My area of understanding is in nutrition and I really want to talk a little bit about fasting and nutrition. So some of the benefits of fasting that we know of, first and foremost, of course is weight loss. Particularly in that midsection area is the area that we find the best weight loss comes from there because that's where we start to see more insulin sensitivity. So people that are having blood glucose issues, diabetes, maybe they're pre-diabetic, they're not quite there yet.  Fasting also stimulates human growth hormone. So even at an older age one can still be producing that growth hormone and by fasting, even if you're doing what's called intermittent fasting, which is just finishing dinner around 7 and then skipping breakfast and maybe going all the way to 10, so you're getting a good maybe 14-15 hour break, even that will help stimulate this human growth hormone. As I mentioned, it helps with insulin sensitivity, so for diabetes, ghrelin. Has anybody heard of this hormone ghrelin? It's the hunger hormone. So we produce this hormone and then we start to feel very hungry. Now, interestingly enough, so if you sleep enough you get the other hormone which is called leptin.  And so sometimes people that don't rest enough, if they can just start getting good sleep at night, they can help, they can even lose some weight. So this hormone, the other thing I want to mention about this, sometimes people eat a very low calorie diet to try and lose weight. That might initially help them lose weight but it doesn't really last because this hormone continues to stay high, which makes you very difficult and very hungry all the time, but fasting suppresses it. So it lowers triglycerides. This is the end, it's the kind of lipid in our blood that we don't want too much. I want to eat a lot of high carbohydrates or sugary foods. We eat a lot of high triglycerides. So when you start the fast you'll find out triglycerides go down, the bad cholesterol goes down, and the good cholesterol, you must have heard of HDL and LDL, the good cholesterol and the bad cholesterol. So the good cholesterol stays okay, it remains untouched and the bad cholesterol goes down. And then studies in animals right now, they haven't done it in humans yet, have shown that it's slowing down in aging. So we know that it's wonderful for us. Some of the impacts of fasting. Okay, so I put a passage in here just to highlight maybe who should be fasting and that even in the Quran it does state that some people may not be suitable for them. If they have for instance unregulated diabetes and their blood shows are really out of control, that's not necessarily the best candidate and in the Quran it does say that it should be really for people who can handle it medically. So in the beginning, the first eight hours of your fast will be burning off glucose, the sugar, you know, the carbohydrate that you eat. And then after that it'll resort to what's called glycogen which is the stored glucose that's stored in our muscles and liver. So it starts to come out of the liver and it sometimes takes a full one or two days for it to completely deplete but it starts to burn off fat and then it goes into burning off the fat. Okay, so it breaks down the fat into what's called ketones. Maybe you've heard of the popular diet of this ketogenic diet now, so many people are doing. What it's doing is it's the same thing I was telling you about the intermittent fasting.  So again, I wanted to point out some of the risks when someone isn't having regulated blood sugar that they should keep in mind, hypoglycemia which is the shaking, sweating, these are some of the symptoms that might be experienced, blurred vision, tingling of the lips, feeling that irritability and you know, heart is racing. This can be a symptom. So again, if one is going to do the fast and their blood sugars are not in control, it's really important to seek your healthcare provider's input and also to have them adjust medications that may need to be adjusted. If one is having high blood sugar and they're taking medications, they may need less of it when they're fasting. It was a passage I saw because I have to preemptively tell you when I first found out like last week I came to do this talk over in San Ramon and my friend Nadia Anne had invited me but she was telling me ah, my biggest concern is that after we break our fast so many of us are eating agoras and samosas and spring rolls and some people are even gaining weight during this time and I would just love for you to talk about how we can avoid some of that and get the benefits. So I found some of the passages the most that I could that are very supportive in the Quran about healthy eating. So eat what is lawful and wholesome of the earth. Okay, what does that mean? Maybe I can ask you, does anybody want to share? What do they think is wholesome of the earth? Vegetables. Yes, whole grains. Okay, yes. Help vegetables, fruits, whole grains. Okay, so eating during Ramadan. So I told you all these amazing benefits that are coming from fasting and the last one I didn't even mention this one before I'll move on. There's, I don't know if you've heard this term hormesis. Has anybody heard this word hormesis? Hormesis is a term for the kind of the good stress that we put on our body. So there's many kinds of hormesis. Fasting is one, cold therapy. Sometimes people do that so they heat the body up and then they go into a cold ice bath or they take a pot shower and then they switch to cold and shiver. So this whole thing, it seems like who would want to do that? Well that kind of stress that we put on the body produces good things too. It's making the body hearty. Sauna, using the sauna is one thing also. So when we're going through all this beautiful effort of fasting and it's deeply spiritual, I realize that. But there's a very strong health component that's coming with it, almost like a reboot. So think before putting the food in that body. What was it designed for? What kind of food? So the first thing you want to think about is electrolyte replacement. And when you think of that you're thinking of what kind of foods would be nourishing for my body after having no liquid and no food. Probably something with some salt in it, something that has a lot of minerals. One of the things I was thinking of, like dates for instance, is a good way to break the fast. Dates have some protein, they have a little bit of, they have some fiber. They have some, it's going to break down pretty quickly into sugar, which is what you need initially. And it has these minerals and electrolytes in it. Celery is another good vegetable. If you know it has a slightly salty taste to it. So celery is a good electrolyte replacement. So what does that do? That helps the body hold on to water. And we want the body to hold on to water so that we can last. And other vegetables, they're all filled with good electrolytes. So maybe a soup made with some celery, some tomatoes, vegetables, lettuce. This is so very good to break the fast. Olives, bananas and coconut water. Do any of you know that coconut water is a good electrolyte? Have you heard of that? You can use coconut water to rehydrate after being dehydrated. So complex carbohydrates. Does anybody know what I mean by complex carbohydrate? Yes, slow digesting carbohydrates. So whole grains. That would not be white flour or white bread or white pasta. So much as it would be maybe whole wheat or bulgur. Or quinoa or these other whole grains. Use those. Even if you're making something from flour, make it whole wheat. Fiber rich foods. So foods that have a lot of vegetables, beans, whole grains. Plant foods have a lot of fiber. And then to have moderation with dates and honey. Yes, it's definitely mentioned in the chron. It's supposed to be very healthy for you in the beginning to break fast with dates and to have them. But they are still filled with a lot of sugar. So you want to make sure that you have it for that fast rate. And then paste yourself so that it's not raising the blood sugar from very low to really high. And then choosing healthy cooking methods. So what would be a healthy cooking method that you know of? All of it. Baking. All of it. So it's a healthy oil to use. But instead of deep fry, maybe shallow fry. So a lot of falafel doesn't absorb as much as say deep fried purin or samosa or something, right? A little bit of that is fine. But choosing healthy cooking methods and you'll absorb the right oils. And especially if you are deep frying, that same oil shouldn't be used again. Because it starts to fractionate and it's not healthy then at all. Can you start from that point again? That's something that we'll be doing it for years and years. We're using the same oil? Yeah. So it does. The oil quality breaks down. And so now you're refrying in an oil that's a poor quality oil by the time it's been recorded, heated up and used once before. And the kind of oil I would recommend. So for high temperature cooking, coconut oil is good. And ghee is good.  But it's a real food. It's a recognizable food. Low heat frying or cooking or salad dressing, I would use olive oil. You can use for salads more extra virgin olive oil. But for cooking low temperature, don't do high temperature because again it has a low smoke point so it breaks down. Canola, the problem with canola, even though it's good for high temperature cooking is you should try and find organic because it's a seed oil. It's not as good quality oil. Avocado oil again is good for the low temperature or salad dressing type of thing. Yeah, but I would say for frying it would be coconut oil and ghee. So is there any oil that would spawn beyond the smoking point? No, it's already breaking down and it's not healthy. The key part, that is my favorite. But I avoid it because I have a fear of how I could do it. So is it like you can use ghee throughout your cooking and all your... You can use ghee but again, we're talking, you know, you're using moderation. So for instance if you're cooking, we're not talking about deep fat frying, right? We're talking about say you're making a substance, right?  