Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit It's a team grace today. We celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany There's a lot of things that come to the forefront on this feast day I'd like to just highlight two and then draw a lesson from them So the first is just a chronology of the Holy Family So oftentimes because liturgically we kind of cram it all together People are sometimes confused what happened when and where were the Holy Family and what was going on? So we know that Joseph was originally from Nazareth So Nazareth is also in the region of Galilee's in the far north. It's like the state. That's the region of Galilee Most of our Lord's life and the vast portion of his public ministry was in Galilee Now Joseph was from Nazareth So was our lady But our lady also her family had a home in Jerusalem We suspected her her father A Joachim might have been a priest of the temple. We're not sure But we know they had a home in Jerusalem and they had a home in Nazareth And we know of course that's where the whole scene happened between Mary and Gabriel was in Nazareth Now why did the Holy Family have to go to Bethlehem? Because the emperor far away in Rome Heard about the tribal organization of Israel, but didn't realize that that tribal organization had faded Even by like me saying I'm irish-american right or someone saying they're german-american We're vaguely connected to this homeland that our forefathers foremothers knew And that's what the tribal system had become But the emperor didn't know that and he ordered a census So the Holy Family had to go to the original home of their area of their tribe So Joseph was of Judah of the house of david david city is Bethlehem So where he was born to where he served as a shepherd That was his go-to area when the philistines occupied Bethlehem it grieved the heart of the king of israel On one occasion saying how I mourn and grieve that I do not get to drink the waters of Bethlehem And his men loved him so much He did a strategic attack on Bethlehem the house of philistines In order to draw water from the wells of Bethlehem and to bring it back to the king To which david took the water and poured it out and said I am not the god of israel I am only a man and the servant of my god That was not called for you do not shed blood for a man right Powerful scenes in Bethlehem Joseph has to return to Bethlehem for the census And then when he gets there of course the ins are full And where was his extended family? Interesting the scriptures don't tell us It would have been odd for someone to go and stay at an inn Especially one that had extended family. So we know something else is happening Then we know the christ child is born Tradition tells us in a cave in fact you can visit that cave in Bethlehem to this day And then we know he's fed he's placed in a feeding trough a manger Bethlehem means the city of bread It's the city of david. He's placed in the feeding trough right already indications Of what he will become the bread of life But then what happens? Well jesus mary and joseph they're now a young family They were broke right joseph was a carpenter we say That's accurate But more broadly we would say he was more like what we call a general contractor right So joseph probably had a little bit of money But it was exhausted by having to go to Bethlehem and because of this new baby On the eighth day the lord has circumcised Circumcision would have happened in the local synagogue So they would have just taken jesus to a local synagogue there in Bethlehem to be circumcised and received his name from his father 40 days after birth however Because he's the firstborn And anyone who was the firstborn was called firstborn even if there were no other children He was always called the firstborn. It was a legal identifier Because you recall during the Passover the firstborn sons of israel were the priests But they worshiped the golden calf the priest who was taken from them And god said i would strike the firstborn sons of israel And because god was in generous and kind to his people He spared them But he reminded israel as he gave the priesthood to the levites The firstborn your firstborn sons Belonged to me So in the 40th day of the firstborn's life He had to be taken to the temple in order to be presented to god We've heard about this this was simian and anna who approached the christ child So here's this poor family who had to stay in Bethlehem They'll probably be now at this point being assisted by extended family. They have the circumcision And then they have to go now to Jerusalem It would have been a very difficult trip for them But luke tells us that they made it and the christ child was presented Then they returned back to Bethlehem and we're not sure why they did that Why didn't they go back to nazareth? Now there was a lot of speculation One is you'll recall there was a lot there were a lot of rumors in nazareth, right? Because this couple broke their chastire chase patrolsman, right? So we suspect perhaps it's the rumor mill Perhaps they just didn't have enough money, but they knew that extended family would support them in Bethlehem Perhaps there was some other reason that we're not aware of maybe joseph got a good contract, right? He had to go back for work, but we know they returned to Bethlehem That's where they stayed until the lord was about a year and a half At a year and a half years old. They have a house We're told Because the magi today visit the house The magi travel for a year and a half Oftentimes we think all the magi were there with the shepherds on the day of the lord's birth Not true This is why we remove the shepherds from the nativity because the shepherds they're gone They're adoring and praising god and announcing all that had happened But the magi didn't arrive until a year and a half later Imagine that tenacity that faith that persevered for a year and a half When I lose something in the rectory after a couple of minutes, I'm willing to call it quits, huh? These men these wise men travel for a year and a half They arrive and we are told that it's a child. That was very beautiful Is we're told when the magi adore him and praise him and offer their highest gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh We're told they adore him while he is enthroned On the lap of his mother that is highly symbolic Because it represents the queen mother. She is fulfilling her role. Remember in israel the queen was not the king's wife The queen was the king's mother and already early in his life We see not only the lord exercised his kingship, but our lady exercised her queenship So the magi come in a year and a half Now we know they made a stop at ruslan and they told harrod about the star that they had seen Now harrod as the king of the jews should have rejoiced That finally the messiah has come But harrod he wanted the power And he was not a believer He thought someone has come up with these stories and now in order to oust me from authority in order to take my throne So he's watching Now his grandfather was harrod the great Had a great was known for his blood thirst and his lust his grandson was just like him So what happens when harrod finds out to the magi found the christ child Left went home by another way What does he do? He orders the execution of all boys two years and under throughout the bethlehem region Now we're not sure how many boys died Some speculate up to around 30 Some day up to about 3 000 Normally the usual size of jewish families. I suspect a higher number And there's a beautiful story that's told not in the scriptures, but in our tradition How was john debauchers spared? He was only three months older than our lord He was spared and watch god's providence He was spared because when they saw elizabeth remember she was an old lady, right? Older lady, excuse me, okay I almost hit that land mine, okay She was an older lady remember she thought she was baron They saw elizabeth they thought oh, she doesn't have any kids and they kept going Which is how john debauchers was spared So we have what we call the holy innocence the first blood shed in defense of our lord Joseph listened to the angel whenever we see joseph we see two things the angels and obedience As i've said before joseph was god's go-to man if god needed something done. He could ask joseph. He knew joseph would do it He tells joseph take your family and go to egypt You might be asking wait a minute How did they afford that? Huh? This is a smaller family. They're not very financially comfortable at this point. How did they afford going to egypt? will the early fathers When I speak of the early fathers those are the second and third generation of our faith Who would have known the apostles some of them would have been early disciples of the lord or disciples of disciples The early fathers tell us simple enough joseph hawked the three gifts of the manjai. He just went to local pawn shop, right? gold frankincense and mur took the money and then took the holy family to egypt Now how long were they in egypt? You know, you can still visit the church in old cairo that's built over their house st. George's church Beautiful a little well where a lady used to go and draw water We suspect that they were in egypt for about six months to a year We can gauge that because of the political leadership that's identified in the gospels And then they return home And really home This is when they go to nazareth the christ child is about two or two and a half years old When they go to nazareth and then he's quiet He learns the prayers of israel from his father and mother He learns his trade as a carpenter general contractor from his father He is quiet. That's what we call our lord's hidden life We see a glimpse when he's 12 years old. That's significant. Remember in israel then and now 12 years old is when the boy first proclaims publicly the word of god Called now the bar mitzvah. That's what that is After 12 he proclaims the word of god publicly and he is considered a man By the law of moses. We see a glimpse of the lord at 12 And then we don't see him again until