Well, hello and welcome to this virtual Ebola reporting workshop in English. This is Binidic Paveo live from London. Thank you very much for joining us for this second part of this interactive training session. We're going to move on now to case studies of Ebola reporting, both international and African examples will be discussed. Now, while we listen to our second expert, please continue thinking of questions during the first part. Johannesburg and Accra were extremely active. Please continue to be so. But also wherever you are in the world, let's have you in on questions as well. So our next expert is a specialist in health policy issues and environmental health risk. His name is Jonathan Hamilton, John. I understand John. Hello. Hello. You're joining us from Washington and you've been a science correspondent at NPR News since 1998. You were part of a team of NPR reporters who just gone to Liberia in October 2014. So just weeks ago to cover the Ebola outbreak. I understand that the first part of your talk is going to be describing how we approach or how you approached NPR covering Ebola during that trip. But first, I understand you're just off quarantine. Is that right? What did it involve? That is correct when I came back to, we came back to Dulles Airport here in Virginia. And when we, when our team returned, we were put in a room where we were questioned by health authorities. And we were told that our names were going to be sent to the local public health officials here. And so sure enough, the next morning I got a call from the D.C. Department of Public Health. And I had a case officer assigned to me and I checked in with him twice a day to give my temperature and to say whether I had any symptoms that were about Ebola that went on for 21 days. Right. So you are now out of quarantine. I am. Excellent. Very good to hear. And congratulations. That's very good to hear. So now let's go to your talk, the case studies of Ebola reporting. Let's hear from you directly, your very recent experience on approaching covering Ebola. All right. I think I have some slides here. At least I hope I do. It's a cue for techies to experts to do their thing and they're doing it right now. You can begin talking. So let me, let me start. I just want to say a few words about my own experiences covering Ebola in Liberia, which ended just a few weeks ago. So let me say a little bit about NPR. If you haven't heard of NPR, it's a little bit like the BBC, but of course not nearly as large. We have about 700 employees and a couple of hundred journalists. So back in April of this year, we decided that we needed to start covering the Ebola outbreak. That was at the very beginning. It was just beginning to show up some cases coming out of Guinea. It was showing up in northern Liberia near Sierra Leone. And since that time, we have had at least 10 different teams go to West Africa to cover the story. I was part of a team that was in Liberia in the second half of October. And one of the things I want to emphasize is that I was part of a team. I was not doing this alone. It is much easier to cover Ebola if you have some help. And in the spirit of team members, let me introduce you to a couple of other members of the team to give you a sense of how we approached covering this story. So these are my colleagues, Rolando Arrieta and Mike Lane Ducleff. Obviously, Mike Lane is on the right. She works for the website of NPR. Rolando is a producer. So we had people with different skills going along. And I should say that was just part of the team. We also had a local journalist, and I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to have somebody who knows the local area. This is a woman named Siada Johnson. She's a journalist in Liberia. And she was our, as we often say, a fixer, but she also was a lot more than that. One of the things I learned is that having somebody there, you can get stories you never would have got otherwise, and I'll talk a little bit about that later. One other note about Liberia and some of the West Africa countries, if you speak American English as I do, Liberian English can be a huge challenge. And so it can be very helpful to have somebody simply to translate. Another person on our team, you have to have a local driver. It is impossible to find your way around a place like Liberia on your own. Often there are not street signs, often the roads are very bad. And you need to trust your driver. This is Muhammad. We trusted him with our lives, literally. He knew local languages, which helps you get through checkpoints, which up in the north part of the country can be a little dicey. And of course the other reason that a driver is so important, and trustworthiness is so important, is because when you're in a place with Ebola, we need to know that no infected person had been in our vehicle. Now, transmission of Ebola is not that easy, but you need to make sure that you're not in direct contact with any fluids from a person who's had Ebola. So we trusted Muhammad with our vehicle and with knowing who had been in it at all times. So that was our team. And all five of us on this team were together most of the time in Liberia. We did go our separate ways a few times, but most of the time this truly was a team effort. Let's see if I can get the next slide here. Let me say a few words about our approach to this coverage. By the time we got there, people had been covering Ebola for some months. So a lot of the reporting was pretty familiar to people. Ebola was all over the newspapers on TV, and so people had seen and heard a lot about it. You look at this picture, for instance, and this is a picture I took on our first day in Monrovi. It's a common scene. It's an Ebola ambulance and a team, you know, in the moonsuits picking up a patient, in this case somebody who died probably of Ebola, although that's not confirmed till later. And we saw ambulances like this on a pretty regular basis. Another really familiar, almost cliche scene is this hospital redemption hospital in Monrovi. It's a place that has treated a whole lot of Ebola patients. They actually closed down at one point because they were overwhelmed. And it's a place where some caregivers have contracted the virus and somehow died. So we were here at this hospital to interview a midwife. We were there for a very different purpose than just looking at care of Ebola. We were there to talk to a midwife about the challenge of delivering babies during an Ebola outbreak. And I will talk a little bit more about some of what we call the secondary aspects of the Ebola outbreak, including delivering babies a little bit later. I'll get the next slide to come up here. So our challenge, the way we saw it, was to come up with something new to say, something that hadn't been reported already. They knew that Ebola was killing people. They knew it was a terrible disease. And all of the scenes I just showed you were really familiar. So I think this is a big challenge now for all reporters who are going to cover Ebola. What can you say that hasn't been said already? Our approach was to pick some themes that we wanted to cover, things that had not received a whole lot of attention. One of these themes was that stopping Ebola requires people to get over the stigma attached to the disease. I know that in questions I heard earlier from people, people mention stigma several times, and there is a huge stigma attached to Ebola. If people fear they are shunned, if they have symptoms, they will not seek medical care when they get sick, and they are much more likely to pass along the virus. So the stigma aspect is really big. We were looking for a way to tell this story, and oddly enough, what we ended up doing was finding a story in a church, not any church. We were in the Episcopal Cathedral in Monrovia, and this was the first Sunday we were in country, and we were there because we had heard that a reverend was going to tell his own personal story about having contact with Ebola. And I should say that nobody gets into this church or any of the other churches we saw in Liberia until they've washed their hands with chlorine. The so-called Ebola buckets are everywhere in this country, and you wash your hands probably 20 or 30 times a day. Also in this church, people do not make physical contact. Even communion here is done in a way that makes sure there is no contact that could possibly transmit the virus, so it gives you a sense of how much Ebola has changed things in this country. The story we told is about Reverend Herman Brown, this guy, and he was scheduled to return to the pulpit after he and his family had been quarantined for 21 days. That is the quarantine period, of course, for Ebola, and they were quarantined because his wife had, out of the goodness of her heart, taken care of a sick friend, and it later turned out that friend had Ebola. She did not die, but clearly the wife had been exposed, and so the Reverend had been exposed as well. What made this story unusual was that the Reverend Brown, unlike many people, was extremely open about his exposure. He immediately called and told the church what had happened. He said he was going to put himself into quarantine, and that is hugely important because even in this country, many people are stigmatized in a way that is severely damaging to them. Many people cannot go back to their jobs even after they have passed 21 days, or people who have had Ebola and have recovered have found that they are not welcome in their communities, they don't have a job anymore. So the stigma issue was huge, and for him to step up and do this, we thought was a fascinating story, and, of course, finding, being there on the day when he returned to church to tell his story was a rare opportunity. So he told his story from hundreds of parishioners there. Including this child who was looking at me and not at what was going on. And what the Reverend's message was that people need to not turn away, they need to not try to hide any exposure from Ebola, and they need to embrace the people, not literally, they need to care for the people who have been exposed. So he used himself as an example of how to prevent the spread of the virus by being honest and open. I should say Liberia is a very warm country, so a church service, and this church service goes on for several hours, was incredibly hot, but as the Reverend was telling his story, there was not anybody in that room who was not