I hate to disappoint you, many of you at least, but I'm still alive, and I am Sam Vaknin, the author of Malignant Self-Lab, Narcissism Revisited. Evidently, even viruses can cope with narcissists. The pandemic is over in Italy and the United Kingdom. Appearances to the contrary, notwithstanding, another 10 days, another 14 days, and it will level off. The reason we still have new infections and new deaths is because of the long tail of the pandemic, the fact that the incubation period is inordinately long. The pandemic is still going strong in Spain and in the United States, but even in these two third world countries, it will last three to four weeks at most. The pandemic's pittering out has nothing to do with quarantines and social distancing.  We have a big experience with this family more than 20 years. As every textbook in Epidemiology 101 will tell you, universal quarantines and social distancing are precisely the wrong measures to cope with pandemics. The first thing they teach you in Epidemiology. For a variety of reasons, it reduces herd immunity, it induces people to lie and to cheat, etc. But as usual, we have been fighting the last war and shooting ourselves in both feet simultaneously. Ironically, the thing is that we have been ready for this virus. All our institutions have crumbled in the past two decades. There's no more family, there's no more neighbourhood, there are no more functional couples or relationships, and there's no community. We all became schizoid loners, whose sole human contact is the occasional and personal encounter of casual sex, and many of us don't have even this. The only social left in our lives are social media, and our only friends are strangers on Facebook who call themselves for some oblivious reason friends. Dating survived only in dating applications. Social distancing was a fact of life long before the virus made its illustrious appearance. The virus stood no chance of propagating anyhow. This pandemic also exposed other structural weaknesses in what was left of our civilisation. Our narcissistic preoccupation with our bodies, for example. Our extreme risk aversion, which has to do with hypochondriasis, fear of disease, mutilation, all kinds of somatiform disorders, body dysmorphic disorders, eating disorders. And then there's the issue of intergenerational lack of solidarity or even conflict between young and old. I will talk about it a bit later. This distrust of authorities, mainstream media of experts.  We were already falling apart. We were already disintegrating. The virus just shined a bright and transient light on our incremental demise as a cooperative intelligence species. Having said all this, optimism mixed with pessimism equals realism. Having said all this, there's one bit of news, or maybe two or three bits of news, which for the first time in this entire pandemic make me worry, frighten me. Two days ago, I came across the first truly worrying news in this entire pandemic. A newborn baby died in the United States of COVID-19. If this baby had no underlying conditions, no comorbidities, it is a seriously scary development. Because it implies that the virus is mutating in vivo, in real life out there, and that it is possibly recombining with a flu virus, maybe avian flu. This is more terrifying than I can tell you. There were scientists in 2011 and earlier, and they have achieved similar feats in laboratories in the United States and elsewhere. Don't ask me what they were thinking. Very idiocy with zero scientific value, just generating dangerous germs and viruses in laboratories. For God knows what, not even for biological warfare, because you cannot weaponize. It's very difficult to weaponize these microorganisms and viruses. They just did it for the heck of it. But one thing is that they have demonstrated what will happen if a SARS-type virus will be combined with a flu virus, and you don't want to know the results. Additionally, several impeccably healthy adults in their 50s had also died in the United States. All this, the death of the baby and the death of the perfectly healthy adults in their 50s with no pre-existing conditions. All these put together suggest that perhaps there's a new strain at work, a new variation or mutation of the virus, and that's seriously scary. Let me explain why. Newborns have only the bare rudiments of an immune system. The SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 culprit, this virus is essentially an autoimmune virus. It provokes the immune system. Even if the immune system is already depleted, it goes into overdrive. This overdrive is known as hyperinflammation. Certain types of immune cells, like cytokines, end up attacking the body's own tissues. As I said, immune cells, they go haywire. In elderly and immunocopromised patients, they cause death, and this is called a cytokine stone. The reason younger folks have higher survival rates in this pandemic is because their immune system is still under construction, not fully developed. For the virus to have decimated a healthy newborn, or for that matter a healthy adult, it must have mutated. It must have merged with another nasty. This is bad news all around. Equipped with the formidable arsenal of even the common flu, we stand no chance. A Spanish flu-like pandemic will ensue. In 1918 to 1920, about 50 to 100 million people died. We stopped counting. This time, the toll in human lives will be closer to one billion. Why? Because in our narcissistic panic, we universally quarantined and self-isolated. And we failed to develop the only true protection against the propagation of this virus and possibly its mutations, herd immunity. 60 to 70 percent of our population should have been infected. We should have instituted social distancing and quarantine only for vulnerable groups, elderly, the immunocompromised, people with comorbidities, pre-existing conditions. All the rest, all the others, should have been left to be infected. We didn't do this and so now, if there's a mutation, we will not survive. COVID-19 is shaping up to be a war in many, many respects. Let us hope that this baby was born with some congenital heart problem or some other pre-existing condition. It's very sad that the baby had died. But the message its death is sending us is unthinkable. As I said, COVID-19, the pandemic, is shaping up to be a war on several levels. So there's a war between the current teen but defined young against the doomed old who egotistically are absconding with their youth. You see, young people are asked to sacrifice their social lives, their dating, their mating, their family creation and their economic future to prolong the life of an 80-year-old by six months.  This is our legacy to the young generations and we are asking them to sacrifice themselves for us. What rights do we have? I'm not sure we do. This is very reminiscent of child sacrifices and human sacrifices in the ancient world where people used to sacrifice young virgins or children to the Moloch where Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac. It was common practice at that time. The young were considered dispensable, not full adults, not fully formed. So it can be easily trashed or sacrificed or killed or whatever. We are reverting to this frame of mind. We the old have all the rights and the young should abide and obey or be punished. In scenes, not seen since the Black Death, protein, self-assembling, flesh mob, teenage gangs, break curfew and maraud the streets, damaging property, cuffing and speaking in the faces of buses by and law enforcement, and spreading saliva and secretions on various surfaces. This is their way of protesting. Travel and movement restrictions, voluntary and mandatory, are likely to remain in place after the pandemic is over in two, three weeks. And this abnormal state will engender intergenerational tensions and conflicts akin to the post-World War I and the Vietnam Eras. But these ineluctable fusions will be amplified to the social breaking point by technologies such as social media. So you should expect a plethora of Manson families. The age of the clockwork orange is dawning upon us. The enemy would be the young. Social distancing may be a fixture in our lives as we protect ourselves against the disintegration of society around us. The virus will be long forgotten and we may still be socially isolated. And then there is the effect on gender. Somehow the situation between gender was a war. The world was becoming unigender. Men were provoked, alarmed and protested. More and more financially emancipated women mimic psychopathic men adopting both their misbehaviors and their unsavory traits. A curious gender inversion seems to be occurring. Men are assuming hitherto feminine roles and reactive patterns. For example, judging by numerous reports from the crowded clinics of couple therapies, men are now more sex-averse, more frigid than women. And they compensate with porn and its consumption. Men are more romantic and are more likely to be infatuated. Men are more likely to suggest to transition to a committed relationship after a bout of casual sex. And women overwhelmingly decline such overtures. They don't want further contact after one night's sense. Women, not men. Many men are now stay-at-home dads as women become primary breadwinners. These are not small numbers. Over 43% of primary breadwinners in the United States are women nowadays.  The legal profession, medicine, teaching. The majority of college graduates are women, not men. Men are left behind. This is an interconnected world, a world where empathy and networking are the strong suits and provide you with a competitive advantage. And women do this much better than men. Muscle power is obsolete. Brain power is on the ascendance. Women are catching up to men in the frequency of cheating on their intimate partners and the number of one-night stands, especially when these involve drinking or other forms of substance abuse. This is the kind of behaviors women adopt to demonstrate how autonomous and independent they are. In many places, more women than men frequent singles bars and dives, and women are surging on dating apps, where three-quarters of women admit to scouting for anonymous sex partners or for infidelity accomplices. Women sue for 73% of all divorces. So the floodgates are wide open. In a uni-gender world, gender roles are fluid and they are often inverted. Gender vertigo ensues followed by male avoidance in a misogynistic manosphere. So we have migtail, we have red pillars, we have insoles, and we have a lot of misogynistic violence. And this is all part and parcel of a much bigger trend, which is going to be severely exacerbated by the virus. The ascent of loneliness, the ascent of aloneness. More and more people of both genders choose to live alone. Starting in 2016 in the West at least, the majority of people choose to live alone. They find their own exclusive company irresistible. Technology rendered us utterly self-sufficient. So why be bothered with the quirks, moods, emotions, demands, and expectations of other people? Procreation, marriage, and family have been phased out. Sex is gradually displaced by pornography and by the occasional casual masturbation with other people's bodies, also known as sex. When it comes to relationships, the price is just not worth the price. And this will be the great discovery of the pandemic. We don't need anyone. We can live all by ourselves. And very often, it's much more fun than being with others.


