So we're here at the SID display week 2019 and who are you? My name is Roger Barker. I'm a product marketing director for Arm Ltd. And right here at the show you're launching the Mali D77. That's right, Mali D77. It's our new display processor that we're aiming specifically at the head-mounted device market. It's got some extra special secret sauce in there to deliver a synchronous time warp, chromatic aberration correction, lens distortion correction, all in hardware in real time to deliver a smoother experience using far less power and delivering a better experience for users in time. So these are some of the things that it works to fix. So a synchronous time warp, lens distortion We're able to compose multiple layers up to four VR layers at one time. I have to move out of the way. Yeah, and so all these have never been done before in this kind of way that you're doing it. That's correct. In the past this has all been done on the GPU. GPU needs lots of horsepower to actually carry this out at high resolution at high frame rate and high horsepower means it's high cost because it uses a lot of power, uses a lot of energy and it needs very expensive GPUs to handle that at a high performance level. So this stuff, those algorithms have existed before but they were just done on the GPU. They've not had a dedicated IP to accelerate this. That's correct. So that people have slight, they all have their different variants on the algorithms but we've developed an algorithm that can run in hardware and we can do that in a single pass through the display processor which enables a far better experience. So that means it's going to be part of the Mali IP or it's like one of the part of the GPU? It's a part of the Mali display processor. So the Mali display processor should be used alongside something like the Mali GPU alongside video, alongside CPU. So we have a whole multimedia suite so we can provide all the components or for people who don't use our products, they could still use our display processor. So ARM is like really good at getting lots of different IPs in there, right? In the SOC, there's all these different things going on. There's a and it's been a while that ARM has been doing the display part two. We've been doing this for about six years now. We bought a company called Evertronics. We were based in Poland in 2013 and we've gone through about four iterations of products now and we're now on to a new architecture which we introduced two years ago, which we call Comedia and the D77 is built on top of the Comedia architecture. Is it also related with the apical acquisition? It's it works with the apical IP called Assertive Display. So at this stage we still have separate IP for Assertive Display and for the display processor but they're optimized to work well together. So when we designed Comedia architecture, we'd already acquired apical and we were making sure that all the interfaces both hardware and software was as smooth as possible to give a better experience. So AR and VR has been a buzzword for a few years now, but it's ramping up for the next level. You want to have it for it to be really really successful. It needs to be huge resolutions, huge functionalities and this is really important for this. So this is what we're seeing is that past or the initial experiences people have had with VR haven't been as good as they'd like and this has partly been because the processors weren't able to process enough bits at fast enough frame rates to enable a smooth experience and we've identified specific areas that we thought we can improve in the display processor to offload the GPU to allow it to spend more of its time, give it more horsepower to actually improve its delivery of the experience, goes to the display processor and then that manages that all the way through to the display. So when you talk about 15% overhead on the GPU performance, is that the stuff you're doing in this IP? Yes. So as well as the 15% performance uplift or performance freedom, I guess if you like, we're freeing the GPU to focus on what it should be doing. The other key thing here is because we've freed it up from doing that, it isn't forever or constantly being interrupted and having to switch context between developing the game, creating and rendering what it needs to for the game and then supporting the head mounted display. And that's the key part of this. We're stopping it being interrupted so you can guarantee the flow or improve the guarantee of the flow through the GPU and then through the display, we can guarantee that we can hit the frame rate of the target display. And you have some other stuff you're talking about that you just did a long presentation and some what's the time warp about? So time warp is a method of reprojection to mitigate the display type pipeline latency. So this is the problem that has happened in GPUs where the GPU hasn't been able to render the next frame fast enough for when it's due to be presented to the processor, to the display, sorry. So basically what time warp does is you take account of head movements and you can reproject based on those head movements the same frame. In real time. In real time. So basically this prevents the jerky effects of missing the frame that's created by the GPU. So when you move your head instead of being jerky, it's going to move inside the image in the direction you move in your head. The image will move much, much more smoothly. There won't be the jerkiness, it will be much closer to the actual head movement that you're making. So there are links between the sensors on the either in the phone that's in the head mounted display or on the head mounted display device itself, where the gyroscopes and other things are allowing you to work out the head pose and that's being fed into the display processor. So the display processor takes care of that. The GPU doesn't have to get involved. The GPU just continues functioning on delivering the game as good performance as possible. Nice. And you're talking about some fields here? Pre distortion we're talking about. So typically when you're using a head mounted device, you have some bottle top lenses between you and the display to give you an improved field of view or an apparent improved field of view. And if we go on to the next couple of slides we talk about this a little bit. So if you have the render frame, so the top left frame there is the frame that the GPU is presenting. So it's nice and crisp, it's exactly what you want it to be. If it's fed