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Prosecutors in this case doctored evidence. They did not investigate this case, and when they had to come to the court of the Senate to put their case on, because they hadn't done any investigation, they doctored evidence. It was absolutely shocking, I think, when we discovered it and we were able to expose it and put it out. Just follow up with a point that you're making right now about the House managers, as you say, doctoring evidence, and the arguments to be clear for our viewers. They didn't deny it. To be clear for our viewers, what you're talking about now is a check mark that's a verification on Twitter that did not exist on that particular tweet, a 2020 that should have actually read 2021, and the selective editing, you say, of the tapes. Is that the doctored evidence of what you're speaking? That's not enough for you? That's not enough for you? I'm not a juror in this trial, what I'm trying to be clear for our viewers is what you're referring to. Not everybody has the following. What really bugged me about this exchange is once you start trying to downplay the edited videos, the misleadingly edited videos, and we're quite familiar with this tactic from the media where they'll show part of what Trump said, but then not the rest of it to show context. A great example of this, and it was brought up at the trial, but the media selective editing of the very fine people quote, where they took out the whole section where he actually condemned the neo-nazis and the white nationalist, and then they claimed that he never condemned them. We know that this is a fact, it's undeniable, and they showed the edited videos during the trial, and I posted that video yesterday, you can go and check that out when you're done with this one, but they show conclusively that the video that was presented at the trial and in the media was edited. So for her to say that he says it was selectively edited, she's doing that to cast doubt to the people watching, the millions of people watching who may not know any better. The media really plays to the low information crowd, because unless you're actively out there trying to find the truth, you're not going to know because the media shows the selective edited clips, and then when you show that it's selectively edited, you get these hacks to come on that are pretending to be journalists, but she's a left-wing Democrat Party hack. She comes on and says, oh, you say it was selectively edited. They show the selective editing during the trial, and then she kind of flippantly talks about the fact that they added check marks to tweets that they presented as evidence during an impeachment trial, as if that's no big deal, and the fact that they added dates to this evidence that didn't exist, and she just tries to blow this off. Why? Because she has a vested interest in doing that. She's a Democrat state media propagandist, and that information is detrimental to the Democrats and to the media because they're presenting one thing, and then at the impeachment trial, they showed another, clearly showing that the media has been deceptive along with the Democrat Party.  I am not a juror in this trial. What I'm trying to be clear for our viewers is what you're referring to. Not everybody has been following. It's not okay to doctor a little bit of evidence. Respectfully. I have not said it is okay. Your question is turned. I want to be clear for our viewers. Listen, what has to happen is that the media has to start. When you say doctored evidence. The media has to start telling the right story in this country. The media is trying to divide this country. You are blood thirsty for ratings. And as such, you're asking questions now that are already set up with a fact pattern. I can't believe you would ask me a question indicating that it's all right just to doctor a little bit of evidence. Look at this face. Look at her face. Her eyes get real wide. She starts looking kind of insane, like an insane person.  But it's like we know what she's doing. It's so obvious. Her words are dripping with condescension. And then when she gets called out on it, oh no, no, no, no, no. You're accusing me of being biased and misrepresenting. I'm not a juror in this trial. Please, then why is she acting like this? Why is she downplaying what was clearly manipulated evidence? And like the lawyer pointed out that the Democrats didn't even deny that. I'm reminded of the way the media lost their minds over supposedly manipulated video of both Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. You may remember, because I did several videos about it at the time, this is what Trump tweeted out. I took no longer on the floor, custody of the border, but I had border. Everyone started making, sending signals, working together to pass that. Not, we're the, there's three things. There's three things. There's three things. This video was not doctored in any way. There's a way to win a campaign without doing that. It's one thing for a foreign government to be injecting themselves in our elections, but it's another thing to see it espoused by the president. Keep it together. Just keep it together. Just keep it together. I'm not gonna explode this time. The bigger concern that Lisa and Michael were talking about is people who don't know that it's not real. People who don't know the difference and who believe that these are accurate depictions of politicians. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. But Donald Trump had retweeted a video of Nancy Pelosi stuttering and not making any sense. It was actually a video that ran on Fox News. It was not manipulated. It was edited to show a bunch of her screw-ups one after another, but it was not manipulated. The media found some video where her speech had been slightly slowed down. I mean, it was obvious that that's what had been done, but they claimed that it was making its rounds and it was showing Nancy Pelosi sounding drunk, but it's a manipulated video.  That Trump had tweeted out that video, that was not manipulated, but they tried to claim that he had tweeted out a manipulated video. They were confusing the two videos on purpose so that when people would go on and see videos of Nancy Pelosi spurging out, not making any sense, oh, that's just a right-wing manipulated video. The media does these things to cast doubt to muddy the waters. So how do you think the media reacted to this video of Nancy Pelosi that was supposedly doctored? I can guarantee you one thing, they weren't dismissive and condescending about it. A doctored video that attempts to make it look like Nancy Pelosi is slurring her speech, crudely edited videos doctored. It's incredible, they're doctoring videos. The president is sending around doctored videos. Again, a doctored video. Retweeting that doctored video. Peddling a doctored video. Tweeted out a doctored video. Completely manufactured, falsely, a doctored, doctored, doctored video. Create a false impression. But that's the media's job, they are damage controlled. They are not the fourth estate, they're not out for the truth. They are out to get Democrats in power and then to advance their agenda and protect them. But what should happen is somebody should look at the conduct of these house managers. It's unconscionable. Aside from all of the due process violations that my client had. And the media should be looking that at a square straight way. A straight way. When I watch the news, I watch one station and it's raining. I watch another station at the same time and it's sunny. Your coverage is so slanted, it's gotta stop. You guys have to stop and start reporting more like PBS does. The other thing they did is they put a check mark on something to make it look like it was a validated account when it wasn't. And when they were caught, they didn't say anything about it, they didn't even try to come up with an excuse about it. And that's not the way our prosecutors or our government officials should be conducting themselves. And the media shouldn't be letting them get away with it either. I'm tired of the biased media to this last week. I understand and I've given you the opportunity. You don't wanna hear the truth. Yeah. I've given you the opportunity. I will remind you that what I said was that for our viewers who have not been following all of the hours of this trial to be clear about what you are speaking about. And I understand. I'm speaking about the house managers' failure to prove their case. That's what I'm telling you. You weren't able to prove their case. You have won the acquittal of your client. Yes, I did. And if you'd like to continue to talk about this conversation, we can have that discussion. I don't need to. But for me to ask a question, or for me to ask a question to clarify for viewers, what you're talking about is a fair question. A slanted question that was set up to say it's okay for them to cheat. That was your question. Isn't it okay for them to cheat? I didn't say that. It's just a little bit. You said to be fair, it was only a check on the Twitter. That's what you said. You gotta live by your words. I am. That's the problem. The media has to start living by the truth. Okay, she was not trying to be clear. Go back and watch it. She was dripping with condescension. The entire point of what she was saying was to downplay or to cast doubt that there was any manipulated evidence. And she's being truthful when she says she's speaking to her viewers who might not know much about it. It's true. They don't know much about it. Why don't they know much about it? Because people like this hack here are purposely misleading people and keeping information that's inconvenient to their narrative from these people. Which is why she's gotta ask the question in the way she did, dripping with condescension. Because that alone is supposed to discredit anything he's saying. She can't discredit the evidence, so she's gotta try and discredit him. And she does that with her condescending dismissive attitude about the fact that evidence during an impeachment trial was manipulated. This is not up for debate. I will also say that at one point the lawyer brings up PBS and says that the media should be more like PBS. I don't agree with them there. PBS is just as bad, if not worse than the other Democrat state media outlets. I would say that they're worse because they actually get public funds and then they give them, they pay their left-wing activists who are pretending to be journalists like Yamanchi and then they get that money. So that's, I don't wanna be paying for left-wing propaganda, but I am. Of course they'll say, oh, it's just 1%, just 1%, guess what, that's millions of dollars. Anyway, that's about all I had to say on this one. It was a great showing by Trump's lawyer. I'm glad that he called her out on her attempt to downplay and just dismiss the fact that Democrats manipulated evidence. I do have the full video of that section of the impeachment trial. If you wanna go watch it, I will link it in the description and in the pinned comment. If you would like to support this channel, you can find all the links for that there. Thanks for watching. I'll see you all next time. Bye.


