It is a time of crisis. Men and material of the United States Army flow into the Republic of Vietnam. The build-up is rapid, for the modern army is characterized by speed and mobility. In the military world, exact numbers are never made common knowledge, but it is soon obvious that the population of American soldiers in Vietnam exceeds that of many American cities. The order to move out comes quickly and thus begins a process that is simply and accurately described as spreading out. Their destinations, while all within the borders of South Vietnam, will range from the capital city Saigon to the thinly populated mountain areas, the swampy Delta lands and the dense isolated jungle country. Soon, many thousands of men in units as large as the division, as small as the squad, are scattered over many thousands of square miles. And yet, it is vitally essential that a chain of command, a continuity of contact be established and maintained. It must be an unbroken, unbreakable chain, for to the soldier in the field, it will serve as a lifeline. This will be the story of that chain, an electronic achievement formally identified as United States Army Communications Vietnam. Today's globe spins within an invisible network built and maintained by the United States of America. It is our defense communication system, DCS, and it allows Washington and the Defense Department constant and immediate contact with armed forces installations all over the world. Strategic in nature, the DCS also overlaps into the tactical communications picture. And of primary importance today, of course, is its tie-in with military communications networks in South Vietnam. In Vietnam, military radio connections with the outside world, links to Bangkok, Okinawa, and the Philippines, are channeled through Army radio systems. These radio systems are located within the hub of all military communications in Vietnam, and that hub, very logically, is Saigon. These antenna towers, a short distance from downtown Saigon, pinpoint Phu Lam, the largest communications complex in the Republic of Vietnam. Its security maintained by both United States and Vietnamese troops, Phu Lam serves all major commands in the Saigon area. High frequency radios, each offering four voice frequency channels, maintain 24-hour contact with overseas and out-of-country stations. Three powerful transmitters, 8,000 watts to the Philippines, 10,000 watts to Bangkok, 30,000 watts to Okinawa, are part of Phu Lam's primary equipment, and additional transmitters stand by for backup. Saigon, the hub of all communications, is still only that, the hub, of equal importance, the wheel, in-country networks, both strategic and tactical, carrying vital telephone and teletype traffic. To create such networks, a terrain abundant with natural obstacles had to be electronically outwitted. To understand the unique communications problem faced in Vietnam, examine this profile view of some Vietnamese terrain, which very roughly approximates that between Saigon and Natrang. In conventional warfare, our forces might have advanced from point A to point B. Once at B, they would control everything behind them. Signal units could set up line of sight radios on mountaintops, and link the two points. But Vietnam is different. We might have units at points A and B, and yet not control the land between. Thus, line of sight radio equipment could not span A to B, because we could not secure that many sites without an excessive investment of men and material. The solution? Here. Signals bounced off the troposphere, by tropospheric scatter radio systems. These systems have greater range than line of sight equipment, and unlike high-frequency radio with its channel limitations, they can offer as many as 72 channels of communication. Long-range tropospheric scatter radio systems are vital components of the backbone network, the integrated wide-band communication system now shown on the map. Their space-spanning capability allows the system to net with Thailand. The backbone system is controlled by the Defense Communications Agency, and operated by the Regional Communications Group of the Strategic Communications Command's First Signal Brigade with the help of contractor technicians. And again, the Saigon area is the focal point. Here at Phu Lam, we can take a close look at one type of radio system used in the backbone network, the Mark 85. Housed in air-conditioned bands, it is officially a mobile tropospheric scatter radio terminal, and there are 85s in several Vietnamese cities. The radio is completely self-contained, with patching facilities, multiplexing components, receivers, transmitters, modulators, amplifiers, and generators. This particular system provides 72 channels of communication. The Mark 85 has two antennas, each a huge billboard, capable of receiving and transmitting. We are now approaching Bong Tao, southeast of Saigon, 30 minutes by air. Below is V.C. Hill, site of another station in the backbone system. Here, the continuing effort to expand army communications capabilities in Vietnam is visually evident. Bong Tao's impressive array of long-range radio equipment links it with Thailand, Saigon, and the logistically vital port of Cam Ranh Bay to the northeast. We are now inside a van, housing a Mark 98 tropospheric scatter radio system. Originally installed by the Air Force, this system, like some other elements of the backbone network, came under army operational control in mid-1966. This shift from Blue to OD gave Stratcom's first signal brigade, formed in April of 1966, to meet the obvious need for central control, responsibility for the bulk of the defense communications system in South Vietnam, along with all army tactical communications networks. Everything, in fact, but the equipment and nets organic to combat units. The 98's 10,000 watt output signals travel to the antennas along lengths of waveguide. The large parabolic dish antennas beam the signals and the many simultaneous channels of information they carry toward the distant stations. Supporting the backbone system and extending the worldwide communications chain toward the tactical level is this in-country network, consisting of medium-range tropospheric scatter radio systems and short-range microwave hops. The full network is not detailed on this map. But we can visit some of its stations and look at the equipment in use. We are now near Dalat, approaching Long Bien Mountain, site of a station in the medium-range network. Here, where nighttime temperatures can drop into the 30's, Track 90 radio systems are on 24-hour duty. Two of the radios offer 48 channels of communication with Play Koo and another maintains a 48-channel link with Saigon. The Track 90 circuits develop an extremely stable tropospheric signal, one that will not vary more than one cycle in 10 million. They can amplify a 50 millions of a watt signal to a full 1,000 watts. Long Bien Mountain, whose total channel capability will soon double, whose tie-ins with other stations will soon increase. From here, we go north. We are now within 100 miles of the 17th parallel, but still some 50 miles south of the northernmost station in the network. Here, within site of the South China Sea is Monkey Mountain, terminal for some of the network's short-range microwave hops. These antennas beam 10-watt signals on a line of site path. They point southwest toward identical units located in Da Nang. 45 channels are available between the two stations, and they are carried by Track 29 radio equipment, which has a maximum range of 30 kilometers. The Da Nang station also has Track 90 equipment, tying it to Chulai, Kuangai, and Wei, the northernmost station in the network. Links to Thailand, Okinawa, and the Philippines. Fixed long-range networks, extensions of the defense communications system, medium-range in-country networks, merging the strategic into the tactical, and the picture is still far from complete. To be added, an extensive array of supporting BHF tactical radio systems. These are mobile, flexible units, blanketing forward areas, ready to move and serve wherever our forces may be operating. One such is the Track 24, and a typical installation can be seen at Na Trang. It is at Na Trang that the trans-oceanic cable enters the country. The Trang station's relay all cable traffic to and from Saigon, and since the city is also the location of one of the two core-level tactical headquarters in Vietnam, it more than qualifies as another important communications hub. Reflector dipole antennas on 45-foot masks mark the location of the Track 24 systems. Shellders house the units, which offer line-of-sight communications over a maximum range of 40 miles. To operators of this smaller, lighter tactical equipment, a 100-degree temperature is the uncomfortable norm. Further into the field, closer to the infantryman, are families of even smaller radios. Forward Division tactical operation centers, some housed in air-delivered pods, include FM radios, transmitting the voice of command. Other communications devices are sheltered only by Canvas. Extremely mobile, they ride on trailers, or in the backs of Jeeps. Each is important, each is a link in the chain, a chain extending unbroken into the hands of the combat soldier. This is one of the Army's long-distance switchboards in Saigon. Their average volume, 15 to 17,000 calls per day. The Army telephone system in the Saigon area, larger than many serving some American cities, is growing daily. More sophisticated facilities and switchboards are constantly being installed. This style central office, for example, now serves U.S. Army headquarters in Saigon. Improvements far beyond the planning stage will soon multiply the number of telephone lines available and convert them to faster, more efficient, direct dialing. Teletype communications are equally sophisticated, 1200 words per minute. That is the speed at which this automatic multiple address and refile system cuts duplicate message tapes. This is a tape relay facility, one of the major installations of its kind in Vietnam. Completely modern in its equipment and methods of operation, it interconnects with other stations and relays to form a network that offers fast, efficient teletype services to the military. Data contained on cards, detailing requirements for men, money, and materiel, are transmitted with the speed and accuracy that only electronics can offer. The results, delivery of replacements, pay, and supplies to the critical place at the critical time. The contribution to combat effectiveness important today will be even greater tomorrow. In the future, approximately 20 data installations, processing cards at rates up to 200 per minute, will continue to ensure rapid response to the needs of our troops, as well as timely information to planners at all levels. This MSC-44 satellite tracking station adds still another dimension, another degree of sophistication. When it became operational in mid-1966, Saigon was provided with additional reserve ties to Hawaii and Thailand. And via Syncom 2, a direct connection with a major worldwide StratCom satellite communications base located in Asmara, Ethiopia. Communications, they must be established. They must also be maintained. What keeps this giant complex, the most sophisticated communications network that ever existed in a combat theater, operational, functional, on the air? The answer is people. The men in the technical control facility, receiving quick notification of circuit failure anywhere in the country, and contributing to the equally quick, responsive actions that follow. Specialists, technicians, doing tedious work under difficult conditions, and doing it well. Men with responsibilities ranging from the very simple adjustment to the very complex junction through which they must maintain a smooth, organized flow of traffic. They are all essential, all part of the total picture, whether they work in areas where the pressure is constant or in isolated sites where the greatest occupational hazard is monotony. Adding even further dimension to the integrated, wide-band communication system is the construction which is now in progress, and which will continue. With the help of the workers of several allied nations, the engineering and manufacturing skills of the American electronics industry, the officers and men of StratCom, the first signal brigade, and other signal units serving in Southeast Asia. United States Army Communications Vietnam will remain as modern, as reliable, and as sophisticated as is scientifically and humanly possible.


