Faith is a curious thing. It is utterly intangible, unmoored in many ways from the rules that govern the Terracquious universe we inhabit, and yet its acts can be reflected in both this world and the one that lies alongside it. Hold on to an idea with enough conviction and you begin to shape the world around you. As the tides of the nether space between worlds listen to your prayers with hungry intent. The old adage that through faith all things are possible is a very tangible reality in this world of ours. If you are terrified by that prospect then good, it just proves that you are still sound of mind. While the theological and cosmological impacts of that must wait until a further date for me to elucidate upon, faith is the central reason for the existence of the subjects of this record. They are a product of it, created in the fires of one of the Imperium's worst doctrinal civil wars and molded by its aftermath. They are the linchpin of it, the God Emperor's most devout servants, Paragons for those of us down here in the mundanity to aspire to. They are the bringers of it, the soldiers of belief, taking the light of the golden throne to all who need it, and the fires of his most perfect abjuration to those who would deny him upon terror. For faith is not without one to act upon it. It is not simply enough that one can just believe one must transform this into works. Salvation must be earned. The universe is unkind and though the emperor protects the emperor also demands. He demands obedience. He demands fealty. He demands action. Through the delivery of faith through feats of heroism, courage, and sacrifice is the world changed, is the universe bent to the will of the one, and through this miracles. There are none better equipped to do so, none more self-sacrificing, none more faithful than those of the holy orders. Know then that this is a record of the bearers of the Imperial Creed, the truest soldiery of the God Emperor of Humanity, the Sisters of Battle of the Adepta Sororitas. The Adepta Sororitas, commonly known throughout the Imperium as the Sisters of Battle, are the militant wing of the Adeptus Minestorum or Ecclesiarchy, an often monastic, all-female division. They are in aspects superficially similar to the space marines of the Adeptus Astartes, but vastly different in many other ways. While the missionaries, confessors, priests, and cardinals of the Ecclesiarchy are responsible for the spreading and cultivation of the faith in the God Emperor of mankind, it is to the Sisters that the responsibility of ensuring its purity falls. As such, they are not mere itinerant preachers delivering sermons to the unenlightened, nor are they warders of a cathedral set to guard the devout. No, the Sororitas are to be ever tasked with the fulsome annihilation of the faithless and the accursed, the lost and the damned, to bring ruin most divine to those whose word or act would sully the sanctity of the Imperial Creed. It is not for naught that their conflicts are known as wars of faith, for this devotion is a linchpin of their blessed work and indeed the reason for their very existence. The orders of the Sisterhood wage campaigns of extermination, pregation engagements to scour the Emperor's domains of the impure, and to re-sanctify that which may have suffered the taint of heresy. To the Sisters, they act as the white blood cells of the body of the God Emperor, his holy Imperium, and in their defense of the realm, they find their ultimate work. The origins of the Adeptas Sororitas lie in the blood and battle and fire of an internecine conflict of millennia past that once threatened to rend the Imperium in twain, the age of apostasy. On a full record of the dark chapter of the Imperium's history that it represents will be forthcoming, the origins of the Sisterhood are so deeply intertwined with it that a summary must be related herein. It began in the 36th millennium with the sundering of the High Lords of Terra, the highest civilian authority in the Empire, but the then master of the Administratum, Gojvandair. Utilizing all the political power his position granted him, both overt and covert, legal and utterly illegal, Van Dier manipulated his way into seizing the position of High Ecclesiarch of the Minestorum. The first time any one soul in Imperial history had held two seats on the Council of the High Twelve simultaneously. When the fabricator general of the Adeptas Mechanicus raised a protest at this unseemly concentration of power, Van Dier seized full authority of the Senatorum Imperialis, dissolving the High Lords and ushering in his tyrannical reign of blood. It was a time wherein countless billions died from civil strife, breakdown of law and order, widespread famines, and Van Dier's own increasingly psychotic purges. He was, however, far from inept. One does not usurp the greatest authority in the Imperium without being supremely good at what one does, and the might of the forces of the Tyrant were wielded with heavy-handed power. Amongst them was a curious cult known as the Daughters of the Emperor. Originally a small agrarian sect from the world of San Lior, the devotion and martial prowess were noted by the spies of Van Dier, who, ever interested in harnessing the power of the faithful, he was head of the Atlesiarchy after all, travelled personally to the world.  The canny Van Dier had guessed quite correctly that their aggressive agri-world the Daughters were from would never have seen something so, to him, as commonplace as a personal refractor field. He had guessed quite correctly. From that day forth the Daughters of the Emperor were the Tyrant's most devoted spear, to be cast forth at any who opposed him and bring unto them utter ruin. He heaped upon them weapons and armor, equipment of the finest quality, and in turn they cut down every enemy he bade them to, both from within and from without. Even when the Atlesiarchy itself conspired to depose him, worrisome over the growing instability they perceived in the de facto ruler of the Imperium, the Daughters of the Emperor marched into Cathedral of the Emperor Deified, and emerged with the heads of every single member of the Holy Synod. All was not well abroad across the stars, and as the death toll mounted, as world after world burned in the fires of Van Dier's madness, as the enemies of the Imperium gathered to pluck its weakening body apart, a sect calling themselves the Confederation of Light, merged to oppose the Tyrant. Led by one Sebastian Thor, and driven by this man's peerless authority, its forces grew and grew, as more and more sought to throw off the yoke of lunatic oppression. Only when whole chapters of the Adeptus Astartes and macro-tlades of the Adeptus Mechanicus also pledged themselves to Thor's banner, did the final and peerless Imperial Military Authority take note. The Adeptus Custodies. With the support of the Emperor's own life wards assured, the Imperial Palace upon Terra now lay besieged, with Thorian forces planning its assault in order to forcibly remove the by then utterly insane Van Dier. While the continental sized palace lay under siege, the Custodies' strike sodality moved upon the Tyrant, attempting to end the conflict there and then and saving uncountable lives in the process. Outside Van Dier's chambers, they are confronted by six members of the Daughters of the Emperor, bellowing at the Emperor's bodyguards to come no closer lest they be fired upon. Seeing such clear pain in the eyes of the Daughters, that their faith between defending the head of the Imperial Church and of threatening the incarnations of the Imperial Household itself was tearing them asunder, the lead Custodian laid down his guardian spear, pleading to be heard for them to step aside that they may end decades of senseless bloodshed. The leader of the Daughters, named Alicia Dominica, refused, and the Custodies, seeing but one way forward, bade them to follow and behold what none but they and the Emperor's own sons had seen in six millennia, the ultimate centre of the Imperial Palace, the throne room itself. What transpired therein was never recorded, for nothing within the very chamber of the Golden Throne itself ever is. But what emerged were women changed, bathed now in the righteous light of those who had been shown how deeply they had been manipulated and controlled. Alicia Dominica and her sisters entered the chamber of the High Lord himself, who upon seeing them, launched into a maddened tirade about traitors and usurpers, spittle flying from his discoloured face as he reeled off the names of those who had betrayed him and must be put to death.  As he ranted and raved incoherently from his disc about a stolen realm, Dominica strode forth, one woman standing against the pathetic husk of the would-be ruler and pronounced upon him a judgment that would change the course of the galaxy. You have committed the ultimate heresy.  You have perverted and twisted the path he has laid for mankind to tread.  I renounce your lordship. You walk in the darkness and cannot be allowed to live. Your sentence has been long overdue, and now it is time for you to die.  Others say he died begging for his life, soiling himself in the terror of seeing a power sword held aloft. Whatever the truth, he died that day, and the reign of blood ended with him. The subsequent reformation and reconstruction took longer than the tyrant's rule had, but Sebastian Thor leading the way as the new atlesiarch. In order to ensure that such a seizure of power could never occur again, not only was the ability to hold two concurrency of the High Lords of Terra utterly banned, but the ministerium itself was forced to relinquish all standing military formations under its direct control. Since its inception in M32, the armies of the faithful had been a powerful asset in the defense of the Imperium, but Van Dyer's coup had demonstrated all too easily, the ease at which faith could be hijacked and redirected by one with enough power, influence, and mercilessness. The atlesiarch's armies became those of the astromilitarum, and its fleets those of the imperial navy, but Thor from his new position dictated a different fate for the daughters of the emperor. They would remain under the church's control, for he did not want the faith to be entirely unarmed. Now it would be led by those who had bathed in the emperor's own light, to be his sword and his shield and his fiery devotion. The daughters of the emperor were no more. Now emerged the adepta sororitas. Since their inception, the sisters of battle have occupied a unique role in the broad, diverse, and diffused apparatus of the imperial military. With all of its notable branches siloed by fears of power concentration, having a division solely at the behest of the church of the emperor, raised, initially, much criticism, and, to be frank, quite justified concerns, in the aftermath of a tyrannical reign of a madman who had owed his power to armies of the faithful. In practice, however, the sisters have proven themselves almost uniquely immune to the strife, politicking, and indeed sedition that can infect other august imperial bodies, even the adeptas astartes themselves. While in theory they are answerable only to the atlesiarch, in reality they heed not but the word of the abes sanctorum, the woman at the head of the entire organization. The centralization of command into one figure is one of the key aspects that sets the sororitas apart from the astartes, who, well, occasionally possessing a representative within the sanatorium imperialis, have never, and very deliberately, possessed anything in a way of a supreme commander. The sisters are a united and singular organization, but not without its particular balances and checks to prevent just the type of nightmare scenario everyone worries will happen from arising. Sororitas is divided into two great convents, both physical structures in the gigantic fortress cathedrals they are named for, and organizational hierarchy subdivisions. Both convents are vested in a planet each, and both of these planets are considered to be the holiest in the entire imperial. The convent sanctorum is based on the cardinal world of Ophelia VII, while the convent prioris is vested upon holy terra itself. The convents were a facet of the thorian reforms intended to quell the fears of his fellow high lords, as they reflect the division of power within the ministerium itself, and the twin synods