Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. In today's video, we're going to be going over some of the best supporting Pokemon builds that you can take into the seven star Terrarium event for Del Fox that will be landing later this week. We've already covered a solo builds video on the channel for some of the best options that you can take in if you're not going online. If you want to do this in your game yourself, but we have had a lot of requests recently asking for a video like this. So I thought something a little bit different if it is received well by all of you. It's something that we can continue doing in the future. So supporting builds are a slightly different to what your solo builds would be. Solo builds are primarily things that can go into the raid, then take, sponge up a lot of damage, set themselves up and also reduce the stats on the opposing Pokemon to make it really quick to kind of go through these raids and form for the high cost items. Make them super easy to do by yourself in your game. But obviously on the other side of that, you do have this online facility where you can go online, join players online. But it is slightly different because there is a lot more emphasis on all of your partnering players not getting knocked out because every time they get knocked out, then chunks get taken off the raid timer. So having Pokemon that can support in various different roles against these big threatening Pokemon are very helpful. And that's what we're going to try and cover in today's video. Pokemon that you can specifically take in with your friends online or random as online and do pretty well against this Delphox in a variety of different situations. So before we get into the video itself, we'll take a quick overview of Delphox. This is the expected set that I see the Delphox kind of coming in with when it goes live later this week. Just to bear in mind, its HP multiplier is times 30. So at level 100, this is the HP stat that you're looking at that you're going to have to knock out. Delphox will have more than likely its magician hidden ability here, which will steal your held items. So that's something as well. You're going to have to bear in mind going into this raid, aera fairy typing, and it has a pretty decent base speed stat. So we'll be pretty speedy compared to some of the previous raids that we've went up against. Now the expected set that I kind of think Delphox will run is something along the lines of this.  So overheat is probably most powerful attack that it does get access to and a bit like the Charizard raid that we had very early on in the games. It could play on that where it launches that off turn 1 and then resets its stat drops after that. But something you're going to have to keep an eye out for. It could have something like heat wave or flamethrower as well. It's going to have a psychic move because it is part of psyching as it's base typing. So psychic or side shock are definitely strong options that it can play off. Dazzling Gleam is a no-brainer. It's definitely going to have that. It is its only big fairy type attacking move. So unless it's gone off terror blast for like once it's definitely going to have Dazzling Gleam. And then coverage options. It does have solar beam. So could have that a grass type coverage. It could play off that if it has something like sunny day or hex as well. If it has something like willow isp that can double the damage and give it ghost type coverage as well. It's set up options that it does have access to magic room that nullifies the ability of all held items for five turns. So that could be something that it plays into alongside that magician ability, you know, wizard, which is a theme that it does have kind of going on. That would make sense. It does have charm. So it can reduce the attacks that on your side of the field by two stages and it has nasty plot as well. Something that I think a lot of us need to watch out for and something probably quite likely that the Del Fox will have boosting its special attack by two stages every time it uses it. So you could see it being pretty threatening quite quickly. If it nasty plots on that turn zero before the actual raid begins and then it kind of can launch off big powerful dazzling gleams, psychics, overheats, etc. So it can be pretty, pretty dangerous Pokemon. And I think with its typing fairy, you want to bring steel types against it. It's got fire coverage for those. You want to bring poison types against it. It's got the psychic coverage for those. So it's a really difficult Pokemon to bring in unlike previous seven star turret events where everyone kind of thinks, Oh, well, an eyelid will be great going into this one. I really don't think an eyelid is going to be that effective into the Del Fox raid because it's going to be hit by those fairy types. Pretty hard and the psychic typing as well is going to hit the the annihilator for good damage. So I don't think it's going to be as effective as maybe some previous seven star turrets and a lot of emphasis, I think falls on some supporting Pokemon, especially going into this one. So as this is just a kind of a trial sort of video, I haven't actually put these builds together in my game. I've put them together in the showdown builder so we can go through each one independently here, but we're going to start off with Hissui and Gudra. So Hissui and Gudra is a steel and dragon typing. It has good typing. It has amazing defenses as well. We've went for the steel terror typing on it. It is level 100. Of course, left over as the item of choice and we went for the shell armor ability. SAP SIPA GUI aren't really that useful in this one. GUI could be useful to reduce the speed stat, but overall I think shell armor and just making sure that you don't affected by critical hits throughout the game is probably more beneficial. So we've went for rain dance because I think one of the big things that you need to keep an eye out for with Hissui and Gudra is that it does have that steel typing and the dragon typing. So fire type attacks are going to be neutral against it and the fairy type attacks are going to be neutral against it. So they're the two big things that you're going to have to worry out for, but it does have some really good options for supporting. You can reduce the power of those fire type attacks with the rain dance. You've got life due to support you and partnering Pokemon that you've gone into the raid with and asset spray is a huge move that you can use to reduce the special defense on the Del Fox and it hits through the shield as well. So that's really nice and then your main attacking option for yourself is going to be flash cannon to kind of play off that asset spray. But with leftovers, you've got nice recovery there alongside the life due and the rain dance should keep you pretty protected throughout the raid. So if we hop over and we can have a quick look at some damage calculations here, you can see that the Hissui and Gudra even in the rain does take things like fire blast pretty well.  We change that to overheat. You can see it is going to be able to take these big powerful fire type attacks pretty well. So we'll be getting like aid hit kill against like an overheat in the rain. Just make sure that the rain is there. If the rain is not up, you will be taking a bit more damage. So just be aware of that. But once your rain dances up, you're going to be in a really good position. Your flash cannons doing good damage to this Del Fox as well.  So 300 to 400% and for a supporting Pokemon, I feel like that's not too shabby at all. You've got the shell armor on there and then an EV spread for this particular Goudre is going to be 252 HP with 252 special defense and a calm nature on there. Just boosting that special defensive stat even further. And you can see sky high special defensive stat on the Goudre, which makes it really good going into this one. And I think with the offensive steel type attack that you've got on there, it really does have the ability to support partnering Pokemon with the rain dance, the life due, the asset spray and also have a nice offensive option to it as well. So really good option going into this raid, especially if you are going online. Hissui and Goudre are going to be good. Just got to keep an eye out for things like the overheat, which can be a little bit problematic. So keeping the rain up on the field. If you've got this Pokemon out, it's going to be quite important for prolonging its longevity on the field. Now the next Pokemon is going to be a lowland muck. And I do feel like this is a really nice option. It's obviously dark and poison. So with that dark typing, it does have the immunity to psyche typing. So it kind of takes that weakness away from its poison type in as well. And it does have the ability to reduce the defensive stats on the Delphox. It's got screech. This particular set here is for something if you want to partner it up with more physical attackers, but you can also go with asset spray on the lowland muck as well. It does get access to both asset spray and screech. But this for this particular build, I thought would be nice to kind of mix things up and have something that reduces that defensive stat, not only always relying on the special defensive stat that we're kind of concentrating on against this raid. So snarl is a nice option on the lowland muck. For good reason, it's going to reduce the special attacking stat on the Delphox by one stage every time you use it. It hits through the shield as well. So if we do see the Delphox with something like nasty plot, we can mitigate that through the snarls to further support, reduces attack power and support partner in Pokemon. Screech is the option that we're choosing at the start of the raid. Of course, if the shield goes up, you're not going to be able to screech it any longer, but it can reduce the defensive stat by two stages on the Delphox, which is going to be quite important, especially if you are pairing it up with more physical attackers. Like I mentioned earlier, alternatively, you can go with asset spray in this slot, which will support more primarily special attack in Pokemon, reducing the special defense by two stages. Taunt is a nice option on here. You can interchange this for something like knockoff that can play into that magician ability. If it does start stealing items off you or partnering Pokemon, the knockoff might be a nice option to have to get rid of the item on that Delphox, but you're probably going to end up having no items on the field at all. And it might even be when we go into this raid preferable to have no item on your Pokemon, so you're not giving the Delphox any benefit from any held item at all if it is playing off that magician ability. But taunt otherwise a very good option to go for like turn one to shut down the option on the Delphox, going for anything like sunny day and willowisp, nasty plot, any of those setting supporting moves that it has access to. So we'll shut that option down on the Delphox pretty quickly and a decent option there. And then gunk shot is the main attacking option, 120 base power poison type attack. And then you combine that with the screech you're going to be doing a good amount of damage so can play a nice supporting role as well as being a more offensive option as well. And we went for the poison teratiping on this one. I think you're just going to have to play it quite coy when you go for the terastalization with the Alolan muck because you want to make sure that the Delphox's special attack is reduced to a point where the psychic isn't going to be picking up a knockout or huge damage on two once you do terastalize to take advantage of the gunk shot that extra power on it. So just make sure you play with