I would first of all like to thank Marcia and Ruth and Pastor John and all of you for joining us today for this opportunity to share a bit about an Islamic perspective on the question what holy books or other texts are important to your religion. I had mentioned to Marcia not too long ago that I thought this question could be interpreted in a number of ways but I'm going to answer it the way that it appeared to me. I'd like to start off maybe by taking a step back and discussing the nature of revelation in the Islamic tradition. So revelation when we say that something constitutes scripture, we don't mean necessarily sacred history or history about something that was sacred but rather we mean direct communication from God from the divine through the intermediary of an angel. And so when you talk about revelation you have to understand what a prophet is. So the revelations or scriptures are revealed to prophets. Not all prophets bring scriptures, a divinely revealed book, but they all receive revelation of different types. They're inspired or they're told or they're taught through the intermediary of an angel. I'm going to be framing this conversation through the Qur'an. Now some of you may or may not know the Qur'an we believe is God's final revelation to humanity. We believe the Qur'an to be the literal word of God verbatim so not something that the prophet Muhammad was inspired with or some you know the meaning was brought to him and he selected the words but rather he relays or faithfully conveys the literal word of God. And so according to the Qur'an they're you know very clear verses that state that all peoples were given guidance by God. They were all sent a messenger and the messages had one unifying theme which is essentially what would be encapsulated in the Arabic statement that there's nothing worthy of worship besides God that you wouldn't put any partners next to God and then therefore you would live your life in accordance with that. But the edicts or the law changes with times and with peoples and so you could find in some scripture or some previous dispensations the rulings might have been different according to law and then a different prophet would come in and bring a different law. But the fundamental message or particularly as it pertains to belief would be the same it would be unifying which is that God has sent me worship no one besides God and you know you know there there will be judgment and sort of act accordingly in various ways. But I do think there is one statement of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and I think it really encapsulates how Islam sees other texts or other scriptures or other religions for that matter. And it's a statement from the prophet Muhammad in which he says and I'll just read the text to quote it he says verily the parable of myself and the prophets before me is that of a man who built a house he perfected it and he beautified it except for the place of one brick in the cornerstone. So you know the cornerstone is obviously a you know this this well known it's the cornerstone of the home it's missing one brick so the people to continue the quote the people walk around it and are amazed by it and they say why is this brick not placed thus I am the brick and I am the seal of the prophets and that's the end of the quote. The reason I think this is such an encapsulating summary is in the Islamic tradition the prophet Muhammad's mission is not to demolish this previously built house or to replace it but to complete and restore the succession of bricks. I mean that he is the final brick he's he's the he says that I am the seal of the prophets and tells us that none will come after him and so one of the things that that Islam is very clear about in the Quran is it affirms prophets before the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him one verse which is oft quoted states indeed we have sent revelation to you oh prophet as we sent revelation to Noah and the prophets after him and we also sent revelation to Abraham Ishmael Isaac Jacob in his descendants as well as Jesus Job Jonah Aaron and Solomon and to David we gave the Psalms so you can see here that one cannot accept the Quran without affirming the prophethood of all of these prophets and and obviously some of these manifest into different religious communities as well but we affirm them so the Quran uh frames in itself as the final revelation in this Judeo-Cristo Islamic tradition right and and it sees the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him as a restorer of the way of Abraham but it also so it definitely it definitely emphasizes the Abrahamic way but it also accepts the possibility of other unspecified religions because we're told that every people were sent to prophet in their own tongue so um yeah scholars of the Islamic tradition have said you know clearly that means that they were prophets sent to all of the continents and all of the peoples and all of the languages um and perhaps some of these religions that remain today were originally even if they have changed they were sourced um or they were based on an original source that that had a divine um uh had a divine uh source to it and so when it comes to other scriptures the Quran has a very honorable epithet called the people sometimes translated as the people of the book some of you might be familiar with that some of you may have heard that phrase um it might also be translated as the people of the bible because the book biblios um meaning the book and so the Quran specifies uh two main revelations the Torah which is the Torah and the ng which is the gospel or the evangelion you can see ng and evangelion sort of share they have some similar cognate uh but in the singular and so the Quranic narrative um states that the original unaltered texts not not to be polemical but i'll get into that shortly but the original texts that serve as the foundations for for parts of some of the current bible did indeed come from god and and in them is truth and and and as a believer a muslim has to um affirm that uh one of the things that's very interesting is that the Quran doesn't detail um how they were preserved or passed down but simply states that uh it it was quite common um as a in human history for people to alter uh messages as time went on um so the Quran affirms their divine origin i think another thing that's very interesting is that in the Quranic narrative um the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him he's foretold in both the bible uh but in the old testament and the new testaments of the bible so like in isai and deuteronomy references to to shilo and the paraclete things like that there's there's uh passages that according to a muslim interpretation uh would foretold the coming of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him from ish miles line now why is that important is i think it does uh make very clear to to um anyone who's either muslim or at least studying islam that these books are not to be um dishonored or to be you know disgraced or to be denigrated but simply that they that the Quran comes uh to confirm their divine origin i mean also it uses a term that's called the the muhammin so the Quran serves as the overseer of or the authority over other scriptures now why is this the case the Quran we're told by god has a unique quality amongst the revelations the revelatory scriptures and that is that the Quran was promised a divine preservation that it would be protected from alteration because it's the final scripture and there would be nothing else to to sort of set the record straight um and so the Quran is in conversation with the other scriptures now what do i mean by that if the Quran affirms the divine origin of other scriptures um but disagrees on proper conceptions of god definitions of the oneness of god who was the person of jesus christ who is the messiah um it allows for their divine origin but it definitely takes positions on these questions and so although you know muslims are told to leave people to their beliefs it does engage in sort of an interfaith dialogue that would say for example it affirms jesus as the messiah which i i hope many of you know right but would say that he was not god incarnate for example and so there there you have one disagreement with with the jewish tradition followed by a disagreement with some of the the trinitarian christian tradition so there's this respectful dialogue and engagement that that ensues one of the reasons i think this is important is i think it does give us a way of learning about um and interacting with and getting to know our neighbors and i think one one verse really highlights this um there's a verse um in the Quran in which god states and again we believe whenever we read the Quran that this is god's words that he's speaking these aren't the words of the prophet Muhammad he simply conveys them but god says we have revealed to you oh prophet this book with the truth as a confirmation of previous scriptures so i think that i want to sort of highlight that confirmation of previous scriptures and a supreme authority over them so the reason that that the authority aspect is to verify the veracity and where there is a difference the Quran will will sometimes uh correct an understanding that that that is uh deemed to be mistaken so then this is continuing the the the verse so judge between them by what god has revealed and do not follow their desires over the truth that has come to you now this is the important part i think to each of you we have ordained a law and a way of life if god have willed he would have made you one community but his will is to test you with what he has given each of you so god tells us that even you know even as a believer even as a muslim that nobody none of us will ever be all one religion that's just the the the human story for whatever divine wisdom is more complex than that um is is richer than that there's there's some divine wisdom here so he says for each of you we've ordained a code of law and a way of life if god have willed he would have made you one community but his will is to test you with what he has given each of you so compete with one another and doing good so what we're told those religious communities and the Quran is you're gonna differ you're gonna you're gonna debate you're you're you're gonna end up in different positions but compete with one another in doing good that's that's what we should really be competing in and then the rest of the verse reads to god you will all return and he will inform you of the truth regarding your differences meaning you're not going to be able to sort it all out here god sent a succession of prophets there's a confirmation of the divine origin which i think allows a common ground there's a verse in the Quran that i think is also important here