Thank you so much for coming today for this workshop. I'm really excited to talk a little bit about the Moodle Educator Certification Program. And if you were part of the workshop yesterday, could you just put up your hand, just so I can say, yay. These are some of our people who were in the workshop yesterday. So you can ask them about their experiences and ask me afterwards. I'll be around for this evening, as well as for tomorrow. So please, if you have questions as we go through, we'll have time at the end, but then also throughout the mood, I'm happy to meet with you and to talk more. So yesterday we talked a lot about what does it mean? What does empowering educators mean? And we had a great presentation this morning when Martin was talking about quality education and how does this relate in a global context, especially when we're talking about sustainable development goals. And looking at it from that collective global perspective, what does that mean? And in terms of the Moodle Educator Certification Program, that also means thinking about how can we support educators around the world? And you'll hear me talking about educators. And when I talk about educators, I mean teachers, where that's your job description. I mean trainers, where you might be in a workplace and you're in a workplace training program dealing with compliance. I might also be talking about faculty at a higher education institution. Or sometimes you're in that role where you're the go-to person. You get the thousand phone calls in a day, or in an hour, to how can you help with their program? So all of those areas, all of those areas of expertise, I'm putting under the topic of educators. So as I'm talking about the program, this MEC program is designed to really help support and empower educators so that they can be creating these teaching and learning programs with Moodle. So the real focus of our program is looking at teaching practice. And how can we improve teaching practice? And some of the thinking behind this is what I'm going to be sharing today. So if we look at it in terms of how do we take maybe somebody who's brand new to Moodle? Or maybe they're just transitioning from one LMS to another. Or maybe this is, you know, they're just launching into their careers and they're new to education, they're new to teaching, they're new to instructing. How can we help build their capacity? How can we help build their capacity and help them feel confident so that they can take the knowledge that they have in the subject area and actually put it into a Moodle environment to create that space so that they're creating really positive learning experiences for their students. So as we think about this teaching practice, as we think about teaching and learning, we always have that end student in mind. And so, you know, my background is in teaching. I was a teacher, I taught middle school and high school. I've also been involved with professional learning, so working with teachers. So I always have some of those key students that kind of resonate, like what did they need and what could I have done? And when I'm working with professional learning, I think about those educators who, again, had this incredible amount of expertise but didn't have that confidence in online environment. So this program is really about supporting that so that we can focus on improving teaching practice. So here we're going to look at two areas. We think about the Moodle Educator Certification Program as a comprehensive curriculum, where we really focused on digital competencies. And I'm gonna go into those digital competencies in a little bit. The other piece that we've really focused on is recognizing mastery. We know how many experienced Moodlers there are out there. So through the MEC program, you're able to go through a system where your achievement is acknowledged by badges and by certificates. So I'll go through the full complement of the different certificates that we have as well as the badging options. In the development of the program, there's always been sort of an accreditation lens. So thinking about how can we actually use this program to acknowledge achievement that has that rigor, that has that level of curriculum so that we can look at how can we best serve, especially our higher education and our teachers, and how can that be built into the program? So the main focus is building digital competence. So building digital competence with Moodle. So how can we use Moodle tools and resources to do this in our teaching practice? It's about that certification and recognition so that we have a global language. In that global language, we also have that opportunity to collaborate. So here at Moods, I think these are always some of the best experiences. When sometimes it's in the hallway conversation, sometimes it's in the question in the middle of a presentation, sometimes you see what somebody's doing, you're here, there's story, and it inspires something for you in your own practice. So how can we do that? How can we do that in a training environment? And then also exploring innovative ways to use Moodle. And so I often talk about when I first started using Moodle in 2005, 2006, I was gifted these courses. I was, I just logged in and there were courses waiting for me. It just happened, it was magic, I was a gift. But now more and more to prepare students for an increasingly online world, our educators need to be able to create these courses. They might not have somebody who's gifting them and putting everything together with the graphics, with the UX, with the UI, with all of the things put together into their module. So how can we explore innovative tools and how can we showcase some of the different things that can happen within Moodle? And how can we use that in terms of the digital competencies? So it's about creating that common language of collaboration. So wherever you are, you can be thinking about something like learner collaboration, which was the workshop that we did yesterday. And whether you're in Cape Town, South Africa, or whether you're in Hyderabad in India, you can be talking about learner collaboration as educators who've gone through the program. You have a common understanding of learner collaboration and you have all of these amazing ideas of how you're incorporating this into your practice. So I like to, I admit, live in this, you know, sparkly world with a little bit of glitter and I think about MoodleNet and how that's really going to help us to be able to connect and to share those resources. And I think the keynote this morning really, you know, just sparked some more excitement about what that's going to look like when participants who've gone through the program can connect and share and really collaborate at a global scale. So a little bit about the background, the research-based curriculum that goes behind the MEC. So there are three areas that we've drawn from. One is the relational model for teaching and learning. And that's a holistic approach to teaching and learning where we're really looking at that vertical articulation. How can we look at a competence-based program and start thinking about where we are at the beginning and how our learning continues to evolve and those competencies continue to grow as we build and develop knowledge and skill. For the content, for the digital competencies that we're focusing on, we use the European framework for the digital competence of educators. So that was published at the very end of 2017. And in this document, they outline, it was based on years of research, many, many research is involved in this project and they look to see what do educators need, whether you're in those early learning years or in schools from kindergarten up until grade 12, what does it look like anything after school, post-secondary, vocational training, higher education colleges, universities, what are the digital competencies that educators need? And then also in workplace. So these digital competencies really encompass what can help educators in their teaching and learning practice so that they can be using these digital competencies, technologies, applications for their students so that the environment that they're creating and the learning experiences that they're creating are really positive. Then the final thing that you'll see is the European, or the International Bureau of Education and the UNESCO documents that take a really transformative approach to curriculum development. So they've outlined five stages of curriculum development to really reflect that global perspective of quality teaching. So we've followed those five stages and right now we're in that initial implementation and feedback stage where we're getting that program monitoring and feedback from participants, from our Moodle partner facilitators so that that program continually grows and develops. So that's built into the program. Looking at the relational model for teaching and learning, there are four approaches and so I'm just going to quickly go through those four approaches right now. I'm gonna start with design. Design is about creating those learning experiences for students. How are we creating effective learning experiences for students and what does that look like when we're able to use our knowledge of Moodle tools and resources to do that. The design section is about managing information. It's about offering opportunities for critical thinking. It's about being responsive to the needs of the students in our classes and really again, focusing on as educators what's our role to create an effective learning experience for them. When we look at guide, that's about how are we guiding our learners? How are we giving them feedback? What do our teaching interventions look like when we recognize that they need extra supports? What does it look like when we're focusing on learning objectives? What's the objective of this task? What is the objective of this learning? So in the guide section, that's really where we're focusing on that facilitation and how are we providing learners agency? Agency so that they can demonstrate their understanding so that they can demonstrate their skill. And so when we think about it in terms of the Moodle Educator Certification Program, how can we really explore Moodle tools and resources to be able to do that for our learners? The Connect section is all about that engagement. Engagement with the content, engagement with each other, engagement with peers, engagement with the facilitators and the educators in the program. So how are you doing that? How are you providing those opportunities for communication and collaboration? And what does that look like using Moodle tools and resources? So part of what we're doing at the same time as the development and quality testing of the program, we're also engaging focus groups. So we're getting some of that key targeted feedback from people who use Moodle in their everyday practice. And some of our initial findings are that this is the one area, that learner collaboration is an area that they know is important but they're not too sure what that looks like and the breadth of things that they can be doing to do that in Moodle. So it's exciting to think about how these modules are really going to help those educators. And then finally the reflect. Reflect is about thinking about progress and achievement. Reflect is about thinking what does success look like and what kind of supports do I need? So in a Moodle environment, how are learners able to really look at where am I at? What's the goal? How am I going to get there? And where am I at in my learning? This is also about assessment and evaluation and how are we providing opportunities to do that using Moodle tools and resources? So those are the four teaching approaches and what we've done is we've used those