I should just start right here. Okay, it's just one minute. So can y'all see my presentation? Okay, great. So today I'm going to be talking to you about, I'm gonna share with you five tips for more engagement, but if you listen closely, you will get so much more. So the slideshows are gonna be available for you to download, so I want all your pretty eyes on me, right? Cause I really wanna make sure you get this so that you can get more engagement on your Facebook and the Twitter's so the kids will love you as well as your customers and all the other local businesses in your area.  So I'll have rich friends, right? Okay, so we're gonna be up here. We're gonna focus and we're gonna go through this rather quickly cause I really wanna be able to ask questions. I feel like whenever I'm out, people really wanna know about social media. It's very, even though there's a lot of information, it's still very mystical. So for those of you who I haven't met, I'm Aisha Adams, I'm a blogger and I think why that is important is every tip that I'll give you, I've used it in my own blog. So I'm not just telling you things that I've read, I'm telling you things that I've read and learned and I try, these are tried and true tested things that I know work and so I think that's one of the things that makes me stand out and my business stand out is because I'm living this social media nightmare with you Boo. I'm here with you, we're connected on that journey. And so as a blogger, I was looking to expand my blog and I found that a great source of income would be to coach other people and show them what I was doing on my blog to be more successful. So I try things fail sometimes, succeed sometimes and then I bring those things back to my customers. So we have five essential tips. They're really easy tips but we're gonna go deep in these tips in these 15 minutes. The first one is launch. The first thing you have to do is launch campaigns for your business. So your social media should be going every day, every day and I recommend from my experience I get the best feedback from my clients, customers and readers. When I'm at that six or seven times a day I really then get a lot of engagement without paying any money because people begin to look for my content regularly. They're like, she's posting, I'm bored, let me see what's up, right? So if you're posting seven times a day every day then people begin to rely on you. They wanna know what you're talking about at lunchtime or what you're talking about at dinnertime or what you're talking about at breakfast or stuff like that, right?  So you have to even as a business share out seven times a day much like normal people who share their breakfast, you wanna share what your employees are getting from you, what value they're getting from you, what they're learning, how they're enjoying their work, the positive aspects of your work. And if you're going to work 40 hours a week in your companies or you have your employees for 40 hours a week, surely you can find seven things to share a day. Surely you can. So you wanna launch a social media campaign. The next thing you wanna do is post more. And that's the six to seven times a day but not just post more, not empty posts, deep posts, post that matter, post that get people talking, post that get people engaged. A lot of my posts are questions because I wanna know more about the people I'm communicating with. So I started this small test. I asked people, apple juice or orange juice and I would get like a hundred comments. And that's when I discovered people like talking about themselves. And because people like talking about themselves, if I can get them to talk about themselves and my product, score, win, we all are winning, right? So you wanna make sure when you're posting more, you really are posting more interactive posts, more posts that speak to your customer, more posts that inform about your product, you really wanna post more. The next piece is gonna be added value. You really wanna add value in your posts. So let's talk about what it's like to really be on Facebook. So Sunday mornings, I call my mom, like, hey, what you doing? She's like, nothing, I'm like, good, get on Facebook. This is literally how I experienced Facebook. I'm like, did you see what she had on? I'm like, mom, did you see, like we literally experienced Facebook together on Sundays because we have to catch up on all the gossip, right? And I noticed that we then started sharing products because my mom lives in Alabama, so we don't get to be together every day. So she's like, yeah, I tried this new lotion here, here's the brand. So that exchange causes people to talk. Like if you look around the room, I was looking now and I'm like, we're so spread out. But really social media is about us being close together. So in order for us to get closer together, the only thing we can do is talk more, add more value, have rich, deep conversations. I really think running a business is like having a boyfriend. It's a lot of work. And it is definitely about adding value, giving more, like, isn't that what marriage is like? You just give yourself over and over and over again? I mean, that's what my marriage is like. So you just give yourself over and over and over again. And that's the same thing you guys do in your business. Right? And then the fourth tip is respond. And the fifth tip is adjust. So now we're gonna go deep into each subject. So when I say launch, this is what I mean. And if you caught my talk earlier, we talked a little bit about this. So I'm gonna use this example again. So we talked about how at Walmart, they follow us on a journey. They send us on a journey.  Cause they pull all the Christmas stuff up.  Cause they are planning their stuff on a retail calendar. Right? As small business owners, you have to launch your products through your social media on a retail calendar. Right? So you have to launch. And you're gonna be sharing every day these six or seven times a day that we talked about. But now you're running a sale on websites. That's an individual campaign. That campaign needs a goal that matches with your other business goals that you have in your business. So that it's not just something that's floating over here in the air that doesn't matter. It needs to be tied into your goals. But also, it needs to be distinguishable. How do we do that? We add a logo. We use the same colors. We do something different to show this is a group of posts. And my outcome is to get six conversions with websites, three conversions with websites from these six posts. And well, this one post a day or two posts a day to be integrated into those seven posts. Does that make sense? Is everybody following me? Okay, good. So you wanna do that. You want to make sure that you launch on a retail calendar. Because that's how people buy. School starting back. Back to school sale. Right? How many people do you know? Like I'm starting college. I'm gonna do a blog for my college years. Back to school blog sale. Right? How many designers I have in the room? You're going to be right. Back to school sale, I have slideshows that I have to do. I need templates. Back to school sale. Teachers, back to school sale. I need cool plugins, cool things that work for me in my classroom that make it more effectively for me. So you definitely have to ensure that you are launching on a retail calendar. If you need a retail calendar, you should be able to find one online. I definitely have one in my digital store, but you can create your own by going into your customer's journey and finding out which holidays are important to them. The next thing I told you was we were gonna talk about posting more. I find that when I meet a business owner who is extremely frustrated about the number of sales, we have to have this conversation. Did you ask anybody to buy? Did you ask? I meet so many business owners. They're like, I do all the things. I got the Facebook, I got the website. I went to the networking event, but you didn't tell anybody what to buy, so you actually have to ask people to buy more. You have to ask, because I'm just not gonna throw money at you. We are not in a strip joint. I'm going to need to know what you want me to buy, right? And I need to know what I'm gonna get exchanged for my money, because this is not a throwing money situation. This is business, right? So it's really important for you to make sure you're asking people to buy more. You're sharing more consistently. You have more content on diverse platforms. And when I say more content, you cannot do this. Do not connect your Facebook to your Instagram or your Twitter and share the same information across three platforms. You come across lazy. You come across not ready. So you have to post diverse content on diverse platforms. I have a formula for that if you need a cheat sheet and you want to talk to me about it, I'm happy to share it, but please don't share the same picture all across, because if I follow you on all three platforms, it feels like spam. I've never heard anybody say that in a conference and I've always wanted to tell people. Add value. I think the most wonderful thing a person can do in life, business or not, is add value to other people's lives. I feel like that is really where we grow as people and that's what makes life beautiful, is because we are able to add value to other people's lives. So in your social media, you have to add value. What do I mean by that? If I go on like a teetic social media site, I can stay on there for hours. Like literally, not even know what happened to the day, because I started watching this one talk about evolution and then I started watching this talk about love and then I started learning about brain science. So I'm on there and I'm consuming content. I'm eating it like it's soul food, right? Because it's good content and I can go on that Facebook page and be there all day. Another good example is HuffPost.  