he's 30 What marked Our years our lord's 30th year. What happened? First of all, it would have been very odd in israel that a 30 year old man was not married There's a long explanation of that too Beautiful tradition called the asin tradition that our lord would not have cut his hair He would have not drank alcohol. He would not have had sexual relations He would have been chased. We suspect that our lord might have been an asin We know his cousin john the baptist was definitely in a scene. We're not sure about our lord We suspect but what happened in his 30th year to launch our lord's public ministry. This is very endearing We suspect by our tradition that it was the death of joseph It was the death of his father Because he was there taking care of mom and dad And when his father died he began his public ministry This is why in our tradition saint joseph is the patron saint Of a happy death a holy death. Let's imagine that when joseph died He had jesus on one side and mary on the other a patron of a holy death Now we know that joseph would have had to die Before our lord began his public ministry Why is that? Because joseph's vocation was to guard and protect the christ child He would never have been able to begin his ministry and the lord would never have been able to endure the passion If joseph would have been alive Because joseph would have defended christ would have died in his defense So it was the death of his father His earthly father that initiated his public ministry. Dear friends I've just given you a small portion of the chronology of the beautiful story Of the plan in which god has saved us the life in the ministry of our lord jesus I hope that by just his glimpse it has perhaps What your appetite to know more and I encourage you with that to dive into the scriptures Read matthew and luke only two of the four gospel writers tell us About our lord's early life try to understand what has happened. Why is this being recounted to us? Why is it significant? That's the first part? I want to give you the second part I just want to talk about why it's so important that the magi came When our lord was one and a half years old You see god at the beginning of time wanted to give his blessings to all his children But we rebelled Constantly rebelled to the point where god said, you know what? I'm just going to pick my firstborn And I'll work with them So god went to the firstborn son of noah shem And to his descendants the semites the jewish people you hear about some being anti semitic That's where it comes from shem of noah He went to the sons and daughters of shem The firstborn of noah and said i will give to israel to the semites all the blessings That one day i will return to all the nations to the gentiles That's in salvation history and the prophets especially emphasize this that when the messiah comes He will reunite the tribes when the messiah comes He will open up the gates of paradise the path to salvation to the gentiles This is what the messiah is going to do and they waited and they prophesied and they give clues We hear about bethlehem today being mentioned by mica the prophet mica And there's slow preparation and slow movement towards that But the average jew and the average rabbi in the time of our lord They've forgotten that prophecy This is why today in our shaker reading paul has to remind them The gentiles were to be a part of the plan of salvation Because many people later in the lord's life struggled As the lord began to welcome the gentiles at one point they tried to stone him to death It was not his time to die and we are told in the scriptures he passed through them But the gentile the welcoming of the gentiles that's us That's our path to salvation was very controversial But here at the beginning we see the fulfillment of the lord's ministry First he will reunite israel and then secondly he will welcome and invite the gentiles back to salvation This is why it's so significant the epiphany it's greek it means the manifestation Of god to the nations that today Even as a boy a young child The messiah is beginning to fulfill his vocation as the gentile nations come to him Pay him homage It's significant that god used the star Perhaps you might wonder well, wait a minute if they follow the star doesn't that justify astrology? No, no Astrology is vehemently denied throughout the scriptures. Why? Because dear friends, we have a loving father We don't have to read the stars or worry about the intros of animals or play in the mud or wear crystals We don't have to do such things. We are the children of god and well beloved by him Today god used the star because that's what he needed in order to speak to them The magi understood stars so god humbled himself and communicated with them in a way that they would understand But look what he did He did a coup d'etat on the astrology of old didn't he because he used their very means What they understood in order to reveal his son Dear friends, do you understand that in our lives No matter how far we think we are Or if we are heart-hearted or far from away or from god or from his grace Do we realize that no matter where we are god continues to send small stars to each of us Seeds of his revelation that we might know how much he loves us Desires fellowship with us how much he has been seeking us out Long before we ever thought about looking for him Today on this high feast of the epiphany Look at the god who loves you who sends you stars So that you might not ever lose him that you might always know how to find him and that by finding him Your salvation the salvation of the gentiles might continue


Welcome to Toffee TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Former Everton scout Carlo Giacomuzzi claims that Everton rejected the opportunity to sign Kim Minjai on two occasions. He was a, like I said, former Everton scout Minjai being recommended to Everton while he was a Beijing one. And then again when he joined Fenerbati, the Blues had looked at the 643 centre back and just another one, I think, that slipped through the net. He's gone off to Napoli, he's won the league this year with Napoli and is apparently on the verge of joining Manchester United this summer. He's had a meteoric rise, really.  He'll just be jotted down on the latest of Coda Buda, but he does look like listening. He's been in fantastic form this season for Napoli and Manchester United look like they're going to take him to Old Trafford. So we'll see how well he does, but I'm sure Carlo could give us a list of players that Everton rejected over the last few years. And this is an area to think where Everton do need to radically change their thinking and start bringing in these players who they can't develop and then sell on or a bigger profit and reinvest. It's the only way we're going to get out of the current mess that we are in. Everton is today being linked with a move for Lagi Ramazani, the former Manchester United winger, now plays for Almeria. He's 22 years of age. The Spanish media saying he's got a £40 million, no, sorry, €40 million release clause in his contract. Everton have apparently watched him. He scored 15 goals in 81 appearances for Almeria. He's a talented winger. It's definitely an area that Everton are going to be looking at. Obviously, it's been well documented this season that our attacking players haven't scored enough goals. We haven't had a centre forward who's put the ball in the net for most of the season. Dom hasn't been fifth for most of the season. Neil Mawpai's got one, Ella Sims has got one. And that's the, you know, Dominic Alvallun is on two his knee for the season. So it's absolutely shocking the goal retain that we've had. Everton need goals in that area. So as well as a new centre forward, they definitely need a right winger. Someone to get goals off the right-hand side. Like you say, hopefully McNeill has got seven everton's top scorer. Hopefully this is the beginning for him of scoring goals on a regular basis. But Everton need two or three attacking players this summer. Whatever league they're in. Two way to ensure that certainly if we remain in the Premier League that this doesn't happen again. It never goes this tight. So hopefully, Everton will be able to do a bit of business in that area. And finally, Jeri Miners' gamesmanship is part of football. That is according to former Colombian player Ivan Rene Valenciano. Miner received some criticism from Pep Guardiola after Manchester City's 3-0 victory at Godderson Park on Sunday for his treatment of Ireland. This is what Valenciano had to say. I'm going to read you the quotes. Why not? It says, many times I came out not only scratched but battered and bruised ankles bruised because there were players who put their fist into it. Why did I put my fist into his ankles? I don't know. I don't understand why he takes what happened so much. Maybe it's because he is Ireland and Manchester City player and international football star. It's not so bad to say Jeri Miner was in inverted commas and animal who grabbed mistreated and spoiled him. For me, it wasn't like that part of the game. I also had to suffer with several central defenders. Pep has been a little bit over the top, I think, with his comments about the way Miner was with Harland. Miner is always involved in that. That's what he's about. Harland likes to give it a bit back. There was no bad tackles going into the back of Harland or elbows in the back of the head or whatever, any of that kind of stuff. It was just the antics that Miner gets involved in trying to wind players up and put them off the game. Harland was fine. He scored a goal, didn't he? He got a goal because he's a tremendous player. That's the way it is. Miner is, of course, set a league goodness and park this season after the final two games. He's been involved in Evans' last two games. Hopefully he'll be fifth for the remaining so we need everybody available for what is two huge games of football now to try and ensure that Evans remain in the Premier League. That is it for the news day. Give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't. See you later.


