That idea of hierarchy and the divine spark of consciousness and its relationship to ultimate reality and to metaphysical reality, that's fundamentally what's under assault at the universities. It's far deeper than the political. To me, I think this has happened, this is mostly characteristic of the humanities and to a lesser degree of the social sciences. But increasingly will become characteristic of the STEM fields because they're under assault, I would say, by the same agents who undermine the humanities and the social sciences. I would say of all the dangers that the current situation in the university presents, that's probably the one that's primary because so far the STEM fields have remained relatively, let's say, unviolated by the intellectual corruption that characterizes the other disciplines. And they're of crucial importance, obviously practically speaking, but also as a bulwark against the ideological pathology that currently passes for academic knowledge in the institutes of higher education. What's wrong exactly? I see it, I really see it as a continuation of a process that was identified by both Nietzsche and Dostoevsky at the end of the 19th century. That it's a continuation of the collapse of the idea of God, or collapse in the belief in God, or maybe if you thought about it psychologically as a collapse in the archetype of divine masculinity. That's another way of thinking about it. I mean Nietzsche warned that if we lost our fundamental foundation block, which was the notion of a transcendent divinity, that we would degenerate in two directions. One direction being nihilism, and the other direction being it's twin, it's malformed twin, totalitarianism. And that was his diagnosis for the 20th century, and I think that's exactly what happened during the 20th century. It's a diagnosis of stunning accuracy, especially given how relatively early in the 19th century it was made. And Dostoevsky for his part made exactly the same case, particularly in the Devils, the possessed, the books variously titled. Which is a study of the corrosive effects of really, of an ideology very, very similar to the one that reigns today in the university campuses. The Devils is a literary work that describes the intellectual and moral genesis of exactly the type of thinker who caused the catastrophes of the Russian Revolution. It would be 30 years later, I guess. So it's another work of incredibly prescient insight, almost incomprehensible with the loss of that. See, the problem with the loss of that idea, and I'm speaking psychologically, I would say, which is what I try to do as much as possible, is that regardless of your religious belief, you cannot exist outside a hierarchy of value. It's not technically possible. You need a hierarchy of value to organize your perceptions. And I mean this literally, I mean this neurophysiologically, in that even when you're observing the world, which as far as you're concerned, merely manifests itself for your observation, you're focusing, your eyes are engaged in a series of complex movements that are controlled by unbelievably complicated neurophysiological circuits. And you focus on something and not on everything else. And that means that you pick something out of the almost infinitely complex realm of potential phenomena as of signal importance. And that orients your very capacity to observe the world. And that hierarchical structure that guides your perceptions is of unbelievable depth and complexity. Because you tend to attend to those things that let's say you regard as important. They're going to further you in life. So you need a philosophy of what constitutes furtherance in life, which implies a gradient between what's undesirable and what's desirable. And that structure, that gradient of undesirable to desirable is in fact the philosophical manifestation of the neurophysiological hierarchy that enables you to parse the world up so that it's comprehensible. And something has to be at the top of that. Well, it doesn't because you can be a war, you can be an internal war of conflicting values. That's the alternative. But that's not psychologically acceptable. That would manifest itself in uncertainty and anxiety and directionlessness and hopelessness and nihilism to be a house that's divided amongst itself. All of that needs to be oriented into a hierarchy that's a unity and something has to be at the pinnacle of the hierarchy. Because otherwise it's not a hierarchy. And the question is, well, what is it that might be at the pinnacle? And that is the question. It's the question, right? Because what's at the pinnacle is that to which all of your resources should be fundamentally devoted. And what we decided in the West over thousands of years, and I would say beginning far before Christianity, was that there was an ideal mode of being that's expressed in the idea that human beings have a spark of divinity within them. And that manifesting the personality that would be the most genuine embodiment of that spark of divinity constitutes the highest of possible goals. And, you know, you can simplify that idea. You can say, well, you know, you have an ethical responsibility to manifest what's best in you. To manifest your potential. People speak in those terms. And to become more than you are. To become who you could be. But lurking underneath that is this idea of the ideal, the embodied ideal, or even the incarnate ideal. Because this is something that's not merely an abstraction. It's something that's expressed in flesh. That's the idea of the word made flesh, let's say. That's part of the same set of ideas. And that ethical proposition is that, I think it's expressed well in the earliest chapters of Genesis. The ethical proposition is something like there's an action in the world. There's an action in being that's characterized in Christianity as logos. And it's the operation of truth and courage nested in love on potential. So the idea in Genesis is the world springs into being in some sense as a consequence of the action of these logos. And that if the logos is operative on potential, then what emerges as a consequence is good by definition. So that's an ethical, it's an ethical axiom. It's a daring ethical axiom. It's one of the most daring ideas I've ever come across. Because it's a very daring idea to state, to pause it. Because in the absence of proof except that which you would gather as a consequence of enacting the proposition. That if you act courageously and you tell the truth, then what you bring into being is by definition good. Because it often doesn't look that way. You can get into a lot of trouble by telling the truth. And so it's very easy to take the easy way out in the short term. That's the characteristic of God himself. And the logos is the definition for the process that undertakes that extraction from potential and its transformation into reality. And then there's the secondary proposition that human beings are made in the image of God. And I believe and I also believe this as a scientist that there isn't a more accurate way of describing what we do as conscious beings. You hear that if you're an adequately informed scientific materialist that it's incumbent on you to note that human beings are fundamentally deterministic in their behavior. But the evidence for that I would say is not strong. The conceptual evidence is strong because you can make a coherent argument. The conceptual evidence is rather weak because it isn't obvious at all that we can act deterministically except when we've done things that we've practiced intensely. But that isn't the way that the world manifests itself to us in many ways. What seems to be the case instead is that we wake up every morning and what faces us is the unformed future. And that's the reality that we confront. It's not the present and it's not the past. It's what could be that day. And we see that as a field of possibility all of which could conceivably be manifested but none of which has yet been manifested. And then we feel called upon as the action of our life to chart a course through that multitude of potential paths. To select from among all those possibilities the realities that we choose to bring into being and then to work to bring them into being. And we also recognize and we treat each other like this that the quality of what it is that's brought into being as a consequence of those choices is directly dependent on the ethical integrity with which we conducted ourselves while making those choices. Which is why we can wake up at three in the morning and berate ourselves for having made a mess of the week or the day or the month or our lives. Because we understand that we deviated from the appropriate path and we call ourselves out on it like we call out the people we love and the people that we have relationships with. And that idea of hierarchy and the divine spark of consciousness and its relationship to ultimate reality and to metaphysical reality that's fundamentally what's under assault at the universities. It's far deeper than the political.


