As Tom has said, the topic of today's presentation is the role and potential of an informal international grouping known as MIKTA, which stands for the countries which form the group namely Mexico, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Turkey and Australia. I will speak first on the evolution and role of MIKTA and on MIKTA's current priorities with Australia as chair. My colleagues will then speak about MIKTA from their country's perspectives. As Tom mentioned, MIKTA was formed in September 2013 by the foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, the Republic of Turkey, Turkey and Australia, met in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly Leaders Week in New York. As an informal, consultative and cross-regional group, MIKTA was formed in recognition of the importance of strong international collaboration and partnerships as the most effective ways to address global challenges in an age of accelerating change. While a diverse group, MIKTA members like Ireland share the core values of a commitment to democracy, human rights, open trade and economic development. MIKTA also seeks to strengthen multilateralism, facilitate creative and pragmatic solutions to global and regional challenges and to reform global governance structures. Despite its inception, MIKTA countries have also strengthened bilateral ties and enhanced cooperation between them. Through coordination and mutual collaboration on issues of common interest, MIKTA can add value to global and regional responses. Regional actors are gaining new prominence and major emerging market economies are exerting greater influence both globally and regionally. MIKTA members share a capacity to pursue common interests on the world stage, for example in the World Trade Organization and periodically in the United States Security Council, with all five members having served on the UNSC in the last seven years. All the MIKTA countries are also members of the G20, the Group of 20, which of course is the premier forum for international economic cooperation and decision making. The G20 accounts for 85% of the world economy, 76% of global trade and two-thirds of the world's population, including more than half of the world's poor. The combined GDP of MIKTA countries is over 5.8 trillion, which is about 8% of the world's economy and this share is expected to grow. The combined population of the MIKTA countries is around 530 million, about 8% of the world's population. The MIKTA countries are like-minded on many global issues and all are active contributors on the global stage. As such, MIKTA can contribute in a constructive fashion to facilitate solutions to global and regional challenges, including the changing balance of power, the increasing importance of regionalism, the growing relevance of non-state actors, nuclear non-proliferation and the fight against terrorism. The first foreign ministers meeting was in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2013. Mexico chaired the group for its first year, followed by the Republic of Korea. Under their leadership, MIKTA's role and profile developed in keeping with the vision that MIKTA could provide pragmatic and constructive solutions to challenges affecting global prosperity and security. Now under Australia's leadership, the five countries will keep working to develop MIKTA into a meaningful cooperation mechanism. We seek to promote MIKTA as an important initiative that can play a constructive and significant role within the international community and a bridging role between developed and developing economies. Australia is pleased to be delivering a productive year as chair of MIKTA and is keen to ensure that MIKTA delivers tangible outcomes, in particular in terms of embedding habits of collaboration in the multilateral fora. At a recent MIKTA senior officials meeting held in Sydney earlier this year, seven ongoing core priorities were agreed. These were international energy governance and security, energy energy access, counter-terrorism and security, peacekeeping, trade in the economy, gender equality, democracy and good governance and development cooperation. Recent activities to support these priorities include a MIKTA humanitarian dialogue in the margins of the World Humanitarian Summit in support of summit outcomes and their implementation, especially on the topics of disaster and gender, that was on the 23rd of May in Istanbul, and a meeting of MIKTA delegates in the margins of the 11th International Renewable Energy Agency, otherwise known as IRENA, the IRENA Council meeting in Abu Dhabi on the 26th of May, which discussed MIKTA's promotion of energy access. Upcoming activities include a joint statement at the conference of state parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in June in New York and a joint statement on women's rights and the 2030 Agenda for Standable Development at the Human Rights Council in June in Geneva. MIKTA foreign ministers will meet again during the leaders week in the UN in New York, and they will also have various bilateral meetings. MIKTA also reinforces bilateral relationships within the group. For example, MIKTA countries have hosted exchanges of parliamentarians, journalists, diplomats, students and young professionals. Other types of joint activities that MIKTA might undertake include joint statements. For example, MIKTA issued a very important statement on the 9th of January, MIKTA issued a statement on a DPRK nuclear test, which I think is an example of how MIKTA can really engage and, if you like, show its relevance and meaningfulness and make a very important international contribution in areas such as topics such as the North Korea nuclear tests and security issues in that region. Other activities include non-papers that contribute to progress on multilateral issues, advocating common messages and workshops and side events in the margins of major international events. MIKTA is also relevant to Ireland and the EU member states. In January 2015 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade released its foreign policy review, the Global Ireland, Ireland's foreign policy for changing world. The Global Ireland reaffirmed Ireland's principal engagement in international development, human rights, disarmament and UN peacekeeping, and a greater emphasis on global engagement to help secure a prosperous future for Ireland. Ireland has extensive people to people, trade and investment, educational, sporting, cultural and other links with each of the MIKTA countries. MIKTA's merchandise trade with Ireland increased over 25% from 3.4 billion in 2013 to 4.3 billion in 2014 Euro, which is higher than Ireland's merchandise trade with Italy or Spain. MIKTA's diversity and versatility make it a new model for cross-regional and value-added partnership and, as such, MIKTA will serve as a bridgehead for fostering various forms of cooperation. To conclude, MIKTA represents a forum for dialogue and engagement between the EU and five key regional players in the multilateral context on a range of global, regional and transnational issues, and as such it is a representative and a good example of new and non-traditional mechanisms for global and regional cooperation. Thank you.


Thank you very much for the introduction. So good afternoon everyone. My name is Ranjit and I work for Julia Computing. I'm going to be talking to you about Bhadik Reddy Julia. And most of this work was done with Dr. Kiran from Nanikram Intel Labs. So let's get started. So let us ask him a fundamental question. Before we ask that, we should ask why multi-core? Is this better? Maybe I can just hold it. No. So is this better? Yeah. So why multi-core? So as you can see in this also familiar graph here, CPU speeds have been going at about 3.3 MHz. And this chip manufacturers essentially are putting more cores on one chip. So the responsibility has been transferred to the programmer to think about that application and write it in parallel so it can use all the cores on your chip. So this is essentially what's happening in high-performance computing today. Most HPC cores are moving towards hybrid MPI plus X models, MPI plus transfer message passing interface. So essentially you have an application and you have a cluster. So your application will be run by many different processors sitting on different nodes and each of these nodes is a multi-core computer hence these processors will be threaded or rather using a shared memory model to work on the multi-core node. So this of course gives you a lot better performance but it's also prone to program error and you'll see why. So how do you divide work amongst threads? So there are a couple of ideas around this. One is called task parallelism. So task parallelism essentially means that you have different threads executing different pieces of core. Now unfortunately this is a bit of a challenge in terms of correctness. So how do you verify that your final answer is correct? So this task parallelism is notorious for Heisenbergs. Heisenbergs are bugs that come, that serve is known then but other times you don't serve at all. So in Julia we have implemented data parallelism. So data parallelism essentially means you have this large chunk of, large block of data you're dividing into different chunks and threads are operating on each of these chunks. So essentially each thread is executing the same core but everything is happening in parallel. So where does Julia fit into all this? Now if you will take a look at this graph there are a bunch of blocks here but the key takeaway is that each of these blocks stands for the relative difference in performance of parallel core versus naive CEC code. Now this essentially means and if you look at the graph there there's a 50x factor there so this essentially means that you get optimal performance on a large parallel system. There is a lot of architecture specific hand tuning and this increases as the number of cores increases. So that is unfortunately become the industry norm and hence it takes a lot of time to write a decent parallel program that can give you good performance. This is where Julia fits. We're going to try and make that simple. So Julia has a multi threading infrastructure which is currently on the branch chain threading on GitHub and we merged with the .5 master version soon as soon as all the conflicts are done. There is support for logs and atomics. To compile this branch you need to set a flag, Julia and equal threading in one of the header files and you can start using threading. So what exactly is the threading model? Now it revolves around this one macro but half threads. So essentially what we are implementing here is loop parallelism. So let's say you have an iteration space. You can split this iteration space between your threads and everything will run in parallel just as you can see the example code over there. You can do this in a number of ways. For example you can split the iteration space of k equals 1 to n or you can put a bunch of code within a block, million and n or you can get all your threads to follow function 4. So what exactly is happening here? Now at first there is a broadcast operation and then finally there is a barrier. Now this after its macro just expands to a C call. C call is the way you interface with C functions in Julia. This is how we call a C function from within Julia. So what essentially happens is that all the threads get F arguments and all in the reference and all the threads are simultaneously invoking that function F. Now as soon as the thread is done it waits on a barrier so that all the other threads can catch up and then your code continues after that point. Now there are a number of things to consider while doing market trading in Julia. Firstly there should be enough parallelism in the problem. So what if there isn't enough parallelism? So firstly think about this. Your chunk of data which you are operating on in parallel should be big enough.  