it a little bit carefully and maybe it's more preferable in these matches. If you are taking Alolan muck in is more of a supportive Pokemon then not to terastalize at all. So you keep that immunity to the psychic typing and then you have that neutrality to Dazzling Gleam because obviously with the poison typing you resist the fairy types but the dog typing is weak to its own neutral attack from that. And of course I think as well having something like Rain Dance as another supporting Pokemon on your team is just going to help the Alolan muck even more because those fire type attacks are still going to be hitting pretty hard and then when you look at some of the calculations here you can see on the muck. It does take things pretty well from the Delphox but at the same time you have to be a little bit careful if the rain isn't up like here the fire blast or let's say the overheat will be doing a good amount of damage to you every turn. So you're going to be looking at a three hit KO if the rain isn't up whereas if the rains up you're in a much better position and every time that the Delphox uses the overheat of course if that is the option does reduce its special attack by two stages and if you combine that with something like the snarl you're going to be sitting in a really nice position going forward. The EV spread on the muck is going to be 252 HP, 252 special defense, 4 in attack and a careful nature as well. So that's the EV spread on this one. Shell Belt as the item of choice just to give you a line of recovery could go for something like leftovers on it as well. Poison Terror type level 100 but that is the Alola Muck and I do think a nice option in specific situations and it has that flexibility between the screech and the acid spray. So it can support both physical and special attackers at the same time.  We've went for a steel terror typing on it. Shell Belt is the item choice for a line of recovery. We've got the move set of Metal Sound that's going to reduce the special defense on the Delphox by two stages every time you use it. So really good supporting Pokémon for other special attacking Pokémon that you've got partnering up with you. We've got Taunt as well plays a little bit like that a lot of luck to stop set up on the Delphox the side of the field and then Flash Cannon is going to be your big option there. Now for the fourth choice I couldn't really pick anything you could go Steel Beam if you want a big powerful attacking option if you are lacking some power at the end of the raid that could be an option or you could just go with something like Heat Wave or Flamethrower or even over heat of your own because it is going to do neutral damage to the Delphox nonetheless. The big problem I've got with the Heatran in particular is that it's just got no way to boost its own stats. So it would be so good. It would be the best raid Pokémon to go in solo to support with if it had something like Carmine or if it had something like Nasty Plot but it doesn't have access to any of those and really you're kind of lost for a choice of a fourth move on this one. I have seen an option on here of Sleep Talk and Rest as well that you could go with around the Metal Sound the Flash Cannon and that is a nice supporting option because you've got the longevity with the rest that you can use. Then Sleep Talk allows you to use Metal Sound or Flash Cannon. The only problem with the Metal Sound is that you have got to consider that when the shield goes up you're not going to be able to utilize that move. So that is a move that you're going to have to use early on in the raid and the same thing with taunt as well. It doesn't get access to help in hand. So it's very limited on its actual supporting options when the shield goes up and you have to really take advantage of these options very early on in the raid and depending how the Delphox raid actually sets up we don't know until the raid goes live whether or not the shield is going to go up earlier if it's going to go mid or kind of late into the raid. So he's trying going to be really good regardless because of its defensive typing it is going to be able to take a bunch of attacks off the Delphox so easily like you look at these defensive tabs it takes a psychic psychic is going to be possibly the worst move ever in the damage calculator and then you've got Dazzling Gleam as well which is even even worse. It's not going to be affected by fire blast overheat or anything like that and your flash cannons are going to be doing decent damage to it and I mean if you can get those Metal Sounds out and get three of them off get it down to minus six you're going to be doing considerable damage with the flash cannons from the Heatran so it is a very good option it gives you a lot of longevity on the field the only problem is I feel like it's not got very many good other supporting options for partnering Pokémon and it hasn't got a way to kind of expedite its own special attack any further outside of just the Metal Sound which is really reliant on when that shield goes up but nonetheless a good option which is not something I would run too straight away to say this is the Pokémon for this particular raid and for those reasons that we've covered but level 100 steel terra-typing flash fires the ability shell bell the item like I say you can change it up for leftovers if you'd like EV spread is 252 special attack 252 special defense with a calm nature and four attack in a special attack and that is the Heatran next up it is a Pokémon that we featured in our solo builds and I really do feel like Armarouche is one of the best Pokémon to take into this event either if you want it as a solo build or even as a supporting option as well it's got such good utility tools to really disrupt the Delphox set upon it as well and do some good significant damage to it even though you're not going to be hitting it for primarily like super effective damage with the move choices that you've got on the Armarouche but level 100 as always psychic terra-typing shell bell as the item of choice flash fire as the ability EV spread we have 252 HP 252 special defense with a calm nature that four should be not in defense but in special attack so that is the EV spread and of course all the EV spreads the builds will be down in the description if you'd like to take a closer look at them after the video the move set that we've got on the Armarouche clear smog acid spray calm mind and psychic now calm mind can be changed out for something like light screen if you would prefer to have it there but if you want to have a more supportive and kind of offensive mode to Armarouche when you're going in online with it as a supporting Pokemon as well then calm mind works pretty nicely with this particular Pokemon now the reason why I really like Armarouche a lot in this raid is it resists the fairy type attacks that come out from the the Delphox has a complete immunity to all the fire type attacks with the flash fire because of its psychic typing as well it resists the psychic type attacks now the things you'd have to watch out for of course if it does have something like hex that could be a problem but otherwise Armarouche is going to be a really solid option for pretty much any role that you want to go in against this Delphox with later this week the clear smog is brilliant we've already mentioned things like nasty plot that the Delphox could have access to clear smog is going to work through the screen and it's going to remove any stat boosts to that Delphox that it's got it will remove any stat drops as well so that's something you have to bear in mind but I mean if it's got three nasty plots off somehow and it's plus six special attack and you've got minus six special defense on it through the acid sprays it's worth removing those special attack boosts just to start using the acid sprays again it's a really good utility move and grateful supporting partnering Pokemon especially online raids as well acid spray we've already mentioned it reduces the special defense by two stages every time you use it onto the target Pokemon and then calm mind boosts your special attack and special defense one stage every time you use it in sidekick you could go with something like expanding force if you've got a partnering Pokemon with it has access to psychic terrain but I think you're boosting the Delphox's attack power as well because it's more than likely gonna have psychic or side shock so you don't really want to be giving it any additional boost this is the reason why we went for psychic and it also has the benefit of dropping the special defensive stat by one stage 10% of the time when you use it so it's got that added effect to it if you haven't been able to get all three acid sprays off and the nice thing about armor Rouge as well is it sprays and then you're pretty much ready to tracelize right and then just start checking out those big powerful psychics onto a minus six special defense Delphox so you're gonna be hitting it very hard and you the resist that you've got with armor Rouge are just phenomenal I think really one of the best choices that you can take in this weekend and personally something that I'll be definitely using I mean you can look at the damage you've got no damage coming out from any fire type attacks the psychic does more than the dazzling gleam which says a lot of course so that is still a six hit kill and if you have got yourself like a calm mind of then that's gonna be reduced even further so you've got the clear smog to keep in check any stat boosts from this Delphox so throughout the raid if it does get to plus six you can remove that quite quickly and negate any of those nasty pop boosts and then with the EV spread of 252 HP 252 special defense in the calm nature you're gonna be soaking up these attacks pretty well to also set up yourself and do some significant damage in the process so on Marush like I say I'm kind of singing its praises because I do just feel like it's such a good option this coming weekend right next up is Chris Celia it is available now through Pokemon home and it has access to some really good supporting options so level 100 we've went for a psychic teratiping on it the item choice is like clear ability is levitate we've got 252 to HP 252 to special defense with a calm nature to that defense and put it into special attack the moveset that we've got is Luna blessing light screen rain dance and psychic and through all of these options here you've got great supporting options for the Chris Celia it's naturally very bulky so it's going to be able to kind of tank a lot of hits from the Del Fox and support partnering Pokemon as well as kind of reduce the attack power from the Del Fox as well with the options that we've got so Luna blessing a great option because it heals you and quarter every time you use it as well as their status conditions which is really nice especially if we see something like Willow Wisp on there as well with players off maybe hex but you know all in all Luna blessing a really great supporting option on the Chris Celia light screen is going to be the main thing that we're going to be going for Del Fox going to primarily going to be a special attack in Pokemon there's no way it's going to have physical type attacks because it's got no way of really doing any damage to you and the raid would be pretty useless otherwise so light screen with the light clear and it extends the amount of time that the light screen can stay on the field so rather than five turns it'll stay on this on the field for eight turns so once you've set that up with the light clear hopefully you can get that off turn one then you've got eight turns of light screen which is just going to really support the rest of the team super well for the rest