Hello, and welcome to this edition of Hard Questions where we gather our pastors together to take on your tough questions and answer them right from the Word of God. I'm Tom McGuffin. I'll be the moderator for today's program. And joining me in our esteemed panel include Dr. William R. Glaze, Bethany Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, Pastor Joe Guiden, suit ministries pastor at Cornerstone Ministries, Murraysville, Pete Giacalone, pastor, South Hills Assembly Guy Church, Bethel Park, PA, Pastor J. Anthony Gilbert of another level ministries in Mount Washington. Well gentlemen, always a privilege and a pleasure. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here. And in this edition, we're going to be taking on your questions that you've called in or emailed to us. So we start out with this first question. This is from Valerie. And she says, since Christ finished His work on the earth, we know He is seated at the right hand of the Father and making intercession for His saints. What is He doing now? Let's start there with that. Well, you know, I would say there's a lot of things that He's doing. You know, we definitely know, as she said here, that He's seated at the right hand of God. One of the things that we see in the book of Revelation, and it says this in Revelation chapter five verses, verse 11, and I beheld not heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was 10,000 times, 10,000s and thousands, thousands, saying, amen, saying with a loud voice, with a megaphone, worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. So one of the things He's doing now, He's enjoying the worship as all of heaven worships Him. So He's just not seated at the right hand of God, just kind of sitting there doing surveillance, but He's being worshiped, I believe, and He said in John 14 that He was going to prepare a place for us. Now again, I know God, He can build a mansion just like that, but Christ is in the, and I know that's a figure of speech, but I still think that there's, to some degree, He's preparing a place for us. He's preparing heaven for us. Whatever that means. I'm not sure what that means, but it says that that's one of the things that He's doing. I believe another thing that He's doing, He's teaching. He's teaching people about Himself. He's teaching people about the Holy Spirit, about God. So He's just not seated at the right hand of God, just kind of twiddling his thumbs, waiting for eternity to come. Good points. We know nothing too, I think, with this, is that people don't understand. One of the greatest revelations that God gave me right when the pandemic hit, I started speaking about a lot of things in revelations. And it's amazing that the book of Revelation was written, and I said, well, God, why was that written? Because people have this idea that the Jesus of the Gospels is who's coming back to earth. He's different. He ain't coming back as a suffering servant. He gave them little glimpses of Himself. Right. Matter of fact, when they were there and they'd come to get Him, He said, I am, and they all fell down. I said, I just want to give you a little taste, who I really am. And so He showed them who He was there when He walked on the water. He kept all of that under control, but if you don't understand it, when He comes back, when you read in Revelation, He's coming back with a sword out of His mouth. He's not coming back to suffer. He's not coming back for people to take Him by the arm and put Him back on a cross. He gave up all of that and was subservient. That's why He said, I can call down 12,000 leagues of angels, but I'm keeping all of that at bay because this is my season for that. So I'm saying all that to say, what's He doing now? The purpose of Him resting is not resting from a place of exhaustion. He's resting from a place of victory. Come on, somebody. I'm not trying to get too happy right now, but I felt something on that one right there. He's not resting. He's like, well, I'm tired and I'm just sitting here. He's resting because it's already done. That's right. When He was on the cross, He said, it's finished. And now it's being fulfilled. The finished work of Christ is being fulfilled in us. Our cooperation and all that we're doing, now we have the Holy Spirit that is inside of us. Jesus sends those words of direction through the Holy Spirit into us that we can fulfill and walk out what He finished. And that's why He said, be seated until I make your enemies your footstool. So what is He doing? He's giving out the marching orders. He's giving direction by way of the Holy Spirit to the body of Christ to bring back dominion into the earth. So He's not resting from a place of like, well, you know, I'm kind of tired and I had a rough work.  Everything's right where he needs to be. When he stands up, that's a whole other story. If you ever see a king stand up, it's another situation that there's something that he's about to act and to do. But he's seated because it's been done. It's been finished.  I mean, Jay, what I also see in this question is the fact that the importance of the Trinity, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, and none of them operate independently of each other, that the Father gives glory to the Son, the Son gives glory to the Father, the Spirit. There's a fantastic book out, The God I Never Knew, Robert Morris, I think his name is. And so in other words, so we see here that in this Godhead, they all honor, the honor that they bring to each other is so much, so important. So we see three making up one with the idea of the idea, you know, what's the role, the purpose of the Holy Spirit? Of course, his role is to lead us, guide us and show us the way of Christ to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter, quick follow up on that. We know that prior to his ascension that the disciples wanted Jesus to stay here on earth. And he said, I have to go. So to make way for the Comforter. How does the Holy Spirit play the role of Jesus Christ here on earth? Well, he says it right there, Tom and John 14. He says, I'll pray the Father John 14, 16, and he will give you another Comforter that he may abide with you forever. And here we go. The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. So and again, this is what I love about the Trinity. They work cooperatively and they honor inextricably. Yes. Inextricably. And as you were saying, when Jesus was here in his earthly ministry, he was purposefully limiting himself into what he could do. And through all of his, all of his, his godly power and ability. So he limited himself. But what the Holy Spirit could do was be everywhere where he was choosing to limit himself to one place, one region at a time. He was saying, I'll send the Holy Spirit who will be everywhere in place in all of my believers. And so, so where he is doing that, he is that he can send the Holy Spirit into the world to convict the world of sin, to convict us of sin and then in God's righteousness and the coming judgment that he could send him forth and go everywhere all at once so we could be infilled and then dwelled.  I mean, think about it. He's like, no, I ain't my time yet. He was holding back and the people are like, this guy is bad. You know what I mean? They wanted to elevate him and make him number one simply. And he was limited. That's where I was saying before about how went Mount Transfiguration, we talked about that in another show and how he showed this is who's coming back and people don't understand when he comes back. My goodness, he is coming back. John did not even recognize him in Revelation. He said he fell at his feet as a dead man. That's the crisis coming back. But I know we got to go.  And I, you know, I have a message that I preached from Revelation 19. My boyfriend's back and there's going to be trouble. That's our day. But OK, the next question that we have, Laurie wants to know if it's OK to be an organ donor. And she mentions different scripture to talk about not abusing our bodies. So, well, you know, Laurie, I know I'm jumping in there. You know what, Laurie, don't worry about it. You're dead. You're not abusing anything. And we're having a little fun here. But but seriously, I my only problem, Tom, that I have in my mind's eye about organ donor, I believe in it. There are so many people who are alive today because others donated. I just don't want them to make the call. We need some eyes. So let's let this old Italian boy go, you know, we need a heart. So let's just help them out a little bit. Somebody trip over that plug. That's the only thing I wrestle with. It's I have no problems with closing my eyes and waking up in heaven. I think that's going to be a great day. But I don't think you're desecrating your body to be an organ donor. I really don't. Matter of fact, if I can pull a scripture and I know it's out of context. Paul says, if it were possible, you would give me your very own eyes. Yeah, right, right. Paul says that if it were possible, you'd give me your now it is possible. I don't think you seriously, I don't think you're desecrating your body. I think it's a legacy. I think it's it's an inheritance. You're leaving part of yourself. And I think it's glorious to leave. And I I'm leaning that way. I want to go that way. I just don't want someone to say game over before the two minute warning, you know, and, you know, Pete hit hit the nail on the head as far as what the issue is. Your people think that they're mutilating their body and they don't want to do that. But the fact of the matter is, is that, you know, God is able to raise up your body. You know, I know we're going to talk about cremation at some point.  Their bodies were mutilated. Right. I mean, and to the point where it's they just became ashes. And so, you know, the Bible says that the sea will give up its dead. And, you know, I believe that God is able to resurrect the body and bring it back together again.  You'll have a immortal body. You'll have an invincible body. So, yeah, I wouldn't let that if I felt led to be a organ donor. I wouldn't let the fact that I think I'm mutilating my body stopped me from doing it. That's a good point, Joe. I want to give you time. I think about it like this is every time we take communion in church, we're reminded of the fact that Jesus gave up his body, gave up his blood on our behalf. And so every time I'm getting that reminder that God loved me that much, that he would be a sacrifice for me. In fact, Jesus even said in John 15, he says, this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. You look at my works and you do that to one another. Greater love has no one than this than he laid down his life for his friends. And so, you know, I know many people who have who are living, who have given an organ like a kidney to somebody else who's living and who are grateful, both are grateful that they did that. And they have this this beautiful bond, this beautiful brotherly in Christ bond that is amazing. And those I know many people who were suffering the loss of a loved one who are comforted knowing that the loss of their loved one, especially prematurely was not in vain, that they're so grateful that this many people were saved or their lives were improved because of their sacrifice and their gift. And the amazing context of that verse from John is that Jesus said that after having had that last supper. And he said to them, if you really want to show the world, you've got to love as I've loved you. And he calls it a new commandment. What made it new is to the degree that he loves us, that God loves us. Praise be to God. Well, we're going to take a short break, but when we come back, we're going to ask, is taking the COVID vaccine away for the government to take control? Stay tuned for more of hard questions coming back in 66. We recently received an email asking, is taking the coronavirus vaccine a way of the government to take control? Kind of like the mark of the beast. This is a question that we are all being asked as pastors and that we all have to answer. Let's take a look at this. Joel, what's your perspective? I'd say for this, it's hard for me to put my finger on a black and white statement for all people and how this applies to them. I know there's many people that are in need of a vaccine for for COVID, especially with preexisting conditions, all that stuff. But I know other people feel very deeply convicted of as to how the vaccine was developed and what all was developed with, you know, whether it be including a boarded fetal tissue and stuff like that. So, so do I think it's a way of government control? I think anything people can use to control. I don't, but I don't think it's the mark of the beast. So I think, I think for each person, there's any medicine you take, any medicine you take, there's risks and rewards. And each individual has to make those evaluations themselves. Jen, I know you have a lot of wisdom on this. Let me tell you about Rona. What's going on with Rona? No, I'm to Joe's point. I don't believe that it is the mark of the beast. First of all, in order to be the mark of the beast, the beast has to show up. Now, I know a lot of my brothers and sisters all have different views on when Christ's going to come, but I am a first round draft pick. I believe Jesus Christ is coming out of here and I'm out here on the first round. That's right. That's my, that's my, I'm out of here in the first round. So, I'm a free trip brother. I'm right, right with you. I'm not behind you. I'm out of there, man. I'm with you. You know, I'm gone. And then the beast is going to show up. You know, that's my take on it. And in order for it to be his mark, he has to be the one to initiate that. So it's not something that's just out there. So even if you've gotten the vaccine, you don't have to worry about it.  