And yes, I'm a little crazy. I put hot sauce on my salads, you better believe it. Specifically spicy taco sauce, a fiery tangy blend of pepper. I do do do do do do. I do do do do do do. How we doing everybody? Oh my goodness, it's Saturday. And yes, I am back here in the house, not in the studio in order. Oh, there's the tea. Hold on, hold on. There it is, but of my bread. All right, and yes, basically we are relaxing today, just trying to catch up on life, drink tea, stay fresh, recover from everything in this world. And okay, let me just put this back, hold on. And a shout out to, I forget his name on Instagram, tagged me in his post how he is now drinking his tea out of a beer stein. Cheers, sir. And yes, cheers to everyone. All right, here we go. First of all, today's run, 11 miles, feeling the legs are coming around. It's very exciting, seven minutes a mile in the Skechers, Max Road 4. And I talked about this last winter. As the temperatures get colder, you definitely don't wanna keep your running shoes out in the garage unless the garage is really well insulated or out on the back porch or you can obviously let them air out a little bit. But I bring them in during the colder winter months because the mid-soles can become very kind of firm and hard and I think actually even break down a little quicker when they're exposed to extreme temperatures, especially in December, January. So I have now begun to keep all of my active training running shoes inside the house in the warmer temperatures. I know it's a little extreme, but it just, I have no, and so if you have the shoes out in the cold, the first couple of miles of your run, especially in a cold winter morning, it's gonna, the midsole is gonna be very firm and it might even feel uncomfortable through your gate cycle. So I would recommend bringing your shoes in and yes, using my, now, shoes are stinky, right? So we got our Loomi Outdoor Spray here, putting it in there, boom. Now that wasn't a very good spray, hold on. So this just helps keep the shoes a little more fresh so they don't smell as much. It's called Loomi Outdoor Home Essentials. It's a family-owned company. This is the lemon eucalyptus flavor, extra straight, not flavor, but smell, extra strength, all that, it's an odor eliminator. It's even got some essential oils in there so I spray my shoes maybe like once or twice a week with that Loomi Spray. Okay, moving on to the New York City Marathon. Oh my goodness, where to begin? Okay, let me just pull up here on the computer. It's time to download the New York City Marathon app. It's pretty neat. I must say these big city marathons that have an app dedicated just to their race, it's handy for finding information, finding your bib number, which I'm gonna share with you here in a minute. It will move you and as that is downloading here in a minute, let me just touch upon the book. A Race Like No Other by Liz Robbins, 26.2 miles through the streets of New York. This is my first book on the New York City Marathon and I am to the moon, beyond impressed. The amount of detail in this book, it might actually be too much for you. It's a, she goes and so every chapter is a mile of the race.  Like New York, it doesn't get any more American than New York City as far as the amount of culture that has arrived on these shores in New York. Okay, so American history, which I love, stories about the elite runners from the 2007 race and then stories about just normal everyday folks who have their own inner battles and their own inner challenges in their heart and they're dedicated to the training and to racing the New York City Marathon. So far, I am enthralled by, I'm learning so, so much about the race. It's absolutely epic. Okay, I think the app is downloaded here. Let me just open this, find this here real quick, one second. So my big number, my race number is 1008. So I can close this and then go to track runners there in the bottom left. And if you want, you can do tracking just like Amsterdam, I type in my name and then it'll pop up, boom, there it is. So you can add me there. Now you're probably wondering about the group run if you live in the greater New York City area. So it's the day, so I have to keep this trip much shorter because I was in Amsterdam for so long so I don't get into town until Friday. And then Saturday, I have the task of getting to the Jacob Javits Convention Center to pick up my big number and pick up all the, everything from the expo and probably meet some of you there as well. But we're gonna do a shake out run very gentle, very slow, very easy, two to three miles depending on how the legs are feeling, okay? In Central Park at 10 a.m., okay? Central Park, 10 a.m. Eastern time. We're gonna meet, Central Park is huge as you know. We're gonna meet in front of a restaurant inside Central Park called Tavern on the Green. It's a famous spot and it's actually pretty important for the New York City Marathon as well. So I will be there 10 a.m. on Saturday, did I mention that? Saturday, so the day before the race, let me just say the date, November 2nd, Saturday, 10 a.m., Tavern on the Green and we will do two to three miles nice and easy. I'll probably bring the banner that Paul made for me over in Amsterdam and we'll have a good old time but pretty much right at 11 I'll need to hit the road and go to the expo because then I gotta get all the way back to Brooklyn because I'm staying with my aunt in Brooklyn, okay? And then I'm gonna zip off to Staten Island at some point. So that is the update on the New York City Marathon. It's, you know, and so tomorrow, I think tomorrow I'm gonna talk about my philosophy behind training and maintaining fitness and getting as fresh as possible with two big marathons in two weeks. So I'm gonna give you my thoughts on what I'm doing to take care of the body tomorrow. Sound good? So that's the update there on the New York City Marathon. What else, okay, I'll save that for later. I'm actually gonna get dinner and then we'll keep, I gotta get rolling out. If you're wondering why the house is so quiet on a Saturday, the boys are at a birthday party. So that's what's going on. That's what's going on, all right. Now I'm sure I'm missing something, some of the details for New York that I just can't think of right now. I do fly out on Monday morning. So after the marathon, my wave, I think I start about 940-ish around there. So that means, let's hope, finishing around noon-ish. Am I doing the math right there? So that would be amazing.  I know there's gonna be so many people, but I might not have my green hat on, I just realized because I probably won't wear it in the race unless, no, I'll put it in my drop bag, yeah. Oh, all these details, a lot of details. The New York City is way more complex than Amsterdam because you start and finish in different locations. So as far as logistics, it is beyond me, beyond me. All right, we're just getting dinner going here, folks. Oh, you know how I like my salads and my chips and salsa and just trying to put goodness into the body. And yes, I'm a little crazy. I put hot sauce on my salads, you better believe it. Specifically spicy taco sauce, a fiery, tangy blend of peppers and spices. So I'm trying to think what other updates I have for you for New York City. I'm gonna talk about my race strategy probably on Monday or Tuesday. And because I'm a little bit of a shoe fanatic when it comes to running shoes, I always find the presenting sponsor interesting at big races and small races. For example, here in Colorado, the Dirty 3050K is presented by Solomon. In Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Marathon was presented by Mizuno, which I just love. The fact that some companies that are maybe a little smaller than the biggest companies out there are getting their slice of the pie. And so in New York, it's New Balance. New Balance is a, I find it a little interesting because New Balance is a Boston-based company. But they're the presenting sponsor of the New York City Marathon. So I never order, I never really order t-shirts from a race unless they're handing them out for free. But for New York City, I splurged just a little bit. Got my mom a little gift as well for celebrating this moment for the New York City Marathon since I'm running it for her. So it'll be some New Balance gear arriving very soon, which is fun. Before I forget, D'Amore Global Running has a Strava group. So you can also follow me on Strava, but more importantly, this D'Amore Global Running group is listed down below in the description. And I'll try and put it at the top of the description because I realize there's a lot going on down there. Let's show there for, I will create an event for the run on Saturday, November 2nd, 10 a.m. in Central Park at Tavern on the Green. So I will make an event for that. And listen, I chose Central Park. Obviously it's Central in Manhattan and I know there's a lot of fans out there and in the Manhattan area, but then it's not too far to the expo from there. It's about a little over two miles. So that's the game plan. The game plan everybody. So I'll make a Strava event tonight as well. But I just absolutely love chips and salsa.  So tonight we've got our fall harvest salsa and then a habanero ghost pepper salsa, just ridiculously hot and spicy. But I like hot and spicy, you better believe it. Oh man. And of course, veggie and flaxseed tortilla chips, which sound kind of not so good. They're incredible. So my favorite chip out there. Okay, here it is.  