الكثير من المشاركات. هناك شيء that we that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم تخفض and the people generally speaking it was something discouraged and that is to make the request have rhyming and to kind of form something they call it a seja like a rhyme and a sort of a deliberately structure your dua like that and if that is done deliberately and a person is kind of dressing up their words to make sure that each word rhymes with the other one then this is something which is not from the sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم if naturally a person is making dua and it happens to be that their dua has a rhyme to it or a flow to it or a rhythm to it then that is something which is not harmful if it's not done deliberately but there's sometimes an effort to be very very eloquent in the dua and to make the dua more like you know like like poetry more than a more than pleading to Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم so it's really important that we bear in mind this issue of humility and submission before Allah and we make our dua humble and sincere and not that we dress up our dua with kind of very eloquent words and clever rhymes and you know an interesting rhythm in the dua in order to make it sound really sort of eloquent that goes against the concept of pleading and that's why Imam Al-Bukhari in his صحيح رحم الله تعالى he said in Kitab al-Dawah in the book the book of dua in which he dealt with the different dua باب ما يكره من السجع في الدع the chapter of what has come regarding the dislike or the prohibition of a saja of rhyming and making that rhyme and rhythm in the dua then he mentioned his chain of narration to Ikrima from Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما that he said فانظر السجع من الدع فجتنبه فإني عدت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه لا يفعلون إلا ذلك يعني لا يفعلون إلا ذلك لجتناب he said and this is the end of the the hadith that he quoted be careful of this kind of rhyming in your dua keep away from it for I was with or I lived at the time of the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم and his companions and I found that they were not doing except this I they were not doing anything except keeping away from they were keeping away from this and that is when we say sort of like forming lines like you would form poetry so that it has a particular rhythm and a particular rhyme and a particular flow and that as we said goes against the concept of humility and submissiveness when making دعاءة to Allah سبحانه وتعالى if it happens naturally that's different but it's not a competition in your linguistic skill it's a matter of pleading before before الله سبحانه وتعالى so a person is not is not forming their دعاءة in the way of poetry and rhyme and rhythm but a person is asking and pleading with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the reason I particularly mentioned the issue of Ramadan is that the winter the دعاءة in winter in Ramadan very sadly for many people has become almost like a competition in eloquence and we see the many of that إمه in the massage going away from the دعاءة that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and away from the sunnah and instead bringing things that no one else has brought and then forming it into rhyme and poetry and rhythm and so on to make it sound really sort of eloquent and when you go back you feel that سبحانه وتعالى if they were to stick to the sunnah of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and they were to stick to the دعاءة that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم made it would have been better for them it would have been better for them because this kind of forming of these you know hugely eloquent rhyming sentences that have flow and rhythm it takes away from الإخلاص أنا الخشور أنا الافتقار away from sincerity away from concentration away from presenting yourself as being poor and needy before الله عز و جل now if you imagine I'm just going to give you an example ولي الله المثال العالى to Allah belongs to Allah belongs the best example but if I just give you an example of a person who goes before a king and wants to beg the king to you know to spare them or to beg the king to support them in something and they go and then they stand there and they you know they they present this you know sort of long flowing rhyme with clever words in it and clever word play in it the person's going to say the king will turn around say are you are you serious you know you came here to you know show off your linguistic skills or you came here to you know to ask me for something and a person starts rhyming words and making clever rhythms and I'm flowing making the sentence flow and then this word flows with this word and it doesn't sound like the person is genuinely serious and pleading but if a person naturally is eloquent in their speech and when they plead with Allah it has a natural eloquence to it then they شاء الله تعالى there is no harm in that بإذن الله تعالى شاء الله there is no harm if it is something natural that a person has a natural eloquence in their speech and naturally their words flow very nicely but for a person to be concentrating more on the flow of their words and less on the content this is what is meant by the السجع المذموم the blame worthy kind of rhyming that people do in their دعاء الحافظ بن حجر رحم الله تعالى said explaining the حديثة بن عباس that we spoke about he said he said this is not contradicted by what has been found in the authentic أحاديث i.e you know a certain degree of eloquence in دعاء in the أحاديث which are authentic from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلم لأن ذلك كان يصطر من غير قصة إلي because that used to happen without the Prophet so I simply deliberately sort of concentrating upon forming that وفي أجلي هذا يجيء في غاية الإنسجام كقوله صلى الله عليه وسلم في الجهد الله من منزل الكتاب سريع الحساب حازم الأحزاب he said that's why sometimes you find a حاديث which contain دعاء from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that contain this kind of eloquence that just comes naturally like when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said الله من منزل الكتاب سريع الحساب حازم الأحزاب oh Allah the one who sent down the book who is swift to take account who destroyed the confederates or destroyed the أحزاب or defeated the أحزاب here you can see how it rhymes and how it flows منزل الكتاب سريع الحساب حازم الأحزاب but it's not deliberate it's not something where it the aim is to show your eloquence and to show how you can find words that all rhyme with each other and all flow with each other it just came naturally in that sentence that's one example that حافظ بن حجر رحم الله تعالى mention another example that حافظ بن حجر mention رحمه الله تعالى was the dua on الصفة and المروة صدق وعدة وعز جندا the حديث or the حديث صدق وعدة ونصر عبد وهزم الأحزاب وحدة you find this kind of rhyme and flow within some of the duas of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but it's not done in a way that is deliberately trying to that's not the goal behind it it just it sometimes just comes out like that or like the حديث that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when he made dua and he said أعوذه بك من عين الله تدمع ونفس الله تشبع وقلب الله يخشى the حديث ودعاين لا يسمع and so on this is the intention here is not to rhyme and it's the intention here is not to show eloquence in the language but it just comes it just comes naturally so that like الحافظ بن حجر he said وكلها صحيحة all of that is authentic from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but what's blame worthy is when a person intends to do that they're like deliberately trying to form their duas in such a way that they that they have this kind of rhyme and eloquence and and flow another thing that a person should avoid when making دعاء is اللحن and that is to make errors in the language to make mistakes grammatical mistakes mistakes in the way the sentences are formed mistakes in the way that the words are read or the ends of the words particularly when that لحن when those errors could even change the meaning they could they could potentially change the meaning of what a person says أبو عثمان أمازيني said to some of his students رحم الله تعالى he said عليك بن نحر he said that you must study grammar فإن بني إسرائيل كافرت بحارف ثقيل خففوا سبحان الله he said بني إسرائيل disbelieved because of a letter that should have been doubled and they made it a single letter and then he explains what they mean and he said قال الله عز وجل العيسة إني ولدتك فقالوا إني ولدتك فكفروا they changed the word by one letter one doubling of a letter until they said that they said when they changed the letter what they brought is that I gave birth to you I was your father and that's not what الله عز وجل said so they disbelieved because of a single letter that was changed a single letter that became that should have been a double letter that became a single letter so this is something that is worth a person giving great attention to to make sure that when they're making دعاء they're making دعاء in the way that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did to the best of to the best of their ability and that's why شيخه الإسلام ابنه تيمية رحمه الله تعالى spoke about a man who made a دعاء and he made grammatical errors in it and a man said الله will not accept a دعاء which has grammatical errors so ابنه تيمية رحمه الله تعالى he responded من قال هذا القول فهو آثم وخالف للكتاب والسنة ولمكان عليه السلف he said whoever says this that الله will never accept a دعاء that has a grammatical mistake this person is sinful they've gone against the Quran and the Sunnah and what the early generations were upon أما من دعاء الله مخلصا له الدين بدعاء انجائز سمعه الله وأجاب دعاءه سواء كان معربا أو ملحونا he said whoever makes دعاء to Allah sincerely with a دعاء that is permissible الله hears that دعاء and Allah will answer that دعاء whether it is grammatically correct or whether it has some grammatical mistakes in it والكلام المذكور لا أصل له and what the person said when they said الله will never answer a دعاء that has a grammatical mistake it has no basis to it بل ينبغ للدعاء إذا لم تكن عادته الإعراب أن لا يتكلف الإعراب he said but it's befitting for a person if they're not used to Arabic grammar then they should not try they should not be harming themselves and burdening themselves by trying to get this by trying to get this grammar perfect قال بعض السلف some of the early generations they said إذا جاء الإعراب ذهب الخشور if a person is trying too hard to get the grammar right their خشور will go because every word they're stopping anything should be فتحة هي ضمه هي أو صون وهذا كما يكره تكلفوا السجع في الدعاء so just like it is disliked to have rhyming and rhythm in the دعاء to make a big effort on that then it's also disliked for a person to make such a big effort for every sort of last part of their فتحة and كسرة and ضمه to get it right فإذا وقع بغير تكلف فلا بأس به but if a person is able to do that without burning themselves then there is no harm in that فإن أصل الدعاء من القلب والليسان تابعون القلب and the core of the دعاء their origin of the دعاء is the heart and the tongue is merely expressing and following what is in the heart so how do we join between these two statements we say it's very important that a person makes their best effort especially in what changes the meaning and while we don't require everyone who makes دعاء to be an expert in Arabic grammar it is really important that a person tries their very best and a person doesn't say something which would change the meaning of the sentence like was given in the example of any Israel at the same time expecting perfection in grammar especially when it takes a person away from their خشور