They have such great content. Why are people coming to your site? What makes them stay there? What makes them come back every day? What makes them say like, I need to see what this company is doing this morning, right? And the way that you do that is always add value. I like to be the statistics girl. Yesterday, there was actually one of the sponsors came up to me and she said, should businesses be using Twitter? And like, because I provide value on my website, I was like, I just read that 32% of Twitter users are 32% of Americans who make over $75,000 a year on Twitter is that you're a price range that you're looking for in your customer. But I knew that not because I'm a fancy dancy business person, but because I share value, I learn and it's valuable for everybody. So when I'm learning and reading and sharing value for my customers, I become a resource for them so they can be for their customers. And that's really what this thing is about. So I wanna make sure that you know you have to add value. Adding value does not mean giving away your products for free. You can talk all around your product and add value, okay?   The next thing is respond. This is like my number one social media pet peeve. It's a social pet peeve and it's a business pet peeve. So let's just talk about it. All of us got that friend where we like all of their statuses, we share, we comment and then they just don't do anything back, right? Businesses do the same thing. It's not cute. Like here's the thing, back in the day when I was growing up, you could be important. Like the world was like this. There were people at the top who were important and people at the bottom. We don't live that way anymore. We live in more of like a side-by-side society. Like anybody can get it. Rihanna, Beyonce, like we don't know. The world never knows who's in trouble. Like Twitter is on fire. People are in trouble every day. So you really wanna be sure that like you are responding and not just responding in like that automated way. Like you clicked on my site so now I gotta pop up that says hey, thanks for the letter. Like not that, we hate that. Nobody's telling you all that, but we actually hate it. I was on a post and it was like 10 things to be a better mom or something. And when I clicked it, it put me on a mailing list. I immediately unsubscribed, put a nasty note in the comments where all the other 30 comments and all of the other 30 comments were the same thing. We were all mad. We felt like it was clickbait. Don't do it. Make authentic time to connect with your customers in a way that builds relationships. And I know you're busy, but that 30 minutes that you're waiting on your child to get the blood test at the doctor's office, or that 30 minutes that you're standing in line at the tag company, or the 40 minutes you're on hold with your tech support, pull out your phone and engage with your customers. Ask them how their children are. Ask them how their business is going. Let them know that you're really there, not in just that automated way, but in a real way. I've learned people do business with people. That's who they do business with.  And this is the pro tip. This is the biggest tip. I should have put it in the slideshow. It should have been six tips. But my final tip that I really wanna talk about before we take any last questions or anything is this. You can be on social media all day, every day.  The statistics of that happening to one person in here is so low. It's like minuscule. So you gotta do the work, right? Like everybody can't be the type of person that connects with someone and then they are like, there's a million followers. You gotta do the work.  And that is something that we don't talk about enough in social media. So for example, you're doing an online crowd funder. You need an event, a live event to go with it. You get 10,000 followers on your Facebook. You need a live event to celebrate. You have to connect your online to your offline or it's fake. Let's say you have a digital business and you only do digital courses. You're looking for talks live so you can connect more people to your digital talks because you have to connect with people. It is the same for every industry. You cannot be behind the computer. You, we gotta know you. Like that's the new thing, right? Like I have to know who you are, what you're about.  Is your business eco-friendly? I wanna know all these things about you.  And I think those are the best tips for social media in 2018. Posting a lot, sharing good information, connecting with people honestly, like seriously connecting with them, caring about your customers, caring about their journey and providing it through that online platform is super important. And you also like another tip that I have just because I'm standing here and I have a minute is like take a stance. Take a stance in the world. Don't just show up, like I know a lot of people, they're scared for their business to take a stance. They're like, don't wanna stand up for LGBTQ rights. Don't wanna stand up for environmentally conscious. Like pick something, stand up, your customers will love you for it. They'll support you and you will make the world a better place and that will be awesome for you, your business and the world. Like pick something to stand on. Don't try to be like, a lot of people are like, I'm on social media. Everything needs to be perfect. Before I can put up a video, I need to back, like just pick something, do it. That's really the best tip that I have. Does anybody have any questions? We got like three minutes for questions.


This took so long to install and download. Wow, and the resolution is awful. Hello, everybody, and welcome to a game that some of you may remember. Kidpix. Really ba- REALLY bad name. Really bad name. This is more specifically Kidpix Deluxe 4, which is the one that I remember playing. It's basically just like a kid's version of Photoshop. This was really hard to download and really hard to install.   But it's a drawing game! So this game, I remember playing so much as a kid. You have all these different colors. You have a bunch of different things. You can type. There's all these cool sound effects you can paint. Let's do a little painting, huh? Ooh, we'll do this. Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! This one. Ha ha ha! Why is this spray paint? You can put money? Look! Guys, we're rich! Amazing. Absolutely incredible. I remember, there's animations! That's right! Maybe they're not. I remember this. Whoa! These are all the filters. Okay, give me just a normal paintbrush. Green. Oh yeah, we're going to go in. So this seems like it's a... Oh, look at the goop. Oh, and the goop! Look at that! It's like real paint! It's getting all combined in and stuff. Look at all this goop. Oh! The goop! It's immense! Let's do the highlighter here. Let's go in with some... Let's go in with some red. Awful sound. Why does the highlighter sound so awful? That's the worst thing ever. Rubber stamp? I can't stamp anything, I guess. I forgot about the backgrounds! Where are all the backgrounds? There's no backgrounds in here, what the hell? What about grab? Can I grab things? Do you understand now, guys? Do you understand what we're working with here? It's incredible! Look at this. Big Burt? Is that all I can do? Or... Is there an undo button? I don't remember. That's the undo button. Here's our thing. The mixer? We already did this. But now... We've made our masterpiece. We've made our masterpiece. But we're done. I remember it fondly. I remember it... SO FONDLY! Let's take this to the brink of what we can do here. Let's figure out... Look at this. Oh, it's spooky blood, dude. And then these crazy scribbles. Oh my god, okay, but hold on. They don't have any backgrounds? We had backgrounds on our computers at school. We got in the ring group. Oh my god, all of these sounds. All of these sounds. They're reminding me of... of who I once was. I can make a big window? Look, it's the window into my childhood. Oh my god. That's so f***ing cool. Are you kidding me? Oh my god, guys, it's Pride Month. I'm so happy that I finally... I remember... Hold on, we have to erase this whole thing. Because I remember messing around with this thing so much. Let's do a cool blue. Fill this with this. I forgot you can do this kind of cool stuff. I forgot about this. Oh, but it's only filling in certain parts of the gradients. That's wild. Okay, ready? I'm gonna fill it with this. We're gonna go here. Alright, was it paint? Yes. Gonna go here and take this. Gonna go to white. Oh my god, gamers. Oh my god. This is the most intricate piece of art. The likes of the... that you've ever really seen before. Right? Look at this. It's a web of consciousness. Oh my god. This is the human brain. You know, this is the human... But then let's go in again. With red. My ideas are flourishing. These are the synapses. Coming through on the other end. Yes, it's green, it's blue, it's red. You know? Oh my gosh.  Oh my god. Why is it turning pink? Do you guys see that? Why is it pink? Is it blending in with the objects around it? Can you imagine what Picasso could have made if he had access to this technology? Unbelievable. Oh my god.  Who needs NFTs when you have this? Am I right? I don't. Bored ape? You're gonna... Sorry, you're gonna buy a bored ape? And not this? You don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you're talking about. Whoa, wait, what? So I can just customize the way that I erase the thing? It fades off into this. I remember that. This is incredible. What is this? I remember they go around! Look at this. The fish. The frog. They're jumping around. The butterflies. Oh, I remember making mysterious chasms. Mysterious chasms. Oh. Some bitties! But why are there no backgrounds? I want a background. Turn small kids mode on. Whoa. No, we're big kids. Alright, the game was having a hard time loading back up. So I decided that instead of just doing that one game, maybe I would do two more games and make it a very catchy, three nostalgic games. So! We're here on Addicting Games.com. We're here on AddictingGames.com, which has changed a lot since the last time that I was here. I want to see if they have Ken Cannon on here. Yes. Yes. Yes. Almost 50 million plays was added on 2005. Do you guys remember this game?  