Like what do you really need throughout, consistently, throughout many of your training days just a little snack just to hold you over till your next big meal or whatever the case may be. For me, it's chips and salsa. I also love dark chocolate, even though I know that's more of a dessert category, but that's the question of the day, your favorite go-to snack. I can't wait to read these comments because inside sometimes you run out of ideas of what you can be eating and there's so many options out there. It's just you gotta stretch your limits a little bit. So thanks for hitting it up down below. Mm-mm, good, that was tasty everyone. Okay, one more update on the New York City Marathon as we wrap up the vlog. So today's vlog was a little atypical, just so you know, usually I do a little more filming, a little more excitement in the vlog, but it was just ketchup and today was a life vlog. Remember what I say, life is part of running, running is part of life. So, that's what we're doing today, just catching up, having a good time here, but I hope I still was able to bring you a little bit of value with respect to the New York City and everything that's gonna be happening there, including the Elite Runners. Here we go. I didn't even realize, Abdi. That's right, Abdi Abdaraman of the United States who has a PR of 208. I didn't realize that. He's an Olympian from the United States. He's just, I've met Abdi before. He's a kind of a character. He's hilarious. So Abdi, let's see. What are the names? Jeffrey Kamwawer from Kenya. I'm not saying that right, but he has a 206 and he won in Berlin. And then we've got Jared Ward who ran 209 in Boston this year. That's right. He trains I believe in Utah. So I'm excited about him. Oh, very excited about Lalisa Desisa of Ethiopia. He is a 204 PR. And then let me just scan here a little bit more. Okay, so those are the top, I would say the top runners. And then, yeah, top runners. Okay, Pro Women real quick is Allie Keifer. Oh, so she's kind of emerging onto the scene here. So she has a 228 to her name. Des is running. See, I didn't know any of this. So Des won Boston in 2000. No, how recently? Well, she has a PR of 222 in Boston in 2011, but she also won Boston I think two years ago. Okay, who else? Oh my goodness. Mary Catani, I can never say these names right from Kenya. And she and the new record holder in the world record holder have battled it out for a while. Well, she has a 217 to her name. So that is very impressive. Mary Catani of Kenya. So who, let me just make sure I'm not missing anyone. Sarah Hall, whoa, she's had a big fall if you've been following Sarah Hall of the United States. Oh my goodness. So there you go. That is those are the elites for the New York City Marathon 2019. And I'm excited to tow the line just behind them and see what we can do in New York in seven days from when you're watching this on Sunday. So all right, we're gonna close it out again. Simple vlog, simple day, but there's a little more intel for you. And looking forward to your comments about snack food. You better believe it. I'm gonna have a snack here in a little bit. All right, there we go. We're gonna throw it back to Amsterdam just to remind us all of where we've been and hopefully where we're going. Okay, so Amsterdam race and then we're gonna pick it up with a recovery vlog on the left. All right, there you go. See beauty, work hard and love each other. See you tomorrow.


1 Corinthians chapter 15 We'll begin reading at verse 1 read to verse 11 1 Corinthians 15 beginning at verse 1 Paul writes more over brethren. I declare to you the gospel which I preach to you Which also you received and in which you stand by which also you are saved If you hold fast that word which I preach to you unless you believed in vain For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and That he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures and That he was seen by Cephas then by the 12 After that he was seen by over 500 brethren at once of whom the greater part remained to the present But some have fallen asleep After that he was seen by James then by all the apostles then last of all He was seen by me also as by one born out of due time For I am the least of the apostles who am not worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God But by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace toward me was not in vain But I labored more abundantly Then they all Yet not I But the grace of God which was with me therefore Whether it was I or they so we preach and so you believed chapter 15 of first Corinthians Is devoted entirely to one central doctrine the doctrine of the resurrection Someone said among the various false doctrines which had crept into the church at Corinth composed of those who had so recently been heathen and Who had so much to unlearn? Was one that the resurrection was only the resurrection of the soul from sin to a new life That this resurrection was already passed in the case of those converted and that a resurrection after death was impossible and So Paul is going to be correcting that error that has entered into the church We need to remember a little bit about what was going on during the time of the writing of first Corinthians We need to remember that Corinth was in the city or rather in the country of Greece and we need to remember that the Greek intellectuals believed that a faith in a resurrection was intellectually absurd I Was mentioning to you today If you were with us in our Sunday morning service how that when the apostle Paul was writing to the Romans He had asked the question and answered he supplied the answer What advantage? Did the Jews have and he said they have a great advantage in that they received the oracles of God the utterances of God He said they have a great advantage because they have the word of God And when you begin to look at your Bible you see how true that really is because for example You see in the book of Acts in chapter 8 how that an evangelist by the name of Philip is Out in an area of Gaza's desert and as he's there in this particular region He happens upon by the Holy Spirit's leading an Ethiopian eunuch who had recently been in Jerusalem celebrating one of the feasts and The Holy Spirit speaks to Philip and says to him attach yourself to that chariot and so Philip through obedience goes and approaches this man of great authority and as He does so the Lord makes a way for him to actually converse with this Ethiopian man and Philip asks him the question he says to him What is it that you're reading and The Ethiopian says well I'm reading this portion of scripture and the portion of scripture that he refers to is out of Isaiah 53 and So it's speaking concerning Messiah in that passage and so Philip asked him the question do you understand what you're reading and The man says to him how can I unless somebody teaches me how how can I unless somebody guides me? So from that portion of scripture the Bible tells us Philip began to instruct him concerning Jesus Christ in the resurrection and so When he finishes conversing with him The man begins to speak to him and Philip says to him something related to Baptism and the man says I'd like to be baptized What does hinder me from being baptized and Philip says you may if you believe in all your heart with all your heart Concerning Jesus Christ and he says I do believe and so we see that based on the fact that this man Believes in the word of God was reading the word of God How God used that to tie in so that he could minister to this Ethiopian and the Ethiopian could be saved based on the fact That he believed the word of God is the word of God And so you have that instance with an Ethiopian and yet you have another instance in the book of Acts in chapter 17 In the book of Acts chapter 17 We have the Apostle Paul and Paul is in the city of Athens the intellectual city and As he is there his heart is wholly moved because he sees that the city is given completely over to idolatry So he begins to reason he begins to share the gospel He does so in the synagogues as well as the marketplace and So he'll go to the place where there are religious individuals the synagogue and he shares the message of the gospel with them But he also goes amongst the Greeks and he ultimately is heard by the Stoics and the Epicurians the intellectuals of that day and They said amongst themselves wonder what this babbler has to say so they invite him to go to Mars. He'll in order that he might communicate this message to the intellectuals and They listen to him and as Paul goes up to share with them. He begins to share with the group of people Concerning Jesus and the resurrection Now when he speaks concerning Jesus, he's obviously using the Greek rendering of the name Jesus But when he says resurrection and that's what he's speaking concerning resurrection He uses the Greek word for resurrection, which is Anastasia So when he speaks of Jesus and Anastasia, they believe that he's speaking of two separate gods one referred to as Jesus and a female goddess called Anastasia When he begins to share with them that he's speaking concerning an event called the resurrection Well, these Greeks laugh him to score and they don't want to hear anything of it in Acts 17 31 and 32 Paul says that God has set a day when he will judge the world with justice By the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead When they heard about the resurrection of the dead Some of them sneered but others said we want to hear you again on this subject And so he didn't have a great fruit there because these intellectuals sneered at the resurrection. They didn't believe in resurrection false teachers had been entering into the Corinthian church and They began to infuse this kind of skepticism into the church Paul speaking about this in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verses 16 through 18 Gave a warning there by saying avoid godless chatter Because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly Their teaching will spread like gangrene Among them are hymenias and phyletes who have wandered away from the truth They say that the resurrection has already taken place and they destroy the faith of some and So the resurrection was a central question It's one of the questions that the Corinthians are asking of Paul and they want instruction concerning it The resurrection of Jesus Christ is of utmost importance to the gospel message That's because Christianity in its essence is a resurrection religion The concept of resurrection lies at its heart and if you remove the resurrection Christianity will be destroyed And so Paul is speaking concerning resurrection here in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 and he's going to give a lot of information related to it So as we begin allow me to present five reasons why the resurrection is Central to the faith of a believing Christian five reasons And I want you to hear these things and hopefully follow these