It's March. Welcome to the team's Cornerstone Connections lesson. In this quarter, we're stepping into the realm of royalty, Kings and Prophets reaching incredible heights. The title of today's lesson is Faith on the Mountain Top. With our wonderful panelists, Kimberly, Misati, Irvin, and our wonderful team teachers. With angelic music straight from our orchestra, Shemma on the violin and Sibira on the clarinet. Appealing to the deaf community in sign language, interpreting the whole conversation, we have Joyce. Be blessed. Praying all day. That is the title of our mission story today. My name is Amy, and today we're looking at Jennifer's life. Jennifer is 12 years old and lives in Northern India. More than anything, she likes to pray. At home, Jennifer prays as soon as she gets up in the morning. Thank you, Jesus, for the good night's sleep. He's dead on her knees. Sitting on the brown and pink bedsheet on her bed. Thank you for the new day. Jennifer said, praying in Hindi, her native language. Please bless me throughout the day. Please also bless my uncle, my aunt, my cousins, and our neighbors. Please especially bless father and mother. Amen. When Jennifer sat down for breakfast, she prayed, Dear Jesus, bless this food. Amen. She said again, speaking in Hindi. She then, she eagerly ate her breakfast of rice, Dal lentils, and chapati flatbread. She's an only child, and she eats breakfast with mother. Father eats later. When Jennifer was ready to leave for school, she prayed again in Hindi. Dear Jesus, please bless the day. She said, Please help me as I learn in school today. Help me to remember what I have studied for my quiz today. Amen. Then she picked her backpack filled with textbooks on math, English, social studies, Sanskrit, and handwriting. The backpack also contained pens, pencils, notebooks, and her lunchbox. At school, 450 children gathered in a big room for morning worship. Jennifer often leads the children in prayer from the stage. And she said again, and she did again that day. All the school classes are in English. She prayed in English. Our father in heaven, she said. Then she paused so other children could repeat after her. Our father in heaven, the 450 children repeated in chorus. Hallowed be thy name, Jennifer said, and all the children repeated after her. Together, Jennifer and the children completed the prayer saying, Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as you forgive our debtors and to not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil, from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. At one PM, Jennifer unpacked her lunchbox in the school classroom and prayed, Dear Jesus, bless this food. Amen. She said again in English. She had been studying in English all day, so it was easy for her to pray in English as well. Then she ate her lunch of cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes, and chapati flatbread. In the afternoon, she had a math quiz. She prayed, Dear Jesus, please help me to remember what I have studied and to get a good grade. At home, father prayed for supper. He joined Jennifer and mother for the meal of rice, paneer cheese and vegetable. Jennifer liked to hear father pray, Dear Lord, please bless this food. Father said in Hindi, bless the hands that prepared it and those who have provided us with the food and please give us good health as we eat. Amen. At bedtime, Jennifer prayed with father and mother at family worship. The creator of heaven and earth. We thank you for keeping us safe throughout the day. Jennifer said in Hindi. Then she prayed for the family, for relatives, for neighbors and for a good night's rest. After that, she lay down under her brown and pink bedsheet and closed her eyes to sleep. It had been a good day. It had been a day spent talking to Jesus. Part of this quarter's 13th Sabbath offering will help to construct a new school building for Jennifer and for the other students in Ani, India. The 450 now study in an old building that was built by a German missionary who founded the school in 1976. Thank you for helping Jennifer and her classmates build a new school building. Indeed, faith is the victory. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Happy Sabbath from wherever you are watching us. It is a joy to be here once again with you. And boy, do we have a lesson for you today. You know, our lesson today is entitled faith on the mountaintop, faith on the mountaintop. And before we begin and before we dive in, I just want to introduce our panelists here, perhaps they could just say their names and then I've been can pray for us. It's so happy feeling the time of day you are at. My name is Mr. Tignambane and I'll be glad to go with you this journey. Hi, my name is Alvin Mosomi. I'm happy to be with you. Happy Sabbath. My name is Kimberly. I'm happy to be here with you. Amen. Nothing please pray for us. Let's pray. They haven't followed. We come on to presents, seeking guidance for the lessons that we're about to go through. Now to begin it, Lord, may you guide us in each step. Just my pray. Amen, amen, amen, amen. Welcome once again. And so ladies and gentlemen, today our lesson is entitled faith on the mountaintop. And it's all about Elijah and what kind of faith he had when he defeated those prophets of Baal, right? And so for us to dive right in, I'll just bring in Kimberly here with the what do you think section? Kimberly, tell us, what do you think? OK, so here we have the question when I see others in my life doing something I think is wrong. I usually, so we have some choices. I ignore it. I join in. I tell them what they're doing is wrong. I keep quiet unless they ask me what I think. Then see, I think it's wrong. And the lesson is in a kind, caring way, provide positive advice and put them to a better way that is possible to do. So I'd pose the question to my panel. What do you think? So personally, what I do, OK, if something's wrong, as in wrong, wrong, not wrong, because I think it's wrong when when it's wrong, that's not an opinion in that it's either contemptible, constitutionally or morally, societally, that type of wrong. When it comes to opinion, I'll mind my business, because my opinion is my opinion of someone else. But otherwise, I tell them it's wrong. I wouldn't say I'd point them to Christ, because I'm like, you know what? Hello, as in, of course, a lot of people in my life are not necessarily Christians. Not do I know your God? It's a bit, it's a bit odd, but I'm like, you know what? I'll point out that this I feel is wrong because I feel it deviates from proper human behavior or from the way you ought to live. You know, the certain things that we all agree universally are wrong. Yeah, so you'll tell them. Tell them what you're doing at this point is wrong. That's what I do. Then I'd leave them to figure it out. I feel like sometimes if it doesn't involve me in any way, I mostly just ignore it. But if I see someone like my friend or my close friends doing something that I feel is wrong or I know is wrong, I always reach out and tell them, hey, what you're doing? Are you sure you're doing the right thing? But sometimes I leave the choice up to them. I don't really force them to do something. I just ask them, yeah. Yeah, so you you're probably in the middle between ignoring it and the last one. Yeah. What about you, Kimberly? Tell us, what do you think? For me, I think it depends on our closeness. If you're close to me and I see you messing up, I don't actually know how to keep quiet. So like I'll address the issue and tell you like this is wrong. And I would also point to you, like in a positive way, how you can do better, yeah. Yeah, so we can agree that generally, if the person is close, we'll tell them, you know, you're doing, you're not doing well. OK, what about the second part? So we have, we have the second part. And the question is, if I'm doing something wrong, I appreciate it when others in my life, so we have the first one. Don't bother me about it. Mind your own business. Respective, respectfully tell me where they think I'm making a mistake. Talk to others and leave me alone. I think I'll answer this first. I feel that I appreciate it when people respectfully tell me, yeah, that they think I'm making a mistake because that means that you care about me and you want the best for me. So you want me to correct my mistake and move forward in the best way. OK, what about you guys? What do you think when somebody comes and tells you off? Or rather, I think the key word that I look at it would be the word is respectfully, respectfully means that. Based as in because the person may not know my values, but a person who would like a person who doesn't know my values, either way should be respectful. Someone who knows my values would be like, I think this is what you value. So why aren't you living up to what you value? But someone who doesn't know my values is like, do you think this is OK? And in that case, I'd be like, you know what? My values allow me to do this, this, that or the other. To give a slightly interesting example is there are people who drink and who are open that they drink and never in any way mention anything wrong about drinking. Like someone just, you know what? Drinking is OK. Drinking moderation is all right. That's someone's values. And even they are drunk, they do not engage in any rowdy, unruly or behavior they regret. That's their values. So in that case, if I go up to someone and ask them by that, why do you drink? Someone says, you know, it's my values and drinking for me because I do it in moderation, the same way you each a party in moderation, I might. As in, so if someone were to bring it up that way, that's different. Nonetheless, either way, I've respectfully had my opinion, they have respectfully had their opinion and we have come to an agreement. Yeah. OK, OK. What about you? For me, I feel like I like people who probably also respectfully tell me, of course, it's not like someone who comes to me and tells me, I'm a Christian. Why are you doing this like in public? So I like what you call your side and tell you, hey, what you're doing, it might be disrespectful. Not someone who would be like, don't you go to church every Saturday? How do you do this? Aren't you the one who normally giving out the Bible verses in class? Yeah, yeah, someone who respectfully called you off here. Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting point. You know, I think the key word there is respectful. But then, you know, we'd be lying to ourselves if we did not admit that there is some there is some there's some air of controversy. Whatever you're telling somebody, you know, you're doing something wrong.  You know, you're almost getting into their business, you know, there's an air of controversy. And today we want to look at a story just like that. And I mean, maybe perhaps you can tell us this into the story. You can read it or maybe you can summarize it, whatever you're comfortable with. I'll just read it through. Yeah, it begins. Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, choose one of the bulls and prepare it first. Since there are so many of you, call on the name of your God, but do not light the fire. So they took the bull, given to them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. Baal answered. Baal answered us, he shouted, but there was no response. No one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made. At noon, Elijah began to tone them. Shout louder, he said. Surely he's a God, perhaps he's in deep thought or busy or traveling. Maybe he's sleeping and must be awakened. So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears as was the custom until their blood flowed. Midday passed and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention. Then Elijah said to all the people, come here to me. They came to him and he repaired an altar of the Lord which had been toned down. Elijah took 12 stones. With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord and it dug a trench around it. He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, feel full like jars of water and poured into the inn on the offering and on the wood. Do it again, he said, and they did it again. Do it a third time, he ordered. And they did it the third time. The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trenches. At the time of the sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed, Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, Lord, answer me. So these people will know that you, Lord are God and that you are turning their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell down and burnt the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil and also leaked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, the Lord, he's God, the Lord, he's God. Amen. So we just want to go out of this story and just look at a few things. So, you know, at the beginning, we can see that this is a very controversial method to solve this dispute, you know. Why do you think, and this is just to the panel, you know, why do you think, you know, Elijah thought it a good idea to challenge the prophet of Bali in this way? You know, he could have, as we said, when in the, what do you think? You know, he could have called them aside, told them, you know, you guys, whatever you're doing is not right there. But he told them to cut down a mountain, I do. Yeah? Yeah.  Challenging them. So, that's the first question. Why do we think he decided to do it in such a public way? I think what strikes me is his rallying call was guys like Israelites beside. For him, that was it. He was just like, you know, you guys, it has been three and a half years. You have been tormented without rain, but you're still on the fence between Baal and Yahweh.  So for him, he was like, you know what? You guys, I want you to make a decision. Like, I want to give you an opportunity to see for yourself, which God is God. That, so for him, he had to challenge them like that because it strikes me. He wasn't trying to change the prophets of Baal. Yeah. He wasn't. That was not the target audience. The target audience was the Israelites. And as a result, because the bull was slaughtered in public, we have every right to know where the head and tail went. Yeah. Wow, that's so insightful. What are the rest of you guys think? I feel that Elijah made this decision because he wanted to show that, you know, like this is like the final time we've been disputing about this for so long. And this is the best way to show that God will come through for us. You know, because if it wasn't like this extravagant, they wouldn't take it seriously.  So this was just to prove our point. And yeah, just glorifying God also. Yeah. He wanted to prove a point. He had a target audience and he wanted to prove a point. What about you, Avin? What do you think? I feel like Elijah, this point was like, now everyone, you're going to witness for yourself. He thought someone is going to tell you a story that, oh, we went up the mountain. This is for you to see, for you to tell your children. Elijah at this point was tired. He was tired of fighting for Israel and Israel was not fighting for themselves. So he said, now I want to do something that barl prophets can't do. And from there on, I'm done. You pick your God, me, I'm finished. Yeah, those are interesting points. Now, there's another part of the story that we can see that Elijah actually taunts. It's almost as if he's flexing. He taunts the prophets of Baal. He tells them, you know, poor, no, even before he says poor water, he tells them, shout louder. Maybe your God is on a high ethos. And even when it's his turn, he tells them poor water on the sacrifice. Why do we think he's doing this? Why, you know, it's one thing to be humble. But then here we can see that Elijah is almost flexing the power of his cord. Why do we think he does this? He's boasting his God. He's showing people that my God, he's doing this. Your God, you've prayed from morning till noon. Me, my God, let me show you. I'm gonna pour water on this to make it that me, I'm not done with putting this fire. I'm gonna pour water more. I'm gonna make it almost impossible to set a fire on this thing. But then my God will bring fire from heaven because the bow professor didn't put water on the altar. They prayed from morning till evening. They cut themselves, but nothing happened. So he was almost taunting them by saying my God is more powerful than your God. And simultaneously, Elijah, his mission, wasn't to be humble, that was Moses. That was totally Moses. Moses was the one who was the humblest man before God was like, I cannot speak. So he just chucks a snake. Just like, hi, guys. And the snake just swallows, like really humble. The guy just splits the sea. As in for him, he won the battle, remember the battle? He won the battle by raising his hands. Nothing flabbergasting or huge or humongous or brilliant. But now Elijah's mission was that he was here with fire and brinston. That's how like in 2nd Kings 1, we remember the way like 51 men struck down at once with fire.  So I think for him, that was his mission. His mission was when the Israelites had gone so far away from God, the only thing that could bring them back was miracles and miracles of a huge nature. That was why Elijah was there. And that's why he had to die. And then he died, was taken up by a chariot of fire. For them to know that truly this is a man. It's almost to set up God, in order to prop him up as who he is. All right, so now we just want to move from out of the story and go into the key text. And we are really looking at the faith of Elijah. How was Elijah able to do all of these things? Who was he looking at in order to do them? And we just want to go back to Kim. Kim, if you could read for us the key text. Okay, so the key text comes from the book of Fast Kings 18 verse 36. And it says, Elijah stepped forward and prayed, Lord the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things that you command. Amen, amen. And so from this key text, we can see that Elijah, essentially is looking towards God, for him to prove that indeed it is him who is walking through him, right? And it's so interesting to see that even all that showboating that he was doing pouring the water was that God's name may be glorified. Perhaps, Misati, if you could just read for us the flashlight and just highlight, you know, that showboating that he was doing and maybe reference it to the key text as well, yeah. So yeah, the flashlight is God cannot use men who in time of peril, when strength, courage and influence of all are needed, are afraid to take a farm stand for the right. He calls for men who will be faithful and do faithful battle against strong, wearing against principalities and powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. So clearly, God requires people who will take a hard line stance, someone who would actually be all out with their faith. Now I'd like to ask you, like a few questions to tie this in. So let's say you are at your friend's house and then they bring out a crate of beer and they start drinking. They place the beer with wine, champagne, whatever your friends drink, I don't know, maybe. If your friends drink or people you know drink. So your friend's house and it's like your friend and they are friends and those friends and the other friends, they're drinking now. What do you do? Yeah, that's a good question. What do you do? What do you do here? I think the first thing is for me, I always, if I'm in that situation, I make it clear to them that, okay, for me personally, I don't drink and I just like distance myself away from the alcoholic drink because I know they won't necessarily listen to me when I tell them like put it away or anything, like something to preach to them. So I just like distance myself. Would that even involve leaving? Leaving the party? Yeah, I would. Yeah, okay, okay. What about you, Avin? For me, probably. I'll start by saying, yeah, me, I don't drink. So don't bring it close to me then. I probably go to my friends and tell them, yo, please, let's not do this. If they refuse, I respectfully just walk away. I just go home. Nice, so my approach is I'll go to the ones who are not drinking. Because I think this has actually happened, like this is the time we went out with some classmates of mine. Then, so some began drinking, so I stuck with the ones who weren't, two kinds of sorts. So I was with the ones who weren't drinking, but in the absence of those who aren't drinking, I leave because I don't trust people when they are in an altered state like that. Okay, okay, what's your second question? So my second question right here is, you notice someone is trying to cheat off your test paper. What do you do? That's a good one. That's a good one. You start here with Kev. What do you do when somebody is trying to cheat off your test? You're in an exam room, you see him speaking. You're trying to giraffe onto your paper. What do you do? So I think I'll borrow from my first experiences because this happened when I was younger. The first thing was I moved my answer sheet away from them so they couldn't see it. And then I think that's my first alternative. And the second one would be maybe after the test, I wouldn't inform the teacher. Okay, okay, inform the teacher. That's a good one. That's a good one. What about you, I mean? Somebody is giraffeing on your paper. And you can see them.  I feel like at that point there's some guilt where if I hide, I'm being a bad friend.  