I'm really honored to be able to speak to you all today. It's a lot of familiar faces and some I've never seen before, but super honored that Pastor Lee and Jane would invite me to speak and be a part of the conference. This is my first time speaking in a Rye Shine. Corey and I have gone to Radiant now. We've been here for about two and a half years. We've been pastors and worship leaders here, and it's been incredible being under their leadership. Yesterday Corey and I were talking. Corey is my husband, for those of you who don't know. Corey and I are husband and wife. Power Packed Team, the two of us. We have never had leaders as amazing as Pastor Lee and his wife Jane, and we've never sat under leadership like theirs before, and we've been under a lot of amazing leadership, but there's never been a father and a mother like them in our lives. And so I could go on, I could speak a whole hour about how much they have meant to us and into our family, but we love them. And I'm so honored to be a part of Radiant, a part of the network, a part of all that God is doing. So today I'm going to talk about sustainability. Pretty hot word right now, huh? I'm not going to talk about recycling, although I am a little funny about recycling and I really, really care about it, but that is not what I'm going to talk about today. I get this thing, I'll go on a little tangent, and I'm also really hot, hold on. I'll miss in my second trimester I'm pregnant, so I keep having hot flashes, and I'm in one right now. So if some of you saw it, I'm like, why is she cramming down an orange? It's so I don't throw up during this session. Hopefully I don't have to run out for a second and then come back in. So those of you who are intercessors, you can be praying the anisotomic stays calm during this session. But yes, we're expecting our fourth child, and we're really excited. It's an awesome quay to share with some of you yesterday that we're in here, but surprise made me number four and we couldn't be more happy, but mom has been really sick, like real sick. So I'm starting to come out of the haze of like, I'm here, I'm alive, I'm going to make it. So sustainability is a great message for me to be speaking on right now. Anyways, where was I saying? I don't remember. I do want to tell you a story though, really quick. Oh, I do like to recycle, but I'm not going to get into that. This morning, this is kind of an ice breaker. So those of you who have kids, those of you that are pastors, leaders, youth leaders, or those of you that are just parents in general, this morning, you know, I'm like, we're going to have a calm morning. It's going to be good. I'm going to just wake up before the kids. I'm going to make sure everybody's fed. We're just going to, we're going to plan this out right. I'm going to let Corey sleep a little bit, because he was up so late, and I got to sleep. I mean, I'm falling asleep at like 7.30. You know, it's like, I'm out. So I knew he got in like, you know what I am. So I'm like, I'm going to let him sleep. It's going to be really, really smooth. So I, you know, it's pretty good. I eat eggs, which smell horrible, but once I eat them, I feel really good.  They're doing good with it. And then we have this dog, Sherlock.  We got this dog, you know, in November, and he, we took a, we're taking a whole year off. We're in the middle of taking a year off of travel. And we've never been able to get a dog before, ever. Because we've always just been going too much, and there's nobody to take care of the dog at home, because we're always on the road. I homeschooled the kids, and we just were always together as a family doing a lot of, a lot of ministry.  So we got, you know, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes. He's home. He stays home. We stay home. We Sherlock. And have any of you ever seen Marley and me? Oh, yes. He was so cute when he was little. And then he's like an extrovert on slight steroids. And he loves people so insanely. And so if anybody or anything comes around, dog, squirrel, I don't know, a person, if he's on the leash, the kids can't control him anymore. So we got like this special like leash that sounds horrible, but it like pokes him a little bit if he goes crazy. Some of the dog lovers are like, I can't believe you did that well. You would too, okay?  You want the nine-year-old to be able to take the dog out. So this morning, I'm like, buddy, go ahead, Gabriel. He's our nine-year-old. Go ahead and take Sherlock out. And he's like, I don't want to. It's raining. I'm like, go do it. So mommy doesn't have to. I'm just trying to just, you know, come on, we're having a peaceful morning. So he goes and he takes him. And at the same time that he decides to take him, the mailman decides to show up. And it's not just a regular mailman. It's like the mailman that you have to sign something. And so Sherlock gets loose and is happily attacking the mailman.  And it's raining. You get where this is going. There's mud on the mailman. And I'm barefooted, still in pajama pants. Only the top part of me is looking good. The rest of it is just like what's happening here. And I run outside to try and help the situation. And I forgot that one of our lanterns had shattered glass from wind. And so I run through shard glass into my foot.  And so Gabriel and I grab him. My foot is now pouring blood.  And I'm like, it's okay, it's okay.  And Sherlock gets away again. And he attacks him again. And so I have to grab him again and get him back in. And I'm like, do not curse. Do not. Just, just, just, you have to speak to people this morning. You need to live a sustainable life right now. Holy spirit, come. And it's like, and finally we get to him. We get the dog. I started calling him the dog. We get the dog in his crate.  And the bottom of my foot is now covered in band-aids. So that was my morning. And now I'm here. And I'm really happy to be here. Honestly, I was happy to say to my sister, she came and she's watching the kids. And I was like, see ya. Love you guys. I'm always with the kids because we're always homeschooling. We're always doing stuff. So getting to speak to you is exciting this morning. But I just, I love when there's the reality of, you know, it doesn't just all go smoothly.  It's not something that I've attained by any means. I will say this, if that would have happened 10 years ago, it wouldn't have looked the same as this morning. So I run upstairs. I was like, Cory, here's your package. And he was like, it's something he's really excited about. And I was like, do you know what I went through to get this package? And he's like looking at me. He's still in bed. I'm waking him up like this. And he was like, I'm like, I am dripping blood for this package.  And he's like looking at me and getting sadder and sadder. So then I start, I go and get ready. He opens up the package. And now y'all are going to think that I am a total mean woman.  So a week ago, well, about a month ago, Cory had two wedding bands designed for us to match. Yeah, I know.  We've been married for almost 13 years. So beautiful, what he had gotten me was beautiful, but we were dirt poor. So he wanted to give me something a little nicer. So he designed this ring for my birthday. And he presented it to me on my birthday. But his ring didn't come in time. And so I pretty much threw the ring at him. He opens it. He puts it out and I come in. I was like, oh, and then I'm trying to be nice. Oh, do you like it?  So I was like, look, babe, let me try again. And he was like, no. It's like, just let me try again. Let's do a redo. So he let me take the ring. I put it back in the, I put it back in the package. I walked out of the room.  Corey, it's your ring. And I'm like, he's lying there. And now he's like starting to laugh. I'm like, look, I only bled a little for this. And our dog, he's so wonderful. He loves people so much. Here's the ring. And anyways, we did a redo. And then it was, the morning was fine. So what I'm saying is 10 years ago, though, I wouldn't have known how to do that. I wouldn't have known how to take that situation and, and go, okay, I'm really, I'm really not doing a good job right now at life.  I need to own that I'm in a bad mood and I'm stressed out, but this is not his fault. And I need to understand that, that I just need to stop. Ask the Holy Spirit to come. Ask for how do I do this again? How do I redo this? And I did and boom, we had peace in the house again. Just like that. 10 years ago, there might have been a hole in the wall.  And I was like, oh my gosh, these people, the Asperies. Yeah. I mean, we've come a long way. So sustainability. Corey and I grew up at the International House of Pro. Do you guys know where that is? Yeah, awesome. So at about 17, well, no, when I, when I was 15, I started going to all of the, I went to the first one, one thing conference there ever was. And I got marked. It was like, this was what I was made to do. I was made to be in this atmosphere. This was, this is, this is it. And so I just had, you know, three more years of high school to get through so I could come back. So I just, I did, I would, that's what I did. I, every summer I would go to IHOP. I would submers myself in the prayer room in worship. And then I'd go back home and I'd cry every time, because I didn't want to leave. And I grew up, Corey and I actually both grew up in North Carolina. He grew up in the mountains and I grew up in the Outer Banks. I think I had the better of the two, but you know, it just depends on if you like ocean or mountains. And so once I was 18, I graduated. I went straight to IHOP. And most of my life was surrounded by conferences. You know, like I was a conference junkie. I was a prophetic word junkie. They're beautiful things. They're beautiful things. But I lived in these moments of high. And in these, in between moments where I was, you know, like in school or whatever, it was, there wasn't a lot of moments where I felt an intense connection with God. And so I lived for these times of encounter in these high moments, whether it be, you know, these worship nights or you know, whatever it is. And so I felt like I had to get to IHOP because the prayer room was the place of encounter. And that's really how I lived for a really long time. And it was this beautiful thing, but it also was forming a very wrong idea in my head of how to live normal life. And because, well, what it began to form was this place of a need to prove that I was worth being loved. It started to form this thing of performance. I sing and I play an instrument and I also dance. And so all of these things became something I could give and something I could do to earn God's love in these high moments. And I didn't know that was happening. And what, there was these beautiful things about IHOP. I want you to understand that I'm not saying that that's negative. Prayer in a prayer room and assembling together in prayer is one of the most powerful things we can do in the church. And I believe that with all my heart. My foundation, my whole foundation is built on that. But the negative of what happened as a young teenager, that being my