Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining class today. Before we begin, can I ask Erin, can you please lead us in prayer today? We are able to hear Erin, because it was very difficult, we are able to hear her clearly. Yes, no? Yeah, we can not. Okay, so maybe I thought there was some problem with my ear. Yeah, Kiran, can you just unmute your mic and speak something please? So I can hear her, I can just make sure that I can hear her clearly or anyone is here. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, from the audience. Can I say something more please, begin? Yeah, ma'am, hello. Yeah, okay, thank you. Yeah. Okay, thank you Erin for praying. Sorry, we couldn't hear you, but thank you for praying. Okay, so yesterday we looked at the qualifications of the teacher in the light of similarities with the increasingly role in the Old Testament. And then we looked at, you know, in a children's church or in Sunday school, messengers and methods are needed to proclaim the message to the children through the empowering of the police and to communicate the gospel to each children, the good news, the message that is in the Bible, the truth that is in the Bible, we require messengers and effective methods and we can only do this to the encounter of the Holy Spirit. So we looked at what a messenger should do to effectively proclaim the message. Today we look at the methods a messenger should incorporate to effectively communicate the message in a relevant and a productive way to change. So we are going to look at the methods. So the methods are basically involved, you know, choosing relevant topics for the entire year or what topic you would want to do in a specific season or couple of months to children that you are teaching.  So we look at basically first, the first method is how to choose a topic. We choose topics. Now you choose topics for your whole year, maybe from January to December or if you are following the school academic year, like we followed you in India, you can see a very natural church, we followed the school academic year which is June of a particular year to March of the next year. So, you know, if we are going to start in June of 2022, we will go right up till March of 2023. So that is one whole year for us. April may basically give the children holidays because we don't have children church for many of them, we are traveling, we go in our town, our country and we don't want them to miss out on any topic. So we just give them a holiday during those two months for April and May and we will get back in June. So it's good to plan for a whole year for each specific class or each age group, whether it's beginners or finally two years, eight years and seven years put to plan the topics well ahead of time or also you can plan the topics for each class individually. So how do you choose topics? You choose topics based on the developmental needs of the children in that specific age group. We've already gone through many classes which study about developmental needs of children and we look at the spiritual needs, what they are looking for and what we can give them effectively minister to them or to teach them or to cater to their specific needs and challenges and difficulties for their wants in that specific age group. So let me just give you an example. For example, if we're going to change grade one and two or standard one and two children who are six or seven years, then basically we look at their spiritual needs or what they are looking for. They need to know that God will be perfectly, that they are created special and unique. They are valuable to God and to others.  God knows them. He knows their needs. He knows their wants. God hears their ways. God is dependable, trustworthy and always good. There is a difference between right and wrong and then we also need to hear that sometimes we sing. We choose to do things that are wrong or that are bad. Jesus came to pay for all our sins. Jesus is the Son of God. Because of what Jesus did for us, we can live it forever and we can accept Jesus as our Savior. So these are the few things I have been teaching when I was talking about the developmental needs of children in this specific age group. It's there in your notes as well. So you can just take out these spiritual needs that children in this age group need and they need to hear about these things. And then you can likewise choose a topic. So for example, your first topic can be creation. And you can talk about how God created the world in six days, what we did on the seventh day, the best day. Then you can also talk about how it really had been perfect in order after everything we created, we said it was good. So we can talk about basic creation and also how God created, how they were different from the rest of creation. Other narratives in the Bible that you can talk about creation is Jesus since the start. And you can talk about because he created everything, all creation is obeys him, receives order from him and they do what he says. And we can also talk about the power of his word, what created everything to the power of his word. So when God says, when Jesus says, he still, everything was calm. The wind stopped, the rain stopped, the sea was totally calm. And you can also talk about the story of Joshua, how God made the sun stand still, that he could fight the battle and win the body anyway. So you can choose these narratives and then you can prepare what are the objectives that you want to, learning objectives that you want to bring out through the story. But also they need to hear that they are unique and special. They are valuable to God and to others. So you're unique and special. We can talk about how God created harmony, how they are different from the rest of creation, created this image and likeness. They value to God and others. So you can talk about how Jesus raised Jerry's daughter, how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, who's maybe in Marta where they were crying, they were sad. Israelites crossed the galaxy, you know, God made a way for them because they were very valuable. They wanted, they were very precious. God did not want them to lose them. He did not want them to be taken back to Egypt as slaves or destroyed by the Egyptians who were following them. So you can choose likewise narratives that talk about how valuable they are to God and to others. Okay. Then the next topic is about that we need to hear is God loves them and loves everyone. So you can talk about the prodigal son, Zacchus, that God loved him in spite of him being a sinner. You know, Jonah, how God did not destroy the people in Nineveh because God cared for them. He loved them and also how God rescued them. Israelites out of Egypt, you know, because he loved them and cared for them. Then the other topic you can have is, you know, God knows you. Okay. So, you know, you can choose narratives on how God cares for their needs, He provides for their needs, He knows their needs and he would provide for them. So just simple narratives for this age group, you know, feeding the 5,000 blind men, guardians, God providing manna and water in the desert for the people of Israelites. Okay. So you can just have these topics and then you can think of narratives in the Bible that would best fit into these topics. Or the next topic that we need to hear is God. Here's our prayer.  Then we can talk about Jehoshaphat, you know, when the three kings came to attack Jehoshaphat, how the people went to the temple. Everyone, women, children, they all cried out about and how God heard their prayer and protected them. Jonah's story, you know, how Jonah prayed in the way that the belly of the stomach of the whale and God gave him a second chance and how the people of the baby painted and God heard their prayer and forgave their sins and did not think about the calamity that he wanted to bring on. They were the destruction that we brought on there. Then God is dependable, trustworthy and always good. It's another next topic. You can talk about Abraham and Sarah, how God made a promise and kept the promise and he gave them a son, Daniel in the lion's den, how God protected him. God is dependable, trustworthy, he's always good. Joseph, I mean, so long as a slave, but you know, even though he was told into prison, but he becomes the prime minister of Egypt, okay? And then Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego's narrative. So you can just think of topics and then you can also think of relevant narratives that will fit in. The last two topics is, you know, difference between right and wrong. So you can talk about Akin's sin, Adam and Eve, how they sin against God, Elisha, Elisha's greedy servant, Gehazi, Ananias and Sephira and Hatshaka Fai. So all of these stories with their narratives, the news to tell them what is right and wrong and how God does not like us when we sin. What is disobedience? Even simple things like, you know, Adam and Eve sound very simple. They just make such a big function that for God's sin is sin. And then I need to know about, you know, what is sin, Jesus paid for our sins because of what Jesus did on the cross that we can, you know, we can live with it forever and then talking about how to accept Jesus into that. So you can talk about the whole series of sin and salvation. Everyone has sin. So you can use the analogy of the human thought in the act of adultery. God sees our sin. Akin's greed and disobedience. We talk about the cost of sin. Cain and Abel's sacrifice, you know, the punishment that came upon Cain and killed his brother Abel.  Adam and Eve for how they disobeyed God, but how God promised that we came about to see truth only one and, you know, Jesus came and we died for our sins and all. So these are some of the things that, you know, these are some of the topics for this age group. And likewise, you can plan and choose the relevant narratives that kind of cater to these children's needs. You could think that woman caught in the act of adultery something that you can't really explain to children about adultery and all those things.  So this is basically for grade one and two. I have mentioned the developmental needs, the spiritual needs or what children in the age groups need to hear so is there any words. So if you are planning to hear topics for the year, then you can just spoke to the development. You need to see what our spiritual needs and pick up those topics and plan or choose the narratives from the Bible from the old and testament and then you can start writing your lesson plan. Okay. We need to, because they're children, sometimes we think, you know, we can do anything or, you know, just decide anything at the spur of the moment or one day before or Saturday when that does not really work. We know that we learned yesterday or we saw yesterday that children are intelligent beings. They understand, you know, we need to see them as able and fit for good planning, planning well in advance, planning the lessons, planning the topics and not treating them as someone who can just do something with them, you know, just finish the task and go away like we don't do for youth ministry or for adult church. The same way we need to be sincere and diligent for children as well because we're serving them and the precious in our side wants them to also hear and know the truth like we look at in our very first lesson of the biblical basis and mandate for children's ministry. So we need to prepare them. There is no substitute for a well-prepared teacher. You know, classroom control will improve significantly in most classes when we prepare effectively. If you're spending any time preparing, you know, you will see the effects in the lives of the children.  