Check. This is, I think, Google Meet College. OK, welcome. My name is Smitha Narona, and I'll be doing Christian History and Missions with you all. So I serve with APC part-time. I work with communications and content work. So the website, content on the websites and official communications that we receive. And I teach at the Bible College. I'm married to Manohar Raj, who works full-time with APC. And we have a two-year-old daughter. So she's my full-time job, and this is my part-time work. So I really want to hear from each of you because I haven't been teaching at Bible College for a few years. I was teaching before COVID, and then I've come back. So I'm also a little bit new to the whole online-in-class kind of setting. So if you all have issues with anything, just let me know online if you are not able to hear me. If you have any comments, feel free to post on the chat and or raise your hand or unmute and say whatever you need to say. So yes. So online students, please feel free to share whenever you need to share. And yeah, we'll try and keep the class interactive. I do want to hear from you all. So let's just start with everyone using themselves. We'll start with the online students first. So if you can just say your name and where you're from and what you do. And then once we finish, the online students will do everyone in class here. So online students, feel free to unmute yourself and just share your name, what you do, and where you're from. Hi, ma'am. It's me, Chira. I'm from Assam and I'm doing ministry at my church. I'm helping my church in ministry. Thank you, Chira. Hi. Good morning, everybody. I'm Ravali. So I'm working as an IT professional. And I'm basically from Andhra Pradesh, but I live in Bangalore, Garenke. Nice to be here. Thank you. Thanks, Ravali. Hi, everyone. My name is Jackin. I'm a homemaker. So we are part of ATC and we worship at Whitefield location. Welcome, Jackin. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Hello, can you hear me? Hello? Yes, Anthony. Sorry, I think I heard a few people speaking. OK, good morning. My name is Anthony Suleyman. I'm from Nigeria. I worked with Covenant World, Christian Center International full-time. And I'm the media assistant. Welcome, Anthony. Welcome, Anthony. I'm Suleyman, my name is Shivkumar. I'm Shivkumar Suleyman. I work with Shivkumar Suleyman. OK, welcome, Shivkumar. Sorry, I couldn't hear. What do you do? I work with Shivkumar Suleyman. OK, it's not very clear. I did understand that you're from Mysore, though. Welcome. Thank you. Hi. Sorry, I can't see who's speaking. Is there anyone else? Yeah. Hi, I'm Nina John. I belong to Kerala, but live here in Bangalore, attend APC North. I help coordinate Bible study for women. Welcome, Nina. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. OK, anyone else online? I understand that some of you may be unable to talk right now, but OK, let's move to those in class. If you can just share, I think you'll have to pass the mic around. Can you hear me? OK, OK. Can you all hear now? Oh, so sorry, OK. OK, we'll just do names for those of you who've already finished. My name is Rinchanthi. I'm Nina Santosh. My name is Sri Radha. I'm Nikhil from Phurukabad, serving with my pastor. I'm Francis from Kerala. Francis, right? I'm Sean, and I live here in Bangalore, and I'm a second year at BC. I'm Prince Vinaydeep. I'm from Andhra Pradesh. Sorry, can you say your name again? Prince Vinaydeep. Prince Vinaydeep. I'm Anand. I'm from Andhra Pradesh. OK, thank you. Sorry. I had muted it here, so you all couldn't hear. OK, I think everyone's in the classroom. I just got a notification that someone was trying to join, but I can't see them anymore. Was that you? Can you just take a look? It's saying someone wants to join the call. OK, wait, wait, wait. I saw them. OK, sorry. So I think we have one more person who just joined the call. Samuel, hi. Would you like to introduce yourself? Just say your name, where you're from, and what you do, if you're able to talk right now. OK. OK, I think everyone is introducing themselves. So I'll just go over a little bit of some things on Google Classroom, and then we'll go into our lesson. So I've posted on Google Classroom a few things. I've posted the online student guidelines, so that would be specific to all of you who are online. I've also put in course information and assignments, which would be applicable for everyone here. So are you all on Google Classroom? Yes, yeah. So you can go in there. It would be kind of our schedule of what we'll be covering each week, and what are the assignments for the semester. I've not given you too many details about the assignments, but just for you to know the dates when we'll have it and what we'll be doing. So there'll be student presentations, and we'll do that over three weeks. So I'll ask each of you to present on somebody who is a Christian leader in the revivals. Okay, so I've given you all various topics there. If you're going to classroom, you all can see that under the assignments. So you can choose a topic of who you'd like to present on, and if you tell me sooner, the sooner you tell me the better so that we're not overlapping. So if somebody has chosen a specific person or a specific thing to present on, then we won't have another person present on the same topic for the in-person students. For Google Classroom or for those joining us online, I think you all may still be able to present and then we'll project it here. So yes, so for those who are joining us on Google Classroom, on Google Meet, and for the in-person, you all can just share what topic you would like to present on, and we'll do short presentations. So it'll just be like a maybe a five-minute presentation on a specific topic. Okay, so I'll give you all a little more details next week or maybe, yeah, next week on how you can plan and prepare for your presentation. So that's on September 4th, 11th, and 18th. Those three weeks, we'll have the presentation. So a few people present each week. For those joining us on eLearning, we'll have a different set of instructions for you on that platform. For the reflection paper will be the second assignment and then I'll give you more details about what you'll have to do. Then we'll have a quiz and we'll have your final papers. So there are four assignments through the semester and all of those four assignments will add up to your final grade. Okay, and I've also asked on Google Classroom for you to introduce yourself. So you can just introduce yourself and especially for the online students for y'all to be interacting with each other. Like, I feel like learning from one another is a big part of the learning process and so we shouldn't miss out on that. So for those who are primarily online, the way to do it to be able to interact with each other would be through Google Classroom. So you can introduce yourselves. Please share online in response to the lectures. You can share what you've been learning and please interact with one another also. I will respond to your post, but also if you can be responding to one another that would be really good. Okay, so I think I've covered all of the basic information. So please do go into the Classwork section of Google Classroom and read through all of the introductory information that's there and then y'all can come back with questions if you have any tomorrow when we meet. Okay, so in this class, we're going to be talking about how God has moved through church history, through Christian history. The main reason for us doing this is for us to be prepared for what God might want to do in our present situations or what God might want to do in the future and how we can prepare ourselves for a move of God. What I really love about this book is that it's entitled, Revivals, Visitations and Moves of God. So it's not just boring history. It is how has God moved powerfully in history? What has God done that has impacted the world? That has built his church and that has caused people to know him. And then it's saying, what can we expect as a church today from history? Looking at history, what can we be pursuing God for? What can we be expecting from God? And how can we be preparing ourselves for a move of God? So how many of you like history? Oh, good. Online class of y'all can feel free to raise hands or post on the chat. So we have a few people who like history. I really love history. I'm very bad with numbers and dates, but I like the stories. And so it'll be really, really interesting and inspiring for us to look at some of these events that happened in Christian history and for us to learn from them. So before we begin, we're just going to look at what is revival. So when we say revivals, visitations and moves of God, what does revival mean?  