Not the Usual Suspects Boys and Girls Clubs of Wales project Not the Usual Suspects was set up with the aim of giving underrepresented young people the opportunity to learn about politics and to meet with politicians at different levels, from local councillors to members of European Parliament. The project ran over five residential sessions and ended with an event called Not the Usual Hastings, which was attended by Serving AMs, chaired by BBC Newsbeats Stefan Powell and broadcast on S4C, ITV and Made in Cardiff TV. As a result, over 300 young people now have greater awareness of political process. Transform Cymru Youth Cymru's Transform Cymru is led by a steering group of young people who identify as trans to empower trans young people to access their rights and to support youth organisations to address discrimination and exclusion. The project worked with partner Mess Up the Mess Theatre Company to provide opportunities for trans young people to meet and socialise and undertake a project to create an awareness-raising film that has been shared widely. Transform Cymru also delivered training and awareness sessions to young people and professionals which promote the rights of trans young people. Cardiff Youth Council, CYC Cardiff Youth Council, CYC, is the official peer-led network for 11 to 19-year-olds in Cardiff. CYC advocates the positive change to live, work and play and work on issues that are important to young people in Cardiff. CYC has a great digital presence with over a thousand followers on both Twitter and Facebook. They also organise a range of activities which engage with thousands of young people. Members sat on a strategic group to look at the restructure of Cardiff's youth service and develop the rights-based pledge which influences staff training, performance review and the youth work offer. Rights Ambassadors Project Vale of Glamorgan's Rights Ambassadors Project was developed to raise awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Working in partnership with schools, councils and youth organisations, the project delivered accredited training, supported young people to develop training workshops, allowed them to engage with the Children's Commissioner's Office and developed confidence and a range of transferable skills. The young people who were involved were made more aware of their rights and were empowered to challenge decision making at every level across their county.


Our next speaker, Talia Gershon, will tell you a little bit more about how they work and how the way we think about them is going to change within the next five years. Talia is a good friend of mine and a passionate advocate for quantum computing. She leads a team of software engineers and designers that make quantum computing available in the cloud and also grows and nurtures a community around our quantum computing platform. Please welcome our last speaker, Talia. All right, thank you, Jamie, for the introduction. And I want to start off with just a quick poll of the audience. So how many of you have heard some buzz about quantum computing? Probably most of you. OK, and how many of you really feel like you know what it is? OK, well, thank you for your honesty. And it's a good thing you're all here at Think because we have four awesome days of programming that should help give all of you a flavor for what quantum computing will do and what quantum computing will do. And we also have a booth here, so I encourage you all to come by and talk to us. Whether or not you know it, there's problems we just can't solve today, even using our biggest classical supercomputers. Take, for an example, accurately simulating the bonding in large molecules. It sounds like we should be able to do this, but the computation required for the job grows exponentially the bigger the molecule you're trying to simulate. That's because to do this properly, you have to account for the effect of every single electron on every other electron. The more electrons you have, the exponentially more computation is required. And the fact that there are problems we can't solve today is why exploring fundamentally new ways of doing computation might open up new doors. So enter quantum computing. Let me summarize it as follows. Quantum computing is a technology that encodes information into complex quantum states. It uses operations performed on those states to process the information, and it uses a measurement of the final state to record a result. Seems simple enough? Actually, no. It's still pretty complicated. And it's an interdisciplinary problem. And even just the theory alone is interdisciplinary. It's built on a foundation of the physics of quantum mechanics and quantum information. And it's written in the language of linear algebra, which we use to represent a quantum state and how it transforms throughout an algorithm. And we weave in computer science to translate the theory into executable commands that we can run on a machine. And experimental quantum computing is interdisciplinary, too. We're building real systems that can implement the theory, meaning real devices that behave like qubits or quantum bits with quantum properties that can be manipulated. This requires physics, material science, and device fabrication expertise. And we need to be able to control the qubits, which requires microwave signal processing and electrical and controls engineering. And we need to cool these chips down to 15 milli Kelvin, or 460 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, which requires advanced cryogenics. My point is that quantum computing is not just a game for physicists. And building it into a scalable technology is going to require breakthroughs across a whole range of STEM disciplines. And it's going to require that we fundamentally change the way we think. My friend and colleague, Jay Gambetta, leads our quantum theory and software teams in IBM Q. And I've often heard him say to people, including me, you're thinking too classically. What he means by that is that you're trying to apply linear, classical, logical thinking to understand something quantum, and it doesn't work. And he said this phrase enough times that it's become a mantra and a sticker that adorns all of our laptops. You're thinking too classically, hashtag IBM Q. And as funny as it is, thinking too classically is a real problem that hinders progress. So how do we get people to change the way they think? Well, we start in the classroom. When Einstein first discovered relativity, I'm sure nobody intuitively got it and understood why it was important. And today, it's in every modern physics classroom in the world. Within five years, the same thing will happen with quantum computing. Not only will physics departments offer quantum information classes, but computer science departments will offer a quantum track. Electrical engineering departments will teach students about quantum circuits and microwave signal processing. And chemistry classes will teach students not only how to simulate molecules on a classical machine, but also on a quantum computer. I did my undergraduate at MIT and I majored in material science. And I remember that the class that really inspired me the most and made me want to pursue a career in this field was 315, electrical, optical, and magnetic materials and devices. It taught me about every device of technological importance. Transistors, lasers, LEDs, magnetic hard drives you name it. What is it made of and how does it work? Within five years, that class will teach students about qubits. What are they made of and how do they work? And the same thing will happen across a whole range of disciplines. And these changes will be enabled by the fact that more and more teachers will use quantum computers in the classroom. Students and teachers will use quantum computers in the classroom and they'll have access to tools that we never had. Thanks to the IBM Q Experience, they can already access quantum computers today. It's a set of three prototype quantum computers that we've made available through the cloud with two different ways of programming them. A graphical interface with drag and drop operations and an open source software developer kit called Qiskit. Today over 1500 universities around the world have people with registered accounts on the IBM Q Experience. And more and more universities will join the ranks of Oxford and Kayo universities and the University of Melbourne as hubs in the IBM Q network to access our more advanced hardware. A few months ago, I was working late one night exchanging Slack messages with Jay when a photo popped up in my Slack window. It was a photo of Jay's nine-year-old daughter sitting on the couch playing with the IBM Q Experience. And it came with a caption that read, she's always asking to play with the quantum computer. She was nine years old.  The existence of tools like the IBM Q Experience and Qiskit mean that she will have the resources and the community that she needs to learn about and then shape the field of quantum information. And the fact that these tools are open and available to everyone means that she could have been anyone's son or daughter. And that's pretty cool. Over the last five talks, you've heard a lot about AI and quantum computing. And the thought I wanna leave you with is that these fields are not fully independent. We believe that applying AI to the development of quantum computing will help accelerate our rate of progress in that field. And we also believe that by developing universal quantum computers, we'll have new tools that we can use to accelerate our rate of progress in AI. Thank you.


Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth lesson of the quarter. I'd like to start by introducing the panelists. We have Tisha Niko, Finley, Stylas and Avin. On the orchestra we have Ashlyn and Elsie and on the sign language we have Joyce. That's but not least, I'm Debora and before we start, let us bow our heads for a word of prayer. Kind and loving father, thank you for this day. Thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for the viewers who are watching this lesson. We pray that you may be able to bless everyone who may be able to hear the message, pray all this trusting and believing in man. Greetings to all of you and welcome to our lesson of the quarter, the fourth lesson of the quarter. Last week we covered building a house of God. Today our lesson will be the wise and foolish king. With me on the panel on my left hand. Avin Mosomi. Then we have... Benithian Stylas. Finley Tabari. Thank you. And we'll be discussing the fourth lesson of this quarter which is titled the wise and foolish king. It's a bit contradictory to talk about a king who is both wise and foolish at the same time. But we'll find out how even through this lesson. But before we begin, I'd like us to start with the word of prayer. So Avin, please pray for us. Sali, pray. Do you have any father? We thank you for this day that you've given us. Now is the beginning of our lesson study. May you grant us knowledge that you may embark on this study with sufficiency that you may understand everything. In just name I pray. Amen. Amen, amen. Who is the wise and the foolish king? We'll learn about the story of King Sol from the book of Fast Kings chapter 11. And King Solomon, sorry, pardon me, from the book of Fast Kings chapter 11. And I'd like us to read Fast Kings 11 v. 11. The Bible says, wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, for as much as this is done of thee and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant. Solomon did some things that were not in line with the statutes of God and he strayed away from the commandments of God and God decided to take away the kingdom from him and give it to his servant. Before we delve into this story to understand the context of it, I'd like us to look at the what you think section of our lesson which will help jog our minds and help us to think about some of the things that may be taken from us. Avin, can you take us through this? Yes. First of all, to begin this basis, if you think about your life in general, there's some things that you've done which may lead to consequences later. For example, when you're a child, you may misbehave and your parents may give you consequences. So like that, we may begin our what you think section. Imagine that your parents are going to take one of the following items from you on a scale of one to ten. One meaning you have to have it and ten meaning you don't really have to have it. Rank these following items in order of importance to you. The first one is money, cell phone, internet access and freedom to hang out. For me personally, I think money is my number one because like with money you can get a cell phone, you can get internet access, then you can also hang out with your friends like somewhere with the money you have. So I feel like money is the most important thing for me. What do you think Salas? For me, I think it's internet access because even if I have money, perhaps it's not really enough to sustain all the internet I need or I want to use. So I think internet access is the most crucial. Okay, what do you think Finley? For me, my number one is freedom to hang out with friends. With friends you build social security and your friends can help you with money and also they can assist you to access the internet. So it's a sensible argument. Let's now listen to Chnico. Yeah, I'd also think I concur with Finley quite a bit on that. If you have friends they can help you supply all these other things, they can guide you to sources of money. I was thinking about what would be the last one on my list when I look at these things and I'm thinking maybe the cell phone is the last thing. If you have a chance to hang out with your friends then you can get access to these things even when you don't have it. The only difficulty would be talking or finding these friends who you are going to hang out with. Yeah, but that's basically what I think. All the others are important as well. Moving on to build on this also. Let's take our key text. Fast Kings chapter 11 verse 9 and 10 says, The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord. The God of Israel who had appeared to him twice although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord's command. So here we are basically shown but into the story we are shown what happens due to Solomon not following God's instructions. That's basically what I've said. If as a child he did something wrong, you have consequences, Solomon also did something and he got consequences. Thank you. Even as we proceeded like us now to talk about this story, we can find out now what was taken away from Solomon. Silas, can you guide us into this story to understand what were the things that led to God wanting to take away the kingdom from King Solomon? What is it that he had done? And from this we can draw out the lesson of why he is considered a wise and foolish king. As we know King Solomon was the wisest man living on the earth at his time. So what is it that led him to be also considered foolish? Okay, so King Solomon asked for wisdom from God and he was given wisdom and from the wisdom he was given he had wealth and he had all the power in the world because he had the wisdom to rule it. And after gaining all the riches and all the power he had, he somehow loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter Muabites, Amonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites you must not intermarry with them because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods. But Solomon didn't listen to the advice of God after he had been given what he asked for and this came with consequences. So because of that he, the kingdom was taken away from him. So looking at some of the things that are in the out of the story section these guide us through those and maybe we can see if we can relate this account of King Solomon to what we have in our modern life today. Okay so what parts of this story are new to you, Avin? The parts that are new to me are that Solomon built specific I think specific altars for specific gods of each of his wives that had foreign gods because he didn't go out of his way just to worship them not really worship them he didn't go out of his way to condone them with his wives he went out of his way to build temples for these gods to be worshiped that's a part that I didn't know before. Okay. So the most striking part is that Solomon disobed God by intermarrying with idoloshipa. Okay so the next question is in spite of David's scene with Becheba this passage says that David followed God completely what does this tell us about what God values in his children? Yeah because from this passage you've also seen that David followed God completely despite his scene with Becheba and for me I see in this passage that if you've seen and ask God for forgiveness and you repent sincerely will be forgiven and you can live a righteous life