Delegates, are there any points or motions on the floor? Motion to start a GSP. Okay, thank you Delegate. That motion is in order. Individuals living with albinism should be protected against unfair discrimination. The main policies that roads are too narrow. And then we should put cameras on every road. We should use public transport. Ways to prevent pollution can be reduced, reused on recycling ways. Your topic is, e-books are better than traditional books. E-books are nothing but the electronic books which are available on any electronic website. Against. The traditional book information is easy for our eyes. And they give us a joy to read the book. Talk simple. Is it a real word or a fake word? In most of y'all are thinking it's fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. Let's find out. Okay, it is again a made up word. Next word is flimsy. Abhinav and Shija think that it's a real word. Vietnam was invented in which country? A. China, B. France, C. India, B. Spain. China, which planet has the most number of foods? Venus, Saturn, Mars or Neptune? Saturn. And that is absolutely the correct answer. My experience was really great. And I enjoyed playing stubborn John. I personally learned that I need to be more clear in my speech and then I need to incorporate the related expressions. I liked the experience and while typing became fast, I also learned new words today. Ma'am, it was nice to attend this workshop. I developed many of my soft skills and was able to improve my vocabulary. Ma'am, you took a lot of efforts to teach us. My mind was more sharp now by playing the standard. Ma'am, I am very happy that I chose to join the summer skills category because all the activities were so much fun.


Mr. Minister, Mr. Governor of South Sinai, Executive President of NTRA, Secretary General, Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Dear Colleagues and Friends, it is my pleasure to address you at the end of this World Radio Communication Conference 2019. This was a memorable conference. It was the largest conference ever with over 3,400 participants. It was held outside Geneva, which represents a major endeavor for the ITU. It allowed us to learn a bit more about the Egyptian culture and experience their warm hospitality. Moreover, this conference will change the lives of billions of people around the world by promoting economic growth and development globally. It will make the digital society more accessible and affordable to all. It will make this world a safer place and allow people and industries that serve them to utilize the advances of radio communication technology. This conference will also have an economic impact in a sector worth trillions of dollars. I assure you that our long hours of discussion and negotiations were not in vain. We enabled the introduction of new technologies while protecting existing services. We found agreement on some very difficult issues and most importantly, we maintained the culture of our union that allows us to take into account our differing national perspectives and still make treaty decisions and accept international obligations by consensus for the benefit of the global community. History will record that the World Radio Communication Conference 2019 made vital decisions and that was a huge success. It proved to all of us that nothing is impossible in the land of the Faroes. I mentioned to you mainly when discussion got difficult that we should keep in mind that the world was watching us. Indeed, the world has been awaiting for the outcomes of this event and today I'm happy to report back some of the key achievements of this conference. WRC-19 opened up new orbital slots for broadcasting satellites and provided developing countries with the opportunity to regain access to spectrum orbit resources thanks to a priority mechanism especially set for them. WRC-19 defined a stable regulatory framework for non-GSO satellite systems based on a milestone process enabling mega constellations to rapidly come to fruition. Such a balance will ensure that more affordable means of connectivity will now be offered to the citizens of all countries. The need for connectivity everywhere at all times has also led to the decision made on earth stations in motion of tremendous importance to connect people with planes in ships and in trains. WRC-19 expanded the capacity and ensured the provision of a truly global maritime distress and safety system. The conference identified globally harmonized millimeter weight bands for IMT for the future development of 5G while taking measures to protect vital resources used for scientific services such as earth exploration satellite services particularly passive bands used for meteorological measurements that enable weather forecasting and prediction. IMT 2020 commonly referred to as 5G will unlock applications and enable high speed connection of people and things to the internet responding to the ever-increasing demand for mobile broadband in our digital economies. The conference has also considered the expansion of provision of broadband access to rural and remote areas by identifying frequency bands for high altitude platform systems. WRC-19 approved a recommendation on intelligent transport systems towards connecting vehicles improving traffic management and assisting safe driving. WRC-19 took measures to ensure the continuous assistance and support for the timely implementation of new technologies including 4G and 5G networks and services in Palestine. The conference declared as well the commitment of the sector to gender equality and gender balance. Member states and sector members declared that they will urgently undertake activity and active measures towards increasing the percentage of women engineers in the radio sector. While I could mention several other achievements, allow me just to congratulate you on your great success. The decisions you made will be captured in WRC-19 final acts followed by the updated ITU radio regulations that will be published in the course of 2020. I assure you that the Radio Communication Bureau will continue to provide assistance to all administrations in implementing these revised provisions. Looking into the next cycle, 2020-2023, we know the extensive number of proposals included in the agenda of the next WRC. This new agenda will keep the ITU and the radio regulations up to date with the latest technological advancement in the fields of ICTs. I'm looking forward to the next study cycle. It seems really very promising. Finally, I could not end my speech without saying thanks to the many people involved in making this conference a success. I thank the conference by chairs, the committee chairs and vice chairs, the working groups, sub-working groups, and ad hoc groups chairs, the RRB members, and the heads of the regional groups for the key role they played in this conference. I thank my deputy director and all the ITU staff, those here as well as those in Geneva, from all the three sectors and the general secretariat of the ITU for their dedication and hard work to ensure the conference runs smoothly. I thank the Egyptian administration for putting in place a conducive environment and ensuring our safety throughout this event. I thank the local staff that worked so hard in the background. And although it's always delicate to single out individuals, there are four people from the host country that I need to explicitly acknowledge. Dr. Zayed Azuz, who was from the very beginning leading the process of preparation of the conference and worked tirelessly to ensure everything was in place according to ITU requirements. Mr. Ahmed Raji, our focal point for the Egyptian side, who put up with all the requests of VR and the delegations, and he always did that with a big smile. Hoda Eldid, who prepared all the adornment of this venue and made sure we worked in a pleasant setting and felt always at home. And of course, our chairman, Mr. Amber Badawi who accepted to take on this responsibility instead of continuing enjoying his retirement. I'm not sure he was fully aware of what he was putting himself into, but nevertheless, he has blessed us with his calm and efficient leadership when guiding the proceedings of this conference. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Finally, Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you all for investing yourselves and providing your support to help bring the 2019 World Radio Communication Conference to a successful conclusion. We leave Egypt with a feeling of mission accomplished, but before leaving, some of you suggested that we change the PDF mask for a snorkeling mask and explore the beauties of the sea in Sharm Sheikh. My only advice to you is, do not cause any harmful interference to the marine life. It is supposed to be one of the most beautiful ones in the world. I wish you a safe trip back home. Thank you.


Hello, everybody. This is Dan Giles. I've been asked a few times to kind of show some pictures of where I work. So here you go. I work in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as you can see in the beginning, at a 272-unit property just on the west side of the inter-coastal waterway. Real shots here. You can see that we have quite a few buildings on our property. Up on the top of the screen, you can see that's what we call the west side of the property. And what's in the foreground here is called the east side of the property, with two pools, a kiddie pool, clubhouse, quite a few garages and storage units also. It's a fun property to work at. We're right on the second hole at Arrowhead Golf Course. I really hope that you've got some enjoyment out of these aerial shots. This is a shot towards the ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. And coming up on the right of the screen is the Myrtle Beach International Airport. And that airport runway is right off the beach. So as you can see in the far distance is the Atlantic Ocean. Not too far from that. I want to thank you for watching. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up. Hey, don't hesitate to subscribe and leave me a comment in the comment section below. This is Dan Giles. I'll see you soon.


