Hello, my name is Daniel Joseph Barry. I'm the VP of strategy here in market development at Baptic and I've recently completed a course from Brightline initiative called Breaching the Gap between strategy design and delivery. The thing that attracted me to this course was firstly the ten guiding principles that the Brightline initiative had developed that I'd read in their articles and seen videos with Richard Vargas, which I thought were very good and brought together some of the latest thinking around strategy, lean and other principles. So that was one part of the reason I wanted to get to understand these principles better through the course. But also the statistic that was used in some of that material from the Economic Intelligence Unit, EIU, where they had surveyed many organizations and found that 90% of the survey respondents indicated that they did not succeed with any of their strategic initiatives. So definitely there was an issue here with implementation and I like many other people who have worked with corporate strategy or product strategy would recognize the disproportion of the time that we used on coming up with the strategy design and making the strategy documents and presentations. I'm only to find that we didn't use near enough time just go seeing how exactly are we going to implement this in the organization. It was always kind of felt that yeah don't worry about that the functional managers, the middle managers will figure that out. But if we're honest a strategy really doesn't become a strategy until everybody in the organization understands what they have to do difficultly tomorrow. They weren't doing yesterday. So that was part of my motivation for taking the course and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. It was much better than I had expected. It does deliver on helping you to understand the 10 guiding principles, where they come from, what's involved, how they're different from each other. There's a lot of really good content in each module, both from articles you can read and videos with some of the best minds in the industry when it comes to strategy. People that I read their books and were very delighted to actually see videos with them where they went through what they're thinking. The modules were structured in a way as well that ensured you really understood the material that was presented. There were tests at the end of each module that you had to complete before I thought that was very, very good. It really pushed you to study that material. But the best part of the entire course for me was the case study at the end. It was a very good case study, very realistic, but extremely challenging. It was a really good case study for finding out which principles you needed to apply in this particular case to really test what you understood them, understood the differences between them. So it took a long time, at least I used a long time on it to try and make sure I did it correctly. And the peer reviews were very good as well. Each of the case study reports were reviewed by fellow students. And that was good because that could help each other to really understand the principles and we could point out areas where they were thinking might have been. So that helped with our understanding. So I do feel that once having completed the course, that greater appreciation of what needs to be done in order to be successful with strategy design and delivery, or in other words, successfully implementing strategy. And I also feel I have enough understanding of these things to be able to help others in the organization to understand the 10 guiding principles. So it's been quite rewarding. So if you can recognise some of the issues that are outlined, then I would highly encourage you to take the course and really test your knowledge and get deep into some of the issues that these 10 guiding principles raise. So good luck with your course. Thanks very much. It's time for you to join these leaders, register now and turn your ideas into real results.


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Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday morning coffee with Bridget. Today, I'm going to share with you something from my journal this morning. I was journaling as I often do when I get up. I'll either meditate or journal or do both just to really clear some of the the negative that I've been feeling or the heavy thoughts of the worry and stress anxiety, etc. And it's been it's been working quite well. I'm keeping at it. It's a good practice. It's a bit like exercising though, you know, you've got to stick with it to allow it to help you. Well this morning I definitely got a channeling through in my writing if I'm going to share it with you. Are you familiar with Abraham Hicks? That is a channel Esther Hicks is an incredible channeler. If you've followed my work for some time, you've heard me mention her in fact at fairy grasshopper youtube channel I have a playlist of some of the best talks or question and answers that she has channeled. She channels a group of energy, a universal consciousness that is called Abraham. It's not one person, one entity or one deity. It is the collective of wisdom as you see with many other channelers. They call their their piece of the universe of their cosmic consciousness. They call it something. There's some kind of a name. That's a human thing. I believe to give it a name and so Abraham Hicks is this channeling. So I'm going to share that with you. I'm clearly hearing Abraham. And so let me share understanding the desire for things to be different is natural. So I was thinking about you know wanting change or how you know when we're in a place where we feel down and I was actually asking for compassion and for myself and not to be so hard on myself and to allow myself to feel safe and to let myself struggle and not take that as this is my life kind of a thing. And so what came through was understanding the desire for things to be different is natural. It is not intended as a punishment to show what is not what you are not. It is to know that life can be better because it is better. Choose better, better feeling thoughts, better things to see, to notice, sweet things like a bird, a cluster of clouds, colors, simple things to help guide your mood into better territory. It's not a leap. It is called the path for a reason. One step at a time. Notice where you are and look ahead with optimism. You find what you're looking for. It's best to be aware of the focus of your attention, your looking because you will always always find that which you are looking for. Then I heard Esther's voice enough and then she continued. Abraham continued, it is our promise to you that you were born in this body for a reason and the time is exactly right for your becoming. Do you trust the universe in its hour infinite intelligence to bring to you all everything that is meant for you? And in turn, will you allow your part of us to guide you into abundance? The life you've dreamed before coming into a body? Even if the connection is garbled and our signals between get mixed up, do you promise to remember you can trust in us, you and the process of unfolding because it is all the same alignment all parts are moving into and with the same intention to allow you to live fully the truth of who you are the whole truth not to pick and choose parts but the whole because that is what you are whole and complete filled with light. I mean, wow, that is powerful. That was the end of the message. And I just said, thank you, Abraham. And they said, you're welcome.  I'm like, wow. Okay. So the part where they said, will you allow your part of us to guide you and then they talk about even if the connection is garbled and our signals between get mixed up what that is speaking to is our own inner guidance our piece of the universe inside of us that part of us that we call our soul or our intuition that's what they're speaking of it's we have to be part of this we're not separate from we feel separate from because of our thoughts that in turn create emotion that makes us feel overwhelming or pushes us away from that which we actually really deeply want which is connection and it can be difficult because we have to traverse some of these what is considered shadows which it's so hard to use that word I mean, every time I hear myself say it I go it sounds so creepy and dark like a horror movie it's not it's simply the nighttime versus the daytime so when we are walking through things that we can't really see everything it's not clear we're not sure what that really is is this metaphor for inside of ourselves the parts of us that are insecure and the insecure parts or the self-doubt parts come up because we are simply not connected fully in order to be connected fully we have to allow those insecurities to be present and to recognize that they are not the whole of us they are a small part of us and they are connected into some experiences some memories where we can let go of those things they've already been we've already had those experiences they're the past they're the past and not one event or even if there is a defining moment or defining event a tragic moment or an exhilarating event that one thing does not define us because we can't then look backwards and constantly compare our lives to that one moment in time the before it and the after it it doesn't work because there is a wholeness to our lives there's not separate sections even though it does seem like there is if you look at life linear in the body sense when we're young, we're a child we have other people that we depend on we become adults we start experiencing life we start making mistakes we start making our own choices some good ones too some really good ones we get into relationships some of us have children or families or we move we do all these things we have this life that we live and then we get into different stages of life where those children are moved out where they have their own families where we move then out of our homes and into something different that's more small that more represents where we're at in our life and that linear life we have less then we did in the time when everybody was at home and we were working really in the middle of our jobs working up the career ladder but in the ending of that time in the career and we're looking toward retirement and not working as much and then there's this slower time life kind of slows down and then the health becomes something that we focus on because we're aware that our body is losing its momentum and so our attitudes the value of the relationships that we have and the simple things like watching the birds out the window or our favorite TV show or a call from a friend I mean those are like the things we live for and life just gets kind of slower at that time and when we look at that it makes sense that we would have this frame of reference because we're in a human body to process and work through