Hey, everybody, Dr. O. In this video, we're going to cover the anatomy of the ear. So the ear can be broken down into three areas, the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. So let's start with the external ear. You see that it's surrounded by the oracle or the pinna. This can protect the ear canal or the external acoustic canal. And also it's probably its major role is that it provides directional sensitivity. So the ears look kind of silly, but how sound waves bounce off of them as they're directed towards the ear tells us a lot about where a sound is coming from. So that's called directional sensitivity. So this, then we have the actual ear canal, which leads to your tympanic membranes. The tympanic membrane is your eardrum. It's this thin, delicate, semi-transparent flap of tissue that is what separates the external ear from the middle ear. The last thing here with the external ear would be the ceruminous glands. They produce cerumin or earwax, which slows the growth of microbes in the ear and also offers some protection of your eardrum there or your tympanic membrane. Now we have the middle ear. So the middle ear is also known as the tympanic cavity. The key things here would be your auditory ossicles, the malleus, incus, and stapes, which people often call the hammer, anvil, and stirrup. So you also are going to see another really important structure here, the eustachian tube. You're not hearing that term as much anymore. It's usually called the auditory tube or the pharyngeal tympanic tube. So I think eustachian's tube is still just fine, but we'll just call it the auditory tube. It's what connects the middle ear to your nasal pharynx there in the back of your throat. So the function of the malleus, incus, and stapes, your auditory ossicles or ear bones, they're levers. So they take the sound waves, strike the tympanic membrane. They're turned into mechanical movements. And the levers, the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, malleus, incus, and stapes, they're going to amplify those sounds if needed, but they also can diminish those sounds if they're too loud. So they play a role in how much energy reaches the inner ear. The job of the eustachian tube or auditory tube is to equalize the pressure between the middle ear and the back of your throat. Very important. Like if you're flying, you know, like when your ears won't pop, I have that problem. We kind of have hinky eustachian tubes in my family. A couple of family members even had to have surgery on it. So I know when I fly, generally I cannot get the pressure to equalize between my middle ear and my throat. And until it does, I usually have an earache or an earache in both ears. So not super fun. So that the equalization of pressure, very, very important. All right, then we have the actual inner ear. So inside the inner ear, we have what's called the membranous labyrinth, which is the chambers and tubes of this inner ear. Then the bony labyrinth is all the hard bony tissue that surrounds and protects them. So the three parts of the inner ear are going to be the vestibule, the semicircular canals, and the cochlea. So the vestibule, you don't say labeled here, but that's going to be where the saccule and the utricle are. So the saccule and utricle, their job is to tell your brain about sensations of gravity and linear acceleration. So we'll cover the functions in a separate video. So that's the vestibule, which houses the saccule and the utricle. The semicircular canals, that's going to be where your semicircular ducts are, and they respond to rotation of the head. So as your head rotates, the semicircular canals tell your brain about that movement so you can adjust posture, et cetera. So the vestibular complex as a whole would be what's in the vestibule there and the semicircular canals together. Then lastly, we have the cochlea. So inside the cochlea, you have this cochlear duct, and this is going to be where hearing occurs. So we'll cover the function of all those in the next videos. So that's the anatomy of the external ear, middle ear, and inner ear. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.


so precious. So grateful that we can join together here on Christmas and have an experience of the Christ here and now as our true identity. And that has to be the greatest Christmas present that we could ever give or receive is just the remembrance of who we are.  Know thyself. That is the greatest experience, bar none. There is nothing else but that experience to give your whole heart to. So what a beautiful Christmas present we have. And you voted on your themes for the week to go deep into this experience of knowing yourself as the living Christ. And so that's like our runway. That's our approach to remembering the Christ presence, the I am presence that is before time was, that the presence of God's love is so strong that that we can smile as the light starts to stream through the darkness and fill our minds and light our minds up. And I always pay attention with the movies to the smallest little details. So when you notice the movie, as this movie begins, there's almost like a hush that's going to come over all of us. And then the big word will come on the screen, first of all, which is universal. That's the name of the company making the movie today, universal. So we get to see the beautiful universal symbol. And then we also get to see another company that's making the movie. It's called beacon like beacon of light. It's the beacon of light inside our hearts that's reaching us. So even the companies that are making this movie for us today are universal and beacon beacon of light. Well, when we approach forgiveness, oftentimes we think that we need to forgive ourselves as a person or forgive other people. But what Jesus is really asking us to do here on Christmas Day is he wants us to really go deep into the experience that we have a perceptual problem.  And only problem with that was it kept blocking the light that I really am. Because God created me as pure spirit, and I, I've had a misperception of my identity as being tiny, when actually I'm vast, when actually I'm so vast that I can't even be contained in time and space. I'm so vast. I'm an eternal creation of God. And that's what we're going to pray to the Holy Spirit and Jesus today to show us through the movie through the journey of the movie that we are divine spirit. God's will for us is perfect happiness. But the reason we have not fully embraced God's will is because we, we believe less than love. We believe in something that can be limited. We believe that something could be frail or weak or or somehow less than perfect.  The spirit is perfect. The human being is a construct. It's a, it's flesh. It's, it's a, it's a veil covering over our true identity as the Christ. So for those of you who have worked with a course in miracles, you know that a course in miracles has 31 chapters. And then it's followed up by 365 workbook lessons. And then a manual for teachers. How practical can it be to have a teaching that takes you step by step through the theory into the practical application into becoming a miracle worker or a teacher of God. And then finally, letting it all go, letting go of the miracle worker story and accepting yourself as the living eternal Christ. That's the progression that we go through as we wake up from this dream of, of separation. Now, the area that we're going to touch on today on Christmas day, Jesus doesn't really bring this up very strongly until the final chapter, Chapter 31. And then he's only four sections from finishing his text, and he, he brings up a subject. And you know, he, it must be important because he waited 31 chapters, and he waited till the fourth section from the end of the text before he brings this up. So he must think that we have to be ready for it. But I think we're ready. It's Christmas. If we're not ready on Christmas, then we're not going to ever be ready. You know, this is, this is our hard day of awakening. You know, this is it. This is it. So then the section I'm talking about is, is section number five and Chapter 31 called self concept versus self. So if you've been following along what I've been teaching for the last 35 years, then you probably have heard me talk about this before. The world of time and space is a world of concepts. And all of the great mystics and saints have said the same thing. That's right. Buddha said it. Jesus said it. Ramana Maharshi said it. Paramahansa Yogananda. All of the saints and mystics throughout all of the centuries have said the same thing. Empty your mind of concepts. Empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know. Hold on to nothing. Buddha said, go through the void. And Jesus says, go, go through empty your mind and open to the miracle, open to the Holy instant and realize that you are the light. That's basically, we know the story. We've heard it from many saints and mystics. Now Jesus has got a section here, section five in Chapter 31, which is self concept versus self. And he goes to explain this even more in detail. Self concept is what the ego made up to take the place of the Christ and self is the Christ, which is the light. So that's an important distinction between the illusion of the self, which is made up of idols. Jesus says it's painted. The self concept is, he says it's painted with the brushes of the world, the painted with the brushes of the world. So you can imagine a little painter who's painting all these bodies, different sizes and shapes and colors, different countries, different languages, painting, painting, painting, painting. Jesus says that the ego paints the self concept with the brushes of the world. And he says, these are idols. All images of the world are idols made to take the place of God's love. In the Bible, we heard have no graven images before the Lord by God. That's what Jesus is talking about in this section. He's saying, don't identify with any of the images because they were made by the ego to take the place of the truth, of the Christ, of God. So in this section, Jesus starts off by saying that the learning of the world is built upon a concept of the self adjusted to the world's reality. And he basically says, for this an image is that suits a world of shadows and illusions. Here in time and space, it walks alone where what it sees is one with it. The building of a concept of the self is what the learning of the world is for. So if anybody's ever asked you, how could such a world come about? It couldn't come about in reality. But to the ego, this is the ego's world of time and space of bodies that was made as a veil to cover over the light, to cover over the truth of who we are, which is an eternal being. We're actually an eternal being because our source is eternal and we're eternal too. And this is a dream of separation. This is mesmerism. This is like hypnotism. This is fiction. This is fantasy. And this is the self concept. And what Jesus tells us, he says there's two parts to it because the concept of the self was made to serve two purposes. Right away, we should know it's a trick because Jesus always tells us we're only to serve one purpose and that's forgiveness. But the concept of the self, the personality self, the world of economics, of disease, all the systems of the world, the micro systems, the macro systems, the cosmic systems, the solar system, the galaxies, the black holes, the everything of time and space is part of a veil to keep us from knowing who we really are. And now at the very end of his text, he's giving us the clue about this whole thing. He's saying that this self concept was made to serve two purposes. The one purpose is the surface purpose. I'll say on the surface of consciousness is your personality self.  