You're not putting this thick a layer, you're putting some, a couple of tablespoons. Yes, yes it's good. It has something in it called butyric acid which is actually very good for the gut. And in Ayurveda, you know, traditional Indian medicine has been used for just thousands of years. It's even medicinally used. And there are two words, it's like a cow and something. So which one would you recommend? The ghee? I only know of it from dairy, from cow. I don't know about... Yeah, and oh, and the butter that I would recommend in this country would be carry gold which is from Ireland. It's a grass fed butter. It has a nice golden color and in Ireland they just don't seem to be doing what we're doing here with the butter. It doesn't say organic on it, however, it is the only grass fed butter I have found and Trader Joe's is the most economical place to get. Okay. So some of the food choices. I loved this plate. I went to a conference a couple of weeks ago called Mind, Mood and Food and it was put on by this, the Center for Mind, Body Medicine. And they share this plate because we see a lot of plates where they show you how to divide up the food. Half the plate should be filled with fruits and vegetables. The other quarter of the plate should have meat or a protein source and beans. And then the other quarter should have your carbohydrates, the grains, whole grains. But here you can see that fish is very, very good.  The yolk, particularly do not throw out the yolk because that has what's called choline and it has retinol, which is good for your eyes, it's vitamin A source. So these are all brain foods, okay? Lots of foods, vegetables, nuts and seeds, olives. Drink lots of water. That should be the beverage of choice. Question on the fish. What fish do you recommend that have the most? Mercury. So there's an acronym, SMASH. Salmon, mackerel, anchovy, sardines and herring. Yeah, SMASH. SMASH. So salmon is on the top? Yeah, wild salmon. Very high in omega-3. So this is the highest for your brain, brain food. Yeah? So this is, not that we're going to go into depth about the microbiome, but you might be hearing so much in the news about the microbiome. So I'll just touch upon it. You know, there's two to four pounds of what we call the microbiome. It's not just bacteria. It's protozoas and yeast. And there's just a variety of species there. And you kind of think of it like a garden growing, but there's so much of it. There's actually more DNA of these species than our own human DNA going on in our body. If you think about that, they're completely outnumbering us 10 to 1. So, and we have a symbiotic relationship with them. These bunks, you can call them, they're good bunks. So what they want is they want fiber-rich food. They want fermented foods. And I know in, I don't know necessarily, at least in Indian tradition, every culture has some fermented food. So Korean may have kimchi. Germans have sauerkraut. Japanese have miso. And we have yogurt. So these foods are very, very nourishing for the gut. And the reason why I'm bringing this up is because we're talking about brain and feeling good. Emotions, we want to feel good. In the gut, we are creating 90% of our serotonin. And serotonin is that neurotransmitter that makes you feel very happy and good. And we thought that that was going on in the brain. And now after recently, a few years ago, they've realized that 90% of it is being produced in the gut and going up through that brain connection. So that's why it's important to feed the microbiome proper food. And then you want to eliminate processed foods. You want to eliminate these refined carbohydrates like white flour, dough, white things, white food. And omega-6 oils. So these are particularly the worst ones are soybean oil and cotton seed oil. So sometimes I see that Costco has wonderful pre-made salads and it's tempting. They're fine. But the packet of salad dressing that goes with it always seems to have soybean oil in it, so I don't use those at all. So try and be picky. So when you're making a salad dressing, it's not that hard. You can use olive oil, a little balsamic, a little honey and a little mustard and mix it up and that's a nice dressing. So make your own, you're worth the time to put good food in your body. Don't go for these kind of foods. And a lot of packet foods, you'll see on the back a lot of times there's soybean oil and cotton seed oils. I just don't eat those. Okay. So I found, I did get some help for this. I had a, there was a presentation and I listened to a woman, Sarah from Rutgers, who's a Muslim dietitian and then also, so she presented this medicinal foods in the chron and I also got some assistance from a Canadian, a Muslim Canadian dietitian and I'll share some of the information they shared with me. This one, this medicinal foods. There are healing foods listed in the chron that you can consider them in the superfoods. So pomegranate. Pomegranate is a wonderful food. It's mentioned at least three times in the chron. It has something that I had never heard of until very recently called omega five. I've heard of omega three, six and nine but this is something that's very, very helpful for you. And it's been known to pomegranates. The studies are showing it even inhibits breast cancer. So try and eat pomegranate and I don't need so much the juice because again, there's a lot of sugar that will come with that. A little bit, it's fine. But get the seeds, you know, and if it's a mess, do this trick where you cut it under water and so all the red juice, you know, you don't get it staining everywhere but put those seeds on your, you know, your biryani or put it on top of salads. Just have that. It's very, very good for you. Of course, we talked about dates and how it's such a good food for breaking the fast. Figs also, very good for you. They're high in vitamins and minerals and antioxidants and it seems like you can find these dried figs year-round. Olives, healthy fat. Very, very good for the body. Wheat is mentioned in the corn so I don't know if any of you are experiencing issues with wheat if you're having gluten issues but it wasn't the case until, you know, recent times because wheat used to be very different, we say. But try, with wheat, corn and so I try to get organic for those for sure. Okay. Those are the ones that most of the GMOs that genetically modified food is. Corn and soy, yeah. Actually, even just looking at organic I know it can get expensive but if you look up what's called the dirty dozen you can look up there's a list called the dirty dozen and then there's the clean 15. The dirty dozen would be the list of 12 of the most contaminated foods and so you want to make sure you buy those organic. So strawberries, for instance, who's peeling the skin off of the strawberry? You eat the whole strawberry but so they absorb a lot of the toxins. But a banana, you could peel the banana skin and so you don't need to have organic for that. Okay. So look up the dirty dozen, you'll know. Okay. Beans are wonderful for the body. They're full of fiber. They don't, you know, they don't cause a lot of heaviness in the body. Some gas but then you can take some digested enzymes if you're troubled by it. Lentils. Lentils? Now sometimes, I should mention about lentils. Sometimes people are, their blood sugar seems to go up a lot with lentils. So, you know, take a look. If you find that you're borderline getting close to diabetes, you might find that your blood sugar goes really high with lentils so you want to have a little bit less of that. And then pumpkin and squash. Does anyone know what vitamins are really high in orange foods like squash and pumpkin? And do you know? Huh? Well there's some C but it's mostly high in A, beta carotene. Think of, they're all the carotenoids and tomatoes are part of that and green leafy vegetables are part of that but if it's got orange color, except for orange, but you're right about the fruit orange, it is definitely very high in vitamin C but these are the most rich in beta carotene. List it so you want to think, okay, why is this listed? So I should be eating more of that. So instead of worrying about, oh, I shouldn't have this. I should know that. Find first the foods you should have and by the time you're done eating those see if there's even room for anything else. I wanted to mention one more medicinal food that I wish I had a slide to show you but black seed. Have you heard of black seed? Yeah. And it's used in, and I saw it was saying in the ground, can cure all diseases except death? Here's all diseases except death. So black seed, there's a person who's put out a bar. Have you heard of it? It's called cure. Has anybody heard of this bar? Cure. Let's see if I have the website for it. You can go on this website, cureyourworld.com And what it is is a woman, her grandmother used to make black seed and mix it with superfoods. So basically foods of the Quran, she has taken that and turned it into a bar. So do take a look at that. So again, back to breaking of the fast and looking at some of the foods that we want to be eating. From everything I've been eating and seeing this passage to the kind of way we're supposed to break the fast is not again stuffing, stuffing, stuffing fast and the feast is not fast. It's supposed to be like here, it says one third food, one third drink or water and one third space, air, so that the food has some place to move around. So if this is a time of restraint and control then this is where we want to exercise it too is during the breaking of the fast. So keep that in mind. And I did hear this again from Sarah, the person from Rutger. She said, sometimes the ladies will say it's difficult for us to say no because people keep on saying just eat hot, hot food, I've just made it.  And so she said just you can say that you're following the sun now of the prophet and not eating too much. So you can always use that as an excuse to not overeat if you feel the pressure to do that. So what shall we eat? So I mentioned that a Canadian dietitian he had created a sample meal plan for us. So he was saying to use the dates soaked in a cup of milk or small soup at the break. Now of course the timing is different because he's in Toronto so it may be that I think that will be earlier hopefully for us here.  