Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new week. Hope you had a good weekend All refreshed for this new week of classes Let's begin this time of the word of prayer Samuel, is it okay if you can lead us in prayer, please? Sure, Pastor Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time. We thank you for your abundant grace Your blessings You're calling for our lives. We dedicate this time and ourselves into your hands We dedicate your servant first of all in manual into your hands. We dedicate today's lesson as we learn about Marketplace ministry as we learn about how do we manage ourselves in work? What does your word tell us? How do we? manage leadership How do we manage ourselves? Give us the wisdom insights to know your will your word and your guidance for us This and everything we ask in the name of Jesus Amen, thank you, Samuel. Amen All right so last week we looked at chapter 13 on leadership and Some of the important points I just shared this and then we'll get into the next chapter We looked at how as leaders if we don't see the vision, we won't be able to lead other people there Jesus himself said The blind cannot lead the blind so as leaders we must have Something in our minds or that vision should be ahead a picture of what you want to see Maybe yourself or even the organization You know in a couple of years time or so so it's always good to have that in our mind as leaders Then we looked at Maintaining proper heart attitudes, right? We can have the vision. We can have a wonderful call of God upon our lives But in spite of all that we can fall if we don't have the right heart attitude So we looked at three attitudes One was servant hood Lord Jesus was the epitome of of you know, this whole aspect of servant hood He he led by example He said I've come to serve and not to be served right and to we looked at Passion a passion to No, a leader should have a passion Expressed in enthusiasm Passionate about the work or the ministry that he is doing he or she is doing and so that's very important Proverbs says don't burn out meaning don't let that You know fuel that furnace of that fire inside let it not burn out Keep fueling it right and the third one we looked at was self-control As leaders we must be self. We must have self-control now Especially with the fact that you know As leaders nobody is checking up on us Nobody's gonna, you know, for example, if you're a pastor or you know a youth leader Not many people are gonna check up on you, but we must hold certain standards We must be able to look at our work look at our productivity look at our own personal lives and make sure that we are not Going away from the word of God and so we looked at many other points Demonstrate and emphasize be real be down to earth. Our attitude is what is important We must make sure that we have the right attitude You know another important point we looked at was as leaders we must first act First meaning we must first do things and then expect our team members to do it, right? And give honest feedback now, this is a very interesting point because especially in ministry Sometimes we feel You know, I don't want to give this person this feedback. What if they feel bad? What if they don't take it the right way? What if they leave the church or leave the ministry? I Personally had those thoughts initially, right? What if I Give them this feedback and they don't take it the right way. What if they don't come back to church? You know, so many times I held back But I realized one thing over the course of Time and you know studying God's word learning. I realize that when our identity is in Christ Now it is God who brings people to us It is the Lord who brings adds numbers to the church, right? And and yes, there will be times We have to give honest feedback, right now Especially in ministry if we don't do it, what will happen is it will be in a place where there's unproductivity There will be in a place where? you know, we're just letting things go by or Programs and events and work is just going by and we're not seeing any productivity So we will be at fault as leaders. So it's very important to give honest feedback There will be people who will take it the right way. There will be people who will get really offended But but be assured that it's good to give honest feedback Correction and feedback should be timely as well, right? So We need to understand how to give feedback and in the right time in the right way, right? Then we also looked at guarding against, you know complacency I don't I'm not sure if I've gone to this point where we the point where we stay away from women and wine now great leaders have gone up the ladder and With a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication But these two things can bring Leaders down Women and wine now for for women it could be men and wine as well, right? So God against these two, right if your marriage stay faithful Always maintain a healthy relationship a healthy distance from other women Now it may sound like, you know, okay, why are we talking about this? But These are important things And and it's very sad to hear of Ministries around us where these wonderful leaders have grown up and you know, they've done a wonderful established a wonderful ministry but because of you know wrong relationships and women in the community or or even alcohol and you know pleasures of this world They've indulged in it. Maybe just to try it out, but it has you know backfired on them and You know, it has really brought the ministry to a whole You know, I would say a whole standstill and this is very dangerous and There will be times there will be, you know, if you're in the corporate sector There will be times of social drinking. You know, you're going for a tea meeting.  Hey, what what is this? You're not when drinking You know with us, you're not enjoying with us.   There's this one time we had a office meeting when I was in the corporate sector and It was about 20 of us 20 or so we went to a resort because we had finished a whole You know very rough and very stressful three months and then we did well in that Quarter or and and so we decided we'll go to a rest resort and spend maybe two days there And so we went and when we went there, you know, it was just havoc, you know, everyone were like drinking and you know being all kinds of things and What hurt me the most was I began to see that members within our team, you know men and women were involving in Sexual intimacy, especially, you know in the time and you know, I know that they have family and small children Some of them have just been married And it was very painful to watch all of this and I Remember, you know, they all were saying hey Why did you even come if you if you decided not to do this? Why did you even come and I thought to myself? Yeah, why did I even come? But I respected my team leader my manager. So so I went But one thing was I did not involve myself in anything They ridiculed they mocked all that was alright, but I was assured now the thing was I was not married Right, I was I was not married. I was still a bachelor And I could have you know, I could have this had a couple of drinks. Nobody to question me My parents also wouldn't have questioned me as not married. I I could have involved with other women as well, but But I knew that there are principles That you know after becoming a believer there are certain principles that we must stand by And we must remember that God is watching us, right? So it's not like God is only in the church and we have to behave well in the church. No And I remember after the whole Meeting and all this sorry after the whole Outing that we had we went back home and it was the following week when people came back to office and there was this weird silence in our team Right Those who were very friendly with each other were not talking to each other. That's why I asked them. Hey, what's happening? Why is everyone so quiet? and You know, I realized why they were quiet there was guilt in their heart because they went back home Probably they saw their wife and their children and they remembered what happened in the resort and There was guilt and they didn't speak to each other for a long time. And so You know, the book of Proverbs gives us a lot of instructions on how to stay away from You know women and wine. It's only going to take us to a path of destruction Right, especially in this time that we look at now where you know There's this new there are new doctrines would say that it's okay to drink The Bible doesn't say that we should not drink or the Bible does not say that we should not smoke You know all these excuses which don't really make sense, but I personally know of You know a couple of pastors in the city Who are who drink right? I personally know that they say it's all right It's all right because there's sometimes it's so much stress listening to all of them's problems and troubles and difficulties he listened to them the whole time and We get stressed out and so to relieve that stress can have a couple of drinks There are people right and and they feel that it's okay one pastor mentioned to me that Manga I'll just get to you. I'll just say this one pastor mentioned to me that Even Jesus drank wine and so he related something to that and it didn't make sense at all. So we as Leaders must set the example. We must set the bar high, right? Yes. Go ahead, man. Yes, man. He did you raise it? Yes, yes, I did go ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much First of all after for just for that pasta say that yes to raise the bar for drinking and My question is Okay, I understand that Cultures and The different different places for example here all the one almost 90 or 90 percent best night and 25 percent of wine farmers all believers and They are more wine here than than water so people are not of water and there's wine everywhere and There's a culture here of Lunchtime when you're having lunch You love lunch with a glass of wine or when like there's a social gathering or believer Just like for example a man a group man's group in the church will meet they The the drink a beer or a glass of wine while while discussing or while while while praying so How do we handle? situation like those away Alcohol yeah, it's not seen as is bad and drinking being getting drunk is seen in in this bed, but Social the drinking is not it's not this bad. Thank you. Yeah, that's a good question. Mangi Yeah, I had those same thoughts. I had those same questions as well But but it's very important to look at what the Bible teaches us now The Bible teaches us that once we are in Christ The Holy Spirit we become the temple of the Holy Spirit, right? And when the when the Holy Spirit is in us Again Paul writes in so many places. He says I've been crucified with Christ. So my sin everything is crucified with Christ, but in