Alright, let's begin. There are some questions in the chat here so I will address those questions and I think the audio is fixed so if there are any other questions you may ask as well. So, Videll, I hope I am pronouncing your name right, is asking what is the difference between the gift of faith and the spirit of faith. So the gift of faith and the spirit of faith. The gift of faith is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We read about the gift of faith in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. It is the faith that God, unusual faith which God puts in our heart given moment to release God's power. For example, when there was a lame man who was sitting in the gate beautiful, right? Acts chapter 3, you find that Peter and John, they went and they ministered to that lame man and they said something like, you know, silver and gold we don't have but what we have, we give to you in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk. So it's amazing. It's supernatural. Like how can they even imagine that a person who has not walked for 40 years will walk but in those moments God imparted something like the gift of faith. So the gift of faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit which God gives to us. So that is what the gift of faith, our understanding of the gift of faith is. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The spirit of faith, the spirit of faith can simply be equated to, my understanding is the Holy Spirit and His work because we see the opposites of the gift of faith which is, we say spirit of faith which is like spirit of fear, spirit of anxiety. All of those are from the demonic kingdom. But when we say spirit of faith, we are talking about the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit. So that is how we would distinguish between the gift of faith and the spirit of faith. And I hope that I've answered your question, Nidale. And thank you Gettrude for trying to answer his question here as well. All right. Now there's another question that Nidale asks. He says, how do we move from just mentally accepting the word of God in our minds to truly believing it in our hearts? So we've been saying that believing is an action, right? It's an action of the heart. So we would need to engage our heart when it comes to believing. So I would look at it, Nidale, as a process. So first you listen, isn't it? You listen to the word of God. You listen to what is being said. But to really develop faith, I need to listen to it again. I need to meditate on the word of God. I need to internalize it. So when I really want to put my faith, my belief in that word, I have to keep coming back to it again and again and again.  Confess the word, speak the word, do the word. So what's happening? You are completely applying. You're just taking it into your system. You're taking it into your heart and then it is beginning to work in your life. So to come to a place of believing, is going to take that kind of effort from our side. Because we don't want to just listen. Because listening is easy.  But believing is when you have heard it and it has gone in the depths of your heart, it's become a part of who you are and the way you think and the things that you do. The choices that you make. So that's the difference. So you have to go from just mentally accepting what is being spoken to to sort of, what would you say, soaking in or taking in the word of God to believe it in your heart. Okay, coming to Lucy. She says, sister, we trust in God. Hope for good things. Claiming God's promises. We believe in the word of God on the positive side. Suddenly some negative thoughts do come. It might happen so. How we need to overcome this part. Okay, so sister Lucy, very honest question. We put our faith in God's word, but then in our minds sometimes we struggle with negative thoughts, with self-pity. We put ourselves down and we say, I will never be able to do this. Everyone else is better than me. So these things happen. Why do they happen? There are two major reasons. One is Satan, his job is to tempt us. So he is doing his work, putting thoughts in our minds and telling us, you can't do this, you're not good enough, all of that. So Satan is doing his work. The second reason why we have thoughts like this is because we let our minds wander. We don't discipline our thinking, isn't it? So it is coming, this kind of thinking is coming from our own patterns that we have developed over the years. So we need to deal with it. That's where the Bible says in Romans chapter 12, renew your mind. Change the way you think. Change the patterns. Don't conform to the ways of the world, but we conform to the things of God. So renewing of the mind will help us to keep such negative thoughts away. And also recognizing, what are really my thoughts? What are the thoughts which are external? Satan is trying to tempt me to give up. That will also be very helpful. Then we can reject those thoughts in the name of Jesus. So this is the way in which we can actually assess. And it's a battle, Sister Lucy. So we are constantly striving to maintain the right thinking, to maintain, you know, when you have the right thinking then you can keep that faith in your heart. I hope I have answered your question. And somebody had a question to ask. Thank you. You wanted to unmute and ask. I saw a hand raised. So please feel free. You may ask your question. All right. So if you would like to ask later, that should be fine. We will proceed with the subject on faith. So far we have discussed about faith and tried to understand it from Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 1. Sometimes the term that is used to describe faith is also sixth sense. What is the sixth sense? We all know we make our decisions on the basis of our five senses. Thank you. On the basis of five senses, what we can see, what we can hear, what we can feel, what we can taste, what we can touch. But making decisions on the basis of things that don't exist in the natural, like Abraham. We could have, all of us could have asked him, how can you believe you're 100 years old? Your five senses will tell you, it's impossible. How can you have a generation? You cannot have a generation. It's not logical. This reasoning is false because five senses are telling us, it's not possible. But how did Abraham believe? Sixth sense. Okay, we are just using the term sixth sense. Don't go and tell people, hey, I learned about sixth sense. It's just for our understanding. It's a spiritual sense that we have faith. It's the sixth sense that we carry as believers. I can't see it. I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can't smell it. I can't taste it. But it is there. God is working on it. It will happen. On the basis of the sixth sense. So faith is like that sixth sense that we have to keep very sharp and alert within our hearts. So as a believer, to maintain the strength and sensitivity of the sixth sense. Okay, let's... All right. Udall, did you want to say something? I can hear you. All right. Let's move ahead. The next thing is that faith connects us to God. Now, we keep talking about relationship with God. Isn't it? We say we must have a strong relationship with God. How to have a strong relationship with God? When we look at the way God has created man, God has created man, spirit, soul and body. So we see the body. We are familiar with the body because it's visible to the eyes. But we have a soul. The soul part of us is our personality. It is our mind, our will and our emotions. So mind is the things that we think about. Will is the kind of decisions that we make. Emotions are the feelings that we feel. So all of us have a soul. And all our souls are...  