four approaches to organize the 22 digital competencies. So when we talk about curriculum framework, this is part of the curriculum framework that we've developed. On the top level, those modules go together to create our foundation level certificate. So each of these digital competencies you can get a badge within the program and then with the six, the six modules then you get your Moodle Educator Certificate and there are other certificates that are also included and I'll go through those towards the end of the presentation. We followed a consistent format for every single module because if we start to think about what these look like as a menu, if there's areas that you wanna focus on, then you might be starting at one module where somebody else is just finishing with that one. So for that consistency, we have the same module structure for each of the different modules and what's really wonderful is being able to work with your Moodle partner facilitators so that you can really customize and look at the kind of programming that you want and the kinds of services that they can provide. So in our structure of our program, we have the design challenges. So in those design challenges, what's really key is you bring your own context at no point in time is someone going to say, pretend you're a grade eight math teacher and create a Moodle learning activity for it because we need this learning to be relevant. It needs to be relevant to your context. So whatever subject area that you're teaching, whatever focus that your institution has, in whatever place you're an educator, you can be creating design challenges and learning activities that you can pick up and actually bring immediately into your practice. So that even if you look at, let's say the foundation level certificate, there are six modules where you're creating two design challenges. So you're going to walk away with 12 learning activities that you can immediately bring into your practice and you've had the support and the guidance and facilitation from a Moodle partner facilitator. Every single design challenge is evaluated on two different levels. One is knowledge and the other is skill. So knowledge we're looking at, what's the knowledge of the Moodle tool? How have you selected, is it an appropriate selection for the activity? Do you have it configured properly? Have you used the settings properly to create a really effective experience for your learners? So that's the knowledge where we're looking at knowledge and use of the Moodle tool. Then we have the skill and that's where the digital competencies are worked in. So this is that competence-based program where you're evaluated on the skills such as learner collaboration. And so you'll notice the four levels of achievement starting from emerging, developing, competent, and mastery. And so these terms are kind of containers where it isn't necessarily a one out of four and you're a 25% student. It's about acknowledging where you are in your learning. So emerging, maybe you're brand new, maybe you're new to Moodle.  Developing, so you've learned some skills, you're trying some things out, but you may just not quite be there yet. There's some work, there's some facilitation that your facilitator can provide. There's some supports or some guidance that they can provide. So this is definitely that strength-based program where we believe that people can be at that competent and mastery level and through those facilitation and supports, we can help participants get so that they're creating really effective engaging learning experiences for their students.  They already have, they've been using Moodle for years, they're doing it really well. They have amazing feedback and suggestions for our own modules and I'll talk about that. There's a little section where you're able to provide that input. So those are the four levels of achievement that we're looking at and that's consistent throughout every single session. So we have the same design, we have the start, explore, design, reflect within every single module. Start is, you know, this is what this module is about. Here are all the assessment tools that we're using. This is how to get your sandbox. So every participant receives a sandbox. They receive their own working space, that's their area to try things out to explore. All of these modules are hosted on Moodle server so it'll always be the most recent update. So if you're starting to think about updating and you want some of that support to learn the new features and tools, this is another approach to using the MEC and the modules. In the start section, we also have a module glossary. So that's an area where you can go and explore because some people just, they didn't know something existed. So we have, we've curated everything. All of our Moodle docs are videos. You'll be able to access that there so that especially if you're trying to push those boundaries of trying some of the new Moodle activities, you can access all of that information there. In the explore section, this is where we're starting to explore the digital competency.  You learn about some of the key ideas, what's involved with this digital competency. And then we provide two examples. So we really try to respond to the feedback that we had from educators who were interested in the program and they wanted to know in our institution, there's a whole bunch of things that are shut down and we just actually want to know more of what's out there. So in these examples, we've tried to showcase some of those things that are available within Moodle. So we provide a book on that. We provide, this is the context of when this example would be used. This is why we chose the tool that we did. And then finally, this is how you do it. If you want to follow this step by step with the screen captures. The design section begins with a forum. We're trying to build in a community of practice right within every single module. So that's your place where if you are struggling with something and you're looking for some support, you can reach out to the peers in your cohort or the peers in your course or reaching out to your facilitator. And that's also where if you've just figured something out, that's pretty cool. You want to share that, you want to say, hey, I think this actually might help one of my colleagues in this course. You can share that in that community practice, in that forum. Then in the design challenge, there's the assignment where you can upload your learning activity. So you're creating your learning activity in your portfolio, then you upload it and put it into the design section. And then it's evaluated. Once you have gone through the two design challenges and you get the feedback from your facilitator, what that does is it opens up the reflect section. And in the reflect section, that's really where we're getting that feedback. We want to know, what are you taking away from this module? How is this impacting your teaching practice? So maybe you're thinking, hey, I really like that module glossary. I'm going to do the same thing for my course. That might be something that you share. Or maybe you learned a really key feature of a Moodle activity that you've never been able to quite figure out. And you know that's going to have a huge impact on your teaching practice. So you might share that. So once you share some of the ways, think about it, your experience in the module, reflect on that and share that in there, that opens up a module feedback. In that module feedback, that's your direct connection to us. That's a way that we're using your voice. We're using your experience as a participant in the module to continually improve and develop it. Because sometimes achievement is only looked at that academic line. What percent did they get on the final summative test? And that's used to measure success. We want you to be successful, but we also want to know what can we do from Moodle headquarters perspective to continually improve and develop the program. So your voice carries directly to us so that we can continue to do that. So overall, when we're looking at the program, what does quality teaching and learning look like? And we've identified 10 areas that we've tried to role model in the module delivery, in the modules themselves in terms of the content, but also within the curriculum framework. So throughout the curriculum framework, using the relational model for teaching and learning, using the digital competencies, these are 10 areas that we feel are really important and we feel that the MEC can help provide that program for you to be able to develop within your teaching practice. So I'll finish up just talking about the badges and the certifications. With, once you've completed your reflection, your module feedback, then you're awarded a badge for each of the different modules. And earlier today in the keynote, you saw the certificate with all the official badges on the side. And you'll also notice, again, we've really created this program without accreditation lens. So the foundation level certificate is that core certification. And then you can also receive certificates on the different teaching approaches. So if you've completed all the modules in the design section, you can get a design certificate as well, or guide, or reflect, or connect. If you've finished all of them, then we have a comprehensive teaching and learning certificate for the MEC. So that is a really, it feels really quick. I hope it didn't feel too long, but that's a really large overview of what the program is, why it was designed the way that it was, and then also opportunities where we're trying to think, you know, I think the slide this morning said what was it, 158 million users? You know, so how can we from Moodle headquarters provide the framework for the modules so that through your Moodle Partner Network, the Moodle Partners are the ones who really know their clients, they know their needs so that they can be able to provide that opportunity for you. So I'm open to any questions. If you're not thinking of something now, I'll definitely, I'll be here tomorrow. Any questions? Would anyone like, oh, yep. If I go back to, there we go. So every single one of those bullet points, that's a module, and that's a badge.  We just launched those in February, and so our Moodle Partners, they've actually gone through a whole other training, they've gone through a facilitator training curriculum, and so they're offering those six modules right now. Yes, yes. And I think you're gonna hear more about that coming up next with Grease Presentation, yeah, yeah. How much does it cost? These are wonderful questions, and this is where as Moodle headquarters, we've provided the framework, we've provided the curriculum, and then it's our Moodle Partners. They're the ones who, we looked at around our whole network with over 90 Moodle Partners, and we looked at what have they already done, and they've focused amazing courses and trainings on the Moodle tools, on course administration and administrative settings, and so how could we help support and add to that full complement of training, and so it's a digital competence-based program for teaching and learning, and so those decisions in terms of cost and availability, those are all independent decisions that our Moodle Partners are presenting, so chat, you can talk to Chad over here at the booth, and Catalyst is also offering our MEC program here in this area. You can also go to Moodle, Moodle.com, Moodle Education, and then you can find, there's a website there where you can just click on and you can be connected, or you can even email, you can email me, you can email education at Moodle.com, and we can help connect you to some of the services that you need. Excellent, well thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you.