He's got some very interesting things to say about this face of innocence. He's basically saying the first presents the face of innocence, the aspect acted on so that when you think you're acting in terms of the world as a person, you're acting on the face of innocence. It's the mask. You know, like in Latin persona means mask. That's the mask. The personality self is the face of innocence. And he says it is this face that smiles and charms and even seems to love. It searches for companions and it looks at times with pity on the suffering and sometimes offers solace.  Now that's just the top tier. He also says the same self concept can grow angry. It can feel like it's a victim. It never makes the first attack, but it always seems to be provoked to irritation and annoyance. Something every day is going wrong for this face of innocence. Oh, maybe it's something with your bank account or maybe it's something I see Patricia with the IRS. Maybe it's something with the IRS. It could be anything. It could be it's snowed and your car is under a foot of snow and you have to drive. You got to go clear the snow and ice off. That's irritating to this face of innocence.  That's the self concept. That's the top tier. And then Jesus goes on to say that beneath the face of innocence, there is a lesson that the concept of the self was made to teach. It is a lesson in a terrible displacement and a fear so devastating that the face that smiles above it must forever look away lest it perceive the treachery it hides. And this dark, dark self is what Carl Jung, the famous psychotherapist, he called it the shadow.  And what Jesus is telling us is they're both not real. The surface one and the one underneath are both not who you are. You're the Christ. And so he's telling us now he's gone through 31 chapters. He's on section five and he's kind of saying for Christ's sake, now I'm going to really give it to you straight. At the very end of his text, he's going to really give it to us really straight. He's not messing around now. He only has a few sections to go before he starts his workbook. So he's going to like say, I'm giving it to you. Girl, listen. Listen, I'm going to give it to you straight here. Girlfriend, boyfriend, listen close. This is what I'm talking about. So then you voted this week on the themes that you wanted to reach the Christ with and so I'm so happy that you came up with these themes because I read what you voted on and then I prayed and prayed and Friday morning it just, oh Jesus, it came in so strong. This is the movie. This is the perfect movie for this. So here's what you voted on. These are the themes. Number one, all problems are perceptual problems. That, wow, that you picked the greatest theme I can ever think of to dismantle the self-concept. All problems are perceptual problems. What does that mean? What does that even mean? It means that you don't really have interpersonal relationship problems. You don't really have financial problems. You don't really have health issues with the body or symptom issues. You don't really have stress issues. You don't really have issues with your family and friends during the holidays. You don't have any food issues. You don't have any weight issues. He's basically saying you've only got one issue and isn't that relieving to you to know that you only have one issue and that issue is it's a perceptual problem.  It sounds interesting, but you're telling me I've just had one problem and Jesus is like, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's what I'm saying. Well, a perceptual problem has a few different aspects to it. First of all, if you're seeing something that's not there, that's a hallucination. So that's the first aspect of a perceptual problem is seeing something that's not there. What you're dealing with on a daily basis is a mirage.  Well, that's what we're dealing with on a daily basis. We're dealing with a mirage of existence. It's not an actual existence. It's spirit. It's a mirage of images. Some of you might call it a barrage of images. It feels like some days a barrage of images. It's a barrage of a mirage. I'm getting poetic here. So what Jesus is saying is in order to wake up, you have to admit that you have a perceptual problem. Wow, did he pick a movie for us because I don't know about you, but have any of you watched Christmas movies? Most of your life, have you seen Christmas movies? I've ended up growing up and watching this Jimmy Stewart movie called It's a Wonderful Life. Pretty much every December I was watching Jimmy Stewart and It's a Wonderful Life. And in that movie, he's from a banking family and basically his life starts to fall apart. And then the angel is sent in named Clarence. And in order for Clarence, the angel to get his wings, he has to help Jimmy Stewart, the main character to forgive and to heal from the past. Well, that's what this movie today is. We're going to see another movie where the main character named Jack, he thinks that he has a perfect life on earth. He actually believes that his life in form is perfect. And the angel, when the angel is told about this, the angel laughs and says, oh, this is going to be so good. This is going to be so good. Angels love it when arrogance is washed away. Angels love to see humbleness. Angels love to see laughter and lightness and love. But their job is to help ease away into the love that is our truth, that is our reality. So keep that in mind that when we watch this movie, your main objective is to see for yourselves that this is a perceptual problem. It's a mirage. It's a fiction, a story of fragmentation, different parts, different people, different idols, different images. It's like a broken mirror. This world is like a cracked mirror. And just like in the Matrix, we're going to try to stick or we're going to try to touch the cracked mirror today and have it all merged together into one thing, one forgiven thing. That's what we want to do. Okay, the second thing that you voted on was remembering to forgive no matter what. Even when you're tempted to be right, you still remember to forgive. Even when you're tempted to point the finger or blame somebody or blame something in the world, you say, oh, no, no. I'm not going to be tricked. I'm here to forgive. I only have one purpose and I'm not going to forget my purpose. I'm going to remember that I'm here to forgive. That's basically my one function is to learn to forgive. And Jesus taught us that 2,000 years ago, but now with the Course in Miracles, he's just saying, I just want to remind you again 2,000 years later that really your only purpose is to forgive. You don't have to worry about anything else. That's just your one job. You don't have many jobs, just one. Third one is since it's all for healing, you can't mess it up. So no matter what you think you've done in this world, you cannot mess this up because everything is working together for the good. And all you have to do is realize that and have a moment of realization. And all of your mistakes are gone. In one full moment of realization, your mistakes vanish, all of them. Anything that you ever thought you did wrong or right, it all vanishes in one moment of realization. It's worth it. It's worth it. What can I say? Why would we want anything else if we could experience one moment of release that we really are completely released? We're not looking this Christmas to turn our world into the Matrix. Because how many of you watched the first Matrix back in 1999? Neo wakes up and he takes off like Superman flying through the sky. He leaves the phone booth behind, right? Anybody remember that? That's it. That should have been the end of the story. How can you have a sequel if you realize you are the one and you take off like Superman and fly away from the planet? That's it. No, there's no second Matrix, no third Matrix, and there's no fourth Matrix. All the Matrix 2, 3, and 4 show is that you didn't wake up. You had a false awakening. In fact, in later Matrix, I'm shaking my head and wondering how the hell is Neo still dealing with all this special relationship stuff and still getting trapped? I thought he woke up and he is the one. Everybody said he is the one and Neo, the letters Neo got rearranged to one and we all rejoiced. We left the theater, we went, hallelujah, Neo woke up and he's a way show. It's like Jesus. So there is no second, third, fourth Matrix. Don't be tricked into thinking that there can be a sequel to this plan. Now, all these other sequels were just different scenarios still with the belief that Neo did not wake up. In fact, I think the last one, the one that was just released, there's one character that says to Neo, I thought you could fly. You imagine Superman and then sequel, sequel, sequel and now he can't fly anymore. What's that all about? Superman who can't fly and Neo who can't fly. I don't buy it. Don't get me started on versions of the course either. I think the first one was enough and am I the only one that's going, why do we need five versions of the same thing? Why would Jesus do five versions? He certainly wouldn't really have needed five. I think he got it right away, but maybe the practice and application of it is the thing that is what's important here, not the numbers of versions. The next one is being humble enough to ask Spirit for help. In this movie we're going to see Jack is so deluded that he thinks he's a powerful, successful businessman and he thinks that he's got the perfect life. That's the worst case scenario for us. When we believe the illusion is real and we think it can be good, if we believe fragmentation is real and we accept it as good, then we haven't forgiven it. We've just adapted to a lie. We were just presented with a lie and instead of going no, no thank you, I'll take the truth please. I'll take love.  Jesus is like don't do it. Let me guide you how to unwind from the tinker toys, but don't get too caught up in the tinker toys because you're going to feel stressful, angry, you're going to feel hurt, you're going to feel weak if you get involved with these tinker toys, these idols. And then the last one you voted on with 30 votes was fear and difficulty relating to people. Has anybody ever had any difficulty relating to people? Oh my gosh, that's what this earth seems to be about. We have difficulty relating to ourselves as a person, much less everybody else. It's hard every day to deal with this body and with this concept of a personality. Is it good enough? Is it good enough? Is it ever going to be good enough? And then once we start to turn our eyes away from this personality self, we start to look at other personalities to try to relate to them as companions. Can I find a compatible personality to go with this personality so I can be a less lonely personality and I can be a couple personality or I can be a paired off personality. Wow. That's like trying to say two wrongs can be made into a right. And this is what people believe when they look for the right one. What if Christ is the right one? That's why it's Christmas. We're celebrating the birth of Christ. Christ is the one. And yet when we look outside ourselves in the form and we keep trying to reconfigure the self concept, then it just doesn't work. So in this movie, I'll give you a little bit of a setup before we launch into the movie. Jack is a man who has devoted his life to becoming successful and making a lot of money. We see at the beginning of the movie that Jack has a flashback from 13 years ago where he and his girlfriend, his sweetheart named Kate, is this deja vu or what? Didn't I just show a movie a couple of weeks ago with Kate and Jack? They're back again. Jesus really is using these characters. Kate and Jack are back again. And again, they're exes. They're ex-partners because the flashback shows when they were together at the airport and then he's getting ready to fly off to London to do an internship and she's having a bad feeling like they should not be separating. And yet he's like, no, no, I love you. Nothing's going to change that. One year away in London won't change that. It changes everything. They never do come back together in terms of that scenario.  