So now we have a potential function to calculate forces. The other part I'm going to need, I'm going to need some sort of algorithm or recipe for how to get from acceleration to velocities to positions. Purely mathematically speaking that is easy, it's just I have a derivative and I need to do the opposite process and that's called integration. So I'm going to need to come up with a way to do integration. And I'm going to use a particular method called the leapfrog algorithm. Or the leapfrog integration scheme. The reason why this is a bit more complicated than mathematics, I'm going to need to do this for finite time steps. And mathematics would be correct in the limit of infinitely small steps. And to handle this I'm going to draw a some sort of timeline here. And then I will draw, we have a time t0, leave some space, t1 and t2. But I will also draw some half times here. I have t0.5 and t1.5. I know that looks strange. The idea behind these half steps is that if I want to move from t0 to t1, but I might want to add a contribution from another function, my acceleration or something, it makes sense to take that at the half time point. I'll show you why this ends up being nice. So assuming that I know the acceleration, I know the positions at say a time t1. And I also know the accelerations at that time t1 because I got that from the force. I can say that I would like to calculate the velocity at the time t plus delta t, which is the time step divided by 2. That is the old velocities at the time t minus the time step divided by 2 plus the acceleration at time t multiplied by the time step. So it's pretty much just a linear approximation. What that means that if I had the accelerations here, I'll draw a small a there. And I had my velocity here. So what this effectively means that velocities at the previous half time step is jumping over here to a new velocity at t plus half a time step. And then it also makes sense, right, that if I'm doing this process that the acceleration contribution comes exactly halfway, at least it's neat and symmetric. And then I'm going to do almost the same thing for positions. But for positions, I'm now going to say that the position at t plus a full time step, that is the old position at the full time step plus the velocity at t plus half the time step multiplied by the t. And what that now means is that at the same time step where I had the position, the position now jumps over the velocity at the half time step. And then I get a new position here and of course also a new velocity. So what this means is that the name here comes from the game when you're jumping over each other's backs just like frogs. So the positions and the accelerations forces here, they will always be at full time steps while the velocities will be at half time steps. It's a really efficient, neat and accurate integrator for the way we use it. So why have you never heard of it? I bet you've heard of integrators in American analysis such as Runge-Kutta, right, or Beeman. Well, the difference is that in American analysis you're frequently integrating a simple function such as sine x. The cost of evaluating sine x on your computer is nil. So you can afford to evaluate that a billion times. It doesn't matter. All you're after is very high accuracy. But that's going to be different here. So what happens here? Every time I need to evaluate the acceleration here, I need the force, right? But the way I got the force was to evaluate that very large potential function involving all bonds, angles, torsions, non-bond interactions, the Coulomb interactions. It's going to be very expensive for me to evaluate the value of my function here. So while my goal here is not to get velocities or positions with 15 decimals, I don't really care. I don't know the velocities accurately anyway. But it's going to be imperative for me that I can take long time steps. And all those other integrators you know of, they end up being accurate because they take very small time steps. That's the opposite of what I want. While leapfrog ends up having a very nice property that it has small errors at large time steps. So if I were to draw a function, say sine x, leapfrog has the property that it's able to do a very good integration of such a function with roughly five points per period. There might be some short term error here because leapfrog might not exactly integrate this function, but it's going to integrate the pseudo function that's close to it. And the point is it will not start to deviate. It will stay close to this as long as you have roughly five points per oscillation. And that means that leapfrog for us is really optimized to take long time steps. Why is that important? Well, remember that I said that we're limited by computing power. If my time step can be 50% longer, I effectively get 50% better total performance. That's a huge difference to me. And that's why molecular simulations tend to use leapfrog rather than super accurate short term integrators.


My name is Robert Lamte. I'm from Ghana and I love SPAM. Don't get nervous. I love SPAM. My name is Bertrand Gondroin. I'm from France and I love SPAM, too. And we are asking for 150,000 US dollars to establish our project in Ghana, which is I love SPAM. Talking numbers, every year there is 50 billion US dollars that are spent to fight SCAM, SPAM, fraud on the internet. And also there is like a thousand of highly educated, ingenious writing, creating electronic wars for companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter. But there is not a single IT security company, which is actually fighting SPAM at its source. And the source of this SPAM is like from where I came from in Africa, from a poor society, whereby it's lack of opportunity. You don't know what you're going to do at the age of 30 years. So if I put myself in their situation, I've been to school, I've graduated, I don't have any job, 30 years. What am I going to do? You don't have any option. Unemployment rate is 28% in Ghana. And 20% are the youth. So what are they going to do? It's easy. Someone walks to you, oh, I got a gig.  Whoa, is it true? You don't need to go to school to be a hacker in Africa. It's like a virus, it's spread. Yeah, I don't need to go to school. I just follow somebody. I can use your credit card to shop, like, or date on the internet. I'll be right in Africa. It's true. So we're trying to give them something to live on. They love to be on the internet. We're trying to give them a job on the internet creating something rather than using your credit card, but they cannot use my credit card. We try to give them something else to do on the internet. So what we are offering to spammers, actually we are offering two things. One thing is education, meaning that we want them to be part of the global economy in a positive way. And the second thing is that we are offering them a fair business process out-of-thing job for our clients in Sweden and in the Nordics. And I can guarantee that actually our clients, they really love it. They love it. Yeah, so as we're saying, we need to change the society.  We have to try and change something from the source. They come from a poor society. How can they survive? I put myself in the situation, but they are really smart. You don't have to go to IT school to be a scammer or to know how to fraud somebody. It's simple. So if we help them by giving them a job on the internet, they love to do that. If you tell these guys, listen, I have a job in McDonald's or in Burger King. You tell them, no, I'm not going to do that. But if you tell them, OK, I have something on the internet. You love to be on the internet 24-7. I have something over there for you.   But now look at you, you weren't in a suit to office. How come? Oh, I work for a low spam. You can change your life, you know. So you help us, we help them. Then I save your credit card. My name is Robert Lamte. And I love spam too. Thank you very much.