particularly for the Abrahamic tradition which says if we differ with one another let's just go back to Abraham we can all agree that Abraham was on the right path so that's why even even the phrase the Abrahamic traditions takes us to the point of the most common ground which i think is a is a place in which we can develop some understanding um and wherever we respectfully agree to disagree that's that's at least a shared foundation so the Quran encourages this interfaith dialogue this respectful coexistence while also maintaining you know very clear positions on you know conceptions of god and and and prophets and divinity of people you know or sort of the lack of divinity of any particular prophet so i think this sort of encapsulates how we view things as a religion and the Quran is very specific about these two the Torah and the gospel the that the original scriptures are from god and they're more there are more detailed verses that say in them is light and guidance and if people follow them then then then they will you know they will find success etc but i think that even how we view human history is really impacted by this so for example in the Islamic tradition we don't hold that before the advent of the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him that the world was simply in darkness and until he came then you know everybody just was was lost but we would say is it was that that parable of of the house being built brick by brick and there was an incompleteness and an imperfection until that last corner stone was placed and and that is what the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him completes and there are many many other traditions in which you know we affirm all of what might be called biblical prophets but even prophets that are outside of the biblical scriptures as well and then to accept or entertain the possibility of for example Native American prophets or what would be considered you know Asian prophets and African prophets and European you know from from all over with with a clear acknowledgement that the Abrahamic prophets have have a have a a special status and make a mark on the world unlike the others so i think i'll stop here and i hope that wasn't too much i tried to keep it sort of high you know high level more conceptual not get lost in obscure theological things and really trying to avoid anything polemical but just hoping to convey my understanding of the Islamic view of other scriptures so i think maybe marsha we want to open it up for questions now would be a good time yes perfect time okay so please either raise your physical hand or use the reactions with the raise hand icon and i will call on you questions remona i see your hand raised um so remona you're gonna unmute and could everybody else who's not currently speaking um please mute yourselves and remona go ahead please um dr tarsan thank you so much for all of this all of what you said i mean i was saying wow i didn't know so much of of all the information you gave us use of the way i understood it you said that every people was sent a prophet in their own time correct yes ma'am and this was based on a divine source does that include the eastern religions um the hindu the buddhist or only the agra hammock you know yeah no that's a great question so i think what we can say is the only ones we can specify with certainty and point to and say this had a divine source are the ones that god outlines in the quran which are primarily the abrahamic fates okay but we can entertain the possibility and say well we do know that there were other prophets sent to all peoples in their native tongue that doesn't have to be a scripture but people who are divinely inspired to go and call people to god um and tell people about god um and so we can we can probably what we can say is we can um have theories about the divine sources um but we would probably just put a small asterisk you know there's many scholars who said that buddhism and hinduism probably have a divine origin um islam is extremely very monotheistic radically monotheistic so the current understandings of these religions we would say we're not what you know you know to have any type of polytheism or multiple gods or even god heads and those things we would say are are human additions later but if we're talking about the origins of the teachings many scholars of islam would say yeah we can we can theorize that that that was likely the case thank you yeah okay uh anyone else for the question uh yeah i i have a question uh for yeah we see a lot of uh in the quran we see a lot of verses relates the interaction of christian specifically from Ethiopia uh with prophet Muhammad and verses revealed about them like they're kindhearted or can you like shed some light on those yeah um there are there are many verses and it doesn't simply apply to well let me maybe give a little bit of history so um the prophet Muhammad uh was sent to a polytheistic people um and when he started to call to the god of Abraham and to monotheism and and called for them to do away with the idols you might imagine that there was a lot of oppression and persecution and so much so that many of his followers began to you know suffer great torture at the hands of of the the tribal leaders who who uh profited greatly off of this this idolatry and so some of them the prophet Muhammad commanded them to migrate to Ethiopia with modern day Ethiopia was it was a Abyssinia at the time because he said there's a just christian king there and there you will see no harm and and you'll be able to sort of enjoy freedom of religion um and so that that that happened um and there was always a great affinity between um you know the prophet Muhammad and and some of the christian communities there but i think some of the verses that you're talking about is is that you know there are many verses praising not just christianity as a as a as a as a tradition or just religious dispensation that that truly came from god um but also that the christian community were was filled with people who truly loved god and were pious um and whose tears would overflow you know whose eyes would overflow with tears at the mention of god um and the great piety and support love that that they would experience from some of them so um yeah that that that was definitely there in the Quran and sort of historically um yeah thank you for that question okay thank you so much dr sad my pleasure talk very interesting um Ruth i'm gonna suggest we go ahead with pastor john and then if there's still time left before we're ready for our breakout groups if some people thought of some additional questions um we could take them at that time that sound okay that's great okay okay doctor uh no reverend what is it that i'm calling you today reverend or pastor you can call me whatever just don't call me late for dinner you're on i i appreciate dr tarson's phd i'm still paying off my master's students at this point in time so yeah yeah i'll believe it when i say um we um thank you thank you ruth and marsha and dr tarson to to be together with you and everyone else who has joined uh zoom today um i should say before i say anything i've always found myself as it relates to religion or faith spirituality to a certain extent one foot in and one foot out i don't know that i've ever been both feet in in either direction i've preferred to kind of straddle the fence in some respects because i feel like having one foot in allows me to make changes that need to be changed but having one foot out allows me to be critical and to see things from a different perspective that aren't always so easy to see when you are inside the bubble and it's easy for us especially in this day and age of social media where we are where it's easy to surround ourselves in our social bubbles and listen from people that only agree with everything that we agree with believe the way we believe behave the way we behave and to realize that it's not even human beings that are putting us in these bubbles any longer but actually algorithms and bots and what have you so what i what i want to share with you now uh is it was important to sort of frame it with that that i come at this as someone who was hyper critical um of the ways that we have used religion and faith to silo ourselves off in our certainty and um sometimes in our rigid dogma and doctrine and that there is there's more room that we often give credit uh for us to enter into these conversations where we realize that and i think Ruth you may have been speaking to this at the very beginning as folks are coming on that there is always more that unites us than divides us it's always much more sexy to talk about the things that divide us and those are the things that people dial into but at the end of the day it's the things that unite us that make us human so um i you know the question what holy books or other texts are important to your religion dr tarson and i were talking about how to sort of approach that and and one way of looking at that is looking at the texts that really are kind of formative um and uh inform our own particular uh religious tradition another really interesting way to look at that is to think of in in in terms of books and other texts outside of maybe your uh particular religious comfort zone that have informed and shaped your thinking about your own religious tradition so that may be a topic for another another uh chat uh for and and i don't presume to speak for christianity as a whole in fact i find that term to be so loaded and full of baggage that i oftentimes don't always use it uh because it does not have a universal singular meaning i'm not sure that it ever did i i certainly feel like in our in our day and age it is as loaded as it's ever been before and so um as as is our approach to the hebrew scriptures and the books of the new testament those are formative and authoritative sources for in my particular tradition lutheran christianity if you will and luther's translation of scripture either was the first or among the first that included not only the books of the hebrew scriptures and the new testament books but also the apocryphal books what luther called these intertesting intertestamental books that um were by many considered so esoteric and mysterious that they weren't quite canon material to show up in either the old testament hebrew scripture canon or the new testament scripture and so lutherans have even though luther seemed to be more open to these books with the exception of first and second as dras uh as they were called lutherans have have had a sort of interesting ambivalence towards these books of where they exactly fit into um into the hebrew scriptures or the new testament books but uh so i just throw that out there you know scripture as we see it and understand it as it's full of many different