Okay, welcome back from your long break. So we will get started on a new doctrine now doctrine of God all right, so During the break someone was asking me whether there are any Books available, you know on these topics which we covered for the earlier doctrine doctrine of the word of God Now there are formal books which talk about the doctrines I'm not sure to what extent you would be interested in that But then in the on the internet you have a lot of articles just which talk about how the Old Testament was formed How the New Testament was formed the care which was taken in transmitting the Bible scriptures, even if you know if you just simply type in the in Google search saying Transmission of the Old Testament. It'll show you a whole bunch of Blogs, you know, which will which will talk about that So these are simple easier ways of you know, gaining information when it comes to the Alleged contradictions that people talk about how they make how they allege and say that there are Contradictions in the Bible. How do we answer that? Well, what is the actual answer to those difficult Bible passages? There are books available, you know in online Even websites which provide information like that if you were to type in Google and say, you know difficult Bible verses explained It will actually give you some websites where it will cover some, you know, main criticisms Which are raised and give you an explanation of how to understand those particular verses. So you could type something like that in Google There's a book called Bible Handbook of difficult verses That you know Can be helpful so there are So even if you were to purchase one of those books, you know a book which deals with you know Alleged contradictions a book which explains difficult verses Even if you were to buy one such book, it will in fact cover, you know All the contradictions which are generally pointed out in Genesis all the contradictions which are generally You know, which critics touch upon in Exodus. So like that It would be a good useful book for you to invest in so, you know There are resources available, but then you'd have to spend on them Alright, so we'll get into the doctrine of the of God now we'll begin with the What the Bible says regarding the existence of God how the Bible throughout Very clearly talks about The truth of the existence of God, maybe we can start with some 19 verses one to two Some 19 verses one to two So either online or in the class if someone could read out for us some 19 one to two The heavens declare the glory of God and the four women show and proclaims his handiwork day after day horse Forth speech and night after night shows both knowledge It says here in these verses that the heavens are speaking that the heavens are declaring the glory of God It says the skies are openly proclaiming and saying look look at the work of his hands according to this verse day after day all these You know the the creation the stars the the skies are Pouring forth speech, that's the word which is used It's like I said the day after day continuously They're talking about who God is and what God has done and it says night after night. They reveal knowledge so These two verses some 19 one to two are Openly saying that even if a person doesn't know anything about the Bible If they were just simply to open their eyes and look at the skies and look at creation and look at what God has made That will automatically speak to them in their hearts if they have an open heart and help them understand That yes, someone must have created these things these things didn't just simply come into existence. So we have creation Proving talking and proving that someone has made it that there is an other there is a person Who is behind the scenes who has brought it into existence? There's this you know a long time ago in the 1980s there was this conference on science and religion It was supposed to be more like a debate where the scientific community would Express their views on creation and You know how the world came into existence and all of that and then on the other side You would have the theologians who would present their side. So it was in 1985 That one of those conferences on science and religion were conducted at that time one of the Very reputed cosmologists was someone named Alan Rex Sandage Now this man Had spent most of his life studying the cosmology, which is basically your sky your planets your stars He had spent his entire life studying those things You know studying the theory of the Big Bang and all of that so when the conference was conducted he was supposed to be one of the main speakers at that event and At the conference you basically had people being seated on two sides of the hall So on one side you had all the theologians being seated and on the other side you had the Scientific community being seated. So then when Alan Rex Rand Sandage made his entrance he went and sat on the side of the theologians and Everyone was rather surprised because they knew that he is supposed to be an atheist who doesn't even believe in the existence of God and So when it was finally his turn to go forward and speak he said I Have studied the Big Bang theory my whole life I have studied the stars and the constellations my entire life and after having studied these things in great detail I am convinced that there must be a God. They must be a creator Which is why I'm sitting on the side of the theologians is what he said and at that time in nine in the 1980s that cost quite a stir because he was a very well-known name at that time and They were he was a man who are very strongly proclaimed his atheism But then just simply studying nature Simply studying the skies day after day, you know the skies are pouring forth speech And finally this cost motorist cosmologist heard What creation is saying and he realized that yes God does exist They must be an intelligent designer who designed all these things They must be an intelligent creator who brought these things into existence Because the what science puts forward is that you know There was just this big bang of some kind of Atomic particle and then everything just got scattered matter got scattered into space and then one fine day pieces of matter just came together to form the solar system and One small piece which came together had all the exact right conditions To support, you know life because most of the other planets if you know, you know they don't they don't support life the Elements which are there the gases which are there in the atmosphere don't permit Living forms to actually grow on those planets But one tiny little thing which came together. It had all the exact correct elements It had all the exact gases in the atmosphere required to Create a planet which will be able to support life So it seems rather random, you know, if you were to go to the same scientists and tell them You know, I'm gonna just you know take this packet of popcorn I'm just gonna fling it out. It will fall all over the place But don't worry all the pieces of popcorn will come together not to form your name It's ridiculous. I Mean it cannot happen No scientist would be willing to accept that a packet of popcorn would have the intelligence to behave in that way and Put itself together to create a name But they believe that that is what the big bang theory did with all these huge chunks of matter which caught You know flung into space How when they're not willing to accept that at a minor level of one packet of popcorn How are they willing to accept something like that when it comes to a larger extent where you have Entire masses of material which were flung in different directions and they came together To form a solar system which will be so exactly positioned that it will be able to support life on earth so Anyone who has understood enough about these scientific details will realize that God must be existing There must be an intelligent creator who made these things So why are people still refusing to believe even after seeing the scientific evidence for the Existence of an intelligent creator. Why do they resist Romans 1? 18 to 20 the simple straightforward explanation about why people continue to say that, you know, God is not real Romans 1 18 to 20 if we can have someone read out For God's holy rad and indignation are revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men Who in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it enough in operative For that which is known about God is evident to them and made plain in their inner consciousness Because God has shown it to them forever since the creation of the world is Invisible nature and attributes that is is eternal power and divinity have been made intelligible and clearly And through the inner things that have been made so are without Excuse Yes, so here it says in verse 19 Since what may be known about God is plain to them because God has made it plain to them You know, so NIV sometimes brings out the wording more clearly because it has it Wants the reader to understand what is being said So here it says the reason that people are able to plainly understand the things about God is because God has made it plain How in what way since the creation of the world the things which are invisible about him Which cannot be seen about him those things are seen in the things which he has made So his sovereignty is all powerful nature Those things are seen in the way the creation was put together So it says here in the last portion of verse 20 people are without excuse So it is the evil in their hearts, which makes them continue to say no There is no God because they are afraid that they'll have to answer to God for their everyday lifestyles and their choices Now this is something which actually occurred Lynn Anderson a Christian writer He this is what he writes in one of his books He was having a conversation with an atheist and he was very logically trying to present all the facts of the universe You know which show that there is an intelligent creator who has made these things who has, you know Very specifically put certain things in certain places So that Life it becomes possible on earth. So even as he was explaining all of this the atheist kept, you know, putting Arguments forward trying to dismiss everything that Lynn Anderson was saying So after a long discussion in Lynn Anderson Basically asked him this he said is the problem that you can't believe or is it that you don't want to