Hello and welcome to day 57 of the mindfulness challenge. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world. Thank you very much for watching this video today. Today is all about recognising what you need. Hello and welcome to day 57. Today we're going to talk about how when you begin to truly tune into your mindfulness, your mind, your body and you start to really cultivate and experience mindfulness, you may also start to notice some difficulties and struggles and I talk about this in one of my courses when I talk about the waking up and then the cleaning up and then the ascending up or the growing up and the way in which you find that some of these things start to the difficulties and struggles and shadows that that you've pushed away for all these years, you may start to feel things bubbling under the surface, it's how you deal with it. But importantly as well is recognising in your life what you actually need. I had a conversation in January of this year with a very good friend of mine, I went to his house in Manchester and wishes North England, Northwest England and he's a very successful and wealthy man and we were talking about helping and how we were going to, you know, I was talking about how I was giving all of my businesses up and investing solely into helping people through spirituality and spiritualism and I was sort of talking to him about his life and where he is and he said, yeah, but the thing is, you know, I need this and I need that and I need this and I need that. I said, no, no, no, no. What you need and what you want. You see, what you want isn't sometimes actually what you need and I think if we look at this now at the moment in time whereby there's a lot of things going on in our lives which you've really stripped everything back. So, you know, the ability not to go out, the ability financially, the ability, the ability really gets us to start to understand truly what we need in comparison to what we want.  I was going to anyway, but it's certainly been amplified by the coronavirus outbreak and I truly understand now what I need and I'm very structured person. So I've created my Excel spreadsheet and I know my finances and income in and outgoing and what I can invest here and what I can do there and all of these different bits and pieces and I understand truly now what I need and what I want and my friend phoned me up about two weeks into the virus and he said, do you remember that conversation we were having? I said, yeah.  What do you need and what you want? What do you need? So today we're going to do a meditation talking about recognising what you need and and this for me is an exercise where we need to concentrate for a moment and as we've done for the last 56 times, just going inside yourself and look at what your needs at this given moment are and and just be able to be in that body and sitting and listening and waiting for your awareness and breathing through your awareness. So you really have checked in. So I'm going to put a picture up and we're going to start the meditation. So I want you to sit up right as much as you can and and just get comfortable in the chair and gently just close your eyes and for this this practice really is helpful for us to start with a few moments of concentration and and truly settle in. So I want you to just pick a location in your body where you can feel your body breathing.  Just focusing in, breathing and breathing out and if anything comes up or comes in, you know what to do. You're just going to see it. You're going to hold it with loving kindness. You're going to accept it and you're just going to breathe through it and watch it dissolve and come back to your breath. It's important that we don't get attached to that story and that we come back to our breath. Just breathing in and breathing out. Now as we're doing this now, I just want you to bring to mind a recent situation that you found difficult or painful but again without falling too far into that story, acknowledge how this experience feels in the present moment and with that memory and experience present in your conscious mind ask yourself what you needed in that moment. Focus on general emotion needs like compassion, understanding and insight and with this difficulty what would have helped you and when a need pops up say to yourself I needed whatever that was for that situation and continue to tune in to your other needs really pause in to acknowledge each one. So just do that. Bring in to your general emotional needs like compassion, understanding and insight with a memory or an experience that was difficult for you and ask yourself what you needed in that moment and continue to tune in to other needs really pausing to acknowledge each one of them and just do that now for a few moments and now turn your awareness to your experience in the present and refraining from stories and goals. Ask yourself what you need right now and let go of thoughts about getting stuff done, completing tasks or even please and others. Focus on your deeper needs of self-care, patience or whatever is true for you in this moment. Reflect on your own capacity to meet your needs. Can you do something to meet these needs right now? Are these needs you have not within your power to fulfil and offer yourself self-care, compassion and patience at this time but just sit there and breathe and just say what do I need today to allow me to grow and move forward breathing in and breathing out and understand this very simple exercise is something that you can tune into every day to be able to check in with your body and just ask what do I need today?  It's quite a short meditation but it's a very powerful one because what it does is it cuts to the core very quickly in terms of you being able to bring awareness to yourself of situations that are around you, what you needed to do for yourself emotionally around those situations but also what do you need to do today to get through and I think that's very important today is all talking about what do you need and what do you want and if you can decipher those two things now look there's no there's no issue of wanting things that's fine but don't get confused on they are life-changing things because life-changing things are what you need the other things are what you want and you can work towards that but don't beat yourself up if you don't ascertain or get to the level or or fulfil the things that you want just care about the things that you need I hope that makes sense put your hand on your heart today and say good morning Julian I love you good morning Julian I love you thank you for watching day 57 day 58 tomorrow which is Saturday here in the UK have a lovely Friday have a lovely evening and god bless you be be love and give love and um and again thanks to everyone for their very kind and supportive messages due to my absolutely career knee injury but again I'm just breathing through it and that's tough I can tell you that for nothing have a lovely day take care see you soon bye bye


I will give a topic about the BPF memory allocator introduced in 6.1, and the BPF memory allocator is owning contacts allocator for BPF program by XC, and here the owning contacts means process contacts, APU contacts, and even NMI contacts, and also the legacy contacts. It is used in the hash table and CPU, and there are other use cases, but first it is used in the hash map to make it usable for, sorry, I think it is not good, and during and when I was implementing the CPU try, I was trying to use, I was trying to use the BPF memory allocator but I found there are some problems with it, and the first problem is the immediately reused the problem, and this is the problem I am working on. The problem is now in BPF memory allocator, the freed element may be reused immediately, and the direct result is if the hash table using the BPF allocator, and if they are concurrently, if they are concurrently hash table lookup and deletion, the lookup may return incorrect result, and this is the result when I try to write a separate test for the hash map, and there are other influence include QP try may doesn't work correctly, and the reason is that the QP try includes the leaf loader and the interloader, because the inter, their point, their points in the interloader of the QP try, if the interloader is freed and is reused, the lookup in the QP try may be crushed, or it may panic the column, and I think the possible solution is trying to implement a new flavor of BPF memory allocator, it's called reused after GP, and the idea is from advocacy, it tries to reused, it reused the freed element after one SOGP, and freed after another task trace SOGP, so the freed element will not be reused, it will be reused after one SOGP, so the hash table lookup problems and the QP try will work correctly, but it have some bad effect, such as the memory usage will increase, I have pasted the result in the Bayesan patch set, or so the performance is degraded, except the only one have only questions? Are there any questions or comments currently not? Okay. Do you have do you have performance numbers from this V3, not yet? Oh, I pasted it in the patch set, I forgot to pasted it here, okay, I will go to the next issue, I have is to be done here, and the problem is the problem is now there is a BPF global memory allocator, and the first problem is it's a location from the root C group, so they can not limit its overall usage, because there's low limitation as root CG and root C group, and I'm not sure is there only need to free its memory during memory shrink, because for the BPF global memory allocator, it's a catch set, the multiple memory allocator catch is, so maybe I think is it okay, is it okay, is it okay to free, is it catch the element during the memory pressure, yeah, that's the first issue, and the other issue is because unlike the memory allocator in the hash table, the global memory allocator is there's a low destruction, and it will exist all the time, and now in the BPF allocator, there's only one pending framework back, so let's assume that if there's low framework on CPUX, the pending frame element on CPUX will not be freed, so it may be a problem, for now, for now the slumber system, there's a shrinker, they can add a shrinker for, there's a shrinker in the slumber system, so can we, could you, there's only need to add a shrinker for each BPF memory allocator, or the global memory allocator, so if there's a shrinker, so we can, we can try to, we can try to free, is catch the element during the memory pressure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure whether or not is there's a lidid, and for the, and for the second issue, I think maybe, maybe it's possible, maybe it's okay to start a time to check whether or not there is still freeable element after the counter as you call back is completed, and this is the issues of the BPF global memory allocator, but under the thing I want to discuss is whether or not this problem are okay, is not okay, whether or not this problem are solvable, is nothing to, is nothing to solvable. So my intake is like before I didn't shrinker, we need to measure with the memory that's sitting unused inside this global memory allocator, whether it's actually significant in any way, right, so it's supposed to be like in kilobytes, like last time I measured it was, because every per CPU free list was small, and watermark was like on average 32, so even if you have like 32 pages, that's well, yeah, 32 by 4, if you're bigger, but still it's still way less than the megabyte in memory, so like shrinking that doesn't seem that worth the code, but if it's a real issue, then yeah, we can definitely consider shrinker, but not sure what exactly it will do, right, what we discussed briefly, once we get to floating low and high watermark, then we would need some logic where it's like automatically adjust high low limits, and then we would need shrinker that would turn these limits down and will free the memory, so the memory that you saw while doing the benchmarking for the free after GP was all sitting in the color CU, color CU test trace callbacks, right, so shrinker will not help in this case, because this is memory anyway, they're just waiting for grace period to be freed, so that's not a shrinker job, shrinker can only look at free lists and potentially like free the memory from there, and only if this lists along, but currently they're like 32 on average, so that's like pretty small, so currently I don't see the need for shrinker. Yeah, I see, yeah, I will, I will try to measure the total memory of the BPF global MA first, yeah. And another point, yeah, another point you're making, which is also a good one, so it's the global MA, currently we did it on, yeah, it's global, it comes from the root CG, this is not great, and we've had a lengthy discussion on the mailing list, like what to do, like we try to introduce memory allocator as an object, as like some kind of special map type, and then the program will be able to select it, but then there are like issues with destruction, like who comes first and what is first, so we kind of punted this problem to later, we can like revisit this, if this is really an issue, it just like currently it seems to me there is no, yeah, not sure whether it's issue at all, that's yeah, until we measure it and see that is indeed the problem, yeah, it doesn't seem that worse, like adding a bunch of code to solve a potential issue. Okay, that's okay, that's the measure first, okay. I will move to the next and also the last issue, yeah, it's a problem of CPU hot plug, yeah, the reason why I found it, because I was trying to do some CPU hot plug during test, and I found it seems currently the BPF memory allocator doesn't do the CPU plug and the SLAMBO system data implementer, so should we implement the CPU plug for BPF MA allocate as well? What's an effect of it not being notified and not doing anything on the hot plug, so like for the case of hot plug, I can imagine that when the CPU is being removed, yeah, it's like the 32 elements by number of caches, so it's 32 by 11, whatever 300 elements of different sizes, they are not freed, so this is potential like waste when the CPU is going offline, but that's basically it, right, so that's the only issue I can see, it's yeah, some memory is wasted when CPU is offline, do you see any other issue here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the waste is the major issue I think, yeah, yeah, but again let's measure what's exactly we're wasting, like how much memory is being wasted on average, like if it's again less than megabyte, is it really well I guess depends, right, if it's if it's if the amount of code that will just flash the free list is small, then yeah sure, makes sense to do, but then again like we've got to be careful because the MA doing this fancy, lockless stuff, so we don't like introduce more issues in the hot bus when we're doing the hot plug. Okay, okay, okay, I see a point, I call it a point, yeah, for now I don't have some really workload to test the memory waste of the CPU hot plug problem, yeah, yeah, and because as I said the major problem is the memory waste, so I think if it's there's low support, there's low hot plug support in BPF MA, it's okay as well, yeah, it doesn't have other problems, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, so just to be fair, like we don't have hot plug support anywhere in BPF and we have pre-allocated per-CPU things forever, just a regular HashMap, it's always like pre-allocated and pre-allocates on all CPUs and nothing frees those per-CPU free lists, so we probably have much bigger wastage in case of CPU being offline than this particular BPF MA, which is tiny compared to like a regular HashMap, like you have a regular HashMap, you have whatever 90 CPUs and it's a big whatever flow lookup HashMap that's consumed four gigabytes of memory, once CPU goes down that's significant, so that would be a bigger low hanging fruit if you really care about CPUs being offline for a very long time. Yeah, I say you point, but I think the problem of memory link is still a problem too fast, yeah. Okay, thanks. Okay, my presentation is over and there are only other questions. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you.


