Good morning and thank you for this opportunity since everyone seems to be talking about the future of work and I'm a lurker at heart in many ways. I now spent the last four or five years before retirement thinking a lot about why community participation worked the way it did and why work didn't feel like that and I just want to spend the next 25 minutes sharing you know what thoughts I have about it and I'm very happy to take questions after that. When I grew up as a child of the 60s, born in 57 things took a little time to come to India but you know my summer of love was closer to 69 than 67. There's a time delay for these things to sort of rattle their way through and get known and I also had to go old enough so you know 12 or 13 was probably the minimum before I could engage about my parents getting too upset but part of growing up at that time the experience since and I spent like 40 years as a result in something that vaguely passed for tech was a real sense of utopia about tech you know that we could solve the world because of technology it was going to sort of solve Middle East peace world hunger get our you know medical lives together I wasn't into the we would live forever I had you know no part of me was into that necessarily but I genuinely believe that technology would serve us to keep us happier better it would reduce inequality it would deal with the kind of issues I was growing up with as a child I had a grandfather who would say things to me as a chemistry professor and you'd say things to me like your peak longevity generation and like a bit of a shock so you know what do you mean that my children are less long than I am and then he'd sit and explain why he thought so and this was like in the early 70s or you need to be rich to be thin and statements you know every one of those statements made me wonder what life sort of had for us going forward and then you know I look at today and there is a sense of what have we wrote because in many ways technology is a participant sometimes a catalyst sometimes an enabler but we can't leave it out of having increased inequality having interfered with our sort of political and economic systems not everything that has come out of technology has necessarily been something I can stand up today and say wow that was great not that it hasn't you know I'm still a tech a utopian in that sense but I've had to temper it with saying not everything has worked we have to have feedback loops we've got to get better and I remember talking with Freeman Dyson you know like he was in a you know the lobby of a conference I was attending because his daughter was organizing the conference and you know he would say things like in the 40s we were planning to use nuclear power to for space travel and it took us a little while to figure out maybe that wouldn't work okay so those sort of sort of implications it perfectly reasonable from a scientific viewpoint to say you have a model you try to refine that you put it to use you learn something about it you refine it again there's an iteration so I'm still of that belief that you know iteration is what's going to help get to this utopia and you know I'm still young enough to to believe in the Jetsons sort of you know I I do want to be able to fly on my own right we'll figure out the global warming or climate change costs somewhere along the line but I'd like to be able to impart that kind of that sense of optimism that can be pragmatic it can have the necessary you know down to earth how do I actually make this work but the alternative is of no interest to me I you know I can't be chicken little kind of fear and that was as a result of that I tried to to look at what was happening in society and in many ways things confuse me that everything I understood from studying how the technology I call technology had sort of roots in the 50s and 60s based on papers and work and investment in the 40s and leading back to you know the research and thoughts of people maybe a hundred hundred fifty years worth so I'm not sort of in any way discounting that but by the time I experienced it it was about a 60s set up as a reaction in society to a set of world wars and a belief that things were going to improve but there was a lot of community within it so I started moving from this idea of technology to a sense of community becoming the important driver so a meeting like this a festival like this becomes very important to me because even at the small dinner that you know I attended last night until I came here earlier it was a real sense of community and how every member in the community had something to bring to contribute to participate and that started setting my social context that you know I now that I'm retired I play golf and one of the first rules of golf is a solitary golfer has no standing in a course that you have no importance if you're alone it is defined as a social game to begin with everybody can pass you everyone can tell you get off wait do whatever you want because you don't have a right in a similar kind of way the you know it's like working at BT you know what uses one telephone right in any form of exchange or communication and I put you know one is a pretty useless number the sense of participation the sense of community becomes a key part of how things happen and you know as I watch my children grow up and now I'm watching my grandchildren grow up there's something fascinating about how they fight for an individualism and yet it's individualism within a group right so my first child and she's got 33 now nearly 34 and I remember her looking at me and saying by myself meaning real lead me to do this and actually like three four maybe even younger but while she's doing it she turn her head to see whether I was watching right it wasn't the sense of doing it by herself which was important but doing it by herself while being noticed as doing it by herself so way you know your part of your group identity also had that feedback loop and now that I've got two grandchildren and I watched them the same thing is there there is a joy in being to do something yourself but part of the joy is in being able to to know that someone is watching you do it and that someone matters to you or the opinion of that someone matters to you you know we are social people so as I try to establish the sense of community within the you know the world of technology I had to look at how society work and all the evidence existed that society was a team sport life was a team sport okay it's not you know I'm a rocker no man is an island or whatever there was some genuine reason to believe that we were brought up somewhere within our psyche to be team players you know that we that we had a consciousness within us that required us to learn how to work with each other and then because I spent so much time in sort of financial services it had to take time to explain to people the the essence of society was always some form of mutualization right if you look at insurance models you know what does it basically say well no one person can take the hit of a major event but if we could spread that cost in order to prepare for it amongst enough people then the few people whom it did hit would be able to afford it and by definition everybody else was paying for those few people to be able to afford the hit right that sharing that mutualization was part of how the market worked and it's not an insurance marketplace that evolved out of the city of London or something you know you go to any community and you see how they deal with events that affect part of the community you know your barn burns down the rest of the village will come along to help you rebuild that barn feed you house you give you support provided you paid the price of being a member of the community okay you have to be an active member of the community and it's not equally active it's not a homogenous society you had to just participate enough to say you're doing what you can so that you know there is a widows might aspect to it because it's not a subscription fee that everyone has to meet consistently it's what you can do for it and they are differently scheduled we are differently able so it is expected that there's a heterogeneity a variety of diversity in community and it will work and a lot of our you know until maybe 150 200 years ago we used to live and die within 30 miles of where we were born because the cost of migration was high we couldn't afford it and we tended to move because there was some natural or economic or political crisis movement was enforced otherwise migration was only available to the explorer with a patron behind them or her it wasn't natural to be able to make those sort of moves and some people and I'm include myself in it believe that what happened was the diasporas that took place because man could afford to migrate post the industrial revolution as it became cheaper and cheaper to be able to move fast distances it took time for communications to catch up because the cost of communication didn't drop at the same speed or at the same time so that's what created a kind of environment where when I came to the UK in 1980 I was earning after tax about 230 pounds per month and it cost me 10 pounds to call my mother in Calcutta for a three-minute call yeah imagine that people trying to take a similar slice their income to make a three-minute call and make the answers I didn't make calls and I was too lazy to write and it became a problem until you know mothers and hands and ears and twisting whatever else happened but over time I did communicate location but people don't realize that the cost of communication did not drop anywhere near as quickly and then when it did surprise surprise you've got friends to friends who united Facebook or whatever because people used the technology and the lowering of cost to be able to rebuild the communities that we used to have it okay but now they were virtual they were distributed but the community existed looking further at society where I got to was saying if mutualization existed how did the community work from an electronic viewpoint so there was a bit of you know trying to understand people like Durkheim get a sense of you know community from a sociological perspective move through that to people like Durkheim Habermas you know Howard Reingold seeing how communities of practice began to evolve in an electronic world getting further than that and watching you know it may be considered pop science but I enjoyed reading even people like Steven Johnson you know helping me understand about whether it's slime mold or ants or swarm behaviors emergence and how often things that were hard to do as individuals was solved by community and these communities were sometimes very similarly skilled but more often than not differently skilled and you know coming from India I was used to division of labor within society and yet I hated the caste system so how was I going to solve that problem because societies seem to to work around this idea that you did have different skills but people seem to price or value those skills differently there was a market failure somewhere within it then I realized it wasn't the diversity in skill that was the problem but the ranking of those skills as soon as you say you are better than that person because you know a cobbler is better than a baker or something of that rather than you are differently skilled and for society to work we need that variety we need those differences so I began to get comfortable you know by the time I was reading people like Amy Jo Kim and how communities practice formed in electronic networks and visit in the digital or virtual world a lot of it came down to being able to understand diversity and variety within the community a lack of attempting to rank that so that you still had equal rights within it and then a sense that not everybody contributed the same way or with the same volume as the open source movement started getting more they engaged in a lot of your work in different parts of open source you know even today in the late 90s it also became clear and this is where my interest in lurking became active to say almost every community I studied about 5% of the people in the community seem to carry the lion's share of the work another 15% or so just as a rule of thumb this is not precise scientific research this is anecdotal but anecdotal over 20 odd years of being interested in the topic and about 20 15 another 15% seem to be active enablers participants supporters and the rest of the sort of the community the 80% were noticed almost by their being passive or appearing to be passive and these are the people that were being referred to you know as lurkers and it didn't make sense to me that the way we looked at that community it's the 5% that mattered or even the 20 and I was trying my best to figure out this other 80% there has to be value there is a reason why the integral community contains all of it and that the lurker is important and as I sort of started working through that I got to a point where the we