I'm also, keep showing them, I'm also not being truthful. So at that point. Wow, that's, yeah. You know that's an interesting concept that you've brought, you know, and it's your friend. Yeah. It's not like your enemy in class or your name is, it's your, it's your boy. Some guy, you've pangar the formation with me. So now, I feel like at that point, you just have to stick with your principles. I've been a victim, but no, like, that's why I don't have, I don't have a definite answer. Yeah. Well, maybe we thought, what do you think? What, what can we do? So my approach would be that I would make it very inconvenient to read off my paper and offer the opportunity that you can actually see it. But I make it extremely inconvenient such that someone has to be in such a weird position that the invigilator must see, you know. Because I would want the invigilator to feel like they did something, you know. The invigilator actually put effort. So of course, this person is in a very awkward position trying to read off, that is, then of course they'll get caught. Otherwise, if there's a lot of time in the examination, I just cook, I write the false answers in pencil. They copy the false answers I erase, I put right answers. In that case, because I'm like, you know what? I think I time someone would change when they feel pain.  Then they flank, I pass. By the way, you know, guy, afterward, the test results come at it. By the way, cheating isn't nice. This fail is evidence, you know. You know, that's true, that's true. But I think at the heart of it, what we're trying to say is that there are situations that are difficult, you know. And there are situations where you need to be able to be steadfast, you know. And say that, no, I do not agree with this. No, I'm not up for it. No, we need to change, you know. And just be steadfast. And don't worry about the consequences, you know. Fine, you know, it's very true, you know. He's your friend. And indeed, you stand to lose a friendship.  You do. You stand to, even with the alcohol, you know. You stand to lose a friendship. Maybe they'll not want to hang out with you anymore. They'll say, ah, this guy is boring. Doesn't drink alcohol. And it's very true. But we must stand firm. And we must be like Elijah. I really like what the flashlight said. And just to highlight it, you know, it said, if we can all just stand there, it says, God cannot use men who, in time of peril, when strength, courage and influence of all are needed, are afraid to take a firm stand for the right. You cannot be afraid. You must be strong and make that stand for the right. All right? And this also there in quite a few verses and highlighted there in our lesson. Right in the punch lines. And so I just wanted to call on, Avin, just to take us through some of those punch lines. Tell us which is your favorite. And maybe you can have us read some of them too. My favorite here is Ephesians 6. My favorite here is Ephesians 6, 10 to 12. Finally, be strong in the Lord and his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. That's a very good verse. That's a very good verse. It says, finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Maybe you can assign us to read the other verses. You can read Matthew 17, 10. Matthew 17, 10. Matthew 17, 20. Truly, I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, move from here to there and it will move. Everything will be impossible for you. Amen, amen. You can just relate that verse to Elijah. You can imagine the strength that it must have taken to stand up against all those prophets. Which was, it must have been tough.  Now you think about standing up to the prophets of Baal, 300 Jezebel herself. All right. What's the other verse? You can read Luke 117. And it says, And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of their parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to make ready our people prepared for the Lord. Amen, this is a wonderful promise. Saying that we will be given the power of Elijah to obey God. You know, the power of Elijah to obey God. I think Misati told us just earlier about how, you know, Elijah's whole persona was just about power. You know, going up to heaven in a chariot. You know, calling fire down from heaven. I think two times, I think two times in my memory I can recall, three times, you know, calling down fire from heaven, you know. And that is the power that we are promised in order for us to resist evil, you know, and seek good, which is wonderful. There's one last verse there. You can read the... It says, Hebrews 11 verse 6. It says, without faith it is impossible to please God. Because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who honestly seek him. And this is just really encouraging us to have faith in God, have faith in God. And it's admonishing us and telling us without that faith, we cannot please God at all. We cannot please God at all. Amen. Amen. Now we just want to go back and look at some of the lessons that we've learned from this lesson. And just try to relate it to us, Misati, you know, looking at the story of Elijah, the story of faith that we have had. And I know you've taken us very well through some of the instances where, you know, we are called to have a stand firm, a stand and firm faith in God. But perhaps maybe, you know, do you have any similar situations which you have faced personally? Or, you know, how would you react when others do things that you believe that are wrong? I know that we've already done that. Maybe perhaps just to highlight, you know, what can we really do to stand up for God in this situation? Over and above what we have just said. Just perhaps to encourage us in order to stand firm for God. So I'll take the first part of your question and I'll answer that because I feel the previous part, the second part, something we have covered really well through a lot of examples. So the first part on how God can come through for you or how God has come through for me. My particular experience is, I think it feels nice to get what you want. As before, it actually feels amazing. When you actually know what you want and you get what you want, it feels amazing. And that's actually how the university I went, that's how it worked out. So my parents were like, go to a public university. Then for my own reasons, I was like, no, I want to go to a private university. So I told them, you know, guys, I need money for my application. I realized they had cold feet. So I said, you know what? I'll do this myself. So I did the application entirely. Then the day I was supposed to submit my certificates for them to verify, like, I never went to River Road and printed them. Yeah, of course. They have to verify that. So that very day I went to submit my certificates and my academic transcripts. It's the exact day I was going to say, you know what? Okay, it's fine. They are legit, good. You are admitted. That's how I got admission to the university I wanted, to the course, exactly the course I wanted to do. Even in the case where I did not have parental support. Later they were like, you know what, guy? You made the right choice. You didn't know what they were like. We fought you, but you did what was right. You knew what you wanted, you went for it, and in this right, we support you. Yeah, and it just shows how to trust God and sometimes believe in Him and what He has in store for you. All right. So we've come to the end of our lesson, you know. And before we close, I just wanted to give perhaps all our panelists just a minute or two just to tell us what you think about our lesson. What parting short can you give, really? And yeah, and what can you encourage our viewer in order to continue in the faith? We'll start from here, Kimberly. Go right ahead.  He will not shame you at any point in time. And to have a lot of faith as you pray. Yeah, that's a wonderful insight, you know, that God will come through for us at any time. My parting short is be an ambassador of your faith. Don't be someone who follows the crowd. Be someone who sticks with the principles no matter what everyone around you says. Amen. Amen. Stand out rather than fit in. That's wonderful. And at times like Elijah, faith may have me call for drastic and at times slightly violent action. Yeah, it's very true. You know, the Bible is filled with stories of men who were great, not in and of themselves, but who were great because they trusted in God that they were confident enough in that trust in God that that trust in God yielded results. And that story really applies to us as well. Even we, if we trust in God and are firm in our belief in God and are confident enough to stand up for God before men, then indeed we shall yield the results. You know, the story of Elijah makes me think of one last point that as a Christian, our agreement with God, our contractual agreement with God essentially is this, right? If we stand up for God, then he will stand up for us. You know? That's the heart, that's the heart of our relationship with God. God tells you stand up for me and I'll stand up for you. And so we are encouraged to stand up for God in every situation wherever you are.  All right. We want to close. Thank you so much for being with us. Perhaps as we close, you can say a prayer for us as we close. So let's pray. Thank you, my father, for your goodness, for your greatness, for your love, for your kindness. We desire that you may walk through and walk with you in your power, in your glory and that you may be with us even in the lowly of moments and that you may be with us even in the peaks of experiences. Yes, and we pray and we believe. Amen. Amen and amen. Thank you so much and goodbye.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to a brand new video. Do you find it hard to follow some of the self-care routines advertised out there? Whether it's because you don't know what you need to do or because you're just too busy all the time. Like many others, you keep putting off your self-care plans for later. But taking some time for yourself is incredibly beneficial for your mental health and general well-being, and it can be surprisingly easy to do. Although self-care varies from person to person, certain aspects such as reducing stress, eating better and getting enough sleep serve as the foundation for self-care. So if you don't know where to start, here are six simple self-care tips to help you become a better you. Number one, make a sleep routine. Do you have a consistent time to go to bed?  And it's especially helpful when it comes to going to bed. If you find that you have trouble falling asleep, try to create a plan that prepares you for bedtime. Drinking water before bed or reading a book to wind down are some things you could try. Some even say that dimming the lights before sleeping works well as it signals your brain to start producing melatonin, the sleep hormone. This tip works great, especially if you spend hours in front of the computer. Number two, eat mindfully. Are you mindful of what you eat? While working out is also mentioned in self-care articles, what you put into your body is also equally important, apart from how it affects your physical well-being. It also can play a role in your mental health.  