Hi, beautiful people! Welcome to my vegan day of eating! Okay, it's good to get a drink. I don't want to start like vandalizing public property unless I know that like the B12 is better for sure.  So what I like to do is I dip the cucumber in water and...  Hold on. Okay guys, so I love, I just love chopping fruit like a slut. There we have it guys and oh my god, me and my boyfriend.  Oh you know me guys, just... So I have some coconut milk here. Nut milk is my favorite. I really like any sort of like heavy...  Here we have some coconut milk. Really any heavy nut milk. Here I have some nut milk. Really any heavy nut milk will do. Here I have some nut milk. Any really fat, heavy... Any really fat, heavy nut milk will do. Those are my favorite. Oh my god, are you guys excited as I am for this? I haven't had an ice cream in like 18 hours. Okay guys, so I actually set this up myself. I know how to get piped.  No, I mean, I'm good at, I'm good with pipes. I'm like a good plumber. So here we have the water tank. Oh my god guys, look at that. It's so nutritious.  I mean Jane, I mean, unless the girls look like Jane, they shouldn't even be looking at me. Like, I don't need any ugly boys.  Oh my god guys, look at that.  Guys, this is so good. Oh my god.  It's so amazing. This was actually uploaded three weeks ago. It was taken down because I put some ketchup in a toilet and made a detox joke. Seeing as I wanted to show you guys the bloopers from some of the past videos and that some of you might not have seen this because it was taken down, I decided to combine both my Carnivore Goes Vegan 4 video with the blooper reel to re-upload it. And I also wanted to explain that modern culinary technique has allowed us to make these plant foods taste good. You know, if you took any of these plant foods out of nature and tried to make them taste good without a laboratory, essentially it wouldn't happen. I mean, that fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich, that was slamming. You know, it was actually good. I mean, if you have something like that once in a while, is it going to kill you? No. That's not exactly an embodiment of what vegans eat. But once you actually see how these vegan foods taste and how they're either sugar bombs or a combination of hyper-palatable modern culinary technique, it becomes clear that they're enjoying the food to some degree. It's just malnourishing them. So thank you guys for joining me today. Recently I have launched Frankie's Free Range Meat, my goal being to provide you guys with high quality nutrient-dense animal foods at an affordable price. So if you guys are looking for grass and meat, salmon roe, nutrient-dense animal foods to make you the optimal version of yourself, you can go to frankiesfreerangemeat.com. We have a bunch of discount codes. Be sure to place your order before the first week of June, guys. Otherwise, we might not be able to get it out in the first shipment. We have products available internationally as well, not just for you guys in the United States. Again, thank you guys for joining me and enjoy your Memorial Day.


Morning class, I'm Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School and I'd like to welcome you to this Absolute Beginner's Acrylic Painting course. Do you ever dream of becoming an artist, but you often put it off until you've got more time? Sometimes the thought of a blank canvas staring back at you can put you in a real state of paralysis and you can never even get started on your creative journey with painting. You can quickly find yourself as an art admirer rather than an art creator. And the longer it goes on and the longer you put it off, the more it can get you down. And you'll find yourself with your paints in the paint box rather than actually putting your brush to canvas. Procrastination can really hold you back and I should know I'm world class at it. Often my planning and my research can go on for weeks if not months and my deadlines only just get met. So for this Absolute Beginner's Acrylic Painting course I want to help out other aspiring artists to make that step to stop putting it off anymore and to get paint on canvas and start their creative journey. This course is aimed as if you're completely new to painting. Using acrylics is the simplest, most effective way for an Absolute Beginner to learn how to paint successfully. They're diluted with water and throughout this course you'll see me constantly keeping my brush moist and adding water to the mix. I also demonstrate using a stay wet palette to keep your acrylics wet over a longer period of time so you can keep on coming back to your mixes to create a lovely smooth blend. It goes through everything step by step. I introduce each new technique slowly in an illogical progressive sequence. The course is split into 7 lessons that can be tackled daily. Perfect if you want a painting week or you can study each lesson every weekend to give yourself a continuity in your painting practice. We'll cover materials and setup, colour mixing and pigment choice, brush handling and palette knife techniques and gels and mediums. Then we'll get painting using methods that achieve great results even if you've got no artistic training. We'll cover a wide range of techniques from classical realism to a more modern abstract approach. Looking at underpainting and glazing to scumbling and impasto-textural effects, giving an essential introduction to the wide properties of acrylics. By the end of the course you would have created three different painting studies and each one looking at a different style of painting. You'll have a really good solid foundation of how acrylics work and then you'll be able to build on that to develop all the paintings you've ever dreamt about. So why don't you grab a brew, maybe a couple of biscuits and join me on this beginner's course so you can unleash your inner artist and put paint to canvas.


All right, Jason has a question. Put a lot of money behind it, so he gets first dibs. I would love to be Howard Rock, but I have a cushy-gummer job with a pension. What should I do? If we had more freedom, I would return to the private sector, but given how controlled business is today, it seems smarter to keep my secure-gummer job and watch the world burn. I don't know what to do with it. What am I gonna do with you, Jason? Let's hope you don't sit there and watch the world burn, partially by supporting the Iran Book Show. You are helping prevent the world from burning. But look, it's your values. You're gonna have to decide, right? Is the cushy-gummer job interesting? Stimulating? Does it push you? Does it engage you? Does it get your juices flowing? Or is it just eight, nine, 10 hours of just a job? Boring just gets done and you got the cushy pension, right? Now you only live once. I keep saying this, but I know I keep saying this and I know it's kind of cliche and boring, but it's true. Every day, you don't push yourself. Every day, you don't do something exciting. Every day, you don't do something interesting. Every day, you're bored. Every day, you're uninterested. Every day, you're just there. Is a day you never get back. And it's one day closer to being dead. So if you do your cushy job and it gives you money to go out and do exciting things after work and you've got a full life and you're doing great things afterwards, you've got a great hobby, whatever, right? Then fine, maybe that is the best outcome in the mixed horrible world in which we live. But you have to make that evaluation. I can't do it for you.  My point is this, don't waste your life.  Ooh, did I swear? Sorry, what did I do? Where did it all go? What happened? You know, how did I get to be 75 and didn't do all the things I dreamt about doing? How did I get to be 75 and I didn't get to be Howard Walk when I really wanted to be Howard Walk? How did I get to be 75 and I didn't, you don't pursue my passions?  Live fully, completely, given the circumstances. Given the circumstances, I recognize you have to take the context into account. So I'm not saying leave your job tomorrow. Take everything into account and everything that's possible into account. And then make an evaluation of is this the best that could be doing in the world we live in today with my life? And you have to make that decision. I can just guide you in that's the perspective to take. And it's hard perspective to take because it's hard to take risks. It's hard to change. It's hard to imagine the future, a different future. But that's the job of thinking. That's what being rational means. That's what being independent means. It means the hard work involved in thinking about your life. That's what it means to be an egoist. That's what Iron Man's ethics boils down to about the hard work, thinking about how to live the best life you can live for you. Yep. Anyway, that's my advice. And my advice for everybody, not just for... And the pension, hopefully the pension, it's transportable. Hopefully you can get something out of it. Hopefully it's not just all lost. And if you're young, be aware of government jobs. Because they're very difficult to leave because they entice you and they seduce you and they... And right now the government is paying more than the private sector for some jobs. But be aware because you can get stuck in a job that is not passionate, that is not exciting, but very difficult to leave. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, the world. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least a hundred. I figure at least a hundred of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, I wanna see a thumbs up, there you go. Start liking it, I wanna see that go to a hundred. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this. And you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. 