So now you've had a chance for the sugar to go into the system so you can kind of calm your system down a little bit then go to the prayer then come back and have the meal. And try some of it like he had a meal plan. He actually has a seven day meal plan he shared with me. So then have a snack again you can have another snack and he has a couple of them so that they're going on a little bit of food is going in the system. And his suggestion was also to prepare the breakfast if you're going to eat it. Somebody will skip it entirely and sleep through or they will the recommendation is to prepare it in advance so that you can maximize your sleep. And then Sarah shared this lentil soup recipe looks very tasty very rich in the garlic and if you don't have an instant pot that is most wonderful tool I don't know. Does anybody know what I'm talking about instant pot? It's a pot that you can soak your beans you don't have to do an overnight soak it's lovely you can put all of that in the pot and then within 30 minutes 40 minutes you get proper soft beans soft garbanzo beans everything is nice and tender meats you can cook very quickly and so you can put the best part is you can put a lot of vegetables in it and if you use that immersion blender you know blend it up you can really get a lot more vegetables in your diet that way a lot of people tell me they're eating much healthier now than they have this pot so it's really just a it's electric pressure cooker essentially but it's safe if you've heard those horror stories of pressure cookers opening up and then you know it exploded on some everybody has one story of burns this will prevent any of that and then my friend had made me some bolani my friend Wajima she said instead of these heavy burratas I made bolani and do you want to see the recipe? let's do it but she don't use the yeast so skip the yeast and um don't she doesn't use oil to just be you know there's recipes and people are writing in articles so please feel free to sign up next thing I want to point out is there are some different things that happen during Ramadan that you might be experiencing and you want to kind of preemptively start to think about what am I going to do so for instance you know having a little bit of indigestion sometimes people are feeling a little bit of reflux so reflux you know where the acid starts to rise a little bit perhaps eating too soon next you know right before going to sleep might aggravate that so consider maybe giving yourself a little space before you go to sleep and then one of the suggestions was mint tea if you're having kind of any kind of digestive issues so that can help even though they say mint tea I also in Ayurveda we have what's called CCFT cumin, coriander and fennel and you can mix those things with hot water and make a tea out of that and that's very good for digestion as is the spice we call it bajuan it's caraway seeds yeah very good for digestion constipation sometimes people feel constipation because they're not eating that much the digestive tract has slowed down so remember lot more fiber will help push these along and water you need both not just the fiber you have to have enough water and that will help and then headaches calm sometimes just because of water you know it's usually dehydration but if one is really experiencing headaches a lot more headaches you can consider taking magnesium magnesium at night before going to sleep can help to headaches set aside time for questions if you have any questions anything really fasting on the last slide first point shouldn't you look at it with meals avoiding drinking liquids with meals so they're saying for indigestion if you're having digestive problems if you drink the liquid in between you're going to take a sip but not a lot of water yeah just during the fasting or in general just in general they're saying it but yeah it's provided for survival during this time so how about tea is tea and tea or tea is fine you know black tea the char oh char if you know if there's a lot of caffeine going in then that's dehydrating you must compensate by having more water but char is fine if you're having one cup or even you know one and a half cups and just drink plenty of water to go with it the headache all of us for the first week we all get into the morning every morning our head is hurting so you recommend taking magnesium at some point you say at night it's good for you'll get good sleep magnesium glycinate is very good for that form you can get it yeah magnesium glycinate or you can get what's called chelain and magnesium and I can share with you the link for that it's very good for yeah particularly people who are having more headaches even during the rest of the year but see your body is so used to using glucose for the brain and it craves it the first few days the headaches are probably intense just because your blood sugar is just off but yeah hopefully that subsides all the time yeah I think you know honestly water in between the meals even in Ayurveda they say just have a sip but not lots of water with the meal because you're really trying to keep what we call the digestive fire strong right but in between it should be fine so what I'm saying about having that strong you want that strong digestive fire you don't want to cool it and the other thing is you consider using drinking warm water yeah and I don't mean hot from the tap like use the kettle and boil water and then keep and sip warm water throughout the day so your body it just it accommodates that more than cold cold yeah again for that digestive power to be strong then we tend to eat low food because we get only certain windows to eat food mostly after mother's time so unfortunately those behavior turns into that you try to eat as much as you can to survive for the next day right so I know normal course of the day we eat small portions to keep ourselves healthy but at a sudden our body starts like eating so much food so how we can stop our behavior not to eat so much food at that one window that because at Subur we really don't eat that much we try to eat that one window we try to eat the most protein and everything we want to dump in ourselves so yeah and that's why this whole discussion about fasting and looking at it from a different perspective before you start saying this is how I want it to be I want to break my fast with healthy foods I don't want to over-indulge because ultimately people can fast without any food they need water for sure refrigerators wherever there we used to hunt and have you know eat and then go days sometimes because there was nothing as long as you're hydrated and people are doing that and finding chronic disease management and coming to that so with so much effort of fasting you have to think why would I want to mess it up by just indulging so much in that scarcity mindset that's not going to be any more food and even then your stomach is starting because you're not eating so it really can't handle that much food as we're trying to force it on right and another thing to consider because of the circadian rhythm and we do follow that rhythm and feel sleepy at night so there's a hormone melatonin it makes you sleepy at night time it causes also a little insulin resistance so you're not really absorbing the same way as you would in the morning hours the food because that's the window time you normally are eating and it's the most robust and you're going to digest and you're you're going to absorb the best at night time the absorption starts to go down naturally so keep that in mind that it's from what I've read it's lighter meals that are it's not supposed to be very heavy on the taxing to go to sleep with a really heavy stomach anyway yes well you do need to get sleep and right? and you have to eat and I know that because of that and it looks like because of window time I've seen even on Muhammad's my sample meal plan that he gave he's still eating at 11.30 again you do the best you can with the time that you have so on a regular day you would not want to do that you would want to give yourself at least a two hour window before you before you go to sleep exercise so one suggestion was that because the energy is really low by then some people after they do the dates and the milk and then have that initial break and the prayers sometimes yoga or some gentle movement Tai Chi that kind of exercise that's lighter and then they have their or they do it after the main meal where they have enough energy now come it's come from the food that's the best time it's just you set yourself up for failure trying to do things on a very weak tired body and remember metabolism slows down you don't eat as much and you're very sedentary it slows down so keep in mind what's reasonable for what's sensible what feels right probably after the meal even go for a light walk you know the board making around yeah okay any other nutrition questions I do I do yeah you talk about sleeping after some milk I do I do outside sometimes you just leg and arm I do but it's a habit yeah right I do I do I do I do I do you can do that for sure it's very good at helping with jet lag lately though even fasting has been known to be more helpful to jet lag it's hard to do but it's fasting or the flight until you get into that time zone you get into water and then then you enter that time zone and then you eat I do it resets your I do I do it's so much easier to prop the little toe than dad would of course I do okay thank you so much I really appreciate you inviting me here to talk yeah and anybody that wants to I do I can have my cards if you wanted to I do I do I do I do so I'm pregnant my duty is in the Ramadan so I have plan to fast is that safe for me to fast no not for pregnant pregnant breastfeeding it's clearly stated not to you want to make sure baby is properly learned during that time this time I know this time is very long like 15 days 15 to 15 hours but still I really wanted to wanted to yeah well that's what it says in the Quran too inviting pregnant you can talk some more with your doctor about that but I would recommend or maybe maybe you want to do part of it a full day might be a little bit much for pregnancy yeah thank you thank you