were beginning to see premium models start coming through as you know post.com business model style emerging saying not everyone will pay so you've got the idea that if you could get it's like a super premium group of you know 5-10% of your subscribers paying heavily is a smaller group above of the larger whole being able to pay something then you could almost create what the economists might consider a free rider to say as a result 80% of the people got something for free and people would analyze this and say well yeah that's the whole essence of the premium model that you could subsidize through getting a small group would be able to pay access to something for a much larger group and then people started sort of corrupting that model to say rather than access for a larger group you're going to redefine the terms of service to say you know he or she who doesn't pay will actually get a degraded service and I began to sort of question why that was the case but I understood something about this 80-15-5 and had an interest in that to say no it's not patronage but it's a variant on that you know why can't the people who afford it subsidize it for the others if they're not a variant on the mutualization principle to say if you can sort of share out some of that capability to to earn to spend to to afford then you're able to reach more people and it is not necessary for you to say you know this why the Obamacare kind of discussions drove me nuts. So guys when you talk about it as a medical insurance the whole essence of insurance is that you pay in order that a disproportionate hit on part of the population can be absorbed right if the only people who paid were the people who could afford it then there is no point in having the insurance because the mutualization model is missing so I couldn't even get my head around why those sort of debates were getting as active as they were because I love the idea of that inclusion and then that took me back to the work kind of principle where I kept getting irritated when I would go somewhere with my wife and somebody to ask her what are you doing and and she'd say you know I'm a housewife and I you get professional people in many parts sort of eyes glaze over a bit as if the you know this person was not contributing or being a mother wasn't right or whatever and you know this was my wife's choice I didn't force her not to work or anything but she quite enjoyed what she did and she was busy but this sense that I had an income and she didn't didn't make sense to me because if she if it wasn't for the things she was doing I was going to be unable to work if I tried to price what services she offered within the household and what she did and I have to do it myself it would be a very big salary that I would have to replace I tried to ensure her absence so I began to question the idea that this lurker or this person without an income had no value because it was because we were trying to measure taxable earnings in some form and I questioned the unit that we were using to be able to deal with income you know should we not say household should we not say group and I'm not looking for some sort of nuclear man woman two children kind of model it's just what is the earning unit and who the hell decided it was one person right was that reasonable or is there a collective even in the capacity to earn because there are different skills being brought together to create the value and to contribute and that went back to keeping hitting this idea of because you don't have a visible economically measurable cash coming and taxable identity somehow what you were doing was not to be valued but as I was proceeding towards retirement I got to a point where how am I doing on time great the as I was proceeding towards retirement one of the topics that kept streaming up was this idea of AI is going to take everybody's job away and you know the machine is going to be what replaces all of us and again you know the same utopian also believe that most of the time if we act even vaguely responsibly you know at least have part of the family brain cells switched on for that day and we are masters of technology rather than technology being masters of us and this idea that we're creating more and more complex technology and we have no idea what it does sort of vaguely sounds like a responsibility to me saying what do you mean you know you're doing things and you have no idea what the outcomes are going to be that doesn't sound like you know even basic common sense you can say there are risks and I'm going to watch those risks I'm going to figure it out there's going to be feedback loops there's going to be iteration there's going to be learning but there's sort of random I had no idea you know I'm going to play with this and I had no idea what the outcomes are for society I mean you know this is not like the Freeman Dyson thing where he said but we at that time we thought nuclear was going to power us there then we learned something and no there wasn't going to power us there so it's perfectly reasonable to take steps as a result of the feedback loop but I got to a point where I said you know I I want to be able to use technology to solve for this job loss risk and initially I said well somehow it's going to be like UBR right there's got to be a way of having everyone paid by the creation of enough value in society through the application of technology so that we can reduce the income in quality as a result we can give people security and if you gave people enough money the tendency would be like the patronage in the Middle Ages but not through fiefdoms and lords and patrons as it were but through some collective work social work we could create funds that were able to provide something that was close to UBI and the model I was looking at which quite a lot of people are now trying fascinates me still is that if we could make human beings sensors of waste right that we are we all have access now to smart mobile devices reasonably cheaply almost anywhere in the world the connected part of the world is growing I read about a girl in India who having spent time in the US went back to her the villages that have roots were from although she hadn't grown up there and found that life was hell because there was no predictable availability of clean water and that meant cooking hygiene ability to dress up for work plan anything look after your children it didn't matter if you didn't have predictable access to clean water this was a problem and she tried to get to why and found out that it was because the infrastructure for delivering water to these villages was so decayed that it kept leaking and the utility company could not afford to do anything other than firefight therefore it was quite random as to when what was available she spent a little time studying and came back with the idea of a trade between the villagers and the utility to say the villagers will photograph and report the leak where they saw it using their mobile devices and SMS and in exchange for that service because it would solve a problem for the utility the utility would form a schedule that said you will have water in your village between 11 and 1 or between 2 and 4 or whatever so that the beginnings of predictability and planning came into it and this was a simple example for me of human beings becoming sensors of waste and of value being generated from the aggregation of data to do with that waste and so I started thinking that's what I was going to do but when I found out there were a lot of people doing it a lot better than me then my dreams are saying I'm going to do a PhD on UBI to do with AI and sort of and the management of waste was perhaps not for me but I still couldn't get away with this idea that I was now going to become this lurker this person without income this person without value and there was a guy called you know this is one of my big worries you know when you remember something and you cannot find any report on the web of what you remember and you wonder whether you made it all up but I have this distinct memory those watching something in the late 80s or early 90s where John Harvey Jones who used to be the chairman of ICI was going on looking at companies for a week and then coming back and saying you know these are the things you must do to fix it and whoever ran that series decided that he would look at an erstwhile Maharaja's kingdom and he went to this kingdom for six days came back and said oh you know by the way I've looked at everything I have good news for you you have about you know five or six thousand people who are completely redone you know they fulfill no value to the kingdom and this Maharaja looked at them and said so what will they do and Harvey Jones said you don't understand it's there's nothing for them to do we can look back and said but what will they do and I've grown up with an idea that dignity a sense of purpose a sense of inclusion and participation comes from the mere act of someone feeling that what you're doing is of value then we are that's what I'd rather call work rather than connecting it up to an income or a taxable income to say there is a purpose for what you do and that purpose is something that we have to be able to give everybody and when I look at community participation and this idea of lurking and I then went you know into saying if open source communities work this way where else and if you remember the late 80s or early 90s and I look around and say okay enough of you would remember you know they working in enterprise we would get these discs if you belong to a Microsoft Gold Partner program where you had early access to the technology and what they were doing was open sourcing testing right by turning around and saying we're going to give you a substandard product and you can have it early and you can tell us what's wrong with it and we'll make you pay for the privilege okay that's a pretty clever model but the premise of then saying what I saw there I could see in open source communities as well right now the lurkers were beginning to light up as having different values they would exercise the code base in different ways by their usage that diversity had value just through how they use the code base of something that was open source and built by community there will be a situation where the functional requirements would be added to because again that diversity created a range of needs to be able to test something there'd be feedback loops and for our that form because someone saying I'm trying it and this is what happened people would start teaching each other there would be a skill cross fertilization so everywhere I looked because I now had this sense of saying I want to rather than assume the lurker had no purpose I'm going to start with the assumption the lurker had purpose and then look at the value generated differently and everywhere I looked I could see that we were calling these people lurkers but it's like using junk DNA or dark matter human beings of this habit of saying I don't understand that so I'm going to give it a label and I'm going to park it to one side and everything's going to be okay and I'm going to improve the quality of the model of the little bit I understand right which is insane because a lot of the interest would be in the things you don't understand so this thin this group this 80 percent this great unwashed call the lurker started not just attracting me but exciting me to say there is a purpose and this purpose is really important I don't know what that purpose is other than to make what the community builds better because that diversity that inclusiveness that ability to test in every single sort of possible use case the ability to tell people what works and what doesn't improving the iteration cycle getting those feedback loops really healthy is valued and that value is important as long as we define anything we do as community and I'm starting from the premise everything we do is community life is a team sport unfortunately work hasn't been a team sport because people still get paid individually all companies that I've sort of seen been in watch talk a big story about collaboration but that's all it is most of the time because the structures and the processes are about as anti-collaborative as possible many other things we get taught are adversarial in their styling whether it's an industry or law and politics or whatever else you seem to revel in being able to bring adversarial approaches to learn rather than truly sort of cooperative which means that even though our DNA has that the technology the environment and context we work in doesn't I'm not going to end with a mixture between sort of Elon Musk and John Milton right though as a school kid I was forced to learn on his blindness and I was fascinated with the last line they also serve only stand and wait and the sense that he had that he felt God was giving him a purpose of being able to be patient to participate just while being patient rather than expect some active contribution from him and he had to learn