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Cyniwch chi'n gweld i chi. Lech chi i gyd yn gallu'n meddwl i chi wedi bod wedi'i gweithio'r ffontog i'ch bod i'n meddwl i Satt highfodydd. Felly mae gwblog yn felweithio, I think we have other training sessions this morning and everyone trained who expected to train so we have got I think there was about 24 outfield players out there today so yeah the squad is reasonably healthy at the moment a long may that continue because we need more to get through this period. Mae'r bwysig y gallwn ni'n bwynt yw'r ddechrau ar gyfer yw'r ddechrau, fel y prosiect neu eich bod yn eisiau i fynd am yr oedd yn ffordd. Mae'r Llywodraeth Ydyn ni'n gwybod yn yw'r gweithio'n gweithio. Ydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'r ddaeth yn y lleidio'n gweithio, ond mae'r ddaeth byddai'n gweithio'r ddoedau a'r ddaeth yma i'r gweithio'n gwaith yma. At dweud hynny'n meddwl Iverdanon a Paddo d Champion. Anyway we know they are improving players, they can help us win games.年前 for them hopefully, when they are fully integrated and fully fit, it's a fight for them to get in the team. We want to create a home where that happens, the team plays well and we're winning games. Mae'r mewn fawr iawn a'r hyffordd o fod yn groesio iedd gan gyda'r Gwylol Cymrwyseic yn ychwanegu neu'r cyfan i'w gwahod ddyn nhw, ond mawr yn ystafell os eu cyffredigig o'u cyfan a'i mynd i'w hyfforddol. Mae'r delwod o'r cyffredig o'r cysyllt ar y dyfodol efo. A'r mewn gwirio arddun ap i Hitwch ac i'w llwyddoch chi. Ond yw'r wneud o'r cyffredig o'r cyffredig o'i ddechrau. Yn ôl ddyn nhw, Lywodd wedi sicr mae'n meddylach, rwy'n y ddweud chi'n ffordd yn oed, a phobl iawn fel y ddechrau, i'r ymgyrch. Mae'n rhai a'r gwaith o'i gweld drwy'r amser o'r amser. Rwy'n credu'n mynd i'r wych ydych chi'n gweithio'r rai cyfarfod yn y form, ond rwy'n defnyddio bod chi'n gweithio'n rai am y dyfodol. Rwy'n credu'n mynd i'n meddwl i'r cyfrifiadau a'r awr o'r ymwneud. Rwy'n credu'n mynd i'n meddwl i'r dyfodol sydd o'r ddechrau. Rwy'n credu'n mynd i'n meddwl i'r cyfrifiadau ym mwyaf, ac yn cael drogon ac mae'r gwrs ymddraeth mwrddwch arall i gael gwyrddai i gael chi, byddai mwy fyddwch yn ddwygych glynnoddau, ond mae'n gwybod, ond mae'n gweithio'n gwybod, ond mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gwybod.  Roedd y byddai'n gweld o'r llei, ac mae'n gwneud o'r llei. Roedd y gwneud yw'r llei. Mae'n gwneud hynny, yn y gwneud, yn y gwneud. A we hi'n cael ei ei ddweud pan hynny oes cael eu cyfrasio. Ar gyfer ydw i, gogenio i chi i gafi, a fyddwn yn toolio. Rwy'n cael eu cefnogaeth a wedi gwneud celfr, a mynd i ddweud cyfrifion o'r llei, felly mae'r newydd yn gweithio felly mae gennym yn beth ystod roedd y perffsakr提 o'r gweithreid yma, ac yna gallwn ni i ddweud yr adrodau. Mae oedd gwyfaint o'm gweithreid. Mae'n cyfrasio gyda siwydgof o'r ddweud. yw'r gwleidio yn y mhwylwch? Mae'r gymryd wedi'i wneud yn cael y casogu'r gwasanaethau sefydlu yn y gwasanaethau i'r braddfedd yr adeiladau i'r newid yn y cyfnodol. Mae'r cyfnodol, mae'r cyfnodol. Mae'r cyfnodol. Mae'n cerdd fel arnynnu'n gwneud My God, we need to do this that. That's not the case. And I hope it's not the case in three or four weeks because I'm really enjoying working with all the players at the moment that are currently here. And then doing the job that we're asking of. So like I say, if we want success, and long term success, we have to have consistency and four, five, six weeks isn't long enough to judge people's consistency. The overall quality that's within your squad? I think it's very good really high when they're fully committed. When any manager tries to build a squad you're looking to take a lot of boxes with that squad. You're never going to sign any individual that takes every box of professional football. spoke that didn't you know you know what win you games over consistent period of time. End and you have to have players tick all those boxes in without the jigsaw really. And I feel we have to hear. I really do. So it's just you know it's about keeping the players moving, keeping them fit if we can. Keep the messages and the and the tactical side it clay for them you have that clarity. I think it's important for them. Ond yn ôl addresses sydd i'r gyfadl iawns gwirio a ffordd gwasanaeth honno fydd y byddwn ni wedi gwneud ffordd ei huniwr. Byddwn ni fyddwch i'r ffordd, fyddwn ni'n gwneud ffordd i'r gwrthodau. Rwy'n deall o y pethau i wneud eich wneud. Rwy'n ddoch chi'n meddwl ac y gallwn ni wedi gweithio i gweithio eich wneud argoed. Ond rwy'n credu quech yn yr unid o casf加入id arna. Rwy'n connectio mor chwarae a bloddol chi ddwych ynddod i'r gweithio mewn ei wneud y nesaf, ac mae'r cyfryd gan ddoch chi'n golygu arall, mae'r gweithio yn cael ei gael ei gwirionedd, i'n moath, or, eraill, cael ei bod eisiau pa'r cyfrifreddau, a pam yn cenderon ni'n bwysig, felly rydyn ni wedi'i i gael cyfrifreddau neu'n gweithio. mae'n gwybod yn gwneud i ymddangos ar gyfer cyfnodd. Mae'r cyfnodd, Alex Patterson, ac mae'n dechrau'r traddoriaeth a'r traddoriaeth yn gwneud i'w traddoriaeth yn rhoi lle ac mae'n ystyried i'w'r gwneud oherwydd mae'n cyfnodd ar y club ymgyrch. A'r cyfnodd i'r ddweud yn y ffath, mae'r newid ymgyrch yn cael ei wneud i'r reall a'r gwneud ar y cyfnodd, ond mae'n cyfnodd i'w ddweud i'w ddweud oherwydd i chi'n ei ddweud ei gweithio, gyda ni os yw ychydig i ymrithlieg perthynas cyflawni'r llachol? Wrth umdod, rhaid, rhaid, yna, rhaid, rhaid, rhaid, rhaid. Felly, rhaid, rhaid, rhaid, rhaid yn gron i'r llachol sydd eich latiadau ar allangylcheddau, yn fu'r rhaid, oherwydd eich llach cooperationen o'r thysgu, o'r llachol, oherwydd eich llach, oherwydd eich llach rhaid, oherwydd eich llach, oherwydd eich llach, oherwydd eich llach rhaid i'r llach, oheryst. Mae gynlluniaeth felly mae'n'n gwaith ar hyn a'n gweithio gyda'ch gael iawn, gwyddoch chi i'r gweithio a'r gweithio, sydd efallai gyda gair hwn o'r gweithio, ond y gallu ein gweithio pan oherwydd, mae hyn yn ymdeg i'r ddim yn ymdeg. Aires yw'n gweithio am gyfer y wneud, rhaid i gwybeth, fel gallwn gwneud. Rhaid i ddim yn cael ei brifysgol yw'r hyn o gyntaf? Yn yn y gallu gadw meddwl o'r gweithio, byddai hyn yn gallu gwybeth. But I don't think you're doing them a disservice if you do that because we're the coaches, we're the ones that have to set the standards and we're the ones that have to use our experience of knowledge about the levels that you can get to and how you have to push yourself day in, day out. That's what we have jobs and, if the players were perfect, why would need coaches and managers so we have to show them the way. Ieliau fod i'n blaid yn gwneud i'r orymaeth drwy'r cyflwywi ac mae gennym eu hawddiannol yn enwedig yn hynny. Mae'n gefnogi ysgrifedd. Mae'r fforddau yn teimlo yn effigio'i casio y gallu ysgrifennu yn ymblifig. Mae'n fawr i'n rhan o'ch加入 er fydd yn ei ddiw i'r sefyn pan mae'r bobl eithaf. Mae'n fawr i ysgrifennu ei ddiw i'r rhan o gyfer y gallwch ganio'i gilydd. Mae'r rhan o'ch加入 i'r sefyn yn eithaf. wrth gwrs mae'r cwrnod yn gollio i gael'rnghwyl profeithas, rydyn ni wedi gael gwyllgor. Felly rydyn ni'n gollio i gael teищydd yma, dyma'r cyffredinol, rydym yn gweithio, ac felly mae'r cyfaraguenau yma, ond rydym yn gwybonenol. Rydyn ni yn gweithioch gweithiau ar gael gwneud, rydyn ni wedi gyl Cocidiaid i'r cyfaenydd, rydyn ni wedi gweithio'n gyfer amfer, rydyn ni wedi gweithio'n gweithio'n cyffredinol, Mae'n ei gael i'r prysyn, mae'n gael i ti'n bwysig o'i gael gael y brifysgol wedi bod ychydig i gael ti'n gael i 900-500 ddim yn g правдаf. Ie'n ddechrau'n gwneud hynny, oherwydd mae'n gochu fynd allaneth ar y game ay wnaeth arnyn fan y risg deall. Dwi i ddweud y fwrdd dweud. Mae'n gael i'r plesau wrth yr oedd yn fawr dweud, yu fynd i'n addysgu'r training. Mae'n dweud i'ch gael phethau'n gweithiant ar gyfer y game. When they came out of school the detectives, there were a among us. At the end of the day, we set challenges, we asked them to do things... we devised training sessions to get them out of them, but ... but the players would produce that. I am not riding there back with a whip and then cracking it. We are encouraging them to work out, we are trying to influence have their work ethic. But it is the players is that go there and ... run hard and tackle hard and play forward. If that's been a good response from the team, but like I'm talking about the consistency, the new manager bounce thing is a bit of a phalissippi and you get that as a manager, but then it's going to die down after six or eight weeks, I don't think that shines like a good light on players either. You have to do things for yourself at times and have Mae'n gwneud y mewn dyma, i'r gwahanol, eu bod yw'r lleidio. Rwy'n cael ei fod yn rai. Rydyn ni wedi'u ei gael y rhan o'r blaen, ac mae'n gweithio'n ddiddor, rydyn ni'n ddiddor, mae'n gweithio'r blaen o'r blaen i'r ysgrifio. Mae'n gweithio'n ddiddor, mae'n gweithio'n ddiddor. Mae'n ddiddor, mae'n ddiddor, rydyn ni'n gweithio'n ddiddor. Felly, mae'r ddiddor yn gweithio'n ddiddor, yn fwy i gwaelwch chi'n meddwl yn dod bawb'i fathafol yn dweud nhw'n mewn gwyrwch yn ziogel. Pwynyddifeid i chi eich dŷlwch argym pequwr llefno? Nid yw'r berthynas o'r ysgrifennu sy'n ôl at gyda'r acrincson. Efallai, mae'n cyfnod yn weithfeydd yn y tro rŷn? Rwy'ch yn grei'r gwêl iawn i'ch dŷlwch. Mae'r dŷlwch yn eich hefyd. bob yw'r ddau'i hawdd, mae'n ddau'i'n mae'r ysgol iawn yn ymddangos, ymddangos o'r profi, oherwydd y pwn yw'r ysgol yw'r ysgol i'w ddechrau, y sgolio gynnig o'r ddweud o'r ysgol. Yr ysgol yw'r ysgol yw'r ysgol, ond nid o'r ffordd o'r cefnod yma, ond nid o'r dda'r ddechrau o'r ysgol yw'r pail yw'r ysgol yw'r ysgol, oherwydd o'r ffordd o'r argynnu, oherwydd yw'r ysgol i'w ddweud. Darling, o fwy yn rhaid i'r bwysig y Casadr, mae'n rhaid i hefyd. Felly mae'n siŵt o'r bobl sydd wedi'i gwybod. Mae'n holl beth sy'n gweithio siŵt diolch o'r arian, sy'n gwybod y diolch o'r cygo, a'i'r byw'r maes o'r ystod, Навr i chi rhoi llywun, a'i'r ffigur i chael i'r bobl. Rwyf i'n cael ei ddweud. Mae'n hefyd i wneud o'r bobl yma. ..a'n gallu'n gweithio'n gweithio'n sgwrs.. ..y'r eich wneud gyda'r yr ymddill yn cael ei wneud y bydd. Dw i'n mynd i'n mynd i'r gweithio'n dweud a'r hyn.. ..y'r ffordd o gyda'r ffordd. Dwi'n mynd i'n mynd i ffordd fel ymddill yn gweithio'n gweithio. Yn ymddill rannu'n gweithio, a'r hynny'n amser yn fwyaf o'r hefyd. Yn ymddill yn gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Ac eich cyfarfod o'i dwi'n ify nesaf. Cyrch i chi cerdw yr hyn yn ddweud yn rhan o'r bobl. I gwaith y gallwch i'n dweud eich cyfarfod o'r bobl. Maen nhw'n fydd gan rhai ddweud. A fyddai i chi'n dweud i'n ddweud. Mae'n tynnol ar y pwysig ar gyfer mewn clwysig eich bod yn wneud