What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video Finally a lot more stats and the price for both the Xbox series X and the PlayStation 5 have finally been announced And that's what we're gonna be talking about in today's video I'm gonna be talking about both the Xbox series X and S and the PlayStation 5 both Disc and digital versions and at the end of this I'm gonna be talking about Which console I'm gonna be going for this year and when I think I'm gonna be purchasing it for myself Let's get this started So for the next generation of consoles It's going to be really exciting in my opinion Of course Xbox and PlayStation for years have been battling and in my opinion PlayStation has always been way better They've always produced a lot more sales and with these stats here What I'm gonna be sharing is in my opinion the decision-making of Who I feel is going to be having the upper edge going into this year for these new generation of consoles I honestly think PlayStation is going to be doing great like they always do And I think they're gonna get a lot more sales Because of it. So let's start off with the prices for both the regular PlayStation 5 with the disc And the Xbox series X so both consoles have a starting price at 499 now that is for the console only that is not a bundle with a game or anything else that is just The price for the console so they're gonna be selling just the consoles this year I'm assuming based on the stats that they released with the price point at 499 That seems like it's just gonna be for the console for both consoles So that's pretty interesting how they're the exact same price this year for the dimensions Xbox one is 5.9 inches wide 5.9 inches deep and 11.8 inches tall Whereas the PlayStation 5 is 8.7 inches wide 3.9 inches deep and 15.7 inches tall So the PlayStation 5 is a little bit bigger of a console now for the resolution PlayStation 5 is 4k and it does support 8k and Basically the same thing for Xbox series X. So they are great with the resolution as well Now for the storage both the consoles are doing these solid state drives this year Which is amazing and I absolutely love that because that is the better storage in my opinion but What is interesting is the size difference so Xbox is going with one terabyte which is in my opinion standard And that's what games should have nowadays Whereas PlayStation 5 For the first gen of PlayStation 5 It is going to be 825 gigabytes, which to me is a crazy made-up number That's just to me so random. Of course the PlayStation 4 started out with 500 gigabytes and then eventually with the slim and the pro versions They were one terabytes, but starting off at 825 to me that just seems like a random number And the disc drives both of them do include a 4k blu-ray disc drive So that's the difference between the disc version for the PlayStation 5 and the xbox series x Now for the PlayStation 5 digital edition And the xbox series s So the price is a little bit different for both these consoles the PlayStation 5 digital version Is $399 whereas xbox series x s is going to be $299 so there is a hundred dollars cheaper for the xbox digital version In as opposed to the PlayStation 5 digital version PlayStation 5 is a hundred dollars more for their digital version now the dimensions The PlayStation 5 looks to be pretty well the same exact size for both the PlayStation 5 and the digital PlayStation 5 Whereas the xbox series s is smaller than the xbox series x the xbox series s is 2.5 inches wide 3.9 inches deep and 10.8 inches tall, so it's really smaller compared to the Basic version for the xbox series s x sorry the resolution is way Different for the xbox compared to ps4 ps4 for the digital version can still support 4k and 8k whereas xbox series s is 1440p 120 frames per seconds But it can support 4k So a little bit less of a resolution for xbox series s now The storage capacity for playstation is to be announced. They did not mention it yet But for the xbox series s is going to be 512 gigabytes solid state drive i'm assuming in my opinion With playstation 5 being the same exact size for both digital and the regular version with the desk i'm assuming It's going to have The same exact storage size for both playstation 5 So i'm assuming it's going to be 825 gigabytes for the digital version for the playstation 5 But it makes sense for the series s to be less gigabytes less storage space Even though they don't have the disk drive the console itself is slimmer than the series x So those are the basic versions the basic differences between Both of the xbox series this year and both of the playstation 5s that are going to be released now It's going to be interesting. I think it's definitely going to be an award definitely going into the holidays this year Seeing if What is going to happen because the xbox is actually going to be released? first xbox is going to be released on november 10th Whereas playstation is going to be released on the 15th So that might have a lot of deciding factors on sales I was expecting to have both them released the same exact day But that is just not the case xbox is going to be the 10th playstation is going to be the 15th of november So that right there is pretty interesting But that still leaves the holiday sales for this year are these consoles going to be on sale Discounted for the holidays preferably black friday, which is the last friday in november If they're already released two weeks prior to that I really hope they're going to be on sale. Hopefully 50 off. I just don't see it happening But I think depending on how sales go the first couple weeks Christmas, I really hope to see them on sale because that is when I really would like to purchase it And I'm the type of person that's Whenever a console gets released I never like buying it that year I like waiting a year that way all the bugs are out of it all of the system stuff everything is working for it So whenever I get my console and I start playing it Everything is working. There's not a mad support of updates pending every single week or multiple times a week I can just play and enjoy the system all the bugs are already taken out But this year with playstation 5 I'm really debating on purchasing it right away number one. I saved up enough money to do so Number two, I think it's going to be interesting and I do like some of the playstation exclusive So right now between the xbox and the playstation 5, which would I go with? For me playstation 5 all day And I think I'm going to go for the disc version So the 499 dollar one Reason for that is because even though I do have a lot or most of my games are digital I still like to play and purchase Games on disc because for example if the internet is out or whatever the case might be and I don't have access to those digital games I can still have access to the disc game. All I have to do is put the disc in the system and play it The reason it's like that for me is because I game share with my friend jack So when the internet's out digital games, you can't play So that is the biggest decision maker for me But what is really going to be on the line for me getting it this holiday season is number one What the sale price is going to be I'm hoping it's going to be on sale because I not only want to buy the console I always like buying one year subscription now. I'm really curious With the playstation plus for the playstation 4 If that's going to carry over onto the playstation 5 if you are going to have backwards compatibility I'm hoping that the playstation plus and also playstation now When I purchased the playstation 5 are going to be able to be used for both systems I really hope that I don't have to buy another year of playstation plus Just for the playstation 5 And I also am curious to see what games are going to be backwards compatible I did see recently that it's not going to be all games like people expected And for the most part it's going to be playstation 4 games So a lot of my games on my playstation 4 I'm really hoping I get a chance to play them on the playstation 5 backwards compatibility So that is really going to be cool But I'm definitely going to be waiting on getting the console Until all that stuff is announced or until after it's been released and people share Their opinions and share what the backwards compatibility is and share what the console actually can deliver Then I might do it as well And the other thing is of course the playstation 5 only has 825 gigabytes And I'm the type of gamer that I need at least three terabytes So for the ps4 I have an external hard drive that I plug into the ps4 And it gives me an extra three terabytes. Now that right now is half full I'm hoping to use that for the playstation 5 to be honest with you, but That depends on a few things. Number one is the console going to be able to at launch Be able to have an external hard drive I know the ps4 at launch it wasn't able to be But with updates on the console, then it was later added So I don't know if at launch they're going to have that or not I hope that they are and I really like a lot of things about the playstation 5 this year I absolutely love the controller. I like the design of it I don't know if I'm going to go for the whites playstation 5 or not just because for me I think that would age and either turn yellow or just look dirty over time But I really think I might purchase a black version. I think they just look better a console if it was black So these are my thoughts right now in the playstation 5. Will I purchase one at the end of the year? It depends on backwards compatibility. It depends on what games on the playstation 4 I can play And if I can play the disc versions of ps4 games that I bought And it depends on playstation plus if I have it on the ps4 Will it carry over or do I have to buy a brand new subscription for the ps5? How is that going to work is playstation now going to be on playstation 5? These are all things that are a question right now that After at least it's launched I'm hoping to get some kind of answer whether it being Yes, no or maybe in a future update they will Something I just want to decide and of course sales if it's going to be on sale black friday I might get it because here in canada Black fridays are not as extreme and dangerous as they are in the united states So hopefully it is so I can get it And also if not, hopefully around christmas it is but it all depends on Everything I mentioned backwards compatibility sales price and everything else and there is some playstation 5 exclusives That I would like to purchase this year So it'd be interesting. I have a list of a few games right now I think five games that I want to purchase this year Preferably I want to purchase them on the ps4 But it depends on the ps5 if I get it if it might be cheaper if the games are going to be on sale For the ps5 that's something I might want to look into as well So comment down below what you guys think of the xbox and playstation 5 Which one are you likely going to go with are you going to be buying it at launch? Or you're going to be waiting a year If everything stat wise that I'm looking for to confirm if the ps5 is going to have it If it ends up not and I end up not getting it this year this holiday season I will be getting it next year. So if I don't get it this year, I will be getting it next year So what do you guys think are you going to go get playstation or are you going to get xbox? Let me know in the comments below and also which version you're going to get the series x the series s ps5 or the digital ps5 Let me know. I can't wait to see what you guys think and I can't wait for these consoles to be released I have a lot of video ideas once I get the ps5 to do and I have a lot of things I can't wait to share with you guys and of course I love gaming and I love bringing that to the channel So I'm gonna leave this video here. Please take care peace


