It's waiting for the recording. Okay welcome back everybody to our second lecture on BC 106 interpreting scripture. We are just taking time to look at difficult passages and try to interpret them and try to understand them correctly. So like we mentioned earlier there are two passages in the New Testament that are difficult or have to deal with about whether women can minister in church or not. So we looked at one which is 1 Corinthians the 14th chapter verses 34 and 35. There is another passage in 1 Timothy chapter 2 verses 8 to 15. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 8 to 15 which is a difficult passage which we will look at. But before we go to 1 Timothy chapter 2, 8 to 15 I want to I want us to go to Ephesians chapter 4 because if we answer that Ephesians 4 then we will be better able to understand 1 Timothy chapter 2. So let's go to Ephesians chapter 4 and let us look Ephesians chapter 4 and we're going to look at verse 8 through 11 Ephesians 4 8 through 11 or let's read verse 7 through 11 Ephesians chapter 4 let me write it down here. Ephesians 7 to 11 okay so we're going to look at this first and then we are going to go to 1 Timothy chapter 2. So Ephesians 4 7 through 11 I will read the passage and then I will put the question to the class to discuss and then we will discuss it and then go to the next passage. So Ephesians chapter 4 verse 7 through 11 Paul the Apostle wrote he says but to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore he says when he ascended on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. Now this he ascended what does it mean but that he also first ascended into the lower parts of the earth he ascended is also the one who he who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all things and he himself gave some to be apostles some prophets some evangelists and some pastors and teachers and he goes on. Okay the question I want to ask here is can a woman, can a woman be an apostle, a prophet, a pastor, teacher, evangelist, pastor and teacher or is this only for men is Ephesians 4 11 only for men or can a woman also be in the role of an apostle or a prophet or evangelist or a pastor or a teacher. The reason some may think that Ephesians 4 11 is only for men is because of what it says in verse 8 it says he gave gifts to men he gave gifts to men and then verse 11 tells us what those gifts are some he gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers. So question is can a lady, can a woman be either an apostle or a prophet, an evangelist, a pastor or a teacher or do you think anybody this is just free discussion so you don't have to worry about being right or wrong just share your thoughts. Question is can a woman be an apostle, a prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher. Please go ahead Abubakre the Bilobab. Please go ahead please. Thank you pastor. Good morning sir. Good morning. What I saw in this passage the man that Paul referring to here is human being because my translation in my whole language translates as human being. It's not specifically specifying maybe the man or the woman. So referring to both female and male both women and men. So in this place and the fact that he's referring to both men and male and female here and the verse 11 is talking about also men and women so that means women can be an apostle, can be a prophet, an evangelist, a pastor or teacher. But the only question I have under this place is can a woman be the church? That is the problem I have on that place. I believe women can be an apostle, can be a prophet, an evangelist, pastor or some teacher but can a woman be the church? That is my question sir. Okay good. So the first part, the first part I mean the question, the first part of the question Abubakre the Bilobab answered it correctly right? So remember when we, one of the things we learned in the early part of the course is to study the words and study it in the Greek whenever possible so we can use our study tools. So when you go and look at verse 8 it says, and he gave gifts to men. That word men in which in English Bible is translated men but in the Greek the Greek word is anthropos which is just meaning human being. It's not referring to male or female and so like Abubakre said you know in his in his language translation it's human being which is correct. That same word anthropos is used in Matthew chapter 4 verse 4 when Jesus said man shall not live by bread alone. So in the English Bible it is translated as man but it literally means male and female people just means human being people. He's saying people will not live by bread alone but they'll all have to live by the word of God. So it's the same word anthropos. So Matthew chapter 4 verse 8 he gave gifts to people. He gave gifts to human beings not just men but he gave gifts to everybody male and female. So verse 11 must be understood in the context. Notice in verse 7 he says to each one of us that is brothers and sisters male or female human beings people all of us were in Christ all of us have received grace according to the measure of Christ's gift that means whatever gift Christ wanted he has given it to us everybody male or female. So that's verse 7 verse 8 men is I mean the English Bible men literally the Greek is anthropos which is gender neutral it's people. So therefore when we get down to verse 11 we have to keep that same thought that is apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher is open. These giftings are open for both male and female. It's not it's not specific to that noise too much. Can you hear the noise? I mean I couldn't turn it off. You can hear me clearly. Yes it's clear sir. Oh okay great thank you. All right so that is the correct way to understand right but Abu Bakr brought up another question which is also very important. Okay we will accept that men and women can be called into any of these five ministry functions, a boss, a prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. But the next question is can a woman lead the church? A congregation can a woman lead a congregation? That is a tough question but we have to answer we have to have an answer okay. So what we have to do is now we know from Ephesians 4 that women can be in these ministry functions. A woman can be an apostle, a prophet, an evangelist or pastor or teacher. So now if you look at some of these functions especially that of an apostle or that of a pastor these two especially imply leadership an apostle really an apostolic ministry is somebody who's you know is leading the way you know in in certain area whatever that in whichever sphere of influence God has given them apostolic is they're leading the way.  So keep that thought in mind now let us go to another difficult passage which is 1st Timothy chapter 2 and then we will try to answer that question you know can a woman lead a congregation or lead a ministry you know we have to answer that. Let's go to 1st Timothy chapter 2 and we want to read verses 8 through 15. This is another difficult passage and this is another passage just sometimes people use and they especially in certain denominations in certain Christian traditions very very strong they will not allow a woman to minister the word of God to teach very strong and they will use this like 1st Corinthians 14 and 1st Timothy chapter 2 but let's read it and let's try to understand 1st Timothy chapter 2 verses 8 to 15 I will read it we could just please follow with me the apostle Paul is writing he says I desire therefore that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting in like manner also that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation but not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing but which is proper for women professing godliness with good works let a woman learn in silence with all submission and I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man but to be in silence for Adam was formed first then Eve for Adam was not to see but the woman was being deceived fell into transgression nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith love and holiness with self-control so this is a quite a difficult passage because 1st Timothy 2 and verse 12 he is very clear he says here I do not permit a woman to a letter woman verse 11 let a woman learn in silence with all submission and I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man but to be in silence okay so how do we understand it how do we apply this and how do we answer the question can a woman teach the word of God can a woman be in leadership so on okay so first of all what is the context right the context is he's dealing with conduct in verse 8 through 15 he's dealing with conduct he is not dealing with a church service so what is the context the context is not church service the context is life conduct how do we know that because you look at verse 8 I desire that men pray in the church no he's not talking about church I desire that men pray everywhere that means wherever you are so he's not the context is not church service setting the context is daily life in conduct so in daily life in conduct how should men behave men should behave they should be prayerful I'm looking at verse 8 okay they should be prayerful they should lift up holy hands what is that they should live a life of surrender lifting up holy hands that means your life is consecrated to God surrender to God and they should not be in wrought and doubting that means don't live with anger don't live in doubts doubt of God doubting God so this is how men should live so okay in your life in conduct everywhere men be prayerful live a life of surrender don't be angry don't be doubtful about your faith in God next women in like manner that means women this is how you must conduct yourself where in the church no everywhere so he's talking about life conduct he's not talking about church service he's saying women you clothe yourself with modesty don't let your focus be on you know the gold the pearls the costly clothing but worse than you profess godliness with good works so the context is not church service the context is how you live your life men be like this women be like this the second thing I want to point out is even though Paul in these two verses he's saying women talking to women he says you know your focus should not be gold or pearls or costly clothing do we allow women to wear gold pearls costly clothing of course because you know when we go to first to first Peter chapter three where Peter wrote you know women you know let it be the hidden man of the heart and be like Sarah well if you look at Sarah she wore gold and silver and costly clothing in if you go to Genesis the 24th chapter so Peter says be like Sarah but hey Sarah wore gold pearls I mean costly clothing and so on so it was not about just completely forbidding but it's telling us don't make the focus on that you walk in with godliness okay that's a side note so the first thing I want to want I want us to understand is first Timothy chapter two verse eight to fifteen is not talking about church service it's talking about daily life and conduct that is this is how men must behave everywhere in your house out on the street wherever you are everywhere you be like this women everywhere this is how you live your focus must be in godliness and good works so with that in mind then you understand verses 11 and 12 that means in your daily life and converts women be in submission to man don't overrule your man so verses 11 and 12 is not talking about church it's talking about everyday life and the context has to do with a husband wife why because the next few verses is talking about a woman bearing children adam and eve women bearing children so let's talk about a marriage relationship right adam and eve is not just saying any woman any man no no no this is a special relationship adam and eve marriage relationship childbearing so the context of verses eight through 15 is twofold one is everyday life and conduct and from verse 11 to 15 the context is more specific about a husband wife like adam and eve in that context woman or wife being submission to your own husband