Cures with the Bemidji Sculpture Walk were putting the finishing touches on the new art pieces in the downtown area over the weekend. As Mount Myer reports, even with the dreary weather, many residents were taking a stroll to see the neighborhood come alive. Now that most of the 24 pieces of art have been installed, the selected artists are celebrating their newest additions to the town. Tim Nelson is excited to be a part of this for the seventh year in a row. When I originally moved here, this is one of the parts of telling that my wife I just fell in love with right away because of the sculpture walk down here. A giant squid, porcupine, even a seahorse. Just some of the wildlife that can be seen around the downtown area. Nelson says his work is usually light-hearted like a guppy called Mr. Pudge. I think it resonates with kids a lot because it's very colorful. Over the weekend, some residents were out enjoying the art despite the weather conditions. Mary Terese hasn't spotted any new ones quite yet, but is looking forward to it. It's really exciting to see new things on the streets every year. Nicholas White stopped to snap a photo of a fox called Tranquility. He says that so far he's noticed some of the pieces are a little bit more upbeat than last year's work. It kind of makes it look a little bit happier because they're all like little and kind of little kid-ish. Matt Favor lives close by and is happy to see that the tradition continues. It's something that I really hope they keep doing because the sculptures are absolutely beautiful. They're a benefit to our town. Now 17 years in the running, the Sculpture Walk seems to cement Bemidji's place as an art and cultural hub. I know there's a lot of places that are a lot bigger that don't have as much going on, so it's a cool part of living here. The Sculpture Walk will be issuing a new map so people can check out the artwork. In Bemidji, I'm Mel Meyer, Lakeland News. Four of the 20 artists that are featured in the walk are from the Bemidji area. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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Welcome to day 10 of my live Facebook Marketplace dropshipping case study where I show you guys everything that I'm doing on my Facebook Marketplace dropshipping account, what products I'm selling, what's working for me and all kinds of strategies along the way. In this video, I'm going to show you guys not only what products I sold and what's working well for me with some of my bestselling items, but also how to create a promotion for your Facebook listings and more. Quick intro and let's go. Hello everyone, glad to have you today. My name is Lee Wan from AutoDS. I'm the content manager and I've also been dropshipping for the last several years. And if you've been watching my Facebook live Marketplace case study, you know exactly what products I'm selling, how much I'm profiting, where I'm getting these products from and what strategies I'm implementing on my store. In this video, I'm going to show you more strategies and more of what bestselling products I've been selling. So let's get this show on the road one second before that. If you are new to our YouTube channel, this is the part right now where you need to subscribe to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the world of dropshipping. And if you haven't done so yet, start this case study from day one and learn step by step so that you can implement the same strategies and have your own success story. Without further ado, let's get on with the show. What happened in day 10? So as you guys know from my previous videos, I've added about 90 products to my store, which is less than 100 products in those 10 days using the help of my virtual assistant. And I sold about 30 products, if not more by this day. So those results are actually not bad at all for a new dropshipping store. So I'm glad that I recorded everything and I got this live case study going for you guys. Let's see what happened on day number 10. So the first thing that I want to show you guys is that Facebook created a new inbox where you can see all of your customers messages. There you can also label your messages, reply to your customers and also filter your messages. So here's what it looks like. As you see here, you got the products that you're selling. So I'm going to just keep it on the selling tab. And as you see here, I can view my chats. So I'm viewing right now my individual chats and you can filter by label. So for example, I can see what products are pending payments. So what products people want to buy, but they haven't paid for it yet. What products people have paid for that haven't been shipped yet. So to be shipped, what products I shipped will be in shipped and orders that have been completed. And as I scroll down here, you can see that another best selling product that started selling really well for me recently are these pop fidget toys.  Kids are having a blast from it. And as you can see here, I'm selling this product pretty much every day. So here you can see the little chat history that I had. And as you can see here, Joey, I replied to his message. Don't worry, your order is going to be processed. He just asked what's going on with his order when it will be processed. Only one day has passed. So I gave him that answer. Christie plays an order. Louise plays an order. Connie plays an order. Isabella plays an order. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. So here you can see that this product is actually selling pretty well. And on this screen, I also wanted to introduce you guys to that new inbox that Facebook just created. Okay, so that's a quick introduction of that. Now let's go see what else has been happening on my store. So as we can see here, these are my Facebook marketplace listings. I added more products. I'm trying to find more best sellers. And one of the products that has been selling really well for me is those white LED lights that I talked about. I also mentioned them in the previous video. So you can see here the products that I sold those warm crotchet hooks and the white LED lamp solar garden lights have been selling really, really well. So here's the white LED product. Here I'll click on variants. And what I want to do now is show you guys how to create a promotion so you can sell more of those products that have been selling well. First, I'll click on the source link so you can see how much I'm buying this product from. So I have it open right here. It's from Banggood. And it cost me $26.24. Right now I'm selling it for $35. But what I want to do is create a sale promotion. So I'm going to raise my price a little bit from $35 to $36.99. Now I'll save that variation through AutoDS and the price will automatically update on my Facebook marketplace shop. And as you can see here from the order details, this product is being sold for $35. But right now I just change it to $36.99. Now I'm going to click on promotions on the left side. And I'm going to create a promotion. Now you can do this to products that are selling well. And you can also do this to products that are not selling so well for you and you want to try and move them. So here is the promotions page and you can select which listings you would like to promote. So I'll just create a search for white LED. And here we go. Here's the white LED light outdoor solar power lights product. So I'm going to simply click on that. It's this product as you can see here $36.99. And on Facebook you can see that it's $37. Facebook just raised it up a little bit. But as you can see, AutoDS already updated my Facebook store. I'm going to give this promotion a name. We'll just call it LED light promo. And here we can choose the promotion type if we want to give a flat percentage. Or if you want to give a fixed dollar amount discount. In this case, I'm going to go with a 5% discount. The start date, you can choose whatever date you want from today, tomorrow, the next week, the next month when you want to start the promotion at what time and when you would like to end this promotion. So simply choose your dates and choose your time. And of course choose what products you would like to promote and give it a promotion name, which is everything that's happening right here. And here at the end you can also choose if you would like to apply this promotion to all of your listings or just to the ones that you selected. So in this case, I'm only going for that best selling product because I simply want to sell it some more. If it's selling well, let's try to get more people to see this product and get them to buy it too. So I up the price a little bit. $2 is not a lot. But when you give them a promotion and more eyes are going to see your listing, you'll have a much higher chance of selling it. So now I'm going to click on create promotion. And that's it. As you can see right here, I have an active promotion. It says right here ends August 6 LED light promo 5% off on one listing. So as you can see here, $37 was crossed out. And now it's back to $35. So I'm not actually losing any profit because I up the price a little bit. And as you can see right here, here's the listing $37 crossed off to now being $35 and 15 cents. That's all there is to it when it comes to creating promotions for your Facebook marketplace store. Once again, do it on products that are selling and also do it on products that aren't selling. Try to get those slow movers to move some more and get your fast movers to move even faster and make more sales and more profit. That pretty much sums up day 10 of my Facebook live marketplace dropshipping case study. Those are the products that I'm selling, where I'm getting it from, how much I'm profiting and how to create promotions for your products. And also how to use the new inbox feature on Facebook where you can filter, label your messages and simply have a much smoother experience as a Facebook seller. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to like and subscribe if you appreciate the value. See you in the future videos and good luck dropshipping on the Facebook marketplace.