What's up everybody of the mangoos you are awesome and I have some gadget gameplay today from Predecessor. This is a rare game that went about 45 minutes without a single person trying to surrender.  I played a few games with gadget and I really like her, however her lack of upfront damage makes her very difficult to play early game. It didn't help that I was up against a Gideon that was just flat out better than me. She makes up for this lack of damage by having one of the best teamfight ultimates in the game. I did have a little bit of a problem targeting her ultimate, specifically around walls. Also had a little bit of a problem targeting abilities outside of Decker's containment fence. I don't think that should be a thing. But anyway, I think at one point I caught her an ult with legs and I stand by that statement. One thing you may note is that even though the enemy team has a kybera, I didn't build tainted scepter because he just wasn't a huge problem and the enemy counters was blowing me up before I could tickle her taint anyway, so why build it if she's just going to completely destroy me? But with all that out of the way, let's take a look at some gadget gameplay. My Gideon is good, Mangus. Be careful. Okay. That's what one of our teammates said. Oh, I have chat turned off. Don't worry, I'll make sure and tell you all the toxic things they're saying. Oh, sweet, thank you. You're so welcome. Whatever I can do for you.  Wow. Nobody recognizes me in this game because it's Mangus. Kind of nice. I recognize you. That's really what matters. I have ult coming. Ah, not quite, but keep fighting each other. Two, one. Another one. Thank you. Yep. Grab one in. Great ult. Nice ult, for sure. Like I said, she's an ult with legs, that's all she is. Uh-oh, Gideon. That didn't work out as you planned, did it? I'm back. She's going to live. Oh, well, not anymore.   Wrong with you. And look at my health. I can't see your health bar because I have them hidden when they're full. I'm kidding. I kid. I kid. Ah. Good joke though, for sure. Good. But it was mid, is no longer. Took him long enough. Nice job. Just three on the left side, not even close, Decker. I think that was directed at me.  Jesus Christ.  Yeah, that was the whole five. Like hit the wall or something.  It was a great ultimate on his part, but you that guy should get that. Um, yeah, my Tesla dome is already up again. Wait, what? Really? Yep. That's wild. How I didn't hit. Oh yeah, I did.  No, she handled me.  They're just playing as a five stack now. Oh my God, Richter, the five days of dodgeball man goose. Dive and dodge. No. Everybody run. It's slow. Nice. We all got out. Wow.  You know what? It worked.  Really?  Oh, Decker's bad though. Oh, Gideon's pushing our end hit. I'll go back. Looks like everybody's going back. Oh, Rev is up actually. Gadget behind. Third fucking. Down is behind.  We still lost our end hit. Even with Rev in there. Not bad left. You guys are now buff. Get off of me, Decker. Jesus Christ. This makes me nervous. Jesus Christ, really? They're going to try and push the end hit down. Down is back. I'll push out right. Okay. Yep. I just have to defend now. Richter's up now. I'm up in 30, 2, 1. I'm up. We got to defend the base. You cleared the minions, which is good. That should be a weak end hit. Mid, right? Yep. 30 seconds on their team. Ooh, that's a lot of damage I'm taking.  Murdoch's up in 10. Five. Murdoch's up. Could it be so close? Nice job.  I'm glad I was recording that one. You were? Nice.


