operating cash flow. Because there are some companies that like to cook the book, which means they purposely make the income statement, which is a profit, looks super nice, super profitable, but actually in reality, they are losing money. Which means they're unable to produce any cash flow from their day-to-day operations. And we all know cash is king. It's the blood of the business. If the company is unable to generate cash flow, these business may eventually go into bankruptcy. Just like what happened to high flux back then, you can see that the revenue has been very stable and consistent. But if you dip dive into its cash flow statement, you can see that its operating cash flow has been consistently negative. So you must be wondering, what is operating cash flow? To simply put, it is a measure of the amount of cash that the business generate from its day-to-day operations. And in order to make sure that we are investing in a good company, we should look out for companies with positive operating cash flow and in fact, growing operating cash flow. You can see that for the past five years, Apple has been having positive and consistently growing operating cash flow. No wonder it is Warren Buffett's favorite company. Once you check the OCF, the next step is to see whether the company has a good net margin. As you can see, inflation is hitting all-time high and the Fed is actually increasing interest rates. What does that mean is we are likely to enter a recession. When that happens, people will start cutting spending and businesses with low profit margin will start to suffer. In order to survive, these businesses are forced to cut down their prices even further to attract customers. But this in return will reduce their margin even lower. And this vicious cycle will drive many businesses out of business. Which is exactly what happened when COVID-19 hit for the past two years. So many retail shops, restaurants, bars are forced to close because their margin just can't sustain a business anymore. So how is net margin being calculated? All to do is to use the net profit divided by the total revenue collected by this business. We want the net profit margin to be a minimum of 10% or even better, more than 20%. The net profit margin of Apple has been consistently above 20%, showcasing that this company has a lot of pricing power through strong branding. And Warren Buffett always loves to invest in businesses that people are willing to pay, even though it's expensive. And here comes Warren Buffett's one of favorite investing metrics, return on equity. ROE signifies how efficient the company is in generating profits for its shareholders. It is calculated as using net income divided by shareholders' equity. As we all know, shareholders' equity belongs to shareholders like you and me. So we want to make sure this company is indeed using our equity effectively and efficiently to generate more profits. In short, it helps investors to understand whether are they getting a good return from their investment. Just like other metrics, different industries have different benchmarks for ROE. But a general rule of thumb is, if you can find a business with above 15% ROE, it is indeed a rare find. As you can see from Apple, the ROE has been consistently above 15% for so many years. Just like what Warren Buffett said, you need to buy a good company at a good price. So once we understand this is a good company, now it's time to learn how to know whether is it a good price to buy it right now. There are so many valuation metrics out there that you can use. But right now, I'm going to show you one key valuation method that many professional people, including fund managers, are using to evaluate a stock. And that is PE ratio. The price-to-earnings ratio in short, PE ratio tells how much the market is willing to pay to buy this company. By dividing the stock price over the earnings per share of the company, it conveys how much the investor is willing to pay for every single dollar of the earnings. Right now, Apple has a PE ratio of 27 times. But exactly is 27 times cheap or expensive? How do we know? We need to compare with its sector average. And as you can see from the Moomoo app, the sector average is only 26 times. So if you buy Apple at this price, you're actually paying more compared to buying its peers. On the other hand, Meta Platform, which is Facebook, only has a PE ratio of 14 times as compared to its sector average of 20 times. That means it could potentially be a very good investing opportunity right now. So here are the 5 key metrics that you should start looking at before investing in any single company. Remember, value investing is a very powerful method that Warren Buffett has been using for years to compile his wealth. But this is a very deep topic and what I'm showing you right now in this video is just the tip of the iceberg. So I highly recommend you to read deeper into Warren Buffett's investing philosophy, which has true number of books, including Buffettology, written by my own personal mentor, Mary Buffett, who learned directly from the Buffett family so that you can truly understand the beauty of value investing. And if you know how to combine options with the power of value investing, that's how you can increase your return even further. If you also want to learn about options, my team and I are actually conducting a free options foundation class. All you have to do is to click on the link around this video and register for your spot. And if you want to get started in your investing journey and wondering which account to open, then do consider Moomoo, because it's a very established brokerage that allows you to invest in diversified markets, including US, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and more. Most importantly, it's also regulated by MAS, Monetary Authority of Singapore. 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So what does God do all day long? Whatever he wants to. Usually we talk about how busy the enemy is, how active the devil is in our lives, but sometimes we forget that just as Satan is active, so too is God.  