Hi guys, thank you so much for joining me. You know, I've been thinking about what type of videos to do on my channel and I really enjoy more of the chatty and the vlogs and stuff like that. So, kind of like going to probably do more vlog style videos as spring and summer kick in and perhaps Jane, I will be out more exploring, camping and stuff like that and then just talk about products when I have something to talk about basically and not really think about, oh, I get, you know, what am I gonna talk about, you know, and hunt for something, I don't wanna do that. So, hopefully you don't mind, let me know below if you guys like sort of the vloggy style where I share some of my adventures at least in the summer and if you like the chitty-chatty combo as well because this will be a chitty-chatty but it will also be a product, take a look at a product review and I'll mention the product right off because I really don't feel that good skin care needs to be expensive, I really don't. So, if you're curious, stay tuned. Oh my goodness, so thank you, thank you so much. So, I had, you know, I've mentioned many times in the past that I belong to the Octoly network and I've been kind of burnt out on Octoly, I go on there, I don't see anything exciting, you know, every now and then I'll try for a product.   Baloney, they don't even know it exists really but I go on and I look and I was really super surprised when all of a sudden I saw some products from Neri and I have been buying products from the ordinary for quite a while and I was really thrilled when all of a sudden I could find the ordinary products in Alta which is, I have like so many altas near me, Alta is the easiest store for me to get to where Sephora is more online for me but, you know, in my work world I have altas near all of my offices that I visit and so anyway, so I saw that they had the ordinary products but they had was the Cicelic acid mask which I believe is sort of fairly new. So, I was looking at it and reading a couple of reviews and reading and thinking about the product and I have had for quite a while now sort of been really working on my pores on my nose. They really, I would say have a really old nose. It's big pores and many times it's congested. It doesn't seem to matter what I use for exfoliation. It doesn't seem to matter how I do my retina. The pores, you know, seem to always be an issue with me. So, I've tried many different things and I do use the ordinary niacinamide on my nose and I think that helps somewhat because I can tell a difference when I stop using the product, how bad my pores get and there's multiple different products that I use for exfoliation and all that and I also have glycolic acid that I buy from the ordinary and I've used the glycolic acid many times but I was really curious about the Cicelic acid and I know the mask is, at least from me, I've never tried it. I've never really seen it before. So, that's fairly new and I know that the Cicelic acid 2% solution is not new. So, I said, well, let me see if they'll accept me. So, I got both of these products complimentary from the ordinary via the Octyline Network so that I could take a look at them and kind of share my thoughts with you all and, you know, the ordinary. I mean, to me, it's like super affordable and they have a huge line and sometimes it can be confusing, I know, to think about the layering aspect of it, it is for me anyways, but they have products for everybody and I sometimes think that at least me, you know, we kind of chase the latest and greatest at times when we think, oh my gosh, this is gonna really be awesome. But the ordinary has been one of those lines that has really never let me down. They're affordable, they're there, you know, they're easy to get and more, you know, they're good products. You know, so I ordered this, I have only used the Mask twice and I've used it at night and not on my Retin-A night. So, you have to kind of like think about your products as to what you use with other products. Now, maybe this will be perfectly fine on a Retin-A night, I really don't know. I need to figure that out. But I'll do, after I wash and do all my skincare, not my skincare, after I wash and dry my skin, I put this on and the interesting thing about it is that it comes out brown. So, you can see it, right, it's like this big brown. So, and you do have to, I will say, you do have to squeeze this to get it out. But, and then I put a very little bit on my nose and then I went up into my, you know, my forehead area, a little bit more on my chin. I avoided anything around my eyes or anything of that nature and my cheeks. I really didn't feel like, I don't really have a lot of, you know, congested tape pores there. So, I put that on and they say do a patch test, which I did a patch test and didn't have any kind of reaction.  Did I see in the short time I've used it a shrinking of my pores? No, but I did feel my pores looked cleaner. So, I do think that it helped clean or, you know, or what's the nice word for getting some of the congestion out. I still have pores. So, I did think that my pores looked clean and so I like that. So, I'm gonna keep using it and I will definitely report back, but if this actually does work on my pores, I'm gonna be dancing a jig because my pores have been like an issue. And again, like I said, I've used lots of different products geared to that and I always have congested pores no matter how clean my skin is, no matter how I exfoliate. My pores just seem to be congested. My nose is also the area of my face that is the most oiliest. So, also sent to me was the ordinary, this one I mentioned, the solution. This is the drop. So, I have not used this yet, yet. I just got these about a week ago. So, this one I have not tackled yet, but this one I have because I thought this would be a greater thing. So, I'm gonna figure out my layering on these two and I'll let you know how I use them. I'll definitely report back. Again, those were sent to me complimentary from the Octoly Network. And like I said, I have a ton of ordinary products. I have their buffet. You can see I have my little bee on here. I have their, this is their niacinamide. My N is disappearing because I have to label them like that. And then this is my buffet with copper peptides, which I really like. And then I have marula oil, which I've used for a long time. It's getting low. So, I do have and squalene oil. I do have a lot of ordinary products. So, I was super thrilled to see that Octoly was carrying some of them. And of course, I love the fact that I could get them at Ulta, which makes it super easy. So, I'll report back on that. Another thing I did this week, I ended up buying the Maybelline, the Ulta Lip Crayons a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to see, they say this stays on. It's like a stain on your lips. I wanted to see if I could make it work for eight hours. I'm really fussy on my lip colors. As some of you know, I don't like anything too dark. So, my favorite colors that I buy, some of them are Maybelline, Revlon. You know, I'm not fussy on brands and some of them I get online as well. But I just wanted to be able to go into the drug store and buy something that, if I'm out running low or I see a color. And I was intrigued by the eight hour claim, which I bought these two. I will list the colors that I bought. And this one I can wear, the lighter one is more orange on my lips, which is more, it's supposed to be more of a nude color, but on mine, it is orange. I can't see it too, I can't, yeah, mine is orange. I'll list the colors below. And the other one is what I have on right now, but I have it on and I also have a gloss on top of it. I feel it's on the darker side of my comfort zone. So, when I wore this the first time, I thought both of these were too dark, I didn't like them. But I wore them without anything on it. I wanted to see if I could, if these could hold up for eight hours. On me, they lasted about, I think two hours max. And then I had to reapply. So my lips must be freaky lips because pretty shades turn orange on me and look horrible and nothing lasts on me. I have to just reapply, reapply. So I'm not gonna fall for the eight hour or seven hour or 24 hour claims because nothing ever lasts. But of course, before I did, I went into L'Oreal and I also looked at one of their lip stains, L'Oreal. And this one is called Outstanding. And I thought, this looks like it might be the right color. Well, oh my gosh. On me, I'll put this on here. It may not look bad on my hand, but it did not look good on my lips. I was so, so bummed. And I'm gonna take this pretty one that I have on right now and put it on top. So this one is the Maybelline. This one is the L'Oreal. Now I'm gonna take the Maybelline one that turned to orange on me and show you. I was really disappointed. It was really, I should have seen that this peachy color would be orange on me and it was. So I was really disappointed in the color payoff, but even though I had a good chuckle because I knew I really wasn't gonna fall for that darn eight hour claim, I did have a good chuckle on that. So anyways, I have an itch to find, like I said, a dread store lipstick that I can just walk in that might last a little bit longer. And I have, I really like the lip crayon idea is because if you don't have a liner, you can, you have more of a fine point on them. You can line your lips if you want. Half the time I line my lips with my eye shadow. So, you know, I'll put on my eye shadow very thin. I'll sort of, I contour my lips, I guess, is what I call it, I contour it. And most of the time when I contour, some people, when they contour their lips, which is a completely different thought process than lip lining, I guess. Sometimes they will actually put lip liners on top of the contour. I usually don't, I just do the contour and then I do whatever lip that I have. So my contour is my Vizia palette. The lightest purple is what my contour is. And then my lip is the Maybelline, the one in the middle, that's what have on my lips. So I'm gonna keep going on a hunt for that. I don't know, I probably won't find the perfect color, at least not with my lips.  And I do do that, but it doesn't really stop something from turning orange on me. We all have different skin, we all have different lips. My lips are wacky, doodle, I guess. So anyways, Mother's Day last week, I uploaded a video on Mother's Day and we were heading out to go see my mother. I hardly took any pictures. I did take a picture of my son and my mother on her doorstep, so I'll superimpose that here.  My sister's daughters, none of them could make it because they had sickness issues as well. So it was low-key, we all brought food, Mom didn't have to do anything.  