life but there's more to it and now we are transcendent the spirit is always the same age and is always eternal therefore there is always that inner guide that we have our spirit might have different voices from different parts of our lives from different experiences to give us wisdom or knowledge but it's never to pull us back into the feelings we had then or to re-experience what we had and even if it's good stuff even if it's happy memories our past is over it's done it's done and what is important is this understanding and this connection to this higher evolution this universal consciousness this some call god some call higher self some call god self some call spirit it's really quite profound it's really quite profound and it makes sense then and it's definitely in a state of confusion conflicted feelings emotions because we know that this time span of the body is short and then there will be a time where it slows down and there's also this feeling of needing to not miss anything and take everything in and missing out on an opportunity or something then it's just gone and it feels like oh did I make a mistake and then the mind steps in and then it is this kind of judge critic to help help you make the best choices and it means well but it can overpower and then we can be so afraid and almost paralyzed by fear of making bad choices that we don't make any choices and we all well know that when you don't make any choices you're making choices so really instead of thinking about action think about the connections and the relationships and just really wow I'm just looking at this like how it is our promise to you that you were born in this body for a reason the time is exactly right for your becoming and then there's asking of trust do you trust the universe do you trust God in its hour and then they corrected in its our infinite intelligence to bring to you all everything that is meant for you and I'm like wow trust that's a big deal isn't it trust in the infinite wisdom within yourself trust that you are eternal you are more than your body and then they ask though for something in return because in relationship you must be in balance that's perhaps where the conflict is right we seem like we're do-do doing well how are we receiving then unless we slow down to actually receive we're doing we're putting out action but how we receiving we're not focused on that so we're missing a piece so right away we're conflicted then they ask will you allow your part of us so your spirit to guide you into abundance the life you dreamed of before you came into a body even if so then they talk about even if the connection is garbled so even if we don't hear clearly we don't understand exactly in our souls we don't know if it's our intuition or our mind and they say our signals between get mixed up do you promise to remember that you can trust in us you that we are you and you are us and you can trust in us and the process of unfolding because it is all the same alignment all parts moving into and with the same intention this is so powerful I hope that this inspires you does it does it feel inspiring to you today I hope so for more information about this go ahead and check out my playlist on fairy grass opera YouTube channel it's called Abraham and this again is inspired by Esther Hicks she does channeling with a group of energies called Abraham and I've been listening to them for many many years now probably all five or maybe even more than five years now yeah probably more than five years oh yeah it's probably been more than five years and so it was really sweet when I actually connected in this morning because I was just writing for myself I was actually journaling and thinking about I have a counseling session today and what I wanted to talk to my counselor about and I was talking about the self compassion piece and making some notes before my session today and thinking about this and allowing for healing then so when you think about something and you can bring it up and you're willing to let it be present with you then it's then it's easy to heal it you're bringing it into the light it's not stuck in the darkness it's out into the light and then we can see the truth of it we don't anticipate it's so much worse than we it's so much worse than we anticipate it to be no it's usually the opposite we anticipate it so much worse the anticipation is so much worse have you ever seen a kid get a shot my kids oh my gosh one of my kids especially like he would run out of the room like oh my gosh I have to get a shot run out of the room I'm like oh come on I mean I'm not crazy about the needle situation either but I mean he would literally run he's like you know 13 running out of the room and get a shot it's like the anticipation of it is so much worse than that one second that it is there it's done it's over it is oh it's done like I remember one time he was like what it's done and we're like yeah you're too busy screaming and freaking out and telling us you don't want a shot that you already had it oh so the anticipation is actually worse so the shadow anticipation of how bad we really think we are it's so much worse than the reality of who we are because who we are is light regardless of what you've done or you think you've done or you think how bad you are how bad thoughts you have or how heavy your your heavy heavy heaviest deepest of emotions are you are light remember that you are light you are filled with light because that is what you are as this channeling says whole and complete filled with light this is Bridget thanks so much for listening if you're looking for me on social media and want to connect check me out at Bridget inspired on Facebook Bridget inspired on Instagram above life channel on YouTube and very grasshopper channel on YouTube


While two trucks and ATV and four firearms were stolen from several different homes near Little Falls yesterday, the Morrison County Sheriff's Office reports the 37-year-old Blaine Baloo of Onamia is in custody for the crimes. At around 7 in the morning the Sheriff's Office received a report of a stolen ATV from a home just east of Little Falls. Deputies found the ATV in a ditch and footprints led to another home where a truck was stolen. In all, Baloo is believed to have broken into four different homes. In this case there was three burglaries within a five-mile radius between the cities of Little Falls and Peers and then the fourth break-in occurred approximately eight miles north of Peers off Highway 25. At the fourth home several firearms, ammunition and some other miscellaneous items were stolen thanks to a public tip from a man north of Harding. Authorities were able to apprehend Baloo after following footprints to a swampy wooded area. A couple good things about this case is there was a good collaboration from the beginning until the end until the suspect was actually apprehended. Good communication between all law enforcement, our dispatchers, the public and at the end of the day we had a couple tips that were called into us. Baloo is currently being held at the Morrison County Jail awaiting formal charges for first-degree burglary. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


This is Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, one of America's leading colleges for women. Today it is a place of learning and fun for young women. It has always been a place of learning, but once the atmosphere was different. During World War II, young women of the Navy and the Marine Corps, officer candidates, were crammed into one of its residence halls, as many as eight sharing rooms designed for two. Mount Holyoke was a place of beginnings for the first women ever commissioned by the Marine Corps. In 1968, the silver anniversary year of the women marines, the president of Mount Holyoke College, Dr. Richard Glenn Gattell, invited the women marines to revisit Mount Holyoke. And so we came back to renew our association with this place at which for many of us, Marine Corps life began. With us, we brought the historic colors of the women reservists of World War II. Colors now safeguarded as an item of historical significance in the Marine Corps museums at Quantico, Virginia. We also brought the Marine Band from Quantico to play our own March of the Women Marines. The returnees were Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter, the first director of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve. Colonel Catherine A. Toll, the second reserve director, and after the war, our first director of women marines. Colonel Julia E. Hamlet, our third director. She was one of those first 54 graduates commissioned as women reserve officers on the 4th of May, 1943. Brigadier General E. Hunter Hurst, who as a major commanded the first women officer candidates at Holyoke, and I was there. I am Colonel Barbara J. Bishop, the woman officer privileged to direct the women marines during their 25th anniversary year. It was a real homecoming for me. I was a member of the second class of women officers commissioned from Mount Holyoke's campus. I had the honor of reading the Commandant's message to Mount Holyoke. The Commandant, General Leonard F. Chapman, United States Marine Corps said, On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the women marines, the United States Marine Corps wishes to express appreciation for the cooperation and friendship of Mount Holyoke College for its assistance and aid in establishing the first United States Marine Corps women's reserve officer training school on the college campus from 13 March 1943 until 29 June 1943. Accompanied by our host, President Gittel, Colonel Streeter and General Hurst climaxed our return to Mount Holyoke by placing a wreath on the grave of Mary Lyon, the founder of the college. With this ceremony, they reenacted their final official act on campus of June 1943, at which time the training of women reserve officers was moved from Mount Holyoke to the marines course first in-house training facility for women at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. During the day at Holyoke, Colonel Streeter recalled the qualifications required of the young women who learned to be marines at Mount Holyoke. One thing that always interested me particularly was trying to find the women officers who were natural leaders in order to assign them to positions with troops. We had many specialist officers who did excellent work in their respective specialties. But as you all know, there is something undefined that is called the quality of leadership. If you're going to have command over other people, it is a rather special quality. And we did look for that in the officers that were assigned to troops. Today we look for that same quality of leadership. Today, our women officers train in the college-like atmosphere of the Marine Corps Development and Education Center at Quantico. And the traditions established at Mount Holyoke, the place of our beginnings, are still strong.