If you've spent any time reading up about OAuth, you've probably seen the terms Confidential Client and Public Client used a lot. What exactly do these mean and why should you care? Let's find out. Welcome to OAuth in 5 Minutes, a series where we deep dive on various topics around OAuth and OpenID Connect in just 5 short minutes. I'm your host Aaron Parecki and let's get right into today's video. So the first thing to remember is that Client is the OAuth spec term for application. It sometimes frustrates me that the spec has all these fancy names for things, like Client for application or Resource Owner for user. There is a good reason for it because technically a Resource Owner can be something other than a user, but for the vast majority of the time we're talking about users using applications. So if Client means application, then what do Confidential and Public mean? These are again kind of strange words to use, but they are defined in the spec, so we have to understand them. Basically the difference between Public Client and Confidential Client is that Confidential Client can keep a secret and Public Client can't. So basically what that means is that if you were to put something that's secret into a Confidential Client, then you can be sure that it will remain secret. Whereas if you try to put something that's a secret into a Public Client, it won't stay secret for very long. So let's look at some examples. Confidential Clients are typically applications that are running on a server, so that's going to be things written in server-side languages like .NET, Java, PHP, anywhere where you can define variables and config entries in the server-side environment and they will stay there and not be visible to users of the application. This is very different from Public Clients where this isn't possible. Probably the simplest example of a Public Client is a JavaScript application, also known as a Single Page Application. The way that works is when you go visit the application's website, it downloads the entire source of the application into your browser and then executes it there. What that means is that you can go into the Browser's View Source button and start looking around at all the code inside the application. And no matter how much the developer tries to hide things in there, there's no way to actually hide secret API keys if they will be visible to the end user of the application. Now, it's a little bit less obvious, but the same thing is also true for mobile apps. Of course, there's no View Source button on a mobile app, but there's plenty of tools available to take that binary file that's downloaded from the App Store and decompile and extract strings out of it. The problem is that the application is actually running on a device that the user is in control of, which means they can use a lot of tools to be able to extract things out of that application. Another example of this would be things like embedded devices or Internet of Things or even like your Apple TV. So sure, in this case, it's a lot harder to actually get into the binary of that application, but it is running on the user's network, which means they can always look at their own network traffic going across their connection in order to see whatever is being sent across the wire. The problem here is that this device is running on a network that the user controls, not that the application developer controls. Okay, so these are some examples of public clients versus confidential clients. Now, how does this relate to OAuth? Typically, when you start building a OAuth application, you're going to go to the developer website of the service you're trying to access and go register a new application. It's going to give you back a client ID and a client secret. These are like the applications username and password. The client ID is considered public. It's used in URLs. It's sent in the browser. It's visible to the user, but the client secret is like a password and it must be kept secret just like you would a password. So the secret is used in OAuth in the exchange of an authorization code for an access token. Now, we're not going to get into the whole OAuth flow in this video. We have some other videos to talk about that already. The thing that the secret does is it means that if someone was able to steal the authorization code out of the address bar, they would not be able to use it because they would not have the secret also. And the OAuth server then requires that the secret is present when the authorization code is exchanged. So the problem is that public clients can't use a secret. So what are we going to do instead? So it turns out that in order to complete an OAuth exchange with a public client, we actually have to do things a little bit differently. We can't ship a secret down to the application when the application is downloaded. So instead, what we do is when the application is ready to start an OAuth flow, it actually generates a secret on the fly for that particular exchange. It uses that secret when it initiates the OAuth flow. Then again, the OAuth server requires that secret when the authorization code is exchanged for the access token. This technique is called pixie or proof key for code exchange. And this is actually an extension to OAuth developed specifically for this case of doing OAuth in public clients. We'll do a deeper dive on pixie in a later video, but there's also some videos on this channel that you can check out right now that talk about pixie and the authorization code flow. So let's recap what we just learned. Confidential clients and public clients refer to whether or not the application has the ability to keep a secret. Confidential clients are typically going to be things that are running on a web server environment written in a server side programming language like .NET or Java. Whereas public clients are things that can't keep a secret because they are running in a device that the user controls. That's going to be things like a single page application or a mobile application. So with public clients, because we can't use pre-registered secrets, we instead have to do the authorization code flow a little bit differently using the pixie extension. And that's our five minutes. I hope you learned something today. As always, please give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and subscribe for more videos like this. I'm Aaron Parecki. Thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one.


Yeah, so welcome back everyone. I'm just reading from 1 Peter chapter 1, and this is verse 22 onwards, right? 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 22 it says, Since you have obeyed, sorry, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the Word of God, which lives and abides forever, because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the field, the grass withers, and it flowers, falls away. But the Word of the Lord endures forever. Now, this is the Word which by the gospel was preached to you. So we just see a few things that Peter mentions here. He says, you have purified your souls in obeying the truth. So we're looking at 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 22 onwards, 22-25, right? So you have purified your souls. What purifies our souls? Which means our thinking, our imagination, when we obey the truth, when we actually carry out the instruction of God's Word. Then the second thing that we see is that, having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, corruptible, through the Word of God. So you've born again, not of something that's corruptible, but something that's incorruptible. Incorruptible meaning something that does not decay, something that is not capable of going bad. It's incorruptible, it's pure. So because it's pure, the Word of God, since it's pure, you have is. And since you obeyed the Word, you purified your souls, your mind, will, emotions.  Then it says here, you've been born again, not of corruptible, but of incorruptible, which is the Word of God. Of incorruptible seed, which is the Word of God. And then it says that the flesh is grass, the glory of man is a flower of his feet. And then everything, the grass withers, everything is temporary. But the Word of the Lord endures forever. It goes on, stays on, because it's not of the world. It's something that's heavenly, something spiritual, and the Word of the Lord goes on forever. And in chapter two, it says, therefore, lay aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes desire the pure milk of the Word that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. So he's saying, he's just describing the Word, you purify your souls through obeying the Word of God. The Word of God is so pure and it's incorruptible and it's like seed, and because of that you were born again. And everything else that you see, the grass and everything is very temporary, it's transient, but then you see that the Word of God endures forever. And this is the Word which was preached to you, which by the Gospel was preached to you. This Word which is living and powerful and alive, this is the Word which has been preached to you, and says, therefore, lay aside, put aside all malice, all envy, all hypocrisy, everything, all deceit, and as newborn babes desire this pure milk of the Word that you may grow thereby. So he's talking about the Word of God, he's talking about the characters of the Word of God, and he's talking about what happens when the Word of God is in us as a seed, what happens when the Word of God is obeyed and what happens when we desire the pure milk of the Word of God, and we grow, and there is spiritual growth. So just before getting into the notes, he's saying that the Word of God is so central to our lives as believers, and as communicators, as facilitators, as preachers, we have this privilege of handling this powerful, this awesome Word of God, which is not of this world, which is the truth of it, it's from the heavens, it's from God originates from him, and he speaks it, and therefore it has life, it has intrinsic power, and we get to handle it, we get to communicate it, we get to preach it. It's an awesome privilege. And the importance of the preaching being central, or the Word of God being central to our preaching. Okay, so last session we ended by looking at the whole practical aspect of communication. While we handle this amazing Word of God, what can we do practically to make sure that when we communicate, it reaches the one who is the recipient of this communication, it reaches in the same manner, it's not lost in transit, it's not damaged in transit, it reaches the same way for the most part, it reaches the same way in which it was meant to reach. So the message does not change, it does not adulterate, the message does not lose any of it, what was supposed to be communicated and it reaches in the same way. Therefore finding its