entire life, was I did not have anyone discipling me on how to live the other 99% of my life. And so my whole world was based upon a room. My whole world was based around a stage. My whole world was based on the one song that would make me, you know, encounter God. And I had no idea who the Holy Spirit really was and how he was a friend to me in the in-between moments. So Corey and I's whole marriage was formed around a prayer room. And it was beautiful. I mean, doesn't that sound romantic? I mean, we would sets together. We did all of these things that were, but was all based in a room. I had no idea how to cook. I had no idea how to do. And I was really good at leadership and ministry, but I was really bad at anything else and within my home. And which is fine. I was 18, you know, we got married. I was, when we started dating, I was 19 and Corey was 20. And then we got married. I was 20 and he was 21. And it was great for three years. It was really great. And then I got pregnant, which we wanted to have a baby, but I had no idea what was about to hit me. And it was the greatest gift. It was the greatest gift. I, so my pregnancy with Gabriel, I was, I was so sick. I could not get out of bed for six months. And I was not only sick, but I was, I was extremely anemic. And we didn't know that I was so, I was dangerously anemic. I almost had to get a blood transfusion. I was, I was going the natural way, which I love, but I won't ever go natural again. I'll just say, there it is for some women. And I had that notch on my belt, but I will never do it again. Epidurals are for me. Just putting it out there. That's another story. But I, I was sick and I couldn't, I couldn't show up anymore. I couldn't lead worship anymore. I couldn't, I could, and, and my, and my whole marriage was like, how do we do marriage? I don't even see him anymore. I'm at home all day by myself. And Corey is doing all the things I want to do. And it became his fault, but it wasn't at all. What I, now in hindsight, you know, it's like 2020 vision hindsight. I see I was placing all this pressure on him to make a way for me as a mother. But in reality, I just had no idea how to walk out a life in God without a room of encounter. And it was a painful process. It was real painful. So fast forward, I'm, I have Gabriel. I'm in labor. And the same time I have Gabriel, revival breaks out at IHOP. And we call it the awakening. Some of you may remember that. And the awakening service. And I was so mad because not only am I now home with a baby, my husband is now gone and getting drunk in the spirit. Now he's good. He just caught in and y'all are going to hear all the feedback from the back. I told him to not show up until a little later because he's such a big personality and he's going to have so much feedback, which I love. But I just needed to get my grounds before he came in. Yeah. We are a force to be reckoned with, which I love. The two of us together. Anyways, so Corey is leading these worship sets at the awakening. And y'all know Caleb now. Caleb, we've known the culvers for a very, very long time. We've been, Caleb and I were in an internship together when we were 18. So we've been friends with them for a very long time. And it's just really cool that God's brought us all together. But Caleb is getting rocked out of his mind. They're encountering God in these ways. They're laughing. It's beautiful, but I am so mad because I have postpartum depression, like intensely. And I am at home with a baby and I don't know what to do with this baby. And I'm feeling like, I'm feeling ashamed because I want to be with everyone else. And I should just be so happy as a mom, right? But I just had no context of how to encounter God in my home. No one had ever taught me that. I just knew how to do it in a room, right? So the awakening goes on for a whole year. And it's beautiful. I mean, people are coming out of wheelchairs. It's crazy. And I would show up with Gabriel, a side note. I really hope he does not have ear damage because it was so loud. And, you know, they didn't have those ear muff things when it was back then.  And it's a way... Whatever. Anyways, side note. Cori, whatever. Okay, moving on. So I was just trying to show up. I would come with my little, you know, three-week-old baby. So Gabriel grew up in the awakening. There's something there. There's something beautiful. I birthed Gabriel and the awakening happened. There's something on my son's life.  So, oh, year goes by. Gabriel, we go on an awakening tour. And we take Gabriel, and Gabriel turns one in London. And it was so hard. And we faced a lot of things, and by the end of it, I looked at Cori and I was like, when we get home, I'm going to go stay with my mom and dad. And, yeah. And he was like, you're going to leave? I was like, yeah, I think after this trip, we both know that this is not working well. And he was like, I can't even talk to you right now. I can't believe you would even say something like that. I was like, this has been hard, dude. I don't think you have any idea. We were so tired. The only thing I could fathom in my head is I just need my mom. I just want my mom to take care of me, and she can hold my kid. And she'll take, she'll love me and feed me. And, yeah. I'm 23. I'm so young.  And we were just so, we were kids, and we had no idea how to do marriage. We had no idea how to love each other in between moments. All we knew how to do was minister and do worship from a stage and try to get people to sing with us, you know? And ask God to show up in these moments, which he did because he's so good. It had nothing to do with our, in our lives, being amazing. We were trying our best at 23. So we got home. And it was just like I had a wake-up call. I didn't leave. We made, we got it through it, through it. But we laugh now. We think about like, we were so tired. We had no idea what was going on. And that was the only rational thought I could have is, see ya. My mom's gonna take care of me. So, fast forward. We move, we end up moving and going to Colorado Springs. And God ends up taking me on this journey of hiddenness. And I hated it, but it became such a beautiful place where the Holy Spirit became my friend. And I learned that he was a real, a person that was given to me to, when I was alone changing a diaper in the middle of the night, he's there. And he's speaking and he's good. And when I, when Corey was out ministering somewhere and I was alone for a week, the Holy Spirit was there and he was my friend. And it began, I began to start a new rhythm where I learned that it wasn't so much about these intense huge moments which are so beautiful, but my focus began to change. And I realized he wants to be with me through mom. He wants to be speaking through me in all of the moments. And he's really, really there. And this is something we teach our students. I mean, when the students first came, I mean, we pretty much attacked them with how the stage is not what it is about. And I think if there's anything that I want to impart to the next generation, it's this, that he wants to meet with you in all the moments. The moments of, you know, mowing the lawn. The moments of working a job in front of a computer, you know, at a desk. The moments of serving someone. It is so, we live so much life and we compartmentalize what he, when he wants to speak. But he guys, he gave us, Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit. I'm going to fast forward a little bit because I just, I just, in John 14, you guys can go there. I just want to read it. It's so insane. I think we just like, we skip this verse sometimes. And I just want to like, savor it a second. John 14, 15. And I'm going to read it from the passion because it's just cool.  Have you, any of you read the passion? So good. Okay. John 14, 15. Loving me empowers you to obey my commands. And I will ask the Father and he will give you another savior, the Holy Spirit of truth. Who will be to you a friend, just like me. And he will never leave you. The world won't receive him because they can't see him or know him. But you will know him intimately because he will make his home in you and will live inside of you. I promise that I will never leave you helpless or abandoned. You, I will never abandon you as orphans. I will come back to you. And then it goes on, you know, in 16 to say, it's better that I leave. Okay. Jesus was face to face with the disciples. Face to face. He was teaching them how to pray. He was teaching them how to do everything. I mean, how many of us are like, if we could only be one of the disciples. But yet Jesus says, it's better that I leave. So I can send you and the encourager, the Holy Spirit. What have we not accessed in friendship with the Holy Spirit? If that's the truth that he lives inside of us. The third person of the Trinity lives inside of us. And he came and when he came, he came to swallow up loneliness forever. We're never alone. We're never abandoned. There is always someone there, the Holy Spirit, in which you belong to. I think that that was one of the main things I needed to know. That I was not alone. And there is this lie in my head that I was always missing out. And if I wasn't there for one more meeting. Or if I wasn't there, if I wasn't saying yes to one more thing, I was missing out. Because there's this deep thing in us that we think we have to prove that we are worth loving. And so there's always this thing that if we just say yes one more time. If the numbers in our church are just a little bit bigger. If the tithe is just a little bit higher. If the numbers of our students are just a little bit more. It shows, oh here we're doing a good job. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's not how he operates. He gave the Holy Spirit to swallow up loneliness forever. And as I started to grasp this truth, my life went through. It was like a slow revival. This slow restoration of healing in my heart of who I was and what I meant to him. Gifting can only take you so far. I was relying on gifting. I was relying on what I could do. I was relying on the meetings. I was relying on these big moments. But they can only take you so far. And then it's dried up. It's done. And then you're left in this place. It's like a drug. You're left in this place of, well, I need another word. Or I need another meeting or I need another whatever it may be. And yet the Holy Spirit has been given to us to have constant communion with, to be edified, to be encouraged. Religious duty will leave you burnt out and disillusioned. So how do we live a sustainable life in God? That's the big question, right? Cory and I were hit with that big question. I began the journey, but I was still looking for tools. Like I wanted someone to sit down with me and tell me, like, this is a great way to start. And I could not find anybody to do that. And I think Cory and I came to a place, like in, in the natural, I'll talk, I'll do this. Cory's a very gifted person. I could praise my husband for hours. He, he's just a very gifted person. But we came to a conclusion and he came to a conclusion that we could only go so far relying on gifting. And if we were really serious and we wanted the lives of our kids and our grandkids to be changed, then we were going to have to look a little deeper than our giftings. And we were going to have to make some hard decisions and some hard calls so that not only our lives but the generations after us would feel the effect of the changes that we made. So we had two friends and Cory talked about them a little bit, but it's Jonathan and Melissa Helzer. They've written a lot of songs. We're going to sing, Cory and I will sing one of their songs tonight, Raise a Hallelujah. But they have, they've, I've known them since I was 13.  