Good morning or good afternoon and welcome to this session on renewables and waste statistics. I am Luca Lorenzoni and I work on renewable statistics in the IAE Energy Data Center. Today I work you through this presentation on renewables data and later my colleagues Ricard and Fabiano will guide you through the exercise session. So let me show you how this presentation is structured. So it is divided into three different parts. In the first one I'll talk about renewable strengths worldwide. Then I'll show you key statistics concepts specific for renewables and then lastly I'll go over the structure of the renewables and waste questionnaire. But let's start with a question that you can answer on Menti. So you can go on Menti and enter the code 31466873. And the question is which renewable energy do you think takes the largest portion in total energy supply in the world? So pay attention to what we are talking about. We are talking about the total energy supply and it's an important concept in energy statistics. And in particular for renewables you will see later it's very important how we classify the different products and what are the the methodology and the assumptions that that we take. So I see several questions, several answers. Seems that Hydro is is leading with almost 20 votes. And the second is solid biofuels and solar PV with six votes. I'll show you the answer which is solid biofuels. So I'll give you the wine in this slide. So as you can see here you see the word total and renewables energy supply in 2021. The largest portion of renewables was biofuels and waste and the largest component of this part was solid biofuels. So getting back to the question when we talk about renewables the first things that may come to mind are renewable electricity sources such as solar PV, wind power or hydro which was the other option in the question that so many of you chose. But the renewable product must use in the world is still biomass and it is mainly converted into heat and that is largely consumed in the global south for eating and cooking purposes. So as you can see from this slide there are several energy products that have increased greatly in the last three decades. It's good to see that the renewable space is likely higher than the TES rate and this is mainly due to favorable policies for renewables especially for solar PV and wind. But as we previously saw the share in total energy supply is still 14.4% and it's necessary that the renewables contribution to TES grows faster since as you know renewables are key for the decarbonization of the energy sector. So in the chart on the left you can see the share of renewables around the world and you see that Africa is the largest share. We get back to what I said about solid biofuels used in the global south. Indeed the renewable product must use in Africa and in the other regions except OECD is biomass and this is mostly a traditional use of biomass that principally means burning the fuel inefficently. In OECD countries biomass is less used and generally in a modern way for example for producing electricity and still in the OECD in which you can see the share is one of the lowest. The renewables development has been significant in the last years especially to generate electricity but the share is still low because there are energy intensive final consumption sectors such as the transport sector for example that are still heavily reliant on fossil fuels. So considering this sectoral consumption on the right again the green slice is mainly composed of traditional use of biomass. The electricity plant slice is what we should pursue to expand since we would like to electrify the final consumption sector as much as possible consuming electricity produced by renewables. So this leads me to the final slide of this first section where you can see the world electricity production in which renewables represent the 28 percent in 2021. So within renewables hydro which is one of the oldest renewable technologies is the most widespread solar PV and wind are the two that have grown faster in the last years posing new challenges for the power sector management let's say since they are intermittent so the generation does not always match the demand and they are often unpredictable. So I invite you to follow the strategy proposed by the agency to face these challenges and now let's move to the key concept section. So this is very important and it relates to the first question that I posed to you before. So as you can see renewable products are classified into four groups and this classification is based on the form of primary energy considered from a statistical point of view and how this form can be converted into another. So I'll explain this starting from the first group electricity only. So if you consider wind or hydro the first form of energy that is generated is mechanical energy for example from the rotation of a wind turbine that then is converted into electricity. So from a statistical point of view we consider electricity as the primary form of energy since the mechanical energy in almost all cases is directly converted into electricity there are no other outlets and the mechanical energy would not be of interest from a statistical point of view since electricity is the first common marketable commodity that is that is generated. For the second and fourth group the primary form is heat for the second group the production is considered in the form of heat because in this case there are two possible outlets heat that can be directly used for example using geothermal heat for this heating or heat that can be used to generate electricity for example in a solar thermal power plant. The fourth group includes the heat extracted from the environment and used in heat pumps and in this case it is not possible to convert it into electricity so it is reported in this separated category. Finally in the third group we have combustible fuels so as primary form of energy we consider the fuels themselves and it's the only form that can be stored. So here you can see the solid biofuels classification and the definition is in the center of the slide. They are all considered the primary products except charcoal that is derived from the carbonization of wood and there are some products that need specific explanations like one of them is black lipo that is a byproduct of the paper manufacturing process and this is actually liquid but is conventionally considered within solid biofuels. Then we have renewable industrial waste that is usually solid organic matter so it is considered within solid biofuels and the most common product is natural rubber components of waste tires. So if you are not sure if a product can be considered solid biofuels or industrial waste just reach out to us and we'll figure it out. Now we have another question that you can answer on on Menti and it is what is an example of wood, of how wood is used in energy statistics. So moving to the next slide the code is still the same 31466873. So there are four options and you should you should point out which of these flows can be reported related to wood can be reported in energy statistics. So we have as material for making furniture is the first, burning for heating is the second, the wood residues burning landfill is the third and none of these is the fourth. I see that everybody almost everybody pointed out burning for home meeting that is actually there the right answer and let's explore the other answers. So furniture is a non-energy use that should not enter the energy statistics domain and regarding the third wood residues burned in a landfill from how it is written in this question we cannot deduce that the energy generated from burning the material is used somehow. So the material could be burned just to reduce its volume basically only ash remains and this is not an energy used. So in this slide you can see how liquid biofuels are reported in the renewables questionnaire compared to the oil questionnaire. In the renewables one we report only pure liquid biofuels this means that you don't have to report the portion of biofuels blended with oil products we report the blended products in the oil questionnaire. So here you can see an example which a country produces 1000 kilotons of diesel containing 10 percent of biodiesel and alpha diesel product is exported and the other half is used in road transport. So 100 kilotons of biodiesel are produced in the country and are reported in the renewable production of biodiesel but the other flows concern blended products therefore they are reported all in the oil questionnaire. In the renewables balance you will you will report the production of biodiesel and then in the transformation sector this amount will be reported under the blending with oil products flow and in this way pure liquid biofuels are transferred to blended products and this concept applies also to biogases when biogases are blended with with natural gas. Now let's see the data sources and the types of data collection so for the supply side data can be collected from energy producers, importers, exporters while for the demand side can be collected from households, enterprises and so on. Data can be collected through surveys or using administrative data but very often an integrated approach is adopted that means using the different ways of collecting data and making estimations where is needed in order to gather the values for all the energy products and flows that that we need. So having a closer look at the different types of data collection surveys are the best ways of collecting data since you collect directly what you need. However they are usually time-consuming and expensive so it's difficult to carry them out every year. What is generally done is taken as a survey every two or three years and making estimations for for the coming years. Concerning administrative data they are generally data collected from governmental bodies in response to legislation, policies, regulations. These are more economical but it's necessary to pay attention to the products definitions and inconsistencies due to the administrator's lack of expertise in data analysis. Then you can get measured data and finally in absence of data sources you can make estimations. Here there is an example for solar PV in case you need electricity generation but to have all the information and capacity installed you can calculate the generation as strong capacity factor. Now before moving to the final part of the presentation I leave you some dissemination links. I let you explore them by yourself and now let's see the questionnaire. So this is the structure of the questionnaire and even if you don't use it I mean if you don't have to submit it to IEA it can still be useful to cross-check the products and flows that we collect with what you collect and with what you have in your database and then in the questionnaire that you can of course download for free from our website. There are different checks and automatic sums that you can adopt for your data validation so it can be useful to have it as a reference. So the first table is used to report the gross electricity and heat production. As you can imagine these values should be consistent with the electricity questionnaire even though here we collect many more details for renewable products. So the table is divided into two parts. The gross electricity production reported in gigawatt hour and gross heat production reported in terajoule. So the producers are classified as main activity producer that are economic unit whose principal activity is to produce energy and auto producer that are economic activity whose principal activity is not producing energy but they produce energy to support the principal activity. So these are further divided into electricity only plants combined heat and power plants and heat only plants and regarding heat reporting all heat production from main activity producer plants should be reported while in case of auto producers only heat sold to third parties should be reported. Now you can see the table two way it is the largest table with 13 products and listed across the top and more than 60 flows. So regarding the definition of energy products as I think you already know the follow we follow the international recommendations on energy statistics. Most products are reported in terajoule on a net calorific basis except for charcoal and liquid biofuels which are reported in kilotones. If you see the rows this is broken up into supply transformation sector and energy sector and final energy and non-energy consumption sector and final consumption is divided into industry transport