of the battle and then you've got rain dance as well which is going to reduce the power of those fire type attacks that can be quite on the del fox to kind of further boost the attack power of those and then psychic is just going to be an option for us to have some offensive pressure it's not going to be doing a lot but you're going to be able to get some chip damage off onto the del fox every turn that you use it and you can have a look at some of the damage calculations here from the del fox onto the chrysalion you're going to see that it is able behind the light screen just to soak up these attacks so so well it's not taking any damage from anything especially if you've got the the rain up you've got that light screen up you're going to have like well I mean it's not even going to be a conversation about taking you down especially with the lunar blessing where you're going to be able to just heal off any damage coming out the psychic doing five to six percent damage doesn't glean doing like nine to eleven and even if it does get carried away with those plus six like nasty plots it's got like three taking things pretty comfortably there as well and hopefully you've got a partnering to have something like clear smoke to get rid of those boosts but you're still not going to be like one hit here or two hit here by anything as long as you've got the light screen the rain up even if it does get to the point where it is carried away but hopefully you've got some factors to kind of help mitigate against that setup if that is an option on it and then the final Pokemon that we're going to cover in today's video is Pelopai I do feel like this one is a little bit of a sleeper pick me something that we haven't really discussed so far is the option of wide guard and I think in this particular terraried it's going to be very very good for the reason is that Delphox only has access to one big fairy type attack and that's doesn't gleam and it is a spread type attack so it hits everything on the opposite side of the field now there the thing with wide guard is you can use that and it will block any spread type attacks so doesn't gleam won't affect any of you you or your partnering Pokemon when it is used as long as you use and why God your whole team is protected so I think in a raid situation why God could be so useful especially helping you kind of set up mitigate any big damage coming out especially if you're running Pokemon that are either hit neutrally by fairy type attacks or weak to fairy type attacks I hope I could play a massive supporter for all in these raids and for example I've got this kind of build here and this is just to say if you've got three friends that you can go online with put this build together and try it because I think the Pellipa with the why God protects the Hissui and Goudre so well the big thing that Hissui and Goudre has to worry about is the dazzling gleam and also any fire type attacks but with the drizzle you don't need to worry about the fire type attacks and then the dazzling gleam it's going to be blocked by the the why God and then you can just go for like turn one why God acid spray with everything get it down to minus six straight away and then go for like a why God and then attack it with your other two Hissui and Goudre and you're going to be able to kind of cut through very quickly. So that was just one quick idea I had with the this particular Pellipa but I do feel there's a lot of value in why God the interesting thing is as well is armor Rouge gets access to why God so this could be something that you could play on armor Rouge with the acid spray alongside it if it is something that you prefer to do to have that supporting option to really cut out any possibility of dazzling gleam being an option for the Del Fox throughout the raid the other options that we've got on the Pellipa helping hand aqua ring you can change that for Rouge if you like I just feel like aqua ring is one of those options that you can set up at the start of the the Terrarid and then just let it kind of tick up recovery throughout especially when you pair it up nicely with the leftovers you've got that why God that you might be utilizing quite a lot throughout the Terrarid so the leftovers recovery stacked up with the aqua ring make sure that the Pellipa is going to be able to stay in a healthy position for the majority of the raid and then Hurricane is going to be the big damaging attack on there that plays off the rain because it's 100% accurate it has the chance to confuse as well the target Pokemon and then we have EV spread of 252 HP 252 special defense with a calm nature and again get rid of that fawn defense too much of a habit and put it into special attack because it's going to be more useful there anyway but overall but I don't really see you really terastalizing the Pellipa and it's not going to be playing a huge role you could go for something like a flying a Terotype on there if you'd prefer to and but all in all I think the Pellipa with that why God the helping hand and you know these support options are going to be very good going into this raid in particular as a supporting Pokemon so they are all the builds we're going to cover in today's video I hope you find them useful let me know what your thoughts on these builds and what your thoughts are on this specific sort of video because normally we concentrate more on our solo builds rather than our supporting builds but it is a big part of the Terrarium events obviously a lot of you like to go online and play maybe a bit more supportive with friends and things like that and hopefully these Pokemon give you other options outside of the the majority of things that we cover here on the channel which are more centered around solo builds and might inspire some ideas for you to go in and build combinations of Pokemon you know like we did with the Pellephe with that wide guard and the Hissui and Goudre you can even play off something like that with the Alolan muck as well where you've got the Alolan mucks protected by the wide guard because primarily going to be worried about the dazzling gleam over anything else Overquill is another option as well that dark and poison typing you could play into and take advantage of the wide guard in this different situation so let me know if you've got any supporting options that you've got in mind that you'd be taking into this Terrarium event and what your thoughts are on all of the builds that we feature in today's video like I say if we get a good response from this video it's something that will continue doing for future seven star Terrarium going forward but I did want to throw this out because we have had a lot of people requesting this on the channel recently and thank you so much for all of those requests as well so hope if you have requested it you've found this useful thank you so much for tuning in friends drop a like if you have found it useful do subscribe to the channel and I'll see you all in another video very soon so until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye


Hi, Paul Stacey here on my rooftop in Vancouver, Canada. I want to give an update as well about another great project we've been working on and working really hard on. This is an initiative called the Open Education Leadership Summit. It's taking place December 3rd and 4th in Paris. It's a partnership involving ourselves, the Open Education Consortium, as well as the International Council for Open and Distance Education and the French Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation, and it's really fun to be partnering and collaborating with these organizations to try to create an event like this. This event actually seeks to meet a need for which there's a bit of a gap currently in the open education space, and that is there are very few events that are targeted to open education leaders. There's lots of events targeted to people at the grassroots level who are creating and developing open education, but we thought it would be important to have events and activities that bring together open education leaders from around the world to collaborate and work together. The Open Education Leadership Summit is aiming to bring together three distinct kinds of leaders, one being those who are at institutions or in organizations leading open education initiatives, so presidents, rectors, those kinds of people. A third group is government officials who have responsibility for funding or policy related to open education, and a third group are the leaders of the open education movement from around the world. We're kind of trying to bring all those three people together for an event like this. Ideally, we would also get some relatively balanced representation from around the world, and so that whole process is being done through a kind of invitation model instead of just open registration with the three partner organizations sending out invitations for people to participate. If you'd like to participate, please get in touch with us. The summit is being organized as a kind of different event than a traditional conference. Instead of keynotes and presentations and plenary sessions, it's actually being designed as a hands-on interactive event. The intention here is to have people create what we're calling a roadmap, and here is a mock-up I've developed for what a roadmap might look like. On the back of the roadmap, so it sort of folds like a map, on the back of the roadmap are all the different kinds of openness in education. So when we say open education, what are we talking about? Well, we're talking, first of all, about open assets, which can take many different forms such as open education resources, MOOCs, open access research, journal articles, open data, open science, and even open source software and hardware. So those are all open assets that can be used strategically in open education. And what we're wanting to do is engage you all in mapping out how you use those and have you actually create a roadmap that identifies what you have already underway, what you need in terms of things from within your own organization or from outside, and then have you place on this map over a kind of two-year period activities and initiatives that you're undertaking to get to a particular destination that you've set for yourself. As part of defining those activities, we're going to invite you to kind of do it in a color-coded way where the initiatives are in orange, the open assets associated with them are in green, and the people and community parts are in yellow, and then how you are operating them and what your sustainability model for them are in blue, and finally what the benefits and value proposition associated with your initiatives are. So what we're intending to do is have each of you create an individual roadmap for your respective initiatives, and then we're going to have breakout groups that are regionally based. And so individual roadmaps will be used to contribute to a regional roadmap that brings together the collective work of different open education initiatives within a particular region of the world, Africa, Latin America, Europe, North America, etc. And finally on the second day, we're hoping to actually aggregate some of those and create a bit of a global roadmap that brings everybody's work together in a way that serves collective interests and needs. This is a really fun and interesting format. We hope you find it engaging, and we think that the outputs from this will be really constructive and lead to much more collaboration and collective work in a constructive way by initiatives within regions and between regions. Hope you join us in Paris. Registration information is available on our website and on the Open Education Leadership Summit website as well. Thanks.