How come this learning is so rich? How come the most powerful learning is the hardest to pin down to a number? It's fascinating. And then it starts you thinking, is that even possible? Can we measure? Sorry, guy. Can we? We can measure some things. But can I actually measure what other people have learned? Is the whole concept ridiculous? I don't know. I say this to our dean, Harry. He says, would you stop reading that stuff? You're teaching the assessment courses. I say, I don't know. I don't think I just don't know about this. And it really also got me thinking that as I worried about Alice and wondered, and I thought, well, what did kids say themselves about their learning? Can they talk about their learning? Do they know about their own learning? I don't know. That's kind of interesting. So I want to find out. So that's what I started to do and try to find better ways of capturing how rich learning and how amazing kids are. And I started with Emily here. We were in Stanley Park just sitting in a tree there. We'd just done a sleepover at the aquarium. And here's the first writing sample she gave me. We decided to do the very, very low-tech e-portfolio. This is PowerPoint. And that's about it. That's all I knew how to do. This was seven years ago. Isn't that great? OK, so look at it with your teacher eyes. What do we know about her as a learner? Because we do know some things from this piece of paper. I kind of look at it. And I think, OK, well, she has obviously seen that O-U-L-D spelling pattern somewhere. She hasn't quite got that. She knows something about long vowel sounds. Very grateful. Oh, but wood is different over there than it was up there. So it's interesting, isn't it? You could think, all right. What does she know? What might she need to work on next? Then I asked her to speak to it. So here's what she said. She read this note. And I want you to think about how you might think of her differently when you hear her. And it's a little bit hard to hear, because my tech skills weren't that great. Afterwards, I asked her how she knows it's such a good note. So here we go. Dear Tooth Fairy, I would be very grateful if you would leave the tooth as well as the money. You're sincerely Emily. Very good, but it's quite a nice note, I think. How interesting is that? It's the tooth fairy. The tooth fairy doesn't care about the spelling. And I just found it so fascinating. And suddenly here, I was wondering if you could measure anything. But what we could rely on, what we can rely on as teachers, we need stuff we can grab on to and gather. And it's usually pieces of paper, right? The piece of paper without her voice is just so, it's just a little teeny piece. It's such a small piece. And it really had me thinking and questioning pieces of paper is getting more and more scary and dangerous all the time. So here's a little bit more of her and a few others. In the picture of me weighing a teddy bear, I think 155 grams or something. That's my office. She's sitting at the door to the office, which was one of the bedrooms in the house. Feel about learning different things. This is math on the small flower's math. It isn't that good, but I'm watering it to make it better. And does she like reading? OK, it's not even a flower. It's a tree with apartments. I love that. And I have found, allowing kids to draw pictures of how they feel about their learning, you learn so much. I use these kinds of pictures as the cover of their portfolios. And we start in our interviews with the kids talking about their picture to their parents. It's just amazing. And I do it right out. I make my university students do it every year too. I torture them with it. Just one more. And I thought this one was really interesting because it's starting to show me what kids could say about their own learning. And she was very insightful about herself. She's the little middle, the one in the middle. The play was interesting for me. I love Doctor, who had a lot of ego. And it was interesting for me to see how that part was played because it's not very much like me. She's eight. I thought that was fascinating. And here's one more little thing that was. I was trying to do a reading assessment with this little girl. And you'll hear it. You've heard this before, I'm sure. Listen to this.   She's going to get to frustration level soon. This is not an instructional text for her. And I'm going to have to choose something else. But so I mean, that's one of the things we can kind of rely on when they're at level 32 or whatever. But she was kind of interested in this whole process. And I asked her if she wanted to hear herself afterwards. She knew we were recording it. So here's what she said. What was it like hearing yourself read? It was pretty funny. Because when I hear myself read, what I was kind of like was when I was reading, I was struggling. And then when I heard myself read, I would know the words now because I already read it. So I'd be like, now tap the way to do it. No, tap the way to do it. It's a little bit hard. Could you tell what she was saying way back there? She was saying that now she could hear herself struggling. And then when she heard herself, she knew it because she'd already seen it before. And she's like, oh, it's like I was correcting another person, but I was correcting myself. No, that's the way you do it. No, that's the way you do it. And what's kind of, it was fascinating about that. It was like, so the reading assessment I'd done five minutes before was really no longer valid either. Because it's just that teeny moment and kids grow and change so quickly. It's just, it's fascinating. It's fascinating. So it really, that whole learning experience, and I discovered these just recently, the learning principles of learning. I'm afraid I don't know how to pronounce the word, but I just love this. It tapped into what I'm thinking about and really believe. This principle of learning is how teachers help us to locate the infinite capacity we all have as learners. Developing one's own gifts and expertise in a holistic, respectful, and balanced manner. So is it possible to use assessment or is it possible to just teach in ways that help us to recognize this infinite capacity and develop the gifts that each child brings? We've got to move away from not, no, I've got to say that the other way. I hope that we can remind ourselves and the people that we work with that every child comes with those gifts. I'm tired of hearing people say they come with nothing because it's just not true. So I'm thinking about that.


HCC788 supports Girls of the Finest, a G.I. Joe costume club. Be sure to order their 2017 calendar. Proceeds to benefit the charity, Canines for Warriors. Find them on Indiegogo.com. Booker Manor 788 here. It's time for another vintage G.I. Joe toy review and it's the top of the month so we get to look at a vehicle. We're going to look at the slugger and driver thunder. And these are kind of forgotten G.I. Joe toys. I say forgotten because they didn't make a lot of G.I. Joe media appearances. But I suspect, like airborne from last week, the slugger and thunder have a secret following. These guys don't get as much attention as other G.I. Joe toys, but they're going to get full attention this week. So let's look at slugger and thunder. This is the slugger G.I. Joe's self-propelled cannon from 1984 and driver thunder. This pair was first available in 1984 and was also available in 1985. They were discontinued for 1986, but the slugger was available as a mail away offer without the driver from 1987 to 1991. The mail away slugger was in a slightly different color green and did not have the camouflage pattern. This is a self-propelled cannon and it's possibly based on the U.S. M110 self-propelled howitzer. The M110 was a tracked vehicle rather than a wheeled vehicle like the slugger. It was also a 203mm gun capable of firing one round per two minutes of sustained fire. And it had a range of 25,000 meters for a standard projectile. According to the blueprints, the slugger is a 175mm gun, which is smaller than the M110. It could be based on the M107, which had a 175mm gun. But this, what the blueprints call the flame arrester, looks more like the M110. The vehicle has an M112A1 stamped on it, but I have not found a reference for that. As a self-propelled howitzer, the slugger is designed to fire projectiles at a high trajectory and drop shells on the enemy. That's a very long range weapon compared to the tank cannons on the MOBAT and the MOLR. In fact, this cannon is not designed for tank versus tank combat on the battlefield. This thing is designed to hit targets at very long distances. The name of the vehicle, slugger, is a baseball term and it refers to a very strong batter. Not that kind of batter, I mean a person who bats. Not that kind of... Alright, the entire graphics department is fired. Yeah, that's right. How do you like that? You had one job. Emphasis on had. It wasn't until 1987 that Cobra got an equivalent vehicle, the Cobra Maggot. This was their self-propelled artillery. The Maggot though was a much larger and much more complex vehicle than the slugger. Let's look at the parts and the features of the slugger, starting with this all over painted camouflage pattern. And this is something that was very rare on GI Joe vehicles. The first GI Joe vehicle to have a painted camouflage pattern was the 1983 APC. The Falcon and Viper gliders from the same year also had camouflage patterns, but those were just printed on foam board. They were not painted on plastic like this. I think the next GI Joe vehicle that had a painted camouflage pattern was the 1986 Tomahawk. Here in the front we have some headlights and a sculpted hatch. Of course the most obvious feature on this vehicle is the very large cannon, which the blueprints call a 175 millimeter slugger howitzer. So the vehicle apparently gets its name from the gun itself. The cannon elevates about so far, but it does not rotate. So to aim the cannon you would have to turn the whole vehicle. According to the Marvel Comics mini series GI Joe order of battle issue number four, on the entry for the slugger, it says the armament is an M113, 175 millimeter gun. And that M113 is the gun that is on the M107. So that does support the idea that this is based on the M107. However, it looks more like the M110. It says it has a range of 35.2 miles, which is just incredible. If I fired this thing from here, I could hit the next county with it. Ready thunder? Fire! Can you see where it hit? No. What? Let's move thunder out of the way so we can look at the slugger's secondary armament. The blueprints call this a 30 caliber quick sequence machine gun. It can rotate all the way around and it slides in on this very long pin. It does not affix permanently. And this is just a very slightly modified reissue of the grenade launcher that came with the 1983 gun hoe. You can see they just gave it a longer barrel. Let's remove the gun so we can look at the hatch cover. And this hatch cover swings open and closed. When it closes it kind of drops in there and secures pretty well. It has a little