and concentration that's also not something that is required from you that you should be for example an expert in Arabic grammar or a scholar of Arabic grammar before you can make دعاء rather that would exclude the majority of Muslims from being able to make دعاء but a person does their best they try not to say something that would change the meaning and they try not to allow themselves to become so focused on some element of language like eloquence or rhyming or grammar that they end up losing the heart from the دعاء there are now a couple of things that I would like to sort of conclude our discussion on etiquettes of دعاء with and this relates to who you make دعاء for in your دعاء and one of them one of the greatest things that you can do is to make دعاء for other Muslims when you're making دعاء for yourself and that has an evidence in the Quran it has an evidence in the sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as for the Quran the statement of الله عز وجل والذين جاءوا من بعدهم يقولون ربنا اغفر لنا ولي اخواننا الذين سبقون بالإيمان those who came after them they say Our Lord forgive us and forgive our brothers who preceded us in إيمان ولا تجعل في قلوبنا غلل للذين آمن ربنا إنك رأوف رحيم this is in Surat Al-Hashr ayah number 10 notice how they make دعاء for themselves and they make دعاء for they make دعاء for themselves and they make دعاء for their brothers and that is from the etiquettes that shows sincerity it's from the things that comes back to you with good because of the angel that said and for you is the same and it's from the things which builds a sense of brotherhood in Islam and from the etiquettes of the Sunnah both we find this in the Qur'an and also in the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ in a hadith which is narrated by عبادة ابن الصامت رضي الله عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ما يستغفر للمؤمنين والمؤمنات كتب الله له بكل مؤمن ومؤمنات إن حسنة whoever asks الله's forgiveness for the believing men and the believing women الله will write for every believing man and woman that and that covers every one of them he will write a reward he will write a reward for for that person so سبحان الله there's so much reward to be had in making دعاء for your brothers the angel who says may you have the same the reward for everyone that your دعاء touches and you're asking الله to forgive the Muslims for every Muslim that that دعاء covers you receive a reward for it so there is a lot of reward in making دعاء for your brothers in Islam it's also very very very important to make دعاء for your parents and we know we find this in many places in the Quran such as the statement of Allah عز وجل وقضى ربك أن لا تعبدوا إلا إياه وبالوالي ديني حسانة إما يبلغن عندك الكبرة أحدهما أو كلاهما فلا تقل لهم أف ولا تنهرهما وقل لهم قولا كريمة وخفض لهم جناح الظل من الرحمة وقل رب رحمهما كما رب يعني صغيرة صورة الإسراء بين آية number 23 to آية number 24 and particularly the part of the آية in which Allah عز وجل says that say to them a generous or say to them a kind word and lower to them the wing of mercy of and lower to them the wing of humility and mercy and say my lord have mercy on them as they raised me when I was small likewise the dua of نوح عليه السلام رب يغفل لي ولي واليدية ولي من دخل بيتيا مؤمنة ولي مؤمنين والمؤمنات or Allah forgive me and my parents and whoever enters my house as a believer and the believing men and the believing and the believing women and that gathers together all of those points that we mentioned about people you make dua for and there's no doubt that when you make that effort for those who have that great right upon you your parents and you make that effort for the believing men and the believing women and you make that effort to mention your brothers in their absence there's a great deal of good and a great deal of baraka that comes back to you because of that it's also worth adding that from those that you should take time to make dua for are those in authority and it's said that this is the difference between أهل السنة and others is that if you see a person who is making dua for the one in authority nor this person is from أهل السنة and if you see a person making dua against the one in authority then know this is from the these are from the people of innovation as it has been said and this can be taken from the حديث صحي مسلم from the حديث of تميب نيأوس in الداري رضي الله عن that the message of الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said الدين والنصيحة this religion is acting sincerely قالوا لمن يا رسول الله they said to whom the message of الله قال لي الله ولي كتابه ولي رسوله ولي أئمة المسلمين وعمتهم to Allah to his book to his messenger to the leaders of the Muslims and the general and the general people likewise in the حديث أبه رضي الله عن صحي مسلم إن الله يارضى لكم ثلاثة أنت عبدوه ولا تشركو به شيئة وأنت عتاصم بحبل الله جميعا ولا تفرقو وأنتنا صحو منول الله أمركم الله is pleased for you to do three things that you worship الله and don't make any partner with him that you hold on to the rope of Allah together and do not be divided and that you offer sincere advice or that you act sincerely toward those that Allah has placed in authority over you so one of the ways that this can be shown is by making dua for them and that doesn't matter if they are righteous or not righteous it doesn't matter if they are bringing a great deal of good for the Muslims or even if they are placing obstacles because ultimately by making dua for them if Allah brings righteousness to them and guidance to them then that righteousness إن شاء الله تعالى will spread out to many many other Muslims who are under their authority so a person should take time out to make dua for those in authority over them to ask Allah إزا و جل to guide them to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to inspire them to fulfill their obligations properly and so on and a person can find many examples of that within the كلام of the Salaf رحمه الله تعالى within the statements of the early generations may Allah إزا و جل have mercy on them all that brings us to the end of what I wanted to mention regarding many of the etiquettes of dua there still remain some etiquettes that we need to speak about إن شاء الله وتعالى but what we will do is we'll take those within the examples that we're going to give so the next stage of the course إن شاء الله وتعالى is to look at some of the comprehensive دعاء that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to make and to explain some of them and to look at the benefits that we can extract from them and 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Personal Finance PowerPoint Presentation, Agency Bond. Prepare to get financially fit by practicing personal finance. Most of this information comes from Investopedia Agency Bond, which you can find online. Take a look at the references, resources, continue your research from there. This by James Chen, updated August 26, 2020. In prior presentations, we've been looking at investment goals, investment strategies, investment tools, keeping them in mind. We're now asking, what is an agency bond? An agency bond is a security issued by a government sponsored enterprise or by a federal government department other than the U.S. United States Treasury. So when we think about bonds in general, we're typically thinking of, in essence, loaning money to an organization, either the government or a corporation. The government bonds often being those that we use as kind of a measuring tool as a benchmark because we have very little default risk there, meaning default that in essence the bond will be repaid because the U.S. government should be good to pay their obligations given the fact that they have the capacity to tax and basically print money when you're talking about the United States government. Bonds usually paying back the principal at the end, and of course we want to earn some format of interest. Now clearly when you talk about types of bonds that are going to have very low default risk with the lower default risk, then the bond issuer could usually issue the bond for less interest. So you're going to get less of a return typically on them. So as you move away and compare to other types of bonds where you have more risk involved with them, then you've got to be comparing the return that you would be receiving. You would have an expected return or interest or a rate of return that would typically be higher but a higher risk of say default for example. So some are not fully guaranteed in the same way that U.S. Treasury and municipal bonds are. So clearly we want to be understanding what are the guarantees related to the bonds or investments we're putting our money into because that will have a factor in terms of what the market is going to determine and appropriate interest rate will be for the issuance of those bonds. In other words, of course, if we can put our money into very secure Treasury bonds that are backed by the United States government versus another bond, which is not, we would typically put our money in the more secure bond and only put our money elsewhere if we were able to get a greater return. That's how the market is basically going to be working. So Treasury and municipal bonds are. So any agency bond is also known as agency debt. How agency bonds work. Most agency bonds pay a semi-annual fixed coupon. So that's kind of a standard kind of payment structure for many types of bonds, meaning we're going to be paying for the bond basically loaning money to the issuer of the bond. They're going to give it back at maturity and give us basically rent on the money, the interest portion of it, the interest payments instead of rent, like you'd see it on an apartment or something like that being paid monthly. It will often be semi-annual every six months, twice a year. So they are sold in a variety of increments generally with a minimum investment level of $10,000 for the first increment and $5,000 for additional increments. GNMA securities however come in $25,000 increments. Some agency bonds have fixed coupon rates while others have floating rates. So when we think about the rate on the bond, we often think of it bonds in general as being basically more fixed income so that they're going to have kind of a fixed rate that we can basically get a return on, which can have its pros and cons to it. But you could have structure bonds in such a way where you have a floating rate rate actually changing with certain conditions that it will be linked to to determine those changes. The interest rates on floating rate agency bonds are periodically adjusted according to the movement of a benchmark rate such as the LIBOR. So like all bonds, agency bonds have interest rate risks. So clearly the bonds as we've seen when we're comparing stocks and the bonds, interest rate risks is one of the risks with a fixed income type of situation because if you're locking in the interest rate, that can be good. But if inflation goes up, if market rates go up, then you're getting less of a return on the bonds. In other words, if you had the money that wasn't locked into the bonds, you might be able to purchase other bonds or other similar securities at a higher rate of return if the interest rates are going up and you had the cash. So that is a bond investor maybe bonds only to find that interest rates rise. The real spending power of the bond is less than it was. So the investor could have made more money by waiting for a higher interest rate to kick in. So that's going to be the interest rate risk, how it kind of works. But clearly when we're thinking about bonds, we're usually putting them in as kind of an overarching plan to our investment portfolio, possibly hedging a bit against the risk related to, say, stocks or equities. And so even if we're