Huitumimutulia nguikiku suma huzunimu wa huzunimu na kurwa, kaj 거chi wa hizi wa inusikau kwa hiniu nii gafi hitu uainimutulia kazi, aiginu nilını hiniu kwa hiniu hiniu kufua suma kufu hiniu hiniu nilını When he comes from tomorrow, he will be able to take us into the depth the things he desired through the power of the Holy Spirit for us to appreciate. He chose the text of Act of Apostles chapter 1 verse number 8. And you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, Samaria and to all ends of the world. I can't wait to walk through that text when the man of God is speaking to us about the unlimited power. But this morning, those online, those here in the sanctuary, those following us through KBC, I want to welcome you to the text of the book of Numbers chapter 11 verse number 23. Numbers chapter 11 and verse number 23, which then guides the message for this hour. And the Lord saying to Moses, has the Lord's arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not. And the Lord saying to Moses, has the Lord's arm been shortened? There are some versions to say, has the Lord's hand been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not. Let's pray. Our gracious Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in the sanctuary here and for all those who are following us online as it is in heaven. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.  And so my Father recognize my assignment this morning is to lift your name. So my Father pray that may I not be seen, may I not be heard. But may you be seen and heard as you speak to us all, beginning with me, to everyone connected on this altar this moment is our prayer in Jesus name. It is about four to five days since the children of Israel left Egypt. By now as we get to the text of chapter 11 of Nabukunambas, they have a number of experiences with the Lord. And Moses is leading them. When they left Egypt they thought it would be very easy. You know Moses knew the terrain of the land. He knew the distance. In fact he was leading them in the route he knew very well. But God came and told Moses no, not by that route. I instructed you, you have to follow through where the cloud leads. And as they followed the cloud, Moses was discovering that God is leading them into a place of nowhere. They continued joining on. Moses who knew the place very well, he started getting worried. Why is God taking us? Well of course you all know that they came to a place where they met at dead end. There was a huge river for them to cross. On the both sides, the mountains behind them, the enemies are coming for their blood. And people started complaining. Why has God brought us into this body of death? What kind of plan does God have with us? Well we all know the story and now God came and set them from that and made a way for them. After they crossed over to the other side, they are joining on and about that days now they are encamped somewhere. But after that period of time they then leave and they are joining on. Then about the fortified day of their journey, they are exhausted, their resources are exhausted. They have nothing to eat in the wilderness and they all turn to God to cry. They tell Moses, Moses you know what? Even though we are crying to God for help and for salvation from the hands of our masters, this is not what he is standing for. Imagine that God would behave this way with us. In Egypt Moses we used to eat and drink. There was plenty of food.  Well as they were complaining, the Book of Exodus chapter 16 will let you know that then God came to Moses and told him, Moses, cheer them not to cry and to complain. I shall give them food and then God begins feeding them with manna. The food that they knew not how it was cooked, where it came from or the ingredients of that substance. They began eating food. But it didn't take long time before they were fed up with this food. And so in chapter 11 of the Book of Numbers the Bible begins by saying, And the children of Israel began to complain. And they complained, displeased the Lord. For the Lord had eat and his anger was aroused. And so God brought some fire to consume some of them and scare them and to remind them, They are not alone in the desert. But this incident of them complaining in chapter 11 was so out of hands that Moses was so much of a world. They went to Moses. They asked Moses. I wanted to tell us Moses very well. We thought you were a good man. We thought we could trust you. We thought you are our salvation. But now it's very clear you have an agenda together with that God you talk about.  What is this you are doing to us? Who can feed on one food every day forever? We are tired of your food. We are tired of the food that God has given us. We want meat. You know when I was reading this passage, something shocked me. That this complaint, the first complaint, they were complaining they did not have food. God supplied food. Now this second complaint, they are complaining of variety. You are giving us something every day. We are not used to this kind of menu. We are used to sampling stuff here. Moses, this is not what is signed up for. In fact, as you read the text, you know they say where in Egypt, where we were, we were eating in verse number five. We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt. The cucumbers, the mallots, the leeks, the onions, the garlics. But now our old being is dried up. There is nothing at all except this manner before our eyes. They are telling Moses, Moses, if you are forgotten, you just came the other day. In Egypt we end a lot of garlic, we end a lot of onions, we end a lot of cucumbers, we end a lot of mallots, we end a lot of all these good stuff. You can imagine you are doing us any good by giving us one substance called manna which we have no idea of. Give us the Egyptian menu. You know when I was reading this, I got so much shocked that actually this is how we all behave. That God has saved us from the world. He has brought us into the sanctuary to feed us with all the divine manner, His divine word. Give us the menu for the heavenly sanctuary, the menu for the heavenly, for the family of God. We keep demanding, suffer us with the Egyptian menu. And we assemble in church and everyone wants to experience a bit of what used to be in the world. We all come to church and we are pushing the church to allow us to be of a little lack of the world in the church. We are asking God, God, don't you see? We come and not in us to behave in the same way from the day we were baptized.  Jesus, don't you see? Their life is dry. They are telling Moses, their life is better than this Moses. And so we want you to go and tell your God we are tired of this life is so dry. Young people today, they are feeling the church is dry. There is no life in church. Many of them are pushed to come to church. The rules in church make life dry. The life of the Shunnaviso in the wilderness with the diet that God has provided was to them drying up their life. And the asked Moses, we cannot continue. We need something different and in fact they were very particular. Moses, you may not give us melons because you know you can grow melons in the desert but Moses, one thing we can't do without meat. Give us meat. If you give us meat, we are okay with mana but without meat we do not want your mana. How many times have you as a Christian given God conditions? How many times have we come to God and you want God to receive us in our own times?   Can someone say amen? So Moses has with an experience so unique he doesn't know how to behave himself. So Moses is so everywhere and as they are complaining and Moses also joins in complaining. Let me tell you something here. A church that is complaining of almost everything can easily make their complaining faster. You are not getting me. You see when the people of Israel, their children of Israel continually complained before Moses and before the Lord even Moses joined in the scene of complaining against God. Moses who was the strength and the appealer who always reminded them that God asked them for once Moses is doubting the presence and the power of God and he goes to the Lord and tells God why have you descended to fix me God? Why are you affecting your servant? Why are you setting me up for destruction? How can you do this kind of things to me? God watched you from heaven and said how would you bear the complaints of these people but I can't withstand the complain of myself. Because of Moses complaining God came. So God comes and tells Moses in verse 18, I have hand your cry. I have hand the cry of your people. Go and tell them to consecrate themselves for tomorrow you will eat meat because you have cried out in the hearing of the Lord saying who will feed us meat for we were better off in Egypt. Therefore the Lord will give you meat as you will eat. You will eat not for one day or two days or five days or ten days or 20 days. I am going to feed you with what you require. The meat for good 30 days but I can assure you Moses go and tell them I am also willing to continue even after 30 days until a sign is