I hope you are all good, the purpose of this video is just to say thank you to everyone, especially those who subscribe to the videos or to my channel. I just want to appreciate you and say thank you for being part of the channel. I also want to take this opportunity as well to thank those who subscribe and became members. I know I haven't offered a lot in terms of membership of this channel. I will explain more about membership in any other stage. But for now, I just want to use this opportunity to thank everyone for being part of the channel in 2022 So, the 2023 subscription will rise. At the moment, I am sitting at 1184 subscribers in 2022, which is a milestone. And I hope to grow the channel to 2023 and so on. And like with my previous videos, I always say I do this because of you. I engage with the content and try and explain it in a better way because I want you to succeed. So, like I always say, rise while you do others. So, I am trying to lift you guys up. I hope to continue doing this in 2023 as well. And also, I want to say I appreciate and congratulations to everyone who views this channel to study. And be successful. And they have passed their modus on their degree at their work. And those who did not write their exams or they struggled as they don't exam, while not, in January, we will be back with more videos explaining some of the concepts, struggling more activities to assist you to write your exams in February, January, February. So, I am still going to be here to assist you. But other than that, continue watching the videos. I will say I am there for you to advise your work. In 2023, I have plans to have more engaging sessions. And I will try to do more live sessions where we can engage. Not only the people that I assist in the groups that I assist back to engage the community and learn more from each one. But I will really also appreciate that you also assist in terms of indicating a type of topics you want me to try. The other thing is that I am going to start to do short comparison of short-term studies of serious explaining concepts and doing a lot of activities that are different in different videos. So that then the timing is also not too long because I think one hour 30 minutes is takes the longer. For teachers, they can concentrate for almost an hour 30 minutes. So I will try to make the videos shorter next year. And I want to also wish you a prosperous 2023. And I hope you see more in 2023 and in which you see more in 2023. And thank you for liking the videos. Thank you for leaving your comments, your feedback. It's really, really important. I really appreciate it. And I wouldn't have done this without your support. Thank you. I honor you. Thank you very much.


Oh, Megan!  Hello. Oh, I just put my hair in my face. Hello, it's Megan from The Future here because I just realised when sitting down to edit this that I never actually filmed an intro. But quickly before I actually get into what the video is about, I just wanted to let you all know that I am doing a poll over on my Twitter for what I should do for my 1K celebration when we eventually reach that. The mind boggles, like... I really can't believe I'm even anything close to that number. But yeah, I wanted you all to have a say in what I do. So the link will be down below in the bio if you wanted to check that out and go have a vote. Now, in today's video, we have a really special experience when I meet Charlie Cox, who is a British pirate. She is one of my favourite poets ever. Her first poetry collection, She Must Be Mad, was one of my favourite books this year so far. And I've mentioned it a few times on my channel. And in the studio, I had an opportunity to go to a book signing and a poetry reading for her next collection, which is out now, which is Validate Me. And yeah, it was really, really great. So I just wanted to share that in a video for you guys. So yeah, go vote down below and I hope you enjoy the rest of this video. So I'm just about to leave for the event. I think I've filmed like a little bit before this, explained to you. But I've got my copy. I am in a time rush. No one says that, but yes. Which is why I don't want to say and I'm panicking. And look at that. Oh my god, no, I can't even go out in public looking like this. But I've got no time to... It's because I had to put more makeup on top of my really existing makeup because I didn't have time coming up from uni to do my whole makeup again. And that's so embarrassing. That's so embarrassing. I can't. Anyway, when I go get a sign, woo! I went to a very expensive hotel every morning and nursed a cup of coffee for about eight hours, constantly refilling up with drinks that I had in my bag so they just assumed that I'd reordered and they hadn't noticed. And it got to a point where I just sort of felt like a local. I'd really convinced myself to be on the realms of lying, but maybe it was true. And one particular day I was really sad. Really, really sad. And had sort of bypassed everyone there and thought, you know, I'm just going to go and sit in the smoking area all day and keep the curtain closed and try and work out what the fuck's wrong with me. And then someone ruined it but also made it a little bit better. You can't walk the bar and head for the screen.  Just mumbles of others, a curtain between. Sat entirely alone, unmasked with huge swollen eyes, feeling uncomfortably alive, feeling finally seen.  It's grim and it's snotty. It reeks of sweat and of sleep. It curdles within you a rotten green pang and then, from out of the barrier, a stranger puts out his hand. You shrug off, reluctant. He's killing your moment. But actually there, he's properly showing you it. London, his voice swells. You must be an actress. Not quite, you reply, though. This is definitely acting. But your beauty, that accent, what's your success? I guess today I've finally got out of bed. That's all there is. Everything else is a mess. Kid, he says, look, this guy's pulled straight from a film. You've got yourself here. I saw you come over to hide, head bowed as you walked. I'm going to talk and I'll give it to you straight. You don't need to smile for the room but put one on your face because what you feel inside is the best art that you'll make. It's all yours to keep, but it's getting you down because you've been giving it out instead of giving it a chance to gruminate. I'm so glad I wasn't growing up in the digital age because I've learnt that it's all much too easy to fade when you're forced to dine out on gesture, giving meals for those who weren't meant to take. I don't know if they're happy as forest or whatever.  I'm super boring. I don't believe you've not even had half a second. What's your name? Megan. Hi, Megan. Hi, Megan. Did you enjoy that? I really enjoyed it. Sure. Positive. Positive. Yay. I've been a fan of your project ever since. It seems like such a niche for ever since. Oh my god, yeah. She's such a good egg. It's not so bad that she's not to come to my house or my mother's house to be sweaty as day. Yeah. It's too like an interview. So your family's like, I can feel my skin sticking to my organs. We don't really want to talk. I hope you enjoy it.  So it's like, I've pre-ordered it. Oh, yes! I was like, I'm ready, boys. I'm ready. Oh, Megan!  I don't know how to react. I mean, I do. Like with the biggest smile in the world. I'm... Oh my god. See, I was right. I knew that you were a good one. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, of course you can. So I just got home. She was so lovely. The event was incredible. I'm so excited to read this tomorrow. I think I'm just going to like read the whole thing tomorrow because all the poems I was just like... Wow. Yeah, she was lovely. She was so lovely. And we spoke for ages. She said I was like a ball of warmth. She was like... I noticed like she looked to me quite often when she was reading stuff out. Like not in like a... Oh, she was looking at me way, but like... I just felt like I was trying to be like encouraging, you know? We spoke about Ariel because she's in Ariel's documentary about poetry, if you've seen that. That's how I found out about her.  All my love, Charlie. Isn't she just... I feel like I haven't expressed to you how great it was meeting her and how kind she was and how like just great it was talking to her. And like getting up to fight with her at the end was so nice. That's definitely a step up from my meeting Jess Phillips because I didn't do well there, but Charlie was just like... We just got each other, you know? We just... I don't know what to say. Wow, that was so cool. That was so cool. Okay, bye. It's the next day and I tweeted last night that I wanted to read it all in one sitting today, but my schedule doesn't want that. So I've only had time today to read the first section. It's split into four sections, which are objectify me, love me, suffocate me, validate me. And so my thinking is I'm essentially going to check in with you after each of those, tell you which was my favorite poem in the section and then we'll do like a final wrap up at the end. I read the first section, which was objectify me. I really enjoyed it. I really love her prose section, so it's a mix of... So there's just like the poems, poems, poems, and then there's like these little, little, little... Just couple liners on those gray pages. Some of the ones on gray pages are a bit longer than that. That is one of the shorter ones. Then we've got poems that take up like two pages instead of the one. Have a bigger header. I don't know why that is. But then we have prose sections that are kind of, you know, like written like a mini story. I really enjoyed The Walking Center, which is a piece of prose. I feel like I related to it because she was talking about like being convinced something's wrong with you health-wise and that was something I struggled a lot with. During the first year of uni and I'm like trying to make sure it doesn't happen again. But in terms of my favorite poem from the piece, it would probably be hashtag spawn, which is the second to last poem in the piece. And it's essentially about how sexuality and advertising used to be a lot more overt, I guess, and obvious with page three, with the, you know, TV adverts, stuff like that. But now it's all hidden in the Instagram sponsorships, the protein powders, the skinny teas, you know, that kind of thing. I'm going to really outfeed quickly. I hope she doesn't mind. I'm not going to do as good a job reading it as she did reading her own poems last night. Are we ready? Sit down, relax. It used to be tits nestled in headlines, a break from the crude, flipped to page three, check out the nude. It used to be lips sucking on flakes, want a dose of arousal, skip to the ad breaks. It used to be legs on bonnets of cars, should only be seen on the right arm. It used to be trashy, demeaning and brutal. It all seemed so brazen, so obvious, so futile.   