What is up guys and welcome back to TheJohnNicky channel. Thanks so much for watching guys. I can't thank you enough for the support on these Pokemon videos. Thank you so much. Make sure to like and subscribe. And don't forget to hit that bell to get notified when I post a video. You can watch it right away. We got two tins, two booster packs in each, and a coin of sorts. So I want to get right into it. Let's go. Let's go. Now I for sure want to get something good from these tins. But at the same time, since I'm starting my ball guy collection, I want a ball guy. As we continue this video, I think I want to get to like, let's say 250 likes. I think we can get there for sure. Oh guys, look at this. Is this a sign? We have a Charizard. We have a Charizard coin. Look at that. Just gold and reflective. Almost like a holo. A holograph coin. That's just amazing. And in this tin, we have XY evolutions. This could be really good. Okay, that's the first pack. Second pack, Sun and Moon Crimson Invasion. All right, let's get into it.  I like that tin for sure. I'm going to definitely open the XY evolution pack last. Okay, let's do the Sun and Moon Crimson Invasion. I believe this is four to the back. I may be wrong, or maybe it's three. I guess let's do four. We'll stick with four. I think it's four. Okay, here we go guys. Flip it over. We got energy. Yeah, it's definitely four. It's a good thing I called four. We got countercatcher. We got Mawile. Diggersby. Staryu. Cacnea. We got Stuful. Shelmut. Swablu. We got Reverse Holo Jigglypuff. That's actually pretty awesome. I dig that. And last but not least, we got Primape. Primape. Primape. All right, let's leave Reverse Holo. Dude, this Reverse Holo Jigglypuff. It's a very beautiful card. It's kind of like old school artwork. We're like that nice, shiny Reverse Holo around it. That's a pretty great card. I dig that a lot. Let's put that right up there. Perfect. That's great. Okay, here it is. The last pack, Evolutions XY. Let's get into it. Oh man, I actually have not actually, this will be the first time that I unbox or unpack an XY Evolutions pack on this channel. So we'll go one, two, three. I know for sure that's three. Okay, here we go guys. I'm hoping for a Holo or Reverse Holo Charizard. That would be so insane. All right, let's get it. Here we go. Got Haunter. Blastoise Spirit Link. Oh, if we did like Reverse Holo on that, that'd be amazing. We'll take it. Misty's Determination Trainer card. We got Onyx. Oh man, this brings back so many memories from like the original cards. It's just, it's, it's so good. The original card, man. So many memories. Nidoran. Polywag. Got Leaf Energy. Look at that. Leaf Energy. That brings back so many memories. Oh my gosh, Leaf Energy. No way. Did we just pull a Reverse Holo Charizard? Oh my gosh. Oh, oh my gosh. Reverse Holo. Oh, it's the next card. The next card to mute you. Oh my gosh. I have to sleeve this up. Oh, that's a card that I've been wanting for so long. Oh my goodness. And to pull it from the XY Evolutions pack. Well, I gotta bring it up. Hey, what's the back look like? The back? It's a little, it's a little hefty on this side. A little bit more on the right hand side. The centering is a little on the right hand side, but I think, I think it's okay, bro. If this wouldn't, I don't know if this would be cut. Yeah. And it's a little bit heavy on the left hand side with centering. I don't think this would be a 10 in PSA. But if it was like a nine or 9.5, this would be the money. Oh my goodness. No freaking way. Did I just pull that? The fact that, oh my gosh, I just pulled that. Oh my goodness. That, oh, that is so exciting. I've been wanting to pull that card for the longest time. And I finally, oh my goodness. Dude, the coin, the Charizard coin was the luck. It was, dude. Oh my gosh. That is so good. From, from the Mew 10. Right, this right here, this combo right here. Let's go. Guys, thank you so much for watching. If you liked this video, please give it a like, subscribe and hit that bell. You guys are amazing. Thank you. I'm just geeking out. I'm freaking out about that Charizard. Oh, I can't wait for the next one. Anyway, guys, thank you for watching and I'll catch you in the next Johnny Q video. Peace.


In entertainment news, Vice President Professor Yemi Oshimbajo and Bubba Marwa, Chairman National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Friday, Nabooja attended the premiere of the movie, The Silence Baron. The movie premiered at the Silver Bed Cinema, and it's in commemoration of the United Nations Day Against Drug Abuse and illicit trafficking. The vice president afterwards interacted with the movie producer, cast and crew, and posted pictures with them.


Eighteen meanings for ten phrasal verbs with put from espressoenglish.net Number one, put away means place an object in its proper location. For example, here are your clean clothes. Please put them away, meaning put them in the closet, in the dresser, etc. Number two, put back means return an object to the location where it came from. This is the opposite of take something out. For example, after you're done using the dictionary, put it back. Number three, put down means write on a piece of paper. Sometimes we just say put without down. For example, I'm making a shopping list. I already put down bread, cheese, and butter. What else do we need? Or I already put bread, cheese, and butter. Put down can also mean to criticize and humiliate someone. For example, every time I try to add something to the conversation, my brother puts me down by saying my opinions are stupid. Finally, put down can mean to kill an animal that is old, sick, or suffering. For example, when our cat got cancer, we decided to put her down. Number four, put forth or put forward. To offer an idea, plan, or proposal for consideration. For example, I'd like to put forward a couple of suggestions. Number five, put off means to delay doing something, procrastinate. For example, I've been putting off this assignment for the past week. I just can't seem to get started. Put off can also mean to make a bad impression. For example, she seemed unfriendly. Her attitude really put me off. Number six, put on. To start wearing or using clothing, makeup, or accessories. For example, she put on her boots and got ready to go out in the rain. Put on can also mean to produce a show or performance. For example, the local theater company is putting on Romeo and Juliet.  For example, you won the lottery? No way, you're putting me on, right? Another similar expression is you're kidding or you're joking. Number seven, put out means to extinguish a fire or cigarette. For electric lights, we use turn off instead. For example, the firefighters quickly put out the fire in the apartment building. Put out can also mean to publish a regular or frequent publication. For example, the organization puts out a monthly newsletter. Finally, put out can mean to inconvenience someone. For example, is it okay if I arrive early? I don't want to put you out in any way. Number eight, put through means to transfer or connect someone on the telephone. For example, the customer service representative couldn't help me, so he put me through to a manager.  For example, don't worry about finding a hotel, I can put you up for a few days. To put someone up to something means to encourage or persuade the person to do something, often something mischievous. For example, my son is normally very well behaved, but his friends put him up to playing a prank on the teacher. Number ten, put up with means to tolerate or accept an annoying situation or behavior. For example, I can't put up with all the noise in the dormitory, I need a quieter place to study. To learn 500 phrasal verbs in everyday spoken English, take the phrasal verbs in conversation course available at espressoenglish.net. You'll learn phrasal verbs easily and naturally in the context of dialogues about everyday topics. Visit espressoenglish.net to take the phrasal verbs in conversation course.


All right, cool. Elliot points out and shares a tip with us that if you're using the new Monterey betas, they come with the new safari that gets rid of the whole tab bar. We talked about this in the episode where we had Dave Mark on the show. And you can undo that change, at least in the current betas and the fact that it exists probably means that it will persist, but you know, there's no guarantee of future compatibility. So there's a post over on GitHub where a user describes, you have to create a P list file is really what you do. And then you reboot and safari reads that and you're good to go. I also wanna point out if you want to test the new safari but do not want to commit to running the Monterey betas, you can run the safari technology preview on your, you know, Big Sur based Mac and you get the new safari complete with its lack of a tab bar and tab groups and you know, it's lack of a tab bar inclusion of tab groups, I should say, to be more grammatically clear. But yeah, that's out there. And so that's, you know, freely available from Apple. We'll put a link to that in the show notes because that it's fun to be able to run that and test things. It's also nice to have like another copy of safari on your Mac. Most of the time it looks very similar right now because we're in this, you know, transition to a new flavor of safari. It doesn't look similar at all, but you get a feel for it, which is cool.