He ain't here. We can't coexist together. That's the reason why he can't show up until we're out of there. Because we're restraining him by way of the Holy Spirit, Hallelujah. In order for him to deceive and to work those signs and wonders that he's going to work, there can't be the presence of light. And that's why he will have so much power and ability because the church and the power of the church will be removed at that season. So he'll be able to manifest in a way that he's never manifested before. So you don't have to worry about that. But I do believe that the coronavirus and the mask are dress rehearsals. And I believe that Satan, the Antichrist and everybody took notes on how man was going to operate, what was going on. The mask, then it turned into the vaccine and whatever else may come down the line. Because I remember at one point going into Ginegal. I'll never forget walking into Ginegal. And when I walked in there, it was like, what are you doing in here without me? You can't come in.  And I'll never forget it had that big thing on a mask. And it says, you cannot enter without a mask. And the Lord said, do you realize you're one word away from the mark instead of a mask, it will be a mark. You won't be able to buy or sell or anything without it. And so we're that close to the return of Christ. So while it is not the mark of the beast, let me tell you this, we are very, very, very, very, very, very close to his return. And we need to be prepared. And I know I want to give some brothers some room. Well, I definitely think it's a way of the government controlling people. You know, what is the Antichrist going to do the beast? It says that people will not be able to buy or sell, you know, without the mark. And so what is it? You know, people are fearful. You know, I'm how am I going to pay my bills? How am I going to pay my house note? You know, and so people will be fearful. And I think, right. I know a lot of people right now that the only reason they have taken the vaccine is because they don't want to lose their job. Right. Fear.   I ain't preaching at you. You know, you got to do what you got to do. I'm just saying that I know people that didn't want to take it. And the reason they took it was because they were fearful that they were going to have an income. They weren't going to have insurance. They weren't going to be able to pay their bills. And so, yeah, I believe that definitely this is a way of the government controlling people. And like you said, you know, the Antichrist, even if he's not here right now, he's he's he's definitely writing notes down because he's going to see how how you know what what's the prescription for taking control and we see what it is right now. And the thing, let me say this now. So you got me fired up. He is that this is not even a law. It is not a law. It's a mandate. And there's a difference between the law and the mandate, you know, and a law is means that all of the government has come together. They aren't taking it right now. They are now they have made that change. It's going to be required of them to take it. But yeah, so it's not even a law. It's a mandate that is being bogart on us by certain entities. And you know, to go one step further, look how it's dividing our home. I mean, brothers and sisters, moms on Sunday after church. And I love pastoring this church. A 10, maybe 11 year old boy comes up, the cutest kid you ever want to see. Pastor, would you pray for me? Sure. Sure. What are we praying about? He goes, Pastor, grandma and grandpa told me I'm not allowed at the house for Thanksgiving because I didn't get the shot. I wept. What? I come from an Italian family that there's nothing more precious than the children. And you should see this little guy. He said, I am not a grandma and grandpa already told me don't even bother coming to Thanksgiving. You're talking about fear. You're talking about I'm seeing that with families, too. More and more, even coming to Thanksgiving. I have people right now that said, listen, my family is completely divided. There are there's a non-vax and a vaxed house because people won't even come together with it. And that's family, brother and sister. And I get it to some degree because some people are concerned. I mean, and I understand that. Everybody has to do what's right in their own eyes. You know, and I really believe that. But at the end of the day, though, one of the things you do have to realize is that it's not the mark, though. It's not any of those things. We don't need to worry about any of that. But it is. It's dividing everybody.  It's it's crazy. And the shot's not the cure. How many I can't tell you. Countless people I know got the shot and then got COVID. Yeah, right. And some people died from the shot. Yeah, not only 16,000, but they died. They got the shot and they died, too, with COVID. Yeah, from COVID with COVID. Yeah. Wow. Well, coming up a brand new call in segment in just 60 seconds. Please stay tuned for more of Hard Questions. Recently, we asked for you to call in your question to Hard Questions Hotline. Listen as we attempt to answer one of those calls. While watching last night, Hard Questions, I was I was quite surprised when they had the question, can you put tattoos on your body? And they said there was no place in scripture that said that and that they thought that there was nothing wrong with it. And would you please ask them to look at Leviticus chapter 19 verse 28 and in the King James verse and it says, he shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you, for I am the Lord in the NIV. It simplifies it even further and it says, do not cut yourself. I don't have that one. Do not cut or put tattoos on your body. I am the Lord. So please let them have a look at that and maybe make another comment. Thank you. That's a very good question. And Joel, I'm going to let you begin. Yeah, for me, I have no problem with tattoos, especially I actually love tattoos that honor Christ, that glorify God, that people, you know, wear as a testimony, wherever they go, wherever their fields are in. And it's their way of communicating the gospel 24 seven wherever they can. And so, or I don't even have problems with tattoos as just beautiful symbols of self-expression. I'd say for me, I'm not a big fan of tattoos that make it seem like you belong to somebody else. I think that maybe covers more of the original intent of that verse, you know, something that says I belong to this person or anything like that. But likewise, I don't have a problem with tattoos that are, you know, a tattooed wedding ring for somebody who's in construction or something like that, where it's better for their safety. So, you know, it's saying, hey, this is a lifelong commitment for me. I think a big thing, you know, a lot of people say, you know, because tattoos are permanent, but also rest in the fact that we receive a new glorified body when we enter into eternity. So, so I'd say tattoos aren't even permanent, or they might be permanent here, but they're not eternal. So I keep that in mind. Well, you know, and, you know, to look at her question, and I think that even the last time when we, when this came up, I even quoted the scripture Leviticus 1928, and I said that some people refer to Leviticus 1928 to say that you can't have a tattoo.  And, you know, when you study the verse in its context, context that God is condemning his people from following the practices of the nations around them. And one of the practices of the nations around them was to get car cuttings in the flesh for the dead. And so that's, that's the point that God is emphasizing.  You know, what you brought up, you know, that's a whole different purpose opposed to what we're going to be like the heathen, right? And we're going to get tattoos in our flesh like the heathen do for the dead. So, you know, again, my sister, I love you. Thank you for sending it in. But okay, go back and put that verse in the context also. And, and, you know, I believe that you'll walk away, you know, with the, with the different understanding. I love my, my daughter, my youngest daughter. She has four kids. I love all my kids, love all my grandkids. But my, my daughter has had a sane all her life. And she says, dad, you'll never see a bumper sticker on a Bentley. Yeah. Right? Right? So I consider myself a Bentley.  But you cannot, ma'am, one quick thought. You cannot build a doctrine on one verse. You cannot build a teaching on one verse. And then again, I think Doc did a great job in explaining that the whole idea that of that. And then there's scriptures that talks about baptizing of the dead. Right. So it has nothing to do with putting art on your body. That verse, it really doesn't. Yeah, that verse, that verse, yeah. If you want to look at it in context. Well, real quick too, take everything in context. I don't know if you guys, are y'all meat eaters and y'all like steak? Well, if you read up a couple of verses, we're probably all going to hell for this one. Don't eat any meat with blood still in it. Oh, don't get meat eaten. Don't practice divination or seek omas.  Well, that means if you get a fade, you can't do any of that.  You cut there, you cut that beard, man. That's it, it's a wrap.  And then it goes in, don't cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks in regards to that practice. So he's talking about staying away from evil practices. These were evil practices that people did to worship false gods and divination and demonic forces and things like that. That's what it all comes down to. So I like what you said, Dr. Glaze, as well, that, you know, it's all taken within context. If you do it that way, you'll be fine.  If you don't want one, hey, keep it clean. Like I said, don't put it on the button. Yeah, quickly, I just want to follow up with you. Sin is an attitude and I think what you're saying and you can clarify this, that sin is an attitude. And so it's the attitude with which we do some of these things that are in that gray area. It's the attitude that if it's of an attitude of sin, if it's an attitude to glorify self or if it's an attitude to glorify God. Without a doubt, yeah, I think you hit it right on the head. You know, if there's an attitude of sin and it's towards an evil practice, then, you know, to you, it's it. Well, we always like to end a program with a scripture. And today we go to Proverbs where it says, where there is no guidance, a people fall. But in an abundance of counselors, there is safety. Praise you, God, praise you, God. And we pray that this program, this time that God blesses us to have with you the viewer that this is counsel, that this is guidance, that this is literally the Holy Spirit answering these questions from his precious word. Please know that God loves you and he's paid a tremendous price for you. Receive that precious gift right here now today.