According to an article published in 2017, inflammation of your bowels may be one of the causes of issues like stress, anxiety, and depression. Ultimately, you might want to consider making your goal to eat better to feel better, rather than only to look better. Number three, create and enforce boundaries. Do you set boundaries with other people? While some may falsely believe that boundaries exist to deliberately exclude certain types of people from our life, it doesn't. Although I can end up doing that, boundaries primarily exist as a reminder that you need to take care of yourself first. They serve as guidelines for other people on how they should approach and treat you. It can also save you from a lot of emotional or mental distress and help you foster better relationships with other people. Number four, disconnect.  This may be difficult to do, especially with how much work and personal life requires you to be online all the time, but taking time to disconnect is important for your mental well-being. Whether it's because you're scrolling through your phone to look at the news, social media, or because of work, looking at your screen for long periods of time without breaks is an unhealthy habit. This is why it's crucial for you to spend some time offline as well. Perhaps you can go for a walk, do some yoga, or get involved in a hobby. Whatever it is, being disconnected from your screen from time to time can help you clear mind, relieve stress, and help ground you. Number five, organize. What does your room look like?  Researchers have shown that a disorganized home can actually contribute to depression, anxiety, and weight gain. So if you find yourself surrounded by a lot of clutter and mess, it may be time to start organizing the things around you. Whether it's following the ways of Marie Kondo, by looking at what sparks joy, or just sorting through your things one by one, you can start to take the step to create a more tidy and clean environment for yourself and your mental well-being. And number six, do something you love. Are there hobbies that you love doing? When most people think about self-care, it's probably something that involves dancing around to your favorite music with a face mask on. Well, you might think it's cheesy. The point is that you're doing something fun. Ultimately, self-care is about you, so do something that makes you happy. Whether it's reading a book or going for a run. As long as you're not harming yourself or other people, doing something you love and making yourself happy is essential in caring for yourself. Which tip did you find most helpful? Let us know in the comments below. If you found this video helpful, be sure to like, subscribe, and share this video with those who might benefit from it. And don't forget to hit the notification bell icon to get notified whenever Psych2Go posts a new video. The references and studies used in this video are added in the description below. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in our next video.


I would say that ClickUp beats Notion in terms of project management when it comes to bigger teams. So if you're a business with a team, then I highly recommend that you check out ClickUp because their automations make collaboration so much easier, whereas I would say that Notion is much better for people that are looking to organize their personal projects on a day-to-day basis. This isn't to say that Notion is bad for teams, you could definitely make it work on Notion if you have a small team, but if you want to make your life easier in the long run, then I would say that ClickUp is definitely the platform to go with. We're actually not against using one or the other, we still use both to this day. We've just had a better experience using ClickUp for business and Notion for personal, and so that's what we're sticking to since that's what works for us.


Well, hey there, it's Sandy with more of the 24 Tags of Christmas of 2020. I'm going to do watercolor bunny tags today using the Snow Happy Stamp Set. Lots of people have wanted to see more of this. I've put it into one of the little frames that goes with the Anita Jerome sets and thought it would be fun to do that for tags and just use little sticky notes to make a curve so I could stamp that bunny in there. I did for them on one sheet of watercolor paper and I'm going to do something really easy. I'm just going to paint some color in the background. You can do this with any colors and see what you like. You can test them out on scrap paper and see how the colors mix. I love cobalt teal blue along with quinacridone rose. The two colors make a really lovely purple when they meet in the middle and on something like this, whether you get the blending perfect and smooth or not, might be an easy thing to do, might be hard to do, but you can add lots of snow right where any of the colors join that doesn't look really great and that will cover it up but you still get that pop of some beautiful color in behind the little bunny rabbit holding the snowball. Each of the bunnies I just painted in different ways with different browns and blacks that are in my palette and the bunny is really small so there's not a whole lot to do with it.  Remember these are tags, these are not artworks that anybody's going to keep forever so I like finding some quick ways to make some tags that are really cute for the packages and yet they're not going to take a ton of time in order to make them but they'll still be fun to make because making things is kind of the point for me. I like to spend my time making handmade things so just because it's a quick thing doesn't mean I don't want to have fun doing it and being able to watercolor is always a good thing in my book. So each one of my bunnies is different. I even made one that's a black bunny. He got too dark so I used a clean brush that I had gotten most of the water off of and just kind of did a little lifting so that I would have some gray areas in there. Painting in a little bit of pink into the ears and then added some of the cobalt teal blue into the scallops around the outside edges. And for each one of these I just kind of went around all four stamped images so that I could do little bits and not be dealing with wet paint bleeding into wet paint so just kept moving around to paint all the different phases on each one. And then I took my white pen after everything was dry and did varying levels of snow. Now if you're less happy with the way that the colors blended add more snow. If you love the way it blended add less snow, bigger flakes and it will just cover up whatever's going on in the background quite easily. And you can put the snow over top of the bunny in order to make it look like it's snowing on all sides of the bunny or you can just put it in the background if you want your bunny to stand out. I'm going to add a little bit to him. If he's a really light color you won't see a whole lot of the snow so just be aware of that. And then I'm going to use the Tag Trio little circle because it's perfect for the outside of these. Lines up just right. Dye cut that puppy and the tags are all finished. And very cute and bright and happy. Now you can use all different kinds of colors for this. Let me know what colors you would like to try in your sky because I think it would be kind of fun to see what different people's choices would be. Now for the larger image I'm going to do something very similar. And I'm going to show you how I did the snow on this one because it may not be as intuitive. I tried explaining it in a previous video when I announced all the Anita Jerome stamps. And this will hopefully show you visually what I meant when I was trying to explain that. The same bunny is in this one but it's a tinier bunny. The other bunny is larger physically in size that's on the tag. So this bunny is a wee bit smaller. And I'm just going to paint the background with two different colors the same way as I did. Same two colors cobalt teal blue and quinacridone rose. And it's a little harder to do them a little bit larger and to try to get those colors to mix. I spent a good bit of time fussing around with these. Trying to make sure that say if I was trying to picture the color flowing from one side of the deer to the other that I connected those colors. So if you have pink on one side have a little pink on the other side before it totally changes into another color because you don't want it to look like there was a hard seem somewhere in the background as if the whole sky was one unit and that the deer is standing in front of it. So I'm going to speed this up a little bit. If you're looking to just have purple in the sky then you could mix a purple in your palette. I wanted the change of colors from the pink to the cobalt teal blue and the two to just mix on the paper in different ways. So it almost looks like there's a moving sky with clouds and things in it. So that's why I'm mixing it wet in wet. But that can be a challenge. So just want to let you know about that in order to get some of this to mix because there's some colors that are kind of collecting around the edge of the image. I then started tapping the paper a little bit and turning it so that the colors would run into the areas that I wanted them to and blend the way that I would be happy with. When that was done I added a little bit of color into the snow at the bottom just so that I would have some of the same colors. So I'm going to use the same ones that are in my palette the cobalt teal blue. And then I decided to even add a little bit of the pink to it because even though you know pink snow would be a little bit weird. I now know that the two of them together make a purple so I can add just a little tiny bit of it in the darkest shadow areas and end up with something that's going to match the background color. Now for the tree I'm going to I mixed up a dark brown color. And I'm painting it right over top of the color that I've already got in the background. That's one reason you want to know what color you're going to do the background in before you do this. If you want a pale tree you're going to need to paint around that. But since I knew I wanted to do a dark tree and I wanted to put snow on it it didn't matter I could paint that background straight through because it's really hard to paint a consistent background if you're going around something that's that detailed and fussy of an outline. So next comes up the animals that need to be painted so I'm going to use some yellow ochre mix in a little bit of burnt sienna just kind of playing around with what kinds of colors to use for my deer and then I'm going to paint the top side of the deer. I mentioned in a previous video that a lot of animals have white bellies white under bellies and the outsides of them are dark. So what we're going to do here is the outer body of the deer and the legs that are facing forward the legs that are facing the viewer are going to be the brown the legs that are behind are white because that's the underside and I know there's some sort of scientific reason as to why this is you know maybe so that little little baby deer can look up and see mama's belly or something because it's white. I don't know what the reason is. I'm sure there's something though but you want to leave the the tummy white and