And yet the angel in this movie named Cash, that's what you have, an angel named Cash to undo the business self-concept. Do you see how Jesus has so much fun? It's an angel named Cash. And this is a man named, the actor is Don Chateau, and he's so funny, but he's going to help dismantle the self-concept through another self-concept. And this is how the Holy Spirit works. The Holy Spirit is not going to rip all of their self-concepts away because it would be too frightening to rip them away. That would be like trying to take the tablecloth off of the table while there's China and silverware and glasses there. The Holy Spirit is not going to rip the tablecloth out while there's China there on it. But the Holy Spirit has to use the self-concepts that the ego made up and that the mind believes in to slowly unwind the mind from these false self-concepts so that it can be taken back towards forgiveness, towards a new way of looking at the world. I love how he says that in here. He says, concepts are learned. They are not natural. Apart from learning, they do not exist. And he also says concepts maintain the world. So he's telling us that this self-concept, which is meaningless, is what all of the learning of the world, all of the programming, all the conditioning, everything we've ever learned in this world has been for one purpose and that's to maintain a false sense of self. To maintain a personality self-concept in a fragmented world, which has nothing to do with heaven and nothing to do with eternity. And yet he says, thus are the Holy Spirit's lesson plans arranged in easy steps that though there be some lack of ease at times and some distress, there is no shattering of what was learned, but just a retranslation of what seems to be the evidence on its behalf. So in other words, the Holy Spirit is not going to yank you away from the world. The Holy Spirit is not going to hurl you into the light. Jesus says in the Course, you will not be don't don't be afraid of being hurled into reality because the Holy Spirit doesn't work that way. The Holy Spirit is gentle. So the Holy Spirit has to retranslate the images that were made by the ego and slowly loosen the mind from its belief in these illusions. So in the first scenario, which is, we'll say, Jack as a very, very successful businessman who's in charge and control, he's very wealthy. He doesn't really have a partner because he's so focused on money. I don't think he has time for a partner because he's so fixated on wealth and control. Then the next scenario, after the angel comes into the picture, the next scenario is going to be a family man self-concept in which he has to face all the things that he ignored, everything he denied, everything he discarded is going to come up into awareness in the family man self-concept. Both the business self-concept and the family self-concept are illusions. But remember, the Holy Spirit, it says, Holy Spirit's lesson plans are arranged in easy steps that though there be some lack of ease at times and some distress, there is no shattering of what was learned. It's a retranslation. If you believe in reincarnation, you might say that every time you seem to reincarnate and come back for another lifetime, we'll call it in the world, that's just another opportunity to have your self-concept retranslated into the happy dream or the real world. And you can seem to come back many times because it's a very high learning goal. To say you want to forgive the world is the highest goal you could ever aim for. Some of you may think I wanted to be a ballerina, I wanted to be a famous writer, I wanted to be wealthy, I wanted to be beautiful, I wanted to look like Marilyn Monroe or I wanted to look like Jimmy Stewart or some icon. I wanted to be a bodybuilder. I wanted to have skills and abilities. I wanted to be a president of a country or something. No, no, no, small potatoes, small potatoes. All of those are small potatoes because forgiveness is our purpose. We only have one purpose and it's to forgive the world and wake up to our true reality as the Christ. So this movie is going to help us because, first of all, the main character, Jack, he is very resistant to change. He actually is so anchored into his business self-concept that he just always thinks about closing the next big deal.  And as this movie starts, we'll see pretty quickly, he's working on another big deal that involves 10 zeros behind the number. It's actually involving billions of dollars. So he is not successful in terms of what most people call success. We're talking about in the business world, it would be like mega successful. He's dealing with deals that involve billions of dollars. And you know what his commission is. If the deal itself is worth billions, you can see where his whole identity is tied into material success, control, possession, all the things of the world. This is what the world calls successful. So he actually believes he's successful. But in the words of Simon and Garfunkel, believe you're gliding down the highway, but in fact, you're slip sliding away. He is slip sliding away into the oblivion of the ego. Because remember, the ego made the world that you would never choose to wake up. So what better way than to make a world where you seem can be successful at separation? If you could be a successful personality and therefore meet the world of scarcity on the world's terms and then beat the world, that's what the ego tries to do to fool the mind forgetting the light, forgetting that God, forgetting that there's anything like true happiness. It's just one more conquest, another one night stand for Jack and okay, that's par for the course. Another deal closed. Okay, that's good.  He has an associate that works for him. And in the first scenario, he's like the family man. His name is Alan. And then in the second scenario, when Jack becomes the family man, Alan becomes the head of the company. So all it is is the Holy Spirit is rearranging perception to teach the mind that these images are not where it's at. The love in your heart is where it's at. It's where it's always been at. And you can find that in your relationships. I mean, that's the path of a course of miracles is finding love through using the mirroring of relationships to find the love within yourself, the love that you always are and always have been. So this is such an amazing movie. Sometimes I call movies classics. This is definitely a classic. Jesus is showing a classic healing movie on Christmas. And there's movies, certain movies that are so poignant for me and so powerful that no matter how many times I watch them, I still have a tear rolling down my cheeks with this one because it goes so to the core of healing. I cry when I watch this movie because I am beholding a gift from heaven. I am beholding a gift where Jesus is saying, choose again. Please choose with me. Choose to join with me. This Christmas. Join with me. Jesus is telling us and remember what the true meaning of Christmas is. It's about remembering your identity. It's not about what happened 2000 years ago. It's not about history. It's about a state of mind and I am presence that's with us and always with us and it's just beckoning us to remember the truth. It's just beckoning us to remember the truth. So sit back and enjoy. You're going to laugh.  And then at some point I think you'll cry like I cry when you start to feel how profound this movie is. This movie is not your everyday movie. This is a gift from Jesus on Christmas. I was wondering what movie he would pick on Christmas. I said, wow, we have so many great movies. What's he going to pick? And then when it came I started to cry right away because I thought, oh, I get to share it with all my friends too, the same experience that I experienced when I watched this movie. So let's let our tears of joy come today as we remember the true meaning of Christmas.


Her Excellency, Ms. Ying Lok Shinwatra, Prime Minister of Thailand. Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, before I begin, like others who have spoken before me, I take this moment to share my deepest sympathy to those affected in the Philippines with the recent natural disaster and that we pray that God will guide them and wish them a full recovery. I bring your greetings and salutations from my government and the people of Nauru. From the outset, I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to the government and people of Thailand for the warm welcome and hospitality extended to me and my delegation since our arrival yesterday. It has indeed been an interesting and most enjoyable visit to this very beautiful country and we were awed by the courtesy of its people. As a small island developing state located in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, Nauru faces many challenges in its development endeavours. Isolation, distance from markets, higher transportation costs and these economies of scale are typical challenges faced by my country and indeed also by many small island developing states around the world and especially in the Pacific. These constraints spell major impediments to development in our countries. While we do our best to address these concerns, costs for small island developing states are a real constraint on the national coffers. However, there are areas in which we believe that collaboration between states and non-state actors could produce results for improving the infrastructure of my country and other small island developing states. In the Pacific islands, we collaborate on a range of issues such as in the transportation sector, education and in other capacity building needs. It is necessary for this to happen as we need to pull our limited resources and achieve common goals and aspirations. The ICT sector on Nauru and in other in the other small Pacific island developing states is a priority development area for obvious reasons as alluded to earlier. The ICT sector on Nauru has improved drastically with the opening of the first foreign-owned ICT company in Nauru, DigiCell, in August 2009. DigiCell introduced to G-Mobile communication based on Wi-Fi Max technology. On the other hand, communications through copper cable utilizing the public switch telephone network was made redundant. However, in order to improve the ICT technology, capacity and efficiency on Nauru over the long term, a national broadband network is proposed. Apart from the obvious reasons of the benefits associated with the national broadband network linked through fiber optic cables and systems, the efficiency and savings to our tiny budget would be enormous over the long term and bring tangible benefits to our people. With our current setup, we only have a total of 15 megabyte per second available through international link. This is available via satellite C-band and DigiCell and a local internet service provider, Sandpack, an internet service provider, Sandpack. With the bandwidth limitations, there is obviously very limited capacity for expansion utilizing broadband technology. Given the obvious benefits associated, for example, with the health, education, and early warning systems associated with natural disasters through a reliable, efficient and efficient communications technology, Nauru, therefore, is very much interested in introducing communications linked through our fiber optic submarine cable and other means of addressing and improving national ICT concerns. A cable linking several Pacific Island states based on a cost-sharing arrangement might be feasible. I cannot stress enough the importance and benefits this would bring to Nauru and, indeed, other Pacific Island developing countries that have yet to be linked. Given the opportunity presented by this forum, Nauru looked forward with great enthusiasm to participate and network with interested parties in helping move forward our country and other small Pacific developing states. With that, I thank you.