of terra and ophelia. With both synods and convents monitoring each other for any deviation from faith or doctrine, it has been ensured that the power, both tangible and ephemeral, that the atlesiarchy may wield, is effectively curtailed, that no high lord may ever attain the degrees of control that van Dier had. There exists one more check upon those who would wield the faith of the god emperor's flock, and these were to emerge in tandem with the sororitas, indeed to have their fates to be almost indelibly linked. The holy ordos of his imperial majesty's inquisition, far from being idle during this period of reformation, had formed, in secret, as is their want, a new ordo majoris, the Ordo Hereticus. This new wing of the inquisition was tasked with monitoring the internal affairs of the Imperium and its people for the emergence of aberrant strains of faith, concentrations of atlesiastical power, or outright heresy. Everything from the rantings of cultists to the corruption of cardinals falls under its gaze, but it, as a child of the reign of blood, is always perennially watchful over the actions of the adeptus minestorum. They scrutinize the wars of faith, ensuring that they are justified and approvably righteous, and carefully oversee the disbanding of holy crusade forces once all objectives are met. They root out the cankers that may fester within a synod, to ensure that no would-be vandiers may rise above their station, and through an agreement known as the Convocation of Nephilim, they can call upon the forces of the adeptus sororitas in open battle. That being said, it is unclear as to whether the sisterhood can be considered a true chamber militant of the Ordo, in the same way that the adeptus starty's death watch are for the alien hunters of the Ordo Xenos, for example. Many oft refer to the sororitas as the chamber militant of the atlesiarchy itself, while others, perhaps considering the routine employment of the sisterhood by hereticus inquisitors, name them as the Ordo's chamber militant. The ambiguity is frustrating, but perhaps understandable. As many within the imperium underestimate the degree of autonomy the sisterhood is afforded, while also overestimating the amount of control certain bodies may wield over them. Regardless of the direct hierarchy involved, the sisters of battle are routinely to be seen aiding the witch hunters of the inquisition in order to pursue their aims, just as the Ordo Hereticus military forces are often known to provide specialist reinforcements for sororitas upon the field of battle, should their particular talents be required. From the moment of their founding, the sisterhood proved to be an incredible new military asset in the imperium's fold, not only rooting out the last pockets of van Dyerite loyalists, but also in turning back the predations of those who sought to dispoil the emperor's domain as his subjects had been consumed by strife. In time, their numbers swelled so much that Sebastian Thor's successor, Elysiac Alexis the 22nd, ordered the convents of Terra and Ophelia to form distinct militant orders from within their structures, all to be led by the maidens who had attended to the emperor upon that fateful day of van Dyerite's downfall. The convent prioris formed the order of the Ebon Chalice, led by Elysia Dominica herself, and the order of the Argent Shroud, led by Sister Silvana. The convents Sanctorum formed the order of the Valorous Heart, led by Sister Lucia, and the order of the Fiery Heart, led by Elysia's former shield-bearer, Catherine. These four orders led the sisterhood and its fiery convictions to all corners of the Imperium, establishing new convent and shrine worlds in its far-flung reaches. The four sisters at their vanguards each performed uncanny miracles before the eyes of many, earning their places in legend and being beatified as living saints. As is, however, so off the case in this galaxy of ours, their legends ended in blood, and all fell as martyrs in the course of their wars. Catherine, being the last to fall to the witch cult of Mencetius, was honored by her order militant, who donned armor of purest black forevermore, now to be known as the Order of Our Martyr Lady. Two more major orders militant were formed to join these four in M38, the order of the sacred rose based in the convent prioris, and the order of the bloody rose based in the convent Sanctorum, to honor the last two of Alicia Dominica's companions, Arabella and Mina respectively. While these six orders have been the largest and most prevalent throughout the millennia of the sisterhood's history, they have been supplemented by many, many smaller ones, but no less vital, referred to commonly as the lesser orders militant. The order of the iron veil, the order of the wounded heart, the order of the ashen shrine, the order of the glowing chalice, they number in their hundreds, overseeing everything from sector wide parishes to a single shrine on a backwater world. All, however, fall under the purview of the adeptas ruritas, and all will respond to whatever call their faith places upon them. The largest of the orders militant maintained standing armies greater in power than any within the imperium, save for leading astromilitarum regiments and chapters of the adeptas astartes. Unlike the latter, there is no hard limit placed upon their size. The ruritas abide by no codex as the astartes must, for they have throughout their history simply never been proven to need one, so inviolate is their faith. No order has ever turned traitor as some chapters of the adeptas astartes have. These biggest orders hold affiliate sanctuaries throughout the galaxy beyond their administrative parishes, termed perceptories, which additionally, and somewhat oddly, is the term the sororitas use for their largest organizational group that an order may field at once, numbering around one thousand sisters, the same as the maximum number of astartes permitted per chapter under the laws of the codex astartes. Subordinate to them are commanderies, both in terms of direct chain of command and real world presence. Commanderies are typically charged with the protection of more moderate order holdings, such as minor fortresses or cathedral complexes. As with the perceptories, the commanderies are also a term used for the nested organizational unit within the military structure, equivalent in position to a company within an astartes chapter. Below them is the mission, a squad level sororitas unit whose term is also utilized by the order for a group of sisters assigned to achieve a specific short-term objective. The model is prone, as with astartes chapters, to deviation from that prescribed by the adeptas as a whole, but it is notable that there is far less departure from the standard model than even in a lightly non-codex compliant astartes chapter, despite the ostensibly much stricter legs binding the latter to a prescribed model. Projection of martial power by the sororitas is limited by one major aspect of their structure, however, and that is their lack of any order specific fleets. While the astartes often possess sizeable voidcraft flotillas of their own, albeit limited to specific hull designs, the sororitas are only under law able to possess orbital landing craft, up to and including heavier macro conveyors, but the largest of interstellar transports and any actual military craft are to be contracted from the Navus Imperialis. The service runs of any such destroyers, frigates, and battleships that they may undertake for a specific order can last for millennia, but it is always understood that they are not under the command of the Atlesiarchy. It is one aspect of the siloing of imperial military that the sororitas are not immune from, but it is a standard that all who serve under arms for the god emperor are held to. Befitting their role as the elite holy warriors of the Church of the Emperor Deified, be adept as sororitas or arrayed with an armory rivaling any branch of the imperial military for its lethality. When the daughters of the emperor were impressed under the purview of the ministerum by Goj van Dier, their primitive, even barbarian arsenal of weaponry and armor were fully upgraded to match their new station, and they were provided with training to match. In a rare honor that no doubt shocked many, the daughters were provided with power armor plate, and modified Godwin De Haz pattern bolters, the twin hallmarks of the adeptus astartes, and wielded by few others within the imperium save for ranks within the Inquisition or other specialized attachments. This incredible boon was accomplished by van Dier himself, who, through political maneuvering and outright intimidation, signed a treaty with fabricator general Hediatrix of the Adeptus Mechanicus to arm his new daughters in perpetuity. It has been heavily rumored since that time that van Dier allowed certain hitherto unbequeathed freedoms to the Mechanicus regarding their worship of the machine god, and while this cannot be verified at this point, there is certainly eyebrows to be raised at such close cooperation between two historically fraught organizations. The treaty, known as the Rit Illuminant, was later reasserted by van Dier's successor, Sebastian Thor, and since then by each high atlesiarch of the Imperium in turn. The treaty has the dual benefit of erasing fabricator general Hediatrix's role in van Dier's rise to power by recasting the Mechanicus as being instrumental in arming the warriors whose revelations would precipitate the tyrant's downfall. But it also grants the Mechanicum political leverage over a military arm of the Imperium of Terra that would otherwise be completely outside their influence, on account of the disparities inherent between the twin fates of the twin empires. The relationship of the Cult of the Emperor and the Cult of the Omniceia has ever been an aspect of the sister planet's histories most prefer to simply ignore less uncomfortable questions about the exact nature of the machine god be asked. The Rit Illuminant grants both leeway to the Mechanicus from the scrutiny of the Imperium's most devout elements, as well as granting them a very visible role in arming the holiest of the Imperium's warriors. While the Order's Militant are the most visible members of the Sororitas, and most commonly lionized in imperial propaganda networks, they are not the only aspect of the Adepta. Operating alongside their sisters, but in far less martial roles, are the non-militant orders that have refined and carried forward the traditions of the Daughters of the Emperor through the March of History. The Order's Hospitaller are probably the most well known, being common sights upon the battlefields of the Imperium Galaxy-wide, tending to the Wounded or providing them with the Emperor's final benediction. To the Sisters of the Hospitaller, to Tend to the Sick and the Dying is a purist expression of their faith, knowing that their skills lie more in healing than they do in warfare. The Orders grant their services to every single branch of the Imperial military, save for the Adepts' Startes, and as Surgeons and Physicians, they are often regarded as truly sacred by the combatants of whatever warzone they win, and often with good reason. The Order's Hospitaller have seen many of their number canonized by the Ministerum, owing to the miraculous feats of healing they had performed, their faith manifesting in the Materium to save those who fell fighting in the name of He upon the Throne. Outside of their campaigns, the Orders maintain vast librarians, containing a trove of medical knowledge, not only on human physiology, but treaties upon the nature of the many esoteric, radical, and arcane armaments that the soldiery of the Imperium will often find deployed against them. Not content with being simple healers, the Hospitaller are proactive, maintaining detailed records on just how to best mitigate the weaponry of the enemy drawn from both official reports and from the personal journals of sisters involved in the treatments of the wounded by, say, a Necron Gauss flare, or a Tau plasma rifle. This expertise is often applied to deadly effect upon the battlefield itself, with the Hospitaller sisters providing physiological knowledge of the enemy to their Order's militant divisions. Indeed, this is not the end of their consultancy practices within the Imperium, as ecclesiacal confessors will routinely elicit their