the show. All right. Hey, friends, we were going to demonic falsification. We are, but that's okay. He has to name it certain way that's gonna be. So friends, you're watching behind the scenes divine intimacy radio. We're talking about demonic deceptions and falsifications of visions and revelations. And we're going to jump in to that in just a minute. This doesn't we need to have the title on these. But we wanted to tell you about a couple things going on before we jump into the show. There is a course on Bible and Revelation of Prayer, which is an overview of prayer from Genesis to Revelation, very powerful text and and and course. It's a graduate course at the Abba Institute start September 5. And then do the you want to talk about the summit? Yeah. And so we have our next summit coming up, October of 2023. And it's entitled the Marian mystery and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart. We have some great speakers thus far. We have Father John Burns, Sister Regina Marie Gorman. We just spent some time with her at Napa. She's amazing. Love her. Love her lover. Another one I love is Clare Dwyer, our own Clare Dwyer with spiritualdirection.com and Father Ignatius Schweitzer, just really on fire, beautiful souls that are going to be speaking to us on the beauty of our mother. And it's important for hope in a difficult time to know what's coming.  And so that's what we're going to be talking about all the different facets in that that involves that. And by the way, we've already sold a ton of these tickets. And it's a year out. It's more than a year out. It's a year and a couple of months. We've already sold half the ticket. So if you are interested, please go out to spiritualdirection.com for events and get your tickets now before they go because we will sell out. We do every year we end up with two, three hundred people on the wait list. So we don't want to we don't want to put you there. So get your tickets soon. Awesome. All right. Let's go ahead and jump into the show on your mark. It's set go. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome to Divine Intimacy Radio, your radio Haven of Rest. Your Hermitage of the Heart. Your Monastery of the Mind where we lift our hearts and minds to heaven to draw on the wisdom of the saints to help us to navigate this very challenging life. And we have back again, Father Matthew McDonald and Father Matthew was written the book forward to a very important new book or a new publication, I should say, a republication of a very important book, Visions and Revelations by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene. Welcome back Father. Thank you Dan Stephanie is an honor. Blessing to be with you again. So we're going to talk through this as I don't know. Do we know the number Mr. Producer of the series? It's quite substantive six, five or six on how it is that we can test and know whether a vision or revelation is from God. And it's important for a time in darkness when the enemy tends to move more and God moves more to help God's people and the enemy tries to counter what God is doing. And feudally, of course, God be praised, but nonetheless it's there and the people of God have to understand these things, which is why he gave us the Lord gave us doctors of the church like St. Thomas Aquinas to help us understand angels and demons, that sort of thing. And the teachings of the church, teachings in scripture are to equip us to face these things, to test the spirits which were commanded to do in a number of places in the New Testament and then determine whether there's something we should listen to or follow. I think it's important to repeat one idea that we did early in the series and that is that we have everything we need for our salvation without any visions or revelations. Am I overstating that, Father? Or is that a need to be adjusted? No, you're not overstating that at all. So visions and revelations, whether they be public private revelations on the scale of Fatima or lords or Guadalupe or lesser private revelations, things that we receive in prayer on retreat, they are secondary aids to salvation. They only help us insofar as they point us back to scripture and tradition and help us grow in faith, hope and love. And that goes beyond just giving us good and warm, fuzzy feelings. Right. So in the last show we were talking about how what the devil can and can't do. We're going to continue that conversation with some really specific wisdom from the summa and from the church fathers about how the devil can or can't produce miracles. But and a lot of this in this show is covered in my book, Devil in the Castle, Teresa of Avalos, Spiritual Warfare in the Progress of the Soul because she speaks of these things quite frequently in in the book, Interior Castle. So with that, Stephanie, what's your first question you want to ask about what the with God's permission, what the devil can do? Yeah, and I think this is important because this this is really going to help us understand that these are things that the devil can see and do. Right. So we can balance out what may have happened to us or happened to one of our directies or happens to, you know, whatever and and figure out, okay, this is something that the enemy can do so we can't just blanketly say, oh, that's of God. Right. And you know, we have to be so very careful because we don't want to be led astray. So let's talk about some of these things that with God's permission, so through his permissive will, the devil can do the following. So the first one is produce corporal or imaginative visions, but not intellectual visions. So what's the difference? Help us to understand what the difference is. Yes. So St. John of the Cross speaks about three different kinds of visions. That are the intellect known as intellectual visions that of the interior senses or the imagination, imaginary visions and that of the exterior senses or exterior visions. When we hear imaginative visions, we shouldn't think that these things are just being made up by ourselves. No, God is giving us a vision, but it's through the, we're receiving it through the interior senses of our imagination. So that's the mode. And those visions, God are harder to discern because we don't necessarily know sometimes when the divine ends and when the human begins. And the devil can suggest things to our imagination that may seem to give us peace, but the effects in our life, the fruits produce pride, produce, you know, anger, produce, you know, except I have to do this, goes against right reason. Anxiety. Anxiety. And Father Gabriel talks about these different kinds of visions, particularly in chapter two of his book, where he talks about, all right, Teresa's experience and John's experience and what do they say about these kinds of visions and locations. What is a particular intellectual vision? Like, what is an intellectual vision? Is that only something that happens within our mind that has a, like an idea or that, you know, that's in keeping with church teaching or what, what is an intellectual vision? So an intellectual vision would be something to the effect of what the shepherd children saw Fatima, or what the, the St. Bernadette Subaru saw at Lord's. So it almost seems like there is something outside of us, but the intellect is being fed something. Whereas an imaginative vision, we close our eyes and we see something within, within our memories or we see the vision inside of us. Whereas intellectual, it's outside of us, it seems. That's perfect. That makes it very clear. And what I, what really helps too is that we're being fed. So fed some sort of truth, like it produces something of the increase of faith, hope, love, knowledge, wisdom. Is that true understanding? Yes. And if you look at some of like a mystic, particularly somebody like St. Faustina, she received both intellectual visions of our Lord through the divine mercy apparitions and also imaginative visions. And the diary sometimes spiritual directors, particularly no father Boniface Hicks goes into this in one of his courses. He tries to help people understand, all right, this is an intellectual vision that she's receiving versus imaginative visions tend to apply more to the individual person receiving it, where intellectual can apply to the individual, but it can apply more so to the church and the world.  I know in college, they had the personal example, I was in college, we were doing a meditation, there was the miraculous medal that St. Teresa of Calcutta wore during her life that she left at one of the side alters of lords. And I was reading a meditation with my household brothers, Conk through love, at Steubenville. All of a sudden, we smell, we smell something that seemed like a hundred roses were in the room and it was, there were no roses. It was all coming from the metal. So corporeal phenomenon would be, you know, something like a smell of roses or other, other issues. They come through your senses. Yeah. Yeah. So ecstasy, the enemy does have the ability to falsify ecstasy. I think that begs the question of what is ecstasy? You may have a better definition than mine, but in my mind ecstasy is a very high contemplative state. I mean, when it's produced by God, wherein the faculties are suspended and the person is in some way both bodily, physically, intellectually transported into an experience of God.  