Hello everyone, welcome to this session. And I am Chuan Yichen from Huawei. And today's session, I will introduce a platform for MEC, which is Edge Gallery, a developer-oriented open MEC platform. And today I will first introduce what it is for Edge Gallery and then I will introduce, have a brief introduce for what is the developer-oriented open MEC platform, the details for Edge Gallery. And then I will have a demo on Edge Gallery, which shows how an application vendor can develop one application based on Edge Gallery and use Edge Gallery to deploy the application to the Edge. So here, as we know, 5G will release the power of industry applications. So the industry applications in future, we are more and more running on MEC. So for this scenario, how to do the service governance, how to do the traffic off-loading, and also the capability openness. So we need a unified application management platform to deal with the connection and the management and the application cooperation with the MEP platform. Also, care code will need a MEC open source platform to let covers the whole ecosystem, which includes the developers. So how we support the developers? In future, the developers will develop applications on the Edge. So how we support that? How developer can develop their applications very easily? And also in future, how to support market place for the Edge application, it is also should be considered. And for the operator themselves, how to manage the Edge applications in real runtime systems. So it is also very important. So one platform which covers the developers and also the market places and also covers the management for the operators. It is monetary for the MEC. Here, it is a brief introduction for Edge Gary, which is trying to build a telco-lead Edge platform and ecosystem. Our mission is to create one MEC open architecture and the standard.  We are simplified development. So you can see here in the right side, we will have four parts mostly important components. One is MEP. Well, for MEP, it will unify the service management and also the network capabilities and also the open APIs and MEP management APIs. So it is really important in future in the MEC system. And the second one, it is MECM and the administrator who unified the application lifecycle management to set up a unified platform for the operator. And the third one, it is the App Store, which is Unified Applications Hub Store. Our applications in future for MEC will be published in this App Store. And the fourth one is the developer portal. So this is for the application developer. For this developer platform, Edge Gallery is trying to build up a very simple development platform for Edge application. There will be multiple of plugins and also test tools will be supported in this platform to support developer to develop a new Edge application. Okay. And the second one is about the developer-oriented open MEC platform. So here it is the overview of Edge Gallery. We have four components, which is MEP and also MECM and also App Store and also developer platform. So for MEP, there is no UI layer in MEP component. Here is three UIs for the Edge Gallery platform. The first one is developer GUI. And the second one is for the App Store GUI, which is the centralized APP Store for Edge applications. And the third one, it is the management portal for Edge for the MEC system, which will be called by operator or some service provider of MEC system. Okay. And while we say Edge Gallery, it is developer-oriented open MEC. Here you can see we have one flow for the application vendor to migrate to layer or develop a new application to MEC system. So we will support the application developer from developer preparation and also on the coding and the developer and the test phase and also about the application published phase. So the first one, when we supported the application development, we will support a platform selection, which is X86 or such as ARM platform. And also we have MEP capabilities selection, such as traffic capability or some RAN network capabilities, such as location capabilities, which application depends on. And also we have tools installation and sample codes for these capabilities and all application to call these applications, all these capabilities. And the second one is one, during the user developer and test the application, we will have plugins, we will have the API simulators, platforms to support application vendors to develop their applications. And during the application test, we also have a sandbox, some tools to support such as to do remote debug. And we have a sandbox, which already deployed the dependent capabilities layer. So that they can very easily to test their applications. And during the application publish, they also have, we also support applications. They can publish their own services to other applications. So that other application consume the vendor's application. So here they also have a platform to verify the application and to package the application and then publish to the app store. Here, the app store can be or actually that is an app store layer, which means all the applications already published to this app store is already verified by the platform. It can be directly deployed by the MECM. So here app store also can be some commercial app store in future. And then the last one is about the MECM. The MECM is the management system for the edge application lifecycle management. They will manage all the resources of the system and all the packages of the system and they can also do application orchestration in the system. Okay, and in the following time, I will have a very demo for to show how to develop and deploy an application based on edge gallery as we know, we have applications develop a platform to support developer application vendor to develop one application. Here, this demo and we name it as positioning service. As you can see here, in this demo, we will show how edge gallery developer platform supports the new application developing. And in this demo, we can see the left side here, we have a face recognition service which is already deployed in the MEP platform. This application depends on and the application we're trying to develop here, it is we name it positioning service, which is once in this positioning service. Okay, let me introduce what's the capability of face recognition. Face recognition, this service, there is capabilities is that you can pass one image, maybe one photo of one person, they pass this to this service and also you can pass him a video or a camera or RTSP flow. And the face recognition service, it can return the result of recognition to find out if this person exists in this video. So this is the basically the platform capability and in this positioning service, which is in the middle part, we try to develop one application. This can be consumed as one monitor system. The monitor system, there is many cameras located at different places. And in this monitor system, we want to support one feature is that you can pass one image of one person and then in this system, we'll try to find out if this person has ever showed in any camera. So in this feature, the monitoring, the positioning service, it will depends on the face recognition. It will use the capability of face recognition service to find out if the person exists or ever showed in this camera. So, and also it itself will calculate, find out where this person and when this person ever exists in this, in which camera. And also this is about the feature of this positioning service and to show the capabilities for expose the APIs of this positioning service. As we know for our application platform, we also support the application vendor to expose their capabilities to be consumed by other service who develop a new system, new application can consume the positioning service. So it will also expose one APIs is that for user, you can pass me one image, one image of person and this positioning service will responsibly if this person ever it shows in the monitoring system. So this is the brief introduction for this application. And in this demo, I will try to develop this application to show how edge gallery support to develop this positioning service and support to manage it, to deploy this positioning service to the real MEC system. And now I will go into the real system. And you can see here, okay, I will change it to English. And here there is edge gallery developer platform. We already have this platform here. This platform is used to support edge application developers to develop their applications or they can use this platform to directly deploy or verify or patch their existing applications to MEC system. Okay. And now here the flow is you will find we will first create one project. Sorry, I need to login the system. And then the first step for user to develop one platform is to create one project. So I will name it as positioning service. And also here I will upload the one icon for it. Okay. I will change it to English for a user to easily understand positioning service. And also here can also feel some descriptions for the application. It can be detailed description. But here I will have a quick brief introduction. And also we can have, you can see here the version and the industry and the type that I've captured some brief informations for this application you want to develop. And the second step is to choose the abilities you want to use of the platform. As we know our positioning service will depends on face recognition service. So here you will find that we have two first type one is the edge gary capabilities. And the second is edge gary eco abilities. There is no difference for usage. Only difference is that the edge gary capabilities is pre-deployed in the platform. So it is not provided by some third party applications. And the edge gary ecosystem capabilities that means user who contribute to the services to the platform. And they also can expose their capabilities to be consumed by other services or just for difference. So here I will select the face recognition service. And here you see also for the face recognition we also we have two version. And in my example, in my demo I use this face recognition service but not class. And okay. And until now we have just a create one project for user to manage their pet project. So after created that is by default you will show the details of this project. And you will find in the left side we have APIs we have for beard and test we have for other static tools and here. And for the API as we know user want to consume face recognition service they need to know how to use this application. So you will find here for face recognition service you can also hear face recognition service is published as HTTPS. And you can in this platform you also can try it out for you to know how to use this application. How to use this API. And you will find here you can excuse this API and also in the result it will returns you the JSON format you can find here I just upload one image and the result is will returns you a JSON format to dream which contains the face number and also the result. And based on these application developers they can very easily to know how can I can use these APIs. Okay. And after application developers they know how to develop this and then we will start to try to coding and they will manage this positioning service project and you can find here in our systems we also have for plugins and the API introductions. The APIs in this project user can very easily to find it out. And also here we have for plugins here you will find that we have, we already have Python plugins and Java plugins but at least it's an open source platform. So this is a plugin repositories and the user can also contribute to their application plugins here and in future we will also support more and more plugins. And here when I develop one develop this face recognition demo and I will use this Python plugin and okay and the next step for user is they trying to develop their applications. So here I already showed this demo because we have no time to show how to develop this. This is the developer for the application and in this application it will, you will find in their codes they will depends on the face recognition MEP capabilities they will send a request to the face recognition service to get the image recognized result. And also here I mentioned we have plugins for the ideas you will find I have already add one plugin here for MEC you will find here and you can also select the details of depend the capabilities that you depends on. So here it is very easy for user to use to know how we need to, how we can use the face recognition service. And also here once you plug in here, okay and here there is one limitation here we need to refresh it, you will find in here there is a two new folder will be generated and these two new folder it is letter for this APP example it shows for user for Python language how you call this API you will find here it is also the face recognition API for Python language how you call these APIs. So it is very easily will be very easily for user to know in Python language