clear on me you lose the meat and the meat comes through your nostrils. Be careful with your complaining to the Lord. Be very careful. Be very careful some of us are too much complaining too much complaining about everything too much complaining. Be very careful what you are complaining for and to who you complain. God came. Return them up and you complain but then I am going to do what you asked but I shall push it on you until you need it no more. And so Moses looked at God and this where the center of my message now so just be with me so Moses is listening to God then Moses is so mad with God Moses is so annoyed with God so angered with God God is so senseless Moses is asking God you just came to tell me to go and gather these people who have been complaining spending sleep last night God when you are enjoying your sleep God have not been eating have not been drinking have been so much stressed God you just came to tell me I go before these people and tell them tomorrow not even after a week tomorrow you going to give them meat all of them do you even have an idea how many people I agree God let me remind you if you forgot the people that you ask me to deliver they are 600,000 food soldiers when you hear food soldiers these are people who would go to war we are not counting about the small boys and all the women and all the girls we are not counting if we were to count the totality of the people that Moses was leading in millions but Moses is asking to add you out of your mind who can do this who can feed such a huge number of people just within a few hours we meet in the desert in fact I to check there Moses is asking God shall we slaughter all the flock are you there with me shall we slaughter all the flock oh God maybe you are thinking about the fish who will go and gather all the fish in the sea and bring it out and then come and make a meal for all these people so that they may stop complaining God you are of order that moment God looks at Moses and discovered this issue is deeper in Moses than I imagined God spoke to Moses and asked Moses in verse number 23 Moses I have heard your complaint I have heard your concern but let me ask you Moses has the Lord's arm been shortened has the Lord's arm been shortened has the Lord's hand been weakened that now it is no longer strong now the term here has the Lord's arm been shortened it simply means not the physical arm of God it simply implies the power of God Moses are you implying that now something has happened that the God you've known the God who took you before Pharaoh the God that you have known the God who split there and see for you to walk through the Lord that you knew who was powerful to dislodge the will of the chariot of your enemies and make all of them be swallowed in the sea the God that you know Moses are you telling me today is power because of the situation has been weakened has been shortened that he is now able to keep his promise that time Moses is silent God looks at him and tells Moses watch me hallelujah hallelujah somebody God tells Moses watch me watch me Moses watch me and see whether what I'm saying will not come to pass I know according to you Moses this is an impossible venture but what is impossible with man is possible with God can you say man what appears difficult in the mind of men is so easy in the ideas of God Moses watch me and see whether what I'm asking to do I will now be able to do and for sure the falling morning quails ven from heaven can somebody say man meet that they had no idea of came they were also happy they began eating and they ate and they ate and they ate for a whole month until they refused to eat of the meat now this is where I draw two lessons then we will call it a day you see friends I see the experience of Moses as one who is feeling like it was a trap God was setting him up for ridicule for destruction Moses felt God was dishonest with him Moses felt God was was unreasonable and I'm just here this morning to ask you a question have you ever felt set up by God that God was leading you into a trap decide you into getting into a situation with a promise He will be with you only for him to abandon you and are you struggling there alone this is the experience of Moses and Moses is asking God how can you do these things to me now I'm asking somebody here this morning have you devoted yourself to the Lord serving him with all your heart your resources you are always there for him in church always present for every church assignment always praying with a sick always encouraging those who had broken always praying and great miracles happen to people's lives every day you are there for the mission of the Lord but just one day when you are so zealously working for the Lord being seen to change and is seen and appears he is not there with you he seems far from you he doesn't anymore pick your cause he doesn't respond to your text messages he doesn't any longer check on your tweets God he's out of your reach God has blocked you you can't access him yet all this and where you are is because you believed in him and you gave yourself and your life to him have you felt that God was setting you up you see friends there are times when that's for the sake of keeping our faith just for the sake of being a faithful servant of God just for the sake of being an an obedient child of God not thinking yourself in the world by looking after godliness just for the sake of your keeping your faith flexions come your way and wonder where is God when I am going through this he seems absent now the people that you are challenging about your faith are laughing at you mocking your faith they seem to be doing even better imagine a situation where and to leave your very the creative job just for the sake of your faith you came and I know some people who have abandoned their jobs their responsibilities just to come and serve the Lord but yet once you are in the church you meet brethren who have no respect for you they shock you, they disregard you until you are in God where on earth was I going why did I have to leave my job just to come and serve you with the people who do not recognize the sacrifice I made for my family just to come and follow you God where are you I imagine it's just today somebody who aim to lose their job have you worked tamakti for so long to go to that job but one week into the job or just a month into the job is raised and you cannot stand the issue of sabat you have to choose between your job we support your family and your faith we support God's relationship and you choose to abandon your job just for the sake of faith yet as you do this thrusting the Lord shall open a new door and it seems God is not opening another door so long after you still tamakai you can't build you can't pay for your children's kufis you can't have life just because of your faith you pray God is silent I'm just asking somebody this morning have you came into a point where you feel that the world is a trap Moses was there he's asking God why did you choose to afflict your servant they are not mocking me they are not calling me names they are not asking me where is your God they are tormenting me because of my faith yes friends your health is failing your marriage is breaking your career is dying your business is crumbling and your family is disintegrating yet you trust in the Lord you work at 3am in the night to pray to the Lord this is a question that God is addressing with Moses this morning and God comes to Moses Moses I feel your situation understand your situation I know Moses for sure this is not easy in the eye of man but Moses ask the arm of God being shot and can somebody say man ask the power of God being limited today and for the week to introduce to you the unlimited power of God God is so powerful that even when things seem to be now working for us even when we seem to dying even when we seem to be working through the fires even when we seem everything is crumbling down upon us God is always there with us is asking Moses can you tell me Moses have you considered my power vis-a-vis the challenge of the moment let me speak to somebody here you see Moses is telling God what I suggesting to do I can't understand it this is impossible but God is telling Moses Moses I did not call you that you may understand me God you may believe in me can you say man God has never called us that we understand who he is God calls us that we may believe in him and once you believe in him we shall do all that he asks us to do whether it makes sense or it doesn't make sense by the way the whole issue of faith is illogical and senseless no wonder the Bible says he chose the foolish things of the world in somebody with me he chose the foolish things of the world as the way of shaming the powerful and bringing salvation to humanity God has never invited you to understand him he want you to believe in him at this moment he is preaching to Moses Moses I see because of the situation at the moment your faith is dead you are now doubting me I want to revive you Moses has my hand been shortened can't you remember I