and other sectors which include the residential agriculture etc and in case of energy sector and final consumption the flow should be reported according to the international standard industrial classification categories. So now table 3a this table has five parts and it contains very important information used also for verifying the information entered into the other tables. So the first part collects data on the maximum electrical capacity of the renewable plants. If electricity generation is reported in table 1 then capacity must be reported here by type and size and this is reported in megawatts. Concerning solar collector surface it is reported in 1000 square meters and let me specify that does not include neither solar PV surface nor solar thermal power collector surface like CSP. It's only about solar thermal collectors mainly used in the residential sector to eat water. Then we have the production capacity of liquid biofuels that is reported in kilotones per year and finally we collected the average net value and the density of the various liquid biofuels. Now I wanted to mention something specific for solar PV regarding to table 3a that we started to collect from this year. Basically a typical solar PV system is composed of solar PV panels that generate electricity in direct current in DC and an inverter that converts the electricity from DC to alternate current AC. So we have a capacity of the panels installed that is in DC and the capacity of the converter that is in AC. So for design reasons the ratio between the DC and the AC capacity can be up to 1.5 so the panels capacity can be 50 percent higher than the inverter power rates and for this reason we ask to report both the capacities for a given plan. So we ask countries to clarify this information with the data providers and if countries do not have both the information AC and AC at least clarify what kind of capacity they are referring to so if it is AC or DC. The next table table 4 give a detail breakdown of production of solid biofuels and biogases. For example solid biofuels is divided into fuel wood, black liqueur, bagasse, animal waste, other vegetable materials and residues and industrial waste, the renewable part and the figures should be reported in interagul. So the important thing is that the total amount of production of solid biofuels in table 4 should match the number reported in indigenous production of solid biofuels in table 2. So the same principle applies to biogases. In this slide you can see table 5 that is for imports by country of origin and table 6 that is for exports of countries by destination and at the moment the products concerned are liquid biofuels and wood pellets since they are the most traded commodities but there could be changes in the future. Finally this year we have introduced table 7 where we collect non-energy used data of renewable products. Now in terms of flows the structure is a mirror of the energy sector and final consumption sectors for energy users. However it's good to clarify the boundaries of this collection and only renewables used to replace fossil fuels which are currently reported as final non-energy consumption should be present in the scope of energy statistics and as reported in this table. So some examples are the non-energy use of gaseous biofuels replacing natural gas as feedstocks or liquid biofuels replacing naphtha, LPG, lubricants in the chemical and pre-dochemical sector as well as solid biofuels used to replace coal products in the industry sector to produce dyes or fungicides for example. So it has to be clear that certain non-energy use of renewables especially those that are clearly irrelevant to energy statistics like solid biofuels for furniture, construction or alcohols used in the food industry should be left outside of the scope. So here is a thematic overview of the relationship within the renewables questionnaire and other annual questionnaires. So renewable questionnaire is a strong relationship especially with electricity and oil for liquid biofuels and then gas for blended gas. As you can see there are many links between tables and we use the links also to validate our data. So here I left you a few helpful links specific to renewables. There are some documents that could be of interest for you and that's it. Here you can see our email addresses if you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out to us.


This is the surgical skills lab. And what do you think goes on here? Surgery. We had the fifth graders come in and tour our labs to expose them to science and mathematics and technology. Yeah, so the kids really liked a lot of what they saw today, especially things that move like the robot. They got to see their forces that they were putting into the ground in the force plates in the biomotion lab. And then they also came in their regenerative medicine lab and were able to see liquid nitrogen and how it foams and produces a lot of gas that they can see and do some experiments with. It was great to see the kids come in and their eyes light up when you just type a few lines of code and all of a sudden the robot's flying around the room. I really enjoyed sharing what I do with them. When I was a kid, I wish I would have had something like this, having a chance to kind of learn about the ins and outs of medicine a little bit and get the experience of seeing orthopedic surgery. The Education and Public Outreach Committee, or EPOC for short, hosts a number of educational activities throughout the year. We try and engage students all across the valley and all across the spectrum of fifth graders, middle schoolers, and even high schoolers through different programs. It all began with Sinenphilipon and her desire to become more involved within the community and she saw the impact that we can have on children that are growing up here and hopefully inspire the next set of scientists and researchers and doctors within our own community. Kids having this experience so early on and enjoying medicine at a young age and kind of getting the head started is something pretty special that we're giving the opportunity for. It's really great to be able to transmit our passion for what we do to the new generation.


I used to watch this YouTube channel about paranormal topics all of the time. It had a weird name like Paranormal Headquarters Television or something of that like. Just what you would expect a YouTube channel of that genre would be called. Whenever I was working on something on the computer, I would always have the narration of the videos going on in the background. I even talked about this channel with family and friends. Of course many of them just rolled their eyes and didn't give the channel a watch. They didn't share my interest of the paranormal, but they always supported my strange obsession with it. I have always been into learning about the mysterious and unexplained mysteries of the world. The weirder the topic, the better. You might say I have had a lot of paranormal experiences in my life, so learning about people who had gone through similar things was a bit of a comfort. I continued my ritual of logging into YouTube and listening to this channel for a year. I learned about every topic possible from the Marpholites to the Skunkape. Not one paranormal topic went untouched. At the beginning of the new year, the channel Marrior started a new series about paranormal experiences he had personally done through. It had its own little playlist, so I started listening to that playlist more than the main channel because I love hearing people's personal paranormal stories more than anything else. I listened to him talking about all sorts of things from lizard men to spotting bigfoot in the woods. But one day logging into YouTube and going about my usual ritual of listening to his playlist, I immediately noticed that something was amiss. The new video playing didn't have the same audio quality as his other videos. It was grainy and scratchy and there were parts of the audio that could not be heard altogether. In the audio that did get through, sentences like, I may not return again after this, and, I found something I shouldn't have, peaked through the noise every once in a while. I figured that this was a jump scare video or something so I didn't pay much attention to it. This was a channel that focused on the scary end of things after all. But the next time I went to find the channel, it had completely disappeared. No matter where I searched for it, on YouTube, on Google, on every search engine I could think of, it just was nowhere to be found. Even the website that I would visit occasionally had completely disappeared. It was like it had never existed. The weirdest thing was that when I would talk to people about the YouTube channel in a vain attempt to get some information from others about what had happened to it, no one knew what I was talking about. Even the friends and family I had shared the YouTube channel with had no idea what I was talking about when I brought the topic up. Eventually I gave up trying to find the channel. I thought that maybe I really had just imagined the whole thing. I tried not to think about it. But then, when I was browsing for new paranormal channels to watch, a video with the narrator of paranormal headquarters popped up in one of my search results. I clicked the video right away without even reading the caption. The video played and turned out to be a news story. It was dated, having been broadcasting the previous year. In the news story, the lady on screen talked about the narrator who I learned was named Corey Felton in real life. Corey had apparently gone to a party with some friends and disappeared shortly after. They had launched an investigation into his disappearance but as of the date of the broadcast no one had seen or heard from him. This intrigued me, so I looked up follow-up news stories about Corey Felton. They progressed throughout the year talking about how no matter how many search parties had set out to find Corey, no one could find him. The last news story said that due to the length of his disappearance, it was assumed that Corey might be dead but they were still keeping up hope that they would find him. All of this information was almost too much to process. While Corey was supposedly missing, I had somehow been watching a YouTube channel narrated by him. Could it have been that he ran away and was making the YouTube channel from an unknown location? Did he already know his life was in danger before making the channel? Things like this rushed through my mind. I thought that I should share what I knew about Corey with the family. They had a website which reached out to the internet community and pleaded for people to give them any leads they could think of to get their boy home safely. I sent an email talking about everything I had been watching on YouTube for the past year, including his personal playlist about the paranormal. I didn't get a response for a while but then Corey's mother called me one day out of the blue. She sounded quite excited on the phone and asked me to meet up with her and her family in Bangor, Maine. She said she would pay for the plane ticket as I lived in Paris, Texas and insisted that I visit their family, being someone who had information about her son's disappearance. So that is what I did. I flew out to Maine to meet with Corey's mother and the rest of their family. When I arrived, his family greeted me with warmth. You could see that they all looked tired and worn out as if Corey's disappearance had just taken place yesterday. After settling in, I went over all of the details again. Corey's mother explained how the only object missing from Corey's room was indeed his laptop. He had been researching all sorts of paranormal stuff for a year and kept insisting that he was going to spread his knowledge to the world. So it made sense that he would make a YouTube channel. Why he would run away to make it was as of yet still unknown. It was obvious that he had a very loving family and from what I gathered reading his journals, he had really no problems in school or with other people that would make him want to run away or skip town for any particular reason. I comforted the family the best I could when I was there and told them that they could always keep in contact with me if they needed someone to talk to. They were grateful for that and even after I left a week later, I kept in contact with Corey's mother, his father and his older brother through email or Facebook. Unfortunately, I never was able to find anything else about Corey Felton again. That YouTube channel was the only connection I