how I can use this language use this capabilities. And also there is one more folder it is for the package application package generated example. So in this example there will be very easy for user to know how we package this application. Here you will find this application the scripter template here and the user can easily to know how we package it and okay and here we assume user have already finished this coding work in this application they will calling the capabilities of MEP of face recognition and then after this you will find in for the application itself there is a file here like which can build the application as an image. And then I will go to one VM and which also have these applications there and I will also show how we build it here by this command we will deploy we will build this application as one image as one Docker image. And then once we finish this stock image we also need to Docker save to save it as positioning service to get one package of this application. So it will take a few seconds and here I have already save it as a package file. So once user or application developer they get this file this application package they can go back to the edge gallery platform and they go back to this positioning service now they need to test their applications and then they need to upload their packages here. Here by this upload package this is for user to test and package their applications. So by upload their image they can this image can be deployed to a sandbox for user to test it. But here I need to mention is lack of for upload it will take a few minutes because this Docker image is a bit large. So I will use this I will directly specify the image name because I have already uploaded before because for user they test the application will takes several times. So it is not only one time operation. So once the image is already uploaded and if the image is not changed they can directly test it again. So they directly specify the image name which have already uploaded and they can also upload some deploy files and also here it is for the APIs. As we know our positioning service we have exposed the capabilities for other application to consume. So here it is to assign the APIs of the service itself and also here it is to assign what's the part and the service information that they exposed. Well, we name it as positioning service this will be showed in the for the edge gallery echo capabilities there. So here it is the sandbox list and as you know here in future it will automatically allocated one sandbox but currently it is manually selected I will deploy it to a sandbox sorry, okay. And the list sandbox it is also directly this one I will show to you here. Okay, you will find that there is one positioning service which is launched at 80 seconds before and also you will find here for this service it is already deployed and it is already exposed this post and port and the user can directly test their applications as I need to say here is later because in the real system we use camera but today to be easy to show I use a video it is the same if it's both RKSP videos here. So all this it can be showed currently I have not set any image so it will always show unknown here now I will upload one image of this person and you will find, you will find here Zhang Hailong here at this camera position one it is fine in this camera. So this feature can be exposed to other for other applications to consume it, okay. And this means this application has already tested and we can finish test and once we finish test this sandbox will be released and here you will have they can choose to publish the application to App Store and they can also publish their API capabilities to echo system here we both selected as true and here we will find in APIs MEP echo API's latest positioning service here and I will show here once if another application is created you will find that is echo capabilities which is the veto application and the next step you will find that is positioning service which exposed by our positioning application here can be find in the echo edge Gary echo capabilities which user can develop based on this new API's, okay. This is a brief introduction for our edge Gary developer platform and then let's go to the app store as soon as we know last we have selected to publish our positioning service to App Store so you will find here there is one positioning service it is new here in our app store okay I will change to English and you will find the time is okay it is just now we past published it in App Store so this positioning service already published in as a verified application that published in this app store and then I will have a quick introducing for our MECM system this MECM system it is a real running system which for service providers can manage the application lifecycle management so I have already here you will find I have already uploaded this package in our MECM management system and this is a real system they have capabilities to manage the edge nodes the resources and the packages and the application lifecycle management so here I will show how to deploy this positioning service to the real system so we have to get the positioning service package here and we will distribute this package to one edge node here edge node it is also in my system I just have one node here so okay now it is processing for distribution this application package to edge node so okay it is already distributed and in this I can deploy this service instance to the edge node so this time it is not just for test it is for real running system user can deploy their applications to the real edge node okay it is already instantiated because I'm using the same node so you will find now it is working this edge node it is already deployed so that's all it is for the edge gallery developer platform, the app store and the running time MEC management system okay and I think I have just finished today's introduction and thank you everyone and here we have I want to have one introduce its lat here it is our main page of edge gallery and everyone who is interested on this who can contact me or directly go to this webpage to contact us thank you very much


Hello, this is Warner from Warner.tv and today I want to talk about Dauntless. Dauntless is a free to play co-op action RPG Monster Slayer, which is a fancy way of calling it a Monster Hunter-like game for PC. The game was first revealed in December 2016 at the Game Awards, well, well before Monster Hunter World PC was announced. The 40 man or so dev team consists of former developers from Riot Games, Blizzard, Bioware and Capcom. Dauntless went into open beta on Thursday, May 24th with a pretty bumpy launch. Queue sizes reached over 100,000 players and matchmaking between players was a constant issue throughout the weekend. Phoenix Labs worked throughout the Memorial Day weekend to resolve most of these issues and had the players in the game by Sunday, an impressive feat given the small development team. Even though the game isn't on Steam, the impressive launch numbers would have definitely landed it in the top 5 concurrent players behind PUBG and CSGO, a couple of titles you may have heard of. So now that the game is out, you can play today without queues or scaling issues, let's talk about what it is. I once heard someone refer to Dauntless as bite-sized Monster Hunter World and I couldn't agree more. One thing that turned me off of Monster Hunter World was the vast scope. There is so much to do in that game and it can be overwhelming. And at the end of the day, I quit because I just wanted to haunt monsters man. I'm not looking for cutscenes, footprints or any other time wasters or tutorials that get in the way, it just felt way too long to get to the point. Dauntless is none of that. Less than 5 minutes into the game, you're fighting a behemoth as they're called in Dauntless and it doesn't stop. Sure the game has material gathering and a lightweight crafting system but behemoth sling is at the center of the picture, probably why they call you a slayer in the game. At the moment, Dauntless has 5 weapons to choose from. You start with the sword in the tutorial but you then eventually get access to the hammer, chain blades, the axe and the pike or the warpike as they call it. The axe and the warpike come later in the game's progression but not too much, thankfully due to some valuable feedback and a closed beta which I was a part of. The time to acquire these weapons is but a couple of hours of gameplay. Crafting in Dauntless allows you to enhance your slayer to meet certain circumstances. For example, there are stamina potions which grant boost and stamina regeneration, a very helpful pod if you're using like heavier weapons such as the axe or hammer. There are also damage boosting potions, defensive potions and even an airship hair strike from when you need to range justice from above. As you seek behemoths on the island, you pick up various crafting ingredients to craft these potions and more. Crafting and armor progression is fairly simple. In the beginning you are mostly leveling armor pieces up with various materials from the monster fights. You can think of them as like helmet plus 1, plus 2 etc. and the stats scale appropriately. You can also slot your weapon with items called cells. These add additional traits to your weapons which may give damage type and support boops. Each behemoth type offers a different weapon set and different armor sets that give you benefits to your slayer. They scale as you progress through the game. Dauntless has an item called a lantern which provides a reusable support ability. At the start your lantern tells you where the behemoth is, but other lanterns as you unlock them in the game can give speed boosts, armor, AOE damage or AOE buffs. It's a very cool system which is slightly different from its competitors. Control options in Dauntless include keyboard and mouse as well as controller and both options work well for behemoth fights but controllers can be a little bit weird in town dialogues. The free to play model is simple and non-pay to win. The cash shop consists of quality of life items such as potions and exp boosts which can speed up your slayer's progression. Cosmetics such as emotes, landing animations, dies and transmog tokens also allow you to spice up the look of your slayer without affecting gameplay. The paid currency is called platinum which runs about 150 platinum per $5. Optionally you can purchase platinum in bulk for discounts or purchase a supportive pack for more exclusive cosmetics and discount in platinum. Overall I'm satisfied with the model although the prices are a bit steep on certain things such as the landing emotes which can run about $10 per...dowlch. Premium Dauntless consists of 5 islands each of which houses behemoths. On these islands you can perform patrols, expeditions or pursuits. Patrols are randomized behemoths, expeditions offer cash materials upon completion and pursuits allow slayers to choose their behemoth. Once at the top tier it's also known as the maelstrom up there. There's some other options available such as heroics and the super behemoths as I call them. This is where the best loots are in the game and also considered the game's end game. So what do I think about the game? Well, Dauntless is insanely addictive and the gameplay loop is well done but it currently lacks some sustainable content. With around 25 or so total behemoths at the time of this video some of them are reskins with some alternate skills it can definitely use some more to keep players around. Now it's a free to play game and as Warframe has taught us you have to keep pumping out content in order to keep players coming back. Also there's that monster hunter world PC release that's right around the corner. The good news is that the developers recognize this and plan an aggressive schedule to meet demand. Right now there's enough to keep players around for about maybe a couple weeks to a month but unless fresh content is injected I can see them taking the hiatus or even leaving the game altogether. Make no mistake I love this game but I also recognize the fickle nature of the gamer. So with that said the game is addictive. Very addictive. The fights are well done, the animations are well done, the music is well done. The art style takes a little bit of getting used to and there's also some UI elements that are definitely rough around the edges. At open beta these shortcomings are generally accepted for most games but the clock is ticking for Dauntless. I'm rooting for these guys to do well are you? Check out Dauntless at PlayDauntless.com and sign up for a free account. It's definitely worth the try even if you're not interested in any kind of monster hunter games. This is Buona from Buona.tv and this is my quick review of Dauntless Open Beta by Phoenix Labs. I'll see you all next time. Have a great day. Hey guys thanks for watching the video please comment, like, subscribe and all that good stuff and make sure you click the bell to be notified otherwise you ain't gonna see this video. Wait, how did you see this video? I'm okay, bye.