Welcome back. Great game between Dickinson and Denison. Eric, your team in the third quarter brought everything but the kitchen sink virtually. As you would expect from your team in that situation, how demoralizing is it when your kids make the right plays and you see a goalie just step up and really slam the door the way Scarborough did? Yeah, I mean credit to him. You know, I mean he made plays, right? I think we're getting the looks we wanted. Our guys play really, really hard. And at the end of the day, you know, sometimes just you run into a good goalie and they do a great job. So, you know, hats off to him. But you know, to me, it's the fact that we didn't give up, that we played hard, right? It's not always going to bounce our way, you know, but again, you know, to have that resilience to be able to keep pushing is really important and, you know, no moral victories, but really proud of my guys' effort today. I was going to say is the message now to say, look, I mean, played two great foes. We did a lot of good things this weekend. Is that what you try to emphasize now here in the weeks ahead? Absolutely. You know, I think we even wind the clock back to last Sunday, our one-goal loss to Stevenson, you know, spring break certainly didn't go the way we wanted in terms of wins and losses. But what we got better, you know, we could have played cleaner tonight. I think it took us a little while to get going. And so that's a big lesson. But, you know, I told the guys in the locker room the message is this. All of our goals are ahead of us. You know, we start conference play a week from now.  You know, and we start a stretch of our season when we're going two games a week. So there's absolutely no time to feel sorry for ourselves. So, Davis and your face-off unit really solid weekend. What did you think was the key to their quality this weekend? You know, credit to Coach Bartlett in the way that she's developed the cohesiveness with that unit. You know, Davis is an incredible face-off man himself, but we've got the likes of Sean Bailey, Andrew Brim, Will Filio out there, Owen O'Neill.  He's picking up a lot of key ground balls. So really impressed with how they came together. You know, Davis is one of some of himself. He's using his wings. We're going back to our goalies, right? So watching the growth and development there, you know, was a great thing to see over the course of this weekend. Thoughts on coming to an event like this where you can get two great games in one trip, which is so critical for any Division III program? Absolutely. I mean, it is an incredible experience. You know, Coach Canavanade does a fantastic job here. You know, the facilities crew were great.  Appreciate the time. Best of luck the rest of the year. Thank you.


Hi there, I'm Anthony Chung and I'm the head of market analysis here at Amplify Trading. Every weekday morning I'll deliver a fundamental rundown ahead of the European Open, but if you subscribe to the channel, you'll also get content from the rest of the team. So, let's begin. Okay, very good morning guys, it is Thursday 24 September, hope you're doing well. Just gone through 7am now in London, so a quick review of some of the major headlines, how we closed overnight on Wall Street, performance in Asia, and then expectations for the day ahead and we'll run through a couple of charts. From a news perspective, actually not too much for me to talk about, so we're going to predominantly focus on a couple of charts that will be marking up some key downside levels that I think would be prudent to keep an eye on in the likes of the NASDAQ and S&P Future. We can have a look at the FX charts and Gold, Silver continue to pull back as well, continuing of their recent downside trend. Otherwise, just looking at the general sentiment here at the Open, it is a touch negative, tax future down about 150 this morning, US index futures also in negative territory, NASDAQ 64, the S&P 11 points at the moment. Albeit, Treasury is pretty flat, oil not really seeing too much direction, despite the general move that we saw yesterday, volatility that was seen around the infantry release, we actually drifted lower as the session progressed, just generally through the late US session into the Asian hours. I think a lot of that generally is what's reflected for the overall narrative for the Open this morning, which is about the apprehension of what the economic situation, the recovery might look like without now, forthcoming fiscal stimulus, which is one of the key things we'll talk about. But oil overall, actually fairly range bound. The bottom end of that range around the 39-19 type area has been holding really around, despite Monday, low print at 38-87, the market's respected really 39-19 over the last two days. We bounced up towards pivot at the moment. Dixie is up about 1 tenth of 1 per cent, so not too much in terms of an intraday movement thus far. However, what I would say is that it's continuing to maintain some of the gains that we're seeing over recent sessions. And that has then as a consequence, keeping a bit of a pressure on those major currency pairs like Euridon and Cable, which we'll look at in a moment. All right. Well, look, let's get straight into some of the main stories here. I'm going to start off with the Fed pleads anew for stimulus and markets start to give up hope. So, yeah, what exactly is happening here? So yesterday, US equities did finish quite a decent move lower. The S&P was down about 2.4, and NASDAQ was down over 3 per cent, Dow just shy of two. Agents stocks followed suit, and it's all coming after numerous Fed officials really were stressing that more fiscal stimulus is critical to sustaining the economic recovery, none more so than, of course, Jerome Powell, the Fed chair who's been speaking all week and will be speaking again to US politicians later on today. This comes as the fiscal kind of impulse in the US starts to wane, and some of these expectations for slow and steady recovery start to be just tested at the moment. A couple of other things to be aware of, US Congress, according to CNN, is reportedly readying to leave Washington as early as this week until after the election, and therefore not be able to put through any type of coronavirus relief. And also, of course, going back right to the beginning of the week, the chances of aid are fading further after what we saw at the end of last week, which was the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and that's put the fight over the Supreme Court right at the epicentre at the moment of US politics, meaning then that stimulus talks are getting bumped somewhat into the background because of the importance then that the composition over the Supreme Court will have for the US election, and so all of that has kind of, if you like, pushed back this expectation of force coming stimulus and markets have become very dependent on that given the large scope of the reaction we've had since the onset of the pandemic, and also given the fact that we were talking about numbers in the multiple trillions only a few weeks ago, and now it's looking more and more likely that not even anything will come. And so I think that's just adding a little bit of apprehension to the market and then to throw into the mix the other headline of note from the US is Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election sparking further concern about the general length of delay that's going to be caused by this mail mail-in ballot system. So all of these things kind of coming together and yesterday look at the S&P here to start with we after the Europeans left the market things started to sour technically we broke through the kind of double bottom that held a lot of the price activity in the futures market from it's would have been Tuesday's session that did then see a quite a negative break lower and since that point then we initially hit this further extension of selling pressure in the Asian session before bouncing so in the near-term range now in the spooze I'm kind of looking at 32 39 a quarter and 32 10 that low has held so far both as an Asian low and European opening low but we're definitely worth keeping a close eye on because I was just looking at on a daily continuation there's a really big level really is that 3192 and the reason I've been looking at this is because of that area of respected support that it provided the S&P through mid to late July as you can see here and that was really quite critical to hold the market up at that point in time so if we see further downside pressure that will be a really big area to keep an eye on because a break of that then the selling pressure could get heavy quite quickly but that could be then a firm area where the market might respond in kind to stabilize and whether bounce but perhaps consolidate a little bit after what has been quite a run lower here more recently sticking with the US equity theme then let's have a look at the NASDAQ I've been also looking at that this morning and as per usual it outperforms it underperforms and yesterday very similar losses of over 3% giving the quite decent move lower that we saw yesterday at the moment in terms of the futures we still got a little way to go the S1 would be a near-term level of significance that coinciding with the low point that was seen on Monday afternoon just after the first hour of Wall Street trade for the commencement of the week but if you start looking on a daily continuation here so just stepping back onto a higher time frame I think there's a really big level if we were to break first of all so if we're zooming in first area of course it's going to be here which is the Monday low and the S1 on the daily pivots if we break there that's the first real test of support zone but then that opens the door for a challenge deeper down to really again critical level much in a similar fashion to the S&P I'd say 10, 5, 14 so what we have here is the red line that's the hundred DMA and we have been sandwiched at the moment in the NASDAQ between the 50 and 100 DMA the 50 you can see is held both on Friday on Tuesday and in yesterday's session so the fiscal hopes fading just moving back lower technically the 50 DMA providing some resistance here to the price action in the NASDAQ future and as we've come back down a break of Monday low you've got the late July lows coinciding with that hundred DMA that I'd be keeping on in that rectangle there would be quite any further break and push down through that level I'd then be eyeing 10 to 96 which would be that low print on the depths of the EU COVID fears we saw materialized in mid-July that would coincide then with the resistance we had in mid-June before then the eventual break came at the beginning of July so these would be the key levels I'd be watching obviously markets can move very quickly if the the kind of sentiment does shift and we continue you know it gets exacerbated by key technical level breaches so hence the reason why I think it's it's prudent to be looking at these levels now rather than than later sticking with the charts let's have a quick look elsewhere gold and silver in the commodity space have drawn a lot of attention