things and understand them as I try to share them one Why is the resurrection central to our faith? Well first Jesus claimed to be God in human flesh and His divinity is proven by the resurrection His divinity is proven by the resurrection We saw this in Romans chapter 1 verse 4 how it says that Jesus was declared to be the son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead and so One of the reasons the first reason is is that Jesus's divinity is proven by the resurrection Secondly the lordship of Jesus depends on his resurrection in Romans again chapter 14 verse 9 Paul said to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living The lordship of Jesus depends on his resurrection third our personal justification rests on his resurrection in Romans 4 verse 25 it says that he was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our Justification so our personal justification before God rests on the resurrection fourth our personal salvation depends on the resurrection Romans 10 verse 9 if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and Believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved So your salvation depends on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and then finally our own Resurrection rests on whether or not Jesus was raised from the dead again in the book of Romans chapter 8 verse 11 If the spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you He who raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit who dwells in you our own Resurrection rests on whether or not Jesus was raised from the dead So his divinity is proven by the resurrection is a lordship depends on his resurrection Our personal justification rests on his resurrection our personal salvation depends on his resurrection and our own Resurrection rests on whether or not he was raised from the dead That's why Paul writes at such length concerning the doctrine of the resurrection You see Satan has worked to undermine the central fact of resurrection But the entire ministry of Jesus Christ rests on whether or not he was resurrected from the dead the whole ministry does You see if the Lord Jesus Christ was not resurrected from the dead then there's no reason to believe him Because his whole ministry from the beginning all the way back in John chapter 2 to its conclusion rests on whether or not he died was buried and raised the third day the whole ministry depends on that if Jesus Christ had not been resurrected Then we have all people are most foolish We'll see that later on when we move into verses 12 following because there Paul is going to be giving us some Information related to that but of all people we would be most miserable because we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was raised from the dead and If Jesus Jesus wasn't raised from the dead then our faith is in vain our preaching is in vain Our whole life is in vain and even as Paul would say we of all people are most miserable Because we have a hope that goes beyond the present lifetime. I Mean many of us go through some terrible times you go through and endure hardships and difficulties that that if you didn't believe There's something better waiting for you. You'd be overwhelmed by it. You'd be torn up by it But because you know that you're just passing through that you're a sojourner that you're a pilgrim and that this earth is not your home That it's a place where the Lord is refining your faith and preparing you for a better place as a believer I could say I can endure all things because of Jesus Christ because I have something waiting me for me That's more enduring than anything I have right now That's why Moses was able to to go out into a wilderness and spend so many years with these people who who were really rebellious and rejecting it and all of that are the things of God when he had the throne of Egypt waiting for him Yet he chose to be with the children of Israel and to suffer alongside of them Because he saw something more enduring and something more permanent and something much better That was awaiting him and it all related to his final resurrection and his being with the Lord in eternity That's what keeps us going Jesus Christ taught concerning this He spoke of it often one example mark chapter 8 verse 31 how it says he began to teach them that the son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and Of the chief priests and scribes and be killed and after three days rise again And so our faith rests on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ If Jesus Christ was not resurrected then our faith is In vain and we have believed in a foolish fashion. We have believed somebody who did not tell us the truth When you study through the book of Acts You will see the sermons that were preached and there are some powerful sermons in the book of Acts You will see that the sermons Center on the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a matter of fact Peter's first sermon centered on the resurrection After that the Holy Spirit had come upon The hundred and twenty who are there in that upper room there in the city Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost and after they had poured out into the that that that courtyard area and They're speaking in these languages that they had never learned and they're proclaiming the wonderful works of God and the people began to listen to them even mock them and And it was given an opportunity to the Apostle Peter as he saw this taking place to give his first message And this is what he said in Acts chapter 2 verses 22 and 23 when he said you men of Israel Hear these words Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs Which God did by him in the midst of you as you yourselves also know Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and for knowledge of God You have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain Now that I promise you is not a popular message to speak to a group of people To say You are respond that's very pointed to say you are responsible and you with wicked hands took this man and you you killed him That is a powerful thing to say But he continues on at verse 32 of the same chapter and he says this Jesus as God raised up Whereof we all are witnesses you took him you put him to death, but God raised him from the dead So the entire gospel message rests on the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and so that's why Paul here in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 is Going to pay so much attention to the central doctrine Beginning at verses 1 and 2 again He says more over brethren. I declare to you the gospel that word gospel We use it all the time means good news amazing use the gospel Which I preached to you which also you received and in which you stand By which also you are saved if you hold fast that word which I preach to you Unless you believed in vain Paul begins by addressing the Corinthians as brethren So he's speaking to Christians and I want you to notice how he is speaking concerning the fact that verse 1 that he Declars I declare to you the gospel which I preach to you So he's speaking them and he's declaring to them that word declare means to make known or to declare Clarify he's reminding them of what they have already been taught Sometimes you may think I've already heard that I already have heard that before I've heard that several times Well, it took me over a year to figure out that when my mom was saying David. She's talking to me Took me about a year to know that's my name and I discovered something I've discovered That some lessons are repeated over my spiritual lifetime there are things that I hear over and over and over again because repetition is Necessary for it to finally become inculcated in my being so that I finally receive it and act on it and understand it And then there are layers and layers and layers that God will give to you of truth Where you begin to see even deeper things than you first heard maybe 10 years ago or 15 years ago because truth as it is actually settles to a deeper and deeper level and you begin to understand more and more of what God is saying in that one scripture that you may have memorized 30 years ago And so he's saying something to them that they've already heard but he's declaring to them He said the gospel which I preached to you Which you also received and in which you stand So they had not only heard the gospel I want you to see that they had also received it When he speaks about them receiving that word received means to welcome it speaks of welcoming this message Not just because it's attractive But welcoming the message of the gospel with an intent intent to obey it The best way to know a scripture is to read it with the intent of obeying it It's not just the accumulation of information in other words It's it's God speak to your servant because I'm listening and I want to know your ways And so as you declare these things to me I want to be able to put them into practice so that I can have a depth of understanding in how you work And so he said you welcome this in you had a desire to receive it because you wanted to obey and You've been established. That's what he says when he's saying in which you stand that word stand means to be established in You you welcome this message of the gospel and you are established in it He says in verse 2 by which also you are saved if you hold fast that word which I preach to you So receiving and standing in the gospel enables you to be saved You have heard it and you abide in it you continue in God's word and as you continue in God's word It demonstrates that you are saved. It's like what it says in Hebrews 3 14 We have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end There are those who begin the race who never finish it they come forward at an invitation and Sometimes they're weeping sometimes. They're just all the outward signs of repentance and all But I've discovered over time that it's not always repentance that you see taking place there Sometimes what you're seeing is regret Sometimes what you're seeing is guilt they feel bad because they did something They feel bad because they did something and got caught most of the time Sometimes they feel bad because they did something got