Elizabeth Roma and I own Roma's butchery in South Royalton right up on 14. I just opened that up during the pandemic because I'm crazy. So before that my husband and I own and run putting down Roots Farm which is the hillside behind us where we raise during the peak of the summer usually 1500 birds for eggs and another like 300 for meat birds and then in the past I would raise between 20 to 40 pigs on pasture. Currently not doing that because now I'm running a butcher shop too. So let's see here so that's our farm and we later bought this we my husband and I were living in a yurt for a couple years and when this house opened up the owners were looking to sell. We decided to move into a building so here we are. So oh yes these are all Freedom Rangers so a typical thing for us to do is we buy Cornish Cross for that first batch but then everything after that is all Freedom Rangers and the reason we do that is because spring and summer is so quirky here and when markets start it makes it easier because Freedom Rangers take eight to ten weeks and by the time you get the chicks and it's warm enough to put them outside and on pasture it's not the timing doesn't work. So what we do is Cornish Cross is because they take four to six weeks so we do Cornish Cross at the very beginning of the season because a lot quicker to get them up to size while we have that really funky weather we have chicks and they're in the brooder and the house and the grass still isn't ready and you know a big reason that I wanted to do this workshop is because like Caroline is saying I can at my butcher shop I can sell Misty Null Birds it's a Vermont poultry farm but it's mostly indoors from what I understand and what I've seen and I am wanting to support the local farmers small farmers that are doing pasture raised and there's no way that we can do that with the way regulations are with the state because I can't even bring pasture raised slaughtered birds on farm to my shop part amount and sell them it's not allowed so I can't even bring in whole birds that are from farmers on slaughtered and sold to my shop I can't sell them in my shop so what I decided was that instead of like I am still supporting Missy Null there they are a Vermont based poultry farm and so I still sell Missy Null Birds that I do part out for the shop but I'm doing these workshops so that our community can go out support local farmers buy five birds from a farmer by ten birds from a farmer when they're ready instead of just one at the market on that day you buy ten from that farmer support that farmer bring them home thumb break them down to what you want and put them into your freezer the way you want so that's kind of my goal is to get our community to start thinking about how to support our farmers touched on in those things so all right so let's get to killing some things so it's easier hold on to a chicken by its feet then by the wings that flap and then gets all messy so it's just easier it's also when trying to grab them you can like get low and grab at a leg is easier than trying to like jump at the bird so and for everyone that's here I am left-handed so you'll see a lot of my methods are done left-handed so just kind of switch it around for your right-handedness this bird this is my kill cone so I've had this cone for a long time at the farm we also have a whole board of about five cones but I kind of use this one for small slaughters and it's easy I also set up this way because this is where I'm working and this is where the guts are going so I'm not doing too much movement and this way the blood is here I've learned throughout the years you can kill you can have your cones over here and this over there but then the cleanup and the cleanup is so frustrating so you just once you're done slaughtering you just want to be done so I've made it to where my bucket this this is taking it to the compost the tractor so I'm setting up a kill cone where the blood's going into it it's where the guts are going and the feet are going if we're not saving them and then that way I just have to get on this tractor and drive it away so you also see over here in the plucker over here I have this grate this grate will catch feathers and I'll just throw them into the bucket and that way it's an easier cleanup than the feathers all over your driveway the feathers all over your yard or what not it's just small little methods I've found helped make this go by a little bit quicker so we're gonna take a nice pointy knife the kill so things that think about wind killing is that what if you want to take your neck if you push on the back of your neck where your spine is and if you roll your fingers forward you're pulling all of your veins and arteries to the front mostly so that's what I'm doing with my birds I'm taking my fingers I'm starting at the back of the neck and I'm pushing my fingers and pushing everything forward and then from there I'm what everything is what all is forward I'm then going in with the knife going in to the middle of the neck right at that spine and just barely like if this is the vertebrae I'm going in right at it and then cutting out feathers are hard to cut they're not an easy thing to cut they cause problems they dull your knife so trying to cut this way with the knife you're not getting it and you're gonna miss it or you're just you're gonna make the chicken very uncomfortable with a couple nicks to where if you're going in cutting out you're getting out the arteries and then I go also once I've cut open the neck I kind of roll the skin back and look and see if both veins are shooting and if they're both shooting blood or there's blood coming out like okay I've got the bird is gonna bleed out well if I don't then I kind of graze with the knife either side of the neck to make sure that the blood is pumping out because you want the blood out if blood stays in it's gonna cause rot later on in your process so the more blood that's like why we're not stopping the heart we want the heart to pump that blood out so that so we can yep no no it's forward yeah so you're making sure that you're past all of this yeah so I'm I'm pretty much I'm pushing my fingers forward and then it just kind of holding on to the neck that we have something sturdy to hold on to and then with my knife hand I'm going in like right in front of that and pushing in going across and then coming out so that's my method of doing it other people have different methods my husband doesn't even like doing that method because you're also cutting the the throat which then they can suck blood up into which then also is a problem so my husband likes to try to like nick both that's his method everyone has a different method some people use loppers which is really easy if you can put a chicken in hold the head down and someone lop it and that's a quick method as well then you don't have to think about the head except for when you have a chicken that's kind of still alive and jumps out with the no head and spins around that's entertaining what I do my method is I put the chicken in since I'm left-handed I put the chicken in so that it's facing to the right if that makes sense so you'll see here I'm putting the chicken in so the head it's facing that way is that right yes nope I'm doing it wrong I'm backwards I'm usually on this side so it's very backwards for me so here we go so with my right hand I'm grabbing hold a neck and right right here at the jawline okay so it's not up here you're not trying to grab the neck up here wherever it's you're going right at this jawline right here okay and so I take my fingers and I just kind of rolling forward and I feel all of this right here and so then from there what I'm doing is I'm just taking it go a knife in in the middle going through and then coming out and see I'm checking both sides and I see it flowing through I also like to just hold it for a minute I don't want to deal with the mess later I don't want to deal with me I don't want to deal with that so I just kind of hold it and let it help drain out and keep it all in my bucket if you're doing production this is probably not something you want to do I'm wearing a skirt today so I don't want to get so do you see me in grundies or overalls it's a big production day yeah not cutting feathers not cutting bone and that way I can just keep using this knife to hold like all 30 hundred birds that one of those scalder you're killing the next one then you have someone else it's it's it's really helpful to have two people a tag team at least so you have someone doing the dirty bits and someone in the clean bits that's always really helpful because then the person that's dealing with the blood and the poop is over here the person that's dealing with like the clean carcass or mostly clean carcass is over here so on the table so now right now the temperature and the scalder is 140 which is actually pretty low recommended temperature is between 130 and 170 so things that have I have a kill knife and then I have my I have a fatter knife that I use to actually do all the other bits here on the table it's kind of fun to also be something in something dry it gets pretty wet over here so there's always you can use a apron like this it's the plastic plastic aprons they last one time this thing has been through so many things so Amazon is a great thing to find an apron that has a little bit more durability to it so this piece here chicken plucker from Amazon as well I used to rent the same exact one just not as pretty from True Value you can rent chicken plucker from True Value not too expensive though once we started doing this quite often so I had to buy one of our own so this is I've seen I've worked in so many different places with different chicken pluckers as a home processor this thing is awesome it's so easy to clean it is take it all apart they can spray this down take the feathers off spray this down take the feathers off and most pluckers you can't take this apart it is one plastic box all right be on the safe side kind of lock it down because sometimes chickens get rowdy in here so with the plucker from True Value I guess it was a older model and they didn't think through safety measures so we were able to connect to the electrical foot pedal so every time that we were plucking my husband would turn on the foot pedal stand there pluck the birds and then be able to get off the foot pedal and then go on but this has a safety mechanism that we haven't fixed yet so it's you have to go under turn on go back turn it off and it's a little bit more of a pain but we gotta get that altered so alright so bird wise so right now we're it says we're at 168 so we'll see how that goes so bird is dead it's not kicking it's not flinching that way I don't get water all over myself I use two hands that way when I put the bird in I kind of twist the legs and that way I can move it around like this because if you're just dunking you're not getting in between there and you're not gonna get all the feathers off so then I'm checking it's not ready yet that was too much of a pull to try to get them off so some places like kiss the