Good morning and welcome to this week's What I Eat in a Day. I have missed filming my What I Eat in a Day videos. I didn't film one for a couple of weeks as if you follow my channel you know that we just made a huge move from the state of Washington to the state of Arizona. So I didn't film a What I Eat in a Day because instead I filmed a big moving vlog. I'll go ahead and link that down below for you if you haven't seen it. I shared what I was eating along our trip and then of course just our big three-day trip to Arizona in the first few days in our new home. So I'll definitely link that down below for you but I'm back and I'm super excited to be filming my What I Eat in a Days again. Speaking of what I eat in a day I wanted to sit down for just a couple of minutes because I've been getting a lot of questions about the supplements that I'm taking but most importantly what collagen I put in my coffee every morning and why. So you saw this morning that I added my Garden of Life Fit Biotic which is something I put in my coffee every single morning. It's fiber, it's probiotics, it's really good for gut health. I take that in addition to my ombre or my Thrive Gut Health Personalized Probiotic. I'll link that test down below for you right now it's $30 off. So if you want your gut health tested and a personal probiotic designed specifically for you which helps not only with weight loss but just feeling better and having better gut health overall that's a great test to take. So in addition to that probiotic pill I take my Fit Biotic in my coffee every morning. I buy that on Amazon it's the cheapest way cheaper than a health food store so I'll link that for you guys as well. But I also put collagen in my coffee every single morning. I've seen quite a few posts in my Facebook group asking about the vital proteins, collagen peptides that used to be sold at Costco that is sometimes at Costco and not sometimes at Costco and just so you know that also went up in price. About a year ago I transitioned from the vital proteins collagen to the collagen for her brand and the reason that I switched collagen brands is because this is made for women by women so this is a collagen supplement that's specifically made for women which is really really important. As women we have different needs than men so it's nice to have a collagen supplement that's specifically made for us. Not to mention this is a woman-owned business and it's more affordable than the vital protein since its price just went up at Costco. So this is the collagen peptide powder unflavored it dissolves beautifully. In any liquid hot or cold you can add this to a smoothie. I add it to my hot shots of espresso every single morning so that I can get in my boost of collagen. Collagen is great for hair, skin, nails, joint and skinny elasticity so as we lose weight putting in a collagen supplement can really help with the elasticity of our skin and like I've mentioned before my hair my skin my nails have never looked better since using collagen. But I also want to show you guys these because these were great while I traveled from Washington to Arizona. So this is the same brand the collagen for her collagen peptides but these are cute little individual packets.  So that's what I did on my trip as I had the barista either give me my cup or I gave the barista the little packet of the collagen and the fitbiotics whatever worked out for that particular coffee shop and they added it to my coffee every day so that I was still able to get in my collagen while I was on the road. So the collagen for her brand is what I've been using now for almost a year and I really really like it I love supporting a small business and I find that this dissolves even better than the vital proteins and it's less expensive. So I'll go ahead and link my collagen for her collagen down below for you. If you have any other collagen questions let me know. In fact I did a video all about collagen on my nutrition channel so I'll link my channel and that collagen video if you want to know the ins and outs and the 411 on why collagen is important but highly highly recommend collagen for her. This morning I'm going to make myself a cup of tea and I have to show you this super fun electric tea kettle from the brand Hazel Quinn that I picked up off of Amazon. I love shopping on Amazon. It's super convenient. Everything is affordably priced and delivered to your doorstep.  I love the mint green sage green color. The tea kettle has a dial on the front that shows you the pressure and the temperature of the water. I think it is so cute with the lid that fits perfectly. To use the tea kettle you plug it in, add your water, this little lever on the side. Push that down and when the light turns off your water is heated. So I have my cup of tea and my cute little morning mug from Ray Dunn. Smells amazing. I actually have the toffee apple tea from Teapigs. Was a limited edition flavor. I'm not sure if it's still available but they have really good tea. I actually bought a bunch a while back. I shared it in a what I eat in a day video. I'll put their website down below for you. But I'm going to sip on my mug of tea before I make some breakfast this morning. I will make sure that little cutie right there is linked down below for you guys. It's so adorable and super effective. It boiled the water very, very quickly and it would look really nice sitting out on the counter. And not only is it aesthetically pleasing but it works incredibly well. So cheers. So here's what I'm going to have for breakfast this morning slash morning snack. I did have my protein shake so it's mid-morning now. I'm going to have one of these Birchbenders protein toaster waffles. 11 grams of protein. And then I'm going to top it with some fresh avocado and one egg that I just cracked in my little microwave egg cooker. I bought this off of Amazon. I'll link it for you guys and I'm just going to throw it in the microwave. And then I love my little extra avocado keeper. This I got at TJ Maxx for like $3 and it actually keeps your avocados really well. So I have about 52 grams of avocado and the rest going into the refrigerator for storage. So here is my breakfast. I have the waffle with my avocado and an egg. And then I decided just to have some fresh raspberries. This looks so good. Picking up this little sign. There are three different pictures. It says wash dry fold. This is for my laundry room. This was at Big Lots for $15. I thought that was a really good deal. And then also at Big Lots I picked up this plant. I'm going to put this out on my patio table outside. I'll show you guys what that looks like. And then the only other thing I got at Big Lots was some beef jerky. At TJ Maxx I grabbed two toilet paper holders. One for each of our bathrooms. I got this cute little candle. It's orange. It smells amazing. It has cute little feet on the bottom. We are doing our spare bedroom in orange like orange tones to kind of go with Arizona. So I picked up that for the shelf. And then some smart bones for the dogs. Of course I can never knock at the dog something. And then I did grab this cute little faux plant originally for my patio. But I think I like this one better. I'm going to try them both. I may end up taking this one back or I may find another spot in my house for it. At Ross I found this really cool mirror. You can see that it has like the orange detail. This is for the spare bedroom on the wall. Again that whole orangey vibe. Shower rod holder. What's it called? Tension pole. Shower caddy for our master bath. Our master bath is a Florida ceiling tile. And there's only one little cutout which is not enough for all of my bath stuff.  And then these shoes are so cute. I got these at Beals for $11.99. I thought they were absolutely adorable. And then I found at Beals on Clearance one of this orange glass decorative item. I thought it would be really pretty in the spare bedroom. I have a shelf in there. And then one of my faux plants broke on the move. So I grabbed a new fresh pot for it so that I can just transfer the actual plant to a new pot. And then at Beals I also picked these two pillows. Look at how cute these are. I love these little balls. I showed you guys these in the video. I grabbed two of them for our bench in all the hallway.  We do have a little pullout garbage thing and it only holds a pretty small can or two. So I want to try to see if it fits. I'll probably grab one more. And then I picked up this really cute orange bedding for the spare bedroom. And it has actually some fringe. I thought it was really cute. And then this comforter which I really like this quilt. It's kind of a white off white color and it has some texture on it. I think it's really, really pretty. So that's actually going to go into the spare bedroom.  Three hours later. We're going to Lowe's. We decided to make a Lowe's run. We have some stuff to return and we need to pick up a few things. I bought a hose and a trimmer twice and Troy did not like either of them. So we are going to go so he could pick his own out. I did bring the little Sargento wheat thin cheese and cracker pack with me. And then I brought a cup of water and Troy brought some Doritos. Look at the back of our car. We have another Goodwill run to make.  Now like I mentioned we're on our way to Lowe's. Troy's in the gas station getting a pop. I just ate my little balance break and then Troy brought chips which I'm not going to have any. But I did have my balance break. It is almost noon. So that may end up being my lunch. I have some of that pulled chicken I bought in my grocery haul left over from Sprouts. Spoiler alert. That pulled chicken is amazing. So I may have that later today. I have a really good dinner recipe to share with you guys tonight. But we're going to run a quick errand. See how our dogs do. This is actually only the second time that we've left our dogs alone in our new house. They do have a dog door now. So it's easy for them to go in and out. So hopefully fingers crossed everything goes well. Well we make a quick trip into Tucson to Lowe's. Okay. So one of those. This is a child. Yeah kids. There you go. Now do a cookie dough blizzard. How big is the small? How's your blizzard? Good. Troy got a small cookie dough. I just got a vanilla comb. Look at all the lemons on my tree that need to get picked. I actually ordered a picker. It's gone because they don't sell them at any hardware store here.  