medical skills in order to prolong the lives of suspected heretics who are undergoing extranormal interrogation procedures. These sisters are true masters of their craft, going so far as to reattach severed limbs or to allow a patient to slip into death before resuscitation is granted multiple times in a single session. All so that the truth, or even a mere repentance, can be extracted. No less present abroad across the galaxy, though far less of a folk hero aspect than the Hospitaller, the Order's families are in effect a sort of specialized administrative within the Sisterhood, responsible for the diplomatic endeavors conducted between the various branches of the Imperium and its noble houses. The aristocracy of the Empire is many and varied, and beholden to a web of feudal loyalties, commercial agreements, and ancient legalities that is truly impossible to fully grasp in its scope. It does however play a vital role in the functioning of the Imperium, and the families of the houses wield tremendous power over the day-to-day affairs of the Emperor's realm, enough that they are the sole concern of the Order's families, who serve these houses as Chamberlains, Viziers, Magistrates, and Emissaries. The role is entirely and deeply political, and the sisters to whom this position falls are always the caniest of diplomatic operators that can be mustered. Imperial politicking is nothing if not rampantly cutthroat, and despite their holiness, faith, and goodwill, these are poor protections against an aristocrat who should believe your removal would be to their benefit. That being said, there is substantial goodwill to be gained for the noble houses that employ or acquiesce to the presence of the Sororitas within their courts, not least for the public displays of faith and fealty to the God-Emperor that it allows them to make. It is of course facetious of me to suggest that the sisters of the Order's families be seen in such base terms. There are many within the Imperial nobility who are faithful to a fault, and the Famulous Sisters minister to these individuals, stoking the fires of their faith and providing sage guidance on how best the power of these houses can be used for the betterment of the God-Emperor's flock and the protection of his borders. They will often use their influence and connections for the forging of better trade deals, mutual defence clauses, and arranged marriages, all in the name of ensuring that the most powerful and useful of Terra's subject families remain so. This does, as I suspect some of you may have guessed, come with a great boon, and one that forms the other side of the coin, as far as the Famulous's roles are concerned. They are the Sororitas' intelligence arm, their eyes in every major noble household, monitoring the great and good of the Imperium for deviation from the tenets of the Faith. Should evidence of any treachery or heresy be ascertained, the words of the Famulous Sisters can bring everything from the Ministerum's confessors to the full might of an Order militant down upon the heads of those she had until then served at the behest of. Sundry thousands of cults have thus been rooted out, purged from existence before their terrible plans come to deadly fruition, and the lands of the noble families that they once sprung from, salted and raised from history. These two are but two examples of the breath of the Order's non-militant. Many others serve the Sororitas and the Atlesiarchy in far more granular and specialized roles rarely perceived by the wider Imperium. The Ordo Finestrus, for example, is a single Order within the Sisterhood whose sole responsibility it is to preserve and maintain the sacred illuminated glass of the Imperium's most holy of holy sites. Small detachments of the Order's Sabine ply the dark warp corridors at the very edge of humanity's fear, pushing forth into the frontiers of the Imperium to bring the Emperor's illumination to the furthest corners of his realm, where the Astronomican is but the suggestion of dawn over the proverbial horizon. The Order's Vespila sanctify the bodies of their fallen sisters, ensuring their mortal shells will be preserved forevermore so that future generations may know of their deeds through contemplation of their earthly remains. The Order's Mandriga and the Order's Plancillium fulfill similar roles to each other, providing all female choirs for the Imperium's cathedrals and supervising processional ceremonies respectively. Finally, the Order's pronatus form a sort of archival department within the Sororitas and the Atlesiarchy, tasking themselves with the retrieval, study, and cataloging of tens of thousands of holy relics under the Ministerum's purview. Archivistic pursuits are naturally close to my heart, and one can imagine that such a task is as monumental as it is no doubt frustrating and often thankless. The Sisters of the pronatus Orders will often spend decades pursuing leads of a lost artifact owing to be ultimately frustrated, and it is the testament to their will and to their faith that they persist. Their far more recognizable aspect, to the wider Imperium, is with their role as sanctifiers, for it is to these Sisters that the charge of purging potentially corrupted Imperial relics will fall. One of these Orders was responsible for the consecration of the Chapter Banner of the Adeptus Astartes Lamenters, following that Chapter's participation, for want of a better word, in the Badab War. And in the darkest times following the Noctis Aeternus, the pronatus are more needed than ever, resanctifying the sundry artifacts and holy weapons lost to the Great Rift and only recently recovered during the Endometous Crusade. Across the tenuous stability of Imperium Sanctus, to the dreadful occluded paths of Imperium Nylis, the Sisters of battle continue to fight against the tides of the Emperor's enemies. While some amongst our race have seen the coming of the Great Rift as a sign of the End Times, the Sisterhood have only been emboldened. To the Sororitas, the Kikatrix Maladictum is a portent of faithlessness, of straying from the Holy Path he has set forth for us, and thus an opportunity for even greater displays of devotion and even more strident wars of faith. The paths of righteous reclamation is clear to them, and in these pitiless times their light is needed now more than ever. We can but be grateful for them, yearn to be more akin to their nobility and selflessness, and we can but pray that we ourselves may never be so desperate as to require the aid of a battle sister and her bolter. Ave Imperator, Gloria in Excelsis Terra. Otherwise, please like, subscribe, comment, let me know your feedback, and as ever, thank you very much for watching.


Do you have a filter for your mind or do you allow just any thoughts to come in? Just as an air filter keeps the air clean, so a mind filter will help to keep your thoughts right. Apply the Philippians filter to your thinking. And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4-8.  Apply the Philippians filter to your thinking and see if it doesn't make a difference.


Good morning. I'm Tagnesian J.C.C.S. with the Denver Police Communications Bureau and on behalf of Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas I welcome each of you to this promotion ceremony. Today, 17-4 members of the department are being promoted to the race of Deputy Chief, Division Chief, Commander, Lieutenant, and Sergeant. And we are also recognizing five members of our professional staff who have recently been promoted or hired to the position of Director. These 22 members of the department seated here today have devoted a tremendous amount of time, effort, and energy to get to this very moment and are now being recognized for their skills and accomplishments. We look forward to seeing them continue building their LACs in their new leadership roles. And so far in the Denver Police careers, they have already served in the Denver community for a combined 322 years. At this time, we can stand to your table for the presentation of the colors by the Denver Police Honorary. That's right. Mark. Are you good? Mark. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Our word. Right. Third. Mark. These are many standing for the invocation delivered by Denver Police Captain Rabbi Steve Kaye. Let us bow our heads for a moment of prayer and thanksgiving. In pure chaos, the teaching of our ancestors, an important Jewish text, we are taught these words. Who is wise, the one who learns from all others, as has written Psalm 119. I have gained understanding from all my teachers and in Provert 16, one who is slow to anger and is better than the mighty and one whose temper is controlled and the one who captures the city. This morning we gather to honor these wise women and men of our Denver Police department as they assume new leadership roles. We honor our new Deputy Chief Montoya and our new Division Chief Dodge, four new commanders, five directors, five lieutenants and six sergeants, all under the command of our Chief of Police Ron Thomas. Eternal God, we ask that these men and women continue to use their knowledge, street experience and keen sense of values as they lead our department in the months and years to come. We honor these new leaders this day with joy and love and their eternal blessings. We are assembled here along with their co-workers, family and friends, our mayor and distinguished guests to acknowledge this milestone in their lives. Each and every day all the members of our Denver Police department do their best to improve the quality of life in our city. Our officers give unselfishly of themselves to serve and to protect our great city. May these newly promoted officers go forth with your eternal protection with the shield of your love and the support of their loved ones. We pray that those who are under their supervision will see them as leaders who exemplify the values of justice and fairness, who will have understanding and compassion as they influence the lives of our officers, their families and the citizens of the city and county of Denver. May all who are assembled this day be blessed in your holy name and together let us say, Amen. Thank you very much. Please be seated. At this time I'll invite Mayor Mike Johnson to address our poem of peace and guest. Good morning. It is an honor to be with you this morning and an honor to be here to celebrate the incredible accomplishments that are represented on this stage today. I will say that the most basic commitment every civilization makes is public safety. The problem that we make to each other is that when you are in your moment of greatest need, your greatest terror and most alone, you'll be able to reach out and someone will show up who can help you. And that person will show up without prejudice, without judgment, without bias and be able to meet you in that moment of struggle and say, whatever your need is now, I'm going to carry you from where you are to where you need to go. That is the most selfless of all commitments. It is the most fundamental human instinct. It is the deepest desire to help and to serve. And in your context it is often the most difficult commitment to keep because you find people out there toughest, sometimes they're worse. And you have the decency and the belief to support them and carry them to whatever they may be facing. Today is about celebrating lives of service. This is our job. This is a calling. You enter this work as you believe fundamentally an important summit and you stay in it regardless of the challenges because that calling was so powerful. Maybe none more powerful than Sergeant Dodge's story you shared with me this morning, which is even in the moment when you had an entire vehicle out of his leg and knew that he might lose that leg, his first decision was to take off his uniform himself and hand it to someone else and say, keep that because I'm going to get back. Because when I get through this, I will come back to service community again, over and over and over again because that is what I do. That's what I was built to do. That's what we're going to do. That's what I'm going to keep doing. And I will do it today by showing up to support my wife, who will be over before the foreman in 165 years during this war to bear the title of Chief. Those are the lives of service that we are here to celebrate today. And I just want to say I consider myself lucky to be able to serve