how to be peaceful in that patience okay that was part of the you know as he became blind in the service of the state having to work in poor light conditions he got a sense of peace from it yesterday or day before someone sent me a clip of Musk and Ma in conversation to do with AI and two very different expectations and one of the statements made was something like do you realize that the bandwidth of machines is so much better than the bandwidth of human beings that machines as they evolve faster than humans are going to get to the stage where they get bored with waiting and a part of me went aha you know I am the child of of companionable silences of pregnant pauses of tempo and timing in human interaction and no machine is going to be able to solve that that easily you know when people ask me about chewing tests kind of thing my my favorite example would be you know an only fools and horses clip where trigger and and Rodney are talking and the the conversation goes something like Dave yes trigger why did they call you Dave well actually nobody calls me Dave it's only you who calls me Dave all right Dave and and that kind you know when I can see a computer smile about that I'll figure something out but I think that thinking slow eating slow living slow being able to bring time and tempo into our lives is something that differentiates us very much because only someone who really understands interaction and community values the time in that interaction right and taking that time away as sort of inter process communication and technology works through only makes you wait faster right there is a point at which you can't take that time out so that's my ending I think they also serve only stand and wait I think we have a lot to learn about this lurker population that we discarded because there is immense value in what the lurker does I think community is still the answer I remain a utopian about what technology can do to improve lives but to do that we have to redefine what the productive unit size and shape is and what the engagement protocols of society are and we know them already it's only a question of being able to bring them back to the fore thank you for your time and I'm open for a few questions


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily, having the closing in on a trio of signings. They've already completed the signing of Ysmya Begavitch rather, he will be, that should be announced tomorrow and he's expected to be joined by the signing of Andrews Townsend as well who's at the medical today. Begavitch has been signed as the number two goalkeeper to put pressure on Jordan Pickford. Everton had had Robin Olson on loan last season of course but he's returned to Roma. Roma wanted a fee of around £7 million for the Swedish international. Everton have moved for Begavitch because essentially he's a free transfer and he will be the number two keeper. Just turned 34 and played 45 times for Bournemouth last season as they reached the playoff semifinals before being beaten by Remford who were eventually promoted. Andrews Townsend left Crystal Palace at the end of the season on a free transfer. He turned 30 last week. This one has not really caught the attention or the imagination rather of some Evertonians but he's experienced, played over 400 career games. He's just played 130 out games for Crystal Palace, played 36 times last season, scored him one goal. He has worked with Rafael Benitez before and comes in to give Everton a little bit of width as well so Everton expected to announce both of those signings tomorrow and they're also closing in on finalising a deal for former Leicester City wing at the Marey Gray who is at biolive occasion at the moment. Everton will be hoping to tie all three up before they leave on Wednesday for the Florida Cup. Just on the Florida Cup, contrary to reports, Intermalan have not pulled out of the Florida Cup and will face Arsenal next weekend in all and those cities. There have been some suggestions today that they were thinking of pulling out of the tournaments but the tournament organisers have confirmed that Intermalan will play in the Florida Cup next weekend. Good news for everybody, I think that Intermalan will be there in that as well. Everton have been linked today with a move for biolive occusion wing at their other winger, Leon Bailey. Everton have been tracking that you're making international for two years now and I thought I'd want to bring him to Gooderson Park but that would probably rely on a sale because it's just the financial restrictions at the moment. Stopping Everton moving in for transfer fees. Bailey is allegedly reported to be worth around £35-40 million but 24-year-old wing a quick can beat him on scores goals as well. So I think he'd be a fantastic addition for Everton but he may have to wait till later in the window for him. Also being linked with Samuel Tuchwisi from Ville Royale and Bailey's Dwight McNeill as well. All for that kind of wide play that Benitez wants. It'd be interesting if Everton did go and get one of those three having brought in Townsend and Damari Gray but Rafa Benitez trying to give Everton more attacking options and more creativity really for Dominic Alvaluwyan and for Richard Jarlison in the final third. So interesting times ahead there. Finally, Everton beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 over the weekend in a behind-the-closed doors game at Finch Farm. John Philly Gabbaman scoring the only goal. It was a game that saw the return of Alan and Adelaide Decorey but Everton, the back of Finch Farm a couple of days earlier played their part, their first part in pre-season. Hammers, Rodriguez also playing in that but it was great to see Gabbaman get the goal in that. That is it for the Everton Newsday. Give the video a thumbs up to subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos, join us over on Patreon. See you later.


Tom, rhaid i gael i'r Bwyrthodd, ar y dyma yn y bydd hefyd. Nid yw'r bwysig o'u amser yna yma. Yn ystod, rydym yn gallu symud y ddyn nhw'n fawr, ac iddyn nhw'n bwysig i'r ddyn nhw, i'r ddyn nhw'n ddyn nhw'n ddyn nhw'n ddyn nhw. Rhyw o'r ddyn nhw. Yn y ddyn nhw o'r ddyn nhw, yn y ddyn nhw, o'r ddyn nhw'n ddyn nhw. Tyn nhw'n gael rhaid i'r bwysig i'r ddyn nhw? Mae'n fwy gwaith sydd wedi bod yn gwneud i gael dwylo bod gwieud petrwy i'r modi ar hyn. Gael dwylo'r oedd eich bod oherwydd yn ddechrau, ac mae hyn yn cynhyrchu'r bobl yn ddechrau'n gwrddau ac fyddwch dwylo i'n gwneud yn dweud i'r wneud i'r wneud i'ch bwysiwn yn ffysigol i'r bod ni'n arnyn yn bwysiwn i'r wneud chi'n ei gylei'r drafyn. Gwrs, ar gyfer y cyflodau cyfrothoedd erbyn i'r ddaf yn cael ei ddweud i'r propros comenfeyddol? I had a call from the gaffage when it said it was interested and like I said it's a massive club, a massive fan base and I know they've got a good promotion run at the minute, got a few games in hand and yeah hopefully I can help the team get on the table and get into them players. Obviously as we say I already played at the Utilent Ridge Stadium this season for those who potentially haven't seen you play already what kind of a strike would you describe yourself as? I'll probably say class obviously is a big man six foot four like big strong, good aerial threat so yeah I'll bring a lot to the table trying this but I'm just here to help the team and see what I can do and go from there. Plenty of experience as well played against us a few times over the years scored against us as well I think for clubs such as Millwall Wimbledon. Is that a kind of area of your game that you're looking to bring in as well at a co-heading experience? Definitely like I've got my own promotions like I've been playing and I've played at high levels as well so yeah so just like I said come in and help the boys be a part of the team and just see what we can do and what store we can have and make the season. Having played further up the pyramid at clubs like Millwall do you think you've come here being able to cope with pressure and expectation of 15,000 supporters week in week out at Ballot Parade? Yeah like we're all footballers at the end of the day so like we play under pressure every week so if you can't deal with the pressure then you won't be a footballer trying to see it but I've been playing since I was 16 professionally so yeah like I've dealt with the pressure plenty, plenty of times and so I won't let it phase me and I'm ready for the task and the challenge. You mentioned the conversations you've had with the gaffer already he's openly stated from the start of the season really that promotion is our aim. How much has he described that to you and included you as a part of that ambition going forward for the second half of the season? Yeah and I expressed that like expressed like team create a lot of chances just need to take advantage of them trying to get some more points on the board and like I said the boys had a good win against Warsaw and they want to keep that win going to me so I'm just here to assist to that and help that. You mentioned that against Warsaw seven points now in the past three games I guess coming into a side like this that's carrying momentum on the back of a few good results is a good way to stay. Yeah like that's the main time to do it now like he's bought on last year and they won an incredible run and I believe Bradford can do the same just need like the boys to have a good morale, a good team spirit and then we'll go up the table and that's really good quickly. A few home games coming up as well now back to back home games at the weekend and then next Tuesday I guess for you coming in being able to stamp your authority and show what you can do as a player coming into the club no better opportunity to do it in front of home supporters back to back games. Yeah like I said the government mentioned I could play like a lot of away games and I've got a few home games coming up to here now I can't wait to get my first go out of the home stadium and go on from there. You've got a final message for the supporters we'll be looking forward to seeing you out there on the pitch.


The universe is a big place, it's a really big place, and every day there are just amazing discoveries made. We have images and videos being published all over the planet. Imagine if we could get all that amazing stuff out into the planetariums on a daily basis. It would turn the planetariums into a completely new kind of facility that would be dynamic and attached directly to the science. Usually it took days or maybe weeks to get the latest science, the latest discoveries into the planetariums. But by having a standard we can do this now in a matter of minutes. ESO has teamed up with Evans in Sutherland and the International Planetarium Society and others from the community to make a standard. We call it Data to Dome in order to get the latest information into the domes. In a sense the vision of the Data to Dome is to seamlessly integrate images and videos into the planetariums worldwide. The International Planetarium Society is working hard to bring cutting-edge science into planetaria around the world. Data to Dome will help enable this by bringing images, data sets and press releases straight from the researchers into the planetarium dome.  The latest images, the latest news, the latest videos and you can pick maybe the latest data sets from telescopes around the world and in space. You can be a kind of astronomical weatherman who could then pick from those and present exactly what you feel is relevant to your community. This is paradigm-shifting technology. It's actually pretty simple. The Data to Dome standard describes how observatories and agencies such as EASO, NASA or EASR can publish JSON feeds with all the images, videos and other content they have. JSON is actually a standard data exchange format which is very similar to RSS which is commonly used for getting up-to-date information from websites for example. The idea was to keep it as simple as possible to help observatories and agencies to publish their data without having a high barrier of entrance. Already today, every planetarium-equipped DigiStar 6 can access Data to Dome. Through a few clicks, the presenters can access all the data available through the Data to Dome platform. On top of images and videos, Data to Dome also provides an astronomical database of events, what's going on in the sky, historical events, what happened today. As the first adopter and software integrator for Data to Dome in the planetarium community, Evans in Sutherland is ensuring the ingestion and presentation of the data in DigiStar is as seamless and useful as possible. Planetarium operators now have direct access to thousands of assets and events from data providers all around the world with more content being added every day. Of course we have to help people along and we have to also curate and pick among the many things that happen and this is part of the system as well. We're really excited to work with Evans in Sutherland and our partners in the community around this common project.