So we had everything, including drinks, we brought our own tonics. So Mom didn't have to do anything. We all brought her plants and flowers and stuff like that. But I just wanted to be with her on Mother's Day. So it was a lovely, lovely afternoon, absolutely lovely afternoon, really loved it. During the week, it was just super crazy week for me. I ended up moving my office, my physical office. I drive about 35 minutes to work when I go to one of the offices the corporate office always worked out of. And I've moved it to the Exeter office, which is about 20 minutes. Exeter, New Hampshire, I really like that area. I know I've shared different parts of Exeter because often I have worked out of the Exeter location. However, now I'm moving my office so everything I need will be in the Exeter location. So if I'm not working from home, I'll work from Exeter. It does mean when I stop on my Mother's after work that I have to go a little extra because that's not on the way, where from London area I could just stop on my way in Salem and then go home. But I moved the office locations. That was, I think everyone should really move as a real estate agent. I always say that everyone should move because when you start to look at where you accumulate when you're moving, you realize how much you clutter up and have. So anyways, did that during the week. I still haven't set up fully. My stuff is all there in Exeter. I'm waiting for the person who is in half of that office to vacate the stuff, the side that he does not use. Anyways, that's what I'm doing. I have, we have been working on a project here at home. My father had his machine shop. We live in a really small home but we have a big barn attached to our house. And my father had his machine shop out there since 1974. So my dad, I think retired in 2000. Four, something like that. And my dad, very static German man, very kindhearted but very firm and was a not a man that would want to waste money. So someone who has a real habit of not wanting to waste money saves everything because you know you're gonna use it again, right? Anyways, my dad, when he retired literally, and a lot of people say, I can't understand how he did this, but when he ended up retiring, he literally walked out of his shop, which is my barn and only came back to visit us. And every time he came back to visit us, he would go out in the shop. He's, oh, I would get to tackle all this stuff. And you know, this and that, but it never happened. I love my dad, God bless him, rest his soul and all that. I know he's with me every day of my life over, he's probably having a good chuckle of what we're doing. But when my dad retired, Jay and I did not want to touch the barn because we just didn't want to go out there and get rid of stuff, do stuff because it was my dad. But after my dad passed away, we slowly started to chuckle and it was astronomical.  He had old bridge ports. He had old comparison machines. He had boxes and boxes of steel and metal and all sorts and drill bits and drill bits and drill bits and boxes and boxes of machine shop books. All sorts of stuff. It was like, it's like, it still is overwhelming to us. So anyways, we started, we had someone give us an estimate to help clean out and then we tried to get rid of the one big glass machine and we had some guy from another part of New Hampshire and we offered it for free just to get rid of it. So we had a guy from another part of New Hampshire actually show up and take it out. We were amazed. It was him and his wife came and it was big, heavy. I think it was like 800 pounds and they were able to take it out. Anyways, he came and he got a lot of the other stuff. Granted, he made money. He had the time, he filled up his truck, he sorted it. He made some money and I'm thrilled he made some money because he saved us money because we got all sorts of quotes to get rid of it all that we would have had to pay. So long story short, yesterday, today is Sunday. You'll see this tonight, Sunday morning.  Well, there was this shelf way in the back and it was this box. It was like height of my hands right now and I'm five, six. So it was fairly high up off but it was way in the back, it was a hard place to get it. So I pulled it out to the edge and I figured it was empty. It was a funky box. Well, I picked it up and moved back and the bottom came out and inside conservative estimate was about 50 pounds. It might have been up to 70. We didn't weigh it but based on what we thought was a hunk, a big solid block of steel and it just crashed down on my foot and I thankfully had sneakers on and I remember saying, oh my gosh, I think I broke my, I couldn't, I bent down, I couldn't even lift it off of me. Jay came running and I mean the position I was in and where it was was hard to get at but Jay came running and he got it off, made couldn't believe it, went in the house and you know, nothing, I don't think anything is broken. I can wiggle all my toes but I spent the rest of yesterday afternoon elevating with ice. I like one of those blue wraps that you put ice inside of it and I had it on my foot and I elevated and oh my gosh, it was so painful but I think it was just badly bruised. I can walk, I'm standing right now although I'm starting to feel it from standing this long but it didn't break it and I just was like, oh gosh, what else is gonna happen? So I had planned initially this morning because Jay was golfing, I had planned initially I was gonna get on my bike and go for a nice long bike ride and take pictures and then come back and put this together and share my bike ride with you, mm-mm, didn't happen. So instead I'm sharing, ordinary and my lipstick fails, which, you know, what can I say, at least I tried. So other than that, everything is status quo here. Let me know what type of videos you think you might like if you don't mind these chatty videos, combination, vlogging. I just don't always wanna stand here. I'd rather be out and about and show you stuff like that although right now with my foot, not gonna happen. So anyways, thank you all so much for watching. Leave me a comment below. I hope you all had a wonderful week and I hope you all have a wonderful week to come and I'll see you in my next video. Bye guys.


It is the 12th of April 1991 and an oil tanker is being towed since the day before she had been on fire. Crude oil was flowing into the sea and in a bid to try and reduce the environmental impact, the stricken vessel has been dragged closer to the Italian coastline. The vast vessel now starts to disappear beneath the waves, the effort has been wasted. The disaster would become one of the worst environmental accidents in Italian history and cause the largest shipwreck in European waters. Today we are going to be having a look at the empty haven. My name is John and welcome to Plainly Difficult. The ship. So our story will begin with the launching of a new ship, but not in Italy in the early 1990s where she would eventually find her watery grave but in Spain in the early 1970s. A new very large crude oil carrier is being built by Astilleros Españoles SA in Cadiz Spain. The new vessel was launched on the 20th January 1973 taking the name Amoco Milford Haven. She was a crude oil carrier and in her early years was pressed into service transporting oil from the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world. The ship was an absolute unit at 334 metres or 1069 feet long with a beam of 51 metres or 167 feet and a gross weight tonnage of 230,000 tonnes. This gave her the classification of a very large crude oil class tanker. As a side note her sister ship Amoco Cadiz would sink in the late 1970s causing one of the worst oil spills of its type in history, leaking 256.2 million litres of oil into the English Channel. Maybe this will have to be a subject for a future video. Anywho's back to the Haven. She was operated by Amoco, an American chemical and oil company and as I said earlier she transported oil from the Middle East. This part of the world during the 1970s would become a little bit tense as Iran and Iraq were involved in a few disagreements which would lead to a very big unfriendliness called the Iran-Iraq War which ran between 1980 and 1988. What's the point of all of this I hear you asking, well the Amoco Milford Haven would unwillingly get dragged into the war. The Persian Gulf had become a bit of a battlefield in the 1980s and both sides would target all tankers in an effort to screw each other's economy. During this period the Haven would be hit in the late 1980s by an exocet missile. Needless to say this caused damage to the ship and she was required to be sent to Singapore for refitting and repairing and after which she was sold off to a broker. Now under the new ownership the Amoco Milford Haven would get the new name, the MT Haven or Motetanker Haven. She would work a route between the Mediterranean and Iran's Kargh Island, the country's main oil terminal. The terminal, like the MT Haven, had received damage during the Iran-Iraq War and as a side note in the 1960s it was the world's largest offshore oil terminal. The MT Haven was operated by the Trudos Company owned by Locus Haji Lianobi and his son Stelius. Who would later go on to set up EasyJet? So the MT Haven carried on working the oil routes or would be good, I suppose, until a day in April 1991, a disaster. So it is the 11th of April 1991 and the MT Haven is at the Maltido floating platform, roughly around 6 miles off the coast of Genoa, Italy. The plan is to offload her 144,000 tons, roughly 1 million barrels of oil. The process involves connecting and disconnecting from the platform. This was to allow the oil to be pumped around her various storage tanks. You see oil tankers aren't just one big tank, but several smaller ones, as it helps with ballasting the ship to make it all level and happy. It also helps in the case of a collision, in theory, in stopping all of the ship's contents being released into the ocean. The first 80,000 tons of oil was transferred safely. Next came disconnecting from the platform to pump the oil from the MT Haven side tanks into her centre tanks. Not long after the pumping began at roughly 12.30pm, a loud metal rattling could be heard. The ship's crew were baffled by this, but not for long. An explosion ripped out of the MT Haven's front section, killing six of her crew immediately. The explosion was caused apparently by a spark during the ship's tank cleaning process as part of the oil transfer. Flames erupted 100 metres into the air and enveloped the ship. Her hull, now damaged, began leaking oil out into the sea. Multiple rescue boats were dispatched to try and save crew members stuck aboard the tanker. Whilst this was happening, strong winds pushed the flames along the ship towards the stern. Fire crews were dispatched to the disaster scene and began frantically trying to put out the inferno. It proved to be a bit of an impossible task as the MT Haven began groaning under the heat as some of her hull plates melted. More explosions rang out from the Haven, breaking off parts of her bow.  