Welcome to City Talk. My name is Melissa Lindler. I'm the Director for the Office of Business Opportunities with the City of Columbia. Today we're excited to talk about the City of Columbia's 2019 Small Business Week Conference that will be held on Friday, May 10th at the Columbia Convention Center from 8 until 3 o'clock p.m. We're excited about this year's conference. We have a number of great speakers lined up. Christa Burnett, the inventor, founder, and CEO of Bootland will be visiting us. She's going to be our keynote speaker and she's going to talk about the audacity of innovation, vision, power, and purpose. So we're excited to have her. She brings a wealth of information and knowledge about how she was actually able to balance work, life, integration, taking her product, being able to promote her product, and also maintain her family at the same time. So we're excited about that. We also have our local business owner and Executive Director of the Rosewood Market Merchants Association, Mr. Dave Brett. He's going to talk to us about how he has used creative, collaborative marketing opportunities for small businesses to be involved in different activities and festivals that go on across the city. So we're excited to have him. We're excited about our speakers and we're also excited about the local presenters that will be doing our breakout sessions. We have a number of different breakouts that will be offered throughout the day. And one of our featured guests is now a local here. He has a national presence. That's cookies and conversation with Mr. Wally, famous Amos. So he's going to talk about the different brands that he was able to take on a national level. He's going to talk about his struggles that he actually encountered along the way, but he's really excited to be with us. And now he's locally, he's here in Columbia.  If you're looking at ways to network with other small businesses that may provide a similar product that you have, if you're looking at ways to grow your product or to grow your brand, develop your brand, there will be a number of opportunities to attend different breakout sessions to talk about how do you market, how do you build your brand, how do you showcase your product in the most effective, efficient way based on the target market that you're looking at targeting. This is a great opportunity. Again, we'll have different resources there, not only from the networking with small businesses that may have a similar product that you do have, that you have, but also resources available through other partnering agencies, the Small Business Development Center, the Small Business Administration will be there, the Governor's Office for the Division of Small Minority Business Certification. So we're excited. Hopefully you can come out and join us, the City of Columbia again, our city manager, our mayor, our city council, we all are here to help our small businesses grow. And we want to see you thrive, we want to see you to be successful. So come out to the conference, make sure you register. You can actually visit our website, www.columbiasc.gov. The event is actually listed on our landing page, or you can call our office and we can help you register.<PHONE_NUMBER>. We do have a very limited number of scholarships for new or existing business owners, and if you would like to attend and receive one of those scholarships, just let us know. Call us again at<PHONE_NUMBER>. We look forward to seeing you. Hopefully you can come out and join us on the 10th.


I'm excited, you know, this is a great opportunity for me. You know, this is very surreal in this moment. You know, I get to play football for a living. How cool is that?  You know, I can control what I can control and I'm going to come to work. You know, this has been a dream of mine. The organization is such a good organization. There's great people there. They're very, very genuine people. As I've recollected it, I mean, as I can tell. And I've heard nothing but good things. So I'm just going to go in there. I'm going to work real hard to be able to do everything I can for the team and, you know, be able to help them as much as I can. He's a great quarterback. I mean, that's pretty obvious. I mean, he's got such a good arm.  I mean, I'm excited. There's so many people that I'm going to be able to meet and so many people that look at the game differently than I'm used to. And I'm open. You know, I'm an open book and I want to write that down and I want to see what happens. Gold lions, baby. They called me. I mean, honestly, I had no idea where I was going to go at the beginning of this draft. You know, no one really does. I mean, you know, Kyler probably knew where he was going to go, but I really had no idea. No, I'm not saying that at all.  I mean, just being able to spend that with my family, I mean, really, I wasn't sure if I was going to come here or not, but because I was able to bring everyone and because I was able to bring all the closest people that have gotten me to this point, I decided to. And just to be able to share that with them, you know, like I said, I could play football for a living. How cool? I mean, that's cool. That's been my dream since I was a little kid and it came true. You know, and having my grandpa there that's 92-year-old now and, you know, just being able to share that moment with him and, you know, having him here and being able to make the trips in Nashville even at 92-years-old, that's something special. Yeah, that's awesome.  You know, he's going to do really well in Denver and I'm just excited for him. I'm excited to watch the way he grows and, you know, we'll grow together. So, what's that, sorry? I have, yeah, I've been through there a couple of times. I'm from Iowa, so it's not crazy far, but yeah.


a hoi hoi and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to talk about images on the SCP Wiki with a special focus on SCP-173. Let's get started. So when I very first joined the Wiki Mac in 2012, the attitude towards image use wasn't exactly, let's say, careful. Basically it was the Wild West. If you wanted to steal an image off the internet and use it to create an article, plagiarism was fine as long as you didn't steal text. And even then, the current enforcement of plagiarism, even for textual plagiarism was inconsistent. It's not like anybody's going back into the old stuff and being like, you know, is this too derivative of this over here? People do reference stuff all the time now and get pinged for plagiarism when that kind of stuff happened in the past quite a lot and no one really bothered or cared about it. Evolving attitudes on the SCP Wiki towards intellectual property sort of finally came to a head in 2014. So in 2014, what happened was that Zumi Kato, the creator of the image, or I should say the creator of the sculpture behind the image that was used to create SCP-173, contacted I believe the creators of SCP Containment Breach because SCP Containment Breach became quite popular around that time. And then that person also contacted the SCP Wiki and eventually made a connection between the two. And what came of it was that and this was almost like right around the time I was I mean not almost this was right around the time I joined back up the side. I joined in 2012, read a few things and then forgot about it for a couple of years and then and then got reminded of it because well the first time I showed up was because of TV Tropes and the second time I showed up was because of TV Tropes. I just saw it on a thing and was like oh yeah, let's see how they're doing. And then I went and then I joined the community and then I you know started writing things. My first written SCP was in August of 2014 and the initial correspondence between Izumi Kato and the SCP Wiki was in August of 2014. So it was right around this time I was becoming active on the Wiki. And at that time in 2014 and specifically in August of 2014 the attitudes had not changed much. This is important to realize when you steal an image you know plagiarize an image to and claim it as your own as though you've created it without any sort of credit whatsoever. This was something that was not only accepted but sort of almost encouraged by early Wiki users and creators because it was just a matter of not I don't think it was a matter of not I think it was a matter of not understanding not just intellectual property in general but like the importance of of crediting the people who create the stuff that you use. However I will say that the 173 debacle and the problems behind you know when I should say when Izumi Kato told the SCP Wiki that he was allowing them to use his art but only in a non-commercial manner. Now the SCP Wiki's Creative Commons license is not a non-commercial non-commercial license and there are just a few currently probably may even just be down to one at this point but there are a few exceptions to the to the site-wide license that basically these exceptions are rare and no longer really done anything you put up on the wiki now has to be compatible with the create the site's Creative Commons license and we can talk about and a lot of that was the threat like the idea that what if Izumi Kato had not Izumi Kato was not happy that the SCP Wiki was using his sculpture in the way that it was the sculpture has a very specific meaning in his art and recontextualizing it and taking it and turning it into something else is not only disrespectful to the artist but it's disrespectful to the art and this is true in modern times too and and you will be maybe you won't be surprised but you could be surprised at how often people will say something stupid like he should just be honored that his art is being seen by so many people because you know of course exposure is the best payment so many people get to see your art aren't you happy that people get to see your art not everyone approaches art the same way not everyone is is uh fulfilled by the same things when it comes to art um and you should respect that but regardless around that time is when the SCP wiki's attitudes towards art theft and played art plagiarism really started to shift and it took a while now I became staff in I want to say 2016 it might have been it might have been earlier than that but it definitely wasn't later than that it was definitely around that time and I joined as part of the licensing uh team specifically and I sort of made it a pet project of mine to not just what's the word I'm looking for here not just change attitudes towards image enforcement and image uh theft on the wiki but to actually like set down protocols and rules and get us started on a path where we could actually make the wiki fully creative commons and compliant and actually credit every uh every person in every article in every image that is ever used on the wiki this is a monumental undertaking and it was something that I looked at a long time uh as like earliest this is the thing my earliest attempts at making this work were going up against a very entrenched opinion that there was no real need to do it now the scp wiki uh is almost certainly protected I say almost because you never know what these things is almost certainly protected under uh safe harbor provisions uh wiki dot certainly is almost certainly is uh but the scp wiki exists in sort of a weird middle ground in which it could be argued that they do curate their content and it's a bit more complicated than that when you curate when you actually remove content for reasons if you actively remove content because it falls below a particular quality level or you're doing it for any reasons like that uh your safe harbor provisions start to become looser and looser at that point uh it's complicated however when I was working on making image compliance a thing because it was not a thing before that really it was really really difficult to convince people that it was an important issue and not only that but even today like the the only argument you can make to people that gets them to understand the importance of it isn't sadly the intellectual theft issue or the plagiarism issue because many people almost certainly even people who are on staff right now don't really see it as an intellectual theft or plagiarism what they see it is is a legal liability thankfully that alone is enough to convince enough people that it's an issue that needed to be dealt with and before I left staff it was uh I set into place a number of uh policy proposals that were passed and we set up sort of an infrastructure for the basis of an infrastructure I should say because there are many people who came after me as well uh who worked on this as well a little bit less familiar with their work but I know that it was it was it's it's definitely a different landscape today than it used to be um but I set up the basics of the infrastructure that they use today for image removal and more importantly not and and this is something to be something to just think about when you're doing uh SCP let's say SCP derived content like say SCP containment breach or SCP secret laboratory you have to make a choice if you ever ever want to monetize your works you can't include an image of SCP 173 or or more accurately you can't include an image of SCP 173 that doesn't fall