You also see that children will begin to enjoy the classes that they will learn. They will basically receive everything that you're teaching them. They will just soak in what you are telling them because you are well-planned and when you are well-planned, when you've done things, you'll be sincere and faithful like we heard yesterday when we are sincere and faithful God will equip us with the creativity, the skills that we need and he will bless the God and the children will be motivated to learn. They will also be motivated to learn upon what they have learned. So why am I saying all this or why is this a repetition because if you are planning for a class, a teaching class, say 30 minutes, you will have to spend no less than two hours or two and a half hours preparing for that 30 minutes to teach children. Oh my gosh, two and two and a half I think that is quite an exaggeration that's too much, but we will come to know as I bring up the various points that you would require this much of time for so much time to prepare just for a half an hour for 30 minutes of teaching time. So to teach a 30 minutes class you basically need to prepare for two hours if the topic is a little difficult and it needs more detailed explanation then maybe you have to spend more time. Another important point is to remember if you are teaching this Sunday it's good to start preparing for your lesson on Friday itself the Friday of the previous week or you can start preparing for one day of this week you know prepare for week in advance why do we need to prepare week in advance so that you know what the topic is what the narrative is and as you go through this entire week or you go through weekend the previous weekend you would come across different incidents you would see different things you would you look at different objects different stories would come to mind and you would think oh I can use this to teach my children or I can use this object or I can use this game or I can use this activity or I can use what happened recently in the news to tell the children basically for the children in the teachers class 7, 8, 9, 10 you know they would like more relevant issues to be brought up and they learn very well to you know recent relevant issues that have happened with sports people actors politicians anything that has happened with people around the world that is what actually you know is details in their minds and other children have told me when I taught them in schools that you know tell us real life incidents what really gets lesson across to us the objective of what you are teaching so it's good to prepare in advance if you're preparing a day or two like for example you're teaching a Sunday and you start preparing on Friday and Saturday it's not really very effective you can tell the narrative in a very creative way you can bring out the learning but children will get bored playing activities you will not work on good object lessons then it will not be very effective helpful or very efficient so the good time rule is you know 30 minutes class prepare for two and a half hours or two hours and prepare a week in advance or maybe teaching on Sunday you know start preparing on Monday itself the third thing is it's important for you to write down everything that you are saying it's important to have a script just like you have a script when you are preaching in adult church or you have a script when you're doing a seminar or you're preaching or teaching somewhere or you're preaching or teaching with you you have basically a script but for children we basically we can just narrate the story because we know the narrative very well in the Bible just read the story once and okay this is good this is the way of parents we should not cheat and all of those things okay done the lesson is done but you know to be more effective there are a lot of things other than just this that you will need to know because you're kind of hearing don't copy, don't see, you don't cheat don't use bad words obey your parents you know really Bible play I mean they kind of drink higher listening to it so how you know best creative way to teach them to difference life incidents to different activities will be something that we have to think about and also write down specifically so that it will help you okay now why is it important to write down everything that we say if you go to the archival search curriculum you can go to our website and you can find the curriculum there everything is spent out and you can find the objectives write down to the follow up of the lesson entirely what they have to say is mentioned because sometimes when we teach we can start off on you know we can be talking about prodigal son and we can move from Luke's Gospel to you can go to Genesis take it to your right through the old Testament and come right up to revelation okay so for those of us with speakers and you know we can do that but you know in the end children will be very tired they won't have got anything so it's important that you know you have clarity what we are going to say okay how you are going to begin your lesson you know how to recap the previous lesson what are you going to do just the basic points short and crisp and you know meet then what is the learning objectives what is the attention get there what is the learnings that you are going to bring about and the application then the next important reason why you need to write down your own lesson plan is to know exactly what are the important points you need to stay in that specific for that specific topic you need to keep in mind because in one lesson like this you can talk about God's love you can talk about God's forgiveness you can talk about sin you can talk about salvation you can talk about choices you know there are so many things that you can talk about you can talk about all of these things with children they are not going to you know get everything so it's important to just have so that's my five points for children it's good to have just one main truth I'll talk about that and then you know get them get the whole lesson in following that one main truth in various ways bring about the learning of that just one basic or two so when you are writing down you will know what the main points have to say what points are not necessary that we have planned for the year so this topic this lesson is just about love you just speak to dark talk about God's love because you know you are going to talk about forgiveness and salvation in other topics in that video so writing will also remove all the unnecessary things that we need not to put into the child's mind because you just have 13 minutes of the attention and we want to use that to the maximum to bring out the main truth and also when you are writing down you ensure that the main truth of the lesson runs throughout the lesson I'll talk about the main truth in a little while also then you will also need to include relevant activities what are the activities that you can include the object lessons how to cater to the child's children's learning styles and also their different intelligence or their ways of learning remember we learnt the five different ways they learnt to their senses so how can they learn to their five different senses in this lesson if there is something you can see in the lesson whether you are catering to their eight different intelligences or their way of learning so once you also write down all of these things you will know whether you have kind of catered to their learning styles their intelligences and if you find that the lesson is too long the narrative is taking too long the learning is too long the attention-getter the object lesson the activity, teaching the members is going to go more than one and a half hours then you will say now this lesson is too big where can I where is a good point to kind of divide this lesson into two so that I can continue the next class now if you don't do write it down you will not notice that the lesson is too long all the activities that you have planned because you planned everything in the last minute you will not realize then you will see already half an hour time is up I have not finished teaching the members I have not done the learning I have not done the application I have not even given them the activity that I have planned then you can say okay children we will do it next week now what is the learning or how are they going to apply I have no time to do that so it's good when you write it write the lesson time in this whole narrative I have taught them this so what is the learning I can bring about how can I get them to apply what is that shop activity that I can do or should I do the activity now or can I do it next week because I have no time it will just help you to decide all of those things so there is no confusion you will have a good conclusion and the learning will happen and the labor application when you write all of these things there will be no waste of time there will be no confusion because you have clarity there will be a good flow and children will just flow into what you have done and God will just bless what you have prepared and will be very very effective okay so that is about writing and preparing well now we will look at how to write a lesson plan and one of the things to keep in mind while we write a lesson plan okay the first thing when you start to write a lesson plan is to have the learning objectives or to write down or spell out the learning objectives if you look at all the lesson plans in our training such content the first thing we do is spell out or write out all the learning objectives learning objectives we are going to tell you what we mean by learning objectives learning objectives all of you in class more answers okay learning objectives is basically clear specific statements that as a teacher you want the learners you know what learners will be able to do at the end of a lesson as a result of the activities the teaching and the learning that has taken place now learning objectives should be brief should be clear specific statements of what learners or the children will be able to do at the end of a lesson as a result of the activities or the teaching that we are giving them and the learning that has taken place to learn or what the teacher want children to achieve by the end of the lesson so it is very short very brief very very simple now let's say for example exact cases story now if you want to repeat exact cases story then what are some of the main truths that we can bring out from exact cases story that you can answer if you think about exact cases story or exact cases narrative what are some of the main truths that you would like to teach on or bring out from this narrative can unmute your mics and speak or you can type it in the chat section or look if you are familiar with exact cases story what are some of the learning objectives or what is the main truth that we can teach on from exact cases story no answers God came to save all of us ok thank you Dave anyone else faith ok basically we can talk exact cases was a greedy man he was dishonest he lied to people he cheated people so you can talk about how to be honest how not to lie, cheat or not to be greedy what group can do you know God came to exact cases house he did not condemn him but how exact case changed and then you can talk about true repentance what is true repentance how exact case really repentant and how he changed ok and what happens when Jesus comes into our life how he changes us ok so these are all some of the truths that we can teach on this