We have statues by Bernini of of Lutovice, blessed Lutovice Albertoni or of St. Teresa of Avalon in the transverberation. So how is it that the enemy can falsify this phenomenon? He can falsify this phenomenon by just suspending the senses and overpowering the person in a way that may seem, oh, they're in a high contemplative state, but actually they're just controlling, the enemy is controlling the body. And this is this false ecstasy is associated with things like possible possession. Yeah, and the person, once they become over, once they are overcome, let's say by a corporal vision or a corporal movement, if they assent to it, right, they can allow the enemy to then manipulate them even more, and which is why we should always, when we're feeling any kind of movement corporally, we need to test it. How would we test it, Father, if we're feeling things that corporally that we think are from God? One is the person humble, or is the person showing it off, look at me, I just had this experience. Is there almost like a disgust for it? And if is there a healthy reintegration of the person back to normal regimen in life, a healthy prayer life, or are they engaging activities of self-promotion? Yeah, so where I was going more is you can actually say, speak in Jesus' name and say to the phenomenon, if you will, or the source of the phenomenon, I command that if this is of Jesus, that you affirm that Jesus is Lord, or something like that, and if it's not, get away from me. Right? Would that be sufficient to test those kinds of things? Yes, or to go before something like the Blessed Sacrament and the, you know, like an adoration, be like, all right, if you are of the Lord in Jesus' name, I pray that you manifest, you shall reverence the Blessed Sacrament, or, you know, show reverence to the things belonging to Christ, His name, His Eucharistic Presence, sacred images, and things like that. So we're talking to Father Matthew McDonald about a new publication by Sophia Institute Press, Visions and Revelations by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, and about how demons can falsify phenomena that sometimes we might just say, oh, this is from God when we don't know how to test them. This book was written to deal with that, and then also Father McDonald who wrote the forward, and then provided some very important work in the appendices that we're talking about now that give you real specifics of how to discern these things. So we're grateful to Father Matthew, we're in part, you know, we're, this is a long series, God be praised, because it's so interesting, that'll be out on spiritualdirection.com, if you want to watch the whole series, if you want to binge watch it eventually. But when we come back from the break, we're going to talk about demons producing rays of body and sensible heat, rays of light and sensible heat in the body, and sensible consolations and tenderness, and how it is that we can discern those are from God or not. So we'll be right back. This is 1252. So in the break, I want to keep going down this list. That's where we're going. So we'll go three, four, five. We'll just keep going down that. For those watching, want to remind you of the Abola Summit and the Marian Mystery and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart, Steph, did I get it right that time? The Marian Mystery and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. That's the first time I got it right. So that's going to be in October of 2023. Go out to spiritualdirection.com forward slash events. And then we have a pilgrimage to Spain, June 5th of 2023. It's not very smart to wait to sign up for these things. They're always full. The summit, is it going to be at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament? Yes, the summit is in October 2023. And it only seats 250 people. And half of those seats have already been sold more than a year out. And it will max out, will end up with two or 300 on the waiting list. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find a bigger venue because schools are in schools, schools are in session at this time of year. But the good news is, is that the Shrine in Hansville is a beautiful, amazing place to be. Everybody should see it anyway. And it's an incredible place to have a summit. There's just so much grace that covers us when we're there. We love it. So don't miss out, as Stephanie said, a year ahead of time. It's already halfway sold. Also, the pilgrimage to Carmelite, Spain with Stephanie and I. Extra days optional in Fatima. You can find all these out at spiritualdirection.com forward slash events. And just because it's never too early to shop for Christmas. Right. Guys, this would be a great Christmas gift. And you could, you could literally go online, buy these tickets for you and your spouse. Wrap them up in a box. Oh, that's a great idea. Tie a bow around it. And you are done for Christmas for your spouse. And you will be such a hero. Right.  Some, there was a guy who gave his wife the gift of a scholarship to all the courses she wanted to take at the Abel Institute. So we've just got endless resources for formation for you. So, all right, well, let's jump back in on diabolical falsifications. And we'll go, are you ready? And your mark and set go. This is Dan and Stephanie Burke. Welcome back to Divine Intimacy Radio. We're talking to Brother Matthew McDonald about visions and revelations and how the devil can falsify movements in sensible movements right now. We're talking about that anyway. In the soul, Stephanie, I know you've got one there that's really interesting. Yeah. So it says here talking about producing rays of light in the body and sensible heat. So the devil can do this with God's permission. And maybe we can tie that a bit in with consolations and tenderness because I think, you know, all those are bodily sensations. Tell us about or it can be. Tell us about that. You know, sometimes in prayer I could get a warm or fuzzy feeling or if I hear a message from somebody that could give me a warm feeling. And Ignatius speaks about this in Ignatius of Loyola Rules the second week. You know, the evil one could disguise himself as an angel of light. So if I'm getting bombarded by all these nice feelings, I have to discern them. Say, where are these leading me? What are the fruits of these actions in my life? Or are these feelings associated with these messages or these motivations to act? Actually leading me to a willfulness or distracting me from what the Lord is asking me to do first. And when I'm distracted, I can then fall into pride. I can fall into a spirit of criticism, a sectarian spirit sometimes, or a spirit of, oh, because I'm doing this, I am saved. I'm so much better than you. And that would be a sign that these phenomenon, even though I'm getting these feelings, are leading or not from God. Also in relation to bodily phenomenon, sensible heat, sometimes again, in like a deliverance session, or if somebody is praying over somebody, asking the Lord to work in their life, there may be an exchange and the priest praying over the person, or the person may feel heat. And sometimes that could be the Lord working through them, sending them free. But sometimes it could also be an indication that, all right, there's some bondage in that area from the evil one that needs to be worked on. Yeah. And so in the New Testament, there's a passage that I think really wraps all this up really well. Test all things and hold fast to that, which is true. Is it true that we should never accept bodily sensations or just de facto, let's say we've experienced God in the past moving that way and the fruit was good? I think we would have a tendency to kind of get a little sleepy and not be vigilant and not test them moving forward. Is it, should I always test it if I've experienced good and good fruit in the past by some kind of sensation? Yes, you should always test everything as St. Paul says, because again, when I get a good feeling, I want to hold on to that feeling. And then that evil one could lead me to a spiritual gluttony where I just reduce my prayer life or reduce my relationship with the Lord to the feelings I get. And that's very, very dangerous. Yeah, I think something that's really important about what you're saying because you're talking about these in the context of prayer, right? I'm in prayer and this happens. I'm in prayer and this happens. And according to St. John of the Cross is that we should immediately dismiss it and stay in that space with the Lord. Stay with the Lord, with our heart and our mind filled with Him. God alone should be our intention, our focus, our desire, not sensations, revelations or whatever. And I think what's really important to know about that is because people go, oh, but what if it's of God, right? Well, the effect that God intends happens before our senses will even pick up on it. So if it's of the Lord, whatever he intends by that thing, whatever it is, has taken effect, God be praised. We don't have to worry about it. It will bear fruit in time and we will see that fruit. So then we can go discern, kind of in retrospect, oh, is this of God? But I think with a direct D, I would say the first thing to do is to immediately dismiss it and stay on course with prayer. Is that, would that be a sensible recommendation? Absolutely. And Father Gabriel in his third chapter where he speaks about the attitude of the recipient, citing John the Cross, do not admit them. He would say the exact same thing. If you get these things spontaneously, great, but focus in on the Lord, that they become more persistent, then you have to consider them more but not cling on to them and make them the sole focus. And when you have to discern them, the question is, how are these things leading me to a deeper faith, hope and love? And a deeper, not only love of the Lord, but also helping me to love others in my own day-to-day life. And not necessarily, oh, I got an image of our lady in prayer like holding her macal heart to me, embracing me. That can mean a bunch of things. Yeah. So it's important to reiterate something. John is not saying don't be open to the movements of God. What he's saying is don't focus on them. You also brought up an important, I mean, John of the Cross, you also brought up an important note regarding a persistent kind of phenomenon, which St. Ignatius talked about quite a bit, which, as an example, St. John Vieny was constantly tempted to go to leave diocesan life and go to the Carthusians, if I remember right, it's been a long time since I read about it. And that was not of God.  