Anyone? A supernatural move of God, okay? So if we just take the revival as a word separate from the Christian context, revival means bringing something back to life. It means like bringing about something new or something bringing life to something that is dead. So would you say that the church is in need of revival? Yes? Do you see a lack of what would the word be what would the word be of life in the church? In many ways, right? In many ways. While we see God moving powerfully through the church around the world, there is also a lot of Christianity that is dead in many ways. There are lots of our own understanding of who God is that still needs to be awakened, right? So when we are saying we're not pointing to some other church or to some other people somewhere out there, we are pointing at ourselves and we're saying there's so much of ourselves that needs to be brought to life. There's so much of ourselves that needs to be awakened. It's because of lack of understanding, lack of knowledge, lack of exposure, whatever may be the reasons. There is a lot that God still needs to do in our lives. And so we come into this course recognizing that we are the ones who need to be revived. We are the ones who need to be awakened. So when God, when revival happens, God comes in a way that is, like Rain said, in an unusual, in a supernatural way, in a way that God has not been experienced or revealed in the past, okay, in that specific context. Now we see a lot of what was seen in acts or a lot of what was described in the early church, now coming back to life in the church today. So this was not experienced by the church presently and we're experiencing it now. So that is revival where we are experiencing it for the first time. Maybe somebody many, many years ago has experienced it, but the current present church has not experienced it and we are experiencing it for the first time. So it's an experience of God's presence and along with his presence, what naturally comes is his power. So when we experience God's power and his presence, we call that God's visitation, where God himself is coming to us and he is meeting with us in a special way. So what we want to do is when God comes and meets us in a special way, we want that to become a way of life for us, a new way of living. So it's not that God comes and visits us, we have this amazing experience and then life goes on as usual. What we are saying is when God comes, we want him to stay. So we want to become a place where God dwells in that new way. So when we look at the Old Testament and we see in the tabernacle, God's presence coming down to the tabernacle, right? The cloud of his presence on that place, his glory covering that place. We want that to be the kind of experience we have as a church where his glory is covering us, his presence is in our midst. So not only when we gather as a church, but also wherever we are as believers that we are carrying that glory that we are carrying that presence wherever we go. Any thoughts, any questions over? No? Okay. Anyone online want to share anything? Okay. So we want to move from a place of great experiences of God to a place of great everyday living with God. Okay. A visitation should move to become a habitation, a dwelling of God's presence, where we are abiding in his presence and we are carrying his presence, we're carrying his glory, we're carrying his power as a church and as individual believers. And beyond that, we want God to move through us. So we say, revivals where God reveals himself supernaturally, where God reveals himself in a new way. And then visitations where God comes and his presence and power is revealed in our midst. And then from that visitation, when we start to carry the power of God, we then see God's move through us. Okay. So what God is revealing in the church then starts to affect the community around us, starts to affect the society around us and starts to impact the nation and the nations. Okay. So that's what the full effect of a revival is. If we fully receive what God is doing in a revival, if we fail to receive it and fail to allow God to move through us, then it just becomes a great experience for that one day or however long the revival lasts. Okay. But the thing is, this is the nature of revival where revival is where God moves so supernaturally that it is beyond what human effort involves. Okay. So it's not our agendas, our plans, our efforts. It is God just like coming in power and completely transforming us and completely transforming our communities and our nations through us. We are going to look at many examples of different revivals and how we see all of these things happen through those revivals. But right now we're just gonna look at some of these basic introductory words and then we'll go into the stories through the semester. So one thing that is a result of revival is that people start to go out sharing the gospel. Those who have been touched by God in whichever setting. So God comes to a specific church. The people from that church start to then go out with the gospel. And so there is a lot of evangelization. There's a lot of missions. There's a lot of fulfillment of the great commission happening because God has met that specific church or those specific people. So we see from Acts through all of the centuries that have passed since then how God has done that and how God has brought about the church that we have today. From a small set of believers in the Middle East to now have in the ancient Near East to now have believers around the world, churches around the world from all countries, from all kinds of places is because God has moved in this way throughout the centuries. Okay, so why we want to look at all of these stories in history? Why do we want to look at what God has done in the past? It's because as we look at that we can learn from what happened. What was it that caused that revival? What can we learn from that? What can we take away from that? How can we prepare ourselves in the present so that whatever God does in the future we are ready for, okay? So we will draw, we look at all of these stories. We're going to hopefully be inspired by these stories. We will get insights and lessons from what God has done and we look at specific things like what can we learn about what God has done in the past? What does it take for us to receive such a visitation from God? Like how can we prepare ourselves? What are signs of true visitation? So there are lots of experiences, lots of people who talk about lots of ways in which the spirit comes and we can see so many things online of people displaying like what