narrative of exact case but if you are teaching about exact case and you want to just teach about to talk about sin then you need to have that as your main truth ok I told you I talk about what the main truth is so you have to choose what is the main truth what you want to bring out or the main truth or is the central point you want to talk about blessing ok and then you keep that as the main truth you keep love you just talk about all this blessing all about God's love and how he loves us in spite of us sinning even though people in exact cases town did not like him they did not associate with him they did not talk to him and he did not condemn him and God loves us so much that he does not condemn us he does not want to be omniscient for our sins he wants to his love is so great for us that his love can change us his love is so great that his love can cause us to totally change and be a new person a different person and do what is right the main truth then you will reward your own blessing or activities or everything that you want to do around this main truth and you also your main blessing objective will focus on the main truth of the central point that you want to bring about in this blessing and you will also think about how you can use this main truth through various activities through various object lessons or attention getters to focus on the main truth or to imitate the main truth and how you can bring about the learning and also get them to apply so that is the main truth and basically having this main truth will help you to write the learning objectives now I will give you a sample of the learning objectives for example just say the first lesson that you are going to teach is that Jesus is the creator so the learning objectives could be something like that like this God created everything we see He created everything beautiful perfect and in order He created everything through His spoken word God's word is powerful and He created everything through His spoken word because He created everything all creation obeys Him so they are talking about Jesus this is done then you can have basically just these three objectives of all objectives Jesus is the creator He created everything through His spoken word He created everything beautiful perfect and in order because He created everything all creation obeys Him He created all these four simple objectives so you will be okay this is the four objectives and this is what I want to kind of elaborate or explain out this lesson and I want my children by the end of this lesson to know that Jesus created everything He created everything through His spoken word He created everything perfect and beautiful in order and all creation obeys Him so you are learning so they are born along this the acting piece so we base on this now learning objective differs based on the wage groups if you notice here this is something this learning objective that I just read out these four learning objectives is basically basically for day one and two but for maybe for the higher wage you will want to go deeper so you will have a different objective so the learning objective should be based on the felt needs of the children your lessons should be based on the felt needs what the children are actually going through what are their challenges what are their needs so once you prepare the lesson you teach them according to their felt needs then the children are able to receive better they tell them okay I am going to follow like exactly what the Bible says Genesis what started with creation so let's do a patient ask that Adam and Eve sin then after that Cain and Abel and then move on to the Tower of Abel so they want to follow the sequential order of the Bible and it's not going to help them but we are going to pick out these lessons based on their felt needs what they are going to start this class by talking about the various topics the spiritual need then the children are able to better understand the spawn and they will love coming back to Sunday School of Children's Church to learn so it's good that you have this learning objective so the learning objective should be based on the topic and also should be based on the main thing that you want to speak about or elaborate to the lesson and the felt needs of the children so the first thing that you write out in your lesson plan is the learning objectives the next is you will begin with the recap of the previous lesson good to do a short recap so if you have planned everything in your mind everything now these are the two main points I'll just do a recap one very short and what am I going to say and then we can connect it to the lesson that you are teaching you can just move on to the next lesson so we have the lesson objectives the recap and then we will begin our main lesson that we are going to teach for today we can begin with an attention getter now the attention getter can do anything now for example if they use objects as attention getters you can use a quiz you can do a skit you can do a game now for example I am going to talk about prayer and you know I am not going to tell them okay today we are going to study about prayer and prayer is communicating with God so that is a good introduction you can think out but you can think about prayer and what you are going to tell them about because you know the beginning of the class what we are going to tell them is going to either get their attention for the rest of the class or it's going for them to lose their attention for the rest of the class so today we are going to talk about prayer and prayer is communicating with God we are going to look at how we are going to communicate with God children are going to say the topic is so boring prayer I know is just talking to God to say okay I am not interested I know it's about prayer it's communicating with God so please don't start a lesson like that you can start in the very creative way now for example on the table I have a phone I have a newspaper with me here so this is a newspaper this is a newspaper I have a newspaper I have a envelope and some letters and then I have a a laptop so I have a map here so I have a map I have a phone I have a envelope and then I have a a newspaper so basically I keep all of this on the table now we know that children learn through their five senses of touch of moving around so if we just get them to come to the table to touch everything some children can just smell the newspaper and things that those children learn to smell and then you can ask them what do you think the items on this table or if they have it in a tray have in common so what do they have in common so what do all of these things have in common phone, newspaper, map and envelope and then they have all in common any answers they all help us in communication they communicate something to us and then they communicate the phone to the envelope they can send a letter the map communicates to us the different places newspaper communicates to us what has happened around the world so we can say that all of these things the spread of the table are used to communicate with each other your parents, your friends, your teachers yes, do you communicate with God as well you know they will be thinking so how do we communicate with God what do we call God when you communicate with God what do we call it which I can respond whatever they can say so let's look further on how we communicate with God so that is one way that we can start the topic and that is the attention-getter another way that you can start the topic is you can just get children two children may not know each other you can get them to choose you can get them to sit together give them couple of minutes and tell them that we have an activity and they have to just sit with each other and get to know each other so the children who choose who they do not know well they just sit and communicate so this is also they learn to talking moving children who learn by moving children who learn to interpersonal communication all of that will happen so then after couple of minutes you can ask them how do you get to know the other person so they say that they ask him or ask her a few questions and they ask me a few questions we said okay good so what did you do do you have to ask all the questions all the time and say no we have to listen to the answer to the questions that the other person is sharing and then you can say good the other person listen to you when you are sharing they say yes so you said was communication complete maybe yes so you are getting them to think answer and all those things and so you say that the same is true when we talk to everybody you keep on talking you also listen as well so we listen when you ask the teacher a question and doubt do you listen when you ask your parents for a question or doubt do you listen to the answers and they will say yes so what about God do you listen to God so then you can ask them what do we call talking and listening to God as we say prayer and then we can get them to and then you can start talking about the topic so you can see things these kind of attention get us to get their attention and once you get that attention and they are excited we will continue next Monday with how to write a recent plan I will give you some more attention with us will end last year anyone has any questions doubts no if not we will end last year thank you all for joining have a good day thank you


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Yeah, we're at the track covering the sport of Kings coming up this week We preview the richest event in the history of Carcom horse racing the Mute mile this weekend at Jamaica's K-Manus Park Where champion trainer Jason Dacosta swept the trophy double last weekend and a Saturday double Safeguard Samphie Joseph's label as Gulfstream Park's champion trainer the eighth in a row for the Barbadian superstar Plus the weekly stats on Caribbean success on the North American continent or opening story from Jamaica the two million dollar missed the sensational trophy run in honor of the 1995 2000 Guinness winner Saturday's main event for native bread and imported two-year-olds all eyes on the Oak Ridge farms on beaten Digital one with Rian Lewis riding for Jason Dacosta the leading jockey for the leading trainer Dacosta with five of the six entries for the seven furlong run Digital one eyeing a third straight win the one-to-nine favorite Dacosta's winners last time out number one fast and furious links at 18 to One and the six horse come home to me at five to one Number four run Julie run trained by Ian Prasad at six to one in the Combox Kevin Burnside Picking them up down the back stretch with a favorite in control Faster five and head to all the four and it is digital one bouncing Easily on that lead a length in front of run Julie run racing in second three lengths away before we come to Fast and furious links join on the outside by come home to me then six lengths before we come to Lucy in the sky and racing at the back of the field Imaya They're passing the tree and it is a digital one on that lead four lengths in front and Everybody is struggling at the moment rush in second. That's run Julie run also coming on that fast and furious link Digital one in front and looks to be in control coming on the inside though That's fast and furious link digital one in front of fast and furious links coming on the inside has to be switched Toward the outside fast and furious link and digital one. This is where the race life digital one kicks once again from fast and furious links Run Julie run left back into third But digital one finds another gear and begins to