You can see the nest right here. So there was a mom and a couple of babies in there. But they just grew their wings and flew off. We all came outside for a little bit. Troy is on poop duty. He picks up the poop every couple days. So it keeps our yard nice and clean. And it only takes 10 minutes when we keep up with it. Straight ahead of me is the lemon tree. They are coming back on Monday to trim that all up. They didn't want to disturb the nest. And I think the birds are gone. They left the nest. So I don't know. Do birds come back once they leave? I'm not really sure how that works. But we're also having gravel that matches the gravel that we have spread in our yard. I also wanted to show you guys my super cute cup that I got at Starbucks. It has the Starbucks logo. And it has this super fun blue and purple design. It's glass. I've been loving drinking my water out of it. Lola's sunbathing. And there's the crazy one. Oh, do you got your ball? Here, can I throw it to you? Palmer, let me show you a ball. I got it. You want it? Go get it. Good job, bud. Good job. Lola's going to sit with me on the couch out here for a little bit. And someone wants their ball thrown to them again. Come here, buddy. You got to give it to me. For dinner tonight, I am making Philly Cheesesteak casserole. I myself am very excited for this. I told Troy that he could use the leftover hamburger buns from our sloppy Joe's earlier in the week if he wants to actually make a sandwich. But I am just going to have the meat, the cheese, the veggies. I'm super excited. So let me show you what's in our recipe. First, you're going to need salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. You'll also need some steak. I'm using grass-fed flat-iron steak from ButcherBox. They have the best meat. I'm not kidding when I tell you they have the best red meat steak, seafood. Highly, highly recommend ButcherBox. I'll link it down below for you guys. Now that we're settled, I had paused my boxes. And I'm definitely going to reignite my boxes. So I'll be sharing lots of ButcherBox videos with you guys in the future. But I am using two of the flat-iron steaks, two bell peppers, an onion, some 1-third less fat cream cheese, and then cheese of your choice. The recipe actually calls for provolone cheese. But I think I'm going to do Colby Jack because we love Colby Jack cheese. So let's get started on dinner. So the first thing we're going to do is chop up our bell peppers, our onion, and then we will slice up our steak. I'm going to spray my pan with some nonstick cooking spray. And then we're going to add in our steak. And we're going to allow it to cook until your desired wellness. We like ours pretty well done. I let my steak cook until it was still pink because it's going to continue cooking once we add in our bell peppers and our onions. And all of this is actually going to go into the oven to continue cooking as well. So maybe under-cook your steak just a little bit so that it doesn't become tough and rubbery. I'm going to go ahead and add some salt and pepper. A tablespoon or so of Worcestershire sauce.  And then we're just going to stir this until the cream cheese is fully melted. Into a small baking dish. This is about a six by nine. Go ahead and add all of your mixture. I changed my mind. I think I'm going to do Monterey Jack cheese on top. We don't have provolone in this pack. And I feel like that's a pretty close dupe to the provolone cheese. The original recipe wants six slices. I don't know that I'm going to need six. So I'm going to do four. Yeah, I think we'll go ahead and stop at four slices. And then this is going into my 350 degree oven for about 10 to 15 minutes or until the cheese is nice and melty. I just pulled the Philly cheese steak casserole out of the oven. Oh my gosh, it smells so good in my house. And this just looks so good. You can see that there's a little bit of that creamy, kind of cream cheese sauce with it. I'm just going to eat the meat, the veggies and the cheese. I'll let Troy kind of decide what he wants to do. I will go ahead and put points, calories, serving size, everything here on the screen for you. Let me plate this up and I'll be back to share my dinner. Here's my dinner. I went ahead and served myself up a portion.  And it is the steak, the cheese, the veggies. I'm really excited. So I do want to go ahead and try it. I'm curious if you can taste the cream cheese if it does really taste like the insides of a Philly cheese steak. That is really good. Thank you for joining me on this week's What I Eat in a Day on WW. I'm so happy to be back. 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I want to talk to you about philosophical health. My name is Louis de Miranda and I'm a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Turku. And I work in this field called philosophical health, which cares about the unity in your life between action, the decisions you take, and your thoughts, your values, your deepest orientation, and if possible, what your higher purpose is. What I do is that I help people find their philosophical sense, their sense of purpose, and I have developed a method that I call SmilePH. As you notice, I don't smile very often in videos or pictures, but Smile actually stands for an acronym. It's the acronym of sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health. And the Smile method helps people, without being intimidated by the idea of philosophy, slowly unfold and develop and co-create their philosophical sense and their sense of purpose. The first step of the Smile method is to talk about the bodily sense. Because we are all embodied and anyone can feel and express something about the experience of having a body. So welcome, and today I'd like to talk with you about something that is very familiar to us, which is our body. And in particular, your bodily sense. How do you feel about your body today, but also how it has evolved compared to the past? What does it suggest to you? Maybe the first thing that comes to my mind when I'm thinking about my bodily sense is dancing. It's very important to me, and it has been for a long time. And it is nowadays also, like a counterbalance for the work, when because when you dance, you can be very aware of your body, like this hand where it goes and when and all those moves, but then you can also improvise and let the body take the lead. So there are like many, many aspects, and it's very different from all that thinking and reading and writing that I do for work. Right. It's very interesting how you contrast the experience of dancing and the experience of working. And you did mention that you have quite intellectual work. How do you relate to this separation? Does it feel like it's more a balance, a harmony, two moments of your life? Or do you sometimes think that it should be more integrated? That's a very interesting question, because first thing, it's like giving my thinking mind a break when I can dance, but it would be nice if they wouldn't be so two different things, maybe one day, maybe I can, it would be cool if I could like combine them in some way, but I don't think that now that's the case. We then move to the second step, and the second step, second element of philosophical health is the sense of self. How do we feel about our self? How does that sense of self have evolved over time? And perhaps do we feel that our self is integrated, that there is a unity in all aspects of our life? We're going to talk now about your sense of self, right? And I'd like to know how do you feel about yourself today, compared to the past? What is the first emotion feeling or even notion idea that comes to you when you imagine yourself? This is a bit tricky one. I feel that it's, maybe it's in change in some way, because I just graduated. I got my master's thesis like last spring, so I'm not a student anymore, but I'm trying to figure out what I want to be next. But then there are things that haven't changed, like the hobby, the dancing, and people that are close to me, and places that I love, they are the same, and they are part of me too. So you define yourself as a student, do you feel like these sort of labels that are institutional, do they have a strong influence on how you see yourself? Maybe in some way, yeah, but it's also about belonging to something like a community, one of students, and that kind of thing. So it's not just a label that's given from up to down, but it's something that we can all be part of, like, who have the same, are in the same situation. So it's a sharing of experience, so it's sort of an identity in relationship with other. Sometimes in philosophy we say intersubjective. The third element of philosophical health is the sense of belonging. We might feel that we don't belong. We might feel that we actually are very well surrounded. We can belong to family, friends, but we can also belong to ideas and notions and values or virtues that make us feel that we are part of a group of interests, for example. It's very interesting that you spoke about belonging because we're going to come now to your sense of belonging, and people might feel that they belong or not. What's your perception of belonging? I think that there are many, in many ways, that I can belong to something like I'm part of my family and friends. Also in my hobby there are people who are doing the same thing, and they love it. So it's very important to be part of those groups. So sense of belonging, it's very important to me, too. Have there been moments in your life where you felt that there was a lack in that sense of belonging? Maybe, yeah, in previous years, maybe in teenage years when things were changing and maybe some friends moved to another place or something, the class wasn't the same anymore as it was. But I feel that, like my family, they have always been there for me, so the people that have been most close to me, I've always felt that belonging with them.  