mark, therefore the seed being sown on good ground. So we looked at several things, the basics of communication, we looked at what communication does and so on. So I think we came to point number seven and we saw it's important that we understand people, other audience, we understand their life orientation, where they are at, so that we can communicate even better. We can choose illustrations, we can choose the method of communication, communicating that same message, but we can choose different ways of communicating it. And if you are communicating to a very, if you're preaching, if you're sharing with a very, very young audience, let's say these are children, then obviously the best way to communicate is through object lessons maybe, is through some other way, something visual, something like object lessons, something that you do and show so that it stays with them. It completely, they're able to retain it, it stays with them. So children, well, at that age their mind is able to see things and grasp things. They may not be able to think abstractly at that stage yet, abstractly in terms of theories and all those things, putting things together, ideas, maybe not, maybe not at that stage. So it's best to think of communicating with object lessons and something visual. You use pictures, you use videos, you use charts and they're able to grasp it. So it's good to understand who is my audience and what stage of life are they in, what phase, season of life are they in. So the other one, next one, continuing with basics of communication is that we, when we communicate, we communicate, let's say it's spoken communication, we communicate in a verbal manner. And as we are communicating in a verbal manner, we also communicate in non-verbal ways. What do we mean by that? Which means that we use gestures. Quite recently I watched a video where it says, Italians, can Italians speak without using their hands? Well, it showed clips of different people in Italy and they are talking to each other and they're always using their hands. So that's one thing that they use these gestures and they talk like this. So it's normally, that was the Italians, they use these a lot. So they showed all these clips and said, can Italians speak without using their hands? The obvious thing was, no, there's a lot of gestures. The thing is that even when we speak, we use hand gestures, we use our face, we use a tone of voice. There are a lot of non-verbal, of course tone would be a verbal thing, but use gestures. We use the way we look at our audience or not looking at them, not connecting with them. All those things are clues, the way we stand, the way we move about. All those are verbal cues or verbal messages that the audience is also picking up and certain things that we may not even realize, but it shuts. The audience will find it difficult, maybe even shut down our message. Let's say for example, we don't smile at all with our audience. We wish them and we've got a very long face, we're very serious. Well, the audience might find it difficult to relate. Especially if the message is not so serious, if it's not absolutely of that nature, you're not talking about crucifixion or anything of that sort, but you're talking about something which is light hearted and if you're going to have a very serious expression, that's a non-verbal message that's going out. So be mindful of that. If we are fidgeting, always fidgeting and fidgeting in a sense, maybe just doing that and you're always adjusting your collar or putting something in the pen, taking it in your pocket, taking it out. These are things that distract, so we need to be mindful of that. When we communicate, there are verbal things and we're going to come back to it a little later in making presentations, how can we have an impactful presentation and what are some things to avoid doing? One of the things that we need to understand is that communication, let me just share these notes here, that's coming up. So we need to understand that when we communicate, there's a reaction and it stirs up, it produces some emotion in people, the words that we use, the things that we narrate. So we need to be aware of that. The message that you share, it evokes a reaction. Cognitive, meaning because they understand the reason they receive it and it's going to produce a reaction. For example, if there's something humorous that you're narrating, then they receive it, then there is a reaction to it, a response to it. And the response is normally laughter or at least a smile if it's not a great joke. So it's communication, you're communicating something, therefore you could communicate something to diffuse a situation, meaning that maybe people are angry, upset, and you're sharing something to calm them down. Well, that's a response, that's a reaction that you expect, that is possible if people are discouraged. Well, you're sharing something, encouraging something positive and something prophetic and in time, in season word that builds them up. So be aware of that, that your communication is going to evoke a reaction because you're handling the truth. Generally communication evokes a reaction, but especially since you're handling the truth and you're sharing the truth and maybe a timely word, it's going to evoke a reaction.  We don't want to share something just to make people either feel good about themselves or you want to elicit some sympathy or you want to feel liked by people. So you can do a lot of things to manipulate emotion and we have to avoid that because we're not here to do that. We need to be communicators with integrity. So you don't share things just to make people feel something emotional or you want them to act in a certain way. We don't want to do that.  We want to present the truth and there will be an emotional reaction. As a result of that, there could be. That's absolutely fine, but we do not want to manipulate the emotions of people or manipulate the actions of people because sometimes we hear so many things happening manipulating people's emotions in order to give for a good cause. Present the truth, share the truth. The truth itself could move people. Maybe it's a very worthy cause, maybe there's a need and people are living in some very difficult situations and conditions and it moves the hearts of people. Obviously, there will be a reaction. But you don't do that with the intent of just manipulating emotions so that people will give. It's a fine line, but we need to be aware of that. Okay, so here are certain things. What are the functions of language itself? When you say language, it could come under these categories. You could look at that. Well, we can inform. We report information much like how a news reader would. You inform. You're informing at this happened, that happened. So it's historical facts, current events. You could use language to inform. You could use language to interrogate in the sense you're eliciting information, you're asking questions, you're investigating. You could use language for that in order to be interrogated. It can be interrogative in nature. It can be informative. It can be interrogative. It can be directive, meaning you can give instructions. You can give orders. You can give commands for getting certain things done, things to be done in a certain way, et cetera. So it can be directive. It is expressive in the sense you can express your emotions through the language that you use and the audience can see it. It is expressive. So what is in your heart? What is in your mind? You can express it. You can bring it out so that others can see it and it's done through language. We give them to our feelings, our emotions and it's done through language. It's also evocative. This is what we saw just now, that it creates emotions in people. So it is evocative as well. So we see that these are some of the functions of language. It is used to inform. It is used to find information, get information, interrogative in nature. It's directive. It's expressive and evocative. Just for us to understand that language can be used in all these ways, even as we communicate. So when we look into the word of God, when we look into the Bible, we see that there is, is there homiletics in the Bible? This whole thing of preparing, speaking, preparing, preaching, putting together a message and sharing, is there homiletics in the Bible? When we look at prophetic writings, we see that when we look at the language that was used we look at, like we see Proverbs, we see, for example, let me just read out a portion where there is a lot of, I'm just opened up to Psalm 107. So we see that there is a lot of repetitions, the lot of, so we see this happening there. And of course, I'm just reading through this passage and not exactly, it's not exactly a sermon, but we see this, right? We see Psalm 107, O give thanks to the Lord for he is good and is mercy and yours forever. Let the redeemer of the Lord say so. Then as we go down, you see there's a repetition. O that men would give thanks to the Lord and men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness. So we see that repeated, that verse is repeated. That's a refrain which comes over and over again. O that men would give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. You see that in verse eight, you see that in verse 15, you see that in verse 21, you see that it's a refrain. Of course, it's a song. So you see that it's a, you know, the Psalms, there are songs, right? Songs of praise, songs of worship. You see that refrain coming through. And also verse eight, you know, then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them out of the diocese. Verse 13, then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered and he saved them out of the diocese.   