What's up everyone it's your girl Kinsey here from Layton Sports Guards and I am ripping. We've got 21-22 Panini Revolution, basketball, team all edition, 8 box, case break number 3, random teams. Here's a look at the random results. Again you can always find these at LaytonSportsGuards.com underneath the results tab. Link's also in chat for you. All right best of luck. Some of this last night. Cool looking product. Yeah, I think you still got four bottles. It's uh, Zach is rookie, it's a 99. Street Cooper, Derek White. Bomba, we got rookie Kai Jones. These last cards are the team all exclusive, the reds. Robinson Earl, RJ Barrett. What's up Joshua? Hey Joshua. We've got Cavs, Seguru Ed. Heck yeah, hold that back for ya. Kangaroo Hads, Dee Fox. The first box to start us off. Batsy, you've got Geary Trenton Jr. Cade Cunningham on the Asia Exclusive tonight. Bone Tylen Rookie and Jaren Jackson Jr. Yeah, Randy. Randy did really well a few nights ago. He had Cade Otto. Oh wow. 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There you go, Atlanta. Dean I with the Hawks. On the exclusive. That looks sick. I like that. Colin Sexton. Well, I feel like we upgraded. I think Mantis is better than Montgomery, obviously. Collins. But I just feel like I'd rather have both of them and not have Harrison Bader. Isaiah Jackson Rookie. I don't really think you need a ton of help to build help. Rice Camp and Fred Van Bleet. Like I would have been perfectly content not making the Montgomery trip. I would have been like we had a great deadline and now I'm kind of like we had a good deadline. I think we upgraded where we needed to upgrade but I think we got rid of a player we didn't need to get rid of. To 99, James Booknight Rookie. For a guy we don't completely need. Button Grimes. We've got Rookie, Kevin Porter Jr. My take on things. Rookie, James Booknight. Tom McBride, SGA. We've got Kings. Nice one here. Rookie Otto of Deviant Mitchell. Ottos have been very solid this case so far. Jimmy Buckets. Yeah, true. 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Tray Mann and Zach Levine. Got Dijonte Murray to 99s first. Jonathan Kominga Rookie and Aaron Gordon. Kyrie. We've got James Booknight Rookie. JT Thor and Donovan Mitchell. I don't believe so all-star. Yeah, I think it's a short crowd. Yeah, it's just a short crowd. DeMar DeRosa. Darren Sharp. John Morant. I'm Jared Butler Rookie. Kessler Edwards. BAM on a bio. Got Rookie Jalen Green to 99. Nice one there. Rockets. 24 of 99. Heck yeah. Very good Dean. Jordan Pool. Chris Duarte. It's nice though. I really like the red exclusive on that. Chris Duarte and Steph Curry. We've got Rookie Revolution. Franz Wagner for the magic. First one of those we've seen. And Desmond Bain. I just think those inserts are probably short prints in this. Yeah. We haven't seen any supernovas. They're liftoffs or anything. Yeah. Banton by Donovitch or even that Rookie Revolution. Yeah. Hawaii Banton Rookie. Last pass. Box seven. Primo and Paul George. All right. Last box here. Clint Capella. Lauren Thomas. Harrison Barnes. Tray Mann on the Rookie. Thunder. Tray Murphy the third. Anthony Davis. Zion. We've got Mo Bamba out of 99. Moses Moody. Zion Williamson. Baisley. Jonathan Kominga Rookie. Bivis Rookie. Lou Dort. Got Shockwave of James Harden. Tyler Hero. Sharif Cooper. Andrew Wiggins. Pax left. We'll do a recap. Paul and JT Thor. Last pack here. Jeremiah Robinson Earl. And a Lucovich. All right. Quick recap. Again we had Autos. Rookie Auto. Jelon Johnson-Hawks. Stavion Mitchell-Kings. Moses Moody-Warriors. John's Wagner for the magic. And then a Evan Mobley Cavs. Very nice case there. Congrats everyone. Thanks again. We've got some impeccable team all coming right up.


The direct general of the Progressive's ambassador organization, Kairu Edo, has called on Yeet of the Niger Delta region to get into politics and stay away from cult-related activities. He gave this one in an interview with our state correspondent, Friday Ako Mojaro in Wari Delta State. Edo appealed to the Yeets that as Nigeria moves into the 2022 January elections, Nigerians have to think positively and join heads to build a new Delta state come 2023. The idea of getting ourselves involved in cult-related activities, I believe is old fashioned. The idea of killing ourselves, memeing ourselves, it has taken us nowhere. So we should show all form of violence, have a new leaf, get on board, project ourselves in the right way. That's why you see most times when we sit with our elders, they keep on telling us the youth does seem to be ready. It is because we are not doing what we are supposed to do correctly. So we show all form of violence and join hands together and have a new Delta state come 2023. Kairu, however, appealed to President Mohamed Abouhariji, inaugurate the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission and the DC in the region. These he believes would aid the development of the region. It is so bad. But the only appeal to Mr. President is for, we applaud him for his anti-corruption fights. But this, the issue of NDC should create, should be a dent on his image. So we are feeling that he should inaugurate the Board of the Commission. And also most importantly is, the NDC is very important in the region, is very, very, very important. Now, there are no projects going on, all you see, they are just fictitious projects.