terms of Social drinking now I understand that different cultures have different, you know Practices and you know, I remember was talking to my brother who's In a different country and he was saying that they had a youth meet and they gave everyone a slice of pizza and a can of beer and He was taken aback, you know, of course, he you know, he also used to drink earlier on But he was taken aback. Why do they give this, you know But everyone it was it was common. So he just everyone just open began to drink and And especially in a nation like ours in India, if that happens, it's like, oh, you know, everything is done in secret in India, right? So it's not in the open. There are people there are pastors who involve in drinking and all of it But it's not in the open In different in different countries. It could be in the open, right? Because it's a culture there But the Bible says that we must avoid You know drinking and craving of alcohol You know because it has adverse effects on us and secondly it it it's against God's will it's against God's plan, right? So one of the things Maggie we can do is to abstain from it Now you may have 10 people coming to a youth meeting, right? Like what you were saying a men's group and they probably offer you beer You can stay you can set an example there, right? We can you can say I don't want to have this Right. No, so they're gonna ask you why so you say, okay Because this is what the word of God says and I want to keep myself holy and they they will begin to You know, they will begin to ask questions. Where does it say don't drink beer or where does it say it's in our culture? You can give as much as replies you would like to prepare yourself that way, you know with the right answers, but When you stand up or Step, you know stand out from among the others I'm sure out of the 10 at least one or two of them will think about it and maybe get back to you and say Hey, can you explain more about what you were saying, you know about drinking because see all of them are believers already Right. It's just that they don't understand this whole point of you know, don't drink so If you and I can set that example We may be touching two or three people in the group Right. Now if we look at the bigger picture, we may feel. Okay. It's the whole culture of this nation. How can I One person, you know change it But you can make an impact where we are Right, wherever we are You know, I remember this whole you know after that whole like I was sharing the whole holiday or that You know picnic that we had with our team. We came back. Everyone was so you know quiet and eventually what happened was there was a couple of Tough seasons coming up So they were looking for an associate team leader like an assistant team leader And all of them said let paul be the assistant team leader You know, so uh, it was quite kind of I I I didn't feel you know Very sad the way they treated me, but I went to god's word and I said god You will honor me You I am standing on your word. I am standing on your principles right uh I was just probably 26 25 or 26 and I said god. I'm standing on your principles Right. I'm standing and I know that you will honor me front of the people front of in in my workplace you will honor me and All these guys in the team who were you know, probably a seven years eight years Yeah in in the workplace. I was just probably a year or so in that company just a year They all said let paul be Now I was not qualified I didn't even know all the processes. These are these guys are all eight 10 years in the same company. I'm just one year They all said Let paul be the team leader. They saw something that day They saw that this guy is you know, probably just 25 26 years old He can do everything that he wants to do He can live he can drink he can you know engage with women he can do whatever he wants But he's not doing something. He's not doing all this Uh, of course in their drunken state, they didn't understand but Later on probably when they went to sleep and they laid their head on the pillow They thought about it and they said How come he didn't do it? so mangi it could be You could be setting an example there right, uh remember that If you Stand for certain principles others will learn from others will it will touch their lives If not all 10 of them and the men's group at least one or two of them would have noticed it They will get back to you that I assure you and eventually You can make progress Uh, eventually this whole thing of you know, uh having Uh, you know men's group or women's group and drinking together eventually it can be stopped But there are a lot of practices in our nation as well um, you know in india We had we went through a lot of things like I'm sure some of our folks will You know remember this during times when you know Uh, women should cover their hair and come for prayer. They don't they would be you know People would get so upset and there was a time when men and women had to sit separately Right, so we were very as a nation we Even now in certain places the men and women said separately women have to cover their hair Certain practices, right, but we can see there's a breaking off of all these things Right, you know, eventually slowly. We're seeing that. Hey, it's not about these practices It's about, you know, living a good life about Honoring god living in the holy spirit. All of this is important Uh, man. Yeah, I hope that answers your question, right? Yes, yes you did sir. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it's hard but Uh, I would encourage you man. You just you just do it a couple of times just Stand for your principles. I'm sure they're gonna maybe one or two of them If the holy spirit is working in them the holy spirit will make them And you know, one of the works of the holy spirit is to convict So he will convict them and they will get back to you saying, you know Hey, can you you know, tell me why you didn't drink? What is it that you feel? About, you know drinking I'm sure you'll be able to touch lives as well Say you have shared a couple of verses here Thank you. Say, uh, Isaiah five five twenty two. What are those who are mighty heroes at drinking wine and men of strength?  Our life will speak so much more as well Right. Yeah. Thank you. Say for sharing those. All right. Let's go to, uh, chapter 14. We'll just quickly go through I'm sorry. Uh, what we'll do is we'll go to chapter 15 And if we have time at the end, uh, I just thought we'll go back to chapter 14 But uh, I was just thinking of customer relations chapter 15 Uh, and let's quickly look at this chapter to small chapter, but Very important, right? Now, I'm sure most of us working in the corporate sector Uh, you know, we hear of this customer relations, right? Uh, for example, we call the phone service company and we tell them, hey, what's happening? There's no network Uh, near our area. I'm not able to make calls. I'm not able to use my phone Uh, I'm not able to listen to, uh, go to youtube and listen or anything And imagine this, uh, you know, network service provider the the guy who or the person who picks the call says Okay, you have to wait, uh, you know Nothing's very fast and he speaks very rudely to who? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? At least for me, I would say this, uh, hey, this company is Uh, you know, there's something wrong with this company Uh, it's right But that one person may have had a terrible day may have got up with a headache his boss would have said You better come to work and he would have come and maybe you're the first call But remember that when we are Working in an organization whether it is church whether it's the corporate sector.  We are representing jesus in this world Right. So today, you just look at Certain aspects of customer relationships and how we also translated in ministry and see how important It is to have good relationships with our, uh, you know customers and even uh, if it's church Our church members, right? first point I'm sure uh before the going there. I'm sure those who are in church We have a team and apc banglow. We have a team called uh member care, right? It's a dedicated team that cares for members, right? And we'll talk about why it's important to uh, have this kind of a team involved Right. Okay. First point in customer relationships. Respond quickly Don't delay Proverbs chapter three was 27 and 28. Yes. Could one of us please read that? Proverbs three 27 and 28 Do not withhold goods from those to whom it is still When it is in the power Of your hand to do so Do not say to your neighbor go and come back And tomorrow I'll give it I'll give it When you have it with you. Thank you Yes, thank you. Kennedy right, so Respond quickly. Don't delay. What is extremely important in customer relations is Um, to have a good rapport Uh responding taking priority of activities. There would be times Uh, when as leaders in an organization or in a ministry, we must be willing to respond Put away other tasks and respond Quickly, right? Now, how do I translate this in ministry? Right As pastors, we may be very busy doing many things, you know, preparing for sermons praying and You know, talking to people preparing for events and all of this Now there may be somebody in the church who calls you and says pastor. I'm having a difficult time Can you please pray for me Now The wrong thing to the biggest mistake we can do is say hey, can Is as a leader or as a pastor telling that person, can I just call you back? I'm just in the middle of something or I'm in the middle of some work That would be the wrong thing to do why because, uh What is important the people are more important, right? Uh respond quickly Be alert don't delay things when you have that even when you don't have the time put aside Certain tasks and look after your people Look after the people whom god has placed under your care, right? I was reading this book. It said that Uh, I forget that whole name of the name of the book But the there was this portion which says that When the sheep don't get enough grass in one place they go to another place Right, uh, so god, you know the lord jesus, what did he tell peter? He said feed my lambs Feed them with the word be there for them Be like a shepherd and so as leaders we must be able to respond to our You know to our church members. We must keep that as priority Only after that comes events and programs and other Other responsibilities. This is first Of course after your family this looking after the people under your leadership is first now Imagine We delay things or we you know, uh intentionally look at okay We know that this person has called and there's a problem and we don't call them back We call them after a couple of days or after three days four days What what does it show? It shows that we are not Responsible enough or we don't care for our people Right. So caring for our members caring for our people under our leadership is very important Second point represent your organization accurately right now Let's read proverbs chapter 25 and verse 13 Proverbs 25 verse 13 Proverbs 25 verse 13. Yes, one of us, please I'll read it Like the call Of no in the time of harvest Is a faithful messenger those who sent him So he refused that for he refreshes The soul of his masters. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Kennedy, right Representing your organization accurately, right now when you are speaking to a customer in the corporate, right? When you're speaking to a customer represent your organization Correctly. Okay. This is what we stand for. This is what we do The next point says don't make false promises. We'll get there but Be a faithful messenger Right who represents the organization accurately now? I will share this this happened once where Many years back this This ministry Right Had, you know, they they we we were working with this ministry and This ministry said that we are an organization which helps in You know often edges and children and poor people and all of this So, uh, I remember I said, okay. Hey, uh, you know, I had no not much commitments. I was not Married at that time. So I said, okay, let me help this ministry And so I said, okay every month I'll just how much ever I can I'll just bless you It would be a small amount, but that's what I want to do.  There's no money at all. There's no food You know, and I did promise to support them In a small way, but what is it? As a person he Represented the organization in a wrong way and I told these people, you know The first person who came and spoke to me. He said that we are not being You know, there was no food at times for the children and there was there was no no one to support the organization Even though we are a Christian organization. There was no no one to support then These people said no, no, we get support from other countries. It's not like we've never had food And I told them, you know, the first person who said that, you know, he He represented the organization inaccurately and of course, I didn't stop the You know contributing towards them, but From then on I became careful Right because I always make sure that I'm supporting the right cause in the right way Right, uh, don't make false promises next point Right if there are times as leaders, we can make promises which we don't intend to keep at all right now In these situations Don't make those promises Don't make false promises Right, it is true that sometimes there'll be situations when that happen Okay, I'm you know, you probably have to visit a family. You tell them Hey, Monday two o'clock. I'll come and meet you and they say, okay But if you know in your heart, oh Monday two o'clock, I'll be somewhere else then don't make those promises Right, uh When when you're unable to deliver on a certain promise Our integrity is questioned Right, so always make good promises now. We may think okay. How does this Follow-up for ministry. Yes. Yes, it does it does As leaders if you say to your team members Let's meet at five o'clock and you yourself know that you can't make it at five o'clock. I'll just give an excuse later I'll just say that, you know, there was traffic or you know, I had other things suddenly there's a new meeting I have to attend My boss is calling me if we know that Don't make false promises Right When you make certain promises Try your best to fulfill it Right Uh, otherwise don't make promises to it. There's no point of making false promises, right? This is one thing I learned. Um, you know in our church in mangrove We have a lot of elderly families like those who are retired and they expect us, you know to come spend time with them pray And you know spend time with them Because they're all retired their children are all in different countries So there are times that said no, I can't I can't come Right. They really wanted me. I said no, I can't come Because I learned that Making these false promises is not going to help anyone Right. And so now as a church, they know that if if pastor says he'll come he'll come if he says no It's a no Right. So there's no false promises And so, you know, you gain a lot of trust from the people in your team There would be times You know, there are crisis situations So you send your best man out to handle the crisis or you yourself go Right crisis situation happens You know remember this one time Some of them were upset with a youth leader, right? Uh and The pastor was not involved at all. This is not an apc somewhere else and the pastor was not involved He said, okay I Let them handle it But then a time came he had to Step in he had to make sure that You know, the right solution has to be found for this problem. And so By the time he went and tried to handle the situation the situation was even worse than what it was in the beginning Right. So when we know that there's a crisis Send the right people The right man the best man to handle the situation Right. Stay calm Even when there are unreasonable demands Proverbs chapter 20 and verse 14 Uh, let's read that proverbs 20 and verse 14 Proverbs 20 verse 14. Yes Proverbs 20, yeah Yeah, yeah, I can see it The customer the customer the customer always complains that the price is too high But when he goes off and press about the against he got Yeah, so thank you, Kennedy. So just talking about you know, uh The unspoken rule the customer is king now When we look at You know in the corporate sector Sometimes they make unreasonable demands Right, uh, customers may make they may say, okay, you you give this to me for 50% of the price right, uh And we may get upset. So what are you talking about? How can I do that? You know now the right way to handle these kind of place is to stay calm and we can't say, uh, you know, I'm not running a uh, you know non-profit organization here Or I'm not running a charity home to just that's a wrong way to get back at people but let the customer speak Stay calm even when they make unreasonable demands now There were times when even in ministry, right? You know that a person is wrong Right, there will be times, you know, this person is wrong. He did something wrong And they want to speak to you and they say, you know, what this happened that happened And then all because of all these things I got upset and then I said this Now as leaders, we must learn to stay calm Even when we know that the person we're talking to is in the wrong Is in the wrong and because of this person the whole problem is Going on stay calm Right.  Stay away from Heights and verbal abuse or this as leaders Uh, you know that that is very important very very important There'll be times when our church may be people new people who come into our church and ministry They may have unreasonable demands in the church as well Now don't say, oh, hey, I'm not going to listen to you. Do you know how long this ministry is? It's more than 20 years. You're not when one year in this church. How can you make now? Just listen to them and finally You make you make the choices you make the plans, right? You make the decisions But stay calm through all of this time Just the last point if you have failed to deliver admitted Apologize don't cover up Right now. This is one thing that we always want to do in in in apc is that There are times we are unable to deliver. There are times we feel okay You know, I could have done better in this area or I could have done better in what was assigned to me One thing is admitted I mean, okay, this is something that I should have done to apologize god, you know Apologize to your leaders apologize to the people who you're working with to the team and and then look forward to You know improving and becoming better and whatever has been assigned to you So this was a small section or small chapter customer relations I just tried to you know translate everything even for ministry so that we can all Apply it in ministry as well. So We'll bring this a session to a close any questions. Um, and if you have any thoughts any questions We can close and pray Any questions? All right. Okay. Let's close and pray Louis would you mind If you can close and pray Okay, Kennedy has raised his hand. Yes, good I had a question Oh, Louis, uh, Kennedy has a question. So after the question you can Pray Thank you for giving me questions again, but I was asking can you talk about holding where people hold When friends are high or no friends are low, then they have to sell to make a bigger profit Oh, sorry, can you can you repeat that question? Please? I didn't get that can you can can you give some Direction where traders For organization tend to hold stops. Okay, and the prices are low And they sell them when the price is high, you know, yeah, it's holding. Yeah Yeah, so um Yeah, so regarding that Look, um, here's what I think uh, and uh, you can also maybe ask other faculty as a but here's what I I feel Right now in business, right the whole In the bible teaches us that business is to make profit I uh, you know the parable where, you know, this man Uh, uh gave his servants The money and he went away But only two of them were able to You know make profit out of it and only one just dug it and kept it under the ground Now there's a lesson and there's a reason why god said that right now as an organization as a business We want to make profits. We business involves strategy involves planning um, and so holding back stock and at the right time when you feel that you know, um When the prices are high you can sell it for a little more extra money um I feel it's okay as long as we're not exploiting Uh the people right? Uh as long we're not saying, okay Unless there's a complete lack of resources and then you we are holding back and saying no only You know until the stock market goes higher or until this price goes. I have not going to give it out Uh, then I'll then I'll be wrong But if there is resources available and you feel that maybe two years down the line, this is going to value even more Then I feel it's all right to hold and you know, uh sell when the rates are higher Uh, but if there's nothing and the resources are lacking people Uh, you know public people in the City or the country are lacking these resources. They're going through difficult times and if we have and not You know, uh, just keeping it in stock and not distributing it then that would be wrong Right. Uh, kennedy. I hope that answers your question. I'm not too much of a businessman, but uh, I hope that I just tried to answer it practically Okay, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you kennedy. Okay, uh, louis. Would you mind closing in prayer, please? Can we pray please? Yes, go ahead But I would thank you for today's um Teaching we thank you for pastor and we thank you for each one of us Um, Lord, I pray for the wisdom and the grace to increase our relational value um in the midst of organizations in the midst of Church in the midst of our businesses In the name of the lord jesus we pray For counsel on how to We live better with the ones you've put in our care lord in the name of the lord jesus Thank you for this grace and for the supply of your spirit lord in the name of jesus. We have prayed Amen. Amen. Thank you louis Thank you, everyone. Have a great day. We will see you tomorrow. God bless