types of literature uh prose poetry songs laments apocalyptic narrative letters epistles um and written by imperfect people who were doing their best to capture what seemed most important to them um and worth passing along to their communities which is why it's so interesting to allow scripture to interpret itself um i think i think every faith tradition runs the risk of proof texting a finding text that either support a particular position or negate someone else's position and there's there's a lot of danger in doing that uh as across history we've all fallen um pray to doing that and we've seen the sort of disastrous results of what happens when we interpret these these holy these holy scriptures in isolation and divorced from a larger community of people of various faith traditions and so the more we have these types of conversations the more uh rich and whole i think we um are humans so in addition in addition to scripture and of which Lutherans have a particular lens and frame by which they view scripture in the united states along their various flavors of Lutheran Christianity uh and all of them see scripture in different ways interpret scripture in different ways have different filters of of interpreting scripture uh and i'm sure we all have some sense that we're right and others are wrong um i find at the end of the day those conversations don't tend to be particularly fruitful um we probably each possess something of the truth and the way we approach these texts these ancient texts some which feel very very divorced from our current time and others that seem as relevant today as they ever were and so but in addition to uh the bible the Hebrew scriptures the New Testament forming the real substance of our faith and approach to life for Lutherans anyway probably the tour de force was what was a document called the Augsburg Confession it's interesting that Martin Luther is often the name and the poster child for the Protestant Reformation but much in the way that the civil rights movement uh in the united states was only possible because of people working behind the scenes much is true of the way Lutheran Christianity came to be as well um really passionate committed people who had questions and weren't afraid to ask them to challenge the conventional wisdom of the day which oftentimes was the Roman Catholic Church um who for many of the early Lutheran reformers got a lot right and for other in other points uh didn't so uh the Augsburg Confession and then what eventually became the defense or the apology of the Augsburg Confession was a 1530 document where uh Martin Luther alongside his counterpart Philip Melanchthon uh was asked to give an account to some of the questions that had been posed and what became known as the 95 theses that were nailed to the Wittenberg church door by the way we don't have any record specifically of that happening it's just one of those things that has taken on a life of its own um it was it was probably more in keeping that it was nailed to like a a university professors door which was much the way that theses were put forward uh during Martin Luther's time but it sure does spend a wonderful story to think of somebody nailing something to a big red church door and and thus Lutheran churches have oftentimes have red church doors to sort of pay homage to what's to something that probably never specifically happened the way that we prefer to think it happened um so this was this this this this Augsburg Confession is probably the most well-known confessional document for Lutheran Christians um eventually all of the important confessional documents of the Lutheran church regardless of what flavor of Lutheran you sort of adhere to around the world came to be compiled into what was called the Book of Concord um where I grew up in North Carolina there was a city called Concord we called it Concord when I moved to California I now have to say Concord to fit in so the Book of Concord if you prefer or if you're from the south the Book of Concord um in in the Book of Concord were other documents in addition to the Augsburg Confession and what subsequently came to be known as the the defense of the Augsburg Confession and there were two documents that probably outside of the Augsburg Confession are the two most well-known documents in Lutheran thought and they grew out of Martin Luther having a profound recognition that the laity really were rather biblically illiterate and did not understand some of the most primary concepts of church teaching and so he decided to put together two documents one called the Small Catechism which he wrote for the aid of pastors to lead and teach in their congregations and for families he wrote a document called the Large Catechism these two documents became very popular even outside of Lutheranism and in other confessional movements as well a little bit later 1537 Luther was asked to write a document in preparation for a church council that was to be called and this document would be presented if it was called and this this aren't this document came to be known as the Small Catechism articles named after this tiny little town in Germany of where this council was to take place and it was presented there and it took on pretty pretty firmly the subject of the Roman Pope and um Luther was not always so good about learning his lesson about taking on the Roman Pope but he's kept doing it after Luther died in 1546 a document was created in response to all the bickering that was happening in the wake of Luther's death about what was really what were the primary teachings of the Lutheran church and that came to be known as the formula of conquered which was written by a couple of Germans who were trying to bring a sense of unity to this fledgling movement at the time by the way Lutheran was was a term that was coined as a negative sort of slight it was never meant to be taken positively like other like other groups throughout history Lutherans claimed this term uh sort of reappropriated it and it became part of who they were in addition to the formula of concord there were more than 50 volumes that were compiled that came to be known as Luther's works and in those in Luther's works of which I saw a set a complete set being sold somewhere I was looking online today there's something like 69 volumes that contain all of his disputations all of his sermons all of his commentaries and it was going for about 1700 dollars so if you want to loan me some money I would love to read these um so all of these all of these books all of these works were put together in the book of conquered with the exception of Luther's works an item here there became part of the book of conquered but all of these other pieces the Augsburg Confession the small called articles all the writings in response to the power and primacy of the pope were in there Martin Luther's small catechism his large catechism they all show up in this compilation of books that came to be known as the book of conquered um I have to confess that I don't I don't interact with these additional books on a day-to-day basis they're behind me on my bookshelf here somewhere probably behind two or three levels of books these were similar these were seminary level things that I spent a lot of time learning as much as I could but like Spanish from high school I've forgotten a lot of it because I just don't interact a lot with it I find that I spent a lot more of my time engaging with the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament books and even after 21 years of being a pastor still find myself surprised when I see something or notice something for the first time that in a text that I've read a hundred times over it feels like that just stops me in my tracks and reminds me why I continue to to engage with these ancient these ancient literatures and it it gets it's still it still excites me when I do that just when I think I have I have preached on a text from every possible angle there is even to the point of the prodigal son if you know the story of the prodigal son returning home you know there's there's the perspective of the father there's the perspective of the son who leaves there's the perspective of the son who stays I've preached on those many times so I think there was one sermon I even preached on the perspective from the fatted calf who was killed to throw a party so I running out of ideas people is what I'm saying no sometimes in our in our attempts to be novel what people really want to hear just the basics this is why I believe that when people show up to church if they are not typical you know regular church goers they come on Christmas and Easter and they're not looking for me to be novel they just want to hear the story of the incarnation and the story of the resurrection thank you very much so that's what I've got today to share with you there are plenty of books along the way in my own life that have shaped my understanding of faith and religion and spirituality and I think that the the combination of all those things have contributed to the way I see the world and the way I see others and it would take a lifetime to try to elaborate on each of those books that have really impacted me over the years so um yeah so questions thoughts ideas snide remarks let's hear them okay so open to questions and it looks like Ruth Gaston has a question yeah I um I'm not sure it's a question but you you talked about how um you read something in one of the ancient books and you notice it or see it for the first time and it excites you could you give us an example of something that you like that yeah I mean so I'm always amazed at the way I would say a couple years ago it's it struck me that at least at least at the end of the Gospel of Mark there are a couple of endings there's a shorter there's a shorter ending and then there's an amended ending which was probably a later edition at some point in time because our tendency when we when we're interpreting text or we're even even scribes who are scribing these texts there's a tendency to try to make text easier than they actually are but the shorter ending of mark ends with in terms of in terms of the women's response to the resurrection that they are absolutely terrified uh this is this is this follows after and some of the other gospel versions where women run to the tomb and they come back and it's their male counterparts that literally use the Greek word for shit to say you're full of shit when they come back to announce that the Lord has been resurrected or raised from the dead and so sometimes it takes getting into the original languages as much as I can remember some of that from seminary that just stops me on my track that reminds me how incendiary this information is because there's a tendency in the 21st century to assume that folks in the first century didn't