A plan was hatched to try and get a better hold of the situation. Due to the distance from the shore, firefighting was less than ideal. As such, it was decided to drag the MT Haven closer to the Italian coast. The next day, a tugboat was attached to the MT Haven and the blazing ship was pulled towards Aranzano. It now had a horrendously weakened structure and, unsurprisingly, after a bit of tugging, she would begin to break up. A section of the vessel broke off sinking in roughly 480 metres of water, but that wouldn't be the end of the break-up and sinking. At around 10am on the 14th of April, the stern sank, plunging 80 metres below the water level. As the final part of the MT Haven sank, the fire was finally extinguished after 70 hours of burning. It is thought that up to 50,000 tonnes of crude oil had been released into the sea, with the remaining of the Haven's cargo going up in flames. The disaster was an environmental nightmare affecting over 25 miles of coastline. Once she had came to rest, the MT Haven was now Europe's largest shipwreck. Over the coming months, oil seepage would be plugged by divers and submersibles. Years would pass by and the wreck would become a tourist attraction for divers. But what of the disaster's immediate aftermath? The aftermath. Oil had contaminated the Italian and French coastlines with thicknesses of oil between 1 and 2 inches. This ended up costing millions of dollars in clean-up and remediation works. Reportedly, there was a 43% decrease in fish captures compared to the year before the disaster. So the operators of the ship would be brought before the Italian courts. The allegations were of negligence in maintenance of the MT Haven, as well as manslaughter. It was theorised that she probably should have been written off after the missile incident, but we'll never know for certain as the refurbishment in Singapore did certify the ship for work. Lucas and his son Stelios were charged but acquitted after three retrials, with the last taking place in 2002. Similarly, in a court case, the company was also let off. Obviously, Italian officials and the public weren't too happy with this outcome. In a bit of a tone-deaf statement after the final trial, Stelios was quoted, my main comment is to ask why it took so long to clear innocent people of these terrible charges. Of course, at the time that went down like a lead balloon. It turns out that April 1991 was a bit of a rubbish time for Italian disasters. As only a day before the MT Haven, the Moby Prince Fairy had collided with the Agit Abruzzo tanker off Leverno, which left 140 dead and also caused an oil spill of just over 2,000 tonnes. Now I think I'll probably have to cover this one in another video. What do you think? This is the Plain Difficult Production. All videos on the channel are creative, comments, attributes, and share alike licensed. 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Morning everyone. Well, I'm just after delivering a session there for Sasure, which is basically Save Rural Retail and it particularly focuses on how to do so within South Sligo, but the strategies that I discussed the morning could be applied to anywhere. So first thing I started off with was saying always beats intention and whatever it is that people took out of this morning session. I really invited them strongly to make sure that they were going to decide when action was taken and to move forward from there. So what I did was I first of all spoke about a sales strategy in line with a smart sales goal. So you're all familiar with what smart goals are, which are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. But what I spoke about is when you have a sales goal, it can be quite scary to say, well, you know, I'd like 20 new customers or 200 new customers or, you know, an uptick of 60% of conversion and so on like that. But you know what's actually a lot less scary is when you put a plan in place to get to that point. So I said to them this morning, if you know your conversion ratio, so let's say that I'm converting one out of three sales and let's say customers, well then I just need to get 60 new leads. And 60 new leads, while it's a bigger number, it's actually less scary because then there's room in there for leads to not convert. So that was the first, the first thing I started off this morning with was documenting your sales plan. And I use the term V-MOST, some of that business tool, which starts off with vision and mission, and then it finishes with strategy and tactics. And I said when you have your vision, which is your goal, then you can put your strategy in place and then start implementing your tactics. Now, the next thing I spoke about is selling your signature dessert. And the reason I talk about this is a lot of retailers are part of the experience economy. And the experience economy is where people buy goods and stuff. Not for them themselves, but for the experience of doing so. Very few of us go out for dinner because we're hungry. But we want to go out and we want to maybe have the experience of sitting down with our husband or with our family or with friends and so on like that. And I know obviously it's not the best time to be talking about that at the moment. But the key thing I'm making a point of is that Walt Disney said he never sold tickets to theme parks. He sold memories. So when you're part of the experience economy, it's very important then to make sure that you have your signature experience. So again, a restaurant might have a signature dessert or a certain tourist attraction might have an experience. I mentioned the Blarney Stone, for example, one that I grew up close by to. Ardell, my husband, of course, always says he thinks that I swallowed it, but I didn't. But from there, it's important to have your signature because that is what people will travel to either like physically or virtually. But also, that's what they want to have because they won't have it elsewhere. And if you are going to have a signature piece, make sure that it is among the most profitable things that you're offering as part of your business. And the key reason for that is that if you're going to put in marketing efforts, it's important to put them into the things that make the most difference. Bottom line. And of course, as many of you might know, I'm a big believer of the triple bottom line, which is affecting people, planet and profit. So make sure that that signature dessert or experience is one that gives you the most profit or close to it. Is also one that is most enjoyable for people. And of course, ultimately helps your business in general. Now, the next thing I spoke to them about then was capturing market research feedback. I have to say this year, 2010, 20 has been one that we in our business have become more digital anyway, but also more digital data focused than ever before. We now look at the analytics much more closely than we did before of all aspects of the touchpoints of our business. So I did make the point that I use the acronym listen in order to capture market research because it's so important to hear what your market is to say. So L is for let them have your full attention when you're talking to customers. So if you're at the tail at your physical shop or if you have a box at your shop online, ask people how they heard about you. Just simply heard, just to simply hear about how people have come across your offering. And also, of course, after that, make sure and take care of them. Another thing that I do all the time is that I listen to how people describe me or that I listen to how people describe the business that we're in. So I was listening this morning to how I was describing the introduction, or I will hear how people will introduce savvy teens. Or it's always interesting to hear how people perceive back searches or various other different things like that. I always do that. Always listen. And then the other thing is to make sure to investigate your customer's world is ask them questions about what's going on with their world. One of the things that came up today was just what will the economy be like next year? Well, you may be making your own. Your customers about what they feel. So how do they feel next year is going to be here? And of course, it's always good to ask positive questions to get positive answers like, what are you looking forward to next year? What are your hopes for next year? What are your opportunities? So talk to your customers and investigate the world. Stay open minded because our answer is different to yours. That's S. T is to think on your feet. Make sure when you're talking to customers and they tell you that they have a problem, think on your feet about how you can solve it. Maybe it's that you need to put in additional feature. Maybe it is that you need to add on another element to the offering. And ultimately, you will end up with a higher price point anyway. Maybe it is that you need to work with somebody else to solve a certain problem, whatever it might be. Think on your feet. E is for embrace opportunity. Go after it. Chase after it. Whatever. If your customer says, well, you know, what you're doing is good, but what I really want is this and you're in a way that you can deliver that. Go after it. Say, well, if I do it, could we make a deal now? And then the final thing is in nurture the relationship. It's very important as well to nurture the relationships that and then I also went on to ask them five questions. And I'm just going to focus here on one of them. And that is where are your sales coming from? Now, a lot of people say, well, myself or my sales staff. No, no, no, no. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is every time we issue an invoice, we document beside that where the sale came from. Was it a referral? Was it somebody found us on LinkedIn? Was it somebody came to visit the website? How did people find out about us? And that is one of the five questions that I ask people all the time when it comes to their marketing and sales strategy, because one, of course, interweaves with the other is, do you know where your sales are coming from right now? And are you taking care of those? So in addition, I gave them a range of resources where you can tap into the shop local trend. Google recently mentioned that the traffic, the search term, I just want to get the exact term for you. But as I'm doing that, I'm just going to tell you that the number is actually, yeah, I have it here. Google search for shop local Ireland is up 540%. That's a lot. So what I did is that I put together a range of resources with the team and Slego's help for how businesses could participate in this trend and be part of it. I included, for example, the hashtag journal request where a lot of journalists right now are trying to put together lists where people can put forward their own offering and then they can enable others to help them buy online and shop local. And then we also spoke about the various different networking opportunities that are out there. So I mentioned Awaken Hub and AIBN and Digital Irish and AIBN in Germany and a range of others. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to now move over to Twitter and I'm going to the store there with all of the resources that I mentioned. And also we'll put together a list of all of these on the blog as well. So one way or the other, wherever you go, you'll have this to hand. Best wishes everyone have a really, really great retail Christmas as you get ready for one of the busiest times of the year and engage and be part of that wonderful trend which is shop local Ireland. Bye.