How do you do James snack? Baseball is back and it's better than ever. Hey, now Baseball's back Mid how are you? We got mid season action on the first opening weekends tempers flared What's that gonna do with that you think I put a flare up my mouth. We'll see hey Don't give it away red hot chili peppers How about the sports Jim like we mentioned Baseball is back and we're gonna talk about our favorite team the New York Matt, it's the weekly dumb. It's the weekly dumb. I know there's a breakdown coming And there's all of it because Jeff McNeil and Reese Hoskins I don't know. I had buddies texting about this and then Jim I know you got deep in the lab and everything you dig up it gets a little messy Yeah, as you're watching this Tuesday morning I did my Jimmy's three things because I went deep diving into this issue to find that McNeil's a weird baseball guy Weird player thought he was a gritty blue-collar guy turns out he hates double plays grants them to the team Reese went in hard like it's an aggressive hard, but I don't think it was incredibly dirty McNeil's footwork was poor because he dropped the ball So he happened to just be like caught in a bad spot You see McNeil's leg with the little give and you're like, okay I don't love that when he rolls over but like if McNeil's other foot's not there Reese just slides past when they threw at Reese after he went What do you mean they threw a Reese they threw behind Reese after he hit a Homer and had RBI's is incredible Yeah, but even in retaliation they messed it up They got him back the rest of the weekend where they got beat whenever there's a the whole Mets crowd booing a guy Winker Reese. I think there's another one in recent history. Jipper Jones literally named his kid Shay That's nuts. That is nuts. It's not your pirates What are you gonna do on that one another firecracker?  I'm gonna sell it to a porn site Jim was this almost a breakdown you were talking about let's get away from the most speaking of the Mets and porn the Mets honored Seymour wiener as the veteran of the game World War two vet like very Honorable vet. Thank you. I still I tried to Google search this a ton. Was it a gag name or is this his real name? This is for a little bit. I'm like, that's the Mets because their broadcasts kind of is Mimi. Sure They're having fun. They know they're making a viral moment, but I I think this is his actual name Seymour wiener Well, the problem for you is when you dug deeper into the family I don't know if this is his family So I checked the consensus is to see how many Seymour wieners there are out there Census and there is a decent amount of them. I found like two or three right this family's nuts the dad's name Harry wiener Harry wiener classic the wife's name at a So eat a wiener. Yeah, see there's a little there's that's the first leap But if this is all in play, it's all in and then they named their son Seymour wiener right and then with the daughter Gilda would see I like that because that that one was to leave you guessing that's to get Yeah, Gilda Gilda wiener Gilda Gilda wiener Ivana would have been good. I Can't think of any more. Can you Emily Emily M? No, don't get it. See more buts anyone seen Seymour buts Simpsons had it again. Zack. Hey, there are buts here see more buts more sports Is more sports brought to us by anyone draft Kings because this is gonna change the way you That on football maybe it might NFL owners approve massive revamp. This is how you headlong You know what overs and unders will be changed due to this rule They're going to a model the XFL use they kind of I guess loosely describing it They have all the players line up in the kickoff return side of the field and do like a little flag football ish type setup But it slows down the big collisions and okay They're not allowed to move until the ball touches the ground or the receiver catches it You're allowed to have two receivers, which I love because I think good coaches Are gonna come up with some awesome schemes is now It's almost like you have two two lines to do like locking schemes and maneuvering And I think you'll have teams that overlook that and just get got right. There was a crazy stat They think that 40 to 50 percent of kicks are gonna be returned for a touchdown now. That's what the article said That's a lot. That's almost too many 50 percent of kicks returned for a touchdown. That's what the article said I can pull it back up. Let's we're gonna review it Oh my bad McKay projected that between 50 and 60 percent of kickoff kickoffs will be returned in 2024 returned Not for a touch. Oh He just means they actually run it instead of kickback. Yes, just had touchdown brain on my mind Can't add 50% returns the kick you think he that means he scores I see what happened wish you always had a jacket on because the way that feels like how you should store your phone I do that a lot on this sometimes I bring it out like this. Yeah Zack does a sound effect 21% of kickoffs were returned last season So we're up in it But only three owners said no and it seemed like Jed York only said no because he wanted to have an amendment that said We can change it halfway through the season and maybe he just wanted his name on the weekly dome Maybe it's a good name Jed York three two one four six. Yeah, I was gonna say totally joking Jed York It's not a good name not sports banana fight. I mean we have a classic escalation of fighting here a fight happened in a gas station in Pennsylvania when a customer came in took a banana and Through it at the clerk.  So we just kept climbing the ladder Assault one dudes in the hospital others in jail from where the headline started to where it ended It's kind of like a whoa. This was written perfectly every paragraph. I crescendoed up Whoa, whoa, this story obviously took place in Pittsburgh Zach's hometown No, it was tough when I read that line of it ended with PVC pipe to the head I mean guy comes throws a banana at you and then punches you what's he gonna do next if he doesn't go PVC pipe The dude's going PVC pipe to him. There should be a rule that any time two people throw a banana at each other Yeah, that's an instant detente done. It's over. You know what the point We're throwing nanners at each other. We need to go separate ways These guys, I don't know it seems like old news Wow, it's the middle of the month into Zach. It's April 1st. Hi ploy of the month from March, Zach Boy the month goes to Zach. Nice job, Zach You're gonna give it to Bebes for the lives opening a live stream. Yeah, he was there the whole stream Wow, were you there the whole stream? He's messing with some new producer stuff. He was there too So Zach doesn't get him play the month. Well, I got him play the month. Yeah. Yeah, okay I like the picture and all that that's him play the week Bebes. His underwear is going to auction too So make sure you check it out at shop.jumboymedia.com Today's episode of the weekly dumb was brought to you by DraftKings download the DraftKings sportsbook app now new customers use promo code Weekly that just five dollars on any wager and get 150 and bonus bets instantly. That's promo code a weekly only at DraftKings sportsbook the crown is Zach's How's that? 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You know that all children are natural makers. But how do we unleash this creativity in a system where you don't have enough technology and you lack time and you have a rigid curriculum map tied to high stakes testing? Well, here are two ideas. The first is called a maker project. The second is called a design challenge. Both projects allow students to experiment and create and collaborate. However, each project is slightly different. Maker projects are short-term projects while design challenges are long-term. Maker projects focus on rapid prototyping while design challenges involve the entire design thinking cycle. Maker projects focus on an audience of one while design challenges have a specific and often larger audience in mind. Now here's the beauty of it. These two ideas don't require a ton of technology and they can work just fine within the standards you're already teaching. Ultimately, they won't require any extra time. All they require is a little bit of imagination and a willingness to try something new. If you enjoyed this video, go ahead and like it and leave a comment in the comment section below. And if you haven't already, I encourage you to subscribe. Thanks a lot.