Love you all back this morning. Thank you, thank you. It's really good, it's really good. I was worried that, you know, it wasn't going to live up to the first one. I always worried that with any author after reading a piece of their work that you loved so much, whether it be fiction, whether it be non-fiction or whether it be poetry, you always feel that fear. But also meeting her and having such a great experience meeting her, I felt like that doubled. I felt, I felt like, oh, I have to love this now, because it was so lovely. So the next section is Love Me. So I will let you know what I think. I'll let you know what I think of that once I've read it, and that'll be when I check it back with you next. So it's the next day and I just finished the second section, which is Love Me. Parts of this just broke my heart. She's been through a lot of, like, romantic situations that she writes about that I have never been through. So, like, I can't relate. But it's still, it's really upsetting. You really, really, like, feel for her, but also, like, feel for their pretty common experiences.  And in terms of my favorite poem from this section, hang on, let me have a think. Oh, I really liked Glowing. So, um, are we glowing? Glowing is kind of just sort of an idea of how it's set out, like, the format of it. The first couple lines are, um, aligned, like, on the right of the page, and then the rest are aligned just on the left. When you wake, your eyes are drawn to the screen, and I imagine all the people before us who didn't have these things, who'd have lazed and lounged and gazed, touched and smiled and yawned and snaked. I don't need your hand in the street. I don't need our parents to meet. I don't need six months as a feat. I just want to know all that's between us, beneath the sheets, in your eyes and mine, our legs intertwined, instead of waking up to you on your sodding phone. One thing I like about Charlie Cox's poetry is that she's really funny, um, amidst all the kind of really tough, uh, topics that she tackles. I really like humour in poetry, and she really does that so, so well. I haven't really encountered another poet that does it as well as she does. So, I think that poem's like a good, uh, demonstration of how she tackles these difficult topics, whilst still being humorous and funny. So, I'm gonna go out to a seminar now, and then I'm gonna come home and read the last two sections and give you my final thoughts on this, but I am just loving it so far. So, I finished it. I know I was supposed to be checking in, like, every section, but I just didn't want to stop reading, so I just read it all. I gave it five stars. I think if I was to recommend Charlie's poetry to you, it would be to explain, essentially, it's all about love, relationships, friendships, mental health, relationships with yourself, and in this one, particularly the relationship with online, and how that's affected so many of us. As I was saying before, I love the prose sections so much. I love so many of the poems. I thought this one was laid out really well. It was laid out in a bit of a different way to the last one, and you could definitely see there's like a step-up made there as well. But the poetry is just so beautiful, and it really is for like the modern young person, I feel like. I don't think there's a lot of poetry writing about experience as a young person, particularly in the UK, but worldwide as well, the pressures that you feel, and even if they're pressures that you necessarily go through yourself, for example, like when she was talking about difficulty in like kind of transient relationships as a young person, like that's also something I relate to, necessarily, but it makes you understand a lot more the people around you and the kind of society that you're in. So it's such an important read, and if you're into poetry or wanting to get more into poetry, I'd really recommend picking this up. As always, I just want to say a big thank you for coming here and supporting my channel, and yeah, I just feel so, so lucky to be getting to talk to you about different kinds of books and just general books, whatever. I don't know what I'm saying, but thank you, thank you, thank you as always for being here, subscribe if you're new and if you haven't before, and yeah, hopefully I will see you soon with another video. Bye!


Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to BC 314, our course on media and technology and ministry. Good to see all of you. It takes half a year. We haven't met for a long time. Anita, Tafina, Debbie, Aradhana, Rosalynn, Zalitoli, Debbie. Well, thank you all for joining the class. And I think the others also should be joining us. I just changed, I had to change the the classroom link. So maybe some students haven't joined us. Let me post a message. Let's let the students know that the link to, yeah, so I just had to update the link to the global classroom. So I'm not changed. All right. Yep. So others are joining in. Good morning, everyone. Joan and Vega. Good to see all of you in the class. Great. Let's pray. Let's get started. The others will join us shortly. We will get going. So could somebody please take a moment to pray with a class and then we'll start. That's great. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for the new semester that we're about to start, Jesus. God, we thank you for the course. We thank you for Pastor Ashish who's gonna teach us. But I just pray that Holy Spirit will be with us throughout the session as the pastor teaches us, help us to open our mind and heart and listen to what I understand it and accept it and be fully convinced in the truth. And God, whatever we have learned, whatever we are going to learn, Jesus help it to apply it in our life so that we can be a blessing to the generation and to the generation that is about to come. We thank you for Pastor Ashish and I bless all the classmates over here and help us to have a good life by commission throughout the session so that we can equip us for the greater purpose and the calling that you have placed in our life. We give you all the glory and honor in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you. All right. So welcome to once again. Welcome to BC 314. Just a few minutes back I posted the PDF for our first lecture. So as we keep going through the course, I'll keep giving you the lecture notes, PDF, and you can just take it from the Classwork section and stay updated with the content that we're going to cover. So let's first introduce the course and what we're going to do, what our objectives are, and so on. Media and technology in ministry. And I'm really excited about this area, media and technology, because, you know, I would say in one way that we're actually privileged to be living in a day and hour like this, where we can actually have these tools of media and technology to serve people, right? If you go back in time, you know, a couple of centuries ago, maybe or even in the last century, if you wanted to reach people, you had to physically travel. And those days, people had to travel either by road or by ship. So you just imagine in those days, if you wanted to go and share the gospel with somebody, you know, just in a different part, in a different state, you had to physically travel. There's no other way. You have to go then, you know, so much of time, so much of energy, so much of effort to go. And then slowly time evolved. And the media and technology tools came, tools emerged, where today, literally, you can be in one part of the world. And you can serve people in so many different parts of the world. And it really is not, it makes, makes things so much more easier, right? You can be in many places at the same time, through using these tools of media and technology. You can serve people, according to their convenience, it doesn't cost us so much money, you don't have to buy a plane ticket and keep traveling place to place. So many things can happen. And so this, it's just an exciting time. And this whole, if we just learn how to make use of these tools, it enables us to serve so many more people in a much, much easier way. So really excited about this, this area, and also feel so privileged that we can make use of these, these tools to reach so many people so quickly all over the world. So this is not a technical course. That means we're not going to teach you how to use cameras or teach you how to, you know, build things and software. So there's absolutely no need, you know, to be a technical person to do this course. We will be touching on certain technologies. I'll be mentioning things to you. The idea is to inform, to keep us informed of what is available there. And some thoughts that you would need in making decisions and making choices. When it comes to media technology, of course, there will be people who are helping you in the ministry, who will be experts on this, they will know, you know, the media, they will know the technical part, they will know all of that. But when you are having conversations with them, when you have to make decisions, when you have to make certain choices, when you have to think about strategies, then of course, it's important that you know yourself, you know, what is that? How do I make the right choice? What is the criteria? So it's good for us, whether you're a pastor or whether you're whatever kind of ministry you're doing, it's good to know these things so that you can engage meaningfully with the people who are on your team, whom you're going to work with and help make the right choices and right decisions. So this course is coming from that perspective more to inform us on all the opportunities that are there and how we can make use of them. And what are some things to be careful about when you're using these things? Because you don't want to do something wrong and then, you know, unnecessarily cause trouble for the church or ministry that you are serving. So some of the things that we will cover today, we will just begin by looking at the trends and, you know, and understanding the generations that we are serving. We look at some data online. Of course, all of these things keep changing almost, almost from month to month. So we'll just look at data online and try to understand where things are. We'll talk a little bit about contemporary methods. So we will, we'll say, okay, you know, these are all the options, things that are there. And what are the guidelines we should use when we are working with different methods in ministry? Let me talk about how things have changed in various areas in the ministry of the word, you know, how things have changed and how today people are ministering the word of God. Talk about changes that have taken place in the gathering, in the venue where people gather together. You know, if you come to APC, it doesn't look like this old church building. It's very different.   