Yeah, you're good to say that, yeah. The fourth element of philosophical health is the sense of the possible. This is how I define health. We all have a sense of the possible that can be either depleted when we wake up in the morning and we feel that doors are closed or that we do not feel supported, or we might have a sense of the possible that is very high and perhaps overwhelming with choices that we do not know how to integrate or perhaps prune, because philosophical health is also about pruning our life into a sense of meaningful integrity. This is an interesting transition with the next element of philosophical health, which is the sense of the possible. So we all wake up in the morning with a different kind of energy. Sometimes we might feel that doors are open and there's much that we can achieve, or sometimes we might have a depleted sense of the possible. So I'm curious to know how do you relate to that sense today and how it has evolved over time for you? Maybe today I have a quite strong sense of the possible, at least I feel so. Now that I've graduated, I can try to figure out what to do next and maybe I feel that there are different kinds of paths that I can take now and in the future and maybe I feel that new opportunities are also opening up or I just come to see them now. So maybe there is more sense of the possible than there have been in previous years, I feel so. So I hear in your answer a notion of choice, like you spoke about several paths. Some people might be actually a little bit scared or perplexed when they see too many choices. Do you associate the possible with these paths that seem to be multiple? Yeah, yeah. Some are maybe more suitable for me or easier to achieve than others. But I see that they are there and maybe sometime when I'm tired they can see them frightening, but in general I find that it is a good thing. Which leads us to the fifth element of philosophical health, which is a sense of purpose. We might say that most living beings have some kind of bodily sense, some sense of self, cats have a sense of self for example, some sense of belonging of course, which we share with not only animals but plants and the sense of the possible because if you prevent a plant from growing it will find its way around the obstacles, which is a kind of sense of the possible. But the sense of purpose we might say is something that is not only specifically human but actually developed in few of us because we do not take time to interrogate what could our higher purpose be and how a deep orientation could help us have a life that is more unified, a life that reflects a sense of integrity. In the next element of philosophical health, which is the sense of purpose, there is this idea that we might feel that we have a direction in life or not, and I'm curious to know about your sense of purpose today. Today, that's very interesting because purpose makes me think about something great like one have to achieve something with their work or make a difference or something like that and that would be crazy one day I could do that maybe that something that I do could change the ways that people think or some attitudes or practices in our society. But maybe today the sense of purpose in like this everyday context, maybe it's about that I can be myself and do my work and meet the people that I love. So it's interesting because your sense of purpose seems to go back to the previous senses that we talked about right, the self and the belonging. You speak about being myself. This is a complex idea right, but maybe not for you, so do you define yourself as with clarity and as a person that knows who she is? In some ways yes, and I also think that we have multiple roles like the one that I am when I'm in a workplace and with my colleagues and the one that I am when I'm with my family and really the people that are close to me but I think that I at least for now I know who I am but that can also change and maybe in some ways it's changing all the time. I'm intrigued by the fact that you say that there are several roles and at the same time that you know who you are perhaps I would expect that we are the same person ideally in different protocols different situations context of course there might be intimate things that we might not say in a specific context but as an idea of a person why would it be necessary according to you to play roles which is the word that you used? Maybe maybe it's not about playing roles it sounds a bit maybe it sounds too intentional that way but I think that I am what I think that I am but there are also other people who see me and there are some aspects of me that are maybe more familiar to some people and some aspects that are more familiar to others and it's not about that I'm playing a role intentionally but that some aspects of me they are easier to show to other people and some are easier to show to others and show like yeah maybe maybe one could say that. Do you feel like you would like to show more sometimes about yourself? Maybe not and sometimes I'm thinking that oh did I show too much that's also interesting. The last element of philosophical health is the philosophical sense and this is how we view the world our worldview what beginning of explanation we give for the fact that life exists that society is in such or such way and it takes many years perhaps to develop an explicit sense of the reason why we think things are as they are and going from the implicit thoughts that we might have that might be contradictory for example we might see ourselves as someone that is very social and caring and yet we might actually have as an implicit philosophy that the world is about competition and to kill or be killed so philosophical health is about the coherence between all these six elements and such that there are less contradictions in our lives between our thoughts and our actions this is a field of study today because we do know for example that people with a high sense of purpose have longer lives they have less diseases they have a better immune system and they have a sense of well-being in their lives that can be contagious this is also important on a societal level because I think we need to move from a paradigm of the possible which has been extremely strong in the last three centuries where we make the impossible possible locally with extremely fascinating inventions or or or creations but that do not take into consideration the whole equilibrium of the system earth in which we live today we need to care for this whole of being earthlings together humans non-humans and this is what culminates in the idea of the impossible we're reaching the last part of our conversation which is about the philosophical sense so what is meant by philosophical sense is how you view the world what's your beginning of an explanation for how things are and perhaps to help you or unless you have already an idea of an answer but I wonder if there is an echo there with what you spoke about in regards to your bodily sense which is dense so is it the fact that we live in the universe where everything is dancing even even if we don't see it or am I extrapolating or maybe it's some other aspect of life that you would like to point in this case maybe dance it's it's interesting starting point because like when I'm dancing one can also think that I'm part of continuity people have danced before me although they have been different kinds of dances than nowadays and hopefully people will dance when I'm gone and after after my time and I find it that idea of continuity I find it quite comforting like there are trees that are older than me and rocks that will be here after I'm gone so world it's like a big continuity right this idea of duration between the metamorphosis of life and different forms of life the great chain of life sometimes people say and I do feel as a conclusion for today's session that there seems to be also a continuity between the different elements of philosophical health in your life a continuity between your body and and who you are a continuity between who you are and the people that you relate to and the idea perhaps that developing a sense of purpose in the future might perhaps not as this grandiose view that might not necessarily be appealing to you but at least as as something that might allow you to make choices rather than arrive at a certain age where people might be puzzled by too many choices or when the bifurcations between as a result of the choice choices right might generate too much complex complexity in their life so as a conclusion I would encourage you to reflect a bit on what kind of continuity of purpose might give more coherence to the exciting choices that you seem to have ahead of you thank you thank you very much philosophical health helps us become a person that is compostable that means a person in which all the qualities all the elements the tendencies the physical the spiritual the psychological the professional all this works in harmony but also taking into perspective our collective being the fact that we do not exist in isolation how do we and this is philosophies preoccupation since Plato how do we create paradise on earth not after we die but here in a world that is the best of all compostable worlds


For some, it's about staying mission ready. I'm here right now just because I love staying fit, especially after coming off deployment. I'm still trying to keep that same fitness. But for others, it's about staying healthy and avoiding boredom. Well, I usually get those late night cravings and stuff like that. So I come here instead, try to fight it that way, to be honest. No matter the reason, hundreds of people pass through the doors of Fort Bliss' Soto Gym every day, but only a dedicated few do it past 10 o'clock on a Saturday night. They take advantage of the late weekend hours to do the usual things. Lift weights, hit the treadmill, or even just play a friendly game of basketball. The atmosphere here is one of commitment and comes as a result of devotion to physical conditioning, regardless of individual daily routines. Every soldier, we have different types of schedules. Maybe there's different things to do on a day. And there's never a certain reason why I should skip fitness. If I can hit it two times a day, I would. And if not, then just at any moment of time of the day. Many stay until the gym closes at midnight, proving that they truly are soldiers 24 hours a day. From Fort Bliss, Army Sergeant Janelle Senert.