Some may be very sensitive, some may be very strong. So we all have our personalities and God gives us a soul. But in addition to this, we have a core part of us which is known as the spirit. We have the spirit which is actually who we are is the spirit. Who we really are is the spirit man. But God has given us a soul as well as a body. The spirit will live on into eternity. So when we talk about our relationship with God, our spirit needs to connect with God's spirit. That is the way we establish that relationship and we continue the journey of our relationship with God. So our relationship with God is actually spirit to spirit. That is why we worship. That is why we take the word in because there are things that are happening based on what God has instructed in His word to our spirit man to our relationship with God because this is spirit to spirit the kind of relationship that we have with God. Now because we are relating to God through our spirit we must also understand that it is faith that actually makes this connection. It is faith that actually makes this sort of keeps this spirit to spirit connection that we have with God. So when I maintain faith in my heart I am able to have a stronger relationship with God. I am able to have a closer walk with God. So imagine, I don't have any faith. I don't have any faith in who God is and what He can do, His nature. But I am saying, yeah I have a relationship with God. It's so empty, isn't it? It's so empty because where is the faith? Where is the believing in God and who He is? What He can do in my life? What He can do in the lives of others? So when faith is lacking there is a lack in the connection that we can experience with God. So that is why we have to keep faith alive because it gives us that strong connect with God. And Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6 it says without faith it is impossible to please Him. For He who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. So for He who comes to God must believe. So in my relationship with God I must believe who God is and what God can do. Isn't it? That's what it's saying and what is the next part of that scripture. It says without faith it is impossible to please God. So God is looking for something. Imagine God is looking from heaven. Heavenly Heavenly Father is looking down on the earth and He is searching. What do you think He will search for? Who do you think He will search for? He is searching to answer somebody's prayer. Now what will He look for to answer the prayer? Faith. So God looks for faith. We may just try to try to God or we may just keep asking Him again and again. We may do everything we know to make God answer. The Bible already gives us the key. It says, what is God moved by? By faith. Isn't it? That's how Jesus did all His works wherever He saw faith He healed. Faith. He delivered people. He said things like, great is your faith according to your faith. So faith is what God is looking for. When He finds faith we see that God's answers come to us. You may have noticed we put these posters on campus of men and women of God. So there is a poster of Smith Wigglesworth and he says, I'm not moved by what I see. I'm only moved by what I believe. So that's the most important thing. Faith in our hearts. What do I believe? And even God is moved by faith. So when He looks down He's looking. Where is faith? Wherever faith is there I can do something. When there is no faith, in fact when you read about Jesus, you see that He went to some towns. He went to some villages to do the ministry and what does the Bible say? He could not do any miracles because of their unbelief. When there is unbelief nothing happens. But when there is faith, Hebrews 11, 6 what does it say? And it is impossible to please God without faith. When there is faith it gives us that connect with God it gives us that relationship with God because He who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him and faith also pleases God. So do we want to please God? Of course, we want to please God. We want to find out, isn't it? What can I do to make God happy? When will God be happy with my life? Answer is given in this scripture. It says faith pleases God. Faith pleases God. So a life of faith. If I'm carrying faith in my heart towards God God is happy with me. But if there is unbelief God is not happy we know there were times when Jesus even rebuked those people who came with unbelief. So unbelief displeases God. But faith pleases God. So all the more reason for us to pursue faith and build faith in our hearts it will help us to connect with God. It will also please God or make God happy. Now faith is in the person of Jesus Christ. I don't know if you have come across some sermons or content where people say like three principles for faith or four keys to use faith steps to believe you can use this and you can get whatever you want from God. So we do come across some teachings like this. However, while the laws in the Bible are real we can apply certain principles and we can see the results for example the Bible says give and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together. So that's a principle in the Bible. What is a principle? When you give you will be blessed. Okay? In the same way there are many other principles. If you work hard a diligent hand will be blessed. A diligent hand will not lack. Those who work hard you will be blessed. These are principles. Anyone can apply these principles and they can see the fruit of those principles. But when you look at the law of faith one important point that we must remember is it is not just a formula. When we learn, oh this is how faith works. If you do this, if you do that you can apply faith. You will see the results in your life wonderful. It's not just a principle. Faith is connected to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. So I cannot just use the principle and neglect the person. So the principle will apply or the law will apply when I am connected to the person. So I need to have a walk of faith or a journey of faith together with God, together with his word, together with his spirit. That's when faith will work and faith will work well in my life. But if I only take it as 3 steps, 5 steps just believe, receive and keep moving on. That's not how faith is meant to work. So we should not treat faith like a formula. It's not a formula. Yes there is a law, there is a principle but that is not independent of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. So when we look at Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 2 we see a passage there. It says, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. So who is Jesus? Looking unto Jesus the author the finisher of our faith. What does that mean? It means Jesus is the one who is the beginning who is the end of our faith. So author. When you take that word author and you study it further it means somebody who is it also means somebody who is the leader who is the captain who is the author of our faith. Who is that? The Lord Jesus. Meaning our faith comes from him. So if it's not coming from Jesus it won't work. You can't just take the principle and the law and try to make it work. Who is the author of faith? The Lord Jesus Christ. So faith is activated and faith works well when we are in a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ he is the author and the finisher of our faith. Or in other words he is the source no we say source right? The place from where something comes to us like generally we look at water springs and water comes from the spring to supply a community of people. So what is the source? The spring or we look to a river and we say for this state this river is the source. What if the river dries up? There's no water how will people live? How will people do their day to day activities, their businesses they can't do anything. If the source dries up so we have to understand our source is the Lord Jesus so the Lord Jesus is the primary source of our faith. How can I have faith if I don't have the source? I need the source. So I need to be connected to God. I need to be connected to his word. I need to be connected to his presence. Then faith will operate right? It will operate successfully in my life. So God or Jesus is the source of our faith. And one more scripture that we can look at. When Jesus said he said to the people have faith in God ok? We will talk about this passage later on this is in Mark chapter 11. A time when Jesus looks at a fig tree. He goes to the fig tree and he wants to get fruit from the fig tree but there is no fruit on the fig tree. What does Jesus do? He rebukes it. He rebukes it. He curses the fig tree. And what happens the very next day when Jesus and his disciples are going from there they see the fig tree and they are shocked they say oh just yesterday Jesus cursed the fig tree and today it has dried up like 24 hours amazing. So then Jesus looks at them and he says why are you amazed? Don't you know don't you have faith in what I said? I said this fig tree is cursed. In 24 hours the results are seen. And at that point Jesus makes the statement and says have faith in God ok? God can do what he says. God will do what he says. You should have faith in God and he is encouraging faith in God so this statement have faith in God. There is it's a very well studied statement and if you look at a certain translation this is in the modern King James version it says have faith of God ok? So the way they have translated it is have faith of God. The other translations we generally see have faith in God. But the modern King James version says have faith of God because that's also the meaning that comes through. So what are we trying to say? Faith is of God. Faith is it comes from God as the beginning and the source. So for us to think that we can only have faith and operate in faith and we don't need a relationship with God is a false thought. We need Jesus in our lives we need to be connected to Jesus in our lives. That is when faith will work. Alright. Now faith is based on relationship that's again the same thing that I'm saying. Faith is based on relationship. We must not look at the Bible as a set of formulas. You read all the formula how to do ministry how to do business how to do family. I'll have a good life. I'll just follow whatever the