So I'm David Wong. Welcome to She Life Mastery, the science of Qi. I'm very excited. I've been planning for this webinar for a long time. I prepared this presentation. It took me about three weeks to get this thing together. Basically, I've summed up what I've learned over the last 10 years into this presentation. That's going to be about 60 minutes. So there's a lot of stuff. There's science, personal experience, ancient Chinese traditions and methodologies, different modalities that I've experienced in my life. And I put them all into this presentation. So I have my heart and soul into this. And a lot of the really cool things that I've learned in my life is in this presentation. So I'm sharing this with you today. Aren't you guys lucky? All right. So I'm going to talk about the art of manifesting wellness and abundance. Who wants to have wellness in their life? C.I. Who wants to have abundance in their life? C.I. All right. Good. So we have favorite superheroes. Who's watched the Avengers recently? Yeah. Do you guys like it? The final chapter of that arc? Wasn't that awesome? The epic battles and all that, right? So who's your favorite superhero? Anybody? Favorite superhero? C.I. The Hulk? C.I. All right. Any? All right. Superman. Okay. So we all have favorite superheroes as a kid. And because we always dream of having superpowers, right? We all want to be superhuman and fly and be strong and be fast and do that. Mine was Dragon Ball. Who watched Dragon Ball? C.I. There's a few Asian people, right? Okay. And my superhero was Goku, okay? And Goku, he can gather his true energy and do a fireball like this blast attack. And that was my superhero. So many superheroes, you know, in comics, Western or Eastern, they can manipulate this force called Chi. And they use it for all sorts of things, right? They use it for enhanced perception. They use it for manipulating in energy fields. They use it for protecting. They use it for attacking, right? And even for healing. So you probably think superpowers, that's only in the comics, that's only in the movies, right? They're not really. But are they? Okay. So stay until the end of this presentation and you're going to get a free gift. So make sure you stay until the end and you're going to, it's better to be worth your while. So just disclaimer, read that really quickly. You got 10 seconds. Okay. So superpowers in ancient history. Let's take a look at that. In ancient martial arts, these are some very famous generals and founders of martial arts styles in ancient China. And who watched these kung fu movies? Like really old school kung fu movies? C.I.? Okay. So you see them like the vibrating palm, right? They can just move big, big, huge boulders with their, with their Chi energy. They can, they can tell the future with their, with their hands, right? They can, um, what else can they do? Huh? They can fly, right? Crouching tiger, hidden dragon. They can leap on trees and they can hop on water like it was nothing. Okay. So how much of that is actually real and how much was that was made up? I've always wondered, like all these kung fu movies, like did people back then actually do that? Right? Did they actually jump on buildings? Did they actually fight with all these superpowers? And, and you know, I would like to believe that they did. And I think that, um, over history, over time, we just lost the ability to do that. Why? Because we lost the training and we probably just lost the knowledge of how to do that. But it's not just ancient Chinese kung fu, right? There's many other cultures where people had superpowers, right? And, uh, they could do all these things that we think today is supernatural. So they were considered, we, we, what we consider today to be superhuman, but perhaps they had knowledge, training and access to Chi that has been lost. So that's just ancient history, but let's talk about today. How about superpowers today? Who's heard of this guy? Master Joel Ting-Jue. He is a Tai Chi, Chi Gong and kung fu master.  All right. So nobody's figured out how he's done it. Um, but people have used heat sensor cameras and show that it's actually happening. So he would hold a towel, wet towel in his hand and in a few seconds it's completely dry. He would hold, uh, wet sand in his hand and a few seconds it turns into ash and he could light things on fire without touching it or just with the, with the Chi energy. Real or not, I don't know, but he's doing it and and the people with thermal cameras can show that it's happening, but nobody knows how he's doing it. Ice mastery. Who's heard of Wim Hof? World record breaker multiple times for ice submersion, uh, in zero degrees, ice water, full body submersion for an hour, 53 minutes and two seconds. What is considered, who's trying to cold shower for like five seconds or 10 seconds? That's like, it's pretty tough to just stay in that cold shower, right? But he can do ice bath for two hours almost. He also ran a half marathon barefoot in ice and snow. He also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in two days, just wearing shorts, two full days hiking, wearing shorts. Is that superhuman or do you call that? What is that? Would you call that superhuman? I would say so. Okay. So that's today he's alive now and, uh, he uses breathing techniques and he uses his intention in order to control his body so that it can withstand extreme cold. That's me doing the two minutes in ice bath. Okay. So I trained for about, um, 100 days to get to that point where I can go into ice bath, zero degrees, just breathing, breathing slowly without going, I'm so cold, right? Okay. So I did that. How about Bruce Lee? Who's heard of Bruce Lee? Everybody heard of him? Okay. He can do 1500 push-ups with both hands, 400 push-ups with one hand, 200 push-ups on two fingers. Most people cannot even support themselves with two fingers, right? 100 push-ups on just one thumb. He could kick six times in one second. His signature move to skip kick. He can kick a 200 pound guy into the air, into the sky, just like you see in this photo. Bruce Lee, he can punch nine times in one second. He can one inch punch a 75 kilogram guy, five to six meters away. That's him breaking a board, that's me breaking a board, one inch punch. Okay. So you all heard some of the music today. How did that make you feel? Make you happy, right? It's a happy song, right? Don't worry, be happy. So I chose those because I want to show you that music, music can change the way we feel, okay? We'll come back to this in a second. So music, we're here at a music hall, and we talked about martial arts, we're talking about Qi, we're also talking about success. And you're probably wondering, what do all those things have in common? So you may not want to be a superhero. You may not need to fly or to jump over buildings or to fight or break boards with your hands. But we all want to, you want to do that, okay? So you, we all want to have resilient health. We all want to have manifesting our intentions. We all want to attract success, right? So I'm going to hear, I'm going to show you how you can do all those things with just one thing. One thing that you need to do all those things that you want, to have health and to attract the success that you want, okay? Who would like that? Say yeah. Good. So who's David Wong? If you don't know me, I have 10 years of meditation and Tai Chi Qigong practice in martial arts. I was able to heal myself from a chronic illness that I've had for 12 years, okay? I did it without any surgery, without any drugs whatsoever, because none of that worked for me. I tried everything, okay? I'm also recovered from massive debt and illness and depression to build a seven figure multi, multi seven figure business empire. I'm also work with Roller One-Eyed Scientist and humanitarian neuters around the globe and also develop mine enhancement technology that I'm going to share with you, reveal to you today. Very exciting, okay? So life wasn't always so great. I lost $300,000 in a really bad business deal. I trusted the wrong person. And from that I got really depressed. And from that depression, I actually got physically sick. And that went on for a long time. And at my lowest point, I was working just 15 hours an hour, just as a cable guy, installing, you know, computer LAN cables and some office buildings. That's all I did.