riveted. You could have heard a pin drop. He had the rapt attention of everybody there, and I think it was a message that got across. Let me just show here all the stories I'm talking about are radio stories, but of course everything we do these days goes on the web as well, so I'm showing you just how this story appeared when it was on the web. The headline is Ebola in Church, or Reverend's Quarantine Spreads the Word. But of course the main vehicle for our reporting is over the air. Let me tell you about another story. Yes, please. Just one second, if I may, to London. The story of this priest is fantastic to hear about his journey and his story and his honesty with his congregation, and of course interestingly how his wife, by being kind and compassionate, unfortunately caught the news. She was exposed to it. She ended up not getting it, but yes, was exposed. Sorry, she was exposed to it. Thank you for that. And of course let me remind everyone we're talking about Ebola, but a lot of the things that we're talking about today would apply to any pandemic. But of course what's great about your going on to that story, verifying it of course, above and beyond that one man, it can inspire other people to be honest and to tell their journey. So it's really important to get that message out. It is, and one of the really gratifying things to see was that after the church service, the Reverend went out and his parishioners came, the people in the congregation came by and they all gave him a hug. He was welcomed back and I think it sent a really powerful message about how if you are open and if people think about it a little bit, that it does not have to be the stigmatized disease that it has been. And also that you can continue your religious practice with some flexibility, with some adaptation and consultation within those religions.  Absolutely. If you can figure out how to give communion wafers without having any physical contact between one person and another, it makes you realize that you can do a lot of things to adapt to a place where you have a contagious disease and you need not to spread it. Thank you for that. Yeah, sure. Let me briefly talk about a second story that I covered. I mentioned before, one of our missions was to talk about the secondary effects of Ebola. In other words, stories about how the virus is causing great hardship and suffering even among people who never were infected and never will be infected. And one of these secondary effects was about childhood vaccination. We knew that when the Ebola outbreak started, child vaccination pretty much stopped in Liberia.  So to get this story, I heard some questions earlier about the frustrations of dealing with bureaucracy. We certainly ran into some of that on our trip. Our first stop was to see this guy, his name is Adolphus Clark, and he is a government employee in charge of vaccines for the Ministry of Health. And let me tell you that working through the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Health is not easy. It requires many emails and verifications and phone calls and back and forth, but we were eventually able to get him on tape talking about vaccinations. And by the way, during our time in Liberia, the country began to require journalists to obtain a government permit to work. That's something to be aware of in some of these countries. They also began to require journalists to get specific permission to interview any health official about Ebola. So that made reporting a lot more difficult. You couldn't just go to a hospital and talk to people. You had to be approved before that could take place. The vaccination story we knew was not going to be interesting, it was just a government official talking. So once again, we started looking for a person involved. And to do that, you really have to go to where people are being vaccinated. To do that, you need a contact. So that was a case where my, our fixer, Siada, who, although she was a journalist, didn't have contacts in this realm. So I called UNICEF, which I knew had played a big role in sponsoring vaccination in Liberia. And this picture is of a UNICEF employee named Laurent Duvallier. He's actually worked in another country, but they brought him in to do some work in Liberia. And this picture was taken as we were on the way and we were driving to one of the rural vaccination clinics. Getting places is not easy. You can see there's a lot of water on the road. It's still the rainy season. We were in a four-wheel drive and we almost got stuck. The reason the young man is pointing is because we had been going several miles in the wrong direction. He said, no, the clinic is the other way. And at this point we're probably, oh, I think about an hour from Monrovia. Anyway, we eventually did get to the clinic. I think I have a picture of here. There it is. It's a small place, way out, away from the city. It's in an area where we knew that vaccination rates had been very high, which is a huge thing in Liberia. But after Ebola, vaccination rates in this community had fallen off and we wanted to see how things were going. Get the next slide here. A lot of reporters ask me about safety while covering Ebola. I'm going into clinics, places. They're not specifically for treating Ebola patients, but you never know who's in there. How do you make sure you don't get infected is a question I get a lot.  This is at the door of the clinic. No one got in this clinic without having their temperature taken, and as many of you probably know, if you don't have symptoms of Ebola and temperature, an highlighted temperature being one of the key ones, you are probably not contagious. So if you want to stay safe, it's good to interview people in places where they have been screened before you're getting in close proximity to them. This clinic sees mostly mothers and children, which is why it does a lot of vaccination, and this is a picture of a newborn being weighed. This is a woman we talked to who was there to get her child vaccinated. She told us about how a lot of people in the area were still afraid that vaccinations were still, were causing Ebola. But like, and I should say, like a lot of people in Liberia, she does not trust the government. Government trust is not high in this country at all. So when they say get vaccinated or do this about Ebola, people are very skeptical. But she said she trusted the local vaccinator. This was an individual who lived in the area and knew most of the people he vaccinated personally. So the reason she was there was not because she trusted the government, but because she trusted somebody she knew from her community. And we were told that if vaccination is going to succeed in the future, it's going to depend on probably those kind of relationships. I will quickly tell you about a third story we did. It took us to Northern Liberia. Let me get the next slide here if I can. Can I just interject? Yes, please. That's an interesting message really to give to the governments that they need to choose carefully who they choose as people giving the vaccinations, people who are respected in their local communities. We found that over and over again is that people trusted a local contact. If there was trust there, then things would go well. If it was an outsider or somebody they didn't trust, the Ebola ambulances would have stones thrown at them. Terrible things happened. So it's all, you know, epidemics are to a huge extent and public health is to a huge extent about trust. That was one of the things we certainly discovered from our reporting. So hopefully all the journalists watching us today and in the future can help to get that message across. They can help their governments, their health authorities to improve or to get that right. Yeah, it certainly is something where the government can use journalists in a good way to show why they should be trusted. And since we're a little short of time here, I'll quickly talk about the third story that I just wanted to mention, because it has some very different lessons. This is the story we did. We went up to Northern Liberia, near the border with Guinea and Sierra Leone. That is where the outbreak started and we wanted to go back. The reason we wanted to go back is we had heard that in this area where it had been at the worst and where it started was also an area where they had brought the epidemic under control, where there were not getting a lot of new cases and we wanted to know why. So our goal was to get to the town of Foya, which is where this was going on. It is really remote. If you drive, it's about 12 hours from Monrovia. We found an alternative. We hitched to ride in this UN helicopter. And by the way, there was nothing special about us. You can apply to get a ride on a UN helicopter if you're willing to go through the bureaucracy to get there. It's not all that hard to do. This is me on the helicopter. It was a several-hour flight. And this is where we ended up. This is Foya, up in the very northern-most part of Liberia. And you may see the woman there is from Metz and Saint-Françoisier, Doctors Without Borders. And if you look over her left shoulder off in the distance, you can see that is where, I guess you would call it the clinic. They would call it a care center. They said it would be unfair to say we are providing treatment. So we don't call it a treatment center. We call it a care center. They gave a place to isolate patients who had it. They made sure they had fluids. They made sure they were being looked after. But there is no treatment or certainly there was no treatment then for Ebola. And so they did not call it a treatment center. Anyway, this is where we eventually landed. And this was after several hours drive after getting off the helicopter. By the way, I learned after I got back to the states that one of those UN helicopters had crashed a couple of years ago. But fortunately, I did not know that at the time. At the clinic, we talked to everybody because we wanted to understand what was working here. So this is a guy we talked to. He's a survivor of Ebola. He was passed his quarantine. He survived, so did his granddaughter. But the story he's telling us there is about how every single other person in his family died of the disease. It got into one of them. They were all in the same household in a very small space. They all got it. And almost all of them died. I think there were eight or nine total in the family. We also talked to the people who take care of Ebola patients.  