with you all in this work together. So thank you for being done for this city, for me, for my family and for the 750,000 people out there today who know they can live a life of safety and security and stability in this city because of your service. Thank you so much. Executive Directors Saul Daphnir will now share his thoughts on today's promotions and appointments. Thank you. Good morning everyone. What a great and joyous occasion and an honor to be with you all here today. I was trying to think about what I would share with you all and couldn't really find the words. This is a pretty special promotion ceremony for me. I know many of these promoters. I've been able to work with them throughout my career here in Denver and just find them to be truly exceptional leaders. But one thing that I'd be remiss if I didn't thank you all for being here. You are the support system. You are the tough love. You have helped each one of these promoters get to where they are. Without their family, friends, loved ones, they wouldn't be where they're at. They wouldn't have the success and they wouldn't be able to do what they do. I also thank you for your shared sacrifice. Having someone that you love in this calling, in this duty is not easy. Every time you hear something horrible happening in our city, you worry about that loved one. And so I thank you for that sacrifice. I know these new promoters will miss birthdays, special occasions, but I really appreciate that support that you have provided them. Congratulations to each one of you. You all have not only answered the call to serve our city, our great city and community, you've answered the call to serve your peers, people in the department, and to lead. Leadership isn't easy. And make no mistake, we are currently a community in crisis. There are a number of emergencies going on in our community, a number of emergencies going on around the world. Yet these folks choose to not only serve and answer the call, but they choose to lead.  Our employees are what makes this department so great. That commitment to serve is what makes this community safe. And be able to serve folks because, you know, they're part of the community too. When I say communities in crisis, that includes our employees. Our employees that have been through countless emergency vectorations since the pandemic. That has had to withstand numbers of change with all the pressures that are going on in our society right now. Yet they continue to come out and serve and risk their lives for the public good. Thank you. Your leadership is needed now more than ever. And I appreciate your dedication and willingness to serve. Thank you. And now, Chief Thomas would like to share his words of encouragement with the leaders you promoted today. Good morning. I want to thank the mayor and the executive director for their words of inspiration. I'm going to be quick though. And not just because they have said just about everything that I really wanted to say. But because like many of you, I'm really excited, you know, we're going to be promoting a number of individuals today. Very special occasion. And I want to get to the part that we all came here to see. But first, I too want to thank everyone for being here on such a fantastic occasion. A special recognition to the friends and family of all those that are being appointed today. You see, nobody makes it up on the stage or in the seats right there by themselves. Each one of these individuals has somebody that has a support system that's behind them that helps support them. That gives them encouragement. That, you know, the steps in and fills the gap and takes up the slack when they're committing themselves to the process. And so on behalf of each of them, I want to thank you for that everlasting support. Now, I want to congratulate all these formalities. I also want to acknowledge that we're going to be recognizing five civilian professional staff directors. And that's important because, you know, they all hold the rank of, it's essentially the equivalent to a commander in division or a district commander position. And they each have skill sets and expertise that is just as valuable as any sworn member of our forces. I think it's important to recognize their contributions, which are the reason why we're such a fantastic department. You know, usually when we promote a group this big, I customize my remarks for each rank. But I really want to just leave you all with one message because each of you will be engaging with the individuals that will be working with you. And so the words that I want to leave you with are, is that leaders cannot make positive changes within their own community until those in their span of care. I want everyone to take note that it's a span of care and not span of control. Feel valued and appreciated and are treated with dignity and respect. And so as you go forth, please remember that more important than any of the decisions that you make is how you make those that are in your span of care feel. So congratulations once again. Thank you. Now, with the assistance of Mayor Johnson, executive director Salgate and Chief Thomas, we will be in our batch and certificate presentations. When each name is called, the officer and director and those who will be fitting on the new batch are invited to come up to the stage or if you're not able to the front of the stage. Those who will be joining their officer or director on stage are asked to please meet with your mission guests in the fan station area to the right of the stage before your officer name is called. The order of officers is being called in your programs. Please note that the department of photographers will be taking individual pictures of each officer during batch and certificate presentations. Deputy Chief Joseph A. Montoya Jr. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. Deputy Chief Montoya's previous degree assignments include district court patrol, detective, sergeant and vice mayor colleagues, internal affairs lieutenant, major crisis captain, district court manager, district brief manager, internal affairs manager, and deputy chief of investigations. He has earned multiple community commendations and commendatory letters, three merit awards, and one distinguished service class. Joining him are his wife Joanne, his father Joe, his mother Carmen, daughter Joelle, and grandson Henry. Depending on his new batch is his father Joe. Deputy Chief Megan Dodge. Deputy Chief Dodge began serving at the dinner for this department on October 1, 1998. She holds a batch for the science degree in the county from the University of Colorado and a master's of science in organizational leadership from the Colorado State University of Kansas. Deputy Chief Dodge's previous degree assignments include district court patrol, district one sergeant, records and ID section sergeant, district real pen, special operations lieutenant, administrative management unit commander, operations support commander, district three commander, city and security protection commander, and internal affairs commander. Her new assignment will be deputy chief of administration. Joining her are her husband Sergeant Justin Dodge, her kids Morgan, P, and Brody Dodge. Depending on her new batch is her entire family. We would also like to take this time to acknowledge Sergeant Sergeant Dodge and wish him well with his continued recovery. Commander, and a commander to be answered at the dinner for this department on August 2, 1990. Commander Registration is to be assigned as a student, district one patrol, district three patrol, district four patrol, district four impact officer, game unit officer, game unit detective, district one investigations, district one records unit, district four sergeant, district one impact team sergeant, major crime sergeant, robbery unit sergeant, cold case unit sergeant, homicide unit sergeant, hostage negotiations team sergeant, major crime lieutenant, and airport bureau lieutenant. His new assignment will be district one commander. Joining him on stage are his wife Janelle Ledger, his three daughters, DPD professional staff member Hansel, DPD Corporal City Union, and Dr. Samantha Ledger. Depending on his new batch is his wife Janelle Ledger. Commander Stephen O. Addison Junior. Commander Addison will be answered at the dinner for this department on September 1, 1995. He holds the bachelor of science degree in administration of justice with minor in public law and a minor across the college from the University of Wyoming, and an bachelor of science in criminal justice from the University of Colorado. His previous DPD assignments include Mr. Six Patrol, game unit officer, sergeant at the radio room, district six sergeant, night shift sergeant, major crime sergeant, aid to the division chief of investigation, district six lieutenant, robbery, homicide section lieutenant, internal affairs lieutenant, counter threat section lieutenant. He has earned one senior service cross, one night stand award, four police merit awards, two community service awards, one citizen appreciates police award, one union citation, eight official commendations, 30 commendatory letters and 26 letters of appreciation. His new assignment will be eternal fair bureau commander. Joining him on stage and depending on his new batch is his wife Jody Madsen. Commander Michelle Oman. Commander Oman will be answered at the dinner for this department on October 13, 2008. After 24 years of firing around working service with other agencies. She holds master's degree in public administration from the American military university. Commander Oman's previous DPD assignments include district three, district four patrol, academy and firearms instructor, domestic violence and crisis negotiator, internal affairs lieutenant and director of training. She has earned four commendations. Her new assignment will be the diversity, equity and support bureau commander. Joining her on stage depending on her new batch is her wife Rhianne Marchman. She will join us today to advance our knowledge of promotion. His new assignment will be district three commander. Today we are also acknowledge members of our professional staff who have recently been hired or promoted to their respective roles as bureau directors. Director of community education bureau, Marie Davis. Director Dawes and minister of the dinner for this department on March 10, 2015. I was promoted to the role as director of the community education bureau on May 1, 2020. Her prior position in DPD was program administrator for the volunteers and police service program. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in business management from George Boston University. Joining her on stage are her husband Eric Dawes, Dr. Mikaela Dawes and his son Trenton Dawes. Oh, okay. We got to move this way. There is a little bit of change to me in the picture. She is a part of the department on October 2, 2020. His prior application was county manager of Southern County Colorado and has more than 20 years of prior law enforcement experience. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in business administration. And a master's degree in public administration from California State University, Long Beach. Joining him on stage is his wife, Sethan Janice. The liberal services bureau director, Lucinda James. Director of the dinner for this department on July 10, 2023. Her prior occupation was director of public safety for the junior state children. She holds a bachelor of science degree in professional interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis in English and business from Jackson State University. She has currently completed the final requirements to obtain a master of science degree in crime analysis from Arizona State University. Crisis services bureau director, Chris Richardson. Rick Richardson joined the dinner for this department on July 31, 2023. His prior occupation was director of the mental health center family. He played an integral role with the staff program and the DVD correspondent program. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Western State University. And a master's in social work from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Joining him on stage are his wife, Ashley Lennon Richardson and his kids. There we go. One, two, three, four. Great smile. Great communication bureau, Doug Sheppin. Director Sheppin began serving on the dinner for this department on June 29, 2013. And was promoted to his role as director of the communication bureau on July 9, 2023. Spire edition of the DVD were marketing communication specialists and marketing communication manager. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in communications from Northern Kentucky University. Joining him on stage are his wife, Sarah, and children, Mianna, Jackson and Laura. He's N. Cuskin. Mr. Cuskin began serving for the government for his department on April 23, 2001. Mr. Cuskin's previous DVD assignments include district 1 sergeant and district 4 sergeant. He has earned the Citizenship Registration Police Award, the Community Service Award, two star awards, and a distinguished service cross. His new assignment will be district 2 lieutenant. Joining him on stage are his wife, Samantha, his sons, Caleb, Colin and Quinn, his mom, Deborah, and his dad, retired narrow police captain, John Cuskin. Depending on his new badge, it's his dad. Lieutenant Tamara L. Molymaneau. Lieutenant Molymaneau began serving for the government for this department on November 1, 1996. She holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Colorado. Lieutenant Molymaneau's previous DVD assignments include district 6 patrol, downtown motorcycle unit, crimes against persons, assault unit, sex transhuman, homicide unit, and internal affairs division. She has earned several DVD accommodations. Her new assignment will be district 2 lieutenant. Joining her on stage for the new badge are her husband, Dwayne Molymaneau and Dr. Jordan Molymaneau. Lieutenant Jesse Canney began serving for the government for this department on January 14, 2008. After three years of running around for his own experience with another agency. His previous DVD assignments include district 6 patrol, district 3 corporal, district 6 sergeant, district 6 training sergeant, internal affairs sergeant. He has earned the medal of valor. His new assignment will be the training bureau lieutenant. Joining him on stage are his wife, Lindsay, and his children, Jack and Kate. His new badge is his son, Janet. Lieutenant Aaron James Kaepern. He will be answering the very first department on January 10, 2005. After six years of running around for his own service with another agency. He holds a bachelor of science degree from the Northwestern State University of Denver. Lieutenant Kaepern's previous DVD assignments include district 1 patrol, district 3 patrol, vice in our products bureau detective, human trafficking unit detective, and excise license unit sergeant. He has earned the police merit award, community service award, officer of the year award, and two chief student citations. His new assignment will be lieutenant and special investigation bureau candidate section. Joining him on stage are his wife, Pamela. His daughter is Ruby, Lucy, and Sophia. His new badge is his wife. He will be answering the very first department on January 1, 2006. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in communications from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Lieutenant Franklin's previous DVD assignments include district 2 patrol, sex crime unit detective, district 2 sergeant, missing and exploited persons sergeant, and internal affairs sergeant. She has earned the sorrel award. Her new assignment will be district 1 lieutenant. Joining her on stage are her husband, D.P. Sergeant Curtis Franklin, and her father, retired DVD detective, C. McKenna. Pinning on her new badge is her father. Christopher Coles. Sergeant Coles will be answering the number for his department on July 29, 2015. After eight years of running around for his own service with another agency. He holds a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin, Blackville. His previous DVD assignments include district 2 patrol, district 2 impact team, district 2 narcotics, uniform support team, and Metro's lab. He has earned the district 2 top cop award and several letters of commendation. His new assignment will be district 4 sergeant. Joining him on stage are his wife, Sarah Coles, and his brother and parents Dan and Robin Coles. Pinning on his new badge is his wife. We're with McKenna. Sergeant McKenna will be answering the number for his department on July 11, 2016. After nine years of running around for his own service with another agency. He holds a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice from the University of Wisconsin. His previous DVD assignments include district 2 patrol, game unit, sort team, marijuana unit detective, and the bombing criminal enterprise task force detective. He has earned the two star awards, preservation of life award, and two letters of commendation. His new assignment will be district 6 sergeant. Joining him on stage are his wife, Amy, his daughter's father and other, his dad and sister. Pinning on his new badge are his daughter's. Sergeant Jeremy King. Sergeant King will be answering the number for his department on April 4, 2005. He holds an associate degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Southeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska. His previous DVD assignments include district 3 patrol and technical and electronic support unit detective. He has earned multiple star awards. His new assignment will be district 6 sergeant. Joining him on stage are his wife, Caitlin King, children, Ryder, and D. King. Pinning on his new badge are his wife. You can't hide back there. Sergeant Garrett Warsh. Sergeant Warsh will be answering the number for his department on August 3, 2015. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in history and secondary education from the University of Northern Colorado. His previous DVD assignments include district 3 patrol and district 3 support unit. He has earned the Meritorious Service Medal. His new assignment will be district 1. Joining him on stage are his wife, Sean Jones, and his father, Karen. Pinning on his new badge is his father. We've got to keep the chief of the picture. Okay, one, two, six. There we go. Sergeant Peterson will be answering the number for his department. On December 29, 2014. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice from the University of Northern Colorado. Sergeant Peterson will be answering the number for his department. His new assignment will be district 6. Joining him on stage are his wife, Caitlin, and boy and boy. Sergeant Zachary Patrick is not able to join the state, but is also being acknowledged over this promotion. His new assignment will be district 1 sergeant. Please join me in congratulating these 22 deserving officers and professional staff. I would be remiss if we didn't pause for a moment and ask for continued blessings for you, sergeant. Just to dodge, because it takes a community, a prayer, and a community of people who are standing with you, and have been around with you and the family, and we are so honored of your presence. And we know it is a painful and yet a joyous time that you were with us, and we salute you and we're thankful for doing that. I'm going to take a moment of rabbinic personal privilege before I do that. I remember when you became sergeant, I was standing on the stage, and I didn't know that you were married to Megan at the time, and she was the first one up and she gave you a kiss, and I said, I don't get those things when I offer a blessing. So I always remember that as a very sweet moment when you received becoming a sergeant. As a Lord of the Universe, we've been witness this last hour to seeing the pride of these men and women who will assume new roles of leadership in our Denver Police Department. We ask for continued blessings for them, their beloved families, and for all of the other officers and support staff who diligently serve our department every day. May blessings of wisdom and leadership continually be bestowed upon Chief Thomas and his command staff as they lead our Denver Police Department. Let us always be mindful and thankful that we live in this great nation built upon the foundation of freedom and personal liberties. During these turbulent and political times and acts of barbaric acts known by terrorists, we are thankful for the freedom that we have as Americans. We ask for your continued blessings and the safety of our American troops throughout the world to protect our nation, and all that represents our values. Eternal one of blessings, may we continue to gather at times like these to celebrate the joy of life, opportunities for growth, and may our cup of life always overflow with your sweetness and your blessings. And as a safety community, let us say, Amen. Please be seated. At the conclusion of the ceremony, we invite you to enjoy your profession provided by the office of the Chief of Police. They are set up here to the left of the stage. We are also asked all the recent promoters, directors and the director appointed directors to meet up at the stage for a group voting after this. In closing, achievement promotion within the Denver Police Department is an exceptional accomplishment. These 22 members of the Department standing in front of you today have demonstrated through their hard work that they are ready and committed to leading others in fulfilling the mission of the Denver Police Department. Again, congratulations. This concludes our ceremony. Thank you all for attending.


And the People's Democratic Party, by also state, believes it will take overpowering a Sorok villa in 2023. The political adviser to the state governor, Collins-Cocodia, is hopeful that a PDP national convention coming up later this month will mark a new beginning in the party's quest to reclaim Abuja. He was speaking to journalists in his office in Yenegua, a correspondent Jesse Eze, has details. To go party, the People's Democratic Party has had its fair share of internal wrangling usually caused by a conflict of interest. Despite this, the political adviser to the by also state governor, Collins-Cocodia, believes Nigerians prefer the PDP to the ruling or progressive Congress, APC. The federal government, APC-led government, has taken on so many years back than they met in 2015. They told us that they were coming to ensure that Naira is equal to $1. They told us that there is no subsidy and petrol should be cheaper than the way we have been buying it before 2015. And they told us a lot of things. And Nigerians wanting to try them, give them power for over six years now. And we are all crying. Here in by also state, the PDP has been welcoming defectors from other parties. Cocodia attributes this to the party not leaving anything to chance. He says the next step is to bring our group members back to the party. Also looking at his track record, projects that are ongoing despite the dwindling resources. Also seeing the machinich of Mr. Governor. And also looking closely at the things Mr. Governor is doing and what have you. Some of them, just looking at his body language, the FedEx, it's high time for them to come back and join the original political party. And for us, we will keep on working until we are able to reduce the opposition to the barriers. Some of them came back on the evolution, we'll tell anybody talking to them. However, a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress in by also state, Ophoni Williams, believes the PDP does not have any chance in the 2023 general elections in the state. What has PDP government done in by also state that will allow them to win elections? Virtually they've done nothing. One thing that is remarkable for the PDP so far is that the state has indebted more and more and more and more. Our debt profile is swearing within 180 billion to 200 billion right now. And nothing to substantiate the borrowings on ground. Barely three days of this new day led government of prosperity. 2.9 billionaires was borrowed. A week later, 3 billionaires was bought for counterfeit funding in education. Thereafter, 2 months later, 8 billionaires was bought for agriculture. What had happened to all these monies? And just last week, 18.7 billionaires had been borrowed. You see, it is borrowing, borrowing, borrowing and that is only legacy that anyone can hold on to consigning the PDP government of the Ediri. The battle for Aso Rock Villa is already heating up with the margins of a number of support groups for different politicians even though the general election is more than one year away. For Plus TV Africa, I am Jesse Yasee.