recently just because of we we were in we're in quite a long period of relative although large range kind of consolidation but we've now broken below then you can see really the bottom end of that range that was holding through kind of the the third fourth week of August the first second week of sep having broken now around that 1920 areas provided a bit of area of resistance now before this push down importantly for yesterday's session through the comics open we broke through the actual low point that we saw back on the 12th which was the bottom of the route that we saw on that big day of selloff on the the kind of unwinding of the big push-up that we had on the breach through 2000 up to near 2100 so that's now broken that is somewhat symbolic in in nature and since that point we have continued to push down another 25 bucks or so if we were looking at the the near-term price levels I know it's a bit difficult to see here with my my camera feet so let me see if I can quickly just remove that for one moment so here then if I just broaden out the chart the next levels I'd be looking at in gold you got the s1 in the futures and that would be seen down at 40 1845 and that starts to encapsulate then some of this top end of the range that we were seeing back really in mid-June or mid-July excuse me so that's definitely a key area here around 45 to 47 any break of there we could very quickly see a move back down to the s2 which would be also around the bottom end of the range from that same july period of consolidation that we were seeing so that's how I'd be looking at that if we continue to move low if we bounce today then we'd be looking at the reversal of some of these moves the pivot then and 74 to 77 I'd be looking at which was that initial break low that we had if we start looking on a monthly chart probably looks a little bit more clearer obviously we've had this quite big reversal was the persistent dollar strength has really been weighing on some of these precious metals here and so if we continue to move lower obviously that the really big area of support on a higher time frame would be down at around the 1800 or in this case 1795 which would of course be the key area of which then acted as resistance but then catapulted prices higher from a technical perspective only around two months ago or so terms of silver obviously things that be particularly violent you know these are these are all old markups that I had from when we were rallying at the time but you can see the pullback now is looking increasingly more kind of violent particularly the sell-off that we've seen so far this week drifting from 26 all the way back down to 22s now so if we continue to come down lower I'd probably be keeping an eye on 21 21 being this area here of resistance we had back on the 5th of July any breakdown further through there then I think it opens the prospect down to 19 which starts to encapsulate that previous area of resistance that was really containing price action and saw quite an explosive break on them the eventual move through there that we saw back in the start of July so there's definitely a little bit more room I think for these precious metals to come down contingent of course on continuation of some of the dollar moves but just given the way of which gold and silver have been moving through the last couple of months yeah another dollar and a half move lower here in silver definitely is not off the cards as I said with gold I don't think it would be that surprising to at least get down another 10 bucks to test around those levels here close to the S1 and that previous highs that we're seeing in July in the intraday session in the FX markets I'm just gonna have a quick look I will give you an update regarding the news to do with the UK obviously this is just the chart we had yesterday but just looking things haven't really changed from here what we were discussing the other day so the 200 DMA continues to remain quite a decent marker not only because yesterday we fluctuated through it but we closed below it and I think that that was very important and so when we reopened commencement of trade today again the 200 DMA providing some resistance and we've just continued to just edge lower the change in the sessions only around 20 pips but if the dollar does continue its appreciation then it should continue to weigh here because fundamentals for sterling obviously are not looking great at the moment so that rectangle is still in play the market did respond to that when we were looking at it yesterday which is around that kind of 126 53 type area which starts to encapsulate then some of those previous highs that we had in April but also more near-term through July would definitely be important again contingent on a technical breach but dollar strength there's not a lot then if we get through this zone of support then for cable got the 126 handles psychologically and then really opens up the prospects of the push down so it's been a little bit choppy yesterday but overall if you actually look at the trend that's materialized this week certainly cable has come considerably lower you know we were starting the week up at around a 130 type handle we're now training down at around 127 overall so the fundamentals are kind of playing out in that in that respect looking at the euro euros been under pressure of course with the the resurgent kind of dollar near term near term to the price action at the moment I'd probably be keeping an eye on this kind of level here and then here if we see any reversal back up to the upside at the moment the trend definitely is lower and just looking on a slightly higher time frame here I mean again this week has really been dominated by a bit of a bounce in the greenback and here I think we're at a fairly significant level you can see if we go all the way back here on the left hand side this is going back actually to October of 2018 that was also where we closed on the daily on the 24th and so quite an interesting level here at the near term any breakdown through there I'd be looking at slightly deeper move down to this 116 33s which would be then putting us back to the initial January 2019 high on a slightly higher time frame but yeah let me get you up to speed then with a couple of other headlines that's the charts hopefully that's useful I'm gonna start talking about the UK a little bit first looking at the COVID reds certainly as as we were kind of talking about throughout the whole week case numbers continue to rise yesterday reported at 6,200 type level this is one of the this is actually one of the highest levels ever that we've had registered in just one single day as you can see from the kind of height of the period of the initial lockdown and the worst case numbers we're seeing in April this does come though with a bit of a caveat I don't think it actually you know a chart like this I think is very misleading because it actually would suggest that cases now it would be if you're looking at it just purely on the pattern of the trend you would say well now's just as bad as before I don't think that that's the case because what happens now in terms of the volume of testing the awareness the ability of people to go and get checks this kind of setup of infrastructure facilities I think is radically different from where we were when there was none of that going back into March April period the point being is now and this is backed by the science from Imperial College London where researchers have suggested that in actuality probably back in April May they were more likely to be around a hundred thousand new infections a day it was just a case that there wasn't enough testing to to see those numbers reflected in the actual overall kind of data because remember the death count now from where the death count was then is radically different of course so it this this number is going to get way higher than a daily count case count that was officially registered here but I don't think that necessarily should really be too much surprise if you understand actually how the metrics are measured hospitalizations though are on the rise and the death count is gradually increasing but again this is kind of what's been spooking the market and cause that movement lower this week already so really it's about now how quickly it further accelerates at this point I was looking at some of the headlines this morning generally related to UK and coronavirus and obviously a lot of universities went back and there was recently fresh as week and I think there's a lot of universities which actually have had quite isolated outbreaks into the hundreds of students of course that was one of the key risks given the generally a lot of the new case numbers were related to that type of age demographic but hospitalizations here as you can see in England overall the number is still relatively low in the grander scheme of things but the point is is about how quickly it that it has risen over the last two weeks or so and it's likely to rise further still on the COVID front of course and this I think is adding it's not just that markets are slightly tentative at the moment on the back of a lack of fiscal forthcoming kind of program in the US which I think ultimately is very key but also COVID it's not just the UK situation it's also impacting mainland Europe at the moment Dutch cases are now spiking and generally before they've been relatively well contained France is from herring further shut down German numbers are going up so all of this of course is a kind of reshaping then the idea that the economic recovery what it was looking like a few weeks months ago is looking a little bit different now because of the fact that naturally as these virus starts to show and numbers start to increase and governments need to respond in kind by imparting further restrictions like what we see in the UK and that's going to impede that that recovery story the Chancellor is going to be speaking today Rishi Sunak he's going to be speaking at around 12 30 London Times my understanding he is going to set out to MPs today a new scheme to subsidize wages of people in part-time work replacing the furlough program that ends at the end of October so this is exactly what we were talking about yesterday or the day before which was the CBI's plan for basically helping it kind of a part-time structure because he doesn't want to continue the existing framework of the furlough scheme because the fact that it quite likely is keeping a large number of people employed who otherwise probably wouldn't be and so then a more realistic or more effective way of doing this is to use a subsidy of wages for people in part-time work in addition to that he's expected to extend the life of four loan schemes which is already backed just close to 60 billion pounds in lending to companies through government guarantees and so as we've said before he's going to try and continue to remain adding credit if you like or access to it in a favorable fashion to keep companies which are going to be under stressed conditions going forward particularly with the expectation of these restrictions likely to get more intense going forward the budget of course has