Okay, so just wanted to look at Isaiah 66. Okay, Isaiah 66 and verses one and two says, Thus says the Lord, Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you will build for me? And where is the place of my rest? For all those things my hand has made and all those things exist, says the Lord. But on this one will I look on Him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word. So the Lord is actually talking about His grandeur and His omnipotence and His awesomeness.  Because normally we look at the earth and we are in awe of what we see. But then He says, on this one will I look, this is what moves God. Okay, this is what moves God. He says, this one will I look on Him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my word. So something that which gives us God's perspective about a person who is poor and a contrite spirit, poor meaning, I need something. I need something, I'm needy and he's talking about a spiritual need here. Contrite meaning repentant heart and then it says, one who trembles at my word. Okay, so something for us to look at and not to lose that sense of reverence for God and reverence for His word. Because this, God is saying, this is something that gets my attention. This is something that does not, you know, that does not escape my attention. Because God knows everything, there's nothing that He misses out. But He's drawn to this, says one who's contrite in spirit, the one who's poor in spirit and one who's needy and who trembles at my word.  So something for us to emulate and also to take to heart and say, God, I want to be that kind of a person. Many times when we, let's say we look at the word of God, we consider the word of God and as students, spend a lot of time in the word of God. So sometimes it can be an overload, overdose. Morning till evening, I'm just listening or reading or somehow, you know, the word of God is there. But let's not lose that sense of wonder of the word of God. Let's not miss out on that. And then let our hearts continue to, or let us continue to tremble at His word. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this reminder, Lord, about your grandness, about your awesomeness, God, that, yeah, heaven is your throne and earth is your footstool, God, and truly you're uncontainable, Father God, in a physical place, oh God, because you're omnipresent, ever-present God. And Lord, we thank you that you've also mentioned what is something that draws you, Father God, a person who is poor in spirit and contrite in heart and one who trembles at your word. And Lord, may we be people who will be like that. Lord, may we not ever, Father God, get hardened in our heart. Lord, may we ever, may we not, Lord, get jaded with things that we see around Father God. But Lord, enable us to keep our heart tender and, Father God, that we will never lose that sense of wonder of who you are and your word as well, Father God. We thank you.  In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen, amen. Okay, so let's get back to Christian leadership. Where did we stop? Celebration principle, yeah. And why are we studying celebration principle? Nurturing relationships so that we are looking at how relationships need to be built, need to be nurtured, meaning cultivated. And this is one of the things that we need to understand that in order to create, this is something that helps. If you are cultivating, there are certain things that help, especially if it's a garden or, you know, and but celebration is something. So when we looked at celebration, we saw that it is about, it is about being joyful when somebody wins, right? Somebody wins or somebody does a good thing and you are actually celebrating, you're acknowledging it and you're celebrating it, okay? Now, what comes against that? What do you think comes against that? Against celebrating, against acknowledging. What do you think comes in the way of being happy? What do you think? You're true. I mean, jealousy or envy is something which actually hinders us from celebrating. Okay? Right. We see that. Okay. I don't have it. I have not accomplished, but this person has accomplished. Okay. So that's something which comes in the way. And the thing is what diminishes our joy is when we don't celebrate with others, right? It actually brings down our joy and somebody wins and then we don't celebrate it with them or we don't celebrate them. Okay. So when we look at envy or jealousy, it's easy to celebrate or acknowledge something which, maybe it's something very different from what you have accomplished, okay? Maybe your skills are different, your abilities, talents are different and you see someone who is winning or accomplishing something in a totally different area. Let's say, you know, that person is a sportsman and you are not. Okay? And you're interested in sports, but you're not really into it. Right? So when that person accomplishes or wins something, you know, it's easy to celebrate. Okay? But if it is your area of expertise, you know, for example, if it is, let's say, I don't know, maybe it's preaching or let's look at ministries, you know, preaching or maybe leading in worship or something. And then, you know, that person does very well and everybody is like blessed by that. And sometimes, you know, it's not a wholehearted appreciation. It's like, I wish I could have done better. You know, your immediate first thing is comparison and you're not really able to wholeheartedly appreciate or even celebrate with that person. Right? So if it is your area of expertise or your area that you're involved in, you know, whatever, it could be ministry, it could be profession. And then everybody's appreciating it saying, wow, this is great. Then we find it difficult. Okay? So I think that's something that we saw laying the axe right to the root of self and jealousy and so on. So that's something that we need to be careful of. No matter how, you know, how mature we are and how experienced we are, you know, this can actually be a great hindrance, right? And we're talking about people. We know that ministry is about people. And therefore, you know, we need to be really, really careful about this. It can come in, you know, various forms and various, you know, in different seasons of life, but we need to be careful. Okay? So this is something that really helps us when we celebrate with others. Okay? Because the Bible talks about rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. Okay? It talks about Romans 12-15, right?  Okay? If you're talking about a team, celebration really helps build the team. We're going to look at team next, but it really helps build the team, helps build the morale of the people. Okay? And encourages people, right? And also, when we, this is the best, best way to, when we appreciate, when we compliment, it's the best way to kill jealousy. It's the best way to kill envy, right? Destroy envy in our lives, where we say, okay, this is something that I want to do and wholeheartedly and deal with it so your flesh doesn't come in the way, right? Your building character and, you know, like in the, in the, in the book, John C. Maxwell talks about how he's talking about some, some big preachers and I'm sure how many of us have watched that video of Louis Giglio, you've seen that, or yeah, Louis Giglio's video. He's talks about, I think, awesome God or what is it? How great is our God or something like that? And he's talking about the bigness of the universe. I think you should, sorry, about the, yeah, about the blood cell, I mean, yeah, about the human cell. I think if you get an opportunity, just watch it. You can, I'm sure it's on YouTube. So he talks about the bigness of the universe and how great God is and he also talks about the, like the minute part, you know, things about our bodies and how great God is in creating us, the wonder of it all.  And if Louis Giglio is the guest speaker there, everybody's very excited. He just has to announce, you know, Louis Giglio, a great friend of mine is coming next Sunday and he'll be preaching and everybody's like applauding and, you know, they're expecting and everybody's wants to hear from Louis Giglio. So he says that he feels a twinge of jealousy, you know, when he sees that kind of response. So he says that he goes out of the way to, even though they are good friends, he goes out of the way to deal with it, right? He goes out of the way to appreciate Louis Giglio. He goes up out of the way to, you know, honour Louis Giglio so that it deals with his heart. Okay, so the celebration principle though, it might seem like a very small thing. It is something that we need to personally deal with and it's very practical, something that we will face as a challenge, as a barrier to celebrate sometimes, right? And we need to deal with it and because of this, you know, in the body of Christ, there's a lot of strife, division, right? And Paul talks about that, right? It's because you are exalting another person or one person is exalted and you're, you know, there is division because of that and because of envy and so on comparison, right? Okay, what's the next one? The next one is, let me just share the notes. Yeah, the high road principle, okay? Okay, the high road principle, it just means that you, you know, if you are going down a road, it's just a picture that we have is, there's a road which is going down, there's a road which is going up.  So you take the high road. Okay, what does it mean in life? In life, it means that when you're dealing with people and if somebody treats you badly, right? Somebody says something is rude to you, treats you badly, like don't retaliate in the same way, right? Don't retaliate in the same way. It doesn't mean that you don't deal with the problem or you don't tell that person that, you know, that they are wrong but don't retaliate in the same way. You take the high road. May the response be something that is higher but not lower. Okay, because if you retaliate in the same way, you're actually going down to their level, right?  