Unexplained location, UE-542256 Description A haunted manor theme park ride inhabited and operated by entities that claim to be ghosts. Entities are non-hostile and only wish to scare and entertain. Entities will attempt to keep their sentience a secret voluntarily. Date of containment, March 12, 1967 Access Granted, August 9, 1969 Location, Wena Vista Lake, Florida, USA Security Protocol Due to high public knowledge of the building's existence, but not of the anomalous property and financial backing and investment of the ████ Corporation, the building must be under constant watch and a stock of Class B amnestic be kept on site should secrecy be lost and cover story A-13298, false rumor be spread. The site should be condemned and demolished afterward. Unexplained location, UE-928135 Description An approximately circular area of land with a diameter measuring approximately 4.5 km. The area will appear on any digital geographic modeling system as a real-time representation of an inhabited village with a confirmed population in excess of 2,000 individual members. All inhabitants seem to be fully sentient but unaware of the nature of their existence. Date of containment Location Heref Assured, England Security Protocol The area around the location is to be heavily monitored and the area itself has been designated as landfill and waste processing. All major digital maps have been altered to avoid rendering a location. Unexplained location, UE-1072 Description A small town in Belarus At approximately 1330, between 1 and 124 residents will sing Rosanna by Toto. Instrumental portions will be mimicked by the affected residents. Suspects show no memory of this event. Active containment, April 13, 2013 Location ██████ Belarus Security Protocol No less than two researchers are to be kept in the town to observe effects. No further actions will be taken at this time. Unexplained location, UE-815582 Description A small one-story house. One continually flows in five-centimeter-wide paths from underneath the doors of the rooms connected to the hallway, including a bathroom and two bedrooms, two other doors. No sand has ever been located or detected within the rooms. Date of containment August 24, 2010 Location Miami, Florida Security Protocol A single agent has been assigned to live in the house full-time and observe the anomaly for changes. Unexplained location, UE-479680 Description A housing estate measuring 50 meters by 35 meters, designed by architect ████ in 1986, but never inhabited. It is constructed in five spatial dimensions, explorations revealing paradoxical but consistent geometry. Date of containment February 6, 1987 Location ████ Scotland Security Protocol Purchased and infrasonic repellents installed Demolition requests denied ████ Now designated POI-5536 Unexplained location, UE-732624 Description A small shed where a strong odor of decaying bodies is permanently present. The odor cannot be perceived outside the shed and does not clean the clothing or other objects after they have been removed from the location. Date of containment September 6, 2008 Location ████ 4.3 km directly north of ████, Sweden Security Protocol Location purchased by the Foundation and walls constructed. Perimeter alarms installed on September 24, 2008 Unexplained location, UE-865776 Description A circular area approximately 46 meters in diameter. Gravity in this area does not conform to regular laws or models, lessening and partially reversing at points. Date of containment ████ 1945 Location Santa Cruz, California Security Protocol Due to public popularity at the time of the confirmation of anomalous activity, location permitted to continue operating as the mystery spot, a local terrorist attraction. Every several years, theories are to be leaked through the scientific community as the possible causes for the anomaly, such as optical illusions or geographical positioning. Unexplained location, UE-866848 Description A 5 meter by 5 meter by 5 meter wood cabin with a single 1 meter by 2 meter closed window located in the center of one of the sides. No other windows or doors can be found on any other side. It is possible to see a humanoid figure standing in the middle of the area of the cabin with a single life bulb hanging on the ceiling, illuminating the figure. The figure doesn't move and the life bulb doesn't seem to be connected to any power source, although it is powered at all times. Date of containment February 27, 2001 Location ████ South Sudan, Africa Security Protocol Surrounding area is benched off with two security cameras placed at one of the benches facing the windowed wall. Unexplained location, UE-463104 Description A 6 square foot patch of land that has always shaded. It appears in the middle of a field with no sign of any objects that have struck light. It does not shade people who enter and only affects the ground. Date of containment September 27, 19██ Location Granville, Ohio, USA Security Protocol A foundation-managed horse farm is currently surrounding the anomaly. A science data in its private property is kept outside of it. Unexplained location, UE-328880 Description A 3 meter by 3 meter area of empty land. Area is suspected to be void of light, appearing to be completely black from within the area. Whether or not the area is actually the void of light is undetermined due to the difficulty of observation. Date of containment July 8, 2005 Location Four Sites, GA Security Protocol Surrounding area is fenced off and disguised as a stud farm. One foundation agent is to be stationed in a house near the premises. Unexplained location, UE-46320 Description A small indoor paintball field. Putting a paintball marker inside the field causes a heads-up display containing an aiming reticle and score tracker to appear inside the wielder's vision. Date of containment March 4, 2002 Location Moat, Noma County, Oregon, USA Security Protocol Property purchased and closed to the public. All former employees and visitors administered Class A amnestics, occasionally used for staff birthday parties due to Site-64 proximity. Unexplained location, UE-59360 Description A three meter by three meter by three meter area. Despite the surrounding temperature, there will always be 30 cm of snow on the ground. The snow cannot be brought out of the area. Date of containment February 4, 2016 Mojave Desert, Nevada, United States Security Protocol A four meter by four meter by four meter still room has been set up around the perimeter. Unexplained location, UE-314448 Description A small town in Madagascar, where any longtime resident, 10 plus years, will spontaneously combust as they do not eat 5 kg of peanuts annually. This will not affect the resident if they are allergic to peanuts. Date of containment May 29, 2013 Location Ambondromomy, Boney, Madagascar Security Protocol The town and surrounding area have been crop dusted with Class A amnesiac. Locals have been given a strong government backing to invest in peanut crop production. Unexplained location, UE-179152 Description An approximately 15 by 19.5 by 17 meters area in northeast England, where no sound above approximately two decibels can be heard or recorded. Date of containment ████, 2000 and ████ Location Penrith, England Security Protocol Building constructed around the area was an agent stationed permanently in a nearby farmhouse. Date currently used for sound experiments and low-level sound anomaly storage. Note Very calming Dr. Lisa Wicks Unexplained location, UE-61648 Description A stretch of beach from which a constantly repeating atomic explosion is visible. No sound or radiation is produced, and the explosion is not visible from any other location. Date of containment Blank Location Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands Security Protocol Area cordoned off and kept under constant surveillance Unexplained location, UE-121936 Description An indoor paintball arena on ████ Avenue Any amount of persons who enter and set up a standard paintball are joined by four male military-style personnel, two per team. The men will give accurate and useful tactical instruction and advice to each team in order to achieve swift victory for their respected team. Date of containment May 19, 2000 Location ████, Pennsylvania, United States Security Protocol Building and property were properly purchased and closed to the public under the report that rats had infested the party area. Suggesting to use the location as an MTF training facility is pending approval. Note, accepted, Dr. Gears Unexplained location, UE-828352 Description Standard school classroom in which time passes two times slower, such as 30 seconds equals 60 seconds, etc. Location was previously designated as a detention room. Subcontainment, May 2, 2017 Location Downlands Community School, West Sussex, UK Security Protocol Area cordoned off by Offstead Foundation Recovery Team, labeled as unsafe. Note, horse students, Dr. Lewis Wood Unexplained location, UE-348672 Description A 25 meter by 25 meter square area rural countryside Any breed of dog, Kenneth's loop is familiar as in the area, will proceed to emit a sound similar to the popular TV character Pingu's Noot at approximately 110 decibels whenever they bark. Date of containment ████, Location ████, District Derbyshire, UK Security Protocol Area cordoned off and labeled as unstable ground with hidden security cameras and bushes around the area to monitor if the area's effects spread. Unexplained location, UE-613904 Description A street where any noise perceived by humans or electronic devices is followed exactly two seconds afterwards by an exact copy of the sound. The echo effect does not extend the sounds caused by the echo effect. Date of containment ████, Location ████, Sir at India Security Protocol, road blocked off and removed from maps. Unexplained location, UE-178080 Description A room where all objects placed inside seem to be replaced by English words describing them. Date of containment ████, Location ████, Library, London, England Security Protocol ████, Library purchased by the Foundation and now closed to the public Unexplained location, UE-676480 Description An area of roughly 7 km2 in which all precipitation takes to form of specimens of the Indian Red Scorpion. Specimens are non-anomalous and instances which survive the fall typically perish due to inclement weather conditions. Date of containment ████, October 17, 2007 Location ████, Kilometers south of Area ████, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica Security Protocol Due to its isolated location and relatively rare occurrence, minimal security is necessary. Outpost A-02 has been established to allow for remote monitoring.