It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Douglas Bowden, Doug Bowden from the University of Washington. He's going to talk about Neuromaps, a multi-modality database in the shape of a brain. So Neuromaps is a multi-modality database in the shape of the brain. And in fact at this point we're talking about two brains, a macaque and the Waxholm mouse atlas. And I'd like to start off by going through the premises, our premises. And these are a little bit modified from Marianne's, but I think basically incompatible. The first is neuroanatomy provides the visual scaffold. And I'd say the common language for integrating information across scales, techniques, species, and so forth. Neuroinformatics has been building platforms for digital neuroanatomy for almost two decades. But up to now has not achieved the power of genomic informatics. And that is if you're a geneticist and you have established the nucleotide sequence of a new gene, you can go to any of a number of brain banks or gene banks, feed in that sequence, and you'll get back a list of all the brains of all the species that have that exact sequence. We should be able to do that in neuroanatomy, but at the present time we're not able to do that. Informatics requires that the information be made machine-computable and unambiguously, I would say human-computable or interpretable, we should say. The computational challenges of neuroinformatics are addressed, I would say, better in terms of information theory and communication theory than in terms of the truth-test computations of classical logic. And the main implication of that statement is that in order to have a comprehensive nomenclature, a comprehensive list of all the structures in the brain, one has to start from all the names that are used in neuroanatomy. And the ontology consists of relating those names to all of the structures, the subparts of the brain, that some legitimate neuroanatomist has defined. And the main component of that ontology is to specify as many of those relationships as you can. You need to be able to specify if a term is, if a new term is a synonym of one that already exists or if it's a homonym of one that already exists that's being applied to a different structure. And the concepts that are represented by these terms are really the definitions of the term. And you can, in this last paper, you saw it gets down to the point of defining the boundary between two structures right down to the cellular distribution level. So I'm saying that in contrast to classical logic, which works strictly with text, with words, word descriptions of structures, mathematical logic can be applied to your atlas and to your categories within your atlas. And it allows variance analyses that involve measurement and quantification, which is the hallmark of the scientific method. It allows, it gives statistical means of dealing with probabilistic truth. That is with the idea that as a scientist this is our best guess for today and it's held up for a hundred years and so we're believing it. But there's always a probability associated with that. And particularly when you get down to defining the lines between two structures, there's definitely probabilities you need to be able to deal with. You need an ontology that will allow you to deal with those. It allows parametric as well as non-parametric comparisons. And it allows particularly evaluation of the degree of overlap between spatial distributions. When the classical logic deals with categories and your smallest element that the classical logic deals with is one of the structures that you've seen that's defined with a boundary. But the basic element of a digital atlas is one point or one voxel or one pixel. And it defines structures by giving you a list of all the voxels that are in that structure. And that's a list that the human mind can't deal with. So we needed the computer to calculate the areas or the volumes or whatever. And the final statement I'd make on this is that one can compute anything by mathematical logic that one can compute by descriptive logic. But the opposite is not true. So I'm going to tell you about our system which is based on those premises.  And so what we have at this point is the Neuromaps digital brain atlas. The macaque brain atlas has been segmented down into approximately, I think, 400 structures. And we don't go to the, except in the hippocampus, don't really go to this layer with instructor or to the smallest sub nuclei. But it's defined down to those levels. And then we have the Wachsholm mouse brain atlas, which we are hoping, which has been subdivided, I think, into 50 or 70 structures. But we're hoping to import the segmentation of the Allen brain atlas so that one will be able to, which to my mind is the most comprehensive atlas that's available on the web at this point. And our ontology is in terms of Neuronames where we have defined the relationships between some 3,000 structures that are defined by various people. And we have standard names for those that each name is unique, which it's got to be if you're logic, whichever kind of logic you use, if it's going to be trustable. And some 16,000 synonyms in eight different languages. So a person can go into brain info with any legitimate name for a structure, and we will give you our standard name, and then you can explore the rest of the system and knowing that what you're looking for is this standard name. And we're now completing going through all of those definitions and determining which ones apply in the human, the macaque, the rat, and the mouse. So one will be able, using any logic, classical or mathematical, will be able to ask the question, okay, I'm interested in what genes are distributed in this particular area. The only data on that is probably going to be from the Allen Brain Institute atlas. But you're interested in the human. So you go into brain info, you look it up in the human, and then we'll tell you whether there is a mouse structure that is equivalent, as equivalent as anybody knows to this point, to that structure. So let's, I have a feeling my time is going fast, so let's just look at three questions here. What's required to use this system? What is required of a neuroscientist who wants to communicate data to others in a common format? Then what is required of neuroscientists who want to compare their data with other kinds of data from other sources, multimodality data? And then what is required of neuroinformaticists who want to create facilities that will fulfill the wants of these neuroscientists? So first, what's required of the scientist if he basically wants to put his data into a common format so other people can look at it? First, he conducts an experiment and creates an image or multiple images that shows a location of data relative to neuroanatomical features identifiable in a canonical digital brain atlas of the species. He downloads the canonical atlas and the mapping software from a neuroinformatics facility, downloads the tool, he maps the data to the atlas and the tool should provide the tools, sub-tools for doing that. Edits and labels the image of the map data into a format suitable for presentation or publication. And then downloads that back to his desktop and embeds that image in a slideshow and or a manuscript. And this is what neuromaps does. Neuromaps allows you to bring up the image of the MRI atlas in one screen and the image of your slide in another screen and you can go through the brain in coronal or whatever direction you want to go. You can tilt and rotate the atlas until you get the plane that most clearly matches your data. Then you identify equivalent landmarks in the two and then you can put in any number of landmarks. So if you're mainly interested in down in the hippocampus, you just put in landmarks, everything you can find that relates to that. Then you warp that image. What you actually do is you warp the atlas image to the experimental image and then you unwarp it back and that carries the data into your canonical atlas into the equivalent locations. Then you take that image and load it into the image editor and this is showing how we have mapped the cortical areas from one of the mouse atlases to the Waxholm brain. And now we can adjust the colors that we want to use for publication. We can add labels. We can determine whether the label is black on white or white on black and we can adjust the size of the labels. And you can adjust the dpi dots per inch and the size of the image for whatever journal, whatever their specifications are. And download this and then import it into your document. And this is the same sort of thing we've done with the monkey brain and we've mapped from the Paxonos macaque atlas. And this shows the kind of value added that you can provide to the investigator by using this system because if your system doesn't add value there are very few investigators who are going to bother to use it. And so in the upper left you see dopaminergic cells that have been mapped to the prefrontal cortex and if you look on the left side is the image that was published and on the right we have mapped those dots into the atlas superimposed the subdivisions of the atlas from the Paxonos atlas No, actually we subdivided on the basis of the sulcian gyri. But you can see that whereas in the first one, the left one it's pretty unclear where those cells are anatomically. In the one that after the mapping you can see that they're clustered right at the boundaries between the cerebral cortex and the white matter which is very interesting. Anyway, same sort of thing for a lesion study on the top right and on the bottom left I've plotted from some of our own work an electrode track where we were studying the... I think you get the point, let's go on to it. Okay, what's required of a neuroscientist who wants to compare map data with other kinds of data? I've separated this out because everything I've said so far is actually done on your own computer. But if you want to compare it with everybody else's you've got to upload it. So what you do is you map your data to the canonical digital brain atlas just as I described. You upload the images to the neuroinformatics facility together with identifying information such as a text, complete text description of the methods and metadata for unambiguous indexing of the data set. And the metadata terms for the metadata are pulled out of our neuro names. Then you request a comparison with all other data sets that are in the repository and a list of those that overlap your data by a certain proportion. And this can be done in 3D. Views overlap with other... Then if you go through the list and you find something that's particularly interesting you should be able to call up the image of that map, that map overlaid on yours so you can visually judge. And if that's still interesting you should be able to pull up the original image from which the