There you go. On with the show. Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today, we are talking about a book I don't have a physical copy of yet, so I'll put the cover right here. I'll probably have to work on the title of the video too because they just won't let me upload what it is. So we're talking about Unfuck Yourself by Gary John Bishop. This book meant the world to me while I was listening to it. I've actually listened to it twice, just one chapter every night, and then I started right back over again, started listening to it again. A little bit about myself. When I talk about these nonfiction books, it's really hard for me to review nonfiction or self-help or whatever this is called. And I don't normally like self-help, but I thought the title was funny and I needed to check it out. I don't really know how to review a nonfiction book. Some would say I don't know how to review a fiction book, but so I'm just gonna talk about personal experience and what this book meant to me. More than anything else, I found in this book some affirmations to things that I believe some validation, if affirmations isn't the right word, validation. And some of the things that I've thought for a long time.  I have broken through some of my manic depressive traits. I have broken through with this stuff in the past. One of the things he harps on in the book and he really drives it home is to just go ahead and do.  And yes, I know, trust me. I understand there's gonna be people down in the comments that say depression is real. I understand depression is real. Like I said, I am clinically manic depressive. I have many, luckily at this point in my life I have more manic days than I have depressive days. But all the same, I still manage to get through and get work done when I am in depressed. When I'm in a depressive state. But at times when I think that I'm not gonna make it. Times when I think that I am not worth it. And that actually happens quite a bit. Times when the depression hurts just as much as my back pain. If you don't know, I've had five back surgeries since 2005, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016. Technically, they fixed me in 2016. But to go from someone who is completely 100% able bodied in 2005 to being handicapped or disabled, whatever you wanna call it. In that period of time, it changed a lot about me. On top of that, I kicked heroin in 2001. But yet I am back on opiate painkillers. Not really high stuff. All I'm taking right now is Norco 7.5. It's working just fine. I'm not on the Oxy's or any of that stuff anymore. So that stuff is in the rear view. I'm trying to work and manage my pain as allowed. Sometimes I'll go get something for breakthrough pain. But that's usually like 12 pills just to get me through the week to get the flare up to calm down. And what I had in 2016 was a fusion. So anyways, going on to this. Every single day I get up and I come out to this office. I come out here no matter what, no matter if I'm feeling suicidal. And yes, I still feel suicidal. There is no cure for my condition. I am not on medication. I was on something. I was on a colonopin a while back. I'm not on that anymore. But I still have the condition. I still wake up some days thinking, I don't wanna be in this world. And it is nothing more than the feeling that I don't fit in, that I don't exist. And there's no reason for me to be here. I have an amazing family. I have a loving wife, two amazing, intelligent, beautiful children. I am a happy guy. We are very, very comfortable in where we are and what we're doing. But I still feel sometimes like the world is crumbling in on me. And I'm not, even though I'm a creative, I have a lot of things. So actually, I sent an email, someone sent me an email last night about sure things in the creative industry. I have a lot of sure things that will be there, even if all of this crumbles, even if the self-publishing crumbles, even if, you know, whatever, all these non-sure things crumble. I still will have an income that will support my family. So while I am very comfortable, while I have all these wonderful, terrific things in my life, I still wake up some mornings wanting to kill myself. And that's just, that's honesty.  They are minuscule things in comparison to all the good stuff in my life. So I'm not trying to have a pity party. We're just talking honestly here. Now, those days when I feel like that, I come out and I write. Will you be able to do that? I don't know.   Or that would be me because that's what I have done when I couldn't get out of bed is I wrote on my tablet. So that outlet is always there. As long as you are alive, you are capable of doing something, but some of the time our brains get in the way. It's like, I don't wanna do this, I don't wanna do that, but you need to. You need to get up if you can.  And that's all this book is about and I love it. And at no point in time, I saw some reviews that said this, but at no point in time does this man say that depression isn't real, that your thoughts and feelings are not valid. In fact, in the book he says that I'm not saying your thoughts and feelings are not valid. He's not saying that. What he's saying that is it is a constant war. It is a battle to defeat those negative feelings and emotions. And while we might not always be able to defeat those negative emotions, we can bypass them. And that's all I do by coming out to this office every day and talking to you guys or writing or editing or any number of writing blog posts, any of the number of things that I do throughout my day to make sure that my family is supported, to make sure that there's always something coming in to make sure that we have a stable, if not comfortable life, but we are very comfortable right now. So, that being said, have you guys listened to this book? I would love for you to share your own feelings on the subject, even if you completely disagree with me, even if you think, dude, there's no way possible for me to get out of the bed in the morning. Tell me that down there in the comments. If I disagree with you adamantly, I probably just won't respond, but I will at least see it and I will understand your point of view.  But anyways, until next time, I have been E, you've been U, this has been another book review, kinda, I'll talk to you guys later, bye bye. You know, I won't get a, I always look for the worst in things, so I don't expect a whole lot of negative comments on this video. But I just imagine that there are going to be people that no matter what, believe a certain way and they're gonna be stuck on that.  It can make you feel like you can't do, but you can't. I mean, that's the honest truth. As someone who is clinically manic depressive, you can't. But one of the things, this is the spoiler section. It's kinda funny doing a spoiler section for a nonfiction book. But toward the end of the book, he talks about you are going to die one day. You are going to not be here.  And that's what hit me the most. And that's one of the things that even before I listened to this book, way back in the day, and laying it up in the hospital room, knowing that I had, I didn't know how long, it ended up being three months of rehab to do, I was still here. I still had a chance to do. And I have in the past attempted suicide by taking an insane amount of pain medicine and Xanax. And then the very next day, I sold a book for $25,000. And I always think about those things when I hear people have killed themselves or I hear people are thinking about suicide. Tomorrow might not always be better. It might not get better. But tomorrow is always a chance for it to get better.


Let us now take up the discussion of steam turbines. This illustration shows supercritical rack and cycle with two stage reheat. The boiler pressure at state one is 300 bar 650 degree Celsius and the condenser pressure in this case is 0.1 bar which is usually the case in most steam power installations. It can be seen that there is one reheat between two and three and another one between four and five. You must be familiar with this cycle and you must have done calculations involving this cycle in your applied thermodynamics course. The most important or most significant aspect of the cycle insofar as steam turbines are concerned is the expansion ratio that the steam goes through from state one all the way up to say state six. Notice that the steam is expanded from a pressure of 300 bar to a pressure of 0.1 bar which means the expansion ratio in this case is 300 divided by 0.1 which is 3000. Now this is two orders of magnitude higher than the value of expansion ratio 40 that we saw for land-based gas turbine power plants. In fact the pressure ratio of 40 in the case of a land-based gas turbine power plant is the pressure ratio at which most modern plants operate. So that is the highest pressure ratio that you will see and so there the expansion ratio for the turbine is 40 whereas here the expansion ratio is 3000. In fact in the case of ultra supercritical Rankin cycle the higher high pressure or the highest pressure is 400 bars or so. So in such cases the expansion ratio is even higher of the order of 4000 or so. It may be recalled that in the case of land-based gas turbine power unit the turbine had only about a dozen or so stages whereas in the case of an installation like this the steam turbine as you can see has about three or four times that many stages. So here we have the high pressure turbine which corresponds to the expansion from a state one to state two or state two as shown here and this represents the intermediate pressure turbine which is three to four and this represents the low pressure turbine and in addition that could also be additional turbines as for the requirements in the installation. So you can see the number of stages here is significantly higher when compared to land-based gas turbine power plants. Again notice that it would not be practical or feasible to expand the steam in a single turbine from the highest pressure of 300 bar to the condenser pressure of 0.1 bar. So with that in mind that the expansion itself is now split into three stages as we see here HP stage and intermediate pressure stage and a low pressure stage. Even within each stage the expansion of the turbine usually is quite challenging because the pressure ratios can be quite high even in the stages that we see here. So special