pull away digital one and the one in the Mr. Sensational trophy winning like a one-to-nine favorite should the undefeated digital one on an afternoon stroll for her third Win in a row jockey Ryan Lewis in the familiar looking silks of atomic his owner Oakridge farms Scoring by eight lengths over stable made fast and furious links digital one breezes to a good win clocking a decent one minute 26 and three-fifths for the seven furlong mr. Sensational as champion trainer Jason Acosta logs a one-two finish Top trainers score many of their victories with favorites, of course But they also score when they are not expected to and that's what the Costa did with the four-to-one bet Luxor in Saturday's co-feature Jerry Skelton Memorial the four-year-old Philly was only the fourth best supported in the betting Richie Azan's the banner heavy six-to-five favorite in the five and a half furlong sprint But leading jockey Ryan Lewis after rushing loxal to the lead soon after the start Remained in control entering the home stretch This is loxal in front and really turning on that lead about six seven ends in front and really not messing around this loxal Even the nightcap Duke is chasing along with Kataba and a press conference But they're not getting back to loxal coming to the furlong pole It's loxal in front and running like a scared ear loxal in front race car is running on really well for second But loxal Winning the nightcap in in style loxal beats race card Luxal's third win this year in 18 starts Ray and Lewis aboard for all three of those wins He has only lost twice aboard her this year Brian Shannon list the cost as luck sell at 41 odds lands the Jerry Skelton Memorial by eight and a half lengths over race car And L professor quick splits of 23 one by 45 to the final time One oh six and one fifth for the five and a half furlong sprint closing a double for jockey Lewis and trainer Dacosta Now to that massive moot a mile story and event taking its name from the main sponsor Paul moot a who is chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago based Zonia Caribbean adventures currently the largest shareholder in Jamaican racing's parent company supreme ventures limited the moot a mile post position draw for the event with a car come record purse of $150,000 US dollars stage Tuesday evening at the Rock Hotel on Jamaica's south coast in Kingston Appearing at the draw Canada based Japanese rider Daisuke Fukumoto a winner of four stakes races so far this year at Woodbine and he is happy to be partnering the Richie as And trained perfect brew, you know, I like to win big race and You know the trainer is a big trainer and you know, you know, you know everything so he gave me big opportunity You know for this weekend. So, you know, I try to show my light and you know Enjoy and hopefully get a good luck There's the inside half of the 16 horse field among them number one She's my destiny last month's gold cup winner for champion trainer Jason the Costa number two blue final a double classic winner last year The 2022 gold cup winner mahogany's in the four box number eight is runaway I'll go boasting five wins so far this year for the 2022 most improved trainer Dale Murphy last year's champion two-year-old and 2000 Guinness winner this year mojito is in the nine box horse of the year and on a five-race winning streak is number 10 Atomica and some solid entries in the outside draws number 14 from Florida American tap last month's Nigel newness memorial winner and number 15 another u.s. Chipper on race so far in Jamaica Rough entry with two wins and four second place finishes this year at Gulfstream Park the u.s. Based French rider Julian leperoo aboard for Florida based Jamaican trainer Rowan Crichton this year's surprise dab winner ability closes out the field of 16 with Atomica's trainer Garry Sabrati confident his super filly will better her ninth place finished last year This year Atomica has an excellent chance of winning some more mature horse more more seasoned horse this year and I have also duke in the race and everybody's training good going into the race So I'm really pleased with the work both of them. So let's see what happened Mute mile post-Saturday is 445 p.m. Local time 545 eastern Caribbean time and it will be live on sportsmax Now as Barbados celebrates its 57th anniversary of independence today a fitting story this on one of its greatest sons of Thoroughbred racing Safi Joseph jr. This past weekend collecting a fantastic eighth consecutive Gulfstream Park trainers title and it wasn't easy going into Saturday's final race day of the summer Fall season they call the sunshine meet Joseph was lying second on 31 wins one win behind a Victor Barbosa with Jose de Angelo a close-up third on 29 Joseph wasted little time with his 72-pet Mojave desert on the jockey Edgar Zaz easily winning Saturday's $50,000 maiden special-weight first race comfortably to tie Barbosa at 32 wins each Four-and-a-half lengths the victory margin here for Joseph's entry But the 36-year-old Barbadian would lose the trainers lead half an hour later on the final day when Barbosa countered with victory in race two Joseph would come back to tie things up in race six with a one-to-five favorite Brissero Edgar Zaz again aboard for the win for a Caribbean sweep of the maiden special-weight event Jamaican trainer run Crichton second with 19 to one bet cool tricks and Safi's other entry Maybelli third Is the race to the top of the stretch the quarter was 22 and one Brissero threatening a fleet of seed here She's three clear Kozaka making steady progress up the inside there second with cool tricks still inching in the center been third the battle on for modern spoils, but Brissero as Advertise here one to five and well clear. She's running up the score late How easy was that six lengths easy, but the trainers championship battle anything but comfortable Safi Joseph and Barbosa in a tie with 33 wins each although Joseph's earnings of $1.16 million almost doubles Barbosa 666,000 who say the Angelo third with 30 wins starting with a 2021 spring summer meet title Joseph has won every seasonal Gulf Stream Park trainers title since This is eighth in a row, and he has now won 12 of the last 15 trainers championships at Florida's world famous racetrack Our weekly tally of wins for Caribbean racing men in the USA and Canada before we go I've counted since our last show 21 wins among them Kevin Nichols with a Friday doublet Woodbine where fellow Barbadian jockey Patrick husbands had a Saturday triple and Four weekend wins overall and the Jamaican trainer Raymond Handel had victories at aqueduct and fairgrounds We've been at the track covering top stores and exciting races in the sport of Kings check us out again next week


It's the creator of signal and he is going to tell you what he's doing right now, so The next talk is the ecosystem is moving Challenges for distributed and decentralized technology by Moxie Marlin spike have fun hello All right, so these three kids are playing around and they break into the barn of a farmer and They're playing around in the barn and the farmer here's something in the barn and he comes out To investigate so the three kids have to hide and they see these three empty potato sacks in the barn So they all jump in the potato sacks, but as the farmer comes in there's still kind of like moving around a little bit and so the farmer You know is investing in this situation and he starts walking towards one of the potato sacks and the kid inside See what's happening and so he says Yeah, and you know the farmers like oh, there's a cat in there Okay, you know and so he starts looking at the other potato sack and you know the kid inside sees what's going on And so he's like woof And so farmers like oh, okay, there's like a dog in there And so you know the farmer starts looking at the third potato sack and as he gets closer The kid inside says potatoes.  You're doing better than me I'm at like seven percent, you know Jet lag is a crazy thing. I Felt asleep at like six last night Just couldn't stay up any later.  This is great. You know like I'm waking up at 715 in the morning So I like got up I'm like brushing my teeth and shit, you know, and eventually realize it's 715 at night still I slept for an hour and 15 minutes, you know Okay, so My name is Moxie I work on a messaging app called signal signal is a private messaging app But it is not decentralized Which is to say that there's no like federated mesh p2p blockchain something something But every now and then people are like there should be a federated mesh p2p blockchain something something So I want to talk a little bit about decentralized systems from the perspective of the time I've spent at signal on the work that I've done there and You know what we're trying to accomplish So I think you know at a high level I Should say that you know while I work in software. I Greatly envy musicians writers filmmakers painters These are all people who create things and can really be finished forever you can record an album today and 20 years later you can listen to that album and appreciate it just the same but software is never finished You cannot write a piece of software today like write an app and then 20 years later just You know enjoy that app in the same way Because software is part of an ecosystem and the ecosystem is moving The platform changes out from under it networks evolve security threats are in constant flux the UX language that we've all learned to Speak and understand together really sit still and as more money time and focus has gone into this entire Ecosystem the faster the whole thing has begun to travel The world is now filled with rooms that look like these in buildings that look like these that are packed to the rafters with people who sit in front of a computer for eight hours a day every single day and All of the energy and the momentum behind that means that user expectations are evolving rapidly and evolving rapidly is In contradiction with decentralization How is that possible? What does that mean after all the internet is decentralized that seems like a dynamic evolving rapidly kind of place But when you really look at it like the fundamentals of the internet That's not always the case If for instance if you look at like IP, you know one of the fundamental protocols of the internet How do we get you know how have we done with that? Well, we got to the first production version of IP and we've been trying for 20 years to get to the second production version Without a lot of success You know HTTP. Okay, we got to version 1.1 in 1997 And we've been basically stuck there until now SMTP IRC X MTP DNS. It's all the same. They're all frozen in time Circa the sort of early 1990s Because once you decentralize a protocol it becomes extremely difficult to change You put it out there in the world. There's like many different clients different implementations Different deployments and so making any changes becomes extremely difficult Meanwhile centralizing protocols has been like a recipe for success, you know, it's what's slacked it with IRC It's what Facebook did with email. It's what's apted with X MPP in each case The decentralized protocol is stuck in time But the people who've centralized them have been able to just iterate super quickly and develop these products that are extremely compelling to people So the fact that something like email is decentralized is Cool in the sense that I host my own email. I have since 1996 I wouldn't really wish it upon anybody But I still do it But the fact that email is decentralized is also what means that my email is not encrypted And never will be