viewing port here that's actually too small for the figure to use. The hatch is actually two parts. It pivots on this pin and that pin is a separate part that connects the hatch to the body of the vehicle. And that pin is very easily lost. That pops out and if you don't have it, of course you can put the hatch in the closed position. It'll stay on. But if you open it up, of course it'll fall off. So that pin really is very important. The cockpit goes very deep down in there. I don't know if you can see that. But there is some instrument panel detail. The driver can stand kind of halfway out of the vehicle like that. And that's a nice display option so you can see the action figure in there. But you can also, if you kind of work his arms in there and a little bit of a tight fit, but kind of work him around a little bit. He can sit all the way down in there and the hatch can close. So he's completely inside the vehicle. I do find it's easier to do this without the accessories. The vehicle has six wheels, each of which moves independently. And they're pretty large wheels and they're kind of plain, but they're okay. I think they work just fine. This is a very utilitarian vehicle so I'm not expecting chrome rims. The vehicle rolls very well. On this side we have what looks like a sculpted on tow rope. And this is similar to the piece that came on the 1983 Wolverine tank and the 1985 Mahler. But on those it was a removable piece. This one's just sculpted on and I prefer it that way. I think the removable tow ropes on the Wolverine and the Mahler were kind of annoying. They were very small pieces of plastic. They would break easily and they didn't fit on very well. So they would pop off and get lost. So for that kind of detail, I think just sculpting it on the vehicle is a much better idea. Over on this side we have an engine cover and that pops open to reveal engine detail. Some nice detail there. Now this engine cover is not meant to be removable. It's hinged so it swings open and closed. And I like that. I wish more engine covers were like that. They would have stayed with the vehicles better. On the underside we have a little bit of sculpted detail here. And I think this is kind of cool. I mean it's not much detail but they didn't have to do any. So it's nice that they just added that little touch. Here in the back we have a very unique feature. And one that I think adds just a bit of verisimilitude to this vehicle. It is the self planting stabilizer blade. And it pulls out and swings down to stabilize the vehicle when that cannon kicks. And then it raises up and retracts for mobility. As a kid I think I used this thing kind of like a ram to smash any vehicles that might have been chasing the slugger. Then finally we have the universal tow hook which is easier to see if you pull the stabilizing blade out. This is a standard universal tow hook that was on most GI Joe Land vehicles at the time. If you're going to tow something with a slugger why not tow the mountain howitzer. That way your entire artillery support unit can be moved all at one time. Now let's look at Thunder starting with his accessories. And his accessories are really interesting. He has a helmet and the helmet is a three piece assemblage. Fully assembled this is what the helmet looks like. It is a helmet with a black visor and either radio headphones or noise canceling headphones. And all of this comes apart. Taking the headphones off carefully we can see what those look like. And these headphones have long pins that go all the way through the goggles and into the holes in the helmet. It has a couple antennae. I assume these are noise canceling headphones which somebody in Thunder's line of work would need. Then there is the visor. It is black apparently a dark tinted visor with a notch for the nose and holes in the sides for the pins in the headset to fit through. Then we have the base helmet which is just a standard helmet that came with a lot of GI Joe action figures. In light green it looks like the same green color as the helmets that came with Duke and Roadblock. Here's that helmet compared with Duke and Roadblock. And that color looks the same to me. Now the helmets that came with the earliest issues of Duke and Roadblock did not have the holes in the size like Thunder's does. But later releases of those figures did have the holes in the helmets. So there will be some Dukes and some Roadblocks floating around with helmets that are identical to Thunder's. This three piece helmet accessory set was reissued for the 1988 Sky Striker the Tiger Force Tiger Rat Pilot. They changed the colors and gave him a clear visor instead of a black one. But other than that they are the same. His final accessory is his monocular with a strap. It goes around his neck. This is a nice unique accessory. It has some nice detail on it. I would assume he would use this to sight his targets. Thunder was not the only figure in the vintage GI Joe line that came with a monocular. The 1989 Backblast also had one. But Backblast Monocular was not the same as Thunder's. It was not a reissue. These are each unique. Let's take a look at the articulation on Thunder. He had the standard GI Joe articulation for 1984. That means he could turn his head from left to right. He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow that allowed him to move at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep that allowed him to swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside. That allowed him to move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees. And he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpt design and color of Thunder starting with his head. And on his head he has very red hair. Some brown eyes and eyebrows. And a pretty good head sculpt. I like this. It's really not bad. This head was reused for the 1988 Sky Striker. They just changed his hair color to brown. On his chest he has a brown shirt or jacket. And he has a green chest plate and back plate. It looks like they may be armored. He has black on the shoulder straps.  His arms feature long brown sleeves and black gloves. And we have a tiny sculpted wrist watch on his left wrist. On his waist piece we have a black trousers and a green belt. Pretty plain. And we have a black pouch here. On his legs we have those black trousers with pockets on the thighs. And we have this really interesting stitching that goes down the outside of each leg. And then we have some pretty standard brown boots. I really love these colors for Thunder. They don't provide much contrast with the vehicle he drives. But that's okay. There's some subtlety there. And there's something about the black that has a feeling of quality. That's one of the reasons I liked Flint. I wouldn't want Thunder in any other color scheme. This is a good look for him. Let's take a look at Thunder's file card. This file card was printed on the back of the box in which the slugger was packaged. There's nothing on the other side. It's plain. It has his faction as GI Joe. It has a portrait of Thunder here. It says he's the self-propelled gun artilleryman. His code name is Thunder. And it's reasonable that he should be named after a loud noise. His file name is Matthew Harris Breckenridge. And I'm not 100% certain, but he may have been named after John C. Breckenridge, who was from Kentucky, as was Thunder. John Breckenridge was once Vice President of the United States and joined the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War. And he was made a general in the Confederate Army. Primary military specialty artillery, Secondary military specialty bandsman, and parentheses drummer. And this really fits with the theme of Thunder's file card. He is a person who likes to make noise. Birthplace Louisville, Kentucky, grade is E5. This paragraph says, Thunder grew up next door to a foundry, a probable explanation of his fondness for loud noises. When asked his reasons for going artillery, his reply was simply, I want to hear them go bang. He has a passion for heavy metal rock and roll, peanut brittle and cars with bad mufflers. This quote says, If you know where you are and you know where the enemy is, then artillery can be an exact science. But in the real world, artillery is half trigonometry and half blind luck. In other words, if you hit something, take the credit. If you miss, write it off as margin of error. So the upshot of this file card is Thunder loves loud noise. He's in the artillery because it makes loud noise. But being exposed to that much loud noise over a lifetime, has got to negatively impact his hearing. Has it landed yet? Stop shouting. I'm right here. Speak up. I still don't see it. I think it went clear out of the video. What? Thunder and the Slugger were used sporadically in the G.I. Joe cartoon series. Thunder first appeared in Revenge of Cobra Part 1, but had no lines. He got the most focus in the episode titled, Battle for the Train of Gold. The Slugger had more appearances in the cartoon series than Thunder did. Thunder was voiced by Neil Ross, who had and still has a long distinguished voice acting career. On G.I. Joe, he did the voice of Shipwreck, Buzzer and Dusty. He was also the voice of Rambo in the Rambo animated series. In the G.I. Joe comic book, Thunder is one of the G.I. Joe characters that died in one of the later issues of the Marvel Comics run. Thunder died in the fictional country of Trucial Abysmia. He sacrificed himself to save his teammates, crazy legs and cross country. In issue number 76 during the Cobra Civil War, Thunder has a very brief appearance, but he is misnamed. He is called Tolbooth in error. Tolbooth was the driver of the bridge layer. In that issue, the Slugger sinks into quicksand. Both the character and the vehicle were sadly underutilized in the comic book. Looking at the Slugger overall, this is a really nice vehicle. It has a good realistic military design, and that's something that I like. If you watched any of my other videos, you know that's important to me. I really like that a lot. And that camouflage paint is special. Even so, it may be a little short on features. A pivoting turret for that big gun would have helped. It still fits really well with other realistic G.I. Joe vehicles. And it's kind of an in-between size. It's larger than the vamp and the awestriker, but smaller than the Havoc and the Warthog. So it kind of fits between those vehicles as far as size goes. So I'm going to say the Slugger is a middle-tier vehicle. A few more features would have boosted it up to the top tier, but still a really nice vehicle. And Thunder, I think, is also a middle-tier figure. The color scheme is great. The accessories are interesting. He has a remarkably sophisticated helmet. A few more details on the figure would have put him in the top tier. Gotta catch them all. What?  I hope you enjoyed it. And as always, you can do your part to help this channel grow. Make sure you like this video on YouTube, subscribe on YouTube, like me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, and share this video. Thank you for watching. And remember, only G.I. Joe is G.I. Joe. What?