apparently is a move of the Holy Spirit. But how do we know that that is a true move of the Holy Spirit? How can we title it revival? What we learn about that? And then how do we become good stewards of revival? So when we experience revival how do we then fully facilitate that in a way that will allow it to grow and expand and reach other people? We look at James 5, 7, and 8. Can somebody read that? You can read it from your notes or from your Bible. James 5, 7, and 8. Online students also y'all can feel free if one of you wants to read just unmute yourself and read. James 5 verse 7 and 8. Be patient then, my brothers, until the Lord comes. See how patient a farmer is as he waits for his land to produce precious crops. He waits patiently for the autumn and spring rains. You must also, you must be, you also must be patient. Keep your hopes high for the day of the Lord is coming near. Thank you. So we see here there is talk of two rains. There's the early rain and there's the latter rain. So what happened was when the first rains came, so this is like in the scriptural times when this is written, when the first rains came was when the sowing of the seeds were done because the earth would become soft and the seeds could be sown in the ground. And then there would be a second rain which is called the latter rain. And after that rain was when the crops would ripen and be ready for harvest. So if we take that in a spiritual way of God is coming to take his harvest, right?  He's coming back for that harvest. Then we should be expecting that latter rain of God revealing himself in power and God coming in a way that maybe we will, we can never imagine and we will not expect even that God will come and pour out a revelation of himself and he will come in his power to us before he comes to collect that harvest of believers. And so as we look forward to the coming of Christ we also wait in expectation for this latter rain of God's presence and power in our midst as believers. So as we're looking at this we're just going to look at a lot of stories from Acts to the present day church and we look at how God's power has been manifested and how that has allowed people to start carrying his glory in new ways. We'll begin with chapter one. Okay, so you can read along if you want. I'm not going to be reading from the notes too much I'll just be sharing with you. So whatever helps you listen best if you are able to read the notes and listen or if you want to just take down notes whatever will help you fully be present and do that. So when we look at God coming like I talked about we're not talking about a single event. We're talking about God coming and changing the way things happen in our midst. It's not going to be a change that lasts for a day or a week or a month or a year. It is a change that is for good. Like from now on things are going to be done differently. From now on the way we live the way we express our faith the way we manifest God's glory is going to be at this new level that we have reached in this time. So there's someone named Duncan Campbell and he was used in a revival in Scotland which happened in 1949 to 1952. So he says revival is a community saturated with God. So people who are fully consumed fully just carrying the presence of God wherever they are. So in revival that is our pursuit. Our pursuit is God himself. We are not pursuing experiences we're not pursuing healing or signs or wonders or miracles. That's not what we're pursuing. We're pursuing God himself, his presence and a new intimacy with him. And it is when we come to that intimacy with him that all of the other things flow out naturally. So all of the signs, wonders, miracles, healing whatever it is all of that flows out of that new experience of God's power. Lou Engel says revival is God's arrival. So it is with the presence of God that revival comes. So we're asking when we're praying for revival we're praying for more of God himself. So when we are pursuing revival we are hungry and thirsting after God hungry and thirsting for more knowledge of who God is for a deeper relationship with God for a deeper experience of his love, his power, his goodness, all of that when we pursue revival. And there is no limit to how much we can know God. We believe that God is infinite. So there is no point at which we can say, okay, I think I know all there is to know about God. No, we should always and we can always be at a place of hungry and thirsting for more, right? Pursuing God, like always having this desire for more of God, always knowing there is more that God wants to show us of himself. There is more that I can learn but it all depends on where is my heart, what is the posture that I am taking am I coming to God with this desire to know him more to am I doing things that will help me know him more or am I happy where I am? Am I satisfied with my life as it is with my whatever amount of time I spend in scripture reading I do this routine and that's good or am I going to say, no, I'm going to press in for more and I'm going to make sacrifices to know God more to receive more of who God is and it does involve sacrifice. It's not an easy, it's not going to come to us easy, okay? And we'll see how sacrifice is so important, so integral to all of the revivals that happened throughout history. So God always promises his presence. I mean, he's promised that he will always be with us, that he will dwell with us, that he will move in our midst but when we are calling for revival, we are saying we want it in a much, much greater measure.  As we are any of you familiar with any revival stories? God's generals, okay. Do you want to share a little bit? You can take the mic and just share a bit. Like what was different about God's presence than what we experience in our everyday lives or in our regular gatherings as a church? In God's generals, like especially, like mostly all of them are like evangelists, like where God used them. It's because of their fervency in prayer, like from the time they've spent in prayer. So, and it's later on obviously shown up when they go and preach and all, like miracles, healings takes place. And there is, people also can feel that there's a change in the atmosphere and people start falling down and they start crying and like, yeah, there is a... Okay. Okay, so we see that it is not like the usual experience of like what we see everyday around us. We don't usually, we long for more science, more wonders, more miracles, more healing, more of God's power to be revealed, but that is not necessarily what we are seeing all the time around us. We're not experiencing that every time we meet, right? And so when, like Rain said, so when these gatherings were happening, that's what they were experiencing. There was power in the preaching, there were signs, there was conviction, there was a change in the atmosphere. So it was not... So people could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit just in that place tangibly. And so that's how God's presence is different from we all carry God's presence all the time, right? As believers, we all carry God's presence, but in a revival or in a visitation, it is like that times whatever, like a hundred, right? It's much, much, much larger than what is our everyday experience. Now, when we're talking about this, we are actually looking at embodying who Christ is, right? So Christ carried the glory of God. Can someone just read Hebrews 1.3, please? And then somebody else, John 2.11. Hebrews 1.3, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, and I'm holding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Okay, so here we see Jesus described as the radiance of God's glory, right? So God's