mapping was done. So let's just go real quick to... This is what it looks like in neuromaps where we've overlaid Walker's area 46 and I think probably Broadman's corresponding area. If you want to know what the... And this is really the guts of the talk so I'm just going to go through it. I should say that we're at a very kind of critical point in our development of this system and that we're working on the strategic aims basically for the next five years. And if there's any part of what I'm going to say here that you think you have a tool that could do the job as well or better I'd like you to talk to me because maybe we can incorporate it into that project. So the informatics has to provide a canonical digital brain atlas of the species that people are going to be able to map into, needs to provide a comprehensive ontology and it's now available as neuronames, need to provide definitions and standard names that the ontology needs to provide definitions and standard names for every term. The facility needs to maintain a repository of all map data so that when somebody wants to know how much it overlaps with theirs it's already in the computer and it just creates the list. So with that, thank you very much. Set up if there's a question, we can have a question from the audience. I have one. Doug, does that put it out? Does neuromaps work in coordinate space or is it just its own internal space? Well, the neuromaps, does it put it out in what? Coordinates, I mean, are those structures referenced in the coordinates? Yes, the atlas has, as you're mapping in and as you've presented there are scales on the two sides. Does that map to stereotaxic space or is it just an internal? It would be very easy to define it in stereotaxic space. I mean, it's in the computer in stereotaxic space, yeah. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Doug.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this concertina pop-up card. It's kind of evolved from the unusual concertina step card. So once you see it you'll kind of get it, but it's a six by six. That's the front with just the happy birthdays. The bright rows are happy birthday die. I've kept it quite simple because once you open it up inside you have this pop-up piece. Okay and it has this section in here which will, it basically keeps this, gives it this shape to be able to stay. So you just kind of put it into its place, there we go, and it will stay in that kind of right angle style. If you didn't have that piece underneath you can do it without it, but if you try for yourself and have a look you'll see what I mean. This bit just kind of flops around, it doesn't really hold in place, but it's got a really nice profile. I love all the different steps and I love all the little squares here. So it really does show off the papers, the coloured card, the mirrored card, everything I think just works really well. It's got a bow in the middle there which actually holds all this together and then you can write your message on the back and obviously you've got that on the front. So for this one I use the the paper tree. So this is Lakeside Bloom's beautiful pad, really is lovely and I also use, this is the Essentials paper pad, this is the patterned paper pad. So you get 40 sheets of that one and 48 of that one, everything will be linked below. It's very straightforward to make, you can also have it that way. So just like the other concertina card which I'll link up here and I'll probably link it further through the video as well, but you can have it you know that way. So they open it and see it that way and you could you know even these happy birthday sentiments do work this way. So I've used them on the panel cards before but if you've got other ones that read vertical or something then that would work. But I think it looks yeah, I think it looks really sweet. So let me show you how to make it. So for today's I'm using this one which I've used already, it's a lovely paper pad. This is the paper boutiques, they're both by the same company and this is the ocean breeze. It's the paper kit and the the embellishment pad as well okay and it's the embellishment pad that I've used to get all of these little squares here because one of the papers basically has one of these where you have four and then down here was a strip with all of these different pieces in. So I just cut that strip and then cut all the little images out. But they're beautiful, these cutout pieces, you can see what you get there and I've also used one of the sentiments as well. But again this will all be linked below. The kit's really good because you get the really nice thick cardboard popouts there as well so that's that one and that's the bright rosa birthday words okay which is probably the most used I set in terms of the words that I'm using at the moment it's just yeah all in everything. So right we'll go through all that as we get to it, let's just get straight into the card. So you want a six by six card blank. I've cut this one down myself so this is a piece of 12 by six okay and along the 12 inch side you just want to score as six inches and that'll give you your base. Then you want a piece of 12 by six again and this is going to be the middle kind of concertina part. So along the 12 inch side you want to score at two, four, six, eight and ten okay.  So to do those you just pop it on the six inch side and you score at two, pass the first score line and down to the second and then score at four, pass the first score line and again down to the second and then just rotate and do exactly again two and four. So basically you will have six squares on each side okay and then these two plane panels in the middle but those are completely optional because like I said it's just more of a decorative piece. Then what you want to do is you want to fold so you've got a valley, then a mountain, then a valley, mountain and the ending with a valley so you should have that shape.  So this one here is eight by six and along the eight inch side you just want to score at two, four and six okay and again you want to do a valley, a mountain and a valley. If you want to flip your card over and score again before you fold just so you don't get any cracking you can do but that piece is going to go inside this is going to see when it all sticks in but that's going to be in there and it will all square off and be nice and neat. Okay so pop that to one side and we will just focus on decorating this piece first so I'm going to get rid of my scoreboard okay so I'm going to be using the happy birthday dies again and they are going to go down these two panels here. All of my squares so you'll want two four six eight ten twelve squares. The blue one I've got here is one and three quarters squared and then the pattern the little image here is one and a half squared and that will fit perfectly in each of these squares so I'm going to stick them all down just kind of making sure I've got different images kind of away from each other they do double up which again I don't mind but I'm just going to get these all kind of placed and then yeah stick them all down. Okay so they're all stuck down now it looks really nice and next I'm going to die cut this so I'm using the happy birthday and actually I don't need the outer frame it's only the inner frame so you just want the detail just the words so I'm going to have make sure I get them the right way up so happy and it's going to run right off the edge but it won't cut this it's only going to cut the actual detail it won't cut this whole piece out okay so it doesn't have an outer cutting line that's the word I'm always trying to look for I don't want it do I want it that way down okay so that's those cut out now these pieces are again one and three quarters because it's the size of the width of the blue ones on here and then the length is five and three quarters okay but now when that goes over there I don't need to do any kind of like you know matting or anything because when it's against the color underneath it really pops I really like these so I'm going to stick them down okay so that's that now all done then before I stick all this inside I'm going to stick this piece on the back which is where I'm going to write my message so this here is the blue piece is five and three quarters squared and then the pattern piece is five and a half squared so that's going to go on the back then on the front I have the same matting layer so five and three quarters squared and five and a half squared it's going to go on the front I need to make sure that I get this so it's top folding so that's going to be that way and that's going to be that way and then I have cut one of the lovely images from the pad so this one comes in at four by four and then this on over the top and then the mat is four and a quarter by four and a quarter that's going to go kind of up there this is one of the little sentiments that you can cut out so I just put dear his friend and then inside it will say happy birthday again I've just popped some a mat behind it there and some foam this has all got foam on it and that one is going to come down here like that and then this bow I'm just going to pop up the top there okay so I'm going to get all of that stuck down first okay so there's the front done and the back so what you want to do is I'm going to add two holes along this center fold all right so I'm going to come in came down two inches on this once have a little look no it's further two and a half actually so I'm going to grab my pencil and I'm just going to come down on that score line and just put a little pencil mark there two and a half and again from this side two and a half okay now I'm using my circle screw punch here if you don't have one of these then I know there are other hole punch kind of devices that allow you to hole punch within an area that isn't restricted by a standard hole punch but if you only have a standard hole punch you can get away with that let me just see yeah I mean it just means your kind of bow is going to be quite long otherwise I would say use a pokey tool and poke the hole through and by the time you add the ribbon through probably won't you won't be able to see it anyway so um yeah you should still be able to do this okay so then you're just going to punch the hole and you want to make sure that you go over the line to try and get the circle the punch so it's you know it's over this side and this side so it's right in the middle of that score line then grab this piece here then you want to line it up if you line it up so that the fold they all sit in together all right like so then you know that that's score line I can see the score line through the holes there and then I'm just going to pop that straight over now if you want to use a pencil and draw a pencil first and then do it separately you can but I can see there that that one's done okay that's fine then you're going