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Awesome. Welcome everybody once again. Thank you all for joining in for this praise and worship course. I hope you've been learning something during the course of this journey so far. Can I request one of us to just start us off with a word of prayer this time please? Anyone? Yes, Jeff, you may go ahead please. Thanks. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day and for the beautiful morning and for the beautiful section that we are about to come. God, we ask the Holy Spirit and Jesus to guide us. We are learning a lot of things. Help us to understand it. You need to give us an understanding spirit. As the pastor teaches, help us to open our heart and open our mind and understand it. Everything that we are learning, it is everything in our heart and apply it in our life and lead a successful and enjoyable life. We will live for you each and every second in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jeffina. All right, so let's just continue with where we left off. We started off with chapter 5 in your notes, page 18, chapter 5. On this chapter we started off on our journey of understanding what is worship, which is to start diving in a little bit more deeper into the subject on the topic of worship, right? And one of the definitions that's mentioned up there in page 18 in your notes is, it says, real worship defies definition. It is the communion with God experienced by his loved ones. True worship is bowing our hearts and lives before the Lord and acknowledging his supreme lordship. Even in negative circumstances or complete emotional turmoil. As I keep saying this time and time again, and I'm sorry to sound very repetitive or redundant. Some of these words, don't just treat them as just words, but engage with them, let it minister to you. It's small things like true worship is bowing our hearts and lives before the Lord and acknowledging his supreme lordship. And we just need to pause because we are talking about an eternal being, an everlasting father, the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And just ask yourself, what does it really mean to you to bow your heart and your life and acknowledge his supreme lordship? What does it mean to you? Are these just words that gives certain definition or an explanation to worship? Is that it? Ask yourself, what more can we do with those words? Okay, so having said that, we cover two points from this chapter. The first point on what is worship, we saw that worship is the recognition of who God is. Seems like it starts at that point, isn't it? Worship is the recognition, recognizing. Okay, two things happen in the process of recognition. This is just a quick recap. We identify and acknowledge. We identify and we acknowledge. So we identify from having met or encountered before and we acknowledge that is accept and admit to be true. We saw multiple points on the importance of recognizing who God is. And one of the chapters that we read through was John chapter 21. How many of us remember that? John chapter 21. You know, when Peter and disciples, they go fishing one night, they try catching fish all night and they don't. Then Jesus is by the seashore and he says cast the net on the other side. They still don't recognize Jesus and his voice until John gives a nudge to Peter and say, hey Peter, that's the teacher. There's just a pause and see that John could recognize Jesus because he was a worshipper. A worshipper will always recognize the presence of God. The next thing we saw was worship is reverence for God. To revere is to regard or treat with adoration and utmost fearful respect. Yes, the Lord is a father. He calls us his friend. He is also the soon and coming King of Kings and the Lord of Lords whose eyes are like flames of fire and his feet like fine brass. So those are the two points that we kind of concluded with in the last section in the last class. But it may be a little too early to ask a question or insights, but are there anything else that kind of stood out to you from those two points or something that you want to add to those two points? When it comes to recognition of who God is or reverence, do you think it's important to recognize who God is? And do you think it's important to rever in his presence? Simple question. It's not tricky. Yes, very much. Yes, and very much. Okay. So that's like double confirmation. So can I ask why John? Great big God has given us that privilege to worship him and when we come to him, we find ourselves being redeemed to worship him with such a great honor. And I think for that, at least we should be grateful to give him the most respect that we can. Yeah, awesome. Thanks. Thank you for sharing. I saw you raised your hand. You want to share something? Yes, Pastor, you said we should recognize God. Actually, I was thinking when we know a cost of something that is very expensive, then only we will value it. If we know the actual recognition of the God, then only the human nature we see, we will give God the respect, the honor he should be worthy of. That's what I wanted to add. Interesting thought. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. Where our treasure is, there our heart will be shared. I mean, something happens when we recognize just the worldly materials even, isn't it? For example, when we look at a super car in just a main road somewhere, everybody recognizes a Ferrari and they don't just say, it's just a Ferrari. It's not the reaction that you would get when you see a Maruti 800 or something. I mean, thank God for all those. But a response to the recognition of a car like Ferrari, for example, or any other super car, or whatever it is, is very different, isn't it? So something happens, it triggers something. You know, when we recognize who God is, when we recognize his presence, something needs to shift, something shifts as well. Anybody else would want to share the importance of recognizing his presence and giving reverence? Okay. All right, then we will move on. Okay, from the second point, we move on to the third point, which is worship. It is communion with God. Okay, communion with God. Communion is not a result of cosmetic. It is a result of intimacy with him. It is a result of intimate relationship with God. Communion is the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and innermost feelings. Okay, I want to read that one more time just so we all absorb it. Communion is the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts. Okay, look at those words, exchanging or sharing of intimate thoughts and innermost feelings. Okay, some of you might have heard me say this, but the word intimacy, if you break it down, it simply means into me, you see, because I show you. Right? Intimacy simply, if you break it down, it simply means into me, you see, because I show you. I share an intimate relationship with my wife or with my best friend or whoever it is, because I trust them and I open up my heart to that individual and they get to see into me and I into them. And so when I say that we develop communion is just building an intimate relationship with the Lord is that he opens up his heart to you and you open up your heart to him. And that is just being transparent, isn't it? So that is the third point of worship. Worship is going beyond the surface and getting real with God. No masks, no veil, no fakeness, you cannot hide. You're just absolutely vulnerable before him.  That's what the Hebrew word Shah means, isn't it? It's like, it's a place where you cannot defend yourself.  And that is the kind of place that we are getting invited to, like, hey, come to a place, you know, without covering yourself without masks or don't try to be something else or someone else. Let's have an intimate relationship. I want to see into you and you into me, right? That is communion. It's a sharing. It's an exchange. It's not a one way traffic, isn't it? What Jesus says in the notes, sharing intimate thoughts and feelings requires a close relationship, right? Not everybody here knows the deepest and the darkest secrets of each other. And I'm sure what, how many of us, so there are 19 individuals, including me, I think. We don't know the deepest and the darkest secrets of each other, isn't it? We know each other by names and where we come from to a certain extent, but that's pretty much it. So you cannot say that you, you know, we really have an intimate relationship, right?  So when we get to know each other in that level, we start developing this close relationship. And that's the kind of relationship, you know, you, we share with our best friend, with our family, with our spouse, et cetera, et cetera, right? So the third point is worship, it is a communion with God. You can, you can lead all the worship you want to lead in church wherever or whatever it is, preach, teach on the subject of worship or whatever. But God knows that if you share an intimate relationship with him, and you know it, there's this one statement that my friend made. I will never forget. And again, once again, please forgive me if I mentioned this before. He said, with intimacy, God will use you. Without intimacy, you will be using God. He shared this in 2011, and it's 10 years later, and it's, it still amazes me, motivates me, encourages me to develop an intimate relationship with the Lord.  