Because it's it's too difficult to change at this point. It's it's out there in the world and making that change It's probably not gonna happen You know by contrast WhatsApp is centralized, so I don't like run my own WhatsApp server. I don't have my own You know WhatsApp data store or whatever But it's and 10 encrypted for billions of people died by default and they were able to just you know roll that out with a software update So I think this is that sort of the fundamental Problem that we have to deal with right which is so long as decentralization means stasis while centralization means movement That decentralized environments are gonna have a lot of trouble competing with centralized environments But you know, why do we want decentralization? Anyway, you know like people talk about decentralization a lot But what is it that we're actually after I think when you sort of break it down The partisans of decentralization are advocating for you know increased privacy Censorship resistance availability and control these are things that I think people who are into decentralization are really Kind of looking for and and hope to get out of that world So let's look at these in turn because these are things that I'm interested in as well And that I would like you know an app like signal to provide So, you know privacy We've already seen that Decentralized systems are not inherently encrypted. In fact, most decentralized systems in the world are not and 10 encrypted by default and there's nothing about decentralization that makes The things encrypted, you know, and so I think advocates of decentralization Have a different take on privacy, which is one of data ownership the idea that like you can You know run a service yourself and that you maintain ownership of that data and those people You know also point out that that includes metadata Not just, you know the contents of things like messages or something but also the metadata about them And that so in a sense that you know that is better than just some kind of encryption solution But in a lot of ways I feel like this is Somewhat of an antiquated notion that has left over from a time when computers were for computer people You know this You know, I think in the in the 1990s The sort of general thesis for people working in the space was let's develop really powerful tools for ourselves and then teach everybody to Be like us And that's not really how the world developed You know at the time we sort of imagined that the internet would look like this That not only would everyone on the internet be both a producer and consumer of content But also a producer and consumer of infrastructure And neither of those things really bore out In reality the internet looks a lot more like this You know that things sort of seem to naturally roll up and converge into these like super nodes That people are making use of that people aren't all producers and consumers of content or infrastructure So You know given that world while I host my own email You know since the world looks like this I don't actually have any meaningful data ownership even though I run my own mail server I don't actually have any kind of metadata protection or anything like that because every email that I send to receive has Gmail on the other end of it Even though I host my own mail server I might as well just be a Gmail customer because they have a copy of basically every email that I ever send to receive So given that I think that the world has developed in this direction I I I feel like real data protection is more likely to come from things like end-to-end encryption than it is from data ownership and that Things like metadata protection are going to require new techniques and That those new techniques are more likely to evolve in centralized rather than decentralized environments because Centralized environments are where things tend to change So for instance, you know at signal, this is an area that we've been working on a lot so at signal, you know, we have technologies like Private groups private contact discovery sealed sender These are things that Mean that you know the signal service has no visibility into a group communication or even group State or group membership information No visibility into your you know contacts or even your social graph and No visibility into who is messaging whom So, you know looking at something like private groups the way that group state is usually maintained is you know on a server you have a database and in that database you have a record for every group and You know the group needs to contain information like, you know, what's the group title? What's the group avatar, you know, what's the membership, you know, who's in this group? What are their roles? Maybe someone's an administrator or someone maybe someone's a group creator I mean once someone's like a read-only group member and then you know, maybe some group attributes like a pinned message or something like that and you know You know clients can query this database in order to render group information for the user and You know given that It seems unlikely that we're gonna move into a world where everyone is like running their own servers In addition to their own clients that just merely like, you know putting this plain text database in the in the You know on everyone's individual servers is sort of unlikely So, you know one thing you might think about doing is just encrypting it right where you could just have this server-side database and in the database All of the entries are encrypted with a key that is shared amongst group members, but that the server doesn't have any visibility into And so, you know, that seems like a straightforward solution. The problem is that You also need a server to be able to enforce Access control and basic rules right like the server should be able to look at the members of your group and Determine whether you know group members authorized to make changes like to change the title or to add another member to a group or to kick Someone out of the group or anything like that But if the data is encrypted, then how is the server going to do that? So at signal we we developed a anonymous credential scheme that allows the server to store encrypted membership lists, so the server has a you know a record for some random group of It's members, but each you know members in encrypted so the server doesn't know who the members of the group are and then you know let's say Alice wants to add someone to a group Alice can construct a zero-knowledge proof and Authenticate to the server proving that she has a Assigned credential that matches the encrypted contents of one of the group One of the group members will without ever actually revealing what the contents of the of that record are or who she is and Then you know once authenticated Alice could you know add another member to the group like Frank and then you know Once Frank gets out of the group He can come along and do the same thing where he constructs a zero-knowledge proof and is able to prove in Zero-knowledge without revealing who he is or or the contents of this record To the server that he is a group member and he might request a membership list The server you know transmits the encrypted values to him Then he can decrypt them locally with the key that's shared amongst group members and determine who is in the group and display that to the user You know, so this is an example of some you know new cryptography that we Developed in order to solve this problem and you know, it's again like a new technique in order to To offer some privacy preserving Technology in a space that I think is you know more likely to happen in places where we can just make these changes and roll them out super easily All of this adds up to you know a world where I can publish the server side state for my signal account There's nothing in it really You know, even the profile data is encrypted the only you know real Unencrypted values here are the last seen time in in day-level precision that I connected to the signal service and when my account was created There's no group information about like, you know what groups I'm in The titles of those groups to average ours of these groups who the other group members are My contacts, you know aren't stored there. I have my social graph isn't on the service my even my profile data is Visible to the service and you know when people message me or I message people the server doesn't have visibility to that Meanwhile my email still isn't even antennae cryptid and never will be but even if we did live in this world where You know the internet looks differently and everyone is both a producer and consumer of infrastructure this PDP PDP world is not necessarily privacy preserving in itself For instance when we first rolled out voice and video calling and signal We designed it so that it did establish PDP connections between The both parties of a call so you know if I call somebody I would establish a direct connection to that device But when we deployed that people like wait a second wait a second like does that mean that someone could just call me and learn My IP address I don't want that, you know, what about all the metadata here that like, you know my ISP or You know someone on Wi-Fi or whatever on the same network as me can see who I'm calling And who's calling me like that's not what I want Isn't there anything you guys can do about this and yeah, we can just you know route it through a server instead And so that's what we do in many cases so, you know, you know thinking about privacy I I kind of feel like that Decentralized systems aren't inherently going to give us the privacy properties that we necessarily desire And that it's more likely that we can develop Technology to you know offer what it is that people want in centralized environments Thinking about a censorship resistance This is another Area where I feel like the the idea of censorship resistance for decentralized environments Is that many things are somehow more difficult to block than one thing if you have like many servers That it's harder for a sensor to block access to those then it is to block access to one server And again, I feel like this is sort of like an antiquated notion Left over from a different time that in today's world if something is user discoverable that it's also going to be a sensor discoverable in a lot of ways But the basic idea is that like if you're such and such at something comm and something comm gets blocked You could just switch to something else.  You know are affiliated with a bunch of different Servers that if you know one server gets blocked by a sensor that the users who can no longer access that server can switch to different servers But the problem is as soon as they do that they Have to be rediscovered by everyone else in the network because now they have a different address and It's more likely that if you know one server is blocked at any given moment that you know All servers are gonna be blocked in that moment and everyone has to switch to like a whole another thing and at that point You've like really blown up, you know your entire social network Everyone has to rediscover everyone from the beginning.  