This makes us wonder, what is torsion? Before we jump in, check out the previous part of this series to learn about how shear stress is distributed. Now, torsion is a twisting of an object due to an applied torque. It is expressed in Newtons per square meter Pascals or Pound per square inch PSI. For shafts of uniform cross section, the torsion T is given by the product of torsion constant JT and maximum shear stress tau divided by the distance between the rotational axis and the autosurface R. The maximum shear stress value for a solid shaft of diameter D with torque T applied to it is given by Tmax equals 16T upon pi D cubed. The same value for a hollow shaft of outer diameter D0 and inner diameter DI is given by tau max equals 1.066 into 16T upon pi D0 cubed. From the above equations, we can infer that maximum shear stress is directly proportional to the torque applied and inversely proportional to the outer diameter cubed. The power transferred by a shaft is given by the product of 2 pi NT upon 60 into 10 to the power 3, where N is the speed in rpm, theta here is the angle of twist. If two or more shafts of different material, diameter or basic forms are connected together in such a way that each carries the same torque, then shafts are said to be connected in series and the composite shaft so produced is therefore termed as series connected. Here the equilibrium of the shaft requires that a torque T to be same throughout both parts and is given by GJ theta upon L for each shaft. If two or more shafts are regionally fixed together such that the applied torque is shared between them, then the composite shaft so formed is said to be connected in parallel. For parallel connection, torque T equals T1 plus T2 and the angle of twist for each portion are equal and can be obtained from T1 L1 upon G1 J1 equals T2 L2 upon G2 J2, where G and J are shear modulus and polar moment of inertia respectively. Hence, we first saw what torsion is, then saw how stresses occur in hollow and solid shafts and finally saw how shafts are connected in series and parallel. Like, subscribe and comment with your feedback to help us make better videos. Thanks for watching. Also, thanks a lot for those constructive comments. You help the channel grow. So, here are the top mechanical EIs of our last videos. In the next episode of Mechanical EI, find out what strain energy is.


I'm telling you the first war against the machines is not gonna be fought with machine guns or laser guns It's gonna be fought on the keyboards guys an Asian University student has just invented an app that can detect whether your essay is Written by chat GPT or not and guess what even though he's very smart He's getting a lot of flack on the internet even from fellow Asians. So let's talk about why that's a little surprising.  I was kind of disappointed in the young Gen Z Asians commenting on this next shark Instagram post man These 20 year olds were hating on fellow 20 year old Edward Ken despite the I'm just going off the evidence guys him Probably being one of the most brilliant minds of his generation, but they're just calling him a nerd They say has no friends anyway Andrew I'm gonna get into the points about it because I don't like what this saying about Gen Z and their attitude towards towards embracing the anti-intellectual strain in American pop culture Okay, it might get a little fiery guys Hold on to your seats hit that like button if you're excited or interested by this conversation that we're about to have guys Let's get into a man five points David. What's the first one and what what happened? What are the main responses?  He's probably no fun to be around at parties He's probably the teacher's pet, right? Probably teachers and you know what I didn't like about this.  I'm not saying there's not fun things on both sides Obviously, this is the one our parents want. This is the one that American MTV BET wants But I'm just saying we can't go so far into that side where we start dissing what made Asians Not a hundred percent, but like largely be successful in America But do you think that this is different than the response that it's just what it gotten from Asians? Maybe 10 to 15 years for sure It is because I think that all Asians 10 years ago whether or not you were from this type of family or not That's gonna make you like build these like advanced algorithmic AI apps You probably had a respect for it or you're like my cousin does that he's cool I'm like in the streets, but like I gotta respect him I mean, I think generally and if I had to take to perspective of these commenters Is that they felt uncool because they were like dang it man Look now all the non Asians are gonna see how once again Asians are nerds and they're the teacher's pet And they're doing something uncool because we want to be these cool cheaters. They use chat GPT for our essays He spoiled my plans. I'll never be right Is certainly not a project X guy cuz he's not just a nerd.  I think and I can't help because he's our dad So of course, I know what dad would say in this situation. He's like What is cool guys? Why do you want to be cool? What Edward did was cool only point zero zero one percent of The population can even do this and he is going to change the world with his mind That is cool to me right just like a job or rank dunk That is only available for zero point zero zero zero one percent of the population to achieve and build this What job or rent does on the basketball court is also cool And you know what I really didn't like it is because we are not asking anybody to say that Edward 10 Because you know he got sharp pointy ears like a Vulcan and he kind of you know I'm sure people are thinking he's like Spock You know have robot half human or whatever but I'm saying nobody's asking to call him the drip God Senpai or be like nerd Bay. Nobody's trying to say that he's Taeyang or Jackson Wang or whatever Asian-American Influencer swag gods there are with broccoli cuts or whatever dancer everybody's looking up to he's in his lane But then people from this lane like we said they're trying to self identify themselves by what identities They're trying to push away from right right right which leads us to point number two David I get it.  You know what I mean? That's like the terms that you know, whatever but he's using an MTV BET culture That there is a very strong anti-intellectual strain in America It's been there since PT Barnum and Bailey since the conception of America since the bloody revolutions against the British I don't want to get too much into it. It goes go crazy But basically I don't like it when Asians try to buy into that because being on point and executing Whether it's on small business finances all the way to high-level academics It's such a huge part of Asians advantages to become successful in America I mean if you think about it if you came if your parents or your grandparents came over here as immigrants with no money Right and not any sort of advantage whatsoever and they and they still made a good life for themselves You know how much work and on-pointness that took maybe a little bit of luck too But honestly it just took a lot of work and so it kind of looks like that these kids are looking down on this work Yes, he created an app that detects essays. It's kind of a a very niche app or whatever Yes, yeah, it's like he had to build the algorithms. Yeah It's an impressive thing to do, but it is a snitchy app I guess but I guess for people like us or people other successful people I don't think we're thinking that way because we're just like oh well I don't know. I wasn't gonna use chat GPT to write my YouTube and not only that if we actually hire people I want to know they can actually do what they say they can and they didn't just use chat GPT to like gain their credentials Right. What this brings us to point number three. I gotta stay on point number two one last thing Andrew It's not like we're going to be the tallest strongest people to scare everybody to listen to us And we're not necessarily the most commanding or like hyper communicative. So I'm just saying I'm not saying Asians shouldn't go be these newfound peep fangled people and explore things in America and even explore Whatever new experiences that were like taboo in the east or whatever But I'm just saying we can't look down on like traditional culture from Asia either Especially when those traditional cultures at least some of them. I'm not talking about the emotional expressiveness of Asia Helped us become who we are Moving on to number three. I did it though. Everybody it comes down everybody's family. Okay And here is maybe our bias in the situation We come from a highly highly educated family even though we chose to choose a route in life where you don't need any education Right, and I get it We grew up in a town where a lot of people's parents didn't even graduate high school They were refugees from various wars in Asia, you know They're just trying to get by and raise their kids in America and those kids some of them chose academics Some of them go into the streets. Some of them pick like a weird mixed gray zone route It's hard to describe But basically what I'm saying is everybody brings something different to the table, right? And America has always needed nerds to uplift it even though the nerds were never looked at as cool and popular culture I'll put it this way under we have a cousin who was born into a business family, right? He doesn't really Need to be that good at numbers He just needs to be good at relationships and networking and not lose the money But basically what I'm saying is a lot of times people look at like rich white people in America How they're not good at math and they're not good at algorithms or the hardcore work and they're like oh look at How rich they are they're even richer than Edward Tien's family like doing all the work and I'm like yeah That's true because they own a lot of assets already But if your family is not in that type of situation You can't look down on the guys who are actually like building the real work You know me because you're not in a position to just flip assets and do arbitrage That's the worst thing I could imagine is Asian Americans looking at like rich white people who have multi-generational Wealth who are born into a lot of asset management and then try to take that attitude on for their life when they Don't have that volume of assets to flip around right right right all right. You know what and that brings us to point number four David I Think Edward is the hero that we didn't expect we get because here's the thing guys I'm not saying that we're gonna go heads up with AI and we're gonna be a battle of the humans versus machines anytime soon I'm not saying I'm not one of those people But I will say this that if there is ever a war against the machines It's gonna be a war against the programs and our general is gonna look more like Edward TN Then you think maybe it might not be Edward.  