They were moved by that, but then they've also used these metaphors. They use these refrains in order to communicate the message. And also when we, when we look at the prophetic, the way you look at some of the prophets, when you look at the way in which they spoke and the way in which they communicated the message, you see that they are, they use these, you know, figures of speech, they use these metaphors and illustrations and so on. Okay. Wisdom literature, meaning Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Again, we see that, you know, Ecclesiastes, Solomon referred to as the preacher and, you know, some of the things that he speaks and he says, which is recorded there, you know, powerful word pictures are there, especially in Proverbs 25, we see that, you know, it says a word that is spoken in at the right time. Okay. The right circumstances. It's like apples of gold in settings of silver. Right. It's like, you know, amazing picture, word picture that we see here, you know, apples of gold, gold apples, golden apples in, you know, in a silver setting. So we see that. Right. And the Lord Jesus, okay, when he, when he spoke and he taught when he preached, okay, we see that he uses metaphors. You know, we saw one, like last session, we saw that the Lord Jesus saying, you know, why do you look at the speck in another person's eye and you forget the log in your own eye. And he used hyperbole, right. And he used parables, when he was preaching, he uses many parables to talk about the kingdom, to talk about, you know, the Word of God and to talk about, you know, ourselves, our own identity as salt and light uses a lot of parables to bring home the truth of the gospel, the truth of God's kingdom. It uses many parables. So we see that, you know, there is, well, if you can say homiletics, is it there in the Bible, we see that, right. Some sermons to look at are, you know, Stephen just before being martyred in Acts chapter seven, okay, we see a sermon, like it seems like an impromptu sermon, but it's like, we know that Stephen is used to preaching, you know, how do we know that? How do we know that? Just go to Acts chapter, yeah, let's go to Acts five, Acts six, sorry. So Acts six, right, we see when they were chosen, the seven, we see Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit and Philip and so on. And it says here that they were, this was a qualification, right, good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, and they were appointed over this task. And it says that, you know, in verse seven, you go down, it says then the Word of God spread and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith. Of course, this was because of the ministry of the apostles and the ministry of these, these seven who were, you know, like Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nikkele, Taman, Parmenas and Nicholas, and Nicholas was a proselyte, meaning that he was a traveling, you know, a preacher, right, so, and also it says that Stephen, full of faith and power, verse eight, okay, chapter six verse eight, Stephen, full of faith and power did great wonders and signs among the people. And we know that, you know, wherever they went, they preached and God was faithful to, faithful to accomplish the Word which was preached, which was spoken. So, we see that, right, so, when we come to Acts chapter seven and we see Stephen addressing, Stephen is giving a very categorical, you know, an address of, starts with, starts with Abraham, right, so the hypris just asks this question in verse one, are these things so, okay, seven chapter one, sorry, chapter seven verse one.  He talks about the, talks about Joseph, talks about the Exodus, talks about Moses, and yeah, just goes on, right, so we see that is a very, well, we could say that it's, it is in him, right, but he was used to sharing, he was used to preaching the gospel because he, it says, the testimony is that he did great signs and wonders among the people, right, to see. Then, then again, when we back up to Acts chapter two, you know, we see Sermon, that Peter, it delivers, he's just anointed, filled, baptized by the Holy Spirit and he shares, right, at Paul, at, you know, Mars Hill, right, and Athens and how he shares, shares the gospel Acts chapter 17, right, so, well, it is said of Paul that he did not, because Paul says, you know, very clearly that, you know, he did not really, he was not trained in speech, meaning that he was not trained to be the eloquent orators of his time, so the orators of his time, they were trained to speak in a certain way, they were trained to use some, you know, flowery, you know, very high language and words in order to communicate something, right, in order to get the attention of people there, they were used to using these quotes from famous people and all that, so Paul was not actually trained in that, he says, in 1 Corinthians 1, he very plainly says, you know, 1 Corinthians 117 and also chapter 2 verse 1, maybe we can just read that out. Let me just, yeah, 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 17, he says, Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. And then chapter 2 verse 1, And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to the testimony of God, but I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him, crucified. Verse 4, and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power. So, well, in all his, in all his messages, we see that he was well read and he spoke in a very orderly manner, though he says, he himself says that he was not trained in these oratorical ways, right, of his time. Okay, so we see that, we see, you know, homiletics in the New Testament, we see that in the Old Testament, we see that in the writings. Well, when we look at Paul's instruction to Timothy, Paul says he encourages Timothy to give himself to the preaching of the word, give himself to the doctor and to rightly be dividing the word of God. So the importance that Timothy needs to give. Okay, let's look at 1 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 2, first Timothy chapter 3 and verse 2. Okay, so there in verse 2 he says a bishop, which means a spiritual overseer must be able, must have the ability to teach, which means must have the ability to, you know, we can say, okay, teach, preach, like communicate, proclaim, okay, the word. We go down to chapter 4 and we look at verse 13, right. So he says, till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Okay, to reading, to stay in the word. So they have the Old Testament scrolls and Paul's revelations that he was writing. And so all that was there. And so he's saying, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift which is in you. And then again in verse 16 he says, take heed to yourself and to the doctrine, continue in them. Okay, so continue, meaning the first instruction is that, okay, you meditate, give yourself entirely to, that is in verse 15. But he says, you know, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. So exhortation meaning you know, you're based on what you've read, you are actually encouraging, right. You're giving an encouraging word, an inspiring word. That's an exhortation, right. So Paul is giving that, so which means that that was part of the early church as well, that there was exhortation. There was preaching, right. So that we see just based on the word of God. Okay, so we, that's several other scriptures mentioned there. You can take a look at it. Okay, so we come to this, just moving on to chapter three. Okay, just give me a minute. Let me just check here. Okay, so chapter three. Okay, so we see that in today's world, okay, where there's different ways by which we communicate any message. This communication is so rapid. Okay, and rampant. And with technology changing and there's so much of innovation. So messages are being communicated in very different ways. So is preaching still relevant? Right, so that's the question, right. Is it relevant or should we just, you know, is it outdated? Okay, is it relevant? Should it be spoken out loud? Should it be, you know, when you look at it, if you look at all the ways in which the message is going out, electronically, you know, written communication and so on, we see that. But in one way if you see some of these videos or most of these videos are also videos of, you know, there's somebody who's, there's a speech. There is speech, there is visual in the videos. It could be a long lengthy one. It could be a live thing. But there is speech and there is text and there is visual. So that happens. So John Stott, a theologian, a writer, this is what he says, preaching is indispensable to Christianity without preaching a necessary part of its authenticity has been lost. Christianity is, in its various sense, a religion of the word of God. Just consider that, the word. There are many things that you can do with the word, write the word. You can, you know, sing the word. You communicate the word. The word, right, it's spoken as well. Right, so when it comes to communicating, okay, so let's look at some of these thoughts here. Okay, it's an over-communicated society. Okay, you have, you have Instagram, you have Facebook, you have YouTube, you have, you know, all these things, social media, LinkedIn and all those messaging boards and Twitter and all that. Yes, it is an over-communicated, you know, add to that, newspapers and billboards and all that is happening. You know, it's a lot of communication. There's a lot of noise.  So it is really an over-communicated society that we live in. Okay, and within that, is it relevant to preach the Word of God in a setting? Okay, so one thing we need to understand is all these, you know, all these methods of communication, you know, these billboards and maybe all these videos and everything can certainly, you know, it is good in a way. It can enhance our communication. Okay, it can definitely enhance our communication, but we should be careful that they don't substitute the message. Okay, so which means they don't dilute, they don't substitute, substitute meaning you replace with something else, right?  It's diluted, right? The strength of it is taken away. So all these technology techniques can enhance our communication of the message, but they can be in the danger of substituting if we allow it, right? So we need to make sure that does not happen. Okay, well, we also live in a society where first of all, you know, it is overcommunicated. We also live in a society where social action, okay, appeals to the some Christians more than maybe, you know, communicating the truth or listening. Okay, like what is the question, you know, some of the things that they put forth is that, okay, what good are words of faith? Okay, when society demands works of faith, there is a demand for action. So what good are these words? Okay, so, you know, they even say, okay, these apostles, right? That version, I mean, that verse that we read just now, Act 6, why were the seven actually, you know, selected and, you know, ordained for the task? Because the apostle said we should not, you know, move away from the preaching. We should not move away from the study of God's Word.  Well, they seem to think otherwise, right? So that is a real challenge. Okay, so it's an overcommunicated society. There's a challenge in the audience itself, which says, okay, I don't want the words, I want the action. Okay, but we need to understand that action is important, but it should come from, it should come from truth. It should be action which is inspired, which is motivated, which is moved out of truth and truth that is actually communicated. Okay, so the thing is, you know, we see all these challenges and, okay, Paul, when he writes to the Romans, you know, this is something that he says, right? I think it's good to read through this. Okay, yeah, so we see here that Paul, when he writes to the Romans, Romans chapter one, he says, I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith with yours and mine. Okay, so what is it? He was writing to them. He had, you know, encouraged them. He's saying, you know, I long to see you that I might in person pray prophesy, maybe lay hands. He's saying, I won't impart some spiritual gift.  