They wear those rubber boots. In case you haven't seen those already, they wear them mostly because they get their feet sprayed with chlorine all the time as they're going in and out of different areas. And so your shoes come apart pretty fast. I should mention that many of the reporters, when you're doing these stories, you wear rubber boots as well because otherwise your shoes will be bleached out completely after a couple of days. This is a guy we talked to. The only job it is to mix chlorine for the center. He makes sure the concentrations are right. He makes sure everybody has enough. And what we learned from all of these people was that the success in stopping Ebola had to do with getting local people to trust the local healthcare workers. At the beginning, people had suspected that healthcare workers were bringing Ebola. They thought that they were taking people away to steal their organs and sell them on the international market. So what happened was these healthcare workers began a sort of public relations campaign. They found ways to allow family members to come see sick loved ones while they were in the center from a distance, from a safe distance, but they could visit them so they knew they hadn't been taken away and had their organs stolen. They let the family members of somebody who died, they let them see the body before it was buried and they showed them where it was going to be buried. They followed completely safe practices in burying the bodies, but they made sure it was no longer a mystery. And these changes, there were a bunch of others, but these kind of changes made all the difference. This is a place where instead of workers and the ambulance being greeted with hostility, perhaps even violence in some cases, people knew the number to call, they would call, and then they knew that they could come visit somebody. So it changed the system where people were being hidden away in houses and infecting other people, and it was a huge role in controlling the epidemic in this area. And this is the story. As it ran, Ebola strategy brings good news to one Liberian town. And just so you don't think that reporting on Liberia is all about hardship and difficulty, this is a picture I took of one of the dinners we had where we were in a hotel in Vojima, and it was quite delightful. I should say that the travels were not all hardship. There were many parts about them that were wonderful. And let me just say one other really quick thing about safety, because I get asked about this all the time, it's really pretty simple, right? We never made contact with anybody, physical contact. Nobody in Liberia shakes hands, and we didn't either. We didn't shake hands, we didn't touch anything when we were in a hospital or an area. We didn't touch any person when we were out reporting. We washed our hands all the time at these Ebola buckets, like the one you see in this picture. And we never went any place where protective gear was required. I have seen pictures of reporters all decked out in protective gear. I really question whether that's necessary. We did interview some patients across a safe space, but we never went anywhere where we needed protective gear and that was one way we knew that we were staying in a safe area. So there you have it, it's the abbreviated version of how NPR approached covering Ebola. Thank you very much, Jonathan, for that. We have indeed a question from Chinyere Okia from Hot FM in Abuja, Nigeria. And he asks, how did you acquire the protective gear for your reporting on Ebola? And what happens in cases where journalists want to report but don't have the proper protective gear? I don't think you need a lot of protective gear. We took, before we left, we took a bag that had, we had a few face masks, although we never used them, I should say. Rubber boots were key because you're forever walking, especially before we got there. It was routine to actually walk through a sort of a trough of chlorine liquid. You can't do that in regular shoes. And so it's an easy way to keep your feet from becoming contaminated in an area. We had, you know, our safety equipment was along the lines of, you know, Clorox wipes and hand gel. And I don't think you need a lot of protective equipment. And we certainly didn't have anything that you couldn't get in a regular pharmacy. There was nothing special. We did not have the moon suits. We did not have, you know, Tyvek garments and that kind of stuff. We just didn't need them. Well, thank you for that. And I think it's a timely message that I can share now about helping African journalists fight the spread of Ebola. There are many countries that are threatened by the Ebola virus. It's not just Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, of course, where they've been struck particularly hard. But many of those countries have actually very few resources to report on the crisis. So there are actually three international organizations that have launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to get vital equipment to local radio stations in the worst affected areas. They are the World Federation of Science Journalists, the WFSJ, in association with Irondelle, USA, and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC. And they've created the first, the fundraising campaign to help local radio stations and their staff in Ebola affected regions. So you can help. I'm now speaking to all you journalists throughout the world listening to us, looking at us. You can help spread this message to help these journalists fight the spread of Ebola by improving their reporting, by having the proper equipment. I'll give the address which is quite a mouthful once. Bear with me. If you don't catch it the first time, I very much hope that your U.S. embassies, consulates and other places will be able to give you this address again. So here we go. Here's the mouthful. But it's worth it. H-T-T-P-S. Semicolon. Slash, slash. W-W-W. Indiegogo. That's spelled I-N-D-I-E-G-O-G-O. Dot, com. Slash. Projects. P-R-O-J-E-C-T-S. Slash. Help. H-E-L-P. Hyphen. African. Hyphen. Journalists. So that's journalist in the plural. Hyphen. Fight. Hyphen. The. Hyphen. Spread. Spelled. S-P-R-E-A-D. Hyphen. Of. Another hyphen. Ebola. Slash. X. Slash. We're getting there. 8809970. There we are. An important message even if that website address is a little hard. Do you get some help if you need that? It's a worthy cause. Thank you for that, Jonathan. Did you want to share very briefly with us, and I'm afraid it will have to be briefly before we take questions, some coverage of the outbreak that you think has been good? Yeah, let me do that, and I won't show any slides, so I'll just move this through this very quickly. I'll just talk. Thank you. I've read a lot of Ebola coverage in recent months. I've read some that I felt not so good about. But let me talk about some of the things that I thought were really good. First thing I found is that reporters who actually go to the trouble to learn something about the Ebola virus, the science behind it, do a much better job. The New York Times has done some really nice work explaining the virus, where it came from, how it spread, all these kinds of things. There is a scientific underpinning that will really strengthen reporting. I think the place they've done a good job, they have reporters who have taken the time to delve into that. The other thing I would say is that journalists who have done the best job have really been able to get a local perspective. So if you're coming from the U.S. as I am, don't just come with the perspective of how scared people are in the U.S. Think about what are the problems facing the people in the country that you're reporting on? What does it look like from the standpoint of somebody from Liberia or Sierra Leone? There's a story I was going to show a slide of, but Colleen Cooper of the New York Times has done a wonderful job of this, and one of the reasons is that she grew up in Liberia. And so when she went back, she was able to do a story about the political implications of whether people were going to win or lose elections, which was actually hugely important to the people of Liberia. It's not just about whether it's going to spread to another country, it has big impacts locally, and if you find people who have that local understanding, you'll do a much better job reporting. One other thing is worth noting is you have to be willing to what I would call go deep. You have to be willing to put in the time to get to remote places. One of my colleagues, Kelly McEvers, followed a contact tracing team. They hiked four hours into a place looking for somebody who they did not find, and then they hiked four hours back out again. I think the reporters who are willing to put in that time get the better stories and really convey the difficulty of coping with this outbreak. I think places that show the whole story, some news organizations, including the BBC, have done a wonderful job of curating their courage. You go to a page and you'll see a place where you can get to lots of different stories about Ebola. Where it came from, the science behind it, the latest numbers, all of that stuff, I think that's a huge service to people. I mentioned before about following the science. I know that one of my favorite BBC pieces was actually about them tracking bushmeat. Many people think that's where the epidemic probably started, but they went in a really interesting deep way into looking at where does bushmeat come from? Is eliminating it? Is it banning it really going to solve the problem? People, they quoted, said, no, that would probably just drive it underground and that's probably not a good thing. I will stop there. Why don't we leave some time for questions? Jonathan, thank you so very much for your presentation. Also, you're open as to questions. It makes a real difference. Here's a question from Abuja Nigeria. It's from Uche Nuizu of NTA. How do I strike a balance between what officials tell me about Ebola and the reality on the ground about the Ebola situation in a particular country? Yeah, this is something I think all of us who've tried to cover this story have grappled with.  The numbers are very hard to come by in an outbreak like this. One of the things I came away from after visiting the Ministry of Health in Liberia was that they really don't know with any precision how many people are getting the virus every day or every week.  