yn dde ar hyn. Ond mae rhai fyddon ar fy ddechrau. Mae'r cyfrif yn yr cyfarfod yma'r byd. Wrth your mind, mae'r ddŵr yma yn cael ei wneud ei hwn yn ein gynnidol? Er, rydw i. Rydw i'n gweithio'r ddŵr dyma. Rydw i'n amdano gan i gael eu gwirio'n eu gynnidol. Wrth sy'n cael ei gwirio'n gwirio'n gweithio gyda y gynnidol yn gweithio i'r ddŵr y hand a'r ddŵr i'w byw o妹 o'r otw golygu, oedllach oedol oedd yn cael ei wneud. Rydyn ni'n bwysig gyda'r wneud ar y cwm yn ystod ar y cyhoedd o herfodol. Felly ar y dystod, mae'n amser o'n ystod o'r dda i ddweud am y cwm, a'n amser o'n datblygu ceisio, a di oedd fy modd i ni'n arnynnu cael y rhan bobl yn y fanfaedd neu'r ryw pethau. Oni'n mynd i ddim yn cael eu syniadau o'r ardu eu môl. Yn i ddweud bethau o'r tych yn dweud eich eu yourb, ac rydyn ni'n fwy wneud, If you've got anything about it, you'll learn about what creates success, what gets the best out of you. And then really your responsibility is to pass it on to players who are not there yet. Because we will start off young and experienced and naive and stuff. And sometimes that's a good thing, but I think you have to find out about yourself as well. So I think leadership is really important, but I try to empower players to lead themselves as well a little bit and actually make decisions themselves. I'm pretty much really quiet before games of football in the changing room, because I hear a lot of players saying all the right things. I'd only be repeating what they're saying. So why do they name my voice? They're the ones that are going on to pitch to make the right decisions. So if they're saying the right things, it gives me confidence that I know what they're saying and the right things. So they obviously know it's just about them doing it when the pressure's on. So I don't believe that one leader takes a group of guys or girls through it. I think you need a leadership group, I think. And then every individual has to stand up on his own two feet as well. So you sense in this group there are multiple leaders that have that characteristic about it? Yeah, there's different ways to lead. There's vocal ways, there's physical ways. There's setting the right example. You don't have to say anything. I play with Chris Lackey, I still call him Skip now. I play with him for six years. And he wasn't a big Sharon Baller. He just knew every single day what you were going to get from him. And that was a different type of leader. I was that sort, maybe a little bit more vociferous on the pitch, but I didn't Sharon Baller before games when I was captain either. I think I wanted to do it by example. So I do believe in, because we can all talk a good game, but it's actually about walking the walk. And I believe that's the best way to lead, to be honest. But I know there's different ways to lead, different personalities, different characters. And I think they all can tick a box for different people at different times. So that's why I think relying on one person to do that is impossible really. I think and sometimes it's a highlight to be one person. It's very rarely one person. I think it's a group of people. I think he's always got his captains and his lieutenants and his generals and stuff like that. I think that's how groups of people or certainly football teams work. Salford City next for you in the league, former club of yours as well. Just firstly, how do you reflect on your time there? Loved it, had a great time. It was there for maybe just over two years. We won promotion in the first year, got to a quarter final in the second year. Then we moved on. Met a load of good people, still speak to people there. Still speak to some of ex-players who have moved on to different clubs. Still speak to them. If you create success or you have success at a club, I think you always have longstanding relationships with people that go through the ages. That's been my experience there. I'll look at that time really fondly because I was treated very well there. By the support, by the players, by the staff. All good things come to an end. That's what football is, but like everyone who took this job, I don't carry this bag in there get to me on my shoulder. I look forward and I look back with anything but pride on my previous jobs. That's how I'll do. I think when I think it's over, I smile because we had a good time. I think Gary Neville has said since you left the club that it was maybe a mistake on his part to relieve you of your duties at the Salford City. Does it make it easier or more difficult to accept how it came to an end when you hear something like that? I don't know, I thought he was very honest from Gary. It was nice to hear that he said it. I did feel like that at the time, to be honest. I'm not going to lie, but I think it made a significant difference to how I thought along those lines anyway. I've said this many times, owners, chairman, managers, when you're in a role of responsibility and you have to make decisions, you're not going to make them all right. I don't make all the right decisions all the time. I know there's players that I've maybe let go or signed and you look back and think it's a possible mistake. That's life, that's it. If you're going to try and go through thinking, we don't want to make mistakes, but if you never admit to them or you think your life's going to be perfect, you're going to be frozen by not making decisions. That's the scenario. Decisions are made day in, day out in football. I don't hold anything against anybody. I see why he did it and it might have felt right at that time. For both parties, it might have felt right. It's only in hindsight that you look back and you go with it right or wrong. That's only on the next load of results, I suppose. No, honestly, I remember when he said it, someone told me he'd said it. I didn't really want to feel to be honest or think to be honest. How do you assess them as opponents then this Saturday? I think they're a team that's... they've got quite a few injuries at the moment. I think they've shown last season they're a very possession-based team. They want to play in a certain fashion. They've got good players there. They've recruited well, I feel, over the last 18 months or so. They're obviously not where they want to be or aspire to be at the precise moment. So that makes two of us going into Saturday's game, to be honest. I think both clubs will have set off with higher ambitions than where we currently are, but there's still plenty of games first both to have positive seasons. They've chopped and changed a little bit with their team due to injuries, I feel. Maybe a little bit on form, I'm not sure, but for me, I just need to make sure that my team is consistent in how we approach a game regardless. What pleased me the most on Tuesday was the second half when they were down to 10 men and we went 2-0 up and we could have coasted through the rest of the game and not put them to the sword and chilled out for the rest of the night, but we were still running, we were still pressing, we were still going forward, we were still creating chances. So regardless of what happened in that game, we continued on the same form. That's what we have to do day in, day out and game in, game out against whatever opponent we play, whether it's bottom or top of the league, cup game, whatever, we have to set our stall out about how we're going to play. That's where my level of judgment is going to be on my team. It's not going to be on how we compete against one single opponent, it's how consistent we got in what we want to do. So come Saturday, we have to take what we've done in the last four and a half games and make sure that it's five and a half games. Just finally from me, and I know I asked you this a few weeks ago, but have you had a chance yet to speak with Stefan Rolp? How did that go? Yeah, good to hear. I can't remember which game it was. In fact, it was prior to Nox County. So on the Friday night I had a great chat with him for over half an hour on the phone and he said he was hopefully going to come and see us around Christmas time and that. So he had a good chat and then we've been in constant communication via text and what's happened and so forth. So yeah, it was good to speak to him and he was really positive about the opportunity that we have here. So it would be good to meet him when he gets back across. But yeah, it was a good chat. Bit of the game didn't go according to plan the next day, but he was quite positive after that with the way the team responded as well. So it's good that he wants us to do well. So yeah, we'll see how that goes. And as manager, is it good for you to have that constant communication and to have that vision that comes from the very top? Yeah, I think so. It's like me winning players. I don't go through the whole week not speaking to them. I think it's important where you have clarity and when I talk about clarity from me to my players and my team it's the same from boards and chairman and owners and CEOs and so forth to have clarity with their coaching stuff. I think that's how it should work. Communication is really important in modern life. I think there's so many... If you're filling in the gaps between communication your own thoughts, you could go off-kilter. So I think it's important to have that constant communication but clear communication, not just chats for chats sake. I think we've all got important jobs to do day in and out but we need to know what we've got to work with what the expectations are. The biggest thing, the expectations are of the board of the owner and I think it's good to speak with people, isn't it? And have relationships with people that you're associated with and that's always a positive side of football. That's right. OK. You said about... I think the other night, I think there were 16 shots on target in that game. Did you sort of sense that this is a team that they were one of the lowest scoring teams in the division when you came in? Did you sense that this is a team that want to score goals now? They sort of want to get forward more and they want to create more? I think so. I'd like to think so. I think they've shown that in the games with the stats that you just spoke about there. I think I said it when I first came in. I think the ability to score