Hello again folks. So this is Matt and we're talking about imperfect information in the extensive form now. So we're going to be talking now about games where we have some sequential moves and there can be some uncertainty in players minds about both the possible payoffs of others and the strategies that others might be following. So we'll start just by, you know, to give you some ideas about this. Let's talk a little bit about poker, which is a game that's becoming incredibly popular recently, both for people playing and on television and other kinds of things. And it's one of the oldest games which has very extensive experience for a lot of people. And one of the critical aspects of poker is that there's actually sequential play in betting, calling, folding. So one player gets to make a decision in terms of how much they're going to make a bet at a certain point in time. Other players have to react to that. So sequential play. You see some cards in many of these games, but not all. So you might see some of the cards that the other players are holding, but you don't know how strong their hand is. And you have to be inferring things about their possible cards, both from odds in the game and based on what they're doing in terms of their strategy. So you see the bets and you react to them and you have to make inferences based on that. So that involves having beliefs about the motivations, the rationality of other players, what their payoffs are, what their potential payoffs are, which in poker might come from the cards. So when we think about these kinds of games, there's many possible hands that's going to make poker a fairly complicated game to keep track of. There's many betting strategies, which means that the overall tree that we're going to have to work with is going to be quite complicated. So it's actually going to be almost impossible to draw the tree in the sense of just drawing it out on the screen. But there's nonetheless a lot that we can learn about analyzing such games and analyzing the types of strategies that they have, how do we represent extensive form games within complete information, how might we reason about these things. And more over, there'll be simpler settings. Poker is actually a fairly complicated game. And there's other fairly complicated games, but very high stakes games. So for instance, we could have one country thinking about invading another one, a potential war or a conflict. They're trying to decide what the other country is going to do in response. So if you invaded, what would they do? That's a game of incomplete information, because you might not know exactly how strong they are or what's the willingness of the population to fight, what might happen politically, how strong are they if there was a war. So these are situations where one party might have to move first, anticipating reaction of the other. The second one has to anticipate what the fact that they're being invaded means about the strength of the other. Do you surrender? Do you fight? So those are games that they're going to have similar kinds of features to these. And it's going to be very important to develop a set of a way of representing these things and some thoughts about analyzing those. So that's where we're headed next. And we'll see a lot more of this very shortly.


Yes, welcome back everyone from the break and Sey found the scriptures and he is clarified here that it is 430 years 430 years so then yeah there was a delay from what God had mentioned to Abraham but we know that this happened because of you know Moses's actions. So that's very interesting. I mean ultimately the point that we take with us is we have to go by God's instruction and wait for the God given vision to unfold. Okay, so we depend on the Lord we wait on Him for Him to make things happen according to His timeline. So this whole thing about the Cairo's moments and being led by the spirit now becomes very very important for us. Okay, so having clarified that now the next thing for us to remember is that the God given vision we may be very excited about it you know the way Joseph was excited about the dream that God gave us but his brothers did understand it with the same spirit. Similarly in our lives we might be excited about ministry but even the people who are close to us we not get know what God has been putting in our hearts. So we must not get discouraged by that because we've seen in scripture that people like Moses, see even Moses he was called to be a deliverer to the children of Israel but the brethren it says we need those who belong the Jewish people they themselves did not understand that Moses was called to deliver them. When things like this happen you know we must not let that discourage us. Now even in the example of Apostle Paul he was miraculously supernaturally saved on the road to Damascus and then he carried this burden of ministry in his heart. But even the apostles were scared to receive Saul. Okay, so we later that Barnabas kind of did the whole mediation between the apostles and Saul and then we see you know Saul emerging as one of those very mighty apostles. So that was a hesitation and even among those who belonged to the kingdom of God when Saul wanted to preach the gospel. So this can happen to any one of us but we must not let that bring us down anyway. Continue to carry the God given vision and trust that you know God will at the right time God will open doors and also God will bring clarity. Both to us and the people around us. So maybe gradually they too will begin to see what God is doing in our lives and they will support us in the work that he wants us to do. So that is also something for us to know. Now the God given vision will face demonic opposition. And that is a given because Satan does not want God's purposes to be fulfilled. Now looking at the life of Jesus you remember when Jesus was born at that time Herod had ordered the execution of children around Jesus's age because that's the plan of the enemy. He wants to get rid of God's purpose and the God given vision like if you consider if you can just you know draw a parallel and say like Jesus is the vision Jesus is God's vision. What was Satan trying to do he was trying to kill God's vision right from being released on the earth. Now this is seen time and again in many instances one example that is used in our notes is that of Nehemiah. Nehemiah goes to build the broken down walls of the city and at that time certain people rise up against him and they start to question him. They start to discourage him. They ask him things like what is this thing that you are doing will you rebel against the king. So you know that it was already a daunting task that he needed to complete and in a record period of time and when you're trying to aim for something as great as that and you hear people taunting you it can break your spirit. But look at Nehemiah's response. He says the God of heaven himself will prosper us. Therefore be his servants will arise and build and you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem. So that shows the strength of his character. He's not willing to give up even when discouraging comments are hurled at him. So in this manner Satan can oppose us and he can try to like whatever motivation we are carrying he can dilute it but we must not give up. Nehemiah continued to do the work of God. He continued to stay on track and similarly we too should serve the purposes of God faithfully. Now what are some of the opposing things that the enemy can bring? You know when Satan comes to attack us usually it's not in a very direct way or let's put it this way it's subtle.   So we will know how to recognize but what he generally does is he'll come in subtle ways and then we won't even know that we are going down the wrong path. So one way in which he can dilute our motivation he can sort of cloud our vision is distraction. Now he can bring other things which are also important before us and then we in our innocence or without even consulting God we get distracted. We don't discern but we think yeah everything is good so we give our attention to other things and we get distracted from the actual vision that God has for us. So distraction is a very subtle thing which can happen to us but when distraction happens the challenge is that the amount of energy and focus that we have for the vision that is dissipated. And so we are not able to give our best resources our best attention to the vision and we end up delaying doing what God wants us to do. So distraction can happen in a very subtle way or we could also take up diversions. Again Abraham is a good example he chose to birth Ishmael and he thought that that is the direction in which God was leading him but these diversions can again sap our energy and they can take us away from the focus that God has for us. We care for diversions. The demonic oppositions can also come in the form of dispute. Now dispute could be like internal internal disputes generally because maybe when we are working for God's purpose in the case of Nehemiah he was working together with other people. Internally the enemy brought trouble internally also he tried to cause certain issues but it took the wisdom of God for Nehemiah to deal with everything. So strife disputes these things can take us away from the purpose and the vision of God. Again these things happen in a very subtle way and that's the reason you know when we talked about church planting we talked about the vision statement. When we put things clearly right at the outset it's easy for people to carry on with those values. And even if some misunderstandings arise here and there we can settle them and say hey no this is our vision this is our mission this is how we are going to progress. So internal disputes strife can cause the vision of God and particularly for churches and all that to kind of get clouded. Then demonic opposition can also bring discouragement and discouragement. It will reduce our energy it will delay us from stepping into God's purpose and as the term says discouragement so that there's the courage that we need to do what God is calling us to do. So we might lose it. I am thinking of Gideon how he had heard these stories of Midianites that they used to come and take away the harvest and the produce of the land and they were oppressing the forefathers. So that was in his mind the whole time and we see that Gideon was hiding he was hiding in the like you know the fleshing floor place and he was not willing to take on the energy because in his mind he was carrying discouragement it has happened for generations whatever we produce that has taken away. So let me hide let me you know do my work let me keep my harvest let me be careful I don't think I have the courage or the ability to face the enemy. So discouragement can also keep us stagnant and it will prevent us from stepping into the purposes of God. These are all ways in which the