Okay, are we all there? Right? Okay, shall we pray and get started? Okay, let's bow our heads. Falwi, thank you for this time. We come at this time into your mighty hands, Lord. Lord, we pray that you would speak to us, and even as we look into your word, Lord, I pray that your word, Lord, will convict us, change us. Lord, I pray that you would write your word on our hearts. We thank you. We come at this time into your mighty hands. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. So I'm sure all of us are here with expectation. There's a lot of enthusiasm as we look forward and into the unknown of this semester. We want to look at each of these subjects and we are all keen, interested in getting equipped, in getting trained and really looking forward to all that God has for us. And even as we do that, we see that God has a dream for us, each one of us. And the Lord is really wanting to share His heart, wanting to lead us into encounters with Him and wanting to lead us into those situations and circumstances and take us out to meet with people. And really, He wants to reveal His heart to us, what He has in store for us, His plans for us, and so on. So as we see in 1 Corinthians, we see that I has not seen, you have not heard what is or nor has entered into the heart of man. The things that God has planned for us, but the Holy Spirit chooses to reveal or He wants to reveal as we go along. So even as God has these plans and desires for us, there are certain things that come as a barrier. Certain things that come, which hold us back, withhold us back. So all of us could say, okay, I know who the number one enemy is, Satan. Satan opposes the plans of God, Satan opposes God's dream for me and what God wants to do through me. Yes, that's true. But the fact is that Satan is a defeated foe, right? And even though he tries to intimidate and he tries to come between us and the plans that God has for us, by discouraging us maybe, by intimidating us and so on. We see that certain times we ourselves become a wall. We ourselves become a barrier by our un-renewing of our mind or there are appetites of our flesh. We ourselves oppose the plans and purposes of God for our lives. And sometimes when we know it, when God convicts us, it's best that we discard all those things. But what if we don't know, right? We don't know. We think that we are doing the right thing. I'm doing all that is good, but sometimes these things are very, very subtle that we could deceive ourselves. And the Lord Jesus, when he was introduced by John the Baptist, this is what he says that, there's one who's coming after me, he will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire. And this is what he's going to do. He's going to burn the chaff. He's referring to fire as something that burns, refines, purifies, saying he will burn away the chaff. All that is wasteful, all that is unnecessary, he will burn away. He's talking about the work, the baptism, the work of the Holy Spirit. So we're going to take some time and also in the next few days to look at some of these things that we need or to allow God to deal in our own lives. And if you see, if you look at Matthew chapter 3 verses 10 to 12 and you can follow in your books, in your publications, page number one. All of us here, you can open up to page number one if you have those books. Page number one in your book. So this is what we see. Let me just read. Matthew chapter 3 verses 10 to 12. And even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.  He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. And he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn.  So who says these words? Anyone? John the Baptist. He's saying these words. He's talking to all those people who I gathered there. And he's saying the Lord Jesus is coming. He is mightier than I. He's worthy. Whose sandals I'm not even worthy to carry or touch. But he's going to do this. What is he going to do? He's going to baptize you. He's going to take you through an experience of baptizing you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. And this is what he's going to do. Saying, you know, he will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Everything that does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  So he's talking about the purifying work, the refining work of the Holy Spirit. In whose lives? In our lives. The Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit is to empower us, to strengthen us, to release those gifts among us. But it's also to refine us, purify us. For what? For what reason? That we can actually be fruitful. That's the only reason, right? That we can truly represent Christ, right? And we are all called to represent Christ wherever we are. So he's called us to do that. Okay, so we're going to look at how these laying the acts, how the Lord by the work of His Spirit lays the acts. What is an acts? Everyone? What is an acts used for? Trees, chopping of trees, right? And is it a useful tool or what? Not. Useful, right? If there's a road and then there's a tree which is fallen across the road, like it happens, like most times in monsoon, trees fall. We need a chopper. We didn't ask to chop clear so we can go. Sometimes these trees are there, unnecessary. These needs to be chopped, these need to be chopped. And the work of the Holy Spirit is like that chopping, right? It's not just chopping the branches or leaves, but it's chopping the root, directly at the root, right? The Holy Spirit can reach down. If you do with the chopper, you can actually chop just the base of the trunk, right? But the Holy Spirit can actually hit the root. His acts is laid to the root, which means what is really causing that problem? What is causing that unfruitfulness? The Holy Spirit lays the acts to the root of it so that it can be removed and we can be fruitful. We can be effective. We can represent Christ, truly represent Christ. So we're going to look at what is the first thing or one of the things that baptism of the Holy Spirit and what does he lay the acts to? What root does he lay the acts to? The first one is the self. Can everyone say self? So he's laying the acts to the root of self. What is the self? It is my fleshly desire. Fleshly desire for fame, personal fame, recognition, right? It is desire for positions of power and influence. Basically, it is a problem with eye. There's some level of eye problem. Most of you don't wear glasses, you've got good vision, but there's an eye problem. Even with people who don't wear glasses, there could be an eye problem. The Lord wants to deal with that eye problem. So that is what we're looking at. He deals with that. So when we're talking about the self, it can be very, very subtle. Very subtle, subtle in the sense. If it is something which is very, very in the face, if it is apparent, then we know, hey, this is a problem. I need to deal with it. But what if it is there and I don't even recognize it? There's a difference between singing for the Lord. That's one scenario. I'm singing unto the Lord wonderfully, beautifully, right? Without any wrong notes. And the other scenario is to tell you, hey, look at me. How wonderfully I'm singing to the Lord. There's a difference, right? It's a very subtle difference and no one can notice it, but it's in the heart. Me singing to the Lord, beautifully.  Ananda, I want you to see me sing how beautifully. I want you to notice how wonderfully I'm singing to the Lord. I want you to notice how wonderfully I'm serving this Lord. You know, how sacrificially I'm serving the Lord. How wonderfully, you know, I'm preaching, how wonderfully I'm doing all these things, but I want you to see me do that. It's a very fine line. It's very subtle, right? So we see that the Lord wants to deal with the self, okay? In the book of Exodus, I'm on page five. If you see that scripture, Exodus chapter 30, verses 31 to 33, the Lord gives this instruction and it's actually a recipe. It's an instruction and a recipe for the anointing oil. So there are various things that go into it. And in fact, the verses before that talk about what goes into this anointing oil. And what was this mixture or this anointing oil used for? It was actually used on all the utensils and everything in the tabernacle. It was anointed. It was consecrated, which means it was covered with that oil. It was consecrated for a holy purpose and use. So there were specific instructions which were given for this anointing oil. If you look at those verses, let's read. And you shall speak to the children of Israel saying, this shall be a holy anointing oil throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on man's flesh, nor shall you make any other like it, according to its composition. It is holy and it shall be holy to you. Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people. So he's talking about the anointing oil. And we know that this anointing oil represents the work, the presence of the work of the Holy Spirit. The presence and work of the Holy Spirit. The Lord is saying that this presence and work of the Holy Spirit is unique, is something that gives him glory, but you cannot do something of the flesh, something of your own, you know, something that brings you glory and attribute that to be the work of the Holy Spirit. The Lord is saying, you shall not make anything like it. These are all natural ingredients, but it's holy unto the Lord and it is represented or symbolizes that work and presence of the Holy Spirit. So he's saying that you shall not do it. So what is the learning there? Learning there is that that God will not anoint what is born of the self. If there's a desire that I should be elevated and in all the talk and language and everything, there could be hallelujah and praise the Lord and glory to God and all that. But if in the most desire that I should be elevated, that the self should be elevated, that God will not anoint that, his presence and his power and his joy really is not there. The second thing, we understand that what is born of the flesh or if we are in the flesh, we cannot please God. It could be a great work, but if it is done in the flesh, it is displeasing to God. Galatians 6-8 talks about the fact that if we sow to the flesh, we will reap of the Spirit, we will reap of the flesh. In our home, we wash our vessels, there's water, and then we kind of want to use it for the garden. So we gather that water and then we use it for the plants, have plants there. We realized that after some time, suddenly there was one chili plant. We didn't plant it, but then it just grew. There was one tomato plant which is growing up in one of those pots. We realized that as we were washing and cutting and all those seeds, it was there in the water and then we poured and then it was bearing fruit. So the Lord asks us, what are we sowing? Because if we sow to the flesh, it is off the flesh. If we are sowing, if we are putting those seeds, it will bear fruit. So if the actions, if the intentions are birthed off the flesh, there will be some outcome, but it will be off the flesh. It won't have God's pleasure on it. It won't have God's approval on it. It won't have the Holy Spirit's presence and anointing on it. It's off the flesh. But if we sow to the Spirit, we will reap off the Spirit. So what are we sowing? What are our intentions? What are our works? Is it off the flesh or is it off the Spirit? Is it something that elevates me? Is it something that I want to bring glory to myself even in the name of ministry? So in Paul's time, Paul writes and he says, hey, there are some people who are preaching, is preaching good or bad? Preaching about Christ. People are undecided. It's good, right? If we do not preach, how will people know? If they do not know, how will they understand? If they don't understand, how will they after the saving? Preaching is good. But Paul is saying here, you know, if you look at page 6, Philippians 1 over 15 to 17, he says that some preach Christ from envy. Jealousy. Some are preaching Christ from strife. See, I've got a problem with you. I've got to fight with you.  