Well, I think the balance is that you report what officials say because after all, that's part of your job. But I spent a lot of time, as did my team, trying to verify what people said. If they said, oh yes, vaccination is still happening, you go. You go to the place. And you ask the people, are kids getting vaccinated here? If they say no, you have to include that in your report. So it's a kind of a trust a little bit, but verify a lot would be, I think, the strategy. Trust a little bit, verify a lot. That's a good one. I'm sure you're being heard out there now. You're being heard in Accra. And here's a question. I can't be everywhere at all times. So how can I get contacts of other health reporters for active, authentic news to share? That's an interesting question. You know, my strategy has been, and actually before I went to Liberia, I went and read everything that people were reporting. And I made a short list of the people I thought were doing interesting coverage and I thought had a good idea. And I actually contacted some of them. Reporters' skills are based on their reporting, right? If you see a name, I think most reporters are pretty open to being contacted, certainly on an informal basis. And for instance, we talked to Helene Cooper of the New York Times before we went because we thought it might be useful. And so, you know, read what's out there and contact the people you think are doing a good job. Yes, so sometimes that's important to do it beforehand. We all work with very tight deadlines. That's not always possible. But if you can give people again some time to respond, realizing that they're probably very busy, that helps as well, as well as when you're on the ground, of course. Indeed. And when you are on the... Let me just add one more thing about when you are on the ground. You know, the people you will not find when you're searching Google News for stories are some of the local reporters. So if you possibly can, you know, if you're at the Ministry of Health at the press conference and you see some of the local reporters there, talk to them. You often get great information. One thing I should add about our fixer, Seattle Johnson, she is the president of the Women's Journalist Association of Liberia and so was able to put us in touch with a number of local journalists who are wonderful resource. And I guess that's another thing to look for. Look for the journalism organization that's specific to that country and send a note, find out who's covering that story. Yes, get local knowledge, local national regional knowledge, dig down into your sources. And indeed, this really is pertinent to the question sent by Chiquizier Omedje from Acer Radio in Abuja. Hello, Chiquizier. What sources of information were most reliable during your reporting trip? So you're going to tell us local knowledge amongst others? The most reliable people were... Let me give an example. You go to the Ministry of Health. They will give you national statistics on vaccination rates that were way out of date. They would tell you about what happened for last year. When you go to the local center, the local vaccination center, and you talk to the vaccinator, the local person, he pulled out a sheet of paper that had the names of every person in the past two years he's vaccinated. Which vaccines they got? Which people had not come in for scheduled vaccines? So again, the people on the scene are so much more reliable than people who are removed and getting reports. After all, it's second-hand news if some minister is getting it back in the capital. Go to the source. From two reporters in Abuja, what should a journalist do when restricted to speak or interview an Ebola patient in an isolation center and also on a related note? How close can a reporter get to an Ebola patient? We interviewed... And the NPR teams interviewed a number of Ebola patients. Now, keep in mind, most people in the symptomatic stages of Ebola are not in a state to do an interview.  So your opportunities are going to be somewhat limited. Most of the care centers that we visited have set up areas now where what they do is they have two fences about six feet apart. And patients can come up to the one fence on the inside and reporters and visitors can come up to the fence on the other side. And so you're never going to get within more than five or six feet of these people. And that is a completely safe distance. You ask how close can you get, especially if you're outside this virus, like most viruses, is very subject to ultraviolet light, which you get from sunlight, and it sterilizes everything.  And the one also about what should a journalist do when restricted to speak or interview an Ebola patient in an isolation center? I'm trying to understand exactly what, well, an isolation center being a place where there's a physical separation between patients and other people. Is that what we're talking about? One thing you can try is some of the centers now, and thank you, technology, there are actually a number of centers that have put a cell phone that patients can use so they can call their families. If you can get the number to that cell phone, you can talk to anybody in there even if you're nowhere in the area. And so this is an option that we saw several places that I had no idea about, but if you call a care facility and say, is there a cell phone? And they keep these cell phones just inside with the patients so there's no chance that they would be carrying the virus outside. But that's another approach to how to deal with people who are in isolation. That's a really interesting tip. Use the phone. Well, first find out if there is one. Find out if there is one. Yes. And then call it. Oh, actually speaking of which, I've read some articles on the fact that some toll-free numbers that have been set up sometimes don't work. What do journalists do then? You mean toll-free numbers to get information about Ebola? Ebola, yes, by health authorities or governments. We found... How did you get around that? Yeah, it's a challenge. And in Liberia, for instance, some of the numbers don't work. If you go to the websites, the pages haven't been updated in three or four months. We often went to the local journalists or people or journalists who had been in country before and said, is there a number that works? Is there another way? But you often have to dial and dial and dial. If the toll-free number doesn't work, you have to start calling the numbers that charge. And if that means calling the Ministry of Health and saying, what is the number to get the Ebola figures, then that's what you've got to do. Keep chasing the right number. Here's another question from Abuja. So what should a journalist do when government officials and health workers are not releasing facts about an outbreak or correct prevention measures? I think you do what reporters always do when a source shuts you down. You go to alternative sources. If you're not getting facts and figures locally, you can then go to the World Health Organization and see what they have. Those numbers may not be as good, but at least there are some numbers. They're a starting point. And as far as prevention information, I think journalists can get that from, you know, you can get it from our CDC here in the United States. You can get it from the World Health Organization. And I would think that a journalist in any country where there is a possibility that Ebola could come, there's certainly any country in West Africa, and as we've seen, even in the U.S., you know, patients can show up. I think everybody needs to know about prevention measures and that it is a useful service for journalists to report on those, whether or not you have any government official talking about them in your area. Thank you for that. From Lutenggan Nohawanga of TBC in Dar es Salaam. Hello, Dar es Salaam. Thank you for being with us. You worked with local journalists. How competent were they in reporting Ebola? It varied a lot. One of the things about West Africa is that the journalists do not have the resources and they don't have the news organizations of the size that we have in Europe and the U.S. and many other places. And so you don't have people, for instance, who are specialized in science reporting who've covered epidemics before. So you find the local journalists rarely have that kind of specialized knowledge, certainly not the kind of knowledge that somebody like Martin Enterick has about this virus. However, what they did have was a really good sense of some other things, like the political reasons that the government might be saying one or another thing about the virus. So whereas I think some of the foreign reporters had the edge as far as understanding the disease, I think the local reporters were much more sophisticated when it came to the political implications and to know when somebody might be not telling the truth or why they may not be telling the truth. That's very good insight information. Also, thank you for your honesty, Jonathan. So the final question is from Akra. Could the failure of journalists in Ebola-affected countries to report or raise alerts, be blamed for the crises? That's hard to say. I guess I'm trying to think if there's an example that makes sense. I mean, I think if I were to talk about failures, I would point much more toward government failures than journalistic failures. I think there's probably a point to be made that sometimes when the government is silent, the journalists go silent as well, which is a mistake. I mean, just because a government won't talk about something doesn't mean that you as a journalist shouldn't be reporting it. But I would not say that there have been outbreaks caused by the media failing to get the story out. My experience has been in most countries where something is going on in the media has done a pretty good job of getting the word out. Jonathan Hamilton from National Public Radio in Washington. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for your insights, your honesty, and some very, very useful tips on improving really reporting on Ebola, case studies from not just Africa, but also some international examples on good reporting what to do and what not to do. A lot of, well, knowledge and also local knowledge that you've helped to share with us. Thank you so much. I'm sure that we will have all learned a lot from that session.