caught and they're going to do time for it and So sometimes I'll speak to those who have come forward and and you'll hear the stories and a Lot of times what it has been is I feel bad. I Wasn't good to my kids or I wasn't good to my spouse or I've been bad on the job And it's a lot of guilt involved But there's a difference between regretting something and repenting from something and a lot of times people regret but don't repent regret is a short-term response of sorrow even can create a sense of of Depression if you will where a person's so down. He's regretting. She's regretting what she did But when you say have you turned away from that now you take in a different path. Have you changed your mind concerning it? They haven't you see the word repent is a Greek word metanoia and metanoia speaks of a change of mind It's a change of the way you're looking at something when you repent from something You may not even have a sense of sorrow over it There is a godly sorrow and you may have a godly sorrow but it's not even necessary that this sorrow a company repentance because sometimes When you've repented I've seen this when people got saved sometimes when you've repented it's simply made sense I need Jesus and I need to be right with him and there aren't any tears involved It's just a change of mind where I'm going. I don't want to be I want to be someplace else It's wise for me to change my mind when I got saved. I went through this Emotional high I was just Praised God I was like I was sharing in service today. I was like that that that that woman who was forgiven much and loved much because because I had this tremendous sense of Sorrow over what I'd done in my life to my friends and and family and all so I got saved and I had this this sense of Praise the Lord but when Marie my my wife got saved she got saved like two or three weeks after attending a Bible study with me my sister Madeline led her to Christ and When Marie got saved she later on spoke to me and said you know I I began to question my salvation because I didn't have that kind of Response that you speak about that you had and that's that's because Marie didn't have the baggage that I had So for her as her entrance into the kingdom of God it made sense to her. It's the right thing to do She did the same thing. I did she repented she committed her heart to Christ She turned around and went in a different direction by changing her mind So some people will regret Other people understand repentance and you repent in order to have a relationship with God Sometimes people will come forward Only regretting they felt bad about what they did they got caught perhaps or they're afraid over the Circumstances or or the repercussions and then everything seems to pan out all right and before you know it They're back in their old lifestyle. They're back doing what they used to do in the past So there's a good reason to wonder whether or not they understood what it means to truly believe It's interesting how he adds this phrase unless you believed in vain Again, he's speaking against what would be called a non saving faith That's been referred to as a worthless belief It is a pseudo faith That produces no effects Because it's not genuinely placed in the Lord Jesus Christ in John 831 Jesus said to those Jews who believed him if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed So it's not just believing in Concept that there is a God that Jesus could be speaking truth faith and trusting in the Lord is putting your full weight and saying I 100% I'm committed to this and that when you do is not believing in vain. That's true faith The fact that they held fast to what had been preached Demonstrates salvation But as is true in every gathering some among them were not genuinely saved so Paul is warning those who intellectually believe Jesus's Lordships savior hood and even resurrection And so he desires he desires them to know whether they truly do follow after the Lord Jesus Christ They're gonna need to check out their own hearts to see if they're truly saved. I have this I Don't know what it is About me something about me that I've gotten people upset I know that surprises you but I've gotten people upset with me because Because I have an intensity That I don't know how to check to this day. I do better now than I used to I'll be up front with you on that I do better now than I used to and when I was in college back in 1974 And yes, they had colleges back then when I was in college back in 1974. I had a class and there was a young woman in the class that I attended Who told me that she was a Christian? She didn't have any fruit in her life. I didn't see the evidence is And so When I spoke to her Well, I spoke in such a way that apparently got on her nerves because I remember her saying to be one time She said David you speak to me as if I'm not a Christian and I've been telling you that I am and you know, it was it was only because I didn't well, I didn't believe she was and you know But she was she was like totally convinced that she was now who am I to judge whether she is saved or not I've learned since then not to have that attitude But I can do that with people and even here in the church when I'm given Bible studies Even believers who've been following Christ for 30 years can walk out of the Bible studies sometimes saying I think he thinks I'm not saved, you know and and and what what that is is just a it is just a glimpse into how I am with myself because I I look within myself daily and I test myself where I stand with the Lord Jesus Christ and and You may say oh, but it sounds to me like you've got poor self-esteem and you don't have any confidence Well, that's true But second Corinthians chapter 13 verse 5 says examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you unless of course you fail the test So I want to have this ongoing relationship with the Lord and and Paul desires them to know whether or not they really follow Jesus So he begins to speak to them concerning this gospel message that he had preached verse 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures and so he begins By saying I'm delivering to you that which I received I didn't make up this message I received the same message that I declared to you I received the gospel by faith and I share the same message to you by faith Paul had to be saved in order to preach salvation and he's making it clear. I didn't design this message I didn't invent the gospel. I'm simply giving to you what I have received myself I didn't invent it. It's like what he says in Galatians 1 11 and 12 When he spoke to them and said I make known to you brethren that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man For I neither received it from man nor was I taught it But it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. He said this is not an invented message It is a message that has been Unicated by revelation through Jesus Christ and this is the gospel that I preach to you Now what is the essence of the gospel? we know that the gospel message is Built on the fact that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son That whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life We know that God Demonstrated his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so the fundamental foundational principle of the gospel is The love of God that has done something to rescue lost sinners has done something to transform sinners and That is through the giving of the son Jesus Christ And in the giving of the son Jesus Christ it transforms us from the way that we live To a new way of life. It's called being born again So what is the first principles while one Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures? I'll have sin and fall short of the glory of God. The wages of sin is death But the free gift of God is life through Jesus Christ So the first thing he points to as an essential is Christ died Christ died for our sins Now he says according to the scriptures because Isaiah 53 8 through 10 says this by oppression and judgment He was taken away who can speak of his descendants for he was cut off from the land of living For the transgression of my people. He was stricken He was assigned to grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death though He had done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering He will see his offspring and prolong his days and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand So Christ died for our sins. Secondly, he was buried and that was referred to in the passage I just spoke of through Isaiah how he made his grave with the wicked third. He says he rose again The third day he was resurrected again, you find that in scripture Psalm 16 verse 10 You will not abandon me to the grave nor will you let your holy one see decay? And so Jesus Christ was raised the third day in Matthew in chapter 12 verses 39 and 40 It says a wicked and adulterous generation asked for a miraculous sign But none will be given it Accept the sign of the prophet Jonah for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish So the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth He rose again the third day in verses five through seven. It says he was seen by Cephas and then by the 12 Well, that declares that Jesus's resurrection is attested by eyewitnesses That's an important point because he's saying that it isn't just a tradition and it's not just a story It's not something of fable that has been circulated amongst people. It is something that is verifiable. There were eyewitnesses This is not mythological. This is a real event. He was seen by Cephas The word Cephas there the name Cephas is the same as the apostle Peter and the apostle Peter would speak in this way In second Peter 1 16 when he said we did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and come in Our Lord Jesus Christ we he says were eyewitnesses of his majesty So he was seen by Cephas first six says he was seen by the 12 When it refers to the 12 that's simply another way of referring to the apostles and you see those Instances in the Gospel of John in chapter 20 When he says he was seen by over 500 brethren at once There's no specific reference to where and when this occurred But he's using it to those who would have heard that and it bolsters his statement concerning the resurrection In verse 7 he says after that he was seen by James Most likely this James that has been spoken of is the brother of the Lord Jesus. This is one who at one time doubted him You know, I find that Amazing let me take a moment to say this every time I I consider Jesus's brothers and sisters did not believe in him I ask you to think about that for just a minute How amazing that is I think that sometimes we ought to put ourselves in the position of Of that historic event in order that we might grasp it a little more fully Because when you read your bible very often you just read it as an outsider just viewing information But put yourself in the home with Jesus Christ and and And what it would have been like to live with if you have a brother or a sister to live with a perfect person A very few people have the opportunity to live with a perfect person, right? I mean it's outside of marie nobody else does You know, I mean think about it A perfect person I mean think about it and he has brothers and sisters.   