So essentially these are the things you have to think about. There is also another thing you should think about called thread safety. The thread safety essentially means that you are manipulating your shared data structures the data structures which all your threads are operating on in a safe manner. So multiple threads shouldn't be writing at the same time that particular bit must be serialized and so on and so forth. In the case of app threads to give you a very specific example your second iteration shouldn't be dependent on first. If it were those two operations are inherently serial you shouldn't be using threads at all. So we decide to test this out on a few workloads and does the journey work? So this is a summary graph of the entire the workloads that we put in. So Julia threading is the purple barrier the one of the fourth one. So as you can see it's pretty effective compared to all the others. Julia threading is doing a fantastic job and Julia threading is doing a fantastic job but you can see Julia threading is even fine. Julia threading is doing a fantastic job but Julia threading takes that and that stuff. So the applications here one is a 3D Laplace circle sensor another one is a Monte Carlo simulation a software relation problem another is a Lackus Boltzwheel model a fluid dynamics model. So these simulations have been done on Haswell server of 18 cores per socket and NVIDIA K80 GP TEPR architecture. So let us look into these. Julia threading is the last of one column and Julia single threading is the last column. So as you can see this particular diagram Julia threading is pretty effective and on every workload I'm going to show you something called a scaling graph which essentially plots the performance versus the number of threads you use. So over here you see it scales to about 5 or 6 threads and this happens due to reasons I told you earlier even though there are 18 cores and you'd honestly love to see a NVIDIA scaling graph you'd love optimating cores but unfortunately due to these latencies it sort of plateaus about 5 or 6 threads. In this case though we have a pretty good we have a pretty good scaling graph good scaling up to 18 cores. So all these workloads have been benchmarked against MATLAB and MATLAB accelerated GPU so this particular column stands for MATLAB accelerated GPU this number is about 2.96 seconds and Julia is 3.0 Julia with threading is 3.01 So just close to showing you that with your existing infrastructure you can do a whole lot with multiple cores on your machine. So yeah this is the final this is the final workload. As you can see again Julia threading is pretty effective as compared to the others. So apologies for the we couldn't get this particular directory of MATLAB but yeah Julia threading in this case as well scales to about 5 or 6 threads and then plateaus out plateaus out So other things workloads which we have done whose results are preliminary we actually showed this to sort of demonstrate the effectiveness of Julia's new garbage compiler it is of course Julia Maas has got to be on this new compile now so earlier we had a few issues and then with the new compiler gave us a speed up about 5 threads and this is a 2D wave equation this is actually a showcase workload from MATLAB's website for GPU acceleration that is why GPU acceleration over here is very effective so this is in part the fact that it's very so the thing is very FFT intensive and QFFT which is QDA's 9B550 is highly optimized we are calling FFTW which they call on CPU as well Julia threading still has a bit ways to catch up with that so let me see if I can show you a little demo at this point I can get that is the front visible so I have implemented something called a new classical growth model and that is essentially a model in macroeconomics which is being solved in an iterative manner so just to show you how simple threading is so I am going to start Julia and just run this model for you just do this one hand and the other hand so it's a good path so let's try time which is just called me so as you can see a number of explanations that it's giving over here I think it's about 250 something explanations and it's about 18 seconds let's see what happens for me like this exactly where all you need to do is to add a couple of words and the knowledge which will be part of the machine operations piece let's compile this again so you can see it's basically fast forward oh and it's a good 2x speeder so there you have it folks threading is really simple how many threadings did you find this particular one has 4x you can just check that it was the entrance of mine it's 2x speeder so this could scale further this is a 16th one sheet so I haven't tried increasing the threads and see how it scales what's wrong with your threading what is it doing maybe take that question as in yes it does depend on the number of threads you have and it's important to sort of the area of threads fill the number of threads if you are going to increase beyond that you probably wouldn't be able to we probably wouldn't be able to remind you that it's 4x so that one is just for x86 so this is in collaboration with that so but you are just getting to where anyone are so what's the definition no smart working on this right so essentially you are doing a comparison with matlab that is accelerated with GP in some cases I showed you a number for matlab and yeah junior could be accelerated now just on the board you are getting close by the matlab actually I'm sorry I didn't get one there is a question basically in matlab on GPU so junior would be telling it that could have better than that yes how do you how do you how do you do it I could answer that thank you


So we see that, you know, we are really privileged as believers, right, that Trutu's word, the Lord did, no, he said, I will not leave you, orphans. And we have God the Holy Spirit who is abiding, staying, remaining with us. And he's doing all these wonderful works in us so that he might work through us for the glory of God and the work of the Kingdom. So it's an amazing privilege to fellowship with God through the Holy Spirit, to receive from him all that he wants to give us. Again, he does that through the Holy Spirit and to be equipped, to be empowered, to be anointed, to do the works that he's called us to do. So for us, this is like we looked at and prayed in the earlier session that we would invite the work more and more of the work of the Spirit. So like we saw, the work of the Spirit can be resisted. We can quench the work of the Spirit, how? Well, he leads us and we don't want to follow or he, you know, he prompts us and we kind of disregard that, right? He teaches us and we don't want to receive that. So these are ways by which we can grieve the Spirit when we, you know, having all these things that we indulge in things of the flesh, right? This morning, like John asked a question, you know, about sowing to the Spirit and sowing to the flesh from, you know, from Ephesians again, the fact that, you know, having all this, like knowing all this, when we sow the flesh, then obviously it grieves, grieves the Holy Spirit because you see that so much has been given, right? So much has been given and he's for us and he's with us and he is leading us to discover those things he has placed in our lives.  So it grieves the heart of God when we, you know, turn back and indulge in things of the flesh, right? So for us to really walk in the Spirit, as what God says, walk in the Spirit and we will not fulfill the desires or the works of the flesh, right? Fulfill, we will not fulfill the desires or the suggestions of the flesh. So much has been given, right? And for us to embrace that, to invite and to walk in it, that's the privilege of us as sons and daughters of God and that, right? Maybe I'll choose to do that in an ever-increasing measure every day, right? Okay, so we looked at the kinds of prayer, all kinds of prayer and prayer also being a weapon in the arsenal that the armor of God, the list, which is listed, we see in Philippians 1 that prayer releases the supply of the Spirit. It's a prayer that I think Paul requests to be prayed, Philippians 1 and verse 19. Okay, Philippians 1 19, for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Okay, for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. So the supply of the Spirit, you know, we know that he indwells us, we know that he fills us, baptizes us and there are many infillings, right? We can be filled with the Spirit every day if we would ask him and receive from him, you know that.  So here he says, you know, for I know that this will turn out he's actually in prison and he's talking about those who preach Christ, even from envy and strife and all that. And then he's rejoicing that in every instance, in some way or the other, Christ is preached and he's saying, you know, even this whole thing will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit, right? So the Spirit of God being supplied or, you know, being made available or called, you know, through the prayers of the saints, right? In intervening in his life and deliverance and so on, right? So prayer releases the supply of the Spirit. So if we have questions, you know, why supply of the Spirit when I already have the Spirit or why infilling of the Spirit when I have the Spirit? So a simple answer is this, that he is infinite. There's always more to him, more to different facets to what we have known him and experienced him and because he's infinite, there's always more, right? He gives and he keeps on giving. There's more to him, so more to receive from him as well. Okay. Jude 20 talks about the love of God praying in the Holy Spirit. Let's read Jude and verse 20. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Okay. So it's actually more to do with building ourselves up in our most holy faith, keeping ourselves in the love of God, praying in the Holy Spirit. Now the praying in the Holy Spirit is the connection, right? It's to the key to building ourselves up on our most holy faith. So that's what he says, but you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God. So it would help both to keep ourselves in the love of God and to build ourselves in the Holy Spirit, build ourselves on our most holy faith, when we pray in the Holy Spirit, right? Okay. Okay. Yeah. 20 and 21, right? Okay. So what are some of the other things that we can see? You know, we worship, right? The Lord Jesus says, those who worship God, this is how we must be worshiped. You must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. John chapter 4, 23, 24. And the Philippians chapter 3 and verse 3 also says that, for we are the circumcision who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. So in the Spirit, meaning, you know, as led by the Spirit, as facilitated by the Spirit, and also, you know, John 4, 23 talks about in the Spirit, you know, out of our Spirit, that worship is not something, you know, it's not a ritual or anything, but it's something that is done in the Spirit, in the inner man, worship God in spirit and truth. So both those aspects, we abound in hope by the Spirit. Romans 15, 13, we abound in hope. And that's the work of God, you know. When there is no hope, people lose everything. They lose their zest for life when there's no hope. There's nothing more to do. When all hope is gone and they come to a place of being, saying that, you know, you know, what is, what else is left? There's nothing more, you know, I don't need to continue that kind of a frame of mind, very depressing, very discouraged. But we see in Romans 15 and verse 13. Now, may the God of hope, okay, so hope comes from him, which means that God is always hopeful or if hope is, you know, bubbling up, overflowing and surrounds his presence. Now, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Okay, God of hope, fill you in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so that you and I, we may abound in hope that increase in hope have ever increasing supply. No, there's abundance, right? It's not just a meager thing, but ever increasing supply that we may abound in hope how by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit causes this God, this hope of God, this hope that comes from God and he will cause us to fill us, cause us to abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so which means that even in the most dire circumstance, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the believer has an avenue to receive hope, right? Even in the most dead-end kind of situation. And Paul was there many times and he, in fact, he says, we carried this sentence of death around on our necks, right?  And even in those circumstances, there was this amazing hope bubbling up, hope of eternal life, hope of being with Christ, you know, even if this world, even if this life should end. So there was always hope, right? So something so victorious, something that's triumphant about about the hope that comes from God. So for a believer, you know, maybe for ourselves, we find ourselves in that place saying, okay, God, you know, I don't know, I don't know what next, right? Just relax, because God of hope will fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit, right?   