to flip it and it will be that way so you want this one to have two mountains and a valley it's going to be valley to that valley all right valley to valley that's what you want looks a bit like a batman kind of or a bat wing or something but it's going to be valley to valley then grab some ribbon so I've just got a thinner blue ribbon here and you're going to pop it through the back of this piece okay and then you're going to go through this piece okay pull that nice and tight obviously without ripping and then tie it in a nice bow you want the thinnest ribbon you can get really I think the ribbon I used on the other one was organza so this is a little bit thicker but it will be okay you can afford to have a little bit of bulk okay and now we're ready to stick it in so what will happen is those two pieces will stick like that on one side and then those two pieces will stick like that and you want to make sure that this becomes a two by two square all right and it will all square off and line up perfectly because of this folded piece here so I'm going to open mine up and what you want to do is we're going to add glue to this side first and then we'll do that side so I'm just going to turn this over so you you do want to do the glue on well on this side to start off with you could do one at a time but on the lat on the other side you need to do them both at the same time just well actually saying that I guess you could line one up if you see what I'm doing then you might be able to see if you can do it so let's see you could do yeah I guess you could stick that top one down first because you could then lift all this back and then stick the second one down so yeah that one will work fine so I'm just going to line them up you see what I'm doing so stick make sure that sticks down perfectly and lines because they're both 12 by six pieces so you want to make sure that they butt right up to the very edge here okay you shouldn't really be able to see that it's two pieces and then that one you want it to sit right with that one there okay and then just practice folding it all like that okay so you can see how neat and it will have quite a spring to it okay just make sure it is all secure now this side yeah so what you can do is just add the glue to the blue one first of all because I'm using liquid glue it does give me that wiggle room which again is is good so like that keep it all squashed down and then just close the card okay and then this one you can open up here and add your glue don't leave too long between because if you do need to adjust the blue one that I just stuck down you want to be able to so I could still wiggle that now if I need to now yeah that blue one is perfect so there's a few ways to do it you can do them all at the same time or you can do them separately as I've just kind of done if you just squash the whole thing down again make sure that glue is stuck okay so I finished it all and then I decided that I didn't like it that way and that I prefer it this way so I ripped off all of the squares and then stuck them all down again luckily I've got away with it so yeah you can be done and I just restuck it down again with the collow and that glue dries so stiff that yeah you wouldn't know honestly there is just literally no way of knowing that I ripped those off and yeah stuck them the other way so I do like I said I do like it that way I think maybe it is because of the sentiments actually thinking about it they do look really nice when you read them I guess the correct way so yeah so that's that version I think it's so sweet and then bringing this one again here and then that one opens up so they do they do sit there you do just have to kind of just play with them just to kind of get them to go where you need them to I mean yeah you may need to rest them against something but they will go in the end that one's starting to go back I think because this one here I think because this isn't craft card this is slightly this is about 280 gsm craft cards 300 gsm I think that is just giving it that extra strength to hold in that right angle this one will go this one will stay but you do just kind of have to see there we go but it may start to go back again but most of the time cards go on a mantle or on a shelf or something so they will have something to lean against if need be but it doesn't really matter either way because it can go that way as well because obviously that's the front of the card so I love it I really do I think it's such a nice style it will work I would probably say go for a 300 gsm see look that's staying now let's watch it no let's not it's staying so it does work but I love them so I hope you've enjoyed them too I hope it's inspired you everything will be linked below and all the measurements over on my blog and yeah thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up and subscribe so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


Hi, Virgo. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. Hope you're all doing well today. This is going to be your next 24 hours love reading for all and only Virgos, Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus. If you want to get a personal reading from me, there's a link in the description box below. You can also follow me on Instagram. The link is down there as well. And if you're interested in other Virgo readings, you can visit my other channel, Moon Pitero. Okay, Virgo. First card to just flip out of the deck is the tower. All right, let's get started with your reading here, Spirit. What is the message? The tower here is like, boom. I feel like they want you to know. Spirit wants you to know there's a major shake-up. This feels like upheaval. This is kind of like things need to break down. Whatever was built on faulty ground, not sturdy or stable enough. This is destruction of ego. I just heard that. Destruction of ego. This is your person, Virgo, whomever you're connected with. Somebody that you may have been involved with or that you're currently connecting with, their pride, right out the window. I feel like this is Spirit coming down, hitting them in the crown chakra, giving them a wake-up call. This is the connection between wisdom and spiritual insight. This is breaking down of the ego. Everything that they thought they knew, spirits, the Indals, guides are coming down, say, uh-uh. What you thought you knew, you're not as powerful as we are, and we're going to show you something. Destruction of the ego. Wow. Incredible. Let's see what else is going on here. Okay, ooh, three of cups.  I mean, I think it's okay to have fun, right? But in your relationship, maybe they were connecting with others or having fun jovial times with others and not valuing the relationship. There's a stalemate situation here where it's like, just can't move, needing to make a decision. Okay, and I feel like the universe is coming in and making a decision for this person because I feel there might have been like this, maybe somebody blocked you or just wasn't speaking to you because they wanted to explore their other options with others. Well, they're definitely, I feel like whomever else they're trying to explore their options with are just blocking them. It's not working out. Let's see what else is going on here. Okay, King of Swords. Libra Gemini Aquarius. You know, and it doesn't have to be, but the King of Swords, this person's like very strategic. There's some strategic maneuvers with this person. Oh, the King of Swords is very intelligent, very intellectual, all up in a very heady, could have been Leo, also Scorpio energy. Very intellectual. They're getting like, I feel like they're saying a dose of their own medicine. Let's see what else. The center of the reading here. Oh, the Wheel of Fortune. Massive change coming here, Virgo. A massive shift. Wow. There's a turning point. The center of this reading, something's changing here. A turning point for this person. All right, what else? Okay, the magician. New beginnings. New start. Two of cups. This could be somebody new that you're connecting with that's going, you know, it's just hit, like got hit in the head. Their ego got smashed. Could be somebody new coming in who's just whether somebody new or somebody currently dealing with or somebody old. There's this energy of like, they know who you are. They know this person is ready to come into union or have like this partnership with this deep love because there's something about your connection that's very healing and magical. Then we've got the line up here again for a lot of you. This is Leo energy. Okay, I feel like either going to be meeting somebody new who's just coming out of like an ego smash and it's just hitting brick walls in their dating life or it's just like blocking others and trying to come in or manifest something new in love and you know, with you. Six of pentacles. The six represents harmony. Six is a card of love. Ace of wands. This person feeling a sense of inspiration. Initiating a new beginning. Courage and willpower. All right, so let's get some clarifying cards. Let's take a look at the tower. What is this that's happened? Oh, okay. The 10 of cups. Okay, fell out in reverse. So I'm going to give you both messages. In reverse, the 10 of cups is maybe a broken marriage or relationship or something just or connecting with others, a lack of support, family trouble, feeling empty inside a difficult situation occurring in a relationship. Okay, but it's also all this ego smash breaking down into the 10 of cups and recognizing that total love and support is the most important thing. Commitment marriage. I'm making that emotional connection with someone and with you. Okay, so I feel like somebody's coming to like they're being forced into a wake up call here. All right, let's see what this three of cups is. Ha, king of swords. Again, that's twice in your reading. So we have Libra Gemini Aquarius. We have Scorpio. I said Leo and Taurus. Okay, now if that doesn't resonate for you, don't worry about it.  