But you grew up with them You knew when they got mad you knew when they when they were doing wrong But Jesus's brothers and sisters never did anything like that Never saw anything like that Mama said Jesus son make your bed And he go no, she's made Made a new one Make your bed Think about that one for a minute And I don't think Mary ever even had to tell him to Never had to tell him to pick up his sandals or clean his room There just was no evidence of that and so James grew up with a perfect Brother yet. He didn't believe in him In john chapter 7 verses 3 through 5 it says Jesus's brothers said to him You ought to leave here and go to Judea So that your disciples may see the miracles you do No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret Since you're doing these things show yourself to the world And then john says for even his own brothers did not believe in him James didn't believe until after the resurrection After the resurrection James became a very firm and strong believer In Jesus He says then by all the apostles There are other occasions when he appeared That may have included a larger circle of disciples And then in verse 8 then last of all he was seen by me also Notice how paul describes himself as by one born out of due time That phrase born out of due time is an interesting phrase it means Born prematurely It speaks of a life unable to sustain itself He's saying god was merciful to me Because i was born without hope And now I have life I was born with The incapacity Of surviving I was born out of due time Today we have These amazing births of children That sometimes are Two pounds You know my own grandson josiah Was born prematurely I have a picture of him when he was born the day he was born and he was I forget two or three weeks early and We went to the hospital and and My daughter karin handed me her son And I have a picture of me holding him And my hands where my my finger is hitting the palm of my other hand. That's how small he was He's very small He only weighed a few pounds And I remember holding his this little boy holding his hand his head in my hand and and the rest of his body in My other hand And that's how small and tiny he was and then they then they do what they can to make sure that the lungs Develop and you know, you know what happens with premature babies and all and they're concerned about jaundice and a variety of things that happen well Paul is simply saying I was born With no hope of life I was born out of due time I I should have died. I was the living dead But god Was gracious to me He gave me life And that's something we all should rejoice in Because god gives us life without him. We don't have life So paul, what did you do? What did you do?  I slept around man, you know, I I say that facetiously, but I want you to think about it How does somebody act? Who knows that god has been merciful to them? How do they act Think about it because he's going to tell us We just read it. I'll read it again in a moment. He's going to tell us What is it that motivated the apostle paul To make it his chief aim To preach the gospel of jesus christ where jesus's name had never been spoken What motivated this man to travel For so many years To preach to be beaten to be shipwrecked To to to suffer the loss of all things to be imprisoned To to be looked at as being the off scouring to be rejected and to be Ridiculed and what is it paul? What is it that you did with the grace of god? He says I I labored He says I labored for the gospel He says in verse eight again last of all he was seen by me also As by one born out of due time I'm the least of the apostles who Who am not worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of god, but By the grace of god, I am what I am and his grace toward me was not in vain But I labored more abundantly than they are yet not I but the grace of god Which was with me. What did you do?  He speaks about it several times in his writings when he gives his testimony I persecuted the church of god to the death. That's what he says I wanted him to die. He was there holding the cloak of those who were stoning Uh the first christian martyr He was there watching as it took place and he was he was voting for the man to die That's what he did before christ But after jesus came into his life Listen when I was a young man and Before I got saved And and i'm so old now people might not believe this is true what it is If you said there was a party I'd be the first person to it And I'd be the last person to leave Like some of you in this room Party let's go Drink absolutely Smoke dope of course Get crazy. Why not? Why not Why not what else is there to do? And that's what I did Oh, we're going out on friday. Are you kidding me? Let's go out on monday Let's go out on tuesday Can we do it twice on wednesday? You want to go to party let's party let's party because I I can see you understand. I got a bunch of dopers in here Uh, but that's how it was that's how it was Full on committed totally You know totally totally into that life totally Loved it enjoyed it Did it because it was life It was also miserable But it was life. It's what I had it's what I thought was good After getting saved The energies that I used to put into running from god We're turned around And I began to pursue god So when you would have said in the past There's a party in lehabra I'd say let's go Someone would say there's a bible study in lehabra And I'd say let's go And that's what we did We'd get in my car And we'd sing songs all the way to the bible study We'd go to the study We'd open our bibles We'd read the word of god Some kid who'd be 19 or 20 Who didn't know Anything would be the bible teacher And he'd just say wow Isn't this cool Jesus died for us man And we go No, I'm talking like an old hippie. Some of you understand this language Far out Far out bad and it was And it hasn't changed 42 years You know stay with the lord And that's all paul is saying and he said once I was going away And now I follow him I was somebody who was given life How did I use that life To serve the lord jesus christ When he says in verse 10 I call this the papai verse and some of you are too young to know what that is But you oldsters will understand once I say it Papai used to say I am what I am and that's all that I am Well by the grace of god, I am what I am so papai caught hold of the teaching of the apostle paul and was brought into the cartoons But it's through the grace of god that I am what I am and his grace toward me Now notice this was not in vain Do you want to be able to say the same thing I do His grace to me was not in vain It was not wasted on my life He said I labored more abundantly But it wasn't me working. It's the grace of god Which was with me out of thankfulness. He said I serve god not partially But I serve god with all of my strength And his grace toward me isn't in vain Because he truly saved me And he filled me with his power And he works in my life therefore Whether it was I or they So we preach And so you believe And that's how it works Some of you have not really learned this yet But I'm praying that you will and that is this There is nothing you'll ever do That is more rewarding There is nothing that you will ever do That is more than more rewarding Than leading somebody to faith in jesus christ Nothing Nothing is more rewarding Than to see somebody's entire Life direction change And when they were on their way to hell To see them turn around And move on their way to heaven There is nothing more exciting Than to see people's lives change You can turn them on to a variety of things And see them diminish Or you can bring them to faith in jesus christ And you can see them live And for me the most exciting thing I do Is to help people to see god So that their lives are blessed by god And then one day when they close their eyes here They're going to open their eyes there To see him and the grace of god is not in vain For them And that's the greatest thing Make it your aim to understand that watch your life change


Hi, this is Peter Roberts. I oversee the Americas for Jones, Langley, South, and I just came from a most interesting session on the future of Europe, and I will tell you if there was one consensus, the consensus was frustration that we haven't figured out the problem yet. Is it a problem of lack of competitiveness? Is it a problem of lack of growth? Is it a problem of too much profligate government spending? There were clearly debates all around those areas, but the clear conclusions were number one, Europe will continue through, and in a word, muddle through. Number two, that it will take leadership that focuses more on acting regionally as well as speaking regionally, and now I think people think that government leaders are speaking regionally and acting nationally, and that's hindering the recovery, and that will a combination of increasing focus on competitiveness and leadership that focuses regionally instead of nationally, that Europe will continue to muddle through and come through. The last bit of it is focusing very much on how Europe takes advantage of the growth engine that is the far East.