through a lens, you'll then get an effect called pink cushion distortion and you can see that it's squeezed in from all the sides and it has a negative impact. So to compensate for that, what we do is do the inverse distortion. We create bottom left there, we create a barrel distortion which offsets the pink cushion distortion and so when it goes through the lens you get a good rectilinear image which is what you want and which the GPU originally produced. So do you have to calibrate this to every different headset? Yes. All every different lens? Yes, you will have to. So maybe the user could do that or the manufacturer could do that? You'd expect the manufacturer to do most of that but most devices now have levers and things so that you can optimise it for yourself. You can change into pupillary distances, things like this. So part of what we have to do is ensure that within the firmware that we provide this can be upgraded, not upgraded, this can be adjusted by the user and this is something that the OEM will have to do in their software as well. They'll create software which will enable the user to calibrate it for their own use, for their own comfort. And you have some more things you're adjusting? So one of the things on this one, the top left frame was the one rendered by the GPU. The bottom right frame is after it's gone through the distortion correction but as you can see it's not clear, it's still a bit fuzzy and the reason it's a bit fuzzy is because of chromatic aberration. So as the different colour channels pass through the lens they have different refractive indices and so they reflect differently. So what we have to do is we take the same approach that we took with the distortion and we do the inverse of this before we pass it through the lens and that means we get to the stage where we have a nice sharp image which was comparable to the image that was originally produced by the GPU. It's because in science every colour has a different colour channel. Yes, so they're different wavelengths. So that's what creates chromatic aberration in every lens. That's right, that's right. So every lens will have that and you always have to offset that. Today it tends to be fixed in software and what we're doing, clearly we're doing it in hardware so we're alleviating the GPU from having to do it to make sure the GPU can focus on what it does best and we can reduce the power requirements and increase the performance of the end device. Nice, so you heard the SID display week to talk about all this because this is the mecca of the display industry and all the AR, VR display makers are right here and they all have to think about your solution and when they create the next gen devices. Exactly, what we want them to do is make them aware of what we're doing we also want to be very aware of what they're doing and what their future developments are so as we move forward we can get to a position where we're able to cope with whatever they are bringing out as well. So that's the key activity for now. I'm guessing maybe you have access to some of these totally amazing future AR, VR displays. The dream is people need to, like last year or two years ago Google talked about they want to have a huge amount of like 18K displays and with foveated and with eye tracking eye tracking, all sorts of things like this. And it's all more or less related also, right? They're related, the VR and the AR are different from the display perspective and the requirements are different but they are related and the things we're talking about here will be important in AR as well and clearly we're talking to many different people to understand what will be required in the future and being required in the future and we're helping to influence that so that we can make sure that we are able to address it when the time comes for it to be available. We're still a little way away from this in AR in particular but it's something Arm will be working on through over the next few years. What's the other challenges for AR that's not in here? If you think about it, it's related to light it's looking at transparent lenses and you really want to see on those lenses as well. Are you just looking for information? Are you looking for full video on there? Are you wanting them to be adaptive? Can you use a headset that doesn't look like a baseball helmet? Baseball helmet? American football helmet? So how about... Is it possible to have this dream where you have somebody sitting over there in AR exactly on the chair? And that's part of this too? That's where we want to get to. We're a fair way away from that being a common reality but that's where we want to get to. Alright, so thanks a lot for doing all these technologies that the whole world could potentially embrace. That's the aim. We just want to make it easy for people to use.


Hey, David. A couple days ago now when you were talking about your nausea and diarrhea and getting really into the experience, that's an impossibility. I just... that really tickled me on a level I can't really describe, but I wanted to get a little deeper into the experience of that and like getting way down into the mind, is it the sense that actually everything is love and we've just been confused about in thinking that there is pain because we're believing in separate bodies, or is it a complete transcendence of that, or how does it... is it like a... How does that work? Did you talk on that, please? Yes. The fine love has just been pushed out of awareness as part of like a giant mind trick and therefore experiences on the surface really don't really have anything to do with anything, but they seem very real when you're going through them. But I would say that that as you go deeper into spirituality and you clear away the darkness and you clean the filter, you get better and better at seeing love and a call for love. And pain is definitely a call for love. Pain actually... It is like this strong calling for what's right beneath it in awareness and the more that you start to see that everything's a decision, that your state of mind's a decision, when you start to getting into these, we'll say, upsetting or painful states, you know, it's like it triggers your mind, like, ah, there's something here for me to really, truly see. There's something for me to truly find, to truly experience and and the more that that happens, the more that you train your mind that way, that you know, anytime you feel any kind of pain, upset, discomfort, you're really triggered to start looking for or to experiencing the solution for it.  