The high road principle is that you be Christ-like and don't use that same method in which they treated you but you treat them, you know, you continue to treat others well. Okay, so, yeah, sorry, just one second. Yeah, so you talk, I just wanted to read that, read this quote by this person named Henry Watt Beecher and he says, keep a fair-sized symmetry in your backyard in which to bury the faults of your friends. Okay, he says keep a symmetry like that in your backyard to bury the faults of your friends. Okay, so this John C. Maxwell talks about various people and about people who actually responded in a nice manner even though they were treated poorly, you know, people in ministry and he also talks about William Booth and the Salvation Army and how he was actually, in his early days of ministry, he was not treated well by the church and persecuted by the church because he wanted to reach out to those people on the streets with the gospel, right? But the ones who were poor, the ones who were needy, the ones because the church was not allowing them to come inside because they were dirty and they didn't have clean clothes or their manners were rough and so on. But William Booth actually went to the streets, right? So the church kind of did not like that. They organized church and they persecuted him and they did not like that. But then he continued to do what he wanted to do but also responded in kindness. He did not retaliate and even the media, media of those days, of course, newspapers, he did not retaliate, right? So when we take the high road, we need to be aware that what happens in you, you're giving a lot of importance to what is happening inside of you, okay? The Bible talks about keep your heart with all diligence but out of it flows the issues of life, keeping your heart, right? So which means that there's no offense in your heart which Harden talks about. Hebrews 3 talks about how we should not be, let our hearts not be hardened because of sin, which is so deceitful, right? So the thing is that we keep our hearts with all diligence. So when we take the high road, you're actually protecting your heart, right? You're not allowing offense to come into your life. You're not allowing bitterness to come into your life which can actually harden our hearts and really be a barrier for whatever God wants to do in our lives, right? We are offended with people, we are offended and then we're not able to hear God properly because all these things are blocking, right? All these things are really choking what God wants to speak or what God wants to do with this in our lives, right? So we are actually more concerned about what is happening in us than what could possibly happen to us, right? So that's the difference. So when we take the high road, if we want to be practical about this and really use this in our lives, we are concerned about what's happening in us, right? So you think, okay, if I'm going to react in anger, if I'm going to take revenge, if I'm going to do this, then there's a lot of things that are going to change in me. My internal condition is going to change, right? I'm going to feel angry, I'm going to feel bitter, I'm going to be doing all this, but you're more concerned about what is happening in you. So that's the thing. And also when you take the high road, it doesn't mean that it's a one-time thing. We need to understand it's not a one-time thing that you're going to face these kind of challenges and especially when it comes to ministry, you realize that like somebody said, you need to have tender hearts and thick skin, right? So tender hearts, which means the heart is always tender towards God, soft, pliable, but you've got a thick skin, meaning that, okay, no matter what people are going to say or people are going to talk about or do, it's thick, you know, the skin is thick in the sense you're not really taking it in, okay? So it's not a one-time thing, but it's a journey, okay? So the high road principle, it's not a one-time thing, it's going to be a journey, okay? It also means that you actually set for yourself a higher standard personally, okay? You set for yourself a higher standard, which is the standard of God's word, but you set for yourself. Don't set a standard based on, okay, this is what seems to be the standard here in this place, okay? Now I go to another place, another environment. These are the words, this is the conversation and this is how people are behaving, right? So is your standard going to be the same or even higher or is it going to come down? Are we going to lower our standard, right? Because we are used to doing that, right? Maybe, you know, a different environment, a different set of people who don't, maybe, you know, who are not believers and is our standard coming down or is it remaining the same? That's the question, right?  Or is it going to be even higher or are you lowering your personal standard? So it means that if you need to take a high road principle, that means the standards that we set for ourselves, that you set for yourself, needs to be higher, right? Okay, so which means that you're deciding, no matter what, I'm not going to change this. I'm not going to compromise on this. Like you are, you're telling yourself, you're making a decision internally that this is how it's going to be, okay? Okay, any questions before we move on to the next topic? Yeah, so these are all, you know, very practical things and these are things that we can actually go back to, you know, what I'll try and do is also share the other book, the PDF of the book and you can actually go through it. This has a lot, it has a lot of examples and so on, which you can actually spend, you know, it's easy read. All of John C. Maxwell's books are like that. But these are things that you can refer to, right? Any season in your life, we are going to be with people. We are going to be dealing with people and this will really, you know, be helpful, okay? Okay, okay, next one is to create a win-win relationship. Win-win relationship meaning, you know, this is another quote from this author, right, who wrote, I forget the title of the book, sorry, Stephen Covey. Stephen Covey or C-O-V-E-Y. He wrote about the habits of highly effective people. Stephen Covey, no, okay. He's not a believer in the management world and leadership. So he's written books, Habits of Highly Effective People. That's the title that I remember, you can check. Seven Habits, highly effective people. Yeah, so he's the author of that book, very popular book. Okay, so this is what he says, okay, win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions, okay? Win-win is based on the paradigm that there is plenty for everybody, that one person's success is not achieved at the expense or exclusion of the success of others, okay? So one person's success is not achieved at the exclusion of the success of others, okay? So which means that you win and also let the others also be benefited, okay? So that's, that's the whole thing, you know, creating a relationship where there is win and the others are also winning, okay? So which means that, you know, at no point are the others feeling that they are robbed of something, okay? They are robbed of it or somebody's success, I contributed to somebody's success, but at the same time, nothing has happened to me. They have taken everything out of me, okay? So, you know, so this is especially, you know, beneficial, you know, when we talk of long-term relationships, right? Okay, so let's look at four principles here, okay? It's called a boomerang principle.  Have you tried it? No? Okay, okay.  It's actually used by the aboriginals as a weapon. Indigenous people of Australia as a weapon, okay? It's, I don't know, probably you can check online. It's like, yeah, it's shaped like that, yeah. And then they throw it and it's supposed to come back, come back and then, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's supposed to, it's actually shaped like that. So it just goes and comes back. So then you're supposed to throw it in a particular way, right? So the boomerang, yeah. So you tried boomerang? What is that? Oh, repeats, oh, I see, okay. But it does the reverse also, right? Oh, okay, okay. Oh, I see, okay, okay. Okay, just talking about the Instagram boomerang. So, yeah, so that's the idea. So boomerang means it's, you know, when you say, okay, something boomeranged on me. It means, okay, I tried something, but it came back. It hit me back, right? So the boomerang principle is this, that, you know, it's about sewing and reaping. So when we help others, there is definitely something that we get in return. Okay, so that is the boomerang principle. So whenever we help, we are actually helping ourselves, whenever we help others. It's coming back to us. There's something that is coming back to us. But the fact is that when it comes back to us, many times we think, okay, I'm giving so much, let's say, in terms of money, okay, I'm giving so much.  But John C. Maxwell talks about how when we, you know, this particular principle, whether it's investing in people, whether it's, whether you're being generous or whether you're helping others, what you get back, right, it comes in a different way. Okay, he talks about three different things that comes back to us. Okay, and basically sewing and reaping. Okay, Galatians 6 verse 9, let us not grow weary while doing good. For in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Okay, so why does he say, you know, if we do not lose heart? In that particular verse, Paul writes to the Galatians, and he's saying, let us not grow weary while doing good. For in due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart. So why do you think he's saying if we do not lose heart? If we do not give up, yeah. So what happens when you give up? Why? Yeah, you lose heart, but because as a result of losing heart, as a result of being discouraged, what do you stop doing? Yeah, you stop sewing. So that's what he's saying, right? He's saying, you know, we shall reap, which means that if we, you know, if we do not lose heart, we shall reap if we do not lose heart. But what Paul is addressing is don't stop sewing or don't stop doing what you're doing. Don't grow weary while doing good. Because we may not always get recognition. People may not always acknowledge it, right? People may not always say thank you. But the fact is there is a reward. There is a reaping that comes. So, you know, there are three things. It talks about that, okay, something it could be when we are sewing, it could be of financial worth or it could be something that is, you know, something of value. Maybe people give. You could get that because you're, you know, you're giving, you're helping and well, people might give back. So that is one thing. But the second thing he talks about is that it does something to your value or to your character. Okay, so you're giving and actually the return is, it need not be material, but it's something that happens to your character. The return that you're getting is characters. That is being built up. For example, you're giving generously out of your need, even sacrificially. So there's something that is, you know, your selfishness is dealt with. So you're building something, you're breaking something, which is there, you know, which is maybe it was a selfish thing. It was a, you know, something was self-centeredness and that is breaking. So, which means the return that you're getting is not the same thing, but in terms of your character, something is being built. The third thing similar to that is talking about virtues, like patience and so many things. So it means that we continue to do, continue to so when it comes to people. So we look at things as, sorry, not things, you look at people when you look at the relationship as an investment. Okay, so there are two kinds of investing, right? Investing is like, sometimes it's like, okay, I want a lottery. How many of you have seen lottery or bought lottery? Yeah, in, oops, sorry. So in certain states it is banned, right? I don't know, how is it in Andhra? Telangana? You have to scratch. Yeah, you'll get whatever. They still have it, is it? Yeah, so sometimes it's like, okay, this is my investment. I want it immediately. And the return could be that or you may not get anything. You lose whatever, right? So that could be it. But the financial experts talk about a long-term investment. Something that is invested steadily and over a period of time and where the return is compounded many times over, right? Of course, investing in things that are, you know, wisely investing where you consider the risk and consider other things. So they talk about long-term investment where it's over a period of time. So in people also, you know, when we look at people when we talk about relationships, think of it as an investment. Okay, whatever you are doing, maybe sharing, maybe building others. Think of it as a long-term investment, right? Not like a lottery, right? It may not be an immediate thing but look at it as a long-term investment, okay? So which means that we have to, you know, some of the things that we looked at, we need to not think about ourselves but think of others, put others first, okay? And also it helps to look at what is it that I am investing, okay? So it brings us to the question, how can I invest in people? How can you invest in people? In what way? Encouraging them, okay? Okay, what does it mean to invest in people? In people. What does it mean? So, okay, let's just back up real and a bit. So what does investing actually mean? Showing, doing something, some action, right?  