I am thinking about the walls of Zion. I think of the walls as orthodoxy. The edges of Zion are the minimal foundations of our belief, our confession that Christ is Lord, or that the resurrection is literal, or that in the beginning God created. The side questions, like whether the creation was by six days of literal work or the miracle of theistic evolution, are not the point. The point is that God is Creator. The point is that stepping beyond that basic step, that wall, puts us beyond Zion.


It's pretty slimmer Yeah, for it again like always and there we go. Let's get started guys. How you guys doing welcome back to the stream this yesterday, but Yeah, again And I just tired it over that woke up about About 30 just in time to catch the move Great sort of come to the stream again my bad That's why even though I'm tired now. I'm still stream. I mean we go over it Wednesday and we also have go over Tuesday Tuesday was decent Swipe out clear out liquidity push up Even though double bottom Or taking out this high Remember we drew this here the tentative line just to save look. This is where retail will come in and This is where you probably want to have the sort of well roll short Just say okay, that's where we're gonna get suckers Then push these guys out How do we go and target the range on a Wednesday? Wednesday is usually where we reverse things Anyhow, so we had a nice little reversal for week push back up now a consulting up here and sort of timing potentially This Good back down that out again all depends on The balance I mean a quick glance at this cursory again You can see where people end up going short and break out here When it ends up taking place and ends up sort of being functional You See the Yeah, they'll be around here But either all you can see when it breaks that line in the first place ends up See that explosion of longs as your stops get here your breakouts traders come in and they just say okay I'm comfortable here. Let me let me slide in and That's when they get punished Same story here. You can see when we're so coming up with science get heavy longs and instantly he is Okay shorts coming through And there's your sign that slowly slowly sort of Go up after that again. These are wiped down push up Grabbed a few more longs now. So very heavy on the longs here, which is what we want it to be Ideally if we're looking for this to go down Again, we want to start tapering expectations be very bearish on That on these last couple of days just because We have we have things do And not enough time to sort of do them. I mean now we're Monday over and you can see Monday opening here So we got to come at least Here if you want to have a chance of falling within line of saying, okay closing bearish Random and same thing with spy again, you can see we're all the way here It's all open green already on like a very bearish week scale and just sort of now we've got a lot to ride on in terms of How much we're falling and I mean we've got at least come back all the way down here. She has to have a red clothes and we don't care too much if it's a Miniskill red clothes just so Have the expectations of the sort of Trying to make that fit that narrative again. We're not forcing it. We're just saying, okay Is it still possible and with the scenarios of they now mean? But they are coming through right now. See how there's Charts Too much and the more important thing is so tomorrow coming the fifth house speech here 11 that's sort of where you're sort of putting Everything aside and saying, okay, here's where was truly sort of moving either left or right right here, but Here's when we're sort of truly moving sort of minds and stuff like that So we want to sort of sell for that and then really way we can set up for that is by stacking long. So it does Don't make sense That That downloads is still a scenario that we can sort of take out to and it's something that's sort of very easy to Something that's very easy to of take advantage of Now that we especially have All these longs here. I mean make sure shorts are coming through but all these longs here Got swiped out here again They're back again around here. I've got some shorts again. We've got to clear these guys out. She's got to build up to that So I meant to sort of point that we make sort of a rise that again Loading leading ourselves upwards to then sort of decline down Those are nice old story It's just because it stopped out the sort of weekly range doesn't mean this sort of done With the bottom bottom half the charts Now it's done it's all per person Identifying where retail end up being in same story for sort of Guys you can see that sort of great. You don't have too much volume here Dugging volume on the on the second string here off these shorts. So I'll get punished out Again, it's just like the tired old story where it only works when people are not really looking at it You can see where pin last time Yeah There's when people started buying to it. They started I mean just like open the prayer that they potentially have Lots disappearing and it goes back down And now we're sort of finding ourselves at this little daily resistance. So hopefully you can Stop pushing ourselves off of this and just try and find some semblance of a downward sort of spiral here Just to wrap up the week and again, it's just sort of be a neat bow that we create for ourselves that Okay, last week clothes red this week clothes reds Next week Green green green tailing Smooth sailing If you sort of flip again on the large time frame daily rather I See where we can catch so out and sort of say This is one This nice and easy sort of cash again channels Think it's great here. You can see every time it comes came out and we got the volume behind it Just sort of ran under and doing that here as well. So This is there probably a more interesting I mean, it's not really so too much as you can see here. It's just like That's a lot easier As you can see this is what essentially all the retail will have coming out of this again That's a very shallow break on the day here Already a bunch of solitude see that would have came through and again this one here would be a larger point here Just all coming out as soon as we get this So just say yep Love suckers here We can sell nice and so that'll be there for us, you know Bodies see if that changes a bit again change that slightly and we want to account for Both sort of scenarios here. I just sort of just has a nice little side. Just say, okay Here's where we're gonna get some traps is good. This is where we can get the rest of the traps here and Move from there. Yeah, as you can see is where we are Open ourselves out to again Where volume starts coming through again starts up here back down Again, just Decimate itself on the way down again a very easy sort of play here to watch So we only expect some of us basically the same thing Not even at less extent that same as all then we're just Down again power off sort of how should never be underestimated just Just as a sweet aside because he is You can move the market So what ends up happening Time to move Move today. I mean, it should be very simple again with stacking up short was all building it down Building it down before anything. So it should be just a review of why I went up happening Yes, so you can see when we fell out the range here quite a nice outside warm. We had these shorts get pushed Then as soon as these shorts get into that being comfortable We then push it out and again on each high shorts just coming through and through just sort of allow for that Constant sort of high. So you're looking for that same thing to sort of occur today We're probably gonna push down a bit not really take out too many long Take out a decent amount of lungs or not the entire sort of stock Because we're trying to collect these lungs Once we collect these lungs on the high side is then we can sort of look to potentially tomorrow being that bearish point there for us Again, that's good. So great Sort of two fold where it does so swipe down Sort of get you get you out here. It does come back here then pushes down then Again, you got so perfect prepare for like multiple outcomes and Of constantly for reassess, but the task but again Should be the same thing over and over again if you go low before open you're gonna go high to go high You're gonna go low does that What's up the most important one you so want to carry on through is off in New York Here to be honest, it's not really so too much to add should be better to be simple day again things of this as Terms of just saying, okay Have a potential going to swipe into a double bottom up and that Not really so too much. I hate to cut it. It's all this early. I know it's all 15 minutes But I am expecting a man to come Whatever you want to call I need to sort of Same story you