glory was manifested in Jesus himself. And John 2.11. John 2.11. The name of the sign, Jesus lived in the era of Delhi and manifested his glory and his disciples lived in Jesus. Okay, so we see how Jesus was carrying the power of God. He was embodying the glory of God in his everyday life. And so when we are pursuing more of God, we are pursuing the life of Christ, like for us to be more like Christ, for us to be people who manifest the glory of God in the way we live, in the things we do. And what is the glory of God? So when we say we wanna manifest the glory of God, we wanna carry the glory of God, what is that glory? Yes? Yeah, so the glory of God is his very nature, right? Who he is and what he does. What he does comes out of who he is. And so when we carry the glory of God, when we manifest the glory of God, we are revealing who God is through our lives and we are revealing the power of God through the way we live, okay? So that's what we mean when we say we want to be like Christ we wanna manifest the glory of God. We want our lives to reveal the character of God and the power of God. So it was through Christ that the church was birthed and every believer was supposed to be a little Christ, right? Each of us supposed to be like Jesus, yeah. And the church as a whole is supposed to be a collective body reflecting who Christ is as well. So as individuals as well as the community of believers, both of, in both aspects, we are revealing who God is. We're carrying the glory of God in both aspects. And so we are to walk as Jesus walked. So can someone read one John 2.6 and then someone else one John 4.17? One John 2.6, whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. Okay, so if we believe in Christ, we should walk as Jesus walked. One John 4.17, this is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confident on the day of judgment. In this world, we are like Jesus. Okay? So both of those passages say that we are to be like Christ. As believers, that is our final goal is to be like Christ individually and as a church, okay? As a body of believers. Psalm 85.6, can someone read that? And, some 85.6, will you not receive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Okay, so we see in Psalm 85, the prayer of the psalmist to be revived so that the people may rejoice in God. Okay? We don't know exactly when the Psalm was written but the context seems to suggest that it was written after the period of Israel's return from exile. So when they went back and they were rebuilding Jerusalem because there's a lot of things that connect back to that return, let's see actually, maybe I should open Psalm 85 or if someone can just read Psalm 85, the whole passage. Okay, I'll read it, sorry. Okay, Lord, you have been favorable to your land. You have brought back the captivity of David. You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.  Will you be angry with us forever?  Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your mercy, Lord, and grant us your salvation. And then it goes on from there. But in those first seven verses, he is talking about being brought back from captivity, being forgiven for their sins, for God's wrath to be taken away. And so it seems to suggest that language, that language seems to suggest that it was written after Israel's return from exile. But on the other hand, even if it was written at another time, that was the experience of the Israelites, right? There was so much of being facing God's wrath because they had rejected God. So much of that history in the Old Testament is that having God's wrath and then coming back to God, being restored by God. And so that prayer comes from a place of repentance, right? So when there is repentance, when there is a cry for forgiveness is where revival comes, okay? When we humble ourselves, right? When we humble ourselves, when we come to God, confessing our sin is where we allow God to bring us to a place of restoration. If we cannot recognize our need for God and if we cannot recognize that there is parts of our lives that needs to be surrendered, needs to be repented of, then we do not give God full access sometimes to come and bring the kind of change that is needed. So we see also in Ezra 9, I'll read from your notes, Ezra 9, 8 and 9. And now for a little while, grace has been shown from the Lord our God to leave us remnant to escape and to give us a peg in his holy place that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage. For we were slaves, yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage, but he extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem. So Ezra's cry again comes from after the Jews have returned to Jerusalem and there is rebuilding of the temple, there's rebuilding of the walls. And so he says, in this rebuilding, in this repair, we can see that God is reviving his people. In the same way in the church, when we see that there is restoration, there is repair of things that are broken within the church or lives that are broken, when we see a rebuilding and a raising up of spiritual truth, raising up of new experiences of God, that's when God is reviving people. So those are ways or evidences that there is revival happening. When we see restoration, when we see repair, when we see rebuilding and when we see raising up of new spiritual truth and new experiences of God. So when we talk about seasons of revival, we talk about in a specific period of time, there is a powerful revelation of God. So that doesn't mean that when that season ends, what we have experienced ends. So we call it a season of revival because there is a revelation or an experience of God that has come in power for that period of time. But what we want is from that experience that we are able to continue in that experience, continue at that level of revelation so that we are moving to higher ground. So we don't fall back to where we were before, but from there we keep pursuing God for more and more and more, more of his glory, more of more experiences of him, more knowledge of him, more intimacy with him. Okay, so that starts with, like we looked before, it starts with repentance. Okay, and from that place of repentance, from that place of humility is where we allow God to come in power and revive us. Okay, so 1 Corinthians 5, 4 says, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together along with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. So the Lord Jesus must be present in power in seasons of revival. So there should be manifestations of his power. So in our usual church services, sometimes there is no power or there is some power, but in a season of revival, there is a great manifestation of power. So like we see in 1 Corinthians 5, 4, it says, or for Acts 4, 33, sorry, it says, with great power, the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all. So this is like not the usual, not a little power, not no power, but great power and great grace was upon them. And that's what allowed them to move out and to be witnesses. So that is a sign of revival where there is great power. And that great power then comes out in signs, miracles and wonders. So we see Acts 5 describes what that great power looked like. So it says, through the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were done among the people and they were all in one accord. So we see signs and wonders, we see unity. They were all in one accord in Solomon's porch. Okay, so we'll continue from there. We stopped right in the middle of this passage, but we'll start from the beginning of the passage tomorrow because we are at the end of time for now. Thank you all for joining. We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks.


