Thank you very much. My name is Adrian Dix and I'm the BC's Minister of Health. To my right is Dr Bonnie Henry, BC's provincial health officer. This is our COVID-19 update for today, Friday, December 17th. We're honored to be here on the territory of the Lekwungen speaking people of the Songhees and the Esquimalt First Nations. Dr Henry is going to speak and describe the changes to provincial health orders that are coming as of Sunday at 11.59 p.m. And then I'll say a few words and then we'll be happy to take your question. So with that, I'd like to introduce Dr Bonnie Henry. Thank you very much and good afternoon. As we have all seen in recent weeks, the newest variant, the Omicron variant of concern, is adding new and more complex challenges to our pandemic. And we are no exception here in British Columbia. Omicron is rapidly replacing the other variants here in BC, primarily Delta, the several different strains of Delta that have been causing infections around our province. And as we have noted, has rapidly started causing a rapid increase in the number of new cases of COVID-19 that were seen, particularly in Vancouver Coastal and the Fraser Health region and here in Vancouver Island. It is moving quickly, and so much we can do. And so must we. This is of course not where we want to be. We were making good progress. We had turned the corner of the wave that we've been dealing with for the last few months here in BC, but it is the reality of where we are. And right now, we need to slow the spread and ensure that our health care system and our communities are protected. We will see more cases. We have known now globally that this Omicron strain is replacing Delta around the world. It is more transmissible, which means that it can spread with even a smaller amount of virus. It is spreading more rapidly than before, and we need to flatten that curve. If we see rapid increases in cases, we know that a certain proportion of those people will need hospital care. Right now, most of the cases that we're seeing are in younger people, that are more connected, so it's spreading very rapidly, but they're not having severe illness. It's mostly mild illness, and that is for a couple of reasons. One, because people are younger right now, and also because we have very high vaccination rates, and that is reflected in the people who are getting infected right now, where we have not had hospitalizations in people in the community who have had Omicron that we're seeing around the world, and we're not going to be an exception to that. We will see rapidly rising cases over the next few weeks, and we need to take additional measures to slow that down so that we don't overwhelm our hospital system. One of the things that we also know is that if you are not yet vaccinated, if you do not have that protection that vaccination gives, this virus is spreading, and more and more people are at risk. Now is the time to get vaccinated. This virus will find you. We need to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Without a vaccine, you are at higher risk of serious illness and hospitalization. We know now with this strain that even if you are fully vaccinated, you can get infected, but it is a milder illness for most of those people. So we need to put in new measures in place for everyone. These are revisions to the orders that are in place now and will be in place starting on midnight on Sunday, so we'll start on Monday morning and extend through to January 31, 2022. These amendments are about ensuring everyone is staying small, staying with the people they know, and with people who are vaccinated. Firstly, the events and gatherings order will be amended so to include all indoor personal gatherings, including at rentals, vacation properties, resorts, are limited to your household or the residents, plus no more than 10 additional individuals. Or one other household. And this is if everybody is vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated or have members of your family who are unvaccinated, we cannot have personal gatherings in those settings right now. For events on our BC vaccine card, proof of vaccine with the BC vaccine card is required no matter the size of events. It no longer starts with events including 50 or more people, which has been the case for the last few months. In addition, we need to step up our scanning of the QR code. We know that that is the best way to ensure that these are valid QR codes and they must be checked at all times. Venues with a capacity of 1,000 or more people will be limited to 50% capacity, whether that is concert, hockey game, theater, if the capacity is more than 1,000, then we are reducing that by 50% capacity. And that is to ensure that we have additional space for people. These are events that have been managed very well and we are not seeing a lot of transmission, but we are seeing a lot of transmission and we need to have more space, more ventilation and we need to ensure that we are enforcing the mask wearing requirements that are in place for these events and ensuring that we are scanning QR codes for these events. All sports tournaments that are both for youth and adults are suspended for the period of this order. We have seen that when you have teams coming from many different places, coming together over a period of days, those are events where we can see spread of this virus and then taking it back to different communities. I know there are a number of tournaments, particularly hockey tournaments around the province that were due to start on Boxing Day, those will need to be suspended and postponed for the period of time of this order. We have seen a lot of events that have been suspended in one and a limited time frame. Finally, under the events and gatherings, all New Year's Eve parties will be suspended no matter their size. We can still have restaurants can continue to operate at full capacity and can have New Year's Eve meals, but we also have some amendments to the food and liquor services order that will come into place at the table and masks must be worn when not seated. This goes back to where we took us through the last few waves of this virus, of this pandemic, where you go with your group of people to the restaurant, you stay at the table together, there is no mingling and standing and mixing of tables and this will apply for New Year's Eve as well. Restaurants can have a special New Year's Eve dinner and we are asking you to put in place COVID safety plans for holiday and boxing day sales. We do encourage people to shop locally and to support your local businesses and we want to make sure that they are not going to have a lot of trouble with the restaurants and restaurants. We are asking you to put in place COVID safety plans for holiday and boxing day sales. We do encourage people to shop locally and to support your local businesses and to make sure that that can be done safely during this period of increased risk of transmission. What we want to do right now is limit those holiday gatherings to be only with our family and close friends and I know how important it is for us to spend time with people. We have been through a lot in this province and we need to be with family and friends over this year. I know that it is a good morning to the earthquake at 414 as I did. Sometimes it can be challenging to think, are we going to make it through this year? We are. We know what we need to do and we have been here before. We know we can slow the spread. We know there are many things that we can still do to support each other and to get through this. We can do that in the safest way possible. We can still socialize and spend time with others, but do it in a way that doesn't increase risk. So if you have friends or family members who are unvaccinated, have one-on-one meetings with them or gatherings with them, or do it outside, go for a walk. By doing this now, we will be able to keep other important aspects of our community going and with these efforts, we know that it supports our schools coming back, post-secondary institutions remaining open, and of course, supporting as much as we can, our businesses and communities functioning. We will be closely monitoring of course the situation and we will make changes as we need to. That is something we have had to do. When we have plans and we have, we look at the situation that we are dealing with on a day-by-day basis and we need to adjust and change when the situation changes. And this new variant has put us in that situation again. I recognize that this unrelenting uncertainty and this evolving situation is very unsettling for many people. And it can cause a lot of anxiety, depression, and discouragement. I want to say that we can get through this. And it is so important right now that we continue to support and care for each other. The days are dark right now, but soon the winter solstice will be coming and the days will get longer once again. And we will be turning ever so slowly back towards the light. Let's take encouragement from this. If you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or unable to cope, we have resources to support you. I talked about this a few weeks ago. I encourage people to call 811, visit bounce back BC. The kids help phone line is toll-free 24-hour phone counseling. And you can call 1-800-668-6868 if you need that support. Let's do our part to help slow this virus down. Keep our groups small. Let's ensure everyone in our family is vaccinated so that we have the best protection possible. And support our friends, neighbors, and communities. While there are restrictions in place, there is so much that we can do now because we have those tools in place. We can continue to enjoy each other's company, the warmth, kindness, and compassion of this holiday season. And that doesn't need to pause. So I ask everyone, please, continue to take all of the things that we know work to help keep us all safe and protected, and continue to be kind, to be calm, and to be safe. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Henry. I wanted to start by expressing my appreciation to people in BC who have done so much together to help one another deal with the COVID-19 pandemic to thank our incredible teams of health care workers, and more than 1,400 people who are working on contact tracing, which is not just a task of limiting the spread and finding out information, but supporting people in challenging times. BC, as you know, there are some provinces that don't really do much, or any contact tracing, BC continues to be focused on them. I thank them. All the people involved in our immunization campaigns and acute care hospitals and community care and community care hospitals, and we have made a difference in challenging times. We have all made a difference, I think, by getting vaccinated, by getting our boosters when it's our term, by making sure our children age 5 to 11 are protected by the vaccine, by following public health orders, by hearing to public health guidance, by using our COVID strength, and always, always, we are moved with conviction, compassion and understanding in adapting consistently to a vicious virus that is not easy, not for any of us. But almost two years ago, we committed together, I think, to fight, and we have done that every step of the way, and to have done so in such a way that supports one another, as communities, as regions in the province, and as people. I want to note that as our pandemic experience has shown from the beginning, COVID-19 always has its own plans. Obviously, many of us, many of us who were called last year with limits on COVID gatherings, were unable to come together fully as families, had our own plans for these holiday seasons. But as it's shown, COVID-19 has its own plans. COVID's Omicron variant is highly transmissible, and each of us knows that with rising case counts around the globe, across Canada and here in BC, we are once again called to act. And I want to note, as you know with Scotia now, it's highest case count for COVID-19 ever. Quebec did the same. The Omicron variant of concern is now the dominant variant of concern in the province of Ontario. And then around the world, we saw, as you know, more than 87,000 cases announced today in the United Kingdom. More than 10 times our rate of transmission in BC, and if you can imagine what the struggle of people in that country are facing. And I want to remind everyone and say that the measures taken today, and being taken by Dr Henry today and put in place and starting at midnight on Monday or 11.59 on Sunday night, are important steps that will help us slow the transmission of COVID-19 in a time that's challenging for everyone. Here in BC, for example, we see a growing share of our cases and we know even if we may be a week behind some jurisdiction in Canada, we know that the Omicron variant will soon be the dominant variant of concern in BC. So we have