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God sees where you are in life right at this very moment. You have His attention. He can hear you. He can see you. He knows your thoughts and he understands your heart. And he knew that you needed to hear this right now.  But there is blessing in brokenness. There is blessing in being purified in the fire. Perhaps you're in a season right now, this could be you. You're in a season where you just feel the pressures of the world coming against you. All of the cares, all of the concerns, it seems like one thing after another after another. But I have an encouraging word for you. The very thing that you thought would drive you further from the Lord is actually what He's going to use to pull you deeper. The very thing that you thought would break you down is actually the key to your breakthrough. God knows where you are. God understands your situation and perhaps you feel alone. You feel disconnected from the Lord and from people. This is the season of brokenness. But this is a season of blessing. I want to talk to you on this edition of Spirit Church about wrestling with God. And really we wrestle with God through these seasons of our lives.  You're going to grow stronger than ever before. You're going to walk in His blessing like never before. You just have to make it. You just have to make it through this season. The key here is clinging to the Lord. I'm going to talk to you about that in just a moment. But first, as usual, Stephen Moctezuma is here with me. He's going to lead you in worship. And then we're going to get right into this message. I know, I know, I know that this is prophetic. There are going to be those watching. As they watch, they're going to be weeping. And they're going to be saying, that's me. That's where I am exactly. Because remember, the Lord knows exactly where you are. Here is Stephen Moctezuma. I want to go to Genesis chapter 32, verse number 22. During the night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two servant wives, and his eleven sons, and crossed the Jabok River with them. After taking them to the other side, he sent over all his possessions. This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched it out of its socket. Then the man said, let me go, for the dawn is breaking. But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. What is your name? the man asked. He replied, Jacob. Your name will no longer be Jacob, the man told him. From now on, you will be called Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have won. Please tell me your name, Jacob said. Why do you want to know my name? the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there. Jacob named the place Paneel, which means face of God. For he said, I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared. The sun was rising as Jacob left Paneel, and he was limping because of the injury to his hip. You've often heard it said, or repeated I should say by preachers, that no man has seen the face of God. And this at first when I heard this seemed to me to be a contradiction because I said, but Jesus said that if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. The scripture teaches that if someone sees God, they die. Yet people saw the face of God when they looked at the face of Jesus. The scripture says that Moses talked with God face to face, as one would talk with a friend. And at first to me this seemed like a contradiction, until the Holy Spirit spoke to me.  It is the death of self.  God will not reveal himself to someone who is not broken, who is not dying to self. I'm not talking about the revelation of salvation. The Holy Spirit reveals that and that causes men to repent. I'm talking about walking in greater depths of fellowship with God. The scripture says that the secret of the Lord is with them who fear Him. There must be this death to self. There must be this peeling away of the ego. If we are to truly catch a glimpse of the face of God, if we are to truly receive the transformative touch of the Holy Spirit upon our lives, we must rid self of self. We cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit if we are filled with ourselves. The Holy Spirit will only bless what is surrendered. And He will only fill what is empty.   God wants you not to carry the countenance of self, but He wants you to carry the countenance of Christ. He wants you to reflect the image of Jesus. He is jealous over you with righteous jealousy. And the truth is that not all jealousy is evil. You see, sinful jealousy is based in fear. But godly jealousy is based in love. Who among us who is married would not be jealous if our spouse were to go out with someone else. That's holy jealousy. And God has a holy jealousy over you. And He wants to draw you deeper into fellowship with Him. He wants to reveal more of Himself to you, but you must be broken. You must be dead to self. If the work of the Holy Spirit is to be complete in our lives, if it is to be free, that work is to be free. If that power is to flow through us, we must surrender self. And Jacob finds himself in a place where he is pressured and alone. You see, if you don't know the back story between Jacob and Esau, Jacob had taken the birthright from Esau. He had taken a blessing from Esau. And he hadn't spoken to him in years. And then he receives word that his brother Esau is coming to see him, and he becomes fearful, thinking that perhaps his brother might come to kill him. He hasn't talked to him in years, so he doesn't know where Esau is in his heart. But he's feeling the pressure, and in this case it's the pressure from his past catching up to him. And if you go on to read the Scripture, he sends gifts along the path behind him so that as Esau is approaching, he's appeased with each gift. He's trying to fix his own problems, his own way. Here he is, pressured, possibly fearing for his life. And the Scripture says, in verse number 24, this left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break. Jacob was alone. You know there are those seasons where God will disconnect you from people. You'll reach up to God, and you'll feel as though there's no response. And you'll reach out to people, but they won't reach back. There are seasons in life where you are just so positioned you're isolated. You're alone. And this usually comes at the moment when you're sensing all of the pressures around you. And again, as I just said, you reach out but nobody reaches back.  We all make mistakes. None of us are perfect. In fact, it's possible that those around you themselves are dealing with their own struggles and they cannot possibly reach back in this season. But God will position you in some seasons to be alone. Am I saying that we should live isolated, free from the accountability of our brothers and sisters? Absolutely not. The Scripture doesn't teach that. The Scripture teaches just the opposite. It encourages connection. What I'm saying is that there are those seasons where we find it difficult to connect. Where we feel that loneliness in our heart. And as I said, we even reach up and it seems that God himself is not reaching back. The rejection of man is often the calling of God. Every rejection you receive could very well be an invitation from God. You have your pressures. You have your troubles.  You go to the Lord. There seems to be a disconnect. And in these seasons, I'll tell you what God wants you to do. He wants you to seek Him. He wants you to pursue Him. Jacob was under pressure. He was under stress. And he found himself alone. And the Scripture says he begins to wrestle with God. Let's go read verse 29 again. Please tell me your name, Jacob said. Why do you want to know my name? The man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there. Jacob named the place Peniel, which means face of God. For he said, I have seen God face to face. Yet my life has been spared. He wrestled with God. What does this mean? Well, I believe that this wrestling with the Lord, he finds himself alone. He finds himself pressured. And this wrestling with God is the shedding of self. Because it was after this wrestling that Jacob received that new name. It was after that wrestling that Jacob received the new nature from God. But he wrestled with him first. The Scripture says that as he's wrestling with God, that this man, the Scripture calls him in that portion of the Scripture, but then it goes on to reveal that it was the Lord. But the Scripture tells us that as he's wrestling with God, that God recognizes that Jacob isn't going to give up. Now this is the Lord. He could at any point overpower him. But what does he do? Verse 25, when the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched it out of its socket. What did he do? He broke him. God wants to break us because sometimes our flesh is just too strong. You know, you can be delivered from demonic beings, but you can never really be delivered from the flesh. You will battle the flesh for the rest of your life. There are seasons where the flesh loses and gains power, depending upon our obedience toward God. But ultimately the flesh is not completely destroyed until we receive a new body. And so Jacob is wrestling with God and God has to break him.  