Okay, that's gonna be the movie version Yeah, it'll be a nerd of some type. Okay, that's what I'm saying He is gonna be the John Connor because he can program something that can at least detect AI So you're saying Andrew when the rise of the robots inevitably comes in the AI chat GPT like 27 wants to bug out and You know bite the human hands you gonna need some Edward TNs to come in Code on like six mechanical keyboards some weapons to destroy mr. Smith in the matrix I'm telling you the first war against the machines is not gonna be fought with machine guns or laser guns It's gonna be fought on the keyboards guys That's what I'm trying to say anyways long story short Andrew This is my fifth point and this is a point where I am empathizing with the people who are like dude Edward TN is a loser man. He ain't cool man. I'm over here where my broccoli cut Yeah, clearly he's friends that do droogs or sell droogs. We chillin cooler than Edward TN for sure in an American like You know weed smoking says for sure you're cooler and you probably have a different social life That's not even close I'm not like trying to take that away from anybody and I empathize with that because that was me to some extent You know I mean I have an appreciation for both sides But I'm just saying that basically like when you're in these lanes You can't hate on this lane because it feels like the nerd Asians are being more ten out of ten successful in the nerd lane Whereas the cool cloud Asians it feels like our cap has been like five or six You know what I'm saying like everybody got two lanes in America And I hate that America set up this way, but it is what it is right I can somewhat agree in the macro picture that you even got the cool bucket or the nerd bucket But it feels like the Asians that went into the nerd bucket are rising higher on that respective ladder You mean that to put it plainly it feels like Asians are doing a better job of being nerdy Then the cool Asians are doing a good of a job of being cool. Yes I would compare it to Asians are having almost ten out of ten success in golf tennis swimming diving figure skating versus Asians Getting better but still struggling in the NFL NBA Like NHL and you know less so MLB, but yeah, right right. Okay. All right. Well, I mean I think that that is I'm just saying that that would be wouldn't that be like you to Watanabe Hating on Naomi Osaka Because she's like ten out of ten at tennis, but he wouldn't do that He probably loves her because he both from Japan and they both just show in love to each other because they're Asian Hey, man, I think there's a lot to unpack tier you guys I don't know if you think we took it too deep, but any yeah, that's what we do on this channel We taking it deep. We over know that one of these pocket cup do I was just joking. They ain't even a serious ball Yeah, all right, I'll be honest. I don't think Edward Tan is really fazed by these comments And I don't think they're just internet comments. I don't think anybody's going up to it is Going up to the Princeton campus being like that's Edward. He's corny. He's a teacher's pet He doesn't want us to change I don't think anybody's doing that by the way, but it just kind of it's a signal. It's a it's symbolic symbolic of just how assimilated to some Like anti-intellectual aspects of America the Gen Z agent. All right. Well, you guys let us know in the comments down below We shared what we think okay? You guys let us know what you think about Edward. Did he do a good thing? Did he do a corny cheesy nerdy thing or is he just doing his thing? I don't know you let us know in the comments down below and until next time we out peace


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I don't know, yeah. The center is okay. I have your water if you need it. I don't know how around, but are we okay? Yeah. So I am Mary Sutton. I'm the Education Director in which I work. Right? But this is actually what I do. I apply theater in multiple contexts. To give you a little story about that when I said I was hired to come and redo the education department at the alley and I said we're changing the name to apply theater at the alley and my boss I answered to the managing director not to the artistic director. My boss said no one knows what that is. In fact he did not know what that is and so we added a tagline so that everybody could go oh that means that means this, that means education and community engagement. But I didn't want to back down from that. And so we just kept it slowly kept it slowly kept it slowly kept it and now board members know what it is everybody is beginning to accept it and then when they did the new mission and core values of which nobody was involved to give you an idea of this institution they had a core value of community engagement which blah blah blah blah blah and then the last one was applied theater which means to my boss who defined this. Integrating drama education community drama in education community or therapeutic programs, right? Like he finally got it. I tell you that yes I come from the alley, we have not heard we had a flood, we had a hurricane and then we had another hurricane which was the retirement of Greg Boyd so we are now rudderless in terms of artistic decisions but that is an opportunity for the organization to remake itself and I see that as a new beginning for what I do for the organization I think of myself as the entrepreneurial part of the organization when I started to define it that way people started to go oh! and I took it when I was hired as a mandate to create whatever I wanted to create and I think of myself as a little start-up organization everything that we do is a start-up and in that context that's how I sort of function now we are going to create a framework or we're going to start to create something that looks like that with what we do and when I said I was going to do this I had no idea that as I ruminated on it that it was a bigger challenge than I had sort of thought I mean I thought it was a big challenge but then I started to really ruminate it I think for the last two weeks I am a person who needs contemplation time and I have a job in which I get none so I was carving out time on the weekends and everything and how do we do this so I am presenting to you something that I want you to think of as very boots on the ground it is not the theory it is not I've tried not to use lingo I've tried to be very I come from a family of engineers I've tried to be very down on the ground with where we want to go with this whole discussion and that 45 minutes of it is you guys helping me figure out how we build a collective framework so I've included some cool pictures we had the alley about three years ago we started working with a slam poet in Houston and brought slam poetry we were already doing slam poetry with kids and someone called me and said can you do a big slam poetry adult slam poet spectacle at the alley and they had never done it again I am giving you context and everybody went oh where do we put it how do we do this right and I'm like we'll do it we'll take care of it and then you just come to see it this Saturday will be our fourth slam poetry we have kids slam poetry yesterday teens and then we'll have the adult slam tonight and we bring them in from all over the country and it was a game changer for our theater we moved it to the main stage two years ago but we found that the main stage was too big so we moved it back to our so this was a big just diverse move guys for the alley theater we also have done a lot of work with VSA this is our collective that we're working with right and and then we do we have we did the telling project has anybody heard of the telling project it's a group they were out of Boston and they come in and they work with vets in your community they help them write their stories and then they present them again my theater was like what are you you're going to bring that and they're going to stand and we have sort of an event space that we use as a third space because we're usually full on our main stage our black box so we do this in an event space and vets come and they tell their stories with a couple they were both vets and they were talking about how they met so these are just some of the things that I've had to I've had to create because they did not have these things in the last five years I just want to draw your attention to the little girl up there she's five we worked with a genetics department in Herman Memorial Houston if you don't know it's like Andy Anderson is there we have 26 hospitals in 15 I mean blocks it's a huge it's a huge medical city anyway she is drawing a picture of her brother who died of the same genetic disease that she has so that was one of the programs and this is an online resource that we put out to schools when we do our character education series so here's our what we're going to be doing and so I say that we want to stay down on the ground when we're talking about criteria of how our work fits together I want us to think metacognitively and in the middle I want to leave the theory to the side and the reason I want to do that is when I started to think about doing this session it was so large to try to pin it down and I'm sure you probably have been through this process with it was so large and I kept hoping that they would give me another person to work with so that I could have someone to bounce ideas off of and finally I think two days before I flew here I brought in my executive manager and I said you got to help me range up with this because I can't separate the individual work that I have done from the idea of where I'm going so I've thrown that out and I am actually going to tell you a story about myself and it's not so that you I want you to know me that's great that's warm and fuzzy but I've had a journey and it's been a long one I started doing this work in New York City in the mid-80s and some of you might recognize yourself in my journey so I just want to encapsulate sort of where I'm going with this in little nuggets that are personal to me and then hopefully we can extrapolate I feel like sometimes that I'm going out on a limb with this but I thought about it last night after I listened to Carmen and I sat there and I watched the group and I had this amazing moment I think the first time I was in a group of people that were doing this kind of work and we didn't call it EDI, we didn't call it community engagement, those labels weren't there they weren't there until maybe 10, 20, 10, 15 years ago and I realized that I had not seen a group of community engagement practitioners there's a lot of names you can call us there in 1991 Alternate Roots in Atlanta, Georgia had a group a convening of people who were trying to bridge the aesthetics of the art world to the aesthetics of the community and so I went home last I mean I'm sick as you guys can notice and I went to my Plaza Hotel and I changed the presentation a little bit based on what she said and I realized that I can't I have to tell my own story and in that there's maybe some co-hangers we can hang on to hang on some stuff and then hopefully you guys will have your own stories when we're going to do a process together that you will start to cogitate on I'm going to pause this here that's this land poetry we'll just leave that out for a second so I realized when I went I said okay what do all my projects if we're going to have a framework we have to in a common language happen everybody talks about this work differently and they have different words for it and different language for it and us older folk have a whole generation of language around it I sometimes listen to the new language and I have to go what does that mean that's a good way of saying that and then I go and then I'll go is that really what you're talking about so so anyway I was listing all of my projects going what are they having common well I've got to figure out who I'm working with and I've got how much time do I have and how much funding do I have and then I said what about that other projects that I did so I started doing cultural community animation I was graduated from NYU I'll give you the five minute overview trying to be an actress in New York NYU fabulous program and I got sick very sick ended up on a cancer ward at Roosevelt Hospital and totally changed my perspective of my work now mind you I wasn't a Broadway type I had been exposed to downtown theater and that was where my heart lived right so I was already in an experimental place and I graduated from the experimental theater at NYU so I was in that place right so when I got out my first piece that I made was we had a little company we stood on the corner of 9th Street and 1st Avenue next to the Asian fruit stand because he was the only one that would let us plug all the camera work this is like mid-80s right and we interviewed people who walked by what they thought God was and then we interspersed those interviews and we did two days of them and I still have them and they are amazing and we interspersed that into a piece that we made for a gallery didn't it right so I realized last night that was my first community engagement also my first working with virtual but that was in the 80s right and then I went to the ART in that program was a director in the ART institute blah blah blah blah blah and it was so hierarchical it's like this is high training this is low training and this is how we do it and our work is important work and you know what it is some of it is it wasn't diverse it was highly skilled beautiful work right and then when I got out I was so tired and so exhausted I a friend of mine said come down and we're working the rural arts program and South Carolina had gotten a big grant from the NEA yes there were times when the NEA did this and they they gave