Is blood sacrifice required for the atonement of sins? Quite often missionaries will cite Hebrews 9 verse 22 in the New Testament which states quote, without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins or no forgiveness of sins. But is this true? Is this a Jewish concept? After all, the New Testament claims to be the fulfillment of Judaism. Let us examine this question based upon what was revealed in the Tanakh and see if the New Testament is correct about this important subject. The New Testament bases its idea on Leviticus chapter 17 verse 11 which states quote, For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul end quote. From a simple reading, it seems that blood makes atonement for the soul. Without blood, atonement does not seem possible. But is this the whole story? We must always ask ourselves what is the full context of this verse? Let's have a look. If anyone of the house of Israel or of the strangers who reside among them consumes any blood, I will set my face against that person who consumes blood and I will cut that person off from the people for the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you for making atonement for your lives on the altar for as life it is the blood that makes an atonement therefore I have said to the people of Israel no person among you shall consume any blood nor any stranger who resides among you shall consume any blood and any one of the people of Israel or the stranger who resides among them who hunts down an animal or a bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth for the life of every creature its blood is its life therefore I have said to the people of Israel you shall not consume the blood of any creature for the life of every creature is its blood whoever eats it shall be cut off and quote from Leviticus chapter 17 the entire context verses 10 through 14 a careful reading of this passage in Leviticus clearly reveals that the Torah is speaking about the prohibition against consuming blood and not about atonement blood is important because when an animal is offered for sacrifice it is the blood that affects the atonement not the skin or the bones these passages also tell us that the only permitted use of blood is on the altar in the temple is a blood sacrifice the only means that God has given us to atone for our souls absolutely not just as a store allows us to pay by cash or check or credit card so too God allows us many ways to atone for our souls to appreciate this concept we examined the New Testament quote that the missionaries used to make their case we discovered that not only do they take verses from the 10 out of context but they also do the same thing with the New Testament verses the entire verse from the New Testament reads quote and almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins or forgiveness of sins Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22 almost all things this is what Hebrew says certainly Paul was aware that the atoning power of blood did not cover everything and that other means for atonement were available let's examine the tenak to see where atonement was achieved without blood if a person cannot afford an animal to sacrifice is atonement therefore impossible for him quote but if he is not able to bring two turtle doves or two pigeons then he who sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an effa a fine flower for a sin offering then shall he bring it to the priest and the priest shall take his handful of it a memorial part of it and burn it on the altar according to the offerings made by fire to the Lord it is a sin offering and the priest shall make an atonement for him in regards to his sin that he is sin in one of these and it shall be forgiven him and the remnant shall be the priests as a meal offering this is from the book of Leviticus chapter 5 verses 11 through 13 in fact sacrifices in and of themselves were never able to absolve the person who committed the wrong many Jews in biblical times made the great mistake of assuming that the critical antidote to sin was the shed blood of a sacrifice in the book of Proverbs King Solomon warned that quote the sacrifice of a wicked person is an abomination to God in chapter 15 verse 8 and 21 verse 27 of the book of Proverbs ultimately a sacrifice was only meaningful when it truly represented a sincere change in the heart and the actions of the person seeking forgiveness this reformation of the sinner and his returning to God or Chuva is the true repentance that God desires and is the only means to achieve forgiveness quote greet no more vain offerings in sense of abomination they are to me wash yourselves make yourselves clean put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the orphan and plead for the widow this is from Isaiah chapter 1 verses 13 through 17 another quote the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite heart these oh God you will not despise Psalm 51 verse 19 King David desired Bathsheba and he therefore sent your ryer her husband to the front lines of battle to be killed when the prophet Nathan confronted David of his sin he repented and was forgiven because sin offerings were only brought for unintentional sins as we see in Leviticus chapter 4 no blood offering was involved in David's atonement process and no sacrifices mentioned in the story quote and David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said to David Lord also has put away your sin you shall not die second Samuel chapter 12 verse 13 Nineveh was a sinful city comprised solely of Gentiles and described in the book of Jonah quote arise go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it for their wickedness has come up before me and the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed the fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest of them to the least of them and word came to the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and he took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth and satan ashes and God saw their doings that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil which he had said that he would do to them and he did not do it the book of Jonah chapter 1 verse 2 chapter 3 verses 5 6 and there's 10 5 to 6 and 10 turning away from sin and returning to God in repentance is the exclusive avenue to forgiveness as repeated numerous times in the Bible quote it may be that when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters I intend to do to them that all of them may turn from their evil ways so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin Jeremiah chapter 36 verse 3 another quote let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts let them return to the Lord that he may have mercy on them to our God for he will abundantly pardon Isaiah chapter 55 verse 7 Christians ask how is it possible to attain atonement without sacrifices since no sacrifices can be offered without the temple Jews have always done exactly what the Bible has instructed them to do in such a case when Solomon dedicated the first temple he told the people how to attain forgiveness should they be exiled and no longer have access to it quote they shall think to themselves in the land where they were carried away and repent and pray to you saying we have sinned and have acted perversely and have committed wickedness and they return to you with all their heart and all their soul then hear their prayer and supplication in heaven and forgive your people who have sinned against you first Kings chapter 8 verses 47 through 15 Hosea prophesied to the 10 northern tribes of Israel who were unable to go to the temple in Jerusalem because of the civil war and provided an admonition from God applicable to all of us quote oh Israel return to the Lord your God for you have stumbled in your iniquity take with you words and turn to the Lord say to him forgive all iniquity and receive us graciously for we will offer the words of our lips instead of calves Hosea chapter 14 verses 2 through 3 the prophet Daniel lived during the Babylonian exile when there was no temple or sacrifices and offers his words of confession quote we have sinned and we have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled and have departed from your precepts and from your judgments Daniel chapter 9 verse 5 and his plea for forgiveness is as follows quote to the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness for we have rebelled against him oh Lord according to all your righteousness I pray you let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem your holy mountain because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all those who are around us Daniel 9 verses 9 and 16 Daniel asked God for forgiveness for himself and his people knowing that he could not offer blood sacrifices would Daniel pray for something inaccessible of course not Daniel knew the teachings of Solomon and Hosea as well as the words of Nathan the prophet concerning to King David's forgiveness Daniel understood the central teaching of the to not concerning the essential actions required to attain God's forgiveness turning away from our transgressions and returning to God in sincere repentance


We got to see hands-on what it's like to be in an OR. I never knew I could have a hand in surgery. And I knew this is what I want to do forever. We are using the robot to test picking up different objects and moving them. Yeah, I've never used anything like this before. And it's very cool to see all the different technology that's used. Today we're in the surgery skills lab. And we're kind of learning about different cadaver parts, as well as suturing up some fruits. The fruit rips pretty easily. So you have to be really delicate with it. We're standing in the PRP lab. We took some blood. We used the machine to extract all, to see, measure all what's in it. I really want to keep doing medicine as a career. I want to be a surgeon one day. It's super cool to see the cadavers and just work with these guys. And they're super friendly, so it's fun.