believe because you believe Because if you believed in God, you would have to change your lifestyle He point blank asked the man Why are you going on setting aside all these very very logical pieces of evidence about a creator? Why is it because you can't believe or is it that you don't want to believe because if you believed then You would have to change your lifestyle and the interesting thing is that that particular man, you know With whom he was having a discussion. He sat there Thought quietly for some time and then it's very frankly said look right now I have a very successful business and yes, I'm kind of You know Skirting aside some of the laws which I should be following I am bending some of the rules and my business is going very well If I believe in a God then I will not be able to do these things anymore and then he in fact went on to say All the affairs that I have been having behind my wife's back I would not be able to indulge in that anymore So it would be more convenient for me if God did not exist the man actually plainly actually said that to Lynn Anderson so The reason that people still hold on to the to the theory of evolution the reason that people would prefer to have a big bank We're just things came together after the bank They hold on to this because if they were to admit that there is a creator Then they would have to admit that they have an obligation to this creator They are his created beings and so they come under his Leadership and they would have to submit to whatever he is saying and they are not willing to do that You know those of you who are more interested in these things and would like to look into these You know into the the evidence which is available in creation which talks about the existence of God Some good websites that you could go to there's something called be thinking dot o rg Okay, be thinking Dot o rg one minute apologist Dot com there's something called one minute apologist, which is just one minute videos He will give you an explanation about something which talks about you know the existence of God Or how science is proving what is there in the Bible? So he will you know that's called one minute apologist dot com There's also something called creation dot com These are the more simple, you know the ones with simpler English easier to understand There are a lot of beautiful websites, but I felt that these are more, you know Lay person friendly, you know, it's easier for a lay person to understand what is there So they have videos. They have articles things like that in these websites. So you could try them out There are some things that I cannot really mention on You know if you were to look at your stream page later, I'll put some information there Which can be helpful to another Google students and yeah So if you look at the Bible and you look at Genesis 1 1 the very first verse in the Bible It doesn't begin with a question. Does God exist? Should we try to find out any evidence for whether he exists? No such, you know long Sentences are included in the very beginning of the Bible the Bible begins with the words in the beginning God So it's just assumed as a fact It's accepted as a fact that in the beginning God was already there in the beginning God was already there and it goes on to say that he created the heavens and the earth So the Bible has been very clear right from verse one that God exists There is no need to even doubt it or even have any dispute regarding this matter in your textbook. There are three Traditional proofs that people give for the existence of God It talks about three things in your you know in your notes It talks about the cosmological argument the teleological argument and the moral argument So just basically to you know give a brief Explanation of those three terms so that you know what is being talked about the first one the one that's called cosmological argument basically this argument says that Every known thing in the universe Has a cause Every known thing in the universe has a cause So if something has started existing Something must have caused it to come into existence. That's basically what it's saying if anything at all exists Something must have put that thing over there for it to exist So in other words if anything has got a beginning It began because something caused it to begin Okay, so that would that basically putting the putting it in very simple lay terms One morning if all of you were to come down over here for your class and when you come over here You see a cow standing over there Will you say oh, you know, it just materialized out of thin air No, nobody no student would say that they would Automatically realize that someone has gone to the effort of bringing the cow down the staircase So something just doesn't simply happen Everything that exists has a cause a causal agent has caused it to start Existing so anything that began began because a causal agent caused it to begin Okay, it's one way of putting it Now this doesn't apply to God Because God was there before the beginning. He is outside of time Everything that began, you know everything he created once he created it. It started to exist But he was there before time. So he never had a beginning So this principle when you're in which you say that everything that has a beginning began because something caused it Yes, everything that began Something has caused it to begin but God doesn't have a beginning. He was there even before the beginning Which is why in a new Genesis 1 1 and says in the beginning God created but he was there even before that your beginning Okay, so God time doesn't apply to God. He's outside of time and So the first argument which is made the first traditional argument Which is generally provided for the existence of God is that we should use our common sense If we see that something is has exist is existing if you see a cow existing in the classroom It means that something must have caused it the cow didn't just suddenly materialize Someone has brought it there caused it to be over there. Okay, so the second argument is in your notes is called the teleological argument now this basically means This argument is basically saying that Everything in the universe that we see seems to have harmony. It seems to have order. It seems to have design So all this clearly indicates that there is an intelligent designer that there is an intelligent creator um This one person, uh, michael behi. He's he's a well-known speaker. He speaks in many places He was actually a biochemist Who spent most of his life studying the cell? Oh The cell if you have if you remember your signs from school Cells are called the building blocks of life. Everything which exists is made up of cells So the cell is the most basic structure When darwin wrote about cells in his you know writings back then He actually had no clue about what a cell really is So he said, you know, oh matter just came together and one cell came into existence But if you understand a cell the way, you know, we know a cell today It is so intricately designed every single detail in that cell Has to function in a in a particular way for that cell to continue being functional Even if you remove one factor change it slightly this way and that way The cell will no longer be a cell. It'll just be a piece of dead material so Michael behi was also an atheist who did not believe in god But when he began to Study cell structure and the way the cell functions He realized something so complex Cannot just come together because darwin, you know, he didn't know much anything about cells He just thought it came together But after having studied cell structure and say a cell function this my bio chemist Michael behi he says It's impossible for for the first cell which was you know, which came into existence For it to have come into existence without the help of a designer Someone who actually designed it and made it work in that particular way So some of these websites, you know, we'll talk about such things, you know the ones which I mentioned We'll talk about these things So that is basically your teleological argument Which says that the harmony and the order and the design which exists in the universe Proves that there is an intelligent creator The third argument is called the moral argument You know the request over here is that maybe I could post information on the classroom page I have no clue what a classroom page is All I know is that in google classroom. There's something called stream page Unless that is the classroom page So I'll put it in the stream page All students of apc are supposed to know what the google classroom stream page is because that's basically where I post The link for the class every single day. We have the class over there in that same stream page I will put some information Which I cannot give out now. All right, so I will do that. Yes, definitely And if I don't you please remind me Okay, the third argument the moral argument Basically is this all humans seem to whichever culture they belong to However remote they may be, you know removed from the rest of society They all seem to have an awareness of right and wrong There's there's an awareness of that which is inside the people's hearts and minds Even if somebody's not taught You know a class on ethics they instinctively know that some things are correct and some things are wrong Now this would not be possible unless there was a creator who put that value system inside our hearts So the example that is used is of you know, um Those very remote cannibalistic societies which exist in some very remote tribes In those tribes The people they actually believe that they can kill other humans and eat their flesh.  They know That murder is wrong.  