Thank you, Rick. My thanks to the organizers for inviting me here today to speak to you and for inspiring me to keep the themes of this conference, these conferences, in mind while doing my research. So as Rick said, I want to talk to you about nonlinear interactions of what are called kink unstable flux ropes and shear off in waves in plasmids. And in the end, I hope to show you that from these large scale, generally large scale, structures we can produce at least one step down in creating smaller scale structures, not a cascade, but at least a step towards that. And so I'd like to thank my collaborators, Professor Walter Gekleman who is here with us today, Shikrisha Jatapathi, one of our greatest students, Tim DeHass and Patrick Pribble. And thanks to our funding agencies, the National Science Foundation and the offices of Fusion Energy Science at the Department of Energy. So I'll go into a little bit about the motivations for this research.  Then the experimental setup, I will show you the frequency free wave matching conditions for the interaction of these two different oscillations, k-theta free wave matching conditions satisfying satisfaction. Then the energy transfer from the larger to the smaller scales, so I'll show that quantitatively. And then I will do a biospectral analysis to demonstrate that the interaction is a quadratic, or at least in part is a quadratic energy transfer between the two scales in the summary. So some of the motivations for this are the ubiquity of what are called magnetic flux ropes and shear off in waves in magnetized plasmas. So you find these structures anywhere from the solar surface out into the solar wind and into the magnetosphere, the magnetotail of the Earth and of other planets which have magnetospheres. So these structures can be very large. You can see an example from the trace satellite. This is a magnetic flux rope, which is a bundle of twisted magnetic field lines in a plasma, I'll get into that a little bit more, which is probably larger than the size of the Earth, which then undergoes kink oscillation, causing it to twist a little bit. And this may be a trigger condition for a process called magnetic reconnection, which then allows this process to detach itself from the magnetic fields of the sun and then flow as a coronal mass ejection into the solar wind. Let's see. So very quick review. So imagine you have a plasma, which is carrying a current that has a length L. So plasma here's in this orange color, the magnetic field produced by the current and it's all embedded in the background magnetic field. So the magnetic field produces a current which is going following these arrows as musically around the magnetic flux tube. Plasma has a radius A, this length L. Now suppose you would introduce a small perturbation displacement for the plasma. Let's say it doesn't like snakes very much. So this plasma moves out of the way. You've created a small disturbance in the plasma there. So what does that tend to do? It creates a decreased magnetic pressure on one side and increased magnetic pressure on the other. And you can see that this increase in magnetic pressure then tends to reinforce this perturbation. Now the actual kink instability has a lot more detail than this. But for this audience, I thought this is just a brief introduction to what it might be. So again, these are the dimensions of the plasma. The criterion for this becoming kink unstable is suppose this perturbation can propagate down to some boundaries. So the lowest mode you can have would be a half a wavelength. And can that perturbation, which exists in the cylindrical form in a two-dimensional sense, can it, does the magnetic field cause by this spiral around once by the time it gets all the way down the cylinder? And this leads to this, what's called the Couscous-Chefranoff limit, which I'll show you where we satisfy this and where we don't in the experiment later. But that's just the basic idea. Now for alphane waves, what are they? They are, as I said, like they are ubiquitous phenomenon in magnetized plasmas. They are responsible. They're very low frequency. They propagate below the ion cyclotron frequency. They're responsible for transferring, propagating changes in magnetic field topology at these low frequencies throughout the, for example, the magnetosphere. You find them anywhere from tokamak plasmas, other laboratory plasmas. In the Earth's magnetosphere, for example, they have both perpendicular and parallel electric fields. They can therefore accelerate particles along the back right magnetic field. There are certain types of aurora that are generated by the parallel electric fields carried by alphane waves which are generated in the magnetotail through this process called magnetic reconnection. I mentioned earlier, they accelerate electrons towards both of the poles. They generally have length scales along the background magnetic field, scaled by the ion inertial length, the C over a mega PI, where a mega PI is the plasma frequency. And across the magnetic field, they can have scales down to either the electron or inertial length or the ion gyro radius or what's called the ion sound gyro radius. But the key takeaways is they have both parallel and perpendicular fields and they can be, depending on the frequency, also a very long wavelength. Okay, now, these experiments are performed at the large plasma device, which is the main operational device of the basic plasma science facility is a URL here. I'm encouraging all of you to visit. This is a user facility for basic plasma physics research. It's not just in the US, but participants can come from around the world. Anybody here can propose to do an experiment, even if you're a theorist, ask our chairman. So please, if you have an idea for an experiment, we would like to work with you to bring that to fruition. Either come talk to myself or Walter Gekleman who's up front here. We'll be here all week and we'll be happy to talk to you about it. About doing possible experiments. Okay, the device itself is 20 meters long. So in terms of that length scale, I mentioned the ion inertial length that maybe in this case, we're using a proton plasma. So the ion inertial length, the size of the machine is about 200 ion inertial lengths in length. Across the field, the machine can be, can be highly magnetized or going to lower magnetic fields, but it's a magnetized plasma, some 100 to 1000 ion gyro-radi across the plasma column or up to six ion inertial lengths across the plasma column. There are two sources in the large plasma device. One is a large sheet of nickel, which is heated and coated with a special material, barium oxide, to reduce the work function. This produces a 60 centimeter diameter plasma for the 20 length, 20 meter length of the device. There's a second cathode with higher emissivity. It allows the creation of a hotter denser plasma within this ambient background plasma. So we use that in conjunction with a mask, which is just a piece of carbon graphite with a hole cut out of it to create, since the source itself is actually a square, it's like 20 centimeters. So we use this mask to create a cylindrical, cylindrical plasma, and it had an E-anode for this plasma. The anode for the main plasma is about 50 centimeters away. So this is net current free, but for creating the magnetic flux rope, we put an anode some 13 meters away in this configuration. So we have a long current here where we can vary the current in the background magnetic field and vary this instability threshold. Some of the plasma parameters are down here. Some of the scale plasma parameters, beta, which is the ratio of the kinetic thermal pressure to the background magnetic field pressure. In this experiment, it's varied from 0.01 to 0.1. In the solar wind, this is about one, so we'd like to push this in that direction. Magnetic Reynolds numbers are very high as well as the Lundquist number. And one final feature of the mask, which produces the cylindrical column is that on the other side of it is a wire structure devised to produce a slight magnetic perturbation. So the kink oscillation will occur sometime during the plasma if it is kink unstable. We don't know exactly when it will happen. If you apply a small seed perturbation, just a few gals out of the hundreds of gals that might be present in the background magnetic field, you can initialize or basically set the initial phase of the kink oscillation. You can use that to perform averaging the data that I'll show next. You don't have to do that. You could also use correlation functions, but we find that you can do either one. Well, I will use a variety of two types of antennas that are inserted in the middle of the plasma, and I will get to those in a little bit. They're basically designed to launch three different polarizations of the wave. And in cylindrical geometry, they'll launch an M equals zero mode of the alphane wave, an M equals minus one mode, or an M equals plus one. So I'm going to have three different source waves. And this is a movie, exactly two movies side by side. They're taking, the machine operates in a pulse mode where the plasma is created once per second. So we, and we keep the machine on for three or four months at a time. This experiment went on for about a week and a half. So each shot, the plasma is very reproducible from shot to shot. And with the seeding of the kink oscillation, these are actually two different discharges. Here we go. So this is the anode in the back. This is one of the antennas, and you see a whole bunch of probes coming in from one side. This view is from one end of the device. So the source for the magnetic flux rope is behind, is out of the page here. And the main plasma source is far off and into the distance. So you can see the oscillation of the kink mode. And again, they are, they're phase locked throughout the experiment. So we can vary, as I said, the current that comes out of the cathode and vary the background magnetic field. So this just to establish whether we are launching or exciting a kink instability. So if we rewrite that condition I provided earlier and very use the magnetic field keeping these other, the current and the current constant, the length is constant, and the size of it is constant. If we just vary the background magnetic field, we can