He will use you to do great things for his kingdom, you know, through you, touch many lives and whatnot. But without intimacy, I will be using him. How so? I had to think about it. It's like, okay, without, let's just take a week, okay, Monday to Saturday. I have not read the Bible. I have not spent time in prayer. I have not really, you know, I've been doing things that I shouldn't be doing. I've been watching things that I shouldn't be watching, saying things that I shouldn't say, et cetera, et cetera. And but Saturday, this is worship in practice. I just, you know, put a song list together, five songs, just put it together and go lead worship on a Sunday. God will still show up. God will show up on a Sunday morning, not because of what I did during the week, not because I shared an intimate relationship with him, but he will show up because he is good and he loves the people. And so everybody will think is like, oh, Russian is leading. Oh, what an anointing powerful time. Amazing. I was like, thank you for leading in worship today. It was such a blessed time. Thank you for choosing the song. But in all reality, I know God knows that I did not really have an intimate relationship with him through the week. What happened? I used him and I don't think I don't, I don't, I don't need to say that it's, it's not the right thing to do. Using someone for their goodness, using someone for just their skill and then, you know, forget about them. You know, you don't want to feel used. Like, have you ever been in a place where you felt used and not, not really cared about? Yes, no, maybe. Yeah. Okay. One person. All right. It's not a very pleasant place to be in, isn't it? To feel used. Okay. You know, they just want to use me for my, you know, and they just don't really care about my well-being and whatnot.  Right. He would always pursue. He will always chase me down with his love. You know, it's like a gravity that there is no escaping. And reminded of the song is one song that has his lines. He loves like a lion, fierce like no other. He violently chased me down to embrace me. And, you know, and so from those dark days where there has been times where I have used God to make me look good. And that's also exactly. I'm also reminded of this Bible passage of Saul and Samuel when so Samuel confronts saw saying you have disobeyed the Lord. You have and he's displeased with you. The response of Saul is fascinating. He says, okay, just walk walk with me. You know, so that the people still know that the Lord is with me. And it's easy for us to just read the passage.  Look at him. Such a hypocrite, you know, but I have been Saul in my life so many times. Okay, Lord, I'm leading worship. You know, just come and do something that the people will know that, you know, you are still with me and I'm still anointed. Are you with me guys? That is not communion with the Lord. That is not worship. That is not sharing an intimate relationship with the Lord. But worship that is birthed out of this intimate relationship with him is something else. It's just an overflow of this well that wants to explore that wants to erupt in praise. Right. So that is that is the third point is it is communion with the Lord. Okay, intimacy is not a result of cosmetics. Okay, you cannot think Jesus did not die on the cross so that we can have a dress code and tell each other that we are intimate with the Lord. White and white doesn't mean you're intimate with the Lord. It's not it's not the result of holiness. You know, holiness is a result of communion with the Lord. It's a result of intimate relationship with Jesus. Okay. And we will be looking at this scripture that is mentioned in the North from John chapter 4 verse 24 that God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit and in truth. We will be looking at that verse in just more detail in the next section to come. All right. Yeah, everybody good so far. Okay. Good. So just pause and wherever you are and ask yourself this question. How is your how is your relationship with the Lord? Is it intimate? Is there something more you can do to develop to go into another to another level to deeper levels to deeper depths of intimacy with him? Okay, or is ministry keeping you too busy? I'll leave that point right there and move on. The fourth point now. Worship is our response to an encounter with the Lord. Worship is our response to an encounter with the Lord. Okay. Can I request someone to read the scripture that's mentioned in the notes? That's Revelation chapter 112 to 17. Just read it from the notes. Anybody please. Can I read? Yes, please. Revelation chapter 12 to 17. Then I turn to see the voice that's talked with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lambstands and in the midst of the seven lambstands, one like the son of man. Clothed with garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.  His feet were like fine brass as if refined in a furnace and his voice as a sound of many waters. He had in his right hand seven stars out of his mouth when the shark to its world and his countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw him, I felt his feet as dead but he laid his right hand on me saying to me to not be afraid. I am the first and the last. Thank you, Priya. This is an awesome response here by John, isn't it? To his encounter with the Lord. So this point again, Rian states that worship is a response to an encounter with God. So John is having this incredible encounter in the island of Patmos. He's over 90 years of age. And then he's having this encounter.  And when he sees this Jesus in all his glory, you know, his responses, when I saw him, verse 17, I fell at his feet as dead. Remember that worship is a place where you cannot defend yourself. There is no hiding. You are completely exposed and that's the place John was in. His response was fell down, face down in worship before him. Can I request somebody else to read the next section of scripture, please? Revelation chapter 4. Actually, can I request someone to read Revelation chapter 4, verse 6 to 11, if you don't mind, please? Revelation 4, verse 11, someone, please? Revelation chapter 4, verses 6 to 11. Also before the throne, there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.  The first living creature was like a lion. The second was like an ox.  Each of the four living creatures had a six wings and was covered with eyes all around. Even under his wings day and night, they never stopped saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was at his and is to come. Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever. The 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say, You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power. You created all things and by your will, they were created and have their being. Thank you, Sikand. I appreciate it. So one of the key things that happens in an encounter is there is a revelation that is taking place. Probably in the next hour, I'll just take us through a deeper study of encounter. I was not sure if I wanted to do that or not, but then thinking we'll do that. But just coming back to this verse with this scripture. There is a revelation that is happening in our encounter with the Lord. That's what happened in chapter one with John is that he is having this revelation of Jesus Christ. That is the encounter and then the response is fall down in worship. And similarly here in Revelation 4 is that all of heaven seems to be having this amazing encounter with the Lord. And the response is in worship. They are crying out, Holy, Holy, Holy.  When we look at the living creatures that cover with eyes inside out, it's one thing to know that these creatures are hard to imagine. It also means that full of eyes just simply speaks of unlimited perspective. Unlimited perspective, unlimited revelation. From every side, from every angle, there is this constant revelation of who this God is. There is no angle that they could turn to and not have a revelation of this God. And they cried out day and night without rest. Simply means that there was ongoing revelation. Now if in every angle you get to see him and again this is God we are talking about. The Alpha, the Omega, the Eternal Being, the Great I Am. So these creatures are having this unlimited perspective of this God which leads to ongoing revelation. And then which is the result of just ongoing worship day and night, you know, like Psalm 19 says, the poor forth's speech, the heavenly hosts. Okay, I wanted to share this scripture. Psalm 120, sorry, I'll put it in the chat for us. These two verses are from Psalm 145. Psalm 145, this is the amplified version, amplified classic version. Okay, so there's just the amplified version. Then there's the amplified classic edition. Okay, so these two verses are from Psalm 145, it's two and three. It says, every day with its new reasons will I bless you affectionately and gratefully praise you. Can I read that one more time? Okay, it's in the chat section just in case you're not sure. Every day with its new reasons will I bless you affectionately and gratefully praise you. Yes, I will praise your name forever. Verse three, great is the Lord and highly to be praised. And his greatness, okay, pay attention and his greatness is so vast and deep as to be unsearchable. Okay, unsearchable. So what does it mean? You know, why this scripture? So every day with its new reasons, okay, speaks of fresh revelation. What's new reasons? Every day there's a new reason. Simply means there's a new revelation of who this God is. And so you're going to break forth and praise and in worship. You're going to affectionately and gratefully praise. Right? And then you see this word there in verse three, great is the Lord and highly to be praised. And his greatness is unsearchable. It simply speaks of you cannot exhaust the revelation of his greatness. Like there is no end. Right? You can keep searching and keep searching and keep searching. You will find something and then you will find something else and then you will keep finding and then you'll keep finding. Like there is no end where you can say it's like, okay, I have arrived. I know everything about the greatness of the Lord. Just when you think you've arrived at that point, then there's like, you know, hey, there's more to me. There's more to me and there's more to me. Right?  One of the key things that that kind of keeps pushing us to the next level is obedience. You know, first time Moses has this encounter with the Lord. He's about 80 years old.  Right?  Encounter, revelation, worship, he falls down. But at every encounter, there's a mandate and Moses gets this mandate, you know, so to go and go back to Egypt, bring back the Israelites. Okay.  Now it's not just a burning bush. The whole mountain is on fire. Okay.  He is great.  