been delayed here he confirmed that yesterday but that was absolutely no surprise absolutely no point in having a UK budget typically seasonally at this time of year because if you think about what's going on we've got a highly uncertain future now with the latest developments with COVID you overlay that with a self-imposed mid-October soft deadline for Brexit you know the moment he writes a budget right now it's pretty much out of date because the situation is fluid and it's going to be changing a lot over the coming weeks so therefore it's just been delayed until later this year potentially I guess into into Q1 of next so when he comes out it's kind of a similar story to the way the government handled then the press kind of leak before the Boris Johnson speech of all the measures that are going to come out so what Rishi says today should come as no surprise for markets really because much of it has been drip-fed into the press already finally a quick look at the Canada for today these are the major data releases you've got German iPhone coming up at nine o'clock this morning and then you've got a number of speakers so basically German iPhone US jobless and US new home sales they are major data points but from a speaker perspective this is what the docket looks like so incredibly busy once again and and purposefully so you know if if people are a little bit unsure of you know and looking to clarity from the the central banks particularly the Fed then it's not uncommon for them to kind of litter the scheduled docket with lots of speeches and this generally is a tactic of management of market kind of sentiment in a way so you've got cat plan power of course is testifying to the Senate banking committee today this time round having already done the house they got Bullard Evans barking Bostick Williams so you're getting the full kind of road show so definitely you'd be interested to see what happens there I would say overall perhaps just given sensitivity in in market prices this week perhaps it's a little bit more reassuring they'll continue to do whatever they can do that type of rhetoric definitely no need for any kind of hawkish noises at this point if they want to try and manage stability in markets which is generally quite fragile right now and then the other one that's going to be really interesting is is Andrew Bailey he of course spoke back on Tuesday and it did cause some short term fluctuation in sterling a lot of market focus on commentary pertaining to negative rates and he didn't really quite too much on that before and it's any explicitness around that particular policy tool can be market moving so Bailey speaking at 3 p.m. London time and a North East England Chamber of Commerce so yeah that is it really so hopefully that was useful any questions at all again as always just drop me a drop me a comment absolutely happy to to help and also you can follow me on Twitter thank you very much for everyone for following managed to get over 10,000 followers now so yeah amazing I'm just happy that people like my macro ramblings and find value from it so hopefully it's it's all useful alright guys enjoy your day and I'll catch you later on thanks very much


Hello friends. I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I am going to explain how you can implement these three patterns in the help of C-Program. Before starting, one information, if you go to detail or description of this video, you will find links of various pay lists. Those are related to various programs. So you can watch them. Now, first I am going to explain the implementation of this pattern. So here you can see we have five different rules and before printing alphabets, we need to print spaces as well. So here I need to implement three loops. How I identify that? So first loop will be for identifying on which loop you need to print alphabets. So let me write that here. So let's say this is first loop and right now I am going to repeat it five times. Why so big is five rows I have to print? So it will start. Now before printing alphabets, we need to print some spaces. And if you see with the help of this dash, so dash is representing spaces here. So if you see the pattern of spaces, so in first row, four spaces, second row, three, then two, then one and then zero. So these number of spaces we need to print. And after that we need to print the alphabets. So alphabets in first row one, then two, then three, then four and then five. So if we are on fourth row, then we need to print four alphabets. If we are on fifth row, then we need to print five alphabets. So this way alphabet loop will be repeated. So alphabet loop will depend upon the i value of five because i is representing row number. Now we need to identify how these spaces will be printed. So if you identify the logic, so we can write this. So if we write five minus one to four, five minus two, three and so on. So five is total number of rows and one, two, three, four is representing the current row number. So if we put this logic, then we will be able to identify how many spaces we need to print. So I am going to use this logic. So I am implementing second loop, which is J and this J loop will repeat this time. So J starting from one, its condition is J less than equals to five minus i and then J plus plus. And inside this loop, I have to print space. So this way space will be printed. So first I am going to complete this program now, then I will be explaining each line so that you can understand how this will be printed. So V will be, so this is second loop, which is starting from one and it will also repeat. So here condition is K less than equals to i and then K plus plus. Then opening the current basis and now you can see we need to print the alphabets. So alphabets are starting from A. So before starting the loop, I need a character variable. So here you can see I have declared a character variable and this character variable is initialized with capital A. So it is the winning value of this variable and here inside this K loop, I am going to print that character variable. So here you can see printed then percent C and then CH. So CH variable will be printed with the help of CH because we are going to print the character. So if you want to print the characters then we require percent C. So this loop will print the alphabets. After this loop, completion of this loop, I am going to increase value of CH. So CH plus plus for that and then I am writing print F and backslash it and closing this I fall. So this way I implemented the complete solution. Now I am going to explain it line by line so that you can understand how it will be printed. So initially value of I will be 1. Starting from here, condition is true. Now come here to this loop. So now this loop will complete its rotation cycle. So it is starting from 1. Here see the condition 5 minus I. So 5 minus 1 because value of I is 1. So 5 minus 1 is 4. So this loop will repeat 4 times and it will print these 4 spaces. So dash will not be printed. Space will be printed because inside this double code here you need to put a space using a space bar. Then after completion of this loop, this loop will repeat. It will repeat one time because here condition is K less than equals to I. So value of I is 1. That's why this loop will repeat one time and it will print the value of CH. So CH is right now 8. So it will print 8. After completion of this loop, so initially CH was 8. After completion of this loop, CH will be incremented to B and then print F will be printing back to Lashen. So that control will be transferred to new line that I less less. So I will become 2. Again control will be transferred to this loop. So 5 minus 2. This time it will be 3. So this loop will repeat 3 times. So 3 spaces will be printed. That this loop will be completed. Control will be transferred to this loop. Now value of I is 2. So this loop will begin from 1 and will go to 2. So it will repeat 2 times. It means CH will be printed 2 times. So see the value of CH. It is B. So B will be printed 2 times. And why 2 times B? Because inside this loop, we are not changing the value of CH. So that's why it will print same value. So if K loop will repeat 2 times, so 2 times same value, which is available in CH will be printed. Now after completion of this loop, CH will be incremented. So it will become C. Control will be transferred to new line then I plus plus. So I will become 3. Now as per value of I, this loop will repeat 2 times and this loop will repeat 3 times. So it will print 3 times value of CH pattern B. So this way this pattern will print the pattern. So here you saw 3 loops are available. First is controlling loop. Second is printing spaces and third is printing alphabet. Now we can easily convert this into this because space logic will be same. Row logic will be same. We just need to manage the printing of alphabet. So here you can see at the beginning, every time we need to print A and then we need to increase the value of alphabet whenever we are printing that. So before starting this, I am initializing it with A and I am shifting the CS plus plus inside this loop. So I am going to iterate it. Let's say 2 times so that you can understand how it will work. So quickly I equals to 1. Condition is 2. So CS will be initialized with A. This loop will repeat 4 times. So 4 spaces will be printed. So let's say 4 spaces are printed. Then this loop will repeat 1 time because initially value of I is 1 and it is A. So it will print A. This is printed. Then CS plus plus so it will become B. Then this loop will be terminated. We will move to new line. Then I plus plus, I will be 2. Then here you see again CS will be initialized with A. Then this loop will repeat 3 times. So 3 spaces will be printed. Then we come here. It will repeat 2 times because value of I is 2. Then first time CS will be printed. So here you can see value of CS is A. So this A will print then CS will become B. So printing of CS and increment of CS is one rotation that is done. Now again CS will print. So you can see value of CS is B now. So that is printed and it will increment to C. So 2 rotations are completed. Then move to new line. I plus plus and again you can see CS is initialized with A. So every time we need to print A from the beginning of the loop and then we need to increase the outputs. So that's why initialization is done here and increment is done inside this A loop. Okay. So I hope you understood 2 minor changes and this pattern is implemented. Now simply we can implement this one. So one change. We move this from here. Don't initialize because every time we are increasing only and before starting I we need to initialize CS with A. And then whenever the value of CS will be printed just after it will be implemented by 1. And rest of the logic will be same. So see how easy this is. So this way I hope you understood how we can print these patterns with the help of nested loops. If you want to watch more programming related videos you can open my channel and go to playlist there you will find various programming related videos. So do watch them. And I hope you understood whatever I explained in this video. So thank you for watching this video.