That's it's very asymmetric because every day that You know sensors take an action to block known servers is basically like the first day of your entire social network You're starting over from scratch where everyone has to rediscover each other all over again So, you know to the extent that if your strategy is sort of like bouncing around It's actually I think more effective to just have one centralized service with multiple ingress points So, you know if you have a service and there's a bunch of users who are using that service That if access to that server gets blocked to just you know spin up another Ingress point, you know a proxy or even you know a VPN or something like that Everyone can switch to at the moment that people switch there You know, it's the same kind of thing where it's like the switching strategy But you're not blowing up your social network. Everyone has the same Addressing can be identified if I could splocked, you know, you switch to another one, etc. etc, so you're playing a game of whack-a-mole, but it's not as asymmetric because You know the switching cost is very low This is the kind of strategy that apps like what's happened signal have used to resist censorship attempts in Most times that that that they've been attempted so, you know, they'll use strategies like domain fronting Which basically You know when clients Is a Technique where like a client connects to a CDN that's operated by Some large CDN provider and you know does a DNS and SNI TLS connection with one host like you know some large service like Google Maps or something like that But then the HTTP host header includes or specifies a different address, which is like, you know a proxy And so in order to block this like the sense of block access to you know some larger set of services rather than just one specific service or Using techniques like proxy sharding, which is basically like you set up multiple ingress points And you shard access to them to different users. So You know only some users can discover some access points, which means that a sensor can't discover all the access points Very quickly and that as things get blocked you, you know, keep shuffling around These are the kind of things that require moving quickly that like you know as People are trying to block access to a service that you're moving very quickly to respond And again moving quickly is not necessarily something that is Easy and decentralized environments So again when it comes to censorship resistance, I feel like You're sort of more likely to see effective censorship resistance and centralized environments rather than these Decentralized environments and in many cases, that's what we've actually seen And then you know availability so Every time there's like an outage people are like you should decentralize, you know You know you wouldn't have as many outages, but I think the reality is that you would just have more outages, you know like you It's you know if you think about it in terms of like if you have a centralized service And you wanted to move that centralized service into two different data centers And the way you did that was by splitting the data up between those two different data centers You just have your availability Because the meantime between failure goes up since you have two different data centers Which means that it's more likely that there's going to be an outage in one of those data centers at any given moment And since you've split your data between them you have the availability of that data so again, I don't think availability is Necessarily something that you're more likely to see a better availability and decentralized rather than centralized environments And then finally Control so I think this is a really interesting moment the Current sort of sentiment in the world today Has changed a lot now people sort of feel that the internet is this terrible place and ways that I don't think people used to feel that the era of Utopianism and this vision for you know technology providing a better and brighter future is Coming to an end And I think a lot of that comes down to a feeling That we have a lack of control that Technology is not actually serving our needs in the way that we want it to and that we don't have any control over or agency over how that is manifest and So I think you know the strategies that partisans of decentralized environments have For manifesting that control is you know either through this like switching idea Basically, so that it's like if you have a federated environment that different services could behave differently so that you know if you were a subscriber of one service and your provider Started to behave in a way that you felt was inappropriate that you could just switch to a different provider But not lose access to the entire network Which you know I think has a certain appeal but you know if that is true if that is You know a strategy worth pursuing I think we have to ask ourselves. Why do people still use Yahoo Mail? You know it's Hasn't been updated in like ten years. They had like you know a massive series of security incidents It's not clear who even owns it anymore But people are still using drug mail like a lot of people are still using out who mail Why because changing email is hard? and I think We're it's sort of this interesting moment where you know switching from Yahoo to Gmail is Actually harder than switching from WhatsApp to telegram to signal Because again every time you switch email providers you basically blown up your social network Everyone has to rediscover your new federated identifier and then if you use a non-federed identifier like a phone number as the basis for your social network that you know switching between You know different services that aren't actually connected with each other is is is actually easier than switching between federated services and The sort of notifications on your device your desktop becomes like the federating bridge Between those networks in a way that is in some senses more effective than the federated models ever were the other sort of Strategy I think for maintaining or regaining control from decentralized environments is extensibility So this is the idea that what we can do is develop a protocol That is designed to be extended so that different people can Modify this technology in ways that you know It feels like meet their needs and I think you know the best or the But most well-known example of this is a protocol like XMP P Which was a chat protocol to design to be extensible But you know in the end what we ended up was ended up with was this like morass of zeps which were the extensions and There wasn't ever like a feeling of strong consistency which generated a lot of Uncertainty amongst it within the user experience, right? So, you know even today it's like you want to send a video over XMP P like You know, it's like there's a zip for that like does the recipient support that we don't know you want to send a gift like You know, that's a little dicey, you know, it's like I'm sure you know and none of the extensibility that was built into the protocol could actually adapt to You know major changes that needed to be addressed like You know adapting to mobile environments So I feel like in the end like the hold of extensibility thing didn't really provide the control that people wanted because those zeps were Of a little value until they were adopted everywhere Which is hard to do And then you know even in distribute like pseudo distributed kind of models like Bitcoin I think that the control that people have it's sort of interesting that the control that people are seeking has manifested In the form of forks, you know, so that when there's a disagreement People just you know start a new network, you know like, you know, Bitcoin cash or you know various all coins That you know people take like the existing code base and just you know start a different service You know, ultimately, I think that has led to like a lot of confusion in terms of You know users that are engaging with these networks, but to the extent that People are manifesting the control that they would like to see It it's interesting to me that it doesn't seem to have much to do with the decentralized nature of these protocols that it has more to do with the Open-source nature of these projects that because these projects are open source It's very easy for people to take what's there and just change it and you know redeploy it as something else So in a sense, I feel like that, you know, open source is sort of the best tool that we have in terms of manifesting control but even that I think is like it's like a difficult ask because If You know what we want is for technology to better serve us I think we have The larger problem in my mind is that if what it takes if what technology demands is Rooms that look like this and buildings that look like this full of people sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day every day forever that It's unlikely That we're going to see technology meeting our needs in the way that we wanted to You know all the time people, you know have these ideas where they're like well, what if there was like uber? But it was decentralized So that like, you know, the money goes to the drivers, you know, wouldn't that be cool? I think that would be cool But if what it takes to build that is rooms that look like this and buildings that look like this with people who sit in Front of a computer for eight hours a day every day forever Guess where the money is going to go it's going to go To those places, you know So I think if we're serious about like, you know changing technology so that it better serves us to me the the best thing that we can do To make that happen is to make technology easier to make the deployment and development of technology easier and again decentralized systems Are not the first thing that like pop into my mind when I think of easy You know in a lot of ways, I feel like, you know decentralized systems make everything harder in a world We should be trying to make things easier for people to deploy So, you know on the whole I feel like, you know, these are the challenges for decentralized systems that in a lot of ways, I think that they're You know, we need to like reimagine how it is that we're thinking about technology even the direction that the world has gone And that we can You know Find the solutions to these problems and the things that we're looking for In ways that are perhaps more effective than building decentralized systems So I'm not entirely optimistic about the future of decentralized systems, but I would also love to be proven wrong However, I feel like anyone who's working on decentralized systems today needs to do so Without forgetting that the ecosystem is moving In the words of Marx We can create our own history, but only under circumstances that are directly transmitted from the past. Thank you All right You can see eight microphones in that hall and also we take questions from the internet So if you have a question, please line up on the microphones and the first question goes to the internet, please Twitter wants to know if you can comment anything about post quantum securities So for example, there was a thesis by Ines Duit at the University of Twente about the post quantum signal protocol Okay Yeah, I don't I haven't seen this this thesis so I can't really say anything about it But you know the way that things are sort of headed is is you know, people are trying to develop post quantum Crypto post-quantum key exchanges and stuff like that The situation today is that like as we develop those things, you know, we're developing or as people develop those things You know, we're trying to develop increasing confidence and those algorithms There's also a little bit uncertainty about like whether those are like pre quantum resistance in some ways Just because things are so new so the way that things are going is you know People are trying to like take a new post quantum key exchange stuff and mix them into You know pre-quantum key exchange stuff so that it's