Yeah, what are the high scores? This has to be a hack. It's gotta be a hack. Gotta be a hack. But guys, monthly? 22-11. 22-11. I feel like I could get the monthly top score. So let's see what we can do. Oh yeah, baby. So I got 178. We're gonna continue, okay? Yes. Yes. Part of it is luck. Part of it is finding out the right angle. Oh wait, I think 45. Is that the degrees on the thing? Hold on. Oh, I think this is that. Okay, so 45 degrees is the optimal... Okay, well... 45 degrees is the optimal angle for distance. The optimal angle. Come on, kitten.  Okay, if we stay on 45... Can we make it? A lot of it is luck. A lot of it is luck. You know, you have to be hitting those bombs. You gotta be hitting those trampolines. You know, you gotta make sure that you don't hit... the f***, the fly trap. Let's try a different angle. Just go straight down to 10. Hold on. There's something here. Okay, there's nothing here. Let's see what a nice 60 degrees gets us. It's way too high. But maybe... I think, guys, I think we need to go back down to 45. It is optimal. It's optimal. Science said so. Bill Nye said so. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Keep it going, little, little tiny kitten. Now, I didn't even think about what the distance was. It might be kind of hard to get to 22. 22 is a lot. I don't know how much we'll be able to do with 22. We're doing pretty good this time, though. Doing really good. Let's see what we got. Come on. Oh! 18! We're almost there. How long am I going to stay on a kitten cannon until I get the month high score? It's not even the high score of all time. I mean, that you can't beat because that person obviously cheated. God. Yeah! Come on. Come on. Keep hitting those bombs.  I believe in you. I believe in you. Don't you want to go far? You don't want to go super far in your little cannon. That was all right. 45 really is the best one to do. I press it too early. We do have the top score of the week for sure. Because I think the top score of the week was like 600 or something. So we definitely have that. We got really close. I wonder what kind of coding you could do with macros. I bet Michael Reeves could do it. Because 45 degrees is the optimal thing. Right? And so you just have a thing track on the screen the movement of the red gauge and you have it set so it presses space once it reaches the highest thing. And then you just run that instead of mining bitcoin you run that for a month and you see what kind of high score on getting cannon you can get. I don't have Michael Reeves to do that.  Michael Reeves, it's Ethan. Hey, Ethan, what's up, man? I have a question about engineering and coding and making your dreams happen through the power of computers. Through the power of the land, yeah. Ethan, I'm making a video on Kitten Cannon. Do you remember that game, Kitten Cannon? I love that game. Okay, so the optimal angle to launch something is 45 degrees, correct? I always said it was 35 degrees. Is it 35? In Kitten Cannon I always got the best luck at 35. Okay, maybe I'll try 35. Anyway, my question is how hard would it be for me a normal person that doesn't know anything?  How hard would it be to code something where you just let your computer run for a month and it tracks when the level goes all the way up, the power level goes all the way up and then it presses space at that moment and then you just do that for a month to see if you can get the high score on Kitten Cannon. Would that be hard for me to do? Do you have any experience with coding? No. Yeah, so I could probably do it. Cool. What would I be looking for? Like a red power bar tracker? So first you probably pick the language you're doing. I'd recommend Python. Beginner friendly and also extremely good. So it's kind of got it all.  There's a lot of like guys with foreign accents who are on YouTube. It's not good if they don't have an accent. Okay. I'll learn Python in a weekend. Yeah. Have a look at it for a weekend and then you can give me a call and ask the steps from there. Okay. Cool. Well, I'll let you know how it goes. All right, back using Python to get kitten cannon world record. Okay. So I don't think I can learn Python right now, but let's see if the 35 degree angle that Michael said works. I have five more tries. Come on. Daddy needs a high score. All right. All right. Okay. Maybe in another life. No, you know what? Maybe I will try and learn Python. Maybe I will try and learn it and I will try and code it and beat kitten cannon. Maybe. All right. For the last game, what I want to do is this most popular of all time. Wow. I do remember a lot of these though. King cannon is up there. Impossible quiz. 86 million plays. Bowman 2. Damn. Sniper assassin 2. Oh my God. It's all bringing me back, guys. It's all bringing me back. Oh, the helicopter game. This is the original flappy bird, dude. Oh my God. The world's hardest game. All right. We got to go with. We got to go with Bowman 2. Here we go. First human. Can I? Do you think somebody else is playing? Oh, it's me. It's not an online thing. That's so funny. I thought it was online. That's funny. Okay. Hold on. Versus computer. Okay. Ready?  What is going on? What is happening? What is the angle? How far away is this person? Why is it going behind me? What is happening? And I'm dead. Super bird hunting. See this? I can see. Oh yeah. Oh! He got him on the way down. Did you guys see that? That was crazy. Boom. Collateral. What? It's going right through him. Come on, baby. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Give me more birds. Is it unlimited birds? This man's got unlimited birds. Oh, so close. Oh! And I want to get the side angle shot. Yeah! Just like that. What if I hit myself in the head? Well, you know guys, there wasn't as much to do back in like 2005. Okay. So the games weren't as good. Okay. Friends, those were some nostalgic games. If you have any other games that you would like me to play, maybe I'll do a few more of these videos. Originally it was just going to be the Kid Pixel X4, but then it wasn't working very well. So I was like, I probably can't do a whole video about that. But it was fun going back and looking at some old games. So let me know what you guys think. Thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you did like it. I don't remember how to do my outro anymore. Just did the video!


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The Tiger, Financial News Network. Update. Good morning, folks. This is Steve Rhodes, coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 9 a.m. update, currently of all the U.S. equity futures trading to the upside. That was up 364 points. S&P up 142. NASDAQ 100, 117. Russell's up 24. All those are over 1% to the upside. Over an age last night, a bit of a mixed bag. The Shanghai was up just slightly. The Nikkei was up 153 points. The Hangsang finished down 60. Over in Asia right now, or Europe right now, you've got both the DAX and the FTSE. Traded the upside. The FTSE is in a breakout mode at this stage here, so it should continue higher. And we'll take a look at really the results of how the market has responded to the jobs numbers. I believe there were fewer jobs reported than anticipated. In the month of December out there, you've got gold trading up 15 bucks. Silver's up 45 cents. That's nearly 2% to the upside there. Lights recruit us up a buck. Natural gas still struggling. It's off three pennies as we speak. Treasury bonds up 12, 13 ticks right now. Trade out 127.30. The notes, the 10-year note is up 11 ticks. She's trading out at 113.11. The US dollar index is actually negative now. I do have a 10-minute delay, so what I showed being down seven ticks as we speak. And if the US dollar index continues to move lower, I would expect these gains to hold out there. So what's all that mean? Let's go take a look at our nine panel. Market Update chart. We've got the EES mini. We can see the EES mini trading really right into what has been an area of resistance, which is the center of its bullish structured, slightly bullish structured daily profile. So the key level to be watching here is going to be that 38.79 level. Price right now is trading out at 38.68. 38.79. The price able to close above that, it's a pretty good indication of the intent to move up to 39.54. Spot follow tonics still remains below its 50-day exponents moving average. 50 days at 23.08. As long as price remains below that, that puts the wind at the sails of the bulls for the S&P 500. The NQ got back, it's tested and rejected the bottom of its profile. 10.823 is a key area out there where price should go target is the 11.150. The real sell zone is between 11.150 and 11.284, the NQ. As we take a look at the US dollar index, yesterday it closed above the top of its bearish structured profile. If we get a second close above that level today, and that would be a 104.67, that would tell us about a change in trend out there, gold right now, trading above the top of a new daily profile that it is also forming at 18.44. Folks, stay tuned. Tommy O'Brien with the Morning Market Kickoff. He's up next. Have a fantastic Friday, fabulous weekend, and I'll see you on Marvelous Monday. Take care, folks. Be safe out there.


We therefore see that events that are simultaneous in one frame may no longer be simultaneous in another, and the order of events can actually depend on which reference frame you're in. You may ask, couldn't this lead to a bunch of contradictions?  We'll discuss this a bit later, but we'll see that if one event can influence another, then the order of those two events is the same in all frames. In this case, however, there was no way that one of the dunkings could have prevented or influenced the other without transmitting some information faster than the speed of light, which isn't possible.