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video and in today's Destiny video I'm going to be opening 5 exotic engrams. Now these were brought from there earlier today. I am in search of that light for other armours. I want to level up as well. It's not all about everybody wearing that red armour. I've got other armours I do want to level up. I mean I've got basically full Vermillion Stripe 1.0 which don't look too bad to be honest we do the right shade up. I mean I've got the helmet, I have the gauntlets, the chest, the legs somewhere. There we go. There's an actual cape but there's plenty of capes. I've got that I can go with it. So I'm going to open 5 exotic chest engrams hoping I can get a 310 to help boost up the light level on this armour and a couple of others. I mean the red armour on both my warlock and Titan is still only at about 305, 306. So with 310 exotic armours I should be able to boost it up to that 310 light level. Help them through that hard raid if you know what I mean but let's just get straight into the video. Okay so like the first one I get a Crest of Alpha Loopy and I get the Crest of Alpha Loopy.  Okay so right at that we've got blues and strange coins. I'll sort of back that, let's see if I still get the Crest of Alpha Loopy.    I wonder how many of these are going to be 310 because you can see my light levels three nine how many of these are going to be 310 okay 290 310 290 290 and 310 so I've got two 310s and two and three 290s so two 310s and three 290s so not bad yet not bad at all but what level levels is that yeah so these can just get this amount I don't feel I've got any armors below 290 at all so these are not going to be needed whatsoever okay so let's get rid of that as well now what do you reckon we could get to with and also the Nearest 5 here if it gets to 305 and you use the 310 on it welcome up to 310 anything lower I'm not sure and that's 290 if I drop a 310 on it I think it's gonna go up to about 3 or 3 or 4 tops so it's gonna be a waste of one of these so I may as well wait until I get another chest armor about 300 then use these two on it but yep guys that's what I got from 555 exotic engrams I mean my R&G ain't the greatest as you guys know but still at the end of the day I got a few things what I wanted two armors at 310 out of five that's about an average to be honest but yep guys that is it for another in gram opening video hope you guys enjoyed it do drop a like on her poetry she ate the support subscribe for daily destiny and I'll catch you guys on that next one peace out on it's time POST!


Hello and welcome to the session in which you would look at an exercise that deals with transfer pricing. This topic is covered in cost accounting, managerial accounting, as well as the CPA exam. Now, if you are a CPA candidate, I strongly suggest you check out my website, farhatlectures.com for additional resources. If you are studying, look, if you have a CPA review course, that's fine. You can keep it. I don't replace your CPA review course. I can be a useful addition, a supplement to your existing course. I can add 10 to 15 points to your CPA exam score by explaining the material slower and more in depth. I don't assume any prior knowledge in contrast to these CPA review courses. And here's your risk, $30 to try me out. If you don't like it, you lost $30. What's the outcome? Passing the CPA exam, adding 10 to 15 points to your CPA exam. Do you think it's worth it? Well, I would think about it if I was in your shoes. Also, if not for anything, check out my website to find out what is your CPA exam score for your college. It tells you the score per section as well as the overall score. I do also have resources for other courses, which all comes with the same subscription. If you have it connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so. And check out my LinkedIn recommendations. Simply put, students who already used my system to succeed on the CPA exam, please like this recording and share it on YouTube, connect with me on Instagram and Facebook. Let's take a look at this question and answer some of the questions to understand a little bit further transfer pricing. Now, I do have lectures about transfer pricing. This is basically an example. So you can go back and look at the lectures if you'd like to before you'll try to answer this question. San Jose Company operates a manufacturing division and an assembly division. Both divisions are evaluated as profit centers. Assembly buys component from manufacturing and assembles them, assemble them from sale. So the manufacturing, they sell it to the assembly. Manufacturing sells many components to third parties in addition to the assembly. So this company here, the manufacturing, it also sells at the third party. So it's not only they sell it to the assembly line, they sell it to another party. And we are giving the data. The capacity is 400,000 unit. The selling price to the outsider is $400. The variable cost is 160. Fixed cost is 40 million. The assembly line, 200,000 capacity, they sell it for 1,300. The variable cost is 480. So we're going to look at the first question of the current production level in the manufacturing or 200,000 unit. What does that mean? It means now they are manufacturing 200,000, but they have the capacity to produce 400,000. So they're at 50% capacity. They have plenty of capacity. Assembly requests an additional 40,000 unit to produce a special order. What transfer price would you recommend? What transfer price would I recommend? If I have plenty of capacity, the optimal transfer price here is the variable cost, which is 160. Now, can I charge them more? Yes. But since I have idle capacity, you know, plenty of idle capacity, 160, I can cover my variable cost. Suppose manufacturing is operating at full capacity. It means I am producing at 400,000 and selling at 400,000. What transfer price would you recommend? Under those circumstances, I cannot give it to them at 160. I'm going to sell it to them at $400 because if I don't sell it to them, I can sell it somewhere else for 400. It's not like I am not being able to sell my product. Therefore, I would charge $400. Suppose manufacturing is operating at 380,000 unit. What transfer price would you recommend and why? Well, we are little bit below. If they want 40,000 additional unit, well, we are a little bit below the capacity. We are 20,000 below the capacity. For those first 20,000, we'll charge them $160 and for the remaining 20,000 unit, we're going to have to charge them a full $400. Now, obviously we cannot sell them some at 160, some at 400. We have to figure out what should be the overall price that we will need to charge them. Well, let's see. So what we do is we take 200. Let me get the calculator here and start with computing the numbers. 20,000 unit times 160. That's 3.2 million. Let me just make sure this stays. 3.2 million, then 20,000 unit. Now, for these 20,000 units, I have because I'm above capacity. So I have to charge them the full price. 20,000 unit times 400. It is 8 million. So 8 million plus 3.2 million. That's going to give me a total of 11.2 million. 11.2 million.  I'm going to take 11.2 million. I'm going to divide this by 40,000 unit. Remember those additional 20,000. I have to charge them the full price. Therefore, I would sell them each unit at $280. The first 20 units simply put, it will average the first 20 unit at 160. The remaining 400,000, but it will average at $280. The point to learn from this exercise is this. If you have idle capacity, generally speaking, you would sell at variable cost. Can you sell more than the variable cost? Yes, you can sell a little bit more than the variable cost. But if you want the assembly line to have more pricing power, you would sell at the variable cost. If you have no, if you don't have any idle capacity, if you are operating at full capacity, you want to charge them the full price, otherwise you'll be losing. And let, let her see it someplace in between. At the end of this recording, I'm going to ask you again to like the recording, share it, check out my website, study hard, and most importantly, stay safe.