Don't niche yourself, but do niche your offers. So let's talk about this. What does this mean? And why might you want to follow the strategy as well? So first of all, a lot of us who are heart-based solepreneurs, we might be interested in many different things. Naturally, you probably have gotten trainings in this modality and that process and this particular framework. And so you would like to offer these different ways of healing or transformation or support to your clients, to your audience. And yet, you come across marketing advice that says, no, no, no, no, no. You have to niche yourself into this tiny box that constrains your unlimited potential. You've got to say that you help this particular type of person with this particular problem or small set of problems using this particular method. And that's supposedly the best marketing you can do because then people will remember you. They'll have a place for you in their head and they'll be able to easily talk about your work to other people. Ever heard that before? Well, that advice has never sat well with me. I have always rebelled against it.  And so I never niche myself. I never niche myself. Meaning, look at what I look at the stuff that I offer. I mean, look at the courses that I teach. I started 14 years ago teaching LinkedIn. Did you know that? That was my first course, how to use LinkedIn for your business, 14 years ago. And then someone said, well, George, you seem pretty good at Facebook too. Maybe you could teach that. I said, oh, okay, great. So I taught how to use Facebook for your business. It's a different niche. Really is. People are specialists in LinkedIn, specialists in Facebook marketing, specialists in TikTok or whatever. And then someone said, George, you seem really good at teaching webinars. Could you teach us about that? I said, okay, different niche, but all right, I'll teach how to teach webinars. So I did that for a while. And then someone said, George, you seem really good at collaborating with other people doing joint ventures. Could you tell us how you do that? So I created a whole program on how to do joint ventures and on and on and on. More recently, I got real excited by the AI revolution. So I said, this is important and I'm going to teach some courses on it because I'm learning myself and I wanna share what I learned with others. I mean, look at this image behind me is I generated this on AI with just a few minutes. I'm not an artist and you may or may not call this art but it's pretty. And anyway, so I'm teaching AI courses now. I also wrote a couple of books and someone said, please show us how you do that. So I taught a course on book publishing, which some people that's their entire career is teaching or doing book publishing and teaching others how to do booksell publishing. I am in multiple niches and I haven't even named the other five to seven niches that I dabble in. I have a spirituality program. I have a content creation program. So I've always resisted niching. And more recently I realized, okay, what I'm doing is even though I rebel against the advice of niching oneself, like one's business has to be about this and just this and focus, stay in your own lane, all that stuff. I said, okay, I don't do that but what I do is each of my offers is more specific. That's why I mean by don't niche yourself but do niche your offers. By offers I mean each service you provide, each course that you teach, each webinar that you present, each event that you host, those can be niched. I could next week host a webinar for dog owners on how to train your dog with love. I could do that. I've been doing that. I'm pretty good at dog training actually. So I could do that. Like I said, I'm right now I'm teaching an art class. I'm not an artist. I don't niche myself that way but I teach an art class. I do and it's quite successful. People who are taking my art class love it because I use AI to do the art and I teach them how to use the AI. I'm an art teacher now. I'm an art and not only that I have a private Facebook group where much of the activity these days is the AI art.  I just never changed my title from 10, 12 years ago when I came up with Authentic Business Coach or about 10 years ago I did nine or 10 years ago. Just never changed it. Even though I don't do, I'm not a coach anymore. My title is still Authentic Business Coach but I'm not a coach anymore. I just haven't bothered to change the title. I don't care what you call me. Some people call me, interestingly some people call me a Facebook ads expert because that's been the class I've taught very focused for several years and some people that's all they engage with my services is to learn Facebook, Instagram ads and I'm quite good at it. And then some people just say, oh yeah, you're an ad expert.  That's fine. And so you might say, well you know doesn't that take away from your marketing and from your memorability and all that stuff? I said, no, why does it take away? Because the people who have taken learned Facebook ads from me and implemented the advice and did well they just it made a deep impact on them and that's what they think of. The people taking my AI art class now think of me as an AI art expert and teacher and that's what they're gonna remember me for and that's what they're telling their friends that I do. People who took my blog to book course they published their book or several books and they're thrilled by it and that's what they tell their friends. Oh, George does his book class. That's what they tell their friends about me and that's how they see me. I allow you, so and here's the thing. If you see offers from me, because I generally promote at least one or two offers per month, one or two different things per month, you probably just scrolled by the ones that weren't relevant for you, right? I mean, can you name all of my offers? I have 20 online courses right now and three group programs running right now. Can you name even half of them? I couldn't even name. No, you couldn't because you just scroll past when I say scroll past, I mean on social media but also on your email newsletter you just scroll past the ones that aren't relevant for you and when I offer something that you are thinking about and you're trying to learn or get better at it then you stop and you look at it and you consider it. That's it. And then the ones that you aren't, you just scroll past it.  No, I don't. No, you're just gonna think of me from whatever I made the deepest impact on you. That's how you'll remember me, right? That's all you remember and then you'll scroll past the other stuff. This is what people don't tell you about niching.  Why wouldn't you offer it? It's like a musician who says, okay, I'm gonna only sing this one song because that's one song people like from me. No, or the musician who says, oh, I'm only gonna do this one genre because I'm supposed to niche myself and only gonna do this one genre of music. I'm gonna only do jazz or only do hip hop or only do folk or only do whatever, you know, electronica, I mean, I don't, whatever, this is like, but even though they want to dabble in these other ways, why are you limiting them? You wouldn't limit an artist or musician, would you? No, please do dabble and please show us what you've got and the ones we don't like, we'll scroll past it. We'll listen to for five seconds, God, not my style, keep going.  Oh, I wanna see that art. And then you're mesmerized by it and that's what you share forward. Why couldn't you be like that? Why do you have to niche yourself? I don't get it. I mean, I've been around this for 14 years and been inquiring with this question for 14 years and I still don't get it. Someone please advise me. Someone please advise me why I should niche myself or at anybody should niche themselves, especially in our world today where the search engines, you might say, well, it's good for SEO, George have a website is niched, then it's better for search. Really? Is that how search engines work anymore? No, no. As far as I understand and I know SEO better than most people, I think. Search engines, they give you the pages that relate to your search, especially now going forward with AI, it's even going to be even more tailored and specific to what the searcher is looking for. Regardless of what that website also has, website has all the other stuff, the search bots are getting just smarter and smarter by the year.  This website has 15 different niches so we don't know what to do. They're not like that. They're like, oh, okay. People are looking for niche number 15. Well, this website has 15 niches but they do talk about niche 15 so we're going to surface those results and that's what they do. And that's also by the way, what humans do. This is idea that a human being is going, I'm so confused.  That doesn't work like that. You told me 15 things but I only understood number three so I'm going to remember you for number three. Great, wonderful. And you're going to keep seeing me for all 15 things or all 25 things and you'll just keep remembering me for number three. Cool, great. And at some point, you'll get interested in my niche number four and number eight because you didn't know you were interested in it but I kept posting about it so now you're like, oh, what's that about? Oh, interesting. I was only interested in your thing number three but now I'm also interested in your thing number eight because you kept posting about it. So whatever it is that energizes you, the vast majority of things that energize you post about them, make offers about them. I'm not saying you should do it for all of them. If you have 25 different passions and interests you don't have to literally go through each of the 25 like you just keep on that one a week and then that's like, I only get to touch in on one of my 25 things twice a year and you don't have to do that. You go with what energizes you now and by the way, what energizes you now is probably connected, very likely connected to what energizes your audience too. See, this is the, sorry, I think this is the genius of my system. Obviously, I praise myself too much. No, obviously I follow my own system. That's why I talk about it, that's why I use it but it's, we tend to gravitate towards the parts of our passions, the aspects of our interests that also interest our audience because we post about these different things and all people ignore me when I talk about thing number two and thing number seven but my goodness, they're saying stuff when I post about number three and number eight, well, you're naturally energized when people respond to you and so you're naturally going to gravitate towards posting more about those things that people respond to and you're gonna make your different offers and oh, nobody bought thing number five. Oh my God, look how many people bought thing number nine. Well, of course you're gonna gravitate towards offering thing number nine more often or a different flavor of thing number nine. Do you see what I mean? So this all works out if you're willing to be like an artist or musician and say, I'm gonna just put out 25 tracks I'm gonna put out 30 pieces of art and I'm going to notice which ones people are buying or engaging with and I'm gonna make more stuff like that. It's just naturally I will want to make more stuff like that.  I'm gonna make stuff people don't buy and that's a whole separate issue but for most of us who are service providers we will naturally gravitate towards the stuff people are buying from us or reacting from us reacting based on what we put out there and we're gonna just do more of that. So do not feel you have to niche yourself. Your website can be the broadest thing in the world. Really, really. Your homepage can just be so broad. It can just be about values. I believe in love. I believe in integrity. That's all your website has to say. Your homepage. Your about page can talk about your 25 different certifications and your five favorite certifications were these but the other 20 also, great. Your about page can be as broad and then you have on your website each page for your 25 offers.  Well, can you coach people who are retired? Okay, good.  