had with him and that had long disappeared. However, a few years later, Corey's mother sent me a lengthy email explaining how Corey had returned to them, seemingly lacking any sort of memories from his past or recollection of what had happened to him over the time he had disappeared. He only showed up at the house because he had been dropped off there by a white van. The local police were looking into the case, but were not coming up with much of anything that could help the family. Corey was slowly adjusting to being home again, but he was not the same teenage boy that had gone missing. He wasn't interested in paranormal stuff anymore. In fact, he intentionally stayed away with it or insisted that that stuff wasn't real. He didn't like any of the foods he had liked in the past. All of his clothing preferences changed. It was like he was a whole different person, but honestly this didn't bother the family. They were just happy to have him home. The final email was the last connection I had with the Felton family. They got busy with their own life and trying to help Corey adjust to being part of their family again. I went back to listening to paranormal shows like usual. As I worked on homework from university or building one of the websites I did as a side job as I was going through school. But the strange nature of Corey's disappearance always stuck out in my mind. I would never forget the YouTube channel he made and his final message talking about how he didn't know if he would return after finding out whatever he did about the unknown. It always made me wonder what he had found that would make him fear for his own life and why he had run away from his family in the first place. I only know one thing, after seeing what happened to Corey, I am keeping my paranormal experiences to myself. I mentioned before that lots of weird things have happened to me. But you won't find me talking about them. At least not here on the web. Because the internet is the place those people who took Corey are watching, ready to erase the memory of anyone who knows more than they should about the paranormal.  Keep your stories to yourself. You never know if the men in the white van are watching your every move. And if you say too much, erasing your memories might not be the only thing they do to you.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this a pop-up box card. I've made lots of these before so I'll share that playlist up here for you and you should have lots of inspiration because they're all different sizes and styles and stuff but yeah I really enjoyed this one and I'll share with you everything that I've used because that's what's inspired me to create this style. It folds completely flat fitting in an envelope, I'm going to have to do a custom envelope for this because I think it's six wide so the idea is that you do six by six high but I went a bit high with my happy birthday and all the other bits there so I'm coming in at about seven seven and a half in height but that's fine I can use the envelope punch board to like I said do that custom envelope but it's really lovely pops up here and stands up. Now these just look lovely as decorative pieces as well so if you want to make something nice for your craft room if you like to have seasonal projects that you display then this is a perfect one for spring and all that kind of lovely stuff so yes this is what we're going to make so pop that one side so you really actually don't need any kind of large cardstocks so it's really good for using scraps. All of the images I have stamped which moves me on nicely to the stamps and what I've used so this is this beautiful company so it's the Hackney and Co it's Craft Consortium and this is the Herbarian premium collection. I think there are four other themed papers with matching stamps and embellishments and all that kind of stuff within this kind of collection I think. I will share all the links I got this from Craft Stash they have all the collection there and the other one I want to get is the Riverbank and I can't remember the name of the other one but it's beautiful so check them out because I really think there's something for everybody there. I'm not going to go through all the papers you can just see I think is there an overview this is what I love about this paper pack as well is obviously you can use all of that there that's you know completely usable you've got all these pieces here on your back page that you can cut out and here you've got all these fun lovely images as well that you can cut out and you've got all the different herbs there which I think is perfect for anybody that you know who enjoys gardening or cooking so and they're just you can just get a rough idea there they're beautiful but like I said not going to go through all of that and then I also purchased the two stamp sets to match so this is the one that I've used and just to give you an idea of how these stamp so that was this one here and then I stamped the word sage which is from this set here I haven't really used this one I'm going to do something else with all these lovely kind of leaves and things and then let me show you you've got the look at that isn't that gorgeous lovely little watering can there's the smaller basil there oops sorry I've got the glare you can see it there I like this it says drink me because you've got your teacup here and then you've got your scissors and everything and that's the larger herb one there as well so I went ahead and stamped cut them out and I've already kind of started with those these here I'm not using today purely because they're obviously quite small and I just think the proportions didn't quite work so if I was to put the little kind of um trowel and scissors there it just would have looked a little bit lost against the larger ones so they will be getting used in other projects but they are metal embellishments and they are absolutely beautiful so that's those there so decide on your theme and what you're going to do like I said if you're you know haven't done this style card before have a little look at that playlist that I've shared because I've done Christmas styles I've done you know flower ones I've done magical like kind of winter cool ones so there's lots there so that's everything that I'm going to be using on mine today now I'm not going to have this as like a happy birthday or get well or anything like that I'm going to leave it blank because I don't actually know what I'm going to do with this one this one I've already got it lined up for something so or someone so um yeah but this one is just going to stay plain for the time being so it's all deconstructed and the idea is it's kind of like a little kind of box or crate or kind of like your table in your shed that's the kind of idea I've got with this so I've gone along and I've cut all of my craft card down into all these different sizes sized pieces and I went ahead and I've distressed it all with the Tim Holtz Distress ink this is the Frade Burlap I love this one when you're using a craft card because it gives a really subtle kind of dirty look that real worn distressed just I love it I think it looks really good so if I bring it up now you can see and it blends so well and it also kind of seeps into the the cards as well so the initial kind of darkness does fade and it goes a bit lighter okay so that's what I've gone ahead and done with everything apart from the two inner kind of panels that you attach everything to I've left those plain so for the corners you are going to need four pieces that are one by four okay and along the one inch side you want to score it half an inch okay fold burnish so you'll have four pieces like this all your corners ready and then go ahead and distress them always better to distress it when you folded and burnished it because then you really get to appreciate all that kind of ink that you're you're adding to it okay so you want four pieces of that size then for your front and back panel so if anybody watched my Easter crate that I done then this is very similar in the way that we're going to put it together it was my Easter basket that I've done with the carrots in it so this is three quarters of an inch by four and you want one two three four five six seven eight pieces again I have to stress them you wouldn't think they are but they have got kind of a kind of just a faint dirty look to them so and then these are your two side pieces so these are two by three quarters of an inch so again you want eight so one two three five six seven eight and then for your panels inside to hang you'll attach everything to these are five by half an inch and along the five inch side you want to score at half an inch and four and a half and then you're going to fold those over okay you have two pieces of this and then I've just attached them red tape you can use wet glue if you want to or you know double sided tape but I've just gone ahead in preparation for the video and put double sided tape on all of that you will also notice that I've gone and put double sided tape on the very ends of every single piece including all those small pieces as well okay so go ahead get all that prepared stamp everything that you want to use you can see how I've kind of you know started filling everything up I've stuck things here as well because the idea is that these are kind of hanging on like the wooden bench and then I've got that little piece down there as well so see what you've got and start to create your theme and then we'll start putting it together okay so it's really straightforward and entirely up to you you know what order or way that you decide to do this I like to do it kind of starting with the back first or the front because you can flip it and you may prefer that you want to start working on the side so so I'm going to take the backing off of one of these long front pieces okay now you're adding your your tape to the front of it so this is actually going to be on show you're not adding it to the back side this is the front side then I'm going to flip it over and you're going to stick it down so this one I'm butting right up to the very top here and up to the folded score line so if I just stick that one down because you can see now what I've done stuck that in like so and then I'm not going to do that side I'm going to continue now this is where if you've got a grid it's quite handy I'm just using these lines here I'm just going to just make sure they're lined up against the line doesn't matter what one as long as you can see it it would just help you get it all lined up so I can see that's lined up now I'm leaving a quarter of an inch gap so I know that this is this is these are half inch cut the squares that I've got on my mat so I can see here that it's halfway between this square because it's three quarters of an inch now I'm going to leave a quarter of an inch gap between everything so I'm going to come up here and I'm just going to pop it in and line it up with that next line okay that is quarter of an inch gap there now it's entirely up to you what gap you want to leave you may only want to add three of these panels and have bigger gaps you may want to add five so again once you see how easy this is to put together it's very easy for you to adapt for yourself and very easy to make very big as well if you want to have a really huge one and like I said there's a decorative piece in your craft room then it would look really cool and then the last one again make sure you give it a quarter of an inch gap there will actually be that piece that sticks up here that will become the bottom so it's like the little feet and I've really distressed the ends there to almost look like there's like mud and you know when it's rain and all that kind of gets quite grubby on the bottom so I've kind of done that there just to make it a little bit more authentic so now if I turn that around you can see there's the little foot that's appeared okay so next I'm going to go on to this side here so I'm going to grab four of these smaller ones and I'm going to do the same thing so I'm going to take off the backing now you don't really need to worry about having a mat now because you're going to just line them up with this one so I'm coming in here and this one you just want to make sure it's right at the very top like so but all of the next ones you're just going to line up you know make sure it sits next to the one and it's next to so again just pop it in there like so just keep working it all folding it all in making sure it stays nice and you know you've got that right angle there and everything's really neat in fact that one just dropped a little