I've got a problem with you and I'm preaching. My motivation is not that Christ will be glorified and people will be edified.  That I am a better person. And out of envy, out of strife, and he says here, the former preach Christ from selfish ambition. So what is ambition? Ambition is a burning desire. You have a burning desire to achieve something. You have a burning desire to reach people. You have a burning desire that people will be saved.  I want to be known as a person who prayed and this person got healed. I want to be known as a person who ministered and it was so wonderful. If I want to be known, I want to be recognized. So after preaching the message, if people are not coming to shake hands, God, what is happening, Lord? I just preached for 40 minutes and nobody is saying anything. They just turned and they went, right?  So Paul is saying, you know, even those days that was the same problem. He says, hey, they're preaching, but the motivation is wrong. So the Lord wants to lay an axe, the axe or the work of the Holy Spirit to the root of it. So how wonderful it will be if you're just delivered off this thing, right? People come and compliment and say, wonderful brother, wonderful sister, you do a great job. It's fine. You know, it's just going off. It's not, you're not meditating on it, you know, on the way back home. Oh, who all said what? That person said this thing. You're not meditating on your praises. You're not meditating on people's applause or compliments, but you're just giving thanks to God and thank you that they're blessed and you keep going. Right? So this is something that is, that is very, very serious because it's, it does not, it's not something that gives God glory. We are taking the glory for ourselves. It's not, it is sowing to the flesh and we will off the flesh reap corruption. Right? So in the end, God is not glorified. He is not pleased even though, you know, ministry and everything is about him. Okay. So Paul talks about several other instances also where people are doing ministry, but they are doing for the wrong reasons for the wrong motives. Okay. So how do I find out if there's any, if anything's wrong in our body, what do we do? There are, there are some symptoms, right? If there is fever, then that means there's something the body's fighting and because of which temperatures elevated and there is fever. Right? So we find out why is that fever? So fever is not the disease. Fever is the, what is it? Fever is the symptom. Right? So like that, if, if self is there, rooted deep within, what are the symptoms? Right?  And, and, and truly the self will manifest itself. Flesh will manifest itself. It could be subtle, but it will manifest itself. When we know that these are some symptoms that I'm experiencing when we realize that, hey, there is a problem and it needs to be dealt with. We invite the Holy Spirit to deal with it. Okay. So first symptom. Okay. Page number eight is self promotion. Okay. You see that wanting to be known and liked by people. Okay. See, there's nothing wrong in, you know, wanting affirmation, right? People, you know, as human beings, we are, we are built that way. We are designed that way. Hey, if somebody says, good job and we feel good. But if we live for the sole purpose of wanting to be known and liked by people, that's the self. Okay. You know, it's, there's a, there's a difference between wanting to be good and excellent in what we are doing, you know, constantly improving ourselves and in our ministry and doing what we're doing. There's a difference between that and desiring fame, desiring people to like us, to know us and, and always come and say compliment us and, you know, approve all that we're doing. Right. There's a difference. So that is a manifestation. Okay. What did the Lord Jesus say? If you look at John chapter five and verse 41, the Lord says, I do not receive honor from men between during his time. They were these religious leaders and they were constantly, you know, receiving honor from one another. And they were craving that honor that comes the respect and honor that people would give them because of what they were doing. The Lord is saying, I do not receive honor from men. Look at verse 44. He says, how can you believe who receive honor from one another, but do not seek the honor that comes from the, from the only God. Right. So there is a, you know, there is a healthy way of respecting and honoring and receiving, receiving it. But if you're constantly craving and living for the honor and praise of people, then there is a, that is a symptom. Right. So the Lord does not like that and approve that. When our desire is for affirmation of men and we do not live for the affirmation of God or the accolades of God. Okay. In one Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 31, this is what Paul instructs and he says, whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Do all to the glory of God, not to the glory of the speaker or the minister. Right. Do all to the glory of God. We're not trying to build our reputation and we're not trying to, you know, seek our praise. And, you know, it's the thing is it's very subtle. Right.  We're on WhatsApp. We're on social media like Instagram, Facebook. We're all there. And we're all very good at taking selfies. Yes.  That's what social media does. And we sometimes look like, wow, this is fantastic, but the place looks very different in reality. Right. So the thing is, it can be very subtle. We can promote ourselves. We can elevate ourselves. Well, the context could be ministry. The context could be serving, preaching, whatever. But what is the motive? Is it just informing people about something or is it elevating ourselves? Okay. So that's the first symptom. It's self promotion. The second one is selfish ambition. Okay. Selfish ambition is wanting to be known as someone who accomplished great things for God. Okay. Now we have a quote. I think it's by William Carey says, expect great things from God, attempt great things from God, expect great things from God. It's a healthy thing. Right. But if I want to be known, right, if William Carey wants to be known as someone who did great things for God. Is there a problem? Yeah. Right. So that is selfish ambition and intense desire. No, there's great drive. You're getting up in the morning. Whoa. Intense desire, energy, everything. But the motive is I should be known as someone who did great ministry. Is a subtle difference. Right. That is selfish ambition where the self is elevated. So that's a, that's a symptom here. Okay. In, if you look at, I'm on page 10, if you're following Philippians chapter two and verse three. Okay. Chapter two and verse three, Paul says, let nothing be done. Okay. Let nothing be done. What does nothing mean? Nothing means nothing. It's not something. It's not all things. I think it means nothing. The list is empty. Right. So Paul is saying, let nothing be done. Nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit. Okay.  Right. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition. You know, to have a burning desire to do something for the Lord, to serve the Lord is good. It's a good thing. We need to have that within us. But if the self is elevated and that's the motive for that intense desire, then Paul is instructing, as he's saying, let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, which means pride. But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem better than himself. Let each of you look out, not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Okay. So, so the question to ask ourselves, maybe introspect and ask is, you know, in my dreams, right, in my plans, in, in the vision that I have, who is the hero? Who is the hero? Like there could be a villain, there could be, you know, but to ask ourselves, who is the hero at the end of it?  Now that's a very practical, simple question that we can ask ourselves. Hey, after I've done this, who's the hero? Which means that my expectation will be based on that expectation of that act expectation of that plan. Everything motive will be based on that. Right. I'll work towards that. So if you ask us, and who is the hero in this? Right. Is it God? Is it the Lord? So it's a very healthy question to ask us a useful question. The hero is obviously should not be us. Sorry. Okay. The third one. Third one is self-reliance. The third symptom is self-reliance. It means that is to depend on ourself instead of depending on the Holy Spirit, depending on ourselves instead of depending on the Holy Spirit. Paul makes some very important statements in Philippians and also in Corinthians. Let's read that. You know, we're on page 12. Philippians 3 and verse 3. For we are the circumcision who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Okay. Have no confidence in the flesh or the self. Another scripture. Second Corinthians 5 and verse 16. So from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer. Okay. So self-reliance. We need to have confidence in all that we're doing. We need to have confidence that, you know, who we are in Christ is that we are more than conquerors, that we are, you know, the righteousness of God and Christ and so on. So self-reliance is on our flesh or our abilities or our strength rather than on the Lord, then that is a, that is another symptom. Okay. And also, from what we see here, we see that we must learn to look at who people are in the Spirit and not according to the flesh because the flesh is something which is very apparent abilities, skills, right. It is something that is visible. But who they are, the hidden character of their heart is something that is, that is not manifest so apparently. That's not put on display. So Paul is saying that we need to actually look at who people are in the Spirit, look at ourselves according to who we are on the inside. Okay. So, so he's saying that we need to depend on God, we need to look at ourselves and look at others according to who they are in the Spirit and not according to who they are in the flesh. So, you know, we, which means that accomplishing things in ministry, doing things in ministry, you know, we do it according to our, we do it by depending relying on the work of the Holy Spirit. Right. In our day and time, there are many things that we have, many tools, many methods. Yes or no, the good ones, right.  It's wonderful. But our reliance is on the Holy Spirit because he brings change. Our reliance is not in, in our, how articulate we are, our reliance is not in how knowledgeable we are. Even, you know, how knowledgeable we are about the scriptures and reliance is on the work and the power of the Holy Spirit. And that's why the Lord Jesus says, you know, he says, I am the vine. Sorry. And you are the branches. So he was connected to the wine will bear fruit. Let's look at that verse, John chapter 15 and verses four and five says, Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the wine, neither can you. Unless you abide in me. I am the wine. You are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit for without me, you can do nothing. Without me, you can do nothing. So it's not I, my strength, my ability, my learning, my expertise. She'll get the job done. And even if it gets a job done to some extent, the Lord counts it as nothing. Right. Because it's the Holy Spirit power. It's a Holy Spirit presence and his word, which does or brings fruit in people's right, which has permanence, which is something of eternal value. Right. So the Lord is saying, without me, you can do nothing. Okay. Okay, we looked at three symptoms. Right. What are those? First one, selfish, self promotion. Right. Second one, selfish ambition. And the third one, self reliance. The fourth one is self protection. Self protection. What do we mean by that? Self protection is when we consider our life, our reputation as something which is, which needs to be protected at. All costs, even to the extent of the, for the extent of maybe not doing what God wants us to do. Okay. Counting our life as studio, counting our reputation as studio. So we call it self protection or self preservation, self protection or self preservation, which hinders, you know, which is, which we esteem or value. Over and above the call of God, the will of God for us. That is self protection. And that's, that is again a manifestation of our self. Okay. That's again a display. Okay. So maybe the Lord says, okay, you go and you tell that person that I care for them. Okay. Just tell that person. But we're all, God, you know, what will the others think? What will the others think of? Finish it for me. Of? Me. What will the others think of me? Right.  