again. Yeah. Jenny Code. Yeah in regard to this section I think that it's important to note how David is considered a righteous person David killed someone here slept with Becheba but God still says that he had completely followed him. Now this might not sound true at face value but it's clear to us that Christ wipes out our sins completely when we repent so just like David repented he says he was sorrowful for his sin and as a result of the sorrow he had for his sin Christ forgave him and wiped out his sin such that when we start reading the account in the book of Fast Kings we are told that David I mean King Solomon yeah David followed God with a perfect heart and he followed him correctly so when we look at this question that you are talking about God values true repentance in his children. So Avin what do you think about this question? What does this passage say to you about self discipline in the choice of a life but how can that influence our relationship with God? I feel that absolute discipline to God results in a healthy relationship with God because once you start trying your own thing once you start believing in yourself you stray from God because even the story for Saul he was sent to kill one of the tribes but then he brought back the king and he brought back some cattle in the name of we should sacrifice them to God but now that's what God wanted and from there Saul fell off his relationship with God fell off because he didn't fully follow God's instructions so I feel like at most obedience to God leads to a healthy life relationship with God Okay for me I think for the part of a life partner he'll spend most of your time with them so they have the highest influence on you yeah So if you make a wrong choice in regard to the life partner that we have we might be taken away from God just like King Solomon right? yeah there are consequences that we can see evidently from the story and for King Solomon it was being taken away from the God of heaven that he worshipped and when we actually speak of something that was new to me in this story I have noticed that all the 700 wives were actually princesses so all of them were royalty they are not just normal people then now the other wives or concubines that he had the 300 were just now the normal ladies but the people he took as wives or princesses so they are the best that was in their kingdoms so I found that very interesting I'd like us to read the book of Ezra chapter 9 verse 6 Ezra chapter 9 verse 6 so the Bible says in Ezra chapter 9 verse 6 that and said oh my God I am ashamed and blushed to lift up my face to the my God for our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespass is grown up into the heavens we find that this is a prayer of shame and this is in Ezra when Ezra is narrating this account he is ashamed to lift up his face to God because of the iniquities that they have had I can imagine just like King Solomon had done iniquity this is the same thing but for Ezra he was afraid to pray he was he didn't even want to offer a prayer because of the way they had sent and the flashlight and even the prophets and king's passages we are reading in chapter 3 and 4 give us more insight on this that like you friendly to tell us the experience how Ellen White narrates what happened to King Solomon So in the flashlight but it says that had Solomon continued in humility of mind to turn the attention of men from himself to the one who had given him wisdom and riches and honor what a history might have been his but while the pain of inspiration records his virtues it also bears faithful witness to his downfall raised to a pinakul of greatness and surrounded with the gifts of fortune Solomon became dizzy lost his balance and fell prophets and king's page 68 so we should explain what Ellen White meant by this statement and the first one is Solomon became dizzy for me he became dizzy when God blessed him with riches and he started putting his priorities before God's priorities what about you Silas? Okay I think that Solomon had all this wealth and all the wisdom he was the wisest man on earth who ever lived and so from this instead of giving God the glory to what he had he he had pride in his achievements which were enabled by God and that's why he turned away Having any thoughts? What happens when you're dizzy if I may ask? You are not really in a state where you can make right decisions you can't even probably stand properly and stuff so for me I feel like in this context you have to become dizzy first you have to be upright you have to be okay this basically symbolize how Solomon when he started his reign he asked God for wisdom he didn't ask God for fame he asked God for wisdom which is righteous in my view because he wanted to rule the God's kingdom he wanted to rule God's kingdom on earth which is Israel with a lot of wisdom so that he doesn't fall astray like the past two kings but now later we now see he's becoming dizzy which means he's now falling astray he's now marrying foreign wives which leads him to adopting all these other gods then he finally falls off which means he I feel like he's totally lost in a point where he has to turn back unless his kingdom will just fall straight off so I feel like that's the progression of how he started well and ended falling off thank you so for me he lost balance when he started intermarrying with foreign wives and he fell when he built temples of their gods beside his own God he built temples of other gods beside his own God Solomon became dizzy no clarity of thought losing his balance as well explained by Avin he started making decisions that did not look right marrying other foreign wives then finally his fall is he was led away from God entirely that's an experience all of us can experience in our lives the moment we don't have clarity of thought we then start making decisions that are not right then after that we find that we are far away from God so it's important for us to think as teenagers even in our lives what are some of the things that make us get dizzy per se Finley or Silas or Avin anyone has any things that you think may make you dizzy what are some of the things that may lead you away from God or something that has led you away from God I can go first peer pressure is one of the main factors because with peer pressure you are led astray by your own friends who you trust for example Sabbath they can say let's go for a party or something on Sabbath let's hang out on Sabbath while you should be in church so I feel like they lead you astray they make you dizzy now you can't really think on Friday nights when we have Vespas instead of thinking about the Sabbath and how you are going to keep it in truth and spirit you are busy preparing what clothes you are going to wear how much money you are going to carry there you are preparing yourself for the wrong thing while you are supposed to be turning your eyes on Jesus that's what I feel like for me I think it's either your friends or perhaps your phone and basically your phone you are just talking to your friends or you are watching something which comes with internet access it comes with internet access yes I will say in school when others are studying on Saturday you go to church the whole day the teacher tells you come to class study you paid for that money because it is a remedio and as a Christian you sometimes feel