This is a response to a recent video of Paul Cockshott's, in which he critiques an essay by a certain Nick Wright. Cockshott makes a strong argument that plantation slavery played at best a marginal role in the rise of capitalism. His video makes many excellent points and is a useful corrective to a currently prominent left liberal discourse. Nonetheless, I think he downplays the economic importance of slavery rather too much. Here, I attempt to outline a theory deriving it from Adam Smith of how slavery was indeed instrumental in the birth of capitalism, while incorporating as much as possible Cockshott's important observations. Most of Cockshott's critiques are incontrovertible. These include his treatment of J.S. Mill, his dating of the rise of liberalism to the 1820s, and his critique of the idealist tendencies in Domenico Lusardo's book on liberalism. Cockshott is certainly right that improvements in agriculture were a prerequisite to industrialization. He is also right to emphasize the importance of enclosures in England and the Highland clearances in Scotland in divorcing the primary producers from the means of production and thereby making a waged labor force. Cockshott's most important contribution in his video, to my mind, is to point out that most critiques of capitalism in our day do not surpass liberal ideology and that they fall far short of Marx. In order to argue against liberalism, Nick is accusing it of supporting or economically relying on slavery. It accepts the actual moral foundations of liberalism and he then criticizes liberal capitalism for allegedly resting on a hypocritical violation of these moral principles. Now, this is very different from the Marxian position, which is that capitalist exploitation arises from the very enforcement of liberal principles of freedom equal right rather than their violation. Let us hear from Cockshott directly about the role or lack thereof which slavery played in the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution. Did slaves build any of these things? Canals, railways, mills? You only have to ask the question to see how ridiculous it is. No, all of the fixed capital, all the plant and machinery on which the English and Scottish industrial revolutions was based was built by local waged workers. None of it was built by slaves. The slaves that were owned by the British slave-earning class were in the West Indies and they were forced to grow sugar. Sugar was a luxury product that was sold to the upper classes, to the gentry, and it is very hard to construct a theory by which upper class sugar consumption causes industrialization. I proposed exactly to construct a theory whereby upper class sugar consumption causes industrialization and for this theory I turn to Adam Smith. Smith paints the following portrait of a pre-capitalist class society. A tartar chief, the increase of whose herds in stocks is sufficient to maintain a thousand men, cannot well employ that increase in any other way and in maintaining a thousand men. The rude state of his society does not afford him any manufactured produce, any trinkets or baubles of any kind for which he can exchange that part of his rude produce which is over and above his own consumption. The thousand men whom he thus maintains, depending entirely upon him for their subsistence, must both obey his orders in war and submit to his jurisdiction in peace. He is necessarily both their general and their judge and his chieftainship is the necessary effect of the superiority of his fortune. On the other hand, in an opulent and civilized society a man may possess a much greater fortune and yet not be able to command a dozen people, though the produce of his estate may be sufficient to maintain and may perhaps actually maintain more than a thousand people, yet as those people pay for everything which they get from him as he gives scarce anything to anybody but in exchange for an equivalent. There is scarce anybody who considers himself as entirely dependent upon him and his authority extends only over a few menial servants. But how is this transition between the two societies affected? What all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have affected the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufacturers gradually brought about. These gradually furnished the great proprietors with something for which they could exchange the whole surplus of their lands and which they could consume themselves without sharing it either with tenants or retainers. All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems in every age of the world to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. As soon, therefore, as they could find a method of consuming the whole value of their rents themselves, they had no disposition to share them with any other persons. For a pair of diamond buckles perhaps, or for something as frivolous and useless, they exchanged the maintenance, or what is the same thing, the price of the maintenance of a thousand men for a year and with it the whole weight and authority which it could give them. For the gratification of the most childish, the meanest and the most sordid of all vanities, they gradually bartered their whole power and authority. So, foreign trade makes available luxuries and the temptation of these luxuries lures the aristocracy of a feudal society to dismiss the retainers. Luxuries thus weaken the political position of landowners and make available a certain amount of erstwhile flunkies to now seek their fortune as wage laborers in town. Foreign produced commodities do not, however, fall like manna from heaven, but instead were, to a large extent, produced by slaves in Caribbean plantations, by loosening feudal social relations, by turning retainers into wage workers, and, yes, by providing slave owners with purchasing power with which some of them employed wage workers, slavery played a key role in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. In an indicative thought experiment, Cogshot one-sidedly stresses the use value of sugar as against its exchange value. By apparently denying that increased purchasing power can induce increased production, he even comes close here to endorsing Sey's law, which Marx certainly rejected. Now, as a thought experiment, suppose the EU gave Niger free for 40 years or 50 years two sugar lumps per head of population. Would that cause Niger to become industrialized? Obviously not. Certainly Cogshot is right that a mere donation of sugar to Niger would not lead to industrialization, but the comparison is far-fetched. The production of sugar by slaves in Caribbean colonies, of course, worked much differently. The surplus product in the form of sugar would, of course, have been consumed by... The surplus product in the form of sugar would have been consumed by aristocrats with the sweet tooth, but the slave colonies were not producing much of the subsistence and means of production necessary in the sugar colonies. So the production of sugar would have been a stimulus to these industries back home in England. And as Smith emphasized, the availability of luxuries as an outlet for the purchasing power of the rich allowed them to dissolve the feudal social relations by releasing their retainers. Thus, someone building ships or producing grain for that matter would have found that he had cheap wage labor available in the UK and demand for his products augmented by the sugar plantations in the Caribbean. I admit that my argument is entirely schematic and I would invite you in the comment section below to say whether you think it's plausible.


Hi everybody, Joe for jasphyscasebreaks.com. Happy Saturday. Coming at you with a quick little filler pack break right here, number seven, nine, eight, with the final seven noir basketball spots being given away. We'll give those away at the very end of the break in a different dice roll. Big thanks to everybody here for getting into it. And that break is coming up next, by the way, in a separate video if you're watching live right now. Let's roll it, randomize it one and three, four times for names and teams. The break first, one, two, three, and four. Matt down to Chris, four times for the teams, one, two, three, and four, fourth and final time. Jazz down to the Phoenix Suns. Smooth jazz. All right, here's the first group right here, first half of the list, Brian with the Grizzlies, Evan, Palakins, there's the rest of the group right here. All right, no trades, let's just roll. I'm gonna get to that noir break. Should be a pretty good one, fresh case. All right, we're gonna lead off with a RJ Barrett, right here, playbook RJ Barrett. I'm playing some good hoops. That goes to Sean Maddock and the Knicks. That's Steph Curry, Nikola Melly, Jackson Hayes, Tybald, Kevin Porter Jr., LeBron James. All right, a lot of good stuff here, Tyler Hero, and I think Davis in the back. All right, that prestige LeBron, so that's a nice picture of him. Great determined look on his face. All right, so let's flip back to this here. Matt, Johnny, what's going on? Let's grab Louie's name down to Brian and let's roll it. Randomize it four and a five, nine times, top seven, after nine, good luck. One, two, three, and ninth and final time. All right, so from Chris down to Evan, eight down to 30, my apologies. You're not a noir, I'm afraid, but I appreciate you trying. Top seven, congrats to you though.  You're in noir, coming up next, jaspyscasebreaks.com.


The federal government, through the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, has once again warned of impending flooding risk, said River Beynure has been furiously rising above expected limits. The Minister of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joseph Utsev, discussed this in Abuja at a press conference organised to call for the preparedness of all relevant agencies. Utsev, who was supported by the Minister of State for the Ministry of Water Resources, Boris Tabeilo Conroyo and other senior directors, noted that the warning became necessary following a report by the Nigerian Hydrological Services Agency that River Beynure was consistently rising. He stated that it was timely to alert the nation, especially those living close to the river banks, as they needed to relocate and stay safe from the impending flooding disaster. The flow level on the River Niger system remains stable. With the level of the River Niger at Nehmen, Niger Republic standing at the normal level of 4.3 metres. Recognising Nigerians downstream positioned in relation to the nine member countries of the Niger River basin, it is important to acknowledge the period of heavy rainfall, flooding and flood-related disasters that typically occurred during July, August, September and October. In light of information factors, states and local governments should intensify efforts in clearing block drainage and also construct new ones where they do not exist. There should be removal of illegal structures constructed within the flood plains and the Niger Republic, especially road users, should desist from walking or driving along a pool of water or flood.