Lord, what if I heard wrong or what if people laugh at me? Right. The Lord says, okay, go pray, lay hands and pray. Lord, what if nothing happens and what if they laugh at? Right. So self protection. We want to protect our reputation. We want to protect our life. So when we do that to the exclusion of God's will, God's plan. That's again a manifestation of the symptom of the self. Okay. The last one is self humiliation. Now this might seem very contradictory to everything that we saw earlier, which talks about elevation of self. Okay. We're on page 16, page 16. Right. Everything. So it talks about the elevation of self and, you know, or popularity and fame and everything. We are just putting ourselves out there here. It's actually the opposite. Self humiliation. What does it mean? It means that I feel good. Okay. I feel good when I'm putting myself down. Okay. So somebody comes and says, brother, that was a, yeah, that was good. What you did, you know, that was good. Good work. Good job. You say, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was not me. No, it was not me. Actually, I did a bad job.  How many of you like biryani? Vegetable biryani. Vegetarians. Okay. So let's say you're good at making biryani. You know, I know it's lunchtime and I don't know if you have biryani for lunch, but I don't think so. But anyway, you make biryani and you give it and you, you know, we've all come home and you say, this is wonderful biryani. This is fantastic biryani when the rice is so flavorsome. The meat is cooked. Just right. The vegetables are cooked. Right. No vegetable version. Vegetables. Everything is fine. It's fantastic. Good job.  This is Indian mentality. You know, it's like saying, no, actually, you know, the salt was a little less this time. Right. Or, you know, actually it should have been a little spicier. And we kind of take pride in the fact that we put ourselves down. So the Bible calls it false humility. See, our sufficiency to do ministry, everything comes from God because we are connected to the wine. Right.  That is actually false humility. And it's actually elevation of the self. Right. And, you know, this, this can anger God, this can actually annoy God, like we see in the case of Moses, right. Moses, initially he said, okay, when he was living in Pharaoh's court, the Egyptian, you know, King's court, he, he actually went about and he thought, okay, I can do this. Right. And then after those years in the wilderness, when God comes, he has that encounter.  I'm going to use you. And he says, I can't. I can't.  I'll be with you. You know, and then he says, no, I don't think. Then God says, okay, you take Aaron with you. You take Aaron with you. I'll speak to you. You speak to Aaron and Aaron will speak to the people.  He's like, do this. But he's saying, God, I can't. You know, he went from one extreme. I can, I can do all this again, you know, by my strength, you went to the others, swung to the other extreme was saying, you know, I can't even if you're there, I can't. Right. Self humiliation. And it's a pretense of humility. Maybe it's, you know, so that's also another symptom. So we looked at five symptoms. So what is the, what is the solution? You know, what is this? How do we deal with it? The deal with it. We see. I'm on page 17. And it is. We're looking at Galatians chapter two and verse 20. Page 17 Galatians to 20. Paul writes and he says, I have been crucified with Christ. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life which I now live in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. And he says in Philippians three, what things were gained to me? These I have counted loss for Christ. So he's talking about all his education, experience, position, title. And he's saying, what things were gained to me? These I have counted loss for Christ. So he's saying, I have been crucified with Christ. I have been crucified with Christ. So the Lord in fact asks us to take up the cross where the eye can be crucified and walk, take up the cross daily. And the cross deals with the cross is the place of death. Cross is the place of the death of the flesh. So the Lord is saying, you remind yourself. Remind yourself that it is not the self. Self has to be put to death. The Lord is leading us.  It's not a one-time thing. It means that you take up the cross daily. It's a place of death. So how can we make this relevant in our daily life? Every day is an opportunity for the eye to resurrect, for the eye to be displayed. But we make a conscious choice. Maybe you're married, your spouse, you give up your right to be served, the right to be attended, the right to be heard, and it will help deal with the eye. When we develop the ability to give without expecting anything in return, without expecting a compliment, without expecting recognition, we are just serving that deals with the eye, that puts to death the eye, the craving of the flesh. When we love without expecting anything in return, the way God's love is agape, unconditional. When we do that, irrespective of people's response or lack of response, that deals with the eye. Now, you tell me, is it easy or difficult? What? Easy or difficult, how many of you are saying it's easy? Right? Putting to death, the death of the flesh is always difficult, right? It is painful. It is painful, but it is something that the Lord has called us to do so that we can be even more fruitful. That we can bear fruit so that we can represent Christ, we can be even more Christ-like. So as parents, as children, maybe as people who are working in ministry, we're not competing for a position, power, we're not comparing with one another and saying, I need to be better than this person. I need to be better, I need to be more prominent, I need to be seen, I need to be heard, but we die to that. It's a daily thing. So the thing to do is to repent. If we see any of these symptoms or if we've been studying these things, if you've noticed any of these symptoms in our own lives, it's time to repent. Repent means to turn. It's time to reject that. Say, Lord, I'm making a start by rejecting this. I'm making a start by repenting. And the Holy Spirit daily will enable us. He will prompt, He will show us. Hey, these are things that are unnecessary. These are things that I came to burn away in your life. And we expose our life to God. We expose ourselves to God and say, Lord, you work. You work in my heart. You deal with it. The Bible talks about several things. We see that Paul says, let your mind be renewed. And you will see transformation. Romans chapter 12. Be renewed. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So what is renewal? We take on the thoughts of God, the humility of Jesus, and we reject. So we take on the thoughts. We take on the instruction of Scripture. We reject our own fleshly desires. We reject it. Say, oh, I'm not going to deal with it. So we take on something, we reject something. And the Holy Spirit enables us. Romans 8 talks about the fact that if by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So the Holy Spirit will lead us. He's always there to cheer us on. He's there to encourage us. And he says, I want you. I'm with you. I will lead you. So if by the Spirit, by the enabling of the Spirit, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, we put to death. The deeds of the body, we will live. The appetites of the desires of the self, when we put to death, we will live the way God wants us to live. Amen. Okay, we're going to pray and close. So, yeah, online students also, you know, we're going to pray and close. So, you know, if you can just talk to the Lord at this time, you know, just between you and God, you know, and say, Lord, you know, I see these symptoms. God, these things are there. So subtle, but Lord, today I've seen it in your word. You open my eyes and I want to repent and reject this.  I don't want anything that's causing the work of the flesh to be manifest. That does not honor you. That does not glorify you. I don't want to be elevated. God, you be elevated in my life. Just talk to the Lord. Let's tell Him. Speak to Him as He promises. Amen. Here he is. Father God, even as we, Lord, come to you. We are drawn here to you.  Lord, you've been so patient with us, God. And God, patient to the point of just tolerating us, God. And Father, we thank you for your grace and mercy today. And Lord, we, Lord, even as we see these things, God, that you've come to lay the ax to the root of it, the source of it. And Lord, we just open our hearts, open our lives and say, Lord, come. You have the right of way. Work in our hearts, God. And today we choose to give up, reject, even at the level of our motives, at the level of our thoughts and at the level of our actions. We choose to put off these things. We choose to take on the pure, the holy, the righteous, the promptings of the Holy Spirit, the thoughts of God, the desires of God, which leads us to life and more life. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, Master. We thank you, Lord. We thank you that you love us. We thank you that you're drawing us today even now with your love, God. Yeah, Lord. We thank you. And Lord, we pray that each of these things, Lord, will be dealt with even now, God. And on an ongoing, Lord, daily basis, Lord, that we'll remember that these things belong all to God. And on an ongoing, Lord, daily basis, Lord, that we'll remember that these things belong on the cross, that these things need to be put to death, God. Purify our heart, Lord. Purify our thoughts, our motives, our desires, God, our wants, oh, God. Our ambitions in ministry, God. Purify, oh, God. Refine it, God. And may we bring glory to your name as individuals and possibly as the body. And let your name alone be glorified, God. For you are the preeminent one. And Lord, all glory and all honor, Lord, belongs to you and you alone. We thank you for doing this. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless. Thanks, everyone. Thank you, Jesus.


Income tax 2023-2024, Alamone and Ira IRA deduction tax software example. Get ready and some coffee because we're laying down the facts about income tax preparation 2023-2024. Here we are in our Form 1040 example problem using LASERT tax software. You don't need tax software to follow along, but if you have access to tax software, it's a great tool to run scenarios with. You can also get access to forms, schedules, instructions at the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Starting with our normal starting point, we've got Adam Taxman, just trying to avoid a dang taxman, living in Beverly Hills 90210, single filer, no dependent, starting off with the assumption of W-2 income, $100,000 standard deduction $13,850 to get to the taxable income $86,150.