to continue to do the things that we are doing together to stop the spread and to follow the new guidance and the new provincial health orders that have been put in place. I want to finally express my appreciation to all the people who are doing immunization around the province and note that the week of November 27th to December 3rd, we have a number of vaccines administered in BC. The week of December 4th to the 10th, it was 157,382. The week of December 11th to 17th, it was 182,805. We are ramping up those vaccinations across British Columbia and those include 84,491 first doses for children of 5 to 11. And a growing number of seniors and others in BC, 63% of all those over 70, almost 50% of those over 65, 130,000 clinically extremely vulnerable British Columbians, tens of thousands between 40 and 50,000 health care workers. A very significant number of indigenous communities. The same kinds of priorities we put on dose one and two have been put in dose three have been vaccinated so far and those efforts continue and they will continue across BC. This is particularly true with growing vaccinations in the northern health authority. It has seen its vaccinations in combination with the first nation health authority in communities across northern BC increased significantly in the last number of weeks. I want to encourage people in northern BC if they are eligible to be vaccinated to book appointments. There are currently 1,800 pharmacy appointments currently posted across northern health authority. Only 450 bookings have been made for the next two weeks and I believe moved to fill those up in this next period and again, advance our immunization effort as well. Efforts are going to be made, every effort is going to be made to ensure that there are many opportunities through this Christmas period to get vaccinated in every part of BC and that work is being done now. I think we need to continue those efforts, follow the public health orders and continue to do the work we need to do together to address this issue. I just say this, that, you know, the COVID-19 vaccine pandemic is tested us all. And what it requires now is for us to be cautious in our actions, be prudent in our actions, protect one another with what we do and support these efforts of public health which reflect, I think, the best advice we can give to British Columbians and where it's not advice, the direction and orders that we can provide to give people the best protection possible in challenging times. This is going to be a very difficult three weeks and we can deal with that in a number of ways, but I think what we need to do together is continue to make the best efforts we can across British Columbians supporting one another and supporting public health and working together to address and support each other in difficult times. Do it for our families, for our loved ones, for those we love and know and those that we don't know. And if we can do that together, we can achieve a great deal in dealing with this difficult challenge of the Omicron variant of concern. Thank you very much. We're happy to take your questions. A reminder to reporters on the line, please press star one to enter the queue. You'll be limited to one question and one follow-up. For our first question, we start here in the room with Richard Zussman who is a member of the Household . They can invite over 10 other people or another household. How does this work with families that may have one other family of four plus two others? That's less than 10. I'm just not sure how people are supposed to do this. And the other piece of this is how are you possibly going to enforce unvaccinated people not being able to go to social gatherings? How can unvaccinated people not follow along with provincial guidelines from the beginning? What I'm hearing very clearly from people is they want direction about how to do this in the best way that we can. And we recognize that people have to get together. And yes, so the number 10 is about having a manageable group and making sure that people are vaccinated. And this is to support people to have those conversations. I have those conversations with people who, and I know I hear a lot about how do I ask people about this? So it is keeping those groups small. It's about having those conversations about vaccination, having them ahead of time. Saying I'm having people over on this state for vaccinated people only, can you come? That's one way of having that conversation without putting people on the spot. But I think people want clear about what the limits are. So we say another household because sometimes we have very large households, and if you want to come together with two large households, then that's enough. Don't have additional people. But the answer really is to look at your own risk and to keep things as small as reasonably possible. But a limit of 10 is one that will reduce or mitigate the impacts if somebody is happened to be carrying the virus. It can be fewer than that.  Keep it as small as possible. Look at your own risks and look at the risks of the group of people that you're with. If you have people who are undergoing cancer therapy or immune suppression, keep it smaller than that. And make sure that you have good ventilation, that you're in good health. You mentioned anxiety. There has been a lot of anxiety created around the issue of booster shots and around the issue of rapid testing. There's nothing here announcing that those things are speeding ahead. I understand that boosters we continue to be ahead of the curve in some regards, but so many other jurisdictions are shrinking that gap between second and third doses to fewer than six months. Why are we not announcing today that rapid tests will be available to British Columbians like almost every other province? What is taking us time to get to that point? So there's a couple of things. I'll talk about the booster program in a bit more detail. And in terms of the rapid testing, we are working on that. We are in a situation where we have certain types of tests. We're working on how to make them more available. We're working on that in more detail on Tuesday. I can't tell you things that are not yet worked out. So more to come on that for sure. And booster, I think we need to be careful about fixating on one thing or another thing as being unanswered. They are part of the answer and there is an important role for rapid testing. And we are changing our focus on that and we'll have more to say on that. So we are working on the booster program based on thinking that we've been doing around immunology, around looking at the data that we have from BC, from Canada, and globally, around how our immune system works. And we know, and we went very early on, as you know, to increase the interval between dose one and dose two. Because we know that gives the immune system longer, better time to be able to mature and mediate immunity. And that's been proven, it's been borne out both in the vaccine effectiveness studies and in other studies that show that the longer the interval between dose one and dose two and sort of the optimal is probably at least eight weeks that you get a stronger, longer lasting immune response. So one of the things that's different about BC is we went to that extended interval early. Which means that most people in BC will be able to do that in June, July, and the first week of August. The second part is we also know that, and Nassie has come out with this as well, looking at information about different programs around the world and the programs here in Canada, that extending the interval between dose two and a booster dose also gives your immune system time to develop a stronger, longer lasting response. And that is focused on the data that we have that showed we were starting to see more serious infections in breakthrough in older people. So hospitalizations in older people who have been vaccinated and of course, infections and outbreaks in long-term care. We know from all of the work on immunology that our antibody levels decrease over time, and that's antibodies are a protein in the blood and it's a protein in the blood. So we know that those go down over time. And what that means is that you may have less protection against that immediate response and that can lead to infection, especially with a more highly infectious variant, so a smaller amount of virus can cause an infection. But what we don't know and what we're learning about is how strong that cell-mediated virus is, and even against Omicron, but we don't know all of the details about that yet. So preserving that interval between dose two and a booster dose gives us stronger, better protection for longer. And it will get us through not just this variant and what's happening right now, but also the next variant. We're going to be living with this virus for a long time. So we want to give the best protection, the longest lasting protection. Initially we had been looking at the data and expecting for younger people, we'd be able to extend that interval to about eight months, because that's probably giving stronger, longer lasting protection for a longer period of time. But we've now moved it up and we're focusing on ramping up our immunization program so that we can get most people at about those people at higher risk who didn't have a strong immune response, but for most of us it's going to be six months after your dose two, and that's what we're goal is now, that's what we're ramping up for, and for most people that means in the next few weeks you'll be getting your invitations and we'll be getting booster doses into people. And just to add to that, Richard, I can't comment what people announced about the vaccine, but as I said in my presentation two weeks ago, 131,140, this week 182,805, that's ramping up, not on paper, not in press releases, not in announcements, but where it matters in immunization clinics across BC, how have we done this? By adding community pharmacy, I want to thank the BC Pharmacy Association for this, I talked about the availability of appointments in different provinces, but boosting them, so we've gone from 200, which we're largely in our pilot project as we built it out, to 500 this week, to 1,000, this is a significant increase in capacity to deliver on that. I don't believe other provinces of them we've done, which is to focus on the clinically extremely vulnerable, and well over 100,000 people who have got their vaccinations, and this will be worth its weight in gold for those who are in the healthcare system and everyone in BC who I know would support people who are living with cancer and people who are living with significant immune suppressing disease and challenges, that they get their vaccine doses sooner, and we've done that in BC. We are setting the priority in the same medically based science-based approach, guided by public health as we've consistently done, and you see those ramping up, and I think people can be proud of this effort on the ground, and I'm proud of British Columbians, because they're getting vaccinated at a very high rate, 92% of all those over 12, and we're seeing the growth in our effort for children 5 to 11. So this is a very significant campaign, and I want to also say that finally, that the challenges on our healthcare workers and our healthcare systems are real, we decided and we believe in BC in the importance of the long-term care and long-term care and assisted living, that have reduced the number of outbreaks from in the 20s of the beginning of November to 0 in long-term care and assisted living as of yesterday, that is the number of cases that we've had since the beginning of the pandemic, it's important to help people in challenging times, that isn't the case in other jurisdictions, we have a long-term care and assisted living as of yesterday, that doesn't mean it will stay at zero, but that's important place to start as we deal with these new challenges, and these aren't things that the government has done, these are things that British Columbians have done, British Columbia healthcare workers have done, and British Columbia citizens have done, and we should acknowledge those strengths and improve areas where we can do better. I feel that the risk of gathering in private settings with one other fully vaccinated household is the same risk of gathering in clubs with maybe 100 people, when we know that aerosol can be spread that way, and you yourself mentioned ensuring better ventilation, maybe we'll have a bit of a disconnect between those two. So you know that in clubs we have limitations on what activities can happen in those settings, so people need to be at a table now, particularly we were allowing people to move around, the BC vaccine card is in effect, so everybody must be vaccinated in those settings, and now you must stay at your table as well. So, yes, it's a balancing of risks in trying to keep the