enemy can come against us and we have to be careful. So when we step up with a vision that God has given us no like it's not a prophetic word or anything that you know we will face challenges. It's not like that but you know we do understand on the earth Satan is totally against the purposes of God. So it's a given he will try to come against us in any way possible and usually it'll be a very subtle thing because that way he'll know that our guards will be down and then you know he can just bring in discouragement disappointment all kinds of challenges you know that will keep us away from God's vision. So that is something for us to be careful about. Okay and the next thing here about a God given vision is that it is always bigger than the individual. Now Nehemiah and him building the walls of the city is a great example. Initially Nehemiah too he talks about how God put something in his heart and he did not tell anybody about it. He kept it to himself but later on in that same passage you'll find some verses where he is ready to share that vision with others. So you know there are things that God can put in our hearts but that doesn't mean that we are the only individual who is going to fulfill that purpose of God. Every vision will need more hands on board and we must be willing to allow people to come alongside us in fulfilling God's vision which he has put on our hearts and we are talking about kingdom building. So the God given kingdom vision will involve more than one person. Okay so which means it is going to take more than just me or more than just you to do what God is calling each one of us to do. So then how do we work? We have to learn to let others step into the vision. Okay and also learn to work with them. Learn to cast the vision, clarify the vision to them, learn to work with them to fulfill whatever God has put in our hearts. So we see Nehemiah doing that. He engaged others they began to build with him and that's how he could build in 52 days. Otherwise just imagine only Nehemiah doing it it would not have worked. So he strategized, he communicated. So these are all things that we have to learn. How to plan, how to get people on board, how to work with them, how to get those short term goals, long term goals. So practical things that we have to let people step into the vision of God. Now the vision is large and the vision has to do with several years, several generations are involved in it. God will also give the plans and the strategy in line with that. So we have to trust God and then we have to make provision for it. We have to make provision for it. So we must be willing to let other people step into the vision, work with other people. Paul is a classic example. He calls so many people, his partners, fellow worker, you know, a co-labourer, fellow labourer, fellow servant. So there are a lot of people that Paul worked with. Some names given here, Barnabas, Silas, Luke, Andronica's, Junior, Timothy, Lucy, Jason, Titus, Clement. So the list just goes on and then there are so many others whose names are not mentioned. But that is how Kingdom building is supposed to be. It's going to take many of us to do the work of the Kingdom. So we must learn to work with other people. Yes, yeah. And when the vision is fulfilled, it causes all of us to celebrate together. And even when things do become challenging and difficult, again, you know, we kind of learn to deal with it together. And these are all things of wisdom that we have to learn from God. So a God given vision will involve more than just a single person. The next section here talks about other people, find and fulfill their lives calling by participating in a God given vision.  We talked about the Holy Spirit as the director. He knows how people will fit their parts. He knows at what period people will enter the scene, know what role they will perform, what skills they carry. So we depend on God. We depend on God and we cast the vision. When we cast the vision, maybe I'm just giving you an example. An apostolic ministry where God wants several churches to be planted and that is what God has put on the heart of a leader. Now the leader might wonder, how will, like if I tell people about church planting, if I equip them for church planting, I mean, do you mean to say people will step up the way they did, you know, during the times of the revivals and, you know, the missionaries who stepped out in those days. Do you think our people will do that? I don't think so. But you know what? If God has put that vision on our hearts, hopefully we must be led to share it at the right time. And you'll be amazed to see under that apostolic anointing, so many people might actually be ready to step out and go plant churches, right? But when they do that, what's happening? They are fulfilling God's vision for their life.  So it's beautiful and it's even hard to describe how God does this. But, you know, people also step into their purpose. People also step into their vision as we lead. And we must trust that the God-given vision, as it rightly says, it's given by God. God is able to lead us. He's also able to lead others and equip others and release the purposes of God through their lives as well. Yeah. So the next section here basically just talks about how purposes are interlinked within the body of Christ and God can cause that to happen. Different visions get interconnected and we go by that. Okay. Finally, there's this last portion here, talks about how vision is important, but at the same time having not just a big vision, but a big heart, okay? Makes all the difference.  Because when we have a big heart, right, we will fully depend on God and we will not give the works of the flesh any place in us. We can allow other people to come step into the vision. There will be no element of jealousy, insecurity, competition, right? So self-centeredness, things like that. So a big heart will allow people to step in. It will assist people when they need that. And also, you know, whenever wonderful things happen, we attempt for mighty things for the kingdom of God. We can all rejoice together if someone else has done it and not us. We'll be okay to give them the credit, right? So it's only a big heart that can have this kind of response. So get a hold of God's vision, God-given vision, and all the things that we talked about. Step into that vision, hold on to that vision and also allow others to journey alongside us to fulfill that vision. So that's a little bit about the vision for our lives, the vision that God gives for the kingdom of God. And there are a couple of other APC publications that have been listed here for our reference and if you have the time it will be good, you know, you can go and read them. So some titles are fulfilling God's purpose for your life, then giving birth to the purposes of God, don't compromise your calling, a time for every purpose. So there are four publications that you can also refer to and you get greater depth of understanding on these things. So I just want to pause for a little bit here and then we will proceed. Okay, so Tanu has shared something on the chat. It says 400 plus 40 is for 14 or 30. So different explanation, 400 is from exactly after Isaac's birth. Okay, he was born after 30 years, 30 years to prophecy of Abraham, which was your offspring or his changes in life. Okay, and Exodus is dying. They let each other be killed. Okay, so then Tanu, this brings another explanation. No, that Moses didn't waste time or God had accounted for the wasting of Moses' time. What do you think? No, no, Moses didn't waste time. It was exactly 400 years that they came out. There's a detailed explanation but it's way too long. One is the prophecy is your offspring. God is telling Abraham your offspring, which counts from the birth of Isaac. And the Exodus 1240 is saying that the Egyptians, they lived in Egypt for 430, not from the offspring but from the time that Abraham was there. So it counts 430 in total. But 400 is the exact number that they walk out and the slavery time is only 210. It's not total 400. 400 years is what they spent as strangers. The offspring of Abraham have spent as strangers in a land that is not up there. That is what is fulfilled. Okay, thank you Tanu for that detailed research over there. So in this case, the time that Moses spent, so say this is the understanding that we have now, that those 40 years that Moses spent in the wilderness, God had sort of taken account of it already. Okay, and I'm reminded of one scripture which I want to share with you guys. Yeah, Isaiah 46 verse 10. So this verse says, God knows the end from the beginning. So I think when he was prophesying to Abraham, like when God was speaking to Abraham, he knew what Moses was going to do. Okay, so yeah, that's very interesting. Yes, so any, yes, go ahead please. No, I just said, okay, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Thank you Tanu also for sharing these details. Any other thoughts, comments before we move on to the next section? And then also we didn't take account of the time that God had your cry and then the time that there was a delay because of the hardness of Pharaoh's heart. It was now immediately that Moses came there to Egypt that Pharaoh allowed them to go. But we didn't count the number of years that they stayed waiting on God to allow them to be able to move because of the hardness of Pharaoh. So despite the fact that yes, Moses had a calling of God to deliver them and he went out of Egypt. Also, we have to take an account of those times, but I believe that everything worked at the time that God wanted to be. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean, we could kind of keep going into this and researching it further to get all the bits and pieces. But as you finally said towards the end, it's God's timing and God knew the timing and it was worked out no matter what who did it kind of worked out. And yeah, I think we'll leave it at that. If it's okay everyone, otherwise we'll be here calculating the 400 years, 430 years plus and you're free to kind of do that research outside of this session. So we have the general understanding here, so I think that is good for us. So two more questions here. Shri Kumar, in that case, many can miss their vision. Miss the vision as in how Shri Kumar, we are saying that God can still restore if people come back. Yeah, that is true, but as you said that how the enemy tried to deviate and try to deviate the focus. And in case if those people will not able to come back or because of the pressure of their life or whatever it is. So in that case, is it not possible that they can miss their vision and they just miss the task which is given to them? Is it not possible? It's possible, it's very much possible. Like solve, no? Yeah, that's true, very true. I just said this because many people can miss this vision because they might have a call like as you said and because of the lack of proper guidance or the proper knowledge or the proper clarity or proper commitment. So that was my, let's just want to know that is it possible that they can miss their visions? Yes, Shri Kumar, it is possible. Thank you. It's so true. God can restore, but at the same time if there's no cooperation from us then it is possible for people to miss the vision also. So that's a sad part. Thank you. Thank you. Sister Rupa, I saw your hand raised. You have something to add? Yes, ma'am. But