I'm a life coach for retirees. You don't have to. I mean, unless you want to you can niche yourself if you want by the way. I'm just talking to the people who have a hard time with that, like myself. You can niche yourself all day long. You could do that if you want to. If it's successful for you, if it energizes you if you love it, please do it. Please do it. But if you don't love it, if you just can't do it then don't and allow yourself to be that flexible. So like I said, say I'm a life coach and I'm like, George, I would be happy to coach retirees but I also love working with teenagers. How can I put that in under one business? Why not? Your homepage could say, I love helping people love their life because they're on purpose or whatever it does. It can be as generic and as broad as you want. Please do not be all limiting thought and go, I can't be this generic, can't be this broad. Why not? Why the heck not? Let me tell you why. Because your credibility should not come from your homepage. You should not have this weird idea that, okay, my homepage, if it doesn't make someone fall in love with me and want to buy from me right away, then it's a fail. No, who does that? Who goes to a homepage and go, oh my God, I got to hire this person. I don't even know what this is. Yeah, it's occasionally happens. It's rare, but you'll eventually get there but what's more likely to happen is people are coming to your website to confirm what they heard about you. The retiree told their friends that you're a great coach for them.  They'll go look around and your homepage is very generic because I believe in love or whatever, but they're not gonna stop there because their friend told them about you or they saw a post from you or they watched a couple of videos from you and say this person, I love this person, energy signature.  Oh, I believe in love. Okay, go on, wonderful. I believe in that too. Okay, let me keep surfing. There's a person who's gonna be like, go to your homepage, it's so generic and it's so generic. That's not the person for you. If that person is that impatient with your homepage, no matter how generic it is, it's not your ideal client. It's probably not even your potential client. They're just not meant for you. Let them go on. The person who is your potential client will spend more than 30 seconds on your website. Okay, they're gonna say, oh, generic homepage, but let me keep going because I somehow feel like this person could help me. I believe in love, great. Okay, all right, let me keep going. What are your services? Oh, your life coaching can do retirees who are wanting to rekindle love with their partner. Oh, wonderful. Oh, you have another package for retirees who are looking for purpose after their corporate career. Oh, wonderful. Oh, wonderful, okay. Oh, you also help teenagers because I've got teenage grandson who could use your help, wonderful. They're not gonna go, hmm, I don't know about this person. They could coach both retirees and teenagers, goodbye. No, they're not gonna do that. If they heard about you from somebody or they read one of your content or they watch some videos, they're gonna go, oh, that's interesting. Well, let me talk to them. Let me read a few blog posts of theirs. Oh, yes, it's confirmation that this person knows what they're talking about, at least serving me or serving my grandson or whatever it may be. That's how it works for your ideal client. Stop thinking about the person who is like so skeptical and like, I'm only gonna spend three seconds on your website. Nobody does that who is actually going to end up hiring you. So don't niche yourself if you don't want to, but do niche your offers. You have 25 different, your life coach, you could serve 25 different people, put them all at separate pages on your site. Now, I say 25, that's a little extreme.  Most of you probably will have five though, right? Like you could serve five different situations or you could serve 10 different situations. List them all there and let them go and explore themselves. They're gonna scroll past the ones that aren't relevant and they're gonna go into and study the ones that are relevant. Now, remember again, the person who is meant to work with you isn't going to be impatient with your website. No, they're not. They're gonna be patient with it. And they probably got there because they heard about you or saw your content. That's why they're gonna be patient. They're not just randomly Googling and go, well, don't know who this person is, but I'm gonna, nobody does. I mean, if they randomly Google, they'll probably land on an article on your site. And they're because they have a particular issue or the particular interest and they land on an article on your website or a video on your website. They'll read the article or watch the video and by that point, they already get your energy signature. And then they'll be patient with you. So don't have to niche yourself. Be as freaking broad as you want on your website, on your social media, and then niche your offers. Test many different offers, just like an artist would test many different works of art. A musician would test many different tracks. An author will publish many different books to see which one is the best seller. Oh, that one's okay. Let me write more about that.  A coach offers a bunch of different service packages or service subscriptions or coaching services and see which one sells and then lean more into that. If you are niching yourself and you don't feel right, that's there's a reason why because your soul is saying, not it's not authentic. It's not an authentic business. If I don't allow myself to test and not only is it not an authentic business, it's an ineffective business because you're not allowing yourself to lean into the areas of real interest for you and go, I think I can serve in that capacity because of my experience or because of my studies or because of the ways I've helped people allow yourself to test because otherwise how do you know what sells? You will never know unless you test it out. I hope this is helpful and thank you for watching. And being patient with me as I figure out what to do when I grow up. All of us are, right? And it's okay. We can now keep growing up and offering everything that we are interested in and seeing what people resonate with. Well, thanks again. And I look forward to seeing any comments you wanna add below.


Hello, I'm Denis Dubois from Product Marketing for Secure Macro Controllers. I'm in charge of SIEM and Embedded SIEM solutions for IoT, Industrial and Automotive Markets. Today, I would like to talk about our demo eSIM Rout of Trust, which introduces a wide range of security services that are enabled by our partner Kuleski. ST has pre-integrated the Kuleski IoT security client into their product to simplify access to these services. Later, Josepon from Kuleski will talk you through this demo. So, it's based on our developer kit. This is our small low-power module. It provides a cellular connectivity solution to any IoT device, whether a medical device, an industrial gateway, or an automotive system and asset tracker. The module includes different elements, but for this demo, I'm focusing on two parts. First, in the SIEM32 MCU, Kuleski integrates a security client library. This library provides to the designer or customer access to the rich set of APIs enabling key security features such as end-to-end data encryption. Next, in our ST4-SIEM200M, Kuleski integrates its Rout of Trust application. Actually, the ST4-SIEM200M is our ST Embedded SIEM solution, also called Embedded SIEM. That is a GSMA compliant and qualified for an industrial market. This solution offers a complete and secure ecosystem, including a secure hardware, temporal resistance and common criteria EL5 plus certified that provide the customer with the highest security level. Also, software compliant with GSMA M2M specification working with trusted connectivity partners, Hakesa, ARM and TrueFold. It provides a scalable and secure cellular connectivity for the customer. For this demo, we include the cellular connectivity and the remote platform from TrueFold. Ok, enough from me, let's hear from Josepon from Kuleski. Thanks Denis. The Kuleski IoT security client provides a unique and robust identity that enables many different security features from encryption of data on the device to encryption of data end-to-end to an application server including remotely authorizing functionality on that device or a set of devices. All of these features are available out of the box with the module. They have been pre-provisioned in the eSIM, which is a certified secure element so that you as a device manufacturer do not have to embed a separate secure element to protect your secrets and you do not have to provision any of those unique secrets into your production flow. Now, let's imagine this is a finished environmental monitoring and tracking device and you are shipping 100,000 of these devices to MyTrackerCo. MyTrackerCo has developed an application in Microsoft Azure that uses Azure IoT Hub to identify and manage its devices. Here, you can see my monitoring backend application. We want all of MyTrackerCo's devices to connect to Azure IoT Hub. By clicking on this button here, this creates the necessary settings to automatically provision any device from MyTrackerCo to Azure IoT Hub and it enables them to send data to Azure using the Azure SDK. Now, MyTrackerCo boots the device for the first time in the field. I'm going to simulate a boot here by pressing on the button. At first boot, the device connects to the TruFone Global Network and then to the Kudelski IoT Security Server. The Kudelski IoT Security Server knows that the device should be provisioned to Azure IoT as it announces itself as a MyTrackerCo device. When it connects for the first time, the security server loads a security configuration into the device, generates a key pair and then request signing of that key pair by the CA that was loaded into Azure IoT Hub. Once the certificate is signed, the device authenticates and connects to Azure IoT Hub and starts publishing sensor data to the network. Now, I can see that the device is available in the pull-down list here and I can select it and you can see the data that is being sent to Azure IoT Hub. There was no need to generate and provision an Azure IoT Hub certificate into your device. This was all done remotely and automatically. The certificate and the private key of the device was generated locally by the IoT Security Client in the secure SIM environment and accepted by Azure IoT. It just works. The same process that was done from Microsoft Azure IoT Hub can also be done for other cloud platforms such as AWS. Our security solution simplifies and secures your IoT deployments and is integrated with popular device management platforms. Zero touch provisioning is nice but now that you have strongly authenticated your device, you will want to secure the data. With the Azure SDK, data is secured from the device to the Azure IoT Hub. But how do you secure all the way to your application logic? With the IoT Security Platform, you can specify what data on the device needs to be protected end-to-end and if it needs to be protected for authenticity and integrity and also for confidentiality. For example, let's consider that this gyroscope data is measuring movements on a piece of critical infrastructure such as a bridge and an abnormal shaking is identified. What would happen if that data were to leak showing that preventative maintenance had not been performed? Here, by pressing on this button, I'm going to start encrypting the data in order to protect it for the reasons I just mentioned. Now my data is protected all the way to the application server which could be, for example, a distributed ledger of a blockchain. You see that the data is encrypted here and that the gorges are no longer moving and the accelerometer is no longer changing, right? This is because the data is encrypted and the user doesn't have access to the data. Let's give the user permission to read this encrypted data. Now my user has been granted access to the data. He can decrypt using the key retrieved from the IoT Security Server or he could use that same device key to verify the signature of the data that was inserted into the blockchain. So as you can see, now the data is moving again. So, as you can see, by working with ST, we are enabling IoT devices using ST's technology to leverage a robust secure element ST-SIM and embed Kudelski's security client to enable a wide variety of end-to-end connected security use cases without having to worry about the entire provisioning process. In this demo, we talk primarily about provisioning in the cloud and data confidentiality and integrity. But our technology also enables protection of photo, enabling remote attestation, as well as other features like premium feature authorization, fine-grained access control, chip-to-chip and device-to-device security. Now, back to Denis. Thanks José. So to conclude, Kudelski and ST are offering together the first solution enabled to provide very high-end security features in combination with SIM connectivity addressing new markets. For more information, simply go to our website st.com.