So people chose to follow whatever set of rules They liked Which is why there's no one standard absolute set of rules is what they say But if you apply that to this cannibalistic society Even that cabinet cannibalistic society which came up with a set of rules Even they Instinctively know in their hearts that murder is something sinful. It's something bad So who put these, you know, absolute moral absolutes in our heart It indicates that there is a creator who has placed this kind of ethical values inside us You know, which we cannot escape from so These are the three arguments that are traditionally generally given regarding the existence of god Now let's come to the nature of god the qualities of god the attributes of god, which are mentioned We will be looking at this in a greater detail This is one of the doctrines that I enjoy the most because it talks about our god And when you start looking at all the scriptures which talk about our god You get to realize how beautiful he is Well, you'll feel like you know stopping the class and having a time of worship It's amazing the kind of god that we worship the qualities that he has He is so amazing so awesome. So beautiful So we will spend a lot of time looking at the different attributes the different qualities of this living god Now we would of course have to begin with the statement that god is creator and god is Eternal Let's just maybe look at one verse from the Old Testament some 90 verse 2 90 some 90 verse 2 Before the mountains were bought for Whatever you had formed and given birth to the earth and the world Even from everlasting to everlasting you are god It says here that before the mountains were born, you know before the mountains were created Before you brought forth the whole world from everlasting to everlasting Now the term everlasting doesn't have a beginning everlasting means everlasting If something begins, it's not everlasting. So which is basically over here talking about infinity god was always there So there was no beginning for god He was always there from everlasting to everlasting um now just to I know um To clarify something that a question posted, uh, you know, someone has asked are there any written notes on inerency The thing is, uh, you know the the apc Notes which you have with you. That's basically a very brief summary of the textbook by vane grudham w a y ne grudem vane grudem That is the book on Systematic theology which you know that person wrote in the 1970s So the english is a little high a little old-fashioned, but that's generally considered the standard book for systematic theology um Don't really worry about the term systematic theology. Let's just call out of course doctrinal foundations. We're looking at different doctrines Foundation of our faith. Uh, just Yeah Pardon, I didn't get it sister. I have that book systematic theology on e e uh this thing, you know So there's an entire chapter on inerency in that in fact you have detailed chapters on every single doctrine Okay, sister. Yeah, so uh, yeah, I also No problem because when you were reading I felt we didn't have the notes. I didn't know where to report So I just wanted to clear Yeah, so yeah, you can Yeah, so um, those of you who are not familiar with vane grudham if you just simply type Vane grudham pdf in your google search It'll give you a link where you can you know, which you can click on to download the book. It's available everywhere on the internet It's a very easy book to access. Okay, so uh, now there are other more modern books um Millard erickson His he has got more mom little more modern english Also the way he writes it is a little simpler. I will put all those details in the you know stream page. All right, so You can refer to that But that will not have all the stories and the facts and stuff which i'm talking about because those are all things Which I have picked up from a whole bunch of different places But the basic doctrine at least you will find in these books, all right, so um, yes Coming back to our topic. We were discussing god the creator who is eternal now When we are talking about the eternal nature of god It is understood that all the three persons of the godhead Father son and holy spirit all three are eternal Because the wrong doctrine that is preached by certain certain Cults is that they say that jesus had a beginning God the father created him is what they say So we need to be very very clear that all the three persons of the godhead are eternal None of them had a beginning all of them were there everlasting to everlasting so You know, um, which is basically what we find in john 11 Where it says in the beginning was the word And the word was with god and the word was god. So, um In the beginning God was already there. He was already existing So having understood that in In that context keeping that in mind if we could have someone read out for us Colossians chapter one versus 15 to 17 Colossians one 15 to 17 now He is the exact likeness of the unseen god the visible representation of the invisible He is the first born of all creation For it was in him that all things were created in heaven and on earth Things seen and things unseen Whether thrones Dominions rulers or authorities all things were created and exist through him By his service intervention and in and for him And he himself existed before all things and in and in him all things consist Cohere are held together. Yes this entire passage which we read out just now is talking about jesus and verse 15 is this is what verse 15 It says the sun is the image of the invisible god the first born Over all creation So people take this verse and they say look it says over here that jesus was the first born Now that is a very wrong way of understanding this, you know We again need to understand when these words were written by paul to the colossian believers Did how did they understand that word? Was it a word which was familiar to them? And if it was a word which is familiar to them in their culture How were they using that word in their culture? How did they understand it in their culture? So First born only sun all these are legal terms Which talk about the inheritance rights which are given to the only sun The first born is the one who will inherit. He has the special legal rights to the property. So these are Terms which were technically used Which is why we see in genesis chapter 22 verse 2 when god says to isa to Abraham take your son your only son whom you love and you know He says to go and offer him as a burnt offering. So over there Why is god saying that isaac is his only son? It's just a legal technical term that is being used God is well aware that Abraham has got two sons So when he says only son he's saying i'm talking about the only one who has been appointed with the inheritance rights That's the only son i'm talking about Sacrifice him not not your other sons That is the son that i want you to offer as a burnt offering Which is why in john 3 16 God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son Over there it's talking about how this Jesus would be the one um Who would be the uh Under whom the entire creation would be placed the entire creation would be his inheritance No, which is what we are talking about over here in colossians 1 15 to 17 He is the first born over all creation. It is his inheritance this entire creation is his So over there it's not talking about someone being born as the first son It's talking about the legal status of first born um And it in fact goes on to explain very clearly in what sense he is the first born So it says in verse 16 in him All things were created So it was in him through him that everything was created in that sense. He is the first born of creation He is the one Uh to whom all of this creation belongs this is his inheritance So it's a technical term that is being used over there when it says first born It's not talking about someone who was born on a particular day Yes in the flesh when jesus chose to become human He was born in human form But when it comes to his existence, he was always there because in him All things were created and it goes on to clarify at the end of that verse verse 16 It says all things have been created through him And for him So everything created is his inheritance. It's for him that everything has been created So, uh, we choose to understand these terms first born only son all these as legal technical terms which talk about the inheritance given to the To the chosen son who will be given the entire property the second, um Attribute of god which we will look at God is self-existent now that we talked about how god is creator and he's eternal In line with that we can also maybe talk about the self existence of god If you were to look at exodus 3 14, this is how god chooses to describe himself exodus 3 14 if someone could Read out exodus 3 14 And god said to moses i am who i am And what i am and i will be what i will be And he said you shall see this to the israelites. I am Has sent me to you So god doesn't need anyone To continue existence existing.  He always was which is why he says i am who i am I always have been i can be what i will what i what i choose to be So that term i am which he uses signifies those things it talks about how he's always been there And he doesn't need anyone need anything to exist um So in line with that attribute, let's look at one more attribute of god God is infinite That means there's no limit to him is limitless so, um Let's look at you know, the three Infinite aspects of god which generally, you know, people talk about they talk about the omnipotence of god You know, you may be familiar with those three terms, right? Omnipotent means all powerful Omnipresent means that he's everywhere and omniscient means that he knows everything So let's look at those three um infinite aspects of who god is God is first of all. He is omnipotent, which means he is all powerful There are no limits to his power His power is limitless Which is nice It's good to know that we are under that under an all powerful god But do we have any access to this kind of omnipotent power? Okay, not omnipotent But at least you know power the power which god has do we humans have any access to this great power which god possesses Let's look at hebrews chapter four verse 12. What does it say hebrews four verse 12 hebrews chapter four verse 12 for the word of god is living and powerful and sharper than any two is sword Yeah We're just focusing on that first phrase where it says the word of god is living and powerful So god is omnipotent He is all powerful And some of that power is actually placed in the scriptures Because the words which he Communicated through the prophets and through the writers, you know for them to write down He put his power in those words Now i'm not saying that every single word word in the bible is omnipotent No, let's not go you know make make up new theories and new doctrines No, all i'm saying is that we worship an omnipotent all powerful god And some of his power actually is residing inside these verses which are accessible to us So when we take a stand of faith on these verses And we fight through in prayer and we claim