Try to think about it from the perspective of the individual fish.  What are you sensing? But from the perspective of the individual fish, what are the behaviors or control laws that you're executing to be part of that school? So we have people who have developed mathematical models of this and once we develop models then we can implement those on artificial systems. So each agent is autonomous, it is sensing its environment, it has goals, it's making decisions if you think in terms of social insects such as bees or ants, they effectively operate with no centralized control. The agents, it's kind of the same thing. They are able to talk to each other or they're able to see each other or just look at their local surroundings and react to that. The point of these guys is that none of them really have a global reference of what everyone else is doing. That's not going to be scalable when we get into the field. It's just going to make things too slow. So what these guys are, they are lighter-than-air aircraft and we use them for autonomous systems research, multi-agent research and specifically emergence within swarms. So the neat thing here is we can attach different sensors, we can attach different payloads to what we call the gondolas and we can put them all up in the air at the same time and see what type of behaviors we get back. You can just test out control algorithms on them without having to worry about flight dynamics or the environment around them or collisions because if they collide they're not going to break each other or anything. So that's really useful in testing out a lot of theory. Leverage what we learn from nature and develop these bottom-up approaches to swarming so that we can use large numbers of fairly inexpensive platforms working together to do useful things for the Navy. That I think is the more interesting part of research and you get to actually work with your hands and build something and see an actual result versus seeing it in a simulation. All of the factors point positive in the direction of developing these platforms and adding new capabilities to them. This allows us to identify opportunities for the Navy to incorporate new sensing modalities, new types of onboard information processing that can be used to elevate unmanned systems to make them more autonomous.


Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo, the stock swish and I'm reviewing Mu here. Mu right now currently is a green body bar and I shorted this this morning in the tail. That's amazing because of the fact that really sometimes I get trains and I short them and I'm in and out very quickly and make a good money on the day and I have a common day today and the stock is now green and really the market's bullish today. So this is green right now because of the market but it was a short in the morning very very quickly and I actually hung with it and got the push down and did everything right with this and day before a holiday I mean it's either A. you don't trade or B. you do quick quick quick quick quick quick trades and that really was what Mu was today and it was very sloppy. Let's just go to it here. So this was very sloppy actually so let's just go here and see this was the open bounced off of just you know the initial open but it fell hard and I liked the gap and I rated the gap so I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting and then I shorted this here and this looked great and it looked good and you could have even added more in here and I did not get out here and then I was like because I really had another number written down and then when it came up in here it looked amazing and I actually lowered the stop and you could have taken more I just let it be with the position I had I figured well I'm just gonna condense my risk so then I lowered the stop and then it dropped but again I had a number written down and I knew the exit sign and it didn't break here and I was seeing the market and I got out it was a perfect exit and to be honest with you know I had in my mind in this morning I had well no last night when I saw the gap in this here's the gap last night I thought oh this is gonna be a huge day for me tomorrow morning but then I got up in the morning and I saw it and then I was like you know what I saw the market I saw this and I thought I'm gonna be just grateful for whatever money I make today it's the last trading day of me for the year I just want to be happy and make funny and boy did that thought process in my mind really helped me today to take the exit here in Mew besides listening to my rules the exit signs and the targets because look what it did I flipped and so I had a grain trade in this today as a short played basically the tail with a perfect perfect perfect entry and exit and a very nice move in here not a huge risk to reward but a baby stop and a comma day within several minutes so it was like well it was like it was less than 30 minutes but you have to really watch these things the time of the day so there'll be nothing to do with this for the rest of the day this will not act right now it flipped but it's not going to really rally any more significant and it's not going to go red now back down again today so this is kind of squiggly now you can watch this and see what it does but I really wouldn't be doing any trading tomorrow the markets only open a half day and it should be a very light day to trade and I'm lucky I even had one thing to do here which was the Mew have a fantastic holiday everyone and I don't know what videos I'll do between now and the end of the year perhaps we'll do a market video the stock market class is December 28th if you want to sign up for that which is 8 a.m. to noon Eastern time email me if you would like to sign up on your letter than Sunday the 27th have a fantastic holiday everyone


Let's pray. Father God, we thank You for Your presence, Father God, we thank You. Your presence is always welcome. God, You are welcome in this place. Lord, we thank You for what You do among us. Lord, we thank You for speaking to us. We thank You for being so close to our hearts, Lord. We thank You for the work of Your Holy Spirit. We thank You, God, for the release of Your gifts, Father God. We thank You for every good gift, O God, that You have released among us, God. We thank You for the call that each one of us has, O God. We thank You for commissioning us, Lord. We thank You for calling us, Lord, to be ambassadors of Christ. We thank You for calling us, O God, to be Your spokesperson. So, God, we thank You. We thank You. We thank You. We bless Your name, Lord. And at this time, Lord, we, yes, Lord, we just connect today these things, Lord, into Your mighty hands. And we pray that You would speak to us, that You would, Lord, add to our understanding, Father God. Lord, did it be line upon line and precept upon precept, Lord. I just pray this morning that, Lord, whatever we have learned till now, Father God, that whatever, Lord, has been, Lord, laid upon our hearts, Lord, by You, Father God, I pray that we will have a strong grip on it, Father God. We will have a strong hold on it, Father God. And I just pray that, Lord, that we will not lose it, O Father God. And no matter what happens, Lord, I pray that we will hold on and it will remain with us. The seed of Your Word, Lord, will take root in us and will bear fruit, Lord. I just pray this over each and every one, every person here. Yes, Lord, to You be the glory and honor. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. So we were talking about, like Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 1, right? So it says, we must give the more earnest heed to what, to the things we have heard, right? To the things that we have received, to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. So that's the danger that we, what we are hearing is important and what we have heard is also equally important. And because the Lord has, you know, released that or ensured that we listen to His Word. But we need to, like we see in Mark chapter 4, we need to ensure that the Word that we received, the revelation, the understanding, the prophecies, whatever we have received, that we don't lose it, right? So because if we can drift away, you know, if we don't have a firm grip on it, we can tend to drift away, right? Okay, so let's look at where we stopped last class. Okay, does anyone recollect where did we stop last class? 14 and? 14. Okay, so one contains 14, we, I think we continued on till, we continued on till verse, maybe verse 9. 18, no? Okay, I, yeah, okay, I will sing with the spirit. Okay, let's just pack up a little and we'll kind of review. It's where Paul says, you know, first you love, desire, spiritual gifts, and from verse 1. And then he goes on to say about, makes, you know, a comparison between praying in tongues and also prophecy, right? Praying in tongues and prophecy.  He's, and what is that issue? The issue of praying in tongues in public or speaking in tongues in public to a gathering, right? So there's a church that is gathered and, you know, and here is this person who's praying in tongues. And so he is, Paul is addressing that and he's saying, okay, that's great if you can do this. But, you know, this is what praying in tongue does, and this is what prophecy does, right? So he says, he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. For no one understands him, however, in the spirit he speaks, mysteries. But he who prophesies speaks edification, exhortation, and comfort to men. So this is what happens when you pray in tongues that you are edified. You speak the mysteries of God, you receive the mysteries of God in your spirits, in your heart, in your spirit. And well, no one understands. And but in the spirit you are speaking mysteries. But when it comes to prophecy, you are actually speaking edification, exhortation, and comfort to men, to the hearer, right? And so he says, he who speaks in a tongue, the next verse edifies himself or builds up himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. Well, does praying in tongue have a benefit, definitely? Says there is edification, but it's edification of the person, of the self, of the person who's actually praying in tongues, right? But when it comes to prophecy, when you're prophesying, who is edified? The hearer is edified, okay, which includes the one who is prophesying. But also specifically, it's addressing the one who is deceiving the prophecy or hearing the prophecy, right? So it brings edification, exhortation, and comfort to men. And verse 6 says, if I come to you speaking with tongues, okay? So that is what he's again, he's addressing. If I come to you and if I'm speaking in tongues, well, watch how I profit you. How can I bring you benefit unless I speak? Okay, this is verse 6. Unless I speak either by revelation, knowledge, by prophesying or by teaching, okay? Any of these four ways. Unless I bring these, I speak to you in this, how will it profit you? And then he goes on to talk about an instrument and how a trumpet is used in battle and these need to make a definite sound or a definite, in a note is played or when an instrument is played, it needs to make a specific