cow they have the scalder you put the bird in see that was a nice pull there was no give to it so kiss cow has a scalder you put the bird in it flips it and it just keeps slipping it in the hot scalding water and then it just comes out and it's beautiful so for this plucker to help keep the feathers at bay I use the water as well and there is the magic so this could have probably sat in a scholar for maybe like another second or two and these feathers on the wings would have been gone so when you have a team one person skulls and that way they can keep track so I keep track I say okay that was in for 10 seconds next time it's in for 12 seconds next time it's in for 13 or 14 seconds or okay we turn the water on so you want to stay one consistent scholar because if you don't and this person does it for 10 that person counts differently and their 10 is actually a 15 and then you have skin coming off so kind of it's better to have one person be that job so that's something else to kind of take into account so it's it's a good practice to have your table be the clean place so here rinse it off before it comes here things that I first do take off the dirty bits the dirty bits include the feet they come right off that's one of the first things there's a lot of poo that can be on the feet so I take them right off keep them somewhere else and then this is most people that use feet to process you're cooking them down again scalding them to then peel them and all that if you have one of those scalders the whole chicken goes into the scalder including the feet that's when those feet that's art that's peeling right there for you so it just kind of varies so now the dirty feet are off I'll spin it around and then I will have the dirty head as another place and I'll just take that right off and so now my more dirty bits are out of the way so here I'm just cleaning off any other excess feathers so something I learned when I was at the slaughterhouses hair feathers all that is considered dirty skin is clean hair is dirty because hair animal hair human hair it all has debris dirt things on it so you want to get that off and so when I met my slaughterhouse if we see hair on a carcass we're not just picking it off we're not rinsing it off we're cutting that hair wherever that hair is we're cutting that skin off because hair if you're rinsing it that rinsing just spreads whatever is on that hair onto the carcass if you're just plucking it's still there you just can't see it so by cutting it off you're just getting rid of whatever is on there and that is really important for us to have safe food that we can continue to keep doing these on-farm slaughters and keep eating so that's that's one thing one of the state inspectors taught me at the slaughter houses is about cutting it off so so here I've gotten my carcass kind of as clean as I want it I'm kind of keeping my table clean grab that hose Caroline so when I'm doing a big job I'll have two tables one is like the the getting rid of feathers and all the dirty bits and the other table is for when someone's actually eviscerating so can have that again Caroline so here I this is one method of holding birds trying to hold a bird and it not slip out of your hand is very hard I've learned that you can grab it by the the wings like this and then you can flip it around spin around figure out how you want to get it as clean as possible this way without it falling so from here other methods that I do are I don't keep the Pope's nose I'm not a Pope's nose kind of person so I cut it right off for those that that don't know Pope's nose is the tail so on the tail itself this is the chicken tail so there's a gland right here you can keep the Pope's nose on people love it think it's delicious I don't have time for it and I'm in production mode so I take it right off it makes the next step a lot easier but you can just dip that gland right off and leave the nose on if you want so I've taken the nose off and you can see here I've exposed already where I'm going to be going next but before I get there I also I flip it over and put it on its breasts this is a retail look to things if you open up the neck this side when you're splitting open this here you're exposing the breasts for ripping and it doesn't it's not as good as a presentation and it's going to ruin your breast meat skin stuff so what I do is I always turn my chicken over to be on the backside and that's where I'm cutting so that I'm not ruining ruining that skin on the breast so I hold the neck squeeze the skin real tight like this and then you can just take your knife and it just opens right up I barely even I'm not even cutting I'm just kind of grazing and by pulling the skin it pulls it right out and while I still have it all in my hand I'm taking everything and then grabbing the neck and pulling it apart and kind of opening up like this from there you go back in and you can find the throat and the those two things the right there we go thanks so you have your two pieces here that you're grabbing and then you're pulling them from the skin and all the way to finding the food sack and you're then loosening up that sack and getting that all loose so that is the second step so now I've opened this up and I've loosened this so that'll be easier to pull later on and I've also left a lot of skin so that when I take that neck off and the neck is going to be really stabby actually it's got that bony bits this skin will help protect it so if you're putting into a package it's not breaking the plastic on the package so I'm going to turn it back over back onto its backs exposing the breasts and then so the vents is here and I've gone right below by cutting the Pope's nose off and you can kind of lift up almost here and right this is that tailbone so I take the knife in right at the tailbone and then I lift that up that hole now so the you'll see the intestines is right above this okay and then I go on either side well I start on one side and I kind of do like a lap around that whole vent so I start on one side exposing it and I keep coming around here and then back around to the other side trying to show you but it's on the wrong side so so now I've I've not let go of the vent I'm keeping the vent holding on to it as I'm playing with as I'm working with the knife around the vent so now that I'm holding on to it I'm loosening up everything that's around it and then bring it down off the table so so now all the dirty bits are this way okay so I'm keeping as much poop away from the carcass as possible and then from there I'm going back in and I'm scooping and sweeping to try to get all the rest of the bits out so that's the intestines and then from there you're looking for the heart the livers the lungs and the stomach which is the gizzard for those that like eating gizzards and so what I what we loosened up here is now being pulled out this other side so there is most of the dance you have the liver you have the heart you have the kidney you have the gizzard you have the intestines away so from here I detached the gall bladder from the liver my method is by taking the gall bladder and squeezing it and just pulling apart of course it's gonna explode on me aren't you so there's the the liver and the heart the gall bladder is here for those that want to keep the stomach these are two pieces one piece you can pull apart the piece you can't so I just use a knife taken both out and so all of this goes into there and so pose yes please so you can keep it so again as I was processing I nicked one of the intestines and so I am trying to keep this space as clean as possible all the time that way that this carcass stays as mostly clean as possible at all times so now that I've pulled out that the things I've missed are the oh it's a boy the the balls and the lungs so the lungs you have to scoop with your fingers if these are the lungs they're the rib cage you're taking your fingers and sweeping your fingers between the rib cages it will feel very flat you need to dig your fingernails in and try to loosen up those ribs so that's what's happening here and I'm taking my fingers and getting the lungs loosened from the ribs on the other side and you have them right here so they're very hot pink color and then depending on the bird you also want to take out the the jibbly bits so these these balls are kind of small they're not pine nuts so there we have an empty carcass that you can rinse off and throw into your cold tub I also like to prep the neck by cutting in as deep as I can right here not too far I don't want to cut all the way and then I spin the neck because neck is great to help with broth and soups and I just kind of stick it back into the carcass and then that way when you're processing birds trying to keep all the pieces together with that bird the neck the heart the liver it gets jumbly so this way this is one thing you don't have to keep track of with each bird so again I then take the bird do another nice rinse including inside and it goes into my cold water and that is the dance I'll do it again and then I'll welcome everyone to try their hand at it so I'll go through some of the things with you that I do here at my shop with the chickens and you'll see different things you might do different things with your chickens so the first thing I do you see all of them they take out that gland the Pope's nose so all these chickens have still their tails and you can also see the hole is a lot bigger those bones are gone they they cut them right back where these bones actually those aren't cut back they're just soft so these birds are soft they're young they're soft birds anyways first thing I do when processing I'll do it quick and then I'll take it a little bit slower at least it tells me I go too fast all the time this is that skin that I talked about in the front that I leave is a nice flap to not ruin the breast you can see they do the same process so they're not ruining that breast meat or breast skin so I take that off this I put towards dog food it's just something I do here at the shop we have a lot of dog owners that love the dog food that we make so this here is the wings and what I do is I flip them over so I'm taking the bird and it's saying like this I'm going like this that's kind of the motion I'm holding the wing at so I'm holding it out and in between there there's a little the kind of armpit and I'm just grazing the armpit I'm not trying to cut into it I'm just grazing it opens up you can see there is the the joints from that joint you can keep going you kind of cut away from the breast meat that is under there so you're cutting away and taking that off and while it's still in my hand before I do anything else I just flip it around there is on this wing tip there is a knob right here I put my knife literally on top of that knob okay I'm not putting on the side I'm not trying to and I'm just resting my knife and then pressure okay and it should come right open and that is so when you go out for wing night this is not the wing you get the wing you get is then cut again so just know you're only getting half of it the tip itself