see this would be unstable if the magnetic field satisfies this criteria. And for us, this is 500 gal. So what we did was vary the background magnetic field from 1500 gal down to 350 gal. So these two cases should be unstable to the kink instability and the rest, green through magenta, should be stable. So what we find, this is the driving frequency of the alphane wave and this is the spontaneous that we observed. So this is done with the modulation or seeding off. So this is the primary kink frequency and you can see some harmonics there. And you can see that they occur primarily when this primarily grows when we cross this kink stability threshold. So we're exciting this, this is trying to demonstrate that we're exciting this mode. And you also notice the production of these sidebands around the primary driver frequency. So these dotted waves I'll identify as, and you'll see there are others, but I'm gonna focus on the lower sideband. I'll denote it with an L, the upper sideband with a U. I will call the kink mode, denote that with K, the antenna or alphane wave frequency. I'm gonna label it with an A. So now I'm gonna look at the mode structure. I'll show you the instantaneous mode patterns of the magnetic field in planes perpendicular to the magnetic, the background magnetic field. So I mentioned three types of antennas that we're gonna use. The kink mode itself has a natural m equals minus one character. So with the driver, with three different drivers, in order to satisfy these frequency matching conditions for the three wave process, so these fall right on the difference of the kink frequency. So the frequency matching conditions are easily seen from the power spectrum. But these m number matching conditions should also match for all these three combinations. So we have these three drivers, one kink mode, and an upper and lower sideband. So in total we're gonna have to have match six different m mode patterns. And here they are. So again, this is data taken at a grid of 35 by 35 spatial locations, so that's 12, 25 spatial locations. The probe visits this site, accumulates an ensemble average of 20 shots and then moves to the next location. So these data are acquired by the computer overnight. So this is the time series frequency filtered for the kink mode here for the alphane driver frequency. In this case, the m equals zero mode. And then it's further frequency filtered at the daughter of frequencies, the upper and lower sidebands. And then the mode pattern is reconstructed here. So you can see in this case, the kink mode is fixed, the upper band should have, which is the sum frequency, should have a mode number of zero minus one or minus one in total. The lower band should have minus, minus one or plus one. So we should have for combination of this plus and minus one mode numbers. So you can kind of see the two current channels that are formed here, that's an m equals one structure. If we do a decomposition in Fourier space, and we can see that primarily that the upper mode, which is sorry, the lower mode, which is in blue, the upper is in red. So the lower band indeed has the plus one mode number. The driver is of course fixed at m equals zero. The kink mode is primarily at m equals minus one or there's some other components. And the lower band, lower mode is at minus one. So it satisfies these m number matching conditions. And for the other two cases, what we expect for now we have the same driver pattern for the kink mode, the Alfven driver in the m equals plus one case then should produce an m equals zero and m equals plus two mode pattern. So this is kind of m equals zero pattern and m equals, I don't know what here, but that's what this graph is for. This tells you that primarily this, this is the lower band. So the lower band is in blue. It's primarily in the plus two state so there are other m harmonics. So that's all the six daughter waves that satisfy this as mutable mode number matching condition, if you will. Oh, sorry, I guess I didn't do this one. This is the opposite of the other one except now the lower band is this, we go back, sorry. So the upper band was zero, the bottom one was one. If we switch the polarization of the driver, these two flip and now you get minus two mode and m equals zero and indeed the modem matching number. So that is the sixth total as mutable modem matching conditions that I wanted to show you. Now what about the transfer of energy from the larger to the lower scale? So what we do is again we're in cylindrical geometry so we do a Bessel function decomposition of the radial mode patterns. So for the kink instability and the driver mode, I'm just gonna show the m equals zero mode from now on. The m equals zero mode is a very large spatial pattern so it really hits the limit of the k spectrum that we can measure here but it's close. And I've scaled this to the k perp times the ion gyro radius which is the dissipation scale for the kinetic scales for the ions. This is ultimately one of the places where the energy can wind up in a cascade. So we're not near k perp equals one. The both the kink and the alphane wave have k perp row i close to point one. For both the upper and lower side band, the decomposition yields the k perp row i closer to point three for both of them. So you can see roughly a doubling or a doubling in k space of where the power is for these lower modes. Although the total amplitude as you saw from the power spectrum is not as high as the driver mode so we're not pumping an equal amount there but we are transferring energy from these larger to lower scales, smaller scales. Okay now is this really a quadratic interaction between the two? So I'm gonna turn to the bispectral analysis to demonstrate that this is actually happening. So for those of you not familiar with the bispectrum, it's a third order spectral quantity. The brackets denote an ensemble average over n realizations. I'm gonna show you some data where the number of realizations is about 1500. Each of these is a Fourier transform of the time series. So from a single probe. So this and the third unit here. So you have one single time series. You compare, you notice this is a function of two different frequencies. It's one frequency you're interested in, a second frequency you're interested in and a third frequency which matches the three wave coupling. So if you then weight this by the power that's in the cross spectrum and the auto-spectra for the third wave and weight that by the absolute value squared of the bispectrum, you get the bi-coherence. So if the waves which satisfy this three wave condition are in phase at all for the entire spectrum for the entire ensemble, then this value will go to one. So this, and if they're completely out of phase then by the time we're done with the ensemble averaging, this will take this to be zero. So this is a value that goes from zero to one and it gives you directly the amount of power that is transferred to the amount of power that is in a particular mode which is due to the other two frequencies. And here's the data. So this is the bi-coherence and the bi-coherence is normally shown in a very large plane but because of the wide separation in frequencies and the fast digitization rate, you wouldn't be able to see many of these little dots. So I'm just gonna show you. The region of interest of the bispectrum near the alphane driver frequency and the kink frequencies and its harmonics. So you can see in particular, I'm gonna like to focus on just two of these. So this is at the frequency FK and FA. So this dot indicates the amount of power from the alphane wave to and the kink wave at the upper frequency. So this is F-alphane plus F-kink. So this shows a 40% of the power that is in that mode came from a quadratic interaction between the two other modes, the two drivers. So the value is not as large. This is at a frequency which is down by one kink frequency from the driver mode of the alphane wave and then up along the vertical axis back to the kink mode. This only has somewhere around 20% or less of the power. Seems to have come from a quadratic interaction between the two. Do you also notice some of these other modes which are the lower side bands? I told you in the beginning, it was only gonna talk about the primary daughter waves but you saw those other side bands that look like higher order daughter waves. So there seems, those apparently have also a similar energy content or power which is due to the interaction between the daughter and those side bands and you can also see it starts interacting with multiples of the kink wave frequency. And if I would show the entire spectrum that you can also see quadratic interactions of this with itself which leads to higher order harmonics of quadratic interaction of this with itself and a higher quadratic interaction of this with itself but this is what I wanted to focus on now just to demonstrate where this energy is coming from. Okay, so I think I've been on time. So in summary, we've made kink unstable flux ropes in the laboratory. In this case, we were able to see the phase of the kink oscillation so that we could do some averaging but that's not a necessary condition for anything that I showed you here. We launched the shear waves with n equals zero and plus one m number as milithum modes and watched the interaction of those with the kink mode. We observed side bands of the launch frequency. We identified them in the power spectrum. They easily satisfied their frequency, three wave matching criterion. I do say the phase locking allows us to do the measurements. Basically, you can average it rather than doing the cross-correlation. So in a sense, it's just the analysis that's a little simpler due to this step. It has muthal wave patterns for all six of the daughter ways. We're in general good agreement between the observed and expected mode numbers. This special function decomposition showed, I showed you them equals zero driver, the transfer of energy from this larger scales down to the smaller scales. And this is by factor of two. And the bispectral analysis showed us that this was a quadratic interaction between the kink wave and the alfane wave. And in particular, maybe 20 to 40% of the power is directly shown to be due to this nonlinear action between the two waves. And that's all I have for you. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to burn to learn. This is Rod Davis and in this video we will show you how to use Outlook 2016 to replace agony with clarity on what you need to get done in your busy work or private life. Okay let's begin. So open Outlook. Go to your home page and click on new items. When you do that your option box drops and then scroll down and click on task. This will take you to the task page and the very first thing you have to do is to put in a subject. Our subject is going to be Jack's drywall ink blueprints. Now we have to work with our dates. Our start date for this will be the 7th of July and the due date of this for this is the 9th of July. So we click on those and we must now decide if we want a reminder and when we do. If we do you can see we're already scheduled for reminder on the 7th. Let's let's change that to the 8th and then decide on when we want the reminder and let's decide at 1030 in the morning. Okay that's fine. So now it's time to look at the status of this project by clicking that down arrow. You see you have several options not started in progress completed waiting for someone else or deferred. Let's let's click on in progress because that's what it is. Now we have to decide the priority and we click that down arrow and you can have low normal or high. This is a close date so let's click on high priority. Now we need to write a note to make sure we're clear on what it is we must do. So we're going to write a note saying male blueprints to Jack's drywall ink. So now we're set. Next we're going to assign this task so click on assign task and now we have to put in the names of the people we want to assign this task to and we can put in as many as we want. We can do this by typing in the initials and then clicking and that's one or we can go to the address book. Open that and we're going to click on John Smith. This is the second person that we will sign it to. So now we have two people there. As you can see the date start date and due date are still the same as we established earlier and you can see the priority is high which is what I indicated last time. The high importance is indicated and the status is still the same. It's in progress. So now let's prepare a note for the people to whom we've assigned this and we're going to make sure I'm going to ask them to please make sure you put our logo on the package. Now this is all set. Now let's think about how often this task occurs. So click on the recurrence button. Now the recurrence pattern can be daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly but since this is a building project let's make this monthly and we know that each month that on the 15th day of the month is when this task will be needed again. And we're going to look at when to end this task. So let's end this task at say four times. Now it started on a date since it's due to 15th. Let's start this on the 14th of the month of July. So click on the 14th and now we're set. So click OK. Now we want to choose a category for this task. So click on the category button. Let's look at all the categories. By category we're going to choose a color for it and it's rather urgent. So let's choose the red category color. Click on red and then click OK. Now we want to follow up on this matter. Click on the follow up button and let's add a reminder for this. Since the start date is the 15th and due the 17th let's choose a reminder the morning of the 17th. So let's click our down arrow and let's change the time to bright early in the morning. Let's change it from 10.30 to an earlier time of 8.30. 8.30 not 8 o'clock. Let's correct that. Thank you very much. So now we are pretty good on everything. So it's time to save and close this. And when we do this this will go automatically to the people we've addressed this to. Now let's check the status of our lists. Scroll down to the bottom left and click on the task icon. When you click on it you reveal the detailed page where all of our tasks are listed. Go over to the simple list and we'll differentiate between the two. When on the detailed page you could check all your tasks plus their status. On the simple list page our tasks are there but not with their status. If we go over to the to-do list and click there it shows all of our tasks that are pending or still active. When you click on the prioritize tab you see all of our tasks and the ones that are of high importance are at the bottom. You see there this Jack's drywall ink blueprints and it's a red in category because it's of high importance. Now when you click on the active tab you see all of our pending tasks the ones that are still to be worked on. Now we're going to return and hit the detailed tab one more time. There are two ways to mark a task complete. One way is to click on the red flag on the right end of a task. When you do that the task has lines through it. It's now complete. The second way to mark a task complete is to click on the mark complete tab. When you do that your tab your task will show as also being complete. There is also a way to remove a task from your list. You can select a task and then go up and hit the remove from list and the task will be removed. Another way to do that is to select the task and just simply hit the delete button and your task will be deleted just like that. Okay so now you can bring clarity to what you need to get done in your busy work life. When you get clarity that can also mean you have you're better organized and not overwhelmed. In our next video we're going to show you how to use the delete function of Outlook 2016 and until then have fun!


Hello and welcome to another real conversation between two native English speakers. I am Adam Navas and I'm joined as always by Liz Wade. Hi Liz. Hi Adam. How are you? I'm good. Good. That's the typical English answer right? I'm fine. I'm fine. Well today we're going to be talking about our featured program which is Food Taboos. I am very excited to talk about this program because it is a program that makes me feel things. It makes me have reactions about would I eat that or not. But so stick around for that but before we get to the program I just want to tell you about something that I'm excited about. I know Liz is excited about as well is we have spotlight memberships which is on YouTube there's a little button that says join and when you click that button you can learn about different membership levels where you can get special emojis and badges on our YouTube channel for our live shows you can get comments that badge will show up and you can get at different levels you can request some PDFs of scripts which I think is a great thing we're offering and also extra content extra videos extra programs it's just our way of helping you take your English learning to the next level. If that's not for you just make sure you hit that like subscribe and the bell so you don't miss anything that we any of our content right? Did I miss anything Liz? You didn't and I do want to point out well I guess a little bit of a missed thing but we have a we have a special extra video for this program on for members who are advanced level and above so this actually this taboo food script program has an extra mini script for members. Yes featuring yours truly which is a fancy word saying me. So we're going to talk about this food taboos program and I think this is a fascinating program if you haven't if you haven't listened to it already please go do that because it really is going to help you understand what we're talking about. So food taboos are foods that have some kind of not like untouchable like it's you're not supposed to eat them for some reason either a religious reason or a social reason. I actually think it's really difficult to even as a native English speaker knowing what the word taboo means I think it's actually really difficult to wrap my mind around around what a taboo is and so I think it helps too to say that it's like taboos don't have to be just for foods they can be actions or things right like something that is that is taboo or not allowed or like in poor taste in your culture might not be taboo in a different culture and so then it goes along with food right and taboos even in a culture change right right they change over time yeah so it it starts with the program starts talking about fugu or it's a puffer fish a fish that it's defensive mechanism is it it blows up like a ball with little spikes on it yeah it looks really funny it looks it is really funny it's often in like if you see a movie with fish in it it will be often that kind of fish because it's a funny little character it's in finding Nemo exactly um so but if you eat the fish like if you or I Liz were to just say oh we caught a fish and we're going to prepare it it would probably kill us because it's it has poison in it yeah so you have to go through a long process of learning how to prepare the fish just right in order to make it not poisonous to people and so here's my question for you Liz as would you try this fish knowing that if it were prepared wrong it would kill you um okay like so and we're assuming that somebody else paid for it so I'm not paying like a million dollars to you're at a reputable restaurant where's where you would assume the chef I I think that if I were at a very uh like reputable high-end uh expensive restaurant and I knew that uh that the chef was like one of these experienced sushi chefs I might eat it I might eat it wrong I have a pretty adventurous palate like I will usually eat whatever like uh cultural food is in front of me I don't I'm guessing you would not eat it well okay so there's there's adventurous like oh I'm gonna try this octopus something that that is more that has a texture I might not be familiar with like I I just don't think it's worth it there's other there's other fish in the sea as they say like literally it's true I mean the thing is like I'm not gonna try like base jumping or free climbing right um but this is an acceptable or accessible uh like danger that I could that I could take on yeah okay so that that's fair I I could understand that appeal because I wouldn't I there's some riskier like actions that I think I would do that maybe you wouldn't so we'll we'll go with that yeah but but the taboo around fugu is that it could