The Bible says that the very hairs of our head are numbered by him, and since the amount of hair on our heads differ, and it changes, then that tells me that he is involved daily. So really when it comes to knowing what does God do all day long, well, as I said, whatever he wants to, but what is it that he wants to do? Well, he does whatever he wishes according to his own counsel. Let me tell you some things that we know that he does all day long. He commands the winds and the waves at his discretion. He sends fires, he puts out fires. He orchestrates life and death. He rewards while at the same time punishing and correcting. He humbles while at the same time simultaneously lifting people up out of hopelessness. And even if circumstances haven't changed, he encourages hearts. All day long, he heals hearts while still killing flesh. Here's the question, who took your life last night? Nobody, no why? Cause he was on the guard, he was protecting you. What does he do all day? He reconciles families and restores relationships. What does he do all day? He mends broken hearts and wipes away tears. And while he's doing all that, he still finds time to conduct face-to-face meetings. Some of those meetings aren't so good though. He's meeting people for the very first time, some for the very last time. Some people finally get a chance to put a name to a face. And while he's doing that all day long, he also takes phone calls. All day long, he's lifting up and putting down. He's bringing people in and taking some stuff out. What does God do all day long? He sustains me and he sustains you. And multiply that over eight billion times. And not is he just sustaining eight billion people each day, every day, all day long. He does it every day, 365 days a year. So what does God do all day long? For us, everything. To him, nothing too difficult.


For the standards of being and becoming a professional, I was exposed to several topics on my journey. Things like ECCE policies, legislation, professionalism, ethics and the professional identities helped to build my knowledge about self and the demands of the profession. As I became knowledgeable about the topics, I realized I needed to bring together different types of knowledges to make the best decision for children's development and learning. Let me explain the growth of being and becoming a professional in ECCE. I did not become a critically reflective teacher overnight. On my journey, I moved through stages of self-reflection and guided reflection and moved closer to becoming a critically reflective teacher. Remember, becoming critically reflective begins with understanding the type of teacher you want to become. I do not want to simply be given materials and just follow scripted learning plans. This approach will take away my creativity and my ability to respond and to change to suit the needs of all my children. I want to be an ECCE teacher who plans learning experiences taking into account the needs and interests of each child and a teacher who is guided by the learning aims in the national curriculum framework. I want to use a variety of knowledges to show a flexible and responsive practice with children. This means I have to be highly knowledgeable and skilled.


Right now at Appalachian Wireless you can get the Samsung Galaxy S7 for just $99.99 and get a second one Service agreement is required on both devices serving you for the last 25 years with better service and bigger savings at today's Appalachian Wireless Belfry High School hosted its third annual Harvest Bazaar today at the school local vendors featuring Lula Rowe, Matilda Jane 31 as well as food crafts and more were set up in the cafeteria for community members to browse and shop We're having the Harvest Bazaar at Belfry High School We have vendors from around the area come out to help support the high school and Bring business to the small businesses In order to raise money for the school vendors who set up at today's Harvest Bazaar paid a booth fee and held A silent auction it's important to support the people that are in your area when you have the small businesses They thrive they spend their money here They help the economy here and this area really needs that the money raised from today's event went to Belfry High School's general funds account Reporting in Belfry for EKB news. I'm Shelby Steele


Ukraine, at risk of cascading frontline collapse, New York Times, Ukraine's worsening lack of ammunition and battle fatigue will most likely force Kiev to abandon its current frontline positions unless it receives new aid from the West, the New York Times reported. The paper said that Ukrainian defences near the key stronghold of Avdivka in Russia's Donetsk region are reeling under relentless attacks and Kiev's problems extend beyond one single battle. Ukrainian troops, the New York Times added, are exhausted and suffer from a lack of weapons and ammunition, especially with regard to air defense systems. According to unnamed US officials interviewed by the outlet, Kiev only has enough air defense assets to last until March unless it receives new shipments. This is far from certain. As the US, Ukraine's main backer is locked in congressional gridlock over President Joe Biden's request to approve a $118 billion security bill, $60 billion of which is earmarked for Kiev. Many Republicans have been reluctant to support the measure, claiming it does too little to improve security on the border with Mexico. Western officials believe that without US aid, a cascading collapse along the front line is a real possibility in 2024. The article says, Nevertheless, they reportedly estimate that it will take at least a couple of months for the shortages to take a toll. According to analysts, by March, Ukraine could be struggling to carry out local counterattacks and by summer, Kiev could find it difficult to repel Russian assaults. Without continued US support, New York Times sources say it's hard to see how Ukraine will be able to maintain its current positions on the battlefield. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly complained of a shortage of ammunition, calling it a very real and pressing problem. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported, citing a senior EU official, that it will not be easy for the Europeans to substitute for the US.