And one of the things that they've cultivated so much is, is this life of sustainability and community and doing life in a way that a lot of people just don't know how. And they're really good at teaching it. So Cory met Melissa and she's a really intense personality as well. And she gets really close. She doesn't know any, you know, like physical boundaries. So she got really close like this in his face. How are you doing? And he's like, you know, crawling out of the skin. And I've never seen him do it like that before.  And, and he's like, good. She's like, you guys should come to our retreat. Okay. And so we did. I was like, yes. There's, I just, we were in a place in our lives where we're like, we need somebody to teach us how to go further. Because we've gotten as far as we possibly could go on what we know. And, and it's just not working. And it's not working going from meeting to meeting anymore. And I was like, we just, Cory and I wanted to be on the same page. And we wanted to be really making some deep digging more into a well that was going to be accessed later on. And so we head to this, we head to this retreat and we take the culvers along with us, which was awesome. And what they gave us there was a, was a lot of tools. But you know, one of the most beautiful things that they did is they sat us down at their table. We ate together and they looked at us in the eye. And we asked them, how jacked up are we? And they looked at us and they said, pretty jacked up. And that sounds horrible. But it was the most loving thing someone had ever done because we'd only been used at that point for our gifting. And for what we could do. And no one had ever cared enough at that point or had the time, I will say that, had the time to actually say, hey, you're not doing good. And what's underneath the surface, you don't even know, but it's jacked up and you need some help. You want us to help you? You guys, this generation is dying for mothers and fathers. To tell them how to live a life that's sustainable in the in-between moments when no one's watching them. How do I live a life of holiness and righteousness? How do I have a conversation with the Father? How do I communicate with Him? How do I feel Him when nobody's with me? They're dying for that. They're not dying to know how to do the next awesome worship song on stage. Or how to get the next coolest pair of sneakers to look awesome as a preacher. So, after leaving that, Cory and I purposed in our hearts, we're making some changes. I care way too much about my kids. I care way too much about my grandkids. That I'm not going to look at this stuff in my heart anymore. These lies that I believe about the Father, these things that I have that are not supposed to be there. I'm going to attack these things. I'm going to take them down so my kids can go further than I can. I'm going to make hard choices. I'm not going to just stuff and not look at what's going on. So this is what I've learned. I'm going to give you three keys. You're going to want to write these down. I've got 20 minutes to give you this. Okay. Number one, knowing your need for the Holy Spirit. I wake up every morning and do you know what the first thing that comes to mind is? I'm not here to do a brag, but this didn't used to be the first thing it is now.  This isn't what you're, I'm about to give you isn't so tomorrow you've got it all down. What I'm doing is I'm setting a table for you and I'm going to give you a few tools. And you have the choice when you leave this place to say yes to some really hard things, but practicing stuff, practicing fellow shaping with the Holy Spirit, practicing kindness, the fruits of the Spirit, practicing those things. And then five, 10 years down the road you start to see the fruit. So it's not like we're not going through McDonald's drive-thru. It's taking time. Relationship takes time. It doesn't just happen overnight. Knowing your need for the Holy Spirit. When I wake up the first thing I, I wake up and I go, Holy Spirit, I cannot do today without you. I cannot do today without you. If I'm going to be kind, you're going to have to help me. If I'm going to be a good mother and a good wife, it's only because you're going to give me what I need. And every morning, I am not joking.  And the mornings I forget, that day goes bad. But it's the first thing that comes to mind at this point. My reliance on him has become so intense. I can't do life without him. I feel like we're starting to do this pretty well with our kids. For them to hear the Holy Spirit, to have conversations with him. So I'll tell you a little story just to kind of encourage you that it's possible. When I, when I had, when I had my kids, you know, we have Gabriel's nine, some of you met them yesterday. Lily is five and then River is two. And I'm always giving them opportunity to need the Holy Spirit. They will grow out of their need of me. But I want to teach them that they will never outgrow their need for the Holy Spirit. And if I can teach them that, then I've succeeded as a mom. But we have these moments in the morning sometimes.  They're cray-cray. But this, this couple of times this year, we had really amazing times. And I'm like, yes, I'm a good mom. Well, so Corey and I had decided we were going to get this dog. Sherlock. And they've already told him the story of this morning. Oh, he left. Anyways. Who needs him? So I, we're all sitting down and we'll have times where we listen to the Holy Spirit. And what is he, what is he sharing with us this morning? So we all sit down and River could care less. She's overdoing something, probably coloring on the walls. She loves to color on the walls. And Lily and Gabriel are there and they're listening. And I hadn't, we hadn't told them. We were going to, we were going to surprise them with this dog and we were going to surprise them on Christmas. And so I'm like, well let's just ask the Holy Spirit what he wants to tell us this morning and what he's going to share with us. And so we take like, you know, a couple minutes and then I'm like, well, what did he share? And Lily goes, we're getting a dog. Okay. And then Gabriel pipes up, yeah, for Christmas.  I have taught them too well. I was like, wait, Holy Spirit, we're supposed to have something going. Don't tell them this. Like, they don't need to know this. But they've, and I was like, well, how do you know? Holy Spirit told me. I was like, okay, well, I don't know what I'm talking about. Well, he'll have to tell me. I was like, and then we do it again. And they're like, we're getting a dog. And so they actually start looking at the mail, like thinking like someone's going to bring the dog. And then they're like, well, it was for Christmas. And so when we get the dog, they're like, we told you. And so it was a beautiful moment, but that happens actually a lot where we'll know something's happening and the Holy Spirit will share it with the kids. And I've just, we've cultivated this in our house. There are a few times that we're still learning. We got to bring some scripture in there because scripture, you know, it really grounds them. Because like this one time I've shared this story before, but I just want you to get a reality. It's not all wonderful. I'm like, y'all, let's listen to the Holy Spirit. What is he saying? And Gabriel goes, death. I was like, okay, keep calm. Why don't you ask again, honey? It's just death. I just see death. Oh, okay, let's go play. Let's get some outside time. This is not working today. And I just was like, you know, some days we're going to get it. And then from that time it was like, you know, like we're going to, we're going to start memorizing this scripture. That's really going to help us in hearing the Holy Spirit sometimes. But sometimes it's death and no one died. So that was off. Okay. Number two, living a lifestyle of thankfulness. Thankfulness shifts your mindset. I'm so thankful for the life I've lived. I'm so thankful for the giants I fought and taken down. Guys, I fought some giants. I fought fear, fear of death, fear of my kids dying. I fought depression, hopelessness, and I took it down. And it will never have power over me again. And I am thankful for that. When I'll tell this quick, it's important for you guys to hear our story. Our stories are some of the most powerful things that we have.  But when we had Lily, our second, when she was about, when she was two months old, she stopped breathing. And she just stopped breathing. She became lifeless in my arms. And it was early in the morning and I just went into mom crazy mode. And I was barefoot. It was snowing outside. I was in pajamas. I grabbed her in my arms. I told Corey, she stopped breathing. And the hospital was one block away and I just held her and I drove straight to the ear. They took her and they revived her. And that was one of the scariest moments in our life. I left Corey. He had to show up later.  Well, it did. It happened again and again and again and again. I mean, countless times. Her first year. She would just stop breathing. And we didn't know why. We'd be in the hospital. They'd run a thousand tests. Nobody could tell us why and they'd send us home. And we were just left waiting then. He said, can it happen again or is she going to be fine? And nobody could give us answers. And, you know, I remember the day she turned one. It was like a big deal because we made it through the first year and she was still alive. And there was such a wrestle. You know, I was stealing still again with postpartum and depression. And then the hopelessness just came on in a huge, another way, you know? And I remember going, God, I trust you. I surrender my kids to you. And it was a wrestle to surrender them. But it was a wrestle we went through. And it wasn't over when she was one. It continued to happen. And, you know, we moved here. And her last episode that she had was when we were on tour, actually. We took the kids with us and we had seen a neurologist who finally gave us some answers. And he told me something that I had been dying to hear. He says, this is not fatal. She cannot die. She will not die from this. And it was like, it was like life, you know?  And it happened over and over.  It's okay. And he goes, no, it's going to be okay. So we go on this tour. And when we do things as a family, there's a lot of attack. This one was like no other. All the kids were on a tour bus and all the kids, not Gabriel, but the girls get a stomach bug. And they're throwing up everywhere.  