But I feel like if this is not somebody that you already are aware of or somebody that you're, you know, this is resonating views, somebody that you're already dealing with, this could be somebody new who's going through, I just keep hearing Dark Knight of the Soul and I'm hearing ego smash. So that king of swords, very strategic, good communicator, communicating, talking on the phone, texting others. That was the plan with this person. Okay, but a little bit maybe of a con man or being abusive or bribing others to get love or get attention from others. Man or male or female doesn't matter. Let's see this two of swords. Okay, there's the five of swords. So I always say with the five of swords in the other deck, the person is holding three swords, which is heartbreak and then leaving two swords behind, which is the two of swords stalemate. I feel like something's not working out here. I feel like whomever this person was trying to connect with thinking, oh, yeah, well, you know, instead of, you know, just trying to have a deep committed relationship or that true love thing, I'll just keep my I'll spread myself thin with others and guess what's happening. The other people that this person is trying to connect with is like, no, I'm looking for a healthy relationship and not someone that's just going to keep things surface with me. And so it's all breaking down for this person. Now let's see the king of swords again here. Okay, the nine of cups. Yeah. So now after this breakdown, this ego smash or whatever is going on here, there's a shift and this person is sitting here thinking about how to have that cornucopia. You know, the cornucopia is like, it's not, I mean, it's very easy to attract other people and have surface relationships with others. The real hall of fame win is to secure the love of another person, right? Not just to attract them, but to maintain that relationship and keep loving. This person didn't understand how to do that and just was operating out of an ego state. And but now it's like, I don't know if they're older. They're not young anymore. Whenever they were trying to um, coerce or get for themselves was all based on ego. And here they are, smash, wake up. The nine of cups is telling me this person is in this position now where they want to have their wishes come true, have them come true with you. The nine is completion, accomplishment. Like I said, I'm making a transition and they understand now that in order to have that love, they've got to be in a position of serving and fighting for you or fighting for the heart of a person, fighting for the heart of a woman. If you're, if you're female listening, they want the whole nine yards now. They're understanding that they keep hitting these brick walls. They keep striking out. People are, whomever they're trying to connect with, just keep striking them out. I think it's like we're in this woke era. Women especially have really leveled up coming out of that old friends with benefits idea. And really having self value and valuing themselves. And the men are going through this too. The men are just sick and tired of being taken advantage of and they're knowing that they have to level up as well. So there's a major shift and that feels like the woke thing happening here. So the wheel of fortune. Yeah, letting go, grieving and letting go of the past. Shifting out of remorse and regret and feeling sorry for self, this person and manifesting here with the magician. What is this person trying to manifest here with you? Oh, coming in and doing the right thing, justice, labor and energy, truth. Somebody's coming in to give you the truth. And I feel like Virgo, you're my wish come true. You're the one I've wanted the whole time, but my ego was so big and I just pushed you aside or just, you know, or if it's not someone you know, it's just that this person wakes up to the fact that they are just spinning their wheels and they're not getting anywhere. Nobody really is trying to connect with them.  But they know all the time that it's time to settle down. And if this is someone you've been connecting with, they're coming to terms with that. They're also getting true with themselves, laying their cards out on the table, cause and effect, having a win-win solution. All right. So there's two of cups here. There's union happening here. Start of something beautiful. Maybe it's a restart for some of you. Maybe some of you let this person go. Said that's it. You'll learn. Go learn. Yep. Eight of Pentacles. Really going to work hard for your love and for this connection. Put that effort in and enjoy it. It's quality. It's about quality. You know, the Eight of Pentacles is about craftsmanship. Okay. And it's also about repairing. This person's in repair mode. I want to fix this relationship or just fix their life, fix themselves so that they can have, you know, come in contact with their, their soulmate, have that connection with someone special. Okay. This is about mastering. This person wants to master your heart. They want to be the winner of your heart. I feel like there's going to be coming into contact with each other. And the Six of Pentacles is here. Self-sacrifice and giving reciprocity. And they might have been just very selfish in the past. Well, now they want to give to you. Let's see. I'm going to clarify and card. Poor sorts. Okay. Retreat. Recovery. Renewal. Renew this connection. Be in a place of peace with you. They know this person knows that just to have peace in their life and have that one partner that just brings them so much joy and happiness and the exchange of that, the reciprocity of that will bring absolute a sense of happiness and joy and coming to rest.  If you're female resting their head on your breast and just saying I'm home, right? Whether you know them or not, meeting you, I feel like it's not a settle down without getting to know you. It's more or less like connecting with you and knowing that you are the best person for them. So the Ace of Wands is here. There's a new start happening here. A new beginning. No more false starts or delays. No more rejection. This is inspiration. And Ace of Pentacles on the Ace of Wands. Again, no more greed. No more stressing. You know, having this new beginning. Seeing a golden opportunity before them with you. Okay. For some of you, this could be an arosine, Libra, coming into your life because you do have the King of Swords twice. It could be Gemini or Aquarius. Somebody new that you don't know. For others, it could just be your person, whoever that is. All right. I want to get another clarifying card for the Ace of Pentacles. Oh, the chariot. Wow. That is amazing. That's cancer. Cancer energy. So the chariot is taking action and making change. This is a journey. This person's coming to see you and to initiate a new start. Very passionate about you.  You're someone that they see as very resourceful and quite domesticated in a lot of ways.  It doesn't matter. You still retain that within you. They see that you're someone who is a team player. You like having a partner in your life. You're someone who's very helpful and generous. Okay. But they also see as being very passionate. So the chariot makes me feel like this person's like in a hurry to come and get you. They might even buy you a new car or help you with a car. I don't know what that means, but they're on the move. This person, a chariot, it's like somebody who gets, like they coordinate their GPS. They figure out, they make the plans and then they follow through. Chariots follow through energy. Let's get a couple of angel wisdom cards to see what your other messages are here. What else does Virgo need to know? I'm just feeling like ego smash. This person has an ego smash. I'm trying to figure out the best way to shuffle. These cards are bulky and awkward and my hands are kind of little. So please forgive me. Okay. You, the nine of pentacles. Single, independent, enjoying the fruits of your labors. Working hard, which is leading or has led to a luxurious life, buying yourself something special. You're happy, successful.  Taking care of business, Virgo.  Let spirit teach you because they're going to be able to do it a lot better.  Tell you they made a mistake. They're having grief, remorse for how they treated you and they don't want to make a change. You want to change that around. And for others, you're just like living your life for you singles and just enjoying your life and you're going to come into union or connection with someone who may tell you or you're just going to know right now that they just went through a massive ego thing and it brought them to their knees and they realize they're ready for having that true, healthy, long-term security and relationship. Let's get another card for you, Virgo. The world, wonderful, brilliant success, a time of joyful accomplishment, spiritual enlightenment, freedom to do whatever you want. Be proud of yourself. You have a choice. You can let somebody come back. It's not saying whether or not, they're not saying whether or not you're going to take them back if it's someone from your past. It's just that they're going to try to come back in and make a massive change with you and the world is here. So there's a new beginning that could possibly be happening with this person. Clearing the slate, starting over, okay, back at the fool's journey or you are just keeping it moving and clearing the slate and starting a new chapter for yourself, okay, Virgo, or it's somebody new coming in and it's like, wow, we've completed the journey's completed and now you're both single and now you can both meet and come into union. You're meeting your soulmate, that's for sure, or one of your soulmates. Okay, wow, we have the eight of pentacles again. Learning all you can about a subject or career, going back to school, taking a seminar and finding a mentor, attention to detail, skilled work that you love. There's massive effort being put in here. This person is going to put effort into the relationship. You're putting effort into what will make you happy and if that's the relationship, so be it. If not, you're going to continue building, mastering your craft or whatever it is that you do in your life and just keep on, keep it on. Okay, night of cups, yeah, romantic, flirtatious, introspective, falling in love, being swept off your feet, a sudden love affair, situations or topics that make your heart flutter, a love of art and poetry. There's a proposal, definitely, this is your prince or princess charming romance is coming for you. Okay, so I just want to get a couple of love messages for those of you where this is your past person having hit the bottom, rock bottom and are coming back in. What would they tell you? Okay, you speak to me through music. It was my fault but I blamed you, so whatever they did wrong. They acted like it was your fault but now they're coming in to tell you that that was wrong. They lied. The truth is it was theirs. They wish things could be different. They will wait for a sign from you. Oh, they're coming. You just give them the sign and they'll come in and fix things. Just being near you is intoxicating. This person knows that they crossed the line with you and they're sorry about that. They are really, truly trying to become a better person. All right, Virgo, that's your reading for the next 24 hours. I hope that this does pad out for you. It is a general reading, so it may or may not resonate for you. It's okay, come back tomorrow. There will be another message for you. Hopefully, it will be good for you and resonate and it will come true. And yeah, please do hit like, share and subscribe here on my channel. If you're new and you enjoy my readings and thank you to everyone who has been subscribing, I'm truly grateful for that. And I will see you all tomorrow. Take care.