Hey guys, welcome back to another week of What's For Dinner. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. Our What's For Dinner videos come out every single Tuesday. And in my household, it's me, my husband, and our 10 month old baby. So we are kicking off another week of What's For Dinner with a new recipe. It is called Cheez-It Meatloaf. And I will be sure to leave the link for the recipe in the description box. So let's get started. So in my bowl, I have two eggs that I've already cracked. And I am going to add some lean ground beef. And this is two pounds. And this was in my freezer. I've been trying to use up stuff in my freezer and pantry. And I am going to add one packet of this onion soup mix. And then I've already crushed up some Cheez-It.  And I'm just going to get in there with my hands and get everything all combined. Now this recipe does not have a glaze on it. They want you to top it with cheddar cheese. But I do like a glaze on my meatloaf. So I'm just going to make a glaze out of a half a cup of ketchup and a half a cup of brown sugar. And I'm going to add that to the top once I get everything all combined. So I have my meat mixture all combined here. And then right here I have a pan that I've just lined with foil. Now the recipe calls for you to put it in a loaf pan, but I never make my meatloafs in a loaf pan. I just feel like it takes them longer to cook. And then the oil sometimes just sits in there and I'm not crazy about it. So I always form my meatloaf in a pan just like this and bake it. And then right here I have the glaze that I'm going to add on top, which is just a half cup of packed brown sugar and a half cup of ketchup. So let's start forming our meatloaf. So I have my meatloaf all formed and I'm just going to add my glaze over the meatloaf. Now I did set a little bit of it aside just in case it happens to dry out during the cooking process so that I can add some more to it. But you're just going to just lay this over your meatloaf. And I do have my oven preheated to 350 degrees and I'm going to bake this for an hour or until it's done. And then the recipe calls for you to add a fourth of a cup of cheese on top of the meatloaf when it's finished cooking and to let the cheese melt and then you'll pull it out. So I'm gonna add, because we like cheese, I'm gonna add more than a fourth of a cup to this. All right, so here it is. It's ready to go into the oven. So here is the meatloaf and I ended up baking this for one hour and then I added sliced cheese on top. I didn't have any shredded cheese to use so I cut it diagonally and later to cross the top and baked it for an additional five minutes. So I baked this for about an hour and five minutes total and as you can see, the glaze stayed so it didn't burn off like I thought it would. So here is the inside of it and Howard and I tasted it and it's pretty good. I don't taste the cheese, it's that much but it is good, it does have a good flavor. And so here's our plate. Well, here's Howard's plate.  I was gonna make homemade mashed potatoes because I do have everything for it but honestly, with Thanksgiving coming up next week I just don't feel like making homemade mashed potatoes. I'm gonna be making them next week. So I just use these that I had in my pantry and I doctored them up. You're supposed to use two cups of water and so I used one cup of water, one cup of half and half and then I added butter to it and here is what they look like and then I just had some fresh broccolini in my fridge that I just stir-fried in a little bit of oil and garlic salt. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight I am using up some stuff from my freezer. So I have this in my freezer, General Soap's Chicken and it is from Winco which is a grocery store around here. Comes with the chicken and the little sauce packets and I made it in the skillet and so this is what it looks like. It does not look anything like that. I don't know why this always turns out so dark but it does. So we're having that and then I just made some fried rice with green onions. I just stir-fried some rice, added some onion in there and used some garlic salt with it and then also some sesame oil and then I had a small cabbage. So I used half of it for dinner tonight and then the other half I'm gonna be making some sausage, potato and cabbage soup later on this week. So I seasoned the cabbage with this Korean barbecue seasoning and some sesame oil and then the garlic salt as well. So of course this isn't really four vegetables but I just use my seasonings for whatever I want to. If it's steak seasoning and I wanna use it on my chicken, I do chicken seasoning. I use it on my steak, I use it on my pork. I use seasonings for the flavor and whatever I think it would go with. So that's what I used on my cabbage and then I decided to make a little soup. I really like Kekomen soup and my favorites are hot and sour but I had this in my pantry and wanted to use it. So I made it and it calls for one egg which I usually add. See the egg right there in the picture? I usually added in but I didn't this time because I added in a few of these chicken cilantro, many wontons. I say a few, I added in eight, four for Howard, four for me and here it is. So I made kind of like a little wonton soup. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, we are using up some stuff from our freezer. I had some pork steak in the freezer and I found it on sale at Tom Thumb about a month ago and I got two huge pork steaks in a package and they were being clearanced out for $1.50. So that's what Howard grilled out for us today and then he just added some barbecue sauce to it. I had some leftover green beans in the fridge that I needed to use up and then we are just having some pasta roni on the side. Howard really likes this. This was in our pantry, I needed to use that too. It is the Parmesan cheese and I think this one is his favorite. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, I am having sausage, potato and cabbage soup and I have served this plenty of times on our what's for dinner videos but I don't think I've ever shown you how easy it is to make. So in my pot here, I have one pound of hot breakfast sausage and I have one medium onion and I have probably about four tablespoons of garlic and I've let that cook all the way through. To it, I'm going to add in my potatoes. This is about two large potatoes that I've cut into cubes and I'm going to add half a head of cabbage.  