Okay, we've started the recording of the class, so good morning everyone. Welcome to the class. Welcome, Kannan. I said welcome to all the others. Welcome to the third year. So, you know, there are some who go on from the first year to the second year, and then there are some who are now going on the third year, so welcome all of you. This is your final year with us at APC Bible College, and then in May, you will all graduate with your bachelor's degree, and it will be great. And hopefully this third year will be a good time of learning, equipping. In the third year, we've specially designed it to deal with practical things in the area of ministry. And at the same time, we will look at some little bit more intensive things like studying, you know, various books in the scripture, so you'll be studying the Gospel of John, and for second and third John, you'll be doing the book of Acts, Romans, first and second Corinthians, you will be doing all of the other epistles, studying through them, verse by verse, and you'll also be doing Revelation and Daniel and so on. So along with this, there will be practical things you will be learning, and one of the, or the two of the courses this semester has to do with urban church planting, and there's one more course on church ministry and church and ministry administration, and there's also another course on worship ministry, and so these are kind of very practical things, courses that deal with, you know, really how to do ministry, how to, you know, what are the challenges you will find when you practically do ministry, whether it's a pastoral ministry or other things. I hope you will find these, whatever it is, in the coursework section of Google Classroom, I have uploaded two PDFs, one is the, let me just share my screen, the first one is the course overview, this PDF which you can download, you know, why are we doing this course and what are we going to cover, so this course on urban church planting, so although the course says urban church planting, we will, we're not going to be confined just to church planting, but any kind of urban ministry, right? So we want to, so if you're going to start a church or start a ministry in an urban context, that means a city, what are some of the things we need to, you know, how can we be prepared for that? That's the objective of this course. Now why do we have such a course? Generally when you look at what's happening globally, we find that about 54% of the world's population is in urban areas, and it's growing, so by 2050, that's another 25 years or so, about 66% of the world's population will be living in cities, so it's a big shift in our people moving into the cities. That's not to say that rural or those kind of populations are not important, but what we are trying to emphasize is we need to pay a lot more attention and make a lot more effort in reaching people in urban areas, in cities and so on, urban centers, so that's what this course is geared about, geared towards, you know, what are some things we need to keep in mind as we start ministries or churches in urban areas? And so the outline of the course, we will break it up in several sections. The first section is what we just want to call an Introduction to Chances section where we just lay some groundwork. These are some basic things to keep in mind as we start thinking about doing ministry in urban contexts, then we'll talk about the practical aspects of church planting. Now, I may speak a lot in terms of church planting, but whatever we are saying applies to any kind of ministry that you're starting in an urban context. So we talked about some practical things in terms of church planting or urban ministry. We also want to talk about the spiritual side of things. That section three, you know, how does a spiritual side effect what we are doing in our cities, in our urban centers. Then in section four, we'll talk about the personal life. You know, how can I be prepared to pioneer something, to start something in a city? You know, what are some of the things I should be prepared for personally to talk about that. And then we will talk about future projections. That means, okay, if you look into the future, what are some things we can expect? Now, especially, you know, the times in which we are living in, how is the church going to change as we begin to come out of this whole COVID-19 pandemic? You know, what are some of the changes we can expect? That's something we need to think about. You know, would church be different? How would people's mindsets be different? You know, and so how should the church be ready for this? So we'll talk about those kinds of things. The assessment basically is 30, 30, 40. We'll give three assessments. This would be based on what we have been discussing. And of course, it'll be more practical. A lot of things we're talking about would be just practical things. So it would be related to those things. And I would like to, in these assessments, give you an opportunity to, you know, just share some of the things that you would like to do or are doing in ministry. So the questions will be good in that way. And one of the things, I mean, there are many books that have been written as far as urban ministry is concerned. And one of the earliest books that came out was by John Dawson, Taking Our Cities For God. And I think Deborah has posted a PDF of that in the course, in the stream, Google Flash stream, so you can download that. So around that time, there were some books. There was another book written called Spirits of the City. Again, it was written by somebody from YBAM, Youth with the Mission. And so there was several books that came out. And since that time, several other books that deal with both the spiritual side and the practical side of urban ministry. But I've just mentioned one. There are many other books you can find. So the APC publications also bear relevance to what we are talking. And you can, you're welcome to look at them and we're not going to be using them as a textbook as such. What we will be doing is I'll be giving you these PDFs as we go through these sections of notes that I put together and we will use them. Okay. So feel free, like what we normally do. Feel free to ask questions. Feel free to bring up your thoughts, your ideas as we go through the course.  Feel free to share your thoughts and so on. And let's keep it as practical as possible and relevant to, you know, what each of you may be doing in the cities that you are working with or that you are thinking about. Okay. I just want to start off by sharing a little bit of my own experience in this area. And this is not to, you know, sound very big or anything, just to share the share a little bit of my own journey as far as church planting and, you know, what, what we've been doing in this area. So I'll just share a little bit on this from my side. And you have this outline this in the PDF as well. So when I was in school, so this goes back way and payback in 1982 to 86 grades nine to 12 here in Bangalore. In some way I pioneered. That means I went out and I started work prayer groups in three different schools in Bangalore. So one was in my own school where I was studying I started a short tea time prayer group so that was just, you know, between 11 to 1115 break time. And a few students come together for prayer. I know it was very short time but, you know, it was very quick. We spent a few moments to be prayed. That was it. And then during the lunch break, which was a little longer. That was, I think, from 1215 toward one o'clock or something we had a lunch breaks Monday to Friday. I started a prayer group in two other schools nearby. So I would actually go to these neighboring schools, gather students together, share the, share the, you know, share the word of God with them pray with them and so on. And during that time I also started another Bible study on Saturdays. The Methodist Church that I used to be part of. So really I was responsible for these four groups. One was in my own school, two other schools, and then a prayer group in my church. And so in some way, and all of these were things that I started I initiated. So in some way there was this whole pioneering aspect to it. You know, and providing leadership to these groups, keeping people motivated, keeping people envisioned, and so on. So there were some things that I learned in those early days during my school days grades nine through 12. Then when I left Bangalore, I went to do my engineering in Manipal, which is about 300 some kilometers from here. From Bangalore, I went to another town Manipal to do my engineering. What happened was these four groups that I had started just died out. That's when I realized that look when you start something, you need to think about the future. You need to appoint somebody to continue the work. You don't want something you started just to die out. So I felt very bad that I had invested so much time in these groups here in Bangalore. I left Bangalore to go to another town. All these four groups died out and there's nobody to take leadership and go forward. But that really left a lot of impression on me saying, look, next time I do something, I want to make sure that, you know, I proactively raise up leaders so that they can continue the work. So I went to Manipal that is 1986 to 1994 years of bachelor's degree. And the late in my third year, 1989, I started again a pioneering work, meaning we started from scratch, from nothing. We started what we call as a Believer's Fellowship in Manipal, which is basically a community town where there were students engineering and medical and law and dental and different colleges for that. So we started a work for them in Manipal. And students kept coming. But here I made sure that there was a vision that was given. Plus, a leader was raised up so that when I graduated in 1990 and left, I was able to hand off the work to another student saying, you're going to lead this work. You can continue this work, given the vision. And, and then I moved out. So when I moved out that work didn't stop. Somebody was in place to continue the work. But it was also a very interesting time because we had to think about how are we going to reach students in our college in the colleges in that town. How are we going to do it in a way that, you know, would be relevant to students in those days. There was a little bit of opposition we also faced. So how do we do it in a way that, you know, we don't get into trouble with authorities. And so all of those things, you know, that we had to think through as students as we pioneered that work and, you know, looking back after I left and the next person took over the work continue to flourish at one point there were more than 200 or 250 students together in that fellowship. Some families also were attending the work grew. Eventually it was formally made into a registered local church and so on. So that was a wonderful experience. And then when I went to the United States spent 10 years there. You know, I did my, I studied my masters and then started working and all over there. Again, be pioneer different things that was in Cleveland, Ohio, we started international students Bible study because geared towards international students. Then when I was in New Jersey, I worked for some time with existing fellowships. There was a Korean Christian fellowship and an