Welcome back. Thanks for watching in today's clip that cringy dope Joe Scarborough and a literal state media mouthpiece from the BBC Once again prove me correct when I say that the left is particularly dangerous because they will always see their extreme authoritarian actions as not because it's different you and I have had this conversation many times Joe look at the state of the US economy at the moment compared to all other industrialized economies in the world It's not just the state of communist California. That's doing so well. It is the United States writ large Growth is higher inflation is lower Unemployment is lower. This you know, it's it's a in global terms. This is a rocket ship Come on. Don't bullshit me the economy is so great that everybody's broke in debt and can't afford groceries because Inflation has stayed high while wages stay the same but ignore your wallet ignore your debt and just trust the state media Operative Jared Baker's article about this state of Russia And the state of the United States saying how absurd it is to compare Russia to the United States at the moment He makes the very funny comment at the beginning in a kind of spoof saying yeah That's because there are so many immigrants queuing up to get into Russia at the moment At least they don't have an immigration problem because millions of people are not trying to get there with the lucky ones But to say that you know Joe Biden locks up his political enemies or if you're a journalist you get thrown into jail If you report critical things of this administration or that there's any Justice department is warped one way or the other. It's it's ridiculous. I mean there's there is clearly no comparison. Yeah I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there except Joe Biden and his institutional support base are Doing some of these things. Let me quickly show you some examples Obviously an openly pro-biden partisan DA's and judges are going after Donald Trump on trumped-up charges Just before a presidential election where he's the sitting president's biggest opponent in fact This sounds almost exactly like what Putin did to his biggest opponent. It's ridiculous I mean there's there is clearly no comparison You can be sure that many Russians believe what happened to him was completely justified thanks to their state media You may think that J6 protesters deserve everything they're getting and there might be a few that do but a vast majority of the people Who are actually charged with crimes were peaceful Since that day more than 1200 people have been charged with assault on the Capitol nearly nine hundred of them have been convicted or pled guilty Collectively to date they have spent sentence to more than 840 years in prison Are we the baddies? It's ridiculous. I mean there's there is clearly no comparison We went through a year's worth of Democrat riots because the media were telling people that unarmed black men were being hunted down by police And in regards to those Democrat riots consider this four years of left-wing Democrat rioting and looting Resulted in not only charges being dropped But cities paying out millions to the very people that rioted and looted over 60,000 cops were injured in 2020 alone But I never saw any bloodthirsty media cheering on prosecutions or highlighting injured officers In fact our leaders bailed these people out and Democrat DA's let them off the hook only to throw the book at their political opponents And this is nothing new Remember how the Tea Party was treated by the Obama-Biden regime? These people were entirely peaceful and yet the Democrats and the media were constantly focusing attacks on them Some were so ready to blame Tea Party for violence that they wrongly attributed the Colorado shooting to them Oops, I guess when Republicans protested lockdowns the media told us they were dangerous threats that were killing old people While doctors put out declarations stating that COVID somehow doesn't affect left-wing protests Left-wingers can even intimidate SCOTUS judges at their homes before a ruling which is a crime Unless you're a Democrat over time this has created an environment where the left and Democrats opponents are essentially Criminalized and then there's the Biden regimes attacks on his critics How about Matt Taibbi who's become a target of Democrats in Biden ever since he reported and testified about the government's censorship of their opponents on Twitter Which obviously happened before Elon Musk bought it and has also now become a target of the Biden regime and his institutional support base Well, he did take away their election manipulation tool after all They even put a guy in jail for making anti-Hillary Clinton memes the media docks the kid for making hilarious pro-trump animated gifts Remember when they tracked down an elderly old lady for having a pro-trump website? They formed a secret Orwellian Disinformation Board that was led by a hyperpartisan Democrat that literally used her position to demonize her opponents or the Biden-coordinated attack on the New York Post for reporting the truth about his son I'm sure I'm forgetting some other examples But basically America isn't quite Russia yet But we're definitely getting increasingly closer the only reason it's getting closer is because the Democrats and their Institutional support base have convinced themselves that their opponents are literal and human monsters and a threat to democracy when in reality They are the actual threats to democracy the media and Democrats are pumping out insane amounts of propaganda Insisting that Donald Trump will do all of these things But he couldn't he just does not have that institutional support base to carry it out But guess who does Joe Biden all right folks That's all I have for that one if you're still here you might as well hit that like button and make sure to keep Checking back for more. Thanks a lot, and I'll see you all in the next one


it's Tammy and today we're making the famous real easy cup of cup of cup pitch cobbler. The only difference that we do Chris thinks it's too much crust because it dries out the peaches a little bit too much so we use three quarters of a cup, three quarters of a cup. You're going to see what I mean by this. First you're going to melt three quarters of a stick of butter in your dish and you can use the whole stick if you want to. Alright now you're going to use three quarters of a cup of flour and three quarters of a cup of sugar and the reason I think I already told y'all he just doesn't like for it to be so doughy that it's too doughy and this recipe is easy because everything equals everything. If you're using two cans of peaches you want to go three quarter, three quarter, three quarter, three quarter. If you're using three cans of peaches you can go a cup a cup and a whole stick of butter. How's that? So we're putting our three quarters cup of flour in this bowl with three quarters cup of sugar and now we are going to add three quarters of a cup of regular milk and you just mix this up and it always looks really runny. Okay make sure you're using self-rising flour. I'm going to put just a hint of vanilla in here. A little like it would make a cobbler but it does. So what you're going to do is you're going to take your mixture and you're going to pour it into your dish. Okay after you pour your in you're going to pour two cans of peaches in here. I'm gonna sprinkle cinnamon on ours you don't have to but we like it and I'm gonna sprinkle nutmeg on it because we like that as well and of course mama never did either one of those and I also like to put a few pecans on the top and they'll get a little toasty when it comes out of the oven. This is something you can throw together while you're cooking supper and have something really good for the family in just a few minutes. I like to take a spoon or something and just kind of run through the middle of it a little bit before I put it in the oven.  Give it at least 35 to 40 minutes. If you want to you can pull it out and sprinkle some sugar on the top to make your crust kind of crunchy on the top if you want to but you don't have to because it's got plenty of sugar in it. So we're gonna get this in the oven. We'll see how in a few minutes with our delicious piece of cobbler. Let's get out this cobbler y'all. Been in here for a while, haven't tried to cook it at 350 but now you can turn yours up. But the good thing about cooking it at 350 for about an hour is it gets nice and gooey ooey and it and it gives the bread a long time to cook. It's nice and bubbly and brown on the top and so I'm gonna cut into this and show you how pretty it looks. This is a simple cobbler. It's always delicious. You can make it with any fruit and we just really like it better with three-quarter, three-quarter, three-quarter, three-quarter. So I hope y'all enjoyed watching this video. Don't that look good? It don't just look good. It is good and you can't go wrong with this recipe. You don't even have to write it down. You just remember it. Cup of cup of cup and a stick or three-quarter, three-quarter and three-quarters of stick. I choose the three-quarter. Yummy. I'm definitely gonna have some of this with coffee. ASAP. I'll get a little bite for y'all. But you can tell it's nice and it's got a nice it's nice and thick and creamy. Got good breading. You've got the soft breading underneath and the crunchy breading on the top. Good and sweet too. It's delicious y'all. So if you're making this while you're making supper go ahead and turn the oven up to 375 to 400 degrees so that you can get it out in time and you can have it ready when you get finished eating to have dessert. Thanks for watching Color Valley Cooks where we cook, like mama dad.


I actually think fiscal credibility is something very, very important. I can tell you that in the world we live in today, politicians aren't going to be judged by what they say or what they promise, but actually what they do. Well, I think we're pretty happy with the budget. It's built on realistic economic assumptions. That's something we always look for. The minister has confirmed the government wants to get back into a balanced operating budget fairly quickly. We were looking for that. We wanted to see that, and the government's delivered on it. We want to create a situation that does everything we can to try and help first-time buyers get into that new home. We also want to help the new home construction sector. This is a proposal that will take place effective today, be effective up until March 31st of 2013, and it will provide a rebate, a check, to British Columbians that qualify for up to $10,000 to help them purchase their first home. I think for the home-building sector, they've gone another extra mile by giving the $10,000 rebate to first-time home buyers. I think that's brilliant. We're eliminating the provincial jet fuel tax on international flights. Now, this is coming about as a result of YVR, in particular, came to us with a business case where they have written commitments for 22 additional international flights. Well, the jet fuel tax, I think, is important because of the Asia-Pacific strategy, and these are international flights that we don't get enough of here, and we need them here. The airport to YVR is a major investment, and it is a job creator, and there's a direct link between a jet fuel tax reduction or elimination and job creation for every new airline that comes in. I gather there's 100 or so jobs. We've got a small business corporate tax rate that's amongst the lowest in the country, and importantly, a reminder that we've taken what we define as a small business, which used to be earnings up to $200,000. We now have increased that to $500,000 over the last number of years so that the threshold for a small business has been improved dramatically. Well, our membership did tell us very overwhelmingly that they wanted to see a return to a balanced budget framework, and so that was very encouraging. I recognize that it's an important part of having an economic situation that is secure and one that encourages businesses of all kind to operate and flourish. A balanced budget definitely goes a long way to doing that. Prudence, I believe, is extremely important in the kind of climate we find ourselves in today.