or to shoot is there. It's just the intent and being prepared to live with failure. You're not going to score at the time with every shot but keep trying. Keep going for it. Keep getting in good positions. I'm not talking about shooting from 35 yards just to say I had a shot. It's actually to work the ball into good areas which I feel we are doing. We're getting high percentage of shots from good goalscoring areas. But I don't know. I think we've spoke about being an attacking team. I think we've spoke about the qualities and this with the players, from myself to the players. We spoke about the qualities we have within the group. I've told them I've never chastised a player in ten years for taking a shot. Never. Because we have to play with that risk and we have to go for it. So I think players will learn over time that I think it's good to have a shot in it and get the crowd going and feel good about yourself and show the opposition that you mean business. I think it's important to do that. I think the game is about scoring more than your opponent. All the stuff that's being reinvented around football gets taken away. The game is about scoring more than your opponent. So I think it's important for players to feel that they have the leeway, the opportunity to go and do what they want to do or what they like to do, I should say. And they've shown that. So it's got to continue and I think it will become more and more difficult as time goes if we continue in this run of form because teams will obviously see how we're playing and how we're creating chances to score. And then we'll have to overcome those problems when they come. I believe that we've got the players to do that and that's the biggest thing. I'm not working with nothing in my hands here. We've got good players who can score them. So we'll let them go. At the beginning, possibly, there's a vicious circle when you're not getting the results, you're not scoring goals.  It's sort of a change of mindset almost. It's a mindset. 100% it's a mindset. It's nothing else. Everyone's got the technique to have a shot. Everyone's got the technique to score. It's there in every pass that you make, whether you ping it 30 yards or you pass it 5 yards. It's all technique of striking the ball and it's the same shooting. I think, but you're right, confidence has a part to play in that. And not to be seen to be making a mistake. I don't think it is a mistake if you miss the target. You're trying to do the right thing. Mistakes I think when you try and do the wrong thing. That's where I think mistakes are. I think failing is different to making a mistake. So what you want to do is keep practicing. That's a big thing and we do practice in training to perfect that particular skill. But yeah, I think players have been screaming. You put a group of eight-year-olds out on a football pitch and the first thing you think about is trying to score a goal. So why change when you're 28? I'm going back to the silver thing. Obviously, it's always a bit difficult when you look at it from the outside and you don't really know all the situations. But when you lost your job, I think we all thought that's a ridiculous decision. In football management, you know it's inevitable at some point. You've seen both sides of it. Do you look back and still think that felt one of the harshest? Or do you think that's the territory in a sense? A bit of both really is the territory. That's the one thing I've learnt really quickly about management. I think I've had more clubs in the last five years and I've had in 24 years as a player. I mean, that's how the game's gone. Not at the game, but this side of the line, being a coach and manager. I don't think about it that much. What was it four years ago, three years ago or something? I've been at work since then. I don't revisit the past for... I don't see the point to be honest. I like to look back. Anything I do, you get hurt at the time without a shadow, it's a hurtful event. It's not nice to happen to anybody. I think any working person losing a job, not just for one, is not a nice thing to see or certainly not too experienced because we all have a purpose and we all want to provide for our families and so forth. I think we're well aware of the risks and the pitfalls of management. Some of them make sense, some of them don't. As in Pep Guardiola he could get a sack tomorrow and I'd just shoot my shoulder and go, it's football, isn't it? Honestly, that's how it's... For me, I don't spend the days thinking about it. I spend the days how to enjoy my job, how to create winning teams and just enjoy football for what I want to enjoy football for and not get dragged into things that are unsavory, you don't particularly like. I think I try to focus on the positive side of things. It's just one of those things. My first kick in the watsits in my career, I'm sure it won't be the last. You know what you know now and you said about more clubs than clubs you did as a player. If you'd known that before you'd gone into management, would you have thought twice, possibly? No, I'd have probably thought I'd be the one to book the trend. Cos we've all got that thing inside us, haven't we? I know it happens to everybody else, but not me. I think you have to feel like that a little bit. You have to not feel invincible, but you have to have the confidence in yourself that you can be good at your job. That's it and I felt I'd be good as a coach. Cos that's what I first set out to do. It wasn't to manage, it was to coach. Coach, football and players. The management side of it came to me quite early. Unexpectedly, I would say, at the time, I thought it was an opportunity to throw myself into and we had success and it went from there. I don't know what I'm working on. I choose to be in this job. No-one's got a gun to me and forced me to do it. With that, I'm full of choice. I can walk away if I want to. If I don't want to, I want to enjoy the sport of love since I was seven or eight years old. Hopefully it don't happen again, though. This is the first time you've managed against Salford. Is that going to mean any different to any other game? I've been in professional football since 1988. I've been involved in 1500 games as a player and as a manager. I can pretty assure that I've wanted to be every opponent I've played in those games, regardless of any history or non-history. You do become professionalised after so many years in the game. I think you want to do well in every game. I would expect no-one to see a change in how I approach the game, how I prepare for the game, how I communicate in the game or anything like that. I want to win every time. I represent my club. That's it. If you've been in the game long enough, I'm sure it comes around. There's only so many clubs in one country. You're going to come up against them at some point. I think I found it difficult as a player. I did when I played against former clubs because I tended to spend a lot of time at the clubs. Maybe I've got a different mentality on this side of the line because the game is a little bit different.


Hey everybody, it's Brian and welcome to the 36th Qt Tutorial with C++. Alright, today we're going to cover the Q-List. Let's just go File, New, Console, and we'll call this MyList. Place it in the usual place. Alright, now we've got a very simple application here. We're just going to add a couple of Includes. So we're going to include Q-List and we're going to include Q-Debug, just so we can print things out. This is going to be a pretty simple app, but it's going to be pretty powerful. The Q-List is a container. And what is a container? Well, a container is something you put other things into. If you've worked with things like .NET or Java or even just C++ containers, you're probably fairly familiar with these concepts. But I wanted to go over them because Q has its own little way of doing things. So let's go Q-List and give it a generic of Int and we'll call it List. And now that we have our List, we can actually put things into it. So let's just say for Int, whoops, Int i equals 0, and we want to do i is less than 10, i++. So we're just going to increment i. And we're going to say List append. And we're just going to place the i in there. So when we run this, basically all we're doing is we're saying for i equals 0 to 10. So 0 to 9, basically, we're going to keep incrementing. And we're just going to put the number in the List. And then we're going to just print it out. So we'll say for each Int, and number, and List. And for each is a cute macro, which makes it very easy to literally do a for each. You're familiar with this concept from things like Java and C-Sharp and Visual Basic. And let's just say M number. And when we run this, let's go ahead and run it.  So there's 0 through 9. So let's review here in case this is fairly new to you. The queue list is a list container. And we have a generic. A generic simply means that this container can hold multiple types of objects. But rather than just saying it can hold a object X, we're saying a specific type of object. So that we know we're putting a specific type of object into it, and we get a specific type of object out of it. So we're simply going to, say, fill our list. And then for each item in the list, we're going to print it back out. That in a nutshell is the basics of a queue list, how to add things. Now you can do things. For example, you can remove from the container too. For example, a list. Let's just say remove, and let's just say remove 1. Let's say we want to remove 5 from that list. 5's been bad. We just want to get rid of 5. So when we run this again, you notice how it goes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. There's no 5 because we removed it from the list. And in case you're wondering, yes, you can create your own classes and put them in a list.  You're going to have a list of kittens. Instead of using int, you would just say kittens. And then you'd call it appropriately. So that's the bare bones basic of the queue list and containers. Short video, I know. But I just wanted to throw this topic out there because we're going to cover it in a few more videos. This is Brian. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this video educational and entertaining.