African American local church. So I worked with them for some time served with them, and then moved out and again to pioneer a bilingual church, which was English and Spanish. So it was a bilingual church and we had an opportunity to pioneer that work. And again, it was a learning experience. How do you do something that serves people with multilingual congregation? You know, so it was very interesting. And also it was cross-cultural because some of us were Indian, the others were Hispanic or from Central and South America. So, you know, culturally, how do we work together as was again a very rich experience in all of these scenarios. Then we moved to Chicago. We worked with an existing church. We just served there. And as a small church, we did that. Then, you know, throughout this time, you know, right from time in school, I felt that there was a desire to, you know, God had given a vision to come to Bangalore and establish a church and impact the nation of India and other nations. So whatever happened from 1980s onwards, for me, it was more of a learning, a training for this vision of planting a church in Bangalore. So in 2001 is when we came back to Bangalore and we pioneered all people's church. In the first 14 years, I was also working, running my own technology business while pioneering the church. That is 2001, 2014. And then in 2014, I transitioned, I closed down the technology business and focused, you know, on the church ministry full-time. So, again, this journey of pioneering all people's church was a learning experience. Working in a city from here, planting churches in other cities and serving people across India. So this has been a learning journey and I hope to be able to, you know, share some of those learnings with us as a class. Definitely, I want to learn from you as you share your stories of what's happening in, you know, the cities that you are involved in, what you are experiencing, what you are doing, you know, we can learn from each other as we make this journey on how to pioneer, how to start work in urban cities and urban centers. Okay. So, any thoughts, any questions before we get into the content? That was just an introduction. Any things that you would like to see addressed in the course that you think would be useful to you? Any, you can share it. Anyone? Okay. Not right now, sir. We are writing the course in the course of the course. Yeah. Okay. As we go along, you may have questions and ideas and sure. Okay. So we're going to get started with first of all, trying to, you know, we want to place emphasis, first of all, on the fact that the Holy Spirit is our leader, right? So, in this course, we're going to talk about a lot of practical things, you know, how to do this and how to do that and don't do this, don't do that. Or this is what, this was my experience and this is what I learned.  So there's going to be a lot of practical, those kinds of things that we will talk about. But as we talk about that, we shouldn't lose focus that ultimately the Holy Spirit is our leader. That means the Holy Spirit is the one who should have the lead and the direction of the work we do. Right. And so, I just want to remind us of some scriptures. Acts chapter one verse eight, you know, when Jesus, after he gave the great commission of saying, go and make disciples. He told his, you know, the 120, or I guess he was speaking to the 500 people who were seeing him go up. And how many of people were there in Mount Olives there in Acts one eight, he said, you will receive power. And the Holy Spirit comes on you. And you will be my witnesses to the ends of the earth, you know, to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. So in order to go and make disciples in order to go and fulfill the great commission, Jesus said, you will receive power and you will be my witnesses once the Holy Spirit comes on you. So we must always remember that as we, even though we talk about practical things, you know, this is how we should do it and do it like this and so on. Ultimately, the Holy Spirit should be our leader and he should guide you and guide me. So, you know, we have to, you know, keep listening to him. So what we are going to share with you are practical things. They are useful things, but listen to the Holy Spirit. Right. So take the things we talk about. Use it. They will inspire some ideas for you. They will give you some, you know, direction, but ultimately, most importantly, depend on the Holy Spirit. So I just want to emphasize that at the very beginning. And again, I want to remind us about Zechariah chapter four verse six and seven. You know, where the scripture said there, God speaks through the prophet Zechariah and he says, you know, it's not by might, it's not by power, but it's by my spirit. So does it. So he said, you know, it's not by might, human power, human strength, not by human power, but it's by the spirit that the work that God had called Zero Babel to do is people to do will be accomplished. So while there's nothing wrong in us using our mind and using the methods and the practical information, we are going to learn there's nothing wrong with that. Ultimately, everything is subject to God to the Holy Spirit, and it is by his spirit that the work will be accomplished. So I just want to, you know, keep that in mind. We need to get too distracted. I mean, we need to learn these practical things, but our dependence is always on the Holy Spirit. So our dependence is on God, unless he builds the house, our efforts will be in vain. We know that someone 27 was one, unless the Lord builds the house, you know, they labor in vain, who build it. Right. So, and in the notes, I'm just looking at the notes here and, you know, we've put some thoughts here along this line that, you know, we labor, but increase comes from God, you know, first Corinthians three, Paul said, you know, I planted apple is watered, but God gave the increase. So that's how we work, you know, we plant the water, but increase comes from God, we can be faithful, and we can be wise. We can do it intelligently how we plant and how we water, we must do that. But then fruit will come from God. Right. So I just want to keep that in front of us as we begin this journey. Okay. So, you know, what are some of the challenges we struggle with, you know, as we think about doing ministry in an urban center. Right. So, the question I just want to put forward to the class is, and we can just, you know, you can just share your thoughts. So many of you are I think all of all of us here are in urban centers. You know, whether it's Bangalore as a city or Kathmandu or Kolkata or, you know, Mysore, I forget the other cities, Nagpur, I think, Sharon, Sharon, Nagpur is it. Pona, Pona. Okay. So Pona Manu is in Varanasi, I think. I don't know, you're in Varanasi or I forget. Reverelli. Okay, Reverelli. Okay. All right. So, you know, each one of us are in different places, Kandan in Tamil Nadu and Prince, somewhere in Prince Varayu, I forgot. West Kandan. Sorry, where was that? West Bengal. Okay. Okay, so Prince also says, okay. So all of you are in different places and if you can just share, you know, you're trying to do ministry in your city. What are some of the challenges you face when you're trying to do the practical and yet depend on the spiritual? You know, so we are saying we had to depend on the Holy Spirit, but we must also do some practical things. You know, we have to plant and we have to water, then God can give the increase. So when you're planting and watering, of course you have to do it intelligently. You have to do it with wisdom. You don't simply go and plant randomly somewhere or water somewhere else.  Now, in balancing that, what are some of the challenges you struggle with? I just want to listen to you. Anybody wants to say anything? Thomas, have you encountered that kind of a struggle between practical things to do and direction from the Holy Spirit? In urban, honestly speaking, we friends of four and five are not quite difficult to reach for the non-believers. And moreover, the people in the church, in urban life, it's a busy life where they are unable to give much time for the work of God because in the family, two people working together, a child. So they feel it's quite difficult to engage more in the work of God. So the weekend services and Sunday services, it goes like it's a routine, but it's not more, I facing as a challenge and things to do. And then growth also, it's very, that's what I'm facing currently actually. The struggle in urban settings, the fact that people are all very busy, so spiritual things have little time, so trying to work through those challenges. Anyone else, in trying to depend on the Holy Spirit, come up with practical strategies, what are some of the things you face in balancing the two? Anyone else? Kanan, what's happening there? What are your challenges? One of the main challenges is in the pandemic. The pandemic started the early days of Zoom meeting, people were so excited to join. But later it become boring because they want to be gathered again and that they are honestly able to connect to Zoom or what? Because I can see in this stage, everyone of the conversation is to join cheerfully, but only one or two families will show up. That is a major challenge and cut scenario. Again, the cases are rising, it's a difficult phase. But in this phase, it's quite difficult to seek new souls or do the gospel work extent difficult in current situations. Yeah. So this pandemic has really impacted urban ministry, how we do ministry in cities a lot. And like you're saying, initially there was this big excitement of doing service online and on Zoom and so on. But then at some point it did become challenging as well. So yeah, I think we're going to talk about that a little later in terms of what is the future of the church going to look like in urban centers? What are some of the things we should be trying to think ahead of time? What are some of the things we should be ready for in a post-pandemic church? Or once we are able to come out of this, transition out of this, how would things look for the church in the urban center? We need to talk about that. So what I feel is in the struggle that many of us face is on the one hand we want to listen to the Holy Spirit. For him to give us ideas and strategies on what to do to serve people. And as we go through this course, I will share with you things that the Holy Spirit inspired us to do in the city of Bangalore. So we want to depend the Holy Spirit. But then at the same time, there is homework that we need to do. That means we need to research, we need to observe, we need to strategize, and we need wisdom in executing that work. So we are depending on the Holy Spirit, but we need the practical side of how to execute the work, how to carry out the work. And so this is a struggle because sometimes we may swing to either sides. What do I mean by that? Sometimes we just depend on the Holy Spirit. We say, Holy Spirit will give me an idea. But then we don't do our homework. We don't do our research. We don't observe people. We don't try to understand people. And then even though we have a God-given strategy, we are unable to execute it well because we are not doing our part of understanding the people that we are ministering to. So then we miss out. We struggle. Not because the idea was not right, although