I'm going to show you a really easy way for your parents to self schedule their parent teacher conferences, which can also include a Google Meet link in case they need to be remote. It's really easy to do and it's free. And Google Calendar will do all the hard work for you. So the first thing we need to do is you need to enable the new feature from Google Calendar of appointment schedules. So we need to go over to the gear in the top right corner and then go down to settings. Once you're in settings, on the bottom left over here you'll see appointment schedules. Click on that and you're going to tick the box down here that says create appointment schedules instead of appointment slots. Appointment slots was an older way that Google Calendar could do this. This way is significantly better. So tick that box, you'll see that your settings are saved, and then you can hit the back arrow and go back to your calendar. So now that it's enabled, you're able to schedule these appointment schedules. Go over to the create button and use the little down arrow and then go down to appointment schedule. You'll want to name what the schedule is, I'm just going to call it conferences. And then whatever your duration of each schedule is. Now our conferences are 15 minutes long, so if you click the drop down, you can change it to 15 minutes. If you needed a 30 minute conference, you would just schedule two of them back to back. I also like to see how this all plays out. So on my calendar here on the right, our conferences aren't, right now it's October, but our conferences aren't until February. So if I just click over until I get to the February conference time. Here's our February 2nd and February 3rd. When I go down here to general availability, by default it's set up to be repeating. That means if I were to set up one of these appointment schedules, it will go on for the whole year. But since we're doing this for conferences, we really only need some targeted days. I'm going to change that little drop down from repeat weekly to does not repeat. And then this is where things will change. So I'm going to give the example of just our conference schedule in the winter here. So our first day of our conferences is in fact February 2nd. So I'm going to choose February 2nd. And our conferences start on that day at 1.30 in the afternoon. We have a half day of school. It goes from 1.30 until 4.30. So that's our first little chunk of time. And if I look over here to the right, you can see that right here, that's my first bundle of conferences available. We also have on that same day, we have a dinner break from 4.30 to 5. And then from 5 to 8 o'clock, we have conferences again. So if I go over to this plus button on the same line, so you can see February 2nd here, if I hit the plus button, it gives me another time chunk. And our conferences go from 5 o'clock until 8 o'clock. So then once again, if I go over here on the right hand side, you can see here's that conference chunk. On the 2nd, my first section, which is the afternoon, and then my evening conferences. We also have conferences on Friday the 3rd. So if I go back over here, underneath the 2nd, I go down a little bit more, it says add a date. If I click on that and I choose the 3rd, you can see it jumps in that new bundle of schedules. We have a half day that day as well, and we would start conferences at 1.30, and then they go till 4.30. So there's our three sections of conferences. So yours may be different, but right now for this year, this is what our schedule is. The next thing you do want to double check is to make sure that you're on the right time zone. Every once in a while, this changes, somebody might hit a wrong setting on their computer. So just double check to make sure you are on the correct time zone. And then we go to our next option, which is our scheduling window. I click the dropdown. This allows me to restrict when people can use my appointment schedule. Generally, I wouldn't give the link for parents to sign up until maybe two weeks before conferences. So really, we don't need this. This is only important if you're setting something up maybe long term or way in advance and you don't want people getting in early. But because I'm not going to give this until I'm ready for parents to actually sign up, I'm going to untick this box. The second one is how far in advance on time can they sign up? So maybe I can let them sign up 10 days in advance, but I don't want them changing the schedule 10 minutes before the conference. In my case, I'm happy if parents just show up. So I'm going to uncheck this box and not restrict a limit the amount of time before a conference can be signed up. And I would highly encourage both of those boxes to be left blank. Then we can go to our booked appointment settings section. Click the dropdown. Our buffer time is how much time do you require in between schedules? So for an example, I use something called Calendly. It's very similar to this. If someone were to book me, I have a buffer of 10 minutes before somebody else can book me. And what that does is it gives me time to get from one meeting to the next. It gives me some travel time. Since we're back to back on conferences, you don't need any buffer time in here. So leave that blank. And then we don't need to have a maximum number of people that can book us in the day. So you can leave that blank as well. You just need to click the next button. This is how it kind of looks to your parents. So they're going to see your name and your Google image, so whatever you have uploaded into your Google account. But here's where you will want to change a couple of things. The location. For example, we're offering in-person and remote option. So this is a great place because when I click this location, if we were just in-person, I would say in-person meeting and they would know to come to my classroom. There's no other option. But if I add this top option, Google Meet video conferencing, if I just click that, what that does is every single time a parent signs up, they will receive an email, a confirmation email, and a reminder email later on that will have the link to the virtual meeting. So if that person is in-person, they ignore the link, they show up in my classroom, we have conferences as usual. If that person is going to be a remote conference, the emails that they get from Google Calendar already have the link in there. And the best part is, as the teacher, I don't have to make it. Google makes the links for me. So by choosing this top option, Google Meet video conferencing, it automatically adds it in. So I would just tell parents if you're in-person, ignore the link. The description here, you would just give directions on, you know, I'm excited to meet and discuss your child's progress. If you're in-person, just show up in my classroom at your scheduled time. If you're a remote conference, please click the link in the email that you receive. So you would write those directions on and anything else you want them to be aware of for your conference. Now remember, this goes to every parent, so don't make this individualized. This is just the blanket description of your conferences. The conferencing, the booking form right here, this is important. So as I scroll down, by default, it records the first name, the last name, and the email address of the person signing up. But there are, for me, a couple more pieces of information I might want. So if I go down and click Add an item, a pop-up comes up, I can click the dropdown because I don't care about the phone number. I'm going to make a custom and I'm going to say student name because sometimes the last name of the parent doesn't match. I just need to make sure I know which student it is and make sure to make it required, otherwise they may forget to fill that in. So I'm also asking, I want the student's name. I'm going to add another item, I'm going to go down to custom and I'm going to say remote or in-person.  