And so the enemy knew that and would try to tempt him to do something good. That is not God's will. So it just reminded me of that. So we have to test, we have to know how to test. And if you're sitting out there going, how am I supposed to know all this stuff? Well, this is a great book, Visions and Revelations, by Father Gabriel St. Mary Magdal and go to spiritualdirection.com, forward slash shop. I wrote two books recently that one is very simple and powerful, spiritual warfare and discernment of spirits. And then one a little more deep, which would be a lot more deep actually. It's called Devil in the Castle, St. Teresa of Avalos, spiritual warfare and the progress of the soul. But these three books together, coupled with Father Gallagher's discernment of spirits and Constellation's books, we have all we need in our time to discern these things. But it's important to be at peace, remembering that you have all you need in the divine economy for your salvation. And you don't have to figure all this stuff out. You just have to be discerning and ask the Lord and talk to the Lord and test all things. But it's not, it sounds complicated because we're dealing with a lot of detail on the show, which I don't want to be overwhelming or cause anxiety, but it's really not. It's not a big complicated thing. So I know you have a question about stigmata. Yeah, because I just think this is like, wow. Yeah. So the enemy with God's permission can produce the stigmata and all other kinds of bodily extraordinary phenomena and any phenomena dealing with physical objects such as crowns, rings, etc. So when I think about this and you think about the scripture verse that just comes to mind is be concerned if all men speak well of you. Right? And we think about the different saints that suffered the stigmata, like all of hell broke loose towards them. They were being shunned. They were being written off by their orders. They were being suppressed and just all these things would happen to them. And to me, that's probably an indication that it's probably more authentic versus those that receive it and then everybody's elevating them to become pope or something. So tell me about the stigmata and what the enemy can and can't do with that. Again, he can manipulate any bodily phenomenon. And the saints that have received the stigmata, St. Francis received it towards the end of his life whereas Padre Pio received it at the beginning of his priestly ministry. They were never showy with it. They always tried to hide it. And the evil one, when he tries to mimic the stigmata, he can lead somebody to pride because of it. Because it's not authentic. It's from him and not from God. But the ones that receive bodily phenomenon never flashed it around when those things were from God. They always kept it hidden and they always kept it as a way interiorly and through quiet. They, through their own union with God in prayer, can offer themselves and by that self-offering, God could use that to sanctify the rest of the church as well as them. You know, you've done so much work on this topic. I can't remember. Have we talked about you doing a class for the Abel Institute on this? Yes. So, end of December to February 1st, I believe. First week of February. I'm going to be doing a course for the school spiritual formation called the Discerminative Visions and Revelations in the Interior Life. Where this book, the book Visions and Revelations will be one of the main texts as well as the Ascent and Mount Carmel. That will just be an opportunity to go over the church's teaching on private revelations in general and also lesser private revelations in the realm of prayer.   And as you can see, Father is very interesting. His knowledge is very in depth about all of this. And I think you'll be deeply blessed by reinforcing all of this and taking this course. These shows, we're going to put together as a kind of a mini e-course for free out at apostoleva.org at some point. But spiritualdirection.com or abaladashinstitute.org or apostoleva.org, the thing is we have an unlimited, unfathomable will. And that's the right word. The formation never stops with us. Whether you want community life with apostoleva or just education at the Abal Institute or whatever it is, we're here to serve you and serve the world. And doing that, we need your help. So please, if you're blessed by all this, consider a donation. Father, it's been great being with you again and I'm excited to continue the series or finish the series, whichever way it goes, as the Holy Spirit leads. But thanks for being with us again. Thank you, Dennis Stephanie. It's always an honor and blessing being with you. God bless you. God bless you. Until next time, may the God of peace make you perfect in holiness. May he preserve you whole and entire, spirit, soul, and body, irreproachable at the coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. All right. Thanks.


Britain's Prince William took a hike through Singapore's Nature Reserve and met young conservationists on November 8. After announcing the winners of the Earthshot Prize a day ago in the city-state, the air to the throne walked the Treetop Walk Trail with Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. Winding through the Central Catchment Nature Reserve and traversing a freestanding suspension bridge that connects two of the highest points in the forest, William attended the annual Earthshot. Prize Ceremony on November 7, which awards £1 million to each of the five green innovators across different categories spanning air pollution to reviving the oceans. The winner for the Protect and Restore Nature category in 2023 is Exion and Dina, a community-based initiative working across South America to protect native high-end deen forest ecosystems. So my job mainly revolves around doing wildlife research, going to the forest, surveying our mammals and birds. Jan, who's better than the Juran? Oh, better than Juran. I tried Juran. Never. Then you might like this one. Even the people in Malaysia. Hopefully it's not too long of a wait. It actually waits long? No, no. It's fine. We had a nice walk. Oh, I see. You know, I'm based in Sabah for the first 25 years. Which part of Sabah? In Kinabatangan. Okay. We did that. I adopt this rental block. I adopt the family. And I'm not only... It's very funny. I know. It's pretty cute. It's so casual the way you just like... Hang in.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the start of an 11 show, South Phantom vs Everton, let's get into it. In gold Jordan Pickford, obviously he's been a very long week for him after what happened in the Mesaad Derby. Caron Saloth he was asked about him as well and he basically just said you know he'll play because he's the number one and he'll play the game only so he will start and go for me. Right back it will be a full debut to Ben Godfrey, he'll start and it's been confirmed by Caron Saloth he'll start as well. Sheamus Coleman suffering from a hamstring injury. John Joe Kenny did return to training but I think he received a kick on his ankle in training so he will miss the game and Ben Godfrey will start at right back. He did well there on Saturday in the Mesaad Derby, played for a good hour and I thought he did well. He's fast, he's strong, good defender and I think if you can get forward and be an option going forward as well then we're all bowed as well. But we'll have to wait and see as long as he fits in there and he can defend I think that's what is the main thing that I'll be asked of him. On the other side Luca Dean obviously being a fantastic form this season, being absolutely brilliant and will continue there. I don't think a lot has been said about how good Luca Dean has been this season but being absolutely brilliant and will continue obviously at left back. The centre backs, Michael Keane obviously being in great form, scored last week in the Mesaad Derby, he was my man in the match in the Mesaad Derby as well. Being brilliant this season and will continue on alongside him, yet he may have obviously made a mistake in the Mesaad Derby and has to put that behind him now and hopefully after having a week and a good rest after travelling to Colombia in their games will be refreshed and ready to go and will have cleared that mistake out of his head. He'll start as well. To be honest there isn't any other centre backs available at the moment I did. Still waiting on Mason Hall who's got a few weeks I think till he's back and there's been Jared Branth Wait who's been seen training today. Not full training but he's back in training so hopefully he'll be available in the next few weeks as well just to give that added competition. Moving into midfield at the hold midfield position, it's Alan for me. I thought he was excellent last week in the second half. Took him a bit of time to get going but again another player was coming back from an injury last week. Hopefully he'll be ready for this week and be up for it and he gives us that little bit of protection in the midfield. Alongside him, Adelaide de Coray again did okay last week. Wasn't his best game in an evident share. Lot was asked for him. Liverpool obviously fantastic midfield and that's where the games are won and lost these days so hopefully he can get in there and have a good game. Need to start out in goals I think now. I think we should be all looking for him to start to pick up a goal or two as he goes forward so he'd be in there for me. The other midfielder in there, I'm going to go for Guilfee Sigarton. I don't think Andre Gomez played that well last week and I think Guilfee Sigarton has been showing his performances have been picking up massively. Without with Charleston being available and the goal threat that he has, I think just to have that duster out of the player who's a goal threat. Andre Gomez hasn't scored one goal for us and he's not much of a goal threat. I think we need that extra body in the field who is looking to take shots, who has got that little bit extra to bend the ball into the box or whatever and that's what Guilfee Sigarton gives us in there so I'd go for him. On the right hand side, Hammersrodd, he gets for me all day. If there's a chance he can play, then he plays for me. It's as simple as that. If the manager has given him a chance, then he plays for me. It's as simple as that. Whether that happens or not, we'll have to wait and see but obviously he is the difference for us. He is that world class player that can help us unlock defences. His set pieces are fantastic as well so he definitely starts for me. It should be good news if he does. On the other side, I'm going to go for Alex Ooby. I think his little cameo performances coming off the bench have been really good this season. No, he's not a direct replacement and maybe Bernard or Anthony Gordon's running off defences maybe is a little bit more to what the Charleston does. But I just think Alex Ooby's performances have merited him being the next player to come in and he has to prove it. If he plays well then he's got another couple of games on the side as well so he will come in on that left hand side for me. Up front, it's obviously Dominic Avaloon. Not only has he been playing this season and he's number nine and he's incredible, we haven't got anyone else. So it's Dominic Avaloon starting up front as well. There you go, that's my 11. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Do you agree? Do you disagree with what I've gone with? Tell me what your 11 would be and who you would go for. Thanks for watching. Give this video a like, subscribe if you haven't already. And if you want more great videos, live daily videos, join us on page and the link is in the description. See you later.