Does it work for you, Eric, to share the screen? Working on it. OK. So maybe in the meantime, I can start with the short introduction. My name is Jon Amethom, and I'm the executive director at Wikimedia Sverium. And I will initially give you a short introduction about the content partnership hub and what it's all about. And then I will hand over to Eric, who will be talking a little bit about the help desk, a specific part of the content partnership hub that we're developing. And finally, we will have a short workshop section, which will be led by my colleague, Josefine Helig-Glarsson. But we will be discussing how to get involved, both in what you want to ask questions and if you want to support the help desk. And be part of that, being one of the experts helping out or one of the organizations supporting it. So but let's get started. We want to keep this introduction very short and make sure that we have enough time for you guys to be part of the discussion. So but as you might know, the Wikimedia movement has worked very hard to figure out how we can improve our global impact by 2030. And over the last few years, we have developed a number of strategic recommendations and these recommendations, they are intended to kind of guide the movement's work and the investments that we'll be doing in the coming years. And one important change that will take place in the next eight years or so is that the movement will establish a number of so-called hubs. And the idea is that these hubs will help to make the Wikimedia movement more diversified and to ensure equity in decision-making. And it's important to note that no such hubs existed this time. And the idea here is that we will start experimenting and see what these hubs could and should be doing and how they should be organized. We can meet us very, we're working on establishing a thematic hub around content partnerships in the coming years. And we wanna do this in partnership with other Wikimedia organizations. And we want to together with them, we want to provide a number of services to Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers across the world so they can establish more and better partnership with content owners. For example, we can talk about bringing digitized content that will be scanned material from museums or universities to the Wikimedia platforms. And the main idea with the content partnership hub is that there is an enormous amount of knowledge. I mean, there's information and knowledge that we wanna gather from across the world, from across organizations in the form of, for example, media files and data that will be super valuable to add to the Wikimedia platforms. And that our partner organizations, hold the key to this. But we also know that the available capacities and capabilities, they are limiting what Wikimedia organizations and volunteers are able to do. For example, how do you form a strong partnership with an organization? How do you upload media or data or support the organizations themselves to do it? How do you make sure that the material is added to Wikipedia articles and otherwise being reused? And these are all very difficult tasks. The content partnership hub, we hope will provide kind of an organizational support and a bit of the missing infrastructure that is needed to make these partnerships more frequent and successful. The Wikimedia movement has a huge amount of experience working with partners and the content partnership hub will not be replacing work done by others. And, but instead of the intentions that will be directed and answered to the needs of the Wikimedia, kind of filling the missing gaps, the missing puzzle pieces. And we believe that more collaboration and coordination between Wikimedia organizations can be achieved if you decide to invest in it and that the hub can be a vehicle to do this, that. We also believe that providing technical and other expertise and other support will allow more affiliates and volunteers in the movement to get started with content partnerships. For example, we could provide staff time from our developers to help a new Wikimedia user group upload images from a national museum that they've partnered with. So we wanna help, try to help unique and valuable content from across the world to get online. Next slide, please. We already started a number of discussions, what type of support will be needed, what the hub could be working on. And we also come back to a needs assessment. And that intention here was not just to have discussions with the people we know, but to actually reach out to people and learn from people from across the movement, what kind of stuff they would need help with and what would be valuable for them to get supported. And we identified five areas where our team could make a valuable contribution with rather limited resources currently and that we could be starting the work in the near future. So to give a couple of examples, this includes capacity building where we try to find ways to support new staff and volunteers to kind of effectively work with content partnerships. For example, to provide better documentation on learning materials or to support a knowledge exchange. And later today, my colleague Yusefine Helert Larsson will give a presentation about an exchange program we're developing, which is called the Grand Tour of Wikimedia. So please listen into that presentation as well. We also need to see how providing software that is actually working all the time and that can really lower the pressure for people so that people that want to work on uploading media files of data can do that in an efficient way. And for this software development is an important part of it. And we are supporting volunteers developers on their work and also dedicating staff time to improve the critically important tools. Our colleague, Sandra Falkner here, she will be having a workshop later today as well around lunch here at 12 o'clock on what type of support it's most valuable volunteer developers that are creating and maintaining these important tools. Another example is international partnerships that we have a lot of contacts within the UN agencies and other intergovernmental organizations. And these kind of organizations, they have data that is really, you know of importance for across the world and have a global focus. And they wanna have partnerships across the world with different local organizations. But there's a lot of work to form good relationships and partner with them and to make the content available on through media platforms. And we think it can help with that. But this today, we're gonna focus on the help desk and have a hand over to Eric to tell a little bit more in detail about that work. Thank you. Thanks John and thanks for giving me the word. I will try to share, slide and talk at the same time as I can. But as, just as John, I'm working for the Swedish Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia Sparia. And I'm working a lot with the rest of the team for the content partnerships hub. And one, I think vital and important part of the hub as John mentioned is the help desk idea. And when we did the needs assessment that John mentioned a lot of Wikimedians reached out and requested to get practical help. Practical help, for example, when it comes to making content from partners available on the Wikimedia platforms. And as a solution to this request for practical help we decided to develop and launch a help desk. And the idea behind the help desk I'd say is to be a relatively reactive support function. There's a need from someone in the movement and affiliate or volunteer. And the help desk team can provide the support that this affiliate or volunteer requests. And this support can be in pretty much any part of the journey, so to say. It can be from the very early steps. How do you make advocacy for free licenses? How do you create partnerships with glam institutions or whatever it could be? But leading towards the end goal of making content available on the Wikimedia platforms through, for example, batch uploads and so on. And it is reactive in the sense that it will respond to the needs of the movement. It's not something that we decide and prioritize here from Sweden or from the global content partnerships helps team, but it's an effort to try to involve the entire movement and build capacity and experience when it comes to working with content partnerships in the movement. I will elaborate a bit more on a few vital parts of the help desk that will make this possible, such as the expert committee later on. But first, I want to spend a few moments to discuss and give a few of the early ideas we have on how the help desk process will actually work. So like a very important goal for us when we have been trying to develop the help desk help desk function is to keep the barriers really low. It should be something that the experienced chapter that wants to help with the batch that we can get help from, but also from underserved communities and represented communities, and maybe especially the ones that wouldn't be able to do this otherwise. So we're trying to define the best way for how to lower the barriers as much as possible. And later on, we'll go over into more workshop mode and try to discuss together. And I would really love to hear feedback and ideas from you guys and how we can do this in the best possible way. But the very basic start of the help desk process would be to send an email to the help desk email. That is helpdesk.com.com, as you can see on the slide. We're also planning on starting monthly office hours for the help desk where anyone who wants to get support might find it hard to formulate the email in the best way or so on can come in and ask for help. And also when it comes to more practical questions. When a request has come in through the email, we will have an expert committee that I mentioned previously that will give an initial feedback. And we will also form working groups where we will invite all parts of the working media movement to try to help all the requests go in the right direction. And the working groups are still to be organized. But the idea is that they will consist of staff and volunteers that have expertise when it comes to exactly this kind of work. And I think that there's several areas where it's really important to involve all parts of the working media movement. When it comes to communication, like how do we reach out to all communities and inform that there is a help desk that can respond to their needs? Implementation, like how do we actually do the actual uploads using the contents? And so on and so on. I've initially perhaps writing reports. How do we work in the best way to decolonize knowledge, which is something I know that a lot of people are passionate about in their movements? How do we get more books to WikiSource and so on? And I think that it would be really interesting to form working groups in several different areas to try to see how we can bring the help desk as far as possible. And I think that this is also an area where it's really interesting to look into how we can develop joint applications for funding. Now I mentioned the help desk and the working groups. But I also mentioned the expert committee and I wanna spend a few moments elaborating on the expert committee because I think that's a really important part of the help desk. And we can also today announce that we have an expert committee and running, which I think is very really great. But the work of the help desk, as I mentioned, will be guided by an expert committee. And the committee is a committee of international glam experts that help us prioritize, overview the request and develop guidelines for how to prioritize the work. And why did we choose to have an expert committee for the help desk? I think in the very basic sense, it answers to the question how the help desk should prioritize between different requests. And when we have tried to develop the help desk concept, it has