subject to some interest rate risk, we're probably not subject to the kind of volatility or fluctuation of the stock market in the event of like a recession, which might be some of the point or the strategy of having the bonds. So naturally, this risk is greater for long term bond prices. So if we locked in the bond for a longer term, where it's more likely that over that longer term, you're going to have some kind of risk that the market rates go up while you're locked in. So types of agency bonds, there are two types of agency bonds, including federal government agency bonds and government sponsored enterprise GSE bonds. Federal government agency bonds, federal government agency bonds are issued by the Federal Housing Administration, the FHA, Small Business Administration, SBA and the Government National Mortgage Association, the GNMA. GNMAs are commonly issued as mortgage pass through securities. Like Treasury securities, federal government agency bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. United States government and investor receives regular interest payments while holding this agency bond. At its maturity date, the full face value of the agency bond is returned to the bond holder. Federal agency bonds offer a slightly higher interest rate than Treasury bonds because they are less liquid. So now we're thinking about why would the market differentiate between the two. You have a little bit less liquidity and therefore, again, that would be an inconvenience to the investor if you're comparing the two and therefore you would expect or demand the market would hire return for it. In addition, agency bonds may be callable, which means that the agency that issued them may decide to redeem them before their scheduled maturity date. So the issuer may try to redeem them, which once again takes away a little bit of control on the investor side of things. And therefore you would expect then that would have an impact on the price in relation to other bonds. Government sponsored enterprise bonds, a GSE is issued by entities such as the Federal National Mortgage Association, Fannie Mae, Federal Home Loan Mortgage, Fannie Mac, Federal Farm Credit Banks, Funding Corporations and the Federal Home Loan Bank. These are not government agencies. They are private companies that serve a public purpose and thus may be supported by the government and subject to government oversight. So these are kind of quasi-government oversight kind of agencies have kind of like a private and federal or government kind of component to them in essence. So you would think that that would have different implications within your investing strategies in terms of whether they can default on their debt or not. You know, you think it'd be less likely than maybe that they would let them totally default on their debt than say a corporation, for example. But even large corporations may not be allowed to default on their debts or go bankrupt if they're too big to fail and so on and so on. So GSE agency bonds do not have the same degree of backing by the U.S. government as treasury bonds and government agency bonds. Therefore there is some credit risk and default risk and the yield offered on them is typically higher. So you would think they don't have the same kind of zero default risk that the other government bonds may have and therefore of course you would demand a higher rate of return with regards to the market. And then you can also compare them to other bonds like corporate bonds and so on and look at the default risk in comparison there. To meet short-term financial needs, some agencies issue no coupon discount notes or discos at a discount to par. Lower than the par of out discos have maturities ranging from a day to two years, two year and if sold before maturity may result in a loss for the agency bond investor. Tax considerations, the interest from most but not all agency bonds is exempt from local and state taxes. So Farmer Mac, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae agency bonds are fully taxable. Agency bonds when bought at a discount may subject investors to capital gains taxes when they are sold or redeemed. That's kind of like the general rule, right? So now if you sell the bond, you don't wait till maturity and get paid back at maturity, but you sell it early on the market, then you might have a gain on that sale and that would be a capital gain kind of situation. Capital gains or losses when selling agency bonds are taxed at the same rates as stocks. So Tennessee Valley Authority, the TVA Federal Home Blowns Bank and Federal Farm Credit Bank, Bank's agency bonds are exempt from local and state taxes.


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Okay, welcome to VCH Technologies. Today, I'm going to show Rebecca how to make a refillable cartridge, and Rebecca never refills any cartridge before, right? That's correct. Okay. So we're going to do one each. So I'll give this nice, those called virgin cartridges, it's made by Canon, so never be refilled before. Okay. So it's first time, so it's called virgin, and this is, this is a non virgin third-party cartridges. Okay. And you can see it's made by Canon, but people already refilled it. Okay. And you can see it kind of gross here. Yeah, that is kind of gross. See that build up? Oh, yeah. Okay, so, okay, this is yours and this is mine. Okay. I like, oh, sorry. First thing I do is I like to protect the printhead, this is the printhead. Okay. Okay. Protect your printhead. That's all where your money is. Okay.  Gotcha. Okay. I don't want the sticky part stick to the printhead, so I flip backwards. Okay. And I need to protect the electronic ribbon. Okay. So I'm about to start where the ribbon is. Okay. And then I just hold like this. So this is a sticky part. We got you. Okay. So I get one more tape here. Gotcha. Like this. And this piece, this part is I protect, we're going to use super glue. I protect the super glue dripping down, and I mess up with the electronic ribbon. Yeah, I don't want to mess up the electronic ribbon, because if it ruins, then you can't use it over. Right. Gotcha. So I'm going to stick it a little bit higher. Okay. And bend over. And so you can see if the hot glue, the super glue drip down is not going to mess up with the ribbon. I see that. Okay. Both sides are protected. Do you want to give it a try? Not yours? Sorry. I may mine a little bit longer, but that's okay. And the gloves don't help. It's not bad. Yeah, this part is like a little hanger. The problem with this, actually I say if the hot glue, if the super glue drip down, okay, you'll still get a silk. Okay. So I'll cut this part off. So make sure this is right below the line. Okay. Gotcha. Another one. Yeah, there are some customers that they tip the entire thing. The entire thing. You don't want to do that. The next door, they just have this party all the time. Yeah, I know. I was hearing that already. I was like, oh, great music this morning. The problem is that we have three songs. That's it. They just play the over and over and over. Yeah, probably they listen to somebody's phone, their PlayStation. Okay. I kind of got wrinkled on my gloves, but it's the first time I'm doing this. I like to make sure this part just like a little bit more. Yeah. Okay. By the dot. Yeah. So make sure I mean the glue going to draw drip down. So this is yours. Yes. And this is mine. This is mine. I haven't done this yet. And this is a lots of non virgin. They have this label here. Okay. It's another set of chips. Okay.  So it's a lot smaller. If you actually this is the same model. So if you peel this off, it can't become this. Okay. Interesting. Oh, oh, it does. They block this. So I'll show a full tank of ink. This is nasty. I never I never feel anything this nasty before. I see that. It's just gone right there. Yeah. If we can refill this anything can be refilled. Okay. Okay. So it looks good. So second thing that I like to do. I like to do is cut this label. So it gave me a label number, the model number. Because I have so many models look at exactly the same. So I just I just put it here. Okay. So in the future, I can look at this. I know which model it is. Okay. And you can see how they refill it. So they just they just drill three holes. It's interesting. Okay. So this one is the same. I just cut this. It's to stay. I think I ruined it. Anyway, I was just I'm busy enough to tell me what it is. Okay. Yeah. Okay, here you go. Be careful. I don't cut your finger. Do you know how to peel apple? I do. But that's what the knife not with a razor blade. So yes, I do know how to. I try to teach my kids how to peel apples. So first thing to do is pulling the knife towards you. Second thing is to push. I got it off, but it wasn't the way I wanted to be got it off.  Maybe we'll just see this. Oh, yeah, I got it. Okay. Nice. I got it. I got it. Do I'm going to do this one too? Yeah. Yeah. So I see like the bigger numbers on the bottom. It's kind of harder to get off. And it splits. I just go for the top one because it seems to be the one that I want. Got another one. There we go. So I got both. Next thing is the hardest part of this. I try to explain to people. Okay. I don't know why people don't get it. And what you do is I put it on edge so I have more room here. Okay. So what I do is I just find this seam. Okay. Just push it, push the knife in. Try to do like this. Okay. And it pops right open. Got it. I don't know why it's so hard. Try it. Okay. That's your first time, right? Yes. This is my first time. We're on a stage, right? This is a real culture. No, another way. Another way. Sorry. And there's the, okay. So on this side you want to make sure it's on this. Yeah, the bigger head towards here. Okay. So like this you want like that. You want to sort of, I always like to look at this. Then you cut like this. Okay.  I'll try not to. Okay. I got it. Yay. Why is it so hard? I don't know. Okay. Get another one. Okay. I'm going to try this one. So which seam? This one here or this one? This one. This one. The first one. The first one. Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's the one. Maybe people cut in the second one. Maybe. There we go. There's my second one. That was real easy. Let me come on. Okay. So next one is sanding. Okay. I normally do not take the sponge out because there are lots of debris after sanding. Okay. And black. Okay. So okay. So if you compare your un-grinded, you can see there's a groove. Yes, I see the groove. Now you can see it's totally flat. Yes. And it's smooth. Right. Another thing is after grinding there are maybe some things here. So you just use a razor blade to make sure it's the edges are cleaned out straight. Gotcha. Just get all that debris. Yeah. You want to try? Sure. So there's mine. There's some that just fell off. That looks pretty good. Maybe a little bit more. I still can't see the groove here. Okay. There we go. I don't see no groove. Okay. Good. Mine's all nice and smooth. Now the color one. Don't forget which color it is. Okay. This is magenta and cyan and yellow. Yep. Gotcha. Oh, no. I'm just kidding. I still can't see the seam. That's okay. Now it looks good. Okay. This, maybe it looks okay. Actually, this one, the color one is the hardest put on color. I'll show you. I'll just say this. You can see all the little grooves in the knife. Can you see a little bit more? Yeah. Okay. So after that, I'll clean up this. Next step, I normally do it in the bathroom. The wash and the filter. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So this is the black. Okay. I just removed the sponge. Gotcha. See the nice clean. So this is like a cannon. They just gave a little bit of ink. Gotcha. And so it's not even full. No, it's not. So what are we going to do? So we're going to fill this whole thing with ink. Okay. Then you're going to print lots, lots more pages. Okay. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah. I'm not sure this one can be saved. I mean, it looks like the yellow one is totally leaking. Don't get something out of there. There's more sponges. As you can see, it's all empty. There's nothing in there. Okay. I'll do the water. I'm going to do that. Okay. A little bit of water. Maybe we've got the paper kind of in there. Okay. Sorry guys, we left the way in the trash can. Kind of as a bigger bucket. So I'm going to move this over just a little so you guys can see. If you can see, it's kind of dark, but just rinse it out really, really well. Okay. Quite a bit for yours. There we go. Okay. I'll bet out later. Okay. Sorry for the wet paper, but I can still see it. This is not going to be clean and you're going to get things everywhere. So that's okay. Just make sure you wash really good with the soap and try not to wear any professional attire because ink won't come out. It sounds like a pearl now. No, just ink gets everywhere. I have learned that. Yeah, if you're at home, you probably want to wait a little bit longer than us for this to dry. Should I be worried? No, no. This one is totally protected. So let me stop here. Yeah, I already started. For the first time, you want to practice a little bit. What I nearly do is because you only get one chance to put it in. Okay. Okay. So what I like to do is I push this edge and I match this first. I press it down. Okay. The hard one is the color one. The color one is the same thing. I push this edge, make sure it lands up, and then I press it down. Okay. Okay. You want to try yours? All right, so this one's the black one. Sorry, just trying to get a little bit of water out of there. It's the black one. Yeah, that's the other one. And this is my color one. Just get all the stuff in there. Here is one. Okay. You want to try it again? Just make sure next time you now it back. Okay. Next one, let's do the black one first. Okay. Okay. Here's you get it. Here's you get a tube. I'll get a tube. Okay. Everybody get a tube. So you'll screw it up and not going to activate it. It doesn't want to come off. Oh, it is. It's already open? Yeah. Okay. Okay. So a little bit. Don't screw it. I'm trying not to. Be careful. Yeah. Yeah. One time I glued my two fingers together. Oh, wow. It took a while. So just around the edge? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Put this one. And then hold it. Hold it. And use a rubber band. To put it, make it tight. Yeah. To hold it in place for the drying process. Yeah. Okay. And look at this seal. It's all solid. Gotcha. Okay. Another thing I like to do is I'll plug it so I don't have too much film inside. Gotcha. So the fans get out. Okay. So I'm not following my edge. For somebody who doesn't mess with super glue, I'm doing pretty good. It's this way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I do have customer glue at the wrong way. Yeah. And I like her send it in because she said after put the cover on, it doesn't fit. I said no way it doesn't fit. And I let her send back and this side backwards. Of course, you can only do for the black one. There's no way you can do that for the color one. Yeah. Okay. The color one, it's a little bit different. The thing is you have to glue this. Okay. The T. Yeah. The T. And so for it to have enough ink, I also pre-glued this T, too. Okay. So what I do is I do the round, the surroundings first. Okay. The cover. Okay. I do have another customer forgot to glue the T. So all the ink, all the color, they mix up with each other. Oh, okay. It's really important. Yeah. You'll make sure it's all solid. Oh, you know what I forgot to do? Let's take my thing out so it's kind of de-fume. All right. Plug. Yeah, you're gonna have film anyway and just help a little bit.  Just blow the, blow the air. Air can. Yeah. Airclam blower. Gotcha. Okay. Do you mind now? They start with the outer. It looks like you've done it like many times. No. I'm just meticulous with my hands and I'm gonna start with the top first. Hold on. I forgot another. I gotta get another rubber band. Okay. That's for the first part. Okay. There you go. Yeah. Just be careful when the first time when you lean over, there'll be some ink coming out. Okay. Try it. Is that what you do as you fill it all the way up like that? Yeah.  I'm taking and filling up mine now. So this is black. Just do it in. Okay. All right. Did something wrong there already? A little bit further in there. Is that it? It doesn't matter. Just so I don't get air bubbles. I think I will bubble up. I think it'll go too deep. Do I still have ink or is it empty? It's empty now. Sorry. I thought it was. I thought it was still had some. Sorry for the air bubbles. Try not to get the air bubbles in there. It's halfway there. And when do you stop right there? I'll fill a little bit more. A little bit more. Okay. There it doesn't matter. Yeah, that's good. I'll get your plug in. And can I have the paper towel? Actually, here. Sorry. Didn't know I had some. Just wipe up the excess, right? Yeah. Is that that was for me? Okay. I was like, that's not leaking, is it? Oh no. This will also let you know if there's any leaks, right? Yeah, leaking is, I mean, it's from the bottom, Miss Goofy. I mean, we don't want to get a clog. So I'm going to start with my red and the red is the top. There we go. There's my plug. Yeah. I don't know if that's sealed. If it's not sealed, the worst. If it's not sealed, you can just go back and use the kind of glue, not the super glue, but super glue, gel like this. Oh, the gel. Okay. The gel will seal like that. It will take a day to seal it, but you can just like put it around the edge. Okay. Yeah. Don't worry. Just fill up the rest. All right. We got blue going on. Yeah. As long as you seal the middle correctly, the T correctly, the outer edge, you can go back and reseal it. Okay. The inner one, I mean, you have to cut it. Let me try the magenta seed dust. It is. That's okay. We're good. We're still. So we leave the cartridge dry for a couple hours, ideally overnight. So the glue can be dry. To test if we glue the cover airtight, we can blow air into the air hose.  So when we press the syringe in, we're going to see if there's any leaking on the side of the cover. So for example, the magenta is leaking air. And then after we test two other colors, the two other colors are airtight. So it's very easy to fix. So what we do is, first thing is you drain the ink out. So you don't get the cartridge top wet. Then you add more superglues on the edge. And then you can leave it for a couple more hours.  So if there's something, anything clogged, it will blow the clogs away. So I'll put like one mil of air. So this one's clogged really, really strong clogged. So what I'll do is I get this, and then fill it up with some water. And just set it in there? Just set it in there for a couple hours to dissolve the clog. All right. And another thing to do is, so there's nothing coming out. So this is really clogged solid. So another thing to do, if the water doesn't work, what I'll do is I get these BCH cleaning solutions. That's the green clean. Green, yeah. You can do like the transparent one. Just as long as it's cleaner? Yeah. Okay. And let it sit there for a second? Yeah. I'll put it in a couple hours. Okay. So we're going to go ahead and put it in the printer right now to try and see if we can't unclog it completely. Okay. The printer has a function to unclog it. So I'll go do some printers. I will go printing preference and the maintenance and deep cleaning. Deep cleaning. That's okay. Yeah. We're going to do it twice then we wait two hours and do two more and the safe works. Okay. So it's completed its process. And they also do a print check pattern. So don't give me a test print. Let's say your back has first refill. Hopefully it did good. No, it's not. It's only half of... So it's just like what we said, like half of them is clogged, half is not. Yeah. So you can see the lines on the top. Sorry, my finger. So it's not complete. So it's still clogged. So we'll take this guy out and clog it a bit more. Okay. So if you see the one we stuck it in as already unclogged, say over there. Yeah, I see it. So it's difference between water and the actual cleaning solution. I see that. It did clean out that one that was really clogged up there, huh. Okay. That one is done. It's a lot better. That's perfect. There we go. That's what you want to see with the black. Yeah, I need to see. I don't know. Is it just because it's wet that there's kind of like smudged on the line? Is that fine? Yeah, it's because it's light. Okay. That's fine. Now we're going to do the top one. Okay. Here's your first refill. Okay. Is it hard? No. There's some steps and there's always second guessing, but I think this video should help people with that. The black is still kind of smudged. Yeah, it's because it's a transition from the old ink to the new ink. Okay. So it's just filling it out. Yeah, you can do one more deep cleaning. And one more deep cleaning. Actually, I don't think so. I think it's already you'll stop the ink by one point here. Okay. So let's put in a second page. It'll be different. Okay. We're doing our second print page. And he is stating that it should run it all out the old stuff and the new stuff should be in there. And yeah, it looks like it already. You could see the BCH and everything filled out pretty good. So you might have to do two test print pages just to make sure that the... Yeah, I can see it's much better already. Yeah. Yeah, you just need to use up the old ink. Okay. And if it doesn't, you just do a little bit of deep cleaning. Okay. I'll do it. That works. So are we going to do the the top one? Yeah. Do you think the regular people will be able to do this? Yeah. Okay.  And this is the first time I've done it. And I think I'm doing pretty good, you know, don't discourage people. Yeah. So let me see. This guy, which is, it's time to reset your cartridge. So what you do is you just hold down the, hold down the stop button. Stop button. Just hold it on until it goes away. It goes away. Hold down your stop button and it should go away. Oh, it's up. I'm sorry. It's this guy. Sorry. Got the wrong printer. Wrong printer. Sorry about that. Okay. Now I went away. Okay. So it was the top printer. Yeah. Up here we feel it will still show the low ink level. Okay. Until it comes to this error. Okay. So lots of people ask me like, what I do is I'm still low ink. Just keep printing until you've got this window. Okay. Just hold and then hold down the stop button until the windows go away. And then it will print forever. Okay. Yeah. So the bottom line is all good. Yeah. I can see that. So we're still waiting on a color one, but we had that little error. So we took care of that error. We just pressed that stop button and it should go away. Wow. What did you know? It got unplugged. Yeah. Look at that. Nice and pretty. Okay. Let me just print two more pages to impress people. So two more pages are going to be printed just to make sure that it shows that it's working right. The test print here. It should be the same type of yellow coming out on it. You can see from the shadow, but it looks pretty good. It looks a little dark though. Not so bright. It might just need to be a little bit cleaner because you see that one printing again just to make sure that that cartridge is clean. Okay. You can see the bottom bottom black is a new ink canal. Yes. So everything looks good. Yeah. The top one, the color looks good. Yeah. So you can see the colors. Okay. All right. That's it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at PCHTechnologies.com or locally at Gwisprud.com. Thank you. Cheers.