I tried doing this as I was watching some of these intense games and I imagined what would it be like if I didn't care, you know, if I didn't mind, you know, whether England wins the championship or not. What if I don't care? What if it makes absolutely no difference to me? And sort of getting a taste of it, it's almost like a zen kind of mindset, you know, where you're beyond all concerns and just kind of like a stoic resolution of just being completely ready to accept anything that is outside my control. And maybe we can use that as some kind of training for life, that we can imagine letting go of that attachment to what's out of our control. If we're able to do that with our favorite sports teams, well, maybe that we can apply some of that to the intense battles in our life. Of course, still fighting intensely for everything we can control, but completely letting go and accepting anything we cannot control. But then on the other hand, I think, well, would sports even be fun? I mean, would it be fun if we didn't actually care who wins? I mean, you can sometimes enjoy a game as a neutral, but it doesn't have the same intensity as when you really get attached to a particular team and ride the roller coaster. So riding the roller coaster is part of the whole joy of sports fandom. So then does that apply to life as well? Is there an argument to not be stoic, to say, yeah, okay, it's reasonable. It all makes logical sense, but it's more fun to ride the roller coaster and let myself get attached and simply be okay with sometimes being happy and sometimes being disappointed. So I'd like to hear what you think about this on the sports side. Is it possible to have this kind of zen or stoic sports attitude when following sports? Or on the life side, is there a case to be made against stoicism that we can kind of have that kind of sports fandom mentality apply some of that to life and just be okay with the roller coaster? And I think that this also applies to things other than sports, like the biggest one being politics, which is a lot like the roller coaster of sports. But with politics, you have that feeling that, oh, you know, you could, you have your vote and you or you can protest or you can tweet about it. So there's that sense that you can contribute in some small way. So it's not completely or near completely passive as it is with watching other men throw a ball or kick it. So there's that there's it's harder to just accept that it's that it's that it's outside my control because as long as there's that little bit of control that we can have over it, then we it's hard to give it up as like, oh, I can just I'm just not I'm just not going to worry about it. But when something is almost outside our control and maybe it's debatable how much we should actually invest our emotions in it, but it's not easy to give these things up.  What if, you know, it's completely illogical. But, you know, when I if I imagine not caring that my favorite team wins is almost like there's it seems like I'm being disloyal or maybe, you know, am I going to let them down and, you know, I know I have to help them win. So my whole idea with this with these sports, this sports fan mindset is that it makes an interesting metaphor for how we view the ups and downs of life. And it kind of reveals something about how we emotionally react to those ups and downs by seeing how we react to the outcome of a sports event or possibly politics or some other kind of big event that we're observing. Then we can maybe get some idea of how we might apply that in our own lives.


The Ministry of Health recently received a donation of biomedical recitation equipment from the University Hospital of Martinique to air in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Deputy Head of Mission from the Embassy of France, Mack Matillio says this donation demonstrates the continuation of strong medical cooperation between St. Lucia and the University Hospital of Martinique. I would like to express on behalf of the Embassy of France in St. Lucia, my pleasure to note the dynamism of this medical cooperation between France and St. Lucia, a cooperation which benefits above all the St. Lucia people. Let us continue to stay safe. The pandemic is not over. Medical Office of Health, Dr. Glens von Joseph expressed gratitude to the University Hospital of Martinique for the donation and contribution to the medical sector and people of St. Lucia. Personal from the University Hospital, they have been providing training, providing assessment of persons who have been impacted with COVID and also building capacity in terms of our medical equipment to support the management of COVID-19 patients. This generous donation of medical equipment is just another in a series of interventions where Martinique has supported St. Lucia in its fight against all medical issues. Director of International Relations at the University Hospital of Martinique, Christian Bourgeois-Janivier says organization is very pleased to provide this gift and looks forward to working with the staff at the Victoria Hospital to ensure proper care of patients. Today is the last, I should say, donation that will be useful to help patients, to give patients oxygenation and to prevent very acute invasive cares of resuscitation. So it's very, we are very happy to help the staff, the medical staff of VH because we know that with the epidemic right now, the battle is still going on. The biomedical equipment, valued at approximately 200,000 EC dollars, included oxygenators, heating humidifiers and ultrasound nebulizers. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, I am Fenel Neptune.


Hello and welcome. I'm Lynne Freese, producer of Global Political Economy, or GBE News Docs. This is part two of a conversation with author Peter Drahoes on his forthcoming book, Survival Governance, Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century. In part one, Drahoes explained two concepts, survival governance and the biodigital energy paradigm introduced in the book. And why, as argued in the book, without strong leadership from one or more states, a world below two degrees centigrade is not feasible. Innovation leadership is needed to move the world off fossil fuels and onto renewable energy. CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning represent about 75% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. continuous fossil fuel innovation and U.S. monopoly models of innovation are failed strategies for a world-seeking path to a low-carbon future. While many things could go very badly wrong, China, more than any other capitalist state, is the most plausible candidate to use state power to roll out new technology at the requisite speed, scale, price and direction necessary to address climate change. The world's best chance to avoid climate catastrophe rests on innovation leadership from China. This segment explores Drahoes' take on some other dynamics that he sees at play. We go now back to our conversation with Peter Drahoes, Professor of Law and Governance at the European University Institute and Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London. Welcome, Peter. Thank you. Peter, we're talking about energy and climate in a situation where the world's primary energy supply is dominated by fossil fuels with oil around 32%, gas 23%, coal around 27%, and renewable energy is marginalised at something like barely 2%. Talk about that and the lost opportunity of the 1970s. Look, the oil crisis of 73, 74 was one of those great opportunities. I mean, it was seen as an opportunity at the time. Lots of ideas that had been played around with, mainly by scientists in laboratories, the possibility of solar power, which really had become much more doable with the invention of, of course, the modern semiconductor chip in the 1950s, tidal power, for example, and wind power. All of these ideas about harnessing the ocean's currents, about harnessing the sun, about harnessing the wind, those ideas suddenly found an opportunity but the bulk of the funding went into things that ultimately mattered militarily, most obvious, most obviously nuclear power, but also it was all about maintaining oil security, which obviously was important both in terms of economic performance as well as, as well as for the purpose of fuelling war machines. Every year the International Energy Agency will publish statistics on the percentage of primary energy that we get from coal, oil and gas and renewable. I should make the point there that the renewable statistic does not include hydropower, which the International Energy Agency classifies separately from renewables. Of course, nuclear power also. It is a statistic that shows that progress has been slow and that is why I argue in the book that we are in the late stages of a climate crisis and innovation now is really our only hope. Had we begun in the 1970s, if we had grasped the opportunity of renewable energy that scientists, some scientists were presenting in the early 1970s and if we had built on that slowly and replaced oil and gas and coal right from the get-go as it were, we would be in a very different position today. Now we're in a position where we have to take radical action and painful action as quickly as we can. Talk about how the IEA, which was established in the wake of the 1970s oil crisis, played into all this. The International Energy Agency was described by Henry Kissinger as... he was primarily its architect. He described it as a sputnik moment. It was a sputnik moment that was really devoted to the oil and gas and coal industry. Its mission