Most of us can attest to the difficulties of seeing payment markings while driving in rainy conditions at night. A technology developed by 3M features optical elements that can retro-reflect light underwater, which greatly increases payment marking visibility in rainy conditions. This technology is termed all-other paint and is supported by the Federal Highway Administration through a project under its Highways for Life Technology Partnerships Program. The goal of the project is to develop a version of the technology for construction work zones. Here is a demonstration of this technology compared to conventional glass bead and paint type payment markings. First is a simulation in a controlled environment with a rain simulator. The rain simulator features sprinklers that provide one inch per hour rain on the payment markings below them. Over the two payment markings, the one on the left is 3M all-other paint and the one on the right is a conventional payment marking with paint and glass beads. The samples are about 3 meters in length. The camera is located 30 meters from the markings. First is a simulation of daytime visibility, where the markings receive diffuse light coming from various directions. In such daytime conditions, the visibility of the markings is very similar. At night, the situation is quite different. Once the diffuse light is removed and headlamps near the observer provide illumination, visibility almost entirely depends on the respective retroreflective characteristics of the payment markings. Initially, both payment markings are dry and both are visible. As rain starts falling onto the markings, the retroreflective capacity of the conventional payment markings decreases substantially. Within one minute, the visibility of the conventional markings greatly deteriorates, whereas the all-other paint is virtually unaffected. Within two minutes, the difference is even greater. All-other paint is clearly visible and the conventional payment marking sample is very difficult to see. Now let's look at these two systems in the field. Videos were recorded at an experimental site where three different formulations of all-other paint were evaluated by drivers, together with the conventional payment markings and the temporary weather tape. In the first pass, all markings are dry. The task of the subject is to determine the direction of taper at the end of each continuous longitudinal marking as early as possible. The taper could be either to the right, left, or both and sometimes there is no taper and the longitudinal marking comes to an abrupt end. You can try this yourself as you watch the video and determine how far in advance you can detect the direction of the taper. The distance between consecutive reflective cones is 50 feet. The first sample is a conventional payment marking with paint and glass beads. The taper at the end is pointing left. Next are three experimental all-other payment marking samples. The first one, the second one, and the third and last one. Final sample is a temporary weather tape which uses an optical package very similar to all-other paint. The visibility of all these technologies is comparable under dry conditions with properly aimed and clean modern headlights. Next are the same payment markings under rain. Nozzles directly above the markings generate a half inch per hour artificial rain for all the markings throughout the rain range. The order of the markings is the same as in the dry condition. The first sample is the conventional payment marking with paint and glass beads. Notice that the brightness of the sample is reduced considerably under rain. In fact, in the actual experiment half the drivers entirely missed the taper. The following three samples are all experimental all-other paint. The first one, the second one, and the third one. The fifth and final marking is the temporary weather tape. The result of the human factors field experiment with the five different payment markings showed the dramatic improvement in visibility for all three experimental all-other paint samples over conventional paint and glass bead type payment markings. In fact, the visibility of the experimental all-other paint markings was statistically equivalent to that of the special temporary weather tape under rain. For more information on all-other paint for work zones and the Highways for Life project, please visit the Federal Highway Project website at www.fhwa.dot.gov. or visit the 3M website at www.3m.com.