All right, in the last segment, what we did, we spent quite a bit of time coming up and deriving the heat diffusion equation, and we concluded by saying that the heat diffusion equation enables us to determine temperature inside of an object provided that we know the boundary conditions on the surface. So what we're going to do in this segment, we're going to take a look at the typical boundary conditions that you can come across when you're solving heat transfer problems. And so it's with these boundary conditions that we're then able to solve with the heat diffusion equation for the temperature inside of an object. So what we're going to do in all of the cases here that we're going to look at, we're going to consider a one-dimensional object or surface. So we're going to look at a 1D object and we're going to assume that the surface takes place at x equals zero. And we're going to begin with the simplest type of boundary condition, and that is where we have a constant temperature on the surface, so a constant surface temperature. And so drawing out our object, so this would be the solid that we're looking at. So there we have our solid, this would be x equals zero on the surface. And let's assume that we know the surface temperature, we're trying to solve for the temperature within that object, and so that is an unknown, but we know the surface temperature. So then this would be constant surface temperature, the way that we can write this out would be T at x equals zero, and for time is equal to the surface temperature. So how might you create that type of a boundary condition? Well, one way that you could do that is with an ice bath, for example, or boiling water, although that would vary depending upon the elevation of where you are located. But a good example here would be that of an ice bath. So that's the most simple boundary condition that you can encounter. Then what we can do, we can have conditions where we have constant heat flux at the surface. So let's take a look at heat flux boundary conditions. So drawing out our object again. Now if we know the heat flux on the surface, so that would be qx, what that is saying is that we know the slope of the temperature on the surface. So what we would do is we would use Fourier's law right on the surface here, and that would then provide us with an indication of the temperature, the slope of the temperature at that point. So when you say constant surface heat flux, essentially what you're saying is that you know what the slope is. And we call Fourier's law qx equals minus KADT by DX. So essentially what we're saying was that if we know this, we know that. And that is what we get the slope from. So that would tell us what the slope is right on the surface. And then as we go further into the object, it can deviate in some other way. And that would be our X of T for the temperature then. And so writing this out mathematically, we would say qx over A is minus K DT by DX at X equals zero. And that comes directly out of Fourier's law. An example, how could you create a constant heat flux condition? One thing that you could do, there could be a radiation from some source, or an electrical resistance heater would be another example. Provided that you insulate the outside of it, so that you don't lose heat to the outside. So that is constant heat flux. And there is another form of constant heat flux surface that of no heat flux. And we refer to that. So let's call this here, sorry, I should have put an A, this is finite heat flux. And we can have B, which would be adiabatic or insulated surface or no heat flux. And if you have an insulated surface adiabatic, we're then assuming that there is no heat flux coming through the surface. In reality, you will, any kind of insulation, you will have heat flux, but this is something we assume in heat transfer. Whenever it says insulated surface, you usually assume that to mean zero heat flux going through it, or if it's adiabatic. And with that, we then get DT by DX at X equals zero is equal to zero. And so looking at that in terms of a schematic, I'll draw this a little more compact here. So what that is saying is that the slope of the temperature is going to be zero at the wall. And so we would have a condition that might look like this, and then it can deviate a lot. TX of T would then be our temperature distribution. And X, again, is going in that direction. So that's the case of an adiabatic or insulated surface as well as one with a finite heat flux. The last boundary condition that we commonly look at is that where you have a convective boundary condition. And so you have fluid outside of the wall. And so we call that a convective surface condition. And if you have convection on the surface from Newton's law of cooling and from Fourier's law, from Fourier's, we know this. And then from Newton's law of cooling, we can write this. And so writing out a schematic of what is going on here. We have our wall. X is going in that direction. And then out here, we have some fluid. And so what this is then telling us is it's essentially giving us relationship between the slope and the convective heat transfer. And with that, it is specifying the slope on the surface. And it is assuming that we have the temperature at X equals zero and time there. Because that can change as a function of time, but you would need that surface temperature for the convective surface condition. So that is the third boundary condition that we can have. We can have constant heat flux, constant temperature, or convective boundary condition on the surface. So with those boundary conditions, we use those to solve the heat diffusion equation. Okay. So we use the heat diffusion equation in these boundary conditions. And the boundary conditions are applied on the surface of the object. And what that does, that enables us then to determine the internal temperature distribution in the object. And so the way that we do that, there are a couple of different techniques that we use. We can do this analytically. And that means that you solve a closed form mathematically for temperature distribution would be a function. Then there are a number of different types of objects that you can actually do that for. And sometimes it turns out into being an infinite series. And we'll look at that when we look at multi dimensional conduction later on in the course. And the other way that we can do it is numerically. And there are different solution techniques for solving the heat diffusion equation numerically. We will look at one in this course as well that uses Excel. It's kind of a very basic one, but it's actually not bad. It solves for things in two dimensions. And so we'll take a look at that. And so that is how you would go about applying these boundary conditions. So that provides an overview of the heat diffusion equation and the boundary conditions that you would apply. And we're going to be looking at these a little later on in the course. What we're going to do in the next lecture, we're going to take a look at kind of an alternative mode of doing analysis. And that is for the case where you're only looking at one dimensional problems. It is steady state and no heat generation on the inside of the object. And we'll be able to do some analysis for those. And but then if you want to do more complex, then you got to go to the heat diffusion equation and use these techniques that we have here, which we will look at later on in the course. So anyways, that is heat diffusion equation and the boundary conditions.


Okay, the recording will start shortly. So I'll pray and then we will begin. Heavenly Father, we thank and praise you for adding another day into our lives, Lord. And Father, even as your word encourages us that we must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we present ourselves, Lord, as willing people with open hearts for you to write your word on it, Lord. And Father, we thank you for the power of your word. We believe that your word will transform us, Lord, inside out. Father, we commit ourselves to you and Lord, we pray that this morning, as we meditate on the subject of prayer and intercession that Lord, you would speak to us, Father God and make everything real. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Okay, so hope you're all doing well. Everyone who's present here, doing fine. Week two, okay, that's good, that's good. And also the online students, I really hope that you're all keeping well and that you're learning something out of all these classes that you've been attending. So I'll quickly have a recap of what we were studying last week for the on-campus students. You probably have the notes with you. You already have it. Wonderful, great. So you can look into your notes, but in any case, for better clarity, I am also projecting the screen here. And for the online students, I have already posted the notes for you so you can download it and follow along, okay? So in the last class, we looked at the purpose of prayer and we understood that prayer is more than just bringing our wish list to God, which is what most people understand, prayer to be. It is about communicating with God and when we say communication, it is a two-way communication. You know, we speak to God, but also God speaks back to us. We also saw that our times of prayer, our times when God gives Himself to us and we are able to pour out our hearts unto the Lord. We saw that it is warfare. We saw there's so many different things about prayer that it's not just about bringing our needs and laying it before the throne of God and forgetting about it. Then we also looked at the purpose of prayer and we said that God Himself has given man authority when He created man and He deputed man to take charge of the world, okay? And man is supposed to steward everything that has been entrusted to him with that dominion and authority given by God. One of the ways in which we are able to release that authority and accomplish the purposes of God is through prayer and which is why prayer is important. So prayer is a way of enforcing the authority of God here on the earth. So that also we understood. And then we went on to look at what the self-sufficiency of God means and at the same time how God has chosen to depend on the prayers of men. So it's an arrangement where God wants us to co-labor together with Him. Though He can do things by Himself, He has chosen to do it along with us. So we saw that whole dynamics of God's self-sufficiency and His dependence on our prayers. And therefore, we concluded by saying that we need to pray. If we don't pray, then we miss the opportunity of having God come and intervene in our lives, in our circumstances. And I started off with chapter two where we want to understand the right foundation for prayer. But the initial part of this chapter enlists all of the wrong reasons why one goes to God in prayer and the way, one chooses to pray. And we said many things like, prayer is not a ritual, prayer is not an obligation or a religious duty. Prayer is not something that we just do on the outside, but it has to come from our hearts. We also said that prayer does not mean that we are able to convince God to do something which He does not want to do. And we also looked at the fact that, prayer without faith, where we just pray and assume that things will happen, things will take place. If they don't, then we will manage. So that kind of an attitude and a faithless way of praying does not really amount to much. We also looked at the fact that prayer is not to be used to prove one's spirituality. So we can try to prove our spirituality by the kind of language that we use in prayer or the tone in which we pray, or just in front of people. We are able to make ourselves look great spiritually, but that in itself is not the purpose of prayer and we shouldn't use prayer for that. So these are all some of the key things that we looked at. So just before I go into more about prayer and the right foundation, I just want to pause and ask all of you, do you still, are you clear on these things or do you have any questions? If there are, we can discuss that and then go forward. So the students who are here, as well as the online students, please do let me know if I can proceed. And online students, I hope you can hear me very well because last time there was some