sound, right? And only then will you be able to identify and say it is nice, it is not nice and is talking about the trumpet which is used in battle and how can it make an uncertain sound? You know, if it makes an uncertain sound, then people will not know. It will not alert the troops. It will not be a call for readiness for battle and so on. And so he says, unless you utter by the words, utter by the tongue, words easy to understand, how will it benefit? How will it benefit the person? So it is very clear that he is talking about addressing a gathering or speaking in tongues to a gathering. So he goes on to say, you know, even so, you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel. Now, you are zealous. You have a zeal for the gifts of the spirit, but let it be for the edification. Now, let it edify the body, let it edify the gathering and you work, you know, let it, you seek that. You seek the edification of the church gathering. Will tongues edify? Definitely. It will benefit. It will profit the person who is praying in tongues. But since you are in a gathering, you seek to excel or seek to edify, you know, the church and you seek to excel in that. Okay. So, and then he goes on to say, what is the conclusion verse 15? What is the conclusion? Then I will pray with the spirit. I will also pray with the understanding and I will sing with the spirit. I will also sing with the understanding. And he goes on to say that, you know, you indeed give thanks well, but since the person is not edified when you give thanks in tongues or sing out in tongues or pray in tongues. He also says, you know, I pray in tongues more than you all. Right. So he's very clear. I pray in tongues. I spend a lot of time praying in tongues. I spend, you know, he's saying I pray in tongues more than you all. Yet in the church, yet in the church, he says, I will rather speak five words with my understanding that I may teach others also than 10,000 words in a tongue. So that's the understanding.  So, but he also, you know, says that when we gather together, he goes on to say later, you know, we're going to look at that verse 28. You can pray in tongues. You can address, but under these circumstances. Okay. So let's verse 19. So yet in the church, sorry, I would rather speak five words with my understanding that I may teach others also than 10,000 words in a tongue. Okay. Okay. Verse 20 onwards. Let's read. Brethren, do not be children in understanding. However, in malice, be babes, but in understanding, be mature. In the law, it is written with men of other tongues and other lips. I will speak to this people. And yet for all that they will not hear me says the Lord. Therefore, tongues are for a sign. Not to those who believe, but to unbelievers, but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe. Therefore, if the whole church comes together in one place and all speak with tongues and there comes in those, sorry, they come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers. Will they not say that you are out of your mind? But if all prophesy and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all he is convicted by all. Thus, the secrets of his heart are revealed. And so falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. He will worship God and report that God is truly among you. So what is he saying? Do not be, when it comes to understanding, be mature. Do not be babes, grow up, don't remain immature. Then he goes saying that with men of other tongues and other lips, I shall speak to this people and yet for all that they will not. So he is referring to what happened on the day of Pentecost and this outpouring of the Holy Spirit happened. And everything, something happened which is supernatural that they were speaking in other tongues in other languages. And then in the law it is written that with men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this nation. So Paul is referring to that and he is saying this is what the Lord has said earlier that this would happen. So it is a supernatural act that tongues are given. But the Holy Spirit can prompt the use of tongues as a sign to the unbeliever. So like how it happened that day in the early church, that those who had gathered there, they were not believers in the Lord Jesus. But they were amazed, they became curious and they gathered near and they said, how can this be? These are Galileans but we hear them speaking in our language. But there were others who also said that these people are drunk, which means for them there were these known languages. But there was also some utterances which they felt was just gibberish. They said, how can these people are drunk? So they behaved what they spoke and what they heard and they said these people are drunk. And then Peter shares with them the word of God. So it is for a sign. When Peter is speaking in tongues, definitely it will be a sign. It points to the person of Jesus. So at the end, when Peter starts to share, he brings that message, this is what happened. This is what was prophesied by the prophet Joel and he shares all that and shares about Christ. Acts chapter 3 just captures that. That is that they were cut to the heart, which means that they were convicted. Let's read that verse. Yeah, sorry, Acts chapter 2 and then verse 37. Acts chapter 2 verse 37. Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, and brethren, what shall we do? So you see that here, the gift of tongues and speaking in other languages, that's how they didn't realize they spoke and it was a known language and it drew the people who were not believers to the Lord Jesus. And they asked the question, just like that Philippine jailer, what must we do? What should we do? And then Peter goes on to say, believe, repent, and you will be baptized and you will have remission of sins. So that day, there was a mighty harvest, so many people come to know the Lord Jesus. So we see that. So it is a sign for the unbeliever. Now, when it comes to prophecy, so Paul writes and let's just go back to 1 Corinthians 14. So it says, if the whole church comes together and all speak with tongues, those who are uninformed or unbelievers, now that's also possible. They will say, hey, you're out of your mind. But if all prophesy, then what happens? This person comes and he is convicted. The secrets of his heart are revealed. Maybe it's a word of knowledge, a word of knowledge of some prophecy. And the information that he thinks nobody knows or he or she thinks nobody knows is revealed. Secrets of his heart are revealed. And so falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. So Paul is still talking about in public gathering to prophesy. Prophecy is what will edify. And edify in the sense even unbelievers will be drawn. But he also mentions that though tongues are for self-edification and we pray and we are edified personally, it can be publicly when it's prayed, it is a sign to the unbeliever as well. But we need to know, we need to discern, we need to be aware. So then he goes on to talk about how we can actually, in public, how can we pray in tongues? He goes on to say that. So anyway, so he says that the secret service, this is what will happen if a person prophesies. Tongues can be assigned to the unbeliever just like how it happened that day at Pentecost. But when you prophesy, the whole church is prophesying, then the secrets are revealed and the person testifies that yes, this is of God. This cannot be from man. There is something supernatural. So verse 26 onwards, he goes on to explain, how can you in a public gathering, what should you do? Let's read that. How is it then, brethren, whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three each in turn and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and to God. So let's look at that. So he's saying whenever you come together, whenever there's a gathering, each of you, you can come with a psalm. You can come with a teaching. Another person has a tongue, has a message in tongue. And the other person has a revelation, has an interpretation. So if it is done like that, then it is fine. Let all things be done for edification. So if this will bring in edification. So even if there is tongues spoken in a gathering, when there is interpretation, then there is edification. When the tongues is released, when spoken and announced to the congregation, and when we have interpretation and revelation, then there is edification. So he's saying let all things be done for edification. And the verse, of course, he says, what should be done? Verse 27, if anyone speaks, let there be two or three each in turn and let one interpret. But if there is no interpreter, let's say there is no interpretation or there is no gift of interpretation, then let him keep silent in church. So that does not mean that one should not pray in tongues in church. So he says let him keep silent in church and goes on to explain what does that mean, how? Let him keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and to God. So what is happening is not speaking or releasing a message in tongues for the congregation, but he's praying in tongues. He's praying personally and he's praying to God, so that is absolutely fine. So in a way that answers the question, should there be tongues being spoken in church, declared in church? Should we have that? So this gives an answer. Yes, you can, but this is how it is done. And if not, let there be people praying in tongues. That's absolutely no problem. People can pray, but let it be between them and God. Let it be between them and God. So he's very clear. Okay, then let two or three prophets speak. Okay, let's read from 29 to 40. Let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge. But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. For you can all prophesy one by one and that all may learn and all may be encouraged. And the spirits of the prophet are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints. Then, yeah, so let's just keep it there. Let's look at that. Those three verses, 29 to 33. So let two or three prophets speak. Just like how you prayed in tongues and how someone would bring an interpretation. So it's let two or three prophets speak. So which means the prophetic gift was also strong. You know, here was used was was manifesting in this church, the gift of prophecy. And they were also people who are in the office of the prophet. Right. So who who are identified as prophets. Okay, so saying, you know, let two or three prophets speak. Okay, there are prophets.  So let them speak and let the others judge. Okay. What does that mean? That means to to discern. Okay, to discern what is what is right. You know, is there anything wrong that is being said. Is there anything off, right? What is correct in that? What is often that, you know, so we know that we've studied that the prophetic is definitely wonderful gift. And it comes from him from the Lord and the message, the prophecy is also, you know, is inspired by God. It's come from him. But the vessel through which the prophecy is released is fragile is human does have limitations. Right. So we judge. So in the New Testament, this is what we see. And this is a scriptural principle for the New Testament church that when the prophecy is released, let the others judge.  