You know, she's just not okay. But it was the first time she goes, I'm going to pass out. And then she passes out for 15 minutes on the bus, just limp. And you know, Corey and I are crying. We're not at all like, you know, singing the worship songs and like everything is okay. We are bawling our eyes out. But we knew she was not going to die. And she comes back and she goes, I heard you. You were crying. I was like, okay, yeah, we got to get better at what we do. You were crying. And you know, we packed up and we said, we're going home. Our family is more important than finishing out the tour at this point. And we just went home and rested. And that was the last time she did that. I believe she's healed. And yeah, it's incredible. I mean, we went through five years of that. And through that, we formed thankfulness. And when I was going through such intense times of just hopelessness, what would bring me out of these dark, you know, holes would be me saying, thank you, God. She's alive. And I would just look for whatever I could find that was still hope, you know. And it brought me out. One of my friends, she lives this better than anybody else I've seen. And you can just hear her under her breath. She doesn't even know anymore. She just says, thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit. And she just lives it all the time. And she's been cultivating it for so long. She's just part of who she is. And if you can cultivate a lifestyle of Thanksgiving, that will sustain you. Third thing is rooting yourself in the Father's delight. And I'm going to have to do this faster, but this is the most amazing of all, you know. When you know that the Father is delighting you, you can handle it all. You can handle it all. You can handle correction, discipline, sorrow, joy, whatever it is, because you know he's delighted in you.  Because I hadn't cultivated it. And I could, you know, we all know the saying God is good, you know. And you can say, we can say all this stuff. But do we truly believe it deep down in our hearts? Because when the times of, you know, when we are walking through the valley, that's when it comes out. Do we really believe that he likes us? Or do we believe that he's out to get us? Or do we believe he's out to judge us? Or do we think he's angry? And it's in these moments, you know, in that moment with, in those five years with Lily, I faced some of the biggest roots in my life that I believed he was not good. And I had to come to a place where I would take that out. And I would, I would repent. I'm sorry I believe that you are out to get me. Tell me again what you think about me. Tell me again right now in this place. Tell me again what you think about me. And I would journal out his voice, just journaling it. And it took me through. And we took out some massive roots of unbelief, things that I really believed. You know, it goes back to our own fathers, our own mothers, and how they were with us, and these ideas that we form about then who the father is. And it takes time to take them out. There are two massive accounts in the Bible that make the delight of the father so clear. There's Genesis too. And then there's Matthew 4. Genesis, we see the father's desire to walk in the cool of the day with Adam and Eve. He just wanted to be in the garden with his creation. Did they do anything? No. But had they proved anything? No. That was the original intent just to be with us. Because he likes us. He delights. And when he said at the end of all that he created that it was good, you know, I did a word study one time on that word good. And it means to wildly dance and laughter and delight. And that's how he felt. And all he had done was created. The creation hadn't done anything for him.  That's how he felt. And then in Matthew, it's Jesus, his son, and it's his baptism. And Jesus' life, had he done anything? No, this was the first thing. He gets baptized before he'd done a single thing. He'd just been living regular life with his family. And the thing he says is, this is my son. I'm well pleased. And whom I'm delighted is one translation. That's the story of our lives. We named our daughter River.  The river of delight. The river of pleasure. That she would know her entire life. That that's who she was. We almost named her Kate River. And then I had a dream. And the Lord said she's more of a river than she is a Kate. And with our kids, a lot of times, you know, the Lord, we named them according to the season of life that God is teaching us. And the river was our season of really grasping the delight. There's a river whose streams will make us glad. Guys, our children, our young people, they're crying out for someone to teach them this. How do they live a grounded life? A life just not based on giftings. How do they live marriages and single life? And they live as mothers and fathers. We have to get this so we can give it to our own kids, to our own grandkids, to their kids, to our churches, to our communities, to our friends. And it's so important, so important to him. Our life is so much more than just the one conference. This conference has been incredible, right? So good. But we want you to go home and cultivate something deeper and not just run dry and have to go to the next conference, but actually dig a well that you dig so deep that in 15 years you come out and you have something to say. Right? It doesn't happen overnight. I just, I just want to, the Holy Spirit, I just felt he wanted to meet some of you.  She said he laughed and she says, well, why are you laughing? And she says, well, mom, you can't really, you can't really just teach about him. You got to meet him. And I just love that. And I just felt like today the Holy Spirit says, there's some people I want to meet. So I just, we're done. The time is done. But I just want to, if you want to take, I'm going to put on a song and I'm going to pray over you guys.  He's here and he wants to meet with you. And you can just, we can just, those of you who are going to the next place, just let's be considerate of some of the people that are just going to wait and linger in here. Cool? Okay. So Holy Spirit, I just invite your presence right now. I thank you that you are the encourager, that you are the third person of the Trinity that is here with us, that you swallowed up loneliness forever when you came. The friend of all friends. I just ask that you would make yourself real today. I thank you for this group. And I just seal right now everything, every seed that has found good soil. I just bless it right now. And I say, grow, grow. In Jesus' name.


Good afternoon everyone, Ankur who leads MTV Insights Studio tells me that 2.17 pm is the least productive time of the day and we are sort of lingering around there. So I think we hit rock bottom and we could only go up from here. I am here to take you through glimpses of the MTV Insights Studio study the last edition but before that I just wanted to set some context. MTV used to be only a successful TV channel now we see ourselves as a youth platform and I will tell you why I say that. Around 250 to 300 million people consumed us on television last year. Around a billion minutes of our content gets consumed on our OTT app that is Woot. Around 80 to 100 million people are reached every single month through our social communities. We run offline experiences which are permanent and non-permanent. By permanent I mean we have licensed club roadies and cafe roadies. By non-permanent I mean we do ARMN concert series and ARRIG and so on. We also have a licensing deal to do apparel and things like that. So it's pretty much different parts of a young person's life and hence I am saying youth platform and the understanding that all the actions we take on this youth platform are built on this study that we do every two years. Just before I start I wanted to play a couple of videos to just set the mood. Jil, what is this you keep watching all the day? Tadu, this is MTV, India's biggest youth brand. 450 million people have consumed MTV one way or the other. The viewership has doubled in one year, Tadu. Double! Now these roadies, last year 133 million people have seen it. Amazing! That's your number, right? Yes Tadu, that is our number. What? What you keep watching all the day? Tadu, this is MTV, 450 million reach. Viewership doubled in one year. Remember you retain Tadu's memory. That's your number, right? The running is Tadu Vijay. Tadu, what is this you keep watching all the day? Tadu, this is MTV, India's biggest youth brand. This is MTV, 450 million reach. Viewership doubled in one year. This is roadies, last year 133 million people saw it. Yes, that's run Vijay. Run Vijay. What is this? What are you looking at? Nothing. Hey! See, you didn't make a big deal, right? The amount of blood we give is very big.  I already told you that money doesn't cost that much. I have donated blood for free. I told you to give him more. I don't have that much. I just said that I am a big deal.   You have become a big deal, right? Don't get angry. I don't give you 100%. I give you blood. I give you blood. I don't give you blood for free. Yes, give it. I am giving you blood. I gave you blood. I didn't give you money. Mom, if India is the best, then why are you sending sister to America? Mom, if India is the best, then why are you sending sister to America? Catch. Mom, if India is the best, then why are you sending sister to America? Mom, there are so many cash bundles in the cupboard. Dad thanked the police for the money. Why do you drink so much water? Why are you so thirsty? Mom, are you going to be a lawyer? What's the matter? Are you drunk? I'll tell you. So, that was just to give you an idea about the personality of the brand and the tone of voice that we use. Now the inside studio has been doing this inside study with youth for the last 15 odd years. So, what that gives us is, it gives us access to data on the stress, concern, hopes, aspirations of youth across the years. And what that lets us do is, see how things have moved between different generations. And from the latest study, I'll try and paint three or four themes that emerge. So, there are four themes I would want to talk about. The first one is, a second is a perspective on Bharat versus India. A third is girl on top. The fourth is about family and the fifth is some individual traits of this person. In our study, one thing that we figured is the friction or the push and pull on this young person that leads to a lot of decisions or the way they behave is, A, this fast-paced, modern, dynamic world and the need to be progressive, where young people feel that of course I need to be progressive, both in my behavior and in my mindset. But at the same time, there's a massive surge in my pride and my traditions. So the push and pull between, the push of wanting to be very progressive and the pull of traditions which may at some times make you be seen if not really a bit regressive. That push and pull in our mind really is the churn that's happening that's leading to some of the insights that we talk about. The first one is, My India will be amazing because young people believe that there's a