bit let's just pull that up there we go just do that now for the other ones okay so now I've got that corner there next I'm going to add on this corner here so then I'm just going to start with the top one and make sure that one gets in there flip it over just so you can see and then I'll grab my bone folder there as well just go over making sure everything is all lined up so already now you can see we've got our corner and this is when it's good obviously I'll put weight to it's all together but you can see when you go over you get real really pick up the color and really kind of mess it up a bit so there you go you can see how different that is now looks great so you just want to continue that so I'm going to do all of this side again you don't want to do the back yet okay so you want to do this next side because I'm going to show you how to add these in really in a really simple way it's much easier to do it when it's kind of not quite put together rather than doing all of your four sides and then trying to kind of get your hand in there to connect those pieces so I'm going to grab this one here and attach it and then add the small ones there okay so that's where you want to be at this point so we've just got the back piece left to do but before we add them it's best to add these pieces so I've already popped the double-sided tape on again you're going to do one side at a time so it's entirely up to you where you want to put these so if you look inside here you can see I've got one about half an inch three eighths of an inch from the front and then I've got about three eighths of an inch gap and then the other one and then I've got the gap at the back so they're probably not equally kind of laid out but um and I've also got some at the bottom there where I done it that way first and then realized I'd done it upside down but if anything it gives it a little bit of strength but so what I would say is I'm going to come in and I'm sticking it on the very top one you may want to go further down you might want to stick it further down here but so there's your side pieces I'm going to come in here and I'm going to line up this folded piece with this piece here so I just do this one here so you can see that I've just used this piece here the edge of it and kind of lined this up with that piece okay so this is going to be the front of mine so now you can see once that gets attached to the other side it's about half an inch from the front so the next one take off your backing again okay so with this one I'll probably go back a little bit further so I'm going to then go where the folded piece is here the edge of it I'm going to do halfway now between this whole piece here so you know this really isn't like exact guys you can put it wherever you want as long as you get both of them in there so now you can see probably got them a bit more even now than the first one I did you see now once they attach to this side now the easiest way to get it to attach so that you know that everything is going to line up properly it's light it down completely flat fold these pieces over again I'm just going to take off all of my backing there okay keep the sticky sides the tabs folded down and just bring this side right over the top like so because already now you know it's going to fold flat because it already is and now when you bring it up you've got them perfectly where you need them it's so easy and then just go back along the other side and just make sure everything folds flat you might find one side folds flatter than the other better then stick with that side and keep that to the way it folds flat because this folds flat really nicely that way it's okay that way but it's much much better that way okay so now we just need to finish the last pieces so grab those four again always do one side first I just personally I find it easier so I'm just going to pop this one in now and line it up there and just go and do all of that side and then I've just taken the backing now off of those ones fold the whole thing flat and you can just fold that last one over and everything should line up like so done so I'm just going to now distress some of these corners a little bit more and get some more on the feet there and in terms of writing your message of you know to and from just do something on the back here you can just add a little panel here I'm probably going to have something so it looks like a little you know like hanging sign or something so yeah it's easy to do just stick some squares on the back there and you can write to and from okay so now it's down to decorating so I've already gone ahead cut all of these pieces so I'm going to have four pieces that actually are floating and then all these bits here I'm kind of going to just stick around them and stuff so I actually fussy cut these images from the paper pack itself but for this one I think I'm just going to stick with the leaves because if I keep fussy cutting them I'm not going to have them for more projects so I really love these you know obviously all the different herb plants so I want to keep them for other projects so this time I'm going to use them but I've also got these which I picked up very inexpensive I showed them in one of my what did I get um tutorial videos and uh yes I've just added some of them in here because I thought they worked really really nicely so I've got just one there I think I'm sure I've got another one somewhere else so there might be two together anyway so the acetate is about half an inch wide and in terms of length they're all varying really but this is five inches so you get them all so they're on five inches and then you can obviously change them um in terms of how to decorate and what to do first it's entirely up to you you can stick all this down and do that first if you want I'm going to do that last so I can see how everything looks first of all so I'm going to stick with the same kind of layout so I'm going to have the larger kind of jars at the back there and then this herb one and then the smaller ones there so if you are wanting to make sure that you get this to fit into a six by six envelope what you need to do is lie it down flat so mine's going to be that way and this is coming in at six inches wide a little bit over but your envelope gives is six and one eighth but that fit in my six by six envelope still and then these are four inches high so where's my six here so I if you're going to get it in six by six you've only actually got that area to play around with and if you imagine trying to squeeze all of this in at that height it just wouldn't look right so I would say you know go up to eight and get it in a six by eight envelope which which you can buy pre-made anyway so yeah it's entirely up to you but look at my other ones up here because I've got lots of different sizes all right so I'm going to start off at the front the smallest one here and I've just realized actually that isn't even on acetate so I'm going to take that piece off because some of them just stick directly onto this piece here so I'm going to grab a little bit of my wet glue here because I'm sticking card to card I'm going to pop this one right in there so I'm just sticking it onto that front one there just so you can see it poking out there and then this basil one is going to go next to it there so that's now kind of my starting point and I'm going to work from that so I'm going to pop that just there and now everything else that I use I can make sure that I the idea is is that you can see everything so now I'm just trimming some of that acetate because this is going to go there so you want to be able to see the mint so that's probably too high so I'm actually going to cut a little bit more off so you don't end up really even using that much acetate but because I'm sticking acetate onto that craft card I'm going to use my red tape so I'm just going to show you this bit and then I'll kind of speed up the rest of the video so I always keep it kind of tilted towards me and then it's quite easy to kind of work out where you want everything to be so now I'm happy with those and then the next one I'm going to have this green one here so already I know I don't need all that and that's going to go on the next kind of tab back there so you get the idea you want to make sure that they're all kind of evenly spaced okay so there is my finished card still obviously got my sentiment to go on there because I don't know whether it's going to be a birthday card or not but you would have also just seen me add in this little cute little sign I just had the idea because I thought oh some toothpicks it'd be nice to make some little yeah plant signs so I just stamped herbs and rosemary I'm going to just stress that one up and stick it with the other one I need to put my hot glue on really and get it all properly stuck down but I thought I'm going to have that one behind there I did try it on there but I think because I've already got the sentiment there and the happy birthday I think that's just a bit too much whereas this one's still quite plain so yeah I think that looks quite nice it kind of wedges in there for the minute but yeah it's just another nice idea and it's got that garden theme to it so they have it so I'm going to probably I like the idea of adding a pack of seeds behind the back here and then I'll maybe put them in a little pocket or something and that's where I can write who it's to and a little message and everything but I really like them hopefully they've inspired you do check out that playlist as I mentioned before because there's other sizes on that so the smaller sizes as well if you do decide to make them please come and share them over on mixed up crafters facebook group it's a lovely group as I always say and more and more people are joining as always I'll share all of the product links in my blog so you'll be able to go and check out this collection and the other ones that I said as well because they are gorgeous but until then I'll be back again on Friday with another tutorial thanks for watching bye


Northern Eye Center in Pikeville, your local vision experts experience doctors using state-of-the-art technology. Choose from top designer frames from Oakley, Ray Ban, Nike, and more. We accept Medicaid and Medicare, plus most insurances are accepted. Northern Eye Center in Pikeville, next to Tractor Supply. So this is the 101 Dalmatians kids camp. The summer camp at the Appalachian Center for the Arts takes a hands-on approach to theater education designed for aspiring actors between the ages of five and twelve. I love, love, love working with this age group. The five through 12 year olds, you know, they come in, some of them are scared, they're nervous, but to watch them come out of their shell and to watch things just click for them when they get it, it's just really cool. And they're so creative and they make such awesome choices that they're just so much fun to work with. They're an absolute blast and a joy to work with. I'm excited because we get to do like, we're like pink and the poodles and I thought we're going to be white and we get to wear ballet shoes, puffy hair. Under the guidance of experienced theater professionals these young actors will accomplish the remarkable feat of putting together an entire show in under two weeks. So when I came and I auditioned I was nervous but I was also excited and then we got back from lunch and we sat down and I heard my name when he said Grille Underville. On the first day of camp participants were cast in various roles and immediately dove into the process of blocking and rehearsing the show. These young actors are not only learning their lines, they are learning probably about six or seven full dances and they're learning the music and the words to all of those dances and their songs and everything and then the blocking. I've been practicing like dancing, singing, I've been singing with my music teacher and like just making the high note when you're like oh something like that I don't know. They have been absolute rock stars to be cast in a show four days ago and to be doing a run through in about 30 minutes is truly, truly amazing. Don't miss the opportunity to witness the remarkable achievements of these young actors as they bring the classic tale of 101 Dalmatians to life. Come down to the Appalachian Center for Arts. It's really fun and I recommend you coming. It's really fun and we have a great time. The first showing is scheduled for June 30th at 7 30 p.m at the Appalachian Center for the Arts. Tickets can be purchased online at theapparts.org. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Ethan Miller.