I cannot hear Brother Shri Kumar, Isaac and Tarun when they are sharing. I cannot hear them. Is it only me that we are not able to hear? Others, I don't know, ma'am. I just wanted to share that in the 15th chapter when Abraham, God talks with Abraham, he also says and they shall come back here in the fourth generation for the iniquity of Amorites is not at complete. We can also think that God is giving a longer rope and grace for the people in the promise, in the canonites. Some more time also. We can think that way. Maybe that took some more years for them to, that aspect also we can add. Ma'am, I just thought that it may not be. Yeah. Sure. No, no, no. Thank you. Thank you for just sharing what you're thinking. So yeah, it's possible. It's possible, Sister Rupa. So what I'm saying is whatever, I do not know from what Tarun shared, it seems like it was an exact 400 years, but then from what Isaac is sharing and your thoughts. Now, I don't know exactly was it 400 or around 400, but whatever it is, I'm just thinking that God knows the end from the beginning. He knows how to accommodate various decisions that people will make. But there's a scriptural job that your plans no one can plot. So God knows how to release his purposes on the earth. And if some people list the vision, God still knows. Like for example, David and Saul. It was God's desire that Saul would take up the role of the king. But unfortunately, he didn't want to carry that vision. But God had raised up a David to still go ahead and provide leadership to his people. So what I'm thinking is, see, there is a vision given to us. Whatever we do with it, the right way or the wrong way, God is a great God. He's a sovereign God. And he knows how to release his purposes on the earth. So that's what I'm thinking. Yeah, sure. Yes, Ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. OK, anything else? Anything else? I mean, it's a very interesting topic. We could sit here all through the semester, but we will have to move on. Does anyone have a question? Maybe no. So all right, then let's proceed to the next chapter here. So far, we've talked about the vision and how God puts it in our hearts and how he wants us to initiate it, execute it, fulfill it, and all of that. Some principles regarding that we've looked at. Now we'll come to the Kingdom Builder's Lifestyle. So while it is important what we do, it is more important who we are. So the focus is on us. It's on our motivation. It's on our character. It's on our lifestyle. And this chapter is a very, very key chapter, because it addresses the core issues within each one of us. So Kingdom Builder's Lifestyle. Yeah, so as Kingdom Builders, we can get preoccupied with the good works that we do for the Kingdom of God, and especially when we are awakened to the fact that God has a dream for my life and God has a ministry for everyone. Let me step into the ministry and we start doing the works of the ministry. We can completely get lost in the works and forget about other aspects, which could even be the work that God wants to do in us. We just busy doing the works that he wants to do through us and we don't give him any time to do the work that he wants to do in us. So we can get distracted. We can get sidetracked. And we might not prioritize the lifestyle that we have other people who we are as Kingdom Builders. But this chapter is going to bring the focus back on three key things that every Kingdom Builder needs to think about and work on. First one is Godly character. Second one is spiritual maturity. And third one is stewardship. And it's important for all the Kingdom Builders. So the first one, Godly character. What does character has to do with a person's basically moral fiber, the moral fiber of an individual. What makes up that individual, we could describe different things to that make up an individual, their personality, their temperament, the nature that they carry and all that. So all that describes the character of an individual. So the character of an individual is who a person really is. It is true that we can have a very different image for the world and we can be a totally different person. That we alone know. Now our reputation is not our character. Our character is who we are when we are by ourselves. The secret choices that we make, that nobody is aware of, that describes our character, our words, our attitudes, our decisions, our thoughts. This describes our character. So overall, when we talk about the character of an individual, it points to the value system, the value system that an individual has. And that is extremely important. We can do great things for God, but if our moral fiber, if our value system crashes, I mean, obviously God will be happy that we are able to do these things for him. But how does it bring glory to God when we have failed in terms of our character? So for a kingdom builder, it's important to grow, develop our character, maintain that character, maintain that character throughout. Whatever God calls these two big things, small things, that's not the issue. But the character with which we progress as kingdom builders is very, very important. And Joseph is a wonderful example. We said that he worked for 11 years in Potiphar's house. And in Genesis chapter 39, we need about his work in Potiphar's house and how he was trusted for being excellent. He was trusted for being faithful to the extent that we are told that we gave him everything, charge over everything. However, Potiphar's wife, she did not have the right intentions and we told her that she laid long in eyes on him and invited him to lay with her. But at that point, when you read the passage there, you see every day she was tempting him, calling him and all that. But he said, no, it takes character to stand for what is right. Joseph says things like, how can I sin against God by doing this evil thing? So he's directly accountable to God. He's not even wondering whether it will hurt Potiphar who has entrusted him with these responsibilities. But he says, how can I do this sin against God? The master has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So he has that strong character and he continues to say no until such a point where there's nobody in the house and she grabs the hold of him and then he runs. His government is with her and based on that, they accuse Joseph and he's in prison. But throughout all this, we're talking about his character because it was not his reputation. He could have made any choice that he wanted and he could have covered it up. I am so influential in Potiphar's house and I know how to hide things or it doesn't matter what choices I make in secret. So Joseph never thought like that. He was always in his heart. He was directly accountable to God and that revealed his character. Despite him being tempted all along showed the strength of his character and that nothing could weaken. Even continual temptation could not weaken his character. So going by this example, each one of us must develop strong moral character. There are so many other examples in scripture. Jesus himself tempted in every way yet without sin is what we are told about in Daniel. Daniel also so many things in an early age we see that he had devotion for God and that would have strengthened his character. Later on when he was serving in Babylon there were opportunities for him to eat defiled food or bow down before the king and all. But he never gave in to those things. So Daniel is again another excellent example. So we will look at a few things that affect our character. One is our choices and our decisions that we make all along. So in the case of Daniel from a young age he was dedicated to God. So in Daniel chapter 1 it was we see his convictions. When there was food which was defiled every candidate who was chosen under that king, Daniel refuses it. He and his friends they say just give us vegetables give us water and basically we will not have defiled food. That was his way of expressing worship to the true and living God. But that tells us what kind of convictions he carried and he developed that character from an early age. In Daniel's case we also see that he kept good company. He had friends like Shamra, Misha, we read about them also going into the fire.  So they were we confide in our closest friends we get advice from our close friends. So he was careful about the company that he kept first Corinthians 1533 it says do not be deceived evil company corrupts good character. So Daniel had good friends then Daniel developed discipline over time we see that when the decree was passed for people to bow down before the idol of the king he doesn't do it. He goes to his prayer place and he bows down looking in the direction of the temple and he prays Daniel 610 it says the end of that verse he prayed and gave thanks before his god as was his custom since early days. So custom since early days is referring to some discipline that he had developed over the years and discipline and practice will also help us develop this strong moral character. Through adversity and challenges Daniel went through different situations but in everything you see him depending on god in everything you see him praying trusting God trying to receive revelation from God and all that. So adversity even through challenging times he held on to God so all these things actually contribute to a strong moral character and for us as kingdom builders we must learn to grow in our character why is a character important character I'll just make one statement and then we'll talk about why character is important In kingdom building we can be misled by the thought that gifting and anointing skill and experience and all these things are the most important because we want to accomplish mighty things for God but actually the emphasis should be more on character and lifestyle than on gifting and anointing because gifting and anointing yes thank God by grace he gives it to us he gives it to us and as we seek him we follow after him abundantly pours out but character and lifestyle that's where we really have to cooperate with God every individual has to cooperate with God and grow develop say yes to God so many times in so many things and that's not easy so develop in character and lifestyle kind of kingdom builder's lifestyle is not at all easy so we must make sure that we are giving priority to character and lifestyle above gifting and anointing now when we talk about the kind of leaders that were chosen by the early church the instructions that Paul gave Timothy we've talked about deacons and bishops he gives Timothy pointers and says okay you should be like this any bishop should be what? blameless husband of one by temperate sober minded good behavior hospitable able to teach not given to one so as you read the description there's no mention of the anointing and gifting yet but he starts by saying look for the character of the individual look for you know the model fiber that takes up that individual and that kind of a person you could assign him the responsibility to be an elder or you know be a pastor of the church so Godly character is the foundation for ministry Godly character is the foundation for kingdom building okay and we must never forget that because it's very easy for us to get lost in other things the accomplishments but God is looking for something deeper than that and that is our character okay and the true