truly truly truly blessed by your presence here and know that God's been working on your life and we're excited to hear you articulate that and to share that with us. Why are you here today? So you've been here before and we do this for commissioning right? You're here today just so that we can connect and kind of make sure that we're all playing in the same on the same field in the same game so that we can kind of help you present your best gospel. And so I'm going to start with Brother Billy. There you go sir. Tim I appreciate it. Good to see everybody this morning. Thanks for being here. As Tim said you know we've been together before. We've seen you in previous interviews and been around some of your residency stuff and things like that and so we are hopefully somewhat familiar with one another. So briefly today I just want to take a moment and say again welcome. We're looking forward to the interviews. I've handed you a sheet many of you that are current residents got this sheet back at the residency retreat just tells you about some dates and some other things. Instead of going over each of the areas myself this morning we have the great opportunity to hear from all three of the room conveners and so you'll actually hear from the convener of the theology room and the worship and proclamation room and the call room this morning. So I don't want to take up any more of their time. The only thing I do want to say is we are now in the process of starting to schedule on-site interviews and so members of the board of board aid ministry have started signing up for your on-site interview. Those are to be conducted between tomorrow now and the middle of February and so part of what you've got to do is work with board members. So I'm going to invite you to during the meet and greet there's a sheet over there that has who is signed up for your interview and I'd like for you to try to connect with them during the meet and greet at least one of them and say how can we begin to exchange information so that we can start getting this scheduled you can let them know these are the best dates and times and they can start kind of doing the same with you. So just make sure you start that process so that we can get that done. You don't actually interview until the first week of March so we've got a little bit of time in January and February to do these but if you're eager and everybody on your on-site team is eager then y'all can do that in November December as well. So without further ado let's turn this over and let you hear from the room conveners. We're going to start with theology and this is Dr. Stan Cuffman. Good morning. Good to see everyone. I hope everyone has this page. I think you've seen it before actually because we've been using the same page for several years now. It does have both the commissioning and the ordinance sections to it but there's a lot of things that is in common. So I'm just going to go through it just to make sure that that we're all on the same page and then we'll entertain any questions that you might have about the theology room but first I'd like to say that of course this time you're coming through you're going to be dealing with or we're going to be dealing with what is effectiveness and your effectiveness. You know you've been in the process for several years now and so it's different than when you were coming up for commissioning which was more or less testing your readiness and your ability to deal theologically with different matters and it's the same in that regard except for we're actually wanting you to integrate more and to talk more about your effectiveness and your practice of ministry I think in general. So we really want you to know that we're praying for you and we're pulling for you. I want you to hear that loud and clearly.  The word on the screen is that you know the theology is a tough room. We're really not. We're really in there but we do want you to know we are pulling for you. We would love for you to be able to present yourself in the very best way. We try as much as we can to reduce that stress factor.  We want you to know you're really talking to peers and we're talking for what is it 30 minutes or so little more than 30 minutes about your paper and your work and your ministry and so we're we're really trying to put you at as much peace as we can so and I know you've come in there wanting to be peaceful but it's kind of hard but if we know we're all on the same page both desire and peace maybe we can get there a little easier so that's what we are trying to do with you and we want you to know that and what we do in preparation for your interview is this and I think you all know this you've been in this long enough but we've prayed for all of you we've had assignments to pray for all of you and that half of us will have read your paper that's no different now some overachievers read all the papers but most just read there are signed papers and that means that all of us will have met to discuss your written work even those of us who've hadn't read it will be brought up to speed by those who have read it when we get into the interview room the way we operate in our room is anybody can ask a question whether you read the material or not you know we don't come at this in any kind of rote manner we want to it to be more of a conversation so you may say something that someone might want to get more clarity from you on and push a little bit on that so our responsibility will to be to keep the interview on a time schedule and move the interview along and you know how that works with our own timing of ourselves and so you know that's that's the way that goes some of this is so repetitive for you who are coming up for coordination interviews so what would you do in preparation for your interview this is probably the most important reminder to you you need to write a good thoughtful professional paper i think we do have people in the theology room who are really looking for this paper not to be sloppy to be well done to be one that you would hope to turn in and and and really know that you've given the work and you've got it as across the teams and let one or two of your colleagues review your work and assist you with editing it okay i'm not good at editing so i always need to have this and i might need three people to look at it just to comfort me if i was turning in a paper such as this but don't fail to do that and don't do it the last week you know don't before you have to turn it in do it ahead of time so that you can make sure that paper is well prepared and this is another thing we encourage a lot and that is mock interviews with colleagues this is really proven to be helpful and i know many of you have done that and you know how helpful it is we want to encourage that having someone accompany you seems to be a good choice for some and we just remind you of that do what you can to relax and calm yourself so that you present your very best and if you get hung up on a question or feel you're struggling be ready to move on to the next question we may just say you know let's stop right there let's move on the next question we may come back and deal with that you know we don't want a situation where somebody gets so frustrated in the midst of the interview that they are not able to present them their best self because of a question that may may feel like they you know they didn't you didn't answer as well as you you should have or could have so let's go down to number six this is the measures regarding the ordination candidates the articulation of the faith with passion and relevance particularly related to your current context of ministry this is really what we're looking for i mean we know what you know the theology tell us how that theology applies to what you do tell us the integration of that theology into your practice of ministry and the ability to integrate the theology and practice of ministry i just spoke to that demonstrate a demonstration of growth and theology theological understanding and ability to discuss the development you know this is to be able to be introspective and to also to critique the way that you do grown this is always something that i think strengthens an ordination candidates interview to say you know i've grown in this way you know this is something that i've i've seen develop in my theology through my practice of ministry and then recognize and name the work of christ in the world and connect relevant events and to the issues of your theology theological understanding you know don't fail to address the prophetic nature of your ministry and how you see that prophetic dynamic been practiced in your pastoral ministry that's something that we'll also look for and continue the biblical and historical grounding in your discussion of the problem the questions you know you know i think that it's one thing to write and to basically reference historical and biblical understanding it's another thing to be able to talk about those and to articulate those so if you're going to write about them not what you're writing about so you can talk about it too and and so that's really kind of the the ground rules for what we we see is as for making for a successful interview and again that's what we're all looking for is for you to have a successful interview present yourself in the very best way all right or billy are we to entertain questions now we're going to continue to go through i think we're going to go to the other rooms that will take questions on all right very good next hi good to see y'all today i'm anna cozen butler and i'm the convener for the worship and proclamation room i'm just going to go through some things i sort of didn't make a handout for you today but i will put these thoughts together and make it available is it okay through marcia absolutely and i is our plagiarism policy as well available through you it is not online i can address it um when okay okay okay and i can't get cops about me today um so first of all uh we again echoing what sand said we're delighted to have you and be with you during this process it's our high honor to do that and um i want you to know as he already said that we don't do gotchas we try very hard not to do gotchas there no there's nobody in our room that's gonna try to lead you into a trap or anything like that theologically everybody's on your side so just please let that put your mind at ease we are looking for effectiveness in terms of proclamation one of the things we know very clearly is that especially with elders and deacons there are very different forms of proclamation primarily we'll be looking at sermons but we understand that not everybody preaches every week sometimes you have to struggle to preach at all in your context um so we'll also really love it when you can bring us another alternative form of proclamation that we can examine with you and hear how you presented it why you did it what what that was about and what you learned from it and how you were able to integrate your