got these long capture tear in it's just sort of similar things We sort of have some have somebody we're here, but You know too much You want to look for this So repeat the same thing that we sort of see here again Really high up already on this with all pushing down Want to solve you want to solve it where it starts over cover a bit See if you trap yourself here Again, if it ends up stopping this and then they're going short we're going high initially See if it pushes a bit higher. It doesn't it just finds itself back down again Just trying to sort of opening open around here Just all close rather other week around here We really want for a completionary sake Again, if it stops fitting in your narrative after a while again, it was clearing this section out I was relatively easy. Let me sort of give up on that as a potential as As we don't want to constantly force Or something that may or may not be there Now nicely the legs out So it would be highly open low, but Just sort of consolidate into that easy into here push back now sort of finding some struggle around So this area here will collect a nice little volume Of long so definitely looking for this to sort of push yourself out Rapid sort of increase in We see here just as Off there very sort of quick snapping movement We're looking at this and we're just saying okay. We're collecting chores. We want to see if we just sort I'm in here and so just find ourselves either catching the top here then pushing down Or we just concede off Do this and up out here run out these guys here and push back down to the side for sororities, but still I don't know you can still be bearish for today As long as we sort of create this infection here very early And push up very early reach this By turn Again, you're on the first move Coming out of open to be the balls move Once you can grab that once you can sort of say that's where that is You can then push it Just say okay. It pushed everything out really early Grab out not really getting them coming back in here Getting getting out longs and then push this Back down and then be bearish for the day And we can set up tomorrow Much lower, but still have the lungs be set up tomorrow. So it doesn't have to be sort of a A point in where we're just Be building a fire then the fire Sends up being we ended up not closing what we wanted just because we ended up being more violent because we have to Reach further sort of ground And they sort of keep you sort of level and and that's pretty much all my thoughts today are And like I said needed a house where So I'll catch you guys tomorrow A lot more energy Should be an interesting A couple of days especially tomorrow being Being that fed power speech once we can grab that and then sort of Look for next week's Wednesday as as your sort of a nice little diva into That because we got the FMC minutes All right. Thank you guys so much for coming again Thank you Being so tired and lethargic But you guys should know What to trade say, I mean and sort of biases and what to look out for Uh, it does look like they probably might create either create that infection very early, uh, which being now Such a begin what just watch out for that again treat the first move as a hostile And just try to sort of fade against that for the most part Uh, if we're getting that double top and then definitely push push everything out the market And he sort of fits in because uh spies already Observedly


grassroots organizer and activist from Vancouver. She's a founding member of the Aboriginal Action Network. She's also a collective member of Great Berlin and a terrific Aboriginal activist. So we'd like to hear from Laura Holland. Please give her a warm welcome. My name is Alun Aya. I'm from the Luxulian clan of the Watzilothan Nation. I, too, am a visitor on Coast Salish territory, and I would like to thank the Coast Salish for allowing us to be on their territory, to live, to work, to raise our families, and to gather here today to stop war. People here today, people with good hearts and good minds, and people who want to stop war. It takes a lot of courage for you to be here today to tell the impressive state that you will not tolerate war anymore. You deserve recognition for that. Give yourselves a big hand! First Nation people, all accruement of First Nations is. I'm also here to speak to you because there's a war going on in your own backyard here today. The Indian wars have not stopped against the Aboriginals in Canada. The occupation in Canada is a reality. Racism, patriarchy and sexism, the government's Department of Indian Affairs has been used as a weapon to control Aboriginal peoples, and it guarantees our oppression. The Canadian government, there is still a fight for Native women and their children to be counted and recognized as First Nations, and be given Indian status. The denial and outright refusal of Indian status is another way of blocking 200,000 First Nations people access to control of lands and resources. It maintains our impoverishment, forces men, women and families to rely on the state. It forces women to stay in violent marriages, or die in violent marriages and has not been dressed in matrimonial property rights for women on reserves. It forces destitute women and children into prostitution and other crimes against the state. This is where we are often criminalized and demoralized. Some of us have not forgotten the slaughter of Indigenous peoples in North America, the reserve system, 19,000 survivors of residential schools, unsolved murders of First Nations people, 500 missing Aboriginal women, the missing women from the downtown Eastside, and the Highway of Tears.  Our position is essentially that actions and attitudes, mainly patriarchal, racism and sexism, are expressions of domination that are all connected because they are rooted in a false, hierarchical world view that destroys community and equality to women and children and all who are Indigenous to war-torn countries. Racism, patriarchy and sexism desensitize us and legitimizes the killing of innocent people and the destruction of Indigenous governments and ways of life. The results for women and children are being trafficked for work or prostitution, displacement and forced migration, poverty and many other forms of violence including deprivation of Native rights, human rights and even food and water. It also includes imprisonment of our men who are activists and are accused of being insurgents. As a feminist in the women's movement, I oppose patriarchy, racism and sexism. I am non-violent peacemaking solutions, veterans as elders, yet we are critical of the state's treatment of them and attitude towards them. Historically, when our originals went to war, they were forced to give up what little rights they had under the Indian Act. And when they were forced to give up their Indian status it meant the whole family lost their rights. When they returned, these rights were not reinstated and they did not enjoy the same rights, pensions and respect as non-native veterans. In fact, First Nation veterans once again had to fight here in their homeland to at least be recognized as veterans. With one hand, the state keeps us oppressed and with the other hand attempts to recruit our children. Our culture is exploited and romanticized with programs such as Bullnagle to glorify recruitment. It promises youth as young as 60 years of age, training, accommodation, paid travel expenses to Wade Wright Alberta and payment. I think we've heard this before. It's for our own good. It sounds like residential skill to me. This time our youth are promised culture and tradition and the way of visiting a family at a pow-wow. Are these extravagant promises or are they bait? Is it bait for those of us with the least power and privilege and those of us who are the most oppressed? Recruitment of our children will not liberate us from the discriminatory laws that keep us impoverished. Recruitment will not guarantee a life without racism and sexism. Does not give us hope for employment, trading, equality without having to promise to fight a war, to kill other indigenous people or to die. We demand an end to targeted recruitment of First Nations youth or to insist on nonviolent peacemaking solutions and you can all demand an end to the Indian wars here in Canada by insisting on fair sharing of resources and speedy settlement of land claims. They have the power to speak up. You can tell this government that reconciliation with Aboriginal people is not enough. You can demand redress to right the wrongs that have been done to the Aboriginals in the Indian Holocaust. In closing, I want to say let's bring those troops home. Let's bring those troops home to a Canada that we can all be proud of, a Canada that treats all of its citizens with respect, humanity and dignity. Thank you.


Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the session on to BC201 Christian History Emissions. Then before we could begin with our session, can I request one of the leaders in prayer? Paul, would you like to pray? Yes, let's humble ourselves and pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we worship you, we adore you, and we lift your name so high. We thank you for yet another day that you are going to listen to your word. Father, as we listen to your word, let your word bear fruit in us. Give us wisdom to understand what is going to be taught. We pray that let your Holy Spirit come and guide us. We pray also, let our network be stable. We pray and declare all this in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Paul, for leading us into a time of prayer. So as per last week's schedule, let's let me share the presentation so we will know whose turn it is for today. Give me a minute, please while I share the presentation. Yeah, we go. Okay, so lastly we completed with John Ox and today we can start with John Elliot. John Paul, are you ready? Yes. Okay, so you can, I'll stop presenting. You can share your presentation if you have prepared one. Yes. You have a presentation? Yes. I hope you can see the screen. Yes. Yes, it's clear. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so good morning, everyone. Good to see all of you. So this morning we will talk a little bit about one of the famous missionaries in the 17th century. That is John Elliot. So John Elliot was instrumental in a lot of publication work with regard to the Bible. And this is in the 17th century, which where it started the Puritan movement, where it talks mostly about purity in Christian circle. And this is the way when the Lord continued to change the attitude and started revival among the Christians, among the believers. And one of the movements which really challenged the movement was Puritan movement where it talked more about sanctification and purity from the traditional monarchial way of Christian life. Because over the course of time when all the, what do you say, misbelieves started coming in Christian church and God had started his way to refine the church and make the bride that he wants. So this 17th century, this season was the season of Puritan movement and John Elliot was a Puritan missionary. Alright, so I'll just walk you through the slides and how we try to understand his way of ministering. Okay, so we'll just see that through this small presentation. So he was mainly ministering to American Indians. Basically he was from England. He was born in Headfordshire in England in 1604. But after his graduation in 1622, he graduated from Cambridge and after that he migrated to Boston in 1631. So he was the first missionary to produce printed publications. So till that time, everything was communicated in verbally, vocally. So he was instrumental in sharing printed publication and he took a foot for that. So this happens in 1604, especially among American Indians. So he, some called him the Apostle to the Indians because he ministered throughout his life, he ministered to American Indians. So in 1631, he migrated to Boston. It's also known as Massachusetts Bay. He came there and he started working with a church. So here you can see a picture of the church which is right now. So this church is the first church of Roxbury. So he ministered there 40 years as a pastor, totally of 60 years. And from 1632, he was the pastor and teaching elder of this church. So along with pastoring this church, he also ministered to people across that region and especially to American Indians. So in the year 1640, he and his fellow ministers translated Sam's, the book of Sam's into what they call as Bay Sam book. And this is the picture of one of the prints that they had. So as I'm not sure if you could read it, so it is a little different from the English that we use, especially when you see the spelling of the word book, it is B-O-O-K-E and Sam's, P-S-A-L-M-E-S. So it's a little extra spelling here and there. So it's a traditional English of which they followed. So what they did was they sat and they translated Sam's and they call it as Bay Sam book. It's also available in certain museums. And it was given to British North American colonies and so that they could be encouraged in the word. So it was first printed in 1640. And after that, he was also instrumental in making a school because he wanted people to know about the literature and also he wanted people to know the word by reading and understanding. So he started school and even now it is present. It's called Roxbury Latin School and it is the oldest independent school in continuous existence in North America. So this is the present picture looks like from the last year of the Roxbury Latin School in near to 400 years now. And it is even thriving even now and it's a great impact that he could make to the society. So this happened in 1645. In 1646, he began preaching to Native Americans in their own language. So one of the main challenge what he had was the language because the message is that language was very challenging for him. He had to learn it. So he learned it with the help of an Indian there. And so he learned it. He tried to preach once in 1646 and it was a disaster. They said they could not take it. They could not understand anything. And after that he worked again so hard to learn the language so well and then he learned that in so well and he started translating that into their own language. So Massachusetts language is also a part of Algonquin language. So some of when you try to read about John earlier sometimes you see Algonquin language. I don't know how to pronounce it but I think it's like that. So he started translating it. He started getting that to people. And by 1674 he started he was able to create 14 towns with 4,000 believers. So I'll just show you a picture. So this is what a pictorial representation of a town looks like in the Massachusetts Bay Area. So what happened to us, he started ministering to people and many people came to know the Lord and so just to give a little bit more information there. So in 1646 when he gave the first preaching they all said it was not understandable. They were not able to get what he is trying to say but he went back and learned and he gave the next preaching, the next speech in the same year. And one person called Waban came to know the Lord and Waban helped John earlier to establish a community of believers. And this community of believers were known as praying Indians because his ministry was mostly among American Indians there. So once people started knowing the Lord they started a town, a small town there. So it kind of looks like this is a pictorial representation of how it looks whole. He started it by 46 and towards 51 they formed a town and the first one as you can see here is known as Natick. So by 1674 he was able to establish near to 14 such towns and with 4000 believers and a lot of people came to know the Lord, understand the literature by what his work was among his people. And he started translating the entire Bible and he was able to bring that out by 1663 and it is the first printed Bible in North America. So if you are able to read this part this is the name of the Bible which they had and this is the picture of the Bible which they did. So by 1661 he first translated the New Testament and as you can see the picture of it it looks something like this and also the Old Testament by 1663. So by 1663 he was able to translate the entire Bible to Massachusetts Bay language as we saw earlier. So by 1663 they were given with this publication in 75. So he continued to minister to people and in 1675 there was a great war among the colonies of Native American Indians and the Britishers and it was a huge issue and a lot of people were killed. And what happened to Eliot's work was most copies of Eliot's Bible were destroyed and it was so sad that they all burned it so that it was not available to people anymore because when you try to understand the history. So King Philip's war is caused by the overpowering of the Britain over the Native Indians. So because of the Puritan movement they all had a strong tension among the traditional Christian belief and the movement and it also affected the war in a very difficult way that all the Bible copies were, most of the copies were destroyed. But Eliot began again and he pushed himself so hard that that second edition of his Bible got published in 1685. So he did not stop at what the challenges that he had but he was able to continue to do it and about to publish and he was able to publish the second edition by 1685. Now Eliot died in 1690, aged 85 and his last words being welcome joy. So he was a man of faith, he was a man of passion. He continued to minister to people in different ways, mostly by translating and another important thing which we could learn from his life is he was instrumental in teaching people how to read so that they can understand from the word and he directed that society. That's all about John Eliot and thank you. Thank you. Thank you John for sharing in detail and you created a wonderful presentation to explain about John Eliot. Thank you so much. So the next person we have in the list is Zeli Thuli on George Fox and the Quakers. Zeli, are you ready? Yes, Buster. Do you have a presentation? Yes, I tried to prepare PPT like my laptop is not working properly but I tried to do something new which I've never done. I tried to do it over my phone and like it may be very slow because this is the first time I will be doing but I'll try my best. Sure, sure. Don't worry. We can. Okay. Let me start it. Yes. Okay. So are you all able to see the slides? Yes, we can see it's clear. Okay. I'm going to talk about George Fox and the Quakers. George Fox. He was born in July 1624 in Drayton in the plain of Drayton. He was a 17th century English preacher. He was a missionary and also the founder of the Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers of Friends Church. His parents were Christopher Fox and Mary Lego. He died in 13 January 1691 in London, England. His father, like his father's name was Margaret Bell Fox. He published books on women speaking just to fight 1667 and journals in 1694. One of his famous books I really like is this one. These things I do not see by the help of men nor by the letter but I saw them in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Okay, so he was, you know, like from early childhood he has a religious disposition and, you know, he was saddened and confused by the careless world conduct of the professed Christianity. So he left home and he traveled to London with several clergymen to seek inner peace, but he was unsuccessful. So he wrestled in the presence of God and he experienced the light of God within him eventually. And in 1647 he started preaching boldly to the people to ignore the ritualistic tradition of the Church and to be converted with the power of the Holy Spirit, which according to him was the qualification for the ministry rather than the ecclesiastical study. So here in the picture