So that is what investing is. I mean, looking at long-term and so on. So if you follow the same thing, if you apply it when it comes to people, okay? So what is it that, how do we invest in people? Okay, invest in trust. Okay. I'm sorry, I think you should use the mic. Okay, building and guiding. Shivakumar, yeah. Thanks Shivakumar. Building, guiding. Yeah, council, okay, advising. Okay, so if you look at people as not something that you can always withdraw but something that you can invest, something that you can deposit, right? Then we see that, okay, at the right time, you know, there is a return and the return could be like, you know, these things that we looked at. So the thing is to focus on, when you look at the relationship or building a relationship, building a win-win, a mutually beneficial relationship, we need to focus on investing, right? Am I investing in people? Am I investing in other people? Right now, when we look at ministry, ministry is going to be about people, right? Ministry is about people. So, you know, whether you like it or not, it's always about people, right? So this is a very important principle for us to consider. When we, you know, we consider people sometimes as what can I get out of them, right? So even in ministry, you can make that mistake, right? What are some things that we can think of? What is the profit we get? You know, we looked at those three things, right? See, the return can be in terms of valuables, as what he talks about. Return can be in terms of character building in us. Return can be in terms of the contentment of seeing a life that is maturing and, you know, coming to Christ and also built up in Christ. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're not, we're not, no, just says that, you know, that could be one of the things, right? Yeah.  Well, they could repay, they could, you know, give back and things. That could be one of the things, right? Yeah. So, yeah, coming back to the question.  So when we look at investing in people's lives, so in ministry, what could be some of the things that we could look at, you know, as getting out of people? What do you think? See, like, we might consider people as a statistic, right? So many people attended. Okay, I want so many people to attend. And it's not a, it's not a bad thing, right? We want to grow both numerically and also in terms of, you know, spiritually and numerically. It's not a, it's not a bad thing, expectation. But if you're going to look at people as a statistic, as a number, right? And this is your thing, you know, we need, we need to fill these chairs. We need to fill the building. We need to fill the auditorium. We need to, you know, then it is not really investing, right? It's what you can get out of, right? What others out of the way? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I mean, just looking at some of the negative things. Yeah. So what are the ways by which, you know, we can, or what are the different ways in which we can. Exactly. But in practical ways, what is it that we money? Money. Yeah. Money is a hmm. Yeah. Maybe people's time, you know, I want you to be there. You need to be there. And sometimes in ministry, people use a lot of spiritual language and say, okay, if you want to be blessed, you better be here.  You be here. Or sometimes fear, right? You're not coming to the house of God. Then, you know, how can you expect something good to happen in your life? You're not coming to the house of God. You need to be there, right? So people come out of a sense of fear and, you know, you want something out of them. Okay. So, but if you turn the focus, I want to invest in their lives. It's not a very popular thing, right? But you want to invest in their lives. You want to give in to their lives, right? Paul talks about how he wants to present every person mature or complete in Christ Jesus. He talks about that. This is why we labor. This is what we do. We want to present everyone mature in Christ, right? Okay. So that's a boomerang principle, which means that, you know, there will be a reward, but we do this knowing fully well that there will be a return. Okay. And not to give up halfway. Okay. Then when it comes to win-win situation, again, talks about the friendship principle. Okay. So the Bible talks about he who has friends must himself be friendly. Okay. And also to treat others as equals. Okay. So, you know, many times we confuse between maybe a designation or a role or a title and, you know, treating people as equals. Okay. Now, certain organ, you know, if you work in a formal setting, be it ministry or even as a professional setting, there are different titles, there are different roles. Okay. Like in an organization, typically, you know, what could be some of the titles, you know, the top most person could be a CEO, chief executive officer, or you could have a title like a president. And if you, okay, let's say you come down, what are the other titles? What are the other roles? Directors would be above, right? Board of directors. Yeah. They would be above. Yeah. So you come down, you could have maybe a national level manager, maybe a regional manager, right? Maybe a zonal manager. Somebody is taking care of north of the country, south of the country is best. Then you could have, like you said, you know, maybe branch managers, you know, so you have different levels, right? So the thing is that each one is carrying out a different role. Okay. But are you going to be treating everyone, you know, if the chairman is not going to treat everyone equal, okay?   Yes, he carries, he or she would carry a lot of responsibility, a lot of power, a lot of authority. But the fact is that everyone is equal, okay? As human beings, we are equal. In terms of the roles we do, they are different. But you're working towards the same thing. You know, we need to understand that. Okay. So this friendship thing is principle is that you read everybody as equal, no matter how big a person you are, no matter how, what, you know, different role that you might have in the organization or in the ministry that we are still equal, right? Whether you're a senior pastor or anyone else, right? We are still equal. In the eyes of God, we are equal, right? Yes or no? Yeah. Yeah. So the thing is to have that mindset in order to create a win-win kind of a relationship. Otherwise, it'll be always about you need to serve me, right? You need to serve me. You need to do this for me. And I need to be benefited at the end of the day. It'll be that kind of an attitude, right? Okay. So the question, good question to ask is, you know, am I, am I being a friend to those who I'm working with? Am I being a good friend? Now, you know, the formality of the role, we cannot be pals or buddies or, you know, but do we treat others in a friendly manner? That's a simple thing. Or do we just pretend that they don't exist at all? Yeah. Okay. Because when, when we treat them as equals, when we treat them as, you know, in a friendly manner, then the response that we get from them is also different, right? Okay. Let's look at the next one then, which is, you know, which is the partnership principle. Okay. And we're going to talk about that in the, in the team, teamwork. But the thing is this, that, you know, there's only so much you can do alone.  Just think about the internet. Just think about maybe something like, how many of you have used chat GPT? Chat GPT. Just think about it, right? For the exam, huh? Just think about it. Just the Google search. What is it? You search for something. Everything comes, you just type in a word and you say, okay, ministry. And you get so many websites. You get so many results. Or in chat GPT case, you know, you just get a full document. Maybe what is it? It's actually collective information, collective wisdom from, from thousands or millions of people, millions of websites, millions of maybe documents, blogs, videos that people have uploaded. Okay. So your search has actually, you know, you're actually presenting a request for the collective information of the entire planet and whatever is uploaded there, whatever is there and on every server, all that is coming through. Just, just consider that. And what, whatever effort that we might put as a single person, as an individual to collect information, to get information or learning, right? You see the difference, right? So if you collaborate, if we collaborate, if we partner with people, there is so much more wisdom, strength, learning, right? And there is, which means that it translates into impact as well. Okay. So, like the acronym for team, right, T-E-A-M, right? Like somebody said, okay, together everyone achieves more, right? Together everyone achieves more, right, team, right? So it definitely increases our strength, increases our learning, increases our potential, right? You know, under the Lord actually sent them out two by two, right? When He sent them out, at least, you know, one other person, He sent them out, right? Okay, in Corinthians, we see, first Corinthians, Paul writing and he's saying, you know, he's talking about the team. He's talking about the fact that, hey, we are actually God's team. We work with God. And he's saying, you know, this is what happened. I planted Apollos watered and then God gave the increase. And he also talks about the fact that we are all the same, right? And there is the need for partnering. There is a need for teamwork. And, you know, in all areas of our lives, we need to be, you need to have this aspect in mind, you know, can I partner? Can I collaborate in order to be impactful? Okay, I think that's a very simple, very practical thing, the partnership principle. There's one more. I thought we'll finish it. Okay, we'll look at it next class. We'll stop right here. Thank you.