You know, what do I have to do to get out of this, you know, kind of more of a figuring out mentality that goes on with the pain, or just the extreme intensity where it's just wanting some kind of an escapism or distraction from it because it's so, so, so intense. So, yeah, I would say that that's part of the mind training. Sometimes people use the courses more as kind of a band-aid approach or more of a crisis management, you know, it's like, oh, I'm just going to go along and live my life and live my life seemingly on the surface. And then when I get into a crisis, I'll go to the course. But anybody who even studies preventative medicine, you know, would say, well, you don't want to get into crisis management with disease and conflict. You want to get into good habits, healthy habits, good, you could say mental habits and so forth. You truly want to get drawn into the miracle. That's your best protection, so to speak, for the mind as to being miracle-minded is the best protection. So it's more of taking a very active approach to that. You know, what would you have me do? Where would you have me go? What would you have me say? And to whom Lord, make me an instrument. You know, all the prayers from the saints have always been taking a more proactive approach to help me get into alignment with your will. And I know that everything will be taken care of, that I will receive and experience the blessings of that. So that's the key. I think whenever there's any kind of an emotional pain, instead of just reacting with some kind of a conclusion or some kind of a negative judgment, it's like more and more you start to really perceive that this is a huge opportunity, that you don't want to waste, you don't want to miss, you don't want to brush aside. You know, you want to click into that correct perception that vanquishes the wrong-minded perception. And then, you know, once you get really good at it, once you really get good at aligning with the Spirit and you're consistently with the Spirit, then you just don't interpret. You don't have any painful interpretations. They're just like washed out of your filter. So, you know, right-minded seeing can see only perfection. When you are in alignment with Spirit, you simply have lost the faculty. You've lost this filter that used to be there for finding error. And that's the most glorious state when you are lifted up into this state where you can't even perceive error anymore. You know, it's an amazing correction of perception. It wouldn't matter what was occurring on the screen. You know, when you're in this glorious, I call it like a vertical interpretation, or Holy Spirit interpretation is that there is no error, that the errors have all been corrected already in this vertical perception. So, it's not going to be a sense of finding error and then trying to deal with it, you know, trace it back or do something with it, or re-perceive it or something like this. It actually takes you into true forgiveness, which literally takes you beyond the possibility of perceiving errors. That's just absolutely amazing. I do remember when I was reading, you know, from Jesus, this italicized line, Do not see error. I was just like, just totally amazed. Like, such a short sentence, but it was italicized. Do not see error. And I just was like, you're going to have to show me that one. You know, do not see error. I spent my whole life in this world picking, picking, picking, finding a little wrong with this, a little wrong with that. And then this alignment that he was calling on was so high that it literally was beyond the perception of errors. It fits in with what the Course describes as forgiveness. You forgive your brother for what he has not done, you know, which is a fancy way of saying, you know, that there really is no error there. It was just a misperception, a misinterpretation of error, seeing it in form. And that's just a very high goal. But as you just go through the mind training, you do start to become grateful for any kind of opportunity that you have to see something truly. You know, you want to see everything in a true way. And when you do perceive some kind of pain or upset, then you do, you can right away feel the underlying call that's right there, the underlying opportunity. And you zoom in on that quicker and quicker without getting off onto this litany of what went wrong, what's the problem, who caused it, you know. People have said to me, well, who created the ego? And it actually doesn't have a creator. It wasn't created. That's why we're learning to expose and release it because it doesn't have a creator. You know, in this world we have terms like best or child or something. This thing, this tiny puff of nothingness, wasn't created by God. And if our whole purpose in life is to know God and know the creator, then we're not going to discover that source within ourselves by studying and analyzing a total distractive device, a puff of nothingness that actually doesn't have a source. So, you know, when Jesus calls the ego a tiny mad idea, it's a sourceless idea. It doesn't have a source. That's why it can't harm you. You have a source, I have a source. It doesn't. We really shouldn't be afraid of something that is sourceless, considering that we do have such a glorious source, you know. So it turns the whole world around more to a joke. It is a joke that think that time can come to circumvent eternity, that we can somehow, you know, put something around us that's not of God, that we can actually cloak ourselves in something that doesn't even have a source. It's really insane. And that's why we're here going through this healing process. That's why in the middle of our sessions, I've heard that there have been crying sessions, people will just come together and just cry.  Where are you going to go?  In some cases, you pay psychotherapists or counselors to listen, but if you do a lot of that pouring out of all this intensity, they seem pretty happy when the half an hour is up. They go, oh, sorry, sir, sorry to interrupt you in the middle of that sentence, but time's up, you know. And it's so much of thinking you have to pay for that service. You have to pay to let your stuff up and out. It's much more helpful to start to say, Holy Spirit guide me to the people and the places and the circumstances that would be most helpful for me to let it up and out. And please don't hold back. Just sock it to me, you know, give me the most helpful context.