And I used to be, you know, productive, and I was working, but now what? Maybe, you know, many of us can find ourselves in that place. And then we lose all kinds of lose all hope and getting up in the morning is difficult. And going to bed, just waiting, it's like the psalmist says, no, I get up and then just wait for night. And then the night, you just waiting for morning, you know, that kind of a thing, hopeless cycle of life. Now that is broken by the power of the Holy Spirit, who fills you with joy and peace in believing that you might abound in hope, not just for your own selves, but also for others, right? That we can minister by the power of the Spirit, this hope, no, especially for people going through bereavement, people, you know, people having lost their loved ones, and maybe lost their job, or maybe, you know, in such a traumatic situations, they ask that question, right? You know, what, what else is there? I've lost everything. I cannot take a step ahead. Now, the hope is poured out into our hearts. Joy and peace poured out into our hearts, unbelievably, you know, unexplained, unexplainable. Sometimes this peace, which, which you can't have reason for, right? You look around and say, okay, what is the reason for this joy and that I'm experiencing? What is the reason for this peace that I'm experiencing?  Well, the answer is that it's, it's through the Holy Spirit, it's by the Holy Spirit, right? Philippians 4 says, Philippians 4, 7, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, right? Which goes beyond our understanding, that's the peace of God, the peace, the quality of peace that God supplies, right? And, and we see here that in Romans 15 and verse 13, that the God of hope will fill you with this in believing by the power of the Holy Spirit, right? So, so you see that God has given us amazing, he's given us himself, right? And he's given us resources and he's not left us alone, okay? So, as a believer, we need not be hopeless, right?  Galatians 5, 5, for we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith, okay? So, he's talking about the finished work of salvation and he's saying that we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith, okay? So, by the Spirit, through the Spirit here, we have many scriptures through the Spirit in the everything referring to the work of the Holy Spirit, work done by the Holy Spirit, okay? Let's look at another verse, Colossians 1 and it was 18 and Colossians 118. Is it 118? Okay, just check. Yeah, 118, so yeah, it's not 18, 118. So, he is talking about Ipaphras and you also learn from Ipaphras, our dear fellow servant who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf who also declared to us your love in the Spirit, okay? So, again, love for God, love for the people of God and declared to us your love in the Spirit, okay? So, we look at some of these things that the Holy Spirit does and leads the believer into and he is also the one who baptizes into the spiritual body of Christ. The minute we believe we are placed immersed in the spiritual body of Christ where we see in which we see in 1 Corinthians 12 and in verse 13, right? 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 13 says that for by one spirit we were all baptized, okay? So, by one spirit. So, this is not talking about water baptism or baptism with the Holy Spirit but he's talking about the fact that we were baptized or immersed or placed into, right? Baptized into one body that is the body of Christ. Now, as a believer you've accepted the Lord, you're washed by the blood, you're justified, you've made righteousness and we are placed in the spiritual body of Christ. So, when God looks at us, we are part of the body of Christ, the church, the global body of Christ or it could be the local body of Christ, you know, the church in Bangalore or church in, you know, whichever place that you are at, the body of Christ. And then the rest of the chapter, it talks about, you know, whether slaves are free, whether Jews are Greeks, it does not matter, we've been made to drink into one spirit or have this experience of one spirit, receiving from one spirit and we've been placed in the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, okay? So, and then he goes on to say, you know, I cannot say I don't need the other member, right? A foot cannot say I don't need the hand or I cannot say I don't need the hearing, year or whatever. You know, we all have different functions, different gifts and we are placed in one body, the body of Christ, okay? And who does that? The Holy Spirit does that, right? Okay, 2nd Corinthians 13 talks about the fellowship with the spirit, 2nd Corinthians 13 and verse 14, what we normally, you know, use as one of the ways to bless the congregation or the benediction, right? The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you or, you know, normally, you know, some, you know, some churches do that always, pronounce the blessing upon the church, upon the people, believers say, you know, may the grace of God, the love of the Holy, love of the Father, love of the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you or the fellowship, the coedonia of the Holy Spirit, fellowship means partnership, fellowship means sharing, having in common, having as one, the communion, that closeness and the fellowship, the communion of the Holy Spirit, may it be with you, may you walk in that fellowship. So that's a blessing, right, over the believer. Okay, so Galatians, in the book of Galatians and specifically in chapter 3, it talks about, you know, how does the believer experience the spirit? How does the believer experience whatever the spirit brings into a believer's life, whether it's the gifts, whether it's a revelation, whether it's, you know, this communion and fellowship and so on. How does it happen? It happens by faith. Okay, so Paul while refuting the, some of the teachings that are kept into the church, people saying, you know, you need to keep the law, you need to be circumcised in order to be bought again, in order to walk with God. So he's just refuting all that. And in that, he talks about, how did you receive the spirit? How did you receive the work of the spirit? It is by faith. So that is how a believer receives the work of the spirit and the things of the spirit. It's by faith. Okay, so chapter 3 verse 2, this only I want to learn from you. Did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Okay, then the next verse, are you so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Okay, so you started this journey in the spirit, your faith in the spirit. This is how you received the works of the spirit or the baptism, infilling everything you received by faith. Now having begun in the spirit, do you want to complete it in your own strength, right? Or in your own efforts?  Verse 5, therefore, he who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles among you. Okay, so you're saying, whenever you ask for the work or the outpouring of the spirit or infilling of the spirit, okay, you receive it. You know, in the past, you've experienced that. Now he who supplies the spirit to you and who works miracles among you. Okay, now does he do it by the works of the law because you kept the law, because you kept, you know, these things in the law or was it because of the hearing of faith? Was it because of faith? Right, so that's verse 5. And then one more scripture we go to verse 14. He talks about, you know, how, 13 onwards he talks about how we've been redeemed, we've been taken out of the curse, taken out of the curse of the law and how we've been redeemed from that, the negative effects of that, the consequences of that.  Okay, now this is why he did it. This is what he did, right? He became a curse for us on the tree. And this is why he did it, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. So the work of the spirit is by faith and through faith. Okay, it's not because of standard in life. It's not because of our experience in our walk with Christ. It's not because of any other badge or honor or performance. It's not even, this might be shocking. It's not even because of our degree of holiness, you must understand that. Because sometimes, well-meaning people might each saying, hey, you need to be holy in order to receive this Holy Spirit. But the opposite of that is true. But and the spirit whose nature is holy comes to make you Christ-like, comes to sanctify us, comes to help us walk in a greater or a higher degree of holiness. Okay, so don't condemn yourself, saying, I'm not worthy to be used by the Holy Spirit, or I still have some work to do. We will never be better. Or we will never, of our own selves, by the works of the flesh, we will never reach that place of perfection for the Holy Spirit to come and work in us. Just think about it. It's logically, it's a fallacy. It does not work that way. The fact is that the Holy Spirit comes when we receive Him by faith, or when we receive His infilling, and we receive the ministry, receive everything, the gifts by faith, so that we can walk in a greater degree of holiness, right? He enables us to worship. He enables us to see God for who He is. He enables us to discover the plans and purposes of God, the wonderful things that He has for us. He enables us to walk in those plans. For all this, the Holy Spirit does for us and in us, that we might come to a place of being effective and being Christ-like and so on. Okay, so that's the best part. That's the beautiful part, that we don't have to wait, we don't have to get our life cleaned up in order for the Holy Spirit to fill us, or to release His gifts in us, or to talk to us, or to work in us. No, the opposite is what is true. He comes to make us holy. He comes so that by the Spirit, we might put to death the deeds of the body. Okay, so you see, otherwise we'll just be waiting, right? So there's no point. So God wants to step in, step into our lives, and the Holy Spirit wants to come, rearrange our lives for the better, empower us so that we might walk in the newness of life, so that we might walk in sanctification, and all our choices might be pleasing to Him. Right? Okay, so several other things. Okay, He strengthens us. We're a house of God. I think we looked at that. Ephesians 3, 16. He strengthens us in the inner man. Let's look at that scripture. Ephesians 3, 16. This is again another prayer that Paul prays, right? Like how we saw in chapter one, he prays that prayer for the efficient believers. The same thing, he again prays again. Okay, so he says verse 14, Ephesians 3 verse 14, for this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Okay, let's read that again, that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Okay, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. So to be strong in the Spirit, to be spiritually strong, in other words, in other words, we might be physically strong. We might be emotionally strong. The Lord wants us to be strong in the Spirit, in the inner man, to have the capacity to receive from Him, to have the capacity to withstand, you know, maybe challenges, to have the capacity to withstand all those mountains and all those things that seem to come, seem to intimidate because faith is produced in the Spirit, right? It's not something that we understand here, but it goes beyond our understanding and something that enters our Spirit man, same as the peace of God, which surpasses our understanding, goes beyond our reasoning and rationale and logic and it's a revelation, it's something that we receive it, like the fruit of the Spirit. One of the things is peace. What is it? The work of the Holy Spirit, the end or the byproduct, the product of the work of the Holy Spirit is the fruit, which is the peace. And so we receive that in our lives and the peace which goes beyond our understanding here. So in our spirit, we receive revelation, we receive the work of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit and we experience, right? To be strong in the inner man, to be strong in the Spirit, to be strengthened with might in the inner man is again the work of the Holy Spirit, right? Ephesians 4-3 talks about unity, you know, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. You know, he's talking about the body, just there is one body and one Spirit and we were called in one hope of your calling and so on. So the unity, the oneness of in the Spirit that we as God's people experience, or that unity, you know, it's the unity of the Spirit, of the Holy Spirit. And so, you know, I just reminded of this one thing, that we were, when I, you know, first came to know the Lord, I was part of this youth group in a small town called Coimbatore, right? About seven hours from here, six, seven hours from, from Bangalore. So in that youth group, now we had people of different ages, right? The youngest was, I think, that time studying in maybe, I think, class eight or seven or eight or nine, I don't know. The oldest person was obviously someone who would, who had a family and was working at that time and everything in between. So the age, the age was really, you know, the age range was, you know, that it was that way. So it had people who were in their teens, it had people in their twenties, thirties, forties, and even beyond. The people who used to come and teach in the youth fellowship were, you know, people who were kind of in the fifties and senior folks and so on. So they were all part of the youth group. It was called the youth group, but the fact is people of all ages were there. And there was so much unity. There was so much unity, and I can only attribute it. It's not that there were no disagreements, right?  