Bible says I'll have a good life. The principles may work to some extent but what does God want? Why did Jesus die? So that he can have a relationship with God isn't it? So when God created Adam and Eve what did he want? What's the first thing that he wanted from them? Fellowship he would come back to meet with them to spend time with Adam and Eve because that is what God wants. He wants to be with us and even we want to be with him that is the deepest desire that we carry as human beings created in the image of God to have that relationship when we don't have that relationship something is missing we start to look in all the wrong places but when we have a relationship with God, when we are born again we reestablish that connect with God and when we study the life of Abraham the Bible says that Abraham believed God isn't it? What a great testimony a man who believed God he is known as the father of faith Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness James chapter 2 and verse 23 now in the end of that verse notice it says and he was called the friend of God Abraham believed God it was accounted to him for righteousness but what does it say after that? Abraham was called a friend of God so you see that God is all about relationship in the case of Abraham God did not just look at him as here is a person who is going to show the world how faith works that was not how God looked at Abraham God looked at Abraham as my friend friendship is deep we spend time with our friends we share our heart with our friends we help our friends they help us so much goes on in friendship and companionship can you imagine God is saying Abraham yes you had faith in your life you made a faith journey that's wonderful but at the end of the day Abraham a friend of God so God is happy about his relationship which he has with Abraham so that is another thing we must remember God wants his principles to work in my life but what does he really want? he wants a friendship with me he wants a relationship with me right and a deep relationship is how does it go you kind of get to know that person and God gets to know me so we are building this relationship this friendship and companionship to together and that is how faith works and it works best and we must remember that God is looking for a relationship and not just to prove his word next faith is of the heart and I already dwelt on that thought earlier on faith is of the heart or faith comes from our heart look at this verse in Romans chapter 10 and verse 10 it says for with this with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation so what happens how do we become born again Romans chapter 10 verse 10 with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation two things isn't it at least the scripture is stating two things what are those two things if there is a person who believes in Jesus and then he confesses he says okay Jesus I believe you are the son of God you died for me on the cross you paid the price for my sin I accept you into my life forgive me of my sins cleanse me make me a child of God what's happening he believes something what is what does he believe that Jesus is the Christ Jesus is the redeemer then what does he do he makes a confession he acts on his belief or on his faith and then the person is saved so two things believe in your heart confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus then you will be saved so what do we see here believing happens in the heart so the heart is a very important place that God has given us and we can believe in the heart now let me tell you if we were to believe in the mind sometimes in our minds it's not easy to believe so now we are not trying to say that you know logical thinking is not godly one should not use the brain or one should not use the mind of course not God has given us the mind God has given us the brain we must be intelligent we must be wise we must exercise our mental faculties all that is very good but believe doesn't happen in the mind for example there is a promise of God let's take Abraham itself again there is a promise of God that you are going to have a son and through him you will have descendants now we know that the situation is quite impossible because Abraham is already old his wife is already old past the age of childbearing the Bible says so what would the mind say at this point logical thinking this is not practical how can this happen there are no medicines there are no doctors so logical thinking sometimes is very limited to what we can see or it is limited to the natural information but the heart can believe even when the mind cannot accept you know what I mean the mind yeah I have lot of questions I have lot of doubts how can it be I have questions in the mind but believing can happen in my heart where I say I don't have all the answers but I believe isn't it think about that so in the mind belief doesn't happen but the Bible says which is the place where believing happens in the heart so even when my mind does not have all the answers to say that you know God will come through for me think about Joshua Joshua is leading all the people they are going into they are slowly conquering possessing pieces of the land that God gave the children of Israel and God tells it Joshua I want you to go around you know Jericho seven times seven days and on the seven day seven times think about Joshua logical thinking you would have said God what God what do you know architecture how will the building fall if I just walk around the wall logical thinking it's not wrong what he is saying is logical there are questions in his mind how can this happen just by walking around just by praising God can this happen but Joshua did it he told the people to do it why because the heart he believed he knew God is saying God knows how to do this I just have to obey him okay let's go let's do seven circles right on seven days and seven circles on the seven day what happened the walls of Jericho the mighty walls of Jericho came crashing down same thing Moses lift up your rod go in front of the Red Sea it will open logical thinking God do you know have you asked the material whatever how do you pronounce it the department right who predict weather God do you even know what the weather is going to look like tomorrow Moses didn't ask any questions he may have had doubts but he believed in his heart he said God is saying it he is the creator of the heavens and the earth the sea is the mountains he can do it okay lift up my rod the Red Sea parted and they went past it so you see believing is in the heart even when the mind has questions the heart can be at peace where we are trusting in God we are resting in God we are believing in God so believe is of the heart with our heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation so remember that we can maintain a heart of faith even at times when there is a lot of confusion around us a lot of struggles around us we can carry faith in our hearts okay in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 7 beautiful verse it says for we walk by faith and not by sight how do we walk we walk by faith and we do not walk by sight so if we only walk if we only make decisions in our lives based on our 5 senses we won't be able to journey with God isn't it we won't be able to experience the miracles of God the supernatural work of God so how should we walk how should we journey walk by faith not just by sight not just with our limited thinking God is beyond that God knows how to go beyond that so if there is a promise of God or a truth of God which he has ministered to us we need to hold on to it hold on to the faith in our hearts and we will see that God actually works through it so faith is of the heart and you know in the mind we may still be struggling with several thoughts let's move on the next point here says that we must live by faith so everything that we do we must do it by faith in Romans chapter 1 and verse 17 it says the just shall live by faith so what does it mean day to day faith is not just in the church faith is not just in the ministry faith all the time the just shall live by faith live by faith means when I wake up I need to have faith when I you know go about my day I need to have faith when I am interacting with people I need to have faith so faith in my heart in God constantly for everything even when I am maybe eating my food my meals I pray over it I say God you bless this meal thank you for this meal I sanctify it in the name of Jesus this is a blessing to my body I bless the people who have made this what am I doing I am exercising my faith in everything not just faith live by faith in bible college and then you know you can be by yourself it is not like that what does the scripture say Romans 1 17 everything the just shall live by faith day to day choices day to day decisions when is my faith what do I believe about God when you spend time quiet time every day you read the bible you understand know what God is speaking to your heart on the basis of