am a power of God I can do anything I want to do and indeed this morning doesn't matter the situation you are in I promise you on this old altar the arm of God is not short he can reach out to where you are he can pull you from your feet he can reach out where you are groaning and groaning in feelings and emotions God understands the situation this morning don't you ever imagine you alone in that I can tell you for sure God even though you don't see him even though you don't feel him he is in it he is rare in it but he is not to watch you struggle he is in it because he want to glorify you through your that experience he want to exhort you to purify you to feed you for great assignment just stay put the Lord gonna show up you know friends King Moses when you read from NIV good news translation you put that mask this way is there a limit to my power I wish I could hear someone saying God in the moment when you are spending sleepless night when you work in the night you can't sleep when you have received the letter on your desk when your marriage is disintegrating and all indication for destruction when your spouse has worked to cut for divorce with that moment and you are still on your knees but she is pushing for divorce she is pushing for divorce that moment is when God is asking you is there a limit to my power I found from international standard version translation Thea says is the Lord shot I love this is God shot on power just to suggest that God's power is unlimited limited you gonna touch to him don't limit God let me speak to somebody here friends the greatest impendement to God's mission is men and women who have been placed in the possessions of leadership and the influence but where God's agenda against their abilities and resources this is the greatest impendement people who receive the agenda of God and weigh it on who they are what they have what should be spent to accomplish this we are leaders in church who have been a assembly block to mission members who do not want to hear any suggestion for mission whenever mission agenda is brought they shoot it down because to them it is all about money listen to me God is teaching you and me today it is not about money it is about him Moses is asking him how is it possible no no no this reminds me of the day when Jesus is doing the same thing God is doing here and he has so many people to feed and then he is asking the disciples because he discover there was a little boy there there was a little boy there there was a little boy there a little boy there who had just some just a little a little star how many loves of bread how many loves of bread and how many fishes and then wait wait Jesus tells the disciples after seeing this how people sit and feed them five loves of bread and that is not bread but a lot very tiny things and two fishes and one of the disciples who knew the economics of finances somebody with me here tells Jesus I checked I discovered you never went to any school you only know the things of spirit believe us with their stuff we are the masters of economics we will educate you Jesus listen to me Jesus even when Jesus even when Jesus what you are asking is impossible who were God's agenda agamist the abilities and the resources but God would want you today to know it has nothing to do with you yes you could be knowing the economics of finances and the budgetary principles but you also need to learn the economics of salvation can somebody say a man you need to learn the economics of salvation it has nothing to do with your pocket it has nothing to do with your time by the way God does not need you to advance this mission but you need God to advance your mission God is not desperate of you he just invites you because of the grace that you can experience his life and you can grow like him as you walk with him he is not after your money keep it to yourself the mission of God shall continue Jesus Moses you are out of order what I'm talking about watch this face I ran the book chapter 3 verse 17 and attached to my heart Abba Kuk says this when he's talking about the unlimited power of God and what he can do in the difficult situations of life he says though the fig tree I see it there though the fig tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labor of the olive shall fail and the field shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no herd in the stores yet hallelujah somebody yet I will rejoice in the life I will joy in the God or my salvation because I know even in the dryness of the situation God can create his grief God can revive God can create waters God can bring forth better things I'll have to wear upon the Lord for I know the Lord is in need Moses hand to land not to limit God so the text of Acts chapter 1 verse 8 Jesus says you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you to suggest to you today that the power to save is of God the power to transform is of God the power that heals is of God the presence of the Holy Spirit is the unlimited power of God to all who believe He said you shall receive power because my kingdom is of power I don't want you to come and submit when you looking so weak this is the kingdom of power and the power is unlimited this power is so powerful that everyone who comes to me he is going to receive the power but there is a condition preliqistat of this one allow the Holy Spirit to be in you this one this one is a way to power for once Moses doubted and the Spirit of God was running out of him he doubted but when he accepted to see the power of God indeed God performed miracles when the Holy Spirit came we all know that the disciples who were so weak to say man who were timidik became so brave they could fast anyone they could go anywhere they overturned the world because of the power of the Holy Spirit when God is in it you are power there is no other way for God to be in your life but through the formula the Holy Spirit to come upon you the church which has the Holy Spirit is the power of church let me speak to you this morning friends we are dealing with the power of God we are dealing with unlimited power Timode says what Paul tells Timode that spirit which was given on the day of Pentecost is not the spirit of fear and to mean it the spirit that we were given on the day of Pentecost is the spirit of power of love and sound mind we can overcome every argument we can silent every argument we can go anywhere we want we have the power we have the power we speak against the powers of darkness we scare them in the name of Jesus we slay the lions we silent the mouth of lions we are there in the power of the Holy Spirit and I can assure you even today the power of God in church is unlimited those who are possession themselves on the side of the Lord they are enjoying the power and I want to invite you this morning friends as we begin the end here week of prayer I want to declare to you today because of what I know and in the power of God there is nothing that will overcome you if you are in the spirit there is nothing let me tell you friends walk in the spirit walk in power sing in the spirit sing in power pray in the spirit pray in power preach in the spirit preach in the power live your life in the spirit and live a powerful life for they who come to Jesus they receive the power of the Holy Spirit and there is nothing whatsoever that come against you I want to declare this morning your sickness your sickness is not above the power of God are you sick are you going through a terminal disease believe you me today God can change this situation he is on marriage in the van breaking you have tried every counselor but it seems not to find direction I tell you today try the Lord be in the spirit most of us are not able to change our situations because we face our situations in our flesh we are fighting in marriages in our flesh come to the spirit of God all that you are struggling with shall come to pass let me tell you friends when God two masses was available when God shows up we show up when God shows up in your life everything else we have been looking for we show up when God shows up in your life your marriage we show up when God shows up in your life your career that is dying you show up when God shows up in your life your health that has been of a challenge we show up when God shows up in your life everything your career we show up your promotion when God shows up in your life He has unlimited power. But do you trust him? Do you trust him? As we end this year, we are calling you to focus on the unlimited power of God. I don't know how your life has been like, but I am pursuing this money, even in the verge of your destruction.  Do not fear, do not give up, do not quit. Just hold on, we are upon the Lord. He is coming, He is going to fix that for you, never being this too late. He is on the way coming. Hang there in prayer, then faith. That's why Isaiah chapter 3, the Mount of God shows the sense of God. It was number 10, go and tell the vichas it will be well with them, can somebody say amen? Go and tell the righteous that it shall be well with them. What is it you are going through? Mount of God, what is it that you are going through that makes you feel that God's power in your situation is weak? God is asking you, Moses, asking everyone of us today, he is my power, now on the limit and because you are in this situation.  