But there was this bonding, there was this unity about things of God in the spirit. And that I can only attribute it to the unity in the spirit, that unity brought about by the Holy Spirit.  But God brought about that kind of a, you know, that kind of a unity. Now looking back, you know, I'm able to understand and realize that hey, this was the work of the spirit. This unity was brought about by the Holy Spirit, right? So unity among the people of God, the Holy Spirit can bring, if we would allow, right? He brings that. Okay, fellowship among God's people. Okay, let's look at Philippians 2 and verse 1. Is it Philippians 1, 2 or 2 and verse 1? Okay. Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit, if any affection and mercy fulfilled my joy by being like-minded. So he's saying, you know, if there is, you know, in other words, he's saying, you know, there is this, you know, there is consolation in Christ, or there is the comfort of love, there is fellowship of the spirit. Okay, so in a way of asking the question, you know, rhetoric is saying, if there is anything, fulfill my joy, you know, knowing fully well that there is. So one of the things that he talks about is fellowship of the spirit, the communion, the fellowship of the spirit. And for what? He says, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. So this fellowship of the spirit also affects the fellowship among the people of God, right? So he's saying, if there is any love, comfort and love, if there is any fellowship of the spirit, affection, mercy, you be the same, right? Let it affect your unity, let it affect your be of one mind, be of one accord. And, you know, that let it affect your fellowship as well, or influence your fellowship as well, right? Okay, a few other things and then I think we'll move on. Okay, so the Holy Spirit, you know, this is something which is important. The Holy Spirit helps us or empowers us to hold on to those things that have been committed to us. Okay, now, 2 Timothy 114. One and verse 14. Let's read verse 13 and 14, verses 13 and 14. Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. So he's talking about teaching, doctrine, sound words, this pattern of sound words.  Okay, so that good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit is given to us. Now, if you read the verses before that, we get an understanding of what some of the things that were in Timothy's possession, right? He is an Ephesus, he's a leader or a spiritual leader of that church in Ephesus. In verse, you know, the same chapter, chapter 1 verse 6 says, Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. So, you know, through the laying on of hands, you know, he has received gift of the Holy Spirit. So he says, gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of hands. So he's saying, you, this is reminding, use it. So that is in his possession.  Then in verse 18, he says, This charge I commit to you, San Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you were, you may wage the good warfare. Okay. So he's saying, you know, there were some prophecies, you received some prophecies, these things were made concerning you. So by then you wage the good warfare.   So to the Holy Spirit really enables us to keep meaning God, protect, walk in it, be established in it, right? Don't lose that.    This is the call, right? This is the path. But you're making some choices, you're making some decisions by which you're straying away. So the Holy Spirit is, you know, what is he doing? He's reminding, he's guiding.  He's guiding into the truth, right, prompting, guiding, and leading, right? So that is how he empowers. He doesn't do it against our will. Okay, we need to understand that. Like all everything that we have seen, the ministry, the work, the empowering, everything is as we cooperate, as we say yes, and as we surrender and eat, right? It's not when we stand in a place of rebellion, or it's not something that is forced upon us, right? He will, he will prompt us, he will alert us, he'll awaken us to the truth. But it requires our cooperation, right? It requires us saying and our, you know, our yes to him, right? He enables us to obey the truth. He enables us to end your persecution. Okay, let's look at that. First Peter 1 and verse 22. Okay, verse 22, give us, first Peter 1, okay, I think I'm in, yeah, right, to help us to obey the truth. First Peter 1, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart.  And then, again, he's talking about the soul, our mind, and which is purified when we obey, our mind is when we, in obedience, there is also this purifying of the soul, meaning, you know, all these unlawful, impure imaginations, thoughts are put away, how one of the ways is when we obey, and obeying the truth through the spirit. Okay, so obeying the truth through the spirit, which results in purifying of our minds, clarity in thinking, clarity in focus. So many times, you know, things are not clear, because we are, we are not still obeyed, obeyed the leading of the spirit. Once we do that, things are clear, we are alert, we realize, hey, I'm compromising on things, you know, I'm compromising on things, I'm missing around with things I should not. And there is a clarity, there is an alertness, there is a freshness, you know, which comes to your, comes to your, your imagination is purified, you're not dabbling in sin, you're not considering acts of sin, you know, maybe it's revenge, maybe it's giving into temptation, you're not considering all that, because you obey the truth. Suddenly there is clarity, suddenly there is purpose, and, you know, your actions are also in line with that, and there's a freshness that comes about, right. Now, how does it happen? It happens in obedience to the truth, and by the Holy Spirit, He leads us, He enables us, but it is we who obey, right, again, right. Okay, so the same, I think when we move to chapter 4, and when we, look at verse 14, if you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part, He's blasphemed, but on your part, He is glorified. So the spirit of God is upon you, and He's saying, you know, you count it a blessing, because you are reproached, or, you know, spoken ill of, or spoken lowly, in lowly terms, for the sake of the Gospel, for the name of Christ, right. So He mentions that, and also, Hebrews 6, verses 4 and 5, Hebrews 10 talk about, you know, how we can actually despise the spirit of God, and how we can speak lowly of the spirit of God, and that's something that we need to avoid, right. I think we, we looked at it a few times, even during our mentoring, Hebrews 6, verses 4, what is impossible, those who are ones that enlightened, have tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted of the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame, and so on. And Hebrews 10 also, 10, 26, or 26 onwards, if we sin willfully, okay, and verse 29 talks about how, how much worse punishment do you suppose would He be taught worthy, who was trampled the Son of God under foot, counted the blood of the covenant by which was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the spirit of grace, okay. Of course, and then He says, you know, we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to this saving of the soul. So these are some things that we can, you know, as a believer, you know, if you're not careful, we can end up doing this, right. Well, we have so much, we have been given so much, we've been given much, we've been given the person of the Holy Spirit to dwell in us, but we have the will to resist, we have the power of choice to ignore and to go our own way, and when we do that, then, you know, we reach a place where we have insulted the spirit, we have discredited everything that He has done, and we, you know, willfully, if we live in that kind of a lifestyle, then it's a state which is pitiable, you know, for the believer, right, and we can end up rejecting Christ altogether also, you know, that's the danger. So, well, when we look at the dimensions of the Christian life of the believer, you know, we look at these things also, right, and the most exciting adventure is the life of the believer and being led by the Spirit of God, being led by the Holy Spirit. You know, Romans chapter 8 talks about that, says that we are led by the Spirit of God. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are called sons of God, or children of God, sons and daughters of God, right. Romans chapter 8 and verse 14, for as many are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God, where you did not receive the Spirit of bondage to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God, okay. Now, this is a privilege to be led by the Spirit of God into the will of God, to know the will of God, to know which agrees with the Word of God that we might walk and do the things that God wants us to, right, to be led by the Spirit into the will of God, which agrees with the Word of God to do the works of God, okay. That's the greatest privilege of a believer, okay. So to do that, okay, to be led, it's relationship. It's not a formula, okay. We will look at several things from now on, okay. The reason I'm saying that is, I just want to reiterate that, the importance of that, because we are going to look at several aspects now. From here on, we are going to look at hearing the voice of the Spirit, baptism in the Holy Spirit, we're going to look at, you know, the nuts and bolts of it, right, break it down, look at it, and so I don't want us to understand that it's a formula, right. Though we will look at steps, we will look at, you know, some of these things in terms of steps, we'll take a close look at these things. But it is relationship, you know, knowing the will of God, being led by the Spirit of God, it, the foundation is relationship, okay. And of course, there are tests to know, am I being led by Spirit of God, when we check with the Word, when we check with several other things, you know, whether it's Jesus glorified and so on, but the thing is it starts with our walk and fellowship with God, okay. So we'll stop here, and the next class we will look at, you know, being led by the Spirit of God, what are those tests, and also, you know, we'll look at our spiritual faculty, you know, like we said, you know, the natural man does not understand, but they are foolishness to him, okay. But also, he is unable or he cannot receive them, for they are spiritually discerned. So in order for the believer for us to be spiritually discerning these things, we need to understand that we have a spiritual faculty, the Holy Spirit speaks to us in our spirit man, and we need to be able to discern, understand, and know these things.  But again, I just want to emphasize that, you know, the foundation of that is our walk with God, our fellowship with the Holy Spirit, so it's relationship again, okay. Okay, so we'll stop here, and look forward to the next class, right, we'll meet again next Thursday. Okay, take care, have a great week, and weekend ahead, God bless. Bye-bye.