that start to make choices start to make decisions day to day put your trust in God so to live every day by faith is also something that we can practice and grow in and the bible in fact says in Romans chapter 14 verses 22 to 23 it says that for whatever whatever is not from faith is sin whatever is not from faith is sin that's a very strong statement so if I am doing something maybe I am doing it for God only let's take it that way but I don't have faith that God is going to use that ministry or you know God is going to bless that decision what's happening there is a lot of unbelief and I am still functioning in unbelief maybe initially God is very gracious he helps us he forgives us all that but when we continue in unbelief that is not acceptable by God so the scripture Paul tells if anything which is not of faith is sin okay so faith now you are studying here in bible college do it by faith I know God is going to bless me my life is going to be a blessing to many people I am going to be a blessing to my nation so what is all this faith it's coming from your heart you are doing it with the right reason as per the way God is leading you and guiding you and where there is faith right God is pleased the things of God take place and God is looking for faith in every heart we should never do it with a sense of unbelief I don't know something right so what's all that we actually don't believe but still we are doing the right thing you know what does Romans 14 say anything which is not of faith is sin it's a very strong statement so God is looking for faith in our everyday life and we must ask the Lord please help me God all that I do help me to have faith in my heart and do it with faith okay and faith is conceived and nurtured okay I would like to look at this as I've heard a sermon where they shared something like the heart is the garden okay the heart is the garden and there are scriptures that also remind us that our heart is like the womb right when the seed comes that's when you see the birthing of of a child so in the same way the heart is a garden the heart is the womb so what happens the word of God when you put the word of God in the heart what begins to happen we've seen the passage where Jesus talks about the seed and the sower so the seed is the word of God the sower takes the seed he goes in scatters seed then depending on the nature of the soil you see a produce in some places you have a good crop in some places there's a lot of hindrance but the place where there is good soil you can see that the seeds are thriving our heart is somewhat like that when our heart is a believing heart now we're all listening to the word of God what happens it starts to take root there's a plant it begins to grow and you can start to see the leaves and slowly you will start to see the fruit what is the fruit the fruit is transformation I'm changing I think of things I'm changing the decisions that I'm making I'm changing the way I'm behaving with people I'm changing the way I'm doing ministry I'm changing what's happening the word has gone inside it's been sown into my heart and now it's producing so that is how the word really works in our hearts now we can also look at this as the heart being the place where we conceive faith even faith arises in our heart so Romans chapter 10 and verse 17 it says then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God I want faith in my life I want faith to be a righteous person where shall I get the faith what did we hear earlier Jesus is the author and the finisher of my faith so I'll go to Jesus and I'll say Jesus give me faith I want faith I want to live with integrity righteousness honesty give me faith but scriptures also say faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so for me to get faith I need the word till I listen to the word I can't get faith but you understand that is another reason why we are all here in bible college and we are spending at least 3 hours every day listening to what the word of God understanding what the word of God what's happening faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so the more you listen and when I say listen it's not just mental isn't it we talked about it it has to go down it's going from the head to the heart I like that analogy it's kind of top to bottom it's seeping in sinking in so when it's going into your heart you can see faith in your heart so that is how I get faith I want faith to be a righteous person get into the word of God see what the word of God says about living righteously ok I want faith to be healed get into the word of God see all the scriptures all the passages where it talks about healing ok I want confidence in my life get into the word of God go to all the verses where it talks about confidence I want to believe God for the impossible ok go to all the miracles in scripture study it why are you doing this faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so when I am reading when I am meditating on scripture when I believing scripture what's happening I am not able to see it but it's like you can imagine some plants are growing your heart is like a garden some plants are growing don't go and tell everyone ma'am said plants are growing in the heart that's not what I mean I am just helping you understand that faith will start to rise and you will see the fruit or you will see the result what is the result life transformation choices decisions lifestyle right we begin to walk in the power of God the authority of God but how is all this happening not because today if you look at the world you have so many classes and sessions people say that if you believe that you are great you will become great the universe wants to help you have you heard you have all these teachings out there in the world but is that how we experience transformation is that how we conquer over life's challenges no the bible says we need faith faith will come from the word so get into the word listen to the word believe the word declare the word live the word so as we are doing that faith is bubbling up faith is becoming stronger in my heart and then I can walk on the basis of faith okay so this is how we develop faith faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God now for some of us you know it might be very weird to take so much time in reading the bible or reading you know good books that explain God's word but you see it has to become a lifestyle reason unless we read the word we will not have faith if you are lacking faith what to do get into the word faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God right so with this I will stop okay so Nadel is asking which version of the bible do you recommend any version which you know it's easier for you to understand Nadel and communicate the one that we are referencing here mostly NKJV so yeah that's what I would like to say and he's also asking which version do you advise for qualitative bible studies so you can actually go through various versions that's the best way to learn so you can look at the same passage in multiple versions and thankfully now we have technology so you can go to some of the sites where immediately you can translate it right it gives you the option you can pick the version and the same scripture you can see it in different versions so that will be helpful Nadel as you study God's word okay Sanjay is suggesting a particular website there you can please use that alright so let's close with the word of prayer everyone and if you have questions please come back with the questions in the next class we'll try to answer them and continue from there let's pray have any father we thank you for this morning we thank you for this wonderful opportunity that we could meditate in your word and for the empowering of your spirit lord father we pray that you will give us understanding of faith so that we can develop faith lord in our hearts and live by faith lord this is what you're looking for the just shall live by faith and faith pleases God so father I pray that all of us lord let all of us be people who live our lives in faith lord and glorify your need we give you thanks we give you praise in Jesus name we pray amen amen and thank you everyone bye for now you can go for your break


So Ryan wished to be a police officer for a day and the QPS Academy out here have absolutely delivered on the goods. We've put him in with a squad of recruits who were learning drills such as searching people. It's a little bit of fitness. We've taken him down through some active arm defender drills. Trying to arrest someone and they're under pressure. We learned how to put someone to ground and put them in the rest position. We're in firearm tactics, tactical driving techniques and lines and formal lines and stuff. And yeah, it's been a very good day. The Queensland Police Service have been absolutely fantastic. He is absolutely in his element, loving it sick.  The smile hasn't left his face. I think it's definitely fulfilled his dream of what it's like to be a police officer.