Hey, welcome back to the channel. So in this video, I wanna talk about my plan in 2022 to grow my education business to a million dollars in profit this year. And I got this entire idea for this video from a video that I watched from Sam Evans. I believe it's actually a sales video. I saw this a few days ago and it's about how he plans out his years and how he's planning out 2022. And I love the way that he mapped this out. I love the way that it looked and I love the way that he thinks and a lot of what he's doing aligns with what I'm already doing. So I thought why not just basically copy what he did with his planning and just add in my own elements on how I'm planning my business and my plan to grow to a million dollars profit this year. So I'm gonna cover this with you today. But before we jump into this, make sure that if you're enjoying the content, hit the like and subscribe button. Doing that helps me out. Also helps to show it to other people who can benefit from this stuff as well. And with that said, let's jump into this plan right now. So a few different things I'll cover. Traffic source, how I'm gonna get traffic to my different offers and to my business, the websites I'm using, the products I'm gonna be selling, the math behind a million dollars profit per year and how I plan to hit it, the funnels I'm using and the team. And then also the individual goals and action plans in order to hit that goal of a million dollars profit 2022. So let's start with the traffic channels here. You can see these green boxes. If you follow me for any amount of time, you know I love organic marketing and organic strategies. And that's what these green boxes are. So the bulk of my traffic strategy is just gonna be growing organically through content on these channels. So Twitter, YouTube, Facebook group, email list, I'm gonna be posting content on these channels in order to get traffic to my business and to my different paid offerings. So you don't have to, if you're trying to copy what I do with this plan and you wanna start generating traffic, definitely don't start with all four of these. I added these over time. So over the last two and a half years or so. But start with one, grow that up. Start a second one using the traffic that you grew from the first. And this is my organic strategy, all these four green boxes here. Now I also already run some YouTube ads, but I'm gonna be ramping it up a little bit. On average, currently I only spend about $100 per day. And I wanna get that up to $200 or $300 per day this year so I can grow my traffic and grow my business a little quicker. So this is the bulk of my traffic strategies is just posting content and organic strategies, but I am gonna be adding some YouTube ads to speed things up a bit. Now websites, so I have two different websites. I wasn't gonna add the second one here to this plan because this is about my education business plan, not my services business, but I thought why not add this anyway since it's one of my sites. So the first site up here is just my personal site, SeanAnthony.co. And most of what this does is just links to my social channel so people can see my content and consume my content on these different channels. So this is my personal site, SeanAnthony.co, you can check it out there. This is my services site. So we write emails and we do chat closing for high ticket businesses and the coaching and info product space and growthresponse.io, that's my services site for that done for you service. So these are the two websites, the one that's dedicated to my education business is this first one right here. Now as far as products go, I have three different tiers or buckets that are based on price point. So I sell a few more offers than Sam does. I like having multiple different products that I can offer that help with different problems and help people with different things. So I have three tiers here. The first is low ticket products or low ticket offers. And these are in the range of $50 to $100. So I have two products currently in this range that I'm selling. One is the super fast sales email challenge. You might have it or you might have seen it before or seen me talk about it. And that helps you to write your first email that sells. The second one is one that I haven't released publicly yet. There's just a few people who have been through it during the launch and this is called the get paid everyday appetizer. And this is basically how to get, how to create a digital product that gets you paid every day. So I teach you how to create a paid email challenge like the super fast sales email challenge in this product here. And this is $99. So those are low ticket products. These are great for getting more people into it at a higher volume and for people that can't afford the mid or higher ticket range products. So that's the low ticket and $50 to $100. The mid ticket range is $500 to 3K. I have one offer or one product that's already created. It's ESH. This is the email side hustle program that I have that I talk about a bunch. But I have two more that I'll be launching this year. One is called cash windfall campaigns. This is for people who already have their own products or their own offers to sell and they just want campaigns that will help them generate quick cash for those offers. Or if they're writing for a client they want some campaign ideas to run they can use these campaigns in this product. The second one is big money micro groups.  So these are two products that will be coming in Q1 and Q2 and these are gonna help with campaigns, email campaigns you can send out or Facebook posts you can send out to generate sales for your offers and to grow a Facebook group. So those are the mid ticket offers from $500 to 3K. And then I have one high ticket offer which is 10K currently. It's probably gonna be more as I go through the year and enroll more people. And it's called the Rainmaker Inner Circle. So all I'm doing in this, it's a coaching group. We get on Zoom every week. I teach people how to build a product or products and offers similar to mine and education business similar to this. So I teach people how to create their offers, how to sell those offers, how to do it without the phone using email and chat and messenger and Facebook groups. So everything that I'm doing, I get on a weekly coaching call with people in the Inner Circle. We have five people currently and it helped them basically replicate my business, the education business. So those are the products I'm gonna be selling for the remainder of 2022. And now let's break down the math, right? How do I get to a million dollars profit in my education business this year? So I copied this from Sam as well. You can see here, similar diagram. I just basically took his formatting and just plugged in my own numbers based on expected and current sales. So if I go to this document here, you can see I just list out the products. I list out the current price points. This could change, you know, it could go up, could go down, depending on if I'm doing discounts or specials or if I'm increasing the price after a certain amount of customers come on board. But as it stands, these are the price points. Monthly volume is how many people or customers will come into each of these offers every month. Some of these are current numbers and some of these are projected numbers. So these products haven't launched yet. So I am just basically guessing these numbers, but I think with my audience and the interest of these types of products, I can get at least 10 people a month into these different products even though they're not launched yet. So that's the beauty of having an audience as well and posting content is you can go out and create a new offer and start getting sales right away. The inner circle, which is 10,000 a year, I expect to get about 35 people in it this year. And so the monthly volume is broken down here except for the Rainmaker Inner Circle. You can see the income per month right here and the income per year right here. My expenses, I run a pretty lean business. These are actually higher numbers than what I'm currently paying, but I expect to be paying around this much near the middle to the end of the year. But contractors, advertising, software and tools and other expenses like courses or training or products that I'm buying, these are all the expenses on a monthly and a yearly basis. So if I break down the income per year, the expected income per year, subtracting the expenses from all my expenses here, this is how I come to the million dollar plus per year profit level. Now, am I gonna for sure hit this? You know, I hope so. I'm planning to get my products out this way and selling enough of them to hit this goal but I have this plan in place so I know what to shoot for for each of these products that I'm selling, the expenses and how much I need to be making and selling in order to hit my goal. So that's why we broke this out here, math. So that covers this one, the funnels that I use. So I don't really get too fancy with my funnels and like YouTube advertising yet. I may introduce the second one here in the middle of this year, but right now most of my traffic and most of my customers and clients are just coming through my Facebook group and my email list. So Facebook group funnel, basically somebody joins my Facebook group, email marketing rain makers. If you wanna join, it's free to join. It's email rainmaker.com, that'll take you there. But someone joins my group, they are also put into my email list and then they're exposed to my different content and offerings on my YouTube channel, my Twitter, in my Facebook group and on my email list. So they're getting content from me on all these different channels now. And by doing that, by getting them exposed to all my content on these channels, they see me more and more and eventually a percentage of those people become customers and clients for one of my different offers. So my funnel right now, I have some paid advertising on Facebook that goes to my Facebook group getting people to join. And that's like the bulk of what I use for my funnel here. The Rainmaker Inner Circle funnel, I don't really know exactly how I'm gonna structure this yet, but it could be just some YouTube ads going straight to a VSL. And I don't like to close on the phone, I can close most of my deals through chat. The five people who are currently in the Rainmaker Inner Circle were all closed through chat and email. So I would probably run some YouTube ads to a VSL and then have them send me a message on Facebook or chat with me and then I can close the deal there. So these are the two funnels I'm gonna be using. My Facebook group funnel works very well. And then my Rainmaker Inner Circle funnel, if I had decided to put YouTube ads directly to that, then that's what that funnel's gonna be for.  I do not like that. I don't wanna manage too many people. I wanna have a super lean and profitable team. So my team is basically me leading the business and doing all the creative work, a project manager to manage the virtual assistants and the contractors. And that's it, right? I don't need to hire salespeople right now at least because I close all of my deals through chat and messenger and through email. So I don't need to hire salespeople to go out and set appointments and to close deals because I'm posting content which gets people to message me and then I can close deals through that. So very lean team, right? I don't wanna have like 20 people on my team because that really dips in to the profit, right? I want a profitable business, a lean green profitable machine. That's my style.  So that's the team. The goals for my education business plan is the specific action items I'm gonna be doing on a daily and weekly basis. So first, I wanna be growing my YouTube channel. So two videos a week, you guys are watching this on YouTube. This is either the first or second video of the week. I'm gonna be posting two videos every week, typically on Monday and Wednesday. My Twitter following, Twitter's been great for growing my email list and getting people to watch my videos and see my other content. So I'm also gonna be focusing there. So three tweets a day and one thread a week. And a thread is just like multiple different tweets. It's kind of like a blog article, a long form tweet thread where you post multiple tweets one after another. So three tweets a day and one thread a week is my plan for Twitter. I wanna grow my email list, my Facebook group. So I'm gonna do this by posting one email and one Facebook group post every day, Monday through Sunday. I'm gonna start investing more to YouTube ads. Like I mentioned, I don't know the exact amount yet, but I'd like to get it to around two to three or $400 per day, depending on how they perform. Keeping my team small and lean and profitable, this is important to me. This is a lifestyle choice.  I wanna lean, green, profit machine. And I wanna be hitting a million dollars per year in profit with a lean business, right? Not a big team. This is my team right here. So this is my action plan. This is my goal is a million dollars profit this year. But to get there, these are the actions I need to be taking, right? Grow on my YouTube channel, my Twitter following, email us in Facebook group, going and putting people through this funnel here, selling people into my different products and services or offerings and breaking down the math based on like the monthly volume and selling enough to hit my monthly revenue and yearly revenue goal or profit goal. So this is my 2022 game plan on hitting a million dollars profit with my education business. If you guys want to copy this and create your own, again, I saw this from Sam. I got the entire idea from Sam. And if you wanna use this tool that I'm using, it's called Fig Jam.  So I hope this was helpful for you to see. Planning your year, like right now, especially in Q1 or in mid January is great because it sets you up nicely for the rest of the year. And if you don't create a plan like this, if you don't break it down until like the daily action is that you need to hit your goal and just figure out what your goal is for the year, you're never gonna do anything, right? I used to set goals like I wanna make 3 million this year and then I would sit on my butt and just do nothing because I just was thinking about hitting the $3 million year but it didn't have an exact action plan. So this is my plan to hit a million dollars profit per year with my education business. And again, if you wanna make a diagram just like this, I'm using figma.com and you can structure it very similar to how I did here and very similar to how Sam did over here. So that's really it for this video. This is my plan. You're gonna see me implementing this plan every day, week and month throughout the year and launching these different offers and creating content on these different channels. So follow along and the best place to follow me and see more of my content is in my free Facebook group, email marketing Rainmakers. If you go to email rainmaker.com that's gonna take you there and you're gonna see this entire plan in action throughout the course of the year. So hope this was useful and helpful to you. Make sure if it was, hit the like and subscribe button if you're not already and I will see you in the next video. Take it easy.