I'm a president of the entertainment devices division of Microsoft. I'm a half of our partners, Verizon, Vodafone and Sharp. I want to thank everybody for coming this morning. Now, this is really one of the better parts of my job. And I'm not talking about being with a hundred of my closest friends at a bar in Tenningham. But it is an opportunity for us to reveal what we've been working on in Redmond, in Baskin Robbins, in New Jersey, with Verizon, in Nara, Japan, with Sharp, and I want to make it a Vodafone. And I guess the best way to tell the story is to really go to the customers. And we spent thousands of hours, thousands of interviews with customers to really understand their needs before we wrote a single line of code. So let's take a look at the video of what they think about what they want. Well, I mean, I just kind of like, you know, I'm really good at... So popular. I only actually like really care about like maybe less than 50, and I remember a ton of the different social media networks. The social network that I use the most is Facebook. And really with my phone, I think I like to have all my social media network together. I haven't been kind of on my space, but I don't really connect with anyone on there. That's mainly just for planning musicians or bands, so I like... If I think it's not as easy as I would like it to be, the interface is really hard to use. But it's a little bit restrictive. And I've reached for it and just fell into water. And everything was gone, all my contacts, everything. This phone also doesn't have a flash. And it's a problem I don't want to have. Because it takes a good number of hours to upload it here in my area. And set it to Facebook, set it to Twitter, and send my email to and out of my phone.  Like I want to share that with the world. I take it true. Basically everything and random stuff. I upload them each week. I don't listen to that kind of text messages. It would send it back, send it back, it would send it to Twitter, and put them all out there. Right now my goal is to get as many people as I possibly can into my profile picture. I'm going to miss something just because I'm sleeping. I want to see some pictures when I wake up. I'm a music parent. I mean we were at a show and couldn't hear each other, so we texted back and forth. It was weird that anyone thought that was weird. I'm a student. Facebook is my second job. That's okay. I'm bad more than enough to share with the world. As you can see from the video, this generation, let's call it the social generation, really does have a point of view. They think it, they do it, and they have a mantra for it. So we try to categorize and understand their needs, and I think there's sort of three things that pop for us. The first thing is you're in the video is their social life is their priority number one. And when we thought about that, we kind of came up with this concept of friends, friends and friends. Now people have, you know, as you've heard, thousands of friends who might be people they're friendly with, might be people they're actually not friendly with, but they're people they know. And then there are people who are famous, who they follow on Twitter. Those are also friends in this concept.  And this whole idea of staying socially connected with all of those groups is very powerful for those people. We call them sociologists. And this social connection brings meaning to their life, and it's what they want to do every day. Now the second thing we discovered with this sociologist group is that self-expression is super important to them. What they are, what they're doing, they want to share the journey every day. It's like constantly publishing a magazine of their life. Think about the data this way. Facebook, three billion photos every month, five billion pieces of content shared every week. This is high volume. This is read all about mean things that people are doing.  The final thing we discovered from this audience is they really care about technology, and they're very passionate about it.  They expect things to work on the phone, to work on the PC, ultimately to work on their TV, and they just want it to work where they are, when they want it to work, and how they want it. They have high demands from the technology, and they're very fast allowed with using it. So when you think about that, if you're focused on social connections, you're focused on self-expression, and you're focused on a multi-screen digital life, how do you bring that to a phone? How do you bring that experience to a phone? If you talk to these people, they really haven't had a phone that's been well designed specifically for them. And they want a phone that brings everything that's important to their life in a completely natural way. So now that brings us to... We took that day and we said, okay, what does that mean for our strategy? What are we trying to accomplish in our strategy? And if you think about Windows Phone, Windows Phone is designed to bring the important things for people together on their phone. In February, we announced Windows Phone 7. And Windows Phone 7, we really are creating the best multi-purpose experience we can for a very broad audience of people, whether they're business users or consumers. And we're integrating that into everything that's great that Microsoft has produced, whether that's Bing, or Office, or Xbox, Zoom, Windows Live, et cetera. So that's Windows Phone 7, our broad offering. But as we were working on Windows Phone 7, we also said, wow, we have an opportunity to go after this specific target audience, and we should pursue that. So we took a small group of people, and some of these people are designers, some of them are business owners, obviously some engineers. And we said, explore what you can do if you went specifically after this social group. What if we created something from the same design from the same poor elements as Windows Phone 7, but customized it uniquely for this audience around social communication? In the words of the team, they said, how do we truly, madly, and deeply understand that audience and their social needs? And how do we bring things so they can share their life with their friends, their friends, and their friends? And so the team, you know, worked on that, and they basically said, look, we're going to crank social up to 11, just like we did with Xbox and social on Xbox One. We're going to take that experience and make it central to what we're doing on the phone and see what comes up. And so they have crafted a phone approach that focuses in that way. And so our strategy is really a cohesive focus around Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7, that will bring the multi-purpose phone for the broad audience to market later this fall. And then a new deeply social phone that will give people what they want. Windows Phone 7 is about simplifying people's lives. This social phone is about amplifying. So when we got to a checkpoint with this team partway through the project, they showed me what we call an experience book and a concept video, and I saw that and I said, ah, this is no longer just a test or an experiment. This is something that's exciting. I've seen the passion of Windows Phone 7, and I've seen that before. I've seen it with Xbox, and the work we've done with Xbox Live and later this year with Project Mental. I typically plowed into Windows Phone 7, and the great work we're doing, which again, will ship this ball. So I told that team, I said, be absolutely laser focused. Make the social connection, make the phone that brings that to life. And they really done that. So what we're here to announce today, and it's unveiled today, is a phone that lives together a tight community of kindred spirits whose lives are shared and who broadcast all the time It's a phone that personifies, if you'll pardon the pun, true kinship between people and technology developers and customers. So today, I want to introduce you to the newest member of the Windows Phone family, Kim, a phone designed to navigate your social life. Please welcome Derek Snyder, Senior Product Manager for Kinty. He's going to take you through the product. Derek.


My name's Duffy Cooley, I'm the field CTO at ISOvalent. I'm also a CNCF ambassador. I feel like one of my big jobs is actually making people feel welcome and included in this huge community and trying to make it seem a little bit less daunting to actually to be a part of it. And the way I do that is by sharing knowledge, I do it, I go live stream, I do a bunch of other things and that kind of thing. So in the prospect of this talk, I decided to bring a cube to KubeCon because why not, right? And I'm gonna solve this one live and I wanna share with the idea of this talk is it's a talk about perspective, right? One of the things, when I was a kid, somebody handed me a Rubik's Cube, I was like eight or 10 or 12 years old or something like that and I remember thinking at the time that it seemed obvious that somebody should just be able to hand somebody Rubik's Cube and that person should just be able to solve it without having to learn how to or learn any algorithms or anything else like that. I think that a lot of people feel this way about what we do, about infrastructure and about coding. They think that, you know what, everybody's doing it, I should just be able to start. I should just be able to, you know, jump in and start doing that thing. And in reality, that's actually not the case, especially not with cubes and certainly not with coding and certainly not with any of the work that we do. We just haven't really thought about all of the work that we put into it over time. So this is a reminder of that perspective problem, right? When we start in a particular area of study, we start thinking, you know, we start building up expertise around that area and as we get further and further into that area of study, it becomes more and more, we have more and more intuition about what happens next. We understand what the steps are to troubleshoot or to evaluate a problem or figure out like what we're actually going to be doing, what order to take things in just so we can ask more intelligent questions or even solve more complex problems. And that's great, right? Because as we build more expertise, we're better at our jobs, we are able to solve more complex problems more quickly, et cetera. But this is a reminder that like we should all just take a moment and just make space for those that are starting out. And remember that, you know, even when we were starting out, there were so many things we didn't know, right? Like so many things that we thought were really hard as we started out, right? And I think that this is just, I mean for this talk to be a reminder of that. Make space for things that are easy for you now and hard for others because they haven't been on that journey. Remember what it was like for you when you started out. Maybe you're just starting out now and understand that, you know, this stuff is hard for everyone and one of the best things that we can do for each other is make space for that to be hard for everyone. For the last layer here.  I apologize for that. Oh, a little troubleshooting on the fly. I don't think I could probably do this cube like this if I didn't have to trans, but it works out. Our last step, I was initially gonna do this with a Bluetooth cube so that you could actually see this happening with a Bluetooth cube, but sadly, there's no A.B. setup for lightning talk so I was not able to do that. But that's interesting. I think I'm going to be able to pull it out but just give me just a moment while I figure this out real quick. 25 seconds, green light here, green light here. The other thing that's interesting and perspective wise is that this is a much larger cube than I'm used to. And so what that means is that you have to kind of like relearn so many of these algorithms that I would normally do on a cube that is a significantly smaller. So now we're back to that. I can actually feel you rooting for me. It's amazing. I'm out of time. And this is the last talk. Yeah, the demo gods come for us no matter what we're doing. Finally, thank you all for being here. Make time for everyone to find this stuff complicated. Lift everyone up around you and enjoy a really great cube come.