have some of the same struggles and same you know sense of incredible you know this this idea that this was an incredulous story which it still is and it was then and you know when I read these texts I'm reminded that you know every you know people knew that they could count on people staying dead that's true in the first century and true in the 21st century so those stories kind of hit me and upside the head and remind me of you know what's at risk of things that you thought you had nailed down and you were certain about turning out not to be as nailed down and as certain as you thought they were which is which is always a cautionary tale for me that just when I think I've boxed something in so that I can control it to some extent that much like the spirit of God the Ruach that Dr. Tarson was speaking about does not allow itself to be domesticated and it does not allow itself to be controlled and that like the wind blows where it wishes and doesn't ask our permission and to blow in that direction so when I when I feel like the church is stuck and it's entrenched it's always helpful for me to revisit these texts that kind of blow my world open again and oftentimes lead me with more questions than answers but they also give me hope that the story is still being written and it's still unfolding my my challenge this is kind of to underscore your question Ruth with scripture and our approach to ancient text is trying to figure out how much of what was written regardless whatever your faith tradition is that is that was culturally conditioned and and how to take that and and see if there's some way to extract some sort of core principle from that that is divorced from the social context in which it was written in for christ for christians over the centuries this has been women dress a certain way women act a certain way women don't dance women dress us so how much of that is a cultural conditioning and a cultural contextualizing and should be left in the first century versus how many how many of those cultural conditions should travel with whatever the core principle of that text might be and who gets to determine what the core principle of that text is to begin with who's around the table who's been invited who's been disinvited or not included how does that shape where we've arrived today I I I feel like at this point in time in my life one of the worst things that has happened at least to christianity is that cannons were closed there was this sense that god continues to speak to us but that it was locked in place in a particular time and that we put the back cover on the book and that was it so in one hand we say god still moves and god still speaks and on the other hand we say but it was it was locked in place the moment we closed these cannons to say these are the most authoritative books and nothing authoritative can say be said beyond this and even if that's what's happening we've taken these books and we've locked them in in place and and and because of that they take on an air of untouchability and the moment you begin to question or you ask questions about these things and these stories and which one should travel and which one shouldn't that opens up pandora's box for a lot of folks that are that have seen you know these these these stories be the sort of building blocks of their faith and so the moment you begin chipping away at these foundations then all of a sudden it fills us though you're chipping away at someone's faith because if you take away enough of these foundational bricks and building blocks there's a real fear that my entire faith construct architecture is going to collapse and what will I be left with so I that's that's a place that interests me those types of questions interest me as someone who realizes I know I know much less than I you know care to admit sometimes but I'm also comforted by the fact that there's so much I don't know and that especially in those moments when I I don't know something I always air towards the side of grace and I firmly believe that every time I draw a line in the sand that somehow God whoever however God is imagined and figured across art religious traditions is always on the other side of that line so that's just essentially been my approach and I'm actually the older I get the more content I am with realizing I'm wrong about more things than I ever realized that actually is comforting to me at this point in time you know the Jewish religion has the ultra orthodox who believe that everything that's in the old testament should be followed exactly and then there's other groups like I'm a reformed Jew and there's conservative Jews and there's reconstructions do and none of them have that belief and in Israel the ultra orthodox is so strong that it's hard for the newer religions to be recognized or respected yeah yeah for an interesting dilemma yeah I agree looks like we could take one more question if someone else has a question or pass to John I guess if no one else has a question I do so I'll go ahead and ask oh well Ramona you asked me you asked a question real quickly with all of these different faith traditions and you know there was just explaining about the different parts of the Jewish faith tradition and you have the muslims and the Lutheran and the Roman Catholic I don't know yeah I think that it's an interesting question Ramona I had a chance of living in India for a little while and having some really honest conversations with my Hindu siblings and all the things that we thought we would be offended by we weren't actually offended by it to be able to ask some really honest questions even you know Christianity's thumping kind of thing has been this passage from the gospel of John that you know I am the way the truth in the life no one comes to me except through the father and there are other passages like that that have this very exclusive kind of feel to them I think I think they're they're much better interpretations than often are given with that but at face value these texts seem to just communicate something very clear that there's you know there's there's one way and it's the only way and it's my way and I think that I think that we're just wrong I think that I can find just as many passages in scripture that negate that concept and I think that's why as I said earlier scripture this is particularly true of the New Testament has to be allowed to interpret itself there's a canon within the canon and so I don't know that that always leaves us with easy answers I don't know what the the right question might be but I think sometimes it feels like the question who was right maybe just isn't the right question I can't say that I know what the question is I just feel like by the moment we frame it that way then we we have we have committed ourselves down a path that we can't recover from and it might in fact be the right question Ramona I don't know I just know that it always that question always presents itself in a kind of binary perspective that there is a right way and there's a wrong way in my experience the third way whatever the third way is is what is most interesting to me and that just may be where I'm out of my life as a 40 year old you know white cisgender affluent Livrimorian I don't know but it's that third way that just draws me in that I think is the one that's full of such potential and is so expansive but I think we so rarely get there because we're not asking the questions that get us there but there's there's got to be a third way and I think there's a lot more than three ways but there's a third way at least I think okay thank you so much thank you to both our speakers Asad and John


In the last video we developed a regression model that captured the seasonality, these peaks and valleys of the data, but it didn't capture the trend. Do you recall on this plot of the actual sales data in blue and the forecast in orange? Down here at the beginning of the time series the actual is below the forecast and at the end of the time series the actual is above the forecast. So we want to capture that trend. This is the worksheet that we had before we ran the regression in which we have our dummy variables, the 11 dummy variables that captured the seasonality. Now we want to get the trend and the trend is tied to the months, the periods, and the easiest way to get this is just to copy this column over here on this side. And the reason we need it there is that if you recall the data analysis regression tool needs all of the x variables and adjacent columns and the y variable here would be separating it. So now we have our data transformed. Let's go ahead and go to data, data analysis, bring up the dialog box. We want regression and we want again our y variables, get those all selected, and our x variables, move this that away. This time we need all of the dummy variables and the month column, the period column to get the trend. We have that. We want our output. I'm going to put it over here just one more cell over and again we don't need the residuals or anything. We're just going to click okay and move over here. I've expanded the regression output and gone ahead and converted those scientific formats into decimals for our p-value. So again the ANOVA is significant and if we go down our various coefficients we see that again we've got August out there that is not statistically significant. But the overall model, we look at the adjusted R square is 0.962. So that's increased quite a bit. If you recall the adjusted R square for the previous model was 0.903. So this is a pretty good model. One thing you might consider doing to see if you could get better would be to rerun the regression, getting rid of the month of August and see if our adjusted R square improves or not. Before we do that let's calculate our forecasted values to see how the plot looks. If you recall we'll just put our cursor in that cell hit an equal and we'll start with the intercept. Use the function f4 key to lock it down plus the November coefficient function f4 to lock that down times November plus December coefficient f4 to lock it down times December plus the last step of the model is to add in the month coefficient lock that down times the month and then I can hit enter and I know that shows March is 71 that's just because the formatting was carried over. I'm going to click on accounting to get it into something that looks more realistic and of course then we can drag this down to get our forecast and now we'll plot that. I've created my scatter plot. Recall this is the plot that captured the seasonality and you can see the gaps there. I'm just going to click over here on the new plot and you can see that the forecast is much much much closer to the actual and I'll just click that back and you can see that we've captured both the seasonality and the trend using this method.