lot that's good but they're equally aware of the lot that's bad and they believe we are the ones who are going to make it better and hence it will be. The first one is, like I said, massive surge in pride, in culture and traditions and they manage to distinguish between traditions and religion. Tradition is something that gives me a sense of belonging, something we do together. Religion mostly seems to be something that should be private or may polarize and hence the distinction. A lot of this has got to do with the political discourse wanting to put India on the global stage and some of that seems to have trickled down. It's also little things like when the Empire State Building or Niagara Falls or the Burj, Khalifa and so on, everything gets bathed in the tricolor on Republic Day as a mark of respect. All of that floods down social media down into the deepest corners and young people start to believe that India has really arrived on the global stage. We are being recognized everywhere. Indians read about exports like yoga or Ayurveda on the global stage and how it's being taken up on a mass scale and then they believe that there's so much fantastic about our culture. They hear about people who are famous in the glamour industry and that's another takeout. They hear about Sundar Pichai and they hear about big business leaders who are from India and that's again something that reinforces this in their mind. So that leads to a lot of optimism from two years back if let's say 37% of young people felt optimistic about their future. Right now 65% are feeling much more optimistic and part of this optimism is driven from an action orientation. So if there's one thing that's definitely very different about this generation from previous generations it's the ability to be action oriented. So if let's say 5 years back a young person of the same age was okay being a collectivist was okay voicing his or her opinion only on social media this is a generation that seems to be wanting to go out and do things themselves and they do it because they seem to be having an understanding that if I keep waiting for somebody else to do it whether it's authority or government or a municipal corporation or my neighbor it's never going to happen. We'll have to do this together for the next generation. And some of the examples here whether it's Siddharth Mandala who created a footwear that lets off a charge when you attack or even yesterday if you read the papers young Pawan in Uttar Pradesh who's planning to run from Lucknow to Allahabad that's 200 kilometers because he believes in conservation of forests. There are many many examples Aranya Johar who does slam poetry DPS Tank who wore spy glasses in local trains in Mumbai to capture farmers and then got them arrested the common thread for all this is young people seem to have decided that it's time for us to act and this study predates some of the action that you're seeing on ground so the groundswell was always there of young people feeling that we're going to act a second part where we went in thinking that maybe Bharat and India might be going in massively different directions but in a nutshell what we found is that what young people in small towns are looking for is really big city success in small towns I'm not taking that job offer actually I don't want to leave Indoch I have to start my own startup from this I need you and the time has come that the talent here is to do this and not to go to Mumbai son you'll have a good time So again, in their mind space, young people have started believing that the opportunities in small towns are pretty much getting there in terms of what the metros really offer. And by now everybody has either a relative or has themselves travelled to the metros. They know what the big city life brings with it. The anonymity in your ecosystem, the long hours of travel, the crumbling infrastructure. So when they compare that with where they are, which is 15-20 minutes across the whole town, you know everybody around you and the benefits of staying with family, they suddenly seem to be clear that this is where I want to make it ideally and I don't think going to a big city is really what is going to cut it. That would be too early to predict the end of migration but if Jio has brought the telecom revolution where everybody down to the last mile is able to use mobile internet and Amazon is saying that we manage to send goods to every single corner of the country, it just reinforces the fact that everything I need is equally available whether I am in a metro or I am in a small town. A third theme that we picked up really was girl on top, I will just play a video for you. Rohan Shah, Emerl, Mandi, Rohan Sinha, where was the college first one? Mukun. Mukun. Call one a weirdo, please. So if you haven't met him since a long time, this is why. 3-4 months ago, he was here to come. I mean better than the bar that you dated, Zubin. Zubin, that's what I have been forgetting. Okay. So it's Mangesh, Rajbir, Mandi of course, and Zubin. Okay. Don't. 4 months ago. 5 months ago. 5 months ago. She really forgot him. Subodh. Subodh M.A. Glasswala. 5 months ago.  So while women seem to be opening up the shackles for themselves, to me this number is really telling which is 4 years back, fewer women believe that same relationship rules need to apply to a boy and girl and that numbers really become almost 100 now where now increasingly women across the board believe that listen, the rules need to be equal. Again, something we picked up which is girls seem to believe that parents have become in their outlook much more and what seems to be happening is that the girl in the house seems to have the time and the patience to be able to navigate her parents through technology and a mobile phone and the mobile internet. And in doing that, there is a very peer to peer or an educational sort of conversation and that's leading to parents believing that the girl is adding so much more value to my life and in the family and in return they are rewarding in a sense the girl with asking her on a lot many more things what her opinion is and that's leading to her feeling that okay, my parents are so much more modern and like I said, some of the categories where this seems to have made a difference is that girls have started believing that even in high value purchases like maybe electronics or automobiles or a car or even a financial instrument, these are categories where people have started believing or girls have started believing that they have a major say on the decision their parents make. A fourth theme that we picked up and I'm just rattling through because I'm mindful of the zero seconds that's staring at me is the return of family which doesn't mean that family went anywhere but a return to a traditional way of living and I'll tell you what I mean. A first one is a positive attitude towards arranged marriage amongst young people and that stems from the fact that the arranged marriage game has changed. It's like arranged love marriage. You don't have to decide in one meeting. There are multiple meetings. You could be chatting online. There's no pressure and so on and so forth. So because the process has gotten a bit liberalized, there seems to be a much more attitude towards this thing. A second one is young people seem to now want to stay with their parents a lot more in the study four years back when we check this, most young people said we want to branch out and live on our own. Now young people seem to want to live with their parents and there's a very rational argument for that in this dynamic chaos that we call life. They see the merit of the house being run by parents. The other thing we pick up is that young people increasingly are facing mental health hazards. If you believe the psychologists that we've been speaking to them, there is an epidemic that is under reported and that's caused primarily by two factors. The first one being young people unable to sort of delineate between social media and reality where they start feeling that everybody else's life is so fantastic and my life is zero and you know, I've lost it. It's all over for me. So that sort of feeling leading to one sort of hazard. A second one is anxiety in the workplace for first jobbers in the first 12 to 18 months. Young people seem to be struggling to cope up with the demands of the workplace. So they start feeling like I am underskilled. I don't think I'll be able to cut it in this organization, whichever level you look at it. And those things are again leading to young people feeling that family, the support system, that ecosystem is really critical. So three, four years back when we asked people a forced choice between career and family was really important. It was a neck and neck or photo finish. But last time when we asked them really, it's tilted in favor of family and that's for the reasons that I mentioned to you. Family is a very critical rational argument and there's an emotional argument as well. Certain things about the individual traits that you might have picked up more and more people seem to believe that money is not everything. I need to be living multiple lives. Money, ten years back when you asked them, 90, 92% people were saying if I have money, I will be happy. Now only around 40, 50% say if I have money, that's the only criteria for happiness. The new currency for success and happiness seems to also be legacy, which is what's the narrative I have created? What's the story that people are discussing when it comes to me? What's the impact I'm leaving behind? So legacy seems to be the new currency. And hence I would like to do something meaningful with my life rather than be only rich and successful. And lastly, these young people seem to be reasonably happy much more than ever before and family is the primary reason for their happiness. Much more than personal achievement. So in a nutshell, if I were to give them six, seven key labels or takeaways then this is the young Indian that we have discovered. This is an abridged version due to lack of time. Happy to catch up offline and discuss in detail or even over a cup of coffee. Thank you.


We talk a lot about storytelling across the agency, but I think that there's a very, very deep connection between the work that we do within Purple and the idea of storytelling and creating content that is going to inspire action. We need a great story which will bring that big idea to life. We need great content which will make that story relevant. The content piece is really interesting because we have so many different tools now to be able to bring to bear to help tell those stories whether it's through video and through influencers and events that can really help ignite causes and purpose. How do you choose which story to represent your business? And obviously there are lots of different ways of thinking about it, but our way of thinking about it is purpose. Purpose inspires storytelling. It's not about the money. We don't do things for the money. We do things because we love things. We do things because we care about them. We do things because we're passionate about them.