strategies are required to deal with the expansion in these stages. In addition to the differences that we just mentioned between steam turbines and gas turbines other points are also of interest. For instance in the case of the gas turbine the highest temperature in the cycle is around 1700 Kelvin whereas here the highest temperature is around 802 900 Kelvin or so. Although the highest temperature is less the highest pressure is significantly higher and since the duty cycle for such steam turbine power plants are close to 100% metallurgical considerations play as much of importance in the case of steam turbines as in as they did in the case of gas turbines. Now both land-based gas turbine power generating units as well as steam turbines usually operate at rpms of 3000 which corresponds to 50 hertz or an rpm of 3600 which corresponds to 60 hertz because that is determined by the supply frequency. The aero turbines that we saw or gas turbine units used for aircraft engines run at higher rpms they are in fact the high pressure turbine there runs at 10000 rpm or so. So these are some of the important distinctions and similarities between steam turbines and the turbine portion of a gas turbine power plant. So what we will look at now is how we handle or how the expansion in each one of the stage which itself has a very high expansion ratio. How such a situation is handled in practical installations. Several strategies are required in order to deal with this effectively or several strategies have been utilized in order to deal with this effectively. Let us see what they are. The first one is called velocity compounding. The term compounding refers to a stepwise change or incremental change of whichever is being compounded. So in this case velocity compounding refers to the fact that velocity change takes place in the turbine in an incremental or stepwise manner. Let us see what this means. So the pressure drop across each turbine normally takes place in this case takes place in a single nozzle preceding the turbine blade. So keep in mind that we are talking about strategies for any one of these turbine individual turbines. So when we say pressure drop it is pressure drop across the either the hp turbine or the ip turbine or the lp turbine not the pressure drop from here to here. So the entire pressure drop across the turbine takes place in a single nozzle as you can see here. So the variation of pressure here goes from the boiler pressure or steam chest pressure to the either condenser pressure or the pressure at the end of expansion in that particular turbine. So in this case the pressure drop entire pressure drop is converted to velocity and the resulting kinetic energy is then converted to work across many rotor blade passages. So the velocity initially increases to a maximum value across the nozzle and then it decreases in a stepwise fashion in each one of the rotor blade. Note that there is a certain drop here in the first rotor. It is almost a constant in the next stator passage because the stator only redirects the flow then there is again another drop in the next set of rotors and so on until it reached the final exit velocity. And as the velocity decreases you can see here that the steam also I am sorry the steam expands and consequently the blade passages also increase in size. So the cross sectional area also increases correspondically. Since the pressure remains constant across the rotor this is an impulse stage and notice that in this case the stator blades merely serve to change the flow direction. There is no pressure drop in the stator blades also and there is no velocity change in the stator blade passage also. So the stator blades merely serve to change the direction. So this is an impulse machine and because the velocity decreases in a stepwise manner this is called velocity compounding. The next design strategy that we see here is called the pressure compounding and here as the name suggests the pressure change from the inlet to the exit takes place in steps rather than in one single go as we saw here. So accordingly we see now multiple nozzles there is a set of nozzles here set of nozzles here set of nozzles here and so on. So the pressure drop across the entire turbine now takes place in a stepwise manner. So there is an initial decrease here in the first set of nozzles then it remains constant across the rotor suggesting that the rotor is an impulse rotor. Then there is another stepwise decrease in the next fixed nozzles again constant across the rotor and so on until we reach the exit pressure. Now you can also see that associated with each pressure decrease there is a corresponding increase in velocity and that the velocity remains constant in the the velocity decreases in the moving blade passage where the kinetic energy is converted to work and then again it increases as a result of expansion in the nozzle and again it decreases in the rotor as a result of conversion to work and so on until we reach the terminal velocity. Notice that here the increase in height of the blades is not quite as much as what we saw in the previous case because the decrease in pressure is gradual but after some point after or after some number of stages there is a considerable increase in the cross sectional area to accommodate the continuously expanding steam and we notice that here so the cross sectional area increases here and the rotor passage area also increases here. So the important points are that the pressure drop rather than taking place in one single step takes place in many steps here like this and the velocity increases in the nozzle passage then decreases in the rotor passage and repeats itself like this until we reach the exit velocity. Since the pressure decrease takes place in steps this is called pressure compounding. The next strategy that is also used is pressure and velocity compounding. So what is done here is to have velocity change also stepwise and pressure change also takes place in a stepwise manner that is what is done here. Let us see how this is done. So basically what is done here is we go with this type of an expansion but instead of having one nozzle we have maybe two or three no more than that not as many as what we are seeing here but the pressure drop takes place across two or three nozzle sets and then in between the nozzle sets the velocity is compounded. So let us take a look. So as we can see from here we have one set of nozzle here another set of nozzle here so instead of the pressure drop taking place across one nozzle it now takes place across a finite number of nozzles so hence this is pressure compounding. Notice that the pressure decreases in a stepwise manner from this value to this value in the first set of nozzles remains constant until the steam reaches the second set of nozzles at which point it again drops in a stepwise manner to a certain value because we can also have additional sets of nozzles who have further steps in this profile. Now in between the nozzles we can see that we are utilizing the velocity compounding strategy because as a result of the drop in this first nozzle the velocity increases then the velocity decreases in the first set of rotor blade where the kinetic energy is converted to work then it decreases again in the second set of rotor blade then it remains constant again increases after the drop in the second set of nozzles and again it decreases in a stepwise manner across the rotors as we reach the final exhaust velocity. So that is why this strategy is called velocity and pressure compounding pressure compounding because the pressure drop takes place in a finite number of steps not in as many steps as this but finite number of steps nevertheless and velocity compounding because the velocity changes in a stepwise fashion as the pressure remains constant across the rotor blade so this is also an impulse machine and the stator blades here merely serve to change the direction of the fluid. Notice that the velocity at the end of the nozzle or velocity anywhere in the turbine is the highest in this case because the entire pressure drop is converted to kinetic energy. So correspondingly the rpm of this design simple velocity compounding will be very very high. In fact it can be unacceptably high in this case. In the case of pressure compounding since the total pressure drop occurs across several rows of nozzles as we can see here the velocity never reaches as high a value as it does in the case of velocity compounding. So consequently the shaft speed and the rpm in the case of pressure compounding are considerably less than what they are in the case of velocity compounding. This is always better because the physical stresses are going to be less in this case than before. In this case now that pressure and velocity compounding also gives velocity maximum velocity values which are probably somewhere in between velocity pure velocity compounding or pure pressure compounding. Now the last variation in this is the reaction turbine. So here the pressure decrease is continuous from inlet to outlet. So the pressure decreases in the stator blade passage and the pressure decreases in the rotor blade passage also and it decreases continuously. So the degree of reaction here is non-zero and the velocity as we can see increases in the stator as the stator acts like a nozzle and then it decreases as the kinetic energy is converted to work in the rotor blade passage. Notice that the rotor blade passage also tries to or causes an increase in the relative velocity component. So because the pressure decreases in the rotor there is an increase in velocity component and the rotor blade passage acts like a nozzle but the overall kinetic energy still decreases because we are extracting work from the rotor. So the velocity increases in the stator blade passage decreases in the rotor blade passage again increases in the next stator blade passage due to the pressure drop decreases again in the next rotor blade blade passage as the kinetic energy is converted to work and this goes on continuously as we can see here. So the RPM of this design probably will be the lowest or as we can expect the RPM of this design to be the lowest among all the four designs that we looked at because the pressure drop is continuous and it's seen in both the stator and the rotor. Okay so this is a reaction design. So these are the four strategies that are used to handle the very high expansion ratios that are seen in steam turbines. Of course one would be correct in saying that this is no different from the turbine part of the gas turbine that we saw earlier and that would be true. So this resembles the turbine portion of the gas turbine very much and in fact they are identical in that sense but notice the number of stages that we see here is far more than the 10 stages or a dozen stages that we saw in the case of a gas turbine.