which is what the bible teaches in other passages don't try to teach your man but and don't try to take authority over your husband no but you walk in submission why because of adam and eve it's a relationship husband wife relation it's not like any man any woman no the context is adam and eve husband by relation in that context wife you've been submission to your husband he is your leader there and god will protect you in your childbearing so how must we understand first timothy chapter two verse eight to 11 I'm repeating the context has to do with two things one it has to do with everyday life how men should conduct themselves how women should conduct themselves in everyday life everywhere second the context transitions it changes from verse 11 to verse 15 it changes to an adam and eve context which is a husband wife married man married woman and man in that context woman you do not try to teach your husband that means you don't try to override your husband but you walk in submission which is what Ephesians chapter five teaches us which is what collusion chapter three teaches everywhere else the same truth so scripture must be interpreted in the light of scripture the same person who wrote first timothy two also wrote Ephesians five also wrote collusion three so the understanding is the same that wife you walk in submission to your husband because god has given him as your protector and overseer so you walk that way it's not local church context he's not talking about preaching and teaching in church that is not the context of first timothy chapter two eight to 15 later on chapter three verse one goes into the local church context that was a clear did you understand any questions on that so okay i see your comment in the chat so now we can go back to the other question which is can a woman lead a church can a woman lead a church we know that in the context husband wife the husband is the head of the wife or provides leadership to the wife in the con in the marriage marriage context so in that context adam and eve context eve is subject to adam don't try to uh have authority over your husband no you be submitted to your husband that context but we shouldn't take that and apply it to a woman who is called to be an apostle or is called to be a pastor a woman who's called by god to be an apostle she has to fulfill her calling so let's say a woman is a married woman but she's called to be an apostle or let's say a married woman is called to be a pastor both these apply to her that means as a wife she will be in submission to her husband but so that's part one side of her calling she's a wife she must be in submission to us but that same woman is if she's called to be an apostle then as an apostle she is in leadership what she does as an apostle she's answerable to god not to a husband what she does as a wife she's answerable to her husband that same woman if she's married woman if she's called to be a pastor as a wife she's in submission to her husband she's answerable to her husband as a pastor she's a leader of her congregation she's answerable to god she's a shepherd the chief shepherd is jesus okay so we must understand that in different contexts the authority structure is different in the home adam and eve eve be in submission to your adam don't try to teach him and take his authority his place no but in the church if god has called a woman to be an apostle or a pastor or whatever they have to fulfill their calling and they're answerable to jesus christ or gave them that responsibility so to answer your question can a woman lead a church yes if she's called by god to lead a church she has to lead the church can a woman pastor a church yes if she's called by god to pastor a church she has to pastor a church she's answerable to god but that same woman at home as a wife she's submitted to her husband as a mother she cares for her children all those things so the same woman is handling different roles or responsibilities and the authority structure is different okay is it clear so we have answered or we have gone through two difficult passages concerning whether a woman can minister and the two passages are first current in chapter 14 34 and 35 and first Timothy chapter 2 8 to 15 these are the two difficult passages but like we said in both cases if you just look at the context that means what is Paul addressing then and you interpret it in the context then it is very clear but if we take the verses by itself in isolation then it becomes very confusing and then it's difficult for us okay so the key in both these passages first Corinthians 14 and first Timothy 2 is context what is he talking about actually the context is very clear we just have to see it then the explanation is easy to understand okay and also like we said scripture must be interpreted in the light of rest of scripture so the same writer which is Paul what else did he say about the subject in other places you know then then we can interpret it okay everyone's with me so far any any questions on these two things i know or the general question can a woman minister the word of god can a woman be in the ministry along those lines any questions okay we will go to one more passage again this is it may or may not be difficult i don't know but let's please go to first Corinthians chapter 11 and this has to do with head covering okay in some places this becomes a very very contentious contentious issue some places you know some places it is they don't worry too much but in some parts of the christian church this becomes a big argument so we have to try and understand this okay first Corinthians chapter 11 we want to read 1 2 verses 1 to 16 okay first Corinthians chapter 11 1 to 16 the questionnaires about head covering okay the question we want to ask is very simple should women cover the head when they are in the church service or is it optional in some places they insist based on this first Corinthians chapter 11 that women must cover the heads in some christian churches it's okay they don't they don't force it if you want to cover your head it's your choice it's up to you you know you do it but it's not forced so how should we understand it correctly and the main passage is first Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1 to 16 so can somebody read these verses for us and then i want to hear your i want to hear from the students from your class from the class what do you think right first Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1 to 16 first Corinthians chapter 11 1 to 16 somebody could read it for us please anyone first Corinthians chapter 1 verses 11 to 16 sorry chapter 11 chapter 11 1 to 1 first Corinthians chapter 11 verse 1 onwards imitate me just as i also imitate christ now i praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as i delivered them to you but i want you to know that the head of every man is christ the head of woman is man and the head of christ is god every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonors his head but every woman who prays or prophesies with her uncovered dishonors her head for that is one and the same as if her as if her head were shaped for if a woman is not covered let her also be shown but if it is shameful for a woman to be shown or shaved let her be covered for a man indeed ought not to cover his head since he is the image and glory of god but woman is the glory of man for man is not from woman but woman is from man nor was man created for the woman but woman for the man for this reason the woman ought to have symbol of authority on her head because of the angels nevertheless neither is man independent of woman nor woman independent of man in the lord for as woman come came from man even so man also comes through woman but all things are from god till was 16 yeah yeah was 13 judge among yourself is it proper for a woman to pray to god with her head uncovered does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair it is a dishonor to him but if a woman has long hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given to her for a covering but if anyone seems to be contentious we have no such customs no nor do the churches of god hmm so this is a difficult passage there are many difficult pieces in this passage many many but we want to answer one question first to begin with we could discuss other things later but one question based on this passage should we make it compulsory for women to cover the head i mean put a shawl or something sorry to cover the head when they come to the church service or is it not mandatory how should we interpret this passage because i know you know like i was saying earlier some places very strict and sometimes they have gone when i was when i travel to different places pastors they start fighting how about this you know it becomes such a big issue i want to hear from you what do you think how to understand this passage correctly anyone can share because it is written addressing Corinthian's church it is not mandatory for us to be ahead covering it is purely optional okay so John is saying now this is specific to the Corinthians okay so that is one one thought okay Avobakre please go ahead wait a second sir so the the contents of this place has to do with the culture of the of the Corinthians and because the way we live and our culture determines sometimes the way we worship our God so from places they don't used to cover their head normally they don't used to cover their head and in some culture the even whether you're christian or other religion you must cover your head so in this place i see it as if so it's dependent the area christian find yourself or based on the culture that's are bound with the pain with the christened in their area so if you are you are you are in culture that they used to cover their head it's go in line with your with you that's anytime you want to appear in your god in the presence of your god you must cover your head but in the case where maybe your culture is not is not important in covering of head is not important in your culture so there's no means that you should force yourself to cover your head when you want to look at the european country women used to wear trousers the countries as their own part of life but in our in africa here most especially in engilia in our own culture if women wear trousers then we look at that woman as as a lot we prostitute so we don't we don't we don't like it here it's not part of our culture so it's dependent on individual culture so whether you cover your head or you know cover your head thank you sir yeah so abu mcreltsu says you know it depends on the local culture and so first Corinthians 11 is addressing the culture in current this like paul john also john paul also said it's addressing the Corinthian church okay anybody else with that you know any other thought any other response based on this passage should we insist women must cover their head or how do we interpret this anyone else okay so i think uh so you know when you look at this whole passage we should ask ourselves several questions right we know that in paul's episode episodes there are things he addresses which are very specific to that particular church so there are matters that are very that that are specific to that church example in the Corinthian church we know there was division so he was addressing that there was a man who was committing sin he was first born in chapter five so he was addressing that they had other problems like about how they would come and eat in the Lord's table they would fight with each other to take part of the bread and the wine so he was addressing that so we know that in paul's letters to the Corinthian church he was addressing certain matters which are not a problem in every church but are specific to that church like we mentioned some examples so therefore it is safe for us to even say that this head covering issue was specific to the Corinthian church and not intended for everybody all churches and as we read in verse 16 right paul sums up his instruction by saying that we have no such custom nor do the churches of God in other words we are not enforcing