The way that this extra energy is typically provided is to make a target out of isotopically enriched water and bombard it with a beam of energetic protons from a particle accelerator. The reason for the isotopically enriched water is because the chemical symbol of water is H2O, but most natural oxygen atoms are Oxygen 16, with only a very small fraction of Oxygen 17 and Oxygen 18. It is possible, however, to preferentially select Oxygen 18 atoms and hence create water where the Oxygen component is essentially all Oxygen 18. If we look at the difference in the masses of the products and the reactants, we can see that 2.44 MeV of energy must be put into the system to initiate the nuclear reaction. However, it turns out that higher energies of around 18 MeV are usually used and many hospitals have a small accelerator called a cyclotron that can be used to initiate this and other nuclear reactions by heating atoms with energetic beams of other nuclei. Another example of an artificially induced nuclear reaction is neutron-induced fission of Uranium-235. When a neutron combines with the Uranium-235 nucleus, the resulting nucleus, Uranium-236, is in an excited state that can easily split in two. It turns out to be energetically favourable for the nucleus to break up, typically making two products with mass numbers around 100 to 145 and 90 to 95, as well as 2 to 3 neutrons. One of the most common set of products that can be created is given here as an example. Again, we can look at the masses in atomic mass units and look at how the masses change. In this particular case, the mass of the products is 0.19279 atomic mass units less than the mass of the reactants. This corresponds to approximately 180 MeV of energy being emitted in the reaction. This energy is primarily released in the form of kinetic energy of the products. The very large energy released from this process is the basis of a nuclear fission reactor and this will be discussed in detail in the next lecture.


Appendix II The Life of the Spider by J. Henry Faber, translated by Alexander D'Amato. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by James Christopher. The Life of the Spider. Appendix. I find myself confronted with a subject which is not only highly interesting, but somewhat difficult. Not that the subject is obscure, but it presupposes in the reader a certain knowledge of geometry. A strong meat too often neglected. I am not addressing geometricians who are generally indifferent to questions of instinct, nor entomological collectors who, as such, take no interest in mathematical theorems. I write for anyone with sufficient intelligence to enjoy the lessons which the insect teaches. What am I to do? To suppress this chapter, we are to leave out the most remarkable instance of spider industry. To treat it as it should be treated, that is to say, with the whole armory of scientific formula, would be out of place in these modest pages.  Let us direct our attention to the nets of the Apiriae, preferably to those of the Silky Apiria and the Bandit Apiria, so plentiful in the autumn in my part of the country, and so remarkable for their bulk. We shall first observe that the radii are equally spaced, the angles formed by each consecutive pair are of perceptually equal value, and this in spite of their number, which in the case of the Silky Apiriae exceeds two score. We know by what strange means the spider attains or ends, and divides the area wherein the web is to be warped into a large number of equal sectors, a number which is almost invariable in the work of each species. An operation without method, governed one might imagine by an irresponsible whim, holds in a beautiful rose window worthy of our compasses. We shall also notice that, in each sector, the various cords, the elements of the spiral windings, are parallel to one another, and gradually draw closer together as they near the center. With the two radiating lines that frame them, they form obtuse angles on one side and acute angles on the other, and these angles remain constant in the same sector, because the cords are parallel. There is more than this. These same angles, the obtuse as well as the acute, do not alter in value from one sector to another, at any rate so far as the conscientious eye can judge. Taken as a whole, therefore, the rope-latest edifice consists of a series of crossbars, intersecting the several radiating lines, obliquely at angles of equal value. By this characteristic, we recognize the logarithmic spiral. Geometricians give this name to the curve which intersects obliquely at angles of varying value, all the straight lines of radii vectors radiating from the center called the pole. The Iperia's construction, therefore, is a series of cords joining the intersections of a logarithmic spiral with a series of radii. It would become merged in this spiral if the number of radii were infinite, for this would reduce the length of the rectilinear elements indefinitely and change this polyagonal line into a curve. To suggest an explanation why this spiral has so greatly exercised the meditations of science, let us confine ourselves for the present to a few statements of which the reader will find the proof in any treatise on higher geometry. The logarithmic spiral describes an endless number of circuits around its pole, to which it constantly draws nearer without ever being able to reach it. This central point is indefinitely inaccessible at each approaching turn. It is obvious that this property is beyond our sensory scope. Even with the help of the best philosophical instruments, our sight could not follow its interminable windings and would soon abandon the attempt to divide the invisible. It is a volat to which the brain conceives no limits. The trained mind alone, more discerning than our retina, sees clearly that which defies the perceptive faculties of the eye. The Iperia complies to the best of her ability with this law of the endless violet. The spiral revolutions come closer together as they approach the pole. At a given distance, they stop abruptly, but, at this point, the auxiliary spiral, which is not destroyed in the central region, takes up the thread. And we see it, not without some surprise, draw nearer to the pole in ever narrowing and scarcely perceptible circles. There is not, of course, absolute mathematical accuracy, but a very close approximation to that accuracy. The Iperia winds nearer and nearer around her pole, so far as her equipment, which, like our own, is defective, will allow her. One would believe her to be thoroughly versed in the laws of the spiral. I will continue to set forth, without explanation, some of the properties of this curious curve. Picture a flexible thread wound round a logarithmic spiral. If we then unwind it, keeping it taut the while, its free extremity will describe a spiral similar at all points to the original. The curve will merely have changed places. Jacques Bernoulli, to whom Geometry owes this magnificent theorem, has engraved on his tomb, as one of his proudest titles to fame, one of the generating spiral and its double, begotten of the unwinding of the thread. An inscription proclaimed, Edem mutata reserjo, I rise again, like unto myself. Geometry would find it difficult to better the splendid flight of fancy towards the great problem of the hereafter. There is another geometrical epitaph no less famous. Cicero, when Cuiester in Sicily, searching for the tomb of Archimedes amid the thorns and brambles that cover us with oblivion, recognized it among the ruins by the geometrical figure engraved upon the stone, the cylinder circumscribing the sphere. Archimedes, in fact, was the first to know the approximate relation of circumference to diameter. From it he deduced the perimeter and surface of the circle, as well as the surface of the volume of the sphere. He showed that the surface and volume of the last named equal two-thirds of the surface and volume of the circumscribing cylinder. Distaining all Papa's inscription, the learned Syracutian honored himself with his theorem as his sole epitaph. The geometrical figure proclaimed the individual's name as plainly as with any alphabetical characters. To have done with this part of our subject, here is another property of the logarithmic spiral. Roll the curve along an indefinite straight line. Its pole will become displaced while still keeping one straight line. The endless scroll leads to rectilinear progression. The perceptually varied begets uniformity. Now as this logarithmic spiral, with its curious properties, merely a conception of the geometers, combining number and extent at will, so as to imagine a tenumerous abyss wherein to practice their analytical methods afterwards. Is it a mere dream in the night of the intricate? An abstract riddle flung out for our understanding to browse upon. No, it is a reality in the service of life. A method of construction frequently employed in animal architecture. The mollusk in particular never rolls the winding ramp of the shell without reference to the scientific curve. The first born of the species knew it and put it into practice. It was as perfect in the dawn of creation as it can be today. Let us study in this connection the ammonites, those venerable relics of what was once the highest expression of living things at the time when the solid land was taking shape from the oceanic ooze. Cut and polished lengthwise, the fossil shows a magnificent logarithmic spiral, the general pattern of the dwelling which was a pearl palace, with numerous chambers traversed by a suffuncular corridor. To this day, the last representative of the cephalopodia with partitioned shells, the nautilus of the southern seas, remains faithful to the ancient design. It is not improved upon its distant predecessors. It has altered the position of the suffuncul, has placed it in the center instead of leaving it on the back, but it still whirls its spiral logarithmically as did the ammonites in the earliest ages of the world's existence. And let us not run away with the idea that these princes of the Malusk tribe have a monopoly of the scientific curve. In the stagnant waters of our grassy ditches, the flat shells, the humble planorbis, sometimes no bigger than a duckweed, vie with the ammonite and the nautilus in matters of higher geometry. At least one of them, planorbis vortex, for example, is a marble of logarithmic whirls. In the long-shaped shells, the structure becomes more complex, though remaining subject to the same fundamental laws. I have before my eyes some species of the genus Terabra from New Caledonia. They are extremely