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Good evening everyone. What's going on? Alright, alright, we got Saturday night group breaks and I'm on a random team style breaks one PYT. I think Should be a good time Yeah, right the one impeccable PYT he was trying to see if we were sleeping I think That must have been it, right? I'll be doing tonight everyone. I think so Impeccable is a pretty good pick your team style product though. I will say that It is a solid one nice and to to go at the end of the night now as well appreciate that and Appreciate all the spots that have already come in for Saturday night group breaks Quite a few as you can see. So thank you very much on that. What's going on Rob? How you doing, man? How's your day been man? Get to catch you a bit earlier today How you doing tonight man? Boring day for you. Sorry, man. Time to spice it up. Get ready. Oh, yeah It's ready. We got a crazy stream on gaming last night.  Yeah Open 24 the same Japanese magic collector box and we were pulling heat We opened a $3,500 flesh and blood box Oh, wow, that's the first ever flesh and blood box created. So Really the biggest you can open there. Sup Gregory. How you doing, man? Yeah, we'll see some bangers tonight Rob There were so many $200 cards Rob for gaming. That's nuts though. Yeah, that's Braves Phillies Literally not so fun gonna be such a fun night tonight you guys can see that entire schedule right on your screen right now Gonna be sick. You got a great variety baseball is all sold out already tonight. Thank you so much for that Every baseball break we do have is sold out. Oh, there you go, Gregory. Nice. Yeah, Gregory There you go, man. How about that? All right, let me grab some select here now that we're live Well, thanks for checking in doing good doing good excited for the night. We got such a nice schedule here Big night of random team style breaks for y'all You've even got some F1 going down tonight Even got some F1 Gonna be so fun, man So number 21 just sold out one to go later as well awesome Appreciate that everyone I'm gonna type out number 21 right away here while we're waiting and I'm gonna do the first random for you in just a minute Thanks Thanks again everyone for filling up these breaks that we do have for you this evening really do appreciate it Some spots to go still but some great progress already. We'll say that Let's ask Bradley us Oh my goodness Wow Wow, that's earned that is earned And let might not be heavier. It might just be a combined. Yeah, it could be It could be Yeah, that's not great for your squad Your team was so hot what's going on what's going on response Jeffrey each Gonna be such a fun night guys and see that scheduled like I said right there Let's keep filling up that f1 break tonight only one f1 break. It is sapphire Kevin G can be and I'm just typing on number 21 for later tonight We're about to get right to it with the random for you select baseball six boxer number five So best of luck everyone on that break My first run at select baseball here Oh nice I watched a ridiculous amount on release day, I'll tell you that It was on the whole morning It's probably quick oh, it's very quick. It's just there's only seven cards Yeah, you end up top loading like four to five right make sense. Yeah, exactly if you get a good pack Yeah, that looks us brandy. That's down. Gee. What's up Chris Jay? We're about to do the random for the first break guys Just one second. I'm double checking a List for the later quick David I'm David B Edgar for two At your stuff Eric C Gary P Eric C is to Gary P Harper B for three spots Jeffrey H Kevin G Kim B Matt C Miles H Randy G and Randy H Ryan M for three Ryan H Steven C. Tom M One sec Trey H and William W All right, all right guys, let's get to our random here. I want to see quick Yo, that's sick This was a shop walk in just now Yeah, I was gonna say he wasn't been on the Mets He wasn't on the Mets for very long that's sick. That's pretty sick. How about that? That's a pretty cool shop walking All right, let's get to the random. Good luck here How's it going everyone Kaleb here with latent sports cards the random for you select baseball six box number five Good luck here. Thanks again all for joining 28 spot break. There's the spots. This is a 28 spot break So there are a couple of combo teams Here we go roll of the dice. It's gonna be four on each random. Let's do it One two three and four got Ben L down to you to see four on the teams We'll read that off and get going Here we go one two three four It's gonna be the nationals down to the rays congrats there to the bottom spots Rays That's you to You go man. Great start to your evening. Let me fix this so it does not look so funky on this sheets Sorry, that is because I also do gaming breaks that looks better Ben L nationals Kevin V Padres bill our red socks I've got Daniel E with the Braves Edmond T. Guardians twins bill our Brewers Hank B Mariners Keith J Cubs Timothy B Reds Daniel H. Phillies William S. Angels Edwin s Astros Curtis M. Yankees bill our Cardinals William s Royals Vaughn B Rangers Kevin a Orioles Jason s Marlins William s Dodgers Daniel E Diamondbacks bill our blue J's Sven K A's and Rockies combo Daniel E pirates bill our Mets Steffen K Tigers bill our Giants and White Sox and you to see with the rays. Good luck Let me get those results in the chat for you. Just give me one seconds And like I said really appreciate you guys getting in on these group breaks tonight Let's keep these spots moving for you. I'll link the break schedule for you in just a second Let me link the results though first Need to save that first and then I can do that There you go guys here comes the results Here's a break schedule link as well feel free to check out everything we've got going down for you It is also on your screen right now Good luck results link good did something kind of fun Is it all good on the results Here we go I had it under news results for a second on an accident How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in sports cards. We're starting out the evening with select baseball six box break five Excuse me five Number five six box break here are the results for you a random team style There you go. So why didn't say five box? I was like that's not right. There you go If it is marked as ship it only it will only ship sealed there are certain products on the website that unfortunately at this time We can only ship sealed. So sorry about that John What is the products maybe I can explain why Good luck all select baseball here 12 packs per box I think it's two autos I think so yep, I think there's two jerseys two hits Cinder guard that's gonna be a diamond level there starting Marte silver Auto that is gonna be the light blue number to 35. There you go Rangers. Nice start to 35 Leaf power If we have those in stock, I wouldn't see why it couldn't be moved to rip if you want a text rich and ask on that feel free We got a Ryan fill a that's gonna be rookie patch autograph. There's silver number to 199 Nice start there Rockies. There you go. That's in the combo. Yeah, you're Molina inserts Yeah ball or baseball We'll get on that for you John Rony contraris. That's the 199 pirates Think I'm not sure Tyler Stevenson on the tri-color those are not numbered concourse level your don Insert their football Sure, I'll touch red It's gonna be Josiah Gray their nationals patch in Fuego silver Katal Marte d-backs Cedric Mullen silver Baltimore Orioles Great number five here. They start the night. Thanks again all for joining. Give me number to 299 patch autograph of your men Mercedes Nice white sobs. There you go. Nice card Sparks mookie bets and Williams Edward Cabrera silver Marlins Yeah, definitely John definitely I would imagine we'll be able to get it moved over One get pads there to 99 patch. That's a tri-color patch for st. Louis Cardinals Yelly there that is the phenomenon insert. Yep, phenomena Couple packs to go here Yeah, likely John. We will be able to get moved over Pretty likely I'd say Casey Mice tricolor not numbered in Fuego Shane Bieber Give you an update as it becomes available And that it's gonna be a light blue ronzi contrast again to 149 pirates working on the rainbow Go pirates Baseball let's continue Two autos to men Good luck. So they give it a little bit of a boost. You get one extra auto Cronin worth that is a silver center guard comparatively to football that is comparatively to football Okay No problem. I'll move on over after the break John Dan to be swanson there. It's gonna be the 199. What'd you say? I appreciate that. Yep Percept power football can do that Gary Carter there red white and blue Excuse me tricolor and a babe moonshots For baseball it depends if you want license or not licensed product I guess that would be either a panini or tops products It's gonna be numbered to 250 patched Logan Webb Giants silver phenomenon shared to rain Yeah, I'll be working on that for you John right after the break Silver diamond level there is Trevor Rogers Miami So keep in mind panini cards are not gonna be numbered Oh nice card here cracked ice wander numbered to 25 four of 25 boom you to see Congrats on that big card for you For up 25 cracked ice rookie wander Franco Congrats, you know That is sick great start to the night. Of course that is getting mad. I Mean, this is a solid product here. It just released We do have more breaks of this available on the site not tonight unfortunately It's gonna be a hello Lopez there numbered to 199 patch audit graph you go reds great Starts of the evening Rizzo Yankees Great start Let's go Spencer Strider there. That's a patch not numbered Atlanta Braves George Brett John means tricolor and Josh Donaldson in Fuego Yeah, it really does depend on your price range though Chad. Yeah, these come at 35 a spot I believe random teams style For a six boxer. It's gonna be a gold Ryan Mountcastle six of ten Congrats Orioles nice six of ten solid Get a silver Eddie Matthews there and last pack here Eli Morgan patch autograph number to 199 Sparks a Cunha jr. Next box up Yeah, that's what I mean John if it depends if you're okay with the not license or the license products But I know absolute and selective and super hot for baseball recently In terms of not license products Tops it's a little bit more higher end at the moment Drew Ellis there to 250 on the patch So if you're interested in more higher-end tops does have some decent break options. Jess Chisholm in Fuego Sometimes there'll be gypsy Queen brakes as well on the sites. So if you can catch those those are solid Brandon Nemo silver Sometimes those are gonna be pick your team style. Sometimes those are gonna be random team style. That's a