So I know I have to click on that Google Meet link or if they're in-person and I know they're just going to show up in my classroom. Click the required button so that they have to answer it. Click Add item. So those are the questions they're going to get in the form and you'll see that in a little while. And then the bottom, you can add more reminders. So by default, they're going to get a confirmation email when they book you, when they sign up for their conference time. And according to this, they're going to get an email one day before their conference day. And you can adjust that. You can go by minutes and hours a day before or a custom. You could have it a week before, whatever you want. So whatever your feeling is, I think a day before is really good because they get the email when they sign up. And then a day before their conference, they get another reminder email. So that's as hard as is. That's all you have to do. It's set up and ready to go. So I just have to hit the Save button. And then I will get this pop-up. So this pop-up is basically giving me, like, here's how you get your link. Here's what you need to do. All I have to do is hit this Share button. And normally I would just copy this link. And that's fine. You can share that link. That works perfectly. But I want to kind of show you what it looks like. So if I just copied this link and send it to the parents, they're good to go. But if I click this Preview button right here, I'm going to get a chance to see what a parent would see. So here's really what I want to share with my parents. This is a good link. So if I just click the Share button here, copy that link and send it to parents, you're golden and you're ready. But this is what your parents are going to see. So they're going to see, OK, conferences, February 2nd through the 3rd, they're 15 minutes. And here, this blank spot is really that description that I didn't fill in, but you would have had all the directions for conferences or details that they needed to see. So when I click on it, it takes me to Google Calendar. And because I'm doing this right now, it's October. We're a little early. I'm just happened to be working on this right now. I'm going to go ahead and jump to the February date. So normally, this is what they would see because they'd be opening it around the week of conferences. And the parent is going to see all the available times that I have for conferences. So this is the link you want to share with them. Just go ahead and copy this or hit the Share button, however you want to do it. And this is the link you'll send to all of your parents. I would suggest maybe making a tiny URL or a bit.ly, make life easy, but you could also just send this through your mind, through any kind of communication you have with your parents. When they get here, this is the page they'll see, they'll scroll down and they'll pick the time. So I'm going to pick 3 o'clock on Tuesday. When a parent clicks it, mine has my name and everything in it because I've used it before. They may have to type theirs in in their email address. Their student name, I'm just going to say my kiddo is Billy Bob. And I'm going to say I want a remote conference. So they're going to fill this form in and all they have to do is click the Book button.  If you need to cancel, it's right here. They can always cancel or adjust this later on. I'm going to show you what the parent sees for their email because that's important for them to see. When they open the email, this can be added directly to their Google calendar so they'll get a reminder on their phone. They can also download it as an ICS file so they can use it in any format.  And if you're already in the meeting, they're in, ready to go. It's super simple. So they get this when they confirm and then they'll get a reminder, whatever your timing is, whether you said it a day before or a few hours before, you could even set one up, especially if you're having remote conferences, half an hour before so they get another reminder with the link so there's no reason they don't have the link, but it's so easy. All they have to do is click that button. Super simple. And in my calendar, what I'm going to see are right here, you can see these little icons, those are my schedules, but right here is the conference for Billy Bob. And you can see, now right now I'm only seeing one right here, but if I had 20 conferences that day, there'd be a list of all 20 conferences in order by their time. And all I have to do is the teacher, I would see this one's for Billy Bob, I just have to click and it opens the Meet. So now I'm in the Meet and then the parent can join right away. So it's really, really simple for the parents and the teacher to use this.


Once we have all the transactions in there, because cash is so crucial and involved in so many transactions, it's a huge check, a huge internal control for us to reconcile the bank accounts. We don't want to go to the adjusting process until we've reconciled the bank accounts. So once we're done with the month, we're going to say, let's reconcile the bank accounts meaning compare the bank balance of cash to our balance of cash, determine exactly what the differences are, make any adjustments we need to make, and then reconcile in terms of what is outstanding, what are the outstanding checks, what are the outstanding deposits. That gives us assurance that our transactions are in there correctly, both our cash transactions and because so many other entries are involved in cash, it's a huge check on our on our entire financial system. Then we want the accounting cycle in terms of the recording the adjusting entries. So the adjusting entries are going to be those that are made as of the end of the month. In this case, 731, all of them are made as of the end of the month. Those are our timing journal entries, meaning we're making sure that our financial statements are correct on an accrual basis. Looking at those accounts that always need adjustment, those accounts like prepaid insurance and accumulated depreciation. And we have interest payable and unearned revenue. Those accounts that typically are going to need some type of adjustment. And that's just the way the system is built. So we're going to put those journal entries in there in order to make our financial statements correct as of the date that the financial statements are being generated. Then we're going to take this adjusted trial balance, the one that is now been adjusted in terms of those adjusting entries to make them on an accrual basis or as close to it as possible and use them to create the financial statements. The end product, this is what we're trying to get to the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of owner's equity in terms of financial counting. This is our product that is going out to the external users. Also the product that's mainly going to be the basis for most of the managerial accounting reports used on an internal basis as well. So this is the main event. And you might think it should be the last step then it being the main event. But it's not the last step after we have the financial statements. We are then going to do the closing process. And this is kind of like if we have the main events being a Super Bowl or something like that then the closing process is cleaning up all the stadium afterwards in order for us to start the process over again. That's what we're doing in the closing process. We're going to take that adjusted trial balance, which we use to make the financial statements and we're going to close out those temporary accounts, those accounts that are kind of like the scoreboard accounts, those revenue accounts, those income statement accounts, those draws accounts, those are going to be these items down here. And those then are going to be zero at the end. Why? Because as of the first day of the next month, we want them to be at zero just like we want the scoreboard and the new game to be zero so that we can start counting up again from that point forward. So those are going to be the five steps you want to keep in mind. And when you have a broad view and thinking in terms of what the accounting process is going to be, you want to have these five steps in mind so you know what is going on from that level, meaning starting with the normal business transactions. And again, in terms of time, that's what's going on most of the time, the whole month. That's basically what goes on at the end of the month. Obviously a busy time for the accounting department because we need to reconcile the bank accounts, then do the adjusting journal entries, then the financial statements, the main events, and then we do the closing process in that point and then we can start over and do the next process again in that order. At this point, just want to note that smaller companies may not be required to issue publicly, you know, financial statements to the public. And therefore they may not be as diligent in terms of their bank reconciliations and their adjusting entries and the creation of the financial statements as they should be and they might be depending typically possibly yearly to get help from an outside CPA firm at least to make the financial statements to generate the tax returns. So just realize that if you're in a smaller company that there could be some differences in terms of the just exactness of the accounting process from month to month. The larger the company that will be the more systematic we're going to have the process basically down from month to month, although of course there will also be more detail involved when we get into the more detail of each of these steps within the process.