It's half and I just cut it into slices. I'm gonna drop that in and to it, I'm going to add eight cups of water. It actually calls for eight cups of chicken stock but I'm going to use bouillon. I don't have any cans of chicken stock in my pantry and I have a ton of bouillon that I need to use up. So I'm gonna add in my eight cups of water and then I'm going to add in my bouillon. So I have this, this is from Noor and it's a home style stock. So I'm gonna add a couple of those in and I don't quite have enough so I have a little bit of bouillon in here that I'm going to use as well and then for my seasoning, I'm using some salt and I'm using white pepper. The recipe calls for black pepper but I wanted to give this white pepper a try. I heard it's spicier than black pepper so I'm just gonna drop that in. So just gonna give this a stir. It's gonna take a while for that stock to dissolve. So I'm gonna give this a stir and then I am just going to let this cook on low. Let it simmer for about an hour and when it's all finished, I'll come back and show you guys what it looks like. I was getting ready to record the soup and someone started making a lot of noise. Right Harrison? Now he's being bashful again. All right? So here is the soup. I let it simmer on low for about an hour and I thought I remembered this recipe but I didn't exactly remember it. So I was supposed to add in the cabbage last after the potatoes cook but as you know, I added everything in together and it still turned out fine. But I did wanna mention that I was supposed to wait and add in the cabbage. But anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time. Hey guys, so for dinner tonight, Howard went and picked up pizza for us. This is from Domino's and we both realized we haven't had Domino's in probably years but they were or are running a special. You get two for 5.99 each. So we got a medium two topping pizza with pepperoni and sausage. And then we got a side of stuffed cheesy bread and a marinara, marinara or any of the sauces. None of the sauces come with anything. You have to pay for them separately. I think Howard said this was 75 cents. So anyway, this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time.


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Now Mark you've just mentioned about AI and you know mixed feelings about it Some people are gonna lose jobs eventually. What are your thoughts about that? I mean it is what it is. It happens. It's the same in different markets when there's innovation, technology, it phases out some things that have been the norm But the thing is to learn from that and not try but to actually Embrace the change you have to you cannot afford to just say no Don't feel like you're inevitable. You're not inevitable You have to embrace the new times and use it your content There's an audience for you just put it out there But use a technology that is there that content is king but distribution is queen So distribution amongst them is podcast now where people get it here on their phones or wherever they are as they move So I think it's it's not a thing of be Against it or oppose it embrace it You know it's with a legendary media personality Mark Masai. Hi, thank you. Hi. How are you doing good? Thank you Are you feeling this evening? I'm super excited. This is new kid on the block I'm offering for those who in the podcasting business a platform where you can come a one-stop shop come and get it It's a array of different types of discussions and topics One among them I have to plug this social newsroom Which is what I do here with semibox and I think it's an exciting time for content creators to come and Have an opportunity to show people. Hey, this is where you can get my content my my content and interact with it Yeah, we're taking it to the next level Now mark from mainstream media to podcasting quite a big deal. Why podcasting according to you? I mean, it's the future But still talk about this which is what we we discussed earlier even podcasters need to be awake to the new trends and that is AI how to use AI and elements of AI aspects of AI in being on the cutting edge because if you snooze you lose New technology phases you out of the market in a second. So even those in the podcasting space can't afford to just be Comfortable and say oh, I just do a podcast sit down talk banter and that's it You have to be awake to the new trends Technologically that is yeah, and you know mark people are asking if I want to start a podcast then monetization is key Because some people are looking to earn a living. How is your how hard is it to make money from a podcast? I think it's not you wouldn't call it hard as much as it is It takes an effort So whether you look at it as a hard thing or not just don't think of this as just because it's a Future or the new platform that everyone is on or people are moving to it doesn't mean that it translates to money Automatically, you have to be consistent. You have to know for yourself. What product you're introducing to the market and to the audience Have your audience. It's still the same like legacy media. Know your audience and be very Concise with your messages. That's the other thing because you're competing for interest and attention. There's many other Podcasts that are on this platform. So there's a lot on offer. So you have to stand out for something but be very consistent But be be concise Get someone's attention and pass the message as fast as you can. Yeah, but it takes time. So patience Guys you had it from the best patience Now Mark, you've just mentioned about AI and you know mixed feelings about it Some people are gonna lose jobs eventually. What are your thoughts about that? I mean it is what it is. It happens. It's the same in different markets when there's Innovation technology it phases out some things that have been the norm but the thing is to learn from that and Not try but to actually Embrace the change you have to you cannot afford to just say no Don't feel like you're inevitable. You're not inevitable You have to embrace the new times and use it your content There's an audience for you just put it out there But use a technology that is there that content is king but distribution is queen So distribution amongst them is podcast now where people get it here on their phones or wherever they are as they move So I think it's it's not a thing of be Against it or oppose it embrace it Now away from the podcast kid don't go to mark three things if a person possesses or rather they have traits Such traits they cannot be your friend three if you're out to take advantage of me so if you just Want to know me for association or what you would gain I Can smell it and or as soon as I do just cut it If you betray me As soon as I learn it and especially if you're not apologetic or you don't agree to it.  I'm not about that business Go settle your scores and your differences with that person But if it's we're friends, let's let's talk you can tell me about an issue you've had with someone But don't bring down someone and use me as an audience. I won't be there One thing people misunderstand about you that I'm a snob Minim's odd Mark last please kindly encourage someone who really is interested in getting into podcasting What can they take home? Take home for real. I'd say it not just because I'm part of it But get in touch with semibox. It's a one-stop shop to have a production team if you have the content You come share your idea. You'll curate you'll you know come to an agreement and you start your magic This is a shared space at the browser media lab get in touch start doing it because you need a team for this Especially if you just starting no one has it all figured out. Yeah, but these people have started and they've started Sometime for some time now till from around the COVID season just after COVID season till now So they've been added for a bit. They understand what works and what doesn't so come collaborate Find people who are doing it watch other podcasts learn from what they do that stands out find out What would stand out for you? Absolutely. Thank you so much Mark for talking to thank you for this opportunity