under a fair use uh definition and fair use is really really touch and go you can't just say fair use you have to it's complicated and really the only person who will ever tell you for sure if your use was fair use or not is a judge which means you've got to pay for lawyers and it's all up to whether or not the other side is willing to pay for lawyers too and at that point it becomes a thing essentially whenever you say something is fair use you're basically saying I am willing to hire a lawyer and prove in court that this is fair use not I can use this and you can't do nothing about it but the SCP wiki today under a variety of people though I believe is it Elegy fish truck is the name of the user who handles a lot of image compliance issues now is really really good to the point where it's like I don't really have any critiques for it it's really really good about ensuring image compliance it used to be the wild west and then I remember I instituted policies where at the very least new articles had to source all images or those images would be removed and we also set up a sort of a process for fixing old articles as well uh this was three series ago so this was before that I mean so the last three series have been under the policy of you have to source your images in order to post them period um and then of course we had all of the articles that came before that that had to be run through and every one of them that had an image had to be dealt with one way or the other either you find a source for it or the images removed those are the only two options and for the longest time and this is true even when I first worked on the policy back in uh 2017 18 it's it's time time is around time is loopy it's it's fine but um when I first started working on an image policy it was pretty much like understood that despite the fact that there was a legal like this legal uh sword of Damocles hanging over our heads the entire time screw it let's just take the risk and keep up the classics like 682 or 049 or uh or 173 let's just keep them up who cares um and the thing about that I think that really changed people's opinions was simply time I mean people have noticed you know for three series for example that aren't even before that because some of these have been changed even like a series or even two series ago the classics I should say but go back in time and people have no idea what this is going to look like or how much of an onerous it's so much work one way I gotta source my works but then you go you know three series with no problems and suddenly it becomes a matter of well it's not much work and if I have to do it why why isn't the why haven't we fixed these previous problems and so articles with old old uh non-creative commons compliant images have been replaced over time with uh I mean 682 is probably the most salient example and I guarantee you that one day one day I don't guarantee it but I'd put good money on the idea that at least sometime in the future scp 173's image will either be removed entirely or altered to be something else to make the entire site 100 compliant with our creative commons license uh that day's coming and what inspired this was of course uh secret laboratory changed the design of their as well used finally changed the design of their scp 173 they'd been thinking about it and talking about it and working on it for a while like years at least a year um and finally did it so I thought I'd do a little video about the evolution of image enforcement on the scp wiki just so you can have a better understanding if you ever were to write for it or even if you're reading it and seeing an image that you don't recall from the last time you read an article uh what has happened and why it's happening anyway that's it thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos and then head on over to patreon.com forward slash d samarian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has it's nice to know that i'm not alone out here and I will see you all again on tuesday


Today we are going to discuss about Skeletal Maturity Indicators which is one of the most important topic in orthodontics. So I will be covering this topic under following headaches. One is clinical importance of Skeletal Maturity Indicator, different method to assess the Skeletal Maturity, indication for the hand wrist radiograph, anatomy of hand wrist and various methods to assess the Skeletal Maturity. Every individual matures differently. Due to individual variations in timing, duration and velocity of growth, Skeletal age assessment is essential in formulating viable orthodontic treatment plan. So the assessment of Skeletal Maturity is very important for diagnosis, treatment goals, treatment planning and outcome of orthodontic treatment. Coming to the clinical importance of Skeletal Maturity Indicators, it helps to evaluate the physical maturity and a characteristic pattern of a notification progression. It also helps to evaluate the extent of active growth over any remaining growth during treatment period. So if you are getting the patient at the right age and when the patient is at the growth spot stage, we always can correct the patient's profile with different functional appliance depending upon the cases. So in this case, we can see the patient is having a convex profile and a vertical growth pattern. So we try to correct it by a high pull headgear with a twin block, that is vertical twin block. And in this case again, patient is having a convex profile and a torn ethical, just try to correct it with Frankel appliance. So these portions we will be covering in the Functional Appliance section. The next clinical important is to assess the growth status in orthodontic patients. That is because we always need to confirm that the growth has been completed and then surgery has to be performed. Otherwise, the thing is that if patient is having a late matricular growth, that always can affect the stability of the treatment results and can cause some amount of relax. So to assess that, we always need to assess the skeletal maturity of the patients that growth has been completed and then surgery has to be performed. This patient who had a clastry profile, we did some pre-surgical orthodontics and then surgery had been performed after assessing the growth status of the patient. So we can see the change of profile from concave to straight profile and this result is relatively stable because we did the surgery after the growth had been completed. When coming to the different methods to assess the skeletal maturity, one is height, weight, chronological age, sexual maturation, frontal sinus, biological age or physiological age, hand rest maturity, cervical vertebrae, dental eruption and dental calcification stages and biomarkers. Today we are going to deal with hand rest maturity. When coming to the indication for the hand rest radiograph, one is the patients who exhibit a major discrepancy between dental and chronological age. The other one needs to predict the pivotal growth spur. The next one is prior to the treatment of skeletal malocclusion such as skeletal class 2 or clastry in a growing patient as we have seen that in the previous pictures and discussion. Indicated in patients with skeletal malocclusion needing orthodontic surgery, this again we have discussed to predict the future skeletal maturation rate and status and to study the role of heredity, environment and nutrition on the skeletal maturation. Coming to the anatomy of hand rest, we can divide hand rest into phalanges, metocouples, carpals and distal end of long bones which is nothing but radius and ulna. Then over to carpals, we can divide carpals into distal and proximal row which consist of 8 small bones and each appears in a predictable pattern. And we can always remember this code because this is one of the important question in the MCQ exams. Okay over to metocouples, we can divide it into 5 miniature long bones which form the framework of palm of hand. Okay over to phalanges, we can divide phalanges into distal, middle and proximal phalanges and all the fingers are three phalanges except the thumb which don't have middle phalanges. Okay now we need to discuss some basic terms that we need to know. One is epiphysis and one is diaphysis. Epiphysis is nothing but the rounded edges of the long bone over here and diaphysis is nothing but the long means section of the long bone. So between epiphysis and diaphysis, we can always put it as a term like metaphysis and this is considered to be the growth plate. So what we need to know the terms are like epiphysis and diaphysis because with this we just need to know the status and notification of the phalanges because in stage one it is to be considered as with the epiphysis and diaphysis are equal that we can see over here. In the next stage what we can see is over here it is that it can cap, this epiphysis will cap the diaphysis over here and in stage three we can see there is complete fusion of epiphysis and diaphysis and we can't see any differentiation between what is epiphysis and what is diaphysis. Okay coming to the last part of the anatomy of hand waste. What we need to know is this is a small bone, it appears as a small nodular bone that is in the region of the tongue and the appearance of this bone is having a great clinical significance in orthodontics. So this is how the anatomy of hand waste looked like in the kiddies around one year. You can see epiphysis just started appearing and you can see some carpal bones and when kiddies around three years of age we can see some more carpal bones then after that we can clearly appreciate the epiphysis and when she reaches around 18 years of age we can see there is complete fusion of epiphysis and diaphysis and we can see all the carpal bones, the smoy bones over here. So based on the appearance of different bones what we have previously discussed different methods have been employed to assess the skeletal maturity using hand waste radiograph. These are the most commonly used methods, one is atlas method, one is a method by Jog Grave Brown, one is Swishman's, a Hag and Thunger method, Sinker's method. So what we are going to discuss is all about Jog Grave and Brown method which is one of the most commonly used methods that is used in orthodontics. So coming to Jog Grave and Brown method they have divided skeletal development into nine stages and each of these stages represent a level of skeletal maturity. So coming to stage one we can see that epiphysis and diaphysis of the proximal phalanx of the index finger are equal and we can put it as a chord like PP2 and it always occurs three years before the peak of pubertal growth spur. So coming to the stage two we can see epiphysis and diaphysis of the middle phalanx of the middle finger are equal. We can chord it as a MP3 and it can be noticed prior to the beginning of pubertal growth spur. In stage three there are three different ossification areas, one is a Pisces stage where there is ossification of Pisces form. We can appreciate this from the speaker. Then after that it's one stage where there is ossification of Hamela process of Hamate. Then our stage where epiphysis and diaphysis of radias are equal. Stage four we can see two different stages. One is a stage where there is appearance of allana as a small head bone of the thumb. It's the smallest nodular bone. Then after that it's two stage where there is increased ossification of Hamela process of the Hamela. The stage is very important because it marks the beginning of pubertal growth spur and we can always expect to see this stage in males around 13 years of age and females around 10 and a half years of age. In stage five we can see capping of diaphysis by the epiphysis in three different areas. One we can see that in the middle phalanx of the third finger, one in the proximal phalanx of the thumb and one in the radias. So we can use this called as mp3 kia, pp1 kia and r kia. In stage six we can see the union between epiphysis and diaphysis of the distal phalanx of the middle finger that is dp3. We can name it as and this stage constitute the end of pubertal growth spur that we can always see approximately in males around 15 years of age and females around 13 years of age. Seven we can see a year after pubertal growth spur. Here we can see there is the union of epiphysis and diaphysis of the proximal phalanx of the little finger that is pp5. In stage eight we can see there is fusion between the epiphysis and diaphysis of the middle phalanx of the middle finger that can call it as mp3. Coming to the last stage there we can see the end of skeletal growth with the fusion of epiphysis and diaphysis of the radias. In females we can see it around 16 years of age and in males around 18 and a half years of age. That completes the nine stages that is given by jog, grieve and crown. This method is very easy and there are different methods that is given by different authors and you all can stick to one method. So to conclude the best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. I hope everybody understood and in case if any doubt you always can get back to us. I really thank Dr. Zahid to give this opportunity. I hope everyone is fine and stay safe. All the wishes and thank you.


Howdy how's it going? My name's Davy Chappy and one thing that you might not know about me is that my life does not revolve entirely around D&D. In my free time I enjoy taking trips to various LARPs in my general area and I recently got sent a message by a famous LARP known as dystopia rising telling me that their new Michigan branch, Morning Glory, was just about to open in a few weeks and they asked me if I would come down free of charge to review their game form. So, giving my propensity for dressing up like a fool and hitting people with foam, I grabbed two of my buddies and jumped right into the car. Now, I want to say right now that dystopia rising has a bit of a reputation, as national LARPs that span across the country tend to go, having an intensely social system involving a lot of people who are typically not the most socially confident is a recipe for drama. That being said, I have never experienced DR before now and I'm not about to have social media dictate what I should and shouldn't experience before I even get the chance to form an opinion myself. So, here is my honest to goodness review of dystopia rising, Morning Glory. The price. So, I have to start with the price because it is by and large the deciding factor for a lot of people. If you don't get the mums, you don't get the funds. The first time starter pack is $35 and that includes 48 hours of game time, spread over three days from noon on Friday until noon on Sunday, plus lodging in the form of two scout camp dorms. After your first event, the price fluctuates depending on how much NPC time you sign up for, with no NPC time starting at $100, two hours for $85, four hours for $65, and six hours for $45. There's also a one day 10 hour pass plus two hours of NPC time for the original price of $35, but for some reason you only get one XP out of the normal eight that you would get for going to an event, even though that is not how math works. Finally, if you aren't going to be able to play the game but you still want your full eight Disney bucks, you can spend $65 to be marked as an attendant but not show up at all, or you can just be a dedicated NPC for 12 hours at absolutely no cost. While the prices for doing less NPC time are absolutely bonkers and clearly trying to influence as much NPC time as possible, I can still find the almost $50 price tag reasonable for me, but perhaps not for those on about it. Pregame. Making a character online is a bit of a slog. It's easy enough to find the branch of the game that's closest to you by just using the dystopia rising website, but once you're introduced to the varying strains, their version of classes, the links don't seem to work on mobile, making it difficult to find out for the first time what each strain actually is and how to build a character around it. Still, I was able to ask a friend who directed me to their Facebook page, and I got a quick response in the form of a link to download their rulebook on Drive Through RPG, which is certainly a place to put your book. It all feels clunky and with just that one extra step that manages to frustrate you. Granted, this is a problem that's representative of DR as a company, and it has little to do with the Michigan chapter specifically. Now, the equipment that you're gonna wanna bring is LARP clothing, which can be accomplished by going to the thrift store and picking out anything that looks either trashy or like it came out of 90s biker gang, LARP weapons in the form of nerf guns and melee weaponry, and sleeping utensils like blankets and toiletries. You definitely are going to wanna blanket, even if you don't use it. I didn't bring one, and my dorm was cold as ice. It felt like the bed was siphoning the heat away from me. And then I woke up to hear that the other dorm was burning hot the entire night. So, yeah, bring a blanket just in case. The Location. Dystopia Rising Morning Glory uses the red-toed space of the Outdoor Education Center of Battle Creek, a children's camp with one main building, two dorms, and about 175 acres of land, including a lake and an island dubbed Murder Island. Given that it was cold out, I didn't see an overly large amount of the outside area, and I never made the pilgrimage to Murder Island, but I did experience a lot of winding forested trails, and even the parking lot was utilized for a huge nighttime raid on an enemy armored truck. I spent most of my time in the main building, which had two large side rooms, a basement, and a lobby with a front desk in the middle. The majority of my time was spent trouncing between the rooms, and sometimes diving down into the basement, which they had repurposed as a mine shaft, and then running back up when a bunch of scary things with claws tried to eat me. By the end of the event, I did feel a little constricted, but I can chalk that up to bad weather keeping me grounded in a single building than anything wrong with the LARP. The First Day. Arriving at the location, I was initially worried that I might be in the wrong place, due to the lack of signs shouting Dystopia Rising at you. But that could just be first event jitters. We technically arrived in the afternoon of Saturday because we had a prior commitment Friday, so when we arrived, the front desk was pretty clear. They asked us our real name, our character name, and what our strain was. Dystopia Rising has four main stats, and besides role-playing ability, the strains just seemed to assign different starting numbers to your stats. My friends and I all picked diesel jocks because Michigan was the motor city, and we got our character sheets before we were thrust into the world. The overall experience was a bit daunting, but the guy working the desk did a great job of answering any questions that I had. My only gripe is that besides stats and a very basic rundown of the rules, I was pretty much just thrown into the deep end of the pool and told to go swim. That's fine with me because I'm the kind of cool dude that ignores instruction manuals and then has no idea what to do for the next five hours, but other people might be bothered by the lack of explanation or direction. The story. The whole idea of Dystopia Rising, as I was able to ascertain, is that there was an apocalypse that happened a long time ago, and nobody knows what happened because the cause was lost to the sands of time. Since then, the world has turned into an amalgamation of Mad Max, Borderlands, Fallout, and Rust. There are different bloodlines of people who have survived through different means, like Fury Road gearheads, deceased persons who towed the line between human and Zed, Old Vegas dwellers that formed an entire society off of flashy clothes and loaded dice, and Canadians. Canadians never die. They ask life politely to stay. Along the way, you battle zombies and raiders, build a community, and possibly join one of the many religions and cults that have popped up in the wake of the wasteland. The way that it's presented is very well done, and I found myself getting lost in all the lore that came packaged with the game. Combat. Combat is the cornerstone of most larps, usually the second most important thing behind the price. And I'm happy to say that the combat in dystopia rising is an absolute blast. It is as simple as, melee weapon does one damage, guns do five damage against zombies, where they also do one damage, with special skills and items just serving to modify that basic premise.  It captures the fun of seven-year-old me with my friends shooting at invisible zombies and at each other, for no reason other than because nerf battles are cool, bro! And to make sure that you get your boats back, you should write down your character ID number on them so that even if you don't find them, someone else might bring them back to the post office for you. Crafting. Crafting is somehow one of the best parts of DR, which is silly to me in retrospect because it's literally just taking the item that you're either making or repairing, sitting down at a workbench and then just pantomiming working on it for however long it takes to complete it. Somehow, just the showiness of it, the imitation of having a clue how to do something valuable, is enough to bring out so much immersion to the legitimacy of the world in a way that I can't properly describe and still don't fully understand. Building things can be accomplished by forging for materials and then using a blueprint to make a cool new thing and even though I regretfully didn't interact with crafting as much as I should have, the whole process seems deep yet completely simple. The player base. Throughout my game, I actively made strides to talk to as many people as possible and I really enjoyed the colorful cast of characters that existed within one world. Everybody seemed fun to play with. I never got a person who rubbed me the wrong way or shut down anything I wanted to say or do just because they didn't know me. It was just people trying to have fun with other people and if anyone was rude, they kept it in-game and made sure that all was kosher out of it. And in a game where social interaction is the cornerstone of the entire experience, my experience was perfectly happy. The staff. Now here's the bit that I know people who've heard the bad side of DR will want to hear. The staff at Morning Glory, the Michigan chapter of dystopia rising, are... decent? For the most part, staff were friendly, but they were also slammed from this being the first event so I could see the please and my existence plastered behind some of their eyes. I quickly singled out the people who, if I had trouble, I could quickly go to and ask a question to get a straight answer. Now there is a system in place where first-time players can wear a blue sash so that people know that they're new and can help them out if they make mistakes, but I purposefully elected not to wear it because I was worried that the system might have been put in place partially as a means of saying to veteran players, hey, we want these people to come back, don't be dicks to them. Thereby conversely saying that it was okay to be dicks to people that didn't have them on. And yes, yes that does seem to be the case. There was a level of pompous dickishness that I had to deal with from a couple of people who decided that my slight offenses were worth disproportionate ridicule, but then's the breaks when you put socially awkward people in positions of power.  Luckily, this barely happened, it's just that when it did, it really stood out. Other than that, I didn't really interact with the staff that much and I know half of them were just volunteers from a different chapter to help get this one off the ground, so by the time this video goes up all the faces could be completely different. Who knows, go with your gut. The verdict! Dystopia Rising was, as a game, an absolute blast to play. I ran through mine shafts of paper mache and blasted long claw zombies. I tracked monsters through the woods and hunted their prowling grounds. The entire camp ran into the parking lots and fought off a raider incursion by blowing up an armored truck. It was a phenomenal time from start to finish and I missed the first days that there was probably even more to do. From me, I know that I'm fortunate enough to make a $50 excursion into the Badlands of DR and I generally don't let a few bad experience end my enjoyment or something so will I go back? Probably in the near future. It's got a balance with my crazy schedule but I would go at least one more time to see if I can imitate the mad magic that I experienced the first time. I genuinely really enjoyed my time at DR and if the second verse is the same as the first then I'm sure that this will not be my last time getting wasted. But that'll about do it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Leave a like, comment, subscribe, ring the bell. I know if you want me to do more of these talking head videos and maybe support me on Patreon so that I can afford a better costume than a red shirt and pants. Hope you enjoyed the video, but yeah. Davie out.


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Today, we will have this lecture number 4, where we will be discussing Vendigraph Exilator, Tendon and Peritone Exilators. You saw that in earlier lecture that in Cogtrope-Walton type of exilators was open air type and therefore the maximum voltage that could be achieved was in the range of 1.25 to 1.5 million volts. Vendigraph is an improved version of that, that means if you put that whole system inside a tank and fill it with the high insulating gas which has a dielectric constant higher than the air, then it will go to higher voltage, the breakdowns will be much less. So this basically this principle was used by R.J. Vendigraph and in 1949 he developed an accelerator called Vendigraph Exilator. In Vendigraph Exilators a high potential difference is built and maintained on a conducting surface by the continuous transfer of positive static charges from a moving insulating belt. Now the material of this insulating belt in the beginning was nylon or the rubber and the surface on which this charge is transferred is called high voltage dome or high voltage terminal. Now this shown here this is the high voltage dome and this is the pressure vessel and this pressure vessel is filled with a high dielectric constant gas. For example in the beginning it was filled with the nitrogen plus carbon dioxide gas at much higher pressure sometimes 250 psi or so. As a consequence of that the dielectric constant around this high voltage terminal was increased and the breakdowns were avoided, corona formations were avoided. Now how this the voltage generator is different from Cocteau-Walton is that this here the charging of this capacitor takes place by transferring the charge through the belt this is shown here and how that takes place that takes place that suppose you have a comb which has lot of sharp points and you apply a positive voltage here then this belt is running over to this one inside the high voltage terminal and other one is grounded. Then because of this sharp point there will be high field and as a consequence of that this gas in this region will be ionized and positive and negative charged particles will be ions will be formed and positive ions will be attracted by the grounded pulley and then we start between these two there is a belt running at high speed so as soon as this positive ions they try to start moving towards this they will be collected by this belt and there will be transferred to this and inside this high voltage terminal that there is a similar system which takes away the charge to the high voltage terminal and it is going to the inside of this and since by electromagnetic this whole thing is a equipotential surface or volume and there could charge cannot stay here then the charge goes outside. So basically this high voltage terminal along with this grounded pressure vessel forms a capacitor which is charged a charges transferred by this and then this voltage will be raised to this so this is a high voltage terminal. Now if you install an ion source here and put a evacuated accelerating tube then these ions will be accelerated because of Coulomb repulsion. So as I mentioned in earlier lecture that you have to have several electrostatic or equipotential surfaces that means there has to be a gradient here and that gradient has to be generated or has to be maintained through a series of resistances here so these are resistances. So suppose V is the voltage and total resistance is R then there will be current passing through this resistor chain and that will be V is equal to IR then there are so that means this is a current again passing through this so this has to be equal to this but in addition to this there are several other leakages but for example there is a corona formation here and that is intentionally done to or voltage stabilization so that also has to be taken. So different components of this Vendigraf accelerator are pressure vessel, high voltage terminal, the insulating valve is either nylon or the or the or the hover and then it is a high voltage column section which maintains the potential gradient. The R of course is if there are air number of resistances put will be multiplied by R which is normally it is all R knots are equal it is R total R is equal to N into R. Other components of this are the charge carrying dome this is charge carrying dome then there is a ion source here which generates positive ions here and when they are extracted towards this accelerating cube they are accelerated because of this potential gradient. So these are the gradient resistors the accelerating cube and then of course once the beam is coming out of the accelerator you would like to know the exact energy and that is done by analyzing the energy using an analyzing magnet a proper magnetic field is put into that and that will tell you the exact energy of course always there will be some variation in the voltage and that has to be corrected. Most of the time in the beginning this Vendigraph accelerators were used for nuclear resonances studies nuclear structure where there is a requirement to have a fixed energy with minimum amount of variation and therefore there should be some mechanism that if because of several paths leakage paths there is a fluctuation with the voltage terminal voltage that should be automatically corrected and that is done by giving a feedback through the slits here you can see there are two slits opening is only one or two millimeter and through which the exact energy particles will go so if they are the energy changes because of change in the voltage particle will fall either on A or B depending upon the energy is increased or decreased so if it is falling on A that means the energy is low if it is falling then B that means energy has increased energy is directly proportional to the voltage that means there is a variation and that has to be corrected and by putting a feedback from these slit resistances to a system which is here is called corona feedback system the voltage of this terminal high voltage terminal can be stabilized and in vending graph accelerators it has been possible to stabilize the voltage to 1 to 2 kV in the tens of million volts now you would like to ask a question that high voltage is at high voltage terminal is at high voltage and you are taking the charge from the ground potential so how the ground potential charge will be able to enter inside the high voltage and wage it to further voltage well which is at high voltage so it is against the principle so can we do that and that is demonstrated in this slide that yes we can do it and that is demonstrated suppose you have two spheres A and B and suppose A and B are at the same voltage then that means they are charged equally so VA is equal to VB then if you connect them then there will not be any flow of charge because both of them are exactly at the same now second situation is suppose A is at higher potential than the B and then if you connect then what will happen it will happen that if A VA is greater than VB and we connect them then charge will flow from A to B charge will flow from A to B till the voltage is become equal third possibility is that VA is less than VB and if you connect them then charge will flow from B to A from higher potential today but you like to think that can we transfer the charge from B to A where that means from lower voltage lower potential to higher potential in principle it is not possible but under certain conditions it will be possible that if you spend some energy in carrying this charge to the high voltage and you overcome the difficulties then this charge can be transferred answer is of course yes you can do it it is possible and you have to spend energy and take a sphere wave one of the wages that is sphere B inside A and then if you just take that B inside that that means now the A is much bigger as compared to this and you take this inside B and touch it to A this is having lot of charge if you touch it and this for taking this you have a span energy there you will find that this charge which was there on B that will be transferred to A because it it will suppose it is transferred to inside surface and as per the electromagnetic you cannot hold the charge there because it's a equipotential surface and therefore it will be transferred to outside surface so that is it and this is the principle of Vendigraf accelerator you have seen it here that charge is taken and that extra energy is spent by this motion of the pulley so there is a motor here which drives this pulley so you are spending energy and this spending energy will take care of transferring this charge which is going there inside the high voltage terminal and as more and more charge is transferred the terminal will be raised to higher and higher in this case at a reasonable pressure the Vendigraf accelerators up to about 10 to 15 million volts was possible because in the Vendigraf in the initial stages nitrogen 80 percent and carbon dioxide 20 percent was used as insulating gas and more than 10 to 12 million volts this insulating media was not able to hold and therefore most of the Vendigraf were built in less than the 15 million volts most of them were about 10 million volts up to 10 million volts so in this case in the Vendigraf the ion source is put inside the high voltage terminal and the ions are extracted and now you see that ion source when you are producing ions it needs some power and there is no power there in the terminal so that power has to be generated in order to create these ions and that power basically is generated by the motion of the pulley which is here and that power is given to the ion source and since these belt is running at a certain speed and therefore a fixed amount of power is generated which is available for producing the ions and as a consequence of that the ions of proteins protons and alpha particles were only generated there heavy ions could not be generated of course later on technology improved and it was possible to generate positive ions of heavy elements and some Vendigrafs have been able to accelerate heavy ions also so these are the some of the so most of the initial stage Vendigrafs were able to accelerate protons and alpha particles that means H e plus in fact that power was not enough to even generate H e plus plus because helium has two electrons so in principle you can remove both the electrons but that power was not enough to do that so only H e plus was generated and therefore the energy which could be obtained through Vendigraf accelerators maximum energy was to be into the charge it was simply charged so it is suppose it is a 5.5 million volt the energy will be 5.5 mbv it could not be 11 because doubly helium or alpha particles could not be produced so I said that this is the this is what is done that you strain energy at lower pulley grounded pulley and that drives the belt with the charge and that charge is able to go inside the high voltage terminal because of that energy span now this charge you have transferred so effectively this is again the charge is transferred to a capacitor and in the earlier lecture we have seen that we have two plates and they are connected to a battery or the voltage source then the parallel plates will be developing voltage in the case of Vendigraf there are either it can be just a hemisphere or it could be you can see that this is nothing but a hemisphere this one so it could be either a hemisphere or it could be even a combination of a cylinder plus hemisphere so the capacitance has to be calculated accordingly then there is a another improved version of that that is a tandem accelerator and in the tandem accelerator it is a simple coaxial cylinder this is the this is the pressure vessel this is the high voltage terminal so this forms a capacitor so there is a system which transfer the charge to this capacitor and the high voltage is generated so these are mainly three types of systems are used systems are available and they form the capacitors which are charged charge is transferred and as a consequence of that so as a consequence of that the voltage so this this system was used in copper hot water this is used in the Vendigraf accelerator and this is used for tandem or the peritone and of course the how the charge is transferred that will define whether it is a tandem or it is a peritone so I have already explained this that in the case of Vendigraf generator following the components are there that one is a motor driven belt made of rubber or the nylon or any insulating material which is suitable and that moves between two pulleys you can see that these are two pulleys here and here this pulley is grounded and this is the belt and this is called com com is the having sharp surfaces and the high voltage is applied on this belt this belt is electrically charged by a brush this is called brush or com of metallics also there is a they have sharp points so high electric field will be generated even for a smaller voltage and there will be ionization the charge is carried by the belt to the high voltage terminal that means the charge is carried by this belt to the high voltage terminal at the terminal the charge is transferred from the belt to the terminal by a second brush or the com of the metallic surface here so as I said that is just reverse of that it will transfer to the inside surface and since charge cannot remain there so it appears outside and this electric charge they get collected on the terminal external surface of the terminal and the high voltage is generated now depending upon the geometry the capacitors values this is called capacitance they are defined for one or two geometries they are defined for example terminal voltage is a function of diameter of the terminal see if it is a small one then less charge can be termed if it is much bigger and the capacitance value is given by here so if you put these constants into then it is as a function of r that means the radius of radius of this and this is given here so if you take that r is the radius of the terminal electrode if air is used as insulating material then for a value of r that means resistance of about one meter will have that means you put one meter here and it will have 111 picofrat but if you have fully is a spherical terminal of radius r1 and it is enclosed in a grounded concentric cell of radius 2 which is the case in the Vandegra is a high pressure also high pressure vessel is another electrode so if you take this here then the capacitance value is given by this so you can see that this becomes but just by putting value of r1 and r2 you can get the c value calculated and then depending upon charge which you are transferring here using this equation you can get the voltage raised to that now so you see the when you are transferring the charge how much charge you have to transfer you have seen earlier that if you keep transferring the charge then the d by dt could be very large and that will be a safety issue and therefore you have to calculate the transferring of the charge which is equivalent to current so you can say that it is equivalent to i charge and that should be balanced by different different loadings which are there on the accelerator for example you can see here that there are different loads on that terminal so this i belt which is the i belt has to be equal to mainly one is that i beam is coming down which you want to exhalate and let us say that is the that is the current is i beam and of course as i mentioned that the corona has to be there constant corona current and which has to be modulated by the feedback from the on the slits and that is equivalent to i corona and of course the continuously to maintain the gradient you have to have the i rested so these three which are the three main component there may be a few more but they are all very small and therefore this i belt that means the amount of charge which you have to transfer using the belt has to be such that it is equivalent to or it compensate these three currents so at least at least it should be equal to that


Have you ever heard that the most important asset in your business is your email list? Well, I call baloney on that. First of all, the most important asset in your business is your integrity and your practice of creativity fitness, but let's set that aside. You might say the most important asset in your marketing is your connection with your audience, not your email list. Why do I say this? Well, it's because have you noticed people can subscribe to your email newsletter and not open it? What is your open rate? Well, the industry average open rate for email newsletters is about 22%. What does that mean? That means out of every hundred people subscribed to an email newsletter, only 22 of them open it for any newsletter. Does that sound like a good connection with the audience? Maybe not. Some of you, instead of opening my email newsletters, prefer to watch me on Instagram or on YouTube or prefer to read my posts on LinkedIn. 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That's not what you intended, right? When you join a free webinar and when you sign up for a PDF, you don't intend, you don't aren't looking forward to eagerly the person's ongoing emails. If so, why not just tell you, hey, if you love my ongoing emails, sign up for it. You're going to get one email a month or one email a week. You can look forward to it. Here's are the recent issues. I do that on my website. You go to there. You click on the dropdown next to the newsletter. You can see the archive. You see my recent three issues. It's very transparent. And this is why I have a high open rate and therefore my marketing, people buy my stuff and people buy more of my stuff every year. My marketing has gotten easier over the years and I can have the opportunity to lean into more of my heart, lean into more of my whole, whole creativity. So that's, but it's hard for, for me to teach this because you, you are looking at the short term strategies and you try them and they do work. 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