strength of our ministry is not I mean it may not sound right but the statement here in our notes also says that the true strength of our ministry is not our anointing but our character why are we saying this see there is also a passage in Matthew where Jesus says that if we pour out new wine in old wineskin it will break so for new wine we need new wineskin new wineskin is you know some form like a leather container which will hold the new wine and the new wine goes through a process of releasing gases and all that so when there is like new wineskin it has the flexibility to expand okay and then the new wine can mature but when the new wine is poured into old wineskin are we talking about you know poor character what happens God is releasing the anointing but the individual may not be able to keep it for very long now Saul is a classic example was he anointed by God to be king very much yes but did it last no it didn't is it because God did not want Saul to be king it's very clear that God did intend but yeah later he felt bad that he had chosen Saul but it was God's intention for Saul to come into the fullness of what God had called him to do but his character so he was taken over by jealousy and envy and pride selfish ambition and later on rebellion he is trying to compete with the role of a priest Samuel is supposed to do Saul is doing all kinds of things so character the poor character could not hold the anointing and sooner or later crashed and then God had to actually elevate David and reposition bring in another individual who could carry on the work so anointing is important but anointing requires the new wine skin and the wine skin is character it is said that anointing can take you places where character can keep you but if there is no character anointing can take you places but then it's just a matter of time you know before like you know you are not able to live for God in a righteous way honor him glorify him and all that with the anointing which he has given so yes kingdom building is about going to great heights for the Lord but we cannot sustain it without right character good moral character so the emphasis is over there so our moral character is our true strength it is our true strength it's the person who we are not just you know our giftings and our callings and the anointing which is on display that's all you know over and above but the person who we are that is our true strength so our inner strength our moral character you know it is determined by things like how we withstand adversity how we stand up for God in the face of temptation you know how we how we perform under pressure how we make right choices when it's definitely not easy to make these right choices so ultimately it is our character which is important life must speak so people may forget sermons sermen titles we just ask whoever is your favorite feature tell me 5 sermons that he or she preached maybe it's a 1, 2, 3 and that's about it but we remember the individual for the person who they are for the values that they stand for you know and the kind of character which they have demonstrated so life is the greatest message which we will ever preach and so we must invest and develop our character there is a quote given here by Dr Edwin Louie Cole on page 52 it says the man is more than the message your message is credible because you are credible when a man is no longer credible his message is suspect and that is so true isn't it like we can receive from somebody whom we trust but we are not able to receive when we cannot trust so developing that character building that character and you know in leadership we can talk about many things like leadership principles how to lead and all but if the leader does not based on his life if he has not gained the trust of the people then how can he lead how can she lead so trust is everything and trust comes on the basis of the life that the person lives rather than the things that they do so we will talk more about this we have run out of time actually but still I think I will because this is your last class if there are any comments any thoughts I think we could discuss all that and then we will end the call so yeah we are talking about moral character okay yes yes Samuel please go ahead okay Samuel I can't hear you yet what happened hello can you hear me yes yes yes now I can hear you so I completely agree with character and the importance of character and character building course so I am not debating that but I am weighing it I am not sure if it is more or less important I can for now I can say it is as important as anointing and gifting and calling I am not sure because one is I am thinking you know our characters have flaws yes they need work but they have flaws as well and you know change like I think some character flaws take time to change and the other part is through disciplining and practice your character can be molded and that brings in the element like I am thinking of all the people who didn't have the required character like Gideon he was afraid he didn't have that boldness but God still used him so he is like the counter of probably Saul or Judas maybe you know so there are people whose characters are not up to the mark but God has still been able to use them and probably you know with God's anointing gain that strength in character over a period of time so I am not sure if it is more or less I am thinking it is equally and then the other thing that I am thinking of is there are strong or I mean I don't know character why is like really good people but you know Atheist or Agnostics who believe in charity and helping others and they live they live with very strict principles like I am not lying and I will always be kind and I will always give to the poor but they don't acknowledge so I am trying to look at character in the light of all of these but at the same time not denying the importance of character sure thank you for that so Sam what we are saying is we are not saying that giving anointing is not important but it is more like the emphasis should be on character more than on other aspects so that is one thing. Second is God does use us despite our weaknesses but he doesn't want us to stay in those weaknesses now when we look at the life of Jacob he was a deceiver but later God kind of prophesied over him like Israel your prince and God wanted him to come out of that and become a new person so while God uses us with our flaws God's intention God's goal we will see that in the next section it's maturity you know Christ like this we have to move towards that and as we move towards it our character will be but now if we are not perfect which is the fact right like all of us we are not perfect can God still work through us yes but what does he need he needs a heart from us which says God you know I'm trying to come up higher every day every moment I'm trying to meet it better ok and I'm not going to stay in my weakness even though you're using me with my weaknesses so it's about that forward looking attitude is what I would say and the third one which you know he said people of the world they don't belong to the kingdom but you know they have seemingly have better character now you know we know that our salvation is by faith by grace through faith so righteous acts are like filthy rags before God so that really doesn't equate with what we are discussing over here yeah so I hope that makes sense yes yes I'm nodding I know you can't see ok sure sure alright yes thank you so yeah thank you everyone really interesting and important topics for us to discuss and I really I mean I was looking forward to this class I'm also looking forward to next class so yeah for now we will wrap it up over here and just want someone to pray please and then we will come to call anyone ok I'll pray yes yes yes but we thank you a lot for equipping you equipping us a lot so we are prepared a lot for your ministry for we are prepared to present you a lot on this earth so that people can see you through us a lot and through us a lot your word in your kingdom will advance and pray so that is we will learn more of your kingdom prepare our heart and let your spirit let your spirit prune and purify our heart so that our characters are purified and also our spiritual maturity come to the level that you require for us we ask for a petition a lot we call separate ways for today do with us a lot until we meet again in Jesus name I pray amen thank you thank you God bless you all have a wonderful day we will meet again in the next session take care bye thank you ma'am thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you


And here's the latest Android tablet here, Lenovo. So why are we looking at here? All right, we're looking at our new Tab 4 products that we're announcing at NWC here. This is our Tab 4 plus 10-inch models. This one? Yes, both of these, yes, both of these 10-inch models. This is Snapdragon 625, octa-core ARM Cortex-853, 1080p display. 1080p display. It's got a front 5-megapixel camera here. And the rear 8-megapixel camera with flash. All right, glossy glass back. So you get that premium feel. It's very nice and thin. It's a very thin device, very thin tablet. You get the premium feel of the glass. 7,000 mAh battery inside the device. And what's great about the Plus model is we included a fingerprint sensor on the front here. On the 10-inch model. So you can log in, get the secure login features of that. On our 8-inch model, the fingerprint sensor will be built into the power button here. Great. Nice. Great, so that's the 8-inch model. That's the 8. So is that the Lenovo Tab 8? The Lenovo Tab 4 8. And it'll be the Plus, that's the spec sheet for the 4. But we don't have one for the Plus here, but it's pretty much the same specs as the Tab 4 10 Plus. Also the 8-inch screen. 625s. Yeah, 625 process. And we're talking about Type-C. Type-C are on both of these. They're both through the Plus model. So you're gonna get the Type-C support there. Fast charging. They don't have fast charging. Qualcomm QuickCharger 3.0. Next to the United States. All right. Strong glass, it's not that bright. Yeah, it's not gorilla glass, but it's pretty sturdy. And then you have a lower spec 10-inch here? Yes, we have a lower spec 10-inch and a lower spec 8-inch. It varies by market. So it could be anywhere, two, three, four. And that's the Qualcomm 8917. There might be the 425 Snapdragon. Yeah, it would be the 425. And it has a nice soft touch material here. You're nice and grippy back. These are a little bit lower specs to meet a price point. For example, they have USB, micro USB. So the USB Type-C. The display on them will be HD display, 12mm by 800mm, as opposed to the 1920 by 1200mm on the plus models. All right. Again, these will be kind of a price play. So this one will come in at a price of $109. $109? $109. Very affordable. Very good. Battery life, very good system. This one will be $149. $149? And how about the plus over there? The plus. So the 8-inch plus starts at $199. And the 10-inch plus starts at $249. All right. So you're doing pretty good in the tablet market, in terms of... Yeah, well, last year... You won the leaders? Yeah, we're still on the leaders. We gained 2% share last year in the tablet market. And we're looking to continue to be aggressive and offer a wide variety of tablets for our consumers. For affordable prices. Right. High quality for a low affordable price. Correct.