this in all the churches of God right it's he himself says in verse 16 this is specific to your situation the Corinthian church situation so then that is when we need to get back into understanding the culture of the people so and we need to read up a little bit on the history and what is happening there right so that's one thing secondly we also have to look at it very logically I mean in the light of the rest of scripture as New Testament believers Jesus taught us we worship God and spirit and truth it's not about whether I cover my head or not does that mean if a man is wearing a cap for whatever reason maybe it's very hot maybe it's very cold so he's covered his head or maybe he's riding on a bike so he's wearing a helmet or maybe you know whatever situation where he's wearing a cap does that mean just because he's got his head covered he cannot pray no he can pray because prayer is from the heart it's not just whether you cover your head or not right so we know that spiritual truth so the same thing will apply for women also whether the woman is wearing a hat or not wearing a hat it's okay she can worship God and spirit and truth right so that's the second thing so we must come from that perspective otherwise we will put people in bondage by you know these outward things so spiritual truth must also be brought to bear so culture spiritual truth the context of what's happening in New Testament believer must be brought to bear and when we get into the culture and this is something you can treat generally general information you see in the Corinthian church Corinth was a city where there was a lot of prostitution and the prostitution the temple prostitution shaved their heads so that is what he's referring to and in chapter 6 he did mention such was some of you you know that means they some of the people had come out of those kinds of lifestyle such were some of you but now your wash sanctified justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ so these women who were previously temple prostitutes they had shown the head they had come they had become saved they had come to Jesus so now you can imagine they're sitting in the congregation their heads all shaved because that was their previous life and they're sitting there so Paul is saying okay look cover your head that's all okay so that's the cultural context and it's it's a symbol of authority right it's showing that you are in submission you have a husband you're married or you're in submission to God so you know you cover your head and then he concludes that passage by saying we don't if anybody is arguing about this we don't have any custom like this in our other churches so he's basically saying I am speaking this very specifically for the Corinthian church so therefore we should not take this passage and make it compulsory for every woman in every church to cover the head no we leave it to obstacle if it is hot and somebody wants to cover the head that is their choice if it is very cold and somebody wants to cover the head that is their choice we know that we worship God in spirit and truth so this doesn't matter okay so I think you know just hearing all of you I think you know we kind of understand this it is something we agree on okay so we will close here for today next week we'll just pick up some other passages I'm just you know taking different portions of scripture passages which are generally you know difficult or people have you know different opinions on it and just trying to explain it and trying to understand it so that we can all be clear okay so let's close and pray we'll continue next week Thursday could somebody please pray and leave out this mess anyone Holy Father we thank You Lord for teaching us from the word Lord whatever we have heard help us Lord to receive it well in the right understanding and right perspective that we may apply it rightfully in our life we may understand the context in which is written and we may take into account the spiritual truth Father and taking rightful look from your spirit the spiritual truth that is in the passage you may do all things rightfully so that what we do and what we practice in our life and we accept it and please you Lord we thank You for after teaching us these things bless Him Father blesses the spiritual greatly bless everyone of us we just mode Lord from the word in the families in Jesus name and thank you thank you everyone and have a good break and get ready for your next class thank you bye now


Hi guys I know a few of you are already zooming ahead in my stat lab and that's great getting ahead and moving ahead. But I wanted to take a minute just to show you a few more things about stat crunch and you can solve these using Excel as well and I think you can solve it using your TI. But this is a case where you're asked to give the five-number summary and draw a box and whisker plot and you can do this very easily in stat crunch. Here we've got our raw data and we've got this little icon there which says copy to a table. Click on that. You can open in stat crunch. You can copy it to your clipboard in case you've got some other stats program you're using or you can open in Excel. I'm going to open in stat crunch and we have our data in this column variable one. Now the first thing I want to do is let's just look. We just need to know the range, the min, max, and then the this is the five-number summary. So we can get that by going to stat summary stats by columns selecting double clicking on var one or variable one to get that data selected. And we can go down through here and there's our min. Hold down the shift key or max or q1. Let me go down a little bit more. q3. Just the heck of it. I'm going to go to the IQR. Well it won't let me skip. I gotta go let's see if I here we go. Hold down the control key I can skip around and I'm going to get the mode. Did I miss the medium? I just unselected there IQR, q3, max, min. There's the median and let's just get the range for the heck of it. There we go. That's all we need I think. Click on compute and now we have our data. There's our mode which it didn't ask for but we've got it. We've got our inner quartile range of three which if you subtract q1 and q3 you'll see that's three. We've got q3 of 8.5, q1 to 5.5. We've got our median which is q2 of 7 and we've got our max and min of 9 and 2. So that's very quick way to get the data you need for answering part A. To go to part B let's go to graph box plot. Again we're going to double click to select the data in that variable one column and I'm going to have it draw our boxes horizontally since our options are horizontally and we really don't need to have the percenter count anywhere. I'm just going to click on compute and we get our box plot and you can see that our min here's it 2 and we've got looks like 5.5 which is our q1 if you remember our medium and then our max is over here about 9. So if we look at the various options there the one that looks most like it is of course A and you can check that out if you want. So that's really how you can can solve this question pretty doggone quickly.


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All right, lady, what is this? This is a 2.1 inch 480 by 480 display. We've showed this off with our Qualia ESP32 RGB666 driver, because this is a raw TTL display. But what's new is that we now have a driver for the capacitive touch. Yay, thank you, Melissa, for writing the driver. Normally, these displays use a focal tack chip, but this one actually uses like a CST, who knows, some other manufacturer for the capacitive touch. But she did a great job doing Arduino and circuit Python libraries. Next up, we're going to get the capacitive touch working for big birthday here. This is the 4 inch diagonal screen, really beautiful, large, covered with fingerprints, bezel capacitive touch. This one has a separate little tail for the cap touch, but we'll make a little breakout for it and hopefully get this one up and running soon. So lots of round touches. All right, Lydia, what's this? This is me testing out my new web of the 3.5 inch 480 by 320 TFT feather wing. Historically, this used an STMP610 or 811 discontinued and end of line. So now it's a TSC2007, which is also I-squared suit and nice. Added a STEMI QT port, still has the SD card we set on off. Oops, forgot to pull up resistor. New boost converter for the backlight and running this demo and the way the demo works is want to test as much hardware as possible. So it draws on the screen, it loads an image from the SD card and then it turns on these little touchscreen paint demo so I can verify that the I-squared C works, the TSC works, the IRQ works, the SD card, the backlight and the display and this hardware is good. Gonna add this resistor and send out some PCBs. All right, Lady, what is this?  An eight of fruit would give everybody the day off, which means I could work on some hardware. This ICN-60211, it's a DSI to RGB TTL converter. So on the other side here, I've got this beautiful 4 inch by 720 by 720 screen, but I'm gonna get it working with like these round displays that I've got capacitive touch, bar displays. I've got here my Pi 5, I've got the cable adapter. I'm using my Pico probe to do the console debugging for the kernel hacking, I'm taking a mouse here and then this is going through the DSI connector to the TTL display and it's like a full speed display and I can use my mouse and click things and I can open up a web browser. And right now what I'm working on is configuring the ICN-60211 automatically using this AT-Tiny 1616 and then what I've got here is, oh wait, I've got here is my little CP 2104 to UPDI converter. So there's a ton of stuff going on here. I'm gonna restore my graphics, but what's really nice about using DSI is it's like full color, 24-bit, beautiful, high speed, much better than SPI TFT displays. So it's happening, coming soon. Really, what is this?    It's a JST SH3 using the pre-probe and the cable that comes with it and here it is in the shop, so it's 12 bucks and it even comes with the cable that you need to plug it right in, so there's no sort of required and then it shows up in like here, it shows up as a serial port, not the Sylobs one, this one, COM 8 and then I just use Putty and I'm in and I can like edit my device to overlay stuff. What I'm working on is trying to get these cool displays working. So you need to be able to log into the Pi 5 and debug some kernel stuff, but it's happening and this is a cool handy trick if you have one of these. All right, and live to the top secret... Oh, sorry, this is... The top secret view here. Yeah, so this is, I just wanted to show you because this is kind of fun, I've been working on this. This is the Pi 5 and what's needed is it actually has two display ports, so I'll be able to have two of these displays at once and I'll just focus it in. So this is one of our nice four inch square 720 by 720 displays and we also got like the round displays and the rectangular displays, hopefully working soon and this is going through our, the ICN 6211 dev board. I have to do a couple of changes to this board so it's not quite ready yet, but it connects through the TTL to this chip that then converts it to be able to take DSI data from the Raspberry Pi. And what's nice about the DSI interface is how fast it is. So there's no tearing, it's like instantaneously fast. It has the hard work acceleration updates, so basically it uses the same core as HDMI and I don't think this has internet because I think it was using ethernet, but let me see, I can open up a browser and if this was working, I could catch the internet. Oh yeah, the internet is like, hey, I'm not working. Oh yeah, I don't have, yeah, I did forgot to put in the password, but coming soon and my goal is to make it so you can connect any screen and configure it without having to compile any kernels or do any like complicated device tree stuff that you can be able to plug in anything with the same connector just like we did for the ESP32 S3 but now doing it for the Raspberry Pi. Okay. So coming soon, but not that yet, don't ask. That's not a secret.