money out for people to go and work in rural settings so from the ART I went to James Island in South Carolina where they speak Gullah and my first job was in a cafeteria with 16 African American students who still live in the houses that their slave grandparents lived in they had outhouses they did not know theater and they watched soap operas and I had to teach theater to them because the awakening moment that I had and I bet you all had had that moment I want you to think about that moment for yourself right we all had that moment where we wouldn't be in this room and I said to myself what am I going to do I mean there was macaroni and cheese on the floor what am I going to think you know how do I find common ground and at a certain point I said and they you know in cafeterias where they have three steps they got on the three steps in a voice order and they literally serenaded me for about 20 minutes in four part time so I said we're going to do a Greek play right and these kids had never been to a theater they watched soap operas so we make that's why Greek they loved it and they had to go to a competition and of course Charleston, South Carolina you have the public schools and then you have the Catholic schools I mean the religious schools public schools and another group so it was black and white and white troop after white troop came into this competition and my kids came up and of course they did and I am sure it was racist right and it broke my heart and I think that was the moment where I said I wasn't going to turn around and go back into mainstream theater so I ended up working in the rural arts initiative for eight years and I did worked with James City which is the first African American community it's where the black slaves came and that Duke had documented their ancestors so we could trace their oral histories all the way from 1860 something rather all the way up to current times so we took white members of the community and black members of the community and it was like amazing then I ended up in Palo Alto, California in a theater now I want you to who has crossed over from being an individual artist doing this kind of work to being now in an institution and I say that because there was a time when institutions didn't even have education departments they just they might be making money off of camps and they might be doing classes but they're definitely not reaching out to their communities because they're the White House on help so then they all were like we got to have education departments so those of us that were doing work we stood and then you run into institutions I ended up in Palo Alto, California Palo Alto, California if you don't if no one knows it is very white on one side of 101 and very diverse on the other side of 101 you go to Palo Alto High School and it's like a private school it's public school and you literally go a mile across 101 and you are in a community that does not have proper electricity whose elementary schools don't have proper electricity who are being barraged by charter schools coming in and this is all established because of redlining and blah blah blah blah I mean it's important stuff but it's a radical it's so vast that I don't want to so I spent most 10 years exploring that divide of 101 we worked with fences and my theater allowed me to do a lot of community engagement projects we did a Joy Luck Club Bridges project and we brought all of this into the theater we got oral history we gave them cameras they documented them so it was all wonderful stuff it changed the people who came to our theater maybe that much maybe and it cost money right so I had I started to rethink why are we doing this I know why I want to do it but why what does it mean if it doesn't you know if I was integrated in the community not in East Palo Alto I knew the schools I knew the social service agencies but at the same time why so I'm bringing that question up to us as a group we all are on the bandwagon but I think there has to be a moment when you ask yourself a very personal question in order to stay on you know in order to stay moving forward right so we started a children's healing project all of that stuff so I learned a lot during that time on how to make successful long enduring projects how to create long successful relationships how to figure out how to make a program that suited the theater but also would have longevity in the community right it was always a balancing act of going from the theater world into the community world and trying to figure out how do I be that rich right and then the alley called and I was 15 years skin Palo Alto and I knew the alley's reputation it's what it's the largest theater in America we have an $18 million budget and they had two education people they didn't raise a lot of money for their education department interestingly enough and so when I being said what do you what do you how would you define yourself and I said what I do is artistic but he went sure but within the first year I realized that he had no idea what I was talking about when I said what I do is an art form right and Greg who's now no longer there was like you're smart enough just do it it's great and we're over here and where we do the arts you do the education and the community engagement so I found myself and I took the job I think because I had learned a lot and I'm like what good is my work that I've done if I am not in an institution like that trying to change it from the inside out I can keep doing projects and that's great but I think before I die and I'm older what do I want to stand for well the change is not going to happen unless those institutions change first of all I need to understand that institution and second of all then I need to know how to how to maneuver in that world right and so the last five years I've been at the alley I did manage to get something like this that's Ed Maybury from Atlanta that's Rain she's our slam poet she works with all of our residencies in in our partner school program they range from Sharpstown which is probably 95% Latino, 5% black all the way up to St. Francis that had to sit down and talk about race when she came into the classroom right she's a phenomenal poet and then come on and then we have Zas who is an Austin poet and he came in and did a whole bunch of teaching for us my boss watching this oh my god I wish I had taken a picture right and he was uncomfortable he was especially he watched Ed right and Ed's powerful he's from Atlanta and he's like an international slam I mean he's a powerful man saying a powerful thing you know and my boss who is probably a little he calls himself an old white guy and he sees that he says I'm just an old white guy right and he watched this and I think it was a dawn on him right and the next time he let us be on the main stage which of course I don't think was the right move for us again we learned as we go so that was the first thing and it went all great everybody came our new works people were like we want these poets and our new works whatever and they did they brought Zangu we brought a hip-hop piece to our main stage the next year because they were so affected by this so yes I made some change right so off I went right and we do have a lot of education programs so I'm doing all this along so now now we're at where I had to go up a little in my thinking I knew how to do this I made it happen and now I want together to go up a little in our thinking because I slammed against the power structure after this I don't know why I'm not going to make any judgments on that we have 140 employees we are in a constant mode of fundraising I have now 9 employees in my department but bang you weren't going to go any farther than that they did but Greg was there and Greg was what was that scenario this morning where we would hire diverse people if they would audition and if they were out there and what about the company there was not a lot of will to make any other change this was nice diversity now in our hallways we all recognize that so as we encountered this is going to be important as we moved into our next thing right we all knew who was responsible for anything right if we are going to have slam poets who is going to market them if we are going to have talk backs does the artistic it was like the whole organization was in a tizzy because they had been doing things the power structure and I'm talking I'm making tiny steps I'm not making big steps here right so we had to define these things because everybody marketing people were doing community engagement when we sell group tickets and it's like no one no one and they all have their audience everybody is talking about these terms and no one in the organization knows anything and I've got handouts so we defined it it's faulty we said what is audience development what is audience engagement and what is community engagement right those are our three things and and then this was the line that had the most push back on it who is the primary owner of each of those things and it's permeable right but we really had to establish something in our organization I don't know if you've done this in your organizations but we found it gave somebody to everybody who was going something to hang on to right so I'm objective for all of us and I'm being very on the ground about this I'm not being theoretical I'm not saying equity and diversity and inclusion I'm being where my institution lives which is money they want to make art yes I don't want to put that down yes they want to make art but they think about money and there is nothing wrong with that so we just were we want to build audience size we want audience participation and loyalty we want to have someone subscribe right and we want strong two-way relationships within the community they didn't have that happening so much and it's grown a lot the alley is beloved the alley is beloved in Houston so people know about it I didn't have to struggle with anything there but it isn't a place that some of the organizations that should think it's their home know about it they know about it but they don't know about it so then we added this so for instance the marketing when we want to develop audience we we are focusing on increasing attendance numbers from existing and new groups and building membership numbers I mean this is very there's no Mormon fuzzy about this this is very this is in the speak that the marketing department and the board break down all of our programs it just gave them an idea so flow of conversation this was very important for people to understand that the institution to potential audiences and then over here artist institution to audience audience to artist institution audience to audience inside the theater right and then who's outside it's community engagement this seems if you have ever worked in a large organization people think they understand this people think they know this but they don't there's these lines where the group sales guy thinks one thing it's never been defined you don't have a common language or something common to to look at this gray area I'm not responsible for that and who's going to take care of that and do our production people have to you know this became a tool I will tell you that my boss disregarded this on one reason on one and we still use it and he was run around because he said the primary beneficiary of any of this is not the organization it's the community think about that he's not wrong in an old way of thinking about things the old way of thinking and I could it was he mansplained to me a good half an hour about this and I I backed off I just said okay I have certain fights I'm going to fight and I'm like but this is we are all about the audience that should be something that's a circle here but I think you have to be honest with yourselves about this one that you want butts and seats you need those you need that just do but it gave me an insight into him which is he really does believe that he's Superman and the arts organization is you know is out there creating the culture right he truly believes that and and that is a way of thinking that hasn't been challenged and there are multiple theaters like this in America that have still not been we are growing and they are they are not in this room they are not in this room so that is why I think building a common framework is important to us because you have an artistic