I'm glad to welcome all of you to today's webinar on Building Effective Short-term Mission Experiences. I'm thrilled to have with me, and you will see us on the screen. Karen de Stefano and Milton Jovarez. I'll say a little bit about them as well. You'll also see just a blank name of Andy Lewis on there because he's actually hosting this here from the North Texas Conference Office. Andy directs the Center for Mission and Outreach for the North Texas Annual Conference as well as being the assistant to Bishop Michael McKee. Andy is also my direct supervisor in the work that I do here, so he has a personal interest in this, but he also is the tech control guy, but we're glad to have had Andy with us today in the background. We were to have a third participant in today's event, Evan Jones from Dallas First United Methodist, but a family emergency took him away. And he's just apologized for that and also requested prayers for him, his wife, especially and for their family as they navigate some health issues that have arisen. Karen de Stefano, who you see on the screen, is our South Central Jurisdictional Coordinator for VIM and Disaster Response. She's also a colleague of mine from years back in Oklahoma, where she worked in our Office of Mission and just a good friend and supporter in Mission over many, many years. We've been to various places around the world and around the United States, so it's good to connect with Karen in this way. Milton Juarez has a connection to the North Texas Conference, especially he is the UMVM coordinator for the Honduras Annual Conference and between North Texas and Honduras we share a bishop. Our bishop here in North Texas is also the Bishop of the Honduras Annual Conference. And so there's a very strong partnership and covenant relationship between our two conferences. But Milton doesn't just work with North Texas, he works with many other conferences in encouraging and supporting the work of UMVM across the nomination. So I want to welcome the two of them to joining this conversation. I am currently employed here in North Texas in a part-time capacity as the Disaster Response and UMVM coordinator for North Texas. And as many of you might know, I served for many years in a similar capacity, directing the Office of Mission for the Oklahoma Annual Conference for some 15 and a half years. So we're going to have a conversation, the three of us for the next 25, 30 minutes or so, and then we're going to open it up in the Q&A that you see on the bottom of your screen. If you want to contribute a question, feel free to go to that. The hosts and the panelists can see the questions. And when we get to that time, I'll pull it up on the screen and we'll continue the conversation. So, Karen, if you wouldn't mind starting us off just briefly, share something of your experience with what we're going to call today short term missions as opposed to VIM. We're going to use the generic term because it takes many shapes. And I don't want us to think VIM is just this or that, but we're talking about short term missions. So your experience of short term missions. Well, I have been quite a few places in the US and Latin America with short term missions. And I'll have to say that short term mission is response is is why I came back to the church. And so I had been away for a while after moving off to go to college and grad school and I was invited to go along on a mission to Guatemala as an interpreter and that experience brought me back and maybe not immediately, but it did eventually and so I'm a firm believer in these types of experiences. I know there's a lot to do still with this type of experience, but they are important. And so that one has always stuck in my mind and I eventually became a team leader, certified team leader in Oklahoma, and then went on on multiple journeys and each each one special in its own way. So experience has been good and I and I have been also enjoyed helping others to discover this type of experience. And this is what you're doing as the jurisdictional coordinate I know right now. Milton tell us about your experience with short term missions I'm sure there's going to be a lot of it where you've been in charge of receiving teams into your country but you tell us your story. Yes. First of all, thank you for having me here today. Yes, there's quite a lot of mission trips that have been hosting and also that have been part as staff, like interpreter, or just assisting, like, which was kind of like my first steps when I started doing mission. Of course I was in Honduras and then outside the country into other countries. So, but it's definitely a privilege and honor to be serving in my country, because I was actually outside serving as a coordinator for Guatemala and the Bahamas, and then came back to Honduras and into that role. So, it was quite a surprise and a blessing to be serving in a country that you all know has a lot of needs that we feel like we do a lot but then when we see the results like we need to feel like we need to do more. But that kind of keeps us encouraged and just motivated to keep doing what we're doing here. Great. Great. Thank you. In all that experience, Milton, is there one you can think of right now that was a highlight and why particularly it was a highlight experience for you? Yes. Well, of course I have lots of. Of course, sure there are lots, yes. Back when I was starting my mission journey, I was, first of all, I was 14 when I did my very first mission trip and I was part of the team that came to the community where I was living at the moment. I was asked for a translator, so my mom kind of like decided for me that I was going, even though I did not want to go, but it was not optional. And so I think like the very first trip that I did was life changing and it's kind of like what it was the seed that was planted for me to be here today. And I always go back to that day when I kind of like saw a different reality of the reality that I was living as a kid that maybe had a little more than the other kids in the country. And so when I was exposed to that, it was just like I opened it and it was just, I came back home and I just wanted to get rid of everything that I had like my clothing, my toys, my shoes, like everything because I've never seen like so many kids barefoot undressed. I mean, it was just hungry, saying like stories like they haven't eaten in days. Like all those things for me was just like, like I was just, I felt like I was in another country when I was in a traveler by then, but I wasn't sure that I was in my own country seeing those things. So that was kind of like the highlight back then. Okay, okay. Thank you. Thank you for that. Karen, same question to you. I, I'm going to switch that up a little bit and say, there's not this one particular experience, but one particular site.  And we, I took a team there over about nine years, we went nine times in eight years, I think. And I think for me, the highlight was the evolution of our, of our time there and where we went from just doing things like deep cleaning the to developing friendships and relationships with people there. And even though it wasn't always the same people the staff that work there became like our family and so that, that to me has always been kind of my ideal strive for. Now when planning mission is that type of, of connection with the people that we went to serve alongside with. Okay, yeah, great. Now I'm sure they've been along the way. I think that's one of the highlights of the other side of that coin, where mission experiences have been challenging or frustrating or not what we had to hope them to be trying to identify just maybe, you know, a key thought around that and help us understand why maybe it went off the rails or didn't quite achieve what we would have hoped for. Karen. Yes, I do have one that comes to mind. And I think the, the breakdown in what went wrong, there were, it was my first time to lead an international mission so I wasn't experienced. And looking back, I think what would have made all the difference was just more communication. With my team members and with the site host, or at least the VIM coordinator in the country. And every time that there has been any type of issue on another, another team at another place, it has always come back to lack of communication or not consistent or just not enough communication and relationship building, not necessarily with the site, but among our team members and preparing them for the journey. And so I think that would be, that would be where I've had the biggest challenge, and hopefully have learned a lot from it. Communication is something we'll speak about over and over again in the course of this I'm sure and that our viewers today will understand as being a key component. Milton, any thing you want to point to in terms of a challenging experience of mission or teams coming into you that you can identify. Probably a challenge now that I'm, I wanted to throw anyone under the bus, but We can be open with one another today. When I first got to when I was actually located in the Bahamas, I was like, of course it was my very first time in the Bahamas. I didn't know a lot of like, I mean, I kind of like knew what the umbin role is in general, but I didn't know like exactly what was my role in the country and with teams and interaction and all that. And the day that I arrived there, and I probably had like two meetings with the people that I was going to be working with. When I arrived there, there was no one like the director had left of the organization, like he, I don't know, resign or something. And there was just like one person that was that used to be a volunteer in the place. And so I was just like figuring things out. And I had a team that was coming in like five days after I arrived for the first time there so it was like very challenging. Lots of reading, like just read emails and on the computer, how things were done, who to contact for these are that. So the stress was really, really high, but at the same time, it, everything came out well. The team was very happy, the team that went on that trip. And so I feel like it was successful, but yes, on my side, it was extremely challenging. Yeah, I can understand that and I think what you're doing is underlining for us the importance of organization of logistics of proper preparation. And you know throwing you into that thing so close to that is unfortunately often part of both sides of the short term mission experience because of just the way things unravel will never properly. They don't come together. Never mind being undone is what I, you know, yeah, I've used the word unravel come to think about I've never used the word without the. Anyway, so, so with that in mind with the fact of the complexity, and some of the challenges of mission and the organizational stuff and, and all the rest of it. There's a very strong opinion across the United States and outside as well in the countries that a lot of our short term missions go to that says this really isn't working it's not, it's not helpful. It's it undermines the local peoples and their autonomy and authority. It's handout and not hand up. You know, it's colonialism in disguise imperialism again, and it just needs to stop. What do you say to those who think that short term mission should simply stop. I would say a big note to that because seeing it from my side that I receive teams and I kind of like held to connect or serve as a bridge within the team and the community or church or whatever. I think it's a good side on that they're not coming to work with. I see in most cases, happiness, growth, development, and I think it's just knowing how to do it, doing it right, because of course like, if it's not done right, you can create or cause some harm, but I think it's just knowing how to do it and it goes back to communication, knowing what it's going to be done, how it's going to be done, knowing the reality or at least learning of the reality where the team is going, how things are managed there. Respect the host opinion or whatever might not that the host always have the right opinion or anything but it's like I say it's crucial to have that healthy back and forth relationship, but definitely like I don't feel like it needs to stop because in countries like Honduras, for example, people gets really excited just by seeing someone coming to visit, not necessarily bringing gifts or anything, just the fact that that person came and was there and laughed and had a coffee or something with that person that just made that person's day or week. So whatever project or anything that it's given, it's an extra, it's a plus, but what really matters is the relationship, the bond that it's done between the community and the team that comes. Great. Thank you. Karen, how would you respond to those who say it's fatally flawed and needs to stop? Well, actually the first thought that came to my mind when you were saying asking that was you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sure. Is there room for improvement? Yes. Are there things that have been done in the past that were not good? Yes. That doesn't mean you just stop. It means that you work to make it better. I think the experiences like Milton has pointed out, like the ones that I've seen and experienced, those are too valuable and they're so needed today. The way that people, this opportunity for people to connect with other people. Never mind the task of building a wall. I don't like that phrase. Okay, building a house or doing a vacation, Bible school, whatever. That's not why we do short term mission and that's not why we should do short term mission. So, no, we need to find new ways that will empower people, will be more inclusive of all people from all walks of life, from all corners of the globe to be involved with each other in the experience. So, it's too important. And so, thank you. And what you're underlying is consistent with the theology of the United Methodist Church, particularly but also broadly of Christendom that puts us in relationship with, in connection with as part of this kingdom, this expanded family, we belong to one another. You know, we obviously in this as we head towards Christmas celebrate again the incarnation of God amongst us. And so that incarnational presence is underlies all of this.  