the under undersides of the legs the insides of the legs will be white and then with the bunny we're also going to leave the belly and a little bit of the face white so that there's just a little bit of that that under tummy showing and with each one of these you can also paint in some darker shadows by dropping color in wet in wet like I'm doing here and that's going to add some shadow that's just going to mix in with the color while it's wet. If you don't do it while it's wet you're not going to get a lot of soft blending. You may have to do some fussing with your brush to move that color around but if it's still decently wet then that dark color will move through it. I wanted to do the same thing with the deer so I'm going to put some of the darkest color up on top and then I'm going to mix up another color because I want my deer to feel a little warmer than this so I've used a little bit of Aussie red gold to put in here with with my yellow ochre and that's going to give it a much warmer color. My paint underneath is still somewhat wet so I'm getting some nice blending but this is putting in much denser color so it's going to stand out more. So after that you need to wait and get everything all nice and dry. White pen is not going to work really well on wet paper so that's why you want it to be good and dry and I'm adding some white snow on to the tops of each one of the branches both the little branches the big branches any leaves and yes I'm adding some spots onto my deer. I know that it's just the baby fawns that tend to have the white spots and I always have somebody commenting on my YouTube videos complaining about that that grown deer don't have them but I'm putting them on anyway because I think it adds a nice detail that you don't get otherwise and then for the background anywhere where the background didn't blend the way that you like it this is a great time to add snow in there and hide any areas that didn't make you happy. So there you go. I will link at the end of this to my original video with all of my Anita stamped images on it so you can see other ways to paint these and other ways to do that outside background. This one just has a hard outline but in the other video you'll see how to make a soft edged background around the outside. To finish off my card I just added a pink layer to draw out some of the pink color in the background and then used a navy blue card base to set it off and add some pop and contrast. So next I want to show you real quickly the November 2020 release which comes out today so even though my videos won't be out till next week you can get the stamps now and be ready for them by the time the videos come out. So first off there are two poinsettia stamps. One is a slimline version and the other is called poinsettia blessings I believe and you can do them in a whole bunch of different ways different orientations and everything. I'm doing a slimline card and it I'm calling it the happiest accident. The card on the bottom was one that I had a big spill in the middle of my card. I did capture it on video so you'll in your head hear me scream maybe hopefully not on the video but you'll hear me scream because I was like no not after all that coloring but I recovered it and so you'll see how I did that on the video next week. There's also Frosty's hat which I think is going to make some fun hat shaped cards and new Anita Jerome. So this one is called Wonderful Time it's got three stamps that have mice in them and little fun gifts. The second one is called Christmas Presence and there's two dogs and one bunny stamp. The bunny one I used for a video that's going to be over on my Instagram and Facebook later on today so you'll be able to see that one get painted if you like and then this one so cute it's called All Weather Friends and this little bunny is going to get painted on my YouTube channel so be sure to come back for that one. It's easier than it looks. Alright don't forget to leave a comment here in order to qualify to win one of the bunny tags or you can comment over on my blog or you can do both because why not enter twice? It means you have a better chance to win right? Alright I'll see you guys really soon. Links to everything are in the doobly-doo and I'll be back tomorrow with more tags. Bye bye.


So, yeah, the microphone works. And I'll welcome you to my talk. It's about the tools for translators. And yeah, my name is Christian Lomaier. You probably know me by my Nick, C-L-O-P-H, or Glove. And yeah, I'm employed by the TDF as the release manager and also as infrastructure administrator. And I'll be around. Well, I still do see this slide. Some power saving, or? OK, yeah. And I'll hang around at the social events. And if you have personal questions, you can approach me and ask. So, but I think I'll need some more sit-up time to maybe create some power to the adapter. Just a few seconds or to adjust. So hopefully, you know it's stable. And yeah, what was? Yeah, feel free to approach me. I'm bad with names. So don't be offended if I don't remember what your name is. I'll forget the next day. So just approach me and ask what you have to ask. So I'll start with a short overview. And then I'll tell you how I go from a string in Poodle where it's unclear how it should be translated to finding the way where it is used in the code and by that finding out what it is supposed to do and then clarifying what the translation should be. So basic features of Poodle include a direct link to the unit that is to be translated. And please always, when you report a problem with Poodle, make sure to copy that link and reference it in your mail and just make sure that it's included in your mailing. Not only writing, I have the string problem with this source string. And then it's very hard to find out. For example, so if you only copy the link in the browser, that's right now filtered for strings that have suggestions. This changes. So if I click the link two days after you post it, it might be completely different page I get. But if you use the direct unit link, it's always the same unit that is linked to. Think of it as a permalink to a translation. Then there's also a report a problem link that will send to a host master list currently. So if there's a problem with the English string, like for example, a bad XML or just something unclear or contradicting information hosted to the host master list and then we'll fix it in the source code to have it updated on the next update of the templates. Next one is Poodle also offers the possibility to add a terminology. So it's a separate project in Poodle where you can define some strings that should always be translated the same way. So if you have, for example, file open, it should always be the same translation. You can add file there and open and it will show up whenever the strings appears in the source. And also you can add additional languages. If English is not your primary language, if you're more fluent in Spanish, for example, you can configure your account to display the Spanish strings in addition to the original source string. So it might be easier for you to translate from a different language instead of English. Or also to compare if there's some misunderstandings unclear translations, how they did it and maybe this gives you a hint about what the functionality should be. There was a part when we initially deployed Poodle, the version where you couldn't actually configure additional locales because we're back in Poodle, but this should be fixed. If you still have problems adding a definite scale to your account, please let us know. Then there's a category where people file the suggestions and you have the option to either accept or reject them and review them. And right now there's no way to send feedback to the user who wrote the suggestions to basically give him a hint about why his suggestions wasn't used. But this is something that will be fixed in the upcoming versions we will deploy. So then you can send basically instructions to the user to make better suggestions in the next time. And also we have special translations called a key ID. And when you install a development build for example a build from the Tinder box, the daily builds, you can choose, select the version to be the key ID language. It has the short code of QTZ. And this will then prefix a unique ID in front of every string that you can then use in the Poodle search interface to locate the string. So if you have a development version installed, you can easily point out which string it is. So you have your regular version in your own locale and see something that's not translated and it's not obvious where you would find that string in the Poodle interface or in what file it is. You just open your development version in the key ID language and just open the same dialogue or the same menu, look for the ID and then search with that in Poodle. Yeah, and also there's a feature you got with the change history at least for master project. So this will record any changes made to the string so you can see what was a previous translation if there's an understanding or a complaint about a string not being translated differently. You can see who it was and ask the person why he did it. Maybe there was a good reason for it. And yeah, right now when we will split off the five to projects, those that information will get lost unfortunately. So you only have the history on the master project and not in the individual release branch versions. Yeah, and additionally to the suggestions that come from the Poodle instance itself, we also use the remote translation memory that is called Amagama. And it also offers a web site where you can query individual strings to compare what is there. There have been some complaints that the data might be out of date and old strings are suggested and right now there's no way to delete strings from there. So it's planned to also use a Poodle local translation memory where only strings from our instance from LibreOffice are used. But right now it's using the remote one. So whenever there's something goes, I think it pops up asynchronously, this is something that was from Amagama. So now to be example, I wanted to show you on how to locate an unclear string and hopefully this would also help you if you encounter something that's unclear at the first look. Yeah, for example, I'm using the German project and there's a string checkout that is currently translated with the string upmilden which means lock off. But this sounds fishy because usually if it's lock off, why isn't the English string lock off? So that rings a bell and so I tried to find out is it the correct translation or does it mean something completely different because checkout could also be having a closer look at something and similar stuff. So first thing to do is to look at the constict information to see where the string comes from. In this case, it's from some of the low level mall use where there's not much difference in the industry's pages to kill you. Many strings are