director you have an artistic director they are not thinking in a unified way about this they are just saying that's community right and they think it's good and it brings money but it's still over here because they are not in these conversations how do we get them here well we have to unify we have to have a unified language I am on a mission here and I have this hand out for you I don't know because anybody has done anything like this at their institution you might have done something like that you've done that with you've got one did it change your conversation well I'm realizing that I share my work with my staff and I'm sure it's in some kind of conversation I had with the larger team I might have shared it with them but mostly it was an internal document so we knew what was going on and it was like oh we are doing so many programs these are the ones that are motivated from the community the community wants this thing to happen and then we tap it on it these are the ones that are motivated from the organization wanted to do something it's the same kind of communication touch point the same kind of decision making touch point and the same clarity about who held the power in what rooms but ultimately we always knew that everything was serving the organization or we wouldn't be doing it yeah yeah yeah yours this part is for you every department had to be one I shook my head when you said everybody said that because they want their education programs to actually have just as high an artistic level so no you don't so once they realize that they actually wanted to evaluate that well that's why I take pictures like that but we kept them with us and we actually have a relationship but it is starting to stick in the culture of the organization great anybody else have documents like this and has it changed at least cleared up or created some openings it's cleared up I think we stopped that now we decided we called it the motivation it all existed and we engaged the shifts that's happening these days is I think that people are realizing that education and community engagement or community engagement or whatever is not marketing but you see I think it's a slow dawning for many people who work in our theaters this wasn't for my department to understand it was for the rest of the theater right so we did that and my boss came to me and said we are the second largest Hispanic Latinx community in the United States second to LA and Ali has tried many many many strategies to reach out to the Latinx community in Houston none of them have worked very well they have worked a little bit right so he he said we're gonna do this thing called remote Houston so people started in we call it the I get the words mixed up I'm gonna use this because it's a way to talk about it the fifth ward they have different words like but which is primarily Hispanic and so the audience would come and get a headset and they would walk around the city and it started in a graveyard in the fifth ward and then for an hour they walked through the city and stood and watched subways go by not subways rail go by and they would do certain things and they ended up in way at the top of Houston it was all about community it was all looking at what do you see on the street and that was his first approach into the community but it was still not about the community it was about what we wanted to bring for the community so he then approached me and said we want to bring Misa Frontariza which means border mass it's a group from Monterey, Mexico and they are going to they don't speak English and they are going to come and we've written a grant and the mayor's office has funded it and they're we're going to do this whole thing for the Latinx community and I went wait a minute right that's not going to happen and so I convinced him that we wrote a place making grant from the NEA and it's like always talking about it it was we're bringing Misa Frontariza and we're doing some community engagement around it how many of you have been in that position right we're bringing in the art and and we're going to do some community engagement and they say that now he is a well meaning and well intentioned man and it is a great show and it's all in Spanish and we have simultaneous translation simultaneous translation there's the show it's all about the border and they make the border and they explore what border means and I said we have to go out we have to make friends with certain organizations and we have to and we have to go into those organizations and have them write their stories right so we are in the middle of this process we have a team of teaching artists which is one is Latino and one is on our staff because we didn't want to make the Latino teaching artists learn all of the curriculum and feel but needed to feel supported and we're in I think eight sites and the community is writing their stories and they will also perform their stories at the same time this is happening that was David one of our teaching artists working we're in and then I know this feels culturally out of place because Mead of Frontarisa is about ranchera music I made a stipulation that we have an advisory committee an advisory team that is Latin acts from the community and this was their welcome reception so the whole project is called Elz, Okolo, Mead of Frontarisa that is a man that's on the advisory team talking about what Elz, Okolo is in Mexico has anybody been to the Elz, Okolo in Mexico can you tell them what it's like it's like a classic it's in Mexico City and it's there's families and lots of things come together in that space so hopefully we're going to build that right, are we successful no we have lots of people writing stories and we have lots of advisory team members right but we are making about that much of an impression and my boss is really really good and I said we have to be doing this project three to five years so this is a baby step in trying to figure out the next the next steps that might happen what is the second baby step the project and I'm saying this because it's the duration of a project is important even though it's related to a play tell me about the baby stuff the play will go off and then we will keep the Elz, Okolo part of it and then we will bring in another play or we will bring in another American company or we will create something ourselves every year so that the the relationship deep and deep and deep because we're not going to do something in a year ok so there's my story from individual artists to I get all my tools and now I'm in a big arts organization that I want to be making more change but I'm changing it as I go and it's modified so I'm sitting here going do we make a rubric right so hopefully you've been thinking oh I did that project and I did that project or I work with that group or I work with that group are we doing something that says I just brought up some rubrics and some logic models that we've used at the theater are we doing something like this and what would these categories be right I don't know I have a tendency to think that this is something we might be doing this is a logic model it's filled out for a project that we're doing with the Menager Clinic about social-emotional learning and arts in the classroom in Black Shear Elementary which is a Title I campus that is on the verge of being closed down because they don't have high enough physical they also need mental health practitioners anyway it's mental so that I think is something valuable if we wanted to figure out a common framework I don't know that we would do that but what are the resources you're allocating what are the main activities you are performing what are the outputs of your activities and that's the process and then what your audience learns from the activities what action will they take and what impact will that action have I think that's valuable but I don't know how I'm putting it in your hands because we're going to do a brain dump so I went ahead and said okay all those projects that I told you about what are the common factors that I talked to my executive manager and I said you got to help me I don't think we're doing a logic model I don't know what we're doing but I know we need common language and she said what do you go through what's the checklist you go through when you are making a project whether it's with a hospital a healing whether it's with the Latinx community whether it's an education program whether it's with special needs kids whether it's at the hospital and these are not all of them and I'm not using politically correct terminology I'm just using structural it's on the ground engineering right and there's more here I wanted to start these are seeds right so I think about the duration it's important to think about the funding in that is do you need a return on investment do you have it doesn't have to be self-sustaining sustaining or do you have to have that funding like on my healing project that Lucio practiced at Children's Hospital I knew I had the funding for that year after year until they did that family foundation was gone right place are you in your community in arts organization are you published are you virtual these are all from my own experience so I'm hoping that when I gave you that long preamble you've been going oh I had that project oh she you know manpower I'm sorry I used manpower people power arts organization employees are you using your own employees are you using community members this is to do it to actually do it right a combination of those two do you need outside expertise do you need specialized professionals is training necessary to do this is it multi-discipline a lot of my projects before I well still is visual arts as well as or photography as well as or written written paper and all of that stuff and then process is it within the community on site where is it these are all things that we actually when we when we're making up a program we think of this stuff but we don't know we're thinking of it I think maybe maybe I'm wrong and then populations are we hitting family kids, adults are we dealing with gender are we dealing with multi generations are we dealing with something that's heritage or cultural are we social group specific ladies with red hats when we were doing crowns are we dealing with a racial group what are we dealing with right and then what's our purpose healing building relationships giving voice barrier busting creating dialogue constructing entry points artistic expression welcome or an introduction historic documentation dreams like steel it was all based on historic documentation of the you know creating current events resonance I couldn't figure out a nice way in some of the words are we having a political discussion but I don't want to say that because then we're is that do we want to just say we're having political discussions or are we doing something bigger than that I don't know that's a question I'm asking you guys is your purpose education is your purpose cultural celebration these are not the only things these are just my limited brainstorming so what I want you to do is after lunch how everybody wants to move break into groups of four I think that might work four or five and I'm going to hand out there's markers up here the other one I'm going to hand the other to you guys what have we left out in this who wants to make a list of what have we left out with population or what do we want to call it working what do we want what's the real term that we use when we talk about population that we're working with what more do we want to add to that in terms of criteria so do you want to grab that sure duration I want to give we'll give these brainstorm on duration have I get everything or do we want to add something to that process if processing here so what are the categories if we were to have a unified way of talking about what we do what are the categories that many cognitive categories that you're all looking at me like I'm a little need some explanation how about you guys do funding so if we were to say here's our rubric here's our rubric for community engagement in America in 2018 given the language that we have what more criteria would we want to add to let's say a rubric or or a logic model or whatever what's the language we want to use so is the goal of the rubric to evaluate the program or is the goal of the rubric just to describe it the goal of the rubric is to describe it to someone else maybe there's a way to evaluate I don't know maybe there's a way that you can talk about it I'm doing this to do this to have these outcomes so it's for us to come up with a common language so that we all know we're doing come up with that has earned income return on investment is not necessary so that we we have something that we can start to go oh she's doing the same kind of project that I'm doing right it's not just theoretical it's very engineer like it's very boots on the ground go for it I'm going to go to the floor here it just makes more sense can we go here do the building here add things I feel like a place of music of music of music of music of music you have a song I know it's hard it's no holiday music music music music music music music So like, again, how are these different graphics? Self-modulations? Yeah. I'm going to leave it at that. Do you have a phone?  