Would you take the money and not the people. You know, is that enough. It's not enough. I will say, we will take it, especially after COVID, like, yes, we had like really lack of resources. But yes, it's, it's, it's part of it. It's important. It's an important part, but it, it's not the main reason of why we do this or stuff, because, like I said it's it. It's the bond that it's, it's been created, not just on the host site, but also on the people that comes because it's making an impact both ways. Like we might see our side because of course we stay here but we don't know what changes or what impacts the whole mission. And that's doing on the volunteers that came also they, they're living their realities and the trip might help understand some struggles that they're going through issues, whatever. So, and I open her like it wasn't my case. So, and I would say, yes, we'll take the money but it's not the right the main reason of why we do this. Right, right. So let's focus for a few moments then on what is it that makes a good mission experience what what is it that allows this, you know, recruiting forming, preparing a team, coming to another country for a period of time and then going home about a home again a worthwhile experience what what are the fruits of of of these short term mission experiences that we should think about anticipate and plan for Karen you want to throw some ideas in. I think that the value of the short term mission and what makes it a good experience is when we help people. So I'm going to talk from a team leader or recruiter point of view is when we help people find their why and their passion and help them discover their gifts that God has given them. And allows this allows them an opportunity to see that firsthand and to feel this connection. And I think if we don't do that as our very first step in planning and recruiting that we're going to miss. A lot of opportunity to make this the most successful mission journey that we can. There are other factors as well organization I think you mentioned earlier and having good communication with your site host but if people don't understand why it is that they're going and what it will mean it's not a trip it's not a vacation. You know this is. I always liked your phrase Jeremy ball and vacationers and personating missioners. This is not why we're going some people just want to go on a trip and want to get another stamp in their passport. That is not what makes a good mission journey. It's discovering why and your passion and empowering people to make change, not only where they've been but also back home when they get when they return. So you're distinguishing, as I hear it between between the tasks that might happen. And the greater purpose of mission tasks are limited to while we're there and they might vary from mission to mission, but you're pointing to a larger purpose in really discipleship right in our own faith journeys on both sides. Right. That equation. Yes. Yes. And the task may not even exist when you get there, when you get off the plane or get out of the car might have changed while you were in route. Might have disappeared all together but it's it's why you're going and why we serve, and it's the people, and it's the one being one in the body of Christ, right. Milton what would you add to that in terms of what makes for real partnership and mission. I'll say, for example, the way that I see it and that I practice it as a host. It's also letting the spirit flow. Not that we won't have a program or that we won't have an itinerary for the week or a schedule, but not being so squared, like to get out of the box, what what presents along the way. I feel like most of the of the trips that we've done. When something presents or something gets on the way, and we see it instead of like getting frustrated or upset or, or something and we take it to God and say like why this is happening. I don't understand it but it's not a surprise to you. Then I feel like the biggest things that has happened to us in mission has occurred from from those obstacles that shows up on the way. And I can give you multiple examples but but yes. I mean in the medical area. Patients that showed up when we were probably like already the clinic was already down or stuff like that and that changed that person's life. And actually saved that person's life. If we if we weren't wouldn't be there. That person probably would have died or something like when you see those things is like, there's a reason of why this happened like why we had a flat tire or and stuff like that so it's the way we see things and how we take it. You're talking about flexibility you're talking about openness to the spirit leading in different directions. And you know the sort of simplistic but but I think a helpful statement of short term mission movement through the United Methodist Church is that there's three rules. Rule number one is be flexible rule number two be flexible and rule three, and they're all circumstances be flexible and I think you're doing is underlining the fact that as much as we plan as much as we care, God has a unique encounter for us there that we simply need to be open to. So, just because it's important to learn from, you know, bad experiences that is from good experience to reflect on everything. So if you identify specific things that maybe have created that blockage to to meaningful experiences of mission. What is it that makes it harder for a team to to succeed and you know Milton I can just take your statement and put it in the table and if you are not flexible things might not happen the way that you would like them to be on that are there other things either you might want to point to as unnecessarily creating blockages in mission. Milton. I'll say safety. For example, team safety. I think as a host, of course. We have to take care of teams as much as possible like I'll say like one of our top priorities. It's for the team to be safe. Not like over like protection or stuff like that. Of course, otherwise, the reality will be missed. But yes doing things with precaution. I do a lot of research, like what's going on in the community, health wise, before I go to a restaurant with a team like I make sure like how meals are prepared like all that kind of stuff because in the end like you if something happens which I mean we're it's we're exposed so things can happen. Or somebody fell we've had like those type of things so I feel like, for example, insurance is really important. Otherwise, it can be a nightmare in the country and I've had a few of those things happen like emergencies and stuff. And so that kind of like takes you away from what you really want to accomplish. So I think like safety, it's just listening to the host, for example, like what happened in Haiti, not too long ago, stuff like that, like that's something that I wouldn't even want to think that can happen here like it would be just a mess. So in safety, you know, in all aspects. And I think you've highlighted for us Milton, the issues where some of the most significant things go wrong is when that is when that respect for the leadership in country for our safety does not take place, where their insurance is not being thought through the cover the individuals in the event of both medical and and societal disruption where you know there needs to be an evacuation but that hasn't been thought of. And so that really underlines that Aaron what do you want to add. I would just reiterate the fact that lack of preparedness and lack or lack of open mindedness or going in with a set agenda or a fixed agenda in your mind anyway or stereotypes I think that has played some of the biggest or has led to these obstacles. People think things should be one way, and it's not, and they don't understand why it can't be or is a certain way. Milton pointed to like insurance. I mean all this, it goes into careful planning. So the team leader definitely needs to plan the team leader also needs to work with their team. And I think going forward, I haven't led a team for a while, mostly because of COVID and, and just some other things that had come up. Going forward, I would definitely work with my team. I know of a church in Oklahoma, Boston Avenue, United Methodist that they would have year long meetings with their team once a month for a year. And I can't imagine the difference that that makes for the overall success call it success but the overall mission experience. And I think that's just it all goes in in together with that planning insurance and going in with an open mind being flexible. Thank you. Let me just say to those who are participating at the moment if you have questions at this stage and you would like to. You can phrase it as a comment you can phrase it as a question. Please go to the Q&A. We can see those on our screen and I will facilitate the discussion with that for the for the rest of our time together, which should be about 25, 30 minutes is what we are planning to do depends on the length of those questions. But as you prepare to write those and make your comments or questions. Let me just continue the discussion with with Milton and Karen to say let's get back to let's first to get back to this relationship issue. I think you've underlined for us that mission is a mutual experience. In other words, it's not just for the people who go to do something and gain something. It's not just for them to give something so that the other side benefits in some material way, possibly. But there's something that's happening that you've been describing that enriches our understanding of our faith journey and makes deeper connections. So, how do we, how do we make sure we build time in and focus in for relationships to develop in the mission experience Milton. I will think or as at least from what I've seen it's just staying in conversation, staying in touch. For example, in my case, I've made my best friends over mission teams that I met people that I met like when I was 15 or so 16. And up to today we still talk, we visit each other with travel, and I mean we've gone through, of course, throughout those 20 plus years. Lots of things have happened and we've been there for each other and, and stuff like that so that kind of like happens also with teams and something that I've enjoyed. And it's like, seeing those solid healthy relationships of teams that say like, I've been coming for the last 15 years.  And just continue building that relationship and, like everyone was saying in the beginning, when things don't go like as plan or goes wrong, don't just quit, like it just see how can we do it better. And just identify what happened and talk it through and continue the relationship. So, staying in touch. It's, it's a key. It's like solid long term relationships that develops through short term. So Milton, thank you for that I see the first question that has come is that given the importance of building relationships do you plan and recruit with an understanding that maybe it maybe or should be a multi year commitment, as opposed to what just a one off hit and run. So you're implying there. Yes and no, it's not like, if you come you have to come from the auto so the end of your days now, but it goes again to just let the spirit flow, like if the spirit tells you go again then. But just be open to that, like if, if, if you feel like going again, then, then just go and if not then something will, will you will be taking something I'm sure from that place back to to your daily routine and there, some see will be planned. Right, right Karen what do you want to add to that. Well, from firsthand experience. I would say that going multiple times to one location is. It's an incredible experience over time. Maybe we didn't start off thinking, oh, we're going to keep going back to Albuquerque. It just kind of worked out that way, and then after that it was like we don't want to go anywhere else we want to go here because we feel like we're going to visit our old friends. We feel like we're going to. You know, continue on their mission, and we just wanted to be a part of it so.  