Fuckles, career, long on beaten run has come to an end. Her and Rachel Blackmore could only manage third in the Hattons grade hurdle at Ferry House this afternoon. The star mayor came under the race with 16 ones from 16 races, but it's now 16 ones out of 17. And we're gonna stay with horse racing. And I'm delighted to say, joining me on the program, this afternoon is Apprentice Champion Jockeys at Onigoman, Dylan Brown McMonegal. How are you, Dylan? How are you doing, Ashin? I'm not too bad, good to see you, Dylan. You too, how are you keeping? Ah, I'm keeping good, I'm keeping good. Listen, no racing for you this weekend, so how does an Apprentice Champion Jockeys relax on a Saturday and a Sunday, Dylan? No, it's just work is normal. We'll be riding out in the morning times, and we'll just be chillaxing then for the evening, but I was suspended for two days this Friday night, and there's an upcoming Wednesday night in Dundalk, so I'll be back next Friday racing again in full flight. Oh, very good. Well, listen, we're gonna recap on the year. The target, obviously, when you started the year was to be Apprentice Champion Jockey again. You've done that at times, it seemed to be with your ease still, and you were quite comfortable in the Apprentice ranks this year. Were you happy with how the season went, because you really had that title wrapped up, and you had it in the bag from well out, so you had. Yeah, it was fairly plain sailing, and fairness, everything went very smooth from the start of the season. We got off to a really good start, and the ball just kept on rolling the whole way throughout. I got loads of good support, and I got put up on playing two good horses, and I had some big winners along the line as well, which was a bonus, but to get the boot championships was massive. Yeah, it was huge, surely, and I suppose of the ones that you had this year, you picked up your first Group 1, Group 1-1 in Ireland at the Corre on Al-Rifa. That was a big day for you, and a big day for your career? Yeah, it was unbelievable, obviously, to get those kind of opportunities on the big stage in the Corre in a Group 1, and it doesn't get much better than that. So to be able to get the job done for Joseph and the owners on a very exciting horse, it was great. And onwards and upwards now for the future, hopefully it'll be the first of many. Yeah, will you be back on in Al-Rifa again next year and hoping for another Group 1 along the way? Yeah, please, God. He's just on a little break. He finished up first season after he won the National Six actually in the Corre, just giving him a bit of time to strengthen up, and he'll be back bigger and better next year, I'm sure, and he'll be on an exciting colt, I'm sure, for the future. Yeah. What was the other stand-out performances and results that you've set in your mind, Dallin, that you really enjoyed this year? I obviously had a Group 2 winner in France on Brossig, a sprinting Fiddy who climbed up to the ranks very quickly as a three-year-old. She had a couple of big days. I had two Group 3 winners on Tranquil, they had a Group 3 winner on a gear up around Leipzig as well. I won the Apprentice Derby, obviously, for the second time as well, so there are just a couple of highlights. So a very good season all around. And to beat last year's Tally as well on the last day was brilliant. Yeah, just topped it off. You have a great relationship with Joseph O'Brien, so you have? Yeah, we're going very good at the minute. He's looking after us very well, giving me loads of support, and he's not scared to put me up in the big day as well, which is very, very good. And I'm just very grateful for the opportunities. It's not an easy sport. There's plenty of very good riders in the yard with me as well, Shane and Declan and Mikey and all the boys there, so there's plenty of us there with loads of horses, plenty of top-class animals, so I'm just very grateful to be getting the opportunities and getting the results. Yeah, obviously, you'll be out of the Apprentice races next year, but what does Joseph hope for you for next year, Declan? How would he like to see your career progress from where it is now, heading into 2023? I'm not sure. We wouldn't really talk much about that. We just take it as it comes. But obviously, it's going to be my first year without being an apprentice, so I won't be able to ride in Apprentice races, etc. for this season coming. I lost my claim at the start of the year, so I've already rode a season without my claim, so it's going to be the same as that for next year. I'm just going to be missing out in Apprentice races and the Apprentice title, but I'll be a professional next season, so I'll need to pull up my socks and be at my best. I'm sure you will. Listen, Martin Harley at the moment is going well in Australia. I think he's eight or nine ones down under, and he's decided to commit there. And obviously, Jocky's at this time of year decided to go to other countries to race, Declan. I hear you're going to be heading to Dubai shortly. Yeah, Martin's getting on very good. It's good to see his change working out for him anyway, and he's getting on good. But yeah, during the winter, obviously, when the Irish flat season finishes up and the English, a lot of riders go out far into America, Australia, Dubai, et cetera, for different races. Because the season, obviously, is only getting going out far in Dubai, et cetera. So I'm going out there in January to Bupetsumar for the month of January, so it's something to look forward to as well. And it'll be a breakaway from everything as well. Yeah. What kind of horses are you going to be riding out there? And I suppose what's the contact out there for you, Don? Yeah, Bupetsumar is obviously a very high-class train out there. I'm just going out there to ride out and get some experience just to see a different part of the world and learn the ropes over there. And hopefully I might be lucky enough to get a few rides around Dubai as well. That would be just a bonus, but I'm just going over there for the experience, working, et cetera, meet new people, and learn as much as I can. Just overall in the sport, obviously we were watching you with the pony races and running around the country, and we were all talking about Don Brown and Monago when you were going to make the step up. But who was your idol in the horse racing world when you were younger, Don? Who was it that you looked up to? Because you're in a position now where young jockeys who are coming through the pony ranks are watching what Don Brown and Monago's doing. When you were that age, who was your idol? Who were you looking up to? I always looked up to the riders that used to ride pony racing for Adrian, which was like East Anahu, Racer, Ryan, Shane Foley, all those kind of guys. Obviously Ryan, Mara, Colin, Keane, all the top riders, they'd be looking up to them all. And it's really, there's plenty of good top class riders in the country to be looking up to, and they're all absolute gents, and they can't do enough free as well when you're looking for advice. But obviously the pony racing was a big help for me. I wouldn't be where I am without it today because up in Donegal, there's obviously no racing background at all, really. There's only a handful of trainers up there, Charlie. Charlie, Mara's obviously the main one. He's going well at the minute. Kyle obviously has a couple of horses with him and Declan and the boys, and they're getting on good. So it's not a massive racing world up there. So without the pony racing, I definitely wouldn't have got into horses with my uncle Adrian and Hugh, and my whole family wouldn't have had horses only for the pony racing. So that's what got me into it, and that's where the bug comes from, really, and that's where I took off from the start. You mentioned him on there, Charlie. Mara, you rode a couple of owners this year for him. Did you don't? We did, yeah. We had plenty of luck together. We've got a strike rate, but now the horses were running well for him all season, and he deserves the success, I guess, and it's not easy being way up north and then he got just outside Letter County there with a couple of horses, because taking on the big boys down here with hundreds of horses in the yard, it's not simple. So Charlie does a great job. Johnny obviously rides out for him as well, and Owen goes in my hand, et cetera, and I'm sure there's plenty behind the scenes as well, it goes on in hard work, but now we've got good results this season, and hopefully next year will be as good. I know we mentioned Martin, Harley, who's down under. We'll mention another jock, and I know your big buddy's with him, and your friend's from Washington, currently with Richard Fahey in the north of England. He had a really, really good week last week, so we had four owners in the one night. It wasn't a bad night's work for him, Dylan, was it? No, definitely. He deserves the success he gets as well. He works very hard. It wasn't easy, obviously, going over and making the change over to England, but he hit the ground running, and he's going very good. He's in a big stable over there. They're looking after him really good, but he's a top man. He's a very, very good rider. He works hard at his weight, et cetera, and the results show. Do you have much baller with the weight and keeping fitness going, Dylan? No, you just try your best to stay as fit as you can as possible, but my weight's good at the minute, so I don't have to worry too much about it, just staying fit and healthy is the main one, really. What keeps you fit? What sort of training do you do? Well, during the summer, when we're racing every day and how does summer like the race, and we'd be racing every day, so we wouldn't even have time to be going to the gym and stuff. It would only be on the days off, and in the wintertime that you'd be going to the gym and using the simulator and treadmills and going swimming, et cetera, but during the summer, we'd be race fit. We could have three or four or five, six rides every day, so that keeps you fit. You'd be doing plenty of travelling, so it's training as well, but once you get fit at the start of the season, it usually holds off then throughout, but we were up early in the morning working hard right now before we go racing as well, and you wouldn't be like too late, so it's not that easy, but you just have to try your best. How do you relax then? You have your own wind after a busy day of riding and working hard in the stable. What does it do to relax still? The only time we really get to relax when we're racing in the summer is in the way home in the car. If we're not driving, we get to snooze for a couple of hours, that's about it, but when we get back, we get a bit of food and be straight to bed and back out to the next day, but it's a full-time job seven days a week, and you just have to enjoy it really. I'm very lucky. I've got plenty of support and I'm getting good success, which makes my life a lot easier. Lestin, you'll be home for Christmas? You'll go back for a few days? I will be, yeah. I'm from home in the 22nd, I think after the last meeting in Dundalk for a week or so, and I'm sure I'll be back over the New Year as well, and then I'll be gone to Dubai for January, so I'm really looking forward to it now and getting home and seeing everyone. Christmas is definitely my favourite time in the year to get home and spending time with family, so it'll be good to see everyone again. We might see you over the Christmas period. Dylan Brown-McMonagall. Many thanks for joining us today and we wish you all the best with your continued success. Thanks for joining us. Thanks very much. So there you go, Dylan Brown-McMonagall. Apprentice, champion Jockey, of course, for the second year in a row, and he's heading off to Dubai now in January. We're just going to experience, I suppose, horse racing in a different part of the world, in a different culture, and again we wish him all the success to turn off the year. 