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Prince and today we are doing a quick wee update video Yeah, so it's nearly the end of November so I thought maybe I should update you why are you taking so long to enter the game?  Thank you Yeah, it's end of November so thought yep, maybe I should um Update you guys on what's happening for December Just a bit, you know Yeah, I'm just gonna be doing some Things in the background. So don't really worry about that So yeah, basically Next month December the end of the year. I can't believe it's already that time Yeah, I'm I'm really excited as well for the end of the year Kind of come sooner actually could have come a lot sooner But you're currently We have the privateer series and the The privateer series and the was the death walkthrough Um See if you haven't checked out any of those Episodes go and look at them. There's a playlist For both of them. So yeah go and look at those 68 of the death walkthrough which is fantastic and That should hopefully be We should be entering chrysalis probably in the first week of December If not in the second, but I'm pretty sure it will be the first we don't have much of Of Azteca left we've got the Floating Mountains the Twin Giants and then we've got Shiboba. So Yeah, we'll be out of there as soon as possible Which is great and then we head into chrysalis, which will be a while. We probably won't finish chrysalis Good job We probably won't finish chrysalis until The end of January or closer to January just because it's a huge world But yeah, we'll be also getting the Sun school spells Am I doing let us do dare this? I will be getting the Sun school spell as soon as possible We'll be getting the level 88 death spell avenging fossil And also be doing crafting in chrysalis probably next month So yeah, that'll be fun. Keep an eye out for those And then yeah, that's basically Where's the pinnacles survey camp? Oh, that's like the first area What was I saying so yeah, then that's probably all of the Things you need to worry about for the death walk through For the privateer walk through we should hopefully be We're in cool ranch right now, so I'm hoping by the end Will be maybe at the end of Cool ranch that we're not going survey camp. Where is the survey camp? That is a great question this way Um Yeah, I'm hoping we'll be at the end of cool ranch maybe into motion. Maybe I kind of Doubt that will be happening, but we are moving quite quickly Because obviously that is a walk-through without dialogues. So Yeah, we probably be on like ever said 35 or 30 ish Yeah, probably more than 30 Over the net was the pinnacles. Is there a teleport there? And there is and that is great. Where's the place this way? We'll probably be on around episode 35. I'm guessing Of the walk-through just if I keep posting at the same rate, which I will be There's only one teleport and there's two the pinnacles there we go fantastic We got some gold Okay, don't need that gold, but that's cool quit So, yeah, we'll probably be on episode 35 Basically the schedule for like when videos are gonna go up is Kind of just the same as November. I mean it's working.  Good job. If there's anything you want to see me do Let me know because I'd love to use some of your ideas and videos for videos Yeah so Yeah Especially if you want to see anything on my musketeer or other pirate 101 things Definitely, let me know because I really want to I'm gonna do more with my musketeer and my witch doctor, but I kind of just Well, I have literally just abandoned my privateer after we finish valency like I haven't even managed to get them up to level 70 yet. I've just Kind of I mean I was going to but I just kind of like nah, I'm just stopped so Yeah, if you want to see anything like that Let me know and I'll definitely try and do some of those next month Or in January I've got some cool stuff planned for January. So stay tuned then Um Yeah, but anyway, I'm probably gonna end this yeah, so yeah, just a quick we Update the video for you in case you care, but you probably don't but Yeah, thank you for choosing them to leave a like and subscribe and if you're very subscribed press little bells You know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


Hello, you're watching yet another episode of Mapping Fortlines, and today we'll be talking about some of the enduring issues, some of the continuing issues that are happening in Europe right now. Of course, many other developments happening as well, Jee Jinnping and Vladimir Putin had a meeting, but we'll first talk about the responses by the United States and NATO to Russia's demands, which say a lot, not only about the situation right now, but also about the organization NATO is itself. We have with us Pravir Purkayastha. Pravir, thank you so much for joining us. So first of all, we saw last week, we talked about it last week, that the United States and the NATO had responded to the Russian demands. Now, at that point, there wasn't really too much clarity on what exactly had been said. However, we've seen that El Pais Spanish newspaper has carried leaks of both these responses, and they are quite indicative of where NATO stands, where the United States stands, and what are their kind of responses. So could you maybe first take us through what you found most fascinating or interesting about the responses from these two sides to essentially the same questions and demands by Russia? NATO has given what I would call is a boilerplate response. Everything Russia has said is wrong, whatever NATO has been doing and whatever it's saying is the absolute truth. Therefore, there is really nothing to discuss. That's been more or less what NATO has said. But as you know, NATO really represents the military arm of the United States in Europe. So therefore, to think about NATO independently is particularly difficult after Afghanistan, where though NATO had been a part of the forces that invaded Afghanistan with the United States, of course, the United States is a part of NATO. But when it withdrew, NATO's consent wasn't asked for and the United States just informed them we are withdrawing. So of course, they also had to withdraw because they had only limited forces over there. We accept that it is really a large part of it is really the United States. But NATO publicly doesn't say that it pretends it is really a set of countries which in a common way deal with their security, everybody is equal and they don't accept or admit publicly the US is obviously far more equal than anybody else over there. And NATO is really in that sense a showpiece. This becomes much more clear when you see the American response, which has been very, very different. And it's also interesting, the public response that the US has taken and the private response it has made seems to be different except on the one question that they have the right to admit anybody as a member of Ukraine. So that part they have catering. This is not admit to you to NATO. That this part of the United States has kept that is not up for negotiations. But they have said almost everything else is open to negotiations. And particularly on the missile batteries, which has been a major point of contention that the ages batteries in Romania and Poland, which can fire actually Tomahawk missiles. And that we know that the the MK 41 is I think the missile launching platform that can fire both interceptors as well as Tomahawk missiles. And this has been covered in news click a couple of times earlier. So that is something that United States has accepted that it will not put in the ages missiles any Tomahawk missiles, which are capable of being launched from the same batteries. So that's it. That's something interesting, because that's something they have not accepted till date. And they've also said we should have the right to do this for two missile batteries in Russia as well, which we will then name. But that's one part. Secondly, they have also talked about inter intermediate range ballistic missiles. They have named it actually even more widely as non strategic missiles. Now, what does non strategic missiles mean in terms of missile treaties is not very clear, because you have short range missiles, you have basically battlefield missiles, you have intermediate range missiles. So these are basically categories which need to be defined. But the fact that they have said non strategic missiles, which is really non ICBA, I presume that this means that this whole issue is also up for discussions. And they have said it could be a part of the new start discussions, which is supposed to take place with Russia and the United States. So major developments on that score, unlike NATO, which says nothing. And the fact that these things have been opened. And there is this tacit thing that you get that after all, everybody accepts the fact that Ukraine is not going to join NATO in the near future. So all of that is already there. Where it goes beyond what Stoltenberg had already said earlier in the NATO Russian meeting, he had said we can discuss about military exercises and museums. So that was a kind of vague statement, which was there. This has been made a little more specific. And I presume the military exercises also will come under discussions. So I think the scene is not as bleak as it might have appeared two weeks back. But there is still the crescendo of campaigns coming from the UK and from the United States, where some of the US government just the other day talked about what is it that they have that the Russians are making a propaganda video, which shows them the attack apparently by Ukraine on the Donetsk Donbas region. And this is being actually filmed by professional people, professional actors with props. All of this is very much if you remember, there was a very famous film which was made. So I think it's called Wag the Dog, where this is exactly the propaganda film that is made. So as people have said, well, this is a reputation of Wag the Dog, except it's being actually claimed by now US intelligence, not by a film producer. So that is one part of it. The other part of it, the in fact, the APC, I think foreign reporter had a clash with the spokesperson, when he said, you know, you're not giving any evidence. He said, I just give you, he said your statement that there is something that the US Russians are