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It's the only place to get some much needed alone time. Right, you are. But it goes deeper than that. Why did Native Americans make pottery with earthy tones and designs based upon plants and animals? Throughout time, people have manifested their identities through objects around them. The same principle applies now as well, for we often pick items for a bedroom that reflect who we are and who we wanna be.  In Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller, Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, he references personality psychologist, Samuel Gosling's experiment, which established a link between bedrooms and personality. Gosling's experiment asked total strangers to guess the personality of students just by observing their dorms. And their guesses were more accurate than the ones their close friends made. What? So Gosling used the results to break down the personality-revealing aspects of a bedroom into three factors. 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Welcome to the historic Zion Baptist Church on this day we will have the unveiling of our street toppers naming signs Zion Baptist Square and the Columbia your historic black business district 800 to 1100 Street Washington Street East to West dedication service the scripture says that this is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes this is the day the Lord has made and we will be glad in it at this particular time we're going to invite ribbon Dr. Cynthia Walters forth for our scripture reading and following the scripture reading we will have a prayer by Deacon Isaac Washington we ask that you come in that order a scripture comes from Joshua 4 verses 1 through 8 the 12 memorial stones when the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan the Lord said to Joshua choose 12 men from among the people one from each trial and tell them to take up 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests are standing and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stayed tonight so Joshua called together the 12 men he had appointed from the Israelites one from each tribe and said to them go over before the Ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites to serve as a sign among you in the future when your children ask you what do these stones mean tell them that the floor of the Jordan was cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord when it crossed the Jordan the waters of the Jordan were cut off these stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever verse 8 so the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them they took 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites as the Lord had told Joshua and they carried them over with them to their camp where they put them down again Joshua 4 verses 1 through 8 the NIV translation amen let's pray for the God we get thank you for allowing us to see a day that we've never seen before but we still thank you for the bloodless we thank you God for this church we realize what we know that you said your word we ask you right now to give us the strength Lord you go on and do what we ask right now to bless this service for bless this place let us know why we do and that's to draw someone just a little closer to you thank you for the suitable prayer and certainly the suitable scripture at this time we're going to have the occasion by mr. John Dixon as he comes when you give him a hand as he comes today is a day of hope today we commemorate the honorary naming of the intersection of Gaston Street and Washington Street as Zion Baptist Church Square and the honorary naming of the 800 through 1100 blocks of Washington Street as Columbia's historic black business district the commemoration of these locations speak of arguments in the past present and future of the history of this city to sound these locations may simply be loud and longitudinal points of on a city map but to us these locations mean so much more today we pay homage to the men ancestors and those still living who live to see that these locations were at the very heart of black livelihood in the city of Columbia within this small corridor of hope black people found salvation a reasonable safe sanctuary opportunities to be encouraged by each other to push on equality their navigation through arduous challenges such as segregation and inequality did not break them they persevered and because of what they did we are and we bear the promise of a bright future for those to come with gratitude to the honorable mayor Daniel J. Rickenman City Council woman Tina in Herbert along with other council members and step we extend a heartfelt thank you and swift action in making today a reality is deeply appreciated finally it is a day of hope whenever someone was up to read these wonderful sign over the street signs and they have the faintest clue what the Zion Baptist Church Square all the historic black business district is all about it is our hope that they will do further research and discover the real of Columbia for informed people are people of progress thank you beloved this time we will receive remarks in the fall of the order Columbia City mayor the honorable Daniel Rickenman Columbia City Councilwoman the honorable Tina Herbert following here from the state in a ACP conference president miss Brenda Murphy and then the Columbia branch in a ACP miss Oveda Glover West you come in that order give a mayor a hand as he comes thank y'all for for all being here today Reverend thank you for all your support and direction and counseling miss Herbert is not here today she had an unfortunate emergency family emergency but Tyler Bailey our new elected at large number will speak on her behalf and on behalf of the other members of City Council I hope you'll keep her in your prayers you know we got here today by interesting path some of y'all were in here we have a little controversial role to get here but you know what came out of that what came out of that everything happens for a reason my mother used to tell me it's never too late to make something right guess what today something's right something's gonna happen today what's so special about it is that we continue to celebrate the history and as we all learn Columbia played just an incredible role through the history of the U.S. United States of America Columbia was a center South Carolina was a center but Columbia especially last Sunday I had the opportunity to be at the intersection of Main Street at the exhibit at the Columbia Museum her lecture on the Garrett family which was extremely interesting to hear about a family actually got to see their house and 12 he's 12 12 12 14 late street went by there to see it it's still standing how do we how do we take that house and save it and return it and make it a vocal point because there's an incredible story there but I tell you the highlight of the whole day was I was in the exhibit walking around with Dr. Donaldson we met a gentleman Mr. Waley Mr. Waley started telling stories and started