been really important for us that it's a global service for the global movements and not only influenced by the minds of a few Northerners. So the expert committee is a committee of experienced Wikimediants who have done work with content partnerships or glam institutions. And that have innovative ideas when it comes to supporting the movements around content partnerships. We have also developed a portal for the content partnerships hub on Merra. And there's also a concept paper for the expert committee and how it works on the portal. So if you want to dig into the details, I'd welcome you to go there. But with the help desk process and the expert committee, I think we have most things in order to start, to slowly start to do the work. And with this, I'd also like to show you the faces of the great volunteers in the expert committee. Subashish Panegray, Patricia Diaz, Mehashem Abbas Mahmoud, Nassima Shavoun, Bodhisattva Mandal, Susanna Ones, and Gede Polto. Great group of diverse people from across the Wikimedia movement that come in with different backgrounds and different experiences, but all innovative ideas on how to develop the help desk in the best way and how to prioritize between the different requests. And we have also actually had the first requests pilot requests to the help desk that we have started to work on and find the best way to handle. So with this in mind, my idea is that we go over to some work shopping parts, but maybe I see that there's two questions already in the chat. Should we save all questions for later looking at John and Josephine or should we try to go into them or respond to them in the chat? Maybe we can try to answer them in the document as well or if you have a few minutes and then we can round up. So if you have questions, save them for the chat and we'll try to do all of them, either respond to them in the chat or take them at the end and then go over to actually do some work shopping. And with that, I hand over to you, Susanna. Thank you very much. And we will, we want to, oh, there we go. We want to divide you into two groups now and that comes from where you see that your knowledge or your understanding or your role in the movement is. So one group will focus on you that want support, want to get support from the help desk. And the other group is if you have a capacity, et cetera to give support through the help desk, because, yeah, as we've heard, we or the expert committee won't do the actual help because that's also spread out through the movement. So we will, I will share the link to the etherpad again and this will be used as documentation because if you scroll down there, you will see questions for discussion. And group room one, that is, if you want to get support, thoughts on how you can make use of the help desk. And there two questions will be discussed. The first one is the draft process and if that would work for you or how it could be improved. And the second question is, how do we make it easy for you to understand what help or support you can receive? And also how do we communicate? Those are linked, of course, but also to reach underrepresented groups or new people. So how can other people that isn't in the core or get updates today? How will they be reached through the help desk? In the second group, group number two, there will be discussions on how to contribute to the help desk. And then the first question is, in what way do you think your organization could support the help desk? Which what experiences, competences and resources do you have that could help affiliates or volunteers that would like to develop partnerships and where media and or data can be shared on our platforms? And the second question is, what would you need to be able to participate in the help desk? For example, formal agreements, funding, staff time, peer network, project management, and there you can specify it if it's a need to have or a nice to have. So group number one, you will be able to join if you want to make use of the help desk and group number two, if you will contribute to the help desk. So then I would need some help to start to break up groups. And I see that we already have them. Great, thank you, Joel. So group one, room one is group one. And there Eric will be to guide you through those questions and myself as well. And in room two, John will lead the discussions. So if you open breakout rooms in at the lower part of the Zoom window, you can be able to join room one or room two. And I encourage you to do that right now. So please join where you think you're suited to be. Yes, we are coming back after the breakout. Five minutes before closing. So please take part in whichever breakout room you would like to attend. Room one is if you would like to receive help from the help desk. And room two is if you would like to give help through the help desk. I see there are a lot of people still in this space. But please join. Yes, room one is give help and room two, no, room one is if you want to receive help. And room two is if you will contribute. So if you feel like you want to start a partnership but you don't really know how to, or if you have a partner with lots of data and you need help in helping them upload them, then you go to, or other things like that, then you go to room one. And if you have a lot of experience in partnerships or data uploads or strategic data and would like to share that knowledge with other partners, then you go to room two. So I see there are still quite a lot of people in this main space. You can open the breakout rooms in the lower part of the Zoom window. And then you can join breakout room one is if you would like to make use of the help desk. And room two is if you would like to contribute through the help desk. So we are currently into breakout sessions where we discuss the help desk concerning content partnerships. So if you would like to join in a content partnership and or have experience in content partnerships we have two different rooms for you. And now we will also distribute you to these different rooms. Room one is if you would like to get help from the help desk and room two is if you already have experience and would like to share them through the help desk. So we are placing you in different rooms right now so that at least you can listen into those discussions. So we will divide you into different breakout rooms where you can join and accept the invitation to join because we won't be talking here in the main space for 10 more minutes. That's why we're inviting you to participate in the group discussions in the breakout rooms. And I will just briefly check into those groups now just to see how the discussions are there and I will be back shortly into this main space. A tool or an upcoming or an institution we can say where you can gain help in content partnerships if you would like to cooperate with a partner around getting their content up to our platforms. And in group one breakout room one we are discussing if you would like to get help from the help desk and in breakout room two we are discussing if you have experience or knowledge that can be shared through the help desk and how that can be made. So I encourage you to join one of the breakout rooms either if you would like to receive help through the help desk or if you would like to contribute to others wanting and needing the help through the help desk because we know there is a lot of experience in the movement that will be needed in this hub work that we are trying to establish. Content partnership hub. And I will just briefly check into one of the breakout rooms and then I will be back here again as we will round up this session. Recording stopped. Hi everyone. We are currently divided into two breakout rooms where we are discussing the help desk the content partnerships hub help desk. As Wikimedia Sferje is working on coordinating a service where you can get help or receive help to others concerning content partnerships. Recording in progress. So if you would like to establish a content partnership working with someone you know that has images or movies or data that you would like to get up to our platforms where you can get, then you can get help through the help desk in for example, establishing a partnership or do the actual uploads or whatever help you might need then the help desk will be there for you and getting you in contact with other parties around the world that has that kind of knowledge and can help you. So that's what we're discussing in the two breakout rooms right now, how that help desk can be as good as possible for different kinds of users. And if you would like to see what is being discussed then you can take a look in the ether pad notes. So I'm posting them there again. And we are just about to get everyone back so we can close the breakout rooms now so that everyone will come back to this main space. So we will be welcoming people back. There we go, people returning from the breakout rooms. I guess people are discussing things still but we hope they will, yeah, now they're closed. 35 seconds and counting, soon they won't have a choice but we'll have to return. I listened into both of the breakout rooms and there were interesting talks and discussions in both of them regarding the help desk. Great, now the last group is thrown back into this main space as well. Thank you very much for all of your comments and questions and we will definitely look into this. Erik, would you like to say a few final words or John who's also back now I see? Do you want to say the final words, John? Thank you all for coming today and joining the discussion. In our group we had a wonderful discussion going and this broke up way too early. I would have loved to continue the conversation for another half an hour and getting everybody opportunity to suggest their thoughts and ideas. So but for the ones that didn't have the time to talk please add your thoughts into the documents if you have other people they think they might have good ideas or things that they want to share. Please share this note document and ask them to answer the questions as in chronologically if that's possible. And I see questions in the chat here, perhaps range another session after Vicky Mania, absolutely. That is definitely part of the next steps here, both around what the working groups will be doing and how they will be structured because we're still in the kind of conceptualizing phase of that. We have the expert group up in, expert committee up and running, but now we want more people to join the work when we have a kind of a better understanding how much it actually takes because we've done the kind of first test run now with the first request and you know, so we know what we're going to be asking all of you to join. So that's kind of an accept. Erik do you want to add something to that? No, I think that's a good summary and as I mentioned in the very brief presentation that helped us with up and running, we have done the first kind of pilot case. So please feel free to reach out if you have requests that you want to have support with or if you know other people help spread the word. We will do a lot of more and more communication but it would be really great to have your help. And if you have any questions or want to have continued meetings and conversations with us, feel free to reach out either at helpdesk at wikimedia.se or to John or me or Josephine directly. And if you have something you won't help with now already even though the working group is not up and running we have dedicated staff time for the community, Sweden staff, so we are available to help already now if there's something that you think we could have some insights or help with some practicalities that you feel would be valuable to get support around. So don't hesitate, don't wait for all the work groups to be up and running. We want to get started. We want to try and do some trial and error already now. So that's happening in parallel. So please retouch us. Thank you.