challenge with the sound. Everything okay? Everything good? All right, yes, great to know that. Yes, thank you so much. All right, let's move forward. So we're talking about the foundation for prayer. Now here are seven important keys on which we must lay the foundation for prayer. So the right kind of prayer is, will stand on these seven things. So that's what we are beginning with the foundation for prayer. We should have a strong foundation. We just understood that prayer is not, you know, some sort of a superficial activity which is part of our religious duty, but it has to come from the depths of our heart. And we also saw how prayer is really designed by God. So what is the right foundation for prayer? There are seven things that we will go over. Hopefully in the first session, I will try and touch on three or four of these and then, you know, the remaining in the second session today. So the nature of God is the first and most important foundation, you know, that we need to understand. Secondly, intimacy with God is the second one. The third is the redemptive heart of God. Fourth, the promises of God. Fifth, partnering with the Holy Spirit. Sixth, our position in Christ. Seventh, a life of surrender. So we're going to go over all these seven and ensure that we understand these and build our prayer life on these seven keys. So the first one here is to understand the nature of God. So the nature of God refers to who God is or in other words, who he really is. And what he does, for example, in school, if you have been, obviously, you've all been in school and you might recall that, you know, even as you were interacting, let's say, with your teachers and you would understand that, okay, one particular teacher, it's easier to approach. You know, another teacher may be not so easy to approach. So you understand their nature and you would probably really think of the right time to approach the teacher who, you know, may not respond favorably to you. So depending on people's nature, their behavior, you know, we interact with them. So for us, especially when we come to God, we have to understand the nature of God. You know, who God is, what he is made up of and how he would react in any given situation or what would be his thoughts about a given person or a circumstance. So when I understand the nature of God, my prayer life becomes very effective, okay? And I will tell you more about it soon. So I need to understand the nature of God. In other words, you know, we use this term for us. We say self-image. We should have the right self-image where I see myself for who I am. You know, if you look at God's word, you know that God's word says, I am redeemed, I am forgiven, I'm blessed, I'm victorious, I'm healed. And you know, all these descriptions of me which make me who I really am in Christ Jesus in the same way, what is God's nature? You know, who is God? I need that understanding to be able to pray correctly or pray effectively. How am I going to understand the nature of God? Just a quick question to all of us. What will help us know the nature of God? Any answers to that? Okay, his word, that's one of the answers. What else do you think will help us understand the nature of God? The online students, please do type in the chat. Okay, someone says, reading the word. Okay, same answer. Any other answers? The correct answer, you don't have to look very scared. Okay, love. One more, answer there is love. Another is his presence. All right, okay. So when we walk with him, we begin to realize that this is what he's made up of. Love and spending time with God, relating with God, being in his presence will also enable us to know the nature of God. So that's good. So our primary source of knowing God would obviously be his word. And we know that even in our time spent with the Lord, or you would want to call it like a walk with the Lord, we will not experience anything which is not revealed in God's word about God's nature. Or in other words, okay, maybe there can be, there are so many things about God that we may never, we may even miss out noting some of them in scripture. However, here's the point, the word will not contradict. Okay, what the real nature of God is, that we can be assured that definitely the word will not tell us something which is untrue about the nature of God. So I need to establish in my mind a clear image of who God is, what his nature is based on his word. And this will enable me to pray in the right manner.  And in the word of God, you know, we also see that there are different names of God, covenant names of God which have been given to us. What are some of those covenant names? Jehovah, Rafa, Jaira, Shalom, Adonai, okay, Ebenezer, okay, all right. So the Jehovah names are the covenant names which have been given to us. So even with those names, we are able to understand. So when I ask a question, you know, does God heal? You know that scripture says that God has revealed himself as what? Jehovah, Rafa, okay. So Jehovah, Rafa simply means his nature is a healing nature, always.  He has not changed because we are living in the 21st century. His nature doesn't change and he's already revealed it with his covenant names in the word of God. He is Jehovah, Shalom. He only gives us peace. He does not give us, you know, confusion and anxiety and worry. All that doesn't come from God. Jesus is the glimpse of peace. So you see, with what scripture has to say and the covenant names of God, we can paint a picture or an image of God for us and that image is what will help us pray, you know, unto God in the right manner. So we have our friends here online who also given us their inputs. So people have written El Shaddai, Jehovah Nisi, okay, Emmanuel, all right. So these are all some of the other titles that we see of God in the word. All right, so now all of these things help us go before God with the right kind of prayers. Okay, now I'll just give you an example.  What do you think? Is that a good prayer to pray? How many of you vote for, you know, this is a good prayer? Can I see your hands raised? Maybe people on the chat can just say, yes or something. It's a good prayer. Oh, all of us seem to agree that we don't pray prayers like that simply because we understand that our God is a healer and one of the other ways in which the nature of God has been revealed to us, the best way is what? Word yes and word does not contradict the nature of God. What else has confirmed the nature of God to us? Jesus, very good, yes, Jesus. So we see in the book of Hebrews that Jesus is the express image of God. In other words, if I want to understand what Father God is thinking or what Father God would do in a certain situation, you know, what would Father God do when he meets with an adulterous woman? What would Father God do if a leper comes and asks him to heal him? What would Father God do if he sees two demon possessed men? Right? You look at the life of Jesus. What did Jesus do? Because Jesus came to reveal the Father, isn't it? That's what he told us. I came to reveal the Father. So by looking at the life of Jesus, by studying the life of Jesus, I have a good idea about the nature of God. Okay? So when I understand the nature of God, the way I pray will be aligned to the nature of God. I'll never pray prayers like God. No, give me more worry, give me more anxiety, you know, make everything more difficult. No, we don't pray such prayers because we see that the Lord Jesus, he, you know, went about preaching, teaching, healing, delivering those who are oppressed by the devil. So he was doing all these good works and setting people free. So how is it that we can expect this God of the Bible and this God who is revealed through the life of Jesus to do, you know, the opposite of what we have seen revealed. So when I pray with an understanding of who God is, what his nature is, I will be praying in line with what God wants me to pray. Okay? So we have to understand the nature of God and that will give us a very good and a strong foundation for prayer. Now, let me also just touch on this. When we talk about the nature of God, sometimes if we limit, you know, our understanding to our own thinking, we will not be able to pray prayers to the full extent that God wants. The example would be if I see a circumstance, let's say there is a financial difficulty in my family. Okay? I could simply pray that, okay, God, you know, everything is over. I'm going to stop right here. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I give up on my dreams. I give up on my future. I don't have a future. You know, this would be the kind of communication that I have with God. But if I understand the nature of God, what does the Bible say? With God, nothing shall be impossible. Okay? So then I begin to recognize that, you know, with God, there are many possibilities. So my prayer life will change because I've understood who this God is that I am praying to. Otherwise, I will limit myself and I will also limit God in the prayers that I pray. You know, sometimes when we hear that, you know, somebody is very sick or the situation is really tough. You remember the time when Jairus, he came for his daughter's healing and he was seeking after Jesus. What did the people tell him? Forget it. No, your daughter is already dead. Just go home, Jairus. Because Jesus can't do anything. But what is the nature of our God? He does the impossible. Right?   Okay? There are many such examples I could give you. You know, would anybody here, when we begin something, we all say, you know, dear heavenly Father, bless us as we study today.  What do you think? Is that an effective prayer or an ineffective prayer? Ineffective prayer. Why? Exactly. It is not in line with the nature of God. God is righteous. So how is it that somebody can ask for God's blessing when they're doing something illegal or unrighteous? Doesn't work. Okay? So things like that, when we plan to do something evil or you know, if we are caught up in some sinful habit and we say, okay, God, you know, let it be, let it be in my life. It's fine. I will live with it. Do you think that kind of a prayer is okay? No, because we serve a holy God. Right? So we cannot pray prayers which are misaligned to the nature of God.  I've heard people say things like that. I prayed that they will be, you know, hurt or they will, some destruction will come on them and it happened. You know, people say, saying things like that. But would that be a right prayer? Would Jesus do that? Has Jesus ever done that? Never. Never. So here's the point. We have to understand the nature of God and pray prayers in line with the nature of God. That's when, you know, we are building our prayer life on the right foundation. Okay? So always remember that when I'm praying something, when I'm saying something, what does the Bible say about who God is? Okay, then pray accordingly and you will see that your prayers will be very fruitful. Now, let's come to the second point here. And even while I am talking on this subject, if you feel, no, I have a question. Feel free. You can just, you know, stop me, raise your hand. Those who are here in class and I'm constantly looking at the chat section for the online students. So please feel free. You can always ask your questions. Moving right along, intimacy with God is the second point. So as we explained the meaning of prayer, the purpose of prayer, but just going back to that will help us look at prayer in the right way. Prayer is intimacy with God. How did Jesus teach us to pray? The Lord's Prayer. Anyone starting the beginning of that? Our Father. And for the people of Jesus' times, it was amazing to hear something like that because for them Jehovah God was great, almighty. He was this, you know, impersonal and yet, you know, great figure. So for a man like Jesus to call this great God as Father in itself was like a blasphemy and they blamed him for that.  What is this? But we need to understand that the kind of prayer that Jesus prayed and the example of Jesus' prayer life to us is that of relationship. Jesus reached out to the Father with a relationship and even today, you know, sometimes when we pray, we say things like Master God, Almighty God, nothing wrong with it as long as we understand that we have a relationship with God.  