pointing in pictures of where he had been if it was the assembly street market if it was at the cafes where his mom who graduated from Hooker Washington in 1933 and he graduated in 1965 he still has her diplomas he still has all of her things from that era and to listen to the stories about Columbia from someone who experienced selling for me was incredible and you have to understand my family didn't move to the US till 1967 so I have a whole I'm learning every day about the history in Columbia but I can tell you with us coming together as a community that history will never be forgotten it will continue to be celebrated and I think it's going to open up a lot more opportunities as as we continue to move forward with the Hooker Washington center that's going to be built that's going to help us be part of the civil rights trade and if you've been in Montgomery Alabama and you've experienced if you go understand that Columbia has just as much history if not more because to be quite honest we were first in a lot of a lot of movements and we didn't get the credit for that's okay we're going to put it in there as an asset that is an asset because we are taking our history celebrating it and continuing to move forward as we grow our community together and I want to thank y'all for the opportunity to be here today excited about the unveiling as we continue to celebrate and hopefully this will be the first of many as we continue to grow our community together and I think it was best said earlier by Mr. Vixen if you want if you want to know the history of community reform take the time take the time to learn our history because it's important for all of us thank you to Reverend Dr. Andrew Davis Zion Baptist Church our esteemed mayor and congress I'm sorry to disappoint you all I'm not the honor of being the perfect person but Zion Baptist Church has played a critical role in molding the social fabric of this community and my first story involved with Zion Baptist Church cold morning on January 17th 2020 which many of y'all probably remember was a it was the first of these rallies that Zion Baptist Church had with the march from here to the state house and I was 10 years old at that time it was Martin King Day it was a cold morning my dad woke me and my siblings up and said that we're going to march for the Confederate flag to come down off the state house so that's just an example of the history that this church has and working on the mold and shaping our community which we are appreciative of for the city of Columbia and many cities throughout the the country had black business districts they refer to the black wall streets we always heard of Tulsa, Oklahoma but this here too was also a black wall street during several by history month events this February was commonly asked if you knew about black wall street in Columbia and every time maybe two or three people would say they knew and today with this naming of uh Zion Baptist Square along with the historical black Columbia Business District we are paying tribute to make sure our story is from the total historic black business district will never rise through prominence if we all work together we need Zion Baptist Church the city of Columbia journalists creatives and everybody join arm in arm and tell our history so let's work together to make this historic destination not just for people in Columbia but throughout this country and I also want to make sure that thank Councilman Kerber for her leadership and quick sort of action to make sure that we're ready to recognize Zion Baptist Church the Columbia Black Business District during Black History Month and follow them up on first Sunday in March with this great event thank you yes yes what a great day it is what a great day it is I am so happy to be a part of this today and to say to you I lived it also I was raised in Columbia South Carolina and you heard the comment just a few minutes ago that this was known as the black wall street area Columbia the areas known as the Columbia Black Wall Street was the 10 hundred block to the 11 hundred block of Washington Street from assembly street to gas street those were that those were that was the area basically that most of the local businesses the black businesses that served our communities were located I remember the chapter of the theater some of you may remember I'm just gonna say a name you know the beauty shop that was there a barbershop and beauty shop the law offices of Matthew Perry and Lake of Jenkins the Lilywood barbershop the green leaf restaurant the the Temple Pride dentistry who's known mostly for lawyering nowadays and also funeral homes they were here as well this was our hub the hub of our business it was where the first grocery store that served us as black people I know some of you probably remember the Wyn Dixie right there on the corner of Washington and assembly street it brings back fond memories to think about our history here we must not forget it it was here that it all started and the place that served us during segregation uh until the 1970s not too long ago this past and a lot has happened and we saw the changes uh many of those businesses moved out but most importantly here stands Zion Baptist Church still standing and I'll tell you as one as in the other person we all always called it Big Zion this was Big Zion the church that we visited um and we heard about its history as individuals walked through these these halls uh they were here to fight for our justice and they were here to visit they'll continue today and I just want to say thank you Dr. Davis Reverend Dr. Davis the officers of this great church the members of this great church for being what you are and being the place that we can continue the journey for justice for all again thank you thank you thank you and I just want to say I do remember Reverend Gil go forth and his messages and you know and on behalf of the Columbia of South Carolina to Dr. Davis and of course congregation because without you what no Dr. Davis and no what continuously moving forward with the church but the congratulation is on the inspection of these significant marks that we will review shortly they serve as a reminder of the rich history of this church and the enduring spirit of the historic African-American business district which must never be forgotten Zion Big Zion as they used to call it holds a significant and historically important place as defined by its remarkable legacy the Colombian South Carolina branch of the NAACP was established just one year one year after the grand this grand sanctuary was constructed in many ways our path that's Zion the lovely branch and the NAACP have evolved side by side Zion Dr. Church has consistently opened its doors to the NAACP and numerous other community organizations and has been invading for mass meetings demonstrations church services notable speakers musical performances prayer of vigils vigils and King David Dunn none of these impactful programs and events have been possible without the support of Zion Baptist Church for your generosity