okay there we are once again the famous Bendix diner as seen on the Jerry Seinfeld show comedians in cars getting coffee. Hasbro-Keyston, Jersey, Route 17 South.  See, there you go. Something's wrong when you do it, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, if it never dies, that means unconditional. Love is forever, isn't it? Love is forever. And a many splendor thing like that.  What are you going to do? I don't want to help. You do, you're dissecting everything. No, I just thought it was funny, I love it. No, it's not. It's kind of corny, but anyway. Yeah, what do you want to know? Oh, God. I guess I'm coming up blank. I'm coming up blank right now. Oh, here we go. Just like all the crazy Trump supporters, is a person's perception meaningless unless they have a quote? That's a very big question, that's enough. I didn't even understand that. In other words, Trump is a lunatic, his supporters are lunatics, right? Yeah. But they keep believing what he says, like a friend of mine that I've known for long years. We've said, what does it take for you to turn away? Okay, more direct question would be, is a person's perception meaningless unless it's proved? That doesn't make sense. Well, perceived meaning what person thinks, like when Eileen tells you what she thinks. Well, that's like I say, when you all have a selective vote, you say perception, that's a very vaguer. Okay, so you got to give me a better question. Yeah, a person that argues based on selective beliefs without evidence. A selective belief system has a severe problem. Do people with a selective belief system have a severe problem? They only believe what they want to believe, don't they?  Yeah, yeah. Wow, yeah. Look who's coming in. True.  No, I have not heard people able to dismiss, because it sure was proof. They don't like it because it scares them. Yeah, well, if it wasn't a hot show, they wouldn't... They have conventions now, you know. Are any of the world's religions correct or right?  Yeah. Probably a controlled population.  No, but sing-swearing is not wrong, it's the point. It just doesn't stop, you know. You get one thing taken away, then you get it back. And your cable, remember when your cable went out? You get me alone, right?  How much more do you think I can take? I'm worn out. Meanwhile, people with young children get all kinds of... They get all kinds of benefits. They're electricity's paid for, they're rent, they're this, they're that, but... I'm so tired of this. But you've got a lot of questions you can answer. Religion? Yeah. Are any of the world's religions correct or right?  Yeah, because if you add too much and you embellish too much... Are you just wasting time? Well, it probably confuses it. Well, no, but it's just a waste of time. I mean, just get to the point. Like I said, be quiet. What's the world worth to the point? It's just a thing. That's why it's good to think hard about the question before you ask it. What's the pain? Is love forever? True love never dies, does it? Love is forever, isn't it? Bam, bam. That means that's the same as saying... You get right to it. Yeah. You get right to it. That's the same as saying unconditional love. Yeah. Well, I understand that. Well, you just said, yeah. It's true love forever. Well, evidently, there are couples that have been married for 50 years and longer. You know, and... Is there such a thing as death or dying? Life goes on. It continues, doesn't it? Not what I just did, not done before. It verifies the people I met that were killed and brought back. And the documentaries I've seen. There you go. I had this guy that... Well, he must have... He probably has psychological issues because he was insisting to me that when you die, you just... The worms get you, the worms crawl in, the worms cry, you turn to dust and that's it. He says it's the end. There's no soul, there's no nothing. Well, you've heard one guy. That's pretty depressing. I told him that. That's pretty depressing. I hope that you just hear what my friend Jimmy said about some guy he knows. He said there's no such thing as death or dying. So this guy, Jimmy knows, is that really cool? Bullshit, isn't he? Yeah, a guy from San Francisco. It doesn't matter where he is.  He's a homeopathic practitioner. And a musician, yeah. There's a lot of jobs, so there you go. You see how you get things going? Bam, bam, get to it. Is this guy that? Is this guy that? Did she say this? Did she do that? Is Eileen's brother stealing her money? Oh, is he breaking it? No. You know, she can't argue when she just goes on the way, and you ask a thing and it goes back and gives a yes, and bam. Well, as far as relationships go with the Eileen situation, it's a no-brainer because if you know somebody for eight years and you haven't been to his house. It doesn't matter. You can't get through it. You can't get through it. She will not listen. She will not listen. Look, guaranteed, the weeks will go by and she will not go to Roche Park. And she has a car. I'm surprised she even drives. I'm surprised. Oh, oh, I'd be a nervous wreck at any time. Now, what she did when she got into the accident, she could have very easily hit somebody. What would she do? Yeah. She would have been in deep duty. You know, but I don't know. I don't know. It's nothing worse than you try to help them and they yes you to death and they don't do nothing about it. There's all the appointments down here at McDonald's. I think they have an incredible, they just make up an awful lot of stories and lies. Oh, here we go. Maybe it's important. Yeah.  Am I wrong? There you go, Jimmy.   There you go, Jimmy. There you go. Because it never ends. Every day. Who wants to hit me over the head now, Jimmy? Who wants to pound me today?  I'm a little tired. How much more can you endure? What do you think I feel like? What do you think I feel? You get bound up because you get nervous. Yeah, but you're dealing with a health issue, too. Yeah, but I'm not talking about the drugs. I'm dealing with cancer to the top of it. Right. I think how hard this little addiction would be alone for anybody that's otherwise healthy. You're right. With the health issue at the top of it. I'm tired. A lesser person would be in probably bargain region. I'm tired. You're not going to get me, but I'm tired.   They do this. They evict you.  I know. And fate, because of the bladder.  Hell no.  I think your problem is you're not bracing your elbow. Ask it again.  See how it works now? Yeah, and I think holding it vertically like this is also... Don't wrap it around your finger. No, but squeeze it tight when you're holding it. Keep the energy level. Don't wrap it. Don't make it weird. Don't influence it in any way. Let it answer. Let it work for you. There's no telling when Eileen shows up. Oh, boy. No, but she's... I like when she gets pissed at this. Remember when she was going by Billy Billy? Now, if her brother was that bad, would she go off and have lunch and dinner with him? If he was really that bad... You went out with your brother? So what's going on? My brother is against me. My brother is against me. Well, we quarter in a lot of... She changes stories all the time. I said, you sat right here as if you met him here. You know what? Come on. This has been Omega Lab 21 production.


Hello, beautiful souls. I'm standing here in my local food co-op because I just had the opportunity to do a commission piece for somebody local here, which was such an amazing thing. And with her permission, I wanted to show this piece to you because there's so much in here that I feel that just the collective of people can really benefit from beautiful energy with Mama Bear and the Tree of Life and Child energy and so let's let's dig into it. So in this video, I'm going to share the process of making one of these old oracle paintings, and we'll look at this particular painting and some of the meaning that's shining forth and then I'm going to zero in on one little character in this painting. That's Mama Bear because I feel like her energy is really, really important right now. So if you are coming here to learn about the spiritual meaning of Mama Bear, you're in the right place and that will get to that pretty quickly here. Okay, so first of all, what is a soul oracle painting? Well, it's a painting where I tune into the energy of a person and image comes out. Now in this particular painting, this is based on a dream of the client and it was actually pretty cool. I met her at a holistic fair. She was a fellow vendor and on the way down, my daughter had come down with me. We have been talking about bears and almost as soon as I have my table set up, my client comes over. I didn't know her, but she comes over. She's like, you're the one. I was like, what? She said I had a dream and I'm looking for an artist to paint this dream and I just know from looking at your work that you're the one. And so of course I was delighted and so here's the process that I work with people is that first of all, we'll meet together. We'll discuss what the intention is for the piece and then I include an energy session. That's an energy scan where I'm looking to all your chakras and see what comes forward. So in this case, she already had the dream. The imagery was already really well-formed and so when I did the energy scan, a lot of stuff came up and some of the imagery also came out of that scan, but primarily it was out of her dream and one really, really important character in the dream was this little golden grizzly bear cub and so that's in there and then her daughters came forward. So I really had the strong feeling that the children needed to be in the painting as well as this beautiful tree, this pine tree, came forward. And so I won't go into the deep into every single aspect of this painting. There's a lot of symbolism. Everything in here is meaningful and so of course my client has a full video with going into all these little pieces, but I just wanted to give a general feeling because I feel like this this painting is really bringing forward an energy that's important for all of us to keep in mind and hold in our mind's eye right now is this feeling, I call it joy of life and it's really talking about the life force and which is the also known as the Christ stream, but the life force energy of the planet, that which loves to live, right, that sings the consciousness of the planet into being. And I feel like my client's dream was really calling on this life force and helping her to connect with it. And that's what this painting is about and the I feel like it's a portal also for helping to connect with that life force. The child symbolism is so so central and integral to this idea of the joy of life, right, because it's the child that represents the continuation of life, right, and there's there's a lot in our culture right now that is undermining the child and the archetype of the child and children in general. So I feel like you know, the power that's coming forward in this painting is calling on that in the world, which is upholding and nurturing and enabling the child energy to grow and thrive. Okay, a couple other things here, the butterflies and moths, of course, those are symbols of transformation, the sun and the moon, the deep, deep symbolism. It's so deep, I'm not even going to go into that right now, but also the salmon is also a transformative kind of a spirit animal and it also has to do with wisdom and as the child also does. So again, I will leave that for another time, but I just also wanted to go into the symbolism of Bear and Mother Bear in particular, okay? And if you look closely, you may be able to maybe able to find Mama Bear here. She wasn't in my client's dream, but as I worked with her and as I started on the piece, it really felt strongly. I felt her energy very strongly and all through the period of time that I was working on this piece, which is over the summer of 2022, that Mama Bear energy was super, super strong, okay? And here you can see her in the background in the the green bushes, almost like a spirit bear watching over the scene and kind of making sure that everything is well, okay? So in the second half of the video here, I want to talk more about Mother Bear and her symbolism and what she means and the power that she can bring to us as we work with this particular power animal, okay? So in this painting, we're working with Grizzly Bear energy, okay? This is the brown bear, which is also related to the European brown bear, and the Grizzly is a symbol, as all bears are, of courage and strength, confidence, right? Protection, bears in general are also very, very connected with shamanism, okay? With the shaman. And partly it's because the bear will go into this kind of state of hibernation. Scientists tell us it's not true hibernation, but it's very similar. They go into this deep sleep, right, throughout the winter. And so this is associated with the dream time and going into that state