The Holy Spirit just gives you one little drop at a time to expand the faith, one little moment at a time. And none of us would dive into this if we could see what was coming because our ego would not be ready for this at all. Ego would go freaky, freaky, weird, get out of here. Some of the things that have been presented to me that I thought were the most absolute, ridiculous things I'd ever heard of, came to pass. I rejected them out of hand, no way, not in a million years. And the Holy Spirit is like, oh yeah, oh yeah. I know you think this is impossible, but oh yeah. You'll change your mind. You'll definitely change your mind because God's will is for perfect happiness.


In modern times, we want to keep our uric acid levels as low as possible. How are we going to do that? Well, there are two main things that raise your uric acid levels. Purines and fructose, which means mostly meat and sugar. Everything from bacon and brains to fish, poultry, shrimp, and veal. And then both sugar and high fructose corn syrup are both about half fructose, which leads to uric acid production in the body. That explains why a spoonful of sugar helps the blood pressure go up, along with the risk of gout in men and the risk of gout in women, and the risk of hypertension, obesity, pre-diabetes, diabetes, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease. We went from eating about 4 pounds of added sugars a year to now about 100 pounds per person. That's like a third pound of sugar a day. This could be playing a role in the dramatic rise in chronic disease of the last century, as argued in this award-winning recent paper, The Evolution of Obesity Insights from the Mid-Myocene.


Dear WISIS stakeholders, as the United Nations Specialized Agency for Information and Communication Technologies, the ITU hosts and co-organizes along with UNESCO, UNDP, and OCTAC, the WISIS Forum on an annual basis. The WISIS Forum is a real demonstration of how the United Nations system joined forces to strengthen the enabling role of ICT for sustainable development goals. The Forum is a key multi-stakeholder platform for multi-stakeholder coordination of implementation as well as collaboration and interplay among stakeholders of government, private sector, civil society, technical community, and academia. The WISIS Forum 2017 will be held from the 12th to 16th of June at the ITU headquarters Geneva, Switzerland. The main theme of this year's WISIS Forum is information and knowledge societies for sustainable development goals. This year, we are expecting 2,500-plus physical participants at the Forum. 150-plus countries represented, 120-plus ministers and deputies, 200-plus workshops and sessions, and 18 WISIS Prize winners. I look forward to welcoming you at the WISIS Forum 2017. Together, we can turn the outcomes of the annual WISIS Forum into real actions on the ground by connecting all stakeholders implementing ICTs to achieve the SDGs at the national, regional, and global level.


almost finished learning all the different types of factoring techniques that we're going to use to be able to break down polynomials and analyze them and look a little deeper, right? Try to, you know, graph them and, you know, maybe start using certain types of functions in our, you know, in our models of whatever we're trying to look at, right? Now we've talked about, you know, prime factorization, factor in prime numbers, GCF, simple trinomial factor, complex trinomial factor, and differences of squares. And we just finished talking about quadratic formula, right? And inside the quadratic formula, when we're taking a look at that, we also talked about the substitution, which helps us break things down or rephrase things that we can recognize them as quadratic so we can use the quadratic formula, or use substitution to express terms in any which way we want, or use substitution to express things in a way which will help us to analyze them and break them down, right? Now the last type of factoring that we're going to talk about is called synthetic division, okay? Now, before we get into talking about synthetic division, we're going to have to talk about long division, okay? Long division, we've already sort of introduced in one video in series one, I think it's video number eight or something, where we talked about multiplication and long division. We just went through a couple of examples of how you divide things out using long division, okay? Now, I know everybody hates long division, and I'm going to try to make this session as quick as possible, but there's a saying in life where there's something that you learn when you're living your life, and the older you get, the more you get to appreciate this, or understand what the phrase really means. They say that you get to appreciate the good times a lot more when you've gone through some bad times, right? And long division, by all accounts from everything that I've heard from my students, most of my students anyway, there are some people that actually like long division, but most of my students, going through the long division, it's some serious bad times, okay? Now, what I'm going to do is try to reduce the amount of bad times that we're going to have right now, learning long division, condense that this lesson in as short of a period as possible while covering all the different information, because even though long division is a real pain for some people, for me it's just become routine, right? Some people do actually like it, but what we're going to do is try to learn, just go through the original long division, the long division with just numbers, and then see how that relates to polynomial division, dividing, doing long division with polynomials. And one thing we do need to go, one reason we do need to go into long division, is because it breaks it down for us in a way where we can actually visually see what's going on. So long division, even though it's a pain, it does have some uses in just laying out the problems for us, for us to be able to recognize what is really happening, okay? So we're just going to start with just dividing out just numbers, just integers right now, and that way we're going to get the layout of what long division looks like, and we'll see that that's exactly being mirrored when you're dividing polynomials. But long division for polynomials, it mirrors exactly the same thing as long divisions with numbers, right? So from there, we can get some of the terminology we need, and then we're going to go into synthetic division and you're going to see how sweet synthetic division is, right? And going through this right now is going to make you appreciate synthetic division a lot more, and hopefully that will help you to become really good at it, because you don't want to do long division every time. There will be times where we're going to have to do long division. That's a given, that's guaranteed. But synthetic division is what we're going to go for most of the time, okay?