Right? So God will always show himself bigger than the first time you encountered him after every time you've obeyed him. Are you guys with me? Okay, so his greatness is unsearchable. It simply means that, you know, there's no end to it. It's, it's just not possible to exhaust his greatness. Okay. So, and I want you to just remember this point on revelation. You know, we, we worship to the degree of our revelation. Okay. You can write it down. You know, we worship to the degree of our revelation. Psalm 47 verse seven. Okay. Psalm chapter 47 verse seven says, for God is the king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. Okay. Sing praises with understanding. What leads to understanding is the revelation of who he is. Okay. All right guys, are you all with me? Okay. Yes. Awesome. With, from that section, you know, we go into the next page, page 20, which talks about worship defying definition. Okay. So what does it really mean? So let me just do a quick recap of the four points we started off. So first one, worship is a recognition of who God is. Second worship is a reverence for God. Third, it is communion with God. Fourth worship is our response to an encounter with God. Okay. And now we go to page 20. True worshipers and spirit and truth worship. True worshipers, spirit and truth worship. John chapter four, 23, 24, it says, but the hour is coming. And now is when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth for the father is seeking such to worship him. God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. Okay. So in spirit, what does that mean? We worship him by the power of the Holy Spirit that abides in us. True worshipper worships from his heart and from his innermost being from the core of his being with everything with him within him, not half heartedly, not lacking in zeal. Okay. True worshipper worships from his heart by the power of the Holy Spirit that abides in us. Okay. True worship is a true worship is a spirit corresponding with God's spirit. And one of the reasons why Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit together with a gift of speaking in tongues is that we might be released in the greater measure in our worship. So we read this scripture in the last class first Corinthians 1415 where Paul says, you know, I pray and I also pray in the spirit. I sing and I also sing in the spirit. Okay. So it is the Holy Spirit that empowers us that enables us to worship him to worship God in spirit. It is his spirit in us that cries out to God's spirit for him. Okay. Sibomai, which is the Greek word, it means a devout religious worship, having the right form, words, actions, but no heart and therefore empty and useless in God's eye. You know, if, if I worship, if the worship is not in spirit and in truth, it is, it is empty. It just doesn't really mean anything. So you want to ask something faster? Can you repeat that word again? Yeah, it's Sibomai. It's in the notes in page 20. Okay, which is a Greek word S E B O M A I it's in the notes. So good. S E B O M A I. Okay, so we worship him in spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit that abides in us and in truth. So Father is seeking true worshipers who will worship him in spirit and in truth. And in truth simply means we worship him according to the revealed word of God. Okay, let's quickly, let's go to Psalm 119. Okay, I was going to turn with me to Psalm 119. Let's go to one of verse 169. Psalm 119 verse 169. Okay, I hope you're there. It says. Yes, you can go ahead. You want to read Psalm 169. So 119 verse 169 to 172. Sam's 119 versus 169.  May my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your promise. 171 may my lips overflow with praise for you. Teach me your decree. 172 may my tongue sing of your word for all your commands are righteous. Thank you. Okay, so see the progression of it. Okay, it starts off by saying give me understanding according to your word. Okay, that means let me have a revelation of your word. May my supplications come before you. Deliver me according to your promise. Then it's taking a shift. May my lips overflow with praise. Okay, so once I have the understanding of your truth, God's word is truth, isn't it? Once I have a revelation of your word and understanding, which leads to understanding, then I will praise verse 172. May my tongue sing of your word for all your commands are righteous. Okay, so we worship according to the revealed word of God. And as actually a side note, this Psalm, right, Psalm 119, it says that it's a love poem to God's law. God's law is God's word, right? Many years ago, my mentor asked me to do this exercise. He said in Psalm 119, there is 176 verses. And in all these 176 verses, you will find these words, which is a word you'll find. I mean, depending on the translation that your Bible is, word, law, decrees, precepts, what is law? Law is ways, commands, promise, testimony. Okay, you said every verse of this Psalm will have these words. I mean, your translation might have different words, but this is from NIV. And all of these means just one thing, God's word. All of these words only point to just one word. That's God's word, right? How can a young man live his life pure by living according to the word of God?  All of that, all of those scriptures is from this Psalm. So when you have the time, if you have the time, sometime today, go ahead and underline all these words in your Bible and not just to underline sake, but meditate on them. Okay, so that is in truth. We worship according to the revealed word of God. Okay, another couple of interesting thing that happens is let's quickly go to Matthew chapter 22. Let's go to Matthew chapter 22. Okay, Matthew chapter 22 verse 36, I think, yeah, 36. I'll read from verse 34 to 40. Matthew chapter 22 verse 34 to 40. It says, hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them an expert in the law. Okay, expert in the law. It simply means expert in the word of God, expert in the law, tested him with this question. Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Or which is the greatest commandment in your word? Jesus replied in verse 37.  This is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and prophets hang on these two commandments. Okay, the same is repeated in Mark chapter 12 verse 28 to 31. It's also mentioned in Luke chapter 10. Oops, 25, 28. In Luke, it's a slightly different context, but then it's the same thing. Okay. But the point is, you know, Jesus is being questioned about the greatest commandment in his word, in the law.  And he's saying from the word, all of that points towards just one thing, that is worship.  That's revelation and understanding and with all your strength. Okay, so that is in truth worship. Okay. John chapter 17 verse 17 says, sanctify them by your truth for your word is truth. Okay. Let's go to the next page, page number 21. It's pretty much to conclude this section is our expression of worship could keep varying from being very formal to being more spontaneous with creative arts, dance, et cetera, et cetera. Could have huge queries and what not. But one thing that must remain constant and unchanging in our worship is that it has to be in spirit and in truth. Okay. So when our worship is birthed out of spirit and in truth, we will never lose the wonder of who Jesus is. Okay. Because like I mentioned, all of us who are in this class, praise and worship is not a new subject or a new topic to all of us. You've already been exposed to it. You've heard, I'm sure all of us have been taught on. So at least in the last 20, 25 years, the topic of praise and worship has been more famous than the topic of prayer. And it is easy for us to become all familiar and get bored. And like, you know, okay, praise and worship. Okay, worship. You know, this is what it is. Yadda, yadda, yadda. We, you know, put together some definitions. Oh, no, we understand praise and worship. But when our worship is birthed in spirit and in truth, when Holy Spirit empowers us to worship Him in spirit and when we worship Him according to His word, Colossians chapter 3 verse 16 says, Let the word of Christ, rich in us dwell, you know, deeply. Let us dwell in us deeply. Okay, something is happening to me. So when those two happens, we will never lose the wonder of who this Jesus is. We will never lose the wonder and the beauty of Jesus. And so it's like this constant revelation, like Psalm 145 we saw, you know, every day with its new reason, with its new revelation, we will worship Him, you know, affectionately, et cetera. All right. We always tend to read that scripture from 20, that's John chapter 4 verse 23 onwards. But when we look at the previous verse, John chapter 4 was 22. Okay, we're not going to read that right now, but I've just mentioned something in the notes in page 21. I realize we're almost done, but this is the last section and we'll stop here. In truth, we fail to worship when we don't have a revelation of what we are singing. Okay, we fail to worship when we don't have a revelation of what we are singing.  Ignorant worship versus intelligent worship. Okay, we need to involve our minds in worship. The more we exert our minds in worship, the more meaningful our worship is likely to be. Because in verse 22, Jesus says, you Samaritans do not know. That means you do not understand. There is no revelation. You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping. You worship what you do not comprehend. We know what we are worshiping. We worship what we have the knowledge of and understand. That's what Jesus is saying. We know what we are worshiping. If we have the knowledge of what we are worshiping, we understand what we are worshiping. Okay, so that speaks of relationship between worship and revelation, which ties back to the fourth point in what is worship. Okay, worship is a response to an encounter with God. And in that encounter, there is a revelation of who God is. And finally, we worship him according to his word. Okay, so we'll stop here. Apologies for going two minutes overboard. We'll take a break and then we'll continue on from the next session. Okay, have a good one.