Good morning, John. I wasn't gonna do this, but then I saw a former head of the SEC on CNBC comparing the freaking GameStop short squeeze to the siege on the Capitol and I got too mad. And so now I'm here. I think it's fairly easy to pull back the curtain here and talk about why this happened, why it doesn't mean you shouldn't have faith in the stock market, and why it is nothing like the siege on the Capitol. GameStop is a mall retailer that sells video games and so it's been struggling. Its current business model is not well suited to a pandemic or the future in general. A bunch of finance people notice this, not a complicated thing to notice, and they want to make money off of that. Now they may not own GameStop stock. They didn't buy it when it was high, so they can't really sell it when it's low. They could buy it low and sell it lower, but the way to really make money off of this is to make a bet, to bet that it will go down a certain amount in a certain amount of time. And just like in Vegas, when your bet gets more specific, your payout if you win will be higher. They then make these bets public the rest of the market sees it and actually drives the price of the stock down. But then someone notices that GameStop isn't actually doing that poorly.  So those people start to buy GameStop stock and then it stops crashing. But people who made the bets get worried, so they make more bets, so that the market will see that and they will lower the price again. And this works for an amount of time. They do it so much that they actually, it turns out, have made promises to buy more GameStop stock than exists on the market. Someone notices this and they say a fairly simple sentence. The finance guys have promised to buy so much GameStop stock that if it doesn't go bankrupt or get purchased by a private equity fund in the next, like, three months, they're going to have to buy GameStop stock at whatever the price is. And we can be the one selling it to them at whatever the price is. Other people hear that and they're like, you know what? You're right. So they do that. They start to push the price of the stock up probably closer to what it actually should be worth considering that the company's not going bankrupt. And then the stock starts to increase in value a lot and that becomes news and that brings more people in whether they understand what's going on or not. And at some point here this starts to transition from squeezing value out of hedge funds to just a little mini pyramid scheme. Buying the stock because people are buying the stock and then trying to get more people to buy the stock so you can sell the stock when it's higher. Because eventually the price of GameStop is going to go back down to a rational number. From even the most optimistic perspective, GameStop is worth 10 times less what it's trading at right now. As long as you're still squeezing the hedge funds, it's about that, not about the price. But eventually those squeezes run out and it has to go back down to a normal price. That is eventually going to happen and on the way down, people are going to lose a lot of money. Now for everyone involved in this, this was a gamble. This was not investment. If you go into the discords where these things are organized, it's just a bunch of people bullying each other not to sell while slowly selling in the background to make sure they've locked their profits in. Also it's very exciting and for certain brains, mine included. That kind of feedback is dangerous and addictive and we've seen the exuberance of this sort of like explode out into other places. Like there wasn't a like fundamental weird reason why Dogecoin was suddenly worth more. The important thing here is that this instability was not created by Reddit. It was created by hedge funds who promised to buy more stock than existed. There are some real terrible arcane systems for manipulating our world for the benefit of like the worst people. And it's just people. It's not magic. It's decipherable. And none of it has much to do with how the market actually works. Which is that people buy shares in companies that they think are doing well and will do better and sell shares in companies that they think will not do well. Now these manipulating agencies should be regulated out of existence. They shouldn't be able to do what they do. But instead at least in this one way they got memed out of existence. That door has been slammed in their face by a few hundred people who figured something out and a few million people who were mobilized in a financial action unlike any one has ever seen ever in the world. Eventually people are gonna figure out how powerful they are. It'll be interesting to see what we do with that. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


In this video we are talking about list of all prime ministers of India from 1947 to 2023. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. On the 15th of August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as the first prime minister of free India. Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the second prime minister of India. From 1964 to 1966 and he was the sixth home minister of India from 1961 to 1963. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. Murarji Ranshotji Desai was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the fourth prime minister of India. Between 1977 to 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. Chaudhary Charan Singh served as the fifth prime minister of India. Between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the champion of India's peasants. Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the sixth prime minister of India. From 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, then prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian prime minister at the age of 40. Vishwanath Pratap Singh, shortened to VP Singh, was an Indian politician who was the seventh prime minister of India from 1989 to 1990. And the 41st Raja Bahadur of Mander. He is India's only prime minister to have been former royalty. He was educated at the Allahabad University and Ferguson College in Pune. Chandra Shekhar was an Indian politician who served as the eighth prime minister of India. Between the 10th of November 1990 and the 21st of June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian. Pamulaparthi Venkat Narsimha Rao, popularly known as PV Narsimha Rao. Was an Indian lawyer, statesman and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of India. From 1991 to 1996. He is known for introducing various liberal reforms to India's economy, our all-time favorite prime minister. Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian politician and statesman who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India. First for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004. Haradan Halli Dodgoda Dewey Gouda is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka. He served as the 11th prime minister of India from the first of June 1996 to the 21st of April 1997. He was previously the 14th chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996. Inder Kumar Gujral was an Indian diplomat, politician and freedom activist who served as the 12th prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998. Born in Punjab, he was influenced by nationalistic ideas as a student and joined the All India Students Federation and the Communist Party of India. Dr. Manmohan Singh is an Indian politician, economist and statesman who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is also the third longest serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. He was also the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term. Narendra Damodar Das Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament from Varanasi. He is the longest serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that the quantity in grams of a radioactive sample after t days is given by 150 into 0.94 raised to power t identify the initial value and the growth or decay rate. Let us start with the solution of this question. Now in this question we are given the quantity in grams of a radioactive sample after t days which is given by the function 150 into 0.94 raised to power t which is an exponential function of the form a into b raised to power x where a is the initial value and b is the base which gives us rate of growth or decay. Now if we compare the two functions we get the value of a as 150 and the value of b as 0.94. So here we can say that a which is the initial value is 150 thus we can say that initial value is 150 grams also here b is equal to 0.94 which is less than 1 so it shows decay. Now let us find rate of decay we can write this function that is 150 into 0.94 raised to power t as the function 150 into 1 minus 0.06 whole raised to power t which is of the form a into 1 minus r whole raised to power t. Now on comparing these two functions we get the value of r as 0.06 which is equal to 6 percent thus we conclude that we started with 150 grams of material which is decaying by 6 percent per day which is the required answer this completes our session hope you enjoyed this session


Hi Shipmates, C&O Gilday and Mick Pondsmith here to wish our entire Navy family happy holidays. As a Navy, we have accomplished significant milestones this year, but we have also experienced devastating loss, most recently in Pearl Harbor and Pensacola. During this holiday season, when we often focus on the things we are grateful for, please know that the Navy is grateful for you and for your family's service. We serve together as one team, the Shipmates, uniformed and civilian, active and reserved. We must look out for each other and take care of one another. That extra effort to extend a hand or to lend an ear to those who need help should never be underestimated. It will make a difference. This season, let's take time to remember our sailors and civilians deployed around the world and away from their families. Thank you for standing to watch, Shipmates. And as we look forward to the new year, let's recommit ourselves, every one of us, to the core values that we share as a Navy. We wish you and your family a happy and healthy 2020 and we'll see you in the fleet.


Hey, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat with another fellow office apps and services MVP Eric. Great to know, great or great to have you. Thank you so much for having me.  So my name is Eric Marcy I am from Barber in Ohio I'm a recent Microsoft MVP as a June 1 2021. And I am also a unified communications engineer at T2M works so the company is actually based on Denver, but we have zero offices. So we're an entirely remote workforce and I work alongside Jonathan McKinney, Richard Brenneson, Mitch Steiner some names that you guys may know from John really well yes and add a ball out in the region as well and some folks that are from that that part of the world, but you know for those that aren't familiar to it used to be that so you see folks like even coming from the collaboration side and SharePoint initially a SharePoint MVP. You know, most SIs most consultants that did collaboration when a call came in and hey we need help with the unified communication side like run to the experts we didn't did a little bit there but it was really kind of a subset of that space. Where you had the depth of experience around network around telephony kind of all those different pieces. It was just much more specialized. Yep. And nowadays you're kind of seeing a more simplify you're having all these dashboards a kind of tile that stuff together. So, you know people that may or may not know the product you know in depth can easily log in and find out exactly what's going on with the product. Well I know that it's a while we're waiting here at the beginning of Microsoft fiscal year, and so I'm an Alliance manager so I own a lot of the Microsoft relationship with my company at point but. So, like, starting to see some of the metrics come through what Microsoft is it feels is important to what they're going to be kind of measured on. And it's going towards that direction of course teams which is still you know application or operating system when you want to want to call it now. It's still number one there, but so much more focused around meetings itself which includes hardware and all the capabilities that unified communication side of that so it's, it's all rising back up, you can be out front. Once again Eric. Yeah, indeed. It's a good space to be in I mean how's it been through the pandemic for for you and your team. Pretty much as soon as March last year hit. It was pretty much everybody overnight okay we need our phones to send the cloud now we are moving to the cloud now it's not a. Okay maybe we need to do this know that every single person that was maybe looking at your teams or even Skype for business at the time. And overnight was like okay we are moving forward these projects immediately as fast as we could. So pretty much overnight we had a tremendous amount of work on all the employees at T2M and I'm sure any consulting company or any other company out there in the space was under the same amount of load. In the final one of the questions was you know that the traditional last question of the of the event was like what do you foresee the future next three to five years and my first answer was I think one thing the pandemic did especially talk about the unified communication side of the house is they recognize where the gaps were things like outdated cameras crappy mics are in headsets and you know and the rest of that so it's one thing to be ready like our data secure. We're able we've got the right tools we had collaborate and communicate with each other. But the quality of that service and and increasing the game, people buying backdrops green screens lights microphones all that kind of stuff. And we kind of like the joke about it but I think that there's so much room for improvement from the vendors and certainly optimized from on the software side as well I think that that's going to be a major topic the next four or five years. In like as an example that we know we had one of our customers they had a deployment of 800 to 900 CX 600 link phone edition devices out there. Like, can we take in these term plays and let them move the teams. No. So pretty much overnight a lot of these companies, you know they were running that antiquated hardware that wasn't compatible with you know newer platforms. And overnight