Different graphics. Yeah. And then you can put the groupings on. So what we have right now are our groupings. Oh, we're there. Let's see. Yeah. Let's see. Let's see. I'm going to put that here. Yeah. So I was thinking that they see you like enjoy the trend. So you know where you're going? You're going to be on the line. You're going to be on the line? You're going to be on the line. Is there a way to break down the problem? No, you're not. You're going to be on the line. Are there a way to break down the problem? You're going to be on the line. Are there a way to break down the problem? Yeah. You're going to break down the problem? Yeah. Are there more broad and sporty? I don't know what I would want to do. I love the solo of all the people on the line. Yeah. I'm going to put the groupings on. I'm going to put the groupings on. Yeah. It's very complicated. Would you give his family a vision for outing? Well, out. That's it. What do you mean? It's all right. Yeah. And that's it. It will come back. It'll come back. And it's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. We started about, did we start about it in your place? Yeah, but we moved in. So we moved in, okay. So like, what is happening? Uh, yeah. That's my, so. Okay. Strategy. Like, would you be able to tackle this? Yeah. Would you be able to do that? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your view. This is where that kitchen is with. This is Connors College. This is for the community. We're still on the move. I know. So the categories of food. That's a good question. This is. I have to. I have to. I have to. I have to. I have the answer all of them. Is that on the right hand side? Obviously. She says for a long term. Yeah, because it's not up there. A long term program doesn't require a long term program. So that's the kind of project we're trying to do. So the long term doesn't require a long term program. So if you're a long term program, might be a good idea to have a long term program. So you have the final idea you've got. I know there's a lot of work for this one. It's just not as well. What are trying to do in our society? I don't know. So who are we trying to do? We have to figure out how we can do it. I'm not sure. I don't know. There are no more. I know. Because you said in Houston, what would you do? And we also ran a conversation. I was going to talk about New York City. New York City. It's right here. So we're coming under the public level. And it feels like populating is about somebody being somebody's friend. And the man that we're really coming through is like, it's really funny to have conversations under the public level. I know it's hard. So I think this is the only way to encourage everybody. Where the long. Yeah. Right. But I think that's a great question. And I just want to say, yeah, maybe you can probably see it on the screen. Yeah. And she's going to look at it. But I'm going to look at it. Right. I'm going to take a picture of this. Yeah. No, no, no. No, no, no. Yeah. No, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. power have to be shared. And then, on the inside, there's all kinds of things. So let's come back. This is some kind of conversation I think we have. So let's come back. So I think I've opened the can of worms. Yep. That was my goal. To share the conversation that we're having. I would be a bit of a devil's advocate with them. It's not easy. I realize that it's totally not easy. But it's necessary. I feel that we, as a group of community practitioners in the Midlands of England, they called it cultural animators, I think it behooves us to find a common language that may not get down to the deepest detail of our work, but is some common bridge that we can share when we talk about what we're doing. Right? So over here, my friends, we're talking. Could you want to share a little bit about what you were? They've got a perspective. I would kick us off, because I feel like I was on the with life. Both those boxes are purple. Are they really the same box? What if we do that? No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But you can say, I like purple, though. This is partially coming out. I love purple as well. We were thinking about this as, oh, in the process of creating this work, isn't everybody a collaborator? I feel like that word came from you, Katie. It's like, oh, everybody's a collaborator from the people who are deciding when things are going to be created, even though they never enter the creation space. The folks who are funding that space, creating mandates for that space. The folks who are in the space making it, which includes a lot of us. Sometimes people who are thought leaders. Sometimes people who are actual practitioners. Right? And then you've got the last pool of collaborators, which is your folks who are audience things. And sometimes we were asking them or requesting that they audience in specific ways. Sometimes we're curating that group so that the huge performative thing we're doing together. So it felt like all of those boxes were important boxes to medicate on. We never got to what boxes were missing, though, because we got very... Everybody's got... I know there's huge boxes missing, and everything has to be relabeled. But I also know that it's not an easy thing to do. It's to find a common language. So go ahead and share what you came up with. So some of the categories of collaborators that we broke down that helped us to think critically and intentionally about some of the ways in which power flows through these collaborative, community-engaged processes. So thinking about that some of... Looking at the box-labeled manpower and the box-labeled populations, that that seems to break down in any project. There are some people who are participating and they are compensated for it. There are some people who are participating and they are not compensated for it financially. Some people are paying to participate. Those might be donors. Those might be students paying tuition. Some people are paid to participate. Sometimes that's a symbolic payment. Sometimes that's a full salary that's really enough to support a life. That's not an even playing field. And who has the power to make decisions? So where does decision-making power lie? And in any given project, that's not a given that the power to make decisions always comes from the same place. And where would those... Do we add another category? Do the who's getting paid go into the... Maybe funding is not the right word. Right? How does money flow? The money flow. You know, I don't know. Let's go over here to funding really quick. We're running out of time, but... So we focus on contributing and earning income being two sort of big umbrellas that there's a lot of things that are underneath those two that aren't listed on there. And something we talked a lot about was that you have, especially under contributed, right, you have foundations and government grants things like that, the corporate sponsorships in kind, right? So what kind of resources are you given? And then we also talked a lot about this idea of time and whether it's employees or people that come from the outside that are volunteering their time or their expertise, how that plays into it and how it's difficult to quantify that and how tensions can lie in that when you're building new programs or you're strengthening existing programs and how that contributed funding, right? Because that's the time that you could be paying someone. Can you pay those people? Do you... Not even discuss paying, right? So how does that happen? And then earned income, ticket sales, tuition, membership and subscriptions, concessions, merge rentals, sort of those tangibles. But we talk a lot about the idea of time and volunteering as expertise and in tangible and how do you stuff that out? And we didn't really get to the return on investment because we didn't really know what to do with that. Is it really that it's meant to be self-sustaining? Is it that you're going for a multi-year grant? Is it, you know, is it... We just weren't quite sure what return on investment meant in this... because every project is so different, so... Yeah. Back there. We're running out of time, so I want to... We don't have any, but we'll just continue. Just in fact, like, is that an outcome of a lack of extra time in the community because sometimes there is... That's reevaluate, isn't it? Just as it goes along saying a lot of healing as well. Yeah. I want to just do this. Wait a minute. Go. Is it going? It's not going. It's not moving. My question to you now is as we can tell, this is not easy. It's really not going to be easy. And so my question is, what's next? Right, if we were to continue this conversation next year or in six months, release a rubric, something rather, what would that look like? And how would we go about continuing this conversation? Would it be a rubric? Would it be a list? Well, we started it here, so let's just start where we are, right? Does anybody want to jump in and say, hey, I'll take these, I mean, I'm going to take two, and try to make sense out of everything that we've put up here and actually form a committee to say we're going to end up making teaching artists way back when Eric Booth has to a rubric, which I resisted terribly about what success looks like in teaching artistry. I didn't, you know, I was like, it's too much, right? But I really think that we're at an impasse now where if we have a common language, we are going to make a dent in the power struggle and structure much stronger than if we don't have a common. So does anybody want to work with me in order to sort of maybe make sense out of and change these up so that they actually describe what we're talking about? One, two, three, four. We need, you know, we need one more person. Right. What we're going to do then is we're going to take all of this. This was a seed and the only seed I could think of as I went, what are the very basic details that we can jump off from? Please feel free to reach out to one of us or myself and we will have some, I think, phone calls about how do we put something together that people will then look at and go, that's not right, or that's right, collaborate on in order to come up with some kind of unified, beginning of a unified language, right? And I think it has to start small and I think then it has to grow. So that's my, yes, where we've got to go. So everybody, I do, if you want to contemplate some of this stuff I have handouts of just this slide, of just this slide, of just this slide, of just this slide.


It's the 22nd year of the Guam International Cleanup, and it's the largest volunteer event of the year. Both military and civilian come out to support 21 different locations around the island. An event like this is good. You do feel a little sad when you find the amount of trash that you do, but you also feel great that we were able to pitch in with lots of others today and make a positive improvement. Organizers estimate more than 4,000 volunteers participated and collected more than 21 pounds of trash. It just makes it a better place for the community to come out here and enjoy the beach without having to deal with a lot of trash all over the place. Probably a bigger reason is to ensure that we protect the wildlife out here. Keeping Guam clean is a year-round effort, but today, sailors did their part to preserve America's secret paradise for the future. Technical Sergeant Brian McGee, Dottie Beach, Naval Base, Guam.