The terrorists who attacked the A.K.A. 9 Aboujik Duna Trim Passengers on March 28, have released another seven hostages, including a family of six and a woman. The identities of the released family of six are Abubaka Idris Garbar, his wife Mariam Abubaka Bobo, and their eldest son, Ibrahim Abubaka Garba, who is ten years old, among others. Also released is a 60-year-old woman, one Agia Aisha Hassan, who was said to have been released due to life-threatening health challenges that deteriorated recently. Although Tokur Mamu, publisher of Keduna-based Desert Herald, and media consultant with controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Hamad Gumi, withdrew as one of the negotiators. He confirmed the release of the seven hostages to John Elise in Keduna. They have left their children, they have left their wives for over 135 days. They are people they are stranded, they don't have any means. Please, we are pleading on the federal government, please sit with these people, seek Sheikh Gumi's audience, please, by the grace of God, with him here, he could assist and alleviate and help solve these problems. And the prayers, we know that we've prayed and we know that we've had the prayers of our loved ones, with us back in the forests there. It hasn't been easy, everyone has been sick, I came back with my daughter sick, because there has not been medication, she hasn't been responding to treatment from the medications they've given. But we thank God for mercy and grace, and we just pray that the rest of the people that we left back would be released as soon as possible so whatever the government or whoever it is that can support to get them out, we pray that they do whatever they can to get them out as soon as possible. We're happy, after 135 days, this family, this beautiful family, innocent family have secured their release this morning. My call is targeted to two people. First, the kidnappers. What will they benefit from taking innocent people? People who are themselves weak, especially children, families. What benefits do they want to incur? If the complain of grievances, then you don't vent your anger, you don't vent your anger on the innocent. So I beset them and pray to them to please release everybody and let's come and sit down on the negotiating table and see how we can solve our problems together. I am happy that none of them is injured or none of them is physically abused but the psychological trauma will need a lot of time to heal.


Welcome to Texas Heart Institute educational programs on innovative technologies and techniques. The purpose of these presentations is to inform and educate the physicians, allied medical personnel, and the general public on the latest advances in cardiovascular medicine. I'm your host. My name is Van Merkrazier. I'm an international cardiologist at Texas Heart Institute and Baylor CHI Medical Center. Our special guest today is Dr. Stephanie Coulter. Dr. Coulter is a director for Women's Heart and Vascular Health and Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and Director of Cardiology Education and also Texas Heart Institute Educational Board Member and Special Section Editor here in Houston, Texas at Texas Heart Institute. Wow that's a mouthful. Welcome to this program. Thank you so happy to be here. You've done a great job providing all of us with all this educational content which is good for our audience. It's my pleasure. Well the topic today of our presentation and discussion is an update on the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm in women. That's not a big subject matter right? I mean traditionally we haven't looked for aneurysms in women too much. Absolutely. So Dr. Coulter the question is what is or what did Lucille Ball have in common with Albert Einstein, George C. Scott and Conway Twitty and many others? Well I'm assuming I know one of those people died of an aneurysm so I'm assuming we're talking about ruptured aneurysms. That is absolutely correct. So it affects all races all ages and it doesn't discriminate anything. So what is the epidemiology of an abdominal aortic aneurysm because they're different than from ascending aortic aneurysm? So abdominal aortic aneurysms are common over the age of 50 years of age and with a prevalence of 1.4%. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are more often detected incidentally on some routine evaluation for other conditions typically for gastrointestinal complaints or musculoskeletal complaints and very frequently they go under diagnosed or undiagnosed for a long period of time. The majority of abdominal aortic aneurysms are asymptomatic until they rupture so we call them a silent killer. Risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysm include older age particularly in males, Caucasian race, history of smoking, history of arterial hypertension and particularly history of abdominal aortic aneurysm and particularly history of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Are there gender differences for abdominal aortic aneurysm? They are and that is a very important factor to take into consideration. Male gender is well established risk factor for abdominal aortic aneurysm and the ratio is somewhere between four to one and in some reports even seven to one. I think that's why we underestimate women having these because we don't expect it to occur in women because it's such a male dominated condition. Right this is absolutely correct. There is understanding that women because of the hormonal differences are protected against atherosclerosis to menopause and actually it's very rare to diagnose abdominal aortic aneurysms in women before the menopause but after that there are they catch up. They catch up as in anything else as far as atherosclerosis is concerned. So if it's a silent killer screening must be really important in those people that we think are at risk? Well this has been debatable issue for a very long period of time particularly as far as women are concerned. Now as you can see from this information on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force as far as screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in women is concerned it's not rated as a very high probability of success in doing evaluation in women and while in men it's more meaningful and more important in women it has been established to be less beneficial. However some other data is available particularly from the SPS screening guidelines that emphasize that screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm in women should be done and the question is when. So we nowadays agree that probably women that are above the age of 65 with family history abdominal aortic aneurysm should definitely be screened and evaluated for abdominal aortic aneurysm and that evidence is between moderate to strong. Is there a difference in the expansion rate and rupture in women compared to men? Yeah that's another very important issue that has been more recently analyzed and what we can see here from this particular information as far as initial abdominal aortic aneurysm size and then increase in size over a period of years or follow-up we can see that aneurysms grow much faster in women than in men. That's a scary looking curve. It's absolutely scary from the point of view that if the aneurysm goes under or undiagnosed in women then we certainly can miss the opportunity to prevent rupture. And another important factor is as we can see here from some other publications the females experience rupture at smaller aneurysm sizes than men. Now this is understandable because female aortic is a smaller in diameter so we cannot use the same criteria as far as the risk of rupture is concerned as in men and this has been documented in several studies. In this particular study as far as aneurysm rupture is concerned we can see again that aneurysm rupture in women at a smaller sizes and the risk of rupture at the same size might be for men 5% and in women 24% which is statistically significant. So women have smaller abdominal aortic aneurysm diameters and higher rate of rupture even at smaller aneurysm sizes. So what are the challenges for the correction by endovascular techniques of aneurysms in women because the arteries are smaller? So obviously we have several challenges and we will mention some of them. One of them could be the exercise vessels because the vessels are significantly smaller particularly with earlier generation stem grafts they were significantly larger in profile and that was a serious challenge. Then the second thing is women as we will see have significantly higher incidence of tortuosity, higher incidence of calcification, higher incidence of thrombus and higher incidence of challenges with the infrared aortic neck as far as diameter is concerned, as far as irregularities presence of thrombus and presence of calcification is concerned. In this particular graph as we can see from this particular publication related to whether the patients are candidates or not candidates for EVAR that significantly larger proportion of men are candidates for EVAR and this is a little bit outdated but at this point of time when this study was published 65 percent of males were candidates for EVAR while only 35 percent of women were candidates for EVAR with current technologies and as we mentioned before and we can see here clearly as far as some of the challenges with EVAR in women is concerned they have more frequently narrowed vessels, occluded vessels, tortuosities, calcifications and aneurysmal dilatations. There are several studies that looked into this particular issue and on an average from M2S database on over 43,000 CTs roughly 40 percent of patients have less than six millimeter access vessel diameters. Now in women this number is significantly greater and 55 percent of female population that have been evaluated for EVAR have access vessels of less than six millimeters. As far as infrarinial neck is concerned again we have certain issues as we mentioned that makes it difficult to perform EVAR such as short necks which are less than 15 millimeters in length, reverse tapered necks, calcium presence of thrombus, severe angulation and large diameter and again from M2S database 48 percent of patients that have been looked into have necks of less than 15 millimeters in diameter and therefore in length and therefore they're not candidates for EVAR. Now for women this number again is significantly larger and 63 percent of women have neck lengths less than 15 millimeters so a significantly larger number of patients have challenging infrarinial neck anatomy in women than in men. This means that women have to go for open procedures because they are not as many candidates for a stint graft. Or the surgery or endovascular treatment was not recommended for that particular reason. So they just were treated with medical therapy. Medical therapy and this is where the rupture rates are higher. So in another publication as we can see here from Lancet we can see that 34 percent of patients were in this particular study