Mr Speaker, I feel a certain sense of relief this afternoon in supporting the Prime Minister, Minister for Finance, on the presentation of this Income Tax Amendment because as was said earlier on it targets a number of individuals who engage in casual labour, casual contractual work who occasionally are engaged by government to undertake works within our communities. Whether it is cutting of grass, as we often call it, or beautification, on clogging of drains, let's say mitigation, or it is construction of retaining walls and other structural elements so as to enhance and protect our environment. Most of those persons, Mr Speaker, are called upon once they get a contract, a secure contract from the government, are called upon to pay 10 percent. But it is even more than that, Mr Speaker, in some instances an individual who probably is having a social challenge who is attempting not to rob but rather to earn some money to help themselves, probably medical assistance, medical attention, they need some money and they have come forward and we have attempted to assist them. And I recall, Mr Speaker, on one occasion, and we have several of those instances where individuals come with those cases and in one instance a sickler who needed treatment came to the ministry for assistance in the form of a small contract, as we call it, and so he was given a contract for $1,500. That's what we could have afforded. He needed some money and so we gave him $1,500. He himself could not have performed the contract because of his health condition and so he got three individuals with weed eaters to assist them. Each of them charging him $250. $250 working for two days to do the job. So just do the maths on this. The $1,500 is all over. And then he was called upon, he negotiated of course and got them to reduce the price. But by the time he was finished, he came back to me, Mr Speaker, and said, sir, I need another contract because I didn't make any money. I can't pay the bill. So you have that challenge because the departments of government and the officials of government and some institutions are insensitive to the social need. Very insensitive and wouldn't hear a thing or understand anything except what's written in the law. And so the poor sickler had to accept what he got and had to meet the balance. But, Mr Speaker, there are other issues that down the road this caring government whose mantra has been put in people first, and I say it in a different way, for people and country. We have to also look at some other instances, some other areas which also affect those casual contractors. You give an individual a contract to do what we call the caretaker program. And some of them don't earn no more than $1,680, maybe $2,000. And he's trying to get that job done because he wants the money, he has to go and do something. It's every other month maybe we offer those assignments, those works. And he's doing his work and his weed eater kicks a pebble, damages the windshield of a vehicle, and the owner says, you have to replace my vehicle. It costs $3,000. So now we now have to begin to start thinking of how do we indemnify those individuals. And probably going down the road for a caring government, we need to now look and see how can we have a kind of national insurance providing indemnity for those small workers. So that once you get a contract with the government, you will be allowed to sign up for the contract and to be indemnified under a particular arrangement without having to put out the kind of money we're talking about. Because this is a real thing. It is a real thing and it happens all the time, damage to equipment, damage to vehicles. And so I believe, Mr. Speaker, that what we have done there, which is an experience that we have been having for many years, and no government have come up with a resolution to it, no government. I recall, Mr. Speaker, the day we discussed it in cabinet, what seemed to have been an exercise to just save a few hundred dollars for a few little people, we spent probably two and a half, if not three hours, arguing it, clinically debating it in the cabinet, and trying to find ways and means of solving the problem, not because we are the ones experiencing the problem, but because the people themselves are experiencing the problem. The pain of it, the pain of these little people when they get a little contract of the 2005, 2005 and so happy, and then they start with this 10% of $250, plus they have one or two other persons depending on them to get that money. That pain, we have brought some level of relief. And I do hope that for those who will now benefit, will understand what it takes for a government to be conscious of their needs and to make a determined effort, no matter what, to ensure that there is resolution to their own problem. But also, Mr. Speaker, in doing so, we need to encourage them, encourage them, as my colleague earlier on said, to organize themselves, structure themselves, ensure that they organize themselves into small businesses, get advice, seek advice, and work towards building an organization that we all can be proud of. Too often, Mr. Speaker, our informal sector seems to spend a lot of time doing things, working hard, but not working smart. And we as a government, as you have seen, whether it's the youth economy or through the MSME, all of those programs, what you have seen is an attempt to formalize the informal and to get our people serious, more responsible, and making a positive contribution. So, Mr. Speaker, this short intervention is to state that we heard the people, we listened to the people, and we've responded to the call, a call for relief, a call of justice, a call that we hope will encourage them to work harder and make their contributions to this country. I thank you, Mr. Speaker.


When I look at this image of a cooling station in Singapore that is designed to use sensors to mistoff pasturized when they take refuge, it makes me think about other smart city designs and the absence of actual residents in the images and in the discussion. Oftentimes, residents' voices are not a part of the conversation because they can't be standardized and their stories don't make it to big data. So, in the future, I hope that smart cities, rather than just using sensors and thinking about economic growth and infrastructure, that we design solutions that actually incorporate resident voices into policymaking and urban planning.


Acting to the pitch and some... Yes, well I tried different woods, like at first something very quiet, and then some beats that we could hear afterwards with the speaker. And this audiovisual welcome was this indigenous folk song in Quechua and with some Spanish words. And well we are actually here to present this audiovisual reaction from music and samples. And I want to talk about the possibility to use this audiovisual tool in therapy. First I want to talk about the music and the use of music in therapy, and then I will speak about the visuals and the reaction between music and visuals in therapy. Well music in therapy, other than in spoken words, opens another layer, another dimension of perception. For example, if I ask in spoken therapy to someone how are you doing or how are you today, I have a spoken response, maybe also like moving or whatever, but at the end the person can say like a spoken reaction. In music therapy I would probably say pick an instrument, or yes an instrument make a sound with the title, how are you doing today. So in the spoken therapy we are using our speech and the words and that's what we use. And this is a dimension we use in everyday interaction. In the music therapy you're opening this other dimension. I can also ask someone, well you played a song or a sound about how are you doing today, now play a song with the title today or I am today. And then discover and explore changes in the inner thought processes of the person while experimenting and creating music. So this is an example about music in therapy but now we are also using this tool and that reacts to the music in a visual way. And this is also very interesting to me in therapy because we not only create an object with out of our emotions or thoughts, we create this object music from inside to the outside is also this object impacting on the world, impacting in a visual way that we can't control. Like this is a little fiction because we are creating another like a mirror to interact with. It could be a person in this case music and we are interacting. What is this music doing to me? This music, sometimes we say this music makes me happy, this music makes me sad, this music makes me think about something. Or I did this to the music we are interacting already. And in this interaction we have this other instance, the visual instance that we can't really control. This is a tool that is reacting to pitch and sometimes also depending on the setting is reacting to rhythm. So we have the impact of this what we are creating. In this case with bubbles or strawberries, it could be other samples. And this takes us to an early stage of development psychology. This takes us to a stage where we weren't perhaps totally aware of our existence, but we were as babies getting all the time the impact that we made on other people.  And that's how in this development stage you become this awareness that you exist. So I think this is an interesting aspect of this tool, to be able to use it in therapy to explore this. That we are not exploring every day with spoken words. That's why we call it self-experience, exploring the self. Because we are interacting with the music, the music with the visuals and we are getting a feedback of our emotions. This is only one possible way to see it. I think this doesn't have a methodology attached to it. This is a tool, like an instrument. We also wanted to show Luper, who is part of this project, to make things more playful perhaps. Renee is going to show us how this works and I'm going to stay here for some sounds. I had a little bit of a problem with the full screen. This is kind of what a Luper is. This is kind of what a Luper is. This is kind of what a Luper is. And you can also, this is a little Luper. This is kind of what a Luper is. This is also going to be a Luper. So yeah, we made this little Luper using a joypad. So it's a musical instrument and it can record audio clips. And then play them back. From that you can layer little recordings and samples. And then use it to have really quite silly sounds. Maybe we'll record some here. Yes, I think it's also out here. Maybe also I talked about the therapeutic use that it can have. It's also maybe for education, like for example, to learn how to do chords in music theory. In a way that also the music reacts to the visuals, for example. And I can try to build a chord and say, Okay, now I'm doing the major part. There are two tracks that are looping all the time. And two other tracks that are one-shot tracks. Try it again with the chords. Now it's not recording, now it's just... I'll try now on this to build a chord. Like it's very difficult to train this. For example, you have this Luper you can play in itself. And also for visual theories or for color theories, we can also use this program because of the audio reacting to visuals. And you can try to explain theories as this theory in an integral way. Explain audio with visuals or visuals with audio. This is now reacting to the rhythm. And maybe Renee will show us very quickly how to use it to explain colors. This is... These are primary colors being shown and then blending. So the idea is that you could use your mouth and then make some sounds and then make a blue color or a green color or a red color. And by playing with it you can sort of train your voice to be able to reproduce those different pictures. Those how your voice kind of wobbles at a certain frequency. So this one here you could ask a student how to blend... What happens when you blend blue and green? Like what do you see? What color do you get? Or what happens with red and blue? And then they can kind of just play about with them.  So this is our project to try to experience audio and visuals for therapy and education and be playful with it. Thank you.