dizzy but we should not lose balance and fall yes we should not lose balance and fall as Christians so those are some important lessons that are given to us and in the spirit of Ezra 9 verse 6 the Bible speaks severally about having sorrow for sin being ashamed for what you've done and even leading you to true repentance so that you stop committing sin or iniquity knowingly but turning away from it and there are some punchlines which I believe are promises as well which we can keep in our hearts and I'd like to ask Silas to guide us through this ok, so for the punchlines I'll just speak the one that speaks speaks to me the most and then each one of you can also speak yours sure so mine is 2nd Thessalonians 3 verse 3 it says but the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one this text stood out because it's a promise that no matter what happens God is still there and He will always be there with you Iman, Finley so my verse is Psalms 25 verse 8 which says kunda good and upright is the Lord therefore He instructs sinners in His ways so we can always be assured when we plan to do the right thing and we fail just like the saying which goes the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak we can always depend on God to return us to His ways as long as we heed to His voice Iman, Finley the verse that stood out for me is as Ramayan verse 6 I am too ashamed and disgraced my God to lift up my face to you because our sins are high then our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens for me for this verse I feel like in our day to day lives when we sin we feel wary of God's presence that we can't approach God after we have done sin but now I feel like even at our lowest moments we should always seek God and even after we have sin that's when we should turn to God ask for forgiveness we should repent our sins and strive to be like Jesus Iman I can relate to the verse that Finley said which is some to chapter 25 verse 8 where the Bible states that good and upright is the Lord therefore He instructs sinners in His ways Okay, so I'd like us to to think about this does the sorrow of sin catch your attention as well as the chapter 9 verse 6 there is sorrow in that verse and there is a promise in in 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 3 and it's kind of counters the verse because the sorrow is talking about us being in sin and being afraid to ask God for help because we think our sin is too big and 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 3 says that the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen you and protect you from devil Iman so we should never think that our sins are too hard for us to overcome we should trust God so those are encouraging punchlines that we can keep in our lives even as we seek to remain steadfast even when we feel we have done shameful things and He is faithful and He will not let us be overcome by the evil one now Proverbs chapter 12 verse 4 says a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones I repeat a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones most people who read the story of the life of Solomon focus on the number of wives that he had this is 700 wives and 300 concubines but is this really the only thing we should focus on Finley can you tell us more about this from your reading of the flashlight section and Proverbs 12 verse 4 what is the main focus that we should be looking at here rather than just the wives and the concubines according to me we should look for a wife who brings together the family just like Proverbs 12 verse 4 says that a good wife is the crown of her husband a home is made up of a father, a mother and a children and so the children stays most with the mother so when you get a good wife you can be assured that your children will be nice and God fearing okay, okay yes, Aveno Sylas do you agree with this yes I noticed to all gentlemen on the panel I think he is speaking to us on something that is key for us so when you are choosing I think I am married here but when you decide to choose a wife you need to choose a wife from the Lord and this also shows something else that is really key the choice of a life partner determines how you worship God this is something that is important because if you choose a wrong wife then you will end up not worshiping the Lord correctly and if you look in Fast Kings this is a list of women that are mentioned that King Solomon married and they are all from the foreign tribes the Bible says that King Solomon loved many strange women together with the daughter of Pharaoh remember we said that this 700 wives were princesses so together with the daughter of Pharaoh the first princess and he also had the women of Moabites the Ammonites the Edomites the Zidonians and the Hittites and these are the nations which the Lord said unto the children of Israel you shall not go in unto them neither shall they come in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods Solomon clave unto this in love that is from the book of Fast Kings chapter 11 verse 1 and verse 2 so Silas could you share with us one of the amazing things that we learnt from the lesson in the didino section okay so the didino section talks about Solomon and it says did you know that Solomon built temples for the worship of the heathen gods in addition to the temple he built for the true god what's more he didn't just build them in some obscure places safely out of sight he built them on a hillside opposite Mount Moriah the exact spot where he had built a magnificent temple for God so this shows that from Solomon being the king who built the temple of the Lord instead of his father David that same spot where he built the temple for God he also built a temple for his heathen gods and this shows that he turned away from God completely for me I feel like I feel that the spouses have really a big role in the choice of the other spouse for example here Solomon loved his wife that's why he wanted to make magnificent things for them not something to hide but now for them to be shown all over another example is when Jezebel wanted the vineyard Ahab was quick he didn't really think about it because this is his lovely wife so he was he had the request and it was like it's finished the spouses have a huge role in the partner's choices I feel like and there are several stories that speak to this does any of you remember any other story where the wife of someone let them astray feel like I know another one Samson Samson was given straight instructions that you should not marry from these certain tribes and he went and married he went and chilled with another lady from the tribe was told not to and eventually he was brought down he loved her so much to the point that he gave out his secret of where his strength came from and the liar since she had hidden intentions she went and told immediately his weakness and that's what brought destruction to him say this in the Bible I cannot also forget our first parents Adam and Eve if tempted Adam to eat the apple so she let him astray that's interesting that the good wife Adam had was from the Lord so it just shows us how vulnerable we are to sin God creates and gives you a wife like in the case of Adam and Eve his wife still let him to sin would we say that she was from a heathen nation probably not but it shows us that the kind of spouse