tapering cones, attaining almost nine inches in length. Their surface is smooth and quite plain, without any of the usual ornaments such as furrows, knots, or strings of pearls. The spiral edifice is superb, graced with its own simplicity alone. I count the score of whirls which gradually decrease until they vanish in the delicate point. They are edged with a fine groove. I take a pencil and draw a rough generating line to this cone, and relying merely on the evidence of my eyes, which are more or less practiced in geometric measurements. I find that the spiral groove intersects generating line at an angle of unvarying value. The consequence of this result is easily deduced. If projected on a plane perpendicular to the axis of the shell, the generating lines of the cone would become radii, and the groove which winds upwards from the base to the apex would be converted into a plane curve, which meeting those radii at an unvarying angle would be neither more nor less than a logarithmic spiral. Conversely, the groove of the shell may be considered as the projection of the spiral on a conic surface. Better still, let us imagine a plane perpendicular to the edge of the shell and passing through its summit. Let us imagine, moreover, a thread wound along the spiral groove. Let us enroll the thread, holding it taut as we do so. Its extremity will not leave the plane, and will describe a logarithmic spiral within it. It is, in a more complicated degree, a variant of Bernoulli's iatum mutata reserjo. The logarithmic conic curve becomes a logarithmic plane curve. A similar geometry is found on the other shells with elongated cones. Turriteli, spindle shells, cerithia, as well as in the shells with flattened cones. Troshide, turbines. The spherical shells, those whirled into a volute, are no exception to this rule. All, down to the common snail shell, are constructed according to logarithmic laws. The famous spiral of the geometers is the general plan followed by the mollusk rolling its stone sheath. Where do these glary creatures pick up this science? We are told that the mollusk derives from the worm. One day the worm, rendered frisky by the sun, emancipated itself, branched its tail and twisted it into a corkscrew for sheer glee. There and then, the plan of the future spiral shell was discovered. This is what is taught quite seriously in these days, as the very last word in scientific progress. It remains to be seen up to what point the explanation is acceptable. The spider for her part will have none of it. Unrelated to the appendix lacking corkscrew twirling worm, she is nevertheless familiar with the logarithmic spiral. From the celebrated curve she obtains merely a sort of framework, but elementary though this framework be, it clearly marks the ideal edifice. The superior works on the same principles as the mollusk of the convoluted shell. The mollusk has years where when to construct its spiral, and it uses the utmost finish in the whirling process. The aperia, to spread her net, has but an hour sitting at the most. Wherefore the speed at which she works compels her to rest content with a simpler production. She shortens the task by confining herself to a skeleton of the curve which the other describes to perfection. The aperia, therefore, is versed in the geometric secrets of the ammonite and the nautilus pompillus. She uses, in a simpler form, the logarithmic line dear to the snail. What guides her? There is no appeal here to a wriggle of some kind, as in the case of the worm that ambitiously aspires to become a mollusk, the animal must need to carry within itself a virtual diagram of its spiral. Accident, however fruitful and surprised as we may presume it to be, can never have taught it to higher geometry wherein our own intelligence at once goes astray, without a strict preliminary training. Are we to recognize a mere effect of organic structure in the aperia's art? We readily think of the legs, which, in doubt with a very varying power of extension, might serve as compasses. More or less bent, more or less outstretched, they would mechanically determine the angle where at the spiral shall intersect the radius. They would maintain the parallel of the cords in each sector. Certain objections arise to affirm that, in this instance, the tool is not the sole regulator of the work. Where the arrangement of the thread determined by the length of the legs, we should find the spiral volute separated more widely from one another in proportion to the greater length of implement in the spinstrass. We see this in the banded aperia and the silky aperia. The first has longer limbs and spaces are cross threads more liberally than does the second, whose legs are shorter. But we must not rely too much on this rule, say others. The angular aperia, the pale-tinted aperia, and the cross spider, all three more or less short-limbed, rival the banded aperia in the spacing of their line snares. The last two even dispose them with greater intervening distances. We recognize in another respect that the organization of the animal does not imply an immutable type of work. Before beginning the sticky spiral, the aperia first spin and auxiliary intended to strengthen the stays. This spiral, formed in plain non-glutenous thread, starts from the center and winds in rapidly widening circles to the circumference. It is merely a temporary construction, where often not but the central part survives when the spider has set its limy meshes. The second spiral, the essential part of the snare proceeds on the contrary and serried coils from the circumference to the center and is composed entirely of viscous cross threads. Here we have, following one after the other, merely by a sudden alteration of the machine, two volutes of an entirely different order as regards direction, the number of whirls and intersection. Both of them are logarithmic spirals. I see no mechanism of the legs, be they long or short, that can account for this alteration. Can it then be a premeditated design on the part of the aperia? Can there be calculation, measurement of angles, gauging of a parallel by means of the eye or otherwise? I am inclined to think that there is none of all this, or at least nothing but an innate propensity whose effects the animal has no more ability to control than the flower is able to control the arrangement of its verticals. The aperia practices higher geometry without knowing or caring. The thing works of itself and takes its impetus from an instinct imposed upon creation from the start. The stone thrown by the hand returns to earth describing a certain curve. The dead leaf torn and wafted away by a breath of wind makes its journey from the tree to the ground with a similar curve. On neither one side nor the other is there any action by the moving body to regulate the fall. Nevertheless, the descent takes place according to a scientific trajectory, the parabola, of which the section of a cone by a plane furnished the prototype to the geometer speculations. A figure, which was at first but a tentative glimpse, becomes a reality by the fall of a pebble out of the vertical. The same speculations take up the parabola once more. Imagine it rolling on an infinite straight line and ask what course does the focus of this curve follow? The answer comes, the focus of the parabola describes a catenary, a line very simple in shape, but endowed with an algebraic symbol that has to resort to a kind of cabalistic number at variance with any sort of numeration. So much so that the unit refuses to express it, however we subdivide the unit. It is called the number E. Its value is represented by the following series carried out at infinitum.  If the reader had the patience to work out the few initial terms of the series, which has no limit because the series of natural numerals itself has none, he would find E equals 2.7182818 to infinity. With this weird number, are we now stationed within the strictly defined realm of the imagination? Not at all. The catenary appears actually every time that weight and flexibility act in concert. The name is given to the curve formed by a chain suspended by two of its points which are not placed on a vertical line. It is a shape taken by a flexible cord when held at each end and relaxed. It is a line that governs the shape of a sail belling in the wind. It is a curve of the nanny goat's milk bag when she returns from filling her trailing udder. And all this answers to the number E. What a quantity of obstruous science for a bit of string. Let us not be surprised. A pellet of shot swinging at the end of a thread. A drop of dew trickling down a straw. A splash of water rippling under the kisses of the air. A mere trifle after all requires a Titanic scaffolding when we wish to examine it with the eye of calculation. We need the Club of Hercules to crush a fly. Our methods of mathematical investigation are certainly ingenious. We cannot too much admire the mighty brains that have invented them. But how slow and laborious they appear when compared with the smallest actualities. Will it never be given to us to probe reality in a simpler fashion? Will our intelligence be able one day to dispense with a heavy arsenal of formulae? Why not? Here we have the abracadabrac number E reappearing. Inscribed on a spider's thread. Let us examine, on a misty morning, the mesh work that has been constructed during the night. Owing to their hygrometrical nature, the sticky threads are laden with tiny drops, and bending under the burden have become so many catenaries. So many chaplets of lipid gems, graceful chaplets arranged in exquisite order and following the curve of a swing. If the sun pierces the mist, the hole lights up with the iridescent fires and becomes a resplendent cluster of diamonds. The number E is in its glory. Geometry, that is to say the science of harmony in space, presides over everything. We find it in the arrangement of the scales of a furcone as in the arrangement of an aperius limy web. We find it in the spiral of a snail shell, in the chaplet of a spider's thread, as in the orbit of a planet. It is everywhere as perfect in the world of atoms as in the world of immensities.  I prefer that as an explanation of the logarithmic curve of the ammonite and the aperia to the worm screwing up the tip of its tail. It may not perhaps be in accordance with latter-day teaching, but it takes a loftier flight. End of Appendix. End of The Life of the Spider by J. Henry Faber, translated by Alexander DeMotto. Recording by James Christopher, J. X. Christopher at yahoo.com, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2009.