they had to start, you know, writing PO's to get new hardware new headsets kind of the big push was to get everybody headsets because you know I don't not everybody wants to have a phone carrying around with them just to have a meeting. But you know just kind of touches based on that point of you know overnight everything pretty much changed the environment the world today. You know, so back in so I was at Microsoft for three and a half years and having that, you know the digital phone tied into, you know, everything of course it was completely different solution that we were integrated with but being able to go in and from Skype or and you know and dial to your phone and you know that that capability. It's fantastic, but one of the limitations a lot of the hardware it's like it's version specific like it's you upgrade the software you need to replace the hardware as well. So, I don't have an answer for that it's just an observation but. Yeah, the companies that had like DVX is for example or you know like a see for like a 450 HD or something in those that support like that three fit, you know, those companies were still fine because they were able to continue using those devices. But you know a lot of those ones that we kind of never wanted to spend the money on it those are the ones that were really hurting the most start of and even into the pandemic. I've thought about, you know, for my for my kids is they're out there of course they all have their their own device and I was thinking about buying some new hardware buying something specifically for like teams meetings. Every all of my family has teams and we communicate in different tools different ways, but then I thought my kids are adults they're all working by your own hardware. What am I buying stuff for I'll buy them a card for their birthday or just use their cell phones. There you go. That's the already included option right. Every flavor of phone that's within our within our family as well so there's a common as a discussion point where somebody all talk about I'm on iPhone and and I've got you know, Apple iPhone haters in the family and and then I hear the the the whole iOS versus and Android battles and and then the time it was worse for me I was on Windows phone until 2018 and I would have those battles all the time get a Windows phone and I miss I miss mine. Yep. That that phone, you couldn't get any apps. I really liked my Windows phone. I was sad that they gave that up. Well what what else are you like actively talking about presenting on kind of what are your topics to juror.  I'll actually be speaking at comms versus UK. I'm not sure yet if it's going to be in person or not yet for traveling from us UK. That's right hybrid event but yeah it's their first in person that they're back doing yeah I did the last one. Yep. So, not sure we're going to be in person yet but I'm at that conference I'm going to be speaking about deploying a highly available teams voice deployment. So kind of get a touch base and multiple SBCs kind of the routing behind that SBAs local media optimization a lot of those things that you know you have available to you but not every voice deployment today is working in that you know kind of bringing that to people's attention so they can learn you know what is there to keep that from our environment highly available. Kind of coming up after that hoping fingers crossed comms vnext is going to be happening October. Nothing official yet, but you know hopefully that does happen in October. And with that conference I'm going to be speaking on the media flows between different devices and different I different areas with the Microsoft teams. So kind of what happens if you're using to you have two clients in the same network if you've got three devices. Where is that media traffic going you know what does that look like in an actual environment and kind of explain that so that people can you know better optimized a network for future planning. So any other events this year. I don't believe there's any other. I think there's teams fast in October but that's more like a virtual. Well you know there's the Microsoft 365 collaboration conference in Las Vegas the second week in December, which is a good time to be in Vegas and very good in terms of weather but that's also bad if you're somebody likes blackjack. But it's, you know, I'm just saying that that you know this this this space this area is of interest to that crowd. More focused on the applications that the front end of that but you know to have people that know that the unified communication side of that. There's too few people that go speak through that I would just recommend and any other UC experts that are out there that are looking to participate in a big event. That should be a good event in December I think it'll be. I'm doing a couple other in persons prior to that leading up to that, but I think that's going to be the biggest of the year. For sure. So this guy so this is what kind of happens you know folks behind the scenes with with MVPs like you see you know people that kind of joined the fold and they're doing things more locally and then they start getting invites to other things and and a lot of times it's just about awareness that we just happen to have this conversation I've been doing a little operational activity helping share some information about another event. I am not a shill for the event. I'm just a fan of it and you know and plan on speaking there myself so. And that's one of those things like it's hard to keep track of everything that's going on because there's just so much stuff in this space. I keep track of and you know that's a great example of not being aware of something so. This is the one nice thing I say one nice thing that you can say about you know what happened with the pandemic no one talks about the pros of the pandemic, which is the the increase of obviously in online events and activities and but it's pushed a user groups and while there are so many and you need to be selective. It's easy just to fill up all of your spare time and participating in all the various user groups things around the world. But if you're looking for an opportunity to speak and get that experience and kind of show those. The depth of your experience and go and get started in the the conference scene. Then you know you just need to reach out to the user groups find out about these these other larger events that are going on submit abstracts. Get turned down the first few I got turned down and then it kind of clicked I did the first one and caught the bug and thankfully worked for a couple companies that really supported the community aspect of what it was doing and recognize that there's great marketing value and having somebody in the company that goes and does these things. There's a lot of you know most MPPs and I'm sure Eric you're the same way like I love sharing my knowledge and helping people and hearing their unique stories and perspectives which helps me retell those stories those scenarios and provide better guidance. We all get we all get better at what we do the more we collaborate and work together. But it starts with sharing those experiences. Indeed and like you know when I work on projects and you know different things in my lab is you know a lot of people know me by.   