Hello and welcome to this session. In this session we will discuss effect of dilation and translation on two dimensional figure using coordinates. Now a transformation changes a figure into another figure and this new figure is called the image. Now there are four methods of transforming a figure and these methods are dilation, translation, reflection and rotation. And in this session we will discuss dilation and translation. First of all let us discuss dilation. Now in this figure you can see that a triangle ABC is enlarged to form a bigger triangle A double dash B double dash C double dash and the same triangle is contracted to form smaller triangle A dash B dash C dash and this transformation in which the size of a figure is enlarged or reduced without changing its shape is called dilation and dilation is represented on a grid or graph paper where we can plot the coordinates and center is that point which is fixed and all points move from the fixed point at equal distances. Now here the center is the point O and then you see from front then here you can see that center of all these triangles is the point O and from here you can also see that the triangle ABC is contracted to form the triangle A dash B dash C dash and the same triangle is enlarged to form a triangle A double dash B double dash C double dash about the point O that is about the point O as the center. Here we will discuss the center at origin now if a point Pxy is on a geometrical figure now here we have taken the point Pxy as a vertex of this triangle with center origin and now we multiply each coordinate by k and if k is critical one then this is the new triangle which we will obtain and vertices of this triangle are B dash Q dash R dash each having coordinates k x k y so if k is critical one then the triangle PQR will be enlarged to a new triangle P dash Q dash R dash and if k is less than one then triangle PQR is contracted to form a triangle P double dash Q double dash R double dash each having coordinates k x k y so this is how dilation takes place when we multiply the coordinates of the vertices of a given triangle or when we multiply the coordinates of the vertices of the given geometrical figure by k and this k is called scale factor now let us discuss an example in this we have to dilate the following points by 3 now here 3 is the scale factor now we will multiply all the coordinates by 3 and we get the new coordinates as 3 3 6 12 and 9 21 first of all let us plot the original points on the graph now here we have plotted the three points now on joining these three points we get a straight line now let us plot the new points on the graph so we have plotted the three points of the graph now on joining these three points again we get a straight line now here as the scale factor is three which is greater than one so here enlargement takes place that is this blue line is enlarged to give this pink line so these three points are dilated by a scale factor of three now if we have to dilate the points by a scale factor of one upon three then here all the coordinates will be divided by three and the new coordinates will be one one two four and three seven so in this case first of all we will plot the original coordinates then on joining these points we get a straight line then we will plot the new coordinates and plotting the new coordinates again we get a straight line so in this case as the scale factor was one upon three which is less than one here this pink line is reduced to give this purple line so if scale factor is greater than one then the image is enlargement and if scale factor is less than one then image is a reduction now let us discuss the method of dilating a figure now let us discuss it with the help of an example now in this example we are given that the points m with coordinates minus three minus six g with coordinates zero nine and h with coordinates six minus nine are the vertices of triangle mgh now we have to dilate this triangle by a scale factor of one upon three to get a new triangle m dash g dash h dash now let us start with its solution here the coordinates of vertices of triangle mgh are given to us and their scale factor is one upon three so we will multiply all the coordinates by one upon three and then we get the new coordinates that is m dash as minus one minus two g dash zero three and the coordinates of h dash will be two minus three now first of all let us plot the vertices mgh on the graph so we have plotted all the three vertices on the graph now joining these three vertices we get the triangle mgh now let us plot the new vertices on the graph so we have plotted the new vertices on the graph and on joining the new vertices we get the new triangle m dash g dash h dash so here the figure mgh is reduced to give a new figure m dash g dash h dash and now we discuss translation now in this figure you can see the two triangles are similar in size and shape it just seems that the triangle is slided to another position and this is called translation now a translation is a transformation in which a figure slides but does not turn and every point of the figure moves the same distance and in the same direction and the original figure and its image have same size and shape so here the triangle a and triangle a dash are having same size and shape now in this figure these two triangles have same shape but the size of these two triangles is different so this is not a translation now let us discuss the method of showing translation of a geometrical figure on a graph paper now consider an example in this triangle a b c has vertices a b and c that is the vertex a with coordinates minus 2 1 vertex b with coordinates 2 5 and vertex c with coordinates 1 2 now we have to translate this triangle three units right and three units down now in translation for obtaining the new coordinates we will add and subtract the units from original coordinate depending on translating units right left up or down now left and right movement leaves to change in x coordinate up and down movement leaves to change in y coordinate for moving up we add in the y coordinate for moving down we subtract in the y coordinate for moving right we add in the x coordinate and for moving left we subtract in the x coordinate now here we have to move three units right it means we have to add three to the x coordinates and we have to move three units down it means we have to subtract three from the y coordinate of the vertices a b and c so here we have drawn a table in the first column we have written the original vertices and in the last column we will find the new vertices after translation now add in three to the x coordinate and subtracting three from the y coordinate of vertex a we get the new vertex a dash whose coordinates are one minus two similarly we get the new vertices b dash c dash now first of all we will plot the points a b and c on the graph and join them so here we have plotted the points a b and c and on joining them we get a triangle a b c now we will plot the new vertices on the graph so here we have plotted the points a dash b dash c dash on the graph now on joining these points we get the new triangle a dash b dash c dash now from the graph you can see that the point b has moved to b dash by moving three units right and then three units down similarly the point c has moved to c dash and point a has moved to a dash so this new image a dash b dash c dash is formed by translation so in this session we have learned about the effect of dilation and translation on two dimensional figure using coordinates and this completes our session hope you all have enjoyed the session


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards are up in 12 boxes for Scott J 4 23 Star Wars 6 series and 8 23 Star Wars chrome blacks. Good luck here. Come on Scott Let's go one of one one hell.  This is the last personal tonight right now There's still like 40 minutes of personal room left if somebody wants to order something if not, we'll just We'll just end it early. So it's up to you guys start off with a Toby Toby that's out of the mag. I'm gonna send you an empty box and wrapper Scott if you want to try to get it replaced. I Don't want to mess with it too much. Sorry about that Scott. Come on. Really? Get how that happens. Hey, nice general Draven Three of five on the general Draven. There we go. Let's go. I was star Petrie very nice Not bad at all start not bad at all For Oh, gotcha gotcha gotcha. That is Rio de Rant. I swung there Katie cart wheels Rio de Rant Henrik with an optic football blaster. Let's go Henry Henry. Oh, yeah, dude So basically just reach out to tops There is I'm assuming it's stamped somewhere in here. There's like a code Just reach out to tops and if you want to try to get it replaced They'll they'll walk you through the process basically. I don't know. I've never done it to be honest I know it's possible, but um Yeah, it's gonna kind of be the way to do it That is a vice admiral hold. Oh, it's a 50 Laura Dern Nice one there two numbered autos out of six series. That's gonna work just fine Really That's pretty cool All right now one two three four five six seven eight Star Wars Chrome Blacks Come out see a super why not man, she's famous in general that's true Nice starts mall to 199 that's cool good start right there blue 275 is supreme leader Snoke There we go. That's a good pack right there. That's a very good back Scott Hell, yeah, man, and then Gorkorish and we've got a Vale Sartha that is gonna be Fay Marseille is veil. Sorry or Velsartha Does the name more Dern right? Do well. She's in our Jurassic World our wars, of course She's the white Lotus episodes Mindy project King of the Hill Yeah, okay. I got you for sure. She's in Frasier, too All right, next one up She's a teacher. Oh really? Really? Oh, yeah, she's in the founder Major Brent Dirlin that is Admiral Ackbar to 199 And to 125 size snoodles nice on the purple There you go scum. That is a forest back right there. Good Lord and auto is Padoo shared Chad Parker nice one there Gold get Fisto purple set jucasa to 125 Nice one there and a gold page Tico 20 of 50 nice one there on the gold Take that for sure and then auto is frog lady. Hell, yeah, misty rose sauce is frog lady That's pretty cool Boxes play really was to me. It really was not having a lot of you See you super come on Supa Fracta Supreme leader Snoke to 199 Emperor Palpatine. There we go nice one there and Body rock body root auto of general Draven. It's one there Alistar Petri is general Draven All right halfway through come on Scott, let's see it. Let's see it. Let's see it Have to buy a specket to 199 John Dodana on the refractor and then Fantastic fights Darth Vader and is it Reva or Reva? Reva that's what I thought