kill you if if it's prepared improperly there are other things well and in one second I what I loved um because I you know I did some reading on this program um is that there are still uh like this is still an issue it's not like something that you know oh 100 years ago if you prepared this fish wrong it could kill you or the things like that like um there were supermarkets just in the last few years that recalled fugu fish because they accidentally sold it and it could kill people so anyway I thought that doesn't make sense to me that doesn't make sense to me yeah and I thought that was an interesting little anecdote I get if a food tastes bad or if you're a food tastes like uniquely uh acquired taste right like maybe a food um like there's the program talks about the the shark meat that if you it has a bad smell but a good I definitely want to talk about this yes it has a bad smell but a good taste like I okay I could get but the risk of death just doesn't seem worth it to me okay so uh yeah I I could see that so let's talk about whether or not you would eat this shark right so just uh for people who maybe have not listened to the program yet um the shark is a fermented or or rotting shark meat that traditionally is made by burying it underground until all the juices come out of it and then it kind of like then they hang it up for a couple months and then it dries out and then um the description is um uh that it smells like liquid human waste so uh you know I feel like we all know what that smells like uh and uh it tastes like uh cheese just a mild cheese yeah so um this one I I would initially say I would first say you know that sounds interesting I might try that although I will say when I was in Vietnam uh oh man it was a year and a half ago now I did not try durian and that is one of those things have you tried durian I have had durian yeah see I have not had durian and I know that it smells terrible but apparently it tastes good and sweet nope it also tastes horrible okay I haven't had it before I like it is supposed to um taste taste good but when I was reading about this program and because all of these things you think oh I need to know more about this food why do people eat it yeah um uh two chefs that I have watched on tv are okay so one is Anthony Bourdain and I'm sure you know Anthony Bourdain okay uh he's very famous chef um and uh he had a travel show where he traveled all around the world and he would he would eat any anything put before he said it was literally the worst food that he had ever tasted in the whole world that from someone who's eaten a lot of different things that that is a hard hard to ignore yes so um that to me is like well should I try it I don't know um but the other one is Gordon Ramsey okay another famous yeah yeah he is also a tv chef um he has a bunch of cooking shows he's a very uh a decorated chef yeah um and a very big personality um I saw a youtube video where he and another man were trying this how Carl how Carl yeah and uh he took a bite and he literally he chewed it up and he spit it into a bucket because he couldn't even swallow it now the other guy was like I'd have another piece but yeah Gordon Ramsey spit it into a bucket and he wouldn't try it that's not um so if I and I have heard I have read that if you want to try this food you cannot smell it before you put it in your mouth I don't I don't so would you try this okay so before you told me all this I was like oh yeah I would be willing to try this now that you have you have I'm more informed I probably wouldn't I am not a super adventurous eater I want to be that's true like I want to be but I am a slow like it like I'm I'm even even in the foods that I'm familiar with I would rather have like one kind of cookie or biscuit however you want to say yeah and your favorite ice cream is vanilla yes uh so I will say I gave you a hard time in that ice cream program yeah uh and somebody in the comments was like hey lay off Adam yeah see I like this ice cream flavor is not yours everybody loves Liz but I got my crew you guys know who you are yeah um but you've made it through durian yeah when I when I tried durian I my expectations were quite low like people said it smelled and tasted like wet gym socks socks that you'd you'd work out in and be all sweaty and then stinky and that was pretty that was pretty accurate so I think I think I can't expect it to taste good like I see yeah for new foods if you're not familiar if they're if they're from a different culture it can be very spicy or it can be very um have a have a texture that you're just not familiar with and I think but it's good to be exposed to those things because it helps you understand other cultures and it helps those things that seem um odd to you to become more familiar yeah taboo um so there are there we there's a lot in this program we haven't gotten to yet yeah well I want to I want to make sure and um invite people who are listening or watching please tell us if you have ever eaten these foods so fugu or um how Carl um I would love to know if you have eaten these foods or uh it if you would well I can't leave this this conversation without talking about the fact that there are many people who eat different parts of an animal uh for uh because they believe it will have medical benefits or sexual health benefits uh so the the program talks about eating the uh sex organ of a bull or a male cow I cannot I would not I would not eat that yeah I don't I don't know like I don't I don't think I would either I don't think it's probably marketed to me though no I don't think I would I don't think it would be worth it I have eaten cow brain before when I was in Argentina and that wasn't too bad it was just see I feel like that's a pretty adventurous food I've never eaten that yeah well I just think the idea that it would have those benefits are yeah uh even when they've been proven not to I don't know well you know uh as this program says like food was the first medicine so you know if you if you eat something and then uh uh you know you have a you have a benefit it doesn't necessarily it isn't necessarily because of that food but it could feel that way and then you know you say hey when I was sick I ate blah blah blah and you should try it I just think it's it's crazy um you know there's um bird nest soup where people have to climb up into caves and and it's really expensive and there's you know people who try to chop rhinoceros horns off to make medicine uh it just feels odd to me that we live in a world where people don't have enough and then we're going to such extremes just to have food experiences right right um maybe maybe I'm not those people who want more yeah well uh speaking of wanting more uh if you want to hear about more taboo foods from different cultures um again we have a really great uh extra video for members only about different taboo foods and this is a feature that we're hoping to do for um yeah many programs coming up and so I hope that you click that join button and and check out what becoming a member could help you with hey Liz let me ask you a question if people join is it easy for them to un-join let's say they their situation changes and they they they don't want to and they everybody will want to support us yeah if they want to if they want to try it out for 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Self-analysis as a matter of teaching quality. Teaching profession today has become more challenging due to the constant development and innovative experiments in the field of education. A role of a teacher is significantly changing. In this era of technology-based teaching, a teacher has to keep himself or herself updated with the latest happenings taking place in the profession. Apart from the personal growth, the teacher also has to focus on professional growth. There are many options available outside in the market which offer help for the same. The best way to achieve this is through self-analysis. A teacher must need to evaluate himself as well as his teaching techniques which in result will help him to find out the components he has to improve in, also realize his strengths and weaknesses. Self-assessment time In the initial period in the teaching profession, one finds it very difficult to get adjusted with classroom management. Even the trained teacher feels themselves under constant pressure. It is because the teacher tries to analyze the learning approach and capabilities of students present in the classroom and does not even think about his techniques and teaching proficiency. In spite of having the overall result of the classroom analysis, the particular teacher lacks just because of a self-analysis. This is the time where he or she has to focus and evaluate self. He must judge his own tactics and rectify them if the outcome is not convincing. Important ways of self-analysis Self-analysis provides an opportunity to the teacher to realize who is he, what is he, and how much capacity he is to bring a positive and expected change in himself. Asking students to complete a questionnaire about the teaching techniques, getting feedback from the staff about his approach and discussion with the colleagues regarding the methodologies adopted while teaching particular topic or unit can be the elements of self-analysis. One has to understand oneself if one expects others to be understood by others. Self-analysis is the best way to introspect, self-examine and self-absorption. When we talk about the efficient classroom management and developing leadership qualities among the students, a teacher after self-analysis can surely engage the students in self-reflection making them face the academic challenges with more confidence and vigor. Other formal ways of self-analysis include taking various aptitude tests, assessment tasks and collecting information from various reliable sources for self-improvement. The factual knowledge about oneself is the real strength of a teacher which can be utilized as a strong teaching aid in finding solutions and removing stress and fatigue. Just embracing new teaching philosophies and implementing them while preparing lessons, is driving a car on a highway without looking in the side mirrors. There are possibilities that the methods adopted by the teacher may be appropriate in certain situations but cannot guarantee the 100% assurance of its success. So in those situations what helps the teacher is none other than his self-analysis. There is no side effect of self-analysis as it only has the advantages. Self-assessing techniques Different strategies and tools applied by the teacher in different classes while teaching different topics can confuse the teacher though may not the students. And the same can be avoided if self-analysis is done by the teacher in an appropriate way. If the teacher has given him sufficient time pondering over the task undertaken by him and realizing his mistakes done by him, he can overcome and avoid them in the next classes. Also, self-analysis can be a productive instrument which may enable the teacher to be expertise in his chosen field and achieve the desired goals. It also allows a teacher to be more self-reliant as he gets to know the authenticity and reliability of his teaching approach and strategies. Are you ready to teach English all over the world? Self-analysis, as mentioned before, does not only support the teacher to be expertise in his profession but also benefits him to know about his own methods, teaching styles, rapport with the students, colleagues, parents and moreover about himself. It also makes the teacher competent in maintaining the balance between his personal and professional life. So, in conclusion, it can be stated that self-analysis is very much important for a teacher. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JasperJasperCaseBrakes.com 2021-22 or sorry, 2020-21, upper deck, SPFenic, Hockey just sold out. This is a two box break, three random teams each number one. As you can see, number two is already on the website. So again, no bad common ship guys, everything else with all the inserts, rookies, etc. Everybody gets three random teams, one combo team, which is the Preds and Yotes. And again, this is a very, very big product. It's like a big staple in hockey. You get the future watch autographs. You can get some nice patch autographs to a hundred. It's a really, really nice stuff. And like I said, here we go. So I tripled up your guys' names. Do you have 30? And then there's the combo team, Ducks and Yotes. Let's roll it. And it is two to two, four times. All right, let's go. One, two, three, four. Even P down a dent. One, two, three, four times. Yotes, Preds at the top down the Calgary Flames. And again guys, this is the last year's draft class.  You're going to have four of the Ottawa Senators. They're big rookie as well. There's a lot of big teams in here guys. So Steven, you got the Yotes Predators combo. Mike's with the Hawks. Michael O with the Panthers. Mike's with the Devils. Mike O with the Saviors. Steven P with the Leafs. Mike's with the Oilers. Obi-Wan with the Red Wings. Logan with the Ducks. Bryan with the Hurricane. Steven with my Kings. Dan with the Jets. Michael with the Islanders. Obi-Wan with the Avalanche. Steven with the Senators. Logan with the Rangers. As well as the Lightning. Dan with the Sharks. Roger with the Penguin. Mike with the Canadians. Ryan with the Stars. Steven with the Blues. Roger with the Canucks. Steven P with the Caps. Ryan, or Brian Heymans are with the Minnesota Wild. Ryan with the Vegas with the Knights down with the Calgary Flames.  Some good, some good, good teams right there guys. So I'll give you guys a quick minute. Yeah, I forgot about Jason Robertson too with Dallas. A lot of good teams though guys, and it's a quick little two box break so, but like I said I really would like to get the picker team done. That's what I'm really gonna be pushing guys because I mean I'm only here till 3 o'clock and like I said not too pricey and a chance to get some pretty big teams for just that $43 price point. So let me go grab a case in the meantime I'll give you guys a little trade window. You guys no trades done? I'm assuming not. Alright, one second guys, let me quickly just do this. Organize that so that way that's there. Alright, cool guys. Well like I said we'd really love to do that next filler for SPA. Like I said I'm gonna keep on pushing that. Even if we could sell it out by 230 I can at least do picker team number one which I would love to but like I said if not then hey I'll hopefully break some with you guys later this week and I'll fire it on Saturday. But let's get this break going then guys. Good luck. TWC, TWC trade window closed. Let's print and rip it. Alright, here we go guys. So there's everybody's name there with their teams. Let's open up this SPA. Nice. Let's have the Farnier on the box. These are numbered again as well. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Let's generate two numbers here just like we did for soccer. There we go. Roll it. Six. One, two, three, four, five, six. So this right here is the box we're gonna use here and let's do the next one. Eight. Bottom box. The rest over here will be used for another break. We'll keep those all together like that. Next one's in the store. I mean if you guys really want to run it back I'd love to do some more. SPA gives you two autographs per box if I'm correct. At least in the past it has. That says collect one future watch autograph per box. Maybe they changed it up. I thought it was two. Well look at that. I think we got a patch auto already. Oh okay so they're doing it like for sure at least one but second one could be whatever. Makes sense. I don't remember them actually saying that but I guess it's been a while since I ripped some SPA. Like I said when I started getting to the hockey hobby it was like 1516 McDavid and 1617 Austin Matthews, you know, Marner, Nylander, Lyme, all of those guys so I really don't even remember the last number I've seen at any SPA honestly. It's been so long. This should have released last year around this time. Not a whole year later. Alright so we got True Leaders insert, Kopey. Again I'm just gonna kind of skim through these. These are just gonna be inserts that we'll ship. Obviously these will ship as well. These are like the Reds but the rest of these will not and there you go. There's our first future watch to 999 Auto and that is from 1920. I kind of remember that design. That's an update right there for the Islanders. Islanders that is going to Michael. You got a spectrum FX. I don't know if they still do the bounties. I assume they still do. They still do the gold set bounties to the first 50. Celebrated moments. Dom right there. Rob Bester. Really? That'd be awesome. Well I would love to do those pick your teams guys. You really have to start moving those if you guys want me to do it. If not, Joe will break some hockey for you guys. Like I said, if we can fill this up by, you know, one o'clock I can do both of those. Both. Igor should start again. But like I said, it's up to you guys. If you guys want to do that. Literally. If not, if you can fill it up by like 1.30 I can at least do the first pick your team. Alright cool.  It looks like probably potentially. Although there is one future watch there so it could be anything else I guess. Technically. Base base. And here we go guys. Good luck. What do you know in the first box? And it's Paavo. Wow look at that. Future watch, patch, autographs. Stepped in and played pretty well when they needed them to. Stanley Cup Champion now 74 to 100. Nice three-color patch and autograph. Colorado Avalanche. Just going to Obi-Wan. Very, very nice one. Nice three-color patch as well. Solid hit. Alright next box. There's good luck. Here we go. Next box. Inserts. Bird and points. Wilson. Wow look at that. Jason Robertson. Future watch. This is to 399. Is that like a retro? A little white corner there though. As you guys can see it. So I'll try to avoid that side. There you go. That is for the Dallas Stars and Ryan. Very nice. Oh here's the second one. John Leonard to 999. I don't know if I like the new font though. It's a little too big. Sharks that's going to Dan Hudson. We have Kevin Lankinen. FX Spectrum Future Watch. Elias Pedersen. Brady Kitschuk. Pink James Rand Reimsdijk. Anders Lee True Leaders. I think the rest of these are just going to be based in. First two autos are in the first stack. Rasmus Dowling. Zach Parise. Stamkos. Not bad. Two boxes. Jason Robertson and a little Pavel RPA. This is basically what's going to ship. We got this right here. Spectrum. Some Reds. Future Watch. Patch Auto. Leonard. And the retro Jason Robertson there. So there you go guys. And again like I said we can always run back another two boxes if you guys would like. Or like I said we can get done a huge picker team. Eight box case break picker teams number one and two sell out with that pack filler or that box filler of trilogy guys. So that is down to 18. We're pretty much almost halfway there guys. Remember some of these teams like the Rangers are 275 centered. There's 200 each. Blackhawks over 120. Canadians 100. Even the Sabres are at 75 each. So almost double your money right there. Still two. Sharks and Jets pretty much break even. But like I said that's a one. You got nine chances there. Nine out of the 30. 31 getting guys. Almost 30% right there. So I appreciate you guys. Would love to do that. But again anything else that sells out before three o'clock I can definitely do. Jaspy's casebreaks.com.


Hi, I'm Joanne. I write the blogs here at Art Resin, and I've got a resin tip for you. So we've all been there. You come back the next morning only to find a piece of dust has cured right into your resin. Now, we all know the best way to protect your wet resin from dust and peck hair and insects and other things floating in the air is to use a dust cover. Now, it doesn't have to be anything fancy. You can use items found around your house. These are some of our favorites. For small pieces, we love using a Tupperware container, but you can use a plastic tote for bigger pieces. You can use the lid from a vegetable platter or a sandwich tray from the deli. You can use a cardboard box, but if you do, make sure you cut the flaps off to prevent them from falling and curing right into your piece. True story. No matter what you use to cover your piece, the most important thing is to make sure you wipe out your container so it's free of any dust or debris that might fall into your wet resin. And that's your resin tip for today. We'll see you next time.