what is said and promised in these verses The power in these verses Is released to us in our situations so How do we gain access to this omnipotent god? Through his verses through through the promises in scripture Which he has presented to us because it says in hebrew sportwell the word of god is living and powerful These are not just dead words These are literally living words if you take these words and you hold out to them in faith And you claim them and you use them to fight against the principalities and powers These are living words which have the power of god inside them So i'm not saying that we will you know gain access to omnipotent power Please let's not you know get into wrong doctrines But i am saying that his power has been made available to normal humans like us Through his words this power in those words So never think that these are just some long dead promises that god made long back No, his words are living and they are powerful and we can access his power through these You know through these bible passages which are there in the word of god Um, let's look at something that is said in luke chapter one versus 36 and 37 A statement that is made about god's power luke one 36 to 37 if someone could read out And listen your relative elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son And this is now the sixth month with her Who was called baron? For with god nothing is ever impossible And no word from god shall be without power or impossible or fulfillment Okay Is that in some way amplified or something? Let's not use amplified just for our classes simply because uh, they expand the versus worse to an extent It uses a lot of words which were not there in the original at all, you know, so Yeah, we will quickly use n n n k j v n i v n a is b i mean any n will do But let us just for the sake of our class not use the amplified because it adds words which are not there in the original So if you were to just look at n k j v, uh, it says for with god nothing will be impossible What amplified was trying to do is trying to bring out the meaning of what is said in that phrase Nothing, uh with with god nothing will be impossible because you see in the previous verse What was said is that this lady elizabeth who is too old to have any child such a lady is now in the sixth month of her pregnancy And in that context this sentence has been written with god nothing will be impossible What is the what what's the what's the messenger trying to say he's saying God opened his mouth and spoke and made a promise to zekariah and said your wife is going to have a child So when god says something It will happen So whatever he has spoken He will fulfill so for him nothing is impossible So amplified when it said no word from god will ever fail You know it added that explanation over there It was trying to show what this what this phrase is actually meaning Which is why niv uses the same method in your niv if you were to look at luke one verse 37 It says for no word from god will ever fail That's basically what the messenger was trying to indicate God said something to zekariah and once god says something What he has said will not fail the words that he speaks will be fulfilled No matter how impossible the situation may seem And so you know niv says no word from god will ever fail But yes the literal translation would be what is there in the greek with god nothing will be impossible Okay, so We can have access to the power of god through the words in the bible even we claim them Whatever is promised in those verses will be ours You know because god backs up his verses with his power So we come to the second omni which is god is omniscient Which basically means that god is all knowing now again This is an attribute which can mean a lot to us You know personally to us believers because If god is all knowing it can make life much easier for us Isaiah 55 verses 8 and 9 If we could have someone read out this very very familiar passage as a 55 verses 8 and 9 Isaiah 55 verse 8 for my thoughts are not your thoughts Nor are your ways my way says the lord verse 9 for us the heavens are higher than the earth So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts The Mind with which we have been created we humans the human mind It's very limited. It can only understand some things. It can logically try to work out some details But it doesn't understand everything on the other hand our god It says his thoughts how high are they than our thoughts It says for as the heavens are higher than the earth So are my ways higher than your ways my thoughts than your thoughts so To my human mind a certain Situation may present itself in a particular way But when god looks at that same situation using his all knowing mind His omniscient mind. He is able to see that situation in much greater clarity than me So I may think look at that situation and think oh my goodness now. I'm not now my life is finished Look, I'm in a terrible crisis But the god is looking at that same crisis with his all knowing mind He can probably say a hundred ways of how that thing can be resolved So if we place our faith in this living god and submit to him and say lord I will just follow you and obey you However terrible a certain situation may seem rather than you know Allowing myself to go into anxiety I will choose to trust you to take me through this because your mind Is higher than mine your thoughts are as higher than my thoughts as the heavens are from the earth How high are the heavens? How many meters how many kilometers higher the heavens infinity heavens go on and on infinitely high Gods thoughts are infinitely higher than our thoughts So we can have this deep assurance that when we commit our situations to him He's going to work it out in his time According to his timetable because his timetable has been planned according to his all knowing mind Okay, so we were only able to look at two omnis today We will look at the third omni and then and many other attributes of god Those of you who are in Google classroom, please look at your stream page. Maybe by evening And then later on when this video is posted in the e-platform Anyone interested can you know contact me on the e-platform and I will give them the details If they are interested regarding resources and things like that. All right, so let's just quickly close with the word of prayer Lord, we just thank you so much That an all-powerful god like you chooses to become so personal with with imperfect temporary human beings like us Even though you are awesome and infinite and completely Great in all your ways you choose to be with people who are so limited And you went to the extent where you gave your son As a sacrifice and he emptied himself and chose to become like us limited And a limitless god who chose to become limited for our sakes We thank you. Oh lord for your great love towards us Someone like you can be trusted always No matter what you ask of us We can trust you and obey because you are that kind of a faithful god Thank you. Oh lord for this in jesus name. Amen You


Yesterday was the joint conference between the Jewish Labour movement and Labour friends of Israel in the wake of the EHRC report into Labour and anti-Semitism and the suspension of the whip from Corbyn, this was closely watched especially as big names including Keir Starmer and Angela Reiner were in attendance. It was Reiner who got the biggest headline from the day stating that and I quote, if I have to suspend thousands of thousands of members we will do that and we will not accept an injury to one because an injury to one is an injury to all. That's what we say in our movement, she goes on. It's about education as well, it's about having this approach where we don't accept that people, you know, we have debates but there's no debating what the EHRC said. There's no debating whether anti-Semitism exists in the Labour Party, it does and we've got to do everything we can to stamp it out. I mean there's a number of problems with this, first of all if you're the deputy leader of the Labour Party standing up and saying I will suspend thousands of thousands of members if I need to is not quite the right approach. One the EHRC has specifically said that you need to depoliticise these issues so if she's suggesting that she personally has gone to suspend thousands of thousands of people I think that would probably fall foul of the recommendations from the report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. More than that though, it has all the features of so much of this debate which is to make their point stronger, Labour politicians essentially have to completely twist what Labour members are actually doing. So Angela Rainer there is saying we can't debate what the EHRC said. Now for one, I think people can, I think this idea that a report gets released and suddenly it's a taboo to even question what is within it is bizarre. I think it's very authoritarian, it's almost, you know, as if you're sort of in the Catholic Church in the 16th century or something. But I can understand why you might say there shouldn't be debates in CLP meetings, in local parties about the EHRC or whether or not to accept it. I can see why that would be an unstrategic thing to do or potentially an ill-advised thing to do, but no one is doing that. Of the motions I've seen in CLPs, people are generally accepting the EHRC recommendations but saying that they don't want the former leader to have the whip suspended from them when it's unclear why. So instead of her standing up and saying, you know, we shouldn't have members debating whether or not Cormage would have the whip, which is a much weaker argument, she has to make up that they're doing something that they're not. We also aren't having people debating whether or not antisemitism exists in the Labour Party at all. None of the motions I've seen suggest that. So, I mean, there might be one or two people in the hundreds of thousands of members who in a meeting have said something along those lines. But the idea that that would lead to thousands and thousands of people being suspended, she is basically implying that thousands and thousands of Labour members are saying stuff in meetings that they're not saying. Which, I mean, it's the sign of a weak argument, isn't it, when people have to essentially make things up. And I do think there's a moral problem really if you're in a leadership position in a political organisation and