All right, I'm going to read from Habakkuk chapter 1 verses 1 to 4. Don't try and find it. You'll be here all day. It's that part of your Bible where the pages stick together. But I promise you, it is a book in the Bible, Habakkuk chapter 1. Reading from the message Bible, which kind of brings this alive in a fantastic way. Here's Habakkuk having this rant, this rant towards God. And I'm glad the Bible includes the good, the bad, and the ugly of these people. We consider heroes, but they had some moments that we wouldn't think were very heroic if they were our friends. But the truth is, we've all gone through what he's feeling at this time of his life in ministry. He says, God, how long do I have to cry out for help before you listen? How many times do I have to yell, help, murder, please, before you come and rescue me? Why do you force me to look at evil and stare trouble in the face day after day? Anarchy and violence break out, quarrels and fights all over the place. Law and order are falling to pieces. Justice is a joke. The wicked have the righteous hamstrung and stand justice on its head. I want to speak to you about a season of life, a zone of life. Many of you here, many watching by TV, are in this season of life now. But perhaps you don't know what to call it. I believe Habakkuk was in this season of life. My term for it is the agony of divine delay. I have a graphic somewhere. I try and work out of my graphic so that you can have a visual for you visual learners, as well as the text. So it may going to your mind stronger. This is about times in our life where we feel like the stoplight here. God does this to us. Where we feel that like Habakkuk felt, God has not got your back. Where we feel that we are doing what God called us to do, which was Habakkuk's case. He's a prophet. He's prophesying, but what he's prophesying is not coming true. The people that were supposed to be subjected to judgment based on his prophesying, judgment wasn't falling. In fact, the people that were supposed to be suffering judgment based on his prophesying were flourishing and doing well. And justice was a joke, it seemed. And anarchy and war and unrest and lawlessness was breaking out everywhere, contrary to his prophesying that that would change. It was not changing. And this season of his life was years. And I think what he's describing is a zone of life that I want to try and give a language to. Because many of you are in this zone today. It's a zone between where tragedy, difficulty, problems strike your life occur. And the gap between that and God showing up is the gap I am calling divine delay. It's a divine delay. It's a delay because it's not as if God doesn't know you're in trouble and you need help now. It is a season of life where we feel that God seems like he's deaf and blind. And indifferent and uncaring and non-compassionate to what we're going through down here in our world.  There are millions of people in Florida now that are hoping God showed up. And for many of them, they now feel he didn't and the worst has happened. And there are hundreds of thousands of people, possibly millions that are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey. Under 800,000 I understand affected now because of the new DACA. Possible changes to their status in this country that have stepped into this twilight zone. This zone of life where you hope God comes through. But it feels the longer it goes with no divine intervention. It feels like it's this red light putting your life on hold. And I want to say something to you guys today because I think classically in the church we have not had a lot to say to people that are trying to survive this zone. Or we could call it the middle. I think classically when we teach from people's lives that went through difficult stuff like we could talk today easily about Joseph. There had a divine delay of maybe 15 years between him getting that dream from God and having the confidence or the foolishness, however you see it to tell his brothers about this massive idea God had for his life. And between that moment and when we find him becoming Prime Minister of Egypt, he went through this terrible on hold as it felt like I'm sure for him. Season of life where God didn't intervene. God didn't show up. God didn't deliver him. He's so concerned that his time is not ending. If you remember he tries to tell the cup better to the king. Remember me won't you because he's getting early release from jail. The guy has been in jail with and he said when you get when you get back into the presence of Pharaoh mentioned my name. I shouldn't be here. He's trying to take it into his own hands because what else can you do when you don't feel that God sees you or God is coming through for you. And this is about saying to you that are in this season and zone of life. I think it's a miracle you're even in church today because here's what I figured out. The middle, the divine delay zone, the zone where you're waiting for God to show up for a breakthrough. I think is the place of the greatest miracles in life in us. But I also noticed the greatest point in life of fear, instability, disorientation, frustration and it's also where guilt and shame most function. Because what the middle makes you feel is it makes you feel things that you don't think you can come to church feeling. If you feel that God has abandoned you, if you feel that God is not coming through for you. It's an agony.  It's an agony to love God and to serve God and to show up like you've done today when your life doesn't seem to show any evidence of God's love and care and kindness. This zones an agony because it's hard to sit here listening to someone else's breakthrough. You're wondering where yours went. It's an agony because sometimes we listen to someone else having a great outcome and yours did not end well and you did not get a great outcome. And we have no theology for this. And I think we have to find a voice because I've passed it for over 30 years. And if I had a dollar for every person that stopped coming to church and often never came back in this zone of life. They checked out in their turbulent troublesome middle. They didn't quit on God. They quit on the church and stopped coming because often the church is obsessed with fixing things. Often we can't live without one. Tidy your life is right now so we have to try to tidy it up often for our own benefit, not yours. And if I had a dollar for every person that stopped coming to church and some never recovered and came back that skipped out in their delay zone in their middle. I wouldn't be a millionaire but I could buy a decent sized car because it's thousands of people. There are hundreds in this room today that are in this zone of life. And here's what I think we normally do and I understand why we do this. I'm not sure. It's always the most helpful thing to do. I think we speak into people's delay zone, into people's agony of the middle from completion. So we talk about Joseph after he's Prime Minister. And we say, see all things work together for good and you see it all worked out well. Well, it doesn't always work out well for people. And we don't know what to say about that. But some people for whom it's not worked out well are in this room today. Or some used to be and are not anymore for the reasons I explained. And we enter into people's middle and we enter into explaining this zone from happy endings because we have them in the Bible. But I want you to know this morning and ask you a question. You do know, don't you? People in the Bible did not know they were in the Bible. I know, forgive me if that sounds patronizing. But I think it's good for us to tell ourselves that Joseph doesn't know he finishes up being Prime Minister. So we can't assume that Joseph knew that because we do. And so you can enter into Joseph's agony because you know something he doesn't. It's like watching a football match and one of you knows the score and one of you doesn't. And the one that doesn't know the score is panicking and is anxious and is shouting at the TV. And you sat there really chilled because you know in the last minute there's a score. And they win. And this is like us and God. This will be like us reading our Scripture from Joseph's completion. We know he wins in the end. So we flick the page and read it casually. That's all good, all works out well. No, no, no. I'm trying today to hold you in the middle. Because what if Joseph is in church today? What if Habakkuk sat here today? What if Moses whose middle was 40 years? What if Moses who thinks that God's done with him and he has no more usefulness in his life. And he's gone to the backside of the desert. And we all have the equivalent of places where we retreat away from facing up to this trial. These challenges of our middle. What if he sat here today? What if Job is in church today? And the reason Job's don't come to church often is because of Job's friends. Where we try to fix Job or we try to explain to him the reasons why his life is like it is. And his three friends, friends, spent days and days trying to say to him. It's probably because of something you forgot in your youth. Someone you were unkind to. Someone that was poor and you didn't help when you had the means to help them.  Job's friends represent to me at least six types of people I've identified that you should avoid in a crisis. One of those types are called fixes. People that just need to come and explain it and tidy it up and put a bore around it. Because it's just too messy to be around where we're all obsessed with happy endings. And some of you are in this zone today and I don't want to enter your zone. I don't want to step into your divine delay while you're waiting for God and waiting for your miracle. I don't want to enter that from completion all the time. I want to say to you, I am with you in the middle. That many in this room are in our middle, in our delay zone right now. Because the older I get, maybe it's an age thing, maybe it's a life or wisdom thing, I don't know. The older I get, the less I want to be the prophet coming from the mountain giving you God's word from his point of view if you like. And the more often I want to try and be a priest representing you to God. The more I want to come and sit down there in my mind.  