So I'm Tamara with the Micronesia Conservation Trust. I am here on behalf of Willy Kostika, our executive director. He's unfortunately unable to be here today. So a little bit about the Micronesia Conservation Trust. So we're a private non-government organization, a non-profit corporation. Our mission is to provide sustainable financing and support for biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and environmental education, as well as livelihoods. We are based in the Federated States of Micronesia. If you think about the Pacific Ocean, and you think about Hawaii, and then you think about Japan, we service the area in between. So it's the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and then two U.S. territories, the U.S. territory of Guam, and then the Commonwealth, the North, and Marianas. These five entities or jurisdictions also make up the context of, or sorry, the membership of what's called the Micronesia Challenge. And the Micronesia Challenge was a commitment by the chief executives and the presidents of those five jurisdictions and countries to effectively conserve and manage 50% of their marine resources and 30% of their terrestrial resources by 2030. But they need funding to be able to do that. When you close off an area for effective conservation, it means that you have, you might be contributing to climate adaptation and conservation, but you have a serious gap in livelihoods and communities are affected. So we all, we work in that area. We mobilized funding from a diversity of sources, and we provide long-term sustained funding. I heard through the last two presentations a lot about the need for long-term funding as opposed to one-offs, and MCT works very hard to provide that. We're also, yeah, so our impact areas are conservation, sustainable livelihoods, and climate resilience. And we partner with a wide range of organizations. So local community organizations, women's groups, community organizations, state governments, national governments, church groups, any community group that is prepared and willing to implement a project on behalf of their needs, their management needs. So MCT's journey, we were established in 2002 by Mr. William Costa Carr, our executive director, and we were established in order to be able to provide funding to communities, but also to house what he saw as an important aspect of, which was an endowment. So if you look at this to the right, these figures were taken from our, sorry, I'm seeing that someone wants me to speak slowly. My apologies. I'll try to be slower. In 2019, these are our figures. So in that, in 2019, we sub-granted or we funded approximately $1.6 million across the region in small projects to communities, but we also hold an endowment. So we have an endowment, this says $23 million, but it's actually currently worth $25 million. And this endowment are contributions from government entities and also some donors. And we hold it and we invest it. And then we're able to give it back to the governments of these five regions in order for them to continue to support communities in their region. We also have, since 2002, we've been holding endowments, but we're also able to receive, we've been receiving a lot of funds from private donors, such as the Margaret A. Cargo Foundation, the, sorry, the, the Wait Institute. And then we have a number of international large donors, so UNAP, UNDP, and a lot of bilateral government funding as well. And we also have our part of a number of large networks, including Glispa and others. But I think importantly, one of the things that makes MCT really unique is we are the smallest entity in the world to be accredited by both the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. So as a pretty small, intermediate organization, so far we've received a $1 million grant for our under Adaptation Fund for the Federated States of Micronesia. And we're currently implementing and supporting that. We also recently received our first Green Climate Fund on behalf of the government of the Federated States of Micronesia. And that's a SAP project that we will begin to implement. And that's, that, that is under the, sorry, that, that one is, that is for food security. And then we also have an up and coming grant that we're working with the GCF that will be with the board soon that will be for the region. And that one is specifically for regional capacity. So I don't think I need to go through this slide. I, I, I, we prepared this because this is the experience of MCT, but I think that this was already shared quite succinctly. Some of the issues faced by local partners to access funding and implement locally led adaptation. So, you know, climate access to climate finance capacity in terms of due diligence and reporting donor priorities, one-offs versus long-term funding, and then the sustainability. So we were asked to consider MCT in response to the, the principles, the eight principles. And I did see some, some mention in the chat about their great principles, but what do they look like on the ground? So I just want to go through how MCT has been addressing these principles. So the first one, developing decision-making to the lowest appropriate level. So I think MCT, importantly, we aim to deliver grants to regional, national, local, municipal, and NGO actors, as well as, and it doesn't say here, communities and church groups and any groups that are willing to apply. And we do this mostly through a request for proposals. So a small granting scheme. And we support, we, we not only offer funding, but we, we support the communities in a collaborative process to, to develop their proposals. And then importantly, 90% of MCT staff are from Micronesia. I'm one of only two people that's not from the region. And I think that because they're community members and, and, and this is, this is their home, that it's, it's really easy to assume that the, that this is at the lowest appropriate level. Number two, addressing structural inequality. So we're very inclusive and we ensure gender equality and, and, and rural, remote and underservice communities, almost all of the communities in Micronesia are either rural, remote or underservice. We provide a predictable funding. So through our small grants to local organizations over long time frames, we had, we considered a snowball effect, I think for the Pacific, maybe it's a sandcastle effect, but we fund projects. And then they'll, we'll fund a project and then we'll have another call for proposals and that community will be able to apply for more funding. And we hope we, we, some of our projects, some of our partners have been receiving funding for over 10 years. We invest in local capabilities. And through that, we have a full capacity building program. So through our capacity building program, we offer financial management training, M&E training, climate change, adaptation and planning training, ecosystem conservation. And I think what I'm most excited about at MCT is, is our Bill Rainer Micronesia Challenge Scholarship. So we've funded over 16 graduate and PhD, or master's and PhD students from the region. And all of them have come home. And they are all working in either government or in local NGOs. Important to, what is really important to us is that we fund local knowledge. We fund observational knowledge and, and we also fund scientific data. So we fund a lot of research. And then we, we support the, you know, scientific monitoring over long time frame, so a science to management model. And as an intermediary, one of the things that's really good is that we're the ones who speak with the larger donors. So we are able to be more flexible. And we're also able, able to advocate. So when a project is delayed or that any problems happen, COVID has obviously been a big issue for a number of our partners, we're able to sort of go to bat on their behalf. Ensuring transparency and accountability, I think this one is really, really one of the biggest risks. And how we do that is ensure that the local governments, the civil society and communities are structured right into the project and they're part of the design, so that they have ownership. And we do a lot of monitoring and visiting and capacity building. And then collaborative action and investment, we've been working in the same communities for over 18 years. And like I said, most of the team are from the region and they're known by and they know of, you know, our partners. So I just want to share, I think what we've learned and to be the best mechanism and the best mode of supporting locally led adaptation is small grants. So over the past, for instance, five years, we've probably sub-granted almost maybe two, two and a half million US dollars into communities. And we support that to recall for proposals, local community organizations, local governments, and the benefits of this and how this supports locally led adaptation, they identify their own projects, their own budgets and their own components. The funding is prioritized for communities that have already developed their own plans. So they have their own local management plans and we fund the actions under those. We offer a fiscal sponsorship pairing if necessary as well. So we have a number of partners that can receive the funding from us to them and then can support them. We offer a lot of capacity and technical support. And our grants are small. They're 10 to 50,000 US dollars. And we found that 50,000 is about the about the capacity of most of our small partners. And I think I just wanted to end with a recommendation. So the two most important recommendations I would share are with larger donors and just to consider. And these might be a little redundant, but I think that we forget these trust. We need to trust local entities that know their own context on the ground. And I think another one that I've learned over the course of my time in the Pacific is to remain open. So we need to remain open to what may seem like an unexpected or a counterintuitive solution. Just because it comes from a community and it might be something outside of the box or some other way of looking at things. Oftentimes they tend to be how things start and then we end up being able to learn from them and then scale them up.