you marry affects your life and as you rightly stated Eve's decision affected Adam which even means a Christian's wife can affect them in a negative way so I'd like us to give our closing thoughts before we wrap it up so we can start with you Finley what are some of the key lessons and takeaways you have from this lesson about the wise and foolish king then we'll have silence next then we'll go last we should let God have full control of our life especially when it comes to the marriage life very important for me I'll just read the further insight it says he who falls into some of the grosser sins may fail a sense of shame and poverty and his need of grace of the grace of Christ but pride fills no need and so it closes it closes the heart against Christ and the infinite blessing he came to give so this flashlight basically says that sorry not the flashlight the further insight says that when you do a sin that feels big to you you get into basically a notion that you can't ask God for forgiveness because he seems too big and we should learn that there's nothing too big that God can do my moral lesson is but we should involve God in all aspects of our lives in all the decisions that we make that we may not be led astray by even our own very spouses so that we may follow in his footsteps and make the right decisions yes there are lots of lessons to learn from the wise and foolish king even as we wrap it up I'd like to give a short illustration Eskimos kilwolves in a very brutal way they take a knife and they put animal blood on it until it is fully covered in blood and given that Eskimos live in the snowy areas of the world they buried the knife with a blade facing up and it's fully covered in blood and when a wolf comes and smells using its strong sense of smell it actually reaches the knife and then because it loves the blood it starts leaking and leaking and leaking this blood not knowing that there is a blade of a knife hidden underneath and the wolf continues leaking this blood to the point the blade starts cutting its tongue but it leaks the blood because it loves it and it thinks it's still leaking the blood that was on the knife but it eventually dies as a result of cutting itself on the tongue to death bleeding and this is the same thing that sin does to us King Solomon went and married foreign wives thinking that it was not such a big thing but he eventually ended up setting up places for worship for these foreign wives as a result of this the whole nation of Israel so these places that were set up to worship other gods as a result of doing the things that God had commanded them not to do so God's call to us in this lesson can be found in the book of 2 Kings chapter 17 verse 13 which I'll read the Bible says yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah by all the prophets and by all the seers saying turn ye from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets God expects us to follow him in his ways and if we do the wrong thing we can repent and be like David who is considered to have had a perfect heart and not remain in sin like King Solomon who was wise but made the wrong decisions to the point the kingdom was taken away from him so it's a call to all of us to be wise and we ask God for wisdom and in case we fall into sin let's ask him for forgiveness and not stick to our sinful ways I'd like to invite Silas to give us the closing prayer Let's pray Afaba, those above in heaven thank you this day we thank you for the love and your care we pray that you may help us make wise choices and give all the glory that belongs to you, back to you In Jesus name I pray Amen Amen


the study examined how people learn the weight of objects based on their physical characteristics. The researchers found that people tend to form a categorical representation of object weights which is influenced by the similarity between objects, their cardinality, frequency, history, structure, stochasticity, the systems, and time pressure. This article was authored by Evan Sezenek, J Randall Flanagan and Daniel M. Walpert.


Alright guys, what is going on? It's Jacob here and we are back in this exact spot and it's eight weeks out. Today's date is Saturday the 16th of July 2016. The last time I checked in was at the nine weeks out mark which was the ninth of July and I weighed in at 198.6 pounds I do believe. Now before I get into anything my macros training how things are going which I will delve into I'm gonna get away in so let's do that now. So 197.2 pounds I don't know what that is in KGs it's it's around about 89 kilograms I do believe but without further ado let's get into the the macros because as you guys know or if you don't know I got to the point I got my physique to the point of nine weeks out without tracking a single thing not one calorie was was tracked if anything I did have in the back of my mind you know a total protein amount that that is one figure I do try and keep consistent but as far as carbs and fats meal timing you know how many meals I was having per day it was all guesswork and I pretty much you know stuck to the clean eating principles although I do include you know bad food in my diet but it got me where I was so at that point last week at nine weeks out I realized that if I want to continue dieting down if I want to you know get leaner get into contest shape I've got absolutely no choice but to bring out my smartphone again and start using my fitness power so that's exactly what I did and every single thing I'm happy to say every single thing I put into my mouth whether that be a drink or food I counted I counted my strength training sessions as you know calories burnt I counted cardio sessions as calories burnt and do believe last week I put my my macros for this coming week that's just gone at around about 250 protein 250 carb and like 70 grams of fat now let's get into it okay so the numbers I did actually stick to guys I stuck to 240 grams of protein a day on average the numbers on any particular day could could go up and down but as far as averages go I've taken all the numbers from the seven days in all the different categories average them out and here they are so for the week from July the 9th to July the 16th I had 240 grams of protein a day I had 311 grams of carbs a day and I had 72 grams of fat a day so if anything my protein was slightly lower than what I wanted my fat was was pretty much on point and my carbs was slightly high so if anything going into this next week I'm going to continue keeping protein around about that 240 to 250 mark fat is going to still remain at about 70 grams and carbs I'm going to attempt to bring back down to that you know 250 like I mentioned before so with all that being said that is an average of 2852 calories per day now I trained with weights every single day so what I did on my fitness pile I put that in as a 250 calorie session so every single day I'd be taking 250 calories off that 2850 so it brings me back down to 2600 so you know it's it's more so around that 2500 that I wanted as well as that I did two 500 calorie cardio sessions now last week I told you guys I was gonna aim for five that didn't happen you know work got in the way etc I put all my effort into weight training and then after weight training I just literally can't be fucked doing cardio I do realize that you know come eight weeks out like it