Well, first of all, I mean, I have many graphs of information technology in all these different areas and it's not just computers, it's our health technologies, it's our knowledge about the brain, it's, in fact, these technologies apply to things like solar energy and water and many different areas and they follow these very smooth, very predictable exponential curves and exponential growth ultimately is explosive. In twenty-five years, computation and these other information technologies will be a billion times more powerful than it is today and I say this now not just looking backwards and overfitting to past data, I've been making forward-looking predictions like this for many years, for decades, in the 1980s I said there would be a worldwide web of communication tying together hundreds of millions of people emerging in the mid-1990s. That seemed ridiculous, it was heavily criticized when the entire defense budget could only tie together a few thousand scientists, but it was growing exponentially and I recognized the explosive potential of exponential growth and in fact it happened right on schedule and there's been many other predictions like this. Now, you might say, well, isn't there a limit to the ability of matter and energy to support information technology like computation? And the answer is yes, there's a limit, but it's not very limiting. I talk about this in chapter three of my book. The ultimate one kilogram computer, two pounds of matter and energy organized to be optimal for computation would be literally trillions of times more powerful than the human brain. And so yes, there's a limit, but it's not very limiting and ultimately will be profoundly transformative as we get to those limits. And then you might say, well, isn't there a limit to the current paradigms we use like Moore's law, where we're shrinking the size of components on an integrated circuit? And yes, Moore's law was in fact not the first paradigm to bring exponential growth to computing. It's the fifth paradigm. We had four paradigms before it. Each one of those ran out of steam, but what happens when one paradigm runs out of steam, it creates research pressure to create the next paradigm and the next paradigm is there in time. In the 1950s, we built computers now with chips, with vacuum tubes, and they were shrinking the vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller each year to keep this exponential growth going. That hit a wall. It got to a point where they couldn't shrink the vacuum tube anymore and keep the vacuum, and that was the end of the shrinking of vacuum tubes, but it was not the end of the exponential growth of computing. We then went to the fourth paradigm, transistors, and then chips, and there's been regular predictions. So we'll come to an end. Gordon Moore first said 2002, until now it says 2022, and by that time the key features will be four nanometers, and we won't be able to shrink them anymore, and that's true. But we will then go to the sixth paradigm, which will replace Moore's law and chips, which are flat. They're very dense already, but they're two-dimensional. We live in a three-dimensional world. I've been predicting that around the teen years of this century, we will switch to three-dimensional circuits using self-organizing molecular circuits. That was a controversial notion when I wrote about that in my book Age of Spiritual Machines or 1999. There's been so much progress in the last decade that that's now very much a mainstream view. If you speak to the Intel scientists, as I did recently, in fact, Justin Ratner, the chief technology officer of Intel, just spoke at the Singularity Summit and talked about this research, and they have these three-dimensional circuits working in their labs. The crossover point will be no later than the teen years, well before we run out of steam with conventional two-dimensional circuits. So every time one paradigm runs out of steam, the next paradigm is there to keep it going. We have plenty of room to get through the end of the century through continued exponential growth of information technology. For that time, it will have already profoundly transformed our civilization by creating computers that are trillions of times more powerful than the human brain.