Jerry, up the circus! You want to step into the wagon? No, I can tell you here. All right. Well, what is it, Jerry? Well, I just heard one of the Rastababs tell Gus. He's one of the canvassers. Yes, yes, I know Gus. Well, this fella told Gus they were going to have another meeting. Oh, are you, uh, you mean the striker? Uh-huh. Uh, did he say when? Yeah, I just heard one of the Rastababs tell Gus. He's one of the canvassers. Did he say when? Yeah, he said in about ten minutes. And they're all going to meet out in back of the horse talk. Hmm. Well, they're still talking and over, huh? Yeah, I guess so. Well, thanks for telling me, Jerry. Are you going to go over and see what they have to say? Yes, I think I will. Maybe if you talk to them again, they'll see different. No, no, no, I think I've said enough. I'll let them figure it out for themselves. It sure is a shame. Everything was going along so nice, and then Gabby had to start talking and start all this trouble. Yes, yes, it's not so good, Jerry. This strike is hurting business. Hey, look at it. Here comes Patsy and Bones. Yeah. Look at that grin on Patsy's face. She's certainly excited about something. Yeah, and she's walking so fast, bumps can hardly keep up with her. Well, Patsy, what's the big smile for? You sure seem happy. Oh, I'm happy. I got him, Mr. Randall, just now. He came specifically for me. Wait, wait, wait a minute, Patsy. Not so fast. You got what? Say, I thought you asked me to walk over to the office wagon with you. It seems like you don't know the difference between walking and running, your lady. I'm sorry, Bones. I didn't realize I hit such a good pace. Well, come on. Tell us what it is. Mr. Randall, ask me, Patsy. Oh, I am excited. It's my check, Mr. Randall. Your check? You mean the money from your godmother? Uh-huh. You got it from the lawyer? That's it. Isn't that grand, Sam? Well, I'll say it is. Congratulations, Patsy. Are you busy, Mr. Randall? Busy? Oh, no, no, not for a few minutes, why? Well, this check is for a lot of money, and at least it's a lot to me. Oh, you want me to put it in my safe? Yes, that's one thing. And, well, I was going to ask you advice about what to do with it. Oh, well, I'll be glad to help you, Patsy, but as far as the check goes, you don't have to worry about that. It doesn't endorse, of course. I'll put it in the safe right after dinner. You're not forgetting about what I told you, are you, Mr. Randall? No, no, indeed I am not, Jerry. Oh, well, more secrets with the boss, huh, Jerry? Yeah, that's right, Bones. Well, then you are busy. Well, yes, yes, no way. I've got to go out in the back lot to attend to something, but come on along. We can talk as we walk over that way. All right. Bones and I will walk on in here. Yes. Come on, right. All right, all right, go ahead, Jerry. I'm so thrilled. I can hardly talk. Well, I should think you would be. Not everybody has a pot of gold dropped right in the lap like this. How much does it amount to, Patsy? I can hardly believe it, but it's $20,000. Well... That's what it came to after the taxes and the attorney's fees were deducted. I'd say that's a lot of money. I had no idea you were getting that much. I was wondering if you'd try to help me, Mr. Randall. You see, I want to put the money where it would be absolutely safe. Well, yes, of course you do, and you want to get some interest. Uh-huh. Well, Patsy, I'd suggest an annuity. An annuity? Yeah, I think that's your best bet. Is that sort of... Well, it's like insurance, isn't it? That's right. You see, with an annuity, Patsy, you'll get an income from your money as long as you live. Oh, that sounds very good, Mr. Randall. It's a good plan for several reasons. You know, Patsy, it's a funny thing, but just as soon as a person gets a nice sum of money, someone always comes along to try to get it away from them. Uh-huh. Fast talkers appear and present all sorts of pretty pictures of good investments. Yes, but most of them just tricks. That's right. Will you show me how to go about getting this annuity? You bet I will. You just drop over to the office wagon anytime and we'll figure out the very best plan for you. Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Randall. Not at all, Patsy. I'm glad you came to me first. I knew you'd want me to do the safest thing with the money. You bet. I can't have my star aerialist losing all her wealth. See, aren't you through talking business here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All finished here. You two must have a big deal on it. I finance bumps. Did you manage to get some of her money away from her, Sam? Oh, you bet I did. I talked her out of the whole amount. She's going to invest it in one of my paraffin mines in the South Sea. Go on, paraffin doesn't come from mine. Well, you have to excuse me now. Are you coming with me, Jerry? Yeah, I'd like to. Then I'll run along. And thanks again, Mr. Randall. Okay, Patsy. Bye. See you all later. Good bye, Patsy. Good bye. Can I be any help, Sam? No, I don't think so, Bumps. Thanks. It's the same. Jerry and I are just going to sit in at one of the strikers meetings. Oh, see.  Oh, sure, Jerry. Come on, fella. No, you're coming with me this time. Oh, it's like you see a dinner time, Bumps. Yes, Sam. Good luck. I hope you work out something with those strikers. This way, Mr. Randall. They're meeting out in the back of the horse top. Oh, well, then let's walk through the horse top. It's quicker than walking around. Okay. See, Jerry, did that fella have any more to say? Uh-uh. Just what I told you, that they're holding another meeting. Uh-huh. Right through here. All right. Oh, I would say there's your old pal, Jerry. Hiya, Whitey. Hello. Hello, Whitey. Oh, hello, Mr. Randall. Well, it looks like you've got quite a gathering out back, hasn't it? Yep, yep. Those strikers are still wrangling. Uh, you going out and taking the meeting? Mm-hmm. Good for you, Mr. Randall. You know, I never seem to like such carrying on as they're doing. They ought to be ashamed of themselves asking for a better deal than they're getting from you. I'll say they should. Yeah, they're a nervy lot. Why do you know they even came around to some of my men and tried to get them to go out on strike, too? They did, huh? I knew they'd been around to the guards in the menagerie. Yeah, but my boys wouldn't have nothing to do with any of their ideas. Ah, good. Come on, Mr. Randall. They're starting to talk. Yeah, OK, Jerry. Well, see you later, Whitey. What do you bet, Mr. Randall? Can you imagine that? What? Those strikers are trying to get the hustlers to strike, too. Yeah, well, that doesn't surprise me. Of all the nerves. Oh, OK, look, Jerry. There they are. And it looks like there's more this time than they had at the last meeting. Mm-hmm. Yeah, maybe we'd better stay right here. Why? Well, we can hear them all right from here. Well, not in your life, Jerry. I'm going right over there among them. You are? Sure thing. That chigger's the boss. Oh, they see you. Well, that's all right, men. Go right ahead with your meeting. We will. And you're invited to listen to what we have to say. All right, Gabby. But before you start, I'd like to put a little forward in. I'll have to see you about that. How about it, fellas? Do you want to hear from Mr. Randall? OK, go ahead. OK, Mr. Randall. OK, see you, little piece. All right, come on. Take down you guys and let the boss talk. Go ahead, boss. Well, there's just as much to be said, men. I'm not being stubborn about your demands. I'm only trying to be reasonable. And I want you to be reasonable, too. I know you're important to the circus, just as important as the performers or the, or the stopbacks or any other department. But I do believe I'm giving you all a square deal. You're getting just as much, if not more, than you'd get from any other outfit in the business. Oh, yeah. Mike Donald, the boss finished. He's entitled to say what he wants to say. Well, the extra work you did after the cyclone hit us was an emergency. Sure, you worked overtime. But what do you think I was doing? Well, I'll tell you, I was working overtime, too. Night and day. Why? To keep the show going, to keep your jobs for you and not have to throw all my people out of work. Another thing, I work for a salary the same as you do, but I haven't drawn one cent of pay since the cyclone. Oh, yeah. Hey, let the boss finish. Come on. That's all I have to say, men. Now, how about getting back in your jobs? We'll forget the whole thing, and there'll be no hard feelings. What do you say? Hey, let me talk now. I'll do the talking now. Yeah, I wish you'd let me talk once. Hey, let's hear what Danny's got to say, but want to say something right along. Let's hear what's on your mind, Danny. All right, Danny, go ahead. Well, in the first place, Gabby here starts us all to thinking we should have got extra dough for working overtime when we had that cyclone. Yeah, that's right. So what? Well, if we'd have stopped and done a little thinking of our own, we'd have been better off. Oh, yeah? What are you driving at? Just this, Gabby. If we didn't all pitch in and work hard and get the show out on the road again, we wouldn't have any job at all. Didn't any of you guys think of that? Yeah, you got something that heavy. Yeah, sure I have. And Mr. Randall's right. We're getting a square deal from him. We get good food and lots of it. Our job's steady. Most of us know when we can get back to work for the outfit year after year, and it's a pretty good setup. Yeah, where'd we go to work if we didn't work for Randall? Yeah, well, what do you got to say to that argument, Gabby? Well, let's see now why.  Danny's right, that's why. Now listen, you wait a minute. You guys listen to me. I'm going to tell you something you didn't know. All right, go ahead. In the first place, this strike wasn't my idea. What? You said it was? I know I did. But after the thing got started, I began to think like Danny here. We ain't got such bad jobs at that. Well, then why don't you call the thing off? I figured it was too late, then. You heard that, Mr. Randall. Yeah, Jerry. This is getting interesting. There was another guy behind this strike idea. I thought he was for us when he told me how to plan the strike. But I see now there must have been another reason. He had a reason for starting this thing. Now, who is this guy? Never mind. Just leave him to me. I want him all to myself. I'm going to go get him right now.  I'm sorry this thing has caused you so much trouble, Mr. Randall. Well, that's all right, Gabby. I said there'd be no hard feelings. Then let's all get back on the job. You all right? Come on, okay? Hey, Gabby. Gabby. Excuse me, Mr. Randall. I got some unfinished business to take care of. What do you know about that? Kind of a monkey out of me, was he? Well, he had some other idea. He wanted to start that strike for a reason. I don't care what it was, but he won't be getting no more ideas. Wise guy, huh? Well, take care of him. He figured he'd get the benefit of that strike. And me, the fellas out there, we'd take the rap. Well, I'll fix him. You in there, Boris? Go with me. The idea? You know you shouldn't be seen in my wagon. Oh, yeah? So you're the wise guy that wanted to make a sap out of me, huh? I don't know what you're talking about, Gabby. No. Well, you had a reason. A reason for your own for wanting me to start that strike. I don't know what it was, but I don't care. But guys like you need a little tamer. Oh, now take it easy, Gabby. I've elected myself to teach you a lesson. One that you won't forget so quick. Sit down and we'll talk this over, Gabby. I'm sure you have made the big mistake. No. You're the guy that made the mistake. And you're going to pay for that mistake right now. How's the- Oh! Oh, my idea! By the time you can see out of that eye, maybe you'll be able to see that it doesn't pay to fool around with me.