is today if I'm gonna dial it in if I'm gonna do well in this show you know cardio is gonna need to become more of a necessity I'm actually heading to Thailand tomorrow and that's gonna be awesome I plan on you know keeping my diet in check I'm a little bit more serious about it this time going on holiday than I was last time back in New Zealand so I don't think it's gonna be a problem and I also am planning on using it as a chance to do heaps of cardio so I'm you know I'm planning on walking a lot of places I'll most probably be burning at least 4,000 calories a day so if I continue to you know stay anywhere under 3,000 calories a day while I'm in Thailand while I'm doing all this walking and activities and stuff I think I'll come back even leaner and you know continue on on my journey so this is how things are going so far one weekend to tracking but I am feeling I'm feeling really confident I I put up a physique update a couple of days ago which you guys will see and that is that 10% body fat I I put up to one was in my bedroom with some natural light coming from this side I actually got a little bit washed out and I wasn't happy with that so then what I did I did another video right here updating you guys again at what I think 10% body fat is and that is that was yesterday so that's where I'm sitting if you want to go check out what my physique looks like at this point go back to the video I put up yesterday that is 10% body fat what I think it looks like in good lighting so yeah that's it guys quick update I'm actually just home from lunch working right up until I go on holiday I'm fucking I leave at 5 30 tomorrow night and I'm working up until 2 30 in the afternoon so tonight after work I'm going to get everything packed you know clean up my bedroom get shit sorted for Thailand which I can't wait for so until then guys until next time have a great day train hard just know that I will be training hard the fatigue factor hasn't set in yet I mean as you can see I was still on a decent amount of calories but I know that coming into the future it's it will certainly you know start happening I will be fatigued throughout the day and I'm not gonna lie about any of it you get a hundred percent transparency with this channel 100% honesty I want to bring you guys along for the ride once again and I will be you know having some real talk along the way so I look forward to it until then have a great day I'll see you the next one peace


So I want to take a look at an example problem. And the example problem is basically the design or selection of a belt given this scenario. So we have a motor driving a belt and pulley system. It's rotating at a speed of 1750 rpm. The wrap angle of wrap on here is 165 degrees. And we're talking about the pulley that's on the motor. And we've mentioned already that it's the smaller pulley that we usually want to consider. So we're using V belts with a beta angle of 18 degrees, a size standard given as 5V, the unit weight, the power that we want in, and the maximum tension that we can support with our belt. And a friction coefficient of 0.2. The book uses f here. I'm going to replace that with mu because that makes more sense to me. And then the question is how many belts do we need in this system in order to be able to handle this supplied mode? So one of the first things we want to do is start filling in our equations. So the first thing I'm going to determine are centrifugal tension, which is m prime omega squared r squared. And we can start populating that we have 0.012 pounds per inch. Note that this is given in pounds. So it's a weight rather than a mass. And mass is what we need. So we'll divide that by 386 inches per second squared, which is the acceleration of gravity in inches per second squared. I'm going to multiply that by 1750 rpm times 2 pi over 60 to do the unit conversion to radians per second. And all of that is squared. And times r, we're given the diameter of 3.7 inches. So we'll divide that by 2 and square it. All right. So doing that calculation, then we come up with 3.57 pounds of tension due to just the rotational velocity. All right. Our next equation, p1 minus pc over p2 minus pc equals e to the mu phi over sine beta. Okay. And we've specified that p1, our maximum tension, is 150 pounds. So we can substitute that in for p1. Now we don't have p2. So in this case, that's actually what we're solving for is this p2, which gives us an understanding of what's going on. So we have 150 pounds minus 3.57 divided by p2 minus 3.57. And that equals e to the friction, which is 0.2 times the angle. Angle was 165 degrees. That is 2.88 radians divided by sine of 18 degrees. Okay. So just in case the question comes up in your head in terms of why did I have to convert my 165 degree angle to radians, but I didn't convert the 18 degrees for beta. And that is because the 165 degree angle is just being multiplied within that system. It's mu phi over sine beta. So I have to have it in radians because multiplying by degrees doesn't really work mathematically. I didn't have to convert it when I carry out the sine, assuming that my calculator is in degree mode and therefore the answer will come out when I take sine of 18 degrees. So just in case that was a point of confusion, that's why I had to convert one of the angles but not convert the other one. Okay. So rearranging and solving this equation for p2, basically multiplying this denominator p2 minus 3.57 across to the right hand side, dividing this whole right hand side back over, and then adding the 3.57 over once I've carried all that out, I find that p2 is equal to 26.3 pounds. So this is useful because now I can take and plug that into my torque equation, p1 minus p2 times r, and I get 150 minus 26.3 times 3.7 over 2. And this comes out to be 229 inch pounds. And next step is to calculate how much power I can therefore carry because this is the torque I can expect to transmit with a single belt. And the power that I can get from that then is t times n over 52, 52. So this is a standard power equation with some unit conversions built in. And it's equal to 229 inch pounds divided by 12 inches per foot to put that in foot pounds times 1750 rpm. So this equation with this 52, 52 works when I'm using foot pounds for torque and rpm for velocity, rotational velocity. And this comes out to be 6.36 horsepower, again built into the unit conversion there. And that is per belt. So I've calculated what my power capacity is per belt. And if we go back up here, the problem said that we need to input 25 horsepower into the system. That's what we're intending to drive with the system. So we simply take the 25 horsepower divided by the 6.36, which is I guess horsepower per belt.  So that means we need four belts. Of this particular design or of this particular, these particular dimensions, we need four belts in order to be able to drive 25 horsepower through this system. So of course, this is all based on the fact that the specific belt that we would use was specified in the problem. And we specified what its maximum tension carrying capacity is. You know, if we had options, we could potentially choose a different belt with a higher tension rating, which would allow us to maybe use fewer belts. But given the limitations of the problem, this is the requirement for belts to be able to carry 25 horsepower. Alright, thanks.