Let's post it out there because somebody somewhere may or may not run into that exact same problem one day and they'll be like OK what do I do and they may not know that much about the product to actually fix that issue. So kind of I enjoy putting that information out there because I know that I'm helping other people make right decisions in their environment and not hopefully not break anything. And can I help expand that so. Remember the old days of going and looking for information in the early days of the Internet trying to find information and essentially you're finding like the online versions of the manuals of whatever it is that's broken in your life that you're trying to fix there. Whether it's you know your marriage your car your software whatever it is and there's you find the manual around that and then I mean that's the benefit of communities that now. But so I'm not a car guy my help my son buy a beat up used Land Rover loved that thing except if you know that world that Land Rover had the three amigos I think is the name of the problem. So the yeah anyway but to go and find videos that walked you through step by step. How to do something and again I was finding similar information that I couldn't seem to decipher from the official documentation. But when I had people that had actually walked through the experience and and did these step by step videos walking through would explain well the manual tells you this but you actually need to disconnect this other part even to get to that piece you know little things like that. Little things like that is fantastic well the same happens around your collaboration technology by communication technologies that there's the one through 10 of what you need to do but then there's the rest of the filler story the life experience of those that have been through that. That's the value of community. That's what that's what we do that's we go in and we put the narrative around the steps. Not not talking bad about Microsoft docs or anything you know nothing of that matter. There's a lot of times where you can read that you're like what in the world are they talking about and there's just all this stuff that you don't know. And that's one of the things that like incorporating in my blog post is you know pulling all that information and not just showing a step by step how to do something pulling all the information so you know what you're doing. And kind of you know put together so that you have all this kind of prerequisites there and it's easy to understand. And that's one of the things that I enjoy and that's one of the things I love about the community, you know, if I go back to 2016 you know there's me, you know not even a year working in the it industry since I graduated high school. I came across Skype for business, found the product overnight it was a match made in heaven, you know, next day I'm building a Skype server I'm like okay how do I build this come across this guy called Jeff shirts and found his blog and he's just in depth. So you understand, you know why you need these DNS records why you need a certificate with these C names on it and like all these things that I was foreign to me at the time. You know, I fully started beginning to understand a lot of that stuff and you know without that blog post it wouldn't have been easy for me. So you know that just kind of goes to show you know the community is big help to anybody no matter where you know where you're at whether you're you know level one, you know whether you're level 10 whatever you're at. And then the ability to go and I don't know how did you then do like it's great you find that content, but kind of what was that that point at which you reached out and connected with some of these people to do that right away to take you a while to get there. It took me a while it took me a little bit to actually get there. It was kind of 2018 I started engaging a little bit with the community and kind of you know what was going on you know I went to our local user group, starting back in 2016 the backman was just the Skype Skype for business user group and now it's teams user group. I was part of the national level. But I started kind of meeting some people through that user group, and then from there I started expanding out via Twitter, came across this person with the cowboy hat called Josh play like you know was messaging him and pretty much as soon as the beginning of 2019 hit. It was just all out meeting every single person. You know, Pat Richard Adam ball john McKinney, in just one thing after another, you know, started reaching out so kind of it was a gradual process it was not overnight that hey I know everybody or you know hey I know this person. But that's kind of one of the cool things about the community is a lot of people know each other and you know it's easy to keep in touch. Well that's one of the I think that's a lesson learned for anybody that's out there is like. Don't take so long to reach out and connect with other players it's, I mean it's one thing that it were some people just aren't very good not comfortable reaching out kind of cold calling and hey I'm a fan or read your blog post or where I've got this question. As I go the worst thing that's going to happen is there's going to say look I'm busy I can't connect and help walk you through this but. But usually what will happen and especially with MVPs is that if if I can't answer that I'll say you know who can answer that for you. And I said I'm happy to provide an introduction I do that all the time via LinkedIn. But that's it if somebody has an MVP as part of their their title. If we're in there in this world then we are people that are open to connecting so don't be shy reach out. For sure. Yeah LinkedIn my Twitter is always open everything just shoot me a message anywhere you're at and you know I'm glad to respond well that's the on social media via my blog any of those things. Excellent yeah what is your Twitter handle. I my Twitter handle is my name Eric Marcy and then my blog is you see it that blog. Very cool so we'll have that in the blog post as well and I'll have your Twitter handle what I asked you that question it will have already appeared on screen but yeah. Yeah it's always good so so what else is what else is going on any other major activity so you've got you know those those events that are coming up anything else that you're focused on. So right now I'm actually working on a direct routing configuration tool. So focusing more on like the advanced side of things. So you know there's a lot of blog posts out there direct routing in general if you're just setting up a really basic environment is very quick and easy to set up you know your separate gateway set your voice routes your policies everything you're good to go. But one of the things that you know there's not a lot of information out there on is what happens when you have those advanced voice appointments. You know those ones with you know 350 normalization rules per dial plan the ones that need trunk translation rules. You know what happens with those and you know you'll find some information out there about it. But the big thing that you run into is that a lot of it is you know trying to understand Microsoft's way of you know