the inspiration was not right, but we didn't do our part. Now, on the other hand, if you swing to the other side is where we get so caught up with the practical side of things, looking at all these are the needs of the people. This is what they are struggling with. So I must do something to help them in that area of need or this need. And there's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes we get just caught up with different needs that we don't listen to the Holy Spirit. And so we get so busy trying to address, you know, five, six, seven, maybe 10 different needs we see in the city, which is good. I'm not saying it's wrong, but maybe God doesn't want you to address all five needs. Maybe he wants you to do two of them. And that value. But how will you know which two? That's where we have to listen to the Holy Spirit. Right. So sometimes as ministers, as people are working in cities, we tend to swing to either extreme. But what I want to encourage us as we journey through this course is to try and blend the two. That is, I must hear from God. I must get Holy Spirit inspired ideas. I must also do my homework. I must also do correctly to carry out a Holy Spirit given idea. So we need to learn to do those things well. Okay. So I just want to share maybe a little, you know, a recent happening. Just to, you know, back up what I'm saying, and then we will continue next week on this. You know, so last year, 2020, from March onwards, here in India, we went into a lockdown because of the pandemic and there were a lot of things that had to, you know, we had to, as Thomas said, we had to rework and do things differently in terms of the ministry. Now, we started here in Bangalore to unlock, that means to come out sometime in November and government, the local government gave us permission to resume in-person services with small numbers. November of last year, so we started maybe before that some, you know, small slowly, you know, churches had a meeting once again. Then in the beginning of this year, then we were having in-person services because the cases had come down. We had decided that, hey, ABC will help other churches in the city restart because there were many churches who were not in a position to be able to restart, resume services because of the financial situation. So we allocated a certain amount of money and we gave it, you know, we received the invited pastors in Bangalore to submit requests and then we helped selected pastors to restart services. So that happened in January. And then by the time we came to March, again, there was a second wave and everything, again, there's a lockdown in Reimpost. So all the services stopped and it was a very difficult time. And it was a very difficult time all across India, you know, so all of us, different parts of India we know in the second wave was very, very challenging. So this was starting from, especially from April onwards. So in the month of May, you know, I just felt in my heart, said God, you know, we were receiving so much of news, so many families affected, so many pastors and churches affected, you know, all across the country. So in the month of May, I just felt, you know, hey, what should we be doing as a church? You know, because people, people's lives are being affected very, very bad in the second wave. We can't just sit quietly and, you know, wait for things to go. We should do something. So then I said, okay, let's call for a meeting of pastors in Bangalore, and let us discuss, you know, what can we do as a church to help other pastors or the churches. So we did an online meeting, Zoom. This was on the 5th of May, it was a Wednesday, and there were about 70 people on that call. Let me just open this open question, you know, what should we do as pastors, as leaders to help churches? So there were lots of ideas and discussion, and I think was really finalized in that meeting. It was about an hour or an hour and a half. So we said, okay, you know, we closed the call, we said, okay, good, thanks for sharing the ideas, we need to make a decision what we're going to do. So that day, you know, I started praying, I said, God, you know, we've heard all these ideas and things have been, you know, people have shared, but we didn't arrive at anything concrete. What should we do? And that night, I was praying, I said, God, what should we do? How should we go about it? So two questions, what to do? How to do it? What should the church do? How do we do it? And then at the same time in my mind, I was thinking, you know, we need to act quickly. You know, we don't have, you know, we don't have like three months to start the work. We should start it now because people are suffering now, churches are being affected now. And yet at the same time, we should do it carefully because money is needed. Money is required to help people. All these thoughts are going through. I was crying, it's basically looking to God. And the next morning, and there's another challenge, how do we do it in an honorable way? Because, you know, this is across churches. We have to respect the pastors.  It has to be done in a very, very honorable way so that all the pastors, you know, are blessed. So all these thoughts are going through. So when I woke up in the morning, I woke up with a very clear plan. You know, so things are very clear for me. This is what you need to do.  APC take responsibility to do this work because we have the people, we have everything in place. We can do it very fast, rather than trying to put together an organization or an entity. And by the time we do that, a lot of time will be wasted. We have people, we can act immediately. But for us to do it, we need to get permission from the leaders in the city. And here's how we do it. So it's a very clear plan. So the next day, I wrote to eight of the leaders who attended the call, and I explained, this is the plan. There are six areas we're going to help people, which, you know, other NGOs will not be helping. There are, of course, a lot of NGOs who are doing the work, but they will not be helping pastors. They will not be helping churches, you know, so we as a body of Christ can help. But I want these eight leaders to give permission to us, APC, to execute the project on behalf of the body of Christ. And this is how we will do it, you know. So I shared it, and immediately, you know, the leaders responded saying, yeah, go ahead, please do it. So they gave permission, they gave their blessing, which was very important because we needed to do it in an honorable way. And we had no idea of how big the project would be, how much it would cost, we can't estimate, you know, so we just kept a certain amount of money. We kept aside 50 lakhs, that is, you know, 5 million, right, 5 million rupees, we kept it aside, and I said we will start with this amount. And then we, you know, we open it up to anybody in India. So to our surprise, you know, but then we had to get everything ready, you know, we had to get within one week, we got an online system ready. Back in software system ready so that people could submit applications. We needed to verify the applications, everything, the whole system we put in place within one week. So we had to work fast, our IT team were working, you know, over many hours that seven days. And on the 12th of May we launched the project. So within, you know, on the 5th of May was the first meeting, 6th we got permission from the other pastors within the remaining, you know, six, seven days we launched it. So when we launched the project, we had more than 8,000 requests came that came in from all across the country within two weeks. You know, so it was huge. And we didn't know how we were going to help everybody, but God provided, you know. And so in the end, you know, we, there was, you know, 3.77 crores of rupees that was given out to people to help people and be able to help as many as possible. But the point I want to, the reason I'm sharing this is to get this point across. There is a need, or there was a need, then there had to be God's idea. This is what you need to do. This is how to go about it. Do it in every honorable way. Then there was the practical side, which is execution to make it happen and faith in God to bring provision to help people. So in the pandemic, what can we do? This is what we did, you know, and so I'm sharing that with you because many times when you look at, you know, and when we translate this to urban church or urban ministry, you find a need or not just a need, but you will find many needs. But then very important is God, what do you want us to do? How do you want us to do it? So we had to ask God, and when God gives us the direction, then our responsibility to execute that well. You know, there's a lot of work, the practical side. You need people, you need systems, you need a lot of practical things that you need to put. And then when you execute it well, then you can really less many people. Right. So this is just a kind of a general idea of how we're going to go about learning about urban church planting and doing ministry in urban centers. There are needs. We need to understand the needs. We need to be aware of the needs. Then we need to go to God. God, what do you want us to do? How do you want us to do it? Then execute it well, the practical side to the practical things very well. Then the idea God gives will help serve people well. Is that okay? So I'm going to stop here. Any thoughts, any questions before we close in prayer for today? Thank you for sharing, Pastor. It's so encouraging. It's a wonderful work that I'm doing through you. I'm so encouraged. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless Thomas. Alright, so we will continue this next week. So Manu is asking what's the meaning of urban ministry. Urban means cities. Urban centers mean cities. Urban is different from rural. Rural is villages, small towns. Urban means cities, urban centers. So doing ministry in the city, doing ministry in the urban centers. That's what we are looking at. Alright, so let's close in prayer. I just want to request somebody to pray and ask God that as we do this course together, it will be helpful for all of us. We will get some new thoughts on how we can do ministry in the places where God has put us. Could somebody please pray for us as a class? Somebody? Dave? Somebody, good prayer. Father, we thank you Lord Jesus. We thank you that you have given us this opportunity once again, Lord Jesus, so that we can meet and learn from our pastor and from you and your spirit Lord Jesus. We thank you that as we learn from urban ministry Lord Jesus, help us to know all the practical way how we can ministry in the cities and how our ministry can do more perspective Lord Jesus so that we can draw more people to watch your Lord Jesus. Help each one of us Lord Jesus. Not only to understand Lord Jesus but help each one of us to apply within our ministry and in our life. Thank you Father for changing the way we think Lord Jesus so that we can think according to what you want us to think Lord Jesus and so that we can act on your behalf Lord Jesus. Thank you. And we bless you Lord God, we bless this time in the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you everyone for being on the class today. I'll look for this thing again soon, okay. God bless by now. Thank you also. God bless. Thank you so much. God bless you.