between, right, the state where you can access other worlds. And the bear also has this association with healing as well as the dream time. And also with the natural rhythms and cycles, okay? And looking at Mother Bear in particular, Mother Bear is known, of course, for being this incredible, both protective energy and the nurturing energy. And that pertains, of course, to the young, to the child energy or the bear cub. One thing that I feel like is coming forward really strongly right now in the collective is this very strong sense of feminine power. And often kind of the feminine anger is coming forward really strong. And like everything else, there's a polarity to that. And so the feminine anger and feminine rage is an incredibly powerful force to reckon with, okay? And we need to recognize that there is a positive end of that spectrum and a negative end of it, okay? And so on the positive end and where we see that feminine rage in nature is in, always in the protection of the young. That's where that feminine protective energy really gets triggered and activated and is used in the service to life, right? So she's there as this protective force. And we all know that when there are cubs present, you don't want to get the weight of mama bear, right? Because she is formidable and she will just take down whatever is threatening her cubs, okay? This is a really, really super positive aspect to that feminine rage, right? That she's going to take down anything that threatens her young. As we move forward as a human collective, this is something that we really need to feel into. It's like, where are we right now? And what is it that we're wanting to protect? It's the future. It's a future of humanity. And here's another rabbit hole I could go deep into. But it's very, very important to recognize that humans are parts of the world, right? We belong to this world. And a lot of times as star seeds often we don't feel like we belong here. But really we do where children of the earth just as much as we are of the sun and the stars. And I love that in this painting, the two daughters, the little children, are coming in with the bear cub, okay? So it's like this reintegration or this conformation that we are this part of nature and that we're a very special part of nature, okay? The children are not becoming the bear. The bear and the children have different roles, but they are all playing together, right? And part of this whole incredibly beautiful scene and environment and landscape, they're integral. The children are just as integral as the bear, okay? But the negative polarity where this can go awry is where the mother energy turns against the child energy. This can happen in nature in certain times when the mother gets very stressed. But I feel like in this painting, the mother bear represents that very positive polarity of the protective mother, okay? So as we move forward, just a caution, okay? If you're connecting really strongly to that feminine protective rage energy, really be aware of, is this a rage that is really protecting the life force? Or are we actually moving into a rage that is inverted that is actually taking down the life force? Really feel into that. And because some of the most, some of the most, the strongly held beliefs in the collective right now, and especially amongst women in the feminine collective, they don't always uphold the life force, okay? So we really need to be aware where we are directing our rage and how that is being held and felt, okay?  Okay, so a little bit about the grizzly bear mother and some, some facts that I want to share that will help to understand if Mama Bear is coming forward for you, how that works. And because it's the mother, right, we're working with the creative cycle and your creative power, okay? So if Mama Bear is coming forward for you as a power animal or as a totem, here's how she often will be affecting your creative cycle, your creative power or force. And so let's look a little bit at how that works in the bear. A grizzly bear typically will mate in the early summer and she'll give birth in the winter or early spring, but there's some really interesting things that happen in that cycle, okay? Unlike most mammals, that embryo is not going to implant right away. It kind of free floats for a while. And the reason it happens is that it allows the mother bear to determine if this is going to be a good year for her to reproduce, okay? Because she needs a certain amount of weight to put on. And if it's a really good year, she'll be able to do that. If it's a poor year, if she's not able to find the food she needs to sustain both her and cubs, right, in a healthy way, that embryo may not implant, okay? So it gives her that little sense of control over her body in order to really carry forward that life force in a way that is going to give the young the best chance, okay? So we need to know here that the bear has like the lowest reproductive rate of any land dwelling carnivore, a carnivorous mammal anyway, and the smallest size ratio of the newborn compared to its mother. So a newborn grizzly is only 12 to 16 ounces at birth, whereas mom's going to weigh 250 to 350 pounds. She's big, okay? And so these are very, very vulnerable creatures and she needs to be able to give birth and nurture them. Another interesting thing is that the bear gestation period will vary just because of this delayed implantation. It can be anywhere from between about 180 to 266 days between the time that she mates and the time that she gives birth, okay? So again, a lot of control here that she has over the body and over the reproductive cycle. And part of the reason for this is that she spends a lot of time, she invests a lot of time and energy into her cubs. She'll have an average of two cubs per litter. It'll be usually one to four. And on average, she's only going to have one litter every three years, okay? And she spends a lot of time teaching them, raising them. And so she wants to make sure that she gives them the very best start possible, okay? So a few things to keep in mind if you're working with this bear energy, especially in regards to your creative life, okay? You want to be very selective about kind of giving your creative projects everything that they need, finding the right time to start them, gathering everything that you need in order to give your creative projects, whether it's a work of art, whether it's a business, whether it's whatever else that you're creating, a new family, take the time that you need to gather everything together that you need and to give yourself the time and the space to do this, okay? To make sure that you're giving things a good start here. The other thing is that with the mating and the delayed implantation, sometimes there may be a seed of an idea or something, or you may be sowing seeds or planting seeds well in advance and you might not even be aware at the time that these are seeds that are going to lead to something creative coming forth out of you, okay?  And then the other thing of course is that she gives birth during that deep sleep, okay? So it's this sense of going down into the deep which symbolizes the unconscious, the subconscious, the intuition, right? And really allowing oneself to go into that room space. So this could indicate a period of downtime. It could be a period of even going into that dark night of the soul of or allowing yourself to go into meditation or just clearing your mind, clearing yourself and allowing the seeds of intuition to implant themselves in your subconscious, in your intuitive mind. And that it can be talking about just kind of shutting the mind down a little bit, okay? It's really easy in this day and age in our modern world for the mind to want to take over and plan everything but Mother Bear asks us to release that and just to allow ourselves to go into the dream world for a while, okay? And I think it's no coincidence and we had talked about the link of the bear to shaman, to the shaman. More than one language is said to use their word for bear to mean a female shaman, okay? So this is very deep kind of magical shamanic feminine energy that we're working with, okay? And what she does is she goes into the dream world and she brings forth out of the dream world what she's here to create. And so that's really incredibly powerful mystical feminine energy that the bear symbolizes. She's a very, very powerful totem if you're working with her and both for anything creative and also for healing. Also, there's a big link with the ancestors, okay? So she can go into that ancestral realm and have that link because she has that link with the life force. And then finally when she comes out and gives birth, she'll give birth to the cubs early winter or late winter or early spring and she'll give birth in the sort of state of a hibernation or dream time. And the young again are very, very small and vulnerable. They'll find her teats and suckle and then by the time she brings them out, they're able to move around and she spends a lot of time teaching them, okay? She'll teach them how to hunt. She'll teach them how to do things. But she's sort of a stern task master, okay? She's not a lenient mom, but she's a very, very loving mom. So she knows how to bring up her young and discipline them and teach them the ways of the wild, right? So that fits with like learning, you know, any kind of shamanic practice, any kind of traditional wisdom schools, right? Or wisdom traditions always have very strongly stipulated laws and kind of taboos and what is proper and the proper ways to do things and what to avoid, okay? So that's what she's teaching her young and that's also an indication or an encouragement if you're working with bear energy to maybe delve into one or more of the wisdom traditions or the spiritual law, her medic principles, anything like that that will help you to have that kind of framework to work within because that gives her the safety and the security of knowing how to work with the world and that's what she gives to her cubs, okay? And she does not hesitate to discipline them if necessary. And then finally, another thing that we need to be aware of is that one of the biggest threats to a young cub is the male bear, okay? Because he does not play any part in the raising of cubs, okay? And this doesn't mean that men don't raise, you know, like human men. Human men very much do are a very important part of the raising of children. But when we're tuning into bear, we're tuning into that feminine energy and what she protects against is the negative polarity of masculine power, okay? That, and again, just like the feminine can take down the young, so can the masculine, okay? And so she's a very, very strong protective force that will protect against that overly dark masculine. She will protect her young against that. Even a male bear will back down from her, okay? So that's really, really important thing to be aware of the power of the angry feminine to really protect life. And we see that in the goddess Kali and some of these other warrior goddesses, that's what they're there for. They're there to protect the young life, right? The continuity of life, okay? And then at the end of the two or three years that she raises her cubs, she will drive them away. And she does that for a very good reason. It's time for them, first of all, and she needs to save her energy now for the next litter, the next round of life that will come up. And also because she knows that she will, you know, as she moves into her next cycle, she will start to attract those male bears to her. And it's really important that those young who are still, they're grown enough to be on their own, but they're still not quite a full grown bear. They need to be just out of the picture. So even in driving them away, she's got that protective sense of her being working on their behalf. Okay. And so just to recap with the grizzly bear meeting, and the mama bear meeting in particular, is going to be the courage, the strength, the protection, being aware of natural cycles and where you are in your cycles of accessing the dream time, accessing that deep, intuitive world, the dream world, and being able to go down into that, into the womb space and to bring forth life, the power of mother bear. All right. So I hope that you've enjoyed this video. And also I just want to let you know that I am available to do this work. I call it Soul Oracle Arts. And if you are feeling drawn to this work and would like to learn more about having a custom piece done for you, it doesn't have to be a dream. I can also just tune into your energy and see what wants to come forward or tune into, say, your angel guides or specific spirit guides and bring them forth into an image that you can see and work with. There's a lot of power in these. And so if you're interested in that, I'll leave the information below. And so thank you for joining me here. And remember, you were born to be free.