I want to sit there and think, if I say this to the people, how will it sound to them? Who am I here for? Who am I going through what I'm going through for? Who am I supposed to find something? What seed is there in this sorrow? What wisdom? What light? What understanding is there in the darkest moments of my life that I need to figure out a way to keep and to speak to them about so that they know I see you. One of the greatest gifts to each other in our divine delay zone is to know someone sees us and doesn't feel their jobish to come and tidy us up and fix us and drag us to a false conclusion. A week before Christmas last year we got the news from the doctor that our youngest grandchild, she's two. She's called Harlow. She's two now. She was 18 months or so then, has got cancer. We are now nine months into battling with her leukemia. It's at least a two year minimum treatment regime as many of you know that have gone through this or someone on your mind today that's not here that you're praying for and concerned about who are in their middle. For whom there's been no divine intervention yet, no miracle yet. And we're nine months in and we're going through something. I've counseled families for 30 years that have been going through what we're going through. Now we are that family. So as a leader what do I say and I realize one of the problems with all this thing I'm teaching you today is the oftenest pastors and leaders we teach on suffering but we haven't been through anything yet. Then when something tragic hits our life we forget to come back and reteach it based on what we've really gone through now. Which gives it a new sense of authenticity, which gives it a sound of compassion and humanity we didn't have when it was a sermon we preached five years ago before we'd gone through something difficult and we're going through something difficult and when we went for the diagnosis and spoke to the doctors the doctor in charge of her particular case said to us whatever you do don't Google anything because he realized that that's what we all tend to do and we made a pact as a family that we wouldn't Google and then a couple of us broke it and then when you Google it you realize what the doctor said don't because he said though she has leukemia and you can Google leukemia her physiology is as unique as she is so you can't say because someone else had that outcome that is what's forecast for her because we're all different there is a name for it it's called cyber-condria and in our country there are millions of cyber-condriacs people that believe that they're sick because they have a symptom an ache or a pain or something and they Google it and it comes up with this awful stuff now that convinced they've got it as they go through the checklist they're like got that felt that that happened to me who I'm going to be dying and then they demand MRI scans and then the MRI scan shows nothing wrong so then they demand a second opinion and cyber-condria is costing our health services by the way billions of dollars for people to get diagnosed and get treatment for things that don't exist but Google told them this is your problem and I tell you that to tell you this if you're here today and you have the courage the strength to tell us what you're going through in your divine delay zone what you're going through in your middle if you're Joseph in jail and we give you the microphone if you are Moses in the wilderness and we let you speak if you are Job going through agonies and feel where's God in all this and we ask you to speak to us and you tell us your story we have to promise each other that we won't Google each other don't Google what I tell you and then give me a shallow diagnosis of what you think's going on in my life when you don't know me you don't know my life and I say to people that now know what we're going through once I've told you that don't be finding me somewhere trying to fix me and this is our gift to each other doesn't mean that we don't love and stand with there's something called comfort comfort is about presence it's not about fixing anything we've come obsessed with fixing things and God says hang on a minute I'm the God of all comfort one of the Holy Spirit's job is the Comforter the Holy Spirit will sit down with you in your middle and He will not try to fix you He'll just sit with you and say to you like how about to learn to say to people as a pastor I'm so sorry that you're going through this we hear for you I don't even know what that means or if that's of any worth to you but it's enough for now and we want you to be here we want to build kinds of churches we want Hillsong and I know this isn't the DNA by the way of Hillsong because this church was so kind to my wife and I and our leadership team in the late 90s when I was speaking at the Hillsong conference in Sydney Australia and our church is going through a terrible time and we were so beaten up as a family there's a couple and Brian and Bobby and the team were so loving and so inclusive and so believed in us and this champion in the local church I got to tell you is not is not a value statement it is your culture it's the culture of your leaders and we felt championed we felt championed by Brian and Bobby when no one was championing us including ourselves we were in our middle in our reinvention of our church and half the church had left and we didn't know whether or not that would get better or worse and it was several years have been in this delay zone and I don't want to step into your world from God's completion view all the time normally we teach this stuff and we say you got to believe and have faith and all things work together for good I get that but I'm not sure that's as comforting as we can be I think sometimes it seems to skim over and skip over because if being in your shoes you know we say if I was in your shoes if I was in her shoes we talk about it from God's shoes this is God's shoes if shoes are a metaphor for perspective then we can't use that about God because God doesn't wear shoes when you are omniscient God is omniscient which means He knows everything at once past, present and future He knows it all at once omniscience means you are immune from perspective perspective is its own limitation I can see what I can see from my shoes so we can't attribute shoes as a metaphor to God as if God's perspective is something that hadn't occurred to us and as if our perspective isn't valued because God has His that trumps ours that kind of makes me feel I'm not even seen and noticed when preachers do that to us when they just put on as well here's what the word of God says here's what God says I get that and I believe that but something else needs to be said to step into our middle to let us know that we are seen that we are loved because we need champions from this zone we need heroes from the middle to stand up and say I don't know what the outcome is like Job said didn't he Job said though he slay me because he doesn't know it ends well he doesn't know he's in the Bible though he slay me he said I will yet love and worship him though he slay me and that's all some of you have got here on today that's all you've come here on you hear on I don't know the outcome I don't like that I haven't got my miracle yet but though God delays though God is holding me I will be here I will love and worship and serve him because I feel I think I wonder whether or not the greatest miracle in my life is taking place in my middle I wonder whether or not God is saying to me the miracles through you can never be bigger than the miracle in you and I will not let that happen as if God's saying I want to do amazing things through you but I've got to make sure that what I do through you is first of all established in you and these miracles that happen of that nature only happen in the delay zone in the middle and the problem with the middle is how big's the middle? where's the middle? you can only you can only calculate the middle can't you when you can see both sides so we can retrospectively say that was the middle but you don't know it's the middle when you're in it are you at the beginning of the middle? are you in the middle of the middle? because this is what the people in Florida are wondering and the people still recovering and will be for years yet from Harvey they're still wondering and the people affected by the darker changes they're wondering we're now thrust into this middle and the problem with the middle is we don't know where we are is it another week, is it a day, is it a month, is it years as it was for Joseph and Moses and others that we could talk about through church history it's to them we want to say that we don't want to step into your world only from God's perspective that we want to know that you are seen, that we see you that it's an agony, it's an agony because it's divine think about this if it's divine delay then it's intentional because nothing can delay God so if God's delaying if God's intentionally not intervening it can't be something and someone stopping him you and I could be delayed on any given day for circumstances beyond our control and we could say wouldn't we I'm sorry I'm late but I got held up and we would all understand that but we couldn't attribute that to God that if it's delay, if God's doing that it's worse, it's an agony because it's his idea it is intentional for God to do that to Joseph and to do that to Habakkuk and to do that to Job it's intentional so it's hard to love and serve and worship for God that is intentionally not showing up for us I don't know if I could be friends with someone whose timing is as bad as God's if God was my friend and God knew and you're my friend and you are wealthy and influential and I can't pay my rent and my furniture has been repossessed in a couple of days time and you're not writing me a check and you're not helping me it's not that you don't know I know you know because we are close friends and we share life together and you're not to intervene when I know you can and you should and the clock's ticking and it's tomorrow and tomorrow's come and my furniture did get repossessed and I don't have a home and you still didn't show up I don't think I would you as my friend anymore and sometimes God's timing and sometimes God's appearing and sometimes God's intervening feels to me like awful timing because our idea of timing as we all know is not God's and they said God's timing's perfect God is never late well tell that to Lazarus sometimes God is late and we way past where we feel he should have showed up and we can only know that his timing was perfect we can only know that with hindsight we can only conclude that so you may come to me in the midst of our agony our delay that we are waiting for and little howl or we need a loss of three times already I know God has never had a sleepless night I know nothing ever occurred to God I know God's never had to wait for an outcome for him to become aware of I know that God has never had to be brought up to date or God's never been taken by surprise by a diagnosis he didn't see coming so I know that God is all knowing and God is aware of what's going on and yet he can seem absent and I want to say to you today that feel that we don't want to be a church that says you are but what we really mean is come as we are we want to build churches and build a Christianity that is so strong and is so stable and is so durable that it can stand all of Habakkuk's rants it can stand Job's frustration it can stand Joseph's aloneness when he cries himself to sleep in his cell at night and still no divine intervention we want to build kind of Christianity in churches where our God is not too fragile for us to criticize him like Habakkuk did if your God