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Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we're gonna talk about Bill HR 127. I printed this bill out this morning and I've been reading it for a while here and I wanted to share some thoughts with you. You've probably seen something like this pop up before, watched a video of this previously, but this is obviously important stuff and if you're not aware, well then I hope to educate you. But basically this is a bill that was introduced on January 4th and it's in committee right now. Today is the 3rd of February and the, it's bad, it's so bad.  When I first got in the guns, I thought those people are insane, you know, it's never gonna happen. I hope I don't get that crazy. This is the bill. This is the bill that starts where they come for your guns. This is it right here and if you don't believe me, you can read it yourself. It is by far the most draconian rights trampling law I have read in a long time. It completely ignores the fact that we have a second amendment, paves right over that with European style gun control that is incredibly aggressive and will eliminate your personal rights in a heartbeat. So let's dig in, shall we? So first right off the bat, they wanna establish licensing. Licensing for the possession of firearms or ammunition in the United States and registering with the ATF. Okay, so let's stop right there. So first of all, it's a license to possess firearms or ammunition, okay? Meaning that you can't just own bullets, bullets that you can go by over the counter anywhere you want to. There's not even a license to sell bullets in this country. However, they wanted to make it so that you had to need a license to buy and possess bullets, okay? Also then of course firearms, you need a license to possess that because, you know, why not? They wanna put that in the hands of the ATF who can't even get you your, you know, license to buy your can for nine months. Then on top of that, they want to do registration. Now let's talk about registration here. Every country in the history of the world that has ever registered guns has then confiscated guns. That is a 100% fulfillment ratio. Show me one historical example of a country that registered guns that then did not in some form or fashion, confiscate guns. Show me it, just show me one case where that happened because you won't be able to find it. There is no historical example of that at all. Every country ever that has registered guns has then confiscated guns, 100% of the time. Registration only leads to one place. There is only one reason you want to register guns. It's so that you can go get them. Another thing on registration, it's not always the country or the government that registers the guns that is the government that confiscates the guns. For example, in Germany in the 1920s before Hitler rose to power, the German Viere Republic at that time registered guns. Well, Hitler comes into power five, 10 years later. Guess what he does?  So he confiscates the guns. He already knew where they were and he went and confiscated them. Which is also one of the major reasons there was never an uprising in Germany among the civilian population. They did not have the means, right? They just simply didn't have the means. There were cases where the military, military officials tried to assassinate Hitler. I think there was a total of 17 different assassination attempts. However, nothing ever came from the civilians because they did not have the means, okay?  How is it so bad? Because the population was disarmed. That was a big part of the problem. I digress. The registration of course will include the make, the model, the serial number, the identity of the owner, the date the firearm was acquired, and where it will be stored. If it's ever gonna be loaned to someone, you have to give notice to the ATF. Here's the best part. So this registry is gonna be stored in a database, which is currently illegal, but they have a provision to repeal that. And then the contents of the database are accessible to all members of the public.  So if you ever wanna steal someone's guns, you get a free list of where to go steal stuff from. So my understanding is there are three different kinds of licensing. There is a general license, there's an antique firearms license, and then there's a military style of license. The licensing, you need to be 21 years old. You have to do a criminal background check with NICS, which you have to do every time you buy a gun anyway. There's a psychological evaluation. That one's scary, we'll get to that in a bit. You have to do a training course that includes 24 hours of training, and you have to get insurance policy, which will cost you, I think, $800. We'll see if we can find that.  The military style one. So again, as my understanding is, this is on top of the general license requirement. So if you wanted military style, you'd need two different licenses. Again, this is another 24 hours of training, and live fire training, so they include live fire in this one. You have to get a psyche valve, which has to be conducted by a licensed psychologist that's approved by the attorney general. The psychologist can include an evaluation of other members of your household if they desire. It's at their discretion. And they can also interview your spouse, your ex-spouse, other family members, or other associates you have to determine the state of the mental, emotional, and relational stability of the individual in relation to firearms. So they can go interview your ex-wife, and you can guess how that's gonna go. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, some of this is admittedly confusing, and again, I've read it for an hour, and I don't have the full grasp of it. So if you have a better grasp of it than me, you can comment below, and we can have a good time. So again, my understanding here is that every year you're gonna have to renew the license. The fee for the license is $800, so that's every year for the first five years. You have to pay $800 just to have a license to have your rights. Imagine if we made people pay $800 every year to have the freedom of speech, or to have the government not come search your stuff when they want, or to vote. Imagine how that one would go over. Voting's not even a right. They define military style assault weapons. You know, it's the same language that was in like the assault weapons ban in the 90s, really. You know, if it has a forward grip, or if it is made by these companies, or it's copies of these companies, or it's an AR, or an AK, or an FAL, or a Steyr AUG gets a special mention, or a Tech 9, you know, if it's got a bayonet mount, or a flash suppressor, or a grenade launcher. That's actually in the bell, grenade launcher. Certain kinds of pistols, you know, basically like the rifle pistols is what they're talking about.  Semi-automatic shotguns that have folding stocks and whatever are much more scary. Yeah. So you also can't loan your gun to someone else unless they have a license. And then, even then, you have to get permission and notify the attorney general of who you're gonna loan it to and when and how long. You have to get insurance, which you have to pay the government for. I'm not, it's not clear if that's a part of the original $800 fee for your license, or if that's a separate insurance. Okay, then we get to the penalties. And I'll be honest, I'm not sure if these penalties apply to this section or existing laws that was kind of unclear to me. So if you know, you can let me know. But the penalties are pretty bad.  They also outlaw 50 cal ammunition or greater, because why not? And as if this all wasn't bad enough, they want to outlaw large capacity ammunition magazines, which it is unlawful for any person to possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device. So just possession, just period. Just no grandfathering, no nothing, it's just outlawed. Well, what's a large capacity, 10 rounds, 10 rounds. So 17 round mag, felony. They do give you a provision that you can keep 22s. So that's it. That's me going through the bill there. Again, if you haven't read this bill yourself, I would invite you to go read it. If you haven't, if you're not aware of this or aware of what's going on, please become aware. It completely ends the Second Amendment in this country, which is a law. I'd just like to remind everybody, however, this would just contradict that law and of course, which one do you think they're gonna enforce? The Constitution, the High Holy Law, or this new made up, fangled one, right? So if you haven't read it, if you're not educated on it, please go read it, please go look at it yourself. I'm not making this up. This is the most egregious assault on your rights in your lifetime. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that because it's the beginning of the end. With this bill, they would strip all guns from people. Is it even enforceable? Is it even possible? I don't know. We have more guns than people in this country. God bless America. But this is what they're trying to do. If you're wondering what you can do about this, I would highly recommend you look into the Firearms Policy Coalition. They do fantastic work to fight this bill and bills like this. So they deserve all your time and money you're willing to give them.  It should be DOA. We're not gonna talk about what would happen in this country if this bill actually passed. That's a different video. But I'm sure you can imagine how that's gonna go. Stop it now so we don't get to that part. Do brave deeds and endure.