and continued firm commitment to the advancement of colored people and all people we salute you may these markers serve as a reminder of the courageous lessons of the past may they inspire and guide us as we continue the fight for freedom and justice for all in our time let us remember that our history is one of our most valuable assets and we must ensure that it is preserved and cherished we must make sure that it is not diminished watered down and hidden from our children and all members of our community i need for you to say these words with me three words share our history ready share our history thank you so much for those words of encouragement from our mayor from councilman bailey thank you for substituting for councilwoman herbita the rising star into miss murphy into miss glover this time we will have legacy observations uh by the following miss vivian counts following miss counts we will have legacy observations from dr barbie donelson amen thank you so very much let me say again good afternoon and this really is a good afternoon i'm so excited to talk a little bit about being one of the descendants of the business owners on the historic black wall street black business district of columbia washington street a washington street my name is vivian counts again i'm the granddaughter of dr counts who was a pharmacist at 1105 washington street and i found out recently that he was a compounding pharmacist these are the pharmacists that make their own medicine from natural resources which now i understand what why i'd like to get into herbal medicine and all that kind of stuff i said my blood but it was not only a pharmacy but a restaurant an ice cream parlor a daycare center a meeting place and so much more and it was also one of the businesses that was uh listed in historical green book for black folks to travel safely through the south and places that they can go to get services in a segregated country um what i remember as a little girl was feeling so much empowerment seeing the hustle and bustle of beautiful african american going up and down washington street penalizing these businesses it was a safe and protected environment it was magical it was a monumental gateway for the visions of young people to dream of the possibilities of becoming successful african american men and women in business and there are other black business districts in columbia they're around allen and vinnidia college uh greenview area there are other black business districts i want to thank xiong at this church for your leadership in this endeavor this historical event and i also want to suggest that we make this day an annual celebration we have to find ways to teach our young people about these business districts in columbia these black businesses are different in columbia and to commemorate the successful how would you say the successful impact it had on us knowing that we could do anything a beautiful strong impact on our communities so let's make this day a celebration let's have a festival a festival in honor of what happened on that black wall street and i'd also like to add before i leave that my grandmother dais counts was an august apianist when his church for a few years he said i got him having a little history with that too but anyway dais i got this first thank you for taking the lead on this thank you for all of the support from the community in this endeavor and i have shared this with a lot of our family members about what was going on so this means a lot to us thank you again and enjoy this afternoon i'll get after the everyone to uh pastor davis to minister of the gospel to me i recommend the city leaders to this captain blames and the zion historical committee all those who are from the city of columbia i have thoroughly enjoyed black history month so much so that i've now lost my voice on this sunday so thank you for giving this as i try to work through the assignment given to me by sister count another lady reverend walters has lifted up an important scripture and i was going to use that reverend walters but since you've already raised that to our attention i would like to draw your attention to the liberals the fourth chapter and the eight burgers where paul writes a letter to philipi while in jail all speaks all those years ago not only to the philipians but to us he says finally my brethren what sort of things are true what sort of things are honest just pure love what sort of things are of good report if there be any virtue if there be any praise i need you to think on these things we gather today at the intersection of gatson and washington streets eight zero one washington street to think on these things to think on the stones that the builders rejected that are today the chief cornerstone of our history Frederick Douglass who said in 1888 the nation the nation may forget its history may shut its eyes to the past but block you to keep the memory of the past alive until justice is done we gather today to think on these things we gather today to think on that name was dr carter g woodson dr woodson who said this who's the inspiration with a teaching about history we gather to think on these things we gather to think on the lessons of another prophet whose name was dr mary mcleod food who said in 1939 if with a sword and a shield a belief in themselves and their possibilities we must teach our children their history from the frame to the grave we must do so that whatever calls even if it breaks the very back of the king we gather today to think on the lessons shared with us by judge jas security judge matthew jp miss spain mother gladness gopher mr rufus fool my teacher miss tomasina braves my teacher deacon john bookhawk and our teacher miss kathy hope we gather today to think on these things we gather today to remember in 1866 when the daily phoenix newspaper spoke about black people who were dissatisfied with their worship experience at first bappers church so they decided to remove themselves and to march down washington street toward the river and revin frank dotter's and 72 men and 65 women gathered in the shadows of a home they erected an old wooden church that served people across his report it said that the colored people of columbia were seeking to build a gothic building it said the new building will be 130 feet long and 60 feet wide 160 feet wide no one even imagined a condition that those struggling black people could build a cathedral they think that on this corner and here we are today in 16th and cornerstone for the big negro church it said it said the lieutenant governor came it said dr jj durr of the leader of the state came mr cc johnson the head of the negro masons came they said this the negro zeal and lord they said this church has been erected by the trustees at the cost of personal sacrifice which in the aggregate through and by these sacrifice they'll school in the practice of self-help and sturdy independence when this building was erected all around us were homes businesses institution today they're parking lots empty lots hotels so much has changed and yet