theology into that so if you're worried about the preaching process don't if that's not your gig okay because we're very open to that um again the key word is integration we want to know how you at this juncture can integrate your Wesleyan theology into the mission and ministry that you have been called to do in your context and in your mission field regarding the sacraments we want to know again if you're Wesleyan if you can articulate your understanding our understanding of grace and how that is lived out and how that is lived out that you see through the sacramental opportunities you have in ministry how that is lived out in the community in your mission field and particularly in terms of of liberation okay um we as I said a little while ago we do have a plagiarism outline a policy that we developed a couple years ago and if we'll get caught and have it available for you back there just so you know um just don't okay just don't um um whatever your version of proclamation is particularly um sermonizing just make sure it's your own okay I know it's tempting for us to go online sometimes just don't do it uh it's not it's not you okay and what we want to see is you proclaiming the goodness and the goodness of our reward regarding sermons um and this goes for any form of proclamation we want to hear the central message we want to see that you've done your at your homework your exegetical homework we do not need an academic treatise okay but we want to know that you've done the work you needed to do uh to to come to where you are in terms of your your word we want to see form and substance we want to see language and image imagery and of course we want to see um through the video it's here to look for you so I think that's it there are other members in the room here um I'm going to ask y'all to stand John Paul Linda Cassie Chris Chris um and Billy so later as we will have some time to interact if you have more questions about worship and proclamation please feel free to see any one of us okay have I left anything on guys okay my name is Henry Lester I'm uh I want you guys to convene the call room and uh we have a reputation opposite of what's being said about theology room we're the fun room so if you can come in when you come to see us you can just take a deep breath and say okay this is my chance to just tell this group who I am that's what we're really looking for who are you you should have a copy of this multi-page thing here I just put them on there I'm proud to say that most of the members of our committee are here so if you're in the call room would you please stand up so people can see that so anyway the names are on there so if you need any help we are available to talk consult whatever you need seriously well some of them do take advantage of this there's something in the room that have done that so the next page on there is um books uh paragraphs out of the book of discipline that I would just encourage you to be familiar with maybe have a talking knowledge of those uh not only for our room but for the other rooms and just for your own benefit these cover everything there is to do about what you know what is the church expecting of you if you're going to become an ordained elder or a beacon in our church it's very well written it's hard to read not just if you haven't read that you need to so go to the third page ordination interviews so when we have an interview our team has a lot of pre-work that we do and a couple of us do a lot of the stuff we do prior to Gretchen back here is the person who is dealing with the medical reports so if there's something that we see on a medic group all this by the way is confidential nobody sees it but Gretchen but Gretchen gets copies of the things that you've had the conversations with doctors and looks at things like if you're taking medicine about something what's going on there why uh are you continuing to do that by the way uh Pat Diehl who's not able to be here with us this morning Pat is the one who looks at your psych report and you're going to see I'm going to mention just a minute but we will ask you about if you're taking your psych report seriously what have you done that's on there that I guarantee we will ask you this so please come prepared with an answer for that um I talk about financial stuff and I do that all pre kind of like Gretchen does I do it pre-meeting so we probably will not touch on your financial stuff in the in our room conversation if there's something going on with you that I need to know about and I don't already know uh please come talk to me about that I will see your credit reports again uh so we're seeing what's going on with that so you can see all the things that we will do prior to that we'll see your recommendations uh we will see the results of your on-site meeting uh transcripts from school we want to make sure that you've taken all the required courses and such so then you get into some of the things we're going to ask you about and we're not going to probably ask you about your call story even though it says on there we might but probably not we've been through that before we probably have heard it once maybe more than once with some one of the big deals is you might make a little star by these these are the ones I'm going to say that we will ask you about and one is you're making a samples project we want to hear what you've done why you did it what were the results and by the way the results don't have to be positive it could be a total flop and failure but we want to know what did you learn from it what did your church get out of it what did you know how did this happen uh what was your process for going through this how did you evaluate whether it was successful or not we want to hear about that the other thing on that page is what have you learned since commissioning what have you learned about yourself what have you gained what have you have you changed your leadership style in any way um what have you learned about yourself what what have you figured out of strength or weakness that you have I need to stay away from this I need to do more of this those are things that we want you to be able to talk about when you get into the room with us turn the page um example of how you work with lady and again this is a little bit of a leadership kind of thing what's your management style what is your style how do you empower lady I mean when you go into a church there's one of you and there's tens hundreds dozens of others and your job is in my opinion one of your most important jobs is to get those people engaged and what's going on in your church um how do you motivate them so we we will ask you about that they're also on there engage in justice ministry and inclusivity we will ask you for a story uh tell us about how you've engaged in some sort of justice ministry in your current setting how have you engaged in something that shows that you understand what inclusivity means even um and again we're not looking for dramatic dramatic things just some short little vignette story that you've done how you've engaged and done these things if we as the church think that's important for you to be able to do uh if you read down there and also says have you taken seriously record I'll say this again recommendations of your psych report we will ask you about that and then down there one of the things the bishop just talked to us and he says this every time we meet in a in a forum like this if you're going to be an elder will you agree to itinerate we will ask you about that and we might ask you about why and what are your limitations and what's the theology about that what's the benefit for doing that so we will ask you about that covered that that question there's one on there that uh we sometimes get to announce the role of deacons and elders it is always disappointing to me to find out that people get to this point it can't differentiate what the two do so uh we have a gentleman in our group who always asks the question about that assuming he's there um you will be asked about how do I differentiate what's the role of a deacon in a church and what's the role of an elder in a church we should know by now but we will probably that's not a guarantee that you probably asked you about that if you go to the next page the next two pages by the way are the note forms that we use in there in our room to yeah as we're visiting with you where we take notes on that so just so this is complete transparency what are we going to ask you can see it it's right there so take a look at that I can't stand made a comment about it when he spoke I can't emphasize this enough is practice I know this these are really stressful days when you're preparing for all this you got all the other things that you do in your ministry setting find some time to sit down with multiple people I would suggest don't just do one big formal one multiple times like I mentioned the inclusivity justice ministry talk with somebody sit down and talk tell them your stories so you're ready to do that when you get there that you're not trying to make it up think about it when you get into the room you're not going to do well if that's the case so things that you've done and things about you've learned yourself tell other people write it down be prepared I mean this is in our room this is what we're going to ask you I mean it's it's that simple this we only have 40 minutes so we'd love to talk to you for three hours and we could by the way but we don't have that time Stan also mentioned the time pressure that we are under to keep this thing rolling so things are going to hit you really fast and as the convener sometimes I may cut you off even as we're going through because we have other things that we have to talk about so anyway so I'll be around for questions afterwards and we're glad you're here and I look forward to visiting with you in February right? Marsha Minton I'm the board ministry officer know most of everybody here so wanted just to be sure everybody's aware I put a a sheet back in the back that was developed by Liz Lancaster not by me she does training documents very well and so that is your U.M. hairs instructions if you are not yet up on U.M. hairs you need to get that way right now very very soon so like call me Monday or today and we'll get you set up on that and ready to go and access all of your documents I know many of you have already done that what I need to tell you about the track this year is that it is a little different every year I'm trying to tweak and improve just that hair make things a little bit more clear here you have received a set of instructions in the email having to do with the track and I'm going to invite you to read the instructions and read the instructions in the track for each step it's going to be really a problem if you don't because some of them have slightly different due dates for instance next week we have some due dates for persons who we need to turn in reference their reference names and all of that those are coming