is too fragile to criticize you need to trade him out and get a more robust God because I want you to know and this is important for you to know you can be angry at God you can be frustrated with God you can be disoriented and disaffected towards God and it doesn't face God at all so don't think that you can't be here today because you're going through something I've got to skip out a church I don't know where I'll be back it could be months, it could be years I just can't be around that stuff I can't be around worship and adoring I can't be around great testimonies and stories in the midst of my non-breakthrough I can't be here I can't be here I'm frustrated and angry with God yes you can you'd be amazed how unfazed God is by what you think about him he's not fragile he's not sensitive people are but God isn't you know Jonah was again the band back up here now the band are coming up gives people hope we finish when we say that and we all need that hope I've been in some services where I hope the band would have got up sooner than they did I'll move on you know you can be so so frustrated with this divinity that seems absent we have no theology for passive omnipotence God is all powerful but seems passive and when we're struggling with that trying to figure it out you can be here come as you are can't we build churches that could stomach and deal with because we've got to have we've got to have champions from the middle we want heroes that stand up and say hey I am going through something right now I don't know the outcome I'm not sure all the outcome wasn't what I hoped it was here's what I learned here's what I figured out I saw something while I was down there I picked something up that I would never have seen had I not been down at that level in life I saw something something happened and it's happening inside me I don't want to call it but I'm a better human being I'm a better human I understand more than I ever did what it means to be compassionate and loving my empathy level is off the charts because I decided not to fast track through it not to go la la la la through it pretend it wasn't happening because our faith has to be real enough our God has to be real enough for anybody in this world anybody in this community today that's your friends and family who are going through stuff we want to build churches where you can say to them come as you are and for them to say I don't know if I can be around church and I don't know if I can be around singing and happiness you don't know our church you need to come as you are we've got hundreds of people in that zone of life and they're finding comfort and strength in church with people that are their tribe and people on their side let's stop just speaking and giving voice to those that are now prime ministers let's let Joseph speak in his middle let's let Job speak in his middle because that's where most of us are taken out and if today you are in your divine delay zone I want you all across the room to stand to your feet because I want to pray over you before I go because I'm one of you there are hundreds in this room there always are and I wonder what do we have for you what do we as preachers sometimes have for you come on all across the room so so so many oh Jesus come on let's pray maybe just stretch your hand and certainly your heart towards people standing Father my heart your heart, our heart goes out to every single person standing here in this room today it is not sure what tomorrow brings and it's not sure when this season there completes looks like coming to a conclusion a good one, a happy one and today I pray for you we pray for you we stand with you, we are you you are us and we are you and I pray that today you will find a stability and a strength and a resolve to take another step to get up tomorrow morning and do another day and then do another day and another day whether in the midst of your divine delay you would see something some facet some aspect some insight that you would lean some wisdom some revelation that will become your gift to the rest of us but in the midst of your middle you will figure something out that you could never have seen and never have known that will become your story and your testimony to the rest of us I pray today you will be stable that you will be strong that others will not try to fix you that our gift to you will be to say we love you we stand with you, we believe in you and the best days are still to come but we don't know when that changes but it doesn't matter, come as you are we love you as you are God is for you, God is with you and the best days are still to come so be held and be strong and stand firm in your middle there's no shame, there's no guilt in your middle do not give way to that God is more than able and more than large and stable in heart to accept and love and grow and build you as you are today in the name of Jesus Father raise up champions and heroes from the divine delay we love you thanks today


Welcome to Geneva for the AI For Good Global Summit 2018. This year the action-orientated event will attempt to find practical solutions to improve quality and sustainability of life on our planet. Let's find out more with my colleague Chris, who's in the thick of it. Chris? Thanks Charlotte. Actually I'm right now in the main auditorium at the ITU, which is of course hosting this three-day summit. As you know the United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals. They're basically cleaning up the planet, reducing poverty and providing prosperity for everyone. And so by bringing government, the private sector and civil society, in other words you and me, all under one roof, the idea is to come up with solutions using AI technology to reach those goals. Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform areas as diverse and critical as education, healthcare, finance, mobility and energy. Over the next three days our objective is to connect AI innovators with public and private sector decision makers so that they can take promising strategy forward. More than 500 participants are taking part in the event. Over 130 leading world experts in the field have flown in to share their knowledge. Among them the president of the Association for Computer Machinery representing 100,000 members worldwide. We should be aware of the fact that AI technology is currently used in business and other applications could be extremely helpful in efforts to alleviate poverty, protect the environment or improve education. If they were slightly reimagined and refashioned to a new purpose. In other words AI solutions to urgent challenges in society may be hidden in plain sight right now. The XPRIZE Foundation is once again a partner at the summit because it sees the ITU event as a perfect fit. Its role is to finance new ideas that use AI to make the world a better place in incremental ways whether it's health monitoring or e-learning and literacy initiatives in Africa. The SDGs address many of the same global challenges that XPRIZE competitions have worked on solving over the past several years with many of these solutions taking advantage of AI. Our goal is to accelerate adoption globally for AI technologies and to spark creativity and innovation human AI collaboration. We are super excited to see how these solutions benefit majority of the population. Since the first AI summit in 2017 leading scientists say progress has already advanced at an extraordinary pace at the power of that knowledge must be harnessed for the greater good now. Like many powerful technologies AI offers us a choice and the real question is are we good not is the technology good. At the moment and I think with conferences like this we are seeing a real awakening of the AI field to this question to the challenge of using AI for something other than just making money. And I'm very very optimistic that once it's awakened and realized the social responsibility that we have our research community is going to step up. The UN's 32 partner agencies are all sharing in this AI summit. If the first edition in 2017 was about spelling out the vision this year it's about turning AI into action.


Yes sir! Boys like that? You like that little throwback Vince Cardi maybe? Dunk Contest champ? Hover of large wieners? Why ain't no way, boy? Vince Saraya? That's just a real name to get into. It's Vince Saraya Cardi. Did you believe that shit? I just made that up. You're literally so dumb. Look at you right now. Vince Saraya? What makes you think that's a name? Why did you think that was a name? Vince Saraya.    You know, now that I say it out loud, now that I think about this, I have not seen in the auction house or ever played against the Vince Carter. Is Vince Carter in this game? I gotta spell his name right though. Vince Saraya. Vince Carter. There is. There's a 98 overall all-star pantheon Vince Carter in a 90. That'd be kind of sick. I love, I love me some Vince Carter. All right, boys. Quick recap. The Seattle Massage. And he went down yesterday. Not only did we go down, we went down to subscribers. So, Noah, congrats on clapping my cheeks. Go tell all your friends now and put it in my Instagram dm's. I love it, dude. I love it. We did, however, sneak out our challenge wheel and our challenge wheel, if we completed, gives us one pack in the store of our choice and we pulled Patrick Ewing. I'm kind of butt-hurt about it. I know he's really good. In fact, when I played Denver, this Patrick Ewing went ham. I clapped cheeks. But it's also Patrick Ewing who I had last season and I don't like that. That doesn't sit well with me. So I will eventually try to replace him but right now I don't think it can be a priority because I've got a trash point guard, shooting guard, small forward and entire bench just waiting to get upgraded. So unless I'm forced to take a center, I think I got to take a different position. Where's the wheel? Damn it.   All right, baby. I think what I need to do is replace Chris Paul because, holy shit, we got done up so bad. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is going to be... Yes! I tried to get this all last season and I never got it. Oh my God. All right. This is the two-hype jackpot. I'm calling one member of two-hype and they're picking the player for me. These guys know what they're talking about. Jesser has been playing 2K on his channel recently. Cash is about to get back into it and I know Zach's been playing it on his channel too. But all three of them are a good option. I was just talking to Jesser too. So big baller. I'm recording right now. I'm recording wheel of 2K. I have a wheel spin on there that's called... It's called two-hype jackpot. So I'm going to... I call one of the two-hype boys and I need to know what player to add to my team. Well, who do I add? Is there a limit? Is there a limit? The only thing is I couldn't buy like an invincible right now because I'd have to wait like four hours. 100K MT limit. I'd have to buy it out right now. 100K MT limit? Yeah. Do you need a certain position? I have... I have invincible Dark Matter Dirk Knewitzky and that is it.  