but I don't get roasted. We got a gold to 50 of Duchess and Sally or Ghana Roberta Sparta 24 of 50 on the gold auto this one there. Yeah, let's see super go Let's go. Let's go. We got a green to 99 Jar Jar Bank. Celia Good numbered soft man to 75 is Bayes Malbus on the blue Yeah, not many dupes at all, which is good and Dryden Voss on The base especially on the parallels the parallels are really what go heavy in this product That is Lira Urso Veline Kane is Lira Urso Yeah, absolutely Because there's we had a couple boxes into the cases that had no numbered cards in it either Well, because you did that last time she couldn't figure out how to close the knife last week Know what it is when you do that. It's it's the lock there and you push it up and go like that So close no, that's not this one. There's one. There's one in there like this right here. Mm-hmm No, I do believe you. I do believe me I Do K2 so got another gold coming up that is to 99 of Janna 88 of 99 and Gold to 50 is Janna again. I saw in there right when we're talking about no dupes. There's a dupe Not that dude. This guy's got to go to bed This guy needs to go to bed man. That's guy needs to go to bed 25 in the morning. He needs to go to bed, bro That is gonna be a minus velty Ming Chu as minus velty. Are we kidding right now? Are we serious? At least the dupe wasn't the same numbering. That's good Admiral Aquari now Chancellor Palpatine nice one there. We got an orange to 25 captain phasma. That's sick Star Wars the Force Awakens All right, let's do some prayers on this one. Come on the super It's a way One of one super fracter. No freakin way Scott. There's no way you just did that.  What did you just do just went like that and it was a super man. No way Holy no way, man. What? Unbelievable unbelievable dude unbelievable. All right, let's see it. Who is it? Addy Galeon nice one there Angelique Perrin one of one super fracter. Come on Scott.  Yeah, man dude Unreal Scott unreal dude congrats brother We did it. We did it. I can't believe we did last pack box Mojo unreal bro unreal bro the supers look so clean in this dude. That's so wild That's better than last that's so wild It is better than last year for sure last year was good This because it kind of fades into all the black as well a little bit better in the background Let's go unreal man unreal. Yeah, these aren't supers are not easy to hit man. I Hit one all of last year. Holy cow. Maybe two but like let's go unreal Scott congrats Awesome, that's gonna do it Scott congrats, bro. That's it man. Thanks again one more break after this


Essentially in your life, this is all it is.  World may throw anything at you, we don't know what it will throw at you. It may throw disease at you, it may throw death at you. This one thing, if you take charge, no matter what world throws at you, you will turn it into your well-being. Whether you go to heaven or hell, doesn't matter because whatever is thrown at you, you know you will turn it into well-being. How wasn't just thrown at you, you are not a victim. The Bible says that we've all fallen short of the glory of God and are guilty before him. Friend, you are not going to make the best of hell, it is a place devoid of God's grace, a place of eternal punishment.


Today, YouTube launches YouTube for Artists, Vessel opens to the public, and Twitch.tv resets all passwords after a security breach. Hello, and welcome to YouTube News for March 25th, 2015. I'm your host, Alex, and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting news topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube has launched YouTube for Artists in the Creator's Hub. It's no secret that a lot of users on YouTube use it to listen to music, all of their favorite artists, anyway.  They publish multiple sections within the Creator's Hub, specifically designed to help artists better engage with their fans, build their career, and view insights about their audience, with new tools that YouTube will be providing. Pretty awesome. Next up, Vessel, the new Early Access video platform, has opened to the public. For $2.99 a month, you can get 3-day early access to content produced by your favorite creators. Vessel has been in beta for the past couple of months now, but as of yesterday, they have opened up to the public, and if you sign up for Vessel within the next couple of days, probably the next day or two, you may get a free year subscription in celebration of their launch. I got a full year of access for free to Vessel because I was a beta tester. Are you going to grab a subscription to Vessel, either free or paid? Tell us in the comment section down below. And last up, for those of you who visit Twitch.tv, the most popular gaming live stream platform owned by Amazon, experienced a possible security breach on Monday. Twitch forced all users and live streamers to reset their passwords and stream keys before being able to access the site and their accounts. So to those of you who didn't know, the password to your Twitch account may have been compromised, and it's a good idea to change that password if it's similar or exactly the same as other accounts that you may own, such as email or YouTube. Anyways, that's it for me this week, guys. Thank you for tuning in and tune in next Wednesday for the latest in YouTube news. 2015. I'm your host, Alex, and I'll be walking you through some of the most important and interesting topics revolving around the YouTube platform. First up, YouTube has officially launched their support for the 360 degree video.


This word will help the believer who's struggling. This word will help the believer who's strong. This word will also help the believer who was once doing well spiritually and then fell away. And is wondering how to get back to that place where they're on fire for the Lord. When we say that someone is on fire for God, what we mean is that they're living a life surrendered and that they're burning like a light. They're burning with passion for the things of God. They're walking in holiness. They're living clean. They're living as a Christian should really when we say someone is on fire for the Lord we're describing the Christian life. First we must understand that by doing the spiritual basics you can avoid spiritual crisis. Imagine I go to the doctor and I'm not eating. I'm not sleeping. I'm not exercising. And I go to the doctor and I say doc I'm just, I feel terrible. Something just feels wrong with my body.  My mind isn't sharp. My body's fatigued. I'm achy. I'm in pain. Just I'm weak. I don't understand what's going on. The first few questions the doctors are going to ask me if he's a good doctor. The first questions he's going to ask me are going to be about the basics because why? Because he wants to rule out the simple things first. How's your sleep? How's your diet? Do you exercise? Why do they ask these questions up front? Because they want to see if you're doing the basics. Because if you're not doing the basics that's going to automatically lead to many problems. So before they jump to while you need surgery. Before they jump to well it could be this disease or that disease. Before they can jump to well here's the medication we think you should take. They have to first assess and see are you doing the basics? And the same thing is true with our spiritual lives. If you do the basics you can avoid the spiritual crisis. You would be amazed at how many of what you think our major spiritual issues would be resolved in a matter of weeks if you simply did the spiritual basics. You'd be astonished. You'd be amazed. You would go oh my goodness was it that simple? Simple yes easy not always. You would be amazed at how many things would cease to become issues if you simply did the basics. But often we try to blame on demons what's actually a lack of discipline. Wow. Often we try to blame on spiritual dynamics which what really is just disobedience on our part. Lay hands on me and make me obedient to God. Lay hands on me and make me disciplined. Lay hands on me so I can do the right things. We want the quick fix. We want to go have the chills in some worship service. We want to have that special oil poured over our head. We want to have hands laid on us and instantly experience everything we should already be experiencing by practicing the basics. But even if you did obtain breakthrough in that way which again I believe in. I believe in that there's a place for that. But even if you did experience it and then you went back to living your life as you lived it before without implementing the spiritual basics well guess what? You'd find yourself in the same issue again which is why we repeat these cycles of chaos. We repeat these cycles of bondage, these cycles of immaturity, these cycles of confusion. We go from event to event, conference to conference, live stream to live stream, YouTube channel to YouTube channel, book to book. All will never changing our behavior hoping that someone else will do the spiritual work for us. Wow. You can avoid spiritual crisis if you do the spiritual basics. So let's look at number one. This one's key. Live a lifestyle of repentance. That's number one. Sin stifles the influence of the spirit in your life. Take for example, Samson who was seduced by Delilah. If you look at that narrative you'll find that he was seduced in phases. You see he gave up the secret to his strength in phases. Little by little as Delilah pressed him for his weakness she wanted to know what makes you strong so I can make you weak. As she pressed in to know his answers got closer and closer to the truth. Go read the narrative. And it incrementally happened to where he was destroyed till finally he gets up and he didn't realize that that supernatural strength had left his body. He didn't know that the Lord had left him and when the scripture says the Lord left him it's talking about the power upon him. Remember the Holy Spirit doesn't leave the believer from within but that influence can be diminished upon our lives and that's what happened with Samson. Incrementally he was taken away. Temptation is not an event it's a process. You fell into sin on Friday because Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you were looking at things and listening to things and being around people and doing all sorts of things you should not have been doing.  