breathing. For most of us it's an automatic body function that we take for granted. It is the process of taking in air to the lungs and exchanging gases with our environment. Carbon dioxide is a gas produced by all living cells in the body as a waste product. This gas has a very important role in maintaining chemical balance in the body and controlling breathing. Excess carbon dioxide is eliminated by the lungs during exhalation. However, some amount of this gas must remain in the body. The concentration of this gas in the body is monitored closely by the brain. The average adult breathing cycle is 12 to 16 breaths per minute. Breathing can be stimulated or slowed down through voluntary muscle control. When we are exposed to situations of emotional stress, fright or pain, our body usually reacts by breathing faster than normal. This reaction is known as hyperventilation. Hyperventilation is a condition where the rate and depth of breathing is abnormally increased. This causes an excessive loss of carbon dioxide from the body, creating a chemical imbalance in the blood. The brain defends itself against this and voluntary chemical imbalance by restricting its blood flow. This restriction of blood flow to the brain will cause individuals to experience symptoms such as poor judgment, impaired memory, performance impairment, delayed reaction time and muscle and coordination. And if the chemical imbalance is not reversed quickly enough, unconsciousness will occur. The main cause of hyperventilation in a pilot is an emotional reaction, meaning anxiety, fear, anger or stress. The key to preventing both hyperventilation and hypoxia, that is insufficient oxygen due to altitude exposure, is early recognition of signs and symptoms. Here are a few distinguishable differences between hyperventilation and hypoxia. The onset of symptoms from hyperventilation occurs slowly and gradually. Hypoxia symptoms depending on altitude are rapid. With hyperventilation, muscle activity can become spastic, especially in the upper extremities. Whereas with hypoxia, muscles may be soft and limp with little or no activity. Hyperventilation will cause the skin to appear pale and clammy. With hypoxia, a person's skin may appear blue or cyanotic. The difficulty in recognizing hyperventilation in flight is that the symptoms are similar to hypoxia. To help differentiate between hyperventilation and hypoxia, monitor these elements. Your flight altitude, your cabin altitude if pressurized, your oxygen system if one is being used, your emotional state, the awareness of your current flight environment. Pilots should recognize that hyperventilation and hypoxia can occur simultaneously, making it very difficult to diagnose the problem. This becomes readily apparent when we look at some of the symptoms that can occur with both conditions. Dizziness, lightheadedness, blurred vision, numbness, tingling and muscle incoordination. In aviation, any impaired performance is considered a serious safety risk. The most effective way to prevent hyperventilation is monitor your rate and depth of breathing. Learn to recognize stressors that would cause you to over breathe. If you suspect a problem with hyperventilation or hypoxia, use the following checklist which will correct both conditions. Don your oxygen mask. Check that the oxygen regulator is turned on, 100% oxygen is being delivered and that all connections are secure. Slow down your rate and depth of breathing. Descend to an altitude where hypoxia is unlikely to occur. Typically this means 10,000 feet or below if the safety of the flight is not endangered. If hyperventilation occurs during a flight below 10,000 feet, you should slow down your rate and depth of breathing until symptoms clear. Then resume breathing at a normal rate. Breathing can be slowed by breathing into a bag or talking aloud. Hyperventilation can easily occur to first time flyers, including passengers and students, but it can happen to any pilot. The key is to manage the circumstances and not let the cockpit management deteriorate. If you or someone in your aircraft is hyperventilating, be sure to treat the cause as well as the symptoms. Hyperventilation is a condition where the rate and depth of breathing are abnormally increased. Carbon dioxide is the primary gas that maintains the chemical balance in the blood and is monitored closely by the brain. The main cause of hyperventilation to an aircrew is emotion, meaning anxiety, fear, anger or stress. The most effective ways to prevent hyperventilation is to be sure to monitor your rate and depth of breathing. Recognize those stressors that would cause you to over breathe. If you suspect a problem with hyperventilation or hypoxia, use this checklist which will correct both conditions. Don your oxygen mask. Check that the oxygen regulator is turned on, 100% oxygen is being delivered and that all connections are secure. Slow down your rate and depth of breathing. Descend to an altitude where hypoxia is unlikely to occur. Typically this means 10,000 feet or below if the safety of the flight is not endangered. With regard to aviation, if any of your performance abilities become impaired, you are putting yourself and others in the flying environment at risk. Be able to differentiate between hyperventilation and hypoxia. It's your responsibility as a pilot to treat the cause as well as the symptoms.