They have LEDs and lights and this that looks very different. But people are still worshiping God, they're learning about the word of God. We talk about how worship has changed the introduction and the use of creative arts, print media, which is still a very useful tool. I will talk a little bit about radio and television. Some of the entity and then some other, you know, current media, which is entertainment, movies, gaming. So when you talk about entertainment, we include performing arts over there. Then we kind of move into more of a, some of the digital side of things. I will talk about digital communications, some guidelines, you know, when we communicate digitally, you know, through email, social media, those things. What are some guidelines you do? You need to keep in mind. We'll also talk about some guidelines for graphics and videos. We'll talk about the use of social media. We'll then cover digital equipment, you're right, from cameras on to audio equipment, to live streaming equipment, those kinds of things. Then we talk about software platforms that we can use and we'll close up, I guess, talking about an important part of protecting people's data and confidentiality and privacy. A lot of what we'll be sharing, especially in the second part of what we're doing in digital communications, is basically what we are using at APC. I'll be just sharing with you, you know, this is what we're doing at APC and this is how we are going about things. So it's coming from a practical, this is how we're doing things and sharing with you and also point you maybe to some other churches or ministries that kind of are on the cutting edge of how they're using these media and technology and the tools that are there and point you to those kinds of things. So this is generally how we are going to go, what we're going to cover in this course. I hope you'll find it useful. As always, there'll be one simple assessment at the end and it's a non-technical assessment, so you don't have to memorize or learn any technical things. Just cover that, okay, you understood the course, you understood the ideas that we have shared, how to make decisions, etc. So that would be the assessment. So you don't have to worry about learning technology and so on. Okay, so let's get started. We want to talk about the trends that are there and just understanding generation. So I'll just introduce this and then we will take time, feel free to ask questions anytime like how we always do. So when we talk about media, we're really talking about the various means of communicating en masse, that means to large numbers of people. So we're talking about different forms of communication, whether you're doing broadcasting, publishing, online, internet, and they can take on different formats, whether you're doing print media or you're doing television, movies, games, music or using mobile phones, all kinds of things. So basically, we're talking about means to reach the masses, that's what we're referring to when we say media. Technology of course, we are using that to talk about the skills, the equipment that we use, the software and the hardware that we use in order to do what we want to serve people or to manage data or to communicate and so on. So media and technology, technology referring to the software and the hardware, the equipment, the things that we use to serve the people. Now, it's very interesting to look at some information online. Let me see, am I sharing it? Oh, I'm so sorry. I did not start sharing my screen. Oh, I'm really sorry. Let me share my screen. Okay, I'm so sorry. I should have started by sharing my screen. All right, so here's the course notes. I was looking at my course notes and I forgot that I was not sharing. So this was kind of just the introduction I gave. And these are the things we're going to be covering in this course, the trends and methods and so on, and the grading maps and so on. So in the PDF here, we just explained what media technology. So let's look at some online data and I just give the link here because some of these things keep on changing time to time. So it's best to go online and see what's the current data. So what's happening globally in the digital world. So we just go to this link. And I think you can see it is ignore the advertisements because it is an online portal. So you can see my screen. Yeah, okay. So as of towards the end of 2023, we can see that about 65% of the world's population are online, they're using the internet.  But it's definitely a huge percentage, you know, 65% of the world are connected to the internet, they're online. And it's growing. Right. It's increased, you know, by so almost almost 4% year on year, things are increasing. And you look at the internet use over time, you can see steady increase, it means more and more people, individuals are connecting are being connected online. Right. So this gives us a great opportunity. If we can leverage the internet, we have the potential of reaching a huge part of the world's population, you know, just online, because they are there. Now, of course, we have to take into account language. Not everybody is speaking English, but a good percentage will speak English. We have taken into account how they're accessing the internet. A good percentage will be using mobile phones. Some will be maybe on computer laptop, other those kinds of devices. And so on. So, you know, we have to take those things with take those things into account, of course, but there's so this gives us such a big opportunity. Right. And let's look at these things here. The out of the total population. You've got about 5.6 billion people who are phone subscribers. 69% have a mobile phone. 65% using the internet. And 61% are in some form of social media. So this is a great opportunity. Again, you know, for us to understand that there are people that we can reach online, through the internet, through social media, and they are connected using their mobile phones. Sorry, sorry. You can read this is a lot of information that we can read about, sorry, but all the ads here. So, and this whole presentation is something you can look into. And I'm just going to go to some of the digital reports. I'm sorry, these ads here, top 10 trends. It's the same data here. Okay, so it's got a lot of this data. I'm not necessarily going to go through all of them. But the point is this data is available, and you can look at what is happening. So you can see, you know, in terms of male and female, how many people generally are online. And, you know, there's a lot of other data they want to highlight some things you can see where, from different parts of the world, what the population of people who are online.  So huge percentage, huge numbers of people, I should say, online from different these regions, Asia, East Asia, or online reaching, and it gives us an opportunity to reach them. So think, think about this, you know, we can be sitting here somewhere in India, Asia, and we have access to reaching so many millions of these numbers are millions of people all over the world, what an opportunity. So we can reach people all across. And there's a lot of other information, I'm not going to go through all of this data. The other other piece of information that we can also look at, that I've linked to in the again, this is another website that gives us data status term. So this is as of October 23, a number of internet users, number of social media users. Let me also click on the other one. We look at the, you know, so what are people doing online? Right? Of course, people are trading online a lot. But then look at the number of emails, what's our messages, the global hours that are spent online. And then what do we see? We see a lot of people searching online. All right. So that's an opportunity like if people are searching online. Yeah, if we can, you know, make use of that when people are searching, can they find us? People are spending a lot of time on Facebook posts, doing things on Facebook. They're spending a lot of time watching Reels or sending on Instagram. They're spending a lot of time on shopping on Amazon. Some are on Twitter. And some are also streaming songs online. So you see, this is where people are spending time online. You know, what are people doing? They're watching content on Twitch as well.  Can we in some way, engage in some way connect to what people are doing, what they're spending their time on? Right? So it's good to have this kind of information. So we can look at what's going on. What are, okay, this data is a little old, almost one year old. But what are the most popular apps that people are using? Actually, what's have lots of people are using WhatsApp. So that's a good thing. So we need to see how we can leverage that. And of course, and there are other apps that people also use. But many people are on WhatsApp can be, they used to be a time when SMS was a big thing. But now you know, people are moved away from that and spending more time engaging on WhatsApp. So we can try and leverage that or connected people using that kind of information. So so it's good for us to just stay in touch with current trends. I've just given you some links here. For us to say, okay, this is what people are doing online. This is where people are spending their time. This is the kind of media they're consuming. You saw that they people are spending, you know, time watching shot reels.  But in terms of total time that people are spending, shot reels, right? So can we do things there that will connect with people, people want to spend one minute, two minutes, watch something interesting, keep moving on. So can we do things that so it's good to understand where people are spending their time, where they are so we can reach. The other thing that we must keep in mind when we're thinking about using media and technology is to understand different generations. And again, a data is available online on all of this. And I'll just try to summarize some of these thoughts. Understanding different generations, right? So sociologists people who study society and generations, they, they, they classify generations in groups of every 15 years, every 15 years, right? So the generations that we are interested in, because we can go all the way from earlier generations, the baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, alpha and beta, the slope out in the future, because of the future. But every 15 years is a generation. So some of us belong to the baby boomers in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Gen Z, X, Gen Y, and then the Gen Z, which is basically 95 to 2010, that range, right? And then you have the Gen Alpha, it's 2010 to the current year that we are about that 15 year period. So, and we can study, you know, each of these generations to see how we are engaging with media and technology, and what has been the impact. And there's one Christian organization that has done a lot of study on it, and they put out there, they've shared their study online, so you could go to global youth culture, not net and look at that research. But I'm just summarizing some of the things that they have found. And it's not too long ago, 2020 research, just asking Gen Z the questions. So remember, Gen Z would be people who, you know, maybe in their teens to their, so the late 20s, right, the teens of the late 20s, they're there in that range. And what here's just a summary of that research, right? They found out that this generation, and if you look at people that we are trying to reach the teens, the young adults, that's basically Gen Z that we're trying to look at. What do we find? We find that they're also they're the least religious generation ever. They have moved away from conventional expressions of faith, trying to define faith on their own, you know, okay, I will figure this out, I will make my own philosophy and I'll be my own. So in terms of following conventional faith, they are least religious doesn't mean that they have no interest in God. It just means that they are trying to define things on their own. And some of them in their journey may end up saying there's no God, but they're trying to define things.  