well, you need to formulate the question. And that's really what goes on the ballot.  The other thing that is in this is the procedural that each of the community's votes, the boards, I should say, the boards of that community votes to adopt moving forward with the vote. And you each have to do it. And then you have a merger plan and then you have the wording and it all goes together. So, and that's one of the things that the subcommittee is actually working on is the governance portion of it and other things including what's in the merger plan. How are we going to do it? And over what time period and what's it going to look like that's in the merger plan. So, we have time for that, but just kind of working back from the date of August, making sure we know what dates we have to get things done by. Good quick question about the highlighted line on this. Susan indicates that the first public hearing in the town is October 12th, 2020 and it's a town holiday. Does it have to be October 12th? Could it be October 11th or 14th? Can we look at not doing it on a holiday? We certainly can look at what the statutory requirements. Right, all the other dates have to change. There's some calendar math in there, yeah. But doing it on, it's now our indigenous people's day, so it's a three day weekend and we'll miss some voters. I think you definitely could. Her note right above that says each has to have their first public hearing at least two weeks before the second public hearing. She suggested two separate days. We have probably do it on the same date at different times. I appreciate having this in front of us. Yeah, it's a huge help. No pressure at all. Max. So, yeah, this is a great timeline and it starts August 21st, 2020, this piece of it, right? So, George alluded to the subcommittee having a timeline. I mean, we need to really flesh that out and have it go from today to August 2020 so that it's real clear that we're on the glide path to get there and so everybody knows what we're marching to. Yeah, as I recall, what we said before is that we needed to have a fairly coherent plan for what we want to do by the end of this calendar year so that we can take advantage of the annual meeting cycle in March and April to get, you know, to sort of polish things up. That's, I think we all said that before. Yeah. Well, maybe I'm getting wrong. Andy? So, above the line that says below is the schedule that we need to be followed for a merger vote on November 3rd. There's a statement that says that both the town and the village need to vote on this. Having read through all of the merger plans that I could find, the merger plans themselves can define who votes. So I think we need to, I'm not sure that that statement is necessarily concrete. I know at least the village of Proctor when it merged with the town of Proctor, the town, the village and the town outside the village all have the opportunity to vote. So there were three votes and along with the legislature voting for it, of course. And so I think I just want to be careful that language says that that's the way it needs to be done but I'm not sure that's necessarily completely accurate. And I think we should potentially add that to the Dan Richardson question. I know that, you know, Proctor did it that way. So there's precedence. If we feel that it's appropriate to do it that way as well. I'm not saying we need to have that discussion now. I'm just saying that that's that statement in there. We've sometimes gotten in trouble, you know, in the governance thing we got in trouble by saying something was a fact. And then finding out later that it wasn't, I'm just trying to be careful around that statement that I think we get to define in the merger plan who votes, at least based on precedence I've seen. So maybe who was at a future joint meeting to, in preparation to such a meeting, read state statutes around this so we have at least a somewhat understanding of what we're talking about. And then at the same time having Dan or somebody to provide the cliff notes of here's from a lawyer standpoint what we need to do when we need to do it. I would want to have absolute certainty on the legal side what we're supposed to, yeah, what we're supposed to put in the merger plan and how we, if we are allowed to include voting parameters like that in the merger plan. Because if we're not, then we know what we have to do. But if we are, it is worth exploring different ways to ensure the fullest participation we can get. I think we're good. All right. Any other discussion on the voting timeline? Now we have to discuss a marketing firm for public engagement around governance change. And Greg, you handed out, is it time for us to employ this or do we talk first or? Yeah, you can wait until the end of the meeting to go into executive session. I do think we'd like to go into executive session. Staff has had a chance to talk to interview six of the firms or all six firms are submitted today. We do have some thoughts ready to make a recommendation but think it's best discussed in executive session. So do we have one item on the consent agenda? Approval of the minutes of May 28th. Okay, I'm sorry. They're on the consent agenda for tonight's meeting. The select board. We've taken care of it. It's the trustees. Approving the trustees have not. Correct. And change is a yellow made? I don't think we should make any changes to the minutes. You're in date situation. You had an observation, didn't you? Right, it said Monday, May 28th. It was supposed to be Tuesday, May 28th. That was the only change I made. I'm just suggesting. So is there a motion from the trustees to approve the consent agenda as with suggested change by Andy? So moved. Is that that? Any further discussion? All those in favor, please sign by by saying aye. Aye. Anybody post? Thank you. Any comments on the reading file? Hearing none, Andy. There was an awful lot of reading in this back. Yes. It's had bigger. It would have been very nice to get some of it as a reading file earlier on, please. Thank you. Well, with those two big ones, the energy in the housing, we're gonna see those again when we go to adopt it. So I kind of saw this as almost a reading file. Yeah, but it'll be on the consent agenda when we want to retort, right? I mean, that's our, that's our. That's the standard procedure. I would say. We're asking for more substantive discussion, right? Right, so. It's gonna be on the agenda. When it's on another, I'm hoping it'll be on, if not the next joint meeting, the one after that. And would you please put those two reports back in our packet when it comes time for that agenda item so that we have them in front of us? Yeah, and I think we, yeah, recognize that these are gonna take more discussion than something you've already workshopped and worked out and tweaked and this will go on business. At the same time, I would also just echo that if I'm being asked to accept a report, I like to read it. Even if it's a hundred pages, I still like to read it before I accept it. All right, we have accomplished our agenda with the exception of the executive session. So, anybody else have any other comments on items on the agenda? See Andy. Okay, Andy, were you ready to make a motion? I move that the select board make the specific finding that premature general public knowledge of the town's position concerning the proposed contract discussion placed the village town, or the, sorry, the town is reading at a substantial disadvantage. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. And we have a subsequent motion. I move that the select board enter into executive session to discuss contracts pursuant to one VSA 313A1A to include the select board and trustees, unified manager, deputy manager, finance director, slash assistant village manager. All in favor. Aye. Aye. All right, your turn. Any trustees want to start this? I will make the similar emotions on behalf of the Essex Junction trustees. Yes.


To show how a ship is brought into a harbor at night, we will start by assuming that at 2010 the Savannah has fixed her position here at latitude 37 degrees 36 minutes north, Longitude 74 degrees 47 minutes west. Her course is 230 degrees true and she is making a speed of 20 knots. As the visibility of lights is computed for clear nights, we will also assume that the visibility is unlimited. Observe that the course has laid down heads directly for this temporary flashing buoy which has replaced the Chesapeake light ship. Continuing to study the chart, observe that these primary sea coast lights may be sighted. Hog Island light, 14 miles. Cape Charles light, 20 miles. Cape Henry light, 19 miles. These distances of visibility are for heights of eye of 15 feet. On the bridge of the Savannah, the height of eye is 55 feet. So the navigator must determine their visibility from that height. To do this, he must combine the visibility from the light and the visibility from the ship. The total is the maximum distance at which the observer can see the light from an elevation of 55 feet. From the light list, the navigator finds Hog Island light to be 180 feet high. Cape Charles is also 180 feet in height. The height of Cape Henry is listed as 157 feet. Referring to table 8, Bowditch, he finds the visibility for 180 feet in height to be 15.4 miles. And for 157 feet in height to be 14.4 miles. Also from this table, he finds the distance of visibility for 55 feet. The height of eye of the Savannah's bridge to be 8.5 miles. While the visibility for a light 180 feet high is 15.4 miles. Note