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I do things a little different on mercury So I would like to start out talking about that I do free shipping on mercury and the reason I do that is because I Think the shipping costs for USPS that mercury offers is kind of high So I can get it cheaper by using pirate ship And I think free shipping on mercury really entices people to buy from you more than If you don't have free shipping now, I know they have UPS and I'm not sure if they it might just be UPS I'm not sure if they have FedEx or not. I don't use the mercury shipping so UPS I believe in most cases is cheaper than the USPS you guys can look into that I Do recommend getting your items on multiple platforms This item was cross-posted to mercury posh mark and eBay and it sold the fastest on Mercari I sold it for $18 with free shipping. I do use list perfectly to cross post you guys can check that out There's a demo video down below if you decide you want to use list perfectly to help you get your items on other platforms I think there's what 10 or 12 different platforms you can cross post to I do have a referral code It is Bolo buddies that will get you 30% off your first month. So this is just a pin a pin How cool is that? There you go The next item is this bracelet it is a teacher's beaded charm bracelet I think I only put this one on Mercari and I had this listed a long time it took a long time to sell It's not in perfect condition. I think it's probably vintage probably should have put that in the title I don't know though. Maybe it's not because it has the magnet Anyway, sold it for $14 with free shipping The next item are these two crate creatures surprise barf buddies. I got these at a Discount store. It is called Bargain hunt. I want to say I paid a buck or two each on these and I sold these for $18 with free shipping This is a Catherine swim cover-up. I picked this up at It was online retail arbitrage back when I did clothing and I bought a ton of these I bought them in black I bought them in blue and I also bought a different style in pink plus size clothing does Pretty good for me. I sold this for $20 free shipping. I can't remember what exactly I paid for it I'd have to check my notes, but it was probably Between three and five dollars what I would do as I would go to like Lane Bryant Catherine some of the plus size stores I would look for coupons online and then I would build up my cart with Clearanced items, so I was usually buying these end of season and then they typically would sell the next year But I would use those coupons and get discounts Now it is retail arbitrage guys, so maybe it was maybe it was closer to five to seven dollars I can't remember, but I know I got it for a really good deal Sold this for $21 free shipping This is something that is on all three platforms and they sell over and over and over again I do think I have some of these left. This is a size 14 16 or Zero X is I think what's on the tag. So it's a swimsuit cover-up. It's another way to source from home You don't have to leave your house. You can try it. It may work for you. It may not. This was oh my goodness I'm gonna say probably five to seven years ago that I did this so I have not done it recently I don't know if they still have really great deals Retail arbitrage online or not, but definitely something to consider looking into Especially if you like to source online now if you guys are not selling on Mercari You can use my referral link down below You're gonna get $10 to shop with that and another $20 to shop when you sell a hundred dollars worth of stuff So definitely check that link out down below if you're not on Mercari This is a vintage Kenneth J Lane Cabochon Starfish brooch. How cool is that? Kenneth J Lane Did a collaboration with Avon so some of them are Avon and They were sold by Avon. I can't remember if this one was or not But anyway, I have a video on Avon sleeper Bolo Jewelry so check that out. I sold this for a hundred and seventy five dollars with free shipping Mattel Kelly doll Neculated arm now. This one is different. It had this little thing on the back that made the arm swing. I Don't know. I didn't really know what I don't know if it's a specific Type of doll if anybody knows let me know down in the comments. That's just what I used for my title I sold this for 15 with free shipping This is a purple leather snap it in charm bracelet. So the snap actually comes out Let me show you here just like that and you can snap different snap charms into it I don't know if this was like a direct sales thing or what but I sold it for 16 dollars and 20 cents plus Shipping now that one did take a little while to sell also I think I have had that listed since before whatnot most of my jewelry is pretty much on what not now This is a little jelly cat patches pink cream puppy dog plush stuffed animal If you don't know about jelly cat type in Bolo buddies jelly cat into the YouTube search bar And I'm gonna tell you about some big money jelly cat to look for I sold this for in this one for 60 dollars free shipping and I'm pretty sure this one came out of my It was buddy mail. I Think this was in the buddy mail from Pinky secondhand store on eBay if you're not following her eBay store Definitely check it out. She has amazing items at great prices But she is a viewer of the channel and she sent me a buddy mail box and it was full of jelly cat And I think this was one of the cuties The next item is this Henry Bendell. This was also way before I started what not It did take a little while to sell I picked this up at a garage sale I want to say three to five dollars on this if you're not familiar with Henry Bendell definitely Get to know the brand. I think they make purses also But this was a jewelry piece and I sold this for 75 dollars with free shipping These are Halloween decor witch and ghost lights sound in motion And I remember somebody sending me a message saying these are dollar store items Well, I don't know if they are or not. I got them. I believe in a thrift store mystery box and And Somebody told me they were dollar store and I'm like, all right. Well, if they're dollar store their dollar store, they're still cool I sold these for $19 with free shipping The vintage a big comfy couch doll. This is a Molly. She's a bean bag plus. She's only nine inches guys I sold her for seventy five dollars with free shipping look for that red nose because she is a bolo This is a Lego Duplo yellow bus replacement I don't know if these were the Goodwill bins or a garage sale fine Probably had five dollars or less in it sold this for fifty five dollars with free shipping Books I like to bundle books and put them on Mercari. I don't do a whole lot of books But when I find little sets like this, I like it to put them on Mercari Sold this for $11 free shipping and then I just go over to pirate ship. I use media mail to ship it so Pirate ships awesome. It's free you guys you get discounted shipping through pirate ship It is an awesome site if you're not using using it definitely definitely check it out These are cupcake panties Ah Toss I think is how you say it. This is a super old listing. It's another item that I bought tons of I believe I paid a dollar each for these at a discount store called discount fashion warehouse and I just keep selling them over and over and over again ten dollars and fifty cents free shipping on that For real friends you guys have heard me talk about this. I love selling toys got these I believe at the Goodwill bins so probably a buck or so in them. I could have parted these out But decided to sell all three together I sold these three replacement parts for thirty one dollars and fifty cents and that was free shipping and These also came from the Goodwill bins not something I would normally pick up but I believe this came from my Goodwill bins bingo challenge and I had to find a kitchen item and I sold these for thirty dollars with free shipping So that is a pretty cool find imperial casual wear is what they say nice little Bolo and There you go something I wouldn't have normally picked up Kind of thought outside of the box with the bins bingo challenge if you have not checked out those videos Type into the YouTube search Hashtag bins bingo and you will see all of the youtubers that participated in this I gave them a bingo card and they had to find as many items as they possibly could on that card from the Goodwill bins What's cool about it as you get to see a lot of footage of the Goodwill bins from different areas different states different youtubers How they record and get you the footage of the Goodwill bins some people record the entire like Seen the people digging I just do my hands. So different different bins videos check it out lots of fun Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you for watching Be sure to like comment subscribe and share again the referral link for whatnot and Poshmark and Mercari are all down below you do get money to shop when you use those links Those are my referral links. So I get some money to shop also from Mercari and Poshmark and Yeah, it's a great way to source and sell on different marketplaces and list perfectly Amazing check it out. There's a tutorial down below if you've never cross posted check that video out I walk you through the process Super easy love it. I show you how to use the catalog on list perfectly And I also show you how to manually cross posts from one platform to another There's lots of options with list perfectly They also just came out with the new pro plus plan which has a ton of incredible new features So check that out. Thank you guys so much for being here again. 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Located in the same continent of Asia, India and Vietnam have got the age-old relationship. That relationship has been raised to the contemporary level by Mahatma Gandhi, Chawalan Nehru, President Ho Chi Minh and the other leaders of the two countries. Vietnam and India have for many generations been preserving this close relationship to promote to peace and friendship among the nations. In the early centuries AD, primordial inhabitants of the south of Indochina Peninsula and islands, including two tribes of Khao and Zhe, resided in the present central Vietnam on the basis of the wet rice farming. This process took place at the same time as the discovery and development of maritime routes from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The Champa Kingdom as also other ancient kingdoms, located in Southeast Asia, quickly became an attractive area satisfying essential demand of Indian merchants, immigrants and missionaries to expand the trading market to find out specialties and to preach religions. Customs and practice, greed and religious belief and other cultural elements of Indian civilization also entered in the same stream. Beside primordial religious forms, Brahmanism was more and more engraved in the religious life of Champ inhabitants, which formed the basis integrated into which were other religions like Buddhism. The Champ architectural arts reached the excellent level with the skills and aesthetic sense of Champ people when they did not imitate exactly but with their own selection and creation. Forms and lines of those statues of gods and goddesses, animals and Indian dancers in Champa are not like that of gods of the same kinds found in India and in other countries. Faces of the statues of gods are not so severe. Statues of Apsara dancers in Champa are charming without exaggeration of sexual characteristics like statues of Apsara in India or Apsara in Cambodia. The Saudi Pana drum and Quran scriptures of the Champ community during their prayer to Allah can be heard here and there. Islam came to India in the early 7th century. Only from 1880 and 1900, Indian Muslims reached the south of Vietnam to build up a mosque in Anzang. The beauty in the traditional culture in Champ villages in Anzang has survived along with the belief of the Islamic devotees. There are many other Indian mosques on the lines of mosques in India. Ho Chi Minh City is a cultural center with the shape of a young city having the depth of national tradition and diversified with other cultural aspects of which Indian civilization must be mentioned as a civilizational cradle of mankind. In Hanoi capital with its 990 year history, many traces of the ancient culture still remain. Particularly the traces of Chinese and Indian cultures. Nobody can forget the system of the most hectic trading streets in the capital, namely Hang Dao, Hang Ngang, Hang Duong streets with shops, selling fabrics and restaurants run by Indian people in the early century. Since the 19th century, the Indian community has come to live and work in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. They built temples of Hinduism, Brahmanism, Islam, Sikhism etc. opened restaurants for selling goat milk, milk cakes and Indian foods. It can be said that when I visited India for the first time in 1956, I was very surprised and wondered how close this country has been to Vietnam. Over many continuous centuries, Buddhist thought, arts and science of India have spread over the world. Yes, and evermore, they have made a firm basis for the friendly relations between Vietnam as also other countries and India.