He says verse 15. Okay, let's maybe look at those verses. You can turn to Romans one. Okay, so in verse 15 he says, so as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also. Right. So he says, so the importance of actually communicating, preaching the gospel. So we see that it is, it was relevant then and the same thing is relevant today. The whole aspect of ministering, the whole aspect of impartation, the whole thing of laying out of hands and so on. So it's, we cannot do away with it. We cannot substitute it with anything else. Right. But it's definitely, it is good when we use technology. It is good when we use all these methods and, you know, and so I think every ministry and every church should definitely, you know, use all these means in order to, in order for maximum impact and maximum mileage and so on.  Maybe it's a small group, maybe it's a church, maybe it's a fellowship, you know, where God can, or God can do what he wants done through, you know, this community of people gathering together, meeting together. Okay. Right. So, so let's, you know, just look at a few things, you know, why is it relevant? Okay.  He's alive. He's living. He speaks in the here and now. Hebrews talks about the fact that he spoke through his prophets and his losses. He's speaking through his son. And then now we know that, you know, he's speaking through us the body of Christ. And where the, you know, we, the church, we are the expression of the body of Christ, the expression of the body of Christ. So, which means that expression of Christ himself. So when we look at each one of us as believers, you know, as a community together, we are the expression of Christ, the ministry of Christ in a certain place. Okay. Which would be, you know, take care of people's needs. It could be bringing healing, wholeness. It is bringing salvation, the message of the gospel, everything. So the church is expression. To express, it means in different ways, right? In action. Also, it means to communicate, right? To show forth, to put on display, right? So we are the expression of Christ in a certain geographical location. Okay. Well, God commissioned the prophets to proclaim. So we see that it's scriptural today to proclaim. The Lord Jesus, he went about preaching and teaching. And we as his disciples are to walk in his footsteps. So therefore, you know, we will also walk in his ways and minister according to the way he ministered in truth and with power, right? Mark chapter one and verse 14 says, Now, after John had been put in the gospel, had been put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying the time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel. See that in verse 14 and 15. So he preached the gospel of the kingdom and he said, repent and believe in the gospel. So we see in several places that he preached, that he taught and he went about healing. We see that over and over and over again. This is how he did. He preached the gospel, he taught in the synagogues and he healed all who came to him. So that was his earthly ministry. He proclaimed the truth. He taught the truth and he ministered in power the truth which said things right in people's bodies with resultant deliverance and so on. Okay. Then John the Baptist came preaching. He was a forerunner. The apostles preached the gospel in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. And as people filled by the Holy Spirit, we are called to be witnesses. We are called to witness. We see in Acts chapter one. Acts chapter one verse eight. This is what the Lord said about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. For all the disciples, he said, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me. And he went on to say, okay, this is the scope of witnessing in Jerusalem, in Judea, in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.  You know, they preached the gospel, they shared the gospel, they pointed to Christ, they testified of what Christ had done in their lives and what he could do. And we see that happening. So we can say that preaching is God's ordained means of sharing the gospel. So we need not do away with preaching while we indulge in several other ways of maybe even writing, singing it and discussing it and so on. So we don't have to or we should not do away with this method of spreading the gospel, which is preaching the gospel. So we see several other examples. And lastly, you know, we are commissioned by the Lord to preach the gospel. Okay, so to communicate the gospel, to proclaim the gospel. We see it in Matthew 28, we see it in Mark chapter 16, verse 15, where we are called and commissioned, anointed, empowered by the Lord to go preach the gospel to every creature by baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit and teaching them to observe all that the Lord has taught us to do. Okay, so we see that in the phase of over-communicated society, in the phase of all these things happening, all these changes of technological advances, we don't, we should not substitute, you know, good preaching with anything else. And because the Lord is looking for people who would communicate the truth and we would, he's looking for people who would, you know, as much as he's looking for people who would stand in the gap, he's looking for people who would communicate the truth and he's looking to perform or confirm his word and confirm the preaching of the word with his power, with science wonders and miracles. But first of all, there has to be the proclamation and the Lord would watch over the word to perform what has been proclaimed, right? So the proclamation is very, very important. Okay, so we'll stop here. Just for us, so we saw today the importance of preaching, the relevance of preaching, and also we just, you know, concluded the basics of communication and the basics of language itself. Okay, so we'll stop here and next class we'll look at the preacher, you know, the man. We looked at the message, you know, the man. We looked at the method, sorry, and we're going to look at the man, the preacher, you know, the call and the qualifications. We'll look at that in the next class, okay, which is on Thursday. Okay. Okay, so thank you and God bless we'll meet again. Bye.


Hello and welcome to part 3 of this series where I talk about old rumors and such primarily regarding Super Nintendo games, like for example, in the past I've talked about how Hegane was never actually a blockbuster exclusive or how there's no actual blood code in the Super Nintendo version of the original Mortal Kombat, or even nonsense rumors like how you can totally play as Shang-Long in Street Fighter 2 if you beat the game with Ryu without taking any damage or whatever. The thing is though with a lot of these schoolyard-type rumors, there's no actual way to disprove a lot of them without actually digging into the programming code itself and saying, See? There's nothing there. So in the meantime, you're always gonna have weird rumors like how there's a secret platinum sword you can find in Link to the Past if you throw just the right sequence of stuff into the Fairy Pond, guess what, it's not true, or how you can unlock Luigi as a playable character in Super Mario RPG because hey, Kamani's right there in the parade at the end of the game, so there must be a way to unlock him. Nope! It's never happened. I'm sure someone out there has made a fake video of it, but there's no actual way to do it. Or here's one that was really popular at my school when I was a kid. You can unlock all the bosses in the SNES version of the original Street Fighter 2. All you gotta do is some absurd sequence that also happens to unlock Chun-Li's secret fireball attack. Again, there's no real way to disprove any of this without tearing apart the code, but even then you'd need an adequate way to explain and demonstrate what you're actually looking at, then you'd need to explain what that kind of code would look like, and it's just an endless rabbit hole. All I can tell you in the meantime is there's no platinum sword, there's no way to play as Luigi in Mario RPG, and there's no Chun-Li fireball, it doesn't show up on Super Nintendo until Street Fighter 2 Turbo. These were just stories made up by kids at school just because they're fun to imagine and it was an easy way to deal with all the limitations we had to deal with back then. There's even goofy stuff out there in the emulation world that simply comes from someone ripping a ramen naming it something weird, like Rockman and Forte, mislabeled as Rockman 9 or something like that, and there's also random weird stuff that people insist on tossing around as fact, like quote, Nintendo did not allow most third parties to use custom sound drivers or make their own samples, only certain companies were allowed. Meanwhile, there's just no evidence of that whatsoever, so I don't understand that one at all. Thanks to Kular for pointing that one out. Let's get back to stuff that can actually be disproven, like this story about how the US and NTSC regions were supposed to get Secret of Mana 2, otherwise known as Sekinden Setsu 3 and now known as Trials of Mana, but instead we ended up getting Secret of Evermore as a replacement.  We were getting Secret of Evermore no matter what. According to an interview on Nintendo Life with the games lead programmer Brian Fadrow, Square put together a team out in Redmond, Washington to specifically work on Secret of Evermore and nothing else. Nobody else on the team even touched Sekinden Setsu 3. So why didn't the US get that game? According to the February 1996 edition of Next Generation Magazine, it was scheduled for a North American release, but it was canceled because of programming bugs they deemed too costly to fix in a timely manner. The February 2011 issue of Retro Gamer elaborates that fixing the issues wouldn't have been worth it because by the time it could have been ready for release, fifth generation consoles like PlayStation, Saturn and even the N64 would have been in full swing. This is just pure speculation on my part, but if I had to guess what the issues were, it's the actual text and translation. According to the team that worked on the fan translation of Sekinden Setsu 3, they had to create a brand new kind of text editor from scratch just to get past all the layers of compression. And even then, the fan translation wasn't ready to roll until 2000 due to the amount of work it required. Anyway, the point here is the reason the US didn't get Secret of Evermore is because of time and money. Not because someone thought Secret of Evermore would make an adequate replacement. We were going to get that game anyway.  