goes right into our dog food second I do the other side so open up the arm again I cut or graze right at the armpit to open up and find the joint once I see the joint that little ball I kind of keep cutting away you're going to get some of that breast meat that's okay that's a pretty decent size breast so again I flip it over I find that ball joint and this one is not as happy as others right so dog food wings I then flip it back I kind of hold one leg up and I try to keep as much skin on as possible I'm a skin person I love skin so they see not everyone does but to do so I leave as much skin on my breast as possible so here my leg I kind of cut towards closer to the leg so I just like release the skin from there it's it's already open so I'm just cutting the skin and grazing the skin to open it up and then I switch over and I do the other side up here opening it up and sometimes the birds have been sitting so they're kind of like this in this motion so what I like to do is bend the legs back to make a nice sturdy surface for myself so most of the time when you first open that up this it's still going to be kind of wobbly but by kind of bending the legs out you're giving yourself a more solid surface from there I like to take my knife you can find that center breastbone here I don't pick a side I let my knife pick a side because by picking a side you're just not going to end up where you want to be anyways so I just let the knife kind of ride down the side and then whatever side it starts going down I continue and this is where the wishbone is so once I hit the wishbone it'll be a nice solid I kind of curve my knife and come to the side of the wishbone and then just open it up here like this so I'm taking the breast off of both the wishbone and the the rest of the the back of the chicken and then I'll continue to release it off of the back of the chicken here so off the carcass so now as I come around this there is still meat on this backside that usually gets forgotten about so what I like to do as I keep coming around I don't fully just cut down I kind of keep going around because that's the easiest way to get that meat off is by going around the carcass so this is what I end up with so when I take one breast off this is what I end up with is this extra piece here and your whole breast but within this whole breast you have I call this stir fry meat so that goes into stir fry this it had a little piece of bone that I saw on it as I cut it because the bones are soft I throw in the dog food dogs love bones also on the breast you have your tender here the tender is literally just ripped right off you don't need a knife for this you just pull it right off and you can set that aside so then this is your skin on breast so there we have one and so then now I'm going to do the other one so now I can hold the carcass in place and a little steady and ride my knife along the side of that bone and down the wishbone on the other side now you all can be very gentle and slow and patient at this but just know how are you going to make a really good stock of there isn't some meat left on the bone so that's kind of my take on like you can be perfect where you can just get most of it so again here's my whole breast I'm going to take off my stir fry meat I'm going to take off my tender so a little bit of that tender kind of broke away I sell retail so I like to keep things pretty and clean so I put this meat here that's kind of flapping in the stir fry and there's my tender so I also with retail also like to have a clean carcass you probably do too I take off those odd bits and give those to the dogs so here I have two nice breasts I have some tenders I've got some wings so far next while that the while it's still standing here in front of me I have this meat that's kind of left over what I do with this meat is I ride my knife down either side of the wishbone and I have more stir fry meat and then I go on the inside and take this out and this is kind of rippable once you get to this side and this is more stir fry meat so I build up quite a bit of stir fry meat over a couple birds and then a lot of the bones I put right towards dog food now the next thing I do is I take it and I laid the chicken kind of like this a very splayed out kind of way again I'm taking it like this and what I do here while it's sitting on its side I start on the back end I take my knife along there then there's going to be a hump where there's the bone connection go around it and then come back down so it I see that pattern it kind of goes like this and then dips and then back out so while it's in this while I still have it in my hand I look at the thigh and the leg and I go on the leg side of things I'm a leg lady so I look at the leg find the fat and right at that fat line I cut you end up with a nice sliced leg and thigh so again yep that's just how it is that that connection so again I'm leaving the kind of the fat on the thigh and having a nice leg you can say and so leaving the fat on see that fat line I put my knife around the other side of it and then just cut down and it will be nice and quick and smooth so right so here you have soup stock dog food chicken wings chicken thighs stew meat legs tenders and breasts so I'm gonna do that again a little bit slower and if anybody wants to get closer to see what I'm up to you're welcome so again I'm taking off the skin here and putting it towards the dogs I'm taking the arms and I'm kind of like flipping them out so I'm rotating them out and finding that armpit just putting my knife there and they'll open right up if there's no pressure by your hand it's not gonna open up like that okay so you need to give pressure graze your knife and it'll open up at that armpit and then from there you can cut out while it's still in my hand I flip it over and cut down on that knob and I will come along and show everyone personally how this all goes down this is again opening up the thighs making a nice sturdy surface take my knife I don't even pick it picks for me come down one side so I move the carcass around a lot so that I can just keep moving with my knife I don't try to work around it I move the carcass around though my old boss you would say do less of that and just more figuring out a better technique because the less time you pick up and put down the the more efficient you are so that's why I like while the wings still in my hand that's when I take the wing tip off taken down the breast past the wishbone going along the internal cavity going around the side Lisa what what do you say this is called is this this meat the oyster so put the legs up so see I've come too high a little bit and I'm hitting bone that's not lit so then I have to come back with my knife to let it hit that and then I come back down so you'll you might hit that and that's fine just keep just come back and come a little bit higher and you'll be able to make that scoop again the fat is on the thigh not on the leg and see I've cut to see I keep that fat on the leg on the thigh otherwise it won't cut so that first cut you see I stopped so I left some of that fat so you got to go all the way so again taking the thigh off so leaving the fat on there cut straight down that is the breakdown that I do here at the shop can you hear me one more bird some other things that a lot of folks want to know about is bone and breast and spatchcock so this is taken the excess skin off so for spatchcock there's what you get your what you're doing is just taking that back spine out you can do it with a knife by taking the knife down the back side of either side of the spine so take the pope's nose off down either side or get some nice chicken scissors and do the same method so you're going down one side just crunching bones here let's start going no I need a little bit stronger these are I bought them from a restaurant store as like chicken processing scissors so I know that there Lisa has some scissors that are an Asian style chicken scissors that she cuts right through things I don't commonly use a knife I usually just take mine or commonly use scissors I just take my knife and I have the spine like this so this is that same spinal area and so what we're doing when we're cutting this is we're going right along either side of that spine see that so this is the spine you're just cutting those bones right along there you can also take your knife and cut them you see that they are cuttable with a knife so and left awkward so once you get to here I like to also win spatch cocking I take my knife down the center of the kind of breastbone area to help that separate and then give it a little pump and it breaks the breast and so by doing this and then tucking in the wings I can never tuck in the wings anyway so by doing this and having a nice flat bone in breasts you can throw this on the grill this thing on the grill right and so you're evenly cooking it compared to a carcass it's like this trying to cook on the grill and this is getting cooked but this is not as well it's where when you have it all splayed out like this you're getting a whole thing kind of evenly cooked so yeah so this is spatch cock and they say that can't I mean I would just cut the wing tips off someone was saying they tuck the wings in and I'm not sure how that happens maybe it's like this and then that goes on the grill like this and then voila so that's another method you want to grab one more for me right so lastly this is last one I'm gonna do for you is a bone and breast so and you see like as I do things I like I I rotate the wings I kind of keep moving I don't just keep trying to go for that thing I put my knife on that knob and I'm working at the the piece itself it's a soft connection so it'll come off I use gravity a lot to do things for me so for a bone and breast I take the legs off first and that take this breast itself and so and it's really soft right down the middle here so if you take your knife and go right down this you get to the wishbone here you can just kind of spread it open and then on either side find the wishbone they'll pop up like this and take that off so you're leaving it some meat on there but you're getting this other product that you want which bone and breasts on the grill is also nice so again I put a knife mark right down the middle and then I give it a crack and so then it kind of opens that all up and that's a bone and


Hello again and welcome to Neekhi Baat. So is COVID finally behind us or Is it that people are walking around with masks because they've learned something new? Are we still under the after effects of COVID? The truth is yes COVID and the fear related to the chest infection is probably gone for most of us but Fortunately in our hip and knee OPD. We are seeing a lot of effects with after side effects of treatments The majority of this is the bones of the hip dying because of a lot of steroids people received in ICU's If this is picked up in early stages, which we are picking up even two to three years After they've had the severe COVID infection. We are in positions to treat this with bony injections We are in positions to treat this with stem cells as the case may be However, that may not be the long-term answer These might be situations where if we pick up early, we can save the natural joints However, even in young patients if the hip bone is destroyed There's no need to be worried and life is not gone past you Hip replacement as a technology if done in the right way can restore your quality of life and Actually give you back the movement and activity for a very very long-lasting period Hip replacements these days can last for even up to 50 and 60 years There are other effects related to our posture which my rehabilitation colleague will mention as well