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You can find a wide range of digital artwork. You can create an NFT on your own art and offer for sale.  All of this is coming soon. You can see all the different technologies. So it's a launch pad and other launch pads to be announced, successfully close the hard cap of the pre-sale in just three minutes. You can see here fully decentralized and supports blockchains in BSC, Ethereum, AVAX and Polygon, otherwise known as MATIC. The DEX launch pad NFT marketplace and social network is a one-stop shop, one of the first Sharia based Sharia based crypto projects. So what is Sharia? Sharia is the fundamental religious concept of Islam. Namely, it's law. Many Muslims cannot afford to use DeFi NFT launch pad platforms due to their religious restrictions. We wanna provide a solution for them. It means that CUBE will not have any connections with projects tokens from the categories of gambling, cannabis, derivatives, loans, DeFi project, which includes lending or borrowing. You can see the token distribution here. Always important to know where all the tokens are being distributed. The CUBE pre-sale was held and a large cap was successfully closed in just three minutes. Contrary to the initial hard cap of 150,000 USD, the CUBE project has reached 206,000 USD instead. To enhance the credibility and transparency of the project operations, the CUBE team announced the pre-sale funds raised won't be used until all the users will receive the CUBE tokens. Despite all the efforts of our team to show complete transparency and project integrity, the team always has to make important decisions in the project with their community. And you can see here, a breakdown. All right. And if we just go down here, you can learn more about CUBE, frequently asked questions, what is CUBE? What is CUBE's mission? Everything you need to know about CUBE right here. And you can see their project roadmap. So they are definitely rolling out with lots of exciting news and features. All right. And so that's their roadmap. And you can sign up for their newsletter. In fact, I'm gonna do that right now.  All their press through all of these platforms. And this is all their social media. You can follow them on all their social media. And if we just go back to the homepage. All right. So we're just back to the homepage. You can see here, CUBE IDO is coming soon. Crypto space you need. And you can see all the stats on CUBE. CUBE is a multi-chain platform that combines the most popular functions of the crypto world, a place where everyone who is keen on cryptocurrency and blockchain can find a place for himself or herself. CUBE is truly the most universal crypto space. And you can see it's a BSC token. And more things should be announced soon. You can see all the IDO tiers and the first upcoming IDOs on the CUBE launchpad will be announced very, very soon. You can see here tier one, tier two and tier three. You can see the IDO rules and IDO bonuses. So at the end of the day, CUBE is a multi-chain platform that combines the most popular functions of the crypto world. A place where everyone who is keen on cryptocurrencies and blockchain can find a place for himself or herself. CUBE is truly the most universal crypto space. CUBE consists of four main modules. CUBE DEX, CUBE Launchpad, CUBE NFT Marketplace and CUBE Social Network. CUBE is a single ecosystem aimed to support different blockchains and has multiple useful services and tools. You can keep calm and don't bother yourself switching between different chains and projects. At the moment, CUBE DEX is deployed into blockchains, Ethereum and BSC, but soon it will be available on Polygon and Avalanche. And you can see here the first NFT drop. And NFT is so big about the collection. This collection fully represents the concept of our project. The CUBE team adheres to a policy of anonymity, which is why we have decided that the characters in our collection should look secretive. Since we want to unite the crypto community and plan to create a platform, which will include what we think are the most trendy and necessary functions, we decided to point in our NFTs to its main modules united by chains that surround the symbol of our project. In total, we will be released Silver 1100, Gold 300 and Diamond 100. What is it? CUBE is a universal crypto space, a place for creating, networking, earning, trading and improving skills in working with cryptocurrencies. And you can see right here DEX, Launchpad, NFTs and Social. Click on DEX and you can see CUBE DEX is a primary feature that allows you to instantly and privately convert one cryptocurrency to another. It is easy to swap, stake and farm using CUBE app. So this is a place where everyone who is keen on cryptocurrencies and blockchains can find a place for themselves. CUBE is truly the most universal crypto space within the CUBE ecosystem. You can earn crypto using advanced DeFi tools, participate in token sales of promising blockchain projects, trade NFT arts and also do networking in order to find like-minded people in the crypto community. So guys, literally a one-stop shop for everything crypto using CUBE. Many cryptocurrency platforms and DApps do not meet the requirements of safety, quality and are unable to meet the needs of the community. Its users find a convenient service. It is most likely niche and highly specialized and to cover their needs. You have to use three to five different platforms and a marketplace and it's just too much and people get confused, people get frustrated. So they just move on. Another common problem is that you need to track different blockchains when looking for a new gem to invest in. Promising projects take place on the BSC, Ethereum, Avalanche and as many other project networks other than that, users lack a platform where they can earn, exchange crypto, trade NFTs and analyze the market and communicate with the global crypto community all in one place. That is why the CUBE project was born. I really like this project. I think they are doing everything that I love. I love NFTs and I absolutely love DeFi and these guys are doing more than that. So I absolutely love what these guys are doing and they're fully decentralized as proponents of the decentralization movement. We see it as an opportunity to democratize finance, bringing the system out from under the control of central authorities and big banks and putting into the hands of the community. Reality is that a lot of decentralized platforms are not actually what they claim to be. That is trustless and without a central controlling authority due to a large whale share existence. From the beginning of the idea, we decided to eliminate such a drawback of DeFi. The CUBE team provides themselves with only 1.75% with 24 months lockup period of the Genesis supply will give in the community 82.25% of tokens for public sales, staking, liquidity, incentives and ecosystem and once again, the token distribution. So very well distributed token and it's a project that I think everyone should be aware of. Everyone should have it on their watch list. Everyone should have it on the radar. Once again, a platform that does DEX, Launchpad, NFTs and social. You wanna learn more, just click on about. You can click on blog, contacts or DAP to learn more about CUBE. This is the exchange, looks like this. All right, and the main net is coming soon. All you need to do is connect to a wallet and you can literally connect your wallet and start exchanging tokens. Pretty cool. You can see the first NFT drop, whitelist opening, whitelist closing, main net coming soon. So a lot of cool things happening with CUBE crypto space. All right, I'd love to know what you guys think about CUBE. If you like these videos, smash the like button, comment them below, share the video everywhere and subscribe if you're alive. We have been talking about crypto since 2017 with really phenomenal results. I think the key is to really get to know the projects, get to know the teams behind the projects, get to know the technology behind the projects, get to know the community behind the project. I think everyone needs to know about CUBE. This seems like a great project that has a great future and I'd love to know what you guys think. I must remind you that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest anything we talk about or discuss here on Rich TV Live. In saying that, we believe that this is a platform that's undervalued, under-appreciated, under-exposed, doing so many exciting things, but very few people are talking about it. Put it on your radar, put it on your watch list and comment on the video. Let us know what you think, says right here. We are a group of dedicated developers, designers, artists, programmers and above all, innovators in the field of entrepreneurship and business scaling. The key is made up of global professionals from core fields who are passionate about DeFi and the crypto industry in general. We are creating this outstanding project from crypto enthusiasts for crypto enthusiasts with the aim of building an alternative to most of hype-only projects. Our goal is to create a crypto space with long-term working and stable income-generating DeFi projects, multifunctional launchpad, NFT and social platform for all and any category of users. CUBE token is not just a speculative coin, we have worked out any anti-inflationary tokenomics model