Now, some people resent the existence of a game like Mystic Quest, not just because it was made for a particular audience, namely people that were not already familiar with turn-based RPGs, but because some people were under the impression that Mystic Quest was a replacement for Final Fantasy V. Again, these two games were completely separate projects made by completely separate teams. The June 1994 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly states that Final Fantasy V wasn't going to get localized in North America because Square deemed it to be too difficult and too complex for the time. Ted Woolsey, Square's go-to English translator at the time, said in a 1992 issue of Ogopogo Examiner Newsletter, quote, that the game just wasn't accessible enough for the average gamer, unquote. Regarding Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Woolsey said in that same interview, quote, action adventure players tend to be younger and like the idea of jumping straight into the action with a sword in their hands, but with more traditional RPGs, it takes a good 15 or 20 hours of playing before you're finally hooked, unquote. In this particular case, I can see how this could have been an either or scenario based on the US market at the time, but the fact remains that the US was getting Final Fantasy Mystic Quest anyway, and it wasn't a replacement for Final Fantasy V. Now, here's a really goofy one that I don't even know how it got started. It involves Star Fox and unlocking some kind of secret level in the asteroid section of the hard path where you just shoot at this random asteroid on the right side until it blows up, and it warps you to another dimension where you fight a giant slot machine.     Something hatches and this bird warps you to another dimension where you fight paper airplanes and letters. But yeah, you can actually beat this slot machine. You'd keep shooting the arm on the right and hope that you get three sevens in a row and it self-destructs. It's one of the most random.  And I needed to point it out here. So yeah, if you ever hear about a slot machine in Star Fox, it's a real thing, believe it or not. Speaking of Super FX games, here's another weird, unsubstantiated rumor regarding the game Vortex. When the Super FX chip first launched, it really got people's imaginations racing as to what was possible on a home console. For instance, this sort of 3D format could have blended itself perfectly to a franchise like the Transformers. And in fact, there was a game that was briefly in development based on Transformers Generation 2. However, what we ended up actually seeing on the shelves was this game, Vortex. And as you can see, it has nothing to do with Transformers. Some people were under the impression that Hasbro pulled the license because they didn't like the game. But Vortex and the Transformers game were completely separate projects and the Transformers game was simply canceled, as confirmed in a 2015 interview with Argonaut Games programmer Michael Wong Powell. So yeah, Vortex is not a quote unquote failed Transformers game. It's just kind of a mediocre 3D shooter platformer hybrid, I guess. Last but not least, here's a really funny one from NBA Jam. I like to end these videos on sports games because anytime you're playing against the computer, you always get the feeling that it's just messing with you and it can win anytime it wants, right? Well, in NBA Jam for Super Nintendo, it's not just a feeling, it's reality. It was confirmed by lead programmer Mark Turmell in an interview with ESPN a few years ago that when you play as the Chicago Bulls against the Detroit Pistons, Scottie Pippen's ratings would drop across the board. His dunk rating is three point shooting, everything. He just absolutely sucked against the Pistons and only the Pistons. And not only that, anytime, and I mean anytime the Bulls had the ball with time running out and they take a shot from anywhere on the court, even from close range, it never went in, but only when they were playing the Pistons. Why? Because Turmell was a Pistons fan and he hated the Bulls, so he actually wrote a special code in the game just to screw with them. Man, the first time I read this, I was like, I knew it, I knew programmers were doing stuff like this. And it proves once again that yes, sometimes the computer really does cheat. All right, I wanna thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Aloha, welcome to another edition of Military in Hawaii. I'm the host Calvin, Calvin Griffin. And for those of you who haven't seen the program in the past, here in the program we talk about military and veterans issues anyhow. One other thing I wanted to reiterate is that here in the program we're going to be talking about a lot of different issues and we want to make sure that the information is informative and correct. Some of the things that we'll be talking about today may make a few people uncomfortable, but the thing is we need to discuss certain things in an open and honest environment anyhow. The other thing is the rule I have here, if you hear me or my guests, anything that you think is an error, please give us a call here and feel free to express yourself. Like I said, just come with the facts and we'll deal with that. Today my guest is going to be Mr. Mark McCabe, who's with the Vietnam Veterans of America. And we're going to be talking about an issue that really doesn't get that much attention while not in the mainstream press. And this is about the effects, birth defects in the military and veterans community. And again this is one of the things that I think there needs to be more discussion on because it can affect several generations. So right now at this moment I'd like to introduce Mr. Mark McCabe to the program. Mark are you there? I am here. Thank you. Good. Thank you. So can you use a little bit about yourself and your connection with the Veterans of Vietnam? Yes, I'm the bureau chief for Vietnam Veterans of America and our organization is the only congressional chartered service organization to represent veterans and their families and their children in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs and to get them really compensated. Okay. And my background is I am a Vietnam combat veteran, I grew up in a military family and I did my tours in Vietnam and then I came back. Okay. Good. Currently you're living in Florida? I'm living in Southwest Florida. That's correct. Good. This issue, like in the winter discussing these, of course the health issues, there's a lot of things that go on within the community that are not publicly discussed, you know. And one of the things as far as this issue about birth defects, I know that you're very close to that issue. Did you inform our viewers, you know, what the current situation is right now as far as addressing this and some of the problems that are wrote as a risen, you know, within the community? So, Vietnam Veterans of America, what we do is we have town hall meetings where we travel around the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to bring attention to the public, the veteran community, the active duty military community, about the effects of the toxic substance in time of war. In the past it was referred to as exposure to age and orange for the people in Vietnam. But because of the mass production of the pre-Iranium in Iraq during the OEF-OIF conflict, the burn pits, they've changed it to reflect the toxic effects on children and the veteran from the duration of war. And some of those issues are very important to the family members, because not only the family members, you get these horrendous cancers and heart conditions and skin conditions. They're also the children. The children are born with spina bifida, which is a crippling disease. And the VA currently, you know, they compensate the children on different levels based on the disability effects that they have. So they have a level one, a level two, and a level three. And a level three is normally when the child is in a wheelchair for the rest of their life. So we have children that are, we call them children, but they're 40 and 48 years of age and some of them are younger in the 30s. But we do have a lot of children that are confined to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. And that's from the spina bifida. We have, there's 17 other presumptive illnesses for people that served in Vietnam. They were exposed to the contaminated deoxam, which was from the Agent Orange herbicide, it was a herbicide. They called it Agent Orange because it had an orange band around the barrels that they brought over to Vietnam to spray and kill the, it was a defoilient to kick back the weeds and the undercover so that the Vietnamese could sneak up on the bases. But now we have the contaminated water issue that's affected thousands of children from the Camp Lejeune contaminated water. And they are also coming down with the same illnesses, cancers, spinal defects, neurological defects. So there's a lot of, there's a, altogether there's like 35 different presumptive illnesses for both of those sets of families. Okay. Well, these effects, this is not only confined to the first generation, but also possibly the second generation that come up with genetic defects. Yeah, we have, we have actually seen it in, in the United States, three generations. Three. We, three generations. But the thing is the government, our government, the United States government only recognizes it into the first generational issue. Just recently in the last session of the Bipartisan House that ended in December of 2016, they passed the new Children's Act. And in that act, it's dictating the VA to start to the studies to see if it is a generational issue and how does it pass down to the second and third generation. It is, we've seen it in Vietnam where it's been passed down to the fourth generation. But again, in Vietnam, because we dumped 11 million gallons of this contaminated herbicide into their water supply, into their food chain, it's still affecting their children today, they'll be born 50 years later, they'll be born with these horrendous illnesses and birth defects. All right. Yeah. Well, you know, it's something of this magnitude. It doesn't seem to be that, you know, a lot of the information doesn't seem to be showing up in the mainstream press. And over time and time, if something does happen, it comes and it fades. Is there more of a awareness that's going on or is there more of a cry for, you know, the government to, you know, accept responsibility and certain areas for these situations? I think what happens is that the Department of Veterans Affairs, who's basically in charge of taking care of the veterans out when they transition from active duty to veteran status, you know, they don't do a lot of outreach. They're not just like the current warriors we have