All right, folks, good afternoon and welcome on back here this Thursday, May 20th, shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern time. We got to hop right back into our afternoon meeting here. Great to see all of our students, like Lori, Mark, Wendy, Robert, Louis, Norman, and everybody else live inside Cyber Group for all of us on social media, Facebook Live, YouTube. Welcome on back. I've got to zip right through this meeting, folks. We have class finishing up today. We're not finishing up, brother. How about this? I'm living in the past. I was thinking of yesterday's phase one. We have class continuing today, the phase two stock course, lesson number two. We are finishing up phase two, come tomorrow at least. But, you know, phase two, lesson two today is actually the beginning of a mini series for all of our silver, gold, platinum, diamond, cyber trading students here in our room. We're talking more about preparing to trade the market open. So we'll be kind of going back in hindsight towards the charts from this morning, how we could best prepare a couple of these really volatile movers. I mean, Mara being one of them. So I'll look to provide some analysis on Mara, at least in terms of the actual trade here inside our class later on today. Nonetheless, Mara ended up diving off after the open, ended up beginning to bounce roughly from 21.  I had a bunch going on in my plate between PowerPoints and class. So I was a little out of my zone. I was down over 100 bucks going into class, which isn't a whole lot, but it's to say I'm normally up like a few hundred bucks at least at that point. So I had some crawling, I had some coming back to get to and I ended up jumping in on Mara off of 21. I wish I could say I ended up running it up towards close to 22. I ended up taking 28 cents. So you know what? I'm back in the plus. I'm up maybe like, that total like 112 at this point now.  I'm not going to show the Bitcoin chart for today. Not a whole lot really happened over the last 24 hours with that. But tomorrow I'll come back to Bitcoin at least. Mara being a shortable stock. If we happen to see the markets pull back a bit where Bitcoin itself continued to drop, then perhaps Mara goes with it. One thing that caught me by surprise, at least I'll say here to begin for all of us live, is that normally you tend to see Mara move with Bitcoin, perhaps move with a major index like the S&P. You could see the S&P ended up making a really nice push across the morning, popped going into the afternoon. Mara completely against the grain. So yeah, I mean, with that in mind, give me a second. I apologize. Just getting a couple chats here really quick. All right. So sorry about that, folks. Yeah, for right now, Mara, I don't mind putting this on our side list. Maybe I'll come back to this by the end of this meeting. We'll see what this is up to, at least. But I know if you do well on this stock day to day, I'd imagine you're going to follow this either way heading into the close. What we'll do though is just go from top to bottom. We'll see what else we got here, the BRPA trade. Hey, it's at the highs. It's up over 139% right now. But for the meantime, it's got a huge spread. It's just not really worth their time. I don't know if it's halted. Maybe it's halted. No, it's not halted. The time in sales is going. But nonetheless though, you could see this stock. The order book is very blank. Very few orders in total across the bid and the ask. So for right now, we'll pass just because it's at the highs doesn't mean that it's going to make a big move here. So for right now, I'd rather follow a much cheaper stock, one that has a much more liquid order book. This U1 trade is just exploding. Ended up making a huge pop going into like smack in the middle of the afternoon here. But ended up making a big squeeze going into one o'clock as it finally broke out over the highs off of $775. Ended up building support practically from there and $8. But just go back to the daily chart. I'll do that for you. But look at the daily chart here, folks. Right? Speaks for itself. Ended up making a huge pop. I mean, practically this time last year, June 15th, roughly June 15th, June 20th, whenever that was. But ended up making this historic move probably the best trade of 2020. If not the best trade probably top two. Right? I mean, hard to argue seeing a stock go from like three bucks all the way over 50. All right.  But we only hope to see a fraction of this type of move going forward. So we've caught this stock on and off over the last year and today making probably one of the better runs that we've seen since. So definitely right now the U1 trade, I'll put this on our main list, mix the cut, probably make the top at the end of it all. Really quickly, folks. I got a couple of chats here just going into this afternoon meeting. I'm going to respond back to each and every one of you just privately, just about something that happened and I'll take care of it. U1K, class K stock, not the warrant, but class K, ended up making a very similar move. We see this happen. Just with U1, U1K. Wouldn't shock me if the others that we've traded over the years, this one's super low float. So I'm not expecting much on this, but Cohen was a big pop just from last year this time with U1. What was the other one? U1 Carve, C-A-R-V. That was the other one that ended up making a big push at the same exact time as U1 and just from that time last year. It doesn't mean that they're going to make good trades for this afternoon. Just wanted to check in with them at least to see. They weren't at the top of the gainers list, but between U1 and U1K, those two alone I'll put on our main list. All right, so let's see what else we got. LFMA, nice trade pushing up pretty nicely. Broken new highs still kind of lingering there right now. You'd assume resistance to be off of $5, 9,300 shares that are on the offer currently. Yeah, I guess I'll add this one too. LMFA. Don't know what the news is. Looks like it made a similar type of pop. I don't know if this is in line with U1 in terms of what the company does, but nice push here across the afternoon. Not as sharp of a trend across the day like U1 at least, but for right now we'll definitely keep this in mind. PRPO unfortunately won that. Right now we're going to pass on, but ended up making a really good push from the morning. It was up a bit, but it was like really flat in pre-market here, so we had no interest in this stock, rightfully so going into the open. Now that said, as soon as it popped, Fausto was first to the punch on this call out when it ended up breaking above the first resistance level here off 450. Unfortunately though, this ended up hitting reversal time right on Q, right off 1030 Eastern that is, and ended up dumping off. All right, how about this quick little pop quiz?  