pretty nice products nice looking cards Larry Doby diamond level that's a Premier level there to 99 and Chris McCormick Houston So I guess people really just care about the licensing because you have the official jerseys and logos on the cards so you can see here. There's no actual Rockies logos or team name or anything like that It'll only say Colorado And people would rather collect a lot of the time something that is licensed. However, there are cases like select and prism Nice patch there wander Franco you go raise nice break for you in Fuego, Manny Machado. That was not numbered And usually the the stuff that is licensed will have a little bit higher resale value on the secondary market Although that's not always the case sometimes products like select. That was a wonder base for he nice Wayne Wright tried color and a babe by the numbers Yeah, great great question though, man It's really a it's a tough one because you have to kind of make that decision first of which which one you're okay with to 149 Brandon Marsh Leaf also puts out some solid baseball products that are gonna be autograph heavy if that is something you are into Silver JT real Muto once again, that's gonna be not licensed though tops is the only company that is able to make licensed baseball cards Just tops Christian Javier 1099 tricolor rookie pat or excuse me patch autograph. It's gonna be second-year Miggie Rub in this guy in my face today. I guess I Guess We got Luke Williams there. That's rookie patch autograph tricolor 1099 there you go Phillies nice piazza What's going on Dan good to see you man up Dan red Jared Walsh to 199 Concourse How's your night been Dan? Really mangled that pack Sargas We got a tricolor McCutcheon and O'Neill cruise and Fuego. He is indeed he is indeed Next one up guys select baseball Yeah, he is in Fuego Appreciate all the spots that are coming in remember. We got to keep filling up the F1 Sapphire break tonight guys gonna be a great break. It is going down later tonight I did just link it in the chat for you Check that out right there That's F1 sapphire Continue on here Good luck Blue Zach wheeler to 149 You got Glenn Otto their patch not numbered Texas Rangers in Fuego silver metal son exactly man exactly Feel free chat. You are more than welcome great point John Don't ask Caleb who he thinks True That is a biased answer Glenn Otto to 99 that is certainly gonna be about True Lucas kills sparks autograph ton 1.99 or Louise Jill sorry Jill right heel heel sorry Yeah, I know I heard you pronounce it. I was like I did not say that right But I know you're a Yankees guy Some repress not a bad auto there and that's Bryce Harper to 199 Yeah, he's a young guy still has not debuted yet wrote so hard It's gonna be Connor Siebold try color not numbered Mookie Betts in Fuego Faction very true facts facts facts And I mean watching breaks can really be a great way to up your knowledge Jose series silver ashrams Really really can Another thing I like to recommend to people as well as to watch a couple boxes of the product before purchasing one It's a 49 patch autograph there to my Jones. Nice one to 49 Vital Bruhan Caleb super collection Oh Sam's always making fun of me silver Gary Sanchez I hear that Chad I hear that man That's awesome though that you've been watching for a good amount of time Starting to up the knowledge a little bit one Yippe's patch there cardinals to Grom and Fuego It's fantastic That is a little bit of pain Dalton far show there Let's try color and a Nolan Ryan by the numbers There will be a little recap at the end of this break as well everyone That's yeah, that's really nice of you to say that man, thank you Really do appreciate that glad you've been able to you know, just continue picking up bits and pieces of knowledge as you watch It's fantastic Missing card in that pack four card pack there. No colors Might have a double color pack or something like that We shall see Silver read Detmer's and no hitter himself Read Detmer's it's gonna be Mario Feliciano there for the Brewers patch autograph to 299 Another young guy Sparks Tim Anderson Thanks John appreciate it John. Thanks, man Chris sale silver there Shawn Manea. That's a diamond level We're always trying to keep it fresh with our breaks as well, you know Always offer something a little bit different on the schedule tonight. We even got F1 on the schedule That's gonna be a white there Justin Berlander to 50 beautiful whites Always looks so clean and select The white this card there Jay Kroner work San Diego silver You're giving me no time Jerry to ran there that is a patch red socks big red napkin San cofax Dodgers Silver excuse me try colored large new bar cardinals We've got a carbon burns by the number. So here's the extra card and Miguel Rojas to 149 Extra card there. I knew it Yeah, John. It really does start with the core for sure That is gonna be a Connor Wong patch autograph. It's numbered to 299 Red Sox and Fuego could tell Marta I mean the amount of things that I have learned from Brad is It's alarming To 199 Zach Wheeler I'm so happy that he's really been enjoying the gaming as well. Yeah, it's just great Matt Chapman try color moon shots want so though Just fantastic Few to go here everyone And yeah, the work that you see off the camera is incredible cracked ice patch to 25 Glenn Otto Franton Lreya silver moon shots I've been seeing every time that they have one of those cracked ice or lower Patches beautiful patch every time it gets to 25 or less. It's been a nice patch Otherwise, it's a napkin looks like so these are consistency, but Like to see a little bit more Just napkins, you know, that's always that case though DJ. The Mayhew diamonds silver there Yankees diamond level that is The color wheel. I don't know if he found a color wheel. I'm not sure I was breaking last night on the gaming side. That's a white to 50 Dalston var show nice one So I'm not too sure Chad. It's possible. He did Yeah, that's this set here. It is the SSP insert really tough hits That is redembers to 199 patch autograph not bad there you go angels and Fuego Joey Vado Really really tough hits I would imagine I don't know if we've hit any that's gonna be the 199 kid tell Marta Really appreciate y'all joining this first break once again Close it out. This is number five We've got a Willie Stargill there try color pirates moon shots Paul Goldschmidt Yeah, I like those Any twin cards nothing super super notable that I can remember That's gonna be Ross a like glaceous. That's a patch to 250 Angels Corbin burns by the numbers. There will be a recap shortly though stay tuned Nothing super notable. We had a really nice wander in this break Whitmerefield silver Royals Are you doing tonight free rider? It's gonna be a Taylor walls. It's patch autograph to 299 you go raise another one for you to in the break Sparks Sandberg Nathan you've all the Nate low silver We got a vital Bruhan not numbered patch raise And Fuego mookie bets a couple of packs.  This is gonna be missing a card or two, maybe I can tell Yep, so nothing in that one appreciate it guys. Thanks again so much. Let's do the recap. What's up, Mike D? Hey Mike What's happening man I'm not very happy about this Mike notable patches vital Bruhan Rasella Glacius Glenn Otto. That's to 25 Jira Duran one your pets Glenn Otto wander Franco nice true Alice silver Spencer Strider Logan Webb We got one your pets and ages. I agree autos Taylor Walls patch auto redemurs Connor Wong Mario Feliciano, Jimi Jones to 49 Lucas Hill Luke Williams patch auto Christian Javier Eli Morgan Alejo Lopez Jermaine Ryan Valade and the cracked ice wander Franco to 25 Thanks again everyone for joining really do appreciate it. We'll be at a number six shortly picture time What a start to the night Who do you think is going to be better five years from today wander Franco or O'Neill Cruz? They'll both be good. I think that's probably the correct answer I think the hype right now is maybe making some people question it a little bit more for sure For sure For sure All right guys can't get the last one uploading we'll get right to the next random here shortly here we go Always appreciate you guys joining the breaks. I will update the spots in just a second here as well leaf memories Okay One pro set to leave memories. Okay. Yep Pro set football First and leaf memory college football to okay, just stock some Should I be taking this out of ship and seal do you think? We did a personals almanac recently John, but we have not had another one since We did do a personals almanac recently. Yep. Yep. Yep We'll get right into the next random guys. Thank you again for joining and I will update the spots in just a second as well Just give me one second here guys Sorry was getting one thing in stock for a personal later tonight. There is space on personals I would order it soon and we'll get it ripping for you tonight. All Personal orders guys those will be a sand later tonight Let me see we're at on spots quick and we'll get right to the next random. Good luck on number six select baseball I'm sold out there Guys we gotta get nice F1 sapphire is moving seven left now. Thank you so much really appreciate that Really appreciate that and good luck. That's such a sick product and I really want to break it tonight Thank you so much. Let's keep moving optic contenders football as well F1 sapphire is also linked in chat seven to go guys Fantastic, thank you so much Thank you so much. I'm so excited for that break like seriously have not ripped any yet, but I am a Fan of the F1 product line. Here we go on the random. Good luck here guys How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in game late in sports cards? Sorry, we're doing the random for you select baseball


This week, increased tax fares proposed by the National Transport Authority were brought into effect. The changes which were proposed back in September will see taxi fares rise by 3.2% and are the first increase since the last pay rise in 2015. The increase will see commuters pay a slightly larger fee than usual with a 10 euro journey now costing around 10 euro or 50 and a 30 euro journey now costing 31 euro. Although the rise may not be substantial, there are some everyday taxi customers who feel the rise may not be necessary. Head of Public Affairs for the National Transport Authority, Donald O'Gara, said that the measures were put in place to alleviate dwindling taxi driver and traffic margins. But how will the changes really affect business? While taxi drivers will lose money initially, the aim is to increase their profits in the long run. However, some drivers fear the increase will discourage customers from using their service. Michalos Kanal, DCUTV News.