You have nothing to do with the people there. You just want your needs met. So we could look at the Bible and we could look at, you know, all the patterns in the Bible in the lives of Godly people. We can follow those patterns but have nothing to do with God personally. But that will be a very unfortunate way of looking at prayer where we know everything about prayer, but it does not help us build a relationship with God. So intimacy with God is another reason why I want to pray. Now, just think about this. What if you set time aside and you begin to pray about something? Okay, let's say 10 days and for whatever reason, you know, you did not get an answer to that prayer. Suppose was it effective or not? Those 10 days of setting aside, let's say half an hour every day, you set aside to spend time in prayer, but you didn't get the exact thing that you were asking for. So was your prayer effective or not effective? What do you think? Effective? Okay, there's someone saying effective, someone on the chat also saying effective, but if you say something effective or not effective, you have to explain why. So why do you say it's effective? Okay, great, great, good answer. So we have an explanation here which says that maybe at that point in time, God did not give us what we were asking for, but it can happen at another timing which God has in mind. Okay, accepted. The answers here is it is effective, but not the right time to get the answer. Okay, seems like both online, in person, all of you are in sync. Then someone here says God will answer at the right time. Yes, effective because my relationship was strengthened with him. It is effective. However, God's timing is perfect. Okay, thank you. Thank you everyone for thinking along with me about this particular matter. You see, it is about the answer to my prayer. Okay, what I'm trying to tell us is the way we understand prayer is only asking and receiving. There is more to prayer. So in this case, 10 days, I spent half an hour, half an hour, half an hour in God's presence. I did not get what I thought God should give me. But what has happened in the process? I have gotten to know God and his presence better. Yes or no? Yes, that's right. And someone here in the chat also mentioned the same thing that we were able to spend time in God's presence. How do you build relationships? I mentioned this in the last class. How do you build relationships? Spend time, talk to your friends or talk to your family members. We all take time, isn't it? To nurture those relationships which are important to us. So how can we expect our relationship with God to shine and thrive and all that without spending time with him? Now, we can know all about God. We can also know the principles in his word. We can apply the principles. Nothing wrong. Are we relating with God in doing those things? We are, but one of the best ways that God has given us to relate with him is through prayer. So when I'm spending time with God, it's more about relationship. Our Father, no wonder Jesus said that our Father, I'm relating with my Father. I'm getting to know my Father and I want my Father to know me. So those times of prayer are not just to get something from God. So we need to understand that and the Bible talks a lot about fellowship that our fellowship is with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are all having times of fellowship with one another and that way we are building our friendship. But we must recognize that God wants us to have fellowship with him. So being in his presence is also building my relationship with him, strengthening my relationship with him. And when you spend a lot of time in somebody's presence, let's say a teacher or a lecturer, professor in your college, maybe they are the best in that subject and you are their chief, one of those chief students whom they're overseeing. After a period of time, you could say that some of the key things that you talk about may probably be what that professor talks about or that lecturer talks about because it just rubs off on you. And in the same way, when you spend time in God's presence with fellowship with him in the secret place, we can say that our heart is starting to change. So I'm putting it that way. Our heart begins to change. Maybe I came in as a different person, but I'm going out as another person. So God's presence will saturate us, his thoughts will saturate us. So his spirit and the work of his spirit will begin to saturate us. So that is why that time of prayer is so precious in God's sight. And in our notes here, we have an excerpt from an intercessor called Rhys Havel and Norman Grubb. He records something about the prayer time of Rhys Havel and I will summarize it for us. Basically, he says that when he used to go into prayer, he would spend time in the presence of God. And it was his experience that when he knew God was going to answer that prayer, he somehow knew it. After spending some time in prayer, it was as if the Holy Spirit would put it on his heart and tell him, hey, it's done or I want you to do this.  So we must make this a priority. Every day, we will come to this later when we study about the life of Jesus. But then, you know, you need to recognize that I need to spend time with God. I need to build my relationship with God. Yes, reading God's Word is one of the main ways, one of the best ways but also spending time in prayer to be able to talk to God and hear from God. So there are several scriptures here in our notes that talk about this fellowship or what is fellowship? Would somebody like to define that? It will make it easier to understand the interaction that we want with God. What is fellowship? In simple words, okay, companion, okay, spend time and communicate and hear from Him too. So two way, right? Yeah, that's right. Companionship, gathering, friendship. These are all words that help us understand fellowship, trying to build a relationship with God. So we are not just called for fellowship with one another but we are also called for fellowship with the Godhead which is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now, let's consider the life of Jesus. What kind of fellowship did He have with the Father? It's very beautiful. We will come back to this and spend more time on this later on but you would notice that He said, my food is what? To do the will of my Father and He would do what He saw the Father do. He would wait for the Father to tell Him. So He would hear from the Father and then do the works of God, the miracles and all of that. If you see the kind of time Jesus was spending with the Father, you'll see that whole night He was praying, okay. There are instances where He would wake up early in the morning while it is still dark and go out to a solitary place so that there is no disturbance. Why? Because He wants to spend time with the Father, speak to the Father and the Father speaks back to Him, okay. So this is the kind of fellowship that Jesus had with the Heavenly Father. Whatever we do, our best example is always the Lord Jesus, isn't it? So even when it comes to prayer, when you see the life of Jesus, Jesus spent a lot of time with the Father and from that place came the works that He did and so that is our example. I need to fellowship with God. So when we say fellowship with God, we could say fellowship with the Father, fellowship with the Son. Another way of fellowshiping with the Son is what? He's the Word, isn't it? So we read the Word and in 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 13, 14, we are encouraged to fellowship with the Holy Spirit. So can we fellowship with the Holy Spirit all the time? Is it possible? Yes or no? Yes, it's very much possible. If you look at the Old Testament, people do not have that privilege because in order for us to fellowship with God, we need to go into the Holy of Holies and only the priests were allowed to do that. But think about it, today you and I, any given moment, we can talk to the Holy Spirit. Where does He live? He lives inside us so we can have communion, interaction, companionship, friendship, partnership, whatever you want to call it with the Holy Spirit right here and right now. And so when we talk about prayer life, we have to build our relationship with God. So we have answers here on the chat as well, which tell us that we are the Holy Ghost, temple and He is on the inside of us. That's very correct. So we are called to fellowship with God. So all of this helps us know that prayer is to do what? To strengthen my relationship with God. So don't look at it as an activity that has to be completed. It's not a religious activity to be completed. It will help me strengthen my relationship with God. We have seen the very example of the Lord Jesus of walking with the Father and so we need to develop this kind of relationship. So one we said is spend time in prayer because there you can interact. You can speak to God. God can speak back to you and also personal worship. What did Jesus say? He said that He God seeks those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. So when we are spending time with God, we are able to develop that relationship with Him and in any good relationship, one more very important thing which is required is transparency and we see the way the psalmist related with God. He never came to God saying, oh, I'm so great. I'm so mighty. I have everything under control. There are times when He's very vulnerable before God where He says, God, search my heart, know my anxieties. If there's anything wrong in me then just guide me in the right path as Psalm 139 verses 23 and 24 remind us and even in Psalm 51 verse 6 after David had sin, he comes back to God and he says, God, I want to be honest with you. Honesty is so important in our relationship with God when we come with all those other things that we saw last week. Remember we talked about laying the axe to the root of pride, self, lust, jealousy. So when we come to God with these works of the flesh, our prayer, you know, it's like there is a barrier between God and us. God wants to reach out to us but something is hindering in between. However, when this is dealt with, we have come in transparently before God. So if there is something which we have to deal with or ask forgiveness for, repent of, sometimes it could be a heart of unbelief. When you come to God, we feel disappointed, discouraged, but we can come honestly before the Lord and say, God, this is what, you know, I have in my heart to please help me to overcome these things. So when we come honestly, then that relationship which we have with God will go one step forward because God will be in a position to do something in our lives. So honesty, transparency is very, very important. Then when we pray in order for us to build our relationship with the Lord strong, we have to also listen to Him. Has anyone had this experience or maybe you have done it as a child, you know, go to a house, ring the bell, run away? Yes, sometimes kids do that. They come to the house, they ring the bell, you open the door, nobody is there. But we do this in prayer many times. We start our prayer, Heavenly Father, I want to say something, I mean, bye, I'm going, you know, I don't have time, I have to catch the bus, I have to do this, we run away. But God wants to speak to us, we are not available anymore. Right? So we need to take time to wait in His presence because while we have poured out our hearts, we have to also listen to what God is saying. And when God speaks, you know, that refreshing comes, that revival comes, that strength comes, sometimes new ideas. We have totally, we feel like, oh, I'm at the end of the road. But you spend time in prayer, suddenly what happens? New ideas, you know, amazing creativity, it just begins to flow. How did you get that? I spoke to God, but I waited in His presence and He released all of this into my life. So spend time, wait for Him, wait for His Word, listen to Him. And this is the way of developing and building our relationship with God. And it's when we strengthen our relationship with Him that, you know, we will overflow with what comes through intimacy. Well, what is that? We will have the mind of God. So we will be able to recognize what God, you know, sometimes believers ask young believers, they ask this question, how do you know, how do you know that God said that? You know, how do you know