from the OEF-OIF conflict, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Samaria, Syria, and Iraq, you know, they're not being told of what these illnesses are and they're not being, so they're not doing outreach programs. So it leads it up to these individual service organizations to make the public aware of it. So that's why the Vietnam veterans, when we were officially chartered by Congress, one of our, one of our model was never again should one generation of veterans leave another generation behind. So we started doing outreach programs in town hall meetings at our own expense, traveling around the United States in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or basically wherever someone, an interested party invites us to do these presentations, we go in there with a panel of expert people that have the knowledge of either the exact illness, the disease, the process of how to get compensated, the process of how to take care of the children and be, you know, have the bills paid for. So we do that on a regular basis every month. We're traveling on that last two months. I did in Texas and Florida, we did a seven day presentation through seven different counties. So we make people aware of it and we not just make them aware of it and then leave, we give them the information so that they can process the aspect of how to do the claim, how to file a claim with the government and if they get denied, we will represent them pro bono up to the Court of Appeals at the Board of Veterans Appeals. So they have competent, all of our people are trained in the legal aspects and we have four attorneys at the board that represents the children and the veteran, like I said, pro bono, there's no charge to the people. With the number of female personnel in the military now, what you mentioned is what 32 different problems have been identified so far or more?  But there's all these cancers that are linked to the carcinogenic from the contaminated dioxin that was in these herbicides. So they have multiple birth defects, they have multiple miscarriages, stillborn babies, so, you know, and it's all been tied to this. So we're trying to get that awareness out to everybody so if they know, because then the veteran feels bad that they passed it on to their children, so they have this feeling that, well, you know, it was my fault. Well, they weren't, they didn't have to be sprayed by these herbicides and they weren't asked to be exposed to the deputed uranium in Iraq. So, you know, that's why we have to do this awareness and make people aware of what's going on. Yeah, because when somebody says when it seems like it develops, it's like the onus has put on the service members to prove, you know, what they have to do, of course, is extensive research and everything else. But I don't like to say it just boggles the mind sometimes how, you know, the bureaucracy drags your feet when it's far as compensation, you know, for a legitimate problem that arose from your, you know, your service to your country. But not, yeah, not only just the concept of the exposure to the toxic substance, but just in general, when a veteran military person transitions to the civilian world, it'll take them sometimes maybe a year or two years before he gets his case completed and is compensated. And sometimes because they don't have the right documentation, maybe because when people came up, for instance, when people came home from Vietnam, especially the Army guys, they transitioned to Oakland Army Center and they just came in there. They're there for one day and they are processed out. So they didn't put on their paperwork that they have this metal for being in Vietnam, so they didn't have the evidence to prove that they had boots on the ground. And in the early part of the years, you had to prove exactly which core that you had served in Vietnam, because we have four, four different geographical areas that we call I core, two core, three core, something like that. But if you didn't have that verification, they said you weren't exposed to enough of the contaminant to have this disability. Then we, the Vietnam Veterans of America, along with several other organizations sued the Department of Veterans Affairs and basically the United States of America saying that that's not right. They should be granted presumptive illnesses if they have boots on the ground. But then they finally said, OK, yeah, that's true. So they changed that rule in the 80s saying that as long as you have boots on the ground, that's all we care about. If you can prove you have boots on the ground. So that's always been a stumbling block. And of course, with with these children's illnesses, the claims are only processed in one center. We have 56 regional offices within the Department of Veterans Affairs. And the only regional office that does this processing is in Denver, Colorado. And they're so secretive of how many claims have come in, how many claims have gone out. And it's hard to get a true feeling of exactly what has gone on with these claims.  We've made the assumption that they were going to store for data rights of these second generation children. We knew they were not going to pay them, but we wanted to show the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Institute of Medicine that, hey, all these second generations are having the same issues that the first generation children have. And we know that that's a contaminated diacinth that resides in a fatty tissue and it can transmit to the seminal process when you have them reproduction cycles. So it's out there. It's known. It's just that we have to fight it all the time to get the grant for the children and for the better themselves. Right. What in the case?  If there's someone out there that their biological parent did serve and it was passed on, is there any options for them as far as actually some resource where they can go back and they're trying to make a get a claim or compensation for their disabilities? And we actually have a case like that right now before the Board of Veterans Appeals that child was adopted. So her biological dad is not the dad that she's living with. She's living with a new set of parents. Neither one of them served in a service. So they had to get the service members records because the first thing we do or the first action that the VA does, first thing the VA does to verify all the stuff is you have a duty to 14 did you serve in Vietnam? Then we need the birth certificate and the marriage certificate to prove that the child was an offspring of the veteran that actually served in Vietnam. So that's one of the cases we have before the court right now. So that's a very good point because we see that a lot. And to be honest with you, the Vietnam veteran who came home, a majority of them, they had more than one marriage because the post-max stress issue kicked in. And you know, they weren't we weren't welcome when we came home. OK, we not like the current veterans that come home from Iraq and Afghanistan because, you know, the past president said they were the next generation of the greatest heroes and Vietnam veteran wasn't looked like that. So they had multiple marriages. And so we know we find some children that had these illnesses and never got taken care of because the new set of parents didn't know that the dad served in Vietnam. So what we're asking when we do these town hall meetings, we ask the local medical facilities, you know, when you're doing an intake of a veteran, if you know he's a veteran, ask him where he served. If you served in Vietnam, there's a list of questions we'd like for you to ask them. We have never been ill. Have you ever had one of these 17 presumptive illnesses? Did you have children? Were your children born with any type of a disability? And because there's two things that come into play for the children. And a lot of people don't realize that if your child was born and before they would come to age of 18, if they were totally disabled, the VA will pay the parents compensation.  But they don't go out and tell you that. But that's the law, that's the 38 CFR, which is the Code of Federal Regulation. So those are other issues that we find out when we go do these town hall meetings. Well, I didn't know that I could have my child taken care of. You know, I had to put him in a state nursing home. So these are things that we really need to get out there and be aware of for the veterans and their family members. Yeah, it seems a little bit frustrating because I see when a problem comes up, you have our legislators who they pass these laws or to put something out there, but then they're slow to implement them as far as where it's going to have a positive effect, a short term anyhow. But are there more? What about in Washington? I mean, is there a move of what they go ahead and try to correct some of these things at the speed of the process? Because you mentioned that the only the center in Denver is the only one that's processing the papers now. Yeah, I mean, it just seems with all the resources that our government has that they could be now at least one on each coast or whatever, you know, but, you know, it just boggles the mind, like saying, is the lack of response in a lot of the areas, you know. I think that's been one of the biggest issues we've seen in the past 10 years is the lack of accountability and expediting claims for veterans and their family members who have terminal illnesses. Yeah, they just sit out there and it could be two or three years. And it's not lack of people. They have the people they just they just don't have. There's not accountability within the VA system. Yeah, she hopes I'm accountable for their jobs. Well, we need to do that. I think, Mark, we're going to take a short break and then we'll come back. We'll continue our conversation here. I think like Hawaii military in Hawaii. Hello, I'm Dean Nelson, host of Planet of the Courageous. From a Tibetan point of view, we chose to be on this planet because we enrolled in a sort of graduate school for courage. Just that we may have chosen this adventure is a leap of logic. The question is, how do we spend and make sense of this precious human life? We are, as a species, extraordinarily successful, dominating the planet and now with planetary size problems that our existence itself has created. It takes courage to face not only the uncertainty of life, but also the challenges sustaining this gift of life for future generation. Join us every Monday at 3 p.m. on Think Tech, Hawaii. Aloha. OK, you're back with the military in Hawaii and again, I'm your host, Calvin. And right now, my guest, born by phone, is Mr. Mark McCables, with the Vietnam Veterans of America. And our subject matter today is the birth defects or different health issues within the military community. Mark, before we took a break, you mentioned that the VA. There's been a lot of issues, of course, you know, that seems to constantly be developing, you know. And is there any way, I mean, we hear that there's changes being made. But do you think that there's anything, I mean, that they could be speeded up a little bit more because we do have veterans who are literally dying, you know, waiting for benefits. And again, not to mention, like, say, this subject matter with the their spouse, I mean, they're offspring anyhow. But do you see anything that is really gelling that's going to correct the system? Well, I think, you know, Dr. Shulkin, who's been named a new secretary of the VA, he's relatively new in that position in less than 100 days. And I've already seen, I mean, I work at a regional office in St. Petersburg, which is the largest regional, one of the largest regional offices in all of all 56. And we have, like, 1,400 employees at our building. And Dr. Shulkin has already made, I think, some good inroads. He's made some promises and we're seeing some positive forces. We just recently at our regional office got a new director who I think is outstanding in terms of her professionalism and her empathy towards the veteran, unlike the previous administration we had. So I see it's coming around. It's just it's not going to go overnight. And I think that's the sad part, because we need to do the it needs to be done quickly and in an expeditious way, because too many veterans are dying before their benefits are paid out.  