primarily was all about maintaining fossil fuel security. It was about maintaining oil security. We really should have created an international energy agency that had a much wider brief than simply being about oil security. That led to a narrow perspective. Over time it became very clear that the IEA was constantly underestimating the speed at which renewable energy could develop and in particular how it could travel down the cost curve. In other words, the speed at which renewable energy, the cost of renewable energy came down, tended to surprise IEA analysts. I think Germany in particular, with the support of other European countries, really became worried by this sort of group think mentality at the IEA where the focus was always on the fossil fuel paradigm with very little attention, serious attention being given to renewable energy. And so they proposed the creation of IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency. To the point about how the IEA constantly underestimates the potential of renewable energy innovation, I should note for viewers that in part one, you talked about the flip side of this, how the IEA constantly overestimates the potential of fossil fuel innovation with IEA scenarios on carbon capture storage, a stunning example of this. And on IRENA I understand it took quite some doing to get it up and running. That took a lot of work and in the book I document just how long that took to get up. And here I think we owe a debt of gratitude to those people who really fought for this over a period of three or so decades and got it off the ground because at least we have an international energy agency devoted to the cause of renewable energy and even though at the moment it doesn't have the kind of clout of an international energy agency, one hopes that that will change. Peter, you say climate change is a real world problem and argue against counting on Wall Street for solutions. Explain what you mean by that. You know, we did spend time doing interviews in the United States with people involved with the financing of renewables and I think the best one can say about Wall Street is that Wall Street sees renewable energy as part of a portfolio of investments. But it's a relatively small part. And you know, the example that I discuss in the book of course is the financing or the securitisation of mortgages prior to the global financial crisis. I mean essentially in the two years leading up to the global financial crisis, those securities or the securitisation of mortgages amounted to something like $2 trillion. And if you look at the global financial crisis, we see all of the actors in the financial sector deeply compromised. I mean we see the investment banks deeply compromised. We see the ratings agencies as deeply compromised. We see the regulators as deeply compromised. I mean in essence this was a community that completely failed us and there were real world consequences to this. And we can't afford to take that chance. We need technologies that are manufactured that are rolled out that make a difference to our energy emissions. So that's what I mean when I say we have a real world problem that requires real world solutions. What we don't need are people who are interested in financial speculation for the sake of it. We have to make sure that these innovations in these areas first of all are funded. But we also have to make sure that the research and development that underpins these innovation and that allows companies to roll these innovations out that that research and development is done. And that's not what Wall Street does. Wall Street does not fund basic research. It isn't in the business of providing the most important public good of all, which is knowledge about how we solve our problems. What's a post-circular economy and why do you think that ultimately world capitalism will have to shift in that direction? Well circular economy ideas have been around for a long time so we really saw them surface in one way or another in the 1960s and 70s when a small group of economists began to question the sustainability of linear growth models. Because essentially those economists really came to understand that the planet can only sustain so many people. The circular economy idea is essentially a very simple one and that is that waste should be recycled in some way. So for example a coal fire plant produces many waste products. So perhaps some of those products can be used to produce bitumen that could be used ultimately for the purposes of road building. So the basic idea is that one would recycle waste or pollutants for other industries. They become an input for other industries. So that's the basic idea of the circular economy. Don't waste things. The problem with the circular economy idea is that it still ultimately assumes fossil fuel and clearly we have to get off fossil fuel. So in my view it's not enough just to think about the circular economy.  So I think we ultimately we have to shift to some sort of post-circular economy in which services would play a much greater role. In the book you argue that in a post-circular economy the emphasis has to be on services to ecosystems and not ecosystem services. And you say this kind of emphasis is fundamental to indigenous cultures in Australia. In closing very briefly explain that. Well this really comes out of another book that I wrote many years ago in which I looked at Australia's indigenous people and how they had adapted to the Australian environment over a period of 80 or 1000 years or so. And again this was the book took a long time because I spent a lot of time hanging around with indigenous groups. And the basic message I came away with was from indigenous people was we do not own the country. The country owns us. So this is a very different perception of a relationship that you have with the country. It's a very different value. It's not about how we can turn ecosystems into places where we can put hotels and pretend somehow that's a service. And so I somewhat perhaps simplistically say there's a kind of Goldman Sachs version of ecosystems in which we look at them from the point of view of what we can get out of them in terms of exploitation. The real shift that we have to make is in what ways can I be of service to ecosystems and that's a huge paradigm shift. Peter Drahos, thank you. Thank you. And from Geneva, Switzerland, thank you for tuning into this episode of GPE News Dogs.


This video is about less mainstream music and what in the Anglo-Saxon world is called world music. Open yourself up to music from other cultures. It does automatically mean traditional music. In France there is a lively rap scene. In North Africa they have their own contemporary music, as they have in Israel. For all the tracks there is a link to YouTube so you can easily get the first impression. For full enjoyment, please play the CD or stream it from lots of streaming services. Let me first start with a fantastic British album from 1971. In my young years, my then girlfriend and me sung a number of tracks from this album during the 600 year city rights festivities of my birth town Wurden, the Netherlands. I accompanied us on guitar and we were dressed in period-correct clothing, including tights for me. So the album will always stay with me. The girlfriend did not, by the way. The Welsh singer and songwriter Mary Hopkins had a great hit with those were the days. It even kept Hey Jude by the Beatles from a number one position for three weeks. In 1970 she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest and became second. Year later the album I mentioned here was recorded. Tony Visconti, that produced Bowie, McCartney, Gentle Giant and T-Rex, amongst others, also produced this folk-oriented semi-acoustical album. It includes songs by Rolf Martel, Kat Stevens, Gallagher and Lyle, amongst others, but the track I want to mention here is Martha, composed by Harvey Andrews. Andrews is a singer songwriter, pretty much oriented on American folk but also toured for a year with the Dutch Art Rock band Focus. Martha portrays a sad woman that will feed upon your despair to quote a line from the lyrics and to quote another line, like a vulture Martha hovers high, waiting to pounce upon your shattered dreams. Hopkins' heavenly soprano voice, the twelve-string guitar, strings and double bass makes it a joy to listen to, which in fact goes through the entire album. France had always maintained a strong national cultural scene. Cultural protectionism to preserve the French language, for instance. The word computer was not accepted, so the French talk about l'ordinateur. And of course the film noir is quite famous. The French-speaking part of Belgium can be seen as part of that culture, think of Jacques Brelle. So we start off with a Belgian hip-hop artist. Stromay is the artist's name of the Belgian Paul van Haver. He was born to a Rwandan Tutsi father and a filmish mother. His father was killed in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide, which brings us directly to the track Papa Ute, which stems from Papa Uetu. Papa, where are you? He was scouted while working at a Belgian music radio station as a trainee. The music manager was impressed by his work and started to play allure on dance. Reactions were great and even the French president Sarkozy is reported to have reacted enthusiastically. From there on his star rises sky high, but after the release of this album he stopped working only to pick it up five years later. That led to the release of the third album Multitude. Although he is Belgian, he has a unique