collected in one place that are not directly related to each other. But I showed you never there's a list and additional tool that might come handy that is called OpenGrog. But first look at the, on the context information you see that the file where the string comes from is the view.src and with that we can go to OpenGrog and search for the file path view.src and this will show two hits and from the info we have in Poodle it's already clear that it is was in the SFX project because that is also in the path. Maybe you can see it for the file name. Libo UI SFX2 source view.po. So it's clear that it's the top one and if you open it you see it's an alias string so it's the bt underscore checkout string that is the one that the actual code uses to refer to the string that is in this case checkout. So what we do is to just copy the bt underscore checkout and paste it in the search box and do another search to get us to the actual implementation. And we of course get the match where it is defined as the alias or the variable and the actual path to the implementation in this case, the second one. So if you click on the string with a line number it will also directly jump to the line number and then in this case I scrolled up a little you see at the bottom the line 1470 is marked with a little blue rectangle around this line where it's used. And if you look further up you can see it's about checking out specific versions of a doc that is for example in the remote file storage like Google Docs or a fresco system or something like that. So logging off in this case is clear that it's the wrong translation because it means picking a specific version of a file to work with. So it comes to another feature of Poodle meaning you can also add comments to make it clear that for other translators thrumbling upon the string that it's for a specific purpose. In this case I created the comment that it's not in the meaning of logging out but checking out a specific thing from the file system and I also marked the string fuzzy to make it easier to look for in the default categories that you can browse strings with. Of course you don't have to use the OpenGROC web interface if you're also familiar with the code and have a local git checkout already. You can also go use gitgrep on the repository and basically follow the same steps and probably a little faster depending on how your network connection works out. Yeah and do as you please so there are many ways to do it but once you have the source file where the string comes from you can also use the log functionality or the blame as it's called the annotation to see who actually did change a string or did add a string so you know who you could ask about a documentation for the functionality if it's for example a new calc function and it was added by let's say Peter, you can ask Peter. I'm a magician, I don't know how the function is supposed to work and you write a small wiki article that translators could use for example. So having the source not only helps for context by reading the code itself but also finding out who to ask if there's still need for clarification. Yeah and additional feature you could use is to use the included search functionality of Brutal for example if there's the view SRC might be a group of strings that belong together so you can click on the places link on the left hand side in the translation box to use a search on the view.src location and then put on the show a list of the other strings that are defined in this file. So this might already be enough to get an idea where to look for the functionality what it is supposed to do but mentioned earlier in this case it's a pretty genetic one you see it has strings for printing in there as well and probably it won't help for this specific example. There's also a big addition to the help translation that was done by Olivier because in help you only have the individual paragraphs and it might be hard to guess in what context is appears so what he did is to have a website where the help file is rendered in your browser and I did the corresponding linkage to Brutal so if you open a help string you have the additional string on the VM173 link and if you click on that a new tab or it defaults to open in a new window and then you get the corresponding help file where the string is used and this probably also is a big help especially for help and as you probably heard in the other talks help is something that will be changed more in the future because the help authoring extension became more usable and people just tried to improve help with other stuff adding images and stuff like that so help will change more in the future than it used to be. And then finally you might have known that in the last years there has been progress to convert the dialogues in the LibreOffice from the fixed layouting stuff to using glade based dialogues that resize automatically depending on how long a string is and if it's a string that appears in the UI file it's even easier, you don't even have to go to the code to open it to search for it but you can open it from your installed version of LibreOffice. On this example for Linux you would export the variable glade catalog search path to the point to the shared glade directory of the installation and then you can open the dialogue using the glade command. This is example I use the ASCII filter dialogue and what you get is the glade window where there's a preview of the dialogue and on the right hand side would be the details that are going to show but it would dial in further to see what ID is used. And this way you can see the stringing context and this is pretty easy to guess where it's used, how to go there from the UI which menus you need to click to get there and if need be if you have a layout problem in that dialogue you could directly modify the dialogue and check it out whether it works better after changing it and then create a corresponding patch for it. And this basically concludes my short introduction and I reserve some time for receiving feedback about PUTL, what things would like to have changed, what you like and questions regarding the talk are welcome of course as well.


The company announced three new phones and their AI powered services. Do any of these excite you? I'm just having a lot of deja vu this morning during Galaxy Unpacked because I feel like a lot of these features either exist already on Pixel or are a re-packaging of things that we've heard at Google IO. It's kind of weird because at some point I was watching and I was like, I waiter, I have some Google in my Samsung Unpacked. Like it just it was really hard to tell it's at what point Google kind of left off and Samsung began. We only have 4% of the market share in Pixel. No one's really picking up any of these really cool demos that we show you after year. 4% is 4% Samsung. If we actually want this AI business, this AI, these AI features to be noticed to be picked up and to be kind of like part of like the average consumer and not like those of us here in the tech space who are savvy and who are super fans, average people to be able to notice us. We need to get and kind of put it more forward in a Samsung


The next feature that I want to talk about is the new dashboard progressive web app. All right, so you're looking at my phone now. And I am going to show you the dashboard from the mobile phone. And in 236 we did a lot of work to make sure that the dashboard that you're seeing on the web will also be perform it and render properly when you bring it onto a smartphone. So in this case, what you can see is I'm just going to show you the entire order of operations here. We're going to go to. You see I've logged into play.dhis2.org. And right now I'm looking at the dashboard on my phone and because I'm in portrait mode. I am seeing all of the dashboard items rendered vertically so they're kind of one on top of each other I can scroll through here and see all those dashboard items. You see what the dashboard actually looks like right behind my phone screen on the on the web version. At the top of it we have our dashboard menu so you can see I can scroll through my various dashboards here moving between my dashboards underneath that we have the ability to star a dashboard as we've always had. In our Moors option we have three options here available star dashboard show description and print so I can print directly from my phone if your phone is connected to a to a printer. Or of course you can save it as a PDF through the print option as well. Within each dashboard item you see that I have my same items, my same options that I had in the web version so table maps interpretations and view full screen and I can go and view full screen on my phone. I'm not here in this particular chart but you can see the functionalities, at least as an example, if I now turn my phone into landscape mode. You see now the dashboard on the phone is rendering or displaying similarly to how it shows on the on the web version of DHS to, and you also see that I have additional options here at the top of the dashboard for example I can edit my dashboard. I have all of the same edit functionalities that I do in a normal dashboard on the web, but just here on my phone. So I can add things change the layout, etc add descriptions. I also have my my filters so I can now filter the dashboard items. And what if I wanted to actually have this show up as more similar to an application on my phone I you know I didn't want to go into Chrome or Safari or whichever web browser that you're using on your phone, every time I wanted to look at a dashboard. Well that's very easy and and all these dashboard, excuse me and all these web browser apps that are available phones. All of them have an option to add a web page to your home screen, so I'm going to click add to home screen, and you're going to see it's going to pop up here and get make force me to give it a name so DHS to dashboards fine and make sure that it has an icon. And now it's added to my home screen. So if I now rotate back to my normal phone, I'm going to scroll over. And now you see here. There we are. Now you see here the dashboard has been added as an looks and fills as an application directly to my home screen. So I'm going to click on that, and it takes me as a shortcut wipe right into the web browser to look at my dashboard. So this gives you all the power, powerful features of the dashboard in the convenience of your cell phone so you can take it in the go you can share data in the field. So you can take a full step in in being able to communicate and share data in DHS to right now this in the initial release of 236 this only works online. So if your phone were to be offline you would not be able to show your dashboard. We are coming out with a new version hopefully in the next several weeks to be able to store cash some analytics offline on your phone, so that you would be able to see some dashboards that you had seen previously, and then gone to be able to see them offline.