Right. So you test it in other words, with the word of God, with the character and the nature of God. And, you know, with the leading of the Holy Spirit, you judge it, you discern it. And the, obviously, the, the instruction that we see late, you know, in first Thessalonians five, let's look at that also. Okay. When Thessalonians five and verse 19 onwards, do not quench the spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Okay. Test all things. Hold fast. What is good? So, so that's the, you know, the other instruction about prophecy. So we need to judge. We need to test. Don't despise prophecies. Hold on to what is good. Okay. Which means you don't hold fast or you don't have a tight grip on. Don't even hold what is not good. Okay. Hold fast to what is good. What is in line with the word? What is in line with the character nature of God? What is in line with holiness and so on. So, so you hold fast to what is good, abstain from every form of evil. Right. So we see this about prophecy. And then he goes on to say God is not the author of confusion, but of peace as in all the churches of the same. So God is not the author of confusion. God is the author of peace. Okay. So in between. So he is here, you know, making some statements in the, in the verses. We've already studied this, but let's look at that, you know, he says, let your women keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but they are to be submissive as the law also says. And if they want to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home for it is shameful for women to speak in church. Okay. Verse 3435. Okay. So one of the things that we see is that, you know, so this can be some sometimes when we take it out of context. When we don't look at it with the rest of the episode, you know, it can, it can be misinterpreted and misapplied. Okay. So how, how can it be misinterpreted? You know, here is Paul talking about tongues. He's talking about prophecies and so on. And here, you know, he's giving an instruction and in the same way, you know, he's giving an instruction saying, let your women be silent in the church. You know, for it is not permitted for them to speak. Let them keep silent. So now, what do we make of it? You know, should, if, if there's a woman in the congregation, should they not prophesy? Should they not pray in tongues? Should they not, you know, what is it? You know, when we looked at 1 Corinthians 11, right? We, when we address the whole thing of head coverings, headship, divine order. And when we looked at that, we saw that Paul addressing something, Paul saying, mentioning that in verse five, that every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonors the Lord. Okay. So he's talking about head covering, which we saw was a cultural thing.  And also he talks about headship and so on, you know, who's the head and so on. So now he says in addressing that he says for every woman who prays or prophesies. So the thing is that, yeah, in the church, there were, you know, women who were praying and prophesying.  But, you know, with the head uncovered, then, you know, it means something in the Corinthian culture. If the head is uncovered, it means something in the Corinthian culture. If there is a short air, it means something in the Corinthian culture. But the issue is that, you know, women were praying and prophesying. Okay. So if someone prays and prophesies, which means that, well, women can pray, women can prophesy. So he's saying, you know, let them keep silent. What does it mean? Right? So when we look at it, he's referring to, he's using a word, you know, let your women. And the word, of course, gunay, which means a woman, it can be a feminine, you know, it can be like, it can be a single woman, but mostly it is used for a wife. It can be used for a female gender, the word that he used there, gunay. Also, it means a married woman. Okay. So here he's referring to married women because he's saying, you know, let them ask their husbands at home. So he's talking to married women. And there is something that is happening there. It's not about praying or prophesying. There's something that is happening there. They were, you know, doing something, speaking. And they were not, you know, they were speaking something which was disrupting. Okay. They were speaking something which were disrupting the order. And therefore he says, keep silent. Okay. But this is not the only time that Paul writes, and he says, keep silent. Okay. Like we saw, you know, earlier in verse 28 itself, okay, same chapter, verse 28, if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent. Okay. So he's talking about transcendent interpretation. He's saying, if there is no interpretation, let him keep silent. Again, in verse 30, if anything is revealed to one other who sits by, first keep silent when it comes to prophesying, ministering in prophecy in the church. So this is the third time he says, be silent and ask your husband at home. Right. So this is, you know, an instruction not to stop praying or not to stop prophesying and not, you know, not to restrict women to not do these things. But we need to look at why he's saying, you know, why should we, why is he saying that they should keep silent? So, which means that he's addressing an issue that here that women were disrupting. Right. They were speaking and asking questions, some things that they did not understand. And so Paul is saying, you know, let them ask later. Let them ask their own husbands at home. Let them not interrupt. So the word and also one interesting thing is the word that he used there, le leo. Okay. He says, let your women keep silent for it's not permitted to speak. For they are, it's not, they're not permitted to speak. Okay. And now there are two Greek words which are used. One is, one is Lego. Okay. Which is A-L-E-G-O. Let me just put it here. Okay. That is one word. And this is another word, le leo. So lego is used where it's a discourse. It's a sermon. It's an organized speech. Right. It's an organized speech. But le leo is also used for casual talk. Okay. Casual talk or, you know, just some chatter. It's used for that also. So the thing is to just declare, you know, whatever's coming to your mind, you're just declaring it, you're speaking it. So Paul is also using that word. No, that's also something to take note of.  And he doesn't say lego, le leo.  So that is the context behind let your women keep silent in the church. Okay. So we need to understand this. I know, you know, sometimes when we misinterpret it, it's misapplied and it can really, you know, it's not what God wants, right, to keep women silent, to not allow women to minister. And when you look at the rest of scripture, we see that's not the case. We know of Philip's daughters who prophesied.  So let their head not be uncovered. So that is very clear. Okay. And so it goes on to say, if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home for it is same for women to speak in the church. Or did the word of God come from, originally from you? Or was it you only that it preached? Okay. If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord. Okay. So if you're, you know, I know that you might be considering yourself as, you know, prophetic or spiritual. So, you know, you discern this because what I'm writing are the command, what I'm writing are the commandments of the Lord.   Okay. Because if you look at chapter 12, how does it start? Verse one, now concerning spiritual gifts, I do not want you to be ignorant. Okay. So he's saying, I don't want you to be without knowledge. I don't want you to be without this understanding. Right. So he's saying with regard to spiritual gifts, I don't want you to be ignorant. So when it comes to the end of chapter 14 says, if anyone is ignorant, he's explained everything, you know, how to, you know, use the, what are the gifts, how to, you know, use the gifts in a gathering, how to use the gifts for a personal edification. And he's talked about all that, explained all that.   Right. Verse 39, therefore brethren earnestly desire. Okay.  I've given all these important things, points. Therefore earnestly desire earnestly to prophesy. Okay. It edifies the church. It brings edification. It's a, it's a, you know, it's a gift from God. It's a manifestation of the spirit. It comes from the Holy spirit and prophecy. So earnestly desire to prophesy and do not forbid to speak with tongues. Okay.   So people were saying, you know, maybe, maybe they were saying, stop it, enough of this. So he's giving the importance of tongues, sharing the importance of prophesying and why it is, it's necessary, it is important, it is valuable. And he's saying, you know, earnestly desire to prophesy. Okay. Earnestly desire. It's a gift from God, but it's, it requires your desire, earnestly desire to prophesy and do not forbid, do not forbid, do not stop, do not restrict, do not forbid people from speaking in tongues. Okay. Because they can, if there's no interpretation, let them speak in praying tongues between themselves and God, verse 40, let all things be done decently and in order. So all this, which is done, let it be done decently and in order. Okay. So that's something for us to learn, to understand, and also to, to, to teach as well, you know, when there is, when there is some kind of misinformation about tongues and misinformation about the gifts, this is for us to, to learn and to teach as well. You know, so in these chapters, we also see, you know, several wonderful revelations right from 12 to 14 about the gifts and how, you know, we should not compare one another because of the gifts or because of the role and function.   