so much remains the same so many of those places are long gone but still staying not seen today we gather to build on the legacy of carter g woodson frederick gunness and dr mary mclough but we also this church who traveled these corridors who developed the washington street business district we gather today we gather the day to remember those men and women who once said bye bye all the saints shall gather home what will they do they will tell you don't tell the story of how we will recover what will they do they will tell the story that says god will make a way somehow they will tell the story that says time is filled with swift transition not on theme to turn and we hold to god's unchanging hand they will think on these things and they will tell the story of the old woman and watch meeting service the old woman who interrupted the program revan davis she said brother preacher i've been walking for the lord a long time there's something about walking with every day get sweeter than the day before he said i don't mind the pitfall because every time i get to the lord is right there so i just i just don't feel no waste time i've come too far from where i start thank you for the legacy observations uh by miss vivian counts and dr bobby donelson let's give them a hand again at this time we will receive acknowledgments uh for missus calvinetta beasley williams give her a hand and she comes and dr donelson you have to deal with pastor pastor davis put us in full peer in designing historic mission he was supporting it and pushing us to do everything that we could we are blessed to have a pastor who pushes this history because if not we could not do what we're doing so we want to thank him for all the business districts our members with the families are any of those families here in the church would you please stand did any one of those families come and do us on a Sunday other than missus counts in fact right here in it for west family which y'all can stand and stay standing for one more time deacon john waders is that all of your family standing deacon john in 1900s that's when her family came here and their spiel has some lineage in the church and we want to thank you for that i'm going to the wooden church now i'm going a little further artisan daughter to stand miss artisan is not well but she's here thank you lily stay standing miss alice migris johnson those were before the wooden church because the wooden church in 1871 but they met in there her great-grand it was your mother's great-grand aunt so that's going a long way that was the 1860s that we did it you go there miss atonist harrison baptized in this emphasis this church it was 16th you're lucky imagine that this thing a woman at 16th ooh the oracle read a house that's across the street want to make sure that is mr. lone here mr. lone is in his family members here because mr. lone spent thank you mr. lone is 89 years old in may and he was born in the historic reed house across the street so the better chance he has been a little under the weather so please give him a call is this jumper here is it if her family here because they go back into that in your family mr. jumper okay miss artist weans i thought i saw this golden augustus is his grandchildren here because your family traces back to to the late 1800s i wanted them to know about their grandmother miss artist weans miss tanya nightmare i see someone standing right your hand okay okay deca louis walters is still here where it stand up still like we call him still with respect to yes grand is it going to grandfather grandfather we are tracing back to the late 1890s and 1900s right here at this church so the walters family's where that's your baby too the whole family they go way back that's what i think about the walters want to be a little bossy sometimes deca cash oh that's right hands down go away also that is grandfather go back to the beginning also so we're still keeping the way that you're going we just want to mention those people that have that mention we have a special thanks to deacon uh brian where you dare to round he did the buttons for us and we want to thank him and the slideshow that you saw dr. panel weans would you stand up please my daughter in law did that for us it's a great day for us say we've got one of the best hands in the world making this a reality we know that you must be god seeing so we do pray for you and thank you all very much to god be the glory for all of the wonderful things he has done in the in the book of the Thessalonians the fourth chapter says give thanks and everything for this is the will of god just take a moment to express thanks and gratitude to miss cabinet abeasley williams for her leadership making this all possible and to the entire historical committee for what you have done to make this possible to design that this church and historical committee will you please stand i just want to acknowledge you and say thanks


Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today with a bake and taste from Aldi. I recently purchased two cookie kits from there and decided I'd like to do a video to show you guys how the cookies turned out. So the first kit is this mini trees shortbread cookie kit and it comes with the cookie mix. It comes with sprinkles. It comes with a super cute little mini Christmas tree cutter and then you need to add a stick of butter and this kit was 2.99 and they also had a sugar cookie kit as well.  It comes with the cookie cutter. It comes with the cookie mix. It comes with a green and red dye and then it comes with a bunch of little sprinkles that are super cute little candy canes and as you can see right here to the cookie mix you need to add one egg. You're going to need some butter for the cookie mix and also for the red and green icing. So I'm going to start out making the mini shortbread cookies first, the mini tree shortbread cookies because you have to chill the dough for 20 to 30 minutes. So if you want to see how these cookies turn out stay tuned. So I have my stick of butter in the bowl and I did think I forgot to mention that all of my ingredients are at room temperature. So my butter is at room temperature and softened and my egg is also at room temperature. But the instruction for the mini trees says to mix the butter and the baking mix together. It doesn't indicate if you should mix it by hand or by mixer. I'm going to start off trying to mix it by hand if it's too stiff. I'm going to use my hand mixer. But what I did notice when I was reading the instructions is that it never actually mentions the sprinkles. Nothing about the sprinkles on here. So on the picture it looks like the sprinkles are in the batter or the cookie dough and then sometimes it looks like they're kind of sprinkled on top. So what I'm going to do is mix my butter in my cookie mix together and then I'm just going to add in the sprinkles. So let's give this a try. So it's kind of coarse and crumbly. Let me try to get in there with my fingers and see if it kind of holds together a little bit better. Yeah, so I think you're