like additive security property So that if those things turned out to you know have problems even in the pre quantum world that you're not shooting yourself in the foot So that's sort of the direction of the things are going and you know, we'll probably start looking at that more as those things mature Okay, as we have a lot of questions, please keep your questions short first question to microphone number four Hi, thank you for the talk I was wondering in all this Overview how you perceive the efforts and on the standard of messaging layer security of providing this base layer of Enter and encrypted communication, which is to my knowledge decentralized and in its thoughts Yeah, okay, so I think You know, we're not actually a part of the the MLS process and MLS is like focusing on one specific Scenario which is a specific scenario within just the group messaging I think, you know, there that's like a whole other conversation that I think, you know, that there's a lot of challenges there that They may not be thinking through but I think that the I mean what's interesting is that It is a sort of unique scenario and that it's like a standards process amongst, you know A number of entities that don't actually communicate with each other so it's not It's not entirely clear what having a standard The value of having a standard is since there's no real plan for these entities to like federate or you know have some merging of their networks Other than just, you know agreeing on like a set of principles for cryptography that everyone feels like our you know a solid thing to adopt Okay, thank you. One question for microphone number one, please Hi Thanks for that thought-provoking talk. You said so many things I disagree with it's tough to pick a question but the What I'm going to ask is the features you have about Private groups and sealed sender those seem to be protecting data at rest for when the servers compromised The data that's on it is less useful to the attacker But if the server is already compromised, it's not really providing a traffic analysis protection Your metadata protection is effectively a pinky promise Oriented architecture and you've outsourced the keeping of the promise to a defense contractor owned by the richest man in the world And so my question is How confident are you that Amazon is keeping the promises that you're making? well, I mean, you know the purpose of Projects like signal is to Get to a place where it doesn't matter, you know, like where something is hosted or whatever, you know and so, you know you point out though, you know what we're talking about here is stored data and You know, it's like in attacking this this You know in attacking this Problem, you know, I think you have to you know start from one place and and you know work until you end up where you want to be and you know right now like You know the worst thing that you can have is data and a database, you know because like what? You know what tends to happen on the internet now, it's like when there's data on a database that it just Becomes public. There's like a lot of data dumps out in the world. So like that's the worst possible scenario And you know by design, you know, most systems are Set up so that that in order to function they need to have data in a database that is at great risk I think of you know ending out ending up, you know public out in the world and So, you know the first thing you want to do is design your system so that you don't have to have data in a database And so, you know, then, you know, you know what you're talking about is like, you know Traffic analysis and you know things like that that you know people can you know look at traffic flows in order to figure out other like, you know metadata properties You know, there's things that users themselves can do today to help with that You know they can use tour they can use like VPNs or whatever like that in You know using these systems and then that's also where we eventually want to go It's like, you know to keep working up the stack in order to you know have something that is fully comprehensive All right, we take another question from the internet, please RC wants to know what do you think of pit pit to peer solutions that also hide participants email IP addresses? Sorry, for example by exposing them only through rendezvous points like tornos Yeah, I mean that could be cool. I mean I think you know the challenges Developing, you know The challenge is developing a system like that that is actually scalable that, you know You know large number of people large numbers of people can use and then it counts for the fact that the ecosystem is moving that you can develop a decentralized thing that you're able to Interate on quickly and so I think that is You know in developing decentralized systems I feel like that is the most important question for me just in terms of you know the time that I've spent in the space and The work that I've done there that I'm like much more interested in like unique Approaches to solving that problem Then I am like the specifics of you know IP address hiding with tornos or something like that Okay another question from microphone number eight, please Apart from the US government what countries have you received data requests from and how did you respond? I? Don't we've never the only response that we've ever issued to You know any subpoena or like governmental request is you know on our website We have a section where we post all of the you know requests that we respond to I think signal.org slash big brother And so it's only one request that we've ever responded to Okay, one more question from microphone number three at the end, please Hi Signal has a very big reputation as being good and secure communication tool for activists This is also being pushed in the global self I have the honor to work with some global self organizations. They're very suspicious of the signal Especially due to the fact that you have to provide a phone number So your location can be tracked and all sorts of other problems that everyone here is fully aware of I would like to know Why why is that even still a thing for signal to provide to make people provide? Phone numbers. Yeah while still being hyped as a secure tool for activists I think this contradiction is the important person. Yeah, that's a great question. It's It's a really complicated question. So So, you know any Any social network needs any social app needs a social network? So signal is a social app and it is a social network And so the social network that we've chosen to use is the network that exists on your device already That's user owned that's portable the address book on your phone And so there's a lot of cool things about that, you know if that's your social network it empowers the users in a lot of ways because You can move that network with you as you go from service to service like as I pointed out You know moving from WhatsApp to telegram to signal is is easier than switching from Yahoo mail to Gmail for that reason On the other hand, there are a lot of people who don't want to They don't want to be a part of a portable network, you know that they want to You know be they want to use signal in a way where like people can't figure out how to contact them through other means for Legitimate reasons the challenge is that if you're building your own social network you you need to store it somewhere Well, I think there's two challenges one is that if you're building your own social network, you need to store it somewhere So, you know for instance like you know There there are apps that have successfully built their own social network if you you know look at an app like snapchat or something Like that, you know you can create a username and most people associated with a phone number, but you don't have to But you know you'll notice that like if you uninstall snapchat and you reinstall it Your social network is still there Where was it all of that time, you know if you drop your phone in the toilet and you're in slow snapchat You still have your social network. Where was it? It was on snapchat server, right? They have a full copy of your entire social network social graph etc etc so that You know so the challenge for us because this is you know something that we would like to provide is that If we have this alternate social network, we would need some way to make that persistent That it's bad enough that right now when you you know lose your phone and reinstall signal you lose all of your message data because it only exists on Your phone, but it would be even worse if you lose your entire Social graph at that moment as well and that you have to rediscover what everyone's identifiers are And at the same time we don't want to just store, you know social graph and plaintext that we have access to That entire social graph and that if signal is compromised You know that whoever compromises signal also has access to your entire social graph And so you know the challenge is in developing something that's actually privacy preserving that allows us to you know maintain the social graph every time So we recently, you know published a technology preview of Something that calls secure value recovery that is basically the first step in order to solve this problem the other challenge though is that it depends on what you mean by not provide your phone number because you know there are Plenty of applications that you can use where you like use some alternate identifier That isn't necessarily associated with phone number But the sort of unfortunate reality is that you know in all of those cases your Client needs to provide to the server either an FCM or APN identifier which is used to send post notifications to your device and that Is does uniquely identify your device in ways that could probably use be used to identify your whatever your phone number is So it sort of depends on what your your threat model is there, but Okay, thank you very much. I know there are a lot of more questions But unfortunately time is over if you want to the speaker will be around later on you can gather up here But the talk is now done. So give a huge round of applause for Moxie Marlin spike


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Operation Cobra Gold and exercise involving more than 24 countries kicked off February 14th, and a Japanese ground self-defense force pilot trains with Marines on the MV-22 Bravo Osprey, this week on The Core Report. On February 15, Marines with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, and Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 completed mountain warfare training in Bridgeport, California. The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sergeant Major Green, testified to the Senate Armed Service Committee on February 14th about the single Marine and Family Readiness programs. Thailand and the United States are hosting Operation Cobra Gold. The annual multilateral exercise started February 14th and will end February 24th. The exercise takes place throughout the Kingdom of Thailand. More than 24 countries are participating in the 36th iteration of Cobra Gold. More than 3,600 U.S. personnel will deploy with a focus on a senior enlisted seminar, field training, and humanitarian assistance projects. A pilot with a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force trained with Marines from 2nd Marine Air Wing on the MV-22 Bravo Osprey. The pilot graduated from ground school and a simulation phase and is now ready for flight school. He will be a pilot instructor when Japan introduces the Osprey later next year. That's all for this week on The Core Report.