right out because it takes a while to get those process and just want you to be aware of that I'm going to go ahead and ask is anybody having any problems or questions right now about your peers yes all right um call me I'm here for you this is what I do this time of year so I want to let you know I'm available to help in any way I can cool thank you Marcia all right so I'm going to turn over to Billy just to deal with questions about a thing I want to remind you that we're going to have a few minutes out and asking what should I tell the candidates this is what the bishop said I know it's already been said that I'm being responsible to do it with what I've been told to tell you get serious about itineracy the bishop even asked that I would get out a piece of paper and make you sign it to be sure that you understood on what itineracy is first bit of advice from the bishop to me to you second bit of advice I asked candidates yesterday at clergy retreat while we sat around the breakfast table what is it you think that I need to tell everyone what's the best bit of advice and around the table my daughter was first to speak up everyone else chimed in get your paperwork done early enough so that someone else has time to read it enough to give back to you with a response cool third bit of advice says come back and I said when you have someone read your paperwork or you interview it do it with people that don't like you because they will be honest let's see what questions you have here there is uh if y'all just to be available what questions do you have what do you want to ask yes can't ask this earlier marsha our references from our theological schools do we need if we have the ones from commissioning can we use those because those will be the same people or do we need to give new names okay so the question was about um theological school recommendation notice that's a recommendation not a reference and they are different the different form so on theological school recommendations you have to have two and if you came through in this conference we probably already have yours on five however um because you did not come through last year you came through previous to that we have discovered several of those on occasion for folks are missing and we think what happened was they were accidentally shredded um after the interview process so let me know and I will check some of you I've already talked to you about this and gotten information back to you about about your uh a documents but let me know and and I will definitely double check okay thanks brian you have a question no if that was it I just want to know who didn't like me everybody likes you brian well I just want you to know so very quickly one of the things that I get is a reminder that your paperwork is due uh a week later than the commissioning folks but your paperwork is due on your submittal date it's december 13th you're saying how do I know that I know that because that's brian phelps birthday okay so that's my birthday too that's so get yours done so you might go out to lunch that day so that would be great all right all right one of the questions yes sorry i just had to say don't plug your eyes jack question but i've got an answer you're jack you got if you got a really important answer that's cited in the smile well so it is really quite simple it came up last year we assume because you're in this room right now you know your theology your theology is rock solid we know that but when it comes to the next interview it's important that you remind us that you know that theology but only briefly spend the rest of the time telling us about how that theology has been implemented in your ministry okay guard again spending your entire time talking about that theology again good work jack said we know but we need to be reminded thank you and then want to get on to the effectiveness of your theology in the practice of ministry yeah what else what are the questions yes checker so uh in my sermon on john uh i utilize a video clip um i don't know exactly how uh what would be the best way you recommend to integrate that into what we submit okay i can help with that so for your video video and any video clips there is a way to upload a url and so the url where it says upload the url you check that and it will give you access to your um documents in your computer and you upload it like that just with it um so you can have multiple uploads now on a non url it's going to say amazon three or something that means anything that's not that's a change this year and that happened in the software not with me so it just means that we use amazon web storage to store all of our data and that's why it says that so any other document pdf or whatever is is called an amazon document so like in the manuscript do i do i just put like asterisk video clip here right okay all right what else okay in paperwork when you print it from one word computer to another it can be i understand the importance of uploading it a document in words so that y'all can run it through software for plagiarism but can we do a second document that's a pdf file that makes printing easier i don't think i used it though i think i used the word version of it right now the policy asks for word so well i'm going to stick with that to make it fair for everybody let me look next year and see um there's a way we can expand the plagiarism software package that will allow us to run pdfs as well we just haven't paid that money yet or done that so let me see and because i don't want to make it comp i want to make it as simple as you can but i understand sometimes there are gaps and you know it does funky things and i think we've all worked with word we know what it looks like okay so let's bring up follow the question uh as far as the on-site uh interview as we mentioned that we need to schedule that with specific people right those people are pretty yeah so there's sheets on the back table now when you when we get ready to have the brain care and just a minute go back and look and find your name and find the people that are on there so all of us i think have at least three now and probably you may have four you don't have to connect with all four of those people just connect with one somebody you can start to get that and then once i hear that you've got an on-site schedule i'll send out to everybody in the next couple of weeks the instructions on-site you're really pretty simple in terms of the of how they're done but we do want to get that information to you as well yeah one thing i forgot to say when i was talking about proclamation is um some of you preach from outlines right and that's fine but we really really really love to have a transcript including even though it's videoed it's really um manuscript did not want to say oh i've been watching the news too much okay um manuscript okay so um thank you okay i'd come across as seren um so what are the parameters of those as we develop relationships in the past years of those who have to recuse themselves from the room oh in the actual interview all right so there's really uh three uh people that need to recuse themselves if you have an immediate family member that is on the war war day ministry uh if a staff person and you serve with in that church is on the war war day ministry and if you have an immediate formalized mentor okay now if you've got just informal mentors that that's you know we all have different people that we connect with and there are mentors they're fine to be in the room but it's those three thing it's those three groups of people that we asked to recuse themselves for both being in the interview and in the voting yep ashley i have a quick question yes it's for marcia marcia we were uh questioning several of us in the group of who is our i believe it says your primary mentor it asks you for that name and then asks for an unofficial mentor is who is that primary okay the primary mentor would be your mentor group or your residency group mentor leader person right that says so that would be um if that's not what we're told oh okay was that from camie that was an intercoach residency i've heard both yeah so i i am not sure i will try to find that out and get that back to you all you would pick somebody that you trust to be that person for you yes okay my second question was several people got up and had different i don't know if this is really that important but different times for each room since i'm this is my first time right where every room is 35 minutes yes every room is 35 minutes and then there's a 15 minute break while each room does time right after your interview and so you you have an interview 35 minutes you take a 15 minute break then you go in the second and third and then it's about an hour or to an hour and a half for the deliberation that you're around after that so normally if an interview morning interview starts at uh 8 30 we are not really done with you probably till about 12 15 the thing i will tell you is um i will send you probably in late january or February the schedule for the interviews in terms of what day and what time if you have a particular need with that please just send me that i mean occasionally somebody hasn't had a town commitment or something and they need to be interviewed on monday i will try to accommodate that as best as possible the other thing is that sometimes i get information from folks that say you know i just in the morning i'm terrible i need to be in the afternoon or someone to say i'm really fresh in the morning i need to be able to i'll try i will try to accommodate that put me in too horrible a situation regarding that we'll do what we can to be able to accommodate that's okay anything else the problem time to bug out have some time for uh refreshment and fellowship cool chance yep i have another answer great i love your answer now i'll be real quick with this uh every one of you i'd like to record every one of you i believe received a letter following your last interview and sometimes there are concerns and we will look at those letters before you walk in the room and we will ask you about whether or not you have fulfilled those requests good answers jack thank you all right so um to everyone in the room my goodness we are blessed with this incredible burden that god has blessed us in ways that dropped us to our needs and now it's just about the articulation and the expression of that in a wistful tradition and so we are just thankful to have all this in common and i mean that lay folks and clergy and candidates alike and so we share that together um i want to remind you and say all that warm mushy stuff because i love you all dearly but at about 11 o'clock i'm gonna see what you get out of here and it'll be because we need to start the next group and i just didn't want you to be offended or feel rushed if i just start pushing you out the door all right so i wanted to go with that all right um