So, hello everybody. To present myself, my name is Anna Berantel, and I'm a PhD student in Geography at the University of Sarawak, London, France. And in my research, I concentrate at work on heritageization process and heritage production in discourses within World Heritage Serial sites. More specifically, I work on prehistoric pail dwelling sites around the Alps, World Heritage Site, since 2011. So with my presentation, I would like to highlight some specificities of serial sites, especially from geographical points of view, considering the way they produce and reinvent the concept of space and place in archaeology. I hope this will get your attention and maybe open a debate on the ways of specialization the heritage and how this influences the way of managing the archaeological sites. So the first descriptions on the list of the World Heritage happened in 1978 and already by 1979, only for the region, so speaking only for the region of Europe and North America, out of 32 properties inscribed, 23 were cultural, of which eight were already of serial category. So serial properties composed of more than two spatially separated elements. So then the first recognition of the serial sites came only a year later, in 1980, when it was recognized by the Texas Convention that the state parties may propose a single nomination of a series of cultural properties so the series that is related because of belonging in the same historical cultural group or the same type of property. But provided that such a series, the series as a whole is of outstanding value and not individual sites itself. Also, such selection of sites has to take into account the possibility of effective management of the whole. And the constitution of management group is highly recommended. So where do we stand with serial sites in 2019? Only in the European Union of 28 countries, there are 350 World Heritage cultural properties of which more than one third is actual serial, which means that, so mainly it means, 121 properties are serial, composed of two more separated elements. Most of them are of national or regional geometry, such as, for example, the 20 case of the Paleolithic cave art of northern Spain. But 16 of them is transboundary, such as, for example, the case of 12 sites of heritage of Mercury located in Spain and Slovenia. These sites, as we can imagine, they face a certain level of challenges which are proper to their serial nature. As said before, a common management plan is necessary. And should it be for national or international serial property, as and for this, for its execution and organization of a management group is strongly recommended. The challenges of managing such a serial site is that with the multiplication of component sites within a serial property, this one gets composed of sites in different administrative units which provokes the effect that by their local cultural policies, the sites will have different effective protections and they have different protection statuses, which will also, later on, impact the different interpretations of what is a site management. So the question that we ask ourselves is how these differences firstly reflect in the specialization of the heritage site and which are then, later, their impacts on the heritage perception. So here I would like to make the link with what Cynthia was saying before, is that in the setting of the inscription of the World Heritage Property, we have this authorized, as you call it, the authorized heritage discourse that will later be adopted by the site managers who are not necessarily archaeologists and will also impact the perception of the World Heritage Site for the public. To illustrate this, I would like to show you three examples of different serial properties, each composed of more than 100 archaeological elements, all three of them situated in Europe. So the first one I would like to evoke is the Serial Property Affrontiers of the Roman Empire, a transboundary serial property of 414 sites in UK and Germany. Geometries of these sites differ from one German state to another, but also between the countries. For example, in Bavaria, in German Bavaria, it is mostly a rectilinear core zone with little buffer zones. That can even be, as we see here, individually inscribed without their core zone. In the German state of Hessem, the rectilinear core zone is protected by fairly more consequent buffer zone. In the state of Rhineland, the core zone seemed to correspond to the actual archaeological remains with corresponding buffer zones. What happened then later in England is that in England, they decided to make an entire buffer zone for the whole of 194 different core zones, so different sites, the 104 sites that are inscribed in 414, but they have the common buffer zone. So within this case, the difference observed with the spatial conceptualization of the case opens question of what is actually considered as the limes. The physical remains, or let's say the hypothetical archaeological remains, as it's opposed with the rectilinear core zone in certain German regions. The difference in precision of core and buffer zones opens questions on its coherence as a whole and the message that is later on transmitted by its heterogeneous spatial construction. The second example I would like to talk about it is the national serial property of rock art of the Mediterranean basin on the Iberian peninsula, composed of 758 sites inscribed in 1998. In some cases, the same physical site, or the rock shelter, you can say, is inscribed as three different sites out of 758 for its different rock art type. Namely here, for example, we have three sites, depending on whether there are deer figures, zomorphic figures, or one with, for example, 14 geometric figures. So within the same property, we can have another example of five different rock art shelters within the same buffer zone, which are inscribed as five different sites out of 758, within still the same buffer zone. Also, within the same property, we will find one buffer zone with three different rock art shelters, which, again, will represent eight sites out of 758. So this example of the serial property shows us, again, a heterogeneity of site definition that can lead, in a way, to the loss of transparency of what is considered as a site in archaeology, whether, in this case, would it be a rock shelter, a group of same art sign presentation, or maybe something else. And the last example that I would like to show you is the case of prehistorical pelgonic site, which is a serial property of 111 sites inscribed in 2011 that we find in six different countries. So there are, for example, examples of one archaeological site with its precise core zone and buffer zone. Or we can have also the sites where, in the same site, we will have some associated sites that can be found either within the buffer or within the core zones. Also, we can have rather complex sites, still within the same serial property, within which we can have two core zones with one buffer zone, or we can have, for example, even up to a few dozens of sites that will be associated either within the buffer or the core zones. So this phenomena, in a way, complexifies the lecture of what is actually inscribed and protected site in the serial property, whether it's one archaeological site, one archaeological layer, an inscribed area, a core zone, a buffer zone. And it really depends on each country's and each region's legislation and heritage perception. So to conclude on this presentation and not to make it too long, I would like to conclude on the fact that mapping and spatial definition of archaeological site during inscription process is an important step when inscribing the invisible and especially for the archaeological heritage, the invisible archaeological site in space. Protection parameters of core and buffer zones, in a way, create them and contribute to their comprehension and transmission to the site managers or the public. The heterogeneity of definition can therefore provoke losing of transparency of what is an archaeological site and the understanding of world heritage property specifically. And I think it's important to emphasize for the non-archeological site managers and general public. So therefore, a clear definition of elements and of what is defined and is considered as a site is important during the inscription process, which facilitates setting out a coherent long-term management system and also a cohesion among managing bodies. This already has to overcome and deal with differences in level of protections and differences in administration seriality. So there is really an important step to take to homogenize at least the vocabulary during the inscription process. So I would like to thank you for your attention. Thank you. Good job.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan, coming to you from ITW 2021. Joining me today is John Falker, Marketing Director at Prime Data Centers. John, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you, Laura, good to be here. Well, John, 2021 has been an exciting year for Prime Data Centers and a lot of news is coming from your corner. First though, for our viewers who may not know, you could tell us more about Prime Data Centers and your partnership as a service model. Absolutely. Yeah, it has been a busy year in more ways than one. We are a wholesale data center developer and operator. So when we say wholesale, the definition in the industry varies anywhere from 100 kilowatts up to 500 kilowatts. We tend to say anything north of 500 kilowatts. So we focus on larger enterprise clients across industries. And when we talk about partnership as a service, all that means really is that we focus on meeting our clients where they are. We don't try to force fit them into a predefined operating model. We can be really quite flexible depending on the client's needs. And those can be IT needs, real estate and facilities needs, financial needs. As we all know, data center decisions, data center development decisions are large strategic decisions that incorporate a lot of different decision makers across the enterprise, not just the CTO or CIO, but also the CFO and other departments as well. So we specialize in helping our clients think across all of those decision makers and come up with a solution that really satisfies all of their needs. Well, this year, Prime Data Centers has announced significant partnerships and deals, including completing the pre-lease of Prime's nine-megawatt data center that's currently under construction in Santa Clara, California with Six Terra. So all that said, can you tell us more about that exciting deal and the latest developments? Yeah, I think our latest deal with Six Terra and Santa Clara is a perfect example of one of the customer segments that we really want to focus on, which is retail co-location providers. Six Terra is one of the largest retail colo providers in the United States, if not the world. And they have come to us to pre-lease that entire nine-megawatt facility in Santa Clara so that they can focus on their core business and we can really help out with what we are best at, which is that real estate development and an operation. Well, John, Prime Data Centers also recently announced a strategic partnership with Macquarie Capital that has targeted capital investments in excess of $5 billion, billion dollars over the next 10 years. So tell us more about this strategic move and then what it means for the future of Prime Data Centers as you continue to expand to deliver those mission-critical data center infrastructure setups to enterprises and hyperscale companies. Yeah, the partnership with Macquarie is a big deal for us, it's going to unlock, it already has unlocked a lot of capability and allow us to scale in really a step function. So we're excited about our partnership with Macquarie. They are one of the largest, I believe they are the largest infrastructure-specific investment banks in the world. And so our partnership with them is going to help us firstly, I think because of their global reach, they're a truly global institution and they'll be able to open doors for us all over the planet. And then secondly, in sourcing, data center real estate development requires a lot of different parts. It requires land, obviously. It requires investors, physical equipment. And then it also requires solving really challenging infrastructure problems. The, for example, we often refer to that one of the biggest challenges in data center development as sustainable resiliency, which is how do you make a data center as resilient as possible while also making it as sustainable as possible? And to use a quick example, today most backup power solutions for data centers involve fossil fuels as diesel is the primary one. We are working with Macquarie to figure out how do we come up with backup power solutions that are at least as reliable, but also have a much lower carbon footprint. Let's talk about prime data centers expanding presence across Silicon Valley with a new nine megawatt data center in Santa Clara. Can you tell us more about this data center project? Yeah, we love Santa Clara for a number of reasons, not least of which is you've got high demand, you've got a large concentration of some of the world's most important tech companies and other companies. And you've also got in Silicon Valley power, the local power utility, you've got pretty sustainably generated, reliable and relatively affordable electric power. So for all of those reasons it's an attractive market for a developer like us, land is obviously very scarce and power entitlements are getting more and more scarce. So we are looking to continue to source those rare opportunities where you can get land and power entitlements to be able to bring the right solution to market. And yes, this most recent project, Martin Avenue in Santa Clara was exactly that and we're quite excited. We're already having a number of pre-lease conversations for that facility and we're quite bullish that we'll find a new client quite soon. John, it's not even halfway through 2021, lots of headlines from Prime data centers. Tell us where we can keep up with the latest news and information and all your latest projects. Absolutely, yeah, we are active on our blog as well as social and the best place to go to get connected to all of that is our website which is primedatacenters.com. You heard it from John Goh, check it out. Thank you so much for your time here today, John. Absolutely, thank you, Laura. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, happy networking.