Hi there, it's DJB and welcome to part 2 of the 3-part Drastic Fjord custom tutorial. In the first part, we deconstructed the model, so if you have not watched that part, I would recommend doing that now. In this part, I'm going to be reconstructing the model using a variety of techniques for gluing the pieces back together with super glue and baking soda, as well as re-sculpting majority of the model to create the one-of-a-kind sculpture. I will go over a little bit of prepping as well, and getting the model pretty much ready for its final paint. So here I have the model all laid out in pieces. I'm going to get some wire, some craft wire, and some wire cutters, as well as my baking soda and super glue combination. And so we're just going to start by reconstructing certain portions. So I have drilled holes in the model, in the previous part, to reattach the hoof to this hind leg here. And so that's just measuring the wire to a point where it looks good with the other wig, an accurate size. So just setting in the legs and hooves before I add the super glue is really important, so you just want to see visually what's working, what doesn't work. But once I have the model all kind of positioned accordingly, you can see the flaws that are coming out. So that knee looks a little wonky, that foot looks a little wonky, but the hind foot was being pretty easy. So I just add some super glue to that, insert my wire into the hole, and then dunk the whole thing in baking soda so that I can set that super glue really quickly. Using a Q-tip there to just dump some more on. And you can do a couple layers of this to really make sure that that wire is set in there. You are going to have to let the glue set a little bit as well as it takes some time to fully harden so that you can handle the model and re-bend what you've inserted in. So here I'm actually attaching the hoof to the leg. And it works pretty good. The horse actually can stand on three legs, which is very convenient so I can fuss with this front leg. It's the same thing gluing in the wire and inserting that leg into the body. And this leg gave me a lot of trouble throughout the entire customizing process. It really looked wonky all the time. Here you see me bending the wire a little bit because the leg doesn't need to be straight in. It can have a little bend to it as long as it's not going to affect the final sculpture. So creating the right length is really important, making it look as realistic as possible. So sometimes you get frustrated and you need to move on, so at this point I was going to try and attach the head instead because the leg was frustrating me. So I am doing the same thing, just adding wire to the inside of the head and shoving basically the whole head full of baking soda. Adding more glue and more baking soda to create a strong layer to attach the head to. Going back to the leg as I let the head dry and I confirm my positioning and go in through the front of the model to put in that super glue and position it in there using lots of layers of super glue and lots of layers of baking soda, making sure that it's good and strong inside. Using a little bit of a longer wire is helpful so that the leg won't break. If it's too short it could slide out. So I have pretty long wire in the inside there. Now attaching the inside of the neck to the model, it's hard because it's a smooth plastic inside. But I do my best to just super glue that in there. When you add the clay over top the neck isn't going anywhere unless you're really reefing on it. Just gluing it enough so that it will stick and you can get a good distance of proportion there and it is going to look a little funny but I add a second wire on the underneath of the neck as well that I did not film and then I'm just going to put blue masking tape all the way on the outside of the neck. So adding lots of layers of tape and this just gives a better visual for what we're working with here and the neck looks good and in proportion. So the model is looking pretty good at this point. So then I'm just going to fill in some of those holes with a two-part epoxy clay. I was using a combination of epoxy sculpt and magic sculpts on this model but just filling in those really quickly they don't need to be sculpturally accurate but just adding fill and then you can sand it down and add actual detail on top but you need to just fill in that base. I'm using my silicone sculpting tools here to kind of smooth out the edges. You want to make things as smooth as possible when you're sculpting additive clay onto your model because it will create less sanding in the priming phase.  So here I'm actually taking a stab at sculpting nostrils. We start with two little globbies and create the nostrils. This video is not an in-depth tutorial on how to sculpt different things. I like letting things dry so I did sculpt the nostrils first and then the rest of the face after so that it had time to set and I wasn't going to wreck the rest of the horse. So I've added filler in the legs and in the face there and the new sculpted nostrils. After that clay headset I came back and I am going to stuff those cavity holes with some tinfoil. I like using tinfoil because it's really light and it's easy to jam in there. This definitely is a learning curve because the tinfoil will fall through the model so you may have to stuff the entire horse with tinfoil. So you want to keep the sheets as big as possible while pushing them into the horse. And then adding some super glue to hold it in place, I was trying that. That sort of worked but not super good. So just shoving as much as you can to create a flush area to sculpt on top of so the clay is not going to sink into the model. I do find clay sinks into the model a little bit and so you will have to do a couple layers of clay usually on those big gap but to create as little work as possible using some tinfoil and some super glue and some baking soda, whatever works for you. So once you have that base down you can add that clay over top. Here I'm just forming it with my fingers making it as smooth as possible. So really working that outer edge so that there isn't a lot of sanding to be done later. I'm using water here to smooth out the clay but you can also use isopropyl alcohol anywhere from 70 to 90 percent. Just really smoothing that in with my fingers. Not creating any real detail here because it will be sanded down and sculpted on top but just creating that filler base of clay. So once that's set I came back and actually started sculpting some ears. I like to let the ears set on the model so that they dry accordingly and then once they are dry you can cut off that excess. Sand down the ear on some flat sandpaper. Mark the spot in which you want to position the ear with a sharpie. Grill a hole into the model using a dremel again and into the base of the ear.  So here I am positioning these ears and setting them in with super glue. Later I will establish that these ears are definitely in the wrong spot and too far forward. So a good rule of thumb is that you should actually complete the neck before you set the ears because the positioning on this was all wrong. If I did actually finish up that neck after I added the ears so I'm just giving him a little rinse and then I'm going to use my duplicate color automotive filler primer in gray using a rubber glove to make sure that you don't get primer all over yourself. So here he is, he has more sculpture just adding in fill areas and the neck. Primer gives you a really good gauge of what you need to sand down, what you need to work on and it shows any lumps or imperfections that are appearing with your sculpture work. So here you can see that he has a lot of issues to refine in that leg and in the there's a hole there in the neck, some definite lumps and bumps that showed up. But you couldn't see before because he was too many colors and too much happening so you really need to use that solid layer of primer to see your imperfections in the sculpture. So after a lot of thought I definitely knew that the ears were way too far forward. The ears should be in line with the jaw and here they're pretty much touching his eye and I had some comments on Instagram saying that they looked funny so I actually am ripping them out and it's really important to do this in this phase of the customizing so that you don't finish the model and then forever see the flaw. So just using some pliers I'm able to chip away slowly at the clay that was already there and pull out that ear reinforcement and kind of chip off some more of that and then actually sand it down with a dremel and reposition the ear. So on the left is the original ear positioning and on the right is the new ear positioning and you can just see how much more realistic it makes the model. I've also added some additional sculpture in the throat latch and that just helps it look a lot more realistic. So it's a lot of trial and error and learning from your mistakes in this process. Using a fine grit sanding drum to sand down some of those weird areas that showed up with the primer with the dremel helps speed up the process a little bit instead of hand sanding the whole model. So this worked really well to kind of clean up those really intense areas that were causing problems and then I'm going to attach that tail in because I've sculpted the butt enough inserting a piece of wire there and super gluing it in. You can double reinforce tails if they're really crazy positioning which is sometimes recommended but for this guy most of the tail is actually going to be in contact with his body so he doesn't need a ton of reinforcement. For the mane because it's going to be long and droopy I need to create a base and I'm doing that using the blue masking tape so just taping some of that onto the neck and double siding it with quite a few layers. I'm going to draw on the formation of the mane that I want to achieve so how many pieces of long mane are going to be hanging down and then just cutting those out with a pair of really good scissors this creates a template for the mane to be sculpted on top. You can also do this with wire but in this method I'm using the tape and then once that is good we can also do that to the tail creating the sculptural foundation for it. It's going to be pretty big and poofy and thick so just adding quite a few layers of masking tape on one side and then quite a few layers of masking tape on the other side. You want it to be firm so that it doesn't bend around a whole bunch but not too many layers that it's like too thick and crazy and then same thing drawing the formation of the tail