The 7 Star Terrarium Event for Rillaboom is now live in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. We're going to cover all of the details in today's video as well as the best Pokemon to solo this with in your game. So the first phase of this Rillaboom 7 Star Terrarium Event will be running from today as of recording this video from the 28th of July until the 30th over this weekend. And then it will be returning for its second phase next weekend from the 4th of August until the 6th. Just bear in mind if you don't go online after this event ends on the 30th, you'll be able to keep this raid in your games and kind of farm for the high cost items. Rillaboom's details, it is going to be level 100, it is going to have its hidden ability, grassy surge and it will have the move set, drum beating, acrobatics, body slam, low kick, growth, boom burst and bulk up. So pretty close to what we kind of went over in our preview article. It is going to have the mightiest market, it's going to be normal terror type of course and it is only going to be catchable once per save file. So once you've caught it in your save, you'll no longer be able to catch it again, but you will be able to go in and repeat the raid for like I say these higher cost items. You're going to get a selection of large and XL candies. Carbos is going to be the vitamin or vitamin that you're going to receive as well as normal terror shots.  So the Rillaboom is going to have a grass coverage in that drum beating, the flying coverage that we did expect from the acrobatics is going to make it difficult to bring those fighting types. Normal coverage to compliment its normal terror typing and fighting coverage as well. And it's kind of stack boosting moves are going to be growth. So don't bring anything with sunny day to this raid. Corridon in particular not going to be very good because you'll boost the growth from one stage boost to two stage boost and then bulk up as well as the other one. So to access this event in your game, you're going to make sure that you are connected to the internet. Then come to your poker portal then down into mystery gifts and get poker portal news. This will then connect you and update all of your dens in the region. Once you've done that, come onto your map and you'll be able to locate the seven star terror event. It'll look like a six star terror like you'll see here, but we'll have the normal terror type symbol. Once you've located it, head over to it in your game. So once you've located the raid, we can now go over the bill that I'm going to recommend that you take into this one. So you have an easy time solo in it in your games. And it is going to be a Pokemon that we did feature in our preview articles. It is going to be Covenite. I think at the minute after our preliminary testing, it is going to be the most solid choice that's going to give you an easy time when going in against this seven star raid to either farm for those items over and over again or just grab the really boom. So you've got it for your collection. So this Covenite is going to have the fighting terror type. Now you may worry about acrobatics, but once you do terastalize, you're going to be in a good position where you are set up anyway. So the acrobatics really shouldn't be causing you too many issues, especially with how the really boom interacts in the raid. It's going to be level 100. You're going to have the expert belt as your held item that can be interchanged for the leftovers item.  So that can be interchanged. But if you prefer a little bit more damage output, then go for the expert belt like we've got here, level 100, like I say. And the move set is going to be roost. It gives you a line of recovery. So restoring half your HP every time you use it. So when you are setting up in the raid, then you've got that option rather than relying on like one of the heal cheers or anything like that. Then you've got the iron defense that is going to be primarily what we're going for in this raid to boost our defense by two stages every time you use it. We've got screech, which we can use at the beginning of the raid to lower the defense on the Rillaboom by two stages every time we hit. And then body press is going to be a big attacking move that we'll be relying on in this raid. Might be wise to PP max the body presses well just to make sure that you've got enough body presses to kind of clear the raid. But you should be fine with 10, but it's just a preliminary caution if you want to PP max that move because it is the only move option you've got. The EV spread that we're going for with the Corviknight is going to be 252 HP, 252 defense with a bold nature. And we do have that mirror armor ability as well on there. So that is the Corviknight. It will be down in the description if you want to take a look at it and we'll jump into the raid now. And I'll go through it step by step with you to show you exactly how to do it most optimally so you can take down this Rillaboom. But there are going to be a variety of different ways you can approach this raid with the Corviknight. You've got the good defenses, you've got the good typing and you've got good damage output as well. So you should be able to do it. But if you follow step by step, the way that we're doing it, it will make it a lot easier for you and you'll clear it a lot quicker, especially if you are looking to farm the items after you've caught the Rillaboom for the first time. Turn zero before anything begins. You're going to see it's hidden ability activate, grassy surge. The grassy terrain will hit the field for the next five turns. So that's boosting any grass type moves, but not really going to affect you. And then you're going to see the growth come out and it's going to boost its attack and special attack by one stage at the start of the battle. And that is it. The first thing that you're going to want to do is go for these screeches because you want to get the screeches off before the shield goes up. You'll take a low kick. It'll probably go for that initially. And sometimes you might miss a screech, but don't worry about it too much. As long as you can get like two off, you're going to be pretty fine going forward after this. But the Rillaboom not going to reset any of these drops. And you can see that a little bit unfortunate on our end. We do miss a second screech, but the Rillaboom does get paralyzed. The Rillaboom is not going to reset any of these drops until after the shield is broken, what we found. So we do hit a second one. I don't know if we're going to be able to get a third attempt at it or a third one off before the shield goes up. The shield normally goes up and turn four, but it looks like because of that paralysis, we're going to be able to get that third screech off. So it is minus six defense at the moment. So that's perfect now. Shield should go up this next turn. We're not sitting in a great position defensively here. So it's probably a good idea right now to go for a roost. You kind of want to put off going for those iron defenses because on turn six to turn seven, it will nullify all of your stack boosts on your side of the field, not its side of the field, your side of the field. So you want to kind of just put off going for those iron defenses until you can make sure that you're getting the three off. Consecutively, and they're not going to get removed. So this turn, this next turn, after you've got that roost off and you're in a bit of a healthier position, go for body press here. You're going to take a low kick as well. Body press will come out and do negligible damage.  Okay, so after this turn, it's going to go for a growth. And now you want to start going for those iron defenses. This is where it's really important. It is going to fire off a boom burst. There's no decent damage to you because it's boosted plus two. But you can either roost here, which we're going to do just to make sure that we stay in this battle. And then we're going to go for an iron defense after this and then try and get our three iron defenses off. So we'll recover us a little bit and it should give us a little bit of room to iron defense, roost, iron defense, roost, and then get our final iron defense off before we can launch these body presses off before we can terastalize as well. We'll go for that roost again, and that should be enough after that to get our last two iron defenses up to boost that body press going forward in this match. And you can see we're sitting at pretty good time with the raid timer as well. We're not in any trouble of it ending anytime soon. And we'll go for these iron defenses now. So we'll take this one, slow kick, and we'll get our iron defense up. And that puts us on plus four. Really boomer, remember, is still minus six defense. And we're in a good spot now to go for that final, third and final iron defense here. And we're in a good spot where we can get a roost off next turn probably before we want to attack, to be honest, because I think after the shield goes down, like I say, it will nullify the stat drops on its side of the field. We'll still have a stat boost, so we'll be fine. But we want to be in a bit more of a healthier position before we start launching attacks off, where we're getting ourselves into a good position where we can terastalize. So acrobatics are going to come out here, not doing very much at all. So that's nice to see, as we'll be able to launch this body press off and do a good chunk of damage. And we'll be able to chip away at this shield pretty quickly. Even if we are seeing a bulk up from it, it is going to put its defense to minus five. We can take a look at the stats on both sides of the field. Plus six defense, and there's a really boom. Minus five defense, but plus three attacks. So it's just something to kind of keep an eye on, but you go for this body press once again, and we're just going to try and chip away. Two more body presses should get the shield broken. Then we're going to be in a good position then to terastalize and potentially pick up a two-hit kill. But we can terastalize right now, so actually we're going to go for that right now. Make sure that we do get rid of this shield. See, after the shield goes down, it will nullify any stat drops on its side of the field. So that's something that you just need to be aware of. Now at that stage, you can