I know you were not able to pay house rent and the landlord came and he pushed you out of that house. But let me tell you friend, God is aware of that.  But you hear a cry. God is in it, allow him to accomplish what he began in you for I am persuading that he who is on our side is greater than who is against us. Stay in the Lord, stay close this year with the Lord. Get to 2024 with the Lord. Children, it has not been well with me in 2023 but I know it shall be well with me in 2024. Stay in faith. We are upon the Lord for there is nothing impossible. Can I invite somebody who says Jesus I want to repent my sins like Moses and watch you do your thing in my life when Moses surrendered to the power and the leading of God. He witnessed every morning meet coming right at the doorsteps of the houses of Israel. If you allow God to lead you will see and witness bread brought at the doorstep of your house. You may not see it today because you are so mad with God because you are focusing on what you do not have. Most of us focus on what you don't have and we forget to focus on what we have. We have God on our side let's focus on Him and all these things of the world shall steadily grow deep. Trust Him. Only to stand because I want to pray with you. I don't know what you're going through. I don't know whether you're in church here you're online there you're watching us from home or from your office or anywhere you are but there is an experience you're going through.  Here this man to let you know he is with you he is in a situation he is power just done for prayer somebody who says Jesus I want to walk with you I want to walk with you people who says I want to close these here in faith and in confidence and Lord is on my side I see many things are happening around me but I am trusting the Lord I for sure can't see any way out here I feel like I'm catching in yes let me tell you friends God at times behaves as though he was setting you up not because he wanted to destroy you but because he wanted to set you up for higher grounds at times God will behave like he is cageing you he is trapping you in just because he wanted to cage you there for a moment that he can open a great path for you trust in him step in faith and wait I want to pray I don't know what is experienced this morning it could be sick it could be your relative it could be your marriage it could be your children they are into the world drinking and doing all amount of drugs you say what where did I go wrong past you could be here this morning and you for sure know you have a court case you're here this morning you're so much worried of the outcome you're here this morning you've been visiting people to help you they are not connected with the Lord you've got to break those orders come and connect yourself with the unlimited power of God I want to pray with you thank you for those who are standing I don't know what you've been through but I am feeling there's something you're struggling with you've been praying you have been praying even this morning you prayed somewhere alone you walk in the night you're pleading with God you're pushing it it's not happening you're pushing it you're almost giving up stand for prayer I don't know what it is in your life thank you for those who are standing I'm about to pray I don't know what you're challenging God with it could be an investment you're doing you wanted to buy a house as a family but when you in that deal some bad guy got involved they disappeared with your money I don't know what it could be this morning but you are feeling you're in a situation where you even doubt where the God checks on you don't give up don't give up just stand in faith let's talk to the Lord there one more thank you my sister thank you my brother thank you my brother I don't know what you're going through I don't know what you're going through but I want you as a close days here close phase here in confidence go out in faith say I know my God is powerful behave like the three Hebrews who wished God would change the mind of the king not for them to be thrown into the fire by the enju and they are due of being arrested and dropped and thrown into the fire but I can assure you like it was for their kids before they slay you he will be right there with you step in faith asking us this morning is my hand in short is this not I am the one who spoke and things came to be I'm the one who silenced the mouth of lion Daniel had a warm night I am the one who patterned the seas I am the one who meant that old tired woman past menopause have a healthy bouncing baby boy who brought forth the Son of God I am unlimited God I can do anything I choose to do trust in me trust in me I'm praying gracious for the heaven thank you for challenging us today through the experience of mausies that you are unlimited God with unlimited power most of the times we fear because we weigh what we want to do with our strength our abilities and resources that we discover we are so weak we can't move a thing we become so frustrated we go into depression people are living under depression just because they failed completely trust in your power and as we walk through the end of this year we introduce to your people their unlimited power God come and feel us with your spirit come and speak power in our situations come and break the strongholds of the evil and in our lives come and change our situations come and give us breakthroughs give us testimonies because we are before your presence and in our presence there is power Lord meet all these people today at the very point of needs heal them restore them open new doors for them overcome for them give them testimonies renew their commitment renew their strength make them sentinels make them strong men and women make them stop in 2024 in confidence because they are working in faith they are working in the spirit when they work in the spirit they are working in faith this is our prayer this morning Jesus thank you and we praise you God in Jesus name we pray albesio


My father started the real estate business here at Two Trees back in 1968. And it was really growing up very much a family business. He really brought his work home. My mom was very involved in the business. I don't feel like I was totally raised to do this. I don't think it was ever expected that I would come and work here necessarily. I was a journalist in college. And through a friend, I actually went to work for Donald Trump right out of school. And then after I was at Donald's for a year, David called me and said, the city's finally interested in rezoning Dumbo. And do you want to come and do it? And what happened simultaneously is you had the first tech boom kind of in New York. And at the same time, there was the resurgence in all these Brooklyn neighborhoods, not just Dumbo, but all of them. In that moment, gave us the confidence to make a massive investment in this building. But at the beginning, it was never, ever part of the plan. And it wasn't some like genius notion that, oh, we're going to create a tech incubator in Dumbo. And that's how it's going to go. Like it kind of happened to us.  In terms of Domino, I think very similar to Dumbo, you have an opportunity to take a big picture long-term view. And it helps with all your thinking. I mean, when you can take a big picture long-term view, it's much more likely that your interests and from a policy perspective and even your minute decisions are more likely to align with the neighborhood's interests. And the city at large interests. To me, what's interesting about Domino is if you look at like the Jane Jacobs four big characteristics, mix of new buildings and old buildings, small blocks, a lot of density and a density of users and mix of uses, right? Those are kind of these cast and stone urbanist principles that people associate with like the West Village or Brownstones in Toronto. I would argue that's exactly what we've been able to achieve together in Domino. I think two trees is different because primarily they're not afraid to take risks. They challenge when somebody says you can't do that. We hear that a lot in our discipline where people say, nope, can't do that, can't do that, can't do that. And Jed, someone who just asks, why not? Let's try. They really treat every site as unique and try to leverage the site and that's a really different experience for us. With all of our projects, we really hope that we create a very, very positive set of momentum and energy that spills over into all the stuff that have nothing to do with us but our neighbors or what happens down the street or up the block. We hope we set a tone that other people can build on and where communities say, you know what, this was really positive development in our lives or better off having had this project.