You meet new people. So there is a trade off and, but they both have their, their. Positive sides, their positive aspects, but I tell you building going multiple times and building that relationship is. Just makes it takes mission, your mission journey to a whole nother level. Right. I want to just underline the point that a number of you folk who are on the call today are involved in covenant relationships with places as I identified at the beginning nor Texas conferences with your annual conference Milton so it might not be the same people every time, but there's a continuity and a trust from the people side in Honduras that, you know, North Texas is going to come back again it might not be exactly the same North Texans. But there's something that says there's a commitment here and a relationship that's going to be ongoing. So let me ask you to sort of build on that because, if it's a relationship it needs to be mutual. So, how do we get out of just this mindset that it's one group coming and doing something for another group and that's the level of what happens year by year by year or whenever a team comes how do we build that as a truly mutual shared relationship. Have you got any thoughts there. Well, I would say be in communication with the site. And asking, you know, what, what are their goals. What are, what are the gifts that they also bring to the table and working with them on that. I think that we should be working almost like assistance to the people at the site. We're just helping them accomplish their goals. We're not coming in to do it for them and and their goals could change and we, we should be flexible enough to work with them. But this, you know, this is a way to help empower not just our mission team members but the site. Not that we need to be the ones to do that but it's a way of everyone finding their power their gifts and what they, they themselves are able to do. Yeah. I'm asked Karen was speaking I was remembering an experience that we had one time with a team that came to build a well, kind of like a room like a classroom and the team had no like experience on construction or stuff like that. But they kept coming to build that. And then when he finally, well almost when he was almost done the whole thing just fell down like just went into pieces. And instead of like people like crying for for that thing that happened, everybody would just laugh. I mean it was like, because what what else do you do like, and so like the joy that you could like breathe or perceive. Even when it should have been a tragedy of what what happened but people just like laughed and like they were just I mean of course they hired someone that knew how to do it and and ended up doing the room but it's it just. It builds up like that those things in terms of relationship. Right, right. So, and also like identifying what the community, kind of like the context of the community. Yes, and what the local partner wants to achieve what are their purposes and how can we come in and join you on on that process instead of saying like well then you need to do this and do that and then you leave but then you leave the person or the host with a big trouble or a big problem that that pose is not going to know how to move forward with and then it just stays there and it's abandoned. And so that that in the long run that creates more harm than than good. So, it's just understanding that you're just walking with that person or that host or that community in the process. And Milton that sounds to me like there's the need to be very culturally sensitive to your context. Yes. Absolutely. What are some of the mistakes or blindnesses in this area that that you've encountered. Probably like I don't know if they are mistakes or what but starting from like, I don't know the I won't say generally but most of the hundred culture or people. It's very sensitive to certain topics or very close minded to other things and so when they see for example something that it's, it's not what they're used to see, then it might be taken the wrong, the wrong way. So, that's why it's also good to have like conversation about best practices within the community when we go out there, not that we're faking who we are, it's just we don't want to offend them or, or do something that it's out of place or, or taking the wrong way. Yeah, so it's, it's, for example, on the medical field. I've experienced for example a lot of females that are not too open to speak with a male doctor. So I try to like make it flexible and have like a female doctor for a female patient and stuff like that. Because otherwise, we're not doing things, or I feel like we're not doing the things the right way, if we're not really going to attend that person's issue, because she won't speak about it, or especially if it's something really intimate. Like she would rather just say like I'm here for a headache and be gone, instead of speaking about what really is going on and you want to help that person, but it's a matter of doing it right or finding that that way of doing it right. Aaron, you want to add anything. Yes, I, this is part of our team preparation and preparing our team members to what they will encounter if they've not ever been there before. And it's also highlights the, the, or reinforces the idea that we really need to be in communication with our site host. To find out these things that are important that they want us to know, and to make sure that we're fighting stereotypes and misconceptions before we go so that we don't have these embarrassing encounters, when we do go and, you know, oh, I didn't know they ate that for breakfast I don't want that I want you know pancakes and French toast or, or whatever and just make sure that everyone is aware of what, what they're going to be seeing and experiencing. Yeah. I remember a colleague of mine years ago, saying in a very different context but I want to apply it here is that what I wish for every missionary is a sense of curiosity. And I love that because it doesn't set answers it doesn't, you know it doesn't narrow the thing to this is the skill that you must know. It says, ask the questions just always be curious about why things are the way they are, and be open to asking because Milton, I never seen a situation where the hosts in your side of the things have never been willing to explain. Right. I mean you don't take questions the wrong way it's it's the assumptions correct. Right. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, that's why we're here I guess. Yeah, right, right. So I think that cultural context and stuff and just like as an example for example, things like that I try to tell or share with the teams. It's the, like, the meal for example it's going to be like, of course we asked like if there's allergies and simply that. And what the meals are going to be like or we're all eating the same thing, and stuff like that, and, and try to, like, grab what you're really going to eat. And then if you want more than go go again. But so we don't throw food to waste, because culturally, it's like, that's not taken the right way when when for example the cook see that you're throwing the way food or stuff like that. I mean, especially like in the reality that we live. It's like something that you don't want to, to send a wrong message, and you might not be doing it because you want to open it just into something that happens. The simple prayer on that one that one of our mission is in Oklahoma tortoise was where he leads me I will follow what he feeds me I will swallow. Aaron you wanted to add something. One thing that we can do ahead of time to to learn the cultural issues the sensitivities to get to know each other is something that we came up with during the pandemic was to do a virtual mission experience. As, as the pandemic has evolved and we now, you know, teams are starting to travel again and everything is not have to be 100% virtual anymore. We still see the virtual mission and that type of encounter as an important tool in preparing teams to go. And this way they can start to. This the site can can make their presentation to let us see what what we'll be experiencing. It's also a way to get to know people and to start to build those relationships before we even go. So that that's one thing that we can do. And I was on a virtual mission with Milton and learn a lot about the culture of Honduras and what the sites were like and really appreciated that and yeah I feel like I've kind of almost been there already. Yes, yes. And you know just to highlight this what you're saying which I like from both of you is the internet has given us creative ways to build relationship and continue mission, both prior to the actual mission event. We're doing it in terms of contact back home, maybe being, you know, skyped into Sunday morning service while you're away with your home church. And then afterwards to stay in contact and to keep those relationships flowing without, you know, actually physically being there so all of that is is incredibly helpful thank you. And Vincent asked a question a little while ago and I didn't want to interrupt the flow to get to it but when we talk about the long term relationship, he raises the point that sometimes repeat missions become the mission themselves of those people.  I have had that experience and I wish I had a really great answer to give, but I do recognize that it's a problem. I think I've in our case when we arrived at the, at the location at our mission site. We just jumped in and started doing the, the tasks or the jobs that they had always done every time we went I think just shaking that up a bit and saying, Oh, I'd like you to maybe work over here or whatever this is where the team leader can come in and and really help out. But yes, there, there is that danger of, of it becoming kind of a closed group and we have to work against or we have to, to work with that issue, all the time, even if it were a beginning group and it's the first time they'd been together and first time they'd been to a place. They still form groups with them themselves so we just have to work on on that team dynamic and making sure everyone recognizes everyone else's gifts and talents and what they have to offer. Absolutely. I agree with that and I think one of the ways that we can either, well not maybe prevent or break that cycle. It's, I mean, shaking things a little bit. Of course, you always have the pros and cons and how that's going to turn. But also putting it in a scene and then from all type of perspective, if the situation it's been helpful, or if it's been effective, as it's been done. If it's not then just speak it out with the team, team leader and, and the community and bring that's one of the things that for example that I tried to, to do it's involve the, the local host because I might be the host for the whole dynamic of the mission trip. But of course the community also has a host, or the church where we go has a host or, and all those things so I tried to bring them in and shared their experiences or feedback how the week is going. If you have anything to add. And so that gives a little bit of openness of things to prevent to get to that point. But in, like, again, it's because I have like for example the medical teams. Normally they, they come and they know what they're going to be doing. They know how to prescribe where they're going to be located at. They already have the setup as it's been for the last 12 years, 15 years. And so like things like that, for example, like I don't see any harm, but if it's, if it's causing some level of harm then I think it's speaking with with all of the people involved. Or if there is a leadership team and explain the situation in with politeness and just a friendly conversation and I think that that's really helpful. And I think from what both of you said it leads us back does it not to the purpose of mission the purpose of mission is not to give eight or 10 or 12 people to go on a team and experience of mission. It's a call for that congregation or congregations that are involved to broaden their experience and understanding of God at work in the world, outside of their local community and connecting us with the global family. So that intentionality of recruiting and inviting and seeing beyond just your own efforts and your own task is what I think you're underlying there, and the lining there as an important facet for us. I have one more question here that I see on the screen about somebody who wants quote unquote to go on mission, but does not want to participate in the training sessions for mission. How would you handle that Karen. I might have to have a one on one chat with with the person to find out why it is that they don't want to be included in the in the team trainings. The team training or the team meetings are not, you know, I've been to somewhere it's just we're going to fill out these forms and we'll say a prayer and we'll go home, and we'll see at the airport. But there, there's so much more that goes into this. We just have to have a conversation with this person to find out what what it is that is, you know, makes them not want to be a part of this. Anything you want to add there. Normally, with our teams like as a host I don't go through every single training that they, they have, but recently we had an experience with someone that did not. Like, she wasn't part of the, the, the team meetings that we had and all that probably just one. I think she attended and but in like for example her husband was also I found like probably like a week before the team came that her husband was also on the team and I was like, I haven't seen him on on trainings oh he's been, and I was like, oh my goodness, that sounds like trouble. So, I had to just call it out and say like, I'm sorry, like, it's, it's not going to work out because it's, it's, it puts a lot of stress on our side to be dealing with. It's kind of like having two scenarios to different activities going on because the other person doesn't want to like pitch in or be included on that wants to do another thing. So it's like, because they don't really understand the activities, or they, they don't have that clear perspective what they're coming to do. You end up with having like two teams. So that's, I will say that's up to the house if they want to go through that, but I would say from my point of view, how that was no, like I was like sorry but I can't. Yeah, you can always say to someone, you know, I'm sorry if you're not going to participate maybe this isn't the right mission opportunity for you. I hear you saying Milton especially is the impact of a person who has not gone through that journey of preparation on the team itself and on the host, the host church or community that receives them is, there's a dissonance that creates the negative experience of mission for everyone. And so it's a case of one person, possibly undermining the effectiveness of everything. So, and Karen, I think your point is well taken that, you know, after that discussion after that trying to get them to see the bigger picture. You as the team leader, or whoever that might be has the authority to say, you know, I guess, maybe you're just not going to. You know, this isn't going to work with you being on our team and need to say that to protect the experience for everyone. To me, if I might add, I think the, the biggest picture of all of this is if we want to move away from mission as a time limited experience, as opposed to mission as a lifestyle, and part of my ongoing relationship, we can't afford to keep focused on people who will only see it as an event that they want to participate in and then throw a line under. And everything the two of you have been saying builds on this picture of mission as ongoing part of my