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Hello people, I'm Ginny Metherill and I am your fourth-generation witch and welcome back to my incredibly popular Almanac series looking at all the traditions, the rituals, the spells and the witchcraft that you can do for the month of June. As ever with these videos, what I'd like to do is to give you a general overview of witchcraft practices that happen throughout the months of June and any traditional spells and rituals that you might be carrying out and then we'll go into a little more detail and look at the day to day witchcraft and what spells would work on what days. So with that said, let's look at the overview for June and of course June really, we are at the height of the floral season and it is about those flowers. June has a variety of names and but one of its most popular and endearing names is that of the rose month because of course this is the time when the roses flourish and are in bloom. Don't you just love a rose? We've got so many delicious wild roses growing at the moment and they're all coming out, apple-centred sweetbrier, to the dog rose, to the field rose, to the plain and rambling rose. They're all coming into wonderful blooms at the moment as well as those more cultivated and cultured varieties that are growing in your garden. Well they're not growing in my garden actually because I've slightly killed them this year. If anyone knows anything about how to grow roses let me know in the comments below so I really need some tips. The rose is of course celebrated everywhere throughout every culture it's not just our witches that have got involved. If you look at the tarot deck you'll see lots of rose symbolism and it normally implies balance when you're using it in divination purposes. The Christians had the rose symbolizing purity and love hence it was the flower of the Virgin Mary. There is a reason why the rose is the symbol of the Labour Party. There was an ancient poem and the line from this poem goes as follows hearts starve as well as bodies give us bread but give us roses meaning although you can feed us with bread our hearts crave beauty and nourishment that way too and this is the basis of British socialism but you all know that there is no rose without thorn and the tale of the nightingale and the rose where the nightingale presses their breast against the bone of the rose and so their blood turns that flower red is so beautifully told by Oscar Wilde. Go look it up it's a wonderful story I used to read it to my children although a bit gory isn't it really thinking about it but fairy stories normally were. The rose really is the most beautiful of flowers it's scent lifts my spirits and therefore I use it almost on a daily basis within my practice for example I use lots of elements of the rose such as dried rose petals or maybe a rose scented candle or even rose essential oil in my craft I've made loads of room sprays etc using rose because I love it it really aligns itself with my energy and so this month is really when I am practicing rosecraft at its best. The other plant that is in full bloom at the moment is the elder and elder flowers are one of my favorite of the foraging crops that I get. The best recipe that I actually possess is one for elderflower cordial because it starts at midday on a sunny day in June go out and pick your elderflower that any recipe that starts like that is fabulous already isn't it but the elder tree is the witch's tree it was thought to contain the spirit of the mother witch and so therefore you should never take anything from an elder tree without asking that mother witch spirit first because otherwise you can upset them. The name elder possibly comes from the Anglo-Saxon elder meaning fire because it has very hollow stems the blacksmiths of old used to use those hollow stems to blow life into the coals of their fires and so it was known as the fire tree. It is of course beloved by the fair don't fall asleep underneath an elder tree you'll upset the witch who lives there and you might be abducted by the fair although the other reason that you should sleep under an elder tree is because you might be able to see them. Elderflower also has hundreds of uses for it one of my favorite is to infuse the elderflower itself in some hot water and then you put this in the fridge and it makes a really lovely soothing after-sum spray. It's very gentle on your skin and actually it's quite good for eczema too and psoriasis and other skin conditions. We also have the very bright and jolly St John's work this comes out around mid-summer if not a bit before or after depending on the weather conditions however it is a very witchy superstitious traditional plant that you would have cut down at mid-summer and decorated your houses with protection and to guard against malevolent spirits but it's also a huge emblem of the sun and it's considered a plant that will bring you happiness a lot of people are known to take St John's work to help with depressive symptoms however in the olden days the gypsy culture knew very well that not just imbibing St John's work would help you with your mood but also you could use its energy to bring happiness into your life and here is a quick spell to do so take an orange candle and light it next door to this candle place a bunch of St John's work that you have picked when the sun is shining the candle burns down make your wish and then once it's gone hang the bunch above your doorway to bring that wish of happiness true and the last plant that i want to talk about is the common orchard and fern now this is a bit of a weed around me i can't dig them up enough however they are very magical and there's a lot of superstitions so buckle in i'll tell you a few of them if you are traveling around from place to place and you see a fern be careful not to tread on it because otherwise you'll forget your way and become very struck when searching for treasure carry fern leaves with you and you will be guided to it so great one for metal detectors that i always thought ferns have a great correlation with midsummer's day and should you cover yourself in the fern seeds which are pretty invisible themselves so good luck with gathering those but should you cover yourself with fern seeds you will be rendered invisible yourself and finally when you have your midsummer bonfire if you throw dried fern leaves onto it you'll exercise evil spirits june is of course named after june the roman goddess of marriage and it is known as the month for marriage should you be married in june you will have a long and happy pairing together so very recommend getting married in june likewise strawberries are out this month and if you find one of those double strawberries and share that with a member of the opposite sex all the same sex depending on your inclination then you will fall in love i presume with each other and not with just some other rando that turns up but yeah i presume it is with each other so that is my overview for june it is a month of flowers and these are the times when you should go out and pick them especially of midsummer when they're at their energetic psychic hype now let's look at the day-to-day witchcraft and get down to the nitty-gritty detail and of course we're going to start with the first of june because the first of june marks the start of the meteorological summer if i've said that right which just means it's summer but we all sort of know that don't we so it's a bit of a rubbish date to start with however it is very much definitely the start of summer on the first of june the second of june is the date st elmos fire st elmos fire is a witch fire it is a hugely superstitious phenomenon that does occur it happens when electrical discharge or plasma discharge happens around a rod i.e it happens around a mast on a ship or a spire on a church or even a very tall chimney and it has a load of supercisions with it if you see one st elmos lightning strike so to speak then this is a bad omen however if you see two as the Greeks called them the castor and pollocks of st elmos fire then this will bring good omens the fourth of june is the time of the full moon there are many names for this moon the rose moon the strawberry moon the mead moon referencing mead which is a drink made from fermented honey or the dyad moon which is an old anglian saxon term dyad meaning pair the wikens call it the dyad moon meaning the couple which is about the god and goddess coming together polarities coming together because of course this is the month of marriage and you should hand fast during the month of june this is also a Sagittarius full moon now Sagittarians are all about ambition honesty and success so should you be looking for a career goal this full moon is a great time to carry out your rituals to help you down that path the eighth of june is a divination day this is all about whether the weather is going to be fair now there are several things that you should be looking out for one is if you hear a call of a green woodpecker or the yaffle bird otherwise known as rain bird it means it's going to be wet in the foreseeable future if it actually rains today then we're going to have a wet harvest so let's hope you don't see a green woodpecker or lots of rain because then it's going to be nice and clear and dry the ninth of june is the luckiest day of the year it's known for it should you have any gambling that you need to do not that i approve of gambling to excess but should you wish to lay a bet on the horses today why not have a go because this is the luckiest day of the year it's also incredibly or suspicious this day in order to start new projects so if you are due to start your job on this day excellent your job's going to go so well if you're due to give birth on this day you will have an easy labour and your child will be blessed make your plans to go ahead and start something new for today it will work the next date i want to talk about is the 14th of june if you would like a pet squirrel the 14th of june is the best and most appropriate day to take that pet squirrel from its nest and have it as your own apparently squirrels make great sports as a pet um but you will never have a single wool jumper not eaten left i'd love a pet squirrel actually i think they sound fun the 18th of june is the night of the new moon each new moon has its own energy and own associations with it and this new moon is in gemini meaning that it ruling the power of communication and