where all ecosystem participants will receive rewards on equal terms and use the token in different services of CUBE products. You can also follow them on Twitter, this is their Twitter here and follow them on all social. You can see I am following them, pretty large following 31,500 followers on Twitter alone. All right, love to know what you guys think about this video. Smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe if you're live. This is your boy, Rich from RustyVee Live. We bring in the winners and we bring them to you first. What do you think about the CUBE crypto space? IDEO is coming soon, only eight days, 18 hours, 46 minutes and 13 seconds away. NFT drop 100% guaranteed allocation in CUBE launchpad. IDEOs, if you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We bring in the winners and we bring them to you first. Thank you for watching everybody. All you need to do is join the white list here, check CUBE balance, get access to everything that's happening with CUBE in the crypto space. Dex, staking, launchpad and info, all in one place, a one-stop shop. Love to know what you guys think about CUBE. And you can join the white list by just clicking over here and you can join the white list. All the information is here. White list is open, put in your email, your first and last name, your country, answer a couple of key questions and you too can join the white list. This is their medium. It's always important to get to know these projects and understand everything that's happening with them. This is them on medium, 5,800 followers. And you can see here AirDrop, second campaign is live. CUBE AirDrop, second campaign, 100,000 CUBE tokens. So we'll continue to, and this is their Discord. So we'll continue to do the research and keep our eyes on this project. Love to know what you guys think. And there is a complete KYC procedure. So you need to know your customer. They need to know the customer information in order for you to qualify. So you got to do a KYC, but the white list is now officially open. All right guys, thank you guys for watching and you can see all the supported networks right here.


Some scholars believe that Jewish Religion has evolved over time eventually ending up at monotheism. The Divine Council worldview seems to blow this up It also seems then to discredit that El and Yahweh were not always worshiped Concurrently and that one came after the other and replaced the other. Is this true? If so, then could that be a reason why more scholars seem to not want to accept the binitarian view? Well, you're a little the question is a little overly optimist Most scholars who are of the it's hard to pick the right terms here most You know if I say critical scholars, it makes it sound like evangelical scholars aren't critical If I say non-confessional scholars, it makes it sound like if you're a confessional scholar You can you only have to think one way or you can only think one way But I'll put it this way most non-confessional scholars in other words most scholars who aren't you know Committed to some form of what we would loosely call Bible-believing Christianity most most people who don't fall into that category They actually think the Divine Council idea Proves the evolutionary idea. They're not afraid of it They use it to promote the evolutionary idea from polytheism to monotheism because they look at things like council references They look at things like more than one Elohim, you know a bunch of Elohim, you know flying around They look at that as polytheism And then they they interpret certain passages in the Old Testament as getting rid of that and evolving toward Monotheism like Psalm 82 when when you know God sentences the gods to die like men He says see you know that God God says all those gods are going to be put to death and in Israelite In the Israelite mind they were put to death and we're only left with one And so we've evolved to monotheism. That's how they'll take Psalm 82 Now they get there because they they refuse or they I should say they fail to define Elohim like an Israelite would Instead they look at plural Elohim and they assume that the word Elohim has something to do with a unique set of attributes and Oh That means there's more than one. There's more than one capital god here. You know, that's polytheism Again, what I've what I've been saying, you know, my basically my whole academic career is saying look that's dumb Because the the departed human dead are called Elohim Obviously, no Israelite is going to think that their dead relative is on a is on par In terms of attributes and characteristics with the god of Israel or even any other god like bail I mean, they're just not the same Elohim has nothing to do with a set of unique attributes It really doesn't have to do with it do with specific attributes at all The reason why so many different things are called Elohim is because Elohim is a term you would use to describe Where that entity properly belongs or lives Every occupant every disembodied occupant of the spirit world is an Elohim That's why it's plural and that's why it gets used that way But if you're looking at Elohim thinking, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna look at Elohim just like modern Americans or modern westerners look at the letters g o and d Because when I see g o and d I think of omniscience and omnipotence and omnipresence And if I put an s on that whoo, we got polytheism. That's actually what they do They you know, you have scholars. I mean, I could give you names You have you have scholars that parse a Hebrew word the way a modern Westerner would parse an English word in terms of its meaning It just doesn't make any sense and not only that but they'll they'll somehow ignore or miss All of the divine plurality stuff that shows up after This wonderful evolution to You know, magnificent monotheism had occurred case in point the Dead Sea Scrolls I just published an article last year. It was part of my dissertation on hey, look, there are 160 references To plural Elohim In the Dead Sea Scrolls a couple dozen of which are also in divine council contexts in those texts So what happened to this wonderful evolution? Didn't the people who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls? Didn't they get the memo? Hey, we're monotheists now. I don't write like this. No, it's very clear in what they're saying and the and those scenes If you actually go read them that they're talking about animate spirit beings in the spiritual world and over in that world Yahweh isn't Elohim, but none of these other ones are like Yahweh. He's unique. He's incomparable They're very conservative in their theology The people who you know, the people who lived at Qumran were so conservative in their theology They thought that the priests the Pharisees were heretics I mean, it's just it's crazy to think that they're like some kind of you know, liberal or something No, they get it the people who don't get it I think are the modern scholars who just parse these terms these biblical terms in modern terms So, I mean to get the full view of this. I would say you need to go up to more unseen realm dot com That's the companion website to the book the unseen realm and chapters three chapters four chapter three and four They're going to be links in there to some of the articles I've written specifically on this topic Some of the journal articles, uh, one of those or actually two of them I think you'll find if memory serves me are about the the el and Yahweh question to an orthodox Israelite to a biblical writer el and Yahweh were not separate deities Okay, so other Israelites who were not theologically careful or who were deliberately sort of apostate Well, they may have viewed them as separate characters. You have to realize that Israelites. There's there's no one Category for Israelites. It's kind of like today people who call themselves Christians Well, they could believe a hundred different things. I mean you have Christians who again are aren't aren't even trinitarian Okay, well, I still accept G's on the cross, but I'm a I'm a I can't remember what the term is You know certain types of Pentecostal oneness Pentecostals I mean they'll they'll insist on on embracing the gospel the work of Jesus on the cross But yet they'll deny the trinity and again you my point is you have just as today you have this vast and in some cases we look at strange variation Under one term in this case Christianity. It's the same thing in the ancient world. What was Israelite religion? Well, it depends who you talk to well if you're talking to the biblical writers And what they we only know what they think because of the text they they gave us that we have El and Yahweh are not viewed as Separate deities and of course there are scholars who argue that there are vestiges of this still in the Old Testament Again, you're gonna have to read my articles Specifically on that issue to understand why I think that just doesn't make any sense and is actually Contradicted by a number of passages in the Old Testament So divine counsel stuff and the binatarian stuff does not deter People from arguing for An evolution from polytheism and monotheism in many cases It encourages them to argue for that and I've tried to explain here Why they they sort of take the paths that they do and how that works But to get the fuller picture you'll have to you'll have to reference the articles