He'll give you a little taste of something that maybe doesn't seem like it has heavy consequences and he's training you to give into temptation for the big thing. Think about this now. He trains you in the little things but you don't realize the big hook is coming. He trains you to take the bait but you don't know when the hook is gonna be in it and we make a practice of saying yes to sin even on a small scale if you could even call it that I mean technically speaking there's no such thing as a small sin but sin can have stronger and stronger influence in your life as you continue to give into that sin in what we would call smaller ways. So first maybe a Facebook message married men you see she sends you a message on Facebook. You say, hmm, I remember this woman from school. I remember she was really nice and you remember maybe you took a liking to her message. How you doing? How's life? The first fall you respond. Wow. Maybe say, brother David are you being religious? No, I'm being realistic because we know in our hearts what we're doing, don't we? And that's how deceptive the flesh is because the flesh likes to cooperate with the enemy. The flesh will cooperate with demonic deception. The flesh will lie to you will lie to yourself. You are so good at lying to yourself you'll actually believe that you have no intention of taking it any further than a conversation but hidden behind that response to the message there's this deep buried desire for something more. Wow. And so you send the first message and then another and then it becomes a conversation.  That's how temptation works.  Who's that gonna hurt?  No, you would attack that little flame as quickly as possible and you would put it out. And that's how we have to treat sin in our lives. Wow. We have to put out that fire, even if it's just an ember as quickly as possible don't even allow for the little embers to build up in your life. You may think you're putting them all out. You allow too many, you may miss one. And it may end up becoming a fire that destroys your life. Why? Because you didn't wanna address that when it was a smaller issue. And of course I use that word, that term smaller loosely because again, in the eyes of God anything that we do that sinful is highly offensive to who he is, his holiness. I'm talking about how it manifests in consequences that we can certainly classify as smaller sins. The Bible says in 1 John 1 9 but if we confess our sins to him he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. This is to those who fall into sin. If you happen to fall in a sin, know this. If we confess our sins to him, we don't confess our sins to him daily so that we can be saved. We're saved to the finished work of the cross. We confess our sins to him that sin might not gain influence in our lives. Now, who knows? I mean, there's a lot of debate. The ones saved always save. People ask all the time, brother David, what are you? I say it doesn't matter whether you believe in one saved always saved or you believe that you can lose your salvation. It doesn't matter. We all should be striving to live holy lives, period. And if someone has fallen away from the Lord, whether we think they were with the Lord and then fell away or whether we think they were never saved to begin with doesn't matter because that person still needs Jesus. So whatever you think about how sin might affect us in the end result, let's not even get to that point. Let's just look at it from the very beginning and say, okay, why do we even have to go that far to where there's a debate? If someone goes far enough in sin do they lose their salvation? Why should that even be a concern if we're addressing it at the front end and saying I won't even let it get to that point where I start to question my salvation? So many believers ask how close can I get to that line of sin before it's actually sin? How much of the world can I participate in before it actually becomes compromised? If that's the angle you're coming at it from you're already starting from the wrong place. Wow, yep. If we confess our sins to him this is something that's consistently done. How do we know? Because the scripture says he's faithful meaning he does it over and over and over again and just to forgive us our sins. So he's faithful to forgive us our sins in that he does it continually and he's just to forgive us our sins in that he does it legally because of what he did on the cross. But we must live lifestyles of repentance. Stop waiting for it to become a bigger issue and start addressing it now. Right. This may be God's warning to someone watching. Address it now. Preacher, address it now. Man of God, woman of God, address it now. Believer, address it now before it becomes a major issue. Before it becomes something that disqualifies you from ministry.  Before it becomes something that will cost you the respect of your children. Before it will cause you to bring reproach to the gospel. Address it now. Come on. And be aggressive about it. Live a lifestyle of repenting.  Stop allowing those little things that stifle the influence of the Holy Spirit in your life. Number two, cling to Jesus. How? How do you cling to Jesus? You keep your prayer life intact. If you're not praying, you're saying to God, I can do it without you. Well, it's just as simple as that. In order to cling to Jesus, you need to pray. And if you're not praying, you're saying to God, I can do it without you. You're saying, Lord, I don't need you to do this. I got this, Lord. I can do this on my own strength. There's not much I need from you. Without prayer, that's what you're doing. The Bible says in Colossians chapter four, verse two, continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. This is a continual thing. Philippians four, six, through seven, do not be anxious about anything. But in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. First Thessalonians chapter five, verse 17 says, pray without ceasing. Now look at John chapter 15, watch this. This is powerful what Jesus says here. John 15, five through eight. Yes, I am the vine. You are the branches. Those who remain in me and I in them will produce much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want and it will be granted. When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my father. Again, John 15, five through eight. Preachers ask me often, what's the key? And this is the preachers who are just starting in ministry and say, what's the key? How do we see growth and this and that and miracles? And it's always the same answer. How do we see more miracles? Same answer. How do we grow our spiritual gifts? Same answer. How do we preach with the anointing? Same answer. How do we overcome sin? Same answer. How do we grow the ministry? Same answer. How do we get financials? Same answer. Cling to Jesus. How do you cling to Jesus? Prayer. We can't do anything without Him. When we get disconnected from Him, we start to wither and we wither fast. There's a very quick process to withering once you unplug from that place of prayer. This is why you have to guard your prayer life with no compromise. Make sure you're communing with the Lord every single day. And we get tired. We get weary. We get distracted. Our flesh starts to grab hold of our lives again. Isn't that funny how the moment you start to disconnect from prayer, old habits begin to return? Right. Maybe you start getting snappy again, a little moody, a little angry. People offend you more easily.  All of these things start to take root. The moment we unplug from the source, you have to cling to Jesus. And I mean cling. Yes, he'll hold on to you, but there's something to be said of you just cling. That's how I feel. I feel like I'm just grabbing hold of him. That's how all of this has felt, honestly. The growth of this ministry, the busyness of the schedule, the traveling around the world, the media, everything that I do for the Lord, that's what it feels like. I feel like I just grabbed a hold of his robe and I have my eyes closed. I'm just clinging to him and he's just taking me where he wants to go. Now sometimes that's what it feels like. And on the days when I don't do that, when I don't do it as long as I should, or when I kind of just brush it off till later in the day, it's not a very good day. And I have to remind myself that without the Lord, I can't do anything. You can accomplish more in a prayer filled day than you can in a prayer less week. I heard another minister say something to the effect of, I have so much to do today, much more than usual. So I'll pray three hours instead of one. That's the dependency we must have. And the proof that you believe in prayer is that you actually pray. But prayer is the clinging to Jesus. The starting your day, the moving throughout your week of just hanging on. And that's all you can do, just hang on. You're dealing with issues with the flesh, just cling. You're dealing with doubt, just cling. You're dealing with even anxiety and depression and confusion and chaos, people coming against you. You're worried about your future, just cling. I need a miracle, a miracle in my family, in my marriage, in my body, just cling. How do I grow my spiritual gifts? How do I grow in ministry? How do I start a ministry? How do I know if God called me to just cling? That's all I can do. That's all I can tell you. There's no secret, there's no gimmicks, there's no 12-step method, you cling. You cling to Him and out of that comes everything else. Amen. I often use an illustration where if I were to stack wine glasses, and no, I don't drink, but if I were to stack wine glasses on top of each other in a pyramid shape, which glass would I need to fill first if I wanted it to affect all the other glasses? Well, of course, I'd have to fill the top glass. And in filling the top glass, that top glass would overflow and fill all the wine glasses below it. All those glasses can represent different things, finances, marriage, relationship with children, friendships, ministry, responsibilities, work, career, school, you name it, those wine glasses are stacked and we have a lot of them. And if we're not careful, we'll take that pitcher of water and we'll try to first fill the marriage. And then we'll try to first fill time with our children. And that's good, you should spend time with your children and with your wife, but hear the full illustration. Don't hear what I'm not saying. We try to fill the financial glass. We try to fill the career glass and the academic glass and the emotional glass. And we try to fill all these glasses. And the problem is we run out before we can fill them all. The only way to effectively fill all of them is to start with the top glass. And that top glass is prayer, time with the Lord, time in his presence, clinging to Jesus. When you fill that top glass, it begins to trickle over into all the other glasses of your life, right? I tell the Lord, Lord, if I could just fill that top glass, I don't have to worry about the others. They'll just come naturally, it will, it'll come naturally. That doesn't mean you don't have to work at them or you don't have to think about them, but it's so much easier to fill all the other glasses if you start with the top glass first. Don't be chaotic about it, pouring in all these different areas. Pour on that first one and it will overflow to the rest. Number three, stay in the word. The word, the word, the word. I can't stress this enough. Why do you think you can pray with very few distractions and worship with very few distractions, but the distractions suddenly become intensified when you try to read the word? Now your flesh will fight you the hardest when you pray, but the devil will fight you the hardest when you go to read the word. The flesh dies in prayer. The enemy is defeated by the word. So your flesh will squirm when you go to pray, but the enemy will assault you with everything he has when you go to read the word. It's your first line of defense because without the word, you don't know what to pray. You don't know what you can pray. You don't know your authority to pray.  