just carry on going for the body presses if you want, because you're going to have that plus six defense stat on your side of the field anyway. Or you can go for additional screeches, which will help kind of the damage output against the Rillaboom and just lower that defense a little bit more. So there you go. You can see the big damage there that we're doing to the Rillaboom, and its shield is broken, which is great. And then it removes the negative effects on its side of the field. So you can go, like I say, for the screeches here if you want, or if you just want to expedite this, speed it up a bit. You can just continually go for those body presses, which might be the better option if you are farming the items, because you're doing so much good damage anyway. And the paralysis definitely helps us there, but kind of makes up for that screech miss earlier on, I guess, in one more body press, and that is near enough going to be it. And it's going to be the quickest way. And even with those iron defenses, like you say, you're going to be able to take the attacks pretty well from the Rillaboom. And you can see we are pretty close to getting knocked out, but the mirror armor ability coming in handy there, if it does use drum beating when you are to our slice, you're going to just throw that back onto the Rillaboom and this final body press will be enough to pick up the knockout and you'll be able to catch it that easily. And with that, you just want to pick your favourite ball. We got sent one on stream. So thank you very much to Bebham for our gifted friend ball, which is perfect for the Rillaboom. And there we go, all caught, and then we'll be able to have a look at the items. You get those large candy, XL candies, the carbons. We didn't get an ability capsule here, but never mind, we got a bunch of good high cost items and that is great. We got the Rillaboom now in our game and then we can proceed to go forward and just farm it for these high cost items. And with Covenant, you're going to have a really easy time doing this, allowing this in your game. And you're not going to have any troubles at all. So to get the raid then back, because obviously once you've defeated the raid, it will disappear from your map. You can use the technique of just hitting into your home menu, then coming down into your system settings, then down into system, then down into date and time. Just make sure that your clock via the internet synchronised is set to off and then come down into date and time. Don't change anything in here, just toggle through. Click that OK back into your home menu and then into the game. And then all the dens will respawn in your area and you'll be able to locate that seven star raid wherever it is on your map and then head out to it and then do the Rillaboom once again. So that is everything for today's video. That is the Covenant build that I would recommend taking into this raid to give you an easy time solo in your game. It was something that we covered in our preview art of course, I'm happy to see that working out in this one. Let me know down in the comment section below what you've been using though in these raids or have you been relying on the Covenant. I do feel like it's one of the more solid options to go into this raid with this weekend. But of course, as always, if we do get any more builds that do crop up that are very effective of going into this raid and soloing it, super easy. Then we will post another video update on the channel. So keep an eye out for that. Do drop a like on the video if you have found it useful and do subscribe to the channel for any further updates in regards to this raid or any other Pokemon news that we cover here on the channel. Thank you so much for tuning in, friends. Have fun with the Rillaboom raid and I will see you all in another video very soon. So until then, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.


Okay, so we were discussing about partaking in the sufferings of Christ and we said that we must have a positive attitude. The only person who can have a positive attitude in a difficult time is somebody who believes in the work of Jesus and eternal life in Christ Jesus where we understand that there is so much glory on the other side that what I am going through right now is nothing compared to what I am going to experience in the glory of God. So that's why he calls the believer and he says, remember he said, so Jonah's pilgrims, temporary, you are all here temporarily rejoice, exceeding joy. Be glad with exceeding and exceedingly exceeding joy, glad with exceeding joy. He says, okay, so it's beautiful. In fact, if you read of some of the accounts of people who have been through persecution, it's surprising that one of the common things that you notice among the persecutors is that they wonder why these believers are so bold, so joyful, so strong. And the reason is this. The reason is that losing in this life as you understand losing is not losing because there is so much more in eternity that has been kept for us as a reward that no loss is really a loss here as long as we walk righteously with the Lord and suffer for the right things. Now, he comes back to explaining about Jesus and Jesus's attitude verse 14. He says, if you're reproach for the name of Christ or if you are persecuted for the name of Christ, blessed are you.  Okay, you know, I'm not talking to you or something like that. In one way, we are happy that I could have a testimony that I am following Jesus and that is why I am being ill-treated.  What an encouragement, what an encouragement. You know, nothing, when we're going through good times, easy times, we can praise God. When we are doing the right thing and going through hard times, we can still praise God because God is saying, you know, his spirit of glory is resting on us. He rests on us. What a privilege. We are such a blessed people in whether it is easy or difficult.  Christ is actually being glorified because of what I am going through. They think that they were, they are, you know, doing a great job of putting down Jesus, putting down the followers of Jesus. But no, actually the Lord Jesus is being glorified through us, but he reminds the believers again, see, I'm not saying all this, that we go through suffering for doing the wrong things. If we go through suffering for the wrong things, sorry, none of the supplies to us. So I think I gave some examples last time, isn't it? That sometimes as believers, we'll just do, you know, activities so foolishly and then get into trouble for that. And then we say, oh, I'm being persecuted, but that's not what it is referring to. So even when we are doing ministry, I think I shared this, be very careful. What are the laws of the land which I have to uphold? I should be very sensitive, you know, to the needs of the people around. How am I doing what I'm doing? How is my testimony before the people? These are all such important things for us as people serving the Lord. And especially if we are in leadership, you know, we have to be all the more sensitive because for us it might be a small thing. You know, what we say, what we do, how we behave, but it really impacts other people. So be very careful, be very sensitive, do the right thing. When we do the right thing, then yes, God is on our side. His glory will be seen through our suffering. So he, in fact, he puts it very bluntly.  You know, busybody is somebody who is, you know, just wasting that time and so-called doing a lot of work, but there's really no outcome from that work. And also busybody refers to somebody who is interfering in people's affairs, you know, talking, gossip, slander, those kind of things, just interfering in people's affairs and assuming that, oh, I'm so busy, I'm doing some work, but it's not at all the kind of work that God wants.  Now, he says, yet, if anyone suffers as a Christian, so you can simply understand that as for the right reasons, for the sake of Jesus.  Don't pray for the three times, you don't look at the temple, instead you bow down to the king. He says, no, I can't do that. So for God's standards, Godly standards, he was persecuted. Again, Shadrach, Meshak and Abadnego, they wanted to go and, I mean, they were asked to bow down to the idol of the emperor at that time. They said, sorry, we can't do that. So, excuse me, for Godly reasons. Or here it says, now for us on the other side of the cross, as believers in Jesus or Christians, when we are persecuted, don't be ashamed. But let him, let me glorify God in this matter also. So what a privilege. So again, he's reminding, for the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. So you see, God, earlier we saw that, right? God judges the living and the dead. So we see in scripture that God is enthroned. You know, righteousness and justice are the foundations of God's throne. So he is a God who will judge correctly. So living meaning, even in this lifetime, we can experience God's righteous judgment. Sometimes we feel, oh, it happened wrongfully. Some things have been done to me. How is it that, you know, I can continue to serve God when God is not intervening in my situation? No, let's not think like that because even in this lifetime, we are promised God's justice in various ways. But in addition to that, we know very well that after people die, whether they are believers or they are unbelievers, they will also come under God's judgment. And here he warns the people of God. He says, look, judgment begin at the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God.  And I know that is a course also on holiness. He's a holy God. So his house has to be a holy house. We cannot allow sin or any kind of, you know, spots that sin brings to taint or discolor the holy nature of the body of Christ. So he's warning the believers and he's saying, see in your fellowship, in your fellowship, live holy because God is going to judge. And God is such a person that even his own people he judges, he will not be unfair. He will not be unfair. So it will begin at the house of God. And if it begins with us first, so that means nobody is going to escape the judgment of God.  