Okay, so what is the quantum numbers for the 8th electron in oxygen? Okay, can you guys do that? So the 8th electron. Okay, so help me out. What's n? Two. Very good. Was that a guess? No. No, you knew that. Okay, good. Okay, so two. Somebody else help me out. What's L? D. How would you figure that out? It's two. So it's one, right? Why is it one? It goes zero, one. Zero, one, two, three. So if it's a p orbital, it's one. And this one's in, so what is this? It's the 2p, the fourth electron and 2p, right? If you want to, you can write the electron configuration. That might fire the orbital diagram. That might also help you to sp, right? Let's fill this one up together. How do we do this? So oxygen needs four electrons, right? So where are we going to put the first one? Right here. There. And the second one? Next one. Next one, right? And this one? Yes. And then, so what's M sub L? Negative one. Negative one. How did I figure that out? It's the first one. It's negative one, zero, one. This one's negative one, zero and one. Do you guys remember what these orbitals are called? So there was a quiz question kind of like that. Showed an orbital and said, what is this orbital called? So their p x, y and z would be the way to call it. You guys know that. So there's the 2px, the 2py, the 2pc. They're not necessarily in this order, but they fill in that order. But there's one on the x-axis, one on the y-axis, one on the z-axis. So we call it. Oh, are you talking about like this? Yes. Definitely. Okay, so what did we say this one was? Negative one. Why? Because we're concentrating on that electron. Okay, what's the spin? Negative one. Well, okay, normally, yes, you would say negative one-half. And in fact, if you rub that, it would be, I would say correct, you know? In fact, if you put positive one-half, it would also be correct, okay? Because you don't really know which way the first electron went in, okay? So if the electron went in upside down, then that would be negative and the second one would be positive, okay? But it is convention to say that the second one is the negative one, okay? So you guys are pretty cool with that? So that's the eighth electron. The seventh electron, would that have different or the same quantum numbers? Different. Different, right? Different. Almost the same. A lot the same, right? But a little bit different, yeah. Yeah, there's some things that are, yeah, but n and l will be the same, right? But n and l will be different, right? That would be, let's do, let's do the seventh one. So that was the eighth, let's do the seventh one. So n would be two, l would be one, what's n sub n? One. One, and n sub s? Positive. Positive one-half, if we're doing our little convention that we were second, right? And if I did another electron, hopefully you guys could do this, right? Do we have to do any more of these? For oxygen. We can do more on Friday. Any questions on this? No.


Think this is I think this is day number six of our seven-day challenge of uploading here every day Okay, oh T4 Q reacts and we may extend the seven for seven to something even larger. You're ready So today we have the craziest accidental shots in the NBA. This is from house of highlights I love their compilations because it's actually like throughout history no disrespect to any of the guys But a lot of their clips end up being from the last couple seasons The house of highlights GD all of the homies that work there They go deep you can see right off rip this Atlanta Hawks team. This is old Atlanta Hawks Look at the jerseys. Look at the look at the logo says he was going on. Let's get into it I've been Turner lives it up and gets a three.  Okay Marco Bellinelli Off the screen Roy Hibber. Yeah, I'm a worry Hibber play for the Charlotte Hornets. Oh my god They paid that man, oh, no, no, they didn't pay him I think they traded for him after the Lakers pay for something he ended up there somehow and It was he just wasn't very good at that point CP alright He's not there a three no good yet. I can't be it because that's not accidental, but the Larry dance tip in 100% Accidental and Lou Williams like bro grass firmly grasp it. That's wild Is that way it's right here but on that on the court to right here is right there. Look at right here He's everywhere every clip That's crazy Nice Manu That's when you try to miss it. It's just like when you're good. You're good, bro When you're good, you're good, and you know what he tried hard to miss that one, too He threw that ball hard, but if you don't know it has to hit the rim It can't just hit backboard. So he had to at least touch the rim And it went in I Can't even normally hit a free throw And this man trying to miss and he hit it look at the teammate teammates like bro What Come on dawg David Lee was on the team. I don't remember that sticking with my new good three Add it up and look believe Michael Beasley think that he missed it That's confusing bro, and that's all my new we talking last year if it's a career my new That ball went in a the rest don't always get it right You remember the James Harden dunk that was out, but there was in and where it was out But it was in but they counted it is out, you know talking about That's three points, baby That's an easy three points to Counting them up Michael Beasley, he ain't paying attention though. That's how you know man's ain't playing defense He just grabbed that ball and went He just grabbed that ball and went he's like that's it. I'm gonna give me a quick bucket Good shot more sheen who get credited for that shot. I don't even know who that was I can't even tell I Can't even tell Who is it our Corey? Joe? That's Corey Joseph Corey Joseph add to to his career stats Because it always goes to the closest person on the team Okay, Jamal Murray tips it up to okay, and who suffice gets that bucket Can't do number laugh at it man. You can't do nothing to laugh at now in some situations If it's late game, that's who you upset, but early game like this You can't do nothing to laugh it's two points now if they lost the game button hit it up losing by two points Hey, we kind of that is a poster dog. We kind of that one is a poster Jermaine, oh man Jermaine you got dunked on twice Come on dog Shooters touch for sure on the duck a shooter's touch bounce on the duck. Oh No, it's cold. Oh, look at this lineup of the Bulls Jesus Christ Marquis T Ray Allen to touch to Chris Anderson Bird man gets a bucket and we're down by 20 just like that. We're down by 20 Typical actually not a bad bulls thing. It's just happening Marquis T is in the court on the court at this moment and He's the reason why that point went in. Yep back at the garden, but this time we got LeBron nice live to Jason kid oh It's a Jason kid. Hey, these were not bad Nick's teams man Jason kid mellow Tyson Chandler. These were not bad Nick's teams No good and Matt Barnes Matt Barnes. Amen. Shout out to Matt Barnes, bro The podcast that he has is legendary especially right now. I'm doing quarantine, bro It's like the dropping episodes like every day It seems like and all of them are quality with different NBA players different people in the media They've been doing a great job man keeping me entertained Andre Blatch y'all remember that name I definitely do Brad Thanks for sheet We'll take those so who gets the who's the closest player on the court there? Still Brad Miller because he to get back on defense. Thank you sheet. We'll take those. Oh man We appreciate the easy buckets. I don't know how this game ended And it probably ended with a boss of Celtics win if we be honest with each other, but it is what it is Alfred Payton before he cut his hair Count the three where the fans Do you hear how how empty the arena is right now? Listen, please listen compare it from this clip I hear fans. I hear people I hear the people on the court clap Is this what the NBA is gonna be like when quarantine is over? No fans. Just hearing hearing the people on the court Where the fans it's got that had to be a preseason game or something That's my only explanation. I had to be a preseason game. There's no reason for it to be seven total fans in the arena Who tipped that one? And who point is that? Darko shout out to Darko man. Oh, no, he he threw it to the other rim So no, it's just just another another bad player for Darko Militia's his career Hey, Steph Curry so automatic But even when he's not trying to hit the side he hit the shots Instead they go into OT and said they go into OT and with the rule only thing he had to do with touch the ball Because it's no offensive interference on the inbound pass, right? But um, he didn't he didn't touch the ball. I don't think he touched the ball. So it's just a Steph Curry shot Yeah, he never touched he just touched a rim now if he were to touch that ball with a pinky game is over That's a win game is over. That's a win if he did And like some of the fans are ours What are you doing? Whoa Jay Crowder a limited range bro Unlimited amount of range from Jay crowd. Oh, no Jeez, that's the longest shot in NBA history that didn't count the longest shot in NBA history to not count Wow Look at Jerry Selleja, you didn't even jump The Martin Rosa To LMA No good, but you know how this is gonna go Everybody want the rebound everybody want they statistic to look better and and nobody gets that rebound But instead somebody on the spurs get a bucket And look at fizz they'll smile and that's why you got fired takes up the serious Take that for data Not the Steph Curry Derek Jones, Jr. Before he ended up in Miami Before he was actually a quality NBA player That's got to be shot lives his first career NBA 3 that's all I'm saying So let's sit on shoot threes and the one time it goes in The one time it goes in it's him just throwing it at the rim for Jovell McGee to go get at the end of the first quarter It is 