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Good afternoon, Pastor David. How you doing, John? Welcome, everybody, to Unfiltered. You know, Pastor, recently through emails and social media, I've been getting these messages on how to and it's how to build your worship team, how to have an effective kids ministry, how to, and I wrote some down, how to grow a church in attendance, how to be a dynamic and motivational speaker. So you're getting all these how-tos to grow a church. As a matter of fact, you know, looking through some books, Sticky Church, I mean, there's these books that are out that are really influencing. What's that other one called? This one's called The Church of Irresistible Influence. Yeah, okay, there's a lot of stuff out there. So there's a lot of stuff out there that is giving like manuals and gimmicks on how to. Do these elements make a good church? You know, I don't think that when you're, when your goal is numeric, when you're thinking that a large church is a good church, I think you're moving in the wrong direction because large isn't always good. It's not always equally good. I can tell you this, when our fellowship first began and that would be almost 42 years ago when our church first began, I having a couple of years of assistant pastor experience, but having never, never planted a church or done anything like that and not having accessed anybody who had, I can tell you, John, that when we first began our fellowship that I didn't know what to do. And so I bought seven small books, seven of them. I remember that for some reason.  You need to have, you know, an authority in the pulpit. You need to have a very expressive worship team. You need to have vitality in the children's ministry, things like that. And, excuse me, more than one of these, more than one of the books were focusing on the things that I was supposed to do to enable the growth of the church. And so I, at that time, had a friend who was also a professor at Biola, the university that I had attended. And he'd become close to me and I was very close to him. And so he had been given the post there, and this is like in 81. He had been given the post of church growth. They actually had a class that was on church growth. And so I had called him and said, I'd like to come and have lunch with you, because I loved him, not for any other reason other than to see my professor whom I had grown to love and my wife Marie had grown to love, his name was Dr. Moore. And so we went, I went to see him. We went to the cafeteria and got some lunch and all and sat down and he says, OK, David, tell me, why is your church growing? Now, our church at that time was certainly not a huge church by any means. We'd been going for, I'd say, two, three months, maybe five months. I don't remember anymore. But it hadn't been going that long. We'd grown to around 200 and all. And in the measurements that they have in church growth, they actually, at that time, again, this is over 40 years ago, they said, if you reach this 200, then you want to reach 500, then you want to, and they had steps. And so to reach the number 200 as rapidly as we had was impressive to my professor. So he said, how's it going? I said, well, we've got a little over 200 people. Dave, tell me how that happened. And I was ready to recite the seven steps to church growth that I had memorized. He said, but wait a minute, I have to go get something. I'll be right back. And John, as God is my witness, I'll never forget this. When he walked away, I sensed the spirit of the Lord speak to my heart. And I heard within my heart the words, if you take the credit, I will take my hand off your ministry. I heard that.  I could hear it as plain as if somebody was speaking to me. And when he came and sat down and said, OK, David, tell me, how did your church begin to grow so quickly? I said, it's all Jesus Christ. It's all the work of the spirit. I have no clue. God, the way God does church, he does it on his own. It's to him be all the glory professors, Dr. Moore. I'll never forget that. And I never have forgotten that. So when I get these ads or somebody wants to give me a book and you can see it on social media quite often, how to grow a successful church, how to have a successful youth ministry, how to have a successful pulpit. It always seems to put the stress on my efforts and my abilities and things of that nature. And I was just recently speaking to our fellowship concerning the ministry Jesus gave just this last week we were speaking about this where he breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. And in essence, he was saying, and I'm sending you out. And I was sharing with the church for a moment that if the Lord doesn't send you out, you don't have any authority. If he doesn't breathe on you, his powerful Holy Spirit, you've got no power. And if you don't take his gospel, you have no message. And I believe that what has happened in church life at this time is people are relying on the gimmicks of those whom they consider to be successful. So they find something that is appealing to people. It doesn't matter what it really is. It may be that they emphasize worship. There was a movement that was very much emphasizing worship and you would go for a 45 minute church service of worship in a 15 minute sermon and people would come and eventually that movement died. You have others that are signs and wonders oriented, come and see God heal, stretch legs and this and that. And those kinds of things don't last because they're not built on the word. They're not built on the work of the spirit within the life to transform. It's not built on that. It's built on the personality of the pastor who's the celebrity who is the person who everybody comes in actually hero worships because they think that surely this person is anointed by God because he's attracting so many people. And I learned a long time ago that that's not necessarily true. In the book of Ezekiel, God is speaking to Ezekiel and he says, and I'm paraphrasing obviously out of chapter 33 but he says to him, he says, son of man, he says, the people are speaking about you along the way. He said they stand there near the walls and they say, come in here, the man of God, the things that he has to say. He says, so they come and they listen to you.  He says, but they are not my people because they hear but they do not obey. And I do believe that the church today is filled with people who hear whatever it is they want to hear. But even if it's convicting, they don't obey. They get upset. They're trying to even now many, many try to cancel the pastor. They try to cancel me during the message. And the time when you're thinking, we went through the season of COVID when people were not able to come and when we were opening up again and we opened up fairly early when that happened, the people who were there stayed. They didn't want to get up and walk out. They didn't vote with their feet. They didn't say, oh, I'm offended because these were people who wanted to be there, John, as you remember. But now that the churches are opened up again, we now get delicatessen Christians once again who's saying, oh, you know, that's not what I wanted.   And so I think that because people see, because people will spend time seeing these are things that are taking place. They say, well, this is how you build a church. Don't say this offensive thing here. Have this kind of music here. Dress in this kind of way here. Make sure that you have your swoopy hairdo. You know, make sure that you have the lighting. Make sure you have a theater feeling in your church. And so we replace the Holy Spirit and we replace the word of God with things that don't change lives, John. And so, yeah, there are books. So over the years, you know, I've been in ministry for a while and I've seen a lot of it, you know. And what is it that God taught us? And, you know, one man sows and another man waters, but it's always God who brings the increase. And if you pour the word of God out to people and love them and pray for them and rightly divide the word of truth, the hungry will come to eat. And those who are there for something else will find something else because there really is a smorgasbord out there. There really is, there are so many churches and it's so easy to hop from one to the other, you know, because what they are consumers are not really committed. And finally, I think that these books appeal to pastors who very often are at their wits and they want to see people show up and they say to themselves, I must be lacking. These people know what church is like. So I wouldn't condemn anybody for reading the books. I've read them myself. I didn't do so with a specific intent to build a church. I wanted to learn. But I think that every one of us as pastors need to learn that it's not the numbers. It's not that numbers don't count. They do. I mean, if you're out working and you're doing it for a while and nobody shows up, it may be that you're not called to that place or it may be that you're just not a called person. You need to know that yourself.  But if you have a love for Christ and a passion for him and you try to teach and you ask for God to give to you an anointed worship team so that people can actually worship God together in a beautiful way and just trust the Lord to bring the increase and don't value yourself based on how many show up. I think that at the end, you'll hear well done. Pastor, there's a, and we'll wrap up with this.  When if you, you've said it before, you strive to maintain or maintain this. Chuck Todd has said it, if you strive to attain, you strive to maintain. There's always a gimmick. And that week, that next week, the gimmick's done. So if it's not with the word or the spirit, what really is there? And so, okay, Pastor, well thank you so much. I wanted to talk about that because I'm getting a lot of how-to's. Yeah, me too. The how-to's and me-to's. And for the church to not to be caught up in these gimmicks, it's the spirit that leads. Just love Jesus and love his word. And walk in his spirit and you'll be okay. Amen. Well, Pastor, thank you so much for sharing with us today. Want to invite our church family to come join us on Wednesday evening, tomorrow evening, as we're going through Romans. And it's been a fruitful study. It's been rich. I'm enjoying it. It's been fun. And we're getting, we're having some fun, not fun time, we're having great time in worship. And fellowship and spending time in God's word. And then to remind you that we have our Sunday morning service at 8.30 and 10.45. Invite you guys to come out and join us. Then we have our men's conference coming up. I'm excited about that. You're sharing with us. Hall of Fame Anthony Munoz is gonna be joining us. And Ken Graves, Pastor of Bangor, Calvary Chapel of Bangor, Maine. You can purchase your tickets online or you can actually stop by the gazebo. And we're taking an interest sign up sheet for Israel. So if you guys are interested in signing up, you can stop by the gazebo after services, sign an interest list. I mean, I'm looking forward. Well, earlier you said, what do you mean, week? Well, we'll see. May 7th through the 18th, 2024. We're trying to keep the cost between $43 and $4,500 in total for everything. Hopefully people will come with us.  So we have just about a year. And so, well, Pastor, again, thank you for joining us. Friends, thank you for joining us. And we look forward to seeing you. God bless you.


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