you make up stuff about the members who work hard for your re-election. Stammer, also, for his part, made some interventions which I thought were pretty weak. So, these are tweets from Sienna Rogers who was at the online conference. She tweeted, quoting Keir Stammer, we're only in this place because of Jeremy's response to the commission. We've been set back by what Jeremy did in response to the commission. He adds, I want to get that focus back on where it needs to be, away from individuals. Now, the reason why I think this is pretty weak is because the reason we are discussing individuals, not the issues, is because he decided to suspend Jeremy Corbyn for saying something which is perfectly within his right to say it was ill-advised and to say, I'm disappointed Jeremy Corbyn said that. Fine, he can say that. But if you suspend the former leader for saying something which is potentially ill-advised but essentially true, then, of course, you're going to have a big, big row about one individual. That's what's happening now. If you stood to unite the party and now you have suspended the previous leader who still has a great amount of support within the party in question, what did you think was going to happen? That is the thing that has made people have what I think is an absolutely necessary debate about the reinstating of Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour whip. So to now stand back and say, oh, why are we so obsessed with an individual? The reason people are obsessed with an individual is because you suspended them on very, very weak pretenses. Some people are saying we should stop talking so much about Corbyn's suspension and the HRC report. We should talk about policies. But I do think that what we're seeing here is something that can't really be ignored when you've got the deputy leader of the Labour Party saying she will personally expel or she will, if needs be, expel thousands of thousands of members whilst basically misrepresenting what they are in fact saying and debating. I think that's a serious problem that does need to be resisted. I mean, Michael, I don't want this to turn into like mutual appreciation society, but I do think that you've consistently been one of the strongest voices on this issue. And I think that one of the things that you said a couple of days ago, and I stalk you on social media, just keep an eye on what you're doing, is that you said that Keir Starmer could navigate the situation through honesty. And sometimes that means also telling hard truths. And that is not the strategy that he has taken as a leader. He's looked at what the anti-Semitism issue did to Corbyn's leadership. And I think wherever you are on it, whether you think that there was an endemic problem of anti-Semitism in the party or whether you think that it was isolated to a few individuals, whether you think of problems with the processes or not, I think everyone can agree that when those attacks ratcheted up and you listen to the today program and it's like one, two, three items on labor and semitism, Jeremy Corbyn hemorrhaged moral credibility in the eyes of the public and it ended up being very little that he could say or do in terms of reforming the procedures. His office intervened to speed things up. You know, there aren't thou satisfied. You know, it reformed the way in which the disciplinary procedures operated while there aren't thou satisfied. And he became the symbol, the totem, the kind of embodiment of what the problem was seen to be. And it meant that when Keir Starmer entered office, he, I think, of spending all that time in the Shadow Cabinet was like, well, hang on, there's only one real way to be seen to be strong on this issue. And that means zero tolerance on those who are deemed to be anti-Semitic on the left. And that's not the same as dealing with the problem of anti-Semitism as it exists in society and as it exists within the Labour Party. There's obviously been hugely different ways in which, you know, Labour and peace have been dealt with, you know, from one person using an anti-Semitic trope. I think it was in terms of the pieces of silver or shekels or something like that. It was an anti-Semitic trope to do with, you know, selling out and money in ways which would, you know, the imagery was very much there. You know, got away with a retraction and an apology whereas, you know, Rebecca Long Bailey was summarily dismissed from the Labour Front bench. That's about being reactive and being seen to be harsh on those who are deemed to be the problem. And what that means is that you've closed off all the space to be honest. You've completely boxed yourself in. And what you've said is, for as long as, you know, there are certain newspapers, there are certain individuals who write for those newspapers, there are certain aspects of the community leadership say there's a problem with left anti-Semitism, I will show no mercy, give no quarter. There will be no due process for these individuals. The problem for Keir Starmer came when the EHRC report didn't say that. It didn't agree with it. You know, while there was found to be indirect discrimination, that means, yes, there is an institutional problem within Labour. It didn't lay the sole responsibility at the feet of Jeremy Corbyn. It didn't label him as an anti-Semite and said this man has to be kicked out of the party. And so you're back into trying to utilise political means to achieve what is essentially a political goal. You don't have the bureaucracy to hide behind of what I'm just implementing the findings of the report. And that's what the situation that Starmer and Rayner have created for themselves. It's a really difficult one. Because now they're trying to say, well, in the spirit of the EHRC report, we can't have these kinds of discussions about, you know, whether or not it was right to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn. The report says nothing like that. The report actually takes quite, you know, pains to say that there are, you know, Article 10 rights to freedom of expression, which includes deviating in opinion on the scale of anti-Semitism even. And those are things which Starmer and Rayner are completely unable to admit or engage with because their entire strategy has been, here's the stick, beat us with it until you've had enough of it. And that's not a way to deal with anti-Semitism within the party. That's not a way to deal with views which may be amongst the membership. It's not a way to deal with, you know, and this is a real thing. And I know it because I felt it at times, a sort of knee-jerk defensive position amongst the left. So I think it's one of those things where everybody loses effectively apart from the Labour right. Because for as long as Keir Starmer is seen to be at the helm of a party which can't keep Jeremy Corbyn out effectively, he too will become subject to some of those attacks. He too will start to lose some of that moral authority. This is a crisis of his making. We're going to go on to another statement from that conference, probably the most memorable one. Before we do that, if you are new to the show, to this channel, do please hit the subscribe button. We want to get up to the next, we want the next 100,000 subscribers now. So hit that subscribe button. We put out content so regularly now. This show goes live Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7pm. Let's take a look at another tweet. This again is from Sienna Rogers who was reporting, Peter Mandelson says, I'm worried about one thing. That is this recommended approach by the EHRC of an independent process. He says the NEC should take ownership of process and an independent process can't do that. Hashtag JLM2020. Now Gabriel Poggrant who's a Times journalist who's been on Aaron's show. He was in conversation with Mandelson when that was said, so he tweets to back up Sienna Rogers. And he says, Peter Mandelson just told me this at Jewish Labour Conference. In short he said, Labour can't allow the left to legalise party management as it did in the 1980s. So EHRC recommendation of an independent disciplinary process cannot stand. So this is amazing. One, I mean what lots of people are pointing out is that he seems to be disagreeing with the EHRC recommendations. Some people are saying that means he should have to apologise and be suspended. I personally think people need to... People are telling everyone to apologise way too much. You're allowed to disagree with what is in a report. But what is clear here, what it looks like to me, and especially with that reference to the 1980s, is that Peter Mandelson wants there to be a disciplinary process that can be utilised by the leadership to get rid of people from the party and an independent process obviously means that you can't be partial in that way. You can't use a disciplinary process. You might be able to, depending on how they draw up the rules, this will be something to look into in the future. But even if you didn't have a totally fair independent disciplinary process, Peter Mandelson wants even more control for the political leadership of the party to determine who can be inside and outside of it. Now that would be worrying enough if it wasn't clear that he is willing to utilise the issue of anti-Semitism to get his way in terms of determining who should be in and who should be outside of the party. And his reference to the 80s is important because he's saying that there, we had all these lefties who, to make Labour electable, we had to purge from the party, but they were using the legalistic structures of the Labour Party, the rules-based structures of the Labour Party to not let us have our way. And what our new Labour project was all about was making sure that the leadership had absolute leeway to determine that the organisation of the party, the direction of the party as they pleased in part according to focus groups to try and make it as electable as possible. Obviously this ended up with a party leadership that was so detached from the membership, so detached from the population at large that they ended up with catastrophic decisions such as the Iraq war, not something we necessarily want to return to. But you can see what's motivating him there. He's saying, I don't want a rules-based system actually. I'm not interested in due process. What I'm interested in is having a leadership who can get their way. And if that means using anti-Semitism to get their way, so be it.