eligible for EVAR while 54 percent of males were candidates for EVAR. So as we can see here which is another interesting point is that more women declined intervention than men. So these were women that were offered the procedure but then they decided against it? They decided against it. Again it is not clearly known why but it's a fact that we have to take into consideration. That's a fact in all trials of intervention which is more likely to not pursue the recommended therapy. They're older. They just choose not to do it and to take the conservative route. Yeah this is true because in general women that develop abdominal aortic aneurysm are what we call typical vascular paths. They will have peripheral arterial disease. They will have renovascular disease. They will have coronary disease and frequently they have diabetes and they're smokers. So when we present the information to them I think it's appropriate and we do that. We mentioned that they are at higher risk for any kind of procedure and I think this was one of the factors that some of them declined those procedures. Now also as we can see here from this particular publication a significantly larger number of women have a higher 30-day mortality and again this is due to comorbid conditions. Almost double. Right. So what are the new developments for treatment of triple A in women? Well we have exciting things happening as far as EVAR is concerned or endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm in women is concerned. I looked at this several decades ago and what we found is that because of the challenges of access and challenges in anatomy we truly didn't have appropriate stem grafts for use in women and we needed devices that would be more suitable to a female anatomy and pathology and within the last decade or so the devices are becoming smaller, they're becoming more flexible and more what I would call user-friendly for deploying the stem graft and also offering good long-term outcomes. One of them is this ovation stem graft that has very innovative aspects from the point of view that it's a very low in profile, significantly lower than the other devices. This device is a 12 French in profile as far as ID and a maximum 14 French OD. While the great majority almost all of the other competitor devices are 16 or 18 French in profile which is a big big issue in challenging anatomy and small access vessels. So this device is well suited for narrowing of the arteries, severe calcification, and tortuosities as well as challenges of the infrowindal neck and one of the studies that we were involved in as a co-principal investigator was so-called life registry and life registry was the first study that looked into percutaneous approach, local anesthesia, no ICU admission and next day discharge using this low profile ovation stem graft and as far as percutaneous approach and successful femoral artery access repair it was achieved in 97 percent of patients which is higher than in any other previous publication. In addition to that this particular study showed the lowest incidence of major adverse events which was 0.4 percent at 30 days. In addition to that we had a very short procedure, significantly shorter than in other published studies as well as shorter hospitals stay 1.1 days and no ICU stay and we were able to achieve that because we had innovative technology with low profile device. So you've made the hospital happy because you got the patients out quicker and you made the patients happy because you were able to provide a service to people that ordinarily wouldn't be offered that service with low side effects. So this was an important step this particular study to look into the benefits of using this type of technologies in women that undergo EVAR and you can use it in men as well. Amen as well right so this study was published in general endovascular therapy a year ago. So what about the lucy trial? So the lucy trial was very exciting trial from the point of view that this was the first ever trial in women that underwent EVAR with a low profile device and the study actually was named on the basis of evaluation of females who are underrepresented candidates for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and the lucy study was initiated to explore the clinical benefits associated with EVAR using the low profile ovation prime system in female population. The ratio between men and women were two to one two men to one female ratio and again we wanted to make sure that in this particular study we had a control group to determine if there are any unexpected risks that were would be encountered in the female population. There were 75 females in the treated arm and 150 males in control arm and this study was carried on in 45 sites in United States so it means across the board representing most of the centers leading centers that are performing EVAR. So what were the results of this lucy study? The results were impressive I would have to say and here we can see as far as procedural outcomes concern the deployment success or ability to deploy the device in the desired location was 100% in women and 99% in in a male population and again this was not statistically significant but pretty much everybody got the everybody got a device right and there was also very high use of so-called percutaneous approach bilateral percutaneous approach as high in women as in men which again gives a tribute to the low profile device that's designed and dedicated for percutaneous use. Now also we can see there was no difference in procedure time even though women had a more challenging anatomy but it means that this device offered us the opportunity to do this procedure in a very efficient way and the vice time was evenly distributed the blood loss was similar in both groups and the use of adjunctive procedures was similar in both groups. Now what's also very important is when we look at the freedom from device related secondary interventions there was no difference between males and females. That's really impressive so Indoleaks were the same 97% success rate not only type 1 and the leak but also type 3 and the leak or instance of inclusion of the iliac arteries there were basically no significant difference between males and females which is the first time that we have ever seen this type of finding. So can you summarize what we've learned and what are the latest results of the evaluation and treatment of triple A's in women since that's what we're talking about today. Right well we have to realize that women are underrepresented as far as EVA is concerned in clinical trials until present time despite a distinct need to identify appropriate gender specific treatment algorithms which is of great interest and concern at the present time. Current screening procedures for abdominal aneurysm should be expanded to include and be more focused in an effort to identify affected females. So in the past the guidelines for screening aneurysms were for a male with a history of hypertension or smoking or family history to undergo routine screening but I'm not sure that the recommendations before now have included the screening of women for silent aneurysm so in our practice who should we should we be screening women with a family history those with hypertension and those who smoke after age 65 routinely by ultrasound is that what we're recommending now? I think that we should be screening males and females above the age of 65 on routine basis and you know you're expert in the ultrasound and it's a very inexpensive and very reliable tool easy to do easy to do it's being done but maybe not enough I think churches and many other it's not part of life screen I mean it well it may be part of some maybe should be yeah yeah so I think from that point definitely patients whether they're men or women that have hypertension history of smoking above the age of 65 and definitely those individuals that have family history of dominant aneurysm or other risk factors such as diabetes and so on right so females experience rupture at smaller aneurysm sizes than men and fewer women were in the past eligible for EVAR but that is no longer the case on the basis of the lucid trial so I think we have gained very valuable information that we can use for a future treatment of a female population with abdominal aortic aneurysm most excellent we have plenty of room to move on this move the needle on this I actually have patients that come in and with family histories that are worried and ask for screening and I think that getting the message out that we should be more eagerly screening women that are at increased risk but certainly I put the plug in for prevention works too so all the work that we're doing as doctors now for controlling blood pressure and counseling patients not to smoke or hopefully improving our later consequences for the development of aneurysms because certainly they are partially preventable in those patients that have the risk factors that that lead to it I absolutely agree I would like to congratulate you on your efforts through your woman's program that you have here at Texas Heart Institute in public awareness on not just related to the aneurysms but atherosclerotic disease and many other conditions that are of great concern to all of us as far as the future is concerned I see that the screening will be a routine thing I also see that there will be newer technologies available we will be probably more involved in preventive type of a care there is enough of information now available that there are a certain trials ongoing at least first in men that has been done where we can see that we can shrink aneurysms by using chemicals of different kind injecting into the aortic wall not only for atherosclerotic aneurysms but also for connective tissue disease so this was stabilized elastin and stabilize the collagen so makes it stronger right right so preliminary data is very very encouraging the information is already available from cadaver testing and also from the animal studies and first in men study has been already done in this particular that's really exciting so maybe the sten grafts are not going to be the future but medical treatment in the stabilizing the aortic wall and preventing the aneurysm increase over a period of time most excellent thank you very much for participating in this program and i'm looking forward to work with you on many other programs in the future thank you for your attention to these important discussions that we're having here at texas heart institute we're trying to get the message out


Shutting off river discharge into the ocean causes a rise in global average sea surface temperature by 0.5 °C, an increase of about 10% in Indian summer Mansoon rainfall, and changes in La Nina-like cooling events and their correlation with Pacific SST anomalies, all due to teleconnections between Pacific SST anomalies and Mansoon via upper tropospheric meridional temperature gradient and the North African Asian jet axis. This article was authored by P. N. Vinayachandran, S. Jaffa, Anna S. Nanjandia.