that this is the promise that God has given you? When you start to spend time with God, you know, I'm not negating the power of the Word or the authority of the Word or anything, we go by that always. But the more you work with God, you become attuned to His voice. Okay, then it is a little bit I could say easier to pick up a little faster for us to know what God is doing and what God is saying. So we can begin to feel the heart of God. We can begin to understand the mind of God when we are spending time in prayer with Him and our intimacy with the Lord has grown. We can have God encounters as your notes says here, we can see the manifestation of God's work and also see fruitfulness in our life. So I'll quickly touch upon some of the barriers to intimacy with God. What do you think? What can be the barriers to fellowshipping with God and developing a deep relationship? Okay, right, let's see last, okay, the works of the flesh, that's true. Anything else that hinders us personally? Oh, you can talk from your personal experience. Love for the world, that's true. Jesus said that when you love the world and you can't love God, right? Then your intimacy with the Lord is hindered. Somebody here on the chat says busy schedule, busy schedule, sin. These are all hindrances to intimacy with God. That's so true. Okay, what else? Anything else? Being worldly, money, what else? Disobedience, yes, disobedience, sin, all this becomes a hindrance in our intimacy with the Lord and that's true. You know, we have these barriers that can affect a good prayer life. So sin is the first thing. Second is a mind which is sin conscious. We're constantly thinking that, you know, God will not accept me, God will reject me. You know, things like this, when we don't know who we are in Christ Jesus, even that will hinder us from coming closer to God because our mind which is filled with sin consciousness and guilt will keep us away. We'll always have some cover up before God but we need to pray and ask God, God break it so that I can recognize that I am a child who is forgiven and dearly loved by you. So when I have that kind of revelation of the Father, I can truly enjoy my time in prayer. Second is lack of discipline. Now as I told you, one day we pray, one day we don't pray, one day we pray for a little bit of time or something as and when, you know, when I feel like, when I feel led by God, people say all those things but, you know, discipline is helpful. When we have discipline, we can set aside times and ensure that we are consistently spending time with the Lord. But a lack of discipline will hinder that. So a lack of discipline would also do that. Business, as some of you pointed out, we get so busy with all the activities morning to evening you say, God, I'm tired. God is like, I'm taking care of the whole world.  So busyness, we just get caught up with everything that we have to do but we, so one of the best things we can do is pray in the morning. Okay, we'll discuss all this later. Maybe there are some people who are not morning people but then sometimes it really helps because then you spend that best time with God and then you go, you know, do other other stuff. So busyness can catch us, incorrect heart condition. We've discussed different things. We have unforgiveness. Unforgiveness is a huge hindrance. Even Jesus talked about it in the Lord's prayer. So unforgiveness can hinder us and a spirit of heaviness. Sometimes when we carry emotional issues and burdens, we end up thinking that God doesn't care or, you know, there are all these things that are unresolved between you and God that even if we spend time in prayer, we're not able to fully engage, fully receive. So we can't seek healing of our souls before we come in prayer. Okay. So what I'll do is I, we will go ahead and take a break. I noticed that it's already 9.50. So 10 minute break. We will restart at 10.01 and online students, please don't cut the call. Just go on mute and turn off your cameras. We'll come back and restart at 10.01. See you soon. Thank you.


going pretty well there until he got into the sixth and I know it kind of took that the ball that throw off off his head and I don't know if he was days there a little or just annoyed or it just after that maybe he lost a little bit I don't know yeah yeah I thought he was really good I thought his stuff was really good tonight and really early I thought it was a parent he had a really good fastball going I thought he was sharp but I do I do think he kind of hit a little bit of wall there in that last inning I thought his stuff fell off just a little bit probably over trying to overcook some balls I don't know if it had anything to do with that but I do feel like it kind of kind of ran out of steam a little bit there in that sixth inning but overall I thought he was really sharp tonight and with a combination of velocity that Holmes has with with the movement can you talk about the difficulty or actually the near impossibility of trying to barrel up on him yeah you know we see it all the time you know we'll see you know especially right-handed hitters you know I remember there was a bad a couple weeks ago with Jose Abreu 2-0 pitch and he hits it off the barrel and it's like 80 mile an hour slow ground ball and he's kind of running down the line like what just happened you know he just just so heavy you know it's yeah it's the best thinker there is going right now Brandon I might have one of the thicker skulls in the room but so when you say that Choi went out before he was announced he went out to the plate and cash hadn't told the umpires yeah this is our our guy yet no so we went Matt Blake went out before Choi came out of the dugout or he might have been I don't know if he was out of the dugout or not but he went out there to settle him not to and then while that was going on and when he was coming back they announced the pinch hitter also the pinch hitter then gets announced so then I wanted to make a change thank you great Aaron you guys have continued to play well at home how important is that for you guys to kind of establish that that dominance at home I mean it's important to play well you know we're you know we want to we want to have a great season and you know usually to do that you got to play well at home and and certainly we've done that so far I know our guys love playing here you know the energy you know the energy at Yankee Stadium is always good but it does feel like you know with the start we've gotten off to it's been there's been a lot of really energetic special nights already for being you know a couple months into the season it's a it's a great place to play and I think our guys are really thriving in that and feeding off of of the energy of this place night in and night out you think he gets fired up anymore there when they intentionally walk ahead of him I don't know I mean sometimes fired up doesn't really help you you know it's you got to control the control the spot sometimes you get fired up you get yourself in trouble as a hitter so you'd have to ask him that yeah


Next question is from Rebel Hammond. Can you tell us your thoughts on the farmer's walk? They are so simple, yet I don't see a lot of people incorporating them into their routine. Yeah, I never thought, I, you know- Justin got a lot of them. Justin got us. Oh, totally, so I didn't have, I thought of farmer's walks like a trainer, you know? Like, okay, it's good for stability. It's good for hand strength, strengthens the back. It makes your body tight. Like, the core activation, it's great for that. Like, I understood it from a trainer perspective, but I'd never understood it from an experience perspective because I never made it a part of a, I'd done them before, but the way I'd do them would be like, occasionally, if I'm gonna have fun with somebody in our workout or whatever. Never train them. Then we wrote the MAPS Strong program. Now MAPS Strong was a workout program that was strongman inspired, and a big part of strongman training is farmer walks, and that's part of their competition. You know, when they compete, they have to carry things in their hands and walk with them. So I worked my way up to almost 500 pound trap bar farmer walks, and I was training them consistently, and I could not believe the muscle that I was building from doing them. It turned my whole body on. My traps, my back, the muscles of course, of the forearms and hands, shoulders, my legs got tight, I could feel my core working. I developed a brand new respect for the farmer's walk, and I consider it to be definitely a top 15, if not a top 10 exercise that people can do. Yeah, much like when you bring up the story about male carriers in your family and how that inspired you to come up with trigger sessions and saw what that did in terms of muscle development, the same with me in terms of playing with certain types of athletes in my career with various sports that I was in. I always noticed there was a certain type of athlete that just had this inner power, this inner strength that was far superior than the other athletes, and most of them that I had experienced and had met were from different farm towns and different places where manual labor was like really rigorous manual labor was a part of their growing up. And it's just one of those things, building up this work capacity and building up this work strength, it's something that I think a lot of people don't really recognize how that also like, it really translates into your overall strength, which then propels you forward even more. So to add that in as something that you can frequently work on and do it at the right dose to where it's not gonna impede on the intensity of your regular foundational workouts, it's gonna get you to be able to endure longer bouts of really strenuous type work in the gym. Well, think about it like this. We've made the case for isometrics on this podcast many a times, right? And I think that we all agree on the value of it and how undervalued isometric exercises are. Name me an isometric exercise that is as intense. And I know Farmer walks, you're moving, so people don't think of it as an isometric exercise, but think about from your traps down to your fingertips, down to your toes with a load, which most people can carry 200 to 500 plus pounds. Name me something that is that intense isometrically on your entire body from neck to your toes. And the posterior chain, which again, we all try to voice that quite a bit. Like we don't consider movements throughout the day to activate and gain connection with your posterior chain very often.  It lights up everything from the neck to the fingertips to the toes. Name me one part of the body when you're holding 500 pounds and walking 30 yards that is not completely... Everything's involved. Everything is connected, everything is lighting up at an intense level. It's not like a plank. It's also one of the most functional exercises.  You're going to pick things up, walk with them and hold them. And so it's a very fun... You get strong at farmer walks. You just are strong. Well, and you've given the analogy that I've repeated a million times, Sal, with the whole speaker and amplifier. You know, I would argue that it's probably one of the best ways to invest in your amplifier. Of all the things that you could do to really strengthen your central nervous system, heavy farmer carries have to be up there with one of the top three, if not the top one. Juice up them amplitudes.


And I don't know it's because they didn't know who Josimar was or they have no idea. They do now, don't they? Silence. They do now. Well, they have responded now after a fashion. We can't go necessarily into details and we've had a dialogue of sorts which has enabled us to clarify a few points, notably for the second piece we did after the football mystery. We had another one which was standard delivery, which focused on other aspects of their activities. Yeah, I read that as well and I would encourage other people to read it as well. Yeah. I certainly would say that a lot of people we spoke to suggest that the opaqueness is deliberate. Indeed. And just to go back on what you were asking there, we didn't just contact 777 for both these articles. We contacted everyone who was mentioned or become one. Absolutely. Yeah. Not just the overall company itself.