You go to read the Bible and you can't focus on the words. You can't pay attention to what the Scripture says. But this manifestation of resistance is even stronger when you go to pray. When you go to just minister to the Lord. When you go to just fellowship with God. There's this squirming. There's this uneasiness that comes over you. You find it difficult to discipline yourself to remain in prayer. You find it difficult to remain in that place of reverence and solitude. You find it difficult to motivate yourself to go and pray. Why? Because the flesh is fighting you. We must say to our flesh. We must grab hold of our flesh, subject the flesh and say you will pray whether you like it or not. Do you know why the flesh fights you when you pray? It's because the flesh knows that when you pray, it loses its power. It loses its power when you pray. And so we need to be spiritual men and women of God who subject the flesh by our obedience, by our decisions to obey the Word of God, by our decisions to discipline ourselves to prayer. Jacob wrestled with God. There was this fighting. There was this conflict. And God broke him. Why is it that God will sometimes seem distant? It's not that he's trying to withdraw from you. It's that he's trying to get you to seek him again. We get so comfortable where we are. We get so familiar with our surroundings that God has to shake us up. God has to send the pressure. He has to allow for the loneliness so that he can get us all to himself because as I said, he is jealous over you. So that he can get us all to himself and in that place change our nature. In that place wrestle with us. God will take us to the loneliness, take us to the pressure so that we can deal with the flesh and come out changed. But before God can change you, before God can give you a new name, he has to break you. When he broke Jacob's hip or socket, out of its socket, he caused Jacob to lean. It caused him to become dependent upon God. When you're broken, you have to lean on the Lord. When I am weak, then he is strong. You know, I think about my situation in ministry. And from the outside looking in, it looks pretty fun.  Let me tell you something. You know how preachers will tell you, oh, it's not what you think. There's sacrifice and, you know, I understand there is some sacrifice or there's some challenge. I wouldn't necessarily call anything a sacrifice because everything I give up, God replaces with something better. I do say there is challenge in it, but I'm not going to lie to you. It really is great. I mean, I get to preach the Word of God. That's what I do. That's my life. I get to preach and minister the Word of God. I get the honor of ministering the Word of God. And so, while I do say that there is challenge in ministry, it's a blessing to be able to preach the Word of God. But if I'm just being very honest with you, that blessing isn't enough. I've seen hypocrites who can preach the Word better than I can.  I get to see cities and, you know, for the most part, most of my traveling is I see the airports and the hotels, the airports and the hotels. It can become a notness, but there are those times where I get to see places like Puerto Rico or the Philippine Islands or the Fijian Islands or I've been to several different states and countries and I get to experience all sorts of different cultures and people groups. And that's wonderful. And it's a blessing. But again, if I'm being honest and at the risk of sounding unappreciative, it's not enough. I get to see miracles all of the time. I saw this woman who was completely paralyzed. This is just recently, just thinking just a couple of weeks back. A woman completely paralyzed because of a stroke in her left arm. No movement, no feeling. God healed her instantly in that service that I ministered. And she begins to move her arm. She begins to feel she was healed. I saw a miracle. I see blind eyes open, deaf ears open, but if I'm being honest with you, though it is a blessing, that's not enough. I get to minister on television and on the media and on several different platforms. There are times where I've spoken to at one moment hundreds of thousands of people. But you know, it's emptiness, really, in and of itself. Do you know what preaching to a few hundred thousand people over the media in one moment feels like? It feels the exact same as preaching to a dozen people over the media. Do you know what preaching to thousands feels like? It feels just about the same as preaching to a hundred or so as far as the fulfillment one gets from it and ministering and being in front of people and being able to communicate. I love communicating. It's a blessing, but it's not enough. I'm certain that when the day comes when we're ministering to millions at once, it will feel just like ministering to hundreds. I get to travel with my wife, my best friends. I come to an office where I work. My workers are great employees. I'm in a good place in life, financially, relationally, emotionally, spiritually. Why am I telling you all of this? I'm not bragging. I'm telling you this because the blessing I'm talking about has nothing to do with any of those things. If I just had those things, I'm telling you right now, it wouldn't be enough. Because after a service where I witness the power of God, I have to go back to my hotel room and I have to shut that door and no one else is there. And if it wasn't for the presence of Jesus, there would be emptiness in everything that I do. I don't care how blessed I look from the outside. I don't care how glamorous the media or the television portion of it look. I would be empty were it not for the presence of Jesus. Jacob told the Lord, I'm not letting go until you bless me. But he didn't get Jacob out of the situation he thought he was in with Esau. You read the story later, you find that Esau was not coming to kill him. He didn't change his circumstance. He didn't give him anything of material value. What did he do? He broke him and changed his name. He is the blessing. The reward is a closer fellowship with him.  All of those things without the presence of Jesus bring nothing but emptiness. Only his presence can fulfill.  He wants to cause you to become desperate and dependent so that you know it is only by his strength. So you're feeling the pressure, you're feeling alone, you're sensing things around you, pushing you toward desperation. It's a good place to be. It is the season where God breaks you. It is the season where God strips you of self. It is the season where he reveals himself. And where he transforms your nature. But here's the key. Here's the key to getting past that loneliness. Here's the key to getting past that pressure. Here's the key to getting past the flesh. Here's the key to allowing God to truly break you. Even when it hurts, you don't let him go. You say, I will not let you go. Even if you break me, it will just make me more desperate for you. Even if you break me, it will just make me rely on you more. Do not let him go. That's a word for someone. Don't let him go. His presence is all you need. We go through these seasons like Jacob. We're alone. Jacob was alone with God, the Scripture says. He wrestled with God. He fought for the transformation of his nature. He sensed the pressure all around him, but it was in this season, it was in this moment that God got him alone and God was able to break him. I want to pray with you now that God would reveal himself to you in a greater way than ever before and that this season would not be wasted but that you would come into a place where you were broken before God and that you find the blessing in brokenness and that you find the blessing in wrestling with God. Father, in Jesus' name, I pray for that one watching. And we declare, we will not let you go. You are the source. You are the reward. And I pray, Father, by your Holy Spirit, that you would touch that one receiving this prayer now. That they would be strengthened and encouraged because you've spoken to them right where they are. You see them. You know where they are in life, Lord. We will not let you go. Change our nature, Father. Change our hearts. Make us more like you. Empty us of self. Fill us with the Holy Spirit, I pray. In Jesus' name, I want you to say it with me, say amen. I want to welcome now the new members of Spirit Church. There you are up on the screen. We love you. We are praying for you. I always say that because I always mean it. And if you would like to join the Spirit Church family or the Spirit family as we call it, use the information at the bottom of the screen to find out how. Also wait until the end of the video. We'll provide you with a link where you can click and it will take you right to where you can sign up. If you're not watching this on YouTube, that clickable link will not appear at the end of the video. Perhaps it will appear some other form on some other platform. 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Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com, coming at you with that right over there. It's a pack of 2023 Bowman Chrome Baseball, hobby pack break number 13, got three different dice rolls happening. First of all, we're giving away spots within the break itself, then we'll do the break, then we'll give away the 12 teams that'll knock out, that'll ultimately unlock Picker Team 10, I don't want knocking my water bottle, Picker Team 10, which is right over there.  