relationships you can set your intent and your spells and your rituals to improve your relationships your partnerships or to call new partners to you this is also the day to have a hand fasting ceremony it is the most auspicious day in the whole year for hand fasting which is today the 20th of june is the day that the solstice is approaching so in order to prepare yourself for the solstice you must clear out your half this will set a new base for with win-witch to relight it from the solstice fires that your community would have it will also please the fairies they love a clean half just for mid-summer and therefore if you place a pair of your shoes by your half on the 20th that you've cleaned out and it's all laid ready for the fey to come through you will find that money will come to you for mid-summer the 21st of june is of course mid-summer or litha litha is actually an anglo-saxon turn meaning month of the mid-summer moon so i mean litha is much easier to say isn't it yes it's litha rather oh it's the month of the mid-summer moon this is of course one of the big highlights of the pagan calendar and i'm not really going to talk about it here because there's so much to go into it that i will be doing its own separate video however i wanted to give you just very briefly a gypsy spell to bring you great luck for the future six months i want you to take one orange and some clothes you will prick the clothes into the orange all over and then hang them up above your bed and this will set a spell to bring you luck for the next six months the 22nd of june is when a son enters cancer now um i like this so i thought i'd tell you about it but apparently if you are a cancer and i'd love to hear if you are leave me a note in the comments below if you are in cancer because it will make me smile if no one else but they say about cancerans i should have to read it up the man as well as the woman shall have good fortune and great victory over their enemies so don't cross a canceran because it won't turn out well for you the 23rd is mid-summer's eve of course mid-summer is slightly different from the solstice solstice happens on the 20th 21st mid-summer happens on the 24th and they're sort of two separate entities but amalgamated into the festival of mid-summer which happens throughout that week now on the 23rd this is mid-summer eve this was known as the witch's night it is always the night for the big festivals when the witches are afoot and this is the night for the witches covens to meet up there's the very famous witch's rock in zenor which is in cornwall which is an initiation rock should you walk around it nine times on mid-summer's eve you will know the ways of the witches this is a big night for covens this is the time when everyone got together renewed their vows into the coven and were initiated into it so celebrate this night with all your witchy friends and initiate them into your coven fairies also are particularly active on this night and it's a really good idea that if you want to i think in the old days they called it bind them to your service but nowadays we might just welcome them into our homes and so tonight is the night when you do a furry welcoming ceremony one of my students the other day did a ceremony it was rather lovely she cooks some amazing cakes they all had tea they sat down it was in the afternoon she sent out invitations it was great she had a lovely time i was quite jealous i wouldn't have minded doing myself the 25th of june is the end of the mid-summer festival as a whole and it is on this day it is therefore considered that sea travel is now safe so should you be worried about taking a sea journey go after the 25th of june and you will find it a very pleasant time and that is my almanac for june what do you think is that any particular one of those rituals or traditions that you're going to follow let me know in the comments below do go to patreon.com forward 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Adam, first of all welcome to Broughford City. A couple of days in your time here at Broughford now. How's it been so far? Yeah, it's been good. I've got to meet the lads, obviously training them now. I met them in the matchdown in the hotel on Saturday, but that's been good so far. It's been quite a hectic time, all we have to join up with the team in the hotel on Friday night. Yeah, it was a little bit surreal, obviously, all up and so quickly, but it's one of those things, football you never know, and I wanted to come out and be involved in playing games again and involved in the match day, so it's good. Do you know many of the players already? I know Andy pretty well. I know one or two of the other lads I've been playing against them, obviously just through foot warning circles, and I know they're a decent bunch of lads, the nonnest bunch as well. And looking at the loan itself, I'm guessing it's a good move for you in terms of location and hopefully getting some game time? Yeah, the location obviously helps, but that wasn't the main reason there's more to do with games, obviously, but I'll only get games if I play well and get myself in the team, so that's what I've got to do. Has the manager spoken too much about the move here? I'm guessing you'll have known a bit about the club already, given your previous years in the game. Yeah, obviously I saw what happened last year and I know they had a great start to this season as well, obviously it's a bit more difficult since Christmas, but it's one of those things when you come into a new league, you never know what it's going to be like or what's going to happen, so I'm just glad to be here. For any fans perhaps not familiar with you as a player or your style of player, how would you describe your game? Good question. No, obviously I like to get involved in the games unless I can, try and get on the ball, get forward when I can, but obviously defending is my main job, so if I do that bit right then hopefully I'll add a bit more to it. Obviously, as we mentioned before, you met with the squad in the hotel in London on Friday, now you're going to be part of another long trip south for the Colchester game on Tuesday. I know it's a lot of travelling, but is it helping some way to get you involved in the group quicker? Yeah, it does obviously, it's one of those things that happens all the time at clubs, you get new lads coming and players going and that sort of stuff, so it's a pretty standard practice, but yeah, they seem a good bunch of lads. And after your brief appearance at Brentford on Saturday, I'm guessing you must be keen for a longer spell on Colchester on Tuesday? Obviously, like I said, I've got to play well, and obviously when I do get in the team, I keep doing well to stay in it, but obviously it's one of those things I do my best I sort of can do. A lot of games coming up in the month, you were scheduled to be here at the club, you must say there's a great chance to get you back in the rhythm of playing regular games? Yeah, that's what it is obviously, it's been obviously people now having played a proper first-team game since August September time, so if I can come here and play some games it's perfect. And with the team meeting points of performance is to try and push themselves back up in the top half of the table, you must be hoping you have a great level of experience and the game can help us do that. Yeah, well, I hope so, but anything I can out of anything, anywhere I can help, that's what I want to do. And like I said already, I'll do my best and see how it goes from there. It's on man.


Julia, welcome to the show meeting interesting people. Today my guest Julia Pikalva, poet, musician, and more. And we have our interview via Zoom from United States to Italy. Welcome to the show Julia. Thank you Yelena, thank you very much for inviting and I say ciao to all your viewers. Thank you. So as a poet of course we should start with the poem which was written just recently and translated and you can say the person who translated the poem and then we will be listening first in English and then I will ask you to read in Russian also because that was originally written in Russian. Yes I would like to start with a very new poem that fortunately was translated into English just two days before. I wish I did not have a reason to write it. I don't even use my own words. I use only a biblical you shall not kill and the cliches of Russian propaganda. Two comments before I start that the letter that you will hear twice written like this is not in the Cyrillic alphabet but now it is used in Russia to brand the special operation. That's how we in Russia must call this war and the poem is dedicated to the war that unfortunately currently is going between Russia and Ukraine. I will not pronounce the last word because I don't want the propaganda to have the last word but you will guess it and you will hear my poem is a brilliant translation of Anna Krushelnitskaya. Thank you Anna. Don't kill. Don't kill. No one is killed. They are all leaving. Don't kill. At least now we are even Steven. Don't kill. Let them crouch in the basement some more. Don't kill. But killing was fine before. Don't kill. It was them. They killed their own. Now they sit under rubble calling out to the West. Now they mourn. Don't kill. They aren't even a nation. They need a firm hand. What we do to them we do as a friend and we won't rest till they see the best for them to be saved from the wicked West. Don't kill.  Glory to the special operation. Glory to the Spetsnaz. Glory to Russia's military force. Thanks to them the planet is staying its course. Glory to Putin the saviour and crusher. Glory to Russia. Don't kill. The world lies in evil lives. Put a white arm band on it. Now it's one of our guys. Then we'll point our guns away. It can stay. Don't kill. For peace we'll do what it takes. Don't kill. Precision strikes on the Nazis. The commander makes no mistakes. Don't kill. You know this issue has two sides. Don't kill. Sending you a rug and the kid a code in his size. I'll mail a larger one once I find it as well. In hell. Don't kill. We remind the traitors sweeping fifth column of their grand-dads in the gulag. That's where we can hold them. Don't kill. The world doesn't know what good news we bring in this upheaval. We are the pure, absolute, unadulterated. Thank you. Thank you Julia. I think it is really too long to read it in Russian and the translation of Anna is so brilliant. I would rather prefer to read later on another poem in Russian if you don't mind. Sure. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So just let's start to talk about yourself first. Just tell the people to our viewers how long ago you just start to write a poetry and yes, all your success. I was born in Moscow in the family of a Navy officer and this is why I'm fascinated by water and ships since childhood. And now I see them every day from my window. I grew up in St. Petersburg but after the fall of the Iron Curtain and lived and worked in many countries. All of my life I was working in big multinational companies like Procter and Gamble, Carsburg, Danone. Eight or ten years ago I started to write poetry and I cannot explain it. I think it's just miracle that happened to me. I started from a short humoristic poem and little by little it grew up into something more serious. Then as a result I can show you the two books that were issued quite recently in Russia and in Italy. The first book is called The First Tech 2 and this is a Russian book which was published in Moscow in Christmas 2020. I prepared during the beginning of pandemics and it's a very heavy volume. It contains 500 poems. Inside I split it into three big parts which are called Birth, Life and Return. And who reads my book to the end finds out that the book does not end. It returns to birth, to life, to return and repeats cycle ever and ever again. The book contains the beautiful works by Russian artists and sculpture whose name is Alexander Kostin. Just let me show you an example and I hope you can see some. Recently for the Christmas of 2021 the Italian book was published. It has a similar cover because the Italian publishing house liked the cover so much but it is quite different in content. First of all it is not really smaller. Second it is bilingual. It contains 81 poems translated by Paolo Statucci, a brilliant interpreter who translated all our classics from Pushkin to Pasternak and has more than 50 years of experience. Most poems here are from the previous book, the first, but there are some poems which are newer and that were not yet published in Russia but they are published in Italy in the translations. And both books are interactive. They contain QR codes. I'm just looking for some examples. So for example a QR code where you can listen to some of the poems, sometimes read by me in Russian, sometimes by actors in Russian, sometimes in the Italian book also by Italian actors. And using the opportunity that I'm now here, I may, whenever you are ready to read your short poem in three languages if you want. Yes please. Okay and then I can continue talking a little bit about my current project and biography. So I want to share with you a poem that is called Three Sisters. It's a short one, don't worry. And I start with English so that you know what it is about. Then I'll read in Italian and finally in the original. Three Sisters, translation of Irina Rosenberg. The day has died. Keena my eyes, but I am shy before the gate to twilight. Three sisters are the first to rise. The gold, the blue, the white. Poor globe dashes tipsy. With my own flesh I'll heal its wounds. Like my own kin, I love these sisters. The white, the gold, the blue. And when myself beyond the edge allowed by sky so indivisible and whole, it will penetrate the universe throughout the blue, the white, the gold. And now in Italian, the Three Sisters, translation of Paolo Statuti. Il giorno è morto, i miei occhi sono acuti, ma entrando nel Crepuscolo sono scoraggiata. Per prime sorgono tre sorelle, bianca, azzurra, dorata. La povera sfera, inebriata, vole veloce, ferita, dalle miei mani sarà curata. Come sorelle germane io le amo. Bianca, azzurra, dorata. E quando di superare i confini del cielo indivisibile mi sarà dato nell'universo di lagherà il mio io. Bianco, azzurro, dorato. And finally I can read by memory in Russian. When I read in Russian I actually always read by memory. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, so tell us about your current projects and, yeah, the future projects. And probably while the more poems will be translated into English, we will be expecting book in English. Oh, I hope so. So far only five of my poems have been translated into English. So if among the audience there are people who translate, I will be happy to cooperate. Okay, so I mentioned already that I started to write poetry relatively recently about eight, ten years ago. And two years ago I decided to stop my work for the international companies because I thought, okay, everybody can be a marketing director or many people can be, but no one will write my poetry instead of me. So now I concentrate basically on my books and only after I left my job I finally had time to concentrate and put all the poems together. Then I also have restarted to play the piano that I learned as a child. And now I'm very fortunate every year I take a part in a musical festival in Milan where I play with an orchestra. And in September I played in Castellos Forzesco in Milan, the castle of Sforza, which is almost like Kremlin in Moscow, a very important institution. And now I'm preparing to play in Paris in two weeks from now. In September, an Italian composer, Giorgio Bernabeu, has created a performance based on my poems, that is the fusion of music, poetry, ballet, art of diplomacy, visual art, architecture, because it took part in Villa Tiena of the 15th century, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I suggest you to view a short extract from this performance with my poem called Never. It is not translated in English, but in short, I ask my soul whether it will get tired one day to support my frail body. But the soul keeps raising me every morning for an invisible work in search of the only world that will never be found. Yeah, we definitely will show that video, yes. But every day you inspire me again. It is an invisible work, you give me. In search of a single word that will never be found. And so now you tell us what is your plans, except that, yes, you work in on this maybe common book in English. And so you're preparing for another competition or just a festival? It is just a festival. I do not like competitions in music or poetry actually, never take part. But music, I just like expressing myself. And I think that actually music and poetry are so interrelated. Yes, they help, music helps me in poetry. For example, in composition, it is not when I work at the poetry that I think, okay, I will create it like a sonata. No, but after I read it, I realized that, oh, actually, there is an influence of music and I also write a lot about music. Then talking about my recent and upcoming projects, I'm now getting back to the topic from which we have started. I have recently took part in an international poetry marathon against the war, where I have represented also, not only myself, but a Ukrainian poet, philosopher Aleksandr Pustavit. He chose a poem. And on his behalf, I read this poem. It was Ensign for doomed youth by Wilfred Dolom, a poet who was killed just one week before the end of the world war, the first world war. And he was only 25 years old. So the poem starts with what passing bells for these who die as cattle. So it is very relevant and it was very difficult for me to read this poem because it stirs big emotions in me. And soon I will take part in another marathon fundraising to support Ukrainian children who have suffered from the war. I will participate with the poem called Bit Hoven. And I will suggest that you show it in the end of our conversation. In the meantime, I can tell you about how this poem was created and how this film was created. Yes, I think we don't have much time left. So I want you just to talk about the bit of how the film was made. Yes, please. Yes. So the poem is based on the letters of Beethoven during the war with Napoleon and I even included some lines from his poem, from his letters in my poem. I was writing it for three weeks and it took all of me and after that I couldn't even write for a long time. And when the poem was finished, I always wanted to combine it with the seventh symphony of Beethoven, its second part. However, all the famous performances by Karajan and Fort Wengler, they were slower than I felt it inside. In fact, Beethoven marked it as alegretto, which means cheerful, but they were not cheerful. One day, however, I was fortunate to listen to the modern performance conducted by Pavel Gerstein. And it was exactly the tempo of my reading. And I contacted Pavel. Unfortunately, he allowed me to use the performance of his orchestra, Kostroma Gubensky orchestra. And so I immediately contacted my ex-colleagues, my colleagues from the previous life, with whom we created a lot of advertising together. My friends from Moscow, Anatolii Yasinsky and Edward Usidus. And it was difficult because I was in Italy, it was the pandemic. They were in Moscow and Vienna was in Vienna. So I had to learn to shoot myself and not on a selfie, but on the camera without seeing myself. It was quite an experience. Then they shoot the footage in Moscow and they had to wait for the rain because they were shooting in May. And the poem takes part in, happens in November. And a girl called Teotavov played my role there in Moscow. And then we bought the Vienna footage.  And the poem is translated both into the Italian and into English. And I will suggest you, I will suggest you the version where I read in Russian, but it has English titles, English subtitles. And the translation again is made by Anna Kroshenitskaya. Because it talks about the war, it is very in tune with what we are living through today. And Beethoven gives us strength. Well, I think, you know, we can talk hours and hours because you have so many things going on and you will participate in a lot of projects. So we just hope that everything will go well and you will get more success, more readers, more admirers. And thank you so much for being with us and give us that interview. So we, again, thank you so much.  Arrivederci. Thank you very much. Goodbye. Arrivederci. Ciao. 3. Intriguing and confusing on the way. 4. The mixture of the previous two does not get into the vein and the hysterical truth enters its own right. According to the unbroken bridge, the French army enters the vein. I look at the Danube from it, my head is spinning. Tell yourself to leave, leave, break yourself, but keep the letter, put it in the seventh page. I stand on the bridge, autumn is scary, I do not. You ask how I live. I prefer not to answer.  Fear does not let you lie down, low and do not start. And under the bridge, deep blood from the vein flows, flows. Better in the lockout than in the flow of the plate. Black square is everything. Having taken off his head, he laughs well, the last one, over time, he lied to us that he would carry everything. Your songs will be found in one and a half centuries. They will pass, they will give up. I read them two days later. Too bad, they said to me, from the whole person, we are left with a part of the meeting. My head is spinning. What did you feel? Living, trying, myself. The trouble is here, or the wine. Everything flows, flows through the veins, the blood is deep. And you are alive while it is pouring in you. Destruction, desertion, robberies or marauders. City, land, soul, fire, fire. He will find himself, he will look for support and will find it. At the same time, adding it, clinging to the perils and in a loud needle, the difference begins. From far away, or two, only with sounds. Oh, not too much influence, not modest. I think that sounds are more obedient than words. Only with sounds. He will find himself. And let him hear neither the stereo, nor the sound. Not silence. It's easier. Because music is over.


We're nearly there. We know how water moves up the plant in the xylem, with some minerals dissolved in the water, and we know that sugars move up and down the plant in the phloem. So all that is left to discover is exactly how the phloem works. We had the transpiration stream and the transpiration pool in the xylem, but there are no forces causing translocation, so something different must happen in the phloem. The phloem uses active transport to transport the food nutrients like glucose and amino acids around the plant. If you have forgotten how that works, watch our video on diffusion, osmosis, and active transport first. Glucose is made in the leaves by photosynthesis. Glucose is converted into sucrose in the leaves, which then enters the phloem vessels, as do amino acids. They then need to be transported around the plant to every single cell. The areas of the plant where sucrose is made are called the sources, and where they are delivered are called sinks. The phloem uses active transport because the sucrose moves against its concentration gradient, from the lower concentration where it is made to a higher concentration in the phloem cells. We don't need to know much about the phloem, but just be aware that they contain sieve tube plates, which the phloem sap travels through. The neighboring companion cells provide the sieve tube elements with the energy they need for the active transport. So in these three videos, we have learnt all about the transport of water and minerals through the plant via the xylem. The transpiration of water and the leaf creates a transpiration pool, which almost physically pulls the water up through the plant. Just picture pulling water up from a well, and that is what is happening. We then also learnt about the energy driven translocation of sugars and amino acids in the phloem. Whereas water only travels in one direction, from the roots to the leaves, the sugars and amino acids are needed by every single cell, and so the phloem is multi-directional. But to achieve this, active transport and energy is needed.


From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that businesses cannot control the rights to human genes in their natural state. Patients' rights groups are calling the decision a victory. The court, however, left room to protect patent ownership rights related to man-made genes. The court decided on a case involving the biotechnology company Myriad Genetics. The company had identified human genes that increase a woman's risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer. The company applied for and was given exclusive rights over the use of those genes. Attorney Sandra Park works with the American Civil Liberties Union. She says the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been approving patents on some DNA for 30 years. The problem, she says, was that Myriad used its patent rights to stop other laboratories from providing genetic testing, although those laboratories used different methods. Attorney Sandra Park says that caused genetic testing for increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer to cost more because of the lack of competition. It also prevented patients from getting a second medical opinion based on some other test. The Supreme Court has now rejected this type of patent. All nine justices agreed that because genes are products of nature, they cannot be owned by one business. Health activists say the ruling will lower costs and improve testing for breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad genetics also patented man-made versions of the genes. The Supreme Court said patents on such man-made genes are permitted because they do not exist in nature. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presuti.


I'm going to share with you some thoughts about our union with Christ. I, in our study of the law and gospel over the past several months, became interested in this topic and at one point it was just sort of devouring everything I could find about it because it's so amazing. And I've got a three-hour sermon that I've narrowed down to 30 minutes, I hope. But I referred to this in the Lord's Supper this morning. Our communion with Christ is possible only because of our union with Christ. And in the Bible we see verses about union with Christ that address different aspects of this union. Some speak of the mutual indwelling or what some call a vital union. One of those, for example, is 2nd Corinthians 517. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. All things have passed away, behold, all things have become new. And in Galatians 2.20 we read, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Just a couple of examples. The other verses speak about our union involving a judicial representation. As in this passage about justification, Philippians 3.8 and 9, where we read, yet indeed I also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him. Not having my own righteousness which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. And another aspect of our union with Christ is understood in election. In Ephesians 1.3.6 we see blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in the beloved. So union is spoken of in different ways. The focus tonight will be this vital union. And as I mentioned this morning Paul's use of the phrase in Christ or variations of this idea in just Ephesians by one count is 34 times and throughout the New Testament 150 to 200 times depending on who's counting, but the vast majority of the uses are by Paul. And so the centrality of union with Christ to our Christian faith can't be overstated. But we don't often delve into the quality or characteristics of this union in my own life. It hasn't been something that I have meditated a lot about. And apparently it wasn't much of a focus for anyone at least notably until until the Reformation. Their theories about that one is simply that Christians were fighting bigger battles until then. But David Martin Lloyd Jones preacher who died in 1981 after serving his pastor of Westminster Chapel in London and writing about Ephesians said this of union with Christ. This is the most wonderful and the most amazing thing of all. And to me it is always a matter of great surprise that this blessed doctrine should receive so little attention for some reason or other Christian people seem to be afraid of it. Yet according to this teaching in Ephesians 2 and elsewhere you are not a Christian at all unless you are joined to Christ and in him. So as we look at this doctrine I hope and pray for you the prayer that Paul prayed in Ephesians near the end of chapter one starting in verse 17 where we read that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe. I believe that if you meditate on your union with Christ and think about this as you pray in your daily devotions that God will answer this prayer you will be enlightened you will know and understand more clearly the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the exceeding greatness of his power. I know it's changed the way that I pray and the way that I think about my life as a Christian. Let's consider what union with Christ actually means our focus will be on this vital union and many of the theologians speak of it as being mystical and partly that's because it's not something we can entirely understand but we're not talking about mysticism and we're not talking about a union in which we lose our individuality nor are we speaking about a union in which we become little gods as some of the prosperity quacks would say nor are we becoming somehow divine in and of ourselves. False teachers have over the centuries posited these sorts of things to mislead and exploit unsuspecting people. What we're speaking about is what Peter described as being a partaker in the divine nature. This morning and when we talked about the Lord's Supper and in thinking about this vital union we read a section of John 14 and John 17 and I want to go there again. The repetition will be good for you. So turn with me if you would to John 14 and let's read how Christ described this vital union or this indwelling when he was speaking to the disciples John 14 19 to 23. A little while longer in the world will see me no more but you will see me because I live you will live also at that day you will know that I am in my father and you in me and I in you he who has my commandments and keeps them it is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and I will love him and manifest myself to him. I want to stop there just to go on a little aside this verse 21 I will manifest myself to him you know sometimes when you're reading scripture and for some reason something will just get your attention in a way that it hasn't before even though you've read those things in the past but this happened with me in that particular expression I will manifest myself to him. Matthew Henry helped understand that when he said this is powerful influences of divine graces and comforts upon the souls of those that love Christ in sincerity powerful influences of divine graces and comforts we have that when we have vital union with Christ and it's it is deeply experiential I know that can be a dangerous word we don't base our faith on our experiences but for the the Christian who is vitally united to Christ it produces in you a love for God that causes you to delight in obedience to God and it manifests itself in fruits of the spirit that are evident in our own lives not only to ourselves as we see the grace of God working in us but to others but I came to this passage because it speaks of this indwelling the indwelling of not only of the spirit but of the son and the father if you continue in verse 23 you see that it says Jesus answered and said to him if anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him so there's this indwelling of the Godhead in the believer look at John 17 and verses 20 to 23 where Christ is praying to God the father he says I do not pray for these alone but also for those who will believe in me through their word that they all may be one as you father are in me and I in you that they may also that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that you sent me and the glory which you gave me I have given them that they may be one just as we are one I in them and you in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me it's just amazing within the Godhead we know that this union is perfect and it is revealed in these passages and there's a connection between the mutual indwelling of Christ and believers you in me and I and you from John 14 to the disciples and in John 17 I and them and you in me to God the father there's this one union of the Godhead presented next to and immediately beside Christ in us and us in Christ and this speaks to the our creation how we were created we were we were created in the image of God and in part that means with this capacity to be indwelt by God this this one the legend Scott Horrell put it this way when reconciled with God man and woman are infused with his personal presence in some sense the capacity of each person of the Godhead to be indwelt by the other while remaining fully an individual is reflected in man as created in the image of God similar to how the father indwells the son and the son indwells the father and to how the Holy Spirit is also literally the spirit of Christ and the spirit of the father so God has structured the human being so that he or she can be indwelt by God himself notably the Holy Spirit I when I think about union with Christ in this way and and the that are the way that we are constituted and the the capacity that we have as having been created in the image of God it just informs our relationship with God our union with God I mean how much closer can I get then to be indwelt John Owen the 17th century Puritan who fought among other things against the Roman Catholic Church for a right understanding of justification also helps us to understand this union he spoke of union with Christ and in volume five of his works and this way he wrote the foundation of the imputation asserted is union whereby the Lord Christ and