Welcome to the NT and Knightley. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. Saint-Lucens have been advised that their competitive edge depends largely on their ability to innovate. The ECCB joins Prime Minister Hon. Alan Chastney in efforts to secure the region's climate resilience. Saint-Lucens, among the nearly 800 graduates of the UB Open Campus, all that plus the latest in youth development, sports, and the NT and Nouvelle Arquéon. Saint-Lucens have been called upon to be guided by some key buzzwords that include revolutionize, modernize, and transform as they embrace their competitive edge. The call was made at the official launch of Productivity Awareness Week, spearheaded by the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, His name is Antoine. The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council has officially launched Productivity Awareness Week. In its sixth year, Productivity Awareness Week is being held under the theme Embracing Competitiveness and Innovation. The objective of the Productivity Awareness Drive is to encourage discussion amongst private and public stakeholders on ways of improving Saint-Lucens' competitiveness. Gerard Bougasse is the chairman of NCPC. Innovation and research have emerged as critical factors that must be addressed in creating jobs and boosting growth and competitiveness in our island state. There's a great need for investment into research and development that promotes innovative strategies and ideas to spur economic growth. Based on information obtained online, advanced economies such as the US and Germany spend on average 2.8% of their GDP on research and development. In our part of the world, the average is 0.3% of GDP. Laura Japier, Operations Manager of Invictus Inc. Solutions for Alternative Energy, stated that Saint-Lucens' productivity and competitiveness relies on an inventive commerce sector that embraces research, technological innovation and international partnership. New technologies are constantly disrupting our lives. Citizens, industries, political regimes, no one is protected from the constant progress in, let's say, artificial intelligence, internet of things, e-commerce, etc. So much so, we can sometimes feel impotent and overwhelmed being a small developing state with limited resources. However, this developmental wave does not need to be passively accepted. On the contrary, it needs to be administrated and fashioned into the driver for transformation we want it to be. Productivity Awareness Week commenced on Monday, October 14th and will culminate on Friday, October 18th, 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. The 94th meeting of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the ECCB, was held at the ECCB headquarters by stairs and kids and neighbors on 11th October 2019 via video conference under the chairmanship of Dr. the Right Honourable Keith Mitchell. The Monetary Council received the Financial Stability Report for the ECCU for the period January to September 2019. The report revealed that the ECCU's financial system remained broadly stable during the first nine months of 2019. The report also indicated that the financial sector continued to experience growth as evidenced by the rise in both assets and deposits, the credit growth had become more sustained and broad-based across sectors. Council noted that growth remained resilient at the ECCU level despite international conditions. Key contributing factors to growth include an increase in tourism arrivals, higher public and private sector investments, and an increase in government consumption. Meantime, the ECCB is ramping up support for climate resilience in the region, expanding discussions by St. Lucia's Prime Minister on the world stage. Honourable Alan Shastney has been lobbying the global community for actionable change in how it engages the region in the areas of financing post-disasters over the last two years, beginning during his tenure as Chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS, in June of 2017, and now as Chairman of the Caribbean community. Lisa Joseph has more on that. So if we don't build the physical resilience to reduce the amount of economic impact and chaos that the storm causes, then we become uninsurable. So a good friend of mine who has a hotel in Dominica, his insurance went up 600%. 600%. 600%. So it's now 20% of his operating cost. There's no model in which you can pay 20% of your operating cost for insurance. That's just not viable. And that's now, and since that hurricane, nothing has happened. Prime Minister, the Honourable Alan Shastney speaking at the World Economic Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Summit on September 23, 2019. Honourable Shastney was a panelist at the summit which discussed transforming markets, redesigning today's economic models. Senutia's Prime Minister at that forum brought to the fore the stark realities of small island states like Senutia as they take on the Hekulian journey to climate resilience. Honourable Shastney's note to the World Economic Forum is one that has resonated with the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the ECCB. In fact, Governor Timothy Antoine says there must be heightened discussion in the region on insurance and financial protection. Speaking at the launch of the ECCB's Financial Information Month on September 30, 2019, the ECCB Governor stressed that as the region strives to become the first climate resilience zone in the world, the issue of financial resilience is of paramount importance. Insurance, which is essentially a form of rich transport, ought to be seen and properly recognised as a key element in our region's resilience framework. As we speak, about two-thirds of natural disaster losses in the Caribbean are uninsured. At the household level, many homes are uninsured or uninsured. Some suggest only about 25% of our household stock may be adequately insured. Governor Antoine indicated that the financial protection gap in the Eastern Caribbean presents a major impact on the future of the Caribbean. Governor Antoine indicated that the financial protection gap in the Eastern Caribbean presents a major impediment to sustained development and shared prosperity. We cannot start over our development every time we experience a natural disaster, medical problem, or financial reversal. Instead, we ought to position ourselves to bounce back quickly, the classic definition of resilience. To bounce back quickly after we've been hit by the storms of life, which inevitably come. This concern by the ECCB's governor was highlighted by Honourable Chassane when he addressed the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2019 as he recounted the devastation wrought on the region by Hurricanes Irma, Maria, and most recent Dorian. Against that backdrop, Honourable Chassane announced a new partnership between St. Lucia and the World Economic Forum as the island strives to be the first country to implement a country financing roadmap, CFR. The CFR is a platform to support countries in making a transformative shift from funding to financing. It will harness the collective intelligence from the WEF's expansive networks and promote consensus on the main challenges that limit capital flows to St. Lucia. It will also leverage coordinated action to move from a holistic diagnostic to a country-specific tangible action plan. We are grateful for this opportunity to be the test case for this initiative and look forward to its success and once successful to be replicated across other states. The Governor of the ECCB says Financial Information Month throughout October offers all the platform to discuss openly the challenges and opportunities of financial stability. The theme for the Month's Observance is Plan for Uncertainty, Make Insurance Your Priority. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. On Monday, October 14, 2019, St. Lucia joined the international community in observing World Standards Day. As part of activities, the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards hosted a seminar for stakeholders in one of the fastest growing sectors in the economy. The beauty and wellness sector in St. Lucia is guided by four standards, a general code of practice, one specific to the spas, one for hairdressers and barbers, and one for tattoo parlours. The standards look at the minimum requirements that ensure that practitioners operate in a hygienic way. As part of the observance of World Standards Day, the St. Lucia Bureau of Standards held a seminar with those who operate in that sector to educate them on these standards as well as a certificate program for the sector. Zane's Dubouson is the head of certification at the Bureau of Standards. We have had establishments that have become certified and what we want to advocate is for them to continue the certification. We want the consumers, because at the end of the day, if the spas are certified, if they implement the standards and nobody is asking them, are you certified, are you licensed by the Ministry of Health? Then they don't see the need for it. So we want to inculcate a culture of quality where the consumer is actually conscious and they would actually go into these establishments and look for these certificates. Certification, however, is a voluntary process and according to the head of certification, it is consumer driven. This activity today, I mean, we start in the process and in the future, I think it's important that we have some meetings, town hall meetings with the consumers so that they are aware of the standards. So we have a lot of work to do and we are aware of it and in the future, we will definitely be targeting consumers. World Standards Day was held under the theme, video standards create a global stage. And this is the NTN 9-3. Ryan O'Brien is up next. You know me, I've been forced to do this by my trafficker. I was promised a better life, but got forced into domestic servitude. I can be any age. I can be any gender, any ethnicity. I am. I am. I am a victim of trafficking in persons. Know the signs. See it. Report it. If you see me, please help me. Call the TIP hotline at 847. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Thanks, Nisha. Welcome to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. We start today with some results in under-19 Big 8 Netball. Sufra Comprehensive defeated Trissel Secondary 48-14 Wasufra Comprehensive Gold shoot Trissel Didier scored 7 from 10 attempts Call attack Tansy Pascal scoring 41 from 59 attempts For sure as a secondary Valenik Gustav scored 4 from 13 attempts Nela Nelson 10 from 19 attempts Miku Secondary defeated Kastry's Comprehensive 30-26 For Miku Secondary Mads Magritte scored 30 from 40 attempts And for Kastry's Comprehensive Gold shoot Rina Jean scored 23 from 40 attempts And Gold attack Teisha Kadei 3 from 5 attempts The Ministry of Youth Development and Sports is continuing with its national youth mentoring program and has been carrying out some training of prospective mentors Shelly Ann James, an associate clinical psychologist has been engaging mentors on how to carry out their roles We're doing the mentoring training We're training the mentors, preparing them to work with mentees in the national youth mentoring program Today we're equipping them and deepening their understanding of the issues that youth deal with So we're going to sensitize them to psychological needs of young people People in general, but specifically young people We'll also be giving them tools to work with the young people in their mentoring relationships Hopefully we'll also be strengthening them in their own resilience to deal with their own issues because all human beings have issues, mentors included psychologists included, right? But as we cope with our issues and we can come alongside someone else a younger person to help them deal with their issues we'll all cope better, we'll have a better society The mentors also identified the way forward for the mentors after they have completed their training So the mentors will be paired with mentees coming from schools because it's a youth program it's not including children at this point So from 12 to approximately 17, 18 The mentors will be working one-on-one with the students and they will see them usually in a school setting or in another public facility The parents will be included, so the parents will meet the mentor they'll know exactly who is working with their child so that we have a wraparound approach it's not a program in isolation So the school can be aware of who is working with our students the parent is aware, the community is aware so we can ensure safety as well It is expected that the training of the mentors will leave them in a much better position to deal with issues being faced by the nation's youth and that's your segment from youth development and sports for today I'm Ryan, no Brian Thanks Ryan Nationals from 16 Caribbean countries have graduated from the University of the West Indies, the UBI Open Campus Since 1948, the University of the West Indies has been shaping the minds of Caribbean citizens producing world-class individuals who contribute meaningfully to their respective countries and even beyond the Caribbean region On Saturday, October 12th, over 700 graduates received their degrees and certificates joining the alumni of the University University Chancellor Robert Bermuda has reminded the graduating class to remain engaged and contribute to nation building In addition to your family you are now a member of an ever-growing UBI alumni community that extends across the world remain engaged with your alma mater stay connected to your UBI friends join your local alumni chapter mentor a student contribute to the development of curricula by serving as a junk faculty individually, we can make small differences collectively, we can make a tremendous difference to how the University of the West Indies continues to grow and evolve Class valedictorian Novinia Isaac received a Bachelor of Science in Social Work with first class honours from the UBI Open Campus Dominica She implored the graduating class to remember why they began this journey with this diploma that we will hold in our hands and then pose for all pretty and handsome pictures which we will no doubt flood social media with hashtags such as hashtag UBI grad 2019 hashtag, first to second class honours hashtag, I made it However, let us not forget why we fought for this paper that tells the world that we received the first class education from one of the top 4% of universities in the world Let us also not forget the values instilled in us during our stay here Core values that the University of the West Indies stands for such as integrity, excellence gender justice and diversity Let us make ourselves, our families this prestigious institution and the professions which we represent proud The presentation of graduate ceremony was held at the St. John's Pentecostal Ministries St. John's Antigua And stay with the Antion Nightly Up next, Primus Hutchinson is here with the Antion Luvel Acreol Welcome back, we join Primus Hutchinson for the Antion Luvel Acreol Welcome back, we join Primus Hutchinson for the Antion Luvel Acreol This is a very strong event that the Canadian government has established in St. John's Pentecostal Ministries that can provide applications to be able to travel to Canada Developing this event came in reality after several discussions that the government of St. John's Pentecostal Ministries and the Canadian government supported this event After that, St. John's Pentecostal Ministries has been established in many countries to provide applications to be able to travel to Canada Ambassador for Canada is the US Secretary of State Anton Edmonds who accepted a new salary that was set in the face of Canada that started the operation in St. John's Pentecostal Ministries However, Ambassador Edmonds initiated the salary to be able to travel to other countries to provide services He added that St. John's Pentecostal Ministries was particularly good for young businesses such as St. John's Pentecostal Ministries and Canada The estimated salary was only $2,000 for the individual for 8,000 for the family of four people to travel to Trinidad and Bebabad to provide applications for the visitors The discussions were conducted and the officers of the Canadian Government approached the Canadian Government to establish a mobile system so that they can travel to other countries to provide applications for the visitors to visit the country for the students and for the people who work there As you can see the excellence has been achieved Minister of Business for the salary of St. Lucie I told him I will do everything I can to help the students who have come to St. Lucie According to him St. Lucie has to continue to provide an acceptable amount to the country if we want to stay in the country for the rest of the year we have to do everything we can to help the students who have come to St. Lucie According to him St. Lucie has to continue to provide an acceptable amount to the country for the students who have come to St. Lucie According to him St. Lucie has to continue to provide an acceptable amount to the country to recognize the country The film we are making is about video we are not about video but we are everyone who comes to St. Lucie you have phones you have cameras you have videos quality technology we are in the country we are in the country where we responded there are so many people on the West Bank St. Lucie there are so many people on the West Bank PhDumi cafe, pubic class, savki, a vast number of boussala capote, nil avatage, et aussi faiblesse. Alors, minoussala cafe, avec aveti, bouillon, pour bonne percussion à ces boussala. Et aussi par les dits effor, qu'il a fait par toutes agences qui engagent d'initiative sala, par exemple, Export Saint-Louis, Bureau of Standards, Égliseau Vissier, amnisté. C'est boussala, you can use a shy workshop. You can use a workshop, appuille workshop, you can call the gênes congoins pour venir, où est-ce que vous avez accès aux cadeaux? C'est si vous pas affaire, then business qui est fini? Si vous n'avez pas produit, c'est ce genre qui caractère pour lui, c'est pas bon. Vous finis? So, les nos cafés c'est workshop là, vous pouvez inviter ces monde, pour venir workshop là. Ok. C'est pour au même point, l'avantage en ça, pour venir. So, quand nous n'y Taiwanese exhibition n'a qu'à venir. Tout le monde qui est venu là, il n'y a pas ça, Jean-Saint-Lucie, qui a fait. Moi aussi, les gens, c'est moi-là, comment c'est qu'à gagner un produit, mais c'est en magie qui est là. Il n'y a pas envie, bon, au business qui est croisé. 24 NVIDY, j'ai trouvé succès, au chipé, chouval, course. Satisfait, en bas, projet national, pour assister les NVIDY, pour apprendre l'état étrangement ça, tu as trouvé facilité par les esthétiques outstanding Kentucky, un pays en Amérique. Diverté executive pour esthétiques ça, Dr. Reed McClellan, expliquez ces individus et qu'à prendre attitude ces chouval, il y a aussi à prendre pour connaître tout bâtissement ces chouval, ça, c'est un théo et plus maladie il y a un coup qu'il peut trouver et que qu'il fasse pour tuer Théï pour appuyer chez Iciaka. C'est le Dr. McMillan, ces chouval, qui, en cette liste, présentement, c'est pas hoisse, éthième, et capésé à peu près 600 pour 680 dix lèvres. Mais, ces chouval, qui, en 3 ans, c'est hoisse, c'est hoisse la même, et capésé à peu près y'a 1000 pour y'a 1000, 80 000 lèvres. Programme d'éthiènement c'est pour Guancorpetition, Cousse Chouval, Quiolomé, Priton Scope, Guancousse Salat, c'est posé pour éco, les 12 décembre, à sous établissement nouveau Cousse Chouval et Villefort. À peu près, qu'à what des chouval, Cousse, qui est c'est, c'est c'est posé à peu près, à moi, lesvoyons ces participants, c'est je suis drowned, deskis, éthiènement, qu'à assister, ces participants, vous prés SCOE, ils ajouter des, s'appart quand do a lot. You'll feel like we all have ways of, we've got ways of doing this. Messing up pale primers and here's a look at what's happening to us weather-wise. Fair to partly cloudy skies with widely scattered showers. A tropical wave located over the central tropical Atlantic is producing disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms. This wave has a low chance of development during the next five days while it moves westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometres per hour. A strong tropical wave located over the far eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometres per hour. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development and a tropical depression is likely to form during the next couple of days. The tide for Castries Harbour was high at 347pm and will be low again at 10.04pm. The tide for V4 Bay was high at 454pm and will be low again at 11.31pm. The sea is slight to moderate with waves at 3 to 6 feet or 0.9 to 1.8 meters. The sun will rise Tuesday at 5.54am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Trouse.