we see him preaching. Okay, so like as he started to preach boldly, you know, he was not welcomed by all and, you know, like he was thrown out of the church. He was repeatedly beaten and he was imprisoned several times. And so here in the picture we see one of the Quakers, you know, being persecuted, you know. And as the number of people increased, you know, like people being converted through his preaching, the more the persecution intensified. And he also went through a lot of missionary journey. He traveled extensively to Europe, West Indies, and then America preaching the word of God. George Fox final years, like, you know, he spent his final decade working in London to organize the Quaker movement. Exerting the Christian through his writing, you know, like George Fox Journal and the book of miracles are filled with accounts of miraculous healing and other charismatic gifts. And his famous convert was Willem Penn, who incorporated Quaker, it takes into the fund in the colony of Pennsylvania in America. Here we see a picture of Willem Penn here. And the Quaker movement became one of the fastest growing movement in the Western world. And by 1656, Fox has at least 56 SSHs who were traveling preachers. And by 1660, the movement could boost of 40,000 to 60,000 at your hands. So I just want to share a little bit about who are the Quakers and what they believe, you know. The Quakers are a member of the religious group Society of Friends. The members are found throughout the world. They are varieties of group with varieties of belief, but a common set of belief may be attributed to the group as a whole. These are their belief, you know, the first point is the belief in encountering God directly and personally, and also like they believe in cultivating spiritual life in the context of the community. And the third point is like discerning God's will through the Bible and through other members of community. And the fourth point is living by faith according to the expression, let your life speak. So the Quakers, they are best known for their belief in the spiritual equality of all the people. This belief translates into a practice that allow women as a greater role in the church organization, function and worship. They are also known for their simple dress and opposition to social justice. Yeah, so that's my presentation. Thank you all. Thank you, Salli. Everything went well. You explained well and you presented well. Thank you so much and God bless. Yeah, so next person in the list was Enoch on Jonathan Edwards. Do we have Enoch in the class? Okay, Enoch is not there. Okay, we'll move on to the next person, George Whitefield by Subashish. Subashish, are you ready with your presentation? Yes, great. If you have a PPT, can you please present it and you can start. Sure, thank you. Share your comments on the presentation of John Paul and Zellitholi. Let's give them a hand of praise. They've really researched on a person assigned to them and they presented it well. They covered most of the points from each person. Thank you, John. Thank you, Zellie. Good morning and praise the Lord to everyone. Can you all see my PPT? Yes, it's clear. Thank you. George Whitefield actually won on 27 December, 1714 and went to be with the Lord on 30 September, 1770. Only 56 years actually he lived but he did amazing things and he was a friend of Wesley's and he was a gifted preacher and also a powerful communicator. Although he was an ordinary Anglican clergyman, he was not denominationalist. In his school and college days, Whitefield experienced a strong spiritual awakening that he called a new birth according to John 3. He believed that every true religious person needs to experience a rebirth in Jesus. At Oxford, he became an intimate of the Methodist John and Charles Wesley and at their invitation he joined them in their missionary work in the colony of Georgia in 1738. In 1739, he arrived in America and what actually he did and what made us amazed that wherever he went, some people closed their doors, farmers lived their plows and workers threw down their tools to hurry to the place where he was to preach. And if it is happening these days, then definitely we will be amazed and that happened in 1739 through George. Another amazing thing happened when the population of Boston was estimated at 25,000, Whitefield bridge to 30,000 on Boston Common. Maybe we can think about our city. If we are preaching, if our city population is 1 lakh, if people are hearing 1,50,000 or more than that, then how actually it will look like. And science and wonders accompanied Whitefield's preaching. Whitefield is said to have preached 3,000 sermons on the same scripture passage of John 3. Only one passage, John 3.3, and he preached 3,000 sermons. Last slide. Maybe we can question ourselves. Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them. It really motivated my heart that if many times we say our church is sleeping, our congregations are not growing in Christ, then we are leaders. We are pastors. We can think how actually we are preaching.  So thank you so much. Thank you, Subashish. Thank you for the presentation on George Whitefield. Thank you. Class, give your feedback about Subashish's presentation and give him a applause on the presentation that he presented. With that, we will move on to the next person, Lyndon. Lyndon, are you ready with your presentation on the Methodist Revival in England and John Wesley? Lyndon, I see that your hand has been raised. Okay, you're asking for a minute. Okay, sure, you can figure out in that time. The next person on David Bryan Admissionary to the North American Indians by Abu Bakr, are you ready? Abu Bakr is not in the class for today. Do we have Elisha? Okay. Aradhana? Okay. Okay, so we'll wait for Lyndon to fix his mic and log in again because none of the others have not logged in maybe for some reasons. Okay, is there anyone in the class who would like to add to what we heard about? Like, you know, about the person, John Elliott, the John Shat? Like, is there anything from the class that you would like to add on about John Elliott who was a missionary to the Native North American Indians? Anything that you have heard about him as ministry, as work that has impacted the world, you can add on it. I mean, we're just taking this time to share till Lyndon joins back and starts with this presentation. Or, you know, like, if not John Elliott or George Fox or whatever we have heard now in today's class about John Elliott, George Fox and the Quakers moment. Or on George Whitefield and all the three of them. Is there anyone in the class that you would like to share an additional information about these three people that you have heard or read about them? Anyone from the class? Okay. Or what was your learning from these three people that we heard the role from John's Elliott and Subashish? What was your take from these three people?  If there's anyone in the class that you would like to share, one or two points, it would be good. Yes. Yes. Can I share? Yes. Yes, Mr. Isaac, please go ahead. Thank you. I was just thinking about this and you asked. One of the things or two things that really is impacted on this presentation or the life of this performance is the resilience, their desire, their enthusiasm and the zeal that they got from every childhood. They've learned so much and dedicated their life, that sort of dedication. I think it's very, very necessary for us nowadays in ministry to be as committed to your cause. And I think it's like the work of God, of course, but acceptance and to carry on like they did some against so many odds is so impressive. Thank you, Ma. Thank you. Thank you. Lyndon, are you ready with your presentation? Aradna, are you ready with your presentation on Henry Martin, missionary in India and Persia? Just one more minute, ma'am. I'm not done with my presentation, honestly, because I had an Arctic week. I was just preparing it right now, but I could only manage the first sheet. I think I can go with explaining John Wesley and hopefully by end of the day, at least I hope so, that I will be able to finish the presentation and I will upload it in the classroom. Yeah, if that's okay with you. Sure, Lyndon. That should be okay. So you just put the first sheet, the presentation and you can go ahead. You're not sharing about John Wesley and his ministry. Give me one more minute, ma'am. I'll try to connect from the desktop. Okay. Aradna in the meanwhile, I would like to know if you're ready with your presentation. Okay. I will speak on Monday, sir. Okay. Okay. Okay, Aradna. Okay. Thank you, sir. Okay. So anyone in the class would like to share what impacted you from these three people on whom we discussed this morning. Anyone that impacted you or inspired you from the life of John Iliad, George Fox or George Whitefield. Anyone from the class? Yes. So I loved how John Iliad. I don't know whether John shared it, but I read on the internet yesterday about John and he had quite some things just to know about him. And he was known as Apostles of the Indians. They gave him a title like that and that was inspiring. And even actually he took a lot of steps just to get people these bibles. Even when I shared about William Tyndale, like how he translated, sometimes I wonder how hard these people have did many things. Actually, they have took a lot of risk, a lot of efforts. A lot of hard works just to get these bibles in our hands. Today we have, I think millions of translations, maybe like living translation, fashion translations. But to have one Bible in their own language, to have one Bible, they have literally learned the language and then they start writing it with their own hands and then they are giving it to print.  