So almost from the moment they were born, they were exposed to all kinds of digital tools and content, they're constantly connected. They're entrepreneurial, they like to, you know, try out new things, step out new things. The way they learn is very different.  No, they're self they can learn and they will learn whatever they want, because content is there for them, readily available. And they're also very ambitious. So this is the summary of the findings, the lot more details that you can look at. But, you know, what, what is the impact of all this on their lives, on the lives of these people? And this is, you know, interesting. They don't believe, they don't believe that if you're online, it has to compromise your authenticity. That means you can be authentic. You know, of course, we know that a lot of false things happen online. We know that. But they also the gen, we're talking about Gen C, the teens and young adults, they feel that, hey, I can be just myself. You know, so I what you see is things that I'm expressing, I can be authentic, I can be real. But you know, we know that some things are not always that.  The large number feel that they are actually authentic, not fake, makes them feel confident and included. And a lot of them also would like to remain anonymous. And, you know, they can handle multiple social media accounts and it's just something they do easily work through. So for them, it is what's interesting is they don't see social media as an enemy of authenticity. Many of us by default, you say, you know, who people that's not the real person, but they don't perceive it like that. They look at it as a space where they can say what they want to say, express what they want to express freely and stay anonymous, not, you know, not necessarily want to reveal themselves. So that's an interesting finding. Another interesting thing is they are heavily connected, you know, almost eight hours, you know, they spend almost eight hours online connected. They are constantly connected. Majority of the teens and younger adults have their own phone. They if they don't have the phone, they have anxiety. And this is a new thing.  I haven't checked my phone the last five minutes or something like that. That's a negative impact that they all feel. They can't handle being separated from their phone. And but it also has the result of sleep deprivation. I mean, there's so much of time is consumed on that.  So that's something you need to recognize the impact of it. A lot of this is this is more specific to us teens, they spend so many hours on social media. And it affects them emotionally. It doesn't pack them. And they can feel depressed, which leads them to so subtle thoughts, right? So that's the impact, a negative impact of being online so much and how it's affecting people. And there are other aspects as well. Like we mentioned, the entrepreneurial, the self learners, I mean, they learn a lot. So education itself has been redefined in terms of Gen Z and because of the internet and generation alpha. So there's an interesting study online. I'll click on this because I think it's useful to know it's there that you could go and look at I'll see they have a free PDF here. It's a nice infographic that you can look at. I think I'll we have this somewhere. Okay, wait a minute. All right, let me just think I'll read downloaded this one minute. Just give me a moment. All right, let me just share this share my screen. Okay, so this is that that graphic that you can just download from that lane. So basically, what it's what it's saying is that when you look at different generations, X, generation X, Y and Z and and the number of people who are in the workforce, and generation alpha, that are slow, some of them are slowly coming into the workforce. You know, they're just trying to help us understand what are the characteristics of these, these different generations. And each each generation is, you know, has grown up with different technologies, different ways of learning, and so on. Okay, maybe this is. Yeah. So again, you can look at it, you know, in detail, the technology that are coming in or things that are, you know, which gen Z gen alpha are very comfortable with. The iPads, the Instagram, having Siri and other voice assistance, and so on. And all of the these things that all the generation, the baby boomers, the gen X, those things are being slowly going out. Whereas these new technologies are what is coming in, which the Gen Z and Gen Alpha are in a family of it, and also the change in the kinds of jobs. If you look at the lowest row, the new kinds of jobs that are coming in, which these then the incoming generation are comfortable with. And here's, you know, are the same thing is kind of put in a vertical way, the toys, the music devices, the leadership styles on the screen content. So generally, the builders, as that's, you know, we may not have too many of them, but 1924 1945 generation. Yeah, the leadership style has met, you know, was very unilateral controlling. They watched cinema, cinemas, maybe boomers was again, similar, very directing. We had televisions coming in. Gen X, more of coordinators, we had VHS tapes then. Gen Y, that's more of guiding. The internet came on. Gen Z, their teens and young adults, they're comfortable with empowering their onto mobile devices. The Gen Alpha, it's more of inspiring leadership that they're comfortable with more of streaming, watching things online, so on. That's how they can do. So it's just interesting to look at this information. And you can click on this link, Generation Alpha, and you can download the PDF. So that just so that the main point I want us to understand is how we communicate to different generations. We need to understand, right? So understand how Gen Gen Z, which other teens, young adults, Gen Alpha, just coming on Gen X and Gen Y, how these different generations, how they're relating to technology, what kind of media are they comfortable consuming? How they are engaging online, we need to understand these different generations so that we can prepare our content and we can use tools very meaningfully to target these generations. Okay, so let me pause you and see the any questions before we jump into our next chapter. Maybe we can go for a break and come back. Any thoughts, any comments, any questions so far with the introduction with what we're going to cover in this course and anything we've just spoken about now. Any questions, any thoughts? Everyone's fine? Okay, all right. Okay, so what I want to just bring our attention to before we go for the break is that we must be open to using contemporary methods in Christian minister, right? That means we should not think that media and technology are evil because in general, I'm speaking generally, in times past that was a default reaction from the church, you know, when television came first, oh that was a bad, that is the, you know, there was, you know, box, that is hell coming in, all kinds of people, I'm talking about the church generally, I'm speaking in general terms, I'm not saying everybody did it, but generally people say, oh no, television is such a evil thing. Then slowly people realize, hey, you can actually use television to preach the gospel and then we had a lot of Christian stations and preachers and people getting on television and they started, you know, bringing Christian programming on TV, in the middle of all the other things that are around, of course there's a lot of bad that the people were doing and then there's the general stuff, which is the news and other entertainment kind of things, but then the church realized we can use television to reach people. Same thing happened when the internet, you know, came on and said, oh no, internet don't go online, it's evil, it's on, so forth. Then he was, hey, we can actually use the internet to reach people and we can have a website, we can put out content and so on and so as new things, new media, new forms of media, new tools in technology become available, I think our response should not be, oh, it's an evil thing, don't engage, don't use, no. Our response should be, let me understand this and see how I can use it for kingdom work, for the sake of the gospel. Of course, a lot of other people will be using it, you know, to spread wrong things, evil things, that is their part, but we should look at, how can I use this, you know, for good? So even with recent advancements, like since last year, suddenly after Chan, GPT was released and then everybody started understanding about AI and you know, artificial intelligence and machine learning as well and you know, how should the church respond to it? I feel that we should look at, hey, how can I use that for the sake of the gospel? How can I use these, AI is just a tool, it's not replacing human beings, it's just a tool that we have created, we have made that we can, you know, take advantage of. So our response should be, how can I use this tool for the sake of the gospel? How can I put it to use to serve people? You know, and there are a lot of opportunities, even with the recent advancements in AI and machine learning that we can actually use for the sake of the gospel. And they've already started, already started using it, you know, and so we have to think like that and rather than by default saying any new thing is bad, we should be able to take it and say let's see how to use it. Okay, so with that let's pause for now and we'll come back and then we start, you know, getting into some more thoughts here that we want to share. Let's take a break and we'll come back in at 11 o'clock, a little longer break I think, 15 minutes, but it's okay. Just take your break and then we'll come back. Okay, see you in a few minutes, thanks.