40 to 18 Whoa, whoa, I'm whoa sons fans. That's tough and another clipper y'all down by almost 20 This is this season though. Oh, this is a kuzma. Yeah, the kuzma glitz He lagged a little bit and the shot go up the air Slim Kuz with the with the blondie Crazy Crazy I still have not been to the staples center, man. I need to get there eventually and one though and one Take that one in a bucket In a bucket I'm so happy he cut that out with the blonde hair. It just looks weird. Oh mirror's chic Remember he got a bag because I remember somebody paid this boy a bag I'm a boy, you know, he had a couple years here where he was the ninth man in a rotation and he played his role Young James Harden. This is like James Harden was second year second year in houston something like that Darren Collison bringing the ball up the court Matt Barnes again, he got a ponytail. I ain't no Matt Barnes is rocking a pony And three points from Matt Barnes We'll take those Matt Barnes has been in like three of these clips already whether he's being the one doing the tipping Or just on the court. He's just been around for he was around for a long time, man And there's josh hamilton number 41 for the brooklyn nets She Right, that's his name didn't he used to wear face masks or something somebody somebody gonna fact check that for me hamilton That is him. Oh, it's his name. Justin hamilton It's j hamilton. I remember is justin or or it's might be justin or jordan Or jackson something with a j and it O'Meara chic Sends it to over time for the other team, bro Tim do nothing but smile because he know he ain't the one that tempt that shot in He know what's going on. He got the little look away going on He didn't tip that shot in that was a mere chic But timmy d does get the points Is that bainzy? That is aerobanes. NBA champion aerobanes Let's see board z out throws it at the rim. O'Meara chic tips it in Wow That's tough That's tough Yeah, yes, I you ain't you don't say mr. Commentator.  That's a legend right there. That's a that's a legend right there Uh-oh Like a pala Good tip KD You see I write Anderson right this hand He's like I'm I will get credit for this point even though I didn't touch the ball at all. What's my Anderson? All right, man, if you enjoyed the video, it's ours. We're set to leave it a like I'll be back tomorrow to finish up my seven to seven and we're gonna try to go eight eight nine for nine And so on and so forth, but I'm out peace


Good morning Hickets Tuesday. In mid-2019 on our podcast Dear Hank and John, I said, and I'm quoting myself directly here, we all must prepare ourselves for the global disease pandemic we all know is coming. The year before, on the podcast 10 Things That Scare Me, I listed as one of my chief fears of global disease pandemic. In fact, I predicted the pandemic so many times, from podcasts to essays to crash course, that if I were more famous, conspiracy theorists would probably conclude I had some kind of inside knowledge, which I suppose I did in the sense that I read a lot of history. From the Great Dying in the Americas to the Black Death in Eurasia, infectious disease has long been a central force in human history, and not just ancient history. I was four years old when the United States recorded its first AIDS-related death. Since then, tens of millions of people have died of AIDS-related illnesses, mostly in impoverished communities where people were denied access to antiretroviral therapy for decades. We shouldn't be surprised by something as historically routine as pandemics. What we should be is prepared. I'm thinking about this because I just read Melinda and Bill Gates' annual letter. I recommend reading it, Lincoln, the doobly-doo, because it articulates some stuff about COVID that I hadn't seen written so clearly before. Like, one of the points it makes is that for too long we've used the phrase global health to refer mostly to impoverished countries, the kind of places we associate with vulnerability to infectious disease. But as we have lately learned, one, infectious disease is a threat to everyone. And two, the fact that infectious disease is a greater threat to the most vulnerable and marginalized among us does not mean that we should spend less time and money fighting those diseases. It means we should spend more time and money fighting those diseases. We need to think of global health differently now as a shared worldwide effort to improve the health of all humans through openly exchanging resources and expertise. And this will require truly global cooperation because, as the Gates letter says in a global crisis like this one, you don't want companies making decisions driven by a profit motive or governments making decisions with the narrow goal of protecting only their citizens. So what does a post-pandemic model of global health look like? Well, we need a global alert system so that we can identify new pathogens quickly. But for that to work well, people need to be able to access healthcare so that their illnesses can be diagnosed and treated in a safe, sanitary, and adequately staffed facility. We also need to invest in vaccine development, as the Gates letter points out. If this pandemic had occurred in 2010, it would have been much, much worse because we've made so much progress with vaccines in the last decade, but we need to accelerate that progress. And we need to address the underlying inequities that have long driven the spread of infectious disease. I mean, almost 700 years ago, a chronicler of the Black Death in England wrote, virtually none of the lords and great men died in this pestilence. Disease does not treat people equally because our social orders do not treat people equally. And if we don't address unequal access to healthcare, pandemics will continue to be routine and they will continue to disproportionately harm the most vulnerable among us. The Gates letter argues that pandemic preparedness needs to be taken as seriously as we take the threat of war. And that made me think about how we've long placed war at the center of our historical narratives. You know, we learned about this empire taking on that one and the causes of this war and how that war was won. We learned much less about disease even when it's deeply connected to war, as in the Spanish flu of 1918 or more recent cholera outbreaks in Yemen. I think this sidelining of illness used to make a kind of sense because history was seen as the story of human choices and disease did not feel like a choice. But now, while we certainly don't control infectious disease, we do have quite a lot of choice around it. I mean, we chose to eliminate smallpox. We also choose to accept a world where, on average, the poorest people die 30 years before the richest people. We won't choose whether the next novel disease pandemic emerges, but we will choose how ready we are and how quickly and equitably we respond, which is why stronger and more equitable healthcare systems is on my 2021 vision board. Hank, I will see you on Friday.


She lays it in for two of her game high 39. The Panthers though would take the 31-29 lead into half thanks to Taryn Frazier's 12 first half points. She had 21 for the game and the Panthers win 61-59. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number three for practice exam number one from math 1030 We're given a graph illustrated right here and we're asked which two vertices must all Euler paths start or stop at On said graph now as you look at the vertices here You'll notice this is a vertex of degree 3 degree 4 degree 2 degree 4 and degree 3 Oilers theorem tells us that every Euler path must start and stop at the two odd vertices We have exactly two odd vertices d and e therefore the order of the path must either start or stop at d and e Which actually happens to be the first option here choice a so a is the correct answer


Hello children, hope you all are doing fine. Today with the help of some paint, we will make a garden and we will also be using our fingers for this. Okay? So I hope you will like this activity. So let's get started. So to begin with we are going to start with dipping the fork in the paint and just press it on the paper like this. Leave some space and make another impression of the fork. One more over here. What are we making? We are making some flowers. Now let us do the peach color. Give a little bit space and do some more impression of the fork. Which flowers are we making? Yes, tulip flowers. Now with the pink flower. You can use any color of your choice. Now what is missing? Yes, let's make some stems with the finger like this. Dip your finger and make straight lines for the stem. See it's looking so beautiful. Now what is missing children? Yeah, some leaves. I'll make some grass at the bottom. You have to do it slowly children. See the garden is complete. We can make sun with the help of this yellow paint like this. Make a circle and slanting lines. We are making a sun. I also want to make some birds. So I am using black paint for that. You can make clouds as well for this. See it's looking so bright and beautiful. The tulip flower garden is ready. Hope you enjoyed making this garden. Bye, see you again.


This study develops a method called MS3DB for extracting multi-scale 3D building information from point cloud data, using surface flatness, variance in normal direction, and gray level co-occurrence matrix as labeling features. The method achieves high accuracy in extracting building labels at the object, grid, and block scales, with limited accuracy in extracting building edges but high accuracy in other parameters such as area, volume, and planar area index. The results show that integrating 2D and 3D features improves the accuracy of characterizing urban building structure at the block scale. This article was authored by Shesong Cao, Kihao Wang, Mingyi Du, and others.