Like we put all the efforts and it gets burned due to some problems. But still I love how they have this spirit like, I'm not giving up, I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do it from the scratch. I'm going to do it with God. The importance of word, they are stressing it so much. Everyone we are learning about every mission and each and every one. How much importance they are giving towards it really inspires me. Because we have so many Bibles at home. I think sometimes we are like, we'll read later. We'll read when we have time. Sometimes we don't even read our Bible. Sometimes we get busy with the routine and something. But how important it is to go read it, get deep knowledge about it. Because it's a living word. And one more reason that I'm learning recently through all these missions is that they have given their whole life to translate it. So that's important. We should also have that burning desire with us. And they are really inspiring. I loved it. Never giving up spirit actually. No matter what happens. They are like, let's do it again with God. Let's do it again from the start on the scratch. Let's do it again. So yeah, we should have that spirit no matter what happens. Like I want to do this for God with God for His glory. So I'm really getting inspired and thanks for each and every one of my classmates who are sharing things. So amazing. Thank you. Thank you, Jofina. Thank you for sharing. Is there anyone else? Yes, Linda. You can. Okay. Please go ahead. Okay. Please let me know if you could see my screen. Yes, we can see the screen. Okay. I sincerely apologize. I had an ectic week so I could not complete the PPT as much as I would have thought. But anyways, good morning all. I'm Linda Philip Martin. So I prepared this presentation, at least a document for now about John Wesley and the topic given me was John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church. Okay. So throughout this subject, we've been talking about a lot of. A lot of preachers or a lot of revolutionists who had a zeal for God, for revival and to spread the gospel. And they share the same goal, which is to spread the gospel or they had a deep admiration of what people are going through. And if they are insane or bondage, now let the gospel be spread and let the good news be spread to them. And one such person who was no different from all the other theologians, if I can say so, was John Wesley. And talking about John Wesley, he lived almost the 17th century. He was born in year 1703 and lived until 1791. And John Wesley was brought up in a Christian family. So his parents were all into, you know, church ministry and I believe they were into Anglican background and they were all religious traditional Christians. No questions about it. And they were brought up in a way that, you know, they honoured God, they wanted to serve God in whatever capacity is possible. And John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley were also no different. And they served the God with the zeal and they were in active positions with the church they attended. And as they were brought up somewhere in the year 1725 or so, you know, John Wesley decides to not travel all the way to Georgia and the United States to share the gospel to the native Indians there. And for some reasons, you know, he could not succeed because, you know, the faith that they had, both John and Charles Wesley were quite different or so. In other words, it wasn't appreciated as much as John Wesley would have expected by the native Indians back in Georgia. So it was a failed missionary trip and they had to come back. And it wasn't a failure by all means because, you know, that made John Wesley to think and, you know, to wait upon the Lord and to have even more faith like what the Moravians did. Moravians, I guess it's another Christian denomination which was very active back in that time. And he got to read about the Martin Luther's documents and he waited on the Lord and somewhere, you know, at that particular time Charles Finney was active at the Oxford School and he was having a small prayer group and the few other young men were also actively participated who had the same steering in their heart to do something for Christ to spread the gospel, to wait upon the Lord and to, I mean, those were a spiritual group. And the difference between them and the rest of the Christians at that point in time was, you know, they had strict disciplines, they had strict regiments that they followed. That's one of the main reasons that group was called a Methodist because of their, you know, strict rules, doctrines and, you know, regiments that they followed very strictly. And at one point in time John Wesley was made the head of that group and they know people started mocking that group and they also called it a Holy Group or Holy Society, Holy Club. And I told you earlier that John Wesley was part of this Anglican Church but, you know, after the Georgia missionary field trip, you know, he began following the Moravian prayer or Moravian groups or the Moravian approach. And they met in a certain place called the Fetters Lane. There was this Fetter Lane Society which was established back in England by the Moravians.  And it's a normal or it's part of the culture there to have a fellowship dinner on the New Year Eve. And after which, you know, these young men are, you know, the people who are part of this Holy Club as they say so. So they continued to wait upon the Lord and because of the zeal they had, they wanted to, you know, wanted God to consecrate, give them more faith. And as they waited further in the presence of God, somewhere around 3 a.m. as they say so, that, you know, there was a mighty outpour of the Holy Spirit. And, you know, approximately there were 60 odd people in the Fetter Lane Society which was the number 33 Fetter Lane in London as they say it's historic, the name of that society and the street itself. Because, you know, people or the traditionalists believe that that's where the revival started. And very similar to what happened at the day of Pentecost where there were 120 odd people here in 1738, December 31st or the New Year 1731, 3 in the morning there was a mighty outpour of the Holy Spirit and people were, you know, rejoicing, you know, they were overjoyed by the presence of the Holy Spirit and it was a wonderful experience for them. And that particular experience changed the whole look of Christianity or evangelism from there on. So because it's been told that at that particular point in time back in England where every sixth house in the street was like a mini bar or something where, you know, people go out for cheap drinks and, you know, drugs and all those sort of things where when it was literally a criminal injustice happening and those were some of the reasons why John Wesley and Charles Wesley were very much focused about spreading the gospel. And I told earlier, you know, they went to Georgia and the missionary trip failed, not as much as they would have expected it, not go as much as they would have expected. However, it was not a complete failure. Why? Because after the revival, the so-called revival as we call it now, back in after 1739, John Wesley his brother and I think we are yet to hear about John Whitefield. I'm not sure, but you know, all these people of God, you know, these young men, they started evangelizing spreading the gospel from in the open fields, like wherever possible, wherever people gathered. And that was something new for, you know, the people back at that particular point in time and there were lots and lots of people being evangelized and, you know, they heard the good news and, you know, they were saved. And something peculiar about John Wesley was that it's not just about spreading the gospel. It's also about helping those in need, okay, and increase the faith, increase, you know, help the believers to grow in faith and, you know, to have authority over scriptures. I told earlier that, you know, John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the brothers were brought up in a Christian family and the parents also held eye positions in the church. And because of which they, you know, got to learn the Hebrew and Latin and that made them grow strong biblically, theologically, and alongside their missionary work where they happened to, you know, bestow on the fellow believers as well about what, you know, the authority that they have over the scriptures and, you know, to help people grow in faith and slowly and sustain progress, lots and lots of people started to, you know, follow this doctrines and, you know, I mean, there is still, I mean, I think it can still be a debate about when this Methodist movement started because I've read some documents where it said John Wesley did not intend to start the Methodist movement and he was part of the Anglican clergy. I mean, as long as he was alive or as long as the church congregation that he was part of, it seemed, I mean, they say he's part of the Anglican church, but some say, you know, you know, he started evangelizing and as the gospel was spread across UK and other parts of the nation, you know, people started forming this group called Methodist. So that's something to be argued, but let's not get in there for now. But apart from his open field missionary work, he traveled a lot. It seems he had shared more than 40,000 sermons. He has traveled several miles across geographies to spread the gospel, and he has spent a good fortune of money for the spreading of gospel as well, it seems. But the important thing here, what I stress or what we would want to learn from John Wesley's life is to wait upon the Lord. Now, we talk about revival. We know we live in the end of days where, you know, we know where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more. But for people who seek a genuine move of God or people who are looking for a revival, we need to understand that there are micro-revivals that will precede the macro-revivals. So what I mean by that? Revival starts with individuals, with God's church, and then it moves forward. So it's our responsibility that as Christians, as being born again, that we need to wait upon the Lord, sanctify ourselves and wait for God, wait for the Holy Spirit downpour so that we could make a change in the society. Now what happened after 1939, after the revival, as we say now? There were a lot of changes that happened in the Fetters Street and thereabouts where the criminal injustice was not there, as they say, as they claim. And people were not committing as much sin and the police had no records of any criminal activities at that particular point in time. And yeah, it was a peaceful period, even though it was for a brief period of time, it was peaceful period and a lot of people came into Christ. Now as we who are listening to this presentation, I urge people to wait upon the Lord, follow small groups of like-minded, like-wishened, who share the same zeal to wait as the hope for the revival to happen. Wait in the presence of Lord, empower yourself and let's make a change to this world and we bring glory to the Kingdom of God. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Lyndon, for sharing on the Methodist moment about how John Wesley and Charles Wesley were involved in bringing up the Methodist revival into England. Thank you so much and yeah, the class you can go and give your comments on the chat and encourage Lyndon. Okay, so with that, we also see Preci and Laya Lama in the group. Request you all to please stay online. Just give me a minute while I share this so you can take your topics, make a note and next class you can present it. Okay, Preci, can you present on the Cambus Lank Revival in Scotland about William Matlov and Laya Lama on Henry Martin who was a missionary in India and Persia. And Paul, are you still online? Paul, yeah. Paul, if you can present on, yeah, if you can present on Robert Morrison, Protestant missionary in China. So all you three guys, can you please confirm if you have got your topics? I cannot present now, maybe next time. No, not this class, in the next class, that is on Monday. Would that be okay for Monday, right? And how about Preci and Laya? Preci and Laya Lama? Okay, Preci is there, Laya Lama is there. Okay, please do write to me and let me know if you have got the topics and you all can present it on Monday. Thank you so much. God bless each one of you all through the week and see you all next week on Monday. God bless. Thank you.