breaking news happened about 15 minutes ago reported first by very own Adam Schefter the Jets have traded Teddy Bridgewater to the New Orleans Saints and now words coming in that they got a third rounder which is not bad so here's the way I have to look at it the money they gave up that they invested in Bridgewater that they have to pay Bridgewater is a million dollars now he's gonna get paid his five million by the New Orleans Saints now Mike Garifolo just tweeted this out and it does kind of put it in perspective remember the deal the Browns made where they took a 16 million dollar contract on yeah I remember just to get the second round pick so they essentially they paid 16 million dollars for second round pick that's how much they thought a second round pick was worth to them the Jets paid a million dollars for a third round pick and remember they gave up two second round picks to move up in the draft to get Sam Darnold who now with the trade of Bridgewater looks like it's a sure thing that he's going to start on opening night on Monday night so I think this was a smart move by McAgnum the only thing that I would question Don if you held on to him longer and somebody got hurt maybe you get more we remember Sam Bradford got a first round draft pick from the Vikings because Bridgewater went down ironically and I for the Eagles and you know Bridgewater is 25 years old showed that he was healthy you would hope that that knee is going to hold up but I think all in all you could wait you could roll the dice but Mike McAgnum said a third round hand third rounder in the hand is better than anything right and let's also not forget that it was McAgnum that completely wasted the second round pick on Hackenburg right so the fact that he was able to go out pay a million dollars for a third round pick doesn't make us forget that but definitely kind of makes up a little bit for what really was a waste of a pick a couple of years ago now I think this is the reason why they picked up Bridgewater I don't think they had any intention of him necessarily being a part of the 2018 mix hope he was healthy and then turn it into a pick and as far as waiting Michael if you wait and they wait till the deadline which is in October where you're three four games into the season and nobody gets hurt then then you're kind of stuck right now maybe somebody would have gotten hurt and giving you a first round pick but maybe you would wait until the trading deadline and have to give him away for a six or seven because nobody got hurt third round pick I think it's fine it really is you paid almost nothing for it you get to have Sam Donald who's been really good in the preseason but you're starting quarterback the mentor the guy that was really brought back here to be the glorified quarterbacks coach for your rookie quarterback is in place and now you get you get moving I think this is the perfect thing for the jets they could you should not be happy a third round pick I'm astonished I really am because Bridgewater didn't play for the last two years he didn't play a lot with the number ones and against number ones in the preseason so to turn that around for a third round pick I think is a great job by the jets now one thing that that to me is not perfect in this world Bridgewater to me is a better quarterback by a lot than Josh McCown I think the jets obscenely overpaid for a tutor for Sam Donald ten million dollars for Josh McCown is out of this world crazy if they had not given that sort of money to McCown then Bridgewater would be the backup but that would open up a little bit of a Pandora's box because since Bridgewater is 25 and has had success in the league any kind of struggles that Donald has which he's going to have as a rookie playing this league the fans would be chanting for Bridgewater you've eliminated that distraction or possible distraction but when you look at it just from a talent standpoint Bridgewater far better for better quarterback than Josh McCown so if Donald God forbid gets hurt all of a sudden Josh McCown's your quarterback rather than to rather than Teddy Bridgewater but they're not thinking along those lines I just I never understood why they gave McCown ten million dollars who else was giving him that money but when you talked you were with us when we talked to McCown this guy is all in I get it on tutoring the young quarterback with Teddy Bridgewater at 25 knowing that he was only going to be here for one more year looking to try to rejigger his entire career be as much a mentor to the young quarterback as before yeah but it's nice to have a guy this is not a coaching football is living John Gruden that makes ten million dollars but starting quarterbacks make double that right so triple that Aaron Rodgers so when the Jets brought him back there was a chance that McCown would be a starting quarterback right if the plan was to trade Teddy Bridgewater and if Sam Darnell was not ready Josh McCown would be your starting quarterback and that's kind of the going rate for even though he's 39 years old a quarterback plus the Jets had to spend the money they're so vastly under the cap so it really didn't matter that way Jets aren't hurting for money so that was kind of the going rate for what they were looking for and now he can be the backup quarterback and we know that he can be serviceable he was serviceable last year if something happens to Sam but 2018 is about the maturation of the young quarterback to see if they now have the future quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was brought here to maybe push that and turn it around for a pick and that's exactly what they got but I don't know I really don't think there was ever a plan Michael the Teddy Bridgewater is gonna be your starting quarterback in 2018 you're probably right unless Darnell got hurt in the first three games that's the only way he would have been they would have kept them I think according to Manish made of the Dally News an odd scene but Bridgewater was on the bus as the Jets were preparing to go to Philadelphia they weren't on the turnpike at this point they're still in the parking lot right he had gotten wind of the trade according to Manish made up and made it a point to board the team bus ready to go to Philly at the Jets facility so he could say goodbye so this guy handled himself very well yeah always smiled appreciated the second chance he's getting in a career because he almost lost his leg that's how bad this injury was and here he is he's going to back up what is now a 39 year old quarterback on a team that's ready to win right now you know if it wasn't for a freakish once in a lifetime play by the Vikings they they they might have gone to the Super Bowl hey listen you've got a 39 year old quarterback that's gonna turn 40 in January in Drew Brees Saints believe that they can be a championship caliber team and they don't want to throw their year away if their aging quarterback gets hurt they've got savage as a backup I think Bridgewater is better than him so it's a good move by the Saints they do eat you know five million dollars to their cap but I guess they were able to fit it in and now they feel like they've got a guy that they know they can be a quarterback for them if something happened to their 39 year old QB I think it's smart on both sides but a third round pick Michael I think is really great I know you fantasized about somebody going down and turning into a number one but it's a gamble still you know to pay one million dollars in essence for a third round pick after you you know wasted the second round pick on Hakenberg you traded two first round picks to move up to three hey you need got you need picks in a draft and now they've got a third out two second round picks to be able to get to move up to three for Bradford so you listen you got to get stockpile picks and they did that


You see what I'm saying? He did it like pop, he did it like, okay, how you know? How do you know he like pop? Bro, he spit this, he spit this hook that he made up to me one day. Okay. And I don't think he ever made the song. Hope I don't get copyrighted. But I'm gonna say the hook. And I really don't know who he was talking to on this song, but when I heard the hook, I just, man, he just had me rolling, man. I was, I was. He was talking about pop. Well, he was, he was talking about somebody else telling them they ain't pop.  You ain't pop, who?  You ain't pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, roll, roll. That's it, boy, you throw, man. I go back down to Atlanta when you was staying down there with him. Might have been before, after, but DLC was on here. And DLC talked about meeting Pimp C in Atlanta when he was staying with MC Breed. And this was a time when he says that Tupac was around, which is early on, gotta be early on, Tupac's deal was around. And he made mention like they was all in the same setting. Was there ever a time that you knew that he linked with Breed or any of those guys down there or you and him were just isolated to where you guys were living? And how long did you stay in Atlanta with him? About two and a half, two and a half years. No, no, no, like months. Oh, months, on projects. Yeah, it was like a whole summer. Okay, okay. Yeah, it was like a whole summer. What year was that? Man, what's going on? Oh, we got him thinking now. Boy, I wouldn't be able to think of that. That's why I'm glad I'm over here.  I want to say, let's see, I graduated in 98. So that had to be like 01, 02 or something like that. 01, 02? Yeah, it was after I graduated from college. Okay, so yeah, Poc would have been a long dead at this time. Yeah, early dead. He did like Poc though, bro. I know. When you say he did like Poc, give me an example why you would even say that. You see what I'm saying? He did like Poc. He did like, okay, how you know? How do you know he like Poc? Bro, he spit this, he spit this hook that he made up to me one day. Okay. And I don't think he ever made the song. I hope I don't get copyrighted, but I'm gonna say the hook. And I really don't know who he was talking to on this song, but when I heard the hook, it, I just, man, you just had me rolling, man. He was talking about Poc. Well, he was talking about somebody else telling them they ain't Poc in the hook.  You ain't Poc, who? Not you. You ain't Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc, Poc. That's it, boy, you throw, man. He was like, you ain't no Poc.  Yeah, yeah. And he was trying to let him know that you is not Poc. That was, that was in my tooth. You thought that was when you was down there? Yeah. We was riding together one day, man. He started spitting that hook to me, I just busted out laughing. I got an idea who he was talking about, but I ain't. No, you ain't got to see it, man. It was a couple dudes doing, trying to be Poc at this time and I didn't know it. Yeah, you know that. But, but I mean, people get inspired, man. It's people that start trying to sound like PMC after he passed away. You know, this is inspiration, bro. They try hard, like, but you get it. They want that person back, you know? And it's almost like, man, you trying to sound like Poc, you know? Yeah. You trying to sound like Bill. You trying to sound like Poc. You trying to sound like Biggie, whoever, you know? You know what I mean? Oh, go ahead. I think a lot of people, they do it and don't realize they doing it.  When he came out, Shine? Tell me who on the road with us. Not Shine, more so that Gorilla Gorilla. More so him. Gorilla. Shine kind of gave me his own little vibe. I didn't really catch Biggie from him, but I did catch him.  Yeah. Is there anybody who came out that reminded you of PMC? No, not really. Not really. I can't think about it. I think that's why he's so missed because there's nobody out there that really reminds you of him. All you got is the stories and the music that he recorded. Or even try to emulate him. You could try, but it is not going to be the same because of the way, to me, and it's from a fan perspective, just the way he left it all on the track. He ain't played no game when he was. Nah, he wasn't. He wasn't no feel to know, none of that and nobody gonna be able to do that unless they coming from their heart with it. And it was really like a pop. Cause pop do the same thing, like when you listen to him on hit him up or any of that stuff he was doing, he was trying to let, he was like you in a car and the gas just punched all the way to the floor. And I think that's probably why Pimp liked him so much cause he was full throttle all the way. That's how he was. That's what it was. Yeah. The dope artist, man, just very, very dope. So yeah, so you woulda came later on so you wouldn't know about the time, but I just know too short I said that he didn't know if he had met him either. But then when DOC came on, he kind of alluded to the fact that they were kind of all in the same settings or he seen him down there during that time. And it's just, it's always, and I didn't ask him a direct question about it when he was here. If I had thought about it, I woulda. But after I went back, you know how you sit back looking at him like, dang, I missed that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nah, but he got around though, man. He, you know, he made his rounds. What was going on in Atlanta at this time in them two months? Give me some, give me some, give me, who else was a goodie mob coming over, popping up? Was Gip? I said I want to interview Gip. I'm looking to interview him. We're going to Atlanta here in a couple of days. I can't recall any of them coming to the house. They didn't ever come by? Yeah, it was pretty quiet around here. He didn't know about it around. No, he just focused on his beats. I think when I first got there, I think Russell was there for maybe a week or two. Okay. On the big time records. Okay. I didn't know why. I didn't, I didn't ask, but Bun came there periodically. So Bun showed up? Yeah, yeah. Bun and Queenie. And then it was me, cat named Young Smitty. They called it Smitty the Pimp. That's actually how I kind of got to meet all of them was because of Smitty. But that's a whole other story. Think Big Mun was there. One is Bodyguards and DJ Bird. We were all at the house together. Wow. Yeah. So it was just like, I don't know. It was just like staying at a house with a bunch of friends really. Yeah. But Pimp had, he had his wife there and his kid. And we were all in the house together. Like he let all of these people stay with him and his family. We were all around his family. Because everybody was family to him. Yeah, everybody was family. So that's kind of, it basically felt like just a family is what it felt like. That's hard, man. Yeah. And that's, but that was him though. Even when you went around Mama West or went around her house, you know what I'm saying? It just all felt like family. You know, I was all familiar. How was you and Mama West? Did you get to talk to her any time? And did you get to know her? Yeah. I didn't get to know her like in and out, but we did talk. I had been around a lot like up when they had went on tour. Cause I went on a tour with them. They was touring with two short. I think cash money was on a couple of dates. But anyway, we had, I went with them on a tour like down at the Chitlin circuit area. You know what I'm saying? I think we hit Alabama, Mississippi, all those Southern states. So she was there on tour with us. So, you know, I got to be around a lot, talk to her. Yeah. She was real sweet, man.


Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in at the range now. We've got the torus g3 new release from torus They're calling it a full-size handgun for shots right here. Let's see how it does Not bad not bad If you're a fan of the g2c, which there are thousands and thousands You're gonna love the g3 the g stands for generation. It's a third generation It shares the same grip texturing as the g2c It does have a single action trigger with restrike capability I measure the trigger poundage right around five pounds maybe a little bit less full picatinny rail four-inch barrel front serrations three dot sights with the adjustable rear sight pinned in front sight and A sight hole indicator on top in place of the loaded chamber bar With the g2c now what makes this a third generation that I could see is the trigger bar safety It's a very nice trigger much better than the blade that we see on the g2c It's got a larger piece that feels really nice and then your reset You're looking at right there for the follow-up shots It does come with a 15 and a 17 round magazine And the slide stop and the thumb safety Remained the same as the g2c, but here is the 17 round mag and What is also cool is that it's weighing in at unloaded 25 ounces 31 ounces loaded with 16 rounds That's one in the chamber and a full mag Of 15 rounds But here it is it's getting a a lot of attention because people love The g2c so much that when torus came out with the g3 people wanted to know. Hey, is that the same? What can I expect? Well here it is And those were my first shots And I have to say i'm pretty impressed with it. I expected to be impressed But you really have to get out to the range and check it out for yourself Let's start with the rabbit. I'm going to try to roll through this a little quicker this time It's a nice shooter It really is a nice shooter msrp and this is 345 Really not sure where it's going to sell at the gun store Because it's a torus and like most releases they they come out with an msrp and they're They're hard to come by so the store sell them for close Sometimes even more than the msrp And then as they get distributed out they drop in price because the g2c sold for like 200 dollars Maybe 210 depending on where you're at the muzzle end looks the exact same as The g2c, but here it is the g3 torus is calling it a full-size handgun because It has a 4 inch barrel knife like I said on my tabletop review. I consider a compact size But torus says it's a full-size and I think that's because they have so many models that are subcompact so in in their eyes And in their line of handguns. This is a full-size comparable to a glock 19 And with that cheap msrp price People are already calling this a glock killer So I'm not sure about that But one thing I am sure about is that I'm going to load it up again And we'll see if it continues to shoot this well Let's do a lyprous test. But before we do this, I've got 10 rounds in the mag I want to slam it to see if it will charge the slide And it does lyprous test Oh A shot into the grass and it threw the a piece of grass up about 15 feet. Let me see if I can hit a target Uh move it All right, so a little hang up there Looks like it All right, we'll drop that Did not chamber All right, so we backed up a bit to about 15 yards here are eight rounds of l-tech self defense Nine millimeter Let's see how it goes 124 grain fed through those like nothing The torus g3 disassembles the same as the g2c and so many other handguns unloaded We simply bring the slide back Bring those take down levers down pull the trigger and off comes the slide There's what we're looking at with the frame polymer frame very nice textured and a dual recoil spring A four inch barrel and the drop safety plunger right there So it's an easy setup. It's something that we are familiar with And it's something that we've all become comfortable with so here. We've got a couple more rounds Let's see how it fires once again Well, there it is guys Taurus g3 full-sized gun that the torus that claims that it is and as far as i'm concerned If torus is calling it a full-sized gun, then it's a full-sized gun But I consider it a compact, but nonetheless it's shot really nice at the range Pretty happy with it Longevity is the key. I say that all the time, you know You're not going to be able to see the longevity from a five minute range review But I will say right out of the box this torus g3 performed very well It reminds me of a larger g2c with a nicer and more comfortable shooting trigger that measures just Under five pounds and it is a nice shooter And I hope I demonstrated that well here at the range if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching And you guys be safe


territories in the Pacific. I'm JN Squire, and I'm a French Wikimedia and member of Wikimedia France and contributor to the Wikipedia in French since 2009, and also Wikipedia comments. So we'll see on the next slide please. First, what are the French Pacific islands? And on the next slide we begin to see some quick facts about them. Next slide please. Nope, you're supposed to show maps. I think it's an old version you got. You might have to reload the slides. Yes, I'm going to share my screen. This screen sharing, screen sharing. Yes, Clipperton Island. Yes, this is correct. So yes, first Clipperton Island is the first and we'll never talk more about it. It's an habitat. There is no one living there. It's tiny. And so it's out of the scope of this session. So next slide we are going to see where is New Caledonia. New Caledonia is a collectivity, a little special with three provinces and then communes municipalities below them. And then on the next slide we will see about French Polynesia. It also has an organization with communes and nothing between the name of the collectivity and this. And on the next slide we also see about Wallis and Futuna, which are very special because it's the only place in France when you will have kingdoms with elect kings ruling for the customs of the people living there. So then let's move on to more facts on the next slide with quick facts. So first for history, what you saw are the remains of the former second French colonial empire. It was colonized during the 1800s to secure them away from European powers and also to harvest things like Nicaragua and Nicaragua. Instant French citizenship got granted for Polynesian from treaties and it was after World War II to the other collectivities. There are some independence movements in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, so they kind of might have, they haven't succeeded yet. More on geography speaking, there are three types of islands, volcanic and coral, which are usual and also continental, with a grande terre which is an island and it's part of a continent named Zelandia and it's also attached to New Zealand. There are a lot of coral reefs, New Caledonia has the second biggest coral barrier in the world. It's protected under UNESCO. There are various kinds of administrative divisions that have been seized already. Climates are ranging from equatorial to tropical with some dry, some humane and two temperate too. And on the next slide, we also see about, on the next slide, yes, people, so there are native peoples like Canucks in New Caledonia, Polynesians, Wallisians, people from many immigration waves, from Europe, Asia, Wallis, internal migration between the collectivities, Polynesians too. There are many different languages and cultures, some are frequent. In economy, it's mostly still extractive, kind of like during the colony, like with Niquel in New Caledonia, Pearls in Polynesia, fishing. There are Burgess transfers from European mainland and you develop hand phones. They are developing tourism. There is a welfare structure copying part of the French mainland and there are levels of employment. On the next slide, we'll see about the state of knowledge and Wikimedia projects. And we'll jump on to the next slide. Thank you. So you can see here a commune municipality named Farino and it's located in New Caledonia and you can see already in the table of contents. There are some issues, some like some kind of content for about everything that is on the main road. And also you can see there but the article is very short on many essential topics. And on the next slide, we'll see a little more of this. So there are threats to knowledge in the Pacific Islands and the digitized sources are rare or difficult to find without knowledge or local context or the right academic publications. There are European-centric views. For example, some digitized resources are from colonial times and promote dated views. There is a recent content located on more specific portals for paywalls or paper only. There are dated information on our analysis. Same issue with digitized sources. There are also historical and current settlement sites are mostly located near the sea and are frequent by global climate change. There are frequent native and current cultures and local biodiversity to unique spaces. On the next slide, we see also contribution issues with the diced distance, thousands of kilometers away from the mainland. There is a sea between islands and sometimes hundreds of kilometers. It takes multiple times from the mainland. It takes a couple of our flights with at least one connection in Asia or America. There are physical, geographic accessibility issues too. Some places are accessible only for boats and money is costlier too with thousands of euros for travel and accommodation to deliver workshop there. There is logistic needs with PC, smartphones to take pictures. Internet access libraries with local real-world sources to site too. On the next slide, we can see population density issues too with a bit of inhabitant on some islands. Everything is located in administrative capitals. And the rest is kind of less developed. There are inhabited islands such as Clipperton of course and also archipelagos, islands such as Tuvalu, a lot of the islands. You can access only them through expeditions and sometimes thanks to the French army. Also, you have less structures like glams. On the next slide, we'll see a different kind of database because semi-autonomous territories got their own local databases with more details than the national one. For example, for law, we got Legifron, JoyDoc and Lexpol. For statistics, we got INSEE and EC and ESPF and for local heritage. It depends on how rich the local entities are. Some got their own website and for others you need to parse the local views and decrease for the rest. And on the next slide, we see what initiative we can take. And at first on the next slide in Europe and France where