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On Thursday, the U.S. jobless claims totaled 1.5 million, which is worse than expected. Bank of England extended QE by 100 billion pounds, and the Swiss National Bank signaled stronger currency intervention if needed. Welcome to the TICML Update. I'm Kiana Daniela, the founder of the Investiva movement. Make sure to subscribe to the TICML YouTube channel and support us by liking and sharing this video with your forest trading friends. We have on Friday the U.K. retail sales and speeches from several Fed figures including Jerome Powell. Today, I'm looking at the Swiss C&P, which has been unable to break above the 114 resistance zone since the end of 2018 and once again turned back down at the beginning of June. While the pair remains above the daily TICML cloud, its stronger support is at 111. A strategy for bears could be shorting now, and a strategy for bulls could be monitoring the support and potentially going long once it's reached. The next support level is at 109. What do you think of a ranged trade between 114 and 111? Head over to the comment section and let me know. Of course, trading in the financial markets involves a risk of loss, and you should only trade the money that you can afford to lose. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the TICML YouTube channel. I'll get back to you with more updates next week.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overlord here's just about Halloween ends in this video here again today So one of the producers Ryan Freeman he responded to somebody over on Instagram Who had left this comment stating that there's a dude on Facebook saying that the end trailer is going to drop June 23rd Is there any accuracy at all and Ryan Freeman followed up with sounds legit now? I've seen people already say that this was I first saw this over on the Halloween subreddit where it's like oh This is a rumor But I don't even think it's a rumor as much as it is Someone responding with sarcasm only off the basis that look at what the first person said they didn't say who the guy was They didn't name anybody. They just said a guy on Facebook That's not to say that he's saying that it's not happening as much as he's trying to say that it sounds legit Off of the sarcastic bases that you haven't stated that this was Jason Blum who said it You didn't say that the halloween official Twitter page or somebody associated with the production said it you said Some guy on Facebook like so to Ryan Freeman that sounds like you know someone that I he wouldn't trust So sarcastically yes that that sounds legit But that doesn't mean it's not happening the reason it could happen is because of the fact that the black phone comes out That we can now I know I've stated that I would like them to do it earlier in the month But again associating it with the horror movie is obviously gonna be what they try to do Nope is in July so the earliest if they're again actually gonna follow that pattern of what they did with Halloween 2018 then it looks like we will be expecting to get that trailer in June and there's a movie coming out in June That looks like is going to be fantastic and that's the new Ethan Hawke movie the black phone Which is also associated with Blumhouse and Universal Pictures So I was thinking about you know doing it with Jurassic World, but that's that's not horror altogether That's not Blumhouse either That's just universal without Blumhouse involvement and then you have no which again is universal But it's not Blumhouse involvement. So then that leaves the black phone, which is a Blumhouse production So what better way to start promoting how we end and release his trailer Associating it with one of the very possibly biggest releases for Blumhouse this summer the black phone So June 23rd could end up or that week anyway of the black phone releasing could be the week that we get the trailer and It'll be us seeing the footage that of course we saw at Cinemacon and Getting to see that brawl in the kitchen Getting to see some glimpses of what else was shown like I think they pretty much from what I were calling off the top of My head the footage that was shown was just like a recollection of the things that have happened in the David What a green timeline with a little bit of hints of the stuff that happened in the original John Carpenter classic with With dialogue that would come up on the screen like little flashy pop pop quotes or pop mentions to Get you invested in what you're about to witness the end of an era type of thing is what it sounds like this initial trailer Is going to be which I think is a unique approach to take it's also effective in the sense that you're enticing your audience You're not going to show too much and then you show us a little bit of footage at the very end And then ultimately of course we'll get a final trailer Where I'm assuming you'll see a lot more footage shown of course as opposed to this first trailer that should be arriving in June It just seems like that's what's going to happen They've already followed the pattern with the cinema con thing Jamie Lee Curtis did exactly what happened three years ago when she arrived at cinema con to Announce the trailer and it's released there. So Or not or announced the trailer of or announced the trailer of the 2018 film there So she did it again this year with Halloween ends at cinema con So it's only safe to assume that just like how the trailer released months later in June of 2018 It seems like they're gonna follow that pattern up with Halloween ends trying trying to keep in line with the full circle theme They're trying to go along with as as they keep building us towards this battle between good versus evil the shape versus Lori strode Ryan Freeman's comment honestly again as rooted in mostly sarcasm But it doesn't mean it has no truth to it the trailer for Halloween ends very much so could arrive that week because of the fact that the black phone is releasing that week and We will get to see the first look at Michael Myers We'll get to see how Lord We'll get to see the first look at Lord strode and of course I'll come on here and talk about how the way she looks might be an indication of what stage in the movie This is because again, I've made a video where I stated that maybe they are Taking place after the events of Halloween kills Instantly early on in the movie like right away and then jumping four years later They could do that because there's no mention of what their clothes are looking like nobody mentioned how they were dressed We don't care how how Michael was dressed. I think it's pretty obvious how he was dressed But if there were to been some descriptions about how Lori was dressed in that footage shown at cinema con I would have been more Backed up into believing that that's picking up on the night of Halloween kills In fact if people had out like flat out said that that's what it was then I would be more on board with it But doesn't seem like that's something that's going to happen because I think that again Many people would have pointed that out in the descriptions that people were giving in their reactions on Twitter to the footage They saw a cinema con but then again, there could have been something going on where they were told not to disclose certain things they could disclose things but not everything and You know, that's why no one described what clothes Lord was wearing because if they had given us any sign of her wearing an outfit similar to Halloween kills then I would have been more lying longing in the theory that This movie will pick up right after kills and they'll have that kitchen brawl there Michael gets captured jump 40 years later He gets broke. He breaks out again. It goes to Haddonfield wreaks havoc bottom being bottom But it doesn't seem like that's gonna happen because of the fact that again I think that's something that they would have it mentioned at least in the descriptions that were being given out as far as when People were reacting to their thoughts on Twitter But all in all this is just mainly about Ryan Freeman in that comment because I know I think we watched a movie made a video about this earlier shout out to you guys and The comment itself again is just rooted in mostly sarcasm I do know that somebody had brought it to my attention again I saw it over on Reddit So I just wanted to say that while they are addressing the trailer. They are not outright confirming it now again We could need to read between the lines and consider the reality of it all as it takes to that being a good week to do it But the original person who made that comment they failed to give out any credible name as a as other than just guy So guy random guy is claiming that the end trailer is released on June 23rd Any accuracy to this at all? It sounds legit Sarcastic response to you failing to give an initial comment That's rooted in someone that usually is someone I guess Ryan Freeman would say is accurate like the Halloween movies official social media accounts or Jason Blum or someone else involved with the production. You just said random guy So knowing that it's just a random guy that sounds legit sarcastically Well, let me know what you guys think about that down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post a picture and then miss a video in the script Social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course in the visiting movies news are usually I'm gonna cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


LePort 4th graders are traveling to all different parts of the world thanks to a little help from their flat friends. Lakeland news reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about the flat Stanley project for this week's Golden Apple. You have now visited the famous state for potatoes. That's right, Idaho. From murals in Australia to the slopes of Montana, LePort 4th graders don't need a plane ticket to see the world thanks to the flat Stanley project. I traveled to Duluth, Minnesota and I went every place there. They took me to this port of Enigra. It's this adventure they were going on. LePort has been sitting flat Stanley's out into the world for almost 20 years now. It's pretty easy to be a part of the project. The kids write a letter asking the recipient to take pictures with their flat Stanley in different landmarks around town. Then the recipient is asked to mail them back. The flat Stanley is made to look like the 4th graders so it's as if they're actually there. First of all I started out with a giant piece of paper. I laid on it with my pose which is supposed to be this. They color their clothing in realistically and we I make a picture of their faces that they can then glue on. With the power of the flat Stanley's the kids are able to travel anywhere their heart desires. All they need is a little knowledge of the U.S. postal system and some help from a friend or family member. I sent it to my pen pal and I thought that was probably a good idea because he I haven't written back to him for quite a while. My aunt and my uncle they were on their honeymoon and they went in a cruise boat across the pacific ocean. Since LePort started doing the flat Stanley project kids have had their pictures taken in historic places like the Great Wall of China and the Eiffel Tower. Seeing how far their classmates have traveled makes them think about other places they'd like their flat Stanley to visit next. I would want them here to go to Germany that's where my uncle lives. I would rather go to Washington DC. And kids say when they finally get their flat Stanley back in the mail it feels like they themselves took the trip with them. They get to know other parts of the country or the world they get to see where other kids have gone. I mean it's more than a virtual trip because their act part it almost feels like part of them is traveling. I think you guys should try this send it to whoever you want your loved ones. Reporting in LePort with this week's Golden Apple, Shremor, Lakeland News.