Γεια σας! Είμαι Βικη, και σήμερα θα πάρω ένα βιντεοχόπ, διεξιωθεί το σαναγκίδι. Αυτό είναι το σαναγκίδι, και είναι από η σημαντική κομπανή. Το σαναγκίδι σύψει από τη Γερμανία, και νομίζω ότι είναι από εξεπτουργία και είναι παγκυκτική. Ας ξεκινήσουμε, αυτό είναι ένα σαναγκίδι με μπαμπλούς, που καταλαβαίνει το θέμα της σαναγκίδις.  Είμαι going to grab a cardstock, so I can put all those good veneers on top, so that you can see the designs better. There are clouds, there are lemon slices or orange slices. There is this cool sunshine cutout, as well as an ice cream. Everything that is included in this kit is of exceptional quality, and I cannot recommend this kit enough. Also this is a great kit for a new card maker, since it's packed with goodies that you can use. So for example there is a washi tape, I am going to peel off a piece, so you can see the design. There are some transparent arrows, I am going to stick it on my cardstock, so you can see the design better. There is also a package with enamel dots. The enamel dots come in four different colours, arrows, droplets, circles etc.  There are also three different flares, so you can see that the colours perfectly match the colour theme of the whole kit. What is really adorable about this kit is the stamp set. I really love both the cute little images, as well as the lovely sentiments. The kit also comes with patterned paper. The patterned paper is thicker than the usual one, and I just love that, because it's great and sturdy for backgrounds. You can see the lovely colours and designs. There are 12 different patterned papers, and they do have an A side, the one that you are looking at at the moment, and they do have a B side, so at the back you can see that they have a nice wood grain pattern in different colours. What really surprised me about this kit was not only the amount and the quality of the goodies, but also the pouch. I think the pouch is just adorable, and it's a great way to store your kit. To all my European viewers, remember that this ships from Europe, and that means less postal than package than the kits that come from the US. So let's create a sacred card with this kit today.  I am taping them down with some post-it tape, and now I am going to pass it through my physics machine. So I am going to die cut a frame that has a nice stitching all around, just because the dies that I have used had the stitching, which really makes your card look more professional and finished. So now I am going to use this white cardstock, and I am going to use the stencil on top. I am checking with my frame to see if that is going to be ok. So I am going to tape it down with my post-it tape, and I'll be inking it with Distress Inks. So first of all I am going to bring in a tumbled glass. I am going all over the stencil with my blending tool, and I'm not pressing too hard because I don't want to move the stencil. So although it looks like I am moving very fast, I am actually being very gentle. I am checking how it looks, and now I am going to bring a darker color. One of my favorite colors from the Distress Inks collection is Peacock Fithers. I am going to bring in some color only at the bottom of the stencil and blend it out with the tumbled glass. And now I am ready for the reveal. I am going to peel off the stencil, and I just love the result. I am using my paper trimmer to make it smaller so that it perfectly fits behind my window. I am using some tape at the back, tape adhesive at the back, and I will stick on top the transparency. This is just a piece of transparency that I have, so you can see I have a nice window there. Now all I have to do is to use my foam tape and create a wall all around that window. This will ensure that all the bits and pieces that I am going to put inside my shaker card are not going to go anywhere. I am also going to double up the tape adhesive just to make sure that my sequins do have enough space to move around. For my window I am going to add some clear sequins. I don't want to have too many and I just love how they will look as if they are bubbles inside the water at the end. So I am peeling off the tape adhesive and I am going to stick my background on top and my shaker window for my card is ready.   At this stage you can use any coloring method that you love like Copic markers or water coloring but I just think that using my finger dabbers with Distress Ink is such a quick method. I have firstly applied some mustard seed all over the jellyfish and now with some spiced marmalade I am adding some shading. Once I am happy with the coloring I am going to use my scissors and cut out the image. For a chance to win this adorable card kit by create a smile make sure to visit their blog you can see the URL on the screen right now. I am using my black marker to go around the edges to get rid of the white edge and this will make the cut out look more finished as well as it will look as if I have cut out the image perfectly. So I am using some tape adhesive at the back of my shaker element and I am going to stick it on top of a standard card that's a 4.25 x 5.5 top folding card and now I have to stamp the sentiment. I am going for the sentiment that says Summer Time which I am going to stamp it with Audrey Blue by Simon Says Stamp. As always you can find a full list of all the supplies that I am using on my blog as well as on YouTube below the video. And just because I cannot stay away from my clear wing of Stella glitter pen I just had to go all over the jellyfish and add some shimmer. So now I can add some tape adhesive at the back of the jellyfish I am trying to decide where this is going to go and now I am going to stick it over the shaker card just to add a bit of highlight and some more interest on the jellyfish I am using my gel white pen to add some dots on both the tentacles and the main body of the jellyfish and to bring the jellyfish even more to life I am going to use some glossy accents over the main body of the jellyfish and this is going to make it super shiny and although it looks kind of milky at the moment as I applied it will dry super shiny and very clear I am going to pick up the card and try to catch the light for you so you can see how shiny it looks but check also the photos at the end of the video to finish off the card I am going to use some of those enamel stickers so I have already added 3 yellow dots and I am also going to add some arrows I will stick 5 of those pointing to the sentiment and trying to make sure that they have equal distance one from the other I am just eyeballing it but I think I did a pretty good job using yellow enamel at the bottom of my card kind of brings everything together since I have a yellow jellyfish and here are a couple of close up photos of the card so that was the card for today I hope you had fun and got inspired click here to go to the next stop on the video hop and if you are watching from a mobile device then you can find all the links just below the video Thank you all for watching


So now we're starting into the special senses. So this is going to be our our vision our hearing coordination and our taste Okay, so looking here at the eye Okay, so we already went over your individual muscle groups on there. So make sure you review that From the muscle chapter. We can see the white part of the eye So you have three layers on the eye itself the sclera is the white part the second layer Is this darker part here? So this is our vascular layer called the CROID layer Again, we remove that and on the inside You have your retina. So that's the lighter layer there. That's got all the nerve tissue associated with it So coming from the back of the eye Is your optic nerve coming in there? Okay, so I'm gonna remove a few things. We'll come back to those And we can see the optic disc Right here. That's where the optic nerve is coming into the retina Okay You can also see so if this is the optic disc just adjacent to it There's in this model. It's kind of a pink dot, but it's another reading called the macula Lidia And right in the middle of it. So in the middle of the macula Lidia is the fove centralis Okay So filling that region Okay, so everything from this point back Is our posterior cavity and this big clear structure here is representing the vitreous body Which is kind of a gooey substance back in there in a real eye Okay, so that's our posterior cavity in the anterior cavity We start with our lens so the lens sits kind of in a cavity within that vitreous body And sits behind the pupil the pupil being the hole in the iris the iris is the colored part of the eye All that sits behind the cornea the cornea is the clear layer that surrounds the eye itself We take all that apart Now we want to look on the inside here, okay So we have a ciliary body So that's all this structure you're seeing here the ciliary muscle Is this in this particular model? It's kind of the smoother outer layer here But it is a muscle itself which connects to suspensory ligaments and these ligaments are gonna constrict or contract The pupil and that makes up the anterior cavity


Welcome to Unit 4 of PRDV 301, Introduction to Paralegal Studies. By now, you've seen that the judicial system in the United States plays a role not just in the resolution of disputes, but in the actual development of law. In this unit, we look more closely at the courts. You'll learn about jurisdiction, which deals with what kinds of cases can be heard in which courts, and the distinction between district courts, which try cases and courts of appeals, which review cases for errors in procedure or application of the law. Appeals courts play an important role in creating precedent. Last but certainly not least, you'll learn about courts of last resort, the supreme courts of the state and federal governments that make the ultimate decisions on complex legal questions. By the end of this unit, you'll have gotten the taste of the overall structure of the legal system in all its complexity. Next step, you'll be called upon to take that understanding and see how the process works in practice. So pay close attention and good luck.


When the desoldering pump and solder wick just aren't cutting it, you might be tempted to try heating all the component pins at once and just giving the part a good yank. Yeah, it might work, but you might also damage the board if the solder cools too quickly. What we need is some slow style solder that stays fluid longer. ChipQuick's desoldering alloy does exactly that. It's marketed for use on service mount components, but it works fine for through-hole parts too. Apply flux to the component leads to clean and prep the surface. Then melt a little bit of alloy on each pin. It doesn't take much to work. Once heated, the solder will stay molten for several seconds. Plenty of time to pull the part out. Clean up with solder wick and some flux remover or alcohol. And the dishes are done.