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using quotations without making a splash. Quotations are important elements of an academic paper, but they can be used in all sorts of writing, such as news articles and blog posts. With a quotation, you can provide evidence of what you're claiming or comments from people to back up your point. This video will explain how to use quotations correctly using examples of different types of writing. What's a quotation anyway? A direct quotation can be as short as part of a line such as the central character can hardly control her enthusiasm at the prospect of quote, tearing into the house like a tornado on steroids end quote, to as long as this significant passage taken in its original form from the work you are using, whether it is the primary source, such as a person you interviewed or the article, books, or story you're studying, or the secondary source, someone else's comments on that article, etc. Why would we use quotations? There are three primary reasons why we would use a quotation. First, to support your argument or a particular point you're making. Second, to challenge someone else's argument. For example, critic wise view of Lydia as a character who is quote, a victim of fate, end quote, seems hard to reconcile when we reflect on these lines spoken by the character herself. Third, you can also use a quotation to acknowledge to your reader that the words you are using are not your own. Remember, plagiarism can be painful. How not to use quotations. Imagine that you have to put a large rock into a gently moving river. You could stand at the river's edge and drop it into the water, but that would cause a splash. Similarly, when you just drop a quotation into your paragraph, that causes a splash too. It disrupts the flow of the writing. Here's how not to do it. The central character is mean and proud of it. Quote, I eat little kids for breakfast, end quote. Furthermore, he shows no signs of ever becoming a better person. Splash. This is the better way. The character is mean and proud of it. Quote, I eat little kids for breakfast, end quote, he boasts. Furthermore, there are no signs that he will ever change for the better. When integrating quotations into your writing, it's good to go with the flow. So how do you do quotations right? Punctuation plays a part. To use quotations effectively, you'll likely need commas, colons, square brackets, and ellipses points. However, if the quotation is not a complete sentence, no punctuation, except quotation marks, is required. For example, the minister stated that the investment of $1 million represented, quote, a deep commitment from the government, end quote. Use a comma when your quotation is from one to four sentences long, even if they're short sentences. For example, as Carter says to the judge, comma, quote, I'm sorry I did it. If I could go backwards in time, I'd start to do things differently. That's the truth, end quote. For longer quotations, there are different methods depending on what you're writing. So follow the guidelines of the style guide you're using, such as MLA, APA, or the Canadian Press style guide. A popular way to include longer quotations is as a block. Use a colon after the lead-in, then include the quote as its own indented paragraph without quotation marks. You may also use a colon to introduce a quotation in a sentence. Here's an example. The following line shows just how badly Sue wanted to be accepted, colon, quote, I'd have shaved my head if I thought that would have got me even a sideways glance from the cool kids, end quote. Remember about going with the flow? Sometimes in order to make a line flow smoothly, you need to make some changes or to leave some things out. That's when we use square brackets and ellipses. If we need to change something in the quotation, we can put the changes in square brackets. For example, the original line in the text says, quote, Paul elbowed him in the head and didn't think twice as he skated away, end quote. But the reader doesn't know the other characters, the hymns, name, so we have to add it inside square brackets so that the sentence makes sense. The quote becomes, quote, Paul elbowed square bracket, Tony, square bracket in the head and didn't think twice, end quote. We don't need every word from the original sentence or paragraph. You're not getting paid by the word. In fact, you've probably got a word limit. You can leave out words or phrases that are not critical to the point you want your quotation to support. However, you need to show that you've left something out by using ellipses marks in place of whatever you have left out. For example, the author shows us how Paul is brutally transformed by the violence of the game, quote, Paul elbowed square bracket, Tony, square bracket in the head and didn't think twice as he skated away, end quote. Becomes, the author shows us how Paul is brutally transformed by the violence of the game, quote, Paul elbowed square bracket, Tony, square bracket, ellipses and didn't think twice, ellipses, end quote. The quotation sandwich. Some teachers use a sandwich model to describe how we should structure quotations. First, an introduction in your words, then the quotation to support the point and finally a conclusion in your own words to comment on the point. Here's a quotation sandwich. Company X should move products from locations where there is less demand to locations with higher demand. That's our introduction. Smith 2020 argues, implementing a relocation strategy is an effective method of inventory management that enables retailers to ensure products are optimally located. This is the quotation. Creating a plan to move products to locations with higher demand allows retailers to make the best use of their inventory to meet consumer needs. And that was the conclusion. Author tags and signal phrases. Additional elements that smoothly integrate quotations into the flow of your writing are tags and signal phrases. Tags and signal phrases that identify the author, the character or the commenter, your quoting helps the reader make the connection between the quotation and its source. Remember this drop quotation? The central character is mean and proud of it. Quote, I eat little kids for breakfast, end quote. Furthermore, he shows no signs of ever becoming a better person. Now look at how we integrated it so that it no longer creates a splash. The character is mean and proud of it. Quote, I eat little kids for breakfast, end quote, he boasts. Furthermore, there are no signs that you will ever change for the better. Here are some verbs that you might use in your signal phrases. Argue's, believes, claims, contends, declares, insists, observes, responds, states, suggests. Look for verbs that communicate clearly and strongly. We covered a lot, so let's review. You can use quotations to support the points you're making in your writing. Don't just drop your quotations in. You want your writing to flow, so don't just serve the flow with a quotation that does not integrate smoothly into the sentence and the passage that you're writing. Pay attention to punctuation. It'll help you set up your quotation in a way that will keep things flowing smoothly. Speaker tags and strong, active verbs help your reader understand your quotations. Thanks for watching.


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Dada, where do you see the next full-scale war happening? Where the next big war trigger Going to come from. I think we're We're to a certain degree into it with cyber warfare. Okay, Dada. We're in global cyber warfare right now Huge huge huge and it's on multiple fronts. Okay. It's It's internal Okay, huge is a war on people Okay, huge huge huge There's gonna be a lot of false flag that there already has been huge huge huge in terms of hot war on the ground Iran is a target. Do not Iran has been a target for a very long time They just can't get enough momentum to do what they want to do. I hope they never do Okay, so Iran is in perpetual play all the time for the Zionist Western capitalist nations really It cans down. Okay, South America Latin America is a hot zone and Africa right aside from that there's a couple of hotspots going on in Europe as well China, I don't think it's gonna go hot in the immediate Future, but it could go hot in the midterm future. Okay Everywhere everywhere