The content of this podcast has not been reviewed or approved by official sources, we are solely responsible for its content, brought to you in association with Two Black Labs Audio, this is A Week in Gigum! Greetings and salutations my friends and welcome to the first ever A Week in Gigum Reviews, the webisode series. I am your host, Giovanni Menendez, and will be bringing you all the reviews that you can quite possibly handle. As you know, our little show here first started off as a review segment in A Week in Gigum, a geeky podcast dedicated to everything from comic books, video games, movie news, tv news, the works, you know it, I know it, all the stuff you care about, but that you've probably already heard about and we're gonna rant about it anyways. But yeah, we had a review section and we decided to revive it. It was dumped up the first episode, I don't know why we didn't kept on doing it, but here we are on youtube.com a week in Gigum. And for our inaugural episode, I will be reviewing, oh and by the way, yes this is a floating hand amidst the darkness. No, but for our very first episode, I am going to be reviewing the animated movie brought to you by Warner Bros and DC Universe. It's Batman year one. Now as you all know, Batman year one or for those of you that don't know, it's an adaptation of the great comic book story written by the great Mr. Frank Miller and illustrated by the wonderful David Matsucheli. Really superb artwork right there folks and basically it recounts the beginnings of Bruce Wayne's career as Batman. Of course as the title implies, it is year one so it's brand new, you don't got all the smarts, all the gadgets and all the stuff you love, but it's a really good story. And of course it details with the starting with the rookie, a Jim Gordon at the Gotham City Police Department. As an adaptation goes, I thought it was a pretty good adaptation. You know, it's not easy translating page to cinema or in this case, original animation movie. But I think the boys at Warner Bros did a pretty darn good job. I mean everything was solid. The animation was great, the voice acting, I'll get to it in a little bit, it was okay at best. But really it covered all the points that you wanted of this great classic Batman book. And really if you have a chance, read the books first and then go back and see this DVD. So you can sort of see where or what they took from it and what they left out. But it was pretty much all there. I mean, it's four books and I'm guessing about 80 good percent of it was faithfully presented on the DVD. And of course you can get this on Blu-ray and DVD. The actual box looks gorgeous. Let's just say that. It's eye candy for every Batman fan out there and it includes a DC short for Catwoman which I will be talking about in just a tiny little bit. But first, let me get this right out of the way. Voice acting was, I thought it was great. I mean obviously Andrea Romano knows her stuff when casting. But really the voice for Batman, Benjamin McKenzie, he did a great job.  So sorry fans. But Benjamin did a really good job, except on some parts I thought it was a little bit monotonous. I don't know about you guys, but I don't know. It was sort of repetitive, I guess. There was no ups and downs for his role. And he wasn't really there a lot of the scenes. So basically I would have called it Gotham City Year One or Jim Gordon Year One because basically they're the stars of the show and for me it was a disappointment because I really wanted to see more of Batman and get inside his head as he traversed through Gotham City against a corrupt backdrop. And we've also got Brian Cranston doing the voice for Lieutenant James Gordon. He is, in my opinion, the best work that has been done for the character James Gordon, the best voice I've heard for him. It's the ideal voice, the one I had in my head for him. And he also had Alex Rocco for Carmine, the Roman Falcone, John Polito for Loeb, and Jeff Bennett for Alfred Payneworth. And a lot of great casting all around. And of course, Eliza Duskoo for Selena Kyle, Catwoman. It was just a great casting. I think they could have picked a better Batman, but that was just me. And yes, it can't, it cannot always be Kevin Conroy. But when you make a pick like that, you gotta make sure it's top notch material. But the story ended of itself was great. I mean, this is a spoiler free review, folks. So I'm just gonna say, basically, if you've seen, well, if you're watching this and you're interested in Batman Year 1, you've already seen Batman Begins. And that basically has tons of elements from the Year 1 books. But my main complaint of this movie was that basically, it all happens like quickly. You know what I mean? One scene takes place in one date and the other one in another. And by the time you know it, it's over. And speaking of that, I didn't really like the ending. You know, I thought, I thought it was kind of lame. I mean, I know the book ends that way. But at the end, I was like, wait, that's it. It's over. You know, and I sort of had that problem with the book. I mean, you wanted to keep it going. But I guess, you know, that's what you get. I would have preferred a different type of ending, but that's just me. But yeah, one of the best adaptations I've seen, you know, the pages literally come to life. I thought, however, I thought, and this is just a gripe. I mean, 64 minutes to sell such a complicated story for everybody. I'm just not buying it. You know, if you're going to sell me this, you've got to make it at least 90 minutes, you know, you're covering your adapting for books. It should be a little bit more. So yeah, I mean, it's on DVD and Blu-ray with a digital copy. You can get that in retail and online stores. Highly recommended folks. The DVD looks stellar. It has tons of amazing bonus features as always DC always shines with its bonus features. And with everybody at work in this, which of course was directed by Lauren Montgomery and Sam Louie. But oh, and the DC showcase for Catwoman, that was stellar show right there. I mean, it's not for the kitties. I wouldn't recommend it, but it was a great animation. And I'm definitely looking forward to see what they do in the future with the Selena Kyle character. So overall, I'm going to give this Blu-ray DVD digital copy version of Batman year one a four and a half out of five. It had all the good elements. It just needed that extra spice with a little bit more plot and a little bit will actually a whole lot at least 30 minutes of running time. And it would have been an even greater adaptation. So there you have it for four and a half out of five, which is pretty good. So actually, you should really check this one out. I highly recommend it. So yeah, folks, this has been a week in geek, a week in geek thumbs reviews. I've been your host, Giovanni Menendez, and come back next time for episode two, where we will probably be reviewing some of the new 52 comic books from DC. So until then, my friends, see you later. The Floating Head


On the very first show this morning, NLC holds protest in emo in spite of court injunction against it. As people seek greener pastures abroad, they are those who fall victims of sex trafficking crimes and the syndicates that perpetrate it.  That will be our second hot topic on the program this morning. And of course we'll be looking at the headlines on some of our national dailies on off the press. A very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on The Breakfast. My name is Nyam Ghul Aghaji. It's always a pleasure knowing that you are there and keeping us company as we hope to bring you things that will inform you, entertain you and educate you. Right now we're going to some of the stories that caught our fancy in the course of the last 24 hours. Apart from what is on the headlines, we're going to just look at this one. Some of them will still appear on the headlines. Paramilitary officers to be put on same salary level with police, that's according to the federal government. It has said that it's been in talks with Nigeria Salaries and Wages Commission to upgrade the salaries of paramilitary officers to be the same with the personnel of the Niger police force and PF. Now, a statement signed by the Director of the Press Ministry of Interior, Ajibullah Afonja, on Tuesday October 31 quoted the Minister of Interior, Ulubumi Tunjojo. He also said that, like the military, the federal government was considering the establishment of a pension board for personnel of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Nigeria Correctional Service. He said that the paramilitary personnel deserve an improvement in their salaries as well as pension board due to the hazards involved in their duties. Tunjojo said he considers both unjust and detrimental to the morale of these critical public servants that they have significantly lower pay than their police counterparts. The paramilitary personnel who risk their lives daily are, in his eyes, deserving of a better financial recognition. I do hope that the civil servants and the politicians will start earning the same salary right now because at what level is a politician who is in the Senate or who is in the House of Representatives? Is it level 16? Is it level 20? Is it level 50? And whatever salary they are earning, shouldn't they have levels too, like the civil servants, so that they end the same salary? I'm just asking a question. I say, no, I don't know how those things work. But hey, this is a welcome development to boost the morale, like he said, of the paramilitary. The second is that the senator representing Gumbay North, Dr. Ibrahim Danquambo, has urged the state governor, Mohamadou Yahya, to suspend the monthly pension and allowance of 694,557 Naira 82 cover accrued to him as a former governor. According to a letter dated October 4, 2023, and addressed to Yahya Danquambo, he urged for a suspension of his pension and allowance following his new job as a senator. And then he disclosed that the decision was following due consultation with relevant stakeholders, including civil society organizations, adding that it was sequel to his letter to Yahya on issues relating to security allowance to governors. The letter partly read, and I quote directly, further to my letter to his Excellency dated September 28, 2023, on issues relating to security allowance to governors as per approval dated September 20, 2002, years of 14th of June 2019, an executive pension act of 2007 as amended and other matters relating daring. Now, Danquambo added that upon the termination of his tenure as governor, he has never benefited from perks accrued to former governors, adding that also it should be noted that since he left in 2019, he has never benefited from any welfare packages, be it medical, furniture, transportation, etc. Okay, so that's one of the issues that people have been talking about. And I think Sarah has gone to the courts to make sure that the ex-governors stop earning pensions and whatever monies accrue to them as ex-governors as long, at least as long as