People who are opposing Jesus are going to be judged. I'm safe. No, he's in fact saying, God is so just, he will judge everyone, the believer, as well as the unbeliever. But he talks about the fact that, you know, when the others, when the unbeliever is judged, it is so scary because those who do not, if God is fair with the believer, the unbeliever is not under the protection of Christ's salvation. So it's really scary what kind of judgment the unbeliever would come under. So he just says, you know, if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Okay. So then he just continues to remind and encourage the believers that, okay, come on, we need to obey believers. We need to obey. We need to also proclaim this message so that many can come to obedience in Christ Jesus. Yeah. So the rest of the verses there mean the same thing that I was sharing earlier. Okay. Okay. So again, he encourages, encourages and he says, therefore, let those who suffer according to the will of God. So you see, again, this is also another thing, you know, in terms of theology, people say, so, you know, in the Bible, it says suffering according to the will of God. And they use this to say that sickness, disease, yes, you are suffering according to the will of God. So it's okay. Go through that sickness. But, you know, we must interpret it in its context. So in this passage of first Peter chapter four, we are learning about persecution for righteous actions. Okay. That is very clear that if that happens, then we are partaking of the sufferings of Christ. If that happens, then we are suffering in the will of God. So we should not put other meanings into suffering according to the will of God.  Commit their souls is, you know, we entrust, right? We hand over something to people we trust. So let's say, you know, I am traveling and I have this very precious equipment in my house and I'm scared. Oh, when I'm traveling, what if there is a break in and someone takes it away? So I might give it to a trusted friend who stays close by and say, can you please keep this? When I come back, I will take it from you. So what have I done? It's like an accounting term. You commit it. You give it into safekeeping. So that you can take it later. So in the same way, what Peter is saying is, see, when we are going through suffering, it's very challenging. Even in our soul, man, soulish realm, it's so difficult. So many questions, pain, hurt, but trust in God is what he's saying.   He will return that peace, joy, whatever you committed to him, he will give it back in a good way to you. And he says, as to a faithful creator. So God is so faithful. He has created us. He will not forsake us. So moving right along, we go to first Peter chapter five. Now again, more instructions are there for the fellowship, the believers fellowship. So he says over here, there are elders and he brings an encouragement to these elders. He says, I who am a fellow elder. So what is an elder? Elder as we understand in the New Testament usage of the term is people who are providing some sort of an example, some sort of a leadership to the congregation. So that would be an elder. So in other words, we can also say that an elder is a more mature believer. So does it mean that an elder is only somebody who is older in age? Not necessarily, because you remember Timothy, when Paul writes to Timothy, he says, don't let anybody, you know, put you down because you are young. No. So age is not the main criteria over here, but it is possible that many elders could have been older in age also. So he is telling the elders of the church that, you know, basically he's encouraging them in the time of persecution. And he says, God's glory will be revealed through it all. And he moves on to say shepherd the flock of God. What is shepherd?  So the way a shepherd cares for the sheep. But you see the caring should lead to growth. Understood. So we care so that there is maturity. So in that way, shepherd the flock of God, flock of God. It's not, you know, animal sheep, but God's people are the ones that we are leading who are among you serving as overseers. Overseers is looking after the affairs of the church or the congregation. And now he also shares some leadership lessons here. He says how to lead these people. You know, obviously when we are leading people into maturity, it may not always be easy. You know, sometimes it's easy. We can be friendly joking around all that it works. But sometimes when we notice that people's lives are not in line with the standards of God's holiness. No, we have to bring correction. We have to bring instructions. And that's not easy because people may not like it. Or there can be conflict time of some situation of conflict between people's and the members in the church itself. So all these are difficult circumstances. But he says in the midst of all these things, do it willingly. Okay, not by compulsion. Shouldn't feel a leader shouldn't have an attitude where you say, oh, you know, I have to do this. God, it's not, I mean, it's taking up too much of my energy. Why should I go and correct? Why should I instruct? So when we have that sort of an attitude, he says it's not nice for an elder or a leader. But what attitude is required willingly where we are excited, we are looking for a way to help the church grow. So everything that we notice, we take it as, hey, okay, nice. I can encourage this brother because he has led worship very well. Or you would say, oh, this brother, he doesn't understand how to use finances. Okay, let me see how is it that I can bring some correction in this thing. So you're basically excited and you're thinking of good ways in which you can minister to the people because when we do that, no, willingly, ultimately, a good leader or a shepherd is the one you want everyone to mature.  So basically we're very excited and we have a vision. So he's asking for that kind of an attitude. So if at all leaders have a way of leading where they struggle and drag and pull, that's not godly at all. Okay, and we really need to, sometimes I can understand it happens to all normal leaders that we may feel sad because of the difficulties. But then in general, there's an attitude of willingness that we are so happy to lead God's people. Then he also adds, an elder should not do God's work for dishonest gain. Sometimes there is that tendency, right? So if I'm a leader or if I'm an elder, then people will trust me or I can get some resources from people or some financial help because people trust anyone who is in a position of leadership. So if an overseer has a sinful way of thinking, they will try to take advantage of the believers, but that is so wrong. That is what Peter is saying that as an overseer, one should serve willingly and not for dishonest gain but eagerly. And one more thing he adds here, he says, nor being lords over who those entrusted to you. So always remember, we must always remember those entrusted to us. So going back to the example which I said, if I have a very expensive equipment in my house and I give it to my friend or let me put it this way. There is a diamond necklace which I have and I give it to my friend and then say, hey, I'm traveling, I will be back and I will pick it up from you. How do you think I will feel if I find out from somebody that my friend is wearing my diamond necklace everywhere? So when I come back also, I notice that she is using it. I will be like, hey, it was entrusted to you, it was given to you for safekeeping, but what are you doing with it? Because it belongs to me, it does not belong to her. So it was only given for a period of time. So in the same way, when we look at God's people, those of us who are in leadership, we must recognize that we are there to serve and these people whom we serve, we have been entrusted with these people. Or in other words, God has given these people to us and that is why Peter says, don't lord over them. Lord over is like in our regular English, these days we say bossing over. So that's what he's saying. He's saying as leaders, we can't boss over people, make them do this for us. Oh, you do that, you do this because then we are treating them as if we bought them, but who purchased these people with his blood? Jesus and Jesus has entrusted these people to us. So when this settles in our minds, whenever we are serving people, yes, these are God's people. You look at them as God's people. I have 30 people in my church, God has given me 30 people, God has given me 50 people, God has given me 2,000 people. Whose people are these? God's people. And so we serve them with that attitude of reverence because he is going to ask us, what did you do? How did you nurture? How did you bring about maturity in the lives of these people? So in other words, we are accountable when we are entrusted. We cannot take it lightly. So it's all leadership. Just in like two, three lines, he says, so much we understood, shepherd, meaning tend, nurture, overseer, or you have oversight, you take care of all the affairs of the church. Then he says, what attitude willingly, eagerly, what attitude we should not carry, doing it out of compulsion, or for dishonest gain, those things we must avoid. And then he says, we must not lord over God's people. But now he adds another point. And that point is, he says, be examples to the flock. So this is the biggest lesson of leadership. And I think you all have done a course on leadership as well. So being examples, it boils down to that leaders are good examples. We can look at their life, we can follow their life example. That will help us mature more in God. So that is the way in which he wants the elders of the church to lead the church. Now again, notice, you know, Paul, Peter, these were all apostolic, they were all apostles, isn't it? What was the responsibility of apostles? We've studied that in apostolic ministry. They would appoint churches. And they would ensure the strengthening of churches. They would look into appointing the right leaders for the churches. They would instruct the churches to have right standards when it comes to worship, when it comes to doing church and the affairs of everyday life. So don't you think, you know, in these episodes, that's how Peter is writing to the believers. He's giving them instructions. He's appointing, you know, he's not appointing leaders, but he has a word of exhortation for the elders. He's telling them how to lead. So the standards for leadership are being clarified. So all these are the functions of an apostle which Peter is fulfilling. Now moving on to verse 4 here, he