Hello, I am Dr. Abhay Kamath, consultant maxillofacial surgeon at the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery KMC Hospitals Ambedkar Circle. Today we have joined here to provide some information about total joint replacements being conducted at Ambedkar Hospitals Mangalore. We recently had a boy aged 7 years who presented to the maxillofacial OPD with a chief complaint of inability to open the mouth. On eliciting history, the mother gave a brief history saying that the child was already operated 4-5 times with recurrent phases of ankylosis forming again and the child undergoing 5 surgeries for correction of the same. The child also presented with significant amount of sleep apnea because of the underdevelopment of the jaws and the repeated surgeries which had led to shortening of the vertical ramus. So as a surgeon, where I have specialized in alloplastic joint reconstructions, what came into my mind was rather than doing the same conventional approach of increasing the length as well as the width of the mandible, by doing a costocondal grafting or a distraction osteogenesis where we tend to increase the length of the mandible in an anterior posterior or in a plane which helps improve the breathing. I thought out of the box a joint replacement would be a better option and since the child was already operated many a times with all modalities including distraction osteogenesis as well as costocondal grafting and the child was also diagnosed to be an MRSA positive that is methicillin resistant staph arias and hospital acquired infection. We had to take in a lot of care to see what would be the final treatment plan. So initially we came up with all the primary investigations and we thought about why not go ahead with the conventional but the bells which rang in our mind was by doing the conventional approach, we would again subject the child to the same old conventional treatment whether it is distraction or costocondal grafting and added issue was the MRSA. So the final plan what we came up with was an alloplastic bilateral TMG replacement or a partial counterclockwise rotation of the mandible, improve the patient's airway and also give him back his facial functions and aesthetics. So we did the initial planning, got the CT scans done, got a polysomnography study done as well as a CT NGO. The CT scans of the patient were processed and sent to United States of America Jacksonville and the joints have been manufactured by Zimmer Biomet. Zimmer has their own standard set of joints what we call the stock joints which are freely available in the market. But since this child had specific requirements we went in for what is called as patient specific implants or PSI for bilateral replacement of the temporal mandibular joints. Once the joints came back from the US the child was subjected to bilateral TMG replacement. Initially the child presented to us with nil mouth opening and believe me all these surgeries when I speak about bilateral TMG replacements it's a combined team effort. When I say team effort it involves anesthetists, it involves pediatricians, co-colleagues as well as respiratory or pulmonologists as the duration of surgery is around 8 to 9 hours and it does take at all on the ventilation. So the child was subjected to the surgery wherein we did a bilateral TMG replacement. Once the child underwent the bilateral TMG replacement what we found post-operatively was that the mouth opening improved from 0 to 25 and today as of things stand the child is doing well, he's put on weight, he's got back his functional ability as well as the aesthetics which is desired for a child of that age. I'm sure we would think about what is the fate of these joints at the later age when the child grows, yes probably he might require an additional surgery at the age of 19 years when he grows in the form of an osteotomy for the upper jaw. And I'm happy to say that we at KMC hospitals, Mangalore, Ambedkar Circle possibly are the first hospital in India to conduct bilateral alloplastic TMG replacement in India and possibly in the known English literature one of the few very hospitals in the world to carry out this complex surgery taking into consideration the age of the patient and the procedure per se the delicacy what I mean. I wish all the best to all my patients through this video all I would like to encourage is that there is a treatment for temporal mandibular joint afflictions at KMC hospitals Mangalore in a wide array of specializations made be from distractions to costocondal graftings to the new possibly the bombshell in the armamentarium being alloplastic TMG replacements. Thank you.


Welcome back to Tennis Talk. My name's Cam Williams and we are going through the ranking show this week We're back with the rankings and there's a lot of changes that have happened both inside the top 10 and outside the top 10 Now that the US Open is finished with new champions Let's go have a look at the past results so the results from last week only two tournaments on last week two of the Biggest ones of course with the US Open. Let's go check it out So the US Open on the women's side is concluded of course and Rada Can you defeating Fernandez 6463? Big shock there I don't think anyone expected either of those players to be in the final and they've got rewarded with their rankings And of course Daniel Medvedev, he won the men's tournament and defeated Novak Djokovic in the final 6-4-6-4-6-4 Again another result that a lot of people didn't think was possible especially against Djokovic Having a look at the top 10 for the women We still have Ash party as the world number one and Sabalenka who made the semi-finals of the US Open She stays at number two but last year's champion Namiya Sarka has dropped down two spots after failing to defend the points that she won last year Meaning that Pushkova and Svetolina who both made the quarter-finals of the US Open last week have gone up two spots to number three and four Sophia Kennan who didn't compete in New York. She stays at number six But Bianca Andrescu the winner of the US Open from two years ago lost all their points and has gone down 13 spots falling out of the top 10 for the first time in a couple of years Allowing Kredger Kovac to go up two spots and take that number seven position It's Vyontek she stays at number eight and due to Andrescu falling out Mugaruta goes up one spot to number nine and Kovac goes up one spot rounding out the top ten Having a look at the WTA finals race the race to Shenzhen Over the next couple of weeks players will start qualifying for that end of your championship Ash party She stays at number one but Kredger Kovac she goes down one spot Even though she made the quarter-finals of the US Open she goes down one spot and Sabalenka regains that number two spot after Getting to the semi-finals in New York last week Pushkova stays at number four. It's Vyontek number five We have a new number six with Maria Sarkaree going up seven spots after making the semi-finals in New York last week She goes up to number six pushing down Osaka to number seven Mugaruta to number eight and Jabara number nine and Pagula falls out of the top ten going down five spots Thanks to a lot of players having good results and overtaking her in the rankings meaning that Pavlo Chankova gets back in at number ten having a look at the couple of players that have gone up in the rankings and of course We've got to talk about the two finalists in New York rocket it up the rankings Rada Kanyu. She of course won the whole tournament She's gone up 127 spots number 23 in the world Which is obviously a career high for her and Fernandez She's gone up 45 spots to number 28 in the world and that is also a career high for her So both players getting to the final of the US Open and getting rewarded going to the players that have dropped down in The rankings and it was the players that played well last year at the US Open as a ranker made the final of New York last year She's gone down 13 spots after failing to defend those points at number 32 now and Serena Williams after not competing in New York She loses all her points from the semi-finals last year going down 19 spots to number 41 in the world Which means that if she stays at that ranking she will be unseeded at the Australian Open So very dangerous for Serena if she goes into the new season without a seed in especially the Australian Open having a look at The rankings for the men now the top ten for the men and not too many changes up the top with Novak Djokovic staying at number one US Open champion Daniel Medvedev at number two city pass at three as Vera stays at number four We have some changes in the middle with Rafa going down one spot after losing all the points He gained in New York from two years ago He goes down one spot being replaced by Rublev who goes up two spots number five Dominic team also losing all his points from last year goes down two spots number eight and Baratini goes up a spot after having a really good tournament last week getting to the quarter finals He goes up to number seven Roger Federer. He stays where he is at number nine with Dennis Shapovalov He drops down two spots out of the top ten for the first time in a couple of weeks Being replaced by Kasper Root who is into the top ten for the first time in his career So another career-high ranking for a next-gen player having a look at the race two to win the race to the ATB Finals Novak Djokovic stays at number one already qualified of course for the ATB finals Daniel Medvedev he takes the final city passes second spot after winning in New York with city pass going down to number three But despite this both players have qualified officially for the ATB finals. So Djokovic, Medvedev, City pass They're all gonna be featuring in Turin as Vera is at number four But he is very close to qualifying himself for the ATB finals. Rublev at number five Baratini at six Rudd at seven her catch at eight We have a new number nine with Felix Ozealia seem going up five spots into that number nine position after making the Semi-finals of the US Open pushing down synod number ten and Carrottsive falls out of the top ten for the race to Turin having a look at the players that have gone up in the world rankings this week and Ozealia seem he's done well to get