that in the light list, the Hog Island light is only cataloged visible for 14 miles because its candle power is only 1000. Therefore it must be realized that irrespective of height of eye, the intensity of the light even on a normally clear night cannot be depended on to be seen more than 14 miles. Cape Charles light is extremely powerful, 740,000 candle power, and Cape Henry light fairly powerful, 160,000 candle power. The navigator draws in the circle of visibility for Cape Charles and Cape Henry that he has computed, as well as the 14 mile circle for Hog Island light. However, he also draws in a circle about Hog Island light with a radius of 23.9 miles, which would be the maximum visibility of the light from the bridge were it sufficiently powerful. Based on the above work, the navigator determines and advises the captain that Hog Island light probably will not be sighted, but might be any time after 21.30, bearing 283 degrees. That Cape Charles light will be sighted at 22.18, bearing 263 degrees, and that Cape Henry light will be sighted at 22.37, bearing 248 degrees. Concerning these lights and for inclusion by the captain in his night order book, the navigator gives the captain a memo like this. The navigator had been previously advised that the captain would write the night order book only to the time of sighting Cape Henry light. Otherwise, all boys and navigational lights which might be visible after identifying Cape Henry light would be listed in the foregoing memo. A stopwatch is used for timing the sequence of periods of illumination and darkness which make up the characteristics of a light. If they do not check with those expected, the prudent navigator slows, stops his engines, or anchors until the situation has cleared. The savanna proceeds down the coast. At 21.39, Hog Island light has not yet been sighted, so the navigator sends a lookout aloft to a height of 90 feet in an attempt to see Cape Charles light. At that height, the lookout can see Cape Charles light 26.3 miles away or 2.4 miles further away than if on the bridge. The navigator plots this new circle of visibility on the chart. At 21.47, the lookout reports the loom of a flashing light. It bears zero to two degrees relative. Adding a relative bearing to a true course gives a true bearing. Thus, the true bearing of the light seen is 2.52 degrees. The description of the flashes given over the telephone to the navigator, who times them with a stopwatch, definitely identifies the light as Cape Charles light. An estimated position cannot be determined in as much as the distance of a loom of light is most questionable. At 21.49, the officer of the deck, searching with his binoculars, sites a short flashing light bearing 308 degrees. The OOD has hog island light in mind. However, its period seems to be erratic and not three seconds on every 30 seconds. At 21.53, the light becomes steady, indicating the mast head light of some vessel which has just come over the horizon and into the visibility circle of the Savannah's bridge. At 21.54, the loom of Cape Charles light is seen by a lookout on the bridge of the Savannah, bearing 254. At 22.01, the aloft lookout reports seeing the light of Cape Charles. It bears zero to six degrees relative, or 256 degrees true. This permits the determination of an estimated position because the distance of the light when it is on the horizon can be accurately computed. At 22.07, the bridge lookout reports a short flashing light on the starboard beam. When timed, this proves to be hog island light, and at 22.10, it bears 312 degrees. At 22.10, Cape Charles light became visible on the bridge, bearing 259 degrees. Note that hog island light was sighted by a persevering lookout using binoculars, and at a distance of 17.8 miles, nearly four miles outside its expected radius of visibility. The ship's position now being definitely fixed. The captain decides to proceed on the same course until Cape Henry light is sighted. At 22.24, hog island light bears 328 degrees, and Cape Charles light 266 degrees. At 22.26, hog island light is no longer visible. The short-time hog island light was visible, allowed both obtaining a fix and determination of course and speed made good. These three facts are invaluable when approaching restricted waters. At 22.32, the aloft lookout sighted Cape Henry light, bearing 012 degrees relative, or 242 degrees true. At 22.39, Cape Henry light was sighted from the bridge, bearing 244 degrees, at which time Cape Charles light bore 276 degrees, and the fix is plotted. The navigator shifts to this larger scale entrance charts with soundings in feet. Course was changed to 227 degrees, and the ship proceeded by taking cross bearings of Cape Charles light, Cape Henry light, and boys when they were in sight. As the ship proceeded, it was noted that an actual course of 228 degrees was being made good. Bearings on Cape Charles and Cape Henry fixed the ship's position here at 23.24. The captain decides to change course and head for Chesapeake Bay entrance. At 23.28, with Cape Charles light bearing 343 degrees, and Cape Henry light bearing 275 degrees, course is changed to 283 degrees, and speed reduced to 15 knots. The navigator picks off the course through the channel 288 degrees. He wants to change course when in this position, at which time Cape Henry light will be on the port beam. On the bridge, he watches Cape Henry light, while the quartermaster watches it through the allodade, until it is on the bearing, sir. The ship changes course to 288. At 0005, he obtains these bearings, as before he plots them, and this is his fix. Note that in this fix, all bearings are abaff the beam. It is good practice when possible to have some of the bearings forward of the beam, so the navigator decides to shift to thimble-show light. It has these characteristics, on one second, off one second, and should bear 290 at 0010. Looking in that direction, he sees this flashing light. Again, the stopwatch comes into use, where there are many flashing lights in this vicinity, and he wants to be sure that he is taking bearings on the correct one. A good navigator always checks the characteristics of any light with the data in the light list. The quartermaster takes a round of bearings and records these data. So the savanna continues up the channel to Hampton Roads, picking up new lights ahead and dropping the astern ones, until she anchors in her assigned berth. The same method of anchoring will be used as before, except that at night, the navigator will not be able to use the tank for bearings, and he will therefore probably use this aero beacon in its place. In piloting, it is assumed that the navigator will have his compass accurately calibrated and the various instruments which he uses in precise adjustment. If he frequently fixes the position of his ship, and carefully plans his courses to the anchorage, he should have no great difficulty piloting his ship through inland and offshore waters. But the navigator in pilot waters must be continuously alert and always looking ahead. Only in this way can he ensure the safety of his ship.


My name is Alex. I'm a senior and this is my first year in epic as a part of this year's colloquium on China and the world So for me the IGL in epic has been a constant part of my toughs experience Even though it's only my first year taking the class Some of my closest and first friends at this school took it their first years here when it was about the liberal world order And then in the year after about migration I got to attend both of these symposiums and it made me realize how much I wanted to have this experience and take This class luckily this year for me. I was finally able to do so about China and the world I've loved everything about the class so far the breadth of guest speakers We've had on so many different topics related to China and its security state its efforts on climate change and also the work that We've been doing in preparation for the symposium for the inquiry simulation, you know getting alums to come Speak for our voices from the field programming. It's been absolutely phenomenal I'm so happy to be part of this community And I guess one of my favorite experiences has been getting to participate in these Q&A's with the guest lecturers every class and ask these world-class professionals and Academics about their experiences and how they can bring their knowledge to the talks that we're having It's also been the fulfilling experience of meeting with high schoolers to prep for the inquiry simulation and talk these These young minds through China and the world and issues regarding China the same issues that we've been learning in our class And then finally just the culmination of this entire class and getting through the pandemic and even with it online being able to put On the symposium which we're holding just in a few days is going to be absolutely phenomenal And I can't wait to see how it goes and the feeling of being done with it and having accomplished something like that is going To be incredible and the result that we're going to put forth and the speakers that we're going to have are going To be absolutely incredible, and I'm so excited for the panels the breakout rooms also just being a part of the IGL community at Tufts and interacting with the fantastic people with with Professor Williams and and Heather Barry and all of the other staff They're such a special group, and I'm so fortunate to have been a part of this community. So thank you to them and Yeah, that's my experience of the IGL