Want to figure out how to hydrate perfectly for the best workouts? Listen up our first caller is Garrett from North Carolina What's up Garrett? How can we help you? Hey, so I have a question about hydration You guys have talked about it a lot and just the benefits behind it But I'm talking specifically during a workout. I see guys in the gym We have those, you know full gallon jugs or have those, you know, Amazon bought ones the giant lids and they're chugging them Between sets and I personally only go to the fountain Maybe two three times during a workout and it's not even me, you know, feeling like I need water It's just I'll have a second or two. I should go take a quick drink and come back And so I didn't know if there was something during a workout I was missing with these guys that are chugging this water or if You know what the meaning behind that was yeah, no good question So here's an easy test to see if you have enough hydration if your urine is salty No, I'm just kidding No, no, here's now here's the deal Hydration makes a huge difference, you know, some of the first studies Done on adequate hydration and athletic performance were actually well not first studies But one of the most popular studies was done out of University of Florida Where they were giving their athletes You know sodium infused electrolyte infused water with a little bit of sugar and they saw this dramatic improvement in Performance this later on turned into Gatorade. This is where the name Gator comes from Gatorade from University of Florida It actually makes a huge difference, but here's the thing You got to make sure that your electrolyte balance is good as well because if you just drink a bunch of water and you don't have enough Sodium sodium is one of the most important electrolytes for sweating athletes It's not going to do a whole lot. You actually start to reduce your performance So try something like this Garrett if you're working out and you're sweating a lot and you're drinking make sure you drink water make sure there's some maybe a little bit of sea salt in your water or even better Element tea is a company we work with that has an electrolyte powder that has adequate amounts of sodium and Had you asked me this question a year ago? I would have answered it maybe a little bit differently the big difference now is I've actually tried Element tea which actually has it's a thousand milligrams of sodium in a packet and I notice a big difference And I always thought was my someone of myself to be well hydrated So it give it a shot I would pour one of those packets in you know a nice big bottle of water maybe two times the size of a normal bottle of water and Drink half at the beginning of the workout and then drink the rest during the workout and see if you get a better pump and better performance So far the messages I've been getting from people is they do see a big difference and again the studies do support that well I think the the benefits aside from like the help if it's right to keeping the joints lubricated I told you before when I was feeling that thing in my quad that was always popping and then I started drinking that made a huge difference energy level So obviously there's there's health benefits to you drinking adequate water But my favorite part about that was what you're talking about with the pump Like I remember when I started carrying that jug around and I made it like a goal Like I would get a half gallon down before I even went into my workout And then I'd end up doing another quarter to a half gallon during my workout And I had better pumps from the water than I did from any other supplement to explode or any Creatine any other supplement that I take in I got a better pump from just making sure I was Hydrated like that. So I love that in itself and that played into better workouts. Well, yeah I also from a performance perspective. I noticed well like what Sal was saying in terms of having electrolytes and You know that being a real advantage in terms of like performance But also like I remember that one study where they're talking about like cooling your core temperature Yeah And so you know that has to play a bit of a factor in there as well in terms of we having you know Cool water to to bring your core temperature down to recover a bit You know more effectively so that was something that I did notice, you know If I was constantly hydrating You know whenever I'd had time off the field and it was nice and cold It did kind of bring me back along those lines So Justin isn't it isn't it recommended that you do lukewarm or room temperature water or not ice cold water better to be absorbed But there's this perceived I guess improvement and performance and in maybe some of its anecdotal When people will drink cold, right, especially if you're hot. That's what I'm careful about I'm pretty sure it's anecdotal at this point But for me when I had it just a bit colder than say, you know, my internal Temperature I was able to bring that down a bit and felt more recovered Yeah, Garrett. I would say Experiment and see how you feel and you'll probably notice an improvement in just how you feel and performance wise I would always recommend my clients, you know drink water before and after the longer your workouts are The hotter you get during your workouts and the more that you sweat all three of those things Mean you probably you're gonna need more hydration than somebody that's not experiencing those things So if you have a short workout, you're not sweating a ton. It's not really hot It's not going to make as big of a difference But if it's a long workout, man, I tell you it you'll you'll notice a profound Improvement in your performance by making sure that you're adequate adequately hydrated Gotcha. I appreciate it. Yeah, no problem. Garrett. Thanks for calling in absolutely Yeah, this is this is one that I ignored for a long time Like I water I don't let me take a supplement, you know, I mean, let me eat more carbs And it made such a huge difference That you know, it's one of those things you look back and you like you want to slap yourself Like why don't they do this simple thing?  I guess I don't drink that much water I don't eat that much protein and what I've found is When you're working out and you're sweating and getting hot and you're kind of you have little rest breaks in between every set That's actually one of the best times to be able to hit your your water intake goal of the day And so I found that having a client carry a you know A half gallon or one of those liter bottles or something into their workout and setting a goal to Chip it away at a bulk of that during the workout They were they were more likely to hit their their water goals in the day And so I think there's huge value just in that alone This is one of those pieces of advice or one of those topics where we were advised as kids So opposite, it's ridiculous. We weren't allowed like water breaks Just because of the the mental toughness and discipline Aspect that was it was crazy because you know like just going back and kind of revisiting that I just noticed like how much better my joints felt To your point about lubricating and and just like retaining the amount of water If you retain like proper amount of water in your cells, you perform better. It's a fact It's a fact and I mean it's even worse for me. I remember specifically being told by PE teachers Oh, you have a side stitch or a cramp. Don't drink water. It makes it worse Like the opposite of what you should do like oh, you're getting a side stitch because you drink too much water Before running the mile or whatever as a kid. I'm like, okay. I should not drink any water while I run So ridiculous Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here And be sure to subscribe


I want you to live much more from the inside out, because we have lived too much in our western-based societies. We live too much from the outside in. So we are taking our body to the gym every day to look beautiful on the social media post, not knowing our soul is toxic, our soul is carrying regret and bitterness and judgment and resentment and fear and anger, but we look great on the selfie. Because we are living in an outside and external based world, this new age, this age of human flourishing is going to be living from the inside out.


I have a failed traditional arts background. I studied art to the age of about 18, took a degree. But my style was very representational. So lots of still lifes, lots of portraits, lots of landscapes. Very boring stuff. I was always captivated by abstract art, but couldn't quite bring myself to let go with the brush and express myself in this manner. So I dropped out of university and about two or three years later I decided it was about time to get my first computer about the age of 21, which is very late to the game these days. So almost instantly I realized I could use this technology, this tool to reinvigorate my passion for art and design. So I took a new degree, an MA called Hyperfictions, and slowly but surely worked my way back to becoming an artist once again, this time with digital media. So I started building interactive generative systems that would allow me to explore and create abstract art. I made a study of cubism. So I was interacting and while studying the works of Picasso and Braque to try and recreate that aesthetic in a digital context. I thought this would make the perfect theme for my first mobile app, Fracture. So the idea behind cubism is that you're trying to deconstruct your subject and then reassemble it from slightly different angles. So that's exactly what we do with Fracture. So we load a series of images from slightly different angles of the same subject. Let's get that one there. Once these are loaded into the app, I can actually go over to the canvas aspect and start painting. So you can see what I'm doing here. I'm very quickly building this cubist portrait by layering up random images from my bank and within 10 seconds I have this cubist portrait. So who are a few results? We can go back to the slide. Here we go. Who are a few of the results? So this is a portrait I made and another one. Now I always encourage users of my apps to submit their work and I was getting some really creative results. Results that I couldn't even imagine while I was building the app. Some people started using photo filter apps to further enhance the results. I had a few generous cubist portraits of cows, which was nice. My second app is Composite. Now I built this with Juliette Lyle. She is the interface designer. So I've been inspired by the work of Robert Rauschenberg, the American painter and artist for many, many years now. So he's best known for his multi-media collages or combines, as he called them. I wanted to make an app that would allow me to really capture this aesthetic, this style of painting, the style of bringing together so many different aspects. So I made Composite. So the idea behind this app is that we're actually painting, using video, the live video stream that's coming in from whatever's surrounding us at the time. So as you can see what I'm doing here, I'm holding it up and just capturing elements, captured moments in time. The idea, let's get the camera man as well. The idea here was very much about allowing people to remix their surroundings, essentially, to take the buildings, the objects, the people within their space and making a collage to be able to tell their own story. Let's get one last bit of Ted in there. Thank you. So let's have a look at a few of the results. Here's a portrait that I made called Covergill. Now I was really excited to see that people were actually submitting work that was quite reminiscent of a Rauschenberg piece. This was a piece by Stephen Beverage called Giveaway, and it was a reaction to the recent London riots. This is a piece called The Goddess Within. Now the creator emailed me saying, I made this while lying in bed trying to fall asleep. Here's a steampunk inspired portrait that's called Under Attack. Now people started making some quite strange submissions, some quite weird portraits. And that's more than welcome, and I must admit I did a few of these myself. I think the less said about that one, the better. Construct is the next app I'm going to show you. This is built using a technology called String. We're using this marker here. If I just place that onto the ground and point the device at it, I can actually start building a virtual sculpture. So I can start speaking into the microphone. I can start whistling. I can do a quick whistle. I can sing. I'm not going to sing. And slowly start building up this virtual sculpture that appears to exist in actual space. Essentially it's an exploration of generative art in augmented reality space. So let's have a look at a few of the results. People were again using photo filter apps to be able to adjust their results. And being the internet, I was bound to get a couple of pictures of cats. But then the most amazing thing happened, the most wonderful thing happened then. I had an email from a teacher from Brunswick Acres Elementary School in New Jersey. She'd been using the app to teach her kids in class about augmented reality and art and technology. They even made their own online gallery to show their work to the world. I also had another email from someone saying that they'd been using it at the Delamere Academy in Chester, which is a primary school. I just love this picture. Look at these kids exploring interactive art in the classroom. Now we use these devices so much these days that I believe we develop a personal relationship with them. Now with advances in technology, the promise of augmented reality eyewear, I can only see this relationship getting deeper and deeper. I think we as new media artists have a responsibility to use this technology to build new forms of creative expression that don't just sit in art galleries, but are potentially ubiquitous. Thank you. Thank you.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another WW weekly meal prep. I cannot wait to share these three Recipes with you guys this week my breakfast my lunch and a dessert. That is so incredibly delicious and so low point You're never gonna believe it. So if you want to see what's on my plan for meal prep this week All you have to do is keep watching For breakfast this week, I'm going to be making a sausage hash brown cream cheese Breakfast casserole this sounds so good, and I'm simply going to pair this with fruit So it is going to be such a fantastic breakfast for the smart points. So let me show you what's in our casserole So first you're going to need some shredded hash browns You'll need some salt and pepper Cream cheese, I'm going to go ahead and use fat free. It's the least amount of points Some sort of sausage. So what I have on hand are these Jimmy Dean fully cooked turkey sausage links So I'm just going to use those milk or milk alternative. I have fair life on hand So I'm going to go ahead and use up the rest of that You'll also need some flour 12 eggs So make sure you stock up on your eggs and then I'm going to do a mix of half Trader Joe's Shredded light mozzarella and half fat free shredded cheese. So let's get started on this week's breakfast meal prep So the first thing that I did is went ahead and took my block of cream cheese and cut it into about half inch pieces I also took my pre-cooked sausage links and cut those up as well Now if you're using Raw sausage the first step is to cook it down and get it crumbled up, but I'm using the pre-cooked So it was easy. I just went ahead and cut it into little slices So what I have here is 15 ounces or half of the bag I measured it on my food scale of my hash browns to that. I'm going to go ahead and add in some salt And then of course add in some pepper. I'm going to give that a nice big stir And then from there, we'll go ahead and add in our cream cheese So stir up your hash browns really good with the salt and the pepper And then you're going to take your cubes of cream cheese and add it in with your hash browns And you want to just kind of mix it together until you've got the cream cheese kind of spread throughout your hash brown So go ahead and squish it with your spoon Push it down break up those chunks by cutting them into chunks It just makes it a little bit easier to get it in or mix with your hash browns So you just want to mix until cream cheese is mixed throughout all of your hash brown potatoes Once you get your cream cheese mixed in good with your hash browns Go ahead and get a 9 by 13 pan spray it with some non-stick cooking spray And we're going to put our hash brown cream cheese mixture here in the bottom of our baking dish and we're going to want to spread this out nice and even And kind of squish it down again Make sure you've got a little bit of hash brown and a little bit of cream cheese in all the portions of your baking dish Let's get that nice and even I'm actually going to apply some pressure because I want the hash browns to form somewhat of a crust and kind of meld together with the cream cheese and in order to do that I feel like we need to kind of squish It down and basically pat it down to make it a crust. Oh, this looks so good. You guys hash browns and cream cheese Yum, okay, and then from there we are going to take our cat sausage So whatever you ended up doing whether you did crumbles or precooked And we're just going to lay our sausage over the top of our hash browns and our cream cheese Look at this.  We're going to do our flour and our milk And we're going to make a roux that's going to kind of bind this together And then our eggs will be in that as well So there's about half of my cheese over the top Next we're going to take one quarter cup of flour and add it to a rather large bowl Because we're also going to be adding our eggs in and then i've got my one cup of milk And i'm going to slowly add that to my flour and i'm going to whisk As I go because I want this to end up with a smooth Consistency of the milk and the flour so you don't want to add all of your milk at once So go ahead and get that nice and whisked together Until you've created a thicker liquid a roux Once your milk mixture is nice and smooth we're going to go ahead and break a dozen eggs Into our milk and flour mixture and then we're going to give that a quick stir too similar to if we were making scrambled eggs Once your eggs are nice and mixed together We're going to pour this over the top of our casserole And we want it nice and even you want to make sure that there's egg mixture In every nook and cranny of your casserole because this is what's going to help bind Everything together and make it more of a casserole versus just a baked hash brown dish And i'm going to kind of just tap On my counter i want to make sure my eggs are getting nice and Drizzled down throughout my hash browns and then lastly we're going to add the rest of our cheese Now the recipe does not call for the casserole to go in the oven Covered but i'm going to cover mine in foil Only because I don't want my cheese to get really brown and crispy Uh through the entire cooking process So i'm actually going to go ahead and cover my casserole with some foil for the Majority of the cooking it wants it in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes So about 30 minutes in i'll check it and if it's about done I'll pull off the foil and then let it melt and brown up the cheese, but you guys this looks delish I just pulled our breakfast casserole out of the oven you guys Look at this those hash browns nice and crispy So i'm going to let this rest for about 15 minutes and then i'm going to cut it into six servings So it is a lot. That's why i'm just pairing it with fruit because it's going to be quite a large serving and everything You need is in here your protein your starch everything So i'm going to let this rest cut this into six servings Pop it into a meal prep container and i'll show you the serving size and give you the smart points Here is my completed breakfast meal prep You guys i'm serious this casserole It could not look any better. Look at how cheesy potato-y So delicious. So this is what i'm going to be having for breakfast. So what i have here is one sixth Of the hash brown sausage cream cheese breakfast casserole One sixth of the casserole is only six smart points And then i'm pairing it with just a side of some fresh blueberries So this entire breakfast is only six smart points Everything you need in a balanced complete breakfast and again only six smart points can't beat it For my lunches this week. I'm going to be making smothered Pork chops my husband is not a pork chop fan and I really like them So I thought I would take advantage of my meal prep to make some delicious pork chops And i'm just going to pair these with a vegetable and some fruit So it's going to be a fairly low carb meal as well. So let me show you what is in our pork chops So first you're going to need some flour Some reduced sodium chicken broth salt and pepper Time and the recipe called for Cajun seasoning. I do not have any so I decided to just go ahead and use Dax Italian blasts this seasoning has a bit of a kick But the flavor is so delicious and as you can see Dax all of their spices are no salt Which is awesome. So there is no salt. It is all pure ingredients nothing artificial I love Dax. They have about 20 different seasonings I have every single one and they are all absolutely amazing I highly recommend Dax especially if you do a lot of cooking Most importantly before weigh-in day, you don't want to up your salt intake before you have to weigh in And with Dax you're getting the flavor without the salt. So I highly recommend Dax You'll be seeing it a lot in my cooking videos So it's time to hop on to Dax's website order yourself an array of their seasonings I love the Italian blast. It does have a little bit of a kick So that's why I'm substituting it in for Cajun use my code for 10 off and Free shipping you can't beat it. My code is here on the screen and the link for Dax is down in the description box So I'm going to be adding some Italian blast. Oh, I seriously you guys. I love Dax You're also going to need an onion some light butter Of course, you're going to need pork chops. I opted for bone in pork chops And some low-fat buttermilk. So let's get started on our smothered pork chops So the first step is to take your pork chops Go ahead and sprinkle on your Cajun seasoning or your Dax whatever it is that you're going to be using For your pork chops and then we're going to want to flip these and do the same thing season The other side of our pork chop as well. And remember this has a kick So I'm not going to add a ton to mine. I like my food a little spicier than my husband But I still am going to be aware that this definitely has a kick to it And then I'm going to take my quarter cup of flour and I'm going to put it here on a plate Kind of sprinkle it out and we are going to take our pork chops and we're going to dip it into the flour mixture And then we're going to shake off any excess flour and I like to kind of do the sides I'm not really too concerned about where the bone is But I do kind of want to get a little bit of the flour mixture On the sides as well. And then once you get your pork chop flowered I have a pan here with some nonstick cooking spray And I'm just going to add all of my pork chops directly to my frying pan Once your pork chops are mixed into the flour We're going to put our pan on the stove on high heat and we're Going to cook our pork chops two to three minutes each side until they begin to brown Once your pork chops have begun to brown We're going to go ahead and remove them from our pan now. They are not Cooked all the way through which is just fine. We're going to be returning them And we're going to remove them and we're going to put them on a separate plate And we're going to reuse this pan to cook down some of our other ingredients But these are already looking so delicious To your same pan you're going to go ahead and add in one tablespoon of light butter And we're going to kind of mix that around To our melted butter. We're going to go ahead and add in our sliced up onions We're also going to add in a little bit of thyme Welcome to being a dog mom And we're also going to add in a little bit of salt And we're going to cook these onions down until they are soft once your onions are nice and sauteed Yum We're going to add in the one tablespoon of reserved flour that was left over from when we breaded our pork chops I forgot to mention that make sure you don't throw that little bit of flour that's left over And go ahead and mix that in here with your onions And then to that we're going to add in our one and a half cups of chicken broth And we're just going to let this cook down that little bit of flour should help thicken it up a little bit So just going to let this cook down until it has begun to thicken Once your chicken broth has reduced about two-thirds of the way This is where we're going to go ahead and add in our two-thirds cup of our buttermilk And you're just going to kind of mix that in with the chicken mixture. You guys this looks so good It smells amazing. You can smell that thyme Yum I'm also going to be adding in just a little bit of black pepper And then the next step is is we're just going to Re-put our pork chops into the mixture and we're going to reduce our heat to medium low And we want to let our pork chops cook for about eight to ten minutes Or just until our pork chops are cooked completely through That's the main objective is to get the pork chops the rest of the way cooked And it should thicken up the mixture as well a little bit more with that buttermilk So we're just going to let this cook down until the pork chops are cooked through And i'll show you our completed smothered pork chops our smothered pork chops are done. Look at these you guys Yum, these look amazing So i'm going to let these cool for just a couple of minutes get them into my meal prep container And i'll show you exactly what i'm going to be having for lunch and give you the smart points So here is my completed lunch you guys I am so excited about this. So here is what our smothered pork chops look like You can have three ounces of pork for four smart points. This is just about three ounces So i'm actually going to be counting my pork chop is five Smart points and that includes the little sauce over it because there are points in The flour and there's points in the buttermilk. So we have to make sure that we count appropriate points for that So my pork chop here is five smart points I'm pairing that with a side of veggies. Here are the veggies that I use. I love these These are the grande classics from flavor pack. See how they say large cut I love that because they're actual whole vegetables that are in the frozen blend So I have one serving of the pacific blend sugar snap peas yellow carrots orange carrots and broccoli And then I also bagged up some watermelon because like I said i'm obsessed with watermelon So I have a bag as my second fruit of the day for lunch and then for dessert. I'm going to be having One of my new favorite things. This is the choco right peanut butter patties These legit taste like arisa's peanut butter cup and they are only one smart point per patty There are two patties in this little package here. So this is a total of two smart points They are sugar free malatol free, which is great and malatol is what sometimes bothers people's stomachs It also boosts your glycemic index. So not the best artificial sweetener high fiber as well So this little pack of peanut butter cups is two smart points You can buy these on protein wisest website. If you click the link down in the description box It'll give you $10 off your first order. So you can order up some good stuff for free and they have tons of Friendly products. So I'm gonna have that for two smart points. So my pork chop is five My veggies and my watermelon are zero and then my peanut butter cups are two So this is a seven smart point lunch. You guys how amazing for seven smart points for a sweet treat this week I'm going to be making Donuts and I cannot wait to make this recipe. It is a ww pound dropper recipe I am changing it just a little bit I'm actually going to use vanilla frosting Instead of chocolate frosting just to kind of change it up a little bit But let me show you what you're going to need to make these donuts And you guys are going to die when you hear the smart points So the first thing you're going to need is the devotion brownie batter protein powder This as you know is my favorite protein powder in the world It is only two smart points per scoop. It is delicious. It has 20 grams of protein It's sugar-free. It even has mct oil in it. It does not make you bloat It has no aftertaste no way no chalk. It's amazing It is so good blended up in a protein shake and it is amazing for baking They also have the angel food cake, which is just as fantastic for baking shakes, etc So today we're going to make chocolate donut. So we're going to need the devotion Down in the description box. There is a link that will bring you directly to the devotion website And it will give you 10 off of your order. So you cannot beat that 10 off So I suggest you run as fast as you can a devotion because you're going to be seeing this used a lot in a lot of recipes And i'm going to be using this in a lot of what i eat in a day I would say that on average I have devotion pretty much every day. So we're going to use the brownie batter You're also going to need some baking powder Everything's better with sprinkles. So some sprinkles the sugar-free pills berry vanilla frosting You can use chocolate if you would rather but I decided to go with vanilla We're going to need some vanilla extract And an egg and then of course you're going to need a donut pan of some sort. I bought this off of amazon So i'm going to go ahead and link this down in the description box for you guys I love this donut pan. It is awesome. So let's make some donuts, shall we? For donuts, you're going to need a medium sized bowl I went ahead and warmed up in my microwave one third cup of hot water To that we are going to add one scoop of our brownie batter devotion powder so i'll get out one Nice level scoop of that We're also going to add in one teaspoon of vanilla extract One teaspoon of baking powder And one egg Oh, it's bubbling up like a volcano. Nice. And then we're just going to stir this all together Until everything is nice and combined. This recipe is supposed to make five Donuts so I decided not to double it But if you're looking for more than five donuts, then I would suggest doubling the recipe I'm just going with five because that way I can have one every day And I think that that is I think that that's sufficient for me So get everything nice and mixed together. Oh yum. And then we're ready to put this into our donut pan Grab your donut pan. Go ahead and get it nice and greased And then we are going to add in our mixture Just in a nice circle around our donut mold and again we want five donuts total So I'm just going to fill these as full as I can To ensure that I get five donuts because that will keep the smart points What the original recipe is and I don't know if I Mentioned but this is actually a ww pound dropper recipe She is amazing. Her blog is fantastic. Her recipes are fantastic So if you're looking for Ww recipes where she's already figured the points for you. I highly suggest that you go to ww pound dropper all one word dot com you can also follow her on instagram So again, this recipe came from her one of my very favorite Uh bloggers recipe bloggers for ww So we're going to get our donut pan nice and filled with our mix And then we'll be ready to put these into the oven So here are our chocolate donuts yum So these are going to go in the oven at 350 until they're completely cooked through About 10 minutes or so then we're going to allow them to cool and then we will frost them and sprinkle them I just pulled our donuts out of the oven. Look at how good these look you guys yum They come out so easily So I'm just going to let these cool for about five minutes And then we'll be ready to frost them up once your donuts have cooled We're going to take one tablespoon of our sugar free vanilla frosting We're going to put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds Just to get it all melted And then we are going to take it and we are going to spread it On top of our donuts and we're going to go ahead and frost all five of our donuts And then we'll add some sprinkles you guys A frosted donut yum Once we get them frosted we're going to add some sprinkles and you guys Look at this a frosted Donut and this entire donut frosting included One smart point isn't that insane. So who said that you can't have donuts On w w on an on point tracking day one smart point per donut Oh my goodness. Am I excited? I just had to come back on here and let you know that I just had one of these donuts Seriously you guys these are amazing They legitimately taste like a store-bought donut so good that frosting makes them nice and sweet Their cake texture you guys have to have to try these donuts So here's what i'm going to be taking for snacks for the upcoming week So first per the usual is the built bar. I have one of these every day This is my morning snack that I have after breakfast before lunch as it keeps me full There's 15 grams of protein and six grams of fiber per built bar So it keeps you full, but they taste amazing Just like a candy bar. You can freeze them put them in the fridge eat them right out of the box They're absolutely divine. They are a staple on w w There isn't today that goes by that. I don't have just one sometimes two built bars You can order these down in the description box using the link My discount code is here on the screen. It will give you 10 off and free shipping They do have a sample box if you haven't tried built bar before And then of course most likely you're going to want a full box and you can reuse my code over and over again So I am definitely having a built bar as this is only three smart points and these are delicious I'm going to be having some roasted garlic hummus from trader joe's and i'm going to dip my little baby carrots in there This is two smart points for two tablespoons.  This is wallaby organic I actually bought this at a health food store. This greek yogurt is really delicious. It's a little pricey I want to say it was like seven dollars But it tastes delicious. It is zero smart points because it is plain non-fat greek yogurt I'm going to be using some of my lakonto monk fruit sweetener to sweeten up my yogurt And then to that for a crunch factor I'm going to be adding some of the julian bakery pro granola in vanilla cinnamon cluster Here are the stats on this granola you guys This granola along with the built bar in my opinion are the two w w staples You can have an entire half of a cup of this granola for two smart points So what i'm going to do is measure out One half of a cup and i'm going to top my sweetened yogurt with it and it is so good you guys It tastes like a yogurt parfait those things even the mcdonald's one are like seven points So you can have a copycat parfait for two smart points because the only thing with points Is the granola two smart points for half a cup is insane Most granolas are anywhere from five to ten smart points for half of a cup So this granola is delicious. It's paleo and keto low net carb high protein gluten free grain free nothing artificial No preservatives and this particular one even has prebiotics and probiotics If you have not gotten julian bakery granola I highly recommend that you do so if you go down in the description box and click the link and enter my code here On the screen you'll get 10 off and free shipping You do have to click the link in the Description box in order to use the code. They're kind of they're tied simultaneously together So make sure that you click the link enter the code order julian bakery. You will not be sorry. I'm telling you you guys It's amazing So this is going to be a two smart point dessert or snack a two smart point snack and a three smart point snack So that's what i'm planning on snacks for the upcoming week. Thank you for joining me on another weekly Ww meal prep. I hope you enjoyed all three recipes that I shared with you They're all incredible. They are must makes every single one of them So run as fast as you can to devotion's website and pick up the brownie batter protein powder It is so good. Go ahead and use the link in my code. You'll get 10 off You can't beat it. So I hope you enjoyed the three recipes if you're new to my channel I'd like to extend a huge warm welcome to my youtube friends and family Hit that little subscribe button and the bell that way you'll get notified when I upload a new video I do upload almost every single day. So you don't want to miss a single one Give this video a thumbs up comment down below Let me know what you guys thought of this meal prep and what recipe are you most excited to try And it can be all three if you're excited to try all three and i'll see you guys all in my next video. Bye guys