When we combine these thoughts, we can look at what should be the interactive pattern and we get the idea about how these principles become the basis of governance. We can start looking at and making sense of this figure from the lower most circle, centric circle, which is self. Self, as we discussed in the previous session, is constituted by not only physical body, it has mental body, emotional body, Anandamayakosh, the bliss body. Self interacts with society through five renas or five yajnas. So, what is the basis of interaction of self with society are Devarin, Pitrarin, Bhutarin, Nirin and Brahmarin. That is the basis on which interaction between vyakti and society takes place. So, the vyakti do not have contract, vyakti have a purpose of yajna, interaction of yajna with society, with the collective, what is also called samashti. Business organizations are also made up of the individuals. Here, the individuals offer their swadharma, offer their competency, that runs organization.  So, that should be the exchange, that should be the ideal exchange between individual and organization. Organization and society has to be governed not based on only artha. Like individual, organizations have also to pursue all four objectives, which is dharma, artha, calm and moj. Organizations cannot remain, organization cannot just focus on calm and artha, wealth creation and sense pleasure. If they only concern about that, then it will not be good for the social environment as well as natural environment. Now, we are seeing that and we are also seeing the recognition of the fact and that is why people, planet and profit, all three are considered to be equally important pursuits of business. So, organization have to interact with society through not just by enhancing consumption, but they also have to perform yajna and lokasangra and I have already explained what is yajna and what is lokasangra. So, this is the ideal representation of individual, organization and society interaction in the yogic tradition. This overall interaction is called integral humanism as explained in the basic text called Daeshik Shastra by Duldhariya Badrisha. That was contemporarized and explained in very simple and scientific and logical terms by Dindya Lopadhyay in 1965. And combining all these things, there is another work of Pandey A which talks about how these notions can be understood in the context of management. Now, the question is these values are fine, are these values practice in the real life? Answer is yes. And this can be explained with another recent paper by Mohanod Pratap and Saha in very reputed journal title organization where they looked at governance of Marwadi capital. In the Marwadi community where these scholars studied what are the principles which govern the capitalist system, which govern the business system, which governs the community of the Marwadis, they found that most of the businesses are the partnerships. There is a clear moral control on misreporting in the partnership relations. These are not very different from yam and niyam of yogic tradition. Another important thing, very interesting thing is that 1 percent partnership money is assigned to DT. That means DT, Ishtadev, they also become one of the partners in the firm. So, if one partner draws money in an illegal way, immoral way, he or she is not only doing harm to the another partner, it is also betraying the DT, the Ishtadev. And suddenly because of this being a an dharmic society, people would not like to betray their Ishtadev. So, this is spiritual principle of Ishtadev is very well integrated in the business governance. Now, what do I do with the surplus? I take out money which is justified from the surplus, but I also have to pass on that surplus to my DT. Now, DT is not walking, eating DT, DT is the divine. So, what do you do for them? So, for them you build, you construct temples, you start other service oriented ventures, you start helping people in education, providing food, etc., etc., which is very similar to what we study in the corporate social responsibility. So, you here you can see that this is only one example. In India, we can see many, many examples of several communities where spiritual principles and economic principles are well integrated in their ventures, in their businesses, in their so called worldly activities. Actually, in yogic tradition, we consider body, mind and spirit of equal importance. So, moral, spiritual and physical realms are distinct, but they are not disjointed and they are the basis for each other. And these principles are not only individual centric principles, there are societies, there are systems and this paper is only one example of that those kind of system where these spiritual principles and economic principles are well integrated.


Welcome to the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Today we'll be talking about the electronic sac butt, one of the first known synthesizers and a trailblazer in the world of electronic music. Hugh McCain was the Canadian innovator behind this instrument. He began his career as a physicist developing radar systems at the National Research Council of Canada. Although a physicist by trade, his true passion was for electronic musical instrument design. From his home workshop between 1945 and 1948, McCain developed a groundbreaking instrument that he called the electronic sac butt. He named it, after the sac bout or sac butt, an archaic 15th century precursor to the modern trombone. McCain had no way of knowing it, but what he was actually building was one of the world's first analog synthesizers, two decades before the first commercial synthesizer was sold. Looking at the artifact, you can see how experimental it really was, but don't let its rough appearance deceive you. The electronic sac butt was a powerful electronic instrument with many of the same features and sounds we associate with modern synthesizers today. In 1954, the National Research Council of Canada saw such potential in McCain's design that they made him head of their new electronic music lab, the first in Canada, his job to work full-time developing new and unconventional electronic instruments for other researchers and artists to explore. Over the course of his career, McCain designed over 20 unique instruments and is considered one of the most important pioneers of electronic music in Canada. You can come and see the electronic sac butt and some of McCain's other electronic instruments on display in the sound-by-design exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.


So you don't know what islands do, not a problem. This just means it'll apply actions to every face that is attached to the object that you clicked. So here you see we have two separate objects. There's a small object floating on the top and the main body at the bottom. Because they're separated, they're treated as two different islands. So if I left click at the bottom, that's where the actions get applied. If I left click at the top, then that is where the actions get applied instead. Hope that helps. And as always, I hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of Anabaptist Perspectives. We're here in Boston Massachusetts at Sattler College. We're with Dean Taylor. You're the president of the college here. We're in your office and you did a lecture this earlier this year that really caught our attention and we wanted to talk to you about that and and see if we can hit some of those high points. So during that lecture you said and it was obviously rhetorical just to kind of make a point you read a petition to our president Donald Trump. Can you just read that and then explain kind of what you're getting out there and then how yeah how that all ties in with with parts of our MNI history. All right excellent well okay I'll start with a letter and then I'll explain what I was thinking. Sure. Okay the idea was it was bringing out that you know there's been a lot of you know negative things against the president and you know we know we're supposed to pray for our president and pray and and the government and so the idea you know that all these attacks on the president that we should say something. But in that I wanted to to I wanted to make a point though because I was what I was feeling was that too many of our people are imbibing they're they're taking on this whole I don't know way of thinking of the current presidency and that's very scary. So I wrote this petition here it goes. To the president Donald Trump we the conference of Anabaptist assembled today in Shipshawanna in the free state of Indiana feels deep gratitude for the powerful revival that God has given our nations through your energy and promises joyful cooperation in the building of our fatherland through the power of the gospel faithful to the motto of our forefathers no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ with greatest excitement we are following the events of our beloved country and experience in spirit the national revolution of the American people we are happy that in America after a long time a government that freely and openly professes God as creator stands at the head of the nation with special sympathy we hear that the current government takes seriously the realization of Christian principles in social economic and cultural life and especially emphasizes the protection of the family and sign the conference that I was with so the point that I was making is that with just a couple words changed that was a telegraph a telegram that was sent from the Mennonites to Adolf Hitler that that just mind blown give us some context there a little bit here's the thing and I'll back it up like this okay when I was becoming a conscious objector in Germany and my wife and I it was in 1990 and we were becoming conscious objectors and I remember there we were taken to meet this this man an older man he was at that time in the 70s and he lived in some little community somewhere and as he went there we talked to him about this whole thing about you know the patriotism and and how we were coming out of this you know in our and our revival in our own personal you know conversion to these ideas these kingdom ideas these ideas of Jesus Christ and I said what was it like I mean you were old enough to remember what was it like when you were there when when Nazism was was coming around he's and he looked at me said you know Dean this is a 70-something-year-old man wow he said it was like a revival never forget his words he said it just swept over us like a spirit he said I've left a there's some sort of painting he said I said we were actually Quakers he said his background he's now going to the Mennonites he said I left the a symbol that my father had painted on the barn which was a symbol the meaning to vote for for the Nazi party his father had done that yeah and these are these Mennonite these were Mennonites yeah he said I left it there as a to remind us that we failed in this and that we we took on this spirit in the spirit that took us you know years ago I was when I first came to Lancaster County I was doing anesthesia and I just came from America and I moved to Lancaster County Pennsylvania and I just thought you know anyone who who starts to follow Jesus Christ are not going to get involved in worldly politics and this kind of thing and I remember I was working and I had a Jewish man who was my boss there anesthesiologist working there at the hospital and we had a Amish patient that both of us were working with and we were started talking about politics this is back when George Bush was coming through to Lancaster he flew into Lancaster Conference and all that kind of thing so it's kind of a big talk and and I was like oh no you know Mennonites Amish you know Anabaptists in general you know they they do not vote he's like what what are you talking about they don't vote you know this this Jewish