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Hi, I'm Sid, I'm the CEO of GitLab, and this is a training for our functional group updates. We do functional group updates every workday at 8 a.m. Pacific time, and they're meant to give everyone an idea of what GitLab is working on. Remy, could you mute your mic? The ideal functional group update is to give people a sense of what's happening in other teams at a certain time in the company. We weren't doing functional group updates. And what happened is that people said they lost touch with the company, they lost touch with what we're working on. It's to give visibility and a bit of accountability to the different teams in the company. We do it basically for every group of 10 to 20 people, so it's not sometimes it's functional like sales as one functional group update, but for example in development, we do it for smaller groups, it depends on what we can tell. What happens is that a leader in that group gives a presentation. The presentation is in the form of Google Sheets most of the time, and it's attached to the meeting in the 24 hours before it starts. There's a couple of reasons for attaching it. It helps people to assess whether they want to attend a functional group update. And if they miss the functional group update, you can just flip through the slides. For example, I sometimes miss them, but I always, always flip through the slides. The actual update is a Zoom call, and the important thing here is that it's not about you presenting the slides. People can beat the slides, and they can do that pretty quickly. So you should assume that everyone has read the slides. So what you may be doing is giving a bit of context around the slides, like why is this important? How does it make you feel? What's the highlight? What's the low light? People want to kind of follow a narrative. The thing you should not do, and it very frequently happens, is that people start reading the contents of their slides. This is absolutely unnecessary, and it makes it very tedious to basically watch a recording. So if you're saying something that is on the slides, think of something else to say, or don't say anything and skip through the slides. So the presentation part should be 5 to 10 minutes with an absolute maximum of 12 minutes. So after 12 minutes, people should say, should stop the presenter. So you should aim for 5 to 10 minutes. Now the reason for that is that people say that they stopped following functional group updates because they took too much time. And they're not talking about the questions part, they're talking about the presentation part. The questions part is actually the best part of the functional group update, because those are real questions that people have that weren't in your presentation. So that is the value that you're adding. Basically, the presentation part is like a warm-up to get questions. I think that if we just say, here's the presentation, ask questions. We might get fewer questions. However, I might experiment with that and not say anything, just say, hey, you could see the slides, do you have any questions? That for example worked really well on GitLab 101, where I first did presentations for 45 minutes, then I did a presentation of 10 minutes, and I do zero minutes of presentation. So you just say, hey, you'll review the links, let's ask questions. Because this isn't homework, and a warm-up is nice, a five minutes, we quickly flip through the slides, but please, please don't start reading them out. Of course, it has to end on time, the next thing is the team call, so you have to stop preferably five minutes before the end so people can get a quick drink or do something else before they join the team call. Sometimes it runs right down to the minute, but never, never should you go over the team call. If there's a lot of questions, just refer them to your functional channel. So if you're doing sales presentation, refer them to sales. If you're with the monitoring team, refer them to the monitoring channel. Continue the conversation there. I'm at six minutes, and I didn't have any slides, but there's a whole page of functional group updates. You can find it by googling GitLab, FG, U. Are there any questions? I have a question. In the feedback you've heard, or just from your personal opinion, what do you want to see less of in functional group updates from a content perspective? Is there content in there that you think people should already know this, or is it interesting to a wider audience, or should be disseminated some other way? Interested on your thoughts on that? Not at all. I think the more content, the better, except that I don't want the leads to spend a lot of time on assembling their functional group update, but it's good. If you have 40 slides, that's great. Just put them in there, copy and paste stuff that you think is relevant. You seem a bit serious to me most of the time. It's cool to have a funny gif in there or something like that. What's important is that you're not dwelling on them, that you quickly flip through them. That is the only thing I care about. And talking about repetition, most of the time we underestimate repetition. We repeat too little. So probably like every other company, we should spend more time on the basics and we should spend more time on repeating like, this is our team, this is what we do, these are our top three goals. Put them in the slides, don't read that aloud because the rest of the company falls asleep. And thanks for that question, Sean. Same things goes, for example, for abbreviations and stuff you use, like preferably write them out, link them to the definition, et cetera. Kristen asked in the chat, is it ever encouraged to have someone form our team deliver? It's fine. I don't have a big opinion of that. Someone can do a good job there, but that's fine with me. I do think it's good that the leader of the team is also present for if questions can be answered by the team member. But the important thing is that the FDU is on. So if you can make it, you can make it. So I had a question about the slides. Out of curiosity for maybe some other team leads that are on the call, how long are people spending preparing the slides? For me, I think it usually takes me about an hour of work. Sean says an hour. I mostly spend half an hour. Now we're 30 to 60 minutes. We're an hour, Sarah, an hour, Chad, an hour, Man, an hour, and Eleanor, an hour. So I think an hour is a good investment. Mostly 5,200 people join. So you spend an hour. They spend 20 minutes reading them. I think it's great. I don't really have a question, but I did. There's something that I've struggled with. So I'm thinking that maybe somebody else here has kind of struggled with it. I'm used to creating slides that are succinct and have as little info as possible so that when I am talking, again, I'm not repeating the slides, and people are concentrating on what I'm saying. But in the instructions, of course, for people that can't attend, we want to give them as much info as possible. But when I do that, that increases the likelihood that the things I'm going to say are going to mimic what's already on the slides because I've basically brain-dumped onto these slides. So that's something that I've been trying to strike the balance of, is making sure that I have enough information so you can just skim it and be good, but at the same time not be repeating. So more of a comment than a question. Yeah, I'm going to take it as a question, and I'm going to recommend, Sarah, you go all the way to the extreme of putting all the content on the slides, and then you talk less. So if everything's already on the slides, you have absolutely no caller to add, end in five minutes. That sounds amazingly wonderful. Thank you. And then talk about how the slide basically makes you feel. Like people are all, we don't have an office where people go to kind of get the vibe of how people are feeling. So if they join this, the thing that's much easier to communicate by talking is how you feel about this. So if your slide is like we did pretty research things and our score for the new interface is like twice as much, they want to know how does that make you feel? How does that make your team feel? So you're probably going to have the data about this is the graph of how the net promoter score of the new UITS increase, that's going to speak for itself. But you're going to say, I was so glad to see this result.  And that's why you probably want to do it verbally. But if you want to put in the slides, that you're really proud of Tori, that's fine too. But that's what we need, probably five minutes off. Then one, Sean asked what we should, we do more or less. And I answered that literally like I normally do. But I forgot to say one thing that we're doing currently that I think is really excellent is lots of hyperlinks. So there's lots of issues that are mentioned and they're hyperlinked to the relevant issues. I think that's what we're doing really well. I personally, I click open almost every link that's presented and have a quick look at the issue. Because this is kind of my window onto a functional group. And I can see like what issues are interesting. So I think it would do that really well. If there are no further questions, thank you very much for attending this training. And good luck which are actually used. I think they're very special. I'm very proud that we make them public and keep up the good work. Thanks everyone.