gonna have to get in there with your fingers because it's a it's a very crumbly shortbread dough. So I'm just gonna add in my sprinkles here. I'm just gonna try to give it a good mix and this is very very crumbly. Very crumbly. So now what I'm gonna do the instructions say to roll this into a ball and to wrap it in plastic wrap and then let it chill in the refrigerator for 20 to 30 minutes. Alright guys, so I did my very best at getting this into a ball. It is extremely crumbly and it's probably about the size of a baseball, I guess I would say. So I'm gonna wrap this up with some plastic wrap and throw it in the fridge and then I will come back and we will start the other cookie dough. Okay, so next we're gonna start on the ugly sweaters and in my bowl, I've got my egg, which again is at room temperature and then I am going to use a half a stick of butter. The other half sticks are for the icing. Soop, half a stick of butter. And then the cookie mix and I am just going to use my mixer to mix it up. So here is the mix and it also is very crumbly, but I'm assuming that the egg is going to work as a binder and help hold things together. This dough, it says does not require any refrigeration, but it says that if you notice that it's starting to get sticky as you're rolling out everything to put it in the fridge. Excuse me. So let's see if this sticks together and it does. Alright, so I am going to get my baking mat ready and I will be right back. So I have my baking mat set up and right here I have some powdered sugar to keep the dough from getting sticky. I know a lot of people use flour, but I don't like my cookies to taste flowery and so I just use a little bit of powdered sugar instead. And I've got my rolling pin right here and this dough is pretty sticky. So I'm just going to sprinkle a little bit of powdered sugar on top and on the baking mat. And I'm going to start rolling and it says that this this mix makes about eight to ten cookies. So we'll see depending on how thick you make your cookies. Let me see how this works. All right, guys. So I was only able to get six ugly sweaters and this is how much dough I have left, which isn't enough for anything. So I'm just going to bake this by itself as just a regular cookie and the package says to bake these for about, I'm looking here, 10 to 13 minutes. But it says the thicker the cookie, the longer it will take to bake. So I'm thinking these might take about 15 minutes. I'm not sure, but I'm going to stick these in the oven. And then while these are baking, I'm going to work on the icing. Now, I did misread these directions. I was actually supposed to mix the butter by itself and then add in the powdered sugar. But as you can see, I have my powdered sugar and butter in here at the same time. So I am going to mix each of these separately. And then I'm going to add in the red, red food dye and the green food dye. And then you're supposed to add in a tablespoon of milk at the very end to make it creamy. So let's go ahead and get started. All right. So my sweater cookies are out of the oven and they're cooling while they're cooling. I am going back to the mini trees and I took the dough out of the fridge. And it was hard when I took it out of the fridge. So I've been letting it sit here for about five minutes and trying to work at it a little bit so I can roll it out. I've got my baking mat sprinkled with a little bit of powdered sugar. I'm going to sprinkle some on top. This dough is really very crumbly, not very easy to work with. So let's try to roll it out. And here is a little bitty cookie cutter. It is teensy, tiny, and this is supposed to make 48 cookies this box. So this is what it looks like. It's teeny, tiny. Oh my goodness. All right, guys. So I apologize because I thought I had my baking pan in the shot and I realized that I didn't. But all I was doing, of course, was just putting these little cookies on there. And they are so teeny, tiny. How long am I supposed to bake these things? They say 11 to 14 minutes. But I think that might be too long because these are probably like half an inch big. They are small. So I'm going to start them at six minutes and then go back and check them and add more time if I need to. But I'm going to pop these into my oven at 350 degrees. So here are the cookies. I let them cool completely on the baking sheet. You'll notice that a couple of my little sweaters broke. And that is because the instructions said to lightly grease your baking sheet. And I didn't believe it because I never greased my baking sheet because I have a nonstick pan when I bake cookies. But this this recipe, you actually really do need to grease your baking sheet because they broke. Also, another thing is that you'll see that my little sleeves are very close. If you want them to be separate, like in the picture, you're going to need to raise them up a little bit higher because they tend to spread when they bake. So Howard and I actually tried one of the cookies. It's just OK. Nothing special. Nothing special. It was just OK. But we are going to decorate the sweaters now. Just a couple of them so that you'll see. But I mean, there's nothing special. It just tastes like a regular sugar sugar cookie. I would say it's probably not as good as Pillsbury. So we have some icing here that Howard put in the piping bag. So right there. And then all the different sprinkles that came in the kit. So we got these two and then we also have these two as well. So the instructions say to not try to pipe it out of the bag to decorate, they say to put a dime size amount on the cookie and then spread it with a knife or something like that. But we'll see how this goes. We're not decorators, but we're just going to have fun with it. Here are our cookies. That was fun. As you can see, we're not artists. Actually, Howard doesn't look pretty bad. It doesn't look bad at all, really. All right. So I think the little mini Christmas trees are ready. So let me go pull those from the oven and I will be right back.  And remember before I thought 11 to 14 minutes was too long because these cookies were too tiny. I ended up baking them for 12 minutes. So this is what they look like. And this is just, of course, half the batch. The other half of the cookie dough is in the refrigerator. But Howard and I tasted these and I think this one tastes better. Could be because it has the little bits of sugar pieces in there. And the one we tasted the other cookie did not have the decorations on it. So I think that those little sugar morsels make it taste better. And I just think it just tastes like a better cookie dough. To me, the little sweaters tasted kind of like a cheap cookie. I mean, I can't think of a better way to say it. And these tasted a lot more rich and these actually tasted more homemade to me than the other cookies. But but yeah, so that's it. I hope you guys enjoyed this cooking video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up. If you have not subscribed to our channel, we certainly love to have you. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.