There's no revelation for your prayer life. The word is where it begins. And I'm not just talking about reading the verse of the day or watching a reel from my Instagram page. I'm talking about being solely devoted to the word in such a way that you know it in and out. And we as believers have to know the word. People of God, we have to know the word. Sadly, I've met atheists and Muslims who know the Bible better than many Christians. Wow. I'm serious. I've met atheists and Muslims who know the Bible better than many Christians. This is sad. Now, how do we combat this? It's through daily discipline in the word. Where you're reading the word on a daily basis, consuming it and not skipping the parts that you think are boring. What an insult to the martyrs who would lay down their lives again if it meant that more people could have a Bible. Think about how in some parts of the world, they can't even have a Bible. It's illegal to own it. Why, because there's such power. And we just kind of skip, I don't really like that part. They would be moved to tears. Some of the believers around the world. Please hear me now. There are some believers in the world who would be moved to tears if they could have a page of the Bible that you neglect and throw out as one of the boring parts. Think about that. There's power in knowing the genealogies, believe it or not. There's power in knowing the history. There's power in knowing what the old law was like. We should know it in and out from beginning to end, Genesis to Revelation. We should understand the concepts of covenant and grace and faith and salvation. We should understand the record of the seed moving from Genesis all the way down to the Messiah. We should understand what the patriarchs had to go through. We should understand what the prophets had to face. We should understand what David is communicating and what other writers in the book of Psalms are communicating. We should understand the word and not just know it a little bit. We as believers should know the Bible better than any people group. Christians should know the Bible better than any people group on the earth and we don't even read it. I wanna say that again. Christians should know the Bible better than any people group on the earth and we don't even read it. How sad. And I'm not saying this to condemn you. I'm saying this to call you to something more. It's not just something that we can laugh off and oh yeah, have you read your Bible? Oh, it's been a while. Ha, ha, no.  That's the very substance of your spirituality. Psalm chapter one, verses one through three say this. Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or stand around with sinners or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the Lord meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do. So here we see that if someone is in the word and they meditate on the word that they prosper in every season. There's no season where they don't bear fruit. That's supernatural. Matthew chapter seven, verses 24 through 27 say this. Anyone who listens to my teaching, and this is Jesus speaking and follows it is wise. Like a person who builds a house on solid rock, though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won't collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it is foolish. Like a person who builds a house on sand when the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with the mighty crash. You think COVID was something. We haven't seen anything yet. You think government overreach is a little overbearing right now. We haven't seen anything yet. You think the world hates the church now? We haven't seen anything yet. If we're not in the word, we are at risk for falling away. If we're not in the word, we're at risk for collapsing under the weight of the storm and a storm is coming. People of God, please hear me. A storm is coming. And if we're not careful, if we're not attentive to the word and when difficult times come, we as a house spiritually speaking will collapse. Get in the word. I say this with all love. I am pleading with you. Get in the word and don't just read it. Know it. Know it so well that you can quote it. Know it so well that you can explain it to a child. Know the word. That's what's gonna keep you strong. That's what's gonna sustain you in difficult times. When chaos comes and it will come, will you be kept standing? What have you built your house upon? What have you built your life upon? You can't say you're building your life upon the word if you're not in the word.  If you're building your life upon the word, then the word is not just something you occasionally reverence when a preacher reads it. If you are living by the word, then it's a part of your lifestyle. You're consuming it constantly. I consume the word constantly. And I don't say that to brag because I like you need it.  That's not, it's spiritually that's all I'm doing. I'm eating, but there's, I consume it constantly. When I'm on the plane, that's one of my favorite things because there's nothing else to do. So there's no distractions. And I could just put my headphones on and get in the word and I'll read it from the time we take off at the time we land. Chapters and chapters and chapters and chapters in there. You need to find it. And if you don't have time for the word, you need to rearrange your entire schedule. Yes, it's that important.  You need to rearrange your whole schedule to fit the word in. Build your schedule around the word. Build your schedule around your time with the Lord and let everything else have a place afterward. Fill that top glass first.  Thank you for watching EncounterTV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell. Also, help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now.


General order number one, I will guard everything within the limits of my post and quit my post only when properly relieved. For some service members those words are all too true. Like PFC Ian Stocks from 1st Battalion 23rd Infantry Regiment. He's three days into his first deployment and already he's pulling guard duty. A man a few words. Engage the enemy. I did get a shot at on the first patrol. Yes I am prepared. Guards on duty are the first line of defense against an attack with the responsibility to react quickly and without hesitation to any possible threat. Specious activities. Deep pointing an assault rifle in my face or digging holes.  No matter the time there's always someone standing ready to defend. Army Sergeant Crystal Madrez, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.


First, from the Lowry Institute in Australia, Michael Fuller Love, your microphone is on. Secretary Mattis, first of all, let me commend you, if I may, for taking on your current post with all its stresses and strains. For many of us, sir, you are the hope of the side. General, your speech focused on the rules-based regional order, which has been a preoccupation of this conference for many years, and I associate myself with your strong remarks. All of us here in Asia have the right to make our own way without coercion. And I'd like to thank you too for your comment on alliances. But I'd like to ask you about the rules-based global order, which you mentioned at the outset of your remarks, and in which President Trump appears to be an unbeliever. 70 years ago, Secretary Atchison wrote that he was present at the creation of a US-led order that has served all of us well. General, given everything over the past four months, including NATO and TPP and Paris, why should we not fret that we are present at the destruction of that order? Please give us cause for optimism, General. Well, you can always count on some straightforward questions here, can't you? As far as the rule-based order, you know, obviously we have a new president in Washington, D.C., we're all aware of that, and there's going to be fresh approaches taken. But just the fact that, just take a look at the president's first trip to the outside the United States was straight into the heart of one of the most bewildering and difficult challenges that the world faces in terms of how do we restore stability and peace, right, into the Middle East, where the discussion was about how do we work together, in this case with the Arab League and with other international organizations, in order to reduce the threat of terrorism. So I think that we have been engaged in the world for a long time. I think historically the Americans have been reluctant to see themselves in that role. We were quite happy between our two oceans to stay there. The 20th century took us out of that. But at the same time, we recognized, especially the greatest generation we call them, coming home from World War II, what a crummy world if we all retreat inside our own borders. How many people deprived of good lives during the Depression? How many tens of millions of people killed in World War II, like it or not, were part of the world? That carries through for all the frustrations that are felt in America right now, for the sense that at times we have carried an inordinate burden that is still very deeply rooted in the American psyche, that engagement with the world. And I think that to quote a British observer of us from some years ago, bear with us, once we've exhausted all possible alternatives, the Americans will do the right thing. So we will still be there. And we will be there with you, the fact that President Trump went to Brussels. He speaks with actions, Stu. He was there to show our statement that we are standing with the NATO allies 100%. He sent me on my first trip after I was nominated to Tokyo and Seoul in order to make certain it was no misunderstanding within weeks of him taking office that we stood with the democracies of Japan and Korea.