things open that we can with those measures in place. The other piece, of course, is mask wearing, and so in our indoor social services, we have a lot of restrictions, but those are important when you're moving around within a restaurant, a bar or a club, and I know many of the clubs have not opened, because we have had that prohibition on things like dancing and other higher risk activities within those settings. Lisa, do you have a follow-up? Yes, do you have any data or any modeling to compare what the rate of transmission would be if you do not impose any further restrictions versus the rate that we might see with these restrictions in place? Yes, so the short answer is not yet. As you know, it takes a bit of time before we are seeing the numbers that help us understand that, so the modeling that we showed, particularly things like the reproductive number, was still based on mostly transmission of delta variants, although we were starting to see the increase in omicron, and as you know, that was creeping up above one, and I believe that's the influence of omicron particularly, as I mentioned on Tuesday in Vancouver Coastal, where we started to see that really curve up very rapidly, so we will be looking at that as we are analyzing the data going forward, but there's a bit of a delay in that, but the whole genome sequencing takes several days, so we are rating that yesterday, we reported up to 135, I believe it was, or 37 cases confirmed by whole genome sequencing, and that process will be updated later today, I believe there's a bit of a delay and we're still trying to work out that process, but it's increasing in numbers and in numbers, and that's one of the challenges we're facing with this new variant around the world, as it takes time before you know when you can look back and look at what are we seeing, but we know from Ontario where there are a bit ahead of us, from the UK that the reproductive number when it's introduced into the population is higher than what we were seeing with delta over the last few weeks. Minister Dix, you mentioned contact tracing, I remember back in the spring I guess last winter, but it was that contact tracing and Fraser Health for example could handle about 600 cases and then they were overwhelmed. Now fewer cases at this point, but increasing and the number of contacts or number of people at risk is increasing, so how long will it be before the contact tracing in place is overwhelmed, or will it withstand this? I've talked with my colleagues about this, these are things that we talk about a lot about public health practice and what we will be doing and we saw this in the north with a much smaller number because we have fewer resources to be able to do that, so what we are working on and what we will be doing is prioritizing where we need to make sure that we are doing active contact management and clearly high risk settings like somebody who is a health care worker, somebody who is in long-term care in some of the congregate living settings. But then for people who are having milder illness, vaccinated younger people, being able to self-manage and notify their own contacts and we will be supporting them in doing that and we have had to do that in some ways in the north, in the interior over periods of surges, so we are focusing on how we do that in a systematic way should we get to that point in the next little while. And I will also say that that same pool of people is doing many things. The case in contact management teams being led by mostly public health people with others working with us were also people who do immunization, also the people who are working on the data collection and outbreak management, so it is not like we have teams that are able to do many, many things, so what we were doing is titrating up as we had our big bolus of second doses in the summer and then as cases rose, many people were moved over to support the contact tracing and case management. So we are actively looking at how we can manage that and testing, that was the other piece. We do the testing centres as well. And we are also looking at how we can be able to see more cases. So the measures that we are putting in place today are to try and address some of those things. What we are seeing is rapid spread in large groups, large parties where you, Vic, unfortunately is a good example where there is large host parties with large numbers of people and this strain is spreading very rapidly in those groups. And we are also looking at how we can manage that and we are also looking at what we are doing today and what we are doing today is reducing the probability of having those larger gatherings and bigger spread. And just on the numbers we have more people on our contact tracing teams now than any other time in the pandemic, but you will see the number of active cases now in BC of COVID-19. We had, as you watch the numbers closely, probably we could go 28, 2900 cases so that is a significant increase and that is going to keep going up. And so we have got a strong team and a strong network in place but there is a point at which you have to assign the work amongst people and as Dr Henry said it is the same teams of health workers that do immunization, other work in public health and other parts of the health care system as well. So that is the challenge we face but that emphasis on contact tracing we have the strongest teams in the country but as cases grow we will have to adjust our strategies to deal with a growing number of cases and we have seen that in the last week and we absolutely expect to see that in the 350, 360 range, 7 day rolling average at the beginning of this week in the 300s anyway to the case numbers we have seen low 500s, high 500s yesterday, 759. And so you have seen that increase is going to grow and that is going to mean active cases are going to grow because that is a significant increase over a period of weeks ago and we are going to see those active cases growing up and that is going to increase and we will have to adjust our tactics to deal with that but we have a strong team in place and that has always been an emphasis in BC and I will continue to be emphasis even if some of our strategies change. Do you have a follow-up? I do and I think all of that is why people are so frustrated they don't have their hands on rapid tests right now and going on because even if you are vaccinated you are going to get this. I don't know how I am going to prevent this and I heard university students tell me they are terrified going to exams now because although they are wearing masks and people are supposed to be vaccinated and people are showing up sick so why not put even more stringent things on and protect these large gatherings at schools and we are working on that and you know today is the last day of school for K-12 we know that cases have been very low at post-secondary institutions and we have not had transmission in classroom settings for example or lab settings in post-secondary institutions. It has been almost exclusively in those social events off campus mostly where there is not mask wearing where people are coming together. We have been supporting and working really closely with post-secondary institutions around this and we have had a very successful return to campus across the province in BC and I think kudos go to the staff and the students in post-secondary institutions. The vaccination rates in our universities and colleges in BC are in the high 90s. I know in UVic it was 97, 98%. And that is reflected in the fact that even though this spread very widely in the group of students in the social gatherings, they did not have anybody with severe disease yet. So that is good news. I think we need to put this into a context. Yes, there is a lot of concern and part of the concern is that there are just so many unknowns and we have seen this happening around the world and you know, we had enough things in place that we wouldn't be seeing it replace delta that we have been dealing with really successfully over the last few months. But the reality is that it has. So I think what we need to focus on is knowing what we need to do. Taking a deep breath, knowing that, yes, it can spread and it can spread in those social connections particularly, that we need to use our layers of protection. It is huge protection for us and we know especially young people that we get very strong immune responses from the vaccines that we have and that is going to help us and for most people it is a relatively mild illness if you are vaccinated. But if you are not, if you don't have that layer of protection, you are really at risk right now so you need to really think again about protecting yourself because the online Europe is the very best way to protect yourself. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Hello. Yes. The busy government they will follow the Ontario government because they have recommended they are employees who are from home, how about busy government? Do you welcome them as well? Yes. The public service agency has a vaccine mandate across the There was a return to work plan for early January and that's been extended at least for the period of time of these orders. So, yes, that is what the public service is doing here in British Columbia. And our recommendations advice to other organizations is to consider continuing your work from home if that's possible as well. Justine, do you have a follow-up? Yes. We want to know about after the COVID-19 pandemic, what are the new year holidays, the school campus will be closed again? I'm sorry, will school be closed again? Yes, the university. The university is for post-secondary institutions? Our expectation right now, given what we know right now, is that we will be able to safely go back to in-classroom learning. And I know many post-secondary institutions, I was mentioning this earlier, but I know that there are a lot of people who are not able to go back to school, and I'm mentioning this are really taking the best of some of the remote learning and doing some hybrid, particularly to be able to support students and staff if they get sick and need to be out of the classroom for a period of time. So, the measures that we have in place in post-secondary institutions have been working really well. Of course, things are changing. So, we will be watching this carefully over the next few weeks. We have a group that meets regularly with post-secondary institutions to make sure that we have the right measures in place. And we will be reviewing those before we return to campus. But I am confident that we can continue to support our young people who have been so differentially affected by this pandemic. And we know how hard it was for so many young people with the completely remote learning last year. And it is important. We know that it's a time when people are developing emotionally and socially and finding ideas and sharing ideas with new people. And part of that needs to happen in an environment that is on campus. Next question. Rob Buffam, CTV, Vancouver Island. Hi, thanks for taking my question. I'm wondering about, for parents of younger kids, going to have high school or elementary school who are anxious about the return to school in a couple of weeks, we're expecting a surge in cases. What can you tell those parents in terms of the likelihood that their kids will be back to class in person? We also have had a really strong focus on safe return to school. And that has been also really successful. I think right now focusing on getting the younger kids vaccinated, the 12 to 17 and have not yet received your vaccinations, that's important too. And the measures that we've been putting in place have been working. So we need to focus on that. And our school team is also meeting regularly and we'll be looking at how do we ensure that we have everything in place that's needed for a safe return to school in two weeks. And today being the last day for K-12 here in BC. As you know, the hospitality industry was very upset last New Year's Eve when at the 11th hour there were significant restrictions brought in. You've brought in some restrictions today, acknowledging that there is going to be a surge in cases. How confident are you that we're not going to see more restrictions, things like capacity limits at restaurants or things of that nature in the next several weeks? So we've been looking and I've been working with my colleagues about where we're seeing the COVID-19 situation in Vancouver and it really is those social interactions in those settings where we're not wearing masks when we're talking and being together and whether it's a party at a restaurant. So we know and we've seen this throughout this pandemic that restaurants can safely function when we have some of these COVID safety measures in place. So that's why we've made the measures that you have to stay at your table with your group, and we've made it. And I met with industry representatives this morning and we talked through these things. These are the measures that I'm confident will help us to continue safely operate. Clearly if the situation gets dramatically worse, then we'll meet again and reassess what we need to do. But I believe that if we all dig in and stay small and continue to take these measures that got us through before, they'll get us back to you in a minute. So I'm going to go ahead and answer one more question. We'll go to Ethan Sawyer, CBC. Hi there. Thanks for taking my question. And as per usual, hoping to get an answer in French as well. First off, just wondering how does today's announcement affect private events such as weddings and funerals? Will there be communication or guidance around things like seating? And will host be expected to be. Right now, there are still limits on things like dancing, etc. So they remain seated events. There's no capacity limits. But all of them, no matter what the size, must use the BC vaccine card to check that everybody there is vaccinated. So that's the difference. It used to be only if the event was over 50 people. Now it's regardless of the size of the event. So if you have a smaller wedding, you can continue to have that wedding, but it can only be vaccinated people at that wedding reception. Same for funerals that are the funeral reception or the celebration of life is the event part of it. Ethan, do you have a follow-up? I do. This one is for Minister Dix. You said there are 1800 pharmacy appointments in northern BC with only 450 booked in the next two months. There are 1,350 unbooked pharmacy appointments available and if so, why are you not inviting more people to register for their booster dose rather than let those go unused? We have heard directly from multiple people in northern BC who are past the six months, including some who are over 65 who have yet to be invited to book their booster shot and if we can do that, we can do it. I am not sure if I mentioned that specifically, but you will recall about two weeks ago we put in place some additional measures to support safe operation of faith gatherings over the holiday season and that means the mask mandate was expanded to include faith gatherings and the capacity limits if they include unvaccinated people at 50% so that there is an opportunity for increased space. The sense of where we are at in the north, we significantly increased in the last couple of weeks immunizations across the north. Of course, all of long-term care, assisted living, independent living, long-term home support, short interval healthcare workers and acute care health workers have been completed. Clinically extremely vulnerable have been offered a dose. 35,298 northerners have received their third or booster dose and this is the point I made as we sent out, of course, we are sending out lots of invitations to book across BC that there are opportunities available. We are creating new capacity and there is the possibility right now to book appointments. We are going to continue to manage the system. I think the overall effort of managing the system led by Dr. Penny Ballum has been excellent. We are going to continue to manage the system. Dr. Penny Ballum has been excellent to date. We are obviously working and there are appointments available in communities across the north. We are adding new places where people can be vaccinated and we are working hard to ensure that there has been some discussion about vaccine clinics that are going to take periods off and stat holidays off and so on. All of these working hard to see we have a maximum capacity of the booster dose system and we manage invitations to ensure that we use those vaccination appointments. That is what is happening. I think the vaccination in pharmacies is a bit new and people are adjusting to it. What I am telling people is there are some opportunities. For those of you who received your invitation to book to get booked, basically we are a very similar number. You have to look back. Six months we are meeting people across BC who have received their third or booster dose. We will continue to do that. I think northern health is doing a very good job under difficult conditions. You will recall that 153 people, that number has slowed a little bit, have been transferred out of critical care in the north. That is an example of how challenging it is in the northern health authority. Currently we have added resources from other health authorities, so people from northern health, vaccination efforts. That has been managed very effectively through immunization BC to balance those things off. What can I say, we are making progress. Those are the numbers that we have in terms of both five to 11 clinics where there is availability right now. And also pharmacy appointments available across the north and we will look to expand those as people fill those spots. I am saying those spots are available. I am saying that in the region of northern health or British Columbia, we have made great progress in vaccination, especially in the communities such as Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. We have added people who have been vaccinated for the first time and for the second time. We have opened a lot of new vaccination places in our community. There are a lot of new places in our community. We have opened a lot of new places in our community. There are our many programs available for people to be vaccinated. What I am saying about that, we have the option to be vaccinated. We have opened many places in our population and we are going to see if it is necessary and that we can attend to some COVID-19 jedi продолжés. I think nor do we have many positive Max NARRATOR thanks. We are going to continue to . As I noted in my presentation, we have significantly, we have about 152,000 people registered or children registered 5 to 11 for the COVID-19 vaccine out of the 349,000 who are eligible to do so. We need that number to grow because the number of people of children vaccinated is growing and growing every day is not more than half of that number and is moving towards that number. So we need and this is a good occasion to get registered and certainly in the north especially to take advantage of appointments that will be very much. Thank you very much and I will see you and Dr Henry will see you next Tuesday.


Good morning everyone. Welcome to today's session on BC201 Christian history and missions. Today We're going to look into a few more revivalist starting From just give me a minute Okay, we're going to look into the general Awakening. Okay. So even before we could start for today's session request one of us to please start with a word of prayer Can I have pray see? Can you pray? Yes pastor Can I pray in Hindi pastor? No English Okay, to heavenly father. We thank you for this wonderful morning. Thank you for this session And thank you for Thank you for We thank you all for the time you give us and Okay, okay, I guess there's a lot of disturbance in that line Can anyone else from the class could pray? Yes, yes, thank you Father we want to thank you for this time. We have given us to come Together with you together in your presence of God. We pray that this time would be a blessing for each one of us Help us to know your heart and help us to sharpen ourselves once again And to be used by your Your mercy or God and we pray or God that everything that we learned today would be useful In the days to come in everything that we are doing for the glory of our Lord God. We praise you in Jesus Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you John for praying So let me present The PowerPoint before we could start with our session, okay Sharing here we go. Okay. I guess everyone can see the slide on the third great awakening so We heard about the first great awakening and the second great awakening. So what is this great awakening all about? We see that the great awakening was a period of where Religious awakening and reform took place. Well, it was a series of religious Revivalists revivals that swept through the American colonies that were led by the Vansley protestant ministers Well, the great awakening actually was a spark was a spark that That you know that word the English Vansley ministers called George Whitefield. So what happened in the first great awakening? Just give me a minute while I set the screen, right? Okay, so in the first Great awakening we saw that the the first great awakening was focused on the church Congregation where we saw people we already a church member and it changed Their rituals their self-awareness in the first great awakening and and also in the first great awakening It took a it made the church to come into a kind of formation It also sought to make the conversion within the church community So the change was most within the church where the first great Awakening led to a division between the old lights and the new lights So which is called as the Revivalist or the new lights. So this there was a split off from the congregation So the Anglican and the prosperity Presbyterians and formed their own denomination and they were known as new lights and Later, they became the Baptist and Methodist. So this new revivalist Presbyterian denomination was formed in the first great awakening and they also Emphasized on the personal freedom and also a freedom from the slavery. Well with that Incidents or events that took place in the first great awakening. We move on to the second great Awakening so few instance, I would like to remind ourselves even before we could move on to the third Great awakening. So what took place? What are the major events took place in the second great awakening? Well, we see that in the second great awakening There was an enrol of millions of new members who focused on the belief that Every person could be saved through revival We see that the focus been shifted from the traditional evangelism and there was a Transformation or you call it as a conversion from within and Into different denomination. So in the north We see the first great awakening resulted in the creation of voluntary reformation societies, which led directly to the moments in the middle of Approximately 1880 Well in the south, we see the white Evangelicals began to preach the Bible or preach the gospel which supported the Slavery a notion that was in the interest of the Slave plantations. So keeping this in mind, we can move on to the third great Awakening so well the second great awakening continued in America, you know, the dates are approximate Some say thousand eight hundred eighty and some says it started in thousand sorry 1810 80 Well, the war that took place in 1812 to 1815 did not affect the fruit of the second great awakening as there was no significant decline in the revivals or The visitation and the moves of God Okay, so Charles Finney a New York lawyer came to faith in Christ in 1821 we will study about them later in detail So what happened shortly thereafter? He started to preach. So in 1830 or 1830 in his first major campaign in Rochester, New York, there was a great fruit with many coming under conviction of sin and being saved. So what happened? In addition to what was happening through Charles Finney across America, there seemed to be another move of revival What's that? It is it was estimated that about a year. So in 1830 about One like people were added to the church in America Hence the revival was taking place in other parts of the world During the same period of time. So what happened? We see in Great Britain the Methodist group experienced a revival and we see God was specifically using an American evangelist James Korge and it was during this time that William Booth came to Christ So in Wales revival it began in the south and it you know it quickly spread to the north and At the same period we all just see in Scotland God was specially using a man named William C Burns and In Ireland you also experienced a powerful revival which many describe it as the second Reformation So we see that the Christian brethren denomination had its original at this time. So stated by John Nelson Darby and an offshoot of it led by George Muller So in Europe some of those who experienced the second great awakening Became the carrier of the revival during this ticket So among these the few of the revivalist name was George Scott a British Methodist Revivalist or evangelist in Sweden whose work was continued by Carl Carl Olaf Rossinius and we also see those whom he trained carried revival fire Through them and it reached to Switzerland, France and Holland so the revival was also reported in Norway and Germany. So we see many missionaries Who had been ignited by the revival became carrier of this revival to the other regions? Titus Coen and American missionary saw a great revival among the natives in Hawaii So they were revivals in Australia and among the Polly Polly and among the other kingdoms. So we see the Also reported during this time at Cape Town in South Africa So both during the second great awakening and the general awakening periods Yeah, so these changes were profound and many historians call this period in the history of American Religion the third great awakening. So like the first two awakenings This was characterized by the revival and reform So we see the temperance movement and the settlement house Moment were both affected by the church Activism so as we know in the third Third awakening we see that was taking place in many places. Let's look at the individual Revivalist how God called them and you know sparked the revival in and through them and You know, he spread the word he spread the gospel among the other people So first person we would like to study today is on Charles Finney The Charles Finney was born in Connecticut Finney was raised in Bonita County, New York. So after a couple of years teaching in New Jersey He returned to New York to help his mother who had who was seriously ill. So At the same time, he began to study law and became an apprentice Apprentice to a judge in Adams. So we see that Charles Finney was converted at the age of 29 years and became one of the most successful evangelist of the modern times He was also when you look at his early life. He was a very stubborn Atheist and he was practicing lawyer in New York at the time of his conversion. So we see Finney first started with the Presbyterian church where he encountered the Lord and he had his life transformation and later when he grew in the word and in the spirit, he was ordained in 1824 so we see that When you look at his background, we see that he was an atheist, but then Lord had encountered with him which changed his life and Then he was part of this Presbyterian church congregation and he was ordained. So what happened? Hired by the female missionary society of the Western District He began his missionary labour in the frontier communities of Upper New York He was a very rigid Calvinist dominated the theological landscape, but Finney argued his listeners to accept Christ openly and publicly Because as he started studying his Perspective started changing on Christ the word started ministering to him. There was no rituals or any kind of Rituals could Could change his belief, but then he was very Open-minded and he started preaching on what the word of God says So his style started to be very different his messages were more like a lawyer's argument than a pastor's sermon because of the background that he was coming from Evens at even smells he was troubled that the congregation continually said that they were pleased with this So he set about to make his message less pleasing and more productive You see that he didn't want to go towards what the people were trying to be pleased with So we see that at the end of his sermon Which stress the need for conversion he took a very bold step during this time.  So there was an instant call There was an instant Decision-making there was an altar call laid front of people and it was quite stern for people to make a decision and immediate so the entire Congregation having never heard such a challenge Remained in their seats So Now you have to take your stand. He said You have rejected Christ in his gospel. So the congregation was dismissed and many left Angrily So the next evening Finney preached on wickedness He changed his sermon. He didn't want to be men pleasers He wants to share the word as it is So the next evening he preaches on wickedness and his voice was like a fire The words that he used was like an hammer like a sword that pierced into each one But he offered no chance to respond. So the next night the entire town turned out including a man so Angry so upset with Finney that he brought a gun intending to kill Charles Finney but that night Finney again offered the congregants a chance to publicly declare the faith So we see here the church erupted Dozens stood up to give their pledge while others fell down grown and beloved So the evangelists continued to speak for several nights like this Visiting the new converts at their homes and on the streets. So he wrote down he wrote to many towns and That was known as the burned Burned over district So we see a reference to the facts of the area to experience so much Religious enthusiasm that it was thought to have burned out. We see newspapers and revivalist and clergy They took a notice on this increasingly rowdy meetings or meetings unlike those of the reserved Calvinist So this was something very different from what was how the people other Revivalist used to conduct their meetings simple the Charles Finney thought there's not much time left for people to accept The gospel so during this time we see Finney develop the what came to be known as New measures. So he allowed women to pray in a mixed public meeting He also adopted the Methodist culture Where the anxious bench it was called as they put a pew at the front of the church Where those who felt a special urge About this salvation would sit and he prayed for them He also conducted a Prayer in a colloquial or a common or a Common language where people could easily understand. So most of these new Steps of or new measures that that he took Actually these methods we used many decades before so he opted for them as a new measures in his Ministry so we see that this new measure became very popularized among the Among the congregation or among the people to whom he was ministering And it was very adaptable for the people to Accept it. So we see that the zenith of Finney's evangelistic career was reached at Rochester, New York where he preached of about 98 sermons between September 10 1830 to March 6 1831 So what happened during this moment?  So what happened we see the city the people were getting transformed How the shopkeepers closed their businesses? we see People were urged by themself to post a notice On their shops or on the the front of their business urging people the customers who came to the shop They they put up a notice requesting the customers to come and attend Finney's meetings so this and also The the society there was a transformation among the people where there was a report From the police saying that the town increased by 2 3rd during the revival time and also the crime Dropped by 2 3rd over the same period So in Rochester he began an almost continuous Revival in New York City as minister of the second free Presbyterian Church he soon became You know that it was called as a Presbyterianism Because of the large people being accepted and there was a change in their life and change in the society and there was a Transformation among the people so what happened in 1834 he moved into a huge Broadway tabernacle which was built by the Members who followed or by the by the Presbyterians the followers of his teaching they built a huge Tabernacle and they offered him to preach from that so he stayed there not for a very long time He could only be there for a year Because he felt his call was to move from one place to the other and reach out people for God So what he did he left that tabernacle He raised another leader pastor Oberlin Okay, so he hand over this Broadway tabernacle or the congregation church to this pastor and he went about teaching and preaching into other places so as he He started ministering to the people in different places He was also appointed as a president of Presbyterian Church Which gave him a new forum to advocate social reforms and each championed in that way And he also Abolished the slavery moment which was there during this time so it's few of the books He wrote variety of books and articles and some of it was his lectures on revivals of religion a Manual on how to lead revival Which was inspired by thousands of preachers to more consciously manage their revival meeting And he also wrote his lectures on the systematic theology teach Yeah, so some of them who followed the teaching of Finney Charles Finney and read through his books and articles and away blessed where Delight L. Moody or DL Moody Billy Sunday and Billy Graham So chance Finney is called to be the father of modern revivalism According to the sum of the historians and he also paved a path for the later Evangelist like these three people like DL Moody, Billy Sunday and Billy Graham And we see many other revivalist being blessed and raised through these lectures on revivals of Religion so with that we will move on to the next person Edward Irene Let me change the slide. Oh It was on Charles Finney. Sorry Okay, some of the quote that the one of the famous quote of Charles Finney was in the presence of God is in the church If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in If the presence of God is not in the church The world will draw the church out. So I thought this quote may Help us. I just took it and there's another quote Willingness to deny self is the very spirit of Christ It is the heart and soul of his gospel Yeah, but that we will move on to the next person Edward I ring So Edward Irving 1792 to 1834 his lifespan was so he began his ministry in 1822 as a Presbyterian minister of the Church of Scotland again, we see another lawyer into the Revival so we he led a small congregation of about 50 people to grow about Thousand members within a month. So that's something only God can do it. So in 1827 we see after studying the books of book of acts Iron began to challenge people to believe that what happened in acts was to be the norm for their day So manifestations of tongues prophecy and healing began to take place in his ministry So Edward encouraged lay people to exercise the gifts while this was not supported by the Presbytery and church While he believed in the deity of Christ His preaching emphasizing the humanity of Christ being empowered by the spirit to live a Sinless life and do mighty works got him branded as a heretic So his ordination was removed and he was expelled from the London Presbytery and Scottish Church So Edward relocated and continued his work where people were freely exercise the gifts of the spirit some of it genuinely and some of Seeking to replicate the book of acts. So some way following Genuine and some way trying to replicate it. So without proper leadership and mature guidance It began to go into different direction and self Self-disintegrated So Edward himself ran into problem with his health and he died at a very young age of 42 So we see Edward Irwin Should be commanded for his Desire and willingness to pursue the outpouring and manifestation of the spirit But it was not in that way. So he ended up in a Abruptly his ministry was ended very abruptly at a very young age So with that we will move on to the next person George Muller But before we could move in I would like to share about Edward Irwin See every step that you take in ministry You need to seek God seek for his approval. See what is happening in your season around you And we should not come up with our own theology when we are not led by God You see things getting diverted And you will not be able to fulfill what God has called you to be So we need to be mindful have God's approval in every step every area and go with what the word of God says Go slow go with what the word of God says if you need help Take help from the leaders or available around you in the season in the place where you are Okay, so with that we will move on to the next person George Muller Okay, so George Muller a man of prayer and a great faith I'm sure each of us in the class would have known heard or read about him isn't it? So George Muller was originally a thief Do you all know that So through his conversion God Made Muller a man of great faith and It's a complete a radical change we see in his life, isn't it? It just goes to show that God can use anyone for his glory to be made known even a thief So you and I today if you think if God cannot change us looking at our past looking at our background He's a great example To know like what is impossible by God? God can call anyone No matter how big your dream could be No matter how impossible it could be for you for you to change yourself But when you just submit Into the hand of God if God can change your murderer like Moses If God can change a thief like George Muller, I'm sure God can change you and me, isn't it? So with that, we will move on to George Muller's early life We see Muller was born in Persia modern-day German Um, I think I didn't pronounce it correctly. It's speed Russia. How do we pronounce it pressure? modern-day Germany in 1805 and his father was a tax collector and George would often steal from his father Not only was a young Muller a thief He was also a gambler and a Drunkard, you know along with One habit you will have another few more added to it So we see according to Muller in 1819. That means he was about 14 year old Muller on the night His mom died Was out and he was out with his friends playing cards At a traveling and spent much of the next day drinking So Muller was unaware of his mother's death Muller's parents did not know the lord either So they had no way to train him in the way of a christian life or a christian life The young George Muller was sent to a hail at the age of 20 to study to become a Lutheran minister Not because he was a believer But so he could have a comfortable lifestyle Which most of them do it right. I mean even in these days we see if there's a rebel child at home You know the best way that they do is they send the child to a bible college to get themselves disciplined or If they're not able to have a comfortable life or they lost their parents and there's no one to take care They again send the child to a seminary But then something the similar way that George Muller was forced and was sent into uh, you know, uh Into a Lutheran minister and what happened despite studying to become a minister Muller continued in his reckless lifestyle He would often steal from his friends And Muller and a group of his friends went to Switzerland for a summer through Muller Forging their father's signature So what happened here? There was a life changing incident that took place for Muller year. So one day Beta one of Muller's friend invited him to a bible study that met on Saturday nights So Muller had never experienced anything like what happened there So the students prayed on their knees sang songs and listened to a message written by your minister So Muller said to Beta on the way home All we have seen on our journey to Switzerland and all our former pleasures Are as nothing in comparison with what happened this evening. So that very weak Muller got on his knees and committed his life to Christ What happened later? So after you make a decision or a choice to follow Christ The young Muller decided to become a missionary, but his father disapproved Keeping in mind his past So the young Muller decided to not take any of his father's money for tuition Muller prayed for a tuition to be provided for so one day some American professor came in to ask If he would be their translator So when Muller found out it would Pay more than the normal going grade for the translators. He agreed So his first prayer request for tuition fee was Answered with that after college Muller went to train with the london missionary society to become a missionary of the Jews So he became ill during this training and had to move to another part of the country for a time in order to get better So while he was away He became convinced that the imminent return of Christ was soon So after getting better Muller returned back to London where he quit his training He wanted to start this missionary work right away. So he started preaching in Bristol While there Muller could not help but notice the orphans out on the street He had to do something for them. So he started praying and asking God What could you do? Well Muller came up with an idea of starting an orphanage So many in his congregation mocked at him telling him it was not what they did in England So Muller wanted to prove them wrong and showed them With God being his support so you he could start an orphanage So as he prayed for funds and workers to be provided for People started donating to the orphanage and offering to help in the orphanage In various ways. You see when it when the vision or the vision is given by God God sends divine helpers God provides Divinely supernaturally to get his vision birthed through the man whom he desired to fulfill it you see George Muller the rest of his life as a man of prayer So in 1836 we see that Muller opened his first orphanage on Wilson Street at first There were no children and then he realized he and his wife by now he's been married Okay, I had not prayed for children. So once they started praying children came pouring him Muller had to build multiple orphanages because of the demand Because of the demand that came upon so eventually there were too many children on Wilson Street And the neighbors started complaining about the children So mullen knew it was time to start looking for a new place So as usually prayed for a future home for the orphanage and the orphanage Eventually moved to hashley down where there was more room for the children and for the orphans to grow So what happened one morning the children were very hungry and had forgotten ready for school And they all have gotten ready to school and they sat down at the table and blessed the food that was to come Look at the faith that they had And all of a sudden There was a knock on the door And when they opened they saw a baker He told Muller that he could not sleep and he decided to bake bread for the children And the next moment there was another knock on the door And when they opened they saw a milkman His truck had a Breakdown near his orphanage and he wanted to give all the milk to the orphan Of an age before the milk could get spoiled It was just enough food for the orphans that you know they could have for that day So this is how god started providing in this ministry above and beyond that they could ask And on march 9th 1989 Muller was leading a prayer meeting at the church where he pastored at in Bristol the next day march 10th Muller died at the age of 92 where a whole procession of orphans who had been impacted by his work and church members You know continued there they followed the coffin and Uh the church members took over this mission what George Muller started and they Continue to preach in the church and also continue to take care of the orphanage And after George dramatic conversion he became yes He was known as a man of prayer and he knew that god would provide for all his needs and even the Often needs that is even for his children's need and though the story of Muller We can learn to preserve Are preserved through the prayer and that god will answer our prayer in this timing This is one of the court that you know George Muller believed in even though your prayer is not answered in time But believe in god that every prayer that you rise You know will be answered by god in time So we need to carry this belief because he was known as a man of prayer and man of faith Whatever he prayed for god answered him and he also believed that whatever The children in the orphanage prayed for god was also answering to their prayer So this is how uh god birthed a mission a vision into him and It was fulfilled by god himself through him So just like how god fulfilled the call that was there upon George Muller all of us in the class, okay Each of us may have a call a purpose That has been birthed by god himself Let's look to god because he only because the god Given dream a god given purpose can only be fulfilled by god himself He has the strength he has the providence So we need to look at him and pray This is what god is expecting from you and me look at him and raise a prayer a god kind of prayer So that god could fulfill his vision and mission in and through us and And he will send the divine help us divine providence into our life And in the right season, he will help us to step out and step up for his ministry Till then we need to walk and hold on and faith. Okay So as we studied on George Muller Edward Irwin Charles Finney and we also looked into the third grade awakening So let's look up to god the god is a god of revival The god who can do great and mighty things in and through us. So can we look at god and ask god Here I am here. I'm submitting myself Let that spark Turn into a flame Let this flame not be quenched But then burn into me Till I fulfill what you have called in and through me The revival is not stopped Revivalists are been birthed how by hearing the word of god Hearing and hearing the word of god depending on his spirit. The lord moves in and through us today as we As we studied on the various revivalist how god can do great and mighty things in and through us Can we look at god and ask god use me? Let me not be satisfied in the place where I am Help me to step up and step out for you because god's work cannot wait We need to remember this friends God's work cannot wait each one of us in this class have been called for different purpose by god The god who called us is faithful The god who called you and me is with us He is holding our right hand and leading us All we need to need to do is just step up and step out like Abraham And you will see the steps unfolding You'll see your vision clear you see a call being becoming clear vision becoming clear That's how the lord leads us and guides us Can I request to a feral to just unmute and pray and ask god god Move in us.  Let there be a vision Being made clear so that we can step out and do greater things for you Can I ask any two of them to unmute and pray? Father we come to the name of Jesus Oh, we thank you for calling us. Oh, we thank you for the great purpose that is behind us Jesus God you left the 91 19 Chase this We have led us this far The dream that was planned by you can be fulfilled only by Help us to not to look into our weaknesses But to always fix our eyes on you to always fix our eyes on the cross and the blood that you poured for us And to move forward in this life with a great card in Jesus You need to say this word help us to create revival all around this world god Take us in you since Jesus Help us to always hold on to your word And to help us to give you the first prayer to help us to give your word the first prayer to Jesus Help us not to be distracted with anything that is happening on this world But to always follow the pattern that you have got Lord I pray for each and every one right here each and every one of my classmates The root of the spirit Be brought out of them Jesus that the whole spirit filled them each and every day That is always focused on the gifts of this prayer in the In your word above everything Jesus be with them and guide them each and every one of this here We have gathered in your name has a great purpose and a great plan behind Jesus Help us to never give up on that help us to always look into you Jesus As we step out into ministry that is not be distracted by anything But only help us to fix our eyes only on you Jesus only on spreading your gospel Jesus you be with us you be our strength Just like how David calls towards you God you're my strength God you're an ever-present Help for us in trouble Jesus Thank you for being our ever-present help. Thank you for being with us That the desire that is burning in our hearts today keep burning more and more on these upcoming days Jesus As we are reading about these great leaders who have created a great revival and a great awakening among the people as we read about it Help us to be inspired and to be just like them and to do greater things than these people Jesus Lead us and why does we need you Jesus?  We're amazing and we love you I pray for each and every one to be with us and In Jesus name Amen, amen One more person can I request One more person who have not read before Brother Lupega or Super Shish. Would you like to pray? Hello Let's try Let's pray father Father in heaven, we thank you for this wonderful day. We thank you for the gift of life that you've given us lord Also, thank you for the pastor for the lessons. She has given us about the sad awakening lord We know she's doing this great work so that we can multiply and do more of the kingdom's workload Lord, I also pray that Let my friends and I in the class not be just here as of the word but also do as of the word We do pray in the name of the father the son the Holy Spirit and everybody say Amen Amen Thank you so much for joining in to this class So see y'all in next week next class during the week. Thank you. Good. Bless. Thank you. Good. Bless


Now, co-dominance is a situation where both alleles are expressed fully. So in heterozygote, again, you have a unique phenotype. So co-dominance, you have a unique phenotype, but both alleles are expressed. I have two examples of this. First of all, you have blood type. You can have type A blood, you can have type B blood, or you can have type AB blood. This is an example of co-dominance because both A and B are dominant alleles, and if you have type AB blood, you've got both of those alleles present, you have a different phenotype that is the full expression of both of those alleles. Another example of this is a cow color. There's a cow, what, variety? Here's my pretty little white cow. Here's my pretty little red cow.  And if you look closely, it's the expression of red cow bits and white cow bits. And that is an example of co-dominance. Now blood type, my blood type example, is also an example of the next one. So let's stick with the blood type here example. It is co-dominant, but it also has multiple alleles. And let's look closer at the genetic situation with blood typing.


In this paper, the authors proposed a novel approach called fusion pillars to fuse multi-sensor data, lidar and camera, for unmanned system applications. The approach consists of three branches, a point-based branch, a voxel-based branch, and an image-based branch. Two modules were designed to enhance the voxel-wise features in the pseudo-image, the set abstraction self, SAS, fusion module and the pseudo-view cross, PVC, fusion module. By considering the relationship between the point-wise and voxel-wise features, the SAS fusion module self-fused the point-based branch and the voxel-based branch to enhance the spatial information of the pseudo-image. Additionally, the PVC fusion module introduced the RGB information as auxiliary information and cross-fused the pseudo-image and RGB image of different scales to supplement the color information of the pseudo-image. Experiments showed that fusion pillars outperformed other state-of-the-art approaches, achieving better detection accuracy for small objects. This article was authored by Jing Zhang, Da Su, Yu Zongli, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the instant match reaction. Crystal Palace nil, Everton nil, the Premier League has begun and it ended with a frustrating nil nil draw for Everton. I feel personally two points dropped, it was an opportunity to get off to a really good start and we blew it in my opinion. Marco Silva went with a team that was probably to be expected, obviously no Alex Awobi hadn't signed in time and he probably wouldn't have been fitting off anyway. Obviously John Fili Baman was on the bench when we started with Morgan Slydle and In Me Field. Everton started off quite well, quite brightly, I had a chance within a minute in Guilfe Sigurd, I didn't think I had a very good game at all. Running on to it with nobody around him, he only has to put his foot through the ball and he's tried to side foot it into the floor and put it wide and it was a golden opportunity to get the season off to a great start. I know the conditions weren't great in terms of the wind but it was a really good opportunity. From then on Everton had a couple of other shames called me and I feel she would have scored as well after good work from Bernard. There were some lovely passages of play with Everton where we cut them open and it was just a final ball wasn't great and I suppose that's only to be expected on day one. But we dominated the first half, finished the first half at 70% possession, you know, Christopher Palace had very little, he looked at the threat through set plays really because they're a big side. Max Meyer had a good opportunity just before half time at Sheamus Cullman got an important blocking but other than that Palace were very limited and you know luck, fortunately I suppose for us, Wilson Har was only on the bench. We lost Andre Gomes before half time with a foot injury, a couple of poor tackles by Milla Huyovic and MacArthur on a minute it took it's toll and he had to go off and was replaced by Jean-Philippe Baman. And then we came over the second half and even though I thought we played really well in the first or well in the first I really might be stretching it. The final third was lacking, the final third just not sharp enough and it's what we've seen in pre-season to be honest, dominating a lot of the ball but without having that cutting edge. We came out in the second half, though Christopher Palace were on it a little bit more, they took advantage of us losing Andre Gomes, he looked a little bit more lively but Everton still dictating the play. And I suppose we went close through with a charles and left footed effort which just skinned the outside of the post.  He got booked for punching the pitch three times because he felt it wasn't a free kick and it wasn't a free kick he won the ball. I threw himself to the floor and then Smidlin's reaction deserved the book and it was embarrassing. And then when he got sent off for it, I've got no complaints with it, it was a red card, you're being booked. You go into the back of someone knowing that that's a book and I don't have any complaints with it.  Nine files today and a couple of notes, he wants John Moss should have sent him off as well. But as far as the Snidlin things concerned I've got no problem with it, it was a red card, two silly bookings. Palace coming to it, Zahar came on and it was one of those, it's written for him isn't it, to win it. And they had a couple of good opportunities. IU before he went off for Zahar forced a good save in Jordan Pickford who hadn't had anything to do up to that point, made a good save at his legs and then Max Meyer really should have scored. Played in lovely reverse ball by things Zahar, it was he'd given the reverse ball and he should have scored. Pickford again blocked him with his legs. Other than that palace offered nothing even with 10 men, they offered very little. And from our perspective when we got into these scenarios even near the end we wasted it. So a thrust right in the afternoon, not much to take from it other than defensively in general we were signed. You know the true opportunities we gave away, your Batman got caught in possession. He's gone off the lane very quickly that you haven't got time to look up and you've got to accept that people are on your back. And the other one we gave away from a free kick, a quick free kick, we give the ball away instead of just settling down and you know they move the ball well. But we get off it, we get off from Cellars Park with a point. There's a clean sheet as well and we have to aim now for those three points next week against Wofford and we have to move on from that. You know, defensively okay, final third, not great and it's something we've got to work on this week. But we look forward to having Moise Keane who came on with 20 minutes left to show a couple of decent touches but we couldn't really get him in and obviously he's young fully Batman. It'll be another week's training for him and Alex O'Wobee will be involved next week as well and Siddi-Bee may be in the squad as well next week. So we've got to improve, there's no doubt about it but we haven't lost 10 men for 25 men or for 20 minutes away at Crystal Palace in Get A Point. I suppose that's all you've got to take from me. I understand people are frustrated but we drawn the game now and we didn't lose it and that's it. There my thoughts, check out Perth's maths reaction. His might be slightly different from I'm off the waiting street. 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Hi my name is Finula and I'm voting yes for marriage equality on May 22nd. I hope you'll vote with me. As a straight woman I have the choice whether I want to get married or not and I don't. I don't care, can't see myself being with anyone ever. My best friend, he doesn't have that luxury and it kills me. He was my very first best friend, he was my first kiss, we're still very good best friends. He's walked me into adulthood basically and I would just love to see him someday in the future, be as content within himself and with the person he loves as I will be maybe someday. So yeah that's why I'm voting yes. I think you should too.


I feel nothing for the moment and then a little bit later it might be five minutes, it might be a day, it might be a year, suddenly they all hit me later on. And that is fantastically useful for dealing with crisis situations. I don't get overwhelmed. I'm assuming that's sarcasm. No, no, no. It's actually really useful because when something big happens then I can stay focused and I can do what I need to do and I can make good decisions. And then it's not till later that all of the emotions come up and it gets overwhelming. Some people get scared or feel unsafe or something and they just lose their ability to think clearly. Whereas for me, I can usually keep my ability to stay conscious and think clearly a lot longer than most people. The downside is that it makes it harder to react instantly and emotionally.


In 1992, a controversial paper was published suggesting sperm counts have been dropping around the world over the last 50 years. However, this remains a matter of debate. It's notoriously difficult to determine sperm counts in a general population for an obvious reason. If you go ask men for samples, less than 1 in 3 tend to agree to participate. Finally, though, a study of tens of thousands of men studied over a 17-year period, and they did indeed find a significant decline in sperm concentration, about a 30% drop, as well as a drop in the percentage of normal-looking sperm. Most look normal in the 90s, but more recently, that's dropped to less than half. This may constitute a serious public health warning. Semen quality may actually be related to life expectancy. In a study of more than 40,000 men visiting a sperm lab during a 40-year period, they found a decrease in mortality associated with increasing semen quality, suggesting that semen quality may therefore be a fundamental biomarker of overall male health. So declining sperm counts could be like canary in the coal mine, for us, and future generations. Even when defective sperm are capable of fertilizing an egg, creating a child with abnormal sperm may have serious implications for that child's future health. What role may diet play?  But not all fat was bad. Higher intakes of omega-3s were associated with more favorable sperm shape. This may help explain why researchers at UCLA were able to improve sperm vitality movement and shape by giving men about 18 walnuts a day for 12 weeks. Though walnuts, as a whole food, have more than just omega-3s, but lots of other important micronutrients. In a study of men aged 22 through 80, older men who ate diets containing lots of antioxidants and micronutrients, for example vitamin C, had the genetic integrity of sperm from much younger men. The antioxidants we eat not only end up in our semen, but are concentrated there. The amount of vitamin C ends up nearly 10 times more concentrated in our testicles than the rest of our bodies. Why? Because sperm are highly susceptible to damage induced by free radicals, and accumulating evidence suggests that this oxidative stress plays an important role in male infertility. So we should eat lots of antioxidants, which is to say, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Why not just take antioxidant pills? Because in pill form, antioxidants may have unexpected adverse effects. Some more fruits and vegetables, and perhaps less meat and dairy, which is where most saturated fat is found. But the Harvard data were considered preliminary. They studied fewer than 100 men, but it was the best we had until now. The higher the saturated fat intake, the lower the sperm count, up to a 65% reduction in total sperm count. These findings are of potential great public interest, because changes in diet over the past decades may be part of the explanation for the recently reported high frequency of subnormal human sperm counts. In any case, the current findings suggest that adapting dietary intake towards eating less saturated fat may be beneficial for both general and reproductive health.


Good afternoon pastor David. Hi John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with pastor David unfiltered Pastor today, I wanted to ask you and it's kind of a two-folded question First I want to ask you. Is there a weakness in the church today with empty-headed Christianity? The reason why I'm asking this is that yesterday you and I had a conversation regarding John Lennon and I had asked you Because you had shared with me that John Lennon was open to potentially here in the gospel before he was assassinated and I was thinking and asking you How would John respond to today's Christian who's maybe based their learning on testimonies? haven't really heard the gospel and So has the church been weakened by empty by becoming empty-headed Well, you know, obviously I In our conversation. I was sharing with you how that I had read That for a short portion of his life just a short portion that John Lennon had Gone around saying things like praise Jesus and all and Whether or not that was an absolute truth. I still really don't know it. I just had heard that I had just read that And so because I had read that it kind of left an impression on me I also had a friend of mine who at one time had shared with me that He had been asked to come and speak to John that John apparently had some questions about Christianity and apparently would have been open to having a conversation with my friend but as as things worked out John was assassinated and My friend never got an opportunity To go and share with him and so we were talking about that yesterday John as you recall and and you would ask me What do I think that John would think about? Christianity as it is presented today and I said that I don't know how could I know but I Would lean in the direction of him more than likely Not finding it to be the way it's being presented today something intellectually satisfying John Lennon Was a was a genius you can't write the kinds of songs and put together the kind of music on such an enormous basis if you don't have some incredible talent to do so and So very often these artists and these poets songwriters have a depth of life experience and Things that relate to those things that are creative and Are not necessarily prone towards simply feeling something but Oftentimes it seems to me though they have deep deep capacity to express feeling through emotions of songs and paintings and all There's a creative edge within them that also looks for a reason behind those things and it's Kind of a genius and so in our conversation. I was speaking to you about that just kind of like Conversing as to whether or not today's kind of Christianity would reach people with that intellectual bent and that creativity and and who knows for sure I I do know this I do know that The way sometimes we see Christianity presented there's really no There's no depth to it. It really seems to be In many cases based on how I feel and this is my testimony of how I feel in the early days of Calvary Chapel back 50 plus years ago now when I first got saved and became involved in in the Christian life We had songs. They were creative the songs were also based on scripture And so we learned what we're called scripture songs and you know Rejoice in the Lord all way and again. I say rejoice, you know things like that.  These are the early songs that I was raised In the Christian faith and and they were not Based towards how I felt about God or what I thought about God They were scripture songs that we memorized and so my first experience in Calvary Chapel ministry and my first experience as Christian was based on the foundation of scripture and Testimonies, you know, we we have them and we thank God for them, but I wasn't saved by somebody's testimony I wasn't saved by some of these emotional stories or or things that pertain to his or her prior life I was saved by the God's promises in scripture And so getting back to to people like John and all and perhaps even to artists of today I believe that what is going to save a person will always be The capacity to present scripture in a way that actually applies to their present condition Not simply identifying with what they feel or how they feel or going so far as to try and say oh, I've been there And I've done that I mean in some ways that is effective when you're when you're sharing with somebody and all of that, you know Presenting to them that you you can understand where they're coming from, but I believe that It's it's deeper than that It's a matter of listening to the Spirit and speaking and then and then sharing something that that perhaps the Lord lays on your heart That is applicable to them like the woman at the well when Jesus is there and He says give me a drink and and she begins to speak to him concerning drink and thirst and you know Jesus said I can give you living water, which is what she needed. There was a dryness in her soul and So he applied the the personal experience of her She's thirsty with the personal need of hers, which would be one of that never stops Flowing in her life, right? And so you can use scripture to help people to see those things so again in our conversation about John and others like him, but yesterday we spoke of John and you had asked me do do I think that that people that John today would would go for what he sees on TV and what Proports to be Christianity and again, I wouldn't know but I would wonder whether or not a man with his intellectual capacity and his is his breath of imagination whether simple stories and testimony and Some of what we see the outlandish behavior of some people on TV today who who play organ music as they yell at the people and No, I don't know that something like that would have appealed to something like him and I and I'm pretty sure that something like that Doesn't really appeal with any substantial transformation power to the unbeliever today. I mean, it's interesting that Like sheep like shepherd like sheep Maybe I did say that right The shepherd the sheep will always be in tune with the shepherd So a lot of it's coming from what's coming from the pulp. It's today Well, the sheep will follow the shepherd's voice, you know, and sometimes the shepherd may lead them in the wrong direction I was sharing with you just a little while ago about how sheep need a shepherd because if there is no shepherd They have a tendency of wandering on their own and how that some sheep 1500 of them by the way We're in a pasture and and the shepherds were busy making themselves their lunch and didn't didn't really pay attention to the sheep as they wandered away and they wandered to the edge of a cliff and Before the shepherds became aware of it over 400 had fallen to their death Then the others had went over I had gone over the cliff also But they survived because they they were landing on the dead bodies of those 400 sheep And and I was sharing with you how that the the sheep will follow the shepherd's voice But the good shepherd is going to lead them into Pastures that are abundant in waters that will Quench their thirst and that's because the good shepherd loves the sheep cares for the sheep and the sheep will follow his voice So a shepherd who's a good shepherd always takes him to the living water always takes him to the place of abundance and and you can only do that through pointing him to the true shepherd Jesus and By laying his life down for the sheep Meaning that he's sacrificial loving and caring for them and all of that and so yeah Sheep have a tendency of wandering and so they need a shepherd and the shepherd had better be a true one Or else those sheep are going to end up injured And so the only way to really feed them is to give them the water of life and and the bread of life Yeah, you're just as you mentioned you're sharing and you showed me something yesterday about a Particular person that was the organ was playing and they're shouting and and I was thinking how does that transform lives? You know, how does that even somebody who just has an average intelligence? Oh, how does that transform lives? It doesn't and then you you know Then you come across the John Lennon's or the any of the stars today How does that transform doesn't transform lives and there are a lot of people who want the Emotionality of it who feel that you're supposed to with all these very jump up and shout and and all of that And and and it's sad John. I thank God that I had a true shepherd I thank God I had Pastor Chuck Smith as my shepherd who always pointed me and everybody else To the word of God and to walk in the in the spirit of God and and and and taunt us not to Exalt the flesh and to exhibit fleshliness As we walked with the spirit in the spirit with the Lord So yeah, I just think that we need to know the word of God and to present the word of God. That's the key Amen pastor, thank you so much for Shedding some light on this and and want to invite you guys to come on out tomorrow evening at 7 p.m Which is our Wednesday evening service and you're taking us through Titus chapter 2 verses 10 following to the conclusion I like the name of it What I call it ministry 101 is that what you that may be I'm thinking that actually no John that that's gonna be Sunday.  Thank you for tuning in and we'll see you on Thursday Wednesday Wednesday, and then I've been Thursday and then Sunday God bless you guys. Thank you