Our next caller is Patty from New York. Hi, Patty, how can we help you? Hi, so I am, first of all, I love you guys. I listen to you guys every morning. It's so cool to be talking to you. I'm calling about my MAPS anabolic progress. So I ran an anabolic, absolutely loved it, was really happy with my squat and my deadlift progress. I tested my wonder at maxes before and after, and I was really happy with that, but my bench and my strict press, like, terrible progress, only five pounds on my bench and nothing on my overhead. So, and I've been stuck at the same weight since like the end of last year. So I'm looking to rerun anabolic and make some like modifications and changes to it so I can address where I kind of lagged in my progress. So I'm just wondering, you know, what do you guys recommend I should do? What should I be incorporating or changing to help progress my upper body as much as, or at least close to what I'm progressing on my lower body? Just one little wrinkle is I do have lupus. So my energy is kind of not always the most predictable. So I don't do any of the trigger sessions, two to three days full body seems to be my kind of happy spot. Okay, I'm glad you added that part because that definitely changes, you know, what my answer would be. So first number one, it's quite common for a female to see really good gains in lower body type movements and much slower gains in upper body movements. That's quite common, but the question you're asking is, you know, how can I get my bench and my overhead press to go up? And because you have the lupus, what we're not gonna do is just add volume to your workout, which is typically without. Yes, having to work. Yeah, typically I'd recommend that. So what we're gonna do instead is a volume transfer. Okay, so what I would have you do is reduce the amount of sets that you're doing for your squats and your deadlifts and add those to those exercises that you want to improve your bench press and overhead press.  I would stay within that and then do that volume transfer. By the way, I've trained many people with lupus and if you find the right amount of volume, you can make great progress. But as you know. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, as you know, if you go over it, then, you know, it's a disaster. Yeah, it's a good word for it. Patty, how long have you been training for?  So I've been really good, really consistent since September. I haven't had to take any breaks, which is actually a big deal. So that's when I really got more serious and my husband told me to stop being afraid of trying to see how, you know, how strong I really was. Awesome, awesome. I love that advice. Oh, you got plenty of room for gain still, then. That's great. Oh, yeah, I'm not pulling some great numbers, you know. So are you, are you working out from home or are you working out in a gym? Yeah, I have a decent home set up. So I've got an adjustable bench with one of those like adjustable racks over it. And I have a cable machine. Okay. So the other thing is this too. So, I mean, of course, we always encourage everybody to follow the programs to a T when you first go through them, just so you can kind of get the philosophy of the programming. And of course, many of those exercises are some of the biggest bang for your buck. But here's an example where you can start to kind of manipulate and change movements in here. So I would also recommend, you know, subbing out some of the, you know, shoulder press or bench exercise for other bench or shoulder exercise or chest exercises. So, you know, feel free to get creative. Now, I wouldn't completely leave barbell movements, but there's exercises in there that you can exchange or change out or add to your routine.  Now, Patty, have you noticed any sticking points in those lifts? Like, are there any part of the movements that you feel like, you know, you lose strength in? Yeah, so when I'm doing my overhead press, I can definitely, I've tried playing around with push presses. I thought maybe that would help me build it up a little bit.  Okay, so this is more like on the lockout portion, you know, for overhead. Do you feel it's a little bit unstable, so like in terms of like being able to control the weight or is this just like a, you know, you're pushing it up, you just don't feel like you have that extra to extend? Yeah, I feel like I don't have enough gas in the tank to make it past that one point.  Yeah, you could do carries where you're, so you said you're strong at the very top. Yes.  But it's when you're at your nose level that you get stuck. Yeah, I can't get past that. So you could do isometrics in that position. So you could literally get a barbell, put it underneath the rack so that you push up, you're not gonna go anywhere, and then do 10 seconds of pushing up with high intensity in that isometric position, and do some sets there. And what you'll get is this strength gain in that position at about 15 degrees up and down from it. I would love that as Epress here. Yes. I would love that as Epress. Oh yeah, that's a good idea. I would love to put a Z-Press, because you'll see carry over into your bench exercise from the Z-Press also. And when I get stuck or have somebody who gets stuck right where you're talking about, sometimes too, if I can develop their core strength, because that's kind of what happens. When you're ready to get to that nose point, you'll start to feel the tendency of the back wanting to arch or to kind of lean back for leverage. And if you have a really stable, good solid core, and you've built some strength there, sometimes that will engage and that will help you kind of get through the rest of the lift. Z-Press is great for that. I think that's money. That's perfect advice. Also, to add to that, I mean, I'm always voice and rotational movements. I think taking dumbbells or kettlebells through a rotational spiraling type of a press will really help to you feel a lot more controlled, a lot more stabilized in the shoulder joint, which then tells the body everything is secure so we can actually apply a bit more force. So the part of the recruitment process is really being able to generate that force in those parts of the lift, where you feel like there's a discrepancy. So to add things like that, to supplement, to really enhance the stability of the overall movement is gonna help. Okay, cool. All right, thanks for calling in, Patty. Thank you, guys. Love the show. Bye. Thank you. I love getting feedback like that from somebody that she's doing well, just has a couple questions. And that's, you know, exactly. If you follow one of our programs, first time around, follow as it's laid out, as you, when you're done with it and you go back through the second time around, now you can start to modify because there are always individual variances. This is why a personal trainer is such an incredible investment because they could train just you and not anybody else. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I love the Z-Press for this. Like, I can literally remember being stuck at that place with shoulder presses. And this was one of the things that I felt I broke through when I started to incorporate the Z-Press. And I also am somebody, now I don't know, we didn't get a chance to ask her on how much she trains core or not, but I do have a tendency personally to neglect it. That forces you to do that. It forces you to really lock that in as you're pressing and doesn't allow you to cheat the route. I think it's because, yeah, a lot of times it is your core, it's the lack of stabilization, especially when you're going for that last bit to lock out, because I was gonna, you know, point to the fact of the overhead carries like we, you know, that's usually like bringing it all the way up and overhead is usually a sticking point for a lot of people to feel like, you know, they don't have stability there. Or in the rack position, you know, there's a lot of loss of energy because, you know, just to get the kind of support and stability initially, you know, you lose a lot of that if you don't have that right away. So your lift gets affected.