Amen. Well, welcome everybody. I'm Mark Preshear, one of the pastors here.  We worship the living God, amen. Amen. It's a joy to be with you to worship the Lord. And this morning, as we prepare for worship, please turn with me your Bibles to Numbers chapter 14. Numbers chapter 14, our text this morning, verses one through nine. Please keep our brother Jerome in prayer. I'm standing in here in his stead while he's out of town. I look forward to him being back. I love to hear that brother lead us in worship. But in the meantime, you're stuck with me. Numbers chapter 14, verses one through nine. This is our call to worship this morning. And this is just a time in our order of service where we orient our hearts and minds toward the worship of God. God has given instruction in his word for how he is to be worshiped. And it's important that we worship him as he is prescribed. So we take a lesson then from Numbers chapter 14, beginning in verse one. So then, all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, if only we had died in the land of Egypt, can you imagine? Or if only we had died in this wilderness, why has the Lord brought us into this land to fall by the sword that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt? And so they said to one another, let us select a leader and return to Egypt. Well, Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jefuna, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes. And they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel saying, the land we pass through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them. It's an amazing text of Scripture to see the unbelief of God's covenant people and the wilderness, isn't it? Joshua and Caleb here are calling for faith in the Lord to enter the land, and the congregation of Israel responds in verse 10 by calling for their death. They're prepared to stone them to death with stones. Now think about it with me. Think about the context. God has delivered Israel out of their bondage in Egypt. He sends great and terrible plagues upon the Egyptians by the hand of Moses. He brings them out of Egypt with great possessions, with great wealth. He parts the Red Sea. They walk through on dry land. He destroys Pharaoh's armies, drowning them in the Red Sea. He provided for them bread from heaven. He provided them water out of the rock. He met with them at Sinai. They heard his audible voice. He led them by a pillar of smoke during the day, a pillar of fire by night. He gave them his law. He entered into covenant with them. They will ask in Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 7 what great nation is there on this earth? That God, that has God so near to it as the Lord our God is to us and for whatever reason that we may call upon him. And yet for all that, when the children of Israel come to Cadesh Barnea in the wilderness of Peran to the southern border of the promised land of Canaan, the land that God had promised to give their fathers, they refuse to trust the Lord. For all that God had done for them, they refused to trust the Lord. They send out spies into the land, one from each tribe. And those spies come back with word that the land is exactly as God had said that it would be. It is truly a good land. It's a land flowing with milk and honey. There are clusters of grapes there so large it takes two men to carry them. However, of those spies ten of them returned faithless. The men who lived there they said are like giants. We are like grasshoppers in their sight. The cities are fortified, the walls are high. If we go into that land, we are going to die. That was their thought. And what do the people do? They respond with faithlessness themselves. It's interesting isn't it that often faithlessness is contagious. If you are faithless you can spread that cowardly wicked faithlessness to other people. Here their faithlessness the faithlessness of the ten is contagious. Verse 1 the people wept all night. Verse 2 the people complained all day. Verse 4 let's go back to Egypt. Faithless. The Lord describes them in the book of Hebrews as unbelieving. Disobedient and unbelieving. All of course except for Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jefunah. Verse 7 the land we pass through to spy out is an exceedingly good land they would say. If the Lord delights in us then he will bring us into this land and give it to us. A land which flows with milk and honey. And of course the Lord delighted in them. They were His covenant people. Of course the Lord delighted in them. Well Moses once in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 34 the Lord heard the sound of your words Moses says to the children of Israel and he was angry and the Lord took an oath saying surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers. It's a terrifying judgment isn't it? Not one. We know that to be true. Every one of that first generation the emancipation generation every one of them died in the wilderness except for Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jefunah the children of those lived and entered into the land. But the Lord says Caleb he shall see it to him and his children I'm giving this land on which he walked because the Holy followed the Lord and 38 Joshua the son of Nun who stands before you he shall go in there encourage him for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. Caleb and Joshua simply believed God and they trusted him for his promises. Listen you and I are here because of God's promises aren't we? We're here for those things we're here because God has promised in his son our Lord Jesus Christ through faith in him forgive us of all our sin to give us an inheritance with him in heaven. We've been delivered out of bondage we've been delivered out of bondage to our sin we've been given the bread of life the Lord Jesus Christ we've been nourished with life giving water a fountain of life though he was rich yet for our sakes he became poor that we through his poverty might become rich and the Lord has carried us through this wilderness as he says in Deuteronomy 1 as a man carries his own son and will then you and I presume to be faithless or unbelieving in our worship would we presume to be faithless with our decisions faithless in our employment faithless as we provide for our families faithless as we serve our spouse faithless as we raise our kids faithless as we walk through the tracks of this world we're eating on our inheritance will we be faithless? No not like those Israelites we have their example as one we're not to follow so let's worship the Lord now in faith let's worship, let's sing to the Lord with hearts full of gratitude for all that God has done for us in Christ and let's sing as those people who believe God for his promises pray with me Lord we believe you we take you at your word because you are faithful steadfast immovable we trust you Lord we trust in you God our Father we trust in you God the Son, we trust in you God the Holy Spirit we thank you Lord for the blessed privilege of your gracious promises to us in Christ having turned us from our sin having turned us to the Savior and having given us an inheritance with him we now with grateful hearts sing praises to you we long to hear your word preached and to see wondrous things from your law help us now Lord in spirit and in truth with heart soul mind and strength to worship you in spirit and faith that we would do help us Lord now in this we pray in Jesus name amen


Hello and welcome to NewsClip. Nothing drives us more than standing in solidarity with the people's movements. Our teams are on the ground covering these movements extensively and hoping to bring our change. In this segment, we bring you a roundup of various such protests and movements that have taken place across the country over the past few weeks. Thousands of farmers from all over India travelled to the capital to make their voices heard. The farmers started their protest march on November 29th from five different locations in Delhi toward Ramleela Medan under the banner of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee. Over one lakh farmers walked from Ramleela Medan to Parliament Street on 30th November to demand a joint session of parliament addressing the agrarian crisis. One of the slogans that kept rending the air as a sea of farmers marched towards Parliament was Ayodhya nahi karz maafi chahiye. Basically, the farmers are making it very clear that they will not be fooled by the ongoing Hindu-Muslim communal polarization and they are not concerned with it and what they demand is their rights. This perhaps symbolized the great significance of the farmers march and the umbrella of a joint front of 208 organizations. The historic march is setting an agenda against the Modi government ahead of the 2019 elections. Under the BJP government, the farmers' protests have witnessed a significant increase starting with the massive struggle for protection of land rights and against unjust land acquisition within just a year of Modi coming to power. The movements of farmers have burst out repeatedly in several states, mostly on the twin issues of low prices for produce and consequent indebtedness. Apart from demanding a joint session of the parliament, the farmers are also demanding implementation of the Swaminathan Commission report, increased minimum support prices and the passing of the farmers' freedom from indebtedness bill 2018 and farmers' right to guaranteed remunerative minimum support prices for agricultural commodities bill 2018. The bill is pending. Three months after protesting the Haryana government's move to privatize buses, the state's roadway workers have come out again on the streets on 4 December to protest against the decision of sacking 365 drivers who were hired on contractual basis in 2016. 16,000 workers of Haryana roadways had been on a strike since October 16, protesting against the state government's attempts at backdoor privatization of the roadways by introducing the kilometer scheme. The state government had unilaterally taken the decision to hire 720 private buses on kilometer basis. The workers' unions were not taken into confidence while making this decision. The unions claimed that this decision was against the interest of the employees as well as the public. That's all for this week. For more detailed reports on these protests and movements, please log on to our website and our Facebook page. Thank you.