So you can actually be the stand in and then you would receive the crude benefits as well as DIC, which is like a widow's dependent and demoted compensation. So we'll compensate you for the rest of your life to take care of you, because after all, so they would have Lincoln said to take care of the where the orphans and children and the wives. Yeah, because it seems like when they when things are not implemented or there's a lag in the compensation and a lot of people, you know, it's just this is something that people earn, you know, not that they're looking for a freebie or anything like that, you know. But it just seems that, you know, because one thing we talked about this in the past, and when the system, the federal system doesn't take care of the veterans, then in a roundabout way that falls on the local communities as far as putting the strain on the different services that's available to the rest of the civilian population. But I don't know what response with the different organizations I know with the organization you're with, but the other major major organizations are they really putting the full court press on our legislators to bring some changes about? They are. We have what's called a big six meeting. And that big six meeting is the big, the top six veterans service organizations, more, which is members of the Purple Heart, more of the members of the officers Association of America, American Legion, the disabled veterans, paralyzed veterans of America. So we do meet once a month and try to be collectively put the pressure on to the VA to do the right thing for the better. And because, as you said, and I think what happens is, because we have so many civilians working with inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, they don't understand the acronyms, let alone what these members have gone through to give them their freedom. So they think it's a handout. We know it's an earned benefit. We are in this benefit, but it's taken sometimes years. If not, for instance, to come to Puerto Rico, I have a case that's been pending since 1991 because it's bounced back and forth from the board to local jurisdiction back to the board. The veteran is sitting out there with a disabled child because she was a female member in the army. She got a rubella shot. The child was born premature and he is now 38 years old, but he is totally handicapped, totally incapacitated. So she had to quit her job to take care of her son. And like you said, because she didn't get her compensation, the local community has to pick up the slack there.  And because that's one extra slack that someone else could use because, you know, you only have so many debts. Sometimes it is skilled nursing facility. And if you use them all up, it needs to be taken care of and done on a more quicker basis. Yeah. The other thing I want to bring up, not only with Agent Orange, but I know that there has been issues in the past as far as with the anthrax shots and different inoculations that the troops have been receiving.  I don't want to go too far out in the left field, but is that another issue that's being dealt with or talked about? It's talked about in this sense. The way the law was written, and let's say you got the anthrax shot, you did come down seriously or you came down with, you know, some type of deliberating illness that you can't work. And if you can get a medical opinion and the medical opinion says there's more than likely caused by this shot. And the doctor will put that in a medical opinion. Then that person has probably a 90 plus percent chance of getting a benefit. But if you don't have a link to the nexus, you know, then you're going to get denied. But there are cases. I mean, that's why a lot of people during the height of the war when they were all being forced to take the anthrax, people declined it because of the earlier days when they had those shots, people became seriously ill. Some of them got into muscle spasms of muscle paralysis and other illnesses of the musculoskeletal system. All right. OK. But what the time we have left anyhow, I want to bring up what are some of the organizations out there or contact points that people could contact to get more information?  So for the children, there's always the birth defects registry. And if you can do that birth defects registry, the Shriners is a good source of information because the Shriners have always taken care of children. And now the hospital in Tennessee is a good one. Within the government side, I mean, Vietnam Veterans of America is one who led the initiative to get these presumptive illnesses for them. And they are also the ones who led the big push in the initiative to get the OEF, OIF veterans, the benefits they deserve because we know what happened to our veterans when they came home. We didn't want to see that happen to the modern day warriors. So that's a good source. American Legion is a good source for information. The other ones really deal with their site specific organizations like Morph, you know, you have to have a purple heart to be a member of Morph. Moa, you have to be an officer. And so there's other organizations out there and there's a lot of good information. There's and each state has like a leukemia society or a spina bifida society. But the main one, the ones that keeps all the track in the data to discuss with IOM, the Institute of Medicine, is the birth defects registry. And that's an excellent resource. And the Veterans of America is an excellent resource. I really have to say that because they've led the push ever since we came home. So we are the ones who help lead the push to get the Camp Lejeune contaminated water issued because there was two side effects to that. One was complicating the veteran for his benefits. But then we've got the law passed last two years ago, which is the Camp Lejeune Compassion Act, where the VA is supposed to take care of the family members who come down with the supposed to 17 presumptive illnesses from the contaminated waters of Camp Lejeune. But they're supposed to pay for their health care. But the VA doesn't go out and tell you all that. So, you know, that's why we try to do these town halls and do radio talk shows and get on the news as much as we can about it. OK, Mark, we're getting out of the wire. But anyhow, you know, what we'd like to do is follow up on this because this is a lot of very good information that you're putting out there and again here in Hawaii. I know there's not that many sources that I've seen that's been addressing the issue. But yeah, it affects all of us. I appreciate, you know, what you do in your organization. And I think I say keep up with work and we'll keep in touch. The one other thing I want to touch on real quick and I think we'll do a follow up program on this if you want. DD 214 is one issue that I want to talk about real brief is the fact that when you 214 as a code and there's been some discussion about what may be some of the coding how it could affect you. And like I said, in the future program, we'll be talking about that. Mark, you have anything final you want to say before we go? You mean on a spin code or just in general? On a point in general, I think we've got about 30 seconds. OK, I think the spin code is really important because it can stop a veteran from getting a good job if he has a bad spin code on there, just like the discharge type of discharge he has. Right. OK, I guess I know there's more than 100. But like I said, we'll talk about that in the future. But I do encourage people to be out there. Check out the spin codes in there. Yeah. All right, Mark, could you go ahead? Your number one more time before we go. Oh, you have a contact? My telephone number? Yeah. Oh, contact number would be 727 error code 319-5921. That rings in my office. Great. OK. And the National Office is 1301-585-4000. That's in Washington, D.C. OK, Mark, thanks a lot. Like I said, we'll be in touch. And again, thank you for taking it down to join us here on Military in Hawaii. And I want to thank you very much. 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Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says, find the maximum and minimum values if any of the following functions given by gx is equal to x cube plus 1. First of all, let us understand that if function f is defined on interval i, then if there exists c in interval i such that fc is greater than equal to fx for all x belonging to interval i, then fc is known as maximum value of function f in interval i and if fc is less than equal to fx for all x belonging to interval i, then fc is called minimum value of function f in interval i. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start the solution. We are given function g given by gx equal to x cube plus 1. Now let us consider x1, x2, two real numbers also x2 is greater than x1.  Now this implies you know x1 cube plus 1 is equal to gx1, x2 cube plus 1 is equal to gx2, so we get gx1 is less than gx2. Now we can see x2 is greater than x1 implies gx2 is greater than gx1 for every x1, x2 belonging to real numbers. So this implies function is increasing at every real number. So we can write gx is increasing for every x belonging to real number. This implies function g has neither maximum nor minimum value. So our required answer is function g has neither minimum nor maximum value. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Goodbye.