doing. And it is something that the US intelligence has found is not evidence. It's just your statement. So, you know, there is this strange reality where the British and the Americans seem to believe that whatever they say is actually evidence and you are needing to provide any proof or any factual basis on what they're saying. And we had the foreign minister of the United Kingdom, very recently talking about the Baltics and Black Sea, as if it's the same body of water. So of course, she said, no, no, no, I was talking of two different seas. So we have a very strange campaign that is there with still in spite of the fact that the US seems to have at least climbed down in private. I'm sure the US was aware that this response would not be kept secret, because it will be shared with their allies and it has been given to a Spanish newspaper. So with all of that, I think the ratcheting down of tension is there somewhat partly because Ukraine has also said it's not in our interest to have all of this happening. And I think the other important part is the international media is becoming a little more skeptical about the so-called war campaign being built around Ukraine and Russia's invasion. It's now three months in this campaign is on that Russia is going to invade, Russia is going to invade Ukraine. There is going to be war. And what is happening is I can see the headlines in New York Times, Washington Post also changing, saying that US sources claim that Russia is going to invade two weeks back. If you see all these headlines, Ukraine to be Russia is going to invade Ukraine. Russia preparing to invade Ukraine. Now we are saying US sources indicate that say that Russia is going to invade Ukraine. This whole thing used to be tucked in in some paragraph way down the headline. Now it's also coming out in the headline. So some ratcheting down of the invasion going to happen tomorrow propaganda. And I'm saying it propaganda because honestly speaking, if Ukraine sees they don't see the invasion building up, I don't see why we sitting here in our studios should think there is immediately chance of invasion. Because the State Department spokesperson of the United States say that they think there is going to be an invasion. So I think the Ukrainians would probably know little more about Ukraine and the possibility of invasion than the Americans or the British would. And it's also interesting at the same time European Union is now coming into play. You have Macron going to talking about going to Moscow. You have the German Chancellor going to Moscow. You have also some of the allies of the United States and NATO also breaking ranks with them. We have all one in Hungary, part of your European Union breaking ranks. So I think all said and done, the Ukraine about to be attacked by Russia campaign seems to be coming down, which is very good because we don't read the war in Ukraine. And it can trigger off other possibilities of war. And war between NATO and Russia is a very frightening prospect because after all the nuclear weapons on both sides. So I think this is a welcome development in spite of the fact that the US and UK do not seem to want ratcheting down of any tensions in Ukraine. So I think things are moving a little more towards peace, but cross fingers, because small accidents, small incidents can be blown up. And it can become a much bigger thing than it should be. Right, absolutely. But in this context, of course, the other major development was that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympics, that itself an interesting event because of the constellation of world leaders who have gathered there, many of whom are in fact close allies of the US as well. So that's also an interesting development. But specifically focusing on this meeting, how do you see the joint statement that has come out the kind of partnership that Russia and China are building, especially because they've taken great pains to emphasize that this is actually a very, very strong relationship and it will only grow stronger in the coming years. You know, this is a historic meeting in the sense that you can remember in 1973, 1973, this is when actually the China Soviets, the China Soviet split, the Soviet split really became public. And that's the time that the United States was able to split China and Soviet Union. And that relationship has had soured over a period of years. It continued till about 2000 odd or so. And slowly it has started coming back, the Russian and the Chinese coming together, both because they face sanctions, they face war threats, and they are regarded by United States and this is their military doctrine as revisionist powers. So revisionist powers are those who challenge the United States in any global theater, even if it is near their borders. So when you talk about the South China Sea, you talk about the dashed lines near the Chinese coast, that all of that is meant that we should be able to control the sea or the ocean on Chinese side, we should be able to control the land borders or the Russian side, that these theaters are also should be under US control. This is the US military doctrine. I am not saying something which is an assumption on my part. This is what the themselves are saying. So obviously, if you do that, and you have what Obama said, a pivot to Asia, you have the AUK US, you have the quad of which India is also a part. All of that means that this you are thinking to militarily contain China. And you are also the same time ratcheting up NATO's pressure on Russia. So if you confront both these countries, militarily, economically through sanctions, then of course, you're driving them close. So this is not that the Russians and the Chinese have done a great diplomatic coup by coming together. This is what the Western powers, the NATO, and the particularly the United States has forced them to do. And they then see there is a huge synergy they're coming together. China has economically economic strength, which is much beyond Russia. It's a much bigger economic power than Russia is. But Russia has still military power, which China does not have. And also, now that Russia has huge resources of gas, could be facing sanctions in the West for the gas it supplies to Europe. It finds China ready to take up because China is a huge energy guzzler, as we know, and gas is going to be instrumental if they have to move away from coal, which has been a major energy source for China. So we also are following the Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin meeting and the joint communique about the close relations between them. This has been followed up with also a gas agreement, which increases their gas supplies from Russia by 20 to 25%. So these are significant changes because one of the things on sanctions would have been that we will take your gas, which of course is going to be very hard for the West European countries and other European countries as well. But they thought it would impact Russia. Now Russia is relatively a stable autarky in the sense that apart from gas, it all is self sufficient on almost almost all things. And it also the huge foreign exchange reserve. So given that, the only thing that could have hurt it is that a sale of gas to Western Europe, if that was stopped. Now that we have they have ready by taker of gas in China, it's really going to be Western Europe, which is going to suffer. And it's not surprising, therefore, that France and Germany are finally breaking ranks with the United States, though it's still very low key that they think they should be peace and how should we achieve peace. And therefore, the visits to put to see put it in Moscow. So all of this I think is an indicator that there is a major failure of US foreign policy, that the belief that they are still the world's hegemon, which took a huge beating, both in Iraq and Syria. And now it is taken a beating in Afghanistan. I think to some extent, Biden was trying to type that over with the Ukraine crisis and also talking about Taiwan. So I think these are the two ways he was trying to reassert the US leadership, particularly over his Western allies. And of course, the Eastern allies to Japan, South Korea and Australia to some extent India, the India's broken ranks in the United States in the Security Council on Ukraine. So given all of that, I think this is a very, very significant relationship that is developing. And it has a strategic potential, which Brzezinski had seen long back and so at Kissinger and said, we should never get these two countries to come together if they do, then they become really much more formidable. And therefore, we should always keep them apart. I think after 50 years of Kissinger Nixon meeting with the Chinese leadership, I think we have now a reversal of that and something which is come together not because of ideological reasons, which is what was the earlier sinusoidal relationship, but actually on another strategic and economic issues that confront both these countries and the kind of hostility they face from the United States and its allies. So I think it's a much more significant issue. Hopefully, this will make Europe rethink where their future lies. Does it lies across the Atlantic? That's what the NATO talks about. It's really about an Atlantic alliance or it lies in Eurasia. If it lies in Eurasia, then of course, they have to rethink their strategy vis-à-vis Russia and China. But if they don't, then they would be linking themselves to essentially to United States. United States can give them fuel, they can give them hydrocarbons, but in a much higher cost. That's the price they might have to pay for not looking at Eurasia, not looking at Europe, but looking at the Atlantic. So that's, I think, where the strategic game at the moment is. So to me, it's fault lines Europe that we are discussing today, that it's really the future of Europe. Does it lie in Asia? Does it lie across the Atlantic? Which is what they thought till now. So that's, I think, the key issue that they have to confront. I think Russia and China have already made up where they want to be. Their future is in Eurasia. Thank you so much, Fribir. That's all we have time for today. We'll be covering these issues yet again in the coming episodes of Mapping Fault Lines. Until then, keep watching NewsClick and see you soon.