onto the masking tape and using your scissors to cut out that shape. Then I'm going to add some thin layers of super glue on top of this blue masking tape so that I create a solid base. This just firms up the masking tape so that it doesn't droop around while you're trying to sculpt on top of it. And so then once I'm ready with that I'm going to actually start sculpting the forelock so here I add some basic noodle shapes in the form of the forelock that I want to achieve following my reference photo pretty closely and then using a combination of different firmness in silicone sculpting tools. They're my favorite for sculpting hair so just adding in those details pushing together those creases of noodles and adding lots of water to smooth out the clay. So this was my first time using magic sculpt and it works a lot better for the hair sculpting process. And then brushing over with a water soaked paintbrush to smooth out all of those details. So here you can see me sculpting in the main the same way. It's a very slow time consuming process and I did the main in several layers so putting a thin layer on one side of that masking tape base and more layers as the clay cured. So you come back multiple nights to complete a model like this. Here's an example of me sculpting the tail. This is one side so clearly I would sculpt one side of the tail. Let it cure come back sculpt the other side of the tail and then you can come back a few extra times to add additional detailing in or additional thickness and hair sculpture. But really thinking about the physics of the hair how it flows how it falls and using my reference pretty closely to the fjord breed. I like the model is pretty good and pretty accurate and I fixed up that leg and detailing sculptural lots of different hair the hair on both sides and fat locks. I can go in and take a fine grit sandpaper sand down the imperfections and add another layer of filler primer. So just keep doing this until you get to a point where the model is okay because the primer is going to show flaws each time you do it. If I have any holes you can use some Bondo to put in those holes. I have a tutorial on that that I will link in the description and sanding that down when it cures. And so eventually this turns into the prepping phase where you're just removing all the imperfections and making the model final and to the point where you can paint it. So here you can see the final primed model and he's all smooth and ready and to a point where I feel I am satisfied with the repositioning drastic customizing and he is ready for his beautiful fjord paint job. Thank you so much for watching and this has been part two of the three part tutorial series and look out for the next tutorial in which we will be painting the final piece. If you have any questions of any kind feel free to comment. All of the tools that I used in this video are going to be linked in the description below. Be sure to subscribe and like this video. You can follow me on Instagram and Facebook at DJB Studios.


Hey, hey Tony Gaskins here. Thank you so much for joining me on another episode of talks with Tony Got a question from a young lady and it says hello a quick question for you from a former hot mess I had daddy issues and suffered from low self-esteem slash self-worth as a result I made pitiful relationship decision. I had little to no standards and dated men who were no good for me I have five children by three different men I call myself a former hot mess because I have done the work to make myself a Better and healthier person in all aspects of my life. I earned two degrees and made over six figures last year. I Recently bought a large house. I'm an attractive woman and take care of myself physically Most people cannot believe I've given birth to five children Most importantly, I'm in therapy to address my issues I took a 12 month break from dating to focus on myself, which has been an amazing experience I learned a lot about myself and grew closer to God I've read books watch videos and listen to podcasts about dating Most of your podcasts are about people who need help or are in messy situations My question to you is what happens after a person has done the work to make themselves better Can I realistically expect a quality man to overlook the things? I've done in my past and want to be with a woman with a large family I have a lot to offer the right person in terms of my relationship with Christ character Personality looks education and financial stability. I'm also a great mother to my children Thanks in advance for your response Well, thank you very much for sending that in and I wanted to You know answer this I saw it and I took a quick skim and in the second line It said, you know, I have five children by three different men And I know that's a very tough situation to be in in a superficial Dating world when a lot of men you meet are just you know Surface level and they just look at you on the surface The other thing is you have to look at it much bigger than just relationships and so what what you have here is the opportunity to tap into purpose and To live your best life in a different kind of way So you have the opportunity to continue turning out greatness Because you've tapped into greatness to earn six figures to earn two degrees and make six figures That is not easy. That is not easy for anyone to do So for you to have done that there are women with no children Who don't have who don't have one degree?  It will not be easy It will not be easy for a man a honest Good-hearted real man to want to be with you with five children It won't be easy and here's why because a lot of times women get offended by this and I'm just Telling you the truth from a male perspective. I'm not saying Impossible what I'm saying is it's not easy and the reason why it's not easy is because I've learned this over time When I was a young man, but I was in high school. So it's different.  I can't I got my son Or I could go but I have to take my son with me and I'm like, you know I don't want to be around that man that little boy, you know, that's what I'm saying to myself and This was one child and I remember going to her I went to her house and I said look, you know, I Unfortunately, I won't be able to be with you because I just I want to be able to live my life What was the straw that broke the camel's back as I was driving through the parking lot of this plaza And I wrote past this group of people Fighting and in the fight was her child's father He's in the parking lot in the middle of the day like 2 p.m. fighting and it was him and you know a little group of nerdy-looking kids and We all in high school at this time And he in the parking lot fighting So I'm like did he just come out of the bar right there the sports bar right there Well, he just come out of the movie theater the matinee But he's out here living his life and got time to be in the parking lot fighting and Acting a fool when I'm going over here to play stepdaddy. And so that right there it was the straw that broke the camel's back and But at the same time I was like eight seventeen eighteen. So I was immature is Many men in their 20s and 30s and get older get with a woman and love a single mother Many men can do it once they mature But that's one child two child two children you have five So this man will have to be a different type of person He will have to have a different vision. It would be made it would be a man who loves Children and being able to play with them and speaking to their life and put a smile on their face because either his father did that for him or he didn't have a father or Maybe he's into sports and he loves the idea of having kids that he can Train and build up to be the next Serena Williams or the next Michael Jordan, you know or Maybe his ex could not have kids and now that he's getting older He doesn't necessarily want to start over with his own kids or maybe he wants one of his own But he wants to be in the lives of some youth Now here is the downside For that man to truly be like that He is going to be an all-around good person.  He's not gonna have a vice You know, nothing that he's addicted to Not marijuana not cigarettes not alcohol not gambling not pornography. He's gonna have no vices no addictions Okay, he is going to be Hard working this man has to have a job Working full-time 40 hours a week or more if he's working less He's still making full-time money. He just makes more in less amount of hours But he is ambitious and he's hard working Okay, this man is Going to have to love children.  He's not the man That's gonna be a good man for you Okay, he's probably going to be of age like 35 or older. He probably he could be an exception. I Would not trust a man under 35 I don't see your age in here. I would not trust a man under 35 over five children On the flip side of this is another thing y'all women do not believe and do not be want to hear and Try to give me all this, you know lip Men On average are not good with children There are some men some men who are good with children Typically those men still act like a child Typically those men still are immature In their own ways and they look and that's why they're so good with children Typically the men don't want to be faithful to one woman They aren't faithful to one woman when you see a man who's really really good with children a lot of time He's a mess in a relationship so a man is average at Best typically a good man who's gonna be faithful in a relationship and love you and treat you like a queen with children He's gonna be good average slash good. He's not going to be outstandingly amazing With five children from three different men Because it's not because now he's loving the children of another man So he does not look at them and see himself So you have to understand that on this journey here that you're on in every single mother out there Your focus has to be your children first Being everything And doing everything that they need not just all they want not buying them all Gucci and all the games And all of that trying to give them this life you never had is not about material thing It's about preparing them getting them good education good study habits Good behavior good manners good morals good values Getting making sure they have those things first The next thing is working on your purpose Your purpose is write your book start your nonprofit organization start your business Climb the ranks on your job and your career if you're working in corporate America, whatever it may be So your kids and then your your money your business your career And yourself at the same time your body how you eat how you sleep how you work out what you're watching What you're listening to This has to be your focus And guess what you're gonna Look good feel good Vibrate on a high frequency your energy is gonna be good. So what's gonna happen? You're gonna attract better men. You're gonna attract different types of men They are going to look the opposite of the bad boys you've dealt with in the past So you got to bring new energy.   