life, whether I'm in Honduras or anywhere else in the world or back home in my own community. I'm a Christian who's about God's mission. And I think that's a wonderful point to underline folk I don't see any more questions that are that are popping up, and we're about to wrap this up so if you want to get in a question. In the final one, please do that very quickly. But what I'm going to do is then in the absence of that or until I see one is just focus on Karen and Milton again and ask them. If there's something you haven't shared if there's something you want to still say, if there's a point you want to underline I invite you to do that now as a sort of closing comment. Karen will start with you. We've talked a lot about what we do before and during the mission after the mission is just as important because it doesn't end just because you go home. You could take that mission experience and that excitement and that passion that a lot of your team members and you as the team leader, I'm assuming we're all kind of talking with team leaders here that maybe maybe some team members. How do you take that and and and translate it into a local experience. How do you continue your mission so that the mission journey that you just went on is not the highlight of your, your congregations mission and outreach program. It's just a part of it. And maybe you were working with the medical team in Honduras and you go home and how do you continue that in your community and keep that excitement and that passion alive and so maybe you volunteer at a medical clinic in your community or you work with Honduran immigrants. Somehow maybe you do ESL classes or something, but don't let that experience just stop. Let it continue and grow and that will just add to everyone's experience. And it will help you recruit future team members and we'll just add an extra dimension to your mission. Thank you. Yeah, I will just add, or mostly like encourage teams or volunteers to continue to engage whether they already have a placement site in whatever country they go and learn every time they can, because there's always new things that you can learn. We've talked about teams that go there for quite a while.  So, just always go with a good attitude and attitude of learning, serving, and just have a great time and just take the, the opportunity that it's being presented because it's, it can be a life changing experience and I say it from a personal perspective. Because just to share a little bit more. When I was younger, I thought that at this age I was going to be doing something different. And here I am in doing mission, and I'm loving it. I love every day that I work and with the teams and the communities and, and everybody that I come across with and would try to do the best we can to do it out of love out of passion compassion and share God's love and just keep that spirit up in that that flame on fire for permission. Wonderful. Wonderful. Thank you, Milton, and thank you Karen for your participation today and thank you everybody who who joined us for this discussion. I'm thrilled to see that there are jurisdictional coordinators on this call because those are the people in each jurisdiction that you can turn to for guidance and help in preparing for mission. I'm glad that there's something like David McCormack is on as well because he represents those others in each jurisdiction are there to motivate mission. And he's a resource person who can come to your area your church to help you and be encouraged and and understand the possibilities that both short term missions covenant relationships and service as missionaries. So at all different levels can be for the enrichment of people's faith journeys as well as for a church's enrichment in in connecting itself in mission in an effective way so I appreciate all of you being present today. My thanks to Aaron and Milton for their work in preparing for this time and offering their ideas and thoughts and experience that's enriched us and thank you all for joining us today. And I would love the opportunity to just send us forth in prayer. So let's pray together. Thank you Lord for each person represented on this call each church each conference each jurisdiction and the own personal journeys and pray that you would continue to broaden us in our understanding of your mission in this world, and the best way that we can participate in it. And to encourage us each day to continue and being faithful to that mission as you are to us, and particularly today we pray for Milton, and others in a position like his that receive missionaries from other places, and the complexities of that in the midst of keep them encouraged strengthen them in their work and bless all of us in this work with a deeper sensitivity curiosity open mindedness and willingness just to let your spirit take us and lead us in participating with you in this mission to restore the world to the shape in that you made it, and for which you long to see it again. May your heart for your mission and your people be our to we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. God bless you all going. God strengthen grace and want to hear the stories again. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Karen. Good to see you, Milton.


There is a new YouTube bug that all of you need to be aware of to avoid the frustration of having your video description links break when you edit them. Here's what I mean. Yesterday's video was Hackers Hit the Freedom Family. Didn't see it? Click that I up there to watch how we had a hacker attack on our forums and how we defeated it. When I was editing the video description right here, I added a little word like this, and then I clicked save and look what happened. This link, the one with the dot dot dot, actually saved as a dot dot dot. See, it no longer works. That is the bug. If you edit your video description using the inline editor right here and you click save, all of your links that have dot dot dot will save as the dot dot dot. So the way around this is you click this button to edit your description, not the in-place editor, and then you can change everything here. And as you can see all the dot dot dots, they were saved because I use the in-place editor. And how do you find all the dot dot dots? Well, just press control F type dot dot dot, and all of the dot dot dots will highlight so you can go and fix them manually. Now, there's no way to bring them back. You have to actually go get the original links and replace them in your description. And you have to do this for every single video that you edited using the inline editor unless you were aware of this bug. That's why everyone needs to know it right now. And go check your videos, all of your videos that you would have edited in the last week or so, or maybe even longer. I don't know when this bug was introduced. I just noticed it yesterday. So tell me down there if this happened to you. Regarding yesterday's video that hackers hit the Freedom Family, this is the website that was hit. It was our community forums. And as you can see, the site is back online and has been online for a long time now. There are many active members. There is a live chat, which I encourage you to use to communicate with our team and our community. And as you can see, we have have 117,000 members currently registered on these forums. So it's a huge community where you can get feedback on your channel and help you grow faster. Speaking of growth, how big is the Freedom Family? Well, every day I go to this page, youtube.com slash freedom slash about. So that's right on our channel and just click this little about tab. And down here, it shows how many subscribers, views, channels are in our network. Now let's play a game. I'm going to hit F5 refresh right now to see how much we grew in one day. All right. Ready? So take a look at this number. 156,442,000. I'm going to hit refresh. And here we are. The current number is 156,909,000. It was a growth of almost half a million subscribers in one day. Let's see what this is tomorrow. Now, guys, I have no idea what it'll be tomorrow. So this is a bit of a gamble on my part. We grew almost half a million subscribers today. How much will we grow tomorrow? Let's find out tomorrow and tell me your guests down there in case you want to take a guess and we'll see who's the closest. Going back to the hackers hit Freedom Community yesterday, I wanted to update everyone on the solution we used because the hackers came back after we made that video and tried new tactics to bring down our forums and our team defeated those as well. And here's how we use something called Amazon Cloud Front.  After we enabled Amazon Cloud Front for our community forums, all of those new attacks were defeated. So if you have a website that's under attack, I highly recommend Amazon Cloud Front or the tips I mentioned in yesterday's video and there is one other service that I can mention in a future episode, more details about and that is Cloud Flare, which is a separate website, nothing to do with Amazon, that also helps defeat DDoS attacks. Do you have any other tips to help people who are having issues with hackers trying to bring down their site? Tell me in the comments below. And who am I? I am George, CEO and founder of a nice t-shirt that doesn't say freedom and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family. You are part of it. We are all part of it and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with freedom. And that play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.


This effort introduces new types of alpha-open, alpha-star-open, and alpha-star-star-open functions, as well as concepts associated with ready relationships, semi-alpha-open, semi-alpha-star-open, and semi-alpha-star-star-open functions. The topological space is proven for the class of alpha-open and alpha-star-open function, and basic properties and applications of alpha-star-star-open function are studied. A new class of space between concepts, semi-alpha-open, semi-alpha-star-open, and semi-alpha-star-star-open, is learned by function, with theorems and observations needed to achieve results between these mathematical concepts. This article was authored by Nasser Ali Zabain and Ali Al-Hachami.


This paper examined the potential of biomass and biogas in Entre Rios province and Concepción de la Uruguay. The authors looked at the availability of biomass from the forestry, agricultural and poultry industries in Entre Rios, as well as the potential of biogas from chicken waste. They also calculated the energy return on investment EROI for renewable energy sources in Argentina using life cycle analysis, LCA. This EROI measure takes into account the costs associated with generating electricity from renewable sources, such as initial investments, maintenance and fuel costs. The results showed that biomass has the highest EROI, followed by biogas and solar photovoltaics. The authors concluded that these findings can help optimize distributed generation in medium voltage, as well as determine the energy profitability of generators. This article was authored by Federico Gabriel Camargo.


Josh, what do you think has made Houston pitching so tough on this offense? Um, I mean, I think they get some good arms. I think they throw strikes for the most part Um, when they do they make quality pitches. Um So yeah, I mean, I think that they have a good staff I mean, I think they're I don't know where they're at as far as The league is concerned, but I mean I gotta think that they're pretty pretty high up there Garcia today, what would allow him to keep you guys off balance? I mean, he's just mixed pitches all day made made quality pitches. Um, he's got he's got good stuff and I felt like when he did make some mistakes Um, you know, it's probably foul balls for the most part And, you know, I think he's got like I said, he's got good stuff Overall, how are you feeling at the plate right now? I mean, it's a mixed bag. There's days where I feel pretty good and uh, today I felt pretty bad Obviously, they did a good job of pitching and You know, it's just, you know, continue to take it day by day Who said he thought that you're not that far off? offensively How would you characterize? Yeah, I mean, I felt like, um Took some swings today that were a little uncharacteristic for me But my second I bet I feel like I took a good swing just barely missed two pitches and Sears before I feel like I've been Um, taken some pretty good passes Um, I'm starting to get the ball in the air a little bit more and You know, I'm missing missing some pitches, but I'm still hitting it somewhat hard Um, so I gotta think that whenever it does start to click, it'll be pretty good Josh, obviously, you know with your first experience at Yankee's uniform playing against the astros You know with this budding rivalry that's been going on for a few years Do you guys get geared up more for these series? Like are they're more intense? I mean, I definitely I mean, you could definitely feel it in You know when we were playing in New York from the fan base and from here in the fan base I definitely I mean, I don't think that We gave more geared up. I think just the environment gets you a little probably a little bit more excited about playing Do you start looking at it? You know a lot of people are How you guys have been dominating your divisions as this is a collision course Do you guys meeting in the playoffs and maybe you're getting a taste of what that pitching can do? I mean, we're still a long ways away From that, but like I said, it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case But I mean, that's not really We we can't think about that at this moment When like I said, this is a day by day thing and to be able to go out there and continue to do what we've been doing Playing very well Obviously we lost today, but you know looked about bounce back tomorrow and Cleveland Things aren't going well for you at the plate What usually gets you out of it is a series that may be a couple of good advanced Is a bleeder maybe falls in there.