All right. I want you. Are you ready? Yes, I'm ready. I'm going to give you a God card, though. I want you to get pink diamond bobble. What? Wait, bobble? Pink diamond. Is he cracked or something? Dude, he is an absolute god. The 95 overall bobble.  I'm about to learn something. Wait. Is he 96 or 95? There's a 96 version tree. 95 for reality bobble. Yep. That's how I'm looking at it. All right. Hey, bro. I appreciate it. All right. Peace, bro. I appreciate it. He's a god. Peace. You know what's funny about this too? Thank you, Jesser. I see this card all the time. I had no idea it was a pink diamond.  Maybe it actually is that crack. Pink diamond bobble. He's 28,000 MT. He's only a 95 overall. That's how you know he's good, bro. There's dark matters that cost significantly less than that. I knew he'd be the right person to call too. Like, of course he's the right person to call. Seattle Massage now have two very good sinners on this squad. Ewing sits on the bench. He can come off the bench and be a great score off the bench. I don't have any good scores off the bench right now. So I'm fine with them doing substitutions as needed. Seattle Massage has a new look, baby. We got bull bull. We got Thurk Namitsky. All we need is a challenge wheel and to hop into this game. Dude, the challenge was there are challenges on the challenge for the new player. We just added them. I'm hoping we can grab one right now. Come on. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. I can do this. Okay. Same points as jersey number one player on my team has to have the same amount of points as their jersey number. So that'd be kind of tough with Dirk unless I'm going absolutely ballistic because Dirk is 41. Definitely not possible with Luca. My basketball knowledge is failing me right now but I'm going to see when my team comes out. So I am so pumped to talk about the coolest new avenue app store. 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Oh yes sir. That's two baby. I'll let that hold me down while I go for mid. The dual Panthers are going at it right now. Uh oh. I might be going down. I might be going down. Dang it. And that's the only sneak peek. I'm going to give you if you want to see more Mech Arena you got to download it for yourself. Now here's the awesome thing. Mech Arena is gearing up right now for its official worldwide release in August. But if you're in the US, Canada, the UK or any other lucky country you can get started right now. It's completely free to play on Android and iOS. So use my link in the top of the description or scan my QR code.  This is going to be massive. Don't miss out. Link in the top of the description. Mech Arena, thank you for sponsoring, guys. Enjoy the rest of the video. He's got a Dirk, ladies and gentlemen. He's got a Dirk. All right. So we had to score as many points as one of our players jersey numbers.  One player has to score as many points as their jersey number. For Chris Paul, that might be easy if we just hit one three. Make our life very nice. Oh, that's my bad. Sean Marion, ugliest jumper ever. But it would be way cooler. Jesus, where are you spacing to Dirk? You just spaced out of bounds. It would be cooler if we did it. It would be cooler if we did it with Dirk because we scored 41 points. But I kind of would just like to win, dude. Get to lock some players in. All right, right around the screen and roll with Dirk. Ooh, dodge it. I just got to get a three with Chris Paul. Yeah, that's not going to go in. Very early contested. We got an air ball on our hands.  Wait, what? He missed. Let's go for 41 with Dirk. I got Luca on Dirk. That's a bucket.  Dirk is so big. Ooh, and Dirk all the way. You already know. Oh, what was that?  Six points for Novitski here. Let's make it seven. It's all a lie.  Oh, the euro. Nasty. Can Huey hit? I think he can. Oh, wide open. All right. All right. He's spacing for every field. Ooh, what a thought. He's doing Bradley Beale. Now we just can never shoot them ever again. And now we'll go for 41 with Dirk. And we're in business. I'm going all the way. Dirk on Dirk. And a one. Flash. Bono lie. Good pump. For this leg. Look at that unpredictable rhythm. And that's my ball. And that's another bucket. 14 points in the first quarter. Let's see what you got, buddy. Let's see what you got. Bono lie. Bono lie. Bono lie. Shit. What do I know? Oh, that activated Dirk's takeover. All right, let's try and pull up. Splash. Let's just do it, baby, from deep. Oh, Ewing. I want the most free bucket. I wanted whatever was most obviously there. 1.2. How realistic is this? No way. No way. 4 to 16. Look at Dirk, bro. I might go over 41 on accident. 8 point ball game. 17 points, 3 rebounds and an assist right now for the man himself. No, sir. Can this man shoot free throws? I don't know, chief. Who is that? Got him. Got him. 1. Don't know why my feet weren't set. 2. I don't know how I missed. All right, let's go score. That is a ruby on Dirk. We should be good just to plow our way in and get a bucket. What is going on, Dirk? What is going on? There's the smallest dude on you.  No, no, no, no. Nobody can do anything. Feet set wide open. Brick. Scoring drought.  Don't tell me that. Down into Scali. Oh. Oh. Oh my God. What is this? Scali's running the corner.  No, I want to lay out, bro. Wait, what? You know what, Jester? I should have been using Bulbul a little more, you know? We're finally back alive if only just a little bit. Ooh, Larry Bird on that big boy. I don't know how I feel about that. Let's get over here, boys. I only got outscored by three in that quarter, I guess, so it could have been worse, but I started out really scary. Leaner. No. It's not what I meant to do. Oh, Durant hasn't done anything. What if Durant got a point, huh? Okay. Okay, Durant. Ooh, that was contested.  Yes, sir. What? You fucking... It's our ball. It's our ball. Durant has literally like two remaining brain cells, and I don't know how. I don't know what he started doing down there, man, but he's not having a date. No, Bulbul. I should be shooting threes, bro. Yup. Yup. Go ahead. No! No! The starters are not having a Bulbul with a gray play right there. I think Ewing's a little stronger. What do you think? Ugh! Big boys down there. Let's go. Let's go! Big boys! Scalabrate it! I want to hear it, baby! Hey, quick side note, boys. I know you're enjoying this Wheel of 2K banger, but I'm out here kicking field goals for the first time in, like, forever, because House of Highlights hit me up, and they offered me a chance to win $25,000, but I have to hit, like, a 55-yard field goal, and they're going to live stream it. They're coming to Michigan. We're going to find a field, and I have to kick it. This shit's going to be nuts. It was, like, super last minute. That's why I'm recording this right now, but I want you guys to watch lives. It's going to be wild. I've been kicking so long, Brian, for this. It's on the House of Highlights YouTube tomorrow at 3 o'clock Eastern. So you can watch me do that live, and then you'll see Wheel of 2K, episode 3, right after. So it'll be a great day. House of Highlights YouTube, 3 p.m. Eastern. I love you. I'll clap your cheeks. Goodbye.  Ewing! You god! Bird wants it now. I got a little too excited. 20 seconds on the clock. I can play for the last shot or take a really good first one if I haven't. Five seconds left on this clock. Get into Ewing! Get into Ewing! Shoot it! Oh my god. Every time it's the end of the quarter, my team does not know how to just a point ball game. But I have a fully healthy Dirk. He was out that entire time. Oh my god. He's still gasped? Have I really been abusing Dirk that bad? Unless I have a historic quarter here, he ain't getting 41. That first quarter was so good, and then we just fizzled out of existence. He's got a charge. All the way, Dirk. Yup! Throw it down. He's got seven points. Dirk's about to go for that double-double. Actually, he may not get 41 points, but the double-double is on the horizon. Damn. Green's a three. He's kind of closing the gap. He knows where I want to go. It's not exactly a surprise. Only thing is, you got Sean Marion on my goal.  How is that possibly his ball? He just punched it out of Dirk's hands and got the ball. And just did that. The bowl bowl just fouled. Can he hit these? He can hit one for sure. Two! Five-point game! Wow! He wants to post a bowl bowl? Good day! You are spinach! Whatever. I don't care. I'm going to win. It's in the cards that I win. Not him. So it's all good. Ooh. Wait. Can I shoot with Chris Ball? I guess we're both getting bailed out. Can Chris Ball... I should miss an 87% free throw. 87 times out of 100 that goes in. That was one of the 13. My ball! Don't worry. Chris Ball's a midget! Good shit, bowl bowl. Dagger! Dagger! Dagger! Early to call Dagger.  He was off balance, off one foot.  Oh, he's going to do the same thing. Return to Sander. Oh, I'll take another one, baby! Come on! That's my goal! You watch out before Dirk does score 41.  Oh, good deep. You sure you want to on-ball this man? Bodies! Dirk on Dirk. It's the A52. Absolutely heating up.  Oh, I need you, bro. I need you. Got this guy going to get his brother. He's 100 times better than he was, like, right before the timeouts.  Oh, my God. Great defense.  Bowl bowl. Easy bucket. Big time. 60 to 57. Good D. Good D. Great defense! Let's go! Bowl bowl's got it! Put this game away right here. What are the odds he actually went and got his brother? It feels like it's probably so much better than he was. Oh, good defense.  He's going to get a free two. Get up, Dirk! Fucking threw it on the reverse right there. Run it, run it! Across. Durant! That's sketchy! No, he missed! But Dirk's got it! And he missed again! But he's got it again! Does he intentionally follow me here? I'm not sure who goes here. Illegals.  He's trying his absolute hardest to sell this game. I have never seen this. Free left. Did he put up the layup? But the layup rolled around the rim and burnt like two seconds to that clock. I would have had a little bit of time to call the time out, set up a small play. That is not a GG.    I have no other way to put it. And we must have scored a layup at some point at Bradley Beale. We didn't even get our challenge done. Bowl bowl at eight points. He's number ten. Bradley Beale at five. I don't know when I scored a layup at Bradley Beale, but I only had that at Bradley Beale. Durant is getting benched so unbelievably fast. I'm so pissed off right now. Bricks the three. Illegal screen. Illegal screen? That's in this game? Now we're 0-2. That might literally be the most frustrating thing I've ever seen in my whole life. All right. I'm going Jason Tatum. Kevin Durant has never touched in the court ever again. All right, boys. That is such a bummer. Bowl bowl is out. We don't get a challenge wheel. We're stuck with what we got, which is Ewing and Dirk. I'll see you boys in the next episode. I'll see you tomorrow. Wow. 0-2. Yikes, bro.