Good afternoon everyone. This is Melissa with the stockswush.com and welcome. Thought I would just do another review here on Facebook. Basically, Facebook, I was looking at this for the last couple of days, and the targets for this are still intact. Someone had tweeted about this with the targets. The targets of this are still intact. You're not in Facebook for a day trade going long right now. You should be in Facebook for a swing trade to the bigger targets, which is 40 and 42, and next one's $50 and 65 by the end of the year. These are swing and core trade targets. When I say a target in something, it's not always for the day. It's a swing trade if I'm giving a bigger target in something, unless you're day trading it. The days to day trade Facebook were the day of the actual gap. Then there were two days after the fact to day trade this here and then one day in here, which I called. You day trade, you're looking for targets. If they don't get to the target by the end of the day, then it's a swing trade if you want to hold it overnight, which a swing trade is several days or could be even 10 days, could be even two weeks. A core trade is something you're in for weeks or months or even years, which you could certainly be in Facebook as a core long after this gap, or a swing trade or day trading in between here. The targets for this are intact. You cannot expect something to go to a target immediately, and if it doesn't go to the target immediately, you kill it. I know lots of people think I have a crystal ball because I'm so good at my calls and things. I do feel like some days I do that, have that. However, it's really just my gap rating system that's telling me things in the crystal ball and because of my knowledge and skills as a trader, which is a lot. But the reality is you can't just give up on something if it doesn't go immediately to the target. Things have multiple targets. This is something else you have to learn as a trader. Not everything goes to a certain set target. There are levels, levels of targets, just like there's levels of support and resistance in a chart, and you're looking for the first target, the second target, and so on and so forth and what I call the dream target. Of course, the dream target on Facebook is $100. I don't think it gets there by the end of this year. I think it's realistic in the next 12 to 16 months. So Facebook is still intact and the market has pulled in for the last two days and Facebook is holding itself beautifully. In fact, it's holding this area here. So the gap happened, the stock rallied up, pushed up on even higher. Here, then the market came in the next day. This was yesterday on the 6th. The market came in today a little bit too and Facebook held very strong. The low of the day here is $37.70. The high of this bar here is $37.96, but the open of this bar here, or the close, I mean, was $37.62. So the close of this green bar here is $37.62. We held that today when we came in and made this tail. Do you see this? And remember, these are areas. And the open of this bar here is $66. Again, areas. So Facebook came down with the market to the tenuous, weeniest, weeniest data support that it could possibly set. So this is rally up here, comes down. This was resistance. Now it's support, holding itself up and it's higher. So Facebook will get to the target of $40 and $42 and so on and so forth. These are targets that are set if you want to do a swing trade or a court trade. Okay. So Facebook is still great long. And actually, even you could have bought in here today. You know, I made note of this when this happened here, because this was barely coming in here. Didn't even break the 200 in the 15 minute where the market was sloshing around this morning or the last two days. So beautiful Facebook. If you don't want to hold these things as overnight, then don't just day trade them. You have to know how to take the entries and where to put the stops and where to get in them at the right price points for a day trade. In other words, Facebook when it came in to this area here of support and held itself and the market made the low of the day as well, you could have bought Facebook in here. It was a good buy and you could have made money as a day trade here today. You have to know where to take the entry. Facebook has already rallied more than a dollar here today from where it booped down in here and made this 15 minute buy set up. And we're a bottom doubt. Let's see if we can see it better on the one here. See what time it did it here. So when it came down hard here at 10 o'clock bounced up came in bounced up came in here was here was it. So the safe entry would have been over here. Okay, safe entry, bigger bigger stop. Okay, or you take it again here when it confirms and doesn't break a new low and you're ready to know this area. Here's the area that's important. You're looking for this to hold when it comes down and comes down and holds you can take it as a long and it was a nice trade. So if you'd like more information on how to read gaps and rate gaps you can reach out to me and email me at Melissa at the stockswish.com. Thanks everyone have a great day.


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Hello, DJ Stevens here. I'm on holiday and that explains why I'm not shaven. Also today has been a lot of rain It's only now that the sun started to shine, but otherwise you would have heard the rain here in this room and This gave me the opportunity to do something that I wanted to do for quite some time And that is show you the very first analysis of a Maltok So the unscripted, unedited version of a malicious document analysis So I make a lot of videos on Maltok analysis and Before I start recording I have done the analysis of the document before so I know how to do the analysis I know what the outcome is and I've also rehearsed the commands so that I can make a smooth recording in one go Sometimes when I make fundamental mistakes, I will just start again the recording. I try as much as possible to leave editing Be and don't do anything Editing afterwards. So sometimes I do some very small editing, but that's rare Now what I did here was also make a recording of the very first time that I looked at the Maltok So I don't know anything about the Maltok. The only thing that now it's an XLSX file That's the only thing and so I start to do the analysis You will see that it's trial and error. It goes in different directions Some some of those directions don't end up in anything useful Also, there's no sound no narration, but I did add some captions that you know what I'm more or less doing and Also, you will see me see me make mistakes like for example, I Don't remember exactly some of the only dump Options that I don't use often. So I make mistakes and then I make typos I have to look in the documentation to be able to do the right command so that's how it goes in real life how the Malware analysis usually takes place It's it goes in different directions. It's it's trial and errors. We make mistakes But we finally try to end up with with the solution. So I hope you enjoy this So first the normal video might always make and then afterwards the very first look unrehearsed of the Maltok. So I downloaded the sample from Malware Bazaar. It had only one tag XLSX I'm using my tool only dump to look at a sample So it is indeed an OOXML file and This is the OOIF file that is inside the OOXML file. It's a spreadsheet Excel and this here This is not micro. So there is no VBA macros and you don't see here any VBA project will been But we have ear and embeddings So this stream here is an only 1.0 native stream rather large Almost one megabyte Now I'm going to use the option storages to also view the storages So this is comparable to folders and these are streams and here you have a storage and the two streams I'm looking at the storages so that I can see the root and tree storage the top Storage Because I can add extra information for Storages like the class ID Every storage has a class ID This is the class ID of the root entry for this Maltok and I can also Add a description So this is a Microsoft equation 3.0 So this is most likely an exploit for the equation editor. So it will contain 32-bit shellcode So let's take a look selecting stream 1 and Let's take a look at the start and at the beginning beginning and end Okay, here we have your binary data and here what looks like base 64 Here I see zero one zero eight. So this is very likely Line record and a font record and here is the overflow of the font record buffer and then Here we have shellcode Let's take Look like this Okay, and yeah as to be expected it is obfuscated or encoded shellcode because you don't see any strings and then here sequence of zero d bytes Okay, and here You have the base 64 that starts. Okay. Now if it contains shellcode like this, it's rather simple to analyze You dump the stream to a file shellcode.virg and You run the shellcode emulator on it Give it as input the file You tell it that it has to find the entry point Because an exploit type this for the equation editor starts with data structure. So the entry point is not as location zero It's somewhere later on so the shellcode emulator has to find it and I also want a report and Now It is starting to do that. So we'll take some time because There's almost one million offsets to check Okay, and now this is speeding up That's because now it is trying to analyze The base 64 as shellcode and okay, so this is not valid shellcode It fails very rapidly so you can move on to the next one. Okay, almost done Okay, and here We have 10 entry points. I will start with the first one And we already have success here. You can see the execution the emulation of the shellcode So it will write a file and executable to a temporary file Which is downloaded with http from this ip address with this part written to disk And then here with winexec it is executed And after that you have an exit process. So Excel is killed here Now that's the analysis Hmm Let's take one more look at the base 64 So let's pipe this into my base 64 them tool and here we have the code Let me select this And it has a very high entropy 7.98 so either this is encrypted data or even random data Now I did some research into it and I'm pretty sure that this is just a decoy Just a random data that was added because If I look At the shellcode And I do away with the base 64 code then it still emulates So here you have the content of the stream and the encoded shellcode Here you have the repetition of the deep bytes and then here You have the start of the base 64. So The length of the shellcode is around 6e0 So let me cut that out 6e0 a length of 6d0 And I'm going to write this to another file a much smaller file now And then run the shellcode emulator on it Find the entry points It immediately finds the entry points and here we have exactly the same result So that base 64 code is not necessary for the shellcode to execute And I doubt also that it is necessary for the download executable Because this is starting as a separate process and then afterwards the excel is just killed