into the top ten for the ATB finals But he's also been rewarded with a career-high ranking of number eleven Which is four spots higher than it was before the US Open and Alcarez after making the quarter finals of the US Open He's gone up 17 spots to a career-high ranking number 38 in the world Which means it comes the Australian Open he could be seated at that tournament Which will definitely help him go a long way players that have gone down in the rankings then the drinker He's gone down 16 spots in number 49 in the world after not playing for a long time still recovering from injury and Nick Kirios He's gone down nine spots to number 95 Which puts him in big danger of not actually being able to qualify for the Australian Open main draw He's gonna have to either get a wild card or maybe play the qualifiers if he does fall out of the top hundred in the next couple of weeks So there it is the rankings for this week And there's a big changes big changes not only in the top ten but outside the top ten And it's awesome to see that we're starting to see the WTA ATB finals starting to take shape starting to hopefully with The WTA finals being played starting to take shape with some of those really Exciting new players righto. Can you she's not too far out of the top ten for that race to the Shenzhen and also Fernandez So who knows who knows how it's gonna play out in the next couple of weeks Of course, we've got Indian Wells coming up in about a month's time But let me know down the comments below who are you most shocked about maybe going up in the rankings or maybe going down in the rankings I know Serena Williams being outside of the top 40 and we don't know if she's gonna come back and play in the next couple of weeks She might not be playing for the rest of the year. She's a bit of a shock for me She might be unseated when we go to Australia in January next year So with the major tournaments done for the year players that did well the US Open got rewarded in the rankings


you're listening to around the Northwest now the Errigal Arts Festival is on around the Northwest at the moment and We're in for another busy weekend. It's off to a great start this weekend There's events everywhere from Balibuffet to Ruffo Glitter Kenny to Bunkrana And if you're looking for something to do with the family for instance over the weekend There's big circus shows in the big top in Ruffo But the director of the festival now Paul Brown joins me in the studio to tell us who you're more about what's happening in the coming days and into next week. Hopefully Paul good afternoon to you. Hi, John Now you're off to a good start and we're setting off there But the weather but the weather doesn't play a big part because everything what most things are all tented Yeah, I mean obviously as you mentioned there is that the circus program. We have a big top tent It's in Ruffo this weekend So a tumble circus who I'm sure plenty of listeners would know from previous years have a new show there And that's performing today, and then we have a great show by an Italian artist called Mateo Galbissera He's performing a show called the loser, which is really funny show for kids and adults as well too. So that's happening out at the Roy and Pryor school out there in Ruffo. Okay, so the tent set up all ready to go We've had works great workshops this morning all sold out And again workshops will run through tomorrow and Saturday as well great family activities great idea for a family Well, that's it. You know the the festival really reaches out to the right as you mentioned right across, you know, the Northwest But it also is about trying to bring Arts and creativity to everybody, you know So it's providing kind of an accessible program people can participate you can learn skills through you say the the workshop programs that we run But also is about about you know people coming along a sense of getting together a sense of community A sense of you know collective kind of celebration as well too, which is kind of what the essence of what festival is really about So we've plenty on in terms you mentioned there in terms of obviously the circus program. We have street arts performers here We have another artist called Lorenzo. I'm just gonna get to Lorenzo There's already been experience of him down in the shopping center here in that I can't he but he's He's got a couple of different shows. So he's got the kind of security guard of people who may have witnessed Yesterday in there Kenny shop and center was a big thanks actually to the dough on the staff down there for facilitating that But yeah, so he'd be on the main street in there Kenny as well as a police man as an Italian policeman so He'd be there interacting with people on on on their their travels through literally main street And then he'd be in before the diamond then as well too on Saturday. Excellent now there's two great concerts tonight Thursday in the Art Center for instance, there's Gerald Donald and Trevor Sexton That's right. Yeah, so baller has a great series of gigs on there the Frank Walters on the weekend there as well too So yeah, if anybody wants to check out that that's in Balba Faye obviously for people who don't know and then we have well When the RCC we have a show which is very close to sell them out So I mean if anybody wants tickets for an amicum there this evening then they They should really get on the website and get that because it says we have a lot of shows or are are selling out Which is great to see you're particularly for the artists as well, too So if anybody needs to get tickets is all available online through AF dot ie our website But again, yeah, we're delighted this has been such a great response They've ice will be don't leave it a chance book your tickets in advance exactly. That's very much So, you know, you're guaranteed your seat basically and I would say as well, too When we know keep an eye on they can sign up your newsletter because we update everybody, you know through that as well to your social media We'll give details of things that are sold out So we wouldn't want anybody traveling if they haven't got a seat So it's always advisable to book in advance, you know, absolutely now over the weekend after a great success last year on Fela Lane. Well, it was on earlier this year actually on a TG car, but the camera crews back the Near TV and they're back to more filming this weekend. That's right This is the second year of a of a series for TG car, which will get broadcast in January of 2024 Excuse me if anybody saw the series earlier this year, it's a Series of concerts that are shot at and green theater here in another Kenny And then there's seven episodes broadcast and later in the year so great exposure. No, it's great You know, it's a really it's great for dunnygaw, you know, because there's so much as well, too About dunnygaw within the actual program, you know So so this Friday we have a celebration of the Campbell's, you know The fiddle players basically, you know from from West on you also Jimmy and Vincent and that's involved in Peter As well too in terms of the curation. That's was a huge number of fiddlers involved in that concert And there the sport actually comes and we didn't deliberately do this comes from a young Scottish Piper small pipe small pipes bridge Campbell So she's she's coming just so happens. It wasn't delivered at all So she's coming on it's coming with a no work of law Aiden is gonna go connections himself And they're performing a special performance on Friday night with You know for specifically for the festival and for the for the TG car series and then we move on to Saturday and we have fiddle the trio fiddle players celebrate fiddle players from dunnygaw. Yeah, and Fluke with Brian Finnegan great, you know player from our mouth. Yeah Say a lot of people who are followers of traditional music would know them very well And that's in the theater on Saturday evening Sunday The cast of these family from West on you all will be performing at lunchtime and again That's gonna be a very special program because again of the focus on dunnygaw within that as well, too you know, it's a family group from from Great great kind of tradition. You know say of our traditional music within dunnygaw And then the afternoon. That's Sunday afternoon. Yeah. Yeah, and it's you know, it's it's it's about celebrating the song book You know, so it's about it's a we want to encourage people as well to bring bring kids along You know, it'll be something I'm sure they'll be kind of bits of it That'll that'll be kind of very much engaging for them as well. Yeah, because there's some songs that were We learned in school. Exactly. They're still being taught in school. Yeah, and then the the casties put their own sort of twist on them Yeah, yeah, very entertaining. Yeah, very very indeed. Yeah, and then we well all their sold-out shows now The tickets are all gone for it is Lisa O'Neill and ushers and on closing that series of concerts on Sunday, right? just want to mention that John Roddy John D. Roddy is Part of the festival again this year's that's an artist and performer and he's working with the young people again He is the projects called Fido Fido We started that project last year with a number of young participants From various ethnic ethnic backgrounds, you know So they came in and they told their own stories through an animation that we screened at the regional cultural center then when the John's been working You know With with these young people for a number of weeks now.  