building these powers command. So this tool in this utility that I'm working on is designed to help people in those advanced scenarios. I'm also people in standard scenarios too so it's kind of got like kind of more advanced functions and more basic functions built into it. But it's designed to help anybody so that you can quickly get that into your deployment without needing no PowerShell code because you know some not everybody knows PowerShell I'm still I could consider myself a novice so not anything crazy. I'm sure you know Pat Richard or somebody could be like oh yeah I could get this in two lines of code or something. But you know it's kind of one of those cool things I'm working on to help the community and you know kind of that is one example of you know upcoming releases on some other things that I am working on as well so. Very cool is that stuff that is like can people find out more about what you're working on there like through your site or. Yes so my site is up to date right now with kind of everything that I have released and a lot of the stuff that I do have released. I do continuously update one of my most recent ones was bringing the Skype for business meeting join content delivery network on premises. That was kind of a big one preserving a product just in case they shut down the CDN when they shut down Skype online. But kind of coming forward I think I'm going to start doing like a quarterly update of hey here's what's going to come next and you know in the future from the blog. People would absolutely love that I know that's one of the big questions that I'm asked like a lot of MVPs I'm sure asked is like how do you keep up on everything and my my responses like well I don't. So I have kind of go to people around certain topics. It's funny so Adam and Jonathan are my to go to UC people. And I pulled them in and interviewed them on a couple things and as topics come up. But I have your regular post that I go out to so I've been turning to somebody like you like if you have a. A podcast or if you're doing regular videos that provide where you're going watching the Microsoft roadmap and then summarizing that on a monthly or quarterly basis is incredibly powerful. So it's just another reason to reach out and and get to know him. So well Eric hey really appreciate your times great getting to know you and learning about what you're working on and you've already shared kind of your social contacts there why don't you give the blog one more plug. So the blog is you see it that blog and then Twitter handle is Eric Marcy. Very cool well Eric well it was great talking to you and will. I'm sure we'll see each other soon. I don't know when the next time is there is another event that's happening in person in Denver or the guys doing another of their events. So it's not nothing official yet but they're we're we're shooting they're they're trying to do something come October in person so. The details of that I will drive over the hill for that so other other side of the Rockies from them so awesome. All right well Eric well thanks a lot for your time and we'll talk to you soon. Thank you so much for the time today and.


A lot of times when we judge teams heading into a season we talk about their off-season obviously because that comes before the season and We either judge a team and say they had the best off-season or we can judge a team and say they had one of the worst off-seasons They of course are the teams that are right in the middle, but Have we ever had a team where they have both one of the best and worst off-seasons all at the same time? And the reason that I asked that is because I feel like that's exactly what the Patriots are going through right now They of course went through everything with Tom Brady and it was like oh is he gonna stay is he gonna leave and it actually Didn't even seem real like he was gonna leave. I remember heading into it. I was thinking oh, yeah They're gonna come up with something, but they didn't and Tom Brady ended up leaving in heading to Tampa Bay so then They they also had ended up trading the way grunkowski He came out of retirement to be traded to Tampa Bay so he could go be with Tom Brady and it was just like well Those are some big blows for the Patriots Their defense remained intact for the most part. They did lose a Nikovic to to the Dolphins They they lost somebody else to to the dolphins. I feel like but anyway So they lost quite a few pieces. Of course, they went through the draft and whatnot But it was looking like most of an offense like it was gonna be pretty rough It was gonna be very rough But then all of a sudden they got Cam Newton And it was like okay, that was a big turn around. It's like wait a minute. Don't count the Patriots out yet And they got him for super cheap Former NFL MVP just came new and man they got him for super cheap So they get Cam Newton things are looking on the up and up again, you know and then When the whole opt-out thing happened they start losing guys left and right They start losing them left and right and again the most notable names Patrick Chung Dante how the high tower Marcus Cannon And they lost they lost more too But then this the rookie Dustin Woodard Seventh round draft pick he just decides he wants to retire and Initially when this came across my phone, I was thinking, okay I guess maybe because of the hope maybe he was thinking about like debating opting out And maybe he was just debating it for so long. He may have come to a conclusion before like, okay You know what? I'm gonna play this season and then he may have come to the conclusion. You'd be like, you know what? No, I ain't gonna do it. So then instead of just instead of deciding to Was trying to opt out went because it's obviously too late. He decided, you know what? I'm gonna just retire for now. I'm just I'll come back but He's retiring and they said it's not related to the whole pandemic. They said I ain't got nothing to do with it with the virus and I'm like wow Cuz this and it that's just it's just Patriots offseason in a nutshell man Because it you just never know what's gonna you just don't know what's gonna happen next and it seems like it's always something next You don't know where it's gonna come from. You don't know who don't know who is gonna come from But you know something is still coming something is still on the way But for whatever reason he decided to retire maybe it's because of health reasons. Maybe like, you know what I'm done Putting my body through this. I'm straight. I'm good. I don't know Maybe it's something personal. Maybe it's something with family. I don't know but hey kudos to him for doing it now rather than Letting it linger and hey, maybe he may take a couple days a couple weeks a couple months even a couple years And he may decide, you know what? Hey, you know what? Let me let me try to run it back But maybe by a couple years it might be too late, especially with him being a seventh round pick But hey, you got to respect his decision He obviously has other plans in mind. He got other stuff stored up for him. So he said football ain't it right now so hey Can't be mad at it man Can't be mad at it. He made a decision for him and hey, that's what it is. So Just like Patriots seventh round pick is now with the NFL. I'm out