All that is mentioned in chapter 12. We looked at chapter 13 where it talks about the love of God and the agape love, the nature of God's love. And the reason he, you know, he talks about love is that you can have these gifts, but if you don't have love, if you're not expressing love, like if you're not showing forth this God kind of love in all these gifts, in all these ministering, how love is patient and kind and does not keep a record of wrongs. It's not proud, right? If you don't do that, then you're missing the point. It is nothing, right? It is futile. It's empty. And then he goes on to say, what is eternal? This prophecy, it will stop. Tongues, it will stop. And he says, you know, it will fail. It means that it will come to an end. There is a limit. There is a time because when we're good, when we see Jesus face to face, when we are with him, there's no need for all these things, right? But what will remain is love. Therefore, then he goes on to say in verse chapter 14, pursue love. Go after this kind of love. Express this kind of love and desire spiritual gifts because, well, while we are living on earth, on this side of eternity, these gifts are for the edification of the church. It's for the prophet of all, right? And goes on to talk about tongues and prophecy and how, you know, it can, tongues can be assigned to the unbeliever. It can lead a person to Christ. And how, you know, and specifically it's a known language, right? When tongues come as a known language and it leads a person, suppose, you know, a person knows that language and is stunned, how can you speak that language? And you say, you know, I don't know. I just prayed and, you know, they come to Christ because it's something supernatural and prophecy also, right? It is again something supernatural, revelation by the Spirit of God. Therefore, the person who is not a believer now becomes a believer, believes in God, believes in the supernatural and says, hey, there is a God who knows me, who knows my deep secrets, who knows the things in my heart. And so therefore, it has to be done in a certain way. And he talks about that towards the end of the chapter, says, let all things be done decently and in order. Okay? So any questions here? Any questions that you might have? Sorry, maybe about tongues, about prophecy or any particular verse? Let's take, like we have about three more minutes, so let's take time to talk about that. Any questions? Any questions at all? It's clear? Okay. So can women pray prophesies? Okay, here's a question. If church members are not believing in tongues, how can we engage them speaking in tongues? Okay, so the thing is, if people do not believe, so obviously there needs to be teaching. What is the reason they don't believe? Because maybe it has not been taught. So they don't believe. Reason one, reason two could be, maybe they have a different understanding of it. Maybe they've been taught wrong that it's not for today. So maybe because of that. So there could be many reasons. So the thing is, unless there is teaching and revelation, they cannot step into it. So there has to be teaching from the word of God. They need to see for themselves in the word of God. Okay, this is here. It's for today, it is there. And when we pray and minister and ask them to step out in faith, they'll just pray, believe, receive and pray in tongues. So that's the thing. We cannot force it. We need to teach. We need to show from the word of God. And the Holy Spirit will speak to them and convict them. And also, he's careful to perform the word. Just one verse, and then Erin, you can ask a question. Just one more verse I'll just share. So Hebrews, it says, God also bearing witness, Hebrews two and verse four, God also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders, with various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will. So God bears witness. So you are teaching here, you're showing from the word. This is what God has said. This is what God has spoken. This has been in the church. It's for today. And maybe you can share your personal testimony. This is what happened. Then what happens is that people are also built up in faith and God bears witness to that. God bears witness to your words. And he's saying yes, he's testifying. And his way of saying yes is to release that into their lives and they receive it by faith. Okay. So Erin, what is your question? Yeah, sure. Pastor, some women of... Some people they prophesy from A to Z. So how are we going to know that it's from the Lord or it's from the... So how do we know... So that's how we've been learning, how we've learned in the past also, that certain specific things, right? So if it's something that will come to pass, let's say there's somebody sharing and saying, okay, this is what will happen. Then when it comes to happen, you will know, in hindsight, right? But to test it is to definitely against the word of God. If something is blatantly unrighteous, not totally against the word of God, then you know, you can just totally discard it, reject it. But the thing is, what if it's... It is mixed. In the sense, it's not wrong, right? It's not scripturally wrong, but still, it's like something very specific. Okay, God is calling you to do this. God is calling you, asking you to go there, which means that it can happen. So then it raises the question, how do we go about it? So then several things. We personally, we can ask the Lord, Lord, you confirm it to my heart. You confirm it to my spirit, right? Let there be confirmation.  Well, some things come as a surprise. Like for me, when I first heard that God is calling me to be a pastor, it was a total surprise. I was not expecting that. I was working in sales and a company, and I came to all people's church for the first time, and I get this prophecy, right? That this person was ministering, saying, God is calling you to be a pastor. That's the first time anybody has told me that. So for me, it was a total surprise. It was not something that God was confirming. It was something new, right? But God was proclaiming that. So what happened was, okay, I just kept it aside. Let there be... Let's see what will happen to it. There's no witness in my heart, nothing. So I'm just keeping it aside. But over a period of time, this is something very significant. It's a life calling. So over a period of time, there were confirmations. There were confirmations. Others would also prophesy the same thing. Others would say, and the Lord also confirming through His word in my spirit through a dream and very specific dreams and things like that. So we give it time. So give it time when we're not sure. Just give it time. Ask the Lord for confirmation, and He will confirm. So that's the way to go about it. And also, it's something that is being shared. Is it against the nature of God? It's against the character of God. Is it in line with how the Lord has been leading all these years? As a believer, God has a certain way of teaching you, learning from Him. You hearing His voice. God has a way of doing it. And He's been leading you to a certain place. So if something is totally opposite, diametrically opposite, then you know that I need to give it time. Well, it can be God, but I need to give it time. I need to check. And the Lord will confirm. Or the Lord will not confirm. So then you know that you can just reject it. So that's the thing. So especially when it comes to time, when it comes to these major things, it's good to give it time. And like you said, specifics, details. I want you to move to this. God is calling you to move to this house, move to the city, move to this. You give it time, ask for confirmation. The Lord will confirm. If He's already confirmed in your heart, you just do it. That's the thing. So we'll take a break. It's already time 54. Verse 22. 14 and verse 22, is it? Therefore, tongues are for a sign. Is that the verse? Thomas? 8. Yeah, okay. So we'll come back. What we do is we'll come back at 10.5. I think I've already taken five minutes. So we'll come back at 10.5 and we'll look at that question and any other question also that you might have. Okay.


I don't know. I just don't know. I want to forget about this. Not because it was not a pleasant experience, but because I just want to move on from trying to see if it was actually real. I just want to forget about that memory. If you are reading this, you might be surprised to find out that Britt Alcroft's down the mind test pilot in 1983 wasn't where the shows run on television officially originated. Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends was the fourth of all of the four attempts to adapt Audrey's books to television. The first was broadcast by the BBC in 1953 as an adaptation of the sad story of Henry from the first book, The Three Railway Engines. This is the well known story where a big green engine named Henry refuses to leave a tunnel in fear of the rain spoiling his green paint with red stripes and ends up being left inside the tunnel behind a brick wall until Gordon the Big Blue engine bursts his safety valve while pulling the express. The pilot used 00-scale double-o models manufactured by Hornby and was narrated by Joy Lange. Nothing went wrong until Henry's model derailed and a hand had to put it back on the track on live broadcast. The incident, being noticed by everyone watching, including Audrey, made headlines within a week and all this resulted in the next episode's delay and soon cancellation of the show. Attempts to revive the series were unsuccessful. The pilot is now considered lost with only photographs of the models and a new story of the incident left to prove its existence. In 1970, a man named Ted Ray would read books of the railway series on a TV show called, Jacketery. In the episodes of the railway series readings from Ted Ray, he would be dressed like an engine driver and would sit inside the signal box and he would tell stories of the railway series from 1972-1972. The readings are lost now, but there is not much information about it existing but only a page from one of the issues from Radio Times and the fact that it was mentioned in the Thomas the Tank engine man to prove its existence. In 1973, a musical animated adaptation was proposed by English musician and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who read the books when he was a child. The project never went ahead as of 1977, but possibly influenced Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock musical, Starlight Express. It was in 1983 when the adaptation by Gretall Cross started production with a successful test pilot, green-lighting production of a children's television series beloved by children from all across the world. Of course, I watched the show myself. I started watching the series when I was much younger during its run in Australia on ABC kids. It all started with series one, which was created in 1984, with that vague memory of Ringo Star's opening narration of the first episode Thomas and Gordon, the episode where Thomas keeps teasing Gordon, who gets back at him by pulling him down the line behind the express. I gave up on the show when series 12 came out, as I was disappointed with its new style where lip-sync was applied via the usage of CGI. In recent years, I've been doing a lot of research on the history of both the show and the books. After that, the franchise became more interesting than ever after learning new facts like the real-life steam locomotives that the characters are based on and the real-life accidents that inspired the episodes and events. It was also interesting learning about the narrators in both the UK and US version, like Ringo Star in the UK version from series one to series two. Personally, he's my favorite of the narrators. But I don't want to stay off topic. So let's get to why I'm typing this down. I was scrolling through Facebook, checking updates and notifications and contacting friends. The part where I went into contacts was where this all started. I found that a friend named Jerry Walker has changed his profile picture overnight to what looked like a black and white photograph. Upon closer observation, it looked like a hornby double-o model of Henry behind a brick wall inside a tunnel. I greeted him as I usually do and we began chatting about topics like how we were going, any plans we had, social media updates, etc. When he asked if there was anything else I wanted to ask him, I sent a question about his new profile picture. He replied saying it was a steal from a 1953 BBC adaptation of the sad story of Henry, the same one I mentioned earlier. I asked him about where he found it and he said it came from an old box that