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This talk will be an introduction to the complex projective surfaces. So some examples are as follows. So first of all, we could have the projective plane or we could have product of two curves. So you might, for example, take a product of a projective line times a projective line. Another obvious collection of examples are just hypersurfaces in P3. For example, we could take w to the four plus x to the four plus y to the four plus c to the four equals zero, which is a simplest example of a K3 surface. And we have the following basic problem, which is classify all surfaces. Well, of course, classifying all surfaces is hopelessly difficult, but we can make some sort of progress on it and get at least a rough idea of what all surfaces look like. So in order to see what the classification of surfaces look like, we might start by looking at the classification of curves. So let's just recall what curves look like. So first of all, any curve is birational to a unique, non-singular projective curve. And we can see this by embedding the curve in projective space. We can then, we can see the curve in the projective space we can then take its completion, which makes it projective, and we can then get rid of the singularities by any of the two dozen or so known methods for resolving singularities. So all we need to do is to classify the non-singular projective curves as long as we're only worried about classifying up to birational isomorphism. And there's a basic invariant of non-singular projective curves called the genus, which you remember is a non-negative integer and can be any of these. And for each genus, there's a modular space, which is some sort of variety whose points correspond to isomorphism classes of these curves. So I guess it's a course modular space. And its dimension looks like zero, one, three, six, nine, 12, and so on as was sort of found by Riemann, although it's not clear how rigorous his argument was. However, so this gives a sort of picture of the classification of curves. It's given by a countable collection of varieties and we at least know the dimensions of the various bits of it. However, this isn't really the best way to look at the classification because there are three completely different sorts of behavior. Genus zero, genus one, and genus greater than one should be sort of a three different classes. So from the point of differential geometry, you would say that these ones have curvature that's positive, these ones have curvature that's negative, and these zero, and these ones have curvature that's negative. Well, curvature works fine in differential geometry, but isn't a terribly easy property to look at algebraically. So instead, we can divide these up by looking at the number of sections of the canonical class K, which you remember is essentially the cotangent bundle of the surface. More generally, we can look at the number of sections of powers of the canonical bundle for n greater than or equal to zero. Now, for genus zero curves, there are no sections of the canonical class or any of its powers because there's a negative degree. For elliptic curves, the space of sections is one dimensional and the same for powers. For genus greater than one, the number of sections of the canonical class is just the genus. More generally, we can look at the number of sections of K to the n for n equals zero, one, two, three, four, and so on, and it grows linearly. So it's one dimensional for naught, G dimensional for K equals one, and after this, it becomes three G minus one, three for five G minus one, seven G minus one, and so on. So what we have here is linear growth. It's not exactly linear because it sort of goes wrong for n equals naught and one, but it's sort of bounded by a linear function. And here we should think of this as being constant growth. It's bounded by a constant, and here it's just identically zero. So there are three different sorts of behavior that you can get by looking at the number of sections of the canonical class. And this can be used to give a morphism from the curve to a certain variety. So these numbers actually are called plurigenera. So we have the plurigenera, are usually denoted by Pn of the dimension of the space of sections of the nth power of the canonical bundle. They're called plurigenera because P1 is just the usual genus. So they're a sort of generalization of the genus. And we can look at the following graded ring. We can just take the sum over all n of the global sections of K to the n. And this is a graded ring, and so it will usually give rise to a projective variety, at least unless the genus is zero. And the dimension of this projective variety is related to the growth of the plurigenera. So the dimension is for G equals zero, one or greater than one. For G equals one, we just get a point. So the dimension of this variety is zero. For G greater than one, we have lots of sections. So the variety is dimension one. And here the variety is empty, which conventionally has dimension minus infinity. I guess varieties can't be empty, but never mind. And this number here is the dimension of a canonical model. Well, at least it's a canonical model if the genus is greater than one. But in any case, we have a map from our curve to this variety X, which has dimension minus infinity zero or one, and will quite often be an isomorphism, but there are some special cases when it isn't. So this number here is called the kadera dimension of the variety. It was actually introduced by Tarka rather than kadera, but it was based on kadera's work. So now we're going to do the same thing for surfaces. We want to classify surfaces into several different classes according to kadera dimension. So let's look at what happens. So now we're going to study the same thing for surfaces. Well, first of all, we can look at the cotangent sheaf, which can be denoted by omega to one. And the problem is this is not a line bundle. So taking sections of it doesn't obviously give a projected variety. Well, that's not a problem because we can take the second exterior power of omega one, which is a line bundle called omega two called the canonical bundle. And we could call it K because writing omega two is a bit annoying. And now we can copy what we did for surfaces. So we define plurigenera to be just the dimension of the space of sections of K to the N. And we can form a graded ring like this and ask what happens? So here we get a graded ring and this gives us a projected variety. And we can now ask what is the growth of the plurigenera? So these are called PN. And there are four, now four cases. We could have P to the N are all zero. So the kadera dimension, which is usually denoted by little Greek kappa is now going to be conventionally denoted by minus infinity. All the PN can be bounded. They're not necessarily constant, but if they're bounded, then we say the kadera dimension is zero because in this case, the projected variety here is dimension zero. All the PN can be bounded by some linear function in which case this variety is dimension one or PN sort of grow quadratically in which case the dimension of this variety is two. So this gives us the four basic classes of surfaces. And now we have to discuss the problem of singularities. So we know any curve is isomorphic to a unique non-singular projective curve. And we can ask, is the same true for surfaces? Well, no, it isn't because any surface can be isomorphic to many different non-singular projective surfaces. And the reason for this is that we can blow up a surface. So given S and a point P in S, we can blow up S at the point P. This means P is roughly speaking replaced by a copy of the projective line. And if we call the blow up S hat, then there's a regular map which is also birational from the blow up to S.  