Hi, baddies. Welcome back to my channel. My name is Nika. I am the creator of High Black Girl, which is basically just my blog about all things beauty and skincare and personal finance and apartment and just everything that I love in this world. If you guys are interested in like living your best life on a budget, make sure you follow me below and click that subscribe button for more videos. But this video today because everyone really, really, really loves the apartment content and my like original apartment tour, I decided to give you guys an update. So follow me if you guys want more apartment stuff. I'll probably do like an entire series of me just like putting my apartment together because it's definitely a slow and steady process because I do not want to go into that over an apartment. I don't think anyone should. I definitely made that mistake in my first couple of apartments like moving in right away, charging everything in my credit card just to get it furnished and then like what do I have to show for it? Like all that furniture that I bought from that first apartment is not even in this apartment. So slow and steady wins the race. I'm currently saving for a couch for this apartment. This one is temporary and I got it off the Facebook marketplace for like $500. So currently saving for a couch. I think I have like $800 saved and the couch I want is 2000. So nearly halfway there. But for today's video, I was able to purchase some bar stools for the island that I purchased and that you guys saw in my last apartment tour. I was able to buy a lamp, a lamp shade, a TV stand and then like actual legs for my TV because I got my TV from my little brother and it was mounted on his wall. But I didn't want to mount to that my wall because as I said, I want to get a new couch that I actually want to go behind the camera like where the TV is and then I want the TV to go over here. So I just needed to get some legs on it. So it wasn't on the ground and eventually once I get that couch, I'll probably mountain on this wall behind me. But with all that being said, I do have a rent stabilized apartment in New York City in a luxury building. It's honestly I'm living a dream. So if you want to learn more about like how to get a rent stabilized apartment in New York City, make sure you subscribe to my channel because I will be doing an entire series just sharing my story and like my process getting and like securing this apartment. Is there anything else I wanted to mention? I don't think so. So with all that being said, let's just get right into the apartment tour or I guess updated apartment tour. Make sure you subscribe to my channel below and I think that's it. Okay, so this is what my new TV setup is looking now. I'll show you guys what it looked like before so you can kind of get a better idea of the progress that I've made. But as you can see, like I have this cute little lamp situation going on the lamp. It's actually from Ikea. Well the lamp itself is actually from Wayfair and the lamp shade is from Ikea. But I think it's so cute. It has like this little texture on it. I'm obsessed and the lamp it hangs. I want to say it's like 87 inches or something. It's like five feet, I believe. So I really love that. Also really love my cat. How cute does he look? Oh my god. He's so cute. Okay, distractions. We're letting that go. So here you can see I have my TV. I got like these little legs for it because it quite literally was on the ground. And then I also got these cute little plants from Ikea. I did not get the plants from Ikea. Where did I get the plants from? Oh, Trader Joe's. I got the plants from Trader Joe's. But this big banana plant is actually from Ikea. And then I got like this little like TV council thing, which I am obsessed with. I still need to take the stickers off. You can kind of see like there's some stickers there. I still need to take those off because I literally just put it all together. But look at how great it looks. I absolutely love it. Okay, so my camera just turned off. Don't know why I did that. Don't know what was the last thing I said. So going to freak out about this again. Look, I think it's so cool. So I'm really excited about that. And I don't know what I'm going to put in here. Probably like stuff like this Apple TV and then maybe some books and stuff. Right now Jacques, my cat loves just like crawling in it and like just doing like all types of nonsense. But yeah, this is basically my updated living room. I'm super, super, super excited about it. Remember to subscribe if you guys want more apartment content. I will be doing a whole series soon. Oh, and the one thing I wanted to show you were these bar stools. Also, I'll be adding the price of everything, how much I paid and where it's from in the description down below. If not, I'll probably overlay it on the video. And if you want to see the before of my apartment with the furniture that I basically just moved in with, hi kitty. Now I have cat hair on my lip. Oh God. If you want to see like the before, make sure you watch my first apartment tour video. The quality is I will admit, but I'm getting better at making these videos day by day. So I hope you guys subscribed from our content. And without further ado, let me just show you guys the bar stools that I got. Okay, you can kind of see me. I got these bar stools. Oh gosh. They're so cool. I'm like, can I lift them up? Yeah, they're kind of light. So I got these bar stools from Wayfair. I ended paying like $8 for them because I used to gift card that I got from my job for like $250. So basically I just paid the difference of like basically just tax and shipping because the bar stools were $250. Tax and shipping was like $8. So I paid $8 for them, but I'm literally obsessed and they're really easy to put together. I basically just put them together myself. So this is what the bar stools look like. And honestly, I think that's about it for the apartment tour. If you want to see my full apartment, go ahead and watch my like original apartment tour video if I had to catch my breath. For the full apartment, go ahead and watch my apartment tour video. If you want more apartment content, make sure you subscribe. I'm in the process of really like kind of overhauling everything. Oh, and I forgot to mention I plan on putting these plants into these little things and then hanging them on the wall once I kind of get my new couch and I kind of like flip my entire living room around. I also kind of want to like either wallpaper or paint like this little nook here too. So a lot more home improvement and like apartment content coming. Thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure you subscribe for more content and follow me on Instagram and check out my blog and I love you guys so much. I'll see you next time. Bye.


Full body slates full body shots often requested when you are auditioning and you need to say your slate as a full body slate Or you need to send in a photo of your full body only do it if they are asking you if I'm going to film a monologue like this Or a scene like this. I will start with hi. My name is Bill Higa. I'm with Marla del Talent, etc I'll do it like this if they ask me for a full body shots late, of course, that's when I do it Vertically and usually my agents will let me know in the email. It's okay. If it's vertical only for the full body shot Can you pan in order to get a full body shot usually? No, because you want to see what your body your entire body looks like in general if they're telling you something specifically For that audition then follow their instruction as my backdrop I have a gray paper from Savage and I will link everything that I use I always link everything that I use in my description, but my backdrop setup is about $80 and you can also use a blank wall