Take part in this as well if you'd like. From 830 to 930 Eastern time, looking at this chart here, the one-minute chart from 830, generally speaking, what's the direction of the stock folks? Now you could say sideways. I mean that definitely is the case for a little bit, but it's certainly not up. It is not going up from 830, right? Well, we're going to be talking about that in class. What is the direction of the stock leading into the market open? That is something I take very seriously, and I take everything seriously, but you know what I mean? I usually follow the direction of the stock as it's opening up, as the direction that the stock will be in across the morning. Of course, that's not a full 100% guarantee, but that's where I start with. Bobby, I just covered that in a coaching session. Ray, right there too. So, hey, ended up providing a pop, but as soon as this sucker pulled back down below 21, that was a wrap. That was a wrap. That was it. Ended up providing us a two-point-plus short, ended up bouncing roughly from like 19 or 1870-ish. It's back up to 1950. Moving up nice. So, listen, it's a good sideless stock. I just think that it's traded a lot of volume today. It does have a high float, so it has the gas tank to try and make another run-up if it wants to. I guess I'll put this on the sideless for right now. Come back to it, maybe. That's all I got here. Oh, no, IOVA. How about this, the one where the CEO resigned like smack in the middle of the day yesterday? I'll tell you, these guys ended up having a nice recovery today. Pulled back after the open, but broke back over 17, ran from there. Beautiful move. Very liquid order books still. You know, just for as much as it dropped yesterday, ran back up. I wouldn't expect this to make another big move heading into the afternoon. You know, maybe come back to it tomorrow. Definitely come back to it tomorrow. Good sideless stock, at least still. But, yeah, for the afternoon today, not a whole lot. Oh, this BYFC. I forgot about this as I was kind of going through U1 and Carvin Cone. This one, BYFC, is another one that's tied in with U1. Broadway Financial ended up making that same type of squeeze. I forgot about them. You know what? This one's pretty slow and flat, so it doesn't look that great. Maybe keep this on the back end there. I don't know. Keep it on your side list, I guess, for right now. I'd rather follow that U1 trade a lot more, but I don't know. I'll say. IHT Pump and Dump came back down, unfortunately, and that was it, flattened out. All right, we'll hop over to the losers list here, folks. You got this BDTX trade at the low of the day. Listen, just because it's hard to borrow doesn't mean I'm not going to put this on our list for us here. You know, if you have interactive brokers think or swim fidelity, you name it. Perhaps you have to share us to short this stock. Hey, BDTX, all I know is that it's on the way down. It has really good liquidity for a stock down 40% still. For right now, I'll definitely put this on our list. I think the thing on this trade is that it's breaking all-time lows. This is all I can go back on for the daily chart, dating back to January 31st of last year. All-time lows for the stock, that's pretty interesting. We'll be talking about all-time highs and lows actually coming up next month in the Phase II course, something to look forward to. For right now, this could be a good short, though, as there's no historical underlying support. All right, GI pass, pass on this. Coles took a hit today. Coles had earnings, I thought, right? Ended up getting crushed after the market opened, let alone pre-market. But yep, for a $54 stock, though, this is not the type of range that you want to trade with. You're heading into the close. I mean, we find stocks that are 10 times cheaper that make a better move. There we go. How about this?  I am not Mr. Fausto. Fausto does the audio broadcast here in the morning. My name is Josh Levitin. I do our afternoon broadcast. I'm the senior instructor here at Cybertron University. Hey, Andrew, and for everybody else here on the streams, if you're unfamiliar with myself, if you have questions just that you would like to send over my way, I always answer through email. You can always email me right there, Josh at C2Trading.com. All right, so folks, let me know if there's anything else up, down, left, right that you would want me to check out, look at just before we wrap up. What's going on, Jeff? I'll have inside our trading room there. All right, I'll tell you, I don't see anything else. I'll check out Benzinga Pro myself. I wanted to see if there was anything from YouTube or Facebook or, of course, Cyber Group. I'll tell you, how about this? BYFC is making the push. Look at this right now. All right, this is now worthy, at least for the meantime of us, watching this heading into the afternoon, making that push with U1 right now. Lata asking if Faye is worth watching. I squeezed here so far. I don't know what the news is on this stock. Maybe it's like earnings leak or something. Who knows? All right, so Faye shares trading hire on volume report following. Nikkei report, hackers attacked a U.S. unit of the Toyota Group and exposed financial and customer data. I don't know. So I got there. But ended up making a pop drop.  Don't get me wrong. I'll put this on our list. I'll put it on our list because it's still at the high. It pushed all the way back up to the high. So it's not just a pump and dump or just a news-related little move. That's it. It shows some strength here and it has a good order book. I like the spread and liquidity. So this one checks out. All right, we'll come back to space. Space is starting to push back up. I mean, where are we last left off with this? It was at like 1950, 1955-ish, maybe pushed up another 10, 15 cents. And then Mara. All right, I'll add both to our main list right now. Space and Mara both will join Faye there. We're not at too big of a list. So otherwise, I'd probably skip over them. But for right now, we have a decent list now at this point, folks. We've got two, four, six, eight stocks in total so far to work with. Hey, I know that most of us will be joining myself coming up in class in about 15, 20 minutes from now. I look forward to seeing you folks there. We have a really complex intricate class ahead, not just between this one but following tomorrow morning as well. Now, for those of us not joining me in class though, at least I know that Rich will be taking over the trading room. He'll be sharing a screen in a moment. We'll be posting and tweeting the picks out in just a second anyway. And he'll be taking care of you guys going into the afternoon. All right, for all of us in social media, Facebook Live and YouTube, again, I appreciate you folks sticking with us here every day of the week, every week of the month and so forth. If you have any questions, feel free to email me once again. I'll post my email address right there one more time. But hey, if you'd like to join us live inside our trading room, go right down to the link on the banner below just to get started there with us. All right, I'll talk to you all soon. Take care.