So there are enormous numbers of ways of getting surfaces that are birational but not by regular to other surfaces. So S is called minimal if S is not a blow up of some non-singular surface. And we can ask, any surface is isomorphic to a minimal surface. This is any non, I should have said non-singular surface is isomorphic to a non-singular minimal surface. And we can ask, is this unique? Well, this is almost unique. It turns out it's unique if the Kedara dimension is greater than or equal to zero but it's not usually unique if the Kedara dimension is equal to minus infinity. However, it turns out it's not terribly difficult to classify the different minimal surfaces that are isomorphic if the Kedara dimension is minus infinity. And so, we now have two slightly different approaches for classification. The original approach was to classify surfaces up to birational isomorphism. It seems to be more convenient to, instead of classifying surfaces up to birational isomorphism to classify minimal surfaces. So for Kedara dimension at least zero, these two problems are essentially equivalent. For Kedara dimension minus infinity, it's slightly nicer to classify the minimal surfaces. And from that, you can easily read off the classification up to birational isomorphism. So now let's give an outline of the classification. So this is an outline of the Enrique's Kedara classification. So these are going to be classification of minimal, non-singular, projective, complex surfaces. So first of all, we have K, the Kedara dimension can be minus infinity. And for these, there are essentially two things. The surface can either be rational, which means it's birational to P2. So it could obviously be P2, but there are also some other ones called Hirtser-Brooke surfaces. And these are surfaces that map to the projective line and the fibres are also projective lines. These surfaces were probably well known before long before Hirtser-Brooke studied them, but they're named after him anyway. So next we have the ruled surfaces. So these are examples of these are just P1 times a curve. And more generally, we could have a surface mapping to a curve with fibres P1. So Hirtser-Brooke surfaces are special sorts of ruled surfaces in fact. So the Hirtser-Brooke surfaces and P2 are all the minimal surfaces birational to P2. And the ruled surfaces again are all for a given curve are all birational to each other. And they form a class of minimal surfaces that are birationally isomorphic. So next we look at Kedara dimension of zero. And here there are four classes. First we have the so-called Abelian surfaces. And these are the surfaces that are Abelian varieties. An Abelian variety is a projective variety that's also a group. So in one dimension, the Abelian varieties are just elliptic curves. In two dimensions, the analogs of elliptic curves are called Abelian surfaces. And we could take a product of two elliptic curves. That would give one example with E1, E2 elliptic. Or we could also take a Jacobian of a genus two curve. Next, we have the very famous example of K3 surfaces. A typical example of these is W to the four plus X to the four plus Y to the four plus Z to the four equals zero. More generally, any non-singular quartet curve is a K3 surface. These are the Kalabi Yao surfaces. So Kalabi Yao manifolds in high dimensions are of very great interest in physics at the moment. So there's been a lot of study of K3 surfaces because they're essentially the simplest non-trivial examples of Kalabi Yao manifolds. Then we have the hyper elliptic surfaces. And people don't really pay much attention to these because these are just Abelian surfaces quotient out by finite group. And if you know the Abelian surfaces, it's not too difficult to figure out what the hyper elliptic ones are. Then finally, we have the Enrique surfaces. And these have the same relation to K3 surfaces that hyper elliptic surfaces have to Abelian surfaces. They're just K3 surfaces divided by group. And this group always is order two. So you can sort of study K3 Enrique surfaces by studying K3 surfaces. For Kadara dimension one, you get the so-called elliptic vibrations. Here the surface maps to some curve and the fibres are mostly elliptic curves. However, you can have a finite number of fibres that aren't elliptic curves, but as something degenerate like a projective line with a node or something like that. So typical examples of these will just be an elliptic curve times any other curve, which is particularly simple example, because here all the fibres will be isomorphic. So you can have a finite number of fibres will be isomorphic and there are no singular fibres. Incident elliptic vibrations are very similar to elliptic curves over the integers. So if you take the spectrum of an elliptic curve over the integers, then it maps onto the spectrum of Z. And the fibres over points of Z are elliptic curves over finite fields or the rational. So the theory of elliptic vibrations is very similar to the theory of elliptic curves over the integers. In fact, what happened historically is these seem to have been studied independently for a few years before people noticed they were more or less the same thing. So Kadara classified the possible exceptional fibres in this case and Neuron in this case. And then people noticed the classifications were the same. And finally, we get onto a K equals two. So these are surfaces of general type. And there are enormous numbers of examples of these. So a few examples, we might take C1 times C2, where C1 and C2 have genus greater than one. We might take a hypersurface of degree greater than four in P3, provide it's non-singular, that will be of general type. And there are a huge number of other constructions that people have come up with. However, so what we have is for these ones here, the classification is sort of known. So we have a pretty good idea of what the different modular space and of these things are and what the dimensions of the various components of the modular space and so on are. For these ones, the classification is just wide open. We don't, I mean, we have lots of things, enough examples to show the classification of general type surfaces is incredibly difficult, but we still don't know even what a typical surface of general type is. We don't even know if there is a typical surface of general type. In fact, calling this a classification of surfaces is a little bit misleading. It's a bit as if, you know, we had an Enrica-Cadara classification of say birds. So what is the Enrica-Cadara classification of birds? Say it says that there are three sorts of birds. There are penguins, there are ostriches and there are birds of general type. Well, obviously you wouldn't count that as a classification of birds because you're just having this general type of birds which has an enormous number of birds that you don't know how to classify. And you should think of surfaces of general type as being like that. They're just almost all surfaces are of general type and we don't know how to classify them. So you should take the claim that there's a classification of surfaces with a big grain of salt. However, in practice, I must say the classification is actually pretty useful because most surfaces you've come across in practice tend to be of Cadara dimension less than two.  So I'm going to finish by giving an example of a non-algebraic surface. So I said I was just classifying algebraic projective surfaces over the complex numbers. You can also classify surfaces over fields of characteristic greater than zero which whether classification looks similar but with a one or two minor extra complications. You can, if you classify non-algebraic surfaces you get some lots of completely new phenomena. So there are some types of non-algebraic surface that have no resemblance to any algebraic surface. And one of the most famous examples of these is the hop surface. So the hop surface is constructed as follows. You take C squared and you remove the origin. And this is acted on by the integers because we can just map Z1 Z2 to two to the N Z1, two to the N Z2. So we're just sort of, there's an obvious automorphism where we just double all components. And there's nothing special about the number two here. You could take any other number. And we can work out what this looks like topologically because we can write this as it's homomorphic to S3 times the positive reals. And Z is acting on these as multiplication by powers of two. So if we quotient this out by the action of the reals, this is isomorphic S3 times S1 because this is the positive reals modulo, the multiplicative action of powers of two. And this can't be any algebraic surface. And we can see this as follows by looking at topologically here, the betting numbers which are the dimensions of the homology groups over the reals are 11011. So this is for H0, H1, H2, H3, and H4. On the other hand, the betting numbers, B0, B1, B2, B3, and B4, for a compact non-singular algebraic surface must have, well, there are several constraints on these. First of all, B1 must be even. Secondly, B2 must be greater than 0. And you can see the hop surface fails in both ways that H2 is zero, which is not possible for an algebraic surface. And H1 is odd, which is also not possible for an algebraic surface. So this fails rather drastically to be anything like an algebraic surface. Kadera sort of made great progress in classifying the non-algebraic surfaces. And we mostly have a pretty good idea of what the non-algebraic surfaces look like, but there are some classes of them for which we still haven't quite figured out the classification. So the next few lectures I'll probably be discussing the various types of algebraic surface in a bit more detail.