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Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Chalfonson Peter Village Centre again. This is part two of our adventure around Chalfonson Peter where we go back in time and look and see how Chalfonson Peter would have been with the help of these plaques. So this one shows the old cinema. That building there, that's the marketplace which is still there. That is the cinema. Now if we stand back, there you go, you can see that gable end. Those 1960s buildings or 70s, that's where the cinema would have been. It was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with the current building. On this video we're going to concentrate on the actual high street itself which is here. The road looking up there, that's the marketplace. Used to be called Gold Hill Lane. So this is the oldest part of the village. Now again quite a lot of the village has been rebuilt but we are able to see, you know, imagine a fair amount of what would have been here. Now the next plat, oh here it is, is just here. So this plat rather than showing so much of a building or a scene from the village actually shows more about life. It shows a group of gentlemen going on a cherubonic coach trip to see the races. So they're all waiting there. I don't recognise any of the buildings in the background. They must have all been demolished. Quite a lot of the buildings along here, either Victorian. There's not so many old buildings but we're going to walk along here now, further along the high street and try and find the next plaque which should be somewhere just along here. In fact now I know where it is from looking at the map. It's actually in the co-op car park. We saw the front of co-op in part one. We're now around the back of co-op and this is the co-op car park and if we come into here on the wall here is the next plaque. So it's here on the wall. It was the beach cottage. It was number 12 high street. So I assume the frontage you see there was probably over there but it was home to a spy called Nun May and it then was demolished in 1979 and now it's car park. Right, let's go and find the next plaque which again I know where it is. It's very close to here. There are some on the other side of the high street but we'll do them later on in the video.  So here is the library. So if you want to get this leaflet this is where you can come and get it now and believe on the back of the library. So that is what the village once looked like looking down the high street. So the cottage we just looked at that was there where I said where Budgins was. In fact if you look there that that is probably the beach tree we see there just where that van is pulling out. You can see the church in the background and some of the cottages are the same. I can't yeah I can just see the church is kind of half blocks by the the beach trees leaves but that is how Chalvon St Peter looks. A lot less busier than it is today. What I'm going to do now I'm going to carry on walking this way up the high street and we're going to go more into a residential area now and find the next plaque. So as we walk along the high street in the rain we come to Grainge Road this is where we shall find our next plaque. Now this was once the entrance to a stately home. You can see there's a post there you might have already spotted as a plaque on it. Another gate post there so this would have been the main road there is now a bypass just over there so this road isn't anything like as busy as it would have been but this was the gates to a stately home which very sadly was demolished in 2016 it became a convent and the convent closed and they demolished it and they built a load of houses which you know is understandable but I'm really disappointed that they demolished a historic stately home and so there isn't really a lot of what was there to see that they kept the chapel and these gates post survived one day I'll do a video on this whole estate and I have got some footage very sad footage of them demolished it so that'll be in another video but here we are here is the the post we're standing by you can see there was once a little gardeners cottage here and those fields over the other side of what is now the main road that's all now Chalfort Heights which is a private housing estate we're going to come on to that in a minute it's a public footpath so you can walk through there so there's not actually plaques there but we will go there but you can see the gardeners cottage would have been well literally here where this road here isn't if we look on there's another plaque here it shows the gardeners cottage so this plaque here shows a better picture of the gardeners cottage it also tells us that in the Grange itself like I said we will do a separate video on it but in the Grange lived Isaac Pennington and his daughter married William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania and Isaac Pennington was the Lord Mayor of London so I'm now going to carry on walking along the lower road till we find our next plaque there's the other gate post just there so yeah this is this was once the entrance to a grand stately home so I've now just come a bit further down the road to this road here woodside close now there's one thing that's not to do with the plaque but I find interesting about it I mentioned talking about how things have changed over the years and how new roads get built and everything this is now woodside close but it was once a through road into Chalfort Heights so it had gone literally straight ahead we'll go and have a look at that in a minute but there is a plaque in a rather sort of unlikely place but just here on this fence behind the tree now this plaque is they use is about the Chalfort Hill Climb the Bugatti owners Club they used to do a hill climb up Woodside Hill which we'll go and have a look at in a minute so I'll let you have a closer look so that was of course before the main A413 was put through and it was a through road so it's been effectively split into this little cul-de-sac here and there's another road on the other side the A413 just look in there that house is still there but we can't see it because the copper beach tree is in the way but the track was 375 yards admittedly I'm reading this off here and somebody did complete it Ra Cookson in his Type 49 Bugatti in 28 seconds in 1935 and then after that they stopped doing it that wouldn't have been because the road was built that would have just been I don't know for whatever reason but if we walk along here I want to show you how the main road has been put through here so what happens it would have gone like I said it had gone straight ahead they put the main road through some 50s 60s houses have been built going off down there just here we're going to cross River Mizzbourn now I said although Chalfort Heights is private road it is all public footpaths so you can see how they've had to alter but keep a public right away there's River Mizzbourn down there and there'll be more the River Mizzbourn in future videos so the road now bends down there you can pretty hear the traffic on the A413 this is public footpath so we're gonna go down here always like this footpath I don't know why I just just feels a bit sort of secret and out the way you've got the backs of houses on lower road down there and it's the more modern houses that have been built in the gardens because the houses on lower road have quite long back gardens so they've built a couple of little colder sacks and put some more modern houses in so like I said we're now on a fairly modern footpath I'm not sure exactly year they put this bypass in if anyone knows what's the comment tell me please do and so the River Mizzbourn goes along there we're gonna do a video on the Mizzbourn in the future and so watch out for that crossing the main road just got to bear with me a moment I'm gonna run after this car and I want to show you how Woodside Road would have gone straight across so all this here this is a modern service road but you can see the hill that's where the Bugattis would have climbed so they've uninterruptedly come across here they've been the small bridge over River Mizzbourn and the challenge was to climb that hill there which is now part of the Chalfont Heights housing estate and it's private road but you can't walk through there I'm not going to go that way I'm going to go back to the village centre and we're going to go and find some more plaques so we're back in the high street in the village centre over there was the beach cottage which we saw earlier now I'm back here it shows an old workhouse so the workhouse would have been just over there see where the man's walking now that more modern building that's on the site although the workhouse um well since it's pitched in the 20th I'm not sure when it was demolished it had very harsh conditions though to deter scroungers which you know makes sense I'm now going to carry on got one more in the village centre so here we are in a very rainy village centre on the public toilet block is another plaque it shows Barrack Yard which is where St Peter's Court currently now stands we're going to have a minute but this is what it would look like so it was the back of a coach and it's where some of all of the Cornwell's soldiers would have been stationed at their barracks so yeah quite an interesting place I'm going to now leave the public toilet block by the way I did say in part one that's the modern public toilet block um not the most exciting feature I know but the older public toilets would have been just there at the below the gay blend where said marketplace this is St Peter's Court now I'm going to leave this video here and I'm going to start the next video here because there's quite a lot this is you know more modern and not the best part of Chalf from St Peter well it is pleasant and everything but you know it's not attractive that was the word I'm looking for so hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching in part four I should tell you more about this part of Chalf from St Peter the High Street and the Church