reminds the elders, when the chief shepherd appears. So remember, entrusted, the people that God has entrusted to us, who are we accountable to? The chief shepherd or Jesus is called as the main shepherd, the leading shepherd whom we have to answer. But if we have led the people well, then we can be happy because he says that the chief shepherd will give a crown of glory, which does not fade away. So eternal rewards, see even in 1 Peter chapter 1 he talked about eternity, eternal reward, inheritance. So there is always the reality of eternity for a believer and it's so glorious and exciting that much is waiting for us in eternity. So he also reminds you, you will receive a crown of glory that does not fade away. And the rewards in heaven, one feature of those rewards are that they cannot be destroyed here in the world. You have your, you know, moth and weather and so many things can destroy, you know, earthly material. But in heaven, what we possess will be so durable. And so because of all these things, he's just encouraging the believers. So moving forward, more instructions, verse 5 onwards. He says likewise you younger people, who are the younger people? I just said elders does not mean older. They could be older, but they could also be young in terms of the age. So you younger people, if you look at the translation there. Excuse me, just give me a moment class. Yeah, coming back to what we were saying here, younger people. The Greek word means new. So new is quite obvious. New in the Lord, growing in the Lord, you know, babe in Christ, all these terms are used. So younger people refers to those who are new in the faith. So that is the way we look at it. So he tells such people to submit to the more mature people in the church. So submit yourself to the elders. Now you could also take it in a literal way to say that those of us who are younger in our age, we should submit ourselves or be subject to older people. That's fine because we are called to honor the older people. So that's okay. That is also fine. So ultimately he says, yes, all of you be submissive to one another. So you see, whenever we talk about submission in the Bible, generally we notice this. Even Paul, when he wrote to the husbands and the wives in Ephesians chapter 5. So there he talks about the husband and wife relationship also. And then he reminds the wife, submit to your husband. But later on he goes on to say, both of you, husband and wife, submit one to another. In the same way, Peter here is saying, he says, you know, elders, younger ones, submit to the elders. But he also says, submit one to another, be submissive to one another. And he says, be clothed with humility. Being clothed with humility, I'll just tell you what exactly it means. Yeah. So being clothed was a term which they used when a slave would put on an apron and be ready to serve the master. So it's like having a ready attitude, a very ready attitude to service. So that is the way we look at it. So he's saying, being ready to serve, being subject to elders, more mature people in the church. And, you know, he says, when we're ready to serve, we also need a quality. What is that? Humility. We must walk with humility. So this is all very important in the fellowship of believers. So we must never miss out on the attitude of submission and also the attitude of humility. Now he adds to that and he says, God resists the proud. So the way this has been written, apparently it means that God actively goes against the proud person.  So when we read this, God resists the proud.  So that's very scary. You know, we don't want to be on the opposite team of God. So how can I be very close to God and on God's team? Walk with humility.  So humility is so important. It says God resists the proud. But what does he do for the humble? One is, we can be on God's team if we are humble. Second is, gives grace to the humble. You know, grace has many meanings in the New Testament. Just a moment, I'll tell you what the meaning is over here. The exact word is, so grace over here is carous. And carous means graciousness or God being gracious towards us. Or there are other words also, which say favor. So we could look at it that way.   And also, you know, someone who is humble, we would see them walking in more and more, you know, favor of God, more and more grace of God. And how is it happening? Because that person is following this principle in God's word. Being submissive, being humble. Then what happens?  So because of this, that's why he says therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. How to humble till now in various interactions he has already taught the people. He said submit, submit, submit for the sake of God, you know, submit. So us doing the right thing is very important. That is one main which we just humble ourselves. We want to revolt and fight back. And remember he shares about the example of Jesus, how Jesus did not do that. He did not go and fight back instead. He was patient because he was fulfilling the purpose of God through what he went through on the cross. So in the same way, humbling ourselves under the mighty hand of God is going through suffering unjustly because our faith is in God. You know, we have entrusted, we have committed.  So because of my faith and my trust, I'm willing to fix my eyes on Jesus and go through challenges with a good attitude that is humbling ourselves in God's sight. So when we humble ourselves, what happens? You know, we see that humility brings exaltation. And God is somebody who lifts up the humble, but the proud, what does he do? He brings them down. If you recall, I think it's the story of Esther, where you have Haman. He makes this whole gallows for a Jewish man called Mordecai to be killed on. And he's so happy. He's so proud. He's ready. He's waiting. When is this going to happen? I better just destroy this man, Mordecai. But you see, God took over. When the people prayed what happened, you know, God did something unusual. Suddenly, the king could not sleep that night and we are told he was going through the records. And then he found the name of one man who had protected him by, you know, giving information. So he asks the people, okay, who is this person? I need to reward. I've still not rewarded this person. And it turns out that it is Mordecai. So you see how the way God works, what did he do? He humbled that Haman person who was very proud. He wanted to take all the glory, but God is working above what people are working on. So you find that God humbled Haman, but God exalted Mordecai. So exaltation is in God's hands. And we are told very clearly here that if we choose to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, or in other words, by trusting God and doing the right thing, then what can we expect? He will exalt. Okay. How is he going to exalt? You know, we don't exactly know in which way God will give us that justice, but we trust him. We say, okay, God, you know best and you will do it for us also. It says in due time, which means that to experience God's intervention, it might take some time. So we should not get discouraged. And so he says casting all your care upon it. Again, it's an invitation to trust God, you know, casting that word means to throw to throw. So it's amazing. Peter is saying, don't carry your worries, your fears and, you know, all that heaviness that comes from not trusting God. If there are burdens, he just says casting your care upon the Lord or just take everything and throw it on God. It's like saying, okay, God, I'm going to trust you completely. And he reminds the people, you know, he reminds them and he says that he cares for you or God cares for you. So in that times, these are the Gentiles that God is Peter is talking to.  And so Peter is helping the believers know that you see this, we say, right, sometimes we use the term God is in control. God is in charge. In some ways that's what he's saying. He's saying you do the right thing because ultimately the final judgment decision, everything is up on God. He will do what is right. So don't worry about it. Okay. So in other words, trust God for who he is and what he can do. He also emphasizes that we have a caring God, a caring God, which probably would have been so new for these believers. They never thought, oh, how can God be caring towards us? But that's the fact here.  Then he also, while he is telling them about God, he's also warning them about the devil. So very familiar passage here where he says, be sober. Again, sober is being clear-minded, clear-minded. Be sober, be vigilant or be alert because your adversary or your enemy, the devil, Satan, we call them Satan, walks about like a roaring lion to do what, seeking whom he may devour. So he is telling the people about the reality of God's deliverance and the same time the reality of an enemy who's waiting to attack. So he says, he is ready. Okay. He's just ready to pounce on the believer. But he says resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. So in other words, he says, you know, be strong in the faith and also realize that anyone who is in Christ Jesus is bound to go through difficulties because there is an enemy who's waiting to attack the believers. And so what should we do? A couple of things here, be sober, be vigilant or in other words, be alert, be watchful and then resist or go against the works of the devil. And then he goes on to blessing the believers. But he says, may the God of all grace who called us to his eternal glory by Jesus Christ after you have suffered a while. Notice that throughout there is an eternal perspective. He says suffered a while. So in the world, whatever suffering we are going through for Christ, it is temporary. And so he says, after we have gone through it, God is going to perfect, established, strengthen and settle you. Or in other words, it's like saying, you know, if there is a tree, it is shaking. It's not firm in the soil. What does the gardener do?  