And let's roll it and randomize that list one into four, five times, one, two, three, four, and five. There's the 10 right there. Jeremy Josh, Mark, Brian, Brian, Ronnie, Joe, Zach, Andrew, and Chris. Congrats to you. After five times, a little extra spots going your way. Alright, we'll put little rooftop symbols next to your game so you know you won those spots, won those extra spots that will buy one, get one opportunity. Now let's copy all of your names and let's do the break itself. All teams are in, paste your names in there, let's roll it, randomize each list, six and a four, ten times for names and teams, one, two, three, six, Brian, down to Brian, six and a four, ten times for the teams, ten, there we go. It's down to the snakes. He's a cold hearted snake, look into his eyes. Alright, no trade windows but there's the first half of the list right there and then the second half of the list down there. Great. Let's print this out and then do the quick little pack break and we'll re-randomize your names and then we'll see who gets what in the next break. Alright, we've got a James Amon rookie card, Miguel Cabrera and an autograph. That's Will Warren, where there's a will, there's a way. That'll be for Zach Gwynn and the Yankees. Won the extra spot, got randomized the Yankees and gets this guy here, your sixth ranked Yankees prospect according to Baseball America. This is Bowman 1st autograph, not bad. We've got a James Amon rookie card as well, he's had a really nice season, that's going to go to Eugene. There you go, okay. Not too shabby. I think these are just comments that aren't going to ship but there you go, a couple of nice cards there. Now we've got some more hits in this break, we've got 12 hits in this break, right? The given away teams, that's like those are like hits. So there's all the names again. Third and final dice roll, top 12 after six, we'll get teams in this order right here. So top 12 after six, good luck, one, two, three, four, five and once more, sixth and final time. There's your sixth right there. So from 13 on down, sorry Jeremy, 13 through 30, apologies but appreciate everybody giving this try. Top 12 though, you've got teams in the next break, Andrew, you've got a team. So does Brian, Josh, Jeremy is in, Tristan, Jeremy again, Andrew, Brian, Mark, Eric, Chris and Brian, congrats to the top 12. So Brian, you have the twins, Chris with the Mets, Eric with the Brew Crew, Mark with the Rays, Brian with the Angels, Andrew with the Cardinals, Jeremy with the Rocks, Tristan with the Jays, Jeremy with the White Sox, Royals for Brian and Andrew with the Nets. There you go, we'll see you in the next video for the break, jaskiescasebreaks.com. Bye-bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby'scasebrakes.com. We got our last filler. The only filler we had to do to knock out 2020 finest baseball, but first let's do this pack break And then we'll give away the the the remaining spots at the end of the video in a different dice roll big Thanks to this group for making it happen And there are the teams right there. Let's roll it randomized names and teams three and a four Seven times each. This is just for the pack break different dice roll for the for the giveaway part No, sorry. No, it's a different little seven one two three four five six seven Wow, that's really intense Oliver so your fantasy league you have monthly and category prizes a lot of side bets Seven times for the teams So it sounds like kind of fun like so if you if you like lead If you have the most strikeouts or something like that if you have the picturing staff for the most strikeouts You'll get like some kind of payout. All right, there's the first half of the list right there And the second half of the list right over here. Wow, you won 3k last year That's pretty intense Fantasy baseball league.  It's not a job if you love it. You love doing what you do All right, there's been a tendy And we have a hit in this little pack we do two-color dual rally Teosca Hernandez that's Toronto edition going to Darren and the blue jays my printer is in error state Couldn't print man more printer drama that we'll have to take care of after this in between this and the Finest break which is coming up in the next video new dice new list. All right, so it's gonna be top eight after Eight two and a six eight times. Oh, there it goes one two No, maybe not three four five six And a two seven and eight So there it goes All right, so it's only top eight after eight so from not Kevin very close, but just not quite from nine through 30 Thanks for giving it a shot ladies and gentlemen appreciate it Top eight you're in the finest break. That's coming up to the next video. It's gonna be Tristan happy times for him and John Tristan again Eric Gabe Nicole Jake and Nicole There you go. Congrats to the top eight after eight. We'll see you in the next video. Jasper's case race calm


What up guys this is gonna be the slightly longer version of my talentry guide and here I'm just gonna go over a little bit more about why I've chosen certain talents and other options that you could potentially switch to When they're gonna be good and that kind of thing so first of all we are starting with unbreakable will This is pretty much a no-brainer you pretty much never go twin disciplines for PVP because I mean read the talent It's obviously insane. So we're gonna start off with that then silent resolve again This is gonna be part of every single PVP build insanely strong talent. You will never not take this in any kind of PVP build Next we've got improved inner fire Now this is really strong because over level 70 inner fire starts giving you spell power as well And so this talent actually increases the amount of spell power that you get from that Spell power is really strong in Wrath of the Lich King compared to healing in TBC. The the scaling and the coefficients Are all boosted on a lot of our spells And so spell power actually really helps with survivability as well as overall healing output due to actually bigger shields Big appennances this kind of thing now. There's also the option to go for imp fortitude These talents will likely come out of some stuff low down in the tree and I'll talk about that later if we are Under an insane amount of pressure in certain matchups Where we're getting sucked down then this might be a good talent to try and pick up as well Meditation is just standard We basically have no region without this during combat. We lose all the value from spirit So this is always going to be taken three out of three Same for inner focus. No reason to ever not take this talent and same for imp shield Shields obviously being such an important part of healing rotation in Wrath of the Lich King not affected by mortal strike And obviously an instant and then with the soul warding there is no cooldown on either We've got things like rapture later on that benefits for the shield as well. So we'll talk about that as well later But yeah, you will always take this Absolution I would say this is slightly slightly weaker than in tbc And I think the spelling is slightly less of a part Of your gameplay in Wrath compared to tbc, but it's still an insanely strong talent So I will take three out three and then mental agility has gone down from five to three points But it's still really really strong So many of your spells at instance, you know dispel shield palm renew Etc So 10% mana cost reduction is really really nice Then we have imp burn And I think there's maybe some comps potentially where You might not take this but in general for a general build and a starter build I would say always take this and then if you get to the level in some comp where you feel like Okay, yeah, this matchup isn't about mana burn. There's no real Um Opportunities to use mana burn well here. Maybe you can take some points out of this But I think that's quite a high level and if you're at that point, you probably don't need this guide Next we've got mental strength five out of five and obviously we take this because we need it to get pi And as we said already soul-wording Reflective shield actually doesn't work on other players in Wrath of the Lich King. So For a general build, I won't actually take this as it only works on yourself However, I think that there are definitely some twos comps that can benefit from this a lot And as we talked about earlier with four, you're gonna have to take those two points from somewhere a little bit lower in the tree And we'll talk about that again shortly focus power Has changed slightly but one second off master spell cast time is invaluable. So we pretty much always take this Enlightenment is a new talent But increasing total spirit and increasing your haste by six percent is insanely insanely strong for three points And I pretty much would always take this no matter what it's going to be very much Of your haste in especially in the early seasons where you don't have the option to get as much And so this is a really really strong talent. Then we've got focus. Well, this is your course survivability talent You would never not take this power infusion Needs no introduction Now the more interesting parts so we're going to start with I guess rapture We would take three out of three rapture because this is really really good, especially on ourself In terms of mana regen but on others as well pretty much shielding Once every 12 seconds is is going to be a given and this is going to be a Actual decent part of your regen throughout the match. So we've got one out of two and renewed hope And this is generally due to a lack of talents But the core part of this is the three percent damage reduction that you get for one minute after shielding And because you're going to be throwing out quite a lot of shields This is going to have pretty much 100 uptime even with one out of two points in it Um, you lose the two percent extra crit on targets with weak and soul But it's a price that you pay essentially to get other talent to go aspiration Which is actually a really really strong talent reducing cooldown of inner focus power infusion pain suppression and penance Is actually quite a big one by 20 and we're going to talk about the penance cooldown a little bit later as well Next we've got one out of three divine ages and I've put the point in this Because it will provide you a little bit of extra dispel protection potentially when you crit It's not actually going to give you that much absorb and this talent point can potentially be spent elsewhere As we talked about earlier potentially it can go into shield. It can go into impfort Uh, generally I don't take martyrdom because it's Not that strong, but you could potentially do this as well If you feel like you're casting a lot of spells that are getting pushed