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The challenge of the Yukon It's King, swiftest and strongest lead dog of the North country Blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the Northwest Monmouth police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers Gold gold discovered in the Yukon a stampede to the Klondike in the greedy race for riches Now back to the days of the gold rush when Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog King battle through storm and snow to preserve law and order as they met the challenge of the Yukon Far north of the Arctic Circle near Mackenzie Bay a band of Eskimos were hunting seal The winter had come suddenly that year and the freezing wind had covered the vast expanse of water with thick ice As they approached the bay Olock the leader suddenly stopped and pointed ahead talking in his native tongue to weboo his brother What is that that moves slowly on the white snow? It's not a seal or a bear See there are two together They walk first on their hind legs then crawl on all fours They are men like us They fall down and then drag themselves to their feet come we must help them They're white men one is still as if dead help us We've been without any food for days We're it helped me with a weboo. He has fallen The other one is he alive? Yes We must get dogs and slanted. We can take them back to village and give them food and shelter Weeks passed and the two white men lay in an igloo too weak to help themselves The Eskimos were kindly and fed them what food they had and so the men could sit up and talk to each other They were alone in the small snow house when Hank Peterson the stronger of the two sat up for the first time Like summers his partners still lay quietly on his bed of furs. How do you feel big still kind of hard for me to breathe There's no air in the stinking hole and that lamp makes it worse better than freezing Guess we're lucky to be alive. I wonder if we'll ever be able to find the boat Wouldn't do us much good frozen in solid We should never taken a chance like that We were two weeks later and we said we'd be schooner couldn't wait for us It was a winter hidden too soon that really did it How do I know the ice would get so thick this time of year not a good the trip to this You thinking you could get furs trading with Eskimo tribes. He didn't even see any Eskimos until now You didn't know anything about the country up here with your yapping We're not through yet not through We're stuck here until the ice melts next spring Even then maybe we'll never find the boat these Eskimos will find it for us soon as I'm strong up to go with them I'm not telling them about it yet though. Why not? They could be looking for it when they go on the hunting trips make you haven't been well enough to notice things around here These Eskimos don't know a thing about white men. There's only one of them who can speak any English at all What's that got to do with you realize that right here in this smelly rats nest We're sleeping on a fortune in furs Well, I noticed was a war the men of this tribe are good hunters The only reason they hunt is to get food and furs to cover themselves They don't know the value of them. You think we can trade with them when we're strong enough. We'll get back to the boat We've got a lot of cheap junk there that we can trade for a valuable furs These Eskimos having any guns As soon as we're on our feet we can take over this village just the two of us We'll get every valuable pelt they bring in and by spring we'll be out of here rich man. They're quiet Someone's coming through the snow top. Why be quiet. They don't know what we're saying It's probably that toothless old hag that brings us that dinner every day. Oh, yeah, it's all you are Well, the old calm has learned another English word Soup you say thanks you are thanks for this stuff. I think they're doing the best Look at that for color on it. That's white Fox And that coat or whatever it is you call it. It's made of sea otter pelt's a Fortune and furs on that wrinkled old hag see Zuluck's mother. He's the best hunter in the tribe.  You see oolock winter caught us early Our boat was locked in the ice. I'm afraid that's too hard for him to understand Hank. All right, you tell him.  Me no cold come much ice catch boat can't go Where this? Well, you savvy where you find us Yeah Me me no it to three sleeps from there Both no go for many son. We don't want to leave in it. We'll come back here We got many presents on both for your people. Hey, don't say that present. Yeah You take us both Oolock got strong dog team they take Find the boat good We'll leave soon, huh? One sleep We go that means you'll start tomorrow fine I wish you hadn't said that about the presence that I had to do that to give them confidence in this now Tomorrow is it? Tomorrow we start to make our fortune From the day that Hank and Vic brought back the cheap calico beads nails and small mirrors for trading purposes Life in the peaceful Eskimo village began to change Hank beamed with satisfaction as he looked at the big stack of pelts. He had accumulated But Vic looked troubled look at him Vic. It's a fortune and we ain't half started Those Eskimos are working their heads off together.  That ain't my fault I'm not afraid of a lot. They need those furs for clothes and bedding We're lucky this brother has stopped trading with us. I notice Maybe it's time I showed who luck that he ain't had man in this tribening. I think that's too dangerous Who luck isn't a fool? He and his brother are the best hunters and the most intelligent members of the tribe. They're all afraid of my gun Yesterday I hit one of them with my dog whip when he tried to trade me a hide with a rip in it He crawled like a dog and I didn't have any trouble They know who's master now There's who looks brother way boo. Let's be coming home from this traffic way room Way boo stop Workman Want me? Well, you've got some nice furs this trip. Didn't you? Oh much good hunt. Go on in See what you'll take for them. Oh Me no trade furs and meat my family called hungry who luck say No more trade with white man. Oh, he did did he? But I'll show you whether you'll trade with me or not. Give me that door You want to taste of this tool Get whip get back. I say I've got a gun.   He's out in the police cabin with inspector Emerson a man who had had a great deal of experience in the north country We have a big job up here sergeant. So I understand sir some of the Eskimos in these parts have never seen a white man It's our job to educate them make them understand our ways and our laws. They're quite harmless aren't they inspector? Eskimos are generally speaking a peaceful happy race, but they are also intelligent brave They resent it naturally if anyone takes advantage of them and then they're far from harmless They have a great deal of racial pride That's why we must be careful in the administration of justice I suppose it might be advisable to see the crimes of the Eskimos eyes before we make an arrest. That's it exactly sergeant By wise and fair treatment we can win their respect and confidence. Oh, well get it, sir Inspector Emerson is here. I'm Sergeant Preston. Oh, we got a man out here in our sled We found him about five miles out of town. Well, he's almost dead He's got lost in that blizzard a few days ago.  Well, take your shoulders. You take his feet. We can handle him. Thanks I'm afraid there ain't much hope for him. He's pretty far gone Want me to help? He'll take care of him Jake. I'm glad you brought him here You'd better get some brandy sergeant over there in the cupboard. Let me know if there's anything I can do. We'll do that. Thanks You killed it that night Give him a little his hands and feet are frozen Afraid there isn't much we can do here.  We'll do all we can for you Is thank your partner Where is the village? Maybe more who was the Eskimo who killed your partner? Take a little more brandy.  We'll get him for killing your partner. No, no, he wasn't he's unconscious So I doubt that he'll come out of it. He's dying in a coma. Well, we can be thankful that he had a few moments of consciousness We got some information This looks like your first case up here sergeant.  Yes, sir I'll start out to find that village only tomorrow morning. I'll send quick my best Eskimo guide with you He speaks English and Eskimo both And my advice to you is to send quick to the village alone first You can sound him out about their feeling toward white men come back to your camp to report You'll know what to do after that. Yes, sir. I'll get my surprise ready tonight and start the first thing in the morning inspector Sergeant Preston and Kuig had searched for almost a week through the vast snowy wasteland of the Arctic But had seen no sign of the Eskimo village they were seeking The following day, however, they came upon the former camp of a hunting car Somebody made camp here a quick Eskimo hunting party here. Hmm. See blood on snow for them cut up game. They killed what means we must be near their village Maybe 10 20 mile Trail from here not hard to follow Maybe me go to village now, huh? It better you stay here. You're probably right quick We'll build an igloo and I'll stay in there until you come back They take you two or three days you be all right load Don't worry about me.  Uh, I come we build snow The next day is sergeant Preston with King beside him started out over the rugged terrain that was near McKenzie Bay As he topped a rocky ridge that was covered with snow He saw a black speck move on the smooth surface that stretched out before him Thinking it might be a seal. He adjusted his binoculars. Wait a minute King pair of this ice is bad. Oh, see what that is It's not a seal. It's a man Calling on his stomach. What it It looks like a polar bear over there into those rocks below the mouth He had drama was being enacted an Eskimo was stalking a half-grown polar bear That slept on a small rock nearby winds coming this way and you can get there sat can to King I never saw those patients man's moving an inch at a time So interested was the malty in watching the drama below him that he kept the glasses glued to his eyes as he moved to The right to get a clearer view and then suddenly the crust of snow on which he stood gave way and he felt himself falling into A crevice that had been covered by a light crust of snow a stinging pain chopped through sergeant Preston's right arm And they hit the bottom of the crevice and delay half-stun for a moment, but my arm I Can't Get help boy get that man bring him back I can't move fellow my legs hurt to get him boy bring him back here The Eskimo Ulock smiled to himself as he inched forward on his belly toward none of the polar bear He pictured his triumph when he entered the village having killed a bear alone No one had ever done this before and while this animal was not full-grown. It would still be a great victory Cautiously he drew his spear rose to his feet and hurled at a spot near the beach shoulder where it would enter the heart But just then man was moved and as the spear struck the great animal roared with pain and fury The wound was not fatal and Ulock raced away drawing another spear as the bear charged As Ulock turned to pull the spear, his foot caught on a jagged piece of ice and with a cry of terror he fell It was then that the terror-stricken man saw the form of a huge gray dog Launched through the air at the side of the charging beast. The bear reared up on its time's leg and with a twist of its body, sent the dog rolling into the snow Ulock was on his feet, curling his spear, which this time found its mark. The bear sprawled in the snow at the Eskimo's feet Ulock looked with wonder at the big dog that had saved his life As King came toward him, Ulock spoke to him in Eskimo You are not a wolf Did you come from the sky to save me?  