believers do actually coalesce into one mystical person we understand the word coalesce to mean to come together to form one whole its usage when Owen first wrote these words was more specifically to grow together as in becoming one and so we cannot say that the union of the Godhead is the same or equal to the union of Christ and the believer they're not the same but there is a similitude there is a shared quality between these two unions John Owen died in 18 and 1683 about a century earlier John Calvin wrote about our union with Christ and from what I can tell his approach to understanding and describing the union of believers to Christ had more to do with the hypostatic union God Christ as fully God and fully man we certainly know that this is the teaching of Scripture any who deny it are condemned but the union of God and man in Christ informs in many ways our understanding but believers union with Christ Calvin said it was necessary for the son of God to become for us Emmanuel in such a way that his divinity and our human nature might by mutual connection grow together in other words no human connection to God no union vital or representative would have been possible if God in Christ had not taken on the nature of man by becoming a man Christ made possible a union that underlies all of salvation regeneration justification sanctification and glorification the mystery of this union Christ being fully God and fully man in one person helps us understand our own union as men in the flesh with God in Christ they're comparable they're not the same but they help us to understand and in an essay that AWP pink wrote about this subject he died in 1952 he pointed also to the hypostatic union as grounds for understanding the believers union with Christ he said there are three principle unions revealed in the scriptures that are the chief mysteries and form the foundation of our most holy faith first the union of three divine persons in one Godhead having distinct personalities being being co-eternal and co-glorious yet constituting one Jehovah second the union of the divine and human natures in one person Jesus Christ Emmanuel being God and man third the union of the church to Christ he being the head they being the members constituting one mystical body though we cannot form an exact idea of any of these unions in our imaginations because the depth of such mysteries is beyond our comprehension yet it is our bound and duty to believe them all because they are clearly revealed in scripture and are the necessary foundation for other points of Christian doctrine how wonderful beyond words that sinful wretches should be made one with him before whom the seraphim veil their faces and cry holy holy holy and so it is a marvelous reality understanding it is I think a lifelong pursuit some other great thinkers who have gone before us have written beautifully about this John Murray wrote in a marvelous little book redemption accomplished and applied a chapter on our union with Christ and he like others references other kinds of union to which our union with Christ is compared the union of marriage for example but he says something like what pink said the greatest mystery this is Murray the greatest mystery of being is the mystery of the Trinity three persons in one God the great mystery of godliness is the mystery of the incarnation that the son of man that the son of God became man and was manifest in the flesh but the greatest mystery of creaturely relations is the union of the people of God with Christ and the mystery of it is attested by nothing more than this it is compared to the union that exists between the father and the son in the unity of the Godhead another writer spoke about our union with Christ as being in a sense a shared being sharing in the life who he said and the con it's the context of this essay was regeneration he said though in ourselves by nature we were spiritually dead in sin at a certain point in time God caused us to share the life of Christ I thought that was a really helpful phrase to give us another way of understanding what this union means that we share the life of Christ and thus to become he said spiritually alive in other words regeneration occurs when we are for the first time savingly united with Christ there's another aspect of our union with Christ that will help you understand the marvel of this reality and it's not something that I had fought a lot about frankly until I began studying this subject and it is this Christ ascended into heaven in bodily form he is still a man there is a human being in heaven he has connected humanity to the Godhead one writer put it this way Christ has forever taken into the Godhead the form of manhood a permanent physical body that sits quite literally at the right hand of God the father remember acts one starting in verse nine now when he had spoken these things while they watched he was taken up and the cloud received him out of their sight and while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel who also said men of Galilee why do you stand gazing up into heaven this same Jesus who has taken up from you into heaven will so come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven so he ascended bodily we know that he will return and that same glorified body we know that he's there now and we know that in Colossians 3 1 we read if then you were raised with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God pastor Garrett Dawson wrote a book about the ascension which helps us understand the importance of this reality and how it ties into our union with Christ he said if he dropped the hypostatic union with humanity then he dropped us and we are left forsaken on this side of the great divide thankfully an orthodox view of the ascension safeguards our understanding of Christ's continuing incarnation the incarnation continues and so we are included in the life of God that is the essential meaning of the ascension we are not left alone he has gone before us in a way we may follow through the Holy Spirit because the way is in his flesh in his humanity Jesus is himself that new and living way the fully human one has gone within the veil in our name and even in our skin united to him by the Spirit to the one who remains united to us we may follow where he has gone Dawson concludes moreover the ascension asserts the continuing incarnation of Christ which is the very basis for his union with us the only way in which we can be saved from our sins resurrected in body and taken to live with him in blessed communion eternally so the ascension so how is it that we are brought into this union we are initially we initially experience this union with Christ in regeneration look at Ephesians 2 4 and 5 but God who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved he made us alive this means we were dead and how did he do it together with Christ or in union with Christ regeneration or being born again takes place when we are savingly united to Christ Sinclair Ferguson preaches and teaches often on this subject of union with Christ he was the longtime pastor at First Presbyterian in Columbia South Carolina you are probably familiar with him he has a wonderful ability to communicate biblical truths clearly and at a conference in 2010 speaking of regeneration and specifically of 2nd Corinthians 5 17 Ferguson said this being united to Jesus is the doorway of a whole different order of existence altogether which is why in Paul's language he bends the Greek language in order to communicate this to us and uses a form of speech used nowhere else outside of the New Testament when he explains to Christian believers that when we become Christians and we believe Christ we believe into Christ into Christ we are united to him by the spirit and through faith and in Jesus Christ there is a whole world we might say the world of Christ opens to us because Christ is in a sense a whole world of grace and mercy and blessing so we initially experience this union and regeneration but we appropriate it and continue to live out this union through faith look with me again at Galatians 220 I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Christ dwells in him has regenerated him and has caused him to repent and believe the gospel in this regeneration he has caused any who have been blessed in this way to see themselves the way that God sees them to see their sin to see their need for Savior to see the amazing grace of Christ William Cunningham wrote stirringly of the place of faith he was a Scottish theologian who died in 1861 and he said now when a man believes in Christ he is according to God's appointment united to him there is a union formed between them God regards him as if he were Christ and treats him as if he had suffered the punishment for his sins that Christ endured in his room as if he had in his own person performed that full and perfect obedience to the divine law that our Savior's conduct exhibited it is this imputation of Christ's sufferings and of his righteousness it is this communion of suffering and of merit in which the union of believers with Christ mainly consists this union and communion with him is the foundation of their salvation in all its parts and in all its aspects when they believe him God regards them as one with him as if they had offered what he has suffered as if they had done what he has done as if they had paid the penalty for their sins and had gained a title to his his favor so it's just amazing and so we are justified we are sanctified we persevere in union with Christ what does this tell us about how we should live I think partly it's understanding where you are in the process of this union you're in this little window of time in which if you are converted you possess an ability to obey by the Spirit as well as an ability to disobey God Thomas Boston in his classic work human nature in its fourfold state states describes this life of the Christian as the third of four states I want to just review with you what those are and how he explains them the first state the state of innocence in that state we are work well Adam was able to sin and able not to sin before the fall he was created in the image of God with a constitution that reflected the holiness of God he was created with an innate ability to obey but not created in such a way that he was immutably so he was able to send and he and he eventually did the second state Boston calls the state of nature and in that state we are not able not to sin we're born this way spiritually dead in sin slaves to sin totally depraved even in this state however the remnants of our original nature remain that dimly in our conscience we know that lying stealing adultery and murder for example are wrong our consciences naturally convict us of these things as we see in Romans 2 14 and 15 the third state is the one the in which the Christian lives the state of grace able not to sin regenerated and brought into this mystical union with Christ but ultimately we shall be unable to sin what Boston calls the eternal state when we are brought into a more perfect union with Christ even than that of Adam before the fall the Christian is marked by a desire and longing to be in that state no longer locked in a struggle against our old nature and so there will be no place for you in the eternal state if your life isn't marked by a desire for holiness in this life Jonathan Edwards put it this way the beginnings of future things are in this world the seed must be sown here the foundation must be laid in this world if it is not begun here it will never be begun the light must dawn in this world or the sun will never rise in the next therefore all who hope for heaven must seek a heavenly life here on earth I pray that you are doing that let's pray father in heaven we are just amazed at the glory of your salvation the wisdom and power and might that we see in all of it from eternity past to eternity future and are overwhelmed and amazed that you would love us even when we were your enemies we thank you and praise you for for this amazing grace in Jesus name amen


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