it's cheap and faster to infuse it from the already existing volunteers from the mainland. But he has a more limited range and impact. We can do something in person like in Paris with the Delegation de la Prolignesie Française and in La Maison de la Nouvelle Calidonie. There are remote training and workshops possible too. And improving Wiki projects page presentations and listing useful resources there. And you can see what the Maison de la Nouvelle Calidonie, House of New Calidonia, looks like on this slide, on the next slide. And on the next slide, you can see their library with some very useful documentation there and sources for example Wikipedia. Next on place, there is a wide range and impact slower and slower and costlier. The solution we could partner with big local organizations such universities and the Académie des langues canac languages, Académie. Paternary with stricture in Europe too, for example, well, Maison de la Nouvelle Calidonie, there are links with people going from mainland France to New Calidonia. That's why in-person training and workshops with as much glam on Wikipedia as possible on Wikipedia, comments, visionary, etc. We can do more Wikimedia advocacy to local actors and develop local Wikimedia user groups for a better autonomy there so they can keep to meet each other. That's all, we have questions, we have ideas and thank you for watching. Thank you, thank you. Anyone? Well, my question would possibly be what the organization is doing for the local languages and these communities have brought, I mean, there's obviously not only French being spoken, but you also mentioned some other languages. What is the organization doing to support these other language communities that exist overseas? Well, currently there are things being done in French Vienna, in southern America, so there are French communities, there are Creole communities there too and I don't have the detail about the natives. I think we have to ask Wikimedia France directly about this. And for the rest currently there has been nothing done yet for the Pacific because I've already reached the Maison de la Nouvelle Calidonie in Paris, but unfortunately their director died recently. So there we are going through reorganization. And I'm going to send emails to do remote workshops and physical ones in New Caledonia. So there are groups of editors in the Pacific, in French Pacific? Currently, nothing organized, maybe some people there and there sometime, but currently none. So there is a need to do something from the mainland, maybe. Other questions? There are three minutes left. I believe there is no other questions. One last question? No. Thank you very much. Thank you for your session and wishing you a lovely day. Thank you. Bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's case breaks.com. Happy Saturday. Happy New Year Our last break of the Saturday night is going to be 2020 Panini flawless baseball two box pick your team number 19 What a way to finish the week or my week and An hour night We do breaks have nights a week. So check us out tomorrow as well. I Get a little bit of a weekend though big. Thanks to and all of these awesome people here. Thank you very much For the two boxes pick your team number 19. Thanks for spending your Saturday night with us. I know you have a lot of different Entertainment options. William. Thanks for closing this break out. We have a lot of different entertainment options Glad you chose us as one of them. We appreciate that. All right There it is We're doing both briefcases two boxes 2020 panini flawless baseball. Let's see what we got I'm almost certain that I'm just psyching myself out, but No, I won't say well.  I don't think that's true though. I don't I think I'm just I think I'm just losing my mind Slide this over here Okay, good luck everyone. It's probably nothing.  All right. Good luck ladies and gentlemen Wait, it's just time for me to hit the gym. I guess Yeah, maybe I'm just weak Keys there for flaws. All right You sometimes there's a third hit here, but no, there wasn't there's just hits the in case hits on the left and right side All right empty box there Blockchain card joe adel quad patch signatures a digital card going to the halos That'll be for richard miller and the angels All right too too bad trout doesn't sign him flawless I mean too bad. I'm not dating prime jennifer aniston Let's let's let's worry about what we have not about what we don't have cardboard king. Come on now Phil negro one out of three For the record prime jennifer aniston would be late 90s friends era Phil negro one out of three Excellent patch here going to atlanta nice one for the braves. I think he passed away recently, right? Phil negro r.i.p Matt Lieber with the atlanta braves 10 out of yeah big rig saying rip. So yeah r.i.p Phil negro 10 out of 15 dual relic lu garig Matt Lieber with the Yankees That's nice. I've heard of him. He's pretty good. The old wool jerseys right there, too Game horn it says right down there in the small print five out of seven Well, actually, sorry check it matt Lieber. I forgot out of fives and under get the train whistle All aboard the big hit express Five out of seven doc gooden That's pretty cool. Nice one for the metropolitans. That'll be for errant pettit and the Mets Nice low number as well. Also game warm 24 out of 25 quad relic and autograph Alec bomb Nice rising star alec bomb two color quad relic and on card autograph For the fight in fills fillies William with the fills Dylan cease two color dual relic 11 out of 20 That is for matt Lieber and the chicago white socks Oh, and look at this two out of five Three color patch and autograph brendan mckay for the tampa bay rays last spot mojo strikes again William, thank you very much for grabbing that last team. They're just sitting there. No one else wanted him No one wanted them. They said we'll pass We'll pass on this future possible two-way star Nice. There you go, William All aboard the big hit express Oh, no cardboard king you were going to buy the Mets and you passed You got it. You got to trust that gut because Look at this two color patch auto David Wright Nice one for the Mets errant pettit with the metropolitan Nice one for the Mets That is nice scared money. Don't make money And 15 out of 15. We've got old Vlad Guerrero senior three color patch and on-card autograph Exposed montreal expos edition of course Expo stuff goes to the nationals matt Lieber with the gnats Tosti's keys back in here. There's that little card that's in the middle right there. You can see on the top camera He's diamonds, uh, or gems or whatever that pops out of here. The gems are naturally mine not lab grown Let's do the gem first on the right side. It's Nice. Hey susa lozardo diamond 10 out of 20 That's pretty cool Miller with the oakland a's there you go, Richard And on this side we have Yordon alvarez star swatch signatures Three color patch and auto 13 out of 20 Steve lock with the straws seems to be a lot of yordan alvarez is encased in here. It's all good. He's a pretty solid player Case closed There you go Next one Yeah, bill bill bill bill t saying the packaging fair than an iphone Yeah, maybe apple could learn a thing or two from the panini flawless design team. All right. See thomas All right This one also does not have a third hit the same Guarantee right here Try not to peek at those in case cards Good luck everyone Final boxers the blockchain on top remember the blockchains Um, they don't replace a card in here. It's In addition to not instead of which is good gavin lux for my dodgers That's going to go to matt lieber and the boys in blue. I almost wrote. I wrote lax on there. That's the airport Doesn't go to he doesn't play for the lax softball team He's a big leaguer. He's in the show It's on the dodgers For the yankees four out of 20 bill dickie matt lieber and the yankees A piece of his lumber on the left side and a piece of his jersey on the right side bill dickie 420 a nice smoke and hit right here for the yanks We got for the tigers 13 out of 15 another old school dude hammer and hank greenberg That goes to jeremy port and the tigers There you go. That's pretty cool game worn material player worn used material It says here 17 i20 bryan reynolds pittsburgh pirates That's a memorable marx autograph going to larry and the pirates the buckles Oh, here's a nice patch coming up and reynolds. Here's a nice patch coming up four out of five star swatch signatures It's shawn murphy for the a's It's the trunk of the elephant Grasping that bat there That's awesome That'll be for richard miller and the oakland a's richard All aboard the big hit express 12 out of 15 three-color patch erisedi zekino Red legs larry with the reds I said I didn't notice this before until my colleague shawn jaspy pointed this out He does these three dots here on every autograph I only just noticed that the other day Oh two out of 20 another one for last spot mojo brennan mckay Another one, but a cool patch right here too. That looks like the The rey's star maybe the bottom of the rey right there It's supposed to be a the big prospect Well, I guess maybe he should be an everyday player starting this year He can pitch and hit. I don't know if they're gonna have him do both, but we'll we'll have to see A couple more to go. We got 10 out of 15. That's smolzy john smolz Braves matt lieber with the bravos 10 out of 15 three-color patch and autograph. It's slammin sammy sosa Nice 10 out of 15 for the cubbies glen With the cubs, you don't see a lot of sammy sosa autographs pop out of here. That's awesome There you go. All right now You're encased card. Let's do the gem first I think should be on the right side Yes, it is Oh, the gem is nice It's a legend. It's the kid ken griffey jr One out of 20 diamond for seattle matt lieber with the mariners That's nice And the final one on this side Is gonna be bobeshet 13 out of 20 star swatch signatures Two-color patch on card autograph encased up out of flawless glen with the blue jays There you go. Nice one glen. You got the sammy sosa. You got the bobeshet Excellent stuff and there you go ladies and gentlemen. The case is closed On flawless pick your team number 19 big. Thanks everybody who rallied around this late on a saturday night I really appreciate it. Thanks for getting into the action. I'm joe for jaspy's case race dot com. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Bye


Hi everyone, my name is Ivan, and I'm going to do a quick overview of how to build an IKEA mixer with the specific focus on building one that is completely anonymous and does not require human interaction or human subsidies. So if you look at the state of DAFs right now, many of them are not 100% decentralized. They tend to require either a price key or maybe a relayer that's subsidized by some company. Maybe one exception would be Uniswap that exists on chain and requires pretty much no interaction. And so let's see how close we can get to that gold standard. So first off, there's a few mixing technologies that exist these days. The first one is CoinJoin that's what's used in Bitcoin, specifically, for example, in the Wasabi wallet, and it's also used in Mimble, Wimble, and Grim if you've been following that project. Then there's decoy-based, which is used in Monero, and finally there's a year-old vertical-tree-based verticals, the best number one is Ccash, and there's a few IKEA mixers built on top of that, that vertical as well, including MISIMO's stand-turned-out-cash. So CoinOverview of all three, CoinJoin is basically a set of two people doing two different transactions. They come together for the purposes of helping each other be anonymous, and they merge that into one single transaction. So for example, here if Ten is a drug dealer and Bob and Alice use CoinJoin, it's impossible to know whether Alice or Bob paid the drug dealer, so they kind of give each other this possible deniability. The problem with that is your anonymity set is very low. If there's maybe five people doing the CoinJoin, then there's five people helping you be slightly more anonymous, but that's not quite good enough. Then the next thing is the decoy-based privacy, which is used in Monero. The idea is you can use any on-chain UTXO and pretend that that could have been your input, so basically every transaction has maybe 10 to 15 sources. Only one of them is real. The rest of them could not even know that they've been used in the anonymization, so that's quite a lot better. And then there's a separate technique for hiding the amounts behind those transactions where you do bit-by-bit encoding. But decoy protocols have suffered from a bunch of attacks before. Long story short, there's risks of repeated interactions, so if the same person pays the same drug dealer a few times in a row, there's going to be multiple paths in the transaction graph from that person to the drug dealer. That's pretty bad. Point being, kind of by a process of elimination, we arrive at zero-knowledge Merkle-tree-based mixers as the only way to achieve maximum anonymity. And here the idea is there's a shielded pool that keeps all the money that wants to participate in the anonymization, and no one knows who is basically within the pool, and then you deposit into the pool we provide, and then we draw, and so that is kind of the most private way of anonymizing your points. Okay, so what are the components of a ZK Snarf mixer? First, you need a core smart contract that takes that money and processes, deposits, and controls. Typically requires a trusted setup, but not necessarily anymore. There's also ZK Starks. Then you need to generate the Merkle-tree leaves for deposits. Basically that's, if you go here, that's the first arrow of entering the shielded pool. Then you need to exit the shielded pool. And that requires about 60 seconds. And then you need to send out those transactions. The idea is every single piece of those components can live on chain, either on Ethereum or for IPFS. The hardest part is sending the transactions. So that has to be a relay or sponsoring all that. And first off, you need to differentiate between the person helping you withdraw and the recipient address, so that you can withdraw to clean addresses and have the fees handled for you. So how do we sponsor that? One, we could deposit money into Compound. Two, into the Uniswap as liquidity pool. Or we can take a fee. And so if you do a quick calculation, Uniswap would sponsor a transaction at 800,000 guests, which is roughly the average price up to 0.25, which to those who use it here, you know that this is very little. This will never go through a long chain, actually. And then if you deposit die, which gives you much higher interest rate, that's up to four quay. And then if you take 1% or 5% fee, that's much more realistic. So long story short, for anonymization amounts of roughly one ether, you need to pay roughly 5% fee to sponsor the withdrawal and make the relayer sustainable. And here are some more links to look at that.


Hello everybody, welcome back to another AI video. In this one, I wanna go over Suno AI version three. This is awesome. This is a new tool that allows you to create quality music up to two minutes long. You get 10 songs a day for free and it sounds like it could almost be played on the radio. I know that's a big claim, but I promise you I'm gonna back it up. I'm also gonna discuss whether or not you can upload it to YouTube, you can upload it to Spotify, whether or not you can upload it to Apple Music, what the rules are around that. Everything like that is going to be covered, including how to create songs in this video. Let's go. All right, so the first step is you wanna go to their website. A link is in the description below, but you'll see here that at the top right, you got the option to make a song. It's that simple, just click on it. Here we go. On the front page or the explore page, I really like this page because it has the latest and I guess the most popular music or the trending music. And if you just listen to this, check this out, I'll just give you a five second snippet. Okay, that's not my style maybe, but hey, that was created with AI. That was literally created with a text prompt. In fact, they've got the text prompt that was used to create that song right here. You can see it, you can just copy and paste it if you wanted to. So to create a song, let's just go quickly to that point here. On the left side, you'll see create, click on create, we get a couple of options. Now you'll see here that I've already made like nine songs today. So I've only got like one left. So I'll make that one for you. So here's the thing, you can have it as an instrumental.  Now the lyrics are pretty darn good for some of these songs.  So in this case, I'm gonna go song description. I'm gonna go English Bulldog that parties hard. He sends it every time. Okay, this dog is a party dog. He just sends it. Okay, maybe we want, I don't know. I don't even know what we want. We do want EDM? Sure, EDM. We'll do it with EDM. It doesn't really matter. I just wanna show you the technique. Now up at the top here, you're gonna see custom mode. This is for those of you that have your own lyrics. Yeah, I know this is wild, but you can actually upload your own lyrics and enter them in here. I'm just gonna go ahead and click on accept. But pretty wild stuff, not gonna lie here. You can also go ahead and select the style of music. So if I wanted electronic, I don't know, I'll just put that in there. This isn't just more stuff that you can go ahead and do. So I'm gonna turn this off, but I wanted to show you that that is available. Now, I'm on V3 here, and it is literally as simple as clicking on create. I'm gonna click that button. Oh, I need at least 10 credits. So there you go. So, okay, so I've ran out of credits today. No big deal. I've already made all of these songs. So once you hit create, it takes a few seconds and then it creates songs like this. Here's one called Bulldog Groove. This is surprisingly good. Let's just listen to a few seconds of it. You'll see on the right, the verses. Dancing to the beat. Like what the hell? It's got through the monologue. Wow, like this is crazy. Like this isn't like bad.  Those are pretty good verses for just an AI for literally just a one-click solution. Now, you can remix it here as you see here, or you can go ahead and copy the link if you want to share it on Facebook or something like that. But here's the best one. Click on these three dots or this ellipses, and then you can continue from this song. So if you want to create more on this song, you kind of like it and you want to keep it going. Go ahead and do that. If you want to name it something else, go ahead. But here's the best one. You can actually just go ahead and download it. And you can download not only the audio, but the video. This is crazy. I'm going to click on download video. Watch this. It's going to go in here.  This is crazy. Watch this stuff. Crazy. Now, this is uploadable. You could upload this as a short on YouTube or TikTok with the required attribution. Don't get me wrong. You can upload this to Spotify, Apple Music. If you have a prose plan, you can monetize this. That's right. You can make money off of these. I haven't tried it yet, but it's the real deal. So there you go. I mean, this is just absolutely nuts. If I click on my library on the left side, you'll see here I've got access to all the songs that I've created in the past. So there you go. It was literally that easy. Now let's answer some FAQ questions just so you guys can know that, you know, what are the rules regarding uploading and using the music? So I'm going to cover that quickly in the next section. All right. So for this, I'm on their FAQ page. Of course, you guys can look this up on your own, but I'll just answer the questions as they state them here. So can you upload this to social media and streaming services? The answer is absolutely you can. Although if you use a free account, you need to do attribution, but if you're a paying subscriber, you can monetize your songs. So in this case, you can monetize your songs on YouTube if you have the pro or premier plan. So there you go. If you up, can you upload your songs to Spotify and Apple music? Again, you can, but you need to be a pro or premier member. And again, guys, I know you guys can look this up on your own, but this is a lot of times what people are wanting to know. It discusses what the different terms of commercial use are. So where you can and can't use them and where you have to give attribution. And yeah, there we go. Who owns the music or who owns the songs? If you're a paying subscriber to Suno, then you own the songs you generated while you were a paying subscriber, which is very interesting. So if you stop paying for the subscription, you still own it if you were a paying subscriber at the time. And here's the other really good one that you need to know. If you write your own lyrics, do I still own them after submitting them to Suno? And the answer is yes, you do. So there you go, guys. This is it. This is like in a nutshell, this is a really cool program. Give it a try, leave me a comment, let me know what you think. Make some music, share them with me. Let's do this, guys. Thanks for watching, ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.