was given to him by his grandfather. I asked him if there was anything else that was in there and he said there was lots of other junk, like old toys, trading cards, and an old cassette labeled the sad story of Henry. I got curious and asked him what the footage looked like and he replied stating that he never actually watched it. I asked if he could convert it to a Windows media player file and he said he'll see what he can do. He does videos of VHS openings on YouTube. I sent a thank you and left to work on my YouTube channel. Around three to four days later, I got a message from Jerry that was a download link of a file labeled sad story of Henry1953.mp4 and he said that he had no idea what he just watched, suggesting that I should watch it for myself and see if I had a better understanding of it. I thanked him and downloaded the file onto my desktop. I opened it and it started with the 1953 BBC Batwings logo before cutting abruptly to the first shot of the episode. It was low quality and not very well restored, but it was understandable seeing that this came from 1953. The first shot was Henry pulling a passenger train consisting of the RMK1 coaches, accompanied by Joy-Lang saying the opening rhyme. Once an engine attached to a train was afraid of a few drops of rain. It went into a tunnel and squeaked through its funnel and wouldn't come out again. I was prepared for the moment where the model came off the tracks and a hand putting it back on the rails on camera and it happened just as expected. For four minutes, the story went on and changed from the original story, with the exception of Henry being in his new shape from the flying kipper. Henry refuses to leave the tunnel in fear that the rain would spoil his green paint with red stripes. The passengers try pulling and pushing him out, an engine, which appears to be a Hornby WLMS coronation class, fails to move him out of the tunnel, and Sir Topham Hatt, better known as the fat controller, leaves him in the tunnel behind a brick wall. It was after Joy-Lang said. He was very sad because he thought no one would ever see his lovely green paint with red stripes again. When things began to seem off, the video stayed on a shot of Henry in the tunnel without anything happening. No trains went through the new tunnel, no sound effects were heard, not even Joy-Lang's narration. When it was starting to make me uncomfortable, I checked the running time of the video and, to my surprise, it was 8 minutes and 43 seconds long. Curious to see if there was an adaptation of the Edward Gordon and Henry story that followed, I kept watching, feeling again uneasy as no sources implied that there were scenes based on the last chapter of the book. At the 5 minute and 51 second mark, it cuts to another angle showing a close-up of Henry's cab, which seemed to have cracked windows. The next shot showed Henry's boiler, which looked like it was covered in dust and soot that was obscuring his green paint with red stripes. The shot that followed was one of Henry's wheels, which lacked the coupling rods and pistons. The remainder of the video was a compilation of multiple shots of Henry, looking more and more dilapidated and derelict.  Though they were painted on a plastic face, I could see it in his eyes that he was begging for his suffering to end, though it was very clear that his prayers would never be returned. The shot stayed on Henry's face for about 30 seconds before transitioning to the next shot. The next shot was the same, but this time, he didn't have a face. Just a normal smokebox door, which looked so real, it looked like an actual photograph of an LMS Black 5. In fact, I think it was. It looked like a Staneer Class 5 on a siding in an industrial yard, rusted and filthy. Not as if it was on the deadline ready to be broken up, but it looked as if it was not well-serviced or maintained for months. That last shot in the entire video was a shot of the tunnel, showing Henry resembling a steam locomotive being broken up for scrap metal. His smokebox door was gone, while an express train, presumably pulled by a Hornby-Dublow model of Gordon, rushes through the new tunnel as the shot zooms out and fades to black. Just before the screen turns completely pitch black, Joey Lang's narration returns, saying, But I think he deserved it. Don't you? The video ends with the 1950s BBC logo. Struggling to comprehend what I just watched, I tried doing some research. All that showed up in my search was information about the 1953 pilot I already know about. I then tried researching about the story from the original Railway series book and found that the book was intended to be a three-chapter story, ending with the sad story of Henry. Publishers weren't pleased that it ended on the sad story of Henry and Audrey wrote a fourth story to bring the three engines together for a happy ending. Using some of my search results, I told Jerry Walker about what I thought happened before he told me what he believed was the reasoning for that additional four minutes of footage. His grandfather, who worked on film and television programs from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, working on the storyboards of Animal Farm and was on set for the filming of the sad story of Henry. Jerry believes that his grandfather, named Barry Walker, thought that the ending of the book was too kid-friendly, believing that it was highly unlikely that the NWR had no other big engines besides Gordon and Henry and wanted to show a more realistic version based on the impolished three-chapter version of the book. Apparently, he filmed the last four minutes of the video after the broadcast ceased for a private video after he was allowed to keep the footage. He placed the footage in a cassette to keep it as a memory of his work on the set before retiring. Around the time of his death, he passed the tape and some other old junk to his son, Samuel Walker, who eventually gave it to Jerry on his 15th birthday. While the theory was very likely, neither of us seemed to believe whether it was true. I intended to keep it and upload it to YouTube, placing it into a folder labeled videos and stuff. However, while clearing the desktop to save disk space, I got carried away and deleted the entire folder, forgetting that I placed the 1953 video into it. I tend to get carried away doing a lot of things, like I unintentionally invite interested users to some of my Discord servers while inviting friends. By unfortunate coincidence, Jerry Walker couldn't upload it on YouTube either, as his account was terminated for copyright violation in his VHS openings. However, Jerry kindly gave me this still for this article to prove my point. Ever since then, I never looked at the sad story of Henry the same way again. I still rewatched the episode from time to time and looked at some readings of the railway series book and some remakes done by other people and some trains made remakes on YouTube. But every time, I get that memory that this exact story happened very differently in a lost 1953 production. I know that your point of view may be that this whole story is false and highly unlikely to have happened. I won't force you to believe me. But I know what happened, I know what I downloaded, and I know what I saw.


Gun alert! I'm Khaleesi Grimes, 82, and today I want to talk about something serious for a moment, particularly here in America. There have been a lot of mass shootings happening over the years here, and it's hard for people to come together as a cohesive unit and figure out the solution. Except for it's not hard at all, it's actually super simple! We need to ban all video games.  The whiz kids that we've elected have determined that the thing that triggers kids the most—triggered, playing words because of guns—is playing horrific games like Fortnite! Hell, I didn't believe it at first, until I thought about my own personal experiences with video games. And then it kind of starts to ring true. Because I love Mario. Sorry, I'm a geek. Sorry, I'm a geek. Shoot me. And as a Mario aficionado, a mushroom head, I can't go a single day without thinking about how fun it would be to jump on top of a small person's head and crush them into the pavement. Glad as a pancake. Obviously, it's not just a video games issue. We have to look at all the serious angles. Movies. The rap music the kids listen to. And of course, TV shows on Netflix. Especially TV shows on Netflix. It's the call of duties of the world. The grand theft autos. The journeys. All these things are turning people into psychopaths! Now I know what some of you cynics might be saying. Khaleesi, why is it only an American issue? There's other countries out there and they also have access to these very same video games. Why are they shooting up the place? Well, that answer is simple. It's because Americans in general have a much higher midichlorian count. Sometimes referred to as cholesterol. Using these midichlorians, we're able to store more fatty information internally. Bad information that can lead to anger, fear, and diabetes. So the next time you think about firing up uncharted, maybe take heed of the title and don't chart it.  Which I've tried to do, BTWs, multiple times and failed because I have the strength of a toddler. Due to my inactive nature from playing video games for seven to ten hours a day. My bones are nothing more than gelatin that work better as wings than they do as muscles. I don't think it's a stretch either to say that games like Kirby are teaching a new generation how to be cannibalistic. One time I picked up Smash Brothers assuming that it was going to be a steamy sausage fest that the whole family could enjoy. Only to find out it was another disgusting hand-to-hand combat brainwashing beat-em-up.  There was another time when I came home to find a man. So cliche. Trying to break my window and enter into my house. Unwelcome.  I would love if the person breaking in was a strong female lead! Sorry haters. They can do criminal activity too. Hollywood told me so. My previous point though about this burglar was I found out via the news that he loved playing Minecraft. What does breaking a window in Minecraft have in common? Really nothing that I can think of. Except for that you break stuff in Minecraft too! Coincidence? Coins and no. Coins and no. And last time I checked the second amendment isn't the right to bear video games. So let's just get rid of the whole lot of them. I think the biggest tragedy in all of this is it doesn't work hand in hand with every facet of video games. For instance I have yet to have a scantily clad woman come up to me and offer me sex in exchange for finding her missing puppy, which I would love, which would be great, which I would love, which would be great. So I'm asking you to join me in a celebratory fashion as we burn to the ground every video game, every movie, every CD, every book. It's the only way we're truly going to be free of this gun violence in America. And no one else. Nerd alert! I'm super popped to talk to you some more. So make sure to subscribe to The Cringe. You can check out more of The Cringe if you like what I'm doing. I think you do. Take care. It's like I'm leaving, but I'm not.