January dedicated to the God Janus. Let's talk about the month of January that is dedicated to the God that lived on the Geniculum Hill. Behind me is the Quadrophon's Arch known as the Arch of Janus. There were several arches dedicated to Janus. This one may not have been the one dedicated to the God himself but that's what it's known as. It dates the time of Constantine. Let's think about the beginning of the year and this God, this two-faced God from the Geniculum Hill, looks back at the year that transpired, looks forward to the future and the greatness of Rome. Let's take a look at the dates, the events, the religious calendars, the temples dedicated in the month of January and get familiar with just how frequent history happened in the city of Rome. We're gonna look at major events, religious festivals, important temple dedications, events that were particular, that were remembered by emperors and their family members, things like birthdays, death days, ascension days, succession days, and then a number of other important Romans including Cicero and Marius. So let's take a look at some important days that took place in the month of January. So first of all we've got this God, God of time, transition, passageways, doorways, and really it's all about for the Romans the beginning and end of conflict. And so you looked to Janus to favor you to ultimately have a successful outcome in war followed by peace. And when you had peace you closed the bronze doors of the temple of Janus in the forum basically at the end of the Argalitum Road. And how many times was that doorway, those doors of the temple closed? Just three times in Roman history were told up to the time of Augustus and we have a coin representation of here from Imperial Times. Janus was an important deity to the Romans and we ourselves are in January right now and we're glad that the previous year is done and we have new beginnings, we have new hopes, we just want to start off everything new and everything is possible. And that's how the Romans thought as well. So starting by 153 BC the consuls will go into office so the executive officers you make public boughs for the well-being of the state, you take the auspices, you get the approval of the gods, you get the approval of Jupiter, this is all taking place on the Capitoline Hill. You also have a number of festivals, Asclepius, so that's the god of healing from Epidaurus, from the Greek world, and then Bayovus who has a temple both on the Capitoline Hill but also on the Tiber Island. And this is a deity who basically is a kind of a combination of Jupiter and Apollo so it's like they're worshiping the let's say teenage young man version of Jupiter. That's who Bayovus is. And then we have some interesting moments to remember. The Julian calendar is basically ratified and in use by 45 BC on the 1st of January. Julius Caesar himself was deified in 42 BC by the 2nd Triumvirate which is going to include Marcus Aurelius, Anthony and Octavian and then Lepidus. And then we have to remember a very important moment in Roman history, 193. So you've had the assassination of the emperor, a commoness that we famously see depicted in the movie Gladiator, but he's dead. He's the son of Marcus Aurelius and it's the synod then that ratifies the next emperor and that's Pertenax. And he doesn't last very long but that's another story. So a lot of things happened historically on the 1st of January. Now let's take a look a little bit at the Tiber Island to familiarize yourself with how it looks and how it's been looking in the past several weeks. We've had a lot of rain in Rome. Hans Fabricius, this is from today and here is from a few weeks ago a much higher level of the Tiber River surrounding really enveloping the Tiber Island. Tiber Island looked like a boat in antiquity. Here's that portion from the Republican period that looks like the prowl part of a ship. Tiber Island, still a boat floating in the Tiber. Okay we can jump to January 2nd to 9th. A lot of things are happening. The Romans do famously remember when the Alemani are crossing over the Rhine that was frozen and invaded the Roman Empire in the middle of the 4th century. That's disastrous for the Romans. On the 3rd of January Cicero here he is depicted in the Hall of the Philosophers and the Capitaline Museums. A very grand figure for the late Republic and he was born in 106 BC. Then we have these movable feasts the first one of the year, the Compataglia. You're looking at the gods of the crossroads, the Lares. And so through the year the dates and the worship of these deities can shift in change year to year. It's followed by a lesser known event and festival, Vicapota. It's not your most famous goddess but she is associated with Victoria, the goddess of victory. And in particular the foundation day of this particular shrine located on the Valia Hill was created basically at the beginning of the Republic of Rome. Because when you kick out the kings immediately there's pushback and a number of the aristocratic Romans want to bring the kings back. So one of these people, Publius Valerius Publicola, was charged with treason against the state and one of the ways in which you respond to that was to tear down his domus, his house, and replace it with a shrine. And that is the Vicapota shrine that ultimately let's say archaeologically we seem to have left track of and largely the Valia Hill is enveloped in the imperial period by the temple of Venus and Rome constructed by Hadrian. Finally on the 9th we have a festival honoring Janus. It's his Montenegro festival and essentially the Agonalia revolves around sacrificing a ram in the regia, a very important holy site in the Roman Forum. And then it's followed by an Agonalia for three other deities, Mars, the Jovis, and Sol associated with Apollo throughout the year. So the Agonalia is something that repeats but it basically is the same kind of important animal sacrifice, a ram in the same place in the regia in the Roman Forum. Okay from the 10th to the 15th, no slowing down here. And you know you can look on and Twitter and people are talking about events in history and so forth and this kind of presentation today is really kind of tied all together and give you sense of the whole calendar because something pops up on your social media feed and I think we're getting saturated with those kinds of famous events and we kind of lose track about what's the real character and nature of a particular month. And so this idea as we're making our way through ties us I think closer to the big picture. So we have Julius Caesar famous crossing the Rubicon. We're not exactly sure on what point of the Rubicon. He crossed. We have the Nicarites in Constantinople, a great event in Roman history but it's over in the new capital of Constantinople and so we have then this plan that shows you the relationship between the Hippodrome and the Great Palace of the Emperor which mirrors the relationship established already in Rome, the Palatine Hill Palace and the Circus Maximus. No great famous horrific riots take place there in 532. Then we move forward in time again into the 4th century. Theodosius the first is born and he is the final emperor that rules cohesively the eastern and western half of the Empire. The Carmentalia brings us back to simpler times, times even before Romulus and Remus. The Carmentalia represents and focuses on a deity, a prophetess, a goddess that also looked back in time and forward into the future and she's associated with the Portencomentale which is right there at the beginning of the Vigus Eugadius right there in the Forum Bawarium. Okay, we remember a hero and great statesman of the Republican times. We have Gaius Marius who was someone said the strongman ruler general statesman that ushered in and succeeded by Sulla and then Pompey and then most famously Julius Caesar. So you can't have a Julius Caesar without having a Gaius Marius and on the 13th of January he dies in 86 BC. Happy birthday to Mark Antony on the 14th 83 BC. We all know Mark Antony and his rivalry with Octavian and of course his famous lover Cleopatra. On the 15th you have the death of the Emperor Galba. This is after the suicide of Nero and you have the year of the Four Emperors. So Galba after short reign gives gives gives way to Aotho and then from Aotho we have Vitellius and Vitellius then finally we have Vespasian and we all know Vespasian because he builds the Colosseum. The 17th to the 23rd we have again Theodosius he's now dying on the 17th of January 395 and what a legend he was and look where he died in Milan, Mediolanum and again it reminds us that as we move forward in time the concept of Rome is huge, the Empire is huge, but Rome is less and less important and we have other later capital cities that are developing and before there's a Constantinople there's a Mediolanum that acts as one of several capitals of the Empire. Octavian marries Livia that's one of the most famous couples in antiquity on this also in the 17th. We jump to the 19th and 225 and we have Gordian the 3rd is a young emperor of Rome and emperor in a volatile time and Lucius Varus that I'm sharing right here on the right he was a co-ruler with Marcus Aurelius so many people forget that or don't even know that Marcus Aurelius a great philosopher king started off ruling with Lucius Varus but he dies possibly due to the Antonine plague on the 23rd of January 169 leaving Marcus Aurelius to rule alone. Here he is, arguably sporting the most trendy ornate beard in ancient Roman times for an emperor and then January 23rd the Adotius the 1st he proclaims his son Anorius aged nine as his co-emperor and he'll become the first emperor of the Western Empire as we have the East and West that is split up and then we're going to have Anorius and Arcadius as the brothers East and West. From the 24th to the 27th first standout is Caligula and this is a miniature representation of the emperor it's fished out of the Tiber it's a very famous portrait he's assassinated on the 24th of January AD 41 he rules only four years and he's considered to be one of the most irresponsible crazy emperors of ancient Roman times and we'll be spending some time in the future talking about him in a separate lecture on that day Hadron was born considered to be one of the greatest most educated most cultured emperors of the Roman Empire. On the 25th Claudius succeeds Caligula the day after right he's propped up by the Praetorian Guard and from the 24th to the 28th we jump into old old religion the basically another movable feast but it is this festival of sowing so you can imagine the simple agricultural lifestyle and and way of life of the Romans started off with farming so obviously sowing crops cultivation harvest are going to always remain big in the Roman calendar even it becomes after it becomes the great urban capital. Nerva dies in the 27th succeeded by Trajan he dies in the Horti Solestiani which we have near the American Embassy today and then finally the the creation day the inauguration day of the Temple of Caster and Pollux right in the heart of the Roman Forum one of the two grand Republican structures Republican temples created in the fifth century that's the Temple of Saturn and then the Temple of Caster and Pollux looming large last built by Tiberius in AD 6. On January 30th two famous people were born Dides Julianus who is the famous emperor in the year of the five emperors that won his position as emperor by paying the most for an auction hosted by the Praetorian Guard he's born in 193 and in 58 BC Livia Drusilla the most famous wife of Augustus such an incredible character and it's no surprise that on her birthday the Arapakis the dynastic monument in the campus marshes was dedicated in 9 BC and finally the last day of the month January 30th in 36 BC and Tonya the younger and Tonya minor was born and she's the daughter of Mark Anthony and Octavia minor that is the sister of Augustus and she was the wife of Nero Claudius Drusis and the mother of Claudius and Germanicus grandmother of Caligula and great-grandmother of Nero here is her image that is located today a colossal figure in the Palazzo Altams of Museo Nazionale Romano