Reporters without borders called to release Aziz Ordov and all journalists. Reporters without borders called on the Council of Europe to remind the authorities of their international commitments and to make them release all the journalists in the country. It is noted that the hunt for journalists for the few remaining independent media operating in Azerbaijan continues. The latest victim is YouTube channel 13 news presenter Rufat Muragli, who's arrest in the capital Baku on the 2nd of December followed that of his YouTube channel's director and four Abzaz media journalists. Before his arrest, he was about to interview the mother of Abzaz media editor Sevinj Vagivkizi, who was arrested on the 20th of November, as well as its editor Vagivkizi. The other three Abzaz media journalists arrested since the 20th of November are its director Ulvi Hassanli, the director's assistant, Mohammad Kekalov, and reporter Nagiz Absalamovar. The other journalists arrested in the past few days, channel 13 director Aziz Ordov appeared on the 4th of December before a court in Baku, which rejected his appeal against his pretrial detention order. It is said that Abzaz media and channel 13 are both independent media outlets that often provide investigative reporting on corruption cases.


I'm the co-director of the Center for Neural Basis of Cognition and I'm also in the Psychology Department with David and I think of myself as a bit of an academic curmudgeon because I tend to like to shake things up in the field because I think a lot of the field is broken and is breaking more all the time, the way we do science in particular and the way peer review works. And I'm going to start with a little bit of a story and this goes back to the mid-90s and it actually isn't about academics, it's about politics. I used to go, my wife and I used to go to a long weekend every winter break with a group of very high level people within the Clinton administration that were mimicking Renaissance weekend if any of you remember what Renaissance weekend was but they weren't invited quite to that but they were next echelon and we were the only academics that ever went to this and one of the years I remember very distinctly having a discussion about getting the next Democratic president elected and what the mechanisms were going to be and my wife and I said, well there's this thing called the Internet now and the Internet's going to change the way you all do politics and the way you campaign because you're going to be able to reach and communicate with people and disseminate information in different modalities than you ever have before and NATO one looked at us like we were crazy and we actually had a raging but friendly argument for like the rest of the weekend about the impact of the Internet and whether it would really fundamentally affect their lives or politics in any way. And I think we're about at that point in academics whether we like it or not the way the Internet and the way information is disseminated within academics is going to fundamentally change it already has but it's going to change a lot more and there's nothing science magazine, nature magazine or from National Academy can do about it. It's partially democratization but it's also just market forces and a variety of other things are going to lead to that the least of course is squeezed university budgets and also further congressional oversight on academics to the point where they're going to force open access to everyone anyway because it's a taxpayer's research. And so my attitude is if you're going to publish why not publish an open access because the way people are going to consume information in the future is going to be taking typing into Google and finding out where the information is and if you're open access and it's well indexed they're going to find your research and that's your colleagues too it's not just the public whereas for instance I recently had to find a paper from the 1960s the American Psychological Association owns the copyright it turns out that Carnegie Mellon for good reason does not pay for articles that far back or whatever for this journal and they wanted like 15 bucks for this 1960s article now this is ridiculous I mean come on this is a dissemination of information therefore I did not read nor cite the article okay so I think first of all it's an imperative you really want 20 years from now people to care about any of your work it should be in some kind of form in which you can equally we can actually easily and I also I think that ultimately it's a better way to get that information because are we are already completely inundated with information in the curate the nominal curation of journals is really just a nominal curation of journals we can agree that there's both good and bad papers and quote-unquote high quality journals and they take supposedly second-tier journals I mean not the sham journals that are where they're asking you you know come publish with us and pay us whatever it is but we can agree that there's second-tier journals nominally that have very good articles sometimes much better let me see and I think that you asked about the science article by John Bohan and it's entitled who's afraid of peer review he basically sent out I don't know how many of you've heard of it he sent out this paper that was a sham paper it's not the first time this has been done it was done the 60s by psychologists it's been done since then it's all these open access journals that are these for-profit ones not things like PLS or frontiers and lo and behold it got accepted at most of them well this is not a surprise because anyone who has half a brain in their head knows that these journals exist and that's how they work and they existed before the web also there's a journal called psychological research you might have heard of published out of Germany that was always pay-for-play okay so but he acted a high and mighty in science wrote this very self-serving article about why this is such a terrible thing and how we should appear review now I have to tell you knowing some people that have edited science for different points and talk to them and knowing something about the internal process sometimes they look at the name of the author because it's not double-blind and they go oh that's going in because they've got the Nobel Prize and the most egregious version of that there was a paper published by a Nobel Prize winner Linda Buck that had to be retracted because all the data was faked by her postdoc whether she knew that or not who knows but the fact is is that everyone in the field had said that that data was too good to be true from the day it was published yet science thought it was wonderful okay it clearly did not undergo normal peer review so I'm very skeptical that for-profit journals and journals that are closed access are going to survive in the long run the current model they're going to change or they will die I think some journals like science and other journals that are published by society should be ashamed of themselves for not going access open access right now because their societies we own them I'm a triple-as member why should I have to pay or why should my university ever have to pay for access to that or the public have to pay for that given the mission that society I know society say they need the revenue well society's don't exist just for the revenue okay so I really feel that really strong and there's a last reason which David alluded to which has to do with speed of publication so I'll tell you one last story I have a friend at Brown University who's a physicist and two weeks ago he did not win the Nobel Prize it was one of the three guys that didn't win the prize for the Higgs Boson but was on the other paper okay now most people that know these papers tell me and I have no way of evaluating this that it was at least as good if not better quantitatively than the papers that won the Nobel Prize but it came out three months later Jerry tells me was purely an accident of the publication vagaries because no one knew so all these papers got submitted about the same time they all went through the process but the journal that his appeared in had a slightly longer lag in publishing things and it ultimately may have cost him the Nobel Prize because if his paper had been out first well what are they gonna do so I think that's really important to remember that sometimes also spinning your wheels going back and forth in a traditional publishing model which is David said in psychology can take years and then even after it's accepted it can some take to years to actually appear in print believe it or not and I know that there's other fields like that if you can get things efficiently out there and you think it's high quality and you should keep the quality high but it's out there and disseminate then you can go and you can do better and more work than you could possibly do by wasting your time arguing or public spending your wheels on something else I think that's really important


Attack on Moscow. It's a whole new kind of drone, Russian expert. 25 drones took part on the attack on Moscow. This is a brand new drone. These drones are, as Rogozii calls them, ducks. Wingspan are four meters. This was said by Russian political scientist Sergei Markov. According to him, these drones can fly from 400 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers. Therefore, theoretically, they can fly through the territory of Ukraine. However, in this case, they will be intercepted earlier by the air defense system. Therefore, it is likely that these drones were assembled in some facility in the Moscow region which was secretly purchased by agents of the Ukrainian special services, he added. Considering that half of the UAVs were shot down on the territory of the Rubliovsky Highway, it is likely that the targets of the attacks were the residences of the Russian leadership. That is, the president, the prime minister, the minister of defense, the head of the Russian Security Council. It is there that is considered their place of residence. So Zelensky ordered to attack President Putin's house at night, he said. It should be noted that Moscow and the Moscow region were attacked by drones early on May the 30th. In response to Russia's aerial attacks on May the 29th, the head of Ukraine's military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said, All those who tried to intimidate us, dreaming that it would have some effect, you will regret it very soon. He added in a statement published by Ukraine's Intelligence Ministry. Our answer will not belong. After that, there was a drone attack on Moscow.


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