That's the first thing.  I see it every day. I deal with it every day I'm coaching women who went through it with a stepdad. You know, I'm seeing this all the time. So understand this Don't just assume a lot of times women say, oh, I know men that's better with children than women You may know a man that's better than a child with a woman. Congratulations.  So you got to understand this When you have children and you getting ready to date be very very careful. This man is closer to a beast Then he is to a loving caring stepfather Understand what I'm telling you Y'all women could argue with me if you want to I know what I'm talking about I know what I'm talking about. You got to be extremely careful.  So I expect to see an email from you And then you can open up to the dating field And the five children telling the man you got five kids is not the same as telling him you're Not having sex until marriage He needs to know up front in the first date that you got five kids That's totally different than saying i'm not having sex with you because a man cares more about the sex thing Than the kids you telling him you're not having sex until marriage will make him run faster than you telling him you got 10 kids Because at the end of the day what a man is thinking about he's not thinking about your kids He's thinking about what's between your legs You can have many kids you want to have A man thinking about that one thing and that's their love making And in the process he got to fall in love with you on the way While he's thinking about love making that's his energy and his fuel And a lot of y'all don't want to hear that it's too real for you because you think men deeper than that You think it's bigger than that. No The crux of a man's thoughts is sleeping with you More than anything else He's thinking if i got to fall in love if i got to date her every day if i got to talk to her every day my main thing is When we're gonna be intimate And whatever come with that if that's love if that's marriage if that's step kids if that's my own kids Whatever come with it i'm working toward this her intimacy Why because he created in wire to reproduce And it is not that much deeper than that. Yeah, you're gonna have some man. Oh, that's shallow And oh and you know all I think about and all yeah, it's good for the comments I know the real It's good for the comments later. Y'all don't want to believe it, but it's coming out of man mouth So He is not really men really don't care About how many children you have to be honest with you if he's a good man He doesn't care about that.  You need doing your hair.  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Shave our 1,000 here We're gonna try to get this started up. It should start up. Okay, hopefully But this is what we're gonna do right now.  I'm gonna have to Needs cleaned out too. Just one blade little craftsman 10 horsepower What are the Briggs and Stratton? There's that we also got Well, I got a big mess in here. I gotta get this situated because we got the toolbox in here so Big stainless steel. I thought it was aluminum, but it's stainless and it's packed Pretty much full of tools. She's got the keys. She locked it up.  I'm gonna set mine right here This one all once I clean it out. I'm gonna sell it but Yeah, I think it's huge, but it rolls nice So anyway, I'm gonna clean that up and She's some before and after this I got it on the charger batters dead. It's got some low tires on it I Think I made a video on that once but this thing it's pull start and electric start. It is also gasoline or propane so And it looks like That was off. It looks like it was on so I don't know Hmm not a good sign Let's crank it and see If it's got juice first, okay, it's got juice. I don't know if it's got an automatic choke on it. Here's the choke Right here That's open. That's closed Let's crank it over. That's pretty cool. You know propane or gasoline so That's awesome. I Think we're gonna hang on to this because Well, it ran their whole house, which I Don't know you guys probably seen some videos I did in the house It's bigger than this. It's bigger than our house, but it would run the whole house So I see where the Plug is for it that he used Because normally you plug these into you shut your main breaker off for for the outside power And then he plugged them into your where your dryer plugs in that but it would run their whole house so That's good. I thought maybe you know we might have to tinker with the carburetor because I don't know how long that gasoline's been in there But okay Well, let me get the jump box out here and I'm gonna put a little gas in here. We'll start this up and Make sure it's going to run. All right. I'll put some air in the tires But so let me go get Let me go get the jump box. All right, so I keep calling that a jump box It's a charger, but it it does have the starter and put it up on 200 amps. So Yeah, see it's got a leak in it so I didn't put a lot of Lot of fuel in it looks like it might just be a line right there, but let's see if we can get it started, okay? So I'll just set you here Let's see if we can start it up better than hell right now. We'll just have to check it out See what's going on with it? This thanks for sale that thanks for sale I Think we're going to hold on to this for a little bit because hers hurricane season's coming up So I'll check the oil see what it looks like. I don't know if he's ever changed it I'm going to do the same thing. I'll check it all out. Ain't that right, bro? Ain't that right, buddy? I'll take you for a ride once but when the batteries get charged, okay? Yeah, this thing's got turn signals headlights tail lights brake lights It's all set up. I Don't know why he's got a garment on here. I don't know how far you'd have to Anyway guys, all right, then we'll get this cleaned up and I mean it's not the greatest sheet It's a $1,200 golf cart, so it's getting hot out here tropical Reigns last night. Well about four o'clock this morning. It was pouring down rain. I had him again this morning Right before these got here now. It's hotter than hell, but it's supposed to rain Rest of the weekend all weekend, so I'm not sure what I'm going to get into I'll probably be working in the garage if I can because I got to take some of that stuff out I don't want it to get wet so all right guys just a little update what's happening and I'll fast-forward the clip of unloading this stuff. All right So Shadeberry met the man alleged I'm gone for now. Enjoy the rest of your week and have a great weekend coming up We'll see you soon. Bye. Bye now


Hi, this is your host Abil Bhartiya and we are back with award 2020 three productions. And today we have with us once again, Michel Trikot, co-founder and CEO at AirBite. It's great to have you on the show. Hi, this is great to be there again. Yeah, before I ask you to grab your crystal ball and share your predictions, I would love to know a bit about the complete stuff. So, MIT is an open source data integration platform. And what we do is we help company break down any kind of data cellos that they have and move data from any sources versus an API file, spreadsheet, database, and bring that into the destination of their choice, whether it's a warehouse, whether it's another SaaS service, basically every place where this data will bring more value to their business. And this is what we've been doing over the past three years. And today we have about 50,000 open source deployments who released a cloud product in Q2 this year and things are going pretty well. Excellent. Now it's time for you to pick your crystal ball and tell us what predictions you have for us. I would say the first thing is a lot of companies are actually completely changing their data strategy. And with the economy slowing down, it's a moment when company reflect on their fundamentals and invest in these big projects. And what we'll see is just that warehouses are going to get more and more used. And as companies detect and understand the value of it, they will want to push more and more data to these systems. And that means that more and more in-house connector will need to be built to get databases, internal APIs, data directly into these warehouses, and they will have more and more custom needs. So they are building their data product, they have the specificities of their business, and these type of custom needs will need to be encoded into solution. The second prediction is more around how blurry it's gonna become between data warehouses and data lakes. And we can already see that with what Snowflake did with being compatible with Iceberg is the separation of storage and compute will really blur the limits between like these warehouses and this data lake. The last one is more gonna be around like how open source will continue to be a key driver for data projects. And we see today with data integration, we see today with data observability, we see for data cataloging, et cetera, there are a lot of solutions that are coming on the market and that are going to be adopted more and more by these companies. So this is really how we see the future with their bite and all of that is driven by company focusing on their data fundamentals during that low economic period. We've talked a lot about reverse ETL over the past two or three years was pulling data outside of data warehouse and bringing it into APIs and services. And we really see that as actually the activation of data and from there we see what we believe is gonna happen is that the concept of reverse ETL is gonna change and people are realizing, are going to realize that it is not just a data product but it is really an automation product. And that will come with the requirement for a lot of new safeguards because reverse ETL is not just data, it's really automation, it's activation meaning that it touches critical systems and if you have data issues, the impact on the business are going to be huge. So that's why this is gonna move away from just the data space and it's going to require more data quality, more lineage, stronger processes internally in companies to actually leverage solutions that the market calls reverse ETL today. Excellent, thanks