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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2020 Bowman chrome HTA choice baseball four box random division Break number one as you can tell right here The next one is in the store if you want to keep this going jaspyscasebrakes.com sold six spots Everyone gets a random division 12 only 12 cards in this four box break all autographs big Thanks to these folks for getting into it and there are the divisions right there. Let's roll it Let's randomize it snake eyes two times easy one and Two after two times we got Matthew down to Josh snake eyes two times one and two Al central down to the nl West All right, so Matthew shear with the al central Corey with the nl central Matthew L with the al east Karen with the nl East patch with the al West and Josh with the nl West home of the world champion Dodgers Let's sort this by column B by team or by division that is Any trade while you're considering trades? We're gonna open up this fresh case right here See which four boxes we're gonna do and I'll flip it back to that division page in just a second packs full of hits too many hits Empty box. All right, so let's make stacks of four. There's four right there Four right here and four right there. So on the dice roll will go one two three four five six Let me select a die with nice Dodger blue die right there once again one two three four five six and It's two One two that one right there. We'll save these for next time Fact, I'll write div on these for division right at this angle looks almost like DIY Draw my these like that. All right, so we'll mark all those div So, you know, these are reserved for the divisional breaks. We can keep running these back tonight In fact break two already in the store and then break three would be the would be the last bit of that case Looks like no trades in the chat. So why don't we close the trade window and roll? Twc trade window closed. Let's print it and then let's rock and roll For those guys those guys Good luck boys and girls. There it is hot off the presses All right, first one out of the gate is yon Torres 140 out of 250 Purple Otto for the NL central Corey Cardinals a lot of talk about the cardinals trading away Arzirania But they've got a great pitching prospect back from the rave. Let's see how that works out Oswald Perez or Parazza That is Going to the AL East Matthew L With the Yankees and the AL East and the third one here is junior Santos Making good use of the canvas there that will be for the NL East Karen with the NL East, right next one Yes, Marco for the second time Hello, and yes, I do all right next one is Taylor Jones Autograph Cool Marco nice That goes to the AL West Patrick with the Stroh's And then we've got Drew Avins for the Dodgers. So Harry Yeah, we're all right 70 out of 99 green for the NL West That'll be for Josh Zetz World champion Dodgers And we've got AL West Ricky Venasco Well, we don't know yet Marco all these players in Bowman are prospects. So we don't know if they're gonna be Great or not, but I'm sure we'll see them in action in a few years next box All right, we got Gunnar Mayer for the Phillies NL East Karen Sometimes we do Harry. Yeah, sometimes we do soccer breaks. You'll see them on jaspyscasebreaks.com I Don't think we have any at the moment, but I think on our Instagram stream at jaspys breaks that we have a Personal box channel. I think we have some boxes there. I'll check that out. All right Next autograph is Andrew Dahlquist 122 out of 150 And that's AL central that'll be for Matthew Shearer and we've got Tyler Ivy Hughes naturals AL West Patrick. Oh, right Andrew Dahlquist is a local guy, right? Yeah, right there. We're Dondo Beach, California. That's just south of us A couple of our couple of our colleagues may have Played a little high school ball with him DPM. Thank you. We appreciate that Yeah, it was a long time coming I'm actually rewatching game six right now the world series But I wasn't I wasn't live late last night. So when the Dodgers won it, so You were not a day late. You were right on time. All right, there's Jordan Brewer Not a Brewer, but an Astro 365 out of 499 refractor autograph for the AL West Patrick And we got and then there's a Brewer. That's max Lazare. I hope he actually pronounces it laser, but I'm I'm thinking it's Lazare that goes to the AL NL central Corey with the brew crew They sure did Jeff. They won it all yesterday game six and the last one here Is there's our guy our local kid Andrew Dahlquist Maybe maybe he'll come sign cars for us someday. That'll be for the AL central Matthew Shearer. There you go, Matthew And there you go, everybody That was a quick little four box break. We've got another four box divisional in the store So if you want to do some more we can run this back tonight jasmicecasebrace.com Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye


This is Witchbase news for Friday the 29th of April 2022 I'm CMDR Buur In Elite Dangerous news this week as Salvation preps his superweapon the Thargoids burn the bubble Lavecon 2022 tickets are going on sale Frontier announced plans to break their silence on the future of Elite Dangerous, console account transfers are being discussed on the next live stream and more. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you'd like to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. The postponed community goals originally planned for last week kicked off finally with this week's Thargs Day tick as did offensive actions from the hyperdicting hydrangeas themselves. The unwanted pause in hostilities last week saw three systems in the bubble one just 70 light years from earth invaded by the green meanies but no stations were attacked as a result of the invasion. The tick this week allowed things to proceed as planned however and we now have burning stations in DDO and SOSong with commanders able to participate in the evacuation to the nearby rescue megaship. The text of the community goals of which there are four one hauling and three anti-xeno combat specifically mentions that the would be maniac messiah salvation is prepping three of his super weapons to be deployed to the affected regions so that's reassuring isn't it. Earlier in the week the official azimuth saga story so far thread on the forums was updated by frontier to fill in the blanks right up to the very latest happenings. The plotline has been running since October of 2020 it's coming we think to a head we also think there will likely be significant consequences to its resolution so if you're not already gend up on it now is your chance. The stellar photography videography and fan art group more commonly referred to as the SPVFA or SPIVA announced this week that they are taking a corner of the pilot lounge discord server and making it their own their very own. Up until today SPIVA has exclusively been a facebook entity but by expanding their presence the group hopes to be able to enable their community to engage in a more immediate and meaningful way while still sharing their works and participating in the regular themed competition that the group runs. To join there's a link in the video description below and if you choose just the SPIVA role when joining the server you will see just the SPIVA channels with the option being there for you to access the wider discord community only if you choose to do so. HWS events the organizers of the lavecon elite dangerous convention announced this week that tickets for this year's gathering which is being held at the kent's hill hotel in milton keens from the 15th to the 17th of july will be going on sale next wednesday the 4th of may. If you have a booking already from last year's pandemic cancelled event you should have received an email from hws already giving you some options and if you want to book tickets for this year's event i've linked to their website in the description below this video. If you're going Rene and I will see you there. In a surprise move yesterday morning Frontiers community team announced that the regular thursday frameshift live livestream had been cancelled. The unusually abrupt message also stated that when live streams were returning they would let the community know. The Thursday live streams are these days largely very well attended that is undoubtedly due in no small part to the twitch drop system that grants free paint jobs and other in-game cosmetic items but it's become wildly apparent since the streams return after their absence at the start of the year that Frontiers have returned to their pre odyssey launch policy of continually saying largely nothing of consequence much to the frustration of the assembled community. Whilst the team on the live streams are clearly doing their utmost to engage the community audience the all too apparent lack of any well anything from Frontiers about their plans or development progress for the game only serves to fuel community anxiety about whether the game actually has a future. In the ongoing online conversation in the community about Elite Dangerous and what this most important of years means Frontiers continually turns up to the conversation but quite literally says nothing. A live service game like Elite Dangerous requires new content and patches dripped into it on a relatively constant cycle in order to keep the game fresh and the customers constantly engaged and for the gaps in between content drops there needs to be a flow of information from the publishers to highlight what's coming next whether it be new content or patches and updates. When that happens the consumer can remain confident that their favourite game still is with them and that they'll be playing it in the next 6-12 months. If that's the case then they're more likely to spend time and money in the game seeing it as an investment well made. When that information from the publisher is absent however and the consumer's constant questioning remains largely unanswered then doubt about the future especially after the year we've all just been through inevitably creeps in. Because of Frontiers continued refusal to communicate anything in the last 6 months except what they can't do the YouTube comments and forum posts from the community crying doom and saying the game has just weeks to live become the only voices that appear to have any proof that what they are saying is in fact the truth. Without anything solid from Frontier to counter that argument it easily encourages that perspective and adds weight to what you're being told is in fact a fact. Frontier are not guiding or contributing to the narrative that defines how their game is perceived by its customer base online and if they're not guiding that narrative then it's open to anyone else to guide it for them with whatever they feel is accurate and at that point someone else owns the communication with Frontier's customer about Frontier's product and Frontier have lost any power in that conversation. With the cancellation of the livestream this week and the implication that we were again to see a period of protracted silence from the company the anxiety levels in the wider community hit a new high. Here at the pit we received multiple private messages and tweets from concerned commanders genuinely worried that their game was finally going away. It seems this afternoon however that there has been at least a hint of a turnaround from the Cambridge developers. As we were about to publish this very video Frontier tweeted that not only would the livestream be back next week but importantly they will be discussing their focus for the year ahead as well as the sticky issue of console account transfers. Of course what they'll specifically be saying we don't yet know but the fact that the much derided and largely irrelevant livestream was cancelled but then announced not only as restarting and returning with at least a hint of the information that everyone has been crying out for at least gives us some hope that perhaps the impassioned cries from the community have finally been heard. Whatever the case this time next week we'll have the answer. The Elite Dangerous Frameshift live livestream for next week has been shifted to Wednesday we believe for one week only and if and when we hear any more we will of course let you know right here. Are you jumping into the community goal to fight the Thargoids? What would you like to see discussed on the livestream on Wednesday and will you now be watching? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 Commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time.