boss of mine I said oh no no they clear I mean clear on that for years they don't vote he said I asked the Amish patient I said I asked if you will so you know I I said so we got his attention and he said you know hey hey Mr whatever his name was he said uh he said hey um you know are you gonna vote in this coming election and he turned around he said well you bet I am I voted in the last one I'm sure I'm gonna vote in this one and I was like yeah boy so that was my initiation and it's interesting I went into the break room a Baptist man that was in there he said hey can I ask a question I said well sure he heard the whole conversation he said well how if you guys vote well why don't you go to war oh if you're gonna vote for the commander in chief then why don't you support him in war and I said you get that wow how did he he totally got that on again I said I said I wish all of us would get you got that and he asked me that question and so you know as I that was my initiation to Langster County and I was like wow okay this is something that we're losing that yeah everyone doesn't vote because or maybe they do secretly as a church standard but there's they're all closet republicans they're all closet you know so it began to bother me but on several different levels because you see it's not just to not vote I really believe that Jesus Christ has the answers for humanity and we began to think any political party by the Democratic Democrat Republican Communist whatever fascist whatever Jesus has the answers the next election I remember I'm driving down 322 there in Langster County and I pull into this pretzel stand and it's an old run by horse and buggy Mennonites and I go in there and I'm about to get a pretzel you know a bag of pretzels and I look on on the table and there where you're waiting to get your pretzels are two stacks of paper and one was a stack of oh was a stack of voter registration cards and the other was a piece of paper of why you should vote for republicans so I said uh was that confusing to you I said well I said well what do you when I said so since when did Mennonites started voting and she said so I said and she said well it's getting so bad we're gonna have to and I said really I said you know historically it's always hurt both the world and the church when when the people of God get involved in politics like this and she said something or another and gave me my pretzels and but I realized then that this is happening so so we go through the next election you know we go through the different things and all the build up with Hillary and Trump and all the things that we saw on the news I was disappointed by the behavior that I was seeing in the Anabaptist and as I saw this campaigning and I and I saw these things it really concerned me as a matter of fact when I was over in Lesbos a couple young people that I had been a part with years ago that I was a pastor of had toasted with their you know gave a toast to Trump's birthday and I talked to them the next day I said so that what happened to all my teachings that I used to talk about in church and remember she said well Dean you've been gone a long time and it hit me that you know it's not like at all that I want to campaign for the other party at all what my heart is is that you know Jesus warns of the leaven of Herod and this leaven of Herod is getting into our people so the biggest mistake that this has ever happened in history was with the Mennonites with Hitler and as I first started studying this I study it started studying it about 10 or 11 years ago it was just coming out there were some works I should maybe quote him here on the and your links tons of material on this yeah it started to come out and I started saying wow this is very interesting and then and now more and more research has come out and it's not a good testimony but the one thing I will say the Mennonites recognize it as a mistake and even after the war the Mennonites repented of this sometimes even publicly of their supporting of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis you know what was happening down in Central America was the same thing is wherever these German people were they thought that this revival of the German people was really a good idea and they and but the the obvious excuse is this well we didn't know we didn't know what happened well yeah like that's what I heard from some of the people I interviewed when I was we didn't know they were killing Jews and we didn't know like literally some of them did not know until the 1950s exactly that's just the point that's just the point that by not by getting our principles off and trying to look to American politics to politics in general to fix our problem we'll end up giving our support to an antichrist and not even know it that's the point wow so now when you're looking at the current political environment whether it's far left or far right or whatever I'm supposed to give my scent to one of these political parties that they're going to have in the kingdom answer to this world I can't do it and so I I wrote that letter as sort of a thought you know we could easily have said this today and some of the people that were in that audience would have said that and even signed that petition to be sent out and it's a wake-up call to say guys this is bad leaven this is bad leaven we've been down there this letter has been written with a different name on the the front cover yeah that was the kind of the point behind wow so then we start getting into all kinds of I mean this can get kind of crazy pretty quick and I and I have some feeling we're going to probably get some heat for for putting this stuff out but I think it is worth learning these lessons from history I can I can hear people saying well okay but what about the whole Romans 13 isn't the government have its place in you know punishing evildoers and shouldn't we at least yeah how does all that work do we just need to like sit back it's like hey we got nothing to do with that or that's a so good question yeah I see one of the things that have hurt um a a early church biblical understanding of non-resistance is pacifism and what I mean by pacifism is this idea that we should somehow vote in some sort of pacifist political agenda the bible very clearly states that there are two kingdoms and that god does not want chaos in this earth and so he governs the kingdoms of this earth and makes them to to to be kept together from the fear of the sword and so they've been given the sword we have been given the ministry of reconciliation and so these two are opposite but so when you look at Romans 13 it is very strong you're not going to end up being a pacifist a liberal pacifist and quote Romans 13 let every soul be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of god powers that be are ordained of god who so ever therefore resisted the power resisted the ordinance of god and they that resisted shall receive to themselves damnation for rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil will thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shall have praise of the same now here's the important verse for he that is the emperor is a minister of god to thee for good but if thou do which is evil be afraid for he bears not the sword in vain but he is a minister of god a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil the the first thing to really recognize is that we just finished Romans chapter 12. Romans chapter 12 is kind of a summary of the Sermon on the Mount where he goes in here and he talks about is therefore he ends up dearly beloved avenge not yourself but give but give placed unto wrath for it is written vengeance is mine I will repay set the Lord therefore if your enemy is hungry feed him if he's thirsty give him a drink for in doing so you will he coals of fire upon his head be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good now in this two kingdom idea this whole idea of this new way of Jesus Christ this new kingdom of Jesus what do you do with the politics of this earth I mean there's it was a natural question and so he brings out this view that God has ordained the world to be kept in check those who are not of God do not be led by the love of God and the grace of God to be kept by the fear of the sword now it's interesting who was he talking about he wasn't talking about Episcopalian from Texas or a Baptist from from Tennessee or where this little current one is he's talking about Nero one of the most wicked people whoever was it came against the church who literally lit fires up and down the road of burning Christians who came against the church they the early church called him the very antichrist but he's ordained of God to do this job the question is this just because something is ordained of God does it mean God's favor is on them is God blessed on it let's look at a couple examples so Pilate said to Jesus do you realize that I have the authority to either let you go or I have the authority to you know punish you it's interesting Jesus did not rebuke him and say you don't have any authority he said you have no authority but that which has been given to you by my father he recognized that that Pilate had given had been given the authority to kill Christ that does not make this role a blessed role it just makes it a role that God has ordained to have to do his service on this earth and let me take it a little bit further so he says here he is my minister so the question is where is that context it's interesting when we look in Jeremiah in Jeremiah we have an interesting example of Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuchadnezzar was put in power by God and God makes that very clear and he wants people to to serve Nebuchadnezzar but then later he uses Nebuchadnezzar even to bring judgment upon Judah he uses Nebuchadnezzar and look at the language he uses to talk about Nebuchadnezzar it's in found in Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 8 therefore thus set the Lord of hosts because you have not heard my voice because you have not heard my words behold I will send and take all the families of the north set the Lord and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant same word my minister and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against these nations and brings judgment against against Judah and here's a question is he blessing him or is he just using him for his service is this a blessed state because he calls him my minister or is is it a different thing it's interesting the context tells us it's a few verses later and it shall come to pass as verse 12 when the 70 years are accomplished that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation set the Lord for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and will make it a perpetual desolation and so he's using him for a clear purpose let me give you one more without hoping not going too long let me give you one more that I think is is very important for us to understand it's in the prophet Isaiah okay so here's the question that that um Isaiah 10 answers so Dean are you saying then that you could never see that God has intervened in war I mean when you look at how Hitler was stopped or Stalin was stopped or this bomb ended this I mean surely you can get the idea that that God was behind this I mean here even in Boston there's stories of the Revolutionary War that you know you can see whether it was right there exactly and more beer right over there you see those things they surely this made a difference yeah and and and Isaiah 10 is a very interesting um one to look at so this time it's the Assyrians being the ministers of God this time he calls him his rod his particular use his use and he says oh Assyrian the rod of mine anger that you're his staff and the staff in their hand and it's my indignation I will send him against a hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath and I will give a charge to take the spoil and to take the pray and to tread them down like the mire of the streets so he's bringing them again to judge his own people mm but pay attention to the next verse however he meaneth not so he doesn't know what he's doing neither does his heart think so but in his heart is to destroy and to cut off nations but a few and so he's saying I'm going to use the Assyrians they're going to accomplish this purpose for me but they don't even know what they're doing in their mind they're just taking over nations and taking over countries but I have a sovereign reason why I'm using him but just because God uses you does that mean you're blessed no therefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks for he saith by the strength of my hands have I done it and by my wisdom for I am prudent and I have removed the bounds of the people and have robbed their treasures and I've put down he's done all these terrible things he makes it clear in his principle Romans 13 principle God rules the earth and he has two kingdoms those who have been given the the the ministry of reconciliation and grace from God and those who have been given the sword and we want to make sure that clear the understanding of two kingdoms is there we're anabaptist today when they don't understand this you hear them saying things that I I wonder do you even understand non-resistance do you even understand the two kingdoms when we would give our support to these these different kingdoms and different politics and and so I think if I'm understanding you right so in the case of say Roman 13 Romans 13 Paul doesn't say y'all all need to rebel and burn this down until we can put a Christian emperor he doesn't say that and we should actually pray for them we should actually support them we should do what we can to bless them but clearly our kingdom is not of this world Jesus if my kingdom were of this world well then my servants would fight but now my kingdom is not from here Jesus when they would use the term Jesus is Lord it was a political statement I've been to Ephesus I've been to Ephesus and still on the wall you can read it it's it's right there in Latin and it's almost looks like English where it's it talks about Caesar being Lord and and you can see this and so when they said Jesus is Lord they meant it it's not just some spiritual language it should be the same for the kingdom of God King Jesus King Jesus so so we're looking at the misguided allegiance where we're saying okay we're gonna side with whatever political party or we're gonna get involved with certain countries you know policies so that's kind of the negative pull out the positive what's the positive side of this vision what is our place as Christians where we can help with societal issues and turmoil and things what should we be doing instead of maybe voting in your yeah this this is an excellent point you know if all we're doing is setting on our farms and setting in America and enjoying people going over to Iraq and getting us killing people to get us or whatever doing different military things to get us low oil prices and helping our capitalistic society if all we're doing is setting and enjoying those things and do nothing that it's not right it's not right those people are risking their lives for those things what are we doing and so you're right on I was just reading today John Howard Yoder has a great statement on this idea of non-violence and non-resistance and he said it's a funny word he said imagine if we were to define marriage with nothing but negative terms in other words if we called marriage non-adultery he said so he said it should have a positive and active force to it and that's exactly what the kingdom should be here at Sattler College we're even doing a thing called restorative justice programs where we're wanting to go to the place of danger to the place of conflict and give a Jesus example you had Pablo Yoder and we had him up here wow recently and there's a man a hero who has has been there and lived this restorative justice living the places where conflict happened we need to be more and more in that we're also doing things where we're getting involved with human trafficking and such so so finding that is absolutely needed and being and being the change and making the difference instead of trying to vote things we should exist as a kingdom of God with the prophetic voice to be able to speak to this and to make a a difference Tony Campos tells a an interesting story and I was when I was in Greece we had to leave for a while and go to Bulgaria and I was in Sofia Bulgaria and as we were there there's this interesting credible story that happened there in Sofia Bulgaria and this is a perfect example of what you're talking about all these Eastern you know European countries really were involved with sipping off Jews to the concentration camps Bulgaria has the best record and you look to find out why and is an incredible story is that when it came time the Bulgari had fallen to the Nazis and the party where it was involved with it when it came time that literally the train came to bring in the thousands and thousands of Jews that were going to take them to Auschwitz and take them away to the concentration camps this tall bishop bishop Creole comes up with over a thousand according to the story over a thousand of the Orthodox people came in and came into there and he came the machine guns were pointing right to him he walked right past the guard pushed the machine gun away and stood up and the people came around and encircled the Jewish people that were about to get on the train and then as the the Nazis were sitting there wanting to know what happened he raises his hand and he says and he quotes from Ruth your people shall be my people your God shall be my God where you go we will go and as he quoted that the the Nazis didn't know what to do people were laying in front of the train to stop it and finally the the Nazis got the call forget it go back and they left without the Nazis and never did they come in and have a mass deportation in Bulgaria like all the rest of the countries that is active kingdom building non-resistance and that's the kind of thing we should be thinking instead of looking to the politics and looking to the things that we're thinking that's going to have the answer Jesus has the answer and the cross is foolishness to those that are perishing for us who are being saved it is the power of God and this theology of martyrdom this active work of the cross I think is the kind of change that we should really try to propagate so basically if we would take the literally countless hours and millions and millions of dollars that conservative Christianity putting in the political realm and actually do that well what you're saying with this restorative justice think of think of what actually could be done with that it's amazing amazing and how much more lasting fruit it would be instead of just making a mockery of ourselves to the whole earth I'm sure people have objections so so the next question is then what what do you say to someone who says well because you're not voting then therefore you are you are part of the problem for not bringing solutions to these evils that we see in America today yeah exactly and this is where this is where I would say that just being passive deserves that rebuke I would say that you got it coming if you're really just enjoying American liberties and and all that it is to be an American then yeah you got it coming but this is why I think we should be actively involved in going to the place of conflict being the church to this place not seeing just this border of United States as being our our little world but being kingdom Christians and taking this and making the difference and then I think we'll have something to say back just start thinking beyond ourselves beyond our own in the country I guess you could say or whatever yeah get a global perspective you know when I was in Germany we when I was there you know here we were in uniform we we this is back before you you're in the middle when I'm in the army years ago this is you know back 30 years ago or whatever and I was a soldier in the army my wife was in there we lived off base even uh there in the community and we spoke English we didn't speak German we wore American clothes in those days we voted in American elections and we paid American taxes in our mind there wasn't a a sense of you know getting involved in the politics of of the country and and Germany and we were Americans this is the way it should be with us in the kingdom of God we are the kingdom Christians living in these different countries scattered around the whole earth you know when you go to an American embassy I'm sure you've been to embassies on all your travels it's like a little America right I mean literally that's considered like the rights of the country of America these little embassies you're supposed to have kind of like a little American flavor there we should be like embassies we should be the kingdom of God that this is as john d martin likes to say we should show the whole world what the whole world should look like if it would follow the king that's the church and so as we go out with our church planting and we go out with our restorative justice and we go out with our different things these are the purposes to bring them the gospel of Jesus Christ to bring them the cure for humanity from Jesus Christ as the church um and really see that literally as a kingdom and stop just spiritualizing it but truly see our president and our king as um as Jesus Christ is there anything else you would like to look quick you know it's funny you know I moved to Boston here and um right down here at the at the at the the building on the corner a state building a state building there's a painting in there by john elliot he was the first translator of the bible in America a native american bible that he translated and it's interesting um he became very popular here in boston and I started I should read about him and hear about his missionary endeavors and everything I bumped into something really fascinating that has to do with it that at that time they were just changing over from the Oliver Cromwell and then later on the Charles II and the different things and the kings and and he was really getting upset by all this the parliament and the kings and everything and he writes this letter rebuking england and saying we need to let Jesus Christ be head of the nation don't come to the throne give it to Jesus let's follow christ and everything it was the very first document that was banned in our country he had to get all the copies he was in a lot of trouble he had to burn everything and it was and that's hilarious google it it's a very kingdom focused wait what year is this this is 1645 50 I have to check the exact date 100 years before the founding of America then so I guess I'm guessing the British king didn't like that very much yeah so it was an incredible document but when people read the Bible and you really get into it and you start to understand how the Bible makes one message throughout the whole thing and you see about the people of God and the blessing of Abraham to bless the whole earth and you read about the prophets and the coming of Jesus Christ and the coming of the kingdom and you get to Jesus you realize wow I'm a part of that and I went and when people get a hold of that from different backgrounds and different things it's exciting we don't need to trade that for American politics or any other politics it's a beautiful message and I and I think we should propagate that yeah God's word on its own amen it can hold its own it's fine wow thank you so much for sharing especially some of your your personal experiences and stories that that really helps I really appreciate that