they are in the Senate. You know that a lot of governors retire to the Senate as it is. So the Senate president is one of them and so many other people who were governors before. So it's morally not right and I think even constitutionally not right for them to be receiving salaries or pensions or whatever monies accrue to them as ex-governors and then still receive full salaries as ministers or as senators or as anything else that they have come to be. It's still the same federal government paying them. It's still the same the government paying them with a state or federal government. And Sarah went to court and said these people should stop earning these salaries. Now this one out of his own volition has said that it should be stopped. Even though we know that there may be some other allowances that accrue to the governors, that would be more than just the pensions that was mentioned here just above 500,000. But we know that this is a very good gesture if we wish that all of them could do the same thing and say hey stop until I'm done being a senator you can return. But for now do not pay all the entitlements. And he did say and we're waiting for someone to dispute that fact that since he left office in 2019 he has never benefited the perks of office as ex-governor. So medically, transportation, everything he has never benefited. So maybe other governors can do the same. Will you not survive if you say state hey I am comfortable enough especially now that I'm in the Senate or I'm a minister or something. Let me not be benefiting until I leave this new office. Let's see how it goes. Let's see how many people will follow suit. Now EFCC arrests over 70 OAU students in midnight raid. We saw the story yesterday over 70 students of a Baphemia Wallower University, Leif, or Shun State were reportedly arrested by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a midnight raid on hostels outside the campus. Multiple sources in Leif were confirmed to correspondents on Wednesday morning that the officials around 2 am stomped the fine touch and superb hostels in Odudua estate in Leif broke into rooms and arrested the students. Reasons for their arrest have not been confirmed as of press time but the students union president Abbaso Joe said the union had details of 72 students picked up from the hostel with phones and cars taken away. A former union official, Joy Abiola, told newsmen that the students were bitten. Another student identified simply as a what he said female students were among those picked up even some fresh students who just went to greet their senior colleagues were arrested. In a video shared with correspondents taken by one of these students several young persons said to be students of the hostel were seen being marched into a white Hummer bus with some security officials hitting them and ordering them to move and enter quickly. We've also seen another report that over 100 of these people will be prosecuted whatever their crime may be they are bound to be other people who are very innocent among those people who are arrested. So if the same treatment is meted out to the people who are innocent when they find out that they are innocent will there be a compensation of some sort or something? What are they even accused of? We do not know as now. A lot of them the information flying around is that they were arrested because of fraud related issues. Let's see how that case goes but we are watching. Now another thing is that there's a story from River State why we shot at Fubara River's police say. Now River State Police Command has explained how the attack on the state governor seminali Fubara during a protest at the state's House of Assembly complex in Potarkot on Monday occurred. The command described the attack as not deliberate adding that the intention behind the water cannons and tear gassing was to disperse the protestors and to ensure the protection and safety of the governor from asinists who were culpable of causing mayhem on the premises. In a statement by the spokesperson for the state's crime command writer Grace Iringe Coco on Wednesday it said let me just quote what it was following the receipt of credible intelligence on the intention of some armed groups of persons to cause mayhem in Potarkot the River State capital particularly at the state House of Assembly on Monday October 30 and recalling the previous case of asin on the state House of Assembly a day prior which is currently being investigated. The deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations immediately deployed armed police operatives which he personally supervised in order to intercept the hoodlums and ensure the protection of lives and properties within the state House of Assembly facility and its environs. The police maintained that the presence of the governor at the scene was of great surprise and shock as there was no prior communication to the police on the visit of the governor to the scene which ordinarily is the usual protocol and complimentary that they accompany his guard for proper safety considering the intelligence of security threat at hand at that time. Okay so they've given the explanation well it's kind of solid but we don't know the two sides of the story in full all we know is that the governor said he was pelted the governor said he was shot at and the police are saying that they were trying to protect the governor by doing that so by shooting water cannons at the governor they were protecting the governor. We've also heard that that was the same kind of protection they were giving Joe Agiro the NLC president in emo state and we've seen pictures of Joe Agiro being protected you know with a swollen face so I don't know how protection gives you a swollen face Nigerians are yet to find out what really happened NLC on one hand is saying that he was assaulted he was abducted all kinds of adjectives that they're using to describe how he was taken from the secretary to wherever else they took him as that now we hear reports that he's been taken to hospital in fact more than one hospital from one hospital to the other and he's being treated for the protective custody that the police gave him it's kind of funny but not funny. So we're going to hopefully get a NLC chief to talk about that in a moment we're hoping we can still connect with him as we're having some problems connecting with his particular line this morning but we hope to get him. Now court stops Fubara's removal is a follow-up to that story PDP governor's consult weekend is River State High Court sitting in Isiopo on Wednesday issued an interim order restraining the River State House of Assembly from proceeding with the planned impeachment of governor Semi Nalai Fubara they caught restrained the speaker of the house Martin Amaule deputy speaker Dumle Mau the clerk of the house and the state chief judge Justice Simeon Chibuzo Amadi Justice O. Ben White issued the restraining order after Fubara's lawyer Demian Okoro argued before him an expert application alright so we hope that there will be peace in River State we've heard the governor is saying that it may just be a quarrel between father and son that means he has acknowledged the fact that he may be a son to a wiki a political godfather and wiki is talking tough even after the governor's met with him and he said nobody can intimidate me and the structures in River State must not be dismantled which means I still don't know the definition of structures when they talk about structures if you are a politician you are part of the structures you get whatever you are getting because the structure has given you these why try to control it why can't the structure just you know survive without you trying to control everybody and we've always seen in River State one governor handing over to his boy and the boy becoming what we call a tiger in the streets of Nigeria so we don't know why that is always the case in River State but Amici retired his own godfathers wiki retired Amici and the other godfathers now Fubara has come maybe trying also to retire Amici on a wiki sorry so why there's so much problems why not just learn that this is what we do I did it and someone else is doing it to me let's see how it is going to end the River State government has a very big coffer they have a very big arsenal a war arsenal so let's see how it is it's a very rich state so maybe that's why there's always a problem like this but we wait to see what happens for the benefit of people of River State and the South-South and even Nigeria as a whole now protesters Tom National Assembly demand defense protesters sacking this one took me a little bit surprised scores of pro-democracy activists on Wednesday marched to the National Assembly in Abuja to demand the sacking of the Minister of Defense Belu Matawali the protesters at the complex chanted solidarity songs and displayed banners with different inscriptions such as Sack Belu Matawali now and our defense budget not in safe hands among others and the activists also under the ages of the civil society advocacy group for accountability and property also accused the Minister of allegedly romancing bandits responsible for the loss of lives and property what billions of Naira in the northern part of the country addressing newsmen in front of the National Assembly leader of the group Danessi Momo called on the Senate president Goss Willa Pabiu to exert pressure on the president to ensure Matawali is relieved of his job now if the accusation is true we I'm not saying it is true but if the accusation is true then what is the DSS doing what is the EFCC doing what is the ICPC doing where did they get their own intelligence that shows them that his the Minister for Defense has been romancing with bandits if this is true why could the DSS not find it out or have they been compromised as well let's see how the details will come out and what will be what will happen in the coming days at least the president has said it doesn't matter who has been selected now but it will matter if whoever has been selected does not perform on the job everybody liked that statement if you do not do well you will be sucked so whether someone has romanced with the bandits or not let's see how he can deliver and make Nigeria more secure than it used to be before he came into office if he doesn't perform and he's found romancing with the terrorists and all that then we already know that the president will suck him without anybody having to protest so let's wait and see what comes out of it well I still say thank you to you for tuning up onto Plus TV Africa and watching the break fast show this morning my name is Nyam Ghul Agadji do not forget that and we'll take a short break when we return we'll be looking at the papers and see what the headlines are stay with us


I'll be thinking, well I can't see anything happening. Maybe look at the coils. There's actually magnetic energy coming out. So this is the electromagnetic field meter. Show you the magnetic energy coming out so you can see. So these ones actually have 11 feet radius.