for sharing those predictions. Now if I ask you what is going to be the focus for the company in 2023? So for AirBats we will have two main focus. First one is continue to address the long tail and the customizability of the platform. So ensuring that every one of our users can pull data across every one of their sites and we call that ubiquity. The second one is going to be around giving control over data to our customers and it means how do we ensure that the data movement can happen in the safety of your cloud as a user? A lot of companies have very sensitive data whether it's gonna be PCI certified data whether it's they have like SOC2 requirements, et cetera and not all data can actually go to a SaaS service and what we want to do really with AirBats is move the execution of the movement directly into our customer's infrastructure and that's gonna be, these two are gonna like the long tail and the movements are gonna be the two main focus of the company in 2023. Can you also talk about what are the challenges that you see ahead that will even become bigger challenges in 2023 and you also see that hey, these are the challenges that we at AirBat would like to tackle? So I mean there are the macro challenges so at that point it should be how is the economy going to evolve? Because in my mind we've seen the first two waves where it affects B2B relationship now we're going to see how it affects B2C relationship but B2C relationship when they're affected have another effect on B2B. So this is something that I believe we'll see in 2023 where if people consume less, how does that affect B2B? So that's gonna be a challenge and we see that as a way for AirBat to just show that yeah, you can bring AirBat within your infrastructure directly you can just integrate an open source software and you can decide also how much you want to be spending on a data solution and making the trader between open source with internal teams or using a cloud product. So first that's the challenges we see is like how do we navigate in that environment where companies are more conscious about price are more conscious about how they spend their team's time and also how they want to also revamp their fundamentals and data fundamentals. Michel, thank you so much for taking time out today and share your predictions also talk about the challenges and I would love to have you back on the show in 2024 so that we can also see how many of your predictions turn out to be true. I did not want to tell that to you in the beginning so that you are under pressure but now we got that out as well but I really appreciate your time and I look forward to our next discussion. Thank you. Thank you for having me.


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this lecture we are going to begin talking about the evolution of stars and specifically what stars do as they evolve off the main sequence. So as they begin to move and use up the hydrogen in their core and then begin to change. So for the longest time a star will remain exactly the same but we will find that as it goes through its life significant changes will occur in at least astronomically speaking relatively short periods of time. So let's go ahead and start looking here at what we have and first of all let's look at the life of a star on the main sequence. Now there isn't a whole lot to say here because this is as we say the very boring part of a star's life. It's about 90% of the life and it does not change. Now depending on the mass of the star you might not have changed for millions, billions, or even a trillion years because the star is simply converting hydrogen into helium in its core. So hydrogen to helium and as long as it has that supply of hydrogen it is able to continue this process. This is only going on in the core so the outer layers are unchanged. We do not have a change in the outer portions of the star. So what is happening in the core is that the core is becoming depleted in hydrogen so less hydrogen and more helium but this does not change what we see in the star itself. It will change the core and that the core temperature will slowly increase over this time. Now for something like the Sun this would be 10 billion years. So over those 10 billion years we would see the core temperature of the Sun slowly increasing which will increase the rate of fusion and slowly the luminosity but it is a very slow change not something that occurs rapidly at all. So what would happen then as we continue to look through this would be let's look at some of the lifetimes of the stars. How long does a star live? Well it depends on one thing and it really depends on the initial mass of the star how much material it was formed with. So a larger star has more mass more fuel but it goes through it at a much faster rate. That means that it will use up the fuel in its core in maybe only a few million years. Smaller stars have less fuel so they have less mass and therefore less fuel but they go through it far more slowly and their fuel may last a trillion years. So the table here shows us various types of stars going from a very hot class O star down to a very cool class M star. We can review their temperatures we can see roughly what their masses are and you note that it's not a tremendous difference in mass that it goes from 0.4 down here for an M zero star to 40 for an O five star so it is a factor of a hundred times in the mass. However the change in the lifetime is much much more that O star may only live for one million years and the M star may live for two hundred billion years. Now if we think about that two hundred billion years our universe is only about fourteen billion years old. Meaning that any star of this type that ever formed in the universe is still present. There has not been enough time for even one of these stars to have gone through their life in the entire history of the universe. So every M zero star that ever formed is still around is still around. No O five stars are around that formed more than a million years ago so those that formed even two million years ago are gone so it really depends on the mass of the star. Now let's take a look here at what it happens as we begin to leave the main sequence because eventually whether you have a big gas tank or a little big gas tank the hydrogen is going to be consumed whether that be in a million or in a billion or in a trillion years once it runs out of fuel the star must change it does not have any choice because it is going to begin to change its core. So as a star on the main sequence has a hydrogen burning in its core here eventually it starts to build up helium down in the core and has hydrogen burning in a shell around it so the core, the central part of the core becomes solid helium and that will then begin to contract and heat up. So hydrogen will then fuse in a shell around the core and will actually cause this to expand so we're getting out of that equilibrium that we had four stars that as the star went we were able to keep a balance between pressure and gravity now the pressure in the core here the core is collapsing down slowly contracting and the outer layers will now begin to expand so a star like the sun will eventually become something like this a red giant star and the outer layers of that star will expand creating a red giant. So this is the again the first step and it's going to happen to every star because eventually they will use up that hydrogen in their core and there is no choice except for that core to collapse and that will cause the outer layers then to expand. So what are we going to see in the star if we look at the star we would watch the star have two things it would get larger and it would get cooler so as it gets larger even though it's getting cooler it's going to actually get brighter the luminosity is going to increase and the temperature is going to decrease that means that it's going to change its position on the HR diagram because the HR diagram is as we know a plot of surface temperature of the star versus the luminosity. So if the luminosity increases the star is going to move up if the temperature decreases the star will move to the right and that means that overall the star is going to move from the main sequence towards the upper right portion now the exact tracks are shown on the diagram here it's kind of a little more complicated process than that but it is moving off and is going to become a red giant star so this is something that will happen to the Sun in about five billion years when it begins to exhaust its fuel it will follow the track here shown for about one solar mass and it will slowly over the next five billion years increase its luminosity a little bit and then the rest of the phases will happen relatively quickly as it goes on so this will take a lot of the time then it will start to move relatively quickly up into the red giant region eventually engulfing much of the inner solar system including the Earth. So let's continue as we like to conclude with our summary and what we find is that stars do spend the vast majority of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium on the main sequence so this is what stars do like the Sun for the majority of their lives eventually the hydrogen will be used up the core will begin to contract it will get smaller and smaller compressing together and the outer layers will expand making the star a red giant many times larger than it was before and as I said eventually engulfing the entire inner solar system including the Earth so that concludes our lecture on leaving the main sequence and we will be back again next time for another topic in astronomy so until then have a great day everyone and I will see you in class


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Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier due to its high energy density and low environmental impact. However, current methods of producing hydrogen rely heavily on fossil fuels, which emit harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. One method of generating hydrogen is water electrolysis, which uses nuclear power as a source of heat to produce hydrogen from water. This review paper examines the recent progress made in developing solid oxide electrolysis cells for use with nuclear power to generate clean hydrogen. Materials such as proton and oxygen ion conductors have been developed for the electrodes, electrolyte, interconnect, and sealant components of these cells. Degregation mechanisms and strategies to mitigate them are also discussed. This article was authored by Masin Falavostakola, Hassan Oskun, Rami SL Emem and others.