Hello. My name is Chicho. I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and I've been active online for quite some time. What I'm here to do is talk to you about a project that I've been working on for the last three years, which I'm about to kick into high gear really. Now in 2007, I was asked to help out a family member with some math basically. They needed help learning high school mathematics. And since they lived in the United States and I'm in Canada, it's quite difficult to do that through email. So what I ended up doing is making math videos, instructional math videos, and posting them on YouTube. The videos were very well received. And I did this for 2008 as well. And I did this again for 2009. And I plan on doing it every summer until I get the project that I want to get done. Now what I've done is basically started with what I believe to be the starting point of really trying to understand high school mathematics or elementary school mathematics. I started with the real number set. And I plan on creating enough videos, enough series together to at least get to an introduction level in calculus. Definitely do a series on statistics and possibly linear algebra. And to give you an idea of where I am right now, I've sort of been doing this part time, full time in the summers for the last three years. And I've got about anywhere between 10 to 20% of material that I wanted to get done done. So there's a fair chunk of stuff still to come. And my estimate is going to take me anywhere between five years to, or longer, to get this done. Now what I've been doing with the videos is I don't like the box class structure the way our present education system is set up. Anyone who's watched the videos obviously knows that. So what I've been doing is, for most of the videos anyway, when it's been sunny, when it's been nice out, I've been grabbing my chalk, grabbing my little camera and little tripod. And I've been going to town finding walls and I've been doing mathematics on any nice walls I could find. And, you know, that's come out pretty good. And it's worked out quite nicely. And I'm pleased with the videos and a lot of people are finding them useful. What I've also been doing with the videos is cutting the videos to music. And, you know, when I'm setting up or when I'm taking off and the walls fairly far away, you know, I go there right on the wall and come back and talk about what I've just written on the wall, right? For those videos what I've done is sample, you know, any music that I like and music is a huge part of my life. Any music that, you know, resonates well with me that I think has a good message in general, a good message. And which I like the beats for. I've been sampling those videos and, you know, using them whenever, wherever I could. And a lot of the music that I've sampled so far has been hip-hop. I've done some electronic music. I do plan on sampling some metal because I love metal. I actually love a lot of different genres. So I've put three series together right now. That's, you know, there's about 90 videos out there, about 11 hours worth of material. Now I'm gonna do another series this summer. We're in February 2010 right now. So there's a couple of months before the weather starts getting really nice outside, where I can go out and, you know, continue what I'm doing. So I'm gonna do this, you know, this summer as well. And we're gonna continue to do it every summer until I get to where I want to get to, which is introduction and calculus and definitely a series on statistics. So what I'm plan on doing this year I'm dedicating to is to create two websites that are specifically gonna be dealing with mathematics and presenting these videos. And I'm gonna, you know, I do have a table of contents right now and that's available on cheecho.boxbot.com. And I'm gonna continue expanding that table of contents to all the different material that I'm gonna start covering. Or I have covered and I will be covering. And it's gonna be fairly, fairly large. It's basically gonna be a textbook level of material. And there will be some kind of exercise books coming to complement the videos so people, you know, can actually sit down and do exercises and check your answers and stuff like this. So the first stage of getting what I want done is to set up the two math websites. Now, the first math website is gonna be a personal website, which is gonna be geared towards generating income for myself and income for anyone that's gonna get involved with this project. And I'm gonna talk to you about that. And whatnot, whatever else that I feel like doing on a personal site I plan on doing.  But this website is gonna be geared towards raising money for organizations that are actively working to end prohibition. And that's a huge for me, as it should be a huge, as far as I'm concerned, to everybody else. So two websites are gonna come online. And that's what I'm dedicating my time for 2010 for. And in addition to making the videos in this summer coming up. So one is gonna be a personal website and the other one's gonna be the website which is gonna mirror this and gonna be geared towards raising money for these organizations. And there's a whole list of organizations that are actively working to change these archaic laws that our governments are enforcing. They're costing society unimaginable. It's just a burden. It's just disaster, right? Some of those organizations are, there's a leap, there's law enforcement against prohibition. There's students for sensible drug policy. There's Eurowid is one of the greatest websites around that has tremendous amount of information on everything, really, from plants to whatever you want. Okay, so that's my plan. As far as I see it, basically everything I've done so far has been geared towards crunching numbers. And I sort of have, I look at the world from a statistics point of view, I guess. I look at numbers and analyze things. I'm an analyst at heart. And that's served me well in life. And I find it disheartening that a lot of people don't understand mathematics or think that mathematics is hard. Because as far as I'm concerned, mathematics is intuitive with everyone. We use it constantly, even if we know we're using it or we don't, right? So it's human nature. Mathematics is part of nature. As far as I'm concerned, mathematics is embedded everywhere. It's music, it's art, it's paintings, it's structure, it's chemistry, it's physics, it's a literature, it's poems, it's everything. So approaching life from a mathematical, from an analytical point of view, has, for me, has made life easier for me. And I know it has made life easier for a lot of other people. So by having a space where people can go and learn mathematics from basics, which is, as far as I'm concerned, the real number set all the way up to calculus, which is basically the introduction of time and change. And there's a saying that says, the only constant in life is change. And calculus is the branch of mathematics that deals with the rate of change. It introduces change into the analysis aspect of how we're looking at the world, how we're interpreting the world, what we're doing with our functions. So super important, as well as statistics. So if everybody in the world, basically, long story short, if everybody in the world knew mathematics, understood how to analyze numbers and what not, basically was literate in the language of mathematics, I think the world would be a much more beautiful place. There would definitely not be as many scans as there are in the world. And there would be communities built. There would be, in my ideal world, everything would be decentralized, or almost everything would be decentralized and would be living in more communal society. And that's my personal take on mathematics.  The way I approach everything is sort of a layered approach to life, which is if I do one thing, hopefully it's hitting on a few different other things that I'm doing. And setting up these two math sites will definitely, well it's actually three-fold at least, which is going to be generating money, teaching mathematics, and trying to end prohibition. And those three things sound great to me, so that's what I'm doing is dedicating this time to it.


What's up guys, Michael with Jaspy's doing a recap for 2023 tops, Cosmic Chrome, six bucks, half case break. Pick your team number 12. This is done off an ax live. Here's the list. Here's the recap. Starting off with our rookies, inserts, all that good stuff. Nice Corbin refractor. Corbin stars in the night. Launched into orbit. Vlad A. Jr. to 25. S3 Ruiz to 199 times 2. Tommy Edman. Curse Shaw. Nolan Jones to 25. Verlander. Bryson Stott Otto. Javier Assad autograph. Supernova. Shohei. The son of a Cunha. Mercury J. Rod. And a step. So that's a Cunha Jr. Jr. Cunha the third. Yes, the third. The son of a Cunha Jr. Masataka Yoshida Stella Nova Red 4 of 5. Very nice card there. So that does it for the recap. Thank you to everyone who got into the break. Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye guys.