I mean it was it was a very emotional Screening we had last year. I'm sure this one this year will be as emotional because it's some some very tough stories in there as well too, but you know, it was great to see how these young people were expressing themselves how the creative kind of Expression was coming through through the medium of illustration. Yeah, and animation John's brilliant, you know Anybody Work is, you know, well, no, he's got he's got a significant amount of followers on YouTube across the world But it's been great that he's been able to do that again Say tell new stories and that we're gonna screen that at the reason cultural center on Saturday the 15th of July at 3 p.m In the afternoon, so that's free anybody come along Really, you know, it's a sense of it's great piece of work We've done absolutely free Saturday at the regional cultural center Well, there's a lot to it because you mentioned about the the concerts and about traditional music and then there's There's folk music and then, you know Music from other cultures as well And then you're chatting there about the circus acts and about Lorenzo out and about on the streets and you know There's and then animation with John and stuff So, you know, it's it encompasses a lot and I supposed to get to get the full flavor of everything That's available in different parts of the county go to the website That's right. Yep. E a f dot ie you'll find out all the details and you find out more There's some things in there as well to that aren't in the printed program. Okay, you know So there's there's an additional exhibition happening down in and gallery in Ghidor as well to And say there's plenty there, you know throughout the next kind of 10 11 days We run right through until the 23rd of July. The circus focus will go to Ghidor Next week, we'll pack a tent down take it across the door and set up down there maharick Allen So we'll be running a series of shows there as well to a core show will be tumble circus again So we try and take it around the county a bit each year and then we have other, you know Great kind of international performers coming to do that as well to Henry Garrison back next week as well to their Residencies running that's sold out But the concert is this year will be in the current on a Colgan Hall Okay At the end of the week on Friday the 21st And then we say, you know, there's a couple of other different kind of concerts that'll be happening both and well right across the county Really, we've fantastic band from from core called pretty happy. They'll be performed at the regional cultural center That's an all ages show as well too. So if anybody anybody wants to go along to that obviously They're more welcome So, yeah, let's say We're trying our best to reach out to as many places as possible. We can't be everywhere at once It's always a thing. We're very conscious of so if we it'd be great if we had the money to do so so but You say we do try our best to try and you know, take us as much accessible Creative and artistic work out to different parts of the legal bearing in mind that the festival is not for profit And it's actually a registered charity. Yes. Yes, so that's something not a lot of people Might know. Yes, so, you know that we are charity We we we we fully rely on the support of obviously our funders the arts council don't even go county council fall charge and then I hope For us to get a number of other, you know, we have a portfolio of different funders But essentially the festival doesn't happen John without the people that don't eat all And the visitors who come here as well to during the summertime, you know, that's what doesn't happen without people So the people who contribute Who buy tickets who they make and say we have a donation facility if anybody feels that they've got a spare You know, if you're quite the one to donate the festival which all gets plowed back into us being able to make these events a lot of it's free But it's also about, you know, subsidizing making accessible for people as well too So that maybe, you know income or finances and necessarily always a buyer if we can kind of create works Events and projects that are engaging for people You know, that that support is really crucial from from from the public in terms of actually delivering what we do You know, I'm making I'm making it affordable So to say, you know We're always that we have a donation facility there that that money that's plowed back into the festival But I just want to say a huge thank you to everybody's bought tickets who comes along to the festival because they say without Without you doesn't kind of happen, you know, okay Well on at the moment to more info at eaf.ie and we'll play out the piece with the casties And they are Sunday afternoon in and green in theater and here's a row bugle me, which we all know well from school Paul Thank you. 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Hi everyone, my name is Christina. I'm from Christina. Hi everyone, my name is Danea. I'm from the Long Beach Public Library. Thank you for joining us for our food talk program, Rice for Breakfast Edition. This is part of our Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month series that's gonna run from May 1st to May 29th. We're highlighting today our Asian Pacific Islander foods. Let's get started. Danea, did you know that Cambodian Filipinos make up a very large portion of our Asian communities here in Long Beach? That is a very good fact. And that's why we're here today. We're gonna be showcasing wonderful dishes from Cambodian and Filipino cultures that both have rice. And so today, we're showcasing my dish here and Danea's. And so here, my dish is actually called babal siguan, which means rice porridge with chicken. And a memory that I have with this food is something that I would have commonly on the weekends with my family, kind of our version of brunch. And so a lot of times, because it's the weekend we want to hang out with the family, we would actually go and eat this together at a restaurant. Oh, and for my dishes, I have a savory and a sweet dish. And I just remember growing up and my dad would be cooking for us in the morning and he would make either casino or longaniza, which I'll get into later. But most of all, the siguan and my dad would be really excited about telling me how to add either certain things to it to make it like yummy. So just growing up and seeing these foods always bring back like a lot of good memories. And it fills my tummy. Yes. Happy. Okay. So yeah, so let's take a look and let's get a closer look at our dishes. Kristina, do you want to go first? Sure. Okay. So this is a close-up of my dish here, which is called babal siguan, which is pretty much a rice porridge or kanji with chicken. And we also typically serve this with other meats like pork, which is sakchuruk, or trai, which is fish. That's really interesting because Kristina, we have something similar in ours where it's a rice porridge and we usually use half chicken and we call it aeroscaldo, but your extras are a little bit different from mine, but they both look great to me. Sure. I can introduce, I know it looks a little different, but here in this dish right here is a soy bean paste, which has a salty fermented taste that we like to add to our bowl. And this is a sambal. It's pretty much like a spicier sriracha flavor. I love my dish with lots of lime and making it citrusy. So we also have lime as well. And we also have this interesting thing on the side here. Does it look kind of interesting to you, Danea? Yeah, it's really good. And I wasn't sure if it was sweet or savory and since you mentioned it. Sure. It's actually savory. It's actually called Chinese doughnut or in Kamai, we say it called cha kui, not doughnut in the way that we think, more like a beignet consistency. So it's really doughy and fluffy. And I like to eat it by ripping it up into pieces and throwing it into our bowl. Sometimes people like to dip this into the side drink, which a lot of times it's accommodated with a Vietnamese iced coffee, which is really sweet. And so that makes for a really great bi-play between salty and sweet. Is that only for breakfast that you'd have the doughnut? Typically this is only served with breakfast foods in the morning. So that's the only time you can find it. That's really nice to know. Sure. Okay, well, I'm gonna get to mine. Let's check it out. Now it's time for me to showcase my Filipino dish. And we'll be starting with the savory dish first. And in this dish, I have garlic fried rice. I have ticino, eggs, and longaniza. Usually people can also have fish or a different type of meat and when they're eating it for breakfast, ticino is more of a sweet meat that you would want and there's also longaniza, which is a more savory sausage. It's a really good meat and it mixes really well with each other. So now that I've talked about my savory dish, I'm gonna move on to my sweet dish. And this is one that I really have good memories with my dad who would talk about the suman. So suman is sweet rice wrapped in banana leaves. And they can also have different types of sweet rice wrapped in banana leaves and you'd have to know which one it is. And then for this dish, I'm actually pairing it with mango. You can also use sugar or sometimes people use salt. It depends on what you wanna do in your palate. Any questions Christina? Yeah, you know, this particular dish you have right here is very similar to what was showcased in Chenda's Storytime for Kwan Lear, which was nomsom and different versions of that. So is this a sweet or savory dish? So this one is a little bit more savory because they have salt in it, but there are other sweeter versions of suman in it. My mom, before I came, she's like, is that the kasaba or is that? And I was like, no, no, this is just a regular one. And so she wanted to make sure that I was showcasing the right one. But I did notice that in the Storytime, and when Chenda was showcasing the many different types of the sweet rice in the banana leaves, it kind of made me really excited because we share something very similar. But then I really wanna try your guys's like sweet rice in the banana leaves because you guys add all these other things to it too. Especially the jackfruit one, I really like that one. But yeah, so this is something that you could have in the morning time. And I love it, because it reminds me of my dad. You're really excited showing me how to add anything to this to make it sweet or what we could use with mango. And he would be so excited about it. So yeah, that's it. How cool. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today for our Food Talk program. We're really excited that you got to learn a little more about our cultures and hope that you will try out any of these recipes from any of our cookbooks in our Long Beach Public Library collection. Or if not, you can even just go and check out any of the restaurants in Long Beach that serve Cambodian Filipino food. Thank you guys. Have a good one. We'll see ya.