spot in the French hip-hop scene. Michel Sardoux is a French singer and actor, stemming from a famous artist's family. Both his father and mother were singers and actors too. While studying performing arts, he met Michel Fuguin and they became friends for life. His political and moral points of view were often the basis for songs which made him controversial. His opponents even published an essay named Should We Burn Sardoux. Still he became the best-selling artist in France after Jacques Brel, who was a Belgian like Stromay. The song I play quite often is Le Lac du Connemara. The Connemara Lakes. The Connemara area is a region on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. It is the setting of a marriage between Maureen and Sean, a Protestant and a Catholic, in the Granite Church in Limerick. Sardoux describes the rough landscape as a metaphor for the tension between the Catholics and the Protestants in Ireland. And at the time of writing, the IRA was very active. Remarkable is that neither Sardoux nor his co-lyruses, Pierre Delanoë, had visited Connemara prior to writing the song, which might be clear from the fact that Limerick is not situated in Connemara. They did visit the area a year later and in 2011 Sardoux was offered the symbolic keys of Clifton, Connemara's capital. Sardoux's friend, Michel Fuguin, is best known for his work with the hippie group of dancers and singers called Le Big Bazaar. One of his songs was translated in English to If I Only Had Time and was made a hit by John Rose. His theatre show, Michel Fuguin, the Le Big Bazaar, had all the features of a 70's show, like for instance a hair. The music is melodic and the lyrics like little poems, like une belle histoire, a nice story. It is about a young man that travels home from his vacation location and a young woman that travels south towards a vacation destination. They meet along the Holiday Highway, have a nice time together to know each other in a cornfield after which they both have to continue their own way. The kind of ships that pass in the night and thus a universal story. Living in France but from Algerian descent, Galed is known as the King of Rye, an Algerian style of folk music. Galed did mix it with influences from Spain, while Arabic is the main language mixed with French. To a western like me, they all sound like Arabic music, but that's due to my limited knowledge. What I do know is that Sarah, the title of the album, is how Sahara is pronounced in Arabic and refers to the great African desert. Aisha is sung in French and is about the theme I heard more often in Arabic and Balkan songs. The man that wants a woman's attention but gets rejected. In this case it's Aisha that rejects the man. I heard this album during my visit to Israel and was fascinated by it. I couldn't get the CD but a part of a track was on my holiday video. So when, after years, I wanted to find the album on title, Shazam helped me to find back the title and artist. The vacation was to visit the marriage of my brother in law and this track was in the video I made of it. I don't speak Hebrew and I now found out it's about a partner asking the other why they can't speak softly anymore, like in the beginning of their relationship. Oops. The album has a very special atmosphere. It surely has Middle East roots but there is also a Spanish rock influence and influences from Turkey and even Indonesia according to the musician. Raishel is a kind of Israeli music ambassador having performed in New York, LA, Sydney, Paris, Vienna, the music friends I'll know less, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Ethiopia, Japan and many others. Just sit down, play the track, or better, the album for tracks differ greatly amongst them and relax. Then to my country. Annika Vargiersbergen was the lead singer for the rock band The Gathering. In 1994 she started a solo career, initially called Aqua Danique but nowadays she performs on her own name and did quite a lot of work with Ayan Anthony Lucasen for the Arian project. By the way, also internationally acclaimed. The offspring of all that can be found on pure air. There are a kind of unplugged versions sung with artists from that scene like Danny Kavanaugh, John Wetton, Sharon Den Adel, Keitman and Marike Jager. Somewhere is a Within Temptations song and Temptations Sharon Den Adel and Anathema's Dana Kavanaugh join in for this song. Another great track on this album is the value of Queens from the Arian album Into the Electric Castle by Lucasen. He joins in together with Danny Kavanaugh. In fact the entire album is pure and intimate and I love it. Music is a universal song to bring across emotions, atmosphere, philosophies and the like. I could have made this video three times as long. Mentioning Spanish and Italian music offers instance about the music by Gypsies from Perpignan, France. And let's not forget classical music. But that might be for a next video on music. Let me know what you think of these videos and of the music described. The next video will be about hardware again though. That will be online next Friday at 5 pm central european time. If you don't want to miss that, subscribe to this channel or follow me on the social media so you will be informed when new videos are out. 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جیسا کہ ہم جانتے ہیں کہ نکشہ جو ہے وہ ہماری روز مرا زندگی میں بہت اہمیت رکھتا ہے وہ اس لحاظ سے کہ جب ہم ایک ٹیچر کلاس میں جب بھی اور سپیشلی جاغریفی کے سبجک میں نکشہ کی اہمیت سے ہم انکار نہیں کر سکتے نکشہ کی اندرسٹیننگ کے لیے ضروری ہے کہ اس میں we have two major categories of maps where we can draw the types number one the maps are drawn on the basis of scale and number two the maps are discussed on the basis of purpose so here we have the maps on the basis of scales the types are there we start from small scales to large scale in small scale maps the scale is from 1 cm to 940 km or 1 cm on the map is equal to 940 km on the ground so we can say here 1 over 94 million so is called the RF of the map so is a small scale map so here you can draw or map the whole of the country which is the USA again the other category of map according to scale is the 1 cm on the map is equal to 370 km so here you can draw the south eastern part of USA so is smaller area than USA now third category actually is map which has a scale of 1 cm is equal to 160 km so we are moving toward large scale maps so here we have a state of USA so the last category of the map which has a large scale map the scale is 1 cm is equal to 13 km so here the city of Atlanta actually is on the map so the city map is drawn on a scale which is called the large scale so maps are usually drawn to show different detail on a large or small scales now according to scale the large scale map is the cadastral map so are drawn to register the ownership of property by demarcating the boundaries of fields and buildings the term cadastral is derived from the french word means register of territorial property these maps are specially prepared by the government to realize revenue and tax the village map as well as city settlement map of our country may be cited as example which are drawn on a very large scale from 16 inches to the mile or 15 cm to 1 km so as to fill in all possible details so here you have the parcels level map so all the streets are actually on the map and the major fields the cultivated land here the cultivated land or you can draw the map of the fields here and the map of each and every parcels so here you have the parcels which belongs to the built up area so for the purpose of revenue connection or tax collection these cadastral maps are very important number 2 which is also the large scale map is the topographical map so on a large scale maps based on precise surveys they show general surface feature in detail both natural landscape and cultural landscape the topographical maps are also prepared on a fairly large scale being based on precise surveys unlike cadastral maps the scale of topographical maps varies in general from 1 inch to 1 mile or to 1 over 4 inch to the mile they do not show boundaries of the individual plots or building it is rather the principal topographical forms like relief and drainage and forest, village and town and means of communication it is for this reason that for geographers these are the most valuable tool this is a topographical map of an area so it not only shows the natural features like this is actually the contour and all are the contours so gives the height of the area so this is actually 900 feet above sea level now here you have the settlements so all the settlements are along the roads so is not only giving the natural but as well as human features next category is the wall map small scale maps used in the classroom the word as a whole or in hemisphere is represented on the wall map these are prepared for continent or countries large or small according to their need so the wall map has information regarding the continents and oceans so here you will see the major continents of the planet the Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America and North America so these maps are used in the classroom are generally drawn for classrooms and these maps the scale is smaller than that of the topographical maps but larger than the atlas maps now the last category of the maps which are on the basis of scale is called the atlas map is a very small scale map give a more or less highly generalized picture regarding the physical, climatic and economic condition of different regions of the earth


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