The Expert Advisory Panel is a formal meeting at FAO that brings together experts in fisheries, experts in trade, but also experts in the species that have been proposed for society's listing. These experts examine the information provided by the proposals to see if the species meets or doesn't meet the criteria. It's important to bring the experts together because they have a long-term, on-ground and on-water experience of the data that's used in the arguments made of whether a species meets or doesn't meet the criteria. One of the joys and one of the challenges of being chair of the panel is the diversity of people and all of the expertise ranges that we have in the room. As we look at how to assess the criteria for each of the species, it's wonderful that we have the mix of trade experts, of biological experts, of population dynamic experts that come from countries all over the world. It's always good to have experts in fisheries and trade and the species together. And in the conversations that are had around whether a species meets or doesn't meet the criteria, the inside knowledge of those data sets, alongside having the CITES Secretariat in the room, allows a very informed discussion which will help the CITES parties. It says that by virtue of a cautionary approach and in cases of uncertainty regarding the status of the species or the impact of trade on the conservation of the species, the party shall act in the event that the taxidermy convention provides that the CITES Secretariat should consult with intergovernmental bodies who have a role in the management of marine species. And really FAO is a priority consultee in this process. FAO established this expert panel to review each of the amendment proposals. There are six related to commercially exploited aquatic species at the upcoming meeting and they will send the panel report to the CITES Secretariat and then we will make that available to the CITES parties for their consideration at the conference of the party's meeting. Our job as a secretariat is to ensure that our parties have the best and most up-to-date information in order to make a sound decision and we're confident that this FAO panel will provide excellent information. When examining data, these experts understand the difference of both the temporal, the spatial and the methodologies used in collecting the information that informs if a species is highly vulnerable or not vulnerable from the effects of fishing. The upcoming CITES COP in Panama in November has important implications for sustainable fisheries worldwide. And FAO hopes that the FAO panel report is well read by the CITES parties so it can help inform their decision making of whether species meets or don't meet the CITES criteria.


Our team coming in! Naval Station wrote us Military Working Dog Division, or MWD, trains every day to make sure they are ready for any situation. We want to advance our dogs from where they currently are, so we're always working on something new. For new handlers, it helps them learn the process of advancing and just the different ways of training the dogs.  We train with roadways for deployment style problems, as well as buildings and things of that nature. We train on vehicles a lot as well. Throughout training, people can feel overworked, but for these dog handlers, there's no such thing. Well, we're always working to advance our dogs. The people that plant the problems try to put themselves in the tear of shoes, so you never really know what to expect in a deployment or downrange area, so you want to prepare your dog for everything possible. That's exactly what they're doing. Every day, from patrol training to detection and obedience, MWD continues to train. Seaman Mikaela Garrison, Rota, Spain.


Hey, everybody, it's Eric Johnson from AirTay. Today's video, we're going to go through the glide. We're going to go through a quick crash course, about a six, seven minute clip from one of our free webinars. If you've missed out on those, check the link below in the description. Sign up for the next one. We're always trying to put out some good quality info to help you guys get better direction and learn how to get better faster. So she was really pulling the kick way up and see how the shots back, the legs are more into the throw, hips are more in. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. Okay, I'll just pull up this video. And I think I showed this on one of our webinars. There's an example of kick leg. Boom, see how that kick leg pulls up? This was the before on this athlete, okay? So that is going to cause a whole bunch of problems. So this is a HEPT athlete, Canadian U20 athlete. She came down to Arizona for some training. Again, this is what she was doing. And so this is what we switched it to. And again, this is a perfect example. You're going to notice I don't have her super coil.  You can see, should we start her taller? And we do a pull up and that's what we teach. The pillar one two really avoids for a lot of you guys posting comments, like you're seeing athletes that have a difficult time getting loaded up and creating the line. They're probably trying to push themselves out of their strength capabilities. And while this athlete was really quick and explosive and actually strong, we still didn't have her with a super low dynamic position. So you can see, should this enable her to get into a better position? So I think I do the comparison. So right here, you can see, here's the difference. You see how we're changing the line by keeping the kick leg and teaching the athlete. This is again, one of our drills, we call it a pull up. We're trying to teach an athlete how to pull the kick leg and pull the hips up into this position, if that makes sense. What we're trying to do is see the athlete, the hips have to come up. So you're gonna see what we did is we changed the pillar two. So we changed the hip alignment. So notice how she has a more bend here, but this kick leg is gonna cause her to drop into the throw too early. Whereas this, we were allowing her to be able to get a more dynamic kick leg extension because it's not pulled up as far. So she was really pulling the kick leg way up, had learned to just make it a dominant kick leg side. And so what we were trying to say is this is how we changed that position. And so you can see, once she's here, you can see how we're gonna be able, she's gonna get a lot more extension. So watch when she goes, she's gonna push. Now, she was pushing off of her heel correctly here because she was falling. And here she started to push a little more off her toe. Long story short, month after or so, after this she PR'd about a meter on her glide. And so she, what she was pretty happy about. So you can see again, how this allows the athlete to stay more on the right leg longer, engage the block and get more delivery. You can see how the shots back, the legs are more into the throw, hips are more in. That's all because of that pillar too.


All right, Lady, where's that thing that time that you put that thing? Zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, here it is. It's a floppy disk image on this square display. So it's in a floppy disk. It's a floppy drive. So this is a 720 by 720 square display. And it does have a touch screen on it. So you can draw, I'm just doing dots. But of course you could have it draw lines and stuff. And it happens to be almost exactly the same size as a floppy disk. So it's kind of fun when somebody had the idea of like, oh, you could have like a smart floppy. It'll show it's being emulated or something. It's kind of fun. And then this is being driven by an ESP32 S3, which, you know, fun fact for people who are watching this video all the way to the end. Circuit Python support is coming for these displays real soon now. Jepler just got the first demo working. But this demo is in Arduino and it's just drawing a JPEG that is being stored on this SD card onto the 720 by 720 square display. Coming soon.