So, the details panel makes you feel uncomfortable and lost, not a problem. This area just tells you information about whatever you click. If you're coming from Blender, this is exactly the same as the properties tab. If you're coming from Unity, this is literally just the inspector. Every time you click on an object, it will tell you it's X, Y and Z position, rotation and scale. You can manually set these values, and if at any point you want to revert the values to their original default state, just click the back arrow here. You can also switch these values to identify themselves from relative perspective or world perspective. This can be really useful when you're dealing with an object that is parented to another. For example, let's say we have these two boxes, and the one at the bottom is parented to the one at the top. Now when things are parented, the middle of their world becomes the parent. That becomes zero zero zero. The child is exactly 100 units below the parent, and every time the parent moves around, the child will follow. And because the child's position status is set to relative, it will always show us negative 100 in this area. But if we change this from relative to world, now these numbers will tell you where the object is not in relation to the parent. Mobility tells you what kind of object you're dealing with. Generally, anything in the game that is not meant to move around like a hard piece of the environment should be considered static. Things that can be moved or pushed around though, like these blue boxes, usually fall into the category of movable. Stationary is usually for things that don't move but can still change. So things like lights that can change colors or intensity or a directional light will often be put into the category of stationary instead of static. Static mesh tells you what the actual 3D part of the asset looks like. Right now it's a blue cube, but you could change this to anything you want like a chair over here. The material of the object will always be seen right here. It's blue right now, but you can change it to any other material in your content browser like wood if you wanted to. And the physics area is where you control how the asset interacts with the gameplay of your environment. If simulate physics is checked, it will behave as if it was part of the world and affected by collision boxes and gravity. If you uncheck physics, it will then behave as if it's not affected by the physics engine. You can manually set the mass of it if you want. The linear and angular drag is controlled here and gravity. If you want constraints, for example, not being able to move or rotate along certain axes, you can set that right here. Your collision variables are controlled in this tab and its visibility is controlled in rendering. If your mesh has multiple levels of detail for close, mid and far range rendering, that will be found in the level of detail tab here. Your ray tracing stuff is controlled over here and there are a lot of other details that you could go into on your own time, but the ones I've highlighted are the ones you're probably going to be using the most. So I hope that helps and as always I hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


I felt really good to be a part of such a good competition. Playing against some quality opposition had two good results, three points in both games, which gave us a good position on the table. A result tomorrow night would be good for us and pretty much mean that we're close to progressing to the final 16. Sometimes we're playing the Yucca ball. It's probably a little bit more of a ball winner in the midfield, but he's obviously a good player. And then if I can do the other words too, just giving the attacking players the ball, I think that's how we complement each other. We've played two decent games with each other, so we're getting used to playing with each other. The conference is good coming from Asian Champions League. Obviously we didn't have the best result on the weekend in the A-League, but in the Champions League we've definitely got confidence going into this game. We know it'll be a lot more difficult coming into Japan in front of their home fans, their quality side. But in saying that we take a lot of confidence out of the Asian Champions League games, that we won away from home. So we had definite confidence this high and put in a good performance. And then hopefully the result will take care of itself. And if you're going to be involved in these competitions, if you're travelling involved, everyone knows that. It's sort of just a little obstacle where you have to overcome, sort of not think about it too much. And just do the right things off the field, I guess. Prepare yourself right for the game.  That was just more to get the legs moving, roll the legs a bit. Just to get the blood flowing again, we haven't done a lot since we got off the plane. And then the training sessions afterwards, we can get a touch on the ball, feel for the field. It's little things, I guess, that will help us.


Hi, I'm Dean Perine, Executive Vice President at JSA, and I'm here with Monique Lan Patit. Monique is the Director of Telcom Sands Frontiers. Monique, thanks for joining us. Thank you very much, Dean. What kind of impact has TSF had on the communities that you've supported? Migrants, refugees, disadvantaged children and isolated communities have been particularly affected by the pandemic. The effect of poverty and security, lack of information and medical assistance are amplified as a result of this crisis. What TSF is doing, help them to get through the situation in the best possible way. In Syria, for example, a computer engineer from our partner, Union of Medical Care and Relief Organization, said that TSF projects place a major role in coordinating their work, especially now they are turning a lot of their activity to telework. In Madagascar, remote activities through social media are pushing more young people to learn how to use them better and engage them in these activities. In Mexico, we have several directors and coordinators of migrant shelters, seeing that asylum seekers and migrants are spending more time in front of the screen, therefore reading more about the COVID-19, but also their rights. It makes them feel accompanied and have shelter, valuable information with beneficiaries. In Turkey, parents are happy that TSF, Syrian parents, are happy that TSF is keeping its activities. We have parents that say that give children hope as well for parents and their parents. It's reassured them that they can continue their education. One of our local teachers even told us that children were so excited about this, that they talk about it to their friends. And we had more children wanting to join us. I believe we have had a positive impact to all these populations and beneficiaries these last few months, having been able to adapt to the situation.