Come, I will give you the best of me from the carcass of Nanook who would have killed me Why do you pull at my coat of skin? You are in trouble You are telling me something Yes, yes, I will follow, but I will follow you Sergeant Preston lay at the bottom of the shallow crevice his face twisted with pain His right arm and shoulder were badly wrenched and every movement was agony Then he heard the welcome sound of King's bark As the muttie looked up at the opening above him He suddenly saw the head of a man the face framed in the fur of his park are looking down at him Help get me out of here Yes, have you a rope a line or something he's got line She'll skin that'll do it and think I can tie it around me Me not like white man.   Well, maybe you'll get me out of here for him. He's my dog They do For dog my arms hurt, but I can use the other one. I can brace my feet against the side of this wall Tie the rope to King's harness.  Thanks What's your name? Me who looked huh? My dog's name is King He likes you look that tells me you're a good man. I can trust you be like dog Be not like white man. Well, at least you're honest about it. I I can't walk very well You look my ankles hurt But with you on one side and King on the other maybe I can make it Come on before that storm hits which is if we're in for a blizzard For two days the terrible arctic blizzard whistled around the snug house of snow and beat upon its walls with fine pellets of ice Hurled by the wild wind and for two days Sargent Preston with kind words and understanding Gradually melted oolok strong prejudice against the white men When the storm cleared and the sun shone again on the land the mountain and the Eskimo were friends The following day oolok had gone out to hunt when sergeant Preston heard the sound of his dog team, which meant kiosk returned Going out King. I must be doing You all right hello to a had an accident, but it's not serious blizzard stop me from coming back Sergeant we must go away fast. Huh? What's wrong quick?  Yes, he's fine.   They know white man here. They mustn't have any bloodshed It's too much for only here. I know King King boy Go find oolok King find him King and bring it back Well, you must understand King oolok fella bring oolok back get him boy He'll get him. Yes, he can find him soon as a new code. He'll follow his scent. I hope he's not too far away Is that a dog team our dogs are parking me look out and see Then come six men Then come fast. I'll be safe in here for a while. They have no guns when they get close to it Shoot over their heads in the doorway. That'll keep them away from the opening Oh, they know you're with a white man. He think maybe they understand me. Tell them you good man me your guide Then get very mad say oolok tell them kill all white man They're getting close quick be careful when you fire shoot over their heads and stand back from that opening They can close spirits in the long distance All right quick shoot back quick get back That's beer came right to the skin coming the opening then go back away from door of snow house I'm afraid of gun keep watching quick. I could only use my arm if any of them get near the door I've got a gun over their heads again them back of snow house Listen, what's that? That's right chop all the snow house Keep watching that opening quick. I'll watch these walls. I can use my gun with my left hand I'll fire through the first break. They make you better fire at the door again to scare them My wall is beginning to crack. I'll have to shoot Is that king me see? King come good Oh, you made it fella.  Long ago our God made the world He owns the world The people also he made And he owns them The proclamation that oolok read is the same with a few changes That still hangs in every indian and eskimo village in the uconn territory and Explains how the mounted police are their guardians and protectors The eskimos listened solemnly, but when a man commits murder At once tell me queen servants the police And they will come and bind the murderer and the ruler shall judge him Thus our God commands us So you are to follow the queen's command This man is sergeant Preston He is the queen servant and our friend He is white man's law. Thank you oolok And now I want to give you a present this rifle and these bullets It will make your hunting easier Tomorrow I'll show you how to use it stick the supplier oolok now great hunter white man him Many thank you All white man friend now You and great dog king Make it sure Yes, king thanks to you this case is closed The challenge of the ucon a copyrighted feature is brought to you each week at this time and all names and incidents used are fictitious Listen again next week to another exciting adventure during the days of the gold rush Fred boy speaking this program came to you from Detroit For 30 minutes of listening loaded with suspense and excitement It's hard to top the gangbusters show on the air every Saturday night over most of these same ABC stations Thrilling action is always the keynote of gangbusters right from the clattering opening of the machine gun and marching feet Until the last absorbing minute of this fast-moving program Every Saturday night gangbusters brings you dramatizations of actual cases fresh from police blutters of crimes that have threatened the peace and security of our nation Gangbusters not only serves to make the American public more aware of crime and its danger It also serves Americans everywhere by broadcasting up to the mad descriptions of persons currently wanted by some police department in the country Don't forget gangbusters is heard every Saturday night. 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And as part of efforts to drastically reduce security threats in Lagos and its environs, the commandant of Nine Brigades of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Isang Uwong, Akpao Montia, set the recent need to constantly get miscreants out of Ojota access of the state. Akpao Montia set the zone has become an avenue for drug addicts and other forms of criminalities. He spoke during a recent raid by troops of Exercise Still Water, plus TV News correspondent Destiny Momohazmo. Exercise Still Water, which replace Exercise Crocodile Smile, is expected, among other objectives, to combat kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry and other crimes within Lagos and Ugun States. The commander Ninth Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Isang Uwong, Akpao Montia, leads a team to Ojota area of Lagos where some miscreants are nabbed. No place for you. And we want to assure the citizens that Lagos is calm. We want to make sure that we are in charge. We dictate what happens. Citizens should be able to go above their normal business, not being afraid. Why? Why should we be afraid? So that's what we are trying to push because it's the vision of children and staff, that we should have this. And my general officer commander, General Ajunwan, who has now been to Ajunwan, encourages us to make sure that we don't give any space to these kind of people so that we can have a peaceful area, especially as we work towards the elections. Recently, there was a fracas between security operatives and the European nation group, which had organized a rally, but a commander claims the operation in Ojota isn't a fallout of the crisis. This is not a fallout of the European nation activities. We've been doing this. Not too long ago, we were on a Lagos express road. We were there and then two divisions covered close to the upper side of that area. Just to make sure that there is no interference of these woodlands on the people. So that is why... So this is not a fallout at all. It's not a fallout of that. We'll be having this as the day goes by. We'll be having it in multiple places in a day or a night. As elections draw close, the troops are on a lead to ensure citizens go about their normal life without fear. Destiny Mama, Plus TV News.


Extension officers from across the Caribbean region have gathered for a week-long Comprehensive Farm of Field School Facilitator Training, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development in collaboration with the ACP-MEU's three project. The training aims to enhance their facilitation skills and provide them with updated knowledge and tools for delivering effective Farm of Field School Extension programs. Throughout the training, Extension officers will explore various topics related to the Farm of Field School implementation, including the purpose and potential impact of Farm of Field Schools, strategies for planning and community engagement, and familiarization with the recently updated Farm of Field School Manual. The objective, as stated by the ACP-MEA's three-original project coordinator, Therese Yad, is to enable Extension officers to better engage with farmers, share information and provide guidance on the responsible use of pesticides. The FAO has supported the update of St. Lucia's Farm of Field School Manual, which dated back to, I believe, 2006. Mr. Lexis, so you now have a new Farm of Field School Manual, which we're in the process of developing to publish as an official FAO publication. So we're very pleased about that. And as well, following on from this training, we will be supporting the Extension Services Unit in the delivery of Farm of Field Schools focused on reducing the use of highly hazardous pesticides. So before the end of the year, hopefully some of you who participate in this training today will actually be involved in the delivery of Farm of Field Schools in your respective region. Chief Extension Officer Iloya Lexis expressed enthusiasm about the acquired skills and resources. He emphasizes the importance of the training in enhancing the ability of the Extension officers to deliver impactful Farm of Field School programs and support farmers in adopting sustainable agricultural practices. This movement has spread globally as an effective teaching methodology. The concept embraces the preservation of agroecological system to guarantee sustainability of production. As sectoral leaders, we must be equipped with the requisite knowledge which will help cushion the myriads of challenges faced by our farming sector, which has the potential to weaken our food security status, aggravate onsets of non-communicable diseases, and the destruction of the environment. The collaborative effort of the Ministry of Agriculture and the ACP-MEA's project in organizing the Farm of Field School facilitator training highlights their commitment to promoting sustainable agriculture and food security in the Caribbean. With improved facilitation skills and the updated manual, Extension officers will be equipped to lead Farm of Field Schools, empower farmers, and contribute to the agricultural sector's development. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting.