If you are here, thank you, Justin, sound guys. They kind of go unnoticed sometimes, but without them, none of this would happen. So thank you, Justin, coming to my rescue. We are so excited that you're here with us this morning. And our prayer, even though we get to shop, we get to eat, which is always really fun for us ladies. Our prayer, and I know the team's prayer, is that we would all leave change today, right? We wanna leave here with the joy and the peace that God says he gives to us. He is our Emmanuel, God with us. So I'm excited that we can have that opportunity. You're already loved by Jesus right now, because I remember when he said to someone who was frantically running around with to-do lists, and like we get to do all the things, the baking and shopping and decorating at Christmas time, and we get busy and anxious about many things. And Jesus said to sweet Martha, Martha, Martha, you worry about so many things. Mary has chosen the better thing. And so you have done that this morning. You have chosen. I know we all have so many things on our to-do list, so many things that we could be doing right now, but you have chosen to come and just sit at our father's feet to hear from him and to receive his blessing and his peace. So I wanna just have you learn a little bit about me. If you don't know, my name is Michelle Sullivan, and I'm gonna have Justin do a little. I have four boys married to the love of my life, and this is our crew here. This was us in Mexico doing some four wheeling. I flipped my four wheeling thing about 20 minutes after this photo was taken. So by some miracle, grace of God, I am still here intact, but we did have a lot of fun on that trip. And my third son, Tanner, I'm gonna talk a little bit about today. He got married about two years ago and blessed me with the piece de resistance. Is she so cute? I know I have a slight bias, but I mean, look at that baby. She is just adorable.  They're like in LA. Yeah, China, right here. So it's a little difficult. I am a FaceTime GG. So we do lots of Skyping, and that's kind of the way I have to love on her, but that's been a little precious Natalie, so in love with her. So that's just a little nugget about me, but I wanna talk a little bit this morning about Mary and we wanna just, I just wanna look at her story centered around the birth of Jesus so that we could kind of dive into a little bit and learn from her because we always wanna learn from those who have walked difficult trails because I think they're the ones that can teach us the most. So over 2,000 years ago in a town called Nazareth, a young girl named Mary had her life change in the blink of an eye. And perhaps some of you have had that happen as well. The blink of an eye, perhaps it's a diagnosis or the betrayal of a spouse or something that's gone on with a child. We all have these things that can all of a sudden happen, but she chose to just walk and follow after God. So in Luke 1, 28 to 39, I just wanna read right from God's word. And I just feel like this is really the thing to listen to is God's word this morning. Now in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David and the virgin's name was Mary. And coming to her, the angel said, greetings favored one, the Lord is with you. But she was greatly perplexed at what he said and kept carefully considering what kind of greeting this was. The angel then said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.  He will be great and eminent and will be called the son of the most high and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom, there will be no end. Praise God, no end. Mary said to the angel, how will this be since I am a virgin and have had no intimacy with a man? Then the angel replied to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you like a cloud. For that reason, the holy child shall be called the son of God. And listen, even your relative Elizabeth also has conceived a son in her old age and she who was called Baron is now in her sixth month. For with God, nothing is or ever shall be impossible. Mary said, I am the Lord's servant and I am willing to do whatever he wants. May everything you said come true and then the angel disappeared. So I wanna look at a couple of things about Mary. So first of all, it says in God's word that she was perplexed. So she was pondering this thing that was happening to her and Webster's tells us that perplexed means completely baffled, very puzzled, confused, bewildered. Have you ever felt that way? I know I have. Why is this happening to me God? Why are these things coming into my life? Maybe the, like I mentioned, the test came back positive and you thought for sure everything was gonna be okay. Maybe your husband lost his job. Maybe your child was diagnosed with autism and he were like, I did everything. I ate well and I didn't take the cough medicine and I did all the right things. Why do I have this? Why is my husband ill? Why am I facing these things in my life? So we're a good company if any of you are feeling that right now. And if you're not feeling that right now, just wait because there are things that are gonna come to all of us. So praise God if you're in a season where all things are pretty good, we're like duck in the halls and presents are wrapped under the tree but we all will face things if you're not currently facing them. So she was perplexed. She was also afraid. It's okay to be afraid. Sometimes we have fear. Now God says do not be anxious but sometimes we are just going to be afraid and we are told that the angel said to her do not be afraid. So obviously she was. I don't think the angel is gonna waste that little sermon to say do not be afraid if she wasn't. So she was afraid. Our sweet Mary was afraid. But we have found favor with God just like Mary. We read in Ephesians one verse six.  What a wonderful promise that is. We are favored. That's, it's just so precious to know that the creator of the universe, our Emmanuel, God with us. He's not just with us at Christmas time as we sing Christmas carols. God, the living God, the creator of the universe is with us. That comforts me. As I've gone through things in my life, trials that I was perplexed by and fearful of. I just, I clung on to that knowing that God is with me and he is with you as well. Now I don't want you to think that I have it all together because I don't. So I'm gonna give you a little, a brief little thumbnail sketch about myself. I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. I'm a Canuck A. And if you, any fellow Canucks out there, I know we have a few in the back. But we had a home that was not centered around Christ. We didn't go to church. Every once in a while, there was a prayer said at Thanksgiving or Christmas. I guess we were only thankful for food at Christmas. But I didn't really know that there really was a God. I believe the stuff I was taught in school. At one point I did believe that we, well we started from this little sludge and turned into a frog and then an ape and then man. Cause I just believed what I was taught. And so I went through life without knowing that I had a God I could turn to. And I, part of my testimony, I was molested by a cousin during my early formative years, also by a man that I babysat for. And so I didn't know where to turn with that, with that pain or that type of trial. So I did what many of us do is I turned to alcohol. That was sort of my numbing thing. I think if I was to lay on the couch of a psychiatrist, you'd say, well, you were numbing your pain, dear. Like, oh, I guess I was. But I was following after the world's way to try to numb that pain. When I was 18, I was attending the University of British Columbia and some friends said, hey, let's go up to Whistler Mountain for spring break. And I was all about that because we could go and party up at the Apre ski bars. I was underage, but I had a fake ID that I got from the back of a national inquirer. There was a little ad that said, do you need a fake ID? Yes, yes, I do. So I sent away for that little ID and I selected a California driver's license. I don't know, a little prophecy there. And so it came in the mail and this gained me access into these bars. I mean, it was completely fake, but it was laminated, so it must be real. I think that was the thing. So I would show that and I got into that bar that night and I met a man there that he was five years older than me from California, do you see the theme here? And so we danced a little and drank a little and long story short, 18 months later, over the phone he asked me to marry him. Now I had barely really knew him. We lived in different countries for most of the time I knew him and we would talk on the phone. Now this is back in the day, y'all might be too young for this, but our phones used to be attached to a wall. We had to stay in one spot. So we had this relationship and I just honestly just felt good to be wanted. And so when he asked me to marry him, because I didn't know the Lord, it wasn't like Lord, should I follow this man to this unknown country and leave my family and friends and college behind? I was just like, woohoo, Disneyland beaches!  So I said yes and got married. Well, it's funny how your baggage travels with you. I ended up going from a dysfunctional home life in Canada to a dysfunctional home life in California. And I basically numbed my same pains and hurts with alcohol and drugs and we were the neighbors you probably didn't want to live next to in that beginning. Meanwhile, back in Canada, my dad was also, he was raised without knowing the Lord and he was a bit of a partier himself and he was invited to a Billy Graham crusade and he got saved. And he started to witness to me and my husband at the time and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it because to me, all I knew about being saved is that I was gonna be holding up signs at a football game and I don't know, the Christians I knew were just a little bit weird.  So he kept sending letters and focused on the family cassette tapes, again, back in the day and I just kept them at arm's length. Didn't want to hear it. Well, four years later, we decided that what our troubled marriage needed was a baby because that fixes everything, right? So we decided to have a little baby, little Steven who's now 30 and tall and hairy. Used to be this like little sweet little baby but so my dad flew down from Canada to visit his first little grandson which those of you in the grandparent club isn't it just the most amazing thing? So he flew down and I really got to see a change in my dad. My dad had a peace and a joy about him that I wanted. I didn't know what it would mean. I asked him some questions, do I need a membership card? Do I need to be visited by an angel? My dad had done some multi-level marketing stuff to help provide for the family and so it was like Melaleuca and Amway and Jewel Way and to me this was just Jesus' way and I was gonna need a downline and a buy-in and no, he just shared with me, just need to believe.   Jesus rose again, conquered death and he doesn't ask us to do anything to earn his love. He gave himself for us to give us his love and his joy and his peace. So in my little kitchen in Corona, California, 30 years ago last week, I just had like a really cool 30th birthday party, my dad led me to the Lord in my little kitchen. Yes. Now my pops is in the back row back there. I'm gonna try not to cry but an honored guest so if we could just give my dad a hand. Love you dad. So I was now in what is called an unequally-yoked marriage and it was really difficult to want to raise our boys in a home where we honored God and serve God.  I believe that God knew that Michelle needed that difficult marriage to keep me on my face, to keep me in God's word. Because it was in those difficult years that I really got to know my God. I got to know that he will use all things for good, that with him nothing is impossible, that he is for me. So who can be against me? Now, my husband on the other hand wanted nothing to do with Jesus and a long story, very short, after 25 years of marriage and several discoveries that he'd been unfaithful but then he would say he was sorry and there was forgiveness and attempted restoration but I found out that he was pretty much a Tiger Woods. And by that I don't mean he was a good golfer, you know what I'm saying. So we got divorced.   I know why he hates divorce. My parents went through a divorce and now I've been through a divorce and it's horrible. That's why God hates it. But sometimes it's out of our control and I felt like God finally said okay, I'm lifting my daughter up and out of this and God makes all things new. He restores the years the locusts have eaten and the Lord brought me an amazing man about eight years ago, almost to the day. We were celebrating on 12, 11, 10. Sean Sullivan walked into my life and we've been married for seven years and he's in the back too. Love you, baby. We snuck some men in. We didn't make them wear a dress. We let them like to stay in the back row guys.   So as I mentioned, we have the four boys. Tanner's number the third one. When he was two months old, he had a bad DPT shot. So don't panic.   It was just about 25% of the right side of his brain and we didn't know what that would mean. The doctors were telling us, we don't know if he'll walk or talk. We don't know if he'll count to 10. You'll just kinda have to see how it goes. And so it's like, okay, well, Lord, you tell me that you'll use all things for good. And so I trusted in that. Well, when Tanner was seven, he was developing pretty normally. He was always about a year or two behind in the typical development stages but at seven years old, he started having seizures and he was having about 10 grand mal seizures a day. So that was a trial. I was perplexed and a little bit afraid. And so I sought my Lord and thankfully I had developed that relationship with God where I knew I could turn to his word and I could turn to him and I could have joy and peace in the trial. Not necessarily a happiness about it, but a joy and a peace in it. So we took Tanner to the doctors, a really cool God story that led us to this one particular doctor at UCLA. And this doctor suggested that if we were to have a surgery done on Tanner and just cut out the right half of his brain, we might be able to stop the seizures. Like, hmm, okay. But if the seizures are gone and half his brain is gone, what are we left with? Well, we don't really know for sure. He may lose his vision, he may lose the ability to walk and talk, but he also might be fine. Well, we just don't know. We need to see after the surgery. So I was definitely puzzled and perplexed and wondering, God, what is happening? How do I make such a decision? Because I had to make the decision whether or not to have the surgery. So we know that we have a God that we can trust, but we have to know him, right? If I hadn't spent time in his word to know that he will give me a peace beyond all understanding, then what do I hold on to?  And so you're standing in line at Starbucks telling someone about, yeah, we're going away, but we don't have anyone to watch our place or our kids.  I'll watch your house. I'll take care of your plants.  Like, no, don't know you. But what if you're in line and Connie or Marie's there and they're like, I'll watch your kids for you. You're like, yes, okay, woo, talk them into that one because you know them. So we have to know our God in order to be able to trust him. And that means getting in his word. You know, if we were to have decided to come here, we picked up my parents in Palm Springs yesterday to come out and if I said to my husband, cause he's like, we need to stop and get gas. Oh no, we don't have time. We gotta go. I really don't wanna be late. We wouldn't get very far. And I think sometimes in our crazy world, we think we don't have time for this, but this is what will get us to where we wanna go. This is what will give us the peace and the joy. We can't say we don't have time. The enemy wants us out of this book.  I mean, it's like 10 different things. Oh, the laundry that's like in the washer needs to go in the dryer. Oh, I forgot to respond to that email. Oh, I need to mail that card. But if I wanna sit down to watch like America's Got Talent, I can sit for two hours and nothing comes to mind. And if something does come to mind, I'm like, I'll do it later cause I wanna watch this. I wanna see him sing. So just know that we do, we fight an enemy who wants us out of this. He doesn't want us coming to functions like this. We have to just say no to the enemy and yes to the Lord and get our noses in his word. That is where we will find the peace and the joy. He is the alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end and he wants to know you. He wants to know me so that we can have the joy and the peace through no matter what trials we're going through. The situation that we were faced with with Tanner was what if, what if we do the surgery and he can't walk or talk? But I had to just know that God had a plan. And it reminds me of the time when there was this young man born blind in God's word. And in the book of John the Disciples asked Jesus, Jesus, who sinned? This man or his parents that he was born blind. And Jesus replied, neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed. So with something going on in your life where the works of God could be displayed, it might feel difficult, you might feel perplexed or afraid, but God will use it. He loves us no matter what, he loves us no matter how we react to the trial, but we have the opportunity to display his glory as we hold on to him through the trial. Satan schemes daily to discourage us and to make us feel defeated. He ponders you, the enemy knows what will get Michelle discouraged. So he goes after me and he tries to pick the things that he knows will discourage me. And so if I just say, get behind me Satan, I stand with the cross before me, the blood of Christ on me, I can do all things through Christ. And that's what we need to do. We just need to say no to the Satan schemes and trust that God has a plan. He is the one that will take the shadows that are in your world now and let you shine brightly. We can have that sparkle. I know many of you here this morning you're going through difficult things. And I'm not just trying to say like, put on a happy face and light a candle and you're gonna feel just fine. But I do promise that our God's promises are true. And he says he will give us joy and peace in the midst of the most difficult of trials. I love the message translation sometimes for reading just a little snippet of scripture. My husband calls it the Dr. Seuss version. But sometimes it's kind of fun to read a familiar passage. And so this is from Matthew 5, 14 to 16. Here's another way to put it.  God is not a secret to be kept. We are going public with this. As public as a city on a hill, if I made you lightbearers do you think I'm gonna hide you under a bucket? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand, shine. Keep open house, be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up to God, this generous Father in heaven. So God wants to use our trials no matter what it is we're facing. He knows exactly what's going on in your life and He will allow you to have that joy and peace. Billy Graham's daughter, Anne Graham Lott, so I just adore, I just love her teaching. And she wrote a little devotion. I'm talking about some of the trials we might go through. And she starts off with 1 Peter 4, 19. Those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful creator and continue to do good. Then she writes, if our kids always behave and our boss is always pleased with us and our home is always orderly and our bodies always feel good and our husbands are always loving and precious to us and we are patient and kind and thoughtful and happy and loving. Others shrug because they're capable of being that way too. On the other hand, if we have a splitting headache, the kids are screaming, the phone is ringing, chaos abounds and we do have a difficult marriage, a difficult diagnosis, a difficult situation. Yet we are still patient, kind, thoughtful, happy and loving. The world sits up and takes notice and others see Jesus revealed in us. That's the opportunity that we have. Now, like I said, God is still gonna love you unconditionally even if you don't shine through the trial. We don't have to work to earn God's love. But there are some promises that we attain because we trust in him.  He wants to have you be that jewel. So what does a quiet time look like? What does it look like to, like as they say, to get in God's word? And maybe you're here this morning, you've never gotten in the word or, and I know there's a lot of Christianese language but getting in the word just means reading your Bible. And a lot of times my quiet time will look like I'll just, I'll open up the Bible, I'll praise God for who he is, talk to him as a friend. You don't have to use flowery language. In fact, he prefers us to just talk to him as though he's an abba father. He's our daddy's lap we can crawl up into and he will speak to us. So there's a place for praise, confession. Lord forgive me for that thought I had this morning. Forgive me for those words I said. Just cleanse your heart. And then I will, sometimes I don't know where to turn. Do you ever have that happen? You're like, I don't even know where to turn. I've got my brain, I have so much going on. I don't know where to go. So I'll just go something to the psalm of the day. You know, it's the second. Go to psalm two, go to Proverbs two. If it's the 16th, go to psalm 16 or add 30 to it and go to psalm 46. And it's amazing how when I do that, there's oftentimes I will hear from God. And we're just, the scripture will jump off the page and I know that he is speaking to me. God, the creator of the universe speaks to us personally. Don't let the enemy trick you into thinking that he's not speaking to you because he is. He adores you and he wants to change you. Isaiah 26.3 says, you will keep in perfect peace. Those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you. So during this trial with Tanner, I was just simply asked to trust God. And I know that God does allow bad things to happen. It's not all the enemy whirling around. Sometimes God does allow things in our lives. Lamentations three says, who is he who speaks and it comes to pass if the Lord has not authorized and commanded it. Is it not out of the mouth of the most high that both calamities and good things come? So I just had to trust that the Lord was going to be there for me. He tells me that if I commit my way to the Lord, trust in him that he will make my righteousness shine. He will be there for me waiting patiently. And so I prayed, God, what do I do? How do I make this decision? And the Lord had me turn to Psalm 18 and he gave me such a comfort that I am your rock. I am your fortress. I will walk you through this, just trust in me. And so October 25th came around.  So we brought him into the room, they prepped him and then they had to wheel him away. And I just felt so much like with Abraham and Isaac where I was just putting him up, trusting God with the outcome. I didn't know what it would mean, but I knew that my God knew and then my God would walk me through whatever the outcome was. And I had a peace beyond all understanding. You know, when it talks in the word about beyond all understanding, well, I experienced that because as a mom, I should have been a wreck. And I had friends of mine saying like, how are you so calm and peaceful? And I just could just point to Jesus. And so he will give us a peace beyond all understanding. So the operation was nine hours long. We kept getting little updates as things would go along.  And it's like, I don't need all the details. You can leave a few of them out.  It's like, oh, his personal effects, I suppose, but I'm like, okay, don't really need all of this stuff right now. But the Lord did continue to give us a peace. Tanner prior to the surgery for a couple of years, this was back when Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jordan were the big stars and they were bald. And Tanner wanted to be bald. Tanner has really good hair. So this mama did not let him be bald. But when you have brain surgery, you get to be bald. So we kind of played that up a little bit with him that you know, you get to be bald and he knew what was happening. I don't know if in his little eight-year-old mind he understood all that was going on, but he just knew he didn't want to have the seizures anymore. So they tell us that he's in recovery and that we would just have to wait an hour or two before we could go see him. Well, I'm a little bit of a persistent mama and I don't want to wait one to two hours. So I just said, is there any way that I could just get snuck in there to see him? And so I think this nurse realized because we'd had this really great relationship through this journey that I wasn't gonna freak out. So she snuck me down in there, into the bowels of the UCLA Children's Hospital and there was all these machines making noises and people moaning and it's kind of a scary place.  His head all wrapped in bandages. Seemed like there was tubes coming out of every part of his body. And he looked like he was in a coma and I kind of forgot to ask what to expect after the surgery. So I did just figure he's gonna be in a coma for a while. So I go over next to him and I put my hand on his little hand and his eyes started to flutter. And I'm like, and by this time the nurse had walked out so I'm alone with him and he starts to pull his oxygen mask off. So I'm like, oh no, oh no, what's happening? And he's like, mom, he said my name, he said my name. Mom, can you get me a mirror so I can see if I'm really bald? One sentence told this mama everything. He knew me, he had memory.  So that was a good thing. He still had his funny little sense of humor intact. That is Ephesians 3.20, beyond all understanding what God had done with this child. So Tanner survived the surgery. He was sitting in his third grade classroom four weeks after surgery taking a spelling test and he got an A. Yes, amazing, beyond all understanding. Now Tanner went on to not only continue to do well in school, he graduated high school, he played varsity tennis in high school. Now I have to tell you that the one part of Tanner that his left side is weaker because the whole right half of his brain is gone. And so his left side is a little bit like he has cerebral palsy, so his arm's a little weak. So this is how he plays tennis. He tucks his racket under his arm, chucks the ball really high in the air, grabs his racket and then whoosh. And half the people get aced by him because they're just like, what just happened? So he won many of his matches by acing kids who were just like, oh gosh, what just went on here? So he played varsity tennis. Then he decides when he's 18, he's gonna move to China to learn Mandarin. So now he speaks fluent Mandarin. Yes, again, has half a brain. While he was there, he had an appendicitis attack, which you would think is a bad thing, right? I remember getting the call. He's been rushed to surgery, has appendicitis attack. God, you're gonna use all things for good. Praise you, Jesus. I'm trusting you. He's by himself. He doesn't even speak the language at this point. He met a nurse who attended him after that surgery. She is currently my daughter-in-law who I actually had the privilege of leading to the Lord just about a month or two before he proposed to her and they are the parents of that precious little baby. So yes, praise God. Ephesians 3.20, God is able to do beyond what I could ever have asked or imagined. So when you came in today, I hope you were all handed a little crinkly bag that has a puzzle piece in it that you're probably wondering what in the world is this thing? I would love it if you could all take it out. Okay, so on this side, it's dark and messy. And we go through stuff in our lives where things feel dark. That situation that you're going through with your child, with your parent, with your sibling, it can feel dark. But right in the middle of that darkness, right in the middle of that messiness, is a little mustard seed. Because God tells us with the faith of a mustard seed, we can move mountains. We just have to trust Him with it. We have to take whatever that pain is. So I just pray that you would even right now just think of what is it that's going on in your life right now that is dark. It's hard. It's messy. You're perplexed. You're even maybe a little bit afraid. What do I do with that Lord? Just cry out to Him. Say, God, I want to use this darkness for your glory. And then He will use it. It will be on the flip side, the treasure. We store treasures in heaven. Heaven, treasures for us in heaven that are there for eternity as we use our trials for Him. Now it takes a decision. We have to decide, okay Lord, I don't like this necessarily. This is hard, but God use this for your glory. I pray that you would take this situation, God. Take this difficulty. And I have the faith of a mustard seed. It's very, very tiny. And isn't that a great thing? There's a Mercy Me has a really neat song that says it's a good thing that all I need is a little faith because a little faith is all I've got. So sometimes we can just have a little faith, but that is what God will use. He can take what is dark and use it for good and He will use it for glory. So I'm gonna just pray right now before I close. I just want us all to, I just feel like the Holy Spirit wants us to do this right now. I just want you to take what it is in your mind. Only you know it.  Decide, God, I'm gonna take this faith. I'm gonna commit this trial to you for your glory. So you just bow with me.   Father, help to just sand off the rough edges in all of us Lord.  Thank you that we don't do this in our own strength because we cannot. But God, we have you in us, the power of the resurrection in us to be used for your glory. So Father, I pray that whatever these precious sisters of mine are in here with Lord, the burdens they carry, the weight they are under God, that they will take that burden and set it at your feet.  So God, we trust these trials and these situations to you Lord, knowing that you are an amazing God who takes our deepest, darkest hurts and turns them into treasures. We love you and praise you Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. So, Justin, do we have video or did that? I think so. Okay, all right. Well, we may or may not see this. This is up to the Lord right now in IT. So if we don't, we know it's that he doesn't want us to do it, but I wanna play Tanner again through just how God works, was asked to be a part of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. They were doing, they chose five people in the entire country to do a little segment on in their museum about amazing people, because he is amazing. And so, we may get to show you the little snippet from the museum. Most of my friends don't believe me when I tell them I have half a brain, especially when I beat them, but it's true. We first noticed something was different with Tanner when he was about three or four months. He had had a bad DPT shot at two months old which caused a stroke. He lost about 25% of the right side of his brain and that was causing this weakness on his left side. Doctors told us to just continue with physical therapy. They didn't really know how he would progress. It's just towards the end of first grade started having seizures. At one point he was having about 10 grand mal seizures a day. So we went out to UCLA. They ran a battery of tests to see if he was a candidate for what they explained to us was called a hemisphere ectomy. A hemisphere ectomy is when you have a whole brain and then you take away one hemisphere. So for Tanner it was to remove the right hemisphere because that is where all the seizure activity was and he has not had a seizure since. Post-surgery, Tanner was incredible. The best thing for him was just to engage in life and stay active. My left side is basically damaged so I'm not able to turn my wrist. The way I serve is I'll throw it in my left arm and I'll throw out the ball. I'll grab the racket, serve it, get it in. Sometimes I'll ace people. Me having half the brain, I think it has nothing to do with disability or handicap. It's a challenge, but it would be even more of a challenge if you saw it's seizures. The idea that something is difficult and you just don't quit, that to me, that's fantastic for anybody. If I just describe Tanner, I just am in awe of him every day. Yay, God. God is amazing. So in closing, I'm just gonna read this poem that the Lord gave me a year or so ago just about bringing sparkle back. If you just need to have that sparkle come back where you can just ask God, God, use me. Use me for your glory. Our life should be a vessel used to shine forth our Savior's light. Let's offer our lives to him right now. Choose to walk by faith, not sight. Like the moon reflects the sun, which gives off that lunar glow, choose to reflect the Father's son so that the world will know that though we are far from perfect and make mistakes along the way, God is doing a work, changing us each and every day. His Holy Spirit dwelling within, wanting to correct and lead and guide, we simply have to obey and trust. In him, we must abide. God tells us to share his love with every tongue, tribe and nation. We are called to be the salt and light to the entire population. But if we have lost our saltiness, how will we cause them to thirst? And if they don't thirst and turn to him, their eternal fate is cursed. Let's decide today to be that salt and light, women with God's sparkle, spreading God's love everywhere we go, hoping to share the gospel. It takes strong determination to follow God's narrow trail. He will never leave you, nor forsake you. His love will never fail. God will always give you the strength you need, just determined to never quit.  The enemy does slink around looking for someone to devour. Be that woman after God's own heart and Satan will slink away and cower. God will allow things in our life that tests us and makes us grow. Keep trusting in him and he'll lead you along and show you which way to go. Even when bad news comes and life seems to throw you a curve or the strains and pressures of this world have everyone on your last nerve, determined to reflect God's Son in every thought and deed, like providing a cup of water to an enemy in need. This is how a dying world will notice we shine God's light. When we offer love, not hate, an act of kindness instead of a fight. God tells us to turn from our own wicked way so he can heal our land. Let's start today to turn the other cheek and offer a helping hand. Let's respect our husbands, love our kids and honor our fathers and mothers. Follow God's lead and do what he says when we want to know how to treat others. Stop the hiss of gossip and the drinking of too much wine. Don't have sex before marriage and stop all the arguing and lying. End the swearing and cursing and using God's name in vain. Instead, meditate on his word and pray in Jesus' name. This is how we win a lost world to know that God sent his only Son who lived and died and rose again. He is the Holy One. We are called to be that beacon lighting the way to know our amazing Lord, showing the world that there was a reason that his precious blood was poured. You might be surprised by who is peering into your own little world today to see who is this Jesus that you have decided to obey. Live each moment knowing that your life is making a mark. It's all in choosing to do right, not wrong, living a life set apart. Don't beat yourself up if changes are due. We are all a work in progress. He offers forgiveness at the foot of the cross where his blood will give you access. He'll give you the peace and strength and help you to become your very best. He's taken your sin and cast them as far as the east is from the west. We are daughters of the king of kings. And in him, there's nothing we lack. Let's make today the day that we start to bring sparkle back. So I just want to, in closing, if there's anyone here this morning who like me, 30 years ago, thought that it was all about religion. And my dad was the one who shared with me it's about relationship. It's not about having to read your Bible, having to go to church, having to do this to-do list that we think God requires. It's about putting our trust in him, confessing with their mouth that we believe that he is God, that he died for us, rose again, and we can have him in our lives. He can be the one who gives you that joy and peace that you need. So I'm just gonna ask you to bow your heads right now. And if any of you out there decide, I want to give my heart to the Lord, I've done religion, I want relationship. I pray that you would just pray with me right now. Heavenly Father, God, we come before you, Lord, knowing that the angels rejoice as a sinner turns to you, Lord. And Father, I pray if there's anyone in this room who has done religion is tired of trying to somehow rummage up enough strength or joy to get through a day that she might decide right now, Lord, to just give herself to the joy giver, the strength provider, our Emmanuel, God with us. And by just confessing with her mouth, believing in her heart that you died for her sin, that she would just ask you to come into her life that she wants to repent, to turn from the things she knows are not good in her life and turn to you and just trust you with all that you have for her, Lord, to use the darkness and the mess for your glory. And so Father, we stand rejoicing with these new sisters, knowing that this will be an extra special Christmas as we know that hearts were changed. And Lord, for those of us who already know you, God, I pray that this Christmas would be an amazing time for us to sparkle for you, to be the salt and the light that you call us to, Lord, that when we are with family and friends who perhaps do get on our last nerve, or with people who think differently than us, who act differently, who we know don't know you, Lord, help us to be you to them. Let them see you in us, in our smile, in our eyes, in the joy and the way we react to them. Father, we love you. We praise you. You're so worthy of our praise and honor, God. And we stand with a standing ovation to you, God, in awe of what you do, how you use us cracked pots and these vessels that you have made and we desire to be used for your glory. We love you and praise you, God. Merry Christmas. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right, thank you.


Originally centered on LGBT history and literary theory, the field has expanded to include the academic study of issues raised in biology, sociology, anthropology, the history of science, philosophy, psychology, sexology, political science, ethics, and others fields by an examination of the identity, lives, history, and perception of queer people. Mary Ann LeFrance, the former chair of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University, says, �Now we�re asking not just what causes homosexuality, what causes heterosexuality, and why is sexuality so central in some people�s perspective?� Queer studies is not the same as queer theory, which is an analytical viewpoint within queer studies centered on literary studies and philosophy that challenges the puritatively socially constructed categories of sexual identity.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping one box of 2022 Top Sterling for Brandon A. So good luck Brandon. Let's pull something huge out of this. I'm really excited. I want to see an Icons maybe. Maybe a knob or a um that name plate. Something big. See what we got. I want all your guys's guesses too. We've got 1980s MLB All Stars and retired numbers. So let's see. Interesting. What are you guys thinking here? Do 80s All Stars first. Gonna see a glove relic. That'd be cool. Schmidt would be nice. Empty box. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Seiko Griffey. We've got nice 18 of 25. Bo Jackson. That's it. I have not seen a bow out of this yet. Nice bow nose right there. That's so cool. On card. On the Sterling season 1989 bow. Heck yeah. Nice bow. That's so cool. That's such a nice card Brandon. Congrats on that one man. Nice bow man. That's so cool. Dude I love Sterling so much. Love Sterling. All right see what we got in this one. Retired numbers. Bow nose. Heck yeah Luca. See we've got 20 of 25. Jim Tomey on the retired numbers. 47 home runs in 2003. I think these are like legitimately two guys I've not seen out of here yet. 20 of 25 on the Tomey. Look at the fills. Nice one there. That's so cool. So cool. Nice hits there. Congrats on both of those Brandon. Those are two really cool pieces right there. That's going to do it for your break though Brandon. Again congrats on the hits and we'll get those right out to you. Thanks again man.


My home is in Stockholm and Rome, in Tabiano Castello, in Sarajevo, in Brussels. Home is where you feel you belong. We're united in diversity. It's about learning to respect the diversity, to be inclusive, to give opportunities to people. I was elected twice. We are preference by the people of Sweden, being Italian. This is for me the best example of feeling home. Bringing together the North and the South of Europe is quite a commitment, quite a challenge. You know, it's the Mediterranean sun and the Nordic lights. It's a constant work to promote empathy, understanding, respect, dialogue. And this is the house of the people of Europe, and here it's happening. Maybe the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, a great jubilee, can be an opportunity to remind our own history. Two centuries of wars, 60 years of peace. Through tolerance, democracy, freedom, human rights, respecting human dignity. Also of those who are different. I'm a migrant, I'm different, but through dialogue, understanding, empathy, respect of each other, we can build peace and freedom for everyone. Change the narrative. Maybe that's what we should do with the Treaty of Rome celebration. Change the narrative. A migrant is not a threat, a burden. A migrant is a benefit, an asset, a human being. If we are inclusive, I'm a migrant, proud to be.


This is FDA Patient Safety News. In this edition, a new drug to treat adults with diabetes, a warning on using gabatryl in patients who don't have epilepsy, patient injuries from certain enclosed beds, and avoiding fenergan in children under two. These stories and more on this edition of FDA Patient Safety News. Welcome to the program for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. I'm Anita Rainer. Let's start with a medical product FDA recently approved. FDA recently approved a new injectable drug to help control blood sugar in adult patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It's called simlan, or premlan-tide acetate, and it's manufactured by amylin pharmaceuticals. Simlan is used in addition to insulin to help reduce post-prandial blood sugar levels in patients who can't achieve adequate control despite optimal insulin therapy. Tighter control of blood sugar may help to reduce the risk of long-term renal and cardiovascular and ocular events in these patients. Now patients with type 2 diabetes already have drugs other than insulin to help control their blood sugar. That's right. For patients with type 1, however, simlan will be the only therapy in addition to insulin that is available. But FDA and the manufacturer do have some safety concerns about this drug. They do, and they're mainly concerned with the way the drug is going to be used and prescribed. The first concern is that the drug may increase the risk of hypoglycemia. This risk is greatest in type 1 diabetics and in those with gastroparesis. The second concern is that patients might mix simlan with insulin in the same syringe, and that can alter the activity of the insulin. And the third concern is that the drug might be used inappropriately in patient populations where the risk-benefit profile hasn't been established. So it sounds like educating prescribers and patients is key to reducing the risk. It is, and that's why the FDA is going to require that a medication guide be distributed with each prescription of simlan to the patient, explaining how the drug is to be used and the possible risks involved. The labeling for physicians is going to specify that simlan is not to be used in patients with gastroparesis or those allergic to any of the drug's ingredients. HeartSign Technologies is recalling some of its Samaritan automatic external defibrillators. The affected devices may shut down before delivering a shock, which could delay treatment or even lead to death of a viable patient. We've received several user complaints that the device shut down during an attempted charge, but no injuries have been reported to date. This recall includes models SAM001, 002, and 003, with certain serial numbers within the range of 1270 to 2324. The HeartSign Samaritan PAD automatic external defibrillator is not affected by this recall. HeartSign Technologies notified its distributors and customers by letter on February 14, 2005, and the company is providing a software upgrade for the affected devices. If you have a device within this serial number range, but have not yet received an upgrade kit, you should contact the company as soon as possible to see if your product is affected and to get the kit. Go to our website for details on how to contact the company. FDA is requiring that a new bolded warning be added to the labeling for gabatril or tyagabine, an anti-epileptic drug that's approved as adjunctive therapy in treating partial seizures. The warning is being issued because of reports that gabatril has been associated with seizures in more than 30 patients who received it for conditions other than epilepsy. Now, you just said conditions other than epilepsy, but gabatril is only approved for treating epilepsy. Well, that's right, but in fact, gabatril has been used off-label for treating other conditions, mainly psychiatric conditions and also for chronic pain, and it's in those conditions where these seizures have occurred. Well, this seems like it could be a little confusing. Here we have a drug that's intended to control seizures in patients with epilepsy, but when it's used in other patients, it might actually be causing seizures. It is confusing, and in fact, the FDA advisory notes that some physicians have actually increased the dose of gabatril when they've observed seizures in their patients without epilepsy, taking the drug. They presumably did this because they weren't aware that it was the gabatril that might be causing the seizures, and they may have thought that since the drug is an anti-epileptic, it might actually control the seizures in these other patients. It sounds like this is a case where informing the practitioners is really key to the solution. It is a key, and in fact, the manufacturer has agreed to play an active role in doing that. In addition to changing the labeling, they've agreed to undertake an educational campaign for both physicians and patients, making people aware of the risks and discouraging off-label use. So what's the bottom line for practitioners here? The bottom line for practitioners is to understand that using gabatril for conditions other than epilepsy constitutes an off-label use, and what that means is that FDA has not approved the drug for these other uses. The advisory says that if a practitioner does decide to use a drug off-label, the risk of seizures should be explained to the patient. Here's a warning about certain enclosed beds that could be hazardous to patients. They're made by Veil Products, Incorporated, of Toledo, Ohio. On March 22nd, the FDA and the Justice Department initiated a seizure of all Veil Model 500, 1,000, and 2,000 enclosed bed systems because patients can become entrapped in the beds and suffocate. These canopy-like padded beds are used for at-risk patients with cognitive impairment, unpredictable behavior, spasms, seizures, and other disorders. They're advertised as an alternative to using a physical restraint or medication to reduce falls and prevent wandering. About 30 adverse events, including at least seven deaths, have occurred from entrapments, falls, and other incidents with these beds. More than half of these events involve children aged 16 and under. FDA recommends that hospitals, nursing homes, and consumers who have a Veil enclosed bed system stop using it immediately and move the patient to an alternate bed. If the only option for the patient is to continue using the Veil bed, FDA currently recommends that users follow these safety precautions that are recommended by Veil. First, use only the mattress recommended by the company. Always leave the side rails in the up position except when moving the patient from the bed. And if the bed has a high-low feature that raises and lowers the entire bed surface, never leave the feature in the high position when the patient is unattended because the patient can become entrapped. The company may take additional steps to address these safety issues. Check our website for additional information and for updates as they become available. FDA recently provided health care practitioners and patients with updated information about the risks and benefits of Crestor or Rasuvastatin calcium, a cholesterol-lowering drug made by AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Crestor, like all other statins, has been associated with rhabdomyolysis. The incidence of this effect is low and the risk of serious muscle damage doesn't appear to be greater for Crestor than for other statins. But as with all statins, the risk of myopathy increases with higher drug levels. So Crestor's labeling has been changed to re-emphasize the risk of myopathy, particularly at the highest approved dose of 40 milligrams. The labeling also stresses the need to consider using lower starting doses in some patients. This may be particularly important when treating Asian Americans since a large pharmacokinetic study found that this group of patients had drug levels about twice as high as a Caucasian control group and that could increase their risk for myopathy. The revised labeling now recommends that the 5 milligram dose of Crestor be considered as the starting dose for Asian Americans and also for others with predisposing factors for myopathy, including patients on cyclosporine and those with severe renal insufficiency. FDA recently issued a public health advisory describing reports of sudden unexplained death in children taking Adderall and Adderall XR, which are used to treat ADHD. Sudden death has been reported in children with underlying cardiac abnormalities who are taking recommended doses of amphetamines, including Adderall and Adderall XR. A very small number of cases of sudden death have been reported in children without cardiac abnormalities who are taking Adderall. At this time, it doesn't appear that the number of sudden deaths in children taking Adderall is greater than the number that would be expected in this population without treatment, but it's possible that patients with underlying heart defects might be especially at risk and so the advisory re-emphasizes the warning in the product labeling that these patients should ordinarily not be treated with Adderall products. The advisory advised healthcare professionals and patients about a potential cancer risk from two topical immunosuppressant products that are used to treat atopic dermatitis or eczema. The drugs are eladil or pymicrolimus and protopic or tachrolimus. The advisory cautioned that these products should only be used as directed and only after other eczema treatments have failed. FDA is also adding a boxed warning for these two products and developing a medication guide for patients. The concern about possible cancer risk is based on information from animal studies, on case reports and a small number of patients and on the drugs mechanism of action. Long term human studies may be needed to determine whether eladil or protopic pose a cancer risk in humans and the extent of the risk if any. In the meantime FDA has several recommendations to help to minimize the risk. First, use eladil and protopic only as second line agents for treatment of eczema in patients who have failed or can't tolerate other prescription treatments. Use eladil and protopic only for short periods of time, not continuously. The long term safety of these drugs is not known. Use the minimum amount of eladil or protopic needed to control the patient's signs and symptoms. In animals, increasing the dose resulted in higher rates of cancer. Don't use these drugs in children and adults with a weakened or compromised immune system. And finally, avoid using these drugs in children younger than two years of age. Eladil and protopic are not approved for this use and the effect of these drugs on the developing immune system in infants and children is not known. The FDA and Wyeth have notified healthcare professionals that Fenergan tablets and suppositories are contraindicated in children under the age of two because the drug could cause fatal respiratory depression. The labeling also warns practitioners to be cautious when using Fenergan in older children. It notes that respiratory depression can also occur in this age group even when the dose has been calculated according to the child's weight. The risk is increased when Fenergan is used concomitantly with other drugs that may cause respiratory depression. The labeling goes on to remind practitioners that anti-imidics such as Fenergan are not recommended for treating uncomplicated vomiting in children. Another reason to avoid using Fenergan in children is that it can cause extra-perimital symptoms that can be mistaken for the CNS signs of diseases such as encephalopathy or RISE syndrome. FDA recently finalized a new rule that's designed to increase the safety of human cells, tissues and cellular and tissue-based products that are used for transplantation. The rule requires that manufacturers of these products recover, process, store, label, package and distribute them in a way that prevents the spread of communicable diseases. You said manufacturer, but that's hard to reconcile with the idea of donated human tissue. Well, the FDA uses the word manufacturer as a sort of umbrella term that encompasses the wide variety of different actions an establishment might take to prepare for use. And many different types of establishments may be involved in the various steps from recovery, donor screening and testing to storage and distribution. If an establishment is involved in any of the steps covered by the new regulation, FDA calls it a manufacturer. So what products are actually covered by the new rule? Well, the new regulations apply to a broad range of products. They include bone, ligaments, skin, corneas and poetic stem cells. They also apply to human heart valve and human dura mater allografts. There weren't human cells and tissues regulated before this? There were some regulations that were in place to help assure the safety of these products, but the new rules apply to a broader range of products and they're more comprehensive. What's the bottom line in all this for the healthcare practitioner? The new requirements will help assure that the tissue and cellular products they use are the safest available. If you use these products, you can help us monitor their safety by reporting any serious or life-threatening adverse reactions in your patients. You can find out how to report on our website. Well, that's all for this edition of FDA Patient Safety News. Remember, you can get more information on all the stories you've seen here today by visiting our website. We also urge you to use the website to report problems you've encountered with medical products. That's how we learn about problems so we can alert others. We'll be back next month with another edition, so watch for us. Until then, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, I'm Mark Barnett. And I'm Anita Rayner. See you next time.


Now in 1893, Wilhelm Wien applied the laws of thermodynamics to light itself, and he showed that if light is in thermal equilibrium with its surroundings, then its frequency spectrum has to shift proportionally with its temperature. In other words, if you have some objects, say an iron bar, and this iron bar is a very good absorber or emitter of light at all frequencies, it's what's called technically a black body, then if you heat that up, it goes hotter and hotter, and it's going to give out radiation, and that radiation is going to get hotter and hotter, and we know that if we heat iron enough, then it will turn red, and that's because if we take the power coming off from the light as a function of frequency, then it's going to have some peak, then for the low frequencies we're going to have the red end of the spectrum, and above that we're going to have the rest of the rainbow, then at a given temperature we're going to see that we're going to get mostly a peak around the red area of the spectrum, and therefore that thing's going to look red. Now as we make this hotter, Winslow says that if we increase the temperature by a certain amount, then we're going to take this frequency pattern and shift it up a little bit, we can see there that what we're going to get is lots of these colours coming through, and if we have lots of these colours, then we tend to get something that's white, and so that's when something gets hotter, it turns to white hot, and when it gets hotter again, we just shift out the frequency once more, and we can see that we're going to get mainly blue, so we're mainly going to get these blue colours, and very little of the rest, and so it's going to be blue hot, and so that's why when you heat up a piece of steel, say, first it goes red, then it goes white, then it goes blue, because we're just shifting up the peak in our distribution there. And then over the turn of the century two things happened in rapid succession. The first is that this calculation was done in a lot more detail by Rayleigh and Sheens, and they got the functional form for this power spectrum, where this is the frequency, this is Boltzmann's constant from thermodynamics, the T is the temperature, and C is the speed of light, and there are two important things to realise from this. The first is that it works very well for the low frequencies, so the Rayleigh-Sheens law got these early frequencies very accurately correct, and the second thing is that it's obviously wrong because it grows without bound. You can see that this frequency, as the frequency goes up, more and more power comes out without bound, and so there's this infinite amount of power coming out at high frequencies, and this is called the ultraviolet catastrophe. And it was called that simply because the Rayleigh-Sheens law was quite accurate for low frequencies like infrared or visible frequencies, but when spectacularly wrong in the ultraviolet regime and above. So despite the fact that the Rayleigh-Sheens law was properly treating thermodynamics and it was properly treating light as an electromagnetic wave, its steadfast refusal to act reasonably, never mind like experimentally observed fact, was extremely frustrating to another person working on the same problem, who was Max Planck. In 1900 he became so frustrated with the difficulty of making his model fit experimental observation that he started making some crazy assumptions. In particular he made one assumption that led him to get the right form for the black body law.


Final Flash Is he gonna wake up level three? No, he's not not a Vegeta has anything to say about it He's not how's it going everybody? Datou doi here back with another run back of the blue Vegeta team and Dragon Ball fighters this time though It doesn't look like it's gonna go so smoothly because we're going against the team of Android 16 Vegeta and Goku black is also one of the few times I've seen a name that goes past the fighters character limit Oh, he's super dashing and the beam. Oh my god. He's reads. All right. This dude's serious This dude's TTV doggy from Japan. All right. He tried to get me again overhead yoncha. Keep it classic. I'm I was so far away Oh, wow, we did jump it. I was I was already getting frustrated that I didn't jump it Classic defense strategy Nice slam down. Oh, he wants the hard knockdown. We might have to sparking already And time really flies when you're getting a destroyed Yep, sparkle. Hey that landed. Thank goodness. That didn't land. We were getting punished Okay, keep it classic. What's the mix? Oh, he wasn't blocking his toe. That was a great sparking. We got so much Value for that right if we get one bar kill. We did all I don't know this dude's damage I was like if we get one bar kill, that was such a great value I said that as I was clicking the button to take away the value That's fine. No go tanks can do the job just fine. Oh, he sparked. He read that pretty well Where's he overhead? No overhead. Oh, I was still I was like I was gonna say I'm still reflected here You can't do this to me. I had half a mind to drop that Also, we got so much bar here.  No, he's not not a Vegeta has anything to say about it.  Let's go. I Told you this team was blue veggie. I don't know why I did that so far away. Oh, it didn't work Didn't cancel into the command grab interesting That's something I saw a lot of Goku black players doing it fine around So then let's just keep spending the bar. I feel no need to do it. Uh, oh nice reflect I don't know why back dash pure panic He has to spend at least another bar here though to get the kill Actually, hold on wait a minute. No, it's okay Okay, we had to correct read it first All right, two characters four bars to go against I can still crack I have in the past Don't even get me started But he oh he underestimated the super dash Yamcha that's gonna do him in for round one Not exactly the easiest round to tell the complete truth The beginning super rough, but again, we spent that early sparking got to turn around totally worth on my end But now's a different story Okay, we never mind we still got it we still got it, baby. All right go tanks. Come on How are we gonna mix this dude up? How about overhead into beam fake it go low? It worked and then I dropped it after the first light So I don't I don't think I can classify that as working We take down that's beautiful. Oh, and we got some blue health to get out Yeah, I'm taking you right back to the corner, dude Nice super dash to get away from the pressure. Ah Raw level three for the in vol frames Okay, I Think we got a spark again How many times is he gonna do it to him? There we go, I saw it coming dude I had to bait it out down heavy was super obvious there because a super dash was super obvious there Over at Yoncha. Please hit. Thank you Man that was scary honestly, okay, this should kill I'm gonna have faith Yep, to be honest. That was an easy one to have faith in again early sparking spent I don't really mind though having to assist is always great. Oh No God we in respect my mix up. Oh, never mind. You don't have to respect anything if you don't want to sir Don't kill me punish dad. Let's go switch. Okay Getting a little hot under the collar there that one sucked No, don't doubt having me Nice clash. I think I could have won that maybe if I mashed Level three hard knockdown. We might lose Yoncha assist here if my defense is enough to snuff We don't have any get a Jeffery cards. Okay, good. It's a good take a tick. Don't get down heavy. Mm-hmm. Oh We dropped it. Oh, how did we let that happen? This dude's just mashing down heavy and we played it in a way where that actually was correct That was not supposed to be an answer Spirit sword, okay, we didn't get killed Even though dead to rights, we probably should have been overhead Let's get some blue health back and a little bit of ghost okey Don't get me wrong mind mind my ghost okey snot up to snuff, but it can be fake and still work Where's the overhead? He's trying that same mix a lot But you got to mix up the mix There's a reflect. Okay. That was That was something else. I Don't think we could kill here honestly Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa take it easy.  I'll give you full props on that one. He got blowed away The option came out like anything for you, sir. He killed me. Oh, it didn't work out like I envisioned That's fine. We always have the wake-up level three option. I say I say that like that's a genuine strap He's gonna bust out the full wake-up level three. Has he used the sparking it? I actually haven't been paying too much attention. Okay, we're good. We're good good on that front. Oh spinning death Spinning death blaster back at it once again What's that man, that's the spinning death blaster. Let's go. Oh All right, we haven't a bit too much fun No time that one properly I'll give it up. Oh wow. We didn't we didn't get him. No, I should have just kept playing the range This dude's trying to come back He's playing it pretty good He did not just collapse we lost we lost my confidence is shattered Drop it Dodger y'all just somehow you're unconscious body. Oh, we lost my confidence is shattered Damn, he played it. Well He didn't superdash. He didn't crack. I did and I will face all the consequences He doesn't have the bar. Please tell me he doesn't have the bar. He just got it. Yeah, oh That's sucked that was sucked to see He just got that bar. I'll give it up. What is that one one? Oh We should have had that one in the bag.  Yeah, there we go dragon rush started off nice and easy We didn't play too poorly that last round for the most part. He's gonna reflect here Or that Oh, how did he escape? Also, why do you come in from that side? That was quite the journey. Oh That was good. That's just can't be upset about that one. I was genuinely impressing Impressive what get back in that corner young man How many times do I got to teach you this lesson?  Ah That was good That was a good sequence for him He just oh no, I got Vegeta. Oh, I got Vegeta. It's so hard.  Oh my god It's not damn that level when sparking heels for quite a chunk I don't know why he did that but I'll take it. He just woke up. It was like I'm clicking buttons God this is a bit of bad game for me. Oh We barely all right, I would like to play offense, but it was my birthday. Okay, let's go Let's go. I'm wasting no time. We're out of sparking breath out of options Let's go You love to see that one happen Let's go. I'm tired of all the vanishing I am sick and tired. Let's go back snap. Oh How do we drop that Couldn't punish that Don't know. No, okay. Oh, no. No, there's a super dash That's the one that's the one there we go.    There we go. Okay. Why the lag though? Why why there? To what oh god you hate to see a game like that and with six frames These games are stressful That's it.  All right guys, unfortunately, we didn't get to finish off that last set But I didn't I didn't want to call the video just yet So we're gonna do one quick first to one with Mikey guns And see how it goes. He's playing hit bar duck and Goku black Um, I'm pretty warmed up at this point. So I'm a lot more confidence confident than usual. I guess Damn the green hit Mary hits miss. Let's get it. All right. We're in already Already not blocking the toes. That's that's a decent amount of damage. We can get a little bit more for sure. Oh Barely missed him with the heavy. I should have gone into something else. Oh Haha, I bet you didn't expect I was gonna get by that one Up or that's super dash for that matter But we all make mistakes switch me out a nice dragon rush. I saw I didn't see it coming I saw it coming gets hit by it Oh Two level ones will finish the deal for blue Vegeta That's how quickly stuff can turn around if you tech wrong and get caught And then get dragon rush for example all very bad things Okay, I'll take Goku black. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa He just he's gone crazy.  Oh, this is the first to what everybody was hoping to see Drop it. Oh god. Wow. What a first to what? Absolutely stuffed from the beginning and then I just made every wrong move Okay, that's fine. We still got one little guy left right respect it respect my mix up Respect me No, I stagger too much. Don't down heavy. Nice dive kick big lag. All right.  I Thought it missed Okay, at least we got a character down. Let's keep the let's keep the party going though. Oh, I forgot I killed him I was like this is taking a while No, okay. I overextended there super bad But we seem to be fine. Should we try fighting Bardock? I think so, right? Why not? overextended again Okay, I don't know what we can do from here or why that was even worth. Oh, let's go That was the only correct choice. That was the only choice that didn't end with me getting splattered How did I not block that? I tried to help hold down back miss it miss it drop it miss it. Oh, that's it I can't believe I lost cuz I didn't hold down back Crazy crazy games, but thank you again to both my opponents for sitting down and playing some games with me I gotta be out though. So if you have a favorite moment, let me know down below in the comments Other than that though while you're down there if you liked these videos and like the channel Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe Helps the channel out immensely and it keeps you up to date on all the videos that I have coming out speaking of videos If you want some more right now, there should be some up on your screen So feel free to give any of those a watch if they catch your eye seriously though I'm Dr. Doya. Thank you so much for watching this video and I'll see you in the next one


Hello and welcome to International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from across the world, our headlines. In Brazil, MST's Kilombo Campo Grande Camp resists eviction in the midst of the pandemic, Haitian teachers protest school reopening, oil workers in Nigeria call for strike over lack of pay, and protests continue against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. We begin with Brazil, where the Kilombo Campo Grande Camp is currently resisting an attempt to eviction, which began early on Wednesday, August 12th. The camp is home to 450 landless families. Dozens of police officers and vehicles were brought in from neighboring cities to carry out the action. While the governor of the state has said yesterday that the eviction would be halted, police forces have been deployed again today. In 1998, 450 landless families occupied land belonging to a mill in the city of Campo de Mayo in the southern part of the Minas Gerai state. The order to repossess the land was issued by a court, despite the fact that the state had declared a situation of public calamity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The order decreased the removal of the homes of the families as well as the structure of the Eduardo Galliano popular school. The families have resolved to stand their ground and are attempting to negotiate to remain in the camp. According to those living in the camp, the police entered the homes yesterday armed with rifles and pistols, breaking down doors and windows. The MST denounced that the day before the eviction, the police surrounded the camp with vehicles and drones, intimidating the families. The camp, the Kilombo Campo Grande, is home to one of the largest coffee cooperatives in the state. The co-cooperative produces 510 metric tons of coffee a year. In today's COVID-19 update, the number of total reported cases globally increased to 20.1 million, with a total number of deaths reaching 747,000. Peru is witnessing a devastating second wave of infections with nearly 7,000 cases being reported every day. New Zealand has also witnessed a second wave of infections 102 days after the spread of the first wave was brought under control. In our in-focus section, we bring your interview with Mateus Falcao or the People's Health Movement of Brazil on the government's flawed response to the pandemic. In the past couple of days, Brazil has overcome the very worrisome milestone of over 100,000 deaths from COVID and over 3 million confirmed cases. So what is the current situation looking like? Has Brazil reached the peak yet? What are infection rates looking like? If you can give us a general kind of scope of what's happening across the country. Yeah, so indeed it's a very hard situation. Brazil is a big country with more than 200 million people. So it would look like a country that would have a lot of cases. But actually it's one of the countries that has more cases per person as well. And it's basically due to bad pandemic handling by the central government. There's no evidence for now that we have reached the peak or that we are close to flatten the curve. It's very important to keep in mind that Brazil is a very big country and it has a lot of difference between regions.  So now we will see some regions in Brazil, especially the big cities where the pandemic has started here. Like Sao Paulo for instance, the city where the pandemic indeed has started. That are close to reach like perhaps the peak or even to flatten the curve. But what we see now is that the pandemic in Brazil is moving towards the countryside part. So we see increasing of case in medium cities and small cities, which is dangerous as well. Because sometimes the city doesn't have a good healthcare infrastructure like the capital of the big cities. And this would be the movement now. It's important to notice as well that each state or municipality in Brazil has such an autonomy. We'll talk about this later I guess. It's an autonomy to create its own policies in terms of pandemic handling. So we see this difference as well across the territory. In our next story, several dozen teachers and activists organized a rally on Monday, August 10th outside the Haitian Ministry of National Education and Professional Training. They were protesting against a decision taken unilaterally by the Minister of Education to reopen schools. The decision was taken without consulting other actors who are crucial to the proper functioning of the education system. They also demanded better working conditions for teachers in Haiti. The National Union of Haitian teachers has been demanding a reasonable salary for the teachers as well. The placards of the protesting teachers read, when will schools in the poor neighborhoods be open, no schools without security. And the issue of public insecurity was central to the demands. According to Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 dashboard, Haiti has 7,743 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 187 deaths. Nigerian oil workers began a three-day strike at the petroleum ministry demanding the payment of three months of wages. The strike was called by members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of the country. Work has been stopped in more than three state agencies under the ministry including the Department of Petroleum Resources. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers accused US oil major Chevron of attempting to sack thousands of Nigerian workers in violation of their contracts. Nigeria gets 90% of the country's foreign exchange from oil exports. These exports have taken a toll due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the fall in crude oil prices during March. The union has threatened to shut down and withdraw from the oil fields if the demands are not met. And finally protests are continuing in Belarus over the alleged rigging in Sunday's election in which President Alexander Lukashenko won his sixth term. The second protestor died on Wednesday, August 12th in clashes between the police and the protesters. The 25-year-old died in police custody in Gomel for unknown reasons. Another person had died earlier in Monday in the capital Minsk during the protests. Thousands of women dressed in white clothes marched on the streets of Minsk on Wednesday denouncing state repression against the protesters. The protests erupted soon after the declaration of the results of presidential elections on Sunday. In the elections, President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, won with 80% votes. His nearest rival, Svetlana Atikonskaya, got around 10% of the votes. Claiming a threat to her life, she has left the country and is currently in Lithuania. Lukashenko has claimed that foreign forces are behind the protests. That's all we have time for today. We will be back tomorrow with major news developments from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch. Thank you for watching!


Write down for a rigid body, we are trying to find the angular momentum. Two cases we will consider like always fixed axis and rotation plus translation. So if the entire rigid body is moving with the same velocity, it is not rotating. It is as good as the point masses moving and you can consider the entire rigid body as if it is a point mass located at the center of mass. So that case we already considered. Now we are considering case number one fixed axis. This is your rigid body. And this rigid body. Stop talking and focus here. This is your rigid body which can rotate about this fixed axis. I want to find out the angular momentum of the entire rigid body with respect to this axis. So I am giving you hints. You derive yourself just like we have derived the kinetic ratio for a rigid body about a fixed axis. Same way please do that. Let us say this is point mass m1 at a perpendicular distance r1 away and angular velocity is omega. This m2 at a perpendicular distance r2 away. Now start doing it. Try doing it your way. Anybody? I omega. I omega. I am about to fix axis into omega. How many of you got that? 2, 3, 4. Alright let us do this. The velocity of m1 in tangential direction will be how much? This velocity will be omega into r1. Right? So the angular momentum of point mass m1 is r1 into m1 omega r1. This will come out to be m1 r1 square omega. Similarly, l2 will come out to be m2 i2 square omega. So if you add it up, you will get total angular momentum. That is why I am putting you there. So if you talk next then what will happen? Something extra should be there right? Then what you will do? You will still talk. You will sit here. Without. Right? What kind of punishments you get in school? Get out of the class. We don't give punishments. Yeah they actually don't give us punishments. What? No punishments? They shouted at us and then that's all. My teacher used to hit me. No punishments. That's so... I will not have any stories to tell. How should I punish? So then you can hit them. I am in a jail. That I will not do to innovate. Embarrassing, sarcastic. Then what? Shouting to the routine thing. Then what else? Stand on the chair with wheels on it. That's just hitting me first time. All stand here and what are you talking? Explain to everyone. Like some joke you are cracking. You are smiling. Come here and let everyone smile. Tell everyone what you are talking. Fine so if you add up all the angular momentum you get that total angular momentum for reject body. When you talk about the total angular momentum of a reject body you use capital L for it. So capital L is summation of r i square times omega. Right? Omega is constant so comes out. This will be equal to i about fixed axis into omega. This is the angular momentum about the fixed axis. It's coming out so simply. Just like kinetic energy came out simply for the fixed axis as half i about the fixed axis into omega square. Angular momentum also comes out very nicely like that. Right? If you differentiate it, what do you get? i f into i alpha which is equal to? Talk. Getting it? Okay. Force is equal to rate at which linear momentum changes. f is equal to dp by dt. That is more basic or f is equal to m into a? It's dp by dt. dp by dt. Even mass can change. There will be a force. v dm by dt is also force. Similarly here it is not just i into d omega by dt. It can be omega into di by dt also. Getting it? Yes. Case number one fixed axis. Now we are trying to derive for the translational axis. Alright? It will be equal to i cm into omega r center of mass cross m into v cm. This is the total angular momentum. Fine? This is about which axis? This is suppose this is the rigid body. It's a rigid body going with v cm like this and let's say angular velocity is omega. I am trying to find out angular momentum of the entire rigid body with respect to this point which is such that this vector is your r cm vector. r cm is a position vector of the center of mass with respect to a point about which you are finding the angular momentum. Usually application of this will not be there. And even if it is there, you can always have momentum with respect to center of mass. This will be how much? With respect to center of mass is how much? i cm. r cm becomes what? Zero. Poichet vector of the center of mass with respect to itself is zero. So moment mass is always. No matter what the rigid body is doing is i cm omega. And sometimes center of mass axis is your fixed axis also. It's a full mathematical derivation of this also. We are not getting into that. That is of no use. Sir, I am always thinking about the z axis if we just take i cm omega. Yes. And it is a vector quantity. It's a vector quantity. Next topic, please write down. Soon we are about to finish this chapter's theory. Then we will solve only numericals. We are towards the end of the theory of this chapter. Write down angular impulse. So I know that torque is equal to rate at which angular momentum changes for a rigid body. It's very similar to force equals to rate at which the linear momentum changes for a point mass. These equations are similar. So torque dt integral is equal to integral of dl which is equal to change in angular momentum. Similarly here, this is what we have already learned. This left hand side is what? This one? Leader impulse denoted by what letter? J. So J vector is equal to change of similarly the angular impulse. There is no letter as such assigned for angular impulse. So it is integral of torque dt is your angular impulse. This is your angular impulse. This is equal to change in the angular momentum. And how do you get angular impulse? There should be torque for a very short span of time. Any doubts here? No doubt that we can take a question on this because this is a little vague, this concept. Impulse from here. This is the impulse J. Impulse is given. We are going to find out velocity of centre of mass and omega. First stationary on the horizontal surface. Mass m and length i. Uniform dot. Can I use impulse is equal to rate of change of linear momentum over here? Sorry, not rate of change of linear momentum over here. Change of linear momentum plus angular momentum. So because it can sound slate and rotate. Whatever you have learned, everything is valid but for the centre of mass. Whatever you have learned with respect to linear impulse and everything is valid with respect to centre of mass. So you can say that J is equal to change of linear momentum which is m into vcm minus 0. vcm is what? Right m. Wait sir, but isn't J equal to m to vcm plus i omega? No. Reading it. You have derived it, right? J is equal to change of linear momentum. If it is a rigid body for the centre of mass. Simple. Okay. Now we have to also apply the angular impulse is equal to change of the, right? Now, is there a fixed axis? No. No fixed axis, right? Alright. So, no it is not fixed. It is placed on the horizontal surface and impulse J is given at the end. It is not fixed. Which point angular impulse is there? Impulse is there with respect to this? No. About that? Yes. About everywhere else there is angular impulse but if you write about any random point writing angular momentum becomes difficult. It will be icm omega plus rcm into mvcm, right? But if you write angular impulse with respect to centre of mass it will be simply equal to icm omega, yes or no? Right? So I will calculate angular momentum with respect to centre of mass. How much that will be? This divided by It will be simply linear impulse into L by 2. How it comes? J is what? Integral of F dT, right? Angular impulse is integral of tau dT. tau is what? F into L by 2 equal to L by 2 integral F dT which is L by 2 into J. J, same thing. Okay? J into L by 2 is equal to the angular momentum change with respect to centre of mass axis. So this will be what? M L square by 12 into omega. So you get omega also here. What do you get? 6 6 6 J by mL. Are you guys comfortable with this concept? Okay. So find out the point which is at rest immediately after impulse is given. No, no, no. Find out location of a point which is at rest immediately after impulse is given. And if you are getting the answer immediately it is wrong. Do something. Write it down. It has to be that N. No, no, no. That N might move back. So what is the condition for there being a point at rest and there being no points at rest? Net velocity is 0 for the point at rest. Velocity is 0, right? For an object with point which is at rest. So it is not necessary that there will be a point at rest. But there is... Sir, it is 1 by 6 from that point. 1 by 6 from? Right hand side or left hand side? It will be that way. Good. That's right. Right of center. Stand up. Me? Yes, center. So are you showing that you have not done it? No, actually not. Every criminal say that I haven't done it. Alright, listen here. So angular velocity is omega like this. Vcm is how? Vcm is like that. So if you take a point over here which is at a distance of let's say d. What will be its total velocity? Omega into d like this. This is omega d plus Vcm. Yes or no? So no point can be at rest over here because the angular component and the linear component they are adding up. Over here though, it will be omega into let's say distance of y. So there is omega y and there will be Vcm. So total velocity will be Vcm minus omega y. So you have to find out a point where Vcm minus omega y becomes 0. So y will be what? Vcm by omega. Omega? Do Vcm by omega. You get l by 6. So a point which is l by 6 on the left hand side will be at rest immediately after collision. Let me collision the impulse. By the way impulse comes off collision only. Getting it, this is slightly tricky concept but it requires little bit of problem practice and then you are fine with that. Not lot of varieties will be there with angular impulse. So you can just solve couple of numericals and you are fine. Alright so this is the angular impulse


Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, 30 years ago today, and you've probably been told this several times, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law public law 480, the Food for Peace program. And 10 years before the signing ceremony, which took place here at the White House, President Eisenhower launched the Normandy invasion. And only the year before the signing ceremony, he was first sworn in as president. It's possible that on July 10, 1954, I thought most of his great moments were behind him. But that was not so as this program proves. For in time, it grew to become one of the greatest humanitarian acts ever performed by one nation for the needy of other nations. I'm delighted to welcome here today Ike Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, who was present when the Food for Peace bill was signed. Welcome. Glad to have you here. Food for Peace is still the largest food aid program in the world. Over the last 30 years, it's delivered almost 653 billion pounds of food to people in over 100 countries. It's helped bring hope and new economic opportunity to more than 1.8 billion people. Statistics are, by their nature, dry. But bear with me for a moment as I give you just a few more with the hope that they haven't been given to you already. Food for Peace has delivered 27,000 tons of food a day to recipient countries for three decades now. And the value of those US farm products exceeds $33 billion, more than $3 million a day over the history of the program. All of those numbers give us a sense of the scope and the magnitude of this program. But its great contribution is that it's an instrument of American compassion, and it also reflects America's practicality. We recognize 30 years ago that people who are hungry are weak allies for freedom. And we recognize, too, that, except in emergencies, handouts don't help. From the beginning, recipient countries paid for a significant part of the food they received. The business-like approach is one of the strengths of this program. We've never attempted to make countries who receive our food become dependent on our aid. In fact, we've used our aid to foster economic development around the world. And that is an important reason why, over the years, many of the nations that have received our aid have eventually become major commercial partners. In the early days of Food for Peace, the major recipient nations were the war-devastated economies of Europe. Italy and Spain, West Germany and Japan. And with time and with the help of Food for Peace, those economies regained their strength. They began to pay cash for American farm commodities. Many of these countries have become our top commercial partners. Aid of our top 10 agricultural markets are former recipients of Food for Peace aid. And Japan is now our number one agricultural market on a cash basis. That has not only been good for the American farmer and the American economy, it's been good for our international relations. Food for Peace has been very important in spreading goodwill and generosity throughout the world. When droughts and flooding from the El Nino weather disturbances destroyed food crops in Peru, Bolivia, and other Latin American countries last year, Food for Peace took the lead in providing emergency relief. And during the 1966 famine in India, roughly 60 million people are estimated to have been sustained for two years by Food for Peace shipments. Today we face a severe and widespread famine in Africa, which is threatening the lives of millions. And once again, Food for Peace is saving lives. We've already agreed to provide over $400 million for food assistance to Africa in this year alone. And I want to announce today a major initiative to help the starving people of America or of Africa, I should say, and the world. It's a new program to help us deliver food more quickly and smoothly to those who suffer the most from the ravages of famine. I will shortly propose legislation to create a $50 million presidential fund allowing us to set aside existing foreign aid resources to meet emergency food aid needs. By pre-positioning food stocks overseas, where the requirements are the greatest, we can respond to emergency situations more rapidly and effectively. I will also propose authority to allow the Food for Peace program to reduce the burden of transportation costs on the most needy countries. And all this is aimed at reducing the loss of life to acute hunger in the third world. Food for Peace has come to embody the spirit of American volunteerism. The federal government has developed a strong partnership with the private sector to help feed malnourished infants and children to help mothers in the age of the disabled. This cooperative effort with private and voluntary organizations includes such agencies as CARE and Catholic Relief Services and many other groups are helping also. In short, the Food for Peace program has become a wonderful means by which a nation of abundance has helped those in need. It's helped us expand agricultural markets, get needy allies back on their feet and help potential allies become strong allies for freedom. Food for Peace has helped to coordinate the charitable impulses of the private sector. It's helped feed the weakest people in the world. And this record of progress is the result of what happened 30 years ago today when Dwight Eisenhower picked up a pen and signed a piece of paper that quietly and with no great attention from the wise, he changed the world. I think Dwight D. Eisenhower would be very proud of what the Food for Peace program has accomplished. I certainly am and I'm proud to be able to mark with you its anniversary today. May Food for Peace continue its great work. May it continue to be administered wisely and may we continue to combat hunger and malnutrition throughout the world. I thank you all again for being here. God bless you and now I'll sign this proclamation which designates today, July 10, 1984, as Food for Peace Day. Mr. President, you still have confidence in Ambassador Wilson? Yes.