They will give some support and then they will continue to water it and do other things that are needed till the roots become strong. Till that tree is able to stand firm. So the same way he's saying that, you know, God, the way he works in our lives is he will strengthen us, he will give us good, strong foundations and, you know, he will make us firm in himself. So we put our trust in God to him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. So this is generally a way of closing off a letter. So he's giving glory to God. And then, you know, he also explains how he wrote this letter. If you recall, you know, Paul is the scholarly person. Peter is what? Fisherman. So how did Peter write this episode? And also you notice it the way it comes through. It's somewhat simpler than the writings of Apostle Paul. So he explains, he says, by Sylvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you or in other words he says he took a scribe or he must have dictated to Silas and said Silas or Silvanus, same person. So Silas is the one who wrote for Peter all these things he wrote it down. So he explained it to the people. And then, yeah, so just some closing thoughts over here. I've written to you briefly, exerting, testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. In other words, he says, don't give up. There is eternity that you must keep your eyes on. So this, whatever you're going through, be strong in it.  So he brings a greeting from a she. Who is the she? Anyone? Want to take a guess? She from Babylon greets you. Okay, no guesses? Okay, no idea. Yeah, it's a little difficult to put a female name to it. But even the church is called the bride, isn't it? So it is likely that the she is church, a church in Babylon. So the church in Babylon greets you. A set of believers who accepted Christ there and, you know, they would have been worshipping together. So Peter is referring to them. And so does Mark, my son, you know, Mark is the same Mark who we see in the book of Acts. It shows that, you know, the apostles were working with this Mark also, and he calls him as my son. So there's a close relationship that Peter shared with Mark. And he says, greet one another with a kiss of love. So these are all ways of expressing brotherly love in those times. Now it is different for us, you know, we shake hands, we say hello, we say praise the Lord. So it is just a form of greeting. And he says peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus, amen. It's their way of saying, we generally don't say, you know, peace to you all or anything. Generally say bye. Okay, bye everyone. Meet you next class. So it's just a way that the believers in those times closed off their communication. So all right, we can close here. We are through with first Peter of all the five chapters. So we move on to second Peter in the next class. I will do, I'm thinking I will do Jude after that because it's kind of related. It'll be quick also. And then we are only left with James and we finish off with that. So I would like to request one of us to please pray as we close. Thank you. Fatherly, thank you. Thank you for this wonderful time. Thank you for your faithfulness, Daddy. We bless your whole name. Thank you for the teachings. Thank you for the today's sermon a lot. Thank you, Daddy has whatever the burdens we cast upon you and we believe you will take care of a lot. Thank you, Father. If anybody having any worries in this group or Lord, let them, let them cast away their worries and anxiety upon you because such a loving father, the father of compassion is caring for us. We thank you, Father. We praise you. As you're going forward, Father, let your grace will take forward sustain us and enable us to do more things for your kingdom, Lord. We thank you. We praise you. We love you, Father. Thank you for your mercy and goodness. We thank you. We praise you for such a wonderful time in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you Thomas and thank you class. God bless you. Please go through second Peter if possible, and then we will take it up in the next class. So bye for now. Bye. God bless. Thank you, Ma'am. Thank you. Bye.


INTRODUCTION On the natural integrity of Plato's philosophy John Dewey once said, Give a dog a bad name and hang him. Plato was not a Platonist. I would like to show, in the following pages, that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato, without bias or an axe to grind, will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend, and not a desiccated scholarly Mandarin. Plato was an open-minded, tolerant, reasonable individual, not a tight-lipped, pietistic Puritan. In a word, Plato was an Athenian, not a Spartan. Scholars have made it virtually impossible to understand Plato over the years, with their careful distinctions, qualifications, and analytical considerations. They have made up a scholarly word, Platonism. Made us memorize it, and assumed everyone knew what it meant. But nothing could be more confusing and unclear. Thus, if Platonism means a world divided, separated, detached, between physical substance and mental substance, then Plato was not a Platonist. If Platonism means a perfect world of pure ideas, with no connection or relation to a world of perceptual things, then Plato was not a Platonist. If Platonism means a world of moral purity, unsullied by moral mistakes, errors, or the boiling cauldron of unsociable emotions, then again Plato was no Platonist. But scholars have insisted on each of these. The only thing I shall attempt to show in this entire book will be to indicate that such a pervasive misperception about Plato is quite mistaken, and rather misrepresents the entire thrust of Plato's thought. I shall also try to state what I think Plato actually was trying to say. I think full well that I may only cause more confusion rather than to come to a clear and distinct notion of Plato's real intentions. Nevertheless, al dhā ques fortuna yuvāt, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Alas, Plato in the modern day is almost universally taken to be a Platonist in each of the above senses—the priest, the politician, or Puritan—an easy target for those who would like to give Plato a bad name and hang him. Of course, this is not a new phenomenon. It began with his student, Aristotle, who used him for his own purposes. And Aristotle's interpretation has continued to this very day, most notably in its recency, in a book by I. F. Stone. Aristotle's aim in many of his writings is to attribute to Plato a realm of separated forms, the first charge, which forms would be infinitely regressive and meaningless on the one hand, or irrelevant to nature on the other. Without proceeding into the intricate details of Aristotle's caricature of his teacher, this much needs saying that the big mistake of the separated forms is usually said to be the third man argument. Now what is wrong with the third man argument? What is this obvious fallacy which is attributed to Plato? Even though Plato is careful to refute the argument himself many times, what is that argument? However, philosophers currently call it TMA, stated simply it is this. If Callius and Socrates are men that cannot be pure ideas, then there must needs be a third man, a pure idea, in order to understand the man-ness of Callius and the man-ness of Socrates. But if there is a third man, must there not also be a fourth man to understand the third and a fifth, a s- Sample complete. Ready to continue?


It affects everybody in our area.  It affects us all, cuts a broad swath across our region. And when AEP is done, they're asking for a $63 million rate increase to me that's unconscionable. And we have to do something about that to stop this. We're on set income mostly, and you have to decide what to buy, what not to buy, which bill to pay and which one you can drag on a little longer in a month. Gee, I'd love to own a jet and fly to Paris, but there's no way I can do that. And it really makes me sad to hear that that's what the officials of these big companies are doing when there's so many people hurting in our area.


Hello, welcome to Toffy TV, it's the Everton News Daily. Let's jump straight into it. Everton, our link with 25-year-old Dutch right back Denzel Dumfries. He plays for the Dutch national team and he has been selected for the Euro 2020. It gives you a chance to look at him this summer, I suppose. A Pacey right back, a Taken right back, something that we do need. We have been linked with the likes of Aaron's and Celleic's, so yeah, I suppose it's a likeable transfer. Good age, it's rumoured to be about 15 million, so decent fee. Let me know in the comments what you think, I think it's okay. Everton confirmed Josh King, Theo Walcott, Yannick Balasi and Mo Bessex will leave the club while Robin Olson will return to his parent club, Roma, after a spell at the club on loan. Obviously, Theo Walcott, Yannick Balasi spent the last few months on loan. Theo Walcott's had a decent season, Yannick Balasi has had an alright a few months, I think. Josh King came in in January for a small fee, hasn't really worked out for him, he's had 11 appearances, didn't start any and obviously didn't score, so hopefully he'll get a move to another Premier League hub or I hope that's just come up in the Premier League, who knows, there's a good player in there but didn't seem good enough for us. Everton have also released Josh Baller, Dennis Adonair and Matty Pennington, Cornu Zinedi, Callum Connerney and Bobby Carroll, so a good look to them wherever they move on to. On the other end of the stick, Nathan Broadhead, Ryan Astley and Joe Henderson have all been offered new deals and the club's taken the option to extend Kyle Johns contracts at the end of June 2022, so a chance for those youngsters to prove themselves at the club or have a decent into the contract and move on somewhere else, we might even get a bit of money for them now they've had a new deal, if they say Nathan Broadhead has a decent ear, sell them on for a bit more. Hasn't worked in the past with the likes of Matty Pennington of course, he's just been released, I think he's gone to Shrewsbury. But yeah, I suppose we'll see how they work out. That's all from me, not much news today, a bit quiet on all the manager front. We've had a link there with the right back, as I said before, let us know in the comments what you think of it. I've not watched him much so not really got much to say. But yeah, there you go, if you want more videos, including live exclusive videos, as always just join us on Patreon. Make sure you hit the subscribe button on YouTube and turn the bell on for notifications so you get a little notification when we upload or go live. But yeah, there you go, thanks for watching, see you later.