back. It's no longer An interrupt immunity in wrath. It is only a reduction And you do require having been crit to gain the value of this So certain match ups this will be good others not so much for a general bladder build. I'm opting to Leave it out But you can take it if you prefer The other point that you can potentially get for those switch ups that I talked about is from grace now You can reduce grace down to one out of two and generally stack it pretty quickly stacks once per tick of penance And obviously if you're flash healing you'll get some stacks as well Usually if you only have one point it will take two penances and then you'll have the full stack up If you want to stack it much quicker then having two out of two is valuable But yeah, this is this is the tricky part of the build I would say Uh, I prefer playing with two out of two. I think it's much more reliable Then we have pain suppression. Obviously we're going to be taking this and five out of five borrowed time Really really strong talent. Obviously boosting our power shield as well and The 25 spell haste after shielding actually doesn't get consumed when you use a penance. So this is actually a really good tip And then obviously penance. We're not going to be skipping that Now in holy we have two out of two healing focus the damage pushback reduction. Obviously being really nice when we're tanking And then instead of imprenu we're going to put three out of five in holy spec There is a little bit more of an option to crit in wrath of the lich king and there's a few more perks to it One of which is going to be inspiration Most of our spells I think barring holy nova most of our heals will provide inspiration Which is now 10 percent physical damage reduction As opposed to armor So this is actually really strong for tanking melee Getting any crit on any ticker penance. Obviously we'll provide this Five out of five divine fury so that you can use smite and gray heal as well as holy fire Holy fire very strong in wrath of lich king and then one point obviously in desperate prayer Which is now a two-minute cooldown in wrath and no longer our ratio And this is actually taking the place of holy nova on the tree which is now baseline terms of glyphs We're going to be running glyph of pain suppression and glyph of penance Basically all the time your third glyph is something that you can potentially rotate out I would say glyph of inner fire going to be slightly stronger in 2v2 where you're going to be tanking more Especially tanking more melee And then in threes depending on your comp you can run a glyph of inner fire or you can also Potentially run a glyph of power word shield So this was pretty much all of the things I wanted to say about the talents. I hope that this was informative and kind of Go a little bit more up to speed on my decision making and thought process on why I've taken these talents Why I've gone for this build as I said, there are a few things that you can fiddle around with And adjust to suit your needs Um, but this I think is a decent core build to get started with and you should be able to define with it Thank you very much for watching. Have a good one


attentive healing. Next step. Today I want to show you how I teach him to control his rear. I forgot my riding whip that I usually use to help him. I'll be using just the leash. It doesn't look as nice because it blots of him too much. Nevertheless, I want to show you how when we turn, so now we are where we are at this point. We are healing straight. He can sit. We do a lot of things during healing. He can heal for a very long time without the reward. Very nicely he does it very good. He progressed very well. But now we need to get to the point where we make turns, right? And then also what I want to set up for is that eventually the dog needs to come over to the basic position because up to this point it's me who actually is coming into the basic position to him. But not him. He doesn't know that. And for him to understand that he needs to know that he needs to swing his butt over into a certain position. And I'm helping him to control his rear with the short tap today. So I want to show you how we do this. We've done this couple of times before I record the video. So he kind of understands more or less and he starts moving the rear. When we started at the very beginning, if you remember in one of my basic obedience videos we had a couple of videos where he was young, he was a puppy and we had a step stool and his front legs would be on the step stool and then I would fit him into it and turn my hand and he rotates his butt. So surprisingly now dogs have great memory and he remembers that. So when I started working on the control in the rear, I used that same exercise. I had a little bit of bait in my hand and I would start turning and telling him to come and turn, turn and tapping him over on the butt. And so he would understand that he needs to swing a little bit. And as soon as he does it I would say yes and reward. And so that's how we started. But today we are progressing a little bit more and I want to show you how we do this. Okay are you ready? You're ready. Okay. Sit. No. Sit. Look. Good look. We always start with the same exercise where he just sits upstairs and I reward this. That's always the beginning. That's okay. We're good. Thank you. Okay there's somebody with the doctor. Very good. Good boy. Very good. Good boy. Good look. Yes. Yes. Every time we do the first fusing, healing, he is always way to jump. He's too excited, too much drive. So I always have to correct him but then he gets better. As you can see time when we turned around and we're coming back, he stopped jumping around. So I don't allow this because it's a bad habit. Too much drive but it tells me that if we get to the competition point we might need to warm up so he can get the steam out in the like maybe one minute or so of fusing so he jumps out and then he's fine. Okay so we'll keep going. Now I want to show you how we rotate. We'll do it here in one spot. Sit. Puss. Puss. Good. Good boy. Good puss. Good. It's a lot easier if I have my riding whip than just the line but it is what it is. No. Puss. Very good. Yes. Very good. Very good. So as soon as he did it himself I rewarded because at this point he knows what I want from him but he still needs a lot of help and I don't reward when he's way too crooked. When he's too crooked so I wait for him to correct himself. The whole purpose is that he needs to learn to swing his butt and also he needs to know in which position he has to end right so that's what we work here. Okay. Very good. So going on a small tights. Hey come over here. Good. Going on a very tight circle also helps him to learn to swing around and again with the riding whip it's a lot easier to show you how this works but nevertheless you understand the exercise and now let me show you how we actually how we do it in the healing so why do I do this. So another trick in healing is that when you walk with the dog they sometimes you know a little bit crooked and when you're in the basic position when you stop during the trial the dog sometimes is slightly out his butt is slightly out so he's crooked so what I do in training after the dog knows the to swing the butt just like that before I stop before the halt in the exercise I always turn 90 degrees. Plats I always turn so plats good boy. So from now on that's what I'll be teaching him before we stop there is always a turn and so what it does when you're in a trial and you don't make this turn the dog knows to swing in and so he's he's more straight so that's the trick. I'll show you how it's done. Come on. Good boy. Push. Good. Good boy. Yes. Good boy. So you kind of saw I walk straight before I halt and make a turn and he's not he's figuring it out because we haven't done this something new for him but from now on that's pretty much the routine we're going straight before we halt we're going to make a 90 degrees turn and if I see that he's sticking out too much instead of always relying on a tool which I probably won't be using much any longer I'll start making tighter circles if I see that he's out I'll start making tightest circles to make him swing a bit more and then go on a straight line so I'll be correcting him in a way with my tight circles which will help him understand that he needs to control his rear a little bit more and be tighter so that's about it. Happy training.


Sir, can you help me with this division? I have been struggling to do these kind of problems for long and moreover they are very time consuming. Hey, why not? Why don't you try the synthetic division method? Let me show you how it works. The process is very simple. Write down the coefficients of the dividend without missing out any powers of x. And as you can see, since there was no x square, I wrote a zero for that. Now write the divisor like this, one, take a minus common, two minus three, okay? Put a dash here, four, copy down, now multiply two minus three with a four. So that'll give you eight minus twelve, but write it in these positions. Then add three and eight which is eleven. Again multiply two minus three with eleven that is twenty-two minus thirty-three and write it in these positions. Now add zero minus twelve and twenty-two which gives you a ten.  Now add the corresponding columns which are left. So this is going to give you twenty-one minus thirty-three which is minus twelve. And minus thirty minus one which is minus thirty-one. And you know what? Your answer is ready. So the last two number correspond to the remainder and the first three number correspond to the quotient. So your remainder is going to be minus twelve x minus thirty-one and your quotient is going to be four x square plus eleven x plus ten. Thank you so much for watching.